Discord's Nuzlocke Challenge

Discord teleported directly behind the catlike creature and whispered in its ear, “Oh, I thought you’d never ask!” With a tap of his paw, a transformation overtook Mewtwo.

Surprised and alarmed, it attempted to resist the strange power but the transformation succeeded. Afterwards, Mewtwo observed it was in broad daylight. She was now in female form and glanced at Viridian City like a cat would. She stands at about 6'2. She has straight purple hair that is worn short like a tom boy. She has peach colored skin and has red eyes. She wears a simple and short light purple blouse and pants which gradually gets darker in color as they hit her waistline. Mewtwo thinks about her mysterious transformation as a chance to experience the world as a powerful human. She fiercely wanted to become a powerful adversary and challenge everyone that would get in her way. Her hands glowed purple as she exited the City.

----- Saffron City -----

Hades reappeared in his signature puff of smoke and flames. Now that he had set the stage for there to be quite the party going on in this world, there was no way he was going to miss out on the fun. He rubbed his hands together in delight as he tried to decide what he ought to do first… should he seek out the most powerful creatures in the land and make them do his bidding to cause death and destruction? Should he approach the good guys and trick them into doing his bidding… for the same purposes? (that was always lots of fun)

He looked around and realized he couldn’t spot anyone in particular standing around in a group. Hmm, oh well, he could still have some fun with the locals. He decides to take a moment and observe his surroundings. A handful of shady characters in black seemed to be standing around trying to look inconspicuous as they lurked in doorways and alleys. There was one giant building in the center of town labeled “Silph Co.”, and an assortment of smaller residential buildings and medium sized buildings whose purpose Hades was uncertain of. He would have to investigate just what was going on here, he decided.

Hades slid over to the nearest guy wearing the black uniform emblazoned with a red R that the shady bunch seemed to be wearing and tucked his thumbs into the dark grey shirt beneath his black toga and pulled it out as though to emphasize himself. “Hey there, name’s Hades, Lord of the Dead. How’re ya doin? Say, you wouldn’t happen to know who’s in charge around here, would you?”

The Rocket Grunt laughs quite hysterically at Hades. "As if you would be able to do something about it if you knew. He's way up in the ranks. Untouchable. And He's not 'Around here either'. I guess the guy in charge here would have to be... Nah you're not worth it." He pushes Hades off and says "get lost, punk of the dead".

Hades’ blue head-flames blaze red for a moment at the insulting tone the Rocket gives him. Then it cools back down again and he smiles. “Alright then, I guess I’ll ask someone else… oh, but before I go…” He snaps his fingers and after a short blaze where the Rocket was once standing, there is nothing left but ashes. “Thanks so much for your help.” He remarks snidely, and decides to head for the giant building in the center of town.

Hades strolls into Silph Co and observes that the first floor is almost completely empty save for a single NPC standing at the base of some stairs. Hades looks thoughtful as he considers this and then shrugs, figuring this place wasn’t as important as it looked from the outside and leaves to go check out the rest of the city.

As he explores the town, he eventually comes across a pair of similar buildings labeled as "gyms". One of them claims to be a dojo, run by a master of fighting techniques, the other calls itself the Saffron City Gym, whose leader is apparently named Sabrina and is a master of Psychic abilities. He decides he should talk to Sabrina, see if her "psychic" abilities were anything like The Fates' abilities back home.

Before entering the gym a Kadabra makes a gesture to Hades to follow it outside the gym. It moves with purpose as though it was sent by someone. It starts to move south.

Hades raises an eyebrow at the strange creature motioning for him to follow it, but decides that he’s had stranger things happen to him and follows, curious to see where it was going.

Kadabra passes Silph Co and building after building until they finally reach the south most building in the city. Kadabra motions Hades to enter a house. It opens the door with it's mind and goes inside. A voice ominously says, "Enter, God of Spirits".

Hades is all grins now, “Oh, this is gonna be good…” He says cheerfully to the Kadabra, not really caring if it responds to him or not as he heads indoors.

Sabrina has Kadabra shut the door behind him. "I am Sabrina, the Psychic. I have much to say so please do not interrupt. You, who desperately seek doom and thrive on death, I implore you to free the spirits of the East. Ghosts and the like frequent two major areas of this region, the closest being the Lavender Tower to the East. It hosts the graves of Pokemon who have passed on and powerful Gengar reside there, devastating the dreams of those that enter. Seek the Tower and find your strength! This is a path you must take alone.” Sabrina highlights a town map and forges a bright red line of fire from Saffron to Lavender Tower. She moves the map off the wall and it finds its way into Hades palm bursting in flames from excitement. The map doesn't tear or burn. "Memorize it quickly because no one may know I have helped the spirits escape." Hades has enough time to ascertain which direction he needs to go before the map vanishes and reappears on the wall looking like new. "Now you may speak".

Hades just stares at Sabrina as she speaks… nonsense at him. She doesn’t tell him anything he wants to know, and worse, seems to be trying to send him on a noble quest. Clearly she doesn’t have any idea why he was seeking her (though apparently she did know that much…) and has some clear delusions about what he wants. “Hey, listen, that all sounds great and heroic and blech, but I actually came to you to find out if you knew who was on top around here. The big kahuna, as it were. That way I can take over as the guy in charge, see? I just want a nice cushy job that does all my work for me, ok? I’m tired of being the guy doing all the work. So what do you say, can you help a guy out?”

Sabrina cackled as he stated that she was sending him on a noble quest. "Feel free to ignore me, but without the aid of Gengar you will be unable to seek what you desire, or rather you will fail in weakness. There are spies everywhere for the rockets, replacing a man by the name of Giovanni would set a cycle of events in motion that will get you what you want. There are two others you must see do not get in your way, A psychic more powerful than I resides in this region If you cross paths you will certainly fail. There also seems to be a man who has split his soul in tethers. His presence is in antithesis to death itself. There is one other place you could go, if you find the previous "big Kahuna" unsatisfactory. Replace the champion of the Indigo Plateau. Every good trainer wishes to fight the champion. Being there may change the landscape of this world.

Hades listens this time, as he hears Sabrina’s advice, and considers the options. From what she said, it sounded like beating up this guy named Giovanni was the way to go. No one wanted a job where you had to fight all the time. “So you’re saying I need this Gengar, in order to beat a guy named Giovanni? And as long as I don’t run into the more powerful Psychic person… or the guy who has… ‘split his soul’ I’ll be on top? That’s great. Thanks sweetheart, you’re a real peach.” Hades offers a sloppy salute then heads off in the direction the map had been pointing him towards.