Ethan stops beside Silver, watching him thoughtfully.

"That'd make sense. What would scare off so many of them at once, though? I know that Rattata travel in big groups, but it almost looked like every Rattata on the island was in that stampede. Almost like they were being gathered up by someone."

In the back of his mind, Ethan thinks it's the type of thing Team Rocket would do. And Team Rocket did train Rattata. But that was years ago and they were long disbanded, weren't they?