four (video) ♊ come and try to catch me

[viiru2alert]

[Fortunately, Sollux's little run-in with the Yamasks had not been televised at any point. This is mostly because he was too busy hiding in corners and screaming about THE VOICESSSSSS. But before that had happened, he had also caught one of the little buggers, and it was now sitting in its Pokeball like a child in time-out because Sollux was angry at the Yamask that had made him flip his shit, and therefore the entire species had to suffer for it. He's really a very mature adult. Aren't journeys supposed to make people grow up?]

[But that is all in the past now, thank god, and as the feed begins, he's just sitting in the Pokemon Center's lobby petting his Absol. D'aww. How cute.]

...So.

[He glances over at a laptop sitting nearby. Of course this little nerd had bought himself a real live computer, even though he has a perfectly functional Gear right there.]

Sollux Captor reporting live from the shitty chunk of rock that is Cinnabar Island. According to everything I've seen and heard so far, there's supposed to be a Gym around here, but all I see is a Pokemon Center and a hell of a lot of Krabbies. What's the deal?

Comments

[viiru2alert]

Yeah. ~ATH's being slightly more tolerable now, but I guess I'd better have a Fire-type that I caught, huh. [It's not presented as a question.]

[papshooshing]

Only if you want...

[viiru2alert]

I'm here. Might as well see which one is better.

How are you guys doing?

[papshooshing]

Better, now that the chaos has fucking settled.

We'll probably try to catch you at Seafoam.

[viiru2alert]

I'll take up the art of Goldeen watching to fill the empty days until your return.

[Which is Sollux code for, "WHEN ARE YOU COMING BACK".]

[usedshooshpap]

Given that nothing else happens, we'll be back by the third.

[viiru2alert]

What already happened on your end? [He's been having a very leisurely time doing fuckall out here, it's kind of bizarre that there is serious activity anywhere in the world at this moment.]

[usedshooshpap]

Ghosts. They were possessing people, pretty much.

[viiru2alert]

...Were they really.

[His voice sounds oddly hollow.]

[papshooshing]

Captor?

[viiru2alert]

Mm.

[papshooshing]

What's with the tone.

[viiru2alert]

Nothing. I'm fine.

[papshooshing]

Sollux

[ don't worry him okok. ]

Suddenly: 2uper fiilter

[viiru2alert]

[Fuck.]

...Ran into the Yamasks.

Suddenly: 2uper fiilter ( oh my! )

[papshooshing]

They got you, didn't they?

Suddenly: 2uper fiilter ( liion2 and tiiger2 and bear2 )

[viiru2alert]

...

Yeah.





[ the voices ]

Suddenly: 2uper fiilter ( i lol'd )

[papshooshing]

Was it bad?

2uper fiilter

[viiru2alert]

...There were... voices. In my head.






Not the same ones.

Just.

Voices.

2uper fiilter

[papshooshing]

Memories too?

2uper fiilter

[viiru2alert]

Yeah.

I was a lunatic.

[A lunatic with schizophrenia, apparently.]

2uper fiilter

[papshooshing]

No, the asshole taking over your brain was a lunatic.

2uper fiilter

[viiru2alert]

But I was still acting like a frightened mewbeast all the damn time!

2uper fiilter

[usedshooshpap]

Still wasn't you, dipshit.

2uper fiilter

[viiru2alert]

That is seriously going to haunt me for the rest of my shitty human lifespan.

[It sounds like more grousing, but he's completely serious. You don't notice how terrifying head voices are until you lose them.]