The Pokemon Mystery Dungeon series of games are owned by Gamefreak and Nintendo and are not my property.
I own 2 OCs in this, that being the main character Pokemon in the Time, Darkness, Sky games and their partner. Their names will be Trish the Vulpix and Maxi the Mawile and the story will be told by Trish's POV.
If I add any new OCs, I will introduce them with their names in bold.
With this out of the way, let's begin.

Chapter 4

When we woke up from Loudred the next morning and after the roll call, Chatot called us over and smiled at us. "Now for you two to know the next level of the exploration team's line of work. Follow me," Chatot said as he led us to the ladder and instead of going to the Job bulletin board on the left, we went to the board on the right. "Wait... is this board different than the other one?" I asked aloud. "How very astute of you, Trish! Indeed, this bulletin board is different. You see the different jobs on them? What's different between the job bulletin board and this one?" Chatot asked with a smile. I then noticed one thing about them as did Maxi.

"Yeah, there are pictures of Pokemon on them! Who are they, Chatot?" Maxi asked. "These Pokemon are outlaws. Pokemon that break the law and have bounties on their heads," Chatot explained, which made Maxi's eyes go wide. "O-Outlaws? We're going to be fighting o-outlaws?" Maxi gulped loudly. "Yes, but don't worry, we aren't going to give you the worst of the bunch right away. We're going to have you get prepared first and then you can choose which one you wish to take out. In fact, I'll have one of your fellow members show you around... Bidoof! Oh Bidoof?" Chatot called out.

"Comin'," a country-like voice said as he appeared from the bottom area and looked tired out from the climb. "Hah... you called?" the Bidoof asked. "Yes, Bidoof. These two are your new junior members. I would like it if you could show them around the place, introduce them to the other members, and then take them to Treasure Town in order for them to prepare for their first job from the Outlaw Board," Chatot explained. "By golly, I'll do just that!" Bidoof smiled. "Good. I trust you, Bidoof," Chatot smiled as he went back down and we were left with Bidoof, who looked to be crying a bit.

"Golly... I-I'm overjoyed..." Bidoof sniffled a bit. "Why's that?" I asked with a smile. "I-I'm so happy to have members junior to me... before ya'll came along, I was the most recent rookie... my wish got granted..." he smiled the last bit with a whisper. I decided to not ask the last bit as he quickly recovered. "Well, as you know, I am Bidoof. Now I'll introduce you to the other guild members," Bidoof smiled as we all climbed down the ladder and he began to introduce us to the different members we hadn't met yet.

"This is Sunflora. She's very sweet and she is a skilled explorer," Bidoof smiled. "Oh my gosh, you flatter me too well, Bidoof," Sunflora smiled with a giggle and a blush. "This is Crogunk, and he's uh... very into this cauldron," Bidoof frowned. "Mehehe! I'm preparing it for a special service," Crogunk smiled with his own laugh. "You've already met Diglett, myself, Chatot, Loudred, Chimecho, and Wigglytuff, so the only ones left are Corphish and Dugtrio... but they are doing their own jobs right now with Corphish updating the maps and Dugtrio trying to update the systems. So how about we go off to Treasure town, yup yup?" Bidoof smiled. "Sure, that would be great," I smiled, knowing that I needed to know my way around town if I wanted to stay here and learn as much about this place as I could. After all, I needed to be familiar with my surroundings first before I recovered my memory.

Bidoof then led us out of the guild through the top and down the hill. Instead of going east to the outside world, we traveled west to a bustling town, which looked to be full of different Pokemon with smiles all around. "This is Treasure Town, a bustling place full of Pokemon and tons of different places to shop at," Bidoof smiled. "Oh, I can tell you about the shops. I've lived here for awhile," Maxi smiled. "That shop manned by Duskull is the bank. He can keep your Poke Dollars safe if you happen to venture into a Mystery Dungeon... that shop to the left of it is Electivire's link shop, where you can link moves... but he doesn't seem to be here right now," Maxi said as she then motioned across the bridge. "Over there is Kangaskhan Storage, where you can store items and important stuff for future use... and the shop to the right of it is the Kecleon brothers' market, where you can buy and sell items that are in stock... and that is about it," Maxi smiled. "Well, well, that makes it easier on me, yes sirree," Bidoof smiled. "Well, I think I'll leave you to traverse Treasure Town on your own. I suggest stopping by Kecleon Market before coming back to meet me at the Outlaw Board," Bidoof smiled as he went back to the guild from the way we came.

"Well, what do you say we go to the market quickly?" I smiled at Maxi. "Of course," she smiled at me as we walked our way across the bridge and to the Kecleon Market, where we met two different Kecleon with different colors on them. "Hello there," Maxi smiled. "Hello there, Maxina. Welcome to Kecleon Market. You want to buy something?" the green Kecleon asked with a smile. "Ugh... yes, we'd like to buy something," Maxi groaned a bit at the name, which I could tell made her upset. "Oh, apologies... I keep forgetting you don't like your true name... well, what would you like to buy, Maxi? And who is your new friend?" the Kecleon asked with a smile.

"My name is Trish... I'm new here because... I woke up on the beach and... I can't remember anything except my name," I frowned. "Well that's terrible. But I hope that you get it back," the purple Kecleon said as Maxi saw the wares and handed over some money to buy a singular reviver seed, which I knew would come in handy for some reason. "Reviver seeds are a miracle when exploring dungeons. If you end up fainting when one is on you, it will use some magic to revive you completely at the cost of it turning into a plain seed afterwards," Maxi explained happily. "Sounds very useful... like, the more we have, the better the chances we'd survive getting through a dungeon," I smiled widely.

But then some little blue Pokemon came up from across the bridge as Maxi finished her purchase. "Misters Kecleon," the duo smiled together, both of them looking incredibly cute and somewhat similar. One of them was a little tiny blue sphere that bounced around on his tail, which at the end looked to be a ball that was as big as him. And the other was a bigger sphere with light blue coloring and a white underbelly. Both of them also had black noses, small, round ears, and the bigger sphere had arms whereas the littler one didn't.

"Ah, Marill and Azurill brothers, what have you come to buy today?" Kecleon smiled. "Can we please buy an apple?" Marill asked with a smile. "But of course," Kecleon smiled as the exchange happened and I saw that Kecleon slipped them an extra apple. "Thanks Misters Kecleon," Azurill and Marill smiled. "Think nothing of it, little ones," Kecleon smiled as the duo left with smiles. "You see, those two are brothers. Their mother has fallen ill lately, so they go and do the shopping for her. I find it quite pleasing to see them taking the helm like that," Kecleon purple smiled. But then they returned. "Misters Kecleon!" they exclaimed as they rushed back. "Oh? What is it?" Kecleon green asked. "There was an extra apple... we didn't pay for this many," Marill said with a smile. "Oh, well that is a gift to you two. Please share it amongst yourselves," the Kecleon brothers smiled. "R-Really?! Thank you Misters Kecleon!" the duo smiled as they tried to walk away, but the Azurill tripped and dropped his apple.

I managed to stop it from rolling away and Azurill got up and came over to me. "Here you go," I smiled at him as I handed him back the apple. "Sorry to trouble you, miss," Azurill smiled... but then I felt something happen. A sudden dizzy flash. And then something happened. Pure blackness, followed by a big loud flash of light... then I heard one word. "H-H-HELP!" I heard AZURILL scream! But then, I suddenly woke up, gasping awake and looking like a crazy person when I did so. "Um... is something wrong?" Azurill asked. But before I could ask him anything, Marill called him over to the other side of the bridge and they started to walk away. "Uh... are you okay, Trish? You suddenly blacked out for a split second, then gasped loudly afterwards," Maxi asked sincerely.

I then looked to Maxi with a frown, wondering if she'd believe me. "D-Did any of you hear a shout for help?" I asked, wondering if any witnesses were around. "No, I didn't hear anything," Kecleon green frowned. "Neither did I," his brother frowned. "Same here," said the nearby Kangaskhan. "It seemed that it happened the moment you touched the apple and handed it to Azurill, you blacking out, I mean... and you say that, while you were blacked out, you heard a cry for help?" Maxi asked. "Yeah... kind of... and for some reason, it sounded an awful lot like Azurill's... I don't know why, but I feel something bad may happen to him..." I said with a sigh as we then crossed the bridge and we saw the two brothers speaking to another Pokemon, this one being a yellow and brown Pokemon that had a long nose and a droopy expression.

"Um... hi," I said to them. "Oh, it's you guys again," Marill smiled at us. "What were you talking about? And who is this guy?" I asked. "Well, sometime ago, we lost an item very important to us, and we've searched everywhere for a replacement, but we couldn't find one at all... but then Mister Drowzee here offered to help us look for it," Marill explained. "Sounds great! We need more good Pokemon like you, Drowzee," Maxi smiled. "Well then, shall we get going?" Drowzee asked with a smile. "Okay!" the brothers smiled as Drowzee accidentally bumped into me. "Oops, excuse me," he said as he began to walk away... but then it started to happen again... I felt extremely dizzy and then it faded to black, followed by a bright light, and then I saw a dream.

In my dream, Drowzee and Azurill seemed to be in a mountainous region and Azurill looked absolutely terrified while Drowzee looked angry. "If you don't do as I say, then it will mean big trouble for you!" Drowzee threatened, followed by something that I heard before. "H-H-HELP!" Azurill screamed, the dream ending right there, and me gasping awake once again. "W-Whoa! A-Are you okay, Trish?!" Maxi asked as she helped me up when I fell down. I was shivering when I saw that dream... I just had to tell it to Maxi. "Maxi... I need to tell you something... I had a dream this time..." I said to her. "What did you see?" Maxi asked.

And after I explained myself to her, Maxi looked extremely worried, but also looked perplexed. "You think we should go and rescue Azurill right away?... But... Drowzee seemed so nice... but you say that Azurill in this dream sounded the exact same with his cry for help as he did with the first dizzy spell?" Maxi asked. "Exactly the same. No doubt in my mind. Drowzee may have looked trustworthy, but the dream painted him like he was going to hurt a little kid," I frowned. "Ah, I believe that I have heard of these kinds of things before, heehee," said the nearby voice of Duskull, which made us look at him with intrigue. "Really?" I asked. "Indeed... there are very few instances of it... but there are Pokemon out there that can see visions of either the future or the past by touching an item correlating to the event. It doesn't happen all the time, mostly at random, but it sounds exactly what you are talking about," Duskull explained, which made Maxi look incredibly worried. "Um... then I think that Azurill may be in trouble! You may be right, Trish! We need to save Azurill!" Maxi exclaimed. "First we need to tell Bidoof that we have decided our target and then go after him," I said to Maxi. "Okay, that sounds like a good plan. Besides, if we rush, they may not get too far!" Maxi said as we immediately rushed for the guild.