Chapter 4: Escape
"Hey, you need to listen to this." Joasia heard a voice in her head in the late hours of the night. "I'll try to help you get out, just follow my instructions when I give them to you, it won't be tonight but just giving you a heads up." the voice said.
"Who are you?" Joasia returned telepathically.
"That doesn't matter right now, you'll just have to listen out for my instructions, but for now, go to sleep." the voice told Joasia.
Joasia soon fell asleep and breathed quietly. In a room a few doors down, two people were discussing matters of importance to the fate of the world.
"It isn't right that they treat her like that, besides the fact they want to use her for world domination." Jenny said to Doctor Stanislaw whom had asked her to stay behind late in his lab to discuss what they should do to prevent the conquering of the world by Team Rocket.
"You are right, it isn't right to treat a creature with feelings with the cruelty and inhumaneness they have been. It has taken me a long time to penetrate this far up in the ranks of Team Rocket, I joined so that I could sabotage their plans later on, and now seems like the perfect time to interfere with Giovanni's plans, I say we somehow help the creature escape. I have a computer virus which can temporarily disable all Team Rocket computers and security systems whilst we help Joasia escape. You know, a strange little Pokémon came to me this morning on my way here, he said that we have to help her escape. He will look after her when she escapes. But one thing you must understand is this, if one of us is caught, they will undoubtedly shoot us, so I am going to make sure there is no suspicion on you, I will make you do a part which isn't obvious so they don't think you were involved." Doctor Stanislaw told Jenny his plan.
"But they will kill you if they find out." Jenny told Doctor Stanislaw.
"I know, but I have lived for a good 60 years, Jenny, you are only in your 20s, you have much more life left then I do. My life has been happy; it does not matter whether I die tomorrow or not." Doctor Stanislaw assured Jenny.
"Don't say such things, they won't find out about you. You have been so kind to me since I got here so you can't die on me." Jenny said sadly.
"We will see what happens tomorrow, goodnight, you can go now, I must prepare." Doctor Stanislaw waved off Jenny.
Jenny drove home that night thinking about what was to happen tomorrow, she worried for her friend, the kind doctor. She thought about how she could help the doctor escape suspicion from the escape. She decided that if the doctor came under suspicion she would say it was her. Jenny got home to find that a strange little Pokémon was sitting on her fence.
"Hello there little guy, are you lost?" Jenny asked it, not expecting an answer.
"Nope, I'm not lost at all, I'm exactly where I want to be thank you very much." a voice said.
Jenny jumped at the sound of the voice as she thought no one else was around. After a few seconds, she realised it was the creature in front of her.
"Y-you can talk?" Jenny stuttered.
"I am Mew, and yes, I can communicate telepathically with people, should I choose to." the small creature now known as Mew told Jenny.
"Then why are you here?" Jenny wanted to know.
"I am here to tell you that you must help Joasia escape, the fate of the world depends on the fact that she escapes. If she does not, she will eventually give in to the wishes of Team Rocket and will be used to conquer the entire world, and to transform it into a tyrannical dictatorship, with Giovanni as the dictator." Mew disclosed.
"My friend and I have already discussed the fact that we should help her escape." Jenny told Mew.
"I talked to your friend earlier, he is happy with doing this, I just need to make sure you get the reason why you must do it, if I could, I would do it all for you guys, but I can't exactly just break in to a Team Rocket base and bust her out of there, I would be shot and she would be tortured into submission." Mew made sure Jenny understood.
"Ok, I will do it." Jenny said.
Mew nodded and floated off the fence and into the trees behind her house. Jenny walked into her house, amazed at how important an action she would take would be. She had never exactly expected to be part of the balance between the world remaining free and a tyrannical overlord ruling the planet. Jenny went to bed that night thinking of dreadful things that may happen if she failed to complete the task set before her. Entire armies ripped apart by one creature that had once been sensitive. People being individually levitated and crushed into the ground by an unstoppable force, so full of hate. Jenny must help Joasia to escape, or this was a possibility of the future. Jenny drifted off to sleep soon and all was quiet…
The sound that meant it was time to awaken sounded in Joasia's room. Joasia awoke and mentally prepared herself for the abuse the new day would bring. The door opened and Jenny walked in, as was customary for this time of morning, with a plate of the bland tasting sludge. Joasia was hungry and scoffed the lot.
"Joasia, when I tell you, you need to run." Jenny quietly whispered.
"What for?" Joasia replied with a question.
"You'll see, it won't be long now." Jenny replied quietly.
Jenny walked out of the room and the guards walked in. They escorted her towards the training room. But then, the lights all went off and the only light came from a window at the end of the hallway. Joasia heard two thuds, one on her right and one on her left. She soon realised both of her guards were lying on the ground unconscious.
"Run Joasia! Escape, go down the hallway and turn left at the end, it'll lead you to an exit, don't stop!" a voice which belonged to Jenny said.
"I won't forget what you did, Jenny." Joasia replied as she began to run.
A gunshot sounded as Joasia turned around the hallway, and Jenny slumped to the floor, bleeding from a wound in the back of her head. The guards had woken up. They chased down the hallway after Joasia, but too late, Joasia had already blocked the door that she went through. As Joasia ran, she saw many strange experiments in tanks as she went past, all seemed to be alive. She ran up a staircase and through a door. She was greeted with a scene of scientists all running about in a flurry, she bumped into one or two. A frail looking man tripped in front of her and she accidentally stepped on his arm. She heard a loud snap echo through the hallway followed by a scream of intense pain come from the man. She hesitated and looked behind and saw the man. Half of his left arm lay mangled, fragments of bone stuck up through the skin of his arm, splotches of blood were scattered across the surface of the arm like a cake with berries on top, Joasia gagged at the sight but continued running. Scientists rushed to help the now unconscious man. She recalled that he was one of the men who did the painful procedures on her, he probably deserved it anyway. She eventually came to a door with two guards, she levitated their guns and hit them in the head with them, and they slumped to the ground unconscious. She ran out the door and found herself in fresh air, but didn't stop to look around, she instead ran into the forest on the other side of a grass clearing and didn't stop until she was sure no one was following her and she was a fair distance away.
"Hello, I'm here now, how'd the escape go?" a voice suddenly said.
Joasia whirled around and pounced on where the voice had come from, it was a small pink creature that was sitting there.
"Could you please get off me? You're squashing me and your breath stinks." the creature said.
Joasia got up off the creature and stared at it for a few seconds before asking, "Who are you?"
"I am the voice you heard last night, my name is Mew, and, in a way, I'm your brother." the small pink creature said.
"Why are you here?" Joasia asked.
"To take you somewhere where you can be safe and get trained to defend yourself." Mew smiled as he replied. "But I haven't told the person who is going to train you that you're coming yet, he may be a little shocked, so when we get to the place where he lives, you will have to wait outside so I can explain to him, he is very cautious and anti-social, but can be reasoned with."
"Why should I trust you?" Joasia demanded answers.
"Because I'm not with the people who hurt you, and if you want to stay hidden from those bad people, you should come with me." Mew answered.
"Fine, anything to stay away from those evil people." Joasia sighed.
Joasia followed Mew through the forest at a walking pace as Mew floated and looked around her at all the things and creatures that were new to her, as she hadn't exactly seen much when she was locked away in that base.
"How far is it to the place you were talking about?" Joasia asked Mew.
"About one day away if we walk and sleep the night." Mew replied. "Are you hungry or thirsty? Because I'm starving, let's get some food and drink."
"Where will we get that?" Joasia wanted to know as her stomach had been telling her for some time that she was hungry, and her throat was a little dry.
"Don't you worry, wait here and I will be back with food and a surprise that you will enjoy." Mew said as he floated off into the trees on their left.
Mew returned about half an hour later, holding a weird canister with his tail that seemed to be bigger than himself and a basket of round, red looking things.
"Quick, grab the canister off me, it's really heavy!" Mew yelled as he came through the trees.
Joasia took the canister from him and placed it on the ground, inside was a cold, white liquid.
"What is this liquid you have brought?" she asked Mew.
"It is milk." Mew said with a proud look on his face.
"Where did you get it?" Joasia inquired.
"I stole it from a farmer who left his milk-shed door open." Mew stated. "And in case you're wondering, those round things are berries, dig in."
Mew dived into the milk canister and slurped up milk loudly whilst Joasia sat back in amusement eating the berries from the basket.
"Leave some for me, will you!" Joasia exclaimed as she realised how fast Mew was drinking the milk.
"Sorry," Mew popped out of the canister and burped loudly, "I get a little carried away sometimes."
Joasia tried some of the white liquid known as milk, and found it to be delicious, she quickly drank half of what was left and sighed with contentment.
"Thank you, Mew, those were the best tasting things I've had, and they were very refreshing. You can have the little bit that's left in the bottom." Joasia said, but didn't really have to say as Mew jumped on the milk canister and slurped up the small amount of liquid left.
"No problem, but we should find a shelter for the night and rest before we start walking again tomorrow." Mew told Joasia as the sun began to set.
They found a small cave about 100 meters ahead and curled up for the night. Soon Mew was snoring loudly enough to wake the dead. But thankfully Joasia had placed leaves in her ears by this stage and was soon also asleep…