Lyonell was in a strange place. From all points, the only color the Mew could see was pitch black darkness, an empty void of nothingness except for him and his thoughts. He looked all over the place for any sign of life, signs of civilization, signs of anything he could interact with, but the area was clear of anything. "Where is everyone? Where am I? What am I doing here?" Were all questions he asked himself out loud, though it didn't seem to travel far.

Despite him floating, as far as he could tell, he didn't seem to be going anywhere when he tried to move in any direction; there didn't seem to be a floor or ceiling either as well as no walls. The longer he looked around, the more confused he became, and the more questions he had such as how did he get here, and why. Those questions would have to wait however, and many more would surface as the void turned a crimson red with black clouds covering his view of red, making it a darker red than it already was.

Without warning, he heard it again, the voice he heard when he first entered the forest, this time clearer. "You, child." The dark and foreboding voice began. "You take the form of the legendary Pokemon Mew, but don't possess her powers. How she could condone such actions of her's is beyond comprehension. No matter, neither of you can stop what is to come." Then as quickly as the voice started, it stopped just as fast, the red void returning to darkness and leaving Lyonell alone once more.

The Mew woke with a start, sitting bolt upright in a cold sweat. Noah was already looking at him from where he laid in the middle of the burrow they had set up, all of the kids as well stared at him in surprise. He touched over his body, trying to connect himself back to reality. When his paw touched his side, he knew he was back in the real world, to be confirmed by checking that he could see his best friend Noah, and the four kids he saved: Pichu, Munchlax, Togepi, and Azurill.

"Lyonell, are you alright?" Noah would ask him, standing next to him now, looking down upon his friend with concern written all over his furry face.

He couldn't tell his friend what he had heard, it frightened even him, and he didn't know what it meant. "...Neither of you can stop what is to come." Is what he heard at the end, and what about that part where Mew had committed some horrible deed that was obviously not something she was supposed to do. Was it possible that Mew had turned him into a Pokemon for some great destiny? No, that couldn't he it, he hadn't done anything of importance to be taken for something like this. Lyonell was just simply caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Though he didn't realize it, he must've been quiet for some time as Noah shook his body once more to jar him from his thoughts. "Hey! Are you alright?" The voice came a bit louder, and a further edge of concern attached to his tone.

"Yeah." Lyonell stuttered, shaking his head to clear his mind of thoughts of darkness. "I'll be alright, it was just a bad dream is all." With a few slow breaths he placed his arms under his chest before levitating himself up high enough to set his feet underneath to support his body. "Is everyone still alright from last night?"

There was a moment as all of the kids looked themselves over and nodded one at a time. Even though he knew they were alright, it was his worry that made him check; Noah could probably sense that in him as he only stared at the Mew after the question was asked. "I should be asking you the same thing." Noah told him, nodding to the Mew's arm which was soaked in blood again. Lyonell saw this and shook a bit in fear; realizing at some point he must've reopened the wound and not noticing.

At this point, he had lost quite a sizeable amount of blood, and it wasn't going to replenish fast enough should they come into contact with another hostile Pokemon hell-bent on killing them. He didn't know any sort of healing remedies as a Pokemon, nothing that could heal this kind of wound anyways. That meant he had to search for human civilization somewhere; the only problem that arose from that was he didn't know where he was. Without a known location of where he was located, he couldn't figure out where he needed to go.

He had a few options to consider, and the first of which was whether they should all look for a defendable area in the woods where it was easy for him and Noah to protect the kids, or try to figure out where they were and then head for a human city. The next concern would be what fighting style should he adopt: A more aggressive, aim-to-wound style, or go on the defensive, and back up Noah on the front line.

In the case of finding help, a trek through the woods was dangerous. They will never have the element of surprise on their side while the whole party is on the move, and with the ever changing environment. It will also use a lot of energy to keep moving, taking breaks more often to make sure no one falls behind. On the other hand if they were to find some place safe to rest until himself is healed, then they run into the problem of their scent being plastered all over the surrounding area. On the upside to that tradeoff, they can always have the element of surprise and it would be easily defended by the both of them.

Now in the case of fighting, his power has shown that he is very capable of utilizing strong attacks like Hammer Arm as well as more advanced moves such as Aura Sphere. No attacks are off limits to him. That also means that he can learn a lot of status moves that could boost his and Noah's attacks and defense, distracting moves, and moves that can weaken their enemies. Both of which have their obvious pros and cons.

That's what his choices were now that he thought them out, Lyonell had two sets of choices to make. Lyonell could choose to find a good spot to wait out his natural healing, or set out to search for a human city to heal him. On the terms of fighting, he could take an aggressive path to fighting off other Pokemon, or a more defensive and supporting role to help boost Noah and protect the kids. The only question was now: What would he choose to do?

Lyonell stared ahead at his partner for some time, lost in thought before he pulled himself back with a labored sigh. "Noah, I think we need to move to a better spot." The Mew told him softly, as to not cause worry for the kids. "If we stay here, we're sitting ducks, but if we can move to somewhere with an open clearing, we can have an advantage should someone try to attack."

There seemed to be some reason, with some risk with his plan, as Noah took a moment to think about it. For a few moments, Lyonell thought that Noah would protest; it wasn't the case though as he nodded in agreement. "I believe you're right, at least with a clearing with some cover like a tree, we would be out of the elements as well as keeping a look out around the area." He explained, seeing that Lyonell's plan would probably be the best course of action in their current predicament.

With a look at the children that were now fully awake and staring at him, Lyonell nodded to his friend with a smile. "Alright, let's do it." He looked over Noah's head at the four behind him and smiled warmly. "Hey kids. We're going to eat some breakfast and then head out to a better place to stay for a while."

Three of them agreed, but one of them, the Togepi, was resilient. "Mister." She stuttered. "When are we going to get home to our parent?" As though that was the spark, the other three looked at her and the atmosphere that surrounded them grew thick with sadness.

"This is not good." The Mew thought to himself, staring at them with still that warm smile. "If they start to complain and doubt me and Noah, we'll be in for a ride." He moved his head up and down slowly to what the Togepi told him. "I don't believe I ever got your name, dear."

She looked at him, a bit confused by that question. "I'm Karen." The Togepi told him, a long pause between the two words. He smiled and asked the same question of 'what is your name?' to the other three children. It seemed they all had rather peculiar names: The Pichu was Alexander, Azumarill was Tracey, and the Munchlax was- almost hysterically- Munch.

He smiled at each name that was told to him. "Well, Karen, Alex, Tracey, Munch." Lyonell said each name in turn, pausing between names to make sure he said them correctly. "I promise I will get you all home to your parents if it is the last thing I do. Okay? I won't let anything happen to the four of you." In turn, each of the children seemed to smile back at him, their worry all but gone now, and making the air around them more free feeling.

There was a silence as the children calmed down, and Noah seemed to relax more when Lyonell said that. Over the course of the last two days, he had never considered how he would actually manage to keep his promise to them, but now he had to. With his promise, there was no way that he could let the kids down, not now, and not ever.

After a few moments, the silence broke with Munch's stomach growling. The others laughed or chuckled at the sound, and Lyonell opened his backpack, pulling out the berries he had collected the previous night. There weren't as many as their should've been, mostly because when he was attacked, the berries fell to the ground, and the Mightyena's blood had covered most of them. He split them all up between all of them, two berries to each kid, and then two berries split between Lyonel and Noah.

It was half past noon, Lyonell and his group of kids walked on through the forest. Lyonell would levitate one hid when their legs got tired from walking, and then set them back down when they felt better. Noah was in the rear, keeping an eye and ear out for any hostile Pokemon coming from behind them while Lyonell watched the front while also looking out for possible places to camp out.

Now even Noah's legs were feeling a bit tired at this point, they had been walking for what Lyonell could only tell was hours, having woken up and left a little after sunrise. "Lyonell, we might have to take a group rest soon. I need to rest my legs." The Mew nodded, and hadn't noticed it until he said that, but his mind was growing wearing, almost throbbing in pain. He has been floating since day break until now and it was starting to grow strenuous on his mind.

"I think there is a spot we can rest at up ahead." He told his friend, motioning Noah to watch the kids as he went ahead to check it out. Lyonell made a large sweeping float around the clearing he spoke of, finding no Pokemon nearby before heading into it.

The area was rather large, the bushes and rocks seemed to all push up towards the outer 'ring' of the clearing. Naturally grown grass covered the entire area while a singular large oak tree sat in the center. There seemed to be many branches on it as well as burrows higher up in the main trunk of the tree. A total of three burrows could be seen, a large one towards the middle of the tree, and then two slightly smaller ones just above that one. Despite Munch's size, Lyonell believed that he too could sit in one without breaking the tree see as it was a very strong and old tree.

Once he was happy with his inspection, the Mew floated back to the group with quite a happy expression. "Noah, I think i found a spot we can stay at for a while." When the Eevee heard that, his ears lifted a bit higher and smiled as well. "Alright kids, follow me."

There seemed to be a bit more hop to everyone's step now as they walked on towards the old oak tree ahead. Especially Noah. This new spot meant it would more than likely serve as a great spot to stay for an extended period of time while almost serving as a great defendable position. It took only a minute or two of walking for the six of them to reach the open area together, Lyonell flying closer to the oak and up just under the lowest branch. "We'll be staying up in this tree for the time being. So if for whatever reason you need to come down the tree for something, ask me to help you down, alright?" All of them nodded, Noah included.

With that, the Mew smiled and closed his eyes momentarily as he focused on Munch. He had to be the first so he could get him in the middle of the three of burrows. It took quite a bit of effort from his tired mind to get him in, but eventually got the munchlax into the the hole. Next was the other three in the top hole, picking each up one at a time and carrying them up to their hole. He watched as each settled down in the burrow before flying back down to Noah who was simply sitting there, looking out into the forest.

Lyonell floated to his side and followed his gaze into the trees beyond. "You know if there is something wrong, you can always tell me." The Mew informed him, trying to keep his voice nice and level.

The Eevee sighed and let his head hang a bit before looking at his friend. "I don't know how long we'll be able to survive out here. I know that you have a will like no other when it comes to fighting, but you still don't know all of the moves you should know." There was an edge of cautiousness to his voice that he hadn't noticed until now, it sounded as if he was uneasy.

"Noah, are you afraid of me?" Lyonell asked him, a bit hesitant to actually ask the question which was evident by his pause between 'afraid' and 'me'.

He chuckled softly and shook his head before looking back up at him. "Honestly?" There was a pause, and when Lyonell didn't answer, Noah continued. "Yeah, I am a bit scared. I've seen power drive others insane. It's not a pretty sight. I'm just worried that the same might happen to you when you learn how to use every attack you can."

The Mew looked to his side, wincing a bit in pain as he looked down at his arm. It still hurt, but at least the bleeding had stopped a while ago. "I won't try to learn attacks if that'll make you feel better. I can learn support moves, and moves to protect and heal all of us." Lyonell told him with a determined look at Noah. "I will protect us all, even you. I will support you in battle any way I can."

A few moments of silence pass between the two as they both looked off into the forest again. "I just want to protect those kids as much as possible, shield them from the horrors of real life. They're much too young to be experiencing any of this." Noah looked on for a little bit more before turning towards the tree and walking a few paces closer; he stopped halfway there. "Hey, Lyonell."

Lyonell turned his head at the call, but only halfway, not quite looking over his shoulder and only looking at the ground. "Yeah?"

Noah took a moment to figure out what he was going to say. "Promise me you won't do anything boneheaded, will ya? I don't want to lose you. I am older than you after all. I don't want to see you pass before I do."

He gave a soft laugh and looked up into the sky. "Yeah, I promise." There was a moment's pause before he continued. "Watch over the kids. I'm going to go and get some food for lunch."

The Eevee didn't say anything, only bobbed his head down once before clawing his way up the tree trunk to the lowest branch, and then continuing to climb his way up to the burrows. With that said and down, Lyonell floated high into the air , matching the lowest branches of the trees before taking off into the forest beyond in search of food. "I'll make sure we all get back safe and sound. You can count on it!"

Four days had passed while the small group of Pokemon stayed at the tree. Nothing exciting happened except for Lyonell's training to learn some defensive and support moves. Among that which he learned were: Protect, Heal Pulse, Recover (Which he used immediately to heal his arm), Light Screen, and Heal Bell. With those Lyonell felt that he was able to keep Noah safe as well as the kids should they run into any hostile Pokemon.

Lyonell had just given Noah the responsibility of keeping an eye on the children while he flew up to the very top of the tree. The Mew weaved back and forth through the thinning branches towards the tip top before finally being in open air, hovering a few feet above the last branches on the tree. He looked around him, at the surrounding scenery and beyond it to see if he could identify anything.

As far as he could tell, no human towns were in sight of from the top of the tree, and strangely enough, he couldn't see Mount Chimney. That was odd, he thought, because from his house in Petalburg City he could see the volcano, and the river that ran through the forest wasn't far from it. Did he get dragged farther away in the river than he thought, and as he thought about it, he couldn't see the river anywhere either. Lyonell was lost now, without Mount Chimney, he couldn't figure out where they were exactly; wherever they were, it wasn't in Hoenn anymore and that he was sure of.

He looked down at the tree for a few moments as he thought about telling Noah where he was going, and then shook his head. "He'll be fine for a few minutes." Lyonell thought to himself as he flew up higher into the air, far higher than he had ever been before. Slowly the trees began to get smaller underneath him and then he stopped once he was a couple hundred feet below the lowest clouds. Lyonell didn't want to go any higher as he could smell rain in the air, and dark clouds were approaching them from what he could tell was the north.

Again the Mew looked around from his higher altitude to see if he could spot anything he recognized, but to no avail. There was nothing he could see that was familiar, though something did catch him as strange and baffling. The landmass that they were on was a lot smaller than a region, in fact it was just barely bigger than Hoenn's largest city. "No way...We're on a island." Lyonell muttered under his breath as realization hit him.

Now that he had time to think about that however, it made sense that they were on an island. There were plenty of berries to eat, and so far there were no other Pokemon here with the exception of the Mightyena. But then that left the question that racked his brain: How did they get here?

The answer was going to have to wait now as from far below, he heard something he wasn't expecting: An explosion. Lyonell's eyes widened and the mew turned his body upside down as he sped down towards the ground. He was there in only ten seconds, and stopped abruptly to avoid careening into the grass fast first. In an instant he assessed the situation around him with rapid accuracy.

Noah was nearby him, growling, and looking off towards the tree line. In his line of sight, Lyonell could see why his friend growled, a charging Primeape. Up in the tree, he could sense that all of the kids were worried about Noah and the explosion. He was at least relieved that none of them seemed to be hurt from the blast. He must've heard Noah's Shadow Ball attack hit a tree in the distance. "Noah, I'm here. Let me know when you need my help, alright?"

The Eevee gave him a reassuring nod and a grin. "Right, let's do this!"

Lyonell's body tensed, and then relaxed. He wasn't going to be the one directly fighting, Noah was, but he had the type disadvantage. Though on the other hand he had the typing advantage over the Primeape. What was going to be his first choice?

Noah dodged the first punch incoming, ducking down and sliding underneath him. The Eevee was just barely small enough to fit between his legs and used that to his advantage. A moment later he spun around onto his back and kicked his legs up, tossing the hefty Primeape into the air a foot. The monkey became enraged, even more so than he had before Noah attacked him and turned on a dime, using Focus Blast.

Lyonell looked a bit confused at first as to how the Pokemon could use a move like that in the wild. It wasn't time to think about that however, he had delayed his move long enough and quickly created an orb of light in his paws. It grew almost multicolored as it swirled around in a sphere before dispersing and covering both of them in a protective barrier, halving the damage brought onto Noah from the Primeape's attack.

He was grateful at that for a moment before feeling the blast from their opponent hit him. It hurt a lot, but thanks to the Light Screen move Lyonell used it didn't hurt as much. The Eevee was forced to the ground a few feet away from where he previously stood and got back to his paws quickly.

The Eevee move fast to avoid another attack, missing the Primeape's fist by inches. A black sphere formed in his mouth, at close range the explosion of a Shadow Ball would hurt both of them, but with Light Screen still active he would take less damage than his opposite. Smoke covered the area as the orb blew up on the white furred monkey, causing its entire body to look grey from the smoke and throwing it a couple yards away.

Lyonell thought it was risky to do it even if it was a clean attack to the enemy's body. He floated over quickly to his friend's side and glared at him. "Stupid! That was an idiotic move!" The Mew snapped, his own body glowing pink before touching the Eevee as well, bell chimes could almost be heard as the Eevee's exhaustion and pain was being healed.

"I know, but he's getting weaker." Noah told him with a sigh as he shook the dirt off of his fur. "His left side is his weak side; he's a bit slower with his left arm than his right."

He didn't know what to say. How could Noah see something like that from being so close to him? Lyonell knew he'd have to watch for that, see if what Noah said was true, and if it was they could exploit it and take the Primeape down faster.

Lyonell decided to sit this next turn of events pass as he flew up higher into the air to stay out of the action and possible attacks on him. That left Noah on the ground with the Primeape, and this time Noah was ready to take him down. He quickly ran forward, quick attack used to get an edge on speed and rushed in from the back after he lost his opponent's sight.

Both realized quickly it was a mistake, this Primeape was trained, and it became evident with its next move. Noah was clotheslined by the monkey's muscular arm and the Eevee flew forward and tumbled a few feet behind it. Without a moment's warning, it came back, fast as ever and picked the Eevee up by the scruff of his neck fur and held him there.

Up in the air, Lyonell could only stare in horror as the Primeape's next move utterly beat Noah to within an inch of passing out. The monkey quickly set Noah on his paws and went about punching and kicking him rapidly, one after another without pause or a gap to block or escape his onslaught. First it was visible punches and then it became so fast that Lyonell could no longer see his fists moving and it was all a blur. Noah was screaming in pain before getting a switch kick across the face, a mouthful of blood shoot out of the Eevee's mouth as he was kicked back into the tree behind him.

In the tree above him, Noah and Lyonell could hear the gasps of the kids, one of them screaming in fright as they saw Noah slumped against the tree, unable to move. Lyonell was staring in shock. Why had he decided to do nothing then of all times when his friend needed him? He couldn't do nothing now, and now he had lives on the line even no so more than ever.

Lyonell was getting angry now at his own inaction to help his friend. He cursed under his breath as he slowly floated down lower in front of Noah, blocking the Primeape from hurting him any further. It didn't seem to faze it though, being faced with a legendary Pokemon. "What's with this bloodlust?" The Mew thought to himself, shaking out any stiffness in his limbs. "It doesn't matter now, it's going to pay for doing that to my friend!"

Primeape didn't seem to care or the Mew's thoughts, nor did it care that his friend was dying, it wanted to attack. In an instant it was on Lyonell, standing in front of him and a fist drawn back for a hard punch. Though it was an accurate punch, it didn't hit, barely missing Lyonell my millimeters as he moved his head to the right. He ducked under his arm quickly, a light blue sphere with a purple core forming rapidly in his paws. "You're not hurting anyone again!" Lyonell screamed, slamming the Aura Sphere into his chest.

The Primeape was screaming in pain, the heat of the rotating aura in the sphere was sending searing pain throughout its body. A moment later, Lyonell pushed it further into his chest, and then the sphere took off, leaving his paw empty and launching the Primeape away again. The monkey slammed into one tree and cracked the wood, but that wasn't it. Next the aura sphere exploded on him, blowing up and shattering the tree trunk, throwing it into yet another tree, gaining another scream of pain.

Lyonell floated there, panting as that attack had taken a bit out of him to conjure such a strong attack out of thin air. He finally thought that the Primeape was finished off, leaving him alone with Noah unconscious on the ground. "You'll be alright." He told him, kneeling on the ground next to his friend. The Mew's arms glowed pink as he moved them over the Eevee's body, healing it with bell chimes and hoping nothing was too badly hurt.

Behind him, the Primeape was struggling to stand up, eyes now glowing red with anger almost. "Kill the Mew." It growled, though it didn't sound like it came from the Primeape's own mouth. Lyonell was too busy tending to Noah to see it, but Noah had a clear line of sight. His eyes widened in fear and tried to move, trying to say anything, but his words were caught in his throat.

As the Primeape got closer, it began to start glowing red, now as if something possessed the monkey. It was as it started to charge that Noah stood up quickly. "Lyonell look out!" He shouted, his body screaming at him to stop but the Eevee jumped in front of him. Lyonell's own eyes shot wide open in surprise as he turned around, the Primeape in the air, right arm glowing white as he went to strike Noah down who was blocking the attack from hitting Lyonell.

Time froze around him once again. He never thought he'd be in this situation again, not this soon! Lyonell was faced with a choice he hoped he would never have to make. To kill another Pokemon, but what if his body refused to listen to him? Noah would surely die if that happened. He was already so weak from the battle. What was Lyonell to do? There had to be something he could do! Lyonell had to remember...Remember...It was almost there...What could he remember? It was almost there…

Something passed by his mind, like some sort of lost video recording finally found and popped into a video cassette player. It was hard to make out some of it, but he could see himself as a Mew, though he was powerful, more powerful than he had ever seen. That couldn't have been him though, he had never even seen a Mew battle!

It plays out as Mew taking on multiple enemy Pokemon, strategically knocking one down while another comes up just to get grabbed by her psychic attack and thrown at another few Pokemon. All of them were glowing red with some weird aura around them, as if it was possessing them. Then suddenly three Pokemon surrounded her, a Machop, Arcanine, and a Staravia, all of them looking to do some harm. Without a moment to spare she did a short boost into the air, dodging the Staravia and knocking it into the Machop. Arcanine immediately leapt up at Mew but was too slow. She ducked underneath and placed her paw on his stomach as he passed over her. In the same moment they disappeared only to reappear at the far edge of the clearing where she let the Arcanine stay in solitude while she teleported back.

The entire scene lasted only a millisecond, but the imprint it left would last for eternity across his mind; Lyonell knew what he had to do. Time was at a crawl as he launched himself forward at the Primeape and pressed his paws against its white furred chest. With a quick look back at his friend who was staring at him at the same time Lyonell said a few final words. "I'm sorry. Take care of the kids."

As he looked back at the Primeape and closed his eyes, letters flashed across his mind. "Tayem Ekem Lyr Ekem Payem Oht Roht Tayem." He thought to himself as he relayed the letters in his mind. "Taeklepayort! Teleport!"

All of it only lasted a second, and that's all the time Lyonell needed to do it. Lyonell's eyes began to glow a dim blue as he opened them and looked at the Primeape with a mix of anger and confidence. "You're coming with me!" He shouted, and without a moment to spare, both Pokemon vanished into thin air, leaving Noah to land clumsily on the ground as they left.

The two Pokemon reappeared somewhere else entirely as they regained control of their bodies after teleporting, Lyonell quickly dodged to his right to avoid getting hit with the karate chop of the Primeape. It wasn't the end of that however as it quickly recovered and turned on Lyonell with a gaze burning with hatred for the Mew. Lyonell wasn't about to let the Primeape attack him that easily and crossed his arms, a colorful shield rising up around his body as another Karate Chop came down on him. He could feel the impact of the Primeape's arm hit him, but only barely as the protect barrier kept him from receiving any damage from the attack.

A burst of the colorful energy shot out of the shield, knocking the Primeape backwards and away from Lyonell as he himself was shoved backwards from the force, though never touching the ground and managing to stay floating in the air. Despite his ability to stay airborne, Lyonell still spun around, making him a hair disorientated as he finally stopped and looked around. "That was some attack." Lyonell thought allowed, clearing his head with a little shake; refocusing on the Primeape in front of him. "I need to finish this, but I don't want to kill it. I want to find some way to disable him so I don't have to kill. However if this goes on for too much longer, I might not have a choice in the matter."

As Lyonell took time to deal out his options, his opposition finally recovered enough to get to its feet. In turn that broke the Mew out of his thoughts and drew his attention back to the fight. "Guess I'll have to make that decision on the fly." He thought to himself as he prepared himself for his battle.

Just as Lyonell prepared himself to defend against the Primeape's inevitable attack, a phrase passed by his mind. "Memento Mori." Shaking his head, Lyonell refocused on the attack, Close Combat. Lyonell didn't have much experience with seeing the attack, but knew of the damage it could do if the attack landed on him. With unwavering confidence, Lyonell twisted his body sideways and quickly wrapped his tail around the monkey's left wrist. In the same fluid motion he turned his body so that his back was to the ground and ducked underneath body of the Primeape's arms while using his free hands to grab its right arm. Then as quickly as he could manage using Primeape's own momentum; pushed and pulled his arms towards its face, landing a solid double punch; one landing on its forehead and another to its nose.

Lyonell was quick to let go of Primeape's arms and fly away for a brief moment before turning around to face it, eyes glowing blue dimly as a psychic energy formed in front of him. A moment later the invisible force slammed into the Primeape and sent him flying backwards into a tree a couple yards away. At this point Lyonell was running on fumes, the teleportation having taken a lot out of him as well as all of his other psychic abilities. It all had to be ended here or there was slim chance that he would come out on top.

"Memento Mori." Came the phrase again as he floated closer to the Primeape. It seemed to be fading in and out of consciousness briefly, deciding whether it should continue fighting or just retreat. The red aura that only Lyonell seemed to see was still surrounding the Primeape, trying to force its body to continue moving; the Primeape was feebly resisting it. "Memento Mori." Again, the phrase passed by his mind, getting more clearly pronounced each time.

Lyonell had to choose how to end this. This had to end, the fighting had to go away from him at least long enough to heal the rest of the way. He could only think of one way to go about the end: To kill the Primeape. "Memento Mori." Suddenly, and very briefly, an image appeared in his mind. The Mightyena he faced, back then it didn't seem to have a red aura around it, but, he could feet a lust for blood from it. Looking back to when he was defending Noah against the Primeape, he could sense the same lust for blood from it as he did from the Mightyena. Something else seemed to be probing from the image however, remorse, and regret, but also the knowledge of why he had to put the Mightyena down: To protect his friends.

Lyonell looked down at the Primeape struggling to stand up in front of him. The red aura still glowed vividly around it, unwavering, and showing no signs of going away. The Mew formed an Aura Sphere in his hand, holding it up at shoulder level. Was he really going to put the Primeape down like he did to Mightyena? Was that justified by his feelings alone? Or was there another way?

"Memento Mori. Remember death." Echoed its way through Lyonell's skull, bouncing around inside until he couldn't take it any longer. When he thought he had enough of the mental torture of the images of the Mightyena dying in front of him, a voice spoke. It was female, soft sounding, but an underlying sense of grief. "This has to be done. There is no other way. If I want to save my mate, then I must do whatever it takes to protect him."

Lyonell was more than a bit confused as he heard the female voice speak. "Mate? Does she mean like a boyfriend? Who is she talking to?" He asked himself, looking around briefly to see if there was anyone else around, but nobody was in sight except for the Primeape. A few moments pass, the aura sphere swirling in his palm as he debated what he should do, but now his mind was made up. The sphere began to waver in his paw before slowly dispersing altogether, creating a small push of air in all directions that only made the Mew's fur ruffle slightly.

He closed his eyes, holding his arm out facing the monkey and floating down until he was touching the Pokemon's forehead. An orange hue glowed around his forearm down to his paw and began to shroud the Primeape's body in the same light, drowning out the red aura. Opening his eyes, Lyonell stared down at the injured Pokemon with teeth bared. "This is merciful considering what I could do to your minions you Team Rocket scum." Came a dark and foreboding voice from Lyonell's own mouth. "Obliterate!"

A blinding white light lit up the area quickly before vanishing just as fast. His arms stopped glowing and the Primeape fell backwards, eyes rolling into the back of its head as the monkey landed on its back. Lyonell shook his head, backing up slowly as he moved his hands to rest his palms on top of his head. "What did I just do?" He asked in a shaking voice, unsure of what just happened. It was odd to him, he couldn't remember anything after hearing the grief stricken voice in his head; it was like he was being controlled from within his own mind.

"Do not fear." The female voice spoke again. "He is not dead."

It was hard to comprehend what just happened, but when he heard the voice speak, it was almost calming just to hear it. "He? You mean the Primeape?" Lyonell couldn't hear an answer, but something in him knew that the voice was telling the truth. "Who are you? What do you want with me?" Valid questions in his own mind given the circumstances he's in.

With a sigh the female spoke. "You know who I am; so for me to reveal my name is not necessary. You were transformed back for a purpose. Your life, and Noah's are both in danger of being killed." 'Back' struck Lyonell as odd to hear, but he figured it was only a mistake on the voice's part.

"What do you mean? Who could possibly want to kill us? What did we do to upset anyone that much?" Lyonell asked each question in rapid succession of the other, not really giving much time for whoever was talking to him.
The voice didn't pay any mind to his questioning however, only focusing on speaking their mind. "You must find Noah and protect him. He is the only one who can free me. Noah has forgotten his past because of my own hand. I made it that way so that even if he is caught, no one will know where I am locked away." There was silence as Lyonell absorbed all of the information he was just given before she continued. "Find him. Noah will know what to do to free me even if he does not remember where I am currently."

The silence on Lyonell's side was finally broken after his orders were given. "You're Mew, aren't you?"

This time it was her turn to be silent, which was broken after a few moments. "Yes, I am Mew."

Lyonell gave a small nod of his head to make sure he knew what he was doing. "I will do as you ask. He's my best friend. I won't let him die." There was a moment when the female voice gave a sigh of relief before he could feel her presence leave his mind. That's where he stood, and he knew what he now had to do. He had to get Noah to help rescue Mew from wherever she has locked herself away. It was the only way to protect them from whatever was trying to kill them both.

He looked back towards the Primeape who was still unconscious on the ground and smiled. At least he didn't have to kill another Pokemon, but now he knew, things were not going to get any easier from here on out.