Chapter 3 - What's this?

'Mew is doing what?!' Ho-oh shrieked, 'That is highly irresponsible, it's an insane plan, it's - it's - it's Mew-level crazy!'

Mewtwo had just explained what Mew was planning, conveniently leaving out the fact that he was involved as well. He sank down to near ground-level, trying not to feel too intimidated by Ho-oh's loud ranting. Mewtwo perked up, the unfortunate pokémon forced to deliver the news to Ho-oh had an idea to get her off their backs. Might not make a difference, he thought, but it's worth a try.

"It's Mew's idea." Mewtwo stated, "And Lugia didn't mind."

'Lugia! Ever since that Shamouti fiasco, he's been trying to "relax" and "go with the flow". Honestly! I know that it was stressful, but he just had to listen to that hippie Phione!' Ho-oh was shrieking even louder if that was possible, 'I am flying over there and giving him a piece of my mind! Letting something like this slide?! He's going to learn how to get his priorities straight!' Ho-oh flew off towards the sunset, determined to lecture Lugia on his behavior.

Mewtwo didn't bother telling her that she was going the wrong way, instead he thought, That actually went better than I expected. And Lugia is only in that cave once a month, he'll be moving around again by now. Tracking him down ought to keep Ho-oh off our backs for at least a few weeks. Mewtwo levitated a little higher and prepared to teleport to Mew. Now to tell her where the factory is. Mewtwo sighed, And I have to disguise myself as a human and get permission to use the newly built battle stadium too...


A few days later...

Mew was flying around in Altomare, looking for the entrance to Latias' and Latios' secret garden. Hey, there it is! Mew flew towards it happily thinking of how Latias could- Oomph! Whoops! Heh, that's the actual wall. She then flew through the wall illusion a foot to the right and came out in the Eon Duo's secret garden. It was a sunny day in Altomare, around three in the afternoon, and Mew glanced around the lush and healthy garden, but couldn't see Latias anywhere.

'Hey, Lati! Sis, you in here?!' Mew called.

'I'm right behind you, Mew.' Latias responded, an invisible figure behind the cat-like psychic.

A startled Mew flinched and said, 'I forgot you could do that, you surprised me.'

Latias, the Legendary psychic and dragon type shimmered into visibility again floated behind Mew. She had been getting lonely recently, as her brother had been turned into a Soul Dew and Bianca couldn't always play with her. The local wild pokémon were friendly, but she couldn't seem to really bond with any of them.

'What brings you here, Mew?' the red and white pokémon inquired.

The smaller psychic-type replied, 'Me and my Big Brother are setting up a pokémon battle tournament, and I wanted you and Latios to help!'

Latias said quietly, 'Latios is a Soul Dew...' Mew didn't hear her and she quickly said, 'Brother can't help, he'd be a downer anyway, but I'd be glad to!' No need for Mew to find out about what happened with Team Rocket, it'd just get her down, Latias thought, and clearly, Mewtwo still hasn't gotten through to her about the fact that she's millennia older than he is. I'll just have to use Mewtwo's term of 'Mew Logic' in this situation.

'How are you going to get wild pokémon to enter a tournament?' Latias asked.

'No, no, no, wild pokémon aren't going to battle each other in this, humans are going to enter with their pokémon teams!' Mew explained to Latias.

'Really? Now there's something you don't hear every day! Legendary pokémon setting up a pokémon battle tournament for trainers to enter! Hah!' Latias laughed, 'Sure, I'll still help, I want to see how this works out.'

Mew smiled (more than usual) and did a series of flips and turns in the air in a celebratory manner. Now that Latias was onboard with her idea, they could finally get to work publicizing the tournament.

'You can go around putting up posters in human cities with me.' Mew said.

Latias replied, 'All right, let's get started.'


Two days later...

Three pokémon trainers were standing at the port in Nuvema Town. A 10-year-old boy with black hair, brown eyes, and red hat was facing the other two figures. Iris, tan-skinned, purple haired, and only girl in the group, and Cilan, a pale skinned, green haired gym leader.

"I guess this is it then." Iris said sadly, "For our group at least, it's no more adventures in Unova."

"Just for now Iris," Cilan said with a faint smile, "I'm sure we'll meet each other again, right Ash?"

"You bet, Cilan," the ever-energetic trainer said, "It's not goodbye forever, just goodbye for now. Maybe you two could come visit in Kanto sometime, and we'll battle each other!"

"Do you ever think of anything besides that?" Iris taunted, "You're such a little kid!"

-Seaplane to Viridian City in the Kanto Region now boarding. Departure set in ten minutes.- the announcement came over the speakers.

"Oh, we'd better get on board, eh, Pikachu?" Ash said to his best friend and pokémon partner. Pikachu responded, 'Yes, we should.' but all the group of friends heard was "Pi, Pikachu."

"We'll all meet again someday." Cilan said, "Call us as soon as you land, 'kay Ash? We'll stay here a day or two."

"Sure," he responded, "Bye guys!"

Ash ran up the boarding ramp, Pikachu following close behind him. He turned around and waved at his friends at the door into the seaplane.

"Best Wishes guys!" he shouted.

"Best Wishes, Ash!" his friends replied.


10 minutes later...

Iris and Cilan stood at the edge of the platform, gazing at the point in the sky where the seaplane carrying their friend had last been visible. They both turned around at the same time and walked back to the Pokemon Center. As they walked through the thinning crowds o the streets Iris ran to a storefront window where she noticed a poster. It was orange, with a white circle near the center radiating out white lines. There were vivid light blue words running across the top third of the poster, 'Enter the Legends Tournament' they read, directly below the large words were pictures of the Unova starters surrounding a pokeball their size, Snivy at the center with Oshawott to her right and Tepig at her left. Below the image was smaller black type, explaining entry rules and location.

Cilan walked up to the poster Iris was staring at and said, "What's this?"


AN: I might come back and edit this later if people want, please review! And go check out the poll on my profile, don't you want your favorite gym leaders in this story?