“Wakey wakey!” Benny shouts, standing in the middle of the bedroom. The boys move slightly in their beds, still asleep under the covers. “I said, wake up!” She bounces on Nate’s bed, causing him to fly out and hit the floor. “Wake up, wake up, wake up!” Benny lands on Zach’s bed next, standing over the waking riolu.
Zach rubs his eye as he looks up at the buneary. “Benny, what’s all the ruckus? Why wake us so early?”
Benny takes out a scroll and unfurls it in front of his face. “There’s a big reward for finding a missing pokemon! Says it’s a rare type of pokemon, and a shiny! As soon I saw this, I took it down and ran all the way back here!”
Nate rises from the floor. “So what? We’re going on another rescue mission?”
“Duh!” the buneary spurts. “Think of all the money, and the boost in our reputation! This rescue will make us look good and Team Rescue-jerks bad!”
“Isn’t that what we should avoid?” questions the riolu. “Last thing we’d want is for those pokemon to come knocking on our door and demanding us to step down.”
“True, but if we prove to the town we’re better, they’ll treat us nicely! Now, get up! It’s time to rescue this poor pokemon!”
***
The three pokemon tread along the path of the forest. The two boys trail Benny as she holds up the paper of the information that was posted earlier. “Says here the pokemon is described as a small, shiny Mewtwo, possible baby in age. It’s been seen many times in the world. Last seen at Rockton’s Ridge.”
“A baby pokemon by a cliffside?!” Nate spurts. “Not good! That little guy could be in trouble!” The fennekin picks up his speed.
“Nate, wait!” Benny chases after him, as does Zach. Once they catch up to him, they are stopped by the edge of the cliff. “Are you crazy?! You could’ve fallen off the face, and that would’ve been horrible!”
“Sorry, Benny. I just didn’t want that baby pokemon to do what I almost did…”
“Speaking of which,” Zach starts. “It doesn’t look like that pokemon is anywhere.” He looks around to confirm his thoughts, then faces his teammates. “I don’t see that pokemon anywhere. Should we start looking around more?” The riolu narrows one eye and raises a brow when he notices his friends staring in his direction with a shocked look. “Uh, why are you two staring at me like- Oh, it’s right behind me, isn’t it…?” Zach performs and about-face and catches the baby, shiny mewtwo floating before him. With a flinch and a gasp, he turns to surprise. “Um… Hi, there… We’re here to rescue you, Little fella…”
The mewtwo smiles. “Rolly!”
“R-Rolly?” The baby pokemon grabs Zach by the cheeks and starts tugging them. “Ah! What are you doing?!”
“Rolly, it Huey!” utters the little mewtwo. “Huey, remember?” He examines the riolu’s blue bandana next, feeling it in his grasp. “When did Rolly get this?”
“Uh, I’m not a ‘Rolly’, I’m Zach…”
“Seems pretty found of you, Zach.” Benny tries to contain her smile before the mewtwo floats to her. “Hey there. How are you doing, little man?”
The mewtwo hugs her. “Huey like fluffy bunny!”
“Guess that means we’ve found the missing child,” says Nate. “He appears safe.”
“And we will be taking him!” The pokemon turn to see a group of bandits have appeared; the same bandits they had encountered before, from their first adventure. The sneasel smirks. “Ah, if it isn’t the coward pokemon we’ve met before. So glad for you three to find the lost child for us.”
Nate growls. “He’s not your kid! Leave him alone!”
“I wouldn’t if I were you. Remember last time, Fox boy?” Zach stands next to his teammates.
“It’s one thing to steal treasure from us, but a child? I don’t think so.” Benny crosses his arms. “Move along!”
The sneasel moves up to the buneary. “As I recall, you are all weak, am I right?”
“Piss off!” Benny spits in his face.
The sneasel wipes off her spit. “You will regret that, Prissy!” He activates his claw and prepares to attack her, but he’s kicked away by the riolu. The sneasel growls. “Attack them!”
The gible moves forward and readies a dragon breath attack, then fires at the gang. The group moves to evade the beam and separate to attack the bandits. Zach uses his force palm move on the shark pokemon and knocks him away. The scraggy comes in and headbutts Zach as a counter move, but Nate has the riolu’s back with a tail whip to the scraggy. With the riolu and fennekin busy with the two bandits, the sneasel gets close to Huey and prepares to grab him, but he’s knocked away by Benny, who used her dizzy punch on him.
“I don’t think so!” Benny exclaims. The sneasel attempts to retaliate with metal claw, but Benny dodges hits him again with quick attack. The clawed pokemon flies into a tree and is completely out. “And that’s for stealing from us!” Zach and Nate finish off their opponents with metal claw and tail whip, bring them down. Benny crosses her arms and smiles as impressed. “Nicely done, Boys.”
Zach turns to the baby mewtwo. “Sorry you had to see that, Buddy.”
“Huey fine with it,” Huey tells him. “Huey used to Uncle Face and Mommy fighting.”
“Er, right,” comments Nate. “Now, where do you live, Kid?” A flash of light takes the gang by surprise as a mew floats in and appears before them. “What in the world?”
Huey smiles upon seeing the pink pokemon. “Grandmew!” He flies over and hugs her. “Huey glad to see Grandmew!”
“Mew mew!” The mew says. “Mew mew mew.”
“Huey got lost. These Pokemon save Huey from bandits.”
The mew looks at the gang and floats down to them. “Mew mew mew mew.”
“Grandmew says ‘thank you’,” Huey translates. “She thank pokemon for saving Huey.”
“You’re welcome,” responds Nate. “We’re glad you’re all right.”
The mew faces Huey. “Mew mew. Mew mew mew.” She then turns and flies away. Huey waves at the gang and gives a “goodbye” before following the mew and disappearing.
“Huh, how about that,” Nate comments.
“Well, that’s just great.” Benny takes the paper of the information and holds it in her paws. “A big job, and no reward.” She crumples it into a ball and throws it off the ridge. “So much for that…”
“Come on, Benny,” Nate starts. “At least we reunited a kid with his ‘Grandmew’. We made some pokemon happy.”
“Yeah, but it would’ve been sweet to have some big payout from it all.”
“Oh, we did!” Zach utters. The two turn to him, seeing the riolu hold up the golden statue they’ve obtained from their last journey, along with a whole bag of money and other treasures.
“Oh, nice!” Nate walks over to him with a smile. “We got our treasure back!
“Now, when we head to town, the pokemon will know us as treasure hunters and rescuers. Hm, that reminds me, what shall we call ourselves?”
“Team Adventurers!” Benny states. “Because no matter what it is out there, it’s always an adventure for us!” The boys agree with her on the name. “All right, let’s head to town and cash this in, shall we?”
