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'''Rescue Team Story''' refers to a story in the ''{{Pkmn|Pokémon Mystery Dungeon}}'' series. It made its debut in 2005 with {{RescueTeamTitle}}, and has since received a variety of complete or partial repropositions and reinterpretations.

==History==
{{quote|Become the hero the Pokémon world needs you to be!<br>One sunny afternoon, you awaken as a {{Pkmn|Pokémon}} in the middle of the woods with no idea as to how you got there. After giving your name and explaining your predicament to the Pokémon who found you, you are both thrust into a rescue to save a young {{Pkmn|Caterpie (character)|Caterpie}} from {{Pkmn|Tiny Woods}}. Once, you have completed this first challenge, you and your new partner decide to form a {{Pkmn|Rescue Team}}, a band of Pokémon dedicated to help those in need. Thus begins your journey towards fulfilling your destiny, saving the Pokémon world from total destruction.|Red and Blue Rescue Team game's synopsis.}}<!--

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 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, Octillery, and Golem, 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. It is less than cooperative, but after a battle, Rayquaza agrees to use its Hyper Beam to destroy the meteor. 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 returns to the rescue team base in Pokémon form and surprises everybody.

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.-->

==Continuity==
* {{Pkmn|Spinda's Travel Diary}}{{UT}} is a prequel.
* {{Pkmn|Team Meanies is Formed!}}{{UT}} is a prequel.
* {{Pkmn|The Home of Fate}}{{UT}} is a direct prequel, showing what happens immediately before the beginning of the story.
* {{Pkmn|Secret of the Makuhita Dojo}} is a side story and a prequel.
* {{Pkmn|Natural Disasters and Mystery Dungeons}}{{UT}} is a side story.
* {{Pkmn|Playing Rescue Team}}{{UT}} is a side story.
* {{Pkmn|We can do it!}} is a side story.
* {{Pkmn|The Mankey Gang's Motivation}}{{UT}} is a side story.
* The events of the story are referenced in {{ConsoleLogo|3DS|small}} Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon by {{PkmnC|Ninetales}}.

==Appearances==
===Animations===
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* ''{{Pkmn|Team Go-Getters Out of the Gate}}'' is an anime adaptation of the beginning of the story.
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{{Pokémon Animations Table
  | Team Go-Getters          = ✓
  | Time and Darkness        = ✗
  | Beyond Time and Darkness = ✗
  | Gates to Infinity 1      = ✗
  | Gates to Infinity 2      = ✗
  | Gates to Infinity 3      = ✗
  | Special Video 1          = ✗
  | Special Video 2          = ✗
  | Special Video 3          = ✗
  | Special Video 4          = ✗
  | Special Video 5          = ✗
  | Special Video 6          = ✗
  | Special Video 7          = ✗
  | Special Video 8          = ✗
  | Special Video 9          = ✗
  | Special Video 10         = ✗
  | Special Video 11         = ✗
  | Special Video 12         = ✗
  | Special Video 13         = ✗
}}

===Games===
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* {{RescueTeamTitle}}.
** {{RescueTeamDXTitle}}.
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{{Pokémon Games Color Table
  | Red Rescue Team           = ✓
  | Red Rescue Team C         = {{Green}}
  | Blue Rescue Team          = ✓
  | Blue Rescue Team C        = {{Green}}
  | Rescue Team DX            = ✓
  | Rescue Team DX C          = {{Green}}
  | Explorers of Time         = ✗
  | Explorers of Time C       = {{Red}}
  | Explorers of Darkness     = ✗
  | Explorers of Darkness C   = {{Red}}
  | Explorers of Sky          = ✗
  | Explorers of Sky C        = {{Red}}
  | Blazing Adventure Squad   = ✗
  | Blazing Adventure Squad C = {{Red}}
  | Light Adventure Squad     = ✗
  | Light Adventure Squad C   = {{Red}}
  | Stormy Adventure Squad    = ✗
  | Stormy Adventure Squad C  = {{Red}}
  | Gates to Infinity         = ✗
  | Gates to Infinity C       = {{Red}}
  | Super MD                  = ✗
  | Super MD C                = {{Red}}
}}

===Manga===
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* ''{{Meta|Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Ginji's Rescue Team}}'' is a manga adaptation of the story.
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==See Also==
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[[Category:Rescue Team Lore]]