Man, I really didn’t think I was that early.

[HELLO AND WELCOME TO THE NEXT INTERVIEW.]

[GARY HAS BEEN FIRED AND I HAVE REPLACED HIM AS THE INTERVIEWER.]

…

[HEY, COME ON.]

[IT WAS JUST A LITTLE JOKE.]

[LIGHTEN UP.]

Get out of here.

[FINE.]

Took you long enough.

I, ah, apologize for the actions of my creation back there!

I don’t really have much control over him.

I’ve heard that before.

Well, anyways, we’ve got your interview to get to!

I’ve got a lot of questions I want to get to, but we’ll try to make it quick.

Yeah, honestly, being in the hospital and missing some interviews really wasn’t so bad.

Well, I’m all ears, I guess!

I’m still on vacation, I suppose I should try to chill out a bit more.

Vacation, you say?

Yeah, though it’s been more of an extended vacation than I had anticipated.

I got pulled into ECFAD, which was pretty fun, and winning was certainly a nice bonus, but I didn’t expect to get invited back here shortly after I was supposed to be back from it!

Though, I guess, it’s kinda all a vacation since the “job” I had was really a one-time gig.

Saving the world apparently pays pretty well, though, heh.

Must be nice!

I’ve really wanted to ask you, though, just how does that hat of yours work?

Oh, this? Built it myself!

That jes- er, engineering degree didn’t just go to nothing.

It’s my pride and joy, really.

It used to be a hat I used to protect me from electricity in my work, but I reworked it into a jester hat later on.

With it I can channel electricity through me and generally I can release it from my hands or whatever I’m holding, like this bat here.

Fascinating!

And I’d love to see how that bat works, too, would you mind if I took a look at it?

No, it’s fine, I didn’t actually make the bat, but go ahead.

Hm, military-grade, it seems like... very sturdy...

Uggghhhh… so much nerdy talk today.

Y’know what, you finish up the interview, I think I’m gonna see if that golfer can go and knock me out again.

Later.

Well, that was a thing.

I suppose that’s a good reminder to get back to the questions!

So, what happened to you in Spark 2?

I looked at it once, and you looked so different!

Uhhh…, what?

Yeah, you were all robotic and stuff.

Oh. Oh boy. No, that was Fark, not me.

He’s a robot created to look like me and... do what I do.

I used to hate him ‘cuz he took my job, but that was a while ago now.

Something happened with him, I heard...

...I hope he made it out alright.

My apologies, but, ah, can we back it up a bit?

You said his name was... Fark?

Really?

Yeah.

That name was my idea, actually.

It was, uh, a combination of my name and “fake” because he was, like, the fake me.

Wow.

That’s... pretty rough.

Look, man, it was funny to me at the time, alright?

Not my fault he kept the name, for some reason.

I thought you were supposed to be funny, though?

Ugh, yeah, I get that all the time.

But I’m an acrobat jester!

It was never my job to tell jokes.

Ahh, makes sense.

Well, I’ll just move on, then!

How do you fancy your chances against Hyperchan?

It’s certainly ironic for my first opponent to be a robot!

I’ll be honest, they still kinda make me wary in general at this point, but I don’t know much about this one aside from her sources.

Old internet stuff, huh?

Well, I admit even I’m a bit nostalgic for that stuff, but I think I got some solid modern beats as well!

And what do you think about her holiday sources?

While I’m a bit scarred on Halloween from last year, I think I’ve got something up my sleeve that’ll mesh well with her Christmas stuff.

You sure put a lot of planning into this!

Well, hey, what kind of jester would I be without bringing a bag of tricks to my performance?

...Plus that whole experience with Fark and saving the world kinda taught me a lesson about being unprepared to stuff.

Well, good luck!

I’ll be cheering for both of you next match.

Uh, well, okay!

I was getting kinda sick of this place.

But that was fun!

Seeya.

Yeah, just don’t let the Burger King hear you say th-

...Aaand he’s gone.