~*+Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of the Past+*~
==Part 1: The Mysterious Riolu==
Wait! Where are you going!?
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Take me with you! Please!
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Will...will I ever see you again?
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WATCH OUT!!
"Okay...I'm gonna do it!" said a small Shinx as he looked upon a large tent that looked like a Wigglytuff. "This is the day I finally join the Guild!" He confidently walked over the wooden grate.
Suddenly, a voice emerged from...from somewhere. "POKEMON DETECTED! POKEMON DETECTED!" The voice shouted. "Who's footprint? Who's footprint!?" Another voice called, apparently to the first one. "The footprint is Shinx's!"
"OH MY GOSH!"The Shinx shouted before fleeing. He ran all through town until he got to the beach. "Why...?" He said, looking down into the sand before him. Why can't I ever get the courage to go in there?" He looked up and marveled at the sight he saw; hundreds of thousands of glimmering bubbles floating around him. He breathed out a sigh of relaxation. "I love coming here," he said. "The Krabby always blow bubbles here in the afternoon. The view is so relaxing..." The Shinx looked to his right and saw something not too far away. "Hey...what's that?" He walked over to it and saw a Riolu passed out in the sand. He ran over to the Riolu and lifted its head. "Hey! Are you ok? Wake up!"
The Riolu slowly opened its eyes, as if waking from a dream. "H-...huh? Where am I?" It said. And then the Riolu looked up at the blue, cat-like face looking down at him. "Za...Zack?"
Shinx smiled in relief for the stranger Pokemon. "Yeah, it's me; Zack! I'm so glad you're--" The Shinx's eyes suddenly filled with shock as he screamed "HOW DO YOU KNOW MY NAME IS ZACK!?!?"
The Riolu stood up and looked Zack in the eye. Zack wanted to turn tail and run...
"Don't you know my name?" The Riolu said, stepping closer and closer to Zack, who was backing farther and farther away. "If I know your name, you should know mine."
"B-b-but why d-do you know m-mine?" Zack whimpered. The creepy Riolu cornered him against a large rock.
The Riolu stopped closing in and looked down in confusion. "...I'm not quite sure. Do you know mine?"
Zack was seriously getting creeped out. "W-why in the world would I know your name!? W-we've never met before! I've never even seena Riolu before!"
The Riolu tilted his head in confusion. "A Riolu? Could it be?" He held his hands up and saw paws. His legs were tiny and blue. He checked his reflection in the ocean water and... "It's really happened! I'M A POKEMON!!! What's more, I'M A RIOLU!!!! YEEEEAAAAAHHH!!!!!!"
Zack was really freaked out and confused, so he began to leave the beach. Just then, Zack was attackedby a Koffing and Zubat! He fell back and dropped his relic fragment, and the Zubat picked it up.
"HAHA!" Said the Zubat. "Now we're going to take this rock we don't know anything about but seems to have value to you and sell it to a market located in a place nobody knows!"
"Yeah!" Said the Koffing. "And you probably won't even see it again for a really, really long time!"
"Or even never, ever again!" the Zubat said.
The Koffing pushed Zack to the ground and the two thieves made their way towards the cave entrance. However, the Riolu stood there in their way. "Hey you! Move! We're stealing something here!" The Riolu didn't move.
Instead, he jumped into the air and shouted "Quick Attack!"He zoomed right through the Zubat, and it dropped the relic fragment as it fell to the ground, fainted! And then the Riolu turned to the Koffing...
The Riolu prepared an attack. "Ka..."
The Koffing was paralyzed in fear. "Wha-what are you d-doing?"
"Me......" A ball of energy appeared in the Riolu's hands.
The Koffing still couldn't move.
"Haa....." The ball was getting bigger.
Zack could only watch in awe as Riolu charged his amazing attack...
"Me.... AURA SPHERE!!" The Riolu launched his attack and it was a direct hit! The Koffing and Zubat were thrown high into the air and disappeared as a star somewhere in the stratosphere.
Zack ran over to the Riolu and shouted in excitement "That was AMAZING, Jack!" He suddenly stopped and gasped.
"Jack?" The Riolu repeated. "Yeah, that's it! My name is Jack! So you DID know!"
Zack was semi-conscious. "Why...?" he said, just above a whisper. "Why do I know his name...?"
Jack poked Zack in the head with a stick. No response...