Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon: Here Comes The Hydroflames

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"Welcome home you guys!" Dedenne greeted. "I'm glad that you're all-"

Ian, Patience, Archen and Glaceon hastily walked past Dedenne who was standing at the entrance.

"-alright..."

The four members went up the stairs and went straight for Mawile's room.

There's no way... It can't be... Ian thought. When Glaceon had revealed to him that the rock he had found on Revelation Mountain was written in a human language, he couldn't believe it. Patience had read it just fine, it couldn't possibly be human. When asked about how she could read, Patience simply shrugged and said she just could, like Ian. They woke up Archen and asked him if he could read the engravings, but he couldn't as well.

It was then that Ian had finally confessed that he was once a human, but had lost all memories of it. He was expecting Archen and Glaceon to be shocked of the reveal, but, they seemed to take it surprisingly well. Which confused Ian. 'You're not the first time a human has come to our world you know.' Archen said. Ian felt somewhat disappointed, he enjoyed seeing Pokemon reacting in shock at them being told he was human. Either way, Ian wasn't convinced, he said that he wanted to confirm it with Mawile, for she was the Expedition Society's expert in archeology and ancient history.

Ian knocked on Mawile's room door, a loud crash could be heard from the room, followed by a muttered curse from Mawile. She opened the door, the others noticed that she had black marks covering her eyes. Indicating that she hasn't be getting enough sleep.

"Oh, welcome back." Mawile grumpily said. "What do you want?"

"I want you to take a look at this." Ian said, handing the rock to her. Mawile's eyes suddenly lit up, her grumpiness suddenly gone, she snatched the rock from Ian's hand, examining it.

"W-where did you get this from?!" She asked, still shocked with what she was looking at.

"I found it buried in dirt at Revelation Mountain, near Serene Village." Ian explained. "You know what is written on it right?"

"I can, but it might take me awhile to translate it..."

Surprised, Ian turned to Archen, who simply shrugged, resting his case. He then turned his attention to Patience, who was just as confused. How was Patience able to read human language if she was just a normal Pokemon? Unless...

No, I won't jump to conclusions just yet. Ian said to himself.

"Ian and Patience, they are somehow able to read the human language with ease." Glaceon said.

"Stop messing with me Glaceon, we all know that mastering it takes months, even years." Mawile said in disbelief, she hurried into her room, the four Pokemon following her in. She hastily placed the rock on her desk and searched through one of her bookshelf. Her room was littered with scattered books and papers, there were also a few apple cores that scattered the room. Mawile removed a blue book from her shelf, it was big and heavy, almost ten centimeters thick. 'Human Language for Dummies', Ian couldn't help but chuckle at that book title. Mawile opened the book, inside were images of human letters, next to it was the translation in Pokemon footprint writing.

It was only then that Ian suddenly realized the difference between the two languages. The human alphabet 'A', is a small footprint to Pokemon. It wasn't a surprise to him, since he was human. But Patience was a completely different story.

"Those who cannot remember the past..." Mawile translated.

"...are condemned to repeat it." Ian finished, to the shock of the archeologist.