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46th Transformation [drawpad | backdated to the 3rd]

[Envy is no stranger to waking up in different cities after the bi-annual crazy weekends. But this is the first time he's woken up in the middle of the woods. At least he's got Henry here with him! And after discovering that the 'gears are useless except for the drawpad, they've got a message to send out. Henry gets the stylus first.]

[And it's at this point that Envy takes over.]

--ACTION--

[With all the pictures sent out, Envy looks around. Nothing but trees as far as he can see, and a lake full of pixelated Gyarados somewhere to the east. He doesn't even know where they are...it might be that Lake of Rage place on the map, but without the GPS he doesn't know if it actually is. There might be a hundred lakes in the middle of nowhere, for all he knows. He turns to Henry.]

Let's keep moving, before those things come after us again.

[WHO WOULD HAVE GUESSED THAT BIDOOF COULD BE SO SCARY? They weren't hard to beat in a battle, but there were way too damn many of them around here.]

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_{[Henry doesn't respond to his friend right away. He stares wearily into space, one arm crooked at his side, cradling an imaginary box of cereal. He digs into it with his other hand.]}

We should sleep in some trees like they did in Homeward Bound so we don't get eaten.

[If only there were cereal trees in the woods.]

I don't know if that'd help. Last time this kind of thing happened there were flying skeletons.

[He is not going to ever forget those bastards. He runs a hand down his face, frustrated. He's glad Henry's there and he isn't lost out here by himself, but he'd rather not be in this situation at all. Ugh, nature.]

Maybe someone'll be nearby. Someone with a flying type. [How did it happen that he had so many pokemon with Fly and yet none of them were in his party.]

_{[Henry had a short mental list of things that should never be able to fly and skeletons was on that list. He shuddered.]}

I thought about sending Frootloops for help, but...I'm not sure I'd ever see him again.

_{[Henry finally makes the first expression he's made for hours and frowns at the trees. Why did it have to be a forest?]}

I'm doing it. I'm going to look for...anything.

_{[Henry shoves his invisible box at Envy and takes to the nearest tree, bear-hugging his way up until he can grab some branches. Unfortunatley, he only makes it far enough off the ground for it to be a painful fall when the tree suddenly glitches out of existance]}

Augh!

[If Envy still had his powers, he would have been fast and strong enough to catch Henry before he hit the ground.]

[Too bad those glitched back out of existence at the end of the weekend.]

Shit--!

[He does start forward to try, but he doesn't react fast enough. But then, he wasn't expecting the tree to disappear.]

Seriously?!

[This is truly the worst forest.]

_{[Henry lays face-up on the ground and stares at the glitchy sky. Even the clouds were fluctuating.]}

This is where we die, Envy. Far away from everyone we know and with no cereal.

[Envy crouches down next to him.]

We're not going to die in the woods. Think how embarrassing that'd be.

[He glances warily at the spot where the tree used to be.]

So much for sleeping in trees, though.

What if we dug a hole. Envy, do you know how to use Dig?

Envy, use Dig.

[Henry.]

[Henry Envy isn't a pokemon even if he has hair like one.]

Yeah, I don't think I know Dig.

At least not the kind where a magical hole to anywhere appears. Weren't you the one who had those over the weekend?

[Pause.]

...Henry, use Dig.

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_{[Henry stays silent and still for a long moment.]}

FINE.

_{[The photographer sits bolt upright, twists around, and starts digging his fingers into the soggy earth.]}

I WILL DIG US A SHELTER! I'LL DO IT MYSELF!

_{[I'm so sorry, Envy.]}

I'm an expert at mysteriously appearing holes. I made that a thing.

[WAIT NO HE DIDN'T MEAN FOR THIS TO HAPPEN]

[Envy does the first thing he can think of, which is to grab Henry's shoulders in what he hopes is a reassuring way.]

Henry. Henry, I was kidding, you don't have to dig any holes.

[He really hopes Henry didn't hit his head too hard on the way down from that tree. Is that how head injuries work? Is this what would happen? ENVY HAS NO REAL IDEA.]

_{[Henry has made...somewhat impressive leeway for a noodly guy digging with his fingers by the time Envy pulls him out of the dirt. His hands are coated in muck and he's panting.]}

I don't...I don't know what happened there. Sorry, man. Let's start walking.

[Envy is definitely relieved to hear that.]

You didn't get hurt when you fell, did you?

[He takes a moment to fish a Pokeball out of his bag, holding it up and giving Henry a halfway grin. If nothing else, he can pretend they're not doomed.]

Why walk when we have giant animals to ride?

_{[It isn't long before Henry grins back. That was a great idea. He stands and calls out his glorious flying bananasaur. The Tropius looks down at the buck and whines.]}

I know, buddy, it's gross out here.

_{[Henry climbs aboard.]}

[Yes, good, grinning. Everything's going to be fine even though it might well not be.]

[Envy doesn't have his own bananasaur or they'd be flying out of here by now, but he does have a hellhound the size of a small horse. He sends out Lucky the sunglasses-wearing Houndoom, who doesn't look happy with all the wet and muck either.]

We could try the lake again. If we follow it around, there might be something...a road or a cabin, I don't know. C'mon, Lucky, let me up.

[Lucky snorts but bends down so that Envy can climb on easier; he's okay with being ridden around, and his whippy tail even starts wagging. Attention! Yay!]

_{[Frootloops beholds Lucky and stares at his awesome glasses. If he wasn't green before, he'd be green now with...well, envy. Those glasses were cool, man. And they kind of looked tasty.]}

Right...I hope it's nto a serial killer's cabin. Chch chch!

_{[He pats the dinosaur on the side of the neck and the Tropius starts walking.]}

That'd be our luck. A glitchy cannibal serial killer.

[Lucky loves his sunglasses; his old trainer, Greed, wore them and Greed was cool so wearing them must make him cool too! He barks a hello at Frootloops as they start walking; this Tropius seems a lot nicer than the one on his team.]

Well if we find one of those, we'll just have to off him first before he can get us. Then we'd have the cabin.

I think the two of us could handle some serial killer, right?

I dunno...

_{[Henry looks at the back of Frootloops's head as they travel the dank marsh.]}

I haven't had the best experience with serial killers...but I didn't have pokemon with me then.

_{[His frown fades as quickly as it appeared.]}

We'll kick his ass....unless it's a whole family of them.

If it's a whole family, we'll just have to be sneakier.

[He grins over at Henry, and then looks more curious.]

When have you been dealing with serial killers?

[Well. Aside from the one he's traveling with right now. But this particular serial killer isn't going to let any other ones near his friend.]

Back home.

_{[Henry is quiet for a moment as he tries to think up the best way to explain himself. Envy is his friend. He trusts him.]}

Back home I was on the trail of an undead serial killer and he was on my trail the whole time. Guy killed himself with a spoon. I read it in the paper.

[Envy frowns. Undead serial killers are serious business. He of all people ought to know.]

[He also briefly wonders about what kind of weird idiot kills themselves with a spoon, and then decides not to mention that for now.]

I remember you told me about your apartment having monsters in the walls. This guy have something to do with that, I'm assuming?

Yeah...some ritual to bring back his mother.

_{[Henry pauses as something chitters in the trees.]}

He thought my apartment was his mom, by the way. Man.

[WELL THEN]

...and here I thought the alchemists who've tried to bring people back were crazy.

And he was after you?

Yeah. I was supposed to be the final piece in the ritual. I was supposed to be the...Receiver of Wisdom or some garbage.

[Envy gives him a look that could be translated as 'That's rough, buddy.']

And now you've got to kill him first.

[It's pretty much the first and only option that comes to mind for Envy. No suggestions of talking it out or even incapacitation from this guy.]

Yeah...I almost found him--I found the hole h'd gone down. But when I jumped down it, I wound up in Johto.

_{[He wasn't too keen on going right back to that scene after a couple years of easy living in happy shiny pokemans land.]}

[Envy wouldn't blame him for not wanting to go back to that.]

Well if he ever shows up here, let me know. If he wants to go after you, he'll have to go through me first.

If he shows up here, I'll kill him. I don't care if we can't die here. I'll find a way.

[That catches Envy by surprise, and it shows.]

[But that surprise is followed up by a very approving look, and a nod. +5 respect points for Henry.]

If there's one thing I know, it's that anything can be killed. There's always a way.

_{[Henry doesn't meet Envy's eyes. Or really comment on the subject. He doesn't know he's won some brownie points, he just knows what he has to do or some horrible deathgod will come and destroy the world and then there will be no more cereal.]}

Do you think this place is starting to fall apart?

[The change of subject catches Envy off guard, but it only takes him a second to catch on. After all, they've been dealing with the glitches all day.]

Because of everything screwing up?

[He considers it.]

If it is, it started a long time ago. This kind of thing happened about a month after I got here, except it was worse. Everything...the whole world went dark and blocky that time. [He doesn't know the word for pixels.]

[Ahead of them, the woods open and the lake shore finally comes into view; they're separated from it by what's practically a marsh, with smaller trees sprouting here and there. Lucky whines and lifts his feet high to keep them out of the mud as much as he can.]

Yeah...that's why. I wonder if maybe he does show up and this place is all...weird. He really could be killed.

_{[As he explained, he nodded solumly. He'd been told the horrors of the Missing No days. It was long before his time, several long Halloweens ago. Henry tenses up when they come upon the marsh. It was probably full of terrible mud people.]}

Around...or through?

If he showed up and got to keep his powers, I have some questions for him before you kill him.

[Because that would just. Not be fair.]

Arou...

[Envy trails off mid-word as a loud chattering, like dozens of buck-teeth clacking together, sounds from the undergrowth behind them. And to the left. And to the right.]

Or through. Yes. Through. Let's go!

Edited 2013-08-11 19:28 (UTC)

_{[Henry shakes his head. He didn't want anybody to get close enough to Walter to ask him ANYTHING.]

[He's unable to voice this because he's cut off by hellish chattering. He looks over his shoulder with wide eyes.]}

Okay! Through! Through, FruitLoops! Go, boy!

["I think I am in Blackthorn??? WHAT IS HAPPENING?"]

[Oh good, at least France isn't lost somewhere.]

["Is that a lake? If so, I think you are near Lake Rage? Not 100% sure, though."]

Edited 2013-06-12 00:38 (UTC)

["Maybe, I'll let you know when we're out"]

[A worrying thought occurs to him, and a minute or two later he sends a second picture.]

["Are there monsters in Blackthorn?" Accompanied by a little doodle of a skeletal Aerodactyl and one of the blocky glitches he's seen around. There's been enough of them out here in the woods, and he remembers what it was like even in the cities last time those showed up.]

[Oh, thank God! France was starting to think he was going mad.]

["YES! I keep seeing those! Even my own look weird! It's all gone pixelated, like Halloween 3 years ago."]

["Maybe it'll stop soon. Be careful okay?"]

[Envy really does not like the idea of France possibly getting attacked by pixel skeletons while he's stuck out here in the middle of nowhere and can't punch them right in their bony noses for trying.]

["You, too! Let me know if you find to civilization! ♥ you so much!"]

[...]

[Wait -]

Edited 2013-06-17 03:16 (UTC)

["WHEN! Not if!!!"]

[France shares Envy's same fears, but not for a second does he actually want to think about another outcome except the best.]

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