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"You have reached Dr. Egon Spengler. Please leave a message, preferably fifty words or less."
"You have reached Dr. Egon Spengler. Please leave a message, preferably fifty words or less."
"You have reached Dr. Egon Spengler. Please leave a message, preferably fifty words or less."
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'🙂❕ 👓❓ 💬❓'
[Her lights blink red in surprise as Ko nyooms away, and she takes a couple steps to follow before she comprehends what "wait" means. Wait = ✋🚶🚫. She can do that!
Venkman, meanwhile, cries out in alarm when the baby slams into the back of his head.]
What- what're you- what's happening?
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[She nibbles on Venkman's hair and starts trying to drag him out of the room. Egon is still unresponsive, though Venkman might hear faint snoring.
It's fine.
Meanwhile, another crack has appeared on the egg, with a few mushrooms sprouting out of it as the Morelull tries to wiggles out. The hole is still too small, but he's trying his best.]
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[He squints, trying to sort through the barrage of mental activity he's getting bombarded with. He gasps and grabs Kölliker in both hands.]
Shit, the eggs- wait, no, forget I said that.
[Venkman glances over guiltily at Egon, and briefly panics to find him passed out, too- oh God is Ray's coma shit spreading- but the snoring is enough to set him at ease. He pulls himself out of bed and follows Ko to go see a Baby.
The Alolan Vulpix egg is still chilling- a few new cracks, but nothing too major.]
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[Her "voice" sounds kind of impish and petulant--like a child that's about to tattletale on someone else. Still, she flies back to the Elgyem and hovers by her, burbling excitedly.]
she's baby!!! think baby!!! say hi baby 💬💥💖🙌💖💖🤗👨👨👧👧
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[Before the absurdity of that really sinks in, Venkman's mind gets inundated with feelings of surprise, excitement, and warmth, and he stops dead in his tracks.]
'😮👋💬❕ 👍☉🎉🎊🔆❕'
Oh- the alien baby-
'👽❓'
[Venkman nods, a little dazed. Trying to translate this stuff in his head is confusing, but at least it's not too complex yet.]
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[Kölliker seems confused by this. Glasses serious dad said that aliens don't exist, but baby exists! So what is the truth, loud fun dad?
...Oh! She turns her attention back to baby, floating close to her.]
name? i'm Kölliker
[Accompanied with her "saying" her name are various memories and emotions associated with when she first hatched and interacted with Egon--excitement, the feeling of accomplishment when you solve a puzzle you've been working for hours on, curiosity, and stoicism.]
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[Just because Venkman apparently can't corrupt Ko by teaching her swears anymore, doesn't mean he can't still "corrupt" her.]
'⚛️🧠🧩👶❗'
Right, names- you don't have a name yet...
'👽❗'
[The Elgyem points at herself and tilts her head.]
I'm not just gonna call you "alien".
[There's a pause, and Venkman winces at the feeling of something probing the edges of his mind and memory. He rubs at his temples and moves to sit on the floor, legs crossed.]
Warn a guy first, kid-
'👽🛸👾... 👩🚀🚀❗'
... Huh.
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Egon stumbles out of the bedroom, trying to look as though he literally didn't just fall asleep at his desk. His glasses are askew as he glances back and forth between Venkman and the baby Pokémon. His eyebrows furrow together.]
I'm...did I miss something?
[Kölliker perks up and turns her attention to the dad that just entered the room. Hi! New baby! So many new babies today!
Egon frowns, looking down at Venkman sitting on the ground before also going to sit next to him. When in Rome....]
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Ok, no, how about we don't invade Dad's privacy and give him a complex about little aliens digging through his brain.
He turns his head to look up at Egon as he approaches, grinning.]
Oh, you didn't miss much, just the birth of our child. No big deal.
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alien!!!!!!!!
Please, Kölliker. If this was an alien, it would have originated from an extraterrestrial source. This creature clearly hatched from an egg native to this dimension.
[He then turns to Venkman, fixing his glasses as he frowns.]
I don't suppose you've been the one telling her this.
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Instead of answering outright, Venkman pulls out his Pokegear and taps a few buttons. The gear beeps and offers the Pokedex entries for Elgyem-]
"This Pokémon had never been seen until it appeared from far in the desert 50 years ago. ... Rumors of its origin are linked to a UFO crash site in the desert 50 years ago."
What were you saying, Egon?
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Just because it was linked to a supposed UFO crash does not mean that they originated from supposed extraterrestrial life. It could be that the crash of an asteroid simulated certain organisms enough to emerge from the earth.
[Don't even get him started on this. Venkman knows how this will end. Kölliker blinks, apparently confused.]
Did you even come up with a name for this creature, yet?
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He leans over to kiss Egon on the cheek.]
Yeah, yeah, ok. But the theory is there, isn't it? And you can't dispute the possibility, especially since this is another universe that abides by different rules, right?
I was working on it when you came in. Think I'm going with... Sigourney.
[The Elgyem tilts her head, and floods both Egon and Venkman's minds with images from the movie Alien, plucked from Venkman's own head... and images from a different movie, as well, with the same actress.]
Yeah, thanks.
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Egon moves to grip Venkman's hand when his brain gets assaulted with various images and snapshots. He barely has a moment to register the pictures from Alien when--
He pulls back, looking down at the Elgyem.]
Hang on--that was Dana Barrett. Why was she--? [He shakes his head and tries again.] That movie that Peter and Ray--my dimensional Peter and Ray brought, she--
[He trails off, staring straight off into the distance. He doesn't appear to make any effort to continue as his brain just tries to wrap around what he just saw.]
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[Venkman makes a "time out" gesture with his hands. The newly-christened Sigourney mimics it.]
You didn't have the movie based on the Gozer event. But you recognized Dana on sight from my memory of watching the movie. Dana- the real Dana in my world- she looked pretty similar, but not, like, spitting-image to Sigourney Weaver.
Egon, what does that mean.
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And then--]
Who's Sigourney Weaver?
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[That's obviously the real take-away here. But, no, because now Sig's digging through both their memories, and Venkman's own side of the Gozer incident- his own of his loved ones [and Louis]- are brought to light and appear in Egon's own mind. Egon finally gets to see his counterpart's pompadour for himself.]
I thought- I remember thinking you looked a lot like the, the guy who played Egon in the movie adaptation, but I haven't seen it in years and I thought it was, I dunno, a coincidence-
[As if on cue, memories of watching the movie flash in both their minds, and hoo boy, yeah, Harold Ramis is just the spitting goddamn image of this Egon.]
What the fuck-
[Not wanting Venkman to be left out, Sig transplants memories of Egon's dimension's version of Venkman, and he nearly chokes.]
BILL MURRAY?! YOU MEAN I WAS RIGHT ABOUT- oh my GOD, Egie, I'm so sorry your version of me is him.
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you said the fuck word!!!!!! bad!!!!
Please stop swearing in front of the Pokémon, Peter. [He squeezes his eyes shut.] You keep saying names as if they have significance. I have no idea who Bill Murray is, either. But--this is incredibly odd. It's as if all of the human beings in my dimension became--
[He pauses, not wanting to linger on that thought because--]
Why do I have blue eyes in your dimension? Neither of my parents had blue eyes. [He frowns, scratching his head.] No wonder Ray did not recognize me when I first met with him.
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Sorry, I just- I-
[Another memory of being in a movie theater and watching the on-screen Venkman(Murray) profess his love for a woman he only met an hour before, having to be forcibly shoved out of her apartment-
Venkman talking with Dana- the actual Dana- afterwards, complaining about how the movie treated her-
Arguing with a man at a film studio and getting into a fistfight- again-]
I thought- when you told me about your version of me, I thought it sounded way too much like the version of me in that movie. And they look identical. This is...
Uh. I dunno, your eyes were always blue. And your hair was blonde. See- that's why Ray and I both flipped out over how different you looked!
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I feel like my brain's been pushed through a food processor and strained through a cheesecloth. Can't you stop her from doing that?
[Kölliker turns to Sigourney and mentally nudges her to slow down. Dads' brains are fragile. Not like them! Their brains are strong. It makes them sad when Kölliker yells too much, so she should probably be more quiet or slow.]
That's ridiculous. Two human beings without any genes for blue eyes cannot produce an offspring with blue eyes, unless they carry recessive genes for the trait. This is basic biology. And neither of my parents had blonde hair, either. [He shakes his head.] This points to evidence that our dimensional counterparts are completely different people on a biological level--but if that were the case, why would our names be the same? Are none of the people throughout the multiverse not unique, but are just a roll of the dice for different sets of genome patterns--
[He starts muttering, running a hand through his hair as he stares down at the ground.]
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Spengs, slow down. Hold on. Maybe one of your parents just had blue eyes in my dimension and not the other. It's not like I ever took the chance to stare at their eyes and figure out if they did or not. Let's- let's calm down on the existential crisis for now, 'cause I don't think either of us are equipped to handle that this week.
[Bond, who's been watching all of this silently and with a growing sense of amusement, squawks again and points her beak at the eggs. Looks like at least one of them is starting to faintly glow...]
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[His attention immediately turns towards Bond and the eggs--oh, shit. The eggs! Egon leaps up onto his feet, hurrying over to the couch to stare at it. Never mind the fact that he's going to literally be blinded by it.
The mushroom egg, in the meantime, begins to glow as well, though slightly delayed behind the other. Egon's eyes are about to be blasted by not one, but two fucking eggs.
He's probably going to need a stronger prescription after this. Unless Venkman stops him.]
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[He stands up to follow his idiot boyfriend, and considers his options. He could let Egon do what he wants and get temporarily blinded, and then Venkman will have to watch over two new babies alone for at least a couple minutes. No.
He could, on the other hand, distract Egon.
And so, Venkman pulls Egon into a kiss just as the lights flare up, cupping his face in just the right way to shield his eyes from the brunt of the light.]
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You're a magnificent subject. I expected a creature more closely resembling something from the genus Morchella, but you look more like a type of fungi from the genus Mycena.
[The Morelull blinks, then lightly touches his face with one of his tendrils. Egon continues despite this.] Of course, that would explain the description of this species having bioluminescent properties--
[Ray's still passed out in the other room, but it's probably find that he takes this time to gush about this babies for now. Probably. It's not like he's going to die when he takes his eyes off of him oh god why did he start thinking about that right now--
Kölliker burbles, sending both Venkman and Egon reassurance that she can still sense Ray's mental activity. He's fine! Baby time.]
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Oh, boy. More fungi. Hope it's not poisonous.
[He sits back down- also on the floor, since apparently the couch is a babies-only zone- and finds himself dace to face with the other, newly hatched baby- an Alolan Vulpix, who yawns with a soft whine, her tiny fangs flashing.]
You are adorable!
[The Vulpix blinks, looking from one dad to the other.
Meanwhile, Sigourney doesn't want to feel left out. She starts trying to climb back onto the couch. She successfully gets her hands on the cushions, but can't quite pull herself all the way up. Her little legs dangle and kick and she sends a mental signal of frustration. Venkman reaches over to help her up the rest of the way.]
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