After walking down the hill of the Guild, Bidoof led us to the west and into the town itself, where I saw that the first place on the right was the bank, it being called Mane Funding Bank and it was run by a... Galarian Rapidash... what the heck was Galarian? Now I had another question to ask myself, since I knew that Kiba wouldn't know what that term meant.
"Here we are in Treasure Town. This place has a lot of shops you can visit to prepare for your Rescue Team jobs," Bidoof explained before Kiba went ahead and spoke as well.
"Well, I can actually help, too, because I've been living here with mom for a long time," Kiba smiled as he pointed next door with his head and his mom looked at him with a small whinny. "That's my mom, Twilight. She's the head of Mane Funding Bank, which will hold any excess money we get from our jobs," Kiba smirked before then going over to the other stalls in this area. "That there is Marowak's Dojo. It's currently being revamped. Next door to the dojo is Chansey's Daycare, which can care for any Pokemon eggs for busy parents until they hatch... up the street is Klink Link, where you can link your moves... it looks like Klink isn't there, though..."
Klink? I then recalled that it should've been Electivire instead, but it felt weird. "Then, across the bridge, you've got Kangaskhan storage, where you can store a bunch of important valuables you find in Mystery Dungeons. South of that store is Tinkaton Treasures, which gives the fun service of opening up locked treasure boxes we can find in Mystery Dungeons... and north of that is Kecleon Wares, where we can buy items... and that's all," Kiba smirked. And I knew that Tinkaton was actually Xatu from my memories... so that was bizarre.
"Well, good to hear you know so much! Okay, I'ma gonna go back to the Guild and wait for ya'll by the outlaw board. When you're all done stocking up, come on back and we'll choose your first bounty," Bidoof smiled, us then looking around and Kiba then looking at his mom with a smile.
"Hi, mom," he said, being a bit bashful.
"I heard that you finally got into the Guild, Kiba. And is this your new friend? I'd heard tell that we had a unique newcomer, and that's certainly true by appearance. Never saw a Zorua that had fur quite like that," Twilight said with a giggle.
"Uh, yeah, I don't get it either... but it's not like I'm complaining. I've got tons of resistances and I'm only weak to dark type attacks, so I'd say that's a good bet for Mystery Dungeons," I giggled.
"And since she's normal and ghost type, she's also immune to ghost, normal, and fighting type attacks," Kiba smirked.
"You'd better get ready for your first outlaw job. Just be careful and don't bite off more than you can chew, okay?"
"Don't worry, mom, we'll be fine," Kiba smiled as we then went and decided to go to Kecleon Wares, where we spoke to the green one of the duo.
"Welcome to Kecleon Wares, what can I do for you today?" he asked, me smiling at that as I then looked at the stock of items they had and decided that I'd take one Reviver Seed, an Oran Berry, and an apple, which meant we now had 400 dollars left.
"Misters Kecleon!" shouted a little boy's voice as two little blue Pokemon arrived and we moved out of the way for them.
"Ah, brothers Marill and Azurill, what can we do for you today?" the green Kecleon asked happily.
"We'd like to buy an apple, pretty please?" Azurill asked, him being very young, judging from his voice. He looked so cute and sounded just as much!
"But of course," Kecleon smirked as he then took the money from the kids and then secret gave them a second apple in the bag. "Thanks Misters Kecleon," they said happily before then walking/bouncing down the path.
"Those two are very sweet children. Their mother has fallen ill lately, so they've been doing the shopping for her. It fills my heart with joy to see such little kids taking charge for their loved ones," the green Kecleon smiled... and then the duo rushed back.
"MISTERS KECLEON!" they said in concern.
"Oh? What's the problem?"
"There was an extra apple," Azurill said.
"We didn't pay for this many," Marill spoke after.
"Oh, that is a gift for the both of you. Feel free to share it amongst each other," the purple Kecleon smiled.
"Really?! Oh thank you, Kecleon Misters!" the brothers smiled as Azurill then tried to bounce down the road with the spare apple on his head, but he lost his balance and fell down, which made the apple fall off his head, me going over and picking it up before dusting it off.
"Here, maybe we should put it back in the bag," I smiled at him as I then put it in the bag around his big tail.
"Sorry for the trouble, and thanks," he said... and then, it happened.
'Oh no... why now?' I thought to myself as I then had a flash happen in my head, me then hearing the voices of Azurill and another voice.
"If you don't cooperate, you really won't like what I'll do!" said the voice of a male Pokemon that had a creepy gruffness to his voice.
"H-H-HEEEELPP!" Azurill shouted, me not seeing anything but hearing the voices, the vision then ending afterwards, but I didn't let them in on it.
"Azurill, come on, let's go home," Marill called out, his little brother then boucning over with his bag snug on his tail in the process.
"Hey, Kiba? I need to tell you something, but in the form of mind reading," I said, him nodding as I then showed him exactly what happened and the name of it. It was something called the Dimensional Scream, an ability I had since birth and it allowed me to see into either the future or the past... and what I just saw... or rather HEARD was that Azurill was being threatened by someone with a gruff voice, me knowing it had to be a bad guy... but I actually was surprised that I didn't know who it was.
"Wait... you think Azurill's going to be in trouble, soon? If that's the case, then we'll need to keep an eye on him," Kiba said at a small volume, mainly so as not to alert the shopkeepers.
"Let's get back to the Guild," I said as we then went down the path... only to find that the duo were speaking to a weird-looking Pokemon, it being purple, pink, had a weird mist coming from its head, and then we heard it speak.
"We can't thank you enough!" Marill smiled before the Pokemon, it being a Musharna, spoke.
"Think nothing of it, we gotta help each other, after all," Musharna said, me gawking at how it matched the voice in my vision EXACTLY! And that made me worried.
"Oh, hello, what's up?" Kiba asked.
"Oh, you again! We've been trying to find an important item that we lost a year ago, but no luck. Then, Mister Musharna said he actually knew of where it was," Marill smiled, me frowning as I looked at Musharna with concern. I didn't know how tough he was, but he sure didn't look too threatening.
"Well, the world out there is getting dangerous. Can't really let anything bad happen to you. Now let's go find your treasure," Musharna said as he and the brothers moved forward, but Musharna bumped into me. "Oops, sorry," he said... and after that happened, I felt dizzy again. 'rgk... again... another vision...' I thought before another flash happened.
And in this vision, I saw that not only was Musharna there at the scene, but he was also joined by another group of bad guys, it being Team Rogue, which consisted of Snover, Gligar, and Bagon. And they looked like they were working together to prevent Azurill from leaving.
"Listen, we're getting that treasure one way or another," Snover said angrily.
"And if you don't cooperate, you really won't like what I'll do!" Musharna growled, me seeing anger on his face.
"H-H-HEEEELLLPPP!" Azurill shouted before the vision ended, me then gawking and looking at Kiba.
"Kiba, we need a game plan, a really good game plan," I said, him looking at me in confusion.
"What do you mean?" he asked.
"That Musharna there? He's the same voice I heard in the vision!" I said, him gawking at that. "Not only that, but I got another vision when he bumped into me. Look at my mind," I said, him then doing that and him then gasping at the scene he saw in my head.
"Team Rogue?! That nasty gang has been bullying innocent people for so long, they've been demoted as a Rescue Team and are now a gang! Now I see what you mean! We need to get some extra help for this one! We need to get others to help out!" Kiba said, us then rushing our way back to the Guild and immediately seeing that there were three Poocheyena that were at the bulletin board alongside Bidoof.
"Excuse me! Are you three a Rescue Team?" I asked them.
"Yep, nice to meet ya! We're Team Poochy, and we specialize in going after outlaws!" the one leader smiled, him having a scar on his nose.
"We need help! Azurill is in big trouble!" I said, the trio gawking at that.
"What?! That little kid's in trouble? What's going on?" they asked.
"He's being taken to a mountainous place called Mount Bristle, and he's going to be in danger from an outlaw Musharna and Team Rogue!"
And when I said that, the trio were shocked before then growling. "Okay! We'll team up for this and split the reward fifty-fifty! Lead the way, rookies!" they said, us then rushing off and for Bidoof to look on in pure confusion as we rushed out of the Guild and went down to the crossroads and saw Marill.
"Marill! Where'd Musharna and Azurill go?" I asked.
"We were going down the path, but then Musharna and Azurill got too far ahead... I lost sight of them when we reached a sign for a crossroads to the Waterfall, the Hot Springs, and Mount Bristle," Marill said.
"I know where they're going, and Azurill is in major trouble! Mount Bristle, away!" I shouted as we then rushed off down the trail to the northeast by a good three mile walk until we got to the base of the mountain, which was a small mountain that had a crest that was so worn down, it was almost completely squared-off, with me seeing that the ground felt like the bristles of a brush.
"We've been to this place before. The summit is at Floor 9, and I bet you anything we'll find them there!" one of Team Poochy said, her being the only one with a bow on her hear, it being a Friend Bow.
"Marill, you're in charge of contacting the police. We need to get them detained and then we'll have Magnezone and his squad arrest them," Kiba said, which Marill nodded.
"Be careful, and please, make sure Azurill is safe... I'm so worried!" he said before rushing back towards town, our group then proceeding to climb the mountain, taking out any bad Pokemon on the way, which included Wiglett, Nidorina, Nidorino, and Carbink. And after enough hard work, we reached the summit. And JUST in time, too, as we saw that Azurill had been surrounded by Team Rogue and Musharna, the quartet then saying the exact words in the dream.
"Listen, we're getting that treasure one way or another!"
"And if you don't cooperate, you really won't like what I'll do!"
"H-H-HEEELLLPPP!"
"HALT CRIMINAL SCUM!" the lead Poocheyena shouted as we rushed in and I proceeded to use Scratch on Musharna to give Azurill a window to escape, him then doing just that as I then retreated and for the four to look at our group in shock.
"What the?! You?! How did you get here so fast?!" Musharna asked in surprise.
"We're Rescue Teams Poochy and Rainbow Illusion! And we can sniff out a criminal anywhere! Doing that to a little kid, truly disgusting! Let's fight!" I said as I then proceeded to change my appearance to look bigger... and then I thought of a big Pokemon I could turn into, me then gawking as I saw a different one in my memories I could turn into, but it not being a Pokemon. I then changed to look like a very big DIGIMON in the form of Gigaseadramon, which was so huge, that it made all the criminals look at me in a new emotion. Fear. And Gligar was so scared, he actually fell over and fainted from the shock!
"Ack! Gligar! Wake up!" Bagon shouted as I then proceeded to knock all three of the rest into the wall by simply a half-hearted nudge from my head, the trio then falling over and fainting before I then turned back to normal and smirked.
"And that's how I deal with kidnappers," I frowned angrily, which Team Poochy looked at me with a smile.
"Very cool! How high is your rank?" the leader asked.
"Honestly? This was only our first outlaw gig... I didn't know you could turn into something so huge!" Kiba gawked at me with excitement.
"I have no patience for people who are callous like that. If they cheat, then I cheat back, but harder," I smirked.
"Hehe, we like you! How about you get the reward? We barely had to do anything," the female Poocheyena smirked.
"Naw, we're still splitting it 50/50," I smiled.
"Humble, too," the leader smirked as we then proceeded to detain the four with me then turning into a very long rope and binding the four in a chain-gang style, all over their legs. After this, we then moved down the mountain to the base where we saw that Magnezone was there with at least five different Magnemite.
"Bzzt! You actually managed to defeat Team Rogue and Musharna the Dreamcatcher? Impressive, Bzzt! We will give word of your success to the guild and send the bounty for you to collect... so who gets the reward?" Magnezone asked.
"We're splitting the difference between us," Kiba smiled.
"Very well, then that is what we'll do, Bzzt. Now you four will come along with us, Bzzt!" Magnezone said, the four now having been wide awake and me then releasing the shackles and for them to then get reshackled by the Magnemite squad.
"Pooey..." Musharna groaned as they then got led off to jail and Marill then hugged Azurill tight.
"Marill! It was so scary!" Azurill cried to him.
"Are you alright? Did you get hurt?" Marill asked.
"He's a bit shaken up, but we saved him before they laid a paw on him," Poochy leader smiled.
"Thank you, so much. And it was very smart to team up with each other. I wish more Rescue Teams did that more often... really, thank you,' Azurill smiled.
"We should get back home. And Azurill?" I smiled, the little guy smiling at me before I then handed him an apple. "You dropped this on the way up the mountain," I smirked.
"T-Thanks. Let's go home," Azurill smiled as we then went off to home after that happened.
After getting home via the long way by walking, we then found out that Marill and Azurill lived just a bit off the beaten path of the crossroads in a house that was shaped like a big blue Azumarill, us going to the door and the kids then going inside.
"Thanks again, we can't thank you enough," Marill smiled at me.
"If you ever get into a scrape like that again, call us and we'll be there," I smiled at them.
"Really, really thank you," Marill smiled with a few more tears falling from his eyes as he and Azurill went into the house and I caught a glimpse of their mother, it being an Azumarill who was laying in bed with an ice pack on her forehead and looking to be sick with the flu.
"Hope she gets better soon, she's got Pokerus," Kiba said, me being confused at that. "It's a disease that Pokemon get that makes them very ill, but some Pokemon use that to get stronger... if you have the strength to fight while diseased with Pokerus, you can get much stronger, but it takes a toll on you. It's why most Rescue Teams try to avoid it."
"I see... so we should wash ourselves beforehand, right?" I asked.
"Let's go to the beach. It's easily killed off by saltwater if you have it on your skin," the leader Poocheyena said, which I'd since learned he was named Scar, the one with the bow was Pooka, and the final of the duo, who had a tie on his neck, was Nipper. We then made a quick detour to the beach, same with Team Poochy and proceeded to get wet in the water before then exiting it and shaking our bodies off... though I had to be taught how to do so by Kiba, which Team Poochy noticed.
"How do you not know how to shake the water off?" Nipper asked.
"Well... being a Pokemon is a bit new to me. I used to be something else, but then I got attacked and turned into a ghost and normal Zorua. But I'm not saying what I was, because I'd like it to be kept secret from most," I said.
"No problem, we already have an idea it was from another universe, considering that you turned into something gigantic... just for the heck of it, could ya tell us what it was?" Scar asked with a smirk.
"It was called Gigaseadramon, a creature from a universe called Digimon... basically a darker and bleaker version of Pokemon, but every single Digimon's name ends with 'mon' with no exceptions," I said.
"Really?"
"There's Togamon, Palmon, Greymon, Agumon, Seadramon, and even some that look like humans like Angewomon and Mermaimon... and that's all I can recall..." I said, me frowning at how I couldn't remember any others and that was all I could think of.
"Why couldn't ya think of anymore than that?" Pooka asked.
"Memory loss is the reason. Getting attacked and then getting thrown into the ocean during a thunderstorm really rattles the mind, makes things forgotten," I said, them nodding as we then went back to the Guild and, after getting past the grate challenge, we then met up with Chatot, who looked at our quintet with a pleased smile.
"Well, well, I heard everything that happened from Officer Magnezone and I must say, I am quite impressed," Chatot smiled at me and my group. "Not only do you go after four outlaws at once to save Azurill, but you also managed to get Musharna the Dreamcatcher AND Team Rogue! All four of them were Rank A outlaws, and since you're all sharing the earnings, I decided to give the full amount of rescue points to both of your teams. And as for the rewards in general, here they are," Chatot said as he showed off that there were two Big Apples, 4 Blast Seeds, and a Joy seed for each team! And after all of that, he then split the earnings of the reward in the form of 600 dollars diversed between the two teams, which made me smile.
"It was great working with you, Team Poochy. And here's hoping we both go far," I smiled at them.
"Same to you, Team Rainbow Illusion. Man, that title's cool!" Scar smirked as the trio then walked off and I then looked at Kiba with a smile.
"That dream thing of yours really helped us out, Liz. Do you know what it is?" Kiba asked me, but only after we'd been left alone.
"It's called the Dimensional Scream," I smiled, feeling I could say this stuff, since Dusknoir didn't know what I looked like, not even my name. All he knew was that I was a human, so that part had to be kept hidden at all costs. "It allows me to see events either in the future or in the past... but it's very random, only coming out when it feels like it. But in the future, it only applied to areas connected to the important artifacts and Temporal Tower," I explained.
"I see... how about I explain stuff to you during our time before we go to sleep? I think I know of an artifact that might be correlated, but we need to wait until everyone's asleep," he said, me nodding as we then had our stomachs growl in response and we then went down the have dinner with everyone. And after that, we then went to bed... and as we did so, we saw it was storming really bad outside with some thunder flashes happening very close to town.
"Whoa, that's one nasty storm!" Kiba gawked. "Didn't you say that you were thrown into the ocean during the last storm?"
"I was, and it felt like my lungs were on fire. I kept getting pushed underwater, only getting slight puffs of air anytime I went to the surface... it rocked me very bad," I groaned as I then heard no more sound in the other rooms aside from snoozing... and Loudred's loud snoring.
"Yeesh, Loudred's snoring is very loud. I wonder how Bidoof and Corphish sleep like that?" Kiba asked.
"They probably have ear plugs or something," I smirked as we then went and got comfy in our beds and I then asked Kiba the question. "So what artifacts were you speaking of?" I asked.
"Well, there exists these super rare items called Time Gears," he said, me then having a memory jog at that.
"I think that rings a bell... yeah, yeah, Limestone Caves! A Time Gear is there, hidden in a cavern system that's hidden in a wide jungle," I smirked.
"Really? That must mean those are the artifacts... I'd heard of Time Gears being in very different areas. One in a far-off forest... another in a set of caverns deep underground. And I'd even heard rumors of one being hidden in an active volcano. Time Gears are said to keep time in balance across the world, and as such, nobody dares to try and take them. Nobody knows what'd happen if the Time Gear would be stolen, but I think that time would be halted in that area, including the Pokemon... even the most hardened criminal Pokemon wouldn't dare to steal them," Kiba explained in full, me then thinking about it and then remembering another thing. About how Time Gears did need to be used and that, if they were to be used to save Temporal Tower, time would be restored everywhere regardless.
"I just remembered something, Kiba," I said, him then perking his ears up. "I remember that, even though time would stop when a Time Gear is stolen, not only would it stay that way if they were put back in place, but when they'e used on Temporal Tower, then time will be resumed to normal everywhere in the world... but if Temporal Tower does fall?... Then the only one that'd be alive would be its keeper, Dialga, and he'd become nothing but rage incarnate, making new Pokemon to work for him with no one else to stop him... don't speak a word of this, okay? Nobody should know what we've discussed, lest they think we're bad guys as well," I said, Kiba nodding at me.
"Agreed completely... okay, goodnight, Liz... tomorrow, it'll be time for the first real day of doing things our way," Kiba smirked. We then proceeded to sleep easily... well, aside from me, as my ears heard someone's voice in the distance as well as a bit of rumaging.
"Guildmaster? It's me, Chatot... I'm coming in," Chatot said, trying to be quiet, but I snuck out of my bedroom and went to the door that he and Wigglytuff were at and listened in from the other side.
"Yay! Perfect Apple! Heehee!" Wigglytuff giggled as he then started juggling it on his head and Chatot groaned.
"This is the last time, Guildmaster. I'm begging you, I don't want to keep doing this anymore," Chatot complained in concern... and then, as Wigglytuff danced in place, something flew off of his personal bag and onto the ground, making a ringing sound when it did so. "Ah! Oh no!" he gasped as the item rolled all the way over to me, which I then stopped it from rolling anymore and looked at the duo with awkwardness.
"U-Um... hi... you dropped something, boss," I said awkwardly as Wigglytuff then walked over to me with a smile on his face.
"Whew... it's not broken. What a relief..." he smiled before giving it a hug and then putting it in his bag.
"It's rare for you to be so concerned over an item, Guildmaster! But why a Defend Globe? Isn't that something that only works for bug type Pokemon?" Chatot asked before looking at me. "And why are you awake? You aren't snooping about, are you?"
"I heard some stuff going on and then investigated... I'll promise not to say anything about this, okay?" I smirked.
'Thanks for that... this Defend Globe is special to me. It used to belong to my original Master," Wigglytuff said, me smirking at that.
"He sounds like a real cool guy, then. Especially if you've kept that Defend Globe for so long," I smiled.
"He is, my only master and the best master. I really do miss him, though... he passed on about 4 years ago... I keep this Defend Globe not only as a memento of him, but my first true exploration, back when I was only an Igglybuff," he smiled happily as a couple tears fell down his head, me then seeing some dust on the Defend Globe, me then dusting it off with some of the fur on my body.
"It was a bit dusty from the rolling, so I got rid of the dust," I smiled. And Wigglytuff smiled at me.
"I'm grateful again, friendly friend... why don't we go to bed, then? It's enough excitement for one night," Wigglytuff giggled, me and Chatot then looking at each other before Wigglytuff smiled at him. "And I'll try to ease up on the late night snacking, Chatot. Maybe I'll limit it to once a week," he smirked.
"I'd appreciate that," Chatot smirked as I then finally went to my bed and quietly fell asleep shortly after.
