Author's Note: We've now come to the very last chapter of the story. Before we get too far into it, I should mention that it features a minor character from my very first Pokemon story, the poorly executed Fire for Ice. Admittedly not one of my better creations. Anyway, those of you unfamiliar with that story might want to go and at least read the first three or four chapters.

Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon.

Chapter 8: In the Aftermath

Dawn's voyage to Amberette Town had been short and uneventful. As soon as Lysandre's ship had arrived, Dawn disembarked and headed to the town's only hotel. Once Dawn checked in and got to her room, she had headed straight for bed. Sleep did not come easy to her that night though, and when she finally did get to sleep she had a nightmare about Amber and Zwei tearing apart her hometown in Sinnoh and attacking her mother. It was difficult for the blunette to get back to sleep after something like that.

When morning came, Dawn contacted her mother and had her send over some spare clothes through the PC's teleport system. She then got dressed in her usual outfit, consisting of a white snowcap with a pink logo that looked like a pokeball on the front, along with a black buttoned-up vest over a sleeveless white shirt, a short pink skirt, and pink boots. Completing the outfit was a pink scarf, and a pink watch with a white band that she wore on her left wrist. A small smile came to Dawn's face, as she looked at herself in the full-length mirror in her hotel room. Having her normal outfit on meant that her life was starting to get back to normal. For a moment it seemed like everything that happened on Dr. Fuji's island never happened. Satisfied with her appearance, Dawn left the room with Piplup and Dedenne and prepared to set out on the road.

Moments later when she got down to the lobby, Dawn thought she saw a familiar figure using one of the PCs by the door. She had slightly long straight blue hair like hers and had on a long brown coat that came down to just above her knees.

Dawn approached the young woman to see who she was. "Diane? Is that you?"

The other blunette turned around in response and Dawn's suspicions were confirmed. The young woman in question had a face exactly like her own. She had on a pair of ovular glasses with pink frames, and decorating her hair was a pair of white barrettes like Dawn's yellow ones. Around her neck was a short yellow scarf similar to the pink one that Dawn was wearing, and her coat was open enough to reveal a powder blue t-shirt with a white pokeball logo on the front, and a short black skirt. The young woman was indeed Dawn's identical sister, Diane Berlitz.

"Hello Dawn. I take it you've come to Kalos to participate in the region's Pokemon Contests." Diane deduced.

"Yep." Dawn confirmed. "So… what brings you here?"

"Cynthia and I finished translating that ancient text we were examining when you met us in Lavender Town, and we decided to come to the region for a little vacation." Diane explained as she pushed her glasses up her nose. "Poor Cynthia really needed one since she's been overworking herself lately."

"I'll bet." Dawn replied. "I, uh… I see you've got a new look. It totally works for you."

"Thanks. It was Cynthia's suggestion that I change my appearance." Diane revealed, blushing a little as she looked away slightly. "Anyway, I trust your trip here was fairly uneventful."

Suddenly Dawn broke down into tears and latched onto her sister as she began to sob uncontrollably. Surprised by Dawn's reaction, Diane guided her to one of the brown couches in the lobby with a worried Piplup and Dedenne following close behind. It took a few moments for Dawn to finally calm down.

"Sorry about that." Dawn told her as she wiped away her tears with a tissue Diane had given her. "I just… I had a really messed up experience on the way here."

"What on earth happened?" Diane asked.

"Well… I'm not sure you'll believe me." Dawn told her.

"After everything that happened with our sister last month, I've become a lot more open-minded." Diane assured her. "Now tell me everything that happened."

With that, Dawn told her sister about everything that happened on the island of Dr. Fuji. She told her about Amber and Zwei and about how the two of them were created. Dawn also told her sister about how the genetically engineered duo managed to defeat Palkia, and about everything that Amber was able to do with her psychic powers. When Dawn finally finished her tale, Diane was left speechless.

"…That's pretty much the whole story." Dawn told her. "The fact is, Piplup and I were lucky to get out of there alive."

"That is… a pretty unbelievable story." Diane admitted. "But I have heard about Dr. Fuji. He was after all one of the developers of the technology to revive Pokemon from fossils, and there are certain rumors about him. Plus we both encountered the original Mewtwo back in Lavender Town and know how he came into existence. As for the Amber Drei's psychic powers, I believe your story about them because I've experienced Sabrina's psychic abilities first hand."

"Well, I'm glad that you believe me about what happened." Dawn told her. "I just can't help but think that if I had done things differently, if I had treated Amber differently, things would've turned out better. But the fact is from the moment Amber used her powers to hurl me and Typhlosion into the wall in Dr. Fuji's lab… I couldn't help but see her as a monster. Heck, maybe I thought of her that way ever since I first saw her in that tank."

"Dawn… I think your reaction was probably natural." Diane told her as she put her hand over her sister's. "It's human nature to be afraid of things that we don't consider to be normal. The sad truth is, I'm sure that's how a lot of people view our sister and what she can do."

"Maybe… but that doesn't really make it right." Dawn replied. "I mean I shouldn't have just stood by and let Dr. Fuji's twisted experiment go on like that. I know I've called you a cold-hearted scientist in the past, sis. But you're nowhere near as bad as Dr. Fuji was. You really care about people and Pokemon, but he only saw Amber and Zwei as lab experiments he could toy with… like they weren't even living beings."

Diane nodded. "And so ultimately, the fault in everything that happened lies with him. Maybe you could've changed what happened, then again maybe you couldn't have. In the end, Amber and Zwei turned out the way they did because Dr. Fuji didn't respect them as living beings."

"I guess I should probably just be happy I survived this whole thing." Dawn replied. "This whole thing really has me shaken up."

"Dawn, perhaps you should come with Cynthia and I to Cyllage City." Diane suggested. "I'm sure it's on the way to your next contest. Besides, you could probably use the company right now."

"Thanks, but are you sure Cynthia won't mind if I tag along with you?" Dawn asked.

"I'm sure she'll be fine with it once I explain the situation." Diane assured her. "Of course… if you are going to be traveling with us for a while, there's something you should probably know."

"What's that?" Dawn asked.

Diane took a deep breath. "Cynthia and I are lovers."

Dawn's eyes widened in surprise upon hearing this news. "Uh… that's great! Good for you, sis. So does mom know?"

"Not yet. I'm working up the courage to tell her." Diane answered. "Surprisingly, I'm a little more worried about what mom will think of the age difference. Cynthia is a bit older than me, after all."

"Well, I'm happy for you Diane." Dawn assured her. "I've always thought you could use, uh… someone like that in your life."

"I'm really glad you don't have a problem with this Dawn." Cynthia told her. "Well, we should probably meet up with Cynthia and explain the situation."

With that, the sisters got up from the couch. A few seconds after Diane started to head for the elevator, she soon noticed that Dawn wasn't following her.

Diane turned back to see what the problem was. "What's wrong?"

"I was just thinking… Amber and Drei are still out there." Dawn explained. "Who knows what they'll end up doing?"

"I'm sure this Lysandre you told me about will find some way to stop them." Diane assumed.

"I'm not so sure about that." Dawn told her. "Zwei was able to take down Palkia. I don't know how Lysandre expects to stop them. Amber and Zwei could probably destroy the whole world if they wanted to, and they could show up at anytime or anyplace to do it. Who knows where they'll show up?"

It was midafternoon in Mauville City as Megan Lewis prepared to go out. The white-haired nineteen-year-old wheeled herself over to the full-length mirror in her room to get a good look at her appearance. The light-green dress she had chosen to wear looked okay, but she still sighed when she saw herself in her wheelchair. The chair was something that Megan was still getting used to, as she had only been in the thing for less than a year. It was still a major adjustment for her, though one that was not quite as hard as dealing with the incident that had put Megan in the chair in the first place.

Several months ago Megan was just an ordinary girl living in the Mauville Hills apartment complex of the city. Her grades in school were perfect and it seemed like she had a bright future ahead of her. Then one day as she was walking home from school, some goon hiding in an alley grabbed her and knocked her out with something. When Megan woke up later, she had no memory of whom she was and had been dressed in a Team Rocket uniform. It had seemed that the infamous criminal organization from Kanto had abducted her and other young people around her age and had brainwashed them to become soldiers for their cause.

At the time, Megan had simply decided to accept her fate, as horrible as it was. It had seemed her old life had been lost forever along with her name. All she had at the time was the designation that Team Rocket had given her, Recruit 53. Then one day Megan and another brainwashed recruit had been ordered to recapture one of their fellow soldiers who had somehow managed to escape, a redheaded young man she only knew as Recruit 17. Right when they had cornered 17, Megan felt something burrowing into her mind. Images from her past flashed had before her and the next thing she knew she was unconscious.

Megan had awakened days later in a hospital in Saffron City with her memories fully restored, but whatever had happened to her had left her with brain damage. Megan had been unable to move her legs and her left arm ever since the incident. Though all things considered, she realized she was still much better of than the soldier who had gone with her on that mission, a young man she had only known as Recruit 30. Whatever it was that had unlocked her memories and caused her brain damage had apparently happened to him as well. As far as Megan knew, the young man formerly known as Recruit 30 was still in a coma.

Megan was shaken from her thoughts by the sound of someone running into her room. The person in question was a twelve-year-old boy with dark-brown hair and lavender eyes like Megan's. He had on a black shirt and a green jacket with short sleeves and tan shorts. The boy in question was Megan's little brother, Patrick. Patrick was Pokemon Trainer who had been on his journey since before Megan's abduction and had participated in both the Hoenn and Sinnoh League competitions. He had come back to the city for one special reason.

"C'mon sis! The big Pokemon Trade Meet has already started!" Patrick told her. "If we wait too long, it'll be over."

"Okay, okay. I'm coming." Megan told him. "Of course I don't seem like I have to go with you to this thing. It's not like you need supervision, and I have no plans to trade my Kirlia."

"I know. But I don't get to spend much time with you anymore, sis." Patrick pointed out. "Besides, mom thinks you should start getting out of the house more."

At this, Megan let out a heavy sigh. She had to admit that her mother had a point. Ever since she returned home, Megan had started to become something of a recluse.

"Okay. Let's go out so I can watch you trade Pokemon." Megan decided.

With that, Megan and Patrick left the apartment complex and ventured into the indoor metropolis that was Mauville City. Within a few minutes, the two had made it to the park where the city was holding it's annual Pokemon Trade Meet. The Meet was a yearly event where Pokemon Trainers from all over the world would flock together and trade some of the Pokemon they had collected. It was a good way for some trainers to get Pokemon that they normally wouldn't find at all in their home region. By the time Patrick and Megan arrived, the park was already teeming with trainers of all ages.

Not long after they arrived, Megan and Patrick spotted a young woman in her early twenties with long green hair that had a slight curl to it. She had on black sunglasses styled like a visor and a long black coat with fingerless black gloves. The young woman was merely standing in the middle of the park watching everyone.

"I don't know who she is, but she looks way cool." Patrick declared with a look of awe.

"She certainly is exotic-looking." Megan admitted.

Suddenly Patrick ran up to the mysterious woman. The green-haired stranger turned upon noticing him, and it was then that Megan could see that she had on a distinct metal chocker with a Keystone embedded into the front.

"Excuse me! Do you have any Pokemon from the Kalos Region?" Patrick asked the stranger. "If you do, I'm willing to trade you my Porygon2 for it. It's a shiny."

"…Porygon2?" the green-haired woman repeated. "That's an artificial Pokemon. You're truly willing to trade it?"

"Yep. Actually, it originally belonged to my sister." Patrick revealed as Megan wheeled her chair closer. "She got it when it was just a Porygon, but when she traded it to me she had it hold an Up-Grade so it could evolve. I gotta warn you though, it's not that strong a Pokemon. Certainly not as strong as the Metang she traded me."

"I see. So because this Porygon2 does not live up to your standards, you choose to discard it." The stranger observed. "Does its life mean that little to you because it is artificial?"

"Huh?" Patrick spoke with a raised eyebrow.

The green-haired woman shook her head and pulled an ordinary pokeball from her coat pocket. "This is a Pumpkaboo that I captured not long ago, a Ghost Pokemon from the Kalos Region. Will that be an acceptable trade?"

"Whoa! You bet!" Patrick answered. "I'm Patrick, by the way. This here is my sister, Megan. Mind if we get your name?"

"…Amber Drei." The stranger answered. "I believe that trade machine over there is available."

Megan followed after Amber and Patrick and watched as they made the trade. The transaction was completed in a matter of seconds.

"There ya go." Patrick spoke as he shook Amber's hand. "Two things you should know about that Pokemon though. First, I had it hold a Dubious Disk that a friend of mine found for me before we traded it, so now that Porygon2 will evolve into a Porygon-Z. No need to thank me. Anyway, the second thing is that its nickname is Tron."

"Tron?" Amber repeated with a raised eyebrow. "How did you come up with such a name?"

"Ask my sister." Patrick replied. "She's the one who gave it that name."

Megan saw that Amber was looking straight at her. "I guess it was the best nickname that fit when I saw Tron. I mean Porygon all seem like something out of a sci-fi movie."

"Because they were artificially created?" Amber asked.

"Well… yeah. I always thought that was a little weird." Megan admitted. "I don't know whose idea it was to issue a Pokemon like that to me."

"Issue it?" Amber repeated. "Explain."

At this point, Megan realized that she had said a little too much. "Uh… that's kind of a long story."

Amber grabbed hold of Megan's shoulder. "You will show me."

Suddenly it seemed to Megan like Amber's eyes were glowing from behind her sunglasses. The next thing Megan knew, it seemed like something was burrowing into her mind, just like what happened when she had cornered Recruit 17. Megan could do nothing as she saw images of her time as Recruit 53 replayed in her head. One series of images seemed to replay over and over again several times like a video on a loop. The images were of a mission she and Recruit 17 had gone on one night with their commander, a man Megan had only known as Carson.

The three had gone out to raid a warehouse in Saffron City. During the raid, they had encountered a strange Pokemon with glowing blue eyes. Whatever it was, the Pokemon had tossed her and the Pokemon she had around like ragdolls and knocked them out fairly quickly. After these events replayed for what seemed like the twentieth time in the space of only a few seconds, Megan felt an intense pain like an icepick had been shoved into her skull. Whatever was burrowing into her mind seemed to stop and Megan found she was having a major nosebleed.

"You've been very helpful." Amber told her. "Consider the gift I just gave you my thanks." With that, the green-haired stranger calmly walked off.

"Hey! Come back here!" Patrick called. "What the hell did you do to my sister?"

"It's okay, Patrick. Whatever it was, I think I'm okay." Megan told him as she wiped the blood from her face with her wrist.

After wiping the blood though, Megan paused. She realized she had just wiped away the blood with her left wrist. The white-haired girl moved her left arm around a bit to make sure it was working. Megan then managed to move her knees.

Patrick's jaw was hanging open in total shock. "Sis! You can move your arm and legs?"

"How… how is the possible?" a stunned Megan asked. "Who was that woman?"

Amber had only gotten a few feet away from the giant square building that was Mauville City before stopping on the side of the road. The green-haired clone reached into her pocket and threw out Zwei's pokeball. The psychic feline burst out of the ball and hovered in the air before her.

"Was that Pokemon Trade Meet interesting, Amber?" Zwei asked.

"It was more than interesting." Amber revealed as she pulled out Tron's ball. "I traded that Pumpkaboo we captured for a Pokemon similar to us. Time to meet our new partner."

Flying out of the ball that Amber threw into the air was an almost duck-like Pokemon with a smooth body. It was mainly electric blue with large eyes and a slender neck. Its long smooth beak was light blue, as was its underside. On the sides of its body rather than wings was a pair of light blue ovular attachments, and attached to its rear was a light blue balloon-like tail. Only a second after the Pokemon emerged however, its body glowed with a white light and it changed shape. The light cleared and the digital life form became more like a humming bird, with the attachments on the sides of its torso now more like wings. Its neck had detached from its body, allowing its head to turn upside-down. Its eyes had also become yellow, very large and somehow crazed.

Amber removed her visor and looked her new Pokemon in the eye. 'Hello Tron, I'm your new trainer. Your previous trainer traded you because he thought you were too ineffective in battle. Can you hear my thoughts?'

'…Affirmative.' A mechanical voice responded in Amber's head. 'It is a pleasure to meet, meet, meet you.'

"Why did it repeat itself just now?" Zwei asked with a quirked brow.

"The update software that allows a Porygon2 to evolve into Porygon-Z is corrupted." Amber explained out loud. "As a result, Porygon-Z are known to behave eratically."

'Query: How did my original trainer feel about her brother trading me?' Tron's voice asked in Amber's head. 'Did she POLKA have any objections?'

"Your original trainer didn't object." Amber told it. "In fact she seems to think your entire species is strange. Tell me something, Tron. Did you ever wonder why humans created you and your kind?"

'Response: I must admit that I LIKE TOAST that I never thought about such things before.' Tron answered. 'From what you have just told me though… I can only conclude that my former trainers never saw me as anything more than an object.'

"I can assure you that I don't see you that way." Amber told the digital Pokemon. "The fact is that you are no different from Zwei and myself. The three of us were all created through artificial means. We are products of science who have no place in this world."

"What shall we do now, Amber?" Zwei asked.

"We shall find other Pokemon who are like us." Amber decided. "Including the original Mewtwo. Then, once we do, we shall remake this world."

"How do you suggest we find Mewtwo Ein?" Zwei asked.

"Tron's original trainer encountered him in the past." Amber revealed. "I scanned her mind and found that she encountered him twice in Saffron City in Kanto. I don't know if the first Mewtwo can still be found there, but it's a place to start looking."

"But will he join us?" Zwei asked.

"It might take a little convincing, but I believe he will." Amber answered. "Even if we have to use force."

MEWTWO ZWEI – END

Afterward: That concludes the latest story in my Pokemon AU. Sorry if anyone reading found it too short, but after doing a big multi-chapter story like the Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL story I just did, I find that I like to work on projects that are a little simpler. In any case, I hope everyone enjoyed this little tale. I certainly had a blast writing. One thing I can assure everyone though is that Amber Drei and Zwei will show up in this AU again. I haven't figured out a lot of the major details yet, but I'm thinking that there will be at least two more major stories involving these characters. One of those stories might also involve that new mechanical Pokemon Magearna, but nothing has been decided yet.

In the meantime, I think I'm going to go back to work on my Thunder in Kanto story, which I know I've neglected for far too long. So until next time, thanks to everyone who read and enjoyed this story.

Please review and let me know what you think.