Dawn woke up with a start. 'Mandy!' She didn't remember the dream, but she had remembered seeing her friend crying and scared. She noticed the boys were sleeping and went over to Mandy's room. She held her teddy bear close to her as she peeked into the room. Mandy was thrashing in her sleep. "Mandy!"
"No… she can't… leave her alone… just a little… girl… stop…" She was muttering in her sleep. She kept trying to do something with her hands, but only managed to puff out smoke.
"Mandy, wake up… wake up, Mandy. You're safe now, come on." Dawn tried to shake her awake, but the little Chimchar only managed to roll away and kept thrashing about. Dawn then ran towards K.O. and woke him up. "It's Mandy, she won't wake up, and if she doesn't stop, she might hurt herself!"
K.O. nodded and rushed to his apprentice's side. He checked her temperature and was startled by how cold she was. A healthy Chimchar has a normal temperature of about 300 degrees Fahrenheit, and keeps that heat inside itself and its tail. Mandy was only at 180 degrees and quickly dropping. "She's losing heat, we need to wake her up and get her temperature back up." Though he didn't sound concerned, he looked worried enough to get Dawn started.
Dawn grabbed her bag and looked for anything she could thing of that might help Mandy to wake up. "Got it!" A small spray bottle with the label "Awake: One spray will wake up anyone." She then ran over to K.O. and asked, "How's this?"
"Perfect!" He grabbed the spray and used it on Mandy.
Mandy suddenly startled, jolted up. "NO!" She was breathing heavily enough to have just done a 500-meter run. She took her head in her hands and started to cry. "I failed them… I failed them."
"Mandy, you're fine now. You're fine." K.O. was trying to comfort the Chimchar as a father would his daughter after a nightmare. "You didn't fail anyone, no one's hurt."
Mandy looked up and saw Dawn looking concerned as well as her master. Her master may have been one of the strictest and most dangerous creatures she knew, but she also respected how gentle he could be when he needed to be. Mandy could only hope to learn how to alternate between her harsh normal demeanor and her hidden soft side for others. She looked once again at Dawn and realized that she respected her as much as her master for similar reasons, as well as the fact that she seemed incredibly similar to the child she had been assigned to protect. She had given up the idea that she could be the same child for she had never heard of a child who had been given multiple guardians before. "I'm fine. Just a memory…" She shook her head and straightened up. She then looked at the Oshawatt and Dawn, and noticed Dawn was still concerned. "I said I'm fine, Dawn." She looked like she was starting to get back to her normal over confident and unemotional self, just like the rest of the team.
K.O. checked her temperature again and noticed it was starting to rise again back into its normal temperature range. He looked at Dawn and nodded. She smirked.
Dawn went and packed up her treasure bag with everything in the cave that she thought they would need and even placed her little teddy bear in her trench coat's left pocket. The pocket was deep enough to hold the bear with no danger of him slipping out at all, but still shallow enough for Dawn to grab him with no difficulties.
She smiled at the little bear. "You know who I am, and so it's only fair that you help me with my mission. I'm going to first save the world, then help Mandy find her friend, and then and only then, will I try to find out who I am. Now how does that sound, Teddy?"
"I'm not sure what the bear thinks, but it sounds like you've got a good plan, kid." Grovyle walked into her little room and looked like he was in perfect help almost. The only thing wrong was his scar next to his eye. "So, miss planner, when do we leave?" He smirked. 'I really am going soft around these guys. Oh well… I don't really care anymore, as long as we succeed and I can get them through safely. Maybe that's why Pokémon get human partners; to feel whole for whatever is missing…. Yep… definitely going soft… whatever is missing, jeez.'
"As soon as Mandy and K.O. come out. We'll wait up top for them."