The Pokemon Mystery Dungeon series of games are owned by Gamefreak and Nintendo and are not my property.
I own 5 OCs in this, that being the main character Pokemon in the Time, Darkness, Sky games, 3 newcomers, and the partner of the main character. Their names will be Trish the Vulpix, Maxi the Mawile, Jasminder the Leavanny, Marine the Bruxish, and Jasper the human. The story will be told mainly by Trish's POV. All other POVs and dream sequences will be in italic. I'm not saying who is in the POV as some have POV of a character and others are in 3rd Person. You should be old enough to figure it out on your own if you are reading this fanfic.
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 29

Once we approached the gate, it was midday, but we saw that the place had the gates up. "I'll stand on the grate," Maxi said. "Pokemon detected! Pokemon detected!" Diglett exclaimed. "Whose footprint? Whose footprint?" Loudred asked back. "T-The footprint is... M-Maxi's! The footprint is Maxi's!" Diglett exclaimed as he suddenly burrowed away and popped up right next to us. "It is Maxi! And Jasminder and Trish too!... And they have a new face with... oh my... i-is that what I think it is?!" Diglett asked as the other guild members opened the gates and piled out to meet us. "Oh my gosh! I knew you'd return!" Sunflora smiled. "You're ALIVE! WHOO!" Loudred smiled.

"Rgh... loud noises... rgh..." Jasper groaned in his sleep, the guild members all immediately looking at my brother in my grasp. "W-What is that?! I-Is that a... human?!" Bidoof gawked when he saw him. "Not just a human, Bidoof. He's... my brother," I sighed, all of the guild members looking shocked. Then Chatot and Wigglytuff appeared from the entrance and the path cleared for them to come out. "Oh my! Is that really a human? Care to explain, Icy Steel?... And is that Grovyle I see as well?" Wigglytuff asked as he also saw Grovyle among our group.

"Grovyle's here too?" Corphish gawked. "Um... nice to meet you," Grovyle said bluntly and with a sigh. "Come on inside. We have much to discuss," Wigglytuff said as we went into the place and I had to have some help with getting my brother down the ladders without hurting him. "Okay, so who is this strange creature that you have with you?" Chatot asked. "My brother, Jasper," I frowned. "W-What?! S-So... he really is a human?" Chatot gulped. "Yes, and until further notice, he is to be heavily guarded by other guild members. He was a part of Dusknoir's group of mercenaries and only recently was targeted by him, only because we were related. He doesn't have any powers, but it'd be a good idea to keep him under wraps for now," I said.

"So... what did you wish to discuss?" I asked. "Well... we have recently heard news that the areas where time has stopped is spreading, slowly but surely," Chatot said, that making me and Grovyle gasp. "I-If time is being stopped in a spreading area... that means that Temporal Tower is nearing collapse! We need to act fast! We only have at most a week until it falls completely!" Grovyle gulped. "A week?! That's not very encouraging..." Sunflora gulped. "We need to find out one thing. Where could the Hidden Land possibly be? And what is the proof needed to access it?" Jasminder asked with worry. "Well, I may not know where the Hidden Land would be... but I do know one person that may. Torkoal, the Town Elder. He loves the Hot Springs, so he is usually found there," Chatot explained. "I think I remember... he had a huge shell on him and he had orange skin, right?" I said.

"Exactly... but you guys should probably rest up before you go out. After all, you escaped the future during 2 days' time," Chimecho said. "2 days? Wow, I didn't really notice that... but considering that there was no way to know how long it lasted in the future, I guess that we'll take your word for it," I said as my stomach started to growl. "Rgh... shame it isn't dinnertime," I frowned. "Well, I could always give you some food to eat," Wigglytuff smiled as he went to the storage unit for the food and gave the three of our group of five something I never would've expected him to give us. "Y-You're letting us eat... a perfect apple each?" I asked him with awe. "Of course! You'll need it to get to the Hot Springs and ask Torkoal about the Hidden Land," Wigglytuff smiled. "Thanks a lot, Guildmaster! You're the best!" Jasminder smiled as Grovyle gawked at how big the apple was. "Y-Yeah... t-thanks..." Grovyle gawked as he dug into his apple along with the rest of us, Jasper only then starting to wake up.

"Rgh... w-where am I?" he asked aloud as he opened his eyes to see the Perfect apple and the Wigglytuff in front of him. "Wakey-wakey, friend!" Wigglytuff smiled at him, making Jasper jump awake and back up to the wall. "W-Whoa! W-What are you all supposed to be?!" he asked with skittish movements, probably because he hadn't seen any of these Pokemon in the bleak future. "We're Wigglytuff's Guild. We're not only coworkers and the bosses of Team Icy Steel, but we are going to help them save Temporal Tower from ruin!" Chatot smiled with a chipper trill in his voice.

But Jasper was more along the lines of gawking at the colors that surrounded him. "I-Is this... the past?... I-It's so... colorful and... I can see everything clearly..." he gawked aloud. "Of course! Now do you see why we want to save the future from paralysis?" I asked him. "Y-Yeah... um... what is that fruit on the ground right there?" Jasper asked as he timidly crawled forward. "That's a gift to you. A Perfect Apple~" Wigglytuff smiled with a trill in his voice. "Perfect... Apple?... all the food in my world is... you know what, nevermind... let me taste it..." Jasper said as he took a bite of the apple and immediately went wide-eyed at the flavor. "O-Oh my god... MUST EAT!" he exclaimed as he then tore into it like a ravenous predator, making me smile and the others weirded out by his actions.

"N-Never in my life have I had flavor that sweet!" Jasper gawked as his eyes emitted some spare tears. "Um... excuse me... but could I ask a question to you, mister human?" Bidoof asked with a kind smile. "Um... sure. Name's Jasper," he said. "Jasper... what is the future like... where you come from?" Bidoof asked. "It's uh... well, the complete opposite of this world. Dark and dreary, humans are nearly as common as some species of Pokemon, time is stopped forever, and the only thing that has color are the Pokemon," Jasper explained, doing the short version I guessed. "Golly... just like Trish said..." Bidoof gawked with worry. "We need to get going to the Hot Spring. Torkoal may hold the key to finding the Hidden Land and Temporal Tower," I said as I looked at Grovyle and Jasper.

"So... the question is this. Who is going to stay behind? Because the rules in exploring is that we can only have 4 in a team for each exploration," I said. "Hmm... I think I will stay behind. Jasper needs to see the many other beauties of this world," Grovyle said. "In the meantime, I must ask. Do you know where the Time Gears went off to?" Crogunk asked. "Oh, they're safe in here. In my fake tummy," Maxi smiled as she pointed to her belly and showed that it was a bit distended from the Time Gears and her Relic Fragment inside of it. "Oh, great thinking! That way, they won't be able to be stolen as easily!" Dugtrio smiled. "Okay, Jasper. Time to head out to the Hot Springs," I smiled as Jasminder and Maxi led our group out the entrance of the guild.