Language LOL: Translator Malfunction

[rumham]

You know what's cool? Chatting with your pals. Reading the Internet. Navigating the roads because you can understand the Gods-damned street signs. You know what's not cool? Not being able to do any of that. By that metric, one might describe today in the Nexus decidedly uncool.

It's utterly without warning that the multiversal hub goes from automatic to manual translation. Shop signs, radio and television broadcasts, conversations on the streets between vendors and friends and businesspeople are suddenly a jarring cacophony of dissonant languages. Then there's the silence. Then there's the shouting. Turns out people get pissed off when nobody understands them!

Momentary chaos dies down as the average people of the Nexus come to grips with their new situation. Shopkeepers wait outside their stores and stands with expectant expressions, impatiently waiting for the translator to pull itself together and start working again.

Except...

It sort of doesn't.

No, it super doesn't.

Citizens of the Nexus, it would appear you're going to have to adjust...

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Comments

[juststeverogers]

"The number will have to be enough. I'm really worried about where they could be while we're still here..."

Steve casts a look around the plaza as though they might pop up any moment and sighs when there's no sign at all of his pokemon friends. They must be so scared right now.

"Thank you for all the help, Hunter. I've been beside myself with worry ever since they ran off."

[losthunter]

"I am glad we ran into each other." It is nice to be with someone who speaks the same language, right now in the confusion.

[juststeverogers]

Steve picks up the small pile of fliers he's made and gives Hunter a hopeful look. One he can't quite stem in his worries over his lost friends.

"Will you help me go look for them?"

[losthunter]

"Of course." Hunter was going to offer his help, even if Steve had not asked. But he is glad that Steve asked.

[juststeverogers]

Okay. He just needs to think a bit. Where would his mons run off to? Bucky's easy. Steve knows for a fact he'd try to find Adia and hunker down with her if she's in the Nexus. Also of the three of them he's the largest and the strongest. Probably not the one Steve needs to eb the most worried about.

Sarah gets easily excitable and Ethel has been having a lot of trouble navigating around the frozen Nexus of late.

"I'm pretty sure they'd stay on the main roads. Ethel's heavy enough that she tends to break ice that isn't several inches thick. Maybe find an outdoor cafe to hide underneath the tables of??"

[losthunter]

"Where would be a familiar place to them?" Hunter asks. It seems logical that a lost animal would go somewhere familiar.

[juststeverogers]

"Somewhere familiar...oh!"

Steve turns and gives Hunter a grateful smile. That might not be a bad idea.

"Nana's diner isn't too far away from here and we're there almost every day."

[losthunter]

"Well, let's go there. At the very least, maybe they were sighted there."