6.1 KaiserRichard
"So, it's usually around this point when Keita falls down a hole and becomes Fuu2..." Fumi-chan asked Whisper, "What happens to me when I turn into Mifuu?"
"Well..."
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Suddenly a Giant Noko falls down on the current watch bearer, crushing her.
"Huh, usually it's a cow that crushes you, whis." The Ghost Butler finished.
6.2
Cinder Awoke to find herself in a house, kneeling before a shrine of some sort, with… her brother beside her.
"… Keita?" she muttered, glancing at the eleven-year-old whom was sitting on his knees with his eyes closed.
"Nate," he corrected, without opening his eyes. "It's Nate right now."
"Oh…" Cinder nodded, looking through her Loop-memories to confirm this. She also found that they were currently visiting their grandmother, and the shrine was… in memorial to their grandfather. The Remnant Looper grew a little nervous when Nate made no motion to talk to her, nor any signs of hostility or discomfort at all… "Um… Nate?"
"Shhh," he softly shushed her before nodding. "We make an offering to grandpa first, then we talk." He explained, Cinder just looked confused before Nate held up a plate with some kind of pastry on it, and placed it in front of the shrine. There was silence for a few moments before Nate turned to his nervous sister. "So, what's on your mind?"
"… What's on my mind?" Cinder looked incredulous at the casualness of this question.
"It's been a while since we've just talked, Cinder. I'm supposed to be your brother after all, I figured asking what's on your mind is a good place to start," the Anchor explained with a friendly smile, Cinder fidgeted a little, a clear look of discomfort on her face.
"What are you doing?"
"I don't understand," Nate tilted his head at his elder sibling's question.
"Why are you talking to me like this? Aren't you angry with me?"
"… I was," he admitted, glancing at the ground. "But… Ruby explained everything to me, it wasn't your fault. I hate the idea of what could have happened, but taking it out on you won't help anything… also…" Nate drummed his fingers against his pantleg, looking unsure of what to say. "I'm sorry…"
"… What?"
"I'm sorry for not talking to you, I'm sorry for being afraid of you… I'm sorry for being a bad brother," Nate sighed as he avoided Cinder's gaze, silence permeated the room for a few moments… before it was broken by a small chuckle, from Cinder. Nate looked surprised as his sister let out a few more laughs, a couple tears coming from her eyes.
"What is this?" Cinder asked in-between laughs, Nate blinked in confusion before she continued. "I almost destroyed my home, your other sisters, friends and who knows what else… and you're apologizing to me? What is this? Some kind of joke?"
"I mean it, Cinder," Nate insisted, a serious look on his face. "I know what happened, I don't blame you. I shouldn't have been afraid of you in the first place, you're my family but I never acted like you were. I bonded with Ruby, Yang and Dexter every chance I got, but I never even put an effort forth to bond with you…"
"Nate…" Cinder just looked down in confusion, unsure of how to feel about her surrogate brother's words.
"I want to start over with this Cinder, I'm not going to be afraid of you anymore," the yo-kai watch-bearer stood up and held his hand out to Cinder, a determined look on his face. "I'm going to treat you like family from now on, please give me another chance to be your little brother, big sis…" Cinder looked at his hand for a moment, before giving a soft smile and taking it.
"I suppose I should, you're giving me another chance after all, little bro," she stood up and the two hugged, they stayed like that for a moment, before the sound of movement caught their attention. The hug broke and Nate stared at the shrine for a moment, Cinder noted that the pastry that had been on the plate was gone…
"… Grandpa, how long have you been watching?" Cinder grew confused at her brother's words, their grandfather? The sudden appearance of a small, shadowy humanoid surprised her, but also answered her question.
"I was here the whole time, it didn't seem right to interrupt," the spirit said with a nod of his head.
"Yet it was okay to spy on us?"
"What? An old man can't keep an eye on his grandkids?" he shook his head with a chuckle, before nodding to Cinder, whom bowed a little awkwardly. "Well, have fun on the time travel quest," he shrugged.
"Time travel?" Cinder looked at Nate questioningly, he just smiled and gave a thumbs-up.
"Also, Nate," the yo-kai looked towards his grandson. "If I ever Loop, you're going to have to introduce me to all my new grandchildren," Nate and Cinder both looked confused at this request.
"Wait, how do you know about the Loops?" the Anchor asked, the grandfather cracked a smile.
"Because you told me in the past, of course."
"Of course," Nate rolled his eyes, Cinder couldn't help but laugh a little.
Next Loop
Keita Woke up, in both senses of the word, in his bed. The Anchor had a content smile as he remembered the fun time he had with his eldest sister last Loop, and that he wasn't going to be afraid of her anymore…
The sounds of small rocks hitting his window snapped the child out of his sentimental thoughts, he glanced at the window before going over to it and opening it.
"Hello?" he looked around, not seeing anyone he focused on the ground until a small, shadowy yo-kai became visible. "… Grandpa?"
"Yeah," his undead relative nodded. "Remember when I said if I Looped I wanted you to introduce me to all my grandchildren?" a smirk formed on the Isamashi-zoku yo-kai's face as Keita's eyes widened, before a smile formed on his own face.
"Grandpa, I think we have a lot to discuss…"
6.3
"Morning, pop," Taiyang's Awakening was met with this greeting, not from one of his daughters, but from a young boy.
"Morning… son," the man muttered as he let his Loop memories sink in, he still had two children this Loop. Nate was the younger, and the older was…
"Nate!" a seventeen-year-old Ruby cheered as she dashed into the room and swept her brother up into a hug. "So great to see you!"
"Great to see you too sis… but please put me down," the currently-fifteen-year old boy struggled in his sister's grip, before she reluctantly let him go and he let out a gasp for breath.
"Oh, don't be a baby," she chided with a shake of her head, Nate gave her a weak glare.
"I said to stop with the baby thing…"
"Okay, one: me calling you a baby in this context has nothing to do with calling you my baby bro. And two: NEVER!" Nate took a swipe at the local Anchor, which she easily dodged. These antics continued for a few moments before they noticed Taiyang standing in the corner, looking completely lost.
"… Oh, right. Everyone's feeling Loopy, right?" Nate asked after a moment, Ruby nodded with a huff–as if there was any doubt she was Awake after that display–and Taiyang nodded as well, still looking a little confused.
"I will say that, if I wasn't Awake you two certainly would've been making even less sense to me, and I'm still a bit confused…" despite his confusion, he looked towards the brown-haired boy and allowed himself to smile a little. "So, we finally meet, Nate. Or do you prefer Keita?"
"I have no preference, but right now it's Nate," the visiting Anchor explained, giving a bow to his current in-Loop father. "It's nice to meet you, Taiyang. Ruby and Yang have told me much about you, and I myself have been the son of your UnAwake selves several times…"
"Well, I'm happy to finally meet my new son face to face," Taiyang nodded, keeping his friendly smile. Nate blushed a little in embarrassment as he stood awkwardly before the man, he took a breath before nodding to him.
"Sir, I would like you to know that you have always been a wonderful father whenever I Looped as your son… but I'm sorry if I can't consider myself to be your son," Taiyang and Ruby exchanged a confused expression at this declaration, before Nate continued. "Despite that fact they are not Looping, and may in fact never Loop, I am deeply attached to my Baseline parents. I already have a dad, and I know it's possible to have more than two parents but… without them Looping to tell about this, I'd feel like I'm replacing them. I know that's not rational but I just can't see you as my dad or I as your son…"
"Well… I suppose that's understandable," Taiyang muttered while scratching his head, looking unsure of what to say again. Ruby glanced between the two in awkward silence, trying to think of something to lift the mood back up…
"However," Nate started, holding his hand up to catch the two's attention. "I can consider you a father-figure. You may not be my dad, but we are family. And I would not be opposed to us spending some time together as such, so long as you respect that I have another dad…" the two smiled at each other after a moment.
"I don't really think a speech like that was necessary to get your feelings across," Taiyang chuckled, ruffling Nate's hair a bit. He pushed the hand back, but smiled regardless.
"Just wanted my thoughts known. You really were a good dad to me, I would like to have that kind of relationship with your Looping self, you can't be my dad… maybe my step-dad?"
"I think that should work just fine," Taiyang and Nate nodded to each other, Ruby gave a sigh of relief that the awkwardness seemed to be gone. The father soon left to make breakfast, leaving his two (current) children to their own devices.
"… Whisper write that speech for you?" Ruby questioned, a bit of a smug look on her face.
"No!" Nate huffed with crossed arms, before sighing and dropping his head a little. "Katie did… How did you know?"
"Nate, the way you spoke reeked of a pre-written speech. And you may be a hacker and as into weapon modification as myself, but you are certainly not the greatest with words."
"… Yeah, I suppose. I just wasn't sure how to approach the issue without hurting his feelings…" Nate sighed as he looked towards the kitchen. Ruby laughed a little and put her hand on his head, he glared at her and pushed it away and, but she kept her amused smile, but it soon softened in a concerned look.
"That's not all there is to it, is there? What you said, there's another reason you're so insistent he's not your dad…"
"…"
"Nate, no matter how long it takes them to Loop, even if they never Loop, you won't forget them. You don't have to worry about that."
"… But what's worse? Forgetting them, or replacing them?"
"Family isn't something that there's a limit on, we'll always have room for more. There is no replacing," Ruby assured, Nate didn't look to sure but the conversation was halted when Taiyang called the two for breakfast.
"Well, we should– "before Nate could finish his sentence, his sister flicked his forehead. "Ow! Hey, what was that for!?"
"Stop being depressing!" she flicked his forehead again.
"Stop that!"
"I've had more drama than I'd care to deal with lately! You don't need to get all depressed on if my dad can be your dad without replacing your actual dad!"
"… Wha– "she flicked his forehead again. "Okay, seriously! Stop that!"
"You see your parents every Baseline run! There is zero chance you will forget them! Enough drama, get over it!" Ruby moved to flick him again, but Nate caught her hand.
"Ha!" she used her other hand to flick him. "Ow! Seriously!?"
"Get over it! I didn't even know what my dad looked like when I started Looping, get over it! Get over it! Get over it!" she kept flicking the visiting Anchor, faster than he could react.
"Okay! I'm over it! Please stop!"
6.4
"Whitley's gone again!?" Weiss exclaimed, while her present teammates looked at her suspiciously. "I DIDN'T KIDNAP HIM!"
"Guys! Guys! Guys!" Ruby exclaimed, running over frantically.
"I don't know where Whitley is!" Weiss suddenly shouted at her leader, whom she noticed was seventeen this Loop…
"What?" Ruby blinked, Yang shook her head at her–currently twin–sister while Blake rolled her eyes.
"Never mind, what is it?" Weiss sighed while rubbing her head.
"Oh, well Keita Looped in as my biological little brother again, but he's gone missing!" Ruby exclaimed worriedly. "I think he Woke up not too long ago, but I don't know where he is! Neither does dad."
"Wait, Keita vanished?" Yang questioned, not looking as concerned as her sister, knowing he could take care of himself, but looking more suspicious.
"… Oh, you have got to be kidding," Weiss groaned.
"… What?" Ruby asked, looking clueless to what was being implied…
"So, mind explaining yourself nephew?" Qrow questioned as he looked down at the fifteen-year-old Keita Rose, whom was sitting on a log, innocently playing a tune on a harp that the nearby Whitley Schnee briefly hummed to.
"Whatever do you mean?" Keita asked with a smirk.
"Keita, do you know this man?" Whitley asked after a moment, an eyebrow arched in confusion.
"Yeah, he's my uncle. Don't worry about it," the Yo-kai Watch Anchor waved off the concerns before looking back at Qrow.
"What do I mean? Keita, kidnapping doesn't really suit you."
"I didn't kidnap anyone," Keita stated plainly.
"Why does he think you kidnapped me?" Whitley questioned.
"Probably because your dad went on a rampage when you weren't home for supper," Keita huffed. Whitley chuckled before the two high-fived, Qrow's eye twitched. "Could you excuse us buddy, my uncle and I need to talk."
"Oh, sure thing," Whitley shrugged before walking off to the other side of their campsite and out of earshot.
"… Okay, seriously, what's going on?" Qrow held himself back from snapping as Keita tapped his harp a few times before putting it away.
"Not much, actually. Turns out my unawake-self had been Whitley's pen pal for quite a while before I Woke up. From there it was simple for me to convince him without a doubt that his father was a jackass, and that he needed some experience in the outside world. So, we went camping."
"… Without telling anyone!?"
"Did we not tell anyone? I could've sworn we left notes," Keita smirked innocently while Qrow just groaned.
"I swear, you are a devious little poltergeist."
6.5
"Nate, why did your grandfather sue Steve Jaws?" Whisper questioned, yo-kai pad in hand as he hovered over to his master/friend.
"He stole his invention and marketed it as his own, what did you expect him to do?" Nate pointed out plainly. Whisper blinked, before looking at the yo-kai pad again.
"… It says he's going to mass-produce the model zero and market it to humans around the world, effectively revealing the existence of yo-kai to everyone…" Whisper pointed out, showing an image of Nathaniel's yo-kai form holding up a yo-kai watch. The human and ghost stared at each other for a few more seconds.
"Well… I know what I'm getting mom and dad for Christmas."
"You could've given anyone a yo-kai watch at any time…"
"Yeah, but I never get this good an excuse."
6.6
"So, this is 2500 yen?" Keita questioned the book shop's cashier as he looked over a copy of 'A Serious Life.' "Are you sure that's the best price you can give me?"
"Sorry sir, but that's how much it costs, I doubt you'll find a better price anywhere around here," the shopkeeper shrugged. Keita hummed in thought.
"Well, I don't know… I have an idea!" he smiled before pulling a yo-kai medal out of his pocket, the shopkeeper looked confused, and only grew more confused at the child's next action. "Come on out my friend!" he flipped the medal, which had an image of a tanuki on it. "Calling Tom Nook! Yo-kai medal do your thing!"
"Summoning Shady!" the yo-kai watch stated after Keita inserted the medal "Marvelous thee! Gusty, free banshee! Sing, song Shady"
"Tom Nook! Yes, yes!" the tanuki exclaimed after he appeared, before landing in front of Keita and looking between him and the very confused cashier. "Yes Keita, what can I do for you?"
"This guy says 2500 is the best price I can get on this book in the area, can you confirm the factuality of that statement?" Keita questioned, holding the book out to Tom Nook.
"Who are you talking to?" the confused man behind the counter questioned, but received no answer. Tom Nook looked over the book for a moment, before nodding.
"Oh! Yes, yes! I actually have this book available in my shop for a mere two bells! Yes, yes!"
"Oh, well that's fantastic, lead the way," Keita smiled, before placing the book back on the shelf and following the tanuki out the door.
The shopkeeper was left very confused…
6.7
"You must be even more foolish than I believed, if you think some average human can stop me!" Dame Dedtime laughed as she loomed over the small group with an army of wicked yo-kai.
His friends (and grandfather) were all UnAwake, but Nate stepped forward with a glare.
"Nate, what are you doing?" Whisper asked fearfully as he approached the boss of the wicked yo-kai.
"Don't call me that!"
"Huh?" Dame Dedtime stopped her laughing and looked down at the human glaring at her. "What did you just say?"
"I said, don't call me 'average'! My name is Nate!"
"… Is he serious?" the wicked yo-kai asked her subordinates, whom all shrugged or looked confused, before she started laughing. "Oh, you stupid boy, you don't seem to understand in what position you're in! You have no yo-kai watch, no way to defeat me, you are at my mercy! You are just an average– "Dame Dedtime's words were cut off when a star-shaped laser suddenly slammed into her and sent her flying. "WHAT THE!?"
The wicked yo-kai, as well as Nate's companions are blinked in confusion and shock, looking over at the angry boy with the glowing star on his chest…
"I said; I do not call me 'average'! My name is Nathen Adams! and YOU WILL FEAR MY LASER-CHEST!"
6.8 Black Omochao & Masterweaver
"Oh boy! I've been waiting for this for so long!" Inaho cheered as she ran around the halls of Beacon, Ruby following behind her.
"Inaho, you know I don't mind you being here, but are you sure my brother isn't in this Loop?" Ruby questioned, watching the hyper girl run around with a sweatdrop.
"Nah, Mr. Average-Anchor isn't around, or at least not Awake," Inaho waved off Ruby's question, the Anchor of Remnant glared at the foreign Looper for a moment.
"Okay, but what have you been waiting for anyway?" Ruby questioned after a moment.
"Oh, well. USApyon's finally going to meet Weiss! I cannot wait to see an epic battle between a Jedi and Sith!" Inaho exclaimed excitedly, skipping ahead, towards team RWBY's room. "I made sure USApyon was headed to your room, and when he and Weiss meet I'm sure their hearts of both the light and dark sides will resonate! And then there will be a glorious lightsaber battle! Oh! I don't want to miss a second of it!" she started running faster.
"Hold up!" Ruby sighed as she chased after the younger Looper. "I kind of want to see that too!"
Inaho stopped at the door and looked into the room, her look of excitement faded, leaving just a blank stare. Ruby speeded over to her side within a second, leaving a few rose petals behind.
"Should've just done that in the first place," Ruby chuckled, smoothing out her cloak a bit, before looking into the room.
The room where Weiss and USApyon were sitting on the ground, both sipping tea.
"… Huh?" both girls blinked in confusion at the sight.
"Oh, hey Ruby… and…" Weiss looked at Inaho with a raised brow.
"Inaho, dani," USApyon stated calmly.
"Inaho, thanks," the white-haired girl nodded to the yo-kai before looking back at the two new arrivals. "What's going on?"
"... Wait, you're not having a battle!? What is going on!?" Inaho shouted while clutching her head.
"Do you have to shout? Dani," USApyon sighed and shook his head.
"Um, Weiss, you know he's a Sith, right?" Ruby asked her friend, blankly.
"Of course I know, I could feel it from a mile away, what's your point?"
"Well… Jedi, Sith… Why aren't you two…?"
"WHY IS THERE NO EPIC LIGHTSABER DUAL!?" Inaho shouted, causing Ruby to jump in surprise.
"We have no reason to fight each other," Weiss stated plainly, shrugging her shoulders.
"With how the Loops are especially, the force isn't even known in this world. There's no conflict between us, dani," USApyon nodded. "Besides, if we did fight she'd probably cream me. Do you have any idea how much longer than me she's been Looping? Dani."
"I'm sure you'd do fine," Weiss assured, patting the otter-ghost on the head.
"Thanks, but I highly doubt it, dani," USApyon shook his head.
"… Are you serious!? I got all excited for nothing!?" Inaho shouted in outrage. "Leave it to the namekichi to disappoint at every turn!" USApyon twitched a little at Inaho's words.
"… What did you just call me? Dani," the shady yo-kai stood up, carefully placing his now empty tea cup on the ground, before turning to Inaho, and pressing the two buttons on his helmet…
"VADER MODE!"
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" Inaho cried as USApyon chased her through the halls, lightsaber in hand and trying to force-choke her. Ruby blinked in confusion as Weiss took another sip of tea.
"That wasn't the kind of dual I was expecting," Ruby shrugged, pointing in the direction the two visiting Loopers had run off in.
"You do realize Cinder's a sith, right?"
"I mean... yeah, but... that's complicated. You and USApyon are sort of strangers, so-"
Weiss rolled her eyes. "My loyalty as a jedi is not to law or to light. I seek to ensure balance, prosperity, and the continued growth of things. USApyon is not at the moment a risk to any of that."
"I... see." Ruby glanced over to the chase. "So, what... you'll attack him if he starts performing atrocities?"
"Essentially yes."
"Okay then." She sat down across from her partner. "So, what about all the spirits?"
"Ugh, that nonsense... I'll certainly be busy this loop..."
6.9
"So… We've nyever really spoken, much…"
"… Rudy, virtually the only thing we have in common is being cat-like," Blake commented dully, looking up from her book and at the red feline that stood nearby.
"Oh, come on, I didn't come talk to you just because we're both feline in nature," Jibanyan scoffed, crossing his arms.
"Okay, why did you come talk to me?"
"Um…" Jibanyan blinked, unable to come up with an answer. Blake sighed and shook her head.
"Don't you usually hang out with Zwei when you're here?"
"I have more to do when I'm here than hang out with that dog!" Jibanyan shouted out in an offended tone. The two stared at each other for a few moments, before Jibanyan's posture drooped a little and he sighed. "Guess I'll go see what Zwei's doing…" Blake watched the nekomata slowly leave the room, before returning to her book.
"You're the only one who understands me, bro," Jibanyan sighed, Zwei barked happily. The two climbed onto a pair of motorcycles and lowered sunglasses over their eyes.
They started the engines before zooming forward on the road, those they passed occasionally caught glimpses of their leather jackets, with the words 'Mutt Life' on the back. Though most were too stunned by the image of a cat and dog riding around in motorcycles, dressed like bikers, to notice…
"So, what do you want to do today?" Mercury muttered in a bored tone as he walked on the sidewalk with Emerald beside him.
"I don't know, what do you want to do today?" Emerald replied, in just as bored a tone.
"I don't know, what do you want to do today?"
"I don't know, what do you want to do today?" This continued back and forth between them for a few minutes, before two little furry mammals on motorcycles zoomed by, startling them.
Emerald and Mercury both stared blankly as the cat's motorcycle slowly backed up and passed them again, before zooming by again, making sure to splash them with a puddle it had missed the first time.
The two dripping villains continued to stare blankly ahead, before Mercury glared at his partner accusingly.
"… I swear I didn't do anything!" Emerald exclaimed defensively.
6.10
Inaho let out a sad sigh as she sat down at a bench, USApyon sitting beside her with a bored look.
"What's with her?" Keita questioned, walking over. Kanchi and Kuma nearby with confused looks, along with Fumi whom was just shrugging.
"Oh, Inaho's just bummed she hasn't had a Loop into Sailor Moon yet, dani," USApyon answered with a shrug. Keita rose an eyebrow at that, looking at Inaho as she drooped a little more.
"Really? I'd think that'd be one of the first places you'd Loop into."
"Actually, I'd really like to Loop into Sailor Piers! But anything like that would do, but it's not happening," the purple haired girl got to her feet and grabbed hold of the Anchor's shoulders. "It's the tree, Nate!"
"Keita," the boy corrected, blankly.
"Whatever! I'm telling you, that tree has something against me! So many Loops, but not once have I become a magical girl! I WANT TO BE A MAGICAL GIRL!" Inaho shook Keita faster, he flinched slightly at her loud tone, noticing that Kuma and Kanchi were looking even more confused now. "It's not fair, Fumi gets to be one but I don't!"
"… Fumi-chan, do you know that girl?" Kuma asked after a moment of watching her shake Keita.
"We're… acquainted, Keita-kun knows her better," Fumi sighed. "Also, I'm not magical. I'm psychic," the female Looper huffed, her non-Looping friends just giving her dumbfounded looks.
6.11
"Look at us, bro! We're real working men!" a short man with blue overalls, a white shirt, and a hat with an 'S' on it, exclaimed happily.
"I think we're supposed to save a princess, or something…" a similar looking man, with tan overalls and a brown shirt, along with a 'J' on his hat, stated with an unsure expression.
"Oh my swirls! Coins!" the blue garbed brother exclaimed in excitement, running off to collect the floating tokens.
"Um… Komasan?" the tan garbed brother looked concerned, watching his sibling run around with a blissfully happy expression.
"Oh my swirls! Flashing question-mark blocks!" Komasan laughed as he tapped the top of the floating block with his gloved hand.
"I think you're supposed to hit it from the bottom…" Komajiro muttered with a sweatdrop, Komasan just continued patting the top of the block. "I think we're supposed to be doing something important…"
"Mahahaha! Those Koma brothers will never make it here, and even if they do, I will stomp them, and breath fire upon their shattered bodies! Victory is mine!" Bowser laughed evilly, Peach sat nearby with an unimpressed look.
"Okay, Bowser you don't even sound convincing anymore…"
"What? Aren't I allowed to have a little fun with this!?" the koopa king snapped in an annoyed tone. "The Mario brothers haven't been replaced for a while, I want to enjoy going up against someone whom doesn't know my tactics, and whom I in-turn don't know the tactics of!"
"Whatever, just don't do anything insane," the princess sighed.
"No promises!" Bowser smirked at his fellow Looper's annoyed frown, before he turned towards the directions the brothers would come to face him. "Now we wait!"
Twelve hours later…
"… Where the heck are they!?" Bowser exclaimed in aggravation. "Not even an amateur would take this long to get to my castle! Right!? What could be keeping them!?"
"Oh my swirls! A turtle!" the koopa troopa looked annoyed as Komasan patted it on the shell, a cheerful look on his face. "Hiya, Mr. Turtle!"
"I really think we're supposed to be doing something important," Komajiro sighed, for what felt like the hundredth time, only for his brother to run off after something else, again…
"Oh my swirls! A teeth-flower!" Komasan exclaimed as he gazed in amazement at the piranha plant.
"This is getting ridiculous…" Komajiro muttered with a defeated expression.
"Tell me about it, he hasn't even acknowledged me…" an annoyed goomba stated from beside him.
"Oh my swirls! A walking mushroom!"
"Spoke too soon," Komajiro shook his head.
6.12
"Lucy…" Moximous N sighed as he overlooked the home he had lived in since childhood, from the branch of a tall tree, his wife sitting on the deck outside. His non-Looping wife…
"Hey, Nathaniel!" a female voice called from the base of the tree, the dark colored yo-kai looked down and spotted the Looping Slippery tribe yo-kai, looking up at him, a Ping alerted him that she was also Awake.
"Mermaidyn? What are you doing here?"
"I should be asking you the same thing, you're just sitting in a tree with a depressed look on your face. What's going on?" Mermaidyn questioned, looking concerned for her friend.
"... Lucy's not Looping," the creator of the yo-kai watch answered after a moment, Mermaidyn sent him a confused look.
"Yeah, I know. What does that have to do with…" a look of realization crossed her face as she thought about what was just said. "Oh… I suppose that might be difficult for you…"
"Even in death, I could continue to spend time with the woman I love. But as I am now, in the Loops. I feel like I'm living in a dream with her, speaking to her is like talking to a memory at times," he sighed in a melancholy manner, his form sagging a little. "It's not too big a deal. I still love her, I still get to spend time with her. It's just difficult when she can't remember anything new we've done…"
"Yeah… that's hard," Mermaidyn nodded, looking to the ground. "I'm here for you if you need me, you know?"
"I know, you're a good friend," Moximous N smiled down at the mermaid-like yo-kai.
"Yeah… and of course, you've also got that irritating grandson of yours to talk to," she chuckled a little, Nathaniel smirked.
"Yeah, wonder what Nate's doing right now."
"Actually, that's part of the reason I'm here," Mermaidyn stated, a sheepish grin on her face. The Brave yo-kai looked at her curiously. "He wants to try and see if me being in a different town would make it so his fishing pole wouldn't catch me. I agreed since I'd like to find out the limits of that annoying thing myself…"
"Oh…" Moximous N nodded, glancing towards his house again. "So, do you think it'll work– "he looked back down, only to find that Mermaidyn was gone. "… Guess not."
"You've gotta be kidding me!" Nate exclaimed, an annoyed Mermaidyn dangling from his fishing rod.
"Maybe you should just give up on fishing…" Whisper muttered with a sweatdrop.
6.13
Keita approached the Crank-a-Kai, grabbing the nob and twisting it, causing a capsule to drop out.
Usually the one in the capsule was Whisper, sometimes it was a different yo-kai, but he could honestly say that he didn't expect what came out of it this time.
"Zwei!?" the Anchor questioned, staring at his sisters' dog, floating like a ghost.
"Oh, hiya Nate!"
"It's Keita right now, what were you doing in the Crank-a-Kai!?"
"… That is a good question…" the two stared at each other, a sweatdrop forming on Keita's head.
Nate opened the capsule carefully, releasing a burst of smoke.
"I am the Box Ghost!" the humanoid spirit that was released from the capsule announced. "BEWARE!" Nate stared at him with an unimpressed expression.
"… I know Whisper replaced you before, but this is kind of stupid," the human boy huffed, the ghost looking at him in confusion.
"… Um, didn't you hear me? I said; BEWARE!"
Keita opened and watched as the two small, humanoid figures formed.
"I'm Cosmo!" the green haired one announced.
"And I'm Wanda!" The pink haired one followed.
"And we're, your Fairy God Parents!" the two shouted together in a cheerful manner, waving their wands and making giant words saying; 'Fairy God Parents' with stage lights and confetti. Keita blinked.
"… What? Not a fan?" Wanda questioned.
"I'm just a little confused," Keita admitted blankly. "Why were you in the Crank-a-Kai?"
"We have no idea!" Cosmo exclaimed happily, Wanda sighed and rolled her eyes.
"Is it too much to ask to just get Whisper?" Keita muttered while shaking his head, the two fairies shared a confused glance.
"CABOOSE!?"
"Hi Keita-Nate!" Nate stared at the blue armored soldier blankly, he didn't seem to be a spirit in any way, shape or form, yet somehow, he had fit inside the capsule. "… So, what's new? Still in school?"
Keita pulled open the capsule, in a burst of smoke he was face-to-face with a tyrannosaurus-ghost!
"Well, it was cramped in there…" Roxy stated, cracking her neck, despite her current lack of a physical body.
"Roxy?"
"Oh, Keita. How have you been?"
"Fine… why were you in there?" Keita asked curiously, Roxy hummed in thought, going over her Loop-memories.
"… Apparently, a hundred or so years back, there was a monk whom couldn't tell the difference between a dinosaur ghost, and a demon."
"… Oh."
When Nate opened the capsule, instead of smoke, a swarm of one-eyed bats surged forth. Forming together into the form of a dark haired, teenage girl.
"FREEDOM!" Kira shouted cheerfully, extending two bat wings and a tail, before flying into the sky. "Thanks for the help kid! But now I'm off to have fun! WEE!" Nate just watched in confusion.
"Okay, that was something…"
Keita opened the capsule he had obtained from the Crank-a-Kai, smoke burst forth as usual, but his eyes widened as he got sight of the muscular figure that formed.
"You were expecting a yo-kai, but it was actually ME, DIO!" Keita stared blankly at the (pending)MLE, before turning and stiffly walking away.
"Nope."
6.14 Boohoooo!
Manjimutt sighed miserably as he was once again dragged off to prison for making a... questionable... piece of pottery. Manjimutt briefly wondered why he kept doing this the three times time had restarted but he stopped caring.
Suddenly, the police car stopped, much to Manjimutt's confusion. No way they had gotten to the prison that quickly...
"Come on buddy. You're free to go." One of the officers grunted. Manjimutt blinked and got out as the police car drove off.
"Hey Manjimutt." Nate smiled.
"Hello Nate. We've gotta stop meeting like this!" Manjimutt joked. Nate had been a lot more attentive towards his situations lately. He briefly wondered if he should ask about the time travel.
"Really, Nyate, I don't knyow why we keep on rescuing him..." Jibanyan sighed.
"Don't be rude, Jibanyan. It's the least I can do considering what I've done to him before the Loops." Nate whispered.
Manjimutt, having good hearing, piped up "As in... time loops?"
Nate sweatdropped and asked, "How'd you know?"
"Well, It DOES Seem that time is repeating... But maybe I've just finally gone crazy..." Manjimutt mused.
"No, you're not crazy. Y'see..." Nate began.
One Welcome to the Multiverse Speech later...
"Doggone!" Manjimutt exclaimed.
"Yeah, it's pretty crazy." Nate nodded.
"Soooooo... I guess I owe you a thanks for everything you did for me before I began looping..." Manjimutt awkwardly commented.
"Really, it's the least I could do." Nate shrugged.
"The loops have really changed you, Nate." Manjimutt smiled as he, Nate and Jibanyan walked into the sunset.
6.15
Nate stared at the black and red colored yo-kai watch in his hands, it stared back with its two eyes…
"Unhand me, human!" the black yo-kai watch shouted, shaking back and forth in the Anchor's hands. Nate rolled his eyes as he kept hold of it.
"Well you're certainly strange, can't say I understand how your creation would have come about; a yo-kai watch that is also a yo-kai…"
"If you don't let me go, I'll make you into a yo-kai!"
"I'd probably beat you to it," at this statement, the black yo-kai watch stared at Nate blankly. "Anyway, you're a model of yo-kai watch I don't think I'm in need of a stock of, so I'll send you on your way," Nate explained, before placing the black yo-kai watch on the ground and walking away. The possessed watch looked confused, which quickly turned to anger.
"Hey! Don't you leave! Get back here and explain yourself! What the heck's going on!?" Nate ignored the watch's calls as he kept walking.
6.16
"Still no Magical Girl Loop, all I want is to be like Sailor Piers, but the tree won't even give me that," Inaho grumbled as she walked home from school.
"Magical Girl?" she heard a young sounding voice question, she looked to the bushes by the sidewalk and spotted a white, cat-like creature looking up at her. "I can make you a Magical Girl." Inaho blinked, before her pupils turned to stars and she looked at the creature with excitement.
"You can!?"
"Yes, just make a wish, any wish, I'll grant it. In exchange, you'll become a Magical Girl and help fight Witches," the Incubator explained, in its unchanging tone.
"That's not a price, that's a dream!" Inaho exclaimed, clasping her hands together. "But what do I wish for? I want to be a Magical Girl, but that would be a waste. No, no… what do I want?"
"BEGONE!" a black-haired girl shouted, rushing over and blasting the alien creature with gunfire, causing it to immediately explode.
"Hey!? Why did you do that!? I was about to realize my dream!" Inaho whined loudly, waving her arms around angrily. Homura groaned and shook her head.
"You'll thank me for this later," the older Looper stated plainly, before rushing off. Inaho blinked as she stared in the direction Homura had gone.
"… Well I don't feel very grateful right now!" The purple-haired girl shouted out of anger.
6.17
"So, this is it," Jibanyan narrowed his eyes at his opponent.
"Yes, the final confrontation to the ultimate rivalry. We both knew it would eventually come down to this," Pikachu narrowed his eyes back at the yo-kai, whom stood his ground with a firm expression.
"Do you really think you can win this? Don't you see? You can't win," Jibanyan stated confidently, but Pikachu just smirked.
"Oh, you may have thought you had the upper hand for a while. But your confidence will be your downfall, while you have been striking with full force, with no restraint. I have been planning, getting ready for this moment," the electric mouse chuckled a little, the nekomata growled.
"You're all talk! You've been champ for long enough, but this is where you lose!"
"No, kid. You've already lost…" Pikachu looked at the card in his hand and nodded. "For with my Axe of Despair I give my Red-Eyes Black Dragon an additional 1000 ATK points!" He placed the equip spell onto his monster card swiftly. "Making it more powerful than your Blue-Eyes White Dragon!"
"Nyo way!?" Jibanyan exclaimed in shock.
"That's right! It's over!" Pikachu chuckled. "My Red-Eyes attacks your Blue-Eyes!" Jibanyan's panic quickly turned to a look of confidence, though.
"Nyice try! I activate Mirror Force!"
"What!? You had that face-down the whole time!?"
"You're nyot the only one who can plan ahead!"
"Oh yeah! Well my turns not over yet, I activate– "
Ash and Nate watched blankly as the match continued.
"Why'd they do this again?" Nate asked the other boy, whom shrugged.
"I don't know…"
6.18 Boohoooo!
"Dad?" Morty sighed.
"Yes Morty?" Jerry asked.
"I'm glad you had the foresight to not get Snowball this Loop, but this new dog is REALLY freaking me out..." Morty muttered.
"Rude!" Jinmenken glared.
"Also, I caught him peeping on Mom." Morty added.
Jerry, eye-twitching, looked at Jinmenken, who nervously smiled.
"HADOUKEN!" Jerry roared, having recently looped in as Ryu.
"AHHHHH!" Jinmenken screamed, flying into the horizon with a twinkle and a ding.
Meanwhile, at a spa...
Whisper and Jibanyan sighed contently.
"... Do you hear that?" Whisper asked. A screaming Jinmenken promptly fell out of the sky on top of him.
"Ow..." Both groaned.
Back at The Smiths Household...
"Even when I win, I lose." Jerry muttered, his Haudoken having destroyed the house and getting him chewed out by Beth.
6.19
"Super Magical Soldier; Sailor Space! Defender of All! Ready for action!" Inaho exclaimed in a colorful combination of a sailor dress and high-tech armor, after a flashy transformation sequence. She grinned as she prepared to fight some sort of giant, cat monster, that was approaching the school.
"Well, looks like you got what you wanted, Inaho. I'll be over here if you need assistance," Keita stated from nearby with a confident smile on his face, Inaho however sent him a confused look.
"What? Who are you?"
"… Oh," Keita muttered, after sending out a Ping and getting no response. 'I best keep this to myself, next time Inaho's Awake…'
6.20
Inaho snuck into the sleeping Nate's room, from what she could tell, the Anchor wasn't Awake. The purple-haired girl crept over to his bedside and began whispering in his ear.
"Hello, Nate. I am your subconscious, you will listen to and believe whatever I say," Inaho whispered in a spooky-voice.
"Whatever… you say," Nate muttered between snores, Inaho held in her giggles before she began whispering once more.
"Listen carefully; Inaho is your best friend in the entire world…"
"Inaho… best friend…"
"You want to hang out with her all the time, and buy her whatever she wants…"
"Hang out… buy…"
"Sailor Piers is the best anime in the world…" she whispered, she didn't wait to hear if Nate had processed that command before she continued. "You want to talk to Inaho about Sailor Piers, and take her with you to the Sailor Piers movie, and pay for everything. Because she's your best friend…"
"Oh really?" Inaho blinked, before she noticed Nate had Woken up… in both senses of the word, and was glaring at her.
"Um…"
"GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!"
"I told you it wouldn't work," Ruby chuckled as sat beside her with a dejected look. "Imitating those Chibi-Loops is just asking for trouble. But don't worry, my brother won't hold a grudge, I'm sure…"
"I just wanted us to hang out more…" Inaho complained before letting out a long sigh.
"Yeah, well next time maybe take my advice instead of trying to imitate the Chibi-me from that variant," Ruby shook her head, a good-natured smile still on her face. The sound of something hitting glass surprised the two, before they looked and spotted a Skreek, that had somehow slammed into a window.
"STUPID CHIBI-LOOPS!" The Skreek shouted in Qrow's voice, before falling to the ground.
"… See?" Ruby pointed out to Inaho, whom now just looked confused.
6.21
"What the… who is this?" Salem questioned, noting the eleven-year old boy that was just sitting in her evil lair, as if it were the most normal thing in the world.
"Oh, him?" Cinder stepped over casually. "That's my younger brother, Keita. I'm watching him for the weekend."
"… What? You can't be serious!?"
"I know, I told dad this weekend wasn't good. But what are you gonna do? Can't leave him alone, and nobody wants to babysit the kid whom can summon ghosts," Cinder explained with a shrug, Salem just kept staring at her with controlled fury and confusion.
"What in the world made you think bringing him here would be–Wait, summon what?"
"Cinder! I'm having my friends possess your friends so I can pull pranks with them!" Keita called out, Salem looked and was shocked to see this random human child exiting the lair, followed by her minions, all of which had a strange glow around them and blank expressions.
"Okay, but be back before dark! And don't tell dad, he'd kill me!" Cinder called out, Salem found herself unable to speak as a proud smirk settled on the face of the inheritor of the Fall Maiden. "Ah, they grow up so fast. Now he's playing pranks, soon he'll be making his own evil schemes. Sunrise, sunset…"
"I… what? How could you…" Salem tried to find the words to speak, but couldn't. None of what had just happened made any sense to her! If Cinder had a brother she should have already known about it! Especially one that could apparently take control of people with ghosts of all things!
"Hey," A shadowy, semi-transparent humanoid floated by. Salem blinked.
"Oh yeah, my dead grandpa's also here," Cinder added as an afterthought.
6.22
"Well, the yo-kai watch vanished, again…" Nate sighed, Whisper floated over to him and nodded. "Guess we should get time traveling again, be careful not to do anything that could crash the– "Nate stopped talking when the watch abruptly reappeared on his wrist. "Huh? It's back…"
"Hmm, maybe Nathaniel Woke up early and fixed the issue himself," Whisper suggested, Nate didn't look so sure.
"If that were the case, wouldn't it have not disappeared at all?"
"I… I don't know. Honestly this whole 'time travel' part of Baseline has always been kind of confusing," the spectral butler admitted with a sigh, before Nate started to shine the yo-kai watches light. "… Nate, really?"
"I know, I know. But it usually is a yo-kai, just admit that."
"True… but you don't even need the watch to see yo-kai anymore. Just use your own eyes!"
"This is easier," Nate denied before the light revealed a hidden form; a dark colored dog with purple eyes appeared, standing with a dull expression.
"And there is one…" Whisper sighed, sounding not at all surprised.
"Check the yo-kai pad. I don't think this yo-kai is Baseline," Nate said, Whisper huffed.
"I'll just check my Loop-memories, I don't need my– "
"Just check the yo-kai pad!"
"Fine! Fine," Springdale/New Sakura Town's second Looper grunted before he pulled the device and began searching. "Hmm, found it! Time… Paradog?"
"Time Paradog?" Nate sweatdropped at the name. What was with yo-kai names and puns?
"Yes, apparently they appear to resolve temporal paradoxes," Whisper explained, pointing towards the dog yo-kai, whom let out a yawn.
"Oh… so we don't need to go back in time?" Nate questioned, not even noticing as the 'Time Paradog' dropped its medal at his feet, before walking away.
"Guess not."
6.23
"Okay, Nate. I know you're good at making friends and all, but I don't think I'm out of line in saying; THIS IS COMPLETELY ABSURD!" Weiss shouted at Ruby and Yang's out-of-Loop sibling, as he sat on a deathstalker's back, impassively petting the heads of Kevin and Charlie whom nuzzled him affectionately from both sides.
"Oh, stop overreacting. At least you don't have to fight them now."
"That's not the point here…" the three giant grimm glared at the local Looper menacingly, but Nate quickly calmed them down.
"Now, now, Kevin, Charlie, Greta. She's just expressing her opinion, don't get all riled up…"
"… You named the deathstalker Greta?" Weiss asked blankly.
"She's a good girl," Nate cooed as he patted the giant arachnid's exoskeleton.
"… How do your sisters put up with you?" Weiss questioned, only for a giant explosion to sound behind her, followed by the appearance of a giant dragon, made of cookie dough, Ruby riding atop it, with Yang's dragon form appearing shortly after to do battle with it. "… Oh right, now I remember; you're all insane!"
"Can't talk right now, Weiss. I need to get in on this! Away, Kevin!" Nate announced eagerly, mounting the dragon grimm before it flew off into the sky, toward the other dragons. Weiss just stood back on the ground, an unreadable expression on her face.
"Insane… they really are all insane," she watched the three-way dragon fight for a few seconds, before shrugging and summoning a white version of the grimm dragon, which she rode into the skyward conflict. "Okay, maybe I'm a little insane too…" she couldn't help the small smirk from forming on her face as she joined the dragon battle.
6.24 Boohoooo!
Luigi sighed.
"Mario, the Rabbids were bad enough. I'm not letting you keep this thing!" He face-palmed.
"Rude!" Manjimutt glared.
"Aw come on Weegee! I'll take good care of him!" Mario pleaded.
"... You realize I'm sapient, right? And a looper?" Manjimutt pointed out.
"No." Luigi sighed.
"Pleaseeeeeeeeee?!" Mario begged.
"No!" Luigi exclaimed.
As the two argued, Manjimutt grunted and walked off.
"Noooooo! He's gone!" Mario wailed after ten minutes or arguing.
Meanwhile, Manjimutt was at Peach's Castle, having been hired to do... whatever the heck Toad's job is. He was promptly beaten and fired after looking up Peach's dress.
6.25
"So, Keita. You've replaced me quite a few times, haven't you?" Ruby questioned as she, her younger brother, and Weiss all sat at a table in a café.
"Yeah, many times…" Keita nodded, taking a sip from his coffee.
"I can attest to that," Weiss confirmed with a nod.
"Right, when this happens, you're usually partnered with Weiss, correct?"
"Of course," Keita said as he and the white-haired Looper nodded. "Sometimes Awake, sometimes not. Awake Weiss is easier to deal with."
"Of course I am," Weiss rolled her eyes. Ruby chuckled a little, before continuing.
"Well that brings me to the main question I'd like to ask… has an UnAwake Weiss ever had a crush on you?" Weiss sputtered at the question her partner had just asked.
"R-Ruby!? What the!?"
"Oh yeah, lots of times," Keita affirmed in a casual tone, Weiss stared at him with a mix of shock, embarrassment, and partial disgust.
"W-WHAT!?"
"I thought so," Ruby smiled lightly, before tapping her partner on the shoulder. "Lighten up, Weiss. It's the tree, what were you expecting?"
"Well, yeah, but why bring that up?" Weiss asked, still looking uncomfortable at the direction of this conversation. "I don't want to hear about UnAwake mes gaining romantic feelings for my partner's kid-brother!" Ruby nodded to her partner to signify that she understood… before turning towards Keita and asking him more questions.
"So, is the way Weiss crushes on you consistent whenever it happens, or is it different every time?"
"RUBY!?"
"Plenty of different ways, I'm not sure if it's just variants, or if the tree isn't sure on how Weiss would approach a teammate as a romantic partner, or something," Keita explained with a nod.
"Can you explain a few of the ways it's occurred?" Ruby tilted her head curiously, Weiss looked like she wanted to die.
"Well I'll just say this; Tsundere-Weiss is bad, but Yandere-Weiss is the worst."
"I see…"
"I can't believe I'm listening to this," Weiss looked mortified as she threw her face into her hands.
"Hey, Weiss. Calm down, it's not like you're responsible for what the UnAwake yous do," Ruby assured her partner with a pat on the back. "Besides, Keita would never let them get very far, since he has a girlfriend." Ruby happened to say this just as Keita was taking a sip from his drink, which he promptly spat out.
"G-girlfriend!?" Keita slammed his hands on the table, glaring at his sister with a red face. "Fumi-chan and I are not dating!"
"Fumi-chan?" Ruby blinked in confusion. "Who mentioned her? Aren't you and Inaho going out?" Keita gaped, unable to form a sentence. Weiss looked pleased that the target of embarrassment had shifted.
"I-I… I'm not dating Inaho!" the young boy managed to stutter out, looking mortified at the implication. "She's like another annoying sister to me! Where did you even get that idea from!?"
"Oh…" Ruby blinked in confusion, before smiling. "Sorry, guess I just came to that assumption 'cause you two spend a lot of time together…" Ruby hummed innocently for a moment as she stared her brother down. "Still… that doesn't explain why you brought up Fumika…"
"Well, I…" Keita looked unable to come up with an explanation, and still very red in the face.
"Is there maybe something I should know about," his sister gave him a smirk, that would honestly look more natural on the face of one of his other sisters.
"No, no! Nothing more to talk about! See you guys later! Bye, Weiss! Good seeing you!" and Keita was out like a lightning bolt. Weiss turned to look at her still smirking partner, a skeptical look on her own face.
"You knew exactly what you were doing, it's not like that crush of his is a big secret or anything…"
"Weiss, embarrassing one's younger sibling is an integral part of being an older sister, someday you too shall understand this."
"… I don't think I want to… Also, why did you have to ask that stuff about the UnAwake mes crushing on him anyway!?"
"In time, my young friend. In time…"
"Okay, stop talking like that!"
6.26
It was a very chaotic Fused Loop in Remnant, with the land not only under attack by grimm and terrorists, but also alien invaders, malevolent A.I, Wicked Yo-kai, Oni, and various combinations of all the above.
But, however chaotic the world was right now, the inhabitants of the Xiao Long-Rose house were currently preoccupied with other matters…
"Okay, so I'm Summer's, and Yang is Raven's, as per Baseline. And you Nate…?" Ruby glanced over at her youngest sibling sitting across from her.
"Lily; my Baseline mother. Whom Papa-Taiyang married after Summer died," the Yo-kai Watch Anchor sighed as he tried not to look his sister in the eyes, the local Anchor just nodded and noted his words down.
"What of you, bro?" Yang asked the elder brother, whom was barely paying attention to the conversation.
"Raven… I think," Dexter 'Grif' Xiao Long grumbled tiredly.
"This is rather convoluted, isn't it?" Nate questioned Ruby, glancing her way. The red-clad huntress shrugged, before turning to the eldest female at the table.
"Cinder?"
"Qrow."
"Qrow?"
"Yes, Qrow."
"… Okay, Qrow," Ruby wrote down her elder sister's response without any further questions. All while this was happening, Taiyang was sitting silently at the head of the table with an embarrassed expression.
"Think you could benefit from a little self-control, 'son?" Nathaniel questioned with a mocking smirk from behind him.
"Shut up… Also, who let you in my house?" The perturbed father asked the elderly man blankly.
6.27
"Splatoon Loop… not really what I was expecting," Nate, whom was currently an inkling, wiped his brow as he stood with three other inklings, guarding a basket of golden eggs, as an army of fish-like monsters converged on them. The Anchor looked over his memories and groaned. "I don't know what that 'Mr. Grizz' wants with these eggs, but it can't be worth this…"
"There's too many! We're not going to make it!" another of the squad, an inkling-girl, shouted as she fired her splattershot into the wave of scaly creatures. Nate crossed his arms and glanced at the other two members, another girl and a boy, whom were doing the same with their own weapons, fear evident on their faces.
"Okay, everybody STOP!" the sudden shout caused everyone to freeze, even the salmonids… "I have an idea!" Nate turned to stare at one of the salmonids in at the head of the group, and approached it slowly. "Take me to your leader!" at this exclamation, the rest of the squad stared in abject horror, fully expecting the new-recruit to be swiftly devoured by the horde of rabid salmonids.
To the inklings' shock however, the salmonids turned to each other and seemed to be having a conversation, before the one Nate had spoken to turned back to him and nodded with a grunt. Nate smiled, while the other three inkling's eyes nearly popped out of the sockets.
"WHAAAAT!?"
Nate looked up from the top of the steelhead he had ridden to the salmonid base, surprised at whom was there waiting for him…
"Seriously, it's you?" he questioned, staring up at the humanoid being, with the lower half of a fish, that sat above the other salmonids that were tending to her and standing guard.
"Do not speak to me in that manner, peasant! I am Mermaidyn, Queen of the Salmonids! You puny squid should show me respect!" Nate rolled his eyes at Mermaidyn's boasts, she was clearly Awake, and probably still a little sore about all the times he accidentally fished her out of the water…
"Mermaidyn, I– "
"YOU WILL REFER TO ME BY MY PROPER TITLE!"
"… Mermaidyn, 'Queen of the Salmonids,' I'm here to ask about the salmonid attacks…"
"Okay, we managed to strike a deal," Nate stated in a pleased tone after he had returned to the other inklings. The other inkling boy was the first to speak.
"a deal!? But, the salmonids mindlessly devour all other creatures in their path, and nearly drove inkling kind to extinction in the past! We thought they were practically mindless monsters!"
"Oh, they were. But that was then, and this is now," Nate explained with a proud smirk. "Times change, and we should get on board. They certainly have, the salmonids have been doing a lot of evolving these last few decades. They're no longer the savages spoken of in legend. I spoke in depth with their… queen."
"They have a QUEEN!?"
"Yeah, anyway. They say, if we stop trying to take their eggs, they won't come after us."
"… Wait, that's it? But we're only out here for the eggs… so…" an inkling girl scratched her head in confusion.
"Oh yeah, almost forgot about that. We also need to help them get their stolen eggs back from Grizzco!" after Nate said this, an army of salmonids, weapons ready, sprung up from the water and stood at attention. The three inklings were, once again, at a loss for words. "So… who's ready for a raid?"
6.28
"Concentrate, do not let anything distract you," the purple cat mentor, known as Shadow, said calmly as she looked over the four students of the Kittynati's Black Tabby Dojo, whom were meditating.
She looked up at a female black cat whom was as still as a statue, Shadow brushed a feather-duster over her, but the black cat didn't budge. The teacher nodded.
"Excellent, Blake," she moved on to a male, cream-colored cat whom had a golden charm on his head, he was trying to stay still but kept twitching every now and then. "… Meowth, clear your mind," she stated firmly, Meowth stiffened a bit before Shadow moved onto a male black cat, whom seemed to be in a deep meditative state. Shadow brushed her feather-duster over his fur, he twitched a little before bursting into a laughing fit.
"Bartleby, we are Kittynati, we do not giggle," the teacher stated firmly. Bartleby quickly tried to regain his composure.
"Right, sorry Master!" he exclaimed firmly, getting back into his meditative position. Shadow shook her head before moving onto the last student, a male cat with red and white fur, whom sat in a firm, meditative state.
"Hmm," Shadow looked him over, she waved the feather-duster over his fur, but there was no reaction. The Kittynati Master nodded in approval. "A remarkable improvement, Akamaru. You seem to have– "the purple cat's words were cut off by a loud snore. She opened her eyes and stared at the student before her, whom was now snoring very loudly, her eyes narrowed.
"Ow, ow, ow…" Akamaru, or Jibanyan, muttered painfully as he rubbed his head.
"Aren't you dead?" Blake questioned blankly. "How can you feel pain?"
"I'm nyot dead right nyow!" the (currently living) cat growled as he glared at the other Looper. "Besides, I still feel pain when I'm a yo-kai…"
"That's kind of odd, don't you think? Why would you still feel pain, if you didn't have a physical body?" Jibanyan raised a paw to answer Blake's questions, but slowly lowered it when no words came out of his mouth.
Nearby, Meowth was sitting by Bartleby, whom seemed distressed about the previous exercise.
"Oh man, I blew it there, I'm never gonna get my Red Tabby-Belt at this rate," the black cat groaned.
"Well, ta be fare, you didn't blow it as bad as Akamaru did…" Meowth pointed out, patting the non-Looping cat on the back.
"Hey!" Jibanyan called out in offense, but Blake quickly interjected.
"He's right, Jibanyan."
"Aw…"
6.29
Yang Awoke in her bed, it was the middle of the night. A look through her memories and she found this Loop had started early; she was currently eleven. Ruby was asleep in the next room over, and her brother… brother?
Yang looked up to find a small, brown-haired head peeking in from the door, before the five-year old boy creeped into the room, holding onto a red, stuffed cat toy, a distressed look on his face.
"… Keita?" she blinked, sending out a Ping, that she received back.
"Yang… I… Last Loop was…" he sniffled a little, looking down at the ground, a bit embarrassed. "Can I… Can I sleep here?" the blond smiled softly at the little boy, she nodded.
"Come on, Keita. Big sis will protect you…" she offered, the currently five-year-old Anchor quickly scurried over and crawled under the covers on the bed, snuggling into his older sister's side. Yang patted his head comfortingly. "Goodnight, baby bro…"
"Goodnight, big sis…" as the two drifted off to sleep, they did not notice the red clad, nine-year-old girl, hiding in the corner with a camera.
"Aw… that's going in the album."