Chapter 49:  Psychics and Psychos (Part A) by Michael Keens/ Exodus  

The cool breeze brushed through my hair as I stared out into the ocean on 
Beryl’s ship, we were currently on our way back home to Fuchsia City.  
Finally, I had achieved a trainers main goal, after a lot of trouble, the 
Legend Badge was mine, completing my set of eight Gym Badges.  
Beryl was at the wheel as usual, Emily was playing with her smaller Pokémon, 
Blossom and Spiral, and Abby was on her own, viewing her Pokédex.  
I sat next to her and smiled, Emily was too busy to notice and probably get 
jealous.  
“How many entries have you got?” I asked.  
“Not many, just my Pokémon...” she answered.  
“Do you wanna add a few... hundred?” I joked.  
She smiled, knowing that there wasn’t that many known Pokémon around these 
parts.  
“Are you sure, you must have gone through a lot of trouble for those.” she said 
reluctantly.  
I joined up my Pokédex with hers, Emily gave me the software in the first 
place, but I could share my Pokédex entries with my other friends too.  
“Hey, we’re friends, and I have a feeling you’ll need to learn as much as you 
can when you start your training...  Are you sure I can’t convince you to stay 
at my place?” I spoke kindly.  
“I... have another friend that I haven’t told you about...  She said I could 
stay with her until the Pokémon League.” explained Abby.  
“You’re a soldier you are, I don’t know what I’d do if I didn’t know where I 
came from...” I complimented.  
“I suppose I’m dealing with it, but I hope I find out who I truly am at the 
Pokémon League...”  
The link had ended, and I was surprised to see my Pokédex counter go up by 
two.  
I frantically searched through the entries until I found the new additions, and 
my eyes widened.  

“Mew, the New Specie Pokémon.  An extremely rare Pokémon that was thought to be 
extinct.  But a growing number of people have seen it recently.”  

“Mewtwo, the Genetic Pokémon.  Only vague science notes tell of this Pokémon, 
apparently a genetically enhanced version of the rare Pokémon Mew, its psychic 
power is unmatched by any Pokémon.”  

“Abby...  These are two of the rarest Pokémon around...  How did you get 
these?!...” I questioned firmly.  
“... I don’t know...  I never went that far down the list...  Nor did I realise 
I had more entries than I’d ever checked...” she answered nervously.  
“This is very strange...  This is your Pokédex, isn’t it?” I asked.  
“Of, of course.” she spluttered.  
“What’s going on?” asked Emily.  
“Check your Pokédex.” I said firmly, while Abby seemed very uncomfortable.  
“... Mew and Mewtwo...” she pondered upon seeing them.  
“Abby, you must know something about this, or did someone else record this?...” 
I asked.  
“I... don’t know...  I really don’t...” she said, close to tears.  
“I’m, I’m sorry...  I won’t go into this anymore if it’ll cause you 
discomfort...  But... what if this has something to do with your past...” I 
said, reviewing the Pokédex, “Mewtwo and Mew:  Psychic-types...  This could 
very well be the link to your past...  Except, we can’t do anything about 
it...”  
Abby sighed, as did I, before something exploded in the waters, close to us.  
“Arrrr!!!” screamed Beryl, “What’s goin’ on here?!”  
I turned around and saw a huge black ship with the letter R plainly placed at 
the front of it.  
“Rockets!” I shouted, and drew a Pokéball.  
“Tetsubo please, don’t let them harm my boat.” pleaded Beryl.  
I nodded in reply, and released Bahamut from his Pokéball and leapt onto him as 
he instinctively took off.  
“Be careful Tetsubo...” called Emily, and Abby simply stared with the utmost 
confidence in me.  
“Bahamut, use your Dragon Rage.”  
“Fire!” called a Rocket Grunt, and a huge cannonball came shooting at us, and 
exploded.  
“Boooaaarrrggghhh!!!”  
“Hyper Beam!!!” I shouted, and Bahamut charged up, but several cannonballs 
followed and exploded, their power was astounding, and Bahamut screamed in 
pain.  
One final bomb exploded, and sent myself and my blackened Dragonite down, he 
used the last of his strength to steer himself towards the ship, and we crash 
landed on Beryl’s.  
“Tetsubo...” said Abby concerned.  
“Return...” I said, and the Rocket ship grew closer, “Bahamut’s not at full 
strength since its last battle...”  
“Tetsubo...  They’re too close, this ship means everything to me, I can’t 
afford to buy another.  This has to stop.” pleaded Beryl.  
“I know, I’m sorry Beryl, but your boat can be replaced, our Pokémon can’t.” I 
replied.  

“Its them.” whispered a Rocket on the radio, “What do you want us to do now?”  
“Capture them, and bring them to New Island.” replied a dark voice.  

“Beryl!” I shouted, “I’m not giving up without a fight, I’ll try to protect the 
boat, but surrendering is not an option!”  
“Alright! Go! Anchor!”  
“Blastoise!”  
“Water Gun attack!”  
“Blast!!!”  
He deflected another cannonball with the blast, but several more came down.  
“Twinkill!”  
“Shelly!”  
“Leviathan...”  
“Star!”  
“Clllloysterrr...”  
“Gaaaargghhh!!!”  
The three Water Pokémon assisted in deflecting the cannonballs, but a sly 
Rocket used the confusion to shoot a grappling hook towards Beryl, it wasn’t a 
normal grappling hook, the ends were like Krabby pincers, that snapped shut 
around Beryl.  
“Stop this struggle, or else she gets crushed!” the wielder of the device 
threatened.  
We all stopped, and turned to Beryl, who was very scared, but we were unable to 
do anything, or we’d be risking her life.  
“We don’t want to take your Pokémon, not yet anyway, we’ll let the girl and her 
boat go, but only if you three come along with us to that island over there to 
show you something.” the leading grunt ordered.  
I frowned, and recalled Twinkill, as did the others with their Pokémon, we 
really had no choice.  
The Rocket ship came closer so that we could step on it.  
Beryl was released, and left on her ship, she gave us a worried look, but I 
returned a confident gaze, telling her to leave for now.  

It didn’t take long before the ten Rockets led us onto the island, they were 
fully armed, so a Pokémon Battle now would only result in a loss, besides, I 
was curious at why they had to bring us here, who was behind this, and what did 
they want to show us?...  

The island in general was plain, grass patches were scattered here and there 
but not really worth mentioning since there were so few.  
We ended up on a wide cliff overlooking the rest of the island, and the Rockets 
surrounding us stopped and turned to face us.  
“We got them.” one called out, and the whirring of a machine could be heard, 
and got louder as a metal cacoon-like object rose up on a platform along with 
the Screwloose Brothers standing at the sides.  
“So great to see you three again, its been a while.” said Willy confidently.  
“We’re only here cos you threatened our friend’s life, if you’re only up for a 
battle than between us three we can handle all of you.” I threatened, although 
to make good on that promise would be difficult.  
“No, we’re not up for just a battle, only your unfortunate demise.” grinned 
Billy.  
“We’ve heard that before, and we’re still here.” ventured Emily.  
“Yes, but you’ve never had to deal with him before.” smiled Willy darkly.  
With that, the metal cacoon opened, its parts on the front, back and sides 
sliding down in no particular pattern until a Pokémon was revealed, a tall pale 
purple humanoid cat, bound by wires and covered with metal armour and head 
parts.  
“A Pokémon so rare, its the only one of its kind.” stated Billy.  
“It couldn’t be...” I stated nervously, reaching out for the Pokédex and 
getting back to my recent entries, “Mewtwo?...”  
“Guess you never discovered the truth, that Mewtwo is an enhanced clone of a 
Mew, reborn from the work of the greatest scientists.” explained Willy.  
“I remember seeing reports of such a Pokémon when a Team Rocket base was 
destroyed last year.” offered Emily, “Everyone heard about that.”  
Abby gazed absently at Emily, “Well, maybe not everyone.”  
Abby turned her sights back to the mysterious Pokémon, and had a curious but 
worried look on her face.  
“Shut up!” shouted Billy, “Stop interrupting!”  
“Thank you Billy, yes, the scientists were financed by Team Rocket to create 
Mewtwo, but he turned on them and destroyed them, followed by a Team Rocket 
base after the boss of Team Rocket tried to control Mewtwo.  Since then he’s 
seemingly been flying around trying to stay hidden, but Team Rocket and us have 
been looking for him for quite some time.” continued Willy.  
“You speak as if Team Rocket and you are separate in all this.” I inquired.  
“In a way, yes.  We haven’t actually reported back to the other Rockets about 
capturing and manipulating Mewtwo, but we’ve got our own agenda, probably the 
reason we got involved with Team Rocket.” replied Billy.  
“That misfit cat destroyed our parents, they were part of the group of 
scientists that were murdered when this psycho was first created! We’ve longed 
for revenge since and finally we have it!” explained Willy, his rage showing.  
“It’d be nice to have this Pokémon killed for what he did, but to enslave his 
power and use him as a weapon forever? It not only benefits Team Rocket but 
satisfies our need for vengeance.” added Billy.  
“His power will be used to kill the enemies of Team Rocket, and then probably 
all who oppose us in our plans for world domination.” Willy finished.  
“Enemies of Team Rocket?...” questioned Emily nervously.  
“Uh huh, and if I’m not mistaken, you three have been pretty big thorns in the 
sides of all Rockets, looks like you’re in for some pretty horrid ends.  Awaken 
Mewtwo! And kill these three trainers!” shouted Willy.  
“I can’t wait to report this to the Boss once we’re done, he doesn’t even know 
we managed to capture Mewtwo.” said Billy with glee.  
Glowing blue eyes could be seen through the black cover over Mewtwo’s eyes, the 
wires glowed with energy and unwrapped, the all-powerful Psychic Pokémon rose 
into the air and drew its arms back to charge energy.  
I froze up as the ball grew huge before long and was unleashed.  
I shielded my eyes as the psychic sphere came down at us, and then heard a 
swooping sound and the explosion, but my body wasn’t damaged, the fierce winds 
were all I felt, so I opened my eyes to see a couple of talons gripping my 
shoulders, and belonging to a Fearow, also carrying Emily and Abby but on its 
back.  
“That’s Beryl’s...” I muttered, as the bird swiftly dived down and landed a 
small distance from the ten grunts now lying unconscious on the floor.  
“Thank goodness you’re okay.” called Beryl from not too far away, “I couldn’t 
let you guys sacrifice yourselves for me and my boat.”  
“Its no longer about sacrifices, its about a powerful Psychic Pokémon trying to 
kill us!” I shouted.  
“How do we beat something like that? Get help?” inquired Emily.  
“I don’t think anyone will, or can help us.  Nor is there time to escape, looks 
like we’re fighting.  Agreed?...  Abby?...” I questioned.  
Abby was staring at the Pokémon, biding its time and slowly floating after us, 
“Why is it so familiar?...” she muttered.  
“We have to act fast! The only thing I can think to do is to smash that machine 
we saw, it might weaken or erase the brothers’ control.  But we can’t do it 
with Mewtwo on our cases, someone has to lead it away.” I briefed.  
“I’ll do it.” said Abby rather quickly.  
“But why Abby?” questioned Emily with genuine concern.  
“I can’t explain it, but I know that Pokémon somehow, I’m the only one that 
stands a chance of reaching out to it.  Try to disable the machine and see if 
it works, but I’ll attempt to free it in my own way.” she said firmly.  
“That’s very brave.” said Beryl, “But impossible without a speedy Pokémon.”  
With that she released her Scyther, “Slash, allow this girl to ride you and to 
instruct you, it may just save me and the others.”  
“Scy.” it nodded rather surprisingly, Scythers weren’t usually so tame.  
“Alright, let’s go!” I shouted, the two teams leading off in different 
directions...  

“Circle round that Pokémon.” instructed Abby, and Slash swiftly obeyed.  
“Hey you!” she shouted, “Yeah you! I’m right here.”  
Mewtwo let out a grunt as it flung a couple of psychic spheres down.  

We doubled back to the brothers and their machine while Mewtwo turned left and 
started after Abby.  
“Heh, looks like the young and annoying one will go first.” grinned Willy.  
“Move aside.” I threatened, “We outnumber you.”  
“Do you now? How long has it been since we actually engaged in a Pokémon 
Battle? 
We’re much more prepared now!” said Billy confidently.  
With that, six Pokéballs spun in the air and landed, unleashing the brothers’ 
evolved Pokémon and introducing two newbies.  
“KOKEKOKE!”  
“Mag-na-ton!”  
“Parrrasecta!”  
“Waaaak!”  
“Po-ry-gon!”  
“Ditto!”  
“Go!” I shouted, as did Emily and Beryl as we unleashed our fighting force...  

“Agility.” ordered Abby.  
“Scyther!”  
The mantis deftly vanished to one side, and then again as destruction rained 
down and exploded, Abby and Slash continued to sprint forward, but they neared 
a small cliff hanging over the valley, which now revealed the ruins of a fairly 
old structure below.  
The Mewtwo almost let out a scream, and several glowing balls were scattered 
and came crashing down.  
The Scyther had to stop itself as an explosion occurred just ahead of it, but 
then another happened just behind, and catapulted both the Pokémon and Abby 
over the edge...  
Before Abby blacked out, she whispered:  “I remember...”  

Meanwhile, topside:  We had just engaged in a six Pokémon melee with the 
Screwloose Brothers.  
“Cllloysterrr...”  
“Maro!”  
“FEAR!...”  
“Toise!”  
“Freeee!!!”  
“Magmar...”  
Emily’s Cloyster charged towards the Kingler, and slammed its shell shut, only, 
the large pincer of the Pokémon managed to keep it wedged open, and with the 
other hand, it slammed into the pearl that was Shelly’s weak point...  
The Marowak leapt at the Magneton, who instinctively blasted out waves of 
electricity, but Graveyard spun it bone fast to deflect the attacks back at the 
machine Pokémon.  
It glowed as if in anger, and unleashed several star shaped projectiles (Swift 
attack) that pushed the Marowak back long enough to unleash a Sonic Boom 
tornado that lifted the Marowak uncontrollably into the air and spinning 
immensely...  
Beryl’s Fearow dived headlong at the Porygon, but it glowed gold, and then took 
the stabbing peck without too much damage.  
The Fearow turned itself around for another go but energy glowed at the 
Porygon’s beak, and a beam of fire, followed by ice, followed by electricity 
blasted out and got a clear hit on the Fearow, dropping it down to the 
floor...  
My Butterfree flew up into the air to prepare for an attack, but as it fired a 
Confusion attack down, the Ditto transformed into a Butterfree and flew up to 
get it.  
The Psychic attack missed and the Ditto retaliated with Gust attack to hit it 
big, unfortunately for us, Dittos not only gained the form of the Pokémon it 
imitated, but all of its abilities, including its attacks, of which, Flutter 
had pretty much learned them all...  
Beryl’s Blastoise charged forward at the Dodrio, withdrew into its shell and 
threw itself into the three headed bird, the Dodrio remained where it was and 
was slammed into, followed up by the Blastoise pulling its limbs out of the 
shell and slapping its large tail around, along with punching arms.  
The Dodrio took it all in, and then retaliated by simply pecking the 
Blastoise’s head with all three of its own, it had used Rage to pump up its 
attack power, now it was a match for the Blastoise...  
Finally, my Magmar took on the Parasect, Fire Versus a Grass/ Bug-type seemed 
no problem, or so I thought.  
The Parasect scuttled back and sprayed several different attacks to cloud the 
area in front of it, one with Spore, one with Poison Powder, and the other with 
Stun Spore.  
It didn’t stop there, in the moments it took Lavos to decide how to go about 
getting past, green lights floated into the Parasect from behind its dusty 
walls, it was enhancing its special abilities.  
Lavos ran forward, willing to take in the Stun Spore to get a hit in, but 
before it got close, the Parasect leapt out, it had a resistance to its own 
powders, and had slashed Lavos hard, and followed up with a lot of 
scratching...  
I just hoped Abby was doing better than we were, for her sake...  

End of Chapter 49A  

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