Author Note: Hello! And welcome to Stun III, the third story in my Stun series. If you haven't read "Stun" or "Stun II" yet, I suggest you do so, just so that you aren't potentially lost.

Thanks everyone, and I hope you enjoy and review!

"Hello?" I heard a faint voice calling out to me in my mind. "Dad? Where have you been?" I looked around, but saw nothing. I was floating in a gray expanse of nothingness. I couldn't even push out a reply.

"You've been gone for so long..." The voice was slightly stronger this time, and I felt as if I knew who was speaking. I had been searching for them for a long time.

"We've been waiting for you, Stun. We're trapped here, with a Team Rocket member." In the far away distance, I thought I could see some sort of figure. "Oh no, we're going back into the Pokéballs." The grey nothingness suddenly turned a bright red and the figure disappeared. "Find us!"

I jolted awake inside my cave on Eevee Island, a powerful thunderstorm raging outside. Gasping for air, I looked around and saw that my cave was still empty. I slowly stood and walked to the entrance of my cave, staring out at the torrential downpour outside. I couldn't see anything through the water, but I could sense that there was no one around.

It had been seven years since the tragedy that plagued Eevee Island, when Team Rocket had appeared and killed or captured most of us. I still had not been able to find my apprentices or my daughter; despite what Star had told me before she had left, I had given up hope that they were still alive.

The nightmare I had just had, however, was giving me second thoughts.

After all this time, I thought to myself, was that Berry and Fluff reaching out just now?

I stepped out into the rain, staring up at the sky. If only I knew where they were. I closed my eyes and concentrated as hard as I could, using all of my power. Even so, I was unable to get even an inkling as to where they could be.

...

The next morning, I stood outside of my cave with Mesprit floating in front of me. I had been meditating all night, but was still no closer to finding them.

Mesprit had a faraway look in her eyes. "Did you feel it?"

I furrowed my brow in confusion. Mesprit hadn't spoken a word in about a week, and never so clearly. "Are you alright, Mesprit?"

She looked into my eyes, but it felt as if she wasn't really seeing me. "Last night, I'm sure you felt it, yes?"

I hesitated for a brief moment before replying, "Did you hear her too? Berry and Fluff?"

Mesprit tilted her head. Slowly her hand reached up and touched me on the shoulder. Her eyes suddenly snapped into focus. "Ledyba! What are you doing here?" She pulled her hand back and looked around excitedly. "Oooh, this is a pretty cave you have here!"

I let out a long sigh. "We've lived here for the last eight years, Mesprit."

"We have?" Her mouth opened in astonishment. "Man, we've been having it good, huh?" She flew around in a circle happily, nearly smacking me with one of her tails.

"Mesprit, please calm down," I grumbled as I turned away from her, about to go back into my cave.

"No, wait, Ledyba!" Mesprit flew back in front of me, grabbing me by the shoulders. "I had something really important to tell you!"

"And what's that?" I said, disinterested.

"Berry and Fluff, you idiot! They tried to talk to you last night!"

I took a step back, shocked. "I thought you were messing with me! So you did hear that too?"

"Of course!" She looked angry. "Do you know how old I am? I'm almost as old as time, you think I can't hear something like that?"

"Well, to be honest, I figured you'd be too insane to tell what that was."

She punched me in the face, and I flew away and crashed into a tree. "Geez!" I grabbed my bleeding forehead and used Recover to close the wound. "Alright, I'm sorry!"

Mesprit huffed and floated over to me. "You know where that was coming from don'tcha?"

I rubbed my forehead, which was still sore. "No, where?"

She shook her head. "You've been spending too much time in that cave moping, you dummy! They're obviously in Alola!"

"You think?" I asked, "Why would the human who took them go to Alola?"

"Everybody needs a vacation!" Mesprit exclaimed gleefully.

"But I've never been to Alola, how do I get there?"

In response, Mesprit just rolled her eyes and touched my forehead, and suddenly I was standing on the shores of Cinnabar Island.

"What...?" I looked around. Since I had been gone, it looked like the Cinnabar Island volcano must have erupted; there were no human buildings left aside from a lone Pokémon Center. After a few moments of me wondering why Mesprit had teleported me here, the sea near me bubbled and a Blastoise poked his head out of the waves.

He and I stared at each other a moment before he gave me a little wave. "'Sup?"

"Uh, hi," I replied.

There were a few more moments of silence. The Blastoise gave me an annoyed look. "Yo, you comin', or what?"

"Coming where?"

He rolled his eyes. "To Alola man, duh! Mesprit told me to pop up and offer you a ride! Let's get goin', bro!"

I sighed and stepped forward. He rolled over and let me stand on his huge shell. "I feel like she could have just teleported me to the Alola region instead."

"Hey man, it ain't the destination, it's the journey that's the really fun part!" With that, we began sailing towards the south. "The name's Blu by the way, man."

"Nice to meet you." I replied, "I'm Stun."