“Bubbles use Bubbles!” the Wartortle shot a string of bubbles, which happened to pop in the eyes of Runes, who screamed in pain, and they immediately ran for the nearest source of water to clean their eyes of the burning pain. She managed to escape the dining room, although somewhat reluctantly, in the pursuit of the bridge. 

The deeper and deeper she went the heavier the security got, surely the pilot’s room couldn’t be that far off. Well, indeed it was, down the hall was a door labeled with a gold plate saying Captain’s Bridge in cursive. Confidently, Steel swung open the door, but her face fell in a second. On the floor was the body of the captain, in a pool of his own blood.

He was dead. A Rune killed the captain!! Steel clenched her fists and glared to the only other person in the room. From the back she couldn’t tell if it was male or female, whoever it was, they were… strange. The wheel of the ship was moving on its own while glowing purple surrounded it and they had a… a tail? It was moving on its own and flicking around. 

Holy hell, it was real…

What the hell was this person?!

The redhead turned around to reveal that they were a woman, she flipped her long ponytail over her shoulder and stared at Steel.

“All passengers are supposed to be in the dining hall.”

“What are you?” Steel asked after swallowing a lump.

“Mewtwo.” She gasped. She had heard rumors of that Mewtwo, it was a pokémon. It was one of a kind, a science experiment gone wrong, and the terror of the Cerulean city Caves.

“How can that be? Mewtwo… Mewtwo is a pokémon!”

“No matter.”

Mewtwo blasted Steel with a psychic blast, striking her down to the ground. Did… did she just hit her with psychic power? Mewtwo swept her arm before her, creating a shroud of mist around her.

“Alright… Go Bubbles!” Mewtwo started at the turtle. She barely blinked and it was sent flying into the wall, leaving him unconscious. Steel grit her teeth and let out Kate, now Butterfree, and commanded it use a sleeping spore. Mewtwo simply used psychic waves to send it back flying to Steel, taken back, she to took in some of the green powder and Kate was shot down.

That was two of her four pokémon, might as well be three since Seaa wouldn’t even be able to battle properly without the water. Steel was starting to feel the effects of sleeping powder as Paris was defeated.

“Forget the Horsea. You are defeated.”

Well damn, she knew about Seaa the whole time…

“What are you?!”

“…I will tell you for what little time you have left, you are no threat to me. I have obtained the powers of Arcus, the forbidden power of PokeSoul… human and pokémon as one.”

Steel gasped faintly. This woman… she managed to capture Mewtwo and become one with it? This… this was just impossible!

“I can see boy your face, despite your pathetic struggle to stay awake, you are quite perplexed about this, don’t question it so hard. This is something everyone could do, I was directly exposed to the radiation of the tablets and I gained more than enough power to control Mewtwo.” Steel couldn’t register anything properly as she slipped unconscious, the words made no sense, she could feel her body lift into the air and dangle. “Now to end your troublesome antics…”

Mewtwo’s finger’s curled slowly, the purple hand that held a tight hold on Steel’s head added more pressure to her skull. Before the deed could be done she was taken surprise by a Scyther, Galvin’s Scyther, needless to say it was not pleased with his master’s dear friend being treated like this. It hissed and readied its scythes.

She would have easily gotten rid of the bug if it wasn’t for yet another interruption, the coast guard arrived with their sirens wailing as loud as they could. She grunted. She must not be seen now by the authorities but first the kid… but Steel and the Scyther was gone. She tsked. This was unbecoming. With a snap of fingers and in a whirl of purple the wheel jerked to the right, shaking the ship as she vanished.

Galvin sat by pitifully as he watched his two friends placed upon stretchers and taken away, Brass had some sort of non-lethal poison in his system like most of the passengers while Steel suffered mild head trauma from… whatever she was doing. He received the lower of the damage scale, simple scratches and bumps.

“Ga…l…vin…” Steel called from her stretcher, reaching out for her. The medics stopped in surprise, they were sure she was out cold. Galvin pushed through the crowed to her side. He gingerly took her hand, putting on weak smile.

“Yes?”

“Mew…”

“Mew?”

“Mewtwo… it was Mewtwo.” That was all she said before she slipped into sleep once more with a limp hand falling from Galvin’s grasp, hanging off her stretcher. Galvin frowned.

Mewtwo.

What could that even mean?