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"Aww, but nobody asked me a question!" Jean said, ears drooping. She looked at Gen and smiled. "I hope you and Saltriv will be okay!" Dave glanced at Koa before returning his gaze to Zinnia. "I guess we're forgetting everything again, huh?" he asked. "Back to regular life, no idea any of this...

Dave glanced at Jean. "You want to ask him something?" Her ears perked, tails rising, but then she stopped herself. "It's supposed to be you. That's the game." He sighed. "Fine." He looked at Koa. He knew a decent amount about the kid. Koa, Pokémon trainer, fourteen years old, his lunatic dad...

"Clearly." What the hell was she? She'd said something about a 'wrath legendary'. Which was a batshit crazy concept, but he'd seen plenty of those over the course of their universe-hopping. Was Koa trying to make him feel better? Jesus Christ. Jean glanced between them and Dave, not quite...

A spike of adrenaline shot through Dave at the sound of the gunshot and left an uncomfortable stinging in his limbs. Good Christ, were these people fucking nuts? "Maybe normal fucking human beings don't usually particularly want to kill anyone. What a concept." Zinnia was looking at him. Some...

Dave glanced over, raising an eyebrow. "I mean, it was pretty fucking ridiculous. Ever-escalating universe-destroying powers, bizarre characters, convoluted twists. But everything went okay in the end, I guess. Even saved all the villains because turns out they're just misunderstood. Real...

Dave looked down as the Oshawott... tried to hug his leg. Well, that was awkward. Was there a way to make it less awkward? Not like fucking picking him up like a teddy bear would be great for his human dignity. What a fucked-up state to put a random anxious teenager in against their will, just...

He had more friends too? Friends he didn't want to leave behind. "If people like Zinnia can just move people between universes when she wants to play games, maybe she can help them move to your world when they want to visit, and go back when they want to go home?" she suggested. That had to be...

“Oh, Gen.” Jean squeezed him to her chest. Wasn’t she supposed to help? She didn’t know how. “You know, a lot of the time in stories the hero’s scared and doesn’t want to save the world at first but they can do it anyway! You probably can, too.” Could he? She’d gone home. The ones who hadn’t...

Jean pulled Gen tight. He was so small; he could have been mistaken for a plush toy. But he was human in there after all. How long had he been like this? "I'm sure you can get your normal body back. There's always a, a sorcerer or somebody who can undo it." Was there? There wasn't one for her...

Jean opened her mouth in realization. "You're a human!" she said. "And you don't want to be a Pokémon?" Weird. She'd love to be a Pokémon! ...But she did know what it was like to be suddenly stuck in a body that was different and weird and had limbs the wrong length and not be able to do...

Jean's face fell, ears drooping. "Oh." Gen did look scared. What kind of world had he gone to? Maybe it was like Pokémon Colosseum's world, or an even worse one. "Maybe you don't have to go back there? Maybe the person who brought us here can send you back to your home world instead."

"Ooh. So you've been to different universes before too? Dad was on this team of heroes in another world! That one also had Pokémon but no humans, so the humans all just turned into Pokémon when they got there. He was a Mightyena with Toxapex powers!" She pointed proudly at her dad, who rolled...

"Okay!" Jean smiled and reached for his right paw instead, holding it for a gentle shake. "I'm from a world with humans and Pokémon too! But Pokémon don't talk in ours. Do all Pokémon talk in yours?"

Jean perked up. "Maybe!" She was a bit older now. And she'd been through some scary things. ...And run away from them. She winced. "I don't know. What happens?" Koa let him go and stepped away. Could he believe the reassurance? ...Not like it mattered. They'd forget the whole thing as soon as...

"Hi!" Jean waved. She blinked quizzically at the Fearow. "Huh? What do you mean?" Wes? Wes? It was him! He had the same hair, an Espeon - of course! Jean gasped in delight, ears perking straight up. "In my world there's a TV show about Orre, and the hero is you! Or someone a lot like you...

"Hmm. Okay!" Jean smiled at Vix. "Maybe he's forgotten about it anyway, if it was when you first met. He made it sound like he'd been there a really long time." Jean's eyes widened as the mysterious stranger actually noticed and walked towards her. What would he say? Who was he? ...And then...

Dave'd half-expected Koa to be about to run up and try to hug him, but no, he stopped a polite distance away. "Yeah, I made it home. Forgot about the whole thing until we got the invitation to this madness, obviously. Guessing the same happened to you." He gestured in Jean's direction. "That's...

Jean beamed at Vix's amazement. It was good talking to Pokémon. They didn't think she was as weird as everyone else. "We're all mixed with different Pokémon! Dad said that gave more interesting scientific results." She paused. "We're not all siblings, though. The other scientists at Dad's lab...

[[Slightly weird chronology here as usual with having many conversations at once; I'm assuming the conversation between Dave and Pandelume is still all happening a bit earlier.]] "Oh, they definitely have brains in my universe. Bit different but still the same sorts of complex structures of...

Dave looked up. Kora was approaching a... teenage boy? Koa? Jean was still captivated by Vix. "Ooh! That's really cool! You could do basically everything!" Offensive and defensive support, energy bombs, transformations... "Were you the leader?" Oh, good Christ. Dave did not want to imagine Vix...