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" The answer to that question is long, complicated and rather unique."
The leader scowled at her answer. Missy's attention was drawn to the sight of the two guards running up to mewtwo. They gave it a max revive. He snapped his fingers. The pokemon responded to his whim. Mewtwo slowly levitated from the ground. Its eyes narrowed as they trained on her, they began to glow blue.
" Oh really?!"
Missy turned to face the pokemon. Mewtwo opened its hand. The pokemon picked Missy up with its psychic abilities. It immediately paralyzed her.
Ninetails and absol were quick to charge at her attacker. With a wave of his free hand, the pokemon knocked ninetails into a wall. Absol leaped up at the pokemon. Mewtwo spun around and slammed absol back with its tail.
Her mind became a haze as the pokemon attempted to enter her thoughts.
Missy wasted no time she glared into mewtwo's eyes. She knew the pokemon was powerful but also terribly inexperienced. She decided to use that to her advantage.
She began to project mental images of the Time War. She recalled running from a Dalek. She bolted through a doorway of a ruined building. She ran past fallen comrades and tripped on a piece of debris. She quickly stumbled back up and ran down the corridor ahead. As she ran she listened to the exchange of shots overhead.
She leaped over a corpse of a fellow Time Lord. The ceiling crunched and caved in blocking her path. She looked up a cylinder tardis zipped over the building. A Dalek attack ship was in pursuit. It shot at the fleeing tardis.
She listened to the hum of a hover pad as the Dalek approached. Slowly she turned and glared at her enemy. She looked down the eye stalk, its red eye stared back at her.
" Exterminate!" the monstrosity inside shouted.
Her mind phased back to white as she regained control. Mewtwo looked back in shock. The pokemon winced and flailed in the air before dropping to the ground. Missy continued her telepathic onslaught.
Mewtwo began to shriek. These things are not possible, he telepathically stammered
Mewtwo began another attempt to take control of her, but soon he keeled over in madness. Missy drew her screwdriver and scanned mewtwo. It informed her the pokemon was overwhelmed and would attack her no more. She also learned that its life was a fixed point in time.
She looked into mewtwo's eyes and then to the room. She fiercely looked at the gym leader. He was tenacious and she wondered, just who did he think he was.
" Oh, but they are." Missy let out a laugh. " All of this over a girl with an umbrella who happened to defeat you. " Missy leaned into her umbrella as if it were a cane. " For what reason?" She asked as she looked over the room then to the gym leader.
He glared at her. " I think you're perfectly aware."
Missy rolled her eyes at the remark. " Of what? That you're incapable of controlling the most powerful pokemon on the planet."
Missy retorted as she glared over the room. The two guards looked apprehensive. She turned to the gym leader. He was shocked and appeared to be in a state of rage. Missy shook her head, he was a sore loser.
" You think I'm not capable!" He glared at Missy and the viciousness in his voice grew, " you have no idea the things I'm capable of." He growled," your arrogance defies me."
He snapped his fingers the guards responded to her whim. They dropped their weapons and immediately began to charge at her.
" There's a difference between power and force," Missy said with deep conviction. " Force is all about attempting to control what you do not have."
Missy shot at the guard. The beam hit him in the chest. His armor clanked as he dropped to the floor. She attempted to shoot the other. He dodged her beam and hastened his pursuit. She dropped her umbrella then readied her vortex manipulator. She teleported just as she was within his grasp. She appeared ten feet behind him.
" What the-" he called out in confusion.
Missy turned to him and shot him in the back. He fell to the ground unconscious. She began to walk to her pokemon. She snatched ninetails and absol's pokeballs. She recalled them and placed their balls in her pocket. She then turned her attention to the gym leader. He was startled, he stepped back while he reached for something in his jacket.
Missy rolled her eyes at the action. " Then there is power. That is the art of controlling what you have and knowing how to take care of the other. "
She set her vortex manipulator for Viridian Forest five minutes into the future. She glanced up at him. The gym leader looked down at her with a deep intent. He had withdrawn his attempt.
He peered at her. " Who are you?"
Missy smirked as she eyed him.
" I'm just a passer-by." She placed her screwdriver back into her jacket. She picked up her umbrella. Then readied her vortex manipulator. " So long."
With the press of a button, she made her escape. In a blink, her position in time and location changed. Missy arrived on a dirt road at the entrance of the forest.
She looked back at the city and let out a sigh. She had gotten more than she bargained for at the gym.
" That was fun," she uttered.
Missy turned her back to the city and approached her tardis. She mentally accessed the chameleon circuit and turned her tardis back into a pokeball, and placed it in her pocket. She checked the date September 5th, 2014. She noted it for the future should she ever have to return.
She set the vortex manipulator to Arborville. A town she had learned about while studying the pokemon world. She then set her vortex manipulator for the town two weeks into the future. September 19th, 2014.
Missy arrived in a forest filled with tree houses. She frowned as she looked up into the trees. Fifty feet above her was a pokemon center. She took pidgeot's ball from her belt and called it out. Pidgeot squawked as she mounted the bird. The pokemon hastily took flight. She guided the bird to the pokemon center and landed.
The doors slid open as she stepped in. Missy was disenchanted by the sight of the same nurse. As she approached she raised a brow. The nurse warmly smiled and readied a tray. She took a second look at the nurse. She was sure she was the same woman.
The nurse placed an empty tray before her. " Welcome to the Arborville pokemon center."
Missy placed her pokeball's inside. " I think you have a twin."
The nurse put them onto the machine.
The nurse looked back over to her and warmly smiled. " I have ten sisters here in Johto and many cousins in Kanto, we all look very similar so I hear that a lot."
The machine chimed. The nurse picked up the tray and placed it before her.
She bowed. " Thank you, we hope to see you again."
Missy looked at the nurse and laughed. " Oh, well I don't think I'll be back."
Missy turned and paraded out of the pokemon center. Once outside she called out her pidgeot. Missy flew back to the ground on pidgeot, dismounted and recalled her pokemon. Soon she brought out ninetails.
Ninetails, let out a sigh. Mistress, you got away. I remember him, that man is the leader of Team Rocket.
She and ninetails made their way out of the town. Missy could hear the footsteps of people walking on the bridges above. Missy pulled out her screwdriver. She started to scan for celebi. A few pidgeotto and some combee flew overhead as the pair walked on. Soon they entered the massive lush green forest. Missy waited until they were deeper into the forest before answering.
" That explains a lot." She sighed. " Ninetails, we defeated him. What does it even matter? He was such a weak leader. He clearly can't keep his cool in a crisis. I'm surprised his..." Missy thought of the correct word. " Team even existed in the end."
The tip of her screwdriver began to slowly blink.
Mistress, he only got stronger as the years went on, Ninetails said as she and Missy took a diverging dirt path. During the end of days, nothing stopped him.
Missy rolled her eyes. " Nothing, well if it was my world I would do the same," she replied.
As they walked through the forest a thought crossed her mind. Why didn't the tardis know who he was? Lysandre said he was re-writing history. It didn't matter, she would have the celebi soon. That was the only thing that mattered. She would have her tardis back soon. She could deal with him after that.
Missy peeked down at her screwdriver. It began to lock on the pokemon's location. She and ninetails followed the single. It leads them deeper into the bright greenery of the forest. They soon came upon a clearing.
The clear waters of a lake shimmered in the afternoon sun. In the center of the lake, a celebi danced in the breeze. As it flew it skimmed the waters of the lake, a whooper splashed up, water spouted from its mouth. Celebi giggled as the whopper retreated into the water.
The pokemon laughed at each other momentarily. Celebi paused and smirked as the whopper retreated. Missy wasted no time she snatched absol's pokeball and threw it.
" Go absol." The pokemon leaped out in front of Missy. She quickly engaged a mega evolution. " Absol use shadow ball on that celebi."
Mega absol ran to the edge of the shore roaring as it released a purple orb of energy. Celebi took immediate notice and dodged the attack. The pokemon giggled at her attempt to attack it.
A Scizor charged from the forest. The insect buzzed as it fiercely approached its foe.
The cold voice of a man shouted, " Scizor furry cutter!"
Scizor charged celebi its claws began to glow silver. Scizor struck celebi into the water. Missy turned her attention to see a man wearing an iron mask ran out of the trees. He stood a few yards away from her. He wore red and black armor. The symbol on his chest was a red R. It took center place.
Missy shook her head at him. She for his chest and released a beam. He noticed her attack and took a step back. He looked at her again and his eyes widened with excitement.
" You're the woman my boss is looking for," he said.
He turned his attention to the battle, Missy glanced over. Celebi had flown up above the water. The pokemon flew above scizor and used leaf storm. Green leaves of energy began to appear striking scizor back.
The attack went into the forest. Hordes of beedrill and combee flew out of the trees. Celebi attempted to dodge the swarms but got stuck.
" He says your powerful. That man will do anything for power, you know." He glanced over at Missy and grinned. " He offered a seven hundred thousand poke yen reward to anyone who could bring you in alive, but don't worry I don't want his money." His grin widened as he peered at her and ninetails. " From what it sounds like you have a quarrel with him."
Missy turned her attention back to battle. The celebi became frantic as it attempted to flee. The pokemon was powerless to do anything inside the swarm of insects.
Missy looked over at him, his eyes were focused on the battle. " I think your boss has a quarrel with me." She laughed. " I've done nothing to him that would hurt his reputation or power. Tell me is he still angry with over me defeating him?"
He smiled and replied, " you should have seen him the days after..." he trailed off. The swarm was ending. Scizor began to charge celebi. " Scizor bullet punch!"
Scizor's claws both began to glow and it unleashed a fury of punches. Celebi responded by shielding its self in a green orb. Iron mask snarled as the attack continued. After a few seconds, it was over. Celebi disappeared in a flash of light. He crossed his arms, looked away and spit. He turned back to Missy.
"Damn!" He grimaced. " I hear rumors around the base, that you're a thief and a time traveler. I would very much like to team up with you and take over Team Rocket. I would have to bring you in of course. Then together we can take over. For your services, I would give you a high ranking position on the team."
He offered Missy his hand.
She placed her hand on her hips and exchanged the look. " Oh really, What lead your team to believe I am a time traveler?"
He scoffed. " You are the living legend." He smiled. " He wasn't sure. Spent a lot of time researching you after the battle..." he paused and put his finger to his chin. " I'm not entirely sure, take me up on my offer and I promise you we'll get the answer." He offered his hand.
She placed her hand on her hip. " What makes you believe I would want such a thing? Especially from a stranger."
" I am The Man in the Iron Mask. I sense you seek something greater than what you are. I've read the stories of the things you've done and I am impressed." Missy walked over to him.
Mistress! Ninetails cried.
Missy glanced over. The foxes eyes were wide with disbelief.
" I am The Mistress." Missy gazed into his eyes giving him the impression she was ambitious. " Take my hand and I'll show you the future to which you belong." Iron mask smirked.
Missy set her vortex manipulator for four hundred years into the past. She offered him her hand. He reached out and took it.
Together they traveled to the same spot in a different time. When they arrived the sun was rising. Missy quickly released him and took a few steps back. Iron mask looked around in confusion. She giggled as she watched him.
" I've never been fond of the competition or traitors," Missy said.
He gazed on in horror. She pressed the recall button. She arrived back at the same place in time a moment later. Ninetails and absol ran to her.
Mistress, what did you do to him? Ninetails asked as she looked around.
Missy laughed a bit more before she answered, " I sent him to a time when he would be more welcome."
Missy pulled out her tardis and set it on the ground. She turned the tardis into a giant boulder. Inspired by the combee horde Missy got an idea. She, ninetails, and absol stepped inside. She was quick to recall absol and traded it for vespiquen. She switched butterfree for emolga.
Missy walked to her laboratory and summoned emolga. She searched her desk. Before she ripped apart her tardis for spare parts. She took an arton crystal from the tardis council, snatched a spare transmitter from under the console, she took a battery from a drawer and a silver tiara from her wardrobe. She paraded to her laboratory.
The celebi was helpless in the swarm, all she had to do was create one. Missy began to organize the pieces. She used emolga's electricity to charge the battery. She worked for a couple of hours before her work was finished. A crown with a yellow arton crystal inside.
Missy recalled emolga before parading outside. She snatched her screwdriver from her jacket. Missy summoned vespiquen then placed the crown on its head. She pointed her screwdriver at the crown.
" Attack order," she calmly commanded.
Vespiquen was quick to comply releasing bugs from its dress. Missy pointed her screwdriver at the crown as she mimicked vespiquen's frequency.
A warped hum rattled through the forest. A couple of beedrill, combee, and a vespiquen flew out from the trees. The pokemon were frantic in their flight. Missy pointed her screwdriver at them and mimicked the attack order frequency.
She aimed the screwdriver at the sky. Slowly she made circles with the point of her screwdriver. It didn't take long for the insects to start listing to her commands. They swarmed and circled in the sky, following her every command.
She was pleased with her result. With a wave of her screwdriver, she ended the swarm. She recalled vespiquen. Missy walked back into her tardis and went to her wardrobe. She took a black bracelet with a socket from her jewelry box.
She walked back into the control room and summoned charizard. She placed the mega stone inside the socket before attaching the bracelet. She spent a few minutes hypnotizing it in preparation for a mega evolution. She recalled it back and places the pokeball on her belt. Missy's team was now Ninetails, Emolga, Charizard, Hydregion, Pidgeot, and Vespiquen.
Mistress, what on earth are you doing? Ninetails asked.
Missy turned her tardis into a pokeball. She snatched it from the ground and put back in her jacket.
Missy smiled at ninetails. " Ninetails you told me that celebi liked Ilex Forest, now we venture there and end our hunt for it. First, we have to change things a bit."
Missy beckoned ninetails over. She stroked her ninetails for a bit. She recalled reading that the pokemon vespiquen was capable of creating a nest. She set the vortex manipulator for Ilex Forest one hundred years to the past. September 5th, 1904.
They arrived in Ilex Forest. Missy picked out a location near the center. A sprawling field in the center of the forest. She let vespiquen out of her ball. She walked over to the pokemon.
" Vespiquen, I want you to create a nest," she gently said. Missy tenderly caressed the pokemon. " I want you to fill this forest with your own kind." The pokemon's eyes drooped. Missy changed her tone to one of reassurance. " You're going to do wonderful things here. Of course, I'll be back for you soon," she said with a smile.
Missy turned and walked away. Ninetails took her side leaning into her leg. She set her vortex manipulator for the following year. When Missy returned the forest was alive with combee.
She raised her screwdriver into the air. The device released a pulse that summoned vespiequen back. The pokemon was enthralled to see Missy. The queen bee flew up to her and hugged her nearly knocking her over.
Missy gave a warm and loving smile. " Vespiquen you did very well."
She recalled her pokemon. She looked around. Missy and ninetails were surrounded by combee.
" This is what we're doing," Missy said as she admired the work vespiquen had done.
Ninetails looked up to her. Mistress why go through all of this trouble to set this up?
Missy smirked. " To capture celebi of course, I need to get my tardis off the ground."
Missy looked down to ninetails. She could tell ninetails was amazed by all that had happened in the short period of time. They admired the sight of the combee. Missy gently caressed ninetails forehead.
Missy took her tardis from her jacket and set it on the ground. She and ninetails teleported back into the control room. Missy began to search the timeline for a celebi encounter worth trying for.
She soon found one. It was a hundred and two years in the future. The date was September 6th, 2016 close to the end. The encounter was close to seven minutes. She pondered it over and decided it was worth the risk.
" Ninetails, soon everything changes for us," Missy said as she walked into her wardrobe.
She fixed herself up with a new outfit. A black jacket with a white shirt and a grey power vest. Her tie was black. Her pants and boots remained the same. She smiled as she placed her hair into a high ponytail. She placed on a pair of protective glasses. Missy smiled as she placed the badge set back in her jacket. She looked like a stunning and fashionable warrior. She left the wardrobe.
Missy beckoned ninetails to join her and soon they teleported out of the tardis. She picked up the tardis ball and put it away. She then set the vortex manipulator to the time her tardis gave her, September 6th, 2016.
She and ninetails return to Ilex Forest at the base of a field. They arrived a few minutes before the celebi would appear. Missy quickly called out vespiquen. She put vespiquen to work summoning combee.
The sound of rotating blades drew Missy's attention to the sky. The helicopter was a good distance from her. It was a black jet combo with a red 'R' on the side. She sighed as she took out her black controller from her bag. She pointed the device at the helicopter and pressed a button, but nothing happened. She came to the conclusion that the limited energy levels took away from the power of the device.
Knowing Team Rocket was after her Missy decided to take action. She didn't want them intervening in her plans. This whole mix up was frustrating, She couldn't allow them to interfere, not now. Not when she was this close to achieving her goal.
Missy sighed as she reached for her pokeball's. She recalled ninetails and summoned her hydreigon. She mounted the dragon and took flight in the direction of the helicopter.
Missy soared through the sky in her approach to the helicopter. She reared up the dragon and flew to the windshield of the helicopter. She peered at the pilots inside. She smiled as she raised up the black controller so they could see it. The craft hovered in the sky while she peered at the pilots. She let out a laugh and shook her head no.
The pilots watched Missy press the button on the remote. There was a loud crack as the helicopter became locked in time. She watched in delight as the pilots began to panic. The pilot to the left hung on to the throttle while the other frantically began to press buttons.
She drew her screwdriver. With a wave, she disabled the weapons and communications systems. The pilots gazed back at her in terror. Missy smirked as her screwdriver hummed informing her that the siege was starting.
She turned away. She and hydreigon and flew back down to vespiquen. Missy landed and called back her pokemon. She placed the ball on her belt. Soon she pulled out her screwdriver. It lit up as she began to mimic the frequency for an attack order. The sound of buzzing grew as the bees began to swarm.
Missy twirled as she pointed the screwdriver unleashing more hoards. A loud metallic hum filled the forest as combee began to sweep the trees. Then another hum followed by another. Soon swarms of combee circled the celebi forcing it from the forest.
Missy stood and focused on the hordes as she continued her assault. She pointed the screwdriver at the swarm. She outlined celebi as they circled the celebi in sync with her screwdriver. She watched as they flew in coordination with her moments. As she summoned more hoards the hums from vespiquen and her screwdriver screeched through the area. The sound was awful.
Celebi frantically flew into the sky. The pokemon twisted and turned as it began to panic. The buzz from the many wings of combee overpowered its cries. Missy continued her assault directing the combee to tackle the celebi.
She allowed it a moment of reprieve as more combee entered the fight. Then she had them all attack again. The combee drove celebi closer to the ground, the pokemon struggled with great vigor. flying up and attempting to use leaf storm. Its wings glow a bright green. Missy struck the pokemon down with the bees.
The screwdriver unleashed a metallic hum as the combee tackled celebi, attacking again and again. More combee flew from the forest and attack celebi. One final hum as Missy set the pattern to follow. She watched celebi struggle. The pokemon took to the air as the combee continued their assault.
Missy placed her screwdriver back into her jacket. She noticed celebi's movements had slowed down considerably. She decided she would need a slower pokemon to help her chase after it.
She reached down and plucked pidgeot's ball from her belt. The pokemon cooed before it looked at her and nodded. She began to run in the direction of the battle alongside pidgeot.
Missy mounted the bird and they took off. Pidgeot soared into the sky and began to charge the celebi. The mythical pokemon lead the battle in the direction of the frozen helicopter.
Missy and pidgeot charged celebi. They swooped past the helicopter in pursuit of the beast. Celebi fell and glided in the sky swooping to the left of the helicopter.
She was quick to follow it. She had pidgeot glide over in pursuit. Soon they dove into the combee horde. She drew her screwdriver and forced them to make a circle. She then placed it back into her jacket.
Celebi made another dive pidgeot followed in pursuit. Missy pulled the master ball from her bag. Celebi was in an opening she took aim. As she tossed the master ball it spun as it barrelled through the air. She watched the ball open as it hit celebi.
The pokemon disappeared in a blue and white light. The sound of screech took her attention. A large yellow beam came from below. Pidgeot narrowly avoided the attack. Missy looked to the right where the energy had originated.
A man dressed in grey charged her on his dragonite. The dragon soared up and charged at her. She ducked and guided the bird into a dive. They dove down before pidgeot soared back up. Together they swooped in a full arch and began to fly over to vespiquen.
She had failed in her attempt. With Team Rocket on her heels retreat was her best option. As they flew the combee began to scatter.
She paid little attention to them as she approached the outskirts of the forest. She was surprised when she a pidgeot slammed into an invisible wall. She clenched the bird's feathers as they were knocked back. Missy reared the bird up as she regained control of the pokemon.
She had pidgeot dive down and swoop across the barrier. She searched for hidden opponents as she guided the pokemon close to the barrier. Pidgeot cried and shrieked as they searched for the source. The pokemon was in pain Missy wasn't sure how much more pidgeot could take
She completed her search of the sky but had found nothing. When she looked down she discovered her problem. Eight metal boxes had been placed in a massive circle around her space of air. People dressed in black peered at her as she flew past. Her hearts throbbed as she looked over the setup.
