Revised: December 11th 2008

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Chapter 2: The Brotherhood

Location: Restown

Chikorita finally arrived at the town, if you could call it a town. In total there was five buildings, all made of dry, gray wood and very rusty metal. She looked around for the hospital that was supposed to be here, which luckily she found right away. Wasting no more time she ran over to get help for the pokemon.

The hospital was built out of wood mostly, all except the big rusty metal roof on top. The whole thing, like most of the buildings, blended into the rocky surroundings.

Inside was a single pokemon, one you would expect to find in such a place, a Chansey. It didn't notice Chikorita right away, so Chikorita had to yell out to her.

"Hey! I have a hurt pokemon here, he needs help!" Immediately the Chansey turned around and noticed the little green pokemon and her passenger. "Oh dear! Bring him over here, to the bed!" Chikorita obeyed, she went to the bed Chansey pointed to and gently placed him on his back on the covers of the bed.

"What's wrong with him?" Chikorita found herself filled with worry all of the sudden.

Why am I so worried about him anyways? I don't know him.

The Chansey checked for a pulse, felt his forehead, listened to his breath. "I can't tell. He doesn't seem to be injured, and I don't see any symptoms to any illness's, where did you find him?"

"It was a Mystery Dungeon, Tiny Ruins, he was in the basement of the place." Chansey was confused. "The lack of any marks and bruises tells me he wasn't attacked. So he hasn't fainted. The only thing we can do is wait and hope he wakes up."

Chikorita didn't like that answer, but she accepted it, as she to had no ideas to why the pokemon would be knock out like this either. Chansey went over and grabbed a large blanket from a cabinet, and placed the blanket over the pokemon, tucking him in. "This could take a while, I'll be sure to look after him. Will you be staying?"

Chikorita shock her head. "I have some stuff I need to do here first." She began to leave but Chansey stopped her. "Wait! What kind of pokemon is this guy anyways?" Chikorita shrugged. "I have no idea."

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Location: Havok City

"Ok, so what you're telling me, is once again, you're lost." Zar tried to calm himself down enough that he could say this clearly, he was so angry he felt like he was going to explode.

"Ahhh, kinda?" Raticate had a sound of terror on its voice. For good reason. Thought Zar.

"If you don't find the town within' an hour, I'm going to…" Zar began to laugh. The things he imagined him doing brought a smile to his face. "Lets just say you definitely wont like it."

With a combination of sadness and fear in his voice, Raticate simply said. "Yes master Zar." And hung up.

Zar had no luck finding out anything in Havok City, from what he investigated, no pokemon by his description came through the town gate. The Brotherhood wasn't involved after all then.

Suddenly the radio came to life again. Zar was getting a call from someone.

"Zar, how is progress with finding the target?" It was the Boss.

"I'm in Havok City, and nobody has seen your pokemon. Gastly called me a while back and said the same thing. And…" He wondered if he should mention Raticate. "Raticate is also not having any luck." I guess that's technically true.

"Zar, you remember why you took this job? I can tell you right now. If you fail to get that pokemon to me. I'll crush your precious stone."

Zar sighed. "Yes boss, I'll tell the others to keep a lookout." Not saying any more, the Boss hung up.

I'm going to kill Raticate if we fail because of him.

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Location: Restown

Chikorita had stuff to do here before she left. Obviously, supplies were a must, luckily she had at taken some cash with her from Tiny Ruins, but only 500 poke, so she would need to spend wisely, no Gummies for her this trip. I'd kill for a green gummi right now. She thought to herself.

The stores inventory was pretty cheap, so she bought a few apples, and spent the rest on some oran berries. She paid the store clerk all the poke she had and left.

She had another stop to make, she had heard a while ago that there was some famous explorer in town. Chikorita had hoped that someone like him could help her with telling her which kind pokemon she had saved.

She walked over to his house, of all the buildings, this one was the worst looking of the bunch. The roof looked like it was ready to cave in at any moment.

Chikorita knocked on the door. "Who's there?" A rough sounding voice said from behind the door. "I just need to ask you a few questions!" Chikorita hoped this guy wasn't a total nut. "No, go away. No visitors! I'm retired! Leave now!" This guy IS nuts, wonderful! "Listen, one question and I'll go away! Please!"

A moment passed, nothing was said by either pokemon. Then suddenly, the door opened, the pokemon inside turned out to be an Ivysaur. Not a normal Ivysaur, its face and body was covered in scars, its plant thing on its back covered with holes, he must have seen his good share of action and adventure. This guy definitely was the guy she was looking for.

"One question, hurry up."

"Well, I found a pokemon, but I don't know what kind it is. I was wondering…" The Ivysaur interrupted. "If I knew? Maybe, maybe not. So, go on, tell me about it. And hurry up."

"Ok, its yellow, about the same size as me, has red cheeks and a lightning shaped tail." The Ivysaur thought for a moment. "Hmm, nope, no idea, get out now. Hurry up." The Ivysaur tried to nudge her out the door. "Wait! I need to know! Don't you know anyone who might be able to help?"

The Ivysaur stopped pushing. "You said one question, that's two, two questions. Fine, I'll help. But then you leave me be." Ivysaur went over to a pile of books. Chikorita followed. "What is your name little seedling. You have name right? Tell me."

"My name, my name is Rita. Or at least, that's what I have everyone calls me. What's yours?" Ivysaur growled. "Gaah, that's three questions. Three! My name is Ivan. Ivan the Ivysaur. Rita the Chikorita. You and me are much alike it seems. Yes. Now your pokemon problem…" He went over to a small table covered in random assortment of things, picked out a book that was laying there, and began to flip through the pages. "You must go to the Brotherhood. I know them, in fact I am one, or was one, before. Retired."

"Who are the 'Brotherhood'? Never heard of them." Ivan closed the book and got another. "Four questions now. You have not heard of Brotherhood? Very odd thing. Big group of pokemon. Very famous." He began flipping through the second book. "Well, I don't hang around cities and towns that often."

"The Brotherhood is the last organization in the world who's goal is to help the pokemon of the world, or at least last well known one, and then again. There could be one far from here someplace... Not the point. Anyways, they do jobs for pokemon in need of aid. They also collect data and information from all over, to help in there missions. If anybody knows your pokemon, its them. Now please be quite I am trying to read! Go sit, over there." He pointed to an old, broken sofa.

Rita did as he asked, sat down, and waited. Ivysaur threw the second book away and picked up a third, again immediately starting to flip through pages. "Aha! Found it." Rita perked up. "Yeah? What?"

Ivan cleared his throat, "In this book it tells me what you need to get inside the Brotherhoods front gates, not every pokemon is allowed inside to read from our documents. You must have the trust of another Brotherhood member to enter. Lucky for you I am one, now the thing you need…" He closed the book and went to a desk in the back of his house. "Where is it, can't find anything in this house. Need to clean this mess up before, OW! Stupid paper cut, man that hurts. Can't find the blasted, ah! Here it is." He pulled out an object from the drawers of the desk It was a small gold medal. "Take this. It is proof that you know me, tell them I trust you and they will let you in." He gave Rita the medal. "It looks valuable, are you sure you wanna give it to me?"

Ivan laughed. "That's five questions. And yes, I am sure. I have no need for it, I have retired, and I trust you're not some secret agent trying to destroy the Brotherhood, or at least I hope not, you aren't right?" Rita shock her head. "Good! Then no need to worry, now please go, you've extended your visit long enough."

"Right, thanks for everything Ivan. Have a good retirement I guess." Ivan pushed her out the door. "Yes, yes, you too, except the retirement thing, good bye little seedling!" He then shut the door.

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Location: The Hospital

Chansey did her best to keep the pokemon in the bed comfortable. Fresh pillow and blanket, a damp cloth on its forehead to keep it cool. Everything was done. Chansey was rather disappointed, she hadn't had anything to do it ages. The town was remote, the other people living here never left, and the wild pokemon left the town alone as it blending right into the ground. Life was rather dull.

Just then she heard a noise, it was the pokemon. Was it waking up? She thought. Indeed it was. It opened its eye, looked around and said. "Where am I?"

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Location: Restown

Rita hurried to the hospital, she needed to make sure the pokemon was ok, she thought to herself as she rushed there, Last thing I need is you dying when I've gone through so much to help you.

When she got there, the place was empty. No pokemon, no Chansey.

Before long though, Chansey came in behind her. "Oh, there you are dear." She said calmly. "Your friend is out back if you're looking for him. I wouldn't bother him to much though, he seems rather... Dazed." Rita thanked her and immediately went out back.

She didn't see him right away, but there he was, alive and awake.

"Hello." She said to him, but he didn't look at her, he was just sitting there, on a rock, staring out in the distance.

"Where am I?"

Rita went over to him. "You're in a small town, I found you, you were knocked out."

He finally looked in her direction, but not actually at her, as if looking for someone in the distance. "Where are you? What's going on?"

Rita tilted her head. "I'm right here, in front of..."

"Oh my... you, you talk?!"

"...Yeah?"

The pokemon grabbed his head with both his hands as if he was trying to keep it from falling off. "That's not possible, pokemon don't talk. That's crazy!"

Look who's talking, literally. "You know you're talking too right? And you're a pokemon."

He look at himself, saw his paws, saw his tail, saw his yellow body. "But I'm not a pokemon! I'm, well, I was, a human! I don't know." He grabbed Rita. "You know what's going on right? Right?!"

Rita shrugged him off her, "Listen, just sit down and we'll talk about this. I'm as confused as you are... well maybe not, but I'm pretty confused!" He calmed down a little. "Ok, you're right, I need to think right now."

They both sat down on a couple of smooth rocks. "You... you're sure that you're actually a human? Cause I'm pretty sure there aren't any around any more."

The pokemon was confused. "What do you mean 'not around anymore'?"

"Well, from what I remember hearing, some disaster long ago killed them all, along with many species of pokemon... Maybe that's why I don't know what kind of pokemon you are."

"Ok, but I'm sure that before I woke up, I was a human being. Or I'm pretty sure..."

Rita didn't understand. "What do you mean 'pretty sure'?"

The pokemon shock his head. "I don't know, I can't remember anything else. The only thing I do remember is that. But now I'm not completely sure. For one as you can see I am a pokemon right now, and two, if the rest of my memory is gone, why trust the only memory I have left?"

"So you don't remember anything? Your home? Your name?"

He shock his head again. "Nothing."

Rita could barely believe it. "Its like you we're just hatched from your egg or something." Rita sighed. Looks like I'm not done helping you yet.

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Raticate had finally arrived to Restown, he was lucky to find the place. Raticate got the brilliant idea of secretly calling Gastly and having him tell him where to go. He won't let me forget about it anytime soon I'm sure, but its worth it if it gets me out of one of Zar's punishments.

He got out his radio, "I've made it to restown, I'm starting my search immediately."

Zar sounded somewhat happy, at least happy for Zar. "Good! Now quickly find that pokemon. Gastly just called me and told me Pipton was empty, and from what I've investigated, nobody has brought the pokemon here. Consider your payment doubled if you find it and capture it."

Raticate was in disbelief. "Thank you master Zar! I won't disappoint you!"

Zar said one last thing. "Remember, if anyone gets in your way, do anything possible to stop them." The radio became static, Zar was gone.

"I won't fail, I can't fail. Strange yellow pokemon, here I come."

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"Do you at least know what pokemon you are?" Another shake of the head. "No, but I know what pokemon you are, a Chikorita. Huh, so I guess I still know some things, but that just makes this a whole lot stranger..."

Rita didn't get it. "How exactly?"

"Well, why have I lost all memory of who I am, or was, but still remember me being a human, as well as a some basic stuff like the names of pokemon?"

Rita shrugged, "I'm no health expert. I guess that's more reason to help you. Listen, I was going to go to this one place in Havok city, where these guys called the Brotherhood have a bunch of information on stuff. I'm thinking they might know why your memory is messed up like it is, as well what pokemon you are, because it doesn't look like anyone round these parts knows what you are."

The pokemon smiled. "Thank you, I'm glad the first pokemon I've met was someone so helpful, like you." Rita was a little embarrassed, she'd never helped anyone but herself before. She kinda liked the feeling, the feeling that she was helping others.

"Don't worry about it. We should probably go now, nothing left here for us." Rita paused for a second. "By the way, what should I call you? Can't just keep calling you 'you' or whatever."

The pokemon thought for a moment, but shook his head. "I wish I had some idea, but I got nothing, why don't you think of something?"

Rita took a moment to think, What would be a good name? "I'm going to call you, Lloyd, yeah that's a good name I guess. You kinda look like a Lloyd."

Newly named Lloyd smiled at her. "That's good enough. Lets go."

They were about to leave when Chansey rounded the corner of the hospital and came to them. "Um, there is someone out front looking for your friend. I told him to wait while I got you."

"Who would be looking for you? ...Oh yeah, nevermind." Rita remembered Lloyds memory loss . "Don't worry about it, lets go find out together."