The Pokemon Mystery Dungeon series of games are owned by Gamefreak and Nintendo and are not my property.
I own 3 OCs in this, that being the main character Pokemon in the Time, Darkness, Sky games, a newcomer, and their partner. Their names will be Trish the Vulpix, Maxi the Mawile, and Jasminder the Leavanny 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 12
Over the course of the next couple of days, Maxi, myself, and Jasminder did tons of different jobs, an amazing time with Sentry Duty, and getting a good reward for returning Wigglytuff's Defend Globe in the form of a trio of Joy Seeds and a Golden Apple (which could instantly make your stomach bigger permanently upon eating it), it came time to dinner one night when, before we ate, Chatot interrupted. "Before we all eat tonight, I have an important announcement," Chatot said, making most of the guild members upset.
"Hey, hey, hey!" Corphish exclaimed. "Well?! WHAT is it?! SPIT it OUT!" Loudred exclaimed. "Boo! Boo!" Diglett grumbled. "Order! I must have order!" Chatot exclaimed, everyone shutting up afterwards. "I know the expedition has been on everyone's mind for awhile now... and apparently the Guildmaster has made his final decisions!" Chatot announced, everyone being thrilled at the news. "EEK! Oh my gosh, this is SO exciting!" Sunflora exclaimed. "Meh-heh-heh! How intriguing!" Crogunk smirked. "I can't believe it! They've finally announced it!" Chimecho smiled with a small autonomous ding. "Yes! We finally get to hear who's going to go!" I smiled widely. "Sorry to keep you waiting... on your marks, get set... CHOW!" Chatot said, everyone exclaiming 'chow' at the end, followed by all of us eating.
After we all fell asleep in our three beds (they had to add an extra one for Jasminder), I had yet another dream. But this time... it was different than the others. The place looked to be the same place as in my last dream, a certain tower on a floating island of rock. But this time, the place looked to have actual color and looked to be getting attacked by some kind of dark force. It was then that the tower lost half of its body and began to tumble... but it stopped halfway and everything around me not only lost color, but hung suspended, almost as if it were frozen in time completely.
I then seemed to be awaking from a dream within a dream as I looked to a Pokemon I instantly recognized... but once again, it was one that was behind a shadowy guise. "Did you have any dreams, Trish?" she asked, her having a very cute, girly voice. She also had a head that was shaped like a flower bulb, small wings on her back, and the rest of her body had small arms, legs, and a tiny torso. "Y-Yeah... this time, I actually saw Temporal Tower falling. The moment it fell, time stopped everywhere..." I said. "Well, I hope you and Groovy can fix the timeline. I would give my entire life to change the future for the better," she said with determination in her voice. "Okay then... let's try and find that Passage of Time. We need to get going quick, before those Sableye come after us," I said with seriousness... and then I woke up for real.
"UP AND AT 'EM! IT'S TIME FOR THE ANNOUNCEMENT!" Loudred exclaimed as we all three woke up immediately, but Jasminder looking to be easily startled and hiding behind me. "You'll get used to Loudred's voice at some point, Jasminder, I guarantee it," I smiled at her, seeing that she was even more timid than Maxi was when I first met her. "H-Hopefully... I-I don't like loud noises..." she shivered as we got Maxi up and at 'em and we went out to the meeting with everyone else. "Yeah, I can tell," Maxi said with a small smile.
Once we approached our area of the huddle, Team Skull appeared from the ladder with small frowns aimed right at us. They were definitely still cold at us for ratting them out, but they deserved it and they knew it. "Okay everyone, it is time to announce who will be going on the expedition!" Chatot smiled. "Guildmaster, the memo please?" Chatot smiled, Wigglytuff happily giving him the memo. "This memo has the names of the guild members going on the expedition... let's begin. When I call your name, please step forward..." Chatot smiled as all of us guild members were restless. "First up is... Loudred," Chatot smiled. "Y-YES! I'm IN! But of COURSE I'd be in! It's ONLY natural! WOOHOO!" he exclaimed, making us look at him strangely. "Says you, hey hey," I heard Corphish frowned.
"Next up is... Corphish!" Chatot said. "Hey hey! I got in!" he smiled as he scuttled next to Loudred. "Next up... oh! What a surprise! Our next member is Bidoof!" Chatot smiled, making Bidoof look shocked and then start to cry tears of joy. "T-Truly?! I-I'm in the expedition?! I.. sniff," he sniffled, staying in place. "Hmm? What's wrong Bidoof, please step forward," Chatot said. "Golly... I-I wish I could... b-but I'm mighty overwhelmed now... my legs aren't movin'..." Bidoof blubbered a bit, making me feel so happy for him. "Very well... we'll ignore it an move on," Chatot said. "Next is... Chimecho and Sunflora," he said. "W-We're in! Yay! Team Flower Bell is in it again!" Sunflora smiled widely, which I didn't expect to hear. That Chimecho and Sunflora were also a rescue team looking to be in training!
They went up and smiled. "And that seems to... huh? What's this?" Chatot asked as he looked at the bottom of the page and he looked to be having difficulty reading it. "Um... you need help reading that, Chatot? My eyesight is very good," Jasminder smiled. "Um... y-yes, sadly. Guildmaster wrote it too small for me to read," he frowned. Jasminder took the memo gently and read it aloud with Chatot looking at it too. "The final members are... Diglett, Dugtrio, Crogunk, Trish, Maxi, and Jasminder! W-Wait a minute... THAT'S EVERYBODY IN HERE!" she exclaimed with cheeriness in her voice as Chatot looked shocked. "Yep, you're right, Jasminder!" Wigglytuff smiled as Chatot looked at our Guildmaster in confusion.
"Well, it would seem the whole selection process was pointless then! Besides, if we all were to go, the Guild would be completely empty! Are you sure that'd be okay?" he exclaimed. "It'll be fine. We'll lock up properly," Wigglytuff smiled. "But I have a question... what's the point in having everyone go all at once?" Skuntank asked. "Of course there's a point! It'd be more fun that way!" Wigglytuff smirked with a bubbly disposition, which made Skuntank look shocked at that. "It'll be amazing, we'll all be rowdy and talk to each other and it'll all be fun! I was so excited about it, I barely slept last night!" he smiled.
"Well... now I think it's time that we prepare. We will give everyone half an hour to prepare fully. I suggest you stock up on supplies for the big trip. Also, no additional members from Chimecho assembly will travel with us, since they aren't official guild members. We will meet back here before we head out. Okay everyone, get to preparation!" Chatot exclaimed, all of us cheering wildly, which I could tell made Wigglytuff happy.
My group went off to buy some stuff from Kecleon Wares and managed to get a few apples, some oran berries, and more importantly, we stocked up on Reviver seeds, making sure we had enough in our bag to fill it up halfway of the 4 containers it had. "Well, this is going to be fun! We're all going on an expedition! This is going to be very cool!" Jasminder smiled. "Yeah, I wonder where we happen to be going... I wonder if it'd be somewhere that has tons of treasure!" Maxi smiled. "I'm sure it'll be great," I smiled.
When we returned back to the guild, we waited a bit longer and everyone soon arrived, all of them looking very prepared. "Okay, we are now ready for the expedition to begin. As for where we plan on going, the destination is a place to the far southeast of the continent. It's a mysterious location that is known as Fogbound Lake," Chatot explained, the location making me and Maxi have to hold our gasps in when we heard it. Sure, I had that dream last night that I had to tell Maxi of on our way out, but that also meant we had to tell whoever we were traveling with when we got paired into groups. And the location of Fogbound Lake... I knew exactly what awaited us there: a Time Gear was the treasure, that much was clear. But we didn't plan on actually taking it... no... I had a better idea in mind as to how we may have an easier time if we happened to come across Uxie.
"We will be pairing everyone into groups to make exploration easier. So for the first group, we have Loudred, Sunflora, Diglett, and Crogunk," Chatot explained. "Don't you DARE slow me DOWN!" Loudred exclaimed at his fellow team members. "You should talk!" Sunflora snapped back with a cocky smirk. "Next is Dugtrio, Chimecho, and Corphish," Chatot explained. "We're a solid group!" Dugtrio smiled all at once again. "Likewise, hey hey! Let's do it up!" Corphish smirked. "Let's see.. you and I will be a pair Guildmaster... that is acceptable, yes?" Chatot asked him, which Wigglytuff looked a little shocked at. "AW! I have to go with Chatot? That's so booooring!" he exclaimed, making me giggle a bit, which also made Jasminder giggle. "Please don't be difficult. This is a key element of our strategy!" Chatot frowned. "Hmph.. meanie," Wigglytuff pouted.
Chatot then looked at Team Skull with a frown. "Team Skull will go as their own exploration group," Chatot explained. "Understood, Chaw-haw-haw!" Skuntank chortled. "And finally, the last team is consisted of Bidoof, Maxi, Trish, and Jasminder," Chatot explained. "Yeehaw! We got paired together!" Bidoof smiled at us cheerily. "We'll get there before anyone else can! Just you guys wait and see!" Maxi smirked. "Well then, everyone, let's lock up and head out for Fogbound Lake!" Chatot smirked, all of us cheering as we headed out the door in our groups... but I knew that I had to tell Maxi, Bidoof, and even Jasminder about what my plan was.
"So... you keep on having dreams of your forgotten memories... and they involve you needing to try and save the world from some terrible tragedy? And Time Gears are somehow involved? That sounds pretty dangerous, yup yup," Bidoof said with worry as we eventually made it to a coastline by the shore at midday, the crags and ocean around us making it feel lovely on our bodies. "Yeah... And you say that, in your memories, you lived in a world that had no sunlight, everything was dark and gray, and all the foliage was dead? Sounds like a post apocalyptic world from a ghost story," Jasminder admitted. "Yes, and we happen to know something about Fogbound Lake, because I learned about it in my dreams... because a Time Gear rests there somewhere," I explained, making Bidoof jump when he heard that.
"B-By golly! There's a Time Gear in Fogbound Lake?! T-That can't be the treasure, can it?" he gawked. "I have a feeling it just might be connected to the treasure, but I don't think the Time Gear itself is the treasure, honestly," Maxi said, which I nodded at. "Well that sounds better... but we're not going to try and take it, are we? That doesn't sound like a good idea," Jasminder frowned. "No, we aren't taking it... besides, I have an ally in my dreams that I believe already stole Treeshroud Forest's Time Gear. If we simply talk to the guardian of Fogbound Lake and tell him or her that we need them for saving the world, I'm sure that they'll listen... but please, we ask that you don't mention this to anyone, okay?" I asked them.
"If word got out that me and Maxi were talking about Time Gears and possibly taking them from their pedestals, they may immediately accuse us of trying to destroy the world. But I know what does destroy the world... it's a place called Temporal Tower... I don't know how or when, but someday, it's going to collapse. And when that day comes, according to my dreams, time freezes instantly all over the place... I'm almost certain that's why my memories depict my world in darkness and decay... and why I am so entranced by the sunrise... the first thing I saw here was the sunrise and it was the most beautiful thing I saw... my memories tell me my world had no sunshine at all... so this is important," I frowned. "We need to ask Uxie to look after the Time Gear and that, if he comes across anyone in the future, that he asks if their name is Groovy. That's the nickname my partner always had in my memories. I am almost certain that Groovy is out there collecting Time Gears, it's just a gut feeling I have... we need to stay alert and not tell a soul. If anyone found out, we'd be in deep trouble... okay?" I said with a small monologue of my own. "We promise to keep our lips sealed. Right, Bidoof?" Jasminder smiled. "I promise to keep this secret until the day I die, yup yup," Bidoof smiled at me. "Thanks guys... now let's see... we'll need to enter this cave in order to continue..." Maxi said.