Mewtwo gave an angry snarl and charged at Donkey Kong, who couldn't react in time and was pushed back to the ground. Ness and Dedede rushed forwards to help, but Mewtwo gave of a roar of pure power. There was a blinding flash, and when everyone opened their eyes, Donkey Kong was trapped with Mewtwo within a dome of pure energy. Ness whacked it with his baseball bat, and King Dedede gave it a thump with his hammer, but it wouldn't move. Link even tried to stab through it with the Master Sword, but Mewtwo's power was too strong. As Mewtwo advanced on Donkey Kong, the ape tried to attack, but Mewtwo telekinetically grabbed him and threw him into the wall of energy.
Donkey Kong groaned and got up, but Mewtwo immediately dived towards him again and tried to grab him. Dodging Mewtwo at the last second, Donkey Kong tried to hit him with the back of his leg, and just succeeded as Mewtwo was pushed against his own wall of energy. However, this just made him angrier. Mewtwo kept his distance from Donkey Kong, preparing a shadow ball, while the other Smashers were still trying to find a way to break into the dome. Donkey Kong figured that he had to try and stall Mewtwo, so he asked the question on every Smasher's mind.
"Why did you do all this?"
Mewtwo paused for a second before realising that if he was going to kill Donkey Kong, he might as well explain why.
"Envy."
Mewtwo gave another snarl and charged at Donkey Kong, but he dodged again. Firing a shadow ball, Mewtwo laughed as it struck Donkey Kong, sending him crashing to the floor. Donkey Kong's rucksack flew off and landed near the edge of the dome, but the ape was concentrating on avoiding Mewtwo's attacks. Looking for a distraction, he tried to stall Mewtwo again.
"Envy? Who were you jealous of?"
Mewtwo was getting angrier with every question that Donkey Kong asked him.
"Stop trying to stall me, fool!"
"No, really," emphasized Donkey Kong, "You were one of the most powerful Smashers, who would you be jealous of?"
Mewtwo gave an angry roar and screamed, "That's WHY I was jealous!"
Donkey Kong took a few steps back, but Mewtwo looked like he was finally calming down.
"When I was invited to Smash Mansion, I was intrigued by the fighting. I could show everyone my power, and people wouldn't be angry at me like they normally were. I fought, I won, and I lost. I didn't care. People were impressed by me, they celebrated me. For the first time in my life, people cheered at my power. I… liked it there. It wasn't like the rest of the world. People didn't run at the sight of me, or call me a monster. I was accepted. I felt like… I had friends.
Then, things changed. One day, Master Hand was asking me to take part in Event 51…"
Donkey Kong remembered what Mewtwo was talking about. Event 51 had been an activity in the mansion when one fighter went up against Giga Bowser, Ganondorf, and Mewtwo. If Donkey Kong remembered correctly, only Jigglypuff, Captain Falcon, and Link had successfully beaten it.
"One day, Master Hand was asking me to take part in Event 51, the next… I had to leave."
Donkey Kong was taking steps back from Mewtwo, who sounded as if he was going to fly into a rage at any second.
"No reason why, I just had to leave. The 'Newcomers' needed more room, he said. It had been nice having me, he said. Yet, as humiliating as it was, I left. Leaving the only place I had ever called home was hard, but I accepted it, and reluctantly I went back to Kanto, back to roam the countryside and avoid trainers. Then, one day, I found an old newspaper, and the words 'Smash Tournament' caught my eye. That was the mistake you made, Master Hand. The moment I read that headline, I knew I must have revenge."
"What did it say," asked Donkey Kong, who was beginning to forget that he was fighting Mewtwo.
"The headline was about Lucario. The article went on about what a joyful occasion it was, as Lucario had been invited to Smash Mansion to compete in the tournament."
Turning to Master Hand, Mewtwo gave him an angry glare.
"Not enough room for me, but room enough for another dark Pokémon? Do you have any idea how rejected that can make you feel? Rejection can hurt, and hurt can cause anger…"
Donkey Kong was no longer trying to stall Mewtwo, but he still had a question.
"But, what exactly were you trying to do?"
"I was trying," whispered Mewtwo, "To be Master Hand. I just wanted to be involved in the tournament. But no, you all refused to fight! You do realise, if anyone had fought, I would have had you healed and you would have gone unpunished. But nobody was willing to participate in MY tournament."
Ness interrupted, banging on the side of the dome. Mewtwo impatiently snapped at the boy, yelling through it, "What do you want, interfering brat!?"
"We saw you! You were with Falco, when you faked an attack on the newcomers, Toon Link, Wolf and ROB!"
Mewtwo scoffed as if Ness had just told him the sky was blue.
"Of course I was there, that was a risky part of my plan and I had to make sure it went correctly. But there are no risks now. You threw me out of your tournament, and you ruined mine, so I'll make sure you never compete in any tournament, ever again!" shouted Mewtwo, charging at Donkey Kong again and slamming him into the ground. He had charging a shadow ball whilst talking, unbeknownst to everyone. He fired it quickly at Donkey Kong, only for the huge ape to dodge and counter with a giant punch. Mewtwo wasn't the only one who had been charging a move.
Mewtwo was stunned, giving Donkey Kong the chance to use his spinning move, landing separate blows on his foe. Mewtwo grew angrier with each blow, eventually grabbing Donkey Kong and swinging him around over his head before throwing him into the side of the dome. Donkey Kong got up quickly, but was soon approached again by Mewtwo, who used dark energy to cloud Donkey Kong's vision and confuse him. Donkey Kong roared and closed his eyes, but when he opened them, he was dazed, and could see three different Mewtwo's. Focussing, he readied a punch and aimed it at the Mewtwo in the middle, which, as luck would have it, turned out to be the real one.
Mewtwo flew backwards into the dome, but Donkey Kong seemed reluctant to try and land another hit on him. Mewtwo gave a loud roar and started preparing another shadow ball, but he didn't stop when it grew big. Instead, he kept on focussing energy on it as it grew as large as him, then as large as Donkey Kong, then even larger. When Mewtwo was finished, his eyes were purple with pure power.
"In all those tournaments, I was holding back, now I'll show you all how powerful I can be!"
Just as Donkey Kong started to step back, he was interrupted by Ness again, who was furiously pounding on the dome, trying to get his attention. It was hard to hear, but Ness kept screaming,
"Mewtwo's a Pokémon, he's a Pokémon," and pointing furiously at Donkey Kong's old rucksack.
Trusting Ness' instincts, Donkey Kong ran to his rucksack and quickly opened it, looking for something to give him a clue of what Ness was talking about. Seeing nothing but bananas and the odd scrap of paper, suddenly, Donkey Kong remembered something he had seen at the beginning of his adventure.
"Donkey Kong had taken quick looks in everyone's rooms to see if they had anything that could help him on his rescue attempt, but found mostly nothing. In the Pokémon Trainer's room, he found a spare rucksack. Donkey Kong immediately looked inside the rucksack, but was disappointed to find only a spare Pokéball inside."
Finally finding the Pokéball, Donkey Kong turned around to face his opponent, but he barely had time to see Mewtwo before he fired the shadow ball straight at Donkey Kong. Frozen to the spot, Donkey Kong could do nothing as the huge ball of dark energy flew towards him.
And… bounced off.
Looking down in amazement, Donkey Kong couldn't believe that he wasn't harmed, until he came across the small metal badge that Ness had given him. The Franklin badge had saved Ness' life countless times, and now it had saved Donkey Kong's.
Mewtwo was astonished that the shadow ball had bounced off, and couldn't stop it from returning. With an agonised yell, Mewtwo was hit with his own dark energy, as he fell to the floor and let out loud snarls of pain and anger. Just as he looked up, he saw Donkey Kong holding what Mewtwo could see was the Master Ball.
"No! You can't! How did you… No!"
Donkey Kong threw the ball at his enemy, and for a second, it looked as if it wasn't going to do anything, before it opened, shining light upon Mewtwo, who screamed at it. Then, unfelt by everyone else, it seemed as if the Master Ball was sucking Mewtwo in. Mewtwo tried to hold onto something, but nothing was there to hold. With a final dark scream, the dome surrounding him and Donkey Kong disappeared as Mewtwo was sucked into the Master Ball and captured.
He was defeated. It was over.
