Having no cover or foliage to sneak around in was a disadvantage in one respect, and in another it was what Warren was hoping for; that wide, open grassy trek before grass gave way to trees and then trees would bow before towering buildings and a concrete jungle where there would be no escape.

In such an area, he made no effort to hide himself, and broke out into a run to keep pace, paws thumping across the ground and making his presence quite known. The third red eye, the middle one, (if that was an eye) was glowing and whatever warning the Pikachu had been trying to give finally came to fruition.

Out in the open, the mysterious hero was a prime target for a thunderbolt--or more specifically, the slightly wet rodent Shiek was holding was the target.