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"That's not really how... you know what, never mind." For all he knew, other universes did have physics that actually meant godlike powers running around free wreaking havoc unless somebody controlled them. What a dystopian fucking thought. Dave shook his head. "Anyway, I'm off. Enjoy this Cibus."

"That's not really how it works where I'm from, but sure. Better in the hands of somebody who's not using it to decide to blow up planets." Dave let out a long breath and stood up. "This has been great. See you in the fight." Only... He stopped. "What do you mean, a human would understand?"

Dave sighed, looking away. Wasn't like interrogating this poor guy back and forth was accomplishing much of anything. "Well, good for you. I'm not a big fan of anyone having god powers."

Dave looked at him, deadpan. "So with great power comes great insanity, but only for people who aren't you and your friends. That's your point?"

"And where's the 'great insanity' come into it? Other than resurrecting his personal friends?"

"Oh, fantastic. Great insanity is definitely what I want from my god-cops." He could've sworn that was some kind of mangled quote from a movie...? Did they have the same movies? What the fuck. He narrowed his eyes at Nero. "You never did answer when I asked if he shares your philosophy of...

"Yeah. Yeah, I'd love to. Too fucking bad I'm not a light-dragon with god powers, huh?" He'd been here way too long. Should just get the fuck home.

Dave exhaled. "Great. Does he do that regularly, or were you also a special case?"

Dave stared at him for a moment. Another universe with casual resurrection. Go figure. "And, what, is it normal for Necrozma over there to just be able to casually put people back together after they explode?"

Dave shuddered. "Jesus. Can't even say I'm fucking surprised." Why was everyone who wanted to depose gods some kind of douchebag or a fucking lunatic? "You manage to disable it?"

"Huh." Dave flipped through his brain for what Pokémon might be the inspiration for that feature. Nothing immediately came to mind, but whatever. "Must be pretty handy having a designer body. Evolution leaves most of us with something haphazardly pasted together to fulfill whatever random...

Dave squinted at him. "Walking... on air."

Huh. Neat. Dave wondered if a Noibat morph would have been able to have the species' ultra-sensitive hearing. He'd have to look up some papers on Noibat to find out, probably... which wasn't happening on Cibus, and he wouldn't remember it by the time he was home, so it was probably a moot point...

"...Flying? You can fly?" Dave looked at him; he didn't seem thrilled about being compared to stitched-together corpses. Okay, maybe fair. The morphs had gotten their share of people persistently thinking, or pretending to think, that they'd been created by just stapling body parts together...

"Huh." The true definition of godhood: turn a fucking person into ice cream. Dave smirked a little. He tilted his head, looking at the symbols, trying to make sense of them. At least there were some rules to this. He glanced at Nero. "What about your body? It looks like several Pokémon mixed...

"I mean, it's science, the whole point is understanding what's going on and why. Gene editing is done using an enzyme with a synthesized strand of RNA attached that binds to the correct spot in the DNA sequence and then cuts the strand, plus a DNA template that the cell's own DNA repair...

"Huh. So you can't go to every universe, just the ones in that network? I guess that makes sense." And was nicely limiting. At least he didn't have to imagine the possibility of the fucking space cops showing up one day back home. "So this alchemy shit," he said after a moment. "What does that...

...Right. Necrozma, portals. Why wouldn't they be casually traveling between universes. No big deal. "Funnily enough, one of the long-term goals of my research was making Pokémon healing work for humans. Not exactly there yet, though." He paused. "So, what, you just sort of randomly portal from...

Dave raised an eyebrow. With legendary ascension being a thing in Cibus, it wasn't that strange all things considered, but the idea of a human turning into a Vulpix and then somehow from there into a fucking Necrozma was still batshit on the face of it. "What's he do with the legendary power? He...

Jeez. "Guess I should've seen that one coming, huh." Dave exhaled through his nose. "I'm human. You don't have humans in your world, do you?" It was hard not to automatically picture Nero's creators as human, even when he'd said it was similar to Cibus, and Cibus had people like Chip. Pokémon...