It was night with rain pouring, water roaring, and lightning striking. Once the next day came, the weather was sunny with the water being calm, while on the hill, a Piplup was in front of a rather big Wigglytuff statue with torches on it's sides and a gate under it. He pondered back and forth eventually saying, "No, I refuse to stay paralyzed like this any longer. This is it. I have to steel my courage today," stepping onto the grate between them.
"Pokémon detected! Pokémon detected!" said a voice underneath. "Whose is it?! Whose is it?!" said another. "The footprint is Piplup's! The footprint is Piplup's!" responded the first voice. "Waaaaah," the Piplup shouted, stepping off the grate. "That was too shocking ... I can't ... I can't work up the courage to go in after all. I told myself that this is the day, but ... I thought that holding on to my personal treasure would inspire me. I just can't do it. I'm such a coward. This is so discouraging." said the Piplup as he turned around and walked down to the beach, not knowing that two pokemon overheard him.
They were a Koffing and Zubat. "Hey Zubat, did you see that?" asked the Koffing. "You bet I did, Koffing," said Zubat. The two pokemon were making a plan to steal the Piplup's treasure just to make money off of it, soon following the Piplup to the beach. The Piplup said, "This is where I come when I'm feeling sorry for myself, but it makes me feel good to be here, like always. Coming here is uplifting. It cheers me up," looking to his left saying, "What's that? What's going on over there?" He walked closer to see that it was a female Eevee collapsed in the sand. The Piplup was worried for her, just aimlessly asking questions to the unconcious Pokémon like 'What happened' or 'Are you OK'.
(Ugh),thought the Eevee when she woke up and stood up weakly. "You're awake!" said the Piplup in relief. "Do you remember how you ended up unconcious up here?" asked the Piplup. "No," said the Eevee wondsrimg how she got unconcious. "Well I'm Fub, nice to meet you," said the Piplup to the Eevee still continuing his sentence, "who are you? I've never seen you before."
"I'm a human," said the Eevee. "What?" said Fub surprised. "You say you're human? You look like a totally normal Eevee to me."
The Eevee looked at the water, wondering why she became one and didn't know how it happened while not remembering anything from it. "You're a little odd," said Fub continuing, " Are you pulling some kind of trick on me?" The Eevee shook her head. "You're telling me the truth?" asked Fub. The Eevee nodded.
"All right then, you're name? What's you're name?" asked Fub. "My name? That's right my name is ... Ribbon," answered the Eevee. "Ribbon is you're name?" asked Fub. Ribbon nodded. "OK. Well you don't seem like a bad Pokémon at least. Sorry that I doubted you. More bad Pokémon have been turning up and many have become aggressive," said Fub.
Koffing and Zubat had were slowly creeping on Fub, pushing him at where he fell on top of Ribbon, crushing her, with the treasure dropping. "Well I do beg your pardon," said Koffing. Fub got off of Ribbon and asked, " Hey, why did you do that?!" "Heh-heh-heh! Can't figure it out?" said Zubat continuing, "We wanted to mess with you! Can't face up to us, can you?!" Zubat eyed on the treasure and asked, "That's yours, isn't it?" "No! That's ..." said Fub stuttering completely before Zubat took it with him while running off with Koffing.
Fub looked down saying, "What should I do? That's my personal treasure. It means everything to me. If I lose that ... I've got to get it back! Hey, can I get you to help me?" Ribbon didn't know what to do, mindlessly saying, "Yes." Fub was surprised and crying tears of joy considering that many Pokémon were aggressive to one, another. Ribbon and Fub followed Koffing and Zubat into the dungeon, Beach Cave.
In the cave, it was rather wet, filled with lots of water type Pokémon with Ribbon and Fub trying to make their way to find Zubat and Koffing. After a while, they ran into fifteen dead ends with the same one being ten times. "How can we find them?" asked Ribbon who kept on seeing dead ends every turn. "We just need to find the stairs in order to go up higher," said Fub walking to one with Ribbon following. They were only on B4 and yet there were lots of Shellos and Corsola that it was believabley hard to get passed them without engaging a fight at where a Shellos and Corsola managed to get a glimpse of Fub and Ribbon soon enough chasing them.
The two had split up, which was not the best idea to do if you were being chased by an equal amount or more, but eventually, the Corsola and Shellos gave up and surprisingly enough, Ribbon and Fub managed to find each other at B5. "Look, there is the Zubat and Koffing," said Fub as he and Ribbon saw that the two ran into a dead end as a chance to get Fub's treasure back. Turning back, the Koffing said, "Well if it isn't our old friend, chicken." "That's my treasure, it means everything to me," said Fub. "Treasure you say? So that thing really is valuable then, huh?" asked Zubat.
"It could be worth more than we'd hoped for, I say? It could sell for a higher price. All the more reason to not give it back," said Koffing. "Whaat?!" shouted Fub. "If you want it that badly, then beat us," said Zubat as Koffing let out fumes from his body onto Ribbon and Fub. "Ugh, it burns," said Ribbon covering her nose. "Koffing is using Smokescreen, to prevent us from attacking," said Fub. Suddenly, Ribbon felt a sharp pain as she was launched to a rock by a tackle from Zubat.
When the Smokescreen cleared, Ribbon was lying on the ground next to a rock, unable to stand up, giving Fub and her a disadvantage against Koffing and Zubat. "Aah! Are you okay Ribbon?" asked Fub using Water Gun against Koffing to prevent him from using Smokescresn. "Y-yes," answered Ribbon weakly as she when she got up to fight again, with a big pain whenever she moved. Zubat went in for a tackle as Ribbon also used Tackle aginst Zubat, with the help of Fub's Water Gun to slow him down and do damage, knocking the Zubat to a wall flying clumsily now, while Koffing had tried to use Smokescreen for an attack, but failed.
Zubat angrily went and threw Fub's treasure on the ground saying that it was just a fluke for the win along with Koffing running off with Zubat. Ribbon and Fub went out of Beach Cave with Fub holding the treasure. "This relic is my treasure," said Fub continuing, "I get excited whenever I hear tales from the past, liked legends and lores. It gives me courage to join the exploration team. This fragment must fit something, somewhere amd I want to dicover where that is! So earlier I tried to join an exploration team as an apprentice, but ... I chickened out." He turned around to Ribbon and asked, "Do you have anywhere to go or stay after this? If not, can I ask a big favor, because are you willing to form an exploration team with me? Will you? Please?"
(What should I do? Should I join this Pokémon and form an exploration team?) thought Ribbon soon saying yes. "Thank you!" said Fub excited. "We're going to be a great exploration team, but we should sign up at Wigglytuff's Guild as apprentices." As they walked up to Wigglytuff's Guild on a hill.
