A peaceful hill above a forested valley with a river running through it to the south west.
Kaylee stood on a ridge overlooking a forested valley picking berries when something caught her eye and she turned just in time to see something crash into the forest below. She dropped her basket and started to run at an almost reckless pace down the path to the valley letting out her Butterfree to fly ahead. "Find it if you can Dustin." By the time she reaches the forest Dustin was back and leading the way. When she saw him at the center of the crash sight her heart nearly stopped as memories flooded her. That shape it was Mewtwo! The color didn't register until she fell to her knees at his side this was not the dove grey and plum colored Mewtwo of her childhood, but a charcoal and black version with yellow-orange highlights on his tail and a spiky crystal thing on one shoulder. When he opened daze eyes of a pail lavender all the changes didn't matter his was the same being who had grumbled about childish hugs and endured tea parties with bad grace.
He clutches his head and gowned.
She helps him setup yanking a vial of powdered berry concentrate from her bandolier and her canteen from her belt she soon had a generalized potion ready an presses the canteen into his paws. "What happened why did you crash? How badly are you hurt?"
"My head and leg hurt, I don't know why I crashed." He watched bemused as she shrugs out of a lightweight pack and takes out a first aid kit.
"Tell me what you do remember we should get you mobile as soon as possible." She cleans a rather nasty gash on his right leg and sprinkles it with some of the powdered berries before pulling the vial away and bandaging his leg. Seeing an odd looking stone she picks it up with a scrap of bandage and tucks it into her pocket to investigate later.
"Why didn't you use your pokédex on me?" He struggles to stand suspicion creeping in.
She helps him stand, "I knew a pokémon with your eyes when I was little if you are him or like him you are not in the dex and that is for your safety as well as the safety of any trainer who might be tracked down an questioned about you."
"With my eyes huh you think you know me?" He leans on her and lets her help him away from the crash sight.
She looks up at him, "You have his eyes and shape tho the spiky crystal thing and colors are different but he locked my memories of him with his presence as the key so I am betting you are the same being and something happened to you." She looks away. "I know anything that could make you crash is dangerous that much is for sure." They didn't get half a mile when she stills and looks around. "I have a bad feeling."
The next thing he knew she was helping him settle with his back against a tree. "I think I was called Shadow Mewtwo."
"Rest and stay still for me okay let me take care of whatever is coming." She hands him her only max potion. "If anything happens to me use this and run." Kaylee stands and turns to face to approaching power that made the very air trimble placing herself squarely between it and Shadow Mewtwo. She looks up into the eyes of Arceus herself and stands firm.
"Move mortal. The creature of chaos must die!"
Kaylee shakes her head, "By your own teachings I will not he is lost and injured. I will not give him over to harm not even to you my goddess."
" Do you not realize he will kill everything! "
"My goddess I cannot control what he may do only what I will do." Kaylee looks up at Arceus unflinching in her choice. At her quite words and calm determination the stone in her pocket radiates dark light healing Shadow Mewtwo.
Arceus looks down on the child who dared to defy her five feet two inches with golden eyes and more courage and honor than most adults. " Then perish with him foolish mortal. " This time Arceus's voice held a hint of pity if not mercy. As she lunched Judgment.
A swirling wall of darkness rose before Kaylee as Shadow Mewtwo stepped past her. " Do not harm the girl!"
Kaylee smiles slightly. "Arceus creator of life and light a being without your spark cannot protect. Can you not consider Redemption?" She places a gentle hand on Shadow Mewtwo's back.
Shadow Mewtwo looks away. "I may not be evil but whosoever controls the Shadownium stone controls me for it is my prison, sanctuary, and controller. If I must die here So Be It!"
Kaylee takes the glowing Stone from her pocket and looks at it. "If the stone is his controller let it be his redemption let him prove who he is without it." She offers the darkly glowing Stone up to Arceus.
Arceus looks down at her eyes softening. "I cannot take that but you are right I cannot judge him for the choices of others. I acted in hast can you forgive me?"
"You acted to protect there is nothing to forgive. I believe there is great danger in leaving him bound to the stone for if it falls into the hands of one willing to abuse it." She again hold it out. "Can you free him?"
Arceus nods. "I must." As the goddess turns her will on the stone it dissolves and reforms no longer dark but glowing as golden as Kaylee's eyes.
Shadow Mewtwo looks up at Arceus as the yoke of his slavery is lifted. "Not to sound ungrateful but how can I be trusted you yourself have said I am a monster born of chaos should I not be destroyed for that alone?"
Kaylee hugs him tightly and presses the glowing golden stone into his paws. "It is not the circumstances of one's birth that matter it is what one does with the gift of life." She looks up at Arceus. "Thank you Arceus."
Shadow Mewtwo bows "Kaylee please face me in battle and let me travel with you."
Arceus watches, "Be careful you two and Kaylee Shadow Mewtwo will need you more than ever if you win. The new stone is Shadowinite with it and a strong bond he will be able to mega evolve."
Kaylee Smiles at him and calls out her Persian. "I need your strength Pearl of my heart."
Shadow Mewtwo looked up at Arceus. "Thank you for a second chance at life." He nods to Kaylee. "Let's begin."
Pearl uses swift and an jumped to the side with a deft twist his shadow ball just brushing her fur.
Shadow Mewtwo was surprised by how limber Pearl was and almost didn't manage to block swift with psychic this might just be more of a battle than he had expected.
Pearl used the smoke from the blocked swift to conceal her leep up an to the side to use power gem before landing and running though the thinning smoke and to the side getting him to unknowingly turn his back to the real attack.
When the clever Persian got a solid hit on him, he fired of a psystrike without pulling his punches before he could think.
Pearl countered with the most powerful shadow ball she had ever used sapping most of the power out of his psystrike but the resulting explosion nearly knocked her off her feet. She was outclassed and knew it so did the only thing she could, she used yawn then dived to the side to avoid any attacks.
Shadow Mewtwo was genuinely caught off guard by yawn and gave into it with relief.
Kaylee throws a luxball and Shadow Mewtwo is drawn into it after shaking twice it clicked. "Pearl you are amazing!" She hugs Pearl and gives her a berry concentrate before returning her and picking up the luxball. Kaylee gives it a kiss. "Come on out Redemption."
