A/N: Well, here's the next little pairing!

Pairings still needed to do: Alakazam/Missingno, Ghetsis/Darkrai, Misty/Garchomp, Clair/Nidoking, May/Blazikan, Brock/Bayleef, Misty/Starmie, Dawn/Pikachu, Sudowoodo/Nurse Joy,

Looker/Tropius

Looker leaned back against the wall in his chair, reading papers at a breakneck pace, signing them or stamping them and then quickly placing them into the "out" box on his desk.

He froze for a moment as the door to his office opened, his free hand that wasn't clutching papers held just below the silent alarm, as he scrutinized the intruder…

"Tropius…" He rubbed his forehead in exasperation.

The green, longnecked dinosaur rubbed her paws against each other in embarrassment as she closed the door with her vines. Looker sighed as picked up the papers again and sorted them.

"You know how I get when someone comes in unannounced…" Tropius nodded shyly, walking over to him and outstretching her neck, face-to-face with the detective.

He rolled his eyes and put down his papers again, pulling off a banana hanging from her neck, and petting her with his other hand.

"Hmph…" He ate Tropius's fruit, and rubbed her neck again. "Well, it's not your fault. You haven't been on the force long enough to know about sneaks…"

The Tropius rubbed her head against his chest, as a way to apologize for barging in.

He had been given her by his superiors, due to the fact his original Pokemon had grown old in its years of working with him and had been honorably retired to live with Looker's family.

He was hesitant to work with a new partner, but his old one seemed to approve of it, so he got the Tropius that was nuzzling him as he thought.

He finished the fruit and tossed it in the trashcan as she got off him and stared at his badge on the desk. "Interesting? I got that after a LOT of training in the academy." She nodded, laying down her leafy wings and listening to him talk.

She listened intently on his stories of how he solved mysteries, caught bad people, and even found precious lost things, and noted the little glimmer in his eyes as he recalled his golden days –not that interesting things didn't happen now, on the contrary, that galactic ordeal got him scurrying across Sinnoh!

She fluttered her wings when he finished, and nudged his papers back to him. Looker smiled. "Well, you can't replace my old friend, but I'm glad to call you my partner, Tropius."

Tropius smiled as Looker searched through his papers, trying to find a case that he found interesting (the less important jobs were easily taken care of) enough to take. She rubbed her face against his cheek affectionately as Looker tried to ignore the small redness his cheeks were growing.

"Lost money, no… Secret treasure? I'm not a kid anymore… No, no, no…"

Looker sighed. "Aren't there any mysteries that I would be needed for?" Tropius looked around and saw a paper carelessly tossed in the trash and used her vines to pick it out of the trash.

It had many little colored pictures and highlighted writing that stood out to her compared to the bland black-words-on-white-paper Looker had just been searching through. She hoped he would like it, she didn't like seeing him so...bored. It wasn't like him.

She nudged him, Looker raising an eye as he took the piece of paper out of her vines. "Suspicious individuals identifying themselves as Team Plasma have been seen in the Unova region. They have been telling trainers across the region to relinquish their pokemon on the concept of 'liberating' their pokemon. People have reported seeing said Team Plasma members abusing pokemon, and illegally abducting pokemon from their trainers…"

Looker's eyes narrowed. "Abducting and harming pokemon… under the guise of 'freeing pokemon'!" Tropius let out an angry cry, agreeing with her Detective partner and trainer.

Looker gave his female partner a confident look. "All right, this is your first case. The plan is simple. We find, capture, and arrest them!" Tropius smiled at him, fluttered her wings, and gave him an adventurous cry. After the long wait for his next case, he had an affectionate friend and partner, and a new region for his old self to explore… A whole new mystery awaited him and her… Looker returned her in her ball.

"Perhaps having a new partner wouldn't be so bad…" Looker grinned as he head out the door to prepare for his next case.

A/N: Well, that's a wrap for this weird pairing. I imagined Looker and Tropius as a new tag-team after re-watching the Great Mouse Detective, but it turned into this.