Chapter 27

"Your wound is not fatal, it missed an artery by just a centimetre or two, but it will need to be treated to prevent infection and we will also need to remove the bullet," Mewtwo gave his analysis of Lifyra's gunshot wound.

"Well that's a relief, I don't exactly want to bleed out," Lifyra said with a light-hearted chuckle.

Mewtwo nodded.

"Joasia, Mateusz, can you please go and find some sitrus berries please, Ubui, can you go find a large leaf to wrap around her leg?" Mewtwo requested, as level-headed as always.

"Sure," they all responded at once.

Ubui, Joasia and Mateusz all exited the cave immediately and proceeded to go and run their various errands. Ubui headed off towards the tall deciduous trees with the large broad leaves which made up about half the forest on Mount Quena, whilst Joasia and Mateusz walked off toward a cluster of berry bushes on the edge of the grassy clearing which surrounded the cave.

Mewtwo was then left all alone with his 'patient' in the now silent cave.

"Are you in any pain?" Mewtwo questioned Lifyra.

"Not too much, but it's preventing me from walking," Lifyra calmly responded.

Mewtwo closed the wound on Lifyra's leg over to stop the bleeding until the others got back with the requested items so he could remove the bullet and treat the wound properly.

"You're tougher than you look for your small size, Lifyra, I wouldn't have expected you to be able to cope with the pain from an injury like that, but you surprise me," Mewtwo complemented Lifyra.

"I'm used to pain; it's all I felt when I was being experimented on by Team Rocket. Whatever they injected Ubui and I with which made us be able to use human speech, felt like fire coursing through our veins every time they operated on us in that laboratory," Lifyra explained with a faraway look on her little face.

"I understand, when I was developing in the tank I was grown in, I established a mental link with many of the other pokémon in the labs who were being experimented on and became my friends through that link. As time went by and I continued to grow in the tank, the mental links were lost one by one as those pokémon died whilst having various experiments done to them. I was alone in the dark, save for a strange, human girl who was somewhere in the lab for a reason unbeknownst to me. She called herself Amber. It was not long before she too faded away and I was left entirely alone in the dark of my mind. After a long while on my own, and a lot of rapid maturing due to the loss of all those I knew, I woke up, and escaped," Mewtwo let loose with a monologue about his past.

"Wow… It's no wonder why you're so serious now, I-I'm sorry about your friends, the ones you knew before you woke up," Lifyra sympathised as she began to see Mewtwo in a whole new light.

"Don't tell anyone what I have told you here today, I would rather share it myself in time. As you already know, I seldom feel like opening up, but you have been lucky enough to catch me at the right time. Usually I am alone when I feel like I could tell someone about myself," Mewtwo warned Lifyra not to share the information he had shared in an almost perilous tone.

"Don't worry, I can keep a secret, you can trust me on that," Lifyra assured Mewtwo with a smile.

"Thank you, now, I am going to go and spend some time by myself in my room to think about a course of action to take now that Team Rocket knows we're here. If you need anything else, or if Ubui and the others get back, just yell and I'll come back to finish treating your wound, but now that I've stopped the bleeding, you don't really have to worry about it," Mewtwo informed Lifyra he was taking leave of her company.

"That's fine, I'm sure they won't be too much longer with their errands, unless they run in to trouble like Ubui and I did," Lifyra chuckled.

Mewtwo nodded as he got up and left the open space near the entrance of the cave. He walked down the hallway and through the entrance to his own personal space which he called his room…


Giovanni sat on a tall backed, brown leather chair in an office overlooking the construction area of his new weapon, and thinking about how it would solve all his problems to do with advancing Team Rocket's plan to dominate the world. This ingenious device had been devised by the brilliant mind of his head scientist, and would provide them with the means to strike their enemies with deadly accuracy and lethal power.

"I really need to give that man a vacation when this is all done," Giovanni thought to himself as he watched the scientists and engineers scurrying about the device, monitoring instruments and installing components.

"He and his whole team are definitely getting a break after they finish," Giovanni decided.

The door of the rather luxurious office opened suddenly as a scientist walked in.

"Sir, the time has come for you to decide what paint scheme you would like the weapon to have. Anyone living in nearby towns will see the weapon as it extends upwards into the sky when we activate it, so we may as well show it off," the scientist excitedly informed Giovanni.

"I want red flames on the sides on top of a sky blue background, and sharpedo jaws painted on the top," Giovanni requested, anticipating how awesome the finished product would look.

"It will be as you have described sir, is there anything else I can do for you?" the scientist confirmed and asked.

"Just a vanilla latte," Giovanni responded immediately.

"Of course," the brown haired man finalised as he left the room.

Giovanni grinned widely. Everything was falling in to place; everything was working perfectly and to schedule, and most of all, everything pointed to Team Rocket's triumph to be…


"Duck, quickly! There's a Team Rocket grunt through the trees over there!" Joasia whispered harshly in Mateusz's mind.

Mateusz immediately hid behind a rock just to his left.

"Maybe it's one of the men Ubui and Lifyra ran into earlier on," Mateusz theorised.

"Yeah, it could very well be," Joasia responded, "Just stay down, I don't want him spotting us and radioing his friends,"

The lone grunt continued on his patrol through the woods and soon disappeared from view. Joasia and Mateusz remained hidden where they were for a few extra moments to be certain that it was safe to continue their errand. The sitrus berry bushes were only a few metres away from them and they quickly went about their business with picking some as Mewtwo had requested.

"I think ten is enough, lets head back," Mateusz told Joasia and the pair began their return stroll to the cave.

Before they even got ten steps into their short walk, a pink, Mew-shaped projectile shot past and then stopped abruptly right in front of them.

"Run! I may have accidentally taunted some grunts, and they may have possibly seen me and started chasing me," a guilty looking Mew stated as he floated in front of them, "Now come on, they're not too far behind!"

Joasia and Mateusz simultaneously looked at each other let out a sigh at their little pink friend's childish antics and began to run. A tell-tale shouting noise from the forest behind them alerted them that the grunts Mew had teased were not far behind.

"Why'd you have to taunt them Mew? They're not supposed to know our exact location," Mateusz questioned Mew as they ran.

"I dunno, I just wanted to have some fun, I didn't think they'd start chasing me," Mew responded with a shrug of his shoulders as he floated ahead of them.

"Well perhaps you should stop teasing people, it always seems to get you into trouble," Joasia scolded Mew with a slight scowl.

"Can't we just scare them off or something? Surely the sight of us two mewtwos would strike fear into them," Mateusz asked.

"Yeah, but there's a good chance they'd call in a heap of backup or something and I don't fancy fighting a horde of grunts and their pokémon today thank you," Joasia responded quickly.

"True, I suppose, but are we just supposed to get back to the cave and hide? I mean, if we're running in a direct line they'll just find the cave anyway," Mateusz theorised.

"Mewtwo can help us deal with it when we get back to the cave," Joasia told Mateusz.

The group was now within 30 metres of the cave and within a few moments they ran straight through the entrance and into the open space where Lifyra lay.

"Why are you guys in such a rush?" Lifyra asked the panting mewtwos.

"Team Rocket was chasing us," Mew explained for the tired mewtwos.

"WHAT?! What about Ubui, where's Ubui?!" Lifyra panicked.

"I don't know, we didn't see him but I'm pretty sure he went in a completely different direction to us so he's probably fine," Mateusz assured the worried quilava.

Lifyra calmed down and inhaled and exhaled deeply.

"As long as nothing happens to him I'm fine," Lifyra stated.

Mateusz nodded and proceeded to ask her where Mewtwo was.

"He's in his room, he said that I should tell him that you guys had arrived back so he can continue treating my leg," Lifyra informed Mateusz.

"I'll go get him then, and inform him that Team Rocket grunts are just about on our doorstep," Mateusz replied before walking down the hallway of the cave which separated the different areas they called rooms.

Mateusz walked into Mewtwo's room and found him sitting on a crudely fashioned chair, eyes closed and seemingly in thought.

"Hey, uh, Mewtwo, we're back with the sitrus berries now and there's an issue that you may need to take a look at. There's a group of Team Rocket grunts just about to reach the cave.

Mewtwo's amethyst coloured eyes shot open and he sprung up with surprising speed for someone so tall.

"Who got spotted by the grunts?" Mewtwo asked with a hint of danger edging his psychic voice.

"Mew apparently taunted them as he was flying past, and that's why they started chasing him, and then us," Mateusz responded.

"I should have known, that childish little moron is usually to blame for such things, now let's waste no more time here," Mewtwo said with a rather annoyed look on his face.

Mewtwo and Mateusz both ran quickly out of the room and back into the open space near the entrance. Mewtwo continued to walk out the entrance of the cave and looked around for the grunts. They were only a short distance away now, and the moment they saw Mewtwo, they skidded to a halt.

"Crap, it's the old weapon!" one grunt exclaimed, fear written on his face.

"Let's get out of here!" another grunt said as the group began to sprint back to whence they'd come from.

Mewtwo simply formed a barrier right in front of the direction they were running and they collided with it, hard. The grunts were knocked backwards with a large amount of force and fell to the ground. The majority of them were quite winded and coughed and spluttered as they lay on their backs. Mewtwo walked right up to where they lay and stood right next to them.

"Please don't kill us!" one grunt begged.

"We didn't mean any harm to your little pink friend, I swear!" another grovelled.

"That pink thing is NOT my friend, rather, a nuisance I have the displeasure of knowing," Mewtwo responded.

The grunts appeared to be rather confused after he had said this.

"I heard that!" Mew yelled from the cave.

"Whatever," Mewtwo said as he rolled his eyes, "Now, to deal with you lot,"

The grunts immediately winced and recommenced the begging after he had said this.

"I shall erase your memories of this entire event and all your time spent and Team Rocket, and then, I shall teleport you all back to your homes," Mewtwo stated his intentions and the grunts all let out relieved sighs.

There was a flash of bright blue light and the grunts were gone, never to be seen by the mewtwos again. Mewtwo continued back to the cave where the others awaited him and began to treat Lifyra's wound with the sitrus berries. It was only a few more moments before Ubui arrived back with the broad leaf to tie around Lifyra's leg. Mewtwo removed the bullet from her leg and wrapped the leaf around her leg gently with psychic energy.

"Have you ever considered being a pokémon doctor Mewtwo? You could just disguise yourself as a human and work as one," Mateusz asked, noticing how skilled Mewtwo seemed at treating Lifyra's wound.

"I only have a lot of knowledge about pokémon biology because I stole it from a pokémon nurse's mind a long time ago," Mewtwo responded.

"Why did you do that?" Mateusz asked with a curious look on his face.

"I'd rather not talk about it…" Mewtwo trailed and closed the conversation topic, "I have decided what we are going to do about Team Rocket's presence on Mount Quena,"

"Don't tell me we're moving again, I just got used to Mount Quena," Joasia groaned.

"Then you'll be pleased to know that we're not moving again, we're going to drive Team Rocket off the mountain, I have already scouted the area and they only have scouting parties, no major number of pokémon and only light weaponry," Mewtwo responded.

"So we have to fight them?" Mateusz queried.

"Yes, we will have to fight them until they leave," Mewtwo clarified.

"So what's the exact plan then?" Joasia asked…