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[shiro2hero]

--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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[shiro2hero]

[If he were the kind of guy to swear, this is where he'd do it.]

Do you know if anyone's tried?

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[modulatingphases]

I never asked. But my PHS doesn't get any signal here.

[Do you know how stupid someone looks walking around holding a flip phone up in the air trying to get service?

On a scale from one to Justin Bieber, it's a solid nine.]

Best you can do is wait and see if they contact you.

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[shiro2hero]

PHS?

[He's still on edge, but -- talking is better than running around yelling for people.]

I don't know if that's a good idea. They... have bigger problems.

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[modulatingphases]

It's what we call phones in my world.

If it makes you feel better, they probably don't even know you're gone.

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[shiro2hero]

There's no phone service at all?

[He gets there not being a way to contact the Castle, that takes tech they might not have. But phones...?]

Given the situation, that's... not really all that reassuring. But -- thanks. Anyway.

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[modulatingphases]

Well, I guess that depends on if you count the pokegear as a phone.

[Sure, they couldn't call home with it, but being able to contact other's was pretty nifty.]

Worth a try. You gonna be okay?

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[shiro2hero]

A comm device, more like.

... I'll live. I've had worse.

[He meant that to be funny. He really did.]

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[modulatingphases]

Then this should be a cinch.

[Know those people who are insanely optimistic? Well congrats, you're talking to one.]

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[shiro2hero]

You sound pretty confident for a guy who just met me.

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[modulatingphases]

I don't see any reason not to be. Besides, we all need someone to believe in us, right?

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[shiro2hero]

"Hey, I just met you, so I'll believe in you maybe?"

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[modulatingphases]

[Oh.

My.

Ever.

Loving.

God.]

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[modulatingphases]

That's pretty catchy. You write it yourself?

[Sorry bud, he doesn't get the reference.]

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[shiro2hero]

No. I heard the general idea from someone back home.

... he said it was a ... "meem"?

[THANKS LANCE.]

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[modulatingphases]

[Shiro.

Shiro please.

Do not tell Zack what meme's are.

You and everyone else on this planet will regret it until the only hope of ending your misery is flying into the sun it's self.]

Meem. Got it. [He so does not got it.] So... what are they anyway?

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[shiro2hero]

[Spoilers: he doesn't actually know.]

[He just knows those are words that sometimes come out of Lance's mouth with a lot of "eeeyyyyyyyo" afterwards.]

Honestly?

I don't know.

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[modulatingphases]

[If only they had access to Urban Dictionary.

Wait. Scratch that. Absolutely no one needs Zack to learn what 'YOLO' means. Or 'Fight Me'.]

Shouldn't be too hard to find out.

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[shiro2hero]

Up to you if you want to look.

I might be studying what info I've already got.

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[modulatingphases]

Seeing as I've ran out of info to study, I just might.

[That's a lie. He never actually studied most of it.]

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[shiro2hero]

How do you 'run out' of things to study?

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[modulatingphases]

Easy. You just gotta stop being interested.

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[shiro2hero]

... You're kidding.

Right?

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[modulatingphases]

Sure, you could spend all of your time studying. But what's the point if you're never going to use any of it? Find something you're good at, learn everything you can, and then put it to good use.

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[shiro2hero]

Sort of seems like if you're in a place this weird, you'd want to learn all you could.

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[modulatingphases]

Sure. Sure.

It's all pretty interesting until you get to the pokemon who look like piles of trash.