"Successors? More like me?" her attention jerked from the energy.

"Yes. Once the humans have the technology in hand to create creatures, they tend not to let it go easily." Mewtwo replied. "I destroyed any memory of how or where I was created, so I will have no successors." He looked kind of wistful at that. "I was not brought into this world like most humans or Pokemon. I am different. As are you. The odds are that I will not evolve, but you were made to and if handed over to your creators, you no doubt would forced to serve your purpose to them."

"Then there is one other matter. Would I be too bold to ask one of you to help me towards Team Meteor's head quarters. I'm sure all my information would be there."

"Be that as it may, I don't want anyone else to have to go through the same things I am. Besides, all my evolution information is in there. I need that information to decide on my ultimate future. So who's going to help me?"

Lynn, on Lugia, was heading away from the small island and towards the continent. She was trying to be patient but she had a strange feeling that something was wrong. Lugia noticed she was being antsy.

'We'll get there in due time. Don't worry.'

"It's not getting there that worries me…"

'There is nothing we can do about that. We could plan and plan and Team Meteor would probably have a back-up plan for every one of our plans.'

"Yah, I know. But how are we going to get in there?"

'Leave that to me. I have an idea.' Lynn couldn't help but laugh at the sly tone in Lugia's voice. As she started to calm down a bit, she felt Lugia tense up.

"What's wrong?" she asked looking down at the bird's eyes.

'Company. Getting low won't do us any good. There's a psychic Pokemon with them.'

Lynn turned around to look. Sure enough, there was a Team Rocket chopper heading their way. She squinted. Something was following it, but it was engulfed in a greenish yellow glow…

Sly was 'spreading his wings' and checking out his limitations. He stretched his metal powers as far out as it would go in every direction, close to a mile radius, a good distance for a newborn. He could sense the two ahead of him way before they'd noticed him.

'Father? There are two strange creatures ahead of us.' he mentioned warily in his now 10 year old voice, his instincts warning him to stay near his "papa".

Giovanni waved his hand in dismissal and continued looking at the plans for "renovation" of the Team Meteor base. "Probably just some Pidgey or Spearow migrating. If you're bored, go ahead and destroy them, but don't play around too much. Keep up with us."

Sly nodded and felt a sense of pride surge through him. His father trusted him enough to let him fight alone! He wouldn't disappoint him! Sly began to pick up speed.

Lynn say that the glow was starting to move faster. It was coming right at her! Panic began to swell up in her chest.

"LUGIA!"

The white bird had begun to pick up speed as well, sensing that this creature was too strong for him to take on, especially with Lynn on his back.

Lynn gripped Lugia's neck tightly and pushed herself as close to him as possible, trying to make herself more aerodynamic so she didn't slow him down too much. She couldn't help but squeeze her eyes shut as the creature behind her came closer. It was radiating so much energy, it was starting to hurt when she breathed.

Sly was getting ready to attack the big white bird when he noticed the energy coming from its back. He flew in closer, not sure what to make of the familiar yet strange energy signal. He was basically hovering above Lugia, staring at the young girl who's flying purple hair made it difficult to see her.

He could smell that she was frightened. She should be! His papa had told him he was very strong! Stronger than anyone or anything! But, why was she so afraid?

He reached down and grabbed her hair to pull it out of the way so he could see her, when Lugia shrieked and dodged, veering hard to the left. Sly got frustrated. He pointed at the bird accusingly.

'STOP THAT, YOU STUPID BIRD!'

Suddenly Lugia froze mid air. Sly noticed a greenish yellow aura around it. Grinning at his triumph, and proud to learn a new technique, he beckoned the bird closer and the bird came, floating on Sly's Telekinesis.

Lynn heard an angry screaming in her head and then felt Lugia slow down considerably. She looked up to see that Lugia had frozen mid-air and was now looking at her in desperation.

'Lynn! I can't move! You have to jump! The continent's not far from here.'

"…But I can't abandon you!"

'If you don't, he'll get us both! Head to the North! In…'

Lugia suddenly got a startled look as he noticed something above and behind Lynn.

She looked up to see Sly staring at her curiously. He reached out a clawed hand and Lynn shut her eyes and tensed, waiting for an attack.

Sly ran his fingers over her hair then picked up a few strands. He sat in Indian-style in the air studying it, playing with it, then he looked at her face, which now held shock and wonder. He reached out and touched her cheek, then her chin, his eyes studying her as if seeing a human so close for the first time, which was basically the truth. He turned her head, looking at the profile; he noticed her eyes always stared right at him no matter which way he turned her face. He slowly turned her head to the other profile and grinned, baring fang-like teeth. He thought it was funny.

Lynn had been studying him too, though not so openly. The part that really got her attention was his white hair with a slightly yellowish green tint to it and his crimson eyes. His hair came down to his neck and was pretty messy with what looked like one of the ripped pieces of his uniform tied around it in a headband. She looked at his cloths, a team rocket gray uniform with the sleeves ripped off and the pants ripped off at the knee. He wasn't wearing shoes or gloves, so she noticed that all his fingers and toes were tipped with retractable claws.

Then he picked up her hand, which she tried to jerk away, but his strong grip wouldn't let her. She watched, fascinated as he closely studied each finger and their joints, moving them back and forth, very gently as though he thought he were too strong to be rough with her long slender fingers.

He'd worked his way down to her wrist when suddenly he turned his head, looking for something. His eyes widened and he dropped Lynn's hand and flew up a few meters, turning his head each way, searching for something. He looked in the direction Lynn had been going and zoomed away.

When he got so far away, Lugia began moving again and struggled to quickly get back into flight.

"Lugia? What was that?" Lynn asked in a still slightly shocked voice.

"A successor." Lugia announced gravely.

Ash was at the front of the boat when they docked at New Island. "Professor!" He waved enthusiastically.

"Ash! Great timing!" Professor announced. "Come on, we'll discuss everything at the lab."

The trainers followed the Professor to a lab on a strange plateau that looked like someone had tried to stick the foundation in a hole and it didn't quite fit. When they finally got inside, the professors explained that they would attack in groups. They would destroy the buildings, and try to dismantle the two Teams that way. Ash, Misty, and Brock would attack Team Rocket Head Quarters from the front, while the three people from the boat would take the right flank and Lisa, Melody, and Ritchie would attack from the left flank.

The Professors then separated the groups and gave them each their orders on how to destroy the Head Quarters doing the most amount of damage while not getting themselves hurt.

When this had been done, they were called to attention by Professor Woods. "Keep in mind that these Head Quarters might have explosive chemicals in them, and once we start with the destruction process, we may not be able to quit until every building, lab, and gym baring the Rocket or Meteor insignia is burned to the ground."

"Wait a minute, isn't arson illegal? What about the police?" Ritchie had to ask.

"Arson is illegal, if you don't have a police warrant for the arrest of criminals." Professor Woods smiled and winked.

After the plans had been made, Ash turned to Misty and Brock. "Well, guys, lets cross our fingers!"

Domino sat in the Co-Pilot seat absolutely refusing to turn around and look at the… thing. She had a sinking feeling deep in her stomach that something wasn't right. Don't get her wrong, she wanted to destroy the Meteor Head Quarters as much as anybody else, but she wasn't sure this was the way to do it… She wasn't even sure if, once it got started using it's powers, this thing could even be controlled. She twirled a tulip in her hands like a baton, hoping the uneasiness would pass before her show down with her archrival.

"Target sighted, sir." came the Pilot's announcement in her headset. She took a deep breath and waited for Giovanni's orders.

"Circle the perimeter. I want a good seat for the happenings!" He smiled his cunning smile and looked out the window. "Sly! Lets give Matsumoto our home-warming present!"

Sly had had a time getting caught up, and now that he was close to his father again, he wanted to ask some questions. "Father, those things, from before, they're following us."

Giovanni finally turned to look. When he saw Lugia he smiled evilly.

"Father, who are they? The girl, she's not like you. Her energy's different… like mine."

Giovanni then, looked on the back of the Lugia and gasped in surprise. '…Lavender hair, honey brown eyes, about 15 years old…' "LYNN…"

Matsumoto was sitting in front of his monitor when he noticed two blimps on his radar screen. "Checker? Who's frequency signal is this?"

Checker smiled darkly, "The Black Weed's."

"Go welcome her for me."

"Yes, Sir!" She turned to leave, but then an alarm went off. She rushed to a terminal and typed in a password which revealed the cause of alarm. "Sir, we have two Like Youth experiments coming this way!"

"WHAT?" Matsumoto jumped out of his chair in surprise. "How? Only one survived the birth process!"

"It seems… the closest one… is male, sir, and he's wearing a Team Rocket frequency tracking device, like those in their uniforms. The second one is female and… riding a Lugia."

"Ah… That explains it… Giovanni was messing around in our satellite systems… So little Lynn is coming to our rescue. Good girl, Lynn. Come to Papa." He continued watching the radar screen. Lynn was fast catching up with Giovanni. It would be quite the close race… not that he intended to let them get much closer to him. "Checker, continue with our welcoming party. I don't want so much as a smudge on the ground left when we're done, understand?"

"YES SIR!"

He then hit the button for a PA system on his desk. "Beatrice? Tell the lab to strip the walls. I don't want our little lady to come home and find out her own darkest secrets. What sort of welcome would that be?"

Lynn saw that she was getting close to the Rocket Helicopter. She didn't care. She hoped the Meteors took their time in blowing it up though. It would give her more time to get in and out without much attention.

Sly was posed on the tip of the copter looking out at the building ahead of him. When Lynn and Lugia zoomed by, he watched out of the corner of his eye. She knew something he didn't. She was like him where his "father" wasn't even close. But they were so different.

He jumped off of the nose of the copter and dove down towards the forest where he followed the copter closely, while remaining near the ground until they reached their destination.

Lugia sprinted, sensing that a large battle was about to take place. 'Lynn! Be ready to run! I'll land on the roof and you have to hurry and grab the information and get out of here fast!"

Lynn landed on the roof running. She was going so fast, she wasn't sure how she ended up in the lab… it was like some sort of sixth sense. When she got there, it was totally empty, save one computer with a flashing monitor.

"Welcome home Lynn." Came a low, melodic voice from behind. She turned to see the tall, turquoise eyed, maroon haired, purple tuxedo clad figure that symbolized the head of the Meteors.

"Home? Some home… Although, it might be a lot better than Roxanne and Wesley's place!" she spat angrily. "And let me guess… You're supposed to be my father?" She let out a humorless laugh. "How 'Star Wars,' Vader."

The man smiled at her. "You think that we want to control you, don't you?"

She stared at him with a dull expression. "Do you?"

He paused. "Absolutely not. We created you to prove our theory. Now, we can create an entire army of Like Youths."

"Like Youths?"

"Like Youth Neurological Neophyte. L.Y.N.N. You are the first of a new species. That is why we called you Neophyte. Your predecessors were a bit of a disappointment, being either uncontrollable or useless or dying before birth. You are the first experiment that succeeded. Do you want to know why?"

"Not really, but I have a feeling you're gonna tell me anyway…"

"The human embryo you were born from. See, Pokemon, unlike humans, are born from eggs with their parents' DNA inside. Every time we tried that simulation, the specimen failed. It had too many parents and its neurological systems couldn't handle all the extra DNA. It couldn't sift through what it wanted or needed and what it didn't. Then, one day, it dawned on me. Forced evolution. I would make a Pokemon sleeper that on command would become one of the most powerful creature ever to walk this planet!"

"And you don't want to control me? What sort of game is this?" came the skeptic answer.

"We just want you to evolve so we can do some tests and then you're free to go…"

"If I could curse, I'd say the worse version of Tauros Droppings."

"Mmm… I don't remember programming such a rough sense of humor into you… that must be Roxanne and Wesley's doing."

"Why in the world would I come to you, let you make me evolve into something I don't even know about and let you set me free, which, just between you and me, I think is code for kill me?"

"Oh, darn! You figured out the surprise! Well, now I definitely can't let you leave." He pushed a button on the side of his wristwatch. "Beatrice? Bring up the missile trajectory on the monitor in Lab LY."

Lynn turned to the now clear monitor. "That's Legendary Island…"

"For now. If you don't comply, it'll become Crater City, residents, two."

"You play dirty to the end, don't you?" she whispered as the screen went fuzzy again.

"Oh, no! Don't blame me for your stupid mistake! Bringing Lugia here? Leaving a trail of energy so noticeable, it'd take an idiot to miss? Sound familiar?"

"Leave Clay and Sandy out of this."

"Clay and Sandy were ALWAYS a part of this. Don't you get it? You were born mine, you'll evolve mine, and you'll die mine. All I have to do is snap my fingers, and you won't be human anymore. Got that?"

"If I'm human, what does that make you?"

"A monster. Get used to it. We're two of a kind."

"I'm not like you."

"More than you think. We have the same mother."

"That's just gross! You had a mom!"

He turned red and was about to reply when his wristwatch sounded. "Sir? We're under attack. It's a Superior Like Youth. It's destroying our northern wing and Giovanni hasn't even made it evolve, sir!"

"Hold it off as long as you can, Beatrice. I'll be right there." He looked at Lynn. "If I hadn't had the Lab stripped, you'd be trapped here, but I don't have time for this right now. At least your evolution secret stays mine. I know I'll see you again soon, little one. Until then!" He made an elegant bow before he ran out the door, shouting orders at grunts to save what they could and get down to the basement where they'd be planning the counter attack.

Lynn pounded her fist into the desk. "DARN IT!" Suddenly the computer cleared again. The screen flashed a few words then asked for a password phrase. "What would he use for a password? Meteors… Wait, what did Roxanne always say when talking to her Tuesday-night-cards buddies on the phone? Celestial might in the dead of night? It just might…" She began typing vigorously. "THANK YOU, BIG-MOUTH ROXY!"

She began searching through the files, the shaking that had begun to barely move the room she was in began to get more violent with every passing second. She had to hurry.

"Evolution… nothing… Metamorphosis… nothing… where would it be?"

She looked around the room for a clue. Suddenly, an impact came that jarred her so much, the keyboard landed on the floor. When she looked down at the desk, she noticed someone had taped some sort of code guide card to the top, under where the keyboard had been. It looked similar to the index cards kindergarteners strapped to their desks to help them remember how to write their letters. Up at the top was the word L.Y.N.N. and below it was a number. To the left of each number was a letter. She examined them. "If D design, and CL current location, then E must equal Evolution!" She typed in the number beside the E.

Suddenly the screen went blank, the only thing that let her know it was still on was a green VOX line on the screen. Suddenly there was a mechanical voice. "Project L.Y.N.N. is the beginning phase of Operation Global Renewal; Team Meteor's Operation to destroy this planet in order to start anew on another one. Several gene pools have already been selected from to make the new inhabitants of this world." A few pictures of random people came up when it said this. "The DNA will be transmitted via human embryo to a large, womb like test tube where the embryo has taken 6 months to develop on the only successful specimen."

"What is all this crud? What does this have to do with my evolution? I don't want to hear any of this! Give me some answers, darn you!"

"Specimen LYNN took only 5 years to become the physical equivalent to a 15 year old human ."

(o)(o)() "Wow… I'm 5 huh? No wonder I don't remember anything about school…"

"LYNN ran away from her controlled environment on her 5th birthday, an expected development. Soon after, she began showing signs of becoming ready to evolve. Her powers began sharpening and her instincts coming forth every time she was almost captured." a video clip of Lynn jumping off the blimp showed. "Soon it will be time to activate her evolution. After which, we will use her to give birth to the beginning of the new race."

"What race? What am I supposed to become! Where the heck is my answer!"

She pounded the keyboard and suddenly the VOX became active again.

"Now printing LYNN evolution data."

"YES!"

Sly was enjoying his new game of seek and destroy. His father had told him that it was a lot of fun to make things explode and that Sly should try to make as many explosions as possible to win. He still wasn't sure why it had to be this building, but oh well. It was fun anyway.

He continued his rounds. He'd fly up so far and send out a blast, then drop back down and release another. It was funny to watch the things inside run back and forth. He wasn't sure why they were screaming so loud, but he didn't understand a lot of things about humans.

After blowing off the front edge of the building, Sly noticed Lynn's aura. 'Hm? Why is she here?' Sly stopped in the middle of his Psychic Blast and looked at a place in the wall.

Giovanni had been laughing hysterically until he saw Sly freeze. "Domino! What's going on? Why has he stopped?"

"I'm not sure, sir. The tracking device says there's no malfunction, so I'm not sure what he's doing." She didn't look at it still. She was actually hoping he'd burst into a million pieces or something due to chemical imbalance, but she wasn't about to tell the boss that.

Giovanni pressed the button for the PA system. "Sly? What's wrong? Destroy that building!"

Sly just turned and stared at him blankly. 'Why?' It was asked in the name of curiosity, as a four year old's constant questioning. Giovanni didn't see it that way.

"SLY! Don't you dare disobey me!" Sly glared at him, then suddenly teleported. "DOMINO! WHERE IS HE!"

"He's in the building, on the top floor. The female experiment is there, too." She watched the computer. 'I hope she sees him as a threat and kills him.'

"How much longer will our electro-shields hold against their weapons?" Giovanni asked impatiently.

"Roughly 35 more minutes before we either have to switch batteries or go recharge." The Pilot beside Domino answered.

"Do we have enough power for an Electro-cannon shot? We just need one."

"We should… what's our target, sir?"

"That room." Giovanni pointed to the top floor of the building on the east wing of the building. "According to the lab print out I received, that's the room where the information about the Like Youths are stored. If he gets a hold of that information, we won't be able to control him anymore." Domino couldn't help but stare in awe at the somber accuracy of the Boss right then.

'Guess that's why he's the Boss…'

Lynn looked up in surprise when she felt another person in the room. She hadn't even felt them approach. She turned around and was nose to nose with her "successor." "AH!" She jumped. "Don't do that!"

Sly looked at her, but it wasn't the same studying look from before. It was searching. 'Who are you?'

Lynn looked at the floor. "I'm not so sure anymore… I thought I was Lynn, the human girl who nobody wanted who ended up with sucky adoptive parents, but now… I'm not sure what I am." She realized that he wasn't touching the floor. "Do you know… who you are?"

Sly looked at his hands, with their retractable claws that had helped him come into this world. 'I was hoping you could tell me. It seems, my father is not who I thought he was.'

"You're father?"

'The man who created me.'

Lynn got a serious look on her face and grabbed his hand. She lifted his face with her other hand. "Hey. You listen to me. I don't know a lot about parents, but I do know, that just because someone gives you life, doesn't make them your parents. My family, my home, is just me, Clay and Sandy. We never knew our parents. But we don't have to, to know that we're a family and we have to look out for each other. As long as we're together, it doesn't matter where we are." She let him go, kind of embarrassed because of the shocked look on his face. She busied herself with shuffling through the pages from the printer. Sly didn't notice when she dropped all but one page.

Sly bit on his bottom lip, digesting this. 'Family? I don't have one. My… father… he says that I'm strong! That I could rule the world!" He looked at her with joy, hope and another emotion she couldn't quite distinguish. "I'm going to make all those who won't accept our kind pay! Starting, with those who are trying to hurt you! We are the same kind! I can feel…" His eyes went wide and he turned around.

"NO! FATHER!" Sly screamed with a feeling of disbelief. Suddenly, the room lit up with a brilliant flash and the cackling of thunder.

When Lynn opened her eyes, the room was gone. Where they'd been standing was just a hole in the building now. But, she wasn't falling…

She looked at Sly and gasped. He was enraged. The aura around him was a blinding yellow, his eyes were engulfed in a brilliant green glow. She realized he had used a shield technique to save them. "… Thank…"

'TRAITOR!' Sly bellowed angrily as he began to charge up for an attack. Suddenly, the shield beneath her began to give out.

"A-AHHH-Oof!" Lynn almost cried in relief when Lugia caught her.

'Did you get what you needed?' he asked urgently.

Lynn pulled a folded piece of paper out of her pocket. 'You bet I did!'

Hey, guys! I know it's been a while, but I hope the super long update makes up for it! (cowers as she realizes its been over a year since the last update.) Sooo sorry! I don't own Pokemon. Please RandR!