Chapter 12:
"We'll do the procedure on the boy now, but his chances of surviving are two-thousand against." a man in a white lab coat said as he pointed to a teenage boy with red-brown hair and green eyes who was strapped to a chair.
The boy struggled in the chair, attempting to free himself, eyes wide with fear. A man with a syringe that was half filled with a glowing, yellow fluid approached the boy and stood beside the chair, waiting for the go ahead.
"Proceed; now that we have a sample of the genetics that Team Rocket used to create their super-weapon, we are using those genetics in our serum, along with the right genetics to counter their weapon, if our weapon ever comes to blows with theirs. We will use the end result of this experiment to take over the world with little resistance, doctor. Even Team Rocket will be of no capability to stop us once we have control of this being we are engineering." a man whose face was hidden in the shadows said.
The man with the syringe injected the boy and within seconds the boy slumped in his seat…
Mateusz woke up in another cold sweat. He was panting and was confused as to why this may be. He tried to go back to sleep but found that he couldn't. Mateusz got out of bed after he had stopped panting and walked out of his room and down the stone hallway. It was still night outside and it was chilly, so Mateusz went back into his room to grab his coat before walking outside. He decided that he would go to his favourite place to think, a rock that jutted out from the mountainside with no trees around it. He thought that it was strange that he had woken up with another cold sweat, like he had been having a bad dream. Maybe the fever was affecting his mind, but he didn't feel like he had a fever anymore, and the cough was almost completely gone; astonishing, considering the fact it should take him a week to fully recover, and yet he felt as If he was going back to normal. Perhaps the fact that he had different anatomy to a human meant his immune system was much stronger.
"I see you could not sleep. Bad dreams, perhaps?" a voice that belonged to Mewtwo sounded in his head.
Mateusz turned and saw Mewtwo approaching him from the forest, taking long strides as he did so.
"Why are you awake?" Mateusz asked.
"Because I have been pondering what you did yesterday afternoon. I believe that you may have more power in you." Mewtwo replied "I would like you to join in training with Joasia to see if there is anything else you can do."
"I don't know if I can do anything else, and to answer your earlier question, I don't remember having any dreams, but it is a possibility, and would explain the cold sweat I woke up with." Mateusz said back before telling Mewtwo that he was feeling better from his chest infection.
"You are already feeling like you are mostly recovered? That is highly unusual, you have only had the chest infection for one day and you have only taken three doses of antibiotics so far. You shouldn't be fully recovered for a week and you shouldn't be feeling somewhat better for at least another day or two." Mewtwo responded, looking at Mateusz with a questioning look.
"I find it rather strange myself." Mateusz responded; face scrunching with the stress of consideration.
"You seem to be stressed, why?" Mewtwo read Mateusz's facial expression.
"Because I don't know where I am, who I am, or exactly what I am! It cannot be my destiny to be like this forever! For what purpose am I here? I am confused, the only effect I have had on this world so far is the deaths of two men that worked for a criminal organisation! The fact that I practically know nothing about myself or this world makes me incredibly angry and stressed, I just want to find out more about myself!" Mateusz found himself half yelling as rage momentarily crossed his face.
"That is the circumstance that I was in when I was first created, I did not know my purpose, and it made me mad. At one point I was going about the destruction of humanity, but then I learnt that not all humans are bad." Mewtwo replied calmly.
Mateusz calmed down and sighed as he massaged his temples.
"In a few days I will need to gather some more information from a Team Rocket outpost, would you care to help me, Mateusz?" Mewtwo disclosed and asked Mateusz if he would join.
"Yes, it would take my mind off things for a time." Mateusz answered Mewtwo's question and came out of his stressed state before saying, "I think I'm going to explore the upper parts of the mountain today, Joasia said she found a place that she would like to show me."
"There is snow up the top of the mountain so you will need to leave your coat on when you go up there or it will be too cold for you." Mewtwo informed.
"Snow, now there's something else I don't remember. It will be interesting to see what it's like." Mateusz said.
"You should enjoy it." Mewtwo responded before rising and walking back into the shadows of the forest in the early hours of the morning.
"I suppose that means goodbye then, I just wish he would say it a little more formally." Mateusz thought with a sigh as he was surprised and left alone by the sudden leaving of Mewtwo.
Mateusz decided he himself would get up and head back to the cave when he heard a rustling in a nearby bush. Mateusz jumped up and looked at the bush, anticipating something would jump out. The bush stopped rustling and Mateusz decided to investigate the bush and as he peered into it, something took his legs out from underneath him and he fell forwards, getting a face full of leaves and scratches from twigs on his face. He got up and turned to face his attacker, and saw Mewtwo standing there.
"What was that? Did you trip me up?" Mateusz asked Mewtwo whilst cocking an eyebrow.
Mewtwo suddenly swung his fists at Mateusz, who managed to dodge the first blow, but got hit by the second blow in the gut. Mateusz bent over, winded and tears forming in his eyes, blurring his vision as he coughed and gasped for air.
"What the hell are you doing Mewtwo?!" Mateusz asked as he wiped the tears from his eyes.
Mewtwo swung his tail at a now more alert Mateusz who barely managed to jump over it.
"Stop this Mewtwo! What the heck is going on?!" Mateusz told Mewtwo to stop the assault.
Mewtwo swung his fists again but Mateusz avoided one blow and blocked the other.
"Mewtwo, stop right now, I don't want to fight, what is it I have done to provoke this?!" Mateusz questioned Mewtwo about the reason behind the attack before saying, "I will have to fight back if you continue."
Mewtwo continued his attack, occasionally hitting Mateusz who was beginning to feel rather pained, but Mateusz soon began to fight back, pushing and hitting Mewtwo successfully a few times but more often than not the pushing didn't affect him. Mewtwo swung his tail and tripped Mateusz, who fell on his back, winded and gasping for air as he groaned. Mewtwo hovered his left foot over Mateusz's head, and Mateusz closed his eyes, expecting to have his head stomped on, and be killed. But the stomp never came, instead, he felt Mewtwo grabbing his arms and helping him stand up. Mateusz opened his eyes as this was happening and was confused.
"What are you doing, and why did you do all that?" Mateusz asked, as he fully stood up and Mewtwo let go. Mateusz was bruised on multiple parts of his body, as well as bleeding from a cut lip.
"I was teaching you that you always need to be aware of what is around you, and not focus all your attention on one spot, whilst assessing your ability to defend yourself from physical attacks; you did reasonably well, but you will need to do much better if you hope to best the most elite Team Rocket troops. Their regular troops aren't really trained in melee combat but their elite troops are quite well trained in melee, so you will need to learn to be more aware and think more quickly as you fight. You were putting far too much focus on one area as you were looking in that bush, and so you did not notice me coming up behind you. Often an enemy may be somewhere you are not focusing on, and so, he will have the advantage of surprise when he attacks, so you must learn to split your focus when observing your surroundings." Mewtwo explained that what he had just done was just a training exercise and an assessment.
"But why did you give me such a beating, was that really necessary?" Mateusz asked, frowning as he did so at the fact Mewtwo had used such force when attacking.
"Because in real combat you will feel pain; so you will need to learn to fight properly, even when affected by pain." Mewtwo further explained to Mateusz.
"I'm quite angry at you right now, so don't do anything else…" Mateusz said darkly, angered by the fact that what had happened was just 'a training exercise'.
Mewtwo simply stood there, smirking. Mateusz formulated a revenge plan in his mind, but it would have to wait later when the time was right.
"You are angered by what I did, yes?" Mewtwo asked as he continued to smirk.
"Of course I am you idiot! Who the hell just randomly attacks an ally?!" Mateusz replied angrily before quietly and darkly adding, "It's a damn good way to lose an ally."
This only made Mewtwo chuckle before questioning, "You want to hurt me right now, correct?"
Mateusz simply smiled icily before replying darkly, "If I were to attack you, than doesn't that make me as bad as you are?"
Mewtwo stopped smirking and a brief look of anger flared across his face. He turned around and walked away after this and Mateusz was once more left alone as the first fingers of light shone above the horizon, signifying the bright yellow light known as the sun would soon appear. Mateusz watched as the first little bit of the sun peeped above the horizon, but at this time of morning it didn't give any warmth. Mateusz decided to go and wash his cut lip that he had received during the 'training exercise'. He walked to where a clear spring was but as he approached, he could see Mewtwo sitting at the spring, drinking water. Mateusz thought about the revenge plan he had made in his head and decided that this may be the perfect time to execute it, but he needed to walk back to his room in the cave first to get the tool he would use to exact his revenge. Mateusz had wondered whether the plan was a bit extreme, and whether Mewtwo would turn violent, but then Mateusz remembered how much his bruises hurt as he brushed past the entrance of the cave and inflamed the pain once more. He also thought that he would have to debrief Mewtwo to avoid future conflict and to maintain integrity. He walked past Joasia's room from which he heard snoring, and continued onto his room. He walked in and grabbed the pistol out of the bag. He released the clip from the pistol and tipped all the bullets out, he double checked that they had all come out before putting the clip back in the pistol. He walked back out of the room and down the hallway. He continued outside of the cave to the spring where he had seen Mewtwo. He saw Mewtwo, sitting in the same spot, but no longer drinking the fresh, clear waters of the mountain spring. Mateusz pointed the empty pistol at Mewtwo.
"Mewtwo, I have a bone to pick with you. Mainly that stunt you pulled earlier that you described as a 'training exercise'. I didn't like it you know." Mateusz said as he levelled the gun…
Author's Note:
Sorry for not uploading for a while. I had school stuff and extracurricular activities. Should upload chapter 13 this weekend.
