Be careful what you wish for Ash Ketchum

Ash had finally achieved his dream; he had won at the Hoenn league and had 
become a pokemon master at last. He was alone again, and as he looked up at the 
star filled sky, he couldn't help but feel that something was missing. As he 
watched, a shooting star raced across the sky, and ash still being a believer in 
such things as wishes, wished.

"I wish my father could have been there on my journey."

As Ash fell asleep, time rewound around him. Back to before Hoenn, before Johto, 
before Pikachu, and then it stopped. When Ash awoke, he was no longer outside 
under the stars, but in a large tank. Bubbles escaped from his mouth in surprise 
when he saw his reflection in the glass. His hair was now down to his back, 
grayish-blue in color, it barely hid the gills on the sides of his neck. To top 
everything off, his hands and feet were webbed, and when he turned, he could see 
a tail. He resembled a cross between a human and a Golduck, and as he swam, he 
wondered how it had happened. He turned when he heard someone talking about him, 
and more bubbles escaped when he realized whom it was. Giovanni was standing in 
front of the tank!

"How is he?"

"His transformations are almost perfect, some still have the effect you see 
before you though. I think we may have to scrap the program, our other project 
is doing much better."

"I'll deal with this one, everyone out now!"

Alone now, Ash growled at Giovanni, he felt something strange, and when he 
looked, he was now a perfect imitation of a Gyarados, all except for his black 
coloring.

"Tut, tut my boy. You should know better than to allow your feelings to control 
your shifts, come on out of there and we'll talk man to pokehuman."

Ash growled again, but he raised himself up out of the water, and by the time he 
touched the floor, he was dry, a black tank top over some green army cargo pants 
was his chosen form, his black hair stood up in spikes, black gloves covered up 
to his knuckles and he glared out of his now steely gray eyes.

"What do you want?"

"You heard what the scientists said, you're flawed. I should get rid of you now, 
but I have a better idea."

"I'm listening."

"I have a team that isn't very good. They screw up on the smallest of missions; 
their names are Jessie, and James. The third member of their group is a talking 
Meowth."

"And what does this have to do with me?"

"I want you to join their team. If you can shape them up, and help them to 
successfully complete this next mission I am going to give them, you can stay on 
as a Team Rocket member. No one will know that you are the pokehuman, only me."

"What's my other choice?"

"Stay here in this room until you die."

"Fine." Ash growled, "I'll work with these chumps."

"Good, now I've registered you under the name Gold as a beginning trainer. 
Jessie and James will tell you what the plan is once you are in Pallet, and 
don't screw this up."

Half an hour later, Ash was yawning as Professor Oak explained the basics of 
training. He had hoped his first mission would be more exciting, but all he had 
to do was deliver the ransom note after Jessie and James took the pokeballs as 
well as Gary Oak. On schedule, the lights in the room went out, Ash pulled on 
his night vision sunglasses, and wrapped a chloroformed cloth around Gary's 
mouth. It was too easy, in seconds his partners were off with the stolen 
pokeballs and Gary Oak. Ash would meet them again in Viridian. Ash pretended to 
be concerned when Professor Oak found the note he had prepared, but his only 
concern was getting a pokemon so he could leave.

"I don't mean to be insensitive Professor Oak." He said calmly, "But do you have 
any pokemon left for me? Maybe I can track down the people who stole Gary."

"NO! I absolutely forbid it! But you can take this note to officer Jenny in 
Viridian, she'll know what to do, and you can take this pokemon as well. I 
caught him this morning and he's still wild, but you are going to need a 
pokemon."

"Thanks Professor Oak."

Ash wasn't far from the lab when his first pokemon, a Pikachu as he discovered, 
refused to stay in his pokeball. He insisted on walking behind Ash, trying to 
run away every time he thought Ash wasn't looking. After Ash captured a Pidgey 
using his own thundershock attack, Pikachu decided to stick with him.

"After all" he said, "We pokemon have to stick together, even if you are a freak 
pokemon."

"Thank you so much" Ash replied sarcastically.

Ash was in a hurry, he wanted to get to Viridian as soon as possible, but after 
a week he still hadn't heard from his teammates.

"This is getting boring Pikachu." He said, "I've captured every pokemon I 
possibly can in this stupid forest, and there's still not a peep from Jessie and 
James. Well I'm sick of waiting, I'll take on the Viridian pokemon center myself 
if I have to!" Ash said

He was about to leave when a girl about the same age as him went biking speedily 
past. When he saw the flock of spearow's swooping down, he understood. Not 
thinking, he ordered Pikachu to thundershock them. It stopped the flock of 
Spearow's, but it also fried the girl and her bike. Ash sighed as he walked over 
to the girl, looking up he gasped. A great golden bird flew over his head; it's 
tail making a rainbow in its wake. When Ash pointed his pokedex at it, there was 
no data. He considered trying to talk to it in pokespeech, but there was still 
the matter of the girl. When Ash looked up again, the great bird was gone.

"What do you suppose that was?" Ash asked Pikachu who shrugged, "Well I guess my 
plans are on hold for now, we'd better get her to a hospital."

Ash made a stretcher from the trees around the area, and when he was ready, he 
slipped under the harness and began to pull, "Man she weighs a ton."

Ash turned and seeing Pikachu lying on the girl's chest he angrily ordered him 
off. With that weight back on the road, it was easier pulling the girl, but it 
still took him two whole hours to get to Viridian. He dumped her off at the 
hospital, and was going over to the pokemon center when he noticed James leaning 
up against a wall. Ash pulled him into the alley, he was furious with them, 
"What took you guys so long?"

"Boss said you did a good job, he gave us some new pokemon that we're supposed 
to give you, we were weighed down by the load."

"Well I guess that's okay, but next time try not to be so long!"

After switching the pokemon he had caught in the forest with the ones from 
Giovanni, he started to get ready. Applying blue makeup to his eye, smashing a 
blood packet over his wrist, and breaking a blood caplet in his nose, he was 
ready. For special effects, he put some fake scars on Pikachu and walked into 
the pokemon center.

"Oh my god! What happened?"

"We were attacked by Team Rocket, they had a Scyther, it hurt my Pikachu while 
they beat me up so that I couldn't attack back. I only got away thanks to 
another trainer."

"Come this way, we'll get you and your Pikachu healed right away."

Ash snuck behind Nurse Joy, sealing her within her own supply closet, quickly he 
pulled the vacuum hose into the center, and after sucking up all of the pokemon 
including the Pikachu Joy used for emergency power, his teammates took the 
vacuum and ran. Ash wrote in big letters:

"COMPLIMENTS OF TEAM ROCKET" Under which he drew a face, pulling down one eyelid 
with a finger and sticking out its tongue. With that done, he pulled the 
emergency alarm, and waited, pretending to be unconscious in the waiting room.

........................................

Misty awoke in a hospital, beside her was a brand new bike, a card read,

Dear whoever you are,

I am sure you would like to thank me for saving your life, but I didn't think it 
was wise to hang around since I had to destroy that beautiful bike of yours to 
do it. This one's all paid up, I hope it compensates for the one I destroyed, 
and I really hope I can see you again,

Gold.

Misty wondered who her mysterious savior could be as she turned on the 
television. Professor Oak was pressing a picture of Gary up to the camera, and 
then he pulled it back.

"This is my grandson Gary Oak. He was kidnapped by Team Rocket, please I beg of 
you, don't harm him, he's the only family I have left."

Professor Oak laid his head in his arms, sobbing uncontrollably, then the scene 
switched to a pokemon center in which a nurse joy was sobbing and the boy she 
had ridden past earlier was holding her.

"So what happened here?"

"I was helping this young man and his Pikachu when I was locked into my own 
supply cupboard, when I was let out by officer Jenny all of the center's pokemon 
were gone."

"And what part did you play young man?"

"Well I was waiting for Nurse Joy to come back, when I saw Team Rocket come in. 
I tried to fight them, but my Pikachu and I were too tired. They said that they 
had all they wanted and that I was lucky that they didn't take my pokemon, and 
then they knocked me out. When I came to, there was that strange message on the 
wall and Team Rocket was gone, they had stolen my money, but had left my 
pokemon. I'm just glad that I wasn't robbed like the pokemon center."

"Well there you have it folks. Two separate accounts of Team Rocket activities. 
It is this reporter's opinion that it is time for an investigation of not only 
this Team Rocket, but also whoever is funding them. And that's the evening news, 
Goodnight."

Misty switched the television off, shaking her head. What twisted psycho would 
steal sick pokemon as well as kidnap Gary Oak? Whoever they were she hoped they 
got just what they deserved.

End chapter

Okay, I said it would be bleak, I never promised that the world would spin into 
chaos because of Ash's wish. But there are some changes, like Gary being 
kidnapped, and the pokemon from the Viridian pokemon center being taken because 
Ash/Gold was in on it instead of trying to stop