Revised: December 10th, 2008

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For new readers…

"This" is speech

This is someone thinking

This is something written (like in a letter, or on a sign)

Chapter 1: Lost and Found

Somewhere deep underground, in a place called Tiny Ruins, a lone explorer wandered the maze like hallways. Not a human explorer, but a pokemon, a Chikorita to be exact.

She let out a bored sigh, "This stinks, what a waste of time!" She said to herself. Chikorita had been exploring for days looking for food, water, treasure, anything, but had no luck at all so far finding anything.

When she stumbled across this place, she figured it would have something valuable inside. The ruins was a small mystery dungeon, places where wild pokemon lived.

Frustrated at the situation, she didn't even notice another pokemon was sneaking behind her.

"Grrr, I hate this place!" She said to herself. "So hot and dusty… Where are all the wild pokemon? I thought mystery dungeons were full of them!"

The pokemon that was behind her let put a cry and rushed forward, about to attack. The Chikorita heard the pokemon, and just in time, dodged its tackle. "That's more like it!"

The wild pokemon in question was a Weedle, Chikorita knew it was weak, but with its poisonous horn, she definitely had to be careful fighting it.

Weedle turned around and looked around expecting to find the Chikorita behind it, but she had disappeared.

"Surprise!" She had jumped! Before Weedle could do anything, Chikorita crushed the Weedle. The bug was dazed from the sudden attack, giving Chikorita the time needed to quickly finished it off with a quick tackle. The Weedle went flying, landing in an awkward heap. The bug was out for the count.

"Yeah! Don't mess with me!"

Forgetting about the unconscious Weedle, she continued her trip down the long dusty hallway and reached a room, empty except for a set of stairs going deeper into the ruins.

"I hope this is the last floor."

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Location: Outside Tiny Ruins

"Is this the place?"

A Charmander was talking into a small radio like device. The radio crackled with thick static.

"Yes" Said the voice on the radio "The subject should be in those ruins according to our scans. Have your team bring him back immediately, ALIVE!"

"Roger, we're going in now."

A second later the static stopped, the radio was shut off. The Charmander turned to the pokemon waiting behind him, a Raticate and Gastly.

"Ok, here's the mission. In this place is pokemon that the boss needs us to bring back to him."

Raticate interrupted him "Why? What makes this guy so important? This…" Charmander responded with a glare, Raticate stepped away and didn't continue.

"Do not question me or the boss, if he wants this guy, he has a good reason, no matter what that reason is. Got that?" Raticate nodded. "Then lets go, Gastly and you go up ahead, I'll hang back in case it try's to escape. Do not fail me you two, otherwise you'll be punished, and it will be painful."

Raticate gulped, familiar to being punished. Both of them promptly rushed down into the ruins to find the pokemon.

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Location: Basement of Tiny Ruins

"Whew, finally!" Chikorita had reached the bottom of the ruins, she looked around and saw some shelves and cabinets where food, water and other treasures would be stored. She started to walk towards where the stuff was when a loud noise caught her attention.

"Look what we have here!" The sound came from a rock pokemon, it had disguised itself as rubble. The huge pokemon was a Graveler. "A little morsel has wandered into my home. Good thing too, I was getting hungry.

"You wanna eat little old me?" Chikorita said this without fear, she sounded like she was mocking the giant. Whether it noticed the tone in her voice, she couldn't tell. "You'll have to fight me first!"

The Graveler then laughed, without saying more he tucked into a ball and began to roll towards Chikorita. Right before the giant crushed her, she jumped over it. "Haha!" She laughed, she was toying with the Graveler.

"Grrrrr, I'll enjoy crushing you, stupid little…"

Chikorita interrupted. "Oh I'm stupid huh? I bet you can't even count to four! You're an embarrassment to the name pokemon!"

Graveler roared, "I can so. Listen! One... Two... Three…"

Chikorita didn't let him finish, instead she twirled the leaf on her head and launched it at the Graveler, it was her favorite attack, razor leaf. "Four! Ha! Who's the stupid one now?" Then the razor leaf bounced off what Chikorita thought was its forehead, took one unsteady step backwards, then fell over making a loud thump.

Chikorita walked over to the unconscious Graveler. "Still you!"

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Location: Somewhere in Tiny Ruins

Raticate and Gastly found themselves in the same room they had been in only five minutes ago, Raticate's footprints still visible on the dusty ground.

"Uhh, Gastly?"

"Yeah?"

"Where are we?"

"Lost."

After a short, awkward pause, Raticate said to Gastly. "Were gonna be in some much trouble.."

Both letting out a sad groan, they continued to wander, lost in the mystery dungeons confusing hallways, hoping at the last minute they would find the way down.

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Location: Basement of Tiny Ruins

Chikorita was not disappointed with what she found. It seemed the Graveler had been collecting things from unfortunate travelers. Located all over the place, there was jugs of water, boxes of fresh fruit, and best of all, money, lots of money, 5000 poke at the very least.

Chikorita jumped in the pile of coins, throwing it the air excitedly. "Yeeeeeeeaaaaaah! And I thought this was going to be another waste of time!"

In all the excitement, the Chikorita forgot to explore the rest of the room, that was until a soft moan was heard, it sounded close.

"Hmmm?" Chikorita lost focus of the cash, and noticed a very old, rotten looking door leading to another room.

She heard another moan, definitely coming from behind the door. The sound was very faint though, what ever was making it wasn't in the best of health. "Hello?" She went over and opened the door, the thing nearly falling off the hinges. The room was tiny, and empty, except for a single yellow lump on the floor. A pokemon? She thought.

Another groan, then silence. It was a pokemon, but one Chikorita didn't recognize. It was yellow, except for its red cheeks, and it had a tail shaped like a bolt of lightning. Obviously an electric type, but which one?

She walked up to it and poked it, it didn't move. She poked again, it didn't wake up or react, but from what she could tell, it was alive. "I guess I'll take you back to town, you big yellow pain in the butt…"

Chikorita scooped up the pokemon onto her back, was a little heavy, but she could manage the trip. But…

"What about all my new stuff?" She wouldn't be able to take anything now, the pokemon wasn't heavy, but heavy enough she wouldn't be able to take much stuff back with her. She put what she could in her bag, and pocketed as much cash as she could. "You better say thank you after this."

In the back was the exit, the door could only be entered one way, so if she came back she would have to go back through the mystery dungeon again, and by then another pokemon could claim everything.

She took one last look at the loot she left behind, and walked outside.

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Location: Outside Tiny Ruins

"Where are you two idiots?" Charmander was once again talking on the radio, this time to Raticate and Gastly.

The one on the radio was Gastly. "We seem to be somewhere on the… 3rd floor of the ruins."

"WHAT! You're still FIVE floors from the basement? What have you idiots been doing?!"

A short pause, whispers between the 'idiots' could faintly be heard on the radio, then Gastly said. "We're lost."

The Charmander threw the radio at the ground and stomped it flat.

"When I find you two, I'm going to DESTROY the both of you!" As if to illustrate his point, he breath a powerful flamethrower into the sky. Charmander then stomped into the mystery dungeon to find them, and make them feel a lot of hurt.

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Location: Outside Tiny Ruins (Behind the ruins)

Before going anywhere, Chikorita took out a map from her bag and planned out her journey from here to where she wanted to go. The town was small, but it had a small hospital she hoped could help the pokemon.

The pokemon on her back moaned again. "Hang on, won't be long now."

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Location: Middle of the wasteland

The pokemon was relatively quiet now. Chikorita made sure to check him once in a while to make sure he was still alive.

Her supplies we're extremely low, she had half an apple left, and barely two mouthfuls of water. If she didn't reach the town soon, both pokemon would be lost in the sandy wasteland.

During one of her stops, she could swear she could hear music in the distance, but she chalked it up as just a hallucination.

"Great, now I'm going crazy. I hope this wasn't just a big mistake."

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Location: Tiny Ruins

"Ok, I'm sparing you idiots any more punishment for now. The boss has a job for us."

"Thank you Master Zar." Said both pokemon as enthusiastically as they could. Raticate and Gastly had received a swift beating as soon as they all got out, if it wasn't for the boss's mission, it would have been a whole lot worse.

The Charmander, Zar, paced back and forth

"He wants us to split up, we're going to be looking for that pokemon. Remember, the boss described it as 'yellow, red cheeks, lightning shaped tail' and that it had to be brought back alive."

Raticate was the first to speak up. "What kind of pokemon is that? That can't be right!"

Zar responded with a smack across Raticate's face. "You're questioning the boss Rat?!"

Raticate cowered before Charmander. "No master Zar. I'm sorry."

Gastly then decided to speak. "You were saying? What is it the boss needs us to do?" Zar gave one last threatening glance to Raticate, then continued to speak.

"As I was saying, a pokemon of the description 'yellow, red cheeks, lightning shaped tail' needs to be brought to the boss alive. He specifically wants us to split up and check the nearby towns for it. According to him it should be weak, probably unconscious, so someone must have helped him." He held up a leaf, it belonged to the Chikorita. "This was found I the basement, so we're looking for a pokemon capable of using razor leaf."

Gastly interrupted again. "You don't think it was one of those do gooder Brotherhood members do you?"

Zar hadn't thought of it, but he wouldn't let his inferiors know that. "Eh, yeah, that could be a possibility. In fact, I will go myself to the city where their head quarters are and investigate."

He pointed at Raticate. "You, you're going to Restown. It's the nearest city, located to the east."

Raticate nodded. "Yes master Zar." He then left for his destination. Zar yelled out to him "Wrong way you moron!" Raticate turned around and went in the other direction. "Sorry Master Zar!"

He pointed at Gastly. "You, you're going to Pipton, its over the mountains to the north, you gotta go through Glacier Tunnel to get there. it's a relatively weak mystery dungeon so you should be fine on you're own." Gastly didn't say anything, he just floated off to his destination.

"I for one am going to Havok City. If it is the Brotherhood IS involved, I'll stop them, and kill the ones impeding us."

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Location: Middle of the Wasteland

Chikorita was in trouble, her food was all gone, as was her water. If she didn't find the town soon… I don't even wanna think about what'll happen…

She heard more music, it was that same tune she heard awhile ago. It was louder this time. Ok, definitely not my imagination this time. She thought.

With the pokemon still on her back, Chikorita went towards the sound. She didn't notice it right away, but there was a pokemon walking across the dessert. It was a Squirtle, a green shelled Squirtle to be specific.

"Hellooooooo!" She yelled to it, but the Squirtle didn't stop, she noticed it was walking with some kind of flute instrument, playing a song as it trekked through the sand. She called to it again, "Wait up please! Heeeeey!"

Finally it stopped walking. She walked up to him. "Can you please help me? I'm lost and need to get this guy to a hospital!" The Squirtle didn't say anything. He didn't even look at her. "Hello? Anybody home?" She waved her leaf in front of his face. Finally he turned. What a weirdo, I hope he isn't a psycho or something.

"You're closer to your destination then you think. Beyond the hill there is the city you seek." Even while he talked he didn't face her, he barely even had his flute thingy out of his mouth. "Just curious, do you know the pokemon on your back?"

She shook her head. "No, I found him awhile ago in a mystery dungeon, he hasn't woken up since then and I'm worried about him."

He placed his arm on her back as a comforting gesture, "Do not worry, he will be fine. Just hurry." He then began to walk off, going the same way he had been going before, once again playing his flute.

Chikorita looked to the direction he had told her to go, and she barely could she what looked like the top of a building, coming up from behind a huge brown rock. It was about a half hours walk away.

When she turned to thank the Squirtle, it was gone. "Hey, where'd you go?" She looked around, but still didn't spot the turtle pokemon, she couldn't even hear its flute anymore. The Squirtle had left. Oh well, guess he was in a rush .

For the first time since Tiny Ruins, the pokemon on her back made a noise, something between a cough and a moan. Whatever was wrong with the pokemon, it didn't sound healthy. Better hurry. She thought.

She ran as fast as she could without dropping her passenger towards the town, hoping to get there in half the time.

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Raticate hated his job, walking around the wasteland so much made his feet sting like mad. And Zar was just brutal. If I didn't need the money, I'd drop this job in a heart beat.

That wasn't 100% true though, Raticate was sure if he quit. Zar would beat him to and inch of his life, and even if he didn't, Raticate would still have to deal with the boss. Just more reasons to hate this job.

Where am I anyways?

Little did he know he was, once again, going the wrong way.