Author's Note: Well, we've finally come to the last episode of this former oneshot collection. I hope everyone enjoys the conclusion to Sabrina and Mewtwo's battle with Amber and Zwei.
Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon.
Mewtwo XY, Part 2
Malva was on her way to the Saffron Train Station to meet with someone when she saw a familiar Y-shaped flash of purple light in the night sky above the Silph Co. building. She wasn't the only one to spot the flash though. Others who were out on the street at the time also noticed it and stopped to wonder what it was. A few moments later there was an equally bright flash of blue light in the shape of an X above the building. The bystanders out on the street were at a total loss as to what the flashes were from, but Malva knew that they could only have come from one thing.
The pink-haired reporter reached into her bag and pulled out a pair of electronic binoculars she had brought with and pointed them towards Silph Co. She saw Zwei and Amber fly away from the buildings roof, with Mewtwo and Sabrina flying close after them. As the four got away from the building, Mewtwo fired an Aura Sphere from his hands that struck Zwei in her left hip, knocking her off her flight path. Amber's body jerked as though she had been the one hit by the attack. Amber and Zwei quickly recovered though, and Zwei fired a Shadow Ball that struck Mewtwo in the chest.
"Malva!" a familiar voice spoke. Malva pulled her eyes from her binoculars to see Alain Grant and Mairin Trudeau running towards her.
"I was just on my way to meet with you guys," Malva told them. "The show we were hoping would happen has just started."
"We know. Alain and I saw the lights as we were coming out of the station," Mairin spoke. "I guess this means that Sabrina got the other Mega Stone to the original Mewtwo."
"She was indeed," Malva confirmed as she continued to watch the battle through her binoculars. "And right now she and Mewtwo are locked in battle with Amber and Zwei."
"Do you think that Sabrina and Mewtwo can win?" Alain asked.
"Hard to say. Right now we hardly know anything about Mewtwo's new form," Malva pointed out. "It certainly looks a lot different than Zwei's Mega form though."
"We should get down there so we can assist Sabrina and Mewtwo if needed," Alain suggested.
"I'm not sure there's much we can add to a fight like this," Malva told him. "In fact, we'd probably only get in the way. Then again, us being there probably wouldn't hurt. Let's go!"
With that, Malva and the others headed off towards the Silph Co. building as fast as they could.
After hitting Mewtwo in the chest with a Shadow Ball attack, Zwei fired an Ice Beam from her hands that struck Mewtwo in the right shoulder, causing a patch of ice to form on his armor. Mewtwo flexed his body and caused the ice to shatter. He floated there for a moment with Sabrina behind him, breathing heavily as he tried to recover from Zwei's last two attacks. Sabrina was breathing heavily too as blood was dripping from her nose.
"You may have achieved the power of Mega Evolution, but you're still no match for us!" Zwei and Amber declared. "We are far beyond anything you can compete with!"
"Don't underestimate us!" Mewtwo and Sabrina responded.
Mewtwo's right hand formed into fist that crackled with blue electricity. As he swung his electrified fist, his arm stretched like rubber towards Zwei and delivered a powerful uppercut that flipped her backward through the air three times. Amber's head jerked back as if she had been clocked in the jaw as well, and blood started to drip from her nose. Mewtwo zoomed towards Zwei to deliver another blow, but just as he got in striking ranger Zwei recovered and her eyes began to glow red. Mewtwo's body totally froze and started to give off a feint red aura.
Zwei pushed her arms forward and suddenly Mewtwo was hurled into the window of a nearby building. Sabrina cried out in pain and jerked as though something had hit her in the back, and more blood started to drip from her nose. The green-haired gym leader recovered though and glared at Amber and Zwei as veins on her forehead started to bulge. A second later, Mewtwo zoomed out of the building towards Zwei. Trailing behind Mewtwo was a large wooden desk that was glowing with a blue aura.
With a wave of his hand, Mewtwo hurled the floating desk towards Zwei, striking her in the side of the head and causing it to shatter to bits. Amber's body reacted as though the table had hit her as well, and even more blood started to drip from her nose. Amber glared back at Sabrina and Mewtwo as veins started to bulge on her forehead. Zwei then hurled another Shadow Ball towards Mewtwo, only for Mewtwo to fly to the left to avoid it, leaving a trail of afterimages in his wake. Mewtwo's right arm then stretched like rubber and struck Zwei in the stomach with another Thunder Punch attack, causing Amber to cry out and double over as though she had been the one hit in the stomach.
"We don't have to do this!" Mewtwo and Sabrina told them. "If you'll just back down, we can show you that this world is not as evil as you think it is."
"We will… not give up," Zwei and Amber declared as they recovered from the last attack. "One way or another, we will… make you submit to us!"
With that, Zwei hurled another Shadow Ball from her right hand, striking Mewtwo in the stomach. She then followed up with another Shadow Ball from her left hand that struck him in the right shoulder. Zwei then began pummeling Mewtwo with a barrage of Shadow Balls from both hands, striking several parts of his body. Sabrina felt the blow of each Shadow Ball on her own body. After a few moments, the barrage ended, but as Mewtwo and Sabrina were trying to catch their breath, Zwei raised her hands above her head and formed another massive Shadow Ball between them.
Zwei and Amber cried out as Zwei hurled the ball at Mewtwo. At the last moment, the veins on Sabrina's forehead bulged out more as she snapped her fingers. Mewtwo vanished with a flash of blue light, and the giant Shadow Ball zoomed downward and struck the street below, nearly hitting an oncoming car. As Zwei and Amber tried to figure out what happened, Mewtwo suddenly reappeared behind Zwei.
"Impressive," Mewtwo and Sabrina praised. "But not quite good enough!"
Mewtwo then cried out as he began to strike Zwei with a fury of Thunder Punch attacks all over her body. His arms were moving with such speed and fury that it seemed like he had more than two. Amber felt the blow of every single punch on her own body. Eventually the barrage ended with a powerful Thunder Punch to Zwei's chest that caused a blinding electrical flash. The force of the last punch caused Amber to cough up a little blood. Meanwhile Zwei had been knocked back a few feet and suddenly seemed to have a little trouble moving her body, as did Amber.
"Just give up!" Mewtwo and Sabrina told their opponents. "There's no point at all to this battle!"
"Yes… there is," Zwei and Amber told them. "We're going to get you to work with us, Mewtwo Ein! Once we defeat you, you'll have no choice but to submit to us!"
"Do you even hear yourselves as you speak?" Mewtwo and Sabrina asked. "Your desire to use me as a tool makes you no different from Dr. Fuji or the other humans who you want to crush under your thumb!"
Zwei and Amber were both stunned by this comparison. "You… you really accuse us of being like them?"
"Know that even if you managed to capture me, I would never submit to your will," Mewtwo and Sabrina responded together. "And you trying to use me as a slave… as a weapon… is just something that Dr. Fuji would've done."
"Yes… you're right," Zwei and Amber spoke. "We would never fall to their level. However… since you seem intent on opposing our goals, then we have no choice but to eliminate you!"
Zwei then struck Mewtwo in the chest with an Ice Beam that encased his entire torso in ice. Mewtwo cried out and flexed his body, shattering the ice to pieces. He then stretched his arm like rubber again and struck Zwei in the torso with another Thunder Punch.
"It seems we have no choice but to try and beat sense into you both," Mewtwo and Sabrina observed. "In that case, we shall show you no mercy."
Alain, Mairin and Malva finally made it to the area around the Silph Co. building where the battle was taking place. High in the sky above, Mewtwo and Zwei were still trading blows. Malva got out her binoculars to get a closer look. Through them she saw Zwei hit Mewtwo in the stomach with another Shadow Ball. The pinkette also noticed how ragged that both psychic felines and their partners appeared to be.
"Looks like they've both taken some pretty serious hits," Malva told Alain and Mairin as she continued to look. "It's pretty hard to tell which of them is going to win."
"Perhaps I should send in Charizard to give the original Mewtwo some backup," Alain suggested.
"That might not be a good idea," Malva told him. "With the attacks those two are launching at each other, Charizard would probably only get hurt in the crossfire. I know you won't like what I'm about to tell you, but all we can do right now is wait and see how this thing plays out."
"You may be right," Alain admitted. "Then again, if this battle gets too out of control, those Pokemon could end up leveling this whole city."
"Actually, it probably won't get that far," Malva told him. "In fact if my instincts are right, this battle about to come to an end right now."
Mewtwo stretched his right arm and struck Zwei in the face with another Thunder Punch. He then launched another Aura Sphere that struck Zwei in the chest and knocked both her and Amber back.
"Give it up!" Mewtwo and Sabrina told them. "The paralysis we inflicted on you with our earlier attacks has obviously slowed you down. You can't last much longer."
"We will… never yield to you!" Zwei and Amber cried out.
Zwei spread her arms and formed a gigantic ball of purple light four times the size of her body.
"Very well then!" Mewtwo and Sabrina spoke as Mewtwo spread his own arms.
A massive ball of blue light about the same size as the energy ball Zwei had formed appeared in front of Mewtwo. Down on the ground, Alain and the others stood frozen, wondering what might happen if those two attacks were to collide with one another. Suddenly Amber and Zwei cried out, and Zwei's body turned a glowing gold along with Amber's hair. The energy ball Zwei had formed had also turned gold and expanded to twice its original size. Just then, Mewtwo and Sabrina also cried out, and the greyish-purple parts of Mewtwo's body turned gold, along with Sabrina's hair. The energy ball that Mewtwo had created turned gold as well and grew to the same size and Zwei's.
"Psystrike!" the four combatants cried out as the launched the energy spheres at one another.
The two Psystrike attacks ended up colliding with one another, creating a blinding explosion of light that shattered all the windows of the surrounding buildings. Down on the ground, Alain and the others were forced to cover their eyes. When the light finally cleared, Alain looked up and saw Sabrina and Mewtwo falling from the sky. Both were unconscious, and Mewtwo had regressed to his original form. Alain also saw an unconscious Amber and Zwei falling down after them. Like Mewtwo, Zwei had returned to her original form as well.
"Charizard!" Alain called as he tossed out a pokeball. "Catch Sabrina and Mewtwo!"
The ball burst open and Alain's faithful fire dragon flew up into the sky at incredible speed. In one quick pass, Charizard caught Sabrina on his back and then grabbed Mewtwo by the wrist with both claws. He then gently landed back down next to Alain and the others, setting the unconscious feline next to him. Alain came and got Sabrina, setting her down next to Mewtwo.
"What about Amber and Zwei?" Mairin asked.
Alain was about to send Charizard to get them with the three all looked up to see Amber and Zwei hovering in midair as if held by an invisible force. Their bodies both gave off a feint blue aura.
"What's going on?" Alain asked.
Suddenly Amber and Zwei seemed to be pulled towards one of the surrounding buildings. Malva got her binoculars back out and looked towards the roof of the building the duo was heading for. Standing on the roof's edge was a bipedal creature resembling a tapir. Its upper half was an orange-yellow, while its lower half was a dark-brown. The creature was pulling its arms towards itself as if pulling in Amber and Zwei by a pair of invisible ropes.
"Someone's having a Drowzee use Psychic to rescue Amber and Zwei," Malva observed.
"But who?" Mairin asked.
"No idea," Malva answered. "But clearly we weren't the only ones who've been watching this battle."
Standing behind Drowzee up on the roof were two men dressed in white futuristic armor. Totally covering their heads were white helmets that had gold visors and vents like those of a gasmask over the mouth. Decorating the armor on their chests was a gold symbol similar to the letter A. The two armored men watched as Drowzee turned and gently set Amber and Zwei on the roof before their feet.
"Well, we got 'em," one of the armored men spoke as he called Drowzee back to its pokeball. "Boy, they sure got pretty messed up in that fight."
"I'll say," the second armored man agreed. "Hey, should we grab the other Mewtwo and that gym leader too?"
"Nah. They've already fallen out of our hands," the first armored man replied. "And we have strict orders to keep our presence as secret as possible. We'd only be exposing ourselves if we tried to retrieve them. Besides, President Lusamine is only interested in Amber Drei and her Mewtwo."
"Good point," the second armored man realized. "Well, I better alert Chief Faba." He then pressed a button on the small control panel built into the armor on his left wrist. "Chief? This is Observation Team Beta. The battle between Mewtwo Zwei and the original Mewtwo has concluded. We've retrieved both Mewtwo Zwei and Amber Drei."
"What's their condition?" Faba's voice asked through the speaker.
"They're both in pretty rough shape," the second armored man answered. "Mewtwo Zwei received some pretty nasty hits from the original, and Amber Drei seems to have received the same or similar injuries due to the psychic link they seem to share."
"I see. Very well. Take them back to our ship in Vermillion Harbor and head back to the Paradise as soon as possible," Faba ordered. "I'll notify the ship's medical team to begin treatment on them as soon as you arrive."
"Understood," the second armored man replied before switching off the communicator. He then tossed out a pokeball hanging from his belt. "Let's go, Abra!"
Bursting out of the thrown ball was a small bipedal creature with a large yellow-brown kite-shaped head almost like that of a cat or a fox. Its eyes were closed as if asleep, and it had a pale-yellow snout. The creature's body was segmented, with black skin visible at its joints and around its neck. Its chest was brown, and it had what seemed to be large pieces of brown armor covering its shoulders. Its hands and feet each had three digits, and on its rear end was a long thick tail with a thin brown band near the tip.
"Use Teleport!" the second armored man commanded.
Abra's eyes opened slightly, revealing blue lights behind the closed lids. A second later, the five vanished from the rood with a flash of blue light.
Shortly after the battle, Malva made a few calls to get medical attention for Sabrina and Mewtwo. One of those calls had been to Professor Sycamore, who had already been on his way to meet with Alain and the others at the time. Within the course of an hour, Sabrina and Mewtwo had been taken the local hospital and placed in a wing that had been quickly sealed off to the public. Out of respect for Mewtwo, both Malva and Professor Sycamore did everything possible to keep the duo's presence at the hospital a secret. A Pokemon medical team lead by a top Nurse Joy had been quickly dispatched to the hospital to begin Mewtwo's treatment.
Meanwhile, news of Mewtwo's battle with Zwei had spread like wildfire. The destruction caused by their battle had been impossible to hide, though nobody outside those who had actually been watching it knew what had caused it. There were many rumors of course, such as the theory of a malfunctioning new invention at Silph Co. had gotten out of the lab and exploded, but hardly anyone knew the truth. Malva meanwhile was doing everything she could to bury any evidence out there identifying Mewtwo and Zwei. Doing so went against everything that a reporter was, but Malva knew that certain stories needed to be buried.
That morning, Malva, Alain, Mairin and Professor Sycamore were in the hospital room Sabrina shared with Mewtwo. Sabrina was in a regular hospital bed, while Mewtwo was inside a metal bed that almost resembling an old iron lung. Both Mewtwo and Sabrina were still unconscious. Also present in the room was Sabrina's mother, who Malva had promptly been informed about her daughter's condition. Malva had also contacted Sabrina's father, but he couldn't be there due to being out of town on business.
Professor Sycamore looked at the unconscious Mewtwo as the small T.V. in the room blared away with the news. "To think that our plan ended up being for nothing."
"Not entirely," Malva told him from the chair where she was sitting. "The battle was a draw. Maybe with a bit more training, Sabrina and Mewtwo might be able to beat them next time."
"I really wish you people wouldn't talk about such things with my daughter still in this condition," Sabrina's mother told them. "I know that this Amber Drei and her Mewtwo are still a problem, but my daughter nearly lost her life!"
"Yes, of course," Professor Sycamore responded as he turned to face her. "Forgive our insensitiveness."
"Sir! You can't be back here!" a voice called from the hallway.
Dashing into the room suddenly was a man with slightly long blonde hair. He had a thick black headband on his head, along with a purple long-sleeved shirt and long black pants.
As the man came into the room and went over to Sabrina's bed, a brown-haired nurse came in after him. "I'm sorry. I couldn't stop him."
"It's okay," Sabrina's mother told the nurse. "This is my daughter's boyfriend, Morty."
"Wait, as in Morty of the Ecruteak City Gym in Johto?" Malva asked.
"How is she?" Morty asked Sabrina's mother.
"The doctor say's she'll be fine," she answered. "It seems that Sabrina's body experienced a sort of backlash from the damage Mewtwo took in battle due to the psychic link they had."
"Sabrina will be fine with some rest," Professor Sycamore added.
"And just what kind of battle were Sabrina and Mewtwo involved in?" Morty demanded to know. "What opponent could put them in this sort of condition?"
"They were facing another Mewtwo and its trainer," Alain answered. "A human psychic named Amber Drei."
"Another… Mewtwo?" Morty asked as he blinked in surprise. "How is that even possible?"
"It's a long story," Malva interjected. "The short version is that Mewtwo's creator had repeated his work, and not only made a second Mewtwo, but also a psychically-powered clone of his dead daughter to act as that Mewtwo's trainer."
"And just how long have this Amber Drei and the other Mewtwo been on the loose?" Morty asked.
"For a few months now," Alain admitted. "We've been trying to capture them, but we've had no luck. They're just… too strong."
"Having your girlfriend and the original Mewtwo fight them seemed like our best shot to take them down," Malva added. "But the battle still ended in a draw. Quite frankly, it's starting to look like nothing is strong enough to defeat Amber Drei."
"The Delta," Mairin suddenly spoke.
"What's that?" Alain asked.
"Oh, nothing really. I was just remembering something that happened right after Amber and Zwei beat Zygarde," Mairin explained. "There was this homeless guy who had been watching the battle. He said something about how only the power of something called the Delta could beat Amber and Zwei. I have no idea what he meant though."
"Mairin, dear. That man you met was probably didn't know what he was talking about," Malva told her. "He was probably just a crazy person living under a bridge somewhere."
"Yeah. I guess you're right," Mairin sadly agreed. "He didn't even seem to notice I was there. Plus he started talking to himself about some weird stuff as he left."
Morty meanwhile seemed to take everything Mairin had said about the mysterious Delta quite seriously. "Excuse me. I need to make a few calls."
With that, Morty quickly left the room. Soon after, the brown-haired nurse from before reentered the room with a brown-haired man who seemed to be in his early forties. The man's hair was neatly cut, and he had on an iron-grey suit with black lines running down the sides of the arm and legs, along with a white shirt and a red tie. Gold cufflinks adorned the sleeves of the coat, and on the breast pocket was an odd shield-like crest. Adorning the ring finger of the man's right hand was a gold ring baring the same crest.
"Excuse me. This gentleman insisted on coming in to meet with all of you," the nurse informed the group. "He claims to be from a Team Plasma."
"Randle Applegate, head of the newly commissioned Team Plasma field office here in the Kanto Region," the brown-haired man spoke in a refined British accent as he walked into the room. He paused when he saw the bed containing Mewtwo. "Good lord! To think I'm seeing the legendary Mewtwo with my own eyes. Extraordinary."
"Wait, wait. You're really with Team Plasma?" Malva asked with a raised eyebrow as she rose from her chair. "But you're dressed like a regular businessman."
At this, Randle chuckled. "Yes. When Lord N decided to take our organization international, he decided to redesign our uniforms to look less colorful so that the public would take us more seriously."
"Well, that was a good call," Malva admitted. "Your old uniforms looked ridiculous."
"Excuse me, but how did you even know that Sabrina and Mewtwo were here in this hospital?" Professor Sycamore asked. "In fact, how does Team Plasma even know about any of this at all?"
"Actually, Lord N has been having us monitor the situation with Ms. Amber Drei and her Mewtwo for quite some time," Randle revealed. "Professor Juniper and her assistant, Ms. Bianca Edmonds made us aware of their existence shortly after Ms. Drei's attack on the town of Lake Perfection. Ever since, Lord N has made us pay special attention to this case."
"And why's the leader of Team Plasma interested in something like this?" Malva asked.
"Mainly because Lord N and the original Mewtwo are old acquaintances," Randle revealed. "They met some years ago during an unseemly incident at an Unova League completion, not our leader's finest moment I'm sorry to admit. But their meeting had a very strong impact on Lord N. In any case, Lord N was afraid that something like this might happen, so he's had our whole organization keep close tabs on everyone involved. I must say this whole business has gotten quite out of hand."
"Your people were watching Sabrina and Mewtwo's battle with Amber?" Alain asked.
"Ah! You must be Alain Grant," Randle responded. "Yes. We had operatives watching the whole battle."
"Then were you the ones who took away Amber and Zwei at the end?" Alain asked.
"Unfortunately, no. Actually, that's part of the reason why I'm here," Randle revealed. "Our operatives witnessed who it was that took Ms. Drei and her Mewtwo away. From the rather colorful uniforms they were dressed in, they were able to identify the abductors as members of the Aether Foundation."
"The Aether Foundation?" a surprised Professor Sycamore repeated.
"Yes. A rather bizarre turn of events, that," Randle replied. "But then the Aether Foundation has always been a rather peculiar group. Our organization has tried making an alliance with them with the past two years due to our similar motivations, but they insist on remaining solitary. If you ask me, the problem lies with their leader, President Lusamine. Her motives seem pure, but there's just something peculiar about that woman."
"Why would the Aether Foundation want Amber and Zwei?" Mairin asked.
"Right now that doesn't matter," Alain answered. "The important thing is that we know that Amber and Zwei are in Alola, or will be pretty soon."
"You want to go there to capture them, don't you?" Mairin realized. "Then I'm coming with you!"
Alain smirked. "I had a feeling you'd say that. Let's get going as soon as possible! I'm not letting Amber get away this time!"
Lusamine entered a large white medical room in the Aether Paradise and found Faba with a medical team swarming around a pair of beds in the center of the room. The blonde walked up next to Faba to get a closer look at what was going on. Amber and Zwei were on the two beds, still unconscious.
"How are they?" Lusamine asked.
"They will eventually recover with some rest," Faba reported. "Zwei took some rather severe hits from the original Mewtwo, and of course Ms. Amber took the same damage due to their link with each other."
"We should never have allowed such a senseless battle to happen," Lusamine declared.
"With all due respect President, there's not much we could've done to stop it," Faba pointed out. "The power of those Pokemon are currently far beyond anything we can muster."
"Yes… I suppose you're right," Lusamine responded before turning on her heel and heading back for the door. "Let me know as soon as you've transferred them to a private room."
"Of course," Faba replied right as she stepped through the doorway.
The doors slid shut as soon as Lusamine walked through. Out in the hallway, she leaned against the wall and looked up towards the ceiling.
A strange dreamy smile formed on Lusamine's face. "Ah, my darling Amber… I finally have you at last. You've lived a hard life in this ugly world of ours, but I've taken you away from all that. I'll shower you with my love, and with your help we'll escape to a new world together with my sweet beast. It won't be much longer now."
THE END
Afterward: Well, that does it for this concludes this collection of stories for Amber's storyline in the Pokemon AU. I still kind of wish I had done more stories for this collection, but when I finally came back to this project a few weeks ago I felt like the time had really come to move on. I felt like I was needlessly prolonging the time for Amber and Zwei's encounter with the original Mewtwo, much like how an anime filler arc needlessly prolongs the highly anticipated battle with the story's major villain (people who've seen Bleach will probably know what I'm talking about). So pretty soon now, I'll have another story featuring Amber Drei. The next story will also be a oneshot, but there's no possible way I could've included it as part of this collection because the story is going to be rated M.
Please be on the look out for Empress of Paradise
In the meantime, please review and let me know what you think.