Disclaimer: Pokemon is by Satoshi Tajiri.

Pokemon BW: Yin-Yang Quest

"Somebody help the imprisoned Pokemon!"

Upon hearing that cry for help, Mia, Taylor, and their Emolga looked around. "What was that?" Mia asked.

"Don't know," Taylor answered in confusion.

"HEELP!" the voice yelled again.

"There it was again," Mia said.

Taylor looked over to find a man with black hair and blue eyes running to them at a fast speed on his hands and feet. "Mia, we have company coming!"

The two ran out of the way and the man whizzed past them. He ran back and tackled Mia to the ground. "HEY! Hey, hey!" Taylor demanded. "What the heck are you doing?"

The man turned with Mia's Emolga in his mouth.

"Mo-ga!" Momo yelled in panic.

"Spit him out!" he demanded.

"You heard the man, Purrloin," the voice agreed. "That Emolga's not a toy!"

The man spit him out and ran off. Taylor eventually found the source of the voice, a Purrloin with a brown satchel on its neck stuck to a spider's web. Mia sat up, looked up, and then looked up Purrloin on her Pokedex. Emolga wiped the drool off his back.

"Purrloin, the Devious Pokemon," the Dex explained. "Its cute act is a ruse. When victims let down their guard, they find their items taken. It attacks with sharp claws."

"When I let down my guard, my mind switched with my familiar!" the Purrloin replied as Taylor climbed up to get him out. "The name's Salem and I was the one yelling 'S.O.S'!" he finished with panic.

"I'm Mia!" Mia called out. "He's Taylor. What's the emergency?"

After getting Salem out of the web, he explained that he was a Pokemon magician with a Purrloin as his familiar. During a spell, Purrloin took one of his ingredients, and the two ended up swapping bodies when the spell messed up.

"What's the spell, Houdini?" Taylor asked.

"The spell would've allowed a human to read the mind of a Pokemon," Salem explained.

"Oooh!" Mia cheered eagerly. "People have been wondering what a Pokemon thinks! This has been asked since the beginning of time!"

"Yeah, well, Houdini here got a first thought when he swapped with his familiar," Taylor retorted. Salem scratched him in the leg.

"Mia, if you can get a brown book from out of my bag, I'll tell you a way to reverse the spell," Salem assigned.

"I hope you've had your shots, cat!" Taylor muttered angrily to himself as he bandaged his wound. Mia got the book out and began flipping the weathered pages.

"Right here," Salem told her. Purrloin pointed to page in a spell book. "This is how to make an undo spell."

"I can only make out a few words," Mia said. "'Scale of an Alomomola…tears of a Cinccino…'"

"That's 'Minccino'," Salem corrected. "A feather of a Pidove with Big Pecks and an Emolga's Charge Beam. We only have five hours before the switch is permanent! And I'm stuck eating kitty kibble!"

"Cool your jets, Houdini," Taylor said. "It's 9 AM right now. Momo can provide you with the Charge Beam. We'll focus on trapping your human body."

"And Emolga sees some Alomomola up ahead!" Mia pointed out as Emolga pointed somewhere.

Underwater at a river, Mia and Emolga watched as a school of Alomomola swam by. They resurfaced for air as Taylor looked up the Pokemon in his Pokedex.

"Alomomola, the Caring Pokemon," the Dex explained. "The special membrane enveloping Alomomola has the ability to heal wounds."

"If you can chip a scale off of one of them, that'll be great!" Salem said.

"Be happy to. Let's go, Woobat!" he commanded as he threw his Poke Ball up. Woobat came out. "Air Slash in the water!"

Woobat fired the Air Slash into the river. Two Alomomola jumped out to battle her. "Another Air Slash, Woobat!" Taylor commanded.

She fired more discuses, but they were deflected by two Water Guns. Heart glowing purple, Woobat swooped over to them.

"Wooooo-bat!" Woobat yelled as a heart imprint was stamped onto an Alomomola. A scale broke off of it, to which Momo caught.

"Nice catch, Momo!" Taylor complimented.

"And that move Woobat learned was Heart Stamp!" Mia said. "So congrats to both of you."

"Target acquired," Mia whispered as she saw Purrloin looking around in its new body. A Minccino came down, curious at the human's behaviors. Mia jumped out to grab the human/Pokemon, but missed and hit the ground.

"Come back!" Salem yelled as he and Emolga chased after it. Taylor and Momo got to work on sneaking up on Minccino.

The two of them pounced on Minccino as they tickled it like crazy. "Min-ciii!" it laughed. "Minci, minci, minci!"

Momo caught a few tears that fell from it due to laughing so hard. "Guys, we got the Minccino tears!" Taylor reminded them. "Guys?"

They were still chasing Purrloin for them to notice him.

"Next up is getting a feather from a Pidove with Big Pecks," Mia said as Purrloin played with a ball of yarn she tossed at it. She soon spotted a flock flying away. "Emolga, Electro Ball!"

Firing the ball at the flock, it hit one of the Pidove and shocked it. Pidove flew down to battle him, but Salem stepped in and wagged his tail. Down fell from it as it remained undaunted.

"That was Big Pecks," Mia explained. "Basically put, the Pokemon releases its down to prevent a loss of defense."

"And I'll be taking some of that down right now," Salem said as he attempted to eat Pidove. Pidove panicked and flew off. Salem scooped up some feathers.

The liquid was mixed and bubbling. "Momo, Charge Beam," Taylor commanded.

Momo fired the beam of electricity at the concoction. The liquid turned blue when the sparks cleared.

"I'll need you to repeat after me, Mia," Salem instructed.

"Okay," she complied.

"What once was lost, now was found," the Pokemon/human began.

"'What once was lost, now was found," Mia repeated.

"Let return the spirits once unbound," Salem finished.

"'Let return the spirits once unbound!" Mia exclaimed.

A puff of smoke came from the potion. When the dust cleared, Momo approached Purrloin. "Mo mo?" she asked.

"Nya?" Purrloin asked back.

"Woo hoo hoo! Back to normal!" Salem cheered. "The ability to cast spells is once again in my paws! Er, hands," he corrected as he looked as his hands.

"Hey, Salem, you may wish to keep Purrloin occupied if you want to cast spells," she advised. "They can be cunning like that."

"I learned my lesson," Salem vowed. "Thanks for switching me back."

"No prob," Taylor replied as they left.

"See you again, Salem!" Mia said.