“birthday shock”
it was ash’s birthday when he has a dream that confuses him about a young pikachu protecting a mysterious pokemon and then disappearing saying you’ll return sometime. the next morning a unfamiliar voice says happy birthday ash doesn’t reccognise it and can only see his pikachu who then speaks again and ash looks he had become a pikachu himself completly confused he realises the dream he had last night was a flash back but can’t figure out and decides to figure out what happened and his memories reveal that he was given a task of protecting a legendry and was made human briefly after he had saved it.
