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...What happened before you blacked out, Red?

I mean before you even got here, or to the hospital.

Be as brief as you want, just gimmie something.

[It was obvious enough that whatever happened this kid hadn't gotten an explanation from Butterfly, not a full one anyway - then again, Santa still wasn't even sure he'd call the explanation he'd been given a 'full' explanation.]

No Unfortunately This Has Shown No Sign Of Being A Hallucination
When You Are Feeling Better I Am Sure You Can Go Looking For Your Mother As Well
Perhaps If She Is Here She Will Have Seen This Message And Will Be Coming For You Soon
In The Meantime
Hello My Name Is Kanaya
Are You Alright Red

my pikachu, he's an electric type
and a little too hyper for hospitals i guess?

i'm alright now, just a little cold still
not that it's cold here, and i'm much better now, but
i dunno
i wish i could go somewhere i can release my pokemon

well
um

i am pretty sure i died

[Typed with all the awkward and hesitation and do-not-want-to-dwell-on that one would expect from a fourteen year old ex-dead kid.]

Your What
Im Sorry But I Do Not Know What A Pokemon Is

it's okay, nobody seems to know what pokemon are
they're common where i come from

some people consider them pets, but they're more than that
they help people fight and defend them
and they're like family to me

but most of mine are too big to have with me in small rooms like this
so they're in their pokeballs- these little spheres that house them

That's uh that's pretty fucking awkward man.

Would it help to know that this wasn't the afterlife you're stuck in?

not especially
i don't really believe in an afterlife

i guess that's getting in to weird territory though so

i'm alive now but the said i was in shock or something
which makes sense i was sort of trapped on a mountain for a while

i want to go home but i am sort of afraid to think about what that would entail

[There comes a certain time in a douchebag McGee dick face asshole jerkyjerk's life when he has to decided what's more important; keeping his secrets and past to himself or trying to help a kid who is worried about being dead.

Santa doesn't know which is more important right now, though.]

...Useless to think about it right now, it'll only make your hospital stay last longer.

[Better advice will have to wait. Yeah. Needs more social link ranks or something.]

Just... I dunno don't rush back to your home anytime soon. Just incase. Figure something out first - find someone to figure it out with you if you have to.

Edited 2012-10-09 01:41 (UTC)

i was up there for longer than a week, we ran out of food
if i collapsed then i for sure did but
i'm alive now
but i came here still cold and

maybe yeah i shouldn't dwell on it

[There's a significant pause, before he sends another message-]

i wish i remembered more of what that butterfree guy said
or well, anything he said at all
i'm not sure if even the doctors know what's up
and the mask guy is in charge, right?

...So he says. I'd be a little more open minded about that, if I were you.

I haven't seen Butterfly floating around since I got here, sadly. I have a few extra questions to ask him but I guess they'll have to go to one of his stooges.

Ask one of those wise men or whatever those dickheads are calling themselves - they probably have a copy of what Butterfly said. They might not have been too incompetent to have foreseen someone fainting mid sob story.

I doubt it, though.

How much do you remember?

figures
i guess people here don't like direct answers either

i just remember seeing him, really
i know he was talking but i couldn't really hear what he was saying?
and then it felt like someone dropped me in ice water
i blacked out again and then
yay hospital

i don't think the doctor even knows i figured out how to work this watch yet
i've been here for a day now, i sort of figured they'd explain something by then

They love direct answers when they can give them, I guess.

We're up against... some other god (don't quote me on that) and you have been brought in to help us fight a war (don't quote me on that) you don't have to fight for us though (*see the note at the end of this explanation) you can just live a normal life or even just go home also butterfly wont be helping you bye now.

*just don't think of fighting for the other guys you don't have that much of a choice

That's pretty direct at first glance, I mean most people wouldn't give it a second thought so it's direct enough for it's purpose.

The doctors probably don't want to turn your brain to mush with explanations, though, so I guess I'll ease up on it, too.

Your name is Red, right? Is that your real name?

How Interesting
Perhaps You May Find Something Similar In The Persona Gifted To Most People In This World
They Do Seem To Create Strong Bonds With Their Owners
And The Aries District Features A Battling Arena As Well
Though If I May Ask
How Do These Creatures Which Are Too Large To Fit In Some Rooms Fit In A Tiny Little Spherical Pokeball

what, a war with a god
what
i mean if they need help taking down badguys okay
but war?
shouldn't people choose to do that instead of
ugh no point complaining if you think it's dumb too

and don't worry about my brain none
i'd rather know what i was dealing with than sit and wait for answers
maybe it's foolhardy but i would rather be doing something than laying here

yeah, my real name is red
i guess it's an odd name, but my best friend growing up is named blue
so i think it's just tradition in my home town

yeah, i was wondering about that
i'm a trainer, but it seems odd to be fighting myself
i'm not very good at it, that's why i have my pokemon in the first place
i guess i'll see about that when they release me

a battling arena?
i'm going to have to check that out

[Guess who's going to be heading there IMMEDIATELY after being released now~?]

um
i'm not really a scientist, i don't know how it works
they sort of...shrink, i guess?
only not
they can basically survive forever inside a pokeball if it's not damaged
but if it is damaged, well
it's not pretty

Yes As I Said It Is In The Aries District
I Never Particularly Looked Into It But Perhaps You May Find It More To Your Liking
That Pokeball Science Is Interesting As Well
I Wonder If That Could Be Used To Preserve Food

Dumb isn't the word I'd choose, I'd say it was fucked up.

Though if you push yourself too hard before you're better then you'll end up doing something; collapsing like a bitch in the halls. Not something you should let happen twice in the one day.

Just checking if it was a codename or something; that's all. My name is Santa; dunno if I said already.

If you want to shoot the shit when you're not in the hospital then you should give me a shout.

[If he can find out if he can trust this kid then he can maybe tell him all about the power of psycho babble time travel time paradox life or death ghost sister June. It could give him some hope about getting back home alive, after all.

He's not too eager to just dish that info out, though.]

i have some apricorns, actually
they're a sort of nut-fruit that can be used as food
in the old days they made pokeballs from them
somehow?
but they last forever, i know that much

[He's starting to wonder if pokeballs are magic, great.]

i'm "too young to swear", but i'm inclined to agree
i took down the rockets, but i chose to do that because i believed in it
you can't just have people do things they don't believe in

true
i'm not exactly an athlete
i should be by now, but genes aren't on my side in that department

that's fine, it might as well be a codename anyway
gotcha

and thank you, by the way

Well you can force them to do things they don't believe in; people do it all the time.

Maybe that's what this is; who can tell just yet? I'm sure as hell not convinced either way.

You're not an athlete but you should be by now... and you were on a mountain? Were you some kind of wanderer?

And don't mention it, seriously.

you can, but you really shouldn't
that's not where real effort comes from
then it's just forced responsibility

yeah, sort of
i wasn't really supposed to be wandering anymore
i'm a trainer- we go around with our pokemon and battle one another
i became champion, which means i was supposed to guard my region
well, two, since johto and kanto share a champion
so i was supposed to stay put and wait for emergencies
i got asked to check out something on the mountain, so i jumped at the opportunity i guess

It might be hard to believe, but...
It seems people have been brought here from many different worlds to take sides in a battle.

how can there be "other worlds" though?
i mean, professor oak said that there's other scientists all over doing temporal studies on other dimensions
but worlds? i've never even left kanto or johto

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red getting sassy about horrible leaders dot gif

red sassy people are not healthy people get some bedrest

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bedrest is lame!!! he's used to being a crazy wandering hiker person!!!!!!

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It's a shame you didn't bring your moms house with you for instant healing.

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momsona would have been an amazing idea why didn't I think of that-

if we had a gold with a momsona she would steal all of his money and buy his useless crap. thanksmom

gold!momsona would be a support with eight slots of treasure radar

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