The Battle: Phoenix Revival Quest

[KarjamP]

PK: "Are you saying Shane and Kim was cloned more than one times?"

[Shane]

Robyn: "Possibly."
Shaie: "... We must destroy those clones then!"
Jason: "I agree, but they're too powerful!"
Girl: "Indeed. Does it not worry you?"

[KarjamP]

PK: "What happens if they're the good guys?"

[Shane]

Robyn: "From past experience, clones are never the good guys. Or gals."
Shaie: "... Time skip."
Jason: "Huh?"
Girl: "That's how I'm a pie? That's what 'time skip' means in the ancient language of the Sylraphians. I guess."

[KarjamP]

KarjamP: "Shane, did someone hacked your accounts again and disabled both of your forums so that no one can post in it?"

PK: "What?
"Does that mean my past and future self are stuck in frozen time until then?"

KarjamP: "Unfortunately."

PK: "Anyway, I'd known plenty of good guy clones in many worlds that I had visited.
"An example of a good clone is the soldier Solid Snake, a clone of Naked Snake, also known as Big Boss."

[Shane]

Shaie starts crying.
Jason: "Uh, in case you haven't noticed, Shane's dead! Look at what you've just caused, you idiot. Talking to someone who's dead, without their clones being here to respond, and with his sister here who still hasn't gotten over his death! Don't you care about that? Do you not... give a damn?"

A girl in a green evening dress appears.
Sarah: "He's talking to the other Shanes from the other universes. And the Author."
Robyn: "What on Cirai are you-- never mind, I don't even want to know."
Sarah: "Anyway, it was merely an April Fools Joke that backfired because of another admin cancelling it. I don't know the particulars however, so..."

[KarjamP]

KarjamP: "Darn me forgetting to add Author to Shane's name.
"Anyway, April Fools Day jokes can backfire, especially if one doesn't notify the others about it and they did something unexpected like putting the forums back into business.
"Besides, they aren't always funny."

PK: "Can we get back to the story, now, please?"

KarjamP: "...Oh, yeah."

PK: "Anyway, as I said, I know of clones that are good guys instead of bad ones.
"Like Solid Snake, for example. He's a good guy clone of Naked Snake, AKA Big Boss."

[Shane]

Jason: "Huh? How'd you get a beard in a nanosecond?"

Shaie: "It's fake."

Jason: "... Oh."

Shaie: "Well, I wish there was a tournament."

[KarjamP]

KarjamP: "You used my joke."

PK: "Hold on, my memory seems to have been arranged."

KarjamP: "Yes, it was for you to consider the world of Shane's Cave Story as DRACONIA Variant 0."

[Shane]

Sarah: "Jason was talking about you, Richard. I can call you that, right?"

Jason: "Huh? Nicknaming him?"

Shaie: "What next-- where'd you come from?"