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Oh. Right, he'd told him to look for the last Substitute, hadn't he. "Uh, I already found Blue last night. Was hanging out with Flesh. He's filled in. So no need to keep looking." Had he been looking? Fuck knew. He hesitated a moment, looking away with a grimace. "If you get any other ideas...

"TV can be good," Mia said. "I like shows about science. Sometimes they have nature documentaries about Pokémon hunting. Those are good." "Oh yeah," Dave said through another mouthful of hotdog. "She loves that stuff. Nature red in tooth and claw and all. Never a big fan of cartoons, though."...

Dave blinked. Christ, the ideas this guy came up with. "I'm sure it had plenty of experiences as Mewtwo and all, but somehow I doubt it's so different that the reconciliation would stun the host. Like, from what I read, that takes some form of major shift. It's a fucking parasite, not like it...

Dave quirked an eyebrow at Rocky's question. "What is your world like? Do Pokémon talk over there, or...?" He glanced at Mia. She'd been hanging out with them this whole time, right? She'd have told him if their worlds were near-identical or something, right? "Apparently, it's called Substitute...

Nate looked like he'd just discovered his hotdog was full of spiders. It was probably too much to hope he'd ever just be fucking normal, wasn't it. Whatever. Just not insisting he was a pedophile was a very low bar, but he'd take it. "I mean, yeah. Everything in Cibus is fucking weird. It's not...

Dave'd had a long morning of attempted research at the guild library. By lunchtime he was starving and exhausted and just wanted some fucking food and sleep. He cut through Pasta Plaza, hoping to find some form of suitable quick greasy option that he could grab. Only as he looked down the...

"I don't know how the foods are so similar. But a lot of things in Cibus are similar to things in other worlds for no reason. It doesn't make any sense either that they have all the same Pokémon as in our world, even ones that are just virtual or made up. It's weird." Mia watched Rocky as she...

Mia picked a random assortment of toppings off the list, then morphed her scythe into a hand to hold the result. Not having proper teeth made it a bit more difficult to bite into than normal, but the taste was very much like what she remembered. "These ones are good. In our world some people are...

Pasta Plaza was full of smells that were familiar, smells that Dave knew and Mia would too. A lot of grease, oil, melted cheese, sticky sweetness. She sniffed the air, teasing apart the different aromas. "I think I smell hotdogs. They're that way." She pointed her scythe towards a hotdog stand...

Mia paused as she turned her attention back to the sensations in her body. Something dark and cold that felt a little like Shadow...? She concentrated on it, narrowed her eyes and swept a scythe, producing a pulse of shadow energy that shot towards Rocky.

Mia thought about it. "It depends on how common it is for people to be able to travel between worlds. If only a few people can do it, then the odds they haven't been to our world are higher. But if there's an Eternatus in most universes, and they all go between worlds, you should expect that...

She tilted her head. "I don't think you can just go to Dave's world. It's not like Cibus where they have people appearing from other worlds when there's a crisis. There is no evidence of other worlds there. If it was possible, someone would probably have done it, and we would know about it."

'Miss'. Hmm. "I didn't like it when he was dead," Mia said. "I like talking to him. It would be nice if he stayed here too. But he wants to go home."

Mia took the two attacks, comparing the sensations - a crackling, tickling buzz and a tingling cold. Different, but not in intensity. "I don't think one was worse than the other. Maybe we're not Dragon-types." Rocky didn't seem interested anymore, though. She frowned. "I want to stay in...

Evolving... Hmm. "That would be nice. I think Eien said Eternatus larvae look like the Eterna parasites, though. Not like us." She cocked her head. "Maybe we can evolve anyway. Different from regular Eternatus but still something stronger." She paused. "If we're Dragon-types now, then Ice moves...

Mia deformed her scythe into a fist, concentrated on it for a few seconds. "I don't think I can make electricity or ice even now. You probably can because the other Rocky could." If Dave had imagined a Mia who could use electricity or ice, would she be able to? That would have been good. But...

It'd be hard to tell how hard he was punching without it hitting anything, so she waited and let him hit her. Her new body was denser, springier, more solid, and the impact satisfyingly threw her backward rather than being mostly absorbed by the ectoplasm. That was good, because it meant the...

Substitutes? "That could work." Soda was good at making Substitutes. Maybe if they got the parasite out of him like Dave wanted, he could make some that would be interesting to hunt. That would be nice. She thought over what she wanted. "I think we should fight and then get food. We're already...

"I would like to hunt but I can only pretend to with my sister. Do people let the other you hunt?" Dave had always been very insistent that she could not. He didn't mind if she killed flies, but that was not very satisfying.

"The other me liked meat," Mia said. "I could probably eat raw meat now. It's not safe for humans unless it's been cooked to sixty-five degrees but I probably can't get sick in this body." That was intriguing. "There is a lot of food made with a lot of salt and fat to taste good, like hotdogs...