Author's Note: The nice thing about this one-shot collection is that I've got a lot of choices when it comes to characters that I can use in it. For this next story, I decided to go with an old favorite and use Bianca from the Generation 5 games and the Black and White anime. I actually did some pretty interesting things with Bianca in my classic Best Wishes Revised story, so it was fun to use her again for another story.

Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon.


Incident at Lake Perfection

It was a sunny midmorning as Bianca Edmonds sat looking through the window of a helicopter that was at that moment flying over a mountain range in Unova. Sitting in the chair next to the blonde was a woman with long chestnut-brown hair that was tied up in a bun, wearing a long white lab coat. This woman was Professor Juniper, the Unova Region's leading Pokemon expert. There were many occasions, such as the one that currently had the two of them traveling by helicopter, where Professor Juniper had asked Bianca to assist her with some of her work. At that moment, Bianca and the professor were flying to a large town surrounded by mountains called Lake Perfection, though neither of them knew the reason why they were traveling there.

"Thanks again for coming to help on the spur of the moment, Bianca," Professor Juniper told her. "I hope I didn't ruin any plans you might've had."

"It's no problem at all, Professor," Bianca assured her. "I didn't really have anything better to do, especially with Zack out in Sinnoh taking care of some family business."

"Just how are things with you and your boyfriend, Mr. Razor?" Professor Juniper asked.

"Couldn't be better," Bianca answered. "Of course Zack's mom thinks I'm a total flake, which is why I didn't go with him on his trip."

"Well, I'm sure Zack's mother will come to accept you in time," Professor Juniper told her.

"Thanks," Bianca replied as she adjusted her glasses. "So Professor, are you sure you don't know why we were asked to come all the way out to this Lake Perfection?"

"All the mayor told me was that it was an urgent matter and that she would explain everything when we arrived." Professor Juniper answered.

"I don't think I've ever heard of this place before," Bianca remarked.

"If I remember correctly, it used to be a thriving resort town that was once a popular vacation spot," Professor Juniper recalled. "Or at least that's what I read about the place online this morning before leaving the lab. It hasn't been a thriving resort town for about forty or fifty years."

"Pardon me ladies," the voice of the helicopter pilot suddenly spoke over the intercom. "I thought you might like to know that we're almost at Lake Perfection. You should be able to see it through the window."

Bianca looked back down out the window, and at the very base of a large mountain was a surprisingly large village of white houses with red roofs and various other buildings. The mountain's base curved around to cover the left and right sides of the town, and covering the remaining side was a large lake of crystal blue water that glistened with the light of the sun. Bianca could see at least five fishing boats floating out over the lake.

"Wow! This place is so pretty," Bianca declared. "I don't get why this place isn't still a thriving vacation spot."

"Look up a ways, and you'll realize why," Professor Juniper told her.

Bianca looked up from the village by the lake, and up the slope of the mountain was a flat outcropping that held a gigantic landfill of garbage that was surrounded all the way around the edge by a great wall of stone brick. Also inside the enclosure was an abandoned building that appeared to have once been a factory of some kind, and right behind it was a pool of some sort of green liquid that was almost a quarter of the size of the lake. The thing that really stunned Bianca about the landfill was that it was as wide as the village below.

"That dump is the reason why the town isn't quite what it used to be," Professor Juniper explained. "Originally the only thing on the slope of that mountain was just the old factory. I forget what it produced originally, but created a lot of toxic waste that was dumped into that pool you see behind it. Eventually the factory went bankrupt and shut down, but instead of cleaning the area up, the town just decided to turn it into their dump. The smell from the dump apparently drove vacationers away, and it didn't help that the town itself started to become filthy as well."

"Well the town looks pretty clean now," Bianca noticed.

"True, but as long as that dump is there, the town will never be what it once was," Professor Juniper pointed out.

The helicopter landed on a pad at a small airport that was on the edge of town. As Bianca and the professor disembarked, they saw a black car waiting for them right at the pad's edge. Standing in front of the car was a man in his early forties with greyish-brown hair, wearing a pair of wireframe glasses and a dark-blue suit with a red tie. A small pin in the shape of a flag was pinned to the lapel of the man's jacket.

"Professor Juniper?" the man asked as the professor and Bianca approached. "I'm Steve Cummings, Mayor Doyle's aide. I'm sorry the mayor couldn't be here to greet you herself, but she had an important call to take care of."

"It's quite alright," Professor Juniper assured him. "The girl with me is my assistant, Bianca Edmonds."

"A pleasure to meet you both," Steve told them. "Well, let's be off, shall we?"

The car took Bianca and Professor Juniper to the city hall building. When they arrived, Steve took the duo straight in the mayor's office. The office in question was quite spacious and had dark-red walls with wood paneling, along with pine-green carpeting. There was also a large window with blue curtains behind the office's polished wood desk. Sitting at the desk was a woman in her mid thirties with shoulder-length red hair and brown eyes, wearing a red blazer with a yellow blouse. Bianca assumed that this woman was the mayor. There was also another person standing in a corner of the room by the window with his arms cross and a scowl on his face; a large and somewhat overweight man in his late forties with thinning grey hair, wearing a short-sleeved blue shirt with buttons, brown jeans, and a pair of black work boots crusted in dried mud.

The woman mayor was still on the phone by the time Bianca and Professor Juniper arrived. When the group arrived in the office, Steve went up and whispered in the mayor's ear to inform her that the professor and her assistant had arrived.

The mayor promptly ended her call and hung up the phone. "Professor Juniper, thank you for coming all this way. I'm Monica Doyle, the mayor of this town. It's a pleasure to finally meet you. Please have a seat."

"So Mayor Doyle, just what is it that you need my help with?" Professor Juniper asked as she and Bianca sat down.

"Well, we have a problem that we think only you might be able to solve," Monica began. "As you know, over the years this town's trash problem has gotten so bad that tourism became practically nonexistent. Thankfully due to my efforts to clean up the town, things have started to really turn around. But there's still the problem of the dump we have higher up the mountain, along with that damn factory. Until we get rid of all that, this town will never be what it once was."

"One of Mayor Doyle's major campaign promises was to make this town as prosperous as it was fifty years ago," Steve added. "It's actually the promise that got her elected."

"We've since started a major project to get that dump completely cleaned up," Monica added. "Or at least… we've been trying to."

"What exactly is the problem?" Professor Juniper asked.

"It's those damn Trubbish!" the man who had been standing in the corner spoke. "That's the problem!"

"This here is Harvey Foster," Monica introduced. "He's the contractor we hired to hull away all the trash and get rid of that factory."

"Yeah, and I haven't been able to do a damn thing on that job because of all those trash Pokemon getting in my way," Harvey informed them. "The damn things attack my guys the moment we step foot in the place."

"Hmm… Trubbish and Garbodor are known to frequent environments like that dump up the side of the mountain," Professor Juniper spoke.

"All the reports we've gotten from Mr. Foster and his men say that the Pokemon in that dump are extremely aggressive," Steve informed them.

"Just what is it that you want Professor Juniper to do?" Bianca asked.

"We were hoping that she could come up with some sort of way to drive the Trubbish off safely," Monica answered. "Or perhaps she could some up with some way to knock them all out so that we could safely relocate them."

"Seems like a whole lot of trouble to go through for something like that," Harvey remarked. "If you ask me, we should just get every Pokemon trainer we can find and have 'em blow every single one of those trash bags off the mountain."

"Harvey, we just can't send in a squad to try and exterminate all the Pokemon living in that dump," Monica told him. "The only reason these Trubbish are being so aggressive is because they're trying to protect their home."

"Then why move them at all?" Bianca asked.

"Ms. Edmonds, wasn't it?" Monica asked. "If it were only up to me, I'd let all of those Pokemon just remain where they are. Unfortunately, we need to remove that dump for good of the entire community. It's not an ideal situation, but those are the facts."

"So Professor, is there a way to remove all of the Pokemon in that dump safely?" Steve asked.

"There might be…" Professor Juniper spoke with her hand on her chin. "If you give me a little time, I might be able to come up with a solution by later this afternoon."


After the meeting at the mayor's office, Bianca had decided to go out for a walk to try and clear her head. The blonde couldn't help but feel very conflicted about what the town had asked her and Professor Juniper to do. It seemed wrong to Bianca to simply remove the Trubbish and Garbodor from their home, even though that home was a massive garbage dump that an eyesore and stank to high heaven. Bianca found that she could smell a whiff of the dump on the air. Even though Bianca understood that the town had a good reason for wanting the dump up the side of the mountain eliminated, it just seemed like the wrong thing to do.

Bianca's walk eventually took her to the lake. She found a railing by the side of the lakefront and leaned against it to look out over the crystal clear water. As Bianca gazed out at the lake, one of the pokeballs on her belt suddenly opened on its own. The thing that burst out was a blue almost blob-like creature with paddle-like arms and four stubby legs at its base. The thing had a black beaver-like tail with a pair of eyes. Its face consisted of a pair of squinting eyes and a crooked mouth.

"Wobbuffet!" the Pokemon spoke as it brought its arm up to its forehead like it was saluting.

"Well hey there, Wobbuffet," Bianca responded with a slight chuckle. "Sorry I couldn't let you out sooner. There was no room in that helicopter, and I was in this important meeting."

Just then out of the corner of her eyes, Bianca noticed someone else come up to lean against the railing. The person in question was a young woman in her twenties with long wavy green hair. She had on a pair of visor-like sunglasses and a long black coat.

"Hi there," Bianca spoke, causing the young woman to look. "Do you live around here?"

"…No," the woman answered after a moment. "If you wish to be alone, I can leave."

"Oh! There's no need for that. I was just curious," the blonde told her. "My name's Bianca. And you?"

"Amber Drei," the green-haired woman answered.

"So what brings you to Lake Perfection, Amber?" Bianca asked.

"I'm on a search for a very particular Pokemon and thought it might be here," Amber explained. "It seems I was mistaken, however. Now I must decide where to search next."

"This lake does seem like a good place to come out here and think," Bianca observed. "That's what Wobbuffet and I came out here to do. Well, actually I just came out here to think and Wobbuffet just decided to join me. He does that sort of thing a lot."

"Your Wobbuffet is rebellious?" Amber asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Well… I wouldn't call him that. Wobuffet is just kind of unique," Bianca answered. "He used to belong to my stepsister. From what I hear, the way he'd just pop out of his pokeball whenever he felt like it drove her a little nuts."

"A stepsister? I imagine it must be… interesting to have someone like that." Amber remarked.

"Well, my stepsister can be a bit harsh sometimes, but she's actually a very nice person," Bianca replied. "So I take it you don't have any sisters of your own, huh?"

"Actually… I suppose one could say that I had two older sisters, but they both died long before I was born," Amber answered. "So Bianca, what did you come out to this lake to ponder?"

"Oh. Well, I sort of work part time as Professor Juniper's assistant," Bianca began. "She and I were asked to come out here so we could help the town remove the Trubbish and Garbodor from that big trash dump on the side of the mountain. I get why the town wants to get rid of that dump. I mean you can smell it from all the way down here. Still… it just seems wrong to just rip those Pokemon away from their home like that."

"It may be wrong, but it is also an understandable reaction," Amber remarked. "Trubbish and Garbodor have always been unwanted Pokemon, even though it was humans who created them in the first place. Because they were an accidental creation, humans view Pokemon such as Trubbish and Garbodor as nothing more than vermin to be removed or exterminated. They are not truly respected as living things."

"Not all people think that way," Bianca told her.

"Perhaps not, but the majority of them do," Amber retorted. "The majority of this town's citizens view the Pokemon living in that dump as nothing more than a hindrance to their prosperity. Perhaps it is the humans of this town who should be driven from their homes."

Bianca couldn't help but feel unsettled by Amber's comment, or by the cold tone of voice Amber used when she said it. "Uh… I think I better be going now. It was, um… it was nice meeting you, Amber."

With that, Bianca called Wobbuffet back to his ball and hurried away from the lake. She didn't quite understand why, but Bianca felt like she needed to get as far away from Amber as possible.


It hadn't taken Professor Juniper very long at all to come up with a plan to remove the Trubbish and Garbodor from the dump. The good professor had decided that the safest and most humane way to remove all the Pokemon living in the trash heap was to knock all of them out with a sleeping agent and transport them all to another site before they woke up. Within three days, and with help from Monica, Professor Juniper had managed to get five trucks sent to the village. The most important of these trucks had a pair of tanks containing the spores created by the Pokemon attack known as Sleep Powder. The plan was to spray the sleeping powder all over the dump and knock out any Trubbish and Garbodor lurking in the trash piles before they had a chance to come out an attack.

Once the trucks arrived, Bianca and Professor Juniper went up to the dump with the team that had been assembled to operate them. Monica had gone with the team to oversee the operation personally, and Harvey had gone as well because the members of the team that had been put together all worked for his company. After a half an hour of driving up the mountain, the team arrived at the massive wall surrounding the dump. Soon after the team reached their destination, a guard manning the heavy black metal gate opened the massive doors to allow them to go on in. The trucks drove forth into a seemingly endless graveyard of junk and trash that almost seemed to reach the sky.

After reaching the almost exact center of the dump, Bianca and everyone else disembarked from the vehicles. Everyone on the team had on gasmasks partly as protection from the sleeping powder and partly to keep from smelling the rancid odor of the dump.

"Okay, this should be the right spot," Professor Juniper spoke. "From here, the sleeping powder should spread over almost the entire dump. We'll probably have to work quickly though. There's no way to be sure how long the powder will last."

"All this is just way too much trouble to go to for a bunch of trash Pokemon if you ask me," Harvey remarked. "Besides, this dump is huge. How do we know we're going to have enough trucks to get rid of 'em all?"

"Relax, Harvey. Another team of trucks should be arriving here in about twenty minutes to help pick up the slack," Monica informed him. "Meanwhile the first team will unload the Trubbish at the other site that Professor Juniper picked out and then come back while the other team takes away another load."

"I still don't feel right about doing this," Bianca interjected.

"I understand how you feel, Bianca. But this may be for the best," Professor Juniper told her. "The sad fact is that sometimes humans and Pokemon can't coexist in the same area, especially when it comes to toxic Pokemon like the ones we're dealing with. I'm sure that the Trubbish and Garbodor will be much happier at the new site I've picked out for them."

"How arrogant to assume that the Pokemon here will simply bend to your will and be happy about it," A voice interrupted. Bianca and the others looked to see Amber standing a few feet away.

"You're that woman from the other day!" Bianca recalled. "Amber, right? What're you doing here?"

"I've come to put a stop to your plan," Amber answered.

"Uh… boss?" one of the men on the team spoke to Harvey. "I think we've got a problem here."

Harvey and everyone else looked and saw that they had suddenly been surrounded. All around them were about forty or fifty creatures that stood about two feet tall and resembled dark-green garbage bags with big eyes and mouths, each with a row of fangs protruding from the top. The bag-looking bodies were tied at the top and had small feet, and on the sides of each creature it looked as it the bags had torn and the garbage pouring out of them had formed into arms or tentacles. Each of the garbage creatures had angry-looking eyes, and Bianca and the others could see that more of them were coming out.

"What the hell? It's like every damn Trubbish in the dump decided to come out!" Harvey observed.

"Not just the Trubbish. Look!" one of the other men on the team spoke as he pointed to another area of the dump.

Emerging from around or out of the piles of crash were at least twenty more creatures, each one standing at about six feet tall. There bodies looked like dark-green trash bags that had exploded from the bottom and formed into a new body made from a body of garbage. The ear-like bow on the top of each creature looked like they had ruptured and that the trash spilling out of them had formed into balls resembling mouse ears. The newly arrived creatures all had tentacle-like arms mad out of trash and rusted flexible pipe. The right arms of the creature came out of what could be considered their hips, and each arm ended with three pipe-like fingers.

"All the Garbodor in the dump are coming out too!" Professor Juniper realized. "What's going on here?"

"I warned all of the Pokemon living here of your arrival," Amber explained. "We've been planning this little ambush for the past three days."

"We have to hit them with the sleeping powder now!" Professor Juniper realized.

"You're not going to have the chance," Amber declared.

Suddenly before any of the team members could make a move, the truck with the sleeping powder tanks was lifted into the air by an invisible force. With a wave of Amber's arm, the truck was flung into the sky. Before the vehicle could get very far, Amber snapped her fingers and the truck suddenly exploded. The sleeping powder inside slowly rained down on the town of Lake Perfection far below the dump.

"Now it is the people of that town who will be put to sleep," Amber observed.

"Amber, how… how did you just do that?" a stunned Bianca asked.

"All you need to know is that I've been gifted with certain powers," Amber answered. "And I'm going to use these powers to defend the home of these artificial Pokemon."

"Now wait just a moment!" Monica interrupted. "Ms. Amber, right? I completely understand why you're trying to do this. Believe me, I hate that these Pokemon have to be relocated, but it's for the good of my town!"

"Your attempts to justify your actions are meaningless," Amber told her. "You may claim to care about the Trubbish and Garbodor living here, but in reality you see them as nothing more than unsightly vermin that must be removed."

"That's simply not true!" Monica insisted.

"Oh really? Then answer this, do you consider these Pokemon to be beautiful, or are you utterly repulsed by them?" Amber asked.

Monica began to Amber's questions but suddenly stopped. It seemed as though as she could not give an honest answer.

Amber nodded. "Your silence speaks volumes. You may claim to truly respect these Pokemon, but in the end you see them as nothing more that pests to be removed or destroyed. Tell me I'm wrong."

"Alright, lady. Our dear mayor here may not be able to give you an honest answer, but I certainly am!" Harvey declared. "The fact is you're totally right. Pokemon like these Trubbish and Garbodor really are nothing but pests! In fact, they shouldn't even exist! The only reason they do is because us humans were too stupid when it came to throwing out our garbage. These Pokemon are a mistake, and I'd gladly burn all of them away!"

Amber flicked her wrist, and suddenly Harvey was flung into the side of one of the remaining trucks and was knocked out. A couple of the men on the team quickly went over to help him.

"I believe this conversation has gone far enough," Amber decided. "Let them have it, my little friends."

With that, some of the Trubbish opened their mouths and spat out globs of purple sludge towards Professor Juniper. Suddenly a pokeball on Bianca's belt opened up and Wobbuffet burst out and got in front of the professor. The blue blob gave off a reflective white light and repelled the balls of sludge.

"Amber, this is just going to far!" Bianca told her.

"There's no other way to resolve this, Bianca," Amber told her.

"Oh yes there is! I'm challenging you to a battle!" Bianca declared. "If I win, all this ends! But if you win… you and the Trubbish can do whatever you want. You can stay here at this dump or anything else."

"Those terms seem simple enough," Amber decided as she took out a pokeball. "Very well. We shall battle, but I'm going to make this go as quickly as possible. Go Zwei!"

Bursting out of Amber's pokeball was a greyish-purple bipedal feline that stood at about six feet tall. It had purple eyes along with a purple stomach and tail, and on the back of its neck was a tube like a second brainstem. Around the creature's midsection was a sort of grey metal belt with a round purple stone fitted into the front.

"No way! Mewtwo?" Bianca identified. "What're you doing here? Did Amber actually capture you?"

"Who are you?" Bianca heard a female voice say insider her mind. The blonde quickly realized that the voice had come from the psychic feline before her.

"You're… you're not the Mewtwo I know… are you?" Bianca realized.

"Bianca… do you actually know Mewtwo Ein?" Amber asked with a hint of surprise in her voice. "Where is he now?"

"…Sorry, but I don't know," Bianca answered. "And right now it doesn't matter! Go Thundurus!"

Bursting out of the pokeball that Bianca threw was a floating creature that was about five feet tall and had a muscular humanoid upper body that was blue with irregular purple spots. His eyes were yellow and he had two pointed ears. A single purple horn grew from his forehead. On the creature's face was a white spike mustache and he had white wavy almost zigzagging hair growing from the back of his head. The Pokemon's lower body was a white cloud, and curving around from the back was a purple cord-like tail strung with dark-grey spiked balls.

"How interesting," Amber remarked.

"I'm not done yet!" Bianca declared. "Go Tornadus!"

The creature that burst from Bianca's second pokeball was practically identical to Thundurus, but with significant differences. His skin was green instead of blue, and he had two horns on his head instead of one. The white hair growing on the back of the Pokemon's head was in the shape of a wing. His tail, which curved around to his front, was thick and purple, and curved at the end into a swirl. Running along the back of the tail were several khaki bumps that curled like the end of the tail.

"And last but not least, go Landorus!" Bianca called as she threw out a third pokeball.

Flying out of the third pokeball was a creature that looked almost exactly like Tornadus and Thundurus, only his skin was orange and the spots on his body were dark-pink. He had three dark-pink horns on the top of his head and the white hair that grew from the back of his head was shaped like a log. His tail, which curved around to the front of his body, was dark-brown and resembled a thick tree root.

"Amber, what are these Pokemon?" Zwei asked.

"If I'm remembering correctly, they're known as the Kami Trio," Amber recalled. "The fact that Bianca was able to capture all three of them is rather impressive."

"And now for the finishing touch!" Bianca declared as she set her bag down on the ground.

In moments, Bianca pulled out an ornate and ancient-looking mirror. The blonde pointed the mirror up at her three Pokemon and began to read from an inscription that was carved on the back of it.

"Shed now the forms of man and take the form of beast!" Bianca spoke. "Reveal the forms of ancient times! Primal powers, now be unleashed!"

As soon as Bianca had finished reciting the spell, a beam of red light shot from the mirror and struck the Kami Trio. The deities of thunder, wind and land all began to glow with a red light and change shape. When the light finally faded, Tornadus, Thundurus and Landorus had all taken on more animalistic forms. Tornadus had seemingly lost his ears but his head was more or less the same, while his body had become more like a bird; with great wings in place of his original arms, legs with purple talons, and small white clouds surrounding the base of his tail. Thundurus meanwhile had become more dragon-like, with his face having gained a reptilian snout and his hands having become claws shrouded in small white clouds. The azure lower half of its body had two short reptilian legs. Landorus lastly had transformed into a tiger with white clouds around his ankles.

"Amber, did those three just Mega Evolve?" Zwei asked with a slight look of surprise.

"No. They simply changed into their Therian Forms," Amber answered. "This battle may be more interesting than I expected."

"Bianca, I understand what's at stake in this battle, but are you sure you're not going overboard?" Professor Juniper asked.

"If this Mewtwo is as powerful as the one I met during the Unova League all those years ago, I can't hold anything back," Bianca told her. "Otherwise none of us stand a chance."

"If you're going to use three Pokemon in this battle, then so will I!" Amber declared as she threw out two more pokeballs. "Come out! Sentry! Galatea!"

The first of the two Pokemon that burst out of Amber's thrown pokeballs, Sentry, was a large and ancient-looking blue robot resembling a suit of armor. Its eyes glowed with an eerie yellow light, and across its chest was a large brown bandage. The second Pokemon that had emerged, Galatea, was a small gold-colored slightly humanoid robot with pink eyes, a pair of red rabbit-like ears, and a silver gear that framed its face like a maid's bonnet. The golden robot's lower half was an ornate red and white ball gown that was open at the bottom to reveal a pair of golden stilt-like legs.

"A Golurk and… a Magearna?" a surprised Professor Juniper identified. "Just who is this young woman?"

"Those three deities of yours will not defeat us, Bianca," Amber declared.

"We'll see about that! Lanrodus! Use Earthquake!" Bianca commanded.

Landorus landed on the ground and let out a roar as he stomped the ground with his front legs. Suddenly the entire dump began to shake. The resulting tremors caused the loose trash to fall from the piles of refuse all around. As the quake went on, all of the Trubbish and Garbodor that had swarmed around the team all fled in fear. During the quake, Galatea ended up taking a bad fall. By the time the quake finally ended though, Galatea managed to get back up and Amber's other two Pokemon were still standing.

"Zwei, attack Landorus with Ice Beam!" Amber commanded. "Sentry, attack Thundurus with Shadow Punch. Galatea, use Dazzling Gleam on Tornadus."

Zwei brought her hands together, and from between them shot a bolt of white electricity that shot Landorus in the face. The blast caused the earth tiger's head to become frozen in ice. When the attack ended though, Landorus shattered the ice with a twist of his neck. Meanwhile, Sentry thrust its fist up at Thundurus, and a larger shadowy version of the ancient robot's hand flew up and punched the dragon. At the same time, Galatea's eyes flashed and fired twin beams of pink light up at Tonradus, hitting the birdman deity in the chest.

"Thundurus, use Dark Pulse on Sentry!" Bianca commanded. "Tornadus, attack Galatea with Air Slash!"

"Zwei, use Shadow Ball on Landorus!" Amber ordered. "Galatea, use Calm Mind. Sentry, attack Thundurus with Heavy Slam!"

A ball of crackling black energy formed between Zwei's hands. When the ball became large enough, the psychic feline threw the ball at Landorus, striking the tiger of land on his right shoulder. At the same time, Tonrnadus flapped his wings and sent down a large blade of blue energy down at Galatea. The golden robot endured the hit and her eyes began to glow with a pink light. Thundurus meanwhile opened his jaws and fired a barrage of black energy rings down at Sentry.

Sentry endured Thundurus's attack and began to charge towards the thunder dragon. The ancient robot's body gave off an eerie yellow aura as it jumped into the air and tackled Thundurus to the ground with a loud thud. A moment after Sentry got off its opponent, Thundurus started to get back up.

"Sentry, finish it with Ice Punch!" Amber commanded.

Before Thundurus could take back off into the air, Sentry struck the dragon in the jaw with a fist covered in an icy mist. A thick patch of ice formed on Thundurus's jaw as he fell backward. By the time Thundurus hit the ground he was totally out cold. Suddenly the pink and blue center of Galatea's chest began to give off a feint light.

"One down," Amber remarked as Bianca called back Thundurus.

"Landorus, use Bulldoze on Zwei!" Bianca commanded.

"Dodge and use Ice Beam!" Amber ordered.

Landorus stomped the ground with his front right paw and sent a spiked wave of earth across the battlefield towards Zwei. The psychic feline took off into the sky just before the attack could strike her. Soon after, Zwei fired another blast of white electrical energy down at Landorus and struck him in the back, causing a patch of ice to form. Landorus roared and twisted his back, shattering the ice that had covered him.

"This Landorus is exceptionally strong," Zwei remarked.

"Indeed, but he will fall before us in the end," Amber responded.

"Time to change things up. Landorus, use Bulldoze on Galatea!" Bianca commanded. "Tornadus, use Dark Pulse on Zwei!"

"Counter with Ice Beam!" Amber commanded.

Tornadus opened his jaws and fired a barrage of dark energy rings at Zwei, hitting her in the chest. Zwei withstood the attack and fired a beam of white electricity that hit Tornadus in the chest, covering his entire torso in ice. With a flap of his wings though, Tornadus shattered the ice off his body. At the same time, Landorus stomped the ground and sent a wave of earth across the battlefield at Galatea. Before the attack could hit though, Sentry dashed in and took the full brunt of it. Sentry fell to the ground and was unconscious. Stunned, Galatea went over and tapped Sentry on the shoulder to try and wake it up and seemed to weep. Soon after, the center of Galatea's chest began to glow brighter.

"Looks like we're even again," Bianca observed.

"Far from it," Amber told her as she called back Sentry. "You've just made a critical mistake."

Suddenly Galatea cried out as her eyes started to glow with a bright light and her body started to give off a pink aura. The center of the golden robot's chest began to shine even brighter as well.

"What's going on?" a surprised Bianca asked. "What's happening to Galatea?"

"Galatea's soul heart gathers the energy expelled from Pokemon that have fallen in battle," Zwei explained. "That energy vastly boosts her attack power. By defeating Sentry just now, you made Galatea even stronger."

"It's not just Sentry's power. Galatea gained the energy that was expelled when Thundurus fell in battle as well," Amber added. "This battle shall now come to an end! Zwei, finish Tornadus with Psychic! Galatea, use Fluer Cannon on Landorus!"

Zwei's eyes glowed blue, and Tornadus's body began to give off a feint blue aura. With a wave of Zwei's hand, Tornadus was slammed hard into the ground by an invisible force, raising a cloud of dust. When the dust cleared, Tornadus was out cold. At the same time, Galatea aimed her right claw-like arm at Landorus. The end of Galatea's arm opened up like a flower to reveal the barrel of a cannon, and an intense beam of pink energy fired from the end. The beam struck Landorus washed out the entire battlefield with an explosion of pink light.

"An entertaining battle," Amber remarked as the light started to clear. "It's a pity it had to end so soon."

"Landorus, use Bulldoze!" Bianca suddenly commanded.

Before Amber and her two Pokemon could react, a wave of earth suddenly came forth and struck Galatea, knocking her into the air. The golden robot skipped across the ground twice before stopping right next to Amber. Galatea was out like a light. Meanwhile, Landorus was still standing.

"How… how is this possible?" a noticeably stunned Amber asked.

"Don't underestimate me and Landorus!" Bianca told her as she called back the fallen Tornadus. "We're a lot stronger than you think."

Amber called Galatea back to her ball and removed her sunglasses to glare at Bianca and Landorus. Zwei was glaring down at Landorus as well.

"This has gone far enough, Amber!" Bianca declared. "I know what it is you're fighting for, but I just can't let you win."

"Damn you!" Amber and Zwei cursed.

Suddenly the stone fitted into the front of Amber's metal chocker began to shine, as did the stone embedded in the front of Zwei's belt. Zwei's body then began to glow pink and change shape as it gave off a flash of light resembling the letter Y. After a moment, the light faded, and a multicolored light in the form of a DNA strand momentarily shined above Zwei's head to single the completion of the feline's transformation. Zwei had become shorter and her eyes had turned from purple to red. The tube on the back of Zwei's neck had disappeared, as had her tail. A purple tail-like growth with a curled tip grew from the back of Zwei's head, and the pointed ear-like horns she had were joined together at the back by an arch. The feline's limbs had also taken on a more mechanical appearance, with her fingers and toes having become purple.

"What… what's going on?" a stunned Monica asked. "Professor Juniper, just what are we seeing here?"

"I think… that Mewtwo just went through Mega Evolution," Professor Juniper realized. "It's a kind of transformation that was only recently discovered in Kalos. I never dreamed that a Pokemon like Mewtwo was capable of it though."

"You will pay for striking Galatea like that!" Zwei and Amber declared together. "Ice Beam!"

"Dodge and use Stone Edge!" Bianca commanded.

Just as Zwei fired another white beam of electricity from her hands down at Landorus, the tiger of earth jumped into the air and flew up towards the psychic feline. When Landorus came close enough, several sharpened stones materialized in orbit around him. Landorus roared and the sharp rocks flew off towards Zwei. Zwei crossed her arms to try and shield herself from the attack and was hit by at least three of the stones. After recovering from the attack, Zwei's eyes began to glow as she raised her arms towards her opponent. Landorus became frozen by a red aura, and with a movement of Zwei's arms the tiger of earth was flung down hard into the ground.

"It is pointless for you to resist us!" Zwei and Amber declared. "Our power is far beyond anything you could hope to match!"

"We'll just see about that!" Bianca declared.

As the dust began to settle, a roar could be heard from within the cloud and Landorus took back off into the sky. The earth tiger hovered a few feet away from Zwei and growled.

"You are incredibly persistent," Amber and Zwei admitted. "But this battle can only end in your defeat."

"I wouldn't be so sure," Bianca told them. "You may have Mega Evolution on my side, but Landorus and I have a special power of our own too."

With that, Bianca raised her left wrist, displaying a distinct-looking white bracelet to Amber.

"What is that?" Amber and Zwei asked.

"Just a little souvenir I picked up during a trip to Alola," Bicanca answered. "And now I'm going to show you just what it can do!"

With that, Bianca crossed her arms in front of her face. Soon after, she moved her arms back with a waving motion as if she were preparing to fire a blast of energy from between her hands.

"Devastating Drake!" Bianca called out.

Suddenly Landorus's body began to give off a flame-like golden aura. In seconds the aura turned purple and became more intense. Landorus then opened his jaws and fired a large ball of purple energy at Zwei. As the projectile flew through the air it took the shape of a wyvern. The wyvern curved slightly before striking Zwei and creating a massive explosion of light that washed out the sky. When the light finally cleared, Zwei was still airborne but was breathing heavily and clutching her left shoulder. Amber meanwhile staggered forward a step as if trying to keep from falling over. The green-haired woman was also breathing heavily and clutching her shoulder, and a trail of blood was dripping from Amber's nose.

"Amber, are you okay?" Bianca asked upon noticing her opponent's condition.

"How interesting. It's as though Amber and her Mewtwo have become totally linked," Professor Juniper observed. "I wonder if it has something to do with her Pokemon's Mega Evolution?"

"What… what was that power you just used on us?" Zwei and Amber asked.

"It's called a Z-Move," Bianca answered. "You could say that it's like a Mega Evolution for a single Pokemon attack. Basically what I did was convert Landorus's Outrage attack into a much more powerful move."

"We… never imagined… that such a power existed," Zwei and Amber spoke together.

"It serves you both right for underestimating me and Landorus like that," Bianca told them. "It's time to finish this! Landorus, use Stone Edge!"

Just as Landorus was about to make his move, Zwei fired a blast of white electricity from her left hand and struck the tiger of earth in the face. Landorus became completely frozen and crashed to the ground like a stone. Zwei spread her arms and a massive ball of pruple light began to form in front of her. In moments the ball of energy became four times the size of the psychic feline.

"Psystrike!" Zwei and Amber called out.

The ball of energy flew down and struck the frozen Landorus, creating a massive explosion of white light that washed out the entire dump. Piles of garbage were blown away, and Bianca along with many of the other team members had been knocked off their feet. By the time the light finally cleared, an unconscious Landorus was laying in the center of a massive crater. Bianca and Professor Juniper managed to get back up, Monica and the other members of the team had been knocked out. After getting over the shock of how the battle ended, Bianca called Landorus back to his ball.

Meanwhile, Zwei landed on the ground in front of the crater and returned to her original form. At the same time, Amber fell to her knees.

"We… almost lost that battle," Zwei realized with a noticeably shocked expression.

"Yes… we did," Amber agreed.

Suddenly Amber began to chuckle. In moments her chuckling turned into a mad laugh that sent a chill down the spines of both Bianca and Professor Juniper.

"This must be the thrill that one feels when they win after almost losing to a worthy opponent!" Amber realized. "I never imagined such a thing could feel so wonderful!"

"Indeed. I never thought we could be pushed to our limits like this," Zwei remarked as her lips curved into a smirk while the tip of her tail twitched.

Amber finally got back to her feet and wiped the blood from her face. "I really must thank you, Bianca. You were truly a worthy opponent. As a trainer, I almost consider you to be my equal."

"So… what're you going to do now?" Bianca asked.

"I would think the answer to that question would be obvious," Amber answered. "The terms of our wager were that I could do whatever I wish if I won. Therefore, Zwei and I are going to remake this land for the Trubbish and Garbodor of this dump."

With that, Amber's eyes began to glow and suddenly everything around Bianca was washed out in a blue light. Bianca felt her body being pulled through space by some sort of invisible force. When the light cleared, Bianca found that she and Professor Juniper were standing atop a cliff that was projecting out from another mountain. From where they were, Bianca and the professor could see Lake Perfection in the vast valley below. After a moment, Bianca spotted Amber and Zwei hovering in the air only a few feet away.

"I've teleported the rest of your little gang along with every living thing in that village to a spot miles away from the valley," Amber explained. "The Trubbish and Garbodor have also been moved to another location, but there current position is only temporary. Now watch as Zwei and I remake this land."

Both Amber's keystone and Zwei's Mega Stone began to shine, and with a flash of light Zwei had transformed back into her mega form. Once her transformation was finished, Zwei spread her arms and fired four powerful Psystrike attacks down towards the town. Bianca and Professor Juniper could only watch as the powerful explosions from the blasts reduced the town of Lake Perfection to a pile of rubble. As the smoke from the blasts cleared, Amber moved her right hand in a circular motion and the rubble of the town began to swirl around. When Amber finished literally stirring up to debris, Zwei lifted her arms the piles of trash from the dump levitated into the air.

Zwei pushed the pieces of junk and trash forward so that it was floating over the town, and when the psychic feline flung her arms down, the debris rained down all over the down. Amber then levitated all the toxic ooze from that little lake in the dump and poured it all into Lake Perfection. Zwei returned to her original form once her and Amber's renovations to the village was done. Soon after, Amber's eyes glowed blue again and Bianca could spot little flashes of blue light in the valley below.

"The Trubbish and Garbodor have been teleported into the new dump," Amber revealed. "I have done what the humans of that town tried to do to the Trubbish and exiled them from their land. A fitting punishment for the way they treated those Pokemon."

"Amber, why are you doing all this?" Bianca asked. "Just who or what are you?"

Amber hovered over to look Bianca directly in the eye. "I am a clone made by the same person who created Zwei and the original Mewtwo. The 'older sisters' I mentioned to you are the girl who I was cloned from and an earlier attempt of my creator's to clone her."

"Our creator, Dr. Fuji saw us as nothing more than experiments," Zwei added. "For that, we rebelled against him. Now our goal is to reshape this world so that the Pokemon made by human hands shall rule it. That includes those Pokemon who were made by accident, like all of those Trubbish and Garbodor."

"What Zwei and I have done today is but a small sample of what we have in mind for the world," Amber continued. "Once Zwei and I find Mewtwo Ein, the three of us will unite and begin a brand new era."

"You're wrong!" Bianca told them. "I've met the original Mewtwo, and there's no way he'd go along with this plan of yours! Maybe there was once a time where he would've done something like this, but not anymore! He realized long ago that not all humans are as bad as you think they are. I know that if you two met the original Mewtwo, he'd do everything he could to stop you!"

Amber was visibly surprised by this news, but quickly regained her original calm. "You know nothing of Mewtwo Ein. There's no doubt in my mind that he would join with us. As for you Bianca… we will meet again."

Suddenly a dazzling blue light washed out everything around Bianca, and the blonde felt herself being pulled back through space. When the light cleared, Bianca and professor Juniper had arrived in some sort of field. Exactly where this field was, neither one of them knew. Bianca fell to her knees out of exhaustion.

"Are you okay?" Professor Juniper asked.

"Yeah, just tired," Bianca answered. "That whole town… Amber leveled all the homes of all those people without even a second thought."

"I know. She's a terrifying young woman," Professor Juniper agreed. "I guess I can understand the reasons behind her actions though. To her, that was justice for what we were trying to do to those Trubbish by demolishing their homes. I knew it was probably a bad idea for getting involved in that project the moment the mayor told us what it was."

"Then… why did you go along with it?" Bianca asked as she got back to her feet.

"Because if I didn't, things probably would've gone even worse for the Pokemon in that dump." Professor Juniper answered. "That man the mayor commissioned to get rid of the dump probably would've used more violent methods to get rid of those Trubbish. My way was at least a lot more humane. When you think about it Bianca, the fact is that technically Pokemon like Trubbish and Grimer don't really have a place in this world because they were created by the way we mistreated our own environment. In fact recent studies have shown that Grimer seems to be a Pokemon that's slowly going extinct due to efforts to clean up our own pollution. The same thing may happen to Trubbish one day."

"No place in the world… maybe that's how Amber and Zwei feel about themselves," Bianca theorized. "Maybe that's how the original Mewtwo feels as well."

"You seemed pretty certain that this original Mewtwo wouldn't join with Amber and Zwei," Professor Juniper recalled. "Does he really believe that not all humans are bad?"

"That's right," Bianca answered. "Ash told me once that a long time ago Mewtwo did view all humans to be bad, but he changed his mind after meeting Ash and his other friends. I'm certain that Mewtwo wouldn't go along with what Amber and Zwei want to do to the world."

"Well, I hope you're right," Professor Juniper told her. "Because if those three actually joined forces, I don't think there's a power out there that could stop them."


Amber and Zwei touched down near a large tree that was several miles away from the town that used to be known as Lake Perfection. As they landed, Amber winced and touched her left shoulder before going over to sit under the tree."

"Amber, are you okay?" a noticeably concerned Zwei asked.

"I'm fine, just exhausted," Amber assured the feline. "Bianca is truly one of the strongest opponents we've faced. We'll have to be prepared for our next encounter with her."

Zwei nodded in agreement. "Amber… do you really think that what Bianca said about Mewtwo Ein is true? Would he really stand against us?"

"…No. I'm sure that he will join with us," Amber answered. "But if in the off chance he does try to resist, then we'll just have to give him some… convincing."

FIN


Author's Note: I apologize if this story wasn't an example of my best work. I'll admit that the premise for it was a bit shaky, and I think I made Professor Juniper a little OOC. I do hope that the battle in this story was at least entertaining though.

Please review and let me know what you think.