Author's Note: This next story features the two lead characters from the Pokemon Mega Evolution Specials done not long ago for the main Pokemon anime series. I'm actually kind of a fan of those specials, mainly because Alain was such an improvement over Ash in the anime. After I reread Mewtwo Zwei about a month or so ago, it finally hit me how I could possible use Alain and Mairin in this AU. I had actually made a small reference to Alain in that previously mentioned story, and that in a way had already set up this next one-shot.
Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon.
The Hunter
It was a little past noon as Alain Grant sat under a leafless dead tree eating a packed lunch that he had prepared earlier that morning. Sitting across from Alain in the middle of her own lunch was a young and rather tomboyish girl with red hair, wearing a large green and red golf cap with a yellow puff ball on the top, along with a short green poncho over a yellow long-sleeved shirt, and a pair of long green pants held up by red suspenders, and brown shoes with green socks. Tied around the girl's neck was an orange-yellow scarf. This girl was Alain's traveling companion, Mairin Trudeau. Alain had encountered Mairin months before after she had just started out on her journey as a trainer, and since that time the two had become almost inseparable.
The day had been a fairly calm one for Alain and Mairin as they continued their trek across the Kalos Region. The duo had been walking for at least four hours and had decided to stop and have lunch before entering the desert area of Route 13 that they were sitting next to at that moment.
"Say, isn't there a power plant somewhere around that desert?" Mairin recalled.
"I believe so," Alain answered. "I suppose we could stop to take a look at it if we get a chance."
"Nah, I was just wondering is all," Mairin replied. "Besides, aren't you on a pretty important mission right now?"
"Yes, and I really wish you had stayed behind on this one," Alain admitted. "The person I'm after is reported to be very dangerous."
Before the conversation could continue, something suddenly burst up from the ground not far from where Mairin was. The thing turned out to be a small bipedal dragon that was mainly blue in color. It was mainly blue in color and had a large shark-like mouth filled with sharp teeth. The creature had a red underbelly that extended to the bottom of its jaw, and a light-blue stripe wrapped around its back. The sides of its head had two horns shaped like jet engines, each with a light blue stripe around the middle. Growing from the top of the little dragon's head was a large shark-like dorsal fin with a notch in the middle.
"A Gible!" Alain identified. "That's a pretty rare Pokemon for these parts."
"I've got this!" Mairin declared as she got to her feet and took out a pokeball. "Let's go, Chespie!"
Bursting out of Mairin's thrown ball was her Chespin, a fairly small almost rodent-like mammal that stood on two legs. Its body was covered in brown fur, and on its head was a green helmet that extended down into a green shell that covered its entire back and went half way down the length of its tail. Four leaf-shaped spikes grew from the helmet around Chespie's face, and a crest of three spikes projected out from the back of the helmet. The tip of the rodent creature's tail was orange, and its feet each had a pair of long white claws growing from its toes.
"Okay Chespie! Use Vine Whip!" Mairin commanded.
Two green vine-like whips extended from the sides of Chespie's body and lashed Gible across his stomach. The little land shark recovered from the attack and growled, and with a wave of its short arms it sent a twister of wind across the field. Chespie was struck from the front by the attack, but after a moment manages to get back to his feet.
"What kind of attack was that?" a surprised Mairin asked.
"That was Gible's Dragon Rage," Alain calmly answered. "From the looks of it, that attack did a lot of damage to Chespie. You should be on your guard."
"Hah! It'll take more than that to take down me and Chespie!" Mairin declared. "Okay Chespie! Use Leach Seed!"
Chespie cried out and fired a cluster of seeds from the crest of his helmet. The seeds struck Gible, and in seconds the dragon was wrapped in green leaf-covered vines. A red energy then began to flow from Gible's body and into Chespie's healing some of the injuries that the mammal Pokemon had taken earlier.
"Use Vine Whip one more time!" Mairin commanded.
Chespie extended his vines again and lashed Gible across the stomach. With the last attack Gible fell onto his side but was still conscious.
"Okay! Here goes nothing!" Mairin called as she pulled out an empty pokeball. "Pokeball go!"
The ball flew through the air and struck Gible in the face, sucking the little dragon inside. Mairin watched as the ball jiggled on the ground for several tense moments before it finally stopped moving and made the noise that signaled a completed capture.
"Alright!" Mairin cheered as she jumped excitedly into the air.
Mairin then ran to pick up the pokeball, only to trip and fall to her knees. The redheaded tomboy quickly picked herself up and dusted herself off though. She then calmly went over and picked up the pokeball.
"I think I'll call this little guy Choppy," Mairin decided.
Alain nodded with approval as he got up. "You did quite well. You're really coming along as a trainer, Mairin."
"Thanks," Mairin replied. "I still don't get why you don't want me along on this mission you got from Lysandre. I mean I just showed you that I can handle myself pretty well as a trainer."
"Yes, well… this isn't something that an ordinary trainer can handle," Alain said gravely as he looked off towards the sky. "Not if what Lysandre told me is true…"
Five days before, Alain was walking through the halls of Lysandre Labs alone on his way to meet with the facility's owner. Alain and Mairin had been all the way in Cyllage City when a helicopter had come to get them. The dark-haired trainer at last arrived at the office. Standing in front of the window with his hands behind his back was a man with long red hair styled like a lion's mane and a beard. He had on a red ascot with a black suit, consisting of a jacket with a grey-furred collar and red outlines and pockets, and black slacks with red lines running down the sides of the legs. The man also had on black shoes and black fingerless gloves. This man was the owner of the lab and Alain's trusted mentor, Lysandre.
"Thank you for coming so quickly, Alain," Lysandre spoke. "I apologize for interrupting your journey."
"It's not a problem," Alain assured him. "The pilot you sent for me and Mairin is urgent."
"It is," Lysander confirmed as he motioned Alain to sit in one of the black leather chairs in front of his desk. "By the way, where is your little friend?"
"She's down in the lobby," Alain answered as he sat down. "Now, what exactly is all this about?"
Lysandre let out a heavy sighed as he sat down behind his desk. "I'm afraid I've a terrible mistake… one that could very well destroy the world if we aren't careful. Do you remember my little experiment with creating artificial Mega Stones?"
"Yes. I remember you made two of them," Alain recalled. "Neither one of them worked on any known Pokemon."
"I researched the matter further and discovered that there was one Pokemon that was potentially compatible," Lysandre revealed. "Tell me, Alain… have you ever heard of a Pokemon called Mewtwo?"
Alain blinked in surprise. "Why yes. Professor Sycamore showed me an article on that Pokemon once back when I was his assistant. There's little known about it, but the article said that it was a Pokemon created through genetic engineering. It was a sort of clone made using the DNA of Mew. Lysandre… you really thought that those synthetic Mega Stones could work with Mewtwo?"
"I did. But there were only two ways to test that theory," Lysandre told him. "I had to either capture the existing Mewtwo or create a new one. In the end, I decided that it would be easier to try the latter. I tracked down the scientist who created Mewtwo and found that he was still alive, and that he still had most of his original research notes. With a little convincing, I got this man, Dr. Ichiro Fuji, to agree to make a second Mewtwo in order to test one of the Mega Stones."
"And did he succeed?" Alain asked.
"Far too well, I'm afraid," Lysander gravely answered. "The problem was that Dr. Fuji went a little too far with his work. In addition to creating a second Mewtwo, he also successfully produced a human clone, one with incredible psychic powers."
"A human clone?" a stunned Alain repeated.
Lysandre pressed a few buttons on the glass surface of his desk. Appearing in the air in front of Alain was a holographic screen showing the picture of a young woman who appeared to be in her early twenties with long wavy green hair and grey eyes.
"Her name is Amber," Lysandre revealed. "The official classification for her in Dr. Fuji's notes is Amber Drei. She's a clone of Dr. Fuji's late daughter, the second one that he ever produced. Apparently, Dr. Fuji was driven to create the original Mewtwo out of an obsession to find a way to resurrect his daughter through cloning. This time, his motivation was simply to create an enhanced human being."
"And… you allowed this?" Alain asked.
"I had no idea that Fuji had taken things that far," Lysandre told him. "If I had, I would've put a stop to his little side project immediately. Of course Dr. Fuji's justification for creating Amber Drei was so that his second Mewtwo, classified in his notes as Zwei, would have a suitable partner to trigger Mega Evolution. As you know very well, Mega Evolution has an all important human component."
"So… was this Amber Drei able to get her Mewtwo to Mega Evolve using the artificial stone?" Alain asked.
"She was… and with terrifying results," Lysandre revealed. "The Mega Evolved Mewtwo was so staggeringly powerful that she was able to defeat a trainer with the mythical Pokemon known as Palkia. Don't ask me how this young woman managed to obtain such a Pokemon, because I don't know. What you do need to know is that Amber Drei and her Mewtwo are extremely aggressive."
Lysandre pressed another button on his desk. The image on the holographic screen changed to show five small islands that looked as though they had once been one.
"This is what remains of the island where Dr. Fuji's lab was," Lysandre revealed. "Dr. Fuji and his assistant somehow survived, but our Ms. Drei showed them no mercy."
Again, Lysandre pressed another button on his desk. The screen changed to a rock formation looked like a small mountain that had its top totally blown off.
"The top of this mountain here in Kalos was totally blown away just yesterday afternoon," Lysandre revealed. "There were people found injured at the site, a Mr. Anthony Chase, his daughter Vivian, and members of Mr. Chase's staff. We don't know exactly what they were doing there, but they've all been hospitalized. Anthony Chase isn't expected to survive, though that's mainly due to the complications caused by his illness. The point is that Amber Drei is responsible for this incident as well."
"I see… so what is it that you want me to do?" Alain asked as Lysandre shut off the screen.
"I want you to capture Amber Drei and bring her to me," Lysandre answered. "Once she's contained, I'll decide what to do with her. The important thing right now though is to keep her from doing any more damage. You're the only one I know that's qualified for this task, Alain."
"I'll do my best, sir," Alain assured him.
"I really do regret this, you know," Lysandre remarked as he got up and turned to face the window. "I thought that if we could mass produce Mega Stones, we'd have an unlimited supply of energy that we could use to bring this world into a new era. This is the last thing that I wanted to happen."
"You shouldn't blame yourself, Lysandre," Alain told him. "This was Dr. Fuji's mistake, and I'm going to do everything in my power to correct it for you."
"…Mairin, the person I'm after is extremely dangerous," Alain told the redhead. "It would've been much better if you had stayed in Lumios City."
"No way!" Mairin told him. "If this person you're after is really that dangerous, then I should be with you for backup! Now I'm staying with you and that's that!"
Alain let out a heavy sigh. "I guess there's no talking you out of staying around, is there? Okay, you can stay. But the moment we run into my target, I want you to run for cover. There's no telling how out of control my battle with her will get."
"Okay, but do you even know we'll run into this target of yours around here?" Mairin asked.
"Lysandre's agents last sighted her somewhere in this area," Alain answered. "We don't know if she's still here, but if we wait long enough we might be lucky enough to run into her."
Almost as if on cue, Alain spotted an all too familiar young woman walking in his and Mairin's direction. She had long wavy green hair, and wore a long black coat over a black shirt with tight long black pants. The young woman also had on black boots and a pair of black fingerless gloves. A pair of visor-like sunglasses covered her eyes, and around her neck was a dark-grey metal chocker with a keystone fitted into the front. There was no question in Alain's mind that he had just found Amber Drei.
"Get back, Mairin," Alain quietly ordered. "We've found my target."
"Whoa! Seriously!" Mairin exclaimed.
Alain calmly nodded and began to approach. "Amber Drei!"
The green-haired clone stopped in response to Alain's call. "Who are you? And how do you know who I am?"
"I'm Alain Grant, a Pokemon trainer sent by Lysandre!" the dark-haired trainer answered.
"Lysandre?" Amber repeated with a raised eyebrow. "I know of no such person."
"He's the man who funded Dr. Fuji's experiments!" Alain explained.
"…Ah, I see. He was Dr. Fuji's benefactor," Amber recalled. "What do you and this Lysandre want with me?"
"Lysandre ordered me to capture you and bring you to him," Alain answered. "What he plans to do with you when I turn you in is none of my concern."
"You… capture me?" Amber repeated. "Such a feat is beyond someone with your abilities."
"Don't be so sure!" Alain told her as he took out a pokeball. "Go Bisharp!"
Bursting out of Alain's pokeball was a somewhat humanoid creature that stood five feet tall. Much of its body was covered in red armor, and on the forehead of its helmet was a long gold and silver blade. Its hands resembled white gloves with curved blades on the sides of its wrists, and protruding from the front of its torso were bladed disks that gave one the impression of a ribcage.
"So it's to be a battle then," Amber observed as she pulled out her own pokeball. "Very well. Go Galatea!"
Emerging from the ball was a robotic creature that was primarily gold in color. It had a round head with a slight point at the back, with a face consisting of two glowing pink ovular eyes with gold frames that had two prongs extending upward almost like eyelashes, along with a small nose and mouth. A large incomplete gear with seven teeth rimed the robot's face almost like a maid's bonnet, and it had a pair of red rabbit-like ears that appeared to be the two sections of a single disc. The mechanical creature's torso was spherical, and had two light-blue sections on the front designed to look like a pokeball, and in the very center of its chest was a circular indentation that was half blue and half pink. It had two spherical shoulders that each ended with an almost claw-like arm. The robot's lower half was red, white and gold ball gown-like sphere that was open at the bottom to reveal a pair of gold stilt-like legs.
Alain's eyes widened in surprise upon seeing the mechanical Pokemon. "What? That's not Mewtwo!"
"Let's see…" Mairin spoke as she got out her pokedex to see what sort of Pokemon she and Alain were looking at.
"Magearna, the Artificial Pokemon," the pokedex identified in a feminine voice. "Magearna was built approximately five hundred years ago by an inventor of incredible genius. This Magearna has the same coloring it had five hundred years ago when it was presented as a gift to a king's daughter."
"This Magearna was put to sleep by her creator not long after she was born," Amber revealed. "Her first encounter with humans was she was awakened only a few days ago was… less then positive. I rescued her."
"Rescued?" Mairin quietly repeated. "What does she mean?"
"I don't know how you got that Pokemon, and I don't care!" Alain declared. "Bisharp, use Iron Head!"
"Calm Mind," Amber commanded.
Galatea's eyes began to glow and her body began to give off a faint pink aura. At the same time, Bisharp lowered his head and began to charge across the field at the mechanical Pokemon. The blade on Bisharp's helmet glowed as he rammed it into Galatea's chest. Galatea was knocked back a few feet by the attack but remained standing.
"Now use Guillotine!" Alain commanded.
"Dazzling Gleam," Amber ordered.
Bisharp charged across the field at Galatea and crossed his arms. The armored Pokemon's gloved hands began to glow with a white light as he came in range. Just as Bisharp was about to deliver his attack though, Galatea's eyes flashed pink and two beams of pink eyes fired from her eyes. Bisharp was hit in the face by the attack and knocked onto his back. After a few moments though, Bisharp managed to get back up.
"Dammit!" Alain cursed. "Use Iron Head one more time!"
"Aura Sphere," Amber commanded.
Just as Bisharp began to charge at Galatea again, a ball of blue light began to form between the mechanical Pokemon's arms. When it got large enough, Galatea fired it at Bisharp. The armored Pokemon was hit in the chest and knocked onto his back unconscious.
Alain scowled as he called Bisharp back to his ball. "I thought that by using Bisharp, I'd have a type advantage against your Mewtwo… but I guess I should've gone with my first instincts." He then took out another pokeball. "Let's go, Charizard!"
Flying out of the thrown ball was a large red-orange dragon with a yellowish belly and two small horns on its head. The insides of its wings were blue-green and a red flame burned on the tip of its tail. Around the base of the dragon's long neck was an ornate metal collar with a blue stone fitted into the plated section on the front.
"Your Charizard has a Mega Stone," Amber observed. "Galatea, you did very well in the last battle, but this Pokemon is not an opponent you can easily defeat."
Galatea beeped twice and nodded in response before Amber called her back to her ball.
Amber then pulled out another pokeball. "Go Zwei!"
Bursting out of Amber's second pokeball was a six-foot-tall bipedal feline that was purplish-grey in color. Its stomach and tail were purple and it had a cord-like growth on the back of its neck. The creature's eyes were purple, and around its midsection was a silver object that looked like a championship belt. Fitted into the rectangular front piece of the belt was a large round pinkish stone.
"So is that the Pokemon Alain was talking about?" Mairin wondered as she took her pokedex back out.
"Mewtwo, the Genetic Pokemon," the pokedex identified. "This Pokemon is the product of genetic experiments involving the DNA of the Pokemon, Mew. Sightings of Mewtwo are rare, but it's reported to be very aggressive."
"Amber, who is this human?" Alain and Mairin heard a female voice ask inside their heads.
"This young trainer was sent by the one who funded Dr. Fuji's experiments," Amber explained. "The very experiments that created us. This benefactor sent this trainer to capture us."
"He doesn't seem like much," Zwei remarked.
"I'll show you how powerful Charizard and I are!" Alain declared. "Charizard, use Flamethrower!"
Charizard roared in response and suddenly the keystone fitted into the thick black bracelet on Alain's wrist began to give off a brilliant light. In the same instant, the Mega Stone in the dragon's collar lit up as well, and a split second later Charizard's body began to glow with a brilliant blue light and change shape. At the start of the transformation, Charizard's body gave off a flash in the form of an X. The light soon faded and a multicolored light resembling a DNA strand appeared above Charizard's head to signal a finished transformation. The multicolored light faded after a moment.
Charizard had become slightly larger and his body had turned mostly black. His stomach was now colored grey and the insides of his wings had turned a brilliant blue. The tips of the dragon's horns had become blue as well. The flame that burned at the tip of Charizard's head had also turned blue, and another pair of blue flames burned at the corners of the dragon's mouth. With his transformation complete, Charizard breathed out a stream of blue flames at Zwei. The psychic feline crossed her arms to try and block the attack and easily endured it.
"You are nothing before us," Amber declared. "Witness the true power that Zwei and I possess!"
The keystone fitted into the front of Amber's metal chocker suddenly began to glow with a brilliant light. At the same time, the Mega Stone embedded in the front of Zwei's belt started to glow as well. In seconds Zwei's entire body began to give off a dazzling pink light and change shape. At the very start of the feline Pokemon's transformation, the light coming from her body gave off a flash resembling a Y. A few seconds later the light faded and a multicolored light resembling a DNA strand appeared momentarily above Zwei's head before vanishing, signaling her completed transformation.
Zwei's body had become shorter and the tube on the back of her neck had totally vanished. Her limbs had taken on a more mechanical appearance, with her fingers and toes becoming purple. The feline Pokemon's otherwise smooth chest had a bump in the center resembling some kind of bone, and her tail had compltetely disappeared. Her ear-like horns had become more pointed and were connected at the base by a half ring-shaped growth that went over her head. Zwei's eyes had changed from purple to red, and growing from the back of her head was a long tail-like appendage that extended down past her legs and had a curled tip.
"Psychic!" Zwei and Amber called out together as the feline brought her arms forward.
Zwei's eyes began to glow red, and suddenly Charizard's body began to give off a red aura before being lifted high into the air by an invisible force. The psychic feline swung her arms downward, and Charizard was flung back into the earth with enough force to create a small crater. When the dust settled though, Charizard was back on his feet.
"Use Dragon Claw!" Alain ordered.
Charizard growled as he took back off into the air as the claws on his right hand grew longer and began to glow. When the dragon came in range, he slashed his long claws Zwei. Unfortunately, Zwei swiftly flew out of the attack's path, leaving a trail of afterimages in her wake. Zwei's eyes began to glow again, and with a movement of her arms Charizard's body became frozen by a red aura. The black dragon's body was once again lifted into the air, only to be flung back down into the earth. The feline then flung Charizard back into the air again, only to hurl him back into the ground a second time. When the dust finally settled though, Charizard was still on his feet.
"Don't give up, Charizard!" Alain called. "Use Steel Wing!"
Charizard took back off into the air and flew at full speed towards Zwei as his wings glowed with a white light and became like metal. The black dragon clotheslined Zwei with his right wing before she had a chance to evade the attack. Zwei flipped through the air for a few moments before recovering from the attack and taking off higher into the sky. The psychic feline stopped when she had gotten a few feet into the air and a ball of crackling black energy formed between her hands.
"Shadow Ball!" Zwei and Amber called out together.
Zwei flung the black projectile down at Charizard, hitting him in the face. Charizard crashed back into the ground but managed to get back up.
"The two of you are quite tenacious," Zwei and Amber remarked. "You've both lasted a lot longer than we thought you would."
"There's no way Charizard and I will give up this fight!" Alain declared. "And it's not just because I have orders to bring you in! My dream and Charizard's is to defeat every other Mega Evolution out there! Now that we know you can Mega Evolve, there's no way we'll back down!"
"An ambitious goal," Amber and Zwei remarked. "But an impossible one. Our power is far beyond anything you can even imagine. Even the gods of this world cannot stand against us. To you, we are untouchable."
"You're wrong! Charizard and I will surpass you!" Alain proclaimed. "Charizard, use Thunder Punch!"
Charizard roared and flew up high into the air towards Zwei. As he came in range, Charizard's right hand began to crackle with yellow electricity. Just as it seemed like the dragon's fist was about to connect with Zwei's face though, the psychic feline flew even higher into the sky, causing Charizard to punch only one of the afterimages left in her wake. Soon after, Amber vanished with a flash of blue light and reappeared in the sky a few feet behind Zwei. Zwei then spread her arms apart and a ball of purple energy formed right in front of her, becoming four times the size of Zwei's body in a matter of seconds.
"Witness how miniscule you truly are compared to us!" Zwei and Amber called out. "Psystrike!"
The ball of light shot down towards Chrizard and hit him before the dragon could even get close to his opponent. The light exploded on impact, creating a massive explosion of white light that washed out the entire area. The shockwave from the explosion knocked Alain off his feet and towards the dead tree he had been eating lunch under only minutes before. Alain's head hit the trunk of the tree and everything went dark.
In the darkness, Alain could hear Mairin's voice calling out to him in the distance. Mairin's voice continued to become louder and louder as she kept calling out to him, and when Alain finally opened his eyes, the redhead's worried face slowly came into focus. Just behind her, Alain noticed a star-filled night sky.
"…Mairin?" Alain spoke weakly. "What happened?"
"Thank goodness!" Mairin spoke with a relieved sigh. "You've been out for hours. I was starting to worry that you wouldn't wake up. Do you remember what happened?"
Alain's mind slowly began to go over the events of the previous day and recalled his battle with Amber. He became alarmed when he finally remembered Charizard being hit by Zwei's most powerful attack.
"Charizard!" a concerned Alain called out as he quickly tried to sit up, only to wince in pain.
"Take it easy! Try not to move so fast." Mairin told him. "Charizard is fine. I healed him up as best I could, but we should probably get him to a Pokemon Center as soon as possible."
When Alain finally sat up, he saw Charizard lying on his side in his original form just a few feet away. Slowly, Alain got back to his feet and when over to see how his partner was doing. Charizard opened his eyes and looked at Alain, growling something under his breath.
Alain kneeled down to pat Charizard on the head. "I'm sorry, old friend. Looks like I failed you."
"Don't be like that, Alain," Mairin told him. "That woman, Amber and her Mewtwo were just ridiculously powerful."
"Mairin… what happened after I was knocked out?" Alain asked.
"Well… things were pretty crazy during that explosion," Mairin began. "I thought I was going to be blown all the way back to Lumios City. Things finally calmed down though, and I went over to see if you were okay…"
As the dust from the explosion settled, Mairin got back to her feet and went to find Alain. The redhead found Alain right in front of the dead tree out cold. Mairin was greatly relieved to find that her dark-haired companion was still breathing. Several feet away, Mairin spotted Charizard on the ground, unconscious and in his original form. Amber and Zwei had returned to the ground as well, with Zwei in her original form.
"Those two weren't that bad," Zwei remarked.
"Indeed. They held out much longer than expected," Amber agreed. "In the end though, the result was the same."
"Hey! What're you going to do to Alain?" Mairin asked.
"Who are you?" Amber asked.
"I'm Mairin, Alain's friend!" the redhead answered. "And I'm not going to let you hurt him! I may not be very strong as a trainer, but I'll fight you if I have to!"
"I have no desire to kill your friend," Amber assured her. "Especially since he did so well against Zwei and I. He was an amusing diversion. I hope we have the chance to battle him again."
"Okay… then what exactly are you going to do then?" Mairin asked. "What're you after?"
"We intend to remake this world," Zwei answered.
"Remake it? How?" Mairin asked.
"Zwei and I were not born into this world, but were created," Amber began. "But our creator used and betrayed us. We stand alone except for the other Pokemon in this world who were made artificially like we were."
"You mean like Galatea? That Magearna of yours?" Mairin recalled. "You said before that you rescued her."
"That's right," Amber confirmed. "The humans who awakened her merely wished to take her apart so they could use her very heart to power a weapon. To them, she was not truly alive."
"To humans, beings like us are merely objects and not truly alive," Zwei declared. "To them, we are nothing more than mere tools or toys. When we can no longer serve a purpose for them, they merely dispose of us without a second thought, without any real regard to our feelings."
"Zwei and I plan to change all that," Amber declared. "By the time we're done, those of use brought into this world by artificial means will become its masters. The humans who treated us as mere objects will bow before us."
"I think I sort of get why you want to do all that," Mairin admitted. "But not all people are as bad as you think they are! I may not know all that much about artificial Pokemon, but I do know that a lot of people don't treat them like they're not really alive."
"True… there do seem to be a handful of people who view synthetic beings like Zwei and myself as true living things," Amber admitted. "But for every one of those people, there are a hundred if not a thousand others who do not respect us as living things. The only way to deal with those people is to conquer them."
"And we will," Zwei added. "Once we find Mewtwo Ein, our campaign to conquer this world shall truly begin."
"Mairin, correct?" Amber spoke. "If your friend, Alain still intends to hunt us down, I welcome him to try. Fighting him again would truly be an amusement."
With that, Amber and Zwei disappeared with a flash of blue light. Mairin then immediately went to the task of patching up Alain and Charizard as best she could.
"…That's pretty much all that happened," Mairin told Alain. "I don't know where those two could've gone. My guess is they're off somewhere looking for that other Mewtwo they mentioned."
"So Charizard and I were nothing but a mere amusement to them," Alain spoke bitterly. "Lysandre was right. Those two really are a danger to this world… and we weren't strong enough to stop them. But that's going to change! Charizard are going to train even harder, and we will become strong enough to capture Amber Drei and her Mewtwo!"
"And I'm going to do everything I can to help!" Mairin decided.
"Mairin, I really think you should stay out of this," Alain told her. "You saw the kind of destruction that Zwei's last attack caused. This mission is simply far too dangerous."
"But that's all the more reason for me to stay with you, Alain!" Mairin pointed out. "You can't do this alone. If you and Charizard are going to train to get stronger, than I'm going to train right along with you! We'll take down Amber together!"
Alain smiled and shook his head. "I guess there really is no getting rid of you, is there?"
"Nope," Mairin confirmed.
"Very well then. We'll do this together," Alain finally agreed. "One way or another though, I will hunt down Amber Drei and bring her in! That is a promise!"
FIN
Author's Note: I hope everyone enjoyed the second installment in this one-shot collection. Before anyone asked about Alain and Mairin's last names in this story, those were something I just came up with on the fly. I hope that neither of them were too OOC from how they were in the anime. It's been a while since I've seen the Mega Evolution Specials, and I've admittedly only ever seen the first two or three. Anyway, Alain and Mairin will pretty much be recurring characters in this one-shot collection. They probably won't be appearing in the next story in this collection, but they will likely show up quite a bit. In the meantime, I don't quite know yet what I'm going to do as the next story in this collection, but I'll hopefully come up with something in the very near future.
Please review and let me know what you think.
