Mysteriously, there was a guest list at the front of the building. More mysteriously, there was Nana and Popo on it. Most mysterious of all, Nana and Popo weren't in the building.
"Who the hell is Nana?"
"What the hell is a Popo?"
"That's what they call a policeman in certain parts of the country."
"Maybe he can bust us out."
"He isn't even in."
"They want to know who Nana and Popo are." Donkey Kong told Mario, who was sitting in his office with a small cup of coffee.
"How the hell should I know?"
"You knew about Catch-22."
Mario sat up with a start. "Who told you about Catch-22?"
"Fox."
"That bastard." Mario said with a snarl. "How many people did he tell?"
"All of them."
"Even Pichu?"
"He died too early."
Mario thought for a while. "Leave. I have a lot of work to do."
"I mean it, leave."
"Just give me the damn earplugs, Fox." Falco said with his hand out.
"I don't have your stupid earplugs." Fox said without looking up from his computer.
"Look, someone took them. I need those earplugs for when Captain Falcon starts to yell at the loudspeaker."
"What makes you think I even have them."
"You were just in my office. Come on, Fox. give them to me."
Fox moaned and rooted through his desk. "Here, take mine. Just take them and leave. I have a lot of work to do before the end of the workday."
Falco looked quizzically at the earplugs. "Where'd you get these?"
"Bowser gave them to me."
Falco frowned visibly. "These are mine."
"Where'd you get these?" Falco asked angrily as he slammed open the door to Bowser's office and threw his earplugs on the desk.
Bowser picked up the earplugs and squinted at it. "I stole them. From you I believe."
"Falco opened his mouth to protest, but it was muffled by the loudspeaker saying. "Finish what you are doing and stop working."
Falco continued to open his mouth to speak and was again muffled by the cries of Captain Falcon.
"Hey! Hey you! You on the other end of this loudspeaker. If you can hear me bastards, I want out! You hear me? I want out! And another thing-"
Bowser snarled. "Excuse me a moment." he said and roared out of his office.
The muffled cry of Captain Falcon hitting the pavement woke Kirby up from his nap. Bowser walked out of him office brushing his hands together.
"What was that?"
Bowser peered into the office and rubbed his eyes. "I threw Captain Tights out the window."
Kirby looked confused. "Captain Tights?" Who's that?"
Suddenly Mewtwo jogged by laughing, he turned back and looked into Kirby's office just long enough to shout jovially "Hey, Captain Falcon's dead! Finally, I'll be free of that little punk's incessant screaming and whining!" He sprinted out of view and could be heard shouting the same thing into other people's doors.
"Great, just great." This is the last thing I need." Fox groaned as he stared at the window at the stain on the sidewalk that had once been Captain Falcon. "I know they're going to dump his workload on me."
Instead, the work was dumped on Nana and Popo because they were doing the least work, statistically, out of the entire group. This was just fine with them, but Fox was mad because Falco had taken his only pair of earplugs and thrown them at Bowser. Now he had no way of sleeping when Pikachu screeched in the night about Donkey Kong.
"Here." said Bowser, handing Fox a pair of earplugs
"Where'd you get these?"
"I stole them from Falco."
Fox put them in his ears and went to sleep. When he woke up, he was being screamed at by Peach for reasons he had rather not found out.
