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er. i don't know. john dont get me wrong its cool that you randomly dropped by again but this wasnt really the best time we were kind of in the middle of a thing here whoops. sorry. yeah john did you really have to pick now of all times to materialize out of nowhere and taunt me? i'm SORRY!!! jeez, it was an accident! so what now? am i REALLY supposed to tackle you, just to watch you vanish yet again? no, no! please don't! because i dont really feel like it do you have any idea how frustrating that becomes after a while? i didn't mean to come here, really! i still can't control the jumps! i'm TRYING, but it just... dude are you time traveling please dont tell me youre time traveling you need to leave that shit to the experts no, it's not time travel! well, not technically. who do you think youre talking to here do you see this bright red gear on my hoodie that means i know stuff about time travel sure looks like youre time traveling to me no, i swear! ok, see, i went on a dream quest with some troll pirates. troll pirates argh, never mind. that's the long version of the story. ok, so i stuck my hand in this little magic house, and... john youre fucking shit up here what? you being here thats not supposed to happen all this shit were saying now its not supposed to go down like this i can feel it i know! i'm sorry, i would zap away again, but i don't know how! i dont think it matters now dude the pooch is already screwed >:o wow wait that was a terrible figure of speech in this context but you know what i mean yo like i was JUST saying i didnt want to time travel anymore to avoid bullshit like this IT'S NOT TIME TRAVEL THOUGH! i promise! then what is it i dunno! like, some kind of surreal, history altering... reality hopping... magic power. thats time travel genius no way, dude. you have to trust me on this. alright but if it turns out you just created a doomed timeline and were all going to die im gonna be hella mad this isn't a doomed timeline. i'm telling you, i can change things. stuff that wasn't supposed to be changed. and i'm not saying bad stuff won't happen as a result of the things i change... but at least it won't make a doomed timeline! the new things that happen will just be... the stuff that's supposed to happen? huh thats pretty dope if true actually in a way that almost makes me more nervous it does? yeah messing with the alpha timeline i mean not the alpha timeline but the ALPHA alpha timeline almost seems heretical i guess? you sure you know what youre doing egbert um, earth to dave. i already said i don't have a clue what i'm doing! gotcha welp im sold but uh really man you kind of are interrupting a thing temporal mechanics not even withstanding what was i interrupting? i think this was going to be a serious conversation here i have a feeling jade and i were going to get all heavy with our relationship issues or whatever you were? sigh yes, unfortunately thats probably where this was going aw man, i'm sorry. i am fucking this up so bad. see, this is what i'm worried about. even though my random jumps are supposed to be a "safe" form of time travel, i'm still nervous that i might be ruining important events anyway. like, there was all this crazy stuff that happened to get us here, whether it was good or bad. and if i fumble around like this accidentally changing all that stuff, then i won't even know what's going on anymore. maybe no one will! uh does anyone even know whats going on NOW? that's what i'm saying! things are complicated enough as it is!!! truth ok, look... maybe we can try to minimize my impact on the current situation. if i fly away, do you think you can do whatever you were going to do in the first place? do you know what you were going to do? yes i was going to kick the mayor into the lava what?? holy shit so uncool i was going to make it clear i was serious about killing someone you cared about so you would stop being a baby and start using your powers and swordfight with me you dumb jerk :p wow jade i think you might be a little too good at being a villain its kind of worrying thank you :) so the mayor would be dead if john didnt show up? oh yes absolutely he would be burnt to a crisp right now i am sure of it god damn jade why would you do that you know eventually id probably start using my powers and reluctantly start embracing my role as a reluctant hero that shit always happens no you wouldnt you were just going to argue with me forever! yeah maybe but the point is youre not going to bother killing the mayor anymore are you i guess not he is a very cute mayor after all see john your fake time travel shit is already paying off you saved the mayor congratulations ok, i'm glad the mayor is alive and well. but this is exactly what i wanted to avoid! isn't there some way you could just... pretend i never showed up, and let this play out the way it was supposed to? sorry john whatever dave and i were going to argue about i think the moment has passed the whole thing is kin…
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