first [voice]

[unluckywings]

[there's a few fumbles and beeps as Van fiddles with the tiny buttons on his brand new Dreamberry, completely clueless as to what exactly the thing is. He just knows it looks something like Hitomi's whatever-it-was...pager. Maybe that was it. But it looks like that in the way that the Crusade looked like one of Zaibach's floating fortresses--

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[video]

[stillneedsakiss]

...Ken? Is that you? Are you okay?

[video]

[unluckywings]

[holy shit it's talking. WHY IS IT TALKING.

...he drops the Dreamberry, he's so surprised.]

It talks?

[video]

[stillneedsakiss]

[Aya blinks. That? Is not Ken. Okay. Creepy.

But she can't just leave him hanging now.]

It's just a phone, i-it's okay! It's supposed to talk!

Re: [video]

[unluckywings]

[Nope, just sounds like him! 8Db ...and kinda acts like him too. Maybe it is creepy.]

Phone? [WHAT IS THIS DEVILRY YOU SPEAK OF.

He pokes at the screen.]

...you're not stuck in there, are you?

[...fail, Van.]

[Video]

[madcuriosity]

You're in Somarium sir.

[Video]

[unluckywings]

[oh hey Alice. Van's kinda staring at you, well, the Dreamberry. He honestly doesn't mean to.

On a side note, he sounds exactly like your friend Ken.]

...what? There's no country named Somarium on Gaea...

The Mystic Moon again?

[Video]

[madcuriosity]

That's because Somarium isn't on Gaea sir.

[She's noticed it. But as Takuma and Tamaki are twins as well she doesn't question it.]

[Video]

[unluckywings]

[Rockin'. She's used to all this multifandom crap. :3b]

Ah...my name is Van, you don't have to call me 'sir.'

[this is all kind of confusing. :< and he doesn't have time for it, darnit.]

...then how do I get back?

[chokowaffle]

[Belgium notices this and pops in to say hi through the Dreamberry]

Are you new...? You're in a dream world called Somarium. I just got here a week or so ago, myself.

[unluckywings]

[at least he's already been called and video-posted at, so he doesn't freak out. Visibly at least. He still has no idea what the Dreamberry thinks its doing.]

I...guess.

A dream world? How is this a dream?

[chokowaffle]

I was told that we're still back home, but we're also stuck at this dream world. I'm not completely sure myself.

[unluckywings]

...that's ridiculous.

[he may not know some things, but Van does know that someone can only be in one place at a time. It's some kind of rule.]

[Voice. Just to be confusing.]

[insorrow]

[Yeah, OKAY. So there's a procedure for this. Hi, dream world, you're kinda stuck, blah blah blah. Ken's done it before. Should be easy, in theory, to do it again, right?

[But.]

Uh, hi? You're... new... right? Why do you sound like me?

[Voice] and then the world implodes from the combined might of the fail

[unluckywings]

[I COULD ASK YOU THAT TOO, VOICE-TWIN. In fact I think I will.]

...why do you sound like me.

[Voice] Is it possible to do WORSE than a critfail? We may be about to find out.

[insorrow]

[Hey, I asked that first!]

Why are you asking me that I don't know I've always sounded like this!

[Zero to pissy in 6.3 seconds.]

[Voice] Yeah, could be the sort of fail that destroys Manhattan.

[unluckywings]

[SO? IT'S PERFECTLY VALID FOR ME TO ASK TOO.]

Well, so have I.

[ishikawa_juusan]

I take it you have just arrived. This is a world known as Somarium.

[unluckywings]

Yes. I have.

A dream world, right?

[unluckywings]

A few times. I appreciate it, though.