In a message dated 4/14/99 11:05:06 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
becknkal@addax.bc.ca writes:

Author's notes:
 Another quick idea I got, hope you all enjoy it! Ash is 16, I kinda put the
 law where a trainer may only begin training a pokemon at that age, but may
 learn about pokemon at an earlier age. (Kinda like a driver's license) 
 
 
 All purpose electric pokemon-girl Pikachu! - episode 00
 by Kahlil Noriega

Welllll....  all I can say is this.  There are definate possiblities here all 
right, but there is quite a bit missing.  Obviously, Prof. Oak planted 
Pikahu's brain into an android body, but we never see how ash responds to all 
of this.  One scene we see Oak realising there is only one hope for Pikachu's 
survival, and the next, the process is not only over, and obviously a rousing 
success, but Ash has had time to get used to what has happened to Pika-Nuku.  
This is wrong, and really feels to me like it skips over quite a bit of 
important developments early on.