I hope you guys enjoyed that major plot twist I put at the end of my chapter! More revelations are to be revealed, secrets to be shown and many other drama bombs! Also after this chapter this story will be on an indefinite hiatus, I just need to pull my plan together smoothly. Otherwise, it'll seem like all my work has gone to waste because of rushed final chapters.
"Mum..." Squeaked Mei, her hair now blowing in the direction her mum was, and her grass green eyes ready to pour out a flood. Both Erin and Luke stood beside her, of course all were shocked by the revelation Mei had told but none as shocked as Mei was.
"Yes Mei, it is," Marlene announced, taking a step forward.
"Why?"
"To take over Sinnoh,"
"Y-you always hated criminals, e-every time we watched the news, y-you'd say how m-much you despised them!"
"I did, I despised them for being so stupid! So low-ambitioned, really a fricking crown jewel is what you want! Then have the nerve to get caught a mere few hours by Nurse Joy and a bunch of teenage trainers, HA!"
"Y-you're not my mother!" Mei screamed, "You're an imposter, a shape-shifter, a phony, a fraud, a-a hoax, you're just not my mum!"
"But I am, if I wasn't how would I know that Mei isn't your first name, it's your middle name. Your real name is actually Angel,"
Mei opened her green eyes wide open in shock, "You-you could've got that information from anywhere, my birth certificate, recordings from when my REAL mum used to call me angel,"
"Do you mean this birth certificate," Mei's mum said holding up her birth certificate, it said:
Angel Mei Kuroki
"I've heard enough!" Luke said, "If Mei says you're not her mum, you're not her mum! "Besides what kind of mother attacks her child and her friends,"
"Fools," Marlene said, "All of you are fools,"
"You guys ready or what," Skull said cracking her knuckles,
"FINAL,"
"FINAL,"
"FINAL,"
"FINAL,"
"FINAL,"
"FINAL,"
"FINAL,"
"FINAL,"
"FINAL,"
"CHARGE," They all said together,
Soon the whole place erupted with a burst of power. Kristy however, her 'Final Charge' was her enveloped in psychic energy; however she couldn't let the enemy know that. It was better to psyche her out.
"Aww so cute; you think if you join up your itty-bitty powers you can defeat me. Well even if you could I have a million and then some, plans to stop you," Mei's 'mother' informed.
"Yeah, tell us when it's actually in play!" Skull snapped as she raced towards her opponent, over-flowing with power. That was until,
BAANG!
A concrete wall had gotten in her way and her final charge had dissipated.
"What, what the heck is this?" Aaron cried.
"It's my favourite trap, optical labyrinth," The foe told the teenagers.
From a bird's eye view it was a complex, irregular shaped labyrinth seemingly to have no exit. There was a glass case on top of it acting like a ceiling, obviously made so that they couldn't climb over. However in the views of the trapped, all they saw were walls coated with mirrors. Everywhere they looked they could see an illusion or a reflection of more walls. In all honesty it was confusing.
"Do you like it?" Mei's mother taunted.
"How are we supposed to get out of here?" Aaron exclaimed, rather than asked.
"You don't!" Marlene answered.
"You just watch us faker!" Mei screamed. Tears threatening to fall...
"You can't escape going up, and you definitely can't go walk out the door. There is no door to walk out of!" Marlene said laughing maniacally. "So do you like my labyrinth?"
"Obviously," Erin said out of the labyrinth.
"How did you get out?"
"I used dig. I guess you forgot about underground escape routes huh?"
Mei's mother only scowled in response, and she watched in horror as people either used dig to escape or using destructive moves to lower their beings into the ground only to resurface out of it.
"Well played." Marlene said, as she got out a clipboard and pen and ticked a box.
"Now's not the time to be revising," Blaze warned, fists ablaze.
"Did you really think that was gonna contain all of us?" Luke said, smirking.
'He's changed, a lot!' Erin thought.
"You know Mei, you're friends are really annoying, glad you didn't invite all of them to the house!" Marlene said, allowing herself to chuckle slightly.
"Ha ha, very funny mum," Mei said, but covered her mouth with both hands as she realised what she had just said. Then the truth dawned upon her like the sun setting.
"It really is you, huh?" Mei asked, refusing to look up.
"That's right,"
"Guys, I wanna be alone for this,"
"What, are you crazy?" Aaron, blaze and Luke shouted at the same time.
"I said," Mei began quietly. "I WANT TO BE ALONE!" With that Marlene threw a fire stone at the fuming Mei.
Again for the fifth time Mei evolved. And was now seething with anger and her new persona definitely showed it. Fiery rage form of red scattered itself along her shoulder blade length hair. She was a wearing a school top with a red tie that had a picture of a fire stone embedded in it. She wore a blood red skirt reaching her knees and knee high blue flame boots, presented themselves on Mei's feet.
"Perfect, only two more to go..." Marlene said to herself but that didn't stop certain people from hearing.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Gary asked.
"You'll find out in time," Marlene said ominously, "But time is not on my side, I need to squeeze as much as I can from this temporary stage of evolution. So Mei, show them the door!"
"Gladly, then I can finally show you the doorway to Darkrai's realm!" Mei screamed.
She moved her hand in a swiping motion causing a ring of flame to go towards her companions, as they ran from the blue disc of flame, the door instantly closed as soon as they left!
"DAMN IT!" Skull screamed, as she tried non-stop to break down the door.
"Why'd she have to go and take the bait?" June complained.
"What do you mean?" Aaron asked.
"Are you really that thick boy?" Kristy asked.
"She got Mei mad for a reason," Aqua began.
"So that she could turn her into a flareon, I'm sure you're aware of her on and off evolution problem," Skull added.
"Yeah, what does this have to do with anything?" Aaron asked still not understanding what was going on.
"Fire types have the most destructive power when they're angry," Luke went on.
"Blaze," Both Gary and Aaron realised starting to get it.
"Yes that's part of it. However, what our opponent, and possibly Mei's mother, is trying to do is wind up Mei until she pops and destroys the whole place. She'll wait for the building to collapse, crush Mei before making her way here to try and finish us off. She's obviously thought of strategies for every individual," Kristy said.
"Whoa," Aaron commented, "She's smart,"
"Indeed, that is why we must think of every step we do, no rash movements!" Kristy warned.
"I think both I and Mighty over here should try and break down the door," Skull said pointing at the mightyena Pokemorph, Luke.
"While we think of a plan," Blaze added.
"Perfect!" Erin said. She had faith in Mei's survival. Of course she did. If she didn't make it out of the situation she was currently in however, she would make sure to get the finishing blow- no matter how many it took. She would definitely get it!
Meanwhile, in the headquarters, Mei stood in a fighting position preparing to duel with her mother.
"Don't you know it's illegal to attack you child, especially with Pokémon moves?" Mei asked sarcastically.
"Didn't I raise you to respect your mother?" Marlene snapped back.
Mei couldn't take the tension anymore she ran towards her mother, fists ablaze and started to punch her non-stop but to no avail. For once the crossed arms in defence had worked and Marlene had been barely singed by Mei's attack.
"Are you a fire or ice type?" The mother of Mei taunted.
"Should have taught you that in retirement care mum," She kicked her mother in the side of her abdomen, before moving back slightly and looking away. Although her mum didn't take much damage she couldn't believe what she was doing. Attacking her mother, the woman who had taken care of her for thirteen years!
The one who had patched up the broken pieces when she cracked because of her father's incident, the one who was the reason, the one who had bought the poke-balls, the person who was the reason she had so much experience, so many friends! And here she was attacking her as if she was a villain who she hated with every fibre of her body.
BOOM!
A psychic explosion happened just in front of Mei sending her flying and crashing into the marble wall.
"Never take your eyes off of your opponent," Marlene said sombrely. And for a split second Mei saw something, she saw her mother! Her actual mother, and that second was the worst second of her life. In an instant her caring mother had turned into a savage beast kicking and punching and doing all other sorts as if she was her personal punching bag!
"ENOUGH!" Mei screamed before a pillar of flame erupted from her being. After obtaining several burn degrees, Marlene smiled nonchalantly.
"That- that actually burned!" She laughed, no cackled towards the sky. 'Just the power I need. If I can keep this up...'
"Where's the mum, I loved?" Mei asked. "The one that looked after me, took care of my boo-boos, when I grazed my knee, would call the ambulance when I pricked my finger because she saw blood?"
"Oh and it's so surprising now, because she's the one spilling blood huh?"
Mei only nodded.
"Well let me tell you something,"
Mei leaned in closer intent of hearing every word, but had her arm shaking wildly just in case it was something cliché like a slap.
"She...Died...When...She...Killed...Your...Father..."
Mei instantly jumped back and hit the marble wall, only twice as hard. Or at least it felt like it. Now Mei had wished she had been slapped, or punched, or kicked or even stabbed. Because those seven words hurt her more than any pain could bring. A scar finally having been sealed after all those years had been ripped open and then cut open some more, her own mother. They had been married under the surveillance of Arceus and she had gone ahead and killed him.
"W-why?" Mei managed to stutter. Even though she knew she wouldn't like the answer, she just had to know...
"Well t put it simply-" Marlene began but Mei sent a fireball going her way.
"I take it I can't put it simply huh?"
^Flashback^
*P.O.V of Marlene*
The sun was shining and I was sitting on the bench on campus, listening to my favourite song, love or loyalty. At the end of the song it asked a question and I would always choose love, 100%. No questions asked. Love is and unconditional feeling that is the best feeling in the world! Even thought it pull you both ways and breaks you down you always find a way to come back to you. When it does, you love it even more! It was a wonderful thing love and I was to make sure when I found my true love, I would never let him go. Ever...
"Hey is this seat taken?" asked a boy, he was Chris. He was my bio partner and we were the best of friends. He had silky blonde hair matted down in a spiky formation on his forehead and the rest covering his head. He had sky blue eyes and he had a cute nose with a piercing on his right nostril. He always seemed to be showing off his pearly whites!
"No not at all,"
After he sat down he looked at my ear phones and asked, "What are you listening to?"
"Love and loyalty,"
"I love that song; it's one of my favourites,"
"Mine too!"
"So what do you pick? Love or loyalty,"
"Love. Always love!"
"Same here,"
"We both smiled at each other before departing. This was one of the things I loved about Chris. He and I had so much in common. It was almost like we were meant to be... But that definitely wasn't it or so I thought...
After we spent more and more time together we realised that we were pushing back feelings that kept resurfacing no matter what... We were in love! So we tried it out during our first week of our official dating it was rocky but we got used to each other's company- without making it awkward!
So then once we finished University, Chris decided to marry me. I wanted to say yes, to marry him but I knew I couldn't I already belonged to an organisation. One that strictly forbids marriage and offspring and all the sort of things Chris wanted to do with me and what I wanted to do with him.
Yep. It was the one I'm with now and have been ever since.
But back then I was a rebel, always breaking rules and the sort so I eventually decided to say yes. So we had a fabulous time at our wedding and that son-of-a-gun husband of mine did something that I'd never forget. He got the band I loved so much, singers of Love or Loyalty, to play our slow dance.
Then after the wedding, we did what every other couple did after they got married...
After that-
^Interrupt Flashback^
"Wait what does every couple do after marriage?"
"You'll find out,"
^Back to Flashback^
After that you were born, and then it happened. My belly was still 'deflating' when my agency called me, they knew about everything. They let it happen because when I was pregnant they injected me so that later you would be the ultimate fighting machine' they said the only way for them to remove it from you – so that you could have a normal childhood – was for me to kill your father...
He lived a normal childhood and adulthood even. You hadn't even marked your tenth birthday. So I did it, and I made it look like an accident... All for you
^End Flashback^
Mei was crying her flamed antic from before had left the ceiling on the verge of collapsing. Just one more attack.
"Did you listen well?" Marlene said apologetically, wiping a tear from Mei's cheek. Mei nodded.
"Well it was a waste of your time, I lied!" Marlene said and her tear wiping became face-slapping and knocked Mei to the other side of the wall.
"Then, what happened to dad?" Mei demanded.
"I killed him," Marlene said slurring on her words.
"WHY?" Mei screamed.
"For fun..." Marlene answered with a huge smirk on her face.
Mei screamed. Not just an average scream that called everybody's attention, it was louder; not a scream that was high enough to break glass, it had more rage- more meaning; not even a battle cry that barely touched the surface. This was a scream of pure rage.
Mei was outlined in red heat lines and then it burned burnt through the ceiling, the door the walls everything around her was burnt.
"Final Charge: Supernova!"
Fin! What did you guys think?! Eh? Eh? I'm sorry I made up the tender moment but I just had to! See you next chapter. Which probably won't be in a long time, indefinite hiatus, I hate it but it's all for a better story- hopefully!
