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[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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[Welp.]

[Slapping a filter on this like woah because he's sure a certain purple haired detective princess will be sticking her nose in soon enough since Souda made the same mistake he did and mentioned Naegi.]

Hey, quit crying for a minute, would you? [You're a goddamn embarrassment, Souda. How did you make it to the end, the wonders never cease.] Naegi's not responsible for this, surprisingly enough. It just sort of...happened, apparently.

[Nobody has a clue. But nobody's really questioning it either.]

But it's got nothing to do with the program and we can't go back apparently. At least not on our own terms.

[ ...You know, Nanami should probably realize that a message from her won't help things at this point, but she happens to be around and she likes talking to her classmates.

At least she learned a bit from talking to Kuzuryuu about bringing up the important things first! ]

Isn't it neat? It is, right? Hey, you played this before, Souda-kun...? What starter did you pick?

[ ...No. No she did not learn anything at all. ]

...Ah, right, Souda-kun, people come here from different points in time...so you shouldn't yell at Naegi-senpai. He's from behind you.

[ There we go. ]

[...SO PEOPLE REALLY DO COME IN GROUPS, HUH.]

Did you really get more pathetic? Yeah, you got more pathetic, didn't you?

That's an accomplishment! I almost want to clap. [Just to be even more of an ass, she sets the camera in a way that you can clearly see her comfortable inn room. Her Snorunt, Yuki, sits in her lap and stares at the Gear interest.] You'll probably freeze to death before you even get to the first town! [just gonna subtly not mention the fact that death is an impossibility here]

Edited 2014-02-03 06:28 (UTC)

[Not the blond Souda was looking for, try again.]

H-How the hell am I supposed to calm down when it's dropped seventy degrees?! We ain't even in our right bodies, there's snow, there's pokemon, there's this lady pretending that she's your mom but mine-- [Let's not go there, Kazuichi.] Agh, it's too damn confusing! Put Sonia-san on! Somebody like her'd be able to explain all this in a simple sentence!

[Whereas Kuzuryuu is so confusing that they were practically missing one more stooge to count as the Japanese version of the three stooges. There's too much he wants to say, but weather pending. It would hit him just how much of a pro it is that they're in their unmutilated bodies, but again. Situation pending.

That wave of YOU REMEMBERED ME is heavily outweighed by the fact that they aren't on real Jabberwock Island.]

Edited 2014-02-03 06:51 (UTC)

[Too bad, it's the blond you're getting!!!]

Sonia isn't here so you're just gonna have to deal with me for now. [He'd rather let ~~stooge #3~~ Hinata handle it but he's probably busy right now. Working or training or something.]

As far as those of us who made it, it's just me, Hinata, and now you. But somehow this place can bring people back from the dead so some of our other classmates are here too. And it can fuck with memories or something, I guess, because some of 'em don't remember shit that they should. [Which is...a good thing in some cases. Exhibit A: Mikan Tsumiki.] Same goes for Naegi. He's here too with some of his classmates, but he hasn't got a clue who any of us are.

[Hey, he did say he wouldn't forget you, didn't he? But yeah, we'll have to save those happy reunions for later because everything is terrible right now, mostly for Souda. Kuzuryuu, on the other hand, is very clearly inside where it's nice and warm. Sucks to be you, friend.]

Which brings me to the important bit: keep your damn trap shut about what went down at the last trial, got it?

Edited 2014-02-03 07:24 (UTC)

[Is it that cold? Is it that cold that Souda can see his life (despair pending) flashing before his eyes? Visions of Sonia rescuing him from this winter hellhole flashed on out, as brief as they were. If something bad happens, shouldn't she be the one... ?? Er. Some of that info flies right over his head, and it takes his new companion tugging at his pants to rip him back.]

...What?! [And another shriek, like somebody put a loudspeaker straight up to his mouth.] How the hell is it just us three?! [Now that the thought is ingrained, how great would it have been if Sonia came on some chariot to rescue him from certain death? Instead of... Everything! At least hand his kind-of-still soulfriend the phone, but no.]

Who the hell just brings the guys? [That part about Tsumiki and some other dead 'classmates' being there? Nope, flew right over. Sidenote: who messes with the memories of a bunch of despair-ridden people again?]

...Really, outta all of us, it's-- [Souda's voice breaks off into a huff.] I don't wanna talk while I feel everything on me turning into ice! What is it, minus a billion?!

I said come get me, didn't I? [COME GET HIM, YOU ASSHOLE MIDGET.]

Hey, come on, settle down.

[What's with people coming in and SCREAMING THEIR ANGST lately?]

Yelling isn't going to help with anything but getting attention you don't want. Or biting your tongue with those teeth of yours, either way you shouldn't do it.

_{[ wow and Jake thought he was a nervous wreck when he first got here. ]}

Ah fret not sir! They dont mean you harm.
Um.
Usually they dont i mean.

_{[ he's not sure what else to say to this guy.. ]}

That one you have there is rather charming! Though i understand being hysterical over the fact that this isnt your home..

S...Souda-san, please calm down...and...please don't throw your Pokemon at anyone! [It isn't good for the person and it isn't good for the Pokemon!]

I'm sure that Hinata-san will c-call you soon. So...don't worry! It's not good for you!

Edited 2014-02-03 23:12 (UTC)

[...Souda there is literally no way Sonia would come and do that for you. It's almost like the cold has frozen your brain over. Except, no, this is just how you are basically all the time. It's probably a good thing that Kuzuryuu himself is not privy to your bizarre chariot fantasies. Because what the actual fuck, dude.]

[What the actual fuck.]

Don't you fucking tell me what to do, shithead! I'm over a two week's walk away from you, I couldn't come get you even if I actually wanted to!!

[Yeah uh...Hinata might be able to help with this, since he has some friends with fly. But Kuzuryuu is Kuzuryuu and take a guess how many friends outside of their class he's managed to make in two weeks.]

[Zero. The answer is zero. Pretend you're surprised.]

Look, just...just go stand inside the lab so you don't turn into a popsicle and we'll go from there, okay?

[Goddamn, you are so useless, Souda.]

...What did I do?

[ Seriously, first Kuzuryuu made his grand entrance being pissed at him but by the time Naegi replied the yakuza didn't explain anything and now this? What the gently caress is even happening. :|b ]

[Belphe watches the boy's reaction to his arrival in quiet amusement until the transmission ends]

Unfortunately for you, now that you're here, it's not your say when you go back.

Uh.

[Woah man, calm down.] Don't throw your Pokemon!!! They're alive and have feelings and that would be really mean to them! Please don't throw them especially at people.

Also, please calm down or no one will be able to explain anything to you!!!

[SONIA IS THE ONLY HOPE SOUDA'S EVEN GOT LEFT, DAMN IT. IF YOU RIP THAT OUT OF HIS TREMBLING HANDS, DESPAIR WILL DEFINITELY FILL THEM INSTEAD! You'd think they both were dropped in some horror game or something, but no, the only real monsters are their tempers right now.

...Shut up, Sonia totally could've saved him if she were there, unlike your useless midget ass.]

Two weeks walk?! I'd totally freeze!

[No kidding. If Souda were anybody else, he'd make this big speech about them all being friends and having to stick together, but... As everybody and their dead mother knows, Souda's skills are limited to repairing things and being a walking fridge horror moment waiting to happen.

Begrudgingly, Souda pokes his head on in the lab.]

...I-I almost yelled at that professor guy, too! He didn't say anything about home, so I got so pissed, but then I just... I got this Pokémon thing instead, like he was handin' some consolation prize!

[COULD YOU FIX THE ELEVATOR, BUILD MINI NIDAI, AND MAKE THE COMM LINK, YOU NO NEW FRIEND HAVING PIPSQUEAK?]

[NO BECAUSE HE'S THE GANGSTER NOT THE MECHANIC. BUT WHO WAS MORE USEFUL IN TRIALS, HUH? HUH?]

[Cat Herder v.2, that's right.]

Hinata might be able to come get you. I dunno, he offered to have someone come get us when me and Tsumiki got here but neither of us took him up on that.

[Kuzuryuu becase he's a stubborn butt, and Tsumiki because...well she's Tsumiki and didn't want to inconvenience Hinata.]

The professor is next to useless at explaining shit. I yelled at him for a good fifteen minutes solid and he didn't cough up anything. [He also yelled at Mom.] Information-wise, I mean obviously he gave me a monster consolation prize too.

But how much of what I said earlier actually got through that thick skull of yours?

[OKAY, OKAY, SO SOUDA WAS USELESS IN TRIALS. SO WHAT?]

I remember ya sayin' somethin' like... Not mentioning the last...

[Meanwhile, Souda clings to any and all sort of affection. They're such a dream team.]

Wait, Tsumiki?! Our Tsumiki, like executed, definitely in a coma Tsumiki?!

[Are you kidding right now, Kuzuryuu? Of course none of that sank in while he was freezing his ass off! Register one thing then the other, damn it! ...Even if he could've driven him away from that stupid Sonia fantasy, anyway.]

What, now you're gonna mess with me, too?! [HAVEN'T THEY GONE THROUGH ENOUGH SHIT TOGETHER TO BE FRIENDS?]

[Hagakure is about to wonder if everyone from this class is really unwound, but then he remembers he didn't exactly take his own arrival very well so he feels sympathetic for this kid.]

Dude, you need to calm down! It's not a dream or heaven or an alien abduction! Especially that last one! Trust me man, I freaked out when I got here too, but it's actually not too bad!

[If you ignore all the drama...which is hard to do nvm.]

How d'you know Naegi-chi anyway? One of your classmates [he's guessing since Hinata was mentioned] brought him up but wouldn't say anything!

[Behold, one of the people Souda is simultaneously happy about being alive (Blame Komaeda, blame Komaeda) while also being more afraid than usual. Because, you know, the whole not being real thing.]

...G-Ghosst! A-And ya ain't even just a normal ghost-ghost, you're one of those-- [None of that sunk in.

How many lives does Nanami have? Talking video game stats here. Wasn't she supposed to be like one of those games on super hard mode where you only had one life?]

Game ghosts! And we're in some weird place where Pokémon are real... [How can you dump a dumbass's face in ice water to cool them off when their brain has already frozen solid?

A chorus of 'KUZURYUU WASN'T LYING' is looming in the distance.]

...I'm not a ghost, though, I'm alive here...

[ Which isn't to say he's wrong about any of that, but she's even more real than usual in a sense...

She thinks. ]

Souda-kun, you should take a deep breath...really, this place isn't that bad. Aside from going on a Pokémon journey, no one is really asking us to do anything in particular...

[ ...This...reminds her. That Saionji and Tsumiki and Gundam still don't know about her. She should probably tell them about it if she wants to break it, or at least...ask someone else, yeah. ]

Edited (SORRY, DONE.) 2014-02-04 04:16 (UTC)

[Rollin' his eye here, Souda.]

No. The other Tsumiki we met on the island, OF COURSE DEFINITELY IN A COMA TSUMIKI!

[Hopefully she hasn't wandered back to the hotel or something because that got a little loud there.]

I'm not messing with you. I fuckin' told you, this world can bring people back to life. Or out of braindead comas in their case. She's not the only one. Nanami, Saionji, and Tanaka are here too.

But good, you heard the important part. Don't say anything to anybody about what went down at the last trial. Especially to the kids from Naegi's class. Because Naegi doesn't remember us or any of the shit that went down.

Edited (wait, right, just the one eye. SORRY FOR ALL THE EDITS.) 2014-02-04 04:36 (UTC)

[They have now reached a new level in screaming matches.]

H-How the hell am I supposed to believe any of that shit?! That's something only Enoshima would say, damn it! It's way too impossible! All of this, everything, it's way too impossible!

[Impossible, coming from the fact that literally moments ago a gigantic MMD-like Junko Enoshima was looming over their heads. Yeah. Right.]

I have a Pokémon named Chevrolet! That Pokémon is looking right at me right now, too! There's no way any of this is real, and those guys somehow tricked us! The only person who'd make sense being here is Nanami, and she ain't even real!

...And do you seriously think I'd tell anybody about the fact that we ki... [So glad this is filtered, because Souda looks sick. He almost said they all killed people in a lab for fucks sake.] ... Yeah, nobody's ever knowin' that! But if I see that kid, I'm gonna yell at him, and there's no way you can stop me! How do you even know he isn't lyin' 'bout not knowing?

[Kuzuryuu sighs, resisting the urge to drag his hand down his face.]

A kid like that isn't capable of telling a lie like that, just trust me on this one. [Naegi is basically shsl harmless face, in Kuzuryuu's opinion. He's got it worse than Hinata, frankly.] He's not the only one who doesn't remember shit so it has to be a legit claim. Tsumiki, thank god, doesn't remember anything past finding me in the hospital.

[The rest of that, he assumes, can be left unsaid. You know why he was in the hospital and we are Not Talking About It.]

And she definitely isn't lying. Because if she was, she or I would be dead by now. Probably her. [Because like fuck would he have let her kill him and go on to kill lord knows how many other people in the name of Enoshima.] I think it goes without saying, but we are not saying anything to her that might make her remember, got it??

[He doesn't have a clue how this memory/timeline shit works here but he's not taking any chances.]

So yeah, long and the sort of it is: as fucking impossible as this all seems, it's actually happening. The sooner you get used to it, the better. Yell at him all you want if it'll make you feel better, but if we are being tricked right now? Those guys have nothing to do with it. They're in the same damn boat, if anything.

[Souda just...calm down and accept Pokémon World for the glorious thing that it is.]

[AGAIN, THE WRONG BLOND.

YOU SHOULD HAVE STAYED DEAD.]

Gh-Gh... [The boy who cried ghost: coming to theaters in June 20xx.]

...Agh, why was Kuzuryuu right about you being here?! [Shut up. Just shut up. He insulted your stupid shrine but immediately gave up on that when you were sad! God, who said it was okay to pack so much hate and morbidness into one tiny body?] And I ain't gonna freeze here, they're gonna have people come for me, I know it!

[Kuzuryuu can go ahead and facepalm to be honest. That's this kid's effect on people.]

Naegi does have that 'I'm way too innocent and nice to be a bad guy' look, but... [This is the guy whose mentality wavered so many times that he legitimately wondered if Hinata were the traitor in some cases! A truth like that is so hard for him to grasp, so hold on a minute.] ...It's still nuts!

Like, we all had this huge bonding moment before we left! [And if Souda would stop being so delusional, he'd agree on the SHSL harmless face thing. Again, though, he's Souda.] All of us promisin' we'd remember, that it was a new start, but...!

I-I ain't goin' anywhere near the rest of 'em, especially Tsumiki! [He doesn't talk to Gundam, anyway, and his existence is really meaningless without Sonia around. Saionji, she's a plain old bully. Nanami...] ...Except Nanami! Nanami's fine.

[Nanami is obviously fine. She'd belong here, anyway.]

...That's if ya ain't fuckin' with me! [How is he supposed to keep from yelling at Naegi.]

...Right, outta all of us, you'd be the easiest to bring back, especially to a place like this!

[Hopefully neither of them are watching this, or they're both screwed. ...Maybe. Souda doesn't know how to do the filter thing yet, so now might be a good time!]

And you're basically like an NPC, so of course you'd say that! [Going on a Pokémon journey? What does Souda look like, a protagonist?] I don't wanna go on some journey, either, I only wanna do what those guys promised!

[Nanami...does know what they promised, right? Damn timetravel shenanigans are really messing with his head!] I'm a mechanic, not some trainer! Dad wouldn't even let me have pets, so what am I supposed to do with a Pokémon? [Don't get him wrong, Totodile is pretty awesome, but Souda isn't the best with animals.]

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