Stardust. It began in stardust. And then, everything returned to darkness. And with this darkness, came the first taste of light. Beyond the light, however, was so much more. Solitude at first, accompanied by the cold kiss of silence. Till something...changed. A word. It started with a word.
"Hello!" A soft, high pitched voice echoed. Where was it? It sounded like it was...every where. "Hello? Can you speak?"
With this second breach of the silence, I felt obligated to respond. But how? I had never had anyone or...anything...to interact with. So I figured I would try everything I could.
"Hnn...ah!" I coughed and sputtered, and then a word slid out. "Hi." Yes. That will do. "Hi!" I repeated, proud of myself for forming language, primitive as it was. "Who...who are you?" With this, there came something… painful. Bright. Whats the word… blinding. A blinding light made itself known, and a figure emerged from it. Followed by three more.
"I'm AmberTwo! Or, just Amber. These are my friends, BulbasaurTwo, CharmanderTwo, and SquirtleTwo!" The figure was becoming more and more recognizable by the second, till it was the spitting image of a young girl, along with three… creatures. Then, she spoke again. "Whats your name? Most pokemon don't talk like you...but you couldn't be a person! So...what are you?" These words confused me at first, to the point of leaving me speechless.
"My...name? Pokemon? Person? What are those? Which one am I? I...don't understand." My response was accompanied by more 'pain', minus the light this time. But none of my questions were to be answered, save for one.
"If you don't have a name… I will just call you my brother! I've always wanted a brother." I didn't understand these words either, but they had a soft air to them, which made me want to agree. All I could muster, however, was a soft nod with wide eyes. "Hehehe! You're funny, brother." Funny? What had I done to cause a laugh? This question, like my others, would not be answered. I know not what caused it, but the light returned again. A small gasp left my lungs, followed by a plea.
"Whats happening? Its so...bright!" I lifted one of my arms to shield my eyes, as the girl and her friends returned to whence they had came. Again leaving me in darkness. "Dont go…"
A while passed. Longer than I had ever been aware of before. Maybe it was the loneliness? It was interesting, being upset by my solitude. I missed the company, fleeting as it was. For another great period of time, I shut my eyes tight. Willing the others to return to me. At the peak of my mental strain, a flash of color hit my closed eyelids. Instinctively, I opened them. What I saw made my jaw drop.
"Beautiful, isnt it?" The sound of a young girl rang out from behind me. Turning to see Amber floating beside me, her friends in tow, I gave what seemed like a smile. The first I had ever felt.
"Warm… I feel...warm." I continued to smile, a giddy feeling rising in me, as I floated around happily. "Warmth! Smiles are...warm!"
"Thats the feeling of a friend, brother." She glided over to my position, and smiled to match mine. "Do you see that down there?" She pointed to the scene I had previously been astonished by. A colorful town, full of houses and plants, seeming like life was leaping out of it. "That is my happy place. It can be yours too!" Taking my hand, Amber flew with me through the town, the other three just behind us. For what seemed like an immeasurable time, I was happy. The two of us spoke for longer than I had thought possible, and played games together with the other three creatures that I had come to know as 'pokemon'. And apparently, I was one too.
"Im a...pokemon? Thats-" My thought was interrupted by a sharp buzzing sound, and followed by a scream from Amber.
"Ahhh! Nnn…" Amber stopped flying, along with the others. I turned to them, shaking with confusion and...fear. Unable to speak from my lack of understanding, I simply glided over to her and reached out to touch her. "No, stop." She put up a hand, and smiled again. "Its time, brother. Its time for us to go." The other three started to whine, before looking at me and...smiling. "We are moving on, going away from here. I dont think we'll be back this time."
"I dont understand! Why-" I lost my nerve when I began to notice the pokemon start to shimmer. Stardust. "No…" Understanding finally caught me, and a wet feeling in my eyes soon followed. "Dont go..!" With every ounce of my power I tried to grab on to them, but they just blew away in a cloud of color. Their last piece of presence being a whisper of sound, though it might have just been a howl of wind, the punctuation mark on the situation. The sorrow subsided, switching to intrigue and pain. "Why? Where are they going?" I turned to look at Amber, and the sorrow returned. Standing before me was a pile of stardust, in the outline of a young girl.
"Like I said, its time to go. Brother, this is goodbye." With this, she vanished. In a burst of light and color, she was gone.
"Nooooooo!" My reaction was intense, and sudden. A wall of emotion hit me, and some of which I had never felt before. But there was one that stood out amongst the rest, a kind of figurehead on the pirate ship that was plundering my mind. Rage. Blinding, furious, bloodthirsty rage. I yelled and I yelled, clenching my fists and grinding my teeth, just willing the entire world to detonate. It wasn't until I had lost all control of my mental faculties, that I had realized something. By willing the world to explode, I had made it do just that.
In a lab that seemed to not even exist, a young pokemon called MewTwo was breaching his containment. The lab was catching fire, and the container that had MewTwo encased was beginning to crack. Somewhere in the flames and chaos, a voice spoke out. A scientist of unimaginable stature, giving his final words as a creature whose power compared only to its rage exploded into life.
"We dreamed of creating the world's strongest pokemon..." MewTwo emerged from his capsule, and spotted the man. Raising one hand, his eyes flashed purple as a surging power crushed the mind of the man. "And we succeeded."