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Dave's dreams were an uneasy, muddled haze of gunshots, Mia's head exploding, the cold gaze of the man in the forest, and Shadow huddled invisibly, ears pinned, shivering, until he heard voices. It was Owen's Shadow, and... Brisa's. And they talked about Brisa, and the pain that she was in, and...

Dave blinked, but Soda - Ionys - was gone before he could respond. Huh. He'd been sure that was a real long shot. He looked around for a moment, wondering if the Zoroark was still there and just invisible, or if he'd actually left - for all he knew he'd been halfway out the door before Dave...

"Mmm." So much for that. Well, at least Owen'd be pretty likely to be amenable. "Maybe keep an eye on Potluck or something instead. I'm told he's been acting funny." Dave took a deep breath and stood up from the table. "Well, thanks for the chat. Guessing you're still not telling what your...

Right. That made sense. Dave looked away, exhaling. "I gather Arceus said Bean's one of the potential suspects. If he's a spy and also an Overseer, that sounds pretty fucking alarming. Think that one's worth looking into? You with your eavesdropping all over the place, seeing if he's going...

Dave raised an eyebrow at the first sentence. That was one way to think about it. "So why are you so enthused about coming with to save her, anyway?"

"Mmmm." He supposed that was where that line of questioning ended, for now. Maybe he could talk to Arceus again, or something. "Well, so far we sure keep successfully saving the day. Maybe Cibus operates on cartoon logic and we just rescue Darkwhite and the Worldcore is fine and it's sunshine...

"Huh. Is the Worldcore alive?" Destroying some kind of... sapient location didn't sound fantastic, if that was what it was. God, what on earth was Cibus.

Dave raised an eyebrow. "Rewrote the laws of the world?"

Dave nodded slowly. "The Mewtwo basically has the same thing going on that Darkwhite did, appearance-wise. Whatever the fuck that tells us." He paused for a moment. Took another wing and ate it. "What are your thoughts on the Worldcore thing? Other than what you said in the forest?"

"I mean, I don't know? Kinda dark purple, black eyes, tailtip turns into a shadowy haze, big red glowing Eternatus starburst in the middle of its chest? Does that all sound like what it looks like to you?"

"Hmmm. Then maybe that's not how it vanished, but Giovanni still got his hands on that one, one way or another. Maybe that's what the creepy fucking Mewtwo he had with him is. Just a Dark Matter in Mewtwo form, the way Diyem looks like a Charizard." He'd gathered some people had gone and...

Hmm. Do you think you could maybe get me a bingo card of prompts that might serve as warmup for Morphic rewrite, fleshing out the world/background? Let me know if that's not a workable theme. For a prompt for you, how about Berserk Gene?

[Scotch -> Team Spectrum]: what the ever-loving fuck. That's not a Pokémon. You're telling me literally everyone else is a Pokémon from my world in some form or another, even if they're mythological bullshit or even fucking conspiracies or cartoon characters, and then Maple's the one person who...

"Well, Joule was dispensing shades after getting corrupted by Giovanni. So one way or another Giovanni got his hands on Shadows before Diyem came here." Dave wasn't sure what to make of Soda apparently not having thought about this before. "Think Giovanni's the reason that one parallel world...

"What made you figure it's related to the Blacklight? Just the timing of getting attacked and then finding that going on on Cibus?" He furrowed his brow. "What does 'the Blacklight' actually mean anyway? Near as I can tell it's just Radiance and Shadows combined, and the Radiance half at least...

Yeah, they'd talked about that, hadn't they. And that was how Joule'd gone missing, right? "You think the something was Giovanni or his lackeys, or Eien, or something else ridiculous that we haven't figured out yet?"

Dave clenched his jaw. There he went, casually declaring they were stronger than the universal accountability organization and could just do what they wanted. Of course. God Squad gonna fucking God Squad. "It ever occur to Maple to go fix your universe? Depose that Arceus? Sounds plenty bad to...

"Hmmm." Diyem in trouble with the Overseers? For running interference beyond what the council has decided? Not filing the proper paperwork? Escaping the interdimensional institution where they were therapying the evil out of him? He should talk to Diyem, figure out what the hell was going on...

Dave munched on another wing, thinking. "So you're saying they gave Diyem therapy and that just, poof, made him stop being evil?" Honestly that sounded kind of suspect. "Does somebody lead the Overseers, or are they some kind of democratic collective or what?"

Dave raised his eyebrows and chuckled, raising his glass. "Nice. To fucking liberating Hell." He chugged down what remained of his drink. Soda might not know what privacy was but in this basic way, at least, he had his head screwed on straight. "So just how evil are the Overseers? Anyone...