"Healing Grace!"
Ash whispered the words in his mind.
Hummm—
Under the tense, breath-held gazes of everyone in the laboratory, Ash's hand began to glow with a soft, crystalline erald-green light.
A strange yet familiar force—brimming with natural vitality—flowed out and was injected directly into the fertilized egg.
The researchers didn't linger on Ash's glowing hand for long. Instead, they imdiately turned back to the experintal consoles, carrying out a series of operations Ash couldn't understand.
Very soon, a holographic projection appeared above the lab table.
On the screen was a spiraling, distorted DNA helix.
But unlike a normal genetic chain, this one felt profoundly unnatural—
as if it had been crudely stitched together from fragnts of Pokémon genes and human genes, forcibly fused into a single structure.
Beyond its eerie appearance, there was an even more obvious problem:
The DNA chain was extrely unstable—
so fragile it looked as if it could collapse and shatter at any mont.
However, as Ash continued channeling Healing Grace, infusing the fertilized egg with the Viridian Power— Natural Affinity , that fragile genetic helix began to change.
It slowly stabilized.
Slowly harmonized.
On the holographic chromoso scan, as the DNA strands settled into balance, smiles blood across the faces of every researcher present.
"Ash, that's enough. You can stop now."
Based on the real-ti monitoring data, Dr. Fuji confird that not only had the genetic chain stabilized, but the entire fertilized egg had been restored to a healthy state thanks to Ash's power.
Dr. Fuji imdiately called out to stop him—before Ash pushed himself any further.
After all, too much of anything was dangerous.
Adequate life energy ensured healthy developnt and accelerated growth.
But excessive vitality could just as easily lead to catastrophic imbalance.
"Hah… hah…"
Ash halted the Healing Art.
Sweat poured down his face as he stepped away from the lab table, his entire body swaying as if he might collapse at any second.
This wasn't an act.
This was his true condition.
Ash had originally thought that healing a single fertilized egg wouldn't take much effort.
But in reality, the process had been astonishingly exhausting.
The strain manifested in two ways.
First—
The sheer energy consumption required to heal the egg was enormous.
Second—
As he used Viridian Power to stabilize the genetic chains, Ash felt an invisible, overwhelming resistance pushing back against him.
It was as if wtwo's very existence violated natural law—
too defiant, too blasphemous—
As though the world itself did not wish for wtwo to be born.
Throughout the healing process, Ash wasn't just expending terrifying amounts of energy—
he was also locked in a silent struggle against that unseen resistance.
And during that struggle, doubt crept into his heart.
Was helping Team Rocket create wtwo…
right or wrong?
The reason Ash had agreed to help Team Rocket in the first place was simple:
He wasn't strong enough yet.
He needed ti to grow.
If he tore relations apart with Team Rocket now, he couldn't guarantee his own safety—
let alone the safety of his mother, Delia Ketchum.
For now, he needed to maintain a carefully balanced relationship with Team Rocket—
neither ally nor enemy, ambiguous yet relatively safe.
Secondly—
When Ash had guessed that the Pokémon Team Rocket wanted him to "heal" was wtwo, he had still chosen to accept.
Why?
Because having seen the original story, he knew Team Rocket would eventually create wtwo.
He believed it was inevitable—and assud wtwo had already been born.
But reality proved otherwise.
The wtwo Project had not yet truly begun.
wtwo wasn't even an embryo—only fragnted genetic material.
By secretly listening to the researchers' thoughts, Ash learned sothing even more critical:
Team Rocket only had this single remaining sample of w's genes.
If Ash wanted to sabotage the experint—
He absolutely could.
He alone had the power to decide whether wtwo would be born… or never exist at all.
So the question beca unavoidable:
Should he help Team Rocket create wtwo?
Ash knew the original story all too well.
wtwo was the crystallization of Team Rocket's ambition.
Fans loved wtwo—his power, his presence, his tragedy—
But anyone who truly understood the story also knew this:
Because wtwo was created by human scientists using w's genes,
he was plagued by confusion over his own identity.
For a very long ti, wtwo lived in pain.
To wtwo, Team Rocket was the root of that suffering.
If Ash helped Team Rocket create wtwo, then—
wasn't he also an accomplice?
Ash had once hoped wtwo would be born so that, one day, wtwo might turn against Team Rocket—
crippling or even destroying it.
But if wtwo discovered that Ash himself had played a role in his creation—
Would wtwo destroy Team Rocket…
and then destroy Ash as well?
Team Rocket vs. wtwo.
There was no question that wtwo was terrifyingly powerful.
As an individual being, wtwo wasn't as structurally dangerous as Team Rocket, whose roots ran deep through human society.
Team Rocket, after all, was still bound—at least partially—by the rules of the human world.
Ash could ally himself with upper-tier families and financial conglorates tied to Team Rocket, using shared interests as a protective shield.
But wtwo was a Pokémon.
He existed outside human social order.
He was bound by none of those rules.
If wtwo truly decided to kill Ash—
there would be nothing Ash could do to stop it.
—wtwo was dangerous.
—wtwo was suffering.
—The will of the world resisted wtwo's birth.
By all logic, Ash should have sabotaged Team Rocket and prevented wtwo from ever coming into existence.
But—
Ash was standing inside Team Rocket's underground base.
Behind him stood Giovanni, a Champion-level powerhouse.
If Ash tried anything clever now, even Charizard couldn't protect him.
wtwo was the embodint of Giovanni's ambition.
Its importance to Giovanni was beyond question.
If Ash pulled any tricks here, he would be openly tearing relations apart with Team Rocket.
Giovanni would never let him walk away.
At that point, Ash might not even survive long enough to see Team Rocket move against his family.
wtwo's suffering.
wtwo's danger.
The world's resistance to his birth.
Compared to his own survival—
What did any of that matter?
In the end, Ash was a person who placed his own interests first.
A selfish person.
And just as Ash finally made up his mind—
deciding to pour everything he had into helping Team Rocket bring wtwo into existence—
That invisible resistance…
vanished.
As if the world itself had reconsidered.
As if the will of the Pokémon world had decided that, despite how unnatural wtwo was—
His existence still held value.
That the Pokémon world…
needed wtwo.
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