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[pkemeter]

"You have reached Dr. Egon Spengler. Please leave a message, preferably fifty words or less."

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[neverstudied]

Please don't name a squid after me.

Yeah, Egon. Whaddya mean by "intended to return"? How about ya enlighten the audience?

[pkemeter]

[Egon falls silent for a moment, pointedly avoiding eye contact with Ray. He picks at the side of the PokéGear.]

I...may have...accidentally placed Peter under suspicion of arrest. [A pause.] Because I may have accidentally stole someone's Pokémon.

[There. Happy, Venkman?]

[ghoststanning]

[Yeah Ray lets go of Egon at that.]

Egon! You already got arrested this week! You can't keep getting us arrested like this! How are we supposed to go on fun adventures if we're all in jail?

[neverstudied]

Yeah, Egon, how're we supposed to meet back up if one of us is in jail all the time?

[At this point Venkman's clearly not mad anymore and just teasing. Egon and Ray might be able to hear him trying to stifle quiet laughter on the other end.]

[pkemeter]

[He coughs, his face turning red. He's just going to lie here. Alone.]

Granted, Venkman has not actually been arrested yet. As long as he can return the Pokémon without incident, we should be fine.

...And if he doesn't kill him, of course, but death is only temporary.

[ghoststanning]

[You big baby, Ray is still lying next to you.

Ray picks up on the laughter but he's still kind of concerned???]

Even if we can't die in this dimension, I don't really like the idea of someone hurting Pete over this.

[neverstudied]

I'll be fine, Ray, really. Worse comes to worse, the other guy'll still look like he's in bad shape when I'm through with 'em. And I'm gonna give him one of the eggs as a peace offering, anyway, so hopefully he'll either calm down because of that, or he won't want to punch me while I'm holding a baby.

[pkemeter]

Yes. Babies and eggs are quite fragile.

[...Thanks. After a pause, he blinks and says--]

...Hm. What is the difference between edible eggs in this world and Pokémon eggs? Are Pokémon eggs technically edible? [Another pause.] I wonder what would occur if one were to crack an egg open.

[ghoststanning]

Considering that my current theory that the Pokemon is grown in a pocket dimension inside of the egg shell, I'm pretty sure eating it would be a bad idea all around.

[Yeah Ray's distracted again. Congrats, Egon! His arms are now around you again.]

... Actually, know that you mention it, the egg shells seemed a lot tougher than most normal shells. Not that I tried breaking it, but just by knocking on it I could tell that they felt unusually thick.

[neverstudied]

[Luca hisses softly at Egon's comment. Venkman pats her on the shell reassuringly.]

No, they're not gonna break your babies. I won't let them be that stupid.

Egon, at this point, I've given up trying to figure out what's going on with the food here. It just leads to headaches.

[pkemeter]

If it is a pocket dimension, the shell would have to be powerful enough to prevent the dimension from expanding beyond its confines. Which would mean that all Pokémon inherently have trans-dimensional powers, which is not entirely beyond their demonstrated power. [They spit fire and do psychic stuff, dimensional barriers would be no problem. Wait until they see a real Chansey egg--Egon will lose his goddamn mind.] ...I'm sorry about forgetting the Inkay again. But at least this gives us another excellent opportunity to observe the hatching process with a larger sample size.

[ghoststanning]

Which might explain why the shells seem as tough as they are!

[Sorry Venkman he's just all in on the egg stuff now.]

It's a shame we don't have any shell fragments to study, huh?

[neverstudied]

It's fine, Egon. I'll be fine. Just don't bite my head off if I don't take perfect notes on the hatching or whatever. Especially if I have to "observe the hatching process" in a body cast.

... Actually, I might just go ahead and send you guys a couple of the eggs. That way, you can watch it yourself, and Ray can have his Inkay the moment its born.

[pkemeter]

Of course not. We would still have endless opportunities to observe the hatching process regardless of whether you are indisposed. [uh........] Could you? That would be excellent. I forgot to collect any shards that remained after Kölliker hatched, and I did not find any evidence for Denver. [it's fine eggs are their lives now]