Pokémon Neo

By: Pichu Star and Edgar

Revision 1.0 (7/15/04): Currently revising all my fanfics… nothing too drastic, just some little corrections here and there, cleaning out some of the author notes, and doing some reformatting.

This is an indirect sequel to the story Alternate Reality- To What The Future Holds. It's co-authored by my friend, Edgar (aka Blue-Eyes White Knight), who gave me the idea whilst reading Alternate Reality. Edgar and I appear as ourselves in the story as the Grand Masters Edgar O' Ryan and Samantha McPhoenix. Well, enjoy!

Disclaimer: Edgar owns his original ideas and characters, and I own mine. There are so many different things that we contributed together I couldn't begin to name what was his and what was mine, though… Neither of us own Pokémon, however. Very sad…

Chapter 1: Desire To Rule, Desire To Destroy

Giovanni, greedy, twisted leader of Team Rocket, once desired the most powerful Pokémon ever. So, when his archeologists discovered a Mew fossil deep in the jungles of South America, he ordered his scientists to create a clone even more powerful than Mew.

Mewtwo.

There were actually four Mewtwo projects. The first Mewtwo rebelled and escaped (as seen in Pokémon the First Movie and Mewtwo Returns). The second one was supposedly killed when it tried to escape from the lab. The third Mewtwo escaped as well. And the fourth Mewtwo escaped to the Unknown Dungeon near Cerulean City, where it was captured by the Pokémon Master, Samantha McPhoenix. Pokémon League then discovered Team Rocket's secret cloning labs and put an end to the Mewtwo experiments.

But… one Mewtwo is still out there… and it craves revenge…

Damien, tall, dark-haired, and handsome, strode down the hallway to the door of his apartment, fishing in his pocket for his key. He looked so kind. And acted so polite, too. He had even helped an old lady cross the street earlier that day. All the young women in Saffron City sighed as he passed. Yep. Damien was the hottest guy.

You wouldn't even have guessed that he was the leader of an evil band of crooks and criminals.

That's right. Damien was a former Team Rocket member. He had broken away from Team Rocket, thinking that Giovanni's leadership and plans were weak. He believed that simply stealing rare Pokémon was not the way to world domination. So, he created a new order of Team Rocket. The Neo-Rockets.

Damien had only started it about a month ago, so Giovanni knew nothing of it. All Giovanni knew was that several Team Rocket members suddenly just quit. But it didn't bother him. Not at all.

Of course, maybe it would bother him if he knew they all quit to join the Neo-Rockets. To team up with Damien in order to get a share of the power he promised would be theirs. The reason why this was so convincing was that Damien had psychic powers. Powerful psychic powers. In fact, some Neo-Rockets even whispered amongst themselves that Damien's powers rivaled that of Sabrina and Will's. Damien could hypnotize, he could read minds, he could levitate things, he could bend the will of others to his own.

Because of this, Damien knew, for a fact, that he could rule the world. All he needed was an opportunity…

Deep in the dark, thick undergrowth of the woods surrounding the Lake of Rage, two eyes blazed purple.

Revenge.

The one word on the Pokémon's mind.

Painfully, the injured Mewtwo pulled himself along, too weak to walk, and too angry and upset to focus his psychic powers to levitate. He found a nearby bush covered with berries, and picked them eagerly, shoving them into his mouth at the same time.

Once Mewtwo had curbed his appetite a little, his thoughts went back to revenge. Yes, he wanted revenge, he craved revenge, he could not continue on in life unless he got revenge. Revenge against his creators, for trying to contain him and study him. Revenge against Giovanni, for trying to use him. Revenge against humans, for injuring him and leaving him for dead. But he wasn't dead, though by the time he had had his revenge, the humans would wish he were dead.

This was the second Mewtwo created, but he was determined to be first—first in power, first in glory, first in control… of the world.

I've never been one for long first chapters, but I try…