Tortured

Tortured

Chapter One

An identity, and a new friend

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The saying "If at first you don't succeed, try try again" goes for most things, but when it puts a soul in danger, it's best not to try it again..EVER..Only the ultimate in evil would attempt such a thing..

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"All the power imaginable, and you STILL can't take down a lousy Pikachu! What the hell is wrong with you?! All Pokémon battle to the finish, so finish what you started!"

"As far as I'm concerned, I am finished. I will not go any further. Can't you see that that Pikachu is almost DEAD?" I can't believe I still had the courage to say that, after all she's done to me. Domino..How much I would love to kill that bitch. But, I will do what it takes to defend another Pokémon. They don't deserve to suffer. They've done nothing wrong to deserve that.

"You WORTHLESS Pokémon!! Why Giovanni wanted to have another Mewtwo created is beyond me. Such a wretched creation should NEVER exist. If you don't kill that Pikachu RIGHT now, you will be punished!" She pulled out her special tazer she had made just to use against me, and turned it on. "So, what's it gonna be, the Pikachu's life, or THIS?"

The Pikachu looked up at me with so much sadness in his eyes, I knew what my decision would be. "I will not put that Pikachu through anymore suffering..Do what you want to me.."

ZZZZAP!!

I hit the floor in pain, then everything got black...

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I awoke to a Meowth poking at me. "Hey! Wake up! Come on!"

"Huh? What's going on? Oh.." Then I remembered. This was the room I was thrown in when I wasn't being trained, if you could really call it training, by Domino. The room..So dark..So cold..My back was throbbing in pain where I was zapped by her tazer, and there were more gashes all over me from being whipped. They always whipped me when I was unconscious. I don't understand why they take so much pleasure in hurting me, or any other Pokémon.

"I've been trying to wake you up for the last hour! Are you okay?" The Meowth seemed awful curious about what happened to me.

"Are you new here or something?"

"Where's here?"

"This is..This is Hell. No, worse than that..This is Team Rocket headquarters. We're in the Pokémon Storage Center right now. All the Pokémon that aren't being 'trained' or..Or killed are put here until they're needed."

"Killed?! What the hell kinda place is this?"

"The worst place you could ever end up in..How'd you get here, anyways?"

"I really don't know..The last thing I remembered was that I was snuggled up in my nice soft bed at home!"

Soft bed..How I long to sleep in a soft bed.."You must've been stolen..I wish that didn't happen to you."

"But, you don't even know me. How could you care about me?"

"I feel sorry for all the Pokémon who come to this place. I don't want them to suffer. One of these days, I will stop their suffering."

"Am I gonna be here forever?"

"Yes..Unless I can destroy this place.."

"Um..Then we may as well get to know each other. I'm Gau, and I'm a Meowth, but I think you know that already!"

"I'm..I have no name..I'm a..Mewtwo.." Just the thought of this hurt me. "All these years, no one's bothered to name me..I'm just no one.."

"Well, don't they call you SOMETHING?"

"Worthless, pathetic, disgusting..Just those things..Sometimes they call me by my identification code, which is M2 34-7, but that doesn't mean much.."

"Well, I'll name you!" I figured I'd better let him think of something..It was the least he could do. He sat there thinking for awhile. "I've got it! How about..Garth!"

"Garth? Where'd you get that from?"

"I don't know. I thought it'd be the best for you, though. So, how about it?"

Hmm..I've never been named, and this was my chance, so I decided it'd be best to stick with Garth. "Alright, it's good. Thanks Gau.."

"No problem, Garth!"

For the first time in my life, I've actually felt close to being happy. It's hard to be happy here, but I was close enough to be happy, that it felt good. I know have an identity. Not only that, but I've gotten a new friend, too. Most Pokémon were afraid of me because they've never seen a Mewtwo before. They know how powerful I am, though. And, I'm always forced to use it against them, even though I don't want to. I have never killed a Pokémon on purpose, though. That's just too much for me to do.

"So..Um..What IS a Mewtwo, anyways?" Gau was now finally curious about what I was.

"According to Giovanni and Domino, an experiment, and nothing more.." I shuddered at the thought. "I really don't think you'd understand. I hardly understand it myself."

"I could at least try to understand. Besides, I've got nothing else to do!"

"Okay, but it's not my fault if you don't understand..Alright, I'm not the only Mewtwo that Giovanni had created for him-"

Gau cut me off. "Hold on, created? What do you mean by that?"

"Well, I wasn't born naturally..There were these scientists who used Mew's , who I don't know much about, DNA and altered it to make me..Well, as I was saying, I'm not the only Mewtwo..There was another Mewtwo who escaped Team Rocket about ten years ago..Well, Giovanni decided to try again, and make another Mewtwo-"

"And that's you?" Gau asked, wide eyed in amazement.

"Unfortunately, yes. He had me made to be the most powerful Pokémon, just for his uses. At first, that didn't bother me, because I didn't know how evil he really was at the time..Untill that one day.." I didn't want to go on any further, because I know this would scare Gau, and I didn't want him to be afraid of me. I wanted a friend. But, I decided that I'd better tell him. "Well, one day, they decided I was ready to use my full power in Pokémon battles. Normally, I'd just use half power on other Pokémon, and full power on inanimate objects. So, they put me up against their most powerful and well trained Pokémon, which was a Charizard. I asked 'Will he be able to handle full power?', they said 'He can handle anything! Just don't worry.' They wanted to make me think I wasn't going to do anything bad..But they were wrong..VERY wrong..So, I charged up for the strongest Psychic possible, and let it loose on the Charizard..Everything glowed light blue for a minute, and when the glow was gone, the Charizard was down. I went over to see if he was okay, but I found out he was..He was dead..Giovanni and Domino LIED to me..They told me the Charizard would be okay..After that, I wouldn't use my full power on a Pokémon ever again..That's when the whippings and shockings came..."

Gau seemed very shocked at this. I was prepared for the worst he could say, but he said, "How could they do that to you?! That's just not right!" I was very surprised he wasn't afraid of me, but I was glad, too.."That's it, I'm gonna claw their brains out, if they have any!"

I couldn't help but laugh. "That's not such a good idea..The best thing you can do is just listen to them..Till I get us out of here."

"But how can I listen to THEM? They're evil!" Gau paused for a second. "Wait a minute..How come you never busted out of here? You have all the power in the world!"

"I can't..All these buildings her are made Mewtwo-proof..My powers couldn't even dent the walls, ceilings, or even FLOORS of these buildings. They did that, because of what happened to the other Mewtwo..He blew up a couple buildings with his powers.." I used the little bit of energy I had and made a shadow ball, and flung it at the ceiling. It hit with a loud BOOM, but didn't do any damage. "See?"

"Crap..We gotta find some way to get out of here!"

"Don't worry, we will.."

Just then a Rocket guard came running in. "Hey! What the hell did you do this time, Genetic Defect?!" I cringed. The guards all had a habit of calling me "Genetic Defect".

"Absolutly nothing of your concern."

"Don't tell me it's nothing! I know you did something!" Then he punched me in the stomach. HARD.

"Hey! Don't mess with Garth! Gau tried defending me, but to the guard all it sounded like was "Meow! Meowth meow meow owth meowth!"

"Heh. Stupid cat must be trying to defend Genetic Defect." He got ready to kick Gau straight in the face, but I put my tail right in front of Gau's face, so the kick landed straight on the end of my tail, leaving a big gash from the sole of his boot.

"Leave my friend alone."

"Aww..How CUTE. Not really..That's just disgusting! Pokémon having friends..That's not right. Pokémon don't deserve to have friends."

"Humans don't deserve friends any more than Pokémon do, then. Humans are the disgusting ones."

He punched my right eye even harder than he hit my stomach. "Don't EVER talk to a person like that again!"

Just then, Giovanni walked in. "Okay, Lewis, that's enough. I'll take care of him from here."

Lewis looked me straight in the eyes, "I'm not through with you, Genetic Defect." Then he left.

"Come on, Mewtwo. Let's go to my office and have a little..Talk."

I didn't like the sound of that, but I was in too much pain to refuse. "Okay..."

We started to walk out of the room, when Gau ran in front of me. "Wait! Don't leave me here alone! Thanks for saving me..Garth, please come back!"

"Out of the way, cat!", Giovanni demanded. Gau backed off out of the way.

"I'll come back, Gau..I promise.."

We then went to Giovanni's office, which was a total contrast to the Pokémon Storage Center. It was very well-lit, clean, and comfortable. Well, comfortable if you're not being punished by Giovanni. Giovanni sat down in his black leather chair behind his desk. "Have a seat, Mewtwo." Giovanni said, pointing to the chair in front of his desk.

"I have a name. It's Garth."

"Garth? That's odd..You never were named before..Oh well..Have a seat...Garth."

"I'll just stand." I didn't trust sitting down in his office.

He handed me a towel. "Maybe you should hold this over that cut on your tail.."

I took it and pressed it on the gash to help stop the bleeding. "Um..Thanks."

"I'm not such a bad guy, am I? I could give you everything you could ever want if you just obeyed me."

"There is nothing I want that's worth taking a Pokémon's life to get it."

"Why do you care so much? It's not like they can feel anything." I can't beleive he'd say such a disgusting thing like that.

"You don't know what the hell you're talking about. Pokémon can feel..You think I don't feel all the pain you put me through!?" I was furious at him.

"But you, you are different. You have human DNA in you!"

I had forgotten that. I really didn't like the fact that I had DNA from those disgusting things in me. "But, I am still a Pokémon. I am no different. Even if I was mostly human, I would still be a Pokémon."

"But how do you know other Pokémon can feel the same as you? It's not like they can actually express their feelings."

"They CAN express their feelings..They feel the same emotions as humans do! And, they CAN communicate to each other..All Pokémon can understand what they're saying..They even understand what humans are saying! If humans didn't try to set themselves so far away from Pokémon, I bet humans could understand Pokémon, too."

"You must be insane. You have no idea what you're talking about. Like you said, you're a Pokémon..Pokémon don't know anything like that."

I couldn't beleive it..After what I said, he STILL thinks the same way about Pokémon. "Fuck you. I can talk just as well as you can, and you still don't listen to me. There's no hope for you. One of these days, you will regret what you've said to me."

He stood up and looked down at me intimidatingly. "Don't count on it." Giovanni pulled out his tazer. "Let's have some FUN, shall we, Garth?"

ZZZZZAP!!!

The last thing I remembered before blacking out was the pain of the shock, and hitting my head on Giovanni's desk while I collapsed...