Froufrou awoke with a deep, stinky squelch with clarity of vision that had her feeling perfectly honed to fix the timeline that was calling her name - namely, the first scenario.
She had a couple of things she wanted to fix regarding it. Froufrou wanted to make sure that the alternate Supreme Time Protector did notkill the Supreme Time Protector from the chosen timeline. That much was fair. The other thing she wanted to fix was the probable fact that Sahdi had fallen off the side of G'athoong while the bone dragon was addressing herself, Kahli, and Omar. That being said, it was going to be awfully difficult to make it all work out. It was going to be hard to get just right, but Froufrou was confident that she'd devised quite enough after spending a substantial amount of energy and time in deep meditation.
Indeed, she'd been meditating for so long that when Froufrou finally awoke it seemed that she saw the young Supreme Time Protector had fallen asleep. They were still standing erect, although their head was tilted a bit back - not so far back that Froufrou could see their face, but indeed back enough to take note of irregardless.
Was it worth waking them up? Froufrou figured it was, so she released a squelch so loud and stinky that for a moment it almost seemed like the void itself shook.
"Oh my gods, what was that?!" blurted the young Supreme Time Protector as they leaned up with a juddering jolt. They beheld Froufrou and sighed in relief. "Oh, it's just you. Sorry, Froufrou, that sounded a little startling. Well, regardless, how did your meditation go?"
Froufrou squelched in the affirmative, but it was obvious that the young Supreme Time Protector had nary an idea of what she was trying to communicate. In a frustrated huff, she decided she wasn't going to spend another moment of her time wasted with them. Froufrou looked down at her tendrils and beheld the new scenario. It was time to dive on it.
[Now viewing scenario 1 (twisted)]
There were bits in the beginning of this scenario that were quite similar to Froufrou's first run of it. She did end up in the nested [checkpoint] once again, and Kahli was there as was that Supreme Time Protector. However, what changed was how she used her [LIN].
See, Froufrou still wanted to communicate somehow to Kahli and the Supreme Time Protector that she was in a nested [checkpoint] - however, what she didn't want to do was to bring the alternative Supreme Time Protector into the timeline because then they would slay their current self, as was well established. With that understood, Froufrou opted instead to bring someone wholly different into the timeline by use of her [LIN].
As her tendril clasped around yet another tendril, Froufrou pulled and pulled, and then with a squelch and a yank another strange, stinky creature in her spitting image stood next to her in the void.
"Theseosus' pincers!" Kahli exclaimed. "It's a second Froufrou! Froufrou, you've got a twin!"
"Twins? Why I oughta, I don't have no twin!" spat alternate Froufrou.
Froufrou squelched in shock. This alternate Froufrou - while being gifted with the ability to speak, just as she'd planned and expected - didn't sound anything like what she'd thought she out to sound like.
"Froufrou! Why, I can't believe you'd talk to me that way!" said Kahli with a sad tone in her voice. She even pouted a little.
"Why nots? This is how I always talk! If you don't thinks I'd talk like this, well, you must not know the real Froufrou all that well, eh, Kahli?" replied alternative Froufrou.
Froufrou was writhing with confusion and frustration. Who did this alternative Froufrou think she was, pretending to be her? And why did this Froufrou seem almost... evil? Was what the alternative Supreme Time Protector had said in the original version of this timeline scenario true? That is, was there genuinely some truth to the concept that people from alternative timelines were evil? Froufrou hadn't lended that stated stereotype all that much credence originally, but now it seemed almost like it was the truth. She had a bad feeling about this alternative version of herself, but there wasn't really much she could do about that, now could she? And even worse, it seemed like alternative Froufrou indeed also had access to Kahli's system just as normal Froufrou did, because whatever bizarre lies she told Kahli, Froufrou's [paired] companion seemed to believe point blank. It was a terrifying thing to behold, truly.
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Froufrou tried to squelch characteristically, squelch in ways that only a non-alternative Froufrou could, but it seemed impossible when alternative Froufrou just kept running her mouth. It didn't seem to matter what she said or how much of it was a lie - it was like both Kahli and the Supreme Time Protector were completely enthralled!
"And so I says to 'em, I says, you call that a squelch? Hell, I'll show you a fucking squelch, I will, Harbinger of Doom style an' everything! So I said put your dukes up, come on, give me your best shot, and you know what that twenty ton sea slug did? It turned its ass right around and scurried away into the shadows. Nobody messed with me in the Pit of Despair, I was too tough, I said why I oughta and with a bada bing and a bada boom I gave them the old left tendril hook! That's the kinda mentality I like to take around wherever I go. Personally I think it's more powerful than carrying a crossbow with heat seeking arrows, but hey, that's me."
Kahli seemed a little uncomfortable.
"What? What's wrong, Kahlster, dirtshark got your tongue?" replied alternate Froufrou.
"No... No... I just, I don't know, Froufrou, you seem different. And why are there two of you, again?" Kahli said with concern painted on her face.
"Two of me?" Alternative Froufrou turned to look at Froufrou. "Bah, this ain't me, this is just some... Some other thing. Think I accidentally pulled her out of another timeline by mistake using my [LIN]. I think she's, uh, an alternative Froufrou or something from an alternative timeline. I don't know, it's hard to say, it seems like she only communicates through squelches. That's gotta suck, eh?"
Froufrou squelched in frustration and indignation at this verbal assault from her effective double.
"But, Froufrou always communicates by squelches!" said Kahli. She looked like she almost wanted to cry, and the part of her that didn't just seemed confused. Clearly, alternative Froufrou was surely using some version of [Tale Teller] on her.
"No, I don't, Kahlizone!" spat alternative Froufrou. "I always talked, and I always talked just like this, you hear me?"
"Oh, okay..." said Kahli hesitantly. She didn't really feel like that was the truth, and yet at the same time, she felt almost forcibly compelled to believe.
Froufrou squelched with anger and frustration as her alternate self continued to lie her absolute tendrils off! It was a disgusting display, an abuse of [Tale Teller]. And then, suddenly, time seemed to slow to a crawl for everyone but Froufrou and alternative Froufrou.
"Alright, me, I'm gonna levels with you," said alternative Froufrou.
Froufrou immediately, despite all her anger and frustration, felt a little excited at the prospect of getting to level up with herself of all people.
"And no, I don't mean I'm gonna actually level up with you, so forget about it! I mean that I'm going to figuratively levels with you,understand?"
Froufrou squelched in quite a crestfallen manner.
"Great. And just to clarify, what I'm doing right now is using [SPEE] to slow down time for everyone but me and you, capiche? See, I was able to talk my version of Kahli into maxing out her [SPEE] so that I could use it. It's pretty sweet, being able to talk her into stuff like that," replied alternative Froufrou.
Froufrou squelched in a putrid disgust. As much as she disagreed with some of Kahli's decisions, she greatly appreciated their partnership wherein both of them kind of had a give and take. Mainly, Kahli made most of the decisions while Froufrou was able to butt in and squelch her way out of anything she disagreed with while getting carried around in a comfy purse. It was, in many ways, what Froufrou considered a good life - especially considering how turbulent and apocalyptic everything was and had continued to be since Kahli had [paired] with her.
"Oh, you don't like that? Well, I guess that's why we're on alternative timelines. And the fact that I enjoy being able to ride my timeline's version of Kahli around like some sort of a mantis jalopy is just a matter of personal preference, you see?"
Froufrou was so nauseated and disgusted by what her alternative self had said that the squelch she produced on hearing all this actually smelled quite nice, like a bouquet of flowers.
"Glad we're on the same page, much like we're on the same timeline - at least for now, that is," replied alternative Froufrou. "See, I think if I'm being real with you, me, I think what we ought to do is swap our timelines over, Princess and the Prostitute style, and see what each of us is missing out on. Really, I think it's the best for both of us."
Froufrou squelched in a similarly pleasant smelling fashion - that is to say, she completely disagreed. However, it was altogether unclear if her alternative self truly understood what these squelches meant, or if she genuinely thought that Froufrou agreed that they should swap places. Irregardless, alternative Froufrou twirled one of her tendrils in the open void, unzipping space and time into a glowing miasma of ineffable colors and aberrations that regular Froufrou could hardly comprehend.
"Beautiful, glad we're vibing here, me. Go ahead and hop right into this rift here and check out my timeline! You might even like what you see, heh heh!"
Before Froufrou could squelch in objection, alternative Froufrou raised a big tendril and pushed her right into the rift!
[You have now changed timelines]