Chapter 5: First Meeting

"Come on, Joasia, you have to wake up now, we must leave for the place I told you about, or we won't make it by nightfall." Mew shook Joasia's head.

"Nnnnnnnngghh-"Joasia yawned. "Can we at least have some food before we go?"

"Yes, here are some berries." Mew said before muttering under his breath, "This would have been much easier if Team Rocket had taught you teleport, but unfortunately they haven't."

Joasia ate a few berries and stood up to stretch. The pair then set off for the 'place' Mew had told Joasia they must reach before sundown. They walked through the forest at a constant pace.

"So what is the name of this being you say can train me to defend myself?" Joasia inquired.

"His name isn't important right now, I'll introduce you when we get there, but when we get there, you need to stay behind me, he might see you as a threat and kill you if you don't let me do the talking to start with." Mew replied.

"Sounds like a pleasant guy." Joasia sarcastically mumbled.

They continued to walk through the pleasantly green and peaceful forest. It was springtime and flowers bloomed occasionally in the undergrowth. Suddenly and abruptly, Mew stopped floating forwards.

"Get down! There are humans in the clearing ahead!" Mew harshly whispered.

They both ducked in a bush and Joasia asked who the humans were, and whether they were from Team Rocket or not.

"No, just a couple of young trainers." Mew told Joasia.

"Trainers? What do trainers do?" Joasia wanted to know.

"They train Pokémon to fight one another so they can get to some big fancy tournament and win or something, I don't meddle in the affairs of humans very often." Mew said.

"These appear to be human children, why don't we just scare them off?" Joasia asked Mew.

"Because they would try to catch you, or they would return to their town and tell people about you, and right now, you want to remain as secret as possible so Team Rocket doesn't find you." Mew stated to Joasia.

"Oh, right. But surely we can do something to get them away from here without revealing ourselves?" Joasia theorised to Mew.

"Go ahead; levitate one of them or something so they run away, not a bad idea, actually." Mew agreed.

Joasia levitated the one closest to them and the others soon saw and screamed. They all turned and ran, leaving the other behind. Joasia dropped him and he too ran, after his friends presumably. Mew and Joasia continued on their current path. They walked through a valley on the other side of the clearing. There were mountain peaks in the distance with some snow to cap them. It was a serene place overall and very enjoyable to walk through.

"Can we stop for Lunch? My feet hurt, Mew." Joasia decided to ask Mew.

"Fine, but we're going to have to wait another night before we reach the place then." Mew agreed.

Mew went off to look for some berries that they could eat while Joasia looked for a spring or clear creek she could have a drink from. She found one in the forest and took a long, cool drink of its pure waters. She returned to where Mew was planning to meet her with the berries and found Mew waiting with a pile of berries on the ground in front of him. Joasia was starving and wolfed down a good ten plump, juicy berries before slowing her pace.

"Someone's hungry." Mew laughed with an amused look on his face.

Joasia just nodded and continued to eat berries. Mew managed to get a few in the end so he didn't miss out altogether. After they had eaten some food, they decided there was no point going further that day as they would only have to walk for half a day to get there tomorrow. They looked for a shelter amongst the trees in the sides of the valley and found a small cave that seemed uninhabited. They were wrong about the uninhabited part as a green creature that appeared to be wearing a white dress appeared out of the darkness when they walked in.

"Gard?" the creature seemed to ask.

"Guard what?" Joasia asked telepathically.

"I'm sorry Miss, we were just looking for a place to sleep tonight, we didn't mean to intrude in your home." Mew said to the creature.

"Gard." the creature said before turning around and sitting down.

"Goodbye, Miss." Mew said.

They walked out of the cave and looked somewhere else for a place to sleep. They found a rocky overhang with comfortable room to sleep. Mew floated off somewhere to get something and returned with a bundle of sticks.

"We'll have to make a fire if we're sleeping in an exposed place, it can get pretty cold at night." Mew told Joasia as he set the sticks down.

Mew arranged the sticks into a position as the sun started to go down. He soon had a small fire going and the warmth was comforting to Joasia as the outside temperature dropped.

"So, how far exactly is it to the place you are taking me?" Joasia asked Mew by the light of the flickering, yellow flames.

"Not much further, no more than 15km I should say, goodnight." Mew replied as he began to close his eyes.

"Mew?" Joasia asked.

"Yes, Joasia, what is it you want to ask me?" Mew said, opening his eyes again.

"Why did you help me? Why did you want me to escape?" She questioned sincerely.

"Because they would have used you to take over the world, in time. You would have eventually given up all hope and submitted to their will, and then you would have been used to destroy entire armies, rebellious citizens and anything else that stood between Team Rocket and world domination. The being you are going to see tomorrow and myself, would have had to stop you, and possibly, kill you. But then there would have been the chance you killed us first." Mew disclosed the reason for Joasia's existence.

Joasia just sat there, unblinking, mouth agape.

"I know it's a lot to take in, but it's true, they would have used you to take over the world, like they would have used the being I am taking you to take over the world. You were both designed as biological weapons of mass destruction. But luckily I told some people to help you escape, and they did, otherwise you wouldn't be here." Mew reassured Joasia.

"That explains why Jenny, the person who helped me escape, simply stood up and left after I asked her why Team Rocket was training me, she felt too guilty to say." Joasia theorised.

"Maybe, they seemed to be nice people, the ones who helped you escape, I hope they didn't get caught." Mew said.

"There was more than one helping me escape? I only saw Jenny helping me escape; she knocked out the two guards so I could escape." Joasia inquired for information on her second helper.

"A man named Stanislaw; he didn't give his first name when I talked to him. He put a virus in the computer system that disabled the lights and security temporarily in the area you were in." Mew told Joasia.

"Well I hope they're okay, I heard a gunshot after I turned the corner when Jenny told me to run." Joasia sadly said.

"We'll see, it's likely you will never see either of them again regardless of whether they're alive or not." Mew said sadly. "But if they're dead, it's for the greater good, but I would be incredibly sad if it means I had prompted them into their untimely deaths."

"Goodnight Mew, we'll talk again tomorrow." Joasia said as her eyes lost the battle to stay open against tiredness.

"Goodnight, Joasia." Mew replied and in turn closed his eyes.

The sun had risen that morning and Joasia began to stir. Mew was already awake, accepting a pile of berries from a visitor.

"Gard." the visitor said.

"Thank you for the berries Miss, you didn't have to look for us and bring us breakfast, and sorry for the intrusion yesterday evening." Mew said to the visitor.

"Gard." the creature said and turned to leave.

Then Joasia sat up and yawned. She then saw the visitor.

"Mew, who is that?" Joasia asked Mew as she stood up.

"You remember the cave we intruded into yesterday that was inhabited, right? Well this is that cave's inhabitant, and she has kindly brought us breakfast." Mew explained to Joasia.

"Thank you, Miss." said Joasia.

"Gard, g-gard?" the creature said.

"No, you are right, she isn't a normal Pokémon, she is a genetically modified clone. That is why you have never seen another like her." Mew told the visitor.

The visitor turned and left.

"Thank you again, Miss." Mew called after her.

"What Pokémon was that Mew?" Joasia asked.

"That was a gardevoir that happens to reside nearby in that cave we intruded as aforesaid." Mew said.

"Okay, she seemed kind." Joasia said.

"We'd best get walking now. It will take us until just past midday to get there." Mew directed to Joasia.

They walked out of the overhang and into the forest. They continued in the direction they had been heading the previous day and passed various Pokémon on the way that Mew had to explain to Joasia. This part of the forest was densely populated by trees, but they soon came to a part in which the trees thinned out a little.

"Can we have lunch here, Mew?" Joasia asked as her stomach rumbled, asking for more berries, they didn't seem to keep her going for very long.

"Yes, I was waiting for you to ask, I'm bleedin' hungry!" Mew exclaimed.

Mew found another berry bush just of their path of direction which had juicy looking, blue coloured berries. These were the best tasting yet that Joasia had had. After eating, and having a drink from a very clear looking stream, they continued on their current journey. Soon Mew told Joasia that they were getting near their destination and told her to stay behind him. They eventually came to a small clearing in which there was an opening in the ground with stone steps. Mew told her to wait at the entrance as he went inside. She soon heard a telepathic yell.

"WAKE. UP. SLEEPY. HEAD!" a voice that could only belong to Mew shouted.

Mew emerged moments later with another being that had a scowl on its face. Joasia got a shock when she realised the being looked just like her, only, a little taller and more masculine. The being's expression changed from a scowl aimed at Mew to a look of surprise when he saw her.

"It's okay Mewtwo, she's not your enemy, and she's with me." Mew told the creature.

"Who are you?" the creature known as Mewtwo telepathically asked.

"I am Joasia." Joasia replied with a shocked expression on her face.

"Why are you here?" Mewtwo asked.

"Mew lead me here, he said you could train me to defend myself." Joasia regained composure and stated.

"You did not warn me about this, Mew." Mewtwo irritably said to Mew.

Mateusz walked out of the forest and stopped, a little shocked at the congregation that hadn't been there when he went to the berry bush that was nearby to get some food. Mew turned and saw Mateusz standing there.

"Look out! There's a human over there!" Mew pointed.

Joasia charged up an attack she barely knew how to use and said, "Get on the ground human."

"Who are these beings, Mewtwo, you didn't tell me you were having guests." Mateusz said as he walked calmly over to where they were standing, trusting Mewtwo would stop any attacks on his person.

"Do you know this boy, Mewtwo?" Mew inquired to Mewtwo.

"Yes, I found him in the woods yesterday, he has an extraordinary ability to block all my abilities of sensing his mental presence, reading his mind and memories, and for some reason, he has two hearts. So I'm keeping him here until I find out more about his abilities. " Mewtwo explained to Mew.

"Okay then. Joasia, you can calm down now, the human is fine." Mew said.

"I'm not entirely sure I am human anymore. I don't feel human with two hearts." Mateusz said to Mew.

"What is your name, boy?" Mew asked Mateusz.

"I think it's Mateusz… although I'm not sure, I also might be Mathias." Mateusz told Mew.

"I think we'd all better go inside to talk." Mew said to Mewtwo.

"Agreed." Mewtwo stated and led them all inside.


Author's note: Here are the heights of the main characters in the story so far:

Mateusz: 6 foot 2 inches (1.87m) he is a tall 15 year old boy.

Mewtwo: 6 foot 7 inches (2.01m)

Mew: 1 foot 4 inches (40cm)

Joasia: 5 foot 11 inches (1.8m)