Chapter 74: Versus Shadow Mewtwo
Red was sweating.
"You guys already managed to recreate Shadow Pokémon?"
"Eheheh. It wasn't hard. Once we got the researches, we just had to start where Team Cipher left, starting with recreating the formula. We just managed to finish it a few minutes ago, and Mewtwo here is the first test subject. And as you can see, it worked perfectly. Mewtwo has become exactly like Team Cipher's Shadow Lugia. Its feelings are now locked deep in its hearts, turning it into a merciless fighting machine, and purifying it is almost impossible."
"How can you treat a living being like that?!" Twilight shouted in outrage before she wondered something. "Wait, Team Cipher had Lugia? I thought that Gold had Lugia since... I don't know how many years."
"There are more than one Lugia in the world," Red explained. "Many legendaries are unique, but some like the Legendary Birds aren't."
Giovanni chuckled. "Pokémon are just a tool, a mean to an end. A source of power to reach my goal. Isn't it what they are for every single trainers on this planet? You, Red, for example, you used your Pokémon to reach your dream and become a Champion. Everywhere, they are used to facilitate works. Digging tunnels, building structures, travelling around the world. They are used as a source of entertainment, in conflicts, and some even collect them like you collect bottle caps or stamps. They are even exchanged with Pokémon of random strangers. And their opinion never matters. So what is the difference between the way I treat them and the way others treat them? Wait, don't tell me, you treat them with kindness? Respect? Sure. But it doesn't change that, in the end, this is slavery. Me, at least, I don't hide behind excuses and hypocrisy. I know what I'm doing. And I. Don't. Care."
"But Pokémon need us! To survive, grow, and learn!" Twilight countered.
"Which is why they don't object when they are tasked to do something. If they refused to follow orders, then they would be abandoned. They don't have a choice. We use their needs to our advantage, and they can't do anything against it," Giovanni replied to this.
Twilight was about to retort something, but she was silenced by Red placing an arm in front of her before he shook his head. It was no use to argue.
Still, the ex-Champion looked at his Pikachu. Remembering how, at first, the little Pokémon hadn't really been fond of following him, being outright hostile. But now, as Pikachu looked back at him, he knew that the little Pokémon wasn't following him out of obligation, but of choice. They exchanged a smile, then a nod, before Pikachu turned back to face Shadow Mewtwo.
Pikachu, as well as his other Pokémon, weren't just his Pokémon. Their relationship had evolved beyond this, as proved when Red let them fight without even giving a single order. They were now partners. Best friends.
A family.
Giovanni looked down at Pikachu. "You really think that this rodent can defeat Shadow Mewtwo?"
"I trust him," Red replied calmly.
Giovanni smirked. "You will regret this. Mewtwo! Use Shadow Sky!"
Shadow Mewtwo expelled from its body a huge cloud of darkness that went to cover part of the sky above the mountain. From the cloud then rained literal darkness on everyone excepted Giovanni. Not only the darkness had for effect to hurt Pikachu upon contact, but it also hurt Red and Twilight, and the alicorn quickly used her magic to create a shield above the three of them that stopped it.
"Ugh... I-I think that I should intervene in this fight," Twilight said.
Red agreed, and Twilight ran beside Pikachu.
However... "Use Shadow Shed," Giovanni ordered.
And in one move, Shadow Mewtwo destroyed the shield, letting the darkness rain on Giovanni's adversaries again. Gritting her teeth, Twilight immediately put another shield.
Pikachu went to attack by repeating his usual strategy. Using Quick Attack, he moved around Shadow Mewtwo and attacked it from all sides with moves such as Iron Tail or Thunderbolt. Not long after Pikachu began to move, Twilight flew up and began to fire magical beams at the corrupted legendary.
However, Shadow Mewtwo easily avoided most of the attacks. Under Giovanni's order, it used Light Screen and Reflect, then caught Pikachu with its psychic powers and threw it at Twilight who was able to grab him with her magic before he could crash on her.
"Shadow Mist!"
Shadow Mewtwo expelled another cloud of darkness, this time covering the area in it. The cloud didn't hurt, but it impeded everyone's vision.
"Now, Mewtwo... Eh. Do your worst."
Twilight quickly created winds to push the cloud of darkness away, but the cloud wasn't affected by them and remained. While she looked, annoyed, at the darkness, she was then hit by a projectile of darkness that came from a random direction. It hurt like Tartarus, but she quickly recovered and fired a beam at the direction the beam came from. However, judging by Red suddenly letting out a shout of pain, she hit the wrong target.
"Sorry!" she shouted.
Her shield was then destroyed, and the rain of darkness returned. Pikachu, who was still being levitated beside her, whimpered in pain. Twilight barely had time to move him out of the way of another projectile of darkness.
"Enough!" she yelled before she created a intense light from her horn that actually pushed the cloud of darkness away. Happy to see that she finally succeeded, she looked around, spotted Shadow Mewtwo who had been blinded by the light, and threw Pikachu at it. Pikachu used Brick Break, destroying the Light Screen and Reflect, but Mewtwo side-levitated to the left to avoid the hit. Twilight had prepared for this and immediately moved Pikachu after it, and Pikachu was able to hit Shadow Mewtwo in the stomach as it had been about to hit him with one of its tails.
Mewtwo, however, quickly recovered and enveloped a fist in shadow before it attempted to punch Pikachu on the spine. But, again, Twilight was one move ahead and teleported Pikachu back on the ground before he could be hit.
Only for Mewtwo to teleport too exactly at the same moment and to hit Pikachu anyway. Twilight understood as she felt a presence in her head that Mewtwo read her mind. She tried to push it away from her mind, but the Pokémon revealed to be just too powerful.
Luna would have probably managed to do it. It was one of her specialities. Twilight vowed to ask the night princess for some training upon returning to Equestria.
Mewtwo teleported beside her, another Shadow Punch ready, and she quickly flew out of the way to avoid it while firing a few beams at the Pokémon. The beams were deflected back at Twilight, and the mare barely had time to put a shield. But then, Mewtwo stretched its arm and caught her before it slammed her on the ground. A Thunder from Pikachu stopped it from continuing its assault.
At this moment, the rain of darkness finally stopped, making everyone sigh in relief as the constant pain it caused disappeared.
Still, there were no respite. Luckily, the Thunder had for effect to paralyse Mewtwo, leaving it open long enough for Twilight to fire a more powerful beam. She also grabbed several chunks of the ground with her magic and smashed them against the Shadow Pokémon.
Mewtwo recovered from all this and, while still paralysed, glared at Pikachu, its eyes glowing. Pikachu's eyes glowed then, and the electric mouse sent another Thunder, this time at Twilight who yelped before she quickly teleported away just before the electricity could hit her.
Now, while Mewtwo recovered from the paralysis, Twilight had to face the mind-controlled Pikachu, and she wasn't sure how to save him.
"Pikachu! Snap out of it!" Red yelled.
This attracted Mewtwo's attention who was able, despite the paralysis, to send a projectile of darkness, that seemed to be an actual Shadow Ball Shadow-type move instead of the Shadow Ball Ghost-type move, at him to shut him up, and Red barely dodged it with a plunge.
Twilight made it regret its move with a powerful charged beam on the back, but the mare herself then got headbutted on the side by Pikachu with a Volt Tackle. Not only it badly hurt Twilight, but Pikachu also suffered from it, and the Pokémon finally fainted after that.
After all the hits he took, it wasn't surprising.
Red quickly called him back into his Poké Ball before he grabbed his Master Ball and sent his own Mewtwo. Red then immediately Mega-Evolved it into Mega-Mewtwo Y.
Shadow Mewtwo eyed its counterpart and, understanding that it was in for a serious fight, used Recover, healing all the damage it took until now.
Thankfully, it couldn't recover the energy it used since the beginning of the fight, so it will be a matter of tiring it out first. And they had the advantage of it still being paralysed from Pikachu's Thunder. Seeing that Twilight was hurt, Mewtwo used Recover on her too. It understood that it will certainly need her help to face its dark counterpart. The mare obviously wasn't as powerful as Sweetie Belle, but she still could do a good enough job at least as a distraction.
"Thank you," Twilight said to it.
"Mph. Of course you got Mewtwo," Giovanni said. "Now this is interesting. I never expected to see a Mewtwo versus Mewtwo fight. But yours only has the Y form. Do you think it will be enough against my Shadow Mewtwo?"
"More than enough," Red said. "Go, Mewtwo! Show him!"
Mewtwo immediately began with a Shadow Ball, knowing that, no matter what, its counterpart was weak to Ghost-type moves, and Shadow Ball was the only Ghost-type move it knew.
Mewtwo knew that it had a slight disadvantage, and not just because Shadow Mewtwo had both it X and Y form. In its Y form, it still was just a Psychic-type, and thus, was still weak to Dark-moves, some of which Mewtwo could use from TMs. It will have to be especially careful of Fling because it was wearing a Mega-Stone, as well as Foul Play. At least, it didn't have to worry about any Bug-type moves. Shadow Mewtwo, however, having its X form, was a Psychic and a Fighting-type Pokémon, which changed almost everything. It still had its weakness to Ghost-type moves, but its weaknesses to Bug and Dark were replaced by weaknesses to Flying and Fairy. The problem was that Mewtwo had no Fairy-type moves, and only one Flying-type move: Hurricane. This problem was countered by Shadow Mewtwo not having its resistance to Psychic-type moves anymore while Mewtwo still had its resistance to both Psychic and Fighting-type moves, so it at least had this advantage.
Of course, resistances were useless if the moves Shadow Mewtwo used were Shadow moves which were effective against everything that wasn't a Shadow Pokémon, no matter what these Shadow moves were at the origin.
Shadow Mewtwo easily avoided the Shadow Ball and used Shadow Sky again before it deflected a couple of beams from Twilight. Mewtwo used the opening to use Hurricane. Shadow Mewtwo tried to get out of it, but its paralysis stopped it and it was caught in the wind. While Shadow Mewtwo was spinning in the Hurricane, Twilight created another shield to protect everyone from the rain of darkness.
Once the Hurricane stopped, Shadow Mewtwo turned to glare at Giovanni and levitated a Paralyze Heal right out of his pocket before it used it on itself. Giovanni nodded in approval.
While this happened, Twilight fired more beams at it, and it was also hit by a Shadow Ball from Mewtwo. Shadow Mewtwo however used Recover before it used a Shadow move variant of Psychic or Psystrike on Mewtwo, badly hurting it. Just as it launched the attack, Twilight charged horn first on its back, sending it crashing on the ground, allowing Mewtwo to recover from the hit it took before it sent a Shadow Ball that Shadow Mewtwo avoided by teleporting. Shadow Mewtwo appeared right between Twilight and Mewtwo and stretched its limbs to catch the two of them, probably in an attempt to smash the two of them into each other, but the two easily flew out of the way.
The two Mewtwo then exchanged several attacks while flying and teleporting around, Mewtwo mainly sending Shadow Balls while Shadow Mewtwo essentially used Shadow versions of its Psychic moves while throwing every now and then a Shadow Fire or a Shadow Bolt. Many Status moves such as Calm Mind or Bulk Up were also used when they had the occasion.
Mewtwo had to use Recover a lot more often than Shadow Mewtwo. Shadow moves really were frightening. And that was despite Mewtwo getting more openings thanks to Twilight, and Twilight herself landing a strong hit sometimes when Shadow Mewtwo was too focused on its counterpart. However, Recover also had to be used on Twilight a lot, and the mare was regretting not having the power she had had while facing Tirek. Shadow Mewtwo also continued to use Shadow Sky each time that it dissipated, and Twilight regularly had to put a new shield to protect everyone from it.
Mewtwo was hit by a Shadow Punch for what was probably the twentieth time in this fight and it countered with a Thunder Punch at the same time that a magical beam from Twilight hit Shadow Mewtwo from behind. But almost immediately after being hit by the two attacks, Shadow Mewtwo used another Shadow Punch on Mewtwo with its right fist while sending a Shadow Wave at Twilight with its left hand which Twilight avoided by teleporting. Shadow Mewtwo's tail then covered itself in darkness before it used it to hit Mewtwo on the side, sending it on the ground. Mewtwo quickly sent a Shadow Ball on Shadow Mewtwo's face before it could attack again, but despite its head jerking backward and despite being hit by another magical beam, Shadow Mewtwo stomped hard on Mewtwo and readied another Shadow Punch.
Only for Red to jump on its back and to put his backpack on its head with something very loud ringing in it, ruining Shadow Mewtwo's focus. While Shadow Mewtwo tried to get itself rid of the bag and of Red, the trainer revealed that he put on his left wrist a new bracelet with a slot containing a weird light purple, diamond-shaped stone with the Ghost-type symbol (a cartoonish image of a ghost).
As best as he could considering his position and Shadow Mewtwo's erratic movements, Red crossed his arms before his chest, the bracelet glowing, before he swung his arms up and around to his sides. Then, he brought his arms straight in front of his body, one hand on top of the other, before he crouched down with his hands curled into fists in front of his mouth. Then, they rose up slowly, swaying left and right like a slithering snake or a ghost eerily rising up behind somebody. The arms then spread apart and he lurched forward as if jumpscaring someone. An aura of energy then appeared around him, and another appeared around Mewtwo who quickly got up and readied itself.
At this instant, Shadow Mewtwo finally managed to grab Red and to throw him away only for Twilight to began to send everything she had at it, from beams to thrown boulders passing by manipulated wind and even the water that rained down.
Finally, Mewtwo, thanks to the energy it received, began to use its new move: Never-Ending Nightmare.
It began with Mewtwo engulfing the area in a dark illusion with a scenery worthy of nightmares. A large shadow then spreed from its position and reached Shadow Mewtwo before multiple shadowy hands came out of it and attacked, soon enveloping Shadow Mewtwo in a dome of shadows that then exploded, releasing a column of purple smoke.
It was a Ghost-type move, so it was Super Effective. And after all that Shadow Mewtwo had already taken?
The Shadow Pokémon was knocked out.
Not looking shocked at all that his Pokémon was defeated, Giovanni began to clap as he walked toward it.
"A Z-move. I should have expected it. But..." He took out a a small, yellow, star-like medicine that he placed in Shadow Mewtwo's paw. The next instant, the Pokémon was entirely healed and regained consciousness. "This is not over."
Giovanni then took out a white band with a red rim on one side and a blue rim on the other that had a black part with a blue Poké Ball symbol in the center and placed it on his right wrist, below the Mega Ring.
Red raised an eyebrow, but got suspicious. "A Dynamax Band? This is not a Power Spot, it won't work."
"Eheheheheh. You are right, this area is not a Power Spot," Giovanni said before he grabbed from one of his pocket a strange purple ball. "But I can remedy to that." He then broke the ball, releasing a purple energy that then entered the Dynamax Band which glowed.
"You must be kidding me..." Red said as he took a step back.
"You guys managed to create a way to transport Dynamax energy?" Twilight asked in shock.
"Exactly." Giovanni answered. "After some time researching Dynamax Energy, we created these balls that can contain a certain quantity of it, just enough to Dynamax a Pokémon. We have no way to create Dynamax Energy, so we have to collect it on the Power Spots back in Galar, but thanks to these balls, we can release it anywhere, anytime, and thus Dynamax one of our Pokémon wherever and whenever we want. Admire."
At this, Giovanni called Shadow Mewtwo back in its Master Ball. Energy then came out of the Dynamax Band and entered the ball which grew in size and became entirely purple, glowing and releasing energy. Giovanni then threw the ball which opened, releasing Shadow Mewtwo who grew more and more in size until it was easily the size of a building. It was back in its normal form, but Giovanni immediately used his Mega Rings to Mega-Evolve it back into its merged X and Y form.
"I'm not done yet!" an ecstatic Giovanni said as he then put around his left wrist, under the Mega Ring here, a bracelet exactly like the one that Red used.
"A Z-Ring too?!!" Red shouted.
"Look closer," Giovanni instructed as he showed the bracelet, more exactly, the Z-Crystal on it.
It was a crystal like the one that Red used, diamond-shaped. However, this one was black and had for symbol, in a black even blacker, a heart with a keyhole.
Twilight gasped. "Is that?"
Giovanni let out his best evil smirk, sure of his victory. "This is the true power of Team Rainbow Rocket!"
He then began the same dance than Red did earlier. Crossing his arms, swinging them to his sides, and bringing them in front of his body. But then, instead of moving the arms like Red did for the Ghost-type, Giovanni brought his left hand to his heart and mimed as if he was using a key to lock it. Then, the hand mimed grabbing the heart and violently tearing it out before he dramatically held it up. The right hand then moved above and did as if he was a puppeteer using strings to manipulate the heart.
Like before, the aura of energy appeared around Giovanni, and another appeared around Shadow Mewtwo in addition of the purple Dynamax energy that was already circling it.
Red's group, Misty and Whitney at the head, chose this moment to finally climb the stairs and join them, seeing the Dynamaxed Shadow Pokémon about to send a Z-move.
Some stopped in fear with various exclamations immediately upon seeing it, but others continued to run toward Red.
"All the Rockets suddenly disappeared from the island!" Misty informed.
Twilight gulped. "I... think that we should follow their example.
"What's going on here?" Rainbow Dash asked as she looked at Shadow Mewtwo in fear.
"I think that it's pretty obvious," Rarity said. "And I agree with Twilight. Whatever it is preparing, if all these rufians decided that it was time to abandon their base, then it must not be good to remain."
Giovanni grinned. "Mewtwo. Z-Max Shadownova." His grin widened. "Don't hold back. Use all your power."
Shadow Mewtwo raised a paw, and shadows came out of it, gathering into a ball that grew more and more in size until it dwarfed even the Dynamaxed Pokémon.
"Mewtwo! We must get everyone out of the island!" Twilight shouted.
Yes, Mewtwo replied with a nod before the two joined their power to teleport everyone, Pokémon included, to the boats. Mewtwo made sure to give a telepathic message to all Pokémon who knew Teleport to help.
And in one instant, everyone was back on the boats, just in time for Gold and Ruby, respectively on Lugia and on Rayquaza's back, to reach them as they were finally finished with their battle against Parallel Archie and Maxie.
"Sorry we're late. These idiots continued to use Potions and Revives on their Pokémon and they had, like, a bazillion of them," Ruby said.
"Then they just disappeared, and I think I understand why," Gold said as he looked at the giant ball of shadows that descended into the mountain. "Lugia!"
Lugia didn't need to be told what to do. The Legendary began to levitate the boats, quickly helped by Mewtwo and Deoxys. They didn't just levitate the boats, they also made them move as rapidly as they could.
Behind them, the island disappeared in a huge explosion of darkness, and dark clouds spread to cover the sky for miles around, the dark rain pouring everywhere under them.
The Pokémon dropped the boats just outside of range of the clouds and their painful rain, and everyone could still see the explosion in the distance. It didn't take long for Red and Twilight to recount what happened to everyone, and they all understood how bad the situation was.
Team Rainbow Rocket completed the formula to turn a Pokémon into a Shadow Pokémon, and Red remarked that it seemed even more perfect than the one Team Cipher made in Orre, because the Shadow Mewtwo didn't get into Reverse Mode even once despite all the Shadow moves it used.
Reverse Mode was a state where the Shadow Pokémon lost control randomly after using a Shadow move and could easily disobey its master, and it always hurt itself after an attack.
If Team Rainbow Rocket managed to bypass this problem, then the Shadow Pokémon were now pretty much without weakness.
Then, they obviously had their hands of some Z-Crystals and even managed to produce at least one Shadow Z-Crystal (whatever name they gave it), allowing their Shadow Pokémon to use what was without a doubt a powerful Shadow Z-Move.
And finally, they were able to contain Dynamax Energy so they could use it outside of Galar. They could Dynamax their Pokémon and unleash their devastating attacks, and the trainers would have no way to counter them unless they fought in large groups.
And of course, they had no qualms using a Z-Move while their Pokémon was Dynamaxed. Even the Galarians avoided doing this because of how apocalyptique the resulting attacks would be (and it was helped that Z-Crystals weren't accessible in Galar), and Giovanni just proved how right they were. And he made the attack while Shadow Mewtwo was in its merged Mega-form X and Y, which added quite the punch to an already powerful attack.
And thanks to whatever technology they used to move in and out of this world (certainly related to Ultra-Wormholes), they could attack anywhere and escape as easily as they came. And if every single grunts sent out a Dynamaxed Shadow Pokémon and used a Z-Move... They could destroy whole cities and the trainers would be able to do nothing against it.
And it wasn't even the worst part.
"So, what did you think of the show?" a familiar voice asked behind everyone on the Kanto ship.
Everyone turned from the direction where they watched the explosion and spotted Giovanni now on the ship, his Shadow Mewtwo levitating behind him keeping guard.
"You! Want a round 2?" a trainer who had been in Red's group shouted.
Giovanni raised an eyebrow. "Here? On this ship? Very well, but I think that we all know how this would end if we start," he said as he grabbed another purple ball and stopped just short of breaking it open.
Many gulped. The ship wouldn't resist.
Red signed to everyone to not try anything while Gold, who had still been on Lugia's back, landed beside him.
"What do you want? You're just here to gloat?" Gold asked.
Giovanni shrugged. "In a way. It's more to give an advice. Give up. As you saw, we now have the power to make the world kneel. And it's only a matter of days before I get the final piece that will truly make us invincible."
"Which is?" Twilight asked.
"Come on. I'm sure you already put the pieces together. Mewtwo is one of the most powerful Pokémon of the world, but not the most powerful. There's one Pokémon who's at the top of the food chain, and I intend to get it."
Blue advanced out of the group of trainers to gain attention. "Are you speaking of Arceus? We already suspected that you were after it. You are searching its plates."
Giovanni's smirk was all the answer they needed to confirm it. "If you want to know, we already found six of them. Earth, Flame, Splash, Stone, Spooky, and Pixie." He suddenly went silent as his eyes turned to his ear where an earbud could be seen. "Mmmh... Scratch that. Make it seven. Cyrus just found the Icicle Plate in the mountains of the Crown Tundra. You understand now? You can't stop us. This world is as good as mine. So make it easy for me and stop fighting."
"You dream!" Gold shouted.
Giovanni gave a mocking shrug. "Worth a try."
Energy then appeared on him like on the grunts back at the top of the mountain, and in a flash, he and Mewtwo were gone.
...
"Sooooo... What do we do now?" Pinkie asked.
Many wondered the same thing, but before an answer was given, a Gold's phone rang.
He took it and looked at the number. "It's Dawn," he informed before he answered. "Yes, Dawn?...... Oh?....." A grin spread on his face. "Great! As planned! Then send the word to the others!" His grin was then replaced by a frown. "It's time for a crisis meeting. We must stop Team Rainbow Rocket as soon as possible."
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Heh... while Aeon is only explicitly in Gigantamax, the move is still called G-Max Mega Zenith in homage to the other two. (The context for this doesn't exist outside my head)
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Sorry. I don't understand.
Go read the parenthetical again; I'd call bull
if you claimed you did understand it.
Rainbow Rocket have Arceus but they have Sweetie Belle, with enough time she should be able to help
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They don't have Arceus yet.
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Well, if we go with alternate timelines and all that, there must be a alternate timeline somewhere they have Arceus just not this precisely
HAPPY NEW YEAR
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Probably. Actually, if Giovanni managed to capture Arceus and to win, then he could go to the other universes and easily capture the Arceus there to have a full team of them. He would be almost unstoppable.
And happy new year to you too!
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Too bad they could not be visited the team Holy Rocket or something like that, that fight against evil and is in the good side
i just realized something regarding when Sweetie Belle met Phantom. Reglisse is licorice. Scootaloo Phantom made a licorice filled apple.
censored for the benefit of new readers.
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Thanks. I wasn't sure of how it was called so I thought that it was the name.
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Different regions, different names.
It's like the difference between American Soccer and European/British Football.
Translation: there is none.
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Is the next chapter almost ready by now?
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Not quite. I got a bit of a Writer's Block and I have a lot of difficulty writing the chapter. It still advances little by little.
What is your headcanon for "Link's Awakening"? I ask because in that game there are some Mario enemies and one sub-boss is a copy of Kirby
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I didn't intend to put any thought into it because anything related to Link's Awakening will be irrelevant to the story. And since this happens in the Dream Fish's dream, then any explanation can be given. Like, they could be coincidences, or the Dream Fish could glance into other universes.