One more month and school is OVER! Finals are on their way, no more procrastinating people. Get to studying...now. Don't leave yet though, read this chapter first.

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Chapter 23: Reunited With Mother?

"This is it! You may be me, but I'll always be better!" I yelled while falling through the non existent sky towards my imaginary clone. The Energyball I have charged up at the moment was twice my size and was becoming slightly hard from slipping away and exploding with no effect.

"We'll just see who's better!" He yelled back while trying to catch his breath. Summoning winds and leaves from who knows where. His Leaf Storm may be stronger than mine which doesn't make sense, but power isn't everything.

During this fight we are having I learned a few things. I discovered that I'm extremely fast, much faster than the average Treecko or even a trained one. I'm somewhat stronger physically too. Not sure on the special attacks though, those all depend on how much you use them and whether they are mastered or not. So far of what I've discovered, I'm stronger than an average and trained Treecko in some ways. To every positive, there is a negative though. I just hope the negatives of this body aren't disastrous and life threatening.

He fired his Leaf Storm upwards at me and I thrust my Energyball forward, but not releasing it. They collided, sending shocks up my arm. He stopped my descent and was actually pushing me back. I thrust my other arm forward and pushed myself off of my Energyball just before it exploded.

"Man it took me awhile to make it that big!" Yeah I really was that far up in the air to have that much time to make one that big. I spun around and leaned into a nose dive toward my clone. He stood ready to strike, knowing full well I couldn't defend myself. Oh well, if I'm going down...literally, he's going down too. It felt weird to be falling at this speed with no wind rushing by which also made no sense because he had just used Leaf Storm and even the leaves are gone now.

"Right...NOW!" My timing was slightly off, but to my advantage his was on point causing him to swing before I did. I flipped and slammed my tail into his head causing him to slam into the ground so hard that he bounced into the air. A hit like that could break someone's neck.

After he hit the ground I checked to see if he was still alive. There was no pulse, but there was a nasty scar across his neck. Suddenly his eyes shot open and he sat up really fast which scared the crap out of me.

"DAMMIT! Your timing was off which threw me off!" Excuses excuses. He's just mad cuz I kicked his ass.

"Don't do that! Scared the crap outta me." Of course my mind was still on how scared I was.

"I want a rematch!" He doesn't give up, well neither do I but...wait...

"No! I won fair and square you're just mad cuz you lost!"

"I still want a rematch!" He's not getting one.

"No, I have some questions for you."

"Only if I get my rematch."

"Fine..."

"Ask away then."

"Okay first off, who are you?"

"I think I covered that last time you were here."

"You're not me. I saw the scar. That's not there on my neck."

"You remember that fight with the Sceptile? That's where it's from. Your scars are my scars."

"He used X-Scissor to finish me off, and even that didn't leave a scar."

"Alright, you got me. You want to know who I am, I'll tell you. My name is L..."

The moment he started to say his name, I woke up gasping for air. I took a quick glance around and saw wooden walls and a large opening to my right. Bright sunlight shining through. Where was I at now? I began to wander out while trying to ignore the massive headache pounding through my skull. By the time I realized that I was walking right off a ledge I fell. Who the hell builds a house this high up and in the side of a gigantic tree...wait a minute. There's only one tree this big in Hoenn and it's at the very center of it. I'm not really sure what lives here, everything on it said that information was classified.

A little ways down was a vine. It looked sturdy enough to support me. So I aimed for it, though my headache kinda made it hard. I managed to catch hold of the vine and stop myself. At this time I looked around, hundreds of Treecko, Grovyle, and Sceptile all walking around, climbing up the gigantic tree or up smaller ones.

"No way..." I was taken aback by the sight. I've never seen so many of them in one place like this. The nostalgia that I felt for the passing week or so finally went away. Had I found what I wanted all this time? Maybe someone here can clear things up for me. Hopefully they won't reject a genetically altered Treecko.

"Where is he?! Quick someone find him!" A voice from above yelled. I guessed it was talking about me. No too often your medical patient wanders off and nearly hurts himself by falling from so freaking high up. You don't place a patient where they can be hurt by falling. Fucking idiots, then again I can't talk. Humans do it all the time, in fact I'm not sure if there is a hospital without more than one floor.

"There he is!" For some reason that made me panic on the inside. After hearing that when it was threatening your life kinda leaves a little scare in hearing it from anyone else. I climbed across the vine back to the side of the giant tree and stood on the side of it. Funny thing is, the Treecko who was on his way down to me gave me the most confused look when he saw me standing on the side of the tree. To this day I thought Treeckos could do this, but I was wrong. Only I can, they have to crawl around all fours as opposed to me being able to walk on just my legs.

"How are you doing that?" He asked once he reached me.

"Doing what? Standing here?"

"Yeah, how are you doing that?" I couldn't believe he was asking that. Someone of the same species...well similar species. I refrained from making a smartass comment

"Same way you crawled down here." Or not. My headache was starting to return.

"But, we can't stand on the trees like that!"

"You mean you can't walk around on two legs while on a wall?" I began walking in circles along the tree trunk.

"No we can't!"

"Oh...well okay. Can't help you there. I can you can't, no I won't teach you." My headache was slightly worse. Anymore and I'll be irritable. I know that if Treeckos had eyebrows, he would have one lifted right now in confusion. I began feeling faint and was losing my balance.

"Hey, you okay? You're looking faint. Plus you're not even supposed to be out here." My headache was turning into a migrane. The pounding was becoming too intense. The way the world was wobbling didn't help my current condition either. The last thing I felt was my feet slip.

Someone was crying. It sounded like a grown woman.

Please wake up...

"H-How?"

Linus...Please...

"Whos...Linus?"

Linus, please wake up...

"I'm not...Linus"

I can't lose you.

"I was never lost..."

Please wake up!

My headache returned, but not as bad. It wasn't pounding but it was still annoying. I groaned as I tried to open my eyes, my entire body felt numb. It was very hard to move, but my mobility was returning. After the feeling came back to my body I opened my eyes, there was a blinding white light that quickly faded to reveal I was back in that same spot as before. I sat up and rubbed my eyes before realizing niether of them was damaged. I could see clearly out of both.

"Linus! I thought I had lost you!" The same voice from before. This time right next to me. The voice gave off a feeling very familiar to the one you feel when you're with your mother.

"Mother?" I don't know why I said that as I turned in the direction of the voice. My mother was dead. Mew even told me, so I now have proof...I think. In the direction that I looked sat a Sceptile, clearly female from the voice. Tears were streaming down her face as she stared directly into my eyes. I've seen that look before, but where?

"Linus...I thought I had lost you forever!" She wrapped her arms around me and lifted me up like a mother and her young child. I remembered now where that look was from. A mother reunited with her son! But I'm not her...son?

Who is Linus? Wait a minute...why can't I talk? What the hell?! This body is really getting on my nerves. My face was emotionless, I didn't even move. My eyes were swelling with tears and a lump formed in m throat. Why am I feeling this way? She's not my mother...is she? The original! He must have been separated from his mother and this reaction I'm experiencing is because he missed his mother. But why can't I move or talk? Is it because I don't have any memories of her? Maybe I should just play along for now. She'll never have to know that I'm not really him.

"I'll never let anyone harm you again." She spoke. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't say anything or even move. Personally I don't like being held by someone bigger than me. The fact that I can't even try to do something about it just makes it worse. It didn't make much sense as to why I felt this way.

After awhile she finally set me down. Thing is I still couldn't move, so I just sat there. Tears now streaming down my face.

"Linus?" She spoke after noticing I didn't move for awhile. At this time my body decided to respond. I looked her in the eye and tried to speak, but nothing came out. She smiled and spoke.

"It's okay. You're back now and that's all that matters. My little Linus. Even after four years you remain a Treecko. I never knew you would keep your word on something so odd. Even after you were taken away by those humans. You return here the same way as before. I always knew you were tough, to stand up to evolution the way you are. It takes a strong pokemon to evolve, and an even stronger one to fight off the evolution process. I'm proud to be the mother of a strong son like you." She actually went on more than that but once she called me her son, questions started to fill my head. Most of which were just repeated several times in different ways. There was one that I found particularly important.

Should I tell her?

I didn't want to hurt her anymore than she already was from having her son torn away from her. Telling her that I'm just a clone of him may make things much worse and the fact that I don't know where the original is makes it even worse. What do I do? I can't just stay here so she can be happy, but I can't just leave and tell her I'm not really her son.

By now I had already stopped crying. I tried to speak again, but still nothing came out.

"Still overtaken to speak? I understand. You should go back to sleep. I'm sure that will help" Go to sleep? I just woke up.

I laid down anyway and closed my eyes.

"Good night." She said before kissing my nose. Instantly I felt completely drained and sleepy. Just before I drifted off I thought.

Wait...THEY CAN'T USE LOVELY KISS!!

I wouldn't call the next section a major part, but it's pretty big. Jason finds his "mother" and is confused as to why he can't move or talk during this reuniting moment. His body still longed for home but he didn't know until now. Yeah that last thought is true, they can't use that move. So why'd he go back to sleep? Well you'll find out why in the next chapter.