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 21
Once we returned with the Water Float, Azurill and Marill were both so happy they started crying. "First you rescued Azurill, and now you do this for us... I don't know how we could ever thank you guys," Marill cried happily. "Think nothing of it. We're just happy to help," Maxi smiled at them. "It really is amazing that you have helped these two brothers out so much. I say that Team Icy Steel has done another splendid job! Heck, even when Azurill was kidnapped by that criminal, you were all so quick at pinpointing his location and even quicker reaching him!" Kecleon green smiled. "Well, we can't take all the credit for dat, honestly. See, AH just 'appened to see it in a dream the night before," I said, Dusknoir getting intrigued by what I said. "By dream, what do you mean?" he asked me. "Whenever Ah fall asleep at the end o' da day, Ah sometimes get visions o' da future. Dunno why, honestly," I smiled. "I see," Dusknoir said, once again looking perplexed. Good, I thought. Better he remain confused until I make the move to go meet up with Groovy.
It was just then that a swarm of Pelipper suddenly filled the skies and were sending letters out of their mouths all around the town! "Whoa! Look at all the Pelipper in the sky! Something big must be going on! Let's rush back to the guild to see what's up!" Maxi gawked as we did just that, rushing into the guild and seeing our whole guild crew lined up at the outlaw board. I could only think of one thing. Grovyle had been put on there. "What's the ruckus about?" Jasminder asked. "W-Well... Another Time Gear has been stolen!" Chatot exclaimed. "W-Where from this time?!" Maxi asked. "I-It... urk..." Chatot gulped. "It couldn't 'ave been..." I gulped, keeping the act up. "Yes, it happened to be the Time Gear from Fogbound Lake!" Sunflora said with worry on her flower face.
"What happened again?" Maxi asked. "A lone figure appeared at the lake and stole the Time Gear!" Chatot frowned. "Is Uxie awright?" I asked in my accent still. "Yes, he is under the care of Magnezone. But thanks to him, we also have a full character sheet and wanted poster for the 'thief'... apparently Uxie didn't want to fill out a criminal sheet on this Time Gear thief for some odd reason! Can you believe that?!" Chimecho exclaimed in anger, something she never did. I also noticed that Dusknoir looked confused for more reasons than one, but probably mostly because of Uxie taking pity on Grovyle. "You say there was a Time Gear at Fogbound Lake? I was not told that. Did I not hear a different story entirely from you all?" Dusknoir asked. "Sorry, Dusknoir... but we made a promise, so we couldn't even tell you," Wigglytuff said with worry on his face.
"But here, look at his wanted poster, hey hey!" Corphish said as he pointed to the poster of the criminal. Just as I expected, it was a perfect representation of Groovy the Grovyle. His green and red skin, the twig in his mouth, even the leaf coming out of his head. It was perfect representation. "I tell you ONE thing that REALLY grinds my GEARS! The view there is RUINED! That beauty is lost FOREVER!" Loudred exclaimed angrily, followed by Wigglytuff starting to shiver back and forth with anger. "Oo... ur... urrrr... YOOOOMTAAHHH! ! !" he exclaimed loudly. It was the loudest Hyper Voice he'd ever used and it shocked all of us, not just Jasminder. "Everyone! We'll catch Grovyle! We'll catch that thief! I declare it in the name of Wigglytuff's Guild! Chatot! If you will!" Wigglytuff exclaimed with anger on his face. "Y-Yes Guildmaster! Everyone, we are now focusing all of our manpower into finding and taking out Grovyle. Understood?!" Chatot said. "Of course! We'll do just that," I said with my drawl intact, playing along to make sure no one caught onto our plan. "Go on and get prepared everyone! We will give everyone some locations to go to upon your return," Chatot said. "HOORAY!" we all cheered at once.
I had to admit, I did not expect to hear that kind of statement from that Chimecho lass. The fact that Uxie didn't want to file a criminal report on Grovyle was very troubling to me... at least it seemed that the meddler in their time travel escapades has eliminated Trish the human. Only Grovyle was mentioned as the one that stole the Time Gear... but that also made me confused. How did Uxie not struggle against Grovyle when he came to take the Time Gear? Was Uxie... he couldn't have been told about Temporal Tower's eventual collapse, could he? It would be extremely problematic if that were the case... but even then, who would have told him of that?...
Maybe it was this T girl that was a part of Team Icy Steel... she is a very odd case, certainly... she says she is a hybrid of Pokemon and human, which was very confusing to me. I had never heard of such a thing happening to anyone at all. And she was apparently a tropical Vulpix hybrid, which meant she was an ice type. And she was able to see into the future like Trish could, but not using the Dimensional Scream. She apparently sees them when she sleeps, which means that she must've had the Dream Time skill, which was similar to the Dimensional Scream, but not the same, as Dimensional Scream users could see both past and future by touching certain objects... she seemed so like Trish, but she wasn't Trish. Not at all. It was as if she were some kind of twin to her without really being a twin... either way, until I could confirm for certain that this was a unique person and not Trish herself, I had to be wary around her. She was able to knock out that Skuntank with a single ice beam attack and her whole team was able to talk sense into the Luxray tribe like it were nothing. They were definitely a force to be reckoned with, that much was for sure.
Maxi, Jasminder, and I didn't even return to the guild when we were all done preparing. I just decided it'd be too dangerous to be in the guild when they called out who would go where, as that would surely give them ideas as to who I was. I simply got our essentials and we headed out of town, my memory being the guide to our first target. "So where is the next Time Gear located that Grovyle would hit up?" Maxi asked. "We agreed we'd go in the order of Treeshroud Forest, Limestone Cavern, Fogbound Lake, Quicksand Cave, and then Crystal Cave. Hotfoot Volcano is not one of the areas we need to go to, as that Time Gear isn't able to be used at Temporal Tower. We need the 3 guarded by Uxie, Mesprit, and Azelf, then Treeshroud Forest's and Limestone Cavern's. So next up, we need to go to the Northern Desert. That's where we agreed we'd strike as our fourth target," I said.
"Okay... I just hope we aren't labeled as outlaws for doing this," Maxi said. "So long as Mesprit and Azelf understand the situation and explain the issue, we'll be absolutely fine," I said with a small smile. "Okay... I believe you," Jasminder said with a sigh. "Okay, we're nearly to the desert. Follow my lead while we're in there, okay?" I smiled. "Of course," Maxi said.