Chapter 10
Mateusz sat in his room, fiddling with the strange device that had appeared two days ago. Mewtwo was still in a bad mood from the events of the previous night and had been staying in his room for the entire day. The numbers and dials on the device were all numbered from 1-13. He fiddled with a small red switch on one side, and a compartment opened. It looked like it was meant to hold something small. Mateusz decided he would put a bullet from one of the clips of pistol ammo in his bag in. He wondered if it would work now that he had put something in the compartment. He continued to play around with the dials and buttons, and after pressing a red button, a flash happened and the device disappeared. Mateusz was momentarily dazed, but soon recovered and stood up.
"I'll have to tell Mewtwo that the device disappeared, no matter if he's in a bad mood, it's not like I was involved in the prank anyway." Mateusz thought after the strange disappearance of the strange device that was in the hands of a strange man when they first saw it.
Mateusz walked out of his room and into the hallway of the cave. He walked down to the entrance to the room where Mewtwo stayed and entered.
"Mewtwo, the device disappeared." Mateusz informed Mewtwo who was sitting on a crudely fashioned stool in the middle of the room.
"Were you messing about with it?" Mewtwo asked coldly without turning to face Mateusz.
"Yes, I put something in a compartment and pressed a button, and it then disappeared." Mateusz replied.
"You shouldn't have been messing around with it, but, no matter, I doubt we would have had any use for it anyway." Mewtwo said coldly, without turning around still.
"Just so you know, I wasn't involved in that business last night, so don't be angry at me for it, I was just as surprised as you were." Mateusz said to Mewtwo, trying to get rid of any anger directed at him for something he hadn't done.
"Really, you weren't involved?" Mewtwo turned and faced him this time as he asked the question.
"No, I wasn't, it was definitely Mew, and possibly Joasia." Mateusz disclosed.
"Of course it was Mew, he is always trying to anger me, and I believe he finds it amusing, but the trouble is, he usually succeeds. I'd have to say he is rather good at it." Mewtwo said in a slightly angered tone.
"Do you want me to get him to stop?" Mateusz asked Mewtwo, thinking of ways he could influence Mew to stop annoying Mewtwo.
"You can try, but I doubt you will succeed." Mewtwo replied, turning to face the wall again.
Mateusz took this as meaning he was meant to leave, so he turned and left the room, before bumping into Mew, who was floating down the hallway at that time.
"Ouch!" Mew exclaimed.
"Terribly sorry, I didn't see you there." Mateusz apologised.
"No kidding. Anyway, have you seen Joasia today?" Mew asked.
"I saw her earlier this morning. She said something about exploring the mountain today, I tried to stop her from going but she left anyway." Mateusz replied.
"Oh okay, she'll be fine." Mew said before continuing down the hallway.
"Hey, Mew!" Mateusz called after him.
"Yes?" Mew turned around and asked.
"Do you think you could stop bothering Mewtwo? You're distracting him too much, and he needs to concentrate on thinking about a file we read in a secret base. So don't annoy him for the next few days, okay? You'll have me to answer to if we all get overrun by Team Rocket troops because Mewtwo was getting distracted by your childish antics." Mateusz told Mew with a serious look on his face.
"Oh alright, I'll stop annoying and pranking the sulking baby for a while then, but only because you asked." Mew sighed and agreed.
Mew continued down the hallway and out of the cave, presumably to look for Joasia. Mateusz decided to go and tell Mewtwo that he had managed to stop Mew from annoying him for at least a little while. He entered Mewtwo's room and Mewtwo was still sitting in the exact same spot, seeming to be in deep thought.
"Mewtwo, I have managed to get Mew to agree to not annoying you for at least a while." Mateusz informed Mewtwo.
"That is good, thank you." Mewtwo turned around and said before standing up and saying, "I need to talk to you about something for a minute."
"What do you need to tell me?" Mateusz asked patiently.
"I will be training Joasia, starting tomorrow, and that means you will have to wait longer before I can try and figure out more about you. It will be much longer before I can allow you to leave, I am sorry to say." Mewtwo said with a grim look, knowing Mateusz probably wouldn't like the news.
"Okay." Mateusz said, mood unswayed by the news he had been told.
"Really, you're fine with it?" Mewtwo did the equivalent of a human cocking an eyebrow.
"Yes, I can't live in the human world anyway, they would find out about me having two hearts and other abilities, I would be experimented on by scientists, I would be a research project, and, maybe even Team Rocket would try to capture me for study. I am doomed to be alone in my position forever, not in the human world, and not in the world of creatures like yourself and the other beings that inhabit this world. I am a part of neither world. I am stuck in between for the rest of my life, Mewtwo, so staying with you guys for a while longer would actually be beneficial for me." Mateusz said with a grim and faraway look on his frowning face.
Mewtwo simply stood there, speechless in disbelief at the grim conclusions the boy had made on his own. But Mewtwo knew that what the boy had said was true, he was not entirely part of either the human world or the world of Pokémon. Mewtwo still struggled to say anything back to the boy as Mateusz turned and vacated the room. Mewtwo sat back down and pondered over Mateusz's words, trying to find a flaw that would mean that what Mateusz had said was wrong, but he found none. Mewtwo shook his head in disbelief that the boy had gone from originally being reluctant and unwilling to cooperate to simply concluding that it did not matter, after all, how could someone change their mindset so quickly? Mewtwo had always assumed that humans kept one mindset for their entire lives that could only be influenced to some extent. Mewtwo decided to leave the topic for now and deal with it later…
"Sir, the new outpost that was set up last week has been attacked, presumably by a rival organisation, but we're not sure." a Team Rocket captain told Giovanni in Giovanni's office.
"What were the casualties?" Giovanni, the leader of Team Rocket requested.
"2 men were shot dead, one of them was your cousin." the now nervous captain disclosed, hoping not to be involved in the possible rage that would ensue after his saying this.
"My cousin? I posted him as commander of that outpost. Do we know who did it?" Giovanni managed to keep a calm exterior, but under the surface, he was boiling with rage.
"No sir, but the suspicion is on a local gang, they are the only known people in the area with the resources to carry out such a raid; they also stole a weapon and clips of ammunition from the armoury of the outpost." the now slightly less nervous captain decided to say.
"Thank you, captain, you can leave now." Giovanni dismissed the captain who left the room in a hurry.
Giovanni slammed his fists down on the desk and yelled with rage at the loss of his only cousin, face turning red.
"I will find out who did this and kill them for what they have done!" Giovanni swore an oath in his head.
Giovanni massaged his temples as sweat formed on his brow and regained control of his anger as he sat down. He pressed the button on the intercom and requested that someone bring him a cup of coffee. Moments later, a man with his coffee arrived and set it before him before leaving the room. As Giovanni sipped the coffee and looked out the window of his office which was on the top floor of the Team Rocket headquarters, a 3 story compound building in the middle of a forest with a road leading to the nearest town. The government couldn't touch them; they had far too many resources and were left almost unchecked by the useless security forces of the region. Team Rocket's plans had been put on hold recently due to the escape of their new weapon, and that weapon now threatened the safety of Team Rocket, now that there were two of them out there, they could deal huge damage to Team Rocket. It was a good thing they were developing a device that would soon fix that. The less that stood in the way of the objective, the better...
The mountainside was a peaceful place at night, when the majority of the creatures in the mountainside forest had gone to sleep. The moon was full and the stars in their constellations shone brightly, as a quiet, chill breeze blew through the air like a feather made of ice. Mateusz sat on a rocky protrusion from the mountainside that overlooked the forest and in the distance, a town. He was in a state of very deep thought, and paid little attention to the footsteps that approached behind him.
"Where were you at dinner tonight?" the voice that belonged to Joasia whom was approaching him.
Mateusz turned around and saw her as she walked toward him, her tail swinging from side to side as it helped to keep her balanced, Joasia in fact often wondered how Mateusz balanced without a tail on those thin legs that humans have.
"I was out here, thinking, and I wasn't hungry anyway." Mateusz replied as he stood up.
"Are you okay? You've been acting a little strangely lately." Joasia said with genuine concern.
"I am fine. I have just come to accept my position in this world, and it is not one to be envied." Mateusz said in a grim manner he had been speaking certain things in for the past few days.
"And what would that be?" Joasia inquired.
"That I belong in neither the human world, nor the world of Pokémon. I am alone in that position, and it will remain so until the day I die." Mateusz continued to speak in a grim manner.
"What happened to the Mateusz that laughed? You are far too much like Mewtwo now, all cold and grim." Joasia wanted to know.
"I am only grim, because my circumstance is grim and lonely." Mateusz replied.
"You were so friendly, but I can see you have been changed for the worse, goodnight." Joasia said with a sad look on her face and turned to leave.
"Goodnight, Joasia, I hope you are never put in my position, it would be a shame to see a friend go through such trouble." Mateusz said back.
Joasia whirled around as he said this and said, "Friend?"
"Yes, what do you think I count you as you silly being?" Mateusz asked, raising an eyebrow and smiling a small, provoking smile.
"You had me worried about you! I am going to slap you so hard right now!" Joasia said as her face lit up at Mateusz's sudden change of mood and chased Mateusz who simply laughed a deep, rich laugh and turned to run.
Joasia chased Mateusz, who continued to laugh as he ran back to the cave where Mew sat on a rock near the entrance.
"What's the rush Mateusz?" Mew asked as Mateusz approached the entrance.
"Help, she's trying to slap me again!" Mateusz yelled as he ran past and into his room where he crouched and hid behind his bed.
Joasia soon approached the cave, looking for Mateusz.
"Where is he?! I am going to slap him so hard when I find him!" Joasia telepathically yelled as she approached the entrance, fuming.
"Why do you want to hit him?" Mew calmly asked, with some amusement at the current situation.
"He infuriates me so much! I was concerned for him because he was in a strange mood and he flipped his mood really quickly and taunted me!" Joasia said to Mew as she stopped running to explain.
Mewtwo had heard the commotion when Mateusz had run in and was walking out of the cave to inspect what the matter was.
"What is the matter, why did Mateusz yell out here?" Mewtwo asked.
"Because he is running away from Joasia, who intends to slap him." Mew explained.
"Why does she want to slap him?" Mewtwo inquired.
Joasia once again explained what she was doing and why, without losing any vigour to her fury.
"I believe I saw him run into his room." Mewtwo said with a smirk to everyone, including Mateusz, as he pointed down the hallway.
"What the heck Mewtwo! You weren't supposed to tell her where I was!" Mateusz's voice yelled from his room.
"Ah, that's where the rascal is hiding, thank you Mewtwo." Joasia said darkly as she advanced forward into the cave.
Mateusz ran out of his room, intending to run past Joasia and out of the cave, but she had the hallway blocked too well. Mateusz yelped and backed up slowly toward the end of the hallway as Joasia advanced slowly forwards. Joasia walked up to him, and Mateusz prepared himself for the blow he knew was coming, but it did not hit his face, that he was shielding, it struck him in the gut, and he fell over, winded. Mateusz lay still on the ground, not seeming to breathe.
"Mateusz?" Joasia asked with concern that she may have hit him too hard.
Mateusz simply rolled onto his back and began to laugh uncontrollably.
"I got you again, real good too." Mateusz laughed as he barely managed to say the words clearly.
"YOU!" Joasia yelled as Mateusz stood up.
Joasia tackled Mateusz to the ground and they both rolled onto their backs, laughing uncontrollably like children. Mew and Mewtwo came up and surveyed the scene. Mew was smiling from ear to ear whilst Mewtwo had a large smirk on his normally neutrally expressive face. The laughter continued or some time, but soon, it was time to sleep…