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The wolf's lighthearted sass does well to put the human at ease, even if he rolls his eyes at it as he takes another bite of his food. He's not gonna pretend it doesn't feel a bit weird not being the one 'brushing things off', as that was normally the thing he was chided for back home.

Now here he was, jumping at blue blurs, beating himself up over what he could've done better, and overthinking all of the 'what-ifs'.

Is this how Rook feels all the time? Stars, he hopes not...

His mid-chew introspection is thankfully cut short by Cream's addition about his apparent popularity, Ben swallowing and waving it off.

"Wouldn't really call what happened back there a 'fight'- not on my end, anyway." He admitted with a shrug, wincing thinking back to the whole situation, how much luck was involved. "I'd already overtaxed things by the time they even got there. I only managed to get a hit in at all thanks to Whisper... and the Wisps, of course."

Not to mention everything that happened after he'd scored that hit, but again, he's trying not to focus on what he got wrong back there.

Olympia vc: He can't see the top of his bald head, don't tell him.

"I hope this unexpected detour into town is of importance Nine, especially since we have a meeting in exactly seventeen minutes and thirty eight seconds." Rusty may have a lot of her memories back, though her personality was another matter. Hence there were still a lot of times she was more robotic.

"You and me both," Nine said while giving most of his attention to his scanner. "I was doing a check over the stability of the Shatter Verse, just to make sure everything was fine and found some sort of anomaly. It doesn't seem like something that could make the Shatter Verse unstable, though I want a more in-depth scan just to be safe." It was in Paradox City so it wouldn't hurt.

"An anomaly is a concern, though I do wonder why I'm here. Unless you believe the Chaos Council is responsible for this anomaly." Rusty knew they had lost sight of them in The Void a few days ago. The robotic hedgehog hoped they hadn't found a way to escape.

"Its a possibility as they aren't dumb, far from it." Nine knew the Chaos Council is extremely crafty given how they ruled over this world for so long, and nearly took control of the Shatter Verse. The fox would stop on the side walk, holding up the scanner in the middle of the road. He then pointed to the spot where the anomaly was coming from. "That's where it's coming from. Let me make some small adjustments on my scanner."

"I shall scan for any signs of lift forms potentially coming from this anomaly," Rusty said as she closed her organic eye while her robotic one turned into a pink line. The robotic hedgehog looking at the location where Nine pointed to see if she picks up any signs of life forms starting to appear.

"This is a lovely dinner party, Eric! You're so kewl and sweet." The fourth grader pours a cup of Coca-Cola into the cup placed in front of the stuffed frog from the little ceramic teapot, putting on a voice to impersonate his toy.

"Ah, why thank you, Clyde Frog, I am quite kewl." He replies himself as he reverts to his ordinary voice. Buckets of KFC and plates of chocolate cookies sit at the center of the table, and as Cartman moves on, his attention turns to the guest who wasn't actually inanimate.

"No idea what you're talkin' about, honest! Guess it was just someone who wanted to celebrate a holiday in my honor. Not that I would really blame 'em, I am pretty great." The insistence on maintaining this flimsy kayfabe and not taking direct credit is dogged, no matter how completely ridiculous the lies get about the concept of a spontaneous multiversal holiday celebrating how "kickass" Scourge is popping up over night.