Author's note: The most wonderful time of the year! A little late, but better late than never. And I'm excited to share this episode because I got the best idea on how to do things before I began writing. Of course this threw most of my original episode plan out the window. For circumstances of the timeline and episode, the camera crew is on break. There are no cameras of head segments in this episode. There were a ton of reviews but not a lot I had anything to say about so. First review is from Generic Smash Bros Fan.

" 1: Is it my idea or Paper Mario and Goombella have never appeared again? Maybe Paper Mario, but Goombella I don't remember her
2: It would be great to have Mario, Sonic, Pac-Man, Mega Man, Cloud, Joker, Snake, Simon, Richter, Bayonetta, Ryu, Ken, Crash, Spyro,Terry,Eleven,Erdrick,Eight,Solo, Rayman, etc. in a chapter together, it would be great.
3: Do you have hope in Kos-Mos as the 5th? or after the first Fighter Pass?
4: I think we need a reference to the "Hoes Mad" meme (or was there already one?)"

1. Paper Mario and Goombella, while they are residents, never really showed up much, haven't found many ways to include them.
2. All the third party characters, and Mario, doing something together. I'll see what I can do.
3. While she is a Bandai Namco character I don't know if she'll get in or not.
4. I will not do a reference to that.
Next review is from Nickguppy.

"Things are probably going to get very tense between orange and blue. Also, when will ryu and chun li go out on a date?"

Yes, the thing between Orange and Blue will begin to arc in the new year. Ryu and Chun-Li will also have their date in the first episode of the new year as well. Next review is from Derick Lindsey.

"Good to see team Starwolf win the competition between them and Starfox and not gonna lie I was sure that Krystal was going to show up here since the competition was best 3 out of 5 I expected her to show up to be the 5th member for team Starfox."

I did plan for Krystal to come back last episode but it never came into fruition. She'll be back next episode. Next review is from Pinkrose4452.

"1. Is there anyway we can suggest camera names for characters who don't have one yet?
2. Will the Male Wii Fit Trainer become a resident?
3. Is Gemma a temporary resident, since Mario and his team interviewing her agreed for her to be temporary if she didn't become a permanent resident?"

1. Yes you can those who don't have them yet are Starman, Micaiah, Fiora, Rodin, Haru Okumura, Andy Bogard, Bomberman, Akita (virtua fighter), Takamaru, Starfy, Prince of Sable, Devil, Dr. Wright, Andy (advance wars), Crash, Spyro, and Chibi-Robo.
2. The male Wii Fit Trainer is not in my plans for becoming a resident.
3. Another oversight on my part, Gemma went home at the end of everything so no, she's not a resident.
Next review is from Charmander 17.

"The main villain who is it he planned this and has high levels of reality warping so who could it be. Dimentio, flowey gaster, Jevil, Gannon, Tabu, majora, and smithy are out for one reason or another so is it dark matter?"

Let's see. No it is not Dark Matter.

Season 5 episode 8: Incineroar's Christmas Carol
(December 24th, 2019)(11:30 PM)

It was almost time for the best day of the year. Unfortunately, Master Hand had still yet to return and would most likely miss out on the festivities. That didn't stop Mario from setting things up for the young fighters. The red plumber had gone ahead and dressed up as Santa to bring some joy to them.

By now, most of the residents had gone to sleep, with only a few remaining in the living room making sure everyone actually brought their secret santa gift. Mario walked into the room soon enough while taking off the beard saying, "That was-a more exhausting than-a last year."

"Well, what are you gonna do," Link said as he finally put the gift he got for Zelda under the tree. "Besides it's not like the younger residents believed you were actually Santa. The mustache gives you away entirely."

"There's no way I would ever change my signature look," Mario said, defensively grabbing his mustache as if it was about to fly off. "Besides, if we can keep the Christmas spirit here alive for long enough I think we'll be fine."

"You bet on that," Wolf said, laying down on one of the couches. The leader of Starwolf had basically hung in here all night. "I literally kept it alive myself last week."

"We all know how important Christmas is, from what Master Hand made it out to be," Shulk said.

"Hey do you guys know who got this," Pit asked the others as he turned the attention over to a rather large device. "It says simulator upgrade, one that can replay the spirit battle we did back in January."

"Is there a tag on it," Link asked.

Pit inspected the device before holding it up saying, "Oh yeah right here. From someone named Guestspirit. That's weird."

"(Ha! Christmas, Santa Claus, Christmas Spirit, what a bunch of hogwash,)" Incineroar said having listened in on the whole thing.

"What did he say," Link asked Decidueye as the archer Pokémon was the only one who could understand what he said.

"He can tell you himself," Decidueye said as he took the translator out of his ear. He then stuck in Incineroar's ear with force.

Incineroar glared at Decidueye before saying, "Come on! Everyone knows that there's no such thing as Santa Claus!" Incineroar was met with gasps. The heel pokemon rolled his eyes. "Seriously, this holiday is just full of little lies, leading people on to eventually find out there's no such thing."

"Incineroar, need-a I remind you you're-a still on warning," Mario said with a stern look. "I'd say your next words carefully."

Incineroar glared at Mario before walking away and too the doors. On his way out he bumped into Kawasaki, who ended up dropping all of the Christmas cookies he brought in. "Bah, humbug," Incineroar growled before tossing the translator back to Decidueye.

Gasps followed as the door closed. "He said it," Kawasaki said in horror as he scrambled to pick up the cookies.

"Looks like we have an Ebenezer Scrooge on our hands," Wolf said as he got off the couch. He then yawned, "I'm too tired to deal with this, I'm going to bed. Merry Christmas guys."

"Weren't you going to do something bad if he said something like that Mario," Shulk asked the red plumber.

Mario shook his head saying, "Don't-a I plan on taking care of-a it tomorrow." The red plumber then left the living room himself.

Decidueye put the translator back into his ear before saying, "I'm gonna head to bed. I'll see you guys tomorrow." Decidueye left the living and began walking to the courtyard only to turn towards the fighter residential building. He didn't plan on going to bed just yet.

"Let me get this straight you dragged us out of bed just to talk to us about Incineroar," Lucario tiredly asked Decidueye as the aura pokemon, the archer pokemon, and Mewtwo were at the fountain.

"Yes, and trust me this is important," Decidueye said, he noticed Mewtwo rolled his eyes. "Incineroar hates Christmas with a burning passion."

"So, that's not our problem, some hate, some love," Mewtwo said, looking like he was about to teleport away. "Nothing we can do about it."

"What if his hatred for Christmas is the source to everything," Decidueye bluntly said, getting Mewtwo to not leave. "What if it was the source of his arrogant ways, his refusal to lose. And the rumors saying he cheated in the tournament despite losing the first match."

"What are you saying," Lucario asked, intrigued. He leaned forward so he could listen to this better.

"Wolf said he was basically an Ebenezer Scrooge. I'm sure you two are familiar with Christmas Carol. Is there a way we can pull that exact thing on Incineroar? If we can get him to see the consequences of his ways he may very well change."

Mewtwo held his head in thought. "I can only look into the past, present, and future from my point of view. I can't reflect things to another person."

"I can, with the power of the aura," Lucario said. "If I can tap into Incineroar's aura I can let you pass into his mind to give him a realistic dream. Just like the one Scrooge got."

Mewtwo looked down again before saying, "Decidueye, you can go to sleep we can probably handle things from here." Decidueye nodded and began walking toward the invite residential building. "We have to be quick it's almost midnight." Mewtwo grabbed Lucario and teleported away.

Incineroar was sleeping peacefully in his own room. He was pretty much dreaming about how he was going to ruin Christmas tomorrow for Ribbon Girl and Donkey Kong. He then heard some ominous noise that woke him up. When he started to creaking he sat up, looking right at his door.

Incineroar got out of his bed as the noise got louder. He crept closer to his door and said, "Who's out there." He then covered in mouth in shock, last he checked he gave the translator back to Decidueye. Why could he suddenly speak English.

Incineroar noticed the noise stopped so he pressed his ear against the door to listen in. "Incinerooooaaar," said a ghostly voice right behind the heel pokemon. Incineroar slowly turned his head around to see a Zorua. "It's been awhile." The illusion pokemon had a couple locks on her.

"Zorua," Incineroar said with insane recognition and fear. "I thought you died like, four years ago?" Incineroar then realized exactly what he was looking at. "You're a ghost. No this has to be a dream."

"Incineroar, I have something important to tell you and if it's going to work I need you to listen to me," Zorua harshly said sitting down. Incineroar then walked over and sat down next to her. "Yes I died because of that car accident four years ago. You're about to get an opportunity I wish I got all those years ago."

"What kind of an opportunity," Incineroar asked his old friend. "And why now."

"You're going to get an opportunity to make things right for yourself and others. And this is only happening now because this is your last chance." Zorua looked back at the lock on her tail. "Each of these locks on me represents terrible things I did when I was alive. I was never able to correct them and you have many more invisible locks. You can have the chance to make them right and unlock them from you. You can't end up like me."

"But you're the one who taught me everything I know," Incineroar said in disbelief. "Are you saying-"

"Yep, in teaching you my ways I led you down a terrible path and fate," Zorua said. She then looked at the alarm clock on Incineroar's night stand. It was 11:57. "I don't have much time. Tonight you'll be visited by three spirits from the Pokémon world. Since their true form will be impossible for anyone to comprehend they will take the form of those you know here at the mansion."

"Is there any chance you will be able to join me with these so called spirits," Incineroar asked. Zorua shook her head. Incineroar looked down before saying, "Very well. I'll wait for the first one I guess."

"Incineroar, promise me something," Zorua began to ask and Incineroar listened intently. "Whatever you see or hear tonight. Never deny that it ever happened and keep it locked in your mind. Build upon it in order to learn from your mistakes."

Incineroar nodded saying, "I promise, I owe you for saving me after all."

Zorua smirked at Incineroar before looking at the clock again. "I have to go." Incineroar could see Zorua's ghost body fading away. "The first ghost will be here any minute, the second at one o'clock, and the third at two o'clock. Farewell.." And with that Zorua was gone.

Incineroar looked down as his alarm began beeping. It was midnight, Incineroar huffed and said, "Merry Christmas, Zorua." The alarm clock then shut off unexpectedly. Incineroar then saw the trees and yard out his window disappear. All that was left was his room. "Whoever you are spirit, show yourself!"

"Jeez you don't have to yell," said a new voice. Incineroar looked around to see Pikachu with a Santa hat and cape. "One thing I was hoping we could work on was your inside voice but that won't be possible."

"Pikachu," Incineroar said in recognition. He then realized his mistake and corrected himself, "Wait no, your spirit of Christmas past, aren't you?"

"Good to know Zorua told you everything you need to know," said Pikachu of Christmas past. The electric mouse then hopped onto Incineroar's bed. "I'm going to look into what makes you tick, what caused your hatred for Christmas in the first place."

"And how are you going to do that," Incineroar said in annoyance.

"Actually that part is pretty easy," Pikachu said before using iron tail and knocked Incineroar out.

Incineroar woke up again to the noise of a happy boy. "I know that laugh," Incineroar said to himself as he shot up. He looked around and noticed himself in a house, with a lot of things he recognized. He then noticed the Pikachu of Christmas past standing at an entrance to a living room. "Is this really, that day?"

"See for yourself," Pikachu said using his tail to point into the room. Incineroar walked over and looked in, seeing a boy and his parents by a Christmas tree. Pikachu then climbed up to Incineroar's shoulder. "This was the day you came out of a box."

Incineroar looked at the boy in disbelief. Very weakly he said, "Sun. That's really him?"

"Yes, it is," Pikachu confirmed as the boy grabbed a box with holes in it. "I have one guess as to what's in that."

Incineroar watched as Sun opened the box and smiles widely. He picked the Pokémon inside and exclaimed, "A Litten!" Sun's parents chuckled as the Fire cat pokemon wished to be let down.

"This was when we first met," Incineroar said. Pikachu could see a tear forming in his eye. "I can't believe I'm able to relive this."

"Now we know Professor Kului was going to give you your first Pokémon after we moved to Alola, but we knew how much you wanted a Litten. So we jumped the gun," said Sun's mom.

"It's perfect, and together we're going to win the trials in the Alola region," Sun said with a fire in his eyes.

"You liked the passion you saw in his eyes, you wanted to follow him to the ends of the world," Pikachu said.

Incineroar's smile faded as he continued to watch himself, as a Litten, and Sun playing. "Things didn't quite work out the way I wanted it too."

"Yes that's the next thing we'll be looking at," Pikachu said as the scene was replaced with a battlefield. Incineroar recognized Sun on one end and and Hau on the other end. "Yes, this is that battle. Might want to move out of the way."

Incineroar looked to his left and covered his face as his younger self went right through him and hit Popplio with Scratch. The heel pokemon ran over to where Professor Kukui was. "I was winning this one at first, just to be clear."

"Oh yes I know, then the type advantage kicked in."

"Popplio use bubble," Hau commanded. Popplio fired a quick stream of bubbles and sent then right to Litten.

"Litten dodge it," Sun shouted. Litten tried but ended up getting hit by a couple. "No!"

"Popplio pound," Hau said as Popplio ran up to Litten as he was distracted and hit him. Litten crashed onto the ground with a thud and fainted.

Kakui held his hand out toward Hau saying, "Litten is unable to battle, Popplio wins! And the victor of this match is Hau." Sun stood there in stunned silence as Hau celebrated his victory with Popplio. Sun looked down at Litten, how walked back over to him head held down.

"Litten return," Sun said, calling Litten back to its pokeball. Sun then began to walk away and went through Incineroar.

"You lost the battle," Pikachu said. "And what happened after that?" Incineroar crossed his arms and looked away, not wanting to share. "We're seeing it anyway."

The heel pokemon watched as the scene around him became a trail. Sun and Litten were walking side by side, Sun hadn't said anything since the battle and Litten still had his head down. Suddenly Sun stopped and Litten walked a bit further before stopping too. Litten turned around and questioned, "Litten?"

Taking out Litten's pokeball and holding it in his hand, he said, "I want to become the strongest trainer in the region. And in order to do that I can't have pokemon that are going to continue to lose." Then, shocking Litten greatly, Sun smashed the pokeball against a tree, breaking it in a million pieces. "Don't follow me."

Litten watched helplessly and called out for Sun to come back as he watched away. "The second you lost a battle he abandoned you. You had to defend yourself against the evils of nature," Pikachu said.

"And that was when I met Zorua, another pokemon that was abandoned by its trainer," Incineroar said. He smiles remembering good times, "She taught me all about how to survive in the wild and on the streets. People were not happy with us stealing their food, we did eventually find one person that was kind enough to give us some berries every couple days."

Pikachu smiled before having a somber expression. "A couple months after that though, the accident happened." The scene around the two changed again, they were on a sidewalk in a market area of Hau'oli city. "You and Zorua were running around, playing together for once."

Incineroar looked on with a sad expression, he knew what was coming when he heard the car coming. He watched helplessly as Litten and Zorua's game of chase led them to the middle of the road, the driver wasn't paying attention to what was in front of him. Zorua noticed the car coming right at Litten and shouted, "(Litten, watch out!)"

Litten looked behind him and became frozen in fear. He braced for the impact, only to then be knocked out of the way by Zorua. Who then took the hit. Litten watched in horror as the car stopped immediately and Zorua landed on the road, since she was airborne when hit. "(Zorua,)" Litten shouted as he ran over.

The guy that was in the car and stepped out in shock. A Comfey was nearby and went over to Zorua to inspect the damage as more people began to come over. "Someone call the Pokémon center," a random guy shouted as he ran over, it wouldn't take long for Litten to assume it was Comfey's trainer. Comfey then shook her head, causing the guy to say, "What do you mean n-." Both and guy and Litten realized what that meant. "It's too late."

Incineroar watched himself as he ran away from the scene crying. Some people called out to Litten but he didn't listen. "You lost your best friend. And you were back to square one, having no one."

Incineroar was infuriated and shouted, "What's the point of all this, why not show my deciding moment now instead of all these detours!"

Pikachu then hit Incineroar with iron tail again before saying, "Because all of these events were factors that caused you to decide to do what did! We have one final scene for me to show you and that will be it." The surrounding area changed again, and Incineroar felt a slight cold breeze. He then noticed Christmas decorations in the city.

Incineroar then noticed his younger self walking down the sidewalk, practically broken on the inside. Litten stopped when he came across a window of an electronics shop. There was a single TV hooked up to it. Which was playing the news, the camera showed Sun and an all too familiar Decidueye.

"Honestly, I never would've been able to become champion if it wasn't for the pokemon that's stuck with me since the very beginning. Decidueye," Sun said as Litten stared at the screen is disbelief.

"It was at that moment you made a choice for yourself," Pikachu said to Incineroar as Litten began to pace in circles. "You decided that you weren't going to dwell on the past, you would become the most powerful pokemon in the region without a trainer and didn't plan for anyone. Not even that Decidueye, the same one in the mansion, would stop you." Incineroar then watched blue light come over Litten and evolved into Torracat. "It was through your own ambition and anger you evolved. And your fate began, that whole thing happened on Christmas eve no less." The scene went back to Incineroar's bedroom in present time.

"I guess you could say that's true, but now look at me," Incineroar said. "Very strong, complete control over my moves, and all self-taught."

"Yes and yet you still lost to Decidueye last year, followed by losing to Orange in the tournament," Pikachu said with a deadpan. The pokemon of Christmas past then began to fade away as the clock reached 12:59. "I have to go now, I trust you'll pay close attention to the next spirit. They will be wearing a form of someone you don't really like." With that Pikachu faded away, leaving Incineroar in silence.

"This is ridiculous, there's nothing wrong here I'm just getting myself justice and nothing else," Incineroar shouted to himself.

Multiple arrows then showed up in the room and began to spin around a certain spot in the room. A flash of light then came and went, revealing Decidueye with a Santa hat on his head. "No is it really justice? Or is it just your own anger and need for revenge?"

Incineroar looked at Decidueye and rolled his eyes. "Of all pokemon in this mansion to take the form of and you choose this one?!"

"In order to properly symbolize that I am the Pokémon of Christmas present then I had to go with the one you presently have a grudge with." The archer pokemon then pressed a button on the alarm clock and time sped up to 8:00 in the morning. "Now let's see you plan and it's outcomes. After all, it's currently Christmas."

Incineroar was about to say something when he heard himself getting out of bed and turned around. "What's the point of this," Incineroar asked as his morning self left the bedroom.

"To find out how your plan went, and what consequences it came with," Decidueye said and the scene rapidly transformed into the living room. Nearly all of the residents were in this room and secret santa exchange was called. Incineroar watched as multiple gifts were opened and thanks were given.

"Ah, now this is what Christmas is all about," Decidueye happily said, annoying Incineroar a great deal. "Family coming together, grudges and rivalries being put on hold to celebrate this momentous holiday." Incineroar then landed eyes on himself sitting on the couch, waiting. "And then there's the grinches." Incineroar glared at Decidueye.

"Here you go Ribbon Girl, I got you in the bag." Incineroar and his near future self looked over to the fireplace where Donkey Kong was handing his gift to Ribbon Girl.

"Aw, thanks DK," Ribbon Girl said as she took the gift from Donkey Kong. Both Incineroars watched in anticipation as Ribbon Girl opened the gift. Only to get pied in the face. Everyone stopped what they were doing and gasped. "What kind of joke is this," Ribbon Girl shouted at DK in anger.

"I swear that's not what was in there," Donkey Kong said trying to cover things up. Incineroar from midnight looked over to Mario who had a face of anger, as if he knew who truly did this.

That didn't stop him from celebrating, "Haha, yes! Success! Now they can pay for taking down my high score."

"Just wait for it," the Decidueye of christmas present said pointing to Incineroar's near future self who was walking towards the two right now.

"Oh no, don't," Incineroar tried to say but it was too late.

"(Ha! That's what you two get for beating my high score. I'm the strongest there is here, I have to squash whoever is in my way,) said Incineroar's near future self. Incineroar then sighed in relief knowing they couldn't understand a word he said.

"Incineroar," Mario yelled to the heel pokemon in a rage of fury. "My office! Now!" Everyone watched as Incineroar slowly walked out of the living room. When Mario's met with undying fury you're in big trouble.

Zero walked over to Ribbon Girl and Donkey Kong and gave the former a paper towel. "I am going to explain something to you two, though you don't have to worry about that guy much longer," Zero said as Ribbon Girl got the pie off her face.

"What happened in Mario's office," Incineroar asked the Decidueye of christmas present.

"Let's find out for ourselves," Decidueye said and with a wave of and arrow the scene changed.

They were now in Master Hand's office. Mario was in the desk seat while Incineroar was in a chair facing it. Marth was also there, and the translator was back in the heel pokemon's ear. "Incineroar I was-a planning on saving this until-a after New year's, but-a after what you pulled today we're-a doing it now."

"You seriously think I was the one who did that," Incineroar's near future self asked in fury.

"We have translations from-a both Mewtwo and Lucario." Mario then slammed his hand on the desk to catch Incineroar's attention. "Don't-a lie to us."

"Fine, so I did that. If Ribbon Girl wants the actual gift it's in my nightstand," Incineroar said, confessing. "Go ahead ban me. It'll only be temporary."

"That's-a the other thing you're in-a here for," Mario said as he turned to face Marth. "Play the footage."

Marth nodded and pulled up footage from a hallway in the old stadium that was sunk back in the late summer. It showed Incineroar as he pulled out a piece of charcoal. Mario then put that same piece of charcoal on the desk. If Incineroar was human, he would've paled quickly. "That could be after I got beaten," Incineroar said.

"The timestamp was-a marked for before your match with-a Orange," Mario shout back. Shutting down the first argument. Incineroar was about to say something but Mario said, "And-a before you say it. The simulator doesn't affect this-a item so it-a very well-a increased your attacks."

Incineroar sighed in defeat saying, "Fine I cheated. But there's going to be another major tournament sometime after DLC I'll be back at some point."

"Actually the thing with-a the Pokémon world is that there is-a more than one Incineroar," Mario said. The Incineroar traveling with the Decidueye of christmas present widened his eyes as he realized what Mario was going to say. "Incineroar we'll be finding another to take your place. As for you, banned forever."

Both Incineroars were met with faces of fear. The Incineroar traveling with the spirit of Christmas Present heard Kapp'n's bus behind him and turned around. He then watched the bus drive into a portal, presumably with him in tow. "You get banned. There is shock from a lot of the residents about what you did. But they eventually moved on," said the Decidueye of christmas present.

"I do feel bad for him," Incineroar could hear the actual Decidueye say.

The heel pokemon scoffed. I don't need this guys sympathy, he immediately thought.

"I thought you two hated each other," Pyra said to the archer pokemon.

"Truth is, I've been looking for him for a couple years at least before coming here," Decidueye told Pyra. Incineroar then froze. "Thing is, my trainers name is Sun. I knew I wasn't his first pokemon, eventually I got the story of a Litten he abandoned out of him. Since then I snuck out with Toucannon every night to find him. Eventually the two of us came across an Incineroar training in the woods without a trainer."

"And you connected the dots and realized that was the Litten Sun spoke about," Pyra said, Decidueye nodded. "Wait, didn't you hate Incineroar yourself when he first came to the mansion because he beat out your spot in the tournament?"

"Truth behind that is it was a cover so I could test him. My goal overall was to bring him back to Sun and get him back on the team. But I was brought here before I could do it. Incineroar coming here too was a stroke of luck on my part." Pyra sent Decidueye a look as if it meant 'Then why did you join Tabuu?' Decidueye then sheepishly rubbed his neck saying, "Okay I was mad about getting beat out of the spot. And when I got kicked out afterwards I was afraid of returning to Sun. I was scared of getting deserted like he was, so I joined Tabuu."

Pyra looked down and Incineroar looked on with disbelief. "Yep, he was searching for you this whole time," said the Decidueye of christmas present. He then began to fade a bit. "You're beginning to question the point behind your whole grudge aren't you."

"He was trying to help me this whole time, why didn't he say anything," Incineroar said to himself.

"That you'll have to ask yourself," said the spirit of Christmas present as the scene turned pitch black. "Wait what's going on we should be back in your bedroom."

"I mean am I supposed to meet the spirit of christmas future in a pitch black area," Incineroar said and surprisingly he could still see himself in this area.

"I guess you have a point, he should be here soon. Farewell," Decidueye said before fading away.

Incineroar just stood as he waited.

Smash Mansion

"Ahh," Mewtwo shouted in pain, and was knocked back. He was in Incineroar's bedroom with Lucario. The heel pokemon was currently sleeping on his bed.

"Mewtwo what's going on," Lucario asked before getting knocked back too.

"Someone's taking over our dream," Mewtwo said. "This can't be good, use my aura to give me Incineroar's point of view right now." Lucario nodded and put his hand on Mewtwo shoulder before giving him Incineroar's point of view of the dream.

Unknown location

"Boss what are you doing," Akechi asked the big bad as he had his eyes closed.

"They we're giving a resident something similar to Christmas Carol," said the big bad. He then grinned evilly, "This will be fun."

(My Christmas gift to all of you. I will reveal the big bad in this episode.)

Incineroar's dream

Incineroar could suddenly feel a ghostly presence behind him and turned around. He said the cloak and scythe of the spirit of Christmas Future. Incineroar, knowing that this would truly get him to realize the gravity of things asked, "So, how badly did I mess up in the future."

The spirit said nothing, all it did was toss it's scythe upwards. When it struck something and fell concrete came with it. Incineroar then watched as the pitch black walls came down around him. Incineroar realized he was still on the Smash Island but there was no one in sight, only ruins from the city. The heel pokemon looked back towards the spirit but it was gone.

Incineroar knew he had to go to the mansion first, or what's left of it, he thought. He began walking down the cracked street. And he also had to avoid some weird creatures, but relaxed a bit when one went through him. It confirmed that they couldn't see him. Eventually he saw one person he recognized. It was Mewtwo, but it wasn't the one who was looking at things from Incineroar's point of view. This one was lifeless, Incineroar noticed Kirby, Yoshi, Rex, and Pyra close by the latter still holding a portal raygun. They had been trying to escape.

Eventually he came across the mansion, which was collapsed. Incineroar looked to the left and saw Mario, just as lifeless as the others. "They all die because of what I did, no something must've caused it, but I may be a deciding factor in the whole thing."

Incineroar heard a villainous laugh behind him and turned around. It was the spirit of christmas future. It then dropped the cloak to reveal, not a pokemon, but the big bad instead. "So I win, good to know," said the big bad.

"Who are you, you're not a pokemon," Incineroar said in anger. He then noticed what he said, "Wait you win?"

"Tell me Incineroar, were ever told about the events here last year in October," asked the big bad.

"A bit, what are you saying,"

The big bad then smiled before saying, "September 2018, I placed a bit of the same ore needed to make the portal rayguns in Octo Canyon for the octarians to find and use. March 2018 I resurrected Tabuu and influenced him to seek revenge and assemble a team to do it. As well as kept that island intact. World of Light was not because of me. June 2019 I got Giovanni to assemble a better team to attack and destroy the tournament and ultimately the island. I've been testing you to see if you all could truly protect the island and time and time again you've proved to me you could. But now in a couple months I will take my revenge on the mansion and that angel known as Pit in the ultimate attack!"

Incineroar couldn't begin to comprehend what he was told. "Who are you," Incineroar said in fear.

"I'm the god of the underworld, the destroyer. I. Am. Hades!" With that, the revealed big bad had the ground around Incineroar fall. The heel pokemon was able to grab the end before falling with it. "Soon you and the rest of the island will see ultimate doom."

"I'm gonna stop you," Incineroar said. "I'm going to fix my mistakes and keep this from ever happening!"

"Oh Incineroar," Hades said as he stepped on the heel pokemon hand with force. "You can't stop what's already set in stone." Hades then sent Incineroar down into the endless pit with his laugh surrounding the pokemon.

Incineroar continued to fall until it felt like he landed on his bed and the scene instantly reverted to his bedroom as he fell off said bed. "(What happened,)" Incineroar asked himself as he frantically looked around. He then sighed in relief as he noticed he wasn't speaking English anymore saying, "(Dream, just a dream.)"

Incineroar then sat down on his bed to contemplate what he saw and heard. It was most likely real. I can tell Mario about this but would he listen to me after what I've done before, Incineroar thought. He then looked at his clock, it read 7:00. Incineroar realized what he saw in his time with the christmas present spirit and heard snowballs flying outside.

Incineroar opened the window and saw Ness and Lucas having a snowball fight. "Incineroar," Incineroar said and got the two kids' attention. He then showed his calendar as if asking for the date.

"Yeah Incineroar it's the twenty-fifth," Ness called back from the ground. "Merry Christmas!"

"Residents we'll-a begin the secret santa exchange at 9:00," Mario said over the intercom. Incineroar then realized he had work to do and went into his nightstand, and pulled out a ribbon Girl's original gift. With that he was off.

Incineroar quickly snuck into the living room without anyone noticing and took the gift again. He then jumped into and shimmied a bit up the fireplace and quickly took a pie to the face before putting Ribbon Girl's actual gift in the box before getting out of the fireplace and placing the box back under the tree. As he left he didn't notice there was a security camera focused on him.

Incineroar eventually walked into the kitchen in order to clean the pie off his face. Before he could get to the sink he ducked out of the way of a flying frying pan. "Oh sorry Incineroar," Chef Kawasaki said as he ran over to pick up the frying pan. "I was trying to get a pancake that got stuck on it off."

"You're not going to get it off by throwing it at a wall," Palutena scolded.

Incineroar sighed as he grabbed paper towel and began to wipe the pieces of pie off his face. "Who pied you by the way," Cilan asked as he put scrambled eggs into a big bowl. Incineroar decided to point at himself. "Prank gone wrong." Incineroar made a gesture so he would know it was something like that.

"Well you may want to get to the living room, they're about to start the secret santa," Chef Kawasaki warned. After putting the paper towel in the trash can Incineroar made his way back to the living room.

Things didn't go the way they did in the dream. Ribbon Girl was not pied in the face this time and was given a snowglobe, since Donkey Kong didn't know too much about her yet, she accepted it either way.

Incineroar smiled at the two until he saw a feathered hand give him a small box. Incineroar looked up to see Decidueye. "Yeah, I got you in the secret santa. Hope you enjoy it."

Incineroar unwrapped and opened the small box, revealing a translator identical to the one Decidueye had. "We May have Mewtwo and Lucario here as translators, but it's probably a good thing they can get a break from you. And also so I don't have to shovel mine in you ear again." Decidueye then began to walk away.

In a quick split-second decision Incineroar turned on the translator and put it in his ear saying, "I'm sorry, Decidueye." The archer pokemon turned around in shock. Some of the other residents also stopped what they were doing to watch this. "I had this dream last night, and I learned that I misjudged you. It's a long story, but I learned my lesson. So I'm sorry for the grudge I put up against you."

Decidueye smirked, happily knowing that his plan had worked. "I accept your apology, maybe now we can finally be friends." The archer pokemon held out his hand in hope. And Incineroar shook it, causing some claps. Mario looked on with a smile. "I promise you. I'll make sure I can get you back on Sun's team. Eventually."

"Take all the time you need, I can wait," Incineroar said. He then looked down, he still had something else. "Mario, there's something I need to confess. Though I don't know if now is the best time to do it."

Mario, knowing what Incineroar was going to confess said, "I think it's-a quite all right Incineroar, most of us already left."

Incineroar took a deep breath before saying, "I cheated in the tournament." Gasps were met with this confession. "I believe you have my piece of charcoal. I used it to increase the power of my fire attacks. It was a bad thing to do, and I understand if you want to ban me."

Mario thought about his options for a few minutes before saying, "Honestly Incineroar, I think the fact that-a you told me is-a proof enough that-a your willing to change. Just-a don't do it again." Incineroar took a sigh of relief before moving on with his day.

"Mario," Mewtwo said walking up behind him. "There's something Lucario and I need to tell you too, privately. We have Pit too."

"This is what I've been worried about since last year after Thanksgiving," Pit said after he had heard the full story.

"You had a feeling Hades would attack now that he was revived," Lucario questioned and Pit nodded. "He revealed himself to us last night by hijacking the dream we gave Incineroar."

"Is-a that actually the future," Mario asked Mewtwo.

Mewtwo then said, "What Incineroar and Hades saw was a possibly future, but he's right in one thing. If Incineroar was banned from the mansion it would be set in stone. He plays a role in the whole thing that can help us win it."

"And it's worse, he's been the cause behind everything that's happened to us for the past year excluding World of Light. The octarian invasion Mario, he caused that. And now here gearing up for an attack that will probably go down in history," Lucario said.

"We need Master Hand now more than-a ever," Mario said. He then dropped in his seat defeated. "But I was-a never given a possible way for me to contact him."

"So I guess we can just prepare for now," Pit said.

"Yes, but we may have to pull a Master Hand and wait until the New Year to tell them, can't ruin Christmas now can we," Lucario said. Pit looked down, knowing he was right. Lucario then chuckled, "Huh I guess Master Hand is right on one thing too, sometimes you have to keep things secret for the greater good of others."

9:30 PM

Kasumi was back in her bedroom after dinner, she had stayed up too late the night before and it was coming to bite her in the back now. Before she could think about getting ready she saw a letter on her bed. "Here we go again," Kasumi said to herself as she opened the letter and read it.

This will be the second to last video, there's only one more after this. This video was released in February of 2019, about a good two years after the original Persona 5 game.

Kasumi took the disc and put it in her computer and played it. She saw the phantom thieves logo first as it zoomed out to show herself looking at it. She heard her lines, it sounded just like her. When the game title was shown it said Persona 5: The Royal. Kasumi looked at the letter.

This video announced the game Persona 5: The Royal. It is not a sequel, it is basically a remake version with more story and you as a new character in it. The last video will show some final things. Merry Christmas.

So I'm a video game character too, Kasumi thought. But if the others were around by 2017, do they actually know who I was or were they pretending the whole time. Kasumi decided she shouldn't dwell on this until necessary and went to sleep.

Part 1: S1-S5 Underworld arc
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Author's note: That last bit was a one time thing to emphasize the overall arc here. It will probably show up again. That future scene got darker than I intended it to be. But yes I have revealed the big bad early as my Christmas gift for you guys. And Hades has been the build up to everything that's happened in the last five seasons.