Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon, but if I did happen to own it….
Gym Leader Gardenia: Uh oh.
Officer Jenny: Should I get the handcuffs?
Me: Hey, I said if I did own it, I didn't say I did. Although, if I happened to then….
Gym Leader Sabrina: THEN I WOULD RULE THE WORLD!
Me: Uh….whatever. Um, you aren't in my story. Neither is Jenny, or Gardenia. What are you doing here?
All: We don't know. We just wanted to have a random thing to say in the disclaimer.
Me: Oh.
Hi. Well, I gotta say, this story kind of came to me when I beat PMD 2 for the second time. My character was Pikachu, and partner was Piplup. After beating the game, I found the Wonder Mail codes for the legendary treasures. Upon getting the one known as grass coronet, a Mew joined my team. Then, I recruited Uxie. Those four were my main team, and they got to pretty high levels before I got bored and restarted again. Pikachu and Piplup were over level 90. Uxie and Mew were in the high 80's. Anywho, I've been rambling. Time to get on with the story!
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Team Adventure!
Chapter 1-Start of an Adventure!
It's a nice day outside. You can hear the wind blow gently against the trees of the forest. Grass Pokemon are taking naps in the sun. All is peaceful, until…….everything starts to shake! A huge hole opens up in the ground, causing countless Pokemon to fall in, unable to get out. They cry for help, but are heard by no one. Later, a Pikachu passing by can hear their cries for help. It quickly races into a nearby town, to alert a rescue team.
"Come on!," Tem said. "I won! You gotta trade me the Celebi now!" He and two of his friends, Lara and Jones were outside. Tem and Lara playing with their Pokemon video games, and Jones standing off to the side reading a car manual.
"You cheated! Lara said. "How could you beat a Pokemon master like me?"
"Hey!," Jones said, turning his attention away from the manual. "If yall like Pokemon so much, why don't you just go catch you some real ones?"
"Well," Lara explained. "See all these legendary one's I got in the game? It'd be waaay too hard to find one in the wild."
"Not if ya really tried!," Jones insisted, looking back to his manual on how to assemble certain types of cars.
"Oh yeah?," Tem asked. "Then why don't you have any Pokemon?"
"Cause!," Jones said, turning away from them. "I got my cars, that's all I need."
"Whatever!," Laura said. "You wanna be a trainer as bad as we do. You just have the same problem, with school and all, it's hard to travel around like that."
"Yeah," Jones sighed. "I guess trainen' Pokemon could be kinda cool. But still, I like my cars better!"
"Whatever!," Tem and Lara said in unison.
"Well," Lara said. " I better get going. Meet back here tomorrow?"
"Agreed," Tem and Jones said. Once Lara had left their secret hideaway behind a secluded patch of bushes near the town's library, Jones closed his manual and looked toward the setting sun.
"Well," He said to Tem, "I'd better head too!" With that, he too walked toward his home. Tem then decided to leave too. Although, somewhat disappointed about not getting that Celebi in the video game. As he walked, he looked around. Various flying Pokemon were sitting on telephone wires watching the sunset. It was odd, but the flying Pokemon were always around at sunset.
He then looked toward the ground as he walked. He'd wanted to be a Pokemon trainer for so long. To go on adventures! Face real danger! Make a difference for people and Pokemon everywhere, like some of the trainers he'd been hearing about on the news lately. But, he could never do anything like that. He wasn't as special a person as that Ash Ketchum kid. No one ever interviewed him, but Ash was on the news every other week. For sending Team Rocket flying, or saving the world.
Tem wished he could be heroic like that. And, he knew his two friends felt the same way. He and Lara dealt with it by playing with virtual Pokemon in the games. Jones, he dealt in his own way, by studying cars. But they all knew they could never be much more than they were. That night though, they were all about to find, they couldn't be more wrong…..
"It's okay….," A voice from somewhere said. " I just want to know more about you." Her voice was calm, soothing even. This was some kind of dream though. Tem knew it. He'd gone to sleep a few hours after he'd got home, and this was by far the most….well….he couldn't exactly describe it as odd. The voice then began to ask him several questions about himself. Instantly trusting the voice, he answered them.
"Wait," Lara cried, unaware that this was a dream. "Who are you?!!"
"My name is unimportant now. You can trust me," A calm voice said.
"But," Lara said. "You look like a Pokemon! Pokemon can't talk! What are you?!!" Lara was seriously panicked. She had fallen asleep a few hours later than Tem, and she wasn't going to trust this mysterious voice as easily as he did.
"You are right," The voice said. "I am a Pokemon. Are you scared of Pokemon?"
"No!" Lara said. "I'm not scared of them……..just, I've never seen one talk before!"
"It's okay. I'm just here to learn more about you. The only way your destiny can be fulfilled, is if I know more about you."
"Destiny?" Lara asked. "What destiny?"
"Answer my questions, and you will learn."
"Fine!," Lara said uncertainly. She too answered the questions, and as she talked to the mysterious Pokemon, she began to trust it more.
"So, why are you here?," Jones asked. He was completely aware that he was having some sort of odd dream, and someone was talking to him.
"I just want to know more about you," The calm voice said to him. "Will you answer a few questions?"
"Sure," Jones said. Not that he trusted the voice, not that he didn't. He just figured that since this was a dream, none of it really mattered. So, he answered the questions. They seemed normal enough, although some were kinda weird. One she asked Jones was, what do you like to do on summer vacation? Another, if you saw a lady dripping wet in a graveyard at night, what would you do? Some of the questions seemed to be about him, others were about what he would do in certain situations.
Still, thinking that none of it really mattered, he answered the questions without asking why they were so weird.
The next morning, in a world of only Pokemon, the Pikachu who went for help the day before went back to that forest to see if the rescue team had gotten to everyone. When he reached the fissure in the ground, he noticed three Pokemon sleeping in front of it. Is that the rescue team?, he wondered to himself. Hey! They're kinda close to the fissure! What if they fall in?!! I better get'em up!
The Pikachu ran over to them, and began to shake one of them. "Hey! Get up!"
"Wha…?" The Pokemon asked. "Want……Celebi…."
"Celebi?" Pikachu asked, surprised that anyone in the area of Pokemon Square and Treasure Town knew who he was. "Hey! You know him? Are you the rescue team?"
"Huh?" The Pokemon asked, still asleep, but realizing he was being spoken to.
"GET UP!," Pikachu yelled, becoming irritated. This guy sure slept hard for a Treeko. The Pikachu had a Treeko for a friend once, and that guy could get up before sunrise, and probably run a triathlon without going to sleep. Then, he could go on his daily rescue missions. That Treeko was in Pokemon Square's Rescue Team Federation.
"What ya want?!," The sleeping Treeko asked lazily. "I sleepin!"
"Okay!," Pikachu said. "I'll make this simple. EITHER YOU GET UP OR I'M GONNA SHOCK YOU!"
"What do you want!," The Treeko asked, jumping up. "I was asleep!" Then, he seemed to realize he was talking to a Pikachu. "Wait, did you just say something to me?"
"Yeah!," The Pikachu said. "I'm Pikachu! Are you the rescue team I sent for yesterday?" The Treeko backed away.
"You talked to me!," He said, panicked.
"Of course I did!," Pikachu said. " Am I supposed to use sign language or something? And, what about those other two? Are they alright?!!" Forgetting about the Treeko, Pikachu ran over to the other two Pokemon. A Squirtle, and a Charmander.
"Um….," The Treeko said. "Pikachu, how do you know how to talk?" Pikachu had begun to shake the Squirtle, but then stopped and turned to the Treeko.
"What is wrong with you?!!," Pikachu demanded. "Did you hear some story that Pikachu don't have vocal cords or something? Am I supposed to be unable to speak? Why do you keep on asking about how I can talk?!!"
"No!," The Treeko said. "I mean, um….I'm human, alright. To humans, when Pokemon talk, they only say their name."
Pikachu twitched its ears in a curious way. "Did you say you were human? That's crazy. And you know, it'd be really stupid for me to walk around talking to everyone by saying 'Pikachu! Pikachu! Pikachu!'! How can anyone understand that?!!"
"But," The Treeko said. "It's true!"
"Whatever," Pikachu said. "Could ya help me here? I'll wake up the Squirtle. You go get that Charmander up. Oh yeah. Do you have a special name or anything like that, you know, besides just, Treeko?"
"What do you mean by that?!!," The Treeko asked, sounding offended. "I'm not a Treeko! I'm a human, and if you couldn't tell that, you must be blind!"
Pikachu twitched its ears again. "You don't' look like a human!" The Treeko looked himself over, beginning to feel panic come over him again. It was true! He had become a Treeko! But, the odd thing was, he had no clue how!
"Ya gotta believe me!," He said to Pikachu. " I am human! Or, I was anyway! Somehow, I've become a Pokemon!"
Pikachu stared at him for a moment. "Whatever. Like I said, name?"
The Treeko sighed. Pikachu didn't believe a word he said. "My name is Tem, and like I tell you, I'm human!"
"Yeah right," Pikachu said sarcastically. "Just help me would ya? Wake up the Charmander!"
"Fine.," Tem said. He walked over to the Charmander, while Pikachu began to shake the Squirtle again. He tried shaking the Charmander awake, while wondering what had happened. He vaguely remembered having a dream. Peaceful, calming, and then……..then what?
"You keep shaking me, and I'm going to hit you upside the head!," The female Charmander spoke, eyes still closed. Tem recognized the voice.
"Lara!," He said. The Charmander quickly sat up, noticing a Treeko staring at her. "You're Lara?"
"Yeah!," Lara said. "Wait a second! Tem? You're a Treeko? What happened to you?!"
"I don't know!," Tem said. "How'd you become a Charmander?!"
" WHAT!," Lara asked, jumping up. She looked around, and noticed he was right. She was a Charmander.
" How'd this happen? Am I still sleeping?!!" Lara started to hit herself.
" Stop that!," Tem said. " You're awake!"
" Yeah," Lara said, stopping after she almost bruised herself. " I think I am." She rubbed the side of her head she'd hit. " That hurt." Pikachu had stopped trying to awaken Squirtle, and stared at them.
" Are you two alright?," Pikachu asked. " Cause, if you guys need a doctor, Dr. Meditite was just hired in Treasure Town, and that's about the same distance Pokemon Square is from here."
" Tem!," Lara said, jumping back closer to the fissure in the ground. " That Pikachu talked!"
" WHAT IS IT WITH YOU TWO!?!!," Pikachu asked, becoming angry that they were so surprised to see a Pikachu talking. " Do you have something against Pikachu or something?!! Cause, I can talk, alright! All the Pokemon around here can talk. I don't care what crazy stories you heard about Pokemon in these parts being mute or something, but they're not true!" Then, Pikachu ignored them again, and went back to trying to wake up the Squirtle.
" Hey," Lara said to Tem. " You got any idea what happened? I can't seem to remember anything much. Just, there was this dream. And, this Pokemon was talking to me. And…….I don't' know."
" You too?," Tem asked. " I had a dream like that too! And, then…..I don't know what happened next either."
" Leave me alone!," The Squirtle said in response to Pikachu shaking it vigorously. " It ain't late enough to wake up yet!"
" That's Jones!," Lara said. " That's his voice!"
" Yeah!," Tem agreed. The walked over to the Squirtle. " Jones! Get up!"
" What?," Jones asked. " Tem? Why are you here? I'm asleep! You don't come over when I'm sleepin! You know that!"
" Open your eyes," Tem said. " Look around."
" Do I have to?!," Jones asked.
" You ought to," Tem said.
" OH FINE!," Jones said stubbornly, then standing up and rubbing his eyes. He looked around. " HEY! WHERE AM I?!!"
" It's alright!," Pikachu said quickly. " You're in the forest between Pokemon Square, and Treasure Town."
" WHERE?!!," Jones asked. " I ain't never heard of them places in my life! AND HEY! DID THAT PIKACHU TALK TO ME JUST NOW?!!"
" YES!," Pikachu yelled loudly. " I CAN TALK! I CAN TALK! I CAN TALK!" Pikachu got odd stares not only from Lara and Tem, but from all of the other Pokemon in the forest as well. " UNDERSTAND IT! GET IT THROUGH YOUR HEADS! PIKACHU'S CAN TALK! WE ARE NOT MUTE! WE CAN SPEAK!"
" HEY!," Jones said looking around. " Where's Tem?!"
" Right here!," Tem said.
" WHAT!," Jones asked. Then, he couldn't help laughing. " You're a Treeko now? What'd ya do, eat some mutating Pokemon food or something?"
" Very funny," Tem said. " I don't know what happened."
" Yeah!," Lara said. " I don't either. But, look at you! You're a Squirtle if you haven't realized it by now!"
" Wha?," Jones looked at himself. " AAAAH! WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED?!!"
" We don't know!," Tem and Lara said. Pikachu just stared at him, twitching his right ear. He couldn't understand it. They seemed panicked. These Pokemon couldn't be the rescue team. But, who were they? They acted so strange. All he knew about them, were their names. The Treeko had introduced himself, but he'd heard him calling the Charmander Lara and the Squirtle Jones. What weird names for Pokemon.
" Calm down you guys!," Pikachu said. " What's wrong? You're acting so strange!"
" That's because we're human!," All three of them said.
" Okay," Pikachu said. " Maybe you otta go to Treasure town. Dr. Meditite works closely with the Psychologist, Dr. Abra. Maybe you should go see him if you've got problems or something. You aren't human! You three are Pokemon! Can't you tell?"
" We used to be human!," Tem said. " Something happened, and we became Pokemon!" Pikachu didn't quite know what to make of that. It didn't sound possible. But, what if it was? And, maybe it wasn't right to say these three were crazy before trying to get to know them a bit more.
" HEEEY!," Suddenly, a grass type turtle like Pokemon called Turtwig came running up to the four. It was more of a fast walk than a run, since Turtwig can't exactly run. " Something weird's going on!"
" What is it Turtwig?," Pikachu asked.
" You know that fissure that opened up?"
" Yeah," Pikachu said.
" Well," Turtwig said. " You won't believe this, but there's an abandoned old mansion down there!"
" WHAT?!," Pikachu asked in surprise. " An underground mansion?!! Where'd it come from?!!"
" Well," Turtwig said. " Alakazam of the rescue team A.C.T. that came through last night thinks that it was brought here from another dimension by a ghost type Pokemon!"
" WOW!," Pikachu said. " That's weird. But, why tell me about it?"
" Well," Turtwig said. " I would go get a rescue team, but you guys seem available. Listen, I hear that a Pokemon that fell into the fissure went into the mansion last night, but didn't come out! He may be lost in there! Could you guys go see? I don't wanna bring out a rescue team if this is a prank and no one's there."
" Okay then," Pikachu said. " I'll go." He turned to the other three. " Do you wanna come or not?" They looked at each other.
" Well," Tem said. " We've got nothing better to do."
" Yeah!," Jones agreed. " Geez! I don't even know my way around this place!"
" Okay," Lara said. " I'll come. Although, I don't really favor going into potentially haunted houses."
" It'll be fine!," Pikachu said as Turtwig walked off. " Let's go! You guys, jump into the fissure behind you!"
The three looked down into the fissure. They couldn't see the bottom. " You're kidding!," Lara said. " We could break a bone jumping down there!"
" Well," Pikachu said. " Some Pokemon fell in yesterday. As far as I know, none of them broke a bone on the way down. Let's go!," He said, jumping into the fissure.
" Should we really follow him?," Jones asked.
" What else could we do?," Tem asked him. " We don't know our way around here. Or, why we became Pokemon. This guy knows his way around. Maybe if we stick with him, we can figure out how we turned into Pokemon!"
"Sounds good to me!," Lara said jumping into the fissure. Tem followed her. Jones hesitated a bit. He looked around, then, decided maybe following them would be best. He too jumped in. Surprisingly, when Jones hit the bottom, he landed on his feet. He looked around to see that the others were waiting ahead. He walked over to them, and they walked on.
That's it for chapter 1! So, did you find it interesting? A few reviews would be nice, you know, just to tell me if you like the story so far or not. Sorry for rambling on so much at the beginning, but the whole Pikachu/Piplup thing is going to be significant later in the story, so I thought I'd mention something about that now.
