Well, this really is a fun episode. Mainly because of the whole part just before the end. And it does clear up a lot of the confusion.
Episode 131: Snake Eyes
"What the hell is going on?" I yelled as everything turned white again, leaving me standing in the middle of this endless whiteness.
"Have you ever heard about the saying that: Time will always repeat itself, events occurring again and again," came a voice from somewhere nearby. I couldn't tell from which direction. I was slowly getting more and more confused, which was followed by anger.
"Who the fuck are you?" I roared, as loud as possible, and spun around in an attempt to spot whoever was also in this blank realm.
"You are Flame, protected by Mew," the voice continued, "I am higher than even he."
"Higher than the ancestor of all Pokémon?" I muttered, really confused now, "not possible."
"There a lot of things in the worlds that are not possible," the voice replied, with what seemed to be amusement, "and many of them are actually real. Love, time, luck and even destiny are all regarded as impossibilities. Mere falsehoods created by your mind. Yet they still wield power over us all, deciding if we live or die and with who we enjoy being around. No one can fault the power wielded by impossibilities. Mew may be the ancestor, but he is defiantly not the most powerful."
The voice fell silent again, and I found myself back in the mountain clearing. Although it had only seemed like I had been in that white place for a few minutes, the sun had set and night had taken the mountain. Nina had curled up on top of a boulder and was asleep; while the younger me had vanished. Although 'Ryuu' could not have gotten far, I never had gone too far away from Nina when I was that small. A rustling in the long grass nearby confirmed his location and I went to have a look.
As I got closer, I realised that I remembered the scenario that my younger self was now in. I dived further into the grass, hearing a hissing noise coming from up ahead. And, true to my memories, there was my younger self staring strait into the eyes of the largest and most evil looking Arbok I had ever seen (well, it was the first and only Arbok that I had ever seen. And I didn't intend to find a second)
"Shit," I muttered before diving in between the two of them and yelling out, "leave him alone, you bastard!"
Nothing, they didn't even blink. I was confused and stepped towards the Arbok, watching its eyes as they didn't leave the smaller Charmander. I slowly waved my paw in front of its face, with still no response.
"It's like I am not even here," I said to myself as I tried to punch it in the face and almost fainted when my fist passed through the Arbok, "what the hell is going on?"
The Arbok moved closer to Ryuu, seeing as I can't exactly call him me without making you all more confused than you already are, while I could do nothing to stop it. I just hoped that my memory kept on being right, or else I was toast. Luckily, even though I wasn't able to stop them, another Charmander arrived in the nick of time. Just before the Arbok was about to bite Ryuu, a voice called out and the Arbok turned to flee.
"Who's there?" The voice asked as the Arbok slithered away, "Ryuu?"
Then, the Charmander found Ryuu and just spotted the end of the Arbok's tail as it vanished into the grass. I frowned at the sight of my elder brother, the real Flametooth, despite the fact that he had saved me right then by accident. He rushed over to Ryuu as my younger self was just staring off into space, still under the effects of that Arbok's hypnosis. Suddenly Nina dived out and was about to punch Flametooth strait between the eyes when my younger self finally snapped out of the trance and started whimpering.
I was spared the humility of watching the events that followed by the returning whiteness.
"You remember? That event happened again when you were in Vermillion?" The strange voice asked me, "that Seviper had you frozen on the spot untill that Cubone stepped in."
"Who are you?" I asked, ignoring whatever it had just said, "And what are you doing to me?"
"I am showing you what will happen if you follow Mew," came the snide reply.
"You what?"
"I am merely preserving time and fate. You were not meant to survive that night, Mew saved you. You were never meant to survive Vermillion. Mew saved you again. Cerulean, same happened. Hell, you shouldn't have even hatched. Mew is screwing up the timeline of the universe."
"So you want to kill me?"
"Not at all," came a chuckle, "unlike that pink feline, I actually take the limits on my power seriously."
I looked around at the endless plain of white, trying to see the speaker.
"Then who are you? I should at least know what I'm dealing with," I said, knowing that the strange voice had to be able to hear me.
"You are dealing with an egocentric Pokémon," came a reply as Mew appeared in front of me, "this realm is the place between timelines."
"Ah, I was wondering when you were going to arrive," came another chuckle as a small green Pokémon appeared, it had small wings that looked similar to Scyther's and stupidly large eyes that went on a stupidly large head.
"Celebi, the time traveller," it introduced itself, Mew just scowled at it.
"Stay the fuck away from Flame, stay the fuck away from his friends. And stay the fuck away from me," he growled as small energy balls formed around his paws.
"That Charmander should be dead, along with the Umbreon and Espeon," the green thing replied, unfazed by Mew's anger.
"Oh, and you choose everyone's fates now? Is that it? Simply being able to go through time not enough for his bastardness anymore?" Came Mew's counter, the energy balls were getting bigger by the second.
"I let you keep the clones alive," Celebi replied, still not bothered by the huge energy balls that were still growing, "but keeping normal Pokémon is taking it too far."
Mew looked close to bursting point as he yelled out, "and that gives you the right to go into their deepest memories and fuck around with them?"
"I am merely showing him the truth, that his existence will bring chaos to those around him."
"Only because you insist on being a dick!" Mew yelled as the energy balls, which were now bigger than the cat that launched them, flew through the air and collided with where Celebi stood.
When the dust cleared to reveal that nothing was there, Mew glanced at me as I gawped at him. I hadn't expected him to flip like that.
"What? He would have made you kill yourself. I dunno about you, but I'm not going to allow that to happen."
"What did he mean by me not being meant to have hatched?"
"Originally your egg was going to be crushed by a Golem, while your siblings survived. I redirected that Golem, by choice. I don't take orders from a friggen fairy, not anymore. I saved my clone's lives, by choice. If I think someone is worth saving, I am going to damn well save them. Sod finding out if I should. We should choose our own fates, not have a stupid egocentric prat do it for us."
Mew then winced and haunched over, clutching his side. I stepped over to have a look and spotted a large gash appearing in his side. The same place that the Persian had got him back in Cerulean.
"What the hell?" I muttered, while Mew looked up at me with tears in his eyes from the pain it must have been causing him. The fur around the wound was changing from pink to red.
"To find you here, I had to go where you were before Celebi caught you," he gasped out, "that tower drains my power, it's reversing my healing."
"If you leave, will that fix it?" I asked, not wanting to see him in the pain anymore.
"Celebi isn't gone," Mew muttered before haunching over even further, he was neally bent over double, "he'd try and break you, using your memories against you."
"If you don't, you'll break yourself," I replied with a small smile, "let me look after myself for once. I survived before on my own, I can now. Just get yourself rested up, then we can take down the time traveller."
Mew managed to smile and gasp out, "okay, don't let him win," before vanishing.
"I won't," I told the space where Mew had been occupying, "It'll take more than the past to take this Charmander down."
"Really?" Came the fairy's voice, from out of no where again, "well, how about a future?"
A small patch of grass appeare under my feet and, as I watched, the patch spread as the world began to change itself. I braced myself for whatever I was going to see, determined to last long enough for Mew to find a way to get me out. I soon found myself in the center of the valley that led to Rock Tunnel.
"Damnit Frank," I heard thefamiliar voice of Moron mutter from behind me and I spun around, seeing Squirt and Scyther laying on the ground nearby. They were face down, in a pool of blood.
"Oh shit," I muttered, feeling dispair and sadness start to kick in. Celebi sure knew how to hit a nerve.