"I now claim my prize. Your pokemon"
Before anyone could catch onto Mewtwo's meaning, the strange purple pokeballs shot forward. Capturing Ash's charizard, Neesha's blastoise and Corey's venusaur. Their trainers cried out as their pokemon slipped from their grasp.
"What are you gonna do with those pokemon?" The red head asked.
"I will extract their DNA to make clones for myself" Mewtwo answered while raising it's arms "They will remain safe on this Island with me" more purple pokeballs appeared, glowing and ready to capture "While my storm destroys the planet"
"You can't do this!" Leslie yelled, she wasn't about to let Mewtwo take her closest friends from her.
"Yeah!" Ash yelled, running to the center of the field. "We won't let you!"
"Do not attempt to defy me" Mewtwo's eyes glowed, Ash was powerless as he was levitated and thrown into his male companion. Mewtwo gave a deadly smile as it's pokeballs began glowing an eerie violet.
"This is my world now"
Leslie watched as the pokeballs flew towards them, Leslie saw no other option than to flee. She turned to her team.
"Everybody run!" they did as they were told, except there was nowhere for them to go without the threat of Mewtwo's pokeballs. She whipped her head round in time to see a volley of pokeballs hurtling towards them. Without even thinking about her own health, she shoved hitmonchan out of the way and threw her body over houndoom. Earning a round of pokeballs to her right temple and shoulder. They were much tougher and heavier than they looked, the sheer force of them was enough to knock her on her side. Hurt and slightly dazed, she grit her teeth and forced herself to get back up.
Her pokemon, angered at their master being hurt went on the defensive. They held their own against being captured long enough for Leslie to get back onto her feet and help them.
"Hey I have an idea!" Leslie barely heard Ash over the commotion "Mewtwo can't capture em' if they're already inside their pokeballs!" her eyes widened in realization.
"That's it!" She cried, turning away from Ash and focusing on her pokemon. She grabbed three pokeballs from her belt "Everybody return!" when houndoom, hitmonchan and milotic were safe inside their pokeballs. Leslie made a break for the window at the back of the arena, her terrified eevee running beside his master.
"It's no use" She heard Mewtwo say "It's futile to try and escape my power"
"Never mind the pokeballs!" Ash's friend screamed "Carry them away!" Following his advice, Leslie paused to scoop eevee up in her arms and follow the others. She'd never been much of a runner, but saving her pokemon from Mewtwo was worth her lungs burning and heart beating so fast she could hear her blood pumping in her ears. Leslie kept her speed up and zigzagged to avoid the pokeballs, she had just witnessed the red head's psyduck being taken. Along with her companion's vulpix.
Mewtwo must of realized that her pokemon were still safe, and that she was escaping.
"A valiant effort girl" Mewtwo actually sounded impressed. Leslie knew it's words were directed at her and her only, it only pushed her to run faster "But you're still weak against me" The pokeballs gathered in greater numbers. Eevee was vulnerable as they circled around her, a group of them hitting Leslie square in the chest. Sending her flying backwards and landing heavily with a pained grunt. Before she could regain her bearings, she watched her eevee. Who was sprawled out a few feet from her as he was claimed by Mewtwo's pokeball, then she felt her own pokeballs being torn from her belt.
"No!" She screamed while grasping in vain for them. They disappeared among the others and she'd completely lost track of which ones were hers "No! you can't have them!" She yelled again in defiance, ignoring the ache in her back and shoulder. Her protest went unheeded by Mewtwo. Leslie was stunned and devastated as she stared at the floor, she failed her pokemon. She failed to protect her best friends and now they were at the mercy of Mewtwo. To shocked to cry, she could only glare at Mewtwo.
Leslie joined the other trainers. Standing in between Neesha and Corey, the latter looked down at her.
"Hey" Leslie glanced up at him, he shrugged breathlessly "You came closer to escaping than the rest of us" She nodded stiffly. Then turned back to Mewtwo, the psychic stood with it's clones. The trainers were vulnerable and defenseless.
"Humans, you have served my purpose" Mewtwo began "I am sparing your lives. For the moment" It gestured with it's thin arms, the large doors either side of the trainers slowly opened. Revealing the stormy skies and brutal seas. It looked at them menacingly "But you cannot escape you fate. The hour of my vengeance draws near" The trainers could only glare hatefully at the pokemon. Leslie balled her fists, she didn't care all that much about what happened to her. She just needed to know that if her pokemon were staying, that they would actually be safe.
An explosion shook the room, Mewtwo frowned and looked back. No one could see anything through the dust-cloud that had formed.
"Behold" Mewtwo announced. The trainers gasped. Once the cloud settled, their pokemom emerged unharmed. Leslie spotted eevee running close to hitmonchan, and houndoom being tailed by milotic. Leslie frowned, these were't their pokemon. She couldn't explain it, but as she looked at her team she knew that they weren't the friends she'd been travelling with for the better part of a year. They were all clones. "With pokemon and humans eliminated, clones shall inherit the world" Leslie's fear had vanished, it was now replaced by a cold fury.
"You can't do this!" A new voice said firmly from the dust-cloud "I won't let you!"
'Ash!' leslie realized, she was so caught up in escaping and her hate for Mewtwo that she didn't even notice he wasn't standing among them. The young boy sauntered confidently through the smoke. The trainers cried out in relief and joy as their pokemon followed, Leslie spotted her eevee, her houndoom, her hitmonchan and her milotic.
"Of thank heavens they're safe!" She said under her breath. She wanted to run to them, but common sense told her that it was a ridiculous idea. No point in putting herself and them in any more danger. They watched as the originals faced their clones. Leslie shook her head, there was only one direction this could go now.
"It is useless to challenge me" Mewtwo said, unfazed by the recent turn of events.
"It's not gonna end like this Mewtwo!" Ash replied stubbornly "We wont let it!" He smoothly turned his cap around "You're mine!"
Ash sprinted forward with the speed and ferocity of a rampaging tauros. He pulled his arm back, ready to strike. His fist hit a barrier and bounced right off a rippling light hard enough to knock him back. It took him three seconds to recover, he got straight back on his feet and rushed in for another blow.
Mewtwo's eyes glowed, Ash was engulfed in a blue light before he even made it a few steps. Mewtwo toyed for a litte bit, just holding Ash in midair before launching him dangerously high.
"Ash no!" His red haired companion cried out.
"Oh my..." Leslie murmured, unable to finish as Ash flew high into the carved structure in the wall. Her stomach sank as Ash's scream was suddenly cut short. But not by a crash, or any other horrific injury he should of sustained from flying at such speed. But a large pink bubble!
Squinting, the trainers gawked as a strange and very small pokemon danced around the shocked Ash.
"What?" Even with it's telepathy, Mewtwo sounded shocked. Their confusion grew as the little creature continued to create another bubble and playfully bounce on it. It gave a heart warming giggle as it's petite body sunk into the bubble. It then popped Ash's, his grunt echoed throughout the hall and he landed onto the concrete. The pokemon giggled again.
"Can it be?" Mewtwo asked.
Turning it's body to face the small pokemon. Leslie strained her eyes to try and get a better look, she could vageuly make out a long, thin tail and a large pair of feet. Their confusion grew as the little creature continued to create another bubble and playfully bounce on it. It gave another heart warming giggle as it's petite body sunk into the bubble. The sight was pretty adorable and Leslie nearly smirked. She now had a better view of the pokemon, it was bright pink in colour. It had stubby arms, large, cat-like ears and beautiful bright blue eyes.
The moment was shattered as Mewtwo released a shadow ball, bursting it's bubble and sending it flying backwards. Th trainer watched, crestfallen as the innocent creature was violently thrown into the night sky. The little cat righted itself at the last minute, but Mewtwo was already forming another shadow ball. It launched one attack after the other, the pink pokemon efforltessly didged each one. Adding insult to injury by giggling at it's close calls.
"What is that?" Ash's dark skinned companion breathed.
"I don't know..." The red head murmured.
"Mew" Mewtwo said as the little cat floated down to eye level. "So finally we meet"
"Mew!" The little cat sweetly yowled it's name. Leslie blinked.
"Mew?" Fergus asked incredulously, breaking the trainer's stunned silence. The creature now known as Mew turned it's baby blue eyes to them, it looked away coyly and appeared to shrug it's little shoulders.
"I may have been cloned from your DNA..." Mewtwo began, Mew paid no attention as it continued to look around the hall with child-like curiosity. "But know I will prove that Mewtwo is better than the original. Superior to Mew!" Mewtwo's voice becam dangerously low, it's powerful tail swished from side to side as it spoke. Mew finally turned it's attention back to Mewtwo.
"Mew and Mewtwo..." Corey cleverly observed.
"So Mewtwo was cloned from Mew" Neesha finished. Leslie frowned as she looked between the two pokemon.
"I guess they do look somewhat similar when you really look at them" She concluded. She was snapped out of her reverie as Mewtwo's body glowed, the way it awlays did before it geared up for an attack.
"This world is to small for two of us!" Mewtwo declared, Mew instantly turned tails and fleed. Mewtwo pursued, and they gracefull if dangerous chase began. Mewtwo threw a shadowball, narrowly missing Ash as Mew dodged it. Mewtwo continued to attack in vain as the little cat managed to slip out of reach each time. Until Mew disappeared behind a pillar.
"Why do you flee from me?" Mewtwo asked in amusement "Are you afraid to find out which is greater?" It continued to mock Mew as it ziped from it's hiding place. The two continued to pursue each other, until finally. Mewtwo managed to catch it off guard and hit the little pokemon with a shadow ball attack, Mew's body was englufed in the black shadow and hurtled back into the sky. Mewtwo chuckled. It's arrogance was short lived as a bright blue orb came shooting towards it, hitting Mewtwo in the stomach and sending it flying straight at the trainers.
"Look out!" Leslie cried out in warning, the trainers covered their heads and doubled over as Mewtwo crashed into the podium above them. Dust and debris rained on the young trainers below, temorarily blinding them.
"So you do have some fight in you" They looked up in time to see Mewtwo flying above them in a blue sphere, the light disappeared as Mewtwo levitated above it's clones while Mew hovered over the originals. "But I have no time for games. Destiny is at hand!" It gestured to the clones "Who will rule? My super pokemon, or your pathetic group of spineless inferior pokemon?" The originals growled in anger.
"Mew!" Mew yowled again.
"We were created with powers far stronger than the originals!" Mewtwo said menacingly.
"Mew!" the pink cat cried "Mew, mew mew mew!" The trainers listned in frustration as Mew's voice became increasingly desperate. Mewtwo remained passive as it listened to Mew.
"I wish I knew what they were saying!" Neesha groaned, exasperated.
"Whatever it is..." Corey paused "It dosen't look like Mewtwo's buying it" The trainers grunted in agreement.
"We should recall our pokemon and make a break for it" Fergus growled, already reaching for his pokeballs. Leslie shook her head.
"And go where?" She hissed, tearing her eyes from Mew and focusing on Fergus, she gestured around the room with her head "There isn't a single way out in sight, we'd be sunk if we tried anything!" Fergus cursed, but at least she's managed to stop him from doing anything stupid.
"We still need to do something..." Neesha said desperatly "This has gone to far!"
"I know" Leslie sighed, looking back to Mew "Mewtwo clearly isn't changing it's mind. This is gonna get ugly..." They were silent as Mew began to flit about frantically, clearly running out of words to reason with Mewtwo.
"My clones don't need their powers to prove their worth!" Mewtwos statement left the trainers confused, before they could make heads or tails of the situation Mewtwo attacked mew with a shadow ball, the pink cat easily dodged. But the resulting explosion managed to knock down most of the wall.
"I will block all the pokemon's special abilities using my psychic powers!" Leslie's eyes widened "Now we shall see who triumphs. Go!" The clones attacked, resulting in a clash the likes of which none of the trainers had ever witnessesd.
It was brutal, the pokemon went for blood as they unlneashed a flurry of attacks on one another. Leslie spotted her milotic, neither it or it's clone made the first move. The beautiful water types danced around each other, both had their safeguards as they glided over one another. Her original finally snapped and launched a water sport, the attack was easily dodged and it wasn't long before the clone had milotic in a harsh bind. Turning away, she spotted her hitmonchan. She could easily tell him apart from his clone, hitmonchan was clearly struggling without the use of his special abilities. Her fighting-type fell victim to each punch his clone threw.
She started as Neesha tugged her arm, looking up she saw her blastoise and it's clone clumsily stumbling towards them. Leslie gave a yell and leaped to one side, cringing when she heard the crash of shattering concrete and the pained roars of the fighting pokemon.
A chilling howl echoed throughout the hall, the kind of howl that could only belong to a houndoom. It didn't take her long to find the source, her throat went dry. It was probably the most vicous fight she'd ever seen, her houndoom had tried a few flamethrowers on it's clone. But it wasn't long before the two dark-type's had resorted to clawing and snapping at each others throats. Leslie blinked her tears away and frantically scoped for her eevee. She found him, he was locked in combat next to the two scythers. He dodged and leaped away from his clone, evading each attack and refusing to counter. He'd always been the most mature pokemon in her her team, he was probably trying to reason with his clone rather than fight it. Leslie clenched her fists, eevee was tiring out. He wouldn't be able to avoid any more hit for much longer.
"Eevee..." She whispered "Please, at least try to defend yourself" It took all of her restraint not to run forward and fight the damn clone herself, same for the rest of her team.
Pretty soon almost all of the pokemon, both clone and original we exhausted. Leslie's hitmonchan was on his last legs, his clone wasn't looking nay better and it wasn't long before they were leaning on one another. Her milotic was already tangled with it's clone in a battered heap. The two houndooms were still savaging each other with no signs of tiring, and her eevee was still refusing to fight.
"Pokemon aren't meant to fight" Nurse Joy spoke up for the first time since snapping out of her trance "Not like this. It's useless, what coul come out of it?"
"Nothing..." Neesha sighed "But pain" They trainers continued to watch their beloved pokemon slowly lose their fights to the clones.
"They're not stopping..." Corey began "They're never going to stop until one or both of them are down for good" He raised his voice. Leslie idly fiddled with her hands, heartbroken that she couldn't do anything for her pokemon.
"Why can't Mewtwo understand that it's not right to force pokemon to battle this way?" Ash's companion said sadly.
"They're all living creatures" The red head continued "This just proves that fighting is wrong" Leslie nodded
"What is Mewtwo even trying to prove?" Leslie said, her voice was meek "Both sides are beaten and exhausted, this is pointless!" Her voice dropped to a whisper as her eevee was relentlessly attacked by his clone. Even her houndoom and it's clone had fallen. "Maybe we should of recalled them and ran..." Leslie mused out loud "We could of at least tried"
"Now all we can do is watch them destroy each other" Neesha breathed turning away, unable to watch any more. Leslie on the other hand, refused to take her eyes of eevee. He was the last of her team still standing, albeit barely. At least now the fight was drawing to a close as nearly all the pokemon collapsed, eevee's clone had given in. It ended up fainting, pinning her weakened eevee beneath it. The hall gradually became quieter, save for Mew and Mewtwo. Who were attacking each other inside their psychic spheres.
"Quit it!" A famililar voice diverted her attention "Please stop!" A thump followed by a grunt caused her to tear her eyes away from the battle, she was suprised to see Ash lying on his stomach. 'Has he been climbing down this whole time?'
"Ash!" his male companion cried as he rushed to his aid.
"Are you okay?" His red haired friend asked, concern evident in her voice. Leslie hesitantly approached the trio as Ash struggled to his feet.
"We gotta stop this!" He yelled, giving no indication of the pain he must of been in.
"But how?" his friend asked. "All Mewtwo cares about is proving how strong those super clones are"
"And aside from jumping in and fighting the clones ourselves were all out of options" Leslie said, not meaning to sound so callous. She bit her lip, not liking just how tempting that idea sounded at the moment.
"I would rather risk my life out in Mewtwo's storm than watch these pokemon destroy each other" Nurse Joy sighed, her voice cracking ever so slightly.
"Me too..." Leslie agreed, massaging the bruise caused by Mewtwo's pokeballs on her shoulder.
"I wish there was some way to stop them" Nurse Joy continued, giving Leslie a heartbroken look. "I don't know what to do!" Leslie nodded and winced as the two charizards collapsed near them.
"I don't think they'll ever stop!" The dark skinned boy said, repeating Corey from earlier "Those pokemon look klike they're ready to fight to the death!"
"That's a fight nobody's going to win..." His read haired friend said.
"Someone's gotta take a stand" Ash spoke up. "Someone's gotta say no, and refuse to fight. Just like pikachu..." Leslie scoped for the yellow mouse, but from her vantage point she couldn't make out where the little electric type was. She was to focused on her own pokemon to worry about anyone else's anyway.
Mew and Mewtwo crashed into the center of the battle field. Still encased in their pink and bluse spheres. The collision caused a dust cloud to blind the trainers. The ground shook violently, Causing Leslie and Fergus to instinctivley grab onto one another to keep steady. The lights went out, plunging them into darkness, Leslie immediatly let go of the muscular water trainer and jogged forward a few steps to try and get a better look. The first things she was was Ash's charizard, laying defeated next to it's equally battered clone. She continued to scann the room, tears in her eyes as she beheld each pokemon. Both the originals and the clones had fallen, they had canceled each other out.
The only thing she could see next was Mew and Mewtwo hovered from the cloud of debris. They knocked each other back, inflicting little damage. But after a quick recovery, the two were hovering again, their aura's shining like flames as they gathered their power. Leslie stumbled back a few steps.
"They're gearing up for one last attack!" She cried out. She winced as a red hot pained shot through her shoulder, she looked up at Ash as he barged past her.
"Ash no!" With the combination of her aching shoulder and shock Leslie barely heard his friends.
"You gotta stop right now!" Ash screamed as he ran. Mew and Mewtwo ingore him as they both released powerful attacks, Ash didn't slow. Still screaming, he threw himself directly into the middle just as the two attacks collided.
Each trainer cried out in horror. 'What the hell did he just do?' Leslie thought frantically, trying to process what just happened. 'What was he hoping to acheive by jumping in between two unstoppable attacks?'. She squeezed her eye's shut against the resulting, blinding light.
"Fool!" Leslie's eyes snapped open at Mewtwo's voice. Her stomach sank as she beheld Ash, the poor boy had fallen on his stomach. Turning to stone as a result of the psychic's power. "Trying to stop our battle" Mewtwo continued,
"Mew!" The little Mew yowled, cocking it's head to the side.
"Pika pi!" Leslie's blood ran cold as she watched Ash's faithful pikachu run to his side. It shock his stone form with it's stubby arms, trying to wake it's master up. The two gyarados reared their heads and roared, her houndoom did the same. Clearly infuriated with the boy's sacrifice. Leslie stood close to Neesha, trying not to cry as the little pikachu whimpered.
She jumped slightly as the electric type used it's thunderbolt to try and rouse Ash, when it didn't work it tried again. And again, until it became to exhausted to produce a thunderbolt powerful enough. tears fell from it's beady brown eyes.
"Vee vee..." Leslie gasped quietly as she watched her eevee struggle to his feet. Once he realized what had happened, he began to weep along with pikachu. And it wasn't just eevee, each pokemon slowly rose. Gazing upon the fallen Ash and joining in with their tears. Filling the hall with a sorrowful, soul crushing sound, even the gyarados and charizards wept. Leslie felt like weeping with them. The trainers watched in stunned silence as the air around the began to shimmer. The voice of the bizarre harbour manager echoed in Leslie's mind:
"The ancient writings tell of the storm wiping out all but a few pokemon. In their sorrow, the water of their tears restored the lives lost in the storm"
Leslie blinked, could it be true?. The shimering air around them gathered, like tiny beautiful rivers of stars that flowed into Ash's stone form. She held her breath, squinting against the light to see what would happen. She gawked in disbelief as the cold grey colour faded from Ash's body, he glowed a bright blue. Even the island around them was illuminated, changing the atmosphere. And bringing Ash back to life.
Leslie smiled in relief as Ash slowly lifted himself onto his elbows. He blinked a few times, before settling his eyes on his pikachu. He said something, Leslie couldn't hear from where she stood, but she could see the smile on his face as he held the little mouse close. She looked at Neesha, the two girls smiled at one another. Leslie then looked back to her pokemon, eevee nuzzled his clone. As did milotic and houndoom, hitmonchan simply rested his gloved fist on his former enemy's shoulder. Leslie giggled softly as each pokemon made amends with their clone.
"Looks like they've put they're differences behind them" Corey said with a chuckle.
"The human sacrificed himself to save the pokemom..." The trainers snapped to attention at Mewtwo's voice. The pokemon sounded different. almost regretful. "I pitted them against each other, but not until they set aside their differences did I see the true power they all share deep inside. I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are"
"Mewtwo finally understands" Leslie breathed, unable to stop herself from beaming.
"It took all this fighting but we got there in the end" Fergus said, Leslie snorted. Then gasped as each clone was slowly levitated, she looked up at Mew and Mewtwo. They were flying away, the trainers and their pokemon gathered as the clones were lifted from the arena.
"Mewtwo!" Ash called out "Where are you going?"
"Where my heart can learn what your's knows so well" Mewtwo replied "What transpired here I will always remember, but perhaps for you these events are best forgotten"
"What does it mean by that?" Leslie thought out loud. Before anyone could answer, the ground beneath them disappeared. A blinding white light engulfed them and Leslie felt the awful sensation of falling. Grabbing a battered eevee and holding him close, Leslie closed her eyes and screamed in fear as she plummeted into the blinding abyss.
Leslie sat on her backpack, using it as a makeshift seat, blinking in confusion as she heard Officer Jenny's voice. 'Am I at the pokemon center?'.
"This could be the worst storm ever!" The policewoman said.
''Listen to me!'' The strange woman standing next to Jenny spoke up "You have got to find shelter!"
"Excuse me please!" A new voice chimed in, Leslie looked to her right. Nurse Joy stood on her tiptoes as she addressed the frustrated crowd. "The pokemon center will be open as a shelter! Anyone who needs a place to stay should come with me!"
Leslie frowned, gently nudging eevee from her lap she slowly stood.
"How the heck did we wind up here eevee?" Leslie asked, looking down at her equally perplexed pokemon. She rolled her shoulders and looked around the bust reception. "Hmm, well. I guess it was force of habit or something, at least we're here now though right?"
"Vee vee!" eevee seemed to agree. She smiled at her comapnion.
"Look!" A woman's voice cried out "It's a miracle!" Leslie spun on her heel, following three other trainers outside. She caught up with them, she stood next to a blue haired boy and looked up at the sky. She gawked as the rain ceased and the clouds parted, revealing a stunning blue sky.
"The storm has completely disappeared" Officer Jenny gasped in disbelief.
"That's so weird!" The brunette girl standing in front of her said in astonishment.
"It is good to have things clear again" The harbor manager breathed.
"Wow" Leslie chuckled "What a lucky break huh eevee?" she smiled as eevee jumped up onto her shoulder. Leslie frowned "But I can't help but think we're here for a different reason altogether..." She mulled this over for a few minutes, she could sense eevee's confusion, she shrugged the shoulder her pokemon wasn't occupying. "Well, whatever it is. I think it's out of my system now" She smiled at the sunny sky, then down at the pokeballs on her belt.
"Come on guys, lets get you all rested up. We still have a long way to go"
There we go, all done! That was my first Pokemon story, sorry for the crappy ending. I'm alos going to update the chapters and remove any mistakes. I'm a dumbass for putting them there in the first place *headdesk* but I will make amends. Please tell me what you think :)