It was hard to tell when morning came or went or even when a couple of hours went by. Whenever the lights came on meant that it was okay to go outside again. As soon as the lights came into view Treeko and I ran outside and waited for the streets to be busy with people.

I looked at Treeko. He seemed so cool and confident while I couldn't hear anything over the sound of my heart. It rang in my ears and got caught in my throat. I suddenly became aware of the pulses throughout my body. What would they think of me when I told them I'm going to change history? Will they laugh? Will father be mad?

Treeko grabbed my hand. "It's okay." He smiled. "Just tell the world and if they don't follow then…we'll just go off on our own."

I smiled and took a deep breath. I needed to do this. If I didn't do this nobody would and I couldn't let Treeko down. "Everyone listen up!" The words came flowing from my throat. My body relaxed after seeing how easily the words came out.

Everyone within hearing range stopped and stared at us. Treeko was right I was well respected by almost everyone.

I swallowed and Treeko squeezed my hand. That's right. I have my friend Treeko here with me. I squeezed his hand softly. "It is possible to not live in a world surrounded by darkness and fear!" I yelled. Some people started to approach, curious at what I had to say. "It's possible to change this time! We have to go back in time! Change the past! I'm going to do that with my friend Treeko. But it's hard for a twelve-year-old girl and a young Pokémon to bear the burden alone. We need your help!"

I didn't see the look of fear in people's eyes. Treeko yelled, "You shouldn't be afraid of her father. If you fight back against him he can't win!"

This put a fire in some of the people's hearts. I smiled.

"How will you do this?" I recognized the terrorizing voice. In any other situation the people would have scattered like cockroaches. The people parted to let my father through to the front.

I stared down at him as if I was the biggest thing in the world. "We will learn everything we can about the past and we will find a way to travel back in time."

"This will take years to collect the information!" My father laughed in our faces. "And you'll be so burnt out that you'll quit." He pointed a finger at us accusingly.

Treeko didn't like what he had to say to me. He bit his hand. Father yelled out in pain and flung him against Nate. "Now he will pay!" He approached the tiny Pokémon.

I couldn't stop it from happening. I punched his back as hard as I could. "You won't hurt him!" I screamed.

Nate ran to me and grabbed my frozen body before my father could recover from the sneak attack. "Ground him!" He ordered two burly guys. They were way bigger than father but had always been scared of his temper until now. I watched them drag my father back to the house. He would never take me back.

"Tell us how to help." Nate set me and Treeko down on a box so that we could see the crowd. I picked up Treeko and let him rest on my head so that he could see the crowd better. Everyone was determined. Nobody wanted to be in the dark forever.

"In groups gather as much information about how to get to the past as you can. Treeko and I will be the only ones going into the past so we will learn everything we can about the past. Only us two because people in the past would probably get really freaked out if a horde of us went over. That would be drastically changing things and we really don't want that…" I let all of this information sink in. Then I said, "Who will go and gather how to go to the past?"

I waited…and waited…and waited…I started to loose hope that anyone would volunteer at all.

"I will go!" Nate yelled.

"I will too!" Ruth made her way through the crowed. She had her cane today. "I may be an old woman but I still have some fight left in these bones."

I smiled.

"No, Ruth," the baker woman put a hand on her shoulder. "Me and my husband will go with Nate. You need to watch the village. Take control and be our leader here."

I looked down at Treeko then back up at everyone else. "We will leave as soon as we are prepared!"

Everyone cheered.