[Video/Action for anyone in the Goldenrod suburbs] Backdated to immediately after everybody woke up.

[garbagechild]

HELLO?

HELLO!

HELLO HELLO HELLO!

HELLOOOOOO?!

<sub>[Assuming you didn't just mute the video INSTANTLY because the audio consisted of a child hollering into the mic, what follows is some very uncertain sniffling. The kind where the kid in question is still kind of working out whether they have a reason to be crying or not.]

[The video display is going from room to room of what looks kind a generously-sized suburban house-- nerds who have gotten familiar with the architectural aesthetic of each city might be able to note that it looks like one of the typical for-rent Goldenrod homes in those sprawling neighborhoods on the southern end.]

[There doesn't appear to be anybody else home but the camera-holder (and a few Pokemon here and there, but he's not paying attention to them), who seems to be getting more panicky with each empty room he finds.]</sub>

Where is everybody?!

<sub>[THE SEARCH GOES ON.]

[Until, five or ten minutes later, the feed finds him sitting in the middle of the kitchen floor. Without a shirt. Eating sliced bread straight out of the bag.]

[While crying.]</sub>

All my friends are go-o-oooooone.

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[grapeeater]

[Um.]

Wrath, where did your shirt go?

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[garbagechild]

I lost it.

_{[Another big bite of bread.]}

Just like my friends.

<sub>[Actually, it can probably be seen just barely in the frame, wadded up on the floor behind Wrath.]

[He got so upset that he took it off and then forgot about it.]</sub>

[Video]

[grapeeater]

... I think it's behind you.

[Sigh.]

Look, I'm... near Blackthorn? I think. So it might be a little while until I can get back. I'm... doing what I can, but one of my friends is with me and I need to make sure she's okay, too.

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[garbagechild]

_{[Sniffing loudly, he looks over his shoulder.]}

Oh.

<sub>[That's nice but IT DOESN'T BRING HIS FRIENDS BACK.]

[But at least he's not so devastated that he'd try to demand Micchy stay on the line with him. He nods, replying with a warbly]</sub>

... Okay...

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[exeggutorhead]

[Upon finding himself up in the damn mountains and absolutely nowhere near Goldenrod, Envy's first instinct at this point is to go right to the network and try and figure things out and where everyone else is. This ain't his first post-fourth wall rodeo.]

[He comes in near the end of this post. THIS ISN'T WHAT HE EXPECTED TO SEE. UH. REASSURANCE TIME??]

I'm not gone! See, here I am, I just came down from the moon somewhere else!

[WRATH ISN'T EVEN TRYING TO TOAST THE BREAD. THIS IS SERIOUS.]

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[garbagechild]

_{[Wrath ALMOST CHOKES when Envy pops up on the feed.]}

--Enfhy!!

_{[He swallows hard so that he's not yelling through a huge mouthful of untoasted bread.]}

W-where are you!

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[exeggutorhead]

I'm in...uh...

[Envy had woken up just...on his back on the ground. He hadn't even really bothered to sit up, just reached down to his pocket to pull his 'Gear out. Now he does sit, and then stand, looking around. He's only been to this town once before, years back, but...]

I think this is Blackthorn. It's another city, a long way away. But don't worry about it, I'll get back home as soon as I can.

And I'm sure everyone else will see this and tell you where they are too. So when they do, you can tell me, okay?

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[garbagechild]

<sub>[A JOB. Giving Wrath a job is virtually always a good way to get him to calm down and stop blubbering.]

[He even straightens up a little, wiping his eyes.]</sub>

'Kay...

Um... I'm glad you're not gone for real...

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[veggie_vamp]

[... He's handling this well.]

Um, who's gone?

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[garbagechild]

<sub>[WRATH IS THE BEST AT LOSS]

[His reply is a wail slightly muffled by his mouthful of cheap bread.]</sub>

Everyone.

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[veggie_vamp]

But I'm here?

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[garbagechild]

_{[A big sniff and hard swallow as he chokes down what's in his mouth so he can talk properly, albeit a little thickly.]}

--everyone who lives here!

Their suitcases are here, but they're noooot!

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[pipers_son]

[Oh boy. Joker uses his best soothing tone.]

Ey now, Wrath, I ain't gone. Just a little dusty. [Waking up on the dirt floor of the circus grounds does that to you.] Still in Goldenrod and everythin'. I'd never leave my little brother all on his lonesome, promise.

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[garbagechild]

--BROTHER!!

<sub>[OH THANK THE ANCIENT AND STRANGELY-BREAKABLE LAWS OF ALCHEMY]

[Joker's absence in the house had of course not been a surprise, since he didn't... you know, live there. But he's still a sight for sore eyes, and Wrath's eyes sure are sore. Literally. He's been bawling.]</sub>

I do--hc-- dohon't know where they went!!

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[pipers_son]

There, there. S’the world bein’ weird again. I bet ya my whole wallet they’re just… stuck in a tree, or in another city. Tell ya what, why don’t I come over with Angel, and we’ll keep ya company until ya know where they are?

[And maybe make this stray child some food that isn’t bread out of the bag.]

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[garbagechild]

_{[Wrath sniffs loudly, swiping his arm across his nose.]}

Y... yes, I would like that.

There's nobody else here.

Only me.

Me and Pokemon.

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[a_sin_for_him]

It's alright, Wrath. We're all simply...scattered at the moment. I'm outside the city, I'm not very far. I'll be home soon.

Where are your clothes?

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[garbagechild]

<sub>[!!!!!!!!]

[By this point he'd heard from Envy (and the two human residents as well, just by proxy), so Lust was the remaining missing puzzle piece.]

[If she'd been at the door rather than on his screen, he'd probably have flying-tackled her.]</sub>

LUST!

I thought you went back! I thought you were DEAD! I don't know where my clothes are! I thought she GOT you!!

_{[His shirt is somewhat visible wadded up on the floor in the background. He just... got so upset that he took it off.]}

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[a_sin_for_him]

No. I haven't gone anywhere. I haven't died. I'm just as I was, right where I'm supposed to be. I'm simply working on helping with the roads at the moment, that's all.

Your clothes are in the upstairs closet, between my bedroom and the bathroom. The bottom drawer, the one you can reach easiest.

Can you do something very important for me, while you're at the house?

[video]

[armoredsoul]

[Oh lord, and here Al is unable to use Fly properly...]

Wrath! Calm down, it's okay! Everyone will be back at the house as soon as they can, promise!

[Alphonse has NEVER seen Wrath this upset before. ...well, okay, that's not true, but it's the worst he's ever been and not killing someone in the process. He can't help but feel guilty about it.]

[video]

[garbagechild]

<sub>[So most of Wrath's remaining Favorite People (tm) have checked in, and he's calmed down a little.]

[But the last-- the last-- person he's expecting to see is one of the ones he finally had to sit down and give up hope on, weeks ago.]

[When Al's face pops up on his screen, Wrath FREEZES, staring like he's just seen a ghost.]

[And kind of stays that way for a minute or two, mouth hanging open.]</sub>

[video]

[armoredsoul]

[...Okay, maybe Al should have been expecting this, but it's also somewhat concerning. Is he even breathing?]

...Wrath? Are you okay...?

[He sighs, and scrubs a hand through his hair.]

I'm sorry I disappeared, you know I wouldn't have left like that if I had any choice. I was trying to find you up on the moon during that party, but...

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[ferino]

[Damn... lonely kids is his weak spot. He doesn't want this! But... welp.]

are you alone? need someone to find you??

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[garbagechild]

<sub>[Fortunately for Nicholas (and everybody, really), Wrath has calmed down significantly now that most of his Favorite People (tm) have checked in.]

[Also, typing is a bit of an ordeal when you're a previously-illiterate monster child who only very recently learned how to sound words and letters out, and he has to focus on THAT instead of going into hysterics in order to write a reply.]</sub>

no

i am ok

i hav hte pokymon

and my frends rnt gon aftr all

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[ferino]

[He's sighing. Even if it's a mess... it's better than nothing.]

ok

keep them with you, youll be ok

your friends are going to get you right?