CHAPTER 21: A CALL TO ARMS

At that very moment, miles away, Mewtwo flew in the sky, hoping to find some isolated building. He should have asked for what the building looked like, he now knew. It would have been so much easier to find then. He actually wanted to sleep right now. The warm, humid weather has that effect on you. The tropics were peculiar to him.

Never having snow, except on the rarest of occasions. He didn't mind snow much. It let him know that he wasn't completely cold and cut off by melting on his skin. But snow was not the point in this mission. It was time to get some help.

Mewtwo landed in the thin, tropical forest, hoping to see a pokémon. He was having no such luck so far. That was strange, because in such climate you would expect a lot of bug pokémon at the least. What was going on here? He found the answer.

Somewhere along the line this forest had been cleaned of pokémon by trainers. This had found out, by searching for the only one left. A Slowking. How funny actually. As they talked Mewtwo learned more. The pokémon that were left were in hiding because of them. But more importantly, these trainers had worn the same type outfit. Upon them was printed a double T. Just like the helicopter! Quickly he asked where they went after they left the forest. The Slowking responded by telling him it was on the inner edge of the forest by Tropicanal City.

"Why?" asked the Slowking.

(I need to get in there.)

"Whoa! Are you serious? You must be since I haven't heard a bit of humor from you. Why would you want to do a crazy thing like that?"

(I have…friends trapped inside.)

"Well so do I! We all do. We've tried even. Most of us got caught on the last rampage."

(I'm going. Whether you help me or not is your call. But I ask for it…please.)

"…What the heck. You look like a strong fellow. Let's go on a rampage!"

(What about the others?)

"I was getting to that. Follow me!"

Mewtwo did. It seemed that Slowking was giving off a sound that was a call to arms. Strange, it was. A sort of cross between a trumpet and a cello. Mewtwo had been to outside human concerts before at the city so he knew those sounds well. The lifeless forest that this place had once been sprang to life. Creatures of all types came. Mewtwo learned a bit later that it was a vacation spot for pokémon. When they got there however they had to go into hiding and not be able to enjoy themselves. Then, Mewtwo saw a face in which he had not thought he would ever see again. It was clone Ninetales!

"Nine nine, nin-nine tales!" said the fox, "Mewtwo, hey! What are you doing here?"

(I came to release a few friends out of that place.) He said pointing to the building that the pokémon had just come up on.

"NINE-tales!" she almost shouted, "You mean some of the clones got caught in that place?!"

(…No. Two of my species is in there.)

"NINETALES!" she really screamed this time, "WHAT?! That can't be right. How?"

(I am not sure. I think that they were cloned from my DNA though… Now, what are YOU doing here, might I ask?)

"Nine-nin tales ninetales tales tales." Ninetales told in a calm voice, "After we all went our separate ways I had planned to live up in the volcanoes. That didn't work out to well since it took hours before and after each day to clean my fur. I didn't want to be dirty all the time. The same went for the desert. I decided to take the next best thing and live in the hot tropics then. If it wasn't for all these trainers I'd be enjoying myself."

(I see.)

"Hey, big guy! Do you have a plan for getting in this place?"

(Yes. A few others and I will go into the base and try to rescue as many pokémon as we can, and also my friends. The rest of you will have to lure the humans away somehow as a diversion. Hopefully no one will get caught. Slowking, you will lead the diversion squad, and Ninetales and…you Noctowl will come with me. We will set this plan into action at dusk. Is that clear?)

Everyone agreed. It was a good plan as far as they were concerned. But Mewtwo had not intended to try and free more than two pokémon when he came here. He very much doubted that they weren't in poke'balls already. He would send Noctowl and Ninetales to find them when the time came, and hope that they didn't get caught.

They waited till dusk in the shadows of the trees. Soon, they would set their plan into action. Soon…