AN - Now that that-one-little-guy is done with his story "The Legend of Eevee - The Pokeflute of Time", I was inspired to start this story of my own. Haven't read the Legend of Eevee? Go do it! It's by far one of the best stories I've ever found. Also, if that-one-little-guy is reading this, I'm sorry for cribbing your style! Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery... right? Right?

In the beginning, there was nothing. Well ok, there was a sweet intro with waves and people falling out of the sky and a beach and a catchy j-pop song, but that was probably a dream so you don't get to see any. Suddenly the darkness exploded outward in an expending circle of green light. Starley's flapped out from trap doors all about the floor and flew in a disorderly crowd around the circle. After several near fatal collisions one piped up that he knew where a bar was and the whole flock surged off into the distance. It was a dazzling performance nonetheless, if you overlooked that its sole audience was still fast asleep.

"EEVEE, AWAKEN!"

No answer.

"UMM… IS THIS THING ON? I SAID EEVEE, AWAKEN!"

No answer.

"DAMN IT! ARE WE ALREADY REDUCED TO COPYING THAT-ONE-LITTLE-GUY'S MATERIAL? WHY DON'T YOU TRY SOMETHING ORIGINAL?"

No answer.

"OH FOR THE- WAKE UP, YOU CATONIC JACKASS!"

"Wha… what time is it? My neck feels like I've been sleeping on a hardwood floor…" Eevee peered gloomily around. He was lying on a large stain-glass window of a Froslass surrounded by the leering, disembodied heads of seven Sandshrew. The affect was a lot more creepy that the artist probably intended. And of course there was a knot of raised ridges right where Eevee had been sleeping.

"GOOD, YOU'RE UP. NOW WHERE WAS I… SO MUCH TO DO, SO LITTLE TIME…"

"Geez, I just woke up." Eevee whined, massaging his back to get the kinks out of it. "Can't I get some breakfast or something first…"

"… TAKE YOU'RE TIME, DON'T BE AFRAID-"

"I think I will." Eevee said, flopping back onto the glass. "Wake me in… another five minutes…"

"THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT! I… URG, DEEP BREATHS, DEEP BREATHS... AHEM, THE DOOR STILL HASN'T OPENED."

"What door?" Eevee asked, cracking open an eye. "And where are you? There's nothing here but me and this very uncomfortable bed."

"I'M AN OMINOUS, DISEMBODIED VOICE THAT KNOWS THINGS ABOUT YOU AND YOUR FUTURE AND YOU SHOULD PROBABLY BE LISTENING TO ME MORE."

"You're the author?"

"WILL YOU JUST GET UP AND LET ME FINISH! AND NOW I'VE LOST MY PLACE IN THE SCRIPT… UM, STEP FORWARD! YOU CAN WALK, CAN'T YOU?"

"Of course! What kind of stupid question is that?" Eevee said, standing and promptly losing his footing on the slick glass. He skidded on his face into the center of the circle.

"OH YEAH, THIS IS PROMISING. I'M SOOO GLAD I BET ON THIS TEAM…"

"I think I have splinters in my face." Eevee murmured into the glass.

A trio of pedestals rose out from the ground around the prone pokemon. "EVEN THOUGHT YOU HAVE CLEARLY SHOWN THAT YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO WALK, THE PLOT SAYS I HAVE TO GIVE YOU A WEAPON NOW. YOU MUST CHOOSE BETWEEN THE SWORD, THE SHIELD, OR THE MAGIC-"

"I get a SWORD?" Eevee shouted, springing to his feet and racing over to the pedestal. A bright, shiny blade was defying the laws of gravity above it. With a single bound, Eevee had it in his teeth and was swinging it around like a wannabe jedi in a scifi convention.

"THIS CAN'T END WELL…"

"What won't?" Eevee asked, forgetting he was holding it in his mouth. The sword flew into the glass pane and shattered it into pieces. Eevee found himself falling amid a giant shower of glass shards towards another shining platform with a picture of a Bellossom on it. The pane amazingly remained intact after the whole mess came crashing down on top of it, although cracks branched all over its surface.

"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY WINDOWS! YOU'RE GOING TO PAY FOR THOSE!"

"Bleeding… very badly…" Eevee wheezed from beneath a pile of glass.

"WELL TOUGH IT OUT BECAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE SOME ENEMIES HAVE FOUND YOU. BETTER FIGHT THEM OFF QUICK."

"What?" Eevee asked as a couple of Poochyena appeared from nowhere and pounced on him. Fortunately, they cut themselves badly on all the glass shards and immediately disappeared.

"HMM… NOT BAD AT ALL. MAYBE YOU'RE NOT THE PATHETIC LOSER I FIRST THOUGHT YOU WERE."

"Please… call an ambulance…"

"NO TIME. ON TO THE NEXT ONE!"

The floor beneath Eevee winked out into nothing, plunging him screaming into the void once again. When he came to, he was on another glass pane and trashing around like a baby.

"You did that on purpose!" Eevee accused.

"HEY, I COULD HAVE LET THE SHARDS FALL WITH YOU AGAIN… ANYWAY, LOOK! IT'S THAT DOOR I ALLUDED TO A WHILE BACK! DON"T YOU WANT TO CHECK IT OUT?"

"If it will make this go any faster…" Eevee growled, walking over and reaching for the handle. His hand went right through it. "Hey, what gives?"

"HAHA, GOT YOU! YOU CAN'T OPEN THE DOOR UNTIL YOU OPEN THIS CHEST, PUSH THAT CRATE, SMASH THIS BARREL, HELP ME MOVE MY FURNATURE, MAKE ME A SANDWICH…"

Eevee hefted his sword threateningly over the stained glass.

"ER… ALRIGHT FINE" The door glowed and solidified. "BUT KNOW THAT ONCE THE DOOR IS OPEN, I CAN NO LONGER FOLLOW YOU AND HELP-"

"Sold!" Eevee shouted, wrenching the door open. Blinding light spilled forth.

"WAIT! BEFORE YOU GO, WHY DON"T YOU TELL ME A LITTLE ABOUT YOURSELF?"

Eevee paused and looked back over his shoulder. "…what? Are you coming on to me or something?"

"WELL, IT DOES GET LONELY HERE. THERE'S LITERALLY NOTHING TO DO…"

"I don't think so."

"WAIT! HOW ABOUT IF I CREATE A HALLUCINATION OF YOUR CHILDHOOD HANGOUT AND DISGUISE MYSELF AS YOUR FRIENDS WHILE ASKING YOU POINTED QUESTIONS ABOUT YOUR PERSONAL BELIEFS?"

The door slammed shut so hard it rattled in its frame and fell over.

...

"Now that I'm away from that pedophilic narrator, maybe I can finally get some rest." Eevee looked around the new glass pane for a suitably clear spot to lie down on. This one was on the top of a giant pillar and featured a Dewgong getting as much sleep as Eevee wished he was having. A particularly smooth section by its tail caught his eye, but just as he reached it a half dozen Poochyena grew out of the shadows around him.

"Oh come on! I just *sort of* fought off you guys!" Eevee shouted.

"Too bad." One of the Poochyena laughed at him. "We get paid by the appearance. You're going to see a lot of us before the end!"

"Well, this time I'll show you how I really fight!" Eevee shouted, clamping his teeth on the sword's hilt and spinning around like a top.

"Ha! You call that fighting? You aren't even looking at what you're doing!" The lead Poochyena taunted.

"But Boss, he's spinning too fast. We can't even get close."

The leader paused and thought about this. "Well, he has to tire eventually. I say we just keep moving back until… uh, why are there no guard rails? St-stop pushing! AAAAAAaaaaaa…."

Five minutes later Eevee collapsed into a tired heap and looked blearily around the empty circle. "Ha, showed them what I was made of. Time to take a break…" A shining staircase glowed into view just off the edge of the platform. "What? No! Enough with this hero stuff, I'm tired and going to take a break."

The staircase winked out at the same time as the whole pillar shook violently. "WELL, IF THAT'S HOW YOU WANT TO DO THIS!"

"You again!" Eevee cried. "You said you weren't going to follow me!"

"I LIED."

"Do I have to file a restraining order on you?"

"BUT MY POOR EEVEE, YOU CAN'T HIDE FROM YOUR OWN SHADOW!" The pillar trembled again as an enormous Mightyena pulled itself onto the top and glared down at him.

"Um…" Eevee stuttered, backing away to the far edge. "I think I'll run along those plot stairs now."

"TOO LATE. BUT DON'T BE AFRAID… NO, WAIT. DO BE AFRAID!" Mightyena used roar! Eevee runs around screaming like a little girl! The Mightyena swiped a paw around the length of the circle and scooped him up into a crushing grip.

"NOW YOU HAVE NOWHERE TO GO! SO… WHAT DO YOU THINK IS MOST IMPORTANT IN LIFE?"

"I'm not telling you anything!" Eevee shouted, gnawing on the giant's wrist. For some reason this worked and the Mightyena released him with a growl of pain.

"HA, YOU THINK YOU CAN BEAT ME HERE? I AM THE DARK SHADOWS THAT LIVE IN YOU'RE MIND!"

"I have a desperately lonely, thirty foot tall dog in my subconscious? I didn't know that about myself."

"STOP MAKING FUN OF ME!" The Mightyena leapt forward and landed right on Eevee's stomach. Eevee started making choking sounds, but a determined shove downwards put a stop to that.

"LISTEN CLOSE, AS I'M ONLY GOING TO SAY THIS ONCE." The Mightyena bent its head down until it was right above Eevee's. "THERE'S SOMETHING BIG HAPPENING IN THE UNIVERSE RIGHT NOW AND, LEGENDARY'S HELP ME, YOU ARE OUR BEST HOPE OF SAVING EVERYTHING. SOON AFTER YOU WAKE UP YOU WILL HAVE TO OPEN THE DOOR AND FIND THE SKILLS NEEDED TO BECOME THE HERO OTHERS WILL HAVE TO CONVINCE ME YOU ARE. DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M TELLING YOU?"

Eevee had a stunned expression on his face, so the Mightyena chuckled and released him from his grip. "I SEE THE SERIOUSNESS HAS FINALLY OCCURRED TO YOU."

"You mean…" Eevee said with growing horror. "I'm asleep right now… AND I'M NOT GETTING TO RELAX!"

AN - Sorry about the first one being so short, but there's not much that happens during the dream sequence. I'll try to get the next chapter up as soon as I can.