Ponymon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Friendship

The waves of the wild ocean tossed me far from where I hit, and swung me from wave to wave, as if carrying me somewhere. My eyes were half closed, uncaring of the harsh world around me. The salty waves lashed angrily at my back, but unable to break my new, tough skin. I laid on the water, as if waiting for someone to rescue me, but I knew no one would ever come. Not now, not ever. I was on the edge on unconsciousness, and waiting for death to take over me. But it never came. I waited hours on end for myself to pass, but I never did. I decided -with my little strength I had left- to try to swim to safety.

I braced my body to begin swimming, but suddenly, the waves did the swimming form me. My eyes opened wide as the waves moved at my command. Controlling ocean themselves, much better than simply flying in the air.

"CRACK!!! grumble... grumble... grumble... CRACK!!!" thunder clapped overhead, as black storm clouds began to roll in.

I groaned, and made the waves carry me in a northerly direction. After a few hours of that, I noticed a small dot appear on the horizon. Hope rose in me, making the waves go faster and faster, until I was blazing along at a very, very fast passé. Soon, that once small dot, moved out into a huge island. I noticed how fast I was going, and my excitement was feeding the speeding waves.

"YAAAAHOOO!" I whooped in excitement, "Here I come, little-"

My whoops of joy were cut off by the wave sweeping up high, and crashed into the shore, smacking my head off of a boulder, making me fall unconscious...

***TO HOPPIP***

Hoppip sat on the shore and gazed up to the setting sun, and saw the bubbles the Krabby were blowing into the calm air. Suddenly, the bubbles all popped simultaneously, and Hoppip looked into the distance. Jet black storm clouds were heading in this direction, and all the once happy Krabby, had ran into their homes and scampered away, eager to get away from the shore.

"What is that?!" Hoppip cried, narrowing his eyes to look into the distance.

A huge wave was heading at a bone-crushing pace towards him. Hoppip flew up JUST on time as the huge wave crashed onto the shore. Something hard -maybe some driftwood- smashed into a boulder, and made a huge crack in it. The water from the wave was enough to nearly fill the entire beach, and some even spilled over the top of the small cliff. Once the water went down, Hoppip landed, and walked quickly up to the boulder.

"WOOOOOW!!" Hoppip cried, examining the huge split in the rock, "What could have caused tha-"

Laying by the huge dent in the rock -the thing that caused the huge split- was a small...

...Totodile

***BACK TO RAINBOW***

Hour after hour passed, before I regained consciousness. My small eyes opened, and I tried to remember what happened.

Nothing. I could remember nothing. The only thing I remembered was my name, and that I was once a pony. Nothing else.

"Hey?" called a somewhat distant voice, "You alright?"

I groaned and sat up, "Yeah... I guess so..." I brushed the sand off of my arms- not noticing I HAD arms and asked, "What happened?"

The blurry shapes made out into a pinkie-purple plant thing with two large leaves on its head, "Well... I'm not sure. All I saw was that a huge wave crashed here, and you hit your head off the boulder."

I stood up, and nearly fell over again. "What the- What happened to me?"

"What do you mean? You look just like a normal Totodile to me." the plant-thing replied, worry weaving into it's voice.

I gasped, and looked at the thing in front of me, "I became a Totodile?! But how?!"

It shook it's head, "I don't know HOW this happens, but I'm a recruit in team Blazing Ice, and their commander -a Chimchar- claims to be human. Are you human?"

"I don't think so..." I murmured, "I thing I was a...." I paused a moment, trying to remember what I looked like, "...Pegasus... I think..."

There was a long silence, before the animal in front of me spoke again, poking at the sand, "I'm Hoppip by the way, what's your name? If you can remember."

"I'm Rainbow."

"Well, welcome to Pokémon Mystery Island!" grinned Hoppip, throwing his tiny arms a wide.

I smiled, but it was short lived, as two odd purple things came out from behind a huge boulder not too far away.

"Ke-he-he-he-he! Look at this Koffing! So precious that little pinkie here found a little girl friend!" scoffed the purple bat, "It warms my tiny heart to see you in love!"

The two things burst out laughing, before the purple ball thing spoke, "Such an adorable couple, aren't they Zubat!"

My cheeks burned furiously, "WHAT do you WANT!?" I shouted at the top of my voice, making even Zubat and Koffing cringe.

"THIS is why we're hear!" the one named Zubat pushed over Hoppip, making him drop the relic, "My, my, my? What is this my I ask? Looks valuable."

Hoppip's face was distorted with anger, "Give it back! It's my families relic!"

Zubat left forward and grabbed it before Hoppip could move, "Hey give it back!!!" yelled Hoppip, trying to grab it.

"So it's a RELIC you say..." Zubat mocked, "It might be worth more than what we first intended! We'll be rich Koffing!"

"He said GIVE IT BACK!!!" I yelled, and leapt at Zubat's wings, in an attempt to tear them up.

I was able to drag down Zubat to the ground. Koffing left forward, smothering me in his poisonous gasses. I fell back, coughing and wheezing, and trying to get some oxygen into my system.

"Now you'll think twice before messing with US again!" Koffing growled, tossing the relic aside, "Probably not worth anything at all! C'mon Zubat, let's ditch these losers!"

Zubat quickly sprang up, and the two bullies sauntered off. Once they were out of sight, Hoppip turned round to me, his eyes watering softly.

"T-thanks for sticking up for me..." he murmured, his voice riddled with awe, "No-one has done that for me ever!"

"It's ok, I always stick up for my friends!" I replied, a smile growing across my face, "When I was in my other form, my nick-name was Loyalty... or was it my nick-name... Oh well, it doesn't matter now."

Hoppip's eyes glittered like stardust, and he smiled, "I have an idea!" he cried, "Want to form a Pokémon Rescue Team?"

"A Pokémon Rescue Team?" I repeated in a confused manner, "Why? Can't the Pokémon here fend for themselves?"

"Not really, you see there has been a Pokémon going around stealing the time gears- time gears are magical gears that keep the flow of time going on in that area. But, since the flow of time has been breaking apart, more and more bad Pokémon are coming up.

"So, since more are coming up, more and more Pokémon are going missing, or needing errands."

"And you're asking if I want to join you in helping with these errands?" I asked, curiously.

"Oh... um... yeah..." Hoppip murmured shyly, "It doesn't matter if you don't want to..."

"Hey, I didn't say no, you know!" I smiled, "Sure, I'll join you!"

Hoppip's face lit up, and we began to walk out of the beach area, and up a slope, into where the town was...