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[notaluchador]

Huh, so I did return home... a whole year laterGuys? Good tip for the future: Time flows differently in space. If you think you're stuck there only for one night, chances are that you're horribly, horribly wrong

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[future_defender]

Do you know fast the spaceship you were aboard was going?

[notaluchador]

There... actually wasn't a spaceship involved. Just me and the scarab.

[future_defender]

Eh? How did that happen?

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[notaluchador]

You've seen me with my armor on, right? It can protect me from anything, basically... even outer space. I was wearing it when the others...

... There was a space ship, but the scarab and I got separated from them later. I'd expound more, but I don't remember all the details.

[chaos_squirrel]

An entire year? In space? And that kind of thing counts as normal? And I thought some of the stuff I remembered was bad enough.

Wow, I can't imagine how that must have been. Were you okay? And your family?

[notaluchador]

Our cover story was that I disappeared for a whole year and woke up in the desert. ... Supposedly that was perfectly normal when I came back.

I was okay - and so was Milagro, but Mom... Dios mio, I worried her so much... and my Dad...

It was a rough time for all of us.

[chaos_squirrel]

Yeah. I can imagine. At least...you got to see them again. Even if it was a year before that happened.

[notaluchador]

True. It was just unnerving. I didn't realize I'd worried them that much, you know?

... Mom even thought I'd died.

[onwingsofhope]

. . .

YOU'VE BEEN TO SPACE.

[This is not a question, though Takeru's voice gets so high and squeaky that it might as well be.]

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[notaluchador]

Uh, yeah, though it's not exactly---

[notaluchador]

Actually... Yeah, I have. It was pretty awesome. [lying through his teeth (which usually isn't a move for Jaime!), but Takeru's so happy he doesn't wanna break the kid's heart.]

[onwingsofhope]

I bet it was. Did you see aliens? And comets? And meteors and asteroids and did you make it to the moon or Mars or maybe even Jupiter.

[totallynotaspaz]

Compared to a world full of superheroes, going missing for a while does sound completely normal.

[notaluchador]

The government didn't think twice about it, but... somehow my disappearance upped my social status. I have no idea how I managed to beat out coma kid.

[totallynotaspaz]

Seriously? Disappearing for a year makes you more popular?

...and you had a coma kid?

[notaluchador]

Apparently! Still have no idea how, though.

Yeah. He basically fell into a coma for a year - hence his name - and I somehow managed to make his story a lot less cool.