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Dear Diary,
god it's been years since I've kept a diary.
Not since middle school I think. Goddess I feel old saying that.

Well anyway since it's been so long I guess I'll introduce myself
My name is Mara Ana Katze. I've just turned 20 years old, and I'm new in town.
Well that's an understatement.
More like, I'm new to this WORLD.
See, before I woke up in a forest with nothing but what I'd had on me. I was waiting for the bus to get to Uni. a section of this entry is blacked out so thickly it bleeds onto the other side of the page
Anyway, I'm getting off track (that'll happen a lot I'm sorry...)
I woke up in a forest, I said? Yep, that's what happened. Last thing I remember is seeing the bus I was waiting for rolling towards my stop and then nothing. I think I might've blacked out but who knows?
Anyway, things happened, mainly freaking out and walking aimlessly while checking my wallet and myself in case I'd been mugged or whatever. I was fine, by the way. Even my clothes were intact, if a little dirty.
I walked long enough that I eventually found a dirt path, and followed it until I got to the outskirts of this city.
It's huge, by the way. I mean I did buy you from a department store so i guess if you were a sentient being you'd probably already know the city was big, but whatever.
I wandered into the city, I didn't really know where I was going but I was looking for a hospital or a police station or something. For all I knew someone had violated me while I was blacked out and then made me look pristine to confuse me.
Imagine my confusion when I found a pokemon center.
I mean, pokemon's not supposed to be real, right? It's just a game. But low and behold, when I actually snapped out of the shock of not knowing where I was and actually paid attention to my surroundings, I noticed people walking around with pokemon. That of course sent me back into shock and I don't really remember much after that. When I came back to myself I was inside the PC and there was an actual for real nurse joy and actual freaking chansey fussing over me.
Apparently I started screaming and then fainted, or something pathetic like that
Before I could start freaking out over both of them Nurse Joy just put her finger to my mouth to shush me, and explained that I wasn't the first new comer to come to be here. Yes this was real, yes she was real, no I wasn't going crazy though by the looks of how pale I was I was probably still feeling the aftereffects of the transportation between dimensions and was also probably still suffering from shock, and she kept blathering on with her explanations of what were going on but I stopped hearing her and I kinda spaced out and didn't come too until she shook me and handed me a bottle of water and a few small pills, telling me these would help me feel better.
Being the paranoid girl I am I kinda just stared at her like she was completely insane until she started going off about how even though I was new it was no excuse to give her such a face and I stopped listening but she kept talking so I just took the water bottle and stood up and left the PC.
Of course it was still a world of pokemon and I kinda had to pretend this wasn't real to keep from freaking out.
Even though it's been a few weeks since then, I'm still kinda thinking this is nothing but a dream.

This entry is getting long and it's getting late, so I'll make my next one tomorrow.

With Love,
Mara

Dear Diary,
Ok so to carry on with where I left off.
I found an empty alleyway pretty quickly, so I walked down it until I was far enough in that unless someone looked directly down it they wouldn't see me walking by.
I kind of collapsed against the wall, I think. Getting some pills out of my bag, I can't even remember what they were, I used the water bottle to wash three of them down.
I sat there for like a whole half hour before the pills kicked in and I started calming down. I felt a lot better after taking them, so I decided to leave the alley and try to get my bearings.
I probably looked pretty nuts coming out of that alley holding my bag for dear life and my eyes darting around looking for.... something. I don't really remember, my first few days here are mostly a blur.

Anyway, I think I was wandering around the city for like three days before Mia found me.
Mia is my only real friend here, I should mention, she's helped me get settled and acclimate to this new world really well.
Mia knew right away that I was new and confused and scared. She took me to her apartment downtown and helped me get cleaned up. Basically, she took care of me for two days, explaining what she could about this world.
She even helped me get started with starting as a pokemon trainer and researcher, which earns me a pretty tidy sum every day for a case by case basis.

I guess that seems pretty short for explaining what I've been doing for the past three weeks, but really, I can barely remember most of my first week, and nothing really happened after Mia found me.
I'm currently living with her as her roommate. She'd recently upgraded her apartment and was having more trouble paying rent than she expected, so I'm paying a third of the rent until she picks up more work and I get my own place.

I'm pretty happy that I found a kindred spirit here, she has my same view on life that I do, and she's also vegan! I couldn't have found a better friend, though I can't help but think that she's hiding things from me...

In my next entry I'll talk about the things I've learned so far about this place.

With love
Mara

Dear Diary,
I know it's been over a week since I last wrote, and promised to talk about what I'd learned so far.
I guess I should do that, but a bit has happened this past week or so.
I've managed to carve myself a little niche and I've gotten a lot of pokemon specimens to study, so I'm earning quite a bit for that. I've even started in on breeding my pokemon, and I've tried to keep an eye on them but I still haven't figured out what happens, how it happens, or even where the eggs come from...
My first pokemon is Hackel by the way, I raised the meganium from an egg and he's at level 82 already! He's also quite the adventurer and is rarely seen on the farm except to drop off his latest haul from his explorations.
All in all I've got about 119 pokemon that I'm studying, and I'm currently working on getting the 120th to hatch.
Um, I do have quite a bit I still have to do today, including this story I'm working on for Camp NaNoWriMo (they have that here! I was so happy when I found out that this world does NaNoWriMo as well) I won't say much about it, except it's about this half french/half mexican girl from America who suffers a great tragedy in her life and has to learn to cope with the aftermath. (And keep her pain hidden from the people around her)

Before I sign off, here's one major thing I've learned.
The fact that I appeared here with no warning is not a rare occurrence. Apparently a lot of people just appear from our old world every day, all of them as confused and lost as I was.
When I asked Mia about it she got really quiet and dodged around my questions.
What is she hiding from me?

I have to go, a lot to do, a lot to write
With Love,
Mara

Dear Diary,
It's been two days, and some things have happened.
I tried to talk to the nurse joy I first met, about the situation with the random appearing of people from earth? I sort of lied and said I was there to apologize for my behavior the first day.
I did apologize, I mean, but I really was there to find out more about what she was talking about. Going over my first entry because I actually can't remember anymore (and yeah I blacked out something I didn't really think was appropriate to share), which is suspicious in itself, I barely remember even writing the first entry, something I didn't have a problem with until after I asked Mia about how I got here.
Anyway, reading the first entry, I wrote about how Joy said I was suffering disorientation from being transported here between dimensions. So she was my best lead with Mia being evasive.
Joy seems like a nice person but... She definitely knows something. I don't know why...
when I asked her about how I was teleported, and why, she got really quiet.
Her chansey stared at me and I got really uncomfortable, but I needed to know so I toughed it out. I did almost leave though because the silence was so freaking uncomfortable.
But in the end I didn't get anything worthwhile information from her.
All she said was that she didn't know anything more than other earth people had told her. People have been appearing here since before she was born.
Apparently this is just something that has happened for so long that no one questions it, I wonder if the locals ever questioned it.
I have work to do, I'm slacking off on my writing and there's a lot to do with my pokemon research.

With love,
Mara

Dear Diary,
Another two days have passed and I've only struck dead ends in my investigation.
Well, some news regardless. I met my word goal for Camp Nano a couple days ago, but I'm barely two chapters into the story!
Also, just today, Hackel, my Meganium? He reached level 100! I'm so happy.
Yesterday, I won a lugia egg from the lottery, and I'm making my way on getting that to hatch, goddess it's taking a lot.
I'm training up a few more pokemon because it couldn't hurt to keep strong pokemon around, even though I'm only contracted to observe them as a researcher, not as a trainer.
Funds are low, even though I've been making a lot lately with all the research I've been accomplishing. I've had to make upgrades to some of my equipment, and get new equipment all together in regards to some things.
It's a tedious process, saving money is. I have so much I need to buy or upgrade before I can really take off as a researcher.
Mia says there's money to be made in shiny hunting though, and I got the pokeradar a little while ago (which set me back money wise quite a bit!) but I also have to buy the batteries which is crap.
So right now shiny hunting is on the back burner while I raise my other pokemon and upgrade my research equipment.
I haven't learned anything new since the last entry about my situation, so I guess I'll end my entry here.

With love,
Mara

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Dear Diary,
...
I woke up this morning and I wasn't able to remember anything that happened yesterday. I still can't...
There are two eggs in my hatchery that I don't recognize nor remember attaining. Flipping through my reference guides, there is nothing to go by. I guess I'll just have to hatch them and see what's inside.
Looking at my last entry, it's mostly gibberish, and I can't really ascertain what I was trying to write, though I do recognize it as my handwriting. I think I may have been drugged yesterday, wouldn't be the first time I blacked out from something like that.
It'll come back to me... eventually. I hope.
I have a wicked hangover from whatever I was roofied with, major headache and I keep feeling a bit dizzy whenever i stand.
I hope I'll be ok...
I should go, even if I'm not feeling well I still have to earn money

With love,
Mara

Dear Diary,
I knew I already wrote an entry today, but I'm just really happy today.
The egg I got in the lottery just hatched!
It's a lovely little lugia baby and its so adorable and I'm gonna carry it on my shoulders all around town! (I'm secretly hoping it's a dwarf lugia and won't get bigger than a cat ok don't judge me)
I'm trying to think of a name for it but my mind is still preoccupied by the blackout and memory loss I've suffered.
I'm not even talking just about whatever happened yesterday, I'm talking about in general, like when I first got to this world. I literally can't remember any of what happened by myself. For now I only have my journal entries to go on...
Something really awful must be going on here, something someone doesn't want me to figure out.

On to yesterday.
Still, my only clues are the two mystery eggs in my party.
I've deciphered some of what was written in last night's entry, and I think I was talking about something that was wrong with this world?
Also something about going in a tunnel, and being ambushed.
The only tunnel I know of is the one outside of the city, one I couldn't have gotten to by myself. I would've needed a strong flier to take me out there, and the only one I can think of from my storage boxes is Arndt, my Swellow.
For all I know Arndt was in the boxes all day yesterday.
When I took him out though, he looked like he'd been in a fight. His time in the box today would have healed him, but he still looked a little worse for wear.
When he saw me though, he seemed really happy and wouldn't stop making noise, flapping all around me. I had to put him back in the box because Mia was taking a nap.
I think it's about time I move out into my own apartment. Mia doesn't seem to mind at all that I'm here, even though she doesn't need my help paying the rent anymore.
I'm going to start saving up, and I'll be going apartment hunting tomorrow.
Wish me luck

With love,
Mara

Dear Diary,

Just a short entry before I go to bed. It's after midnight but I'm still awake, good thing too.
I was sitting in the hatchery with Veracity, my lugia.
One of the mysterious eggs hatched, and I had to rush it out of the hatchery because it let out a sort of wave of freezing cold that would've frozen my other eggs if I hadn't acted fast.
It's in a box right now, but I recognized it almost instantly. Back in my home world my first pokemon video games were third gen, I'd be dense not to recognize Regice.
The look of the other mystery egg makes me think it's a regirock.
I'm going to go to the tunnel tomorrow, after i wake up, in hopes I find a registeel egg. Somehow I know it's important to have all three of them together. Maybe it'll unlock my stolen memories. Well, it can't hurt to explore. I'm exhausted right now though...
With love,
Mara

Dear Diary,
The other egg did indeed hatched into a Regirock.
I put it into the same box as the Regice, and they seem more comfortable in the box together, I think. They still seam like they're missing something though. I assume it's Registeel, but my attempt to explore that old tunnel didn't go well, I've been chased out by hoards of zubat loads of times and I'm running out of time in the day, considering I'm supposed to be apartment hunting.
When Mia asked where I was going today with Arndt and I didn't know what to say. I couldn't just tell her what was going on because my paranoia is saying that I can't trust her and that she's the reason why I can't remember anything from my first week here.
For all I know that paranoia is just instinct and I'm right.
I did in the end tell her that I was looking at apartments today because I felt like I was ready to strike out on my own. She seemed disappointed, but I really don't think it's safe for me here anymore.
After the last egg in my hatchery hatches, I'll be closing it up so that I can move it easily when I do move.
There is one apartment building downtown that I want to look at, the rent's cheap and the space is pretty decent for a burgeoning researcher such as myself.
I hope Mia doesn't ask about the scratches.

With love,
Mara

Dear Diary,

I feel like a bad person. I avoided Mia all day, even out of the apartment whenever I saw her on the street I went out of my way to make sure she didn't see me, I've got some nasty scratches on my face from the zubats and I came home really late last night, I really didn't want to have that conversation.
I checked out that apartment I talked about and it's a really nice place, not too close to Mia's or anything.
I actually rented it right away. I'm in the process of moving everything over, first thing to come over was the hatchery, and I've taken the liberty to start a shiny 'hunt', but what it really is is just finding as many shuppet eggs as I can and hoping one of them has a mutated pigment gene.
Hopefully this'll bring in a surplus of cash I'm going to need to pay the rent on this place.
Rent is a weekly thing in this world, but it's cheap so I guess it's not that bad.
I have some sweet potato fries cooking, so I better get going. Goddess I'm exhausted from everything I've had to do in just today.

With love,
Mara

Dear Diary,
I know it's been nearly two weeks, but moving to a new apartment without any help is harder than it looks.
I hadn't realized I'd accumulated so much stuff before I had to move it to a new home.
My first shiny hunt was successful, I hatched a teal Shuppet out of the 85th egg. Now I have a box nearly completely full with shuppet -_-
I'm currently breeding torchic in an attempt to find a female so I can start another shiny hunt.
There's this new thing in town called wondertrading. Basically I put in a couple pokemon into the trading hub and the next day I get someone else's pokemon. The thing is no one has any control what pokemon they get so it's a really great opportunity to get new pokemon you haven't had before.
I've gotten several starters and other rare pokemon I didn't have before (including the torchic I'm currently breeding)
Veracity has reached level 50 just now, and I'm going to throw her a little party to celebrate, I'm really happy about it.
For now I've put off my investigation in favor of getting reestablished.
Honestly I don't know why I care all that much about finding out why I was brought here.
I'm having fun and I've made so many friends, so who cares?

several lines are scribbled out and there is an ink blotch covering a small area of the page

I have to go,
Mara

Dear Diary,
I know, I know, another two weeks have passed me by before I remember to write in you, but honestly, not much has happened.
I did another shiny hunt for torchic and one hatched out of the 46th egg! My friends think I have the shiny touch haha.
I'm going to hunt vanillite after I make sure all the other shuppets and torchic have found good homes.
Reading over my last entries, I'd completely forgotten about my investigation, and that realization is disturbing.
I can barely make myself care about it, and that is so worrying... I'm going back to the tunnel soon. I have some preparation to do, but I'll not be waylayed.
Veracity has been levelling like mad the past two weeks, I can only assume she's caught on to whatever's messing with my head.
I attribute my sudden clarity to her presence after reaching level 100 (she's catching up to Hackel!)
Living on my own has been stressful.
I haven't been working as hard as I used to, raising these pokemon has been wearing on me so much that I've been slacking in my research.
I'm lucky I had a lot of money saved up, or I'd be in trouble rent wise.
I should go, there's a new variation of larvesta that's been discovered and I want to get in on the hype.

With love,
Mara

Dear Diary,
It's been 3 months since my last entry.
I'm sorry it's been so long but there have been extenuating circumstances.
Mostly because while on my exhibition to the tunnels (where I got lost for three days, developed an infection from zubat bites, and nearly died from said infection trying to leave the tunnel) my apartment was burgled and my journal was one of the things taken. It's taken me this long to find it, but at least I wasn't idle while searching. I've accumulated quite a lot of funding for my research, though not nearly enough for what I've got planned.
I'm also disseminating the skiddo from my last shiny hunt in an attempt to spy on my fellow researchers. They're all specially trained to report back with any information regarding my fellows that is relevant to what I've been investigating for the past four months.

You'd think I'd be worried about whoever stole my diary, but I'm not, because the person that did it doesn't remember a thing. (Thank you to Veracity, what you did is terrifying and amazing)
What I am worried about is what the thief told me before his memory was erased.
Whatever government there is in this world, is watching me, and hired him to procure my diary. They didn't tell him why, but I'm assuming it's to figure out what I've already figured out and get rid of me if necessary.
The thief thankfully never turned over my diary, he just hocked the other stuff he stole, and then tried to sell me back my diary. He had no idea who he was dealing with

With love,
Mara

Dear Diary,
The last couple days have been stressful. There have been rumors of a close cousin of the Rayquaza species flying around, only seen once before. Everyone's hunting it, including me.
But that's not the whole reason why I'm stressed. There's been another break-in but this time at my office at the lab. (I forgot to mention, I got a job there over a month ago researching cousins of traditionally known species) Several of my research samples were missing, but nothing else. Looks like I have to place a guard there too. Veracity, my lovely dwarf lugia, is always with me, she refuses to leave me alone. Integrity, my beautiful runty ho-oh, is always at my apartment. I think I'll leave my new Shaymin there, Feather. She's already level 50 even though she's only 4 days old. Incredibly loyal too. I hope she'll be ok staying at my office 24/7...
I wish I knew what was going on, and why I've been targeted.

With love,
Mara