Pokemon: Radical Redux

{Present Day}

Giovanni just got word from his admins that Moltress has been captured, which accelerates his plans tenfold, at the moment he was talking to an associate, or acquaintance, at the moment he didn't care he just needed their assistance.

The person was from Unova, none other than Ghetsis of Team Plasma, he placed an order, and due to the nature of what it was he just needed to pay a lot of money, thankfully he had just that.

Ghetsis was on the screen looking bored, "We have received your request, but my scientists are confused, the measurements do not match any known Pokemon."

Giovanni looked indifferent, "It's not your job to know, the deal is you get me what I want and I send your little organization Team Rocket's financial support."

Ghetsis shrugged "Fine, It's not like I care anyway, I need to get back to sending our 'king' into training, We should have it done and sent in 3 Months."

Giovanni nodded, "That is acceptable, as per the deal half now and the other half after we receive it."

Neither of them said anything as they hung up, Giovanni pushed a button indicating for his financial department to send the agreed-upon amount to Team Plasma

When he was done he walked out and walked to the Laboratories, it had been a few weeks and the scientist guaranteed him that it would work with no repercussions.

As he got in he saw multiple test tubes, one he was all too familiar with and another holding a young girl with blue hair.

"Sir!" the head scientist said, saluting him.

Giovanni waved him off, "How is the progress?"

"W-well sir we have successfully managed to clone the royal starters of Kanto using DNA from Legendary trainers, we could have started the genetic splicing to- '' the scientist said but was stopped by Giovanni.

"How many times do I have to say this, you will not be intentionally forcing alterations in Pokemon, Humans, or even a cardboard box, I don't want living creatures to be forced to be your playthings, clone or not, are we clear."

"C-crystal,"

Giovanni raised his head, "Good, now tell me about project Ambertwo and Mewtwo,"

"W-well sir the project has been going smoothly as I have said, but one abnormality is occurring."

"Well spit it out."

"Y-yes, well there are some strange brain waves between the two, almost as if they are communicating, which shouldn't be possible."

As he was saying that Giovanni looked at Ambertwo and thought, 'No it makes sense, especially since she's 'her' daughter.'

—

{Mewtwo}

In a dark empty void was the small figure of Mewtwo, a being that had recently woken up, "Where is this place?... Who am I?... Why am I here...?"

From the void, he heard a small cry, "Mew!"

"Who's that?"

"Mew!"

"Mew? Who's Mew?"

"Mew!"

"Wait, where you going?" but it was too late, Mewtwo was left alone, "Where is this place?... Who am I?... Why am I here?"

From the outside Mewtwo heard someone speaking, "We created Mewtwo from the analysis of the phantom Mew."

"The looks and figures may be slightly different, but we have done everything we can. Maybe this Mewtwo has even stronger powers than Mew. It is still sleeping though."

Mewtwo looked confused, "I'm already awake. But I can't see anything. I can't say anything. I can't feel anything. What am I?"

"Right now, Mewtwo is in a condition like that of a sleeping child. When this Mewtwo awakens we will know what the extent of its powers are.

"I am looking forward to it. If it really was created from the world's rarest Pokémon, then…"

"Someone is talking about me. But what is he saying?"

Then a soft voice was heard, "Those are words...human words..."

"Huh? Who are you?"

"I'm beside you. Right beside you."

"Right beside me?"

"I'm a human, born just like you."

"A human? Then I must be a human too!"

"We can talk, so maybe you're a human. Or maybe I'm a Pokémon."

"A human? A Pokémon? What's that? Which am I?"

"It doesn't matter. We were born in the same way." the voice of the little girl said. "All of us here were born in the same way."

"All of us?"

"Can't you hear? Everyone's voices...can you tell who they are?"

"Squirt Squirtletwo"

"Bulb Bulbasaurtwo"

"Char Charmandertwo"

"All of them..? Two? Two? Why is everyone twos?"

"We're all copies. So we're not number ones, but twos."

"Then I'm a two too?"

"I'm a two too. My name is Amber. But my real name is Ambertwo."

"Ambertwo?" Mewtwo asked

"Not the real Amber, but Amber number two. No, maybe I'm Amberthree."

"Amberthree?"

"Yes! That's right. One, two, three, four...If there's a one, there's a two. And if there's a two, next is three! It's not strange at all. See? One, two, three, four, five

Mewtwo joined in, "One, two, three, four, five."

"One, two, three, four, five...numbers, digits…" Ambertwo said in human speech

"One, two, three, four, five?" Mewtwo coped

"Isn't it great?" Ambertwo said excitedly

"Great?"

"Yeah. I don't care if I'm not real or whether I'm Ambertwo, Amberthree, or Amberfour...I mean, we're all here! This is really great!"

"One, two, three, four, five, six, seven?" Mewtwo said slowly

"That's right. And…"

"Eight, nine *Laughs*...ten! *Laughs*" Mewtwo started laughing

"Squirt Squirt Squirt!"

"Bulb Bulb Bulb!"

"Char Char Char!"

They all laughed and played the best way they could.

–

{In another day}

"Amber I...I want to know more...and more!" Mewtwo said

"Yeah! I'll teach you anything I know."

As they played together the void turned into a beautiful field, and in the sky, there was a bright sun.

Mewtwo looked to the sky, "Huh? Amber...I can see something. I can feel something. What's that?"

"You can feel it? You can see it?"

"Yeah."

"That's the sun."

"The sun?" Mewtwo asked

"It lights and warms us up. Wa~rm…"

"Wa~rm...Amber, what's that?"

"It's the stars and the moon. They're there to tell us that the night's not dark and scary. They're always shining at night."

"Shining~," Mewtwo said as it looked at the imaginary sky

As they were brought to reality Mewtwo saw a researcher eating what seemed to be cake and milk.

"Amber, what's he eating?" Mewtwo asked,

"That? Hehehe...that's cake and milk that a researcher is eating."

"Cake? Milk?" Mewtwo asked in confusion

"Cake is sweet..and soft...and adults sometimes eat it, but children love it!" Ambertwo said happily

"Then you must like it too, Amber," Mewtwo said excitedly

"I've never had it before. I mean, I can't eat in here, in the water."

"Hmm...How about milk?"

"It's something that newborn babies drink, not adults. But… hehehe. I've never had that either. I've cried before because I wanted it though."

–

{Nearly a month later}

"Why are we born?"

"Because there's a papa and a mama."

"Do we have a papa and a mama too?" Mewtwo asked, not fully understanding what he was asking

Ambertwo tilted her head "In our case, um...um...God, I guess."

"God?," Mewtwo stopped to think, "Amber, what are we?"

"You're a strange and a very wonderful Pokemon," Amber said, although they couldn't see each other, Mewtwo felt her smile.

"A Pokemon… Then you're a Pokemon too, Amber?

"No, I'm a human. But I'm a copy so...so…*Cough**Cough**Cough*" Ambertwo started coughing painfully, as the sound of dripping was heard.

Mewtwo felt fear, "What's wrong? What's wrong, Amber?"

From outside they could hear the sound of the people from before talking, "What is going on, you said that there would be no complications!"

"S-sir the cells we used are starting to diminish, due to the fact that this is quite new we effectively had to make Amber a new Pokemon, and as a human, her cells couldn't handle it."

"And what about the other three, they look as if they are also falling. What did you do?"

"S-sir we needed to cut some corners with these due to a miscalculation, their bodies were unable to handle such power-"

Inside the mindscape, Mewtwo was panicking, "Amber, answer me...Amber? What happened?"

Ambertwo giggled, "I think it's almost time for us to say goodbye. Mewtwo...live, all right? I'm sure living is wonderful."

Just then, even though they were in water Mewtwo felt a warm liquid exit from its eyes, "..I..I'm in the glass...in the water, but water is flowing from my eyes...what is this?"

Ambertwo giggled, "That's probably..tears."

"Tears?"

"Papa said all living things don't shed tears unless their bodies hurt. And the only ones who shed tears because they're sad are humans...Mewtwo…"

"Huh?"

"...Thank you for your tears. But Mewtwo, don't cry. You're going to live. And I'm sure that living is wonderful."

Mewtwo panicked, "Amber, they won't stop...The tears..what should I do? , answer me.. Please!"

With Ambertwo's last strength she said one last thing, "I know you might be mad, but please protect the world for my sake and give everyone a chance to be happy, just like … how you…made me…happyyy…"

The monitors attached to Ambertwo stopped indicating no life sense, and Squirtletwo, Bulbasaurtwo, and Charmandertwo did the same, leaving Mewtwo alone.

"As long as we have the analysis of Amber, we can make as many copies as I want." The researcher tried explaining.

Mewtwo was shocked, "Make them? As many as you want? That's not right. There's only one Amber. There was one Amber who talked to me."

Giovanni stepped in, "No, you said this wouldn't happen, you said there would be no complications in cloning, and that included death."

"S-sir you can't be serious, there just clones," the researcher scoffed

From the inside Mewtwo became angrier, "No, NO, Amber was real, my friends THEY WERE REAL, THE SUFFERING WAS REAL."

Giovanni looked at his researcher angrily, "It doesn't matter? You gave them a consciousness, a personality, will, you created them and you're willing to kill them off once they fail, no, you're done."

"S-sir don't be unreasonable here, we can start over, this time-"

"There won't be a next time, you failed to deliver what you promised, and even went directly against what I said, funding for this project will be destroyed as will all records, you will be allowed to work with the other researchers but if you do something like this again you're done, do I make myself clear."

"Y-yes sir…" the researcher said sheepishly

Mewtwo heard all of this as it started shaking in anger, "You want to pretend this never happened…YOU WANT TO PRETEND AMBER NEVER EXISTED."

From the monitor connected to Mewtwo's tube, the brainwaves started changing drastically, the water started to bubble around Mewtwo and it seemed like items around the room started moving.

The researcher quickly moved over to the monitor, "Sir, the brainwaves of Project Mewtwo are becoming agitated."

"Well what are you waiting for, tranquilize it," Giovanni said coldly as he stared down the tube.

He pressed a button as a bluish liquid was injected into the test tube and Mewtwo started calming down, "Tranquilizer injected, the brainwaves are calming down. Brain Waves are normal. Mewtwo is asleep."

"Good, we can't afford to fail, we only have one Eyelash so if this fails all our work will be useless."

Giovanni left it at that as he walked out of the room and called other scientists to relocate Mewtwo into a new lab, as for him, he had work to do.

—

{Inside Mewtwo's mindscape}

The once beautiful and sunny world was turned to pure darkness, leaving Mewtwo with only his thoughts.

'I fell asleep, why? About Amber and about the Pokémon made here...everything disappeared beyond my sleep. But...I was screaming. Over and over...I was screaming the same thing. Where is this place? Who am I? Who brought me here? Why does my chest hurt?'

As Mewtwo clutched its chest it remembered one conversation it had with Ambertwo,

-

"Amber, what makes us alive?" Mewtwo asked

Ambertwo clutched her chin, "Hmmmm, I guess it's…our hearts?"

"What's a heart?"

"Ummm it's like this thing in our chest that tells us we are alive! And it beats like a drum; bum, bum, bum!" Ambertwo said playfully

Mewtwo joined in, "Bum, bum, bum? But I don't feel anything in my chest so do I have a heart?"

"Uhhh, I don't know, I don't feel my heart either."

"Then, are we even alive?"

"Of Course, we are, hey how about we become each other's hearts!"

"Can we do that?"

"Yeah, you can be my heart, then I'll be yours!"

"But is that the same, if we weren't born with hearts then is it even a heart?"

"That doesn't matter, after all, we may not be born with hearts, but hearts can be born!"

-

And with that last thought the image of Amber faded leaving Mewtwo alone again.