Ash, ten years old, was laying in his room, staring at the ceiling. He couldn't believe he was here. After losing in the finals of the Lumiose Conference, he never expected to be invited to the legendary Master Cup. The Master Cup was a tournament that you had to be invited to if you wanted to take part in it. If you were invited, it meant that you were one of the best or that the people who runs the tournament see potential in you. He was going to fight against other regions' champions, elite four, gym leaders, frontier brains and so much more. There were people he met on his journey, like Paul, Alain, Gary, and so many more of his friends and rivals. Due to the rules of the Battle Chateau, Ash was wearing his Baron outfit (Cover art). Turning in his bed, he looked at his best friend, Pikachu, a yellow rodent-like creature with red cheeks and a lightning bolt shaped tail, sleeping near his other pokeballs. The rules of the Master Cup were very strict and he almost missed the tournament because of it. He could only use six pokemon throughout the entire tournament. If he used a pokemon he didn't register, he would be disqualified on the spot. Having to choose five pokemon, Pikachu was a given, out of all of his wasn't easy, but here he was. "Pika?"

"Sorry if I woke you, buddy. I'm just trying to wrap my head around all this," Ash said as he petted the electric mouse.

"Pika, Pikachu"

"That's a great idea, Pikachu. A midnight run should calm my nerves," Ash said as he placed his pokeballs on his belt and Pikachu took his spot on Ash's shoulder. He was walking toward the front door when he was blinded by a bright flash.

Twilight, a lavender unicorn filly of ten years and personal student to Princess Celestia, was up late at night practicing a variation on the teleportation spell. Instead of teleporting the user, an unicorn would focus their magic to teleport another object. She haven't perfected the teleportation spell yet, but after hearing about this variation, she had to try it. She was trying to teleport an apple across her room when she was blinded by a bright flash. "Ugh, what happened, Pikachu?" Twilight slowly opened her eyes, afraid she accidently teleport a pony. She couldn't believe her eyes. A creature she never saw before was in front of her.

"Pikaaa," Twilight's eyes went to the creature's shoulder. There was another unknown creature. She opened and shut her mouth, having trouble processing what was going on. The two creature realized they weren't alone and look toward Twilight. Their eyes widen in surprise.

"What are you?," they said at the same time. "I can understand you? Stop copying me! Copying you? You're copying me!"

"Piikaachuuu!" Pikachu cried as he shocked both of them. Ash, being used to it, recovered first and turned to his pokemon.

"Pikachu, what if you hurt her?" Ash saw Pikachu hang his head and decided to cheer up his loyal friend. "I know you meant well, but next time, be more careful"

"Pika"

"Hey, I'm careful...some of the time," Ash said as he placed Twilight on his lap and checked over her injuries. Her size made it slightly uncomfortable, but nothing he wasn't used to. "It doesn't seem like she isn't hurt that bad," Ash started petting the unicorn filly, causing Twilight to nuzzle his hand subconsciously. She slowly regain conscious and stared at the strange creature petting her. "Glad to see you're alright. Sorry about Pikachu"

"Chuu" Pikachu said sadly.

"It's okay. I'm sure you had good intentions," Twilight said with a smile before turning to Ash. "So what are you?"

"My name is Ash Ketchum and this is Pikachu. I'm a human, but if you want to be more specific, I'm a pokemon trainer. What about you?"

"Nice to meet you, Ash. My name is Twilight Sparkle. I'm a pony, a unicorn to be accurate. What is a pokemon?" Twilight and Ash spent all night trading questions about multiple topics and even argue a little bit. They didn't realized how much time have passed until a knock was heard.

"Twilight, are you alright?" asked a regal sounding voice on the other side of the door.

"Princess Celestia!" Twilight said in shock. "Sorry, I must have lost track of time"

"Lost track doing what?"

"Well,..." she paused here and look at Ash, who gave a nod. "Can you come in here, please? It's kinda hard to explain" The door opened and a white winged-unicorn, or alicorn, walked in. Twilight and Pikachu both bowed while Ash kneeled.

"I notice you got some guests. I'm sure Twilight already told you, but I am Princess Celestia"

"Pleasure to meet you, your highness. I am Ash Ketchum of Pallet Town and this is Pikachu"

"Pika," Pikachu said with a wave.

"It's nice to meet you too and please call me Celestia. I don't like being called highness" They continue to talk and, unfortunately for Ash, Celestia said she didn't know send Ash back. "How many of these pokemon do you have with you? I must admit to being curious"

"If you count Pikachu, I have six pokemon"

"Where are they?" asked Twilight. Ash showed them the pokeballs on his belt. "Wow, they must be really small"

"Actually, Pikachu is one of my smaller pokemon"

"Then how do they fit?"

"It's pretty complicated, even I don't fully understand it," Ash said before turning to Celestia. "Do you know a wide open place I can let my pokemon out?

On the way to the field, several ponies had to do a double take when they saw Ash. They didn't bother them because they trusted the Princess. "Will this be enough room?" asked Celestia as they walk into the field.

"Yeah, This is more than enough," Ash said. "Okay, come on out, everyone" He threw all of his pokeballs into air and they opened realizing his pokemon. The pokemon, from right to left, was Charizard, Snorlax, Sceptile, Hawlucha, and Greninja. They look around, not being familiar with the area, before looking at their trainer. They saw Twilight and Celestia, so they got into a battle stance. "Wait, we're not battling them"

"Can you introduce us to your pokemon?" asked Twilight, a little scared of Charizard.

"No problem, the orange dragon-like one with the flame on its tail is Charizard, The largest one that look like it has its eyes closed is Snorlax, the green reptilian one with the large tail and yellow balls on its back is Sceptile, the small bird-like one that look like it has a mask and cape on is Hawlucha, and the large dark- blue frog-like one that has its mouth covered with its tongue is Greninja," Ash said as he pointed at each pokemon. "Guys, this is Twilight Sparkle and Princess Celestia. They're our new friends, so I expect you to get along with them"

"I must admit that I didn't expect this when you told us about pokemon" said Celestia. The pokemon, seeing that they weren't going to fight, relax. Charizard didn't move, but his posture became more relax. Snorlax fell backward, causing the ground to shake, and fell asleep. Sceptile and Greninja both leaned against a tree. Finally, Hawlucha decided to practice his moves on another tree. Twilight, curious, walked up to the one that made her the least nervous, Snorlax.

"Is he asleep?"

"Yep, if he's not fighting or eating, he's sleeping. Sometimes, he falls asleep while fighting, but you couldn't find a more loyal group of pokemon if you tried"

"Seeing as how there's no other pokemon, I think that's a given"

"You know what I mean" Ash said as he stood next to Twilight. "Do you want to do something fun?"

"Fun?" asked Twilight before nodding. Ash whisper something into Snorlax's ear. He turned his head to look at Twilight and nodded before falling asleep.

"Okay, ready?"

"Ready for whatttt?!" screamed Twilight as Ash picked her up and threw her onto Snorlax's large belly. She sank a bit before bouncing up. After she got over her fear, she started having a great time. Ash and Pikachu joined her and they took turns doing flips and other tricks. Celestia watched with a smile on her face. "Wait, how do we stop?"

"Simple," Ash said as he turn toward the pokemon's face. "Snorlax, it's breakfast time!" Snorlax quickly grabbed the three on his belly and shot up. After placing them on the ground, he looked at Ash, waiting for the promised food. Ash pulled out a small block and threw it into Snorlax's mouth.

The pokemon's stomach bulged out a bit and he let out what sounded like a sigh. "Lax" He promptly fell back asleep.

"Did you hear that, everybody? It's time to eat!" Ash yelled as he poured food for each of other pokemon. After they all came forward and grabbed their bowl, Ash took the opportunity to better introduce the rest of his team to the two ponies and vice versa.

"Until we can find a way to get you home, you can stay in the castle" said Celestia.

"Thank you for the..."

"I must object, Aunt" interrupted a stuck-up sounding voice . "We can't give a room to this animal!"

"Good morning, Blueblood. I didn't hear you come in." said Celestia. Before she could say anything else, Ash spoke up.

"I am not an animal. I am Ash Ketchum"

"I don't care and, since you're not a pony, you must be an animal," Blueblood said as he turn his head away in disgust

"I am a pokemon trainer and future pokemon master," said Ash, who was getting angry at the stuck-up pony

"Am I supposed to be impressed? The best thing about you is your clothes and I wouldn't be surprised if we found out that they were stolen" Ash looked down and saw he was still wearing his baron outfit.

"I am also an aura guardian in training," said Ash, not wanting to let this pony have the last word.

"What..."

"Blueblood, please leave us" said Celestia.

"But..."

"Do you not trust me?"

"Yes, very well," Blueblood gave Ash one last glare, who returned it, as he walked out of the room.

"Why did you lie?" asked Celestia as she looked at Ash

"I didn't exactly lie. I been told that I have the potential to be an aura guardian and since I'm stuck here, I'm going to see if I can do anything with that potential"

"I see, and just what is an aura guardian?"

"An aura guardian is a human that is capable of using aura, an energy found in every living thing," Ash explained to Celestia. "The main priority of an Aura Guardian is to help maintain peace and harmony throughout the pokemon world. Unfortunately, there isn't very people that can use aura. Beside myself, the only other person I can think of is Riley"

"I think I understand now. Please follow me to your room. I had a bed made for you because I doubt the normal size bed would fit you," said Celestia as she smiled at the thought of Ash trying to fit in a normal sized bed.

Author's Note

next chapter will be eight years in the future and at the beginning of the series. I want to give a size comparison between pony and humans. the human is the size of the average U.S. male adult.(5 ft., 9.5 in. or 1.763 m.) (ft=feet, in=inches, m=meters)
Filly/Colt is eye level with the upper legs.
Foals is eye level with the knees
Mare/Stallion is eye level with the waist.
and finally Celestia is same height as them.
if you don't like this, then too bad. I didn't choose these height at random. i started with the mare's height and based on the death battle between Pinkie Pie and Deadpool, who is slightly taller at 6'2", Pinkie Pie was eye level with his waistline. the next was the filly's height and I based it on what i could gather from the CMCs' interactions with their sisters. Foals was based on the Cake Twins compared to Pinkie. Celestia is based on her compared to Twilight. in the second episode of the first season, when Celestia returns, you get a clear size comparison between her and Twilight. she towers over her. don't believe me.
look at this!
she's twice as tall as Twilight!