Austin didn't know how long he was out as he slowly opened his eyes, feeling stiff.

'What a crazy dream.' He thought sitting up as he felt dizzy.

"Pika!" Austin was surprised when he felt something jump in his lap and he looked down to see Pikachu looking relieved.

Seeing Pikachu showed Austin, yet again, that everything that happened wasn't a dream.

"Hey Pikachu." Austin said as he looked around seeing that he was near a stream.

"Finally awake?"

Turning to the voice, Austin was surprised to see a teenage girl with reddish orange hair wearing a yellow shirt and blue shorts with red straps that went across the shirt and she wore red tennis shoes.

"Y-Yeah." Austin was surprised to see her as he shook his head. "What happened?"

"I was riding my bike to get to this spot when I saw you being attacked by the Spearow Flock." The girl said as she frowned. "Next time you try to catch a Pokemon make sure it isn't a part of a group."

On hearing that Austin glared. "Hey, that Spearow attacked Pikachu first." He said as Pikachu looked between the two humans as if he was watching a tennis match. "Wait, how did you know I caught a Spearow?"

"While you were unconscious I had to make sure your Pokemon weren't injured and your Spearow tried to attack me." The girl told him causing Austin to wince before he realized something.

He changed the Pokemon story a bit.

Ash's first capture was a Caterpie and his was a Spearow.

He wasn't even trying to catch the Spearow, he was hoping to stop it from calling the flock, which turned out to be a failure.

"Hey, are you listening?" The girl called out breaking Austin out of his thoughts.

"Uh sorry." Austin muttered rubbing his eyes and the girl finally looked a little concerned.

"Are you alright?"

"Y-Yeah." Austin answered moving to stand up. "Just a little exhausted."

"Well you're in luck, there's a Pokemon Center nearby in Viridian City." The girl said pointing to the direction that he needed to go.

"Oh thanks-." Austin stopped as he realized it would be very awkward if he knew her name without her telling him.

Mistaking why he stopped the girl sighed. "I'm Misty Waterflower."

"I'm Au-er Ash Ketchum." Austin said nearly using his real name.

Misty frowned at the slip-up before shaking her head. "Just don't get attacked by anymore wild Pokemon on the way." She chided as she went back to fishing.

"Right." Austin muttered as he looked towards Pikachu. "You ready to go?"

"Pika." Pikachu said walking up behind him.

Austin grinned as he walked by, seeing Misty's bike.

'Well I guess she won't be traveling with me for barbequing her bike.' Austin thought as that didn't happen.

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It was an hour after he began walking that Austin couldn't help but pull out Spearow's Pokeball. "Should I?" He asked Pikachu who shook his head already seeing what Austin wanted to do. "Wait until we're at the Pokemon Center?"

Pikachu gave a nod. "Pika."

"Alright." Austin said wondering how different everything will be.

… He hasn't seen the first season of Pokemon in a long time but he does remember some key details.

Like who Ash's team was and he already changed that a bit on his first day here.

But he didn't remember everything… Some things would probably come to mind if they happened.

Shaking his head, Austin saw Viridian City from the hill he made it to and smiled as the sun was looking like it was beginning to set.

"We're here." Austin said looking up only for his eyes to widen.

He could see a bird flying off into the sky.

Despite knowing what it was, he took out the Pokedex. "Pokemon Unknown." Was what the answer was.

"Ho-Oh." Austin whispered causing Pikachu to look at him in surprise.

How did he know?

Seeing Ho-Oh disappear, Austin clenched a fist as he began to walk towards Viridian City in time to hear an announcement. "Attention Citizens of Viridian City. Attention Citizens of Viridian City. There have been reports of possible Pokemon Thieves, keep on the lookout of suspicious looking strangers, repeat be on the lookout for suspicious looking strangers."

The speaker was a blue haired woman that was dressed as a Police Officer going by the name of Officer Jenny and she stopped at seeing a boy with a Pikachu behind him walking up.

Thanks to the Anime, Austin knew enough to have his Pokedex ready as he held it out to the Officer. "Hi, I'm from Pallet Town." He said not wanting to add being arrested to the problems of stuff that already happened that day. "Is the Pokemon Center nearby?"

"You're the fourth trainer from Pallet Town that I've seen today." Officer Jenny said accepting the Pokedex as she looked through it to see his picture on the Identification part. "Everything is in order, be careful of the rumored Pokemon Thieves and the Pokemon Center is that way, you can't miss it."

"Thank you." Austin said as he left the Officer as Pikachu was looking everywhere.

'Well I seem to have a little more luck than Ash did.' Austin thought as he continued down the path. 'I caught a Pokemon and managed to get Pikachu here in fairly good condition… Then again he didn't get injured like I did.'

"So Pikachu." Austin said catching his attention. "A deal is a deal, do you want to continue with me or go your own way?"

Pikachu gave him a look of disbelief.

He honestly forgot about the deal with everything that happened and was pretty surprised that Austin brought it up.

"Pika Pi?" Pikachu asked tilting his head.

"I'm not going to force you to stay if you don't want to." Austin said as the Pokemon Center came in sight. 'To quote Ash, it's gigantic.'

"Pika." Pikachu said not walking away.

"So you're going to stay?" Austin asked as Pikachu gave a nod. "Well alright then."