Well, less silly this time. But the plot is back on track. For now, anyway.
Episode 154: Unnatural Abilities
When I finally woke up, I realised that I had been out all night. And that Fervo snores. Luckily my stomach was able to drown the snoring out but even that wasn't helping the small headache building in the back of my skull. I sat up, shaking my head to clear it as I looked around. As the sunlight destroyed my dazed state, I began to notice something strange about the headache. It wasn't actually painfull at all. It was just a small niggle in the back of my mind. I'd never felt it before.
"What the hell?" I thought, then the strange feeling just vanished. Gone without a warning, leaving me more confused than before.
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Two seconds later, Mewtwo burst into the clearing. He had obviously gotten here in a hurry, seeing as there was a trail of flattened grass and a few sideswiped trees in his wake. He looked strait at me, which was slightly unnerving.
"What happened?" He asked, which made me more confused.
"What do you mean? Nothing happened?"
"Someone here used telepathy. Who was it?"
"Wasn't me," I answered, not entirely sure, "I think."
"Fervo could not have done it, telepathy is impossible without proper concentration so cannot be done while sleeping. Evetwo is not here. So, logically, it must have been you."
"If you figured all that out, then why ask the question?" I muttered, trying to stop myself swearing at him. Again.
"I wanted to see if you were aware of it."
"I wasn't. I was more concerned with this strange headache I had right in the back of my mind. I must have used the telepathy thing when I thought 'what the hell' and the feeling vanished. Poofed away. Gone."
"You would be describing someone trying to access your subconsious. I do not pry into minds and Evetwo has not mastered that particular element of the technique, she can only read what targets are thinking at that very moment, so it is not us."
"Well who the bloody hell was it then?" I asked, loud enough to cause Fervo to stir and open his eyes.
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"Well, so much for the dream about apples," he grumbled as he sat up, rubbed the sleep out of his eyes before looking at us, "so, what'd I miss?"
"Flame was able to use telepathy, but someone was accessing his subconsious."
Fervo nodded a little as he seemed to deliberate over what he had been told before coming to a decision, "okay. If you need me, I'll be dreaming about apples."
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He was about to curl up and go back to sleep when Eve arrived. While she looked fine psyically, her eyes told a different story. It looked as though she was exausted mentally. Something had happened last night. From the way Mewtwo turned away so he didn't have to look at her, I guessed that he had something to do with it. Fervo had come to a similar conclusion but with slightly more idiocy.
"So, lovers' quarrel?"
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Mewtwo glared at him with such venom that even the Treecko and myself shrank back.
"My mistake," Fervo stammered as he tried quickly backtracking while I just hoped that, if Mewtwo lost his temper, there wouldn't be too much of a mess.
"Next time, I hope Giovanni catches you," Mewtwo growled, echoing the words Fervo had used the day before, before storming off.
"Methinks that I said something stupid again," Fervo managed to squeak out, shaking like a leaf.
"Next time, keep your stupidity in your head. You'll live a little longer," I replied, slightly hostile as I tried to shake the mental images out of my mind.
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Eve approached and I suddenly shoved all of the images out of my mind, because Mewtwo had just told me about her being able to read minds and I didn't want to piss her off.
"What was that all about?" She asked, causing Fervo to sigh in relief.
"Let's just say that Fervo picked a bad time to suffer a bout of stupid," I muttered.
"It was an easy mistake!" Fervo defended himself, getting a raised eyebrow from Eve.
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I have to admit that I was tempted to tell her and run, just to see what she'd do. But I fought temptation and changed the subject.
"So, what today? Planning anything interesting?" I asked, getting a shake of the head from the clone.
"What kind of holiday is this? We're just supposed to lay here and get a tan? Yeesh, talk about crap service."
"What's a tan?"
"You don't know what a tan is?" Fervo spluttered, looking strait at me.
"Sorry, I am a little out of it. What with me starving and all! And the berry bush was blown up last night, remember?"
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I suddenly remembered that Fervo had used absorb on me and scowled, pulling back my fist and was about to slug him one when Eve interrupted.
"I brought chocolate."
"Praise Eve!" Fervo yelled, distracting me long enough to dash out of striking distance.
"I'll get you later," I muttered, "when I have a full stomach."
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So I chowed down on the chocolate bar, keeping one eye on Fervo as he slowly moved to take his. I let him start eating, causing him to relax his guard. The moment he looked away, I pounced. However, he was faster and stepped back. So I ended up landing flat on my face, with him swiping my chocolate.
"Call this revenge," he laughed as he ran off.
"Get back here!" I yelled as I heaved myself up and chased after him.
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So we ended up running around the entire clearing several times, me slowly gaining on the Treecko. Just as I was ready to take him down, he pulled back the paw holding the chocolate.
"Eve, heads up!" He yelled and threw it to her. I still flattened him with a tackle from behind.
"Sod the chocolate, you are a dead lizard."
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He was saved from a double punch to the face by the telepathic message being broadcast.
"Eve, you there?" Was the familiar psychic voice. It sounded a little different, lighter and higher pitched, but it definatly belonged to the same person.
"Mew," Fervo growled as he heaved me off and dragged me out of the clearing, "about time."
"Eve? Damnit, if Mewtwo hadn't put the place under lockdown I could have just teleported here instead of flying this canister over. And the orange idiot has gone and vanished completely. All I need now is Celebi to show up and I'll have a full house."
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I was hurled behind a tree while Fervo peeked out around the trunk.
"What the hell are you doing?" I asked, too confused to smack him when he was distracted. Mew'd called me an idiot, which stung. It stung deep.
"Mew doesn't know we're here. I plan on using that," he muttered in return, not looking at me.
I was about to ask if he was crazy, but I already knew the answer. Fervo stayed silent and I moved to have a peek too. Mew had landed in the clearing and was trying to pop the lid off of another one of the canisters. Eve was just standing there, watching the cat. I could of sworn that her eyes flicked over towards where we were hiding for a second. I knew what Fervo was planning and I thought it was stupid. But Mew really didn't seem to notice us at all. Nothing, normally Mew'd be able to pinpoint us easily.
'Maybe another result of the radiation,' I thought. I then started hoping I hadn't used telepathy again, that would have been awkward, but neither Mew or Eve reacted so I assumed the thoughts had stayed in my head.
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"Jeez, you're quiet," Mew said as 'she' wreastled with the canister lid, while looking up at Eve.
"Dissappeared, huh?" Eve asked, getting a blank look from Mew, "the orange idiot."
"Yeah!" Mew burst out, finally getting what Eve was on about, "it's the weirdest thing; he's just gone without a trace. I looked all over and found his friends but he simply was not there."
Eve seemed to be mulling it over, but Fervo suddenly was struggling not to laugh.
"What's so funny?" I wispered.
"Mew can't sense us. And can't read minds anymore," he replied, slightly quieter.
"How can you tell?"
"You made a bad impression on Eve and Mew didn't notice."
"Treecko make no sense."
"Just be thankfull that I'm not my cousin. You come out and take him head on. I'll sneak round the clearing so, when he turns to face you, I can take him from behind."
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I was shoved into the clearing, without being given any chance to protest. Mew'd tilted 'her' head to one side and was looking up at Eve, having managed to open the stolen canister.
"Quiet is right! Something wrong? You're usually demanding your share by now," Mew asked the clone, who's eyes flickered over to me.
"You might want to turn around."
Mew glanced back and gawped when I was spotted.
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'Well, might as well go for it,' I thought as I stepped closer and said in the blankest tone I could manage, "you found me."
"Flame?" Mew asked, turning to face me fully, "how did you get here?"
"I was hoping you'd be able to tell me the answer to that," I replied, glancing over the psychic's shoulder as Fervo started sneaking towards Mew with a large rock in his paws.
Mew just looked even more confused, which was kind of funny. For once, even the ancient psychic didn't have the answer and was speechless. Which seemed to amuse Eve. Eventually Mew managed to get some words out.
"Am I going to have to split this milk three ways now?"
"No," I answered and launched a fireball strait at Mew's face while Fervo bunged the rock at him from behind.
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Mew saw the fireball and dived clear, which allowed him to dodge the rock. Not exactly the friendliest way of getting the cat to move, but it worked. (Don't try it at home, cats get very pissy when nearly set on fire)
"What the hell is going on?" Mew yelled as I ran forward and planted myself right between him and Fervo.
"We got teleported here after going after a milk thief. Looks like we found one!" I yelled over my shoulder as Fervo glared at me.
"Get out of the way, I want to beat a way home out of him," the Treecko growled. I thought that he reminded me of myself right then. If we were not different species, I'd have thought that we'd have been related.
Fervo smirked at me before speaking, "Pokémon can crossbreed, Flame."
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My eyes widened as I realised that he'd read my mind.
"You got telepathy, I got mind reading," he laughed and used my confusion to knock me to the side and chase after the Mew, who had legged it.
"And now I hate psychic and grass types," I grumbled as I pulled myself up and took my chocolate bar off of Eve.
"Psychics suck," she agreed.
"So, what does that make us then?" I asked as I swallowed what was left of the chocolate bar and watched Fervo chasing Mew around the clearing. He was gaining with each lap, seeing as Mew still didn't seem entirely healthy, "give them a minute and we'll go sort them out.