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It was weird to think about, Eien and Maple, bouncing around out in space, slowly drawing closer and closer to each other without even realizing it. How long had Eien been a "shadow eternatus," anyway? He hadn't thought it was anywhere near as long as Maple'd been out and roaming around. Nate...

Nate's eye twitched. That fucking evolution thing again. Not that it mattered. "Yeah, we'll be out of your hair in a second," he said, over Rocky's psychic booing. He hesitated. "Just... one last thing. Maple. Do you really think all this--like meeting up with Eien, the whole dark eternatus...

"Heh, yeah. You'll have to be careful, won't you?" Nate said. "You won't have her around to bail you out if you get into trouble." He kind of thought they should... maybe leave. Maple asked Joule about the thing, great, it sounded like they'd be able to work something out. Nate really didn't...

"Uh, well. How long do your missions usually take?" Nate said. "If you're gone for a few weeks, I guess, yeah, that's like some mortal jobs. But if you're going away for years...?"

Well, that sounded... good? Nate had kind of expected a bigger change, but Maple had been kind of preoccupied lately. "Oh, so--" Nate flinched when Joule burst through a portal, as bright as ever. Why did the guy always have to be so fucking loud? "What?" he said, struggling to keep up with...

"Yeah. I guess if Diyem thinks it will, well, he'd know better than anybody." Nate leaned back on the log, looking down at his feet. They were muddy, which was not a surprise, because that's how the whole forest was right now. "Must be weird, after all those years going after Dark Matters, like...

"Defanging," huh? That sure didn't sound like a good time. "Wow. On a team with Sword and Shield, huh? That's... quite a mental image." Sword was bound to have a good time. Sword was bound to be the only one having a good time. "What about the whole, I don't know, accepting Dark Matter thing? I...

"Oh? So Diyem didn't put him back? He's, like, still out here in Cibus somewhere...?" Presumably that meant Diyem had, like, adopted him, right? At least for now? The guy seemed like he was acquiring kids left and right. "Have you thought about, erm, where you're going to put him? If you need to...

"That was great!" Rocky said, beaming, when Maple sent her message. "You're really brave. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you and Joule!" Nate grimaced and rubbed at his gills when Maple tried to change the subject. It felt a bit silly to be talking about this compared to something like...

"Don't think I agree that it shouldn't be hard," Nate said. "It is hard, right? But you've done hard things before." "You should ask now!" Rocky said, jumping to his feet with his flames blazing. "Don't put it off, like you said!" Nate cringed, watching his chance at asking anything about...

"Don't think it's silly," Nate said. "Ain't much can touch you in a fight, but depending on what Joule answers, it could hurt a lot. Of course you don't want to ask." He sighed and looked off into the trees. "I got kinda the same thing I gotta ask somebody if I ever get home. Shit sucks." "I...

"Sometimes people change. Sometimes they don't," Nate said. "Like sometimes when people get older, they decide they want to stop traveling, heroing, all that shit, find someplace to call home. Happens all the time in my world. Or around here. Seems like most of the legends on Cibus mostly want...

A bag of potatoes? Never mind, that wrapped right back around into being horrifying again. Nate did his best to suppress a grimace, and his mental image of the process. "Oh, yeah? Is that kind of a necrozma thing, flying around in space? I don't know very much about them." Or maybe it was just...

"Oh, so that's how it's going to work?" Nate said. "That's a relief. I was kinda wondering if they were gonna have to, like. Turn you inside out, you know, to get everybody back." He tugged on one of his gills sheepishly. It did sound kinda stupid, but, like, well. How the fuck were you...

"Yeah, I know what you mean," Nate said. "The blanket thing, anyway. Least being this size doesn't feel as small as it ought to." So why? he didn't ask, or at least not for now. Instead saw a convenient fallen tree to sit on, and did so, Rocky settling in next to him. "Glad I ran into you...

"More or less," Nate said. There wasn't any opportunity to get a word in edgewise before Rocky chirped, "Hi, Maple! It's nice to see you again." It kind of had been a while, hadn't it? She'd been around when they were fighting, obviously, and for the meetings before and after, but that was...

Nate had hoped he'd be able to shake Rocky once they'd gotten out of sight of town, when he could distract the guy with some wild pokémon or something and try to sneak off for a little bit on his own. No luck so far, though; the familiar had cheerfully rejected all his suggestions for far-off...

"They are nice," Rocky said with a faint smile. "Marshtomp misses them a lot." Which meant in a weird way, Rocky missed them too, even though he'd never met them. And never would. His bag was shifting impatiently and making faint grunting noises. They definitely needed to get back to Destiny...

Rocky grinned broadly when the swinub settled itself down in the bag, and very slowly gathered it up off the ground, like he was afraid of jostling the pokémon and sending it running off again. He didn't want to celebrate too soon and lose the pokémon at the last second. He had to chuckle at...

"Oh, really? That's kind of like how Marshtomp got his first pokémon, then." Rocky smiled, too. "That's a great story. And it seems like you made a good choice, too!" Although as a human, Koa would probably not be anything much at all like a superhero. Still, though. Rocky set his bag down on...