12/29/19
1:00 pm
Plains (Golden Coast Area)

After Harmony left, we all decided to eat the Oran and Sitrus Berries from the campsite and take a little break. After all, why wouldn't you after getting attacked by something that's apparently classified as a top-notch villain? We packed up the rest of the items after and started to move again soon after.

"If you were human, how can you even walk on four paws then?"

I told you I was going to ask stupid questions to Chris—even though I was faking some of them.

"Lucas, I told you the answer about three times and I'm going to tell you again. I don't know why it happens, only it happens because of my instinct as an Eevee now."

"What about—."

Chris shot his head at me pissed. "If you're going to ask a question about me and it's going to be the same answer, do not ask the question!"

After a few moments, I realized that I was going to probably infuriate everyone in the entire group, so I finally shut myself up. I could already hear the silence coming out of the closet once again, but Abby had to get rid of it. "You know Cord, you never answered my question earlier. What Universe are you a part of?"

"Universe 3," Cord responded without hesitation.

Uh, oh. Cord's lying again. I stared at him to think towards him. 'Cord, I know you were lying during the beginning of your backstory, but why can't they know about us being from Universe 1?'

Manny, it's an explanation that I'm going to talk to you privately about. But when Abby asks you that question—.

"Manny," Abby shouted ahead of us. "I'm asking the same question to you. Where are you from?"

...You're going to have to lie as well.

I looked at Cord with a face meaning "you can't be serious." Cord gave a look back. It felt like a staring contest, one that I lost in a few moments. After a sigh of defeat came out my mouth, I looked at Abby. "I'm with Cord. Universe 3 as well."

That wasn't so hard, wasn't it?

I wanted to give him a punch in the shoulder so bad, but there were two problems with doing that. The first problem was if I even did it, the action would be suspicious toward Abby, who's keeping a close eye on the two of us since we started trailing behind her and Chris. And even if Abby wasn't paying attention, my arm was too short to even reach Cord's shoulder. So I couldn't do anything.

Meanwhile, Chris groaned—completely forgetting the incident I made a few moments ago. "Aww man. I'm the only human here."

All four of us stopped right on the top of a hill since we were taking in the view. It probably was the second-best view I've seen after yesterday's view of Misty Mountain. What probably made the view even better was on the right side, a weirdly shaped building was in the distance on top of a cliff. I didn't figure out what the hell the shape was, but at least I knew one thing.

Civilization was very close by.

"Well, good news and bad news." Cord looked at all of us. "Good news is we're nearby that town Harmony's been talking about."

'Thank you for stating the obvious.'

Cord paused himself to look at me making that sarcastic comment. "The bad news is we're going to have to get through that." Cord pointed at an object ahead in the distance. It was a cave right in front of the bottom part of the hill. I wonder where that came from?

"You've got to be kidding me." Chris said, also looking down like I did. "Another dungeon?!"

We all scaled down the hill to find a sign right next to the entrance. My first assumption was that it was the entrance toward a dungeon, but with the sign being completely corroded, it looked like this could have been a secret entrance. The words were faded; it made out two words.

Beach Cave

I was barely able to get a look at the sign with Cord blocking me, which made me put my paw on my chin confused by the words. "I guess the dungeon's called Beach Cave... Why does that name sound familiar?"

Cord kept looking on the sign while responding, "Don't know. That name sounds pretty familiar to me as well."

The four of us dismissed the name-calling and entered the dungeon. My mind was too excited about finally getting into a comfy bed and taking an actual nap.

What our group didn't realize was that we were being followed by a familiar Pokémon...

***
1:10 pm
Beach Cave B4F

I think everyone in our team realized this when we got our first view of the dungeon supposedly called Beach Cave. Whenever a team enters a mystery dungeon, we always start at the first floor.

But for some reason, we're already four stories underground.

"Somebody please tell me this is normal." I asked around. Cord and Chris didn't answer, only staring at me in silence. Abby shook her head, just as confused as I was. "Crap."

Chris could see Abby moving her paw near her muzzle, thinking. "Is something wrong?" The shiny asked his "sister."

"There is good news about this, I think." Abby looked at all of us with her idea. "If we can find the stairs going up, we can reach the first floor. If we get there..."

"We can find the main entrance?"

"Exactly!" Abby said nodding.

Objective:
Find the Main Entrance!

With everyone agreeing with her, we decided to run her plan. All four of us split up, trying to find the stairs going upwards. As if Abby almost called it, Chris found stairs going up towards the higher floor in three minutes flat.

"Woah!" My eyes gleamed at the sight of that. "You were actually right?"

Abby looked at me with a distasteful face. "Wait, you didn't believe my idea was going to work?"

My right paw went behind my neck as I chuckled softly. "It's not like I didn't believe you," I said to her grinning, "I just had my doubts." The Eevee huffed, knowing that she couldn't strangle me to death... for now anyway.

Cord meanwhile was taking a closer look at the stairs. "That's weird," he mumbled. "Hey guys!" We all heard this and rushed over to him. "Call me crazy, but something is wrong with the stairs."

Everyone was confused.

"I know that sounds weird, but if you look closer it seems like the stairs were placed right here on purpose." Taking a closer look, there seems to be scratches on the bottom area of the stairs. Also, the entire area around the stairs was placed inside a big hole in the ground. Cord could be right...

"Look," Chris said looking at Cord. "this is the only stairs on the floor. Unless you don't want to get out of here, I suggest we take it."

Cord paused a moment before sighing. "Fine. But everyone needs to watch their tail while we're still in this dungeon."

Watch their tail? I looked at my own tail—which was not even moving—and looked back at Cord. What the hell does that mean?

Manny, it's basically the Pokémon way of saying "Watch your back."

Oh.

We all headed toward the next floor upstairs, and it was pretty lucky we found the stairs in the same room we entered. I'm not sure Abby counted it lucky when we found the stairs in the same room again.

"How did we find two stairs back to back?!" The Eevee yelled, making an echo throughout the floor.

Chris put a paw on his muzzle. "Either we're being really lucky right now or something weird is going on."

I almost wanted to raise my paw and shout out loud: Can we take the former and move on? That's how sick to my stomach I felt when he said that.

"Wait, before we go toward the next floor." Cord pulled out an orb from his Treasure Bag and placed it on the floor. A bright light shone throughout the orb and shot toward outside the room. The light split up once it reached an intersection, and our view of sight of the light was gone. The orb broke soon after. Cord reached toward his map and flipped it toward its back. "Oh, damn it."

I walked up to peek at the map and found something that certainly shocked me. The map somehow showed the entire floor. "Cord, isn't that the map with the continent?"

"Yes, it is, Lucas. Why are you asking?" Cord noticed me looking at the map he was completely holding on to. "Oh, that's what you're asking about. I used a Luminous Orb to get the full layout of the floor. And we have a problem."

Abby and Chris moved closer to look at the map. After a few moments, Chris tilted his head confused. "So, is someone going to tell me how this map works?" Me and Cord took a quick glance at Chris. "What? Just because I've been Abby for the past few days does not mean I've learned to read these things."

"Fine," Cord said with a sigh. "When me and Harmony got out of the Darkness' headquarters, she gave me this map so I could know where I was going. In the front is the map of this continent, called the Grass Continent. In the back of the map, this can show the layout of any floor in any mystery dungeon. But the only way that can happen is if you walk across the entire floor. However, there is a trick way you can do that without having to move.

"You grab a Luminous Orb and place it down on the floor you want it to activate. It does that activation method you just saw—breaking the orb in the process—and voila! You got your floor layout."

I decided to take a deep look at the map. Four rooms surrounded us with the orange-outline square right next to the four yellow dots in our room. "So if I remember," I began while pointing at the square, "the orange square is the stairs that goes to the next floor and the yellow dots show where all four of us are, right?"

"You are correct, Lucas," The Alolan Raichu nodded while smiling. "To add, the blue dots scattered around the area are items that we can grab throughout the dungeon. And the red dots are the wild Pokémon that can be found throughout the dungeon."

Wait, something's off. It's like it should be there but it isn't right now. Let's see. Stairs, check. Our group, check. Items, check. Enemies...

Enemies?

There weren't any?

"Where are all the wild Pokémon?" Chris asked Cord.

"Exactly. I don't know how, but they all somehow disappeared from the map..." Cord went back into the map one more time and looked at everyone. "We need to get out of here immediately." He started to stuff the map inside his Treasure Bag and move toward the stairs.

"Cord." He stopped moving and looked behind him to stare at me. "Cord, what's going on?" Cord kept silent and he gave a long face. "Cord, you need to tell us what's happening."
Cord took a glance at Abby and Chris and turned back to me. "Bisharp. He's here."

***
1:17 pm
Beach Cave 2F->1F (Stairs)

"Let me get this straight," I say to Cord while all four of us slowly make our way up the stairs. "Bisharp sometimes had a tendency to go out of whatever that base you called and go into a dungeon for training purposes."

"That's correct." The Raichu was bumping into each step, making him float higher than usual. "He brought me to one of these sessions before I even got promoted to Agent 687, and this was what similarly happened in the dungeon—no wild Pokémon appeared after he was done with his session."

"And did you join in that session?" Chris asked, hopping with what little space he had.

"Not really," Cord said. "It was more like a way for me to get inspired since I was off sync with my fighting practices."

"Well, do you remember any moves Bisharp has done in the past?"

Cord stopped to think for a moment. "As far as I know, he uses these two moves: Dark Pulse and X-Scissor. As for the other two, it probably changed its moves by now."

"What's that supposed to mean?" I looked at Cord.

"He changes his moves every so often..." We all stopped before the final step of the stairs and looked at each other. "Bisharp has to be here. Is everyone ready?"

"Let's do this." Abby said nodding.

"Yes."

"Can I say no?" Everyone gave me a death stare. "What? I'm making a joke."

Cord sighed. "Unbelievable." Cord jumped off his levitating tail and started to slowly walk out the stairs. After a few moments of looking around he used two fingers from his paw to signal moving forward. One by one, the three of us slowly sneaked by anything that seemed suspicious and stood in the general area where Cord was standing.

"Bisharp isn't here?"

"No, he's got to be—."

Suddenly, Cord and Abby heard a soft noise me or Chris couldn't hear. "Get down!" both yelled. Cord grabbed me, Abby pushed Chris, and somehow, we got out of the way of a Dark Pulse being fired.

"What the?" I said confused. "Who used Dark Pulse?!"

Cord turned around to get himself into serious mode. "Him."

I looked up and my heart dropped. The black axe. Worn-out arms. Eyes on fire. There was no doubt about it.

It was the Bisharp from Weird Woods.

"Salutations, 687. Lucas..." He squinted his eyes to look at Abby and Chris. "Two Eevee I don't know."

Even worse, the Pokemon can talk. "Cord, how does it know my name?"

"I might have mentioned you to him once or twice," the Raichu responded with a side eye.

The Bisharp gave a look to Cord and me and moved its head up. "Let's see," it said, thinking to itself out loud. "Master wants me to fight all four of you. Who should I go for first?"

Uh, oh.

All of us heard this and Cord, Abby and Chris got into their ready stances. When I got into my ready stance, I accidently launched a Thunderbolt out of my body and went toward Bisharp. It noticed that immediately and used Iron Defense to block the attack. "Well." The Bisharp looked straight at me. "Guess you're first."

In the blink of an eye, the Bisharp moved right in front of me and gave a bullet punch right at my face. I was immediately sent flying and momentary hit a wall of rock. My eyes closed with all the gravel hitting me. 'Cord, what was that? He's fast!'

I opened my eyes to see Bisharp jump toward the air. "Pay attention, Lucas!" He crossed his arms to make an X-shape to fire X-Scissor. I barely rolled myself out the way just before the attack hit the wall. I quickly got up to see Abby and Chris fire two Shadow Balls each at Bisharp. He dodged both Shadow Balls without even looking at them and prepared to attack me again.

Luckily, I saw this coming and using my right arm, I blocked the arm thrust Bisharp was doing halfway. A normal sized Electro Ball formed in my left hand and I shoved it towards Bisharp's chest.

He took full contact with the Electro Ball and only moved three inches.

Bisharp looked down at the move fading and then looked straight at me.

"Oh..." I moved my left arm back toward my side. A cold sweat appeared on my head. "I thought that was going to be a better shot." The Bisharp used its left leg to kick me in the right side and send me rolling into the center of the room. Kneeling, I looked at Cord.

"Bisharp can read your thoughts and my telepathy," he yelled. "That's why I didn't respond."

"Now you tell me that." I turned around and stopped to see Bisharp right next to me. Both blades on his arms turned light blue and extended, barely touching my neck. "Crap."

It's Guillotine.

"You know, I wanted to play this out for a few more moments and see what else you got," Bisharp stated with a smirk. "Unfortunately, the Master wants me to finish this so we can get on with the rest of the three. Such a pity."

"Bisharp!"

It turned its head to give a glare at Cord. "What do you want, you traitor? You of all Pokémon should know that I finish my mission, 687. No matter what."

Cord tried to argue with him, but eventually looked at me. "Manny, I'm sorry!"

I turned my eyes to him, utterly confused. "What?" I managed to squeak out.

"I shouldn't have gone three years ago. I don't know what I was thinking back then..." Cord paused to think what he was going to say next. "We're brothers! We should be staying together, but instead I drove us apart. I should have waited until you were ready!"

"Enough!" Bisharp launched a Dark Pulse straight at Cord. It launched Cord with immense pain into another rock wall. "Now, where were we?"

It seemed like this was it. My life, gone from a single move. It felt a bit bittersweet, so I just started talking. "You know... I never wanted Cord to come here in the first place. It's been practically a living hell because everyone thought I was crazy." A laugh came out of me while something weird was going on with my body. It felt like all my energy was coming back toward me.

No...

It completely shattered my old limit.

Abby and Chris meanwhile were checking out if Cord was alright when the Raichu felt it. "What the," He mumbled while sitting up.

"Then again... I can't really say 'I forgive you' now. I have seen what I thought I would never see before. I've met Abby, Chris, and finally got the chance to see you again, Cord." A "flame" lit inside my body, making electric sparks start showing outside my body. Abby and Chris' jaws dropped. "I should be the one saying thank you. But when you told me that first, I realized something..." The final phase happened when my eyes changed from brown to light blue with a small spark.

"I am never going to give up. Ever."

Bisharp tried to use Guillotine, but it was no use. Everything around me started feeling slow, making it easy to dodge Bisharp's strike. My body quickly adjusted to this weird feeling as it automatically started pushing punches toward the nearly-frozen opponent. A few seconds later, I used Iron Tail and took a few steps back.

Yes, I know the Iron Tail did not do much damage since Bisharp is part Steel, but it at least set me up for the next move. My body lunged towards the Bisharpto give him an Electro Ball on the face. I felt that I could at least send him into a wall, when a voice came.

Bisharp!

The voice gave a chill down my spine as Bisharp closed its eyes. That wasn't Cord or Harmony. I guess it's whoever Bisharp calls master. Retreat. That's an order.

My opponent sighed before looking up towards the stalactites. "Understood, sir." I phase through Bisharp while it disappears into dust.

Deep breaths now... "That was a rush." My eyes return to brown, electric sparks stop showing outside my body, and my stamina goes back to normal. I kneeled down while gasping for some air.

The two Eevee ran over towards me while Cord threw an Oran Berry. "You deserve that."

I smiled before taking a bite out of it. "Thanks."

"Lucas, what was that?" Abby and Chris both yelled at the same time. I tilted my head.

"What was what?"

"Lucas," Cord approached me with a chuckle. "I don't know how, but you reached speeds that even I couldn't even think of anyone reaching."

"How fast are we talking about?"
Abby shook her head. "I don't know... Speed of sound or light, I guess?"

"Turbo Boost," Cord mumbled.

Everyone looked at him, confused about the name. "What did you just say?"

"I think what Manny just did is called Turbo Boost," The Raichu responded while slowly nodding. "I don't know how I know that name."

"Turbo Boost..." I tried sounding the name out before a chuckle escaped me. "I like the sound of that!"

"Yeah, but how did you learn that if I never saw you use it before?" He asked while floating around me.

I shrugged in response. "Don't know, but can we get out of here? It feels like the light here is messing with my eyes." We agreed to do so and finally got out of Beach Cave.

The first thing to greet us was the sandy floor of a beach. The waves were rushing toward the sand, coming back and forth. But my mind was focused on another thing.

"...Okay, my eyes are definitely playing tricks on me."

The first thing I noticed out of the entire scenery was a large cliff. It didn't have the weird shaped building on top of it, but the cliff looked like a familiar Pokémon.

"What do you mean by that, Manny?"

"I don't know why," I said pointing at the rock cliff, "but the rock cliff over there almost looks like Sharpedo Bluff."

The only female in this team laughed loudly. "Manny that is Sharpedo Bluff!" She shouted while my ears perked up. Wait a second. Sharpedo Bluff... Grass Continent...? Oh my God.

The epicenter of Golden Coast is Treasure Town.

*Game File Saved*