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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[Monster is a trigger word, okay!]

You said it! You just had to go say it! I was tryin' my best to avoid thinkin' about it, but ya had to go and say it!

[Totodile is too cute to be a monster, plus it kind of looks like him!] That's one reason why I wanna be home!

Pokemon aren't going to hurt you, you befriend them and train them to fight! Your Totodile there is probably all excited about getting to go on a journey with you and you're talking about wanting to go home, that's mean!

...They can understand Japanese?

[Well, it actually hadn't hit him that way. Then again, he's just not the protagonist type.] I thought she was just hungry or something.

Eh?

[What an odd thing to say.]

They can understand what you're saying, yeah...but you're not speaking Japanese right now, you're...speaking English, aren't you? I can understand you...[wow this is weird she's never thought about what language everyone is speaking.]

B-but at any rate, your Pokemon understand you perfectly.

[Welcome to Souda's out of the box thinking.]

...But we're both speaking Japanese! [The last thing he needs is a total mindfuck right now! His pokémon understanding every single solitary word was enough trouble, but this? Honestly, as much of a nerd that Souda is, it's still a bit much.]

I don't speak a lot of English to begin with. I know some things, like names for things, but I can't make whole sentences! [Along with Gundam, he's probably the only person in their little group who'd yell out random English. Sonia doesn't count, what with being foreign to begin with.] Like... 'Nice going, Hinata-chan!' Or adjectives and stuff...

I mean...my mom's Japanese, but I'm not fluent by any means...I've been practicing for a while, but it's really far-fetched that suddenly I can be speaking it to you.

[She rubs at her temples, aaagh this is hard.]

I think in this case we can just assume that this world has forced a universal language on all of us. I'm not sure how, but then again we're in this world without any of our special abilities and we have these intelligent animals working with us.

First gear | Video

[video] that's pretty much the whole game

[video] shark-toothed wuss

[video] CAN WE STILL BE FRIENDS

[video] yes yes she'll protect him from the wussiness as well

[video] okay good he's gonna need that

[video] kohai helping senpai amirite