Okay now that midterms are over, I can get back to my regular random updating schedule...so nothing's really changed except that now I'll be working on this every now and then(like always when possible). There's not exactly anything in my way right now, but that don't mean that I'm gonna be focused completely on writing. Enjoy

Chapter 30: The abyss

"Hmph, some oblivion. I'm still here." I always thought oblivion was just nothing. This is clearly an existing place. I can see myself, but I seem to be the only one here. Floating in the middle of nothing. With no idea how to move. Something about this place is scaring me though. Better watch my back...better watch from every possible direction. With no mobility other than in place, there's no dodging. No dodging means protect is my only defense. From past experience, it shatters easily so I can't really rely on that, but it's all I have until I figure out how to move. I tried whatever came to mind on a possible way to float around with no avail...as far as I know. There isn't any air here and with no other existing things, there's no way to tell. All I did accomplish was making myself dizzy. Gravity decided to kick in and I face-planted onto the nonexistent ground.

"Why do I feel like that was planned..." The fall was actually a bit far, but didn't hurt. The gravity here wasn't exactly as strong as at home, then again I did feel lightweight when I saw those ghost pokemon.

"Jason!" That sounded like Mew. I followed her voice, running at full speed. There's still lag between steps when I run and it doesn't take as much force as before to keep myself going. I wasn't exactly sure if I was moving at all. I couldn't feel the nonexistent ground. For all I know, I could have just been running in place. "Jason if you can hear me, follow my voice!" Mew called out again. As if I wasn't already.

We weren't getting anywhere by calling to each other, so I decided to fire an Energyball into the air like a flare in hopes that Mew would see it, problem is that it fell back down instead of exploding in midair. Apparently it only works on collisions and not at will, but for all I know, that may be something I need to learn. The sooner the better because I don't really like being hit by my own attacks. Why I didn't move out of the way when the Energyball fell I have no idea, but at least it did what I wanted it to.

"Great idea using an attack...what happened to you?" Mew shows up while I'm still face-down on the 'ground'.

"You ever been hit from above by a larger than normal Energyball?" Pretty sure she has been hit by at least a normal one.

"You have no idea." She responded.

"Whatever. So, what now?" I asked, after sitting up.

"We find a way out of here."

"Where is here exactly?" I asked.

"I don't know. This is new to me." If she didn't know, then we may be trapped here. What ever dragged us here doesn't seem to be anywhere nearby, but I won't let down my guard. We're not exactly at a disadvantage since there isn't anything to block our view as far as I know, but neither of us know what could be here.

Time to think this over. We're clearly not in the normal world. This is just darkness, it's not even that because we can see each other. It's like a room painted jet black with a light except it's not just a room and there's no reflection from said light...that's not here. Mew can't teleport or go through dimensions because of lost power. I can come up with one possible solution...copying Mew. Last time I did that...

We were sitting in place trying to find a solution to this, at least I was. Five minutes passed when Mew broke the silence.

"Only as a last resort..." Mew broke the silence.

"What?" I asked.

"I know you were thinking about copying me. Only as a last resort." She answered. It might have just been me, but Mew looked a bit more serious. She also should know how much I hate having my mind read.

"Is that what you were doing these past few minutes? Going through my head?" I asked.

"No, I can only get the loud thoughts that have been there for a few seconds. Any quick thoughts or inner thoughts I can't get to. You must be pretty resistant to psychic types. Right now though, in your current state, I can't even catch a glimpse in your head. It's as if it's not there. Why? Are you..."

"Dead?" I finished her sentence. "Yeah, killed by an Arbok I thought I could have shown the world. He claimed it was his dream to learn. Turns out he was just being controlled by Arceus...Should have seen it coming in the beginning, when he held me by my foot. No way one he would have had a change in heart like that. I can't be mad at him for it since killing me wasn't his fault, but I bet at the start, it was his intention anyway. I was just going to be the meal of the day and he was going to be just one of the millions I'll hurt. I'm going to go through with our plan. Arceus won't get away with killing me." Even if it does hurt, I will destroy the world if I have to.

"I feel like it was my fault. If I had contacted you sooner..."

"Don't worry about it. If I hadn't blown up everything with that Solarbeam, we wouldn't even be here."

"This is all your fault." Way to make me feel better Mew. "If you had just ran away from them, we wouldn't be here! I can't really be mad at you for defending yourself, but you could've warned me!" I did actually. She just didn't move.

"I did warn you!" I yelled in response.

"At the last second! You can't expect me in my weakened state to get away in such short notice!" She did have a point there, but I had just realized that it would do that in that last second too.

"Whatever," I began.

"Don't whatever me! We're stuck here because of you! If you had just fought them normally, or let me handle them, WE WOULDN'T BE HERE!! I MEAN..." She went on, but I lost interest in what she was ranting about. Even though I was still watching and acting like I was paying attention, I really wasn't. She never noticed so I'm not complaining. "AND ANOTHER THING," Okay she's starting to get annoying.

"Mew! Don't we have more important things to be doing other than yelling at me for something completely unavoidable?" So maybe it wasn't unavoidable but hey, can't blame me for what I didn't know. She really wanted to say something, but kept her mouth shut. I don't know why since I just asked her a question that I was expecting an answer for. She only glared at me, most likely expecting an apology for something I'm not in the wrong for. "So I made a bad choice there, it doesn't matter now since it's over and done with. What DOES matter is how we're going to get back! So drop the act! There will be plenty of time to yell at me when we get back, but we WON'T get back until YOU find out how!" I'm not gonna apologize if that's what she wants, because I'm not wrong for what I did. Still she didn't respond. "So you're going to ignore me?" She didn't even move. "Hey! I'm talking to you!" She just stood there, not even blinking. Her glare was starting to get a bit intimidating. I stepped closer to her and noticed that she wasn't even breathing. "Hey...Mew?" I waved my hand in her face. Not even a little reaction. Is she that mad to ignore me completely and stand there like a statue? "Oh so now you're too mad to even move?" I tried to push her, but I just fell through her as if she wasn't even there. "What the!?" Oh yeah, ghosts can't touch living things...at least I don't think so, but she isn't moving. I turned around, and standing in front of Mew, was me!

"Look we can fight later. Right now we need to get home!" The other me told Mew. I stepped up to him.

"Who the hell are you and why are you me!?" I asked. He ignored me. "Don't ignore me!" Still no response. "ANSWER ME!" He didn't even look my way. "Alright then, be that way!" I threw a punch, only to stumble through him the same way as I did with Mew. "DAMMIT!" I threw a few more, knowing full well that it wouldn't work.

"Fine, we WILL continue this later." What the hell? Can't she tell the difference between me and a fake? I'm dead and he's not! It should be obvious.

"Mew! That's not me!" I yelled with no avail to getting either of their attention.

"Good, so any ideas on getting back?" He asked.

"Other than you copying me, just one. Finding Arceus, and restoring my power." Wait she just said finding Arceus. How are we supposed to find anything when we don't even know where we are? Did she lie to me about not knowing where we are?

"How are we supposed to find Arceus when we don't even know where we are?" He asked Mew. What is he going from my thoughts? He may look like me, but he can't think the same way I do. There's no way he could even be any closer than just looks. If only there was a way to get him to attempt to copy Mew.

"Assuming we're where I think we are, Arceus is somewhere here watching us. Searching won't help, but maybe we can do something to expose him." She answered.

"How? It's freaking Arceus we're trying to find. If he's concealed in some way, would there still be a way to expose him? He asked. That was a good question. Arceus pretty much can do anything. Create a world from scratch, create life, control it too. I guess it's safe to say that Arceus is God, but that doesn't make him invincible. Everything has a weakness.

"I can think of one way." Mew grinned as she said that, but I don't think the other me noticed. What for though?

"Well? You gonna tell me?" I was probably about as eager as him to know.

"Okay, first..." Mew paused, reached toward me, and grabbed my arm. "GET OUT OF HIS BODY!" She thrust me right into the other me and I went through again, but this time a brightly glowing orb was dragged out. Mew slamming me though the other me felt like crashing through a brick wall.

"Ow...You could warn me next time you decide to use me as a weapon...wait...You knew I was there!?" If she knew, why ignore me?

"Of course, you don't have an aura." She answered.

"What's an...aura?" Really I've never heard of that before. Is it bad?

"No time. You'd better get back in your body." How does she expect me to do that? There's no guide to possessing a body now.

"How do I do that?" I asked.

"I don't know but you better hurry!" The orb began letting out a blinding light as it rose into the air.

"What's with the light?" I asked while attempting to shade my eyes.

"Quit wasting time! Get back into your body!" She's sounds serious. I didn't know why, probably because she used me as a weapon. I'm still a bit dazed. I couldn't see anything with this blinding light, but there was an object blocking some of it, conveniently in front of me. The shape was pretty familiar. I couldn't find my body anywhere nearby. The light grew brighter and there was a force pushing us back. "He's coming..." She said quietly.

Okay so I rushed with the ending. That's what happens when I stay up hours past my bedtime on a school day. Anyway, it's probably gonna be changed.

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