Mewtwo couldn't take it anymore. He had to think about her. If the battle that he foresaw came true, she would need to be ready. She would need to fight. She was already very adept at it, but only fire and fighting. She needed more training and insight. He wanted to train her psychic abilities now. See what she was capable of.
He let Dragonair off with more envelopes for more trainers and teleported himself down to the battle arena where she was having fun with her Arcanine and Mew and the others. At his arrival, however, Mew shot him a glance.
"About time you showed up, mr. serious. Don't you ever have fun?" he said.
"Play is for children," he said in annoyance.
"You spent your childhood in a tank, asleep, come have fun for once in your life," said Natasha. Mewtwo turned his purple gaze on her light blue one and was surprised to see that her eyes were glowing purple.
She tried to send a psychic charge at him, but somehow did it wrong. It blew her back instead, sending her crashing into Gyarados, who crashed to the ground.
Mewtwo snickered and raised himself into the air, flying towards her to help her up.
He grabbed her by the wrist, not wanting to seem too informal, and helped her into the air.
"Playtime is over for now. It is time to train again," he announced.
"What are you planning, a war of the worlds? Cause that didn't turn out too hot last time," said the sarcastic little Mew.
Mewtwo shot a shadow ball at him and he shut up.
He faced Natasha in midair, over by the corner of the arena that she had fallen and raised a question in the back of her mind.
We must train your psychic abilities. Focus all your psychic energy into something and force it out. That is how you botched it before. You were insufficiantly focused.
She closed her eyes, concentrating, it seemed.
"Are you sure this is a good idea? Do we really need 3 psychics flying around?" asked Ninetails. Mewtwo ignored her.
Natahsa opened her eyes. The entirety of them was glowing with a fierce purple light, her entire body becoming surrounded by energy. They could all see it. Mewtwo foresaw failure.
She let it loose and before it could fly at him, he blocked it with a simple barrier. She hadn't taken him by surprise that time.
"Give her some credit, Mewtwo, it wasn't bad for her first time" said Mew.
Come at me again, only this tme, try to barrier yourself. Imagine a bubble of protection surrounding you and fly at me, attempting to knock me out of the sky he said in her mind.
He wasn't even sure if she could do that one. He and Mew could, he knew, because their DNA was almost exactly the same.
To his great surprise, she could! Her bubble glowed a poisonous looking purple, however.
She flew straight at him before he could get his buble up all the way, and she crashed into him at full speed, sending them both flying into the sea with a tremendous splash.
Struggling for breath, Mewtwo swam to the surface using his arms. Below him, he could see the girl swimming below him, her hair looking more black in the gloomy water than dark red.
He broke the surface and took a deep breath, filling his lungs. He was shaking a bit from the unexpecrted swim but he quickly regained his composure.
"Idiot girl! You should have waited!" he scolded her, angry.
"Hey! You watch who you're calling an idiot, I don't care if you ARE the most powerful pokemon alive, I'll still beat you!" said Ninetails furiously, growling at him. Gyarados and Arcanine looked as fi they would agree.
She was coughing and choking, hacking really, her fur matted and waterlogged. Her hair looked like someone had dipped it in tar, it was so greasy looking from the water. It seemed water wouldn't defeat her, but it would slow her down.
Mewtwo flew up out of the cold sea water, shaking his head free of the salt and water as much as he could. He too was drenched, but his fur would dry much faster; he wasn't fireproof, unlike her.
"Mewtwo, look at her, you prat! She can barely swim! She's too wet!" Mew scolded him, and he floated over to her and attempted to grab her hand and help her out of the water. It made her three times heavier tha she was.
"Let me help," said Gyarados, and he picked her up by extra skin on the back of her neck exactly like a cat, holding her in his considerable jaws.
She hadn't said anything yet. She was to busy coughing up water. Mew laughed.
"Not... funny," Natasha growled, using her vocal chords.
"Sorry. You just sound funny when you can't breath" he apologized.
Natasha tried laughing but still couldn't quite breath.
"I can hardly...breath for... laughing," she growled again. Her throat hurt, both from coughing and talking like a human.
Mewtwo, meanwhile was not laughing. He was furious. Must everyone alive try to impede his plans??
His look must have acted as some sort of cure for coughing, because Natasha soon caught her breath again. She was glowing purple. Mewtwo glowed blue.
The two began to all out fight.
"Hey!" Mew cried, suddenly angry. They shouldn't be fighting all the time!
Mew joined the fray and flew up to join Natasha, lending her some of his energy. She could now throw shadow balls with white hot electricity. Mew believed the humans called it Spark.
It caught Mewtwo on one leg, making it temporarily limp. If he were to land, he wouldn't be able to stand on both feet properly. Mew smiled in spite of himself. Being a pokemon was a wonderful thing.
"Two on one, Mew? I didn't know you enjoyed fighting dirty," said Mewtwo.
"I wouldn't if you two would lay off each other for a day! Can't you train her without trying to drown her? Tell her how to do things and wait for her to get the hang of them! Make a dummy for her to practice on if you have to! She won't be able to do a lot of these things without practice first!" he scolded his bigger clone.
Mewtwo seemed to think for a moment.
Ninetails and Gyarados, it seemed, were already hopping to it, gathering leaves from the trees nearby and piles of stones and twigs, fruit and berries. Those would be what she was to focus on instead of Mewtwo. Psychic power was about being controlled and relaxed, not nervous and uncertain. Waiting.
"Fine. I apologize for not explaining more properly" said Mewtwo finally, using Recover on himself, so his leg was once again useful.
They all landed and at once, Natasha crouched down on all fours (on ill assorted legs) and shook herself like a dog to get some of the water out fo her fur. It didn't work very well. She stood up on both hind legs like she was meant to and came face to face with a huge flamethrower attack.
Both Ninetails and Arcanine were using flamethrower to dry her off!
The fire was a little too warm for comfort, but it didn't hurt. On the contrary, it dried her off almost instantly and left her feeling toasty and warm.
Mewtwo nodded and walked over to an enormous boulder that he hadn't bothered to change into anything else while building his fortress. She really was a fast learner, but it agravated him that Mew was there to calm him down. Didn't he understand that sometimes you needed to feel angry?
He watched as together with Mew, she learned to control her psychic blasts and unbeknownst to him, cloak her thoughts from him. She was making good progress. The one thing she couldn't seem to get the hang of, however, was teleport. When she finally managed it, she didn't simply vanish and reappear somewhere else; she went up in hot white flames and disappeared!
Mewtwo quickly got to his feet. Where had she gone? What had that attack been?
A tap on his shoulder made him spipn around so fast he nearly fell. She was standing behind him, smling.
So she could teleport using fire rather than psychic abilities? Or did she combine the two to make a truly unique attack, both defense and offense?
She shrugged in reply.
Mewtwo had had enough.
He shoved her back so hard with his powers that she had to catch herself by flying again.
Angrily, annoyed by the fact that he couldn't keep his thoughts to himself, he teleported himself up into the tower he had frequented before to wait for Dragonair.
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