shslasshat | First Silver Spoon - Joint Post, Video/Action for New Bark

[The boy who appears on the other end of the feed is sitting outside, in New Bark Town, if the gently waving trees and the windmill in the background are anything to go by. He appears deep in thought. In contrast to this, a sharply-grinning face appears over his left shoulder, all teeth and claws and hard, cold, gemstone eyes. Since Sableye aren't native to New Bark Town, that must clearly be his starter.]

Out of one game and into another, then.

[Piercing green eyes meet the camera from behind white-framed glasses.]

I presume I'm far from the first person to come here. ...Perhaps, even, not the first from my world – since this obviously is not the world I come from. I may have catching up to do, but mark my words: Byakuya Togami does not lose. Anyone who stands in my way will fall. So remember my face, and don't waste your t—

[But then, abruptly, the feed goes wild and veers away from his face; hopefully nobody watching gets motion sickness, because if so, they might want to avert their eyes. But given the angle and direction of the camera shift, combined with the brief flash of the boy's astonished expression before it disappears completely from view, it seems that someone has just snatched the Gear right out of his hand.

Which would be an entirely accurate conclusion to draw, really. Suffice to say, the camera is now displaying a rather attractive shot of the tip of someone's boot and a fair expanse of slightly matted grass.]

Don't be so quick to sacrifice your anonymity with needless posturing. There's nothing to be gained from ceding that advantage — particularly not in a place where that name almost certainly means nothing to anyone.

[...Does somebody want to get this man some ice for that burn.]

[The aforementioned boy huffs in the background, his hand appearing on the camera as he tries to take it back like a nerd who's become the victim of a cruel game of keep-away.]

Have you even read the training manual? A place that asserts the goal of becoming "the very best, like no one ever was" is not a bastion of subtlety.

[Then, almost sulkier,]

When did you even get here?

[JUST WHEN HE THOUGHT HE WAS SAFE.

Eventually, though, his superior ~~height and reach~~ everything manage to get control of the Gear back, and amid the shuffle, the second voice speaks again.]

About twenty minutes ago. [A beat.] I've been looking around. Haven't you?

[Even when his gear is back in his own possession, he doesn't bother aiming it at his face. However, he will flash Johto a shot of the lovely, lavender-haired girl who so rudely interrupted his arrogant pontificating.]

I've been reading the materials provided about this place and the creatures who inhabit it. [A smug, punchable beat.] Haven't you?

I wanted to see what my own investigations turned up first. But it'd be useful to see how much of my evidence is corroborated by yours; turn that off and let's compare our findings instead.

[For the first time since the girl appeared, Togami actually pays attention to the gear, and he scowls at it before flicking the camera off as requested.]

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[Hey, he wasn't a corpse! He got turned into butter. So at least it's not butter talking to you!!]

Hey, Kirigiri. I wasn't expecting to see you guys so soon! I mean, we promised we'd bring everyone here, but...

[...Oh you know, she might be kind of wigged out if she's from the same timeline as Asahina...]

Oh, yeah, uh, this place can apparently bring people back to life or something. I'd say obviously, but I'm not at that point yet in the timeline or... whatever. It's pretty fucking confusing.

[Isn't he doing a great job of explaining??]

[Is it bad that the butter would actually be a little more comforting at the moment. At least then she'd be sure that she was tripping balls instead of this sort of vague...maybe tripping...thing

seriously what the gently caress]

Asahina-san mentioned something about that. People taken from different places in the same timeline — so it's not a loss of memories that keeps you from remembering, just a lack of them.

[...But you don't know yet why memories are a big deal, do you.]

Yeah, exactly!

[...]

So are you from around the same time as Asahina then? You guys defeated the Mastermind and all that shit?

[Actually Asahina did tel him about that! She told them everything except about the butter!!]

[WHAT THE GENTLY CARESS YOU GUYS YOU ARE NOT MAKING THIS EASIER]

That's what I remember. The execution, and our subsequent escape from the school. We stepped through the door...and then this.

This world likes to pull people from inopportune moments, huh?

[A pause. Oh, Kirigiri probably doesn't know about that.]

We're obviously not the only people here; there are a lot of people from other worlds. And when I say "other worlds" I literally mean other worlds. There's like, non-humans here too. They're all human now, for some reason. I mean, sure, they could be lying, but there'd be a lot of 'em lying, y'know?

[Oh, well, that's new. By which she means that's not precisely new because she'd pretty much already figured that out for herself, but independent corroboration works wonders in her book for letting her actually believe something. Johto and its inhabitants had started out pretty firmly in the "impossible" range of her believability scale, but more and more the evidence is pushing that toward "improbable", instead.

And of course, even Sherlock Holmes was willing to concede that once the impossible was eliminated, even something improbable might be the truth.]

So it's a nexus theory. One central location at an intersection of many worlds overseen by some power capable of bringing select people from those many worlds to that single point in time and space.

[...Kirigiri.]

If that's so, then we should be able to find either the person or the apparatus responsible for drawing people here.

[Uh... sure, Kirigiri. He'll just pretend he knows what you're talking about.]

Yeah! That's what Ishimaru and I are trying to do! We're going to figure out how to bring the rest of our classmates here and we'll save 'em all from that fucking school! Even the dead can come back here, so we can even save Kuwata and Maizono!

[He's still not sure whether he wants Enoshima and her sister here though.]

Given Maizono-san's reasons for attempting to escape, do you really think she'd be happy to be brought here?

[Look, she's got her own thoughts on the victims of murderschool, both in terms of the people killed and the ones executed, but regardless of her thoughts on your circumstances, Mondo-kun, at least you didn't actively plot to off somebody just because you were afraid of being cut off from friends and fame.

...especially considering bringing her here would, y'know, actively cut her off from friends and fame. Again.

Look, Maizono's complicated but no one can deny that the girl was fucked up.]

It's a worthy goal, though. Is everyone in support of that?

Ah...

[Clearly that's something he hadn't thought about!]

Well, it would be better than being dead, right? I mean, if she's from that point in time. If she's from earlier, I guess she wouldn't want to be here at all...

[Wow, that's kind of awkward.]

Yeah, everyone is! Ishimaru and I have been trying to figure out where such a thing could be located, but we're still looking.

[As important as it is, he doesn't feel comfortable talking about Team Rocket over the network.]

Mm. Then we'll have plenty of things to talk about when we're all together again.

[Yeah, there was stuff Ishimaru didn't want to tell her over the network, either. YEAH, SHE'S ON TO YOU, BRO.]

[Oh snap, Kirigiri is totally on to them...]

Yeah. You want us to send anyone out to pick you up in Cherrygrove? Or are you gonna be fine travelling with Togami?

Naegi-kun said he'd send something to ride on, to make the trip faster; Ishimaru-kun is preparing a care package. If you want to come, that's fine. Otherwise, it seems to be a straightforward trip.

I think you guys'll be fine then! 'Sides, I don't wanna punch Togami's face in before he even gets to Violet!

[Said with the most cheerful grin ever. Oh yes, this is a thing that's going to happen at some point. He just knows it.]

[...Oowada-kun, do you realize how many times already she's almost punched Togami's face in herself.

She's only been here like twenty minutes.

You can get in line.]

Maybe some time spent in the wilderness will do him good.

[...moo hoo ha ha ha.]

That and the lack of money! I can't wait to see what he does when he realizes he can't buy out the Pokémarts!

[ahahahahaha too funny omg]

There must be some venue for earning money, even for students our age. How do people support themselves?

[Yup, she'd noticed that one, too. Schadenfreude.]

You get money pretty easily here! You can just battle people and get money that way, or you can get a job working in either the Pokémon Centers or the Pokémarts. I'm sure there are other jobs, but let's be real, either one would be hilarious for Togami.

You must've said something to make him angry. He just hung up on you, didn't he?

I dunno, it might've just been my existence that was pissing him off.

[Shrug!]

Though I guess I was kinda laughing at him. That might be why.

It may be for the best that we travel alone for awhile, then.

[Read: of all the people who could get stuck with Togami who are currently here ~~that they know of~~, she and Naegi are probably the only ones with the demeanor and the patience to actually deal with him for a duration of that length.]

Yeah, probably! Good luck dealing with him. You've got my sympathies.

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