And we're back with the next chapter of Meta-Verse. In this chapter, it's finally Christmas time as they got themselves into some unexpected holiday bashes. Let's put up the tree and have a good time.
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Meta-Verse Department Agency
"Merry Christmas, everybody."
In the Meta-Verse Department Agency, in the cafeteria, we see Katy Caterpillar, who is wearing a pink hat, a pink scarf, a light yellow jacket and blue gloves, holding her coffee cup up high while on one of the tables.
"The season's back again, and we're gonna celebrate it. Everybody, let's have a good Christmas this year." Katy said.
Everybody clapped.
"Also Hanacka too." Ryan Walker said.
Everyone clapped.
"So, this is the first time we had Christmas with another reality. Let's make it worth it while it lasts." Paiman said.
"Yeah, before our search continues." The older Phosphophyllite was actually determined to drink from a mug, but since she does not have organs, she can't. So she passed on it.
"Yeah and man Thanksgiving was here and gone so fast like it never happened." Gabby Duran said and looked at no one. "Seriously it's like we did not have it."
To point out one thing, Gabby, Thanksgiving chapters are rarely common. Like they never exist at all, so…yeah, continue the chapter.
Raggedy Ann sighed. "So, who wants to put up the big tree?"
"Um we need to find one first unless we already have one." Kirby Buckets said.
"You can actually find some out back of the Agency. The back of the Agency is a forested area. That's a good spot for Christmas trees." Katy suggested. "I got one two years ago, with the help of some people to cut it down and bring it in."
"That's good." Kirby B said.
"But first, we need to have someone that can do the job." Milk Chan brings out the TV (Miraculously out of nowhere) and she turns it on, and it shows Tool Time on here.
"Okay? What's with this?" The older Phos asked.
Milk then brought out an invention that actually was created by Donatello. "Remember that episode of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles where the Turtles had to get someone out of the TV to solve a case?"
Silence
"Oh shit." The older Phos said.
Milk then puts the device onto the TV, then turns it on. Then, right afterwards, after a few seconds, Tim "The Toolman" Taylor has gotten out of the TV and into the Agency.
Tim blinked "Talk about a shock am I right Al?" Tim looks around "Um Al man I must of really done it this time as I must be dreaming."
Paiman looks at Milk in pure anger. "What the fuck did you done?"
Milk looked at Paiman. "He's the perfect guy for cutting down trees for Christmas."
Paiman just looked at her. "This is ruining the basis of reality." He then looks at Tim. "Do not call me a panda. Because clearly I am alien."
"Um yeah sure so any time now I be waking up." Tim said.
"To be honest, this is real. You being here? This is real." Nanachi said.
Tim heard Al's voice calling for him. Tim turns around seeing the show and just seeing Al. Hidie soon goes on set and see her helping Al look for him. "This is too strange."
"Why did you do it?" Paiman asked.
"I have to." Milk said.
Paiman sighed. "That means he's stuck here. Because, we don't know where that is. We need to locate it. Goddamn."
"Guys, this is Christmas. Can we think of anything positive?" Ann said.
"So funny question why am I here?" Tim asked.
"Well, because I thought you were the right person to cut down a tree for us for Christmas. I'm a big fan of yours, by the way." Milk said.
"Um so there is like no adults around then?" Tim asked.
"Well, clearly I'm one, but I look like a child." Mito Mitsukuni said.
"So then all I have to do is cut down a tree and I be sent back? Sounds easy enough so where is this tree?"
"Outside the back of this building." Katy answered.
"Ok then is it snow weather or warm weather?"
"It's snowing right now." Red Beryl said.
"Ok now I just need three things. A jacket, gloves, and a Binford Ax or chainsaw."
Flandre did come in. "You can borrow my chainsaw here, ooba." She gives Tim her chainsaw.
"I be damn this is a nice looking chainsaw."
"Thank you, ooba. Use it at times to slash at enemies, but always clean it after I'm done." Flandre said.
"Oh um ok so who's Ooba?"
"Oh, that's just my catchphrase." Flandre confirmed.
"Oh…wait so your Greek then."
Flandre shook her head. "Not really."
Hakua Shiodome gives Tim a jacket and two gloves. "There you go."
"Thank you now let's get you a tree."
Tim and others went towards the back. As they were Tim just was looking around. He noticed this place was huge as it took awhile to get to the back to cut down a tree. They were now outside and Tim seen a good amount of trees.
"So what tree will it be?" Tim asked.
Nayuki Minase looks around for a good-looking tree. She did find one that is a good size. "That one might be good." She points at the tree that it can fit in a room in a school cafeteria.
"Ok so do you all agree on this tree?"
Everyone nodded.
Mikochi tries to warm herself up. "This is freezing. Never had this happen before."
Hakumei nodded. "First time we did something like this. Christmas. I wonder what that is."
"Yep. We're good with that tree, partner." Lirio said.
Tim shook his head as he can't believe this is actually happening right now. "You may want to back up a bit. Don't want this to fall and hit any of you."
They did as Tim said. He then started the chainsaw cutting away at the tree. After only a minute or two the tree was coming down. "Timber." The tree then hit the snow covered ground.
"Oh my God!" Mikochi got freaked out by the tree's fall.
"Wow. Just…wow." Hakumei couldn't even believe it herself.
Lirio tipped her hat. "Yer sure are the good one, partner. Seems like we got ourselves a tree here. Ya did good."
"While thank you mam." Tim said tipping his invisible hat.
Later, they returned with the tree.
Paiman ordered the search drones to search for Tim's world, and they flew out of the Agency and to search for Tim's world. He then turns to Tim and the others. "I ordered the search drones to search for your world. It's gonna take a while before we even locate it."
"Oh so you can't do the same thing that got me here?"
"Unfortunately, what Milk told me, Donatello's invention doesn't work that way. If you don't know who Donatello is, he's the turtle with the purple mask. Genius intellect." Paiman told Tim.
"Wait are you talking about that cartoon my boys watch?"
Paiman nodded.
"This is so confusing but after all I'm talk to a pa..alien that looks like a panda."
Paiman grew a tick mark on his forehead. "Don't even say I look like one either. Yes, I do look like one, but I hate that being pointed out."
"Sorry about that so why don't we get theas drowns more power?! Then this way it be faster to find me home."
Paiman sighed. "I gave them all the juice they needed."
Meanwhile, in the hallway, Toru Ichii was just reading a manga, until she heard someone.
"Hey, Toru!"
Toru looked up from her manga and saw Run Momoki running to her, with a bowl of water in hand. "What in the world did you bring?"
Run shows Toru what's inside. "It's a cute little fishy. Isn't it cute?"
Toru looks at the fish, who is revealed to be Dory, and she taps on the bowl. "Hmm. Okay. So, where did you find this fish?"
Run thinks for a moment. "Um…I don't quite remember." She tries to think more.
Nagisa Tennouji and Yuko Nishi came to them.
"What's up?" Nagisa said.
"Oh wow, is that a fish?" Yuko asked.
Run nodded, then showed them Dory. "Isn't she cute?"
Nagisa looks at Dory for a minute, then tips her glasses. "It's a Regal Blue Tang. You must have got it from somewhere grand."
Yuko nodded.
Run then looks into the bowl to see Dory. "Now, what can I call you? Hmm…"
"Well I um have a name already. It's Dory. Oh wait I'm a fish you can't understand me."
Run just looked at Dory for a minute, then a question mark formed above her head, and her eyes turned white.
"Okay." Nagisa just looked at Dory. "This will shock you, but…we actually understood you, Dory."
"Oh wow you look at that. Oh hi I'm Dory."
Run then actually remembers. "Oh yeah. Now I remember where I found her. She actually talk back then too. It was a while ago."
Flashback, Florida
Sometime ago, in the summertime, Run was at the beach in her light green bikini, sitting out in the sun. "Ah. Nothing but relaxing fresh air." She then saw something odd at the edge of the ocean. She gets up, walks towards it, and sees Dory just lying on the ground, with no water at all. Well, barely. "Oh poor fishy. You need some help. Um…um…" She frantically searches around for something to carry Dory in, then she comes across a green pail, and she sighed in relief. "Thank goodness." She runs to it, grabs it, gets into the water and fills it up, then runs back to Dory, picks her up and puts her in the pail. She then looks inside the pail. "Please, be okay. Please, be okay."
Dory Soon moves a bit and she looks around. "Wow that was a close one. Wow this place got smaller some how."
Run sighed in relief. "Thank goodness you're still alive." She then gets up, with the pale in hand, then she smiles, warmly. "Hello there, little fishy."
"Oh um hi there um where am I?"
"Well, you're in a pail. My name is Run Momoki."
"A pail what's that?"
Run thinks for a second. "Um…a bucket."
"Oh not sure what a bucket is but ok."
Run just shrugged. "Do you have a name already?"
"I'm Dory where am I?"
Run just got confused. "Um…you're in a pail. I already told you that."
"Oh you did? Sorry bad memory at times not sure why though."
Run's eyes widened.
Far away…"WHAAAAAAAAAAAT?!"
Meta-Verse Department Agency
Back in the present
"She has bad memory?!" Toru, Nagisa and Yuko asked in shock.
Run nodded. "Poor little fishy. I'm not sure why."
"Wow. Fish have never have poor memory before. If they even have one. I mean, some must have." Nagisa said.
"Oh hi I'm Dory and where am I?"
"Wow, you were right." Toru said in disbelief.
Nagisa looks at Dory, then taps at the bowl. "You're in the Meta-Verse Department Agency. This is a place where everyone from different worlds, including different species, go to different worlds to fight off against the forces of evil. Not sure if I'm helping you understand all that."
"That is a lot to take in so I may forget. It happens that my memories are not that good.'
"I do have a curious question. How long are your memory losses?" Toru asked.
"Oh I don't know but I do repeat to myself on things on trying to remember stuff. Sometimes things just stick and other times it just….what was I talking about?"
Nagisa nodded. "I'm getting it. From what is going on, she is on short-term memory loss. Happen in seconds or so."
"Oh poor fishy. That means she might forget me." Run was teary eyed.
Toru pat Run's back. "Come on, Run. She isn't gonna forget you if you stick by her side."
"That's right, I know my friend Nemo and I had bad memory before I met the kid."
"What is going on here?"
Riko, Reg, Emilico and Kate Shadow came to them.
"Oh hey. Got ourselves a newcomer." Nagisa said.
Run shows the four Dory. "Isn't she cute?"
Riko looks at Dory. "I have never seen a fish like that before. Only saw Demonfish, but that's about it."
"HI I'm Dory wait did I tell you already?"
"Not me, no." Riko shook her head. "My name is Riko. And this here is Reg, Emilico, and that shadow over there is Kate."
"Oh um is there a bigger place to swim in?"
They looked at each other for a moment.
"I think Katy would tell you that." Emilico said.
"Oh who's Katy?"
"I'll get you to her." Riko then grabs the bowl from Run, then she walks away from the group.
"Be right back with her." Run said.
"Don't worry, it'll be fine." Toru said.
Run nodded.
Meanwhile, in the cafeteria, everybody is getting the tree set up. Tim was one of the people that helped set up the tree.
"Now just don't forget to water it. Oh and check it before you guys go to bed to see if you need any more. You would need the water to be up to like here." Tim showed a good point for the water to be at.
"Watering a Christmas tree?" Kyubey came to them. "Seems interesting. Might need it hydrated. Now, since it's Christmas Time already, how about decorating it as well?"
"Wait its already Christmas, before I came here Thanksgiving was only a week ago." Tim said.
"Well, it's Christmas here. So, our calendars seem different." Kyubey said.
"I guess so." Tim said "I just hope I don't miss my Christmas."
"I'm sure you won't." Kyubey said.
Katy was at a table, seeing as this is progressing, then Riko came in, with the bowl with Dory in it in hand.
"Someone wants to speak with you." Riko said.
Katy turns to Riko. "Alright."
Riko then set the bowl down close to Katy.
"Oh look at all these people and animals" Dory then swam around the bowl.
Katy just looked at Dory, swimming around. "Well, this is Christmas after all. It's something to be thankful for." She cleared her throat. "My name is Katy. Katy Caterpillar. And I am one of the teachers here."
"I don't know what a teacher is but I'm Dory and um wait….where am I?"
"Welcome to the Meta-Verse Department Agency. This is an agency where different people from different worlds go to different worlds to fight off against the forces of evil, most notably the Nazis, led by the tyrannical warlord, Irene Engel. Bad people. Don't wanna meet them if I were you." Katy said.
"I don't think I will remember all that bad memory but will try. Oh hi I'm Dory."
Katy's eyes widened. "You're her. I heard of you before. Might as well explain that later. Right now…what were you gonna ask me?"
Riko sighed. "She's wanting to know if she can swim around in something bigger."
"Oh swim in something bigger sounds nice, that's a good idea."
Katy thinks for a second. "Hey, Catbug!"
Catbug then came to them. "Yes, ma'am."
"Bring something for Dory here." Katy said.
"Yes, ma'am." Catbug then left the room.
Katy turns to Dory. "Catbug is literally a good inventor. Let me tell you."
"Oh ok not sure what that is." Dory then sawn again and seen a tree. "Oh a tree inside."
"Yep. We're actually gonna put stuff on the tree." Katy said.
"Oh like what?"
"Um…well…hey, Fritz! You wanna show our fish friend some decorations for the tree?!" Katy shouted from across the room.
"Sure thing just let me put my suit on." Fritz then ran off to get it. It did not take long at all for him to come back and picked up the bowl. He soon showed Dory what will be on the tree such as lights.
Kotoha Aoyama then came to Fritz and Dory. "Hey there." She then saw that he was showing Dory the decorations. "Hmm. Showing the fish around?"
"Yeah Katey wanted me to."
"I see." Kotoha said.
"Wow a tree."
Catbug then came back. "Where's your fish friend?"
"Oh, I let Fritz show her the decorations for the tree." Katy said.
"Oh, okay." Catbug then goes to Kotoha, Fritz and Dory. "Looks like I've done a little something for you." Then, a flying water cube that is a decent size flew towards them, slowly. Not very slow, but slowly.
"What is that?" Fritz asked.
"Well, our little fish friend here wants to swim in something bigger, so I've invented this water cube that is human-sized. Well, is it a good size?" Catbug asked.
"That sure is big. So does it move on its own or do One of us need to move it around ourselves?"
"It moves on its own." Catbug said.
"I hope it is easy to use for Dory."
"It should be. So, give me the bowl and I'll get Dory in there." Catbug said.
Dory still looking at the tree in aw as some of the Meta-Verse crew start to put lights on the tree. She soon felt a shift in the bowl once Fritz handed it over to Catbug. Dory then saw the bigger place to swim in. "What's that?"
"This is your new swimming place. You wanted something bigger to swim in, so this is what I can do. Hope you're happy with this." Catbug was about to dump the water in the bowl and Dory into the cube. "In you go." And he did just that.
Dory then started to swim around "This is big."
"Glad you like it." Catbug then turns to Fritz and Kotoha. "Now, I will make my exit." He bowed.
"You don't wanna decorate the tree?" Kotoha asked.
"Nah. I got myself some projects to work on. I'll let you guys do the tree. I'll see you." Catbug then left the cafeteria.
The tank moved towards the tree a bit closer. Dory looked confused. "Who moved the bowl?" Dory swimming around seeing no one touching it at all.
Ayu Tsukimiya was decorating the tree for a moment, then turned around and saw the tank. "Yeeks! It's a floating tank!" She then ran towards Tim and hugged him. "It's a floating tank!"
"I say. It's fascinating and is that a fish in it?"
"Huh?" Ayu then sees Dory inside the tank. "You're right." She walked towards the tank and looked at Dory. "Oh wow. I don't believe it. A floating aquarium tank. That is so weird." The tank is blank. Plain water.
"Oh I did not notice it could use something nice inside." Dory said.
"Drum roll." Raggedy Ann did just that on the tree.
"Don't do that on the tree." Paiman scolded.
"Sorry." Ann said.
"You do need some stuff in there." Ayu thinks for a moment. "What would you want in there, I wonder."
"Oh look at a purity tree." Dory said.
Ayu is confused. "Huh?"
Katy sighed. "This isn't gonna go well. But that's her."
"Why do you think she forgets?" Riko asked.
"She was born that way. Short-term memory loss is what she has. But, there are some memories that she clinged on to. She was actually lost from her home some time ago. Not sure how long though. I wonder if she ever remembered being lost from her home. Which is an aquarium in Morro Bay. Located in California." Katy explains.
"You think you should tell her?" Riko asked.
Katy thinks for a moment. "Not yet. I wanna wait for now. I'll tell her whenever the time comes."
Riko nodded.
"Blue rocks be nice love blue." Dory said
Riley Matthews came into the cafeteria with more decorations. And she brought along a friend. This friend's name is Cody Martin.
Zack Martin was carrying a box covering his head so he did not see his twin. "I found more boxes labeled lights." He soon set the box down onto the table. He was a bit confused at seeing the tank but as he was looking at it he thought he saw his reflection in it but he wasn't wearing a red shirt but green. Cody on the other hand though the same thing as he looked at the fish tank. The two brothers stepped to the side and that's when they really noticed each other. The brothers ran to each other and gave a huge hug. At least they were the same age if not a year apart as they were the same size.
Katy saw the box labeled lights. "We'll get to those." She then noticed that Zack and Cody were hugging each other. She got awfully confused as she thought he was hugging a different version of himself, but as she crawled a few inches, to the edge of the table, she saw that he was hugging his twin. She sighed in relief. "I thought we might have another double trouble. Guess not." She shrugged.
The hug broke "Well we do tend to get into trouble at times." Cody said.
Katy facefaulted. "Ai yai yai. Not what I wanted."
"Speaking of double trouble." Milk came in with an electric guitar. "I'm gonna do some tunes tonight." She played a string, then she saw a floating tank. "What the fuck is that?" She then walks to it, then sees Dory in there. "Oh, I know who you are. You're Dory, the forgetful fish. I'm Milk Chan. Nice to meet you."
"Oh hi there Oh look this big tank it could use some blue rocks. I love blue."
Milk then smiled. "Great idea." She then grabs out a bag of blue rocks from out of nowhere, and she opens it, then jumps up to the top. "Bombs away!" She then dumps the blue rocks into the tank, letting them float down to the bottom, then she gets down to the floor, then she throws the empty bag into space.
Dory swam dogging the falling blue rocks. While that was happening Zack put his arm around his brother's shoulder. "Let me show you around and you will meet some interesting things."
"Like another talking caterpillar?" Cody asked.
"I do have three sisters, a son and a daughter." Katy said, overhearing what Cody said.
"And they are here too?" Cody asked.
Katy nodded. "They are."
"Well that's good. I for one just came from outside to head to our room when I showed up here. I thought I would not see my family again." Cody said.
"So you did not notice me missing?" Zack asked a little hurt.
"You were still home as you were sick. Look like you're feeling good now."
"That is a good thing. But, I do have a question here. Aren't caterpillars supposed to not have children?" A girl came into the room.
This girl has long blonde hair and pink eyes. She wears a pink long-sleeve shirt, black cape, white gloves, black stockings and red loafers. This is Alice Rondo, one of Shizu Izawa's students before Shizu was swallowed up by Rimuru Tempest.
"I was a butterfly before. That was the reason why I had kids." Katy said.
"Who did you marry?" Alice asked.
Katy then blushes. "Um…a mouse…"
Alice had a pouty face on her. "Seriously? You married a mouse and had kids?"
"Let's drop the subject, okay?" Katy said, blushing really hard.
Zack and Cody soon ran into Fisher. "Cody this is Fisher. He is like crazy smart."
"Oh so he knows how we got here?" Cody asked.
"No I don't but I can tell you that everyone you see here is from different worlds and time lines. Like for you two for an example. Zack here could left his world in twenty ten and you could left in twenty eleven. If that makes any sense."
"Actually it does." Cody said.
"Of course it did. After all, you are the smarter one."
"Hey your smart too." Cody said.
Alice sighed. "Here we go again."
Katy nodded. "Now where would Flower be, anyways? Had not seen him today."
Meanwhile, in a hallway, we actually do see Flower coming to the cafeteria right now, holding up some flowers for everyone. But then, he stopped when he heard a voice from behind a door.
"I just don't know what to do. I just don't. Am I crazy? Am I? Or is this just all a bad dream?"
Flower noticed the door was complete closed and there was no way he be able to open it. He don't know what's behind the door since he hasn't seen every room. He decided to get someone to help as the misery person continues to talk to themselves. So he drops a flower down by the door and continues to go to the cafeteria where the tree is. Once at the tree he smiles. "I have these for the tree Oh and I heard someone talking to herself in a closed room."
Katy looks solemn. "That must be Tsukasa Hiiragi. She shut herself in that room completely. Never coming out."
"Why is that?" Fritz asked.
Katy sighed. "Mostly because she blames herself for what she has done in the past. She tried to kill us all, but found she was deceived, and blames it on herself for the mistake she has made."
"Well she was controlled though." Fritz said.
Katy thinks for a moment. "You guys might wanna check on her, see if she's okay."
Later, Fritz and Flower have gone to Tsukasa's room, where it is still closed. Flower did see that she must have taken the flower in.
"The flower is gone but there is still a peddle here so this has to be it."
Fritz nodded and sighed before knocking. "Tsukasa."
Silence
"Who's there?" Tsukasa asked.
"It's Flower and Fritz."
Silence
"Go away. Please." Tsukasa said, tearfully.
"Would you be more compatible talking to a girl vs us?"
"NO!" Tsukasa shouted. "Just leave!"
Fritz then realizes the door is slightly opened.
Fritz was unsure to go in or not. He then seen the most bubbly person he knows. That being Riley. He signals for her to stop. She was a bit confused but stood there. "We um are going to come in ok and Riley is with us." Fritz took a deep breath before slowly opening the door.
The trio do see that Tsukasa is facing the wall, not facing them, while sitting down on the floor.
"I told you to get out. Why don't you listen?" Tsukasa asked.
"Katy wanted to check on you." Flower said.
"...why would I care? It's not like I'm good to anyone anymore. I am the most hated person in the world. That's all I ever am." Tsukasa said.
"Oh don't say that sweetie you are not hated. I could think of a lot of people the world hates way more than you." Riley said.
"You think that…" Tsukasa turns around, then the trio sees that she does have a third eye on her forehead. "...but there is a reason why things got worse." She realizes what she has done, then she turns around, facing the wall again. "I shouldn't let you look at me. I look hideous."
"Because you have a third eye? I make things stink and people are afraid of my kind." Flower said.
"I have this because I have unleashed Alduin, the World Eater, the most feared dragon of them all onto the world, only to be deceived by him. And that dark magic caused me to have this horrible third eye." Tsukasa starts tearing up. "I just want this third eye to go away! WHY DID IT HAPPEN TO ME?!" She starts to cry.
Riley hugs her "I'm sure we will find away. With all your friends here there is no way we won't find an answer."
Tsukasa just sobs. "Just leave. I need time to think. I'm not ready to let all of them see me yet. Not yet."
"Well ok then." Fritz said and left. "I hope you do come out soon and I hope you like the flower." Flower said. Riley then hugged Tukasa one more time. You can come to my room after dark or I can come to you if you want."
Tsukasa just nodded.
Later, the trio came to Katy in the cafeteria.
"So, how is she?" Katy asked.
"Well she is not ready to come out yet." Riley said.
Katy sighed. "Did she tell you her reasoning?"
"Yes but we are not sure to say it if you know it." Fritz said.
Katy then looks concerned. "What have I not noticed?"
"We don't know if you know why or not. If you don't we think she should tell not us." Flower said.
Katy then crawls off of the table. "Let me find out."
Later, Katy crawled from under Tsukasa's door and she crawled to Tsukasa. "You already know I can do that."
"I'm not ready, Katy-sensei." Tsukasa said.
"Why not?" Katy asked.
Tsukasa turns around, then shows Katy her third eye.
Katy's eyes widened. "That's why you're hiding…"
Tsukasa nodded.
Later, Katy crawled back to the cafeteria. "She has a third eye."
Milk's electric guitar got really loud, then stopped. "What the fuck? Where did that come from?"
"She has a third eye?" Ayu asked.
Katy nodded.
"Poor Tsukasa…" Matsuri Sakuragi looks solemn.
"Dammit. If I would have known this, I would have done something sooner. It's too late now." Reg looks down at the ground, looking solemn himself.
Ann looks at the group, then sighed. "We have to give her a little something. It's Christmas. I don't want her to miss out on this. We have to give her a little something."
"Don't we all get something or am I missing something?" Asked Ray Manchester.
"We all get something on Christmas. That's what it's about. Giving." Ann said. "And I am sure there is more to Christmas as well, but giving is one of the things that's important."
"I think Ray was trying to say was….was I got nothing." Henry Hart said.
"I got this he meant….um yeah this is hard." Mika Macklin said.
Katy facefaulted. "Wow. Just wow."
"I should have thought it might mean nothing. Or something that…we don't know, but only he knows." Ann said.
Riko looks determined, then she gets up.
"Riko?" Reg turns to see Riko stand up.
"I'm gonna give her something." Riko then leaves the cafeteria.
Silence
"What just happened?" The younger Phosphophyllite asked.
"I was just saying I thought we were all was going to give Tsukasa a gift so I thought that was implied by giving her something." Ray said.
Bort smacks Ray in the back of the head. "Why didn't you say that first? Idiot." He rolled his eyes.
"I did."
"You see Ray sometimes don't say things the right way but more like a kid you know." Schwoz Schwartz said.
"Not a very incompetent one. I say strange stuff all the time." Laetitia said. "Things that kids never understand. I am one, but I speak strangely. Like, I speak about mysteries more than what normal kids do."
"So do what we would have done before Katy said something and that's give everyone a gift. That's simple." Miles Macklin said.
"I just want Bose to be alive for my gift." Chapa de Silva said.
Everyone looks solemn at this point.
"We are trying everything to bring him back. We did not break that promise." The younger Phos said.
"Wait you can bring people back from the dead? Man this is some crazy place." Tim said.
"It is complicated. But, there is something to bring people back from the dead. A ritual." Paiman said.
Meanwhile, Mister Mosquito is walking down to the cafeteria. "Alright. Time to put my best mood into action. Since I literally wanted to do this, I wanted to cheer. Yeah, a cheer. For Christmas all around. Just for that one…" He then got stepped on by Dumbo, who is now walking on his two back legs instead of walking on all fours as usual.
Dumbo eyes widen as something doesn't feel right. He lifted up one foot and did not see anything. He then lifted up the other.
After a while, Mosquito miraculously reappears, then sighed. "Always happens a lot of times. I get stepped on, then I have to revive myself everytime that happens. Swell." He rolled his eyes.
Dumbo breathed a sigh of relief. "I thought I killed you. Maybe there can be something so this doesn't happen again?"
Mosquito shrugged. "Not much to do." He looks up at Dumbo. "I mean, I am immortal. Nothing can actually kill me. So, I'm fine with it. Maybe. But being immortal can be a good thing."
Friz, out of his suit, saw this and came to Mosquito "Maybe I can build you a force field anytime something comes falling on you?"
Mosquito had his hand up and he shook his head. "No need. It'll be fine." He then turns to Dumbo. "So, heading the same direction I am? To the cafeteria?"
"Yes I wanted to see the tree."
Mosquito nodded, then he turned to Fritz. "Might as well go see our jolly Christmas tree."
"You can go on my shoulder and you will get there a bit faster. Only if you want." Dumbo said.
Mosquito shrugged. "Guess I couldn't let down that offer." He then flew onto Dumbo's shoulder. "There we go." He then settles down and sighed. "Relief. Let me tell ya."
"I bet it will take past Christmas before you get there if you walk there." Fritz said as he walked side by side of Dumbo.
"Imagine if it took me so long to get there…I'll be looking like an old man." Mosquito said.
After a bit the three of them where in the cafeteria.
Katy then sees Fritz, Dumbo and Mosquito. "Well, you guys are here."
"Yeah. Good call on my part." Mosquito chuckled.
Katy nodded. "I literally got everyone in a panic. Well, not panic, but worry."
"What happened?" Dumbo asked.
Katy sighed. "You hadn't met her yet, more because she shut herself out. Well, Fritz, Flower and Riley have gone to check on her. Her name is Tsukasa Hiiragi. She was one of my students, but she never came to class for two years now. A year later, she was trying to kill us off with a dragon, the most feared dragon of them all, only to be deceived by that dragon, and she blamed it on herself. But, after that consequence, she now develops a third eye. She locked herself away more because she thought she looked hideous with a third eye."
"Was here coming here before this whole Meta-Verse thing that happened to us?" Fritz asked.
Katy shook her head. "No. She did come here before you guys did, but it isn't like that. She does have a big sister named Kagami Hiiragi, who is dead now. She was killed by her own father, Ted Faro, who is a man who wants to destroy knowledge, making the future never exist. And it seems that Tsukasa is actually a clone of Kagami, but with differences."
"Wow that's sad." Dumbo said.
Katy nodded. "Some people are actually gonna leave some gifts for Tsukasa. That's what's going on right now."
"Why wouldn't we leave gifts for her on Christmas?" Dumbo asked.
"We shouldn't at all. Really." Katy said.
Mosquito thinks for a moment. "If she's really content with not coming out to celebrate with us, which that's sad, she should join us. Even if she has a third eye, I'm not bothered. But if she's really content about it, we have to do something for her so she won't miss out, you know?"
"Do we know how to get rid of the third eye?" Fritz asked.
Katy shook her head. "I don't know. It seems odd that she developed a third eye after all this time. So, I find it impossible to get rid of it until we figure out what the actual cause of it is."
"Oh you can ask Mel. I think that's her name the one who turned into that flying thing." Dumbo said.
"Into that dragon you mean." Katy sighed. "I don't think she'll do it. I wouldn't think so."
"Oh that's what a dragon is" Dumbo said.
Milk got herself a Christmas tree-shaped cookie, then she walked to the tree, looking at it. "Well, we still have some time." She then puts an electric guitar-shaped ornament on the tree. "Yes. This is what Christmas should look like. Electric guitars."
"Um yeah if you are in a band on the road every day." Chyna Parks said. "But the tree can't just be all guitars, maybe two the most."
Milk shrugged. "I guess that'll work."
Meanwhile, Riko is returning to the cafeteria after leaving something for Tsukasa. But then, she ran into someone. And that someone is JJ DiMeo.
"Um…wow, okay. You just came out of nowhere. Um, can I help you?" Riko asked.
JJ sighed and looked at his bord and back at Riko as he tried to signal her.
Riko sees that he couldn't speak. "Oh." She then nodded. "Okay. Um…what are you trying to say?" She then goes to JJ and sees that he has a board. She looks at it, thinking this might help her understand JJ.
JJ with his Lazer attached to his glasses pointed to the letters on the board as Riko was reading what JJ had to say. "Where am I"
"Well, you're in the Meta-Verse Department Agency. This is an agency where different people from different worlds go to different worlds to fight off against the forces of evil. Yeah, I know. That's a lot to take in, really. But, this place is filled with amazing people and amazing things, let me tell you." Riko explains.
"That's why there is a Panda walking around next to a blue cat and I think a fish?"
"Yeah, a fish. And…do not call him a panda. He gets agitated and angry when he's being called that. You don't wanna get on his bad side." Riko said.
"Don't call the fish a panda or don't call the panda a panda?"
"Don't call the panda a panda. He is actually an alien." Riko said.
"Aliens are real?"
Riko nodded. "Believe it or not. Welcome to a world where everything is possible. Oh, my name's Riko by the way, and I am a Cave Raider."
JJ well James Jr but I go by JJ it's easier."
"JJ…you know, I think a friend of yours talked about you. He is here. His name is Kenneth Clements, if I recall." Riko said.
"Kenny is here?"
Riko nodded.
"Wow now I know someone here."
Riko nodded. "If you like, I would take you to him."
"Yes."
Riko then takes JJ to where Kenneth Clements is. They got to the cafeteria and they found Kenny right off the bat. "Hey, Kenny!"
"Oh hey" Kenny putting an ornament on the tree. "What can I do for you?"
"Your friend here, JJ is here." Riko said.
Kenny's eyes widen and almost dropped an ornament and turned around. "Wow JJ looks like this damn Meta-Verse got you too."
"Well, what do you know? Your wheel-chaired friend is now here." Milk then plays a tune on the electric guitar, loudly.
"How is that thing not plugged and it still works?" Tim asked.
"Who knows. Crazy things happen. I have to damn admit that." Milk said.
"Riko." Reg came to Riko.
"Hey there, Reg." Riko said.
"Seems like you're back now." Reg then sees JJ. "Um, who's that?" He pointed at JJ.
"Oh, that's JJ. He just came here out of nowhere." Riko said.
Reg nodded.
"It seems that's normal?" JJ asked.
Reg shrugged. "Nothing's normal around here."
"Hey, you wanna get some more decorations, because we're running out." Milk said.
"Um who are you asking?" Kenny asked.
"Any of you." Milk said.
"I don't know where they be. I came in here and there they where." Kenny said.
"There should be more in the storage room in this agency." Katy crawled to them.
"Where would that be?" Kenny asked.
"If you would follow me." Laetitia then goes to the entrance of the cafeteria.
"Ok come on JJ." Kenny said.
Laetitia, Kenny and JJ go out into the hallways, until they come across the storage room a few moments later.
"Here it is." Laetitia then does a simple hack, and the door opens up.
"I just hope it's not creepy in there." Kenny said
They went inside, then they tried to look for boxes of decorations. Laetitia found a box of pudding cups. "Who decided to keep this?"
"Ooo pudding don't mind if I do." Kenny picks one up. "Um yeah no thank you as this expired years ago. Nineteen eighty two."
"That long? Wow. Who kept this?" Laetitia then grabs a box of slinkies. "Something that does not expire. Slinkies. I never get into those myself."
"Oh look, twinkies , another thing that I don't expire." Kenny said.
Kenny then sees JJ trying to get his attention so he goes sees what he had to say. "So where are these Christmas boxes?" JJ said.
"I'm still looking." Laetitia then finds a box of doll heads. "Sick." She tosses that out, then she finally finds the decoration box. "Found it."
"That's good as this place is a bit creepy." JJ said.
Laetitia nodded, then they got out of the storage room, well, put everything back first, then she closed the door, then they walked back to the cafeteria.
"Alright. Going back to decorating again." Katy said.
"Yeah but I'm going to show JJ around. After all you have a flying elephant to get to the high spots." Kenny said.
Katy nodded. "Go ahead and do so." She then turns to Dumbo, who is at a different spot. "Hey Dumbo! You wanna put the star on the tree?!"
"Me really?" Dumbo smiled.
Katy nodded. Paiman then grabs out the star for the tree. "The star's ready now."
Dumbo was soon handed the star and he hoped he did not break it. He soon started to fly as he was he flew around the tree until he was on the top of the tree. He carefully placed the star on top of the tree. Once it was in place he slowly flew backwards. Dumbo then safely landed on the ground.
"Good job." Katy clapped.
"Thank you."
"That is so cool. An elephant that can fly. That is so cool." A girl was behind Katy and Dumbo the whole time while the flying elephant put the star on the tree.
This girl has waist-length black hair and blue eyes. She wears the same uniform as Alice, albeit wearing tan-brown almost-to-the-knee socks and brown boots. This is Chloe Aubert, another student of Shizu's.
"Oh hello I'm Dumbo."
Chloe nodded. "Chloe Aubert. I am one of Shizu's students. Shizu's gone though."
"Must have been because of that spirit disaster incident." Katy said.
"Is that the reason?" Chloe nodded. "I see." She then pets Dumbo on the head. "Nice to meet you, Dumbo."
"Nice to meet you too." Dumbo not understanding Katy said.
"Anyways. Wanna help with the tree?" Katy asked.
Chloe nodded, then she went to help with the tree. But then, she spotted a floating tank. "What in the world?" She tries to see if Alice was here controlling the tank, but she isn't here. She then goes to the tank, and sees Dory in there. "Now that's weird."
"Oh hi there I'm Dory."
"I'm Chloe Aubert. Nice to meet you."
"Oh look at that lovey tree "
"It is beautiful, isn't it?" Chloe then grabs an ornament from the box, then puts one on the tree. "It seems lively."
"Oh is that a um what you call it a bear with black and white." Dory said.
"A panda?" Chloe asked.
"Don't call me that!" Paiman shouted from across the room.
"Geez. Why is that panda angry?" Chloe is confused.
"I don't know I'm just a fish."
Chloe nodded, then she put another ornament on the tree. She looked at it, and realized it was an electric guitar ornament. "That's not Christmas."
"Yes it is." Milk then came to them.
Chloe turns to see Milk. "How can an electric guitar be Christmas?"
"Hey, fuck hole, it's because everyone needs an electrifying Christmas song." Milk said.
Chloe is confused by what Milk has said. Well, everything she got, but…she thought to herself. "Is she a bit too young to say bad words?" She sighed. "Whatever."
As for Dory when Milk was saying fuck all she heard was a bleap hole. Which confused her but did not bother asking.
Meanwhile, Tsukasa held an aluminum ball close to her. It was from Riko, as she held onto it close to her. She sighed.
Back at the cafeteria, we do see Kyubey working on a blog about Christmas. Stan then came to Kyubey.
"Hello magical cat how is it going?" Stan asked
Kyubey chuckled. "Did you just call me a magical cat? How interesting."
"Oh so you are not a cat?"
"I am. It's just, I am actually known as an Incubator. What we are called. Alien cats, you know." Kyubey then continues working on the Christmas blog.
"Oh so working on your list for Santa?"
Kyubey chuckled. "Funny. No. Just working on a blog. That's all. Taking everything you told me to the test. Seems like I'm doing good so far."
"Well that's good."
Kyubey nodded. He then stopped, then thought for a moment. "Let me think. What should I add in next?" He thinks for a moment. "Been trying to type in a blog about the backstory of Santa Claus. How his story began before he became Santa."
Fisher over heard this and went up to Stan and Kyubey. "Well that's a tricky one. As you see each culture has their own story on how Santa came to be from stealing from the rich and giving to the pore like Robin hood to a old man saving his money and giving kids coins and candy. As well as other stories if I'm not mistaken "
"That is quite interesting. I'll have to think about all this." Kyubey said.
What Fisher doesn't know is that a sketch girl was tugging gently on his shirt. He soon felt this and looked down at the girl. "Oh hello."
The sketch girl then gives Fisher a Twix bar. "Please accept this."
"Well thank you. I'm Fisher and who may you be?"
"Um…um…you know my creator never gave me a name. Hold on a sec." The sketch girl then goes to her creator, who appears to be a female.
This female has brown hair and brown eyes. She wears a red dress with white long sleeves, black almost-to-the-knee socks and brown loafers. This is Yuno.
The girl goes to Yuno. "Um…you need to give me a name."
Yuno looks up at her creation. "Oh. Do you need one? Hmm. Let's see. How about Susan? Does that work?"
"I guess that's fine." The sketch girl, now named Susan, nodded.
Yuno nodded, then she went to do the finishing touches on a boy in her sketchbook. "There we go." She then brought the boy from out of the sketchbook and into the cafeteria.
"When you think you seen everything something like this happens." Max Reynolds said as he walked with a tray of gingerbread men to a table of snacks.
"Gingerbread men." The sketch boy pointed at the tray.
Yuno smiled. "Why don't you ask them?"
The sketch boy nodded, then he walked to the table.
Meanwhile, Katy looks at the tree in progress so far, and it seems they're almost through. "Looks like we're almost done. Just about some more decorations at the top and we'll be done."
"And then I'll have Tim sing us a song." Milk said.
"Um not to be rude or anything but could he um actually sing?" Asked Zuri Ross.
Milk shrugged. "He probably could if he has to. He has his own TV show, so why not start a band or a solo album?"
Zuri could not think of anything to say after that and just looked around before walking away.
"Well, I left her speechless." Milk said.
Katy nodded. "I guess so."
Then, Nanachi came to them. "Hey there." She then turns to Dumbo. "Hello to you."
"Oh hi. This whole walking on two feet is interesting thanks to showing up here out of nowhere."
Nanachi did realize that. "Hmm. You got yourself used to that, huh? Naa. It's good. You look fine."
"Thanks I was a bit wobbly at first but I was able to get the hang of it."
Nanachi nodded. "Everything's a first. First time was not that good, but, other times, you got it. So I understand what that looks like."
"What if more people show up and we don't have gifts for them?"
Katy turns to Nanachi and Dumbo. "Do not worry about that. I think we got ourselves something for them when they come."
"That's good as has been happening a lot."
Nanachi then starts to sense something. Her bunny ears went up.
"I know that look." Dumbo said.
"I'm getting something strange here." Nanachi looks around, seeing if anything is off. She then spotted a girl trying to rob some stuff. "You, stop right there!" She got out her gun.
The girl reveals herself. This is Nick Franzelli.
Nick then drops a full tray of cookies luckily for the try it was plastic but the cookies where not lucky at all. Max R's eyes started to water he worked so hard on those cookies.
"What were you trying to do?" Nanachi asked.
"Um, what does it look like? You already have so many it's not like you need all of them."
Nanachi sighed, then put up her gun. "I did sense you, so that got me concerned. Listen, do not try to steal stuff, okay? If that's what you were planning."
"Oh come on like you are really going to notice all these things missing."
Nanachi was about to lose it. "She's a fucking idiot." She sighed. "Whatever."
Katy then saw that the cookies were on the ground. "Max Reynolds worked so hard on those. I betcha he's crying now." She saw that his eyes were watering. "Yep, he is."
"Um yeah like I care. That's how the real world works. Even this one regardless how strange this one is."
Nanachi actually did start losing it, then charged at Nick and literally pinned her down on the floor and started beating her up.
Nick struggled to get this crazy rabbit girl off of her. If it was a boy she would knee it in the crotch.
"Oh wow. A fight scene!" Milk makes a single string of music loudly on her electric guitar.
"Somebody break up the fight!" Katy said.
Mal saw this and sighed. She did a spell and Nanachi was now floating in the air. She was hoping to go a day without magic but guess it wasn't going to happen.
"Naaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Just put me down, dammit!" Nanachi was still angry at what Nick had said earlier. At least she should care instead of not caring. That is what Nanachi ticked off with the most.
Mel then made sure Nanachi was a bit far away from this girl before setting her back down.
The younger Phos goes to Nick and sees that her face was kind of bloodied. "Oh wow. She beat you up good."
"I had worse." Nick then got back up but then fell down and did not get back up as she was unconscious. Which was a delay effect after the beating.
The younger Phos' eyes widened, then she checked Nick's pulse. She sighed in relief. "She's not dead."
"You might wanna get her to sick bay." Katy said.
"We'll do that." The Amoeba Sisters, Petunia and Pinky, come into the cafeteria, grab Nick, and they leave the cafeteria.
"What just happened here?" A female came into the cafeteria.
This female has short auburn hair and red eyes. She wears a black long-sleeve shirt, blue checkered skirt, white almost-to-the-knee socks and black loafers. This is Yukino Miyazawa.
"Well, Nanachi, this bunny girl, who is a Narehate, has decided to beat this girl up because she was being a bitch." The older Phos said.
Yukino nodded. "That's bad. I thought that might be over for me, but my world is still crashing down on me like Hell has taken over from above. Yeah right. What a pain in the ass I have to go through one time." She sighed.
Ann then turns to Max R and pats him in the back. "Don't worry. It'll be fine."
"It was my grandma's recipe. She use to make it and now my mom does. I just wanted something that reminded me of home. And that took me a bit to learn how to make them."
"Cheer up." Lytt came to Max R, while holding Mrs. Kipling. "It'll be fine. You can make them again. I'm sure you can do it."
"I kinda know the feeling as the cookies I made were tricky and that girl just took them all. And it wasn't easy for me to understand the recipe." Hank Zipzer said. Trying not to hint he has dyslexia.
Nanachi came to Max R. "Just don't listen to a single thing that girl said. She was being a pain in the ass. I did that to her because she's kind of hurting your feelings. I'm sorry."
Max just nodded and soon went to pick up the broken cookies. Hank went and helped.
"Man. If I didn't say anything, that would have been so bloodied up." Katy said, then turned to Dumbo. "I'm sure you agree with me on that."
"I don't know someone may notice her doing it and it could still happen."
"You might be right." Katy sighed.
Kenneth and JJ then came back into the cafeteria.
"What happened here?" Kenny said noticing Max and Hank picking up cookies and a blood spot a few feet away from the boys.
"Apparently, this girl was trying to steal this guy's cookies." Yui Akamatsu pointed at Max R. "And she dropped them, then she literally said some hurtful stuff that Nanachi…" She points at Nanachi, who is with Lytt at the moment. "...go and beat her up. She got unconscious after that."
"All because of cookied? Do you know if she took anything else?" JJ asked.
Kotoha was behind JJ and seeing what he was saying with the board. She then thinks for a moment. "You know, this might be a case to solve. We might as well figure out if she took anything else or not."
"But she's unconscious. How can we figure it out if she's unconscious?" Saki Kise asked.
Kotoha thinks for a moment.
"You could check her pockets and see if she hid something in a place where things don't belong." Max Mayfield said.
"I like the way you think." Kotoha nodded. "Then we go and solve this mystery. Colors, we got a mystery to attend to."
Yui and Saki nodded.
"Let's find stuff out." Yui said. "Colors, let's go."
Yui, Saki and Kotoha go up to one another, then the three 12-year-olds go out of the cafeteria to see if Nick has stolen anything else from the Agency.
Reg thinks for a moment.
"What is wrong, Reg?" Riko asked.
"I'm trying to think. Was she born in a life of crime?" Reg wondered.
"As someone who been seen nothing but bad that's hard to say. Sure I have done bad things but only because on who my mother was and I was just mostly doomed for the rest of my life." Mel said.
"I think I understand that." Riko nodded.
"Perfectly well." Katy said.
Meanwhile, with the three 12-year-olds, they were heading to sick bay, then they stopped a few inches from it.
Saki gets out her pet fly. "Go in there and see what this girl has."
"Roger." The pet fly said, then she flew into the sick bay and found Nick. She did find her, and she was glad she is still unconscious. She flew to Nick and she looked into her pockets. She saw that she had stolen some ornaments from the tree, and she had stolen some money as well. "Oh wow." She then flew out of the sick bay and back to them. "She has stolen some ornaments and money."
"Oh wow. She's a master thief, huh?" Kotoha thinks for a moment. "Wonder why."
The pet fly shrugged. "Who knows."
"Thanks, Messy." Saki said.
"No problem." The pet fly, who is named Messy, flew back to Saki and got on her shoulder.
"What now, leader?" Kotoha asked.
"Well, check everywhere and see if she has stored some stuff away, I guess." Yui said.
"Then let's go." Saki said.
The three then ran away from the sick bay. Then they ran into Savannah Dillon in the hallway.
"Man you sure can get lost in here as it was like forever since I seen some of you." Savanna said.
"Hey there. We're actually solving a mystery right now." Kotoha said.
"Oh?"
"So, there's this girl, and she was about to steal some cookies and all. We then know that she has stolen Christmas ornaments and…apparently money for some odd reason, and now we're checking to see if she stored away some more stuff that she must have stolen." Yui explained.
"Well I would say I haven't seen any new faces around here but it feels like every day someone new just shows up. So it is hard to keep track. But I can tell you that I did not see anything weird going on outside the normal weird. Sorry that doesn't help."
"Wanna tag along with us to solve this mystery?" Saki smiled.
"Sure why not."
"Then let's go." Yui said.
"Right on." Messy said.
The team then goes to search for what Nick has stolen. They searched every nook and cranny in the Agency, except for the quarters, and nothing. But, they didn't check the storage room.
"It could be in there." Yui points at the storage door.
"So what one of you are going in there?" Ray asked
The girls then turned around and saw Ray, who just appeared out of nowhere.
"What in the world are you doing here?" Yui asked.
"Well I heard we have a theft in the mits and they are certainly not being watched."
Kotoha goes and enters the code for the door to open. It opened, and the first thing they saw was a box of doll heads.
Yui's eyes widened. "That's so scary."
"Thank goodness I did not enter first but since you needed a code to enter you think the theft knew it to hide the goods in here?" Ray asked.
"Unless she hacked into it easily enough." Kotoha said.
Kotoha, Yui, Saki, Messy, Savanna and Ray have gotten into the storage room to find what Nick must have stashed away. Saki gets out a box and looks inside it. She did find some flash drives here. "Wow. Flash drives. Wonder if they're ours."
"I don't think they are." Yui gets out a box and opens it, and it is filled with more money. "Oh wow. She stashed this in here."
"Wow you look at that it looks like this thief has been quite the busy gal." Ray said.
Saki grabs out another box and she finds some jewelry in here. "Huh. She must be fond of these things. After all, she is a girl."
"Maybe doll heads too or maybe it's Milk's collection?" Ray asked.
"Why would that girl steal doll heads?" Yui wondered.
"Well, we got one thing clear. We've beat this game." Kotoha said.
"I don't think we beat it yet. We have to know why she steals stuff." Yui asked.
"You know, that's gonna take a while before she wakes up again." Messy said.
"So is flash drives one of those future things?" Savana asked as she looked at them in the box.
"Yep. They are." Kotoha said. "You store things in them. Through a computer."
"Oh like a floppy disc."
"I guess you can say that." Kotoha said.
"Let's just take this all to the cafeteria for them to look at. They might wanna know about this." Yui said.
"Man, and I thought we're gonna have a good Christmas this year." Messy said.
"What I don't get is where did all this money come from as clearly some of us may had little to no money at all on them when we showed up here. It's not like we are getting money from somewhere, right?" Mel asked.
They did see Mal come into the storage room.
Kotoha thinks for a moment. "Well, I have a hunch. Maybe she stole all this money from banks and she decided to store it here. The reason why, well, we might as well ask her about that."
"Like she robbed banks and next thing she knows as she is running away bam she ends up in the Meta-Verse but not just anywhere but this part of it and maybe the door was already opened so she thought just to put the money in here so she can garb more stuff? I know it's a lot to take in." Ray said
"That is a consideration. She must have ended up here and put the money here. That might be it." Kotoha then turns to the group. "Let's just take all these stolen boxes and put them in the cafeteria."
Later, the team puts the boxes of flash drives, money and jewelry on the table.
Katy did see this. "Is that all the things that that girl stole?"
Kotoha nodded. "Flash drives included."
Katy looks concerned. "I wanna know what's on these flash drives. Because, there might be some important stuff on there."
"After Christmas." Ann said.
"Yes. After Christmas." Katy nodded. "But, we'll keep an eye on the flash drives in the meantime until we get to them."
"I'll go ahead and take the box of flash drives." Asahi Hinagiri goes to the boxes and grabs the box of flash drives.
"Thank you, Miss Hinagiri." Katy said.
"No problem." Asahi then leaves the cafeteria.
Zuri soon came back in the cafeteria and seen more boxes on tables. "Wow you sure go all out on Christmas." She then went to to one of them and seen the one with the money in it. "Where did all this money come from?"
"That girl has stolen some money from robbing banks, and we assume she was robbing one and ended up here, and put the money in the storage room." Yui said.
"That makes sense as all these bills are American and I don't see any other types of bills." Zuri said as she was looking through it all.
"She also stole jewelry and flash drives, but Asahi came and got the box of flash drives." Katy said.
"Where they in their packaging or loseley?" Zuri still looking at the cash.
"From what we saw, they are loose. So, that means that some of these flash drives might have info that we might need to know." Kotoha said.
"Oh that's strange she would take those but again I'm not a theft and by the way you have five thousand three hundred and twenty three dollars here."
"Five thousand three hundred and twenty three dollars?" Milk's eyes changed into dollar signs. "That's a damned good amount of cash there."
"Don't think about it." Katy sighed. "We are gonna return that eventually somehow."
"But how?" Hakumei asked.
"I'm not sure." Katy shook her head.
"Speaking of which, we do have a special guest coming here." Ann said.
"We have more than that already." Katy said.
"Here he comes." Ann clapped her hands.
A man then came into the cafeteria, confused. This man is Cory Matthews.
"Wowzer I seen some interesting things in my life and this for sure takes the cake. Like an elephant walking bipedally I mind you."
"Yeah, that's Dumbo. He actually got himself to walk on two feet. Don't know how long ago this was, but I know it wasn't the day we went to that music concert." Riko said.
"Dumbo as in the elephant who can fly or he just happened to be called Dumbo?"
"The elephant that can fly." Riko nodded.
"Well I be damned. One thing I was getting my class ready for the day and the next I'm here. Mr Fenie never never taught this."
"New friend." The sketch boy runs up to Cory and hugs him.
"Don't scare him." Susan came to them. "Sorry about him. And yes, we are sketches from a sketchbook."
Cory blinked "Wow you look so life like whoever drew you two are really good."
"I drew them." Yuno came to them. "My name is Yuno. I always carry my sketchbook with me."
"Have what you draw always come to life or is that a magical sketchbook?"
"We do have these what you call superpowers. And I have the power that can bring sketches to life if I draw them. I am a very good artist, so I bought myself a sketchbook and did my artistic abilities there. One day, I drew a cute little bunny rabbit, and it came out of the sketchbook. I was scared at first, but then I realized, I have super abilities." Yuno explains.
"Wow so if you drew on something else then the same thing can happen?"
Yuno thinks. "I don't think I have ever done that yet."
"You need to give him a name." Susan points at the sketch boy.
"Oh yes. I think I'll call you Manny." Yuno said.
"Thanks." The sketch boy, who is now named Manny, smiled.
Sonanta came into the cafeteria, carrying some Christmas wreaths on her back. Cory turns around, and is freaked out of her bloodied, blobby appearance.
"Oh my goodness get this girl some help."
"It's fine. I am always like this. A Hollow." Sonanta then crawls away from the group and to Fisher. "I believe you asked for the wreaths."
Cory then went back talking to Yuno "My daughter Riley would really love your drawings."
Katy's eyes widened. "Wait a moment! Riley's your daughter?!" She shouted from across the room.
Cory blinked seeing the Caterpillar "Oh um yeah why?"
"Because she is here." Katy said.
"Wait really? That makes no sense she was in the school halls talking to her friends. Wait, did this thing got her too?"
"Yep. The portal incident has got her too." Katy said.
"Man I wonder who else it took. Well clearly what I see you guys. Unless you're one of the ones who lives here."
"Some of us do live here." Katy said.
Riley was walking to the entrance of the cafeteria, then saw Cory. "Daddy?" Cory knowing the voice turned around and saw hid daughter and ran to her the two hugged when the hugging stopped Cory noted something.
"Um how did you change your clothes so fast as you where not wearing that when I seen you a few minutes ago."
"Oh well I been here longer then you like days. Something about timelines or something."
"Oh well ok."
"I missed you so much."
Yuno smiled. "I'm happy for you two."
Susan and Manny nodded.
Later, the whole cafeteria is now decorated, every sweets has been made, the tree is shining brighter than ever.
"We did a good job on this." Katy said.
"Wow everything looks so bright and shiny." Dory said.
Three boys were sitting at a table with Alice Rondo and Chloe Aubert.
The first boy has spiky orange hair and black eyes. He wears a tan-colored t-shirt, black cape, brown gloves, black pants and brown boots. This is Kenya Misaki.
The second boy has neck-long black hair and black eyes. He wears the same uniform as Kenya, albeit wearing tan-colored gloves, black shorts and white almost-to-the-knee socks. This is Ryota Sekiguchi.
The third boy has brown hair and brown eyes. He wears the same uniform as Kenya and Ryota, albeit wearing a tan-colored long-sleeve shirt and white gloves. This is Gale Gibson.
And these three are also Shizu's students.
"Christmas is now in session." Alice said.
"Been so long since we celebrated." Ryota said.
"Well, being stuck in a fantasy world, we didn't even have Christmas there." Chloe said.
Gale nodded in agreement.
"Now, who wants to hear me sing?" Milk asked.
"Why?" The older Phos asked.
"Because, I'm gonna do some goddamn electric guitar Christmas tunes." Milk said.
"Well this should be interesting." Cory said as he picked up a cookie.
Milk was about to go up, but then she tripped on the cord, this caused the Christmas tree lights to go out.
"Oh no!" Yuno panicked.
"It's okay. We can plug it back in." Katy said.
Milk gets up. "How the hell did I trip on the cord?"
"Things happen. The important thing is the tree did not fall." Kirby B said.
A girl has gone to the tree, grabs the cord, then plugs it in, and the lights come back on. She sighed in relief, then smiled. "Looks like we're back for Christmas again."
This girl has brown hair and brown eyes. She wears an orange shirt, pink long-sleeve overshirt, light blue skirt, light yellow socks and light pink sneakers. This is Kyon's Sister. Yeah, she doesn't have a name.
"That's good." Chloe munched on a cookie that Max R had made. Well, the cookies that he made after his other ones got dropped by Nick.
"So Christmas in July is something." Cory said.
"So it's July before you get here?" Akane Mizuno asked.
"Yeah July second last day of summer school." Cory said.
"I always hate the concept of Christmas in July. I literally thought that concept started with Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July." Milk said.
"Well um…ok then." Cory not knowing what to say.
"What? Am I wrong? Did that concept not start with Rudolph and Frosty?" Milk asked.
"I have no idea as I'm not that old." Cory said.
"Hey, Fisher, you're the smart one. I might ask that question. About the concept of Christmas in July and when it all started." Milk points to Fisher. Does he even know the answer to her question? Let's find out.
"Um good question." Fisher trying to think. "I really have no idea sorry. I don't know everything but a nonfictional person might. Even a non one."
Milk looks at Fisher in disappointment. "Man. Why did I ask?"
Sonanta crawls to Dumbo, who is sitting with Tod and Copper, and she gets herself comfortable on a chair. "Nice. So, are you doing okay?"
"Yes this is the first time I seen a tree inside and a decorated one too."
Sonanta nodded, then she turned to Copper. "I am sorry for what happened with me some time ago. I literally thought you were an enemy, just to find out I was wrong."
"That's ok at least you realized it not like some people."
Sonanta nodded. Then she sighed. "This day seems…cheerful. Even though there were some complications…I did not actually have any joy in my whole entire life."
"That's sad." Tod said. He then nuzzled into her.
Sonanta's eyes were filled with tears. "After being experimented on by that horrible man and being turned into this, my happiness all faded away. The animals tried to show me happiness, but I can still never find it. It's like, happiness just faded away from the world."
"Maybe on this day something magical will happen and you be your human self again."
"Well, I can actually turn to my human self, but that's when I have some type of power source. When you guys first saw me, I was in my human form. But, after Chapa fried me, I reverted back to this." Sonanta said.
"Oh so you can't control your power once you look human?"
"Not the transforming part, no. But, I was able to talk to the animals and control them, which is why I was once known as The Animal Whisperer." Sonanta said.
"Oh." Tod was sad that once Sonanta becomes human again she may not be able to control the dark side of herself. If Tod understood right.
Sonanta sighed. She then turns to see the Christmas tree. "It is so beautiful. I can see joy in all those lights."
"It is."
Everyone was just happy for Christmas. Everything was happy.
That night, Tsukasa walked down the hallway, then came across Riley's room. She was hesitant, then she started to knock on her door.
A few seconds later the door opened with Riley standing on the other side. "Oh hi."
Tsukasa sighed. "You said that if I wanted, I would come to you. So, here I am. Willing to come to you."
"Yes I did come in."
Tsukasa then came into the room. She saw that Bambi, Thumper, Flower, Dumbo, Pinocchio, Jiminy Cricket and Katy were in the room with Riley.
"Hey there, Miss Hiiragi." Katy said.
"Did not expect to see you here." Tsukasa said.
"Well, just visiting with Miss Matthews here, is all." Katy said.
Tsukasa nodded.
"Oh sorry I forgot the others are staying here until we find a nice room for them." Riley said.
Tsukasa nodded. She then turns to the Disney characters. "Just please do not be afraid of me. I know I look horrendous and terrible."
"Oh no we don't think that do we guys?" Thumper said as his leg then started to thump. "Sorry this leg has a mind of its own."
"Yeah you are no monster Monstro is a monster." Pinocchio said.
Tsukasa nodded, then she sat down on Riley's bed, then sighed. "I was trying to think of what I can do now. I mean, I've heard Katy told everyone about me, and so I really need to think of what to do now."
"Miss Hiiragi, we will get rid of that third eye, it's just, we need to know what the cause of it is." Katy said.
Tsukasa nodded, then looked at the ground, looking solemn.
There was then a knock on the door. Riley went to answer it to see Mel on the other side. Mel nodded and came in. "Hello."
Tsukasa looks up at Mal. "And why are you here?"
Ending theme: We Stitch These Wounds by Black Veil Brides
You kissed the lips of evil
2 months it's all the same
Beg for this man's approval
Pray to die in vain
Sit down with thoughts alone now
With blood these lyrics came
Your words can eat right through me
Dead could hear my shame
The tears we've cried
This love has died
You're by yourself with me tonight
It's what we had with every lie
And stitch these wounds with me tonight
The tears we've cried
This love has died
You're by yourself with me tonight
It's what we had with every lie
And stitch these wounds with me tonight
LIAR!
LIAR!
LIAR Say Goodbye!
Post-credit scene
In the hallway, we see Chapa walking down to her quarters, until she hears someone.
"Chapa de Silva. I've been looking for you."
Chapa turned around, then saw a young girl behind her. It is the same girl that Chito and Yuuri has saw in a video in the submarine, and is also the one that has located Chapa some time ago.
"And you are?"
"My name is Chisato Akagi. I was hoping to meet you, One with Lightning."
These are the characters that appears in this chapter:
From Tamama900:
Alice Rondo, Chloe Aubert, Kenya Misaki, Ryota Sekiguchi and Gale Gibson from That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime
Yuno from Hidamari Sketch
Yukino Miyazawa from His and Her Circumstances
Kyon's Sister from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Chisato Akagi from Girls' Last Tour
Susan, Manny and Messy are OCs of Tamama 900
From 'sFanfic:
Tim "The Toolman" Taylor from Home Improvement
Cody Martin from The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
Nick Franzelli from No Good Nick
Cory Matthews from Girl Meets World
JJ DiMeo from Speechless
Dory from Finding Dory
Next time: Journey Into the Gigabanks
And that's a wrap! Hope you guys enjoyed this Christmas chapter early this year. Next time, it's time to get back to the plot, when the team has to now go to the Gigabanks and try to stop Lirio's bounty, Kingpin, from stealing it. But, they are about to face another robber that wants the money in the Gigabanks as well.
Merry Early Christmas and we'll see you all in the next chapter of Meta-Verse.