It happens so fast. A huge shape plummets from the sky, and collided with the ground where the other Rattata is standing. The impact is so strong that it sounds out a rush of air that sends you flying backwards. You get to your feet, and only then do you understand what just happened.
Standing there, at five times your own height, towers a Braviary. A Flying Pokémon with bright red and blue feathers. The other Rattata is pinned beneath his talons, her body pressed against the ground.
As you watch in shock, the Braviary closes his talons around the other Rattata. He lifts her up, and you can see her squirming in his grasp, trying to get free. He bends down to examine her.
“Now what have we here?” He asks her rhetorically. “A Rattata out wandering? Don’t you know how many Pokémon would love to get ahold of a tasty morsel like you?” He chuckles at his own joke, and opens his beak wide. Even from where you are, you can clearly see into his waiting maw. He draws the other Rattata close to his mouth... And then stops. Suddenly, he looks straight at you.
“Well, if it isn’t my lucky day! Two for the price of one!” He lowers the other Rattata slightly and leans toward you. “Tell me morsel, is there a reason you haven’t run away? Could it be that you know it’s your fate to be eaten by someone bigger and stronger than yourself? Or...” He focuses his gaze on you with such intensity that you fear it will burn a hole in you. His voice turns lower, more serious. “Is there another reason? Might you be jealous of a Pokémon like me? Getting to enjoy pleasure’s such as this?
He holds the other Rattata toward you with his talon. She’s not fighting anymore, but you can see her breathing hard and fast, staring straight at you. You should help her, some part of you thinks. But you all you can bring yourself to stare at her, the way her fur parts where the talon presses into it, or the way her nose twitches, independent of her frightened breathing.
“You could have this too,” the Braviary continues. “You don’t have to live your life as nothing but prey. You could be much more.” He places her on the ground, and slides her toward you. He keeps her pinned with his talon, but even if he hadn’t, she’s too tired to struggle. “Why don’t you give it a try?”
You don’t know what to do. Is he really asking you to eat this other Pokémon? Could you even do it if you tried?
Do you want to try?
