"Pokémon Endless Journey - Volume 1: Red, Green, Blue and Yellow - The First Legend"
Chapter 25 – Confronting Legends:
A powerful beam of energy descended from the skies, the collision with the ground creating an explosion as a result.
All of the Trainers and their respective Pokémon were blown away due to the shockwave the explosion created.
"Whoooooaaaaa!" Red and the other flew against boulders that served as obstacles, while their Pokémon scattered.
"What… was that…?" Koga asked, struggling to stand up. Despite his age, he was probably the one with the better physique of the group, making him the first to compose himself properly.
"Not even the missile launchers in the war had that much firepower." Lt. Surge pointed out, cleaning off the dust from his clothes.
"This power… There's no doubt." Blaine stood up with the help of Red. "It's Mewtwo."
"Mewtwo…" Red knew of such a Pokémon thanks to the documents he read in the Pokémon Mansion with Yellow. However, a disturbing thought came across his mind. "Wait... Yellow! She's all by herself!"
"She is better off than us, don't worry. Mewtwo will always face the biggest challenge first, unless necessary." Blaine's information left Red in between the feelings of relief and fear.
The trainers helped each other out, just like the Pokémon.
"Alright, let's split into two groups." Green suggested. Everyone payed attention. "Red, Blue, and I will take care Mewtwo. The Gym Leaders will stall Zapmolcuno. Yellow is already doing her part of the plan, so just hold it for little longer."
"Alright."
"Let's head out!"
The group split accordingly, the three Trainers approaching the descending Pokémon, while the Gym Leaders aimed for the Legendary Fusion.
"Beedrill, use Twineedle!"
"Nidoqueen, Crunch!"
"Use Knock Off, Kabuto!"
Beedrill flew as fast as he could towards Mewtwo, aiming both spears at it. Mewtwo raised a hand and its eyes flashed blue. Beedrill was pushed aside through psychic powers, but was quick to turn back and attempt to stab Mewtwo once more, but Mewtwo suddenly disappeared, reappearing a couple of meters to the right, making Beedrill crash into Kabuto. Nidoqueen jumped, attempting to bite down on Mewtwo, but it stopped her in midair through psychic abilities and the hurled her into the other two, causing further damage before firing a single Shadow Ball.
"Guys, are you okay?!" Blue asked worriedly, approaching the hurt Pokémon. "Ditto, use Transform!"
The Transform Pokémon jumped and took the shape of Mewtwo.
"Pidgeot, Mirror Move!"
"Vaporeon, Shadow Ball!"
As Ditto closed in, Pidgeot opened a void in front of her body, launching the last attack Mewtwo had launched, identical to the shadowy orb Vaporeon fired from her mouth.
Mewtwo snapped its fingers, swapping places with Ditto, making it the target of the Shadow Balls. Ditto fainted upon collision. At the same time, a light blue and a yellow orb of energy appeared in front of its right and left hands respectively, firing bolts of energy out of each and using super effective moves against Pidgeot and Vaporeon, knocking them into the same state as Ditto.
"Piii…!"
"CHAR!"
Pikachu and Charizard charged in, infuriated by the defeat of their teammates.
"Wait, don't!"
"It's too strong!"
Ignoring the warnings of their Trainers, Pikachu used Double Team, multiplying into a horde of Pikachu, all of them with tails turned to iron, while Charizard right above them, his wings turned into steel.
Mewtwo's placed its hands together, forming an orb of purple energy in between them and hurled it at Charizard. An Aura Sphere wasn't very effective, but it was enough to push him away for a moment to take care of Pikachu first. Mewtwo swung his arms aside spreading them after the use of Aura Sphere, creating and firing a crescent-shaped purple energy wave, destroying the multiple copies of Pikachu and knocking the real one back. Then, Mewtwo created a white force field that expanded rapidly from around it and exploded on contact with the opponents.
Pikachu and Charizard fell.
"No!" Red and Green were quick to come to the rescue of their Pokémon.
"Grrr… Jolteon, Pin Missile! No mercy!"
"Dragon Rage, Aerodactyl!"
"Flareon, help them out with Flamethrower!"
Jolteon fired multiple energy arrows from his mane at the same time as Aerodactyl fired a dark-blue and black dragon-shaped flame and Flareon released a stream of flames from her mouth. The three attacks rapidly approached Mewtwo, but a blue round barrier surrounded Mewtwo, protecting it from all three attacks.
The three Trainers glared at Mewtwo, as their eyes flashed once again.
"Fire Blast!"
"Thunder!"
Blaine's Rapidash and Lt. Surge's Raichu used two of the most powerful moves of their respective types, but they were ineffective against Zapmolcuno.
"Starmie, Water Pulse!"
"Vileplume, Sludge Bomb!"
The two female Gym Leaders commanded their Pokémon. Starmie launched a blue orb of energy from its core, which hit the Moltres head, creating a wave of water, blinding them for a moment, just before Vileplume fired a sphere of purple sludge from her flower, hitting the bird's main body.
"Onix, now, use Stone Edge!"
Onix roared with power. Two rings of white energy surrounded his body and then formed into sharp gray stones, which were then fired at Zapmolcuno. Being incredibly weak to rock, the Legendary Bird was weakened, damaged massively, but was still able to fight. Articuno's eyes flashed, making an image of an eyes appear on all of the Pokémon foreheads.
"It used Mind Reader!"
"Quick, we have to defeat it before it uses Sheer Cold!"
"Alakazam, Focus Punch!"
"Golbat, Air Slash!"
As Alakazam and Golbat closed in, but Zapdos used Detect, allowing Zapmolcuno to evade the attacks.
"Things are running smoothly!" Petrel noted.
"Zapmolcuno taking on the Gym Leaders and Mewtwo taking care of the brats. If it were up to me, I would just use the two Pokémon to get rid of the brats."
Giovanni frowned. "Proton, I believe it would be best to capture the infants. It's not every day you come across a possessor of the Vision of Legend, let alone three of the together."
"So, are we going to capture them and hand them over to the scientists for experiments?" Archer wondered, making Ariana giggle with the scenario he proposed.
"That's far too cruel, even for you."
"…Now!"
"!?" The Team Rocket Members turned around, just to find a young blonde girl wearing a straw hat and a Venomoth attached to her back, allowing her to fly over and tackle the Executives, and upon crashing with Giovanni, she managed to fetch the nearby suitcase, the one equal to the ones Petrel, Ariana and Archer used to control the Legendary birds.
Flying away, Yellow slammed the suitcase against a nearby rock formation, breaking it into many, many pieces. Zapmolcuno's eyes returned to normal shortly after, and following a flash of light, the three Legendary Birds separated, falling onto the ground in exhaustion.
"You dumb little-!" Proton would've let out quite the swear if Petrel had not covered his mouth.
"Proton, this is a kid's franchise."
"Do I look like I give a damn about that?! She took our control device! You know what that means?!"
"That we lost our aces." Giovanni answered, turning around and making his way through the Executives, confusing them.
"Boss, where are you…?"
"I'm leaving this place before Mewtwo goes wild. If I were you, I would do the same."
The Four Executives looked at one another and then realized it. They decided to follow their leader and leave the Sevii Archipelago as soon as possible.
"Where are they going?!" Misty noted, rather infuriated.
"There's no time for that!" Blaine noted. "We must help Red and the others!"
"Nidoqueen, Beat Up!"
"Nidoking, Beat Up!"
The entirety of Blue and Green's teams became surrounded in a dark aura and they all rushed in towards Mewtwo. The mind control might have been broken, but it was still set to defeat its opponents. Mewtwo didn't feel fear upon seeing twelve different Pokémon ganging up.
Omanyte and Kabuto jumped in first, but they were pushed aside through psychic powers. Charizard and Flareon used Fire Punch and Flame Charge simultaneously, but Mewtwo Teleported behind them and then fired multiple shadow balls against the Fire-type Poké attempted to squash Mewtwo with a stomp, but was stopped in midair and then hurled against a transformed Ditto, knocking them both away. Quickly following, Jolteon jolted forward in order to bite Mewtwo, but it used Confusion in order to throw Jolteon over its own head, crashing against an approaching Butterfree. Blastoise attempted to use Rapid Spin, but Mewtwo stopped her in his tracks through a glowing glare, disabling the attack. Then, it hurled an Aura Sphere against her stomach before turning and stopping Pidgeot in midair and damaging her through the use of psychic orbs of energy, Psyshock. Finally, as Nidoking and Nidoqueen approached with pulled punches, Mewtwo picked up Kabuto and Omanyte through psychic powers, hurled the small Pokémon against the remaining two before using its signature move, Psystrike, which consisted of gathering multicolored dark energy in front of one of its hands and then firing a black and purple sphere of energy, creating a massive explosion, knocking all twelve out.
"Oh no…"
"Even Beat Up didn't work…" Green noted, about to lose hope. However, he flinched in surprise upon seeing Red dashing through him and Blue, followed by his six Pokémon. "What the-?! Red?!"
"I won't give up so early!"
Green brushed his eyes in disbelief. The Gym Leaders closed in as well.
"Red!" Blaine called, making the young boy turn around. "Use this!" The reformed scientist hurled a weirdly shaped Poké Ball. Red caught it and noticed that it was purple, with a white 'M' imprinted on the upper half.
"What is this…?"
"That's a Master Ball! It's a Poké Ball capable of catching any Pokémon without missing! It's impossible to escape from it!"
Red's eyes widened. Such a powerful Poké Ball in his hands. But he only had one chance.
"Guys, I'm counting on you!"
"Venu!"
"Bzzz!"
"Pika!"
"Snorr!"
"Vapo!"
"Aero!"
Venusaur let out eight vines which Pikachu used to run on after multiplying into eight through the use of Double Team. Mewtwo used a psychic wave on all eight, but much to its surprise, all eight vanished. Regardless, he stopped the vines from moving and then attacked Venusaur through the use of Psyshock, unleashing three orbs of psychic energy against him. Venusaur was pushed back, but Snorlax held him in place, helping out in the battle.
Pikachu reappeared above Mewtwo, flipping over and over again, ready to strike the enemy with an Iron Tail. At the same time, Aerodactyl closed in from the right and Vaporeon from the left, the prior bearing a deep blue tail while the latter had hers bright blue and releasing multiple streams of water. Mewtwo quickly created a round barrier around its body, protecting him from all three attacks. As a result, Pikachu landed a handful of meters in front of Mewtwo on all fours, while Aerodactyl flew up and back. Vaporeon in turn, gained some distance as well.
Mewtwo analyzed the battlefield, having full control over the situation, until seeing Red's grin. The confusion vanished as soon as it was replaced with the pain of two spears piercing his back, the Bug-type attack Twineedle being super effective.
Angered, Mewtwo turned around and used Psycho Cute, but Beedrill defended himself from the wave of energy through the use of his spears as shields. Taking advantage of this, Snorlax, outlined in metallic silver, crashed against Mewtwo, the sheer weight causing quite some damage. The Genetic Pokémon grew angrier and angrier with each passing moment. He turned around and disabled Snorlax's Heavy Slam through the use of a glowing glare and then jumped up, performing a back flip in the process. While turned back to Red and the others, it fired multiple Shadow Balls towards Beedrill, attempting to injure him. After the flip completed, Mewtwo was taken aback by the sight of Aerodactyl about to bite him, but managed to conjure a barrier around it, which Aerodactyl was unable to break. Then, after it disappeared, Mewtwo fired multiple yellow stars with perfect accuracy against the Fossil Pokémon. While not very effective, the cloud of dust formed by the collision of the attack was enough to create a camouflage. Dwelling within the cloud, it levitated around before the sudden appearance of a beam of sunlight right in front of it. Soon after, a blue orb also came about, barely touching it. Mewtwo used its psychic powers to clear the cloud, exposing himself and finding Venusaur and Vaporeon aiming up above.
Quick on its feet, Mewtwo quickly fired a single Psycho Cut, followed by the Swiftyellow stars, just before using Psychic to hurled Aerodactyl down against Snorlax, who also appeared to be ready to attack. While Snorlax caught Aerodactyl safely with the use of his stomach, Vaporeon jumped and created green barrier around her body, blocking Psycho Cut and Swift while Venusaur released his eight vines in multiple directions. Mewtwo dodged them with twists and turns, but it missed one, which tied around its leg. Venusaur quickly slammed the Genetic Pokémon against the rocky battlefield before hurling it back into the sky again. Mewtwo recovered, despite being damaged and was taken by surprise when Beedrill stung his back while surrounded by a dark aura. Mewtwo became furious by being the victim of Pursuit and followed Beedrill with its eyes, but a yellow thunderbolt came from the passenger on the Bug-type Pokémon's back, shocking Mewtwo before it could react.
It tried to move, but yellow sparks surrounded its body. Red immediately understood what was happening. "It's paralyzed!"
Snorlax laid down on his back and Red jumped onto his belly, using it as a trampoline. Mewtwo couldn't move, but that didn't stop him from controlling nearby rocks with psychic powers. "Oh no…" Red closed his eyes, but he felt something grasp his shoulders instead of something crushing him into mush. Opening his eyes again, he found Aerodactyl flying him towards Mewtwo. Two more large boulders flew to their direction, but Venusaur and Vaporeon were faster. With the use of Vine Whips, Venusaur hurled Vaporeon towards the boulders and destroyed them with Water Pulse. Gravity took effect and she landed on Snorlax's belly. Just as one last boulder was hurled, Pikachu jumped off Beedrill's back and hit Mewtwo's head with an Iron Tail, giving it a headache, inhibiting its psychic powers and then landing on its head and covering its eyes, essentially turning Mewtwo blind. Aerodactyl knew that he was about to get hit by the boulder, so he hurled Red right above it before getting hit. Beedrill stopped in midair between Red and Mewtwo with his spears crossed in the same fashion as a person would cross their hands when lifting someone else through their feet. Red understood this and landed with a single foot on Beedrill's spears, who flung his Trainer up towards the Psychic-type.
Just as Mewtwo shoved Pikachu off its eyes, Red appeared in front of its eyes, holding the Master Ball and slamming it against Mewtwo.
It opened. It shook. It caught.
Red fell down, caught by his injured Pokémon. The other humans approached, Yellow being the first on the line, and they found a laughing boy, holding a shut Master Ball, surrounded by his Pokémon, all seven of them injured, tired, and covered in dirt.
"We did it. We caught Mewtwo."
Everyone returned to Pallet Town the same afternoon. After the Legendary Birds returned to their natural habitats, the Gym Leaders and the Trainers gave start to a rather festive party in the laboratory of Professor Oak, a huge cake having been baked by Red's mom in anticipation to the victory of her son.
During this party, Yellow decided to climb onto the roof in order to look at the bright stars. She couldn't understand how Red could be partying despite being exhausted, but that just made her blush and giggle. But when escaping from the loud noises, she spotted something flying across the stars.
Her eyes began to glow pale yellow when she focused on it. Everything in her vision became tinged in yellow, but it only lasted for a moment.
"What…?"
"Mew?" a pink, bipedal Pokémon with mammalian features closed in, curious. Its snout was short and wide, and it had triangular ears and large, blue eyes. It had short arms with three-fingered paws, large hind legs and feet with oval markings on the soles, and a long, thin tail ending in an ovoid tip. Its fur was so fine and thin, it could only be seen under a microscope.
"…A-Are you…?!"
It tilted its head to the side. "Mew?"
"Are you a Mew?!" Yellow was astounded. Thanks to the files she read in the Pokémon Mansion, she recognized the possible ancestor of all Pokémon.
"Mew… Mew!" Confused at first, the little Pokémon rubbed it body against Yellow, its head against her chin, which she found surprising yet cute. Itthen floated away and laughed before waving goodbye. "Meeewww!"
"W-Wait!" Yellow tried to reach for it with her hand, but it flew away before she could. Disappearing in the distance amidst the stars, Yellow smiled, deciding to keep the event her special little secret.
Pokémon of the Day:
Mew - Reports found in Cinnabar Island's Pokémon Mansion note scientific expeditions that have sighted Mew in Guyana, South America, the place where it was first discovered. Since Mew can make itself invisible at will, very few people have knowingly seen it, leading some scientists to declare it extinct and most to assume it to be a mirage. It will only show itself to a person who is pure of heart.