[ WP ] You 're the last person on earth - but thank god Pokemon Go still functions ! You amuse yourself by catching Pokemon as you travel so as to not feel so isolated and alone . One day , on your screen , you see in the distance that someone has set up a lure .

It's been, to my reckoning, about two weeks since I woke up one day to find every single person in the world apparently disappeared. I left my house and wandered endlessly empty streets, shouting `` hello'' into the echoes like that guy in that early 2000s zombie film I've long since forgotten the name of. 
 
 It took a day or two to realise I was, possibly, the only person left alive - at least in my country, if not the world. I thought it may be best to head for my nation's capital - a 250 mile walk to the south. 
 
 On and on I walked, hitting Pokéstops, hatching eggs and taking over gyms on the way - more out of habit than anything. I borrowed the occasional bike, and trashed one or two by accident ( what, I wondered, would Misty say about this? ) and survived on what I could loot from the stores I passed. I walked down empty motorways and wondered where all the cars were. I never stopped to think about how the servers continued to run if all the people required to look after them had vanished into thin air. 
 
 Eventually I reached the capital and whiled away the hours hitting the Pokéstops. I grew tired and my mind began to drift to thinking about where I might shelter for the night when I see something on my screen that shocks me awake. About 250m away, a Pokeéstop among the many here looks different. Flower petals fountain out from the centre. It's lured. 
 
 `` Get a grip'', I say to myself ( who else is there, after all....? ). `` You're halluncinating. Three weeks of seeing nothing but pretend Pokémon and pretend Pokéstops and no human contact have actually driven you insane.'' Then I remembered - I came to the capital because I figured other people - if there *were* other people - would have the same idea. I'll check this out and then I'll find somewhere to sleep for the night. There were four other Pokéstops between me and the lured one. They gave me items I'd never seen in the game before - even though I'd now comfortably hit level 40. 
 
 I reached the lured stop, and looked around. I shouted like zombie movie guy again. Nothing. No-one. I looked at my screen again. The lure remained active. I tap the stop to see who put the lure down. The username is blank. `` What the *fuck*?'' 
 
 I turn to leave. My phone vibrates and - `` you've finally lost it'', I tell myself again - the `` real world'' does too. I look down at my phone. 
 
 *This is impossible. This can not be happening. * 
 
 A Pokémon I have never seen in the game before floats over the stop surrounded by a purple shield. I hear a voice from behind and.... slightly above me. 
 
 `` Long have I hidden. Waiting for this moment. Waiting for you.'' 
 
 I turn around, and face Mewtwo.
