Right, chapter 2!
I had to make a few alterations with dialogue to accommodate. But I tried to keep it simple :)
I still don't own Pokemon' :( but I do own my OC Leslie :)
"My master bids you welcome to his palace"
Leslie let out a small scream and spun, mentally slapping herself for being so skittish. She froze in shock at the source of the voice. It was the hologram woman, except she was real. She wore the burgundy dress and headpiece and was holding a lantern in her right hand. Her eyes were disturbingly passive. "Please present your invitation"
Her words didn't register for a few moments. Leslie was to busy staring at her blank expression, she couldn't help but feel that she had seen this woman before. The woman stayed quiet and waited patiently. Her brain finally clicked.
"Oh! Right! The invitation..." Leslie stammered while shaking her head, trying to stop the slight tremor in her hands as she opened her backpack and held out the metallic invite. "You look awfully familiar ma'am..." Leslie said boldly. The only acknowledgement that came from the mysterious woman was a slight dip of her head as she examined the invite in Leslie's hand.
What have I gotten myself into...
Leslie jumped and nearly dropped the invite as it flashed again. The hologram reappeared, she rapidly glanced between the real woman and the digital one.
"The bearer of this invitation may be admitted to New Island" The hologram said in it's monotone voice before disappearing. Leslie stared at the invite in her hand, her expression a mix of confusion and slight fear.
"Please" Leslie looked up into the strange woman's eyes "Follow me. My master awaits" She lead the way towards to foot of the staircase. Eevee, sensing his trainers distress nuzzled her face. She gave her pokemon what she hoped was a reassuring smile before climbing the twisting staircase.
After what felt like an hour of climbing up the seemingly never ending steps they eventually came to a giant pair of double doors. They slowly opened, Leslie gulped and followed the woman inside. What she saw took her breath away.
The room was unlike anything she'd ever seen before, it was very well lit. The floor was gold in colour, emphasized by the matching pillars and lights. A huge stained glass window made up most of the back wall, a long table sat in the middle of the huge hall near a large fountain. It truly looked like a palace fit for a King or Queen.
"Hello again" her head snapped up, she relaxed when she recognized the blue haired boy sitting at the table. His pidgeot stood by his legs, it's head nuzzling into his hands. She nodded once and gave him a small smile. Eevee jumped down from her shoulder and trotted forward, looking around the room curiously.
"Please release your pokemon, and my master will be with us shortly" The woman deadpanned. Leslie shot her a curious look, but before she could ask the woman had disappeared through the doors again.
This is just getting weirder and weirder...
Nevertheless, she did as instructed. Releasing her houndoom and hitmonchan. They both examined the room before turning to her in confusion. She shrugged and gestured for them to follow her as she made her way to the fountain. It was much bigger up close, plenty of room for her milotic to relax for a bit. She released her water type and perched herself on the marble. Her team kept close, eevee tensely curled up in her lap, houndoom sat at her feet and hitmonchan leaned on the marble next to her arm.
"I never got your name" She looked up at the blue haired boy "Mines Corey"
"Leslie" She replied while idly rubbing milotics neck. The two fell into a brief silence, Leslie had never been good with small talk. So instead she turned her attention to his Pokemon A team of five, a scyther, a ryhorn, a venasaur, a hitmonlee and a sandslah. His pidgeot still stood by him, enjoying the attention it was getting from it's trainer. They all seemed much more at ease than her lot must of felt. "So" She sighed, breaking the heavy silence "You think anyone else made it?".
Before he could answer, another trainer was being lead in by the strange woman in red. Leslie instantly recognized him as the muscular trainer wearing a tight blue vest and red finger-less gloves she followed into the storm. If he was nervous, it didn't show through on his cocky features. He sauntered confidently up to the fountain and without saying anything, released his pokemon a little to close to Leslie's position than she liked. Her grip on her milotic unintentionally tightened as the roar of a gyarados echoed through the hall. She avoided looking at the savage pokemon, instead she cast her eyes to his tentacruel, his golduck, vaporeon, nidoqueen and seadra. No doubt an impressive team. Their trainer was clearly very aware of this as he smirked at her when he caught her looking.
"And what do they call you?" Corey asked without even looking up from his pidgeot. The cocky trainer took his time settling in one of the chairs before answering.
"Fergus" He announced proudly, "What about you two?" They re-introduced themselves, Leslie turned her attention to eevee as he jumped from her lap and climbed to his favorite position on her shoulder. She sighed an rolled her neck, her stomach was in knots and it was all she could do to stop her whole body from trembling. She couldn't pinpoint why she was so nervous, she'd been in far more dangerous situations. And it was only a battle, even if he or she was the greatest pokemon master ever. If Leslie lost then she would quietly leave the island and continue traveling around Kanto like she'd been doing for the better part of a year. No harm done, this would be just another experience.
Her team seemed to share her unease. Eevee was lightly nibbling on the seam of her over-shirt, houndoom sat stiffly on her feet fidgeting it's paws, and hitmonchan. Her youngest pokemon, seemed dangerously close to clinging onto her arm. Not even milotics gentle magic could make them relax.
The trainers sat in silence. The only noises came from the pokemon as they chattered among themselves, even they fell silent as they turned to the double doors. Another trainer, female this time was escorted in. The mystery woman instructed her to release her pokemon, after choosing a seat opposite Corey. She did as she was told, releasing a blatoise, rapidash, dewgong, vileplume, ninatales and a wigglytuff. After laying her eyes on the bright pink balloon pokemon she couldn't help herself.
''What an adorable wigglytuff!" Leslie complimented with a small smile. She had always had a soft spot for cute pokemon. The brunette female smiled and patted her Pokemon on the head sweetly.
''Thanks" She beamed, then her blue eyes fell on Leslie's water type "Oh. I love your milotic, it's so beautiful!" She paused, eyeing Leslie's team with interest "Where did you get such rare Pokemon?" She asked, Leslie chuckled.
"Well" She said, "I'm from the Orange Archipelago and Milotic's and houndoom aren't really rare there"
"Oh, cool!" The brunette smiled "I'm Neesha by the way"
''Leslie" She said, Corey and Fergus introduced themselves to the newcomer. And soon enough they all fell into another long, tense silence. What felt like an hour later, but couldn't of been more than ten minutes the mystery guide lead three more trainers inside. Two males and a female, Leslie recognized the shorter member of the trio as the boy who shoved past her at the Pokemon center. He was followed by Pikachu, a squirtle and a bulbasaur. The other, taller male member was trailed by a well-groomed vulpix. The female was followed by a perplexed looking psyduck and hugged against her chest was a strange, small spiky egg-like Pokemon Leslie didn't recognize.
"Now all the trainers worthy of an audience with my master are present" The strange guide announced, The trio looked around curiously. The raven haired boy frowned.
"There's only four of them!" He exclaimed in surprise.
"Aren't we going to wait for the others?" The red head asked. The red clad woman turned her head, but otherwise remained still.
"Only the trainers capable of braving the storm have proven themselves worthy in my masters eyes" She answered.
"Do you mean that storm was some kind of test?" The other, taller male asked. Leslie frowned 'I guess it does sound like something a pokemon master would do' She mentally mused 'It would certainly weed out the weak, maybe that was what he or she was aiming for'.
"Please release you pokemon from their pokeballs and join the others. It will not be long before my masters intentions are clear"
The doors automatically closed again, this time. The guide stayed in the room with them. She remained in her standing position while the last three trainers approached the ling table. Each trainer was wrapped up in their own little world, not realy paying attention. Neesha was fussing over her wigglytuff, Corey was absentmindedly stroking his pidgeot. And Fergus sat totally relaxed, with his eyes closed and his hands behind his head. Leslie chewed on her lower lip, she still had a light grip on milotics heck. Her other hand rested on houndooms back. The room echoed with the footsteps of the trainers as they made their way across the hall.
"What took you guys so long?'' Corey asked with a smirk, Leslie rolled her eyes. The raven haired boy looked confused.
"H, how did you get here?'' He asked.
''I decided to fly over'' He answered cockily "It was easy, hurricane winds are a breeze for Pidgeot'' he affectionatly patted his pokemon again and gestured to his team. ''Say hello'' His pokemon called out their names in greeting. The newcomers jumped and turned to the fountain as Fergus' gyarados growled deep. Leslie cringed.
"Those are my pokemon" Fergus announced proudly. ''It was no problem getting through that storm, I rode over on Gyarados's back!" Leslie shook her head.
''Wow!'' The boy exclaimed ''I heard it takes a lot of skill to train a gyarados!" Leslie snorted.
''Yeah'' Fergus arrogantly brushed his compliment off. ''But once you train em' it's the most dependable pokemon there is" The gyarados reared it's head, causing milotic to flinch and yowl in a warning tone. Leslie hushed it before a scuffle broke out, even if it was usually considered the most peaceful and tender of all pokemon this particular milotic was unique with it's surprisingly short temper.
"You haven't met my pokemon!" Neesha said before pointing to her team "Over there!" Her wigglytuff jumped up and joined it's friends. The trio laughed lightly at the much chirpier looking team. They turned to Leslie.
"And these are my guys" She said ''We aren't that big a team, but milotic got us here with no trouble and that's gotta count for something'' She chuckled as milotic nuzzled her shoulder ''Say hello guys''
Her pokemon broke from their tension and happily greeted the newcomers. Hitmonchan held up a gloved fist, milotic raised it's fanned tail and houndoom stood and bowed it's head. Eevee jumped down from her shoulder and approached the boys pikachu. The normal-type had always been a sociable one. The two trainers smiled as the small pokemon conversed, but this brief peace was shattered as the room suddenly went dark.
Everyone jumped to their feet. A beam of blue light shone straight through the large spiral statue that stretched from the floor to the ceiling. Leslie, realizing just how close she was to the structure skipped back a few steps. Narrowly missing Fergus and Corey's pidgeot. Her pokemon followed, equally spooked.
"You are about to meet my master" The strange woman's voice broke the tense silence "It is time for your encounter with the greatest pokemon master on earth"
The eerie blue light gradually became more intense. Eevee, who at this point was terrified leaped into Leslie's open arms and buried his head in her shoulder. Leslie hugged him close, happy to have something to hold on to. Hitmonchan stayed close to her righ, holding his fists up as if in defense, houndoom. Ever the guardian planted itself between it's trainer and the spiral, ready to defend Leslie if need be. Milotic moved from it's spot in the fountain and coiled its tail protectively around it's team. Leslie couldn't have been more grateful for her pokemon.
A shadow appeared at the top of the spiral, Leslie was unable to tell whether it was a man or a woman. But as the figure slowly lowered to the ground, she realized that it wasn't even human. And what she saw both scared and confused her.
Not a person, but a pokemon. At least she thought it was a pokemon. It had human-like posture with clear feline features, it was grey in colour with a thick purple tail and underside. It's hands (if you could call them that) had three circular digits on each. It's violet eyes were large and threatening. It's whole demeanor just screamed power and superiority.
"Yes" the woman spoke up "the worlds greatest pokemon master is also the most powerful pokemon on earth'' Leslie gave up on her effort to stop trembling as she gawked at the creature. Eevee spun in her grasp and gazed at the strange pokemon. "This is the ruler of New Island. And soon, the whole world. Mewtwo"
''Wait a second" Leslie deadpanned "Did she just say the whole world?" Corey threw her a wary look, which she didn't notice.
"A pokemon can't be a pokemon master!" Leslie stared at Fergus's voice beside her. "No way!" he yelled. Leslie resisted the urge to clamp her hand over his mouth.
"Quiet human. From now on I am the one who makes the rules" Leslie gasped and placed a hand over her ear, from everyone else's reactions she could tell that they heard it to. Another voice accompanied the woman's. Not out loud, but telepathically. The voice was deep, rich. And definitely masculine.
"How is it talking?" The red head cried out.
"It's psychic!" Her dark skinned companion answered. Leslie gulped, this Mewtwo's' eyes were intently fixed on Fergus. Making her wish she'd shut him up sooner. It lifted it's paw, it glowed with a blue aura. Fergus froze and screamed as the light illuminated him. Mewtwo raised it's arm, Fergus yelled and thrashed as he was levitated. The others could only watch in horror as he was callously thrown across the room, he landed in the fountain with a loud splash. Thankfully, the water was deep enough to break his fall without serious injury. Mewtwo gave a dangerous chuckle
"What the hell are you doing?" Leslie screamed before she could stop herself. Mewtwo paid her no heed, the trainers watched a Fergus struggled to the fountains edge.
"We'll show you!" the water trainer growled ''Lets go Gyarados!'' The huge serpent roared and slithered forward. Ready for battle, this was getting ugly. And fast "Gyarados! Hyper beam attack!'' Fergus commanded. Leslie decided that now was the best time to say something.
"I don't think that's going to do much good..." Leslie called out in warning. After witnessing Mewtwo throw him across the room with nothing more than a flick of it's hand Leslie figured that it might take a little more than a single hyper beam to do to much damage. But before Fergus could call his gyarados back, the savage pokemon reared its head. A ball of yellow light gathered in it's great jowls, gyarados released the attack.
Mewtwo raised it's hand again. The hyper beam attack was swiftly deflected, the powerful beam struck the poor gyarados square in it's middle. Knocking the water type back into the fountain, it landed with a heavy crash. Each trainer cried out in shock at the giant serpent's swift defeat. Leslie bit her lip as Fergus tended to his gyarados. Leslie shoved houndoom and hitmmonchan behind her, willing to be their human shield if needed.
"Child's play" The rich voice of Mewtwo rang through her head again. She shuddered, she turned her attention back to the pokemon. She froze when Mewtwo's violet eyes fixed onto hers. "The girl was right, you should have listened" Houndoom growled, Mewtwo smirked "I am too powerful" It then turned to the woman in red.
"Your usefulness had ended" He said simply. His large eyes glowed bright blue, the woman's eyes seemed to darken and she stumbled forward. Leslie, still to shocked to move watched as the older male of the trio bolted forward to catch her. The red headpiece fell to the ground revealing the hot pink hair that could only belong to a Nurse joy.
"Nurse Joy!" The dark skinned boy cried out happily. Leslie blinked.
''I knew I recognized her...'' She said more to herself than anyone else. Joy blinked a few times, before coming to her senses and sitting up.
"W, where am I?" She asked wearily, genuinely perplexed. "And how in the world did I here?"
"You have been under my control" Mewtwo answered "I transported you here from the pokemon center. Your knowledge of pokemon physiology proved useful for my plan. And now I have cleansed you tiny human brain of memories from the past few weeks" Everyone was silent.
"Who are you?" The boy holding Nurse Joy yelled.
"I am the new ruler of this world" Mewtwo announced. Leslie held eevee tighter "The master of humans and pokemon alike''
"You're just a bully!" The red head growled. Leslie frowned 'I don't think bully quite cuts it' She thought. Mewtwo's eyes became dangerously hard.
"You humans are a dangerous race" His gaze fell upon each trainer "You brought me into this world with no purpose but to be your slave. But not I have my own purpose. My storm will create my own world" It lowered it's head "By destroying yours"
Leslie frowned, what did it mean by that? That humans had brought it's into the world? Aside from the destroying the earth part, which spoke for itself. There was a deeper meaning to it's words. It couldn't be just an insane legendary with no motivation. It wanted revenge, for something terrible it clearly endured, otherwise why would it go to all the trouble of building a palace and searching the entire kanto region for the best trainers?. As she looked at the scared faces of the fellow trainers, Leslie could see that Mewtwo's last sentence just went right over their heads.
"So you hate all humans" The dark skinned boy said "And you're gonna destroy us to save pokemon?"
"No" Mewtwo answered with a shake of it's head "Your pokemon will not be spared. They have disgraced themselves by serving humans, those pokemon are nothing but slaves"
Leslie pushed her pokemon even further back. The raven haired boy's pikachu jumped forward, chattering in it's language that she couldn't even begin to understand. Eevee wriggled free from Leslie's grasp and surprised her by joining the yellow mouse. She didn't like her beloved eevee being so close to Mewtwo, especially since it had just announced that it wasn't even sparing it's fellow pokemon. Mewtwo listened to pikachu and eevee.
"Pika! Pikachu pi!" The little mouse cried.
"Eevee! Vee!" eevee chipped in. It was all Leslie could do not to leap forward, grab him and run.
"So" Mewtwo cocked it's head to the side after hearing their piece "You say I am wrong? That you are not this human's servant?" It looked to eevee "And you claim that these humans are your friends?" The two little pokemon nodded "Then you are as pathetic as the rest!"
Once again, it's eyes glowed a bright blue. Both eevee and pikachu were engulfed in a blue aura as they slowly levitated. Leslie's stomach dropped, Mewtwo flicked his wrist. Barely reacting in time, Leslie leaped forward as eevee was thrown back. She caught him, grunting as the pokemon hit her in the stomach, harshly winding her. Just before she fell, milotic managed to catch her in a light wrap attack before she flew any further. The boy wasn't so lucky, Leslie whipped her head round in time to see the poor boy tossed across the room like a rag-doll. He landed heavily on his back, his pikachu landed safely on his chest. His companions rushed to his aid.
"Ash! Are you okay?" His red haired friend asked.
"Humans and pokemon can never be friends" Mewtwo said as Leslie coughed and got to her feet, using hitmonachan as a support. Still clutching a shaken, but otherwise unharmed eevee. She fixed Mewtwo with a hateful glare, most of her fear ebbing away into fury.
"Don't pick on my pikachu!" the boy Leslie could now identify as Ash called from the other side of the room, there was a slight edge of pain to his voice.
"And you leave my eevee alone!" She spat, wheezing from lack of air. Corey appeared at her side.
"If you really are a pokemon there's no reason I can't capture you!" Leslie stared at him wide-eyed. But she was still to out of breath to call him out on his ridiculous idea. "Go! Rhyhorn!" The pokemon geared up for a charge, she swiftly side-stepped out of it's path. The ground type roared and began charging at a surprisingly fast rate, it kept it's speed up. Just before it clashed with Mewtwo, it's eyes glowed and it threw it's arm up. The poor rhyhorn didn't stand a chance as It froze mid-attack. Mewtwo held it there for a few moments, as if it was taunting it's trainer. Before effortlessly tossing it across the long table.
"Rhyhorn!" Corey yelled rushing to his pokemons side. Still gasping and leaning heavily on milotic, Leslie swallowed.
This thing really is unstoppable...
"Fools" Mewtwo spat "Your pokemon attacks cannot weaken me! My powers are too great, no trainer can conquer me!"
"Then you won't mind proving it in a real match!" Ash challenged, quickly recovered from his trip.
"Is that a challenge?" Mewtwo's voice took on a strangely thrilled tone, his thin mouth twisting into a smirk.
"You bet it is!" he replied all confidence. Leslie inwardly groaned, how the hell were any of them going to survive a battle with mewtwo?. The pokemon in question's eyes flashed. And for the longest time nothing happened. Then the floor ahead of them opened, creating three circular shapes in the resin. From these holes rose a venusaur, a charizard and a blastoise. However, these paticular pokemon were covered in tribal-like markings a shade darker than their skin tones.
"Like most trainers" Mewtwo began "I to began with charmander, squirtle and bulbasaur. But for their evolved forms, I used their genetic materials to clone even more powerful copies"
"Copies!" Neesha gasped.
"They're clones" Leslie said sullenly. Before anyone could follow up on her statement, the hall went dark and trembled slightly. The pokemon cried out in distress and looked for the source of the shaking. The large window at the far end of the room began twisting, similar to a vortex. It then split to reveal what appeared to be an arena. Some overhead lights snapped on, lighting the grounds up.
"A stadium!" The dark skinned boy said in astonishment. "Mewtwo planned this all along..." He was cut of as Corey ran forward.
"Your fake venasaur can't beat my real one! Right Bruteroot!" Corey yelled. His venasaur growled in acknowledgement.
"We'll blow away that blastoise won't we ShellShocker?" Neesha added.
"Blaast!" her water-type grunted. Leslie shook her head, 'this is getting out of hand, we cant win...'
"Well, it dosen't have a nickname" Ash began "But I do have charizard! I choose you!" Launching his pokenall in the air, it popped open to release his charizard. The fire type briefly examined his surroundings before settling it's eyes on Mewtwo, without even waiting for it's trainer command. A bout of fire erupted from it's large jaws straight at Mewtwo.
"Charizard! I didn't say start!" Ash cried. Leslie cocked an eyebrow. She could never imagine her houndoom being that disobedient...
As she predicted. The charizards attack proved futile as Mewtwo swiftly used it's powers to deflect the attack, the flames harmlessly bounced of it and dissipated. Mewtwo fixed Ash with an unimpressed stare.
"You're charizard is poorly trained" The fire type huffed and looked away in a sulk.
They were now standing on either side of the battlefield. Mewtwo and his clones on one side, the trainers and their teams on the other. The silence was tense during their stare-down.
"Which of you will oppose me first?" Mewtwo challenged the humans. Corey's venasaur sauntered forward, accepting Mewtwo's challenge.
"I underestimated you last time but that wont happen again!" Corey said with determination. Not taking her eyes off Mewtwo, she watched it nod to the venusaur clone. The copy took it's place on the field.
"Go! Bruteroot! Razor leaf!" Corey ordered, his venusaur obeyed. Sending out it's sharp leafs towards it's clone.
"Vine whip" Leslie heard Mewtwo command it's clone. The copy swiftly countered Corey's venasaur's razor leaf. Its vines then wrapped around it's opponent, lifting the large grass-type and grinding it into the hard floor without breaking a sweat. Leslie gawked at the clones power.
"Bruteroot!" Corey cried, rushing to his pokemon's side.
Neesha's blastoise 'Shellshocker was up next. It kicked of with a hydro pump, easily evaded by the clones rapid spin attack. Shellshocker was unable to dodge the heavy shell spinning towards it and it was mercilessly thrown into the far wall. Neesha cried out in horror as she came to it's aid.
"You gotta help it Ash!" the red head cried "Those clones are to powerful!" He nodded firmly.
"I'm not giving up!" Ash said, determination in his voice. The charizard clone stepped forward, Ash's charizard did the same. "Charizard! Use your speed not your power and you'll win!"
The two fire types launched themselves into the air. They began dancing around each other in a flurry of flames and tackles. Leslie chewed on her lip, Ash's charizard was careless. It kept attacking with it's flamethrower while the clone swiftly dodged each one.
"Can't charizard move any faster?" Leslie heard the red head yell.
"The clone's too fast!'' The older male cried. The charizard's continued with their vicious dance until the two disappeared into the night sky. From their position, the trainers couldn't see a things, until two figures came hurtling back towards earth. Squinting, Leslie's heart sank. The marked clone had Ash's charizard in a tight grip, a seismic toss.
"Charizard's in trouble!" Ash exclaimed.
"Finish it" Mewtwo commanded. A cold dread crawled up Leslie's spine at the deadliness in Mewtwo's voice. The clone effortlessly slammed Ash's pokemon into the ground, defeating it. It flew out of the dust-cloud, not weakened at all from it's battle.
"Oh charizard no!" Ash leaped to charizard's side. Turning her gaze away from the hurt pokemon, Leslie looked back to Mewtwo. Her stomach clenched as she took in it's victorious smirk. It sickened her.
"As the victor" Mewtwo announced menacingly as it raised it's arms. Strange purple pokeballs appeared from behind it.
"I now claim my prize. Your pokemon"
I had to cut it there, it was just getting to long and I didn't want to bore anyone ;). Anyways, the next chapter will be the final. Hopefully XD
Hope you enjoyed :)