A/N: Well this is my first story of this nature on this site, and I'm telling you now this isn't like the typical human turns into Pokemon story so please read and enjoy!

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon

The Virus

Prologue

Do you ever wonder what went wrong in your life? How, one minute your whole world was fine, and the next everyone was turning into Pokémon because of a virus? Yeah…that's sadly what happened to me. To this day, I still don't really know how that virus even came into existence, but I do know how it was spread. If only we knew then how to isolate the virus, we would have all stayed human and would still be living our respectable lives…but I guess everything happens for a reason.

The thing is where I lived, we had Pokémon, heck, I even owned some but the weirdest part was when we woke up and found out all the humans were turning into Pokémon, and we discovered we were on a whole different world entirely! How does that happen unless you are somehow reborn? Unless….we really were, but that doesn't even make sense because I had all my memories, and others have theirs too! As you can see, I'm still trying to figure out what went wrong, but I can at least show you how it happened, since I'm only a day or two old in this new life. The day I heard the news is still burned forever into my mind….

I was sitting out in my family's garden, observing the Pokémon that had been playing in it when I heard my mom call me from the house. Abandoning my observations I ran into the house to see my mother and father crowded around the television. I remember frowning at seeing them do this.

"What's going on?" I had asked.

"Something strange has happened," my mom said, never faltering her gaze from the TV.

"What do you mean?"

"Do you remember that explorer who had dedicated his life to traveling the world?" asked my father, also staring at the TV.

"Why yes! He was from here in the Kanto region wasn't he?"

"Yes well, it turns out he was bitten a couple months ago by a Pokémon, but only decided to tell about it to the public now!"

"What? I don't understand he just got bitten why does he need to tell the public?"

"Because supposedly he's only been feeling funny now, probably a reaction to the bite, and has been sent to a Pokémon Center here in the Kanto region," said my mother with a shudder.

"Where was he bitten?"

"In the Hoenn region." I remember shuddering uncontrollably at that as I watched the rest of the report on TV. A couple days after that report, another one aired on TV, saying that the body of the explorer had completely disappeared! No one knew where he went or even if he was okay. It wasn't long after that when reports from all over the world were talking about people dying or disappearing after becoming sick in a similar way that the explorer had. The sickness soon became known as the Poké Virus, and after a month or two of this, Pallet Town fell victim to the virus.

People were dropping off left and right, either by death or disappearance, and soon my own family got the virus. The weird thing was, we didn't even know we had the virus until a month after we got it, so it was already too late for us. All three of us were sent to the Pokémon Center in Viridian City but we were way beyond help by then. Only after three days of being admitted to the Center my parents died, and boy did I weep for them. A day or two after them, I was sleeping in my room at the Center, feeling like there was nothing else to live for when I fell asleep. I didn't wake up the next day, because my body was no longer in the Pokémon Center.