Hocus Pocus ½

For those of you that don't know, this story starts right after the episode Hocus Pokémon when Ash first gets turned into a Pikachu. My friend, Lisa, wanted me to bring this here, so here ya'll go. Tell me what you think of it.

"Man, Pikachu, how can you walk like this?" asked Ash, getting back on his two back feet.

Pikachu rolled its eyes and kept walking on all fours besides Ash.

"Ash do you have to complain every time you try something Pikachu's way?" asked Misty, annoyed. Togepi, who was being held in Misty's arms, made a little noise, like a baby that just liked to make noise.

"Well, Misty, why don't you try getting a Pikachu body and walk on all fours," said Ash.

After meeting a witch and having been turned into a Pokemon accidently, our heros wait for Ash's transforming potion to ware off. Now, after saying their farewells to the friendly witch, the gang decided to continue on their journey while waiting for Ash to turn back to his old self.

However, even with a new look, Ash just cannot get along with Misty.

"Well, I'm not the one who wanted to get inside Pikachu's head so badly that I didn't even double-check the book!" shouted Misty, face turning red.

Brock and Pikachu both rolled their eyes as the two continued their never-ending fight with each other.

"How was I supposed to know to check the book? Lily didn't even know about it, so how would I?" argued back Ash, trying to regain balance on his back two Pikachu feet.

"You could've just asked to double-check the book," said Misty.

"I couldn't even read half the things in that book!"

"I'm sure it's not rocket science, Ash."

"Well then, lets see you try, yourself, Misty."

"We're already about ten miles away from when we met Lily! Why would I want to go all the way back?"

"Because you-"

"STOP!" shouted Brock, covering his ears.

Ash and Misty stopped their argument and looked at Brock. Brock lowered his hands from his ears and spoke slowly and quietly.

"Lets. . .just. . .go. . .please? Even when Ash isn't a human, you two can't stop arguing with each other!" stated Brock.

"Pika. Chu, kachu," said Pikachu.

"It's not my fault that-"

"I said enough!" snapped Brock, stopping Misty from saying anything else. "Just stop arguing for once! We're never going to get anywhere if you two keep this up!"

Misty was about to protest some more, but Brock placed a hand over her mouth to prevent further argument.

Once Brock was sure that Misty wouldn't say anything else, he took his hand off her mouth. Misty glared down at Ash and Ash glared up at her from her feet.

Soon, the two looked away from each other, for they heard shouting further down the trail they were taking.

The four looked toward the noise and saw four men running. One was running ahead of the other three, apparently the one being chased. The one ahead wore a black T-shirt, blue jeans, and brown running shoes. He looked teenaged, had dark brown hair, and slightly tanned skin.

The other three men behind him each wore long sleeved gray shirts and pants. Two of them had black hair while the other had black hair with highlights.

The teen saw Ash and his friends and almost stopped in his tracks. However, because he slowed down, the other three men caught up to him and pummeled him down to the ground.

Two of the gray shirts grabbed the teenager and held him up to his feet, while the other rubbed his fists.

"Should we help him?" asked Ash, seeing that the teenager had no hope of getting away.

The gray shirt held back his fist, then flung it towards the teen's face, but the teenager quickly moved to the side and made one of the gray shirts holding him get slammed with the fist, making him let go.

The teenager, then, grabbed the other gray shirt with his free hand and threw him at the one that was suppose to have punched him.

"Which one?" asked Brock.

The two gray shirts with black hair got back up to their feet and tried to throw all sorts of kicks and punches at the teenager. The teenager blocked and dodged all of the attacks and counter attacked with a jab to the head and a kick to the chest. The gray shirt with the highlights walked behind the teenager and wrapped his arm around his neck, over his back.

The teenager grabbed the man's arm with both hands and flipped the gray shirt over his back and slammed him onto the ground.

"Wow. He's a pretty good fighter," commented Misty, still standing there with the others, watching.

The teenager, having seen that all of the gray shirts were laying on the ground, too tired to continue, whipped his head from sweat and walked towards Ash and his friends.

However, when the teenager had his back turned, one of the gray shirts with black hair got back to his feet and reached his hand to the side of his pants.

Ash recognized the motion as reaching for a Poke ball.

"Look out! He's got a Pokemon!" shouted Ash.

The teenager looked at Ash with wonder, probably amazed to see a talking Pikachu, but forgot to look behind him to where the danger was.

The gray shirt pulled out a Poke ball and threw it out at the teenager.

"Go, Golem! Get him!" shouted the gray shirt.

The Poke ball landed on the ground and opened, releasing a white beam of light that twisted and turned in the air. Soon, the white light grew and formed a shape, then turned into a huge bolder with reptile arms, legs, and head sticking out of it.

"Gol! Golem!"

The teenager heard the Pokemon behind him and turned around, but the giant rock reptile tackled him before he had time to react.

Ash wanted to help, but all fo his Poke balls were with Misty in her pack. Pikachu can do something.

"Pikachu, go help him!" commanded Ash to his best friend.

Pikachu leaped out and ran towards the Pokemon now on top of the innocent teenager. Pikachu tackled the Pokemon with its head, but it didn't hurt the Pokemon enough.

"Pikachu wont help much, Ash. It's a rock type," said Misty while reaching for her own Poke balls with one arm and the other holding Togepi. "Go Marill! Use Water-gun!"

She threw one of her Poke balls and released a small, blue Pokemon. The Marill ran over to Pikachu's side and shot water out of it's mouth at the Golem on top of the teenager.

As soon as the water slammed on the rock Pokemon, the Golem flew off of the teenager and onto the gray shirt that called it.

The gray shirt fell back down to the ground with the huge load of his Pokemon on top of his stomach. He quickly grabbed his Poke ball off of the ground.

"Golem . . . return," he said from behind the rock Pokemon.

The Pokemon turned back into a red beam of light and was swallowed back into the Poke ball which it came out of.

The other two gray shirts that saw the small Pokemon fight soon got back up to their feet and ran the away the way they came from, screaming in vain for their lost.

"You haven't seen the last of us, kid!" shouted one of them as they disappeared from view.

"That's right! You better run!" shouted back Misty. Togepi did a little chant of excitment for Misty's victory.

"Ha! We showed him, didn't we, Pikachu?" said Ash, but before Pikachu could respond, Misty cut in.

"'We'? First off, Ash, you didn't even do anything! Pikachu did, and even that wasn't much!" said Misty.

Ash was about to say something, but then Brock cut in.

"Hey guys, I hate to cut your argument, but where did that guy that we saved just go?" asked Brock.

Ash and Misty stopped and looked around. Indeed the teenager was nowhere in sight.

"Huh. . .I could've sworn that he was right in front of us," said Ash.

"Why do you think those other guys where attacking him?" asked Misty.

Brock scratched his chin.

"I don't know," said Brock. "Wonder why he left like that."

"I mean, we saved him, didn't we? The least he could do is say thanks," said Misty.

Misty returned Marill back to its Poke ball and placed the ball back in her bag.

"Might as well keep walking. We still have a long way to go till the next town," said Brock.

And so, they continued their walk. Every now and then, they would bring up the subject of the mysterious person that fought his attackers so well. Other times, they would talk about what to do with Ash in his new Pikachu body.

"Which reminds me," said Misty. They have been walking for a couple of hours and the sun was half way into the earth. "Ash, you talked to the guy."

"So?" asked Ash, walking on two feet since four seemed to not be working for him.

"'So'? Ash, you're a Pokemon now! And most Pokemon can't talk, especially a Pikachu!" exclaimed Misty.

"Well, what was I supposed to do? Just stand there and not warn him? I had to say something! Besides, does it really matter if I talk? Team Rocket's Meowth talks, so why can't I?" asked Ash.

"Ash," started Brock. "Meowth's have a higher chance to learn to talk. In fact, Team Rocket's Meowth isn't the only known one in the world to be able to talk."

"Well, what about that Gastly we saw that one time? It could talk!" said Ash.

"Yes, but it was a very strong ghost type Pokemon, Ash," said Brock. "Some ghost Pokemon are known to talk."

Ash stayed quiet. His friends were right, as usual, but what could possibly happen if one person saw him talk?

They continued to walk on their never-ending trail in silence. Soon, the trail led between some woods.

Threes surrounded them on each side of the trail for miles, it seemed. The sun was almost engulfed by the earth and the darkness was starting to creep around them.

"Okay, guys. It's getting pretty dark, so we shou-"

Brock's sentence was cut off by a shadow. A sudden stream of a shadow that leaped from a tree on their left and flew over to a tree to their right. It moved so close behind them that Misty could've sworn that it touched her back. She hugged Togepi tighter for insurance.

"What was that?" asked Ash, scarred.

"I don't know," said Brock.

The group stood still. Waiting for something to pop out of nowhere and land right in front of them.

Then, another shadow leaped out of a tree on their right and flew right in front of them with amazing speed and landed in the woods to their right, disappearing from sight.

"I don't like this. That was way too close," said Brock and reached for a Poke ball.

However, when he reached for one, there where none.

"What?! My Pokemon are gone!" said Brock.

Misty was about to grab her bag, but when she reached for it, it was gone too.

"They took mine too!" said Misty, fear in her voice. Then, she remembered that she was able to use both of her hands. "They took Togepi too!"

"Who took them?" asked Ash, scanning around.

He looked at the trees, but there were shadows all over them from the dawning of the sun. He looked at the trail, but there was just grass and dirt everywhere.

"Show yourself! We know you're here!" shouted Ash, trying to bring the thefts out.

Pikachu got onto all fours, getting ready for anything and letting small amounts of electricity out of its cheeks. Ash got in the same stance, hoping that he could fight in this body, but had doubt.

Silent minutes went by. There was a small breeze that moved the leaves, but that was the only audible noise. That and Ash's breathing.

The sun was almost completely gone and so was the light. Darkness consumed the trees and the trail. Pikachu's and Ash's eyes quickly adjusted, but Misty's and Brock's took a little longer.

After what seemed like hours of waiting, Ash got back on his two back feet and made another scan.

Still no one around.

He took one step forward.

Immediately, a man and a woman both wearing white pants and a white shirt with a large letter R in the middle jumped in front of the group with metal wires connected to their backs.

"To protect the world from devastation."

"To unite all peoples within our nation."

"To announce the evils of truth and love."

"To withstand our reach to the stars above."

"Jessie," said the woman and took a step forward.

"James," said the man and also took a step forward.

"Team Rocket! Blasting off at the speed of light!" said Jessie proudly and snapped off the wire.

"Surrender now, or prepare to fight!" said James who also snapped off the wire.

Then, out of the darkness popped out a Meowth, who said, "Meowth! That's right!"

"Team Rocket! Not you again!" said Brock with a clenched fist.

Jessie smiled.

"That's right twerps! And now we have an advantage!" said Jessie and held up Misty's bag.

"Hey! Give me back my bag and Togepi!" Misty shouted.

Jessie pulled the bag back towards her chest, as if to protect it from their owners. James held a belt filled with other Poke balls while Meowth held Togepi in his paws.

"Sorry," said Jessie with a smirk on her face. "But you'll have to get them from me first."

"But you can't do that without any of your own Pokemon!" said Meowth.

Togepi started crying in Meowth's paws, so Meowth had to shut his mouth and tried to rock Togepi in his arms.

"Now hand over that Pikachu!" demanded James.

"Wait," started Brock. "If you could've took all of our Pokemon, why didn't you get Pikachu like before?"

Jessie opened her mouth and held up a finger to explain, but nothing came out of her mouth. She turned to James with her finger still held.

"James, why didn't we get Pikachu?" she asked.

James did the exact same thing Jessie did before: Opened his mouth, but no words came out. Both partners were dumbstruck and looked down at Meowth for help, who was too busy trying to get the crying Togepi quiet.

Meowth felt their gaze and looked up at them.

"What? Can't you see tat I'm busy here?" asked Meowth, still rocking Togepi in his arms.

"Why did we get the twerps' Pokemon first before getting Pikachu?" asked James.

Meowth was about to answer, but Togepi started crying even louder and forced Meowth to rock faster.

Jessie got annoyed that the question wasn't answered, so she slapped Meowth across the back of his head.

"Stop messing with that thing, Meowth!" shouted Jessie.

The slam of the back of her hand sent Meowth to the ground and caused him to drop Togepi. The small, young Pokemon quickly crawled out of Meowth's grasp and ran back over to its mother, Misty.

Meowth staggered back up and noticed that Togepi was gone and tried to retrieve it again, but Pikachu quickly stepped in front of Meowth, blocking him.

"So, you still want to fight, eh?" asked Meowth, enlarging his claws across Pikachu's face to show their length.

Ash couldn't take this any longer. Team Rocket finally had their Pokemon, but he and Pikachu still have a chance of getting them back.

"Pikachu! U-" Ash was cut off by Misty's hand which was slammed over his mouth.

All of the members of Team Rocket looked at Ash, as if just noticing that he was there.

"Hey! Looks like the twerps got themselves another Pikachu," said Jessie. She slowly pulled out her Poke ball.

"Wait, Jess. Do a head count," said James.

The two extended their index fingers and pointed at Misty, then Brock, in a counting motion.

"Looks like the twerps got rid of that kid with the hat and replaced him with another Pikachu," said James.

"It doesn't matter to me, just as long as I get both of those Pikacus!" said Jessie.

"You know what they say: The more, the merrier!" said James while taking out his own Poke ball.

Ash tensed. He can't take on all of Team Rocket by himself and neither could Misty and Brock. The only one who could fight off Team Rocket was Pikachu, but could it do it all by itself?

"Go, Arbok!" shouted Jessie while throwing out her Poke ball and releasing the Pokemon inside.

"You go too, Weezing!" shouted James and threw his own Poke ball.

Soon, Weezing, Arbok, and Meowth were all looking down at Ash and Pikachu, ready to attack.

"Pikachu, use thundershock!" commanded Misty, still pushing her hand over Ash's mouth to keep him quiet.

Pikachu looked back at Misty. It obviously wasn't used to Misty giving it instructions, but obeyed them nonetheless.

Pikachu ran up to Team Rocket's Pokemon and released a huge wave of thunder out of its body. The yellow wave of thunder ran out of Pikachu's cheeks and traveled across the sky towards the three Pokemon.

Meowth smiled and pulled out a large controller out of nowhere and pressed a button on it.

Out of the top of the controller, some purple ooze crawled out and oozed up into the sky, around Meowth and the other Pokemon. Soon, the purple ooze made a large screen in front of Team Rocket and hardened before Pikachu's thunder even reached it.

The yellow wave of thunder raced across the sky and slammed on the purple screen. The thunder pounded on the screen, but nothing happened to it. It did not collapse, it did not crumble, it did not melt, it just stood there as if nothing happened to it.

"Try all you want, but nuttin is getting trew this shield. Nuttin comes in, but somthin can come out," said Meowth.

After hearing that, Pikachu stopped its electricity and braced itself.

"Arbok, use poison sting!" commanded Jessie.

The tall snake opened up its mouth and shot out small bullets of poison at Pikachu.

Pikachu rolled over to dodge the attack, but the poison kept coming, so Pikachu was forced to continue dodging.

"Weezing, use smoke screen!" commanded James.

The purple, hovering Pokemon tilted its head down and opened its mouth. A thick, black smoke oozed out of its mouth and crept to the ground around Pikachu and the others.

In a matter of seconds, the smoke covered everything, and that with the combination of the setting darkness made it almost impossible to see.

Pikachu started coughing from all of the smoke along with the others. Soon, Arbok's poison sting attack came back at it again through the smoke.

Pikachu didn't see it, so the poison sting shot right at it and made it cry in pain. Ash could hear the cry, but couldn't see Pikachu anywhere through the smoke.

"Pikachu!" shouted Ash, trying to find his friend, but all he heard was another "AR!" from Arbok with another cry of pain from Pikachu.

Ash looked up to Misty and Brock, trying to get some ideas.

"Do something!" said Ash, almost angrily.

Misty turned to Brock, but Brock looked away. Neither of them knew what to do.

Ash couldn't take it any longer. He got down on all four of his small, unknown, Pikachu legs and ran deeper into the smoke.

"Wait! Ash! Stop!" shouted Misty and ran after Ash.

"Misty, don't- . . ." Brock gave a small grunt of disapproval, then ran into the smoke himself.

Ash heard another cry of pain from Pikachu.

"Chu!" cried the Pokemon.

"Pikachu! Hang in there!" shouted back Ash.

He looked around, but there was nothing but smoke to see. Why hasn't it cleared yet?

He couldn't see the purple screen anywhere in the smoke. Maybe Team Rocket put it away?

Just as he thought that, Ash heard Pikachu again, then a loud mechanical SNAP! Soon after, the thick smoke began to clear up and revealed Team Rocket and no screen.

But this time, Team Rocket held Pikachu in a small glass container. The yellow mouse tried another thundershock, but it didn't affect the glass.

"Ha! Looks like we finally won!" said Jessie, triumphantly.

"YAY!" The three jumped in the air while punching out their fists.

Ash couldn't let them take Pikachu away from him. He ran over to Team Rocket and jumped in the air and at Jessie, who was holding Pikachu.

Jessie was too busy celebrating with her victory that she didn't notice Ash coming at her.

Ash flew towards her arm and sunk his new, sharper teeth into her flesh.

"OW!" shouted Jessie after she felt the pain.

She looked at Ash and started swinging her arm around in an attempt to swing Ash off her arm.

"Get this thing off of me!" shouted Jessie again. "Arbok, get it off!"

The snake Pokemon came up to Jessie's swinging arm. Jessie stopped her arm and held it out with Ash on it through tears of pain.

Arbok opened its mouth, getting ready to sink its own poisonous teeth into Ash's flesh. Ash didn't know what to do. He had no Pokemon to help him, he still had no idea of how this new body works, and even if he could get away from Arbok right now, he would have to deal with it later and Team Rocket might end up hurting the others.

Ash held onto the arm with his teeth while closing his eyes and bracing himself.

Arbok's mouth sped over to Ash's back, fangs baring. However, right when the snake Pokemon was about to make contact with Ash's back, the teenager popped out of nowhere and landed a hard roundhouse kick on its head.

The Arbok recoiled, surprised from the attack and weakened from the kick.

"What the?" stammered James.

The teenager turned around and faced Team Rocket. His raised his hands in clenched fists and placed them over his chest and head. Ash let go of Jessie's arm and ran behind his friends for safety.

"You dare fight our Pokemon with your hands?" mocked Jessie. "This will be fun. Arbok, use poison sting!"

"Weezing, use tackle!"

Arbok opened its mouth and released the bullets of poison at the teenager while Weezing zoomed after him.

The teenager caught Weezing while it was trying to tackle him and used its body as a shield for Arbok's poison sting. That forced Arbok to stop so that not to do any further damage to Weezing.

After Arbok stopped its attack, the teenager pulled back a fist and slammed it on Weezing's head (the bigger one) which sent it flying towards Arbok.

"Arbok, dodge it!" commanded Jessie.

Arbok moved its head to the side as Weezing flew by and missed it. Its gaze followed Weezing until Weezing was able to stop itself in midair. Arbok turned it head back to face the teenager, but just to meet the heel of his shoe in its face. That sent the snake Pokemon to the ground right next to Jessie.

Jessie growled.

"Arbok, get back in there and get that twerp!" she shouted.

Arbok slowly got back up, shook off the pain, and dash back at the teen.

Its head flew at the teen, but he jumped to the side and avoided it.

"Arbok, use wrap!"

Arbok slithered around the teen until its whole tail was in a circle around him. Then, almost instantly, the tail coiled and constricted around the teen's body.

The teenager wiggled and struggled to get out of the bone crushing wrap, but nothing worked. Arbok kept constricting its tail tighter and tighter every second, pushing the teens breath out of his own chest.

"Ash," said Misty. Team Rocket's attention was completely on the teen that they didn't even notice the other twerps. "We have to help him. He's trying to save us, but is getting hurt in the process!"

"But what can we do?" asked Brock, from beside them. "Team Rocket has all of our Pokemon, and we can't do any of that stuff this kid is doing."

Ash looked at both of his friends, then back at the teenager that was getting his life sucked out of.

What could they do? He couldn't do anything. He can't even do a thundershock like Pikachu can. Pretty much the only move (if you want to call it that) he knows is bite, and that's only from instinct.

"Weezing, use tackle again!" commanded James, wanting to get in the action.

Weezing zoom again at the teen, this time actually hitting him because he was stuck in the wrap.

Weezing kept slamming its body against the teen's head (which was the only visible body part) while Arbok kept constricting tighter that ever before.

"Well, I guess tis 'wraps' tings up!" said Meowth and started laughing at his joke.

Weezing continued its tackle attacks at the teen's head, but as Ash looked harder, he noticed that the teen's expression wasn't only pain, but annoyance.

"Okay," started the teen. "Now you're really starting to tick me off!"

The teen started to struggle out, but this time with much more strength than before. Arbok was starting to have trouble trying to hold onto him.

Ash could see the teen's arms slowly moving farther and farther apart from his body. The wrap was starting to break!

Then, Arbok's entire tail was flung away as the teen's arms flew up. Weezing came in for another tackle, but the teen dodged it and spun around with another roundhouse kick to Weezing's back.

Weezing flew over to a tree, bounced off, then flew over to James, knocking him over. Jessie was nearly missed, but even that didn't make her happy.

"Arbok!" shouted Jessie, more angrier than before. "Use poison fang and get this twerp!"

Arbok opened its mouth again and dashed for the teen.

The teen quickly grabbed the end of Arbok's tail and heaved it up. Ash saw his muscles tighten and grow suddenly, as if on command.

Before Arbok was able to bite the teenager, he started swinging Arbok's tail around.

Arbok closed its mouth as its entire body was being swung in circles by the teen. The teen kept swinging it, this time so close to Team Rocket that they were caught by the swinging Arbok and was being swung with it.

Jessie couldn't hold onto Pikachu because of the strong circular motion and let go of it.

Because of the release from the circular force of the swinging Arbok, the container that Pikachu was in flew over to a tree and broke upon impact, freeing it.

Pikachu fell to the ground beneath the tree, quickly got back up and ran back over to his best friend, Ash.

"Pikapi!"

"Pikachu! Your okay!" said Ash and ran over to his companion.

The teen kept swinging Arbok around and around and around and around, going faster by each turn, until he fianlly let go of the Arbok and sent it flying up into the night sky along with Team Rocket.

As Team Rocket flew into the air, Ash could hear the distant cry of, "Looks like Team Rocket's blasting off again!" Soon followed with a small glint of light, then nothing more.

Ash ran over to Pikachu and embraced it with a hug, which it returned.

Then, Ash let go of Pikachu and looked back at the teenager, who was looked up at were Team Rocket flew away.

From out of the sky, all of Misty's Brock's and Ash's Poke balls fell and landed on the ground. However, when each Poke ball hit the ground, it released the Pokemon inside.

When one Poke ball fell out of the sky, hit the ground, and opened, Onix came out, but right over where the gang stood. Right on the air above them.

Onix didn't stay in the air long. There was the Laws of Motion that had to be placed, which made Onix fall right on top of Ash and the others.

Before Ash was knocked out of consciousness, he could hear the teen saying, "Oops. . ."