My rescue team partner and I stepped out of Makuhita's Training Dojo, exhausted but two levels stronger each at level fourteen.

"We definitely needed that training session, considering we were nearly taken down by a level ten Wooper yesterday," I sighed as Chu nodded.

A group of pokemon sped past us, whirling us around in circles from the air currents around them. If we'd had any items with us, they would have gone flying. We managed to stop spinning, and Gengar, the local trouble-maker, smirked at us menacingly.

"What are you two still doing here?" he demanded coldly like he ruled the world.

I snapped, "Nearly being trampled and talking to an idiot. What's it to ya?"

"Didn't you hear?" the despised purple ghost-type chuckled. "I discovered the identity of the human at the heart of the Ninetales legend."

"Yeah, like I'll ever believe you!" my voice dripped in loathing. "So, Mr. I-Know-Everything-In-The-World, who is it?"

A shadow descended behind Chu and me, causing us to jump. I turned around, prepared to unleash my shadow claw.

"Alakazam!" my shocked pikachu partner cried.

I'll admit, even I was astonished when I saw Alakazam, Charizard, and Tyranitar, the legendary gold-ranked team, standing before me.

"Gengar overheard a conversation between the members of up-and-coming Team Gidanoko," Alakazam explained. "Apparently Gida, the bulbasaur on the team, grabbed one of Ninetales' tails, unleashing a curse upon our world. They are the reason behind the recent earthquakes and various other natural disasters."

Charizard added, "We have been recruiting Pokemon Square's inhabitants who can fight to track down and apprehend the duo, who took off sometime early this morning."

"Didn't we see a bulbasaur and totodile leaving town at about five o'clock this morning on our way to the dojo?" Chu asked me.

I nodded, "Yeah."

The legendary rescue trio and Gengar dragged us, our item bag empty, towards the edge of town with instructions to pursue the refugees into Lapis Cave, a cavern with stunning lapis lazuli embedded firmly into its walls and teeming with level ten to level seventeen pokemon. Luckily, we encountered very few pokemon above our own level. We reached the last level of Lapis Cave, level fourteen, ahead of the other pokemon. There, Gida, a male bulbasaur, and Noko, a male totodile, practically waited for us.

"Oh, shoot!" cried Gida defensively when we approached them.

Noko looked positively terrified but still stood side-by-side with his partner.

"Did you grab Ninetales' tail and cause the natural disasters?" I cried, furious at the traitors.