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--ome in! Anyone!

[Yikes, man, tone down the yelling. The voice is frantic. Rightfully so, considering the last thing he remembered was being ejected into space. This is not the planet he thought he'd wind up on. There are humans here, and it looks like Earth.]

[But there's weird animals here. And no one seems concerned about a yelling, very upset man who just appeared out of nowhere.]

I don't know what's happened! I -- I need pickup, immediately!

[Yeah, he maybe only half listened to the explanations, but seriously, things were bad a minute ago.]

Pidge! Coran! [And then, almost grudgingly:] Lance -- someone pick up! This is Shiro and something's gone wrong! I don't know where I am -- I don't know what's happened, but I need someone to answer me now!

[Give him a few minutes to calm down. To pace and refocus himself. To listen and read up on the situation. Anyone who happens by the area sometime after the basically panicked broadcast can find him in New Bark Town. Under a tree, just...]

[What is he supposed to do now?]

[There's an Aron huddled up by his leg, but he doesn't seem to pay it much attention, right now.]

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[After having found his twin, Dipper is seriously wondering why this adult is freaking out. Adults are supposed to be levelheaded, right? This is far from it. If it wasn't for his Eevee running over to check out the Aron beside the older man, Dipper would have just kept walking on.]

Tyrone! Get back here!

[Please ignore his little cat fox buddy.]

[It's hard to be alarmed by an Eevee. But the Aron seems to be the exception to the rule. It squeaks, and attempts to burrow into the back of Shiro's knee, because that will make it invisible, clearly!]

[On the other hand, the man in question doesn't seem all that bothered, extending his non-metal fingers for the Eevee to sniff at instead.]

... what are you supposed to be?

[At least he's chilled out a bit, now.]

[Tyrone the Eevee, in all of his tiny glory, wants to be best friends with you, Aron! Why are you- oh! Look! A hand to sniff. This person seems nice enough.

Dipper stops short of the guy with a frown.]

Sorry. That's my Eevee. He keeps running off when he sees other Pokémon.

[Aron is small and it hasn't had any pets yet, it is skittish sorry Tyrone. Shiro, meanwhile, lets it sniff his fingers, before offering to pat its head.]

Don't worry about it -- he's not hurting anything. [He glances down.] Yours is more friendly than the one they gave me.

[Yes. Pet him. He demands it!

Dipper spots the Aron and pulls out his PokéGear. Let's see what this little guy is!]

It's an Aron, a steel and rock dual-type... but it doesn't say anything about why it's not friendly. Maybe it's a baby and just scared?

[Baby animal tended to be either scared or super friendly.]

[All right, all right, he'll pet the Eevee. And eventually, the Aron will peer at it, and scuttle forward a bit.]

Steel... [He spares a glance at his other arm, the one not fluffing the Eevee's fur.] Well, there's irony.

[A moment, and then he pauses in his administering of pats to hold up his hand to Dipper.]

Shiro. You?

[That will divert Tyrone's attention to the Aron. Sup little buddy?

Should Dipper ask about the arm? Probably maybe not at this moment. But he will return the handshake.]

Dipper Pines! And that Eevee is Tyrone. Did you name yours yet?

[Well now it's time to investigate the new friend, cautiously. Headbutting at the Eevee.]

Not yet. I was a little... preoccupied when I got here.

[With people potentially being dead.]

So everyone gets one of these?

[ACK! Oh no, I have fallen! ... too bad it wasn't that hard, but the Eevee is going to pretend he's dead now.]

Yeah. Just not the same ones, I guess. My sister got an Eevee like I did. Must be because we're twins.

[The Aron's eyes go very wide, and it scuttles around poor Tyrone, squeaking.]

Your sister came here with you?

[And now he's sort of half-watching the pokemon drama.] Were you brought separately or together?

[And Tyrone is up and pouncing on his new friend. This is how you play!]

She showed up a few minutes after I did. Or maybe before me? She was here and I found her fast, and that's all that matters. She'd hate missing an adventure like this.

[And cue the indignant squeaks. And headbutts.]

You two sound like you're pretty close. [Like another pair of siblings he can think of. Right away.] Good thing she caught up to you.

[Hey! That's just rude. Going to try and headbutt too. Might be a regret to be had.]

We're twins, so I'd hope so. [Maybe a little too dependent on each other.]

[If the Eevee butts into the 'helmet' of the Aron, yes, it will probably be a bad time.]

Glad you could show up here with backup. Must make things easier.

[And sure enough it is. Tyrone goes down again for real this time. Oooooooowww...]

Yup! I know we can get things done and meet up with our friend if we're together. [.... does Shiro want to come along until they meet up with Soos?]

[That distresses the poor Aron to the point of scurrying around its new friend, chirping worriedly.]

Your friend? How many people from home did you get?

[MAYBE... if Dipper asks...]

Just one. He's been here for a while now.

[Someone told him that he had gotten himself lost in a forest and a mountain for a month without his sister. Adults might be a good idea.]

Do you know anything about surviving in the wild?

[That's. An odd question. And he has to think for a minute, before spreading his hands, a little helplessly.]

I can fly a ship blind, but uh. Wilderness survival wasn't really covered very much.

I can try.

[CALLED IT.]

Well then you're in luck! I've spent the past summer with my sister Mabel in Gravity Falls, a town surrounded by deep, dark woods. [Maybe exaggerating a little.] We can help you out if you need it! The next town is a few days hike from here.

[Don't trust this kid. He'll lead you to your death. Maybe.]

[Suddenly, something about this feels familiar. Like... talking to a slightly less manic version of a certain Blue Paladin. And the sense of foreboding is hard to shake.]

Did... those deep, dark woods happen to have magical alien animals in them...?

Actually, yes! Loads of them. And non-animal things. You name it! Gnomes, zombies, unicorns, among other things.

[They're in a video game world. There's no harm in telling a stranger about what plagues Gravity Falls.]

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... Gnomes?

[Because apparently the rest of that is less WTF-inducing than gnomes.]

You know, little bearded guys with red hats... that for some reason puke rainbows if you kick them hard enough.

[That last part is still kind of weird, even for that place.]

[He stares for a long minute. Working that out in his head. That's... bizarre even for a guy who rides around in a quasi-magic space lion.]

All right, I'll... agree you've seen some weirder things than I have.

[Ooooh tell him about the space lion!]

Gnomes are the tamest things I've come across, but I don't think this place has any of those. Maybe a weird dragon or two, creepy cat creatures, and as always, an impossible deity that somehow created the world. It that's pretty normal for a world based on a video game.

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