Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon: Here Comes The Hydroflames

The Morning After

Ian groggily woke up to the sounds of bird noises, he couldn't tell which Pokemon it was though. Pidgey? Starly? He couldn't tell. The mudfish Pokemon slowly got up to his feet, his eyes taking a few more second to readjust itself, revealing the place he woke up in. He was greeted to the sight of wooden boxes stacked everywhere, all of them reaching towards the low hanging ceiling, Ian looked down to discover himself on a hay bed cramped in tightly among the stacks of boxes, in front of him laid an empty bottle, presumably full of Shuckle Juice once.

My goodness... WHAT happened last night?!

The mudfish Pokemon couldn't recall much of what happened, his head throbbing in pain, indicating he was suffering from a hangover. The last thing he remembered was proposing a toast to all the Expedition Society members as everyone laughed and drank the night away, everything after that was a blank to him. It was then he noticed there was writing on the boxes.

'PROPERTY OF THE EXPEDITION SOCIETY, DO NOT TOUCH. THAT MEANS YOU, YES, YOU, THE ONE READING THIS RIGHT NOW.

IF YOU STILL DECIDE TO TOUCH IT, THEN SHAME ON YOU.'

Ian chuckled at the message, he could tell that it was clearly written by Ampharos, which relived the mudfish Pokemon, the boxes meant that he hasn't woken up on some snowy mountain halfway across the world, he was still in the Expedition Society.

But where? This doesn't look like any place of the Expedition Society I've been to.

Ian eventually decide to get out from his bed, taking the empty bottle along with him as he crawled through a small gap in between the boxes, which he assumed was the way he came in. When he got out from his enclosed space, he was greeted with a relatively large room, filled with more boxes stacked to the ceiling, placed far enough between each other that anyone could walk in between them. To his left, he could see sunlight illuminating from gaps in the wall. Ian climbed onto a few boxes to peek outside through the gap, he made a few interesting observations, one was that the gap led to a flat ground outside the Expedition Society, indicating that he was below ground, another thing was that he was able to see the entrance of Lively Town in the distance, nothing more than a small arch structure in the distance.

It was then that Ian finally figured out where he was.

"The Storage Room." He said to himself, feeling satisfied that he was still able to deduce things despite still being hung over. Now the only question that remained was how did he ended up here. Regardless, he continued onwards, trying to find the exit through this labyrinth of boxes. Ian found out many interesting things about the other Expedition Society members thanks to the rather interesting writings on the boxes of what he presumed were personal belongings.

'Archen's family photos'

'Buizel's junk, DO NOT TOUCH'

'Mawile's Team Frontier possessions'

'Ampharos's 'research' books'

Ian walked past the boxes as he noticed a stairwell located at the end of the room, feeling relived that he could finally leave this claustrophobic basement. The mudfish Pokemon climbed up the stairs and opened the door that stood above, he opened the door and immediately stepped out, not noticing that the floor felt slippery and cold for some strange reason, causing him to lose his balance and fall face first.

"What the hell?!" He exclaimed to himself in shock as he realized what he was standing on.

Ice.

Did we just turn the Expedition Society into a skating ring?! He said to himself as got back up on his feet, leaning on the wall to prevent falling again.