SIXTH RIDE ✦ ANONYMOUS TEXT

[diamondo]

what do you do if your friend won't wake up
he's been like this for a whole day
should i take him to a pokémon center??
do they even treat humans??

[Well, this text might explain why Ishimaru and Mondo have been suspiciously absent lately.]

Comments

The text is coming from inside the house

[neededlassie]

When Norman went into a coma we took him to the pokemon center and they took care of him. He was there for a month. It was scary but nurse Joy knew what to do.

still anonymous

[diamondo]

oh shit a whole month???
okay alright i'll take him to the pokémon center
i didn't think it was going to be that bad though
was he okay??

[nostabbing]

What do you mean your friend won't wake up?

What did you do to your friend?

still not and also oblivious

[neededlassie]

I don't know if your friend will be in a coma that long that's just how long he was.
When he woke up he was okay but I was really scared.

Everyone I talked to said that sometimes that happens here though. Sometimes people wake up remembering things from home that hadn't happened to them yet and sometimes they're just the same as they were before.

[lullabytes]

If he's human, an Awakening might be a bad idea...

Taking him to the Pokémon Center sounds like the best plan. After all, it should function like an inn, right?

[diamondo]

i didn't do anything to him!!
he just went to sleep like normal
and then didn't get up!!
he's been like this for a whole day now and i'm really worried!!

[diamondo]

yeah i wouldn't want to hurt him
i think i'll do that then
it's better than just sitting here
waiting for him to get up

[nostabbing]

Maybe he's dead.

[diamondo]

oh shit
so it's like he's going home only he's still here???
so he'll remember things from back home that he hadn't known previously??
shit.
okay well he's going to need someone here for him so
i'll just take him to the center i guess and hope he wakes up soon??

[lullabytes]

In that case, the Pokémon Center. For the moment...take your friend there. Nurse Joy will probably know what's going on. You shouldn't worry yourself too much until you have a full picture, and the situation is taken care of, I think. It's possible this isn't something to be worried over, and the well-being of your friend comes before concerns about waiting.

[diamondo]

don't say things like that!!!!
he's not dead!!
he's breathing!!

[diamondo]

yeah you're right
shit i just hope it's nothing bad
i can't lose him

[nostabbing]

Well they say that nobody dies here but maybe they only mean technically.

Like you keep breathing but you're basically dead.

Text -> Action

[neededlassie]

[Wait a minute.

Shaun knows someone who swears like that.]

Oowada?

[NNNNNNNRRRRGH NOOOOOOO ok no he's just gonna head toward the man cave because now he's worried. He'll just. Call down from the top of the stairs.]

Oowada?

[lullabytes]

I don't think that's a possibility, if he's here. Several people have told me that it's impossible to die here...

So, maybe he's just really tired, or it's the effect of a Pokémon attack or something of that nature. Don't jump to the worst possible conclusion for the moment.

Either way, if you want to text me while you wait to find out what it is once you're at the center, I don't mind.

[ Never mind that she has no idea who she's talking to. Where are these dots she's supposed to be connecting, even. ]

[diamondo]

shit no that's not possible
that's not going to happen to him!!!
he'll be just fine!!!

[Any further texts will have to be delayed, however, because he's going to take Ishimaru to the Pokémon Center. Thanks, Parker, you've successfully terrified him!]

[diamondo]

yeah i know people can't die here but...
shit i'm just really worried about him
i lost someone close to me once before
i don't think i can go through that again

i really appreciate that though
it's good to have someone to talk to

action;

[superordinary]

[ Guess who saw this post and immediately headed down to the basement; he'd have to be both blind and deaf to miss the presence of Ishimaru and Oowada in the house. There's literally no way Ishimaru wouldn't wake him up in the morning, after all. ]

Oowada-kun, are you the person who made that text post?

[nostabbing]

It's a good thing he's still breathing, too, because if not you might have to do an impromptu tracheotomy. With a really big knife.

A really, really big one.

[diamondo]

[The next text comes a good twenty minutes later and while the typing style hasn't changed, there's a name attached to it this time.]

you might want to get to the center
it's ishimaru

[lullabytes]

Losing people close to you isn't an easy thing at all. I don't think that anyone wants to go through that...Being worried about someone isn't a bad thing.

[ It's just important to, like, get them to the hospital or pokemon center or whatnot first. Which she assumes he has done. ]

I have free time for today, since my shift ended much earlier. Although I'm not the best at speaking to people, we can talk as long as you want.

[nostabbing]

wh ;giaf

[diamondo]

[...dammit, Naegi, he was trying to be stealthy! Oh well, at least it's just Naegi.]

...Yeah. I was.

[Mondo pulls the door open and allows Naegi into the room, returning to sit by Ishimaru's side. He looks exhausted, but more than that he looks worried.]

I guess it was kinda obvious, huh?

[diamondo]

thanks. you're a good person.

[...wait a sec, he probably shouldn't still be anonymous talking to her, hang on. Mondo quickly turns off the anonymous function and locks down the feed.]

hey sorry about that
didn't want everyone knowing what happened
but it's ishimaru; he's the one who's out cold

[diamondo]

um
is that a "yes i'm coming"
or a "holy shit what the fuck happened"
because if it's the latter i'm afraid i don't know