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Nate sighed faintly and considered the parasite. Seemed like the only thing giving them any energy to get up and menace stuff was all the shadow shit they were steeped in, which really fucking sucked. Nate considered the parasite while the mightyena went on at it, all those questions about Soda...

Okay, well, that was close enough to an answer, anyway. It even sort of made sense. “Fair enough,” Nate said. “So the world’s gonna end. That it? Or does something come after?”

“So I hear,” Nate said. He glanced upwards. Yup. Creepy moon. Still up there. He resisted the urge to flip it off. “Why, though? Seems like a nice enough world. Why change it?”

“Yeah?” Nate knelt down to be closer to the parasite. It really wasn’t looking good. “What makes you say that? What do you think’s coming?” The mightyena was being weirdly quiet. Nate had expected him to be all over this guy with questions about Soda. He could live with quiet.

Nate stopped where he was. What... what the fuck was that? "Well, we dunno, kinda," he said. "We found you kinda, ah, possessing one of our friends, and brought you here after we managed to separate you two. You seemed too pissed to talk, though, so we asked Eien here if she could get through to...

Quick update here: it took longer than I would have liked to get everything ready, but we're kicking off this year's corpses now! First writers should be getting the go-ahead to start in the next couple days; for everybody else, hang tight and look out for a message when it's your turn to write...

Nate watched, tense, as Eien channeled more shadows into the parasite. Or out of it. Whatever the fuck she was doing. If the parasite woke up, he'd be ready with a whirlpool. If it died, he'd be ready to have it out with the damn mightyena. If something else happened... that was what he wasn't...

Didn't know how to feel positive emotions? Not even the Radiance could stop a bit of unease creeping into Nate's mind. That reminded him all too much of the mewtwo. Goddammit. And Eien was sure making it sound like she might kill the guy, and if she did that, would it be the same as destroying...

Nate's heart jolted when the parasite leapt for him, but it simply bounced off one of the mightyena's barriers. Of course it did. They had this. After the brief flurry of activity, the parasite slowed and finally subsided on the ground. Nate took a cautious step forward as Eien unspooled her...

Well, if Eien was okay with it... and even the fucking mightyena was on board. Nate wished Rocky would stop smiling so much. "Yeah, it takes a little while to work," Nate said. The mightyena seemed to accept that--honestly, Nate was kind of hoping he'd say something dickish, Rocky couldn't get...

"I can use Yawn," Nate said. It took all his self-control not to demonstrate on the mightyena. Practically a fucking saint over here today. "But yeah, we'd probably need your shiny power or whatever to be sure."

Nate froze when Eien sent some kind of coil of shadow into him. It fizzed like electricity on top of the weird kind of sparkly sensation that was already kicking up from... whatever he'd just done. He sneezed, but although the sparkly feeling went away a little bit, the strange sense of...

Nate followed the others out to where Eien was waiting, looking like some kind of wayfaring monster who'd shown up to destroy it. He couldn't help but feel a little nervous, stepping out into her shadow, but Rocky only waved up at her cheerfully. "So these ain't nothing like regular little...

Long time, no see! Glad you've been doing well, and it's nice to see you around again. There are plenty of avid worldbuilders around here, although unfortunately you've just missed Worldbuilding June. I'm sure you'd still be able to find people interested in talking fan-regions or other...

Oh. Right. Nate glanced at the mightyena. Goddammit. It seemed like it was going to be hard to get the parasites in range of Eien's friendly aura or whatever the fuck, except for the obvious... goddammit. "Maybe you could, uh, put one in one of your bubble things and take it outside for her...

Nate perked up when Chip seemled interested in calling Eien in. He'd been expecting that to be put on the vague future experiments list. "Yeah, I'm sure she's hanging out with Diyem. Who knows, maybe both of them will show up." He wouldn't blame them for being kinda clingy, after everything that...

The parasites still weren't giving him anything to work with. Nate was feeling the battle again, longing for a fucking nap. He was way too tired for this shit. "Can we get Eien in here, maybe? Supposedly being around her makes Diyem able to feel things other than, like, rage and hate and shit...

"Dunno if I buy 'inherently evil,'" Nate said. "But dangerous and not something we can care for properly, yeah. If it's on Zekrom, it's on Zekrom, I guess. But I don't feel great about keeping them in there until they shrivel up or whatever the fuck." And Dave, of course, was still completely...

Soda...? Oh. Chip must mean one of the substitutes. There was the one out and walking around, at least. "Rocky, leave them alone," he said. The familiar waved at the parasites, giggling when they threw themselves against the barrier one last time, but then bounded back over to where Nate was...

Rocky laughed. "That's great! I'm gonna keep getting stronger, too. I bet one day I'm gonna be as strong as Marshtomp." He poked at his chest, which was more solid than it had been before. "It's funny, though. I don't feel like I got that much stronger." Nate watched him parading around in...