Chapter 28

"Grunts incoming!" Mateusz's voice yelled in Mewtwo's head.

"Acknowledged, move to Joasia's location and back her up," Mewtwo responded as calmly as ever.

Mateusz burst through the bushes to Mewtwo's right, closely followed by a small group of grunts. Mateusz continued straight past Mewtwo and toward where Joasia was engaging another group of grunts. The grunts chasing Mateusz realised the trap that had been set for them far too late, Mewtwo charged up a large shadow ball as the grunts attempted to flee at the sight of him standing there.

"You should never have come here, it is a place that should always remain free from your destructive habits," Mewtwo said as he launched the huge shadow ball at the fleeing grunts.

It collided with each and every grunt as it cleaved through the group, sending the grunts flying everywhere. Loud thuds could be heard as they hit the ground, none of them moved after landing.

"The grunts on this end have been taken out, what about your end?" Mewtwo asked Mateusz.

"We're engaging a group of about ten, but we can see about ten more coming, we might need your help because they're kind of shooting at us, and you haven't taught us how to stop bullets yet," Mateusz replied in Mewtwo's head from his location.

"Alright, I am on my way," Mewtwo informed Mateusz.

Mewtwo floated through the forest at high speed toward the area he had posted Joasia and sent Mateusz. He arrived within moments to a scene of intense combat; Joasia and Mateusz were throwing shadow balls like machine guns, whilst being fired at by about forty grunts.

"I thought you said there were twenty at maximum," Mewtwo said.

"Yeah, I may have under-exaggerated," Mateusz replied, "Now could you give us a hand?"

Mewtwo went to work, shattering the ranks of Team Rocket grunts. Mewtwo teleported out of the way of multiple bullets fired in his direction and reappeared behind the remaining grunts. This had the effect of making every single Team Rocket member there wet their pants simultaneously.

"Retreat, run, every man for himself!" The captain of this particular group of grunts screamed as he dropped his pistol and pokeballs whilst running at surprising speed toward the edge of Mount Quena's crater.

All the other grunts followed suit and scattered in all directions, trying to get away from Mewtwo. Mewtwo formed a barrier directly in front of one of the grunts and he collided with it, preventing him from running any further forward. The grunt turned to face what he assumed to be his inevitable demise, and whimpered.

"Don't worry, I'm not going to kill you, but I want you to tell all the other grunts who were here at Mount Quena, to never come back, and to quit Team Rocket, or I will track you all down and annihilate you all," Mewtwo instructed the grunt who shook with fear.

The grunt managed a nod before he sprinted off, almost colliding with several trees.

"I don't think we'll be seeing that lot again," Mateusz commented with a grin.

"No, I do believe that that group won't dare to come back here again," Mewtwo said before starting to head off.

"Hey, um, when is training happening?" Joasia asked Mewtwo.

"There will be no training today," Mewtwo replied without turning to face them.

"Sounds like we can do whatever we want then," Joasia said with a large smile to Mateusz.

"Yeah, we could go exploring again, preferably not at the caves, or we could relax by the lake," Mateusz responded with an equally big grin.

"I reckon we should go exploring again, to see what other places we can find on this mountain," Joasia said to Mateusz.

"Yeah, sure, sounds like fun," Mateusz replied.

Mateusz and Joasia went off through the forest in the direction that seemed most promising to explore in…


"The weapon will be ready tomorrow sir," an engineer told Giovanni as the Team Rocket leader inspected the progress on his nearly completed weapon.

"Good! Excellent progress, you, and the rest of the team working on this project will receive a two month long vacation, and $150,000 pokedollars each once it is completed," Giovanni congratulated the engineer.

The engineer goggled at this, as this was more than he earned in a whole six months, and it was unheard of to receive two months off work in Team Rocket. Giovanni's orange suit stood out in the space full of lab coat wearing scientists and overall wearing engineers as he walked out of the large room which happened to be in the exact centre of Team Rocket's headquarters. Giovanni could hear multiple gasps as the engineer he had notified of the reward for completing this project told all the others in the room.

Giovanni smirked at this, he knew he had this team's absolute loyalty, and it was cheaply bought, in terms of effort anyway. These men would build anything for him if he asked them to, especially if he promised them money…


"Race you to the top!" Joasia said all of a sudden as she raced up the side of Mount Quena's edge.

"Why do you always give yourself a head start, eh? It's not exactly a fair race if you get a head start you know," Mateusz said as he chased after her.

Mateusz started to catch up to Joasia as she began to tire due to the steep gradient of Mount Quena's crater edge. Joasia noticed that Mateusz was starting to pass her and was seemed to suddenly become more energetic, rapidly speeding up and leaving Mateusz behind again. She quickly covered the final stretch of the distance to the top and waited for Mateusz with a huge smirk on her face.

Mateusz took another ten seconds to reach the top. He collapsed, panting from the effort of running up such a steep gradient.

"How did you do that?" Mateusz asked in between breaths as he lay at Joasia's feet, utterly and completely destroyed in a foot race by the female mewtwo.

"Maybe I'm just fitter than you," Joasia said as she poked out her tongue at her defeated competitor.

"Well perhaps you wouldn't have beaten me so bad if you hadn't cheated," Mateusz replied as he got off his back and stood up, still panting slightly.

"Fine, next time, you start the race," Joasia said.

"Yeah, but there's not really much point in racing everywhere, so why can't we just walk?" Mateusz asked.

"Racing is more fun," Joasia stated matter-of-factly.

"Yeah, but it's so tiring, I mean, I'm still a bit out of breath," Mateusz said.

"Well okay then, I guess we can walk next time," Joasia groaned.

"Thank you, I mean, we can still do your little races from time to time, just not all the time," Mateusz negotiated.

"Awesome! I was thinking you meant we couldn't do them at all," Joasia responded quite happily.

There was silence for a few moments and the two mewtwos began to notice the view that lay before them from the rim of the crater walls of Mount Quena.

"It's quite beautiful, isn't it?" Joasia asked.

"Yes, just like you," Mateusz responded as he looked into Joasia's eyes.

Joasia blushed a deep red.

"You don't really mean that do you?" Joasia asked awkwardly, avoiding further eye contact and looking at the ground.

Mateusz lifted Joasia's head to face him.

"Of course I meant it, otherwise I wouldn't have said it," Mateusz said softly.

Joasia leant forward and kissed Mateusz without warning. This had the immediate effect of making Mateusz blush a crimson shade of red. The kiss ended as quickly as it began, and the two mewtwos stood there, staring into each other's eyes for a few further moments.

"Mateusz, I think I want to be with you forever," Joasia said to Mateusz face practically glowing.

"And I with you, although I can't guarantee I'll live that long," Mateusz responded, holding Joasia's paw.

The two mewtwos continued standing there, holding each other's paws, their silhouettes against the now setting sun contrasting against the yellow dramatically. Mateusz kissed Joasia on the cheek and they embraced each other, the hug lasting for a good twenty seconds.

"I think we should return to the cave now, Joasia, the sun is going beneath the horizon," Mateusz said to Joasia as he looked at the horizon.

"Okay, let's go back to the others now," Joasia agreed.

The mewtwos held each other's paws all the way back as they walked down the slope of the brown coloured crater walls and through the forest. The setting sun gave the forest an ambient glow which illuminated everything in a mellow light. They reached the cave after some time and walked through its stone entrance. Inside awaited Mew, Ubui and Lifyra, who seemed to have recovered quite a bit from her leg wound as she was walking around in good spirit.

"I see you are feeling quite a bit better now Lifyra," Joasia said as she saw Lifyra walking around.

"Yeah, it feels so much less painful now, Mewtwo's treatment worked quite well it would seem," Lifyra responded happily as she looked up at the two mewtwos.

"Glad to hear, now, has anyone seen Mewtwo?" Joasia asked, noticing that Mewtwo was not in the cave.

"Ah, no, we haven't seen him all day, we assumed that he was still with you guys," Lifyra responded.

"Hm, well I guess what he does and where he goes is his own business," Mateusz said.

"So then, where did you two go after you drove Team Rocket off the mountain?" Mew asked.

"Uh, we were, um, exploring up the side of the mountain," Joasia responded, a slight blush returning to her face as she thought about what had happened up that mountainside.

"Oh, I see what you mean," Mew said with a chuckle, clearly alluding to something else…


A little earlier that day…

Mewtwo entered the Team Rocket base silently. No guards had seen him and he moved through the practically empty outpost with ease.

"Now, where's the main computer room?" Mewtwo thought to himself as he floated down the main hallway of the building.

Mewtwo opened a door to his left using his mind and walked through, having to duck due to the low height of the doorway in comparison to Mewtwo's two metre high frame. A large computer with many wires attached to it and running into the walls stood in the centre of the room. The monitor sat atop a server, which supposedly stored Team Rocket's information.

"Ah, excellent," Mewtwo thought to himself.

Mewtwo booted up the computer telepathically, and began scanning through the documents which were shared between the Team Rocket bases and outposts. Mewtwo found the file detailing Team Rockets new weapon which he had first learnt about in a Team Rocket base somewhere in Kanto. As Mewtwo began to scan the documents detailing this new weapon and what Team Rocket intended it to be used for, he got a big shock.

This weapon was on schedule to be completed and turned on the very next day, and would be used to take him out, and in future, used to take out other threats and hindrances to Team Rocket's schemes. Mewtwo knew one thing for sure, he and the others would have to act fast to destroy this weapon before it was used, but a head on assault of the main Team Rocket headquarters would be very risky and there was a good chance that someone would get hurt, or worse.

Mewtwo shut down the computer and vacated the room. As he floated back down the main hall at high speed, a Team Rocket technician stepped out from a room. Mewtwo collided with the man and the man was thrown to the ground, unconscious. Mewtwo turned to examine what he had just hit and saw the unconscious man lying there next to a pair of broken glasses.

"Oops…" Mewtwo thought.

Mewtwo scanned the man's memory to see if he had been seen before the man was knocked out. The man seemed to have no recollection of the event, so Mewtwo left him alone and exited the outpost, headed straight for Mount Quena which loomed in the distance. Within a few short minutes, Mewtwo was flying over the edge of the crater shaped mountain. As he looked down at the edge of the crater walls which rose from the surrounding landscape, he saw the shape of two familiar figures, and they appeared to be kissing …


"I wonder how much longer Mewtwo is going to be then," Mateusz said.

"Probably not too much longer," Mew said, still chuckling from his guess at what Mateusz and Joasia were really up to when they were 'exploring'.

Right at that moment, Mewtwo walked through the entrance of the cave with a rather large smirk on his face. He had seen what Joasia and Mateusz were doing and had followed them back to the cave.

"What's with the look, Mewtwo?" Joasia questioned.

"I saw you guys on the edge of the crater walls as I was flying over them, and then I followed you back here," Mewtwo said, smirk ever present.

Joasia and Mateusz immediately blushed, the secret was out; they'd been busted showing their affection for each other and sharing a kiss by none other than Mewtwo. The situation could have only been worse if it was Mew who had spotted them kissing; but then again, he'd probably already guessed that they were romancing instead of exploring due to the amount of chuckling he had been doing.

"Um, we didn't see you Mewtwo, heh heh, but, uh, welcome back from whatever you were doing!" Mateusz nervously stuttered.

"Ah, yes, now on a more serious note, and I mean this is really serious, Team Rocket will complete their weapon tomorrow, and intend to use it to kill all of us. It works over long distances, and is a severe threat since it traces our brainwave signatures," Mewtwo informed the other two mewtwos, Mew, Ubui, and Lifyra as his smirk gave way to a more typical stern look.

"What do you propose we do?" Joasia asked with a look of worry forming on her normally calm face.

"We shall assault the main headquarters of Team Rocket tomorrow morning, and destroy the weapon before they have a chance to activate it," Mewtwo told them of the general plan…