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"Yeah. Later," Nate grunted. He watched the mightyena slink off. Not to bed, Nate thought. Some other errand. Guy was gonna beat himself down so much he wouldn't be able to see straight by the time they actually went to the moon. Nate sighed and rubbed his face. Fuck that. A horrifying thought...

Nate watched the mightyena wrestle his quadruped pack onto the ground and stick the Ultra Stone inside. Sometimes it felt pretty fucking nice to be walking upright again. "She hatched too, huh?" he said as neutrally as possible. "Well, she's welcome anytime. I bet Rocky'd love a chance to cut...

"From what Diyem was saying, I think he should be able to form some kind of body from the stone. Like Darkwhite, except hopefully not fucking insane. But I don't know. I have to go see if he's woken up yet. He kind of got sucked up into the stone, and Diyem said he was passed out in there but...

The mightyena glared at him like he wanted to start something, and Nate glared back, only daring him to. Want to make something of it, asshole? Would serve Rocky right if being nice got him in another proper fight. But ultimately all the mightyena did was tell him to go look for the other Soda...

Nate hunched his shoulders. "What, are you still on about that? Look, man, I'm just saying. Take it or leave it."

Nate had been zoned out, tired in a way that meant that he was too tired to want to drag himself back to bed, and simply enjoying not having to move or do anything. The mightyena's voice jolted him back to full alertness. Right, yeah, time to leave. Mightyena was taking off. Good fucking...

Well, their activity hadn't seemed all that hot with the shadows gone, either. Nate rubbed his gills and looked briefly over at the spot where the parasite had disappeared, unremarkable now outside a couple acid pockmarks. It seemed like Eien had places to be, though. He'd have to follow up more...

Nate took an involuntary step back when the parasite turned its snout towards him, which had to be on purpose, right, like it was clearly fucking with him. There was some kind of strange distortion on its words, like something corrosive he could feel rather than just hear. He was so shaken it...

Nate sighed faintly and considered the parasite. Seemed like the only thing giving them any energy to get up and menace stuff was all the shadow shit they were steeped in, which really fucking sucked. Nate considered the parasite while the mightyena went on at it, all those questions about Soda...

Okay, well, that was close enough to an answer, anyway. It even sort of made sense. “Fair enough,” Nate said. “So the world’s gonna end. That it? Or does something come after?”

“So I hear,” Nate said. He glanced upwards. Yup. Creepy moon. Still up there. He resisted the urge to flip it off. “Why, though? Seems like a nice enough world. Why change it?”

“Yeah?” Nate knelt down to be closer to the parasite. It really wasn’t looking good. “What makes you say that? What do you think’s coming?” The mightyena was being weirdly quiet. Nate had expected him to be all over this guy with questions about Soda. He could live with quiet.

Nate stopped where he was. What... what the fuck was that? "Well, we dunno, kinda," he said. "We found you kinda, ah, possessing one of our friends, and brought you here after we managed to separate you two. You seemed too pissed to talk, though, so we asked Eien here if she could get through to...

Nate watched, tense, as Eien channeled more shadows into the parasite. Or out of it. Whatever the fuck she was doing. If the parasite woke up, he'd be ready with a whirlpool. If it died, he'd be ready to have it out with the damn mightyena. If something else happened... that was what he wasn't...

Didn't know how to feel positive emotions? Not even the Radiance could stop a bit of unease creeping into Nate's mind. That reminded him all too much of the mewtwo. Goddammit. And Eien was sure making it sound like she might kill the guy, and if she did that, would it be the same as destroying...

Nate's heart jolted when the parasite leapt for him, but it simply bounced off one of the mightyena's barriers. Of course it did. They had this. After the brief flurry of activity, the parasite slowed and finally subsided on the ground. Nate took a cautious step forward as Eien unspooled her...

Well, if Eien was okay with it... and even the fucking mightyena was on board. Nate wished Rocky would stop smiling so much. "Yeah, it takes a little while to work," Nate said. The mightyena seemed to accept that--honestly, Nate was kind of hoping he'd say something dickish, Rocky couldn't get...

"I can use Yawn," Nate said. It took all his self-control not to demonstrate on the mightyena. Practically a fucking saint over here today. "But yeah, we'd probably need your shiny power or whatever to be sure."

Nate froze when Eien sent some kind of coil of shadow into him. It fizzed like electricity on top of the weird kind of sparkly sensation that was already kicking up from... whatever he'd just done. He sneezed, but although the sparkly feeling went away a little bit, the strange sense of...

Nate followed the others out to where Eien was waiting, looking like some kind of wayfaring monster who'd shown up to destroy it. He couldn't help but feel a little nervous, stepping out into her shadow, but Rocky only waved up at her cheerfully. "So these ain't nothing like regular little...