A/N: This is not one of my best chapters due to my brain being kind of fried thanks to my lack of sleep, and being distracted by so many different things. Hope you guys like this one anyway! Thanks!

Ho-Oh flapped its wing up as it began to fly away with Red clutched in its talons. His Pokemon began running towards the edge of the Tower.

"Stay here! I'll get him." Amy said as she summoned her Pidgeot. She jumped onto its back and flew after Ho-Oh.

"Screw that!" Mikey growled as she ran up to Charizard and leapt on its back. "Let's go! We've got to get Red back."

Charizard eagerly bolted from the top of the Tower and chased after Ho-Oh. It only had to pound its wings a couple times before it finally caught up with Ho-Oh and Amy.

Amy looked over her shoulder at Charizard and Mikey. "What are you doing? You're going to get yourself hurt!"

Mikey didn't reply. She was too focused on how high off the ground they were. "I really should have thought this out a little better." She mentally whimpered as her grip on Charizard tightened.

The Pokemon flew faster as they grew closer to Red. Charizard reached a claw out to Red, but Ho-Oh swooped downward just before Charizard could grab his mute friend. Charizard roared in anger as it pounded its wings faster and faster. Mikey could feel its heartbeat race as it pushed itself to catch up to the Legendry.

"Mikey!" Amy cried.

Mikey ignored her out of fear.

"Mikey, grab Red!" Amy cried.

Mikey couldn't let go of Charizard's neck. She was too scared. It was taking every ounce of her will power not to fall victim to her quickly growing panic attack. "Land. Land. I want to land. Please, please, just land."

Charizard tried to reach out towards Red again, but Ho-Oh swiped at them with one of its wings. Charizard fell out of the sky a couple dozen feet, but quickly recovered. It began flying back towards Ho-Oh, but froze when it noticed something off. It felt slightly lighter. Charizard looked over its shoulder and saw…no, it didn't see Mikey.

"Shit! Where is she?" Charizard thought worriedly as it spun in the air searching for her. It took him a while before he spotted her clinging desperately to the underside of Ho-Oh's wing. "Oh no."

Mikey's eyes were wide with complete and utter fear. All she could see was bright rainbow feathers and the ground hundreds of miles below and growing farther away. "I'm gonna die. Don't let go…" She thought horrified.

She shut her eyes and buried her face in Ho-Oh's wing.

Ho-Oh turned its head down to look at her when it felt her moving. It cawed loudly at her, causing her grip on its wing to loosen. Mikey gasped loudly as she tried to regain her grip on Ho-Oh's wing.

Mikey could hear whistling, but she first dismissed it as the air, but it soon came in patterns and songs. She cautiously looked down in the direction the whistles were coming from and spotted Red looking at her. He began signing at her, but she didn't know what he was saying.

"W-What?!" She could see Red shut his eyes. "What is he doing?" She felt something grab her around the waist, but her grip tightened on Ho-Oh's wing. "NO! NO! NO!" She shrieked as she squeezed her eyes shut.

Ho-Oh pounded its wings roughly against the air as it tried to get Mikey off and push the other being away. Mikey's grip slipped and she went plummeting to the ground. Her stomach tightened and she quickly forgot how to breathe. The shock of seeing the ground quickly approaching caused her vision to tunnel and she immediately blacked out.

"Wake up!" Someone said to Mikey. "Come on, Mikey! Wake up!"

"I don't want to." She groaned with her eyes still closed.

"Lazy." The voice snuffed. "Please, save him."

"Save him? Who's him?"

"Open your eyes!"

Mikey slowly obeyed and found herself flying. She gasped and looked around anxiously to see Amy on her Pidgeot flying away from an enraged Ho-Oh. Ho-Oh spit out a sacred fire at them, which was also heading in her direction. Mikey tried to move, but she couldn't move. In fact, she hadn't been flying on her own. Charizard held her protectively in his arms and, instead of flying away from Ho-Oh's fiery attack, flew straight into it.

Mikey shut her eyes as Charizard flew around the attack and sped towards Ho-Oh, releasing a powerful dragon rage into its face. The Legendary bird cawed angrily at them. It then tried to peck at them, but Charizard was faster than it, and, much to Mikey's displeasure, dive bombed towards the ground. Mikey still had her eyes shut, so while they were falling, she was suffering through a blind roller coaster of torture.

Unfortunately, the ride only got worse. She could fell Charizard do barrel rolls as it avoided more of Ho-Oh's attacks. And then…Charizard did something Mikey was not expecting. It dropped her.

Mikey screamed as she fell, but she yelped even louder when she hit the stony ground. She rolled on the ground before crashing into something metal, and groaned painfully. "Ouch."

She felt small paws on her shoulder. Mikey opened her eyes and rolled over to see Red's Pikachu and all of his other Pokemon staring at her. Pikachu cocked its head to the side as if to ask, 'are you alright?'

"That was not fun." She grimaced as she fixed her glasses.

Red's Pokemon turned back to the sky to watch Charizard and the others battle the furious Legendary. It looked like it was going to kill them if it caught them.

"This is not going to end well for them." Mikey said under her breath. She ran to the edge of the Tower and screamed. "HO-OH!"

The Legendary didn't hear her.

"HO-OH, YOU DAMN DODO, LOOK AT ME!"

Red's Pokemon stared at her in horror. That got its attention. Ho-Oh turned on her with rage burning in its eyes, and flew at her with stunning speed.

"Now what, you idiot?" Mikey thought to herself quickly. Like before, she had not thought her plan completely through. In fact, she hadn't been thinking at all when she screamed at the Legendary. "Shit."

Ho-Oh flew at her with one talon wide open, while the other one was still clamped shut around Red. Her eyes widened as the talons began wrapping itself around her. Before Ho-Oh could grab her, a large Pokemon came up from behind her and shielded her from the sharp talons.

The Pokemon groaned, but it did not back down. It pushed Ho-Oh's talons away and tried to reach for Red, but it was unable to do so.

"Snorlax, don't worry about me. Just keep protecting Mikey." Red signed. "Keep her and Amy safe!"

Red's Snorlax grabbed Ho-Oh's talons and held the Legendry down. Ho-Oh flapped its wings frantically, but it wasn't going anywhere.

Mikey ducked under its talons and ran for Red. She pulled at the talons with all her strength, but she wasn't strong enough to pull them apart. She looked up at Red with a determined glimmer in her eyes. "Come on, Red. Help me, help you!"

She pulled at the talons with the help of Red's Pokemon, while Red pushed. After a few moments of pushing and pulling, Red was able to wriggle out of the Legendry's grasp, and wound up landing roughly on top of Mikey, but he was quickly shoved off as she climbed to her feet. Snorlax released Ho-Oh, who immediately took to the sky and disappeared into the clouds.

Red shut his eyes and sighed with relief. "That was way too close." He could hear his Pokemon approach him with anxiousness in their movements. He opened his eyes and smiled at them. "What a wonderful way to end the day, huh?" He signed shakily.

"That's not funny, Red." His Pokemon signed back to him. "Ho-Oh could have really hurt you."

"I know, but at least everyone else is alright…right? Amy is okay? How is Mikey?" He asked. He looked in her direction and saw Mikey curled up by the golden perch.

Red began to walk over to her, but he was tackled by Amy as she leapt from her Pidgeot's back. She hugged him tightly around the neck and giggled into his ear. "That was too close!"

He smiled at her and hugged her back. Unbeknownst to either Amy or Red, Mikey was staring at them with a sense of worry and disapproval in her eyes. Or was it jealousy?

Back at the house

Amy and Red sat together on the couch, just relaxing with one another, while Mikey worked in the kitchen. It was her turn to make diner. She moved through the pantry to see what they had and came out with carrots, spaghetti, and mushrooms.

"Spaghetti with mushroom and carrots mix, cool." She immediately started prepping the food when Sayo and her Pokemon walked through the door.

"Good evening everyone. I'm sorry about earlier." She said sincerely.

Amy perked up from her spot on the couch and smiled at her friend mischievously. "Don't be, Sayo. Ho-Oh eventually showed up, but we weren't able to catch it. It did attempt to kidnap Red."

Sayo glanced at Red. "Are you alright?"

Red nodded reassuringly and gave her a thumbs up.

"Where is Mikey?" She asked worriedly.

Mikey was about to answer, but Amy quickly spoke up in a sorrowful tone. "She fell off the Tower and died."

"What?!"

Mikey ducked behind the kitchen's island and covered her mouth to keep from laughing.

"We tried to save her, Sayo, honestly. She…Ho-Oh scared her and she…just fell. It happened so quickly." Amy said sadly. She sounded almost believable.

"And you didn't tell anyone?! You didn't go get help just in case she may have still been alive? W-Where is she now?"

A couple of Sayo's Pokemon spotted Mikey hiding behind the island. They tried to point her out to Sayo, but grew silent when Mikey held up a few poffins to them, and gestured for them to be silent.

"Uh…we kind of just left her. I'm sure someone will find her eventually." Amy said matter-o-factly.

Red was trying really hard now to keep from laughing at Sayo's horrified face.

"You guys are insane, a-and cruel, and h-heartless, and…she's in the kitchen, isn't she?" Sayo asked, growing eerily calm.

Mikey slowly stood up from her hiding spot and waved at Sayo. "Hello."

"You guys are cruel!" Sayo muttered with a pitiful, pouty face.

"But we love you, Sayo! This is how we show it!" Amy said with arms extended out to her friend.

"I'm not hugging you after what you guys just pulled." Sayo said as she began walking to her room alone. Her Pokemon, however, trotted over to Mikey for their reward for staying silent.

"Hey, Mikey, when is diner going to be ready?" Amy asked loudly.

"I'm just getting it started, Amy. Be patient."

"But I'm hungry. Red, are you hungry?"

Red shrugged. His thoughts were drifting elsewhere.

"Do you want some help?" Amy asked as she stared to stand from the couch.

"Nah. You guys just relax. If I need help, I'll ask you." Mikey said as she dumped the spaghetti into a boiling pot of water. She worked quickly on diner, and was done within an hour. She put the spaghetti in a large bowl and set out four plates and some silverware. "Alright, come and get some."

Amy and Red walked over and took their fill before Mikey began scooping some onto her plate. "Sayo, dinner is ready!" She called.

Sayo walked out of her room and took her fill, and sat down with the rest of them at the dinner table. "So other than being caught by Ho-Oh, rather than catching it yourself, what did you guys do?"

Amy glared at Sayo. "We had an aerial battle with it."

"'We' as in you and your Pidgeot?"

Amy shot a glance at Mikey. "Well, Mikey helped by jumping onto Red's Charizard and tried to chase after Ho-Oh, but…some things happened and she wound up back on the Tower. Though, get this, just as I'm about to grab Red from Ho-Oh, I hear this weirdo screaming insults at Ho-Oh."

Sayo looked at Mikey in disbelief. "You were screaming at it? Do I want to know what you said to it?"

"No. Not really. No." Mikey said quickly before Amy could tell her anymore.

"Anyway," Amy smirked, "Ho-Oh didn't stick around after we got Red away from it. Unfortunately, we didn't try to chase after it. We'll have to find it again later. Who's with me?"

No one replied.

Mikey quickly finished her dinner and put her plate in the sink before walking to her room. She shut the door and pulled out her book, Maximum Ride, which she had been reading almost every night before bed.

She kicked off her shoes and laid down on her bed with the book open in her hands. She began reading through a couple chapters before falling asleep.

The white haired girl was standing in the flaming room again, but this time the Pokemon within the force field was missing. The girl was staring blankly into the flames where the mysterious Pokemon usually lay, while Mikey tried to make her way over to her.

"Hey! Girl, what are you doing? Get out of here!" Mikey cried over the roar of the flames. "We have to get out of this room."

The girl didn't move.

Mikey swallowed nervously and ran through the flames. She tripped over some debris, but she didn't let it slow her down. She had to get to the girl before she disappeared or before the dream ended.

Mikey reached out for the girl, and came within a finger's length of her before both the girl and the room vanished into ashes. Mikey looked around frantically and saw that she was standing in the center of what looked to be the ruins of the room that the girl had been standing within.

"Is this what's going on now?" Mikey wondered aloud as she picked up a rusted/burned bar. "No, it can't be. This is just a dream." A noise behind her caused her to yelp out of fright. She spun around to see a Vulpix running away from the ruins. "Did I spook it? No, it's just a dream."

The little Pokemon scampered over to three other Pokemon, a Rattata, a Haunter, and a Pokemon she had never seen before, and began speaking to them. It sounded sad.

The Haunter and Rattata gave the Vulpix a sorrowful look, but the third pink, and feline-like Pokemon stared straight at Mikey. Mikey frowned and waved absent-mindedly at the nameless Pokemon. It waved back!

"This is just a dream." Mikey repeated to herself.

The other three Pokemon turned and stared at her, but they seemed to look right through her. Only the pink Pokemon could see her. It slowly started drifting towards her, but stopped and looked behind her at something.

Mikey looked over her shoulder and gasped. She took a step back towards the pink Pokemon as she looked upon the large figure of the gray Pokemon she had seen in her previous dreams.

"Mew?" It asked, taking a step towards her.

Mikey took another step back and tripped over some rubble. When she landed, though, she fell back onto her bed. Mikey quickly looked around her room and sighed with relief.

"It was just a dream." She smiled, sitting up. She looked back down for her book, but froze in horror when she saw what lay beside her. Instead of her book, there was the rusted metal bar from her dream. "S-So…where is my book?"

Seafoam Islands

Mew blinked in surprise when the girl vanished. "Where'd she go?"

"Who are you talking about, Mew?" Mewtwo asked. He sounded tired.

"The girl. She was standing right there in front of you before she fell over and disappeared." Mew said. She was still staring at the spot where Mikey fell, half expecting her to reappear.

Mewtwo sighed. "Maybe you should take the others and go, Mew. You're starting to lose it."

"I'm not losing it!" She cried in a high pitched tone. "I swear I saw her!"

Mewtwo shook his head and turned away from her. "You and the others should go. You've been here long enough."

"No! Not until you leave!"

Mewtwo sighed and looked down. He and the others had searched the islands from top to bottom, turning them both inside out. Every inch of the islands had become familiar to them, except for one thing that now caught Mewtwo's attention. In the center of the ruined lab laid a book.

He bent down and picked it up.

"Is that the girl's book?" Mew asked as she examined it from over Mewtwo's shoulder.

He ignored her and examined the cover. It had a price tag still on the front from a small book store in Ecruteak City. He then opened the book to the front cover to find a name scribbled upon the cover page.

Michael Devan

The next day

Even though she didn't have to be at work the next day, Mikey went into the book store to see if there were any books on the Pokemon she saw in her 'dream'. She had been searching the shelves for hours, but her search had been in vain.

"It's as if they don't exist." She muttered angrily as she replaced yet another book back on its shelf. "Hey, Jackie, do we have any books on a Pokemon called Mew?"

Her co-worker turned to her and grimaced. "No, I don't think so. I've never heard of it either."

"Grrr…I wonder if the high school's library has anything on Mew." She wondered to herself as she began to leave the store. She stopped when she noticed a Sign Language for Dummies book and grabbed it off the shelf before buying it at the front counter. "It would be nice if I could understand Red a little better for both his and Amy's sake." She thought to herself as she left for the library with the book open in her hands.

She didn't have to go very far for the school was only a couple blocks away, but she had to move slower since her nose was stuck in her new book. It was a stupid thing to do, but it was an old habit that Mikey was not willing to give up. Even when her mother told her to keep her eyes on where she was going as a little girl, Mikey would find herself disobeying mother and tripping over her own feet as she read while walking.

She was completely absorbed in the book that she found herself tripping every so often on the sidewalk. She even managed to run into a pedestrian. Her shoulder collided into his, but instead of stopping and looking up at the boy she had run into, she only slowed down slightly to apologize. Mikey was on a mission, and nothing would stop her.

Mikey quickened her pace and arrived at the library a couple minutes later and replaced her new book into her messenger book bag. She then began roaming the shelves for books on rare and legendary Pokemon to Pokemon whose names began with 'M'. She pulled as many books as she could off the shelves and brought them over to one of the empty desks.

She grabbed the first book in her stack and began flipping through, hoping to find something on the Mew Pokemon. However, after another couple hours of reading and skimming through all the books she pulled, she found nothing.

"Oh, for the love of-"

"Is something the matter?" A male voice asked.

Mikey yelped at how close he sounded. "Morty!"

This earned her a stern hush from the librarian.

Mikey shrunk in her seat and glared at the ghost type gym leader. "Dude, you're going to get me kicked out."

Morty snickered as he took the seat across from her. "Like they would ever be able to do that to you. You'd find some way back in here by the end of the day. Anywhere that has mountains of books is deemed your natural habitat."

Mikey rolled her eyes at his jab and opened one of the last books that she had not read through.

Morty picked up another book and examined the cover. "What are you trying to find? Perhaps I could help you."

Even though he was the city's gym leader for ghost type, Morty knew quite a lot about Legendary Pokemon, especially the Legendary Beasts and Ho-Oh.

Mikey tapped the edge of the book she was holding, silently debating with herself on whether to ask him for help or not. She finally looked up at Morty and nodded. "There's this Pokemon that I keep seeing in my dreams, and I really want to know what it is."

"Describe it to me."

"Well, technically, there are two of them. One is small, pink, and feline-like, while the other is tall, grayish-purple, and possesses a mix of both a humanoid and feline-like stature."

Morty thought for a moment as he racked his brain for any possible matches. "Sorry, Mikey. I can't think of any. Perhaps it was all in your head?"

Mikey didn't reply. Instead, she shoved her face back into her book. She would have agreed with him, but the metal bar that still lay on her bed told another story.

Following Mewtwo

Mewtwo flew from the Seafoam Islands to Johto with Mew and the others in tow. Mew had encouraged him to travel to Johto and find the vanishing girl. He didn't want to at first, but after much convincing and begging from Mew, he finally gave in and agreed to go.

They finally landed a few hours later, and Mewtwo instantly shifted into Kenji when no one was looking, while Mew morphed into an Aipom. Vulpix and Rattata, who were being kinetically carried, landed beside Mew, while Haunter hovered above them.

"I think I see a book store over there." Haunter pointed out before drifting back down to the group's level.

"Lead the way, Haunter." Mew chirped.

Haunter nodded and led the group towards the little store. Mewtwo, however, lagged behind. His thoughts were elsewhere, and his gaze was aimed towards the ground. He didn't see the girl with her nose in her book walking right into him. He only looked up when she bumped into him.

"Sorry." She muttered as she continued walking.

He glared at her, but continued towards the book store. He saw the others stopped in front of the store, and quickened his pace. Before he reached the door, another boy walked up to the book store and smiled at them. He then looked up at Mewtwo and waved.

"Hello, Red."

"It's good to see you again, Mewtwo." Red nodded. "How have you and the others been? What brings you here?"

Mewtwo held up the book that they found back at the Seafoam Islands. "We found this the other day after Mew said she saw a girl disappear in front of her. She wanted to investigate. You wouldn't happen to know who this Michael is?"

Red held his hand out for the book and examined it from cover to cover. "This might be Mikey's. She's always got her nose in a book. We can ask Amy and Sayo just in case. I don't know where Mikey is at the moment though, so we can't ask her."

"She?" Mewtwo asked.

"Yeah, but she likes to go by Mikey. She never explained to me why that was."

"Is Amy or Sayo the girl that you met in Altomare?" Mew asked.

"Amy. She, Sayo and Mikey are all roommates, or rather housemates. We can go back to their house if you guys want." Red suggested.

The group nodded and followed Red to the house. Red knocked on the door and walked inside to see Sayo hurrying about the living room. She was getting ready to go over to the dance theater.

Red waved at her and she nodded back to him. "Afternoon, Red. Afternoon, Red's friends. Sorry, but I'm in a bit of a rush. I slept in, and I'm already plenty late."

Red waved her off as if to say, 'Don't fret. I understand.'

Sayo walked past them and out the door.

"Why didn't you ask her about her housemate?" Mewtwo asked bluntly.

"I can't exactly ask them out loud. I had to lie to Amy about how I lost my voice. I don't think I can start talking again without them getting very suspicious. Besides, why didn't you ask her?"

"Apologies. I should have been the one to ask."

"Red, you're back. Where are the groceries?" Amy asked as she walked out of her room. "Oh, hi. We have company. Hello, my name is Amy." Amy said, extending a hand out to Mewtwo.

Mewtwo just looked at her hand. "Kenji."

"You can be a little nicer." Mew said bluntly.

Amy retracted her arm and tried for small talk. "Red told me a lot about you and the others in your group…or he tried to. I'm still learning sign."

Mewtwo looked at Red from the corner of his eye.

"Don't worry, Kenji. Red didn't share any embarrassing stories or anything about you guys with me." She said in a teasing tone.

Mewtwo just stared at her.

"Don't feel bad, Amy. It's kind of hard to connect with him at first." Red signed. "He'll…eventually warm up to you…maybe."

Amy nodded.

"We're also looking for Mikey. Do you know where she is?" Red asked.

"Uh…yeah! She went to book store earlier for something, but she should have been back a while back. She probably didn't find what she was looking for…or she did, then she's hiding somewhere in the park or library. If she hasn't found what she's looking for, then she is in the library. If she did, then she'll be at the park."

Mewtwo sighed and began walking out the door, but Mew jumped onto his back and stopped him. "Be patient. There must be a reason why the girl appeared to us, and if we wait for her to return we can find out."

"I don't want to wait." He mentally muttered.

"Well you're going to wait!"

"Weren't you the one who told me earlier that waiting was a bad idea?"

"That was then, Mewtwo. This is now. You're going to wait." Mew said as she pulled Mewtwo back towards the others.

Mewtwo groaned and sat down on the couch as he waited for Mikey to return.