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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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[faintwaves]

Yup, plenty of them, not that it really--

[Whoa now, don't get too chatty, having the "I'm dead where I'm from" conversation is awkward.]

Nn--anyway, um, it will be two years next month. My friends Riku and Sora have been here even longer.

[shiro2hero]

[That's a cutoff for sure. It's pretty obvious, but... you know what, it's not important to press something like that when you just met someone.]

Two years...

I can't imagine being away that long. Is it always like that.

[faintwaves]

Uh-huh, some people stay longer than others though. It's random who gets sent back and who stays.

[Naturally she has the hope that she'll never get sent back since there's nothing for her there.]

But that's okay, you'll get to meet a lot of Pokemon and other friends in the mean time.

[shiro2hero]

No one's figured out how it works?

[That really doesn't bode well for him, or the team.]

The point of this is just to make them fight each other? That doesn't seem... fair.

[faintwaves]

Magic? A giant Pokemon god that's watching over us right now?

[She shrugs, sort of twists her lips into a strange expression when he mentions the battling.]

I thought so too when I first got here, um...the way I see it is you shouldn't make them do it. You should ask them if they want to battle, 'cause some of them do and some of them just want to do other stuff--like I have one Pokemon that takes care of my eggs and transports us around. A Pokemon I got from a...friend that left just likes sorting things. They have all their own likes and dislikes, too, and if you befriend a Pokemon you have to think about that.

[shiro2hero]

Magic.

[Okay then. He really can't argue against magic, all things considered.]

[But then it's exposition time, and he'll shut up and listen.]

Is there a way to communicate with them?