Chapter 25
"Uggggghhhhh…" Mateusz groaned as he struggled to sit up.
He had no idea how long he had been unconscious for. He remembered a darkness washing over him as he had succumbed to hypothermia.
"You should lay back down Mateusz, you need rest," a gentle voice sounded in his head.
Mateusz looked to his right and saw Joasia helping him to lie back down.
"Where are the others?" Mateusz asked as he felt a little strength flowing back into him.
"They're all having breakfast outside the cave," Joasia replied, "You really worried me back there you know, I thought you were going to die,"
"I personally just find it strange how you can just get wet when it's cold and not get hypothermia," Mateusz stated.
"Mewtwo said it is most likely due to the fact that you are genetically modified from his original genes, they changed things around. So the cold might just be your weakness," Joasia offered the same explanation Mewtwo had given her the previous night.
"So its morning, I've been unconscious throughout the entire night then," Mateusz said.
"Yes, you have been," Joasia replied as she yawned.
Mateusz noticed for the first time that Joasia looked really tired.
"Have you been watching over me all night?" Mateusz asked.
"I just wanted to make sure you were okay," Joasia said with a hint of leftover concern in her voice.
"Well, at least someone cares," Mateusz said with a smile.
Joasia smiled back before yawning once more.
"I think you should have a few hours of rest, go and have a snooze Joasia, you need it," Mateusz told Joasia softly.
"But who is going to look after you?" Joasia asked.
"Don't worry, I'll be fine on my own, besides, I'll probably just go back to sleep for a little longer, so you don't really need to be here," Mateusz said to try and convince Joasia to go and rest.
"Oh alright then, I guess I'll rest then," Joasia sighed, "But if it's all right with you, I'll have a rest in here so you can wake me up if you need anything,"
"Fine, just make sure you get some rest," Mateusz agreed before closing his eyes.
Joasia lay down at the other side of the roughly hewn room and closed her eyes for the first time in just over 24 hours. She succumbed to sleep within seconds, and was soon softly snoring away…
Giovanni smiled at the news that had just been delivered to him. His, no, Team Rocket's new weapon would be completed even earlier than was previously predicted at a meeting with the Team Rocket executives and head scientist working on the project. It had only been 2 days since the meeting and he had been told it would be ready in just 6 days, rather than a week and a half. Another thing that excited him was the way the weapon worked and how useful it could be.
It worked by detecting a beings brain wave signature and frequency to find the location of that being, and to identify what that being was. It was supposed to even be able to make a 3D model of the beings it detected. Of course, it would only be able to detect beings with strong brainwave output, such as psychic type pokémon, like the mewtwos they were looking for.
The device then sent the coordinates and frequency of the brain information to a Team Rocket satellite which was actually part of the weapon, and had no set orbit around the planet. The satellite then used the data to calculate the frequency of electromagnetic radiation waves required to 'snuff out' that brainwave source, and then fired a beam of electromagnetic radiation at the target, killing it instantly.
They had very recently located the location of where the two mewtwos were staying with a cloaked scouting party, and had called in reinforcements to set up a perimeter around Mount Quena. What surprised Giovanni the most was that a third mewtwo had been discovered, one with a black tail. The fact that Team Rocket had not made this mewtwo troubled Giovanni greatly, as it meant that there was either a spy high up in the ranks of Team Rocket, or a scientist had defected to another organisation.
Joasia awoke refreshed and re-energised. She sat up, stretched, and yawned. She looked over at Mateusz and saw that he was still asleep, chest rising and falling with each breath. He appeared to be in a somewhat better state of health than before. Sleep was obviously working its magic on him. A sudden growl from her stomach told her it was time to go and have lunch, but she didn't want to wake the sleeping Mateusz. She finally decided that she would leave him alone, just for a few minutes while she had lunch. Joasia walked out of the room and then out the cave entrance, leaving Mateusz to sleep.
Mateusz after a few minutes woke up and stretched. He found that he was not yet strong enough to stand up, but he felt much better than he had earlier that day. He lay there, wondering where Joasia had gone. As he lay there, he began to think he could hear a sniffing noise coming from the hallway of the cave. Mateusz dismissed it as just his imagination and closed his eyes so he could rest again. A few moments later, there was a sudden gruff, growling noise coming from the entrance to his room.
Mateusz opened his eyes and looked at where he thought the source of the noise was. It was a houndoom, standing at the entrance of his room, teeth bared and growling, Mateusz's eyes widened in fear as he was far too weak to fight the houndoom in his current state. Mateusz telepathically called out for help but he got no answer in return. The houndoom began to approach him slowly, as if it were taunting him about his imminent demise. There was a prominent red 'R' tattooed on one of its rear legs, the Team Rocket logo that Mateusz had seen on the uniforms of the grunts at the Team Rocket bases. Mateusz crawled away as quick as he could but the houndoom kept up with him. Mateusz was cornered, and there was nothing he could do about it. The houndoom knew this and sneered at Mateusz's predicament.
The houndoom stopped stalking towards him and crouched, ready to lunge for his throat. Mateusz grabbed a pebble and weakly threw it in defence. It bounced of the houndoom's head and only seemed to make it angry. It lunged at Mateusz, mouth open, ready to tear at his jugular and Mateusz closed his eyes in submissive defeat. But it never reached him. Mateusz opened his eyes and saw that the houndoom had been knocked away by a rock, mid-lunge. The houndoom got to its feet and growled as it turned to face the source of the attack.
It was slammed by another rock from the cave and it was flung against the wall of Mateusz's room by the impact. Mateusz looked at where the attacks had been coming from and saw Mewtwo, standing there with rocks floating about him, clearly highlighted by blue psychic energy. The houndoom struggled to get to its feet this time, clearly injured by the impacts. Mewtwo threw another rock at it using telekinesis and it was once again slammed into the wall by the impact.
This time, the houndoom did not get up. Instead, it lay silently on the floor, clearly unconscious. Mewtwo was about to finish it off with another rock when the houndoom was recalled. Rapidly falling footsteps were heard as a figure just outside the entrance to Mateusz's room ran off. Mewtwo gave chase without delay. Mewtwo quickly tracked down the figure and knocked the man unconscious using telepathy. Mewtwo brought the man back to Mateusz's room and laid him on the floor. The man's black combat gear had a large red 'R' on it, just like the tattoo on the houndoom.
The room remained silent and Mewtwo appeared to be concentrating deeply on something as he looked at the Team Rocket grunt.
"You realise this proves that you are entirely innocent, Mateusz?" Mewtwo said to Mateusz.
"Yeah, of course, I just don't see why you didn't fully believe me sooner," Mateusz replied.
"I have searched through all his memories and it turns out that he is part of a Team Rocket scouting party. They have been monitoring us for a few days now, it would seem, and they have technology which makes them invisible, but this one was ordered to take you out as they had seen that you were ill and severely weakened," Mewtwo informed Mateusz.
"So now they've discovered me as well, huh? That's bad, because they're going to come after me again now," Mateusz said.
"Yes, and that is why you must focus on your training and not get distracted," Mewtwo told Mateusz.
"Yeah, I can agree with that one," Mateusz laughed.
"If you'll excuse me now, I will go and get the others so we can have a meeting about what course of action we will take in light of this," Mewtwo said as he turned to walk out of the room, but not before making sure the Team Rocket grunt would be unconscious for a while longer.
"Hey, uh, Mewtwo?" Mateusz began.
"Yes, Mateusz, you have something to say?" Mewtwo questioned as he turned back around to face Mateusz.
"Thank you so much for saving me, even though you didn't entirely trust me," Mateusz thanked Mewtwo graciously.
"I heard your call for help and you sounded genuinely in distress, so, I came and helped. No need to thank me, besides, it's not like you owe me anything, your allegiance is all I need in this situation," Mewtwo responded.
Mewtwo continued out the entrance but was nearly knocked over by a pink, Mew-shaped projectile that whooshed past him at high speed.
"Where's the fire?! Who needs a doctor?! Who killed who?!" Mew yelled questions as he flew into the room.
"Mew, caves don't catch on fire, and I'm fine," Mateusz informed Mew.
"I heard you call for help and got here as soon as I could," Mew told Mateusz in an anxious tone.
"It's okay, the situation was dealt with by Mewtwo. A Team Rocket houndoom had snuck into the cave and was attacking me, but Mewtwo knocked it out with a few rocks. Immediately after that had happened the houndoom was recalled into a pokeball and we saw Team Rocket grunts run out of the cave. Mewtwo caught him and brought him back here to examine his memories. After examining the man's mind, Mewtwo gathered enough information to conclude that I am entirely innocent of any conspiracy with Team Rocket, which of course he should have trusted me on sooner…" Mateusz explained to the eagerly listening Mew.
"So that's what happened then," Mew concluded.
A second later, Joasia came rushing into the room in a flurry, clearly panicked about whether or not Mateusz was safe.
"What's going on?! Is Mateusz okay? Please tell me nothing happened to Mateusz!" the panicked mewtwo ranted worriedly.
"I'm fine, I just clarified that to Mew," Mateusz told Joasia calmly.
"Thank goodness you're safe!" Joasia said as she rushed over to Mateusz and hugged him tightly, causing a rapid decompression of his chest.
Mateusz coughed for a few seconds before returning the embrace. He was just starting to get used to the whole relationship thing, but was not used to Joasia's sudden tight embraces yet, he doubted he ever would be used to those.
"So what happened here?" Joasia asked as she pointed to the unconscious man propped up against the wall.
Mateusz explained everything that had happened one more time and he hoped it was the last time he'd have to explain it.
"Ooooooh, Team Rocket tried to take you out," Joasia said.
"Yeah, sounds like they've discovered me now, so they'll be after me as well as you now," Mateusz responded grimly…
