smashacademy

Guys, you will NOT believe what happened to me! I don't know if anyone noticed, but I've been gone for MONTHS! MONTHS! And guess where I was all this time?

Jail. That's right. I went to jail. It turns out I never repaid the debt I racked up on my credit card since the first time I saved Angel Land and bought stuff off the black market, and the debt collectors who I didn't even know were hounding me finally nabbed me after all these years. Three decades and high interest rates did me in so bad... There were so many zeroes tacked onto that amount that I couldn't count them! Wonderful, incredible, amazing, benevolent, wise and all-the-other-good-adjectives-I-can't-think-of-right-now Lady Palutena was gracious enough to bail me out, but I'm still not a free angel yet. The debt's not completely repaid, so I have to keep shelling hearts out until I'm in the clear. That said, uhh... Does anyone know how I can get that kind of cash fast enough?

Auuugh! And now my credit score is in the pits, too! I'll never be able to buy a house, or a car, or a high-def flat-screen TV even if I wanted to! I might as well resign myself to a life of eternal bumhood...

Uh. Long story short, I'm back. I didn't miss too much, did I?

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But you used to be able to go back all the time! What happened?

Huh..? Nope, I haven't been able to go back without Sonic goin' with me since--Oh.

Hold up. You've been gone for a minute, huh? Maybe you're thinking of the Other Me that was here for like... years. I'm... uh. I'm not him, guy. I know he was able to go back n forth.

[Pit should be used to this happening by now, but having Knuckles of all people call him 'guy' instead of 'Pit' really stung. It should have registered as weird that he was here instead of off somewhere distant with Goombella like he last recalled. He wondered how she was doing, whether she'd been 'reset' as well, wherever she was. Pit thought about wanting to spend one last day with the Knuckles who knew him as a friend, and that he should have known better than to forget he could have missed that chance and did. Knuckles was looking at him from the other side of the screen in a way he almost didn't recognize. The angel swallowed, trying to recover from his thunderstruck statue position. He tried to revert to his old carefree self, but it was a pretty weak imitation.]

Oh... s-so you are! Okay, that was awkward. Sorry about that. Uh, I'm Pit, by the way! Hope we can be friends, because you were the best.

[He had been almost sure that he'd run across the last of the 'oh man you're not the Other You' club some time ago. Maybe it was just his destiny to run into people like that every so often? He still felt bad for the folks who felt kind of robbed of someone they were friends with.]

Uh... sure. I mean, I think I'm friends with most of the folks he was friends with. I mean, He was Me, so, only make sense I like the guy's taste in pals, huh?

It's good to meet you. Sorry... uh. Sorry if you're disappointed.

No, it's okay. It's happened to me a lot before. There's nothing you can really do about it, so it's no use apologizing for something that wasn't even your fault. Instead, I should be looking forward to getting to know you all over again. So let's just... put it past us.

Alright. I can do that.

....so. It's cool to meet you and stuff. Welcome back to this place. If there's anythin' I can do to help you with your cash flow troubles, I'll be happy to lend a hand.

[Pit smiles nice and huge.]

Thanks! You already helped by giving me a good idea. I'll ask Sonic if he can help me with the transportation. If you want to come along, consider yourself invited!

Sure. Why not? I'm pretty good at finding rings - even ones hidden underground.

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