motormouths | First gear

[There's a light crackle as Souda fiddles with his Pokeconnect before he comes in clear.]

...uck!

[It's like an echo of Kuzuryuu's message on the network, only it's weeks late. Thankfully, he didn't have it on for two whole minutes of his freaking out, but he's still a pathetic crying mess. All the cold has apparently sapped the all the hope right out of his body. His boilersuit is zipped straight up, and his teeth are chattering.

Arguing with some lady who acted like a mother really didn't help his morale.]

Sonia-san, [Of course he calls out for her first, the predictable bastard] Hinata, the rest of ya guys! Are ya getting any of this?! [There isn't even a pause as he continues, because the tears on his face are freezing.]

F-First off, why the hell are there Pokémon?!

[The view pans down to show off his Totodile down by his feet chewing on his shoelaces. Souda is nervously laughing outside of view.]

Aha...ahahaaa... I'm dreaming, right? 'cause I played the first one when I was younger, but... There wasn't any ever like this one here!

This shit ain't funny! It's way too cold for it to be a joke! Goin' from an island to frozen hell?! If that Naegi kid is here, I'm throwing this thing [he means his Totodile] right at him! And I wanna go home, so ya guys better come out and get me already!

[...And now he just sounds like one of those children who lost their parents in a gigantic store.]

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I...I've got it!

[Then Saionji says her little thing, and he tenses.

OH, HE'S GONNA AVOID YOU LIKE KUZURYUU AVOIDS MILK, YOU LITTLE RAT.]

Did ya see what she did, though?! She insulted Sonia-san, then she says all that stuff after! Shouldn't dying make ya humble or something?!

Instead, it's like she came back worse! Think about it, what if she insulted Pekoyama? [What the hell is going on.]

No, I was yelling at both of you dumbasses.

[He really should have finished that sentence.]

You, [He looks to Souda.] for saying shit you shouldn't have and you, [And now we're looking at Saionji.] for enticing him in the first place!

[Saionji can you please just...stop being such a fucking bitch for like five minutes? Please? Just at least five minutes. Why is it so hard for you to be a decent person?]

What did you think was going when you went and dragged Sonia into it? Did you really think he was just going to sit there and take something like that?

[Or just look at the question Souda posed. What would have happened if you'd insulted Peko in front of Kuzuryuu? People can take a surprising amount of abuse directed at themselves but when you try to take down the people they care about too?]

[Yeah, no, the line: you crossed it, Saionji.]

[Souda sighs.]

Don't bother defending me, she's gone. [Great, now look at what you've done, Kuzuryuu. But Kuzuryuu is totally on his side, right, especially after something like that? Final five's gotta stick together, right?]

Wish she could've heard, though, 'cause ya really told her. [What is it with short blond people being assholes in this game.] If she was a ghost, she'd totally be a poltergeist! She'd probably move around all my stuff and hit me over the head with it, ugh!

[Kuzuryuu is not taking sides in this case. He is on his own side because you were both wrong.]

[...though, admittedly he does have a slight preference for Souda over Saionji because survivor solidarity, f yeah. But don't look too much into it it's not a big deal or anything, lbr, MOST people are preferable to Saionji.]

Tch, wouldn't surprise me. I mean it though, you watch what you say over these things.

[Hey, Souda's at least a little in the right here! ..Okay, fine, no, he's not, but at least he's better than that orange ball of hate!]

Where's the filter on this thing, anyway? Tried takin' it apart earlier, but that professor stopped me... [It's not good to leave a mechanic near a new piece of machinery, okay! It's not good for a guy like Souda to be bored period, if we wanna be real here.]

I'm gonna get the chills if I ever mess up like that again! [Please to not be killing him, Kuzuryuu. You won't get a mini robot Pekoyama like that!]

[Of course. Of course he tried to take it apart.]

...yeah, how about you not try that again until we get you caught up with the rest of at least.

[So that they can, you know, actually find you. And get you to a place where you can potentially buy a replacement in the event of catastrophic Pokégear fuckup. Or at least be around Hinata and/or Kuzuryuu so you can use theirs.]

Filter's under options, it's all pretty straight forward.

[AGAIN, NEVER LEAVE A MECHANIC BORED WITH NEW MACHINERY NEARBY, GODDAMN IT.]

...I wanna know what's inside the thing, damn it. [And maybe he can do some tweeks to make the thing even better!] I wasn't gonna break the thing, but that guy, he wasn't havin' it!

[And there's stupid fiddling, and the feed switches settings several times. Kuzuryuu, what have you done.]

...Agh, it's like a big tease! Gimme this new piece of technology, and I can't even look at it... Kuzuryuu, I've gotta get outta this lab soon.

[Okay Souda, you have your moment there with the feed flipping. It's fine. Kuzuryuu can wait.]

Yeah, well save it for after Hinata and whoever he talks into picking you up can find you. Once you're in Goldenrod, by all means go nuts, I'm not gonna stop you if you want to take the damn thing apart.

...That's if I don't gotta start payin' rent in robot helpers.

[Thank you, thank you for your time, Kuzuryuu.] It's bad enough I've been starin' at my pokeball real hard, y'know! I always wondered how they worked to begin with, now I've got my hands on an actual one!

What's stopping you? Did the professor yell at you about that too?

[Hey, it's not like he has to use a Pokéball to communicate, What does Kuzuryuu care if he messes one up.]

There should be some empty ones in your bag, it's probably better not to use the one you got your starter in.

[Since...you know it sort of...lives in there?]

Yeah! He's really strict, man!

[Souda isn't the type who'd force his Pokémon into a Pokéball, anyhow. It strikes him as kind of cruel, in an odd way. ...Unless his Pokémon preferred it in there, then he wouldn't.]

Maybe once I get to ya guys and settle in... I wanna take this baby apart, maybe build some of my own! If...we're gonna be stuck here for a while, I should at least have some fun with all this new technology, right?

[Kuzuryuu shrugs.]

To each his own, I guess. So long as you're happy. So Hinata's coming to get you, right?

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filtered YOU LITTLE BITCH

filtered CHILDREN

filtered SHE STARTED IT

filtered AND KUZURYUU'S ENDING IT

filtered ...FIINEE

filtered good boy

filtered just keep her the hell away

filtered i love how he has somehow become the saionji referee

filtered I love how Kuzuryuu basically became Souda's straightman

filtered; same it's great

filtered; tags you a year later

filtered; shhh it okay