Hello, everybody! Time to head to New Island.

Chapter 20: New Arrival

Countryside road

It was now nighttime over the countryside. Cosmo, Nova, Ann-

"Hold on, hold on." Cosmo interrupted. "Look, just so you don't have to say our names EVERY single time, we're gonna come up with a team name." Oh, thank God. "Now, what should we call ourselves?"

"How about Team Forest? We have the Forest Spirit with us, after all." Nova said.

"Bi bi!" Celebi cheered.

Alright, cool! Ahem… Team Forest, plus Chad and Vaati, were resting under a tree by the road. The Forest Spirit Celebi was flying around a small pond, taking drinks of water. "So, that's the Forest Spirit." Chad said, watching as she flapped her small wings.

"Yup. The one and only Celebi." Emily replied. She then turned to Chad. "So, I… heard a lot about you, Chad. They say you're a traitor."

The teen sighed. "I only pretended to be a traitor. I was really a spy… 'course, that didn't really change anything. Except I'm on the bad side of BOTH teams… sort of."

"Well, that sucks, huh?"

"Yep. Especially when you consider what we're up against. But don't worry. I have a plan. I just need to sneak into at least one of their bases…"

"Oh, I can probably help with that!" Emily smiled. "I am half-ghost after all."

"Heh heh. Yeah, about that…"

"We don't have time for that." Cosmo said. "Don't we still need to find the other Firstborn Guardians?"

"You mean you know where to look next?" Nova asked.

"I… alright, fine, but I still say it's more important than Chad's little love quest."

"Heh heh heh heh. You kids have no idea what you're doin'." Vaati laughed.

"Mm-hm. Is that why you're not turning us in right now?" Annie asked.

"I don't like it when things are too easy. Besides… not turning you in now might make Ganondorf pretty pissed. Which I'd enjoy."

"Won't that get you killed?"

"Nah… I'm too slippery for Ganon." Just then, he heard something ringing in his pocket. Vaati reached in and pulled out his communicator. "…It's Ganon."

"Oh?"

"Don't worry, I'll handle it." Vaati walked a few feet away and answered. "Hello?"

"Where are you, Vaati? We sent you out to get the Firstborn a day ago. Did you find them?"

"Er… I lost their trail."

"Ehhh… what will I do with you. Very well, return to base. We'll start searching again for the Triforce of Wisdom. Hurry up." He hung up.

"Hmph…" the airbending sorcerer turned back to the others. "Time for me to go. I'll see you later, Annie." With that, the teen ran off.

"Okay… later, Vaati."

The Old Orleans

Nigel Uno fell asleep, and awoke to find himself floating through the Dream Realm. "Huh… where am I?"

"Nigel Uno. It is I… The Chronicler."

"Not you again. What is it this time?"

"Listen to me: you must learn more about your Fire Element. Go to the Dusty Desert in South America… and seek the Sun God, Solaris, in the Sun Temple. He will guide you further…"

"Oh… huh?" Nigel woke up on a bed, still in Facilier's yacht. He got up and walked out to the ship's deck, seeing they were now under a dark, cloudy sky.

"Hey, Nigel. Have a nice nap?" Eva asked.

"Yeah… I had a dream."

"Kissing Rachel?"

"No! It was that guy again… The Chronicler."

"What'd he want now?"

"He wanted me to visit the Dusty Desert in Europe. To see some Sun God called Solaris."

"Solaris, huh? Well, I guess that'll make another trip, then. I mean, we couldn't just find the Firstborn and call it done, huh?"

"Nnnope."

"Uuuugggghhhh." The two looked over at Wally, Violet, and Sonic, holding their heads over the railing with sick expressions.

"I hated sea-venturing during DUTCHMAN… I hate it now." Wally groaned.

"Man, I hate water levels…" Sonic said.

"Mmm… BLEEEEAAAAHHH." Violet threw up.

"A storm's comin'." Facilier said. "No doubt we gettin' closer to New Island. Mewtwo uses his powers to make storms surround his island, to keep out those who ain't worthy."

"He can control storms?" Athena asked. "He must be pretty powerful."

"WOOHOOOO!" They looked down at Marine the Raccoon, who was speeding around the boat in her waterbike.

"Marine, get back up here." Sonic said.

"A storm is coming. It's dangerous to be in the water." Blaze followed.

"Ah, don't chuck a wobbly, mates. There're no worries here, eh? I 'aven't even heard any lightning-" Just then, a lightning bolt came down and struck her, covering her in soot. "…Owie."

A sound was then heard in the distance. "Uh… you hear that?" Buddy asked.

"WHOA!" A large cannonball splashed in the water right beside them.

"Over there!" Kuki pointed. Everyone looked ahead to see a fleet of navy ships as rain started pouring down. Lightning started to flash in the sky as the navy began to fire.

"It looks like they tracked us!" Buddy exclaimed.

"Ah man! We gotta get through THESE guys to get to New Island!" Facilier shouted.

"No problem, mates!" Marine said. "Ah'll distract these drongos. Leave it ta me!" With that, Marine sped toward the naval fleet on her bike.

"Marine, wait!" Tails called.

"Gotta admire her spirit." Sonic said before throwing up. (Play the "Pirate Storm" Theme from Sonic and the Secret Rings!)

Stage 16: Naval Storm

Mission: Get to New Island!

The young raccoon charged for the fleet, dodging left and right as the ships fired cannons. She swerved behind a ship on her left and grabbed an anchor, hauling herself up. She punched Light Spheres at the navy troops, dodging as cannons aimed and fired, destroying their own ship. She tricked them into blasting each other a couple times before hopping back down to her waterbike.

The Old Orleans sailed forward while Marine distracted them, but one ship sailed beside them. The Quads were able to jump to it and used their powers to grab and throw enemy GUN Beetles. Buddy grabbed some Beetles and tossed them into some cannons, clogging the gunfire and exploding them, the siblings hopping back over to the yacht.

The waves and currents of the sea started to get bigger as they drifted further. Marine sped over some huge waves and dodged some reefs, watching as the waves pushed other naval ships into rocks. She saw a ramp beside another ship and used it to shoot straight over. When she landed back on the water, she saw a large tidal wave ahead and took the opportunity to zoom straight upwards before coming down, the wave's momentum helping her avoid other cannon shots.

The yacht sailed by another ship that The Quads leapt over to, several GUN Hawks coming out and firing lasers. Buddy tried to grab a laser with his psychic, but only took a hit. "Urgh… I guess you can't grab lasers with psychic." He figured as his sisters helped him up.

"Let's just avoid them." Morgan suggested, throwing a Psycho Sphere at GUN Hawks. Once they were destroyed, some Rhino Springs rolled out on the deck. They charged for the siblings and rammed them, knocking them onto their backsides. Afterwards, they shot them several feet in the air with their springs.

"Uh-oh! INCOMING!" Athena yelled as the ship aimed a cannon. It fired a missile, but the four were able to grab hold of it, using it to fly around, dodging other missiles. The four were coming down at another ship and jumped off before the missile could crash and destroy another cannon on another ship. The Quads saw the yacht pass by and hopped back on before the ship sank.

Meanwhile, Marine was coming to another tidal wave, dodging more rocks and shooting up the large wave. She went so high that she landed on a missile of her own, cheering as she flew and dodged other missiles. She was flying to another ship's cannon, which fired another missile, and Marine jumped and grabbed onto it, leaving the other missile to blow up the ship. She repeated this maneuver for another ship, jumping to another missile while the other one crashed. She looked below and saw her bike, jumping off the missile for it to crash into another ship, then landing on her bike.

She spotted another wave making a water cyclone and decided to surf through it, avoiding debris from other fallen ships, then surfing out and through a series of sharp rocks, while also avoiding small whirlpools. After making it through, she surfed up another tidal wave, going over it and speeding back to the yacht. She went up a ramp that landed her back on with her friends.

"Whoa! Nice going, Marine!" Sonic gave a thumbs up.

"Oi told you lot it was foine!" Marine grinned.

The sickened Wally looked up, his eyes widened at what was ahead. "Uh… guys?" They all looked where he pointed, and their eyes widened at the towering cyclone.

"HOLD ON, KIDS!" Facilier exclaimed, steering the ship right of the tornado. They ended up caught and sailing along its side. The gang held on as the ship tilted sideways, dodging various debris in the cyclone. Once they reached the top, the cyclone forced the ship miles away, landing safely back on the sea, in sight of a strange island with a castle of windmill towers.

"There it is! We made it!" Tails exclaimed.

"Finally…" was all Violet could say, relieved. (End song.)

"WOOHOO! That was RIPPER!" Marine cheered.

"Now we can get to New Island." Morgan said hopefully.

"Yeah… so let's-" Before Sonic could finish, a massive blue-and-yellow seasnake, with a wide, square-shaped mouth, emerged from the sea.

"ROOOAAAAR!"

"What is that thing?!" Noah shouted.

"That's a Gyarados!" Morgan pointed.

"A what?" Eva asked.

"A kind of Water Pokémon. We've heard of them." Buddy said.

"'kay, but what's that?" she asked, indicating a strange Tiki that just flew out of the water, shaped like a harp.

"A Tiki Spirit!" Facilier exclaimed.

The strange Harp Tiki started playing hypnotic music, mesmerizing the Gyarados. The Tiki flew into its mouth, possessing the serpent. "ROOAAAR!" (Play "Blue on the Run" from Sonic and the Secret Rings!)

Marine immediately got back on her bike and sped toward the monster. "I'll handle this, mates! Let's go!"

Boss fight: Gyarados

Marine charged for the gigantic seasnake as it spat several water balls at her. The monster swam away as Marine gave chase, but was splashed back by a wave from his tail. The raccoon recovered and kept going, dodging more water balls. She reached the Gyarados' tail and sped up its body, jumping high above his wide-open mouth where she charged her fist and punched an energy ball at his uvula, landing back on her bike.

The sea monster swam further from her, using his tail to splash more waves that she dodged left or right. The Gyarados then dove underwater and swam in circles under Marine, trying to catch the sea-lover in whirlpools. She was able to evade, so the monster came back above the surface, throwing more water balls at her. When all shots missed, Gyarados charged his Ice Breath and blew an ice beam, freezing a straight path of water and getting the waterbike stuck. Marine just leapt off and slid along the ice path as Gyarados was charging a Hyper Beam. However, this left his weak spot, the uvula, wide open, allowing Marine to charge another shot and punch it. The Gyarados nearly coughed up the Tiki as the ice path broke, Marine getting back on her bike and chasing the monster.

The Gyarados then proceeded to send more waves her way, but she dodged left and right again. When the Gyarados jumped and splashed a large tidal wave, Marine surfed up and over it, continuing after the monster. Gyarados dove back underwater and made a large whirlpool under Marine. The raccoon kid was sucked under, driving her bike through an underwater tunnel of water. Gyarados tried to whack her with his tail from outside the tunnel, but she was able to avoid.

Marine shot back above the surface and continued after the Gyarados, the water demon spitting more water balls her way. The Gyarados went faster away as it charged its Hyper Beam. Once it finished, Marine narrowly avoided as the huge and powerful laser chased her, boosting closer to the monster. Marine charged her energy fist, and just before the Hyper Beam struck her, Marine jumped and punched at the Gyarados' stomach, pushing it away, making the Tiki fly out of its mouth. Marine gave one final charged punch to the Tiki, flinging it into the Gyarados' head, the beast knocking out and sinking underwater. The Tiki bounced off and fell in the sea afterwards.

"Ha ha! No First Generation Pokémon can stop me, eh?" the cocky raccoon exclaimed, giving another thumbs up.

"Alright! Now we can get to the island!" Sonic declared. (End song.)

"Well… there it is." Morgan said, looking at the island. The storm was beginning to subdue and they could all see a huge hole in the clouds over the island, allowing them to view the peaceful night sky.

"Let's go." Buddy said, getting into a boat with his siblings.

"I'm coming, too!" Noah yelled, jumping in with them. The boat lowered itself to the water as they paddled to the New Island.

New Island

The six paddled to a large, wide set of stairs that led into the castle. As they got closer, they spotted a 12-year-old Filipino girl; with mocha colored skin, light-pink glasses, shoulder-length black hair, and wore a red shirt, black skirt, black vest, black Mary-Janes, and red knee-high socks, sitting on the stairs.

That girl spotted them as they disembarked, giving a wide smile as she walked over to them. "Heeeey! Are you here to see Mewtwo?" she asked ecstatically.

"Uh, yeah… who are you?" Morgan asked.

"My name is Mikaela Corella! Call me Mika. I'm Mewtwo's apprentice!"

"His apprentice? So, you're a psychicbender!" Athena deduced.

Mika reached her open left hand out and lifted Buddy upwards using psychic, dropping him in the water. "That's right."

"Pleah! Great…" Buddy spat water out, annoyed as he climbed back on land.

"Come on! I'll take you to him!" Mika walked up the stairs as the six followed.

They soon reached a gargantuan double-door, with Mika stopping in front. "…Well? How does it open?" Buddy asked.

"Psychicbending, of course. Care to try?" Mika asked with a grin.

The four siblings stood before the door and focused their powers. In a few seconds, the door slowly opened.

"Well, that passes your first test." Mika said.

"So, where is he?" Buddy asked.

"Come on. Just up these stairs." Mika instructed, leading them through a large dining room and to a flight of spiraling stairs going straight up. (Play the "Prologue" Theme from Beauty and the Beast!)

The group of six, plus Mika, reached the room in the tallest windmill tower. On the other side from them was a strange, white being sitting in a chair, turned away from them, looking out the large window, the glowing full moon shining brightly. His head tilted up as he felt their presence. "Mika… who have you brought here?"

The girl bowed her head. "Master… these siblings here… they're psychicbenders. They're here to learn from you."

"Are you the master, Mewtwo?" Morgan asked. "We came a long way."

The being looked back down and closed his eyes. "Yes… I am Mewtwo. I'm afraid… you wasted your journey."

"What? You won't train us?" Buddy asked.

"No. It is far too dangerous. Only fools seek their own destruction."

"Destruction?"

"There is a reason so few psychicbenders exist in the cosmos. It all began years ago, when the Emperor Palpatine rose to power. He became the darkest Sith Lord in the galaxy… and even manipulated a heroic Jedi: Anakin Skywalker. Anakin was strong with the Light Side of the Force… but despite his strength, the Sith Lord manipulated his ways. Anakin became Darth Vader… and together, they eliminated all the psychicbenders. They spread fear and darkness, until… Vader killed Palpatine. Then he, himself, died shortly after. The point is… no matter how light a being may seem… no mortal can control such power. Psychic is a dangerous element. No one can imagine such power."

Mewtwo rose his right arm, and Buddy felt his neck be grabbed, being forcibly levitated as he choked.

"The power… to grab a man by the neck and choke him to death simply by seeing it happen in your mind. No mortal can master such power… without being manipulated by Darkness. This is why the humans shun us. I can see your pasts: you were hated and feared for your power, and you hope to master it to make things better. But you will only make it worse. You're better off just the way you are." With that, he dropped Buddy.

The male Quad stood back up and caught his breath. "…So? Just because Palpatine and Anakin were taken by Darkness, that doesn't say anything about us."

"It says everything." Mewtwo shot his head slightly right, his dark purple eye glaring at them. "No mortal can control this power. Psychic all relies on the mind. Without a clear mind, you are doomed. Bound to travel to the Dark Side. Even I could not control myself… I was created from the very DNA of a Firstborn. Mew. I was created by mankind… as a mere test subject. A mere copy. This angered my very soul, and I could not control myself!" Mewtwo angrily squeezed his right palm together. "I destroyed that island base with my psychic… and rebuilt this very castle over it. I forever remained here, away from humanity, and this storm was to keep out any intruder. But how could I expect a group of children to control the powers of psychic, when you can't even control the anger of those two there."

Morgan and Buddy exchanged glances and scratched their necks nervously.

"Two fools who fight day and day… will destroy each other. And this power will only help you faster. You are not ready."

Buddy thought for a second. "Well… what about Mika? You taught her."

"Mika… is different. She had a different sort of mind. Her psychic… her aura… was pink. She had a vibrant mind. She did not care for power or petty desires. Even after the death of her parents… her mind… was happy. I've never seen anything like it… since…" Mewtwo's mind seemed to wander off. He shook back to focus and continued, "But she is only one in a million. You are no different than any other mortal. You cannot be taught…"

"You still have to give us a chance." Buddy said. "Look… I know me and Morgan can't control ourselves… mainly her."

"Hey!" Morgan yelled.

"But not all psychicbenders can be bad. And if you don't give us a chance, we can never show the world what good the psychics can bring. You have to give us a chance. Please…" Mewtwo only looked away and closed his eyes.

"Mew…"

"What?" The master looked up to see a small, white catlike creature outside his window.

"Mew! Mew Mew Mew. Mew Mew Mew!"

"So… you're saying there's good in everyone. And that good won't be shown… unless they're given a chance?"

"Mew!"

"Hmm…" He shut his eyes. "Very well." The creature flew away as Mewtwo stood up and turned to face them. "I will teach you."

"Yes!" The siblings high-fived.

"Of course… I had planned to teach Mika further today. But no matter…" He walked over to his apprentice. "You will be given a substitute today." With that, he waved his right arm, and the Filipino girl immediately passed out.

"Mika!" Morgan exclaimed.

"She will be okay. The rest of you downstairs. We will begin your training." With that, Mewtwo led the others downstairs, leaving Mika unconscious.