Why Im writing a pokemon fanfiction when I should be finishing the ch. Of Danganronpa and League of Legends? Who knows, but well the usual, I don't own Pokemon, hope you find this enjoyable to read, I found it a fun experiment to write as it is different from what I'm used to do.

Prologue: The Pokemon Detective.

In the world there are many professions, but if you ask kids, everyone will answer the same to the question. "What do you want to be?" and the answer will be.

"A pokemon trainer!"

A pokemon trainer, many take it on themselves to give it a try in their life to aim to be a champion, and even then, most don't make it, some of the people who don't make it follow other fields of experience all related to pokemon. Is fun in itself and part of the charm of the world that kid can just be kids trying their best at their goal of becoming a trainer.

Few people take other roads, some try to become members of hospitals, other become officers, life has its charm. But some people just don't like the set roads, they wish for fun and adventure in ways than what's being the norm for long, and that's one of the reasons Cid was adamant of sharing his answer so many years ago.

"What do you wish to be?"

A detective.

He never took on himself to be a pokemon trainer, he didn't like battling, instead he always preferred the calm and peacefulness of puzzles and solving games that required the use of his wits and knowledge. His father had been a tad disappointed he didn't wanted to be trainer, and his mother simply said maybe it was just a phase, after all many people would begin their journeys at an older age.

But he didn't. He was a detective in one of the biggest cities. He had made the decision of becoming the kind of detective that could solve any issue. And so far, his quota of missing Pichus and Glameows had been reached for the month once again.

As the man found himself sitting on a chair behind a desk in a dimly lighted room that was surrounded in the darkness thanks to the curtains, the room was small but comfy enough as to hold four people. Plus, a small space meant a cheaper rent, and the fact that he slept on the office was a way to save even more money.

"Well, so far it has been, well right?"

Cid seemed to speak to the air, anyone who watched the scene would laugh and say the man has gone crazy in the room. After all, the scrawny man whose eyes behind glasses seemed to show a huge lack of sleep. His hair long and messy came out in awkward angles that proved he needed either a haircut or to clean his hair. A long coat surrounded him, to keep him warm or to hide his scrawny physique one could only wonder.

In the dimly lighted room a Gengar, Haunter and Gastly seemed to take shape on the darkness. All of them seemed to laugh at him.

"Just so you know, that Glameow didn't beat me, I just… wanted to make sure it wouldn't hurt itself, so I used my body as a shield"

The ghost pokemon trio seemed to roll their eyes before seeming to just float around the office pointing at the windows while trying to speak to him. Cid wasn't able to read the mind of pokemon, nor did he truly understood their speech, but he had spent enough time with the ghosts to understand what they meant.

"So, what you got to share?"

As he finished his words Gastly took a lamp on the desk and pointed to the wall while turning it on. As he made this, Haunter seemed to make shapes in the lamp. The shadow formed a sort of pokemon, while he made this Gengar formed a different shadow, one that took the other away as Gastly turned off the lamp.

"… Someone has gone missing?"

The ghost trio nodded, but Gengar pointed with his claw as if to meant more.

"Many have disappeared?"

At this they all nodded pointing to the door. He didn't need to be told twice what that meant. As he made his way to the door he took his notepad and a pen. He would be taking notes. For starters. How come there had been many disappearances and no word on the news? Surely in the city people would avoid going out if they heard of it, so why hadn't disappearances been reported? Time to visit someone.

As he got out of his office and put the lock he saw his companion.

"Machop!"

The fighting pokemon was happy looking at his friend. Cid and Machop had been through thick and thin since he decided to take the path of being a detective. He hadn't really caught Machop, if anything Machop caught him.

"Door is locked pal, we are going to check a possible case, you are coming?"

The fighting pokemon nodded while walking beside him.

Machop didn't really fitted in the city, sure he could make jobs for humans, specially jobs related to strength, but once that was done they just decided to ignore him as a random pokemon in the city. Not that he minded, but he wished for a friend most of the time. And that friend had come in the form of the human at his side.

The unfortunate thing was too scrawny. Surely, he couldn't make it through the day alone. And so Machop decided to capture the human, meaning he would act as the muscle he obviously needed. He had been surprised at seeing the human ability for tracking and finding things he never thought of.

Still he could do with better company, the ghost pokemon trio were heavy pranksters, and while they brought him information, they also always got him in messy situations, just yesterday for starters they scared an Evee so it would fall over him… still they were a formidable group.

Meanwhile the ghost floated over moving through the dark shadows in the corners of the buildings, avoiding calling attention as the Machop and his human walked heading to a familiar location.

Truly Gengar, Haunter and Gastly couldn't have found a better victim to prank, sure, his intellectual skills were rather high, but he would still always fall for their jokes. They couldn't blame him, they simply were too good as pranksters as to fail.

When they saw him solve a mystery for the first time they knew they should follow him, plus the whole detective thing sounded rather fun. And fun it had been so far.

Their thoughts were broken as Cid called them.

"Here we are guys, don't be messy with their paperwork this time"

As Cid entered the police offices most shivered at looking at the scrawny man.

"Oh no! Quick hide the paperwork and everything that is not heavy!"

"Oh, come on?!"

As similar groans and noises were made Cid simply walked waving at the girl in the reception.

"Officer Jill" "Machop"

Cid bowed while his Machop did the same. She just smiled at them while feeling how the room had become a bit colder, the ghost pokemon were with him after all.

"Greetings Cid, how can I help you? Need a hand finding a Glameow?"

As they chuckled at the good intentioned joke Cid moved his head to indicate a negative.

"Not today I'm afraid. Have there been any reports on disappearances?"

The officer Jill hummed at this and looked at the screen beside her while looking for reports on missing people or pokemon but just indicated that nothing was there.

"Sorry Cid, doesn't seem like there have been any disappearances."

Cid simply bowed and thank her for the help as he and Machop went away, the whole police seemed to relax for a while until all of them felt a cold shiver running in their backs. When they looked behind it was too late. The paperwork had been messed up again.

"Come on!"

Cid meanwhile was making his trip to a different part of the city, one less bright and less clean. While surely many people lived comfortable lives, Cid knew that the ghost pokemon wouldn't lie, so if there had been disappearances, it just meant it was on a different part.

As he walked through the slums and its maze of small streets and passages Machop could only look at the many eyes that seemed to appear on the shadows. The same eyes disappeared and reappeared at every corner, making the impression they were being followed.

In a corner Cid found the one he was looking for.

"Alakazam, good to see you" "Machop"

Both bowed at the psychic pokemon who had seen better days. He was blind from one eye and had a big scar on the middle of his chest. The psychic pokemon had seen many things and thanks to his brain remembered every last of them. The psychic pokemon bowed back at him before speaking directly to his mind.

"What brings you here detective?"

"The guys said there have been some disappearances around, and I wanted to check if you heard of it"

Cid was smiling but his smiled disappeared looking at how much Alakazam body seemed to show his anger.

"Many have been disappearing… I can't find them detective, whoever takes them away is a strong psychic"

Cid nodded at him. Alakazam was the keeper of the child's in the slums, he was always making sure no kid or pokemon was in danger, his huge psychic power allowed him to check on them… so the fact that there had come a stronger pokemon than him was surprising to Cid.

"When did this started?"

Alakazam was in thought for a second before answering back.

"Last week. A Shinx disappeared, her mother couldn't find him and she came to me, but I felt it… the signs of psychic energy. Whoever took the Shinx is a psychic, I'm sure of it"

He was surprised, a psychic pokemon who had gotten in the territory of Alakazam without him feeling it. Either he was losing his touch, or this psychic pokemon was truly strong.

"Any chance of the psychic leaving the city?"

Alakazam moved his head to deny the idea.

"No with the Shinx. Is too small, and teleporting him a big distance would hurt him, and even then, I could surely feel the energy of a teleport for such a distance being used"

So, the psychic was in the city…saying that it kept the Shinx alive. But still Alakazam had just said he would feel it going away… so the Shinx was hopefully alive, and sadly it also meant a pissed Luxray was around the slums angry and with fear for its cub. Not a good mix.

"How is the mother taking it?"

"Do you even need to ask? I thought you were a detective"

Even while speaking directly to his mind Cid could feel the jab in the comment, good to know Alakazam was focused.

"If you find everything just contact one of the ghosts"

"I would much rather prefer to send a Pidgey. Don't mistake me, your…. friends are fine. But I don't like their pranking"

As if on instinct Alakazam jumped backwards while a balloon full of water had fell just where he was standing a second ago. As he glared upwards he could see the trio of ghosts smirking at him. Truly he would rather not deal with them.

"Behave up there. How many we got missing?"

"I'm afraid I don't know how many, but as far as I know, a Shinx, a Pichu, one Pidgey and a Buneary, if there are more I'm afraid I haven't been informed"

"Thanks for the help" "Machop!"

"Anytime… best of luck detective, if you find the missing pokemon please bring them back"

"You know I will"

As Cid smiled and moved through the slums he was in thought, he had found more information than he thought he could find so soon. For starters, the ones missing were small pokemon. No adults it seemed. Nor humans in fact, the officer mentioned there were no reports of missing people. So now it was a matter of focusing on how to catch the psychic.

Sadly, he didn't know how the psychic took them, he thought of what pokemon could take them. Sadly, the list of psychic pokemon was a big one, and even then, if Alakazam didn't knew how it took them, he would need to work.

"Any idea pal?"

Machop shrugged at the question, he really didn't know who could take them away. After all, Alakazam was the protector of the children in the slums. It had to be a strong psychic to pass the defenses of the veteran.

"What do you guys think?"

The ghost trio was roaming around, they had been in fact thinking who could bypass the defenses of the old psychic. He was strong, and his abilities were nothing to laugh about, he had survived lots of punishment in the past and what he had lost in speed he had more than made off with ability to always be on guard.

"Truly, who ever had bypassed Alakazam had to be strong, and in a way, that's a scary thought…"

As he kept walking on the slums making his way he decided they could try with a decoy.

"Well we won't learn anything without action, Machop, go around faking to be lost… maybe the psychic aims for lost pokemon, it would be easier to target them on the slums. You three keep in the shadows looking out for Machop, I will be hiding myself as to look at whatever unfolds. We clear?"

As the four pokemon nodded in approval they moved to a more desolate part of the slums.

Truth be told, the city wasn't a bad place to live, it just that as with any place, the city was just too big, and not everyone had been under the lucky star. Some had a tough time keeping a job, or just had their own problems, the slums were a result of the city exponential growing while not solving the issues at hand. And for Cid those issues would surely only kept going on, and in a way, that was a saddening thought.

As he observed Machop going to a clear part of the slums that wasn't surrounded of small apartments or hallways between buildings he kept thinking how comfortable it was to be a pokemon trainer. Usually they never saw places like this. They kept going around the more "touristic" parts of the city, after all, a pokemon trainer only moves around the towns, no need to see places like the slums that Cid pretty much had traversed many times.

Truly… trainers had it easy…

Machop acted as if he was lost, looking for something, he could imagine the fun the ghost trio had at looking at him from the shadows, surely, they were laughing. But while he wished one of them would be bait he knew Cid wouldn't just order them around without a reason. For a scrawny human, he could make use of his head to compensate the lack of muscle.

As Machop rustled around the area a small flash of light appeared. Temporarily blinded he stood still, he didn't want to show he was ready for a fight, it was better to keep up the façade.

The ghosts hadn't been blinded by the light and were ready to get Machop out of there if it was needed, they were observing the tall pokemon that they never saw in the city. Cid was observing the scene too, and he immediately knew the pokemon in question.

"A Gardevoir… so it was her who bypassed Alakazam defense?"

As Machop took on the figure of the female pokemon he could hear a voice inside his head. So she also knew telephaty?

"Are you lost? I can take you somewhere safe… just come to me…"

For a moment, Machop was actually going to take the first step before he recovered. He took notice of what she had done. Hypnosis. He was ready to attack when he heard the voice of Cid shouting at him

"Machop! Get out of there!"

Cid noticed the blue aura that seemed to appear around the eyes of Gardevoir and he tried to alert his friend. It had been a second too late sadly, Machop was surrounded, but before he could send floating around he quickly hitted the concrete as if to make a base for him to hold on.

"I shall save you…even if to save you I have to hurt you…"

Before Gardevoir could put more strength in her psychic attack she suddenly found her eyesight being interrupted by the appearance of shadows around her. The surprise made her stop her attack on Machop who finding his footing rushed against her with a tackle. To the surprise of Machop and Cid, she had been able to form a wall in front of her to protect her from the tackle.

"Protect… I hate that move, Machop, get close and throw her against the floor, we need answers, guys you know what to do!"

As Machop got a running start against Gardevoir, she was focusing to stop the charging pokemon when she felt a shiver in her spine at the sudden lick of a pokemon, Haunter had used his tongue in the back of Gardevoir to make her lose her concentration, at the same time Gengar and Ghastly had took hold of her arms to avoid her from putting up the barrier.

Cid smiled for a moment, then his smile turned into a gasp of surprise when he noticed the smirk forming in the Gardevoir face.

"All of you! Get back!"

Having been a team for long had form a bond of immediate trust. So, when they heard him shouting they all rushed back, the result was them avoiding the explosion of psychic energy that got out of Gardevoir, the psychic pokemon was strong. There was no doubt that blast of energy would have taken them out of commission.

"Resistance is futile… I will save you… I will take you away from that human so you can be free…"

Before they could go back into fighting she went away with a teleport. Cid let out a breath he didn't knew he was holding. As he sat on the floor Machop did the same just beside him. The ghost pokemon trio simply floated near them as if all of them were waiting for him to speak.

"Well… now we know what we are facing up. A Gardevoir, a strong one at that, she seems used to battling one on one, but not against many. Meaning either she was always hiding on the wild. Or she has been trained. Either way, I'm guessing by the way she tried to take you away that she is the one taking the small ones"

Machop and the ghost trio nodded at him. Now he knew she was taking them away, and funnily enough, just by seeing her when she appeared also figured where she kept them.

"Well, let's rest. There is not much to do for now, once you guys are rested we can go to her hideout, I already know where she is"

As Cid smiled the pokemon group could only think one thing about their human friend.

The same great detective as always.

Well this is quite different from what I'm used to write, but hey, I thought it was a fun experience, maybe I will keep it up.