Pokémon Red (Book 2)

The Asteroid

Red's POV

'Where did it go ?'. Ethan picked up the bag and out his head inside, trying to figure out where the bomb was. 'It was right here a second ago'.

'It just disappeared ?'. Lyra walked to Ethan and looked here and there for the bomb.

'Guys, can we just stay happy with the fact that we are alive ?'. I walked forward, but was still confused about how the bomb just vanish.

Joey walked towards us. I was surprised he managed to run fifty meters in a few seconds.

'What happened ? Where did it go ?'. Joey walked briskly towards me. He pulled up his shorts and snatched the bag from Ethan's hands.

'Hey !'. Ethan roared.

'My bag'. Joey explained. 'Sorry'.

Joey turned the bag upside down, throwing three Pokeballs to the ground. 'Good thing they didn't steal these'.

'But why didn't they ?'. Ethan asked. 'Fishy right ?'.

Suddenly, a Blastoise sized rock fell from the sky on a tree.

The pine tree sliced in half and started falling towards us.

The pointy splinters of the rock shoot themselves like arrows towards us.

'Arbok, Poison Sting'. A woman commanded, coming out of nowhere.

The poison sting clashed with the broken pieces and turned them to dirt.

We looked down to protect ourselves from the dust, completely forgetting about the tree that should've crushed us by now.

I looked back, just to realize that a Magmar held it with its hands.

It threw the tree away like a baseball bat.

'Good job, Magmar'. Said a man, who was probably Magmar's trainer.

Both, the man and the woman stood side by side in front of us.

'You must evacuate the area', said the man.

'Who are you ?', I asked, slowly trying to stand up.

'Red, this is the part where we say thanks'. Lyra placed her hand on my right shoulder.

'Uh, thanks', shouted Ethan, then looked around, as nobody else thanked.

'Ah, don't mention it', said the woman.

'We are from the Rainbow Rocket', said the man. 'Giovanni sent us to follow you and protect you from things like this'.

'Giovanni ?', asked Ethan. 'Protect us ?'.

'Yes, he believes that you - Red, knows too much about Team Rocket and it will not be safe for you to be alone'.

'What happened just now ?', asked Lyra. 'What was that ? The thing which fell from the sky'.

'We don't know yet'.

'What were your names again ?', I asked.

'This is Ariana, and I am Archer', he said. 'We are Rainbow Executives'.

I looked at the similar clothes of the two Executives. White shoes, white pants, white jacket - full sleeved over a black t-shirt. And an R logo in rainbow color on the left chest pocket.

Archer had a teal blue hair color, followed by Ariana with maroon hair.

'Let's get away from this place', said Archer. 'There may be more rocks, about to fall from the sky'.