Chapter 13

"I've got an issue with what you did earlier, Mewtwo." Mateusz said as he put the gun to the back of Mewtwo's head that had no bullets in it. "Goodbye, Mewtwo." Mateusz whispered.

Mateusz pulled the trigger fully back, and because the gun was empty, it made a click sound instead of a loud explosive noise it would have made were the gun loaded.

"Mewtwo, the gun is empty." Mateusz said as he put the gun on the ground and took a few steps back.

Mewtwo turned around and began to stare at Mateusz.

"What are you doing?" Mewtwo demanded, standing up as anger began to form on his face.

"I am teaching you what it feels like to be randomly attacked by an ally. I don't mean you any harm, I made sure the gun was empty so that you would not be hurt or killed. Now you can see how I felt when you attacked me in what you called a 'training exercise'. You must understand that I really disagree with the method you used and that I don't want you to do it again. I would never actually have shot you." Mateusz debriefed.

Mewtwo simply stood there, staring.

"You. How dare you." Mewtwo said darkly.

"I'm sorry, but it was the only way to make you understand about how I felt. And you obviously didn't like the feeling, so I am only asking that you keep in mind that that is how it makes me feel to be attacked. So please don't do that exercise again. If you wish to train me in melee combat, warn me first, I already got the point you were trying to teach, so don't do it again please." Mateusz said as he turned around and began to walk away.

"Come back here, NOW." Mewtwo said angrily.

Mateusz turned to face Mewtwo and sighed.

"Yes?" Mateusz questioned.

"How dare you do that to me." Mewtwo said coldly and darkly.

"How dare you just randomly attack me! I was only showing you how it felt…" Mateusz replied in turning, getting angry at Mewtwo's reluctance to see his point of view.

This only made Mewtwo appear to be even more angered, and he began to chase Mateusz, who sprinted away. Mewtwo began to levitate and was quickly catching up to Mateusz, but by this stage they were nearing the entrance of the cave, and Mateusz ran in.

"What's going on Mateusz" Joasia asked as Mateusz sprinted past.

"Mewtwo's pissed!" Mateusz exclaimed back before running into his room.

Mewtwo soon entered the cave and went up to Joasia.

"Where is he?!" Mewtwo asked, anger shining in his eyes like the raging fury of a thousand burning suns.

"Why do you want to know?" Joasia asked back as Mewtwo towered over her.

"Just tell me where he is!" Mewtwo demanded.

"He went down there." Joasia said as she cowered and pointed to Mateusz's room.

Mewtwo stormed down to Mateusz's room and entered.

"There you are." Mewtwo darkly growled.

Mateusz was huddled in a corner, awaiting his inevitable fate, probably a gruesome one. Mewtwo approached slowly and raised his fists.

"Mewtwo, stop!" Mateusz yelled as a last ditch attempt to prevent what may happen.

Mewtwo swung his fists and Mateusz was hit in the chest. Mateusz groaned as the pain washed over him. Mewtwo swung his fists again, but Mateusz put his arms up.

"Enough!" Mateusz yelled in a deep voice.

After saying this, a yellow shockwave of light was emitted from Mateusz that caused Mewtwo to fly backwards. Mateusz stood up straight and looked down at himself, shocked at what had happened. Mewtwo stood up; shock had replaced rage on his face.

"W-what was that?" Mewtwo asked as he straightened himself upright and calmed down.

Mateusz simply stood there, pale-faced and mouth agape. And then Mateusz collapsed to the ground, unconscious with his eyes rolling in the back of his head.

"Mateusz?" Mewtwo said as he walked over to where Mateusz lay.

Mewtwo felt Mateusz's pulse and found it to be erratic. He sat on the ground next to Mateusz, waiting for him to wake up. Joasia had heard the commotion when Mateusz had released the shockwave and came to investigate, along with Mew.

"What did you do to him?!" Joasia asked in a worried tone after seeing Mateusz lying there.

"I will admit that my anger got the better of me, but I did not cause this." Mewtwo responded.

"Then what happened?" Joasia requested information as she walked over to where Mateusz lay.

"I punched him, and when I tried to punch him again, he released some kind of energy in the form of a shockwave which knocked me backwards, and then he collapsed." Mewtwo disclosed.

"Is he okay then? And why did you hurt him in the first place?" Joasia further questioned.

"He should be fine, and you can ask him what happened when he wakes up." Mewtwo said before standing up and exiting the room.

Joasia and Mew sat beside Mateusz's unconscious form and discussed multiple theories as to what may have happened.

"Nnnnnnnngghh… What's going on?" Mateusz groaned and asked.

"You collapsed unconscious again, after emitting a shockwave according to Mewtwo." Mew informed Mateusz.

"Oh yeah, that's right. I was running from Mewtwo." Mateusz remembered.

"Why were you running from him?" Joasia inquired.

"Because I thought he was trying to kill me or something." Mateusz replied.

"Why would you say that?" Mew asked.

"He was very angry. He attacked me this morning in what he called a 'training exercise', where he was very rough and I got lots of bruises and this cut lip. I didn't like it so I formulated a revenge plan, or at least a plan that would make him see how I felt about the exercise. I emptied a magazine of ammunition for the pistol I got from the Team Rocket outpost Mewtwo and I went to and put it in the gun. I went to where Mewtwo was and put the gun to his head before telling him that I didn't like what he did, and I then pulled the trigger, and, because it was empty, it only clicked. I tried to debrief him on why I had done it but he grew angry and chased me here, where he punched me and that shockwave thingy happened." Mateusz informed the both of them.

"Well that's all very interesting Mateusz, but you will need to apologise to Mewtwo for the thing you did, he has had a bad experience with humans misusing his trust, and that is probably why he got so angry." Mew told Mateusz.

"Fine, I'll apologise, but only if he apologises to me as well, he shouldn't have done such a rough exercise without my getting my consent first." Mateusz replied.

"I'll see if I can convince him to, he may be willing regardless." Mew said as he floated out of the room.

Mateusz stood up with Joasia's help and stretched, muscles aching as he did so because of the beating he had received.

"Are you still up for going to the top of the mountain?" Joasia asked.

"Yeah, I should be fine, so long as I don't get slapped." Mateusz said as he smiled.

"SHUT UP! Stop using that against me." Joasia said angrily before smiling as well.

"Alright, I'll stop; I don't need more than one person angry at me. What is the place you want to show me?" Mateusz replied and asked.

"Let's go now, you'll see." Joasia directed to Mateusz.

The pair walked out of the cave, Mateusz limping slightly. The walk up to the summit was slightly steep and the higher they got, the thinner the density of the forest got and the lower the air temperature dropped. The fresh air of the mountainside stirred in a gentle, cool breeze through the green leaves of the trees in the sunlight. Rocks that protruded from the mountainside were common amongst the trees, some with their own little clearing amongst a patch of lush, green grass. Mateusz slowly inhaled the air as he walked, following Joasia. The fresh air seemed to calm him and even make his aching body become less painful. Eventually patches of snow appeared amongst the now rapidly thinning density of the forest. Soon, the snow became a thin blanket on the ground and Mateusz bent over to pick up a handful of snow.

"Brrr- it's cold, I've never felt anything like this." Mateusz said as he dropped the handful of snow.

"Of course it is. It's frozen water." Joasia said from Mateusz's side.

"I know that, but I don't remember feeling anything like it before. It's amazing." Mateusz said with excitement.

They continued on to the summit where there were no trees. The air was chill at the top and gusts of wind blew from time to time. Mateusz could see over the top of the forest that surrounded the mountain for many kilometres. In the distance to his right, he could see the grid layout of a human town, with some multi-storey buildings in the centre of the town. To his left he could see the town that he and Mewtwo had raided the Team Rocket outpost in, it was somewhat smaller than the town to his right and didn't have any multi-storey buildings. Mateusz continued to look around him at the amazing view. He turned around and saw a mountain range, with mountains much taller than the one he was currently standing on top of with sheets of white snow on the top halves of them.

"This view is absolutely amazing." Mateusz said as he looked at the stunning view.

"Yeah, I discovered it a couple of days ago and I thought it would be good to show you." Joasia replied, smiling at the look of amazement on Mateusz's face.

"Well it's very nice, thank you very much." Mateusz said.

They both found a rock each to sit on and continued friendly conversation.

"Have you ever wondered how humans live their everyday lives?" Mateusz asked.

"Yes, I find it strange to think about living any other way myself, so I wonder how humans do it." Joasia replied.

"I often wonder about it myself, but I can't exactly lead a normal life like a human because of my, 'condition'." Mateusz talked back in deep thought.

"Yeah, you would be experimented on or something else unpleasant." Joasia said.

"Yes, something like that. I have no idea where I'm going to live or how I'm going to survive after Mewtwo is finished his investigation of me, perhaps he'll be kind enough to give me an education on how to survive in the forest, otherwise I'm screwed." Mateusz sighed.

"You could stay with me if you wanted to; I plan on leaving after Mewtwo finishes training me." Joasia's face lit up at the idea of having a friend around to keep her company.

"I don't know. I'd hate to be a burden on you. You know, having to help me all the time and stuff." Mateusz responded thoughtfully.

"No no, you'd be fine; you'll be able to do most things by yourself anyway." Joasia waved off Mateusz's response.

"We'll see, I'll keep in touch with you regardless of the outcome." Mateusz said in turn.

"I think we should go back now, it'll be nearly time for my training session with Mewtwo." Joasia told Mateusz.

"If he's even in the mood for it after this morning's events." Mateusz said with a slight frown.

The pair got off the rocks and began to walk back down the slope. Mateusz walked in front and after about a minute of walking, something cold and powdery hit the back of his neck. He felt the back of his neck and found that some snow had been caught in between the hood of his coat and his neck. He turned around only to have a ball of snow hit him right in the nose.

"Joasia!" Mateusz exclaimed before picking up a handful of snow and rolling it into a ball.

Mateusz threw the ball of snow and it hit Joasia right in the face.

"Got you back!" Mateusz said triumphantly.

Joasia wipe the snow of her face before giving Mateusz a glare. Her eyes glowed blue and a huge chunk of snow was lifted from the ground in the shape of a ball.

"Oh crap!" Mateusz exclaimed as he turned to run, but copped the oversized ball of snow on his back.

Mateusz fell forwards, covered in snow. Joasia walked up to him and laughed.

"That's what you get for throwing snowballs at me." she continued to laugh.

"J-just help m-me up p-p-please." Mateusz chattered as the cold temperature of the snow got to him.

Joasia helped him up and helped brush the white, powdery snow off his coat.

"No fair, I can't throw a snowball that big." Mateusz said to Joasia.

"I'm only utilising my abilities." she waved of his remark as they continued walking down the slope…