Mewtwo and Mew

The night was filled with lights, enough to drown out the stars. They were on long strands, in paper lanterns, from small torches, in many colors, in many forms. Illuminated in those lights, there were strands of paper flags, streamers, ribbons, balloons, paper dolls, and many other shows of festivity. It was a midsummer fair for a rich town, and no expense had been spared.

There was even a graceful Ferris Wheel in the center of the festivity, taking earthbound riders up to see the brilliant lights and decorations from high above. But up there, they missed something. Behind some brightly colored tents, someone hid and watched the Ferris Wheel in action. Mewtwo was tall and bipedal like the humans, but he was clearly a Pokemon and would have been noticed if he were out with the crowd. Not that he would have joined the noisy crowd for any reason. His temper wasn't feeling very generous with them tonight.

As he watched the Ferris Wheel in action, he made motions with his fingers, corresponding with thoughts and calculations going on in his mind. "taking out by Extrasensory…" he mumbled.

"That won't work unless you Meditate a bunch of times first," a voice on his left commented.

Jerking away from the voice, Mewtwo went to glare at… nothing. There was no one behind the tents with him. Or so it seemed. A poke at his right shoulder and a girlish giggle gave it away, though. "Don't do that to me, Mew," he hissed.

"Awww, but why not?" she asked, still not showing herself.

"I thought I told you not to bug me anymore," he grumbled.

"I don't know if I was listening then or not, so I couldn't say." As she spoke, she began to resolve from her invisible state. First her round blue eyes and small smile, then her small pink body and long slender tail. Also appearing was a large puff of bright orange cotton candy that was as big as Mew's body. Holding the white stick in her tail, she offered it to him. "Want some cotton candy?"

"No," he said flatly.

"More for me then," she replied cheerily, tearing off a strand to eat. But she didn't float away.

"And you wouldn't know what I'm doing now," Mewtwo stated.

"Yes I do," she said. "You're trying to sabotage the Ferris Wheel and cause a great big ruckus. But it won't work with just Extrasensory on the bolts."

"You don't know that," he said, trying to hide his surprise that she had guessed right.

"Oh puh-lease," she said indignantly, putting her hands on her hips (more or less). "I play tested the whole entire universe, so I know how every single move works. At your current power level, considering the forces in Extrasensory, considering the welding strength of the material in the Ferris Wheel, you're not going to remove those bolts unless you Meditate a bunch of times. And when you do get them out, the Wheel's not going to go rolling off in a violently comical fashion. Its structure isn't that sturdy on its own, so it will probably collapse in the middle of the fair."

"I knew that part," he insisted, brushing off that she had guessed his plan. "But that works just as well."

"Why are you trying to break it down?" she asked, tearing off another gossamer strand of orange candy. "I haven't figured out that yet."

"They're making so much light and noise that I can't sleep," Mewtwo complained. "All this fuss over nothing."

Mew laughed and clasped her hands together. "Aw, why be such a grumpy Grumpig? It's a fair. Have fun, like me." She then stuck her cotton candy against her face, getting orange sugar sparkles all over.

"No thanks." He tried to get back into his previous train of thought and wound up recalling something she'd just said. "And what do you mean that you play tested the whole universe? We don't live in a video game."

Putting on mock wide eyes of shock, she asked, "We don't?"

"You can't test a universe. It just… runs on its own."

"Well that's because I tested it first. I was given every possible move and every possible Pokemon that could be, and then told to try breaking the system. I was given all of time in a fraction of a second to do it in, so I remember bits and I remember the whole thing. During that testing phase, I had loads of fun and crashed the universe fifty jillion times. We were able to figure out who should or shouldn't get which moves, why, and what glitches were about. Ninety-nine point nine nine nine nine nine nine nine nine nine percent were fixed." She paused her talk to eat some more candy.

"There aren't universal glitches," Mewtwo said. However, the idea did intrigue him. If there was one that he could exploit, that would be helpful.

"There's a few minor ones still about," Mew said, then licked some sugar off her paws. "But they require such odd sequences of actions that it's highly unlikely that they would be set off by accident. Like this one crazy one: at a certain time of morning, if you talk to someone seven times older than you, like a ten year old talking to a seventy year old, and then immediately use Fly to go north or south a certain amount of space, and then immediately use Surf but stay really close to an island, you'll trigger the appearance of a Pokemon that should not exist. That Pokemon… hooo boy, that one caused so many crashes and glitches just by its existence that we decided that it couldn't be allowed life. It's kind of sad, but then good since the universe is stable without its presence. But since it was an idea, there is that slim chance it can come into the world still. We couldn't fix it without causing bigger problems."

It was strange. But should Mewtwo try that, he was fairly certain that the others would catch him at it. As she said, it was too specific of a circumstance to claim as accidental. "So you had the idea of every Pokemon to ever exist to work with, huh?"

"Yup," she said cheerily. "Including you! I still do, actually, as I kept copies of the DNA of every single one of them in my body. And I can still access all but the forbidden powers, although not all at once anymore. Oh, but the most fun was when I was trying out the powers of Giratina!" She pulled off some more cotton candy and twirled it.

"Dimensional powers?"

She nodded. "Yeah, I wound up skipping out of the young universe and winding up in others. Some were such fun. And on this one jump, I wound up at a concert of the greatest band of all the universes ever ever ever! The Beatles!" She squealed so loudly that it made Mewtwo's ears ring.

"Aren't they…?" Mewtwo started to ask, rubbing his head.

But Mew started prattling excitedly. "They were so awesome and their music was so great! I used the combined powers of Dialga and Palkia to stalk them to bunches more concerts, to buy all their records, tapes, CDs, videos, and such, and I even got the autographs of all four on the White Album record. Oh my gosh, they were so amazing that I almost didn't want to return back home, but I had to, so I bought a few devices to play my collection on and brought them all back to let all the others hear."

"They're a band in our world, though," he finally said when she stopped in a happy smile.

"I know," she said. "And I saw to that, although I didn't have to help it that much. Great music just is, you know? Like great candy!"

Mewtwo crossed his arms over his chest. "You know, I've been thinking about that. That cotton candy was as big as you are. Do you really intend to eat the whole thing?"

"Well I offered to share it," she said sweetly, taking another strand to eat. "But you didn't take it. Might as well not let it go to waste, you know."

"You're an idiot," he said sharply. "I don't care about your past health, but if you put that much sugar into that little body, you're going to suffer for it. And that particular color of orange, it looks like artificial coloring at work, one that is believed to make some children and Pokemon sick. If you have the DNA of every Pokemon, that coloring agent might make you sick."

"But I might also be immune to it," she pointed out. "And cotton candy is sooooo good. You sure you don't want any?"

"I'm sure, but I'm also sure that you shouldn't eat that whole thing."

Mew laughed. "What, are you concerned about me? Mewtwo, I'm touched."

"I'm not," he scowled. "But I don't want to see you get captured again. That caused enough problems the last time you did."

"I wouldn't worry about that. Not everybody is an evil mad scientist." She ate another strand, looking thoughtful. Then her body went transparent, leaving her eyes and smile bright. "He-ey, somebody's coming this way. You might want to be careful." She was gone to just her blue eyes and broad smile again, then completely went invisible. Including her cotton candy.

Annoyed, Mewtwo flew up to the top of the tent and hovered there while some groundskeeper used the area to shortcut his work path. He moved carefully to find a better hiding spot, a tricky task since he didn't know how to go invisible like Mew. He considered again just going out and flinging fireballs and anything else in his arsenal at the disruptive humans. Although he'd ignored them for several months, this flashy and noisy fair was just too much. But destroying the Ferris Wheel, the biggest thing in the fair, would be so satisfying that Mewtwo decided to keep trying.

In the next hour, he considered a dozen ways, but discounted all of them. The best one seemed to be the Extrasensory method, but he didn't want to use it because Mew had suggested how it would work properly. He didn't want her to be gloating to it about him afterwards. But then, why had she suggested it? She usually tried to block him from hurting humans. Maybe the sugar had gotten to her already.

Mewtwo had come upon a new plan that seemed promising when, without any warning, he was warped from the spot he was hiding to the middle of the largest path in the fair. He tensed as he realized that the area was filled with humans who were looking at him in puzzlement and curiosity. Clenching his fist, he considered an attack, but a loud cheery laugh stopped him. Mew glided in front of him, still holding onto the cotton candy stick, even though the candy was now gone.

"Mew," he hissed angrily.

"I told you," she crowed in a sing-song voice. "I told you there were still glitches in the universe. I just caused one to bring you here!" She laughed and twirled around. When she stopped, he could see that her limbs and tail were shaking.

Just to see, he mentally checked her vital signs. She had eaten that entire piece of cotton candy, and now her body was going frantic in trying to deal with all that sugar in her system. She was rather close to the point of collapse. Sighing, he said, "One would think that if you've lived as long as you've claimed, you would have some sense in that pink head of yours."

"Sense?" She laughed, then clapped her paws. "Banish all sense! Let it be!" A bright flash emerged from her body and struck all of the witnesses who could see the pair.

But it wasn't a standard blinding Flash, Mewtwo noticed. It seemed to dazzle the witnesses so much that they immediately forgot what was happening in front of them. "I didn't mean that exactly."

"All you need is love, love," she sang, then floated shakily over and bopped him on the head with the cotton candy stick. "You shouldn't be so mean all the time. It's not nice, not nice. I'll do whatever it takes to stop you. Whatever, whenever… and all the lonely people…" her mental signs grew fainter as she spoke, and then she passed out.

"You are absolutely crazy," he muttered. He had half a mind to just leave her there. She had brought this suffering on herself, after all.

But then, a lot of his troubles and suffering had started when she had foolishly let herself be captured. Not everyone was an evil mad scientist, but they were out there. Not wanting another disaster coming from a repeat of that, Mewtwo took Mew and teleported miles from the fairgrounds, to find some distant place to keep her safe.

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Mewtwo DPP entry: A Pokemon created by recombining Mew's genes. It's said to have the most savage heart among Pokemon.

Emerald entry: A Mew is said to possess the genes of all Pokemon. It is capable of making itself invisible at will, so it entirely avoids notice even if it approaches people.

This is kind of a deleted scene from a fanfic of mine called The Ballad of Deoxys and Mewtwo. Also, this marks the point when I covered 50% of all Pokemon! Wheee!

And then they announced the release of Black and White…