Chapter 8: And This Is My Mini-Me

Ech: TTE, why do you keep doing this? People won't get to read it if it's in the backlogs of ff.net!

I know, Ech, I can't help it that my teachers think it's hilarious to assign a million things to do in a week!

Roo: Well, that's just terrible. Hey, to cheer you up, guess what! I bought Pokémon!

Really?

Roo: No. Darn.

Wex: Well, since you still don't own Pokémon, and since nobody brought up the–

Antiroo: I bought Austin Powers!

Antiech: No you didn't.

Platypous: Let's just continue with MiniPsycho already!

Just as the boy got back from the future and his time-traveling antics with Doc Brown, the cloudy sky above the forest opened, nearly washing him out of it and back to Azalea Town. Fortunately, he didn't recall Era Psycho back into its Poké Ball yet, and they were able to safely float over the flood water. Era Psycho was getting tired, though, and couldn't keep up his psychokinetic powers. The trainer decided that they should wait for the flood to pass in the Pokémon center just over the grove of pines to their left.

"I have a feeling that this flood is ominous of something..." Psycho thought. Ever since they had gone to the future, Psycho had felt that part of him was missing. He didn't know why he felt this, but he knew that something was wrong.

"Get down!" Era Psycho yelled in Celebi-speak. Suddenly above them a time warp appeared and Giovanni–Old Giovanni–from the future came through with a Mew on his shoulder.

"I thought that I'd find you six here..." the old Rocket boss said. "Ever since I recaptured you, Mewtwo, I've been researching your DNA to create the perfect clone."

"But you were killed in that explosion, weren't you?" the Psychos' trainer asked.

"It would seem as if I was. But now, 'Ash Ketchum...'" Giovanni emphasized with quotation fingers, "you don't have your friend Doc Brown, that crazy scientist, to back you up."

"He has me!" Neo Psycho yelled psychically.

"Me too!" Hot Psycho added.

"And, Giovanni, you're forgetting one thing:" Psycho thought openly with his arms crossed. "WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!" Psycho pointed behind Giovanni to divert his attention while he charged a Shadow Ball. Giovanni spun back around just as Psycho released the dark power at him. Giovanni didn't move, though, and just as the shadow was just at Giovanni's face, it disappeared.

"Do you really think you can mess with me?" the Mew said to Psycho. "I am the ultimate clone, better than the original Mew... or you."

The evil Mew used its powers to nearly destroy Psycho, causing him to fall to the ground. "Just as I thought, nothing but a weakling. You're pathetic."

"Psycho, get back in the Great Ball! Neo Psycho, take us away from this Mew!" the trainer yelled, but the Mew was already making his next move. Since it had the ability to use any move, Mew began to charge up Hyper Beam. Neo Psycho was nearly a mile away from the Mew with his trainer on his back when suddenly Mew released the Hyper Beam at full force, burning Neo's powerful and featherless wings. As Neo began to fall to the ground, Hot Psycho got the trainer to safety on his own back while the trainer took out Neo's Ball. The trainer recalled Neo to the Ball, but not before telling Hot Psycho to get the heck out of there.

"The fool, thinking that he'll escape me!" Mew said. "Well, if he wants powerful legendary Pokémon, I'll give him just that." With that, Mew began to charge up again. Not for another Hyper Beam, most certainly not. He was preparing for the ultimate showdown: 65 million years before!

"All right, guys, we can slow down now. He can't beat us now."

Little did the trainer know that all of the remaining three Psychos were flying straight into Mew and Giovanni's trap. Just as he turned around, the boy got his last glimpse of the present time, and was instantaneously transported into the past...

"Taking a little detour?" a Mew said. "I suppose it's always good to get a look at the past, but you shouldn't be here."

"Mew, this is no time for games. You know that Giovanni is an evil man." Psycho said feebly. "He shouldn't be messed with. He almost killed us! He almost killed me!"

"I don't even know who you are. You seem familiar, though..."

"Mew! It's me, Mewtwo! The one you wanted to destroy!"

"Mew...two?" Mew said softly. "You're not the..."

"...Prophesized Pokémon who will recruit the Great Twelve to save the world? Yes, that's me."

"Why are you here? Is this the time that the world needs saving?"

"Mew, wait, if you only know me as the savior of the planet, then you're..."

"...His mother..." Era Psycho finished.

"Celebi, you, as well as Groudon and Kyogre are, my children. After all, I am the mother of all Pokémon."

"No, what I mean is you're my genetic mother, the one who was cloned to make me." Psycho stated.

"You're... my son?" Mew spoke softly. "This is–"

A bright white beam shot through the air towards the Mew, breaking her concentration. "You just never stop messing with things you aren't supposed to, kid." Giovanni yelled.

"Him..." the Mew who was native to the time said. "He's the one, the great evil that you must defeat."

"Mom, this isn't possible! I haven't gathered the twelve that I need yet."

"Psycho, you'll just have to make do with what we have, now stop that blue Mew!"

Psycho floated through the air towards the Shining Mew that matched his own sparkling blue color. He knew that if he lost, this other Mew could create some sort of paradox, essentially destroying the whole universe. He had to be stopped.

"I see that you accept my challenge," the Mew from the future told Psycho. "Well, you'll never get me to join you like the other ones. It's not that easy to break bonds with the only father I've known my whole life: Giovanni."

"Oh, really," Psycho replied, "Well you might have been around Giovanni all your life, but I am your father!"

"Well, 'Dad,'" the evil Mew said, "Get ready to lose!"

Psycho and Mew battled for hours, each one countering the other's attack, Shadow Ball vs. Light Ball, Psychic vs. Psychic, and Thunderbolt vs. Thunderbolt. Every one that they released, the other just absorbed it and nothing more. These two shared a special bond that Psycho couldn't share with any other Psycho. Neo and Hot had a bond of rivalry, ESP and Era had a bond with two yet unfound Psychos, but until now, Psycho hadn't had any powers amplified by the proximity of another Pokémon. But this Mew, he was different. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that he was his son, or maybe that he was just like him in every way possible, but this Mew and Psycho could share thoughts. He was almost like a Mini-Me™ to Psycho, doing exactly as he did, only smaller. It was just as Psycho was about to release another Shadow Ball at the Mew that he noticed a small, darker blue device around its neck.

"What's the matter, Psycho?" Mew said between pants, "Are you too tired to go on?"

"You're the one who's tired, Mew." Psycho said, and with that, he released the Shadow Ball straight at the small device, breaking it into billions of nearly microscopic pieces.

"Wha... What's going on?" Mew said, now free of the device. "A Mewtwo?! Where am I?"

"Mew, you were stuck under the control of a strange necklace." Psycho answered. "We're apparently in the past sometime before normal Pokémon existed, in a land of legends."

"The past? What brought us here?"

"You did. You were under Giovanni's control."

"Giovanni? The evil man that the scientists said that funded their creation of me?"

"Apparently so. He did that to me too, so don't worry about it."

"I'm thinking that we should have revenge on him right now."

"Well, let's go!"

Psycho and Mew floated over to where the other four Psychos were battling against Giovanni's other Pokémon from the future. The Psychos were obviously winning, since Giovanni only had mostly Poison types and a few Ground types. While the purely Psychic types handled Nidoking and Nidoqueen, Era Psycho was alone in taking on the Ground types.

"Twenty Pokémon, Giovanni?" Psycho yelled, "Isn't that against League rules?"

"I don't see any League around here, Mewtwo. And even if there was one, I wouldn't obey it."

"Well, we're here to even out the score." Mew said.

"Where'd my mother go, Era Psycho?" Psycho asked as he floated over to the battle site.

"I told her to tend to Groudon and Kyogre, to create a Pokémon who can stop the both of them and seal them away until they need to be reawakened. But for now, Mew, can you help me with this?"

"Sure thing, Era Psycho." Mew said as he began to create a portal back to the future. "Everyone, on the count of three! One... two... three!"

The five Psychos and Mew all simultaneously used Psychic, blasting Giovanni and all of his Pokémon to the future and leaving them where, and when they belonged.

"You know, you guys, that was great." The trainer, who had just been on Neo Psycho's back and trying to beat Giovanni without falling into the vast sea below, said. "Mew, would you like to join our team?"

"I really would, thanks."

"Now, I'm going to suggest our name for him." Psycho said. "Obviously, he's just a miniature version of me; why not call him 'MiniPsycho'?"

"Great idea, Psycho." ESP said, "Well, MiniPsycho, let's get back to our home. We don't want to be late getting back to Goldenrod!"

And therefore, MiniPsycho took them all back to their home, joining the team of Psychos and fulfilling another requirement of the prophecy of The Twelve.

Ech: Finally, jeez, what took you so long?

Roo: School. Evil school. I hate school.

Wex: And if you're interested in MiniPsycho's moveset, it's Psychic, Transform, Softboiled, and Thunderbolt.

Antiech: See you all next time when we examine the origins of Fox Psycho!