Do Mews make good fighters? Discalimer- The Shadow Gang do not belong to me. They belong to Chrissie Chimeria. Pokemon do not belong to me I wish they did but they don't. As I promised another fight. She eyed the corridor in front of her. Her pupils dilated to make her sight clearer. To anyone looking through, all that could be seen were two pinpricks of green. Slowly she crawled out of her corner. Susan had been looking for Ash, Misty, and Brock but soon after she had felt tired and had crawled into a vent. When she woke up everyone seemed to missing. She had gone back to her cell and had scratched an arrow. It was too low for an adult to find. After leaving the mark to reassure Ash and the others she had gone on looking around the center. She wasn't afraid- Mews are almost incapable of fear- but she was curious about the darkness and lack of people. She found herself in one of the main healing rooms. Around her the Pokemon were waking up. Without the machines working the drugs had worn off. Few in this room were seriously injured. One Growlithe seemed to be leading the other Pokemon. He was releasing the least injured ones from their containers. He seemed to have a small following of different types. The catch seemed to be blocking his way. Finally a Bellsprout cut it and the Meowth leaped out. The small company started to look around the room for any other fit additions to their band. Susan watched them, weighing up the pros and cons of showing herself. The small firedog took the decision from her. It started to sniff about the darkened room. Some of the others including a baby Ryhorn and a Gloom also found her scent and they came over to the door. Susan stayed in her place. None of the Pokemon in front of her scared her. She could beat any on a one on one however well trained they were. As they got to the doorframe they began to look around for the source of the scent. She was inside a deep shadow so they couldn't see her. "Come out. We know you're there," the Growlithe shouted out. Slowly and gracefully she moved out swinging her tail from side to side. She stopped a couple of feet from him, staring all the while into his eyes. "You wanted to speak to me?" she said emotionlessly. The Pokemon stared in shock at the legend in front of them. All but the Growlithe stepped back and stared at each other in amazement. The Growlithe looked shocked but it held its ground. "Are you a Mew?" Susan began to wash herself. "Yes I am a Mew." She stared at him again. "What are you planning to do?" The Growlithe looked at her in puzzlement. "We are trying to get back to our masters. Something is wrong here. Can't you sense it?" Susan made no reply but finished her washing. She turned her back. "I am looking for three trainers, two boys and a girl. One of the boys has a Pikachu that he keeps out. If you see them tell them that I am free and am looking for them." "Why don't you come with us?" The question surprised Susan and Blue but they showed no signs of it. She turned and looked at him. "Everyone knows that you are a powerful Pokemon, but can you handle this all by yourself?" "What are you suggesting?" "You know that something is wrong. Everyone is missing- so are the Chancy's, the lights are out." "You suspect human intervention." She was staring at him more keenly. "You are very intelligent for a Pokemon." She was quiet for a moment thinking over the possibilities. Finally she nodded. "Yes I think it would be a good idea. The more elements we've got together the better chance we have of surviving." The Pokemon behind the Growlithe were scared at first of the thing they had thought of as a legend, but soon they introduced themselves. Susan was friendly to them, not overly so but enough to make them feel comfortable. The small included as well as the Growlithe, a Venomoth, a Meowth, a Gloom, a Vaporeon, the baby Rhyhorn, a Raichu, and a Sandslash. Susan and Inferno- the Growlithe led the party. Inferno was looking at Susan who walked slightly ahead of him considering her. Suddenly he stopped, his ears pricking. The cat in front him also stopped. The other Pokemon looked nervous. "What's wrong." "Someone is coming" Inferno growled. "Back into the shadow over there" Susan voice echoed in their heads making them all back down into the shadow. Inferno stayed up with Susan, both staring at the turn in front of them. "What do you think it is?" he asked suddenly. The pink face didn't move "I think that it's a human, probably female." She looked back at him. "Are you sure you wont back down with the rest of them?" Inferno looked surprised "Are you worried for my safety?" "I don't like seeing weak Pokemon die because of me. Your duty is with Joe your master. What will he do if you die?" This set Inferno back thinking. He was thinking of joining the others and had started to move, but it was too late. The sound of the slow footsteps began to rebound off the walls. In the darkness of the corridor a new shadow moved slowly out. In pure fear all of the Pokemon launched their most powerful attacks. Dust flew everywhere as some of them missed. Inferno stared at the dust cloud. As it slowly cleared, the lights seemed to flicker and they cast some light on the edge of the corridor. Susan was floating up in the air blocking the person behind her. She had set up a reflect just in time to intercept their attacks. Inferno was confused until he saw who the person she was protecting was. It looked like a young girl. The girl was a redhead about eleven or twelve and she was carrying a red swimming bag. Her eyes were screwed shut. Slowly she opened them to look around. Susan turned round. "Hallo Misty. Where are Ash and Brock?" "Susan… is that you? I was so worried. I thought something had happened to you. Ash and Brock… well I don't know. They just disappeared. I don't know where they are. Who are your friends?" she asked smiling at the last comment. "They are just some Pokemon I met up with. You might as well join us. We are trying to find what has happened to all the people here." When Misty agreed she told the other Pokemon in their own language. As they walked up another dark corridor Misty looked down at the cat at her side and the dog at the other. "Has he been giving you hard time?" She said smiling again. "Why do think a fire dog Pokemon would scare me? I could beat him in battle so what is there to be afraid of?" "Why haven't you changed back to human yet or do you like that body so much?" Misty wasn't sure, not knowing Mew emotion very well, what Susan was thinking but she seemed to pick up her pace a bit. On her right Inferno pricked up his ears, -human form? But in front of them the Venomoth had stopped flying. They had come to the central door leading into the main body of the Police Station. (The police had requisitioned part of the police center as the army had taken over the police station.) Slowly they entered a huge cavernous room, which walls were out of sight, deep in shadow. A quick movement to Susan's right made her turn and stare but she couldn't find its source. Another movement attracted her attention, and then another. The other Pokemon had noticed these as well and had begun to back until they were in a circle. "What's happening?" Misty whispered frightened. Susan ignored her and began to move away from the group. She was trying to cast a wide net of thin physic power designed to tell her where the Pokemon were. She closed her eyes and began to concentrate. Her power was a bit like echolocation. She could sort of feel where the edges and the room were and what was inside it. She could sense the Pokemon behind her and knew who each was. Darts and pulling in her web was coming from all directions. What ever they were they seemed skilled just touching her web as if to tease her and then disappearing through it. It was almost as if they could cut through it, but that was impossible. Nothing could cut through physic. Feeling curious she opened her eyes again. What ever they were she would have to find them using only her eyes. Behind her she could her the soft pads of Inferno as she slipped up to her. "What are they and why do they keep moving so quickly?" "I'm not sure what they are but…" Her voice was cut out as Misty uttered a small shrill scream behind her. As they turned they saw that the weird Pokemen had stopped moving. They were standing still at the moment so Susan tried to get a good sight of them. But however much she stared all she could see were black shadows and red eyes. There were about a dozen of these sharp bright red points glinting from the shadows. Suddenly they sprung forward at the two small groups. Susan and Inferno were the only ones to get out the way of there first strike. Susan had seen the tensing up in their eyes just in time and Inferno happened to be in the way of her leap. They rolled in a ball of red and pink fur in to the nearby wall. Susan was up almost immediately and leaped across at one of the shadows. He jumped sideways out of the way of her first claw strike but this meant that he was on the defensive immediately instead of being able to start an attack. He brought up one limb and the then the other blocking two more claws aimed at his face but her tail then got a clear slash at his stomach. This drew blood through the cut wasn't very deep. His response was a quick series of jabs with two forelimbs. Susan had to retreat back blocking his hits. She still couldn't get a clear picture of whatever it was. It seemed to be as big as she was, but she was wasn't sure how many arms or legs it had. His attacks seemed to become more fluid and quicker, forcing her back even further. His left forelimb struck her very hard and her guard was knocked away. His nest strike was slower and more powerful that all the others before it. His paw seemed to glow black as he threw it at her. But he was underestimated her speed and she had leaped over his arm. In the air flying towards his head her tail arched back and flew forward toward his throat. He managed to raise one of his limbs to shield his face and her tail sliced this in half. In the couple of seconds it took Susan to land on the floor her mind seemed to go through a lifetime of shock. The thought had supposed to proclaim shock and amazement but Susan suddenly didn't feel any of these. She felt calm and controlled. This Pokemon had challenged her by trying to kill her, so it would have to take the consequences even if these meant death. She landed facing him, already having turned in the air. He had also whipped round but he was quicker and he hit her in the chin with his head knocking her in to the air. Just as she managed to balance herself in the air with the usage of telekinesis another shadow hit into her back knocking her right down back at the warrior she was facing. He readied one limb and slashed her as deep as he could across her chest. The cut was worse than the one she had given him, it stretched from her throat down in a deep cut across her stomach. She landed in a heap just managing to ready herself before he swept in again with another long series of hard flicks and jabs. Though she had to keep blocking Susan felt as if her chest was on fire. It wasn't just the deep cuts; there was something else about his touch that hurt her more than she had ever felt before. But she kept her nerve and kept hitting away his paunches looking for an opening. He didn't seem to have a tail but he used his legs and arms so quickly they seemed to be like a blur. She was also able to use all her arms and legs; though not as quick as he could, she had a super quick tail. This saved her from many injuries during the nest two minutes, striking at his face making him back down just when he had got an opening. They were both four-legged Pokemon but most of the fighting took place on their haunches. It was in the opening two minutes of his renewed attack that she fared the worse in. After that she began to ignore her cut and concentrate more on defending herself. His attacks became more and more wild as she closed herself down. Finally he threw a wild jab at her head. In a technique she didn't know she knew, she pulled his limb towards her with one hand and cracked down on it with the elbow of the other breaking the joint of what must have been an arm. As he reeled back shocked she raked his face and throat with her fore paws and in one quick movement stuck her tail up through his stomach. He didn't make a noise, not one squeal, or cry; he just slipped off her tail and subsided against the floor. She turned from him to look how the rest of the fight was going. Most of the Pokemon on her side were out cold on the floor with a few bloodstains on them. Only Inferno and the Venomoth were still up and they looked pretty beat up. Of the twelve shadow things that had attacked them only her one was down and most of the others had no injury. Only two were fighting, the others were sitting looking on. Venomoth was flying above his enemy, which had stopped most him receiving any physical attacks. Instead the shadow Pokemon was shooting black bolts of energy. These looked like a form of physic power but they felt different to her. Venomoth seemed to be weathering these quite well but as his attacks were pitiful he was probably going to lose anyway. He was sinking lower and lower with each attack and finally he was within jumping range and he fainted from the violence of the other's attacks. Inferno was backed against a wall firing flame-thrower after flame-thrower. His enemy seemed to enjoy teasing him. He kept jumping just out of the fire's reach. Susan jumped in a graceful arc towards them, her tail already tensing up for a wide slash but just before she reached them something large and heavy crashed into her side knocking her sideways. As she landed she wiped her tail in front of her. This was just in time, the shadow creature had followed her up, and her slash made him back away. After the last fight she was ready to attack. Her back legs coiled and sprung forward clawing at his upper torso. He managed to block these and he was going to start a counter-attack when she plowed on through. She kept slashing and slashing gaining more and more speed. Inferno and his opponent had stopped and were looking on. Inferno suddenly noticed that his shadow creature was moving off towards the fight. He leaped on to the back of it trying to find its neck with his teeth. But they seemed to slide off without getting a fix. He fell to the ground beside him. He didn't even feel the pain of a bite to his neck, it was so quick. Susan was slashing and hitting her opponent relentlessly. He wasn't getting the time to block most of them and already he was bleeding. She concentrated on the area behind him and pushed out some power. One behind she whipped her tail behind his leg and tripped him onto the ground. She prepared her tail above his throat. "What kind of Pokemon are you?" The dark shadow writhed below her tail. A quick movement behind her caught her eye. As she turned a black ball of energy crashed into her side. It threw her back across the whole room into a pillar. It first cracked, then crumbled covering her with rubble. It wasn't the pain from being thrown into the pillar that hurt. Her side was quivering and shaking. Her breath came out short and painfully. Even Mewtwo's blasts hadn't brought this level of pain. She had to grit her teeth to get up and it took all her level of self control keep her face expressionless. The creatures seemed to have congregated together and they were closing round her in a tight circle. She flexed her back legs and leaped up in the air. Reaching into the deep source and the two minds combined physic power she pulled huge chunks of raw power. Twisting and forming it into a ball she pushed her paws in front of her and fired. The pink beam engulfed all of the dark creatures. She landed on all four paws. . She was about to turn when a noise echoed through her head. "Over here." The sound was cold and sharp and for some reason hurt her skull. As the dust cleared, she saw that all the dark things were not only upright and standing but they were also glowing with an ominous black aura. Even the two that she had bloodied up were now perfectly healed. A slice across her back made her turn. One of them had given her a deep cut from one shoulder diagonally downwards. As she turned to face her new attacker an energy blast smashed into her side throwing her into the air. Before she hit the wall another of the shadows hit her into the way of another blast. She rolled into another pillar cracking and destroying it as well. Before she could get up five or six of them where on her. She tried to defend herself but they were already ripping at her pink skin. Large cuts and slashes were coming up everywhere. One of them jumped on her back and placed his paws around her head. She felt her powers begin to fade. Everything finally went black and she fainted. Misty was bleeding from a cut to her forehead. She was more frightened than she had been in the corridor. What were these things? Why were they able to beat all the Pokemon types including a physic? What were they going to do to her? One was stalking up to her now. It started to speak shocking her greatly "You are a human and you are intelligent. You know that you cannot fight us. We will need you for some manual labor. Lift the Mew and the Growlithe and follow me." Misty nodded her head slowly and went over to where Inferno was lying. She felt scared and defeated. Inferno was heavy and she had to carry him with both of her hands. Susan was harder to find under the rubble but it made Misty's stomach turn to look at all the blood. Susan's Mew body was injured quite badly but it was lighter than Inferno. She draped her over him and stood up. She followed the black thing out the door. Ash and Brock were getting impatient. They had been in this room for over an hour now. They were only allowed to speak quietly. Officer Jenny and some of her fellow officers had tried to argue with their captures but now they were bound and gagged. There was about thirty or forty people in the underground basement sitting on the floor of carpet. Ten men with submachine guns who were dressed in dark black and dark balaclavas were guarding them. There were also four large Sandslashes, eight Machamps, and five Blastoise's. Surprisingly they still had their pokeballs and Pikachu was sitting nervously on Ash's shoulder. Brock and Ash were sitting near the back wall as far away as possible from the guards or the Pokemon. Again they discussed how they had been placed in this infernal room. They had been looking into the room, which Susan had occupied, when they were grabbed by some men, and forced back through the passages to the lift where they were taken down. It had been done so smoothly that they were sure that these people were pro's. "I wonder what happened to Misty?" Ash wondered. "Well at least she isn't here, maybe she can get some help. I wonder what they are trying to do here? It seems to be elaborate to be just a hostage situation. They are definitely here for something." "Maybe they are Team Rocket and they are trying to take some incriminating documents." A boy of about thirteen leaned over then. He had bright red hair, which came back in a ponytail. He was about as big as Brock but he was dressed in more red colors. "They can't be Team Rocket. You see those men over at that corner, they're Rocket members and they are being treated the same as us. I'm Joe by the way." he said extending his hand. Ash shook it "I'm Ash and he is Brock." Brock shook hands with him as well. "What were you doing in here when they caught you?" "I was in to collect my Growlithe. I was planning to go challenge Surge but now this happens. What are you guys doing here?" "We were going to Cerulean City but came back to look for a friend." "What does he look like. I may have seen him" "A she actually." Brock started "About ten to eleven, with black hair with a green stripe." "Susan, yeah I met her when I was travelling through here originally. She had won the Beginners fire league and I presented her with the certificate. She was a strange girl, very quiet always seemed to be thinking of something." The three boys continued talking quietly talking about different Pokemon techniques. There was a knock at the steel door. One of the guards went over to it and stuck his head through. Everyone was looking at him waiting to hear what he would say. He was silent for a couple of seconds before saying quietly "The girl and the Pokemon can stay here." Everyone watched as another man in black led in Misty and a contingent of other Pokemon. Most people's eyes widened as they saw the man was carrying a pink cat. There was some small whispering about the room "Is that a Mew?" Misty was bleeding and shaking and was carrying a Growlithe. The Pokemon that were trailing behind her made their way off to their trainers. The man with Susan went back out the door. The Growlithe slipped out of Misty's hands and crawled over to Joe. Misty slumped down beside Ash. "What happened to you?" Brock, Ash, and Joe said in one breath, though Joe was saying it to Inferno. Inferno glanced a tired glance up at Misty then he went back to sleep. "I'll have to tell myself." She brushed at her hair. "Well I was in that room when you two disappeared. I had to wander about those corridors alone for a long time. Then I met up with all those Pokemon I came in with." "Including the Mew?" Joe. Misty looked at Brock and Ash who were behind Joe, as if to ask them if she should tell about Susan. They both shook their heads energetically. "Yes, it and your Growlithe seemed to be leading. We walked on down the corridor and we walked into this big room." She shivered then. "There were these creatures in there. I never got to see them properly. They started to attack us. They were so strong they defeated all the Pokemon. No type was able to stand up to them. Only the Mew seemed able to fight them. She took out two of them before the rest ganged up on her and took her out." Misty had sustained shook from the fight and it was only this that stopped from crying from the fear and pain she had witnessed. Joe looked enquiringly at Misty "You speak as if the Mew is female. Why do you do that?" "Probably it sounded female" Ash jumped in with saving Misty. Joe would have gone on questioning if it wasn't for the door opening and five men coming in. The leader spoke up. "We have just been informed that the Pokemon left in here have come in contact with … something of ours. All Pokemon which have sustained wounds of any sort be left up here immediately." There was silence as none volunteered. "Ok have it your way. Take up all Pokemon with any wounds whither or not they were out before. The five men began to search through the front rows to loud disagreement witch was silenced by the drawing of guns. Ash and Joe looked angry as both Pikachu and Growlithe had cuts and gashes. "Pikachu wasn't out in contact. Why should I have to hand him up?" "I wouldn't argue with them Ash. You don't know what they could do" B rock then looked at Misty "Where did you get that cut from?" he asked. Misty felt the top of her head and the long gash. "One of those shadow things gave a cut." Joe and Brock stared at her, but Ash was too engrossed with Pikachu. "There going to try and take you as well" Brock whispered looking around them. Misty put her head between her hands covering up her cut pretending to be crying. When the guard came round he stared at them closely. Ash was trying to block Pikachu with his body but the men in black grabbed him and Joe pulling them off their Pokemon and taking them by the scruff's of their necks and drooping them into a silver sack. One of the men was looking suspiciously at Misty. He walked over and grabbed her by the hair pulling her to her feet. He seemed surprised to find that she wasn't hiding any Pokemon. Dropping her they moved on. Brock breathed a sigh of relief. "That was lucky" he whispered. "What do you mean?" Ash was indignant. "Pikachu didn't come in contact with anything and now they have him." "And Inferno, what are they going to do to them." Brock was silent while the other were complaining about their prize Pokemon. He was looking at the front of the room where the men were gathering. Misty sat up beside Brock "Are they gone yet?" "I think they are going now" In front of them the guards were discussing something. The two with the seemed willing to leave but their leader was looking about the room. He was asking the door guards something but they seemed unable to comply. He then went over to one of the guards at the side. This seemed to be able to give him a proper answer. The guard then pointed in their direction and the three began to make their way towards them. "Head down "Brock said franticly to Misty. But it was too late. The leader had stepped over to their little group. "I think I'm right in saying that you were with these Pokemon when they came in contact with that virus. Oh and look you have a cut, I'm afraid that you will have to come with us" "No, no" Misty tried to pull away from them and Ash, Brock, and Joe tried to pull them off her. The captain voice ice cold stopped them "Anyone who tries to hold us up will be shot, do I make myself clear." "Brock looked desperately at Misty. She shook her head so they sat down again. "Good children, now just sit down and be quiet." He turned to Misty "Come on, we have no time." He grabbed her by the wrist and led her and the two men carrying the bag out the main door. Now is the time for all good people to come forward and review. Oh and any S.A.S fans will like the next chapter. Sayanora, until next time!