INTERMISSION

AND ALL THE IN BETWEENS

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FATHER WINTER

INFINITE CRISIS ACROSS WORLDS

FATHER WINTER CONCLUSION

NOTHING EVER GOES ACCORDING TO PLAN. it requires too many variable to become constants. something definitive and concrete. an impossibility.

there are too many players. too many open ended responses that can spiral out of control. the most one can do is improvise as contingencies are expended and aces revealed.

and so that’s what the fernandos do.



“mewtwo!”

a pokemon born solely to liberate the legendary pokemon held captive by the league.

the pokemon that was supposed to be his ace.

he had manages to convince it to help him in exchange for eliminating the source of this chaos.

they share the same viewpoint on evolution. that change must come naturally. that it comes from within. that this abomination, a world where status and strength is determined by artificial meddling, is unsatisfactory.

“hold on!”

fernando watches helplessly as the machines that had enslaved every legendary the league before them goes to work once more.

“fairburne?!”

wife. mother of his child. the only avatar he had spared. the one person he was meticulous with making sure she would stay in line.

“what is the meaning of this?”

a single spear is hurled at MAGMA 001. without fail, it seeks out the machine’s mechanical eye, piercing it without resistance. sparks fly as cut wires flutter from the fist size hole.

AQUA 001 loosens its magnetic grip. just enough for mewtwo to break free.

“fucking bitch.”

it doesn’t make any sense but it doesn’t have to. he’s prepared accordingly for this.

“pryde!”

he doesn’t have to look back. the head scientist has long prepared the attack in anticipation of things going awry.

above the capital, the flying base aims its canon.

“fire the ‘cuno cannon.”




“fini!”

tapu fini’s PROTECT breaks against the attacks thrown their way. he can barely keep his eye on the field as an indigo beam is fired at katherine’s giratina.

he has no time to spare them his concern. his focus must be trained. he still has his part to fulfill.

“mewtwo!”

the pokemon lays in his arms, battered and bruised. he can feel the pokemon’s flesh melt into his hands, loose and saggy. its damaged well beyond something it can RECOVER. it needs time.

“you did well.”

there’s a reason they chose to attack at night. it’s not to hide in the darkness. not when there a full moon out.

mewtwo was his ace from this world. he still has an unused ace from his world.

“tapu fini!”

the MISTY TERRAIN around them start to congeal. it becomes thick and heavy, a welcome mat for the one entity they decide to resurrect for the rest of the night.

who could it be? benoit? goode? alfric?

who does he rely on when backed into a corner?

“like you said; never one without the other.”

mew. the original. the source of mewtwo’s origin. the sacrificial play.

it materializes beside them. pulled from beyond by force as tapu fini keeps the connection to the afterlife open.

fernando hedges his bet on the assumption that mew will be able to mewtwo’s power. or, at the very least, supplement it. but that’s just a working theory based off what mewtwo’s said. he has no idea what will actually happen.

he’s desperate.

and it’s that desperation that activates his MEGA STONE.

for the first time since their inception, fernando relies on the very power he swore off.

“battle routine alter.”

MEWTWO MEGA EVOLVES INTO MEWTWO Y.

“execute.”

but even that is not enough to win.

mewtwo is countered by AQUA 001 and MAGMA 001.

katherine is countered by PROJECT AVALON.

mewtwo y is countered by the SYNDICATE.

luring kyogre onto the scene only makes things worse. it attacks both sides indiscriminately.

but fernando trudges on. he has to. it’s the only way.

when he reaches the inner sanctum, the HALL OF FAME, he finds the one thing that can undo everything. the rayquaza they trapped and bound with the GREEN ORB.

he read the file. they’re creating an artificial orb to avoid the same issue with skyler dross. this one will circumvent the PRIMAL INTOXICATION by putting the stress onto rayquaza. a feedback loop that punishes it for trying to overtake its host.

“…”

the appearance of the unown assassins, what he dubs the SYNDICATE, has brought the presence of unown to the scene. some of the swarm around him as he gets closer to the orb.

he can hear the sound of battle. the sounds of people dying. katherine. mewtwo. this world’s fernando.

the war for control of this world burns brightly just outside these doors.

“…”

and he takes the orb, allowing the unown to take him away as he turns his back onto this world and the chaos he’s orchestrated.









that's right.

this world is not his. he has no stake in it.

but he will remember it. the potential it brings. the folly its realized.

that's why he'll honor them with creating his own mewtwo.

the MASTER ENCYCLOPOEDIA OF THE WORLD ORIGIN.

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FATHER WINTER
RETRIEVE THE ARTIFICIAL GREEN ORB CORE
INTERACT W/ RAYQUAZA