Hey everybody! I'm back with another chapter - I tried to make this one longer, but longer chapters mean longer times between updates. Talking about the update time, let's just say that ADHD happened and leave it at that. I'll try to get on updating more now, but for the time being, enjoy the new chapter of TMP!

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"We'll explain more when you wake up. But for now..." he clapped his hands as a syringe was brought to him. "This is for you," he said as he pushed to syringe into my skin and started injecting me with the thick serum. "Nighty night little boy."

The last thing I remember before passing out was thinking; "This day is not going as smooth as I thought it would when I woke up".

I came into consciousness slowly, like waking up from a long sleep and not wanting to get out of bed. The difference was, I wasn't in a bed. As I slowly opened my eyes, I quickly came to the realization that I had been knocked out and was sleeping on something… But I felt a little bit of cushion. "That's odd; they don't seem like to people to provide comfy arrangements." I put my hand up to where I thought a small pillow would be, only to find hard steel. "If there is nothing there, then what was I feeling?" I thought. Then I put my hand to the back of my head.

"AHHHHHH!" I shouted as I shot up in my room. "Fur? What did they do to me?!" I looked around only to see darkness.

"Great. Not only do I have fur on me, I can't even see myself. This day is going great" I said to myself. "Wait a minute…" I said listening to myself. "It sounds like… I'm saying mew over and ov-... Oh my god." I said as I realized what had happened. I quickly checked my body to confirm. Sure enough it all had bright pink fur. "So this happened, and I'm a mew now… this could be interesting." Noticing it was nighttime, I did the only thing I could. I went to sleep.

I woke up to a sigh, right next to my cage, some people talking about what I presumed was me. "Come on, it's still asleep? It's been half a year since the boy was injected. I can't believe I volunteered for this." I heard a man say. "Come on, it's not that bad, at least you don't have to do field work." "Yeah… I guess… I just wish there was more stuff to do. I've been sitting here doing nothing for months now." I guess they hadn't noticed I'd woken up, but I didn't want to blow my cover so soon. If these were the people who had done this to me, I'd want to know as much as possible. So I waited. And learned absolute shit. I guess grunts know much of anything that I would be interested to know.

I wanted to wait until they were gone so I could assess my situation, but it was apparent these men weren't leaving. So I decided to have a little fun, and see if I could scare them. I was able to open my eyes a small bit so I could see where they were. Right when they came over to check on my 'status' as they called it, I lunged at them… kinda. But hey, it worked, the two men screamed and stumbled backwards until they tripped and fell. I fell over on my back laughing, and promptly shot back up in pain. I looked back and saw... a tail? "Oh! I remember what a mew is now." I didn't play too much Pokémon when I was young, but I definitely remembered mew. "Still, that hurt. I'll have to be more careful about that later." Then I noticed the two thugs running off shouting. "Great, probably going to alert their boss. May as well check out my new body while I have the time" I looked down on my pink fur, still not believing that this was me now. I spent the next few minutes getting used to my new joints, before the boss showed up.

"So you've woken up. Took you long enough, we injected you 6 months ago! But you're awake now and that's all that matters. Now let me see you…" He said as he opened my cage and picked me up. All I could do is wave my limbs around, while my tail instinctively curled around me. "Aww, look at that, so helpless." He put me back in my cage. "Now this…" he said as he pulled out a little collar, "Is for you." I struggled around, but there was nothing I could do, as he put it around my neck. I tried to bring up the little tag to read, but I couldn't.

I looked back up at him with fire in my eyes as he just stared down at me with a deceptive smile. "Still won't change that attitude you had when we first brought you in? Alright then, but we will fix you" he said as the top of my cage was put back, and he walked away.

"Monitor him!" he shouted to the grunts. "Make sure he stays where he is." The happy attitude of the grunts immediately dissipated as they plopped into their chairs, obviously saddened they had to stick around.

However, I had other things on my mind. First priority was getting this collar off. I felt for it, and realized they had spared no expense in getting an average supermarket leather collar. I brought the clasp around to the front, and easily popped it off. "That didn't last long" I thought to myself with a grin. I decided to keep it around for my second priority. "Mew is a psychic Pokémon, so I should be able to utilize that." Second priority was figuring out my new body.

I set the collar on floor right in front of me. It made a small jingle as it was set down, and I was able to read it. "Xeno" it read. "So that's what they decided to call me" I thought. "Anyway…" I thought as I pushed everything from my mind except the collar. My tail twitched as I closed my eyes and concentrated. I felt the energy flowing through my body as I pushed as much of it into my mind. The collar materialized in my mind's eye as I relaxed for a split second before pushing as much psychic energy as I could muster at it.

Needless to say, it was a success.

The collar shot through the cage's metal bars, and flew for half a second until it hit one of the guard's arms. I'm glad I didn't have my eyes open at the time, because the scream was earsplitting (especially with my advanced hearing).

I brought my paws up to my ears as fast as possible, while squeezing my eyes shut in pain. The grunt continued screaming as if he were hit by a train. At the speeds the collar was going, I didn't blame him. Eventually his screaming died down and I opened my eyes, just to see him pry the collar out of his arm to have it clatter on the floor.

There was silence for what seemed like an eternity. No doubt everyone in the warehouse had heard the bloodcurdling scream. He slowly turned towards me with a crazed look in his eyes.

"... I'M GONNA KILL IT!" The man screamed as he lunged at my cage, knocking it to the ground. He ripped the cover off with his one good arm. In the moment that he was distracted I took the chance and got the hell out of there. I tripped almost immediately, forgetting about both my huge feet, and my new center of balance.

And my tail. Bad decision, as the man slammed his fist onto it, both stopping my slide (I was grateful for that), and shattering whatever bones are in there. It hurt like hell. "MEEEEEEWWWW!" Both my body and mind shouted at once. As the crazed man was gearing up for another assault on my tail, he was tackled to the ground by the other man who was monitoring me. My body immediately responded by rolling me into a fetal position with my tail wrapped around me. I wanted to put my paws to my ears, to have the assault end.

But I couldn't. I could only squeeze my eyes shut as hard as I could while I waited for it all to end. Luckily for me, it did end soon, unluckily for me, my mind made it seem much longer than it actually was. I remember the sound of voices blasting through the door, and a sudden gunshot. The gunshot that jerked me back into reality. I slowly opened my eyes to the feel of a person picking me up. I caught a glimpse of a friendly female face as I was rocked back and forth. It felt nice after what happened so I let my eyes close and drifted into a deep sleep.

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For the first time since I was back at home, I slept long, and well. I woke up to some actual comfort, on a small pillow that was put into a slightly larger cage than before. I was actually able to relax, and I took all the time I had, staying on the pillow for a long time. It felt peaceful, after what had happened before.

After awhile I decided to get out of the warm embrace of the pillow, and take a look around. While the cage was bigger, it certainly wasn't what you would call roomy. There was a few things that were not there in my old cage, most noticeably a mirror, which I was immediately drawn to. As I studied my face, I realized things that had never appeared to me before. First, Mews are incredibly cute, me being no exception. Second, my eyes were not that of a normal mews. While the change wasn't very much colorwise, it was very obvious that they were not the normal color. Instead of them being baby blue, they were bright purple. I also found that the scar that had been on my forehead was now extremely visible as it went up the ears at the top of my head.

As I continued taking everything in about by body, I heard the sound of a door opening, then closing with a slight thud. I spun around to come face to face to the girl that had held me the other night. She had soft ginger hair, and freckles, paired with beautiful blue eyes that looked oddly familiar. "How are you little Xeno? Or should I say Nova" she says with a mischievous grin on her face. "Claire?" I shouted in my mind, trying to process what was going on. "Ah! Not so loud! That hurt, but yes, it's me." "Wait, you can hear me?" I Thought while trying my best to propel it into her mind. "Clear as day." "Well this helps quite a bit, but don't let on that you can hear me yet." She nodded. "I came in here to discuss something. I believe you were sixteen when you were kidnapped…" she paused to look at a clipboard. "It makes you… one as a mew. Xeno, you are a baby mew."

I stumbled over to the mirror, trying to comprehend what she had just said. "I'm a baby? I guess that explains how I got rocked to sleep yesterday." I thought to myself, thinking what to do next. "I can see this is taking a toll on you. I'll leave you for awhile, and then I'll send Brian in." That got my attention.

I rocketed to the iron bars of the cage. "Brian's here?!" "He'll come in a bit." She said while walking out the door. I was alone again. But… I didn't feel like there was no hope anymore. Both my best friends were here with me, trying to get us out. I needed to get better with my psychic abilities.

I noticed that there were some small toys in the back of the cage, I picked each one up and practiced by putting them in varying orders. I was learning fast, but my powers were still weak, as I got very tired very fast. I kept it up until I heard the door open and close again. I was at the bars in a flash.

"So Nova, how are ya? You have no idea what it took to get us into the position to monitor you." "Oh, you know I'm fine, it's not like I'm a mew or anything." I said sarcastically in his mind. "Still got that sarcastic touch eh? Can't say I missed it. I can say how weird it is to see you like this, and to hear about how young you are now." Brian said as he knelt down to where my cage was. "Trust me; it came as a shock to me as well. I can work through it though… Hopefully. I can feel the impulses trying to make me do... ugh...things." "What kind of things?" "Not gonna talk about it." "Alright, but anyway, I came in here to tell you some bad news. Since you are… young now, me and Claire have been supplied to take care of you with, I'm sure you can imagine. It's not gonna be fun. And if we want to break out of here with you, we're gonna have to act like we don't know who you were, and vica versa for you. I'll leave you with this." Just as he said that he walked out the room.

Just as I thought everything was getting better, it turned around and bit me in the ass. While my friends were here, we couldn't even act like we knew each other. All I could do is talk to them psychically, but they couldn't respond. On top of all that, they had to treat me like a baby. I picked the toys up and threw them at the walls of my cell, making a loud *clang*. I could feel the rage inside me building, my power growing every second. I tried to no avail to get a hold on it, but I was like a raging typhoon, bent on destroying everything. First the toys went through my prison, then my body. I felt the metal tear away from me, rocketing to the walls, but not making a dent.

"Nova!" I heard inside my skull. "Stop! This isn't you!" "WHO DARES TELL ME WHO I AM?" I shouted back at the voice. I noticed men coming in to the room I was kept, guns in their hands. "Yourself." The guns went off and my body was met with thousands of volts of electricity. I fell to the ground, eyes still wide at what I had just heard. That didn't last for long however, as I felt the electricity push me into a deep sleep.

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