It was a short nights rest, honestly the night wasn't eventful, it was just the morning after. "Goooood morning Derrek and Jordan! It's time to waaaake UP!" I am honestly surprised about his waking me up. His voice was certainly surprising, he had a sort of radio announcer voice from my world.

"Hey, we made a promise that we would help someone today. Do you mind?" I asked, remembering our promise to Abra. Knowing if we didn't keep it, he would be kinda upset. Urist shook his head, and we went out to the town.

"Hey! Derrek! Over here! Let's go!" Abra was yelling, he wanted to get on the road. Jordan, Urist, and I walked over to Abra and he took off in the direction of Resonant Bluffs. We chased him in a line, in the order of Me, Urist, then Jordan. The entry to Resonant Bluffs was feeling more unnatural than last time, although not near as bad as Flower Meadows. It was a short trip up to the peak, the Pokémon weren't there, they were all just gone…

"This feels… Wrong. I don't like this feeling." Urist said.

"It feels just like Flower Meadows… Why?" Jordan asked.

"You've felt this before?" Abra, he didn't experience this at Flower Meadows.

"Yeah, let's move." I said.

"The evolution point is just beyond there."

"Alright" Abra moved forward, and into a cavern beyond the peak. The wall sealed behind him, and I saw another Dream Cube, it wasn't here before… This time Jordan was talking with Urist while facing me, although Urist couldn't see me. I took the Dream Cube, it just felt… right? Was I secretly a kleptomaniac?

"Hey, I'm back!" It was one or two hours later, he wasn't Abra anymore, although…

"So should we call you Kadabra?" Jordan asked, telling me what species Abra "evolves" into. I'll have to ask what evolution does in this world, as it must be different from evolution in my world.
"No, my family usually finds their own name when they evolve the first time. I think I heard the name Somnus, although I don't know why. It doesn't feel of any importance, and that's how my dad described how he found his name."

"So we call you Somnus?"

"Yeah, sure. Let's go."

"Look, a purple patch… Could people go crazy due to this?" Urist asked, pointing at a corner in this hall. I shrugged, then held out my badge, Jordan did the same, but Urist just stared.

"Note to self, give Urist badge when we get back to town." Whoosh.

"Hey! Thanks for the help. I think that I might not have made it if not for you. I'll be sure to give you one free fortune! Wait, I already have, I won't make you pay for one fortune in the past!" Somnus, previously Abra, said.
"But that was a test!" I yelled.
"You'd still owe me! Be happy that you helped me." Grrr, he might get on my nerves if he keeps acting this way.
"Fine…" I muttered. Acknowledging his weaseling, Walking away.

"We've still got most of the day ahead, wanna do a request?" I asked Urist, the Resonant Bluffs weren't very exciting, "If you want to we always could."
"Sure, why not, we've got time."

"Alright lets go check the board then." I said, walking over to the board.

"Hey look at this one." Jordan said, picking up a request, "Oh, Derrek, it reads, 'Hey! I want to join Team Blanket, if any team that wants to help, please introduce me to Team Blanket. I will reward you greatly!"

"Time to move over the meet someone requests. Another for Team Blanket, they've gotten unusually popular, I wonder how they've spread so fast." Pelipper said, "Not even I spread this fast, and I'm the mailman."

"Oh really? How did we spread this fast…" I said, "Where do you put those?"
"I put it on a special board, but for you guys I've seen a ton of them, I've lost count. It seems like you guys should be running a guild."
"Maybe we will." Jordan said, "It seems like something that would be fun."
"So are you gonna accept those?"
"Nah, we don't have the room at home. Maybe when we get a larger building? It's in my plans later."

"Alright, let's keep them on my board then."

"Okay, here you go."

"Alright, how about this one then?" Urist said, he was pointing to a rescue request, it was from Team Mirror, "Hold on, lemme read it out… 'Help, I'm trapped with Espeon, and can't get out! Someone help! ~Vaporeon."

"We've gotta go help them!" I yelled.

"Where are we going Urist?" Jordan asked, excited and angry.

"We're going to… Underwater Plateau? Where's that?"

"I... don't know, it seems best to ask Pelipper…"

"It's north of the shore, not really that far north. I can show you, although, you can always ask someone else to take you, today I don't have time."

"Any suggestions?"

"Nope, do you have a map?"
"No, although we could buy one."
"Nah, I'll give you one, the Plateau is there." He said, using his wing to point at a spot just north of the shore.

"Let's go!" I yelled, taking off, running ahead of the others.

"Wait, isn't it 'underwater?' How would we survive if we can't breathe underwater!" Jordan yelled, obviously concerned.

"It doesn't matter, underwater dungeons are weird, you'll breathe! GO!" Pelipper yelled, pointing north, I kept running, Urist flapped his Vibrava wings really hard, almost catching up to me he slowed down, while Jordan was basically just stumbling, tripping every now and then.

The entrance was just outside of the shore, we had to swim a little. It was honestly my first time in water since being in this form, while I did know how to swim, it felt entirely alien. When we did reach the entrance we basically were just sucked into the dungeon. "There's no escape now, although we don't need it." I said, a little confident.

"You do realize I am weak to water right?" Jordan commented, I let it sink in. He was a ground type…

"Then hide behind me, and don't get hit! Simple enough right?" I asked, knowing that the response was theoretically 'easier said than done.' We moved and fought our way forward.

"So, those last seven levels were easy enough. Just rush to the stairs…" Jordan said, exhausted.

"Yeah, heheh, sure!" His voice was littered with sarcasm.

"Next time I see a Shellos I'm gonna hurl." Jordan was seriously disgusted by the water-types.

"No problem, it's just us now, we'll keep pushing." I said, hoping to comfort them.

"Yeah, just a little while longer. Like thirteen floors! Hahahah ha haaaa…" Jordan was purposely sounding crazy. The past floors were a huge trail for them, I didn't do an insane amount of damage, so this dungeon was going to be a trial. Should be about three floors for a break… Right?

"Only have to work until floor ten. Then we're just resting for a little." Urist commented, even though he was ground type, but being dragon type eliminated the water weakness.

"Yeah, yeah, stairs!" Jordan said, racing to the stairs. Everyone raced up the stairs, "Oh, and here!" Jordan said, racing up a second set of stairs, "And to floor ten!" He said, pointing to the final set of stairs before floor ten, and he was over excited about getting a rest. I just followed him up, and we were on floor ten.

"It's certainly different…" I said, but it wasn't the rest floor that Jordan was expecting.

"Where's the Kengaskan rock! Noooo, why? Why can't I just sleeeep!" Jordan was whining.

"You can't sleep because I've got to stop you from meddling in master's affairs. I guard this floor, you must get past me to meddle…"

"Meddle? Who said that!" I asked.

"I did! I, Poliwrath, creator of the Maelstrom!"
"Water fighting? I can get behind that. Let's do this!" Jordan got cocky, but after so long of hiding he was unable to hold back his enthusiasm.

"Yeah, let me start this… FURY SWIPES!" I yelled, successfully distracting the Poliwrath and hitting him three times., while Jordan used the distraction to dig and use Dig to hide Urist, I could tell that Urist was using Hidden Power, trying to freeze the ground.

"Gah, you little…" He was getting angry, "I'll crush you!" Jordan came up and smashed Poliwrath using his second turn of dig. "Really? You used DIG? Why such a weak move!" He finished his taunt by laughing, and tried to hit me with dizzy punch. His feet went out from under him, and I took the advantage by using Fury Swipes on his face.

"Haha! YES! I worked on that plan for so long with Jordan!" Urist yelled coming out of the hole, and stuck the enemy with Mud-Slap, Jordan hit him with Fury Swipes, four times. He must have been weak, he took a bunch of hits. He didn't necessarily resist them, and we've been using team work. He swung his fist using dizzy punch, mashed me in the face, confusing me.

"Urghlebushlik?" I asked, I thought I had said 'Is the world upright?'

"Gah! Poliwrath confused him! We've gotta finish him!" Jordan yelled.

"Hurgh?" I asked, I swung a feint attack in the direction of Poliwrath… Maybe? I know I made contact though.

"Hey! Friendly fire! I'll take care of him!" Urist yelled, using Hidden Power, returned the confusion favor by freezing him.
"He's as good as dead!" I yelled, excited by the freezing.

"Hey! You snapped out of it! Good job!" Jordan yelled and attacked him with a mud-slap.

"I'm not dead yet!" He yelled, attempting to break the ice, "Knew I shoulda used that Brick break Technical Machine!" I struck him with Fury Swipes, twice, but that was all he needed to be knocked out. He was face-down on the ground.

"Alright, I'll write a note to have this guy arrested, criminal assault. Then he'll go to, and stay in, jail." Urist said, having a pen on him was one of the things I didn't expect.

"Okay, Jordan, you can rest here, how else was he able to stay here for so long?" I said. Jordan just fell over and passed out.

Author's Note

And this introduces multiple things, for one, the second dream cube, for two, the fortune-teller, of whom if I had a game based on this would be important, third, MINIBOSSES, basically weaker bosses. During this I over-exaggerated the simplicity of bosses, and I drew inspiration for this dungeon from my personal experiences with Miracle Sea in the endgame of Explorers of Time. Gosh I'm tired with this dungeon... Staircase, staircase, staircase, staircase, ex., boss. I wondered if the game secretly loved me. I can't wait until I decide to cancel this proj. since I doubt it'll get much further. Unless I have the Determination to do so.

Post Author's note

Just saw that I missed this update... Oops :/ It's a week late, but it was done last week.