"Rise and shine!" Mew cried as she hovered over Mewtwo and Jen.
Jen and Mewtwo slowly looked up at her.
"Pff! What were you two up to last night?" Mew snickered.
"Nothing, Mew." Jen said in mock annoyance. "And don't take Red's job. Only he can ask questions like that."
Mew hovered closer to her so she was grinning face to face with Jen. "But Red is not here, as you can see, so someone else has to do it, and I already volunteered that someone to be me. So I'm stuck questioning you guys."
"Go away, Mew." Mewtwo groaned as he waved her away. He shut his eyes and laid back down.
Mew stared at them for a moment before holding a pink paw out to them. "Get up, lazy heads! We're heading out in ten!"
Jen and Mewtwo sailed in opposite directions as Mew kinetically threw them apart. Mewtwo was able to recover in the air before he hit the ground, but Jen, on the other hand…
"Oomph!" She groaned as she landed on a mountain of red. "Oh, crap."
Ho-Oh's head rose out from under his wing and glared down at her. "I am not your bed, Halfling. Get off of me!"
Jen scowled at him and floated back towards Mew.
"Sorry about that, Jen." Mew said before turning to Ho-Oh. "That was my fault, Ho-Oh. I threw her at you."
"Why?" Ho-Oh cried.
Mew shrugged. "It was the best way I could think of waking you up."
Jen gawked at Mew.
Ho-Oh narrowed his eyes at both Mew and Jen. "I hope that that will be the first and last time you will ever use the Halfling to wake me up, Mew. The next time you do something like that, I will-"
"You'll do what?" Haunter growled. "I dare you to finish that sentence."
"You think you can threaten me? Do you really think that you can intimidate me, Ghost freak? You are nothing, but a Haunter. A normal Pokemon."
"He's far from normal!" Jen hissed. "He may not be a Legendary, but he is the strongest and most loyal Haunter I've ever met."
"I'm also the only Haunter you've ever known, master…Jen."
"Are you calling me master Jen?" Jen asked with a grin in her mental voice.
Haunter smirked. "You caught on rather quickly."
"Are we ready to go?" Latias asked as she hovered over to them. "I would like to see the others again."
"We can go now." Mew looked over at Jen. "Has Red or Sabrina contacted you about where we're going to meet or should we just fly around some more?"
"No. I haven't heard anything from them." She looked at Mewtwo. "Can we try contacting them now?"
Mewtwo nodded.
Mew flew back over to Jen's side and placed a paw on her forehead. Both of them shut their eyes and focused on finding Red and the others. They first searched Altomare and Latias' Garden, and found them getting ready to leave.
"Red!" Jen cried.
Red looked around and then up in the direction that Jen's mental voice was coming from. "Morning, Jen. Are you guys on your way yet?"
"We're about to head out in a few minutes. We were just checking to see where you guys were planning on going to so we can meet up with you."
"That's a good question." Red paused. "I don't think we've got a rendezvous spot picked out yet. Uh…"
"Why are you guys still in Altomare? I thought you would have already been gone by now. What's with the hold up?" Jen asked worriedly.
"We were waiting for you guys just in case you may have come sometime during the night. Don't worry, we were also ready for any surprise attacks from Team Rocket or any other grunts." Red replied quickly when he felt a scolding coming on from Jen. "What took you guys so long to get here? You didn't run into any grunts or Teams, did you? Or did you and Mewtwo-"
"Finish that thought and I will lobotomize you, Red." Jen hissed.
Both Red and Mew started laughing.
"Where are we going to meet, Red?" Jen asked annoyed.
"Alright, uh, one second. I'll ask the others."
Mew and Jen could sense Red turning to the others and talking to them.
"Do you guys have any thoughts as to where we should meet?" Mew asked the others.
Jen and the others shrugged.
"How about somewhere we haven't been to already." Latias suggested.
"And somewhere Giovanni will not expect us to travel to." Mewtwo said.
"So backtracking would probably be a bad idea." Jen muttered as she crossed her arms across her chest. She was really hoping they could go back to the Tree of Beginning, but that was probably a place Team Rocket would search first. "But Mewtwo was there for a day or so. Is it safe if we stay there for a day? Would we be able to stay at different places for a day and then leave for a different place?"
"That sounds like a good idea." Mew said aloud. She had listened in on Jen's thoughts.
"What? Backtracking?" Rattata asked.
"No, staying in one place for a day and then leaving for another place the next day." Mew explained. "But where should we start?"
"Didn't we start last night by staying here?" Vulpix asked teasingly.
"Hehe, we did, didn't we?" Latias giggled.
"Hey, Jen? Are you still there?" Red asked as he tried to get her attention again.
"Yep. Do you guys have a place yet? We decided that we can stay in a different place each day and then leave the next so Team Rocket can't find us."
"That sounds like a good idea. We were thinking of going to Kalos."
"Where in Kalos?"
"That's a very good question. Just make sure that no one notices you guys when you arrive."
Jen glanced at Ho-Oh and sent Red a mental picture of him. "Yeah…we'll try."
"Why did you do that? Why did you show me…Ho-Oh is with you guys, isn't he?" Red asked.
Jen could sense the color draining from Red's face. "Arceus paired him up with us, so…yep. He's coming with us to Kalos."
"Uh…on second thought…maybe you guys should wait until we've found a place large enough to hide him as well. We may rethink the idea of going to Kalos."
Jen snickered at his sudden panic.
"That's not funny, Jen." Red complained.
"Hey, you laughed at me. Now it's my turn to laugh at you, cousin."
There was a long pause from Red. Both Mew and Jen could sense his mind begin to race with fast and panicked thoughts.
"Red? What's happening? What's going on?" Jen asked anxiously as she tried to get a better understanding of what he was thinking. "Red, please just tell us."
"Jen, just stay hidden. Do not come looking for us. You and the others must stay hidden." Red said as he broke the connection.
"No, Red!" Jen cried. She felt Mew lower her paw from her forehead, but Jen tried to reestablish the connection on her own. What happened next, though, scared her half to death.
She could see Team Rocket grunts running at her and her friends. Jen threw up her hands to project a force field around herself and the others, but nothing happened. It was as if she wasn't in control of her body.
Panic began to flood her being as the grunts grew closer. They each held an electrical, stun baton in their hands.
"Go away!" She cried as she tried to throw them backwards, but just like her force field, nothing happened.
One charging grunt raised his baton above his head to strike her, but he never got the chance to complete the attack. Out of nowhere, both Charizard and Blastoise crashed into him, knocking him a good fifteen to twenty feet away, before standing in front of her defensively.
"!?" Jen blinked in confusion. "Am I seeing all of this through Red's eyes? Ouch!" She stepped backwards and fell onto her back as she tried to get away from the stinging pain in her leg.
"Sorry, trainer girl." Rattata said sincerely as he walked around from her leg and sat down beside her. "We had to wake you up somehow…you weren't watching something super important again, were you?"
"I saw Red…I saw through his eyes." Jen replied shakily. "We have to return to the Garden. They need our help."
"Why? What did you see that requires our attention so badly?" Ho-Oh asked scoffing.
Jen glanced up at him. "That sounds like you almost care, Dodo bird."
Ho-Oh glared at her.
"You projected a force field and tried to knock us backwards, master. What was happening on Red's end? What did you see that scared you like that?" Haunter asked as he drifted towards her and helped her up.
"Team Rocket. I saw Team Rocket ambushing the others at the Garden."
Latias tensed up and grabbed the Soul Dew protectively. "Not again. Did you happen to see Miss Bianca or her grandfather? Are they alright?"
Jen looked at Latias and shook her head solemnly. "I didn't see them, but Red and Amy will make sure that they get away safely."
"If they are guaranteed to be alright, then why are we caring? They're humans for Pete's sake." Ho-Oh muttered. "Once this Team realizes that we have no interest in them and will not be coming for them, they will either let them go or-"
"Or kill them, Ho-Oh." Jen hissed.
"So? They're just humans. There are plenty of them all over the world." Ho-Oh spit. "As for us as Legendries, there are only a few."
Jen and Latias glared darkly at Ho-Oh.
"They are our family, Ho-Oh." Latias growled. "They may be humans, but they are very important to us."
"Entei, Suicune, and Raikou were my family. I don't see us doing anything to save them." Ho-Oh spat as he glowered at the small group. "If one of us gets captured, we barely react, but if one, stupid human is kidnapped or, Arceus forbid, harmed, all Hell breaks loose!"
"Ho-Oh-" Mew began. Her tone was a mix of comfort and sternness.
"Shut up, Mew! You know it's true. Even you have let your first priority become the well-being of humans."
Jen was about to scream at Ho-Oh, but Mewtwo held her back. "What are you doing, Mewtwo?"
He looked down at her and smirked. "You don't want to be in Mew's way when she explodes."
Jen flinched and looked over at Mew. "Mew can get mad?"
"So? What if they have become my number one concern?" Mew asked darkly. "As you can see, Jen is half human."
"The Halfling doesn't count! She is-"
"One of us and one of them." Mew continued. Even though Mew had her back turned towards Jen, Jen could sense the dark look she was giving Ho-Oh.
"Like I just said, she doesn't count! She is pretty much her own kind. She doesn't have a legitimate place in this world. Arceus was the one who told you two to take her in, which means if he didn't, then she-"
"She would still be with us." Mewtwo hissed.
Jen smiled and hugged Mewtwo.
Ho-Oh scoffed at the sight. "Of course you would allow the Halfling to stay with you. Only a freak like her could love you."
Mew flipped out on Ho-Oh. "Excuse you, Ho-Oh?! No one talks to Mewtwo or Jen like that! Both Mewtwo and Jen are lucky to have each other. Heck, I'm jealous of them! I would love to have someone who would love me as much as they love each other. And the funny thing is I'm older than both of them combined and I haven't found anyone."
"But-"
"NO, SHUT UP!" Mew shrieked. Her tiny form grew immensely as her pink fur morphed into silver scales and blue fins.
"She turned into Lugia…" Jen said horrified.
"Yeah…she turned into Yveltal when she first got mad at me." Mewtwo said. "I can't even remember why she was mad at me."
"YOU CHEATED, MEWTWO!" Mew screamed. Her voice no longer sounded happy and bubbly, but fierce and commanding.
Jen and the others covered their ears as best they could and cringed in fright.
"You're still mad about that?" Mewtwo asked calmly.
Mew lowered her head to Mewtwo's level and glared at him. "We'll talk later." She hissed darkly before turning back to Ho-Oh. "As for you, you have been nothing but a jackass to everyone. Yeah, we understand that you lost your friends, but so have we, and no, I am not talking about our human friends. The Beasts were some of my closest friends, but I can't do anything to help them if I don't know where the Hell they are!"
Ho-Oh shrank back from Mew as everyone else watched on in stunned silence.
"It would be very helpful, Ho-Oh if you would put aside whatever grudge you have against Jen and help us. And Jen," She said turning towards Jen, "Try to be nice and patient with Ho-Oh. You both will treat each other as if you were best friends. Clean slates! Got it?"
Jen and Ho-Oh glanced at each other grimly.
"I'm sorry. I don't think I heard you." Mew growled.
"We'll get along." Ho-Oh and Jen yelped in unison.
"Good. Now hug."
"Huh?"
Mew glowered at them. "Hug. Hug each other like the friends you two are."
Jen and Ho-Oh stared at each other. Ho-Oh had a good seven feet or so on Jen.
"I'm not seeing any hugging!"
Jen walked over to Ho-Oh, who lowered his beak towards her. Jen wrapped her arms around his feathery neck, while Ho-Oh awkwardly curved his beak around her.
Mew waited for a moment before finally deciding to free the two from their suffering. "Alright, that's enough." She said calmly as she morphed back into her original, pink-furred form. Jen and Ho-oh immediately pulled away from each other and took a few steps back. "That wasn't so hard, now was it? No! I don't think so. Now let's go find the others."
Ho-Oh and Jen shot each other a glance as Mew flew on ahead.
"I'll agree to act on neutral terms and pretend to be your 'friend' while we search for the other Legendries, just as long as you promise to do the same, Halfling."
"Fair enough, and will we go back to hating each other afterwards?"
"Probably." Ho-Oh hesitated for only a split second. "You will never speak of that hug to anyone. It never happened." Ho-Oh hissed.
"What never happened?" Jen asked dryly. She wanted to forget about it too.
"Exactly." Ho-Oh muttered as he pounded his wings against the ground and took to the skies.
Jen slowly knelt down and let her Pokemon climb into her bag.
"I didn't know Mew could be so scary when she gets mad." Vulpix whispered.
"I didn't even think getting mad was physically possible for Mew." Rattata added. "She's always so bubbly."
Jen stood and looked at Mewtwo.
He chuckled at the sight of her expression and pulled her close. "She can be scarier than me when she gets mad, huh?"
"You should have given me a better warning…jerk." Jen smirked as she rose into the air.
Mewtwo followed her into the sky. Leaving New Island felt bittersweet. Sweet that neither he nor Jen would have to be haunted by past memories of the island, but bitter that they were all leaving the safety of the island.
"We are flying right back into the hands of Team Rocket." He thought as he looked over at Jen, who was flying rather swiftly through the air. "But she's not scared about being caught. She only cares about finding her friends."
"Mewtwo, don't worry. We'll be in and out of Altomare before you or Team Rocket knows it." Mew said as she and Latias came up beside him. "Besides, we'll be together. We'll just need to be ready for anything."
He nodded silently.
"We'll be right by her side if you're worried about Jen." Haunter said reassuringly.
"How is it you can say her name when she's not around or listening, but you call her master when she is?" Latias asked.
Haunter shrugged.
In the Garden
Red, Amy, and Sabrina were cornered by a large group of grunts and their Pokemon.
"This is déjà vu all over again. Except the Mews, Jen, and Latias are not here." He thought as he scanned the sky. "I hope Charizard and Peek got the others out safely."
Not soon after Team Rocket had arrived, Red and Amy had Peek and Charizard fly N, Colress, Bianca, her grandfather and some of their Pokemon out of Altomare. The last thing any of them wanted was for Latias's family to get hurt, N to be captured or killed, and for Colress to wind up in a Rocket lab again.
"Surrender, kids, and we won't beat you to a bloody pulp." One of the grunts threatened.
"I think we rather do the later." Sabrina spit.
"Very well." The grunts sneered as they edged closer to the teens and their remaining Pokemon.
Red slid one of his feet across the ground, silently giving his Pokemon a command. Snorlax ran at the grunts and body slammed some of their Pokemon to the ground.
Red snapped his fingers three times and rushed a grunt with his fists. Blastoise ran behind him and sent a dozen grunts flying backwards with a powerful hydro pump. Venusaur charged the rest of the grunts with a vine whip and trampled multiple grunts into the ground.
"Mudball, use surf! Kusa, use poison sting!" Amy cried as she too started punching and throwing grunts into each other.
Sabrina and her Pokemon followed them into the crowd of grunts and kinetically threw them across the Garden if they got too close to Amy, Red or any of their Pokémons' backs. She would not let any of the grunts take her friends by surprise.
One grunt took out a gun and pointed it at Red's head. His finger quickly wrapped around the trigger, and, before Red had time to realize a gun was aimed at him, the sound of a gunshot could be heard over the fighting.
"Red!" Sabrina shrieked as she threw her hands out. The bullet was deflected right before it hit Red in the temple.
Red looked back towards the grunt as Amy jump kicked him in the stomach. She grabbed the grunt's gun and pointed it at the others.
"Oh no, you've got a gun." One of the grunts said in mock fear. He quickly pulled out his gun and pointed it at Amy. "So do we."
Red ran in front of Amy and let the gun rest on his shoulder. "Don't you dare point a gun at her." He mentally hissed through clenched teeth.
"Red, what are you doing?" Both girls cried.
"Bold move, boy." The grunt snickered as he aimed the barrel of his gun at Red's chest. "Thanks for becoming a better target."
The sound of a gunshot rang throughout the Garden. Everything was silent as the grunt and Red stared at each other, waiting for one of them to drop.
The grunt slowly looked down at his chest, which was now turning crimson, and smirked. "Nice shot…" He wobbled for a moment before toppling over onto his stomach.
Red slowly looked over his shoulder to see a smoking gun next to his face. It also took him another moment to realize that his ear closest to the gun was ringing loudly. The sound of the gunshot had deafened him in one ear.
Amy's hand was shaking, but there was a firm gleam in her eyes.
Red, with his good ear, could hear the faint clicks of more guns being loaded and readied to be fired. "Sabrina, I know this may be asking a bit much, but would you be able to deflect all of the bullets?"
Sabrina grimaced. "Not all of them, Red, and that would be with my Pokemon's help." She replied grimly. "I'm not the Mews."
Red grimaced and raised his hands above his head. "Run."
"R-Red, what are you doing?!" Amy cried.
"We're not going to leave-"
Red threw both of his fists down on the nearest two grunts, breaking both of their noses, and snapped his fingers five times.
His Pokemon seemed to go into an all-out powerhouse mode. Grunts and Pokemon went flying all over the Garden as Red's Pokemon tore into them.
Red grabbed Amy and ran with her to the entrance of the Garden. "Put your Pokemon back in their Pokeballs and run. Find the others. They will protect you."
"Are you crazy? N-"
Red pulled her towards him and stopped her mid-sentence with a quick kiss. He shook his head and gently pushed her towards the entrance.
He ran back into the brawl before Amy could stop him. She reached out to stop him, but froze when she noticed her empty hand. Red took her gun.
She searched the faces of grunts for Red, but, surprisingly, she couldn't find Red. His hat must have been knocked off when he reentered the fighting.
"Red!" She cried.
Some of the grunts turned towards her and took out their stun batons. "Come with us little girl and we won't ruin that pretty face of yours."
"Bite me!" Amy hissed as she lunged for the grunts.
A couple hours later
They could see the smoke from a couple miles away. Jen sped up as fast as she could, but Latias was faster. The red and white Legendary was a blur as she jetted towards the burning city.
"Please be alright. Please be safe." Jen begged.
She hugged her Pokemon closer to her and flew faster. She had to know if her cousin and friends were still safe in the Garden, or if they were still in the Garden.
She dove through the smoke and flew through the watery alleys. It would have been easier to fly over the rooftops, but each one was consumed in flames, so Jen and the others were forced to fly close to the water. She found Lorenzo's gondola shop in flaming ruins. "No. No. No!" She cried as she drifted over the opening of the Garden.
Everything was on fire.
Latias hovered dazedly over the flames, staring unblinking into her burning home. "…"
"R-Red…" Jen mumbled numbly.
"Master, they probably got out before any of this started." Haunter said as he tried to calm her.
Jen, instead, handed him her bag with Rattata and Vulpix inside, and let herself fall into the flames.
"Master/Jen/Trainer!" Her Pokemon cried.
Jen ignored them. She had to know if her friends and Red had escaped in time.
"Jen!" It was Mewtwo.
Jen didn't slow as she flew across the burning ground. "I need to know…"
She felt two arms grab her and lift her up out of the flames. Jen struggled against Mewtwo's hold, but he wouldn't let her go. "Jen, stop!"
"They could still be down there! Let me go! I need to know!" She cried.
"Jen, calm down. No one is down there. I promise you." Mewtwo replied. "I can't hear or sense anyone."
Jen stopped and looked up at him with fearful eyes. "C-Can you…" She trailed off and looked back down into the inferno.
"Can I what?" He asked. Mewtwo looked down at her and then at the fire before realizing what she had wanted to ask him. "Jen, your cousin and the others are not down there. They would have helped everyone in the city escape."
"But…what if…Team Rocket…I saw them-"
"Team Rocket would have taken them to one of their bases. They would need them alive to use as bait, but don't think like that. Just know that Red and the others are still alive somewhere."
There seemed to be a spark of hope in Jen's eyes as she nodded slowly. "But where are they?"
"I don't know, Jen. We'll find out soon enough. Just be patient." Mewtwo sighed as he hugged her.
Jen wrapped her arms around his and shut her eyes.
A strong breeze blew past them, forcing them to look up at the cause.
"Ho-Oh, what are you doing?" Mew exclaimed.
Ho-Oh flew over the Garden and spit out a mouthful of water onto the flames. "I'm trying to put out the fire. Some help would be nice."
Mewtwo and Mew turned towards one of the canals and focused on the water below. The water rose high into the air as small liquid spheres and gathered into a larger one high above the city.
Jen and the others watched in awe as the sphere exploded, raining heavily down onto the city. The flames were immediately extinguished by the water, leaving behind a burnt, but still standing city.
"I think all the fires are out now. Ho-Oh, hide in the Garden just in case there are still people in the city. We don't want you to be spotted." Mew said quickly.
Ho-Oh obeyed without complaint.
"Master, we had better do the same." Haunter said as he handed her her bag back.
Jen slipped her bag strap over her shoulder and drifted down with Haunter to the darkened Garden. She grimaced at the sight of all the blackened trees and singed grass.
"My home…"
Jen turned towards Latias, who was drifting glumly through her wrecked home. Vulpix and Rattata leapt out of Jen's bag and trotted over to Latias.
"I know it may not mean much, but we're sorry about your home, Latias." Vulpix said aloud for the Legendary to hear.
"I-It…it can grow back." She mumbled. She sounded like she was close to tears. "But…my family…where is my family?"
"We'll find them, Latias. We found them last time." Mew said as she placed a paw on her friend's shoulder.
Latias nodded as she picked up a black leaf from the ground. She stared at the leaf and twirled it delicately in her hand.
Mewtwo landed a few feet away from Jen and slowly took in the grim Garden. "It will grow back, but it will take a while. Team Rocket showed this place no mercy."
He scanned the ashes for any signs as to what exactly happened before the fire and froze. A little ways off the path and mostly singed was Red's hat.
Mewtwo flew over and picked it up. The hat was soaked and steaming a little. "This could mean anything. It could have fallen off when they were escaping, but how will Jen take it?" Mewtwo thought as he looked over at Jen.
She, Mew, and her Pokemon were trying to comfort Latias.
He sighed heavily as Ho-Oh walked over to him.
"What is that?" Ho-Oh asked as he eyed the burned hat.
Mewtwo hesitated before answering. "It's Red's hat."
"The Halfling's kin? His hat being here doesn't help us much, other than tell of his earlier presence here."
"I know that." Mewtwo growled. "And don't call Jen a Halfling."
Ho-Oh rolled his eyes. "Then what am I to call her? Never mind, I've got something. Are you going to show your mate her cousin's hat?"
Mewtwo stared at Ho-Oh.
"You wanted me to call her something else." Ho-Oh said with a sly grin.
"She has a name. Call her by her name." Mewtwo hissed.
"Alright…hey, Mewthree, Mewtwo has something to show you!" Ho-Oh cried.
Jen cringed at the sound of the name, and Mewtwo scowled darkly at Ho-Oh.
"What? You will need to show her-"
"That's not her name!" Mewtwo roared. "Never. Call. Her. That."
Ho-Oh frowned. "Why not? I thought you guys said she was one of you, a Mew. You're not dis-"
"Giovanni called me Mewthree." Jen interrupted numbly. Her gaze moved towards Mewtwo. "What did you want to show me…is that Red's hat?"
Mewtwo grimaced and held the hat out to her.
Jen slowly moved towards him and took the hat carefully with both her hands. She stared at it with a blank expression on her face.
"Jen, that's-" Vulpix began slowly.
Jen slowly looked over at Latias. Latias looked down at the leaf in her hand and let it fall to the ground.
Team Rocket had taken just about everything from them.
Jen tightened her grip on Red's hat, folding it between her fingers. It was taking every ounce of her will power not to let her rage and sorrow run rampant in the form of her abilities. The last thing Johto or the world needed was another one of her storms.
She felt Mewtwo hug her from behind, while Mew and her Pokemon hugged Latias.
Ho-Oh stood awkwardly off to the side, watching the others comfort each other. "So…uh, what are we going to do now?"
Sabrina woke up strapped to a table. She tried to look around, but her head was strapped down to the table as well. "Where the Hell am I? Red? Amy? Gengar? Alakazam?"
"Ah! Good. You're finally awake." A croaking voice seemed to grin.
Sabrina tried to hide a terrified shiver by frowning in confusion. The voice sounded familiar, but she couldn't place who exactly it belonged to. "Who are you? Show yourself!"
The voice chuckled…or at least tried to, but wound up coughing violently. "You may not want to see me right now. I do not have the same face I did when we met last time."
"Giovanni…" Sabrina growled. "Your new face probably fits you better than your last face did."
Giovanni snickered. "Amazing how much trouble a few adolescences can cause. I was hoping my men would return with the Mews, but instead, I got you three."
"We try." Sabrina smirked.
She could hear Giovanni walking, eh…no, shuffling towards her. "Ooh, shuffling. That sounds very—HOLY HELL!" Sabrina screamed when she caught sight of Giovanni's new face. She instinctively tried to crawl away from the sight of his face, but she was too well bound to the table.
A large majority of his skin was darkened and scarred, but there were still a few amounts of skin missing. Sabrina swore she could see some exposed cheek and skull bone, along with a lot of dark pink muscle.
"Now that is what I am looking for. Fear! Beautiful fear burning brightly in my enemies' eyes." Giovanni grinned. It looked absolutely horrifying as the graphed parts of his skin were pulled tightly across his face, giving him an almost demonic look.
Sabrina couldn't hide the shivers that ran down her spine.
"As much as I am enjoying this, we do need to get to the main reason why you are here, instead of six feet under." Giovanni said as he walked over to a control panel. "I need you to bring the Mews to me. I know you can do it, Sabrina. After all, you are the Mistress of Psychic Pokemon."
Sabrina continued to stare at him. Her lips were sealed shut from fear.
Giovanni sighed. "I figured you may need some motivation." He hit a few buttons and a television above Sabrina turned on to reveal Red and Amy on a split screen. They were both unconscious and bound to large chairs. They also had suction cup-like pods attached to both sides of their temples.
Sabrina blinked at the screen. "W-What is he going to do to my friends?"
Giovanni hit a few other buttons on his panel. On the television screen, Sabrina could see a small, red light flicker above Red and Amy's head before both teen went rigid in their seats. Red gritted his teeth and arched his back against the chair as he fought to get out, but the leather restrains wouldn't let him move. Amy, on the other hand, was grimacing against the pain as she attempted to pull at her restraints. Her attempts were in vain as well.
"Don't bother trying to use any telekinesis or any other ability other than telepathy with the Mews. I'll know if and when you do." Giovanni said as he tapped a band that was around her head. "This worked well on Mewthree, so I have no fear that it will work like a charm on you."
Sabrina tried to turn her head away from him, but she had a limited amount of room to move it.
Giovanni chuckled. "Are you ready to begin? I'm sure your friends are eager for you to start."
Sabrina's eyes darted back towards the television screen. Both Red and Amy were still being hurt. "You demon!" She screamed.
"Their suffering ends once you begin, but keep in mind, the second you stop, they start hurting again. Got it?" Giovanni sneered as he shuffled out of Sabrina's sight. "Good luck."
Sabrina shut her eyes and tried with all of her might to focus on finding the Mews. She could hear Red and Amy relax, but she didn't dare check on them. She had to stay focused. She had to find the Mews.