"What in The Underwhere did you DO?" Dimentio spat.
"I swear that I didn't DO anything!" Mr.L retorted.
"Fat chance!" Dimentio shouted, "When I get my hands on you I'll-"
Dimentio interrupted himself with a gag and leaned back over a trashcan, emptying his stomach into the bin. Mr.L was outside of the bathroom Dimentio had locked himself inside of and winced at the sound of his vomiting.
"You probably just caught a stomach bug, yeesh. I think you're overreacting." Mr.L stated.
"Overreacting?! You used the move Sweet Kiss on me, didn't you?! When you kissed the top of my head! You inflicted a confusion status condition upon me!" Dimentio exclaimed.
Mr.L facepalmed and sighed heavily while dragging his gloved hand down his face.
"Alright, do you need anything while you're busy accusing me of assault?" Mr.L asked sarcastically.
Mr.L winced again as he could hear Dimentio up-chuck once more.
"I'll just... go find some food for when you're better." Mr.L said.
The Pokémon in green quickly walked off, not wanting to stick around to catch a stomach bug as well. As Mr.L walked down the halls of Castle Bleck, he noted the layer of dust on everything. He knew that Dimentio and himself had been in stasis for who knows how long, but the untouched clutter of everything sort of proved that no one had come there.
"How long could we possibly have been out?" Mr.L questioned, wiping a thin layer of dust off of a desk with his gloved finger, "I mean, it couldn't have been THAT long."
Mr.L had concluded in his mind while he was still trapped in stasis that it must have only been a month at most. He shook his head in dismay as he reached the kitchen.
"Alright, I need some way of telling how long we were out." Mr.L stated as he walked over to the fridge.
He opened it up and was immediately greeted by the smell of rotten food. Mr.L wrinkled his nose and gagged, turning away as his stomach threatened to empty like how Dimentio's did.
"When did this stuff even go bad?! Usually, Nastasia has a lot of long-lasting stuff! She would literally prep food for the end of days." Mr.L muttered.
Mr.L reached in and grabbed the first object he could grasp, which happened to be a milk carton. Or at least what was supposed to be milk.
He plugged his nose and looked down at the expiration date. It only said that it expired about a week after the last day Mr.L knew passed, which was the same day that he had supposedly been killed.
"This thing says only a week after I vanished!" Mr.L exclaimed, shaking the heavy carton, "Yet I'm pretty sure that this is just stone now."
Mr.L sighed and shook his head, tossing the carton in a trash can.
"Forget it! I'll just have to try to get something from the nearby town!" Mr.L said, tossing his arms up in defeat.
He marched back down the hall to see Dimentio not in the bathroom anymore, but now sitting in a chair in the main room reading a book.
"Wasn't that the Count's book?" Mr.L asked.
"Do you see the Count anywhere? No? Then I guess that it is up for grabs." Dimentio said, "Besides, it's a tad more boring now that all of the prophecies are fulfilled in it."
"Uh... Anyway, I was just going to ask if you needed anything specific from whatever town I find. Everything is expired so we need new food, and I know where the castle's stash of cash is, so we're set." Mr.L stated.
Dimentio flinched at his words and dropped his book.
"You're going to a nearby town?! People think we're dead! They'll recognize us! We'll get turned in!" Dimentio exclaimed.
"You mean they'll recognize YOU and YOU'LL get turned in?" Mr.L corrected, "It'll be fine, I'll just go on my own."
"Please don't," Dimentio begged, slumping in his chair, "I don't want to be left alone..."
Mr.L paused, slightly shocked by him admitting it out loud.
"I promise that I won't be that long. I mean... We kinda need food to survive, so one of us needs to get something." Mr.L pointed out.
Dimentio sighed in response, causing Mr.L to smirk.
"Fine... I guess that would be best." Dimentio replied.
Mr.L laughed to himself, starting towards the door.
"Ha! I'll be back in about an hour or two." Mr.L said, "I'll try and bring back some non-perishable items just in case we're here for an extended stay."
Mr.L waved goodbye to Dimentio and then walked out, earning another sigh from the Mimikyu as he did.
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Mr.L hummed a little to himself as he started towards the checkout with several handfuls of items. He had just about everything ranging from berries to Shroom Shake canisters. The Raichu let out a sigh as he stepped into the line.
"No wonder Nastasia always took care of this junk, this is boring." Mr.L muttered.
Mr.L got to the register and set all of the items down in front of the short cashier woman with a hat and apron on.
"Just this, mister? Golly, need a bag for all that?" She asked.
"Uh, yeah. Just that, Ms.HatAndApron." Mr.L replied, leaning on the counter while rubbing his eyes.
The woman gasped, earning a confused look from Mr.L. He glanced up at her and went wide-eyed, seeing that it was none other than Mimi standing at the register with a wide smile looking at him.
"You're alive!" She exclaimed.
"Mimi?!" Mr.L questioned.
Mimi quickly lept over the counter and tackled Mr.L to the ground, though not using the actual attack Tackle.
"We all thought you were dead! I hardly even recognized you all evolved and stuff into a Raichu!" Mimi said, "How'd you evolve?! Where have you been?! Ohhhh, you should see the look on your face!!!"
Mimi quickly got off of Mr.L and used Transform, turning into a near-perfect copy of him while making a shocked expression.
"That's what you look like right now!" Mimi chirped.
Mimi transformed back to normal and Mr.L stood up, brushing himself off.
"We all thought you were dead for the LOOOOOOOONGEST time! Because after that no good Dimentio told us the heroes killed ya, we assumed that you weren't coming back any time soon." Mimi told him with a shrug.
"Dimentio had said that the HEROES had killed me?" Mr.L asked with a hint of annoyance.
"But you're here now! OH!" Mimi exclaimed, snapping her fingers, "I should go take you to the others!"
Mimi quickly grabbed Mr.L by the hand and began dragging him along towards the door.
"Mimi! What about my groceries?!" Mr.L yelled, "And don't you work here?! You can't just LEAVE!"
"It'll be FINE. They're not gonna walk off without you!" Mimi replied, "And my shift's over anyway!"
Mimi tossed her hat and apron onto the counter and then ran out the door, dragging a reluctant Mr.L with her.
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Bring Back My Light (SPM Pokéhuman AU!!!)
Fanfic(A Mr.L X Dimentio, Book 1) Ahem! Welcome to the wonderful world of Pokemon. Today, I am here to tell you the story of the lost book of prophecies. No one after obtaining this book has found happiness... The reason? The book held frightful secrets...