"Are you sure you're doing the right thing...?" Flame rubbed his head, clenching his eyes
"Yeah, no point staying, it's a shitshow down there." Phantom says while a Talonflame swooped next to him, barely noticeable.
"...Where are we?"
"Happy town, we left the base." Phantom says while turning toward the base. The sort of bird he saw in a flash entered it, and flames began to spew out of the door. "...And our base's gonna be a fine barbecue once we come back."
"Hm..." Flame then whispered, Phantom barely make out the word voice.
"Just hang in tight. I need to to keep focus here."
The duo reach down a restaurant, before entering Phantom got the money inside of Flame's backpack while the other set himself in a crawling position on the ground, still holding his head together. Phantom gets inside of him, listening to some voices talking to him, some of his sight screwed up again and a overwhelming headache fucking him up.
"Maaaaaaaaan, I should have warned you instead of keeping you off without saying a thing. These things are fucking awful." Phantom rubs Flame's head, trying to get himself up but wobbling around. (These shrooms really aren't the fun kind.)
No response from Flame this time, however, Phantom could swore he could hear a little voice saying " I have to hold myself together.) along with some other whispers of his pal inside the strange, chatty voices invading his head.
Looking around, it was rather calm, some pokemons walking about, not a single soul here seems to know what's going on at the base or any crimes taking place. Phantom went to sit down at the edge of a wall, taking a moment for himself despite the hunger trying to lull him to a meal.
"Alright...Let's rest, shouldn't take too long." (I swear I have healing powers) Phantom says for Flame, and thought up while saying this. "...Can you talk?"
Phantom takes a moment to make out the lines, one no came out from Flame's voice from the chaos.
After a few minutes of rest, the voices began to dissipate and the headache became low. Phantom gets up and crack his neck, then stretched out before lazily heading toward The Daily Chow.
Flame remained silent while Phantom got greeted by a Slurpuff who forwards him to a seat. Phantom ask for Flame what he wants, but end up ordering for him instead a carrot salad and a glass of water al along with a dessert tagging along right away due to the waiter's shilling and begging. He then comes out of his buddy's body.
"Better?" Phantom ask to him, who rubbed his heads and lightly nod, but remained silent. "...Alright." The little ghost went back inside of Flame.
(Get out...) Phantom could hear what Flame just said loud and clear now despite the inner voices. Phantom obliges himself, getting out of his buddy's body.
"My bad, it just...You seem to be getting better if I'm inside...Just that odd feeling." Phantom shrugged.
"Hm..." Flame looks back to his right arm and bites himself. A sickening crack fills the area while Phantom's eyes widen and shook, screaming at the sight. "FUCK'S SAKE MAN, NO!" and backing up, phasing through his seat,and into a Excadrill.
"HELP!" He got up quickly, about to grab onto Flame's head, but stopping himself, his right claws above the Scorbunny's head. He gets out from the confused, yet sickened ground-type and began to try to pry off Flame from his gashing wound.
Meanwhile the ground-type looks around the restaurant and forward himself to a Slowbro while some near the self-attacking scorbunny stopped eating to watch the scene, and others continued to eat.
Meanwhile one of the waiter Slurpuff came to the duo. "Excuse me! Let me help!" He got himself up on the table and sniffed out Flame's arm while Phantom managed to break his buddy from biting himself more.
"This is a dream...!" Flame let out to Phantom with a raucous voice, rubbing his head with the unharmed arm.
"NO! IT'S REAL! COME ON, MAN!" Phantom tried to wrap the wound inside one of his invisible hand, stopping the bleeding from the gash.
"I know just how to remedy it!" The dog type proudly says while the sweet scent surrounding him took a herbal one. Not too soon and Flame realized his mistake, getting a paw on his wound, but couldn't due to Phantom's block as he screeched back in pain.
"E-Err! I thought I'd be of help! Sorry!" The fairy type let out, widening his eyes toward the teary-eyed fire type in pain bawling.
Meanwhile the Excadrill came back, pushing the slowbro back toward the trio. "Come on, do your job." He growled to the other, who simply watched the scene...Then let out a healing beam toward the Scorbunny. Not too soon and the horrible gash shut itself in while Flame expression changed to a confused, but painless one.
"You're welcome." The ground-type growled to the group, nudged the Slowbro at his side, who didn't seem to fully understand what was going on staying on spot, then went to sit down to eat the rest of his meal. Both Phantom and Flame didn't turn their sight away from the wound despite the voice.
The waiter looks back to the Excadrill, letting out thank yous to him, he then went down the table and get back to work. "Are you alright?" Phantom ask to Flame, giving him a pat on the back through invisible hand.
Flame takes a moment to investigate his arm, looking at the details of the now sealed up wound despite all the blood and some fur that fell off. "Phantom, could you remove your weird hand?"
"Ah- Um...Sorry." Phantom immediately remove the invisible bandage-like wrapper from his arm.
The Scorbunny let a paw slide on where he made the wound. "I feel it now."
Phantom takes his seat, letting Flame regroup himself.
"So this wasn't a dream?" The scorbunny kept looking at his bloodied arm.
"Nah." Phantom shook his head, keeping a distraught look.
Flame looks around, noticing the Slowbro still standing nearby of them. "...And we are at...?"
"The daily Chow."
Flame got up on his chair and stretched himself, making a check up of his body then rubbed his eyes. "Yep! All fine!" He let out with a smile despite the glaring amount of blood on his arm and on the table.
"...Yeah- Alright, no more shrooms, okay?"
Flame sits back on the chair and let his paws spread on the table, giving Phantom a confused look. "But Phantom! You said it was for a mission! And when I got to the guild, I was told it wasn't and it was illegal!" Meanwhile, the waiter came back with a rag in hand, soaked up.
"Here! Here! I brought you this!" He forward it happily toward Flame, who rises one hand toward the waiter.
"No, it's fine! I can lick it up!" Flame start licking his blood on his arm.
"Oh, that's fine then! I won't need to make a second trip!" He happily says while swabbing the table before leaving.
"You sure you should be licking your own blood, buddy?" Phantom ask.
"Yeah! Don't worry! Beside..." He looks back to the table. "I'm surprised it didn't heat up and burn the table? That's weird...Phantom, what were those shrooms?" Flame ask while licking off the rest of his blood.
"...Psylocin. Remember that Ampharos this morning?" Flame immediately forward himself to Phantom, pressing one paw against his lips and doing a SHHHH, gesture. (...Fine, I'll talk to you from here.)
Flame looks around, noticing the restaurant went into it's normal state. "...Phantom, you don't hear my thoughts?"
"Nope."
"Awww man...Come inside of me!" Flame ask while looking directly at Phantom. He obliges himself, forwarding into him.
Inside, Phantom could feel Flame's natural body state with not a single pain, voices or anything that may signal trouble. The hunger itself somehow dissipated, leaving the bunny in a satiate state. Outside he awaited his meal in the meanwhile, as if nothing is happening within his buddy's body. (Okay! So the Ampharos was found and sent to the guild. They were looking for a culprit all day and we were placed on a suspect list while gone!)
Flame kept explaining. (When I found your bag outside, it was when I and INDECII!) He shouts up. (I FORGOT! I TOLD HIM TO LEAVE HAPPY TOWN FOREVER WHEN HE BECAME A MONSTER! AWWWWWWWWWWWWW GEE.)
(Don't worry, he won't actually do it, right? I mean...Indeedees respond to your Dad first and foremost?)
(NO! IT'S EQUALITY BY DESCENDANT!)
(Don't worry, we just have to send a mail through the guild and they'll fix it up.)
(OH! RIGHT!) Flame had a internal sigh of relief. Meanwhile the waiter brought the carrot salad to the table along with a glass of water and a plate of whipped cream with a cherry on top. "Please enjoy!"
"Thank you!" (So what else happened?) Phantom thought to Flame while going for a bite.
(Phantom.)
(Yeah?) Phantom munched over the salad.
(I wanna eat!)
(Oh, sorry my bad.)
Phantom released himself from his bud and took back his seat. "I'm not really hungry but thanks!" Flame says while eating.
"Really? I thought you'd be! I recall feeling that need of hunger within you, man."
"Naaaaaaah, not after a healing beam! It's like a full meal!" Saying so, Flame spun up his fork and proudly let it stand in the air. "I thought you knew!"
"...That's very new to me, man. I thought I had to forward you to the hospital or something."
Flame looks back around the restaurant, somehow the slowpoke still hasn't moved from his spot. "We were pretty lucky- Thought that waiter- Please don't tip him!" Flame begged toward Phantom.
"Pfft...Yeah, you're getting it, buddy." Phantom chuckled.
"It's not that! Slurpuff cured me of the voices and that numbness on my arm, but it just got me in pain! You don't do that! I'd have been better off that way until whoever cured me did the beam!"
Behind them, the Excadrill chokes up on some food, giving out a laugh. He looks back at the duo and notices they both haven't seen their slow savior in the act, who still stood next to them. He goes back to eating.
"Aww c'mon, least he tried to do something. I couldn't do much myself." Phantom explained.
"Huh? No, you were right earlier! You have some sort of slow restoring power in the act, but it didn't really do much. I'm not even sure how you could tell I was hungry." Flame says with a confused look.
Phantom shrugs back. "Yeah, this shit's weird. We better get someone who can heal tomorrow."
"And teleport! Imagine if we nail someone like that!- Thought...I swore you could with all these Phantumps we saw appearing in the woods!"
"Yeah...I'm still trying to figure that out myself, man."
Flame kept eating his food, enjoying both the desert and the salad. Phantom watched him go at it, noticing how the licked wound had almost up to no blood anymore, and no sign of the wound as the fur itself has taken it's normal shape. devoid of any sign of what just happened.
"Excuse me." The duo looks back toward the voice, a Gumshoos. "I couldn't help but notice...Weren't you two meant to be somewhere else?"
Both look at each other, Flame turns back to the Gumshoos. "Aren't you Detective Gummings?'
The pokemon takes a badges out around the edge of his coat-like fur, and shows it off. "The one and only. I've been told you two where hiding..." He looks back toward the food. "...Not eating."
"So I guess you've been filled with what happened?" Phantom let out to the Pokemon, keeping his eyes locked on his jaws and letting a invisible hand close toward the normal-type.
Flame kept eating. "We got nothing to hide." He forward a fork toward the man with a bright smile. Somehow, Phantom swear he saw his buddy's eyes shook as he set his eyes on the other. "We are innocent~ As in~ No~ Cent~" He chimed while guiding the fork as if doing a little musical scene.
"Then you don't mind if I pick this?" The Gumshoos slowly reach for Flame's backpack, grabbing it while looking at Flame who kept eating, but motioned to get the backpack off. With a discouraged look from not getting the reaction he want, the detective let out a sigh and takes it off, and puts his badge into his fur coat.
"...Hmrph. This isn't what I've heard." He opens up the backpack, then grins. "...Thought I can smell it from here." He snap a one of his finger toward a waiter. "Waiter! Come here!"
A slurpuff approached him with a ticket in hand. "Yes, yes?" He happily wagged his tail at the other.
"Would you like to tell me what you are smelling in there?"
The other gladly sniff it out. "Ohhhh! That smells like Mayor Pegsten! He loves to come eat here every two days!"
An air of disapproval flushed the detective's face toward the other. "...Who else do you know has that scent?"
"The ladies he usually brings and certain customers! Thought I do not know who! Would you like me to go in details?"
"...Has these two gentlemen ever been with the Mayor?" He raise a hand toward the duo, the waiter takes a moment to look at them back.
"Oh, no no! I've never seen them in my life!"
"Thank you, you may go." The waiter goes to a nearby table, servicing a Nidorina and her kids.
Meanwhile Phantom looks back to Flame. "Who's Mayor Pig stain?"
"Pegsten is a Grumpig with panache! He handles most of the business around Happy Town!"
"Sound like your buddy there just found a new criminal to go after!" Phantom chuckled.
"Huh? I don't see why? Dad said the mayor was in goodwill! He voted for him!"
"Really? Well, looks like he's gonna be disappointed."
"Awwww, that'd be bad! I don't wanna hear Daddy voted for the wrong guy!" Flame lamented.
"Eh, don't worry. This feel awfully normal to me." Phantom shrugged back.
Gummings forward himself to the table once more, checking the rest of the backpack before letting it fall on the table. "Nothing else in of worth- Thought I hope your friend is the one to smoke, kid. It's bad for your teeth." He taps his own clean white and sharp teeth toward Flame.
"Relax! I just received a healing beam so whatever damage it did to my teeth is fixed!" Flame spread his mouth toward the other.
"Wait, it FIX YOUR TEETH TOO?" Phantom screamed out.
"Yep!" Flame gladly says while balancing himself on his seat.
"Hm, shows your friend isn't from around. Anyway, I'm not here for discussions, I believe you two know why I am here?"
"Yep! And as we said earlier, we got nothing to hide!" Flame let out to the other once more.
"Yeah, all of it is a bad misunderstanding. I'm guilty for the shro-"
"So you admit it?" The gumshoos cuts Phantom.
"Yep, but I didn't know it was illegal." Phantom shrugged. "I'm from the forest-"
"Actually, he's from another world! He was a human!" Flame chimed in.
"Ah? Human? Where have I heard that before...?"
"WOAH!" Flame immediately let out, eyes sparkling and mouth agape toward the normal type.
"Wait, you know about my species?" Phantom ask.
"Of course, and you wouldn't have been in such a load of trouble if you said so much earlier. There is someone claiming to be a human at the guild!" The detective then scratch his neck. "Really pitiful too, the gal's been refusing to eat meat, nor to leave. I have no idea how she is right now."
"When was she found?" Phantom ask.
"My trainee found her not too long ago, about a week ag-"
"Hey! Just like you!" Flame yells out happily, forwarding himself toward Phantom while pressing his paws on the table.
"So she's the only human?" Phantom ask.
"About that, there has been some news about this, however it's been kept around certain groups of people. It would be preferable to keep it that way, as nobody knows why this is happening, nor how. Your best bet would be heading to the guild yourself." The detective explained then looks around. "...Not that it matter much for most pokemons, if anything...That could be just one big lie!"
The Gumshoos continue "...However, illicit substances are banned, and you two will have to justify yourselves at the guild. It doesn't help my good pal Lance has a tooth against you." Gummings chuckled toward Phantom. "It's seems you've got quite the talk to do!"
"You don't mind if I explain it all here and not back at whatever we're meant to go?" Phantom ask.
"Please, be my guest!" The other forward a hand toward the little ghost.
"Alright. I've been stolen by Flame's brother and sister." Phantom points at Flame with his tail end while still explaining. "When I came to pick up my backpack some days ago, I've noticed a bag of shrooms while one was in some weird comatose state, barely moving. I thought to myself, 'Yeah! Those must be fucking good!' And picked them up. Afterward they've been lying around in my backpack awaiting some uses. Well..."
"...Well...?" Gummings notion the other to continue.
"Alright, so. I wasn't very honest with Flame either. Yes, I've used those shrooms to drug an Ampharos- That I admit." Flame gave out a worrisome face toward Phantom, motioning with a hand to stop. "...And yes, I wanted to use these again on someone else, except this time a ghost."
"Ah?" Gummings let out.
"...Two ghosts actually, you ever heard of Haunter and Cofragigus?" Phantom ask to the Detective.
"Haunter and Cofagrigus, yes."
"Alright, so the base we bought today came with a ghostly room, and I came there expecting nothing, but then I found them. They kicked me out. Later in the day, I tried to bribe them into teaching me how to phase through walls with objects, but Flame found the stash first while I was kicked out again!"
The detective raises an eyebrow toward the little ghost. "You do realize all ghosts can natively move objects through walls, yes?"
"Hey now! I'm still learning about all that stuff I can do!" Phantom let out.
"...Is that why you don't have the stump?" The gumshoos points toward his face.
"Nah, I just hated that stump. I fucking hate having to- Ohhhhhhhh, yeah I think I get it."
"Well...Whether this is genuine or not, you still have to respond back to the guild. I suppose since this is your first infraction, only a note will come to your files-Much to my friend's displeasure."
"Wait, what did Phantom do to Lance?" Flame ask back to the Detective.
"Ah...My friend has a hard time with Phantom because...Well..." He chuckled. "It's rather silly, let just say his little girl will be disappointed seeing your friend's true form!"
"Actually, she knows. Wouldn't feel right for her to not know, you know?" Phantom shrugs.
"Oh! I thought for a moment you did the same thing to Alice!"
"PFFFT." Phantom tried not to laugh.
"...Well, I suppose with all that said, you shouldn't be staying too long inside the guild unless you two choose to stay overnight.. I've got news that your team base will need a rework so Team Guardian is in obligation to send someone and repair the damage as soon as possible. The Haunter and Cofagrigus were caught and sent to the guild where they will be prosecuted. As for the Pokemon claiming to be a human, she's a Vulpix. Ask for her and you should get a free pass to her no matter what happens."
The Gumshoos continued while taking out his badge. "If you'd like, my badge can send you to the guild-" Flame touches the badge and disappear.
"Well, uh- It was a pleasure, Gummings?" Phantom forward the backpack to himself, pressing a hand on both it and the badge...While also touching the detective with it's tail end. The two of them appeared in the guild, backpack still at Phantom's stubby hand.
"It was me." The Slowpoke finally say, sending off another healing beam on the empty seat where Flame was before returning to his seat.
"...Of course." Gummings says while looking around in disappointment, hiding back his badge into his fur outfit, then looks back to Phantom. "Don't do that next time, I have places to be. You two better go back to that restaurant and cough up your meal's money afterward." Gummings forward himself toward one of the psychic type nearby of him, asking to get teleported away.
"My bad." Chuckled Phantom in the meanwhile, spotting Flame waiting in line for the reception desk. Around them is the normal, jovial looking guild while night took over outside. The little ghost flies next to his buddy, putting back the backpack on him.
"Thanks, Phantom!" Flame happily says while putting it back.
"...So, Flame, everything is fine with you? No pain, no scar, no nothing?" Phantom ask.
"Huh? Why would I have a scar?" The bunny ask while checking his arm, pressing a paw and sliding it across where the wound should be.
"It's just that I didn't think pokemons had that sort of ability to heal...This way."
"You don't where you came from?"
"Nah, you need good'ol surgery in order to fix what you just did. That fucking sound man, I don't feel like sleeping after seeing you do something like that."
"Relax! You look like a wreck!" Flame laughed. "Beside you can't sleep, silly!"
"...Only through someone's sleeping powers I guess."
"Hmhm! You got nothing to worry about, I'm healed up, and raring to go!" The little Scorbunny proudly says.
"Man, I'm gonna have to change the note I've sent for new recruits."
A Kadabra greets the duo, this one having a different, shorter mustache from the other usual Kadabra. "Hello, welcome to the Happy Tree Guild! How may I help?" The psychic girl ask.
"Hi! I need to send a search party for a Indeedee called Indecii!" Flame ask
"Ah yes, you are the Scorbunny from earlier, aren't you? Indecii left a message to your family. Would you like to hear it?"
"Of course!"
"The message he left is this one: All my life has been spent servicing your family. From the very moment I was born, to this day. A spark within me yearns to explore this world, yet I was indecisive on where to go, or what to do. Today, I must thank Flame for pushing me toward the right direction. While I have no idea where I will head beyond Happy Town, I am glad this window of opportunity has opened for me. Do not weep for me, and send my regard to the rest of my family. May we meet again. Formely yours, Indecii."
"Awwwwwwwwww gee! Really?" Flame whined. "He was the best Indeedee EVER!"
"Really?" Phantom ask.
"YEAH!"
"I do not mean to interrupt your talking, but there is a pressing matter for you two that you must attend. Would you like to be send right away upstairs at the proper level?" The Kadabra ask.
Flame looks back to Phantom, who nods back. "We might as well." The little ghost says.
"WAIT! That means we have a choice, right? We can just leave the guild?" Flame ask to the Kadabra.
"While you have the illusion of freedom, trying to leave the guild will forward you directly to the level you have to be inside the happy tree. It is considered formal for you two to go where you have to be by yourselves...Else the psychics of the guild would have already send the two of you upstairs.
"Wow, for real? This is kind of weird." Flame let out, confused.
"Before you send us in, we'd like to know about a Vulpix that came to the guild. She claims to be a human?"
The Kadabra lift a eyebrow. "Where have you heard of this?"
"My friend's a human too!" Flame happily says while pointing at Phantom, who nods.
"Ah, then it won't be a problem. She enrolled herself with the guild trainee. Ask for a psychic type once you will be done with your business. Are you two ready to be sent out?"
The duo looks at each others then agrees to the psychic type. Not too soon and the two of them teleported in a room where three Alakazam and a Gothitelle kept a ghostly duo immobile. Haunter arms crossed and looking away from Lance Lucario, and Cofagrigus just standing on the ground.
"Heeeeey, look'it that! It's the ghost that stole a...whore's hole!" A female voice said from behind Phantom and Flame while the duo got wrapped in a telekinesis grab. Both of them let out a yelp of pain, however a invisible force forces both mouth to stay open mid-way.
"SHUT IT, GENGAR!" Screamed over the Lucario while the other cackles. The duo couldn't turn back behind to see the ghost.
"Awww c'mon, ya speciest! You should get some cheer for your peers, not jeers!
"I said shut it." Lucario walks back toward the duo. "...And release them."
"Noooooooo! We like it this way!" The ghost moved Flame's mouth while talking, who tried to break off the grasp.
"Yeah, we do! We love it!" Gengar then did the same to Phantom.
"I said. LEAVE THEM!" Lucario shouts over while stomping the ground.
"Okay, your majesty! There you go!" The duo fell to the ground, both letting out a ow. The two rubs their face while Phantom flew back up. The Gengar cackled up at the sight of the little ghost. "Oh please! A ghost like you shouldn't even let that happen!"
"You two better have a good reason before I lock both of you in prison! START TALKING!" Lance shouts out to the duo.
"...What is wrong with you?" Flame ask, confused.
Gengar press a hand on Flame's shoulder and points at Phantom. "Oh, don't worry about him. He's just mad his daughter fell for a ghost!"
"Hey, we didn't do anything wrong. She only kissed me on the cheek!" Phantom says toward Lucario while pointing at one cheek. The steel/fighting type then grabbed him by the neck, blue aura emanating from his paws. "ACK-"
"Don't take me for a fool. I know what you did to that Kirlia, your intentions, your vile thoughts. If you get near my daughter again, I swear you won't even live another day."
"Hey! Technically he's already dead!" Laughed the Gengar.
"SHUT UP!" Lucario lances to the ghost.
"Hey! It's not Phantom's fault! Alice did a spell to attract Phantom! I was affected too and wanted to do stuff to her too! I'm as guilty as he is!" Shouted Flame. "You lied to me when I knew she was in there!"
"But that means you are innocent!" The Gengar pats Flame's back.
"Spell or not, I don't want a vile being like him around her." Lucario keep glaring at the little ghost.
"Well then your desires are your orders, I'm not gonna get near her again." Phantom let out to Lance, trying to get his paw off.
"LYING PRICK!" Lucario throws over Phantom, who stabilizes himself in the air.
"Hey, calm down now. When I say something, it's usually true!" Phantom says to the other.
"I can still feel that desire, it's emanating from your very aura." Lucario growls out, glaring at Phantom.
"Alright, maybe somewhere I want to see her again, but she'll have to do the steps, y'know? And someone who makes the steps first means they fully want it!" Phantom says while moving toward the pack of psychics holding the two ghosts. "Beside, we're not here for me, we're here for them!" Phantom forward his tail toward the ghostly duo."
Haunter looks back toward Phantom with a pissed off look, arms still crossed. "You're not here for us. You're here because your stupid friend brought the..."Fun wild, Arceus shit" whatever you named it that you couldn't bring down OUR place." Haunter points out to Phantom.
"C'mon, you have to admit. It was the most fun we had in a while!" A female voice came out of the coffin as it opened up, a large grinning shadow let a hand to pat behind the Haunter. "You got all giddy over it too looking at your idol!"
Haunter smirks toward Cofagrigus. "...Yeah, okay. You got me there. The opportunity to fight a Lucario got over my head! I admit!" He laughed off.
Meanwhile Lucario let one paw on his muzzle, discouraged by the duo. "You two...Why would you even say such a thing?" He shook his head.
"Let's just head out to the point! The problem was shrooms, wasn't it? I can't digest it!" Gengar laughs.
"It's not just shrooms. These two has a large amount of gold in their base, and-"
"The gold was made by Indecii! My Indeedee! Was there even a problem with that?" Flame cuts Lucario's words.
"There! That explains it! No wrong in doing your own money!" Gengar kept cackling.
"Except it is. A law specifically says you cannot produce gold within Happy Town. It's forbidden." Roared Lucario.
"Now now now, let's not be hasty. It says WITHIN! Do you even have proof it was made by the Indeedee INSIDE the base?" Gengar coos up while flying behind the Lucario, patting one of his shoulder. The other rolled his eyes in response. "Beside, you know the rules. It would take visual cues from more than three psychic types to pry off the proper memories first hand. All three has to match, and a proper talk to get it right- My my- Isn't that Indeedee out of town too? ...Where laws does not affect him~?" Gengar cackled.
"Ugh...Of course." Lucario then motion his hand in a talking manner, taking a sort of comical, yet sarcastic tune. "The laws does not affect the wild! Everything goes outside! No you can't pursue criminals outside. You need a warrant!"
"Actually, you can pursue them! It's just won't bring you any reward or glory!" Gengar went behind Lance and pat his back. "You're a real glory hole, sweet heart!"
"Shut it." Lucario roars out to the ghost.
"Gengar's right. The gold can stay." Flame angrily says to Lance.
"Even if you are not found guilty of it, you can't simply use it around town. It needs to be marked with the proper seal of the town onto the coins, and they need to be in a certain shape. At this point they're as unique as droplets of water." The Lucario explained.
"Droplets of water my ass! They're still as valuable as any coins! You're just making it up, the law doesn't state you can't use them! They only state you cannot produce them IN town!- Hell! How do YOU think we accept currency from anywhere else?" Gengar then rubbed the Lucario's head. "Beside barely any pokemons are known to be able to produce them through thin air! If anything, it's a surprise the Cinder's Family is known for making money anywhere BUT the indeedees themselves!"
"Yeah! My family makes honest money!" Flame stand proud saying so.
Lance let out a sigh. "If the gold isn't a problem, the shrooms certainly are."
"Yeah, but for the mushrooms I didn't know they were bad!" Phantom says while getting near the lucario, but far enough to keep an eye on him. "My backpack was stolen by Flame's brothers and sisters so I had to get it back myself...And picked them in the way. I had no idea what the hell those effects where on them. I just saw a Raboot in paradise, and said to myself they were the fun kind!"
"...Paradise?" Flame ask toward the little ghost, who kept talking.
"So yeah, I did give some to a Ampharos earlier today. And I was meant to bring some to these two so they could teach me how to phase through walls-"
The Haunter began to laugh, Gengar began so as well once more. "REALLY?" The Cofagrigus got out of her coffin to look at the little ghost, then laugh out while getting herself back into her box.
"THIS KID...!" Haunter let out while still laughing.
"That's the most pathetic excuse I've heard. A Phantump asking how to phase through walls with objects." Lucario frown toward the little ghost. "And yet you are emanating truthfulness. You don't even have a stump."
"Your daughter got stumped by a stumpless bastard!" Gengar kept cackling.
"Alright, alright, enough with that. Anyway, thing is I had no idea those shrooms where bad time. Hell, Flame RIGHT THERE bit into his arm, cracking his fucking bones! You'd think I want to see that?" Phantom points out to Flame while forward himself to him, giving him a worrisome expression.
"Yeah but my arm's totally fine now!" Flame happily says while showing off the arm where he bit himself. "I got healed up into shapes!"
"Yeah, but it's still some fucked up shit, man. If I knew you'd do something retarded like this, I'd never thought of giving you these."
"But you didn't? You said it was for a mission!" Flame gives Phantom a confused look.
"...Yeah, but I meant if they were good and had no sort of drawback. I had no intention of giving you some until I found out man." Phantom points out.
"You didn't try them yourself?" Flame tilts his head in confusion.
"Nah, didn't need to. I didn't want to test it out on my own person, nor entering into someone and getting all sort of fucked despite being a ghost man."
"Woah, woah! Don't say anything you two will regret! ...But please! Continue!" The gengar set herself in the middle of the two, getting her arms stretched between them as a sign to stop, but then flies up while cackling.
"...So the mushrooms belonged to someone else that you stole from...Who stole from you?" Lucario ask.
"Yep, that's it." Phantom respond back.
"Hey! Isn't there a rule somewhere stating if you had no ill manners, or didn't know about something, you're free to go? These two sure are dense!" Gengar joyfully let out.
"We aren't dense! We didn't know!" Flame angrily says to the ghost. "Big difference!"
"Fine. Anything else I must know?" Lucario crossed his arms toward the duo.
"Yeah, I'm actually a human." Phantom points out to himself.
Lucario's eyes widen. "...For real?"
"Yep! So that's another reason why Phantom wouldn't know!" Flame points out.
"That ghost told me so as well! Poor bastard has no manners." The Haunter says while pressing one hand on the Cofagrigus, rubbing her golden door.
"...And how long were you here now?" Lucario ask.
"A week."
"The shit I've heard...For real? One week?" Lucario took a curious look toward Phantom. "You're telling me you've figured how to perfectly control others when it took years for my partner to get it right?" Lucario forward a hand toward the Gengar, who rolled her eyes.
"Hey! It's a native ability, man! Plus I was on adrenaline when it happened!" Phantom explained.
"Ghost don't have that, silly!" Gengar pointed out.
"You got something akin, don't lie to yourself, Gengar." Lance says to his partner.
"Is everything good now? Are you two gonna make up?" Gengar coos up.
"No way!" Phantom says.
"NO!" Lance roared out.
"Good! That means you two are fine! The Phantump's no longer guilty, and gets to date the gir-" Lance throws a aura sphere toward his partner, who evaded it before it dissipated into thin air.
"NO ONE'S GONNA DATE MY DAUGHTER BUT MY SPECIES!" Lucario roared out.
"Please try not to use attacks here. We already got a handful." An Alakazam ask toward Lance.
"Pah, let the girl find out by herself! ...Old fart." Gengar coos up while snickering.
"Tch...You're as old as the earth!"
"Ouch! That's no way to talk to a lady!" She keep snickering.
Meanwhile Flame ask to Phantom. "But you said she was in love with me, right?"
"Yeah, technically she's more about you than me."
"Makes sense, I mean...You're a ghost so ghosts should be more your type!"
"Kind of I guess, I can detect that sort of stuff for some reasons."
"Silly, you don't need to detect ghosts to know they're your type!"
"Nah...Not just ghost, I mean anyone I can breed with." Phantom shrugged.
"Oh."
"Enough." Lucario said. "You two are on watch. If I find out you've been breaking the law, I will personally take you in. Is that understood?" He roars up to Phantom and Flame.
"Fine by me." Phantom says.
"Sure, but how can we tell if we're breaking the law?" Flame ask, tilting his head in confusion and reproach.
"Oh, I can help with that!" Gengar clapped her hand twice. Two books appeared in front of Phantom and Flame. "Fast as ever, these psychic types! Those books contains ALL THE LAWS you need to know about Happy Town! Lucario claims he knows them by heart, but clearly, his heart is elsewhere!"
"Shut it, Gengar." Lucario growls to her.
"...And since you are a human!" Gengar claps once more her hands. "...It shouldn't take too long, you can make magic out of something, but not out of someone right away"
Meanwhile, the duo began to read some of the pages, both skimming it. "Huh? There's a law saying you can't cover yourself from head to toes when inside of happy town!" Flame says.
"I got one saying you can't change the weather unless it's a specific day like the water festival." Phantom let out.
Suddenly, a ice-type Vulpix appeared in front of the duo. "WAAAAAAAH!" She screamed out as little shards of ice began to invade into the room. It didn't take long for both Flame, Phantom, Lance, Gengar and the Vulpix to get teleported out of the room without warning before they could say a thing, all trying to block off the little shards. They found themselves outside of the guild in a spot with barely any pokemons around as the hailstorm followed them.
Gengar went into a laughing fit, one arm up while blocking the hail with a shadowy shield. "You AGREED to this yet you've PANICKED? Silly girl!"
"Calm down! You almost released two criminals!" Lucario says to her.
"HOW COME I TELEPORTED OUT OF THE BLUE?" She screamed out in a panic, looking around. "WHY AM I OUTSIDE?"
"YOU HAD A WARNING!" Lucario shouted to her.
"Here, buddy." Phantom forward himself to Flame and enveloped each others in a sort of invisible bubble shield. "Hey! Nice to meet you! Can you stop with the hail?" Phantom says in English toward the Vulpix.
"EEEEEEEEEEEK! YOU'RE A GHOST!" The other shouts out toward Phantom in English.
"And you're the cutest thing ever! Next to Flame that is." Phantom pats Flame's head. "Can I pet you?"
"OF COURSE NOT! I'M A HUMAN! ...Um...Kind of?" She sat back as the hail stopped.
Meanwhile Gengar looks back to Lucario. "Hey, you can understand them?" She ask with a teasing voice, nudging his shoulder.
"Of course not. I can just get the gist of it." Lucario crossed his arms.
"So, how long have you been in this world?" Phantom ask to the ice type,still talking in a foreign matter to the other pokemon.
"I've been here for seven days now. I got no recalling of who I was beyond my name and that I was human."
"...And what's your name?"
"My! It's Destiny!" She proudly says.
"Bullshit, that's just fucking around with me. You don't recall a thing about your name too, don't you?"
"Don't say these mean words! Hmph! Okay, I can't recall my real name, but Destiny is a normal one for humans...Right?" She ask with a confused, yet hopeful look.
"...Nah. It's not. Even Lance here has a better name than yours." Phantom points to Lucario with it's tail. "...And now that I think about it, it's rather strange but yeah, I can't recall my own name at all, or what makes a good human name." Phantom shrugged.
"See? It's why I gave myself such a good one! What's your name anyway? I bet you don't have one!"
"Yeah, you're right. Mine's Phantom. Literally Phantom. Ain't gonna bother much until I find my own, but who am I to bother? Life here's great!" Phantom let out while picking up the ice-type Vulpix with his two invisible hands, she looks around in panic as the hail began anew.
"WHAT IS HAPPENING?! LET ME DOWN!" She yells out in the normal pokemon language.
"Hahahaha! Sorry! My bad! I'm just trying to make a point here!" Phantom said in English while bringing her down, and then patting her head while rubbing her neck.
"Ugh, stop it! I'm not a dog!" She break lose of the headpats and scratches while talking back in English.
Meanwhile Gengar continued to Lucario. "Are you suuuuuuuuure you don't understand them?"
"I sure don't."
"Aw, come on! I bet you do!"
"Not one bit." Lucario keep shifting his eyes from the vulpix to the ghost, denoting their auras.
Meanwhile, Flame kept watching the two talking in the meanwhile, keeping a confused but curious look.
"Anyway, were you with anyone else when you came to yourself?" Phantom continued to the Vulpix.
"Huh? You mean when I first woke up in this world?"
"Yeah."
"Um...I was in the forest and made way for happy town when I saw that big tree in the sky...Then I was found by a Jigg...ly...Puff?"
"Jigglypuff?"
"Yeah! A sort of weird pink ball! She said she was training to become a detective! It was weird!"
"...And she got you to the guild?"
"Yep!"
"...And did you bother to explore happy town?" Phantom ask while lifting a stubby hand around him.
"No way! I've stayed in the guild all this time! I mean...Look at me!" She tapped her legs and arms about. "I'M A DOG!"
"Pffft...Bitch in your case." Snickered Phantom.
"HEY! THAT'S MEAN!" She yells out to him.
"Alright, alright, joke aside you really don't recall anything worthwhile to why you've been turned into this?"
"I really don't! And stop saying mean things!"
"Alright, sure thing, Destiny." Phantom let out another chuckle. "How about you join me and my buddy's team? I'm sure you'll like it." The little ghost says while patting Flame's shoulder, who yawned.
"Waaaaaaait, I can't just join a team! I mean- I don't have the required skills! I don't wanna get hurt! And most importantly, I don't have what it takes!"
"Bullshit! That hail you did earlier can be very handy! I bet you got more than what you bargain for lying inside of you, just waiting to roar out in the heat of battle!" Phantom laughed.
"Ugh, no..." She took a moment to think. "...Fine. Fine- What's your team's name?"
"Team God!"
"Excuse me?" She tilts her head in confusion but a sort of reproach.
"Yeah, Team God. Literally God! I got that idea with Flame here when I said Arceus, but couldn't! So I went with the best name ever! People won't see it coming, heheh!"
"Alright. We'll be leaving you three. I and Gengar has to go elsewhere. Flame, Phantom, you better not get into trouble again or I will personally come for you two." Lucario points at the two before leaving.
"Um, sure?" Flame says to Lucario, weird out by him."Bye!" He then waved at the two.
"See ya man!" Phantom waved as well with a teasing voice only to gain a glare from Lance.
Meanwhile Gengar got to Lance's side. "Awww come on, what do you mean we have to go elsewhere? I wanna keep watching this out of world conversation! Shouldn't you be staying too? You need to keep watch! Bet they're explaining all their otherwordly plans while you're just letting them at it! C'mon, let's stay!" The girl cackled while floating next to him.
"Shut it, Gengar." Lance let out to the other.
"Sooooo...Phantom, I take it she doesn't know how she became one either?" Flame ask to the little ghost.
"Nah, she don't."
"I can talk in your weird language too, you know!" Destiny let out to Flame.
"Of course, but it's so weird hearing another language!" Flame says with a smile.
"Anyway, you're welcome into our team if you want, girl. You got a nice spot awaiting you, and I bet you'll fit in like a glove!"
"...Ugh...I guess I must...I've been told I should get out more, and really...I have no idea what I should be doing. Training at the guild is fine but it's starting to take it's toll on me, I don't like training much."
"Training is fine, but you don't like it much?" Flame ask, then laughs.
"You know what I mean!" Vulpix let out.
"No I don't!" Flame kept laughing.
"Anyway, the team base is currently being repaired and night is here. You should get some sleep for tomorrow. We'll pick you up around dawn or something." Phantom finally let out while looking around toward the night sky.
"Oh? Where are we going?" Flame ask.
"We'll go fix the team recruit message so we got a proper place to greet people, then we'll hit off a hotel or your mansion."
"WHAT? HOTEL? MANSION? THIS WORLD?" Destiny screamed. "I WANNA COME!" She forward herself to the duo.