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[Open] I'm not a good guy, but not a bad guy either

Who: Ecolo and anyone
What: Ecolo's wandering around and there's shadow bugs
Where: Around places in the city
When: July 16-22
Warnings: Action stuff. Most likely fighting. Potential confusion of which shadow is which.

Ecolo had been wandering around the city ever since he made his little video post on the networks earlier in the month as a means of getting familiar with the place. There were so many things to see and discover, but he came to realize that he really was the only one that he knew who was thrown into this world.

Was it relief that he felt? Ecolo wasn't sure what emotion he felt upon this realization, but he didn't think too far into it as his attention was quickly directed towards the shadow bugs. It was curious, to see a different being taking a similar appearance as himself. Curious, and a little annoying. If Ecolo had the ability to think in another person's shoes, he may have realized this annoyance was what Ringo and others may have felt when their spells were copied by him. Nevertheless, he was going to have some fun with the shadow bugs while he had the time.

There was a nagging thought in the back of his mind, though. Something about this world felt off, but he couldn't pinpoint why. Ecolo scratched his head as he floated in place, tilting his head.

"What's this feeling?"

((He will either be just floating around, or playing around with the shadow bugs. Feel free to join up with him, or confuse him for a shadow bug! Depending on the day you run into him, he will be acting a little off due to the breakdown in reality, being someone who normally lives between dimensions and all.))

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There was SOMEONE ELSE lurking in the shadows and damn he sure was tired of having to share it with these annoying things. Going anywhere undetected was a hassle when he was constantly trudging through the clouds of purple stuff, and as such it left Garrett in a particularly sour mood. He heard a voice ahead of him and looked up to see a larger than normal shadow thing floating in the air in front of him. With a grumble, he reached to unsheathe his sword and take care of it quickly.

Ah, those residing in the shadows. Ecolo always forgot about people who could easily detect him. He turned to look at the other, blinking his beady glowing eyes as he tilted his head.

"Oooh? Do we have a mister sneaky swordsman here~?"

Garrett straightened up, surprised at being addressed by one of these things instead of outright attacked, but kept one hand on the hilt just in case.

"Since when did you guys know how to talk?"

"Hmmm? 'You guys?' There's only one of me~!"

Ecolo was having a little too much fun with how everyone was mistaking him for the shadow bugs. It got him attention, and that was all that mattered to Ecolo at the moment.

"One of you. You're about as endearing as every other one of these things I've dealt with today." The more annoyed Garrett got, the more sarcastic he became. "And what makes you special, anyway?"

"I'm special, because I can talk~!" Ecolo gave a smile, twirling around in place. "Well, I guess that's obvious. I never really thought I was that special before. I'm me, nothing else. I'm also dark blue, not purple-ish like these guys. Oh, I also have a name! It's Ecolo!"

Man, these things were becoming a hassle. It seemed like more of them were coming every day, and people said they were coming out of the basement of the school, but the basement sounds scary and there is NO WAY she's going down there with just her Pokemon in tow. She didn't want to get grabbed by any ghoulies down there, so in the meantime she was trying to train alongside her partners.

She had plans to help one of her Pokemon practice one of its moves. Hilda was really big on the whole hands-on thing, but that meant getting her hands on some materials. On her way to a hardware to procure some supplies she couldn't help but notice a little gang of shadow bugs, tucked away between two buildings and hanging around a bigger, more blue-looking one. With a... question mark on its forehead? Maybe it was time for a different kind of hands-on practice, because this was getting ridiculous.

...Hilda tried scanning the big one with her Pokedex, just in case.

And her Pokedex may not have reacted to Ecolo at all. He wasn't a Pokemon even though he looked like one, after all. Instead, Ecolo noticed there was another person around and turned to look at Hilda.

"Oh! Hello! We have another friend to join the fun~!" What a misleading thing to say, Ecolo... But now, he was moving towards Hilda, with the shadow bugs close behind.

Well, it wouldn't be first time her Pokedex didn't work on a mysterious new Pokemon, but her sweet electronic device didn't like the shadow bugs, either. Those were not Pokemon.

"Huh? ...Huh!?" Eyes wide and a hand reaching into her bag, Hilda began shuffling backwards at the same rate Ecolo and crew moved forward. "Y-... You ain't supposed to talk! These things ain't ever talked before! A-are you... Not one of those things...?"

"Who said I'm not supposed to talk~?" Ecolo giggled, raising his arms to wave around. The shadow bugs stayed quiet, following Ecolo. They were targeting the talking shadow more than anything else, but Ecolo himself wasn't concerned one bit.

"So what's that little thing you're have in your hand? Is it a phone~?" He proceeded to ask, pointing his bubbly shadow hand at Hilda's Pokedex.

"I-I dunno, I just never heard..." Hilda trailed off, confused. Why was she even arguing with these things!? But if this one talked maybe she could just make it relay a message of 'STOP IT.' Was diplomacy the right course, here?

"It's a... Pokedex..." She sounded stilted and awkward, like she was trying very hard not to say anything that would make, say... A shadow bug ringleader sic his posse on her. "It shows me stuff about Pokemon. ...Are you, uh... A Pokemon?"

Please don't say you're a shadow bug guy that's gonna eat her, please don't say you're a shadow bug guy that's gonna eat her...

Ecolo tilted his head, confused. "What's a Pokemon?"

It sounded kind of like the Puyo, but only the P was the same.

"I'm Ecolo! What if I said I'm a shadow bug guy that's going to cover this entire place with these shadows~? I think that sounds like fun~!"

"N-not fun!" Hilda shouted, stumbled backwards in case the shadow didn't feel like listening, and then made a 'hhhh' noise like air being let out of a balloon. Be cool, Hilda. You got this. Maybe you can make friends and it'll make all its shadow friends go away.

"Okay...? ...Okay. Uh. I'm Hilda. E-... Ecolo, right...? You wanted to know what a Pokemon is? If you and your friends don't shadow up the joint then I can tell you."

Ecolo grew silent for a moment, as if to consider the thought.

"Hmmm, that's no fair. I'm not doing anything except looking around the city. These shadow things don't talk back to me so I can't really tell them to go away~"

Speaking the truth or not, Ecolo's smile and playful voice wasn't exactly helping the situation.

"Y-you can't? So they don't listen to you or..." Uh... What? "Look, man, I just don't wanna get hurt or have to hurt nobody." She held her hands out in a peacekeep-y 'can't we all just get along' sort of gesture. "All right, so, Pokemon. They're like, friends. Some of 'em look like animals or they're really big or small and stuff, but they're all really smart and cool and helpful."

"Friends! Wow, that sounds like lots of fun! Can I get a Pokemon too? How about you? Are you a Pokemon too, so we can become friends?"

Ecolo sure seems to have gotten the word confused.

"Uh, well, I dunno? You don't gotta be a Pokemon to be friends. And, um, I ain't one." This was confusing her more than it had any right to.

"A-are you sure you ain't one of those shadow thingys?"

"But you just said Pokemon are like friends. That's kind of confusing, Miss Hatty-tail!"

Ecolo then grew quiet at the mentioning of the shadow bugs again. His face continued to stay smiling as he floated closer to Hilda.

"What do you think? Am I like the shadow thingies? I'm not quite sure myself, you know~!"

"Hey, anything can be a friend if you try." Right? ...Right? "At least, uh... That's how I feel."

She really wished that this thing would answer her questions without making them riddles, though. "You dunno...?" They were purple, he looked blue; they didn't talk, he did; they could turn into things, he... COULD BE A THING THAT THEY TURNED INTO

"Well, I ain't about to be friends with none of these shadow guys tryin' to eat my computer and stuff, so maybe... not...?" She was so confused that it hurt, man.

"Oh, if it's eating your things then don't worry about it! I don't eat!" Ecolo responded cheerfully, waving his arms around in the air.

Speaking of shadow bugs, they have slowly edged towards Ecolo, lingering behind him now. Ecolo himself doesn't seem to be paying attention to the bugs, however, as he keeps talking.

"Eating computer things sounds like you'd get a stomachache too. And that doesn't sound fun."

"You don't eat nothin'!?" She asked like this was the greatest outrage she had ever heard. But food's so great... Dang, even the Pokemon that looked like food or gears or inanimate objects ate food, how was Ecolo even alive?

"I mean, yeah, I wouldn't wanna eat a computer, neither, but like... Nothing at all?"

"I don't eat because where I come from doesn't have food!" Ecolo was being more cooperative than usual. Perhaps it was because Hilda's reactions were amusing to him.

"I'm a dimensional traveler. I live between worlds, so there's nothing existing! There's no time or space, so I don't need air to breathe or food to get energy from like humans!"

"O... Oh..." Hilda frowned and scratched her head. So, what, he was an alien from inside a black hole or whatever? She really didn't get it.

"So, hey, have you, like... Ever tasted food before just to see what it was like?"

Alien from inside a black hole sounded just about right.

"Hmmm... Now that I think about it, no. I've spent most of my time wandering in space and between dimensions and making fun of things that I never thought about eating before."

Floating around and making fun of things sounded, uh, rude.

"For real? Dude, you gotta try it sometime! You might like it. Uh, even though you don't need... To eat..."

"Would it be fun, to eat?" Ecolo asked in response. "It looks like it depends on people though. I've seen people get so grossed out at someone else eating and that doesn't look fun other than seeing the person's face twist around like that."

Things that Ecolo watch were probably very questionable...

"If you, uh... I dunno, I guess it's fun if you like how somethin' tastes? There's a whole lotta food out there."

Nervously, she eyed the crowd of shadow bugs. "So, uh... Are these guys your friends or what? They ain't gonna, like, attack or nothin' are they?"

"Hmm~ I guess I should try it whenever I'm bored~" Ecolo commented before looking over at the shadow bugs as Hilda shifted the attention over to them.

"Them? I don't know what they are~! They won't answer when I ask them if they want to be friends, so I guess not~!"

"Weird..." She trailed off and scratched her head.

"Well, uh, they ain't attacking, so maybe they like you...?"

"Really? They were trying to play a little while ago. They god kind of quiet when I squashed some of them." Ecolo responded.

"It's not as fun as squashing puyo though. They need to be more colorful!"

"What's a puyo?" Hilda asked, assuming he was talking about some kind of new Pokemon. "And, uh, doesn't that hurt 'em? Squashin' them, I mean."

"A puyo is a jello that pops when you stack them up, and gives you a good feeling! If you can stack a lot more and make them pop right after another, you get to have a really really fun time~!"

Ecolo was actually explaining things. What a surprise!

"Squashing puyo doesn't hurt anyone, so it's okay~!"

Wait... You stack them up and they EXPLODE?

Sure, Ecolo was explaining things, but he raised more questions than he answered...

"Does it, uh... Hurt them?"

"Yep~! Like this~" And Ecolo demonstrates as he stacks four of the same colored blobs and they popped into nothing, leaving a small sparkle.

"See~?" He waves his hands, turning to Hilda again. "Do you want to try~? If you stack a lot you can make bigger explosions and maybe get those weird shadow thingies too~!"

Hilda let out a little gasp at the wanton destruction of jelly life before her eyes. That... Did not sound like a good time for those little guys.

"But... But they have eyes, and stuff," She said. What if they had little jelly families?

"Yeah, they do! But that doesn't mean they do much. But just having them around makes things so much more fun~!"

He wondered how things would be different without Ringo and others around in this world, if he were to try burying with Puyo again. With so many different dimensions and people mixed up in this strange world, maybe it was worth a try...

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