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During their travels Ed had found plenty of berries that he hoped would be enough to keep the ponyta satisfied - at least until he could talk to someone and figure out what else he was missing about caring for it. That is, before he could get it off his hands, of course. Maybe someone in the next town would take it. He had places to be, like not here. Being trapped in a new world wasn't exactly a foreign experience for him, but that didn't mean he wanted to repeat it any time soon. And yet, here he is. He'd taken the moment to stretch out for a bit, mindful of the fact that a wild pokemon could approach without any notice as he went back to the Gear that had been provided in his bag.

He had no idea where he was, or what he was doing here, but there had to be an explanation somewhere and he certainly wasn't getting it by sitting around all day.

"Nothing about this place makes sense..." He muttered, turning it on and working out how to send a message - to just about anyone at this point. He looked through the menu as he pointedly tried to ignore the music that there seemed to be no escaping. No matter how much of the information he went over, or how many times he read it, it just didn't add up. How did he get here, what was he doing here - and how was he supposed to get back to Al? He didn't have time to be training some other world's animals to fight with each other, and he certainly wasn't interested in winning any badges that held no significance to him whatsoever.

He spoke to some of the locals before heading out of town, and a few openly talked about "new arrivals" as if it was a common enough occurrence. Nothing surprising or unusual about people showing up from different worlds. That was no help. Or... it could be, if someone else from another world had an idea of how the coming and going worked. As far as he could tell, the Gear worked like a phone or a broadcast, so the first thing he did was set it to broadcast his message - in the hopes of reaching more people.

"Hey, does anyone know how to get the hell back out of this place? There's got to be someone that can hear me who's not from here, right? The locals act like it happens all the time. If people are always coming and going, there has to be a way to get out.

I can't stay here, I need to get back to my brother."

[Feel free to tag him with normal or 4th wall stuff - this is video btw, and I'll likely do brackets in tags but I match style either way!]

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If there's a way to leave, no one has divulged the secret yet. At least not since I arrived.

[Sorry, Ed, you're stuck. Just like the rest of them.]

[Ah, yes. That's reassuring.]

Has anyone worked on finding a way out? I can't just sit around here doing nothing, if we got here there has to be some way to get back.

[Ignoring the fact that he's perfectly familiar with Gates to other worlds opening with the intent of being one-way.]

[She does what she can.]

Considering some people have been here for upwards of six years, I'm willing to bet plenty of them tried but I don't think anyone's been successful.

[His expression turns thoughtful, perhaps even a slight bit apologetic.]

I know people do leave but there's no rhyme or reason to it.

Six years-?

[Nope. Nope, nope, nope. There was no way he was going to sit around this place for that long, not with all the sacrifice that went into bringing them back together. There's a slight panic in his expression, but he quickly brushes it away, eyes set in determination.]

If people are leaving there has to be a way. Just because no one else figured it out doesn't mean I won't.

[Oh so stubborn.]

[Well this one sure has some spirit.]

I'd be happy to help. The more people looking into it, the better, and information gathering is a specialty of mine.

[Understatement.]

You don't say.

[He doesn't seem entirely skeptical, but that is certainly convenient.]

You're right, two heads are better than one. If someone else started the research our best bet would probably be to start where they left off.

We may want to consider getting in contact with some of the research centers. I can also see what I can find in the archives of the Pokecenter I've been working at. There may be some sort of lead to go by, if nothing else.

You think that kind of information would just be available to the public, like that? Wouldn't they want to make it difficult for us to find a way out?

Maybe, maybe not. The thing with information is that after a certain point in time, the people that were trying to keep it private tend to forget about it. Or maybe the information switched hands and that person forgot. Either way, if it's there, I intend to find it.

If they're trying to keep us here against our will, it wouldn't make sense to just let it get forgotten about like that.

I suppose it's possible though, couldn't hurt to at least start there.

It may not be intentional. Us being stuck here, I mean. Perhaps it's just a circumstantial thing. If, for example, there's a Pokemon behind it, they may not know any better.

A pokemon could do that?

[ Forgive him, he's obviously new. ]

Edited 2017-06-12 06:10 (UTC)

If what I've heard about legendary Pokemon is true, yes.

Then wouldn't they want to get us back out of their world?

[Where he's from, the natives aren't exactly friend to outsiders.]

It's been implied to me that we may be here for some particular reason. Something may have been out of balance with the world itself so we were brought here to help stabilize it. Whether that's true or not, I have no idea. Yet another thing I want to look into.

I suppose the real question is where we would even look for that sort of information. If the world itself is unstable and a pokemon is behind this, I doubt it took research notes we could just find and read.

It may require visiting as many towns as possible and chasing leads. Someone here had to have had similar thoughts to us, whether they're from this world or not.

Well, that's definitely something I have experience with. I spent four years chasing rumors back home.

Sounds like, between the two of us, we have a fairly good chance of finding out everything there is to find out.

Hopefully it won't take as long.

Here's hoping. The two of us should be able to cover quite a bit of ground, though.

If I can get my brother to help it'll go even quicker.

You have a family member here?

Yeah, my little brother Al. He's apparently been here awhile.

I don't think I've crossed paths with him yet. This will definitely make information gathering a lot quicker.

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