"It's still strange to not just go back and forth on the same path," Little Blaine admits, "without adding going up. Or in water." Though they tell him swimming is fun.

Quint can't help a snerk, and then feels he has to explain it. "Yeah, the apocalypse also known as my baby brother." He shakes his head. "Though it was really Omega - the virus - that caused all those problems... Zero, well... newly activated Wilybots can sometimes be, um, unintentionally destructive? He wasn't as bad as some, but his being a lot stronger than the rest of us made up for that." There were quite a lot of funny stories regarding 'baby' Zero.

He'll nod at the rest. "It's tough being the only girl, period." While he isn't now, he has enough bits of Roll's memories to know that more than most guys would. "Most of the older ones were designed male. Until around when Wily died, Roll was pretty much it... unless you count Blues' cat Tango. Turned out Magic was just passing as male for... safety reasons, and Plant-chan identifies as female but wasn't actually designed with a gender."

Another nod. "Yeah, we weren't too happy about some of the games, either. But at least they gave enough clues about what Weil was up to for him to be stopped, even with all the differences between timelines by then. I doubt anything else from them will match up at all."