"Wait, so I'm being left behind!" Quill said in outrage after Electivire gave them all their missions.

"I'm afraid so." Electivire said. "The client was really specific. He wants a Normal and a Fighting type pokemon to escort him. It seems a little strange that he would request both of those types in particular, so it's best that you take a Ghost Type with you too. A Ghost type is weakest against dark types, but if the one you're escorting is a Dark type Aamira will have an advantage. And if that Dark type happens to fly, Glameow knows Thunderbolt."

"When did you learn Thunderbolt?" Aamira asked Glameow.

"I learned it a while ago using a TM. I didn't know that so much training went into it though. I was so tired after that… I have dreams sometimes when I get the chance to use it on Honchkrow."

Aamira laughed. To her, that sounded like a pretty good dream.

"But does Gengar really have to go?" Quill said. "Why can't I?"

"The mission is to find the Gold Chamber." Electivire said calmly.

"THE GOLD CHAMBER!" All of them shouted at the same time at the top of their lungs. The Gold Chamber was one of the biggest mysteries that mystery dungeons had to offer. One day it would be in one dungeon, the next it wouldn't. It seemed to move around from dungeon to dungeon. But that wasn't the mysterious part. The Gold Chamber was apparently a very large room. It was said to have a treasure in the center of it, but it was protected by dangerous waterways and thick walls so no one's even seen what the treasure is yet. Since Gengar happened to be a Ghost type, he'd be able to get through the walls and get the treasure.

"I see now…" Quill said sadly. "Well… that's too bad, I guess. But you'll all bring the treasure you find back for me to see, won't you!"

"Of course!" Aamira said. "If our client doesn't want it, you can even keep the treasure if you want."

"Wow! Cool!" Quill said. "I really wish I could see the Gold Chamber for myself, but oh well."

"Yea, you can relax today, Quill." Electivire said. "There's nothing else that needs to be done."

Team Sleuth split up. Their client was waiting for them outside. Quill watched them leave and went back up stairs to get a few more minutes of sleep before something else happened that would make him leap into action.

"What about our mission?" Roy ran up to Electivire with Sandshrew following close behind.

"Ah, yes. Team Sandstone." Electivire said. "I've got an important mission for you two to do."

"But you just told Quill there wasn't anything else that needs to be done." Sandshrew said.

"I'm impressed that you heard that from so far away." Electivire said. "This is a mission Quill's already done before, so I thought I'd give it to you two as your initiation mission. A few days ago Rolland, a thieving Mime Jr. was released from prison for good behavior. But since then more crimes have started."

"So he's at it again?" Sandshrew asked.

"But… couldn't someone maybe be using his criminal record to commit crimes so everyone would think it was Rolland?" Roy asked uncertainly.

"Yes, that's what the king and queen thought. So we need the two of you to head over there to figure out which one of them is the real thief. Basically it's just starting all over again with how this originally played out. Frustrating, isn't it? And I'm afraid the tricks Team Sleuth used last time might not work this time."

"So that's why you want someone else to do it this time." Sandshrew said. "A new team with all new tactics."

When the two of them were ready, they headed out to Jester Village all the way in Sylva where their mission would take place. They reached the village by the next morning. The guards let them into the castle after they showed them their Aura Glasses. The king and queen were waiting for them.

"Another Riolu?" Queen Bella asked. "Well seeing as how that other one was so reliable… I suppose it couldn't hurt if another one were to try."

"Actually, I think something like this would be better left for my brother Sandshrew to decide." Roy said. "Sandshrew's better at this sort of thing than I am."

"Right. You narrow them down with riddles and I'll be able to figure out which Mime Jr. is the real thief!" Sandshrew said.

"As, such teamwork!" King Leef said. "That's what I like to see. This time you got lucky. We were able to narrow it down to five Mime Jr. instead of the nine from last time."

"Well that's good, seeing as how we can't use the same riddles as last time." Roy said.

The five Mime Jr. were led out by some of the guards. To their amazement one of them was Aamira and Quill's friend Tal. They had taken up a habit, though not necessarily a good one, of staying up late and talking about investigations they had been on in the past. Somewhere along the line, their mission in the Jester Village had come up and they mentioned Tal.

"Tal's a suspect?" Roy asked.

"Which one's Tal?" Sandshrew asked his brother.

"The one on the far right." Roy thought for a minute then added hastily, "The one with the hat."

"These five have all been acting somewhat suspicious lately." Leef said. "Each of them has been missing practice for their groups for either one reason or another. It's a bit different than how we narrowed them down last time, but these five are the only ones it can be. All five of them missed their last practice session and each of the practice sessions happened at the same time and during the last robbery. I hope that helps."

"Strange, isn't it?" Mr. Mime asked the two of them. "The second from the right and the one in the middle are Jake and Rolland, the two last suspects from the last time. There's also Adam, on the far left and Rob, who's second from the left."

Roy wrote all of this down so he wouldn't get them mixed up. "Okay, that at least gives us somewhere to start. There can only be one liar, right? Since there are five suspects this might just work…" He started with questioning Adam. "Where were you during the last practice session?"

"I was at home helping my mom." Adam said. "She recently got sick and I was taking care of her."

"Adam's telling the truth." Rob said. "I ran to the store to buy some more props. All of ours mysteriously vanished. That's why I wasn't at practice. I saw Adam there buying some Oran and Pecha Berries."

Roy wrote this down also. "Alright, then where were you, Jake?"

"I was in the area where the last robbery happened…" Jake said guiltily. "But I didn't do it. Lots of Mime Jr. saw me there. I just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time."

"He's telling the truth." Tal said. "I was in the area too, talking with one of my friends."

"You mean your girlfriend, Julie, don't you?" Rolland asked.

"Okay, so where were you?" Roy asked Rolland.

"I was with there with Jake." Rolland said. "A lot of people saw me."

"Wait, isn't Rolland a liar?" Sandshrew asked. "So that would mean he wasn't there at all."

"Oh, I hadn't thought of that." Roy said.

"Heh, sorry." Rolland said. "I've tried to stop, but lying is just what I do best. It's my talent."

"So that would leave Tal and Jake." Roy said. "So Sandshrew, can you figure out which one it was?"

"It's Jake." Sandshrew said.

"That's right." Jake said. "It was all me. And unlike Rolland, I can only speak truthfully!"

"Well that was easy." Roy said. "But didn't he really lie? Or was he lying then? Oh this is so confusing for me…"

"Of course if it was him he'd have to admit to it since he tells the truth." Sandshrew said. All the Mime Jr. joined Roy and Sandshrew to separate themselves from Jake. But Rolland decided to stay there for some reason.

"But what if I were to say, it wasn't me? No way!" Rolland said.

Roy and Sandshrew looked between the two Mime Jr.

"But if Rolland is a liar, That would mean it would be him. But if he really is trying to tell the truth, it's not him at all." Roy looked as if he was about to have a panic attack. Aamira had mentioned this being somewhat fun, but he couldn't imagine it.

"My brother's so strange." Jake said suddenly. "It was him that did it, surely not me!"

"But it was you, my brother!" Rolland retorted. "Because truth and lies have already been sorted!"

"My brother's words are true." Jake frowned. "Or are they? It was me that did it, but earlier, what did I say?"

"Jake is so strange." Rolland said. "He didn't do it, so why drag this out? Look at him; he's actually starting to pout!"

"They're rhyming…" Sandshrew pointed out. "But this would mean… If jakes telling the truth, but Rolland tells lies…"

Sandshrew and Roy looked at each other. "They're both thieves!"

"Yes 'tis true!" They both said at once. "But truthfully, we're not impressed by you!" The two of them spun around each other so fast it made Roy and Sandshrew dizzy. "We have tricked you can't you see? Two brothers who rhyme and one perfect crime. But we've devised another scheme; steal the throne from the king and queen!"

Team Sandstone and the other Mime Jr. looked at the two of them in shock.

The two of them spun around each other again. "Truth and lies are now at an end, for your efforts we greatly commend. We'll turn ourselves in if you can answer us this; which one of us played the original tricks?"

"What do you think they mean by that?" Sandshrew asked Roy. There was a strange gleam in Rolland and Jake's eyes.

"I think they mean which one was captured last time." Roy said. "Which means it would be Rolland…" Roy looked between the two. "Oh no. All of that spinning around got them all mixed up. And they said they weren't going to go by their original truth and lie routine. Which means we have no way of knowing who's who because we weren't paying attention to the ways they were spinning."

Sandshrew pointed to the one on the left. "It's you, Rolland! I was paying attention."

"What?" Rolland and Jake both looked at Sandshrew in surprise. "You must have cheated!"

"This stinks." Jake said. "I can't even rhyme after that let down."

"No one's ever been able to win our game before. And I feel the same way you do, my brother." Rolland said.

"But wait, my brother, I know what it is. We asked them too quickly to figure it out. We give you 'till tonight."

Both of them started talking at the same time in rhymes again. "In that time we will commit no crime. If in a few hours you can tell who's who, instead of turning ourselves in, we'll join you!"

"You mean join Team Sandstone?" Sandshrew asked. "It might be good to have someone like you two on our team, I have to admit. Ex criminals could probably help us solve other cases like this."

"For now we're sorry we have to go." Both of them said. "But your time starts now." Rolland pulled out a remote with a button on it "So on with the show! And we can assure you it will be us who wins because you can't stop the Trickster Twins!"

Jake pushed the button that Rolland was still holding and a pitfall opened up under Roy, Sandshrew, and the three remaining Mime Jr.

Rolland had run off already but Jake waited for a minute. "You two are lucky, I hope you know that. But for now, so long you sandy little rat!" Jake ran off after his brother before anyone could stop him.

Roy, Sandshrew, and the three Mime Jr. all pulled themselves out of the pitfall.

"Who knew?" Mr. Mime said to them. "Twins are unusual for Mime Jr, but I had no idea that those two were brothers, yet it's my job to know everyone here."

"For now at least, it looks like we're in the clear." Tall groaned and slapped his forehead. "This rhyming this is contagious I think. Someone stop me if I do it again."

"He called me a rat…" Sandshrew said gloomily. "Big brother, can you believe that?"

"Please! Stop!" Tal said.

"But what I can't believe is that Team Sleuth actually made a mistake the last time…" Roy said. "I've always looked up to them; it's so hard to believe."

"They didn't make a mistake." Tal said. "It was my fault, you see. I can still remember how it happened so clearly." Tal shouted out in frustration. The other Mime Jr. all laughed at him. "Anyway, I remember when Rolland and Jake were the two remaining suspects. Someone actually asked if it was possible for there to be more than one thief. Aamira later said that she wondered whether it would be possible for there to be more than one thief because we all look alike, but she was confident because of Wurmple that one of them was a liar and that liar was a thief. That's why it's my fault. I convinced them that the thief had to be a liar so they thought it was only Rolland. I hadn't thought that a thief could tell the truth too."

"There's something else too that I just realized." Mr. Mime said. "After they had been narrowed down to Jake and Rolland, Aamira said that by now the one telling the truth knew who the thief was. The two of them each pointed to the other and said 'it's him'. That's how they tricked us. Jake was telling the truth because Rolland really was a thief, but Rolland was still lying because Jake wasn't the ONLY thief. They used a half-truth paradox so only one of them would be found guilty. It's almost amazing how they were looking out for each other to make sure one of them got away. So now at least we know the game that they play." Mr. Mime covered his mouth. "I did it again!"

"There's something else though." Roy said. "Since they said they weren't going to use their usual truth and lie trick anymore, we can't use that to figure out who's who."

"Sorry to interrupt." Bella said. "But isn't it possible for Riolu to sense aura?"

"They were both the same." Roy said. "I couldn't tell them apart to save my life."

"But I could tell them apart." Sandshrew said. "I think it's because of my secret though, so…"

"Sandshrew, I don't care what people would say if they knew your secret; you're the most credible pokemon I know and nothing could change that." Roy smiled at his brother.

Sandshrew looked at the ground. "Maybe that's what he meant. Before running off Jake shouted down at us saying that we were lucky…"

"What do you mean?" Roy asked.

"They want to be told apart. But they don't want to be different either. They both love their brother too much. They said we were lucky because we're a Riolu and Sandshrew and anyone could easily tell us apart. They're jealous I think because they're so much alike but at the same time they want to be alike."

"You think so?" Roy asked sadly. It seemed confusing, but he could tell that these two brothers were probably inseparable most of the time.

"I can't take it any more, brother." Jake said to Rolland later on. Both were sitting outside the city on a rock by a lake. "Why can't anyone tell us apart? When we were committing crimes surely they would have noticed something then…"

"But they didn't." Rolland reminded him. "If that Sandshrew can win our game again we won't make it that easy. He'll have to give us a reason as to how he knew."

"I hope he does figure it out. Either people can't accept us as twins or they can't tell us apart. I hate it." Jake picked up a rock and threw it angrily into the lake. "And you remember that Aamira and Quill? They're not even brother and sister and they still see each other that way! That's just adding insult to injury if you ask me…"

"If you ask me, they might have it worse." Rolland said.

"What? You don't believe that old rumor, do you?"

"They act like they're truly brother and sister, so actually, I do." Rolland laughed. "Look at us; we're even starting to rhyme absentmindedly. You know, I won't even care anymore if they can't figure it out. We exist as one entity, the Trickster Twins, and at the same time we're still Jake and Rolland; two separate entities."

"Yea, what's wrong with living that way?" But Jake looked into the water of the lake uncertainly.

Night had fallen a while ago. Team Sandstone was waiting for the Trickster Twins to come back like they said they would. The other Mime Jr. had all decided to wait there too. They all wanted to see how this would play out and guard over the king and queen in addition to their regular guards while they were there.

The Trickster Twins came back like they said they would. Sandshrew got up and walked towards them. Both of them crossed their arms and they stood in front of Sandshrew.

"We'll start our game now." One of them said.

"Only this time there's a bit of a twist."

"Now you won't be told who's who before hand."

"And besides that you also have to give an explanation as to why you think we are who we are."

"Alright." Sandshrew said. He wasn't looking at them but rather at the ground as if trying to figure out who was who by the size of their feet.

"Now you must tell us." They both said at the same time. "Which one of us is Rolland."

Sandshrew continued to look at their feet and didn't speak for a while.

'Does he really think he can tell them apart by their feet?' Tal wondered. 'Aamira tried that when they were trying to find out who was who.'

After a while Sandshrew raised his hand and pointed to the Mime Jr. on the right. "It's you."

"Why do you say it's him?" The one on the left asked.

"Rolland's voice is slightly lower pitched than Jake's." Sandshrew said.

The two of them looked at each other. "Our voices?"

The other Mime Jr. were all muttering quietly to each other. The voices didn't sound different at all to them.

"Our voices are the same!" Jake said. "You cheated again!"

"There's only one way to tell." Rolland said. The two of them started spinning around each other too fast to keep track of them.

"Whose who?" The both asked at the same time. Sandshrew pointed to the one on the right again. "IMPOSSIBLE!"

"They're voices don't sound different at all to me." Leef said.

"Does it have something to do with that secret you mentioned earlier?" Mr. Mime asked.

"I knew it!" Jake said.

"You were cheating!"

"You're trying to sound happy by the news, aren't you?" Sandshrew said. "But I can hear the disappointment in your voice, because you two wanted to be told apart, am I right?"

Neither of them replied.

"The reason I can tell your voices are slightly different…" Sandshrew looked up at them and smiled nervously and waved a paw in front of his face. "You might not be able to tell, but I'm completely blind."

The eyes of everyone in the room widened slightly and they all looked at Sandshrew in surprise, including Rolland and Jake who seemed to be looking at him with pity.

"Earlier you said you were paying attention to the way we were spinning. You can't be blind!" Rolland said.

"I heard your feet on the floor. Without my sight all my other senses are enhanced. I can tell you two apart better than if I could see you."

"I can't believe it…" Jake said. As if by cue, the two of them started spinning around each other again. This time they didn't say anything and Sandshrew knew they wanted him to guess again. This time he pointed to the one on the right.

"It's true…" They both said. "You really can tell us apart." They burst into tears. "Finally! After all of these years!"

"Is that why you went around stealing stuff?" Bella asked. "You just wanted people to notice you and be able to tell you apart?"

"Yes." They both said. "Please forgive us!"

"We forgive you." Leef said.

"I'm sorry for calling you a rat earlier." Jake said. "I know full well you're actually a mouse."

"You said we were lucky." Sandshrew said. "You said that because people could tell us apart. But I don't have the slightest inkling of what my brother even looks like. The point is we all have our problems. And maybe now we can deal with them together and help to solve other people's problems."

"What do you mean?" They both asked at the same time.

Roy smirked. "Do you really think we could just let you off the hook completely just on an apology? Besides, you lost the game. That means you have to join Team Sandstone."

"Gladly!" They both said. "We would be honored to be on your team!"

"So they're still not back yet?" Aamira asked Electivire. Her and Quill had just gotten back from a mission. She was sure that Team Sandstone would be back by then.

"You know what those Mime Jr. are like." Electivire said. "I have no idea when they'll be back."

At that exact moment the door to the base opened up and Team Sandstone came in followed by a couple of Mime Jr.

"Wait, there are two?" Aamira said confused. "Is one of them Rolland?"

"One of us is." They both said at the same time. "Can you guess who it is?"

Aamira looked between the two. "Uhh…" She crossed her arms in thought. "Wow, even your auras are the same. No, I can't."

Both of them laughed. "The answer is to look with your heart, that way even a blind pokemon can tell us apart."

"That's not exactly how it happened." Sandshrew said.

"Yea, but heart rhymes with apart." One of them said.

"So… Wait… Sandshrew was the one that said it wasn't how it happened…" Aamira said. "Sandshrew's blind?"

"You figured it out that easily?" Sandshrew asked.

"I thought you looked sort of sad yesterday when you mentioned the stars, but then I thought I must have just imagined it." Aamira said.

"You didn't." Roy said. "Sandshrew wants to know what the stars look like, but obviously I can't describe them because he wouldn't know how to imagine my description."

"That's so sad…" Quill said. "I had no idea…"

"No one knew." Sandshrew said. "I was afraid if people knew I was blind we wouldn't be allowed to form an Investigation Team together. But when my improved sense of hearing helped us solve this mystery, I thought there wasn't much of a reason to hide it anymore."

"Or voices are slightly different. Even we didn't know." The two Mime Jr. said. "We stole things hoping that someone would be able to tell us apart. We're ashamed to say our plan technically worked…"

"So, wait." Aamira said. "There were two thieves all along?"

"Tal told us to apologize for him." Roy said. "You suspected that there was more than one thief but he told you the thief must have been a liar. He didn't think one could be honest. When Jake said it wasn't him he was still technically telling the truth because it wasn't just him but him and his brother. There was no way you could have known."

"So we should have just convicted them both." Quill said.

"Wait, did you think I was serious about that?" Aamira said. "I wouldn't want to send an innocent pokemon to prison! It was a trap, remember?"

"Oh, right…" Quill said.