I was running through a grassy field, filled with daisies and lilies and lilacs. A rainbow rested near a river, which bubbled quietly to itself. I thought I was the only one but in the distance stood a snowy mountain and a Pokémon stood in front of the mountain.

"Hello?" I called. "Are you okay?"

The Pokémon doesn't answer. She simply walked away.

"Wait! Come back!" I started running toward it but I can't seem to reach the mountain. The farther I ran toward it the farther it got.

I awoke to the sound of Char snoring in front of the mailbox. Squirt laughed as he walked toward me.

"What's he doing?" I asked, still groggy.

"He was so excited he couldn't sleep. He must be waiting for our starter kit."

I stretched as I stood. Surprisingly, the ground was comfortable.

There was a flap, flap sound. A peliper landed on the mailbox and popped something in the mailbox then flew off without a word.

"They aren't really talkative are they?"

Squirt shook his head. "Not really. They just focus on delivering the mail." He headed toward the mailbox, carefully stepping around Char, and pulled a box from the mailbox. He opened it.

I walked to Squirt.

Squirt threw a scarf at Char and looked at me. "Well you probably don't need a Pecha Scarf," he mulled aloud. "But it's still pretty stylish." He helped put it on anyway and on the front is a white badge. "Wonder what Char put our team name as."

As if he sensed his name being said, Char woke up. "What?" He jumped seeing the box in Squirts hand. "Is that our starter kit? When did it get here? And why didn't you wake me?!"

Squirt put on his pecha scarf as he said, "You didn't get any sleep so I let you sleep. So what's are team name?"

Char started to go through the starter kit, not that there was a lot to go threw by this point. "We are officially Rescue Team Blue!"

I looked at him. "Blue? Why blue?"

Char shrugged. His scarf looked bright against his orange body. "I couldn't think of anything else. And blue is my favorite color. How do I look?" He twirled a few times.

I laughed. "You look good, Char."

He grinned and gave me a thumb up in a little-kid way, "Yeah I do! When am I not stylish?"

"When you're up against a pokémon bigger than you." Squirt said hotly. "How do I look, Linda?"

"You guys look fine." They were worse than girls. "I don't think looks matter on missions. We're going to dirty up everything in the end so what's it matter how we look?"

They gave me surprised expressions, the type of expression to give someone who hasn't heard of a popular movie or song. It's the type of expression that made me want to punch them…if I had a fist I probably would.

"Looks are just as important as your team background. Take Charizard, for example, he maintains his tough appearance with that gold team badge of his. I mean, who would hire him if he looked all dirty or grimy?"

"Who's Charizard?"

They gave me the same expression. I glared at him. Suddenly a vine appeared from what seemed to be behind me and slapped him for me.

Squirt's expression changed to a true surprised expression. "You didn't have to hit him."

I was just as surprised as he was. "I didn't mean to…" I admitted.

Char rubbed his face. "Yeah, sure you didn't." He walked off without saying anything more. Squirt and I followed closed behind.

The dirt road soon turned to stone as we entered a plaza. "Welcome to Pokémon square!" Squirt announced cheerily. He didn't pay any mind to Char walking away without us. "This is where you can store money, store items we may pick up during our missions and buy things. Well, I guess that was kind of obvious by how everything looked." He grinned. "Feel free to go converse. We'll meet up back at our headquarters." He walked away.

I looked around. Who would I talk to? Everyone seemed to be in their own little groups of three. Four Pokémon in a group would be too much. Everyone talked too low for anyone to eavesdrop. I made up their conversations by the expressions they made. Doing this felt familiar. Except the setting would be different, I would imagine. I'd be human for starters.

Finally, I walked back to the house, humming softly along the way for entertainment.

Under my feet was soft, solid dirt that suddenly moved. It knocked me off my feet and into other traveling pokémon. The earthquake lasted no more than a minute and just went away.

Pokémon around me started getting up, dusting themselves off and went on their way. I did the same and turned to the pokémon I ran into. "Sorry about that."

The magnate-looking pokémon shook the dirt off of himself. If he had a mouth he would have smiled at me as he spoke, "It's fine. The earthquakes have been getting worse. Soon nobody will stay on their feet."

I looked below him, puzzled. How does this pokémon stay up? I decided not to bring it up. "Are you going into town?"

"Yes, I'm going to the peliper post office."

"I didn't see that in the square."

"That's because it's not inside the square…It's more on the outside of it."

"Oh…" I suddenly felt stupid.

"Hey Linda!" Char's voice echoed from the Town Square. The Magnimite went on his way. "Did you feel that earthquake?"

"Yeah. It was bigger than the one from yesterday."

"Do you know what this means?" I opened my mouth to answer but Squirt interrupted me. "This means more pokémon in trouble! Which means we can go rescue them all!"

"I think you have your sights set too high, Squirt. But you do have a point. There will be more job opportunities for us." Which means a more likely chance that I'll meet someone who knows what's going on.

We slowly headed home.