Anguirus111 Note: I refer to the protagonist as either Mewn or The Legend, either way I'm talking about the same character.  I don't know why I switch between names, I just do.

My name is The Legend and I am a Mewn. Several thousand years ago I was once a Mew living in peace with my master and his people the pokemopolitans. However the pokemopolitans turned on my species and slaughtered them for their fur. I evolved after my master's death at their hands and obliterated their civilization. I also vowed to avenge all Mew that had been killed. I now roam the Earth looking like a human and I call myself The Legend. I stop genetic experiments that take place on pokemon and continue to eradicate the descendants of the pokemopolitans who escaped my wrath the first time around. This is my story.

Team Rocket Base, Route 38, some time after Pokeshank was closed: The members of Team Rocket were minding their own business as they did paperwork and various other things for the Team Rocket organization.  It was a bright and clear day outside and the meadow outside looked positively beautiful, in fact several members were considering going outside for their lunch break.  All the happy thoughts ended when a massive explosion blasted the main door inward and smoke began pouring into the lobby as various members of Team Rocket ran for their lives before mysteriously falling over dead.  Several guards took up positions with their rifles aimed at the smoke as alarms began blaring.  An invisible force brushed the smoke aside and The Legend strode into the lobby.  The Legend looked at what it had wrought before facing the guards with their guns.  He merely laughed.

"Go ahead, try it.  I guarantee you those bullets won't be leaving their chambers and if they do, then they'll zip back towards you and kill you.  Look, you either fire or you don't, I could care less.  Either way you die," said Mewn looking at them through cold blue eyes.

"We have our orders, obliterate that thing!" shouted the main guard.  Mewn sighed and shook its head as bullets left their chambers.  Mewn didn't even raise its' hand, the bullets just stopped in midair.  Mewn waited a moment as the guards gulped deeply and then the bullets spun around and hit their owners, killing them. 

"Stupid fools," Mewn said.  Mewn then proceeded into the complex searching for something.

Giovanni's Private Estate: Giovanni was watching the videofeed from the base as Mewn walked down various hallways and killed whatever got in its' way.  He scowled as Mewn walked into the archives, took a file, and walked back outside.  Before he did though, Mewn looked up at the camera, smirked, raised his hand, and abruptly the image burst into static.

"What is that, some failed experiment?" asked Domino.  Giovanni shook his head and scowled.

"I wish, but he isn't.  The Legend is a pokemon alright, best guess is that it evolved from a Mew," said Giovanni.  Domino looked at him wide-eyed.

"That's…impossible," she said softly.  Giovanni turned to look at her.

"Nothing is impossible.  Things can be improbable, but not impossible.  How long ago was the image taken?" Giovanni asked.  Domino consulted her notes.

"Three hours," she said.  Giovanni nodded.

"What did he take?" he asked.

"Details are sketchy, but we think he took files about Celebi, a tracker we built to locate one, and the beginning history of Team Rocket," said Domino.

"Damn," said Giovanni quickly running to get his coat.

"What?" Domino.  Giovanni grabbed a small device from its' shelf in his closet.

"Prepare my copter immediately," he said.  Domino made the order then ran after Giovanni who was running down the hallway toward the helipad where his helicopter was powering up.

"What is it?  What's so important about Celebi?" Domino asked.  Giovanni immediately stopped.

"If The Legend can find the Celebi we've been tracking, he could convinced it to send him back into the past.  In the past he could destroy Team Rocket by killing me!  I have to stop him now!" shouted Giovanni.  He immediately began running again.

"Sir, should I contact the team?" she asked.  Giovanni shook his head.

"No, they'd never get here in time.  I'll do this alone.  You're in charge until I return," said Giovanni.  He ran to his helicopter and it took off leaving Domino alone.

"Good luck," she said softly and held up her hand as if to wave goodbye, but she didn't.

Mt. Mortar: Mewn touched down in the forest in front of the giant mountain.  He consulted the tracking device, which worked like a GPS, and moved towards the blinking dot that the tracker showed in front of him.

"It would probably better if I climbed this, it would be better exercise," Mewn thought.  He walked to the mountain and began climbing up it.

Elsewhere: Giovanni's helicopter zoomed above Johto on its way to Mt. Mortar.

"I have got to stop The Legend before he stops Team Rocket from entering into existence," he thought.

"Fifteen minutes until Mt. Mortar," said the pilot.  Giovanni was getting extremely nervous and he wished he had brought his Persian with him, but he hadn't the time so he'd left it back at home.

Mt. Mortar, a few minutes later: Mewn hoisted himself up onto a ledge and saw a cave in front of him.  Mewn coughed heavily as he lay on the ledge extremely tired.

"I guess I'm not as young as I used to be," he thought with a smile.  He then just shook his head as he admitted to himself he'd never climbed before and accepted that he was at his peak physical condition.  Mewn then saw a helicopter approaching in the distance.  He psychically felt it was Giovanni and scowled.  Mewn held its' hands out, made a psychic energy ball, and fired it at the helicopter before proceeding inside.

Giovanni's Helicopter: Giovanni watched a psychic energy ball came flying right at his copter.

"Engaging evasive maneuvers," said the pilot.  The helicopter immediately jerked to the side and the energy ball zoomed past.

"That was too easy," said Giovanni.  He flicked a switch and it showed the view out the back of the copter.  He watched in horror as the psychic energy ball arced around and chased after the copter.

"It's a heat seeker!" shouted Giovanni.

"What do I do?" asked the pilot.

"Get me to that mountain and then try and loose it.  It'll run out of power eventually," Giovanni said.  The pilot nodded and zoomed towards the mountain as the energy ball chased after it.

Cave: Mewn consulted the tracker again and began looking around.

"Celebi?  Celebi?  Where are you?" asked Mewn.  He began looking for the small pokemon.

Outside: Giovanni's helicopter stopped abruptly in front of the cave and Giovanni leapt out.

"Go!  Go!" shouted Giovanni.  The helicopter zoomed off when the energy ball caught up with it and blew it up.  Giovanni was flung to the ground as pieces of debris flew everywhere.  He watched as the bulk of the burning helicopter crashed to the ground.

"The Legend will pay for this," thought Giovanni.  He proceeded inside.

Nearby: Ash, Misty, and Brock were walking along when they heard the explosion.

"What was that?" asked Brock.  Misty shrugged.

"Probably Team Rocket screwing up again," she said.

"Let's just keep going, I want to get my next badge at the Mahogany Town Gym!" shouted Ash.

"Pi-pikachu!" shouted Pikachu.  The group walked along oblivious to Team Rocket approaching from behind in their balloon.

"That was some explosion," said Jessie.

"Yeah.  Now let's get dos twerps!" said Meowth.

"And their pesky Pikachu," said James.  They were about to when they saw a piece of flaming wreckage zooming right at them.

"Oh no!  We never blast off this early!" shouted Jessie.

"Maybe it's because we're only in a cameo appearance!" shouted Meowth. 

"Wobbufett!" shouted the blue blob that had once again escaped its' pokeball.  Then the wreckage hit the balloon and it exploding sending the team flying.

"Look like Team Rocket blasts off again!  Wobbu!"  said Team Rocket flying off.  And once again a sparkle appeared momentarily in the sky.

Cave: Mewn had finally located the sleeping Celebi.

"Wake up little one, I have a request for you," said Mewn.  A device clattered down into the cave and activated, blocking Mewn's powers.

"I don't think so!  I won't allow you to stop Team Rocket in the past," said Giovanni walking in.  Mewn laughed.

"You can't stop me foolish human mortal," he said.

"Watch me," said Giovanni.  Mewn cocked his head and then both went out in a brawl of fists.  They began punching and beating each other over the sleeping Celebi.  Eventually Mewn connected with a massive punch that sent blood flying from Giovanni's mouth and onto the Celebi.  It was startled awake and watched in horror at the ensuing battle.

"I'll kill you once and for all," said Giovanni.

"Unlikely, I've killed thousands of humans, you're no different," said Mewn.  Then they both curled up their right hands and zoomed their fists forward straight at the others face.  The Celebi was so startled that it instantly froze time and zoomed off out of the cave.

Time passed…

The cave: the psychic represser started blinking rapidly and then exploded as it ran out of power.  Instantly a brief bright light filled the cave as Mewn's psychic powers came back with full force.  Then Mewn and Giovanni came back to life as their fists moved towards each other.  But they both felt extremely weak and fell over.

"What the hell did you do asshole?" asked Giovanni laying on the ground unable to move.

"I didn't 'do' anything.  This must be your fault," said Mewn.  They both lay on the ground for a little bit longer as sensation came back to them.  They both got up and faced each other.

"Shall we continue where we left off?" asked Mewn.  Giovanni shook his head.

"No.  First of all something odd just happened and I want to find out what and second, Celebi left, there's no need to fight over it," said Giovanni. 

"Fine, but we will settle this fight one day," said Mewn.  Mewn looked around the cave and saw found the tracker.  He tried to turn it on, but it fizzled and sparked and then died.  He shook it a few time and noticed that it looked extremely decayed.

"I wonder how that happened?" Mewn wondered.  He walked to Giovanni and noticed the cave in at the exit.

"I don't remember this being here," remarked Giovanni.  Mewn shrugged and fired his hyperbeam.  It came out weakly and didn't destroy the cave in, just pushed it to the side.  They emerged into the nighttime sky.

 "This day just keeps getting weirder.  We entered at daytime," said Mewn.  He shrugged and walked onto the ledge and the forest below.  Mewn sniffed the air.

"You smell that?" he asked.

"What?" Giovanni demanded.  Mewn sniffed the air again.

"I could've sworn I smelled the faintest hint of napalm," said Mewn.  He shrugged and prepared to leap up into the air and fly off.  He barely got off the ground, managed to hover, and crashed down again.  He got up to the amused look of Giovanni.

"Must be your psychic device, my powers seem to be a little on the weak side.  No matter, I'll just walk for now.  Man I feel like shit," said Mewn holding his sides.  He hadn't felt this way since he'd been frozen in a block of ice while trying to hunt an Inuit fisherman who was related to the pokemopolitans.  He'd aced him of course, but on the way back he got trapped and frozen in ice.  He'd been in the ice for about ten months before the ice thawed and he escaped.  Mewn then slid down the mountain with Giovanni.  They'd reached the bottom right at dawn and Giovanni began searching the area.

"What're you looking for?" asked Mewn.

"It's none of your damn business," said Giovanni continued to search the grounds.  Mewn shrugged and concentrated.  He managed to pick the information he needed for Giovanni's mind.

"Looking for what's left of your copter huh?  Well good luck," said Mewn.  He walked off into the forest.  Giovanni scowled and continued searching but could find absolutely nothing.

"Where the hell did it go?" he demanded.  He kept looking when he heard a faint pinging.  He searched around and located the area where the pinging was coming from.  Giovanni then began digging and located the emergency radio.

"Good thing I designed this to last forever.  Hello, this is Giovanni!  Come in Team Rocket!" shouted Giovanni.  All he got was static.  He tried for a few more minutes and then gave up.

"Damnit where could they be?" he said.  He looked around for more pieces of the copter but found utterly nothing.  He gave up and then proceeded towards the nearest roadway.  There he found a human looking at the road and its' various cracks.

"They really need to take care of their roads," Giovanni thought. "Excuse me, do you happen to the nearest way to Ecruteak city?"

"It's only me Giovanni," said The Legend.  Giovanni scowled.

"What're you still doing here?" he asked.  The Legend shook his head.

"Something's not right here.  This road should've been just paved and it looks like it is years old," said The Legend sighing.

"So?  Things happen, now tell me where Ecruteak City is," said Giovanni.  The Legend held out a small sliver of metal.

"Your copter is made of titanium right?" asked The Legend.  Giovanni nodded.

"Yeah, so?" Giovanni asked.  The Legend stood up.

"Then explain to me how this is possible," said The Legend.  He held the piece of metal out with his bare hand and snapped it in two.

"And no, I'm not that strong," said The Legend.  He flung the metal to the ground and walked off down the road.  Giovanni picked up the pieces and put them together and saw the inscription, it read: The Persian.  Giovanni looked at it wide-eyed before tearing after The Legend.

"That, that was my helicopter," he said breathing hard.  "How is this possible?  Titanium doesn't do this."

"This isn't my problem.  I'm getting back to Ecruteak City and going home to rest and recuperate," said The Legend.  The two walked down the road in silence.  After a few miles The Legend stopped.

"Why haven't we seen a car yet?  I'm maintaining this form in case someone drove by, but so far nothing.  Maybe the highway's taking up more business than I realized," said The Legend.  They continued walking for a few more moments in silence before The Legend stopped again.

"Wait, maybe Celebi did its' job.  Maybe we're in the past like I wanted to.  That would probably explain what's going on," said The Legend.  Giovanni held up the two pieces of metal.

"Not quite, we found the wreckage of my helicopter, that proves we're not in the past," said Giovanni.  The Legend shrugged.

"Doesn't matter, over this rise is Ecruteak City and then…freedom," said The Legend.  He was so shocked by what he saw to the point that his image dissolved back into Mewn.  Giovanni also cleared the rise and looked down shocked.  Ecruteak City was a literal ghost town.  Several building had fallen over and there was a fair amount of dust coating the remaining buildings and roads.  Then near the outskirts and a couple in the center of town were blast craters.

"What the hell happened here?" demanded Giovanni.  Mewn shook his head.

"I don't know, but I intend to find out," he said.  Mewn skidded down an incline and landed on the ground and walked towards the desolate town.  He and Giovanni walked towards a sign very close to the ground that appeared to be fairly new.  The sign had nothing but indecipherable symbols on it.  Mewn looked at if for a few moments and shrugged, not being able to read a word of it.  He then walked into the city.  Like the view from above, it was absolutely abandoned.  Well, not quite abandoned, they found pieces of human skeletons everywhere in all the shops and some on the streets.

"Whatever did this had to have happened awhile ago," said Mewn.  He picked up a human skull and looked it over again before chucking it to the side.

"This is wrong it's all wrong.  This has got to be a trick of some sort.  This is merely a dream or an induced hallucination that you're forcing upon me," said Giovanni he held his head like he was trying to get the images out of his head.  Mewn laughed.

"As much as I hate to admit this, we're in this nightmare together.  This is reality, no matter how screwed up it is," said Mewn.  Then they heard a garbage can fall over.  They both looked at each other and stealthily moved towards the sound.  They looked at an alley that was full of blowing papers and watched as a human leapt out and scurried like an animal away from more humans who were chasing it.  The humans were all sparsely clothed, but they were human.

"Finally, some actually people," said Giovanni.  They watched as the humans began pummeling the other human with their fists and feet.

"What is going on here?  No human acts this way!" shouted Giovanni.  Mewn continued looking at the situation unfold and noticed strange devices on several of the humans' necks.  Then when the single human that appeared was extremely bruised and scrapped up, another device flew out of nowhere and attached to the humans' neck.  The human fought it but then a pinging was heard from the device and the human stopped moving.  Then a Pikachu appeared from the shadows.

"All right I caught another one!" shouted the pikachu in English.

"I won't stand for this!  No pokemon should be allowed to rule a human!" shouted Giovanni.  He walked towards the Pikachu.

"You!  Pikachu!  I order you to release these humans immediately!" shouted Giovanni.  The pikachu looked at Giovanni in shock before becoming angry.

"No human speaks to me that way!  I'll just have to show you some manners!  Go my slaves, attack the rogue!" shouted the Pikachu.  The humans and the one that had just been captured began running towards Giovanni who just stood there.  Mewn scowled and prepared to help him out when Giovanni instantly executed several deft maneuvers and threw the humans everywhere before incapacitating them.  Giovanni was only slightly breathing hard as a small trickle of blood moved down his forehead from his ruffled hair.

"I will not allow a pokemon to rule over humans!" shouted Giovanni.  He looked like he was about to choke the life out the Pikachu when suddenly lights came on out of nowhere and shouts were heard.  Mewn immediately ran out into the area where Giovanni and the Pikachu was.

"Mom's gonna kill me now!" shouted the Pikachu.

"We've got to get out of here!" shouted Mewn over the loud noises and voices.

"Not until I stop that…thing," said Giovanni as he passed out.  Mewn was about to pick him up and fly him out of there when a dart hit his leg.

"Oh shit," he said falling to the ground.  The last thing he saw were feet moving towards him and then he passed out.

Time passed…

Mewn came to when a bucket of cold water was splashed on his face.  He awoke in a prison cell along with Giovanni who was in the cell across from him.  The bucket of water turned out to have just been a Blastoise's hydropump.

"The prisoner is awake," said the Blastoise with a very deep voice.  Instantly his cell door opened and a Golem walked in.

"Greetings, I am the warden of this facility.  We're sorry for the rude awakening, but rules are rules," said the warden shrugging.  Mewn shook his head back and forth a couple of times.

"What do you want?" Mewn asked.  The Golem shrugged.

"I only want to know who you are, who that is across from us, and what you were doing in the forbidden area," said the Golem.  Mewn looked at him confused.

"Forbidden area?  What?  Do you mean Ecruteak City?" asked Mewn.  The Golem's eyes went wide-open.

"He knows the true name of the evil city of the devil!  Run!" shouted the Golem.  He ran out of the cell and locked it as the Blastoise ran out as well.  Mewn watched them go with confusion.

"That went well," said Giovanni weakly.  Mewn just shrugged.

"This whole day has been going poorly.  How long've you been awake?" asked Mewn walking to his cot and laying down in it.

"A couple hours.  I at first told them nothing, which was probably a mistake because they tortured me for it, and then I said the same thing you did about Ecruteak City and they threw back in my cell and woke you up," said Giovanni.

"We're in deep, deep shit.  I can't explain it, but somehow in the few minutes we were in that cave, there must've been a massive rebellion and those who were once the slaves are now the masters," said Mewn.

"Yeah but could a revolution really occur that quickly?  I'd only been gone for a few hours before I caught up with you and then it took what, another three hours before we got to the city?  That isn't possible.  Besides, those bones we found were very old, your logic is flawed somewhere," said Giovanni.  Mewn sighed deeply.

"Unfortunately what you said is true, which means my second theory must be right," said Mewn.

"What theory?" Giovanni.

"Until I can prove it I'm not saying anything," said Mewn.  Then they both fell asleep.  When Mewn awoke he was in a darkened room with only a single lightbulb.  Next to him was Giovanni who was out cold.

"State your name," said a voice.  Mewn looked around and saw no one.

"That's none of your damn business," he said.  He then felt an electrical shock.

"You'll have to try harder than that," said Mewn.  He received a larger more prolonged shock.

"Ah, shit!  Well that hurt a little bit.  So you want to know huh?  Fine, but first answer my question.  What year is this?" Mewn demanded.  He got another shock.

"You have no right to ask questions of us, but if it'll make you divulge information fine.  This is years 750 A.J.," said the voice.  Mewn looked confused.

"What's A.J.?" he asked.  He even got a larger shock.

"You don't know the name of the brave Pokemon, the Pikachu named Jett, who freed us from the tyrannical reign of the humans?  Who opened our eyes to a world of possibilities?  Who died during the final battle against the humans?  Where've you been for the past several hundred years?" asked the voice.  Mewn shook his head.

"I don't know, I honestly don't know," he responded.

"Who are you?" asked the voice.  Mewn sighed.

"I have gone by many names, from The Last of the Mew to the Destroyer of the Pokemopolitans.  I myself have but one name given to me by my master several hundred years ago, I am The Legend," said Mewn.  There was silence on the other end and then laughter.

"Don't be crazy.  The Legend is nothing more than the myth that inspired Jett to rise up against the humans because he rose up against those that slaughtered his species, Jett did the same, but his species was not just Pikachu, it was all Pokemon and they rose up and conquered the humans and it's been that way ever since," said the voice.

"Nevertheless, if you don't let me go I will leave myself and if that happens you will regret it," said The Legend.

"Sorry, we can't do that.  Not until we find out about how you knew the name of that town you visited.  Those words have been taboo for years and yet you spoke it without any second thought like you said it in everyday conversation.  We will get what we want to know, by any means necessary," said the voice.  Mewn shook his head in shame.

"Then I'm sorry that I have to do this," he said.  Instantly the electrical wires attached to his wrists flew off and the wires that held him to the chair came flying off.

"Guards, subdue the pokemon," said the voice.  Instantly several guards rushed in with guns drawn.  Mewn was suddenly struck with déjà vu.

"Oh what the hell?" he thought.  "Go ahead, try it.  I guarantee you those bullets won't be leaving their chambers and if they do, then they'll zip back towards you and stun you.  Look, you either fire or you don't, I could care less.  Either way I will leave."  The guards shrugged and fired anyway.  The darts stopped in midair then flew back and knocked their shooters unconscious. 

"Hope my psychic powers have returned," Mewn thought.  Mewn then hoisted Giovanni over his shoulder and blasted off through the ceiling and out into the daytime sky and off into the distance.  A door opened and a Pikachu ran in with a military beret on and watched the streak of light left behind by Mewn disappear.  He growled and threw the beret down.

"Damnit that was The Legend!" shouted the Pikachu.

"It was?  Wow, a legendary pokemon in our midst," said one of the guards who had come to.  The Pikachu scowled.

"This isn't something to cherish, it's something to fear.  According to the council of elders, the worst human of them all the leader of Team Rocket: Giovanni, disappeared searching for The Legend.  They both vanished and if The Legend is back…" said the Pikachu.

"Then the human must've been Giovanni!  Oh no, what have we done!" shouted the guard.

"It gets worse than that.  According to legend, The Legend didn't believe that pokemon should rule themselves and humans needed to teach them things like civility.  If he's back, then he might try and swing the balance of power back to the humans.  Come, we've got to alert the Council of Elders!" shouted the Pikachu running off.

Next day, ruins of Pokeshank: Mewn touched down inside of the courtyard and slapped Giovanni across the face with an invisible hand.  Giovanni snapped awake.

"Where are we?" he asked.  Mewn laughed.

"You don't know?  We're at Pokeshank," said Mewn.  Giovanni held his head in his hands.

"What happened while I was out?" he asked.

"A lot actually.  First, I learned that my original theory was correct," said Mewn.

"What theory was that?" asked Giovanni trying to rub the creases out of his suit.  Mewn looked up at the moon, but it as merely a third of its' original size and he now noticed a small asteroid field surrounding the Earth.

"That we are no longer in Johto," said Mewn.

"We have to be, that was Ecruteak City back there!  That shell, but that was it," said Giovanni.  Mewn nodded.

"It was Ecruteak City, but it is no longer.  Giovanni, somehow during our fighting that Celebi transported you and me into the future.  I don't know how far yet, but I intend to find out," said Mewn getting ready to leave.

"And what, leave me to fend for myself?" asked Giovanni.  Mewn shrugged.

"You'll manage.  Besides, I'll return," said Mewn.  Giovanni crossed his arms.

"Why?  You have nothing to loose if I die," said Giovanni.  Mewn sighed.

"I wish, but I strongly suspect that what happened here has something to do with your disappearance.  If you die before we get back to our own timeframe, then this 'abomination' could still exist.  Besides, you're the only person that can confirm my story and is from my timeframe.  Arghhh!  This is wrong, all wrong.  Pokemon ruling over humans!  It's absurd!" shouted Mewn.  Giovanni laughed.

"I'm in shock.  You of all creatures I would expect to favor these situations the most!" he said.  Mewn shook his head.

"Pokemon are even worse than humans, believe me I know.  Humans aren't great, especially the Pokemopolitans, but the rest of humanity has shown kindness towards most if not all Pokemon.  But here I've seen nothing but cruelty towards the humans.  The pokemon have such a distorted view of the way humans treated them, that they can't seem to see the truth.  I've got to go know.  Here's the tracker for the Celebi, see if you can't get it working with what equipment you can scrounge up around here," said Mewn.

"What if I'm attacked by humans or Pokemon?" asked Giovanni.  Mewn produced a handgun.

"Use this, but conserve your ammo, I've only got the one clip for it.  If you need an alternate form of defense, there should be some stun rods in the warden's office.  I can't promise they'll work, but it's still something.   I'll return as soon as I can," said Mewn.  And with that he blasted off into the sky and zoomed off to the east.  Giovanni sighed when he realized that his only hope for survival was in the hands of his mortal enemy.

"I'd better make sure when I get home that no one learns of this," Giovanni thought.  Then he toured the facility trying to get whatever wiring he could to reactivate the extremely old tracker.  Outside the facility, several humans noticed Mewn vacate the area and moved towards the facility to find if it had left anything behind.

Goldenrod City, a few minutes later: Mewn felt like he was about to curl over and vomit in midair.  He was standing over what had been the busiest city in all of Johto, Goldenrod City.  He'd enjoyed the town and its' luxuries, but all that remained of this bustling city of millions and hosting hundreds of buildings was a massive crater.  Mewn could sense that a nuclear bomb had done this damage.  He shook his head in shame and muttered a prayer to those who had died.  Then he zoomed off towards Cinnabar Island.

Council of Elders, currently located at what used to be the Indigo Plateau: The twelve elders sat at a semi-circular table and watched as Pike, the Pikachu that had captured The Legend and Giovanni prepared to give his report.

"Council, I have some very bad news, The Legend and Giovanni have returned," said Pike.  The council looked at him like he was crazy.

"Impossible, they've been missing for a centuries, there's no way they could have returned," said one of the elders.  Pike activated a slide projector that first showed Giovanni and then The Legend.

"Impossible!  This must be a hoax!" shouted another council member.  There were several murmurs of anger and disbelief.

"Gentlemen face facts!  The Legend has returned along with Giovanni.  Somehow they've returned.  Look at the picture of The Legend.  Don't you see the rage in his eyes?  We all should know that rage because we've all studied it for years.  His rage gives him strength the likes of which have never been seen before.  His anger is legendary, as is his contempt for the Pokemopolitans.  We all know that if he'd been around in the days of Jett and the rebellion, he'd have stopped it from happening because he believes that Pokemon cannot rule.  He must be stopped now.  Pike, take whatever units you can and hunt him and Giovanni down.  We'll try and come up with a plan here," said the leader of the council.  Pike nodded and left.

"We are in such deep shit right now it's not funny," said the leader.  The other council members nodded.

"That's why we must stop him, by any means necessary," said another member.  The others nodded.

"That's why we have to do what we were created to do, anticipate The Legend's next move and intercept him," said the leader.  The other murmured their agreement softly.

"That mean dredging up the files of the B.J., before Jett, it won't be a fun trip down memory lane," said a member.  The leader nodded.

"Yes, but we have no choice.  Let's go," said the leader.  The other members filed out towards the vault.

Cinnabar Island: Mewn had been rummaging through what had been the main library of Cinnabar Island.  He'd come here because he knew this island would be pretty much devoid of life and indeed it was.  The town on the island hadn't been heavily damaged, but there were plenty of corpses of humans and pokemon.  Mewn had held a moment of silence before venturing into the library.  After searching for a few hours, he'd finally located the information he needed.  But when he read it, he was left in a state of shock.

"I've got to get back to Pokeshank," he said as he left the library and took to the air.

Pokeshank: Giovanni was still searching for wires and batteries when a group of humans burst into the hallway he was in and cut off his only way of escape.

"I mean you know harm," said Giovanni.  The humans looked at him curiously and then ran straight towards him with arms clenched and clubs at the ready.  Giovanni had no choice but to pull his pistol and open fire on the group as he desperately waited for The Legend to return.

"If he doesn't get here soon, then any hope of saving Earth will have ended and the planet will belong to the Pokemon," he thought grimly as he kept firing.