Mabel smiled when Ixia drifted into sleep again, she had never met Arceus, nor heard much about him, she just knew he existed. She turned to Charcoal. "Humans are weak," she told him. "Some can get physically strong or fast, but a Pokémon will still defeat them. They don't have any attacks, and if they do something that looks like a Normal move or a Fighting move it's still nothing compared to what a Pokémon can do. Therefore we must always protect them. But you should be careful, because humans can be evil too. And what they lack in strength, they make up in ingenuity. They can build things that counter their weaknesses we couldn't even dream of building."
Mindy stared at Gavin. "You don't... look like Mewtwo. You don't look like a Pokémon. How can you..." It did explain why he seemed to be unsure about some basic things like buying clothes. "I...I think I need a moment..." she muttered, turning around to leave the alley. This was unbelievable. How was she even supposed to react? A legendary Pokémon looked like a human. This couldn't be real.
When she was outside the alley she took in a deep breath and took her phone. Honestly, there was only one person she could call right now to help her understand what was going on here.
"She'll be back," Penalopy said to Gavin. "But you should tell me how you find such a pretty companion."
Michael heard his phone ring and picked it up. He looked at the number before picking up. "Hey Mindy, have you found something for Gavin?"
"Ehm, I'm not sure if we can find pants for him, because... he has a tail," Mindy said.
"Oh."
"I'm not making this up, you have to believe me."
"I do, don't worry. I know."
Mindy blinked and looked at her phone before she brought it back to her ear. "You do?"
"Had he told you? Who he really is?"
"He said..." it was still unbelievable, it was hard to even say it. "He said he's Mewtwo."
"You can believe him." Michael looked around to make sure no-one was close enough to hear him talk. "Niccia is Mew. Gavin can explain, you should hear him out." If Gavin trusted Mindy enough to reveal his identity, Michael was certain Mindy could be trusted with that as well and maybe it would help her.
"I've seen Meloetta too," Mindy said softly.
"Really? I'll tell Niccia, I'm sure she'll like to hear that." He smiled to Niccia, knowing she couldn't hear what Mindy said, but he'd tell her after this call.
"Right. I'll ehm," Mindy clearer her throat, "I'll go back to Gavin, hear him out. I kinda left him. It's mindblowing, isn't it?"
"It is, I'm sure he'll understand."
"Right. I'll see you later. Say, ehm, say hi Niccia."
Mindy disconnected the call, took a deep breath and turned around to face the alley. She took a Pokéball and let Blaze out. She looked at the Charizard. "I really need you with me, buddy," she said. After another deep breath she returned into the alley, going back to Gavin and the Meloetta.
"So, you're Mewtwo," she said, fiddling with her hair. She felt far from comfortable with two legendary Pokémon with her. At least she had Blaze with her, who stood silently behind her.
"Mewtwo?" Blaze asked, looking from Gavin to his Marowak, then taking in the Mime Jr. and Meloetta.
After the call ended, Michael turned to Niccia. "Gavin told Mindy who he is," he said to her. "She sounded flustered, but it's quite a bit to take in so unexpectedly. Oh, and Meloetta is in town, Mindy said she saw, ehm, is Meloetta male or female?"
He put his phone away, looked at the locked gym and then glanced around to see if the gym leader was approaching or not.
Saruya started running through the city, to the outskirts, going for the forest. Of course they had to make sure to be back at the Pokémon Center before their trainers would worry about them, but for now she wanted to walk freely and enjoy the good company without humans staring at them.
"Newspapers," Andy said. "Or a computer where I can look up regional news. My brother has recently gone missing, so I'm going to see if I can find some clues about what happened. After that I have no obligations for the day. But what brought you to the library? This is one of the last places I expected to come across you, although any human city was pretty low on the list of places where I would expect to run into you."
Meeting her in this form was also unexpected, but definitely not unwelcome.