A/N Well I might as well get this first chapter out of the way while TYS is in waiting, maybe I should put certain days for updates...who knows? Well Summer is here, so I can be a bit more allowable, but jeez, looking back at the original PMD Forever's Travels made me cringe with the spelling mistakes and rushed story, how much I'm grown in like, less than a year O_O. Well, might as well give you a better version of that story. Also, yes, I am still using UnholyPen's characters, he has given me permission to use them, and on top of that, he's pretty busy, having his own stories to work on and a lot less free time then he would want. So you won't hear from him much unless he updates one of his stories, and seriously, this guy makes 10,000 words per chapter on his story O_O it's great stuff, but just be warned that his chapters are pretty long. Well I yapped on a bit to long, might as well begin this remake.


'A new Pokemon Mystery Dungeon game?' Arthur thought to himself as he walked around the game aisles when something caught his eye in the store. He checked, looking around for it's price tag and went to put it back, finding none, only for it to appear on other shelves in the store. He sighed, wondering if someone was pranking him. He returned to his mom, bringing the game with.

"Hey mom, can we get this?" Arthur held up the game, but she didn't seem to be looking at it, but past it.

"Get what?" His mom replied. He looked at the game again, confused.

"Oh well, guess nothing." Arthur said, slightly confused, but annoyed of being looked at weirdly. After they got everything and were putting the groceries on the counter, he put the game up there alongside it. They seemed to not even notice it, so he just left it there. 'Good riddance.' He thought, thinking that now the prank was over. How wrong he was. The game was there, middle of a bag, when he got home. He just put it up on a shelf, forgetting about that annoying prank.

He turned on his New 3ds XL, hoping to play some more of Kirby Triple Deluxe, but it didn't seem to be in the game, but that weird Pokemon Mystery Dungeon game was in. He had some red flags come up. 'Am I playing a haunted game!?' He thought, and went to play one of his multiple downloaded games, but it refused to move other than on the PMD game. He was getting scared. 'I-I have a laptop, I don't need to play my New 3ds right now!' He thought to himself, turning the 3ds off and getting on his laptop. Plugging the battery in, but the 3ds came on instead of the laptop, all the laptop had was a picture of the game case.

"Okay, this is becoming creepypasta levels of creepy, do you please mind!" Arthur said out loud to no one in particular as he got an answer.

"Play the game." The laptop begun to type on it's own.

"Okay, I'm just going to read a book...this shit is getting scary..." Arthur decided, not wanting to play the game even more now than before.

"If you don't play the game, we will kill your family, one by one. Play the game." The text said, pictures of him and his family surrounding it.

Silence surrounded him, before fear woke up inside of him. Tears came one by one, he had to play the game. But he could just put it down after that...right?

He turned it on.

And fell into an abyss.


"Ugh..." Arthur groaned, waking up slowly, he went to scratch his head, but noticed something. 'WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO MY HEAD AND HANDS!?' Arthur thought, looking at the fact that he was transformed. He had become a Charmeleon.

He seemed to be standing in a red light, but nothing rang out. No voice, no nothing. He seemed to be trapped in this cage, unable to explore past the red light.

He walked around the cage, slept, and walked some more. It seemed like days past him by as he still heard nothing signaling any sign of release. He was the first of the victims.

Every now and then, coal was thrown in the light from outside and he hungrily ate it up, hunger getting the best of him as he failed to question why. He was an animal in a cage and he knew it.

Weeks seemed to past as he started losing himself. Using his hands as sock puppets, making little stories with them to past the time that never seemed to end. He stopped eating the coal, no longer willing to live. He thought about his family, and how they would react. Making the story with his hands, it kept him busy.

Soon, another light appeared right outside the cage, yellow. He felt sad for the poor soul trapped with him, but, what could he have done. He continued his story before a whip came out and hit him. He looked around in confusion. The hell!?

"GET UP!" A voice yelled out on him. "NOW YOU'RE THE LEADER OF THIS PLACE! SO SUCK IT UP, AND DO YOUR JOB!" The voice yelled at him. "WE'RE READY IN 5, 4, 3..." The voice counted down as a Pikachu appeared, and the cage forcing me to sit up right. I couldn't say a word, trapped in my own body as they held me upright.

Soon, it went to black for me one last time.


I looked around, seeing that I was stuck in a yellow cage. But at least someone was...The hell? I looked down, seeing that my hands were much different, becoming tiny little hands, like a Pikachu. Odd, but there was a Charmeleon over there. I tried to wave my hand hello, but the Charmeleon failed to respond. I was weirded out, he seemed like someone who would wave back, but then again, his body was too perfectly straight up, like a puppet on a tight string. He sighed, wondering how long they would be trapped in here. So he sat down. Patiently awaiting the next one to fall down here.


He wasn't the best kid, but no one was. In his neighborhood, you had to fight to just live another day. He was checking the Flea market, which in that neighborhood, was code for Gun Store, but less legal. He saw the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Forever Travels game, and figured he'll pick it up. He put it down.

"What are you doing? Handing me nothing!? What, you going to pay in invisible cash!?" The clerk yelled at him, angry that he put seemingly nothing down, he shrugged, used to the yelling, and put the game in his pocket, instead putting down the Glock model 27 and ammo for the gun. He brought out the cash and the transaction never happened. He put the gun and ammo on his belt, putting his shirt over it and loaded the gun as he went home.

*BANG!* Gunshots roared out close by, he kept an arm on his gun, but did nothing. The police were going after civilians again. He sighed, getting his gun out and going in cover. He wasn't going to be able to get home with these police on the block. He shot the wall behind him, making the police think it was from a different angle than what it really was and walked away, staying in cover as he slipped into an alley, covered in the darkness, he made his way out towards his house, but had to slip back into the alley as the police were patrolling all of the streets, just waiting to find anyone stupid enough to walk out on the street. No one regulated these police officers and they don't get paid that much, so they took it out on anyone in the streets. Which caused markets like Joe's Market, the Flea Market he was just in, to get crazy amounts of money from people having to stock up on arms to defend themselves with. Many went with assault rifles, but the smart ones went for Pistols, avoid to much attention. Thankfully someone grabbed an assault rifle and went crazy with it, leading them away from everyone. The guy slipped into an alley and got away, as everyone still out went back home, including Phil. Phil hated having to keep his gun on hand, but the alternate was so much worse.

He slipped inside his home, happy to hear the plates breaking on the ground and his parents attacking each other again. He quietly went upstairs and locked his door silently. He sat down on his bed, putting his gun and ammo on his table and getting his DSi out, putting the game inside, he noticed something was off. It seemed to be taking a long time to load, and he shrugged, having time on his hands.

"Do you wish to escape YES NO" A dialog box appeared, he looked around, but didn't press A. Escape? From where?

"Do you wish to escape from this reality YES NO" The dialog box changed, great, it was hearing his thoughts. Well, yeah, he could care less about this world, why would he? His father abused him and his mother and his mother had psychotic breaks, even going as far to almost...He shuddered, not wanting to finish the thought. he pressed A on YES.

"Good. Almost thought we would have to force you like the last one." The dialog box appeared quickly, before the world went to black.


He sighed, remembering how he got here. He wondered how long it would take, but he pitied the Charmeleon. He was forced here against his will, and most likely broke down, causing them to take control. He shuddered, wondering what would happen, but soon found out.

A brain came from above the Charmeleon's head, as his brain was taken out, and the other one put in. Phil's eyes widened at the sight. Even in his world no one went this far. His brain was taken away to god knows where as the Charmeleon blinked, before going through several emotions as a test.

"Hi!" The Charmeleon called out to him. What the hell was he to do!? THIS GUY LITERALLY HAD HIS BRAIN REMOVED!

"Hi?" Phil played along, not knowing what he could do to even bring that into conversation. I mean, seriously, try bringing up, 'Hey your brain just got replaced, so how are you feeling?' Into a conversation, like seriously.

"So how are you today?" The voice seemed nearly robotic, but human at the same time, what was up with this guy!? How long was he trapped in here!?

"G-Good." Phil stuttered, flinching as a result of it, then he remembered that his dad wasn't there to punish him and he sighed in relief. Maybe there was something he could do about this.

More lights appeared, blue, and white. But that was enough for Phil, he had enough with this crazy day and instead, went to sleep.


A/N

O_O OKAY CAN SOMEONE TELL ME WHEN THAT STORY GOT THIS DARK!? CAUSE I DON'T REMEMBER THAT BEING IN THE JOB DESCRIPTION! Seriously, police brutality, kidnapping into a lobotomy into a FULL BRAIN TRANSPLANT, and seriously. You wanted Arthur's backstory. Did you REALLY want to know that was what happened!? Remember, he is trapped in here waiting for the others, it took 2 months for Grov to get there, and 2 and a half weeks for Pika. Think Arthur isn't going to break in that time? Well...hope you got what you wanted in this remake...*Shudders* Well next up is Eve and Spencer's backstory again, but it explains more of Spencer's this time around and leads better into Eve's reaction. Remember, only 3 are terrified of this place. Pika, for what happened to Arthur, Eve, over what happened to Spencer, and Grov, for what happened to Civ. Arthur is basically dead by this point, his original personality and memories being destroyed, and being replaced, and Phil(Pika) is now scared for life. Who knows how dark this story goes. Welp that's enough for this chapter. Hope you don't get to terrified of this story like I am for making it!