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I demand the foul creature responsible for this demented illusion reveal itself at once!

[Because he has no idea what's going on. Help. Please someone help. What is this? Why is that woman claiming to be his mother?]

For you see, while your powers of obfuscation are almost impressive, they mean nothing to a being such as myself!

[Translation: something weird is going on, and he noticed that. Which he already made clear with the previous sentence, so he's just sort of repeating himself. Because he needs to stress how weird this is and at the same time act like it's not.]

Therefore, I, Gundam Tanaka, demand you reveal yourself so that we may do battle on a scale that brings the very foundation of this world to its knees! Appear before me so that I may crush you as a demonstration to the astounding creature I have just received!

[In other words, he just got a Pokemon. And he has no idea what it is, but throwing an untrained animal into a chaotic situation is just asking for trouble.]

And do not even think of ignoring me. Otherwise, I will be forced to unseal power that would make the very heavens themselves tremble with fear!

[Demented laughter ensues, but he really hopes someone responds because he needs some information here.]

If you think that stealing my familiars has left me incapable of channeling such power, then think again! Such a foolish mistake has done nothing but ensure your own destruction!

[...because he would really like his hamsters back. This Pokemon is cute and all, but he needs those back. Seriously, where did they go?]

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... WELL OKAY THEN. This guy sure is something, isn't he. Yusuke isn't sure whether or not he really wants to engage with him, since the headache he's been nursing on and off for the past couple of days has reduced his tolerance for weirdness to basically nothing, but the over-the-top Villain Speak proves to be too much for him to ignore. So here, Gundam. Have this guy, who's scowling at the screen and massaging one of his temples.]

Listen, freakshow, nobody knows who the hell brought us here, so you can quit yellin' everyone's ears off. Besides, your powers aren't even gonna work here.

[... is he... is he taking Gundam seriously...

... MAYBE. Look, he's practically up to his ears in dudes who talk exactly like this back home, okay? It is not outside the realm of possibility that Gundam may, in fact, actually have powers. Not to him, anyway. (Shut up, he is not gullible.)]

Such astounding ignorance! You have no idea who you are speaking to or what powers I possess.

[Gundam Tanaka, and none for those playing around at home.]

If you did, you would know that creatures such as myself are hardly bound by...by the same earthly constraints as ordinary beings like yourself.

[Meaning he can do magic if he wants...or so he claims. His magical powers are totally legit, okay?]

In fact, should I release the power trapped within my sealed arm, it would be enough to reduce the surrounding area to ash!

[He smirks because really, that's the only thing missing here is some smug expression.]

But fortunately, I have no intention of doing so today.

[...because it wouldn't work.]

[For Yusuke's part, he doesn't look particularly impressed. He grunts out a vaguely amused "hah" when Gundam refers to him as an "ordinary being" (buddy, you've got no idea), but it's only when Gundam reaches the end of his spiel that his expression suddenly shifts from dead-eyed boredom to wicked and grinning.]

Ah, c'mon! You can't just say all that and not back it up!

[He folds his arms over the surface of the table he's sitting at and leans forward, looking at Gundam expectantly.]

Go ahead, show me what you got. If you're so much more powerful than us sorry bastards who woke up here with our powers gone, then prove it! Unseal your arm and blow the place up! I could use the excitement!

[Yusuke no.]

Attempting to goad me into such a display is merely a waste of your time.

[It's not like he can actually do anything either, but hey, look at how confident he's trying to look.]

After all, there is a time and place for everything and unless my captor appears before me, this is not it.

Uh-huh.

[Well, shit. Kudos to Gundam for not rising to the bait, he guesses. Yusuke seems a little put-out by the fact that Gundam didn't make an ass out of himself the way he was hoping he would, but he gets over it pretty quickly. He picks at the inside of his ear and says:]

Well, if you're plannin' on holdin' off on the ass-kicking 'til our kidnapper shows up, you're probably gonna be waiting for a while. I've been here for over a year now and I still haven't seen 'em.

A year?

[That's uh...man where does he even start with that?]

Is that the truth, or has your sense of time been distorted by the chaotic energies that surely inhabit this world?

[Yusuke gives Gundam a dry look.]

Well, let's see. I got dragged here, what, in March of 2013? And it's October 2014 now, so yeah, I'd say that's probably definitely more than a year.

[Thank you for that unnecessary sarcasm, Yusuke. He's not even going to get into the fact that it's 1992 where he's from. This conversation'll probably gonna cause Gundam enough confusion as it is.]

I dunno if there're any "chaotic energies" at work here in this place, aside from maybe whatever the hell it was that made friggin' cats rain from the sky a couple weeks back -

[HE SAYS, EVER-SO-CASUALLY]

- but if there are any, they don't mess with the way time passes. Everything here is as slow and boring as it is back home.

[If that comes out sounding a little bitter, that's because... well, he's a little bitter. He is not good at living a slow-paced, peaceful life. That said, he doesn't sit there and brood about it - instead, he moves on to say:]

If y'think a year sounds bad, you should meet this girl I know. She's been here for four years.

It rained cats?

[And he thought Jabberwock Island was weird. This is definitely something else.]

Such an ill omen cannot be ignored!

[Though that just raises the question of who's ignoring it which...really doesn't have an answer. But he's not really sure what else to say there because that is definitely freaky.

He doesn't have any actual comments on the passage of time at the moment. He's still trying to process the raining cats thing.]

Chyeah, you're tellin' me! I caught two of the little bastards with my face!

[He exclaims, jabbing a thumb at said face. The exasperation and irritation here is palpable. That said, Yusuke's clearly gotten over this, ah, incident to some degree, because if he hadn't, he'd still be denying that it ever happened in the first place. He'd also probably rant about it at length, which he doesn't. Instead, he moves on with a huff and a shrug of his shoulders.]

Anyway, it's probably not a big deal. Weird things happen around here all the time.

[...]

... Then again, I dunno. Usually, when things get this weird, somethin' weirder happens later on. Plus there's the earthquakes, and then it's October, so...

[... Way to sit there and ramble like you expect Gundam to know what you're talking about, Yusuke. Has it seriously only occurred to him just now that the whole "animals raining from the sky" thing might be a sign of stranger things to come? (ANSWER: Yes. Yes, it has. He is super smart.)]

Whether it happens all the time or not, the combination of events cannot be ignored. Such harbingers of calamity can only mean that something disastrous is soon to occur!

[Though what it is, he hasn't the faintest idea.]

Or perhaps they were merely heralding my arrival into this world.

[Yeah sure, he'll go with that.]

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