"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."

"Just to get me used to the controller. Or practice zone time."

"Practice zone, then. I'll go get some chips and dip."

"Sweet. It was a great decision to hang out with you. Vampire Nerd wasn't having nearly as much fun, even if she was doing something a lot more useful."

She follows Hannah back inside.

Hannah sets up the console in practice zone for Changeling. "What flavour of dip do you want, or should I surprise you?"

She laughs. "Omnivorous, remember? D'you have, like, chili though?"

"We can do chili dip. See you in fifteen, gonna get some exercise in by walking to the store for a change."

"Oh, you have to exercise to stay in shape? Poor thing. You don't mind me chilling in your place in the meantime?"

"Nah, you're cool. Just don't go poking around my bedroom. I've got dietware but I don't trust it, you know? Doesn't preserve muscle tone. So I play soccer as well as kineball and I walk down to the store sometimes."

"I'll just browse the internet from your couch. Have fun. Yet another thing I can sell people... I should buy a dietware and poke it to see if it'll interfere..."

"The idea was kinda that you'd use the practice room while I was out and then we could do a real fight when I came back. You can browse the internet if you want though, I'm not your mom."

"Oh, doy. Right." She smacks herself on the head fairly hard. "Seeya soon."

"Seeya."

She returns 20 minutes later with a huge bag of potato chips and two little plastic tubs of dipping sauce. "Chili for you, french onion for me." 

She's playing practice mode with doomguy. "Yum, thanks. I like this guy's style."

She laughs. "Of course you'd be into the RIP AND TEAR kind of gameplay. Let's see what unspeakable things you can do to my Kirby." She sits on the couch next to Changeling, props up the huge bag of chips between them, and sets the tubs of dip on the table in the center of the room. A controller slaps into her hand. 

"Whenever you're ready."

"So right now."

Her reactions don't help her as much in Smash, and while she's used to fighting games in general she's not a pro by any means and doesn't know all the items and moves in this one.

Hannah's pretty casual but has played this a lot. They roughly go even.

She morphs after a while and starts losing more often, but having more fun, tongue sticking out and ears and tail a-twitch. She laughs uproariously when she gets trapped between two of Hannah's item-summoned allies, eventually flying off the screen at lightspeed.

Hannah takes a small chip break, and smiles sidelong at Changeling. "I like you," she pronounces. "We should do this kinda thing more often."

"I like you too! And we should!" She darts her head in and kisses Hannah on the cheek.

Hannah blushes, startled. 

"... and here I was just wondering if I should kiss you." She grins. 

"Ehehe. Circumstances or not you're fun so why not, nya? Though I'm not as kissy as I could be, I've got another body just for that."