This fan story is based on the
Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness game.
The storyline will also be based on the game, so it might contain spoilers as I advance in the story. If someone is playing Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness or Sky and don't want spoilers, I warn you not to read past the point where you are in the game
Chapter 1 - Part 1: The StrangerI looked out on the ocean. I had never seen this place before. The waves looked pretty rough, from the little I could see. There were a strange cliff not far away... or so it seemed.
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Ugh... W-where am I..? "
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Hey! Are you alright? What happened?!"
I woke up, not remembering much. Over me stood a Squirtle. It looked anxiously at me, like if something was wrong.
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Ugh.. my head..." I were on a beach, half-way in the seawater. How had I ended up here? When I thought about it, I couldn't really remember much at all.
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Hey, are you okay? You were zonked out right now..." the Squirtle said. Wait! What? The Squirtle is talking?
I looked at it, probably with a very shocked expression. "
Y-you can talk?" "
Well, duh! Do I look like a baby to you?" "
Uh... well... no? But how do you speak the human language?"
The Squirtle looked at me with a confused expression. "
Human language? What do you mean?"
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I understand you, but last time I checked, I didn't understand Pokémon speech." The Squirtle got an even more confused look. "
You're a funny one, aren't you? To me, you look like any normal Treecko, so why would you NOT understand me?"
Huh? I-I looked like a normal what? A Treecko? I streched out my hand. It was green, and it looked like it had some kind of small spikes on the fingertips. What the...?! I stood up, looking at my feet. They were the same: Green... and they looked like Gecko feet. As I realized what was happening and looked further up on my body, I noticed that my stomach was colored red and had green outlines. What the heck had happened to me?!!
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Uh... are you okay? Maybe you hit your head a bit harder than it looks," the Squirtle said. After a while without me answering, he said, "
Anyway, I'm Tudro. Who are you?"
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Uh... I-I'm Solar." "
Solar? That's a funny name." My facial expression probably changed to something else than surprised right then. At least that's how I felt it.
Suddenly, Tudro, as the Squirtle had called himself, stumbled forward and tripped on a rock. "
Ow!"
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Oh, sorry! I didn't mean it to be that soft. Whoa-ho-ho!" Where Tudro had stood, a Koffing were now floating a few feet over the ground. Beside him a Zubat were doing the same. "
Hey! What did you do that for?!" Tudro asked. "
We just wanted to mess around with you!" "
Whoa-ho-ho! Hey Zubat. Look there!"
Koffing signaled to Zubat to look just below them. There was a stone with some strange pattern lying htere. "
It's that wimps treasure! Whoa-ho-ho!" "
Let's take it! Heh-heh-heh!" "
Hey! That's my treasure!" Tudro yelled at them. "
Heh-heh-heh! What'cha gonna do about it? Pick it up?"
Tudro started trembling. It seemed it was anger. But he didn't do anything else. "
Whoa-ho-ho! Seems like he is the wimp we thought he was!"
"We're wasting our time. Let's get out of here! Hah-hah-hah!"
Koffing and Zubat disappeared into a cave right behind me and Tudro. "
Sigh... That was my treasure. If I don't get it back..." Tudro's expression turned into a sad grin. "
They were right... I'm a total wimp, not even fighting for my most valuable possession..." That stone must have meant a lot to him.
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H-hey... since it looks like we're stuck here anyway... I'll try to help you get it back, okay?" I said, trying to cheer him up. He looked up at me with a joyful expression. "
W-what? Would you really do that?" "
Sure! That thing they took seems to be really special to you, so I can't just let them pass by with stealing things." "
T-that's... That's great! Thank you! Thank you so much!!"
Chapter 1 - Part 2: The Beach CaveTudro and I followed Koffing and Zubat into the cave. To me, this cave seemed... disorted. It seemed to change as we came deeper and deeper. As we progressed, many wild Pokémon attacked us.
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Bubble!" Tudro took a deep breath and shot a beam of bubbles towards a blue Shellos coming towards us from the other side of the cavern room. When the beam hit, it seemed to absorb it and went through unaffected. "
Argh... It has an absorbing ability! My Water moves won't work here." The Shellos came closer, and I realized I had to do something to help Tudro. "
Solar! You're a Grass-type, right? We Water Pokémon don't stand a chance against you. Try using some move at it!"
I tried to focus. I couldn't remember ever having used a move. All I could remember was that I used to be a human. The Shellos were only a few feet away now. "
Ehr..." I somehow remembered that a Treecko should know the Tackle move, so I tried to focus on doing that. I charged towards the Shellos and slammed into it. "
Uh... right! Nice job, Solar!!!" Tudro cheered.
Most of the following battles went the same way. We progressed easily, the wild Pokémon around here didn't seem to be too strong. I also found out I had the Absorb move when I grabbed a Shellder to try a experimental kind of Tackle-throw. The small needles on my hand went through Shellder's shell armor and I suddenly felt renewed, while the Shellder fainted almost instantly.
I'm not sure how deep we went, but in the end, we found a dead end. It looked peaceful. There was a direct connection to the sea, through a hole in the wall. Seawater came through with the tide and filled up around a small "island" connected to the caverns behind us. Sunlight shone through a hole in the cave's roof and was reflected by the water in the cave to make a beautiful, moving pattern on the walls around us. At the other side of the landmass we were standing on, stood Koffing and Zubat. We had finally caught up to them. "
We’ve been here for a while now... Maybe we should go back?" "
And run into those wimps? Heh-heh-heh! That would be more waste of time! We need to find the boss! Okay, let's go!" Zubat turned around to look us right into the eyes. "
Heh-heh-heh! Now lookie here. The wimps managed to get through to this place. Impressive!" Koffing turned around to look at us as well. "
Mhoa-ho-ho! It seems we underestimated them a little. Well... What do you want?!" "
I-I... We came to get my treasure back!" Tudro replied. "
Heh-heh-heh! You mean this?" Zubat showed the stone with the strange pattern they had taken earlier. "
Give it back!" Tudro were almost yelling now. I guess he were really angry at them. "
Mhoa-ho-ho! You can have it back.. If you can beat us!" Koffing said and charged towards Tudro. Zubat came cackling behind him, towards me. Tudro withdrew into his shell to take less damage from the hit, while I didn't have much defense that way. I charged to meet Zubat on the way and we slammed into each other. "
Offf!" I hit Zubat in the stomach, while he hit me in the right arm. I took a chance and grabbed him. "Absorb!" I felt fine again almost instantly. The pain I felt in the arm almost vanished. Zubat started shaking a little. That attack had probably taken away some of his energy. For a split-second I checked over at Koffing and Tudro and saw a beam of bubbles hit right on. I turned back to Zubat to see him charge towards me and I tried to duck away. I managed to get away, but Zubat took a fast turn and bit me. I could feel some of my energy go away. "
Heh-heh-heh! Don't think you are the only one with Energy Draining moves!" Zubat went off again and I stood back up. I could feel some anger now. Then I suddenly saw a beam of bubbles pass me and hit Zubat in the face. I looked over at Tudro and saw Koffing fainted on the ground beside him. I heard Zubat slam into the ground as well, and turned around to check. He had also fainted. We had won!
Tudro came over to me. We both looked around for the stone. "
I found it! Yay!" Tudro bursted out in happiness. I hadn't seen someone this happy before. At least I couldn't remember having. "
Here. Take a look at it." Tudro sat down on a rock. I went over and did the same. The strange pattern on it looked... well... strange. Even stranger in this light. It looked like it moved around on the stone together with the light. "
This is my Artifact. I found it in a cave once. I've had it with me ever since. It's my treasure." He grinned when he said "treasure". "
Hm... It's a very nice treasure, I guess. I can't say I've ever seen a pattern like that before though" I smiled towards Tudro. "
Mhm. But... there is one think bugging me. About you. You were talking about humans before... what did you mean with "Can you speak the human language?"?" "
I-I'm not sure... I can't remember much from before I meet you. I just have the feeling... that I am a Human, not a Treecko. I... I really don't know what happened to me." "
So... you say that you were a human, and were... turned into a Pokémon?" "
I don't know - I mean... I'm not sure. Maybe... I did something? An experiment gone wrong or something?" "
Hmm... It's hard to believe something like that... But... I believe you. I have a feeling you're telling the thruth."
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Urgh..." Right then, Zubat came back to consciousness. "
Damned... we got beaten by wimps! Hey! Koffing! Wake up!" Koffing slowly opened his eyes and looked around. "
Huh! This isn't the Boss' cave-! ... Uh... Right!" Zubat and Koffing scurried off, not even looking at us. "
Hey... thanks for helping me back there. I don't think I could have done it without you." "
No problem," I smiled. So this Squirtle believed me? That was a relief. I felt that I could trust him. He seemed to have a very friendly personality. "
I didn't feel like leaving someone that needed help behind just like that." Tudro looked over at me, smilling. "
So... what are you going to do now? It seems like you have had some kind of amnesia, so your memory will probably come back at some point, right?" "
I-I guess so..." We sat silent for a little while, until Tudro spoke again. "
So... You don't have anywhere to go, and you don't know anyone...?" "
Right." "
Hmm... Well... I were thinking about something. Before I found you at the beach, I tried to sign up for an exploration team... But I chickened out. But... I have a feeling that... maybe we could try... I mean, you don't have anywhere to go, so it's not really a loss, is it?" I looked at him. An exploration team? Whatever that was, it sounded... fun. I smiled. "
That... sounds like a good idea." Tudro grinned happily again. "
Great! Then we should go to Wigglytuff's Guild and sign up as apprentices right now!" I had no idea what that meant, but without either a memory of who or what I am, I couldn't really say no. Maybe it would help, being in a exploration team. Maybe it would help me find out who I am. Tudro grabbed my arm and signaled that we should go back where we came from, so I followed him back.
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