“We have arrived [at our graves]! Welcome to Jingle-Jungle Woods!” The Porygon-Z announced as the students stayed silent. This time, the bus was only carrying class 2B, which was composed of two Vulpix (one being an ice type), a Glameow, a Purrloin, a Houndour, a Shaymin, a Togedemaru, and last but not least, a Joltik who was hiding on the fire Vulpix fur.
“Hey, John!” Claire whispered. “This is the forest I found you! There is a Mystery Dungeon around here, but I didn’t go there because it’s kinda dangerous to go alone.”
“Oh… that’s a reassuring fact to know…” He whispered back sarcastically. He was lucky he wasn’t born right in the lion’s den, imagine what kind of monstrous bugs he would find inside that place. He definitely wouldn’t want to think about it, since just imagining bugs makes him cough up bile.
As the students left from the bus, they didn’t notice a certain presence watching from the trees, hiding within the leaves. “I see two Vulpix… that little worm didn’t specify which one…” The Galvantula muttered silently. “If that’s the case… I’ll just get the two of them!” She concluded silently before hopping to another tree, sneakily getting closer to the group while watching them.
Claire’s ear twitched as she looked up at some trees, she saw some leaves falling. “Did… anyone hear that…?” She asked the whole class.
“Who cares!?” The Houndour shouted. “It’s probably just a wild bug, I just wanna go inside the dungeon already!”
“Could you please quiet your butt down please?” The teacher said in a gentle and soothing voice while he leaned his head close to the Houndour, before pulling his head back to his body, returning to his sports commentator voice. “I haven’t even explained the mission [IMPOSSIBLE] yet! I want you to [tear yourselves apart] into groups of three, while one student goes in with me-! Me-! meeeeeeeeeeee-“ Suddenly, his eyes turned blue with some white text written on them, while he played a computer crashing sound. His limbs and head had gone limp, but he was still floating in the air.
‘That feels so familiar…' John thought to himself as the students waited for their teacher to reboot. He awoke again, already on his next sentence.
“Before we came here, I already entered the dungeon beforehand, and placed three flags on different floors! [Not found!] Since then, the floors likely have reshaped themselves once again, so I don’t even know [they’re… gone!?] So anyways students, the groups are… [Kurama, fat Pikachu-]” Taro let out a “Hey!”, taking it as an insult. “[You’re too slow!]”
The Shaymin was just confused as everyone else in the class except for Taro. “Do you guys know who he meant with those weird nicknames?” She asked the class.
“I know who he meant with the second one!” Taro said angrily.
“I’ll just assume it was me, Taro, and Amy…” She concluded hesitantly while getting close to her group. ‘Maybe it’s a good idea I tell them about John… if… he agrees of course.’ She thought to herself while looking at her group, they were smiling at her so she smiled back sweating a little.
“Ne-ne-next! We have [let it go, sassy and sassy two]!”
‘Okay, that definitely felt like a reference.’ John thought as the trio all looked at the teacher, expectedly, sassily.
“… So am I-“
“Correct [guardian of the gates of hell]! You’re gonna be with me! [Zeta Inc. is not responsible for any kind of… fighting, help, or death. However, Zeta Inc. might help if the user is close to dying, caused by, stupidity-]” Cerbera interrupted with a “Hey!” but Zeta continued. “[accident, bad combat skills and etcetera.] Great! Now with that out of the way, let’s get on with our mission kids!” The students nodded and started walking through the forest with their teacher.
“I hope I don’t dirty my prestige claws with the disgusting bugs of this place.” Elsa stated, and her friends agreed.
“Couldn’t agree more! This dungeon wasn’t made for Pokémon like us.”
‘And for a human like me, that’s for sure…' John agreed on his head. Soon enough, they arrived at the entrance of the dungeon. It wasn’t anything that John expected for the entrance. It looked like a magical door, it was coated with a shiny rainbow of colors, sparkling with a sense of magic, like something out of this world or dimensions. Ah, who was he kidding? Everything in this new world already looked out of this world already, so he thought this was one of the normal things in this place. The door was open, although he couldn’t see anything inside of it because it was being coated by a blinding light.
“In case you didn’t know, this is the entrance of the Mystery Dungeon!” The Porygon-Z explained. “Are there other ways of entering a dungeon? Why of course there are, in some dungeons like this one. Since this one is an open dungeon, their [technology impossible to explain by any scientist] leaks outside the forest, even some exits as well. That is why some Pokémon from the dungeon manage to get outside of it.”
“Even lost items as well?” Claire asked. The Porygon looked at her, and after a glitch in his head, he responded.
“Why of course my dear [it burns… dear Arceus, it burns]! Although there is less chance of that happening since well… items don’t move around [by creating legs and assimilating their pre-]. Anyways, Team Alpha!” He pointed at Claire, Taro, and Amy. “You shall go in first! Then team Beta!” He pointed at Elsa, the Glameow, and Purrloin. “You will go after one minute after team Alpha.” He then detached a limb from his body and pointed at himself. “Then one minute later, team Zeta will enter it!”
“Hah, always the best for last!” Cerbera stated, and he earned a static glare from his teacher that approached him slowly. “Eek!” Mr. Zeta then patted Cerbera on his head with his floating limb and attached his limb again, looking at his students.
Stolen from Royal Road, this story should be reported if encountered on Amazon.
“Any objections?” The students all shook their heads. “Great! Team Alpha, to the dungeon you go!” Even though no one was looking, there was excitement (with a bit of anxiety) plastered on Claire’s face. This was it, this was the moment Claire dreamed of, the first (but not official) mission. Without further ado, the team walked right in and they were briefly blinded by a flash of white light before appearing in a forest-like area. They were in a wide space, and there were lots of things around them, like objects, sleeping Pokémon, and some other stuff that you would find in a Mystery Dungeon.
“Oh my… ARCEUS!!! We’re here! We’re really here!” She shrieked in excitement and Amy put a paw on her mouth.
“Keep it down!” She whispered. “I know you’re excited and all that, but we could get attacked at any moment!” She put down her paw and Claire rubbed the back of her head.
“Sorry…” She said under her breath.
“Don’t worry, at least you didn’t alarm anyone, right? So you’re goooooo-!!!” Suddenly, Taro got hit by electricity on his back. Claire was about to help, but thankfully, the Togedemaru made his spikes pop out and absorbed the electricity with his lightning rod ability. Now powered up, glowing with sparks, he turned to look at the troublemaker and saw a Charjebug standing there. “You little! Return right back to sender!” He shot back a stronger lighting bolt back at the Charjebug, shocking it and paralyzing it on the spot.
“I’ll handle it!” Claire butted in as she jumped and launched three small fireballs, hitting the Charjebug and making it faint. But she didn’t notice something like green falling from her fur. “Heck yeah, we did it!” Amy had spotted the shiny Joltik and pointed at him.
“Look! Another one!” John shrieked in fear and became paralyzed, not knowing what to do in this situation. Claire looked around and spotted John on the ground, on his back completely motionless.
“No wait, that’s-“
“I’ll get it this time!” Taro interrupted before curling his limbs and closing his eyes, turning into a spiky ball. He rolled in the direction of John, ready to run over him. But he instead collided with the Vulpix instead who got in front of John. Taro was thrown on the ground after the collision with Claire, who got a bit bruised in the process but didn’t flinch. “Claire! What was that for?! Why did you throw yourself on the way like that? I-I could’ve hurt you and… and…” Claire interrupted him while maintaining her balance once again.
“Calm down, alright!? I’m fine, really, just a cut, nothing else…” She looked down at her right paw to see it was bleeding a little. “Besides that, this Joltik isn’t an enemy, but actually my friend!” The two Pokémon next to them looked at each other confused and tilted their head. “Look, I’ll explain better later, but let’s just find a safer area first, alright?” The fox said and the other two nodded before Taro got up.
“Fine then…” Claire picked John up with her mouth and put him on her back.
“Are you okay John?” Claire asked worried.
“My life just flashed before my eyes… I think I died again, but my soul refuses to leave this body…”
Amy’s eyes widened at that. “Wait, it talked!?” Taro was also confused, but instead of saying anything, stood quiet at the sudden revelation.
“As I said, I’ll explain when we’re in a safer place.” She said again. “Come on before the girls come or another wild Pokémon attack us!” At that, she started walking away from the scene while her classmates followed her, avoiding other Pokémon on the way.
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“BZZT! [60 seconds have passed].” The teacher announced. “Beta team! Your turn to [be GONE!!!]” Elsa scoffed and went in with the rest of her friends. Although, unbeknownst to all of them, a certain electric tarantula sneaked in with them at such fast speeds that no one noticed a yellow blur going in beside them.
After the flash of light, the pretty Pokémon trio were inside the dungeon, although on another part of the first floor. “So this is what it looks like from the inside… pathetic.” The white Vulpix said while flipping her head fur. “If a peasant approaches me, defeat it instantly, understood my loyal friends?” She looked at both cat Pokémon and they nodded. “Good.” They started walking around the room they were in, but sneakily and quietly the Purrloin was suddenly snatched by a Galvantula and brought up to the trees. As Elsa started talking, she started to turn around. “And if any of you fail me you’ll-…” She saw that the Purrloin wasn’t following her anymore and completely disappeared. The Glameow looked at where Elsa was looking and also realized that she disappeared. “Cindy…?” She called, no response.
“Try her phone, maybe she just got lost…” The Glameow suggested.
“Olivia, you idiot! You know there’s no service here, right?” She shouted at Olivia and turned around. “Anyways, let’s keep going, I’m sure Cindy will find her way back to us. Besides, I want to get our flag before my sister, to prove her a point, so let’s go, Olivia!” No response. “Olivia…?” She turned around and looked around. Olivia had disappeared. She started taking slow steps back. “G-guys… where A-are you…?” She started looking around frantically looking for some kind of Pokémon. She started letting out an icy aura, getting into a makeshift battle stance. “Show yourself you fucking coward! I… I’ll freeze you!” After looking around she looked up and found a big shadow descending towards her. She then let out an ear-piercing scream as the shadow lunged at her.
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Claire’s ear twitched and she turned around. “Did you guys hear that?” Claire asked the group.
“Um… no I didn’t…” Taro responded to Claire while looking back at her.
Amy stopped walking and looked at the group. “Guys... do you think it’s safe around here?” The Shaymin asked and the other two looked back at her.
“Um… yes, I guess so…” She turned her head back and looked at John. “You sure you want to do this…?”
John responded quietly. “Yes… after all, they already saw me, so what’s the point in hiding…” He jumped off Claire’s fur and walked right into the middle of the trio, the rodent, and the Hedgehog looking at him. He was nervous, but he knew deep inside that these were just kids, so he would be okay. “… Hi. My name is John… and um… I’m a human…” At that, the Pokémon gasped in surprise.
“You’re… what!?” Taro blurted out in surprise. “But… how is that even possible!?”
John turned to him. “Same question I asked when I came out of a damn egg…”
The Shaymin had a realization. “Wait… if you’re a human… does that mean that the world is-“
“Nope! Not happening, I was definitely summoned here by mistake and nothing else! I don’t need to save any kind of world!” John said while throwing his nubs in the air. Claire sighed and explained.
“You see… he can’t accept that’s his fate. And also, he doesn’t feel safe around any Pokémon he barely meets…”
“Well, that’s because- …” He interrupted himself and decided to not continue that sentence further. He falsely clears his throat and speaks up again. “Anyways… um… nice to meet you um… what are your names?”
The Togedemaru spoke up first. “Taro Wattson, but you can call me Taro!” He said while making a fashionable pose. The Shaymin spoke next.
“My name is Amy Rose, but you can just call me Amy or Rose, either way, I’m fine with it.” Amy said while smiling at John. She then looked at Claire and noticed the wound on her paw. “Claire… your paw!”
“O-oh… it’s nothing really, it’ll heal soon.” The Shaymin just shook her head and got close to Claire. Amy closed her eyes and focused. A pink scent started emanating from her body, and suddenly Claire’s wound closed itself. Claire put her paw in front of her to inspect it.
“Oh wow! Thanks, Amy! I appreciate it!” Claire thanked the Shaymin and smiled at her.
“No problem! I’m here to help!” She smiled back.
“Great, now we can keep moving so we can get out of this place more quickly! Come on let’s-” He suddenly stopped talking when he heard something approach from behind. When he turned around to find the source of the sound, he screamed.