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It is 9pm on a Tuesday in June, and Ingo is missing. He has been missing for two hours now, and Emmet is verrrrry worried.
Their day had started simply. Wake up. Prepare for work. Commute on the regular subway line. Go to their offices. Put on their coats. Get ready for their first challengers.
Everything was on track and on schedule, just like it was supposed to be. Every day the same, the familiar, comforting routine. He got onto his double train. He battled his opponents. All aboard!
He knew something was wrong when Ingo did not come back to their office for lunch. His bento sat unopened on his desk. He knew something was wrong the minute one of his agents came over and told him that Ingo went into the older tunnels. To “check out something weird,” in his agent’s words. He wasn’t supposed to do that! That wasn’t on their schedule!!
He knew something was wrong when the agent led him to the tunnel Ingo had gone into, and his brother was not there. He knew something was wrong when he didn’t show up at all the rest of the day, prompting his agents to have to take over the Single line. They weren’t supposed to be there. That was Ingo ’s train.
He knew something was wrong when their shift was over, and he still hadn’t come back. He knew something was wrong when he organized a search party to search the tunnels, and they did not find him. He knew something was wrong when his agents left to go home one by one. They had schedules to keep. He understands. But Ingo had a schedule too.
And he knows something is wrong, with a sickening sense of dread, when he finds his older brother’s pokeballs in a dusty corner of the tunnel next to a shattered lantern.
Ingo is missing. This is not supposed to happen. It is 9pm. They are supposed to be together on the train home right now. This is not part of the schedule. This is different and it is nauseating and uncomfortable and he’s sitting on the tunnel floor hunched in on himself trying to remember how to breathe and this is wrong wrong verrrrrry wrong.
Ingo is missing. And he is not supposed to be.