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Scientist Dr. Fuji (Billy Bob Thompson) is hired by Giovanni (Ted Lewis), leader of Team Rocket, to utilize his expertise in cloning to create a living weapon based on an eyelash from legendary Pokémon Mew (Koichi Yamadera). Mew is mythical Pokemon who is rumored to be extinct, but there have been reports of sightings.Mew sees Fuji taking an eyelash from a different Mew fossil in the jungle, and flies away to hide from humans at Mount Quena.Soon after the weapon is created, it gains sentience and is named Mewtwo (Dan Green). Mew was known to have great powers that could cause flooding and get plants to bloom in wilderness.

Several years later, Mewtwo has fully awakened from a long slumber in a laboratory on New Island and learns of his origin as Mew's clone from Dr. Fuji. Mewtwo can communicate Telepathically and can speak English perfectly.Infuriated that Fuji and his colleagues see him as nothing more than an experiment, he unleashes his psychic powers and destroys the laboratory, killing Fuji and the rest of the scientists. No machine, however powerful, is able to restrain Mewtwo. Mewtwo wonders if he is the most powerful Pokemon in the world, even more so than Mew.

Giovanni, witnessing the carnage afar, approaches and convinces Mewtwo to work with him to hone his powers, to rule the world. Mewtwo keeps asking "who am I" and " to what purpose do I live". Giovanni says that if Mewtwo's powers are left unchecked, they would only lead to the destruction of the world. Giovanni puts on a heavy armor on Mewtwo to control his power.

Giovanni uses Mewtwo to defeat his enemies and to enrich himself. However, after Mewtwo learns of his purpose to be a weapon for Giovanni's benefit (when Giovanni says that Mewtwo is a Pokemon created by humans, so it is only natural for Mewtwo to serve humans), he escapes back to New Island (after destroying Giovanni's lab as well) where he plots his revenge against humanity.

After Mewtwo rebuilds the laboratory and establishes a base there, he invites several trainers with hologram messages to battle the world's greatest Pokémon trainer at New Island. Mewtwo had been observing all Pokemon's and their trainers remotely and invited the best of them to his Island.

Ash (Sarah Natochenny), Misty (Michele Knotz), and Brock (Bill Rogers) receive the message (as they have Pikachu and Togepi (Satomi Korogi)) and accept the invitation. Team Rocket was spying on Ash and his team and saw the contents message being delivered to Ash.But when they arrive at the port city, Old Shore Wharf, Mewtwo creates a storm, causing the boats on the wharf to be closed off by harbor master Miranda (Lisa Ortiz) for safety. Ash and his team learn that Nurse Joy from the Pokemon Center is also missing.

As a result, Ash's group are picked up by Team Rocket (Jesse (Michele Knotz), James (James Carter Cathcart) and Meowth) disguised as captains on a Lapras-shaped sailboat. After the storm sinks their vessel in the middle of the ocean, Ash and his friends use their Pokémon instead to reach New Island.

Meanwhile Mew also awakens from its slumber near Mount Quena and heads to New Island. Mew and Ash's team reach the Island at around the same time. Compared to the violent and aggressive Mewtwo, Mew is cheerful and cute.

Escorted into the island's palace by the woman who appeared on the hologram, Ash and the other trainers who were able to reach the island encounter Mewtwo. The woman is revealed to be a brainwashed Nurse Joy (Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld) after she is released from Mewtwo's mind control.Mewtwo challenges the trainers using cloned Pokémon. Meanwhile, Team Rocket also reaches New Island (They are not invited, and so they enter the palace through the sewer) and explores its inner sanctum with a Mew innocuously following them. They manage to find the Pokemon cloning machine and the research done by Dr Fuji on this topic earlier.

Mewtwo is introduced as the world's best Pokemon trainer. Mewtwo says that weak and cruel humans cannot be allowed to govern the planet. Mewtwo also looks down upon Pokemon who serve their masters and are not willing to rise up against them.After Mewtwo's clones, who have essentially evolved and more powerful copies of their originals, effortlessly defeat the challengers' Pokémon, he confiscates them (using his own poke balls, including Pikachu) and expands his clone army. Ash chases after his captured Pikachu down the cloning lab, where Team Rocket's Meowth (James Carter Cathcart) is also cloned. Ash destroys the cloning machine, frees the captured Pokémon, and leads them to confront Mewtwo and his clones. Mew then reveals itself and Mewtwo challenges it to prove his superiority.

All the Pokémon originals battle their clones save for a defiant Pikachu (Ikue Otani) and Meowth, who makes peace with his own clone after realizing the senselessness of their fighting. Horrified at the pain and anguish felt on both sides of the battle, Ash puts himself in between a psychic blast caused by Mewtwo and Mew's fighting, leading to Ash to become stone. Pikachu tries to revive Ash with its electricity but fails. However, the tears of the Pokémon can heal and revive Ash. Moved by Ash's sacrifice, Mewtwo realizes that he should not have to be judged by his origins but rather his choices in life. Departing with Mew and the clones, Mewtwo turns back time to just before the trainers leave Old Shore Wharf, and erases everyone's memories of the event.

Back in Old Shore Wharf, the now-restored Nurse Joy has returned to reopen the Pokémon Center to shelter the trainers. The storm outside clears up, Ash spots Mew flying through the clouds and tells his friends of how he saw another legendary Pokémon the day he left Pallet Town. Meanwhile, Team Rocket finds themselves stranded on New Island but enjoy their time there.After the credits, a brief scene shows Mewtwo, Mew, and the clones flying towards Mount Quena.