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Another hour of writing, I believe.

"Yeah. Yeah, I'd love to. Too fucking bad I'm not a light-dragon with god powers, huh?" He'd been here way too long. Should just get the fuck home.

Dave exhaled. "Great. Does he do that regularly, or were you also a special case?"

Dave stared at him for a moment. Another universe with casual resurrection. Go figure. "And, what, is it normal for Necrozma over there to just be able to casually put people back together after they explode?"

Dave shuddered. "Jesus. Can't even say I'm fucking surprised." Why was everyone who wanted to depose gods some kind of douchebag or a fucking lunatic? "You manage to disable it?"

"Huh." Dave flipped through his brain for what Pokémon might be the inspiration for that feature. Nothing immediately came to mind, but whatever. "Must be pretty handy having a designer body. Evolution leaves most of us with something haphazardly pasted together to fulfill whatever random...

Dave squinted at him. "Walking... on air."

Huh. Neat. Dave wondered if a Noibat morph would have been able to have the species' ultra-sensitive hearing. He'd have to look up some papers on Noibat to find out, probably... which wasn't happening on Cibus, and he wouldn't remember it by the time he was home, so it was probably a moot point...

"...Flying? You can fly?" Dave looked at him; he didn't seem thrilled about being compared to stitched-together corpses. Okay, maybe fair. The morphs had gotten their share of people persistently thinking, or pretending to think, that they'd been created by just stapling body parts together...

"Huh." The true definition of godhood: turn a fucking person into ice cream. Dave smirked a little. He tilted his head, looking at the symbols, trying to make sense of them. At least there were some rules to this. He glanced at Nero. "What about your body? It looks like several Pokémon mixed...

Chapter eighteen, in which I bring back that Scyther and Charmeleon thing from chapter eleven. Remember that? Guys?? Chapter 18: Enemies Forever Dazed and still in shock, Mark made his way along the tube. At the end, there was a second door; in order for the water not to flood inside...

"I mean, it's science, the whole point is understanding what's going on and why. Gene editing is done using an enzyme with a synthesized strand of RNA attached that binds to the correct spot in the DNA sequence and then cuts the strand, plus a DNA template that the cell's own DNA repair...

"Huh. So you can't go to every universe, just the ones in that network? I guess that makes sense." And was nicely limiting. At least he didn't have to imagine the possibility of the fucking space cops showing up one day back home. "So this alchemy shit," he said after a moment. "What does that...

...Right. Necrozma, portals. Why wouldn't they be casually traveling between universes. No big deal. "Funnily enough, one of the long-term goals of my research was making Pokémon healing work for humans. Not exactly there yet, though." He paused. "So, what, you just sort of randomly portal from...

Dave raised an eyebrow. With legendary ascension being a thing in Cibus, it wasn't that strange all things considered, but the idea of a human turning into a Vulpix and then somehow from there into a fucking Necrozma was still batshit on the face of it. "What's he do with the legendary power? He...

Jeez. "Guess I should've seen that one coming, huh." Dave exhaled through his nose. "I'm human. You don't have humans in your world, do you?" It was hard not to automatically picture Nero's creators as human, even when he'd said it was similar to Cibus, and Cibus had people like Chip. Pokémon...

"Great. Good. You're not out there blowing up planets. That definitely helps." Dave paused, thinking back through the conversation. "What about, uh, your main creator? He just die of old age while you were sealed, or what?"

Dave broke into a laugh. "You fired the gods? Just, sorry, you've been demoted? Fucking amazing." There was a cheerful thought, that there were universes where you could just do that. "And what, did you replace them, or just poof, godless universe now?"

Logging like ~1 hour of writing?

Dave raised his eyebrows. "To take down a god?" Okay, fine, he did want to hear this. He sat, cocking his head at Nero. "And what, did you do it?"