[ 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 .

I ’ ve been alone for a long time, a really long time. Two years ago people started dying by the thousands, apparently without cause. They went to sleep, the brain turned off. Medicine didn ’ t seem to help, and no cause was found to my knowledge. There were theories, sure, but most people believed the human race had just reached its natural end. The death tolls went into the millions; we all began to just wait for our turn. 
 
 The religious types sold it as the end of times, a rapture if you will. Those of us stuck burying, burning, discarding, or running from riots just started to treat it as business as usual. My one reprieve was a game called Pokemon Go. A cellphone game that allowed a player to catch various animals based on your global position. The game came out shortly before the deaths began. There were 145 creatures to be found, and I ’ ve been able to get 143. 
 
 Anyway as time moved forward it was down to only hundreds of us remaining, then tens… Now it ’ s me. I eat, sleep, and drive myself around the cities. Catching whatever pops up on my radar from time to time. The only real time player interaction ( before ), were Lures. A type of bonus dropped in the game for everyone nearby to enjoy. I ’ ve since purchased myself thousands of them with borrowed credit cards. I always set them up, catching whatever spawns, and passively hope someone will see it. Google does. 
 
 Then the day came, I dropped a Lure in the local park. And sat down with my lunch of Doritos and Pepsi. The tree next to me spawned a Lure nearly simultaneously. It had to be a system glitch. But then on the farthest edge of my screen another Lure started. Chips be damned, I jumped up and started running towards the new Lure. As I approached another distant stop spawned a Lure. The chase was on. 
 
 In a panic and sheer animal rage I chased the lures across town, sweeting and nearly foaming at the mouth until I came to a Gym. An in-game place where you can battle another player, causing the Gym to turn your teams color. In the past year I ’ ve taken everyone in my city, they ’ re all yellow now ( if only people could see me ). This one was red. I looked inside to see what was defending the Gym, it was a common bird-type Pokemon called a Pidgey. But the user ’ s name was a message of sorts “ ErorToLoad ”. 
 
 I destroyed the player and turned the Gym yellow. It immediately went red again. “ V1rusFailed ”. Again. “ GgHuman ”, ( Good game Human? ). “ GoodLck ”. Then it stayed yellow… 
 
 That was twenty years ago today and I ’ m tired. I ’ d like to stick around and continue to hope, but I ’ m late for an appointment with the bottom of this bridge.
