"Hey!"

The world was full of the happy pink fog that came between sleep and waking. Alice sighed, rolling over and reaching up to pull the covers tighter. She couldn't seem to reach them, which was strange, since she wouldn't kick them off in this kind of cold...

"HEY! Wake up!"

... which was also strange, now that she thought of it, since it had been quite a warm night...

"Hello?! Can't you hear me?"

... and it was very strange that it would be this cold in the middle of summer, maybe something had gone wrong with the air conditioning...

At that point, someone nudged her. She groaned, sitting up and trying to rub at her eyes; for some reason her arms didn't want to work right.
"Couldn't I have slept a bit longer? It's Saturday." Alice whined, looking up pleadingly.

There was the biggest Chikorita she'd ever seen, staring down at her with an expression of mild annoyance. She did the only sensible thing under these circumstances and screamed, scrambling wildly backwards. She was awake, right? These things weren't supposed to happen!
"Um... was it something I said?" The voice was female, pleasant, and rather bewildered. Alice looked around wildly, trying to work out who was speaking. There were some unusually tall trees, a few clumps of grass higher than the rest, but no real hiding places.

The Chikorita stepped towards her, and she scrambled backward again, pressing up against a tree. It wasn't that there was anything menacing about it, exactly, but it was bigger than she was.
"Do you have a problem with Grass types or something?" The Chikorita said, looking slightly hurt. Alice didn't scream again, but she yelped, tail lashing nervously.
"Stay away!" She squeaked urgently, and then her brain finally caught up with her body. She looked down.
There was a thick ruff of creamy fur, coming out from just under her chin, and over the edge of it she could just see the tips of two brown paws. She craned her neck around, and yes, if she squinted and sort of looked out of the corner of her eye she could see a large, fluffy tail.

"... Is something wrong?" The Chikorita sounded puzzled now, and she realized that if she listened closely, the words weren't really there. What she was actually hearing was "Ki chikorita chiko?", but somehow the meaning was there.
"WHY AM I AN EEVEE?!" Alice squeaked. If she thought about it, she could hear the Eevee-babbling behind the words even as she said them.
The Chikorita blinked. "Um... weren't you born that way? ... Oh! Were you supposed to evolve? Is that what's wrong? Because something is weird, nobody can evolve right now. Sorry." She shrugged.
"I'M NOT A POKEMON!" It came out much louder and shriller than Alice had intended.
The Chikorita stared at her just long enough for her to start twitching a little.
"... Really." She said it in the slow, careful tone of someone speaking to a person who has just informed them in a low, urgent voice that the little blue man wanted them to set things on fire.
"I mean... um..." Alice fumbled for words, looking down awkwardly. Maybe that hadn't been the best way to phrase it, yes, but still...
"How long have you not been a Pokemon, then...?"
"I... uh, I mean, I wasn't one yesterday, but- er..."
A Butterfree whirred into the clearing, colliding with Alice, wings beating wildly as it tried to right itself. Alice stumbled backwards, and it flew up about a foot into the air, looking around urgently. It seemed to notice them for the first time.

"Please!" The voice was female again, older, and deeply worried. "You two look strong... help me!" It was more of a statement than a question. The Chikorita blinked again.
"What's wrong, Ma'am?"
"My baby Caterpie! He's trapped, there was an earthquake and a fissure opened up in the ground where he was playing, and I can't get down to him, and all the Pokemon out here are acting strange now, please help me-" She said, her voice growing frantic. She fluttered anxiously, looping in midair.
"Um-" Alice cut in, feeling a bit behind. The Chikorita nodded slowly on the opposite side of the clearing.
"It's okay, Ma'am! Don't worry, we'll get him back okay." She said. She gave Alice a look that said: I have no idea who you are, but you are going to go along with this, right? Good.
It had been maybe ten minutes since Alice first met her, but she was noticing that the Chikorita had some very expressive looks. And a personality that could only be described politely as commanding.

"Come on, then..." There was an awkward pause as the Chikorita seemed to realize she didn't know Alice's name. "... I mean, let's go already."
Alice shrugged uncertainly and followed the Chikorita as she walked away in the direction the Butterfree had come from. She was fairly certain this wasn't the best course of action, but what was? It wasn't like there was a manual for this situation. Well... probably not, even if "What to Do If You're a Complete Idiot and You've Been Turned Into a Pokemon" did have a certain ring to it...

At this point, Alice walked into a tree and decided to focus on where she was going.

I hate writing author's notes, so expect them to be scarce. Anyway... it's fairly obvious, but this is a Mystery Dungeon novelization. More or less. I don't know how closely I'll be following the game, but the general plotline at least should be the same.

... Title is subject to change, since I'm lousy with names.