*Riolu walks in*
Hey guys! Just wanted to let you all know that the writter will be working on the next Riolu short at some point on Friday or Saturday as long as he doesn't get to wrapped up in playing his new games on his computer. He's not sure which to start with yet but he does have a basic storyling for each. You guys can help by voting for them. One involves an odd series of nightmares for a bunch of the cubs and the poke-gang going out to find the cause. Another is just a simple meeting of Nate's family and Zee-Zee's family. Should reveal a couple of little known (at least in stories) facts about his parents and a certain cousin and uncle of Zee-Zee's will be attempted to get into the writting. The last is that punishment story of Nate in the future.

Heehee, well, I really love the get-together idea, obviously! ^.^ But the nightmares story sounds fascinating, too!

Do as you please brother. Talking about stories, what's with the cameo for Kresdo?

P.S.: You can change the settings for his appearance, no problem.

Well, since Zee-Zee was the first to respond and chose the one I mainly wanted to do (and have the best idea of how to do it) the nightmare will be the selected story. Before I can do that gathering one now that I think about it I'll have to look in Zee-Zee's journals again to study up on the older squirrels. Now to think of a few good nightmares. Got a few in mind for the happy hybrid trio but I might just do Lig. Oooh! Got one for Zee-Zee already. I might have it down already! Cool! Or not so cool cause these nightmares are gonna be kind of mean (what is with me lately?). Just remember though they aren't real and never will be.

Okay, first part up. Must apologize for making the nightmare this bad but you'll learn why the nightmares are so terrible later on. I hope you can forgive me for this Zee-Zee but I thought this might be one of your worst nightmares possible and these have to be really bad.

A Lost Nightmare
By, Riolu

*Riolu walks in*
It's that time again guys! Another Riolu Short! This one is gonna be kind of mean at the start but only because beloved characters like Lig and Zee-Zee are having a very bad nightmare, and they aren't the only ones. Pretty much everyone is gonna have a nightmare. While the adults take care of the kids when they wake up, it's up to the pokemon gang to figure out why everyone had a nightmare at once at such a terrible degree and put a stop to it. This one will end up kind of cute by the end though so enjoy the ride!
*Riolu walks into the audience to watch as well, sitting next to a pretty pink Riolu*

"ZEE-ZEE!" Zena screeched when she saw her son. "What on earth did you do?"

Zee-Zee jumped and widened his eyes in fear. He'd never heard his mother yell at him like this before. Zed came into the bathroom Zee-Zee seemed to have found himself in and narrowed his eyes angrily. What the parents of the unfortunate squirrel saw was a big mess Zee-Zee had not only made in his pull-up, but all over the floor.

"That's it Zee-Zee!" Zed growled as he stomped in (being careful to avoid the puddle and small pile Zee-Zee had left from both an accident he didn't remember having and Zena scaring him with her voice). "You won't be needing this for a long time!" And he snatched up the training potty that was completely empty and stomped back out. Zee-Zee just stood there in a stunned silence as he had no idea what was going on. He heard the slam of the trash and realized his daddy must have thrown out his potty!

"No! Give it back!" Zee-Zee begged.

"Not in this lifetime." Zena snapped as she roughly picked up her son. "You obviously weren't ready and you never will be. You're just a baby trying to act older than you should when you're failing miserably. What's worse is you're too unclever to even realize it."

Zee-Zee flinched as though he'd been struck and began crying. He never imagined his mother would say anything like that. Zena carried Zee-Zee into his room and Zee-Zee gasped. Everything in his room that reminded him of what a big boy he was (or thought he was) was gone. they were replaced by the most babyish objects imaginable. A crib and changing table were prominent. Zee-Zee began kicking as he realized his mother was placing him on the changing table. Just then, a ray of hope appeared. Uncle Raikan walked in the door and glanced around confusedly.

"Uncle Rai! Help me!" Zee-Zee squealed with absolute terror in his voice.

Raikan merely stared for a bit and then nodded, before helping Zena hold down her struggling son. "I'll help you into this Zee-Zee since you'll be like this for the rest of your life."

"Nooo... umph!" Zee-Zee began screaming before a pacifier was locked into his mouth. He tried to thrash about but Uncle Rai was too strong. Zena soon had Zee-Zee into a diaper with positively infantile designs on the tapes. To throw salt on the wound, Lig walked into the room and began laughing at Zee-Zee.
"And to think I was about to ask a fellow big boy to come and play." Lig laughed as he showed Zee-Zee, not trainers, but the coveted big boy underwear he was wearing beneath his shorts. "But you're an even bigger baby than I was."

Nate walked in as well and just stared sadly at Zee-Zee. Zee-Zee looked at his friend pleadingly but Nate just turned and walked away, leaving Zee-Zee feeling absolutely abandoned. To make matters worse, he felt himself beginning to use the diaper he was now wearing and he screamed as he finally opened his eyes.

At the same moment, Zena and Zed woke to feel like the nightmares they also had been having were coming true. Their son was being hurt! They ripped off the covers and leapt out of bed as fast as they could (tripping over each other in the process) and found Zee-Zee flailing in his bed. Zena and Zed were hugging him in an instant until Zee-Zee finally realized he was awake. This presented a new problem as he felt like he was sitting in mud.

"I'm sorry." He wailed. "Please don't take my potty away!"

"Please calm down Zee-Zee." Zena said trying to keep the fading panic out of her voice. "You just had a nightmare is all."

"We'd never take your potty away unless you asked us to." Zed said rubbing his still sobbing son on the back, glad his nightmare hadn't been true. "It's going to be okay Zee-Zee. You just had a really bad nightmare. Everyone gets them sometimes. Mommy and Daddy just had one as well."

"You mean..." Zee-Zee said between sobs. "I'm not just an unclever baby acting too old for his age?"

"Never." Zena said soothingly, now only feeling afraid with Zee-Zee still looking at them both with fear in his eyes. "You're our clever big squirrel and always will be."

"That's right." Zed said.

"Then I'm not in trouble for this?" Zee-Zee asked gesturing to his horribly used trainer.

"We would never punish you for something like that." Zed said. "Never have, never will."

"And especially not during your sleep, especially one with a nightmare." Zena added as she picked her son up and held him close to her in as big a hug as she could. "How's about a bath to clean you up and relax and then you can sleep with us tonight to keep any more nightmares away?"

Zee-Zee nodded and focused on trying to stop crying. He was a big squirrel and needed to be brave to keep away his parents' nightmares. After the bath (which was badly needed after that doozy of a dream), Zee-Zee crawled into bed in between his parents and quickly fell asleep. The three slept peacefully for the rest of the night, but elsewhere, the friendly brother ligers, the Weathers, were not doing as well.

You acting evil is infectious, brother. You actually gave me more inspiration for Relibria III's Other One (not that he is evil, but I need a certain evil mood for writing scenes like the Duel, you see)

*hugs Mommy and Daddy tightly* Yeeek, that was scary! But also, great work, Riolu! Looking forward to the happy ending! ^.^

Wow that was great Riolu!!!! Really scary for ZeeZee and a bit creepy as Lig seemed to have completely flip flopped personality. Hehehe. ^^ Ooo this may give me an idea for a pic or something. hehe

Aways glad to inspire Lig. Don't worry Zee-Zee, we got one coming up for him too. I'm not sure just how mean it's going to be but let's just saw it will play on his Colrophobia.

BTW, major Pokemon fans probably are gonna know exactly what's causing nightmares this bad. If you've seen one of the latest movies (that's almost two years old now I think) you'd definitely know.

Ooooo. Is it gonna play on that fear of his as well as some other obvious ones? hehehe. Anyway I can't wait! ^^

Decided to change the ending of that last part just because I can't wait to start in on Lig and Warren. Since you couldn't wait Lig, here you go. Just remember, you asked for it! *cackles evilly before switching to plain giggling*

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Lig was thrashing about in his crib. An onlooker would come to one of two conclusions. He was either having a seizure, or one very bad nightmare. Judging by the mumblings in his sleep, it was definitely a nightmare.

It started as a realistic feeling good dream. Lig was wearing one of his favorite things in the world, a well used diaper. It was time to get a change though so he did what he always did, went to find Warren. For some reason as he walked down the hall to find him, Lig felt his heart racing. As he got to Warren's room, the place was darker than normal. even with his feline eyes he could barely make out Warren sitting in a chair in the corner.

"Hey Warren." Lig said happily. "I need a change."

"Awww." A voice sounding only vaugely like Warren said in a comical tone that rose the hairs on the back of Lig's neck. "Did the big boy have an accident?" Lig stared as there was a dreaded noise before the lamp turned on. It sounded just like... The light turned on and revealed his brother. He barely looked like himself anymore as he also looked like one of the scariest clowns Lig had ever seen! And worse, he had honked his nose.

Lig fell back in shock and landed in the mess that was his diaper which suddenly felt very nasty to Lig. "Let's just get you out of that diaper and into your big boy undies since you're awake now." clown Warren said. "It's so nice to have a big boy in the house now, even if you still have an accident at night every now and again. Soon you won't need diapers at all!"

"NOOOOOOO!" Lig screamed, both in the dream and out. A very loud crashing woke him up and when he looked around, his room was a complete mess. Warren charged in and from the look in his eyes, he'd just woken from a nightmare as well.

"Lig?" Warren asked in shock looking at the wreckage. "What happened in here?"

"Warren?" Lig asked fearfully looking up and then was imediately relieved to see his brother was not a clown at all. "I had a really bad dream and I woke up to this."

"Must have been some dream if it made you set your room to Tornado Alley." Warren said as he picked his way through overturned furniture and scattered toys and Pawpers posters. "Come're buddy."

Lig almost jumped out of the crib himself and clung to Warren tighter than any tree he'd accidentally climbed too high up on. Warren immediately noticed Lig had soiled himself very badly. He knew it must have been one heck of a dream by the state of Lig's diaper and the fact he'd unconciously thrown everything in his room around with his inner light.

"We'll go back to my room for a change and then keep each other company." Warren said as he picked his way back through the room. He heard Lig giggling and stopped once they got out of the room. "What's so funny?"

"Maybe you should wear diapers more often." Lig teased as he pressed his tail against Warren's diaper. "You're about as bad as me."

"Well I had one heck of a nightmare as well." Warren said. "I'd like to have a Liger plushy to keep me company. Speaking of which."

Bushy zoomed through the air surrounded by a small glow and was caught instantly by an eager Lig. He kept giggling as Warren walked to his room and brought out a changing mat. As he began changing Lig first, Lig looked up at him and asked, "What was your nightmare about?"

"I was helplessly watching as you were dragged away screaming by a bunch of clowns trying to turn you into one." Warren said shuddering. "It's one way for one of my worst fears to come true. Losing you and you being afraid without me being there to cuddle you and make everything okay again."

"I dreamt you were a clown and had made me into a big boy." Lig said.

"You are a big boy." Warren chuckled. "At least you're a big messer boy."

"I meant like Zee-Zee's trying to be." Lig said. "The potty wasn't mentioned but I knew that was coming."

"If I keep using my diapers like this," Warren said as he taped up Lig's fresh diaper. "I might be tempted to remove that thing completely. We could even drag it over to the city dump and let you launch it as far as you can into it."

Lig giggled at the though and hugged his bro. "We better keep it anyway. Some people who come here still need it and it would be mean to make a rule that everyone who comes here has ta wear diapers."

"We could do that for cubs maybe but I wouldn't force Zed or Zena to." Warren said. "Zee-Zee, maybe, but not them."

"Nah." Lig agreed as Warren started changing his own diaper. "We need to get Zee-Zee to like them, not force them on him."

"I bet he like them he just doesn't want to admit it." Warren said as he taped a new diaper up. "He's too set on being a big boy."

Lig giggled thinking about the evidence of Zee-Zee he got once and said, "You're probably right bro. I bet he'd start having second thoughts if somebody he admires and looks up to were to wear diapers by choice though."

"Alright. I get it." Warren laughed. "Let's just get into bed and stop that kind of talk for now."

Lig giggled and hopped in, cuddling Bushy close to him as Warren cuddled him close. Whatever was causing the nightmares couldn't penetrate the love that the two brothers emnated as they slept peacefully.

Meanwhile... at the Two residence.

It was Sirius and Raikan's turn to thrash about. Raikan's didn't seem to be as bad as his cub's nightmare. Shall we take a peek? Raikan was being tormented by a recent event of getting Ninetales drunk (not his fault, she just found out she had a low tollerance to the sauce) and was trying to get away. Each time it seemed he'd evaded her, Ninetales appeared in front of him and had that same drunk look on her.

"Shtop shtruggling." She slurred as she giggled. "It won't be sho bad having a thoushand year curshe on yoush. You'llllll be a baby forsh a good long time. Hehehe... hic! And jusht think! You're little boy can take care of you!"

Raikan tried running even faster but Ninetales always seemed to be right there. He tried using some of the powers he rarely found a use for now but found he couldn't do a single thing except keep running. Ninetales eventually got close enough to form a ring around him with her tails and he stopped and turned to her.

"Please Ninetales!" Raikan asked fearfully. "I know I like cubbing out sometimes but this is too much!"

"Nonshensh!" Ninetales slurred soothingly. "You'll be mush happier like thish."

Just before the tails constricted around him he was awoken by a scream that tore at his very heart. Something was causing one of the people he cared about the most extreme pain. Raikan was in Sirius's room in two seconds flat and imediately had the sobbing wolfhound in his arms. He was still thrashing and Raikan realized he was still asleep in his nightmare. "Sirius! Wake up! It's just a dream!" Sirius didn't seem to hear him so Raikan tried a different approach. He reached into Sirrius's mind with his telekinesis and flinched when he saw what was paining the boy. "Sirius! This is only a nightmare! Wake up son! I'd never do this to you!" With a gasp Sirius woke up and found himself in his daddy's arms. He almost knocked Raikan over when he rushed into the embrace and latched onto him for dear life.

"Sirius?" Raikan asked, raising his pup's face to look at him. "You know I'd never do that right? I love you too much."

"I love you too daddy." Sirius sobbed as he continued to hug Raikan. "I hope I never dream that again. You sending me away, especially with words like that on how you're ashamed of a pup like me, has got to be my worst nightmare."

"I know son." Raikan said, rubbing the wolfhound's back soothingly. "I would never be ashamed of you for something as trivial as needing diapers and trainers. If you were to skip school or start drugs then we'd have a serious talk but even then I'd never stop loving you."

"Thank you daddy." Sirius said still hugging him close. "That must have been some nightmare you had too."

"Huh?" Raikan asked. It was then he realized that he'd made a mess of himself but had been too worried about Sirius to realize it. He checked his own pup and felt he too had done a number on his overnight diaper. "Guess we should both change before we try to get some sleep again."

Sirius giggled a bit and Raikan got busy. Just as they both were in a fresh diaper, Raikan heard someone knocking on his door. "I wonder who that could be?" Raikan donned a bath robe and went downstairs. Sirius followed with his pajamas on once more and Raikan opened the door to find a crowd of pokemon outside his door. He pointedly avoided looking at Ninetales and instead focused on the one at the head, the oddly tall (yet still shorter than him) Lucario he had become friends with.

"Sorry to come calling at this hour Raikan but we'd like your help." Lucario growled. Raikan fortunately could tell he was not the target of Lucario's agression and wondered what got the normally serious (and sometimes cheerful) pokemon so angry.

"Could you come in and tell me what's going on?" Raikan asked, moving aside for the herd of pokemon.

"Sure." Lucario said and he walked in. Absol and Ninetales followed along with the Arcanine Raikan remembered from the party. Anthony (looking more serious than Raikan had ever seen him came in with a Pikachu closely followed by a Buneary that hopped over the group and onto Lucario's shoulder. A Kangaskhan followed with a pouch occupied by a pink Riolu and a blue one that looked recently hatched. When they were all seated, Lucario turned to Raikan and took a deep breath.

Lotsa creepy dreams! It's getting very exciting! ^.^

Thanks Zee-Zee! Just one more to delve into before the hunt for the cause is on! I'd hate to be the cause of the nightmares if Ninetales get's ahold of it.

Riolu: *walks in* Hi guys! I finally got a permant character in the story besides having to wait for Nate to transform into a Riolu! I'm the little cutie in Kana's pouch next to Hinata. I hatched in a previous event that the writter will be working on next but don't underestimate me! I may not be older than a week but I can already hold my own against Hinata! *walks back out*

Eeeek! Scary as heck for Lig! A mix of his two worst nightmares. Clowns and loosing his diapers. Nice job Riolu! And Raikan's and Sirius' one was pretty gosh darn cool. ^^