Ohai, so, I had this story on deviantART but now I'm gonna put this here too. Just to make it clear, I have a story called Kitten Della Robbia, this is the same character, just if she were born in the dark world of the future and not in the code lyoko world. I don't own pokemon mystery dungeons or anything .-. Enjoy~

"Hey, don't you know better than to hang around here?"

I jumped and spun around and saw a...creature. I backed away, in my short experience...other creatures weren't a good thing. Other creatures caused pain. The creature frowned and reached a hand out to touch me. I slapped her hand away with my tail. I needed to defend myself or I'd get hurt again. The creature rubbed her hand and looked at me in the eyes, as if trying to decide something.

"I won't hurt ya little fella." She said, I could tell the creature was female by her voice. I just stood there...my instincts said she wasn't lying...but I was young and my instincts weren't fully developed. They could be wrong.

"...Can you talk?" she asked.

"Y-yes..." I replied, my eyes wide. She smiled.

"Ok, good. Now why are you here? Didn't your parents ever tell you it isn't safe to go to the Old Ruins? It's too close to Temporal Tower."

"I don't have parents..." I said.

"Ah...to come into this world full of darkness with no parents there to comfort you, that must be rough." She said, I nodded my head slightly, hesitated for a moment, then spoke.

"Nobody was there when I hatched." I said, a little louder than I'd been before. She sat down so that her eyes were level with mine.

"That's horrible...My parents were there when I was born, but we got separated a while ago. Who knows what happened to them...It seems everyone's abandoning each other nowadays. I guess they're too concerned with their own survival to care about others."

For a minute we were both silent. She looked up past me to the wall behind us.

"They're pretty aren't they?" She said, I nodded.

"I come here sometimes...to look at the pictures. They're...different. Different than the rest of the Pokemon I've seen, and not because they're a different species. They're..." I trailed off.

"From a different time. They're from a time when there was time...moving time anyway...when there was light and wind and sound..." She paused for a second, tilted her head, I did the same. Now that I thought about it, it was quiet...there was absolutely no sound besides the two of us talking.

"They weren't afraid." She continued, pointing to the pokemon on the wall. She stood up, went up to the wall and put her hand on the pictures of Pokemon, tracing their outlines with her fingers. "I try to follow their example."

"You said this place was dangerous...It looks fine to me. What makes it so dangerous?" I saw a movement in the corner of my eye and at the same moment she jerked her head so that it was tilted, then she looked in the direction the movement had come from.

"That." She jumped in front of me as five purple cat things...Sableye, that's what they were called. I'd heard the whispering about the Sableye "police" that went around attacking anyone and doing whatever they pleased. "Stay behind me." She instructed, then roundhouse kicked all five of them.

"Hehehe So it's a fight you want, eh?" One of the Sableye said, the leader of the gang.

"I don't want it, but you seem to insist." She replied, that didn't make them happy. They lunged at her. She ducked underneath the first, grabbed the arm of the second, swung it into the first and third and threw him into the fourth then punched the fifth in the face. They were all sprawled on the ground. "So can you guys please just leave us in peace? We aren't doing anything wrong."

The Sableye all jumped up and tackled her at once, pinning her to the ground as I watched in horror. Four of them held each of her limbs and one scratched her all over. She screamed in pain and then she was yelling at me.

"GO IN MY BAG! FIND THE YELLOW GLASS ORB AND THROW IT ON THE GROUND, CLOSE YOUR EYES, AND RUN!" The Sableye were too busy laughing at her pain to notice what she said, but I heard. I felt like I was frozen...the Sableye...had attacked me too...in a similar way...not this gang but...I was scared.

Then I saw the look in her eyes...the pain and urgency, she was depending on me to do this. I snapped out of it and did what she said. The moment the orb hit the ground it shattered and a really really bright light flooded the area. I don't know why she told me to close my eyes, because they closed on their own out of instinct to the sudden change in brightness. Just before my eyes closed though, I caught a glimpse of the pictures on the wall again. They were...beautiful...more beautiful than anything I'd ever seen. The light made the colors more vibrant...they stood out and I could see clearly for that instant, but only that instance. My eyes closed and my legs ran as fast as they could go. The light only lasted for an instant and then faded. My feet no longer touched the ground and I was being picked up. I opened my eyes and saw her. She was looking straight ahead, breathing hard...it looked like this gave her a rush though, the running, as though if the situation weren't this serious, she'd be laughing. The whole experience had me tired out, so I fell asleep in her arms.

When I woke up we were in a cave. She was at the mouth of the cave, looking up at the sky, smiling faintly. She was a very strange creature...pink hair that turned into purple by the time it reached the end. A pink thing on the top half of her body and a ripped blue thing at the bottom and bandages on her arms and legs. Her eyes...one was blue and the other green, bright shades of those colors that seemed to radiate their own light. I yawned and she turned around then stood up and went over to me.

"I see you woke up. We haven't been properly introduced. My name is Naomi, but you can call me Kitten."

"I...I don't know that I have a name..."

"Well...you're a Treeko...why don't I call you that?" Kitten asked, I nodded in response. "Thanks for the help back there, by the way."

"The help...?"

"Yeah, with the Luminous orb?" Then it came back to me, the Sableye, the pictures.

"No problem. You're the one that did everything." I said.

"Ah, but if you hadn't helped out, neither of us would be here right now." She smiled. "So thank you."

She walked back over to the mouth of the cave and sat, one leg dangling off the side of the cliff and one tucked near her body. I sat next to her. How did we get all the way up here, why not a place safer that was closer to the ground.

"You can see everything from up here." Kitten said, answering my unasked question.

"Would it be bad of me to ask...what you are?" I sat down next to her. "I'm not trying to be rude...It's just I've never seen a creature like you before." Kitten laughed.

"I'm a human."

"Human...what kind of Pokemon is that?" I asked, she laughed harder. "What? What did I say?" She calmed down and explained it to me.

"Human isn't a type of Pokemon. It's a different species all together. Humans can't use attacks like Fury Swipes that Sableye used or, say...Leaf Blade, like you'll be able to use someday. We have to rely on physical abilities or weapons. On the inside though, how we act and stuff, in that respect humans and Pokemon are the same."

"Are there any others like you?" I asked.

"I don't know. Since my parents left me I haven't seen any others. I think my race is nearly extinct, either that or I'm just not looking in the right places."

"You're one of a kind..."

"So are you."

"No, there are other Treekos around here. I've seen them."

"That's not what I meant. Most Pokemon here have given in to darkness, but not you. You hit me out of defense, I could tell by the look in your eyes, it was only out of defense and fear of being hurt. You weren't attacking just to attack. You're a little scared, everyone is, even me...though I try not to be. The difference is that despite all this darkness and fear around you, your spirit still shines just as brightly as the luminous orb...and I like shiny things." Kitten looked out at the scenery the whole time.

"Speaking of the Luminous orb...just before I started to run when I used the orb, I saw the pictures in the light...they were beautiful." I said, Kitten nodded, then gestured to everything outside.

"Now...imagine if you could just see everything else like that..."

"What do you mean?" Kitten looked wistfully at the sky.

"The world used to have light. When time moved...a long time ago...there were these things called day and night. During the day a big ball of light would fly across the sky and light the whole world up and make it warm. Night...well, that's where we are now, stuck in eternal night with no moon...the moon was also a ball of light...but it was much dimmer and didn't give off heat. See those rocks? They would be a light gray...a nice earthy feel...I mean, they're gray now, but light would take the menace out of it. And see the water? If there was light, it would be a beautiful sparkling clear blue." She gestured to the rocks and the water which were both dark gray and dull.

"How do you know so much about the light and how things were?" I asked, she smirked a bit.

"I saw it." Kitten responded.

"What do you mean? Time stopped so long ago, you couldn't possibly have been there to see it."

"I wasn't there...but I saw it. I saw it in a dream. Ya see, when my folks abandoned me I wandered for a long time, like you. I found a lake on top of a plateau in the middle of a forest. I climbed up because I like high places, for the view mostly, and to be away from things. When I got to the top I found a rock with a pattern on it just lying on the ground. I went to pick it up but then I became dizzy and blacked out. While I was blacked out I saw the lake as it had been in the past...There was a big group of Pokemon I later identified as members of the Wigglytuff guild. Er...lemme see if I remember...there was Wigglytuff of course, the head of the group. Then there was a Chatot, a Corphish, a Loudred, a Sunflora, a Croagunk, a Diglett, a Dugtrio, a Chimecho, a Bidoof, a Skitty, a Turtwig, and a Uxie. They were all gathered near the shore of the lake looking at something glowing turquoise in the center of the lake and suddenly water spouted up in turquoise and purple and blue and there were pokemon called Volbeat and Illumise that light up and they were flying around...That's when I found out this world's true potential...how beautiful it could be."

Kitten paused for a moment and looked outside as though she were trying to see past the dark dead things to what they might have once been, I was silent, then she spoke.

"When I came out of the dream I wanted answers. I took the rock because I'd seen the Turtwig from the dream wearing it around his neck...I thought it was just really neat to have something that belonged to someone in the past. Then I swam to the center of the lake cause I wanted to know what had made it glow like that, and what I found...it was really cool. It was a Time Gear."

"Time Gear?" I asked. She nodded.

"It looked kinda like this." Kitten took a switchblade out of her pocket and carved a picture of a Time Gear into some of the loose dirt inside the cave. "It was used to regulate time...I'm not really sure how it worked yet. Anyway I wanted to know who the Pokemon were and why they were there, I wanted to know what the thing in the center of the lake was, and most importantly...I wanted to know how something as beautiful as that...could turn into something as dismal as it is now."

"Did you find out anything?"

"Yeah, I actually found Wigglytuff's Guild, it's still standing. They had records in there, turns out what I was seeing was an expedition they were on to find Fogbound Lake, but the record said they didn't find anything. So I looked around and grasped at anything, rumor, folktales, anything that would help me understand what I saw. It brought me here to the Hidden Land. Treeko, have you ever tried to get out of the Hidden Land?"

"No."

"Well you can't. The place is trapped between the fabric of seconds...sort of...outside time. The only one who'd be able to possibly get in and out is Celebi, a pokemon that travels time. Well, turns out the rock I found can make a hole in the barrier and allow someone to cross." She took out the rock. "Here, hold it." Kitten put the thing in my hand, it had a sort of world worn feel to it, as opposed to the rest of the rocks in the world, which felt dead. "I haven't been here for very long, but I've already learned a lot. Something went wrong with Dialga, he was alive when time was still flowing, but something corrupted him...I don't know what...I think after he became corrupted he may have been the one to cause time to stop. I don't know though...I don't know much of anything, it's mostly guesswork right now, haven't even figured out why I had the dream...I don't think it's a normal thing for humans though."

Kitten leaned back, thought for a moment, and sighed.

"All I have is a dream...a dream to restore this world to it's former glory. I've seen the hatred and suffering in this world...and I'm tired of it...I want it to end...it's an impossible dream, I know, but I'm willing to dedicate my life to trying, and if by the end of my life, I haven't managed to succeed, I'll pass on what I'll have accomplished so far, in hopes someone will see it through."

I looked at her, stone, and the outside. For a moment, I thought I could almost see how things might be...emerald leaves and sapphire lakes...flowers of all colors...the smell of the earth and the plants and warmth.

"I...I want to help." I said, she looked at me strangely.

"Are you sure? It'll be dangerous...Dialga...Something tells me he doesn't want things to change. He's very powerful and has hundreds of Pokemon loyal to him at his disposal...like the Sableye, for instance. I don't know if you could handle it."

"...Then help me to be stronger." She raised an eyebrow. "I want to help...but I couldn't even get myself to fight a few Sableye. You're right, I wouldn't stand a chance, not like this. You...I saw what you did...you're amazing...what you did to the Sableye."

"I'm not as amazing as you make me out to be. I've just been around a bit longer than you have. All you need is some training...We can train together, and make each other stronger, and work our way towards a world where the sun rises and time flows, make the world better for everyone." Kitten said.

"Nobody's ever been there to watch our backs. We can be there for each other." I held out my hand for a handshake to say it was a deal, but she took my arm and pulled me into a hug which after a second, I returned.

"I would like nothing more...partner."

Please review ^^ I have two other chapters I'm gonna update real quick.