After a good sleep with no dreams at all, and after Loudred woke us up, Chatot told us something else, a bit of news after the three rules.

"Now, to the far northeast of this continent exists a set of woods named Treeshroud Forest. We've gotten reports that... time in Treeshroud Forest has stopped," Chatot said, which shocked literally everyone, and that Wigglytuff and Chatot looked worried.

"WHAAA?!" Sunflora asked in shock.

"In Treeshroud Forest, everything has been suspended in time. The clouds don't move, the wind doesn't blow... dewdrops and raindrops hang in the air, unable to be moved and as hard as rock. Even the native Pokemon that couldn't escape in time have halted, completely immobile," Chatot said, which the group of Guild members, including me and Kiba looked and started to talk amongst each other.

"Whoa..." Kiba gulped with sweat coming down his mane, me going to him and speaking to his ear quietly.

"I think that it's starting," I said at a quiet volume while everyone else was speaking over each other.

"Time has stopped?! What the hey?!" Corphish asked in shock.

"How can time stop completely?! It's unthinkable!" Chimecho said with concern.

"Yes, the unthinkable has happened," Chatot said. "It is because of a horrid thing. Treeshroud Forest had a Time Gear... and it has been stolen," Chatot explained, which everyone looked shocked at.

"Daddy, I'm so scared!" Diglett said to his trio father.

"I don't GET IT! WHO ON EARTH would STEAL a TIME GEAR?!" Loudred shouted, me then shouting louder.

"ATTENTION!" I shouted as loud as I could by turning my head into a much louder instrument, it being a big megaphone of sorts, which everyone shut up at before I then spoke. "Ahem... if I may put out a theoretical, this is a pretty big deal, apparently. Now, I don't know too much about this, having my memories faulty and all... but maybe, if it was such forbidden taboo to take a Time Gear in the first place, there has to be some kind of reason as to WHY it would be stolen just like this? Maybe we'd need to find out who is behind the thievery and hear it from their mouth?" I said, which made Chatot frown.

"I hate to admit it, but Lisette is right to be throwing that idea out. No one has ever dared to steal a time gear, and who knows if more would be stolen eventually, and even by the same person? Officer Magnezone already has a group of Magnemite trying to find out the identity of the thief, so we will find out eventually, but hopefully before anyone else may get hurt," Chatot said. "Regardless, do not let this hamper your day of work. We will get to the bottom of this, but it will take some time. Okay, everyone, let's get to work."

"HOORAY!" everyone said as best they could, which I could tell was felt by a few like Bidoof and Diglett, mainly from worry.

"Ahem... thanks for having them calm down so quickly, Lisette. But may I ask how you stayed so calm about that?" the parrot Pokemon asked me.

"I don't know the severety of the situation, but if it caused this big of a ruckus, it's sure to be some kind of problem that none have ever dared to do before. There has to be some kind of reason as to why someone would steal something that would result in this kind of reaction. It may be good, it may be for evil intentions, but the only way to find out is to ask the thief themselves. And who knows, maybe it's multiple Pokemon working together? We need to find out as much as possible," I explained.

"How very... oddly thoughtful," Chatot smiled, me then remembering something I'd forgotten. I was told that I was a thoughtful type with a soul of purity, just with a dash of chaos... it's why I was turned into a ghost and normal Zorua. "Regardless, I have something to speak with you and Kiba about," Chatot smirked, which made us confused. "You've been doing good lately with your jobs and execution of said jobs, and are so far the only Rescue Team to have ranked up from Novice to Silver in a scant four days, which is a commendable new record," Chatot smirked, which made me blush a bit under my white fur.

"Aw, you're making her bashful," Kiba smirked at me.

"Regardless, I think today should be your very first true Exploration assignment," Chatot smirked, which made Kiba's eyes glow with excitement. "Please, take your map out," he smiled as he showed us the area we needed to travel to. "This part on the map here is a waterfall, the very same that gives clean freshwater to Treasure Town. We've actually got some intel that there may be something hidden at this location. Your job is to go to the Waterfall, investigate, and if there is some truth to the rumors, find some kind of item to bring back. Even if it's just information, any kind of proof would be incredible to help create more on this map," Chatot smirked as we then stood in place and smiled, with Kiba's eyes getting teary.

"Kiba? Is something up?" I asked, him sniffing at that.

"I'm just a bit emotional... everything I've done in my life has been leading up to this... a true exploration of the unknown, I just can't wait to go, but I also can't believe it's finally happening!" he said, me then producing some arms from my hair to give him an awkward hug, which he accepted happily. "T-Thanks... it feels oddly nice, being hugged like this," he admitted.

"It feels weird to have arms on my head, so we're even," I smirked back, earning a tearful laugh from the Ponyta. "Let's go get some preparations done and, after we do so, we get going to this waterfall and see what's up." Kiba smiled and nodded his head as we then proceeded to go out of the guild... but on the way, we saw a duo of Pokemon that were waiting by the entryway to the cafe in the ground, it being two small Pokemon, but both looked very different, yet very similar.

"Oh? Are you a rescue team?" the flying one of them asked, him being a small reptilian Pokemon that was wearing apple pieces as if it were for armor, and flying with them.

"Yes, we are," I smirked.

"Come on, let's go inside, it's about to start," the flying apple spoke before his partner, a fat apple spoke after.

"Hohoho!" he chortled loudly as we then went inside of it and we saw a very big crowd, us then going to the middle and seeing a very weird sight. In front of us was a Misdreavus that had very long hair and having a very cute face on it.

"Hello, everyone, if I may have your attention, please?" the unique Pokemon asked, getting everyone to look at her. "I would like to formally welcome you to the opening of Flutter's Cafe! It's been my dream to make a cafe for rescue teams and everyone to have fun, relax, and get to mingle and know each other, and, hopefully, work together! We have quite a few locations for both relaxation and a good use," Flutters smirked as she then pointed her head to the west. "To the left, you will find the juice bar, where I can make any kind of bevarage with any kind of edible food. To the left of that will be a special area where you can get some jobs if you happen to be a Rescue Team! And unlike at the Guild, completing these missions are much, MUCH tougher than anything you'd find at the Guild and require harmony and teamwork with other Rescue Teams to complete! If you want to learn more, please ask our resident master of battle, Brutis Bonnet," she said, us looking over to the spot of the job board and seeing that there was a very edgy-looking Amoongus that had spiky leaves coming down from its spores and looked ready for a fight.

"Speak to me if you want to learn more," he said, me smirking and nodding. Guess we knew where we'd be going later.

"And finally, there's the area run by Flapple and Appletun, the recycling facility. If you happen to find anything interesting in the Mystery Dungeons that you do not need, take them over to Flapple and he will give you something in return! Also, if you want to try your luck of the draw, you can trade enough to buy a special lotto ticket and take them to Appletun. Who knows? You may win something cool and interesting! Do we happen to have any questions?" Flutter asked, me then speaking up.

"I have one. What happens to the items that get recycled?" I asked.

"Ah, a very interesting question! Any items that get recycled and traded will actually go to a Pokemon or Rescue Team that wants or needs it. I made this place so that everyone could get along, and we can help each other out in the process!" she smirked as I saw there were zero other Pokemon that spoke up for questions. "And with that, welcome to Flutter's Cafe's grand opening!" she smirked, everyone cheering after and me looking at Kiba with a smirk.

"This is gonna be great! I can't wait to do this stuff!" he smiled as we then proceeded to prepare via the recycling plant, where we got a duo of Reviver Seeds and, after getting a duo of Oran Berries the same way, we then exited and proceeded to head off down the road to the Waterfall in question, it being a small walk that led us to a cliff that was right by a gigantic, roaring waterfall. In fact, we were actually right up against the waterfall with only a few inches of space between the waterfall and the edge of the cliff!

"Whoa... this waterfall is massive!" Kiba gawked at it as he then went up to the crashing water and touched it, him then getting pounded away from the sheer ferocity of it, me then going over to him immediately.

"Are you okay, Kiba?!" I asked in concern, him then getting up after.

"Y-Yeah... damn, that waterfall is strong! Go over and try it," he said, me then going right up to it and simply poking my paw against it, the result being that the water pulled my paw down further and I had to retreat it before it got harmed.

"Whoa, that is one powerful flume of water! I wonder how we'll-" I was about to finish before I got the dizzy feeling, me then retreating back to the cliff before I had the vision, lest I get forced down the waterfall and into the river below it.

And in this vision, I saw the shadow of Wigglytuff, mainly due to it being very dark in the vision. He not only went up to the Waterfall, he ran full force into it and jumped through the powerful flume of water, which got him to emerge on the other side with just a bit of pain! And on the other side was a hidden cave! And after the dream ended, Kiba sure noticed as I gasped aloud.

"Whoa, what happened?" he asked me.

"Don't mind me, just another vision, one that gave an answer," I said, him looking at me in confusion. "I saw something interesting. I don't know if it was past or future, but Guildmaster Wigglytuff just went to the waterfall, ran and jumped through it, and on the other side, found a cave behind it!" I said, which made Kiba shocked.

"Wait, what?! And you can't even tell if it was past or future? Well, that kind of makes me a bit worried. If it was in the past, then Wigglytuff's been here before, right? So why would he send us here?" he asked.

"No idea, but keep in mind, it could be the future. We just need to find out after we go through this. On the other side of this waterfall is a cave ripe for exploring, and if no one has been there since Wigglytuff, it's sure to have tons of loot," I smirked, which made Kiba smile.

"Okay, I believe you, and I'm going to join you in this. We need to run full-force, or we'll be pounded into next week," Kiba said as we then got into a running stance, with Kiba dragging his hooves into the dirt to get better traction. "On three. One! Two! THREE!" he shouted, us then running forward as fast as we could and we felt the water absolutely pound us, but we then fell through the gushing water into a path on the other side, me seeing after we recovered that the cave itself was quite tall, it being about the size of 20 feet in height and that we were closer to the river below us on the edge of the waterfall.

"Ow, I got water in my ear," Kiba groaned as I then showed him the place and he gawked. "Oh my gosh! Look at how pretty this place is! And look, we're about to enter a Mystery Dungeon! Let's get going for our exploration!" Kiba smiled as we then ran forward, us then entering the dungeon and proceeding to encounter a few Pokemon that had been living in the dungeon for quite awhile, as they looked to be surprised by our presence. As opposed to fighting us, they either hid or ran away, which I could tell surprised Kiba, but we didn't mind, as we'd leveled up a lot from when we'd defeated Musharna and Team Rogue.

"We need to keep going, I can see something sparkly up ahead!" Kiba smiled as we then went down the final flight of stairs and, upon doing so, we then found an area that was extremely beautiful.

"GEMS! Gems and jewels literally everywhere! It's so beautiful! I can't believe what I'm seeing!" Kiba gawked as I then inspected some of the gems on the ground and smirked at how two of them looked QUITE interesting. One was a very rare treasure, specifically for a psychic Ponyta in the form of a Mystical Crown and the other was a special gem that was in the form of a beige-colored gem that had the picture of a spooky ghost on it, me smiling widely at it.

"I found some cool stuff here, Kiba! A special crown just for you and a special ghost crystal for me," I smiled widely.

"No, way, WHAT?! A Mystical Crown?! My mom's always coveted one since she was a Ponyta, she's gonna be so jealous when she sees me wearing this!" Kiba smirked widely as I then showed the gem and he gawked at it. "It looks super pretty, but I have no clue what it is. We'll find out when we go back to Chatot, he'll tell us more," Kiba smirked as we then went to the big crystal at the very back, it being in the form of a massive pink diamond embedded into the wall.

"Whoa, look at this! It's the biggest diamond I've ever seen! If we brought this back, they'd be even more impressed!" Kiba smirked as he then tried to grab the gem with his hooves, but didn't really get too far with it.

"Kiba, this requires the use of thumbs and strength. Let me change forms and I'll try it," I smirked, him gawking.

"Ah, great idea! Try it out, maybe turn into something different than what you look like normally? I want to know if humans can look different," he smirked, me then thinking on that and smiling as I thought of one thing I recalled from my world, it being one of the strongest people in the world, him being called Mike Tyson, me then turning into the form of the man himself and then grabbing the gem with both hands and trying to yank it out, but it was hard, even for Mike Tyson! But we did gawk at how I'd managed to get it to budge out of the wall, me then continuing with Kiba helping with using his psychic powers on the crystal... and after enough work, we had finally managed to get the gem out of the wall, which I then turned back to normal with a sigh.

"Whew... that was tough!" I wheezed as I then heard another voice.

"Huh? D-Did somebody remove the diamond?" asked the voice of a very shy woman, me then looking in the direction and seeing that, inside of the hole that was in the wall... was a whole mess of Carbink with a singular Carbink that was coated in pink and looking very cute.

"O-Oh my... um, sorry, did we do something wrong?" Kiba asked, which the pink Pokemon smiled at us.

"Oh, no, nothing wrong at all. In fact, we've been trying to get out for quite awhile, we're happy you removed that gem," the pink rock-type smiled at us. "I am Diancie, the queen of Carbink. And who may you be?" she asked with a happy smile, me knowing that Diancie was quite a strong Pokemon, so I thought of something on the spot.

"We're Kiba and Lisette, Team Rainbow Illusion. And we're here on an expedition. We had to jump through the waterfall to get here," I explained.

"Oh? You had to do that to reach this place? I didn't realize there was a waterfall outside of the cave," Diancie smiled.

"Um... have you been outside?" I asked.

"Unfortunately, no. We've been living in here since I was born. My mother died shortly before the diamond appeared, and I don't know why... may I ask if you want that diamond?" she asked, me suddenly having an idea at what the diamond may have been, since I saw what looked to be a curvy explanation mark symbol inside of the diamond.

"I think I have a better idea," I smiled. "How would you like to join Team Rainbow Illusion?" I asked, which made the Carbink look surprised at us.

"Would that include all of us, too? We'd love to be with Queen Diancie, too," said one of the Carbink crew.

"I think we could arrange that, we'd need to ask Chatot for permission, but I'm sure he'd say yes, especially if he found out we'd saved you from being stuck in a wall for so long," Kiba smirked.

"We have, that diamond being there made a barrier of sorts that trapped us in the walls. But that's not the only thing. Try hitting that small notch in the center," Diancie said, me then doing so... and when I did, I got a Dimensional Scream that showed the sight of a Diancie that had been there prior, leaving an egg inside of the wall and, afterwards, she died right outside of the wall and then her body turned into the magical diamond! And she then spoke after.

"With my death, I protect you, my daughter, from the Mystery Dungeon forming around us... I'm sorry..." the queen said with sadness before she finally turned into the diamond barrier and, afterwards, my dream ended after and I heard something loud coming towards us.

"O-Oh my," I said after... and then, we looked to the right and I gawked at how a giant flume of water was rushing through the place!

"What did you do?!" I asked in shock.

"Don't worry, this is the fun part," Diancie smiled.

"How do you know? You've been trapped since birth!" Kiba said with concern.

"We could see through the diamond, this is gonna be fun, trust me," Diancie giggled as the giant torrent of water then rushed through and proceeded to swallow us up and take us through the waters... and then I gasped for air after we were sent far into the air above the top of a geyser! And when we finally landed, it was a bit painful as I landed into shallow water and my leg got hurt again.

"Owie... that freakin' hurt..." I groaned.

"But it was fun, wasn't it?" Diancie smirked as we then looked around and saw that the place looked very quaint... and we also saw that our items were still on us and that the giant diamond was next to a Teddiursa that was in the place we were at... which he looked at in surprise.

"Good thing I was here and not there, or I'd have been crushed," he said with a sigh as I then felt... at ease? The water felt like it was healing me up as I sat inside of it!

"Oh-Oh my... this is a hot spring, isn't it?" Kiba asked with a trill, which we then saw a very old Pokemon over by the edge of the hot spring, me seeing it was a Torkoal.

"Why yes, these are the hot springs. May I ask where you youngsters came from if you fell from the sky?" Torkoal asked with a hearty laugh.

"Well, we came from here, in the Waterfall... we were sent from a geyser of sorts all the way to here... wow, we traveled about two miles in the air! Insane!" I gawked at the sight.

"My goodness, water carried you here this far? Please, I insist you rest in this hot spring and let the waters ease your worries and your wounds," Torkoal chortled, me nodding as we then stayed in the hot springs with Diancie and her Carbink friends for a good hour before we then proceeded back to town, bringing back the giant diamond, the ghostly gem, and Kiba's crown the whole way. And once we got to town, we then went right to the Guild and, after we went to the grate, Diglett had a bit more trouble with Diancie's footprint.

"U-Um... I apologize, I can't identify this footprint," Diglett said from under us.

"She's with us, Diglett, she's safe, we can promise," I said into the grate.

"O-Oh, really? Okay, could I at least get a name?"

"Diancie," the Carbink queen smiled.

"Okay, I'll try to remember that," Diglett said as we went into the Guild, bringing in the giant diamond down to the lower levels with two large THUNKS, which actually made a couple rescue teams shocked by the noise it made as we sent it down to the lowest part of the Guild, which Chatot heard for sure and looked at in absolute shock.

"Oh my oh my! I must know what you found if you have a giant diamond, a group of Carbink and... oh my... you found a Diancie?!" Chatot gawked.

"You know of me? No one else so far as recognized me," Diancie smiled.

"I am a very knowledgeable Pokemon, your highness! I know that a Diancie and a group of Carbink used to have a kingdom in this continent in the past, but she mysteriously disappeared one day," Chatot said, me then speaking the truth that I saw in my visions.

"Well, I think you should hear this, Chatot," I frowned as I then explained what I saw in BOTH visions as well as what they were, with the first one being Wigglytuff and not knowing what time it was from and the second being from the far past, with Diancie's mother forming the barrier via the giant pink diamond to protect her and the Carbink from any Pokemon that came from the Mystery Dungeon inside of the Waterfall.

"Oh my, you mean that... this diamond used to be my mother?... I knew she was protecting us from something... may I ask what a Mystery Dungeon is?" Diancie asked in confusion.

"Uh... may I also ask why you brought them here with you?" Chatot asked.

"Well, we wanted to know if they could join our Rescue Team, with Diancie being another intern and the Carbink being called upon when we'd need them," Kiba asked.

"I see. We must speak with Guildmaster about this! Did you happen to find anything else there?" Chatot asked.

"Yes, we did. We found that this notch on the diamond, when pushed in, causes a water flume to come from the deepest part of the Waterfall Cave and it would send you from a geyser all the way to the hot springs! We also found this crown that's on Kiba's head as well as this... do you know what it is?" I asked as I showed him the gem that I found.

"Oh my word! That's Ghostinium Z! That is super rare! I've only seen one before this! I think I could make a special wristband for you and then, afterwards, if you were to do a special dance, you could use a super powerful ghost move that could demolish any opponent! Only downside, you can only use it once per Mystery Dungeon," Chatot said with excitement.

"Whoa, that's so cool! I can't wait to try it out!" I smiled widely as we then went to meet with Wigglytuff, explaining everything to him, including asking if he'd been to the waterfall cave before, him then thinking about it at first before then dancing a bit and giggling.

"When I really think hard about it, I guess I may have been there before! Memories, oh sweet memories, yoomtah!" Wigglytuff giggled, the hyper voice being much quieter this time. "But you did find quite a lot while there, including where queen Diancie disappeared to roughly 10 years ago. And now, time to register her daughter into Team Rainbow Illusion as a guild member!" Wigglytuff giggled as he then did so and then spoke after. "Done! Now to give you some information. This isn't just a diamond or Queen Diancie herself. It also contains something deep inside of it, Diancite," Wigglytuff said, making our entire group confused, even Chatot.

"Um... forgive me, Guildmaster, can you explain further?" one of the Carbink asked.

"Oh, yes, excuse me! It's a special stone that can allow a Diancie to undergo the process of Mega Evolution!" Wigglytuff smirked, which made Diancie smile.

"Mega Evolution? It sounds very fun!"

"It is! You'll become temporarily stronger and your form will even change for a bit to match your new power. I'll have Chatot get to making a proper Mega Stone bracelet for you as well as the Ghostinium Z for you, Lisette! And, just because of your good work lately, I'll let you in on something secret, so long as you promise not to tell anyone until tomorrow. We'll be going on an expedition soon," Wigglytuff smirked widely, which made Kiba's eyes go wide.

"No way! That sounds awesome!" he gawked.

"I do agree, that sounds quite fun and exciting!" one of the Carbink said with a happy expression.

"Anyways, make sure nobody knows. As for all of the Carbink, you can live outside of the town and will be a part of Chimecho's new service that she'll be opening up tomorrow, which will allow you to join Team Rainbow Illusion as team members to interact with at any time, able to be called upon instantaneously as well as having more badges to give to them," Wigglytuff explained, us then smirking and nodding as the Carbink then left the place with help from Loudred and then, afterwards, we then went to dinner and, after that, we then went into the bedrooms and engaged in some scary stories to pass time before bedtime, with me deciding to tell a spooky story from something in my world, it being the story of a person that went to an island where everything was living food. And that after being there for awhile, the food started to turn him to addiction and then, afterwards, he turned into food himself.

"Ooh, that's a good one! Being turned into food by eating food parasites is definitely creepy! I'll never look at strawberries the same way again, heehee!" Chemecho giggled after the story.

"I will admit, that does sound creepy. I think we should call it a night after that one," Corphish smirked.

"Aw, c'mon, I wanted to tell a story," Sunflora said with a frown.

"Well, maybe if you weren't late, you'd get to join in, hehe," Diglett chuckled.

"Hey, speaking of late, where's Loudred at?" I asked, noticing he wasn't around.

"He got punished today, but that's a story for later. He's currently getting some more supplies, it's a task that requires a lot of skill to get as much as possible," Bidoof explained. "Something I still have to learn, sadly."

"No worries, I'm sure you'll get to experience better work in the future, Bidoof," I smiled at him.

"Golly, thanks," he smirked as we then proceeded to bunk down and for Kiba to sleep with his hat on his head, me smirking at how silly it looked to wear a hat when sleeping, especially for a Ponyta. As for Diancie, she got her own bunk in between us and she looked to enjoy it.

"Ah... goodnight, new friends... I can't wait to learn tomorrow..." she said with a smile as we then fell asleep quite easily.