Fluffy: And so this has been added to a community! Wow! Maybe this will bump up my Fanfiction status a little. Thanks to all you fabulous people willing to stick with an amateur like me. NOTE: Mystery Dungeon locations are completely made up. If I haven't mentioned this before, this is loosely based off of Gates to Infinity, but I haven't played it yet, so I don't know the locations.

Samantha furrowed her brow at the wooden fort-looking building in front of her. A few ragged flags sporting the names of several Team names waved in the gentle breeze. A pole like a winding staircase lead underground.

"Is it just me, or is this place more rickety than I remember?" Pablo asked.

"I'm pretty sure it's just you." Candy replied.

Ashley tensed. "Cover your ears and DUCK!" she yelled suddenly.

Pablo, Victor, and Candy responded immediately and Ashley carried out her own order. Unsure of what to do, Samantha copied. At that moment, a loud voice babbled gibberish, several rings erupted from the hole, and a Minccino and an Emolga flew out, hitting the ground with a loud thump, possibly fracturing their jaws.

"That's three times you've ticked off Master Wigglytuff." Candy muttered.

"Hello, Zeta, Omega." the Minccino murmured.

Everyone stood up. Victor smiled. "Hi, Minaa, Junbii."

The Emolga, possibly Junbii, stood up. "Afternoon, Victor," she said.

"Does Master Wigglytuff usually do that?" Samantha asked.

"Yup." Pablo responded.

Junbii looked at her. "What's your name?" she asked.

"Samantha."

Minaa smiled. "Not sure I've seen you around," she said. "Are you new?"

"Quite new, yes," Victor jumped in, knocking Samantha on the head playfully. "Crash landed into our lives a few hours ago. Literally."

Samantha smiled sheepishly, hoping it didn't look fake. "Skydiving accident."

Candy coughed. "Let's go, please..."

"Oh, be quite Candy." Ashley smirked. "We'll go, if you're itching to do so. Victor, should we ask about you?"

"Please do," Pablo said. He shuddered. "I'm in no mood to face him again."

Victor snorted. "Well, getting on his bad side was your fault."

"Quit rubbing it in!"

"Not trying to!"

As the bickering boys fought, Minaa moved some of the fluff on her wrist to look at a watch.

"Junbii, what time were Sachi and Shadow supposed to come over?" she asked.

Junbii tapped her chin. "Around four, I think."

"Good, we have plenty of time."

"What time is it now?" Samantha asked.

"Roughly two." Minaa replied. "But we'd better get going. Our place is a mess."

Samantha rolled her eyes and extended the vines from her neck. Pablo saw them coming and scrambled away, but Victor wasn't so lucky and was soon hanging in the air by his tail.

"Are you two going to behave, or am I going home and fetching Melodia?" Samantha hissed, wishing she had an s or two to draw out.

"I'm good, thanks," Victor said. "Why am I always your victim?"

Samantha shrugged. "I dunno." She unwrapped his tail and dropped him. Victor stood up and opened and closed his mouth, testing his jaw.

"BOO!"

Samantha jumped and clung to a tree branch above her. Below, Candy was laughing.

"That was mean, Candy...Very, very mean." Samantha moaned.

"You still should have seen the look on your face!" Candy gasped.

Ashley knocked Candy on the head. "She's got a point, Candy. Be nice."

"How is it?" Pablo asked, still cowering behind a bush.

Ashley grinned. "Get this," she said. "Candy and I are going to be patrolling Jasmine Woods for the next three hours or so," she pointed to the fort. "And there's a Shinx who wants to see you."

"Speak of Giritina, here she comes. S'up, Bonnie?" Candy waved at the Shinx.

"Candy, please don't joke. She's distraught." Ashley whacked Candy. "Don't ask me how we're still friends," she added, responding to the weird look Samantha gave her. "I don't know."

Bonnie the Shinx approached Victor shyly. Her eyes were welling with tears.

Candy's right, Samantha thought. What is wrong?

"You have to help me, Team Omega," Bonnie said. "My friend Vulpix is sick, and I can't find a White Stone."

"What happened?" Victor asked.

"We don't know. The warmth in his body started to drain. He's getting colder. The white hot fire of a White Stone will heal him."

Victor narrowed his eyes. "Candy? Ashely? Pablo? Know of any?"

"I might," Candy said. "It's in the Jasmine Forest. It's heavily guarded by several Fire types, but the one you really should look out for is a Magmortar."

"We'll go," Samantha said to Bonnie.

"Right," Pablo joined. "It's our job."

Bonnie smiled weakly. "Thank you..."

Pablo put one flipper in the air dramatically. "Don't worry! Team Omega will soon be a team alpha!"

Pfft, I love Pablo.

Pablo: Well, I am pretty lovable.

HEY! Fun fact: Samantha is loosely based off of me.

Samantha: I am?

Yep.

Victor: Review for Fluffy-Samantha!

Samantha: What the heck's that supposed to mean?!