So, I've noticed a small mistake in the story. I've been saying that Ash has been missing for a month, but also that he's been at Team Rocket's Lab for a month. While that makes since I've also said that Ash has been on the run before he was captured, so the time line just doesn't match up.

I'll go back eventually and probably make it so Ash was missing for about a month and a half: two weeks on the run, and a month at the labs. But for now just ignore it until I get the opportunity to fix it.

[Present Day: Under the ruins of the Pokemon Mansion: Cinnabar Island- 9:45 P.M.]

It was too quiet for Ash's liking.

He had gone a whole day without seeing any other humans, while normally he would have enjoyed not seeing the Rockets, he knew something was off. By seeing no other humans also meant that Ash had not received any food that day. His stomach growled in protest, and he closed his eyes, trying to focus. Perhaps they were going to starve him into compliance, which was a good tactic considering his love for food. But food wasn't going to convince him to sell Mew out. He was prepared for whatever was thrown at him, he wasn't going to break.

... mmmm mmm mmmm...

Ash flinched, opening his eyes, he could have sworn he had heard a voice in his head.

...mnmnmm mhmm...

Ash closed his eyes again, trying to turn the mumblings into words.

... Ash, can you hear me? A voice called, it sounded tired. Ash's whole body froze up, he knew that voice. He whole mind panicked as he tried to force the voice out of his mind. He heard a bitter laugh. Nice try. You've been blocking me, but my presence is now rooted in your mind. The only way I'm leaving is if I chose too.

"Mew!" Ash cried, exclaiming the very name he had been avoiding. But that didn't matter now, she was telepathically linked with him right now.

Yes, remember me? Her tone reminded him of his mother's tone when she was upset. The Pokemon that promised to help you, but you then push away when you need help. Do you not trust me?

"I don't need help!" Ash cried, panicking, "I'm honestly just fine!"

Charizard and Archeops came to me warning me that you were in danger, Ash sighed, at least two of his Pokemon were okay, You can imagine my surprise when I checked my link to discovered that you've been blocking our connection. Why? I know I'll help you, why are you pushing me away? She sounded hurt.

"Mew, you need to break our connection right now!" Ash ordered, he knew that Team Rocket knew how to handle psychic types, what if they could trace her telepathy to her location? "Don't make contact with me again and get moving. Team Rocket is after you."

He could almost imagine Mew rolling her eyes, Tell me something I don't know. They've been after me for as long they have been around. They disturbed my burial grounds just to get a hold of one of my fossils.

Ash briefly wondered how she could have fossils and a burial ground if she was alive, but that wasn't his focus at the moment, "Mew, they mean business this time, they want another clone of you."

We've had discussion before, all clones of me will fail. I'm just going to teleport over there real quick, get you, and then we're out. Mew said, We can deal with them once your safe.

"NO! Mew, listen to me, they're prepar-!"

Zap.

Mew appeared in front of Ash with a flash of pink light. She gave him a small stern smile, and Ash paled.

The whole cell became drenched in a blue light. The aurora-like lights quickly solidified into panels similar to the ones from Mewtwo's dome. Ash's heart began to race as they became encased within a box-like space made out of the panels. The panels were glowing a green-blue, but were transparent. Mew's eyes widened, and she fired a Shadow Ball at the panels. The attacked bounced off, and the panels flickered, but were unharmed.

She closed her eyes, a pink glow around her as she tried to teleport. Sweat formed on her head as her teleporting failed, and the glow faded. She looked back at Ash with shock, It traps my psychic powers. I cannot sense anything beyond these barriers. I cannot properly connect with the space and time realms to teleport away.

Ash gritted this teeth, "They been working on this technology for a while now. They used it to trap Meloetta, Pikachu, and I on my first trip to Unova. Pikachu managed to break out with an Iron Tail after a while, but they have probably improved it since then."

Mew closed her eyes, thinking. Silvery energy formed in the shape of wings around her arms, and she charged at the barriers. The Steel Wing rebounded off the barriers with a ping. Mew panted.

"Yes Ash, we have improved greatly on this technology," A voice said. Ash looked up as Blaine entered the room, looking into Ash's cell. The former gym leader smiled, "Mew, it is an honor to finally meet you, alive."

Ash and Mew glared at the Rocket scientists and the Rocket grunts. Ash felt more trapped than ever, he was bound, in a cell, which was in a locked room. Now he had this barrier to deal with as well.

Ash's guts twisted, and Mew was here.

Mew was trapped.

You! Mew screamed at Blaine, Grave robber! You have disturbed my bones and have created clones in the most inhumane manner! Your selfish goals and short sightedness have caused pain and suffering to those clones! Even the Dittos, the luckiest of your 'experiments', live half lives!

Blaine tilted his head, "I'm afraid I cannot understand a word you say. I do not speak Pokemon, and these psychic barriers block your telepathy from everyone outside them. But I must thank you for coming. You have saved us the trouble of breaking a good specimen in order to get him to summon you. It's sort of ironic, you come to save him and end up getting captured after all the trouble he went through to protect you and keep you away."

Mew growled, angry and not fully comprehending what the man was saying. She was use to listening and reading their psyche and auratic vibes to get a fully grasp of what they were communicating.

"Mew," Ash whispered, and the cat turned. Ash was pale, frightened. This snapped Mew out of her anger and she flew over to him. He was strapped to his seat and didn't look the most healthiest. "The moment you find a way out of here go, don't worry about me. They are powerless without you. Break off any connection you have with me and go."

Are you crazy? After all you've done to help me you think I'm just going to leave you with these guys? Mew cried, We're getting out of here, both of us.

"Don't you get it?!" Ash yelled, "Even if you think they can't make another clone, you're still going to get hurt in the process!"

"Actually," Blaine commented from outside the cell, "Mew will hardly be harmed. She may as well be the very last of her kind. We only need her DNA sample. We could get that from something as simple as her fur."

Mew snorted, crossing her paws, The last of my kind, really? Scientists, She rolled her eyes, I'm the only one of my kind. I'm the only Mew ever to walk this earth. The closest second are the clones like Mewtwo and Ditto, but they aren't truly Mew.

Ash frowned, "Then how are there fossils of you if you're the only one?"

Ash, now is not the time to discuss legendaries' death and how my immortal state functions, Mew said, glaring at Blaine, even if he couldn't hear her telepathy, Besides, we don't want this vermin to hear it.

"So she is the only one left?" Blaine asked, "Fascinating. She also appears to be quite young, I wonder when she hatched?" He shook his head, "Well, I suppose there will be time to figure that out later."

Mew growled, I'm not some experiment you lousy human! True my current form is young, but it is still centuries older than your balding head! I was born back when Groudon and Kyogre's first battle was still raging! Fossil Pokemon were yet to be born the first time I died!

"Mew," Ash panted, "Mew you gotta get out of here."

Mew looked back at him. Her paws lit up with Fire Punch, and she dove at his wrists. Two well timed punches and the band on one of his arms broke away. Ash pulled it back, muscles screaming as they stretched. The fire had warmed his arms, not burned. She turned to his other wrist, doing the same. He flexed his now-free arms, enjoy the sensation of freedom.

"Not much you can do," Blaine said, "You two are both restrained either way," He commented as Mew used Psychic to bend the rest of bands off of Ash. Ash remained sitting, rubbing his sore joints as Mew flew as close as Blaine as she could, making a strange gesture. The ancient, offensive sign meant nothing to Blaine, but the look on Mew's face got the message across, "You honestly don't look that threatening, hard to believe you're one of the strongest creatures on earth."

And humans are one of the weakest. Hard to believe your pathetic species is still around! No offense Ash, She added.

"None taken," Ash muttered, heart racing. They needed to get out of- No, Mew need to get out of here. He was fine, he could wait.

Blaine was watching them with interest, then he snapped at the grunt, "Tighten the barrier, I only want Mew in it."

The grunt stumbled over to a control panel of some sort, pressing some buttons. Ash eyed the panels fearfully as they flared from blue to a red. After a moment they faded to a pink, similar to Mew's color, and the barriers began to shrink. Ash scrambled away from the edges, memories of when Team Rocket was after Meloetta. His legs ached from the time he had spend sitting down, but he had remembered being nearly squeezed to death in something just like this.

But the now pink barriers past right through Ash as they shrunk. He paused, watched the barriers shrink more. Mew darted forward, but she didn't have the same luck as Ash. The pink walls acted like steel for her as she was flung back as the barrier went from cubicle panels to a sphere shape, surrounding Mew. She had just enough room to float in the center with perhaps a foot on each side of her. The grunt pressed another button, and the pink barriers stopped shrinking.

"Like I said," Blaine commented, "There has been some improvements on this invention. We simply line it up with Mew's aura and psychic energy, and it will only contain her. If we lined it up with your energy, Ash, she could pass through while you wouldn't be able too. But we don't need that, even with you out of your bonds. But I don't think you are in the right condition to fight back."

As he said this, Ash stumbled back to the chair, sitting down. The food he had been given during his time with Team Rocket was meant to keep him alive, not strong and healthy. Combined with his stress and lack of food for today, as could barely stand. His muscles were sore from being forced into a sitting position for most of the day, and weren't in the mood to support his weight. He panted, looking at Mew helplessly, who was pounding the barriers with any attack she could think of. Blaine was surprised and interested by the variety of attacks the legendary was mustering up. He had the myths that Mew could use any Pokemon move, now he had the resources to see if that was true.

After a minute Mew halted her flurry of attacks, panting. Her blue eyes had tears of frustration and sweat ran down her face. Finally she sank to the bottom of the pink sphere, shaking. The grunts were muttering, trying to get a better look at the legendary, but a glare from Blaine made them fall silent.

"Move the Mew out of here," Doctor Niles said, "I don't think it is a good idea to have them in the same room until we are ready for the procedure," Blaine nodded in agreement.

"We'll get back to you when we are ready Ash," Blaine said, and the champion flinched, shaking. Mew threw him a concerned glance. Blaine pointed to one of the grunts, "Get him some food," He ordered, jerking his head towards Ash, "We need him healthy for this to work."

The grunts began to scramble as Blaine and Niles left the room. Blaine sighed in relief, finally some good news to give to Giovanni.

[Earlier that day: Mount Moon: Outside of Cerulean City, Kanto- 8:15 P.M.]

Charizard and Archeops materialized in a flash of pink light. Charizard stumbled a bit, he didn't like the sensation of teleporting. Archeops, however, seemed unaffected as she sat on the rocky ground, cuddling 'Kurtis' close to her.

'We're nearly to home roost!' She cried happily, 'Get to see now flock again!'

'"Nearly"?' Charizard muttered, and saw that she was right. In the distance he could see the lights of Cerulean City, not far though. Behind them Mount Moon towered, echoing the screeches of the Zubat and Golbat as they flew out for their nightly hunt. Either Mew's teleporting skills were a bit off, or she just didn't want to have them randomly appear in the middle of the city. Charizard sighed, that meant they'd have to fly again, that's all they have been doing, 'Drop the stupid rock and get ready to fly. We have a little farther to go.'

Archeops harrumphed, still gripping the rock in her claws. She ran, and jumping into the air, flapping her wings wildly. Her attempt to get into the air kicked up a bunch of dust. Her wings were going crazy as she attempted to get air, and Charizard tried hard not to laugh. For the first flying type it was almost a joke to see how hard it was for her to fly. But he supposed flying types had to start somewhere. After a few seconds she managed to gain decent air, and Charizard followed her.

They flew towards Cerulean City, and Charizard felt himself relaxing. Soon they'd be back at Ash's house, and if everything went well with Mew they would have Ash back too... That thought put a little extra speed with his flight as they flew closer to the city. The night stars glowed dimly as Archeops let out a happy cry, going into a sloppy dive as soon as the city was below them. Charizard circled around once before joining her. They past over Misty's gym, before heading to his trainer's modest home at the edge of the city.

All the lights were off in the house but one. Charizard knocked on the door and waited. Archeops climbed up into a fruit tree on the side of the house, letting out a loud cry. The ancient plant's green fruit began to grow, rapidly turning a ripe yellow, which Archeops began to eat happily, 'Home food!' She cried between bites. Charizard was still creeped out by how the fruit would grow in response to her cry, Ash had talked about how she'd do that when he met her in Unova.

Nobody answered the door for a bit, but after a minute it creaked open, a Golduck peered out, 'What do you want,' He hissed. Charizard rolled his eyes.

'By Zekrom's thunder, it's me!' Charizard replied with a half-hearted snarl to Misty's Pokemon. The Golduck paused.

'Oh,' The former Psyduck said, 'You're alive.'

'Yep, me and bird brain,' He pointed back at the Archeops, 'But that's not important, I need to talk to Misty.'

'You just missed her,' Golduck said, pushing the door fully opened, 'Left only a few minutes ago with Pikachu.'

'Pikachu was here?' Charizard sighed with relief as Golduck nodded. So Team Rocket didn't get him, that was good, 'Come on Archeops!' Charizard called as he slipped into the house, needing to bend his neck to fit in. Archeops flew out of the tree, with two pieces of fruit still in her mouth. She scrambled into house excitedly. Misty usually never set foot into the house after the lamp incident, and now with the opportunity present she darted into the house, jumping onto the couch.

Golduck flinched with every bounce, but Charizard didn't glance at Archeops. He had been babysitting her ever since he got separated from Ash, he was done now. Charizard peered into the kitchen, snatching some Oran berries from the fruit bowl and plopping them into his mouth.

'So...' Golduck muttered, 'Where have you guys been the whole time? You seem to be generally fine.'

Charizard shrugged, 'We've just been moving around. Team Rocket was after us for a bit, but they lost interest after we went north. We think they just wanted us away from Ash. But that doesn't matter right now, do you know when Misty and Pikachu will be back?'

Golduck tapped a web claw to his chin. He wasn't the brightest Pokemon back when he was a Psyduck, but his abilities rapidly expanded when he evolved. Now free from his headaches and with increased powers he was able to show his true intelligence, 'Definitely not until tomorrow, at the least, they've probably stay the night in Pewter City.'

'Why Pewter?' Charizard asked.

'Another member of your team showed up at Brock's place,' Golduck replied, 'Typhlosion was going crazy over the video call. I was in the other room when Brock called, but I heard her screaming that "They got Ash!", but she was too exhausted to say more. Of course the humans didn't understand a thing. Misty and Pikachu are heading down to Pewter city with that Meowth to get the full story. I'm guessing they are going to try to help out Ash in some way.'

Charizard closed his eyes, so Team Rocket did have Ash... He sighed, 'I suppose I got to head down to Pewter as well.'

Golduck's eyes widened, 'No, you don't. They'll be back soon! You need to rest, you're weak, tired, and it's late.'

Charizard started towards the door, 'Yes, and I think they should know that Mew is already going to rescue Ash herself. They don't need to worry about him, they deserved some good news.'

'Mew?'

'Yeah,' Charizard replied, 'Bird brain here has connections,' He looked at Archeops, who was laying on the couch, caressing her stone with her claws, 'Come on,' Charizard snapped at her, 'We're going.'

Archeops pauses, looking up at him, 'Wha?'

'We're leaving.'

Archeops fluffed up her thick feathers, 'But we just got here!' She whined, digging her feet into the couch cushion.

Charizard growled a bit, 'That doesn't matter.'

'I don't wanna go! I wanna to stay at home roost!' She wailed as Charizard grabbed her tail, dragging her off the couch. Two cushions fell to the floor, lined with claw marks. Golduck winced, moving the cushions back onto the couch with Psychic as Charizard dragged the trashing Archeops out the door and into the cool night.

'We'll probably come back home with Misty,' Charizard called to Golduck, 'I'll see you soon.'

Golduck went to the door, 'You'll protect Misty, won't you?'

Charizard glanced back, 'She's not in any danger.'

Golduck looked down, 'I know... but if I wasn't around, you'll protect her, right?'

Charizard nodded, 'I will,' He dropped Archeops, spreading his wings. He threw himself into the air, with a grumpy Archeops following. Golduck watched them fly off, then went back inside. On the floor was the gray stone, "Kurtis". Golduck sighed, throwing it outside as he shut the door.

So Mew comes to rescue Ash, only to be captured herself!

The panels/barriers, and the whole story with Meloetta is a reference to the episode "Meloetta and the Undersea Temple" in the Black and White series. Basically in this episode Giovanni captures Ash in these barrier things and nearly squeezes him to death in this in order to get Meloetta to comply to his demands. So if don't quite under stands the 'barriers' I describe, then watch this episode.