JPP 13: Chaos In Ecruteak City.

Johto Region

Ecruteak City

Morty, the Ecruteak City gym leader, was trying to help.

The streets of Ecruteak City were piled with traffic, and countless pokeballs that were open and empty due to the mass disappearances of the world's entire pokemon population. Morty knew the white car he had just rented was somewhere among the tangled mess he wanted to help clear. Despite the constant screams and panic, Morty had made it clear to officer Jenny and the police that he wanted to help. Morty paused at one point to wipe his sweaty face with the back of his hand right hand. He glared at the cloudless sky, then turned back to the people needing help.

As he approached a brown mangled station wagon, he came face to face with a young woman sitting behind the wheel, who appeared to be going into shock. Her hair was dark brown and straight, and she had a slinder figure. But right now her face was badly bruised, and he blue eyes were wild with pain and fear.

"My Flareon!" The woman shrieked. "My Flareon was in the front passenger seat! It just...it just disappeared!"

Morty tried to steady the woman. "Calm down." He said. "Calm down? What a joke." He repeated in his mind.

"Have you seen my Flareon?" The woman shrieked desperately.

"No, ma'am, but i'm sure that the police will find it. They'll be here shortly. Just hold on. Right now you need first-aid." Morty said before reaching in through the car's broken window and laying a hand on the woman's forehead. It felt cool and clammy. This was not good.

The woman winced in pain. "Help me." She whispered. "It hurts."

Morty then patted the woman's arm. "I've gotta do something, fast!" He thought. He knew that an accident victim going into shock needed to kept as warm as possible. Morty then unlocked the driver door, opened it, reached inside, got the woman out, then picked her up and carried her over to an ambulance.

"My Flareon! Please find my Flareon." The woman pleaded.

As Morty approached one of the male paramedics, he thought about what had happened just moments ago. Morty had seen beautiful, golden clouds cover the whole bright, blue sky, and then several golden spotlight-like rays of light came down from the golden, cloud-covered sky and shined down on all the pokemon in Ecruteak City that were walking the city with their humans. The pokemon then began to glow a bright, golden color, and then they were all beamed up by the rays and into the golden cloud-covered sky, along with everyone's pokeballs. Morty's balls then floated up to the ceiling of the car and phased through the ceiling like ghosts. The golden clouds and the golden beams of light faded away, returning the sky to it's beautiful, bright, blue self, and countless open, empty pokeballs then rained down from the sky and onto the city of Ecruteak, causing all of the vehicles on the streets to have wrecks.

Morty himself had tried to swerve out of the way, only to have a car slam into the back of his rental car. All of that had been the first hint that something was wrong. As he'd pulled to a stop, cars all up and down the street had crashed into one another. Morty had barely avoided being crashed into from the side by a station wagon.

As Morty had listened to nearby radios and eavesdropped on the police officers' agitated discussions, he had learned that all of the pokemon all over the world had suddenly disappeared. However, at the moment, he was unable to think. All that was on his mind was to help the injured.

Gently, Morty helped the paramedic position the young woman on a stretcher. He patted her shoulder, then backed away as another male paramedic joined the first to position the moaning woman in the back of the ambulance. He turned to a nearby police officer to report the disappearance of the woman's pokemon. Drops of sweat rolled down his head as he did so.

"What next?" Morty asked himself as the police officer spoke with the injured woman. "What's going to happen now?"

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