The Mew Tales

by Tashojiri

The story of how Mewtwo came to be created and what happened afterwards I wrote this before Mewtwo Strikes Back so it's a different story to the movie . Also attempts to explain many of the mysteries of Pokémon. Discontinued.

24.

'How long till it changes back?' Paul asked.

'Who knows?' Victor shrugged. 'Let's just take advantage of the time we've got.'

Paul nodded. 'OK, first things first. What moves does it have?'

'There's only one way to find out,' said Chris. 'We've got to look into its brain to see what it knows.'

'And there's only one way to do that,' said Paul with a nod. 'Come on Ditto, this won't hurt.'

Paul grabbed Ditto and pushed a small helmet-like object onto its head.

'Be careful with it!' said Victor.

'It's fine,' said Paul. He hooked the wires from the headgear up to a machine which sparked up a bit. A flickering screen came on and started analysing numbers.

'I've never used this thing,' said Victor. 'How does it work?'

'It searches the pokemon's brain to see what four moves it knows,' said Paul. 'Normally it'll only take a few seconds. But since Ditto really only knows Transform, and is just using the moves it copied when it changed into the new pokemon, it's going to take longer.'

Victor nodded. The three men stood and waited, watching the screen flick through what seemed like random numbers. Finally, the first move came up on the screen.

'Pound,' said Victor. 'A fairly normal move. Not all that exciting.'

After a few seconds, another word appeared on the screen.

'Teleport,' said Victor. 'Well, that explains how it managed to disappear all those times.'

The thrid move appeared on the screen.

'Psychic,' said Victor. 'Now we're talking. Looks like this is a psychic type pokemon, and a strong one too.'

'But what's the other move?' Paul asked impatiently. 'It shouldn't be taking this long!'

After a long five minutes, the last move finally appeared on the screen. The three men read it, and gasped.