Sigh...
Morli pulled the blankets covering her over her head to shield her eyes from the morning light filtering through the window. She cuddled her legs and arms closer together, quite comfortably warm and relaxed despite the dull soreness emitting from one of her arms and legs. She sighed contentedly with a tiny smile, wondering what Mother was cooking for breakfast. Remembering her parent made her heart give a heavy, sorrowful thud, but for the moment, Morli couldn't understand why.
Her train of thought was suddenly disturbed by the soft sound of someone breathing next to her. It was unlike the familiar panting of her pet Mightyena, so she slowly pulled the covers away from her face to see a recognizable man standing next to her bed. He was slouching, his gray hair uncombed and covering his face as he stared at the ground, rubbing his eyelids. Morli gasped, the memories of the previous night's events coming back to her. The man lifted his head, revealing dark circles underneath his eyes, and he weakly smiled. "Oh, you're already awake."
Morli screamed.
"D-Did I do something wrong?!" Dialga cried with wide eyes filled with shock and guilt.
Loud thuds came from the wall next to them as someone shouted, "SHUT UP, SHUT UP! I'm trying to get some damn sleep here!"
"What the hell are you doing in my room? How long have you been here?!" Morli demanded.
"I wasn't here very long, I just got here! I-I just came to wake you-"
"GET OUT!"
"Alright!" Dialga quickly leaped to his feet and ran out the door without another look at Morli. Morli grabbed a pillow and shoved it in her face, screaming into it in frustration rather than terror. Legendary Pokemon! Morli still couldn't believe it, but why couldn't they leave her alone?
In the room next door, she could hear the same voice from before yell, "What are you doing in my room?!"
"I paid for this room! This is my room!"
Morli rubbed her head as she listened to the two Legendaries bicker. There was no way for her to be able to go back to sleep with all the racket. She slipped out of bed sluggishly and looked at her nightstand, noticing the card key that Dialga had given her. How did he get in here? she thought. Planning to ask Dialga what he wanted, she peeked out of her room to see a human Mewtwo outside of his room, arguing with one of their neighbors that they had apparently woken. Morli waited until the fight settled before she dared approach Mewtwo, who looked rather frightening with the vicious, bloodthirsty look in his eyes.
"Screw you, asshole!" screamed the stranger before slamming his door shut. Mewtwo ground his teeth together as he looked into Morli's direction. Too scared to approach him, Morli almost decided to just close her door and forget about talking to the Legendaries until Mewtwo closed his eyes and sighed.
"Dialga wants to talk to you, well, to both of us actually..." he said, looking a bit more calm but still appearing to be frustrated. He held the door open for her, and she nearly sprinted past him into his room, afraid he might attack her. She stopped in the middle of the room to see Dialga lying in bed, who quickly sat upright with a surprised look on his face when he noticed her. "You look like you've seen a ghost," he commented, then held a disappointed look as Mewtwo came to stand by her with crossed arms. "Don't worry, his bark is worse than his bite."
"You started this mess, now tell us what you want already," Mewtwo demanded.
"Morli, I know things have been pretty rough with you, but I ask you to please be patient with us. Your life is in danger because of that monster that still roams about. I've been tracking and chasing it all night, and though I didn't get rid of it, I managed to chase it far away from here." Morli stared into his weary eyes, understanding why he looked so exhausted. "I will try to get other Legendaries in the area to help me, but until this monstrosity is disposed of, I need you to stick around with Mewtwo here so he can protect you and make sure you are safe."
Morli slowly looked up at Mewtwo and gulped as he threw her an irritated look. She took a step away from him and turned back to Dialga. "I appreciate your concern, but I really need to get to my uncle's house soon. He's probably really worried if he heard about the train crash..."
"If he did, he probably thinks you're dead, kid," Mewtwo interrupted.
Dialga ignored Mewtwo's comment. "I still want a Legendary to be around you just in case. You will get to your uncle, I'll promise that, but for the moment, you need to stay hidden and away from public areas until this problem is resolved."
Morli narrowed her eyes. "I never asked for your help, nor do I want it. Why is my life so important? Everyone is in danger if that creature is moving about freely!"
"And why do I have to watch over her?" Mewtwo interjected, "Can't you get another Legendary to do the job? One that is better at handling kids?"
Dialga put his hand over his face and sighed. "I don't have a lot of time-"
"But of course you do, you control time..."
"Would you quit with the smart ass remarks?! I need you both to agree with me quickly so I can get moving, and I can't take no for a answer. Morli, that monster is specifically after you. If you understood the reason, you would know the kind of importance you hold. I will tell you why later, but at the moment you endanger anyone you are around, so just please bear with me and stay with Mewtwo."
Morli stared at the ground, remaining silent for a long moment. "So you're kidnapping me..."
"Technically, yes, we are," Mewtwo said.
Morli frowned, feeling she didn't need to say anything; she wasn't given much of a choice anyways.
Dialga stood up, then snapped his fingers with a lightened expression as if he just remembered something. "By the way, stay away from mirrors."
Mewtwo raised an eyebrow. "Mirrors?" But before he could finish speaking, Dialga suddenly vanished. Morli blinked several times with wide eyes and looked around the room for him.
"Relax, he usually does that. He stops time to move around," Mewtwo told her, "But I think he's high or something...He hasn't been acting like himself."
Morli stared at him with a worried and downcast look, and for a moment she thought she saw a glimmer of pity in his eyes. "Look, I know you don't want to be around me, and I certainly don't want to stick around you, but let's just do what Dialga says and hope this problem goes away quickly, 'k?" Morli stayed silent and stared at her feet, almost looking like she was going to cry. Mewtwo bit his lip. "You should know Dialga doesn't want you being with your family so that monster doesn't end up killing them if it finds you. Look, I know I place where you can be safe. Why don't we grab something to eat first and..." Mewtwo stopped as he watched Morli walk away and out the room with her head down.
He rubbed the back of his head, saying to himself, "God, am I really that scary?"
Morli escaped back into her room, leaning against the wall and slowly sliding down it. Can't I control my own life? she thought. It seemed like her world was suddenly turning for the worst, and all she could do was live in it without a say in what happens. She stared out the window, clenching her hands. She wasn't going to let those Legendaries tell her what to do, not if she could help it.
She went to open her window and looked down. She was only on the second floor, and right below her were several bushes; leaving out the window didn't seem like a long way down. For a long while she continued to look outside, deciding if she should just jump or try to find a way to make her escape easier and possibly less painful. She didn't want to just walk out into the hall and use the stairs or elevator; she suspected Mewtwo was probably waiting just outside her door. Morli scanned her room, thinking there was nothing useful around to help her reach the bottom. She considered making a rope with the bedsheets, but felt that she would need more sheets than what she had. There was no other choice but to jump, but before she did, she went to turn on the television on full volume in hopes that it would make Mewtwo think she was in the room watching it.
She cringed as she looked back down on the ground, crouching on the window sill as she tried to prepare herself to jump. Hoping the bushes below had no thorns and could cushion her fall, she closed her eyes and leaped.
"Recently there have been reports of a strange, black Pokemon wandering around the country. Judging from what witnesses say about its size, Pokemon experts say that this could be the mysterious attacker of the train wreck two days ago. One man has claimed to have caught the creature in broad daylight on his cellphone while walking to work in Mahogany Town."
A blurry video showed a dark, worm-like figure way up high in the bright blue sky on the television screen. Mewtwo grumbled irritatedly as he watched, wishing the video was better quality. He stood close to the T.V., his nose nearly touching the screen as he raised an eyebrow at the jumble of fiery colored pixels that followed the black creature. "Is that...Moltres?"
The video quickly ended as soon as he noticed the Legendary Pokemon, and the news reporter quickly reappeared. "Aw, dammit, show it again!" he cursed as the reported moved on to a different topic, so he angrily turned it off and looked at the time. It was nearly noon. He sighed, thinking that he shouldn't waste Dialga's efforts in chasing the creature away and take the chance to take Morli into a more secure area. He thought she had enough time by herself to think about things.
Mewtwo grabbed his card key and two others that Dialga had left in his room, then he stood in front of Morli's door and lightly knocked on it. "Hey, are you alright?" he yelled after several seconds of no response. He could hear the television blaring inside, so he tried knocking even harder in case she didn't hear him the first time. "Turn that bloody thing off! We need to get moving!" He reached into his pocket and pulled out a card key, hoping that maybe it could unlock the door. A small, satisfied smile appeared on his face when the key worked, and he swiftly swung the door open, making it crash against the wall to make his entrance apparent.
"Why don't you turn that thing down so you can..." As Mewtwo walked into the room, he saw that Morli was no where in sight. He turned off the T.V. and checked the bathroom and the closet, but she wasn't there either. "Dammit!" I should have kept an eye on that sneaky brat!
In a flash, he changed into a Pokemon and ran into the hall, sniffing the air; his abilities were more enhanced as a Pokemon. No trance of Morli's scent went more than a few steps away from her room except to go into his room, so she couldn't have gone downstairs through the lobby. He immediately changed back into a human before someone came and saw him, and he narrowed his eyes suspiciously at the open window in her room. As he approached it, he saw traces of smeared dirt in the shape of a shoe print heading outside. "Aha," he muttered as he looked out and down the window, "You're much braver than I thought..."
Mewtwo then jumped out the window himself, planning to use his psychic abilities to slow the fall, but he forgot he was in his human form. It was still possible to use his powers as a human, but it required more effort and focus, and Mewtwo ended up belly flopping into the bushes due to being unused to his current form. "Ow!" he shouted as the tiny, prickly branches poked his his soft skin. He managed to stumble out of the tangle of leaves and branches and onto concrete, laying on his back as he cringed.
"Uh, sir, are you alright?" A passerby peered over him with a worried look. "That wasn't a smart thing to do, you could have just used the stairs or..."
"Shut up," he snapped, quickly jumping to his feet, even though his now sore body protested against it. He tried not to express any sort of pain on his face as he brushed the leaves off his clothes, leaving behind a rather confused businessman as he ran off. Even though a human's sense of smell wasn't so great, he wasn't desensitized enough to not be able to pick up Morli's scent.
You can't get away from me...
Morli limped as she did her best to get her legs moving as fast as she can. She was a good few blocks away from the hotel, and she was sure Mewtwo wouldn't be able to find her now in the crowds she pushed and shoved against. Her knees tingled and were still shaky after her jump out the window, but she struggled not to stop or fall as she pulled out her cellphone and dialed the only person she could rely on.
"Chen?"
"Hey sis, how are you?" answered a young adult male on the other end of the line. "What's up? You sound like you just ran a marathon. Is everything alright?"
Morli was incredibly grateful to finally hear a familiar voice she could trust. She continued to run as she talked, and she couldn't help but pant. "Sorry, I'm just doing to bit of jogging. What are you doing?"
"Jogging? Since when did you jog? Anyways, I'm just talking a walk 'round town. Why?"
"Can you meet me at the bus station near the Pokemon Center? There's been a change in plans...I'll explain later."
"Uh, okay, sure." And with that he hung up. A genuine smile grew across her face for once. Her brother, Chen, would have to take her home now, and even if Mewtwo did happen to find her, Chen would be there to stand up for her. Being in a public area also helped, for Morli assumed that Mewtwo wouldn't give away his identity or an explanation for what was going on with so many people around. She already felt like victory was hers.
Chen wasn't at the bus station yet by the time she arrived. She took a seat to rest her legs as she waited for several minutes. Once the tingling sensation in her knees faded, she began pacing around, feeling like she had been waiting forever even though it hadn't been more than ten minutes. No matter how many times she tried to convinced herself that she successfully escaped, she couldn't get rid of the nagging feeling that Mewtwo was on her tail and will get her first if Chen didn't come fast enough. She looked up and down the street to see if he was even in sight yet, then suddenly jumped when someone grabbed her shoulder and pulled her around. She was expecting the person to be her playful brother trying to scare her, but then gasped with a mortified look when she saw who it really was.
"Don't ever do that again," growled a very frustrated human Mewtwo, "Do you understand the danger you're in? Dia will kill me if you get hurt!"
"Let go of me!" Morli screamed, trying to jerk away from him, but he kept a strong hold. "Help! Someone help!"
The fire in Mewtwo's eyes faded as a worried look painted his face. "Shut up! You're making me look like I'm kidnapping you!" he hissed when several people stared at them both bewildered and shocked.
"You are kidnapping me! Let go!" Morli then bit his hand, finally making him release her with a brief shout of pain.
"ARGH, dammit! What the hell?!" Morli wiped her mouth against her sleeve, trying to get the taste of bare skin out of her mouth as Mewtwo cradled his hand, but he didn't wince long enough for her to get away again as he pulled on her hand. Morli tried to continue running, but to no avail as Mewtwo kept a firm grip and stance. "What is wrong with you!? You're acting like you're going to a slaughterhouse!"
"Hey! Let go of her!" Morli's hand was suddenly free as Mewtwo swiftly moved to the side as a fist from behind barely grazed his cheek. She almost felt like crying tears of joy when she turned around to see her brother, face-to-face with Mewtwo. "What's the big idea? You better not have hurt my sister!"
Mewtwo raised an eyebrow at the rather tall boy who looked like a mere senior in high school, and he almost laughed at how he danced around with his fists up and ready to strike. "What do you want?"
"That's what I should be asking you," Chen replied, still crouched over, hoping back and forth with his fists raised, "Who are you and why are you trying to hurt my sister?"
Mewtwo kept a relaxed posture to show that he wasn't asking for a fight, but in his mind he was confident that he could easily beat the hell out of the kid if he wanted to. "I wasn't trying to hurt her, 'k?"
"Then answer my other question! Who are you?"
Morli smirked, eager to hear how Mewtwo would answer that one. The best thing you can do is just run and forget about me, she thought, folding her arms as she waited for him to say something.
There was a short pause a Mewtwo quickly tried to come up with a believable excuse. "Uh, I'm a relative...?" He bit his lip, thinking that was the wrong thing to say.
Chen's hands then dropped to his sides. "Oh, are you Morli's uncle? Uncle Ray?" Mewtwo eyes widened, not expecting his coverup to work, but calmly nodded in response.
Morli's jaw dropped in disbelief. NO! she wanted to scream, How could this happen?!? She just stood there with a blank expression, too astounded to actually say anything. Her uncle, Ray, was suppose to be her new guardian, and Chen had never met him before due to not actually being related to him; he was her half-brother. Though Mewtwo looked nothing like her actual uncle, he did look like he could be related due to being nearly as tall as her brother and having the same black hair as both her and Chen. Morli couldn't believe such a coincidence could happen.
"But wasn't Morli suppose to take a ride up to Blackthorn City? Why did you come here?" Chen asked.
"Oh, the train she was suppose to take couldn't make it due to the accident with that mystery Pokemon, so I came here to make sure she was alright."
"You're quick on your feet," Morli grumbled, wishing he could at least stammer or pause instead of speaking so casually. Mewtwo, hearing her comment, looked over his shoulder and grinned at her.
"Oh, was that what you wanted to tell me, Morli? Gee, I'm glad you weren't in that train wreck. It's nice to see you one last time, though." He sighed and smiled timidly at Mewtwo, "Sorry for getting so defensive, it's been pretty rough for us since our parents died...Anyways, what do you guys plan on doing now? Are you just going to drive to Blackthorn now? That's a pretty long way..."
Before Mewtwo could say anything, Morli finally pulled herself together and answered for him, "We were going to do that, but hey, we got time. Maybe we can do something together..." Morli wasn't going to let Mewtwo win just yet, though she couldn't believe that Chen was being so gullible. If she could at least get some time alone with him, then she could try to tell him what was going on...if he would believe her. She didn't know how to rationalize her story for him at the moment.
"Well, if that's the case, I got some extra tickets for this Pokemon Tournament that's being held today, but my friends couldn't come. I was just heading over there before you called, so if you want to come..."
"We'd love to come!"
Mewtwo tried not to scowl as he narrowed his eyes at Morli, who was now copying the grin he had just given her moments ago, but he couldn't come up with a reason for why not to spend time with his new so called "family". He was surprised she hadn't made any protests as he lied through his teeth, but then again, would her brother actually believe her if she told him he was actually a Pokemon? Probably if he actually believed he was their uncle. His only response was a deep, irritated sigh.
"Great then! Let's take this next bus then, I think it's next stop is somewhere close to the stadium..." Chen said as he quickly jumped on the bus that had just stopped.
"Your uncle's kinda weird...what were you two doing before I arrived, anyways?" Chen asked Morli.
"Oh, um, he didn't want me running off..." It was the truth, but she didn't want to give too much information since Mewtwo was sitting right next to her on the bus, and the way he glared at her was intimidating. The saying "if looks could kill" was beginning to have a whole new meaning to her.
"I dunno...do you really think you should live with him?" Chen whispered, "The way he's looking at us...it's really creepy. I'm kinda expecting laser beams to shoot outta his eyes or somethin'..."
"Yup, totally can't hear you two!" Mewtwo said rather loudly, now looking away from them both.
Chen frowned with a bit of shame on his face, then decided to change the subject and actually include him in their conversation. "Hey...are you wearing contacts?"
Mewtwo raised an eyebrow at him. "Eh?"
"I mean, your eyes are purple. It's kinda cool though, but I was just wondering..."
"Uh, yeah, contacts, lets go with that..." Mewtwo turned his head away, gazing off into someplace far away.
"He is weird...and pretty anti-social," Chen murmured to Morli, who nodded in agreement.
"You wouldn't believe me if I told you how weird he was," she said, then suddenly felt Mewtwo lightly elbow her arm.
"By the way, is your uncle American? He doesn't sound British..."
Before Morli could answer, Chen was up on his feet when the bus stopped at their destination, and while he and several other people boarded off, Mewtwo placed a hand on Morli's shoulder and whispered, "My real identity is kept a secret for a reason, kiddo, so don't go giving it away to your brother."
Morli pulled away from him and held her chin up defiantly. "I'm not going to let you take me away so easily, and don't call me 'kiddo'."
"He probably won't believe you, you know."
"Then you have nothing to worry about." Morli turned her back on him and stepped off the bus, following Chen as they walked several blocks down to the large, dome-shaped stadium that would be hosting the competition. They were just on time, for the event was going to start soon, but getting through the entrance took them nearly half an hour due to hordes of people trying to rush in. Morli tried dragging Chen by the hand as she pushed her way through the crowd, attempting to lose Mewtwo. Several rounds had already passed by the time they arrived in the stadium, and just when Morli found a place to sit, thinking she had finally gotten rid of Mewtwo, he somehow found them out of the hundreds of people. Morli was nearly chewing her nails off, frustrated that she still couldn't freely talk to Chen without Mewtwo being around. Chen didn't pay much attention to Morli anyways as tried to get a legitimate conversation out of Mewtwo while cheering on for his favorite trainer.
"You look angry," Mewtwo commented, looking amused as he watched Morli.
"Ya think?" Morli said, not even bothering to look at him as she watched a Raichu and a Rhydon duke it out on a large screen that hung over the main battlefield, giving a closeup view of the battle for those who sat too far away to see the actual fight. "Say...don't you find this offensive?" she suddenly asked Mewtwo, then tried yelling her question when he didn't seem to hear her over all the excitement.
He seemed somewhat confused by her question. "Why do you ask?"
"Well, you're a Pokemon, aren't you? Do you really like watching people forcing other Pokemon to fight?"
"I've watched animals fight before, it happens all the time with both humans and Pokemon. I would actually prefer watching this instead of the other Legendary idiots, though..." He cringed when he mentioned the other Legendary Pokemon.
"But they're being forced to fight..."
"I'm not much of a treehugger, if that's what you're asking..."
Morli looked away from him again, certainly not expecting that kind of response on the subject from a Pokemon with the mind of a human.
"What are the rules to battling, anyways?" Mewtwo asked moments later.
Morli was taken aback. "You mean you don't know?"
He shrugged and said, "This is the first time I've seen official battles like this. This is illegal in the countries I've lived in."
Morli scratched her head, not such a big fan of organized Pokemon battling but only happened to know about it through her brother. "Well, the rules depend on the type of battle. Sometimes the winner is decided on depending on who collapses first or who is attacked first. There is one sort of battle where the Pokemon fight inside a big circle, and the first on out of the circle loses. Sometimes the trainers are allowed to tell Pokemon what to do with the help of electric spears kinda like tasers, while other times the trainers can't do anything at all. There's lot of different battles and rules; you'd have to be a trainer yourself to know it all."
"Are you thinking about becoming a trainer or something?" Chen asked, suddenly dropping into their conversation with a big grin on his face. "I've thought about becoming a trainer myself, but its hard and dangerous work...and it's even more difficult to actually make a living out of it. Only dedicated champions make a ton of money..."
"It's a good thing you aren't a trainer, Chen!" Morli exclaimed, "Do you know what the chances are of becoming a champion? We would have wasted a lot of money for you to learn how to be a professional trainer, and we would most likely get nothing out of it!"
"I think it would be ironic for me to be a trainer," Mewtwo chuckled.
Chen disregarded Mewtwo's statement and asked Morli, "Say, do you know who got our parents' money? Or did they still not decide yet? I'm running short on cash..."
Morli's spirits were dampened at the reminder of their parents. "I don't know..."
"Man, I wish their car wasn't wrecked, although that's what ended up killing them," Chen sighed, "I could use a car...I probably would've gotten it, too."
"Is that all you care about?!" Morli cried, standing up and giving Chen a icy stare. "Is that the only thing about our parents that means something to you? Their belongings?!?"
Chen just looked at her dumbfounded and shocked, then looked at his feet filled with guilt. "Gee, I-I'm sorry, Morli. I didn't mean to sound like that..."
Mewtwo remained expressionless as he watched the two. Morli's hands shook as she continued to glare at Chen, chocking on her breath as if she was about to break into tears. Her lips began to quiver when she thought over her sudden outburst, then she began to look like the one who was ashamed.
"Are you alright, sis?" Chen asked, looking worried.
"I...I have to go," she said, running the opposite direction and towards the nearest exit out of the stadium.
Morli dabbed her eyes with a tissue, sniffling and sobbing alone in the bathroom. She tried not to look at herself reflection in the mirror, too afraid to see the true torment in her eyes. She blew her nose into the tissue, wishing oh so badly for her tears to stop. She was tired of crying, especially in public; it made her feel weak and pathetic. She couldn't understand why her parents' death was so hard to get over, but she didn't mean to scold Chen about it. He loved them just as much as she did even if they didn't share the same fathers, and she knew that very well. Morli just had to wonder if he also expressed his true emotions in private.
Morli began to pour cold water over her face until the red from her face and eyes had cleared. After wiping away all the water droplets from her skin, she stared at her reflection long and hard until she thought she was suitable to go outside. Before she made any movement to leave the bathroom, she looked over the rest of the mirror curiously when all the reflections began to change into darker colors and create shadows where they shouldn't be. The real objects that were reflected did not match what the mirror showed, and Morli began to feel a bit frightened. Thinking she was just seeing things, she headed for the door, but her hands froze just before she could grab the door handle.
"By the way, stay away from mirrors..." she remembered Dialga saying. She stood in place for a moment, wondering if what she saw in the mirror was what he warned her about. Though she was half-tempted to look back into the mirror, Morli decided to take heed of Dialga's words and hastily left.
The halls were empty but not quiet as people in the stadium on the other side of the wall roared in excitement. As Morli walked down the hall, trying to remember which door into the stadium was closest to where Chen sat, she looked dismayed as she saw Mewtwo in his natural form ahead of her. He stood impatiently in front of a vending machine, completely not noticing her until she approached him.
"I thought you were suppose to keep your identity a secret," Morli said, making him jump when he realized her presence.
"Where the hell did you come from? Ah, dammit, you messed me up..." He concentrated on the vending machine, which Morli didn't look at until she heard something fall. Mewtwo pulled out a bottle of soda from the machine with a smug smile. "I love being psychic, it makes life so much easier."
"...You mean you didn't pay for that..."
Mewtwo took a sip from his drink before saying, "'Course not! They overprice drinks."
Morli rolled her eyes. "Whatever...do you really think you should be standing around here like this? Not that I really care, anyways..."
He stared at her dumbfounded, forgetting he was in his Pokemon form for a moment. "Huh? Oh, I don't see any problem with it. Do you see anyone else around? Besides, it's the fact that we can turn human that we want to hide, not our true forms. If that were the case, no one would know Legendaries even existed."
Morli blinked slowly at him, then stared at something far past him. "Then I guess you wouldn't care if those guys over there saw you?"
Mewtwo turned around to see several people wearing green jumpsuits running towards them. They looked like staff members or volunteers that worked in the competition, but Mewtwo only smirked and said, "Let's see how these people react."
Three staff members stopped in front of them, all panting and out of breath. "Anderson! What are you doing here? Your round is about to start!" one of them said.
"Anderson?" Morli repeated the name, crossing her arms and slightly tilting her head to the side in confusion.
"Is this the Pokemon you're going to use?" asked another member, "Never seen someone like him before. Okay, put the muzzle on."
"Muzzle?! Don't you da..." before Mewtwo could finish his protest, a staff member from behind quickly placed the muzzle over his mouth, though he was unable to secure it before Mewtwo knocked him over with his tail and threw the muzzle on the floor. "Don't ever do that!"
"Huh, it talks...Tell your Pokemon to come with us, you're late for your round!" The staff member grabbed Morli by the hand and dragged her away.
"W-Wait, I think you got the wrong person!" She continued to insist that she wasn't a trainer as she was lead to one of the ends of the stadium to the bottom floor, but her words were ignored. Body guards suddenly came by her side as she was lead into a crowd of news reporters and cameramen who tried to take pictures, pushing and jostling to get a close look of her. The body guards then dispersed when she came to two large metal doors, and behind her she could hear Mewtwo shouting and cursing as he followed behind. He came by her side, looking like he was ready to kill as he bared his teeth and growled at anyone who came close. Morli guessed they had to shock him to get him to obey seeing the way he rubbed his arms and sides and the electric spears that some staff members held. "Some Legendary you are," she muttered.
"Alright! You're on in three...two..."
The metal doors swung open, making Morli flinch at the burst of light from the stadium. Both she and Mewtwo were shoved out into the stadium, causing the crowds of people watching to wildly scream and shout at the sight of her.
"LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, CHRISTINE ANDERSON HAS FINALLY ENTERED THE FIELD!" boomed the announcer.
The doors behind them slammed closed before Morli could turn and run back in. "This is all a big mistake!"she screamed, pounding on the doors. She stared nervously at all the cameras pointed at her and Mewtwo and then at herself in the screens above, seeing the raw terror in her wide eyes to be in front of so many people. She breathed in and out rapidly, almost hysterically as she paced back and forth. "Oh my God, Oh my God..." she repeated over and over, feeling so lost. "What are we going to do?!?
