Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team

This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed . Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. ( January 2026 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this message ) The player wakes up one day finding that they have been transformed into a Pokémon, without any memory of their past. In a world devastated by many natural disasters — that have only begun to happen quite recently — the player and a newly made friend join forces and form a rescue team.

The team meets other rescue teams, including a top-ranked rescue team consisting of Alakazam , Charizard , and Tyranitar , named Team ACT. The team makes enemies unwittingly with another rescue team, Team Meanies, consisting of Gengar , Ekans , and Medicham , who seek world domination under the disguise of a rescue team. Not far into the storyline, the player is told of a legend about a Ninetales laying a 1000-year curse on a human who had deliberately grabbed Ninetales' tail. ) Ninetales predicted that the human would eventually be reborn as a Pokémon, and that the natural balance of the world would be upset.

In the quest to discover the player's lost memory and purpose as a Pokémon, the team journeys to where the fortune-teller Xatu resides. Xatu is quick to realize that the player was once a human and tells that the player's human-to-Pokémon transformation is tied together with the natural disasters. This conversation is eavesdropped upon by Team Meanies' Gengar, who ‘reveals’ the player's secret to the townsfolk and says that eliminating the human-turned-Pokémon in the legend would return the world to normal. They are confronted by Alakazam, who says the Pokémon held a town meeting on what they must do to save the world: they must find and kill the player and anyone who sides with them.

As they give the team one night to get away, the two leave Pokémon Square as fugitives and make their way to the northeasternmost part of the world in an effort to elude the teams that are now hunting them down. Along the way, they encounter the legendary birds Moltres and Articuno , who feel the effects of the disasters in their respective areas. They befriend an Absol who seeks to find the true cause of the natural disasters. The trio reaches the top of Mt.

Freeze only to be cornered by Team ACT. They get ready to finish the player and partner off, but are stopped by Ninetales, who reveals that the player is not the human in the legend, that both parts of the legend are coincidental occurrences, and that the world is in greater danger caused by the awakening of Groudon . Team ACT proceeds to try and stop Groudon, while the team heads home to clear all remaining suspicion at Pokémon Square. After a few days, the player and the partner worry, as Team ACT has not come back from their mission to quell Groudon.

Asking to rescue the missing Team ACT, Lombre refuses to let them go, saying there are plenty of tougher Pokémon than them. Shiftry convinces three of the strongest Pokémon; Blastoise of Team Hydro, Octillery of Team Constrictor, and Golem of Team Rumblerock, to form a special rescue team and rescue Team ACT. After a few days, the special team returns defeated. After being discouraged by Gengar, the player and partner are able to get everyone's spirits back up, and volunteer to rescue Team ACT themselves.

When the team reaches Magma Cavern, they find Charizard and Tyranitar defeated, with Alakazam fighting against Groudon alone before quickly being defeated. The team takes matters into their own hands and defeat Groudon. They return to town as heroes, but their celebration is short-lived as grave news arrives from Xatu. A huge meteor, revealed to be the true cause of the natural disasters, is heading for the world, threatening to destroy it.

The only way to stop it is to ask for help from the sky guardian Rayquaza . The player has one more dream before this journey, with Gengar using Dream Eater to enter the dream, though a light scares him off shortly after, but is still able to see the dream. The aforementioned Gardevoir states that she still likes the human from the legend that abandoned her, even if he was selfish, which makes Gengar run away crying. She then tells the player about their purpose in this world, which is to save it from the meteor, and how they agreed to this, alongside losing memory as human to fully go into that role.

The next day, Xatu, Alakazam, and Gengar (who left beforehand) create a Teleport Gem, letting the player’s team go to Sky Tower, Rayquaza’s resting place. It is less than cooperative, but after a battle, Rayquaza agrees to use its Hyper Beam to destroy the meteor. It is assumed both the player and their partner are killed from the blast, leaving them adrift, though the Gengar of Team Meanies makes a return, bringing their spirits back, under the ruse of ‘sending them to the dark world’ and ditching them. The team reawakens on the ground, surrounded by their supporters, where they find that the world is safe once again.

However, the player must return to being a human and leave the Pokémon world behind. After the credits roll, the player wishes and wishes on how they want to return. Shortly after they do reappear at the rescue team base in Pokémon form, to much shock from everybody else. As time passes, many more secrets are revealed.

A shard of the destroyed meteor opens a secret cave under Whiscash Pond, enabling evolution. It is later revealed that another shard hit Latias ' wing, and the team rescues her at Pitfall Valley. It is eventually discovered that Gengar was the human from the legend; after uncomfortably getting the player's assistance, he manages to remove the part of the curse that affected his old partner Gardevoir .