Cooking Up a Recipe for Success Chapter 6 Wall Rattata
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(Somewhere In the Sewer System late one Night. A soaked, and exhausted Rattata has pulled his battered cookbook to the sewer bank. It is dark and cold, it smells bad, but He is safe. Hopefully, the clan will find him. And So Rattata waits. Later the Cookbook has dried out a bit, and there is just enough light seeping through a grate above for Rattata to read it).
Rattata: I waited. For a sound... a voice... a sign. Something... (Rattata flips a crinkled page, to an appetizing photo of pastry. Then Rattata's stomach Growls. Rattata looks away, turning to a drawing of Juanon the opposite page. The Illustration comes to life, speaking to Rattata).
Juan Drawing: If you are hungry, go up and look around, Rattata. Why do you wait and mope? (Rattata says depressed).
Rattata: I have just lost my family. All my friends. For What seems like forever.
Juan Drawing: How do you know?
Rattata: Well, I- You... are an illustration. Why am I talking to you? (The Juan Drawing Shrugs).
Juan Drawing: You just lost your family. All your friends. You are lonely.
Rattata: Yes, well, you are dead.
Juan Drawing: Ah... but that is no match for dreaming. If you focus on What you have left behind, you will never be able to see What lies ahead. Now go up and look around. (Rattata looks up, considering the streets above. Rattata looks back to the illustration. Juan has Gone back to his frozen pose. Rattata decides to go. We Follow Rattataas he scurries up into a Building- in between walls, through pipes, under floors, allowing Glimpses into the Human world around him. Rattata moves through a crack, appears into- Apartment Kitchen In the next room A Party is in progress. Rattata spies a loaf of Bread. Famished, he grabs it, prepares to take a bite when- -a Sprite in the form of Juanappears, smaller than Rattata, glowing and semi-transparent). What are you doing?! (Rattata Says Startled and Defensive).
Rattata:I am hungry! I Do Not know where I am, and I Do Not know when I will find food again...
Juan Spirit: Rattata. You are better than that. You are a cook! Cooks make. Thieves take. You are not a thief. (Rattata Says Reconsidering).
Rattata: But I am hungry...
Juan Spirit: Food will come, Rattata. Food always comes to those who love to cook... (The Juan Sprite Vanishes into the Loaf of Bread. Rattata shakes it off, and puts the bread down, denying his growing hunger, and moves on. Between The Walls Rattata Moves, following his exceptional nose. Rattata sees glimpses of Multiple Kalos lives; A Painter carefully is doing a painting. A Pokémon Pet barks aggressively, warning Rattata away from his flat. Then Rattata sees A Lover's Quarrel. Rattata watches from above, through a crack in the ceiling; She shakily waves a Pokéball at a defiant Man).
Quarreling Woman:Do You think I am playing, Mr? Do you think I am Playing?
Quarreling Man:You Do Not have the guts! (Losing interest, Rattata moves on. An attack splinters the floor in front of him. Rattata rushes back to the crack and sees. The couple struggling with the Pokémon. The Man wrenches it free; it clatters to the floor. They glare at each other, blood in their eyes and Kiss. Rattata rolls his eyes and moves on, through dark, tight spaces... into a pipe and appears onto the Outside the Building. And Rooftops at Dusk. Rattata scampers along railings and ledges, past windows, up vines, Booming Up as the Rooftop Falls Away to Reveal a Stunning Panorama, Lumiose City at Night. It is Gorgeous with a vast, Luminous jewel. Rattata is Gobsmacked).
Rattata: Lumiose City? All this time I have been underneath Lumiose City? It is beautiful. (Rattata's takes in the sea of shimmering lights... then sees a Huge Sign atop a Building Multiple blocks away. It is Juan with a frying pan in each hand. The Sign marvels at the panorama).
Juan Sign: The Most beautiful.
Rattata: Juan's? Your restaurant? Youhave led me to your restaurant! (The Juan Sign Says not entirely sure).
Juan Sign: It looks as though I have. Yes. There it is! For I have led you to it!
Rattata: I gotta see this... (Rattata heads off toward the restaurant).
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