01 ✦ Video

[mightdoriya]

[It could have all been a dream, given the way Izuku wakes up in a bed that isn't his own. It could also very well be the hospital- a fact that wouldn't have been surprising- but the stark lack of a sterile atmosphere leads him to believe otherwise even as he sits up with a start. His heart is hammering in his chest and between his ears with such ferocity that believing this is anything but reality would be difficult...

He isn't afforded much time to collect himself, because someone has noticed he's awake and immediately lept up onto his chest to greet him, his fluffy tail wagging excitedly.

Okay, maybe this is a dream after all.

Everything happens pretty quickly after that. Your usual fair of arrival: Izuku's "mom" comes in the room upon hearing his Eevee chirp at him, ushering him up-and-at'em even as he's stammering questions and trying (and failing) to get her to give him a straight answer. She is in fact not even remotely his mother but she doesn't seem to know that or care, and before he's able to get a word in edgewise he's out the door with a bag over his shoulders. Eevee had taken advantage of the chaos to climb up Izuku's back, sitting pretty on his shoulder as if he belongs there. So what does Izuku do? Well...

He starts to walk, hoping he'll be able to come into a town and maybe someplace more familiar than the route ahead of him. ...only for a Pineco to drop from a tree and attack both him and his Eevee pretty much immediately. It's a pretty sudden and surprising introduction to Pokemon battling before he's even finished reading up on it, leaving him to find a tree to sit down under for a while before anything else can happen. He has the PokeGear, so let's just try to contact someone. Anyone.]

Hello? I don't know if anyone can hear me on this, but it's worth a try...

[He pauses as Eevee pushes his head into the screen's view, hello he's here too.]

My name is Midoriya Izuku. I'm not sure what's happened, but I'm really not where I'm supposed to be right now. My only guess is this all is due to the effects of a Quirk, but I don't remember anything that could have lead to that.

[Unless Shigaraki had some tricks up his sleeve he really wasn't prepared for. Doesn't explain how his injuries have ceased to exist, either.]

I've been reading the guidebook, but it's really just giving me more questions than answers. Not only that, the pet the lady had in her house where I woke up followed me outside and I can't get it to go back home to her. She won't answer the door now so I'm not really sure what to do about that.

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[mightdoriya]

I am, yes. Are you friends with Kirishima-kun?

and this is what happens when I lose control of my inbox - grossly late tags

[un_oiseau_rebelle]

I'm not sure if he considers me a friend per se, but we know each other.

It's no problem!

[mightdoriya]

I'm one of his classmates from home, so we know each other very well. I had no idea he was here since...well, he was just where I came from...

[un_oiseau_rebelle]

The relationship between time here and time in our respective worlds is weird that way. It's like it doesn't pass at all while we're here - that or those who are sent home are taken back to the exact point from which they came.

[mightdoriya]

I have proof enough that that is the case, I guess...so it's hard for me to argue that.

[Especially when both Katsuki and Kirishima seem to come from completely different points in time. All three of them have experienced different things. It's...really hard to comprehend, so he's been trying not to question it too much.]

From what I understand, there's no way to predict when you might go back home either, right?

[un_oiseau_rebelle]

It's hard to get used to sometimes.

[And had made things tremendously awkward with Thorne's brother before he'd had his update.]

Although sometimes people will fall into week-long dream states and wake up with new memories, like their brains are playing catch-up with things back home.

Unfortunately, no.

[mightdoriya]

[That's so spooky...]

Has that ever happened to you?

[un_oiseau_rebelle]

Not to me, but it did happen to a friend of mine from home. He'd originally been brought here from a point in time well before he met me, and then suddenly he was caught up.

[mightdoriya]

That's so strange. But I guess it's better that he was eventually caught up instead of just...not having the same memories forever.

[He's afraid things may be that way between him and the others for...a while.]

[un_oiseau_rebelle]

We can actually talk more now, which is good. Being from different points on a single timeline makes it difficult to know what to talk about sometimes. Probably not as confusing as being from different points on parallel timelines, though.

[mightdoriya]

[God, just thinking about this is already making Izuku's head hurt.]

I can imagine. I'm glad things worked out for you and your friend, at least. I hope the same can happen for mine...though it's not the end of the world if it doesn't. It's just weird.

[And awkward, considering.]

But we have plenty more to talk about when it comes to where we are, at this point.

[un_oiseau_rebelle]

It's very weird, yes.

[Shinobu wouldn't blame him for the headache if he knew about it.]

Yes, there's... a lot to talk about regarding this place.

[mightdoriya]

Mmhm. I feel like I keep finding more things to ask the more I learn. If it's not the Pokemon themselves it's the battling, and if it's not that it's learning they all come from eggs...it's a lot to remember.