Pokémon Red (Book 2)

Some Things Are Better Left Unown (I)

Ethan's POV

We stood outside the collapsed building. The air was foul with detritus of the Ruin. There was no one else to be seen.

Officer Jenny was calling a police force. Lyra and Red acted weirdly, gazing at Bugsy. And I looked at the two, who stared at Bugsy, who was looking at the debris.

'Basically', I said, breaking the silence and everyone looked at me. 'The Ruins are ruined'.

Lyra looked away, annoyed. I could easily tell by Red's expression he didn't want to hear from me anymore, maybe because I was casual in everything.

Well, actually being casual was my jam. You don't have to be serious about everything like Red, taking things lightly makes you happier.

Plus, I also thought that there was a serious problem of seriousness in the overly serious 'Serious Family'.

'Uh, Bugsy ?'. Red turned to Bugsy, nervous. 'How did you exactly trigger the Unowns free ?'.

'Uh, there was this painting behind which there was a switch, when pushed it open a gateway of some sort which released the Unowns'. Bugsy explained, stammering.

'Is it possible that these switches are in the other Ruins too ?', asked Lyra, looking away, surprised.

'Yeah, why ?', asked Bugsy.

Suddenly, there was an earthquake, I quickly crouched. Bugsy lost his balance and fell to his knees.

Red covered his head with his bag (this sentence would've sounded way cooler if he used a loaf of bread instead of his bag).

Lyra started walking towards Ruin Two, thinking it would be safer indoors. But, fail, the second Ruin collapsed too.

It started to fall when suddenly it was held by a pink aura.

'Officers, hold it', shouted Officer Jenny. I looked at other officers, they were all look alikes, just like Nurse Joy. I wouldn't be surprised if all of their names would be Jenny.

All of the Officer Jennys (Jennies) had a Pokemon which released the pink aura, in order to hold the Ruin intact.

'Go Ditto'. Red quickly sent out his Pokemon. 'Transform into....that'.

I pointed the Pokedex towards the Pokemon Jenny had.

The Pokedex popped open and displayed the Pokemon's photograph along with information.

'Natu, a Tiny Bird Pokemon. Because its wings aren't yet fully grown, it has to hop to get around. It is always staring at something', explained the Pokedex.

The Pokemon was spherical with its light green body and white wings with some of the feathers being red and black. It's beak was yellow and it's tail was red.

It was as big as my hand and it's eyes gave me feeling that I will sleep on spot if I looked at them a few more seconds.

One of the Officers walked inside with a Growlithe, trying to rescue the civilians inside the Ruin. Luckily, Ruin One did not have any, otherwise they would've gone splat.