This is something I thought up a while back. Basically, this will be a retelling of the animé version with an Abilityshipping twist. The basic plot of this is what if when Sato first arrived in Viridian City after the Spearow attack; he met up with Lila, who was also starting off on her Pokémon journey?

The story will start off with Episode Two of the animé where Sato has reached the Pokémon Center. So Episode One went off exactly the same as in canon.

Aside from the fact that Lila will be introduced a few story arcs early, there will be other differences:

Sato will be smarter than he was. I tire of reading fics where he's dumb as shit just because that's how he was portrayed in the 4kids version. He'll still be a little naive in the beginning since he's just starting out, but he will get smarter and wiser as he continues to travel.

Because of the lack of moves that were in Gen I, Pokémon in this story will also have moves from Gen II-IV. Gen IV moves though will not be introduced until the Johto Arc of this fic.

Pokémon will also have their abilities.

Not every episode will be retold. The only episodes I'll be adding will be the ones with major consequences. This means episodes that introduce major characters, where one of the main characters caught a Pokémon, or had an element from the games will be the only ones that will be written out.

There will be other differences, but those will most likely not happen for a long while.

Without further ado, Pokémon Remix!

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Name Translations:

Sato – Ash

Lila – Anabel

Kasumi – Misty

Hanako – Delia

Dr. Yukinari Okido – Professor Samuel Oak

Kojiro – James

Musashi – Jessie

Junsar – Jenny

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A young raven-haired boy was walking down the road with a small bundle in his arms. He wore a black t-shirt under a blue jacket with a white collar and sleeves, a pair of blue jeans, and a red and white hat with a green check mark-like symbol on it.

"Don't worry, Pikachu. I get you to the Pokémon Center as fast as I can," said the boy to the bundle, which turned out to be a yellow mouse-like Pokémon.

"Pika…"

"Hold it!"

The boy stopped short and turned to the source of the voice. It was a young green-haired woman dressed in a ladies' police officer uniform. She was giving the boy a suspicious look.

"Is there a p-problem, officer?" stuttered the boy.

"Tell me, where did you get that Pikachu? Why isn't it in a Poké Ball? Are you a thief?" rambled on the officer.

"Nani? I'm no thief! Pikachu's my Pokémon and I can prove it!" yelled the boy.

"Really?"

The boy nodded as he quickly pulled out a small red device from his pocket and handed it to the officer. Recognizing it, the officer flipped it open and pressed the on button.

"I'm Dexter, a Pokédex programmed by Dr. Yukinari Okido for Pokémon Trainer Satoshi of the town of Pallet. My function is to provide Satoshi with information and advice regarding Pokémon and their training. If lost or stolen, I cannot be replaced," said the little computer.

"Oh! Gomen!" apologized the officer. "Its just that there has been some thefts of Pokémon recently. We can never be too sure."

"Understandable, I guess."

"Allow me to introduce myself. I am Junsar, the law keeper of Viridian City!" said Junsar, giving a salute.

"I'm Satoshi, but goes by Sato. Could you possibly tell me which way is the Pokémon Center?" asked Sato.

"I have a better idea," stated Junsar, walking over to her motorcycle. "Hop in and I'll take you there."

"Arigatou!" grinned Sato

He ran over and hopped into the passenger carriage, careful Pikachu's injuries. Once settled, Junsar took off, leaving a trail of smoke and dust. Suddenly, coughing came from the exhaust. When it cleared, it revealed a young orange-haired girl, whose hair was tied in a side ponytail. She wore short blue jean shorts with red suspenders and a yellow tank top that showed off her midriff.

"Damn kid. When I find him, he's going to pay for what he did to my bike!" growled the girl, gripping tightly on the destroyed bike she was carrying.

She ran pass the police station to follow after Sato and Junsar. Had she have stayed, she would have seen the wanted poster be pulled from its post by a fishing line. The poster was then reeled up to a hot air balloon that was shaped like a lucky cat. Inside the balloon, were three occupants, two humans and a cat-like Pokémon with a gold coin on the top of his head.

The two humans wore similar uniforms, as they were both white with a big red R on the front. One of the humans was male with blue hair that stopped at his neck, making him look like a bishie, and the other human was female with very long purple hair.

"Looks like we're getting pretty famous, Musashi," said the male as he read the wanted poster.

"Well, Kojiro, it seems that Viridian doesn't understand what we're capable of. I think we're just going to have to shown them," said the woman.

"Forget about the city, nya!" yelled the cat. "We're supposed to be trying to steal rare Pokémon and what better place to do that than at the Pokémon Center, nya! Let's go, nya!"

"Right!" said Musashi and Kojiro together.

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As night approached, Sato and Junsar made it to the Pokémon Center just in time for the Pokémon nurse, Joy, to heal up Pikachu. With Pikachu safely at the Pokémon Center, Junsar took her leave. It had been an hour since Joy took Pikachu to the back to get healed and Sato used that time to give a quick call to his mother, Hanako, and Dr. Okido. Afterwards, all Sato could do was wait.

"Ano, excuse me?" asked a timid voice. Sato looked up from the ground to see a girl about his age looking at him nervously. She had short lavender hair and wore a white shirt under a lavender jacket and a lavender skirt that ended just above the knees. "Could you tell me where Nurse Joy is at the moment?"

"She's in the back right now helping my Pikachu," replied Sato.

"Oh, I can wait then I guess," said the girl as she sat down on the other end from where Sato was sitting.

"…Are you okay? You seem kind of nervous, if you don't mind me saying," stated Sato, turning to look at her.

"H-Hai. I'm okay. Arigatou," said the girl. She had a faint blush on her face. "Ano, what about you? You have all those burn marks on you."

Before Sato could respond, he was interrupted by a loud voice coming his way.

"There you are!"

Turning, Sato noticed it was the girl he met earlier whose bike he took so he could get away from the Spearow and protect Pikachu.

"Oi, its you!" exclaimed Sato, standing up from his seat.

"Don't give me any of that 'Oi, its you' crap! You owe me a new bike after what you did!" yelled the orange-haired girl, glaring at Sato.

"Its not like I did that on purpose!" yelled back Sato, pointing at the charred remains of the bike. "I needed to get away from a flock of Spearow that were attacking my Pikachu and I!"

"And where is your Pikachu?" challenged the orange-haired girl. Sato then got a saddened look on his face.

"He's…"

Before Sato could finish, Nurse joy and her Chansey came out from the ER, wheel out a stretcher with Pikachu on it resting.

"Here you are, Sato-san. Your Pikachu will be fine as long as he gets the rest he needs!"

"Arigatou, Nurse Joy!" grinned Sato, walking over to Pikachu. The two girls followed.

"What exactly happened to him?" asked the lavender-haired girl, her eyes widening at the injuries on the Mouse Pokémon.

"That would be my fault," sighed Sato. "We couldn't escape the Spearow so I had decided to give Pikachu the chance to escape by putting myself between him and the Flying-types. Pikachu on the other hand decided to stay and jumped between the Spearow and I."

"Nani?" cried the two girls.

"Pikachu then used this huge electric attack by harnessing the lightning from the storm we had, blowing away the Spearow. I guess it was too much for him," explained Sato with a downtrodden look.

Both of the girls gave Sato a look of sympathy. They could understand that all he was trying to do was protect his Pokémon. That thought process in the orange-haired girl's mind stopped as she remembered her bike though.

"Alright then. Now that we know that Pikachu will be okay, you owe me a new bike!"

"Damn it, its just a bike! You can always buy a new one!" yelled Sato, getting annoyed at this bike talk.

"Do you know how long it took to save up for this bike in the first place?" yelled the orange-haired girl. It was then the lavender-haired girl stepped into the conversation.

"Ano, I'm sure Sato-kun will buy you a new one when he can, right, Sato-kun?"

"R-Right? What's your name by the way?" asked Sato, facing the orange-haired girl.

"Kasumi. My name is Kasumi."

"And my name is Lila!" smiled the lavender-haired girl.

Any further conversation between the three kids were cut short as there was a crash from above then the room filling up with smoke. The sound of evil laughter could be heard from the smoke. A female voice then spoke, followed by a male's.

"If you ask us something or other…"

"The answer we give will be the compassion of the world!"

"To prevent the destruction of the world!"

"To protect the peace of the world!"

"To carry out the evils of truth and love!"

"The lovely, charming villains!"

"Musashi!"

"Kojiro!"

"The pair from Team Rocket soars through the galaxy!"

"A white hole, a white tomorrow awaits us!"

"Something like that!" said a new voice.

When the smoke cleared, it revealed the man, woman, and cat from the balloon. A purple rattlesnake-like Pokémon and a round purple Pokémon joined the three as well.

'What the hell?' thought Sato. "Who are you three?"

"If you must know, little boy, we are Team Rocket and we are here for any and all Pokémon that are here in this center," explained Musashi with an air of confidence.

"So hand them all over and no one will get hurt, nya!" yelled Meowth.

"The hell we will!" declared Sato, glaring at Team Rocket.

"Have it your way. Attack!" ordered Kojiro.

The two purple Pokémon charged forward, only to crash into the desk and computer as Sato, Lila, Kasumi, and Joy got out of the way and made their way to the back room. The room was filled with shelves that held Poké Balls containing the Pokémon awaiting their trainers to return.

"Wh-What's going on?" asked Lila, scared of the current events. She became even more afraid when the power went out.

"They must have cut the power!" cried Kasumi, also becoming a little afraid.

"Don't worry. We have something just in case should the power ever go out," said Joy.

The power soon came back on thanks to the Pikachu-powered generator that Joy pointed at. With the power back on, the Pokémon nurse quickly went to the computer and contacted the Pokémon Center in Pewter City. Once through, she activated a machine that grabbed the Poké Balls off the shelves and put them in the transporter, transporting them to Pewter City for safety. The process was interrupted when Kojiro's Pokémon, Koffing, crashed through the door.

"Oh no!" cried Joy.

"I'll hold them back! Just get the Pokémon to safety!" exclaimed Sato, grabbing one of the Poké Balls. "Please let this work. Go!"

The Pokémon that came out was a small brown bird that looked like a baby eagle.

"Pidgey!" cooed the Tiny Bird Pokémon.

"Ekans," called Musashi. "Dinnertime!"

"Ekans!"

The Snake Pokémon hissed at the Pidgey, scaring the little Flying-type away.

"Aw man. Let's see if this one will work," said Sato, sending out another Pokémon.

This Pokémon was a small purple rat-like Pokémon. Before it could do anything it was also scared away by Musashi's Ekans.

"Damn it!" cried Sato in frustration.

"Baka! Let me show you how it's done," said Kasumi, holding a Poké Ball of her own.

"So the little girl wants to play now?" taunted Musashi. "This should be fun."

Kasumi threw the Poké Ball, releasing the Pokémon from within. Unfortunately, the Pokémon was next to useless in this situation as it was obviously an aquatic Pokémon as it flopped helplessly on the ground.

"A Goldeen?" questioned Lila.

"Well if you have a problem with it, why don't you send out one of your Pokémon?" yelled Kasumi, startling the other girl.

"Ano, my Pokémon need healing," said Lila in a quiet voice, turning away in embarrassment. "Gomen."

"Grr, Sato! Get Pikachu out of here!" ordered Kasumi.

"Right!"

Sato grabbed the stretcher and started running off back to the lobby with Team Rocket hot on his tail. Unfortunately, he wasn't watching where he was going and crashed into the charred bike. Luckily for Sato and unluckily for Team Rocket, some of the Pikachu that were powering the generator came and sent out a Thundershock at Team Rocket.

"Gaaaaaaah!"

In the process of shocking Team Rocket, Sato's Pikachu was recharged by the electricity.

"Pikachu!" exclaimed Sato.

"So Pikachu's all better, nya? That still won't help you, nya!" boasted the newly arrived Meowth as he stalked closer.

"Pikapi! Pi Pikachu!" said Pikachu, turning to Sato and pointing to the bike.

Confused at first, Sato realized what Pikachu was getting at. Nodding in confirmation, Sato got onto the bike and started to pedal, storing up power that was being used to turn on the headlight. Once fully charged, Pikachu jumped on top of it and used the stored up power to send an even more powerful Thundershock at Team Rocket.

"Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"

This caused a chain reaction as the electricity ignited Koffing's gas and caused a huge explosion, destroying most of the Pokémon Center in the process.

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"I can't believe how powerful that Pikachu is!" exclaimed Kojiro.

He and the other members of Team Rocket were holding onto a rope from their balloon as they drifted through the night sky.

"That settles it then! We go after that Pikachu and give it to the boss!" declared Musashi.

"We just need to come up with a plan, nya!"

With that, the three had made it their goal to steal Sato's Pikachu and they would stop at nothing to get it.

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Morning soon came and at the ruins of the Pokémon Center, Nurse Joy was on one of the computers that survived the explosion. Junsar accompanied her as they confirmed that the Poké Balls that were transported made it safely.

With Sato and Pikachu, they were making their way through the Viridian Forest, with both Kasumi and Lila following. The peacefulness of the forest was soon shattered as Kasumi let out a fearful scream.

"What is it? What's wrong?" questioned Sato.

"O-Over there!" stuttered Kasumi, pointing over by some trees. Looking over, the group saw a tiny green worm-like Pokémon with large black eyes and a pink antenna on its head.

"Aw, it's a Caterpie!" cooed Lila. "Its so cute!"

"Cool! I'm going to catch it!" declared Sato, taking out an empty Poké Ball.

Staring down the small Bug-type, Sato made his move and threw the Poké Ball.

TO BE CONTINUED…

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Thus ends the first chapter of 'Pokémon Remix'. …I think I need a better title, but that can wait. So how was it? I'm not expecting that it was better than the original, but I'd still like to hear what you guys think.

The motto used by Team Rocket in this is actually the Japanese version. So much better than the English version of the motto. Not only does it not have rhyming, but also it actually makes Team Rocket sound a little more badass, in my opinion anyway.

Next up will be about Sato, Lila, and Kasumi continuing through the Viridian Forest. Keep an eye out for it.