Hey all, it's your boy here, with an idea that's been rolling around in my head for a while. I don't even know how I got it, but I'm pretty sure it was when I had Game Grumps on in the background while I was playing through Explorer's of Sky again. The idea can to me and I thought to myself, 'Hey, that could be pretty good,' and so here we are! I'm not sure if there is a story like this somewhere else, but I'm gonna go on a limb and say that it probably has been done before.
I've got a couple chapters laid out already, and I'm working on a rough outline for where I want this story to go. Hopefully Dan and Arin aren't way OOC, but if they are then I would greatly appreciate any feedback you guys have.
Any who, I hope you guys enjoy my latest story:
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Not So Grump
Summary: Dan and Arin decide that they will be playing Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky for their next play through. Arin somehow manages to rip a hole in between dimensions, and they get flung into the nearest dimension; Pokémon Mystery Dungeon.
Rated T-Borderline M because of The Grump's mouths.
Prologue: I Didn't Sign Up for This!
"ARIN, WHAT DID YOU DO?!"
"I DON'T KNOW, MAN! I DON'T KNOW!"
Ah, welcome! If you're just joining us, allow me to explain the confusion...
Dan and Arin, Not So Grump and Grump respectively, were about to play Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky for their next game. The recording equipment was set up, everything was ready to go. Except for one small thing.
Arin somehow managed to create a vacuum portal, and it was currently trying to pull everything within the room into it's pitch-black depths.
So basically, just another normal day in the Grump Office.
"HOW THE FUCK DO WE STOP IT?!" Dan yelled, obviously panicking due to the sudden appearance of said portal. Arin was also panicking, scrambling around the room to try and find something to stop the portal with. "Um, uh... AHA! Take THIS, you son of a bitch!" He yelled, tossing a chair at the portal, hoping that it would get stuck and the portal would collapse.
The chair had other ideas, however, effortlessly getting pulled into the portal. Dan put a hand to his face, sighing audibly. "Really? A chair? Is that the best you can think of?!" He said. "Hey, gimme a break, man, I'm doing my best!" He exclaimed angrily. Dan started to search frantically for something, whisking around the room and rummaging around for anything that could help them. "I know, dude, but we're gonna have to do something better than a fucking chai- WAGH!"
While he was searching and panicking, he didn't notice the multitude of wires connecting to various pieces of equipment, and he tripped and fell onto the floor. "Goddamnit, ow..." He groaned, before another problem made itself prevalent. He started to get pulled by the vacuum portal's immense force, his body getting dragged across the carpeted floor.
"AH, OKAY, ARIN A LITTLE HELP!" He yelled in shock, trying to grab something before he was enveloped completely inside the portal. "Shit shit shit shit!" Arin said, grabbing Dan's arm before he was sent tumbling through the murky depths. "I've got you, man!" He reassured, trying to lower the amount of panicking being done.
That did nothing, however, as a chair that's had been whipped upwards by the portal's tug rammed into his legs, causing Arin's knees to buckle and his hold on Dan to falter. Which meant that...
"AAAAAAaaaaaahh..." Dan screamed as he was pulled through the portal, his voice getting farther and farther away.
Arin was in shock.
"Dan! No! NOOOO!" He yelled in anguish, tears collecting in his eyes. He normally doesn't cry at all, but this was something entirely different. His best friend was gone.
'But not for long!' He thought angrily, a determined look on his face. "I'm comin, Dan!" He yelled into the portal, before letting out a war cry and running full speed into the portal, his cries being carried along the abyss far, far away.
And as soon as it started, it stopped, as the portal disappeared, seemingly satisfied with it's haul. Everything that was being pulled through the portal stopped moving abruptly.
The room was a mess. Furniture flung everywhere, and a ton of games were missing from the Grump collection.
And worst of all, it was quiet. Too quiet. It's as if the world had stopped. As if time itself had stopped marching forward.
Dan and Arin were gone.
... To another world, that is. While they may be gone from Earth, they landed somewhere that everyone in our world thought was a place of fiction, just a landmark from a video game.
However, the two friends were about to find out that everything is very much real.
A light breeze wafted through the air...
The sound of ocean waves softly crashing against the shore...
The sun shining down on the beach, it's embrace enveloping it like a warm blanket...
"... Hey..."
'... Wha... what? What's... what's going on?...'
'Why... why is everything... black?...'
"A-are you alright?... please don't be dead..."
'Who... what? Is... someone there?'
'Urk... my head... it's pounding!...'
Something was frantically shaking him, trying to get him to wake. "No no no no no... please wake up... please..." A voice said worriedly.
Dan groaned painfully, his muscles aching and his head pounding. 'Good god... it feels like I've been hit by twenty fucking trucks...'
A loud sigh of relief came from the voice he heard before. "Oh, thank Arceus, you're alive... Are you alright?" It asked him, something prodding his side. He grunted from the contact, his head throbbing. "Urk... I... I hope so..." He replied.
He opened his eyes, then winced from the harsh sunlight, his hand instinctively going to his face to shield his eyes. 'Wait... Sunlight? But I thought I was...'
That's when he noticed something was very wrong with his hand.
Instead of the normal, tan colored arm he and most humans were used to, his arm was now shorter and covered in snow white fur. His hand had been transformed into a dainty paw, fingers nonexistent on his new appendage.
"What the fuck?" He said to himself, his eyes taking over his newly transformed hand. "Hey, over here!" The voice called again, causing Dan to swivel his attention to it's source.
Instead of it being a human woman, like he expected, it was something that most definitely caught him off guard.
It was a Pokémon. An Eevee, to be exact. Something that Dan knew for a fact was a fictional fucking character in a video game.
The Eevee smiled, seemingly glad that Dan was awake and okay. "Oh, you're awake, good!" She said, relieved. Dan blinked. 'And now Pokémon can apparently TALK?! Oh, god, just where in the hell am I?'
"What were you doing passed out on the sand like that? You scared me!" She asked, confused as to why he was lying face down on this strange beach he found himself on.
"Er, well... I... Honestly have no clue... do you think you could tell me where I am?" He asked, still dazed from whatever sent him here. The Eevee smiled. "Sure! You're right outside of Beach Cave, which is located near Treasure Town," she replied. Dan blinked. "Treasure Town? Beach Cave? I've never heard of those places,"
'Just where the fuck am I?' He wondered, starting to get freaked out.
Even the Eevee was looking confused. "You haven't? But... every Pokémon's heard of Treasure Town at some point..."
"But I'm not a Pokémon! I'm a human!" He exclaimed, exasperated. Now the Eevee was definitely confused. "You're a human? But you look like a normal Vulpix to me, at least, an oddly colored one,"
'So that's what I am? I thought Vulpixes were supposed to be red!' He thought to himself, looking over his white furred body. Indeed, it does look like he's been turned into a Vulpix, with six stark white tails flowing behind him. He awkwardly walked over to ocean to try and see his reflection. 'Woah...'
He was a Vulpix, that much was certain, but he looked extremely different. Instead of having the red fur he recognized from the games, he had pure, snow-white fur, with deep, sparkling blue eyes. He still had his poofy, curly head of hair. 'Huh. Guess I still have some semblance of me.' He thought to himself, ruffling the messy locks.
"Hmm..." Oh, he almost forgot the Eevee was here. "Well, even if you're rather... strange... you don't seem bad."
"With all the bad Pokémon popping more often, it's getting harder to trust others you don't know. Sorry about that!" She apologized, looking sheepish.
'Bad Pokémon? Hope I don't run into any of those...'
"I-it's fine, I'd probably have the same reaction as you," he assured. The Eevee seemed pleased with that answer.
Then she gasped. "Oh! Where are my manners, I haven't introduced myself!" She exclaimed. She held out a paw. "I'm Aria. Nice to meet you!" She greeted, a friendly look on her face. Dan smiled. 'If everyone was as friendly as her... maybe things won't be so bad here.'
"Nice to meet you, too. I'm Dan."
I know, it's short, but it's just the prologue. The first chapter that I have written is going to be much longer than this. Anyway, I hope I got your attention with this story. Don't forget to leave a review! Again, any feedback is appreciated, especially constructive criticism. Thanks all!
UPDATE (9/28/18): Added Line Breaks