Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon. Pokemon belongs to Nintendo.

Chapter 11:

The Big Exploration Finally Begins!

"RISE and SHINE! It's MORNING!" Loudred woke Peach, Mario, and Shinji up like he did everyday. Today was the day the expedition members were to be chosen.

"That stupid Loudred. If I could attack him without getting punished, I'd show him that waking up a girl like me is huge mistake!" Peach muttered to herself when Loudred left the room.

"I'm nervous. I don't know if we're going to be chosen or not. The chances of us going are pretty slim since we failed to bring the perfect apples to Wigglytuff and also..." Mario never a got a chance to finish his sentence.

"Ack! We're going to be late!" Peach grabbed both of her teammate's tails and ran to where the morning address was.

"Team Pokecuties! You're late! What were you doing?! Anyway, the exploration members have been chosen!" Chatot said.

"HOORAY!!" All the apprentices cheered. Five minutes later, Chatot started reading the list. Among the chosen were Bidoof, Loudred, Dugtrio, team Ai, and not team Pokecuties.

"And that's everyone!" Chatot said after reading the list.

"We didn't get to go after all..." Shinji sighed.

"Wait a minute, what's this?!" Chatot noticed some hard to read words at the bottom of the list and read them out loud. "What?! That means... The whole guild is going on the exploration!" Chatot was shocked. The words on the bottom of the list were the names of the apprentices that he did not call out before! "What's the meaning of this?!" Chatot said.

"If the whole guild goes it'll be more fun!" Wigglytuff said happily.

"If everyone's going, there will be nobody to watch the guild," Skuntank said.

"We'll lock up properly," Wigglytuff said. Chatot soon told everyone to get ready for the expedition.

When they got to Treasure Town, Peach immediately went to the Duskull bank.

"Peach, if you deposit all of our money here, we won't have any money to spend!" Shinji told Peach after she made her deposit.

"Don't worry, we have plenty of stuff in storage, remember? Besides, if any of us faint in a dungeon we'd lose all of our money anyway!" Peach responded.

"Uh, Peach..." Mario tried to tell her something.

"What is it?" Peach wanted to know what he was about to say.

"Actually, if we faint we only lose HALF of our money now," Mario informed her.

"Sweet! Thank you, magical forces from another dimension!" Peach said. She and her friends went to the storage to take out some items. "I never thought I needed this until now," She said as she took out a pink bow.

"W-where did that come from?!" Mario said, surprised.

"This is the bow we got when we started the exploration team. The author failed to mention that it was there," Peach said while tying the bow around her neck. When they finally finished preparing for the trip, they went back to the guild to tell Chatot that they were ready.

"That's great! Now everyone's ready!" Peach never paid attention to what Chatot said next. While Chatot explained the plan for the big expedition, Peach was staring at the ceiling. She did her best to not pay attention to what he was saying until he announced the groups. "And team Pokecuties will go with Bidoof." Those words made Peach hate Chatot ten times more than she already did.

"I HATE YOU CHATOT!" She screamed out loud, but everyone ignored her. Peach stopped paying attention to what Chatot said after that. This was the just the beginning of a long expedition.

Sorry that this was short! I'm getting a new computer in a few days, and I don't know how to transfer files... Anyway, please review! The next chapter will be longer!