Pokemon Max: Universal Delete

Part 2 Enemies

Part 2 Enemies

As we hurried out of my house, Clover attempted to clarify. "Apparently something's going on in the downtown area. I haven't found out much yet, I only just got the alert."

"Yeah, great." I replied, adjusting the belt with my Pokeball on it. The ball was still a little bit odd to have there, so I just tried my best to ignore it.

We made our way to the downtown area in a hurry, quickly passing through my familiar suburbs to steadily more populated areas. The buildings became taller, the trees became fewer, and soon enough, we arrived.

This part of the city was much like any other city. Buildings with multiple stories stretched up on either side of the street, there was  long median in the road filled with trees every couple yards. Traffic at least seemed normal today, always a positive when dealing with weird s*** like we go through.

As we waited at a crosswalk, I turned to Clover, and asked, "So where exactly is this happening?"

She sort of shrugged. "I didn't really think to ask, I figured I'd just grab you and we'd find out when we got there."

There was then a distant sound of an explosion. Eyes all around turned toward the source of the noise, which was further up the street from us and around a corner.

I rolled my eyes. "Well, lucky for you..." I took off across the street, ignoring the general laws of pedestrian-ism. I hurried down the street, carefully sidestepping people and objects that entered my path as I hurried through. Unfortunately, I had to stop and turn around when I heard a loud honk and the screeching of tires.

Clover quickly vaulted over the hood of a car, before shouting back, "So sorry!"

As she caught up to me in our rush to the scene of attack, I asked if she was okay.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Truth be told I've always wanted to jump over a car like that." 

I frowned. "I thought you lost your memories?"

She shrugged in response. "Yeah, but doesn't everyone want to do something like that?"

I decided not to respond, and so the both of us rounded the corner and got a good look at our problem. A large hole had formed in the upper levels of a building at the end of this new street. I couldn't really tell what had caused it, or what was going on, but I could only hope the team was already on its way.

I turned to Clover. "All right, listen. You go get help, okay? I don't know what this is, and I don't want you to rush in there for something you're not prepared to handle."

She started to speak up, but apparently decided it was better to just not argue. "Fine."

I began running once more toward the building ahead, removing Sandslash's Pokeball from the belt.

I didn't see anything at first glance that would need immediate attention, so I went directly into the building.

Upon entering, my face filled with smoke and dust. I tried to wave it away, to almost no avail. I elected to keep moving, making my way through the shaken building. The bottom floor seemed to have been evacuated, likely because people were smart enough to get the crap out when things got bad.

There was still an eeriness to it, with the workplace, currently unaffected by the damage, looking like everyone had just up and disappeared. I passed by somebody's computer, and noticed it was still active, with a picture of a woman I guess was somebody's wife.

The floor echoed slightly under my footsteps as I crossed the linoleum floor to the staircase. I pushed through the doorway, and found myself under assault by new amounts of noise.