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"You can break up with someone platonically?"

"You distracted?" Darkwhite asked. "Okay, I guess I'll try my next one... and this time I won't think of anything with space! Never have I ever..." She looked Palkia over, humming. "...Broke up with someone!"

She stared into the remote, though she wasn't looking at it in particular. Thoughts known only to her drifted in and out. "...Kinda lonely." She shook the remote.

Darkwhite looked around, frowning. She seemed thoughtful about something, and then looked back at Palkia. "Um..." She looked down. "T-two questions, before I can answer that." "...What if I'm not sure, like, I don't remember?" she asked. She fidgeted again. "And... do I have to be invited?"

"Well, I'm always me," Darkwhite said instantly, but her paw hesitated on its stillness. Her short, short fur bristled invisibly, and then she snorted. "Well, MAYBE I did a prank now and then..." She shook her remote. "Never have I ever... gone to a different planet? Aside from this one. I dunno...

"Oh!" Darkwhite had forgotten. "Right. Um." She looked Palkia over, trying to think of something she had never done. It was a surprisingly difficult task. God of space, huh? "Never have I ever..." What had she never done? "Oh. Never have I ever accidentally bisected a planet?"

Darkwhite looked ready to cry. "Thank you," she squeaked.

"Good job, everyone!" someone called, and then a strange, hazy creature appeared from the middle of the arena. A Mew, or what used to be one, clapped her hazy paws together, making barely a sound in the suddenly quiet colosseum. "That was a fun fight!" Shield immediately went on guard, as did...

Darkwhite's tail drooped and she shook her remote. "How can't I?" she asked. "If someone's sad and they need help but they don't trust me because I look evil of course I'm gonna read their minds. If someone's evil and I wanna see what they're doing of course I'm gonna read their mind to stop...

It was a small relief, but Darkwhite still wasn't sure. It was a tie, now. "What can I do?" Darkwhite asked. "Anything, a--a wager, anything to skip, or... I don't know. I'll vote with you. just please, I need to prove myself... I need to..." She seemed so small.

"I just want to have fun! I don't want to kill people! That's always been how it is!" Darkwhite stared at them all, noticing that a few were looking back coldly. "Please, if we don't have any information, don't vote for me! I can help! I've always been trying to help! Just think back... think...

Darkwhite winced. "Why?" she said. "Why are you guys voting for me?! What did I do?! Who keeps trying to pin it on me?!"

"L-love?" Darkwhite asked, blinking, and then looking at Palkia. "I... I don't really know if I can fit all of him, though, if we want to take it to that level..." So it didn't work. It was an illegal question. "F-fine," she said. "What can I do to prove myself? Y-you answer."

Darkwhite looked helpless. This had been her plan. "I... that's... but that was supposed to..."

Despite the fact that Darkwhite didn't point at him, it seemed clear that she was talking about Jesse.

"How?!" Darkwhite protested. "This thing knew about what I did in a whole other plane of reality! And it knew about that guy's daughter!"

"Perfect," Darkwhite said, though she seemed more solemn. There was a glint of confidence in her eyes, and in an instant, she raised the controller... She wondered if, maybe, she could be clever after all, working by this game's own rules and resources. This omniscient machine would do the...

Darkwhite rose up, shaking her head. "Whatever. I still need to prove that I'm innocent, so... Palkia. I challenge you to Never Have I Ever!"

"So I..." she said after that brief silence. "So I made up a bunch of them, hoping that it'd hide which one was the real power. And hoped that the smart ones..." She gestured to Palkia. "would be able to guide me without me giving away what I can do. Or--or maybe I'm making it all... oh, forget...

Darkwhite looked flustered, her hazy body crackling. "Because... because... because...!" And finally, the clouds faded, and she looked at least slightly normal, aside from the eyes, the tail, and the color. "Because I didn't know what to do with my power and I was scared I'd use it wrong."