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Here's the Dave Index: Mission Statement (introductions in Veritas City) Arrival (introductions in Treasure Town) Finding Equipment (meeting the God Squad) Truffle wants to show Dave the Hidden Quarters Dave's Turf (Truffle shows Dave the Hidden Quarters) Dave and Brisa Cynthian and Dave Group...

Dave narrowed his eyes at her. "Jesus. What'd the shade even do to you?"

"I mean, they're not really doing it on purpose, best we can tell. Honestly they seem kind of confused by the whole thing. Owen had his shade out and on his head and it didn't even try to possess him."

Dave frowned. "Yeah, the psychic thing's creepy and all, but you can't just fucking dump them. You know they're sapient? Or like, enough so to understand you and answer questions and do mental arithmetic."

Arriving in Destiny Village was a change. Hearing about a village he'd pictured something middle-of-nowhere, but no, this was an actual modern city, if a Pokémon-flavored one, just bizarrely misnamed. For his parts, that was good; he'd lived in Grace City since he'd moved out at eighteen and had...

Dave raised an eyebrow as he looked after the Mudkip. Well, whatever his problem was, it wasn't Dave's. He clambered back onto the barstool and poked Squiggly; the rock was still and pretty much content now. Great. He downed the rest of his drink. He supposed he should probably be getting over...

"Wh--" Dave had no sooner looked up as the Mudkip tried to leave than the rock took a jerk in his paws, and he only barely avoided dropping it. "Huh. Is there a..." He almost told Nate to try that again, but there was no way that'd be helpful to anyone. "...some kind of invisible link? Hang on."...

Wow, Jesus. Where'd that come from. Dave had been sure he was going for the most lightweight topic possible. "Hey, whoa, what? I'm not fucking..." It occurred to him that maybe he should. If the Mudkip was radiating trauma or whatever and it was making the shade nervous, honestly, wouldn't it...

Dave raised his eyebrows, chuckling. "Touché on the soul-yanking. Honestly, realistically speaking, odds are none of this is actually happening. Even if it turns out souls exist, you know, already a massive stretch, how the fuck are there alternate universes where by some magic the exact same...

Dave chuckled. "Yeah, no, they don't do any of this shit in my world. Coming here was a trip. It's like living in one of my daughter's fucking cartoons." Dave blinked. Sure, let's swerve into flirtings with ecofascism, why not. "What, you think Pokémon from worlds like ours would just... get...

"Kanto?" That was the place from that cartoon, wasn't it? "Huh." Whatever. Of course it was. Why wouldn't it be, at this point. Another cartoon sunshine and rainbows world? ...On the other hand, the Mudkip didn't seem all that much he'd stepped out of a cartoon, did he. An alternate grittier...

Dave raised an eyebrow at Nate giving the shade alcohol. In his world, that'd be toxic to a lot of Pokémon, but he supposed over here it seemed pretty safe, or at least there was no indication they wouldn't serve booze to whomever. "Might take more than a sip to do much," he suggested. He poked...

"I don't know if they're even Pokémon, except for the bit where everything seems to be a Pokémon in this world." Dave irritably scratched his ear. "Of course these God Squad fuckers were just dying to make us use them. Jesus." He frowned at his own stone, then Nate's. "Is that it? You're upset...

Review for envy of eden chapter 5, should be worth an extra BLEC since it's on TR.

Love this, how the narrator takes pride in their intelligence, and Timothy hurting others to get to them is smart in the ways that didn't matter. The opening with this kind of bureaucracy over releasing them going on is nicely grounded and feels very real. Mina's background distress is well...

"Think so?" Dave hadn't technically checked on Squiggly since the fight. He reached into his bag to pull out the rock. "Hey. Everything good?" The rock wobbled once, but - something wasn't quite right. The stone shivered slightly in his paws, and a strange little twinge of psychic distress...

Dave entered the café absent-mindedly and was halfway to the bar when he noticed the rock wobbling restlessly on it and the Mudkip sitting beside it, slamming an empty glass on the counter. Well, he supposed it made sense he needed a drink. Dave shuddered at the memory of the black nightmare...

Dave glanced towards Brisa; she seemed fine, off to help Starr and Astrid. Owen was... apparently chill with the shadow Charizard now? Wow, that was quick. (Jean probably would be, too.) The battle-hormones were wearing off once again, leaving him just exhausted to the bone. Honestly he could...

Whoever the fuck Jesse was, Dave would love to have words with him - but one by one their teammates returned to their senses. The cowering Mudkip was the last to remain, cringing under a series of shields, but with a combined effort they broke through them and brought him back. With that, all...

Dave will use Assurance three times against the Shadow Machine.