14 Works by IFBench
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In Tandem DX by IFBench
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series), Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, Pokemon Legends: Z-A (Video Game)
10 Dec 2025
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Even in the world of mystery dungeons, life isn't always sunshine and rainbows. Not even in Post Town, where the Rainbows of Hope reside.
A Tropius, longing to meet the species that have saved her world time and time again, makes a wish to go to the world of humans, and live alongside them.
The wish is granted, and the Tropius finds herself in Lumiose City, where Pokemon and humans purportedly live together, but in reality, are cordoned off from each other.
Finding both friends and foes in the city of change, Tropius finds that the fate of Lumiose rests upon her wings.
Can a Pokemon bring harmony to both humans and Pokemon?
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Twisted Karma by IFBench
Fandoms: Undertale (Video Game), 逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney
08 Dec 2025
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It had been two weeks since the legal world had been turned upside-down from a certain attorney's disbarment.
Franziska von Karma has had enough of it all, and takes a vacation from her job to investigate a mystery of disappearing children.
Legends say that those who climb Mount Ebott never return.
But a von Karma is perfect. A von Karma won't be bested by a simple mountain.
Right?
(In which Franziska von Karma falls into the Underground.)
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Even If You Forget Me by IFBench
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity, Pocket Monsters: Diamond & Pearl & Platinum | Pokemon Diamond Pearl Platinum Versions
17 Jul 2024
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We all know about the four human heroes who saved the PMD world. But what about those who failed?
This is a story about some of the humans the PMD world forget.
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- Part 2 of PMD: Humans and Pokemon
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Mystery Dungeons of the Human World by IFBench
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series), Pokemon Mystery Dungeon
13 Apr 2024
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Recently, the strange phenomenon known as "Mystery Dungeons" have begun to appear in the human world. Strange four-dimensional structures that can appear seemingly anywhere. Having trouble wrapping your head around them? Professor Cedar and Professor Thievul, researchers of mystery dungeons, are here to help!
Another guide-style fic, like my fic A Comprehensive Guide to Items. This one is about mystery dungeons.
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- Part 8 of PMD: Humans and Pokemon
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Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Eternal Shadows by IFBench
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team & Blue Rescue Team, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time & Explorers of Darkness & Explorers of Sky, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity, Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon
10 Feb 2024
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A human named Gen wakes up as an Oshawott, retaining all his memories. After meeting a Chikorita and a Charmander, he makes a hasty decision, and lies that he is an amnesiac and not a human. As he journeys with the two, he ensnares himself in his own web of lies as he tries to find a way back home. All the while, Pokemon go missing, turning up in strange places, surrounded by shadowy auras.
A PMD story taking place in the canon PMD world, after Super Mystery Dungeon. Incorporates elements from all five PMD games.
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- Part 6 of PMD: Humans and Pokemon
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Final Ascent by IFBench
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team & Blue Rescue Team, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time & Explorers of Darkness & Explorers of Sky, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity, Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon
08 Nov 2023
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At the end of four journeys, conversations are had during the final ascent.
A story in four parts, with each part based around the final dungeon of one of the PMD games.
Major spoilers for all four main PMD games.
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- Part 3 of PMD: Humans and Pokemon
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A Comprehensive Guide to Items in the World of Pokemon by IFBench
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon
27 Sep 2023
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Can't tell the diffence between an oran and an oren? Have a bunch of emera dust sitting in your bag that you don't know what to do with? Want to start making your own items? Read this, and have all your item-related questions be answered!
A guide to Pokemon items, what they do, and how to make them.
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- Part 4 of PMD: Humans and Pokemon
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Bench's Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Drabble Collection by IFBench
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time & Explorers of Darkness & Explorers of Sky, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon
29 May 2023
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A collection of Pokemon Mystery Dungeon drabbles I've made. Of varying canonicity to my main PMD fanfic, Eternal Shadows.
Originally "A Cold, Bitter Future".
Contains spoilers for all PMD games.
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Then, Then, and Now by IFBench
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Video Game), Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team & Blue Rescue Team, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX
01 May 2023
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"Who are you?" the man in the purple hat asked you.
"I'm Lidequir."
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"Who are you?" the Chikorita asked you.
"I'm Lidequir."
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You lost your memory. You lost your memory. You lost your home. You lost your home.
Yet, you're still you, despite everything.
Or: What if the Rescue Team protagonist and Legends Arceus protagonist were the same person?
A series of parallel short stories about those two protagonists, and the similarities of their journeys.
Contains major spoilers for both Legends Arceus and PMD Rescue Team.
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- Part 1 of PMD: Humans and Pokemon
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Day of Heroes by IFBench
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team & Blue Rescue Team, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time & Explorers of Darkness & Explorers of Sky, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity, Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon
12 Apr 2023
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The protagonists and partners of the PMD games celebrate together holiday dedicated to them, together.
Oneshot. Contains major spoilers for all four main PMD games.
A tribute to my love for the PMD series.
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- Part 5 of PMD: Humans and Pokemon
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In Tandem by IFBench
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon
17 Sep 2022
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Coleane the Tropius isn't very happy with her life in the PMD world. She's not allowed to use her name, and her mama is...not the best.
So when she's given the opportunity to go to the world of humans, she's overjoyed! She'll become the greatest trainer there ever was! But she wanted to keep her wings...so she'll stay a Tropius.
A story of a Tropius who becomes a trainer, and the friends she makes on the Internet. A story about humans, and those who wish to be human. A spinoff to my main Pokemon story, Eternal Shadows.
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- Part 7 of PMD: Humans and Pokemon
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I Think I Bricked My PMD Darkness Cartridge by IFBench
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time & Explorers of Darkness & Explorers of Sky, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity
14 Apr 2022
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There is an alternate route just before Dark Hill.
My attempt at writing a creepypasta.
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Bench's Ace Attorney Drabble Collection by IFBench
Fandoms: 逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney
24 Jan 2022
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A collection of 100 word Ace Attorney drabbles, delving into various events across the franchise.
Will contain spoilers for various games across the franchise, so be warned.
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A Way to Reunite by IFBench
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity
01 Jun 2021
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After saving the world, a human and their partner long to see each other again, even if the laws of reality prohibit it. Oneshot.
An alternate epilogue to Gates to Infinity.
Contains spoilers for Gates to Infinity.