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"...Right." God, how much of Soda's head had been fucked with? "You see what I mean? Seriously, think about it. There are a lot of gaps here. Be careful." Maybe he should just go get Green now, let them talk. He paused. "What were you stationed out here for, anyway? You expecting they might...

"Well, I'd expect whatever's going on here doesn't involve someone controlling you in real time anyway. What I'm figuring is it's somebody who realized if they fiddled with your brain in just the right way, you'd play right into their hands. Make use of your existing feelings for Adne and drive...

Dave's eyes narrowed. "What do you mean, everyone else?"

Figured. Maybe the best they could hope for was he'd been spying on them enough to have gathered what'd been said at the meeting. "We just want to help," Dave said. "You can tell something's off with your memory. Green said he literally couldn't remember anything specific about what working...

Dave nodded slowly. "You got any idea where the last Substitute went? Green said he was hiding."

"Three? Maple, Eien and Giovanni's Mewtwo?" Astrid had said something about that, the Blacklight Mewtwo having been there in the Tree with Eien. "Well, maybe I can get Green to come over here, instead. If you want." He might not need to. Yellow seemed to have calmed down and be listening now...

"Yeah. I know." Dave took a breath again. "Look, it sounds like you know Green wouldn't have told me her name unless he really thought it mattered. He was convinced. I can take you over and let him tell you himself, if you want." How much had they had to prod Green before he believed them? "The...

"I mean, we were having lunch. He's been staying in the holding cells - he wanted to, because it's safer. I brought him burgers and mozzarella sticks." Dave took a breath, struggling to ease some of the tension lingering in his body. "The bit about what she was like, that wasn't for proof, we...

Dave started backward with a strangled yelp as a spray of dirt rained over him, an ominous silver energy (Divine?) sparking inches from where he'd stood an instant before. "Hey, hey! Of course it matters. I know she matters. Shit, Soda - Ionys - I was just saying it was clear you loved her." His...

The change in Soda, the instant shift in atmosphere, sent a chill through him. For the first time in a while, the buried Poochyena instinct to get the hell out of there seemed to resurface in his brain, his heart racing. "Look, that's what he told me. Her name is Adne, and she was soft-spoken...

What the fuck had he even expected. Dave took another deep breath. "I asked him what I could say to prove he was on board. He told me her name is Adne."

"He came to sit in on a meeting we were having. Talked a bit, asked him about some of this. I know you know this matters because he knew." Dave's heart pounded uncomfortably. "Well, he agreed to have Breaker take a look at him. She said his mind was like broken glass stitched back together...

Dave kept his gaze on Soda. Was that the moon he was trying to look for in the sky? Wondering, perhaps, what the delay was, why nothing'd happened yet. His stomach clenched. "Well, we talked to the substitute with the green gem and it turns out there's a lot of shit he said he couldn't remember...

"Like I said. It's just me." Dave took a cautious step towards Soda's tree, then another. He took a deep breath. "I wanted to talk to you. About your memories. You remember when you told me you couldn't remember the talk you had with your partner, the morning after she attacked you?"

Dave looked around, wary. If Soda didn't want to see him that didn't really bode well. "Soda?" he said again. "It's just me. There's some shit you really need to know. I think somebody's been fucking with your memory."

Dave approached the Tree warily, uncomfortably aware that somewhere in there, Maple and Eien were duking it out with power that could rip all of Team Spectrum apart. He kept his nose to the ground for smells, just in case. If Soda really didn’t want to be found, fat chance that’d help any, but…...

Huh. He'd expected Koamaru to put up more resistance than that, after earlier. "Probably a good idea," he said. Xerneas was okay now, right? He'd been helpful at the meeting. No sign of wanting to coil around or corrupt anyone. He'd be fine. It was tempting to just stay here, on the sofa. But...

"Oh. Uh, you're welcome." The memory of that night going over what'd happened with Jack jabbed at his gut again. If you were going to have children trying to save the world, at least you could have some adults looking out for them. "You know you don't have to actually be there for confronting...

For a moment the Manectric looked distant and Dave started to wonder what the hell he'd said wrong, but then just as abruptly he was back to normal, grinning, in a whiplash strikingly like Jean. He raised his eyebrows. "Yeah. Ancient. I used to walk among the dinosaurs. One foot in the fucking...

"Ugh. Old enough people have stopped asking me that back home." Dave slumped against the back of the couch. "Forty since last July, whatever that even means here. So yeah, could be your fucking father. Can't exactly tell in these bodies, can you." His eyes slid back toward Koamaru. He'd done...