"The trail cams seem to have captured Ace being dragged by the Scurrier Gang, it seems we have another snob like Lotsamoni in our hands"

"sigh What's this town coming to?"

"Don't know Pepper. But we need to stop this Vulpix tonight"

"She maybe behind the broadcast, I'm not convinced they are living dolls"

"Dolls?"

"Ginger, its these Decepquidem things. But they are not real however it was a cleverly crafted insult to hypnotists-"

"Oh, they are real!"

"Ginger no. They're not"

"Guys..."

"Zeva"

"Yes honey?"

"We are here"

The 6 mons exit the 2 vehicles belonging to Watson and Ciel. In front of them is the house of Madness the Lycanroc, one of the missing Pokemon who disappeared after bringing a beautiful doll according to eyewitnesses. They opened the door to be greeted with emptiness. They check some of the rooms.

"Look for clues, people"

Zeva takes a look at the phone, the same ceramic dust from Felien's old house. As Fire Embertail takes note of the ceramic dust around the house, her head turns to the attention of the basement, she called to Pepper and Ginger to come with her to the basement. They see what appear to be a 2000s era old television. Pepper turns her head to the wall next to her, some scratches belonging to a Typhlosion.

"Pepper, come take a look at the guy's computer over here"

"Welp time to leave this dark place, Fire"

They went upstairs to a scene, Ciel and Zeva is looking at what appeared to be a bloodstained PC and laptop

"Didn't think a hypnotist is able to hurt someone like this. What do you think honey?" Ciel said

"The mon suffered a hard blow on the head, the blood belongs to a Sableye"

"Makes sense since I spotted some drag marks. Looks this hypnotist or one of his slaves are luring mons to this place just like the forest. I guess we know how the Scurriers, Madness and Ivan"

"Who's they?" Fire questioned

"Some shiny Diglett that went missing. Madness is a grey and brown Lycanroc and is the owner of this house, he also went missing after the Scurriers were next"

"At least Lotsamoni has some decency. Because I don't think Darkening is a capable Pikachu to stage a murder like this" said Pepper

Meanwhile, Noire is looking at the yard for exterior clues, so far claw marks belonging to a Typhlosion, some feathers belonging to a Golduck, 2 different furs belonging to a Luxray and an Espeon. Noire goes inside the house to meet up with the rest but notices that the basement door is ajar.

"Hey ladies."

"Yes Officer Watson?" Ginger cheerfully said thinking the Oshawott has found some critical leads

"Did you went into the basement?"

"Just 7 mins ago. Why?"

"The door is opened"

"What, I just closed that when we checked upstairs"

Watson peeked while he puts his hand in his black coat to reach for his colt. Fresh footprints.

A loud scratching noise was heard then at the back of the house. He skipped the door, went outside and around the house. In the corner of his eye, a figure ducked under the window of the shed

"Ciel, Zeva. I found somebody snooping around. I think it's this hypnotist's slave, give me some backup."

"Alright heading there. Fire. Take the basement"

As the two went downstairs to help Watson, the Braixen descended into the basement.
Zeva opened at the door of the shed, Ciel peeks through the boxes, gardening, and electrical equipment. And sees, a paw of shiny glaceon. Before Ciel can react, Watson suddenly screamed behind them. Ciel and Zeva turned to see Watson being dragged by something unseen form their view. Gunshots rang out and Ciel took off after.

"Zeva! Get Fire out of the basement!"

Zeva went into the house to find the basement, a loud glass break was heard upstairs.

"Fire, Noire is-"

Something above the basement stairs shuts the door and locks her in.

"Zeva! The door! Open it!"

The house went into darkness, Zeva pulled out a flashlight, She went outside and she saw her husband Ciel, knocked unconscious through the upstairs window at the bedroom. She went upstairs.

Fire lit open her wand and tries to search for the keys in the basement. For the Chikorita and the Eevee however also tried to open the door that Ciel was in, both turned around and enter the room where the bloodstained computer was. The laptop's screen, on its own, rolls open and turns itself on. Including the computer, the screen open to a white background, on it is contrasted X Unown with a human-like eyeball in the center.

"Do not worry, pay attention and look at the screen" The text says, the door locks behind them. Pepper tries to open the door, a loud ear-piercing shriek emitted from the PC. They looked and got entranced by the purple swirls, they want to turn away and resist the shapes, a voice came out telling them to look at the screen.

"Open your eyes. Open your eyes. Open your eyes. Look at the screen"

The Unown repeated and then came out of the screen and the window to the room they are in, opened revealing a Typhlosion with abnormally long arms holding a purple gemstone. The gem cracked and out came 2 tentacles and envelops the heads of Pepper and Ginger.

Zeva reached to the upper floor of the house, she pressed her ear on the door, she looks around for the key and saw something within the small window of a slightly opened door. Something dull and beautifully scarlet, she turned around only to see a Dewott with long arms that lift it off the floor, it's entire head is just a maw. She then gets jumped by something green and solid from corner of her eye. The green then turned into a dark void filled with eyes. The eyes then form purple swirls, she pried the emerald off to no avail.

Fire went to the door and called out a muffled cry to Watson, Pepper, Zeva, Ginger, and Ciel.

"Zeva! Watson! Are you there?! Where's Pepper and Ginger?!"

She heard a grunt by Watson possibly being thrown to the ground.

"Ms. Churin?! Darkening?!" Oshawott Noire blurted out

"Get! I'm going to call the- let me go! Get y-"

"Watson! Watson!! Let go of him!"

Fire lifted her wand in the attempt to burn through the door but fell down the stairs. Her ears started to ring from the impact at the back of her head. The yells of Noire and blasts of his pistol disappearing from her ears.

Ciel opens his eyes to find himself at the bedroom, a TV attached on the wall turned itself on revealing an Unown with a human eyeball. He aimed his revolver.

"Detective"

"Who's talking?!"

"Watch the corner"

Ciel turns around and sees Ivy and Petunia holding a diamond and a topaz. The diamond cracked open revealing a tentacle, it flashed a purple swirl at Ciel. The tentacle swallows the head of Ciel and drags him out the room, some of his fur transforming into porcelain.

Fire gets up and lit her wand to look at her surroundings, she found herself in the room where that old TV is. The TV turns itself on revealing a creepy looking Unown. A voice came out of TV.

"Hello"

"Who-who are you?"

"It's dark here is it not?"

"What do you-"

"Do you want me wake the others? You followed your god. You are such a fool"

"What are you talking about?"

"Dialga is dead"

"What?!"

"D̵͉͌ĭ̴̳a̴̡̾l̷̼͘g̵̤̅a̸̛̖ ̵̡́ỉ̶̳s̶̯̊ ̸̙̓d̵̩̒e̶̹̽ȧ̴̪d̸̦̐"

"What are y-"

A lycanroc entered her view, it was Madness, but his white highlights are now a black blending in the darkness. Another emerges form behind the TV, it is a Glaceon, its body absent from the dark but its head and abnormally stretching neck lit by the TV screen is near as the eyes of Embertail could see. Fire's entire mind is enveloped with confusion and terror, at the sight of the eldritch terrors in front of her. The TV then formed purple swirls, hypnotizing her. Madness' black diamond cracked open and a tentacle the covers the Braixen's head. All what Fire sees is a multitude of eyes and a soothing female voice telling her to submit. The eyes form swirls that eventually mixes into one big swirl, as her fur begins to turn ceramic.

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The Decepquidems, The Prime, Shinshuku-chan, Kirin-kun, Orbos, The Encroacher, and the Scurrier Gang belongs to me
Fire Embertail belongs to Firefoxster
Darkening Lotsamoni and Petunia belongs to
Rachel Churin belongs to Mandercloud
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Zeva Altria and Ciel belongs to
Madness belongs to Madnessfoxywolf
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon belongs to Spike Chunsoft
Mandela Catalogue belongs to Alex Kister
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