The Life Before Prologue Pikachu sat relaxing with his friends when he began to think of his life before. Now Pikachu had it pretty good now but before he met ash or even before he was captured by professor Oak he had it bad. This was really long ago and Pikachu had almost forgotten about it. This was Pikachu's life before he even knew what a Pokemon trainer was. Now as you know Pikachu wasn't born a Pikachu but a Pichu. It was a rainy day when baby Pichu was born to the little Pikachu family. He was cold and crying but he was one out of ten to be born that day and he was the smallest one. Mother and father Pikachu tried to keep him but the wind carried him away. So little Pichu grew up a lonely orphan in the dangerous forest. Pichu grew up and eventually became the Pikachu we know today but he grew up bitter because his family never came looking for him. So Pikachu went off to make a life for himself.