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So. That last little round of eggs, how many of them hatched into something unusual? Something no one really sees around here? I'd say 'not native to Johto', but that could be a stretch. For all we know these strange little things are hiding all over the place.


Caaaarv~! <3

[With a splashing sound, a young Pokemon jumped from offscreen and landed with its mouth squarely on the Doctor's head. He seemed generally unconcerned, though staggered for a moment to keep his balance.

She's the one that hatched from mine. Called a Carvanha, apparently. Friendliest thing, as you can see. I've been calling her Sarah Jane.

[Meet the Carvanhat, Johto.]

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I've talked to someone that seemed to suggest time worked differently for her. but that doesn't make sense; even across parallel worlds, time should essentially be the same.

...Really? That's interesting--very interesting.

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The girl I spoke to talked about planes and things like that. Bit confusing, even for me. Sounded very rigid, for lack of a better term. Not really a word I'd use to describe time in general. You've hit the mark a bit closer to my understanding of it, but still strange. Very strange. Impossibly strange.

Suppose it's not too shocking, no. But two individuals called the Doctor running about with all that knowledge of time? Funny coincidence.

I'm nine hundred and seven. Ish. Maybe. ...Probably older.

[A pause.]

Now you've got me curious. Who and what exactly are you? Not a Time Lord, definitely--so what, then?

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You're talking about things even Time Lords couldn't have imagined. The laws of time can't--no, shouldn't--vary between worlds, that would just be some kind of time-related anarchy. Every universe with its own functions of time and its own parallel worlds, it'd be like one of those little human nesting doll things. But with universes.

[he wasn't debating or objecting to a word Scratch had said--in fact, he completely believed him. The problem laid in that this was something he didn't understand. Something the Doctor couldn't comprehend. That was what irritated him, at the back of his mind--had things always been this way? He thought--knew--the universe was a tremendous, endless thing.]

[Now he realized it was all far, far bigger than even all the Time Lords could have ever comprehended.]

...well. I certainly never claimed to be the oldest living thing, but it looks like you have me beat considerably. And Alternia, where's that? If it has any kind of counterpart in my world, I don't think I've ever heard of it.

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An alternate Earth?

[A smile not unlike that of a particularly eager child broke out across the Doctor's face.]

An alternate Earth in a universe where time works differently, a whole universe that I haven't seen?

Scratch, you--and I don't believe I've ever said this before--have my full attention.

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[HE LIKES WEIRD.]

So, hang on. What you're telling me is that the entire universe I know was created by some kind of event in yours? The Big Bang, millions of planets and stars and all that, all due to something in another world?

[Oh god, if only he had popcorn right now. Or fish custard.]

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Right, right, alternate worlds and all that, makes sense. Perfect sense. Probably not mine, same idea, could be mine but likely isn't.

So what was this 'event', then?

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Oh, I think I can keep up just fine.

[He paused--as far as he could remember, he hadn't encountered anyone like that just yet. But some of those names did ring a few vague bells in the Doctor's head. Particularly Sollux's, sounding as much like the binary star as it did.]

[It took a conscious effort not to ask a thousand more questions on top of the ones he already had.]

A game, right. Simple. But simple games are never simple, are they? Always end up being so much more complicated than they seem. Right?

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[Oh, lovely. Paradoxes. Just when he thought this couldn't get more intriguing.]

So tell me, then; forgetting the whole existence paradox for a moment, how does a player enter this Incipisphere?