The following day, after Miia's mother had left, Caboose was cleaning the house for the arrival of Papi's mother. However, he found himself constantly glancing worriedly towards where Papi lay on her bed, looking somewhat out of it. "She seems really worried," he observed sadly.

"Maybe she really doesn't like the idea of her mother coming to visit?" Miia suggested as she helped to fold laundry. "I know I wasn't too thrilled about it when I got her letter…"

"Letter?" Caboose asked in surprise.

"Yeah, we got letters from our Moms about their visits before Agent Smith told us why they were visiting," Miia explained, a happy smile and swish in her movements as she reminded herself that she was now officially engaged to Caboose and could mate with him...just as soon as they had a private moment to themselves. "Papi's been like that ever since she read the letter from her Mom."

"Do you think her Mom wrote something that got her worried?" Caboose asked curiously.

"I can't see how," Rachnera observed as she held up the letter in question. "I can barely make it out, her handwriting's so terrible…"

"Rachnera!" Miia gasped in shock. "You shouldn't read other people's mail!"

"I have bad handwriting!" Caboose offered hopefully. "Maybe I can make sense of it!"

"Here." Rachnera handed the letter over. "Go nuts-"

"Oh, it says she misses Papi and really wants to see her again, but that the terminator is noisy and nosy and annoying," Caboose translated readily. "That's Kuku! That's what Papi called her at first, too!"

Rachnera and Miia both stared at Caboose in surprise. "Well...I don't see why she'd be upset-"

"Maybe it's this picture?" Caboose asked, pulling out a photograph that had been stuffed into the envelope.

Miia and Rachnera's eyes widened as they took in the picture. From what they could tell, it was Papi...naked and draped over a naked older male human as they lay in bed.

"EHH?" Miia and Rachnera gasped out in shock.

"Did Papi have a boyfriend before Darling?" Miia demanded, shock roaring with outrage.

"Why would you think that?" Caboose asked curiously.

"Honey, look at how she's draped over him in the picture," Rachnera pointed out gently, worried Caboose was in denial.

"Oh, this isn't a picture of Papi," he pointed out firmly. "They look a lot alike, but the shape of the eyes is slightly different, the curve of the breasts is off, her nipples are too perky, and the scale pattern on her legs is completely different. Also, she has a different spot pattern in her feathers. Pretty close, but definitely not Papi." He looked at the picture. "With how close to Miia's age her Mom looked, I'm guessing this is a picture of Papi's parents."

Miia and Rachnera stared at Caboose, their lower jaws hanging in shock. "R...really?" Rachnera asked finally, glancing from the picture to where Papi was laying on her bed, confirming the differences Caboose had spotted.

"You...really pay that much attention to Papi?" Miia asked in surprise.

"I pay that much attention to all of you!" Caboose confirmed happily.

[Hostile intruder detected!] Caboose's Freckle suddenly intoned, shifting and catching an incoming figure in his energy grip.

"Eh?" the blonde, very tan harpy demanded as she struggled in the air. "Why not fly? What's going on?"

Caboose looked from the picture to the new harpy for a few moments. "Hi Papi's Mom!" he called happily. "New look for your hubby?" He held up the picture.

Her eyes lit up in delight as she seized the photo. "My treasure!" she declared happily. "I was so upset I accidentally sent this to Papi!"

"Mom?" Papi asked in surprise as she stepped out of her bedroom and onto the balcony. "I don't remember!"

"Picture is hubby!" Papi's Mom said excitedly.

"I forgot Dad?" Papi gasped out in shock. "I wanna see Dad again!"

[Jean scan done!] Papi's Freckle declared. [Dad located!]

"Then let's go see him!" Caboose declared happily.

"Yay!" Papi and her Mom cheered happily.

The loud knocking on his door disturbed the large man. He slowly rose to his full height, scratching at his chest hair and full beard as he moved to answer. He then blinked down at the blue armored figure there. "Uh...hello?"

"Husband!" a very familiar harpy called out, latching onto the large man.

"Dad!" another familiar harpy called out as she wrapped her wings around his leg.

The man laughed gaily as he embraced the two harpies. "Paya! Papi! It's so good to see you both again!" He gave them both happy kisses on their foreheads. "You don't come around nearly often enough!"

Paya giggled. "Paya forget!" she offered playfully, making the man laugh and ruffle her hair again. She only came up to his waist, same as Papi.

"Dad!" Papi declared eagerly, pulling the blue armored figure forward. "Meet hubby!"

"Hi Papi's Dad!" the figure greeted happily. "I'm Caboose! Wow, you're huge!"

The man happily accepted the offered handshake. "Hello Caboose! If you're Papi's hubby...then you should just call me Pop!"

"Yay!" Caboose declared happily. "I'm not so good with remembering new names! Pop is easy!"

'Pop' chuckled softly. "I kind of figured. Did you bring them here? How'd you find me?"

[Jean scan confirmation!] Papi's Freckle declared happily.

'Pop' blinked at the sphere in confusion. "Uh...did you copy Papi's brain into a ball?"

"Oh, that's her Freckle!" Caboose declared happily. "I've got one too!"

[Confirmed,] Caboose's Freckle agreed.

'Pop' glanced from Paya to Papi to Caboose to the balls. "Uh...I get the feeling there's a lot to this story I'm not hearing…"

"Come back to my place!" Caboose offered eagerly. "I can tell it in 5 minute increments! Until I get to the part on New Japan. Then it'll be in thousand word increments!"

'Pop' glanced back and forth between Caboose and Papi for a time. He finally turned to Paya. "Well, at least the kids will be happy," he allowed ruefully.

"That's what matters!" Paya agreed happily.