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[There's a bright little bird...lizard thing minding its own business on a branch, cleaning its feathers and looking around with puzzled curiosity. The owner of the PokéGear sets it standing in the fork of the tree and then starts to creep up the branch with hands and knees, trying to keep his breath quiet. He's a kid, small, small enough for the branch to hold his weight, but it dips and the Archen notices him. As one, they freeze, and then both leap at once, the Archen away and the boy towards it, in a crush of squawking and leaves and confusion.

The PokéGear falls, too, thudding to the grass amid the cries of Pokémon, and it's hard to tell what's happened for a minute until a Gallade comes to pick it up. He's balancing a four-year-old blond boy on his hip while a Togetic hovers in dismay, everyone dusty from the fall, but the kid squirms in the Gallade's hold and beams without smiling from behind his very familiar shades. Proud and apparently unhurt, Dave holds up a PokéBall towards the 'Gear.]

I caughted it.

[Wart the Gallade turns the camera to his own desperate, exasperated, bewildered face.]

Help me.

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Oh holy shit.

[WHAT IS HAPPENING, FIRST CHURCH NOW THIS. This is the start of a bad week.]

Dave, hey where are you at.

[Wart, help him out.]

[The pixellation had been one thing. He'd been sort of okay with the pixellation because how the fuck else is someone from a video game supposed to react (spoilers: he'd lost his shit anyway), but seeing Dave of all people transformed into a human wiggler and throwing himself out of trees is so far from being okay that the resulting apoplexy actually manages to render him speechless.

It doesn't last long.]

DAVE, WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU AND HOW DID YOU GET THERE?

[And how did he not notice? How the fuck did someone LITERALLY LIVING WITH THIS ASSHOLE not notice him losing half his height and three quarters of his vocabulary? Or more? Or oh fuck what if Dave doesn't even remember him, had he fully reverted? Fuck fuck fuck fuck f u c k, what kind of moirail just lets this happen, like his other failures weren't enough—

If either Dave or Wart are even paying attention at this point, they're definitely going to notice Karkat's surroundings streaking past while the troll all but sprints to the nearest physical location that even passingly resembles where Dave had been transmitting from. Outdoors, tree, Torchic and Gallade nearby, where the fuck is he?]

[At first, John doesn't really think much of the fact that there's some kid trying to catch a dino-bird. But then it strikes him that this kid looks awfully familiar... And his suspicions are confirmed when Dave's Gallade suddenly comes onto the screen.]

Oh shit, is that Dave? Where are you? And Wart, you can't just let kids climb trees like that! Their brains are still soft and malleable and stuff! He could get hurt!

Also, what happened?

[Since last thing John remembers, Dave was a normal teenager that was a normal teenager size. He definitely would have remembered him shrinking.]

Sal-u-tations! ...sir?

[There's a lot she doesn't understand right now. But there's a... knightly alien thing? Asking for help over her scroll, so questions can wait.]

Do you require assistance?

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