"Uhuh, just give it a few..."

As she slowly transforms she definitely gets more aggressive, trying to copy Hannah's tricks and put her off balance.

Oh, now it's a real game huh. 

Once Changeling picks up enough tricks the eight-ball game becomes a stalemate tug-of-war. Hannah laughs. "We need more balls, you've got the basics!"

"Hit me. Twelve. Or all sixteen, what the hell."

"Let's do twelve first." 

Hannah's edge is back, and the game's much more complex. It turns into a midair high-speed chess match where the position and velocity of every ball matters. Strategically dropping balls for a moment to free concentration for a push starts to come in. 

Her current strategy of 'all aggression all the time' comes back to bite her.

"Damn, this would be hard to keep up with watching, wouldn't it? I can hardly keep up and I'm in the middle of it."

"It just gets more like this. Pros play with twenty balls. I can manage sixteen on a good day. Let's see if you can push me to have a good day."

"With pleasure."

She's not practiced enough at kineball to get clever, really, but she's fast and relentless. If that's enough to push Hannah up to 16, who can say?

Hannah can't keep up, but she can play dirty. There's a few close matchups and finally Hannah declares she wants to play sixteen. 

She wins there, of course.

After a while, "Damn, this was fun, but I think my brain's getting tired. Got any sugary snacks on you?"

She pulls out a pack of cherry droplets. "Carry these for a friend, but she won't mind if I share." She tosses them lazily.

"Smart friend." Nom! She has sharp teeth. "Also, I didn't say so earlier, but this whole pocket dimension stuff is damn cool. We gonna play another competitive game or should I go ahead and change again?"

"I've got King of Smash on the console if you want to play something more traditional."

"Ohoho is that a Super Smash Brothers derivative?" She grins.

"Yes! It's local, eats new Smash editions from newly-discovered worlds monthly. Huge roster, workshop integration, you can play as everyone from everything basically. AI services mean you can custom-generate new characters with unique, balanced movesets to order in about twenty minutes."

"You might not have all the stuff I know from the last century or two, but I always liked Pikachu..."

"We have Pikachu too! Plus a bunch of other pokemon. You wouldn't have any of the Cthonic fighters... Ronald Mcdonald?"

"No clue. Space Marine? Basically just a guy in a blue armored spacesuit? He's a meme to this day."

"We have doomguy, do you guys have Doom?"

"I think Space Marine is doomguy plus something called Warhammer. It's all kind of ancient history. How many 16th century characters are still around? Blackbeard? Santa Claus? Robin Hood?

"Robin Hood's in there. No non-workshop Santa Claus but most characters have a santa hat version. Who's Blackbeard?"

"Some kinda pirate. Like, with cannons and sailing ships." Shrug. "Like I said, ancient history. I'll stick with Pikachu at first."

"Works for me. Think I'll play Kirby."

"Bot fighters?"

"Nah."