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"That's not the same. When you drive drunk you're more likely to get into an accident. But they couldn't have kept us by accident, without the other people interfering. It's more like if you went out to drive normally, but then somebody else cuts your brakes so you can't stop when you were going...

Shadow slowly, slowly let go of Owen, and the Charizard gently released him. "I'm glad you're okay," he muttered, but thankfully he left it at that and returned to Dave's side. Brisa looked like hell, and Dave was about to ask if there were berries or anything here, but then Owen wrapped her in...

Mia nodded slowly. "So you don't like genetic engineering because in your world some people made Mewtwo and he kills a lot of people. But our parents weren't trying to engineer any people or Pokémon who could go out and kill anyone or be unhappy about how they were made. They all knew that would...

Hmm. That made a bit more sense. She tilted her head. "It doesn't make any difference what my parents were thinking before I was born. Even if I cared about that, medical research is much more interesting than just wanting to have kids. And you could engineer the stronger Mewtwo so it gets...

"We aren't designed as tools because they didn't mean for us to exist in the first place," Mia said. They'd gone around in a circle again. "We weren't made to do anything. They don't even want us to use our powers. There's no point talking to you if you're just going to keep saying the same...

"Owen, you're fine. You're not going to hurt anyone." Dave breathed a long sigh of relief, his heart still hammering with lingering adrenaline. Owen was holding Shadow close, and even in this world Dave could still feel it. Jesus. Well, so long as he didn't start fucking talking.

"You were arguing that they thought they had the right to make kids that were better or more interesting. But you already knew they didn't. Why would you try to argue something that you know isn't true?" Normally Mia would have stopped trying. There was probably no point. She just wanted to make...

"I already told you they didn't want to make any kids," Mia said, annoyed. There was something weird about the way he talked about it, the vagueness about things that were still too specific to be hypotheticals. It leads to some real bad shit. "Did people make Pokémorphs in your world? What...

"You started being weird as soon as I said I was genetically engineered," Mia said, unblinking. "And then you get angrier every time I talk about how we were made. When you came to attack Dave you called him a science dog. And called his research science mumbo-jumbo."

Mia's eyes narrowed to slits, her voice dropping its usual nonchalance. "No. I want him back." The Mudkip was angry, spiteful. Why was Nate so weird about Dave? She was foggy on what it was that he thought about him exactly, Dave had refused to talk about it, but it was bad and he still thought...

"The way Dave's Shadow works is he follows him around sometimes and says things that Dave's thinking." Mia paused for a moment. The way Shadows all worked differently for some reason was weird. As far as she could remember, all that ever happened to Nate was his voice just changed a bit. But...

"I'm fine. Dave worries about me a lot because the other me went off and died, but this body is a lot better. When we get him back maybe he'll see that I'm not going to get killed. And we can see somebody about his brain problems." And they could see if anywhere else in Cibus had better hotdogs...

Mia cocked her head. "Why didn't you test if he was lying? You didn't want to have to follow him. You could have experimented and found out." But he didn't like science, so maybe that was why. Nate was also talking like the familiars would have to do more fighting than before. Did he not know...

"I was sparring with Ivy," she said. "She's not very good but it was okay. I didn't see Rocky but maybe he's here anyway. I haven't been here very long and I heard people going past while we were fighting." She paused, frowning. "Last time you said Rocky can't go very far away from you because...

Shadow remained glued to Owen, shivering, eyes closed, muttering something, clinging to him for dear life as he tried to shake him off. It didn't seem to be doing anything, predictably enough. Well, whatever, let him do his thing. That didn't matter. Brisa was approaching, trying, and Owen...

Fighting Ivy had been predictably easy, but even while being chopped into goo several times, Ivy'd been having fun. When she left she wanted to spar again. That was good. Mia remained in the training room for a while, practicing moves against a punching bag, but it was never as fun against an...

"Nobody's killing anyone!" Dave snarled. Radiance was crackling in his fur. "Jesus Christ, just nonlethally knock him out if we need to!"

Shadow jumped as Brisa's efforts shattered the Protect shields. He landed on Owen's neck, where he... just wrapped his paws around him, clung to him. "Please," he muttered, eyes squeezed shut, clutching the Charizard in a hug. "Remember the other day, when we were reading books?" Oh my fucking...

Owen's dark cackling sent a chill down Dave's spine -- but the passing recognition of Brisa made his heart jump, gave him a Radiant certainty that Owen was in there, they could get him back. His mind raced. Owen was preparing stored attacks that'd smash through both his shields easily. He had to...

Dave froze, eyes wide, his insides liquefying as the Protects shattered. Owen, no, he wouldn't-- --and then something tackled him, and he tumbled across the ground. He sprang back to his feet, disoriented -- Brisa, no-- Another burst of Radiance and two barriers shimmered into existence around...