The Chronicles of Ackers
By TeaFlower
Disclaimer: OCs? Mine. Everything else? Nintendo.
Episode 35: I'm So Confused
As you probably remember, Ackers and Mewtwo have been seen throwing Shadow Balls around as if they were really balls. And they acted like balls, too! They could be caught, they hurt if you didn't catch them, and they were round! But they didn't bounce. They disappeared upon hitting the ground. Ah, well. Anyway, Ackers and Mewtwo were playing catch in front of Mewtwo's house because they were bored, Mewtwo's power had shorted out (no Sonic video games), and Terra was using her computer to work on a story about a small rebel group. It was for school! … how do the kids in the Pokemon world go to school if they're busy traveling the world to become Pokemon Masters? … meh. Another fanfic at another time.
"Hya!" Mewtwo said as he chucked the Shadow Ball at Ackers. Ackers dove to catch it before it hit the water.
"Mewtwo," he said, scratching his right temple with his free paw, "You need to work on your aim! You could hurt someone!" He threw the ball back to Mewtwo.
"I sometimes wonder if you always nag people, Ackers." Mewtwo replied, catching the ball. "But I should know that by now, shouldn't I?" Mewtwo threw the ball back to Ackers.
"I don't always nag…" Ackers responded, scratching his temple again. "… just… sometimes…"
"Yeah. RIGHT."
"No, really!"
"Did I say 'No way!'? I said 'Yeah. RIGHT.'"
"I can read sarcasm, 'Two."
"How can you read spoken words?"
"… you know what I mean." And so it went, back and forth, back and forth, until Mewtwo, with his horrible aim, threw the Shadow Ball at Ackers' temple. Yes, the one he'd been scratching. Ackers fell over when it hit.
"… oh, crimeny." Mewtwo said to himself. He went over to Ackers' side. He was out cold. "… he nags for a reason! Maybe I should listen to him… nah!" Mewtwo then dragged Ackers inside and put him on a bed to recover. And then the power went on! Yay! "Alright! My quest for those Hyper Emeralds continues! TO THE VIDEO GAMES!" With that, Mewtwo ran off to… play Sonic… which actually DOESN'T belong to Nintendo… if it did, there would be some pretty cool characters in SSBB!
… huh? Ackers shot up. He looked around. … where am I? … how'd I get here? … am I safe here? He got up and looked around some more. Okay… calm down… try to connect your memories… um… the yellow thingie… did it knock me here? No. I remember Dr. Sycamore telling me to get out of my home… did I come here? Where is here, anyway? With that, a very confused Ackers went over to a window. Outside was a lot of water. Nothing but it. … water… that's what Dr. Sycamore called it… He went outside.
"I'm scared…" he said aloud. He flew off to find Dr. Sycamore.
"Yes, yes, YES!" Mewtwo said as he hit the last of the blue spheres. "I win! FINALLY!" He watched as the final Hyper Emerald appeared before the blue hedgehog on the screen. He sighed, feeling complete. "Hyper Sonic, here I come!" After making sure his Sonic 3 and Knuckles game was saved, he shut the Genesis off and went to check on Ackers.
Ackers wasn't there.
"…" Mewtwo was stunned, then screamed. "WHERE DID HE GO?" He looked around everywhere for him but found him nowhere. "Okay… calm down… what could've happened to him?" Horrible thoughts strayed into Mewtwo's mind. "… okay… where could he go? … TERRA!" So off he went to Terra's house.
Miss Rachel Sycamore, a normal lady, sat on her front porch, reminiscing of the past. She thought of the super secret Mewtwo project and how there were at least 12 reported failures. She was once a scientist for the project. She worked with all of the 'failures' but never got to see the successful product. Good thing, too, she thought, I heard that every scientist present for its birth perished. It had been 10 years since she was fired. But she still thought of the failures and what could've happened in their lives. 10 out of the 12 never were born. But the last two lived. After being declared 'weak', she was ordered to kill them both. She didn't want to do that. She told them to run. Run as far away from that place and never return.
The first one, which was like a son to her, was very quiet, shy, and liked to solve puzzles. She worried the most about him, mostly because she saw him fall and land somewhere. Something could've killed him…
Rachel shook her head. Don't think like that. He was strong willed, if a little timid… and would fight for his life… She looked up. She thought she had seen something moving. It was just a tree. The wind picked up. She sighed, then started to go inside. The wind got stronger and the trees seemed to move out of the way for something. She watched, wide-eyed, as a Mewtwo with amethyst eyes flew toward her. She screamed, then realized he was… hugging her?
"… um…" she said, before the Mewtwo started babbling randomly.
"Dr. Sycamore! I finally found you! I'm so happy! What exactly happened? How long was I out? I woke up in this weird place and I was scared and confused and so I came to you!" Rachel blinked, then stared at him. Memories flooded back to her as she looked into his fearful eyes.
---FLASHBACK!---
"… well? Is it alive?" Some random scientist asked. Rachel looked at the creature. They had just drained the tank it was in and it was unresponsive. She walked over to it. Off-white, short fur coated most of its body except for the long tail, which had very, very short light purple fur. The face was very feline and it had these weird… horn… things… on its head. It also had another neck-like thing that went from the back of its head to between its shoulder blades. Rachel shook it lightly. It stirred and its eyes opened slowly. They were a bright amethyst. It looked around, confused. Then it said, without opening its mouth, "Where am I?" The voice Rachel heard in her head was a male's, curious. "How'd I get here? … and who am I? Why am I here?" Rachel sighed with relief.
"You're in a laboratory," she had said, "You were born here. … your name is…" She needed to think of a name! "… your name is Mewtwo…" Hey, it was better than nothing! "… and who knows why you're here. You'll find out later, maybe." And that's how it all started.
---NO MORE FLASHBACK!---
Rachel sighed, then slowly calmed Ackers down. "What do you remember?" she asked, "That'll help you find some answers."
"I remember you telling me to run away and then trying to run away. I also sorta remember a big cave. But I didn't wake up in a cave. I woke up on an island." Ackers told Rachel. She just looked at him.
"Um… AUTHOR!"
What now? TeaFlower asked. I'm synchronizing two songs. It makes them sound AWESOME!
"You think you can cut to another scene?"
Just thinking of doing that. Hang on… gotta put the line thing…
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU LOST ACKERS?" Terra screamed at Mewtwo.
"I didn't lose him!" Mewtwo replied, "He must've run off! Did you see him?"
"Now that you mention, I saw something Mewtwo-like zip by here toward Lavender Town…" Terra said, rubbing her chin. "… to Lavender?"
"To Lavender."
Upon reaching Lavender Town, Terra asked the townsfolk if they had seen or heard anything unusual. They said there had been a huge wind had passed through that ended as abruptly as it started and lasted no more than five seconds. But no one saw anything feline. Terra was about to give up when she saw a little house to the east of Lavender's limits. It had a porch with a swing and some chairs. The area around the house was forested. The trees seemed to have bent to make way for something; they were bent in one direction, then there was a space, then they were bent in another direction (think of the part in a girl's hair). Terra slowly went up to the front door and knocked, making sure Mewtwo was hiding.
A middle-aged woman with black hair answered the door. She looked puzzled, then laughed. "Is it Halloween already?" she asked.
Terra gave the lady a disbelieving look. "Um… no. I wouldn't fly from Pallet Town just to visit random people's houses in a ridiculous costume, looking for sugar-laden sweets that hopefully aren't poisoned and hope that I don't get kidnapped." Terra said. "… but the thought HAS crossed my mind…" Terra said evilly, (unseen to most, Mewtwo started hitting his head on a tree at this moment) then turned back to the lady. "It's not even fall yet, ma'am, it's still late spring. I'm looking for someone."
The lady laughed again. "Oh, I'm sorry, dear! I don't get many visitors this time of year… wait… I NEVER get visitors this time of year! I'm only visited by kids your age on Halloween. Do-do you mind describing your friend to me? Do you have a picture?"
Terra looked like she thought for a moment (she really wasn't thinking at all) then looked at the lady. "No picture. Um… he's really, really tall, kinda lanky looking, he's got really pale skin… he's also got really pale hair… I think it's white, actually…"
"Is he an old man?"
"No, he's actually pretty young… I don't know how old he is… he's my… um…" Terra thought up a quick explanation, "He's my soon-to-be stepbrother. I don't really know… my mom never told me… but I think he's a little older than me…"
"Um… nope. No really lanky, pale, white-haired 'tweens coming through here… sorry…" Terra's eye twitched at the 'tweens' part.
"Terra!" Mewtwo said to her and only her (using his mind, he can control who hears what he says), "Calm yourself. If you blow it now, we'll never find Ackers!"
"… grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr…" Terra growled, closing her eyes and gritting her teeth. After a few seconds, she couldn't take it anymore. "I AM NOT TEN FRICKIN' YEARS OLD, LADY! I AM THIRTEEN AND I SAVE YOUR BUTT ON A DAILY BASIS FROM THREATS SUCH AS KILLER PEOPLE WITH GRAVITY-DEFYING HAIR, FREAKY STUFFED FOXES WITH TWO TAILS, SOULLESS EYES, AND AN EVIL RED GEM ON THEIR FOREHEADS, AND EXTREMELY ANGRY CHICKENS!" Terra stood there panting, trying to calm herself. (Mewtwo started hitting his head against a randomly placed cactus)
"… oh… I'm sorry!" The lady chuckled, then ran inside, slammed the door, and locked it with several locks.
"… GODDAMNIT!" Terra yelled.
"… and people say I have rage issues!" Mewtwo said to himself.
"LET ME IN! I NEED TO TALK TO YOU!" Terra was screaming, hitting the door with her fists. "This is very important! MY MOM WILL KILL ME UNLESS I FIND HIM! MORE IMPORTANTLY, MY POKEMON WILL KILL ME UNLESS I FIND HIM!" Terra screeched. She pulled out her staff of KISMET! (haven't seen that thing in a while, have we?) "Last chance, lady! 1… 2… 3!" Terra started hitting the door with the staff. It started to give way.
Dr. Sycamore screamed as the random girl started wailing on the door with a staff… thing… Ackers looked up from the 500,000,000-piece puzzle she had given him (it was almost done and he started 3 minutes ago) and jumped to his feet, ready to protect her.
"No, stay hidden!" Dr. Sycamore was telling him, "I'll be fine! It's just some random thirteen-year-old!" Ackers hid behind a wall.
The door fell in and there stood the teen. Ackers looked at her from behind the wall. She seemed to ring a bell in his head, but he couldn't place where he had seen her. The girl marched up to Dr. Sycamore and looked her in the eyes.
"Lady, I need to know if you've seen him!" she said, "If I don't find him, this whole world as we know it is going to collapse!"
"I already told you," Dr. Sycamore said, "I haven't seen any kids like that around here!"
The girl wasn't satisfied. "Lady, I hope you're telling the truth. Because if you aren't, I'm going to hurt you. Very seriously." Ackers was tempted to jump out and help Dr. Sycamore, but she had told him to stay hidden.
"How would you even know if I'm lying?" Dr. Sycamore said, then in a taunting tone, "Can you read minds?"
"Actually, yes. Yes, I can." the girl said. "If you're lying – and I WILL know if you've lied to me – I will make sure that you regret ever meeting me." The girl closed her eyes. Nothing happened for a bit, then Dr. Sycamore grabbed her head, groaning in pain. Ackers' eyes widened, then he jumped out of his hiding place, shoved the girl into a wall, and looked at Dr. Sycamore to see if she was alright.
The girl's eyes snapped open and her jaw dropped. Dr. Sycamore looked at Ackers, then whispered, "I told you to stay hidden!"
"You were being hurt. I didn't like that." Ackers replied. The girl just stared. And stared. And stared some more.
Terra stared at Ackers. She had barely gotten into the lady's mind so she could find out if she had seen him when he shoved her into the wall. She stood, then looked at Ackers some more. Finally, she whispered, "… Ackers?"
Ackers looked at her funny, like he was trying to place where he had seen her, then said, telepathically, "You leave Dr. Sycamore alone."
Terra gaped. "… Ackers? It's me, your trainer!" Ackers looked at her funny again.
"… what's a trainer?" he asked the lady, who was probably this 'Dr. Sycamore' person.
Terra's confusion and disbelief slowly molded into anger. "What did you do to him?" she yelled.
It was now Dr. Sycamore's turn to give her a funny look. "What are you talking about? I didn't do anything to him except, oh, I don't know… CREATE HIM! How can you even say you're his trainer, you little brat?"
Terra growled. "I can say I'm his trainer because I am! I have a trainer ID, a Pokeball, and him to prove it! Ackers! Aren't I your trainer?" she asked.
Ackers looked between Dr. Sycamore and her. Terra smiled. He looked back and forth, back and forth, before he finally said, "… I'm so confused!" He started crying. Dr. Sycamore started comforting him. Terra took a step toward him but Dr. Sycamore wasn't exactly thrilled with the idea.
"Get away from him!" she yelled. "Children these days, they don't care about anyone but themselves…" she muttered. Terra heard and picked up the staff (she had dropped it).
"Lady, I still have proof I'm his trainer. At least let me show you." She said.
"… fine." Dr. Sycamore said, having Ackers a little more calm. Terra pulled out her trainer ID, Ackers' Pokeball, and took a step towards Ackers.
"This is my trainer ID. As you can see, my ID number is 03902. This is Ackers' Pokeball. As you can also see, there's his name and my ID number. And-" she grabbed Ackers' right arm (he yelped) and pointed to the same string of numbers Chu had pointed to in… um… episode 12. "here are the numbers on him. That means that I'm not lying and I am his trainer."
"Alright. I'll let him go with you. If…" Dr. Sycamore said.
"If…?"
"If he can remember your name and how you captured him." She turned to Ackers. "Do you remember this girl prior to today? How did she catch you?"
Ackers looked at Terra. "… I don't think I've ever seen you before..." Ackers said. Terra gaped.
"… oh my gosh…" she said, fainting.
Ackers turned back to Dr. Sycamore. "Seriously, what is a trainer?"
Will we ever find out what the heck happened to Ackers? Will Mewtwo stop hitting his head on that cactus? And will I ever stop asking questions? Tune in next time to see the dramatic conclusion to today's episode!