CRY BADGER w/ Phoenix

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[doubledefense]

Why don't you tell me what's actually going on.

[bewrightback]

Mia... I don't know anything that's going on.

[doubledefense]

There's still time. I can help you if you're honest with me.

[bewrightback]

What do you want me to be honest about...?

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You were assigned the role of Bad Badger. It's alright. I don't have any interest in this ludicrous game, but we're not going to get anywhere while we're at each other's throats.

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WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!

[bewrightback]

Mia, how... how could you think that? [He looks fully and truly wounded.]

[doubledefense]

I may not know you as well as you know me, but your head hasn't been in the game. Trucy's behavior has been erratic from the beginning as well. I admire her gusto, but now myself, Maya and even Mr Armando's lives are on the line.


But neither of you are murderers. The murderer is the one forcing us to do this and he's the one we have to stop.

[bewrightback]

How can anyone's head be in this game? I'm trying... I really am! I just... haven't been able to find the right solution. And I'm sorry for that.

[doubledefense]

You don't have anything to apologize for, Phoenix.

[bewrightback]

But I still feel sorry. I'm usually able to save... all the people I care about. But this time, it feels like I really can't find that kind of solution.

[doubledefense]

Then we need to stop working against each other!

[bewrightback]

To think it was Blackquill who warned me that people here would end up turning against each other...

I'm going to cooperate with you as much as I can, Mia. I need to find the truth.

[doubledefense]

Then tell me what you know, cards on the table.

[bewrightback]

Well... I don't think I know anything that you don't already know.

[doubledefense]

Alright. I believe you, Phoenix.

What we need now, is to figure out how to stop this game for good.

[bewrightback]

Thank you.

But... Where do we even star with this? all my attempts have felt like running into dead ends... [Actually, it's mostly been mirrors I've been running into...]

[doubledefense]

Speaking of- did you notice something strange about the man who delivered the clue?


Supposedly he was in law enforcement, but he couldn't tell the difference between myself, Maya, and the real Redd White.

[bewrightback]

That was just the start of the strange things. Apparently, Mr. Palaeno and Larry both know this man... he's an Interpol agent. And he said he has no jurisdiction to to help us... and that things are a mess out there.

But the way he perceives us... Yes, I've noticed that too. He thought that I was Furio Tigre, too, and he refused to talk with someone who is a criminal. That's the same way that the Proto Badger sees me, too... Only the hostages in the mirrors have recognized me for who I really am.

[doubledefense]

So it stands to reason that he, at least, was some kind of trick- not the real agent.

[bewrightback]

That sounds very likely. Either that, or his mind was tampered with in some way..

[doubledefense]

I feel like we're all in that boat.

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That all of our heads could have been tampered with? That... that is the only logical explanation. For all the impossible things we've seen these past two days...

[doubledefense]

But just accepting that much still doesn't do anything for getting us out of this situation.

[bewrightback]

You're right. If something has been done to our minds... then maybe the key would be figuring out how we could have been affected... and how to undo it?