Chapter forty six: Xenophobia (Act one- The Fear)
There was a bit of a fog as the ship pulled into Pueltown's docks. "Docks" being the relative term since most of them had been all but destroyed.
The fog was not natural, rather it was made from an elaborate fog machine on board the ship. Better to serve as a disguise that way. The thinking worked since the ship was able to dock in the north of Pueltown without anyone noticing.
Some humans came out, scurrying and pulling down a ladder. They checked to see if anyone was around, luckily, there wasn't.
A black and red "R" was painted on its side.
At last, the mysterious men A-OK'ed the surrounding area, and proceeded to very quickly drop off their guest. From the inside of the ship emerged a feline like Pokemon, dark purple in color and having four red eyes.
"Lord Xeno, we'll be leaving you now."
"Logically." the Pokemon floated down "Tell Giovanni I have landed. I shall engage Absolix as soon as I am able."
Oh yes, Absolix was here alright, Xeno could sense it. Of course he hid his aura very well so there was no telling where the man actually was, only that he was close. And southbound.
"This will be logically interesting." Xeno said to himself, the rockets disembarking "Now that I am far stronger than before, repeating my tactics yields me a 76% chance of victory.
Xeno knew it was only a matter of time before those chances reached 100%. He was a cold, calculating machine who knew the odds of everything. His prediction skills were unmatched, and he knew that Absolix would be destroyed.
He knew all possible outcomes, after all.
"Oh well what do you know… Xeno's here.
Hm. Does he have a problem with Regigigas' revival or something?
And it looks like Absolix is here too…
How odd that those two appear in the same region. Can't be a good sign.
Ah, whatever. I'll sit back and enjoy. It looks like I don't need to do anything… since the traitor will do it all for me…"
The alarm was nerve wracking. Mewtwo thought it was all a dream, until he realized it was too loud to be a dream. The psycat jolted up instantly and looked at the monitors to see what intruded.
It was the reverse- no one was breaking in. Something was breaking out.
"Where's Regice!?" Mewtwo noticed the empty rope that had previously bound the dead machine. He Teleported to the ground floor outside, where he saw only the alarms. No sign of the key.
"Mewtwo, what's happening?" Cresselia demanded telepathically, woken up as well.
"Regice has escaped." said Mewtwo, "I think it's still inside the building, search for it and bring it down! I'll guard the entrance."
Clinking was heard behind the psycat. Mewtwo turned around to face a grey colored automaton, and a brown colored automaton as well. Both had seven eyes in different patterns, and both looked like they wanted to fight him.
"…I'll call you back." Mewtwo twirled around, psychic energy in his hands.
"POWER LEVEL = 235,799 +/- 4,658" stated the brown one.
"PRIMARY OBJECTIVE IS TO SECURE UNIT TWO." stated the grey one. Mewtwo decided to move before they did, psychokinetically shoving them into the ground.
"Fine then! I'll just kill more of you!" he raised his arm to the air, using telekinetic powers to speed up every particle around his fist until it was a maelstrom of pure power "Psyburn!"
The attack scorched everything it touched, the Regi's included. Both were caught up in the insanely powerful attack, and both were destined to die by Mewtwo's hand. That is, until a shield made from pure light blocked his move and spared the two keys.
Mewtwo felt his insanity.
"We meet again, clone."
The psycat flung himself at his mortal enemy, his purple colored fist doing absolutely nothing to the white colored fist that met his own.
"Unfortunately, I can't have you messing up my darling little keys." the white being said. Mewtwo lost all self control, hitting him with everything he had. The blows he dealt would have put craters in mountains, but the fallen angel blocked every single one with ease. The shockwaves alone tore down trees, yet not a single ounce of energy hit the white being. In response, his opponent shot him in the chest with a piercing beam attack, just barely missing his heart.
Mewtwo fell to the floor, blood pouring out of his chest.
"You ought to keep yourself under control. You should have been able to dodge that."
"I…I'll kill you…!" Mewtwo yelled desperately through his coughing up blood "ABSOLIX!"
"You can't kill me." his opponent smiled, "And you never will…"
"ABSOLIX!"
He vanished. He, along with the two keys, and from Cresselia's bewildered look, the third as well. She, Deoxys and Celebi made their way out to their dying friend.
"Shit!" Celebi quickly applied her healing powers to Mewtwo "What the hell happened Mewtwo!?"
"Ab…Absolix…!"
Celebi narrowed her eyes, a bead of sweat dripping down her forehead "So… he was the one who teleported Regice…"
"Kill him…" mumbled Mewtwo, Deoxys trying her best to heal him. Suddenly, Mewtwo found Absolix. He had teleported inside the Ranger Base, his aura was clear. The psycat leapt up despite his injuries and used a powerful psychic on the building.
"Mewtwo, what are you doing!?" Celebi screamed, the psycat shoving her aside.
"DIIIIEEEE!" screamed Mewtwo through the blood. His Psychic utterly ripped the house to shreds, the building fell in a matter of seconds, leaving nothing except two stunned humans and a green haired girl who Protected them.
Mewtwo stared at Gardevoir, unable to comprehend. Absolix was right there. Right where Gardevoir stood. Why was he not there?
Before he could finish his thought, the injury caught up to him and he fell down. Mewtwo fainted being wide eyed with confusion.
He was losing it.
Morning came eventually; and with the sun up they could move.
"And that's what happened." Celebi explained, "Mewtwo is out of comission, probably for at least three days."
"Attacked by Absolix… so he's here in Almia…" Arceus was worried. Celebi however, narrowed her eyes and looked down. She told Arceus that Absolix was not in Almia. It was worse than that.
"We checked the surveillance camera's." Crawford said, "…you might want to take a look at this."
The video showed Arceus what occurred last night- outside, two of the Regi's ganged up on Mewtwo, but the psycat held them off well. That is, until five minutes infighting when Mewtwo let out a heartbreaking gasp. He stared at absolutely nothing and yelled "Absolix".
Mewtwo then proceeded to fight with himself, allowing the confused Regi's to teleport their ice type friend out of there. Despite them being long gone, Mewtwo exchanged blows with an imaginary Absolix, wrecking the landscape in the process.. When the others came to investigate, Mewtwo screamed for Absolix again and blew apart almost all the Ranger Base.
"No…" Arceus widened her eyes. Celebi was right- Absolix wasn't in Almia. Mewtwo had somehow conjured it up in his mind, apparently 'sensing' him.
"His insanity has grown, Arceus…" Celebi stated bluntly, "and when he wakes up I don't know if I'll be able to stop him."
"Arceus, I can stay and heal Mewtwo." Deoxys said immediately, "All he needs is some rest! A-After that he'll be fine!"
"You let me worry about Mewtwo." Arceus replied, "For now, we have a much bigger concern: the fact that Regice, Regirock and Registeel have found each other. Meaning it's only a matter of time before Regigigas reawakens."
Cresselia and the rest of Calestia became nervous. Regigigas was supposed to be an extremely powerful class Five with strength great enough to move entire islands with ease, perhaps even entire countries.
"I don't need to tell you that it would be disastrous if he awakens." the Legendary Council leader said, "You all will need to go to them. They are headed for the Hippowdon Temple, that is where Regigigas' body is sealed."
Continuing, Arceus instructed them on how to defeat the Regi's: "His body may be there, but his mind was split into three separate parts- the Regi's. When the Regi's locate the body, they will begin uploading themselves into Regigigas. During this time they will be completely helpless- that is you chance for you to strike.
Kill one of them, and the process will not occur. I realize they are all very strong, so Celebi, I'm counting on you to deliver the final blow."
The grass pixie nodded her head gravely, her head in deep thought. "And you're sure you can't contact either Victini or Darkrai?" Arceus added.
The purple swan shook her head sideways. "Very well… I'll try and send Ho-oh your way. Just deal with destroying the Regi's as soon as possible.
…Which brings up the question: how exactly did Regice walk away? Didn't Mewtwo kill it like I asked?"
"…unfortunately we don't know what happened." Celebi answered, "Yes Mewtwo killed it, but it seemed perfectly fine when it attacked us last night."
"I see…" Arceus' hologram sighed. She looked at her child, Cresselia "I'm sorry to be doing this to you…"
"It's no problem mom. We'll win." Cresselia said back "We'll succeed, I promise you."
"I'll tell the situation at the other end." were the divine being's last words before vanishing.
"Alright." Cresselia shot her fellow members a look of sheer determination. She turned to Gardevoir, Deoxys and Cresselia and said to them "Let's move."
"Well that was easy." Gallade said to himself. He had defeated the leader of the gang, Red Eyes, in no time at all. Notably, Red Eyes used a typhlosion on him, now fainted lying next to Red Eyes. Gallade used all his power and defeated it in one hit. He was much, much stronger now. This could only mean one thing.
"GARDEVOIR WILL TOTALLY FALL FOR ME!"
He saw no sign of the Unova princess, so the fighting psychic ran back where he met up with Mercifond and Gliscor. They told him their way was a boring dead end. Gallade told them his side of the story, how he defeated their leader Red Eyes, which he slung on his shoulder.
"So if you beat the leader…" Gliscor said, "Then where's the princess?"
Hesitantly, all three turned to the last corner, where Malispite had gone. Their last member had vanished down this corner, an uneasy sense of dread fell upon them as they gazed into the abysmally dark hallway.
That is, until a flustered brown bat arrived safely with the princess in his arms. Malispite gently let Meloetta down, and two flustered teens cleared their throats.
"S-So, I found the princess." the brown bat stated, trying to remain calm.
"Princess Meloetta, I sincerely apologize for any comments my brother made about stereotyping royalty." Mercifond glared at her twin. However, Meloetta found him to be quite the gentleman, and he did not make any rude comments at all.
While Gallade and Gliscor passed this off nonchalantly, Mercifond knew that there was something clearly wrong with this picture. Malispite, who never let grudges go, suddenly found himself being nice to his supposed enemy? Moreover, the fact that Meloetta referred to him as a gentleman was suspicious. Her twin brother was no gentleman.
She pulled Gliscor over "Hey, yor a secret agent right?!"
"So Blaze and Raptor tell me…" Gliscor sighed.
"What possible reason could have made the princess assume my brother is a gentleman?" she asked, confusing secret agents with detectives. Gliscor was nonetheless willing to give it a shot while Gallade introduced himself.
He gazed at the green haired princess, noting how her eyes drifted to Malispite every so often. He gazed at Malispite, who refused to outright look at the green haired girl yet was very red in the face.
"There can only be one logical conclusion." Gliscor narrowed his eyes "Malispite is allergic to the princess."
"…" Mercifond said, "…Holy crap that makes perfect sense!"
Yet, despite Malispite's allergic reaction, they would have to continue on. Now that they had Meloetta, and Gallade had Red Eyes, they could exit the building and find the three deer 'legendaries'.
"Where did they go off to this time?" sighed the green haired princess.
"No one knows." Gliscor said. He cocked his ear, "Wait. I hear something…"
There was a loud internal 'BOOM'. A part of the ceiling crashed down, followed by three tumbling deer shaped figures who, despite their awkward entrance, managed to look dignified somehow.
"Aha! We found you guys again." said Cobalion, lowering his horns in a bow. He spotted the princess, and the three were overjoyed that she had been returned to them. They congratulated Calestia, and Meloetta returned to riding atop Cobalions' neck.
"We truly thank you for righting our brother's blunder." said Virizion.
"Yeah Terrakion, nice job." Cobalion added.
"HE MEANT YOU YA' DUMBASS!"
"A happy ending for everybody!" Gallade smiled. Red Eyes, still only halfway conscious, moaned "not for me…" but Gallade smacked him back into dreamland. "Nothing could possibly ruin this moment!"
And then Arceus appeared saying "THE END OF THE WORLD IS UPON US!"
Calestia: "FRIC NOT AGAIN!"
"We don't have much time so I'll explain this as fast as possible!" said Arceus, "Here it goes: Mewtwo was insane so the keys broke free and one of them revived so now they'll resurrect Regigigas!"
Calestia: "…"
"And thus, I'm sending you all to Almia." concluded the white equine. The three Muskadeer brothers and Meloetta stepped forth, demanding to know what they should do. "Oh you guys are here? Great! You can help us prevent the end of the world!"
"WE SHALL NOT FAIL! OR GET LOST!" shouted Cobalion with pride. Gliscor and Malispite simply sighed, knowing the second one would be fulfilled anyway.
"But how can you get us there in time?" Mercifond questioned, "It's a three day journey, and it would take a ridiculous amount of energy to teleport us there- if anyone of us could even teleport!"
"For that I have good news and I have bad news." Arceus said to them.
"What's the good news?"
"I've found someone who can teleport you all to Almia." said God.
"What's the bad news?"
"It's Anarchaoss."
Before Mercifond could curse her luck, a yellow portal opened up and a sphere like object was shot through the ground. If unfolded itself to reveal the long haired steel type with heterochromia.
"Hello everyone!" he said cheerfully.
"Fric, not this guy…" growled Malispite. He marched up to him and snarled "Hey! If you even THINK about hitting on my sister-"
"You'll activate Demon's Offence, beat me to a pulp, turn that pulp into pulpier pulp, chuck my remains off the cliff, launch a Zap Cannon at me then bury me under Mt. Sorbet!" grinned the man.
Malispite paused, dumbfounded "…how did you know what I was about to say…?"
"I am a being of pure chaos! I know everything in the universe, but I only get bits and pieces of it because my brain is too small! FORTY TWO!" he shouted that last part.
"…" Virizion noted.
"…these guys have weird friends…" Terrakion said to his green colored brother.
"Anarchaoss, warp them to Almia!" declared Arceus.
"Can do Joe!" Anarchaoss nodded, "But the stone pillar will collapse at any minute, even if we nail it to the ground!"
A pause.
"Alright let's do this!" using his strange powers, Anarchaoss summoned a yellow wormhole. As opposed to teleporting, the steel type had the ability to create wormholes, which were points in space interlinked, thereby reducing the distance between anything to almost zero.
"Cannonball in!" Anarchaoss shouted, transforming into his spherical form and tumbling into it. Calestia soon followed him, along with the three muskadeers, who, shrugging, cannonballed in as well.
"Godspeed Calestia." nodded Arceus' hologram "…wait… I am God… Uh… Myspeed Calestia!"
Zero looked around. He was surrounded by Dim Sun grunts, who all had powerful skarmory by the side. There were at least a dozen of them, probably more.
"We have you surrounded, Zero!" announced their admin, "We can't let you get into the Chroma Ruins, because we need the Shadow Crystal! So… we're going to attack you all at once, and soon reinforcements will arrive with even stronger Pokemon!
What do you say to that!?"
Zero of course, said the only natural response to such a thing: "YESSSSSSSS!"
Calestia was only an hour away from the Hippowdon Temple. The Rangers, in an effort to conserve energy, summoned a speedboat and rode to the Haruba Village, access to the desert which contained the temple.
Their numbers were few: Gardevoir, Cresselia, Deoxys and Celebi were the only ones left to take care of Regigigas before he awoke.
"Regigigas is a class Five legendary," Celebi was filling them in on the details, "Hypothetically, he is even stronger than Arceus right now. He was born during the time of Arceus' great grandfather, Arkaeon. He was stronger than anything else at the time, but luckily her ancestor sealed him away with the help of humans.
These humans created three keys out of Regigigas' essense, effectively splitting his mind into three separate pieces, placing them in golems. The problem arose when the three separate pieces wanted to naturally recombine, so the three keys were sealed away as well."
"So… he's a class Five…" said Deoxys, thinking, "What specific abilities does he have?"
"He is a normal type according to the humans from back then." Celebi said, "His special ability… is merely raw power."
"Raw power?"
"He can punch a mountain and it will crumble." Celebi stated blandly "He can kick the ground and cause earthquakes that can devastate and entire city. Worse still, almost nothing can come close to damaging him."
Cresselia widened her eyes "I… can see why mother fears him so much."
"Indeed…" Celebi murmured, gazing at an approaching island "Actually, I think the worst part is that he can't be reasoned with. He is a force of pure destruction, with no thinking ability whatsoever. At least Absolix has method to his destruction… Regigigas will destroy for no reason."
The three women gazed at each other. They had to stop this thing no matter what.
"Land Ho!" shouted Crawford, spinning the boat into the docks of the desert. Without wasting time on the village, He pointed the women to the direction of the desert. Crawford and Luana would be no use against three powerful keys, so they had to stay behind "Good luck!"
"Let's hurry!" Celebi commanded.
The four ran out the village and into the desert. No Pokemon were present, they were all hiding from the three scary Pokemon from before. The desert was not a long one, for soon the Hippowdon Temple became visible.
Like the pyramids of old, It a was sandy colored edifice that spanned many miles underground, its entrance being in the shape of a hippowdon. Wasting no time, as the entrance had been done it by a metal hand, the four of them journeyed inside.
The inside was spacious, door after door, hallway after hallway as Celebi led them further and further inwards. Finally, she told them to stop at a three way pass.
Many doors lay in front of them, one in front and two to either side. They all had dots on them represent the eyes of each of the three Regi's. Each door was open.
"This is it." Celebi said to them, "These doors don't open unless they sense the presence of the Regi's. Each of them has taken a separate path." she turned back "Alright listen to me, the best strategy would be to split up so that we can take them all on at the same time.
Luckily I can sense which paths are the ones the Regi's took.
Cresselia, you go down the second path Regirock has taken. Gardevoir, Go with the third for Registeel. Deoxys and I will take down Regice, the seventh path."
"Alright, but after were done, where do these paths lead?" Cresselia questioned.
"They all lead to the same place:" Celebi narrowed her eyes "to the room where Regigigas' body is stored."
Without another word, they female members split up. Gardevoir ran down the second path, Cresselia to the third, Celebi and Deoxys in the seventh. It was do or die time- either they got to the Regi's before they awakened their master, or another great monster would be set loose upon the world.
Cascade City
"Oho?" Absolix eyed a computer screen.
"Dear Absolix,
Regigigas will awaken at the Hippowdon Temple. Be there.
Sincerely,
Clear Bell
"Oh my." Absolix smiled, "We get to see my dear friend Giga so early? What luck…and finally I can meet this 'Clear Bell' person. Well, I had better leave then."
"Leave where?"
He turned behind him, where he saw Mewthree. She was breathing heavily, with scratched and bruises all over he pink fur coat. A bit of blood was on her arm. "You have to train me, remember?"
"My dear girl…" Absolix sighed, "I can't possibly train someone who can't even defeat a bar of soap."
"I've beaten it."
Absolix blinked. "…Hm?"
"I've beaten it." Mewthree said proudly, "If you want proof, its remains are over there." she pointed vaguely in the distance.
"Oh my. Well, congratulations for defeating a common household cleaning item. Truly this is a remarkable accomplishment." he said sarcastically.
Mewthree stared angrily at him. He always knew what to say to make her mad.
"Well then, I suppose we'll have to move on to the next phase won't we?" Absolix said, "but for now, I have to leave. You should come with me, you'll see something interesting."
"NO." said the psycat, "I'm injured enough as it is, and every time we go somewhere something bad happens!"
Absolix instantly healed Mewthree's wounds with a snap of his fingers. Mewthree paused "…and every time we go somewhere something bad happens!"
"Oh come now, where's your sense of adventure?" Absolix created a warp portal "IT WILL BE FUN. TRUST ME."
"NOT WHEN YOU MAKE THAT CREEPY FACE!"
However Absolix had enough of this nonsense, so he grabbed Mewthree by the arm and threw her into the portal as she screamed bloody murder against him.
"Honestly, what a troublesome child…" he declared. The man created another portal and stepped through it.
Mewthree, screaming bloody murder, was thrown into a pit of sand. Coughing up some sand that had gotten in her mouth, she glared with sheer rage as Absolix lightly stepped onto the sand pit. The female psycat stood back up and shouted that she wanted no part of whatever crazy mission Absolix had to offer.
"Oh?"
"That's right! I'm going back home right now!" she said.
"Oh?" Absolix questioned, "Why Mewthree, I had no idea you knew how to get past Inori's dimensional coding to get into Cascade City."
Mewthree paused, realizing that Absolix was her only way back in.
"I hate you."
"Join the club. I'm going to find the Hippowdon Temple, join me if you wish." Absolix walked calmly to a Cliffside in the desert. Mewthree sighed and vowed to redouble her study on dimensional coordinates the next time she got back. Reluctantly, she joined him.
"Wait…" Mewthree suddenly said, "I sense someone…"
"Wild Pokemon are everywhere." Absolix acknowledged.
"No it's not that…" said Mewthree, looking around. She gasped "It's… it's Xeno…!"
The white being frowned. Whenever Xeno showed up, it only meant trouble. Sure enough, Absolix could also sense him once he tried. Mewthree announced she was going to track down Xeno, and Absolix merely let her do as she wanted.
"Fine fine, I'll be at the Temple if you need me." he warped a short distance to the temple, and as he walked inside, wondered why Xeno was here.
Mewtwo awoke. The first thing he noticed was that there were bandages on his head. The second was the insurmountable amount of failure he felt.
Absolix was stronger than him still. Even after his improvement, he utterly lost. Mewtwo knew how to calculate. He finally faced the sad truth: there was no possible way for him to defeat Absolix. No possible way to curb his insanity.
No way to become real.
Mewtwo grieved. His tears stained his bandages. He gripped himself with such force that his wrist hurt. He tried to cry, but not a sound was uttered.
No way to become real.
His artificial existence meant nothing. When Mewtwo came to terms with this inconvenient truth, he sat upright and solemnly stared out the window. After a few seconds, Mewtwo realized what had to be done.
He Teleported.
Cresselia flew down the path destined to take her to where Regirock lay. So far it was nothing but tunnel after tunnel, dimly lit by glowing blue crystals. Personally, she would have had all of them go after a single Regi, since they needed to incapacitate one in order to stop the process, but Celebi probably knew more than her about the keys so she must have had some reason for splitting them up.
The swan couldn't help but note that things were pretty boring in the tunnels, nothing but dirt and glowing rocks. She had already been at this for ten minutes, and had seen high nor tail of Regirock.
And then, suddenly, she sense something. A sinister aura was ahead. Cresselia slowed down, pacing herself until the image became clear.
There, standing in the middle of the hallway, was Suicune.
"Suicune? What are you doing here?" said the swan, genuinely surprised.
"Arceus sent me for more backup." she curtly replied, "She says Regi-"
There was a pause, as Suicune looked more carefully at Cresselia. She paced back and forth on her paws, looking at the swan from all angles. "Is… there something wrong, Suicune?" asked the swan.
The water beast gasped. Going back into the middle of the hallway, she looked at Cresselia one more time.
An unearthly grin formed upon her jowls.
"Oh my! I never expected to see you again!" said Suicune, "What are the odds, really?"
"S-Suicune!?" Cresselia took a step back, something obviously not right.
"What's the matter dear? Don't recognize me?" the crazy version of Suicune grinned, "Maybe this will help…"
And then Suicune's body disappeared, replaced by another. What stood in front of Cresselia was a bipedal led figure, with large red hair, blackish grey skin, and piercing green eyes. He smiled with his long jaw, ears tensing and tail swishing from behind, giving him a foxlike appearance.
Cresselia lost all sense of control. The utter, overwhelming fear took over.
"Remember me now?" smiled Zoroark.
Gardevoir had found it.
It was a large, steel colored Pokemon that towered over her. Its body was primarily round, with two stubby legs and two slender arms that ended in human like fingers. It had seven red dots arranged in a circle on its black colored 'face'.
Registeel.
As soon as it sense her presence, it stopped in its tracks and eyed her, determining whether or not she was a threat.
Gardevoir was sweating- after all she had just been taken down by this things 'brother', and that was when she had both Cresselia and Deoxys to back her up. Now she was alone, facing an iron monstrosity.
"I-I'm here to stop you!" Gardevoir yelled at it, though the speech was really more to motivate her than to intimidate the machine.
"THREAT DETECTED. POWER LEVEL = 27,910 +/- 391." it stated. Gardevoir blinked, her power level was that high? "ODDS OF SUCCESS: 99.987299%. ENGAGING IN BATTLE."
Gardevoir stepped backwards and launched a Psychic, which hit the steel type but did little to not damage. It charged up a flash cannon in its arms and fired it at her, luckily she Teleported out of the way.
However when she landed, the thing was already on her. "SUPERPOWER" it slammed down with enough force to cause tremors, just barely missing the green haired psychic type. It didn't let up and smacked her across the room, where she used another Psychic, followed by a Thunderbolt. It absorbed both and hit her back with a Metal Claw.
Scratches in her side, Gardevoir wondered if she could really win this fight.
He had taken the first path in trying to find Absolix. He didn't really know where Absolix was, only the general direction. However the man apparently sense him coming because now his aura vanished completely.
"How logically troublesome…"
Xeno was now stuck in an empty hallway, destroying whatever feeble traps tried to kill him. He walked along the path trying to think of a way to draw Absolix in the open again. If Xeno was correct, then Absolix just might die this day, if not then by next time for certain.
"Hm…" said Xeno, murmuring to himself "If I were Absolix, what would I logically do at this logical time?"
Xeno sensed movement behind him. He tensed, twirling his brown colored cape until he came face to face with someone he actually didn't expect.
"Hello… Xeno is it?"
Xeno stared at this man carefully "…I know of you…" said Xeno after a bit, "You are the previous logical clone of Mew and Absolix, the first one that succeeded…
Mewtwo."
Mewtwo nodded his head. His bandages were still wrapped around him, but despite his injuries here he was.
"My my…" Xeno marveled at this relic from the past, "So this was what the original design looked like.."
"Indeed. Or rather, the one that lived first." Mewtwo noted.
"Hm… what is your intention, Mewtwo?" Xeno had to ask, "Being a sort of 'older brother' in respect to myself, I would prefer not to destroy you. Logically, if you're intentions are hostile, then must." Xeno said carefully.
"I assume you did not illogically come here for nothing. What is it you desire from me?" asked the purple colored Pokemon.
Mewtwo stared at Xeno, who just now realized how broken his predecessor looked. The psycat gazed downwards, as if filled with regret. Finally, after some silence, Mewtwo looked back up at Xeno.
And he did what must be done.