By TeaFlower
The Disclaimer of HOPE: Terra, Ackers, Gaia, Vines, Rai, Gengar (the character), Sailor and Fearful are my characters. Pokemon in general does not belong to me. When I say 'in general', I am referring to NPCs such as That Old Guy in Viridian City, Pokemon such as Mewtwo, and the general concept of Pokemon, which is gotta catch 'em all. New Island belongs to whoever made the first movie.
Ackers: Wow, I think we might have given everything in this chapter away, Terra! That's not good at all!
Terra: SHUT UP, ACKERS! Those who HAVEN'T caught on now have!
Ackers: … D'OH!
Terra: (walks away)
Episode 9: An Unexpected Host
When we last left our poor, hapless heroine, she had discovered New Island. I don't feel like describing the place again. So just use your imagination.
The rain kept pounding the girl and her Pokemon. Eventually, Terra started shivering horribly. "I… I think we should go inside…" Terra said slowly, then sneezed. She returned Sailor to his Pokeball and slowly approached the door, sniffling all the way. She cracked the door open and tiptoed inside.
The inside of the structure was much more magnificent than the outside. Her footsteps echoed quite loudly as she walked inside. "Hello?" She asked no one in particular, but she was answered by her own timid voice several times. "…" Even the silence seemed to echo! As she explored deeper into the cavernous building, she never realized she was being watched.
Terra finally came to a grand hall thing. It had a table, a fountain, and a spiraling staircase. "… wow…" Terra was able to manage that one word. "Is anyone here?" No answer. "I guess not… but why build a place like this and just leave?" She sat down near the table. Then she sneezed. I'm gonna let everyone out of their Pokeballs… she thought, kind of tiredly. So she let everyone out of the spheres.
"… WOW!" Gengar screamed. "This place is BEAUTIFUL!"
"Dude… Milk Dud…" Rai said, slightly mesmerized. Then he screamed, "MILK DUDS DO NOT BELONG TO THE AUTHOR!"
Sailor flopped into the fountain. "Ahh… what a nice place to relax…" he said, lying down in the water.
Vines snuggled up in a corner and went to sleep. "… zzz… zzzzzzzzzzzzzz…"
Fearful just stared into the fountain. "Water… pretty water…"
Our last and definitely not least Pokemon is none other than Ackers the Mewtwo. "Wow…" he said, while looking around. "Can I go exploring? Please, Terra, pretty please with sugar and sprinkles on top?"
"Ackers, did you know that sprinkles are sugar?" Terra replied, sniffling.
"Oh… but can I go exploring anyway?"
"Sure. Just don't get lost!"
With that, Ackers floated off, calling back, "I won't!" As soon as the psychic cat was out of sight, Terra sort of curled up next to Vines, facing the opposite direction in which Ackers ran off.
---ELSEWHERE---
Maybe I could scare their socks off… the creature thought. She's got a Raichu, a Venasuar, a Dewgong, a Fearow, and a Gengar, but what was that sixth one? I'll figure it out later… With that, it entered the door opposite Ackers left.
---BACK IN THE HALL---
The sound of a door creaking on its hinges woke up Terra. The first thing she noticed was there was a figure at the door. The next thing she noticed was that she was cold. Then she noticed that the figure was coming closer. She sat up and looked at the creature. When it floated into the light, Terra said one thing:
"Ackers! What are you doing here?" 'Ackers' stared at her blankly. Indeed, the creature looked identical to Ackers. The only difference was the eyes. Ackers had amethyst eyes that looked calm, but the creature had electric blue eyes that seemed to pierce the soul. It blinked.
… Ackers? It thought to itself. "Who's Ackers?" it asked Terra curiously. Terra blinked at hearing the voice that definitely WASN'T Ackers' in her head.
"… WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH ACKERS?" Terra screamed, disturbing the tranquility of the scene.
"Oh my gawd!" Gengar screamed with a fake Boston accent. "Someone stole Ackas' skin! BLOODY 'ELL!" She ran around in circles. Vines woke up and blinked. Sailor stared at the creature who 'stole Ackers' skin'. Fearful screamed and fainted. Rai blinked, then walked up to the thing.
"Alright, dude. We KNOW you abducted Ackers. What did you do with him?" he asked with a Sherlock Homes hat on his head. Then he screamed, "SHERLOCK HOMES DOESN'T BELONG TO THE AUTHOR!"
"I don't even know who Ackers is!" the thing replied. Just as it said this, Ackers floated in and confronted the thing while saying, "Damn, this place is big!" When they were face-to-face, Ackers and the thing said, "What the…?"
The two stared into each other's eyes for a long time. Rai looked between the two. There was no way of telling them apart! Gengar snuck up and stared at the two identical beings. Eventually everyone was surrounding the two psychic cats. Terra walked up behind Ackers and asked, "W-w-why are there t-two of you, A-Ackers?"
"… I don't know…" Ackers replied, never looking at his trainer.
"I've got a BAD feeling about this…" the psychic said, transmitting the message into everyone's minds.
"… who are you?" Ackers finally asked, slightly dazed at seeing someone who looked like the person he saw when he looked at water (in other words, his reflection).
"My name is Mewtwo." The creature said. "I didn't know there were others like me…"
"Same here…" Ackers replied. Terra suddenly thought of something. There is only one in existence…
"Wait a second! How can there be TWO Mewtwos?" Terra asked, waving her arms frantically. She whipped out her Pokedex, sniffled, and entered some numbers into the data base. "Unless my Pokedex lied to me…"
MEWTWO the CLONE Pokemon
Created after several long years of cell splicing research, MEWTWO was created. There is only one MEWTWO in existence.
Ackers and Mewtwo stared at her blankly. "Someone has to explain this to us…" Mewtwo said simply.
---This episode is done! One more episode in this series!---
Ackers: Huh?
Mewtwo: What?
Terra: You're kidding!
Gengar: So, what's the word?
TeaFlower: You guys are dense, you know that?
