audience: Danny Fenton

[becomemod]

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[foreverphantom]

No, I mean, what if the profile is wrong. It's for someone else.

[becomemod]

Then they mistook you for someone else. It can happen.

If they got the wrong name down you don't have to go by it, you can use your real name.

[foreverphantom]

Uh-huh. And what if they accidentally bring in a villain instead of a hero for this little competition?

[becomemod]

They'll probably die eventually.

[foreverphantom]

What? What is that supposed to mean?

[becomemod]

[They shrug.]

This world is weird. We just arrest villains and the cops take them to jail, but sometimes one or another will end up dying from hubris. Like, they make a big machine and then fall in it.

[foreverphantom]

[ opens his mouth

shuts his mouth ]

And those in the "hero competition" aren't immune to arrest? Or...hubris?

[becomemod]

I mean. Gold Mouse punched a vending machine across several blocks of the city. There's some leeway for us. Just don't go doing heinous crimes and you should be fine.

[foreverphantom]

[ snorts. yeah, that did happen, huh. gold mouse is legit. ]

And if I decide not to do any crimes or "heroic deeds"?

[becomemod]

You'll be here for a long time yet then.

[foreverphantom]

I thought the competition was eight weeks.

[becomemod]

What do you think happens to the people who don't win the competition?

[foreverphantom]

...ah.

The losers get stuck here for good?

[becomemod]

That is our best guess right now, given that the original heroes- myself and the other team leaders- have been here for months right now.

[foreverphantom]

...are you saying that there was an earlier round of this competition? And that you and the other team leaders are the leftover losers from it?

[becomemod]

No, no, the leaders were here before the rest of you. There was no competition then, we were just being heroes and helping the city. The other four died, they didn't get sent home.

[foreverphantom]

Great. Okay. So the running theory is if we lose we get stuck here forever.

...what were you told about getting out of here, when you first showed up? And who were the other four?

[becomemod]

Nothing. We weren't told anything when we first arrived. We just got dumped in this world and had to figure out things on our own.

The other four were our teammates, there were twelve of us at first.

[foreverphantom]

So you got dumped here and decided to team up and be superheroes?

[becomemod]

Something like that, yes.

[foreverphantom]

Why?

[becomemod]

Everyone has their own reasons for it. You will have to ask them all to get their answers.

For me, I found it easier to gather information on this world while working in the name of 'good'. Also, being the good guy for once was a nice change of pace.

[foreverphantom]

Was it now?

Not that that approach worked all that well, if you've been here for months with no answers still about who brought us all here in the first place.

[becomemod]

[They shrug.]

Supposedly our worlds are frozen in place, so it's alright that it's taking a while. Frustrating, but it's alright.

[foreverphantom]

Mmm.

...if we do lose and get stuck here forever. Would our powers be stuck as they are now too?