AN: Well, this is the next chapter! Unfoutunatly, to get this out on schedule I had to break it up into chunks. But thats all good! I can continue next week! Shut up TC! Also, please vote for the poll! It will decide if I make a battle scene or not between Mewtwo and somebody!

Answers to Reviews

I lost a bet to Madara: Um... I suppose that you like that pairing? But if people really want a pairing, leave a review with a choice, and I'll make it into a poll... Yeah... This is really long...

Species Unknown: No. Red is not Ash. Blue is not Gary. Learn about them.

Swagnilla-Ice-1985: Well yes. I admit, that was just a plot device actually. I have no evidence that Mewtwo did, but nobody has any he didn't so...

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President of Knitting Club for Boys: I'm so lonely!

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Shut up! You have to say that I don't own Pokemon now!

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Reminiscence

Mewtwo's story, or the Events of the First Movie

Core

No time

"It's unhealthy, this obsession of yours."

"..."

"You do this every time you enter one of these worlds."

And you have never yet found a world where it is true.

"...Shut up."

"You can't keep doing this."

He is right.

"...Core...Old Friend... please, just shut up."

"Look, why not just do this world. I mean, no he's not alive, but your old position exists. And you have to admit, it is intriguing. I mean, how often did Red come off his mountain in..."

"Quiet. Now."

"Sorry. I'm just..."

My Lady, you know what I told you. In all worlds where he survived, your friend did not. So all worlds where he survived fell.

"That's why I only look at newer worlds..."

"...I don't know what happened to you. Where did the woman who fought the war with me go? Where is the Lady who slew the force of all evil? Where is the girl who-"

"I saw my first friend and brother die, remember? That makes twice that my brother died! If you knew there was a chance to save your parents, wouldn't you take it!"

"..."

My Lady, your anger is reacting with...

"..."

"Calm yourself. Remember the exercises you taught me."

"..."

"Better?"

"...Yes."

"So will you go?"

"..."

New Island

"Wah!" Ash cried as he fell to the ground. Mewtwo smirked as Red turned to him, his face not betraying the emotion he felt.

"You can teleport others against their will or without consent?" Red inquired, his mind racing through the possibilities. If so, a short answer to one problem was found...

"Indeed. I in fact did so on this very island for the first time," Mewtwo answered, raising a (what is it, a paw? A hand?) hand to cut off Red, who had just opened his mouth to ask another question, "And yes, I have used it in combat. It makes it much easier to beat a foe if they suddenly find themselves almost two miles underwater."

"How does placing them in the same space as water not cause a nuclear explosion?" Red shot back smoothly, ignoring the groaning Ash. Poor Ash. He had been beaten completely, taken on as an apprentice to the strongest champion, shaken violently, gotten many memories back, and now had been dropped on his face. This had not been one of his best days, that would go to the feast that one year...

Red started slightly as Ash's stomach growled, before he hung his head. 'He's going to make me use all my paycheck to feed him, isn't he.' He groaned, already imagining the mortal blow that his poor wallet was going to take. Mewtwo chuckled before answering, "No. Teleport is more of a substitution between the object and space that it goes into. For example, usually you teleport into the air, so there is no change in the place where you are, unless you do something like mountain to valley, but but if that didn't happen there would be a popping noise that indicated the vacuum being filled."

Mewtwo paused for a breath. He idly thought about how that was never necessary when he used telepathy, but discarded the thought. He enjoyed speaking! "However, if you were to teleport something into a mountain, the place they teleported from would be filled with rock the same size and shape as the target, the place they teleported to would be empty as they entered. Doesn't stop them from suffocating, but no explosion, which is a plus." Red nodded, as Ash looked blank. Mewtwo sighed mentally, "What was originally there is swapped for what you teleport in."

Ash had an 'oh!' moment, as he stood up, Red looking around at the ruins of New Island. He wondered what had caused the massive hole in the battlefield, more of a crater, and why half the building seemed to be missing. He settled down, looking to Ash for the story. It promised to be interesting.

"Well, I suppose it all started when I got a letter from a dragonite after I got the Earth Badge..." Ash started, starting off on the epic story that was Mewtwo Strikes Back, "After I got that, which invited me to New Island for a battle with the world strongest trainer, Misty, Brock, and me all left to go to the docks that were closest to here."

"However, I had already started an insane plan that was basically a massive storm to wipe away all life on the planet. Of course I hadn't thought the plan through and realized what would happen when the other legendary pokemon realized what was going on. Thank Arceus that they had no idea until after the fact," Mewtwo interrupted, before telling Ash, "And the correct form would be 'Misty, Brock, and I'."

Ash made a face, showing that he didn't care about grammar, before he continued, "Yeah, there was a big storm going on and the harbor was closed. The lady there told us some story about the 'Winds of Water' and then we decided to go anyways, using water pokemon to swim across the sea."

"Wait a second. You swam across the ocean in a hurricane that was blowing around, stirring up the sea, just to go to a battle?" Red said. Ash nodded, sheepish looking back on it, "Wow. We really were the same when I was young."

Ash blinked before continuing, "So we managed to make it to the island and met this weird lady who was actually Nurse Joy. We were one of the only trainers to come there, but there were two others, but I forget their names. But we were waiting, and then the weird lady came back and announced that Mewtwo here was the strongest trainer and the strongest pokemon ever. We didn't believe him, her? And then he fought one of us. Mewtwo won, obviously, and then he started to capture our pokemon. I was running with Pikachu and grabbed the pokeball that he had been caught in," Pikachu shuddered and made a face at hearing about how he had been captured in one of those little spheres of doom. Evil, evil little things. Yes, there was a habitat for pokemon in there, but his had a hamster wheel. He was not some rat! Mewtwo looked apologetic as Pikachu gave an utterly adorable death glare at him. Ash went on, "So I was taken down into the basement and there were these weird machines, and they created clones of everybody's pokemon. It cloned Pikachu, but I managed to blow up the machines and free everybody. Then we created an exit and I led everybody out."

"Let me tell you, it was one of the best entrances I have ever seen," Mewtwo said after explaining what had happened while Ash was in the basement, "Coming out of the dust, with an army of pokemon. That was a good way to start a battle."

"Okay. But going on, all the pokemon fought each other and Mew fought Mewtwo, and they were about even. Oh and I got thrown up there," Ash said as an afterthought, pointing about fifty feet up the ruined building. Red stared.

"You were thrown that high up," Ash nodded, "You were not injured," Another nod, "How?" A shrug.

Ash, after thinking a bit, went on with the story, "So Mewtwo and Mew were fighting each other, and all the pokemon were fighting their clones. I didn't see a reason for it, and I saw that Mewtwo was trying to kill Mew, so I ran between the attacks... Then I don't know what happened."

"You died," Mewtwo said simply, looking away. Ash opened his eyes wide, his jaw dropping comically. Red was struggling to contain his emotions and shock.

"So you committed suicide by legendary? I think that's the most impressive form of self-caused death I've ever heard of," Red said simply, not knowing what to feel. Shock that his apprentice had died? Curiosity as to how he was here? Anger at Mewtwo for killing said apprentice? Fear that he had taken a ghost as an apprentice? Ash had no such dillema. He just glared at Red for his joke.

"I was stunned at the fact that Ash, a human, had just killed himself for others. It made me start to leave that darkness. And when all the pokemon started to cry, clones and originals alike, I had a sudden change. I realized what I had done, and I revulsed myself, more than I hated Giovanni. So I was... happy when Ash was revived from the tears."

Red raised an eyebrow. Revived from tears? "Isn't that a legend in Johto? How everybody died from a disease and they were revived from the tears of a few remaining pokemon? But Ash came back to life from the tears of pokemon? Really? WTF, man?" Ash looked confused, wondering what that meant.

"Ignoring that, Ash woke up and I decided to leave. Since I didn't want them to remember what had happened, to protect myself and their sanity, I erased their memory and set out with all the clones and Mew to find a new life where I could live in peace. Of course, that didn't work out so well. But that can wait."

Red, thinking over what Mewtwo and Ash had said, slowly nodded. 'Well. That was an...interesting tale. And how old was Ash? Eleven? Impressive.' "Well, you had a happy ending after all. Good for you, Ash saved the world, you got a new chance at life, and fluff reigned supreme. What next?" Ash facefaulted.

"...Y-you really just say that and want to move on?" Mewtwo asked, incredulous. Red nodded, before turning to Ash, who was lying on the ground. Poor abused brain cells...

"Ash, what pokemon other than Pikachu did you bring?"

"Huh? Oh... Charizard and Sceptile, 'cause they're strong and I thought we'd need...to... fly... Oh."

"Yes. Didn't you say that Charizard wanted to stay in the valley? We can leave him there once we get to Johto, but first we go to Shamouti!" Red cried, "Hit it Mewtwo!"