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[Snake has decided to take some quiet time and make use of figuring out what's inside his bag. He's left the Pokegear nearby on video, so he can remember what he was doing later... IT'S NOT LIKE HIS MEMORY IS GOING OR ANYTHING. That included reading the handbook on being a Pokemon Trainer. For him, this wasn't too different from what he was used to, except he usually had to call Otacon to learn how to save, how to crawl, punch, use weapons, etc. Looks like the save function was different in this world...

Snake had a lot on his mind recently, due to what he'd experienced before coming to this place... His mother was seriously wounded, and he'd only learned that she was his mother just moments before. Everything was happening too quickly... Everything that she'd told him... It was still swirling in his mind. He could still hear the sounds of Raging Raven screaming for him to fight her. Still see the look of agony on Big Mama's face...

He hadn't had a good night's sleep in the last week. Every time he closed his eyes, he could see her pained expression...

Reading the handbook had now become a way for him to take his mind off of what he'd seen... what he wished he could forget, just for a short while. It was selfish, he knew, but... it was too much.]

Brrri brrrrri!

[Snake blinked, looking over at Sunny, who was hugging his leg as he sat on a tree stump. She looked worried... so he reached a hand over and patted her head.] Hey... Sunny, I'm fine. Just... go play with Chicken and Mk II.

Toki... briiii...

[Sunny shook her head, hugging him tighter. Snake sighed, reaching down and picking her up, gently placing her on his lap.] All right... [He went back to reading the handbook, stroking Sunny's head as he did.]

... Stay out of tall grass... running in tall grass makes Pokemon more liable to attack... Hnn. I wonder if sneaking in tall grass is an option...

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I mean... Your Togepi must reflect you in a more personal way, right? It isn't obvious at first glance, is what I mean!

[Smooth Ash... Smoooooooth.]

... It's fine... It's the truth, anyway... I'm not at all like Sunny...

Maybe not exactly like her, Snake.

But you are as kind as her. Gentle in your way of speaking.

You are both unique.

[Don't way you have the same hair color, Ash. That will not help.]

... Gentle way of speaking...

You have no idea what I'm like.

Maybe not in tone, but I've never heard you say anything harsh.

[How's that foot tasting Ash?]

I'm sorry Snake, I'm just trying to help... But maybe I'm looking at it wrong.

... My words don't define me. It's my actions that do... And... My actions, my heritage, make me a monster.

... [Sighs, stroking his hand through his hair irritably.]

... Never mind, Ash... I'm just... Not at 100% today... Too much on my mind.

That's it!

[Ash just had an 'Aha!' moment when Snake told him that!]

Gnh!!

That's why you have Togepi, Snake! Don't you see?!

Togepi is to balance you! It was given to you to calm you! To let you know you aren't a monster! To show you that you aren't the horrible man you think you are!

...

[Looks at Sunny, who's fallen asleep listening to Old Snake's tummy noises. For a moment, he almost looks like he'll cry, but it passes just as quickly as it came.]

... Maybe you're right.

["I wish it were simple as that, Ash..."]

... This world... Does a lot of good for people. Whatever was bothering you in your home, doesn't matter here.

Snake, I personally am responsible for a lot of pain brought to someone who is innocent and very close to me, but this world has waved that away.

I don't know what you did in your world, but this isn't it, so it has no bearing on you. Here, you have Sunny to care for, right? She doesn't seem to care about where you are from, only where you are now.

... [a low rumble sounds in his throat, as he takes these words into consideration... It sounded like the exact selfishness he'd been wanting for a while... Just what he needed...

But even so...]

Then Big Mama doesn't...

Hmm? If it eases you, Snake... I think I may know what goes on in the worlds we are from.

I've noticed people that are taken from the same world, don't always match time that the others from that world are taken.

So I don't think that your world went on without you. I think when the way home is discovered, you'll go right back so the same spot you were taken from.

[Ash isn't well versed in the way of extraplanatary travel but... He has been here for a few months. Long enough to observe the odd pattern of arrivals.]

... Hnn... [Here's hoping you're right, Ash... He doesn't want to lose his mom just as quickly as he's met her.]

All right...

So, Sunny's here to balance me?

Yeah. Don't you think so too, Snake?

[Ash had a different view. He wanted to live in Johto forever. The only person he cares about from his world is here in this one, so... he has no desire to return to that life when things are better here. He had lost all his power, but he gained a lot in other ways.]

[Despite all the hell that waited for Snake back in his world, he knew that without a complete mission... this meme would never end... He had to finish what was started all those years ago... He had to. And though he wanted to run so far away from it all, he knew he couldn't. Because, even he knew it... He loved the battlefield... No matter how much he tries for peace, he always feels more comfortable with a gun in his hand. And that was the saddest truth for him.]

... I don't know. Balancing seems a little strange, we're both two sides of extremes.

Which is why Sunny is there. You need a break from the strife of home, and Sunny will show you that life is more than what you are used to.

Trust me, Snake. Life ends abruptly, and death makes you really regret not taking time to smell the flowers.

[Ash is speaking from a first hand experience. A Phantom doesn't get to really enjoy life or afterlife.]

If I'm dead I won't have time to regret anything.

... I was dead, Snake. Actually, I was a Phantom. Death isn't as peaceful as you may think.

... [Rubs his face.] You think that I'll haunt people?

Heh, No, but I am saying: "Make the most of what you have." Living in the past is all you do when you're dead, don't do it while you are alive.

... Thanks for the tip.

[Sigh... Maybe Ash would need to get to know Snake better before offering advice. Maybe he can change the subject.]

Snake, did you get something to eat finally?

... Yeah... Ate a few things from my backpack. Looks like it wasn't as empty as I thought... But I hope when I get to Cherrygrove, I'll get something a little more filling.

There is a really good cafe in Cherrygrove that a lot of the girls waitress at while they are there.

Have you thought about getting a job, Snake?

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