Chapter 31
"How did you do that back there Mateusz? When you healed me?" Mewtwo asked as the group approached Mount Quena at last.
"I don't know," Mateusz replied.
They were now at the edge of the forest that lay before Mount Quena, the mighty, steep mountainsides rising several hundred metres into the sky above. The long trip back from Team Rocket's research base had been mostly silent, everyone too
"I remember being shot in the head, and everything went dark, and then, I awoke to a yellow light swirling around me which appeared to be coming from you, Mateusz," Mewtwo said as he caught up to Mateusz who was at the front of the group.
"I seriously don't know what was going on, but I thought I'd died as well, I mean I was shot in the chest and then after a short time it all went dark, so when I awoke, I was rather shocked as you can imagine," Mateusz explained to Mewtwo.
"Can you guys please stop talking about death?! I've seen enough for one day!" Joasia said in an upset tone from behind.
"Alright then, I'm a little sick of it all myself I suppose," Mewtwo agreed.
The group continued to walk toward Mount Quena in solemn silence, there was no way to un-see or un-live what had happened in that dreadful Team Rocket base. Joasia had seen both the one she loved and Mewtwo, a good teacher die right before her. She had held Mateusz as he drew his final breath and gotten his blood on her as he bled, so she was understandably reluctant to think back to what had happened, all that mattered to her was that Mewtwo and Mateusz were alive.
All she wanted now was to go back to Mount Quena, wash the blood off and go back to living a life as somewhat normal as it could be for a mewtwo…
Giovanni awoke from what had seemed to be a long sleep in a hospital bed in the medical room of a Team Rocket base. As Giovanni attempted to sit up, he felt a sharp pain flare across his chest and immediately lay back down as he uttered a cry of pain. A doctor walked in at this moment with a clipboard.
"Ah, good to see that you are finally awake sir, you've been asleep for two days," the doctor told Giovanni.
"What are my injuries?" Giovanni asked as he turned his head to face the man.
"You have three broken ribs, your sternum is cracked and you have severe concussion, all from being thrown against the wall of the room you were in by some immense force. You are honestly quite lucky to have survived such an impact. We expect that you will make a full recovery within three weeks," the blond-haired doctor explained.
"What happened to the others who were in the room, the grunts who came when I pushed the emergency button?" Giovanni asked out of curiosity, not because he cared about the grunts.
"Three of the men who were in the room with you died on the scene but the surviving two have sustained similar injuries to you, with one of them also having a fractured skull and internal bleeding on top of that," the doctor informed Giovanni.
Giovanni nodded to confirm he understood. He suddenly began to feel rather light headed and nauseous.
"Bring me a bucket, quickly!" Giovanni demanded as the nausea intensified.
"Ah, that would be the concussion kicking in," the doctor deduced as he rushed out of the room.
He soon returned with a plastic bucket and handed it to a rather green looking Giovanni…
Joasia sat thinking on a rock alone in the forest atop Mount Quena, her tail waving to and fro behind her with nervous energy. Events that had occurred on the previous day troubled her heart deeply. The conflicting emotions of sadness over Mewtwo's and Mateusz's deaths and the joy of their coming back to life seemed to be fighting a tug of war in her mind, swinging her mind from a state similar to depression to a state of contented happiness.
"Hey, Joasia, what's going on with you today? You just walked off back there after training without saying where you were going," Mateusz's voice sounded clear in her head.
"Oh, sorry about that, I guess I forgot to say I was coming here to think," Joasia said as she sweat dropped and turned to face Mateusz.
"So what are you thinking about then?" Mateusz asked as he sat on the ground in front of her, legs crossed and clearly intent on getting an answer.
"Oh, just… stuff," Joasia trailed as a sad and distant look came over her face.
"Hey, what's wrong, like, why have you been so gloomy today?" Mateusz asked with genuine care.
"I've… Just been struggling to get over the fact that you were dead, and Mewtwo," Joasia said as she looked at the ground.
"Well, you surely understand that we're both alive again?" Mateusz responded.
Joasia nodded as she looked into Mateusz's eyes.
"Well why are you bothered about it then?" Mateusz asked, continuing to try and get to the source of Joasia's sadness.
"I held you… you were dying in my arms and I couldn't do anything, that feeling that I had back there, the feeling of intense sadness and the loss of any hope I had left in me as you died, it's still affecting me I think, I'm struggling to get over it," Joasia explained as her eyes began to tear up.
"I think I understand how to fix that then," Mateusz said with a smile as he hugged Joasia and gave her a kiss on the cheek.
Joasia sniffed and stopped crying.
"Thank you, you're actually making me feel a bit better," Joasia replied as she hugged Mateusz back.
The two mewtwos released each other and sat back down. The peaceful woods of Mount Quena often had a pleasant breeze blowing through them as the slightly warmer air of the forest rushed upwards to meet with the cooler air over the ridges that surrounded the wooded parts of the mountain and the cool air replaced it in a never ending cycle.
"Hey, I know what might help to cheer you up, why don't we go for a fly?" Mateusz asked Joasia with a grin.
"I don't think Mewtwo would just want us flying off somewhere, we might be spotted by humans," Joasia responded.
"Oh don't worry about that, Team Rocket is probably going to be out of action for a few days because of the chaos we caused and Mewtwo won't find out anyway, at least, I won't tell him," Mateusz attempted to win Joasia over with the idea.
"Well… I suppose we could seeming as Team Rocket is temporarily in a state of chaos… Alright then, it's decided!" Joasia gave her reply with excitement.
"C'mon, let's go then!" Mateusz said with a smile as he shot upwards into the air, using psychic energy to fly just as Mewtwo had taught them earlier that day.
Joasia followed suit, a similar smile of excitement quickly forming on her face as she caught up with Mateusz, leaving behind the stability of the Earth for the lightness and purity of the air. The wind rushing past her felt cool and refreshing on her face as she flew next to Mateusz. Joasia and Mateusz flew side by side at great speed through the sky over Mount Quena at high speed, white trails of water vapour forming behind their tails as they flew.
Mateusz grinned at Joasia as they looked at each other.
"What are you beaming at, huh?" Joasia asked as she grinned back.
"Oh, nothing, I'm just stunned by the fact that you look even prettier when you're in the air than on the ground," Mateusz said with a smirk.
Joasia giggled at this and continued to smile.
"You think so?" Joasia asked.
"Yeah, of course I do. Now, how about we have a race? First one to fly all the way through that gorge next to the mountain down there with the river running through it wins. Ready? Go!" Mateusz replied before zooming off toward the gorge far beneath them.
"Hey! That's my trick! You can't use that against me!" Joasia yelled at Mateusz's use of a head start.
"Cheating a head start isn't technically your trick, it's anyone's," Mateusz taunted as they plummeted toward the gorge at phenomenal speed.
The air rushing past them at high speed caused their eyes to water as they began to enter the canyon before slowing down to avoid crashing into the rocky walls of the gorge. Mateusz maintained his lead over Joasia as he dodged the pinnacles of rocks that stood in the middle of the canyon. Joasia fell further behind as she struggled to maintain a high speed and dodge the obstacles of rock at the same time.
As Mateusz got further and further ahead, he heard a crashing noise and looked behind him to see one of the tall pinnacles of rock crashing into the wall of the gorge. He halted mid-air to see if Joasia was alright. When she didn't come after a whole minute Mateusz began to panic and raced back down the length of the gorge to find her.
"Oh crap, oh crap, oh crap!" Mateusz thought as he panicked about Joasia's safety.
Mateusz reached the site of the collapsed pillar and searched frantically for Joasia. Joasia was nowhere to be seen and Mateusz assumed the worst as he began to lift rocks off the pile that had collected where the pinnacle had once stood. A tear formed in Mateusz's eye as he continued to search through the pile, worry getting the better of him.
"Aww, are you crying Mateusz?" a familiar voice said to Mateusz.
Mateusz looked around, trying to find the source of the voice and found Joasia, floating in the air right behind him.
"So, what are you crying about then?" Joasia gently asked as she put a paw on Mateusz's back.
"I thought you had collided with this pillar and that it collapsed on you, I thought you may have died," Mateusz explained as he wiped his eyes.
"Oh, really? Well that's no good. Are you too upset to continue the race?" Joasia asked as she gave Mateusz a reassuring hug.
"Not anymore, I suppose," Mateusz said.
"Alright then, ready, go!" Joasia said as she sped off down the last stretch of the gorge, giving herself a head start like she usually did.
"Not again…" Mateusz groaned as he flew off after her.
Mateusz tried his best to catch up to her but found that he couldn't, she was too far ahead already and before long, she had reached the end of the canyon. It took Mateusz another ten seconds to finally reach the same spot where she floated with a smirk.
"What took ya so long, slowpoke?" she jeered in a friendly manner as she poked him in the stomach.
"Well you kinda gave yourself a head start, for like the quadrillionth time…" Mateusz complained.
"You got a problem with that?" Joasia asked in a teasing manner.
Mateusz sighed and explained how it was wrong to cheat for the umpteenth time.
"Alright, alright, I promise not to do it next time if it upsets you so much," Joasia finally agreed.
"Good, now, where would you like to go next? There's still a few hours between now and sunset so we can explore a bit further before we head back if you'd like," Mateusz asked Joasia whose face lit up at the notion of exploring.
"Of course I'd like to! As to where we should explore, um, maybe that way!" Joasia said as she pointed towards a mountain in the distance.
"Oh, I see, we'd best leave straight away then!" Mateusz said as they began to fly towards the snow-capped peak…
Giovanni lay in a hospital bed in the medical centre of a Team Rocket base. He had been thinking about what had happened at the research base where he had received his injuries. That… creature had somehow managed to use telepathy even though he wore a psychic inhibitor and was sitting against the wall in a psychic-type proof room. To possess such power… the thought made Giovanni shudder, and the worst part of it all was that this creature had been a mewtwo, just like the mewtwos that Team Rocket had cloned themselves from the legendary Mew's DNA, save for the fact that they weren't the ones who had created it.
And then remembering back to how he had shot this, 'new' mewtwo and how it had died right in front of him, yet it came back to life with such a power that it had released a shockwave which had knocked over all the grunts and himself who were in the room but missed those sitting down, being the creature's friends. All that power… if Team Rocket could somehow capture that creature and learn more about it, maybe they could clone more like it, ones that would be loyal to Team Rocket.
It was decided, he must have that power at his fingertips, his enemies must be crushed and all who stand between Team Rocket and their goals will have to plead for mercy from the terrors that will be unleashed!
Joasia and Mateusz sat on the grass of a peaceful mountainside, chatting away and admiring the view which stretched all the way to Mount Quena on the horizon.
"We should do this again, it's been so nice to be able to go beyond Mount Quena," Joasia said as she lay back and relaxed on the soft grass.
"I agree, but we probably won't be able to do it for very long, because the moment Team Rocket recovers from the damage we caused they'll be after us everywhere again," Mateusz said.
"Yeah, I suppose, so we should make the most of it while we have the chance," Joasia said with a smile as she sat up and looked at Mateusz.
Joasia continued to look at Mateusz with a soft smile.
"What are you looking at me like that for?" Mateusz asked curiously.
"Oh, no reason, that is, no reason other than… this!" Joasia said as she suddenly leant forward and kissed Mateusz.
It took a few moments for Mateusz to recover from the suddenness of the kiss and he began to blush.
"You seriously have to warn me before you do that you know," Mateusz said to Joasia.
"Are you complaining?" Joasia asked with a smirk.
"Uh, well, um, not really..." Mateusz responded, scratching the back of his head.
"So you obviously enjoy it then," Joasia concluded.
"I think we should be heading back now, if we're not back before sunset Mewtwo might get suspicious as to where we may have gone," Mateusz desperately tried to change the topic.
"Oh, alright then," Joasia agreed.
The pair began the return journey to Mount Quena, the cool breeze of the late afternoon blowing in their faces as they flew…
Author's Note: Hey guys, I hoped you have enjoyed these last few chapters and that you are happy with the quality. I'd really like to see a HEAP more reviews/follows/favourites so if you read this fic and you haven't done any of those already, then I encourage you to do so, it would mean a lot to me.
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