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No! I told you that I'll talk to them. They won't even understand you! Please move out of the way!

[What is that? Someone broadcasting over their 'gear in a room with no lights? Someone doing it but with the device face down? If either one was your guess, don't gamble. You'd lose every Pokedollar.

The real answer is that it's the snoot of one rather curious Deerling (boop it!) who's fighting her trainer for the world's attention. You see, it's been a while since Jean 2.0 greeted everybody on the other side of the camera, mainly because her trainer got shipped back home and she went wherever orphaned Pokemon go. But she's back and so is Sasha and the battle for the 'gear continues until Sasha manages to shove her own face into view, looking thinner than how she left, but still the same old friendly cheerful dork she's always been.]

Good afternoon! Can anybody tell me if Jean Kirschtein is still here? Or Armin Arlert? And Bertolt Hoover? Bertolt is really tall, tall tall tall like a tree [or like a Girafarig if Girafarigs weren't 4'11] and Armin is short and has blond hair. And Jean is blond too, but his hair looks like hers.

[She pulls the 'gear away from her face and swivels it over to the Deerling so now the shot is of the Pokemon with the yellow poof on its head and a skinny callused finger just pointing at it from the side of the screen.]

If anybody has seen them, could you please tell them Sasha Braus is looking for them? [And the camera is back on her... plus the snoot sneaking into view again.] That's me. They're not in trouble or anything, by the way! Thank you very much!

[Jean 2.0 has had enough of this hooman hogging the spotlight and there's a solid and audible thunk as one head collides with another and the device tumbles to the ground.]

Oooowwww. Why's your head so hard?

[Oh Sasha, as if you could talk.]

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_{[Fortunately the TV was the only thing he really had to pay for - everything else came with the house, including the nice big fridge.

Though at Sasha's excitement, Bertolt can't help it when that sheepish little smile turns into a grin. Y e p.]}

Y-Yeah, he, uh... He ended up in my PC after we got into town. Same with Potato. I'm not sure how to read a fish, but I know Barbeque's going to be really happy to have you back.

[A big fridge means a lot of food. Also a lot of BIG food. Hey, Bertolt. Want a roommate? She comes with her own toothbrush!]

Potato too?

[Who else got her Pokemon? When she received Eren's, she thought maybe he had a contingency plan on who got what in case he had to go back to punch a few more Titans. She had written them off as a loss, a consequence for getting sent home.

Yet, she still seems a little hesitant.]

Neither of them think I abandoned them, do they? Do you have them now? I want to tell them I didn't abandon them.

_{[Now if only he could fix the nice freezer in the little cellar attached to the house, then he'd be golden.]}

Potato too.

_{[Bertolt had tried his best to keep Potato in high spirits, but he lacked something that Sasha had - he never figured out what it was, but he at least gave it his best shot for her sake. Barbeque was a little easier, what with having a sibling and a parent to voice frustrations and worries to.

Thank the gods for Marcel, really.]}

I can bring them with when I come to get you. I don't think they think you abandoned them, but they were pretty upset when we couldn't find you. ...I can't say I blame them though since I think we were all in the same boat.

_{[But now she's back! She'll just have to spoil the snot out of them to make it up to them!]}

[What he probably lacked was a neverending supply of berries. To be honest, Sasha didn't feel all that confident in her skills as a trainer. Hunting and training animals are two completely different things and she never did get Bacon to accept her. Whatever Potato saw in her, she didn't see in herself.

She looks away from the 'gear, shame and guilt on her face. It's really not her fault she got sent home, but Sasha still feels like she did something wrong that she did.]

I'm sorry. I didn't want to leave, not without at least saying goodbye.

I don't think anyone would want to leave, honestly. This is... It's home, now. Or at least it's home for me.

_{[He'll never get to see his real home again, even if he was sent back. It still stings to think about, but Bertolt tries his best to keep his feelings about that hidden away.]}

You're back, and that's what matters.

Before I came here, I got to see Dauper again. It doesn't even look the same anymore.

[It doesn't feel the same. How can three years make such a big difference inside and out?]

They built a bridge, some new buildings... it's bigger. Or was bigger. I don't think the Titans left much of it behind.

Sometimes I wonder how much my hometown changed since I left. I... know I can't go back yet, but I still wonder what it'd be like. A-Assuming there weren't any titans, I mean.

_{[Marley on the other hand, well... He can't remember all of the details from Reiner, but then again he didn't ask about it too much.]}

Was everyone okay?

No.

[She says that as flatly as she can force herself to. Isn't that how they were taught to deal with emotions in training? Sometimes sacrifices are made for the betterment of the world and that includes dealing with their emotions. No one needs a crying soldier on the battlefield.]

I only saw a little girl and her mother when I got there. Everybody else was gone, but they left this little girl and her mother who couldn't walk. A Titan had already gotten the mother and I could only save the little girl. By the time I got her to run away, I was facing a Titan by myself. After that... I ended up here. I don't know if my dad is alive. I didn't have any time to check.

[And even if she did, what would she have found? Maybe not knowing is better than probably finding half of her dad lying around.]

If there was no one else there, they probably got out.

_{[At the very least there would've been blood and whatnot otherwise, right? It still doesn't make it easier to deal with, though - they abandoned one of their own to die, and if it wasn't for Sasha it could've been two.

And as grim as it is, a small part of Bertolt takes solace knowing it wasn't his fault. He and Reiner had nothing to do with that, otherwise there wouldn't have been any confusion over the potential breach.]}

I don't know if I'd be that brave - doing what you did.

I hope so. The little girl said everybody else ran away and didn't help them, but you know... I wanted to see for myself.

[Maybe yell at those people abandoning a little girl to fend for herself. Her mother was long gone when Sasha got there, but to turn her back on someone who was fit for survival... It wasn't something she could live with.]

I just did what I had to. It's what we were trained to do. Even when my horse left me, I had to help her get away.

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