Chapter Nineteen
Legendary Battles and Burnt Down Mansions

Previously:
The Large bird spread its wings, and gave out a fearsome caw as the stood in front of it. Its tails lashed out behind it, and the temperature in the room dropped suddenly, blanketing them in another wave of cold. The bird opened its mouth, and a bluish light emerged, shining brightly. Tony couldn't look away, and he had a feeling neither could Lloyd or Johnny.

The brilliant beam of blue light shot towards our heroes, who stood frozen in awe. Suddenly a shadow fell over Tony, as Snorlax leapt up, in the way of the beam. The Ice Beam hit Snorlax on its belly, and it roared in pain. The spot where the Snorlax was hit suddenly froze, and the ice spread, covering the pokemon completely. The encased pokemon fell sideways, hitting the water, floating.

The Blue bird cawed again, and it leapt at our heroes, talons raking the ground where Lloyd just was. It gave another cry, and its wings spread again. The wing hit Johnny and knocked him into the wall, and it knocked Tony off his feet. Lloyd was behind the bird reaching for his pokeball in a panic, but the bird's tails lashed out, whipping the ball from his hands, before another tail swept Lloyd off his feet. Tony sent his own pokeball out, his Blastoise emerging.

Johnny shakily stood up, his vision blurred. A huge shape crashing directly next to him knocked him down again, and he looked sideways to see Tony's Blastoise knocked out next to him. Tony already had his gyarados out, the huge dragon towering over the bird.

The serpent opened its mouth, and an orange light started to glow, but the Bird jumped out of the way from the beam, which sliced into the cave wall. The Bird launched another beam into the dragon, but it fought back with its own Ice Beam. The two pokemon squared off, their Ice Beams clashing against each other with an explosion of bluish light. When the smoke cleared, Tony's Gyarados lay with his Blastoise, knocked out as well, Johnny sitting next to the large serpent.

Lloyd found his lost pokeball sitting on the shore, and grabbed it with joy. A sudden explosion shook, and his pokeball leapt from his hands, hitting the water and sinking slowly, Lloyd grabbing after it.

The bird had Tony's Persian unconscious in its talons, and tossed it lazily across the ground. Grimacing, Tony sent out his last pokemon. They smaller bird squared off with the large blue bird, and flew towards it. The Bigger bird hopped sideways and its tails whipped the Pidgeot, sending it sprawling in the air, and the Blue Bird launched an Ice Beam, knocking the Pidgeot out as well.

Johnny had seen Tony's Pidgeot released before he turned his attention on the wounded pokemon. He quickly dropped a revive in the Gyarados's mouth, and it groggily woke up. Using a Hyper potion, Johnny healed the large serpent that roared as it spotted Tony's Pidgeot crashed into the ground.

Tony stood as the Bird charged up another beam, aiming right at him. Tony covered his face with his arms as the beam was released, but nothing happened. Lowering his hands Tony saw his Gyarados, fully healed, grappling with the smaller bird, which pecked furiously at the dragon. The gyarados pushed the bird towards the water, and with a mighty thrust, sent the blue bird into the icy deep. Panting, the large dragon watched as the bird sunk below the depths, and it turned to look at Tony.

With a sudden splash the bird spun from the water, and its wings flung open, water spraying everywhere. It flapped in midair, and Charged up yet another Ice Beam, and the gyarados swiveled its large head. A fiery glow appeared in the gyarados's mouth, the flames licking around, and as the Ice Beam was released, the Gyarados did the same. The Flamethrower melted straight through the Ice Beam, striking the bird dead on. As the large bird fell, ice sprinkling off of it, Tony flung a pokeball, nailing the bird in its head, sucking it into the device.

The pokeball hit the water, the bird captured, but it also sunk to the bottom. Johnny walked up behind Tony, as they stared at the water.

"So…when are you gonna pay me back for that revive and Hyper potion?" Johnny asked and Tony looked at him. Suddenly Snorlax burst from the water as well, dripping wet. It waddled over to Tony, and handed him a pokeball, which was cool to the touch.

"Um…thanks?" Tony asked, and the Snorlax nodded walking over to Lloyd, who was sitting on the shore, looking into the water. It handed Lloyd another pokeball and he jumped up, hugging the large beast. After recalling all their pokemon, Lloyd turned to Tony, "So what are you gonna do with that…thing?" Lloyd asked and Tony shrugged.

"I'm gonna give it to the professor, he can study it." Tony said, and they looked out over the water. Lloyd grabbed an escape rope from his bag and pulled it out. As he readied the rope, Johnny tapped Tony on the shoulder, "Seriously, my money?"

Tony sat with Johnny and Lloyd on the Snorlax, because his Pidgeot was unconscious. They gently wafted for a while, and Cinnabar came into view. The large island came closer as Snorlax paddled near, and Lloyd smirked, "Hey, that's right, guess what Tony."

"What?"

"I caught a new pokemon, a Seel, down in the Seafoam islands." Lloyd boasted.

"Um…great…" Tony said, and Lloyd stuck his tongue out at Tony. They suddenly jerked forwards as the Snorlax bumped into the coast of Cinnabar, and Johnny stood up. Johnny jumped off the Snorlax, landing in the knee-deep water, and suddenly yelled. Johnny flailed as he fell backwards. His leg flew up and Tony saw the clam that was attached on to it. Yelling Johnny flailed his leg and the Clam popped off, landing in the water.

"Bastard!" Johnny yelled, releasing his Gengar, and it laughed loudly at Johnny, who was sitting in the water, soaked.

"Just attack that thing!" Johnny spluttered at the Gengar, who turned to look for the pokemon that attacked its trainer. A shining white beam shot out from the water, and the Gengar phased out to avoid it, phasing back in behind the clam, which was looking for the Gengar. The Gengar delivered a brutal punch, the Shellder skipping across the water, smashing into the Snorlax. The Gengar was already there, and picked the Shellder up, Throwing in the air, then blasting it with a shadow ball.

The clam fell into the water, floating, and Johnny tossed out a pokeball, catching the bivalve. Recalling his Gengar and Snorlax, Johnny went to the PC, and dropped off a pokeball.

"So why'd you catch the Shellder if you just were gonna put it away?" Lloyd asked, and Johnny shook his head, "I put Kangaskhan in the box, I wanna see if this Shellder is worth anything."

"That reminds me, I've got to send this Bird to Professor Oak, I'll be right back." Tony exclaimed, pulling out the pokeball, which had a light layer of frost on it. Tony sent the Pokemon to Oak, who responded on the screen.

"What's this about? You should really take better care of your pokeballs Tony." Professor Oak said, as he looked at the frozen pokeball Tony had sent him.

"No, it contains this," Tony explained, showing him the picture of the bird in his Pokedex, "Do you know what it is?"

"Buh…guh…duh…how?" Oak stammered, and Tony's eyes widened, "Professor? Are you having a heart attack?"

"Tony, M'boy, this is an Articuno, there's only one known one alive. How?" Oak asked, before shaking his head, "How's not important, do you know how great this is? This will further our research into Legendary pokemon tenfold."

"Legendary? That pokemons legendary?" Tony asked, "Well, I guess it did put up a good fight." Tony said, and Oak said goodbye, and Tony healed up his pokemon. When he left the Center, Johnny and Lloyd were both gone, and Tony looked next door to find a laboratory.

He wandered through the small building, and suddenly a man pulled him into a room, "Psst, kid, do you wanna know the best move around? I'll teach it to one of your pokemon for free."

"Umm…what is it?" Tony asked, and the man smiled proudly, "Metronome! Its completely random, so its also fun to use."

"I guess, um, teach it to my Persian then." Tony said, releasing his Persian, and the man taught the large cat the move. Tony saw Lloyd walk by the room, and ran out to meet with him.

"Hey." Lloyd said, as he pulled out two new pokeballs. "Look, I got that fossil from back in mount moon revived, and some old amber I got from the Pewter museum revived too."

"Fossils?" Tony asked, and Lloyd nodded. They walked out and quickly found Johnny pounding on the door to the Gym. He turned to face them as they approached, "Can you believe this Jackass isn't here!" Johnny exclaimed, before giving the door a kick, and clutching his toes.

"What's that place?" Lloyd asked pointing towards the large decrepit mansion that stood at the edge of the island.

"I dunno." Johnny said, as they walked towards the large building, "But it looks like it could be full of treasure…or better yet, rare pokemon!" Johnny exclaimed, rubbing his hands together again.

Tony pushed the doors open to the mansion…and they fell off their hinges, landing with a large bang that echoed throughout the house. The large hallway they were in stretched very far, large pillars lining the way to a staircase.

"Smells…burnt." Lloyd remarked, and they stepped inside the mansion. They walked across the red carpet, glass crunching underneath their shoes as they trotted on.

"Look!" Lloyd said, pointing to the small hallway next to stairs, "Lets take that hallway, before we use those stairs, it looks like it might crumble beneath us."

They turned to walk down the hallway, and explored the areas after there, as they walked into a room, a man suddenly fled past them with a large bag.

"Suckers!" He called as he escaped past them, his bad clinking with what sounded like metal.

"Hey!" Johnny yelled, waving his arms at the man, "That's our treasure! You thief!"

"Stop being a hypocrite, what's that?" Lloyd asked, pointing at a strange statue in the corner of the room.

Tony walked up and examined the statue. It was grey and very old. The statue was carved to show some sort of creature on a pedestal. There was a switch sticking out the back of it when Tony checked, but other then that it was normal.

"It looks like some overgrown Fetus." Johnny remarked, walking up to the statue, "What's the switch do?"

"How am I supposed to know?" Tony replied, and Lloyd went up and flipped the switch. The was a loud noise like something heavy moving across the ground, before everything was still.

"What did it do?" Lloyd asked, and Tony shrugged, "I don't know, but maybe you can just throw us all in a spiked pit next time, you know, save us all some trouble. Don't go flipping weird switches you dumbass!"

"Hey, somebody had to take some action!"

"Yeah, that doesn't mean kill us all!"

"I didn't see you giving any bright ideas!"

"Hey!" Johnny yelled, and Lloyd and Tony separated, "When you girls are done kissing, we've got a mansion to explore, eh?"

They explored the bottom floor, and found nothing, so they decided to go up the stairs to the second floor. They stood at the bottom of the stairs, and Tony took a step up, the stairs creaking. Suddenly a rotted smell wafted down the stairs and our heroes looked up. A purple sludge began rolling down the stairs, hitting with a plop and a sizzling noise every step Tony looked back at Johnny and Lloyd, who shrugged back at him. Suddenly Lloyd yelled out, and Tony felt a pressure on him shoulder. The slime had leapt off the staircase and landed on his shoulder. The sludge rolled down his clothes as Tony franticly shook his arm, trying to detach the persistent sludge. Johnny began sweeping at the sludge too, but it only stuck onto his arms. Suddenly a brown fist punched the sludge off of them, and it landed on the steps with an unpleasant pop. A Primape stood in between them, and Lloyd was looking at them, "We have pokemon you know."

"I know that!" Tony said angrily, detaching his pokeball, releasing his Persian. The sludge rose up in the center and a white eye opened up, followed by another next to it. Then it opened its mouth and made a gasping sound, its large purple tongue flopped out and went back in.

Tony smirked, and his Persian hissed. A sludgy hand emerged from the pile, and it flung a pile of stinky goop at the cat, which nimbly leapt out of the way. The sludge hit the ground splattering onto Tony's shoe, hissing. The Persian's gem shined brightly once, and it's fur suddenly stood on end. In a fit of rage rivaling Primape's, the Persian launched itself on the pile of sludge, furiously biting and slashing. The sludge finally heaved the cat off of it, and retaliated with a goopy attack, hitting the Persians shoulder.

"What did your Persian just do?" Johnny asked, and Tony looked at him, "It's a move she learned, Metronome, apparently its just random."

The felines gem shone again, and suddenly grew yellow. Its sparked and the cat meowed, aiming at the sludge, which looked on in wonder. The sparks suddenly shot forwards into a blazing yellow orb, sparks trailing behind, as it was unleashed, the cat recoiled backwards as it let the Zap cannon go. The cannon hit the sludge dead on, erupting in an explosion of sparks, rippling across the floor and sending the hair on our heroes neck standing up from the static in the air. When the smoke cleared the sludge sat on the ground in a small pool, smoking. Its slowly seeped away from Tony and his Persian, as one eye peeked out to look back and make sure they weren't following. Tony lazily tossed out a pokeball and it landed into the sludge, capturing the weakened pokemon.

"Are these stairs safe?" Lloyd asked, hesitantly putting his foot down on it.

"Nonsense, come on!" Johnny said, and he stomped up the stairs, Tony and Lloyd following. On the next floor were another hallway and one more staircase, leading up again. Before Tony could give a suggestion, Johnny plodded up those stairs as well, leaving Tony and Lloyd no choice but to follow. They emerged on the top floor of the building and immediately weird man in a white lab coat yelled at them.

"Hey!" He said in a squeaky voice, pointing at them, "Your shouldn't be here!" He wheezed, and grabbed a pokeball from inside his lab coat. Lloyd retaliated by grabbing his own pokeball, releasing his Charizard, who gave a fearsome snort. The Scientist stopped mid-way with his pokeball in hand, and looked at the red dragon. He shakily sent out his Magnemite.

The Magnemite gave a shrill beep at spotting the large reptile, and hovered behind the scientist, who yelped and forcefully pushed the Magnet pokemon in front of him.

Tony watched as the man struggled to control his scared pokemon in disgust, and felt happy when a small discharge of fire knocked the magnet out. The man eeped and sent out a Magneton, who was defeated in the same matter. Growling, the man released a Voltorb, who rolled across the ground quickly, bumping into the Charizard's leg with little effect. The great Dragon looked down at the small orb with contempt, and quickly put its foot on the pokeball replica, preventing movement. The Orb gave off a sharp spark, and the Charizard roared in pain, before narrowing its eyes at the sphere. It took a deep breath, and bathed the still pinned Voltorb with flames. The blazing bath lasted 5 minutes, with Tony, Johnny, the scientist, and even Lloyd looking on in amazement at the unrelenting Charizard. When the flames finally stopped, the Charizard kicked the burning orb away from it. The Scientist yelled in fear as t ran from the room, down the stairs, leaving the unconscious Voltorb behind.

"Unbelievable." Johnny said simply, walking up to the Voltorb and pulling out a revive giving it to the pokemon, who groggily opened its eyes. It spotted the Charizard and shook in fear, looking franticly for his trainer, or an escape route. It contented itself with shaking and closing its eyes tightly.

Johnny look back at Lloyd, "Hey, recall Charizard, he's scaring it." Johnny said, and the Charizard gave Johnny an angry look before it was returned. Johnny sent out his Electrode, who spotted the shivering Voltorb and rolled over to it, tapping it and leading it off into a corner, apparently comforting it with small electric shocks. Tony took that time to observe the room they were in.

A table stood in the center of the room, and a hallway lead up. Unfortunately the hallway was littered with sharp spikes and rocks were probably too dangerous to try crossing. Looking at the table, Tony spotted a book at walked up to it, flipping it open. The words were worn out, faded, but Tony could make out a paragraph.

A new Pokemon was discovered deep in the jungles.

Suddenly a hand clapped Tony on the back and he jerked around, finding Lloyd, "Come on, we're going back downstairs. With one final glance at the journal, Tony followed Lloyd and Johnny down the stairs. They went down the hallways, and found an empty room with nothing but a table with another journal on it. Johnny suddenly yelled, pointing towards a balcony, where he and Lloyd rushed. Tony quickly ran to the journal and flipped it open, reading the words inside.

We christened the newly discovered pokemon, Mew.

Before Tony could finish, Johnny called to him, "Hey, come on, we're going over this way!" Tony tore his eyes from the book and trotted after his friends. They walked down another hallway, and Tony spotted another book on a table. Ignoring Johnny's complaints of the rubble littering the hallways, Tony went ahead and read the page that was already opened.

Mew gave birth. We named the newborn Mewtwo.

"Gave birth?" Tony repeated, "To what?"

"What?" Lloyd asked standing behind him, and Tony spun, "Hey! Why do you keep lurking behind me?"

"No reason." Lloyd said quietly, and Tony noticed the way the shadows were on his face, he looked different. Dangerous.

"Um…what's up then?" Tony asked, and Lloyd shook his head slowly, a grin spreading on his face, "Hey guys, I found some more stairs!" Johnny suddenly called, and Lloyd looked back. He turned back to Tony, "Come on, we don't wanna be left behind!"

They walked up the new flight of stairs, and Tony noticed the hallway to his right lead to the room where they fought the Scientist. They walked forwards, and found another statue of the strange pokemon. Tony looked at the front of it and found some almost rubbed off words, faintly spelling out "Mew…"

Tony stood up, "So this is what Mew looks like?" Tony asked himself, before he heard a click, and looked around the statue to see Lloyd.

"Lloyd!" Johnny yelled, and Lloyd glared back, "Hey! The last time didn't do anything. Why should this one?"

"This isn't some kind of Video game!" Johnny yelled, "Things don't work that simply!"

"Come on! I heard a noise over here!" Tony said, standing straight up and pointing through the small hallway. They walked over to where Tony pointed, and found some broken floorboards leaving a gaping hole. Lloyd strode over to the edge of the hole, but Tony suddenly shouted, and Johnny jumped out, grabbing the back of Lloyd's shirt.

Lloyd turned, "What?" He barely finished before the board he was standing on splintered, and he fell downwards, dragging Johnny with him. Tony lunged forwards, eyes tightly closed, grabbing for something, and felt his foot grab a shoe. He landed hard on his belly with a small "Oof." Opening his eyes he saw Johnny's shoe in his hand. Tony quickly released his pokeball, not sure which one he grabbed, hoping to get Blastoise, who could heave him up, but his Persian came out, mewing in confusion.

With the extra weight, the board Tony was laying on cracked again, sending Tony headfirst into the hole, as his Persian jumped back in surprise. Tony slid down the hole, finding that he was falling down; he glanced quickly up and spotted his Persian peering after him. The last thing he heard was a loud, "Hey, where's my shoe?" before he slammed into the ground.

The Persian looked into the darkness for her master, but was unable to see him within the dark hole. Fortunately, she could still smell him, and that must have meant he was coming back soon, so she contented herself with crossing her paws and lying at the end of the hole. After what the Persian waited what she thought to be a long time, which in reality only about 3 minutes, she decided to take matters into her own paws. She strolled down the hallway, away from the hole, sniffing for any of Tony's scent. She would even be willing to settle for a whiff of Red-haired guy or Loud-guy's scent.

She found herself standing in front of some stairs, and decided to walk down them. She came to a balcony, and caught a whiff of Loud-guy's scent, slinking over to look down the balcony. She spotted Loud-guy and Red-haired guy standing over her master, with Snorlax sitting nearby. Giving a loud Meow, she leapt from the Balcony towards our heroes.

Tony groggily woke up, to see Johnny, Lloyd and Snorlax around him. Johnny's shirt was ripped with a long cut, and Lloyd had a gash running across his forehead. Tony looked down at his leg to see a nasty wound, and grimaced when the pain set in. Suddenly a white blur came from the sky, landing on Lloyd who yelled as the pokemon clawed, trying to stay on. Lloyd fell to the ground and the pokemon leapt off him, slinking over to Tony.

"Persian!" Tony exclaimed, and the Persian spotted his wound, holding the leg down with her paws and licking it, "Ow! Ow! Rough tongue!"

Tony recalled his Persian and Johnny did the same with his Snorlax, while Lloyd stood up, brushing himself off. Tony shakily stood up, and examined the room, finding a steel door and a small room.

"Lets check out this room." Johnny said, and our heroes entered the room, which had another statue and a table with a Journal on it. A man was also in the room, but he had his nose buried in a book and paid them no mind. Tony went to the Journal on the table, while Lloyd went right to the statue, flicking the switch. The steel door to the side of them opened, while another one shut behind them.

Tony glanced at the book, reading what it said.

Mewtwo is far too powerful. We have failed to curb its vicious tendencies.

Tony turned away from the book to see Lloyd waving him down the said hallway, and he followed. Upon going to where they fell, they spotted the Steel door that was closed earlier, now opened.

"Excellent!" Johnny proclaimed, and Lloyd shook his head darkly, "I told you it was safe." He whispered.

They strolled down the hallways, examining the broken furniture and paintings that littered the walls. Lloyd spotted another statue, and he promptly flicked the switch that all three of our heroes knew was there, and Tony spotted another steel door slide open. They continued to walk down the halls, and they turned a left, and Johnny shouted out.

A shiny key was sitting in between lines of large, burnt plants, and Johnny ran up grabbing the key. "See, look at this! I wonder where it goes!" Johnny said excitingly, looking closer, "Aha! Look!" He yelped, showing Tony and Lloyd the key, which read, "Cinnabar Island Gym" on it, "Now I can get in there and wait for the Gym Leader.

Lloyd readied the Escape rope that they would use to get out, and he looked up at the ceiling, "What…next…" He said slowly to himself.

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