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"Experiment? Mewtwo? What are those things?"
Blaine's words were all heard by Ash and the two others, but they couldn't understand what Blaine was talking about. What was an experiment? What was Mewtwo?
"Since you obtained Ralts, not only hatched her, but also found me, that is a kind of fate. Out of this fate, I will tell you everything. Perhaps only you can stop him." Blaine sighed and began to tell Ash and the others a story, a story of a researcher's folly.
When Blaine was young, he was an exceptionally talented Trainer, and in less than two short years, he won a tournament. In ten years, he achieved the rank of Elite. Such talent, even now, would definitely be considered top-tier.
After becoming an Elite, Blaine also tried to become the Kanto Champion, but he was so thoroughly defeated by the Champion of that era that he lost all his fighting spirit and eventually retired from the scene. The Champion who was active at the same time as Blaine was Professor Oak.
"Blaine, you were forced into retirement by Professor Oak?" Hearing this, Ash couldn't help but interrupt. If this gossip got out, it would definitely cause a huge stir. It could even be trending online for three days and three nights.
"What do you mean, forced into retirement by him? I was just too lazy to bother with him. I eventually stepped down from my Elite position and became a Gym Leader. I didn't give up on being a Trainer. On the contrary, that guy now doesn't look like a Trainer at all, completely engrossed in his crazy research." Blaine retorted, annoyed.
From Blaine's tone, it could be heard that his relationship with Professor Oak was probably quite good; otherwise, he wouldn't have spoken in such a manner.
"No wonder Professor Oak said he was an old acquaintance of yours."
"You know Oak? Oh, right, you're from Pallet Town. That old man is in Pallet Town; I forgot." Blaine belatedly realized that Ash and Professor Oak were from the same town, so it would be strange if they didn't know each other.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel a little jealous. What kind of luck did this Oak have? Staying in a rural town, he could still find a Trainer with such talent. To reach this stage in just three months, his talent could be said to be even more exaggerated than his own and Oak's back then.
Moreover, Ash also possessed the luck that Trainers needed most and was most important. The strength of a Pokémon's talent largely depended on luck. After all, in the wild, how could you know if the Pokémon you captured had good talent or not?
Although there's no saying that if you don't have good talent, you can't succeed, the reason why a 'slow bird flies early' is precisely because it's a slow bird!
Having a talented Pokémon means fewer detours and faster growth than the average Trainer. This is reality.
Ash's ability to reach this point, besides his talent as a Trainer, having Pokémon with superior talent, is also an indispensable part.
Although Blaine didn't know the talent of Ash's other Pokémon, Gardevoir's talent was absolutely beyond doubt. This was one of his painstakingly created 'works'.
"Oh, right, Professor Oak asked me to pass on a message to you. He said he knows what you're thinking, but if you don't sit down and talk properly, there will be no results. He said if you want to talk, you can go find him."
"Oak asked you to pass on a message to me? How did he know you would see me?"
"Uh… he said with my luck, I might bump into you on the street."
Blaine: …Good heavens, that's some incredible luck. How good is this kid's luck to make Oak say something like that?
And coincidentally, this actually happened. This kid just happened to bump into him on the street, and then, because of Gardevoir, he followed the clues and found his way here.
"That guy is still so naive… Let me continue telling you." Blaine shook his head, not dwelling on the matter, and continued his story.
After stepping down from his Elite position and becoming a Gym Leader, Blaine lived a relaxed life. He usually guided juniors, and occasionally engaged in research he was interested in, which was a sort of retirement.
However, this relaxed life didn't last long before he personally shattered it.
He came across research on genetics, and then, as if possessed, he immersed himself in it, even leaving the Gym idle.
Cinnabar Gym had no staff or acting Gym Leader, so during that period, Cinnabar Gym was closed year-round, barely receiving Trainers. It only reopened after some time.
During that time, Blaine made initial progress in his genetic research and was able to replicate Pokémon with extremely powerful talents through gene fusion!
However, those Pokémon, shortly after being born, … Although this research could create Pokémon with powerful talents, those created Pokémon simply could not survive.
This research stalled for a long time, with no progress. Blaine even wanted to give up on it, but the stubbornness in his heart could never be let go.
Until one day, an organization approached him. They provided him with the most crucial tool for gene fusion… Mew's genes!
Mew is a Mythical Pokémon, the legendary ancestor of Pokémon. Its genes contain the genes of countless Pokémon, allowing Mew to transform into any Pokémon, even Legendary Pokémon, and use their exclusive moves.
However, this was ultimately just a legend; in reality, Mew was not as exaggerated as it was boasted, but its genes indeed possessed extremely terrifying inclusivity.
With the aid of Mew's genes, Blaine's gene fusion experiment finally succeeded!
Initially, it was an ordinary Pokémon, but later, even Pseudo-Legendary Pokémon could be replicated!
Moreover, the replicated Pokémon generally had at least an A-rank talent, though there were no S-rank ones.
But this achievement was still extremely terrifying. A-rank talent is one in ten thousand in the Pokémon world, and he could now mass-replicate them.
This meant that Trainers no longer needed to painstakingly search for powerful, talented Pokémon in the wild. Once the replication technology matured, A-rank qualified Pokémon could be mass-produced.
In this way, many talented Trainers would not fade into obscurity due to not having a suitable talented Pokémon.
"...How could this be done! If something like this really happened, the whole world would be in chaos!" Brock finally couldn't hold back.
Blaine's wish seemed beautiful, but once such a thing really spread, it would not be a good thing for the entire world.
"I don't know why I had such thoughts at the time. Now, in hindsight, I realize how foolish I was. Moreover, the cost of gene replication is actually not low. Even if the technology can achieve mass replication, the materials are in short supply."
"And most importantly, I later discovered that those replicated Pokémon could only reach the Elite Level, with only a very few breaking through to the Professional Level, and then they could make no further progress."
Ultimately, what stopped Blaine from continuing that research was not his calm mind, but the harsh reality.
Although the replicated Pokémon, after being harmonized by Mew's genes, no longer died suddenly, their level simply could not break through to higher tiers.
What good was good aptitude then?
But theoretically, this situation shouldn't occur. The reason for the bottleneck and inability to break through was likely due to some slight genetic flaws. So, at that time, Blaine set his sights on the legendary deities!
After painstakingly acquiring Moltres's genes, Blaine attempted to replicate it, but Moltres didn't even form; it just exploded!
Deities cannot be replicated, or rather, they have not found a method for replication.
Blaine did not give up. Since he couldn't replicate existing Legendary Pokémon, he would create a Legendary Pokémon himself!
Using Mew's genes!
Finally, he actually did it. He created a Pokémon that possessed incredibly terrifying power from birth. The Pokémon's appearance was very similar to Mew, but it possessed even more terrifying, destructive power than Mew!
Immediately after birth, that Pokémon directly destroyed an island! That was a power only a Champion could possess, and that Pokémon had it right after being created.
And this was not the Pokémon's limit. Not only did it have an extremely high starting point, but it also possessed infinite potential, without the limitations seen in ordinary replicated Pokémon.
"At that moment, when I saw his eyes, I suddenly felt that I had created a monster! It was also at that time that I suddenly realized what I had done…" Blaine's words were full of regret. He regretted doing gene experiments, and even more regretted creating that monster-like Pokémon.
"Born as a Champion… This is indeed extremely abnormal." Ash also marveled at the Pokémon's power. A realm that most people could never reach in a lifetime, yet that Pokémon achieved it at birth. This could indeed only be described as a monster.
His various actions since his debut had also consistently earned him the title of 'monster' from others, but compared to the Pokémon Blaine created, that was merely a drop in the bucket.
"What's done is done. He has already been created and is heavily restricted and protected by that organization. Even if I wanted to secretly destroy him, there was no way. And not long after, that Pokémon had already grown to a point where I couldn't destroy him even if I wanted to. This is the origin of Experiment Subject No. 1, Mewtwo, meaning 'beyond Mew'."
So this was the origin of Mewtwo. Ash and the two others finally understood why they had never heard of this name, because Mewtwo was a completely artificial Pokémon!
It was an existence even rarer than some Legendary Pokémon. In terms of rarity, perhaps only those Legendary Pokémon with divine duties could compare to it.
After all, Mewtwo's existence is unique. He has no species. He doesn't now, and he probably won't in the future.
"So what about Gardevoir? At that time, Blaine, you should have already come to your senses and given up on gene experiments, right? Why is Gardevoir No. 2?" Ash continued to ask.
"That's right, at that time, I had already stopped conducting gene experiments, but your Gardevoir was an experimental subject created at the same time as Mewtwo. The only difference between her and other Pokémon is that she was not artificially created with genes, but rather had Mew's genes injected into her during her Pokémon Egg stage."
"Initially, when Mew's genes were injected, the Pokémon Egg immediately faced collapse. I used various methods to stabilize the Pokémon Egg's condition, but the Pokémon Egg did not hatch for a very, very long time, like a dead egg. I also had no hope for it, and then turned my attention to Mewtwo."
"But later, after I came to my senses, I chose to leave that organization. Mewtwo was heavily protected by them and was impossible to destroy, so I could only choose another method. That was, while Mewtwo was in the cultivation tank, I extracted a part of Mewtwo's spiritual essence, and then… injected it into the Pokémon Egg."
Ash and the two others were startled. The so-called Pokémon Egg was naturally the Ralts' Pokémon Egg. They never expected that Ralts's Pokémon Egg had such a difficult beginning, not only on the verge of death during its Pokémon Egg stage, but even later, having Mewtwo's spiritual essence injected into it.
"Mewtwo had already reached the Champion Level at that time, right? You injected the spiritual power of a Champion Level Pokémon into a Pokémon Egg, weren't you afraid the Pokémon Egg would explode?!" Brock couldn't help but scold. Even though he wasn't a researcher, he understood this principle. One was a Champion Level Pokémon, the other hadn't even been born. The power of the two was completely unequal.
To infuse the spiritual power of a Champion Level Pokémon into an unborn Pokémon… wouldn't that cause huge problems, no matter how you think about it!
Blaine sighed and said, "I had no choice at the time. The extracted spiritual essence had to be stored somewhere; otherwise, it would return to Mewtwo. And that Pokémon Egg, in essence, also possessed Mew's genes, belonging to the same origin as Mewtwo, so theoretically, it could bear Mewtwo's spiritual essence."
Theoretically…
"Why! Why treat Pokémon like this! They are all living beings with flesh and blood. Just because of a so-called theory, are you going to kill a life?!" Ash finally couldn't hold it in. He slammed the table and stood up, shouting at Blaine.
Not to mention Gardevoir was his Pokémon, even if she wasn't, his mood couldn't remain calm after knowing another Pokémon suffered such treatment.
Ralts had already lived a difficult life during her Pokémon Egg stage, and now she had to suffer even more! If anything went wrong, Ash couldn't even imagine what Ralts's fate would be.
Blaine pursed his lips, his expression filled with remorse. It was clear that he also regretted what he had done back then, but there was no such thing as a 'regret pill' in the world. What was done was done and could not be erased.
"You don't understand Mewtwo's terror. If he were allowed to continue growing like that, without the appearance of Pokémon with divine duties in the world, he would be the strongest Pokémon, bar none. Even Champion Trainers like Leon would not be a match for him once he fully matured."
"Why do you think he's called Mewtwo? It's because he can truly grow to an existence that surpasses Mew."
"For that, even if it meant sacrificing the lives of other Pokémon, I had to limit Mewtwo's potential."
Ash clenched his fists. If it weren't for the fact that this person was a friend of Professor Oak, he would have punched him right now!
Just to limit Mewtwo's potential, he was ready to sacrifice other Pokémon. Ash absolutely could not accept such an action!
And the one Blaine was going to sacrifice back then was Gardevoir, who was now sitting next to him!