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[purpleemophones]

[The communicator turns on, revealing an unconscious Neku sprawled across a mansion hallway.]

[He stirs slightly. A hand flails outward and plants itself into the carpet. He forces himself up and stares at it with shock, then disgust.]

Ugh.. what the..

No..

Nononono.
Not.. Again.

Joshua!

Not! Again! I swear to.. You!!
[He sputters for a bit, then catches

Comments

[Video?]

[hellyesamerica]

[She just. Stares.]

Whoa, what's the hurry? I don't know if anyone named Joshua is here, either.

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[purpleemophones]

[Neku pauses, turns around, and notices the communicator for the first time.]

Well, you probably wouldn't even know he's behind everything! But before I can deal with him, I need to find a partner before I get attacked by noise!

Otherwise it's all over.

Where are you?!

[Video]

[hellyesamerica]

Ninth floor, room 8.

[She sort of watches him for a moment before grinning. He's new here!]

No, you're confused. I don't know where you're from originally, but this is Wonderland. The Mansion kidnaps people, kind of! I'm a hero, though, so you're in luck.

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[purpleemophones]

Ninth floor?

Well.. uh.. where am I?

[...]

[Deciding not to wait, he continues his escape, this time communicator in hand. He continues while he hunts for stairs]

Wonderland..? That's not in Shibuya. Is that what they call the UG wherever I am?
Or is this some stupid park? Are you an actor?

[he glares at the screen momentarily, pausing his run.]

[Also - why do I always wake up in the middle of nowhere!?]

[Video]

[hellyesamerica]

Huh? Uh, you can probably find a number on the wall somewhere to see what floor you're on!

But I'm not an actor. [And she laughs.] My name is Meriken! I represent the United States of America, and I arrived here not too long ago myself!

It's called Wonderland.. there's a ton of people from different worlds here. It's crazy!

They outsource EVERYTHING these days.

[purpleemophones]

Huh? Numbers?

[pauseagain]

432. Alright, I need to go up a few floors!

[runrunrun.. dang, this is a long hallway]

So, America? And.. others? This is more than Shibuya? This is what Joshua meant by "taking care of things?"

..I represent Japan then. Tokyo at least.

gonna be sloppy im mobile

[hellyesamerica]

[and shes just in her room, chilling.. until what he's japan?! ..no, a city? ]

Huh?! How can you be a city?! Cities are body parts!. What weird world are you from?!

need to figure that out. [video]

[purpleemophones]

[Neku stops. If he tried to run while this insanity was going on he'd hurt himself somehow.]

Be a city? Body parts? I never said I /was/ Shibuya! I'm /from/ there!

[That's stupid! Just what is she smoking?!]

[video]

[hellyesamerica]

Oh! That makes more sense. I already met Japan, and he's way quieter than you!

But I am America. Well there's another me from another world, and his name is actually America, but I'm Meriken, but I'm still America, you know? You can walk up here slowly, you know, there's no rush. You can't really get out of here-- yet! I'm working on it-- I'm a hero you know.

[And she'll probably keep babbling unless you stop her.]

[video]

[purpleemophones]

[Neku lets Meriken babble for a bit while he tries to figure out what to react to first.]

Well first, you're insane. Your friend, too.

But, let me get this really clear. I don't have to find someone within seven minutes? And I don't need a partner to fight noise.

[video]

[hellyesamerica]

Haha! You're the insane one! I think you're stressed from arriving here so suddenly, or something. Though, you are one of Japan's citizen's..

Hmm. I don't know what you mean by that! You speak english right? Noise.. Wouldn't two people make it more noisy?

And you definitely don't have to do anything within seven minutes. You're going to be stuck here for a lot longer than that! Take your time.

1/2

[purpleemophones]

You're the one speaking Japenese.. and not making any sense while you do it!

But..

[oh, and for you - noise are the evil tattoo demons that possess and/or eat people. just fyi XP

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[purpleemophones]

[So I've heard.]

Don't know if I believe any of you.
You could all be reapers and this thing is just so I don't see your wings.

[But.. I haven't seen any noise..]

Look, I just need to get to Hatchiko. If you can't help, I'm wasting my time.

[video]

[hellyesamerica]

What?! Well it doesn't matter if you don't believe me now, but you will eventually when you get tired of running around for nothing!!

I told you already. We're all stuck in this mansion. You can't get to hatchi-whatsit or anything.

And I'm speaking English, duh. I'm America--Meriken-- actually, I'm speaking American. ... Ameriken.

[and she grins at herself.]

[video]

[purpleemophones]

I'll see for myself.

And..

Sounds Japanese to me.

[Neku searches briefly, then cuts the power to the communicator with a satisfactory click.]