*Thoughts*
"Speech"
"Telekinesis Talk."
Mewtwo found himself bursting through the water top, shaking and gagging.
He felt himself being dragged onto the cold snow; the voices around him blurred together for a moment.
Cracking his eyes open, his blurred vision revealed shades of orange and blue, along with a small blob of pink.
Blinking, he eventually cleared his vision enough to see Ho-oh, Lugia, and Mew standing/floating over him, all looking worried.
As the dizziness and pain in his head began to subside, he was able to understand what they were saying.
"--Two, are you alright? Can you hear us?"
"I think he can now, dear."
"Come on Fat Me, wake up!!"
Ho-oh gave Mew a deadpan stare.
"Really, Mew?"
"Aw come on!! At least I found the guy!!"
Mewtwo released a groan as he stirred, tiredly pushing himself up.
"Careful now," Lugia balanced him by placing a wing on his back and helping him sit up.
The clone rubbed his eyes.
"Where am I...?"
"You fell off of Nugget Bridge." The older bird replied. "Luckily Mew was flying by and saw, so she came to get us to pull you out since we were nearby."
"You're fat, so you're too heavy for me to carry." The pink forever-kitten rolled her eyes.
"I am not fat. I actually have bodily mass."
"Touché." She rolled her eyes. "At least I didn't fall off a bridge."
"Are you alright, dear?" Ho-oh asked with concern, tenderly touching the back of his head and using her heat to heal the bruise forming. "That fall could have killed you."
"I'm...fine," He replied, memories coming back to him.
The only thing he couldn't remember was the Pokémon that had guided him through it all; all he could see in his mind was a distorted blur when he thought of her.
"You should get home and rest," Ho-oh advised. "We can help you there--"
"...Actually, there's somewhere I need to be," Mewtwo replied. "I was just running late."
"In this condition? You could get sick--"
"I probably already would've where I'm headed," He shrugged.
"Aw, c'mon, just let him go," Mew rolled her eyes. "He isn't dead, so he's probably fine."
*...Not dead anymore.* He shuddered, memories of the icy waters drowning him sending a chill down his spine.
"At least let us check you for other injuries," Lugia protested. "It's not good for you to have untreated ones in this weather. And you should put on something warm before you go."
"Alright, alright." He conceded.
He glanced between the three before him.
*...That's care, not pity, isn't it?*
"Why."
Zapdos' disgusting grin didn't subside.
" 'Cause I could."
Latios' glare hardened.
He held up the pink polka-dot bikini that was somehow his size, claw shaking.
"Why, Zapdos?"
"Ya didn't open all of it," He snickered.
Begrudgingly, the dragon reached into the gift bag and pulled out a coffee mug...that was in the shape of a toilet.
He then proceeded to attempt to commit murder via strangling the howling bird; the others let it drag on for a moment before Suicune and Entei went to pry them apart.
Latias glanced at the scene before turning her attention back to Shaymin, who had been telling her some story about him and Darkrai at a bar a few years back.
She glanced up at the ceiling above them, waiting for the right moment to tell him that they were under a miseltoe.
Articuno and Raikou flipped through the karaoke list, looking for a song; however, Articuno looked towards the entrance upon hearing footsteps.
The others looked as well, finding Mewtwo, wrapped tightly in his new electric comforter, entering.
He glanced around, surprised.
"Nothing's destroyed, I must be in the wrong room."
However, as he turned around, he found himself tackled by Zapdos.
"Two!! Ya came!!"
"Wrapped in a blanket?" Latios asked, confused.
"It's the warmest thing I own. Don't judge me."
"Didn't you buy it this morning?"
"If you aren't buying same-day shipping, then there's no point in online shopping."
"He has a point," Suicune agreed.
"Zapdos, get off."
"But yer blanket's so waaaaaaaaarm..."
"And carries static. If you supercharge we'll both explode. Now off."
Grumbling, the birb complied.
As Mewtwo sat up, he found the others coming over.
"So...White Elephant or Secret Santa?"
"Well, at first we were gonna just combine them and do "White Santa", but it...didn't really work out, so we didn't do either." Raikou shrugged.
"Should I ask what White Santa is or just ignore it?"
"You get someone a gift they hate, then they try to guess which one's theirs, and then if they're wrong, they have to fight the person who's gift they actually took!!" Latias giggled.
"...I can see the holes in that plan."
"Zapdos still went with the "gifts we hate" part," Latios grumbled, holding up his gifts; Zapdos burst into a fit of laughter again.
"You're gonna pick up so many ladies in that, Latios." Articuno snickered.
"I'm feeling allured right now," Moltrés joked.
Raikou snickered and nudged Entei, who shoved him in annoyance.
"Maybe you'll like mine better."
Reluctantly moving his arm and opening his blanket, Mewtwo revealed several gift bags.
"I was in a rush, so don't expect anything too expensive. I really just dug stuff I thought you'd all like out of my hoard."
"FREE SHINY STUFF!!" Zapdos exclaimed, snatching the bag addressed to him.
After the others claimed their bags, the clone wrapped himself back in his blanket and stood up.
"You got here just in time," Articuno spoke up, leading him to the table. "We were just about to start karaoke."
"I feel like I shouldn't have rushed for that."
"Aw, come on, I'm sure nobody else remembers that one dinner party--"
That certainly triggered a flashback.
Suddenly, a new song began, and the two looked to see Mewtwo and Zapdos, drunk as heck, arms/wings wrapped around each other's necks, singing a duet.
"IF I WERE TO REMAIN, I WOULD ONLY BE IN YOUR PAAAAAAAAAATH!"
"SO I'LL GOOOOOOOOOO, BUT I KNOOOOOOOOOOW..."
"I'LL THINK OF YOU EVERY STEP OF THE JOURNEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY!
"AND IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII-"
"WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOOOOOOOUUUUUUU!"
"YOU, MY DARLING, OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!"
Articuno had a wing covering her face in shame, whilst a food-poisioned Moltrés lay on the ground, completely delirious.
"Oh hello there, sweeeeeeeetcheeeeks...you like my feeeeeeaaaaatheeeeers?"
Latias was in tears laughing, whilst Shaymin facepalmed.
"The fact that those two practically hate each other makes this even worse."
Entei happened to walk past at that exact moment, filming the disaster.
"Yeah, but it sure makes great blackmail!"
"...Can't argue there."
"...You wouldn't happen to know if Entei still has that video, would you...?"
"I dunno, but probably."
Shuddering and making it a point to find a way to get rid of that, Mewtwo glanced around.
Zapdos and Latios continued to bicker over their stupid gifts; after they'd opened Mewtwo's, they began arguing over which one was better.
Moltrés and Entei chatted in a corner, Entei managing to endure the flamboyant bird without blushing ridicoulously.
Suicune and Raikou laughed together over some memory of a Christmas long past, each throwing in their own crazy tidbit about it.
Latias glanced at the miseltoe again, pursing her lips as she tried to figure out how to get Shaymin under it again.
Articuno hummed sweetly.
"What song should we start with?"
"...You know, I've always wondered how Latios would do on 'Luka Luka Night Fever'."
"Pfft, I think I know that one. Let me find it."
Despite not having a mouth, Mewtwo gained something of a smile as he glanced around the room again.
Perhaps, being created wasn't so bad.
Perhaps, life was worth it after all.
And...that's it. Feel free to ignore my shameless Vocaloid plug there.
I hope everyone enjoyed, and remember: Life is difficult as hell, but somewhere out there is a person who cares. Sometimes you just gotta find them, or wait for them to find you.
And the world would be different without you, whether it seems so ir not.
I hope everyone had a great holiday season, and hopefully we'll all have a much better 2021 than 2020.
Thanks for reading!!