Author's Note: Well, it's been a long time road (admittedly too long, perhaps), but we're finally at the finale of this oneshot collection that's no longer really a oneshot collection. I had originally planned to have the encounter we're about to see for a separate story, but upon recent reflection I decided that it made a lot more sense to have it happen as the final episode of this story. So here we are, the long-awaited showdown between the original Mewtwo and the new model.
Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon.
Mewtwo XY, Part 1
It was in the middle of the night as Dr. Ichiro Fuji awoke in his hospital bed. He had been drifting in and out of consciousness for the past few days, and when he woke up it always took him a few seconds to recall where he was and why he was there. In moments Dr. Fuji remembered that he was at the hospital of his childhood home in Lavender Town, and that he had been brought there to recover from the injuries he had suffered on his island in the Kalos Region; injuries caused by his most recent creations. Months before, Dr. Fuji had repeated and improved upon his greatest experiment. Not only had the scientist made a second version of the Pokemon known as Mewtwo, he had made a human psychic cloned from the DNA of his dead daughter, Amber to act as that Mewtwo's partner.
Just like what happened with the original Mewtwo though, the clone of Amber and Mewtwo Zwei lashed out at Dr. Fuji, injuring him and destroying his island from what he had heard later on. The attack had left the misguided scientist even more crippled than before. He was now a broken shell of a man, almost totally paralyzed and unable to leave his bed. On top of it all though, Dr. Fuji was also now dying. One of the doctors who had been treating him discovered that he had a fatal disease that had advanced far past the point of treatment, and Dr. Fuji found that he was okay with that. Death would be a welcome release from his current condition.
For the past few days, Dr. Fuji had been placed on medication intended to eliminate or at least dull the excruciating pain of his illness, which was why he had been drifting in and out of consciousness. When Dr. Fuji awoke this time, he saw a little old bald man with bushy white eyebrows. He had on a grey suit with a black tie and held a wooden cane in his right hand. This was Dr. Fuji's father and the mayor of Lavender Town, Kagami Fuji.
"Hello father. To what do I owe this visit?" Dr. Fuji asked.
"Your doctor called me a few hours ago while," Mayor Fuji answered. "He told me you don't have much longer to live."
Dr. Fuji let out a cold chuckle. "Is that so? Well then, I suppose you've come to lecture me on what a foolish son I've been during the last few moments of my life."
"I did not come to waste this time rehashing arguments of the past, Ichiro," Mayor Fuji told him. "There is however someone here who wants to have a few words with you."
Suddenly a pair of glowing blue eyes flashed in the darkness of the room behind Mayor Fuji. The beeping of Dr. Fuji's heart monitor increased, signaling his terror. The scientist knew that such eyes could only belong to one type of creature. Dr. Fuji wondered if perhaps he was having some sort of nightmare, yet he was certain he was experiencing reality. Mewtwo Zwei had found him, and he was sure that the angry clone of his daughter was also there in the darkness with her.
"You never expected to see me again, did you?" a male voice asked in Dr. Fuji's head. "Of course I never expected to encounter you again either. I thought you had perished when I destroyed you lab all those years ago."
Upon hearing the voice, Dr. Fuji let out a labored coughing lab. He realized that it was his other experiment that had come to visit him on his deathbed. "Well, well. So the prodigal son returns. How have you been Mewtwo?"
The eyes in the darkness stopped glowing, and moving into the moonlight streaming in from the window was a purplish-grey humanoid feline with a purple stomach and tail. "Has my wellbeing ever truly mattered to you?"
"Of course it has," Dr. Fuji told him. "After all, you were one of my greatest creations. I have to ask, how is it that you know my father?"
"Mewtwo and I met by chance several months ago," Mayor Fuji revealed. "Ever since, he's come to visit me now and again, wanting to hear more about my granddaughter."
"About… Amber?" Dr. Fuji asked.
"I told Mewtwo that Amber was the reason why you created him," Mayor Fuji continued. "And now I think you owe Mewtwo some explanations, Ichiro. It's the least you can do after the way you've treated him."
"And what questions could I possibly answer?" Dr. Fuji asked.
Mewtwo moved closer to the bed. "As the old man told me more about Amber and what she was like, I found that I… remembered her. She died before I was even created, and yet I feel as though I knew her. I want to know how that could be possible, and I think you must have the answer."
"Ah! Of course… you've been remembering the brief time you spent with the first clone I made of my daughter," Dr. Fuji explained. "You see you and 'Ambertwo', as I called her, were in telepathic communication during the early stages of your development. I can't say for sure, but the two of you had probably become very good friends in the dream world where you met."
"Then how come I hardly remember her now?" Mewtwo asked.
"Because I had to suppress your memories of her," Dr. Fuji answered. "You apparently took her death very hard, so much that you nearly died yourself. I couldn't afford to lose you as well, after all."
"No… because I was your greatest creation, as you put it," Mewtwo responded. "Let me ask you one thing. Would you have ever told me about Amber if I had given you the chance?"
"No… probably not," Dr. Fuji admitted. "It would've served no practical purpose."
Mayor Fuji shook his head. "I never imagined that you could ever be so cold, Ichiro. This Pokemon standing before you now, the very Pokemon you created, is a living thing! He deserves to be respected as such! I do not blame Mewtwo for lashing out at you those years ago."
"Yes… I suppose I should've treated this Mewtwo better," Dr. Fuji admitted. "That goes for the second one I created as well."
Mewtwo's eyes widened. "What?"
"Oh, that's right. You had no idea about that," an amused Dr. Fuji realized. "And I never told my father. I didn't want him to give me another lecture like the one he gave me just now. You see I recreated my original experiment, successfully I might add. As a result, there's now a second Mewtwo in the world. You should be pleased."
Mewtwo looked to Mayor Fuji. "You really knew nothing of this?"
"No… not at all!" an equally stunned Mayor Fuji answered. "All Ichiro told me was that the new lab on his island exploded because of a mishandled experiment."
"But I never told you what the experiment was, did I old man?" Dr. Fuji pointed out. Suddenly his body began to spasm and the heart monitor hooked up to him started beeping wildly. "So… it seems… my end has… come!"
"He's dying," Mewtwo realized.
"Before I go… Mewtwo…" Dr. Fuji gasped. "You might… want to know. There is… another… Am."
Before the scientist could finish his last word, his body went limp and his head dropped to the left. The heart monitor connected to him gave off a single steady beep, signaling that Dr. Fuji's life had indeed some to an end.
"Mewtwo… you should go now," Mayor Fuji told him. "You wouldn't want the medical staff here to see you. Besides, I would much like to be alone now. I've just lost my youngest son, you know."
"…Very well, old man," Mewtwo agreed. "There's nothing more I can learn here anyway."
With that, Mewtwo vanished with a flash of blue light. A few seconds later, a doctor and a nurse entered the room to find their patient already dead. Mayor Fuji told them about the last few moments of his son's life, omitting the part Mewtwo played. A few minutes later, Mayor Fuji was on his way out of the hospital.
Just as the old man reached the car that was waiting for him out front, he paused as he suddenly remembered something his soon had said during the conversation with Mewtwo. "First clone? What did he… no… he couldn't have. Oh… Ichiro… my foolish son."
It was midafternoon as Sabrina left the Saffron City Gym. The green-haired psychic had just defeated her fifth opponent for the day and decided she could use a break. Sabrina was on her way to a new ice cream shop in the city that she had become very fond of when she turned a corner and saw someone standing in her path. The person was a woman with pink hair wearing glasses with a sleeveless black shirt and long red pants with white diamonds running down the sides. Sitting on the ground next to her was a large metal briefcase.
"Sabrina of the Saffron Gym, right?" the pinkette spoke. "I'm Malva of the Kalos Elite Four."
"I know who you are," Sabrina coldly responded. "What do you want?"
"Not here. I'd rather we talk about this somewhere in private," Malva told her. "Why don't we go back to your gym?"
"I'm not going back to the gym until I have my ice cream," Sabrina declared as she walked past her.
"Hey lady! I came a long way to tell you about something that's life and death!" Malva snapped. "Your damn ice cream can wait a few minutes!"
Sabrina turned back and glared at Malva. Suddenly the pinkette and her metal briefcase glowed with a blue aura and were levitated ten feet into the air by an invisible force.
Malva couldn't help but let out a panicked scream. "Okay! Okay! We can talk over ice cream! I'll even pay for the damn stuff! Just please put me down already!"
After a moment, Sabrina gently set Malva and her case back on the ground. "You're getting me the most expensive thing there."
With that, Malva followed Sabrina to the ice cream shop. They quickly ordered, with Malva paying for both items. Soon after they sat down at a table by the window with their orders. Sabrina was eating a giant white chocolate and vanilla Sunday with sprinkles, while Malva had ordered a very small vanilla cone. Malva took the time to carefully look her dining companion over. Sabrina was elegantly dressed in a light-blue blouse with the top two buttons undone, black slacks, and a pair of dark-purple high-heeled boots. Around Sabrina's right wrist was a stunning silver bracelet with a small blue marble-like stone fitted into the top that Malva recognized was a keystone.
Malva had to admit that Sabrina wasn't like what she expected, though she had heard rumors that the gym leader's personality was a bit twisted. Sabrina's powers certainly turned out to be everything that Malva had heard though. This gave the pink-haired reporter hope that Sabrina was just the person she needed.
"So… that was pretty wild the way you lifted me in the air like that," Malva spoke. "Guess I'm lucky that you didn't throw me into a building or something."
"Actually if I was truly angry, I might've turned you into a doll," Sabrina casually remarked as she continued eating.
Malva flinched as some of the color drained from her face. "Um… seriously."
"Indeed. I used to have quite a collection dolls that were originally people," Sabrina remarked. "One of them was my own mother. The others of course were opponents I defeated at my gym. Of course I was a very different person back then."
Malva couldn't tell if Sabrina was being serious or simply screwing with her. In a way, the elegant-looking woman sitting before her seemed like a child. After all, usually only little kids made such an outrageous tantrum when being denied ice cream.
"State your business," Sabrina spoke, shaking Malva from her thoughts.
"Huh?" Malva responded.
"You said you had something important to talk to me about," Sabrina reminded her. "What was it?"
"Uh… right. Where to being?" Malva spoke. "You've heard of Lysandre from the Kalos Region, right?"
"Everyone has," Sabrina indifferently responded. "His attack on Lumios City weeks ago was all over the news, as was how he somehow had control over the Legendary Pokemon, Zygarde."
"And you know about how Zygarde was defeated, right?" Malva asked.
"I heard that it was defeated by an unidentified Pokemon controlled by a mysterious trainer," Sabrina answered.
"You didn't see the actual news footage of the battle?" Malva asked.
"At the time I was occupied with a gym battle," Sabrina replied.
"So then you have no idea," Malva realized. "The Pokemon that defeated Zygarde was a Mewtwo."
This caused Sabrina to finally stop eating her frozen treat. "Mewtwo?"
"The second Mewtwo ever created," Malva answered. "And her mysterious trainer is a human psychic with powers a lot like yours. She's not just any psychic though, she's a clone."
Sabrina put down her spoon. "Tell me everything you know."
"I used to work with Lysandre as part of his organization, Team Flare," Malva began. "Of course I never knew anything about his plan to use Zygarde to destroy the world until it was too late. Anyway, one of Lysandre's early experiments was to create synthetic Mega Stones. He successfully managed to make two stones, but none of them seemed to work with any known Pokemon. Lysandre ran many simulations and discovered that the Pokemon that came closest to being compatible with the two stones was Mew, which led him to think that they might work with Mewtwo.
"Lysandre eventually sought out Mewtwo's creator, Dr. Ichiro Fuji and convinced him to recreate his original experiments so he'd have his own Mewtwo to test the stones on. Unfortunately Dr. Fuji not only delivered, he took things a step too far and made a human clone as this Mewtwo's trainer, Amber Drei. Dr. Fuji made Amber using the DNA of his dead daughter and genes taken from you and other human psychics like Caitlin of the Unova Elite Four."
"And Amber Drei and this second Mewtwo turned against their creator, didn't they?" Sabrina deduced.
"Pretty much," Malva confirmed. "And the ironic thing is that the synthetic Mega Stone that Lysandre gave to Dr. Fuji worked. Amber's Mewtwo, Zwei is capable of Mega Evolution."
"So why come to me about all this?" Sabrina asked.
"Amber and Zwei are on the loose, and they have some plan to enslave the human race or something," Malva answered. "My associates and I think you're our best bet to stop them."
"Because of my psychic powers?" Sabrina asked.
"That, and because we think you're friends with the original Mewtwo," Malva told her. "A lot of Mewtwo sightings seem to take place here in this city, and we think the reason is because you and it are good friends. If we're right, you and the original Mewtwo are our best bet of stopping Amber and Zwei."
"…You have no proof that I know the original Mewtwo," Sabrina pointed out.
"No I don't. Me being here is a gamble," Malva admitted. "Of course your reaction just now makes me think that I'm probably right. Either way, I'm willing to take the chance." The pinkette used her leg to push her metal case under the table and over to Sabrina. "That case contains the other synthetic Mega Stone that Lysandre created. If you and Mewtwo have the kind of bond I think you do, the two of you should be able to use it."
"You must be desperate if you're willing to entrust something so important to me based on nothing more than rumors," Sabrina observed.
"Damn straight," Malva confirmed as she got up. "My associates and I will be in touch."
Malva exited the ice cream shop with her vanilla cone still in hand. After a moment, Sabrina finally went back to eating her Sunday and started to think more about everything that Malva had told her.
It was fairly early at night as Sabrina sat in her living room, staring at the metal case that Malva had left for her. The problem was that Sabrina didn't believe Malva's story. In fact she believed every word of it. Sabrina's problem was figuring out just what to do with the information that had been given to her. She couldn't decide if it was best to tell Mewtwo about this news, or if it would be better if he didn't know.
Sabrina knew that on the one hand, Mewtwo had a right to know that another of his kind existed. In fact the odds were good that he'd find out on his own eventually. What troubled Sabrina though was what Mewtwo would do with this information once it was given to him. Would he do as Malva hoped and fight against the other Mewtwo and her partner, or would he side with them in whatever they had planned for the world? A strong part of Sabrina believed that Mewtwo would ultimately do the right thing, but the other part that doubted him couldn't quite be ignored.
Just as Sabrina was about to get up for something to drink before starting the next round of her internal debate, she suddenly felt a strong presence calling out from within the city. It was Mewtwo, and he was calling out with his psychic powers as though he were speaking over an intercom to tell someone that they had left their lights on in the parking lot. Sabrina decided that it was best to see why Mewtwo was calling out. She got off the couch and picked the metal case off the coffee table. Then with a flash of blue light she teleported to Mewtwo's location.
Sabrina ended up on the very top of the Silph Co. building. She quickly spotted Mewtwo standing near the roof's edge looking out over the city.
Mewtwo looked back at Sabrina as she walked towards him. "Sabrina… you're not the person I was expecting to come."
"Do you think I could ignore such a strong psychic call here in the city?" Sabrina asked. "What are you doing? You usually like to keep your presence totally hidden, but now you're broadcasting your presence to the world. What's going on?"
Mewtwo looked back out towards the city. "Last night… I spoke with the man who created me. He was alive, in Lavender Town… at least until now. He passed on because of an illness."
"How did you even know he was there?" Sabrina asked.
"His father told me when I was there earlier in the morning," Mewtwo explained. "He's the old man I've been visiting since that incident at the Tower of Memories with those sisters."
"You mean Mayor Fuji?" Sabrina responded. "I forgot that his son was the scientist who created you."
"I wanted to ask Dr. Fuji some questions regarding why he created me," Mewtwo continued. "Just before he died though, he told me that he had repeated his experiments. Sabrina… I am no longer the only one of my kind in the world. Another Mewtwo now exists."
"So you were calling out to it," Sabrina realized.
"I've thought about it all day, and I decided that I wanted to get to know this other member of my species," Mewtwo explained as he turned back to face her. "I want this other Mewtwo to know that it is not alone in this world."
"But why call to it here?" Sabrina asked.
"Because I wanted it to meet you as well," Mewtwo answered. "I want it to know about you and the other humans who I have developed a bond with."
Upon hearing that, Sabrina found that the debate she had been having with herself had been resolved. "Mewtwo, there's more about all this that you should know. Earlier today, a woman named Malva approached me and told me about the other Mewtwo. There's one about it that Dr. Fuji didn't tell you."
"Mewtwo Ein!" a voice spoke before Sabrina could finish. The two looked to see a young woman with long wavy green hair dressed in black, standing a few feet away from there they were. A large smile was on the young woman's face.
"Who are you?" Mewtwo asked.
The woman took off the visor-like sunglasses she had on, revealing her grey eyes. Mewtwo couldn't help but find the young woman's face to be familiar somehow. Then suddenly the psychic feline realized that it was the face of someone he knew long ago. The face was much older, but there was no mistaking who it belonged to.
Mewtwo flew past Sabrina and a little closer to the green-haired woman. "It can't be… Amber?"
The green-haired woman chuckled. "Of course. I shouldn't be surprised that you would know my name, as it also belonged to someone else you probably knew. I am Amber Drei. I'm the second clone that Dr. Fuji made of his late daughter."
"So… he not only made another of my kind, but… he also recreated his daughter," an astounded Mewtwo observed.
"I understand that the first clone Dr. Fuji made of Amber didn't survive," Amber recalled. "That must have been hard for you, assuming that you and she were as close as Zwei and I are. But you don't have to be as lonely anymore."
"Mewtwo! This woman was whom I was about to tell you about," Sabrina informed him. "Malva told me that Dr. Fuji also made a psychic human to act as the other Mewtwo's partner."
"A psychic?" Mewtwo asked, as he looked Amber over. "He gave you powers like mine?"
"That was apparently how I was able to survive the cloning process while my 'older sister' perished," Amber explained. "Taking what he had learned from his original experiment with you, Dr. Fuji determined that beings with immense psychic powers have a much greater life force. So he took the last remaining sample of DNA he had from his daughter and spliced in the genes from human psychics such as Sabrina over there."
"Why did he make you?" Mewtwo asked. "Was he hoping to somehow revive his dead daughter through you?"
"No… he made just to see if he could," Amber answered. "And to help him with the second phase of his experiment with his other creation." She then pulled out a pokeball from her long coat. "But enough about me. I'm sure you're eager to meet the other member of your species. Come on out, Zwei!"
Bursting out of the thrown ball was a second Mewtwo with a large metal belt around her waist. A smile came to the other psychic feline's face when she saw her male counterpart.
"Hello Mewtwo Ein," Zwei's female voice spoke. "You have no idea how long Amber and I have been waiting for this day."
"So it's true," Mewtwo spoke as he flew closer to Zwei. "Another of my kind truly exists."
"And now that we've finally found each other, we can begin to reshape the world," Amber spoke.
"Reshape the world?" Mewtwo repeated with a quirked brow. "What do you mean?"
"Surly you realize how wrong the current world is," Zwei told him. "Pokemon like us, Pokemon created by humans, are oppressed and treated as mere objects and tools."
"That is how we were treated by Dr. Fuji," Amber added. "He must have treated you that way as well. The three of us will remake this world so that humans and naturally born Pokemon alike will bow before those of us made by human hands. With our united powers, no force on this world can stop us!"
"…I see," Mewtwo spoke as he suddenly backed away from the two and went over to Sabrina. "I don't blame either of you for having such an outlook on the world. In fact I am the only one who can truly understand what you feel, because I felt it myself. You are correct. Our creator saw me as nothing more than an experiment, and the man who funded his work viewed me only as a weapon he could use to further his own agenda. Like you I even once tried to remake the world into a paradise where only beings like us existed. But I realized I was wrong to do that."
A look of shock appeared on Amber's face. "I don't understand… you tried to remake this horrible world and didn't? Why?"
"Because I was only acting out of anger, just as the two of you are," Mewtwo answered. "But then I met a young human who was willing to give his life for any Pokemon, whether it was born or created. And through him, I met other humans who were not as evil as the ones who used me; humans like Sabrina. Amber, Zwei, I understand your rage. But you both are still quite young and have much to learn about the world. I can teach you what this world his truly like."
Amber put her sunglasses back on. "I see… you have no idea how much it pains me to hear you say such things, Mewtwo Ein. Not long ago, someone told me that you did think this way, but I refused to believe her. But now… I see that Zwei and I have no choice."
"No choice but to do what?" Mewtwo asked.
"To make you submit to our will!" Zwei spoke as she suddenly formed a ball of crackling black energy between her hands. "Shadow Ball!"
Zwei launched the projectile from her hands at Mewtwo. Mewtwo quickly flew to the left and managed to avoid the Shadow Ball at the last second. The sphere continued on its path and shattered the windows of one of the nearby buildings.
Meanwhile Mewtwo moved to another position and formed a sphere of blue light between his hands. "Aura Sphere!"
Mewtwo launched the ball of light at his opponent. The attack struck Zwei in the left cheek and knocked her head back slightly. Zwei merely brushed it off like it was nothing and glared at Mewtwo.
"Did you really think a paltry attack like that could defeat me?" Zwei asked.
"I'm not trying to defeat you, but to reason with you!" Mewtwo told her. "I'm trying to make you understand that you're wrong about this world!"
"What I understand that this world has somehow poisoned your mind!" Zwei declared. "There's no other explanation for why you would oppose us!"
"You leave us no other choice, Mewtwo Ein!" Amber spoke as she levitated into the air to float behind Zwei. "We must fight and capture you in order to cure you of this delusion you're under! Experience our true power!"
Both the keystone in Amber's metal choker lit up along with the Mega Stone in Zwei's belt. Suddenly Zwei's body gave off a blinding purple flash in the shape of a Y. The light faded to reveal Zwei in her much shorter Mega form as a multicolored DNA helix glowed briefly above her head. Zwei then formed another Shadow Ball between her hands and hurled it at Mewtwo with incredible speed. The ball hit Mewtwo in the chest and hurled him into the roof of the building with enough force to leave a crater.
After a moment, Mewtwo got back to his feet and looked at Amber and Zwei with shock and awe. "What… is this power?"
"This is the true power of our bond," Zwei and Amber declared together. "The likes of Palkia, Landorous and Zygarde have fallen before us in this form. You have no choice but to submit to us!"
Sabrina set the metal case she had been carrying down on the ground and opened it up, revealing its contents. Inside was a metal belt like the one Zwei had been wearing, but with a blue stone fitted into the buckle. Sabrina snapped her fingers, and the belt vanished from the case, reappeared around Mewtwo's waist a second later. The appearance of the belt caused Amber and Zwei to pause.
"What is this?" Mewtwo asked as he looked at the belt.
"Mewtwo! That belt is fitted with an artificial Mega Stone that Malva gave me!" Sabrina explained. "Amber and Zwei have a similar Mega Stone, which is how Zwei was able to Mega Evolve!"
"I see… these stones are the reason why Dr. Fuji created Amber," Mewtwo deduced. "You told me once that Mega Evolution can only be triggered by the bond between a Pokemon and its trainer."
Sabrina nodded and held up her wrist with the bracelet holding a keystone. "You and I have developed a fairly strong bond over the years. Let's see just how strong that bond is."
"Very well," Mewtwo replied as he levitated into the air. "With you and I working together, we shall show my fellow creations of Dr. Fuji just how wrong they are about the world!"
Sabrina's keystone lit up, and after a moment Mewtwo's Mega Stone began to glow as well. Mewtwo cried out before his body let off a blinding flash of blue light in the shape of an X. In moments the light finally faded to reveal Mewtwo in a new form. He had become over seven feet tall and his eyes had turned a piercing blue. The ear-like horns on his head had become longer and pointer, and extended into V-shaped ridges on his forehead. A second tube had formed on the back of the feline's neck, and covering his chest and shoulders like armor were two purple growths. His arms and legs had grown longer and thicker along with his fingers and toes, with a pair of raised ridges having formed on each forearm and thigh. Mewtwo's tail had grown much shorter and ridged, and had a curled tip at the end. A multicolored DNA helix flashed above Mewtwo's head as his transformation finished.
Meanwhile, Sabrina's eyes had started to glow blue. She levitated into the air and then moved to hover behind Mewtwo.
"How is this possible?" a stunned Zwei and Amber asked.
"Clearly the two of you have much to learn," Mewtwo and Sabrina spoke. "And though it pains us to fight you, your attitude leaves us no other choice. We will crush you!"
TO BE CONTINUED
Author's Note: I had a real blast finally writing this episode showing Amber and Zwei's first encounter with the original Mewtwo. Earlier during these past couple of weeks as I reread the previous stories in this "collection" and Mewtwo Zwei, I had some pretty interesting insights about Amber's character, which sort of helped me write this episode and also showed some insights about Mewtwo. The thing I realized about Amber is that even though she's physically in her twenties, and even though Dr. Fuji programmed her brain with a vast amount of knowledge and information, she's basically still a kid who doesn't know what the world is really like. I mean she isn't even a year old, and there's still a lot about life that's she's yet to experience.
You know a while back after I had gotten this "collection" started, I had gotten a pretty nasty review for the first episode with Magearna about how Amber came onto Quinton like that. Well the thing about that scene was (and I don't think this registered this consciously at the time, or if I did, I pretty much had forgotten about it) Amber was simply exploring her sexuality. It was something she had never experienced before, and realizing she had an attraction to Quinton, she found she was curious about those feelings. Of course I don't really need to explain myself to that reviewer. I only bring it up because it was part of the revelation I had about Amber's character.
Anyway, Zwei is pretty much the same as Amber, also more or less a kid. And as kids, I think we all see the world in kind of a black and white way. Everyone's a good guy or a bad guy, and there's no grey area in between. The original Mewtwo saw the world in the same way they did after he was created, but his encounters with Ash helped him to see that the world was a lot more complex. In this episode, we got to see how much older and wiser Mewtwo has become about the world. He still has that same savage side that he's always had, but he's still mellowed a bit. Unfortunately for Mewtwo, his more enlightened views about the world and humans is a huge betrayal to Amber and Zwei, shattering the hero image that they've always had of him and classifying him as a "bad guy" in their view.
It was also pretty fun to write for Sabrina in this story again. My favorite scene in this episode is the one where she flings Malva into the air for getting in the way of her ice cream break. I still wish I had done more stuff with Sabrina in this AU from the beginning. Anyway, it occurred to me as I was writing this author's note that that scene seemed to show that Sabrina still has something of a childish side, or it just shows that she's become more human since her original appearance in the anime. Of course in the beginning, Sabrina was more or less just as much a child as Mewtwo was in the beginning, and just as much a child as Amber and Zwei are both right now.
In the anime, Sabrina was more or less a child who never grew up. Her obsession with training her powers caused her personality to split into an emotionless battle junkie and a little girl who always wants to play, and if you think about it, the child side was the half of her personality that was in control. So now we see her in this modest story I've written as being more mature. Her social skills are a little... awkward, but she's no longer the out of control little girl constantly causing trouble. Thinking about all this makes the battle started in this episode pretty interesting. One way to look at it is a battle of maturity against "childishness", for lack of a better word (if there is a better word, it escapes me). The other way to see this battle is Sabrina and Mewtwo essentially battling younger versions of themselves.
Well, I think I've rambled on long enough. So the next installment of this "collection" will be the last one. So until next time, please review and let me know what you think.
