Chapter 2: Escaping the Grip

Cops were pulling up to the scene. Paramedics showed up, and an S.W.A.T. squad followed. They knew the severity of the situation; all of those teenagers, dead! And not only that, but they were killed by an unknown enemy. How would they contact the parents? The government would surely get involved. This was going to be one hell of a ride for the cops.

As for Sean and Jordan, they were begging the cops not to go in; doing anything they could, explaining what happened, showing them their pokemon, nothing worked! They still needed to check for survivors, even though they all knew the only survivors were the ones outside. Sean and Jordan especially, they saw brains.

Sean and Jordan finally gave up and let the cops past. Sean was pissed, so what if they're only 17? They're almost seniors and should be treated with respect! They're not stupid!

They tried to leave when a chief officer pulled them aside and began to question them. Sean and Jordan did not comply with what he asked, and he began to get pissed. He threatened to throw in jail. And when they asked for what reason, he said, "Terrorism." He explained he could lie and say they caused the incident, for they are terrorists. This of course made no sense; first of all, they were both American. Second of all, why the hell would a teenager get involved in international affairs?

Sean looked into the chief's eyes, "Fuck. You. Asshole."

This set the chief off, he jumped on Sean, Sean yelled, "ASSAULT! ASSAULT!" Jordan pulled the cop off and handed him to two S.W.A.T. members who dragged him away. He was swearing and screaming, "THAT LITTLE DICKHEAD TRICKED ME! I'LL BEAT HIS ASS FOR THAT!"

"You break the law, you get arrested." Sean said with a shrug. Eevee leaped into his arms and he petted him. "You know, we had better get going."

Jordan's Vulpix was getting tired, so Jordan called it into its pokeball, "Yeah," Jordan said, "Why didn't we answer his questions?"

"We answered them already; they weren't compliant to us, so it's going to be the same for them."

"Ah."

"Let's go. I don't want to stay in this city when pokemon can still attack."

Sean parted ways with Jordan and said to meet at 6PM. He called a taxi. He told the taxi driver to drive him to the nearest McDonald's for lunch. While out in public he was sure to keep his Eevee in its pokeball and in his bag, people didn't need to know that he had a pokemon when innocent people were getting murdered by them.

He went into the restaurant and bought a meal (and some extra fries for his new partner) he picked a table and sat down. It was 1:00, so it was particularly empty right now. He pulled out his Pokedex and fiddled with it, it looked like a toy. Once he read information on a ton of pokemon, he put it in his bag and put on his poketch, which he began to play with as well.

He touched a few buttons on the screen and found a pokeradar. This would tell him where incoming pokemon were. None were in the area. He was safe.

But why weren't any in the area? Why did the pokemon only attack his school?

He finished eating quickly and left the restaurant. He went into an alley and called out his Eevee. He fed the Eevee the extra fries he bought, and the Eevee chowed it down happily.

"I need a name for you…" Sean said, "I think you're a boy from the way you're eating that, so quickly."

Eevee looked up at him and nodded his head.

"OK. Your name is Lunar. If you were a girl you would be Luna. But you're a boy."

Eevee's eyes widened with joy, it loved its new name. He leaped into Sean and landed on his chest, knocking Sean off balance. He quickly regained it however and place Eevee on his shoulder, "We have to go now. I'll let you out later. Return!" He pulled out Eevee's ball, Eevee turned into a red energy and returned to the ball.

Sean called a cab, it pulled up and took him home.

***

It was 2:30 when he got home. He was an hour early. He realized he forgot to check his phone, he found out his mom had called over 20 times. He thought of an excuse and called her.

"Hello?" said a shaky voice.

"Mom? It's Sean".

"SEAN! Thank God you're OK! What happened?"

Here we go, Sean thought. 20 questions. He explained everything in one go, and was then bombarded by even more questions. The conversation lasted for two hours, and his mom finally understood what happened. Sean didn't tell her his plan to leave yet.

"So you have a pokemon now?"

"Yes."

"What's its name?"

"His name is Lunar."

"That's a pretty name, Sean!"

"It's not pretty, it's cool."

"Oh OK."

"I love how you're not phased that more than half my school died."

"You don't seem to be."

"I was there."

"So?"

"I got over it."

Shit, that sounded heartless.

"Well, how are your friends?"

"One died, but we weren't to extremely close, so I'm sad but I'll live."

"I'm sorry."

"OK."

"What do you want for dinner?"

Sean nearly forgot, he had to tell her. He'll be gone right before dinner.

"About that…"

"What?"

"I'm leaving."

"WHAT?"

"Mom, look. My friend died, Jordan lost most of his friends, our school was attacked and destroyed, my teachers are dead, and my education is going to grind to a halt. I need to get to the bottom of this."

"This is not your business."

This pissed Sean off, it WAS his business! If it wasn't when his friends DIED, it was when he got his pokemon. He didn't mention Jordan, he didn't need to get Jordan's involvement jeopardized.

Sean yelled at his mother, he didn't want to, but he needed to get his point across, "WHAT DO YOU MEAN, 'NOT MY BUISINESS?' MY FRIENDS ARE DEAD! MY SCHOOL IS DESTROYED! I HAVE A POKEMON! I don't know about you, but something's telling me that I have to act!"

The other line was silent for a minute, but it felt like an hour. Finally, his mom said, "Don't die on me, Sean. You have so much ahead of you."

Sean smiled, knowing he won, but it was bittersweet, "I need to do this, it'll kill me if I don't."

"When are you leaving?"

"One hour. Jordan and I are going to head down to the train station."

"How much money do you have?"

"I have $500 in my bank account, I'll use my debit card."

"Sean."

"Yes?"

"Please…"

"Come back?"

"Yes."

"Don't worry."

"Goodbye, Sean."

"Bye, Mom."

With that he hung up. He then packed everything into the same bag his pokeballs were. He packed a few sandwiches for snacks and meals. He even brought his Nintendo DS with the pokemon game inserted.

He called out Lunar for the last half hour and played with him, he gave him some cookies and called him back into the ball. He then left for the station.

***

He met up with Jordan at 6.

"How'd your parents take it?"

"I ran away."

"You WHAT?"

"Yeah, so let's get on that train! The cops are probably looking for me now!"

"Shit! Come on!"

The two ran into the train station. Huge masses of people were crowding the ticket stations; people were leaving and entering trains in packs. Voices echoed through the air constantly. This was a good thing; they could lose themselves in the crowd easily. They bought their tickets online, so they ran straight for the train.

The first floor opened up with an escalator going to the second floor and beyond that a food court. Sean and Jordan ran up the escalator, noticing a cop talking into a walkie-talkie on the first floor.

That's not good.

Once they reached the top they ran to the right and dived into the closest crowd possible. There were more obvious cops now; there were possibly 5 or 6 in the group. Jordan and Sean crouched to stay unnoticeable and moved with the sea of people. Once they made it to the trains, Sean and Jordan broke free of the crowd and found their train. A sign was flashing above it.

60 SECONDS TO BOARD

They sprinted towards it, they could easily make it, but a cop slid in front of them, "Not so fast, kids."

Sean dived at the cop's legs and made him trip, Sean pulled himself up and he and Jordan sprinted towards the train again.

45 SECONDS TO BOARD

This time, the cops came from the sides, trying to tackle them. Jordan sped up and Sean slowed down at the last second to create a gap between the two, the cops collided and fell to the ground.

35 SECONDS TO BOARD

A guard tackled the now-sprinting Jordan, Sean pulled the cop off, and who grabbed Sean and threw him to the ground. Sean looked at the train; it was less than 10 feet away! Another cop came to help and pinned Sean to the ground. The other cop restrained Jordan.

15 SECONDS TO BOARD

Jordan wasn't going to give up. He leaped onto his legs and stood up, he flipped the cop over his back, who hit the ground with a THUD.

10 SECONDS TO BOARD

Jordan kicked the cop restraining Sean in the face; he grabbed Sean and ran towards the train, only 10 feet to go!

7 SECONDS TO BOARD

A cop grabbed Jordan's leg, but Sean stomped on his hand, he let go and they both ran towards the train. 5 feet left.

3 SECONDS TO BOARD

Jordan and Sean leaped on to the train car right as the doors closed. They sighed and found a nice spot on the first floor. They showed their tickets and readied themselves for a long 8-hour journey across the state.