I'm happy to say many people understood why Midnight was burned, even though I didn't even tell you it was iron. Good job!
Iron is supposed to burn creatures of faerie. Almost all tales agree it burns elves, but they vary on everything else. Some said that it would react to magic, others the undead, etc. In the loosest terms, it is the enemy of any magical creature. It did not, originally, react to soulless creatures in myth because when the legends started, the concept of soul wasn't as ingrained as it is now. The whole soulless thing was a Christian addition.
"I'm afraid I don't understand why you're so upset. The metal must have been hot. It is unlikely it could have gotten that hot, but it is possible," said the Nurse Joy of Azalea Town.
"No, I thought that too, but when I touched it, it was…cold. I think it was made of iron, actually," said Ash.
"How strange," said Joy, sounding confused but not very upset. "Well, Midnight is all better. By the way, what kind of pokemon is she? I've never seen anything like her."
"I don't really know. Prof. Hemlock-"
"You work for Hemlock?!" yelped Nurse Joy, horrified.
"No, but Prof. Hemlock told me he wanted me to help catch her. I did, but she didn't want to go with him. What's the matter?"
"Probably nothing, just rumors. But…"
"Yes?"
"Prof. Hemlock is said to have worked on the Mewtwo Project."
"But even the existence of that is rumor! How can you know who worked on it?"
"I don't…for sure. But I've heard that he's still interested in creating new pokemon, even after what happened. Still, just rumors, for all I know the Mewtwo project may not even exist."
Ash walked out of the pokecenter, feeling more upset then he had when he'd gone in. Prof. Hemlock was part of the Mewtwo Project? The group of highly trained scientists who tried to clone a super-strong mew?
The Mewtwo Project was existed only in rumor, but there were many things that pointed to it. In the harbor near New Island, where the Mewtwo Project was said to have been done, a pokemon trainer riding on the back of their flying pokemon was somehow blown into the ground, even though the day had almost no wind. They were both drenched to the bone, not in the salty sea spray but in fresh rainwater! The Nurse Joy, who was supposedly reported missing three months earlier, reappeared that same day. No one in the vicinity had any idea she was ever missing. Several hundred pokemon trainers were at the harbor at the time, and not a single one knew how they had gotten there.
There was more. An unknown pokemon was used by the Viridian Gym, who disappeared a not long before the incidents. When questioned by a reporter the gym leader said that 'it's none of your business what pokemon I use in my gym or where I get them, and if you don't keep your nose out of things like this you might lose it.'
Ash sighed. It would be great to find out the truth about the Mewtwo Project, like if it existed and if it ever managed to create a super pokemon, but he would never find out. Maybe, if he was lucky, someone great would find it out, like Ash, the greatest pokemon master. After all, who else but the master of the legendary birds of fire, ice, electric and psychic, and the master of mew, would catch the mysterious super-clone? Still…it would be wonderful to meet such a elusive pokemon. But Ash had no foolish ideas. He knew he could never meet it.
First, I would like to say thank you to everyone who has reviewed this story. Thanks to you, this particular story has over 60 reviews, and I have a grand total of just over 300! Thank you!
Also, what do you think the dark-type is? (And no one write evil!)