Because sudden nostalgia kick

[numbuh_one]

...

...You must be joking...

Are you out of your mind? What makes you think that I would ever want to be controlled by an adult?! That would go against every principle of the Kids Next Door! Not to mention you keeping me trapped here in your...your...headspace, and using me for your ridiculous whims is just another form of adult tyranny that I would be more than happy to fight.

So we can do this the easy way, and you just forget this whole thing...or we can do this the hard way.

...What? No, I don't want you playing the spank-happy-vampire version of me! That wouldn't even make any sense! That was just a one-time thing, and we took care of that problem a long time ago!

...I don't want you playing any version of me! I just want you to let me out of here! I've got more important things to do than to sit here and entertain you...like taking care of those "centers"...Yes, like the one you work at. Oh, I know what you do...forcing kids to go to your center after school and making them do additional work. That's torture in its cruelest form.

...You know, on second thought, maybe I will stick around for a while...just to keep an eye on you. Might as well make sure you don't ruin any more children's lives...

Comments

[doubletailpilot]

Hm.

Well, if your mun ever starts lookin' for a game to put you in, the one I'm at's not so bad! It's basically a city where weird stuff happens every month or so, but I think the powers you can get kinda make it a fair trade.

[numbuh_one]

...What kind of powers?

[doubletailpilot]

Whatever you can come up with! It's literally about willpower!

Technically, all the powers you can come up with belong to one power called Bending, but it's still really cool to be able to do this!

[And for a quick demonstration, the fox concentrates for a second. In the blink of an eye, a can of soda seems to just pop out of thin air, right into his hand!]

[numbuh_one]

Whoa-ho! Now that's/I> pretty cool!

[doubletailpilot]

Yup!

[Just tossing that soda your way, Numbuh One.]

And the longer you work at it, the better the powers get! Right now my mun's got me goin' home for a bit, but when I get back to the city I'm gonna work on being able to shapeshift!

[numbuh_one]

Nice!

[Just gonna wait a bit before opening the soda...yeah.]

Still...there's gotta be a catch somewhere, right? I mean, besides taking you out of your world in the first place.

[Because something that cool just can't be for nothing.]

[doubletailpilot]

[Tails pauses to contemplate, here... So far, he hasn't really had to give up anything or found a way that Bending backfires, but then, that's just his experience of it.]

Mm... I can't really think of a catch. Although I guess the city's reality storms can get kinda weird, 'cause sometimes Bending doesn't help much against 'em at all. But those usually last for only a week or so, an' then everything's fine!

An' bad guys can learn how to Bend too, I guess, but that's why you keep working at it!

[numbuh_one]

...Really? That's it?

[doubletailpilot]

Yeah, that's about it! It's a little tricky to get the hang of at first, an' you gotta start small an' work your way up, but once you're set there, stuff like getting food or supplies is a breeze!

I managed to build a multi-form hoverplane jus' from the stuff I could Bend up alone!

[numbuh_one]

Huh...well that doesn't seem too bad.

What's this place called? Maybe I can...persuade my mun to give it a try.

[doubletailpilot]

It's really not, it's actually really cool!

Well, the city itself is called Nautilus, but the game is called thewake! If your mun wants to put you somewhere, it's a pretty good game to start out on!

[numbuh_one]

Hmm...Yeah, I'll definitely have to get her to look into that...