Chapter 1: The Black of Day
"...He...eep..." A voice was suddenly heard, bringing with it his concious.
"...nt...ke up...ir..." The young boy squinted a bit as he felt more of himself coming into conciousness. He heard some sort of startled gasp a bit, seemingly from his sudden movement.
"He...etting up!" He heard the voice say, concious growing ever closer to full.
"Should we help him?" A Different voice said. Finally having enough strength, the young boy began to open his eyes a bit. They began to drop a bit, then opened more slowly, then dropped a bit again before opening more than before. He could faintly make out images of shapes, people purhaps. With one last try, the boy opened his eyes, this time entirely. Looking at what he could, he saw he was on a dirted ground, but could see some bushes a few yards away from him. In front of them however, he could faintly see what appeared to be a strange blue round shape, and a green shape, somewhat humanoid in appearance, but he couldn't tell for sure. His vision began to get better. But strangely, as the shapes became more clear, he thought he was halucinating. He thought he was looking at pokemon, an Oshawott and a Trecko to be precise. Strangely though, they both had a white sash that went from over their shoulder to around their waist, just under their arm.
"Do you think we should help him?" The Oshawott asked, looking back at the Trecko.
"I don't know, the Leader said to just stick to the mission." The Trecko replied, with a seeming feminine voice, most likely indicating it was a girl Trecko. The boy suddenly gave off a gasp of surprise as his eye widened, getting up as he was sitting, looking back at the two in shock.
"Y-Y-You can talk?" The boy stammered in shock. The two pokemon looked back at each other in confusion before looking back at him.
"Uhh yeah, so can you." The Oshawott replied.
"But...But...You're pokemon!" The boy stammered.
"Yeah, so? So are you." The Trecko replied with a raised brow.
"No I'm n-" The boy began to replied with a hint of irritation in his voice as he pointed back at the two. But as he did, his eyes widened in shock some more as he saw his hand, or, to be more accurate, paw. His body was now covered in a thin, light blue fur, and he hand a white patch of fur over his hand. As he looked back down, he saw he had black paw-like legs. "W-W-What the?" The boy said in disbelief as he checked himself more. He stood to his feet, feeling his entire body was different even as he stood. "But...I'm not...This isn't..."
"Hey!" A voice shouted out in rage, causing the attention of the other two to look in fear. As the boy looked back, he grew in more surprise at giant sized pokemon looking at them, a Rypherior to be specific. Stangely, like the other two, it had a sash going around it's shoulder to over it's waist.
"I-I-It's the Captain of the Comet Team!" The Trecko said in fear. The Rypherior gave off a grunted laughter before he looked back at the two other pokemon.
"You there, Team Doofus!" The Rypherior said insultingly.
"It's Team Diver and you know it!" The Oshawott retorted, only to jump a bit in fear as the Rypherior began to stomp towards the two, causing the ground to quake with each step, until he was towering over the two. He chuckled a bit as he overlooked the two mroe closely.
"You got guts, talking back to a giant like me. So how about you give me your conquest badges, and maybe, just maybe, I'll pretend I never ran into you guys." The Rypherior suggested. The boy looked back as he saw this going on.
"No! Y-You can't have them!" The Trecko stated. She felt her whole body quiver in fear as the Rypherior gave off a creepy chuckle.
"I wasn't asking you twerp, I'm telling you!" The Rypherior said as he brought his arm closser to the Trecko, slowly as he was trying to scare them more on purpose. He suddenly yelped as he felt a rock smack him right in the face, growling as he, and the two pokemon who looked in surprise, back at the young boy who threw it, with another one ready in his hand, tossing it up and down in taunting manner. "Why you!"
"I don't know what's going on, but either way I don't take too kindly to bullying." The boy commented. The Rypherior stood tall and fierce as he growled towards the boy.
"So, the brave Riolu think he's all though huh?" The Rypherior gestured, stomping the ground causing a large rumble. The Riolu blinked a bit as he looked back at his paws again.
"A Riolu? So that's what I am?" The boy questioned.
"Grrrrr!" The Rypherior growled. The boy suddenly looked back as he felt the ground began to rumble, more and more fiercely. His eyes widened as he saw the Rypherior charging right at him with a direct charge. Before the byo could even react, the Rypherior bashed him with the side of his arm sending him flying through the air.
"Aggghh!" The Riolu cried out as he was hit. He finally stopped as he felt himself crash into the ground. He struggled to push himself off of it as he moaned a bit in pain. Before he could though, he let out another cry of pain as he felt himself being crushed under a massive wieght.
"Hahaha, you should think twice before picking on a guy of my size shrimp!" The Rypherior sneered. The Riolu struggled, trying to keep the Rypherior's massive wieght off of him as he looked back.
"A guy of your size should consider taking a bath then, cause the smells worse than your wieght- Aggghhh!" The Riolu screamed in pain again as the Rypherior increased his wieght on the small Riolu's body.
"I'm gonna enjoy hearing you scream!" The Rypherior commented with a sneer.
"Watergun!"A voice suddenly shouted. The Rypherior began to scream in pain as it's back was being doused by a large spray of water. Once the spray had subsided, it glared as it looked back at the Oshawott that had suddenly attacked it.
"Leave him alone!" The Oshawott said in a commanding tone.
"Tch, so you wanna go next, do ya shri-" The Rypherior suddenly paused as he noticed the Trecko suddenly missing. "Hey! Where'd that other guy go?" As if to answer his question, he suddenly looked back as he felt the ground shake a bit under him, blinking at the site of the Trecko that dug her way next to the Riolu.
"I'll take that." The Trecko stated as she grabbed the Riolu quickly before digging back down into the ground with him, causing the Rypherior's foot to go through the hole too.
"Hey!" He grumbled. As he attempted to go back after the Oshawott, he looked back in confusion as he felt himself caught on something, then growled in anger as he saw his foot was stuck through the hole. "You gotta be kidding me!" He roared, struggling as he attempted to pull his foot out of the hole. The Oshawott looked next to him as he saw the Trecko pop out of the ground, with the Riolu she was carrying, who coughed a bit as he was set back to the ground.
"Are you ok?" The Oshawott asked worried. The Riolu coughed a bit more as he rubbed the back of his neck before nodding.
"Yeah, I'm, *cough*, I'm fine." He replied. The threesome suddenly looked back as they saw the Rypherior suddenly break free, tumblinh a bit as he fell on his back, causing the ground to tremble again.
"Now what do we do?" The boy asked in a worried tone.
"Don't you have an Escape Orb?" Trecko asked.
"Yeah, but it's our last one we could afford. And we haven't heard from the Captain yet!" Oshawott replied. The three looked back as they heard the Rypherior grunting as it got back to it's feet.
"Your all going to pay!" He roared as he charged straight towards the three.
"Just use it!" The Trecko screeched. The Oshawott searched through the bag it had as it grabbed the orb, looking at it a bit worriedly.
"Ooohhh sorry captain!" The Oshawott apologized as it suddenly through the orb to the ground. It was suddenly enveloped in a large blue spot light as it soon vanished into thin air. A smaller, yellow one, soon happened to the Trecko as well. Before it would disappear though, she grabbed the Riolu's arm.
"Hang on!" She commented.
"Wait what? Ahhhhhh!" The Riolu yelled frightened as he felt himself teleporting, just before the Rypherior managedto get to him. The sudden teleport caused the Rypherior to crash right into a boulder, nose-drill first. It grunted a bit as it struggled to get it's nose out of the boulder, making a popping-like sound as it finally did. He grunted angrily as he looked towards the sky, straight at the giant ship they just escaped to.
"Run while you can, pests! Federation Black will win this war! Ah Hahahaha!...Wait, where's my conquest badge?"
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Operation Black and White
"Ooof!" The Riolu gave out as it fell face first onto the hard cold floor.
"Hey you ok?" Oshawott asked as he helped the Riolu up.
"Yeah, I'm-" The Riolu paused as his eyes suddenly widened in surprise. From what he could tell, he appeared to be in some sort of hangar looking bay. It even had a large shuttle door that opened to the outside. "Woooahh," The boy said in amazement. The two pokemon smiled as they looked back at him.
"You like it?" Trecko asked, noticing the Pokemon's curiosity.
"This is the Hangar of Federation White. We get deployed for our missions from here." The Oshawott added, growing confusion within the young Riolu.
"Federation? What's a Federation?" The Riolu asked, causing the other two to look more surprised as they looked back at each other, then back at the Riolu.
"What do you mean "What's a Federation"? Every pokemon knows what one is." The Oshawott commented. Riolu just sighed as he rubbed his head with his paw for a few moments, then looked back at the two.
"It's what I've been trying to tell you before; I'm not a pokemon, I'm a human and my name is Zack (it's my favorite name: deal with it!)!" The Boy deemed, causing more surprise amongst the two pokemon.
"A human? But there's no way!" The Oshawott stammered.
"There hasn't been a human here in over two years!" The Trecko added.
"I know but-" The boy paused as he repeated in his head what he just heard. "Wait, what do you mean there was-"
"Warning! Warning! Intruder alert. Intruder alert." A voice suddenly shouted in a roaring voice, which echoed through the hangar as well as the rest of the ship. As the three turned to the source of the loud noise, they all saw a large group of Exploudred, six to be precise, each on a Seperate balcony. As Zack looked more closely, he saw large holes on the cielings, but was unable to tell what they were for. However, his answer soon came to him as he saw strange yellow strings suddenly descend from them, followed by large strange yellow spiders, all of which soon surrounded Zack, pushing the other two pokemon out of the way.
"Intruder identified. Intruder is Riolu." He heard one of the strange spider-like pokemon say.
"Wait, he's with us!" The Oshawott said, trying to push through the larger crowd of Galvantula, to no success.
"Negatory. No one is allowed on board. Officer's Order." The Galvantula in front of the Oshawott said.
"Begin capture and assimilation." Another one said, this one behind Riolu, who looked confused.
"Assimi-what?" Zack asked in confusion.
"Electroweb!" They all said in a Robot-Synch like fasion. Before Riolu could even respond, all Galvantula suddenly shot out an electric string of web, all of which wrapped around the Riolu from the shoulder down, then sticking to the floor.
"Wait, what's-" Before the Riolu could even ask, he screamed in agony as he felt thousands upon thousands of volts going through his body with no end. "Ahhhhhhhh!" He screamed in pain, tears falling down his face.
"Stop, your gonna kill him!" The Oshawott said worriedly. Before he could take a step forward, he came to a sudden stop as a voice shouted out.
"Hold it!" The voice said, sounding strict yet firm. As the two looked back, they saw the officer of the Hangar bay, Wrench wielding, goggle wearing, Raichu. "Don't touch him at all!" He yelled.
"But he'll die if they don't stop!" The Trecko whined.
"Tough! I'm the one in charge of the Hangar Bay, and I say who does and doesn't go through here, no exceptions!" The Raichu shouted. The Oshawott knew it was wrong, and he even wanted to argue, but he was just too scared at the sight of a Pokemon that was at least twice his Size, and an electric type at that.
"P-Please...stop..." Zack cried out, losing all feelings in his legs as he fell to his knees, tears still rolling down his face. The Raichu simply looked with a small glare as he crossed his arms.
"Nothing personal kid, but I'm not taking chances with no one." The Raichu commented.
"Raichu!" A small, worried voice said as it ran over to him. As he looked back, he saw a Chikorita running over to him, another female pokemon as well.
"What do you want? We're busy here." The Raichu murmured.
"The Commander's coming!" She replied quickly, growing a panicked expression upon the Raichu's face.
"What! What's he coming around here for?" The Raichu asked worriedly. The four, the Oshawott and Trecko included, looked back as they heard loud banging on the Hangar entry door.
"Raichu, Raichu!" The voice bellowed angrily. "Open this door immediately!" The strange voice commanded. The Raichu grumbled a bit to himself as he ran his way over to the door panel, opening it as commanded. As the door opened, the Commander stepped through, revealing itself to be Darkrai. But like all the other pokemon, not only did he have a White sash from his shoulder to his waist, he had a Sash for each shoulder, making a kind of X symbol in front of his chest.
"Y-Yes sir?" The Raichu studdered.
"I came because I heard of the warning from the Exploudred. I want to know who-" The Darkrai suddenly paused as he looked at the scene in front of him, seeing the Riolu who was on the verge of collapsing for good. "What is the meaning of this?" His voiced roared throughout the Hangar, causing all the pokemon in the room, except the Riolu, to jump in fear as they felt the hangar itself shake. The Darkrai glared as he looked around at the pokemon looking back at him before pausing as he looked at the Riolu who was shaking a bit in pain and the electricity as well, even though the Galvantula stopped. "Everyone return to your posts. That's an order!" He commanded. The Galvantula shrieked a bit before climbing back up the holes in the cieling, and the Exploudred returning into the rooms on the balconies. The Darkrai made his way over to Riolu who still had his eyes closed, wincing in pain as he shook from the electric webs. In one fell swoop, he cut the webs swiftly in one clean cut of his claws, the webs instantly breaking apart as they fell to the ground, the Riolu falling to the ground as well.
"Zack!" The Oshawott and Trecko said worriedly as they ran over to him. The Darkrai raised his eyebrow suspiciously at this.
"Zack?" He repeated. He paid little attention though as he turned his glare back at the Raichu. "Would you mind telling me what you were trying to do with him?" The Darkrai yelled.
"I was just doing my job sir! You put me in charge to make absolutely sure no suspicious characters come through here, sir!" The Raichu replied, respectfully.
"Very good. Now tell me one little thing: WHAT PART OF HIM LOOKED SUSPICIOUS?" He shouted, causing the Raichu to shake in fear a bit.
"H-H-He was considered an intruder, sir! I was just following protocol standards, sir!" The Raichu replied. Instead of getting a reply like last time, he was blasted to the wall of the hangar with a loud crash from a Dark energy ball shot out from the Darkrai, who took no hesitation as he aimed.
"First, never point blame on someone else, private! Second, all assimilation standards, as followed, are to be brought up to me, BEFORE HAND! And you know that." The Darkrai replied before turning back towards the young Riolu, floating over to him. "Hey, Riolu. Can you hear me?" He qeustioned, shaking it's shoulders. Riolu, or Zack you could say, winced his eyes a bit before opening them half way, still in pain. The Darkrai rubbed his chin as he held his elbow in a curious fasion. "Interesting...to take all that and still be alive..." The Darkrai soon shook it's head as it ignored this detail, clicking a button on a strange watch-looking device, which had a built in transciever. "This is Commander Darkrai to Med Lab, over." The Darkrai said. There was static for a few seconds before a voice responded.
"This is Chansey to Commander Darkrai, over." A Chansey replied. "What's the problem?'
"I have a heavily injured Riolu in need of immediate service, over."
"Roger that." The Chansey replied before hanging up. As soon as Darkrai turned off his transciever, a Sick bed was already wheeled over by a Chansey through the door. "Oh my." The Chansey commented to itself as it helped the Riolu onto it. The Riolu struggled a bit as it turned it's head, looking back at the Darkrai, Oshawott, Chikorita, and Trecko with half opened eyes, who were on the left of the Sick Bed.
"W-Wha..." Riolu struggled to say.
"Don't worry. We have one of the best doctors around. You'll be safe here." The Darkrai said, just as the Riolu lost conciousness. The group watched as the Riolu was wheeled away before Darkrai turned his attention back at the other three, looking at Chikorita first. "Chikorita." He said bluntly. The Chikorita shrivled a bit in fear, thinking she was in just as much trouble as Raichu was considering he was her boss.
"Y-Yes?" She asked nervously.
"Go and make sure the Riolu recovers. And keep me updated. That's an order." The Darkrai commanded, pointing towards the door.
"Yes sir." The Chickorita replied, feeling somewhat relieved she wasn't in trouble as she thought. As she left, he quickly turned his attention back to the other two.
"And you two." The Darkrai said, getting their focus as they stood in attention.
"Sir." They both replied.
"I wanna know exactly what happened down there. And where's Charmeleon?" The Darkrai asked. The two pokemon looked at each other a bit dissopointingly before looking at the Commander.
"Well sir, it's...kind of a long story..."
"*cough* Mommy..." The sick boy said weakly as the mother stroked his head soothingly, but with a sad expression on her face.
"Don't worry hun, I'm right here." She replied, wiping a tear from her eye.
"Am...Am I gonna..." The mother just smiled as she shook her head.
"No hun, good kids don't. Your gonna have a happy life. I swear." She replied. The kid coughed again, a bit weaker than before, before replying.
"Am...am I imporant enough to live though..." He asked, to which the mother nodded.
"Of course, Zack. We all have our purpose in life. And your gonna make something of yourself because of it...Zack?...ZACK!"
"Ah!" Zack suddenly yelled in fright as he woke up. He panted a bit as he observed his surroundings, seeing how he appeared to be in a hospital bed. As he observed more closely, he noticed his chest was bandaged all around. He winced in pain a bit as he touched it, indicating he was indeed injured.
"Hey, your awake!" A voice suddenly said in surprise. Riolu quickly looked to the source of the voice, seeing a Chikorita on cushioned chairs next to him. "You were out for quite awhile. How ya feelin?" She asked curiously. The Riolu simply blinked at the predictament before looking back at his paws.
"I guess I wasn't imagining being a pokemon..." Zack muttered to himself.
"Hey, you ok?" Chikorita asked, hearing the Riolu mumble something to himself.
"Oh uhhh yeah, heh, I'm fine." Zack replied, rubbing the back of his head.
"Well that's good. The Commander's been waiting for you to wake up for a few hours now." The Chikorita commented, hopping on top of the hospital bed. She began walking closer to Zack until she was staring him right in the eye, making him nervous.
"Ehhh what?" He asked, wondering what exactly she was staring at. The Chikorita continued to stare at him for a few more seconds before responding.
"You don't seem like a regular Riolu." She stated. Although she was more right than she could tell, he was still a bit confused.
"What do you mean I don't "seem like" a Riolu?" Zack asked confused. Before anything else could be said, the room began to flash a red light as a siren ran off.
"Warning! Warning! Conquest commencing. Everybody report to the bridge immediately." The Announcement said, the "siren" being the Exploudred from earlier.
"What's a conquest?" Zack asked. Chikorita looked at him in a bit of surprise and disbelief.
"You never heard of conquest before?" She asked in a surprised tone.
"Uhhh no?" Zack replied in a questionable tone. Chikorita just sighed as she shook her head before looking back at him.
"Look, I can explain it later, but we need to go to the bridge now." The Chikorita deemed as she ran out the door.
"Hey wait!" Zack yelled, running after her. As he made his way to the hallway, he saw it was entirely metallic. Even the doors were that suddenly closed behind him. "Hey!" He yelled, getting the Chikorita's attention. "I'm not going anywhere until someone tells me what's-"
"Hey!" A voice shouted, getting their attention. As Chikorita and Riolu turned, Riolu gulped at the sight of the three muscle-brawned pokemon that looked at them; a Hitmonlee, a Hitmonchan, and a Hitmontop, and none of them looked happy.
"Hey, isn't that the intruder from before?" The Hitmonlee asked.
"He must've gotten away!" The Hitmontop deemed, to which the Hitmonchan pointed to the Riolu with his glove.
"Let's get 'em!" The Hitmonchan commanded as they chased after him. The Riolu eeped as he began running in the same direction as Chikorita.
"Nevermind, let's go!" He yelped quickly, running as fast as he could with Chikorita, despite being injured. He didn't know where he was going, all he cared about was getting the heck outta there. Looking back, he could see the others ganging on him inch by inch, till they were just at his tail. Finally looking ahead, he saw a large Double automatic door. The Top of the door was labled in strange pokemon prints, but all he cared about was the fact Chikorita knew where she was going, and he was going to follow her no matter once. As soon as the door opened, the first thing he took quick notice to was Chikorita already talking to Darkrai, both of who quickly looked back at him. Judging by the size of the room, he determined he was in the Bridge. It was very large for a ship room, and it had two large windows in the shapes of eyes in the center. That and the Given commander-looking chair in the middle of the room. It even had large high-tech computer on the walls, further suggesting he was indeed in the bridge. He didn't even bother waiting for introductions as he quickly ran behind Darkrai immediately. "HIDE ME!" He pleaded. Darkrai soon looked back as he heard the doors open again.
"Where is he?" The Hitmonchan asked aloud, as the three looked around.
"Where is that little grey rodent?" The Hitmonlee added.
"Who you calling a rodent? And I'm blue not grey!" Zack quickly snapped back, only to regret it as he gave away his hiding spot. "Crud." He mumbled, seeing the three glare back at him.
'There he is!" The Hitmonlee stammered, reaching to grab him, only to be blocked by Darkrai.
"Atten-Hut!" He commanded, to which the three pokemon immeditately stood side by side, fists at their chest in respect, although the Hitmontop was more or less still on his head as he did this.
"Sir!" They said in Unison, although the Hitmonlee's attention was still partially on the Riolu.
"This Riolu is not to be harmed by anyone on this ship. Do you understand me?" The Darkrai said in a stern voice.
"Sir yes sir!" They said as they replied, although the Hitmonchan was less convinced. The Darkrai took another glance around the room, waiting for a few seconds, before turning back to the three.
"Is this everybody?" He questioned, not seeming satisfied with the current numbers.
"Sir, Team Omega is still in the middle of Rescuing Team Rogue from Death Peak, and without Charmeleon, Team Diver is currently unavailable, Sir!" The Hitmontop replied. The Darkrai seemed to give off a soft grunt for a moment as he turned away.
"Our numbers are dwindling..." He scratched his chin with his finger as if trying to think of something, then looked back at the others. "Fine then. Hitmonchan, I'm putting your Team Brawler in charge of today's Conquest. Report to Creak Canyon and proceed as usual." Darkrai commanded, pointing to the door.
"Sir!" They replied before they walked out through the bridge. He waited until the door was gone before letting out a sigh of dissopointment, scratching the back of his head.
"We still need another team to gather resources though..." Darkrai commented to himself. Zack and Chikorita looked at each other, noticing this worry upon the Darkrai, before looking back at him.
"Uhhh excuse me." Riolu said, getting his attention.
"Oh yes, you. How are your injuries?" He asked, seeing if the Riolu was ok.
"Aside from some soreness on my chest, I feel fine. I'd still like to know what's going on though." He commented.
"Hmmm...I wonder. Would you be up to preforming a misson for us?" Darkrai asked as he moved towards the window, looking outside. The Riolu just blinked.
"Uhhh...what kind of mission?"
"Uhhh sir? With all do respect, I don't think he's qualified to do a mission...sir." The Chikorita commented, nervous speaking to the one in charge.
"No need to worry. I won't send him out on his own. You'll be joining him." The Darkrai added.
"Oh good, for a Second I thought you were-" Chikoritastopped as she realized what he said. "Wait, what?" She stammered.
"I want you to team up with Riolu as a Temporary Team. It won't be anything difficult. I just need you to gather a few resources in a dungeon. We're short on funding and supplies. The only option is to gather some in a Mystery Dungeon for the time being." The Darkrai explained as he floated back to the duo.
"But...But sir..." The Chikorita complained, only for Darkrai to pat her head.
"I know Chikarita. You haven't had much experience with Dungeons either since I assigned you to be Raichu's tech expert." Zack looked back at Chikarita in confusion.
"You mean you worked with that maniac?" He said in surprise.
"It's a long story."
"You don't need to worry. I wouldn't dare to try tou at anything average or beyond. Simply head to Pine Forest, and you should be able to get through it without too much trouble." The Darkrai said. The Chikarita moaned a bit before nodding, knowing she wasn't going to get out of this either. "And as for you," Darkrai began, getting Zack's attention, "If you preform this small errand for me, I'll tell you everything you want to know to the best of my ability." The Darkrai promied. Zack looked down at his own feet for a moment as he went into thought.
On one hand, he could either do some job the Chikorita was making a big deal out of, and probably mess up on it, or, he could help them and get the answers he needs, despite the fact he doesn't even know what they want him to do. Either way though, wieghing his options, he was stuck where he was either way. With a sigh, he turned back to the Darkrai as he replied.
"Ok, so what do I have to do?"
"YOU WANT ME TO WHAT?" Riolu screeched hangong onto the Hangar door railing for dear life. Not only was he watching the sky from practically 4000 feet above air, he was expected to do something else with it.
"It's ok, just jump." Chikorita said casually. Zack looked at her with a shocked expression.
"Are you crazy? We don't even have a parachute for crying out loud and you expect me to jump?" He stammered.
"Relax, half our jumpers make it just fine." The Raichu teased with a grin, still irritated by the trouble the new Riolu caused for him. Not only did he end up getting him beaten up by the commander, but he was more or less ticked off that now someone had stolen his tech expert for awhile. He at least enjoyed the sight of seeing the Riolu like this though.
"Raichu..." The Darkrai grumbled irritantly, esspecially as the Raichu just tried playing innocence. "Just relax Riolu. This is completely safe." Darkrai said, trying to ease the Riolu's tension. It didn't work.
"No! There's no way I'm plummeting 4000 feet to the ground just to-" As Zack continued to rant on, Darkrai turned his attention towards Chikorita, giving her a strange nod, to which the Chikorita nodded back to. "-and another thing-"
"Ok ok, you win." The Darkrai announced, sounding defeated. Zack just blinked to this in surprise.
"Really?" He questioned.
"Yes yes, you don't have to go." He answered. Riolu sighed in relief as Raichu just moaned.
"Thank you." He replied, looking back outside. "Look it's not that I don't want to or anything it's just-" He didn't even get time to finish as Darkrai pushed him out. "Ahhhhhhhhhhh!" He continued screaming until it faded away.
"I'll keep an eye on him." Chikorita said before jumping out after him. Darkrai watched for a few seconds before looking back at Raichu, who saluted as he knew what to already do.
At the same time...
"!" Zack screamed in fear as he continued to drop towards the ground like a bullet. He couldn't believe not only was he lied to by someone who helped him before, but he was also pushed out of a ship towards the ground. He looked back as he saw Chikorita falling too, angled so she fell towards him as he did. "Is everyone insane?" he stammered. Chikorita simply chuckled as she smiled.
"We already told you, don't worry about it. Here watch." Chikorita said as she looked back towards the ship. As Zack looked back too, he was surprised at seeing the entire ship. Despite not knowing what it was, the ship was in the shape of the infamous pokemon Reshiram, with a large rocket engine grafted to the back, and entirely metallic. The Ship also didn't have any of it's legs, the wings, body, and head beiing the only relatable features.
"Woah, that thing is huge..." Zack commented, eyes wide in surprise. He blinked as noticed a strange black light flash near the hangar door he jumped out of. Suddenly, without warning, his eyes widened in shock as he saw a strange giant black sphere firing right at the both of them. It soon surrounded them as it absorebed the two in a strange fasion.
"What the? What is this thing?" Riolu asked, touching the wall of the strange bubble.
"It's a gravity bubble." Chikorita replied. Riolu looked at her confused.
"What's a gravity bubble?"
"A gravity bubble is a compressed area of space which is distorted to function as a-" Chikorita pauseed as she realized that Riolu wasn't getting any of it at all. "Errr...everything inside it moves at a slower rate." She summed up.
"Oh." Riolu said, looking around again. Now that he paid more attention he did actually notice they were falling almost five times slower than they were before. They were practically floating at this rate. "How do you guys make something like this?" Zack asked curiously. Chikorita just sighed as she shook her head.
"I could explain it to you, but you probably won't understand." She simply commented. Normally he would argue, especially considering she's implying she's smarter than him because she's a girl, but considering she was suppose to be a tech expert, he decided she was being more honest than insulting...mostly.
By the time they had touched the ground, Zack quickly took notice as they were in a strange forest area, not a place with jail cells or tunnles like he expected a dungeon to be.
"This place is pretty cool. What exactly are we looking for?" He asked, still unaware of the acutal mission.
"We're suppose to collect Oran Berries." Chikarita replied as she picked one up with her leaf, showing it to him. Zack looked at the strange fruit with curiousness, never seeing a strange blue fruit such as that.
"That's all we're after?" Zack asked.
"Not quite. We need a couple of these, a few Pecha berries, and probably whatever else we can find." Chikarita replied as she looked more around some bushes. Riolu just watched for a moment at what she was getting before looking around himself. He was curious as to what this strange world was since he got here, but what he found really strange was this place in general.
Why's it called a Mystery Dungeon? He asked himself. As he looked around, his gaze suddenly paused at the strange sight of stairs. He blinked to himself before rubbing his eyes, seeing if he was hallucinating. But sure enough, he saw a row of stairs that led through the ground. Walking over to the stairs, he peered over the edge to see if it was some sort of trap door or something. Looking back, he saw Chikorita was still rummaging through the bushes with her vines around her neck. Deciding to do at least something, he descended down the stairs, surprised that it was almost a replica of the floor above him. It even had a sky, except it didn't show the Reshiram ship he saw earlier.
"Ok, this is completely weird." He commented to himself. Looking around this place, he did notice that the pathways appeared different, but he couldn't tell if he just paying enough attention to the last place. Walkng down a path, the noticed how things were a bit quiet. Too quiet for his preference. Even if he couldn't remember much of his life as a human, he still knew stuff about life like pokemon in general. But there wasn't a single one to be sighted anywhere. Looking back up ahead, he noticed how he came to a clearing. But what really took his surprsie was a whole bunch of berries gathered in one spot in the middle of it. He beemed gladly at the sight of it, knowing that whatever they were, a large number of them would be what they were looking for.
"This looks about right." He deemed as he quickly ran over. But before he even got half way though, he paused as he felt something. Something in his heart was beating intensely, and it wasn't just nerves that came from it. He completely felt as if something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what.
As if to answer his question however, he jumped as the pile of berries suddenly were engulfed by a bluish dark flame. He couldn't tell what was a bigger surprise to him; the fact that the pile of berries in front of him burst into flames, or the fact he was right about his instinct. Whether or not he could he intended to, his ears suddenly twitched as he heard something russling in the bushes.
"Hello?" He questioned, walking over to the bush caustiously. Before he could touch the bush, he suddenly fell back as a dark figure dashed right past him, knocking him to the ground and stopping in the pile of ash from the fruit. Zack winced a bit, feeling the pain from being knocked down, one hitting him in the chest, and two falling on his back, both of which he was still sore from earlier. He rubbed his chest a bit to ease the soreness as he rolled over on his stomach to get a better look at the sudden attacker.
"Hey, what's the big idea hitting me like-" Riolu suddenly froze as he saw the attacker. He knew it would be a pokemon, that but wasn't the part that scared him. The pokemon itself was a Primeape,but there was something different from this one. First off, it had a purple black flamish-aura all around it. Even it's fur was a dark blue, and the gloves were pitched black. And it's eyes were the freakiest part. It's eyes were a mix of dark purple and blue, and it's pupils were pure red. "W-What the?"
"Rrrrraaaaaakkkkkkk!" The strange Primape growled. "Everything must burn!" The Primeape screeched. Riolu (i'm just gonna call him Riolu, seems more convienient) simply grunted as he stood back up.
"Is something wrong?" He asked, wondering what the Primeape was so worked up about.
"Riolu!" Chikorita suddenly shouted, getting his attention. "Get from him!" She shouted as she ran towards him. As he looked back at the Primeape, he lost all feeling in the rest of his body as his face was suddenly smashed by Primeape's boxing glove, not only knocking him off his feet, it knocked him into tree, slamming into it on his back, then slid down it till he hit the ground. The Primeape grwoeld again as the dark Aura around it began to grow.
"EVERYTHING MUST BURN!"
"Razor Leaf!" Chikarita shouted, swishing her leaf back and forth towards the Primeape. in one swift motion, dozens upon dozens of leaves scattered across Primeapes body, cutting him in many different places. But to the Chikorita's surprsie, it didn't do what she expected. She expected him to get a few cuts here and there, at the very least some scratches. But not in this case. Here, she was seeing the Leaves carelessly passing through him as he gave off a snorted laugh. Chikorita grumbled as she tried it again. "Razor Leaf!" She shouted louder, swishing her leaf blade back more as she released a larger amount of leaves than last time. unfortunately, it met with the same result as the leaves simply phased right past him. She looked at him with a mix of disturbance and fear, unable to figure out what was going on. "But...how did-" She didn't even get time to finish her sentence as the Primeape suddenly appeared right in front of her with it's fist held back, ready to strike.
"Beat up!" It shouted. Before the Chikorita could response, she let out a painful cry as she was struck threee consecutive times; the first one pucnhing her towards the air, the second one the Primeape appeared right behind her as she was at least ten feet into the air, smacking her back down towards the ground, then the third time he reappeared right before she touched the ground, smacking her right in her stomach as she was sent hurdling next to the same tree as Zack, groaning as she began to pass out. The groan caused Riolu to wake up a bit slowly, wincing a bit still in pain as he got to one foot, trying to keep himself up. He let out a small gasp as he saw the sorry state Chikorita was in.
"Chikorita!" He yelled worriedly, before giving a small glare back at the Primeape, who came rushing up to attack the two again.
"You're mine!" He announced, pulling his fist back ready to hit. Riolu felt his body shake a bit in fear as he saw this, unable to tell what to do. Sure, he knew pokemon could fight, but he didn't know how to fight as a pokemon.
"W-what am I suppose to do?" He asked himself, looking at his own paws. "I...I don't even know how to fight! How can I," He paused as he looked back Chikorita, noticing how she was still wobbling in pain. He shook his head as he closed his eyes hard. "I gotta help her, but I...I..."
Use Brick Break!
He suddenly snapped back into focus, standing his ground ready. He didn't know what it was that told him that, more or less, but all he did care for was protecting Chikorita. With a slight gulp, he pulled back his fist ready, while at the same time, Chikorita was suddenly regaining conciousness.
"Brick Break!" He yelled, completely ignoring the fact that his fist was glowing.
"Zack wait!" Chikorita tried to warn. But as she did, she also noticed a small round apot around his tail began to glow as well, growing a bit in confusion.
Just as the Primeape was about to strike, Zack ducked down just mere inches away from his boxing glove, and bashed his fist as hard as he could into the Primeape's face, hitting him right in the Primeape's snout. Chikorita for one was in surprise, not just the fact that Riolu had actually managed to counter Primeape, but the fact that he managed to hit him at all was surprising. She watched as the Primeape was thrown back a few yards, getting knocked out as swirly lines appeared over it's eyes. Riolu breathed a bit exhausted before sighing in relief, surprised that he had actually managed to take down the large pokemon.
"I actually did it." He said a bit happily, feeling proud of himself. He suddenly yelped as he felt Chikorita pulling around his tail with her vines. "Ack hey hey! What are you doing?" He stammered. He looked back as he saw Chikorita pull out a small orb like crystal from it, which was shinning for a few seconds before dimming down until it was a see-through blue crystal. Within the small crystal appeared to be a small red ruby within it. Chikorita was shocked at the sight of the current stone as she turned back to Riolu.
"Where did you get this?" She asked in a surprised tone.
"Oh that thing? That Ryphierior I met before with Team Diver dropped it when he stepped on me. I was gonna show it to you guys earlier, but the whole intruder thing happeened and well, I guess I kinda forgot." Riolu explained.
"Do you even know what this thing is?" She stammered, moving her face closer to his, which made him nervous.
"No, wh- Look out!" He yelled as he pushed Chikorita out of the way, just in time as he was grabbed by the Primeape and shoved against a tree, being held off his feet as he was grabbed by the neck. As Chikorita struggled to get up, still weakened from the erlier injuries, she gasped at the sight of strange dark energy flying around the Primeape like lightning. Whats more, the "lightning" began resonating more and more as it looked like it could burst at any moment.
"S-S-Self De-Destruction!" Primeape roared as it began to glow like a voltorb when it uses self destruct. Chikorita was helpless to do anything in time before the blast went off, consuming the Primeape himself and Riolu in the large explosion.
"Rioluuuu!"
*snip*
The strange being opened one of it's eyes. Within the bowels of a deep, dark, dungeon, there was pure darkness that surrounded a lonely being. The only source of light that formed was from small, white strings, that levitated around the strange being. But one of these strings, just as the Primeape exploded, snapped as it began to fade away.
"Who is interfering with my plans?"
PHEW! That's one heck of a long first chapter, hopefully it was detailed and I didn't use expressions too often XP. Anyway, like i said, this is my idea for the next POkemon mystery dungeon game, which we alll know will eventually happen, for the Black and White saga. This new mode includes:
-Conquest Events (which will be explained in the next chapter)
-A Chapter which will directly involve your partner, which also depends on which partner you choose!
-You will have a Trainer of the Final Stage evolution of whatever pokemon you are, who also will be involved in the plot
-And including what they've already had, i think thats it.
And for the best part: I"M LETTING YOU GUYS CHOOSE WHO HIS OFFICIAL PARTNER IS! (lucky bas*****) ANd each one will have an individual chapter, and possibly be the next chapter i work on will involve that character, but for the time being, here are a list of possible candidates to choose from and a brief description of each:
-Pikachu: Joined in to work on being a brave pokemon adventurer, but gets scared easily
Munchlax: A real nice pokemon who is a bit more on the Brawn side than brains, took the adventure hoping it would make him smarter
Snivy: A female snivy who adores "fasion" which is mainly scarfs in the pokemon world, has a lack of team effort though.
Chikorita:After her current adventure with Riolu, she decides she wants to help him in hopes of one day repaying him for saving her.
Oshawott / Trecko: After Charmeleon is considered MIA, he/she joins Riolu hoping he/she can eventually find him, but both have a habit of thinking "Mission before others" policy
(And as a special treat, like if they were to preorder it and get a special on it)
Zorua: Was founded by Darkrai one day while on a mission, hopes traveling with Zack will help him regain memories as well, but has a habbit of playing tricks on people due to his shapeshifting.
Also, i know primeape can't use the two moves above (idk for sure bout self destruct) but i knwo he cant use Beat Up, but that will also be explaiend in next chapter. Speaking of chapters, like in most games of this series, or least since the PMDEOS had 20 chapters, I plan on making this 20 chapters too, that way I have a full scale plan on how I'm gonna do things.
And those are the only ones i could think of with an acutal plot revolving them. Still consdiering whether or not to acutally have Zorua or not, but until then, Rate, review, and vote on our popular tv show, "Who's Your Partner!" (a tv show never appearing in tv)