Gina seemed to wake up, or rather, she just appeared. She was in a dream, although it didn't feel like it. She looked around, but saw nothing really. It was a totally white plane, nothing could be seen at any distance. She scratched her head, and attempted to walk, granted she couldn't tell if she was walking due to the extremely monotonous landscape with no details. She panicked, she was scared about what really would happen, whether or not she could escape. "Hello." She heard say from behind her, she jumped, and turned around. Gina saw a strange being made of notes, and music sheets, "I am Meloetta. I've got to tell you something, this world, is in danger, you must defeat he who commands me, and release this region from its curse." Gina shook her head, "You must, I brought over four humans, and not one has done what I had planned. If you meet any of them, you must tell them that they have to find the remaining Dream Cubes, there's nothing else left that can save this region." Gina stayed silent, "Now I know that you think that this is just a dream, but it isn't there's something going on, and this world is suffering, you've already seen two areas ravaged by the issue. This world is dying, I brought you and three others to prevent it, but now I see that you must tell the others, or there will be no hope." Gina shied away, Meloetta shook her head. "You must…" Meloetta started, getting more frantic.

"L-l-listen, you've g-got the w-wrong person, I'll tell m-my guild of th-this, but…" Gina trailed off, not finishing her sentence, and just let Meloetta continue. Meloetta was unnerved, she felt disheartened and let down. She had made the wrong choice. It was too late, and there was nothing Meloetta could do.

"FINE, I'll try to contact one of the others then. Do your own thing." Gina gasped at Meloetta's yelling, she finally recognized the voice. It was the one who terrorized her earlier.

"Why would you want to help us now?" Gina asked, she was too shocked to be nervous.

"... I always wanted to, I just had to keep a sort of cover." Meloetta started, "I had to keep some sort of trust from Milord, even if I planned on betraying it. Now I must go, tell your friends, tell the humans." Meloetta disappeared, leaving Gina to her thoughts and reflections. This revelation scared Gina, she just wanted to disappear, and return to her home. New things scared her, but she knew that she was probably dead back home. Her last memories of the human world was of being left, bleeding, in an alley. It was a gunshot wound, and she knew, deep down, she wouldn't make it. She had just been a victim of racism, and had fallen to an extreme case. Her attacker had gone up to her and shoved her into the alley, just because of her origin. He forced her to the ground, and put the gun right to her lower stomach, it was a small gun, but she knew even a small gun could kill. He pulled the trigger, it was mostly silent due to the man using her body as a suppressor, he would get away with it, and she would be dead.

Pikachu shook Gina awake. Pikachu was watching Gina writhe in pain before shaking her, Gina awoke with a start and yelled, "NO DON'T!" This cry had startled the pikachu and she immediately started talking, "Oh my goodness! I'm so sorry Pikachu-san. I didn't mean to startle you!" Pikachu leaned back, and shook her head.

"It's fine, I just didn't expect you to awake so suddenly from the nightmare you were having. What was it?"

"A memory, from my distant past." She replied shaking her head.

"That all? It seemed more like you were dying than remembering something from the past." Pikachu said, her matter-of-fact statement startled Gina and her face drained of it's color, the tan became white, while the blue remained blue. Pikachu read her reaction and asked a question that no one expected, "Are you a human?" Gina leaped back, and pointed her paw at the pikachu.

"Yeah, how did you know? I, I've been trying to hold it in, but I don't think I can hide it any longer." Gina said, shaking her head, sitting down.

"My friend, old wise guy, said that humans used to come over if they were almost dead, but not quite. They would come over, frazzled, confused, but they would pick up quickly and act as if they'd been a pokémon all their life." Pikachu said, smiling remembering her time with her friend. "So do you want to talk about how you almost died?"

"N-no." Gina said, shaking her head. Pikachu looked at her and shook her head. "Alright, it'll be easier if you sit down." Gina said, watching Pikachu sit down, "I was in the human world. I had moved to a new town, the people weren't really friendly to me. They were set against me in every way possible. They didn't like me being different. One got angry with my high position in the town, and I got killed. I was shot in the gut with a gun." Gina sighed, Pikachu was confused, she was scratching her head.

"What's a gun?" Pikachu asked.

"It's a fancy device that was created to destroy life. That's all you need to know. I was left bleeding out, and that's when it happened. I hopped worlds… Now I'm in a world that only in a game." Gina said, shaking her head.

"Oh, that surprised you coming here didn't it. Let's go, we want to complete a request right?"

"Actually, no, I have to tell the guild leader about the quest we must go on."

"Okay, it'll be fine." Pikachu said, starting to walk out the door.

"Let's go, the world apparently depends on it."

Derrek smiled at Gina as she walked out. He was standing just outside of her house, "You've been doing well, anything you want as a reward?" Jordan asked, not letting her speak first.

"Actually, I have to talk. Something came to me in the middle of the night and told me we have to look for the Dream Cubes. I don't have any clue about why, or how we're supposed to find them, but apparently we have to." Gina said, shaking her head.

"The rumors of these Dream Cubes are all based around Dream Town, so they're all going to be within a radius of this town." Pikachu said, "It's not really effective to search every dungeon, but we might have to. Especially if we don't know very much about the dream cube, which we don't. We've got a lot of work ahead of us." Pikachu finished.

"Yeah, although I have collected two dream cubes, making the job easier right?" Derrek asked, Gina was surprised, someone had already collected two?

"Does that mean you are a human?" Gina asked, she didn't know, before hand, but it seemed to make sense.

"Yeah, oh, I forgot to mention it, didn't I. Oh well, it doesn't really matter that much." He said, shaking his head.

"It's monumental! What are you going on about?" Pikachu yelled, "Supposedly the Dream Cubes can only be found by humans!" Everyone just nodded, "Wait, mark on this map where you found them." She said, taking out a map, she wanted to work everything out, and finish the mission set out for Gina and the other humans.

"So here, there, and there. Those are the places we're checking, there are supposedly four Dream Cubes, and doing some simple balancing, these should be the three most likely positions." Pikachu said, pointing at three different points of the map. Those three points were previously unexplored by all parties present. The first point was claimed by Gina and Pikachu, it was a rock-type area, it was called Crusty Crevasse. The second was taken by Team Pyrokinesis, they took the area called Sharpedo Coast. The final dot was taken by Team Blanket, which was named Clear Peak, assumably going to have ice-types. They really should have payed attention to what they picked, but there was no clear winner to very many of the choices.

"What shall Cherry and I do?" San asked, "Oh, hello, Cyndaquil, do you have a name? Mine is San."

"Oh h-hi, m-my name's G-Gina, it's nice meeting you, San-sama."

"What a pretty name, do you mind us coming with?" Gina looked to Pikachu, she nodded, Gina shook her head to San, "Good, we need something to do. Thanks for allowing us to come along."

"Alright, we will go tomorrow, today we prepare by collecting items and completing hard requests. The better prepared we are, the easier it will be, but if we wait too long, it's game over." Pikachu said, "I'm not gonna lie, but we may not make it out of this, it's going to be a lot harder starting here. Our goal is to save this world. Not a job for the feint of heart."

"So now that we have all that planned, we get to go tell Brian. He'll keep some sort of journal to tell others of our plight should we succeed but only temporarily." Derrek said, shaking his head. He worried rather or not this could work, and if it did, would it be worth it?

"Go for rare requests, try to take as many as possible, but only take as many as you can complete. That means one dungeon, and no overexertion. Take as much money that you've saved, and burn it all on rare items in the markets." Jordan said, "Now let's go!"

Author'snotes

Hey, this marks the beginning of the end, I'mma be finishing this story around 35 chapters now. I already have another story in the works. I may or may not decide to scrap it depending on it's reviews though. You've all been grand, and I thank everyone who has taken the time to read the chapters I put out. I may or may not put Author's notes from here on out. Bye!