Chapter 32
Mateusz and Joasia arrived back at the cave on Mount Quena as the sun began to set. The yellowing sky cast a golden glow on the forest, making it seem like the trees themselves were radiating a yellow aura from their boughs. The placid forest gave one the feeling of total serenity, as if nothing could ever disturb the peacefulness of Mount Quena, but Joasia and Mateusz knew full well that it could be disturbed, by humans, and more specifically, Team Rocket.
Joasia and Mateusz entered the cave to find everyone sitting just within the entrance. Mew was chatting to Ubui and Lifyra whilst Mewtwo sat still, watching the entrance of the cave.
"I see you have finally decided to return, so, what were you two up to?" Mewtwo asked information of them as they walked in.
"Um, uh, we were exploring Mount Quena again," Mateusz explained, not seeming fully convinced himself.
"You are a terrible liar, what were you really doing?" Mewtwo inquired with a stern look on his face.
Mateusz simply remained silent as he stood there, beginning to sweat under Mewtwo's gaze.
"Fine, I may not be able to gain information from you, but I haven't taught Joasia how to block a strong psychic-type out of her mind yet," Mewtwo said as he looked away from Mateusz and began to stare at Joasia.
"He's- He's in my head!" Joasia said as she paled.
"Ah, so you went outside the boundaries of Mount Quena," Mewtwo said as he broke his strong gaze away from Joasia, "You did not have permission to do so and you could have been seen by humans. It was reckless to do it without consulting me first and I am going to punish you both,"
Mew gasped as Mewtwo said the word 'punish'. Mew knew Mewtwo meant business.
"You will be confined to this cave and the clearing beyond the entrance for the next two days," Mewtwo informed Joasia and Mateusz sternly.
"Wait, that's it?" Mew questioned.
"Yes, that is all," Mewtwo confirmed as he walked out the entrance of the cave.
Mew remained in shock; it seemed that Mewtwo was beginning to go soft or something of the sort. The last time he had punished someone they ended up with quite a severe headache which lasted for an entire week on end.
"Wow, I knew it, he's gone soft since you guys got here," Mew said to Joasia and Mateusz.
"Maybe it had something to do with my saving his life?" Mateusz suggested.
"Perhaps that's part of it, but I think he's actually warmed up to you guys since you've arrived. He's somehow gotten more sociable and a bit less grumpy," Mew said.
"Well whatever it is I'm glad he didn't get too mad," Joasia said.
"Well it certainly could've been a lot worse…" Mew trailed as he shuddered.
"Well, I guess we'll just have to do what he says, no need to risk him getting angrier," Mateusz said as he sat down on the floor of the cave.
Joasia nodded in agreeance and sat opposite Mateusz.
"So, what was it like? I mean, what was it like flying outside of Mount Quena?" Lifyra asked as she and Ubui joined them.
"Oh, it was amazing! It's such a good sensation, the feeling of flight. It's so much fun to simply fly through the air instead of walking on the ground all the time," Joasia explained.
"Sounds great, I wish I could fly, but for obvious reasons, I can't, mostly due to the lack of wings or strong psychic type abilities," Lifyra responded with a hint of humour in her voice…
A week had past and Giovanni had recovered from his injuries enough to get out of the bed he had been confined to for such a long time. And as was natural for Giovanni, the first thing he did was call a meeting to scheme up a new plan of action, this time, accounting for that third mewtwo, the one that could somehow heal itself even from the point of death.
"Did that thing leave any DNA behind in the room?" Giovanni asked his head scientist.
"Yes, we got to the blood on the floor where the creature had been shot before the DNA could decay in the open air and took samples, my team of scientists have been analysing them for almost a week now, results should be available soon," the head scientist replied.
"How soon will they be available?" Giovanni inquired.
"Within a few more days we will have completed the analysis, including what weaknesses this creature may have and possibly how to get around the healing factor you spoke of," the head scientist gave Giovanni the complete information.
"Good, good, once we have that data we can begin production of weapons based around the weaknesses of that black-tailed creature," Giovanni said before turning to the head of Team Rocket intelligence and asking, "Do we know anything about the origins of this third mewtwo, where it came from, how an organisation other than our own could have possibly acquired the information to create their own version of our original weapon and also what they intended it for?"
"Our spies have investigated this matter in anticipation of your wanting to know about this creature and as they dug around, they found that whoever had created the monster was very thorough in covering their own tracks. Whichever secret organisation created it are very good at staying secret, but not good enough for our spies, we found that this particular organisation used to have a complex in the southern part of Kanto. When we investigated the site we only found charred ruins, as if there had been a fire there rather recently. At the site, we also found traces of someone's DNA, and when we tested it, we found that it belonged to one of the scientists who had worked on the original weapon. This scientist went missing just days before the original weapon awoke and destroyed the laboratories it was in, killing all the scientists who were there. Apart from this information as to how the organisation could have acquired the knowledge to re-create our weapon, we could find nothing more as this particular organisation is just too good at remaining secret, even for my top spies," the head spy explained, he was dressed in outlandish stealth gear from head to toe which was very similar looking to what a ninja would wear, but with some high-tech additions.
"Thank you for that information, you may take your leave now if you wish, but keep me updated," Giovanni dismissed the man.
The head of Team Rocket intelligence threw a smoke bomb at the ground which immediately created a cloud of smoke, preventing anyone from seeing him. When the smoke cleared a second later, the man was gone, as if he had disappeared into thin air.
"As for the rest of you, if you have anything else to contribute to this meeting or questions to ask, now is the time to speak up," Giovanni said to the remaining members of the meeting.
"Actually, I was just wondering when we are going to take action against the three weapons and their associates?" the general of Team Rocket's combat forces (who was quite a trigger happy general) asked.
"We just went over that not too long ago general, I know you are eager to take action but we must wait until we have the means of doing so successfully, so once the results come back from the DNA testing of that third creature and we know its weaknesses we will attack the group of biological weapons and destroy them all, I don't even believe it to be worth it to try and get the one we just made back and condition it to fight for us anymore, it would drain our resources to attempt such a thing," Giovanni informed the impatient general.
The general nodded and began to tune out of the meeting, opting to fantasize about military victories rather than listen to whatever boring information would now be shared by the others. His only interest was combat, anything else bored him to the brink of exhaustion just trying to listen. Meanwhile, the others resumed discussion over plans for the future. After about half an hour the talks finished, causing the general to snap out of his daydream (which consisted mainly of blowing things up) and cough.
"This meeting is adjourned; you may all take your leave now and resume your normal duties. Remember, the three mewtwos are dangerous, so we will move forward with much caution on this matter, but once they are defeated, no one will have the power to stop us from completing our goals," Giovanni dismissed all the Team Rocket executives and heads as he stood up, orange suit standing out in the group of neutral coloured suits that the others wore.
The heads and executives all stood up and exited the room, leaving Giovanni by himself in the large conference room. Giovanni sat back in his chair and rubbed his temples. All that discussion had brought on a headache, most likely due to the concussion he had received during the confrontation with the third mewtwo. Maybe he was going to need that second dose of painkillers; this particular headache was a shocker. Giovanni pressed a button on the intercom system that was built in to the table and ordered his doctor to bring the medication up to the conference room…
"Well this is boring," Joasia said to herself as she yawned.
They had been confined to the area of the cave and the clearing beyond for only a day so far but the lack of freedom to go where they wished to had brought on a bad case of boredom. It would have been alright if she had Mateusz and the others to talk to, but Mewtwo had decided as a precautionary measure to separate her from Mateusz after he had caught them both trying to sneak out of the clearing and into the forest.
Mateusz had been taken to another cave to stay in for the remainder of the time they were being restricted to certain locations for. As for the others, they went off and did their own things during the day so they generally weren't around to talk to anyway. Training was the only time that day she had seen anyone apart from herself, and directly afterward Mewtwo had escorted Mateusz back to the cave where he was being told to stay, and then Mewtwo went off and did, well, whatever he did when he went off for hours at a time, no one ever bothered to ask him.
Good news was, tomorrow they would no longer be confined to their respective areas and would be allowed to spend time with each other once more. At least there would be no more just sitting around and hoping that someone would just walk in to chat to…
Mateusz sat on the ground, staring into the forest from the entrance of the cave he had been taken to by Mewtwo after the little sneaking off incident. Boredom had set in hours ago and was slowly eating away at his sanity; in fact, he had already started talking to himself just to keep himself company. All of a sudden, a fast moving pink creature flew past the entrance of the cave before abruptly stopping and turning back.
"Mateusz, what are you doing here?" Mew asked as he floated up to where Mateusz was sitting in the mouth of the stone cave.
"Mewtwo took me here after I tried to exit the boundaries he had set for Joasia and I, he didn't want us making any more 'escape plans'," Mateusz replied with a shrug as he snapped out of the staring he had been doing for the previous hour.
"Ah, I see, he didn't want you two getting up to anymore mischief, you and Joasia really are troublemakers when you put your minds together," Mew responded with a smile.
"Speak for yourself you hypocrite, you're the biggest mischief maker there is!" Mateusz said with a laugh as he stood up.
"Me, a troublemaker? Why, I'm almost offended that you would accuse me of such a thing," Mew replied with a hint of sarcasm as he too laughed…
