Author's Note:

A lot of reviews to answer...a lot...sheesh...

"This will be my final review thanks to that other reviewer, TIME TO GO for hating on the non-Smash residents. Who will replace Leia as the mansion's head nurse? Will a NEO:The World Ends With You chapter happen when the game comes out on July 27? Is Kairi using her Hayden Panettiere or Alyson Stoner voice? A scene of Corrin playing Star Wars: Republic Commando? (It got a Switch port recently). And finally, I'm sorry for all those character appearance ideas I gave you these past few years. If I had known some people like TIME TO GO hated it, I would have stopped. Again, this is my final review for this fic. Goodbye and I'm sorry."

Nothing in mind yet. A World Ends With You chapter will happen in July. Kairi is using her Hayden Panettiere voice. Corrin might play that Star Wars game. And no need to apologize! I actually enjoy answering your reviews. Don't let other reviewers bring you down! Another anonymous review:

"Hey, remember that time during one of your Marvel episodes, where Meta Knight's mask is "stolen" and he had to wear a paper bag? Well, you can just do that again."

You're right...that's pretty easy to do. Another anonymous review:

"You said that you're adding fewer new residents, but will characters make more 1 chapter appearances? I think it would be interesting if you had more Kirby,Zelda, maybe sonic characters appear as small cameos or 1 chapter things."

We'll see about that. Another anonymous review:

"Ha, I bet silver could help with that time travel. Dunno how tails or sonic would contact him though"

Yeah, I don't know either. Another anonymous review:

Boy oh boy! Alex Kidd in Miracle World DX will be released on June 24! Is there a possibility we could see Alex Kidd in the story again? Kinda ironic since his last appearance in an episode was also Eggman's last appearance in an episode before this year.

Alex Kidd will appear again in the story when Miracle World DX is released. Next we have About Sophia:

"No, no, no. Sophia CAN NOT be brought to the real world. As far as I can remember (and this is P5S spoilers), Sophia was supposed to be an AI. And she belonged to Ms. Ichinose now. So, I don't think Sophia can appear in the real world. At the very least, Ms. Ichinose could come to the mansion and showed how she and Sophia have been doing after the events of P5S."

Good idea. I'll try and work around that. On to TF is Tuck...oh boy:

"Wait a minute. Who the heck is Tuck?! Is that supposed to say Kurt?"

I'll be honest with you...I got Kurt and Tuck mixed up somehow. I'm more familiar with the girl names in Trails of Cold Steel, weird as it may sound. A JRPG Enjoyer has made a correction in the previous chapter:

"What the...Poppi is Tora's Blade! Not Driver! That was a slight mistake, but that could be fatal! Could you imagine Tora (as a Blade) letting out all of those mechanical attacks in XC2? That would be cursed!"

Oh my, that is fatal! But no worries, I went back and fixed it along with Kurt's name. Tora as a Blade would be cursed, though. Derick Lindsey has a question:

"...when can we expect [the Phantom Thieves] to send Cloud a calling card and head into his palace/jail alongside a cameraman to steal his treasure?"

The calling card is nigh approaching. When it's coming, you'll just have to read on to find out. On to TIME TO GO:

"...if you still want to have some non-Smash residents, then do it. But don't have it happen too often, and REMEMBER to use them in the story. Because there's a LOT of residents (Smash-related or non-Smash-related) that have almost no importance to the story. Or even better, give them a limited time as residents, for instance, for 4 months, 6 months, or a year."

The limited-time idea sounds like it could work...I might give it a try. Romance Enjoyer is back:

"...I'd also love to see the Original Class VII together again, maybe at Christmas, or maybe even sooner. Seeing Rean with Alisa, Elliot, Laura, Emma, Machias, Jusis, Fie, Gaius, Millium, and even Crow would be nice (don't forget Miss Sara)! Also, do you think that Crow could have a rivalry between him and Rean, kind of in the vein of Akechi and Joker's rivalry?"

The original Class VII will appear sometime later this year (I hope). There might be a rivalry between Rean and Crow. Next is Manaketeboy:

"What was Ema Skye conoting? either i wasn't paying attention or you haven't mentioned it."

Ema's plan is being kept secret...for now, at least. And finally, we have...A question:

"If I may ask, which one do you prefer, the Tales series from Namco, or the Trails series from Falcom?"

Ooh...tough choice. How do I even choose?! I'm gonna go with my gut and say...Tales. Man, that was such a difficult question to answer...

Episode 278: Champion

Mewtwo was a very patient man...erm, Pokemon. He could wait things out for as long as he needed to. The genetic Pokemon knew how to take things one step at a time, and not be in such a rush. Calm, cool, and collected was his personal motto - if he ever had one, to begin with.

That said, Mewtwo had to wait two weeks to receive his grand prize for winning Master Hand's bracket challenge. As he stated in the last episode, he didn't enter the challenge for fun - he entered it so he could dispose of whatever prize he received, and potentially save the lives of his fellow residents. Given that Master Hand was the one handing out the prize, Mewtwo had every right to be skeptical.

And now the time had finally arrived for Mewtwo to receive his prize. The genetic Pokemon joined Master Hand, Isabelle, and the professors, Byleth and Beleth, in Master Hand's room to his award.

"I know this is a week late, but congratulations on winning the bracket challenge, Mewtwo!" Master Hand congratulated the genetic Pokemon, who had his arms folded as he subjected himself to Master Hand's praise. "Aw, don't try and hide all that excitement on your face!"

"I'm as happy as I can be," replied Mewtwo, who never had it in him to show excitement. Let alone smiling. Seeing Mewtwo smiling was rare as seeing Mario shaving his mustache off.

"Sadly, I can't give you a billion dollars like Warren Buffet, but this will do. Isabelle, the grand prize?" So Isabelle came forward to Mewtwo, holding a wrapped present in her hands. The Shih Tzu then started unwrapping the present, doing it slowly for dramatic effect.

"Today would be nice, Isabelle." At the command of Mewtwo's reply, Isabelle unwrapped the present faster, before revealing a box.

"Congratulations, Mewtwo, here's your prize!" exclaimed Isabelle as she handed the box to Mewtwo. Mewtwo opened the box, and inside he saw...a wrestling championship belt. Totally not what he was expecting.

"A championship belt, for me..." Mewtwo stared at his belt, choosing not to wrap it around his waist. Thought that the belt was beneath him. "...at least it's not designed to kill me, or anyone else, so I'll take it."

Master Hand: Isabelle and I searched high and low for an authentic wrestling belt, but all the ones we found online were fake replicas. I am definitely not kidding when I say that the wrestling business is cheap as heck when it comes to selling merchandise.

"Really, Master Hand? Couldn't do better than a title belt?" Byleth questioned Master Hand, seeing that Mewtwo was hardly interested in the title belt. But only because he planned to dispose of it later.

"Yeah, says the professor who spent last Friday desperately looking for a decent prize..." retorted Master Hand, putting Byleth in her place, before turning his attention back to Mewtwo. "...take good care of that belt, Mewtwo!"

"Will do, Master Hand," replied Mewtwo with a nod, leaving Master Hand's room before closing the door behind him. "Hopefully no one will notice this belt in the recycling bin outside."

"Woah! Is that a wrestling title belt?" a certain angel asked Mewtwo, who looked up and saw Pit coming his way along with Kirby and Incineroar. "That's awesome! Where did you get it from?"

"Received it from Master Hand, as a reward for winning his college basketball challenge thing. I don't think that I'm deserving of this, so..."

"That's cool; if you want I can take it off your hands." Weighing his options, Mewtwo looked down at the title belt in his hands. He knew that Pit loved wrestling, and having a wrestling belt would be huge for the angel.

"Very well then. Here you are, Pit." As Mewtwo was about to hand the belt over to Pit, Pit suddenly put his hand out in front of the Pokemon, stopping him.

"Mewtwo, you noob! That's not how it works. For me to acquire that belt, I have to pin you first." Mewtwo didn't want to abide by Pit's arbitrary rules, but he had no choice.

"Right, of course..." So Mewtwo laid down on the floor, lying on his stomach so Pit could pin him. The genetic Pokemon looked back and saw that Pit hadn't moved an inch.

"I can't pin you when you're lying down like that." Heaving a sigh, Mewtwo laid on his back, allowing Pit to pin him by simply putting his foot on the Pokemon's chest. "Kirby, Incineroar, do the three count!"

"Uh...one, two, three!" Kirby shouted for Incineroar, who did the three count as he smacked the floor with his hand three times. Incineroar took the title belt away from Mewtwo and handed it to Pit.

"YEAH! I'M THE CHAMPION OF THE WORLD, BABY! WOOOO!" cheered Pit, raising his fists, as Mewtwo teleported away to save himself from Pit's dorkiness.

"Nice title you got there, Pit," Cloud said to the angel as he passed by the angel, stopping to see how authentic the belt was. "What are you a champion of?"

"I'm the World...Smash...Heavyweight champion!" A pretty basic name for a wrestling title, but Cloud still accepted it. "My first reign! Inaugural champion!"

"Should be the first reign of many. Well, hope you have a decent run with that...title, I guess." On that note, Cloud walked away, but not before Pit remembered to ask Cloud something.

"Before you go, Cloud...you ever found out who stole our money?" Pit asked the swordsman, who stopped in place as guilt overwhelmed him. "Lloyd's growing more upset by the day."

"Still working on it...I'll keep you and Lloyd posted," Cloud responded to the best of his ability, before walking down the hallway. As Cloud left, guilty as ever, Pit marveled at his title belt. Better take good care of that belt, if he knows what's good for him.

Because he was in the mood for it, Pac-Man organized a brunch at his house and invited some of his Namco buddies to attend. The eater of ghosts wouldn't be alone in preparing the brunch, as he invited three of his friends - Heihachi Mishima, Lloyd, and Gil - to assist him. Pac-Man stood outside his house with the three, expecting the guests to arrive.

"I can't thank you boys enough for helping me with the brunch," Pac-Man said to Lloyd and company, before noticing that Lloyd looked a bit down. Has been that way since the whole stolen money fiasco happened. "Sure you still wanna be here, Lloyd?"

"I mean, you invited me so...might as well attend," shrugged Lloyd, doing his best to keep his mind positive and not dwell upon the negative stuff. Can't have any negativity during the brunch. "Means a lot for you, Pac-Man."

"Still can't believe you chose a stupid brunch over a night of blackjack and hookers," Heihachi frowned at Pac-Man, shaking his head as he thought less of the eater of ghosts. "Without the hookers, obviously..."

Heihachi: We were supposed to play blackjack tonight at Pac-Man's house, but Ms. Pac-Man refused because of the presence of her kids. That lousy woman acts like a nighttime daycare for children doesn't even exist! Which they should if they haven't already.

"Here comes our first arrival!" announced Gil, as he recognized the Galaga ship that slowly descended and landed in front of Pac-Man's house. The door to the ship opened up, and a bunch of characters stepped outside.

"Woah nelly, we almost got the whole gang!" exclaimed Pac-Man, as the folks stepped out of the ship and headed to Pac-Man's house. Pac-Man would greet every person by their name. "Dig Dug! You still digging holes? That's awesome, man. Mappy! That police badge's looking mighty clean, as always. Taira no Kagekiyo! Scary-looking as I remember. Tarosuke! How'd you get out of jigoku? Ah, I'm just messin' with ya. Clovis! Bet you're still into slaying dragons. Valkyrie! Or should I say, female Thor? Ha! Albatross! Handsome as always. Wonder Momo! I can just call you Momo, right? Kissy! Mind if I kiss ya?"

"Her name is Kissy..." Heihachi wheezed as he, Gil, and even Lloyd were laughing it up. After welcoming Kissy inside his house, Pac-Man saw a few more from the Galaga ship show up.

"Bravoman, Red Baron, and Blue Max! Welcome, welcome!" Another guest showed up, this one a man wearing a helmet, an orange suit, and sunglasses. "Well, if it isn't Runner...when are you gonna get a real name?"

"Runner is my real name, thank you very much..." the orange suit man frowned at Pac-Man before he entered the eater of ghost's house. Soon, a black car pulled up into Pac-Man's driveway.

"Is that who I think it is?" asked Lloyd, recognizing the vehicle, as a Japanese woman stepped out. It was Reiko Nagase, and she was looking pretty as ever.

"Hi Pac-Man, hi fellas!" the race queen waved to Pac-Man and company, who all waved back. In her hands were a few items she brought over for the brunch. "Thank you for inviting me, Pac-Man."

"No problem, Reiko! I see that you brought some stuff for the brunch. But did you bring the 'special guest'?" Reiko knew exactly what Pac-Man was talking about, as evidenced by the smirk on her face.

"Took him a while to come around...but I got him." Everyone's attention was turned to the passenger door of Reiko's car, which was opened. A Japanese man exited from the car, closing the door, and it wasn't just any regular Japanese man...

...it was Kazuya Mishima, Heihachi's son whom he despised with a deep passion. Heihachi was glaring down at Kazuya, who was adjusting his suit.

"I must say, Miss Nagase, your ride is spectacular," Kazuya complimented the race queen, before slowly looking up and seeing Heihachi. His eyes locked with Heihachi, and soon enough the two Mishimas were glaring each other down.

"Uh, Reiko...I thought I told you to get Heihachi's grandson, not his son," a wary Pac-Man said to Reiko, watching as Heihachi and Kazuya confronted each other. The father and son were face-to-face, glaring each other down.

"Whoops...must've missed the 'grand' part," responded Reiko in a very apologetic manner, realizing the damage that she might've done. Pac-Man's brunch might be a little...explosive.

"Pac-Man, are there any active volcanos in Washington that I could throw Kazuya into?" Heihachi asked the eater of ghosts, doing his best to restrain his strength. And from straight up killing Kaziya.

"You should be the one thrown into a volcano," Kazuya said to Heihachi, getting even closer to Heihachi's face. If that was even possible. "Maybe then, you'll get the Devil gene just like me..."

"...think we're just gonna head on inside, you boys carry on!" Pac-Man said to the Mishimas as he and others hurried inside the house. Kazuya and Heihachi continued to stare each other down, as the Mario Bros, Mario and Luigi, walked by with several baskets of fruit.

"Good thing we're not like-a this with our family, huh Luigi?" Mario grinned at Luigi as he nudged his twin brother in the side.

"Heh, I barely even know any family outside-a of you, bro!" replied Luigi - a lot happier about that fact than he probably should be. Mario and Luigi went to Mario's house, and Kazuya and Heihachi...

...continued to stare each other down like there was no tomorrow. Might even have the longest eye-staring contest in human history. Would be one for the Guinness World Records.

Mario entered his house along with Luigi, and inside the two brothers saw Peony in the living room with his daughter, Peonia. From the looks of it, Peony was very invigorated from a trek that he and Peonia went on.

"We had a great hike together, didn't we Nia?" Peony asked his daughter, totally in the mood for going on another hike. Regardless of whether Peonia had any say in the matter or not.

"Yes, dad - now can we go home, please?" Peonia implored her father, who wiped away some sweat from his forehead. Felt proud doing it. "We were supposed to head back to Freezington months ago..."

Peonia: Dad usually gets super carried away when he goes on his "adven-tours". His life goal now is to explore the entire state of Washington, and with me at his side. Before that, his life goal was to drink all of Peach's hot chocolate. He's still working on that, even though it's spring.

"You and your daughter went on another 'adven-tour', Peony?" Peach asked the explorer, whose exuberance written all over his face should tell the princess all that she needed to know.

"Yep! Went on a mornin' trek, sweet Nia and I," smiled Peony as he wrapped his arm around Peonia, which Peonia embraced. A sign of how much Peony has come along with his daughter. "Nearly ran into some crack addict as we veered off the trail, but it was all good."

"Sure have been-a doing a lot of exploring, Peony," Mario said to the explorer, as he and Luigi placed the baskets of fruit on the dining room table. "I can tell that you really must-a like the Pacific Northwest!"

"You can bet your gold coins that I do! Just can't thank you enough for lettin' me and my daughter stay with you, Mario. I think now is about time that I return the favor."

"Return-a the favor how?" Mario raised an eyebrow in intrigue, as Peony knelt at the plumber and placed his hand on his shoulder.

"I gave you and Luigi on an adven-tour the first time we met...so I wanna take you on another one. Just as a big thank you!"

"We won't be running into any edge-a lord legendary birds, will we?" Luigi asked Peony, who shook his head no; Luigi sighed in relief. "Phew, thank goodness, that Galarian Zapdos still gives-a me nightmares..."

"It will be me, you fellas, Nia, Spyro, Hunter, and five more folks of your choosin'." Hearing the conditions of this adven-tour, Spyro and Hunter quickly came into the living room. "What do you boys say?"

"Uh, whoever said that we were going on an adven-tour?" questioned Spyro, choosing to spend his Friday chilling at home. Today was a perfect day for him to be a homebody. "Hunter, can you believe this guy?"

"I wouldn't mind going on one," replied Hunter, expressing his excitement for exploring, as Spyro facepalmed at the cheetah. "Always wanted to see what Canada is like!"

"Then Canda we shall go!" announced Peony, as his adven-touring plans were now set in stone. And Spyro couldn't be any more appalled. "We'll just take a shortcut to the border, no biggie..."

"I'll get our hiking materials-a ready!" proclaimed Mario, rushing to his garage as Luigi ran outside the house to prepare himself. Excitement was at a high.

"Do you think they'll honestly let us through the border?" Spyro asked Peach, certain that either one of Mario or Peony (or both) will prevent the group from crossing over into Canada.

As you may already know, Yu was in a relationship with Rise. And due to Rise's obligations with Star Records, Yu never got to hang out with his girlfriend much often. But today Rise had a load of free time on her hands, which meant that she had some time with Yu - who had some plans for today.

Yu's plans? To have an afternoon watch party in the comfort of the living room, with a few of his friends. Yu was super prepared, as the young man had picked out the menu and everything with Teddie's help. The menu was...make-your-own pizza, which was a suggestion from Teddie.

"So these are your cheeses, your ham, your sausages, your herbs, and your vegetables," Yu showed off a table with pizza toppings to Rise and a few others, before showing them the pizza dough. "Here's what's been done, so start creating. Sometimes it helps to think of a part of the world, and..."

"Master, am I doing this right?" Teddie asked Yu, as he was tossing pizza dough up in the air. Part of him felt like Gordon Ramsay, in the flesh.

"You don't really toss the dough." Despite Yu's discretion, Teddie continued to toss the dough, not giving a single care in the world.

"Try and destroy the old ways, Master, well I will not let you!" Eventually, Teddie tossed the dough so high, that it got stuck to the ceiling.

"Can I just eat the pizza dough without the sauce or toppings?" Pigma asked Yu, leading to weird stares from the young man and the others. "Well, excuse me for wanting to be different..."

Pigma: Yu likes to entertain some, and he cooks in an oven and all that jazz. I just have a different lifestyle. They have these bags of vegetables that steam right inside their own bag. So I'll get a few ingredients, sit down in front of the TV, a bag of vegetables, before you know it I'm ready for bed!

"Really liked what you did with this whole setup, Yu," Rise said to the young man, latching herself unto his left arm. The others started making a line at the table of pizza toppings. "Make-your-own pizza night is such a great idea!"

"Don't forget, it's also a watch party too," stated Yu, who considered today a success since Rise was fully on board with the festivities. "It took a while for the Hulu app on the TV to..."

"Move aside, peeps - Mr. Champion coming through!" shouted Pit, donning his title belt as he cut through the line. Kirby and Incineroar were at least respectful enough to remain at the back.

"Cutting the line already?" Groaning, Yu broke away from Rise as he angrily confronted Pit. "Pit, why can't you just wait your turn like everyone else?"

"You dare talk to the World Smash Heavyweight champion like that?" Pit showed off his title belt to Yu, letting the young man know who he was dealing with. "Do you have ANY idea what this belt means?!"

"...it means absolutely nothing. Now get to the back of the line!" Yu pointed down the line, wanting Pit to vamoose, but Pit wouldn't go away so easily.

"Don't disrespect my title like that!" Pit dropped his title belt and grabbed Yu's neck, choking him as Yu felt literally no pain. Pit eventually brought Yu down to the floor, as he and the young man were tussling with each other.

"Sweep the leg! Put 'em in a headlock!" shouted Ken Masters, not rooting for anyone in particular, as everyone was engrossed in the scuffle taking place. Rise wanted to intervene but kept to herself.

"Hold up...I think he's got him in a pinning position!" observed Doc Louis, seeing Yu on top of Pit with Pit's shoulders down. Doc unzipped his red jumpsuit sweater, revealing a referee shirt underneath.

"How long were you wearing that referee shirt...?" Wii Fit Trainer curiously asked Doc Louis, who seemed appalled that the question was even asked.

"Wii Fit, you never know when you need to do a three count...or officiate a soccer friendly." Doc Louis got down on the floor, as he did a three count for Yu. "One, two, three!"

"Wait, what?" said Yu, as he and Pit looked up in confusion. Doc Louis grabbed Pit's title belt and helped Yu up to his feet, before handing the belt to him.

"Congratulations on winning this title belt, son!" Doc Louis congratulated Yu, who was looking at the title belt in his hands in bewilderment. "Not sure what this means, but I can tell that you're going places."

"No fair, I had Yu in a submission hold!" Pit whined as he pointed at Yu, wanting a rematch. "He just didn't tap out because of his slow reflexes."

"Quit your whining, Pit...why don't you go and take your misery somewhere else?" And that's what Pit did, as he stormed out of the living room. Kirby and Incineroar chose to stick around.

"You guys carry on without me...I need to get rid of this thing," Yu said to the others, retreating out of the living room with his title belt. Doc Louis, wanting to be at Yu's side, followed after Yu.

"Yu, wait up for me!" Rise called out to her man, as she too left the living room. Once Yu, Rise, and Doc Louis were gone, everyone went back to making their own pizza.

"Wait, with Yu gone...who's gonna pick out the movie?" wondered Chrom, although no one else seemed that concerned. The swordsman shrugged his shoulders a few seconds later. "Guess I'll just pick one myself. Anyone here like the Trolls movie? Or is it just me?"

Ema didn't need Sonic and Crash just yet, for she was still in the first phase of her master plan. So until their names were called, Sonic and Crash kept on doing what they did best - hanging together and being best friends. Even if Sonic had hard feelings from last week's incident.

"Such a shame that we never had that tennis match last week," Sonic said to Crash, as he and the bandicoot were playing table soccer while Aku watched. "Altina hurting her friend like that was messed up. Just like how you pushing me into that pool was messed up..."

"Sorry if I'm interrupting, but have you guys seen Dr. Wily anywhere?" Midna asked Sonic and company as she flew into the gaming room. She had searched around the tower for Wily, but couldn't find him anywhere.

"He's over there, speaking with Dr. Cortex," replied Aku, as he brought Midna's attention to the couch that Wily and Cortex were sitting on. Midna flew over to Wily and Cortex, seeing them deep in conversation.

"I tried opening the basement door, but it was still locked from the inside," Cortex discussed with Wily, before taking out a key from his pocket that caught Midna's slight attention. "Luckily, I found this basement key in Master Hand's room..."

"Dr. Wily, your underwear is done drying on the balcony," Midna informed the robot inventor, who did not want this information shared out in the open. "Can you please get it before it contaminates the entire area?"

"Shh! Can't you see that I'm in the middle of a conversation?" Wily frowned at Midna, before turning his attention back to Cortex. Midna remained where she was, folding her arms. "So, Cortex, that Rift Generator..."

"Yes, the Rift Generator - we need it out of the mansion, pronto," stated Cortex, as he and Wily were seemingly on the same page. Imagine that. "The sooner it's out of the basement, the better!"

"The heck is a Rift Generator?" Midna asked Wily and Cortex, hearing enough to inject herself into the conversation. "Is that some kind of Doctor Who crap? Bunch of nerds!"

"No, it's a time machine that Dr. Nefarious Tropy built in the mansion's basement," Wily explained to Midna, who now found herself highly intrigued. Yet at the same time, concerned. "I want it dismantled because time travel should be discouraged!"

"And I want it dismantled because I hate N. Tropy's guts, and his literal guts too!" added Cortex, as Midna gave the evil genius a dubious stare. "And because I dislike time travel as well..."

"Cortex here informed me about the Rift Generator. Said that Cloud was the one who wanted it built in the basement. Neither one of us have any idea what he even needs it for..."

"Did you guys mention something about a Rift Generator?" Sonic asked Wily and company, as he came over along with Crash and Aku. "Yeah, that's the time machine that Cloud wanted to be built! It's all part of his..." Sonic looked around before he whispered, "...Aerith Revival Project."

"What's the Aerith Revival Project? And why were you whispering?" questioned Midna, acting as if Sonic had discovered some juicy secret government info.

"Basically, Cloud wants to revive this universe's Aerith. I was a part of the project, but I pulled out. Not because of moral or ethical reasons. I just got sick and tired of being Moira O'Deorian's errand mule."

Midna: So it seems that Cloud is stuck living in the past... *sighs* ...thought that he would've learned his lesson from last year. But I guess you can't teach an old dog new tricks. Granted Cloud's not an old dog yet, but the way that he dwells on the past, makes you wonder...

"You know, maybe it won't be just the two of us..." said Cortex, hinting at the possibility of more people joining his and Wily's pact. "...are any of you in? Speak now or forever hold your peace..."

"Hated it when Cloud dabbled in time travel the first time, so...I'm in," volunteered Midna, hoping to set Cloud straight, before looking at Sonic and Crash. "How about you two?"

"I don't know..." replied Sonic, as he took a few moments to think to himself - until he thought about his involvement with Ema. "...actually, count me in!"

"Woah!" shouted Crash, voicing his desire to join the pact. He and Cortex would be working together, much to Cortex's slight chagrin. Lots of bad memories.

"Wherever Crash goes, I will go as well," stated Aku, proving to the others that he couldn't be his own man. Must've been a huge pushover in his past life as a human.

"Excellent! That makes the six of us," gleamed Midna as she clapped her hands together, with Aku feeling appreciative for being included. "That Rift Generator will be out in no time..."

Yu wanted to rid himself of the title belt that he now had ownership of, but he had absolutely no clue how to do it. So until he came up with something, the young man strolled through the mansion with the belt over his shoulder. Accompanying him was his girlfriend, Rise...as well as Doc Louis.

"Can't you just go and take a hike?" Yu asked Doc Louis, looking around for a place to put the title belt at. He would toss the belt in a trash can, but it was probably too big.

"I'm your referee, son," replied Doc Louis, as Yu sighed in response; having a girlfriend around could only help so much. "Since you're the champ, I go wherever you go."

"Hey Yu, nice belt you got there!" King K. Rool said to the young man as he walked by; Yu couldn't tell if the Kremling was mocking him or not.

"Looks like someone's got a pretty big head today," remarked Samus as she took walked by, taking a quick gander at the title belt. "You must think pretty highly of yourself..."

"Wah, how come you get a belt and I don't?" Waluigi ran up to Yu and whined, feeling all sorts of jealousy inside. "I'm the Wah-Man for crying out loud! I was born a champion!"

"Uh, shouldn't you be running the tower or something?" Yu asked Waluigi, as he did not expect to run into the lanky man. Nor did he want to. "You're still the man of the tower, right?"

"I would be at the tower, but the stench of Dr. Wily's underwear has polluted the air." Waluigi couldn't help but notice Doc Louis wearing a referee shirt, as he had a crazy idea in his head. "So until the smell goes away..."

Waluigi would catch Yu off-guard, as he grabbed the young man and put him in a headlock. Waluigi kept on applying pressure, as Yu struggled to break free.

"Stop that, Waluigi, let go of him!" Rise yelled at the lanky man, growing worried as Yu's face was turning light blue. Rise looked at Doc Louis and saw that the boxing trainer was doing nothing. "Doc Louis, aren't you gonna stop this?"

"Not now, I'm trying to ref here!" barked Doc Louis, as Rise rolled her eyes and groaned. Waluigi brought Yu down on one knee, as he kept applying the pressure around his neck.

"Say uncle, say it!" Waluigi commanded Yu, as he had the young man on his ropes. Yu's face was turning even bluer, as the air was being choked out of him.

"Uncle...uncle..." wheezed Yu, tapping out on Waluigi's shoulder. Satisfied Waluigi dropped Yu down to the floor, and allowed him to catch his breath.

"He tapped out, that means we got a new champion!" announced Doc Louis, taking the title belt from Yu and giving it to Waluigi. "Congratulations, Waluigi!"

"Yippee! This is one of the happiest moments of my life!" celebrated Waluigi as he held his title belt above his head. He must have a pretty unspectacular life for him to be celebrating like that. "I'll never let this go!"

"You tell 'em, Waluigi!" Doc Louis looked on proudly, as Waluigi walked away with the title belt. And when Waluigi moved...Doc Louis moved as well.

"Wah? Why are you following me, Doc?" Waluigi walked even faster to get away from Doc Louis, but Doc was hot on the lanky man's heels. "Seriously, stop chasing me! You can't have my belt!"

Waluigi: Heh heh heh! With this title belt, the guys at the tower will finally respect me more. I'll have the respect that I rightfully deserved from the very beginning! Now to put this on... *places title belt around his waist; belt falls to the floor* ...gonna need to get this custom-fitted.

"Well, Yu, looks like you're no longer 'champion'," Rise smiled at her boyfriend, who had finished catching his breath. Rise, like how any great girlfriend would, helped Yu stand back up.

"Yeah, but I can't believe that I let Waluigi get the better of me," responded Yu, feeling some type of way as he adjusted his jacket. Good thing that only Rise saw him get humiliated. "Guess every great man has their off days."

"Wanna head back to the living room? We still have that watch party, you know." Yu suddenly remembered the watch party - and the whole make-your-own pizza thing. "Pigma might've eaten all the pizza dough!"

"Can't let that happen, can we? Let's hurry back." Relieved that he was no longer the "champ", Yu headed back to the living room along with Rise.

Pac-Man's brunch was going along well in the Pac-Man household, and everyone was having a good time. Including Lloyd, who was the happiest he has ever felt in the past couple of weeks. Sure the company of others might've helped, but Lloyd was feeling some positive vibes that he sorely missed.

"Care for some more hash browns?" Ms. Pac-Man asked Kazuya, holding a plate of hash browns, as Kazuya was too busy having a glaring staredown with Heihachi to respond. Ms. Pac-Man placed the hash browns on Kazuya's plate, before awkwardly stepping away.

"Those two haven't even touched their food..." Valkyrie observed the Mishimas, grateful that neither man hadn't ruined the brunch's friendly atmosphere. Everyone was talking with one another, while the Mishimas were in another world.

"I'd say we take their share of the food," suggested Mappy as he stuffed his mouth with some frittata. Only because it had cheese, which he couldn't resist. "Who's with me?" A few of the others raised their hands.

"Leave them alone, you guys - just be glad they haven't started killing each other yet," advised Pac-Man, before he heard the doorbell ring. The eater of ghosts was suddenly delighted. "That must be them!"

Pac-Man hopped out of his chair as he ran to the front door, opening it and seeing Dingodile and Ty. In their hands were several trays of brunch food.

"Catering has arrived, mates!" announced Dingodile, as Pac-Man let the mutant and Ty inside his house. "We meant to arrive earlier, but we were involved in a police chase. Never be a rubberneck."

"You got a few more guests outside," Ty informed Pac-Man, moving out of the way as a few folks entered the house. All of whom were invited to the brunch by Pac-Man, who was an even happier man.

"My oh my - we got the rest of the gang!" exclaimed Pac-Man, as four people stepped inside - two men, and two women. "Lili, Siegfried, Cassandra, and Yuri Lowell!" Then out of nowhere, Pac-Man gasped at Cassandra. "No way! Cassandra, you're actually wearing pants!"

"Thank you for noticing, Pac-Man..." responded Cassandra, curiously eyeing around the living room, as Lloyd was strangely staring down Yuri. "...these are tights, by the way."

Pac-Man: Inviting Soul Calibur guests was pretty hard to come by. The guests that I had in mind were either too scary for the others or weren't that keen on wearing decent clothing. Looking at you, Ivy Valentine.

"Hope that you didn't start without us," Lili said to Pac-Man, before looking ahead and seeing everyone at the brunch table already eating. The Monegasque socialite sighed. "Way to wait on the bourgeois..."

"Yuri Lowell!" shouted Lloyd, as he stood up from his seat and pointed at the swordsman in question, glaring him down. "We meet again..."

"Uh, hello Lloyd," Yuri awkwardly responded, wondering what Lloyd's big deal was. More beef at his brunch, just what Pac-Man needed. "Wasn't expecting to see you at this brunch!"

"Silence! I know why you're here, Yuri...you're here to steal my shine! That's why you accepted Pac-Man's invite." Lloyd walked away from the table, very ticked off.

"Why would I steal your shine for?" Yuri looked very uneasy as Lloyd confronted him, folding his arms. "You're acting like I'm secretly jealous of you!"

"Probably not, but we all know what your motive is...to steal my spot in Smash Bros! Well, I won't let you have it. You're not even a real man!"

"I doubt that you'll make it into Smash anytime soon, Lloyd, but please sit back down," Pac-Man said to the swordsman, not wanting any more drama in his household. It was bad enough that Heihachi and Kazuya were glaring at each other, still.

"Yuri...your name, when translated from Japanese, refers to the act of two anime girls...sharing feelings for one another." A whole lot of reluctance as Lloyd finished his sentence. "What does that say about you, as a man?"

"He's not referring to Pyra and Mythra, is he?" Ty whispered to Dingodile; the thought-provoking question he asked last week remained unanswered.

"Shut up, shut up..." Dingodile whispering back, grinning from ear to ear as he was taking in all the drama transpiring in front of him.

"I'll be honest with you, I never knew what my name meant," stated Yuri, with Lloyd taking that as a sign of Yuri being a stupid idiot. "But I'm pretty sure that you're off with that translation."

"Isn't Yuri Japanese for 'abundant ideals'?" asked Gil, only for Lloyd to grab a clock off of the nearby fireplace and toss it at the de facto librarian, narrowly missing his head. Lloyd refused to not be undeterred.

"Alright, Lloyd, that's enough!" Pac-Man shouted at the swordsman as he got up from his chair. It was a rare sight to see Pac-Man so incensed, even for someone such as Ms. Pac-Man. "If you're not gonna play nice, then I suggest that you take your butt outta here."

"Oh, I'll play nice...for now," responded Lloyd, glaring down Yuri as he went back to his seat. An awkward silence filled the house, one that not even the Mishimas could bring.

"Any chance that you have bread in those food trays?" Siegfried asked Dingodile and Ty, doing his best to ease the awkward tensions in Pac-Man's house as the brunch picked up right from where it left off.

Before Peony could embark on his adven-tour to Canada, Mario first had to recruit some folks for the exploration team. So far he had asked Nia (along with Dromarch), Mega Man, Arthur, and Donkey Kong if they were interested, and all of them obliged. Now he needed one more...

"Good afternoon, Mario," Marth greeted the plumber, who was standing at the doorstep. The hero-king looked like he was busy, as evidenced by the seat on his face. "What can I do for you?"

"I've been told-a that Link was here at your house," replied Mario, before looking past Marth and seeing a bunch of boxes inside the living room. Either opened or unopened. "You and Caeda moving out?"

"Oh no, not at all! We're moving someone in." Marth moved out of the way, as he allowed Mario to see his new housemates...Roy and Lilina. "Or rather, we're moving in a couple..."

"Hi, Mario!" Lilina smiled and waved to the plumber, who couldn't help but notice something shiny on the mage's hand. "Can you believe that Roy and I are going to be neighbors?"

"Is that...a wedding ring?" Mario gasped, as Lilina stopped waving and held her hand up so Mario could see her ring. "Mama mia! Corrin must've made-a you jealous, huh Roy?"

"Imagine me being jealous of Corrin, haha," chuckled Roy, as the others were laughing along with him. The swordsman eye around the living room in a suspiciously nervous manner.

Roy: Once I caught wind of Corrin secretly eloping with Felicia, I rushed into action and eloped with Lilina. And now because of Kana, Lilina and I are going to have a kid. Whether Lilina wants one or not. Adopting works just as fine.

"Who came over to visit?" inquired Link as he came down the staircase, holding a few boxes in his hands. The Hylian suddenly lost his footing and came tumbling down, only falling just a few steps. "You guys saw nothing..."

"Just the man I wanted to see!" exclaimed Mario as he entered Marth's house, making his way to the end of the stairwell. "Link, Peony is going on another adven-tour. He wants me to invite some people. Do you want to come?"

"Yeah, man, I'd love to..." Link stood up, but as he did so, he yelped in pain and grabbed his foot as he sat back down. "...on second thought, I might've twisted my ankle coming down the steps. I can't go."

"But you only fell down a few steps," Roy said to Link, as he came over to see if the Hylian was actually in pain. "You look practically fine to me!"

"Shut up, you don't know how bad my fall looked..." Link heard some footsteps, as he turned around and saw Champion Link going down the staircase. "Why not ask Champion Link if he wants to go, Mario?"

"Go where?" inquired Champion Link, feeling extremely skeptical all of a sudden. Especially after Mario's name was mentioned. "If we're talking about going down some 'bottomless pit'..."

"Easy now, Champ, that was just a prank...I didn't mean-a to refer to Donkey Kong's anus as that," assured Mario, as Marth and Lilina both exchanged curious looks with one another. "There won't be any anus where-a we're going!"

"He wants you to go with him and Peony on an adven-tour," Link explained to Champion Link, looking back at Mario before he whispered the following: "Personally, I can't stand Peony, so you need to take my spot..."

"An adven-tour, huh? I'm down." Champion Link cooled off, as he was opened for some exploration around King county. But little did he know... "Do I need to get my hiking materials?"

"There's no need, Luigi and I got it covered," informed Mario, as the hiking group was now complete. "All you have to bring-a is yourself! And maybe a forbearing attitude."

Ema was busy up in her room, and all that busy work made her hungry. So the forensics expert opted to grab a quick bite to eat, before diving back into the busy work that often kept her...well, busy. When Ema exited her room, she was greeted by five individuals - six, if you wish to include a floating mask.

"Well now...this is a team-up I did not envision myself seeing," remarked Ema as she saw Sonic, Crash, Aku, Midna, Wily, and Cortex banding together. "Crash and Cortex working together, what are the odds!"

"Provided that Crash doesn't spank me like last time, we should be able to coexist..." remarked Cortex, as Ema gave the evil genius a weird glance. "...that's just the tip of the iceberg, mind you."

"Hey Ema, I just wanted to let you know that we're gonna dismantle some time machine in the basement," Sonic explained to the forensics expert, who already seemed aware of the machine. "Thought that you would wanna know."

"Time machine, huh? I remember Tails telling me about it," said Ema, who had learned a few details about the Aerith Revival Project from Tails. "Why want to dismantle it now?"

"Because time travel is unnecessary," stated Wily, making sure that Ema had this important fact ingrained inside her brain. "It can ruin lives, it can ruin the time-space continuum, and it can even ruin relationships!"

"Yeah, what he said! Time-traveling...is gay!" proclaimed Cortex, before realizing a few seconds later that his word choice was a bit immature. "I mean...it's retarded! I mean...d'oh!"

Ema: Cloud is really taking things to the extreme with his plan. Using some dangerous machine to accomplish your goals, and corrupt your own moral compass in the process...couldn't be me! *smiles, then chuckles nervously*

"Don't know how you guys will dismantle a time machine, but I'll leave you all to it," Ema said to Sonic and company before she went down the hallway, heading down to the kitchen. "Let me know how it goes."

"Will do!" replied Midna, expecting Ema to hear a positive report later today. Soon Midna and the others were joined by Waluigi and Doc Louis, with the former holding unto his title belt.

"Wow! That's a pretty nice championship belt you got there," Sonic complimented Waluigi, who proudly carried the belt over his shoulder. "Looks like the real deal! Where did you get it from?

"Got it after I made Yu tap out," bragged Waluigi, as everyone save for Sonic dared not to question the context of Waluigi's response. "Had him crying uncle, with his bowl cut self!"

"Haha! Yu must've been so embarrassed. How about I take that title of yours off your hands?" Sonic looked at Waluigi with alluring eyes, as he dug into his imaginary pocket and pulled out a stack of cash.

"Making me hand over my title by enticing me with money...ha! Nice try!" Waluigi defiantly turned his head and folded his arms, before he looked at Sonic with the corner of his eye. "How much you got there?"

"Wario loaned me five thousand bucks so I could buy my own hot tub. But since I hate bathing in water..." Sonic couldn't even finish his sentence, as Waluigi swiped the money out of Sonic's hands.

"Score! Enjoy your belt, buddy!" Waluigi handed Sonic his title belt, before running away a happy man. Sonic was left satisfied with the transaction, as Midna couldn't help but facepalm.

Waluigi: Having a title around my waist was nice and all (if I ever managed to have it fit), but you know what's nicer? Five thousand bucks! Let's count up all the money...*does a double-take at the money* Wait...are these fake dollar bills?! Waaah...

Sonic: *snickers* What a sellout...

"Since you're the champion now, I have no choice but to stay at your side," Doc Louis explained to Sonic, who was too busy brandishing his new title belt. "I'll be on the lookout for any potential challengers...you oughta do the same."

"As long as Doc Louis stays away from the Rift Generator, we should be good," Aku discussed quietly with Midna, who nodded her head in agreement.

Yu and Rise were back in the living room, and they were sitting on the couch together as they enjoyed movie night. Or movie afternoon, rather. Yu had a question in his head that he felt strongly obligated to ask.

"Whose idea was it to watch the Trolls movie?" the young man asked everyone in the living room, as a nervous Chrom had his lips pursed. "Was it you, Chrom? Should've known."

"I didn't really care about the movie," Rise said to Yu, before lying on the young man's shoulder. Yu embraced it like how any great boyfriend would. "I'm just happy to spend this time with you..."

"Feel the same way you do. Even if we have some company. At least there are no distractions..." Yu shut himself up, fearing that he might've jinxed himself...

"Time's up, Yu! I want my title rematch NOW!" Pit returned to the living room and confronted Yu, strangely holding a golden briefcase. The angel was starting a scene, as Chrom had no choice but to pause the movie.

"Is that Tom Nook's briefcase?" Kirby asked Pit, recognizing the briefcase that the angel was holding. Hopefully, Pit asked for permission. "Did you...paint it gold? Why...?"

"Because with this briefcase, I can use it to cash in my contract for a title match! I typed up the contract myself." With an explanation like that, Pit received bewildered looks from the others. "If you guys watch wrestling, you would know."

"May I see the briefcase, please?" Yu asked Pit, who handed the briefcase over to the young man. Yu opened the briefcase, and would you know, there was an actual contract inside.

"'You are...hereby ordained...to...grant a...rematch clause to...Pit,'" Rise read the contract out loud, seeing no dotted lines at the bottom. Sham contract. "...yikes, the formatting is horrible!"

"So what will it be?" Pit asked Yu, wanting a definite answer out of him at once. "When do I get my rematch? I prefer right now."

"I don't have the title anymore, Pit," replied Yu, as Pit was devastated to have learned this. With no title belt in sight, Pit knew that Yu was speaking the truth.

"Well, um...this is awkward. In that case, can you find out who has the title belt, then? I kinda need it back, hehe." It was never Pit's original intention to lose the title belt in the first place.

"Help him now, and he won't bother you for the rest of the day," Rise whispered to Yu, as she was looking out for his boyfriend. And also for herself.

"Okay then, Pit, I'll try and track down whoever the current 'champion is," Yu agreed to Pit's terms, as he rolled up his sleeves. He wasn't exactly sure why he even thought to do that. "Not like this movie is worth watching anyway..."

"Watch your mouth!" Chrom shouted at Yu, getting all defensive before he saw everyone else staring at him. The swordsman sheepishly backed down. "Uh, I mean...carry on."

Fox has been missing in action for Cloud and Moira, for the pilot was keeping Krystal company at home. With Krystal nearing the end of the third trimester, her child would be born sometime soon, and thus Fox was on high alert. Fox did every favor for Krystal and then some, and that included finding his wife some grub to eat.

"Just so you know, the food trays are off-limits," Pac-Man explained to Fox, who stopped by the eater of ghosts' house for some food. Fox was only intrigued after spotting Dingodile and Ty outside. "They're for my guests only."

"I thought that you would've had a pizza party or something," said Fox, as he was craving for some pizza right about now. "Did Pizza Hut not give you free pizza for all that TV advertising they did?"

"Ha! They just sent me a check, and then called it a day. Wasn't much though, so I just gave it to Master Kohga. Thought he needed it."

Master Kohga: You're darn right I needed that check from Pac-Man! My men couldn't afford any rolling paper, so I used Pac-Man's check to make my first cigarette! Those teenagers think they're so cool, smoking their precious little cigars near my lair...I'll show them...

"Fox, can you do me a solid?" Lloyd called out to the pilot, grabbing his attention; Lloyd then pointed at Yuri, who was simply minding his own business. "You see that crook over there, with the girly long hair?"

"I'm literally just eating pancakes," Yuri expressed his innocence to Fox, wishing that Lloyd would keep his name out of his mouth. "I have done nothing to harm him."

"But you are harming me...harming my chances of ever being in Smash!" Lloyd saw Yuri as a massive roadblock, one that he simply couldn't remove alone. "Fox, I need you to take him out immediately!"

"Lloyd, really, why do you have to be like this?" sighed Pac-Man, as Fox walked over to Yuri. Yuri could only watch in fear and unimagined terror, as Fox stared at him while taking out his hand...

"Fox McCloud, nice to meet ya," Fox casually introduced himself to Yuri, holding out his hand for a handshake. The little amount of fear Yuri had vanished away, as the swordsman shook Fox's hand.

"Nice to meet you as well!" responded Yuri, as Lloyd watched carefully for whatever move Fox would bust out next. "You must be one of Pac-Man's neighbors, I assume. Love the hospitality."

"Yes, Fox, kill him with kindness!" Lloyd encouraged Fox, wanting nothing more than to see Yuri a dying, miserable mess. "Squeeze his hand so hard that he'll beg for mercy. Squeeze it until it bleeds!"

"Can we not have any violent imagery at this brunch?" Gil politely requested of Lloyd, increasingly annoyed by the swordsman's profound disdain for Yuri. "People are trying to eat, you know."

"Not my fault you guys have weak stomachs." Lloyd would find himself disappointed a few seconds later when Fox stepped away from Yuri without leaving the swordsman a bloody mess. "Really, Fox? That's it?"

"I'm not following up on any of your weird fantasies, Lloyd," replied Fox as he went over to Heihachi, seeing the fighter's uneaten plate of food. "Uh, are you gonna eat that food, Heihachi?"

"Shut up, can't you see that I'm busy?" frowned Heihachi, as he was still glaring down Kazuya - and Kazuya was still glaring at him. Neither man had yet to leave the table - who knows if either one of them had to use the bathroom.

"Leave now - this is our fight, not yours," Kazuya advised Fox, not wanting the pilot to get himself involved in some potentially violent family affairs.

"Guess I'll be taking your plate then..." Fox said to Heihachi as he snatched the fighter's plate of food before leaving. But before he could leave the house, Fox went back to speak with Pac-Man. "...yo, Pac, you don't know if Mario's home or not, do you?"

Mario wasn't at home, for he was on an adven-tour with Peony, Peonia, Luigi, and a few others. Thanks to Mega Man using the teleportation device, the group managed to get closer to the border of Canada. Mega Man teleported everyone to Lynden, Washington - a city that was five miles away from the Canadian border.

"The Canadian border should be just up ahead," announced Peony, as if he was able to see the Canadian welcome sign in view. Which he did, at least in the comfort of his own mind. "If we keep preserving and pressing on, we will make it!"

"We've only been hiking for like five minutes," stated Nia, who felt like the group had cheated by using the teleportation device to get ahead. "You're even worse than Shellhead when it comes to theatrics..."

"I don't think anyone can outdo my dad when it comes to showing out," Peonia said to Nia; with Peonia and Nia together in the same presence, how would Peony be able to identify between the two? "He's embarrassed plenty, in the past."

"Aye, your dad is nothing compared to the likes of Zeke," Dromarch warned Peonia, grateful that the girl had missed out on the past three Zeke encounters. "At least your dad doesn't have a childish nickname."

"He does have a childish nickname...Pee-ony," snickered Hunter, expecting the others to laugh hysterically in response...only to be met with silence. "You guys have a very sucky sense of humor."

Soon Peony and the gang reached the border - but of course, they couldn't cross over easily. They were met by the Canadian Border Services, as a few Canadian federal agents were up ahead.

"Sorry folks, but you're gonna have to turn back," one of the agents said to the adven-tourists, bringing everyone's attention to the "border closed" sign. "Border is still closed, I'm afraid."

"But we're a family, and families are essential," argued Donkey Kong, trying to get on the federal agents' good side as Spyro facepalmed at the gorilla. "Isn't that right, Mario? Aren't we a family?"

"You bet!" replied Mario, following up Donkey Kong even though none of the federal agents were convinced. The agents had every right to be skeptical.

"So a few humans, a dragon, a cheetah, a gorilla, a robot, a cat, and some girl with cat ears are all 'family,'" said the lead agent, as Donkey Kong grinned and nodded his head. "Don't see a Princess Peach here, so who's the 'mother'?"

"Right here, good sir!" replied Donkey Kong as he pointed at Nia, who buried her face in her hands just to cope. "As you can see, she's very bashful about it."

"Suuuuurrreeee..." The lead agent rolled his eyes, refusing to believe another word that came out of Donkey Kong's mouth. "...anyway, the border's gonna remained closed, so why don't you all head back home?"

"Looks like your adven-tour won't be happening, Peony," Champion Link said to the explorer as he turned around and walked away...only for Mario to stop the Hylian in his tracks. Mario had a very determined look on his face.

"Luigi...take-a out your camera phone," the plumber commanded his twin brother, who asked no questions as he quickly pulled out his phone. Mario, on the other hand, pulled out a Poke Ball. "I've been-a waiting to do this..."

Mario threw his Poke Ball and sent out a Pokemon that we haven't seen since episode 254...Calyrex. Calyrex was riding atop its steed, Spectrier, looking super regal as always.

"My goodness, that noggin is big..." remarked Arthur when he first saw Calyrex, before Mega Man whispered something into the knight's ear. "...what doest thou mean that's its a crown?!"

Mario: Calyrex is very camera-shy, so I only take it out-a of its Poke Ball when you guys-a aren't around. Now you could say that it's hard-a to infer Calyrex's emotions since it's always-a so stoic, but I know how it feels...I'm a good-a Pokemon trainer. On another note, do you know where I left-a my Pokemon food?

"Is...is that a Pokemon?" asked the lead federal agent, as he and his fellow agents took a few steps back. Never before has the Canadian Border Service dealt with a Pokemon at the border.

"Now, Calyrex - possess-a him!" commanded Mario, as Calyrex possessed the lead agent. The agent was now floating in the air, a blue aura emitting from his body, as the other federal agents ran off in fear. "Good. Now repeat-a the following: 'You are hereby allowed to cross the Canadian border.'"

"Why am I doing this? Is this even legal?" questioned Calyrex, only for Mario to scold it. The high king Pokemon lowered its head and sighed. "You are hereby allowed to cross the Canadian border..." Calyrex's voice came from the possessed agent's mouth, as Luigi was recording on his phone.

"Okay, you can let him-a go now. Let's-a go, everyone!" So Calyrex de-possessed the man, following Mario and the adven-tourists into Canada. The federal agent landed on the ground, wondering what happened.

Using the key that he found, Cortex found access to the basement and was working on dismantling the Rift Generator. He wouldn't do it alone, for he had Wily, Sonic, and Crash to assist him. Aku and Midna oversaw the operation, while Doc Louis kept to himself.

"So this here Rift Generator, what does it do?" inquired Doc Louis, as he took a bite from his chocolate bar. He was only around due to Sonic having the title belt with him.

"Who gave you the right to speak?" Midna frowned at Doc Louis, wanting the boxing trainer to stay out of the others' business. "Just keep eating your precious chocolate bars. Surprised you haven't gotten any fatter..."

"Leave him alone, he's not interfering much," Wily said to Midna, as he was trying to unscrewing a small part of the Rift Generator. "Sonic, would you be a dear and close the door and lock it? Don't need anyone peeking inside!"

"On it!" Sonic saluted Wily before he sped up the basement staircase to the door. But as Sonic put his handle on the basement door, he saw Falco. Uh oh...

"Sonic?" Falco spotted the blue blur, before seeing what was going down in the basement. "Is that the time machine that Cloud wanted? Are those dudes trying to take it apart?"

"It's, uh, not what you think..." Sonic was nervous, as Falco was left wondering what Sonic's involvement was. Sonic needed a distraction, and he had the perfect one in his possession. "...hey, have you seen my title belt?"

"Title belt?" Falco furrowed his brow, as Sonic sped down the stairs and returned to the door with his title belt. "Oh snap! Is that a legit wrestling championship belt?"

"You bet! I'll let you take it, but under one condition..." Sonic looked behind him, seeing Crash, Cortex, and Wily doing their thing. "...you promise not to tell anyone about this."

"Deal!" So Sonic handed the title belt over to Falco, who fastened it around his waist. Several seconds later, Doc Louis came up the stairs.

"One, and one more thing - since you're the 'champion', Doc Louis will follow you around wherever you go. He's your own personal ref."

"I'll be your guardian angel, son," Doc Louis said to Falco, giving his undying loyalty to the avian pilot. Weirdly, Falco felt extremely humbled.

"Would've preferred having my own valet, but this will do..." shrugged Falco before he walked down the hallway, with the title belt over his shoulder. Doc Louis followed after Falco, on the lookout for any suspecting challengers.

Falco: So what exactly am I supposed to do with this title belt? Flaunt it in front of the others and make them feel like they're beneath me? Granted, they feel inferior to me already, but I suppose this title will only signify their insecure feelings.

"Hey Sonic - you wouldn't happen to see anyone carrying around a title belt, do you?" Pit approached the hedgehog, who was just about to close the basement door.

"I just gave it away to Falco," replied Sonic, as Pit just saw Falco and Doc Louis enter inside an elevator, with the elevator door closing. "I just handed it to him, no biggie..."

"No! That's not how a title change is supposed to turn out." Pit was acting like some kind of professional wrestling purist. Somewhere Jim Cornette was beaming proudly. "Did he at least pin you, or make you tap out?"

"Neither of those things, I just...why are you so concerned, Pit? You want a title belt that bad?" Sonic would order a title belt online for Pit if he felt like it.

"Well, it's just that..." Pit would stop speaking when he looked past Sonic and saw the work being done in the basement. "...what's going on down there?"

"In the basement?" Sonic turned around and saw Cortex and company still working on taking apart the Rift Generator. They haven't even gotten a single part of the machine dismantled. "That's a time machine. Cloud got some scientist guy to install it."

"So that's why Cloud forbid to let anyone inside the basement...must be top secret stuff! Well, thanks anyway, Sonic; I'll just ask Falco to give up that title belt. The right way, that is..."

"Right on, Pit - you go and be a stickler for the rules!" As Pit walked away, Sonic reflected over the conversation he just had, as his eyes went big with worry. "Did I just tell him about the time machine...?"

While Pit was looking for the title belt, Yu was conducting his own search as he went around asking anyone that was most likely to carry a title belt around. One person that Yu asked was Little Mac, who was training in his room.

"No, I haven't seen any wrestling belts - or Doc Louis for that matter," Little Mac said to Yu, as he was punching away on a sandbag. That poor sandbag probably had a family - or even a girlfriend. "Sorry."

"If you see either one of them, just let me know," Yu told Little Mac before he left the boxer's room. Upon leaving the room, Yu unexpectedly ran into Rise. "Found something, Rise?"

"Not in regards to that belt or anything..." replied Rise, as she made Yu stumped...but what she had to share was far more important. "...but I did overhear a pretty interesting conversation with Cloud and Aerith."

"Where at?" Taking Yu's hand, Rise led her boyfriend down to the end of the hallway, before hiding behind a door. Rise then shushed Yu, as she brought the young man's attention to Cloud and Aerith, who were both chilling at the windowsill.

"How would you feel if someone ever revived you?" Cloud asked Aerith out of bitter curiosity, as Yu furrowed his brow. "For any reason at all."

"That's a...pretty loaded question, Cloud," replied Aerith, smiling warmly as she chocked her head slightly to the side. "Why are you asking me this again?"

"Just wanted to know what your opinion was, that's all." Cloud folded his arms behind his head, as Yu could tell that something was off with the swordsman. "Is that moral, reviving people?"

"I mean, in my universe, people who die can be resurrected at any given time. But they only die if they lose their heart. It's a metaphysical thing."

"So I guess reviving people isn't that immoral from where you're from." This was confirmed as such, as Aerith happily nodded her head.

"Sora has a history of reviving people...fighting Heartless and releasing their hearts," Aerith sheepishly smiled, knowing that Sora's track record with the Heartless was supremely extensive. "Maybe you should speak with him."

"Hard pass on that one. The last thing I'd want is for him to lecture me on how bad darkness is. Darkness this, darkness that, my friends are my power..."

"Sounds like Cloud wants to be some kind of necromancer," Yu quietly discussed with Rise, as Aerith giggled at Cloud's Sora impersonation. "Why is that?"

"Because he wants back the Aerith he knew and loved..." replied a certain one-winged angel, as Yu and Rise were both spooked to see Sephiroth behind them. "It's all part of his plan..."

Sephiroth: Cloud is slowly having second doubts about reviving Aerith, and is now asking alternate universe Aerith if she would ever want to be revived. I wonder how that Aerith will feel about potentially being "replaced". *smirks deviously*

Pac-Man's brunch was coming along well, and all the guests were full - save for the Mishimas. With (almost) everyone having eaten as much as they could, Pac-Man wanted to play a little game to spruce things up.

"Let's play some bingo!" the eater of ghosts exclaimed, as he went around the brunch table passing out bingo cards. Everyone looked uninterested, as Pac-Man whipped out a lottery ball machine. "Who's ready?"

"Why bingo? Do you think we're old people or something?" Dig Dug questioned Pac-Man, who was greatly alarmed by the general lack of interest in bingo from the others. "Why don't you take this bingo crap to some rest home?"

"Yeah, this isn't a bingo hall!" shouted Mappy, with a few of the other brunch guests voicing their complaints. "Might as well set up some chairs and a wrestling ring while you're at it..."

"C'mon you guys, playing bingo is fun!" stated Pac-Man, desperately looking around for anyone that would side with him. His eyes soon fell upon Lloyd, who kept to himself. "Lloyd, isn't bingo fun?"

"No way am I playing with that guy," replied Lloyd as he pointed at Yuri, acting as if the swordsman was the bane of his very existence. Pac-Man turned towards Yuri, wanting some support from him.

"I've never played bingo, but even I'm not interested," stated Yuri, as Pac-Man snapped his fingers in disgust. No point in asking someone like Siegfried or Cassandra; they might give out the same answer.

"What is so wrong with bingo, you guys?" Pac-Man questioned the others, as it suddenly became silent in the dining room. "What do I have to do to make you play? Make some prop bets? Do I have to bet my own house just to get you all to participate?!"

"Silence!" Kazuya shouted at Pac-Man, having heard enough as he threw his fork at the eater of ghosts. Pac-Man dodged the fork as it struck the wall, but in doing so he fell out of his seat and onto the floor.

And then...Heihachi started laughing. It was a pretty heartfelt laugh - nothing malicious about it. Even Lili, who knew Heihachi slightly well, had never seen the man laugh so genuinely before.

"Hehe...that was hilarious," chuckled Heihachi, as he gave Kazuya a rare smile; the disdain that he once had for his son at the start of the brunch was now completely erased. "You made Pac-Man look foolish!"

"I guess I did," responded Kazuya, not sure how he should feel about Heihachi's laughing. For him, it was some parts weird, and other parts creepy. "Glad that I could make you laugh like that."

Gil: No, I haven't really heard Heihachi laugh that much. The rare times that I do, though, is when Heihachii is done talking about throwing his most-hated relatives in a volcano or even tossing a whole litter of kittens inside a microwave. I'd say that the second scenario is much more demented. Shows you the kind of person Heihachi is.

"That was rich..." remarked Heihachi after he was done laughing. The fighter looked down...only to finally realize that his plate was gone. "...huh? Where did my plate go?"

"It's about time he found out..." mumbled Valkyrie, as Heihachi was searching aggressively for his plate. Looked on the table and underneath the table.

"Dang it, Kazuya! I was glaring at you for so long, that my plate of food mysteriously disappeared. You will pay for what you've done!"

"No, Heihachi, hold it!" Pac-Man quickly shouted at the fighter, as Ms. Pac-Man helped the eater of ghosts up to his feet. "Your plate didn't mysteriously disappear; Fox took it while you were still in your...glaring...trance...phase."

"Very well then - I'll be heading over to Fox's house. if I find out that Fox ate my food, then he will be very sorry." Heihachi got up from his chair, as Pac-Man gulped nervously.

"Don't leave just yet!" Kazuya said to Heihachi, who stopped in place as his son came over. In a rare act of familial unity, Kazuya placed his hand on Heihachi's shoulder. "I want in on this..."

"So you want to beat up Fox too?" A nod from Kazuya was all Heihachi needed to know, as Pac-Man nervousness was boiling over. "Like father, like son..."

"Like father, like son..." Working together for the first time in what felt like forever, Heihachi and Kazuya both exited Pac-Man's house, hoping to give Fox a beating that he won't forget.

"Yeah...totally screwed up here," Reiko chuckled sheepishly, showing some regret as she rubbed the side of her neck. Fox was bound to wind up in the hospital, and it was all Reiko's fault.

When Zelda heard that Roy and Lilina were moving in with Marth and Caeda, she made plans to visit the couple. The princess and Researcher Zelda stopped by Marth's house, just to see how Roy and Lilina were handling themselves.

"So how long have you two been married?" Zelda asked Roy and Lilina, as Link was putting away all the empty boxes. And yes, Link's ankle was just fine.

"Did you pull a 'Chrom', and eloped in secret?" asked Researcher Zelda, with Roy cracking a smile in response to the question. Researcher Zelda smiled as she pointed at Roy. "Don't try and hide it!"

"We eloped, but only because Roy was feeling jealous," explained Lilina, as Roy gave his wife a bug-eyed look. Evidently, Lilina said something that she wasn't supposed to say. "Jealous of..."

"Jealous of the other swordsmen being married," said Roy as he prevented Lilina from speaking by putting his hand over her mouth. "When Link proposed to you, Zelda, that's when I pulled the trigger."

"We actually got married much sooner than that," stated Lilina as she took Roy's hand away from her mouth. "We eloped almost a month after Corrin and Felicia eloped."

"Oh my - that must mean you've been married for almost a year now," remarked Zelda as Roy frowned, rubbing his hand down his face. His big secret, if you want to call it a secret, was revealed. "Roy, are you...jealous of Corrin?"

"He wasn't until the secret marriage happened. Now that Corrin has a child, Roy wants to do the same." The hits just keep on coming, much to Roy's dismay. "He's forcing one on me..."

"And whoever said anything about that?" Roy questioned Lilina, wishing that he could speak his child into existence if possible. "Our child will be the finest prince of our land...or princess. We'll name them..."

Suddenly a loud crash was heard, as Fox was sent flying through Marth's one living room windows. The pilot landed on the floor, looking like he had a few bruises on his face.

"Fox, what did I tell you about flinging yourself against my house, in the name of 'parkour'?" Marth scolded Fox, not caring how much pain the pilot was in. "You actually broke one of my windows this time!"

"I didn't do this on purpose," Fox expressed his innocence to Marth as he picked himself up off the floor. "Heihachi and his son are kicking my butt."

Fox: Heihachi got on me for stealing his food, and when he accused me of eating it, I just told him that Krystal ate it instead. Being pregnant was the one thing that saved Krystal from a premature hospital visit.

"We're not finished with you!" Heihachi yelled at Fox, kicking the front door to Marth's house down as he and Kazuya came inside. Marth would scold Heihachi, but he knew better than doing that.

"Stay out of our way, if you know what's good for you," Kazuya warned Marth and the others before he and Heihachi went to work on Fox. Kazuya put Fox in a headlock, as Heihachi wrangled with Fox's leg.

"Now would be a good time to contact someone..." suggested Researcher Zelda, refusing to see Fox potentially end up a mangled mess. She and Zelda both looked towards Link.

"Why are you looking at me, not like I have a phone," Link said to the two Zeldas before he noticed the house phone right next to him. "Oh, right..."

Peony and his gang were in Canada, and although they weren't legally allowed in the country, they were still having a great time. Peony guided the adven-tourists through the Canadian wilderness, showing them all sorts of sights.

"And this right here is Burnaby Lake," Peony said to the group, as he brought them to the lakeside. Lots of bird species to be seen. "Occupies 770 acres of land! Should be an art gallery somewhere nearby, if I'm not mistaken."

"Wow, Peony, you must really know a lot about this place," an easily impressed Champion Link said to the explorer, who gave a cocky smile. "Must have done your research on Canada, huh?"

"Eh, not really - I just read the bunch of tour guides that Cappy gave me." Everyone turned their attention to Cappy, whose eyes popped out from Mario's hat. "Had a whole lot of 'em!"

"What can I say...I get around a lot," was all Cappy could say, glad that he could be useful for something. "I'm a world globetrotter!"

Cappy: I have tour guides for just about every country in the world. Even for countries that most people have never heard of before, like Kiribati for instance. Can you believe that Vatican City is still considered a country?

"Mama mia - Marth is actually calling my phone!" exclaimed Mario, hearing his phone ring as he read the caller ID. A phone call from Marth was rarer than finding a million dollars at the bottom of a well. "This-a is important!"

"Can't be that important, it's Marth..." mumbled Nia, as Mario happily answered the phone. To say that Mario was overly excited would be an understatement.

"Marth, I can't believe-a that you're calling me! This is too swell! I always try to give-a you a call, but you never answer. So for you to call-a me..."

"Relax, Mario...it's me, Link," said the person on the other line, Link, as Mario's excitement quickly evaporated and was replaced with disappointment. "Heihachi and his son are apparently beating up Fox."

"Heihachi's son? Kazuya? Don't they hate-a each other?" Mario had offered to assist Heihachi in mending his family beef in the past, but his requests were usually turned down.

"From the looks of it...not today. Just called Cloud, and he said that he was busy." Cloud was being busy...what a surprise.

"I'm quite-a busy myself - I'm still on my adven-tour with-a Peony and his daughter. So sadly, I can't save-a Fox."

"Alright then, I'll just call Cloud again. Thanks for answering the call, Mario. Hope you enjoy the rest of your...adven-tour."

"Do I need to head back to Seattle?" Arthur asked Mario, taking out his trusty javelin as Mario put his phone away. "These javelins aren't made for undead monsters, you know..."

"No, Sir Arthur, Cloud's got it all covered. Or at least-a I think he's got it covered..."

Sephiroth was still keeping a close eye on Cloud, hanging around the back of the arcade room as he saw Cloud speaking on the phone. Cloud was speaking with Link.

"In that case, I'll send someone out to straighten up Heihachi," Cloud spoke into the phone, figuring that he should ask either Ryu or Ken to save Fox's hide. "Help is on the way...alright, see ya."

"Someone to straighten out Heihachi, hmm?" said Sephiroth, appearing from the shadows of the arcade room. Hearing Sephiroth's voice as he put away his phone, Cloud sighed. "Sounds like a job for me..."

"No thanks, you'll only make things even worse." Knowing Sephiroth, he would bring nothing but despair, and then some. "Don't need your sword impaled through anyone."

"Why on earth would I make things worse? I am only here to do your dirty work for you. Joker has done it the past two instances...so what, Cloud, possibly makes me exempt from doing the same?"

"How do you even..." Cloud was about to question Sephiroth, only to remember the words that Sephiroth said to him at the end of the last episode. "...fine, you can go on ahead."

"Promise I'll take my sweet time..." Sephiroth smirked at Cloud as he left the arcade room - and Cloud wasn't having any of it from the one-winged angel.

Joker: Sephiroth has been a pretty big help for me and my friends - we mostly use him to keep tabs on Cloud. If Cloud does anything that is remotely suspect, Sephiroth won't hesitate to let us know. Doesn't hurt to have too many spies, if you know what I mean.

As Cloud exited the arcade room, the swordsman ran into Pit. Unlike the previous encounter, the swordsman had a prepared answer ready to go.

"Before you ask, I haven't found out who stole the money yet," Cloud informed Pit; Sephiroth, who was just down the hallway, stopped in place so he could eavesdrop on the conversation. "I'm still working on it."

"I didn't want to speak with you about the money," Pit said to Cloud, catching the swordsman -and Sephiroth - by surprise. "I wanted to ask you about the time machine in the basement."

"Time machine? You don't mean the..." Cloud crinkled his nose, fearful that another one of his secrets he had was discovered. "...didn't I tell you guys not to go in the basement?"

"For the record, I wasn't in there, but Sonic and a few others were. I think they were trying to take it apart. Crash was even peeing on the machine."

"Peeing on the time machine? Now that's just gross." Cloud was gonna need some disinfectant later - provided that the Rift Generator remained intact. "I'll go tell everyone down there to leave - keep the time machine a secret for me, alright?"

"Aye aye, captain!" Pit saluted Cloud, who turned around and walked away; Sephiroth resumed walking, wondering if Sonic and company would be successful.

Yu was still looking for the title belt, and Rise accompanied Yu to make his search easier. (And because she just wanted to be with her man.) There was a lot of commotion coming from the gaming room up ahead.

"The 'champion' must be in there," assumed Yu as he and Rise went inside the gaming room. The young man's suspicions were correct, as Falco was fighting over the title belt with a bunch of residents. Doc Louis was there, trying to keep track of everything.

"Knockout, we got a knockout victory!" shouted Doc Louis as Bowser gave a sucker punch to the current titleholder, the Flying Man. Bowser quickly scooped up the title belt. "We got a new champion!"

"Come to papa!" Bowser said to the title belt as he kissed it repeatedly...only for Snake to sneak up behind the Koopa King and put him in a chokehold.

"Tap out, tap out!" Snake shouted at Bowser, who was gasping for air; Bowser tapped out in a hurry, as Snake dropped him onto the floor. "Looks like I'm the champion again."

"Oh no, you don't!" Master Mummy shouted at Snake, who had just taken the title belt from Bowser. A bunch of residents leaped at Snake, leading to a big pile of humanity.

"Having that title...isn't worth it," a previous titleholder, Falco, said to Yu and Rise as he crawled over to the couple on the floor in pain. "All that glitters...definitely ain't gold."

Falco: The very moment I walked into the gaming room to show off my title...the dudes started attacking me and going after my belt. My belt must've made everyone feel so bad about themselves, that they almost killed me just so they could hold the strap. Proves my point about them feeling inferior because of my awesome presence.

Doc Louis: Today marks the first time that Falco was legitimately afraid of Pit. We heard Pit calling out to us, demanding his title belt back, and Falco ran away from that boy faster than Jesse Owens! He even hid in the bathroom, so Pit wouldn't find him. It's an experience that Falco won't talk about ever again.

"How long has this been going on?" Rise asked Doc Louis, as she and Yu came over to speak with the boxing trainer. Doc Louis was sweaty, likely from doing a lot of refereeing.

"Beats me, I've lost track of time," replied Doc Louis, who had forgotten to wear his leather watch today. "But I have been keeping up with the title changes."

"How convenient..." remarked Yu, seeing that the pile of bodies was still there. Not a single person arose out from it with the title belt. "How many title changes have there been?"

"Let's see - Ike, Ryu, Flying Man, Crunch, Morton, Ridley, and Touma had the belt once; R.O.B. and Hammer Bro held it twice; Magnus, Terry, and Master Mummy held it three times; and Waluigi held it five times. Bower and Snake are both tied at seven."

"Hey ref, over here!" Waluigi shouted at Doc Louis, emerging from the pile as he held Ryu in a chokehold. The lanky man dragged Ryu away, as Ryu was fading fast.

"Drop him, son!" Doc Louis commanded Waluigi, who dropped Ryu onto the floor. Doc Louis then retrieved the title belt from the pile, before giving it to Waluigi. Another title reign for the Wah-Man himself.

"Haha, my seventh title reign today!" Waluigi was sure to document this truly historic occasion in his diary. "The legend of the Wah-Man grows!"

"Hand over the title, Waluigi," Yu demanded the lanky man, as he held out his hand. The young man was looking very stern. "That belt's caused enough trouble today, so hand it over."

"You can't fool me, Yu! I know that you're jealous of my numerous title reigns. You might be hot stuff, but you're nothing compared to me!"

"He's got the belt, y'all!" Crunch stood up and pointed at Waluigi, who now had a giant target on him as the pile of bodies broke up. "Let's get him!"

"Wait, hold on!" shouted Yu as he put his hands out, right before anyone could make a move. "Can't we just talk this out, like men?"

"Too late for talking...besides, fighting is how men really solve their problems. Now get him!" So Crunch and the others chased Waluigi out of the mansion, trampling over Falco in the process.

"You guys go on ahead...you can count me out," a bruised and battered Falco said to Yu, Rise, and Doc Louis, who stayed behind in the gaming room. Falco realized that he might've made a big mistake.

"I think it's about time we ended this," Doc Louis said to Yu and Rise, after seeing how the title belt turned some of the male residents into savages. "Why don't we see where those guys chased Waluigi off to?"

For some strange reason, Pac-Man missed having Heihachi and Kazuya at his brunch and wanted to bring the Mishimas back to his home. Because he couldn't bring himself to do it, Pac-Man asked two of his guests to retrieve the Mishimas...Lloyd and Yuri.

"Why didn't you tell me that Heihachi and Kazuya were no longer at Fox's house?" Lloyd frowned at Yuri, feeling the urge to blame the swordsman as he and Yuri walked away from Fox's house. "Made us both look stupid."

"You act like I'm some kind of omniscient," frowned Yuri as he and Lloyd went over to Marth's house, heading down the walkway. "Would be the nicest thing you said to me all day if you referred to me as such."

"Which is exactly why I won't refer to you as such." Lloyd was about to ring the doorbell, only to realize that the front door was slightly cracked open. "Weird, the door's already open..."

Lloyd and Yuri went inside the house, and to their surprise, they saw Heihachi and Kazuya writhing on the floor, with Sephiroth standing over there. The house occupants were chilling the kitchen, including Fox who was recuperating from his minor injuries.

"Do not be alarmed - I came over to handle some business," Sephiroth informed Lloyd and Yuri, who knew better than to mess with the one-winged angel. "Did a favor for Cloud..."

Caeda: Sephiroth showed up, and Heihachi and Kazuya stopped harassing Fox thinking that they could take on Sephiroth together. A two-on-one fight, basically. Yet it ended with both of them down for the count. A man's ego is a very dangerous thing - especially if you have two of them paired together.

"This was all your fault...you were the one who dragged me down!" Heihachi barked at Kazuya, as the two Mishimas pulled themselves up to their feet.

"Me? You were the one who kept getting in my way!" Kazuya frowned at Heihachi, as the repaired father-son bond was now breaking. Sephiroth realized it too, as he proudly smirked.

"Oh give me a break! You were the one getting in MY way!" Heihachi threw his arms up in defeat, as he stormed out of Marth's house. "We could've had Sephiroth's number if it weren't for you."

"Now you listen here, old man! This was all your fault!" Kazuya followed Heihachi out of Marth's house, having a bone to pick with his dad.

"Things are back to normal, it seems," remarked Fox, seeing that Heihachi and Kazuya went back to hating each other again. "Kinda scared me a bit seeing those two on the same page..."

"Man, hating on someone else sure is pretty stupid," remarked Yuri, after witnessing the verbal sparring between the Mishimas. "I couldn't imagine how those two could despise each other."

"I'll say," replied Lloyd, before realizing that he was in rare agreement with Yuri. The swordsman couldn't believe it, as his eyes went wide. "You don't...think that I hate you, do you, Yuri?"

"Your comments, I shrugged them off. Those things you were saying to me - I've heard worse. Much, much worse." That made Lloyd sigh in relief.

"Yeah, all that stuff I said earlier...I didn't really mean it. Guess I just got jealous for no reason. Sorry for that. You can forgive me, right?" Lloyd held out his hand to Yuri, wanting a handshake.

"It's all water under the bridge..." Yuri shook Lloyd's hand, as he and Lloyd were now on friendly terms. Pac-Man will be most relieved to hear this news.

As the handshake ended, Waluigi suddenly leaped inside Marth's house through the broken window. The lanky man landed on the floor, next to Sephiroth.

"Waluigi, why are you in my house?" questioned Marth, as Waluigi shushed the hero-king before looking around for anyone coming after him.

"Don't let them know that I'm here!" Waluigi warned Marth and company, making Marth's house his hiding spot. But his cover would be blown when Crunch barged inside with a slew of residents.

"We got you now, string bean!" Crunch yelled at Waluigi, who screamed in terror. "Hand over the title belt, or...else..." Crunch stopped speaking when he saw the man Waluigi was cowering behind...Sephiroth.

"Is there a problem?" Sephiroth stared down Crunch and company, striking fear in every man that was present. The one-winged angel showed off his Masamune, to drive up the fear even more.

"N-No problem at all, Mr. Sephiroth sir!" stammered Crunch, as he and the other males were backing away for their own good. "You just do you, man!" The group of men ran off, returning to the mansion.

"That went easier than I expected." Sephiroth put away his Masamune, as he looked down at saw Waluigi hugging his lower body as a sign of thanks. "Please stop hugging me..."

"Saw them running from this direction," Doc Louis said to Yu and Rise, as he brought the lovebirds to Marth's house. The boxing trainer saw Waluigi inside the house, with the title belt in his grasp. "There's Waluigi! He's still got the title belt, too. Musta scared the others off, Sephiroth!"

"Indeed...though I believe that this belt has caused enough trouble on its own." Sephiroth pulled the belt out of Waluigi's grasp, holding it in the air. "I'd say that we retire it for good..."

Sephiroth brought Doc Louis, Yu, and Rise to Master Hand's room, and had the three explain today's shenanigans with the title belt to Master Hand and Isabelle. Although it was Doc Louis who did most of the explaining.

"All of that happened in just one day?" Master Hand asked Doc Louis, who nodded his head as the giant hand was baffled beyond belief. "What do they think that belt is, the Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship?!"

"Is that even a real wrestling championship?" Rise whispered to Yu, who shrugged; a simple Google search would provide an answer for the brunette.

"This is why you should've given Mewtwo an autographed basketball instead," Isabelle suggested to Master Hand; an autographed basketball would have been a much more fitting prize.

"Nah, that would've been too pricey," said Master Hand, revealing just how cheap he was. Yet he called the entire wrestling business cheap... "Sephiroth, just give that belt to someone, and let them keep it forever. Isabelle and I will have to find Mewtwo another prize...one that he won't give away."

"As you wish, Master Hand," responded Sephiroth, who was holding the title belt; the one-winged angel preferred to burn the belt to ashes.

Mewtwo: I cannot believe that a bunch of men spent their entire afternoon chasing after a worthless belt strap. Says a lot about the kind of beings that I put up with...

Sephiroth and the others exited Master Hand's room, and guess who they ran into? Waluigi, who was in a very receiving mood.

"Heard the entire conversation from outside the room," Waluigi said to Sephiroth and company, in a way that was not creepy at all. "Do I get to keep that belt? Please say yes..."

"Since you were the last person to hold it, I suppose," replied Sephiroth as he candidly handed the title belt to Waluigi. Waluigi was about to burst into celebration, until...

"Wow! You found my title belt, Waluigi?" exclaimed Pit, as he happily came over to Waluigi. The angel felt like a parent reunited with their missing child. "Thanks so much!"

"This is your belt?" Waluigi pointed at the title belt, as he refused to believe Pit. The lanky man wouldn't let go of the strap, even for real money.

"I was the first to have it after Mewtwo gave it to me. Always wanted a wrestling belt of my own, so a dream of mine came true today..."

"Aw, now you're making me all sappy..." Before Waluigi could say another, Yu put out his arm in front of the lanky man.

"If you do get the belt back - would you promise not to brag about it?" Yu asked Pit, as he expected some humility from the angel. "Not be rude to everyone while you carry it around?"

"Yeah, I was acting like a jerk with you earlier...so I won't do that again. I'll carry myself like how any champion would - humble and proud!"

"Alright then...take it away, Waluigi." Yu took his arm away from Waluigi, who had taken Pit's responses said into account. Waluigi looked down at the title belt, thinking about the respect he would get from his peers...

...and then, the lanky man laid down on the floor. Sephiroth, Yu, and Rise were confused, but for Pit and Doc Louis, it was an act of selflessness.

"You want the title, Pit? Then pin me," Waluigi commanded the angel, as he was in prime pinning position. Shoulders were down and everything. "I was the last champion, so...just do it."

"It's all yours, son," Doc Louis said to Pit, who got excited as he ran over to Waluigi. Like he did with Mewtwo, Pit pinned Waluigi by simply putting his foot on his chest. Doc Louis got down on the floor for the count. "One, two, three!"

"...and we have a new champ," announced Yu, as Doc Louis gave the title belt to Pit. Pit kissed the strap as if it was a newborn baby.

"I'm the World Smash Heavyweight champion again!" cheered Pit as he celebrated his second title reign. And his reign was bound to become even sweeter.

"That's not all - since you're the final champion, Master Hand will allow you to hold that title forever," Doc Louis explained to Pit, who was so excited that he was ready to burst.

"I'M GONNA BE WORLD SMASH HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION FOREVER! I'M NEVER RETIRING THIS TITLE, EVER!" Pit ran down the hallway, as Doc Louis and the others looked on.

Waluigi: Blegh, I don't need that title belt anyway...I'll just find one for my own! Heck, I'll even steal one from WWE headquarters. Then my tower buddies will have my respect...unless I get arrested.

"Cloud, guess what Cloud - I'm the forever champion!" Pit ran to Cloud, who was standing outside the basement door looking annoyed. "I get to keep this title belt forever!"

"That's awesome, Pit," replied Cloud in an uncaring tone, as Pit ran away to show off his belt to Palutena. Soon Cloud was met by Sephiroth. "What do you want now, Sephiroth?"

"I have taken care of Heihachi and his son for you," Sephiroth informed Cloud, expecting to receive some thanks from his arch-nemesis. "Fox was spared because of me."

"Can't believe I'm actually saying this, but...thanks Sephiroth." Took a lot for Cloud to say that out loud. He was even in disbelief. "Now if only someone will unlock this basement door..."

"Allow me to help..." Staring down the basement door, Sephiroth took out his Masamune and sliced the door in half. The door fell apart, revealing the Rift Generator...and those trying to dismantle it.

"Stop it Crash, the wrench doesn't even go there!" Cortex scolded Crash, who was sticking a wrench down where it shouldn't. Cloud loudly cleared his throat, catching the attention of everyone inside the basement.

"Busted..." Sonic said when he saw Cloud, who frowned and folded his arms. Cloud felt the most disappointed with Sonic out of everyone in the basement, for mostly obvious reasons.

Pac-Man's brunch had come to an end, and Pac-Man was pleased to know that everyone...well, almost everyone...had a great time. The eater of ghosts stood outside his house, seeing his guests out.

Reiko: Kazuya left without even saying goodbye. He cursed out Heihachi, and then left! Heihachi went back to the mansion in a bitter mood. At least I don't have to worry about taking his son back home...

"You guys have a safe trip back home!" Pac-Man waved to the guests as they left the house. One of the guests leaving was Runner. "Hope you find yourself a real name soon, Runner!"

"MY REAL NAME IS RUNNER, YOU DOLT!" Runner shouted at Pac-Man as he went inside the Galaga ship. Pac-Man laughed in response.

"He is always such a jokester..." As Pac-Man whipped away a tear from his eye, he was soon joined by Lloyd and Yuri. "...Lloyd, Yuri! So you two are friends now? No beef?"

"All water under the bridge," Lloyd smiled at Pac-Man, as he wrapped a friendly arm around Yuri. Yuri wrapped his arm around Lloyd. "Thanks for the brunch, Pac - it really took my mind off of things."

"Exactly why I invited you in the first place! Happy to see you smiling again. Before I let you boys go...which one of you wants Kazuya's plate?"

"...we didn't dismantle the Rift Generator," Sonic said to Ema, as he and Midna spoke with the forensics expert at the cafe. Crash and Aku were there, though the former was more interested in picking his nose.

"Sucks to hear that," replied Ema, knowing that everyone (except for Crash) did their best to contribute. "We can't let Cloud use that machine, who knows what will happen."

"Dr. Wily said that he will contact Shinra, and have them remove the Rift Generator," explained Midna; if you recall, Wily asked Shinra to deal with E. Gadd and his time machine in episode 225. "Sounds like a bad idea..."

"Yeah, bad idea for sure..." Sonic chuckled sheepishly, recalling his encounter with Shinra agents Reno and Rude on that day. Wouldn't want anything like that to happen again.

Cloud was in his room, thinking to himself. A bunch of residents attempted to take about the Rift Generator, and undo most of Cloud's progress. Even worse, one of those residents was Sonic, who was a part of Cloud's project...mostly. Was Sonic trying to take the generator apart, as retribution for the crap he had to deal with from Moira? Cloud thought over these questions and more, as Sephiroth kept him company.

"Well, Cloud, any other favors you want me to fulfill?" Sephiroth asked the swordsman, who had heard his phone ring. Cloud looked at the caller ID and saw that it was Mario.

"Hey Mario, made it back from your adven-tour?" Cloud spoke into the phone, expecting a full-on story about Mario's escapades in Canada. "Hope you didn't drink too much maple syrup."

"We haven't made it back-a home yet..." replied Mario, leaving Cloud to wonder what the hold up was. "...we're in quite a pickle."

What kind of pickle, you ask? Mario and the others were detained, held at some Canadian detention center. Mega Man would teleport everyone back to the mansion, but he was too noble to do that.

"You're sending in X, with Sephiroth?" Mario spoke with Cloud on the phone, very unwilling about Sephiroth being in Canada. Sephiroth would make easy work of the detention center guards. "Doesn't sound-a ideal...but we'll take it! Hope-a to see you soon."

Luigi: The Canadian Border Patrol caught-a up to us. Just when they were about to detain-a us for trespassing, Mario had me show-a them that video of the agent "granting" us access-a into Canada. Sadly, the agents didn't buy it, claiming that the video was "bad CGI". Then they detained-a us. *snorts* As if I could make-a CGI happen on my phone...

Spyro: I was right - we weren't allowed to cross the Canadian border. We should have turned around when those agents told us to. *sighs while shaking his head* Sometimes I really hate being right...

"If there's anyone I'd wannabe stuck in a detention center with, it's my sweet Nia!" beamed Peony, as Nia gave the explorer a disgusted glare. "I was talkin' about my daughter."

"How could they detain us, we're an essential family!" pondered Donkey Kong, as he questioned how much the Canadian Border Patrol valued family. "Those agents must hate their own families."

"Anyone wanna read a tour guide, to pass the time?" Cappy offered one of his tour guides to the others, as no one spoke of. "I'll read them myself, then..."

Imagine relying on Sephiroth to save your butt. Cloud relied on Sephiroth today...surprisingly, so Mario should expect to do the same.