Mama Snail was supposed to leave on Monday. But an accident involving Escargoon, her son, made her permanently stay at the Rodriguez-Schnurren Mansion. And here is how it began.

It was a nice Sunday, and there were people working in the computer lab of the Rodriguez-Schnurren mansion. Escargoon was merrily on the internet, reading about stuff about his favorite band, the Rock-afire Explosion, when Shadow came over to him and yelled at him for no apparent reason.

"Why the f**k are you so obsessed with that band?" Shadow asked Escargoon.]

"Because they have good animatronics and stuff." Escargoon replied to Shadow.

"Animatronics don't come to life, asswipe." Shadow said to Escargoon.

"Do too!" Escargoon retorted.

"Do not!" Shadow yelled back.

"Do too!"

"Do not!"

"Do too!"

"Do not!

"Do too!"

After many repititons of the "do not, do too" routine, Escargoon backhanded Shadow in the face. Shadow did the same thing and then punched Escargoon in the left shoulder. When Shadow did so, Escargoon let out a scream of pain which caught the attention to Jen, Dr. Zoidberg, Wario, Waluigi, and of course, King Dedede, Satine and Mama Snail. "Mama mia!" Waluigi shouted. "Did you hear-a that?"

"Sounded an awful lot like-a Escargoon and-a Shadow fighting." Wario replied to Waluigi.

Wario and Waluigi noticed Escargoon in the infirmary, where he was in a bed, crying and sobbing while Jen the yoshi put an ace bandage where Escargoon felt the pain.

"Escargoon! What happened?" King Dedede said to Escargoon.

"Sh sh sh sh Shadow punched me in the arm, s s s s sire." Escargoon sobbed.

"He's got one hell of a bruise, Triple D." Jen said as she put Escargoon's arm in a sling.

Waluigi could remember the last time he had been in an accident caused by Shadow (well, NEARLY in an accident). Waluigi nearly got choked or got a whiplash injury from when Shadow made a sudden stop because he was angry at Waluigi. It had happened in a mall parking lot. It also marked the time he had met Nina. Waluigi began to cry.

"Oh, don't cry, I'm sure Escargoon's going to be alright." Nina said to Waluigi.

"Don't cry Junior, mommy's here to cheer you up." Mama Snail said to Escargoon, her son as he continued to weep.

"Yes. I bet you had to do that all the time when he was younger and he got hurt and stuff." King Dedede said to Mama Snail.

"I did that, too." Mama Snail said as she stroked Escargoon's face.

Following the incident, Escargoon was not able to work at the orphanage due to his injury he had sustained, so Mama Snail had to fill in for him for the week he was out. Shadow was forced to go to a mental institution for two weeks for his behavior. Shadow was able to leave the facility for a special event.

King Dedede was in the talent show, doing a comedic skit. Escargoon had practiced his rimshots on the drums. Just in time, Escargoon was able to get off the sling he had been on for the last five days and was able to do the rimshots for King Dedede. Hazel had came for the show and gave her King a kiss for good luck. While King Dedede was waiting for his cue to come on, Hazel had almost done something that King Dedede nor Escargoon didn't want her to do.

"Holy shit! I nearly pulled the fire alarm!" Hazel whispered loudly.

"Jesus Christ, Queen Hazel, you made our hearts jump!" Escargoon whispered.

"We don't need to be hearing the fire alarms buzzing in our ears and seeing strobes flashing so much that we have a seizure." Fox Mcloud said to Hazel. "Now be quiet so we don't get into trouble."

King Dedede could remember when he had to put up with fire alarms was when he was at the pizza parlor where they have live performers instead of mechanical bands. Ever since, King Dedede had refused to go to that pizza parlor ever again after the band, Link-182 had insulted him because he belched at the soda self serve area (See Ch. 8 to read about this part). King Dedede also couldn't stand looking at the strobe lights that flashed on the fire alarms whenever they went off. King Dedede was always afraid that they gave him a seizure.

King Dedede made a lovely entrance when it was time for his act. The audience loved the jokes that King Dedede told. After a nice song parody, King Dedede made a dazzling exit. Escargoon did a nice job at the rimshots.

After the talent show was over, King Dedede had a nice chat in the bus on the way home.

"Darling, you have a good sense of humor." Hazel said to King Dedede.

"You were funnier than Fritz, Triple D." Wario said to King Dedede.

"Nice job at the rimshots, Junior." Mama Snail said to Escargoon.

"We did pretty fine, except for Hazel about to sound the alarm on us." Escargoon said.

"Sorry, Escargoon." Hazel said. "I didn't mean to scare the beJesus out of you and King Dedede."

"So, Hazel, do you wanna do it?" King Dedede asked Hazel.

"Sure, maybe later." Hazel said in a sexy voice as she kissed King Dedede.

Hazel rested on the lap(?) of King Dedede for the ride home on Bender's bus. King Dedede stroked her face and kissed her as she continued to rest on his lap. Cartman covered his ears and closed his eyes as they did so. Mama Snail was here and was here to stay.