September 4, 2020 - Peacekeeper Agency Headquarters

Jojo's Perspective

Today is the day…. Let's do this.

All three of us went inside the building and went up the stairs, we opened the door into Alakazams private museum and…

It was completely empty, all of his artifacts were gone, and the room was now tiny, the size of a public bathroom.

In the center of the room was a table with some pills and glasses of water, a speaker inside of the room went off.

" please ingest a pill to be sent to the tryouts ", this was the fishiest thing I have ever seen in my life, I walked up to the table and picked up a pill with one of my paws.

" Jojo you aren't just going to eat some pill just because Alakazam told you to!? " Raymond warned.

Should I eat this mystery pill because a psychic told me to?… of course I will!

I popped it in my mouth with some water and swallowed, I turned around to face the two of them and smirked, ": see? I-it's noothing baaaaaaaad " my vision started getting blurry, then everything went dark.

Raymond's Perspective

What a klutz…

Jojo collapsed on the ground, not moving a muscle, I think that pill was a sedative, the hell is going on!?

I knelt down and examined him, he's still alive, just knocked out.

I heard some rustling where the table was, I turned around and saw Evie picking a pill off, " oh no no no DO NOT put that in- ".

GULP

" your mouth… ".

She collapsed on the floor, I sighed and went over to the table, I picked one up and examined it, it was small and plain white, oh… screw it.

I popped it in my mouth and drank some water, everything started getting blurry, then I blacked out.

Somewhere else…

Narrator

Alakazam and a few other agents were at an undisclosed location, he was putting up an image of the trio with his psychic powers.

" he brought some friends with him, let's hope they aint a waste of time… " one of them said.

Alakazam turned to one of the agents, " Vance, begin the simulation… ".

" Sure thing boss! " the agent named Vance replied, he pulled out a device and pressed some buttons.

Evie's Perspective

" ugh… where am I? " I groaned as I slowly got up, I'm never going to voluntarily sedate myself ever again!

I was inside of a plain, grey room, the floor was cold as stone, and the only thing illuminating the place was a lamp attached to the ceiling, there weren't any exits from what I could see.

" gooood morning future agents! " a voice came from seemingly nowhere, " right now you are inside of a mock mystery dungeon, your skills and abilities will be tested to their fullest, the ferals here will be mostly grass and normal types, good luck!* click * ".

Suddenly, four doorways slid open on each side of the room, each one leading into a hallway.

I went into one of them and hoped for the best.

One floor in…

I shot out a hyper voice at a feral furret, it flew into a wall and got knocked unconscious, I heard some growling behind me, I turned around to see a linoone charging at me, I shot out another hyper voice at it, it flew back a couple of metres.

I stepped back to catch my breath, and then proceeded to move on to the next room.

Undisclosed Location

Narrator

" Vance? " Alakazam asked while watching the feed, " can you give an ID on that eevee? ".

" I can… " the agent shuffled through some files provided by the government, " here it is! Hmm, Evie Williams, 14 years old, student at Pecha Town Public School, daughter to famous explorers Chris Williams and Jesse Williams, wait… woah THE WILLIAMS, this kid is so cool! ".

" Vance… " Alakazam said to snap him out of it.

" oh oh sorry… hmm, she lives with her grandmother, her grandfather was murdered several months ago, she frequents a lot of mystery dungeons, been caught trespassing a ton of times but never arrested since she never stole or broke anything, and she's close friends with a riolu named Joseph Joestar and a snivy named Raymond Redfield, heh, funny names ", Vance looked at the psychic image, " rock on little eevee : he whispered, eeveelutions always have a soft spot for eevees.

Evie's Perspective

I continued down a hallway into another plain grey room, this monotony is gonna drive me crazy, I can barely tell if i've already been in a room or not.

There was some scurrying near me, I turned around to the noise and saw a bunnelby that didnt notice me yet.

The room I'm in is completely empty, there's nothing to hide behind, the bunnelby quickly noticed me and prepared to pounce, it then got blasted by a thunderbolt.

I looked at who shot it and saw a very familiar pikachu, " Tom! " I shouted to him, he was a bit far away.

" Evie!? Never thought I would see you here " he chuckled.

We both high-fived and agreed to accompany each other.

Raymond's Perspective

Ooooough, I shouldn't have taken that pill…

I slowly got up and scanned my surroundings, I was in a monotone grey room with a lamp fixed on the ceiling.

Where am I?

Suddenly a voice started coming out of nowhere, I couldn't pinpoint where it was coming from, " gooood morning future agents!, right now you are inside of a mock mystery dungeon, your skills and abilities will be tested to their fullest, the ferals here will be mostly grass and normal types, good luck!* click * ".

A doorway opened on each side of the room, I walked through one of them and ended up in another monotone grey room.

I looked around the room and saw nothing, I was about to go to another one but I was slapped on the head by a vine.

I jumped to the side and looked at my assailant, it was a feral bellsprout, it shot out some strange yellow cloud of dust out of its mouth, I accidentally inhaled some of it and I collapsed on the ground, crap I've been paralysed!

The bellsprout came up to me and repeatedly used vine-whip, damn I never knew how much a vine-whip hurt until now.

" Get the hell off that dude! " A new voice bellowed behind the bellsprout, a guitar smashed opened the walking flower's head and the person kicked the feral away.

That person was an oshawott, " you okay man? I'm Oliver " he asked me, he reached out his paw to help me up, I grabbed it and pulled myself to my feet.

" yeah I'm alright, thanks for that, my name is Raymond ".

For some reason his guitar wasn't with him, " uhh, where is that guitar that you took out the feral with? ".

" It's right here " Oliver extended both of his arms and his guitar manifested out of nowhere and landed in his paws.

" woah " I exclaimed.

" It's my stand, and now… " he dramatically turned around and pulled out his scalchop, " I will show you its power! 「Delta Blues!」he strummed the guitar once and some strange sound-wave thing shot out from it, " using the sound waves coming from my stand, I can use echolocation to map out the entire floor, this way! " he pointed to a hallway and started running, I followed after him.

Undisclosed Location

Narrator

" Vance? " Alakazam asked.

" already on it! " Vance was rummaging through a bunch of files, " here they are! " he exclaimed as he pulled out two files.

" lets see here… Oliver Jackson, 16 years old, highly skilled guitarist and fighter, and a conspiracy theorist, and then there's Raymond Redfield, 14 years old, enrolled in Pecha Town Public School, he's being taken care of by his mom, he has a dream of being in a guild, to be honest he's kind of a nobody ".

Alakazam said nothing and kept watching.

Jojo's Perspective

Three floors in...

" is this seriously the best they could do? " I muttered as I knocked out an oddish, this was perhaps the easiest mystery dungeon I've been in yet.

I went down another hallway and into the next floor.

Four floors in….

" stop fighting! " I growled as I had a turtwig in a chokehold, it was squirming really hard, I squeezed even harder on its neck, it squirmed even less, then it stopped moving.

I let go of it and let it fall, as I expected it didn't get back up, I sighed and walked into another hallway.

Undisclosed Location

Narrator

Alakazam looked at Vance.

" just a sec, found it, Joseph Joestar, age: 14, highly skilled fighter, has proficiency in a long lost energy called ' ripple ', possible connections to the elusive ' Hamon Clan ' way up north but evidence shows he has never even stepped foot on the snow continent, showed up out of nowhere with no relatives, proven to be a human-turned-pokemon, he's enrolled in Pecha Town Public School and is being taken care of by… Lucario!? Damn I haven't heard from her in ages! ".

Alakazam didn't bother to snap Vance out of it and looked back at the image.

Jojo's Perspective

12 floors in…

Even though this place wasn't hard, it sure was tiring!

After resting for a bit, I continued to trek through the mystery dungeon.

I walked into another boring grey room and groaned, " this place sucks ass! " I shouted out loud to myself.

Suddenly the ground started shaking, and a trevenant burst out of the ground! It gave out a deafening roar and swung at me.

I didn't have any time to dodge, I got flung across the room and collided with the stone wall, a loud crack sound emanated from my body and pain shot through my back.

I screamed in pain as I fell from the wall onto the floor, I landed on my shoulder. I was in so much pain that I didn't notice the giant tree monster towering over me, when I did, it already had its arm up to crush me.

But for some reason, the arm wasn't coming down on me, I quickly got up while it was hesitating and struck it with a hamon-charged roundhouse kick! Chunks of wood broke off of the feral.

I soon realised that the trevenant wasn't hesitating, its arm was being pulled back by an unseen force, the trevenant abruptly flew backwards across the room heading into one of the walls, but then right before hitting the wall it stopped, flew up a little, and slammed into the ground and got knocked unconscious by the force.

" you alright cub? " someone scoffed, she was a meowstic, " actually don't answer that, I don't care ".

I slowly got up and smiled, " thanks ".

She furrowed her brow, " just stay out of my way ".

Wow… tough nut to crack.

" Do you mind if we stick together? " I asked.

" ugh, fine " she begrudgingly agreed.

13 floors in...

" you know, I never got your name, " I asked Meowstic

" shut up " she snapped, how unsavory…

We both heard some footsteps coming from a hallway, we took cover inside of another hallway connecting into the room and peered in.

Two people came in, a pikachu and… Evie!?

I ran out of the hallway to greet them, the pikachu got into a fighting stance but was quickly calmed down by the eevee, " hey, Jojo, how's the dungeon treating you? ".

" pretty good, over there is Meowstic, she's kind of a jerk OW " some invisible fist probably coming from Meowstic whacked me on the head.

" Well, we should stick together, we have a better chance that way " the pikachu suggested.

We all agreed ( Meowstic needed more convincing but in the end she reluctantly went with us ).

15 floors in…

How long does this place go on for!?

We've been in here for a couple of hours, and we're all tired as hell.

" how many more floors do you guys think there are? " Evie asked us.

The pikachu who told us his name was Tom rubbed his chin, " the announcer did say it would be hard as hell, so I'm guessing about 10 or more floors ".

We were all miserable because of his assumption, we continued to go on.

Narrator

Undisclosed Location

" uhhh guildmaster sir? " Vance asked Alakazam, " the participants are getting restless, and they all already proven themselves, I think it's a good idea to bring in the final challenge now ".

" do it then Vance ".

" a-alright ".

Evie's Perspective

Back in the mystery dungeon…

" wow! Your parents are THE famous williams duo!? " Oliver exclaimed to me, his face suddenly went grim, " o-oh uh, sorry for your loss " he scratched the back of his head.

It took all of my willpower to hold myself together at the thought, " i-its alright " I replied.

The disembodied voice from before came back again, " hello future agents! You are all on the final floor, we will now release ' the final challenge '... good luck! ".

We all stood there in silence and anticipation, what's ' the final challenge '?

My ( and probably everyone else's ) question was answered by a loud rumbling noise coming from a faraway room,

BOOM!

A feral steelix burst out of the ground, but there was something strange about it, it was double the size of a normal one, it had blue eyes and its lower jaw was heavily armored, its rock spikes and tail were made out of some sort of crystal, and a strange metallic ring was circling around its body.

" no way… " Tom was shocked, " a mega steelix! " he yelled in disbelief.

A mega steelix… like one that mega-evolved? I thought mega-evolution was a myth.

While I was preoccupied with thinking about mega-evolution I was tackled by Jojo, a wave of heat rushed over us, we were right under a dragon breath.

" take this! " Tom cried out as he struck the steelix with an iron-tail, there was a sickening crunch sound as his tail collided with the feral, the steelix was unphased for some reason, wait… oh no.

" AGH MY TAIL AAAGH! " Tinker Tom cried in agony, trying to clutch his tail and failing because his arms are tiny as hell.

I took one look at his normally zig-zag shaped tail and cringed, that's not supposed to bend that way.

The dragon-breath raging over us subsided and we both got up, Jojo took a few steps back, " physical attacks won't do that much against it, so hamon is out of the question ", he muttered to himself.

The steelix slithered up to him and prepared to crush him with its own iron-tail attack, Jojo had no time to get out of the way, so he charged up his right arm with hamon energy, " ripple beat! " he let out a battle cry as he chopped the incoming iron-tail with his paw.

Surprisingly his arm didn't break, a giant crack formed on the steelix's tail, it roared as it recoiled back.

" at least it's made out of stone, despite its name " Jojo remarked.

" Everyone stand back, I got this " Meowstic stepped forward and extended both of her paws outwards facing towards the steelix.

The feral steelix charged at her, " closeeeer… " she whispered.

The steelix was 50 meters away from her, " just a bit closer… ".

It was now 10 meters away from her " there! ", the steelix suddenly stopped, an invisible force was holding it by the edge of its tail, the steelix was pulled back with a yelp, then it was pulled upwards.

The invisible force started swinging the steelix around by its end like a piece of cloth, after several seconds of being swung it was tossed across the room, a deafening " crash " was heard as it collided with the wall, it was finally unconscious.

Meowstic wiped some sweat off of her brow, " damn… that was tiring ".

I was frozen in shock at what just happened, I looked over to Tom who stopped screaming in complete agony but still pained nonetheless, Jojo was hunched over him grabbing the bent end of his tail.

" alright, this is just going to sting, are you ready? " Jojo asked Tom.

" yeah yeah just do it ".

Jojo grabbed both parts of Tom's tail and in one motion bent his tail so it would be straight, there was another crunch as he bent it. Tom gave out another blood curdling screech.

" AAAAAGH YOU… YOU SAID IT WOULD JUST STING! " the pikachu cried out in pain.

" I did say that~ " Jojo chuckled as he stood up and walked away, " I wonder where Raymond is… " he mumbled.

Suddenly the disembodied voice from before spoke up, " congratulations future agents! " it cheered, " all of you have passed! A week from now report to the agency headquarters to be notified of what to do, you will now be exiting the simulation ", I started to feel a bit dizzy, no wait, scratch that, really dizzy. Everything started to get blurry, then I blacked out.

Jojo's Perspective

" wakey wakey future guildie! " a very familiar ( and excited ) Lucario shook me awake, I opened my eyes and saw her on top of me clutching both of my shoulders, and… is that a party hat she's wearing?

I tilted my head to look behind her and saw that I was in the guest ( my ) bedroom, it was filled to the brim with balloons and a giant paper sign that said " congratulations! " at the far end of the room.

I gave her an amused look, " can you please get off of me? " I asked.

" oh oh sorry " she quickly got off of the bed and headed towards the door, " make your way towards the lawn, you don't want to miss the party " she advised, party!? Hell yeah!

I quickly bolted out of the bed and through the doorway, I stumbled my way through the hallways and out the front door, before I could see what was happening something cardboard was slapped on my head, " don't forget the essentials~ " Lucarios said besides me, I felt for what was placed on my head and found that it was a party hat, I grinned and walked to the lawn.

There was a huge white tent set up, under it was a giant table with a cake and several, no wait not several… a lot of pokemon surrounding it, all of them I know.

There were some of my classmates, Mr. Wobbuffet, Lucario's rescue team, some townspeople I made friends with and Raymond and Evie.

Lucario cleared her throat and went up into the middle of the tent, " hello partygoers! Tomorrow we will go about our ordinary lives, but tonight we celebrate the accomplishments of these three kiddos! " she motioned over to me, Evie and Ray.

Lucario guided me towards the cake and handed me a knife like it was my birthday, is it my birthday? Holy crap I don't even know when my birthday is! No matter, just have to cut this cake.

I slowly brought the knife through the cake, when the knife touched the plate on the bottom I retracted it from the cake, everyone around me cheered and started gobbling it up.

Lucario handed me a slice on a paper plate, I thanked her and went over to Ray and Evie, who were enjoying their slices.

They both smiled at me with their mouths filled with cake, I smiled back and walked away.

A bit later…

I was leaning on the wall of the house with Lucario, " Lucario? " I asked her.

" * gulp * yeah? " she replied while drinking a can of what she told me is soda ( definitely beer ).

" you're 36 right? Shouldn't you be married at that age? " she seemed bewildered at my question, but understood my sentiment.

" I'm not, I just haven't found anyone that was my type… well… there was this flareon that I was with back when I was a rookie in my guild ".

" oh, what happened to him? ".

" we went our separate ways, who knows? We might bump into each other again ".

I nodded.

Near the end of the party…

The party started to die down, some people already said their goodbyes and left, others were getting tired and started to leave.

The cake was completely gone, all that was left was a few crumbs.

I was lying on the ground, I think I ate too much cake, agh my stomach…

" e-ey Jo...jo, you still awake? " Lucario ( who was currently in a hangover ) asked me.

I groggily got up, " y-yeah, if you don't mind… " I yawned, " I'm going to go to my bed before I pass out " I shuffled my way over to the house.

" a-alright * hic * " she waved.

I entered the house and walked down a hallway, still clutching my gut. I stumbled through a doorway and collapsed into my bed, I closed my eyes and drifted off into sleep.

Evie's Perspective

I lived in this very house for years, but ever since that day, I always wanted to forget it ever existed.

I was standing in front of my old home, where I used to live with my parents, not sure why though, I could've sworn I went to sleep…

The house was about as big as Lucario's house, probably bigger, but the thing setting this apart from Lucario's house was that it was falling apart, paint was peeling off of the walls, mold and vegetation consumed the entire place, and I'm pretty sure the ceilings are about to collapse.. I walked up to the front door, it was already unlocked, I slowly pushed it open with my paw,

For some reason the door flung opened, a small eevee phased through my body and pranced into the doorway, it didn't seem to pay me any attention, as if I was never there.

The small eevee was extremely joyful, a small smile appeared on my face, I noticed that it had a bag slung over its back.

It skipped its way into the living room, the house suddenly became more lively and intact, I followed it, the eevee made its way over to a flareon, " daddy look what I found! I think it's an artifact! I found it in a cave ", wait… that flareon looks familiar.

" hmm? Let's take a look at it then, show me " the flareon extended a paw, the eevee tilted its back to the side so the bag would hang over it's right side, it took off the bag and rummaged around in it, after a few seconds, its ears perked up, it pulled out… a stone mask.

The flareon tilted his head, " you got this from a cave you say? " he asked as the eevee handed him the mask, " strange… " the flareon held on to the mask with its mouth and walked over to a table, it took out the mask and placed it, " I'll have my men look into it, but make sure you're being careful in those caves, zubats can be quite aggressive sometimes ".

The eevee groaned, as if she heard this a million times already, " yeah yeah I know daddy ".

Both of them abruptly stopped moving, they suddenly started crumbling into dust, the room ( and the house it was in ) around me reverted back to its dilapidated form, the table that the mask was on collapsed, and the mask disappeared.

A part of me felt horrible dread at what just happened, I don't know why.

I made my way into another hallway and into a huge room with a giant staircase, a chandelier was on the floor, and the floor under it was smashed, I looked up and saw bits of chain, I think itr fell.

The room suddenly got livelier again, the chandelier disappeared from the floor and reappeared hanging on the ceiling, it gave off a warm inviting glow, the same eevee from before was standing at the top of the stairs on some sort of sled, a vaporeon was sitting besides it.

The flareon was standing at the bottom of the stairs, " you ready kid? " the flareon asked the eevee.

" ready! " the eevee chirped, the vaporeon pushed the sled with the eevee on it down the stairs, " wheeee! " the eevee cheered as it slid down the stairs.

Right before the eevee reached the bottom the flareon got up on its hind legs and outstretched his front paws, when the eevee reached the bottom it rocketed out of the sled and straight into the paws of the flareon, " ough you're heavy " the flareon exclaimed as he fell back with the eevee in its arms.

They both laid there on the floor, the vaporeon was visibly worried and went down the stairs, but was reassured that they were both fine by them cackling wildly, " t-that was fun! " the eevee laughed.

The vaporeon joined in on their immature snickering, I laughed a bit too.

They all stopped in unison, all three of them crumbled into dust, the entire room reverted back into an old moldy mess, I frowned at the sudden change of tone.

I walked up the staircase that could barely hold itself together nowadays and into where all the bedrooms were, I peeked into one of them, it was a big one, it had a ruined king-sized bed, and a really big dresser that was falling apart, as I examined the furniture the room got livelier and more pristine like last time.

I looked over to the bed that used to be tattered, it was now fully intact and clean, in it was a very annoyed flareon and a vaporeon under the covers while a small eevee was jumping on it, " come on wake up please! " the eevee said as it repeatedly pranced around the bed.

" ugh, Evie its 8 in the morning! " the flareon groaned, " just * yawn * five more minutes alright? " the vaporeon mumbled.

They crumbled into ash again just as quickly as they appeared, the room went back into its messy broken state.

I walked out of the room and into another bedroom, this one was smaller, its bed was extremely small, it was the eevee's bed, there was an old broken dresser, and the room had a wallpaper with pictures of clouds on it, of course, the wallpaper was old and peeling off.

I walked into the room and waited for another flashback, it came, the room went back into a clean intact state, and now it was nighttime, the only thing illuminating the place was a lamp hanging from the ceiling.

In the bed was the small eevee, it was sleeping, but it seemed really distressed, like it was having a nightmare, sitting beside it was the flareon, waiting for the eevee to inevitably wake up.

The eevee's eyes jolted open and it yelped, the flareon grabbed onto the eevee's shoulders " Evie calm down! The monster… the pillar 'mon is not real! It can't eat you! ".

The eevee stopped shaking and looked back at the flareon, " i-its not here? " it whimpered.

" yeah yeah it wont " the flareon reassured, " and if it did come here, then it would have to go through me and mom first~ " it said softly.

The eevee sniffled, " d-do you promise? ".

The flareon extended a paw upwards, " I swear to Arceus if the pillar 'mon comes, I will beat it up for you " he smiled.

The eevee hugged the flareon, they both crumbled into dust and the room went back to its broken state.

I walked over to the doorway but was stopped halfway through by another flashback, it was daytime again, I looked back at the bed and saw that eevee laying in it, it looked sick.

It had a wet cloth on its forehead, and seemed really uncomfortable, a vaporeon was sitting beside it, giving it company.

The vaporeon was extremely concerned for the eevee, it sat there with its head hanging, before thinking of something and perking up, " Evie? Do you want to see something? ".

The eevee woozily turned its head towards the vaporeon, " y-yeh ' it choked out with a raspy voice.

The vaporeon walked away and out of the room, after a minute it came back in carrying a small box in its mouth, it set it down on a small table beside the eevee and opened it up, revealing a small white scarf, " this has been in our family for generations, it's a… What do westerners call it? Oh! An heirloom ".

The vaporeon tied the scarf around the eevee's mane, " it fits you well doesn't it? Listen, when you meet your ' special ' someone, you give them this " she pointed to the scarf.

The eevee wasn't interested in that kind of stuff… at the time, it pouted and took off the scarf, it handed it back to the vaporeon.

The vaporeon smiled, " I know you detest the idea of something like that but, in a few years I bet that will change~ ", the eevee growled and pulled the blanket over it.

The vaporeon chuckled and tucked the white scarf back in its box, it picked it up and walked away.

I waited for everything to crumble, but it didn't, this time, the time of day quickly jolted to nighttime.

The eevee was laying in bed, the covers were right under its mane, and it had a look of horror on its face, I turned towards where it was looking and saw ' it '.

' it ' was extremely tall, humanoid and muscular, it had dark grey skin and long crimson hair, it had two small horns protruding out of its head, it wore a loincloth and had a gear-like image painted on its right lower eyelid.

The eevee and the pillar man stared at each other, the eevee was paralysed in fear, while the pillar man towering over it looked… amused.

It walked over to the eevee and grabbed its throat though its mane, it squeezed harder and harder, I jumped forward to tackle the pillar man but I phased right through it, all I could do was watch as it terrorised the small fox.

Then, it disappeared, leaving the eevee laying there in shock, it curled up and brought the blanket over its head, to the eevee, it seemed like the flareon broke his promise…

It must've been some sort of sleep paralysis, yeah that would make sense… but why?...

The eevee crumbled into dust, and the room went back to the way it is now.

Why…

Creeeeaaaak…

The door closed shut on its own, exposing a very familiar figure hiding behind it the whole time.

" WHY THE HELL IS IT STILL AFTER MEEEEE! "

I jolted awake, I was back in my bedroom, my current one…

Wait… the heirloom!

I bolted out of my bed and rummaged through one of my bags, I pulled out a small box and…

It was still there, I pulled out the scarf and hugged it, quietly sobbing.

I could've sworn the pillar man was in the room with me, but I didn't care enough to look.

Chapter 14 End