"You okay"…"Hey, can you hear me? Why'd you knock him out like that?"

It was a girls' voice, standing over him.

"Hey babe, I don't know my own strength anymore, you're so pretty I forgot."

Kearney remembered that voice, oh he remembered well. But that was so long ago, middle school, sixth grade. So why is he hearing and seeing this again, he's in Junior year of high school, it's been 5 years since this happened.

He opened his eyes, and the old memory greeted him.

Tia and Azure were standing over him with concern in their eyes, behind them, eyeing Tia's butt, was her old boyfriend Frank. Frank was tall, strong, good with girls, good looking, and a total dick to every guy in the school.

"He's awake" Tia said. "Why'd you hit him that hard?" Frank held up his hands like it wasn't his fault.

"It's called dodgeball, you're supposed to dodge the ball. It isn't my fault wimpy here couldn't get out of the way."

Frank poked Kearney in the foot, sending spikes of pain through him. Kearney groaned.

"hey man, get up, You're making me look bad."

"shut up Frank" Azure replied.

"Well he's got a black eye, goes great with his style."

"Frank" Tia said warningly.

"Hey guys!" Frank called out, "Check out wimp's face, it looks like my dog's ass."

Frank's cronies came over, surrounding Kearney and pushing Azure and Tia out of the way.

"ha, you're right!"

"I don't see any change"

"Looks like a pile of shit normally, now it looks worse."

Oh, the normal insults.

"I wonder how ugly his mom looks if he's like this."

That tears it, Kearney thought, they're gonna have their asses kicked by yours truly.

The assholes broke out in laughter. Kearney tried to stand up, and fell right on his face. Frank offered Kearney a hand up and Kearney took it. Bad move, Frank pulled hard and sent Kearney flying forwards onto his face again.

The jerks were in tears by now, laughing so hard most had doubled over on each other.

Azure helped him up while Tia berated her boyfriend, giving Kearney a chance to throw a sucker punch at Frank. Kearney swung a killer right hook, connecting squarely with Franks gut. Two seconds later Kearney was flying through the air, hitting the ground with a Frank sized fist in his face and blood on Frank's knuckles.

Frank leaned down next to Kearney and whispered in his ear before Kearney blacked out.

"If you try to touch me again, I will fucking shoot you."

Kearney's vision faded, and the last thing he saw was Tia crying over his body, and Azure challenging Frank to a fight. The knowledge that this happened six years ago was all he could remember.

"You okay"… "Hey, can you hear me?"

Kearney opened his eyes. Greeting him was a green haired girl he had never met before. "heh" she laughed and smiled, "You look surprised to see someone like me, I'm Palutena."

Kearney promptly passed out a third time.

"Oh come on already Palutena, I'm not going to babysit the guy who has been asleep for a day already. He isn't going anywhere anyway." The voice was a male voice, but it wasn't deep yet, so maybe it was younger than Kearney's age.

"Pit…" Oh great, that girl again, Kearney thought.

"But Lady Palutena"

"Pit, someone has to be here when he wakes up, and I figure seeing someone who looks more like him won't have him pass out again." Said the person Kearney assumed was Palutena.

"Then ask Link, or Little Mac, or even Captain falcon."

"None of them look his age."

"Link does, Lady Palutena"

"Pit, why don't you want to look after him?"

"Well, he kind of crushed my tent, it took me a day to get it set up again."

"Wasn't that the same day you decided to hang out at Ness' place."

"It still took a while."