Not much to say here. I'm trying to keep one chapter ahead of what I update, so I always have another in reserve. Once I get to two chapters from here, the next will be up. Now please do enjoy this, even though Deoxys remains MIA.

Chapter 5: Disturbance

It seemed Phloe had been right. Wigglytuff wasn't busy at all. At least, I don't believe he was.

"Oh, hello friends!" we were greeted as we walked into his room. To me, he seemed oaf-like. Really incompetent, but what am I to question if he was the guildmaster. We walked up to him, and waited to speak. It seemed that at the moment he was still paying attention, if not a little…out of it. He had one of the beautiful apples I had seen, except he had it somehow spinning on his head as he looked up in fascination. This place was becoming weirder by the second.

After a minute of waiting, Phloe coughed loud enough to get Wigglytuff to pay attention to us. "Oh, sorry friends. It's just that I missed my Perfect Apples oh so much! And Team Sting was kind enough to get so many for me! Don't you think that's wonderful?"

"Er…yeah, I suppose so," I said, confused by the sudden question. "Uh, Guildmaster…I, uh, I really wanted to tell you something. Something rather…important." This got the puffball's complete interest. "Oh? Important you say? Well go ahead, I'm listening!"

"Yeah, well you see, I…uh, how to say this," I mumbled, searching for the right words. "Well, I guess I wanted to let you know that I'm kind of new here."

"Well, you and your friend are part of a new team."

"No, that's not it," I shook my head in annoyance. "I just wanted to let you know that, I'm very new to this area. I, well…I haven't always been a pokemon. I've been this way for a few days actually. Before that…well, I was-"

"What he's trying to say is, he was human before this." Phloe finished for me. I turned to her, but she just gave me a look. "You took too long. Just get to the whole point."

"Yeah, it's exactly what Phloe said. I'm actually a human, but something weird happened during the meteor shower and…this is where I'm at now."

Wigglytuff did not seem confused like I had expected. Or frightened. Or angry. In fact, he still had his same goofy grin plastered across his face. "A human you say?" he asked. "Well, in all my years I've never heard of that. Definitely strange, yes indeed. But don't worry friend, you're fine. It's not as if there was something terrible with you as a human."

I laughed a bit, the tension beginning to break. "I'm glad you understand Guildmaster. I was afraid you might have taken it wrong. Thanks!" I was just about to turn around and leave until Phloe grabbed my shell and pulled me back. "You forgot to tell him about what happened before. Remember, he might be able to help you!"

"Oh right!" I said, slapping myself for forgetting. Turning back to Wigglytuff, I began talking again. "I didn't mention this before, I had forgotten. We both had wondered if it were possible if you could help me with something that neither of us could figure out." Wigglytuff put on a big grin. "Well go on, friend! I'm sure I can help with whatever is the problem!"

"…Right. Now, this had happened in the last moments of when I was a human, and I'm pretty sure it had something to do with my current state. There was a strange pokemon in front of me, and I wasn't sure of what it was. Therefore I thought you could help me. You see, it was a large dragon pokemon on two legs with some weird blade-like wings. Its head kinda stretched out, and it also had two weird pink orbs on its shoulders. To top it all off, it was glowing pink. You wouldn't happen to know of a pokemon like that, would you?"

Wigglytuff searched my face for any hint of a joke or lie. Seeing none, he began to think. "I'm sorry friend," he said. "But I've never seen a pokemon like that. If I were to guess, it might have been a Legendary. They are pokemon of great power, unlike that of any other pokemon in the world. And if it had turned you into a pokemon, then it may have just been that."

"So, do you know of any Legendaries? Any clues that could help Tide out?" Phloe inquired. Wigglytuff shook his head. "I'm sorry. I don't. But I will look into it, if that helps! I mean, anything for my friends, and especially for ones in need!"

"Thanks!" Phloe and I waved goodbye, this time actually leaving Wigglytuff's office, leaving him to once more become hypnotized by his Perfect Apples. I would need to get one someday, to know what it was that had Wigglytuff so obsessed with them.

Once we were outside and in the main area of the Guild, I asked Phloe, "So what now?" She shrugged. "I guess we could try and meet some people here in the Guild. It's getting later in the afternoon, so I'm sure that the dinner will be served soon enough."

"Sounds good to me." I said. We both began to walk across the large room to the ladder heading downstairs. Being me, I was lost in my thoughts, still trying to make sense of everything that had happened so far. This caused me to walk right into someone. "Excuse me, sorry." I said absentmindedly. Phloe became wide-eyed and pulled me out of the way and next to her. "What was that for?" I asked, but she only pointed to who I had walked into.

"Well, looks as if the scum joined the Guild," the Houndoom, Styx, growled. Standing to either side of him were a Weavile and a Dusclops. "Is this…who you were…talking about?" wheezed the Dusclops. I could tell he was male from the voice. Styx nodded to him. "Indeed it is, Omen. The human has gone and infiltrated the guild. And with him is his little savior," he licked his chops. "And she would have made a wonderful meal, but this freak stopped me. I still need to return the favor." He said with such hate that it made me shake a bit.

The Weavile next to him walked up to me and put a clawed hand under my chin. I was rooted to the spot in fear as it slid the claws up and off of my chin. "Aw, this little guy was a human? Styx, you can't be right. But," she put a claw to her cheek in thought. "You've never been one to lie, especially to our team. So…should we kill him now?"

"No, not yet, Demi," Styx said. "He just joined this Guild. He has no idea what he's gotten himself into." I gulped in fear. "We'll just let him keep his life for now. And then when he comes begging for mercy because of how unprecedented his situation was, then we'll strike. Isn't that right little Squirtle?"

"His name is Tide." Phloe stepped in defiantly. Styx glared at her. "Stay out of this, Treecko. That is, unless you would like to see me actually get to feast on that arm of yours..."

"Hey now! Team Hades, enough harassing the new exploration team!" shrieked Chatot as he swooped in from Wigglytuff's office. "I do believe that your mission was successful, though. However, as the situation may be, Guildmaster would like to see all three of you in his office for some reported incidents." Styx stared angrily at us both as he and his team walked away with Chatot. "You can expect a possible suspension of your exploration team status for a few days if Guildmaster sees it so…"

Phloe and I sighed in relief after Team Hades was escorted off. "Tide, I'm really not too sure about this now," Phloe said shakily. "I mean, I'm sure we can be a great team. But with Styx here and with a full blown team at that, I'm afraid. I think he may actually try to finish the job."

"What? No way! I mean, I'm as afraid as you are, well actually a little more," I said admittedly. "But that's no reason to back down! I'm sure that Chatot and Wigglytuff have our backs. Come on now, I thought we were going to meet some of the teams."

Phloe smiled at me, completely reassured. "Thanks for that. You are right, too. It's not like I should worry since we are part of the guild. Wigglytuff will help us."

"If he's not distracted by Perfect Apples." I laughed. Phloe joined in for a moment. "Alright. So how about we go down and see what's up-"

"Dinner is ready! Everyone report to the mess hall for their meal!" a soft voice somehow shouted throughout the entire Guild. It sounded almost like a set of wind chimes. We barely had any time to react before pokemon from every area of the Guild came running, nearly flattening Phloe and I. "You okay Tide?" Phloe yelled over the noise of the pokemon. "Yeah! Doing just fine!" I replied sarcastically. Within seconds, the stampede ended, leaving us alone in the main hall. Chatot flapped out of Wigglytuff's office with Team Hades following him.

"Team Impact? Aren't you going to join everyone for dinner?" he asked. I looked toward Styx, Omen, and Demi. The latter two didn't look my way, but Styx was glowering at me. Yep, I was dead meat when he had the chance.

"Uh, yeah we were. We just got caught up in the rush of everyone making their way to the mess hall." Chatot shook his head. "Ugh, I've been trying to get everyone to be more orderly with this for months. It seems we know where that has gotten me. Nonetheless, follow me. I have a feeling that you both don't know where the mess hall is, am I correct?"

"Yeah." We both mumbled, trying to avoid the faces of Team Hades. Chatot nodded inattentively before flying off with Team Hades closely behind him. "Come on, Team Impact! This way!" he shouted, pausing momentarily for us to keep close. He led us throughout various areas of the guild before finally entering a large doorway. Team Hades went ahead in with Chatot escorting them. "Well, let's go." Phloe said finally.

Walking in, I was immediately overwhelmed. Long tables stretched across the length of the room, with dozens of pokemon teams occupying random spots all around. Phloe and I looked around rather nervously trying to find a spot until we heard someone shout, "Hey, newbie team?"

"Yeah?" Phloe replied. I looked around and saw who had spoken. A few tables to our right was the team I had seen earlier with the apples. The Beedrill was waving us down with his drill hands. "Come here and sit with us. We got room!" The Gligar and Qwilfish with him nodded, although both were too busy eating berries to actually notice much.

Phloe shrugged and began walking to them. "Come on, Tide. It's not like we really had any other place to sit." I was about to object until I looked around and saw Styx's sneering face halfway across the room. "Uh, coming!" I shakily yelled back. We both took seats by the team and after a few tense seconds, began to grab a few berries and apples to eat. The Beedrill nodded in our direction.

"Thanks for taking up on my offer," he said. "Not many do. They think I'll jab them with one of these." He stabbed upwards with one of his drills for emphasis. The Gligar snorted. "You do." He said. The Beedrill looked at him irritatingly before jabbing the purple scorpion in the side.

"Yeow! What was that for?" he said while rubbing the sore area. The Beedrill snickered. "For spreading false rumors. I only jab my teammates, mostly because it's a riot to see your reaction!" The Gligar started mumbling nonsense to him, clearly annoyed by the Beedrill's behavior. After he collected himself, the Beedrill pointed to Phloe and me. "So what are your names, newbies? Haven't seen you around Treasure Town before…"

"I'm Phloe," my partner said. "And you probably haven't seen me since I lived out in the forest surrounding Treasure Town. I've stopped in from time to time, but usually I stick around out there." Pin nodded understandingly. "And you?" he pointed at me.

"Oh, well my name is…Tide. Yeah, Tide," I stuttered slightly as I said this. "And really…I don't know where I'm from." The Gligar gave me a look. "Don't know where you're from? What, amnesia or something?"

"Er, well it's harder to explain than that. I really don't want to go in depth about it." The three of them exchanged doubtful glances, but thankfully left it at that. "Well, I believe introductions from our side are in order," the Beedrill said, breaking the tension. "My name is Pin, and I'm the leader of this exploration team."

The Gligar then grinned as he pointed at himself with a claw. "I'm Scorp." The Qwilfish looked at me suspiciously, but dropped it a second later. "And I'm Puffer." Pin made himself as proud as he could do to his small mouth and buzzed up above the table, in between his two team members. "And together the three of us make Team Sting! Hyah!" He thrust one of his drills out dramatically, with Scorp and Puffer posing next to him.

Phloe and I looked at each other. We could easily tell that we were both thinking of the same thing: these guys were nuts. "Uh, nice to meet you three…" Phloe said. We both turned away and resumed eating as they did as well. It was rather loud in the mess hall with teams chatting with each other constantly about missions. Pin tapped my should with one of his drills after a few minutes.

"Hey, you guys haven't heard about we saw the other day, have you?" I shook my head. "What was it?"

Pin grinned as best as he could. "Truthfully, the three of us are wondering if we believe what we saw. It was weird, to say the least. It almost looked like a human, but it was orange and blue. And it was flying. Without wings or anything. Faster than anything I've seen, how about you two?" Scorp and Puffer shook their heads. "Nope, faster than any flying pokemon," Puffer said. "We actually think that it has something to do with the meteors in some way."

"Really?" Phloe asked, suddenly jumping into the conversation. "Why do think that?" The members of Team Sting looked at each other uneasily. "Well," began Pin. "We don't really have solid proof of that, but we just got the feeling that something connected the two. I mean, two strange things coming shortly between each other? There's more than a coincidence to that."

"Yeah…" said Phloe as she looked at me curiously. I could tell that she was beginning to think more about the meteor storm. I was too. But my thoughts were interrupted as Chimecho began to make a ringing sound that silenced everyone. "Thank you, Chimecho," Chatot said. "Now excuse me everyone. I know some teams are out at the moment on missions, but these announcements cannot wait. Guildmaster, if you please."

"Okay!" Wigglytuff smiled. "Just two really important things that I have to announce friends! First of all, Team Sting has reported a sighting of a strange new pokemon. In a few days there'll be a poster with a recreation of what they saw. If anyone sees this pokemon again, please report it immediately! It is important to see if it's a friend or not!" As he ended this, his smile became even bigger, and in my opinion, more frightening. "And on to equally big news! We have a new team joining us today. Everyone please give a warm welcome to Phloe and Tide of Team Impact!" he shouted, motioning for Phloe and me to stand up.

Applause rose up from the ranks of the pokemon, a little too much of a greeting in my opinion. My face was a bit red from embarrassment, causing Phloe to giggle a bit. "Hey, I don't like bringing attention to myself!" I tried to shout to her over the noise. After it died down, we retook our seats. Wigglytuff waved to us. "Oh and before I forget-" I couldn't believe what Wigglytuff was saying. "-Tide over there is new to Treasure Town. He was a human before the meteor storm, and now here he is! So please go easy on him since he's still finding his way around.

I was out of there before anyone could even turn to look at me. I thought I heard Phloe call me out, but that was quickly drowned out by Styx cackling louder than anything else in the room. Darn my stubby legs, they couldn't carry me as fast as I would have liked. Even with that shortfall, I made it back to my team's room, shutting the door and lying down on my bed. What had Wigglytuff done? Now I may have very well have lost the trust of anyone but Phloe. Styx was probably right about what he had said.

It seemed like hours passed before I heard the door open again. I knew it was Phloe, but I said nothing, deciding to pretend to be asleep. "Tide?" she asked quietly. I continued to ignore her. I didn't want to talk about what had happened. Not yet anyways. "I don't care if you're asleep or not," she continued. "But I want to let you know that I don't think anyone hates you. Except for Team Hades, of course. But Pin and Scorp had wondered why you ran off. They didn't seem to think any different of you." She sighed. "Look, nonetheless, I spoke to some of the other teams about this. They didn't care. They don't know who you are, so they said that it didn't matter. They wanted me to tell you that."

Phloe apparently went to bed herself at that point, closing her eyes and just barely began to doze off. My mind had been abuzz from what she told me. The others didn't really care right now? Well, I suppose I'd find out soon enough. Satisfied for the moment, I whispered in a barely audible tone, "Thank you."

Meh, not sure if I liked this or not. You guys be the judge. Next chapter, I promise, there'll be a Deoxys scene. Maybe not much, but enough to progress him some. Otherwise, we remain focused upon Tide and Phloe.
And please send in OC teams/missions. Here's the team form again:
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