Few things.

  The Ominous Bck Obelisk? obviously had… some kind of memetic effect. Something that put him in an illusion to do… something.

  Siphon his soul, kill him, maybe leave him susceptible to other demons (monsters, whatever the proper term is for these things), he doesn't know. But luckily he was able to break out of it.

  …by literally breaking the Obelisk.

  With a pick.

  Well if it works he won't compin.

  But Joshua guesses that whatever the radio did broadcasted his location to the Obelisk, maybe it only targeted frequencies?

  The same frequency that brought…

  “And then Bumblebee showed up and he was so cool and-and then he was like WHAM and then-then the decepticons were so scared and-”

  Pink Horse is excitedly moving her hooves around while dramatically reciting the entirety of the first Michael Bay's Transformers movie.

  Yeah, Pink Horse. She's technically more yellow than pink, but Pink Horse rolls off the tongue easier.

  It's definitely a horse… pony thing. It looks equine, but it's head and eyes are… almost cartoonish-like. Strange, but not off-putting.

  Oh, and she doesn't have a name.

  This is the second time Joshua's had to name a weird horse, Pink Horse either can't remember her name or is pretending she can't. But considering she is…

  “And then Optimus Prime was like ‘NO’ and pulled out his cool ser sword an-”

  …did that even happen in the movie?

  Whatever. She's too Pink to make any schemes like that.

  …oh God, another study on horses has appeared… whatever, not now.

  Pink Horse needs a name.

  So Joshua decided to py along with the “theme” he established after naming Jophiel. Another Archangel, and given the circumstances of their meeting- a message from the radio…

  A messenger.

  “Gabriel”

  “And then- huh? Yes?” She looks up at him, not at all perturbed at his interruption.

  “So uh…” Joshua looks around, noticing the pitch bck ndscape around them. Okay maybe right now isn't the best time.

  “Let's go… to where I'm staying, then we can talk more”

  “Sure!” She (there's no way they aren't female) perks up.

  Joshua really wishes he had his armor, he left it back at base… with Jophiel.

  Where is Jophiel?

  God she must be worried.

  They begin making their way to the mountain base. Joshua feels extremely lucky that nothing has got him while he was out.

  A thought comes to him.

  Can there only be one “encounter” at a time?

  That's… odd, he'll have to check back into that thought ter.

  Focus on Pinky.

  “So… uh… what's with the suit?”

  “It keeps me safe!” She says, walking with an energetic trot.

  “I see. So… how did you find me?”

  He knows he said they'll talk when they get inside, but he wants to test the waters. His cross is still glowing but the vibration isn't there. Maybe it could just be reacting to the darkness?

  “Mr. Suit told me! He said he could track your fr…fre-quen-cy, yeah! Not sure what that means but it sounds good!”

  Lord, please don't let there be another horse. He knows there's some kind of connection to Pokemon but please don't make him collect horses.

  “Is Mr. Suit… close by?”

  Gabriel chuckles “Of course he is, silly! He's right here!”

  She pulls at the yellow fabric of her hazard suit. How the fuck she managed to pull on anything with hooves is beyond him.

  “...right, is that how you know Ace?”

  “Yup! When I woke up Mr. Suit asked me to find them! They must be really good at hiding, I still can't find them”

  There's about a coin flip chance that “Mr. Suit” is either part of the Hazard Suit or a mental illness.

  Good odds.

  “So what's your name?” He snaps out of his thoughts, the base is coming into view.

  “Uh… sorry, what?”

  “It's okay! What's your name?” She asks with the same enthusiasm.

  “...Joshua”

  “Hi Joshua!” She excims cheerfully.

  “Hi Gabriel”

  …

  Turns out that Jophiel was absolutely awake.

  Also turns out that Joshua blocked off the entrance with cobblestone when he left.

  Also also turns out that pissed off unicorns can somehow bend solid fucking iron if pressured enough. Jophiel was halfway able to break the trapdoor to the makeshift air vent.

  So now, here is Joshua, sitting on his bed with an extremely stressed unicorn that refuses to leave his p.

  The air vent is repaired, and now he has a White Horse in her natural habitat, staring daggers into the new resident who's been poking around in one of his chests.

  She seems particurly whiter today, as her trademark “fucker-shitter-upper III” floats menacingly beside her.

  “Oh wow! What's this?” Gabriel prods at the radio and looks over at them.

  “Pony”

  “Wow! I've never seen a radio before!”

  Okay the horses can just understand each other sure why not.

  She seems to stare at it for a bit. Joshua can't see it well, but there's a small change of light happening inside her HUD.

  Her head snaps around, honestly startling the man. Jophiel tenses up in his p.

  To be honest, she unsettles him slightly. Her character is fine, a childish innocence and optimism. But the way her body is, the way her face looks slightly… off… tickles the weird part of his brain and signals to him that it's not quite right.

  She's actually quite cute, and nothing really looks wrong (as weird horses go), but there's something about it.

  “Mr. Suit says you should turn this off!”

  Joshua blinks.

  Gabriel seems to think he didn't hear her.

  “You're um… what was it?... oh! Thank you!” She clears her throat. “You're wasting the energy!”

  …what?

  Okay there is definitely something about that suit he's not seeing.

  Joshua looks over at the radio.

  Oh, right, the pis battery is still hooked up. Suppose he didn't spare the time to turn it off after being possessed.

  …oh fuck he was possessed, wasn't he? This wasn't the first time, if the other time his mind was affected counts.

  Joshua goes up to the radio, rubbing Jophiel's head as he gets up. About to disconnect the pis, he fiddles with the dials once more just for the sake of it.

  That's when he hears something. A robotic, automated voice like those old EAS alerts.

  “***zzzz- UNKNOWN HOSTILE ORGANISM DETECTED- ***zzzz****z** LOCKDOWN INITIATED UNTIL- ***z*z* MANUAL DEACTIVATION. MESSAGE WILL REPEAT ON ALL AVAILABLE CHANNELS UNTIL- ****zzzz”

  “Can I please get a break?”

  “Mister Joshua! What's that?”

  Joshua looks to the side.

  Oh you've got to be kidding.

  [WE'RE ALLIIIIVVVEEEE]

  [Joey? JOEYYYYY]

  [HOLY shit finally]

  [Iono: (　＾▽＾) helo!!!]

  [Why was the chat down for so long?]

  [Bug? idk]

  [You okay Josh? You look like shit]

  [He has armor now… he's like one of those old knights!]

  [New horse? Which Pokemon is this?]

  [Gar is this one of yours?]

  [Do you just assume all the weird shit comes from Gar?]

  [Well stop being weird]

  [Pink Horse]

  [Pink Horse]

  [Pink Horse]

  [White Vs Pink, fighting over Joshua's love]

  [Pink doesn't have a chance]

  [Her name is Gabriel]

  [Weird name]

  [Joey and Bee!!! So cute!!!]

  [...Bee? ( ?ー?)]

  [Ga-bee-riel]

  [She's PINK Horse not YELLOW Horse]

  [Porse? Yorse?]

  [Ponk]

  [I, personally, am a big fan of the hazmat pony]

  [You guys see a man get gutted and hypnotized and the first thing you do is talk about his horses?]

  [Joshua's fine]

  [Iono: no he's not!!!! Joshua! Are you okay?! 　?　? ( Д 　)]

  [You were on the news buddy]

  “...oh. Neat”

  Joshua is famous now.