Distractions, don't you just love them?

Chapter 31: Teaching Myself

I found myself gasping for air as if I had be deprived of oxygen for a near fatal time. My eyes were very dry and blinking didn't really help much at first. I felt my heart beating in my chest, more rapidly than ever. I wouldn't exactly call it fear, but this feeling in my gut was pretty damn close. There was an ear piercing noise that seemed to come from no where and it was fading. My body was colder than ever, it felt worse than when I was frozen in that ice not too long ago, but with every heartbeat I felt warmth fight the chills. My neck was very stiff, and so was the rest of my body. In fact, I couldn't move anything but my head. My vision was very blurry and some spots I just plain couldn't see, slowly but surely though, my vision was returning. Soon enough, I felt normal. Shortly after though, I crashed, horribly. I didn't have an ounce of energy left in my body. I don't think I've ever felt this weak before. So tired, so sleepy. My eyes began to shut on their own, despite how much I struggled to keep them open. There was a muffled voice coming from below me. It sounded like it was calling my name, but I didn't even have the energy to even listen. The voice grew louder, as if it was getting closer. My feet touched ground and I just stood there motionless. By now the voice was yelling, but I still couldn't understand it.

"Subdue Mew..".

There was a gasp after that was said. My paralysis went away and I felt revitalized. I opened my eyes, and Mew stood there. When I reached for her, she jumped back. What am I doing!?

"What are you doing!? Don't listen to him!" I slowly walked towards her as she backed away.

Why can't I stop!?

"Don't let her escape..."

I sped up my walking somewhat and Mew did the same.

"Jason, don't let him control you! Close your mind!" My walking sped up to a jog, whereas Mew began to float backwards away from me.

Mew run!

"You must capture and copy her..."

"Stop! I don't want to hurt you!" I began to run after her. As I was closing in she began to wave her paws to her sides.

Man I hope she doesn't get anything good...

She stopped and formed a beige silhouette of a large bone similar to the one a Marowak carries around and swung it at me. I didn't have time to react as I had just dived forward at her and I took the blow to the face and felt every little bit of pain that was dealt. Without even so much as a thought of caressing my face, I jumped back up and began to attack Mew. I couldn't land a single blow as she ducked and dodged everything I threw at her with incredible speed.

"Hey Jason, remember when I said you weren't on my level? I was dead serious on that one. Even under his control, you don't stand a chance against me. So just give it up. Arceus let him go. There's no point in trying when your puppet is just not strong enough. I already know your plan. I won't let it happen, there can only be one and I know you want it. You can try, but it won't work out in the end. Otherwise I'd have already done it myself. There is one factor that prevents that from happening. One little factor that not even you can change. All the power in existence, and one little thing like that prevents you from your little goal." Even through that speech I couldn't touch her. "Ya know what, yeah, go ahead and copy me Jason. I want to see Arceus's little experiment."

Was she out of her mind!? Letting Arceus get what he wants is not going to help us in any way at all, but I couldn't do anything about it. I copied her and regained control of my body. While standing there completely clueless...and pink, something made a small cut on my chest. It bled a little, but the blood floated off in front of me.

"Mew...what's about to happen?" I asked.

"You'll see. Arceus has this little obsession..." Is she dodging my question?

"Obsessed? With what?" I asked. Arceus must have some serious problems to have developed an obsession. Especially since he's got access to pretty much everything. Mew didn't answer me, she just chuckled, which made me a little uneasy.

"Why don't you tell him Arceus. Tell him about your little obsession with him. Tell him just how much you 'love' him." What the hell is Mew saying?

"Even in your condition, you can still tell when I'm near. I don't love him, I'm only curious about the way he works. Human creations are always amazing to me. How they can build such things from the little that I gave them. How they are able to connect to one another from across the planet. How they are able to alter my creations. How they are able to take one of my creations and make their own super form of it, from it." Guess who stepped out of the darkness. Me, again. Honestly, I never thought I'd hate to see my own face, but now it's just annoying. "Like you. You are the best one I've ever seen."

"What do you mean by best one? Are you saying there are more like me?" I asked.

"In a way, yes. There were many attempts at cloning pokemon and humans in the past, not very many make it into the world, most of which die when they leave incubation, those that do will most likely die within a week to a year from being overworked, had too many tests run on them, or their lifespan is not long. Rarely, they'll get that one that will live a full life. Like you." He spoke.

"How do you know that?" I asked.

"You see, I've been observing you. You're in a way, the ultimate pokemon. You can copy whatever pokemon you can place your hand on, their type, their moves, and their abilities. You grow stronger by the hour, you have regenerative powers greater than Mew here and Mew, can survive a fatal wound too. What makes yours better is that you can move around and recover at full speed. What you may not have known is that Synthesis is always active for you. The stronger the sunlight, the faster you heal." Arceus seems to know quite a bit about me. Maybe I should get as much out of him as I can. "I know you have wondered why you have never gotten hungry before." He was right there, I didn't get hungry even though I spent like two weeks asleep and have been awake for like 4 days.

"Well I thought it was a weekly thing, which would have explained why I devoured that apple tree." I responded.

"That was me messing with your head. What you really did just then was stand there staring at an apple. You're a lot closer to a plant than you think. You go through photosynthesis too. As for your theory about your hunger being a weekly thing, I don't know. There isn't any sunlight here, but your body wasn't active for some time so the leftover energy from when you were last bathed in sunlight." Arceus explained. It all made sense, and he's a jerk for making me do that.

"That makes sense...but why did you make me imagine eating out an entire apple tree?" I asked.

"Hey, I get bored too. You couldn't possibly have believed that was real could you? That's literally impossible." Time to change the subject before he starts insulting me. I don't need to be getting mad and starting a fight before I learn as much as I can.

"So what else do you know about me?" I asked.

"Trying to get as much information as you can? Fine by me, our fight is inevitable anyway. Let's see...where to begin. Ah, do you remember when you tried to use Solarbeam?" He asked.

"Yeah, it caused an explosion instead of firing a beam like it should have." I answered.

"What does that tell you?" He asked.

"That I screwed up?" I asked.

"No no no. Your moves work differently. You should have known this from the very beginning when you used Absorb, Megadrain, or Gigadrain. Absorb doesn't make contact, a Megadrain goes farther than yours, and Gigadrain is just an improved Megadrain, and most of all, none of them are as strong as yours. So far those are the only three that really stand out. Oh and your Energyball seems to be affected by gravity. You already know about Solarbeam. Those are all that I know about. Try experimenting with your moves, you may find out something about them." Arceus explained. Why do I feel like now that I know that, I'm going to be screwed over horribly?

"That's a lot to remember there. With me being able to go through so many moves and discovering any differences, big or small. That could take years and I don't have that kind of time. Even if I did discover them, I could just forget about it. I could make a log, but if it gets destroyed or damaged, I could lose so much..." I spoke. Going through all those moves will be a pain, but any of them could turn into a devastating attack in my hands. "That's a thought for another time. What else can you tell me?" I asked.

"This may be vital to your survival. Your skin is tough, very tough. It can withstand many blows without any actual damage. Your creators did a good job at increasing your defensive abilities, however, for some strange reason, being highly resistant to blunt attacks has made your skin very susceptible to being cut. Any slashing attack that would normally have been stopped will cut your skin like scissors through paper. I'd suggest you avoid being cut at all costs. Your Protect may seem weak, but in reality, it is only as strong as you make it. The more you put into it, the stronger it will be, and the larger it will be. Know that you are very resistant to any nonphysical attacks. If you don't have a type advantage then you'll you'll be hurt only so much. If you have a type advantage, there will most likely be no damage at all. Weaknesses hurt, period. Stay away from them. Be aware of your current type, because that seemingly harmless Bubble will turn into a deadly stream of icy cold pellets of doom and we all know how much you hate the cold. I hate it too." That is important right there. Maybe I should thank Arceus before he kicks my ass.

"Strong against blunt and weak against cut? Sounds like there's going to be two new types. I'll keep that in mind when fighting against practically any other pokemon out there. Anything else I should know?" I asked.

"Not that I know of. I'll be experimenting with this newly cloned body of mine." Arceus answered.

"You two done?" Mew asked.

"I guess, there's nothing else I want to ask right now other than stupid random questions that anyone would ask." I answered.

"Great, let's get this over with." Mew obviously didn't want to fight right now and neither did I.

"Do we have to? Can't you just send us home and forget about this little encounter Arceus?" I asked. What I actually feel like doing right now is just lounging. Just to sit around and do nothing. Maybe talk if anyone around felt like it. I don't understand though, why don't I want to fight? I love a good battle and I love a good challenge. Arceus is offering both, so why don't I?

"Oh come on. What happened to all that fighting spirit you had at first? Now that you've met me you don't want to fight? What kind of bull is that? Besides, I need someone to test this body on." Arceus answered. Not like we could win in a fight against Arceus, at least not right now.

I expected my whole lust for revenge to send me on a blind rage against him, but it's like I never had a grudge in the first place. Same with Mew. I know she doesn't want to fight right now. Arceus doesn't seem like a bad guy, even if he did kill my mother, Mew's entire race, and steal my face and my voice...and possibly my personality. He's trying to speak in an intelligent way, but I can't remember words like that. I don't really even work on my vocabulary, but there really isn't any need when you can take a word and define it using common sense. I guess one downfall of using another body is that he can't be himself. I wonder if Arceus really is my enemy. He's standing right there, the one who killed the last thing I had, the one who destroyed all but one of an entire race, the one who keeps us all alive...the one who gives a us a place to live.

No time to have a change of heart. I may not be able to win, but I can still try. Besides, if I want to know more about this body, this will help. All I have to do is fight, myself. How hard can that be?

Ugh I'm getting lazier and lazier when writing. I'm starting to lose interest...I need to find something to inspire me again.

Okay so this chapter actually hides a few hints on later chapters, some obvious, some more hidden. I'm not gonna spoil anything. Here you learn everything Arceus has learned from observing Jason. For those of you who hadn't known by now, as mentioned in this chapter, Jason's moves work differently or can. Some will even be executed differently. Some wont even be the same.

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