Chapter 15:
"What the heck?!" Mateusz exclaimed as the two creatures jumped out of the bush.
The two creatures charged at Mateusz and Joasia before stopping a few metres in front of them. The one with the flames coming out its head and back launched an attack and a burst of flame flew in Mateusz's direction. Mateusz just managed to jump out of the way, but the hair on his right arm was slightly singed. The creature charged at Mateusz and collided with him headfirst. Mateusz was thrown backwards onto the ground with the creature on top of him.
"Now you will die human scum!" the creature angrily shouted in a distinctly feminine voice.
"Wait, you can talk?!" Mateusz said as he frowned from underneath the creature.
"Yeah I damn well can, and it's all because of the stupid experiments you humans did on my friend and I! Just because I talk doesn't mean it will hurt any less when I burn you to a crisp!" the creature continued to rant.
"Joasia, get her off me!" Mateusz yelled in desperation.
Joasia tackled the creature and the creature fell off Mateusz.
"Run Mateusz!" Joasia told Mateusz.
"No, you can't fight these two on your own!" Mateusz responded.
Mateusz grabbed the stick he had designated as his hiking stick and advanced towards the creature with flames on its back whilst the other one wasn't attacking. The creature turned to face him once more and charged up an attack. It launched a large mass of flaming embers at him and Mateusz flung his arms in front of him to cover his face. Mateusz soon realised that his arms weren't burnt and put his arms down. The embers were hitting a strange wall of glowing yellow in front of him. He realised that he had put up a barrier that blocked the attack. The torrent of embers stopped and Mateusz could see the creature through his barrier. Mateusz looked to his right for a moment and saw the small, rodent-like creature still standing there, watching, but not attacking. Mateusz turned his attention back to the aggressive one and found that it was charging at him with burning ferocity to match the splitting of a quadrillion uranium atoms. The creature hit his barrier and was repelled backwards onto the ground. At the same time, Mateusz's barrier broke and he was once again left defenceless in the process. The creature regained its bearings and charged at Mateusz once more, flames on its head and back flaring as it did so. The creature almost reached Mateusz before a blue glow formed around it and it was stopped in its path. The creature was flung backwards through the air and landed on the ground with a soft thud. Mateusz heard footfalls behind him and turned to see who it was. Mewtwo ran towards him and then ran past him.
"Get behind me." Mewtwo calmly said.
Mateusz stood behind Mewtwo and observed the creature that had attacked him. The creature charged forwards and tried to run past Mewtwo to get at Mateusz. It was knocked back to its original position after a blue glow formed around its body. It got up and tried the same thing again, but in a different direction. It was once again flung backwards and onto the ground. The creature stood up and glared at both Mewtwo and Mateusz.
"Why won't you just let me kill this human scum?" it asked, voice dripping with venom.
"Because he is not human and because I am studying his abilities." Mewtwo replied, returning the glare.
"Liar! He is clearly human, I'm not bloody well blind!" the creature angrily responded.
"He has abilities that no human has, as well as a different anatomy, so he is not human." Mewtwo further explained.
"Then prove it!" the creature demanded.
"I already proved it with the thing that blocked your attack." Mateusz called to the creature.
"That was you?" the creature questioned.
"Yes, and I don't mean you or your friend any harm, so please stop trying to kill me." Mateusz negotiated as he walked to Mewtwo's side.
"Okay, I'll stop. I let my temper best me. It's just that my friend and I were experimented on by some human organisation called Team Rocket and I'm still a little sensitive to the sight of humans, or in your case, beings that look like humans." the creature finally calmed down before awkwardly saying, "I'm Lifyra the quilava, and my friend over there is Ubui the sandshrew, he was experimented on during the same experiment as I was. I'm sorry for my outburst, heh heh; my temper really does get the better of me a lot."
"Wait, you say Team Rocket experimented on you?" Mateusz queried.
"Yes." the quilava known as Lifyra responded.
"Then we have a common enemy, and an enemy of an enemy is my friend." Mateusz disclosed.
"So I guess that means you hate Team Rocket too, what did they do to you guys?" Lifyra queried.
"Mewtwo over here beside me was created by Team Rocket as a biological weapon to take over the world, and same with Joasia over there." Mateusz said as he pointed.
"And yourself?" Lifyra asked.
"I'm with them, so I'm against Team Rocket as well." Mateusz disclosed.
"Ah okay, well would you consider letting us join you guys?" Lifyra requested.
"Mewtwo? What do you think; we could probably use a little more power in numbers." Mateusz asked Mewtwo.
"Fine, they can stay for now." Mewtwo said before turning and walking off, followed by Joasia.
"Well that's that settled then." Mateusz said.
"So what's your name?" Lifyra asked Mateusz as she lay on the grass in front of him.
"Mateusz." he responded before asking, "So did you become able to talk in human language because of the experiment?"
"Yes, they injected us both with a weird fluid and we both fell unconscious, and when we awoke, we found we could talk the same language as humans do." Lifyra told Mateusz.
"Interesting story, I don't really have a tale of how I came to be like this, I have no memory of before I woke up under a tree in a forest before meeting Mewtwo. I just kinda… woke up and that was it." Mateusz told Lifyra.
"Huh, sounds weird. Do you know where I could perhaps find something to eat?" Lifyra said as her attention waned.
"Um, there should be a bush with berries on it somewhere nearby, but I don't know exactly where." Mateusz said back.
"Okay, thanks." Lifyra said as she walked off into the trees.
Mateusz walked over to the small rodent-like creature known as Ubui and sat down on the grass.
"So, how come you didn't attack me when Lifyra did?" Mateusz asked.
"Because I believe rushing into an unprovoked fight is a stupid idea." Ubui said in a voice that was somewhat deeper than Mateusz would have expected for a creature so small.
"Fair enough, but don't you hate humans as well?" Mateusz inquired.
"Of course I do." Ubui responded.
"Hmm… You're not exactly the talkative type are you?"
"Why, is it wrong to not be talkative?" Ubui asked.
"No, but I believe you'll get along with Mewtwo quite well." Mateusz said before asking, "Are you hungry? You must at least be tired from your long journey, you can tell me more about how you guys escaped and got here as you eat."
"Okay, I am a bit hungry I suppose." Ubui said as he followed Mateusz.
They walked out of the clearing and into the lush, green forest that surrounded them. The leaves on the trees were lincoln green and rustled softly with the cool, quiet breeze that cut through the fresh, mountainside air. Ubui and Mateusz soon found a berry bush that Mateusz had visited before and they both sat down. Mateusz plucked berries from the bush that were a little too high for Ubui to reach and gave them to him.
"Thank you." Ubui said before munching on the small, blue berries.
"So, how did you guys escape from Team Rocket?" Mateusz inquired.
"During one of the experiments, they were transferring us to a different room when all the lights went out and the doors opened. Lifyra and I took the chance to run through the chaos and confusion that the blackout caused and we ran up some stairs and down a hallway. As we got to the end of the hallway, we found that it went into another hallway. And as we hesitated for a moment, something with a purple tail dashed past and out the entrance of the base. We ran out the entrance after this and into the forest. After some days of wandering, we have made our way here." Ubui told his story.
"Wow, quite an interesting tale there. I think that 'something' that you saw was Joasia. The purple tail gives it away. She escaped about a week and a half ago from a Team Rocket base." Mateusz informed Ubui.
"Really, was she experimented on by Team Rocket too?" Ubui asked.
"She IS a Team Rocket experiment and same with Mewtwo." Mateusz explained.
"Wow, so she's a clone of some kind, right?" Ubui theorised.
"Yeah I think so; you'll have to check with Mew on that one." Mateusz said.
"Mew, who's Mew?" Ubui questioned.
"Oh, I'm sorry, you haven't met him yet. Would you like to come and meet him now?" Mateusz asked.
"Yeah, sure." Ubui agreed.
"I'll see if I can find him, he never seems to stay in one place though." Mateusz said.
Mateusz led Ubui through the forest in the direction of the cave where he thought Mew may be. The pair came to the entrance of the cave within 2 minutes of walking. They walked in the cave and to Mateusz's surprise, Mew was actually there.
"Who's that Mateusz?" Mew asked.
"This is Ubui, his friend attacked me in the clearing, but he didn't attack. After Mewtwo and I managed to calm his friend down, I spoke to them both. It turns out that they were experimented on by Team Rocket in the same base that Joasia was, and escaped on the very same day as she did. They're going to be staying with us for a little while. The other one is a quilava named Lifyra." Mateusz notified Mew.
"Oh goody! More company!" Mew did a somersault in mid-air as he said this.
"Where are they going to sleep though?" Mateusz asked.
"We'll have Ubui in your room and we'll put Lifyra in Joasia's room." Mew responded.
"Okay, cool." Mateusz said before asking Ubui, "Do you need a bed of some kind? Some leaves on the ground to have something softer to sleep on perhaps?" Mateusz politely inquired.
"Yeah, a few leaves on the ground should be alright thank you." Ubui replied.
Mateusz went out of the cave to gather up some leaves to make a sleeping place for Ubui and shortly returned. Mateusz set up the leaves in a manner and asked Ubui to test it out to see if it was comfortable enough. Ubui was satisfied and decided to go to sleep. Mateusz exited his room and walked down the hallway. At the entrance he could see Joasia and Lifyra walking in and talking as the sun set outside.
"He sounds nice, I'll keep my ears open and see if I hear anything about it." Lifyra said to Joasia.
Mateusz walked toward them and stopped a few steps in front. Lifyra looked up at him and giggled. Joasia seemed to be struggling to keep a straight face.
"What's going on you two?" Mateusz asked, raising his eyebrows.
"Oh nothing, we were just talking about something." Joasia said.
"Oh, okay. I'm just going to let you know that Lifyra will be staying in your room." Mateusz replied.
"Oh. Cool." Joasia responded.
Joasia and Lifyra continued on to Joasia's room. Lifyra looked back and released another giggle as she looked at Mateusz. They both walked into Joasia's room.
"What's going on with those two?" Mew asked as he suddenly appeared, floating at Mateusz's side.
"I have no idea, but there seems to be some sort of pact between them." Mateusz responded before saying, "I think I'm going to go to bed early tonight, I'm tired and bruised from the day's many events."
