Chapter 1: Tahnti Park

Chapter 1: Tahnti Park is the first chapter of Detective Pikachu.

## Plot

Tim Goodman arrives at Tahnti Station prior to his appointment at the Baker Detective Agency. He looks at a map of Ryme City before an Aipom steals it from him. He also notices a second Aipom stealing a little girl's necklace. The little girl, a young woman and Tim attempt to retrieve the necklace but the first Aipom pounces on Tim, making him unable to see the second Aipom. Detective Pikachu manages to communicate with Tim, but during the conversation the two Aipom escape. The Aipom later raid a hotdog stand with one of the Aipom getting ketchup on their tail. The other one gets white paint on their tail. The Aipom then go separate ways, with one continuing down the street towards the bank and the other going to Tahnti Park.

Tim and Pikachu gather testimony that the Aipom with paint on their tail went towards the bank and the Aipom with ketchup on their tail went towards the park. Thanks to a Diggersby, they work out that the Aipom with ketchup on their tail has the necklace. Therefore Tim and Pikachu head off to Tahnti Park to find the Aipom with ketchup on their tail.

When they get there, they discover that the Aipom with ketchup on their tail is unconscious with a red spicy berry in their tail and no sign of the necklace. They find a black feather underneath the Aipom, which came from the Aipom's attacker. They walk around the park and find four potential suspects: Pidove, Taillow, Starly and Murkrow. When they tried to get a feather from a Pidove, they accidentally scared them off and are forced to get some food from the café for them to come back. The Taillow refused to allow them to touch its feathers so they are forced to locate one that fell on a table. Getting a feather from Starly was much easier, as one of them willingly gave them a feather. They find a third Aipom in the park, but a Poochyena is scaring it so they cannot talk to it with the Poochyena there. Tim and Pikachu talk to Mightyena and realise that one of the Poochyena is missing and try to locate it. They eventually find the second Poochyena and after it reunites with Mightyena, the Mightyena puts the two Poochyena to bed, allowing Tim and Pikachu to talk to the third Aipom. The third Aipom reveals the location of Murkrow's nest and recognises the black feather as Murkrow's. To prove Aipom's claim, Pikachu climbs the tree with Murkrow's nest and finds a feather, but the Murkrow comes back and attacks Pikachu, knocking him out of the tree but Tim catches him.

The black feather underneath the Aipom matches the one Pikachu found in Murkrow's nest. So they interrogate the Murkrow and discover that the Murkrow lost the necklace during the fight with Aipom and that Burmy had a nest in the tree that the fight occurred in. Tim and Pikachu shake the tree and two Burmy fall out of it. The Burmy tell Tim and Pikachu that a third Burmy got caught up in the fight, ran away and hasn't come back. A woman that is cleaning up the park tells Tim and Pikachu that the trash can near the tree that the Burmy lives in fell over but the contents disappeared. Tim and Pikachu keep shaking the trees until the find the missing Aipom along with three Wormadam, which will not let Tim and Pikachu talk to it until they prove that it was involved in the fight at the tree where Aipom was found. An old man tells Tim and Pikachu that Burmy incorporates things around it into its cloak when it makes one. A boy playing football with a Scraggy tells Tim and Pikachu that once the football hit a Burmy and its cloak broke. A suspicious looking man tells Tim and Pikachu that he lost his pen *before* the ball hit the Burmy. Pikachu finds a way to break both the Burmys' cloaks and a pen and a football came out of the cloaks. They then deduce that since some leaves were found near the Aipom, the Burmy's cloak broke during the fight and it rebuilt its cloak using trash from the knocked over trashcan. Tim and Pikachu convince the Burmy to let Pikachu search its cloak. During the search, Pikachu finds the necklace. Tim delivers it to the little girl.

Pikachu then escorts Tim to his appointment at the Baker Detective Agency. After the appointment, Tim and Pikachu head to Tim's father's apartment (however they don't visit the apartment until the start of the following chapter).

## Case Notes

* Figure out where Aipom went! - It ran away to the park!
* Find the necklace! - It came out of Burmy's Trash Cloak!
	+ Who is the owner of the black feather? - It was Murkrow!
	+ Why did it become Trash Cloak form? - It broke once and was remade with trash!

## Pokémon

* Detective Pikachu
* Furfrou
* Diggersby
* Aipom x3
* Pidove x3
* Taillow
* Starly x3
* Poochyena x2
* Mightyena
* Burmy x3
* Wormadam x3
* Scraggy
* Tepig
* Slurpuff
* Fletchling