Versus Failure [Active/Closed for now]

[adventurous_red]

Characters: Mew, Mewtwo, Red
Setting: 2nd floor - East Gallery
Time: Day 005, after exiting the basement
Summary: A still-devastated Red hands his Pokemon over to the one person he knows who is powerful enough to take care of them
Warnings: Shota angst, Mewtwo raeg

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[replicat]

Mewtwo had been in the library since the snows had rolled in--his view of the sky, of freedom, obscured, he had no interest in remaining in a place where he could see nothing. The powerful psychic could have cleared a space easily enough, parted the swirling snows like air or water, but had decided against it, instead turning his attentions instead to something more productive. In this case, it was learning everything in the library, poring over, assimilating all its information with inhuman speed and precision, nearly finishing some books faster than any human could read even a quarter of their contents, spending more time with others are he paused to confirm things or puzzled over something unexpected or confusing to his inexperience. Whether he was aware that these books were fiction or not was irrelevant. He was reading them all in spite of it.

The psychic, not known for his patience, was not thrilled to be interrupted and even less thrilled to be caught off-guard by it, Red's footsteps having been filtered out in his focus on

[adventurous_red]

Red was almost impressed with his own lack of fear. The sane part of his mind told the boy he should be running for his life, but that part was currently being silenced by the recent trauma. Instead, the trainer walked up to the psychic Pokemon. Once directly in front of Mewtwo, Red retrieved the six Pokeballs from his own waist and held them in front of him

[kittyxinxpink]

Mew had heard Mewtwo ahead and drifted towards his voice, stopping just around the corner when she heard Red's voice-- ... a trainer?

She listened for a moment longer, the boy's words and tears making her heart ache. What had this young trainer been through? This house just kept getting more and more strange. Should she say something? She'd never had a trainer, so she knew nothing about their relationship or even what it really meant to have a trainer at all.

She remained quiet for the time being, watching intently from the door.

[replicat]

Mewtwo stared at the human in surprise and consternation. What was this? 'Take them?' The six balls lay in Red's hands, gleaming red and white. Mewtwos' eyes moved down to them, taking them in. The tears were confusing, disorienting--frustrating as well. He didn't know what to do with them. Human tears were unlike Pokémon tears, which didn't help--but he did know what to do with those balls.

This human was not worthy to protect them, was he? Mewtwo's eyes swept critically back over the child and his Pokéballs, the stream of tears running down his face. He was not strong enough? A sense of smug superiority rose, of contempt--Mewtwo was perversely gratified to have someone else confess to their own weakness, to concede their power to him, to be admitted to be right in this one matter. His eyes narrowed slightly, glowing.

The air around the Pokéballs lit up, blue, and they lifted en masse from Red's hands.

[adventurous_red]

Red sunk to the floor as the weight of the Pokeballs was lifted from his hands. His relief and depression had fought each other for so long inside of him that they had swirled into a new emotion the trainer couldn't identify. Whatever it was, it left him with no options.

"Could you..." the boy began quietly, thinking of something to say after an uncomfortable silence. "Just tell them that...I love them. Or, well, you don't have to. Actually, don't. I don't think it would make a difference." His head was down at this point; the boy was too ashamed to show Mewtwo his face. His left hand grasped his right wrist, thumb stroking it in a peculiar manner. His eyes darted across the floor as the silence returned in full, then he turned around. "I'll just get out of your way now," he said in a small voice. "I'll just get out of the way..."