Sabrina vs Mewtwo

Sabrina vs Mewtwo

23 June 2001

What an amazing day. I finally have some time to recount my deeds of yesterday. It's been an exciting, but exhausting and stressful.

Jessie and I took some sleep before we set out down the tunnel of the Venusaur again. It was a light sleep, plagued by unquiet dreams. Visions of mewtwo came to me, a strange large-headed Pokémon, rather humanoid but also like some alien chimerical predatory beast. I awoke breathing rapidly and jostled Jessie.

"You ready?" I asked.

"No. But what of it?" she said from her rocky couch sounding bemused but sleepy. She sat up, shook her ample head of red hair and sighed, "I dreamed about James. Such kind eyes. I must see him again."

"I understand. Promise me something Jessie."

"Huh?" she looked blankly at me.

"You [i]must[/i]tell James how you feel. This is one of the keys to happiness for you," I urged.

"Heh, as if I hadn't thought of that. You think it's so easy for me."

No," I said trying to choose the right words, "No matter how hard it is to say or how poorly you express it, you [i]must[/i]Jessie. Don't expect he'll reject you, he won't."

She looked doubtfully at me, but nodded, "OK. I guess I've waited long enough. But you've got to do something for me too."

"What's that?"

"You do the same when you get a moment alone with Koga. When you laid your hands on me my mind was one with yours too. You ache to belong to something or someone Sabrina Natsume. The way you cried over Koga when he got hurt tipped me off, and the meeting of our minds confirmed it. You really care about this man after being inside his head for the last few days. Give yourself a break kid."

"Sure Jessie, it's only fair," I half-whispered. I shook my head and continued on a new course, "Let's get going. I'll have Mr. Mime put up a barrier and augment it with my own mind to forestall another lightning attack by Mewtwo. Here, take this," I said tossing a Pokéball to her.

"What's this?" she asked, eyeing the ball suspiciously.

"If I'm augmenting Mr. Mime's barrier and sending out psychic feelers I can't command a Pokémon if we see that Venusaur again. You use my Ninetails. Its moves are safeguard, confuse ray, flamethrower and hyper beam."

She looked at me in amazement, "You'd trust [/i]me[/i]? Surely you know how much I've wanted a Ninetails...and such a powerful one..."

I winked at her "I can trust you."

"How could you know?"

"I [i]know[/i]you now," I replied.

For over a mile we shared barely a word as we headed through the darkness lighted by flash – from, of all things, Wobbuffet. "How?" I asked.

She winked at [i]me[/i]this time, "If you're scary enough even a Wobbuffet will learn the occasional HM."

Well into the second hushed mile I sensed a tickling in my brain, then I realized what it was, "Jessie!" I whispered urgently, "Koga has contacted me! I think if can pay close enough attention we might be able to teleport to his location!"

At this point the Venusaur charged out of the darkness as if cued by my voice.

"I'm on it!" cried Jessie as she released Ninetails. "Safeguard!"

Ninetails' safeguard went up just in time as the passage filled with sleep powder. "Use flamethrower to clear that powder and char the weed!" Jessie ordered Ninetails.

Venusaur dodged the flame and let fly with a flurry of knife-like leaves, our barrier protected Mr. Mime and I, but Ninetails and Jessie got hurt. Jessie received a cut or two to her face as she hit the tunnel floor and shouted, "Flamethrower again!"

The wall of flame hit the Venusaur full force and it bellowed in pain, then fainted. "Let's get out of here!" Jessie insisted.

"Not yet, I'm going to give it some burn heal. Poor thing," as I knelt next to the inert Venusaur.

"I should've known," Jessie said with a trace of disgust.

"I'm not like I was a few years ago. I had no mercy in me then, just a twisted sense of justice," I said apologetically.

Heck, you think I don't remember the day I spent paralyzed and humiliated by you?"

"Why do you forgive me?" I queried as I realized this was indeed true.

"If it had been in my power I would've done the same to you," she shrugged.

"You know, when I saw you at the rental desk I envied your unabashed aggressiveness, but now I see it's just your way of protecting yourself."

"Just like your silence and emotional control. We've already learned a lot from each other," Jessie parried.

"I guess the quiet control freak complements the brash bombshell," I smiled.

"Guess so," Jessie laughed. "What was that about Koga contacting you? Do your antennae still have that frequency tuned-in?"

I focussed my attention and sensed Koga's mind touching mine again, "Yes, it's still there. I don't believe he's even aware that his thoughts about me are reaching out to my mind."

"Let's get going, maybe he'll lead us straight to them!"

We left the fallen grass Pokémon with Wobbuffet taking the lead casting eerie shadows on the sculpted walls of the cavern. Around the next bend we encountered a great metal door blocking our path. I sighed, "This is where we find out if my 'fix' on Koga's position allows us to teleport to him."

I called out my Alakazam, "Merlin triangulate on the position I am focussed upon," I commanded. I could sense his telepathic probe locking on to the point in space my very soul encompassed. "Teleport," I intoned.

To my relief we materialised in a brightly lit beige hallway outside a barred cell. In the cell were the pacing James and Meowth, and Koga seated in the far corner concentrating darkly.

"James I'm here!" cried Jessie over my shoulder.

I almost burst into tear at the sight of Koga. All he said was, "Well my dear, my prayers have been answered."

"You look well..." was all I could muster.

A powerful presence entered my mind, "So Sabrina Natsume, you have come as I have long expected. I have been awaiting you for some time. Do you think the greatest human psychic can match the greatest psychic Pokémon?"

I turned ever so slowly, he filled the hallway behind me. His massive head with its narrow cat-like eyes looked too large for his slender neck and shoulders, his heavy tail balanced him. He had a reduced number of digits on his fore and hind limbs and he assumed a bipedal stance although he stood on his toes like a cat. "Are you surprised by my appearance human?"

"No, I have seen you in visions as often as you have seen me. Are you surprised at my appearance Mewtwo?"

"A frail body means nothing if the mind has inborn strength and it has been honed by a lifetime of practise," Mewtwo answered.

"Quite so. I suppose I should dispense with Pokémon?"

"Of course, this fight should be truly one-on-one."

I knew I had to strike quickly to have any chance of success. I put out the lights and pushed Mewtwo back with a burst of telekinesis. Mewtwo hit the far wall beyond the doorway with great force, but I could see his eyes glow with pale blue fire.

It felt as though my ribs would collapse as I floated helpless off the floor. I forced myself to concentrate and escaped Mewtwo's telekinetic grip by teleporting into the chamber with him. I filled the chamber with blinding light to distract him, then sent a piercing bolt of pure anger into his skull. I could hear him groan inside my head, it pained my own scalp.

I had not weakened him nearly enough. His next telekinetic attack gripped me tightly knocking the wind out of me. It left me gasping as he exerted an inexorably tighter mental grip on my mind and body. I felt my mind going inky black when it struck me, "You can only defeat him with love. Cease resisting and enter his mind."

My mind floated free into his, he was concentrating so hard on crushing me he took no notice of the invasion. I became one with him and felt the anomie, anger, frustration, and doubt inside this mightiest of beings. I touched something forgotten in his soul. I could hear my voice, as if from a great distance, saying something strange and sad in a small child's voice, "Thank you for your tears. But Mewtwo, don't cry. You're going to live. And I'm sure that living is wonderful."

Then I heard Mewtwo's voice inside my brain answer as my pain subsided, "Ai, they won't stop...The tears...What should I do? Ai, answer me..."

I opened my eyes to see Mewtwo standing over me with head bowed, and it was most extraordinary. It was the first time I had ever seen a Pokémon crying. "I'm sorry Mewtwo. Your first memory...buried deep...was of mourning for a dying cloned human girl."

"No. Do not apologize. I have spent years believing there could be no true bond between humans and Pokémon. The Ketchem boy gave me a glimpse, but I couldn't accept it. Now I must. Ai touched me in my heart. Thank you for giving her back to me."

"Your welcome," I whispered as I began to realize how much he had hurt me.

"Thank you for your insight as well Natsume. The power of love is the greatest and I have only the barest inkling of it," Mewtwo acknowledged.

"I am only just learning that lesson myself. The mind cannot find its fullest expression without love. I only wish I truly had that gift," I said in a weak voice.

"Go speak with Kunoichi and Musashi," was all he said.

I felt my body borne along telekinetically back to the cell in the adjoining chamber. I gently drifted to the floor at the feet of Koga. Jessie rushed over from James and hovered over me.

"Well, Sabrina didn't I tell you that you were a valuable member of this expedition? I stand vindicated. You are the most valuable part of our team," he said admiringly.

"Not really, you taught me what I needed to know to turn Mewtwo aside. And [i]you[/i]said you had nothing to teach me," I said closing my eyes and slipping off into a deep, dreamless sleep.