Greetings, Pokémon fans! I do hope you will bear with me. I haven't put anything on FanFiction for a long time, and I realized that the one story I did have up was a terrible idea. Which is why, as of right now, this is my only story. If you could give me constructive criticism, I would appreciate it. I can't hope to improve without knowing what I am doing right or wrong.

Disclaimer: No, I do not own Pokémon. If I did, I would be demanding that the fifth generation starters be redone.

1. Golden Apple

"We should be finding it somewhere around here," Kevin reported. "That's what Buneary says, anyway."

"... 'Kay," Bolt grunted. "I'll keep an eye out." The Pikachu was grateful that his human-turned-Totodile friend was the one handling their client on this mission. Frankly, Bolt could barely restrain himself from attacking the annoying little Buneary.

"This is so fun!" Buneary screamed for the umpteenth time. "I always wanted to explore a dungeon! And it's the Foggy Forest! I LOVE THE FOGGY FOREST! IT'S SO COOL! Did you know, wild Buneary live here? That's so awesome!"

"Really?" Bolt muttered. "Wow, gee, I had no idea, even though we've explored here so many times. And it's not like we haven't fought over half a dozen since we entered this damn dungeon or anything, is it? Nope, no idea."

Kevin stopped short. "Crap, I think the extra noise we're making just attracted five or so Breloom."

"That we're making?"

"Oh, lighten up."

Several rooms later, Kevin peered into the fog. Where was the stupid item they were looking for? It had to be nearby. It just had to! "You see anything?"

Bolt looked around. "Nope, nothing in-wait, what's that?" He pointed to the corner. Kevin took a few cautious steps to get a closer look. It was bigger than any food item they had ever seen, and it shone brightly as though it contained its own light within. Could it be...? It was!

"We've found it!" he cheered. "The Golden Apple!"

"YAY!" Buneary squealed. "YAHOO! It's a Golden Apple! It's so prettyful!"

Bolt groaned. "Can we please get out of here, like, right now?"

"Thanks for taking me on an adventure!" Buneary happily exclaimed. "You're such an inspiration to me! You're totally the best team ever!"

Bolt's eyes widened. "Crud, I've heard this before..."

"I wanna join Team Tenacity!"

Kevin shifted his weight awkwardly. "Uh, while we appreciate your interest, adding another member is quite a large decision, that shouldn't be made just 'cuz someone wants to join..."

"He means, 'Hell no!'" Bolt helpfully added.

Buneary started tearing up. "You... don't want me?"

Kevin coughed before replying, "Well, we aren't accepting new members at this point in time, so... no."

"... WAHHHHHHHHHHH!" Buneary wailed as she rocketed out of the guild. "You're mean! I want my mommy! My mommy loves me!" Stunned, Kevin and Bolt stood listening to Buneary's blubbering fade into the distance.

Kevin laughed lightly. "Can you believe that she actually wanted to be on an exploration team?"

"She's a little baby," Bolt scoffed. "No chance at even surviving an exploration on her own. I don't like her."

"Wigglytuff acts like that sometimes, and you don't mind."

"She didn't even pay us," Bolt whined, ignoring Kevin's point. "No fair!"

"Hey, at least we got the Golden Apple."

"What do we do with it?"

A silence settled upon the two friends as they realized that they had no idea what a Golden Apple was used for. Finally, Kevin suggested, "Maybe Wigglytuff knows something about this. I mean, since he likes Perfect Apples so much, maybe he knows about these, too."

Decision made, Team Tenacity climbed down to the second floor and entered Wigglytuff's chamber. Wigglytuff looked up as his apprentices came in. "Hi, friends!" he cheerfully greeted. "How did your mission go today?"

"Fine," Kevin replied. "But this weird apple we got from it... we don't know what we should do with it." Wigglytuff stared at the Golden Apple Kevin was carrying.

"Is that a new kind of Perfect Apple?"

"No, it's called a Golden Apple." Kevin's heart sank. Wigglytuff didn't know. "We were hoping that maybe you knew something..."

"Have no fear, friendly friends!" Wigglytuff smiled. "I'll have a quick taste and let you know. Who knows, it might be almost as good as a Perfect Apple!" Kevin shrugged and handed the Golden Apple over.

Wigglytuff looked closely at the apple before grabbing a nearby Iron Thorn (what, you thought they had knifes in this world?) and cutting a small piece. He brought it up to his face, sniffed, and finally put it in his mouth and began chewing. Kevin and Bolt watched Wigglytuff for his reaction. After a few seconds, Wigglytuff gasped and grabbed the whole apple.

"H-hey! What are you doing?" Bolt stammered.

"GOLDEN APPLE!" Wigglytuff screamed, his eyes wild. Before either apprentice could react, Wigglytuff had swallowed the entire thing, stem and all.

"What was that for?" Kevin complained. "That was ours!"

"MORE!" Wigglytuff cried. "Bring more Golden Apples! Go! Perfect Apples shall never again satisfy!"

"We don't have any more!" Bolt gasped, realizing what was going on. "Mew, Wigglytuff, that thing is next to impossible to find; you can't try to replace your stock of Perfect Apples with those..."

"B-but... if I can't have Golden Apples..." Wigglytuff began tearing up. "I... I..."

Kevin started panicking. "What do we do, Bolt?"

Bolt shrugged. "I vote we get out of here."

"Yeah, good idea." Kevin and Bolt turned to flee just as Chatot was entering to see what was going on. They managed to squeeze out, thus leaving Chatot to face the fearsome tears of Wigglytuff all by himself.

Needless to say, after Chatot found out what had happened, the other apprentices were saving some of their dinners for a week.