Summary:

Let's see...this was a request by the tripfag Alexander over at /vp/, the pokemon board of 4chan.org. I'd gone back and forth with him a lot over requests; first he had requested something with a Tyrogue, then we decided someone else should do it and make it straight, then he asked me about a request of this nature with the first two fire/fighting starters, I said sure, I had no idea what Mystery Dungeon was so I played through Red Rescue team...all in all, lot of delays on this one. Regardless, it turned out pretty well, all things considered. To make this clear: I change both the perspective and the tense twice. It was an attempt at being artsy (and not because I didn't realize I had changed the tense while I was writing it and got lazy about changing it back). These are indicated by tildes (~).

Aaaaaaand GO!