Last Summer

[MadameButterflyKnife]

1983. It's 1983. Look, can-can you just tell me something like, I dunno...crap. I don't know what to ask a future person.

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

Yeah! Tell us, spaceman! I'm from the future too, but your future is way further than mine!

[MadeOfMilk]

> Smash Galaga cabinet to look for bodies

Not only is there no body, Libre now has a very pissed off Counselor standing right behind him. With a snap of their fingers, the cabinet's repaired.

Save it for tomorrow's investigation, dipshit they growl before slinking off to the office again.

[Cassie]

"...Is there anything that can be used to confirm-"

Then the Counselor interrupts them for attacking the Galaga cabinet.

"...A-"

[wingedcatgirl]

Sylvi pulls out a small oblong object with a circular galaxy-patterned handle on the back. "This is what phones look like in 2021. I mostly use mine to read fanfiction."

[PointMaid]

Selen(ium) tries to get her mind off of the confessed murderer. But Sylvi's phone is cool!

...Cool! No wires, huh?

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

Dale shocks in surprise over seeing the Counselor appear and reprimand Libre for attacking the Galaga cabinet. Then watching them going back to the office and looking at Sharles, something just dawned upon Dale.

Wait a minute.... you.... are you and the Counselor... twin siblings?

[Cassie]

"Yeah like that!" Libre says regarding the phone Sylvi showed after briefly feeling shocked by the Counselor.

"And uh...argh...at the very least this ain't the 21st century basing by how I can't even get mobile data here."

[Kennifer]

Sollux didn't want to deal with... whatever all of this was, so he's just gonna restart his game and try to beat his score.

[PointMaid]

...mobile data?

[Guma]

2021 . . . is that the year we came from?~ I stopped counting after the iPhone released . . . in 2007.~ I realized that year that I had better things to do than count the number of times this tiny insignificant planet makes a rotation, oh yes.~

[Cassie]

"...What I resort to when there's no internet around." Libre answers Selen(ium).

"Wait, both you and me come from the same year..." Libre says regarding what the Monster said. "Anyone else from 2021!?"

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

Internet on the phone, huh? How far technology has come...

[LavenderDream]

"Uhh.. I think I'm from 2021."

[PointMaid]

Um... cool, actually. I may not understand it, but... Welcome to 1983, futuristic dudes.

[MadameButterflyKnife]

What the fuck is an internet. Shit, this is why I dropped out-

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

Well, Counselor's twin, the internet is these series of computers all connected worldwide. Where I come from, we just access them through the computers. But they're on phones in the future apparently.

[MadameButterflyKnife]

Twin? Look, I'm not related to whoever the fuck that guy is. Just because we have the same hair color, the same haircut, the same complextion, the same height, the same...fuck. Well, I'm not related to that guy anyway. If I were I wouldn't be living in an arcade ceiling.

[PointMaid]

You hit hard times and having a hard time finding a place? Look... if you know an instrument and can rock, maybe you can do some gigs with my band.

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

I got it! You the clone of the Counselor. Just probably stowed away somewhere, unknown to where you really come from and then suddenly, fate brings you to these arcades. Maybe a chance for you to confront the master that abandoned you?

[Cassie]

I got it! You the clone of the Counselor. Just probably stowed away somewhere, unknown to where you really come from and then suddenly, fate brings you to these arcades. Maybe a chance for you to confront the master that abandoned you?

"CLONE!?" Libre quickly skitters off as far as he could from Sharles whilst still leaving room for him to talk with the others. "Don't wanna deal with two!"

Seems like the Counselor's interruption over the Galaga arcade destruction already left a mark at him.

[MadameButterflyKnife]

Dude, this isn't some sci-fi movie. I have like, real parents. Hiding from them, yeah, but it's not because of some lab thing. It's because I don't want them to know that I'm not at college.

[Guma]

That mean you're immortal too . . . ostensibly?~

[MadameButterflyKnife]

...Okay, I wish. Look, let's say I am some sorta government clone or whatever. Honestly, I wouldn't mind. Area 51's probably got better food than this shithole.

[Kennifer]

theyre not nece22ariily clone2, there are a lot of rea2on2 people can look the 2ame iin paradox 2pace. a2 for the year ii dont know how the alterniian calendar compare2 two the earth one but ii thiink the kiid2 my friiend2 were tryiing two contact 2aiid iit wa2 2009 or 2omethiing.