"Grovyle, who is this?" Asked a man of about thirty years of age, he had white hair with three electric blue bolts in his hair, a white lab coat, and a set of blue jeans and a white shirt on. He sounded like how you would imagine Santa Claus to sound. His electric blue eyes looked as though he was looking at a lost soul, doomed to wander forever. He seemed to pity the young girl.
"Professor, this is Dawn. Dawn, this is Professor Heart." Again, no emotion was in his voice, or in his eyes. He felt worse than the professor about this. Another creature had been brought to this world of horror. Most creatures brought here were either Pokémon or human. Some though were other types of creatures, such as animals from other worlds or versions of a world. So many worlds combined into one, as though the world itself thought that one of them would be its savior.
Dawn looked up at this man and thought, 'What did I do? Why is he so sad?' She scrunched her face like a little kid. After a second she smiled a big smile and held out her hand and said, "Hi, how are you?"
Amused by this, Professor Daniel Heart held out his hand and shook hers. "I will live, that much I know. How are you?" He had on a playful smile, as though someone had just told him a good joke.
"I am a little disoriented. I read that word in a book somewhere. I think." She grimaced.
"Good word. Now, how did you end up here?"
"I followed Mr. Grovyle here." Her voice was like that of an innocent eight year old. Not as mature as it had been with just Grovyle.
'Interesting, she seems to be able to change her voice. She sounds like a little kid now. How strange.' thought Grovyle as he seemed to fade into the shadows. 'Why did she change it though?'
The professor smiled at the youth, "No, my dear, how did you end up in this world?"
"Oh, that…. I don't remember very well, I only remember the end of it. I was summoned by a weird Cyclops genie. He was very confused." She chuckled at the last bit.
"That's Darius Dusknoir! He got you first? But then how did…?"
"I'm afraid I intervened before he could do more than summon her. He thought Dawn was a boy. Easy mistake unless you here her speak or see her hair." He said as though it was obvious and normal for this to happen.
Dawn just smirked at this and sat down next to a case full of poke'balls.
"Well than we should go and get you situated, you might be here for a while." His face went somber as he said this.
Dawn just shrugged as though this was nothing new to her. 'With no dawn coming it means that time is really frozen. I wonder if there is anything I can do to help.'
Grovyle stared at Dawn as the professor talked on needlessly while trying to explain boundaries and what was happening. The two only got snatches of what he said. "We will also need to get you a partner." He said at last.
Dawn looked up with determination. While the professor had been talking, she had been thinking about how she would try to help out around here. Her thoughts and plans had involved only her. She figured no one would be willing to babysit a little girl with amnesia. "A partner?"
"Yes, a partner. A Pokémon partner to be exact. The partner you get will protect you and train you to survive in this world." He said calmly.
Dawn now had a worried face on. This made her even more grateful for the oversized black cap that she pulled in low on her face. 'If I have a partner, they might get hurt trying to help me stay safe. I should work on my own. I might not fare so well then though. Ugh, it is a bit of a problem. One hand has me with a partner, who might get hurt, and the other hand has me lost on my own and doing more harm than good possibly.'
All the while, Grovyle watched the kid and noticed that she was silent. 'I wonder what she would be like if the world was normal, if we had met under normal circumstances?' When the world froze, most personalities ended up different from what they had originally been. Those who were happy were now most likely to be the saddest of them all, and the dark ones were a little happier. 'What was she?'
"I don't think a partner would be a good idea. If everything is as bad as you say it is, then shouldn't you keep your Pokémon to defend more important people than me, in other words anyone else." She sounded more confident than she felt.
The professor was too busy looking through a set of files for a partner to notice her.
'She needs to get some confidence. I must be getting old. I actually feel sorry for this kid.' Grovyle looked from the kid to the professor. 'I must be losing my mind.' "Professor, I will take the kid on as my partner." He said. His face was the most serious thing in the world.
Professor Heart stopped what he was doing and quite literally dropped everything.
Dawn, who did not understand the significance of this, looked up questioningly at the strange creature. 'What does he want to waste his time with me for? He knows I have amnesia.'
"G...Grovyle, Are you serious? You're actually going to request her for a p...p... partner?! You said you hated humans, and that you never wanted a partner!" The professor stuttered.
Dawn blinked at that. 'Hates humans and never wanted a partner. Well I guess that makes it even more obvious that I should work alone. Maybe I can even find an on switch to this time problem.' She shook her head. 'I should think better, I can't think like this or I won't make it. I don't know the first thing about surviving out here, and with amnesia it might get harder.'
"I never said I hated humans, Daniel. I just don't like having to deal with humans who can't think for themselves and require Pokémon to do all the thinking for them." He said in a serious voice that matched his face.
Dawn looked up at this and raised an eyebrow while giving a smirk. 'So he doesn't hate me. He just acts like this to seem tough. I think.'
Grovyle walked over to an old looking file cabinet. It looked like it would blow away in a gust of wind. "It's amazing how things can still get dusty even with time frozen." He muttered to himself. He blew on a file and opened it up. He grabbed three cards from inside of it. "Now, Daniel, you are going to let me do this my way. She gets to be trained by me and my friend. He even has someone he has been working with, a young Chimchar. You know all of this of course. Now, you will upload their data and mine into that dumb machine of yours." He sounded even angrier for some reason. As though someone had been left behind on a do or die mission.
Dawn looked up at him and then to the professor. She walked over to the computer and looked at a slot next to it for cards. "Hand'em and I'll scan'em." She said. She held out a hand for them. Her blue eyes were now forest green again.
The professor stared at this girl with worry. "I don't think you understand…"
Grovyle tossed her the cards, which she caught with no difficulty. "She knows what she's doing, at least at this point. Kid, you know that once you scan those, you have to listen to what I say and pay attention to what I tell you, right?"
Dawn looked at him with eyes that seemed to see through him. Her smirk grew. She looked at the cards and scanned the one that had Grovyle's Data on it. His face showed up on the screen with a check mark on it. "Right, but I think a partnership works both ways, just remember that." She then swiped the other two cards.
The second card had an Oshawott on it. Its white face looked cute, but that didn't fool Dawn. The Oshawott had been in a few fights, and as if to prove it, a small scar was about two inches under his left eye. He was smiling, but it was a war smile, the type of smile that puts you on edge and made you think, 'Oh boy, now I'm going to get it.' The name on the card was "K.O. the fierce.
The last card had a Chimchar on it. Its eyes were as black as coal, where the Oshawott had as black as Onyx jewels. Her fire seemed to give her a look that was almost as scary as the Oshawott. Her name was Mandy Firemelody.
Dawn nodded once as she finished with the cards. She placed the cards into a pocket and then scanned her own. The computer took a few more seconds on this and then checked her in. She was now with these three till the end, but the end of what?