My first FF on FFN, Team Double E – Defend the Future (TDE – DtF). This is the first of two fics centring around Team Double E. TDE – DtF is based on the PMD games and the main plot points are defending the future (Team Double E) and (for Endou) trying to discover about his past.

I don't own Pokémon, Gamefreak does. I don't own I11, Level-5 does. Anyway, without further ado, on with the prologue!

"EEEK!" I screamed. Someone was shaking me hard. Very hard. I slowly opened my eyes to see a little brown canine with a white collar of fur around its neck overlooking me from my side. I could feel the soft, silky sand on my back, so I guessed I was on a beach, and that I was wearing something of some sort on my head, so I guessed it was a sun visor of some sort.

"Heh, good to see you're awake," the brown animal said, as if it was teasing me. I didn't know how I could understand it, so I guessed I had fallen asleep and woken up able to understand it.

"So, what's ya name?" it asked me. I thought I would be able to easily answer, but I didn't know my name. I didn't know anything about me, the furry creature, or why I didn't know anything.

"To be honest, I don't really know. I don't really know anything," I replied. I didn't care about the strange looks I knew I would get from the creature, I knew nothing and I would be lying if I told the puppy-thing a fake name.

"So ya don't even know ya name? I've never heard of it being possible to forget your name," the canine responded. I could tell it was feeling sorry for me by the way its voice had let go of the teasing tone and instead adopted a sadder tone. "Anyway, I think I know how to help. Pass me your headband," it continued, sounding cheerier.

"Why? Why should I?" I quickly responded, somehow feeling angrier. It was as if another part of me was fighting, not wanting to give up the headband which I had thought was just a sun visor a few seconds earlier.

"Well, normally I wouldn't tell anyone this, because they'd force me to join the guild and become part of an exploration team and explore beyond Treasure Town. But I guess I can tell ya, since I know you're gonna be a tough cookie." It was confusing me. What did it mean by Guild, exploration team, Treasure Town? I wanted to ask it questions about those, but first I wanted to know why it wanted my headband. "Go on," I mused.

"I have a special power called Dimensional Scream. It allows me to see the past, present or future, when I touch an object. There's no guarantee whether I'll get a vision of the past, the future or the present when I touch an object, or if I'll get one at all. Therefore, there's no guarantee that I'll be able to see a 'scream' that includes your name," it explained. "Now I've explained, hand over your headband." It was weird how easy it was for the brown-furred animal to switch between a fun-loving tone and a serious tone in such a short time.

"Okay then," I told the canine. I took off my headband… or at least tried to. I couldn't take it off, no matter how hard I tried. I just couldn't get a grip of it. I looked at my hands for a few seconds to check my hands in case someone had pulled a prank on me by putting butter on my fingers, when I saw that they were now yellow paws without thumbs.

Now that I knew I had paws instead of hands, I tried taking it off again, acknowledging that fact. This time, I succeeded, and I held it out to the puppy creature. It reached out one of its brown paws to touch the headband, which I now knew was orange. Almost immediately after touching it, the puppy closed its black, anime-style eyes for a few seconds. When it opened them, they were in a wide stare, as if it had seen a ghost. Its eyes stayed like that for almost a whole minute; until the creature closed its eyes again. As soon as the canine reopened its eyes, they were back to normal.

"Was that your Dimensional Scream power kicking in?" I asked, putting my headband back on. I wondered if it was, and if so, what the brown creature had seen exactly.

"Yep, it was. Luckily, your headband gave me a vision of what seems like the past that contains your name. Apparently, your name is Endou, if the vision is correct," the creature explained. "Anyway, now I know your name, I believe you have a right to know mine. I'm Evelyn the Eevee."

"So, Evelyn, what did you mean by Treasure Town, rescue team and Guild?" I asked Evelyn. I also wanted to know what an 'Eevee' was, but I didn't want to bombard her with questions.

"Treasure Town is the town nearest to this beach. Rescue teams are teams of two or more Pokémon formed to help other Pokémon in need. The guild is, well, it's hard to explain, but it's a building for all of the rescue teams in Treasure Town. It's where they rest and it also contains notice boards with jobs for the rescue teams on," Evelyn explained.

"So why are you here, if this beach isn't in Treasure Town and you don't like exploring beyond Treasure Town?"

"Well, being here just makes me feel calmer. It must be the general atmosphere of it. Plus, if I'm lucky, I might be able to see the Krabby blowing bubbles." She looked over to the direction the waves were coming from, on the left of me. "Like they are now~" she continued, starting to smile. I glanced over to where Evelyn was looking, and I saw orange and beige crabs standing on the rocks, pincers stretching towards the other crabs. However, what was strange was that bubbles were coming out of their pincers. I began to understand what the Eevee was saying, as this place was very calming.

"So this is like the Steel Tower Plaza is to me?" I didn't know why I had said that or what the 'Steel Tower Plaza' was, something was controlling me and had made me say it.

"Steel Tower Plaza? What's that?" Evelyn had asked another question I didn't know the answer to. However, before I could mutter anything about not knowing the answer, I answered it. Or rather, something in control of my mind made me answer it.

"It's a place where I come from. You can get a really good view of the sunset there," was what it had made me say.

"So ya really remember some things about where ya came from? That's good news. Maybe you'll be able to remember fully who ya really are soon," Evelyn responded. I realized I had no choice but to tell her the truth, especially after she had explained about Dimensional Scream which she had kept a secret from everybody else.

"Well, it wasn't really me saying those things about the Steel Tower Plaza. Something was controlling me, making me say them… if you get what I mean," I explained.

"Oh, I see. Anyway, I guess I'll be going now. See ya, Endou!" Evelyn smiled at me, before leaving my side to head to my right, where I thought Treasure Town would be.

"Bye, Evelyn!" I replied, before trying to get up and have a walk around. I tried standing on two legs, but I kept failing. On my third attempt, which would've been successful, I was distracted by a voice.

"A Pikachu, eh? We haven't seen one of those around here since the days of the saviour!" a high voice shouted, as if it wanted me to hear it. It roared with laughter, as if making fun of me.

"Yeah, but this weakling doesn't look like it could even save itself from us!" another voice teased – this one was deeper, but still quite high. They had angered me to the max now by teasing me and making fun of me. I felt myself heating up inside, I clenched my fists the best I could.

"SHOW YOURSELVES, MEANIES!" I yelled to whoever was teasing me.

"Hmmm… Okay…" they said in unison.

Heheheh... cliffhanger... Who could the two voices be? (hint: It's not Team Skull, in this fic they'd have been in their prime 100 years ago)