Wat Watamel Berries?

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"150 poke...that's not much, but if a lot of missions like these are done then it would stack up."
The archen looked at the pamphlet for the mission as he walked into the forest. He looked up at the trees ahead, "Well, at least we only have to find two unlike last time I was here when I had to find 10 pecha berries."
The archen sighed, "Also at least the pokemon here are fairly weak...we might even be able to one shot most of them if we use super effective typing against them. What do you think?" he asked his ghost type friend that should have accompanied him for the job.

William was surprised. Not only had the Rattata fallen out of the tree upon seing him, now it attempted to use a Normal type attack against the Gastly. Too shocked by this unexpected behaviour, William floated in place as the Rattata jumped through his gaseous spectral body.
Unable to stop as it realized its mistake, the Normal type let out a panicked squeak before hitting a branch headfirst and landing on another branch. It didn't seem to be too happy.

Acro watched the rattata suddenly realize its mistake and turned around with another glare as it leaped forward to attempt to use Hyper Fang on Acro. The rock and flying type leaped back onto a different branch and was surrounded in a purple aura and Rocks flew up from the ground and came up as a sort of shield to protect the Archen as the Rattata tried once more. The rattata smashed into the shield and dropped like a rock, Acro lost focus of his attack and the rocks dropped on top of the rattata, half burying it.
"This is weird..." he spoke.

"Yeah...I agree...the Pokémon in this area are weak, but they've never been this stupid before...Maybe this one simply hit its head once too often. Anyways, I'm assuming, that there are no Watamel Berries around here, so shall we continue?"
William was happy. This battle had been much easier than those in the Obsidian Crevice. Although he usually would have preferred a challenge, this simpler mission was quite welcome to him as he could calm down once again and forget the stress they had to face in the canyon...

Acro nodded, no need to waste time. He hopped over into the next branch, this one seemed a bit weaker though and was dragged down with a dangerous creaking sound. Acro yelped and moved to the next branch as it fell off. He must have been on a rather old tree, or a sick one or something! He decided to move onto the next tree and landed clumsily on another branch, causing it to shake rapidly and have something fall from the tree branches.
"What was that?" Acro said as he looked down, trying to see the item from the branch he stood on.

This dice is not existing.

"I think that was a sign to tell you, that it might be a better idea to stay on the ground in this region. The trees don't seem to be too stable here."
It was an interesting fact to learn about the forest actually. William had been here so often and yet, he had never realized, that the branches in this area seemed to be exceptionally weak. What was the cause?
An infection? Worms? Bugs? There were many causes, that might cause a tree to become weaker, but before William could find out, he had a mission to take care of.

Acro was a bit disappointed to get down from the trees, but hopped down anyways to find more sticks on the ground. The rattata must have had a stash of them around here, but it wasn't worth it to search for it. For all he knew this was the rest of the stash!
The archen traveled along the forest floor, keeping an eye out for the familiar berry that had almost no effect. Why did the feebas think these berries would make it prettier anyways? Would it just make the pokemon look ridiculous? Was he really doing the pokemon a favor by getting them this make up?
Acro pushed the questions out of his mind, best not to blab them out loud and end up annoying his companion.

William would probably never understand, why the Watamel Berry hadn't gone extinct yet.
It was rather frail and it didn't have any useful effects, so cultivating it wouldn't make any sense either.
So according to various scientific theories, this berry wouldn't exist anymore at all.
Maybe there was some special quality to it noone had discovered yet.
Those and many other questions went through William's head as he continued to search the forest.

Acro couldn't decide whether he liked the floor or the trees better. His nature said trees, but the ground was soft. He wished his home forest was like this.
Thoughts of his home forest made his feel a bit depressed, he didn't even remember where it was. He only remembered how it felt in the nest and how it felt to fall to the ground and be offered no help to get back up since he wasn't strong enough to go back up the tree.
He was snapped out of his thoughts when he saw a shape moving up behind William.

This dice is not existing.

William however was too absorbed in a mixture of searching and his own thoughts to see the shape.
While the Gastly kept searching, philosophising and theorizing, the unknown being crept up closer and closer to him.
For any onlooker, it was quite obvious, that it was planning on attacking the ghostly explorer, who had often wandered through these trees, but it had almost never been more than just simple passing by. Now he was actively searching, and apparently the shape thought of that action as a violation of its habitat.

It was yet another Rattata, except this one seemed a bit smarter. Its fangs were covered in a dark aura, as it leaped up to use a bite attack on the ghostly pokemon. A rock smashed into its side that was coated in a purple aura that was Acro's Ancient Power.
"Rattata Alert"
Acro spoke as the pokemon glared at Acro and made a move to bite the Archen. Acro had already set up a double team and the Archen appeared to be in various places at once. On top of a rock, in a tree, in front of William, by a bush, and even about to hit the rattata in the face with an iron tail. The rattata avoided the illusion's attack though, where was the real Acro?

"Another one?!", William surprisedly exclaimed.
"I'm starting to think, that these things are actually growing on trees here. This one seems to be smarter, but still...attacking a ghost and a prehistoric bird? Not that good of a move if you ask me..."
Having only recently learned that move, William concentrated together his knowledge of the fourth dimension, the Ghost World and a variety of other things to form a small sphere, that was seemingly glowing in a colour, that was a mixture of yellow and blue, yet it wasn't green. It emitted a bizarre melody as it moved towards the Rattata.
William had just made use of his newest move - Confuse Ray.

The rattata was struck with the confusing shadowy ball. It looked around, as if frightened, and began to lash out wildly with its bite attack and began running around in circles and figure eights. Acro stared at the rattata, then looked at William.
"Nice move."
He commented before rushing in with an Iron Tail. He struck the pokemon in its body, and toppled it over. The rattata managed to Bite Acro's tail though as he struck it. Acro cried out in pain and stepped away from the pokemon, unable to move anymore. He was flinching because of the pain of the pokemon's sharp long teeth.

"Thank you very much. I've learned it recently. Still, I wonder whether it would be possible to achieve complete mental control instead of just simple confusion. With Hypnosis it would be similar. I should get to study on this topic once we're done here."
Total mental control would certainly be an useful ability to have on missions. But was it possible? To instill feelings like sleepyness and confusion was one thing. To control an entire Pokémon was another. But there was no other way to find out, than to study and try, was there?
With that in mind, William tried to charge into the confused Rattata.

The rattata was struck by the normal attack from the apparition. The rattata squealed in both fear and rage, but since it was still confused it had no clue on what was attacking it. So it assumed that it was the Archen that was attacking it and attempted to use tackle attack. It went right through the ghastly's body and ended up planting its face harshly into the ground. It stood like that for a few brief seconds, standing on its face, before falling onto its back and allowing its limbs to grow limp.
Acro had finally recovered from flinching when the rattata fell, "Is it really KO'd?" He asked in suspicion. He wondered if they could question it on where a Watamel berry was if it was still awake. Would the rattata answer?

"I don't know, whether it's K.O.ed or not, but I don't assume it's in a state to be even remotely capable of fighting anymore. Shall we continue once more?", William inquired.
He was slightly confused, why exactly the Archen was asking that question, since whether or not it was knocked out wouldn't have made a difference on whether it was capable of fighting but he decided not to ask. Finding the remaining berry was their top priority for now, so that's what they were going to do.