A/N: Short-short, putting it up because I haven't been posting for a few days. I'm afraid this is going to have Pokémon references! Anyone seen the first movie?
Disclaimer: I don't own Sonic and Co., or Pokémon! Or Bambi, come to think.
Charmy and Marine were big Pokemon fans. They both had enormous trading card collections and played against each other furiously, and they played the games and watched the movies when they could, too.
"Hey Cream!" called Charmy one morning. "Do you wanna come over to Chaotix headquarters for a movie tonight? Vector took me to the library in Station Square, and I got the very first Pokemon movie, full-version!"
"Full version?" asked Cream, puzzled.
"Yeah! When the movie first came out, they cut a huge section off the beginning 'cos it was sad. But this DVD has that one included!"
"Sad?" said Cream. "Is it really really sad?"
"I don't know, I haven't seen it. But it couldn't be worse than Bambi, right?"
Cream considered, then nodded. She had lived through Bambi, more or less, and she did want to understand Charmy and Marine's Poke-chatter better.
"Okay, I'll come! As long as it's not too bad."
"You can leave if it's too much," promised Charmy.
Tails came that evening too; the kids had decided to make it a full-scale sleepover. Espio was there to supervise them, and Vanilla came over to help. Vector suddenly volunteered as well, of course.
Charmy slipped the DVD into the player excitedly, then the kids settled down with popcorn and began to watch.
The movie was indeed sad in places, but there was something else that the kids couldn't help but notice. It was the main character, Mewtwo. He seemed familiar . . .
Charmy had been scarfing popcorn at the movie's beginning, but soon he began to eat slower and slower, and at last stopped entirely, a handful of popcorn halfway to his mouth. The others looked similarly dismayed.
When the movie ended, Tails slowly got up, picked up the DVD package, and checked the production year.
"1998," he said flatly. "Mewtwo came . . . first." He rounded about to look at the others.
"We don't tell Shadow any of this, do we?" asked Charmy.
"None of it," agreed Tails.