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Pallet Town —
After a day, Ash and the others finally returned to Pallet Town from the port. Lance and the others had already gone back to report, while Neesha and her companions went their separate ways. This experience was definitely an unforgettable one for them.
They expressed that they would cheer for Ash during the Indigo Plateau Conference, as they were companions who had shared hardships, or rather, Ash was their savior. Of course, they had to watch the Indigo Plateau Conference.
Ash and his three companions returned to Pallet Town the next day at noon. Since they had already told Delia that they would be back by noon today, Delia had prepared a large table of dishes early.
After Ash and the others returned, they feasted. Immediately after, Ash bid farewell to Delia and went to the back mountain of Pallet Town.
This time, Misty and Brock did not accompany Ash, as this was a private conversation between Ash and Mewtwo. Whether Mewtwo could be reasoned with depended on this talk.
If others were present, some emotions might not be able to be expressed.
Arriving at the back mountain, Ash took out a regular Poké Ball and opened it. Mewtwo appeared from the Poké Ball, lying quietly on the ground.
To prevent Mewtwo from any drastic actions, Ash had not fully healed Mewtwo. He had only restored some of the injuries within Mewtwo's body, so that he would not feel so much pain, but he was not yet conscious.
However, after releasing Mewtwo, Ash felt something was wrong. From the outside, Mewtwo's injuries seemed to have recovered a lot. He walked in front of Mewtwo and was about to place his hand on Mewtwo's body to check Mewtwo's condition, but Mewtwo suddenly stretched out his hand.
Three spherical fingers tightly gripped Ash's wrist. The eyes that had been closed in deep sleep suddenly opened, and the purple eyes were filled with complex emotions.
"You have indeed woken up, Mewtwo."
'You underestimate my recovery ability.'
"So what? Do you still want to fight me?" Ash didn't continue to argue with Mewtwo but directly retorted.
Mewtwo remained silent.
Ash already knew the answer when he asked that question. Mewtwo's physical condition had recovered better than he had imagined; at least, from the outside, there were no visible injuries now.
This indicated that Mewtwo had mostly recovered last night, and with her strength, after regaining some power, breaking free from the Poké Ball would definitely be an easy task.
But she did not break free from the Poké Ball, indicating that her mind had calmed down a bit now.
'There's no need. A loss is a loss. The gap between you and me is still quite large. I really don't know how you, a human, trained to this extent.' Mewtwo was completely puzzled.
She, the strongest artificial Pokémon, had finally reached God Domain Level after countless hardships, but Ash, as a human, had already reached this level and gone even further within it. This was truly against all reason!
"I already said it's a natural talent... Since you don't want to fight, let's sit down and have a good talk." Ash said, sitting down on the ground. Pikachu also jumped down from Ash's shoulder, his eyes wide, looking very gossipy.
Mewtwo glanced at Pikachu, not paying much attention to this weak electric mouse: 'What do you want to talk about?'
"About Gardevoir's spiritual origin. Let the person involved come out for this matter too." Ash said, taking out Gardevoir's Poké Ball and releasing her.
A flash of light, and a mature blue-haired woman in an elegant long dress appeared in the clearing. As soon as Gardevoir appeared, she looked at Mewtwo with complicated eyes. At such a close distance, she could completely feel the connection between the power within her body and Mewtwo.
She was now at the Gym Junior level, but if she borrowed the power within her body, she could even touch Gym Senior or even Peak level.
She knew that power was not her own, but belonged to this Pokémon in front of her, but she really needed this power now... "Gardevoir." Do you want to take this power back?
Gardevoir's voice entered Mewtwo's ears. Mewtwo was stunned for a moment, then shook her head: 'There's no need. I have already reached God Domain Level, and the missing spiritual origin in my body can now self-repair. Although it will take some time, it doesn't matter. I have plenty of time.'
Mewtwo's words, on the contrary, stunned Gardevoir. She remembered Mewtwo being extremely agitated for the spiritual origin within her body, even causing the New Island incident. Now she was saying she didn't want it?
Then why did she cause the New Island incident?
"Really? I was thinking of helping you to see if we could extract the spiritual origin from Gardevoir's body. As long as it doesn't harm Gardevoir, you can take it back." Ash also widened his eyes, looking at Mewtwo with some surprise.
'Extract it? My spiritual origin can not only boost the growth rate of Psychic-type Pokémon, but also be used as a trump card move. Are you willing to part with it?' Mewtwo's voice sounded very calm, but if listened to carefully, one could still detect a slight abnormality.
"There's nothing to be unwilling about. For me, as long as Gardevoir is safe, that's all that matters. As for power... I will help her improve. If she can only become a top-tier Pokémon by relying on others' things, then wouldn't I, her Trainer, be too inferior?" Ash shrugged, speaking indifferently.
He genuinely didn't care much about that spiritual origin. It was certainly good to have, but it was someone else's after all. If the owner wanted it back, as long as it didn't harm Gardevoir, then giving it back was fine.
Blaine locked the spiritual origin within Gardevoir's body precisely to prevent Mewtwo from reaching God Domain Level, but now Mewtwo had already entered God Domain Level, and Blaine's blockade had failed.
However, Blaine feared Mewtwo reaching God Domain Level because he was afraid Mewtwo would commit evil in Team Rockets' hands, afraid Mewtwo would have twisted values, leading the entire world into chaos.
Yet, in Ash's view, the current Mewtwo... was incredibly lucid. The fact that she could sit here calmly and talk to him indicated that she had let go of the malevolence in her heart, at least temporarily.
Perhaps the two punches he landed on her face had worked.
'You... Since you don't care about that spiritual origin, why did you deceive me?'
"When did I deceive you? You misunderstood, alright? What you sensed in the Viridian Gym was this!" Ash grumpily took out two mega stones from his backpack.
He could finally tell the truth about this matter, and it had been stifling him quite a bit.
It was just a misunderstanding, yet this small misunderstanding directly destroyed a New Island!
Fortunately, there were no other Pokémon on New Island. Mewtwo's three cloned Pokémon also escaped quickly, so they didn't die. Team Rockets' black technology was also completely destroyed by that explosion. In the future, unless they research methods to clone Pokémon again, there should be no more cloned Pokémon.
As for Mewtwo, the moment she saw the mega stones, the genes deep within her body inexplicably trembled. She could also clearly feel the agitation of the power within her body.
'What is this... thing?' Because the mega stone was taken out of the spatial backpack, Mewtwo could perceive the power on the Stone more clearly.
Indeed, there was a power contained within it that belonged only to her. Although this power wasn't very strong, it seemed capable of further stimulating her potential. More importantly, this power was the same power she had sensed in the Viridian Gym back then.
In other words, Ash hadn't lied to her back then.
This power was different from the spiritual origin. Although she didn't know what this thing did, she knew that even if these two gems were given to her now, she wouldn't know how to use them, just as Ash had said back then, she wasn't ready for them yet.
Moreover, as long as she was still under Giovanni's control, Ash would never give her this item. After all, that would be aiding the enemy. Only someone with a broken brain would give that thing to the opponent, right?
Thinking that she had destroyed a small island and caused so much harm to many people and Pokémon because of a misunderstanding, Mewtwo's heart began to be filled with uncontrollable remorse.
She suddenly felt that Lance, and even Giovanni, were right; she was indeed a dangerous existence. Because of a moment of impulse, she had done such a thing. If Ash hadn't stopped her, the consequences would have been unimaginable.
This time, Ash stopped her, but what if Ash wasn't there? How serious would the situation have become? Even in the best-case scenario, the Elite Four would have come to stop her, and ultimately, the Elite Four and she would have perished together.
And the entire New Island, along with the three companions she created, might also have been buried with her.
Mewtwo's body trembled uncontrollably. Just then, a hand patted her shoulder.
"What are you thinking about? It's all in the past, there's nothing to dwell on. What we need to do now is look forward. No matter what happened in the past, as long as we don't repeat the same mistakes in the future, it's fine. Also, weren't you curious about what these two gems are? These two things are called mega stones."
Ash's comfort temporarily pulled Mewtwo out of her remorse. Although she was still somewhat overthinking, Ash's latter half of the sentence successfully diverted her attention from the New Island incident.
'mega stone? This is related to the MEGA Evolution you had Venusaur perform before, right?' Mewtwo had heard the term MEGA Evolution before. Venusaur, used by Ash for the first time, had indeed used MEGA Evolution, and that was truly a very mysterious power.
And was that power achieved through this gem? Come to think of it, she seemed to have vaguely seen a gem floating in front of Venusaur when Venusaur underwent MEGA Evolution. That gem was also very similar to the two gems in Ash's hand.
"That's right. MEGA Evolution requires the cooperation of a mega stone and a key stone, plus the bond between humans and Pokémon, to successfully unleash its ultimate power. At that time, you had no bond with Giovanni and were also a member of Team Rockets, so of course, I couldn't give you this item. But now..."
Ash said, handing the mega stone to Mewtwo. Mewtwo looked at the two large gems in front of her, somewhat stunned. Ash was giving her the mega stone so easily? Without any conditions?
"Take them. And in the future, when you find a Trainer you can trust, you can use this power. I believe that day will come."
Mewtwo was silent for a moment, then finally used Confusion to take the two large gems. As the two Stones approached her, they seamlessly integrated into her body.
Mewtwo could clearly perceive the presence of the Stone, and a certain power within her body was stirring, yet it couldn't emerge from her body no matter what. This should be what Ash was talking about, the locked power.
Only with the item called a key stone and a bond with a human could this thing be opened.
"Alright, I've said everything I needed to say. These three Poké Balls contain your three companions. They came back for you in the end. Even with a vast disparity in strength, they wanted to snatch you back from us. You have truly remarkable companions." Ash handed the cloned Starter Pokemon's Poké Balls to Mewtwo.
Mewtwo took them with a complex expression, then directly opened the Poké Balls and released the cloned Starter Pokemon.
At this time, the cloned Starter Pokemon had fully recovered. After all, they weren't Mewtwo; as long as the Poké Ball was locked, they couldn't forcibly escape. So Ash had completely healed them.
The released Starter Pokemon excitedly embraced Mewtwo upon seeing her, their faces showing relieved smiles. Mewtwo was surrounded by the Starter Pokemon, listening to their chattering, worried words, and a warm current surged in her heart.
However, after a moment, the Starter Pokemon's voices abruptly ceased, replaced by expressions of disbelief on their faces. They looked at Ash with Confusion, seemingly confirming something.
Finally, with Mewtwo's nod, they realized Mewtwo wasn't joking. So they exchanged glances and all nodded at Mewtwo.
Ash and Pikachu both tilted their heads, not knowing what they were communicating in secret. Mewtwo must have been using telepathy to converse, so they couldn't hear Mewtwo and the Starter Pokemon's conversation, only see their facial expressions.
And from the occasional words revealed by the Starter Pokemon, Mewtwo seemed to have made an unbelievable decision. As for what decision... it would be a ghost if he could know.
'It's all arranged, Ash. You can hand these three over to the Elite Four of the League, and let the Elite Four give them to reliable Trainers, even though they are cloned Pokémon, they are actually no different from ordinary Pokémon, except for some patterns on their bodies. With their strength, it shouldn't be difficult to find Trainers with good character.'
Ash was stunned, then subconsciously asked, "You're not taking them with you?"
'I'm not leaving. I'm staying too, because I've found the Trainer I can trust.'