No Respite, Even in Sleep

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Pain.... Mind numbing, endless and unyielding agony was all that Mewtwo could feel as he lay upon the sodden yet blackened and burnt pavement beneath his broken and exhausted form, heavy golf ball sized raindrops matting his bloodied pale grey fur as he lay sprawled against the destroyed pavement in what felt like a pool of his own blood.

'I.... I must.... Rise....... I-It can't..... End like this..... I must.... Find the strength......'

Mewtwo's barely coherent thoughts were interrupted however, as a colossal 10'6 quadruped form loomed over his prone form from his immediate left, dwarfing Mewtwo and casting him into it's immense shadow as a fork of lightning streaked through the dark sky, momentarily illuminating the giant figure yet also blinding the grievously wounded psychic feline.

The enormous quadruped was revealed to be some sort of finely grey furred equine-type creature by what glimpses Mewtwo managed to see through the haze of white spots currently dancing past his vision, some sort of faint golden light radiating from it's apparently horse-like form.

Mewtwo uttered a low groan as he slowly began to rise, his lips parting in preparation to speak as he planted his large paws either side of his lacerated and battered feline form, yet whomever the colossal figure was didn't give Mewtwo a chance to speak as it opened it's own mouth in order to speak, it's booming and almost ethereal voice somehow audible despite the hurricane conditions wreaking havoc on what appears to be downtown Celadon city.

"You truly are an abomination, Clone..... No Pokemon should possess the powers that you wield..... I gave you the option to save yourself, yet you spurned my offer of redemption..... Choosing instead to pit your strength against my own in a final futile act of defiance..... And now, you shall die by my hooves.... Make your peace, Clone.... For Giratina shall decide your fate in the next world!"

And with that said, the enormous equine reared back onto it's hind legs, drawing itself up to almost double it's original height as a horrified yet decidedly feminine scream echoed out into the night, the voice sounded oddly familiar to Mewtwo as he attempted to turn, leap, evade, anything to avoid the motorcycle-sized golden hooves currently poised above his partially seated form.

"MEWTWO!!!! NOOOO!!!!!! You bastards! Why can't you see this is wrong?!?!?"

Yet Mewtwo found himself powerless to move, run or even turn to locate the source of the scream as the giant equine brought his hooves down upon him in a 'Stomp' attack of unequallable power.

Mewtwo threw his head back as the mighty hooves descended upon his lacerated and bloodied feline form, a final colossal roar of anguish and defiance erupting from his lips, causing the ground to shake beneath his feet as that same feminine voice let out a frenzied scream into the storm-ridden night once again.

"MEWTWOOOOO!!!!!!!!"

"NO!!!!"

Mewtwo's panicked scream reverberated throughout his small subterranean dwelling as he lurched forward into in a seated position upon his king-sized stainless steel bed, hurling the silken purple sheets against the rocky limestone wall opposite with a sudden yet mercifully tiny burst of telekinetic energy.

Mewtwo's slitted lavender irises were wide and fully dilated in the relative darkness of the small cave as he desperately tried to slow the rapid pounding of his heart against his ribcage, his broad chest rising and falling at an accelerated rate in time with his ragged breaths whilst the disturbing and eerily realistic nightmare flashed before his eyes once again.

'What in the name of all creation was that....? Was it.... Just a dream.....? Nothing more than an amalgamation of my hopes and fears buried deep within my psyche?'

The considerably disturbed psychic Pokemon ran his large and currently shaking left paw over his face as he closed his eyes and took in a deep calming breath, feeling his fine pale grey fur to be matted and damp with cold sweat beneath his thick bulbous fingertips.

'Just a dream...... Nothing more........'

Mewtwo repressed a brief shudder as he recalled the colossal equine type Pokemon standing over his fallen and wounded form, the lightning partially illuminating it's fearful yet awe inspiring features before it ended his life with its golden hooves.

The genetically enhanced clone slowly turned to his right and rose from his bed, feeling the familiar cool sensation of smooth limestone beneath the pads of his feet as he glanced towards the small digital clock upon his bedside table, groaning irritably when he saw the dull red figures of 6:37am shining up at him. He had only gone to bed just a little under an hour ago! His mattress, 'borrowed' from a home goods store in Celadon city, offered a soft exhale of trapped air as it was freed of Mewtwo's considerable weight.

'Dream or not..... I'm not going to get any more sleep today.....'

The obviously stressed psychic Pokemon sighed as he looked around his temporary home with a weary glance, the small yet oddly homely limestone cave was a perfect 10'15 rectangle with a ceiling that was just about seven feet from the floor, ideally suited then for Mewtwo's considerable 6'7 height.

Against the furthest wall from the concealed entrance and exit of the cave was Mewtwo's bed, a small wooden bedside table sat beside it to the left which Mewtwo had crafted himself from a fallen oak tree. On the wall to the immediate left of the entrance was a heavyset wooden door that led into a small yet surprisingly hygienic bathroom with a fully functional toilet, bath and shower built into the limestone itself.

The only other furniture in the sparsely decorated cave, besides the light bulb hanging from the ceiling, was a large 6'5 wooden wardrobe made from, yes you guessed it, oak, on the right of Mewtwo's bed, which contained the equipment and faded brown leather cloak of Mewtwo's alter ego, the newly named 'Shadowed Avenger'.

'Honestly.... And I thought my own name was unoriginal..... Humans, I'll never understand them.....'

With another weary sigh Mewtwo slowly strode towards the wardrobe and pulled it open with a barely audible grunt, wordlessly donning his infamous brown cloak and checking everything that he would need was in place before he shut the wardrobe doors and took a step backwards, taking on a ready stance as he closed his lavender irises and focused his psychic powers, mumbling aloud to himself as a barely detectable blue light gave his fine pale grey fur an otherworldly and alien glow.

"I never did like this part....."

The seemingly endless darkness that blanketed Mewtwo's home seemed to shimmer for a moment before beginning to swirl around Mewtwo's tall feline form in what appeared to be a whirlpool of shadow, this supposedly impossible phenomenon quickly obscured Mewtwo from view and made the peaceful silence in the cave become momentarily eerie and chilling for several seconds until it finally subsided and all was returned to normal.

All aside from Mewtwo, that is. The tall psychic feline now appeared to be a roughly humanoid being composed of nothing but shadow, his long muscular purple tail was no longer visible and his eyes shone like burning blue beacons of light in the darkness when he finally opened them.

With his transformation complete, Mewtwo turned towards the entrance and quickly strode towards it, his already deep baritone voice now lower and coarser than usual as he muttered softly to himself under his breath, quickly unsealing and then resealing the entrance with his psychic abilities on his way out.

"Time to go to work......"