AN: Chapter contains spoilers for the movie Cloverfield, for those who have interest in seeing it.

Arceus didn't know what was more horrific – the movie, or what Mew was doing while watching it.

The said cat Legendary screamed as she flew backwards from the TV, clinging to the first thing she could possibly hold onto – which happened to be the top part of Arceus' face. The God Pokemon frowned, not cringing at all from her sudden closeness seeing as how he had been expecting such a thing since Mew turned off every single light in the room, popped the Cloverfield DVD into the player right below the TV, and forced him to sit beside her right in front of the screen as the horror movie began to play. It had been an hour or so into it, tricking the viewers at the beginning with the fact that it started out all calm and normal – like a situation seen in a simple drama movie; though, in a few seconds flat, the monster attacked the city, driving its inhabitants into fear and crime as they all struggled to escape the area.

Of course, Arceus showed no signs of fright during the whole thing, as he had been forced to be one of the first to watch it after Rayquaza somehow managed to retrieve a copy. The qilinlike Pokemon had a strong memory, able to remember every single occurrence in the movie from up to the ending credits, which explained why he didn't scream whenever the monster roared, as Mew was doing, or twitched every few seconds in suspense, jumping to the side and in the process grasping tightly to Mew's body for support, as Mew was also doing to him. Not only that, but he wasn't one for horror movies; not because he didn't like being scared – there was rarely a thing in the world that drove even an inch of fear to reside within him – but because he saw films made for scaring as only a collage of cheap special effects and large amounts of bloody gore and screams, or whatever disturbing extremity the 'sickening' (as titled by Arceus) directors happened to conjure in the pit of their dark imaginations.

"Mew," he began, his voice stern as Mew only cuddled closer into his face, her fuzzy, pink body, which was shaking like the end of an Ekans' tail, enshrouding his eyesight completely. "Get. Off. My. Face."

Needless to say, Mew didn't hear him over the monster's roars on the TV, and therefore Arceus growled slightly before trapping her body between his two hooves, pulling her off against her own will, and then plopping her back down beside him. She continued to say nothing, not even considering his annoyed expression as she cuddled up into his side, hugging her tail as she shook in a crazy manner, eyes widened in fear. Arceus sighed in disappointment – definitely with the fact that Mew had said that she had seen Cloverfield at least a dozen times; but yet there she was, squeaking in fright and wrapping her tail around her eyes like a blindfold so she couldn't see the events occurring on the screen. The fact that the room was nearly pitch-black probably wasn't helping the fear factor, as when the lights of the meeting room were turned off, everything was immediately enshrouded behind a veil of shadows, which added to the horror semblance that the nearly-deserted chamber was already receiving from the movie.

Then again, it was Mew's idea to turn off the lights for the movie, and Arceus wasn't surprised that it was just another action Mew did before comprehending the consequences.

The God Pokemon grunted as he continued to squint his eyes so the amplified glow of the TV screen wouldn't blind him. He was just thankful that Mew and him were at least sitting somewhat of a far distance away, helping to ease any motion sickness that would've plagued them due to the film's unique perspective through a guy's handheld digital camera, which shook like crazy whenever the character and his friends were running or performing any other jumpy actions.

"Mew," Arceus started once again when he felt Mew scoot closer to him, squealing in fear against his fur – and he was getting rather annoyed by her irrelevant fright towards a movie that showed a fictional situation, "it's just a movie; it's not real. Would you please relax?"

The catlike Legendary ignored him once again. Instead, she moved her head to the side to glimpse at the screen with one, large, fear-stricken eye, yelping when she realized that the main characters of the movie were now running for their lives down an army men-covered street, fleeing into a nearby subway tunnel entrance right as the colossal monster crossed over them with a stentorian roar.

Arceus rolled his eyes, feeling nothing towards the quite tense moment due to previously-mentioned reasons.

Of course, the movie was now quiet and eventless, seeing as how the main characters were now conversing with one another on a deserted platform for an absent subway train. Due to its underground location, the monster's roars and stomps as it rampaged through the town sounded distant, as well as the constant fires of various weaponry as the human military struggled to stop the beast from wreaking anymore havoc. It continued to be quiet, though soon the camera began to shake as the group decided to walk down the actual subway tunnel in hopes of safely reaching the surface location where the girlfriend of Rob – one of the main characters – was claimed to be trapped in her apartment.

Mew seemed to relax then, as, for the first time in a while within the movie, it was calm. Though, despite the previously-stated fact that she had seen the movie more times than Arceus, she was still acting as if it was her first time viewing it, unaware that it was simply calm before the storm. Slowly she took her paws from Arceus' side, in which the God Pokemon only frowned, predicting that her paws would soon be on his side again, while the catlike Legendary gently returned to where she sat before the movie started – before the horrific events she had already seen drove her to scoot by Arceus, and to the point where he was on the verge of insanity.

Then again, he sometimes felt that he had been born without sanity in the first place.

He brought his gold eyes to her to shoot an angry glare that she probably wouldn't notice or comprehend its origin. In fact, she didn't even notice that he was looking at her, as she was too busy hugging her tail against her front for support, her teeth chattering from behind her seal lips. Arceus found his eyebrows rising at the sight - she looked so timid and vulnerable; it was actually sort of funny, but not in a crude kind of way.

Meanwhile, the group of main characters in Cloverfield – Rob, Hud, Marlena, and Lily – continued to walk down the dark subway tunnel. Hud, who was holding the camera, made a random reference to the possibility of homeless guys on fire running into them at the moment, though his allies soon scolded him due to his obvious need to liven up the mood, which was practically pointless for reasons that were pretty self-explanatory. Mew chuckled slightly at the joke, apparently finding Hud's misplaced humor amusing, and Arceus could only narrow his eyes, unimpressed, his body tensing as he prepared his muscles to be clung onto by the pink Legendary beside him – and all because of the upcoming scene.

You know, the scene where the monster's dog-sized minions chase after them all –

"RUN!"

Oh crap, it just happened.

Before Arceus could dodge, Mew slapped herself onto his face again, screaming herself as Rob and the others began to run down the tunnel in hope of escaping the aforementioned parasites that were attacking them. Arceus couldn't see what happened after that, as he was now flailing around, Mew glued to his face as she continued to yelp at the top of her lungs, which wasn't helping the God Pokemon's reoccurring headache. He continued to stumble all over the place, the extra weight to his face and the lack of his eyesight causing him to lose all sense of direction.

"Mew! Get off!" he roared, fearing at that direct moment that he was possibly on the verge of colliding with a wall. Mew paid no heed, too busy screaming to listen to his frustrated voice, which was coming out in a muffled manner since her body partially covered his mouth as well.

Henceforth the reason why he preferred soap operas.

"Save me, Arceus!" Mew pleaded, her loud voice vibrating throughout the God Pokemon's mind. He could only continue to flail around, lacking any clue to where he was going as he struggled to pry Mew off of his face. Of course, she just clung on tighter, not comprehending at the moment that he was in desperate need to see the darkness around him – which was an oxymoronic thing to say but he didn't really care. He shook his head around, contemplating on pulling her off with his hooves, though the sole fact that she was holding on like a blood-sucking leech somehow made this idea look less convincing.

So he continued to stumble around, mumbling out more orders for Mew to get off, and even throwing in a few reminders that it was all a movie into the collage of scolds that came with it. However, Mew still ignored him, screaming her brains out even when Rob, Hud, Marlena, and Lily had successfully escaped the dog-sized parasites by hiding in a staff room; though, she soon realized this, her eyes blinking in confusion and yelps for help coming to an abrupt stop. Arceus still stumbled around regardless that her hold on his face had loosened, and she soon let go altogether, floating back to her seat to continue watching the movie.

Meanwhile, Arceus continued to flail around like an idiot, unaware that Mew had left him; though he soon opened his eyes in the midst of stumbling around when he felt cold air touch the areas around his forehead again…

…and only to gasp upon noticing that a wall was right in front of him.

Smack!

Arceus smashed flat-face right into the golden wall.

Silence.

Then:

"Here…comes…the pain…"

The God Pokemon stepped back upon mumbling those words, his hooves trembling as the predicted aftereffects of the collision shot throughout his entire front.

Of course, Mew, oblivious to it all, just continued to watch Cloverfield, unaware of how Arceus toppled over in pain, his back hoof still twitching.

Eventually Mew noticed the lack of his presence, and turned her head to eye the darkness around her. She was unaware of Arceus' accident, having considered the strange and random thump that had come with it to be only part of the distant explosions emitting from the TV. "Come on!" she then called out to him, her voice back to being jumpy and overexcited, as if her prior fear had never existed since the movie's events had grown calm once again. "You're missing the best part!"

An incoherent curse from the darkness was the only response.

Arceus could only sigh as he struggled to get up before Mew showed any signs of wanting to help him. Then again, the pink Legendary was too preoccupied with watching Cloverfield, which, as Arceus reluctantly approached on aching, sore hooves, he noticed that it was the part where Rob and the others were climbing the sky-high apartment buildings in search for Rob's girlfriend, Beth, who was stuck on one of the top floors. Arceus grunted, happy that the movie was somewhat close to being over, and when the lights would come back on he would throw the DVD out the window before Mew even noticed.

Until then, though, all he could do was plop himself beside Mew, cringing from the lingering pain that shot through his body in response. Mew didn't heed this, her large eyes locked onto the screen, as Arceus squinted his sensitive gaze to help overpower the movie's foreign lights.

Minutes passed, and Arceus was surprised that Mew had yet to scream again – even at the part where the main characters were struggling to get on the helicopters and escape the city, the vicious monster right behind them the whole time. Soon the helicopters took off, soaring above the town as the monster gave chase, bombs from nearby airplanes crashing onto its back in the midst of it and causing the beast to stumble over, collapsing from it all. Mew continued to emit nothing, though when Arceus cast a glance towards her, he noticed that she was chewing at the end of her tail in a nervous manner, and Arceus could feel his own teeth grit in slight suspense; not from the movie, but from the fact that she was like a ticking time bomb, and he was seriously considering scooting away or making up some excuse to leave before she clung onto his face again and cut off the blood flow to his brain.

Meanwhile, the monster retaliated on the helicopter carrying Hud, Rob, and Beth, its claw slapping the vehicle out of the air. The emergency alarm went off as the mechanism spun out of control, heading for the grassy fields outside of the city. Mew squeaked in fear, though she didn't scream, and instead got closer and closer to the screen to help pinpoint what was happening. Arceus didn't realize she was doing this until his view was blocked by an eclipsing mesh of pink fur. He didn't say anything, however, as he didn't care much for the movie anyway, which was why he remained silent, quirking his eyebrow at how Mew was only an inch away from the screen, her widened eyes glued to it as if she was hypnotized. It was still at the part with the characters' helicopter on the verge of crashing, and therefore the camera's perspective was shaking like a high-magnitude earthquake.

Arceus only rolled his eyes, becoming annoyed by the loud beeping sound emitting from the TV.

A little while after that, the movie was over, though Arceus could only confirm the now-displayed credits through the corner of the screen since Mew's body had blocking it since the helicopter scene. He sighed in relief, quickly getting up, walking over to the wall, and turning on the overhead lights, which blared into his darkness-adjusted eyes and therefore caused him to cringe at the brightness. He then returned his gaze to Mew, who was still standing right in front of the screen, seeming to even drool slightly, and the God Pokemon behind her could only grimace at the sight. He grunted in annoyance as he approached her, muttering out in the midst of it: "Mew, come on, the movie's over."

No response.

Arceus arched an eyebrow, though his frown was strong with annoyance. "Mew?" he muttered, his voice louder than before.

No response.

"Mew!" It was a snap now.

Still no response.

"MEW!" Now a full-fledged roar.

No response. Wow, embarrassing.

Arceus snarled before walking forward to tap the Pokemon in the back with his hoof. Right as he was about to do so, though, she turned around, revealing her dazed gazed and drooling mouth as she then began to stumble around like a drunk person. Arceus gaped in bewilderment. What was wrong with her? She came closer to him, groaning slightly as if she was dizzy, and her skin maintained a light tint of green that could be seen through her fur.

The God Pokemon rolled his eyes. Whatever her problem was, it would probably all be okay as long as she wasn't –

Mew suddenly gagged forward, vomiting up the hordes of candy she had consumed before – and all over Arceus' hooves.

– motion sick.

"Sorry about puking on you."

Arceus could only glare at Mew, who was sending him a nervous grin, having immediately recovered from her motion sickness gained from sitting too close to the screen an hour after regurgitating all over Arceus' hooves, which he was now cleaning in a bowl of water, grimacing every few seconds of the way. He knew it wasn't Mew's fault, though she was stupid enough to sit closer to a screen that was showing a movie filmed in a jumpy, nausea-inducing manner; but apart from that the pink Legendary's stomach tended to be sensitive when it came to some things. He had seen her consume objects people on Fear Factor wouldn't swallow for their lives, and sometimes all it took was a little jolt to make her stomach regret doing such a thing. She was unpredictable like that.

Because of this, he brought his gold eyes to Mew, who was now staring at him, her large gaze begging for forgiveness in the same way she had done before. And, as with the previous situation, Arceus couldn't stay mad at her with the way she looked so hopeless. Sure enough, if it had been Raikou, Lugia, or even Rayquaza that had given him the fun task of cleaning partially-digested material nourishment from his hooves, he would've forced Giratina to banish them to the somber pits of the Underworld without any objections.

However, for Mew, staring into her eyes made him conjure up an exception. Despite how much he wanted to kick, roar, or even brawl anyone in sight for the mere predicaments he had been put through so far, he couldn't bring himself to think of Mew as a possible source to take his stress out on.

Dear everything that could be associated with the word 'holy', what was wrong with him?

He shook his head in disappointment, continuing to soak his front hooves in the bowl of water before him. Meanwhile, Mew danced around, obviously waiting for him to be done so they could move onto the next activity located on her mental list of things to do for the day. Arceus whimpered slightly at the sight of her pondering face, sensing that she was thinking of something which its destructive qualities could outmatch that of a nuclear bomb. Of course, he refused to be scared of Mew, of all things existent, which was why he decided to change the topic by bringing forth one of the questions he had been wondering about during their viewing of Cloverfield. "Mew," he began, voice still stern, "why were you so scared of the movie? You said you've seen it quite a lot of times…"

Mew blinked at his question, but nonetheless ceased her air ballet and floated closer to his face, her expression showing bewilderment as she muttered out her response. "That movie gets me all hyped up every single time I watch it." She grinned. "I mean, with the monster and suspenseful situations, it freaks me out all the same."

Arceus grunted. "But it's not real. How can you be scared of something that isn't real?"

At that moment, Mew frowned as if she had been offended, and she jabbed her paw forward right in front of his face, causing him to display a look of surprise. "Oh yeah?" she then reckoned, eyes narrowed. "Well what if the 'fictional' world that movie took place in was actually the REAL world – and the world we live; the world of Pokemon – is actually just" – she looked around the room as if to think up of an idea – "I don't know – a worldwide successful video game franchise! And it has its own movies and various merchandise, and fans of it even write their own stories involving Pokemon!" She suddenly gasped in fear, holding her face between her two paws. "What if what we're doing right now is just a story being written by an obsessive fan?!" She squeaked, biting her claws as she began to shake in immense fright.

Arceus stared at her as if she was demented.

Then his expression soon grew serious, and his stern voice came out with a scolding tone.

"Mew, that is the most ridiculous theory I've ever heard."

Mew dropped her expression of fright, instead placing her paws on her hips in a scolding manner. "You don't know that!" she retorted.

But the God Pokemon only rolled his eyes as he ignored her, instead continuing with washing his hooves.