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[After Perry noticed that Rise vanished, he shut down completely. Losing his two closest friends here in a short period of time really took a toll on him, and soon he decided something:

He was not going to let anyone get this close to him, for everyone's sake.

So he packs everything up and leaves the house he was staying in in less than an hour, not even bothering to let anyone else know where's he's going.

However, while he didn't want anyone to worry about him, his Pokemon were incredibly worried about their trainer, especially his starter Bartholomew. He tried talking to him for hours to try to cheer him up but the most Perry will speak to him it reassuring Bartholomew that he's fine in a really cold-sounding voice.

Eventually he realized that he has no idea how to fix this, so when Perry's not paying attention (which, to be fair, wasn't super hard since he didn't seem to be paying attention to anything besides walking), Bartholomew snatched his Pokegear to ask everyone how to solve this.

Admittedly he's never written anything before, but he watched his trainer text a lot, especially when he still couldn't talk, so it shouldn't be too hard?]

HELP

PERRY IS WEIRD

BAD WEIRD

HE IS RUNNING AWAY

WILL BARELY SPEAK TO ME

WHAT DO I DO

[After about a minute Bartholomew decides he should clarify something.]

THIS IS BARTHOLOMEW THE GOLDUCK

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Just leave him alone. Sometimes you just need to get away.

[Man does he wish this had some kind of anonymous function. Or that he knew how to use it. Having his name actually attached to this like a record is just uncool.]

A duck wouldn't get it.

[And beyond that, just... ignoring that a Pokémon apparently wrote this. Because what.]

[Bartholomew couldn't help but get the feeling that this stranger was calling him simple minded, but his worry for his trainer overtakes his want to really call him out for it.]

I UNDERSTAND LONELINESS

ALSO ITS GOLDUCK

I'M WORRIED BECAUSE RUNNING AWAY IS NOT LIKE HIM

[Pokémon can text???? .... they might need fingers for that, right?

But the running away bit does have Dipper a bit worried.]

Do you know why he's running away?

[Wait...what? Well THIS isn't concerning at all-]

Hello? Bartholomew? What do you mean, he's running away? What's happening?

[Welcome to the magical world of Pokemon, Dipper.]

HIS FRIEND DISAPPEARED TODAY

THAT WAS THE SECOND ONE RECENTLY

PRETTY SURE THAT'S THE SOURCE

[Unless Perry had an exceptionally weird dream last night but that's doubtful.]

[Ooh, he realizes that if he's asking what's happening that he doesn't know that Rise's gone. Man he does not want to be the one to break the news to him but he really didn't have a choice here.]

RISE'S GONE

WHEN PERRY REALIZED THAT HE JUST PACKED EVERYTHING UP AND RAN OFF

[Rise is-?

...oh.

He doesn't have the time right now to be upset, but it still hits him hard, seeing those words. But Chihiro takes a deep breath and keeps typing, quickly.]

You can't get him to stop and talk to you?

NO

HE'LL BARELY ACKNOWLEDGE I'M EVEN HERE NOW

Oh...where are you both now, Bartholomew? Has he left the city?

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[There is a notable pause before the next text.]

YOU DON'T HAVE TO FOLLOW ME. I KNOW IT'S HARD FOR YOU TOO

I know. I just

[...]

I know he probably needs to be alone, but I'm worried.

Please try to stay with him, if you can.

I WILL

I'M WORRIED FOR HIM TOO

THIS ISN'T LIKE HIM AT ALL

Thank you.

I'm not sure how good I will be for talking for a while.

But if he needs anyone to talk to later, tell him I'm available. If not, that's okay too.

HUMANS ARE A FICKLE CREATURE, THEY'RE ALWAYS ACTING WEIRD PERHAPS YOUR TRAINER HAS FINALLY ACCEPTED HIS USELESS EXISTENCE AND IS MERELY AWAITING THE SWEET EMBRACE OF DEATH YOU SHOULD SEND HIM MY WAY, I GOT CONNECTIONS HAHA JK OR AM I WHO EVEN KNOWS????

[Seriously he couldn't have gotten a Pokemon that at least didn't want to kill his trainer?]

BE SERIOUS

AND I DON'T WANT MY TRAINER TO DIE

THAT IS THE OPPOSITE OF THE KIND OF HELP I WANT AND NEED

YOU'RE WELCOME

[There is a pause as he decides if he should say the next bit or not, since a part of him worries that being there for him won't help.]

SORRY, BUT COULD I CONTACT YOU AGAIN IF THIS DOESN'T WORK?

I AM BEING SERIOUS, HUMANS ARE THE WORST. THEY'RE A POINTLESS SPECIES THAT WALKS AROUND BEING POINTLESS COMPLETELY UNAWARE OF HOW POINTLESS THEY ARE ALL THE TIME. HAVE YOU EVER TRIED TALKING TO ONE? I CAN'T EVEN GO FIVE SECONDS WITHOUT WANTING TO BASH MY HEAD AGAINST A WALL. FULL OF THRONS SEE IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE I'M A BALLOON BUT OKAY, IF YOU REALLY WANT YOUR TRAINER TO STOP RUNNING AWAY FROM HIS RESPONSIBILITIES, HAVE YOU TRIED--IDK--USING AN ICE-TYPE MOVE TO FREEZE HIM IN PLACE? YOU WATER-TYPES LEARN ICE MOVES, RIGHT? JUST ICE-SPIT HIS FEET SO HE CAN'T GO ANYWHERE, THERE PROBLEM SOLVED. AND THEN WHEN THE ICE DECAYS HIS WEAK HUMAN FLESH, HE WON'T HAVE ANY FEET TO RUN AWAY WITH ANYMORE. SERIOUSLY, YOU SHOULD PROBABLY BE WRITING THIS DOWN.

FIRST OF ALL, MY TRAINER WASN'T EVEN A HUMAN BEFORE WAKING UP HERE

I THINK HE WAS KIND OF LIKE US? MAYBE

[Bartholomew no that is secret information.]

ALSO I DON'T KNOW WHAT HUMANS YOU'RE TALKING TO

AND IF YOU'RE TELLING ME TO FREEZE HIM UNTIL HIS FLESH DECAYS, I'M PRETTY SURE THAT WOULD ALSO KILL HIM

WOW, THAT'S LIKE EVEN WORSE. YOU COULDN'T EVEN GET A NORMAL HUMAN TRAINER, YOU ARE LITERALLY CRYING OVER A FREAK OF NATURE GOOD JOB.

[Not that Murasaki realizes he's currently in the same boat, but he's yet to experience a fourth wall event.]

ALSO ARE YOU SERIOUS RIGHT NOW, YOU KNOW YOU CAN SURVIVE WITHOUT YOUR FEET RIGHT??? IM JUST SAYING HIS STUPID TENDER FEET FLESH WOULD PROBABLY PEEL OFF LIKE A GROSS FOOT BANANA ONCE IT GETS TOO COLD, I'M NOT TELLING YOU TO ENCASE HIS ENTIRE BODY IN A BLOCK OF ICE I MEAN, THAT'S THE PREFERABLE OPTION, BUT YOU SEEM TO HAVE SOME SORT OF WEIRD MORTAL ATTACHMENT TO YOUR NOT-HUMAN SO WHATEVER

YES, HOW DARE MY TRAINER BE FORCED INTO A BODY THEY DIDN'T ASK FOR. WHAT A MONSTER

YOU KNOW WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, RIGHT?

UNLESS YOU SAYING THAT I DRAG HIS BODY ALL THE WAY TO THE NEXT TOWN, HE WOULD BE TRAPPED IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE AND THEN PROBABLY DIE FROM DEHYDRATION OR LACK OF FOOD.

[Sure Perry has a flying Pokemon but he's not going to mention that out of spite.]

IF YOU ASK ME, THAT'S THE PERFECT PLACE TO FREEZE SOMEBODY'S FEET OFF, THEN NO ONE CAN HEAR HIM COMPLAIN. BUT REALLY NOW, WHY ARE YOU DEFENDING THIS GUY SO MUCH? HE OBVIOUSLY DOESN'T CARE ABOUT WHAT YOU THINK IF HE'S RUNNING AWAY AND WON'T EVEN LISTEN TO YOU. YOU HAD TO MAKE A CRY FOR HELP, THAT'S HOW DESPERATE YOU ARE. I SAY COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS AND LET HIM RUN AWAY TO...WHEREVER, YOU'RE BETTER OFF WITHOUT HIM.

I'M DEFENDING HIM BECAUSE HE NEEDS ME, WHETHER HE SAYS HE DOES OR NOT

IF YOU ASK ME, I THINK HE'S DOING THIS BECAUSE HE DOESN'T WANT OTHER PEOPLE TO GET CLOSE TO HIM

BUT I DON'T WANT HIM TO BECOME A HERMIT

HIS FRIEND LEFT TODAY SO THAT'S WHERE IT CAME FROM

Of course. I will be here.

Please keep in touch.

THANK YOU

I PROMISE I'LL PAY YOU BACK

[Even if he has to steal money from his trainer he'll pay you back.]

No no please dont worry about that

just make sure your trainer is okay

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