Act I - Scene viii-i: Onward to the Mountain of Moon!

"Good luck on your trip, Ness! We're rooting for you!" Brock shouted as the trio left. "That was so nice of Brock to do that for us. He had I pretty nice place too. I'm gonna miss staying in a nice, warm house..." "Eh.. I've seen nicer." Pokey said, trying to act all cool.

As soon as the trio stepped out of Pewter City limits, a Photo-Man appeared out of the sky. "No... no!... He's coming!" Pokey grumbled. "Pictures taken instantaneously! I'm a photographic genius, if I do say so myself! How did you feel beating your first gym, rather exciting, yes? Okay, get ready for an instant memory! Look at the camera... Ready... Say, 'fuzzy pickles!'" Ness assumed a smile with a peace sign while Ivysaur was at his feet, Pokey made a face and stuck his tongue out while his Charmeleon tried to look tough, and Midna hugged her smiling Wartortle. "Wow, what a great photograph! It will always bring back the fondest of memories..." And as quickly as he came, he ascended back to the sky. All recovering from the odd event, Ness started to say: "Why do we keep doing that?" "I don't know... I just don't know..." Midna responded.

While on Route 3, Ness, Pokey, and Midna fought an interesting group of trainers, all probably just coming out of the Viridian Forest. "I'm not sure why, but I feel as if we're battling the same people over and over on these routes." Ness contemplated. "Well, you did just beat the first gym, so you shouldn't expect everything to be too diverse. And besides, each and every person is different. At least we haven't run into any of those Giygas-trance Pokémon yet." Midna replied, trying to reassure Ness's odd thoughts. "Yeah... Yeah, I guess you're right."

Just then, right before the entrance of Mt. Moon, all three fell into a pitfall. "What the heck! You two are psychic, why didn't you notice this!" Pokey started screaming. "You know, you have every right to complain. Since this was a mountain, I just thought of it as some Pokémon burrowing underneath us. "So if it wasn't Pokémon, then who was-"

Right before Ness could continue, some familiar voices popped up.

Jessie: To protect the world from devastation!

James: To unite all people within our nation!

While the TR trio went on with their motto, Ness came up with a plan to get them out. "Pokey, since you are so 'fluffy' and have the biggest pair of shoes, can you make little indents on the, wall, I guess...?" Still going on with whatever they were doing, Ness scaled the wall, then Midna, and since Pokey had trouble, Ness called out for his Ivysaur to use Vine Whip.

Meowth: Meowth! That's- Hey, how did yous get out?

"Well it WAS dirt. I'm just surprised you didn't hear us trying to get out. I mean Pokey fell a number of times... pretty loudly.." Pokey punched Ness's arm for embarrassing him. "Was our motto really that long?" Jessie and James asked the kids. "It must have been since it took a few tries to get out." "Well if that's how it's going to be.. We'll... We'll!" The TR trio ran into the cave and shouted: "You'll never figure out the plans that Team Rocket has in store!"

"Plans?" Ness questioned. "Cool, we get to stop the bad guys! I'll be hailed as a hero for this!" Pokey proudly stated, "Come on, let's head inside!" When Pokey said that, Ness remembered the premonition. "Uh... why don't we wait, I think that after all those battles and that little incident with Team Rocket, we should heal our Pokémon.""But they look fine." Pokey and Midna stated in unison. "Yeah.. but." Midna knew something was up so she decided to use her telepathy to talk with Ness. "This isn't like you at all, what's up?" "Remember that premonition I told you about?" "Yeah?" "Well... that." "Look, if you don't go into Mt. Moon now, this could speed up Pokey's process of becoming evil. You wouldn't want that would you?" "Yeah... but I don't want to lose Pokey, he's my friend!" "Just go. I'll be sure to keep an eye on him, okay?" "Alright, fine."

Pokey knew that they must have been talking about him. But he continued to taunt Ness so they could enter Mt. Moon. "I thought you wanted to be a great trainer, why don't you want to go in Mt. Moon? Are you scared or something?" "No.. Alright! Let's go!" "Yes!"

And with that, the trio enter the serene cave of Mt. Moon.

Author's Note:

Hello fellow readers! I am so sorry for the lack of updates. I have been busy with with summer work and I recently went to a programming camp to start learning C++. This is going to be in 2-3 parts because I really want to focus on what happens in Mt. Moon. So here are some references!

References:

- When Pokey's said that he has seen nicer houses, he is probably referring to his house. As for him trying to 'act cool', this is when you had Pokey in your party in EarthBound and Ness's mother was like: "Sure you're cool. Whatever."

- The Photo-Man appeared again. I might actually write an interlude where they try to dodge the Photo-Man, I'm not sure yet.

- Speaking of which, when they just assume the form or they can't run away, it's kinda like when/if you think "if Ness doesn't want his picture taken, why doesn't he try to run?"

- The "I'm battling several trainers that are alike" thing is actually a joke on how none of them had any names. I can also refer to the fact that there isn't much variety in their Pokémon yet.

- The pitfall is one of the classics used by Team Rocket

- Team Rocket recited part of their motto instead of their full. I won't write out the full motto each and every time they appear. If I come up with a pun, play on words for the situation, or I feel like they haven't said it in awhile, then I'll write the full motto.

- The "dirt walls" thing for the pitfall actually occurred to me while watching an old episode rerun. It made me think: "Why can't they use their Pokémon or try to climb out of the hole? I mean, there should be enough rocks to try." Sure, it may not be very easy to try and make little indents to climb out of a hole, but it's better to try than be stuck there.

- Pokey shows the dark side of himself by taunting Ness

Until next time! N Nintendo Wii Trust! Do U?