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

HELLO?

HELLO!

HELLO HELLO HELLO!

HELLOOOOOO?!

_{[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.]}

Where is everybody?!

_{[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.]}

All my friends are go-o-oooooone.

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[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.]

_{[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!

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?

_{[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.]}

'Kay...

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

[Thank everything, that actually worked. He's getting better at this!]

[And oh. A punch directly to the emotions.]

Uh...yeah, I'm glad you're still here too.

_{[Wrath isn't old or cynical enough yet to have any compunctions about being sappy. Which is why the big watery-eyed stare he's giving the camera is entirely earnest and unashamed.]}

If you went back to Master, you would be dead.

I didn't want you to die.

That's why I was sad.

_{[LAYIN' OUT THE FACTS, because he's having a lot of feelings.]}

[Envy lets out a long breath, feeling his gut clench. God damn it Wrath stop making that face.]

You don't have to be sad anymore, okay? I didn't go back to her and there's not even a scratch on me. See?

[He holds up his free hand to demonstrate the lack of scratches.]

Nobody went back to her, it's okay.

_{[NO, SIR AND/OR MA'AM, HE WILL NOT!!]

[He squints very hard at the proffered hand for a few seconds, noisily wiping his nose on the back of his own, before seeming to accept that yes, Envy was in fact okay.]

[Now, onto the next matter.]}

S- ... so.... Lust and the humans are with you?

_{[Or does he also have to keep an eye out for THEM and report back?]}

Heather and Henry are with me, yeah.

But Lust isn't, so she's the one you have to watch for. Okay?

I'm sure she'll respond to this soon enough.

[There's a little buzz of paranoia in the back of his mind about what if she is gone, but at this point? That's pretty normal.]

Okay.

I'll watch for Lust.

And I'll tell you when I see her.

_{[... Another sniff.]}

... Please don't die before you come back.

Okay, just do that. It's important.

[An IMPORTANT job--oh god Wrath no stop he'll die of emotions at this rate.]

I won't, I'll be just fine. I've gone traveling on foot plenty of times before. It might take some time to get to a town where we can fly back, but I won't die. Promise.

[Of course, he'd usually had food and a sleeping bag and all sorts of other camping necessities, buuuut...he'll leave that part out.]

_{[Please leave that part out.]}

If Master comes before you get back, you should hide in a cave very far away in the mountains. And you should probably leave the humans behind, too.

They'd just slow you down.

Okay, I'll hide if she does. But I don't think she will.

[....WRATH.]

...I'm not going to leave them behind. You wouldn't leave Joker behind, would you?

_{[YOU TAUGHT HIM THIS ATTITUDE, ENVY.]}

Of course not! Joker's my brother.

_[Duh.]

[OH, HE KNOWS.]

But he's a human, and he's important to you, right?

These humans are very important to me, so I won't leave them behind.

Oh.

I guess so.

Just don't get caught, then.

I won't, I promise.

[...now what?]

You want me to stay on the phone with you, or would you rather me check back in a while to see if anyone else called?

Well... if you stay on the phone with me, how will anybody else call?

Right...well, why don't you call me back when you've heard from people, then?

[When, not if.]

Okay.

I'll do that.

Right away.

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