Zack decides that despite the initial shock and realization of this new world and seeing his best friend, he doesn't mind it. He gets a second chance of life and so does Cloud it seems. He knows Cloud deserves it, he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Seeing him happy helps him smile more naturally instead of the fake one from earlier.

"Oh you mean Grim? Grim I guess was my starter. Little dude just appeared and likes to hide in my hair. Bidoof was just really cute and wanted to join me after I fed it some of my food." Both pokemon in his arms responded, the tiny brodoof wiggling and grim creepily crawling out of Zack's embrace to sit back on his shoulder. Grim kept staring at Cloud.

"I heard we can have more too. I'm a bit partial to the cute ones, I mean look at these two they are the cutest!" He titled his head to nizzle Grim who nuzzled back while still staring at Cloud. Brodoof he gave a kiss on his nose and the pokemon proceeded to sneeze right in his face. "...Cute...really dude?"

Zack put brodoof down and tried searching his pockets for anything he could use to wipe his face. Upon finding nothing he instead just lifted his shirt up to use that. Completely forgetting this Cloud hadn't seen him shirtless before, at least not yet. "Are you just passing through or....did you maybe wanna travel together Spike?"