Chapter 18

"Mateusz, you must wake up now, it is time to go," Mewtwo told Mateusz as he shook him awake.

"Already? I feel like I've only had a few hours' sleep," Mateusz wearily said as he yawned and sat up.

"If we hope to get there and back within 24 hours we must leave now," Mewtwo replied before removing himself from the rectangular shaped stone room.

Mateusz grabbed the handgun he had acquired from the Team Rocket base they had raided along with some ammunition which he put in his jacket. He walked out of his room, being careful not to awaken Ubui whom snored quietly. Mateusz strolled out the entrance of the cave, but as he did, a paw with three spherical digit tips grabbed his right shoulder from behind.

"Thanks for cheering me up yesterday, that was really helpful," Joasia's voice sounded in his head.

Mateusz turned around to face Joasia and said, "That's okay; I didn't like seeing you upset like that."

"I hope all goes well with your expedition, please keep safe," Joasia said as she hugged Mateusz, and his eyes widened because he did not expect it.

Joasia turned and went back into her room to catch a couple more hours of sleep. Mateusz stood rigid, still shocked by the sudden show of affection. He soon regained his wits and continued out into the forest, where Mewtwo awaited his appearance.

"Follow me, we shall reach the location by mid-afternoon, and on our way back, we shall have to stay the night somewhere in the forest," Mewtwo instructed and began floating forwards into the deep parts of the forest.

Mateusz trudged along behind him in the chilly morning air, their breaths creating miniature clouds of fog that drifted off into the air. There were small patches of frost on the grass and trees which crunched underfoot as Mateusz walked forwards. The first rays of light were beginning to shine over the horizon, but because of the trees, Mateusz could not see this. The sun soon appeared and the atmosphere lit up with varying shades of red, orange and yellow.

"Red sky at night, shepherd's delight, red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning," Mateusz muttered ominously.

"What is that supposed to mean?" Mewtwo asked curiously at the phrase.

"It's to do with weather, I don't know how I remember it though, seeing as I lost the better part of my memory. It means if you get a red sky when the sun sets, you will have calm weather the next day, but if you have a red sunrise, the weather will be stormy and unstable later on," Mateusz explained to the curious mewtwo.

"We'll see whether that comes true," Mewtwo turned his head momentarily and smirked.

"Yeah, we'll see, it's just some old saying that I know for some reason," Mateusz shrugged his shoulders.

They continued walking in silence for a few more minutes before Mateusz started feeling something. A sense of guilt for what he had done a couple of days prior. He decided to apologise for a second time as he could no longer stand the guilt.

"Hey, uh, Mewtwo?" Mateusz started.

"Yes, I am listening Mateusz," Mewtwo returned.

"I'm uh… Very sorry about what I did the other day, I was just hoping that you're not going to stay upset at me, but it's okay if you are still upset," Mateusz disclosed to Mewtwo, whom gave him a funny look at this.

"Don't worry, I have gotten over it now, and I'm not upset with you anymore," Mewtwo assured Mateusz as he stopped momentarily to look Mateusz in the eyes.

"Oh, okay, thanks," Mateusz said before they continued on their journey.


"Sir, we have located the escaped weapon on a mountainside, should we prepare to recapture it?" a grunt asked over the radio.

"Yes, but you'll have to wait until tomorrow to attack, there is a storm on the way," Giovanni replied as he smiled at the fact that the escaped mewtwo had been found.

"Okay sir, we should be able to get it back to HQ by late tomorrow afternoon." the grunt said as he eyed the dark clouds forming on the horizon.

"Good," Giovanni said as he hung up the communication device with a click.

"Ah, finally all is going to plan." Giovanni said as he sighed happily and looked out the window towards the mountain range in the distance.


"What happened to Bill? He's not replying on the radio," a Team Rocket grunt radioed into the control centre of the base.

"He said his radio was running out of battery, do you think you could come back and get some new ones for him?" the operator replied.

Bill, whom had become a grunt for Team Rocket at age 20, was stationed at a remote base in the middle of a vast forest. He loved his job as it gave him a sense of power he had never felt before. He was a nasty man who was evil to the core…


"There are 15 guards around the perimeter, and probably another 10 inside the base, so be careful and stealthy, I will create distractions so you can get in without any problems," Mewtwo told Mateusz with a look of seriousness Mateusz had not yet seen.

Mateusz and Mewtwo were hiding behind some fir trees on the edge of the clearing that the Team Rocket base was in.

"Sure," Mateusz nodded in response to Mewtwo's instruction.

"Keep it down Mateusz, remember they can't hear me because my voice is only in your head, but your voice is for everyone to hear, so don't say anything or they might hear you, do you understand?" Mewtwo raised a digit to his mouth, signalling for Mateusz to be quiet.

Mateusz nodded at this and waited for Mewtwo to create a distraction. Soon enough, a large clang was heard at the other end of the facility as a trash can struck the wall and the guards ran to investigate the source of the noise. Mateusz took his chance and dashed towards the entrance of the base, which only had one guard left at it.

The guard didn't notice Mateusz until he was 5 metres away.

"Hey kid, what are you doing?" the guard said before Mateusz hit him in the face with the butt of his pistol.

The guard stumbled back, clutching his bleeding face as his nose had been broken. The guard reached for his weapon but did not successfully draw it as Mateusz punched the man in the temple and the man collapsed to the ground, unconscious. Mateusz leapt over his unconscious form and continued into the base.

The interior of the base was for the most part, heavily furnished with wooden floors and metal walls and ceilings. Just inside the entrance, there was a hallway that had 2 more hallways going off the sides along with doors that led to rooms. Mateusz whistled at the impressive size in comparison to the previous base he had been to.

Mateusz slowly creeped forwards down the hallway, keeping an eye and an ear out for signs of anyone coming. He followed a sign that had a picture of a computer on it which he had assumed led to the control room of the facility. Eventually after being led through five different hallways he found a large double door with a red computer symbol on top of the blue paint.

Mateusz burst in, pistol levelled at anyone who might open fire on him. The room was filled with operators, sitting at computer desks and all doing some indiscriminate task. They all turned their heads to face the sound that had emanated from the door and saw Mateusz, standing there with his gun. One of them rushed to a red button on the wall and before Mateusz could react, pushed it and a loud klaxon was heard, echoing throughout the base.

"Damn it," Mateusz muttered before backing out of the room, only to find that a grunt was coming toward him down the hallway. He heard a gunshot and felt a stinging sensation from his left shoulder, blood dripped down his arm and onto the floor. Mateusz returned fire and the man took a bullet to his arm, causing him to drop his weapon as the blood spattered onto the floor and wall.

Mateusz glanced at his shoulder and noticed that the bullet had only grazed his shoulder, but it was still bleeding a lot. He ran at the man down the hallway who sat on the ground, clutching his bleeding arm, before giving the man a chop to the temple, causing him to lose consciousness. Mateusz lifted his hands to his face, and saw that they were covered in the man's blood.

He shook the blood off as best he could and continued looking around for the exit.

"Damn it! Where is Mewtwo when you need him?!" he muttered under his breath.

"Right here," Mewtwo said from behind him.

"Oh, thank goodness you're here. I kind of need some help as you can see, there are way too many people in the control room, and they set off the alarm," Mateusz raised his voice over the loud klaxon of the alarm.

"I noticed," Mewtwo said with a smirk on his face before seeing Mateusz's bleeding shoulder, "You'll want to get that treated, I'll help you find a first aid kit,"

The pair began walking down the hallway, back towards the control room when they heard shouts coming from behind them. Four grunts appeared around the corner with automatic weapons. A hail of bullets greeted Mateusz and Mewtwo as they went for cover, bullets smashing into everything, sending fragments of wood from the floor and fabric from furniture everywhere.

Mewtwo stood up from behind an overturned couch and sent the bullets in mid-air back at the men who fired them. Multiple, juicy sounding 'shck' sounds were heard as the bullets collided with the flesh of the grunts, and sprays of blood spurted from each man's chest.

"Lovely Mewtwo, just lovely," Mateusz sarcastically said as he and Mewtwo continued onto the control room.

"What do you expect me to do, let them shoot at us?" Mewtwo returned with an even higher level of sarcasm.

"Never mind…" Mateusz groaned.

They burst into the control room and Mewtwo put every operator to sleep by using his powers. Mateusz seized the opportunity to access the main computer, browsing the files. He found multiple files that Mewtwo read, and memorised with astonishing speed, so fast that Mateusz didn't have time to read anything that was contained within the secret files of Team Rocket.

Mewtwo soon finished getting information and walked over to a first-aid kit on the wall, opening it with his mind and retrieving bandages, which he gave to Mateusz.

"Thanks, now I can patch myself up," Mateusz graciously thanked Mewtwo and tore a strip of bandage off the roll.

Mateusz wrapped the bandage around his bleeding shoulder, preventing any further blood loss.

"We must leave now, but I must destroy the base so that they cannot use it anymore, I want you to go at least a hundred metres into the forest so that you will be safe from the explosion and the subsequent fragments of the base, I will be fine, now go," Mewtwo said before pointing towards the exit.

Mateusz nodded, before giving a mock salute and running out the door, down the hallway ad out the door of the base. Mateusz sprinted into the forest for a full 30 seconds before looking back.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!

The base exploded with a mushroom cloud and bits of metal from the interior soared high into the air. The smoke from the explosion suddenly formed a shape, words that Mateusz read.

'Mewtwo and Co. blowing stuff up since 2080'

"Huh, he does have a sense of humour under that cold exterior then," Mateusz muttered to himself in amusement.

"Of, course I do, everyone does," a voice sounded in his head.

Mateusz looked to his right and saw Mewtwo, standing there and admiring the burning fragments of what was left from the base.

"Beautiful, isn't it?" Mewtwo jokingly asked.