9.1 smxsonic

[Yo-Kai Watch/Neptunia]

Nate stretched his arms and fell back on his bed. He took out his video game and started playing.

"Don't you have some homework due tomorrow?" Whisper asked.

"I've had the same homework for billions of years, Whisper, it'll be fine."

1 hour later

"Nyate, are you still playing that game?" Jibanyan asked

"Yeah, just feels like a day to stay in and play video games."

"Your mom's going to be mad if you spend all day playing video games."

Nate looked up from his game, " Yeah, I guess you're right. Wanna go get some pudding?"

7 hours later

"And don't come out until you've finished your Homework!"

Nate sighed and crossed his arms, his mom took issue with his playing video games and eating pudding all day.

"Come to think of it, why was I so intent on playing video games all day today?" Nate asked, "It must be a yo-kai!"

"Nate, can you even be affected by yo-kai anymore?" Whisper asked.

Nate scanned the room with his watch, "Yes and no. It's complicated."

"Besides that, I doubt that there is a yo-kai that makes you just play video games and eat pudding all day."

"Gotcha!"

Nate shined his watch onto a humanoid shadow that solidified into a small girl with purple hair wearing an oversized white hoodie with purple accents.

"Heya, Bro-Bro, I was wondering when you would find me!"

Charming Tribe: Neptune

"Neptune... this really shouldn't surprise me."

Neptune giggled at her brother's exasperation.

"So, you're a yo-kai this loop?"

"Yep! It's a tragic tale of a totally radical girl from the 90s who just wanted to play her video games but was cut down by an electrical surge."

Nate just sighed. Neptune skipped over to him and gave him her medal, "Welp, ya found me, so here's my medal, and if you'll excuse me, I have a date to see a movie with a friend of mine and trust me, If I miss it she will NOT stop spoiling it for me. See ya!"

As Neptune left, Nate sweatdropped, "Of course she's friends with Spoilerina. Welp, I guess it's time to do my homework."

"So..." Eddie bagan, " Does anybody think that Katie's acting weird?"

Nate looked up in thought while he and his other two friends were walking home from school. He was so used to the Looping Katie, that he sort of forgot that Katie was a yo-kai magnet.

"What's going on with her?" Nate asked.

"Well, she's been really moody lately"

"Oh yeah, she's been holeing herself up in the classroom to finish her homework too." Bear interjected.

Nate stopped walking, "Hey, guys? I think I forgot my book, I'll be right back!"

"Do you really think there's a yo-kai involved in this?" Whisper asked as he, Nate and Jibanyan snuck around to the classroom door.

"Just wanting to make sure," Nate looked around the corner. Sure enough; Katie was there, working on some homework.

"Let me try something," he said as he walked up to Katie, "Hey, Katie! Bear, Eddie and I were going to go catch some bugs, wanna come with?"

Katie put down her pencil and stared at Nate through half-lidded eyes, "Jeeze, do you guys do ANYthing productive? You all should really focus on studying!"

Nate backed away out of the classroom.

"Okay, I don't think she's Stealthing..." Nate declared, he then proceeded to take his Yo-kai Watch U and scan the area around Katie. He found a silhouette which then turn into a teenage girl wering black twintails and an ornate dress.

"Okay, there's another new one," Nate confirmed, "Whisper, do you, uh, know anything?"

Whisper was already swiping through his Yo-kai Pad, "Ah yes, she is a... yo-kai... AH, yes she is the yo-kai, Noire!"

Eerie Tribe: Noire

"She's responsible for people becoming total workaholics with attitude problems!"

"Workaholics, huh? I think I have the perfect counter for that..." Nate took out a medal. "Come on out, Sis! Calling, Neptune! Yo-kai medal do your thing!"

"LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE CHARMING FAMILY"

The Watch then played a fun cheer-like jingle as Neptune materialized while dancing to said Jingle.

"Neptune!" she cheered while striking a pose, "Alright, Bro-Bro, who am I... NOWA!

The black haired yo-kai looked in the direction of the door only to be glomped by the smaller Yokai.

"W-what? Neptune!" Noire yelped, "G-get off me!"

"Wait, You guys know eachother?" Nate asked while walking in the door.

"Yeah! Nate, this is my CPU bestie, Noire– "

"I don't remember agreeing to being your 'bestie'," Noire interuppted.

"Noire, this is my little brother, Nate."

Nate grumbled at that.

"Since when do YOU have a little brother?"

"Ever since Nepgear got herself adopted by Little Red Riding Hood."

"... Is that the same convoluted family tree you keep talking about?"

"Yep!" She looked to Nate, "She's new, don't worry, Naterino!" Nate just sighed. Neptune turned back to Noire, "So, what are you doing inspiriting my little brother's girlfriend? "

"Hey!" Nate yelled, embarassed.

"Don't try to deny it, Bro-Bro, I've seen your Hub backups."

"We aren't... I mean..." Nate sputtered.

"If you keep denying it, you'll become a Lonely Heart just like Noire here."

Noire Grumbled as she walked up to Nate, "Look, sorry for messing with your friend. Hope this makes up for it." Noire flipped her medal into Nate's hand.

"Aww, Look, Nowa CAN make a friend!"

Noire growled again, "Now If you'll excuse me, I'm going to teach your sister a lesson."

"Umm... have at it..." Nate said as Noire went off to chase Neptune. "I hope I don't Loop into their Branch anytime soon..."

Nate was at home, tinkering with Spectral Fang when his door burst open.

"NATE!" Neptune cried while running up to her brother crying.

"Huh? Neptune? What's going on?"

"Rina's being a jerk!" Neptune cried into his shirt, "I missed a movie date, and now she won't stop spoiling Infinity War for me!"

"Well that is kind of what she does... wait... does she know that you're my sister?" Neptune nodded, while Nate sighed. "Fine, I'll bring out Wazzat and we'll power through this together..."

9.2

[Yo-kai Watch/Red Vs Blue/Attack on Titan]

"Yeah, this is going to be so much fun!" Inaho cheered as she followed her parents for the Loop.

"You still have a lot to learn, Inaho, but maybe I'll let you hold some of the surgical equipment this time," Dr. Grey spoke cheerfully to her daughter for the Loop, the other parent gave a dismissive shrug.

"Eh, don't be so protective, I'm sure she can handle cutting some guys up, maybe she could even try mixing some chemicals, you never know what she could be capable of making," Hange said, patting Inaho on the head, the purple-haired girl giggled.

"I don't know…" Emily looked unsure.

"I'll eat all my vegetables!" Inaho offered.

"You should do that anyway…" both parents pointed out.

"PLEASE! I want to know how to make cyborgs!" the child pleaded, making puppy-dog eyes.

"Hmm… well I don't think I can say no to that face… and cyborgs? That's an interesting option, I think I might want to see where you go with it," Dr. Grey nodded, Inaho cheered and Hange smiled fondly.

"Well… that's interesting," Church muttered, Levi stood beside him and nodded.

"Yeah, 'interesting'. 'Cause, ya'know, it's not like I ever need to sleep again, or anything…" Keita muttered with a blank expression as he stood a good distance away from the other two males.

9.3

[Gregory Horror Show/Yo-kai Watch]

"So hungry…" Neko Zombie groaned to himself for what felt like the millionth time. He didn't remember how he had gotten back to his room/cell, but he had stopped questioning the nature of Gregory House a long time ago…

Gregory House was a place of chaos, despair, and confusion. Though, Neko Zombie had felt things were a little stranger than normal as of late; the new guests were feeling very familiar, Gregory seemed to be repeating himself a lot when coming to reprimand him, and various, other little things.

Still, Neko Zombie didn't dwell on these concerns. Gregory House would never change, he had realized this a long time ago, even burning the building down did nothing to stop it… perhaps his sanity was just finally going? What little bit was left of it, that is.

"I'm hungry too, nya…" an unfamiliar voice from across the room interrupted the patchwork cat's thoughts, he looked over and was surprised to see another cat in his room. "Do you think we should break out and raid the kitchen, nya?" a red and white cat, stitched-up in a similar manner to himself, questioned with a tilt of the head.

"Who are…?" Neko Zombie started to question, when he suddenly felt a flood of memories fill his head regarding this new cat. This was his… brother? Yes, his twin brother; Jibanyan, they used to do everything together, and they ended up locked here together as well… that wasn't right. He had no brother, he remembered this clearly, but the memories of his life with Jibanyan were also clear, Neko Zombie's eyes narrowed in suspicion… "What is going on here?"

"Nya?"

"I don't remember you ever being here, yet at the same time, I know you have always been by my side…" the two undead felines stared at each other with equally blank expressions… "I know Gregory likes to mess with me, but this isn't like anything he's done before…" Jibanyan blinked at Neko Zombie's thoughtful tone.

"Um, Nyeko, this might be a strange question, but have you perhaps, been experiencing time-loops-nya?"

"Time… loops?" Neko Zombie narrowed his eyes as he thought about this. "I don't think so… but then again… How would I even know, with how this place is," he put a paw to his head and purred in thought. "It would explain this feeling of repetition…"

"Oh boy, nyever thought I'd be the one giving someone the speech, nya," Jibanyan smirked a little, melting his shackle away with a burst of fire from his body and approaching the stunned Neko Zombie. "We've got a lot to go over, so I better just get some food from my pocket, seeing as we're both starving here," Jibanyan chuckled, even as he effortlessly broke the chain off Neko Zombie's foot. "You like chocolate, right-nya?"

Neko Zombie was wary of this stranger that his memories told him he should know, along with the many, many questions he had right now. But, at that moment, one desire overruled any reprehension he may have had, and Jibanyan had just said the secret words.

"… I love chocolate."

"… I think you and I are going to get along just fine," Jibanyan smirked.

"So… these 'Loops,' spread throughout an entire multiverse?" Neko Zombie questioned after Jibanyan had finished his explanation, both of them sat on the floor of the room, eating choco-bars, a large number of discarded wrappers lay around them.

"Yup, we're all in this crazy game together and sanyity is not mandatory, nya," Jibanyan chuckled a little at the joke, though the way Neko Zombie stared at him indicated he didn't think it was very funny. "… Um, so. How long have you been Looping?"

"… I really don't know," Neko Zombie muttered as he looked to the floor. "I had only noticed things getting repetitive recently, but it might have been long before then. Living here has always felt like an infinite loop, nothing ever changing, trapped forever… I suppose this doesn't make much of a difference in the end… how can I even trust you're telling the truth?"

"Huh…?" Jibanyan thought about Neko Zombie's words as the other cat kept his eyes on him, "I suppose that's true, how can you knyow I'm telling the truth? Nya…" the red cat crossed his arms and closed his eyes, "… I suppose you really can't, anything I could show you about the Loops could just be explained by the weirdess of this place…"

"Yes, don't get me wrong; I don't feel like you're a deceptive individual, and you're not Gregory typical style of messing with me…" Neko Zombie licked his paws briefly before continuing, "But this isn't the kind of place where you can just trust any random stranger that shows up, especially not one showing up in my room, along with memories of being my brother, while claiming the multiverse is broken and time is Looping."

"Yes, yes… well, I don't really nyeed to convince you, nya," Jibanyan shrugged, Neko Zombie looked confused, "Just keep in mind what I've told you, you'll see that it's the truth as you keep Looping, nya…"

"… Hmph, I suppose it doesn't really matter if you're telling the truth or not," the stitched-up cat muttered, "Everything here was already an endless cycle, this changes nothing…"

"Well, I wouldn't say that, nya," Jibanyan snickered a little, Neko Zombie looked at him questioningly. "You saw what I could do with my flames, right? I may have been able to control fire in my Baseline, but I wasn't nyearly that good. The Loops are more than simply an endless cycle of repeating events, they give us a chance to improve, and make our situations better!"

"… You really think I could make this situation better? Nothing I've tried before has worked…"

"Well, you've not had access to the infinyite possibilities of the multiverse before! Nya!" Jibanyan held a paw up encouragingly, using his other shove another choco-bar into his mouth, which he quickly swallowed. "You could gain new abilities by Looping into other worlds, I'll teach you how to use your sub-space pocket to store items between Loops… though it may take some time for yours to get big enough to store as much as mine can, nya."

"… This all sounds very interesting, I suppose I should thank you, provided you are telling the truth…" Neko Zombie's tone held a bit less of the depressing air it usually did, though he still didn't seem very enthusiastic, and a bit suspicious. "But you said others from my world could begin experiencing these Loops, correct?"

"Mostly only if they have a close tie to you, but yes."

"Does that mean Gregory could end up Looping?" Jibanyan noted that Neko Zombie's eyes narrowed in a way that expressed both anger and discomfort, he looked over his memories to double-check who Gregory was, and shivered a little.

"Do you… have a close relationship to him-nya?"

"… I despise him."

"Well… it's probably not likely than…" Jibanyan muttered, though he didn't sound entirely sure. "So, um… how about we eat more chocolate?"

"Sure," and so the two felines continued to partake in their chocolate feast, putting other worries to the backs of their minds for other times.

9.4 Boohoooo!

"Yo, yo, what up dawgs?" Manjimutt exclaimed, strutting in.

"Manjimutt, I thought we agreed that you should stop trying to be cool." Hailey pointed out.

Meanwhile, Nate and Snottle were on their way to go fishing when they heard an explosion from Hailey's house.

"... Dad, should we check that out?" Snottle nervously asked.

"... No." Nate deadpanned simply, continuing to walk away.

Back with Manjimutt, He had forced Hailey to praise him under the threat of being Kamehamehaed.

"That's what I thought, bi– "Manjimutt began, before he was karate chopped.

"No cursing!" Whisper exclaimed.

9.5

[Yo-kai Watch/Little Witch Academia]

Lotte once again found herself at the entrance to Luna Nova, her first day there…

She let out a small sigh, the Loop could be tiresome at times, especially when nobody else was Awake. She still sometimes questioned why, out of all her friends, she was made Anchor.

At least Akko was always there to help her out. Even if Akko wasn't Awake, she never doubted Lotte's words or offer of friendship.

Unfortunately, the same couldn't be said for most of her other friends; Sucy was usually skeptical at first, though by how much varied, and Diana, if she wasn't Awake, convincing her early on might as well have been an exercise in futility…

So wrapped up in her thoughts she was, that the time-traveling girl didn't notice before she bumped into someone.

"Ow! Sorry," Lotte rubbed her head before looking to the person she had run into, before blinking in surprise, standing before her was a brown-haired boy about her age, he had luggage with him and appeared to be in a boy's version of the Luna Nova uniform.

"It's fine, don't worry about it," he waved her off, looking towards the entrance to the school curiously. Lotte kept staring at him for a few moments.

"Um… are you lost?"

"Huh? Of course not," the boy huffed as he kept looking at the entrance, "Just… trying to figure out how to get in…" he seemed to pause for a moment before nodding, "Oh yeah, that's how!" before Lotte could ask anymore questions, the boy pulled a broomstick from his bag and hopped onto it, it began floating and he headed for the entrance, "Bye! See you at the academy!"

"… What?" Lotte was very confused; this boy was never here before… was he a visiting Looper? Shaking her head, Lotte let out a Ping, she got two back but that didn't really tell her much at this point.

She decided she would have to think more on this later, as Akko was approaching, and if she wasn't one of the Pings, she knew that she would need to help her get to the school… and find the Shiny Rod.

"This Loop might be interesting," Keita mused as he flew on the broom through the portal.

"So stuffy!" Jibanyan cried out, popping out of one of the boy's bags, "Why do I nyeed to be in the bag!? I'm your familiar! Nya!"

"Er, sorry Akamaru, I guess my UnAwake-self thought this was the best way to get you through the 'no pets allowed' train…" Keita sweatdropped, the nekomata grumbled as he crawled out and positioned himself on the broom, just in front of Keita.

"It's fine, just let me out earlier next time this kind of thing happens, nya," Jibanyan shook his head, "Get that Ping just now? Nya."

"Yeah, probably the Anchor…" Keita explained, a thoughtful look on his face, "Weiss mentioned the Anchor of this Loop was girl named Lotte, we'll probably run into her at the school…"

"Right…" Jibanyan nodded, and the two continued to move forward on the broom, "… You knyow, Inaho's going to be super jealous of you ending up in a magic school, nya."

"That's why we're not going to tell her."

"You knyow she'll find out anyway, nya…"

"… Yeah, probably," Keita grunted a bit at the thought of Inaho badgering him, "Let's not worry about that right now, I say we just enjoy the Loop and try to have fun."

"No argument here, Keita-nya!" the nekomata raised his paw in agreement, just as they exited the portal, out into the school's campus.

9.6

[Yo-kai Watch/RWBY]

"I bring this meeting of the Council of Looping Pets to order!" Jibanyan exclaimed as he looked around the conference room at the Loopers that had assembled… Zwei and USApyon.

"Shouldn't we have gotten more members before having a meeting? Dani," USApyon pointed out in a bored tone.

"How are we supposed to get more members if we don't have meetings to figure out how?" Zwei questioned, his ears twitching a bit, "Think, Chibi…"

"… Don't call me 'Chibi,'" the otter yo-kai grumbled.

"Guys, focus!" Jibanyan called out, waving his paws.

"On what? What even does a 'Council of Looping Pets' do? Dani!" USApyon snapped.

"We're pets that Loop! We'll think of something!" Zwei pointed out, his tail eagerly wagging.

"Yes, well said Zwei, we will do many cool things!" Jibanyan nodded, USApyon groaned while Zwei nodded, "But first… let us think about what new members we should be getting…"

"… I think I might know a few possible candidates," the Looping dog smiled.

9.7 Boohoooo! (continuation of 8.18)

"REFUNDS! REFUNDS! WE WANT REFUNDS!" An angry mob shouted from outside Level-5 HQ.

"What do we do?!" Manjimutt panicked, holed up in his office.

"I say we sacrifice that goober." Jibanyan whispered to the other employees, gesturing to Manjimutt.

"I can hear you!" Manjimutt complained.

Suddenly, the doors were finally broken, and the angry mob rushed around the building.

"Wellp, I'm out." USApyon deadpanned, force-jumping away.

"Hey! What about the rest of us!?" Hailey wailed. The angry mob then found the group.

"Uhhhhh… Is it too late now to say sorry?" Manjimutt smiled nervously.

"YOU JUST STOLE MY SONG!" A beaver with a Justin Bieber-haircut roared as the Level-5 employees were savagely beaten.

1 hour later...

Nate sighed as he waited in a hospital for his friends to be healed.

"Here's the bill." A doctor said, handing Nate a 12,000-dollar hospital bill. Nate simply sighed.

9.8

[Yo-kai Watch/Star Wars]

Hailey let out a scream as she was knocked back by the force of a red lightsaber, she held tightly onto her own blue one as she glared at the short, yellow suited creature that approached her, the window in his helmet obscured by darkness, two glowing red eyes peeking through. The two were standing on a narrow platform, with a steep fall behind her, and the approaching Sith before her, Hailey had no way to escape.

"You have lost Anne, this doesn't have to be the end; join me, together we can rule this galaxy, dani!" Darth USApyon exclaimed, clenching his free hand while pointing his lightsaber towards the downed girl, Hailey kept her glare as she stood back up.

"Never! I'll never fall to the Dark Side! I'm nothing like you!" the purple-haired girl shouted firmly, the Sith Lord chuckled darkly.

"Oh, but young Anne, you and I are much closer than you realize, dani…" Darth USApyon said mysteriously.

"What do you mean by that!?" the Jedi questioned as she pointed her lightsaber towards the short, but dangerous being.

"Demuncher never told you what happened to your pet otter… dani" Darth USApyon spoke sinisterly, Hailey's expression turned to a snarl.

"He told me enough; he told me you killed him!" at this outraged shout, Darth USApyon just let out another chuckle.

"No Hailey, I am your otter! Dani!" the girl's eyes widened, nearly dropping her weapon as she took a few steps back.

"N-no, that's not true! That's impossible!"

"Search your feelings, you know it to be true, dani…"

"… You know, the constant us of 'dani' is making it kind of hard to take you seriously…" at Hailey's sudden, nonchalant tone USApyon let out a groan, deactivating Vader Mode.

"Oh man, did you just Wake up? Dani."

"Yup, just now," Hailey nodded, USApyon sighed.

"Well, there goes my fun for the Loop… dani," the two stood on the platform in silence.

"So… want to go overthrow the emperor?" Hailey suggested with a smile, USApyon shrugged.

"Eh, why not? Dani."

9.9 Boohoooo!

[Yo-Kai Watch/Tom and Jerry/We Bare Bears/RWBY]

Inaho, Jerry, Nom Nom and Zwei Awoke (in both terms of the word) in a nice house.

"Huh? What's going on?" Nom Nom drowsily grumbled, attempting to go back to sleep.

"KIDS! BREAKFAST!" A voice called. It was then the quartet's Loop memories kicked in.

"Wha–bu–How are we–We're four different species!" Jerry murmured.

"As weird as it is for a human, a koala, a mouse and a dog to be biological siblings, weirder things have happened in the Loops." Zwei shrugged, going off to get breakfast.

"I wish Looping was like a job you could just quit..." Nom Nom lamented.

"Come on bro! Think positively!" Inaho cheered, giving Nom Nom a bonecrushing hug. Nom Nom squirmed and grumbled.

"Hey kiddos! What took you so long?" The dad chuckled, eating pancakes.

"Honey, no talking with your mouth full!" The mom playfully chided. And so, the six had a good time eating breakfast and talking (except the ever-miserable Nom Nom).

Later...

"Hey, can you four go pick up some supplies to make tacos?" Dad asked the quartet of Loopers.

"Of courseio dad!" Inaho cheered, running off.

"Hey! Wait up! We have shorter legs!" Nom Nom complained... only to notice Jerry and Zwei had already caught up to Inaho and following with a grumble.

"And so, their quest begins. Too bad they must face an untimely demise... courtesy of ME, SAILORNYAN! MWAHAHAHAHA!" Sailornyan laughed maniacally, watching the four from the shadows.

9.10

"When somebody loved me, everything was beautiful, every hour spent together, lives within my heart…"

"Whisper…"

"Yes, Nate?"

"Why is Wazzat singing 'When She Loved Me' from Toy Story 2?" the Anchor questioned, gesturing to the singing hat tsukumogami, the yo-kai butler scratched his head.

"Er… I suppose he was a bit more passionate about his past owner this Loop?"

"… That doesn't explain the song."

"Maybe he's a fan of the movie?"

"I'm pretty sure the Toy Story franchise doesn't exist in our Loop, at least not this run," Nate deadpanned, Whisper shrugged.

"So the years went by. I stayed the... the… Er, how does the rest of it go again?" Wazzat questioned confusedly, Nate let out a sigh.

9.11 KaiserRichard

[Yo-kai Watch/Back to the Future]

After beating Dame Dedtime, Nate and the others ran into a small problem...

"So, I got some good news and bad news." The anchor said to Whisper, Jibanyan, and Katie, "Bad news; Miradox doesn't seem to exist in this loop. Thus, we can't travel back to our time."

"I am NOT waiting 60 years to get back home!" Katie moaned thinking to wait even longer for a Loop to end.

"BUT! The good news is that a few Loops ago, I got this!" Nate reached into his pocket and took out a car that was both futuristic yet retro. "Ta-da!"

"... Is that a DeLorean?" The ghostly butler asked

"Yep!"

"I'm not sure that the admins would be pleased about messing with time even more then we already do in the Baseline." Katie pointed out.

"Relax!" Nate answered as he dialed in the date of when they left, "As long as we only use it to get back to our time, we'll be fine!" Both of the yo-kai huddled into the car as the girl got buckled up in the passengers seat.

"Alright, but YOU'RE going to pay for my back-pain medicine if this doesn't work!"

"Next stop, 2016!" Nate revved up the engine and got ready to back to the future. Needless to say, Katie made a mental note fearing of Nate with a driver's license.

9.12

[Yo-kai Watch/Avatar: The Last Airbender]

"Okay, I'm Awake and feeling Loopy, dani! So how's the…" USApyon paused when he saw a different girl sitting on Inaho's bed, "Dani?"

"Local Looper?" Azula concluded without much difficulty, looking the otter yo-kai over.

"Yeah… so, you can already see me? Dani," USApyon questioned, crossing his arms and leaning on the wall.

"Seeing spirits is something I checked off my skill list a long time ago, not even really worth going into," the fire-bending girl shrugged dismissively, before giving the yo-kai a critical look, "But first of all, you're USApyon, right?"

"You've heard about me? Dani."

"As a fellow Sith, it's my business to know, and give you a belated welcome to the Dark Side. Though, I assume Pinkie Pie already gave you one…"

"Oh, yeah, plus a nice care package, dani!" USApyon explained with a smile, "She even sang a 'Welcome to the Dark Side' song… dani."

"Of course she did…" Azula rolled her eyes, before giving USApyon a curious look, "Still, didn't see you at any of the latest meetings…"

"… Isn't your group only for Looping Sith 'Ladies?' Dani…"

"… You're a boy?"

"What!? Of course I'm a boy! Dani!" USApyon fumed, Azula almost smirked at his overreaction, but decided to diffuse the situation.

"Calm down, rabbit-specter. No offense to you, but it is kind of hard to tell," the older Sith shrugged, this comment seemed to make USApyon angrier.

"I'm not a rabbit! Dani!"

"… So, why are you dressed like one?"

"Because… because… that's complicated! Dani!" the rabbit yo-kai snapped, glaring at the smirking Azula.

"Whatever you say, so, how does this Loop usually go?"

"VADER MODE!"

Azula didn't think it was a big deal, a few comments about the Baseline being boring, calling into question the little yo-kai's capabilities as a Sith, and his subservience to a little girl. His reaction however, was not unexpected, from what she had heard…

"Hmm, I'll admit, you've got some powerful anger," Azula commented, easily blocking the yo-kai's lightsaber slashes with her own, "But you're too unfocused, you need to channel your anger into concise attacks if you want to win against any experienced Force-users, just going berserk won't get you far… as you are now, well, this is just pathetic."

"STOP MOCKING ME! DANI!" USApyon raged, pressing two more buttons on his helmet, causing his suit to turn from yellow to pink, a blue cape appearing on his back.

"EMPEROR MODE!"

USApyon pulled a second lightsaber from his pocket, this one having a yo-kai medal slot incorporated into it, he inserted his own medal into it, causing it to create a dark blue blade, before he continued his assault on Azula with more ferocity than before.

"I'm starting to think you're not listening to me," Azula sighed, blocking the multiple-lightsaber attack with a bored expression.

"Dani…" USApyon groaned as he sat on the ground, having reverted to his normal state.

"You done?" Azula crossed her arms as she observed the tired yo-kai.

"Yeah… I'm done, dani…"

"Good."

"So… maybe I'm not as in tuned with the Dark Side as I would like to admit, dani…" the yo-kai admitted with a sigh, looking towards the ground, "I thought I had a good handle on my position as a Sith, but maybe I'm not cut out for this… dani."

"Now, don't sell yourself short so quickly," the older Looper halted the local's line of thinking as she stepped closer, "You have a lot of potential to be a powerful Sith, but you need more focus. And to not fly off the handle so easily."

"I'll… take your advice to heart, dani…" USApyon let out another exhausted breath, "Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to pass out, dan– "the otter yo-kai collapsed mid-verbal-tick, Azula rolled her eyes, a small smirk appearing on her face.

9.13

Keita hummed a bit to himself as he sat on his bed, reading a comic, Jibanyan slept by the bed while Whisper was cleaning his yo-kai pad, a sudden tap on the window caught their attention.

"Hm…?" the Anchor got up and went over to the window, opening it; only for Mifu to float in, looking a bit aggravated as she slammed the window shut behind her.

"Fumi-chan? Did you die?" Keita asked in concern, the pink ghost sighed.

"No, I just exited my body and pocketed it, I needed to get away!"

"What do you mean, whissu?" Whisper questioned, Mifu looked out the window with narrowed eyes, Keita and Whisper followed her line of vision, spotting several boys wondering around looking for something; including Kanchi, Kuma, Orochi, and even an UnAwake Kyubi in human form.

"Er… what's going on?" the Anchor asked warily, Mifu sweatdropped as she looked away.

"Er… you know how you're not too fond of Harem-Loops, Keita-kun?" at this, he nodded, "Well, I've recently found I'm not a huge fan of 'reverse' Harem-Loops, myself…"

"… You can stay here as long as you want," Keita assured with a serious expression, Fumika smiled.

"Thank you Keita-kun."

9.14 Boohoooo!

[Yo-Kai Watch/Doraemon]

Nobi blinked as he Awoke... and immediately screamed due to a mirror being nearby.

"WHAT HAPPENED TO ME?! I DIDN'T EVEN USE ANY OF DORAEMON'S INVENTIONS YET!" He exclaimed in shock, having looped in as Frazzel. He desperately attempted to get help from people walking the street, the fact that nobody could see or hear him freaking him out even more. "What is happening?!" Nobi sobbed in terror.

Meanwhile, Keita whistled as he walked down the street.

"Look at that sun, look at that sky, look at my red shirt I look so fly!" he sang.

"If you get sued for copyright infringement, you have no one to blame but yourself, whiss." Whisper deadpanned. Suddenly, Nobi ran past with a scream.

"...What's Frazzel's deal?" Jibanyan asked.

"I dunno. We should investigate." Keita shrugged, following after the new Anchor. Upon catching up with "Frazzel" the trio cautiously approached.

"You alright, whiss?" Whisper asked.

"Wait... You can see me?!" Nobi asked. Keita noticed Frazzel's voice was different...

"... What's your name?" He asked.

"Nobita Nobi. Why?" Nobi reluctantly grunted out.

"Tell me, has time been repeating for you?" Keita asked.

"Yes... You did this, didn't you?!" Nobi accused, shaking Keita.

"No, but I can explain." Keita shrugged. Nobi reluctantly let go.

One Welcome to the Multiverse Speech later...

"That's... That's crazy!" Nobi exclaimed.

"Agreed." Keita shrugged.

"...Well, at least I know Doraemon isn't just pranking me... or an amnesiac.." Nobi sighed.

"That's the spirit! Whiss! ...Get it, because– "he began to explain.

"BOOOOOOOOO! YOU SUCK!" Every Yo-Kai in a 21-Mile radius shouted out.

"... Everyone's a critic..." Whisper grumbled, eliciting laughs from his companions.

'Maybe this won't be so bad after all...' Nobi mentally mused.

9.15

"I think the dimensions are a little off," Hailey commented.

"No, you have to account for the scale, and how far away it is; trust me, I did all the math, despite how it seems, the light will hit the entire city," Nate assured, pointing up into the sky, Hailey still looked skeptical, but shrugged and nodded.

"Okay, if you say so…"

"Nate?" Whisper floated over the the two humans with a questioning look, "What are you talking about?"

"That," Hailey pointed up cheerfully, the yo-kai butler looked up, and nearly fainted at the sight of a massive yo-kai lens, hovering over the city.

"What!? H-how!?" Whisper stuttered as he tried to comprehend what he was seeing, Nate held up a remote with a smile.

"Activation in 3… 2… 1!" he pressed a button, the yo-kai lens activated and shined a light over the Springdale.

"I feel like our friends have done something stupid," Katie commented.

"What makes you think that?" Kyubi asked as he floated after her along the sidewalk.

"I don't know, maybe because of that?" Katie pointed out how people were staring at Kyubi with shocked expressions, the nine-tailed fox shrugged.

"Huh, I barely noticed…"

"HAILEY! WHAT DID YOU DO!? DANI!?" USApyon shouted as he came apon his human companion, along with the Anchor and his yo-kai butler.

"What makes you think I've done something?" Hailey questioned nonchalantly.

"Maybe because; there's a GIANT YO-KAI WATCH LENS HANGING OVER THE CITY! Everyone can see yo-kai now and they're freaking out! Dani!" the otter yo-kai raged as he flailed about, not unnoticed by a few passing people that gave uncomfortable looks.

"Hey, don't blame me; it was mostly Nate's idea," the purple-haired girl scoffed.

"Oh, like you had any objections; when I offered the idea, you were all for it," the Anchor countered with a huff, USApyon's eye twitched as he stared at the two.

"I seriously have no idea what goes through your mind sometimes, Nate," Whisper sighed as he floated by his friend/master's side, USApyon continued to twitch for a few moments, his hands inching towards the buttons on the bottom of his helmet… before he took a deep breath and shook his head.

"No… no, dani. Not for this, not now…" the Looping 'merican yo-kai nodded as he turned away.

"Wait, no Invader Mode?" Hailey questioned with a look of genuine confusion.

"Nah, it's not worth it, dani," USApyon commented as he walked away, "Especially if Nate was involved… I don't think going Invader Mode on him would end very well for me, dani…"

"I'm not going to attack you, ya'know…" the brown-haired boy pointed out plainly.

"Not taking the chance! Dani!" the otter yo-kai exclaimed before running off, Nate and Hailey glanced at each other, before shrugging.

"So… want to see what chaos is going on around town," the female Looper smirked.

"Sounds like a plan," Nate gave a thumbs-up, before the two chuckled. Whisper let out a groan.

"You two… I don't even know what to say to you two right now…" the Looping ghost shook his head/body, before he took note of someone approaching, "Though… I feel like she might have more to say about this…"

"… She?" Nate and Hailey both blinked in confusion.

"Nathan Adams! Hailey Anne!" both Loopers flinched at the familiar voice calling them, before they looked to see a disgruntled Katie Forester, a chuckling fox yo-kai not far behind her, "What have you two done!?"

9.16 Boohoooo!

(Yo-kai Watch/Bubsy/Scooby Doo/Dora the Explorer/Steet Fighter)

Nate woke up and gave a deadpan expression.

"Hola!" A robotic Dora Marquez smiled.

"It's too early for this..." Nate sighed, attempting to go back to bed.

"Don't go CATatonic! We need to go on an adventure!" A Bubsy Bobcat robot exclaimed, shaking Nate.

"PUPPY POWEERRRRRR!" A robotic Scrappy Doo exclaimed, swinging on the ceiling.

"KEN MASTERSSSSSS!" A robotic Rufus roared, attacking Nate. Nate easily blocked the attack and decapitated the robotuc Rufus, who had a sign saying 'Property of Anne Industries' come out.

"HAILEYYYYYY!" Nate roared.

2 hours later...

Hailey whistled as she balanced things on her desk. A Bubsy robot promptly rolled in.

"Hailey! WHAT are you doing?!" Nate demanded.

"Well, I accidentally made self-aware robots after binging a bunch of Hub Shows and thought I'd share them with the world!" Hailey smiled.

"Wel–Wait, why did you say self-aware? As in sentient?" Nate blinked.

"Yep." Hailey answered.

"I... I killed dozens of these robots on my way here." Nate frowned, looking sick.

"It's so cold and dark.. I'm scared..." The Bubsy robot sobbed. Nate stood there stunned.

"Bejeebus, this got dark." Manjimutt awkwardly commented.

Nate was taking a long shower.

"...Is he ok?" Jibanyan asked. Whisper shrugged, looking worried.

9.17 Darkflare75

[Yo-kai Watch/RWBY]

The first time it happened Nathaniel Adams was surprised to wake up with a younger brother since most visiting Loopers usually Looped into Nate's time. However, when you take into consideration his place in the family tree and the frequency of which it happened, Nathanial was no longer surprised when Oscar Pine from the RWBY Loops ended up as his younger brother.

"Good morning" Nathaniel greeted Oscar as he walked into the dining room for breakfast. "Did you get enough sleep last night you look like you're feeling Loopy?"

"I am Awake," Oscar answered with a smile."Which is good, because the local Anchor won't be born for a good 50 years."

Nathaniel shook his head at Oscar "Are you planning to start up a farm like normal, or do you have something special planned for this Loop?"

"I have been on an ice cream kick for the last couple Loops, so I think I'm going to see how big of an ice cream company I can make," Oscar answered with a shrug.

"Well, it should be fun to hear what Nate has to say about your company when he comes to visit.

Nate Woke up in an Ice cream shop that he could immediately tell wasn't native to his Baseline. Looking down he found that he had the company's logo on his shirt; it was two scoops of chocolate chip ice cream inside of what looked like a golden crown shaped ice cream cone, it had the words "The Ice Cream" stylized so that they looked like they were drawn onto the Ice cream with chocolate syrup, underneath that was the word "King" which had been imprinted on the crown.

Looking at the logo that pronounced "The Ice Cream King" he let the Loop memories flow through his mind before groaning. On one hand, he wasn't known for being average this Loop, on the other, he didn't know if he wanted to be the "crown prince" to Oscar's dairy powered dynasty.

Shaking his head to clear it Nate went up to the counter. He could figure out what he was going to do with this Loop later. For now, he was going to enjoy some ice cream.

9.18

[Yo-kai Watch/Steven Universe]

When Ningyo AKA Mermaidyn came to awareness, she found herself unable to move…

Scratch that, she found herself unable to do anything, except for project images onto the mirror from which she looked out into the world. Her memories told her she was a type of being known as a 'gem,' and that she was trapped…

'Well… this is just perfect, a situation where I would actually be happy for Keita to fish me up without warning, are you trying to tell me something Yggdrasil?' Ningyo thought cynically, she struggled a bit to try and form her 'hard-light body' her memories told her of but was unable to. She was truly trapped in this mirror.

However, this feeling of being trapped would soon be ended it seemed, as she felt a hand take a grip on her gem, attempting to pry it from the mirror.

'Oh right, Steven!' the memories flashed through Ningyo's mind, the boy was friendly, if not a little immature, it made sense that he would try to free her after she asked him, her further thoughts on the matter were halted when the gem was freed from her prison, and she was forced to focus on reforming.

Ningyo felt strange as she formed a body of light, focusing a bit, she formed a body somewhat resembled the form of her evolved form; Yao Bikuni, aside from the dress, having legs, and being completely blue, but a strange pain hit her after, like someone struck her in the back with a whip, another memory flashed through her head.

"Oh, right, my gem is cracked…" Ningyo muttered to herself with a pained sigh, Steven stared at her with a look of surprise.

"Lapis…?" Ningyo blinked at the confusion in his tone, looking towards him, Ningyo let out a Ping, Steven seemed to notice before sending a Ping back.

"I see… My name is Ningyo, though sometimes it's Mermaidyn, and I'm replacing the one you call Lapis for this Loop," the Looping yo-kai stated plainly, standing up straight and looking towards Steven, he looked confused.

"Um… sometimes…?"

"Yeah, I often forget that's not normal for most Loopers…" Ningyo muttered a bit to herself before sighing, "The why of that isn't very important, right now I'm Ningyo, so just call me Ningyo."

"Oh, okay," Steven nodded, looking her over carefully, "Would you like me to fix your gem?"

"Could you? Do you posses healing abilities?" Ningyo questioned.

"Yeah, I do, but… you might find it a little weird," Steven explained.

"How so?"

"I heal things with my spit," the Anchor clarified, Ningyo shuddered slightly at that thought, but quickly shook it off and turned her back to Steven.

"This cracked gem is very uncomfortable, just get it over with please…"

"Don't worry, this will be quick!" the half-gem assured, licking his hand before running up to the visiting Looper and placing it on her gem, Ningyo shivered for a moment, but let out a sigh of relief when the gem began to glow and the crack started to seal.

"Thank you… that feels a lot better," Ningyo smiled as the pain in her head subsided, turning back to Steven and giving a bow of gratitude.

"Oh, your welcome," Steven smiled with a wave, Ningyo nodded before she looked out at the ocean and waved her hand, willing the water to move around.

"Hmm… this could lead to some interesting possibilities…" she muttered, before another memory flashed through her head and she frowned, "Say… Steven, are the Crystal Gems going to come after me…?"

"Oh, don't worry about that, they're all Awake, they'll just be surprised you're not Lapis," the local Anchor waved off her concern, Ningyo nodded in understanding.

"I see, well I don't want to seem rude by not meeting the other Loopers, but I'd like to spend some time in the water, figuring these abilities out," the Looping yo-kai explained, gesturing to the water, Steven seemed to think for a moment, before nodding.

"That's fine, just don't go turning the ocean into a tower."

"Huh?" the visiting Looper gave the boy a strange look, he chuckled.

"It's nothing. Take all the time you need, though I think you should meet the other Loopers here before the Loop ends."

"I'll consider it," Ningyo shrugged before moving to the water, her legs shapeshifting into a mermaid-tail before she swam off. Steven looked out at the water for a few more minutes, before a thought struck him.

"Should I have told her about Homeworld and the Diamonds…?"

"She'll be fine," Steven blinked, before looking up at the tall gem standing beside him.

"Garnet…? How long have you been…?"

"Not long," the fusion said with a nod, Steven nodded as well before looking back at the water, "Don't worry, she'll get lonely and come back here before long, you can tell her then."

"You sure?" the Anchor questioned with a blink, Garnet smiled.

"Not entirely, but pretty sure…"

Ningyo swam through the ocean, experimenting with her powers, she smiled a bit as she got the hang of menipulating water to her will, and jumped out of the water a few times to utilize her water wings. This continued for several hours, before Ningyo finally stopped and looked around.

'… I'm bored,' she blinked a few times, before letting out a sigh and began heading back towards Beach City.

9.19

"Guys, is it just me, or do we get Expansions really… randomly?" Keita asked as he walked down the sidewalk, accompanied by Whisper and Jibanyan.

"I'm pretty sure that's true of pretty much every Loop, Keita-kun, whissu," the spectral butler pointed out, Jibanyan let out a yawn and shrugged.

"I wouldn't worry about it, nya…"

"I just can't help but notice is all, we got some more extra days, nothing major's happened other than some new yo-kai trying to cause trouble, and Inaho and USApyon getting some more cases, but I can't help but wonder– "the Anchor stopped talking when the sound of mechanical movement caught the three Loopers' attention, they looked over and saw some sort of green, humanoid robot, walking towards them in a slow, stereotypically-robotic way, "… Whisper, is that a yo-kai?"

"Er… well," Whisper pulled out his yo-kai pad, not even bothering to hide it as he browsed the Yo-kai Wiki, while the strange robot moved closer.

"Um… hello, nya?" Jibanyan confusedly greeted as the machine approached him, it raised an arm to greet back, before looking at the unsure Keita.

"Er… yeah, hello…"

"Got it!" Whisper suddenly exclaimed, holding up his yo-kai pad triumphantly, "This guy is called 'Android Yamada!''He's a yo-kai of the Hagure tribe!"

"Hagure tribe?" Keita questioned skeptically, "Since when was there a 'Hagure' tribe?"

"Um… since this Expansion, I guess, whiss," Whisper shrugged.

"… Huh, what do you know, something different did happen," the Anchor shrugged, before he noted a tap on his leg, he looked down to see Android Yamada, staring at him with unblinking eyes, "Um… could you not do that? No offense, but it's… kind of creepy."

Without a word, Android Yamada extended one of his fingerless hands, where a medal depicting him sat.

"Oh… you want to give me your medal?" getting nod in response, Keita took the medal and smiled, "I guess we're friends than?" despite not changing expression, Android Yamada seemed pleased with this statement, he gave a slow wave, before continuing his robotic walk forward.

"Well, that was interesting, nya," Jibanyan commented, biting into a choco-bar.

"Eh, I suppose, at least nothing bad happened, whiss," Whisper smiled, Keita and Jibanyan both stiffened.

"… Why would you say that, Whisper?" the Anchor asked carefully.

"Why are you concerned suddenly? What could happen at this point? Whissu."

"Out of the way Nate!" before Keita could formulate an answer, he was suddenly tackled by Inaho.

"It's Keita! Remember? What is with– "an Emperor Mode USApyon, two lightsabers in hand jumped down from a building, glaring in Inaho's, and by extension, Keita's direction, "… Never mind, I think I get it."

Hearing the commotion, Android Yamada halted his stride, looking back and focusing on the perceived threats to his new friends; the gem on his belly began to glow.

"Please Keita-kun, you have to save me! We're besties, it's what we do!" Inaho pleaded as she hid behind the Anchor, the enraged USApyon menacingly approaching.

"First of all, we're not 'besties,'" Keita stated bluntly, "Second of all, I don't think I could save you, considering not even you usually tick him off to this extent…"

"Also, you kind of just came out of nyowhere, and I'm sure this is your own fault, nya," Jibanyan added, Inaho looked like she wanted to retort, but USApyon suddenly speeding up had her deciding to flee instead, the three watched as the yo-kai Sith pursued the purple-haired human, not noticing as a beam of light headed for the Anchor.

"Do you think maybe we should have helped her?" Keita questioned with a bit of concern, already having second thoughts.

"Nah, she's gotten herself out of worse situations with that otter, she'll be fine, whiss," Whisper waved off the concern, Keita still looked unsure, but all thoughts on that were halted when the beam hit him.

"Gah!"

"Keita!" both yo-kai cried out in surprise, Android Yamada stared blankly, internally feeling distressed about this mistake on his part.

When the light faded, Keita had been replaced with a slightly smaller version of Android Yamada, however the main body was red instead of green, the face more resembled Keita's, and the gem on the belly was replaced with a star.

"What the nya!?" Jibanyan questioned in shock, Whisper scratched his head.

"Um… Android Amano?" the ghost shrugged, the new form of Keita stared at him silently, before it started to vibrate.

Android Yamada was coming back over, wishing to greet the new android he had accidentally made, but before he could, the vibrating increased in frequency, Android Amano started shaking violently, until he finally exploded, Whisper and Jibanyan shielded themselves from the flying debris, the smoke cleared to reveal a screaming Fuu2.

"NEVER AGAIN!" the blue ghost shouted in outrage, zooming right up to Android Yamada's face and shaking him, "I NEVER WANT TO DO THAT AGAIN!"

"… That was simultaneously both the most fascinating thing I have ever witnessed in the Loops, and the most disturbing, whiss," Whisper commented, staring at the smoking remains of Keita's android body, Jibanyan gave a silent nod.

9.20

[Yo-kai Watch/RWBY]

"Well… I've replaced Ruby, Yang, even Blake and Weiss a few times, but I can safely say that this is a first for me," Nathan Fall stated with a bit of a shrug, looking over the red, formal suit he wore, before glancing at the (currently) younger, green-haired girl, staring at him, "I'm sorry, this must be… awkward for you."

"No… it's fine, just… wasn't expecting this," Emerald sighed, going over her memories briefly, subtly letting out a small sigh of relief when she found that her UnAwake self this Loop had seen this version of Nate merely as a father-figure, rather than having a crush on him, "But, what are you going to do? I can't imagine you of all people would want to do most of the stuff Cinder often does…"

"Eh, I've considered playing double-agent before, problem is Ozpin's not Awake, so he might need some convincing…" the Yo-kai Watch Anchor muttered in thought, he looked towards Emerald again, "You want in, or do you want nothing to do with me?" Emerald rolled her eyes.

"Nate, I have no problem with you anymore, Cinder cares about you, so you must be worth something…"

"Gee, thanks," the visiting Anchor smirked, which Emerald returned.

"So we're going to do this, but what about Mercury?"

"Ah, for now we just continue to play our roles in front of him, maybe we can convince him to join in on being a double-agent, maybe not, we cross that bridge when we come to it," and with that, Emerald and Nate began to make their plans for how they would go about being 'double-agents,' though after a moment Emerald paused and looked back towards the Yo-kai Watch Looper.

"So… males can inheret the Maiden powers this Loop?"

"They're just called 'Seasonal Powers,'" Nate answered simply, Emerald blinked.

"Huh… that's kind of boring…"

"Yeah, I know."

9.21

[Yo-kai Watch/Azumanga Daioh]

Whisper Awoke to the cramped space of the capsule he often found himself in at the beginning of Baseline, he let out an internal sigh, but was relieved when he heard gears turning, and the capsule moving.

Soon the capsule was opened, in a burst of smoke Whisper made his appearance known, doing a few stretches.

"Good timing, Keita, I never like Waking up in… there?" the ghostly butler blinked, seeing the small girl, with pigtails in her hair, smiling at him, "Chiyo-chan? Whissu?"

"Hi Whisper! I found this machine over here and remembered what goes on in your Baseline, so I figured I should let you out," the local Anchor explained cheerfully, Whisper nodded, "So… you gonna give me a yo-kai watch?"

"Don't you already have one? Whiss."

"Pocket-locked," Chiyo kept her smile as she spoke, Whisper sighed.

"Of course it is… well, let's hope we don't need to deal with too troublesome yo-kai," the Looping yo-kai stated, making the aforementioned device appeared on Chiyo's wrist, she admired it briefly, before nodding.

"Yeah! Thanks!" she turned and began moving towards a visible sidewalk through the trees, "Now let's go, I don't want to be late for school after all."

"Okay, I'm coming, whissu," Whisper assured, following after the cheerful child.

9.22

[Yo-kai Watch/RWBY]

"You know, it comes to my attention that the two of us have never really just sat down, and talked," Weiss took a sip from her coffee, nodding a bit to the words of the ghost across from her.

"Well, with how uncommon Fused Loops are, and with us not being Anchors, it's understandable," the white-haired human stated calmly, "Is there something in particular you wished to discuss?"

"Well… I've heard about how you take the position as the second to your Anchor," Whisper drooped a little, "And honestly, I've never really taken it upon myself to help with Nate's stability, I was hoping for advice… maybe?"

"Well… first of all, my idea of what the second Looper to the Anchor does is not necessarily the correct one for everyone," Weiss explained, shrugging, "Second of all, from what I can tell about your Baseline, you don't need to worry as much about keeping your Anchor stable, with large threats being fewer and far between, in favor of daily annoyances…" she took another sip from her coffee, "Though, that's not taking variants into account."

"I suppose… still, I wish to be more useful to Nate, I am his butler after all…" at this, Weiss blinked.

"… Huh, yeah, you are. I'd completely forgotten about that…"

"You wouldn't be the only one," Whisper sighed.

"Hmm, look, if you want to be useful to your Anchor, I think being a good friend is going a long way," Weiss smiled a little, "As for your position as a butler, I think the same logic applies; so long as your Anchor likes being around you, I think you're doing a good job…"

"True… Nate has come to respect me more in the Loops than he ever did in Baseline," the floating yo-kai smiled a bit, but quickly frowned, "Even if he does still call into question my knowledge on yo-kai quite a bit…"

"Well, you can never fully escape your Baseline perceptions; often times I'm still considered the 'straight man' in relation to Ruby…" the two remained in silence for a few moments.

"So… do you ever have any… issues with your Anchor?" Whisper decided to question, Weiss rose an eyebrow.

"Well… Ruby can be… difficult to deal with sometimes, I'll admit."

"Sometimes I feel Nate mimics her so much just to distance himself from his Baseline…"

9.23

[Yo-kai Watch/RWBY]

"Wait a second, you're dating!?" Nate shouted in disbelief, sitting in his room with Ruby, they had bunkbeds and were twins this Loop, Nate sat on the bottom bunk while Ruby lie in the top.

"Dating… is a strong word, we're trying stuff out, seeing how things go…" Ruby said thoughtfully as she stared at the ceiling, Nate shook his head.

"I just… find it hard to process, you've told me for so long you had no interest in that kind of thing…"

"And I also often said that I wasn't fully against it, Penny was interested, and with what happened in that Chibi Loop, I figured it was worth a shot," Ruby shrugged, Nate looked up at her bunk blankly.

"Chibi Loop? You're making a decision like this, based on a Chibi Loop!?"

"I'm not making it 'based on a Chibi Loop,' it just helped push me to try it!" Ruby sighed, "You know, this isn't how I was expecting you to react; if anything, I was expecting you to try and make death-threats to Penny, warning her to never hurt me…"

"Okay, 1; that's stupid, Penny would never hurt you on purpose, unless you were sparring. And 2; for various reasons, I don't think either I, nor Penny should be making death-threats to each other…" Nate clutched his heart as his eyes flashed blue.

"Yeah, yeah, I know," Ruby groaned, "Are you going to be on my case about this for too long?"

"… Huh?" Nate blinked, "Oh! No, you do what you want Ruby, I jut wanted to know why this sudden change… all things considered, Penny is probably a good match for you, at least you know you'll still be friends if it doesn't work out…"

"True…" Ruby nodded, the two siblings sat in silence for a moment, "So, speaking of dating… when are you going to ask out Katie?"

"Oh come on Ruby!"

"I'm just saying; I went out on a date, shouldn't you try asking her out?"

"I'm going to bed!"

"You can't hide from this Nate!"

"Goodnight Ruby!" Nate covered his head with his pillow, Ruby laughed to herself.

9.24

Merameraion let out a sigh as he walked down the sidewalk, the day had been pretty boring, there wasn't even anyone that needed to get fired up around lately.

He had been hoping Keita, Fumika or Inaho would summon him, but none of the watch-holders had felt the need to lately it seemed, leaving the fiery yo-kai with very little to do…

And now, instead of summoning him he had suddenly gotten a note from Keita, informing him to meet at his home; to help with his homework… It was something, he supposed, but not much, and why didn't he just summon him?

As he approached the house, the feline yo-kai stopped, hearing what sounded like… quiet voices? And shuffling…?

He put his ear to the door, many footsteps, Keita's voice? But somebody silenced him!? The Isamashi yo-kai's mind raced at what this could mean.

"MERA-MERA! MERA-MERA MERA![INTRUDERS! KEITA-KUN'S IN TROUBLE!]" Merameraion was suddenly lit with a blazing aura, with the intention to punish those that may invade his friend's home and do him harm, without a second though, he kicked the door down, already in a fighting stance, "MERA MERA MERE-MERA! MERA MERE-MERA MERA-MERE!?[STEP AWAY FROM THE BOY! WHO WANTS TO BE FIRST TO MEET MY FIST!?]"

"SURPRISE!" the blazing yo-kai immediately dropped his aggressive stance, gaining a look of surprise at what he was seeing; Keita was fine, not only fine, he was smiling, and surrounded by his other friends; Whisper, Jibanyan, Inaho, Fumika, the rest of the Hot Clan, everyone! There were even a few yo-kai he didn't recognize.

There was a big banner with Merameraion's name on it, food and wrapped gifts were laid out along with decorations that clearly catered to a fiery theme.

"Oh, he's a jolly good lion! Oh, he's a jolly good lion! Oh, he's a jolly good lion! Which nobody can deny!" the guests chanted, Keita stepping over with a gift in hand, Merameraion stared up at him with wide-eyes.

"Sorry about lying to you, and not summoning you, but I wanted this to be a surprise," he kneeled down the stunned lion yo-kai's eye level, giving him a soft smile, "Inaho and USApyon told us all about your backstory, you really did a great thing in life, Merameraion, and I hope you continue to great things for the rest of your afterlife, you've helped me so many times and I couldn't be prouder to call you my friend…"

"… Mera,[… Keita,]" Merameraion looked at the human with stary-eyes, before turning to the rest of the gathered guests, "Mera-mera…[Everyone…]"

"Hey! Let's not get too sappy, let's cut the cake already!" Inaho suddenly exclaimed.

"Don't you have any sense of timing?" Kyubi snapped, glaring at the purple-haired girl, she gave him an innocent smile.

"Nope!"

"You're doing it on purpose at this point, there can be no other explanation, dani…" USApyon muttered to himself, standing next to Inaho, the others, including the guest of honor, began laughing.

"MERA-MERA MERA MERA-MERE![LET'S GET THIS PART STARTED!]" Merameraion cheered, as did the others as the festivities began.

"Um, Keita-kun?" Whisper subtly floated over the Anchor, whom was watching the party go on with a satisfied smile, "This was a nice thing you did, but… what of your parents? Whissu."

"Don't worry about that, I convinced them to go out for romantic evening, and I even told them I'd invite Fumika and Inaho over for a small party, and if they get home before the party is done, that's all they'll see," Keita assured calmly.

"Hmm… very well, whiss," Whisper gave a satisfied nod at the answer.

"Hey, Keita-kun! Come on! Time for pin-the-tail on the magasasu!" Fumika cheerfully called.

"All you kids best back down now, I'm undefeated when it comes to this sort of game, guts!" Guts K announced proudly.

"I'll believe that when I see it," Ningyo crossed her arms and smirked, Merameraion let out another cheer, and the party continued.

9.25

"Ah, what a perfect day at the amusement park, wouldn't either of you lovely ladies agree?" Kyubi, in his human disguise, spoke as he wrapped his arms around the shoulders of the flustered Sarah and Alex.

"Um, yeah… perfect," Sarah smiled as her face went red, as did Alex's.

"So, um… rides, right?" Alex stuttered a bit, trying to keep her red face hidden, Kyubi chuckled, Katie stood by with an annoyed look, her arms crossed.

"Why did I think this would be a good idea?" the Looping girl muttered to herself, before shaking her head and glaring at Kyubi, "Hey, what did I say about seducing my friends!"

"Why my darling Katie, this is not seduction, it's not my fault if my natural charisma causes ladies to make such a fuss over me, I apologies though, if my demeaner is causing you such jealousy," at this comment, Katie growled a bit, while her friends looked concerned.

"W-wait, jealousy?" Alex broke away from Kyubi with a nervous expression, as did Sarah, Kyubi looked slightly annoyed.

"I-I'm sorry, we didn't realize you and Katie were… um," Sarah looked away unsurely, Kyubi glanced at the angry Katie, then back at the two flustered girls, he smirked.

"Oh no ladies, you misunderstand, my previous comment was merely a friendly jab, Katie and I are not in any form of a romantic relationship," Kyubi assured, the two non-Looping girls seemed to a calm a bit, the other present Looper gave the disguised yo-kai a suspicious look, "In fact, I could not claim fair Katie's heart even if I tried, for it already belongs to another."

"Wait, what!?" Sarah exclaimed, her and Alex giving Kyubi their full attention.

"Katie likes someone!?" Alex questioned with interest, Kyubi nodded, Katie's eyes went wide, realizing what the fox yo-kai was doing.

"Kyubi! Stop it right now!" the Looping girl shouted, Kyubi smirked at her, before looking back at the other girls.

"Well yes, in fact, it's a boy in your class…"

"A boy in our class… who could it be?" Sarah questioned, Alex shrugged, a little less interested than Sarah, though she still wanted to know.

"I don't know, Eddie?" she threw out a name.

"Nope, you are close, but it starts with an 'N,'" Kyubi chuckled, Katie had enough and was marching over to the mischievous fox.

"A boy in our class, close to Eddie, name starts with an 'N?'" Sarah pondered, before she and Alex's eyes widened, they looked at each other.

"… No way, it can't be!" Alex spoke in disbelief. Katie had gotten over to them and was grasping Kyubi's shoulder with a snarl.

"Katie, how could you possibly like Nate! He's so… boring!" Sarah spoke up, waving her arms, Katie let out a huff.

"SHUT UP!" this sudden shout from their friend took Alex and Sarah by surprise, they both fell over as Katie started dragging Kyubi away, the two girls shared a dumbfounded look, before looking back in the direction Katie was taking Kyubi.

"What are you doing!?"

"Helping you," the fox yo-kai said as he dropped his disguise, a smug grin on his face.

"Helping me!? By embarrassing me in front of my friends!?" Katie snapped with a harsh glare, Kyubi smirked.

"Oh, so you're embarrassed about your crush on Nate?"

"That's not what–I mean–Uhg!" the brown-haired girl stomped her foot on the ground, her face going red, "How I feel about Nate has nothing to do with this, it's none of your, or their, business! And it's especially not your place to tease me about it!"

"Well, maybe I wouldn't feel the need to tease you about it if you would just speak up about how you feel!" Kyubi snapped back, an annoyed expression on his face, "Cut me some slack, maybe I just don't know how to help you in this situation; my best friend keeps denying herself happiness that she could easily achieve if she just spoke up!" at this exclamation, Katie's eyes went wide, as did Kyubi's; the fox quickly covered his mouth.

"I'm… your best friend?" the Looping girl asked carefully, Kyubi's ears drooped as he uncovered his mouth, looking away from the human.

"Well… yeah, at least… I see you that way…"

"… Kyubi… of course I want to tell Nate how I feel… but, it's not your place to decide if I should do that, and teasing me about it in front of my non-Looping friends certainly doesn't help…" Katie muttered with a sigh.

"I'm… sorry," the yo-kai admitted, lowering his head, "But, if you want to, why don't you tell him?" Kyubi ceased floating, planting his feet on the ground and looking towards the female watch-holder with concern, "Are you afraid of him rejecting you? Because, I can say with absolute certainty that– "

"No, I'm not afraid of rejection," Katie halted her friend's comment with a shake of her head, "I know he feels the same way about me, probably for longer than I've felt this way about him…"

"Then, what's the problem?"

"I think… I'm afraid of things changing between us, it not working out… of me not being good enough for him," the seemingly-young girl admitted, looking to her shoes with a trouble expression, Kyubi let out a snort which had her flinch.

"I'm sorry Katie, you? Not good enough for Nate? Nate!? That… I just can't take that idea seriously," Kyubi chuckled, Katie glared at him.

"Okay, I get it, the joke that he's nothing special, but I'm serious! Nate is– "

"No, that's not it, Katie," Kyubi raised a hand, letting out a few more chuckles before calming down, "Nate's definitely not the same kid he was in Baseline, and neither are you, but that's not a problem. Katie, that kid is crazy about you, more than that, he knows you. If anything, I bet Nate is worried he's not good enough for you!"

"What!?" Katie gave a dumbfounded look at that thought, "Not good enough for me? How could he ever…?"

"Exactly!" the nine-tailed fox hovered off the ground, circling around Katie as she kept her eyes on him, "You can't fathom him not being good enough for you, and from his perspective, he can't fathom you not being good enough for him!" Kyubi let out a small chuckle, "Even after all this time, it's still silly how overcomplicated humans can make such simple issues…"

"Hey!"

"But… I suppose it's kind of endearing, in a way," the fox gave a gentle smile, Katie kept staring at him, an unsure frown forming on her face.

"… How can you be so sure?"

"Katie, trust me, it will all work out," Kyubi placed a hand on her head, "Tell him how you feel, you'll both be better off for it in the end…" Katie seemed to be soothed by the pat to the head, letting out a sigh.

"I do want to tell him… I will tell him," the girl nodded, smiling towards her yo-kai friend, "But, not right now. I need to do it when I'm ready to," Kyubi gave her a skeptical look, Katie held back a chuckle, "Trust me, Kyubi, I will, I still need some time to think about what I'm going to say…"

"Okay, good," Kyubi smiled again, "And don't you worry, Nate won't reject you, but if somehow he does, or if he doesn't treat you right, Anchor or not I swear he's getting a full-power Alpha Omega to the face!"

"Please don't," Katie pleaded, though the two still smiled, and soon started laughing, when they calmed down, Katie stared at Kyubi with a look of affection, "You know Kyubi… you're my best friend too," the two looked at each other for another moment, before Kyubi pulled Katie into a hug.

"Thank you… Katie."

"Thank you too, Kyubi…" they kept hugging, before they heard the sound of a gasp, they looked over to see Sarah and Alex, staring at them with wide-eyes as they shakily pointed at Kyubi.

"… Oh… I forgot to make myself invisible, didn't I?" Kyubi concluded as he let go of Katie, she sighed and facepalmed as her non-Looping friends just kept staring, unable to form any coherent sentences.

9.26

[Yo-kai Watch/RWBY]

Ruby hummed to herself as she walked down the sidewalk after finishing a day of school, as it was a near-Hub Loop.

"Ruby!?" a voice called out behind her.

"What?" the Anchor turned to see a younger girl running up to her; Hailey, or Inaho.

"I heard you're dating Penny!"

"Um… yeah?" Ruby looked confused at the purple-haired girl's shouting.

"Gah! No! This can't be!" Hailey cried out, pulling some sort of chart from her sub-space pocket, "You weren't supposed to go with Penny! I mean, it was a 'maybe' but I was sure it would be Weiss, or maybe Oscar!" Ruby looked over her shoulder suspiciously.

"Is that a shipping chart?"

"Yes! And you've ruined it!" Hailey lamented, "So far everything had lined up with what I expected; Jaune and Pyrrha, Blake and Yang, even Qrow and Winter!" she pointed to certain parts of the chart as she listed off the pairings, "Neo and Zwei was unexpected, but I didn't really expect anything from either of them, so that's fine…"

Um, about that…" Ruby started, but shook her head and glared at Hailey, "Wait, why is this important? I can date who I want!"

"But the fans!" the visiting Looper protested, followed by a pause as she and Ruby stared at each other.

"… What fans?" Ruby asked.

"Um… me?"

"… You should not be making shipping charts about Loopers, Hailey," Ruby sighed, Hailey groaned and put her shipping chart away, "Besides, Weiss and I are moirails," at this, Hailey perked up a bit.

"Oh, cool! So are Nate and I!"

"I don't believe that…"

9.27

"So, by the looks of it, we've got some more extra days this Loop, how do you want to spend them?" Inaho spoke as she walked beside the Anchor along the sidewalk.

"I don't know, any openings at the InaUSA detective agency this Loop?" Keita questioned with a thoughtful expression, Inaho's face lit up.

"Chi-watchi! I thought you'd never ask! We could be an unstoppable detective duo!"

"Excuse me, dani," USApyon spoke up, an annoyed look on his face, Inaho regarded him with a sheepish expression.

"Trio… right, trio…"

"Thank you, dani…"

"Excuse me, I'm here too, whissu!" Whisper interjected, following behind the group.

"Right, and we should probably inform Jibanyan, and maybe Fumika… and she'd also probably bring Kyubi…" Keita muttered in thought.

"Okay! So, the duo-trio-however many doesn't matter! We'll just be a band of detectives!" Inaho exclaimed, trying to retain her enthusiasm.

"Now we're a band? Dani," USApyon gave an unimpressed look, Keita chuckled unsurely, though he noted something as they approached his home.

"Hmm…?"

"What is it, Keita-kun?" Whisper questioned as he hovered over to the Anchor.

"Is that a moving truck over there?" Keita pointed out.

"A moving truck?" Inaho looked curious, glancing towards the boy at her side, "Did you know you were getting new neighbors…"

"No, this is completely new to me," Keita answered with a bit of surprise, Inaho stared at him for a couple of seconds, before her glasses seemed to flash.

"… Aha!" the purple-haired girl suddenly jumped up, Keita was sure he saw a lightbulb briefly appear over her head, "This must be one of those 'world-shaking events!' This is no ordinary Expansion! I knew I felt something when I Woke up earlier! The status quo is about to change!"

"Hey now, aren't you getting a little too enthusiastic about this?" Keita sweatdropped.

"Try living with her, dani," USApyon retorted dryly.

"Oh, Keita! My little boy, welcome home!" Keita was greeted by his mother when he walked through the door, but something was… off.

"GAH! Mom, did you dye your hair and get contact lenses… under your glasses!?" Keita questioned in shock at the sight of his mother with blond hair and blue eyes.

"Huh, what are you talking about, I'm just fine!" his mother smiled, she seemed to be talking oddly…

"Hi honey! How is the day going!?" Keita jumped back at the sight of his father stepping into the room, also with blond-hair, blue eyes, and speaking a bit oddly.

"Dad!?"

"Just great dear!" his mother responded enthusiastically, Keita gaped while Inaho, Whisper and USApyon stared with dumbfounded expressions.

"Keita-kun, I think something's off about your parents today, whissu…" the yo-kai butler muttered, Keita's eye twitched.

"YOU THINK!?"

"Wah!" Whisper fell over, Keita took a calming breath.

"Sorry Whisper…"

"Keita-kun, have your parents always been blond!? I'm pretty sure they weren't!" Inaho exclaimed.

"Of course they weren't, did you not see his reaction just now? Dani," USApyon interjected before Keita could retort, Inaho blinked as her mind processed this, before she gasped, jumping over to the Anchor and grabbing hold of him by the shoulders.

"Keita-kun! It's the Ouroboros! Quick! Do something! WE NEED TO HALT THE ZOMBIE-APOCALYPSE!" the frantic girl shouted as she shook Keita.

"That's not what this is!" the boy exclaimed, pulling away from her, he let out an annoyed grunt as he started to scan the room for a yo-kai, Inaho seemed both disappointed and annoyed.

"Of course it'll be a yo-kai, it's always a yo-kai, why can't it be Ouroboros this time?" Inaho huffed as she leaned against a wall with crossed arms, Whisper and USApyon both sweatdropped.

"You actually wanted it to be a zombie-apocalypse? Dani…"

"I'm pretty sure this isn't a Fused Loop, whissu… And I don't think Ouroboros turns your hair blond."

"There it is!" Keita exclaimed, shining his light on a shadow that soon revealed a new, yet somewhat familiar looking yo-kai, "It's a nekomata!"

"Meow, a what neow!?" the golden nyan blinked, before shaking his head and staring at Keita, "Wait, you can see meow!?"

"Yes, I see you! What's with you making my parents all weird!?" Keita raged, the cat-yo-kai fell back in surprise.

"S-sorry, I'll stop, I just wanted to share a bit of the American-spirit with them! Meow!" the nekomata shivered, snapping his fingers and Keita's parents reverted to normal.

"Huh… what just happened?" Keita's mother questioned, her husband scratched his head confusedly, before they noticed Inaho.

"Ah, Misora-san, when did you get here?" Keita's father asked politely, Inaho smiled.

"Just now, with Keita-kun!"

"Yeah, we were going to study together, if that's okay?" Keita added convincingly, his parents smiled.

"Well… alright, so long as you actually study," his mother nodded, "But, it's okay if you need to take a break and come down for some snacks."

"Cool! You're awesome Mrs. Amano!" Inaho cheered, Keita nodded, subtly focusing his attention on the new yo-kai again.

"Go upstairs, we'll meet you up there and talk in my room…"

"Meow!" the new nyan saluted, before scurrying up the steps.

"Okay, over here," Keita lead the yo-kai to his room along with his other companions, Jibanyan's ears perked up as he heard them enter, let out a yawn and stretching a bit; pulling his body up from the bed.

"Thank you, meow!"

"Meow?" Jibanyan tilted his head, jumping down from the bed to see who had come along with his friends, "Keita? What's with the gold nyekomata? Nya."

"Again with that word, I don't know what a neko-whatsit is, but I'm Tomnyan! A cat yo-kai from the U-S-A!" the new yo-kai jumped up with a cheer, Jibanyan sweatdropped.

"And you're a nekomata, whissu…" Whisper added bluntly, Tomnyan glared at him.

"Hey! Stop calling meow names! Meow!"

"It's not a name, it's what you are!" Keita snapped, before letting out a sigh, "Like Jibanyan, see?"

"Meow?" Tomnyan looked over at the red cat yo-kai, who was taking a bite out of a chocobar.

"Cat body, two tails, lit on fire," Jibanyan showed his tails, before pointing to Tomnyan's own, "That makes us nyekomata, nya…"

"Oh meow god! Really!? All this time I thought I was just a 'cat yo-kai,' but there are specific types!? Meow!" Tomnyan jumped up in shock, Jibanyan looked a bit annoyed.

"I knyow you're a cat, but aren't you being a bit excessive with the 'meows?' Nya."

"One could say the same about your 'nyas,' dani," USApyon muttered while shaking his head.

"Oh, like you're one to talk Mr. 'Dani!'" Inaho laughed, USApyon glared at her with a growl, but restrained himself from going Vader Mode. Keita sighed, kneeling down to Tomnyan's level.

"Okay, so what's up? Why are you in my house, and why were you inspiriting my parents?" at this questioned, Tomnyan seemed to pause for a moment, before it came to him.

"Oh right! Sorry about that! I'm your new neighbor, and as I said before; I wanted to share a bit of the spirit of the USA with your family! Meow!" the golden nyan let out a cheer, Keita didn't look convinced as he stood back up.

"If that's the spirit of the USA, how come no American I've ever met has been like that?" the Anchor muttered quietly.

"Well, this is the Loops, Keita-kun, other than 'merican yo-kai, all the Americans you've met have been from different Loops, whissu," Whisper pointed out.

"But USApyon's nothing like this," Keita whispered back to his butler.

"You sure about that?" Inaho inched into the whispering-conversation.

"Obviously I'm not! Dani!" USApyon butted between the three of them.

"Hey, what are you guys going on about neow? Meow," Tomnyan interjected curiously, the group quickly broke up, Jibanyan sighed.

"It's nothing, nice to meet you Tomnyan, and to inform you what a nekomata is," Keita nodded, Tomnyan smiled and gave a thumbs-up.

"Yeah! I've made my first new friends in Japan, cool! Meow!"

"Yeah, cool! Meow!" Inaho imitated.

"Don't do that, dani," USApyon grunted.

"Oh, Keita-kun, I see you have a yo-kai watch! Meow," Tomnyan observed.

"Er, yeah, that's how I found you," Keita stated, Tomnyan nodded, before glancing at Inaho.

"Oh meow god! She has one too! That's surprising! Meow!" at the sudden attention, Inaho smirked.

"Of course I have one, a detective must be prepared for any case, even if it involves yo-kai!" she held up her wrist proudly, Tomnyan seemed amazed.

"Yo-kai is pretty much all we investigate, dani," USApyon stated without much care, but went ignored.

"Wow, a detective with a yo-kai watch! That's so cool! Meow!" the American cat-yo-kai clapped his paws together.

"Yeah, sure is… so, wait you moved in next door?" Keita paused to think about that, "But… there were moving trucks? So, were you in disguise our…"

"Oh, you can meet my roommate later! Meow," Tomnyan waved off the concern.

"Roommate?" the Anchor blinked, before Tomnyan pointed to his watch.

"More importantly, I wish to say that those watches of yours are cool, but I heard that an even better model exists! Meow!" after the gold nekomata stated this, Keita and Inaho looked at their yo-kai watches.

"A better model?" the brown-haired boy asked 'So, this Expansion is adding a new model?'

"No way, I didn't hear anything about a new model of Yo-kai Watch! Dani!"

"Neither did I! And as a top-class yo-kai butler, if a new model of Yo-kai Watch came out I would of course know about! Whissu!" Whisper and USApyon looked through their yo-kai pads, Keita and Inaho stared at them blankly.

"You won't find anything about this watch online! Meow!" Tomnyan halted their searching.

"I find that hard to believe, if it exists that is, nya," Jibanyan rolled his eyes.

"It's called, the Yo-kai Watch Dream! Supposedly, it is a truly special yo-kai watch! Something worth coveting!" Tomnyan praised.

"I'm not so sure…" Keita looked skeptical.

"Yo-kai Watch Dream!? I WANT IT!" Inaho exclaimed with stars in her eyes, Keita grunted as she screamed in his ear.

"Now hold it, no information about it? This sounds like one of those urban legends, how can we be sure it exists? Whissu," Whisper questioned, as if to answer him, the closet door slid open.

"It exists, I just found out about it today," Hikikōmori stated quietly, Whisper moved back a bit in surprise, Keita smiled gently at the bat-like yo-kai.

"So, it is real, Hiki-chan?" he kneeled to her eye-level, she nodded.

"Yes, but you won't be able to buy it, you need to win it from a roulette game in Yo-kai Dream Land," the shy yo-kai huddled a bit more into her wings as she kept her eyes on Keita.

"Yo-kai Dream Land?" the Anchor questioned, "Is that some sort of amusement part?" Hikikōmori nodded.

"Yes, it only recently opened, going there and winning one is the only way to get a Yo-kai Watch Dream right now…"

"I see," Keita nodded in understanding.

"No problem, I'll win one of those without issue!" Inaho smirked, "Though, Keita-kun might have some trouble!"

"Hey!" Inaho giggled and stuck her tongue out as Keita glared at her.

"Actually, there's no need for you to win one, Keita-kun," Hikikōmori shuffled a bit, before she pulled out a box with a new yo-kai watch inside; the Yo-kai Watch Dream, the occupants of the room, other than Keita and Jibanyan, gasped in surprise, "I managed to secure one with my connections for you…

"Wow, thanks Hiki-chan!" Keita smiled brightly, petting the closet-inhabiting yo-kai on the head, she seemed to enjoy the affectionate contact, before handing over the watch.

"No problem, Keita-kun, it's the least I can do for you," Hikikōmori chuckled a bit.

"H-hey, do you have one of those for me?" Inaho raised her hand, Hikikōmori glanced at her.

"No, sorry, I only obtained one… but you did say you would have no trouble winning one, so you should have one soon enough, right?" the bat yo-kai tilted her head, Inaho smiled weakly.

"Er… well I guess I did say that…"

"So, we're still going to Yo-kai Dream Land! Meow!" Tomnyan jumped up excitedly.

"Eh, could be fun, nya," Jibanyan shrugged.

"Hey, could I take a look at that, Keita-kun? Whiss," Whisper questioned as he floated over to his friend/master, Keita nodded and handed the boxed Yo-kai Watch dream to Whisper.

"Sure, you can hold onto it until we get back from if you'd like.

"Ah, thank you Keita-kun, whiss," Whisper bowed with a smile, he looked over the box briefly, nodded and stored it in his sub-space pocket.

"I'll call Ungaikyō to send us to take us there…" Keita pulled out the medal of the yo-kai, but stopped as a thought came to him, "Wait… we should get Fumi-chan for this too!" Inaho narrowed her eyes.

"Oh, come on Keita! We don't know how much longer we have in the Loop, and I want my Yo-kai Watch Dream before it ends!" Inaho snatched the medal from her friend's hand.

"Hey! Inaho!"

"You can tell Fumika about it later!" Inaho waved, before she began the summoning process, "Come on out my friend! Yo-kai medal, set-on! Ungaikyō, take us to Yo-kai Dream Land!"

"Ladies and Gentlemen Fushigi tribe!"

Before any protests could be made, the mirror tsukumogami had already appeared and sent them on their way.

"Well, here we are; Yo-kai Dream Land," Hikikōmori introduced as the group emerged from the Ungaikyō, they started to look around at all the attractions and yo-kai, though the most eye-catching thing was the giant roulette wheel in the center of the park.

"Wow, this place is pretty cool, nya," Jibanyan praised as he looked around.

"Oh meow god! It's even more amazing than I imagined! Meow!" Tomnyan exclaimed from his counterpart's side, Jibanyan gave a thumbs-up.

"Hey, look! I see Komasan and Komajiro! Hi Komasan and Komajiro!" Inaho shouted as she waved at the komainu in the crowd, they turned to them and waved back, she smiled at her fellow human, "This place is cool, huh Keita-kun?"

"It is, but it would still be nice to bring Fumi-chan here sometime…" the Anchor muttered wistfully, a smirk made its way to the girl's face.

"Oh-ho! I thought you two weren't 'together' yet, already planning your first date, are you?" Keita's face went red at the sly look Inaho gave him.

"It-It's not like that," Keita protested, though he looked to the side with a considerate expression, "Or… maybe it is a bit like that… but it's still none of your business!" Inaho kept her smirk.

"Whatever you say, Mr. Average-Anchor," Keita let out a growl, "But before you go planning any dates, let's go get my Yo-kai Watch Dream!"

"To play the Dream Roulette, you need to exchange your yo-kai medal for dream medals," Hikikōmori interjected, gesturing to a reception desk.

"Dani?" USApyon blinked, walking over to the desk, he jumped a bit when he saw who was behind it, "Dani!? Jinmenken!?"

"Oh, hey USApyon, how is everything?" the human-faced dog questioned from behind the glass.

"Jinmenken? What are you doing working here? Whissu," Whisper questioned as he floated over.

"Well, this place opened up pretty recently, and they needed some help, so I figured; why not apply for a job? And here I am," Jinmenken shrugged, Keita smiled when he walked over and noticed the brown-furred yo-kai.

"Oh, Jinmenken! Hey!"

"Oh, Keita-kun! Welcome!" Jinmenken smiled back with a wave, "Would you like to exchange your yo-kai medal for some dream medals?"

"Might as well, I've got plenty of 'em," Keita shrugged, placing a Fuu2 medal down, Jinmenken reached through the small hole below the window and took it.

"Huh!? Wait, Keita-kun has a yo-kai medal!? Meow!" Tomnyan exclaimed in surprise, "How can that be!? I thought he was human!? Meow!"

"There's a story behind that we may tell you someday, nya," Jibanyan shrugged, Tomnyan gave an unsatisfied sigh.

"Here are your dream medals," Jinmenken slid three medals back over to Keita; the designs were reminiscent of poker chips, with a depiction of the Anchor's yo-kai form in the center.

"Thanks Jinmenken, keep up the good work," Keita complimented as he took the medals, the bukimī yo-kai gave him a thumbs-up in response.

USApyon and Whisper exchanged shrugs, before lining up to get their dream medals, soon followed by the two nyans and Hikikōmori, Inaho was searching her sub-space pocket for a medal from one of her past, Loop-variable yo-kai forms.

"Yes! Yo-kai Watch Dream!" Inaho cheered after the roulette had landed on her desired prize, keeping up her cheer as she went up to the reception desk to retrieve it, the others had won various other prizes; such as Jibanyan getting a year-supply of chocobars, but the watch was the reason they came here.

"Here you are, take good care of it," Jinmenken laughed as Inaho giddily took her prize from him.

"I got the Yo-kai Watch Dream! I got the Yo-kai Watch Dream! Yeah!" the purple-haired girl sang as she danced around, USApyon stared at her blankly, one of his own prizes; a model rocket kit, in his hand.

"So did I!" Keita cheered, walking over to Jinmenken, who handed him a second Yo-kai Watch Dream, Inaho froze.

"… Huh!? But you already have one!?"

"It's for Fumi-chan!" the boy snapped, holding the extra Yo-kai Watch Dream protectively.

"Yeah! A year-supply of deliciousticks! Meow!" Tomnyan cheered at his prize.

"I don't knyow what those are, but good for you, nya!" Jibanyan praised.

"I also won some donuts, dani," USApyon added, biting into one.

"Well, that was fun! Wouldn't you agree Keita-kun? Whissu!" Whisper smiled as they emerged from the Ungaikyō, back into Keita's room.

"Yeah, it was…" the male watch-holder nodded, waving to Hikikōmori as she bowed and ducked back into the closet, "I'll give this to Fumi-chan next I see her," he stored the extra Yo-kai Watch Dream in his pocket, Whisper chuckled.

"Speaking of Yo-kai Watch Dreams, I still have yours stored safely, I'll be happy to help you open it carefu– "

"What's this do!?" Inaho chimed, poking at the Yo-kai Watch Dream on her wrist, ripped up packaging scattered around her.

"It's the searchlight, like all yo-kai watches," Keita pointed out, walking over, Whisper was visibly twitching at the sight before him.

"Ohhh! It's so shiny, meow!" Tomnyan smiled as he stared at the watch.

"Brand nyew watch! Nya! Quick, open yours Keita-nya!" Jibanyan cheered, the Anchor smiled and nodded.

"Sure, hey Whisper, huh…?" Keita stared at his yo-kai butler, who was giving the group a death-glare.

"What are you DOING!?"

"Oh right… you don't like it when we do this…" Keita muttered, looking around at the scattered packaging with a sweatdrop, sighing as Whisper started to rant at the group.

"You really lack foresight you know, we've been Looping with these people for thousands of years, dani," USApyon pointed out to Inaho under Whisper's rant.

"Chi-watchi!" the purple-haired girl stuck out her tongue as she posed with her new watch, completely ignoring the raving ghost.

"All good Whisper?"

"Okay, I'm calm now, I'm good, whiss…" Whisper eased, Keita patted his back comfortingly.

"You'd think you'd get over stuff like this by nyow, nya," Jibanyan shrugged, Whisper ignored him as he handed Keita his, still boxed, Yo-kai Watch Dream.

"I'll open this one carefully, for your sake," the Anchor assured, Whisper gave a grateful smile.

"So, how is this different from the regular watch anyway?" Inaho questioned as she inspected her new watch, while Keita began opening his.

"It says there's a 'roulette function,' dani?" USApyon stated, looking at some instructional video on his yo-kai pad.

"Roulette function? But we needed to do a roulette to get this," Inaho pointed out, USApyon shrugged.

"I don't know, supposedly If you get a good spin on the Yo-kai Watch Dream's roulette; you can summon a yo-kai in a super flashy way, dani…"

"Ooh, flashy," the bespectacled girl smiled eagerly, but USApyon looked skeptical.

"It didn't really specify though, Dani…"

"Here, try it out! Meow," Tomnyan handed Inaho his dream medal, "We're already friends, so go ahead and take my medal! Meow."

"Cool! Thank you!" Inaho snatched up the medal before inserting it into the watch, Jibanyan watched with interest, as did Keita and Whisper; having finished opening Keita's Yo-kai Watch Dream, Hikikōmori even opened the closet door a crack to watch. "Come on out my friend! Summoning Tomnyan! Yo-kai medal, set-on!" she inserted the medal into the watch, the dots around the face of the watch started to blink.

"It's Pretty time! Sushi Roulette! Pretty, Pretty! What is going on?! Uh! Pretty, Pretty! Pretty~!" Tomnyan danced to the song in the summoning circle, before a piece of sushi appeared before him that he ate… which he quickly spat out in surprise, as it was filled with wasabi. "Too bad!"

"Spicy!? Meow!"

"Sushi with wasabi! Sushi with wasabi! A heap of wasabi!"

"Tomnyan! Ug… meow," Tomnyan whimpered as he fell to the floor.

"Well… that was flashy, dani," USApyon sweatdrop, Inaho stared blankly at the quivering nekomata, before smiling a pulling out another medal.

"I'll try USApyon next!"

"Oh no you won't! Dani!" the otter yo-kai snapped, "If you're summoning me, it'll be with your Yo-kai Watch U! Dani!"

"I'm not sure what the point of the roulette function is," Keita stated, staring at his Yo-kai Watch Dream, he glanced at Whisper and Jibanyan, "Should I try it?"

"Nyot with my medal, nya," Jibanyan commented blandly, jumping up on Keita's bad and taking up a lazy position, Keita looked towards his butler questioningly.

"… Okay, fine, try my medal, whissu," Whisper shrugged, handing a medal to Keita.

"Thanks, though I hope this roll ends up better than with Tomnyan…"

"I hope so too, meow!" the American nekomata cried out, "Why Yo-kai Watch Dream, why did you do this to meow!? I believed in you! Meow," Keita and Whisper stared at him for a second, before they turned their attention back to the watch.

"Come on out my friend! Calling Whisper! Yo-kai medal, do your thing!" Keita called out, placing the medal into the watch.

"It's Nyroron time! Dream Roulette! Nyororon, Nyorooooroooro, NYOOooorooorooon! What is going on?! Nyororon~! Congratulations!"

"Whisper! Whissu!" Whisper announced after the song and dance, before looking around curiously, "Hmm… that seemed to be a regular summoning, Keita-kun, whiss."

"Well… it did say congratulations… really, I'm not seeing the point of this though," the Anchor stated, staring at the new watch on his wrist.

"Be sure to summon me with one of your other watches, if you must in the future, nya," Jibanyan noted from the bed, Keita nodded.

"You still going to give the other one to Fumi-chan? Whissu."

"Yeah, I will. I'll just also have to warn her about it, there must be more to it though," the human boy stated, inspecting the watch curiously.

"Well, the video did mention that it had many 'hidden features,' dani," USApyon interjected thoughtfully.

"Hidden features, huh? I'll have to look at that video at some point…" Keita concluded.

"And now it's USApyon's turn!" Inaho attempted to put the yo-kai medal in the watch again.

"Don't you dare! Dani! Or Vader Mode will be the least of your worries! Dani!" the yo-kai Sith snapped dangerously, Inaho quickly separated the watch and medal.

"Well… the Yo-kai Watch Dream didn't turn out as great as I thought it would, meow," Tomnyan shook his head as he padded over to the Anchor, "But I'm still happy to have met you guys! Here, you're my friend too! Meow!" he handed Keita another of his dream medals, he took it with a grateful smile.

"Thanks, Tomnyan, glad you like it here."

"Yeah! This is the start of a beautiful friendship for sure! Meow!" the cat yo-kai suddenly pulled out a guitar, the group of Loopers blinked, before Tomnyan started strumming the instrument, and singing, "~Meow meow mya-mya-meow kitty kitty itty bitty kitty bitty kitty bitty meow kitty moew!"

"Hey, that's not too bad, dani," USApyon admitted, dancing a bit to the beat of the music, Inaho, Keita and Whisper glanced at each other blankly, Hikikōmori shut the door to the closet, and Jibanyan…

"Nyot too bad? Nyot too bad!? How am I supposed to relax with that annyoying nyoise!? NYA!" the red-furred nekomata screeched as he covered his ears in an attempt to block out the sound, Tomnyan obliviously continued to play.

"Well, that was interesting," Keita admitted once Tomnyan had left.

"That's one way of putting it, nya," Jibanyan grumbled.

"Well, these Yo-kai Watch Dreams are still pretty cool!" Inaho grinned as she looked at her watch some more, before sending a smirk Keita's way, "Bet I can find out what those 'hidden features' are before you!"

"Well you are the detective here," Keita admitted with a thoughtful look, Inaho did a triumphant fist-pump, "On the other hand; I'm the Anchor, and I'm Awake much more frequently than you…" this statement almost immediately took the wind out of Inaho's sails.

"Well… uh, we'll see about that!" the purple-haired girl stomped her foot on the ground, a challenging look on her face, Keita stared at her.

"… Inaho, isn't it about time you should be getting home? For that matter, wouldn't your mom and brother be wondering where you've been all day? I'm pretty sure you didn't have a chance to tell them between the time we left school and got to my house."

"Haku's been covering for me!"

Riku Misora watched with a suspicious look on his face, at what appeared to be his sister Inaho, dusting the shelves.

"This is too weird, even for her…" the small boy whispered to himself, trying to inch closer without the girl noticing him, however he wasn't quiet enough, with a curious hum, the disguised yo-kai turned to face him.

"Oh, hello Riku-san, is there something I can help you with?" she asked politely, Riku stiffened, "Is something wrong? Do you feel unwell?" she grew worried as she noticed the horrified look forming on Riku's face, she couldn't imagine Inaho would be very pleased if she found her brother had been ill and Haku had done nothing about it while in her place. The white baku in the guise of her human employer began to approach him, but Riku stepped back.

"Y-y-you" the nine-year-old boy took a deep breath, before shouting, "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH MY SISTER!?" without another word, Riku rushed out of the living room, slamming the doors behind him in the process. Haku stood in place for a moment, looking troubled and confused.

"Oh dear, I may have messed that up a bit… Misora-san will not be pleased…"

The next day at school, Keita met up with his friends; Fumika, Kuma and Kanchi, though unknown to the two non-Loopers, Fumika was also being accompanied by an invisible nine-tailed fox, much like how Keita was by a ghost butler.

"Hey Keita-kun, so are you ready for the test?" Kanchi asked in a friendly manner, Keita smirked.

"Yeah, that test is going to be no problem! I'll get 100 percent, guaranteed!"

"What? Oh come on, you're bluffing or delusional if you think that," Kuma chuckled, Fumika gently jabbed him with her elbow, "Ow!"

"Now Kuma-kun, have you not noticed how much Keita-kun's grades have improved in the last few months?"

"So have yours, Fumi-chan, though it's not as noticeable with you, since you were already so smart," Keita pointed out fondly.

"Oh, but that's not as impressive as your stark improvement in near all subjects over such a small amount of time, Keita-kun," the two smiled at each other while their two other friends stood in awkward silence.

"They're doing that thing again…" Kuma muttered quietly.

"Yeah… hey Kuma, you been feeling a bit like a third-wheel lately?" Kanchi whispered to his larger friend.

"Kind of…" after it became apparent that Keita and Fumika did not plan on stopping their 'staring contest' any time soon, Kuma and Kanchi began to inch away. "So… we'll meet you guys inside…"

"Try not to be late to class," Kanchi added before they went into the building, Keita and Fumika were still staring at one another with absent-minded smiles.

"They're gone you know," Kyubi interjected bluntly, causing the two child Loopers to jump a bit.

"Gah! Kyubi!" Fumika scolded, the fox yo-kai just laughed.

"You should really get to class before you're late, again, whissu," Whisper stated with his arms crossed, "Your grades may have improved, but that doesn't mean the teacher will let you off for tardiness, whiss."

"He may if we summon Ekohiiki," Keita whispered to his female friend, she let out a giggle but shook her head.

"Keita, we shouldn't, we really shouldn't," she tried to stop herself from smiling as she spoke, she failed.

"Why don't you two just get to class, whissu…" Whisper sighed while face-palming, Kyubi smirked.

"Or, we could ditch class entirely and head off as yo-kai for shenanigans, I'm sure temporarily dying is a good enough excuse to not show up for class."

"Don't make suggestions like that! Whissu!" the ghost snapped with an annoyed expression, Kyubi chuckled evilly. Fumika let out a sigh and shook her head.

"I suppose we really should get to class, come on Keita-kun," she waved for the Anchor to follow her, he started to before pausing and pulling something from his pocket.

"Oh, I almost forgot, I got this for you Fumi-chan!" he handed the girl a box, she looked at it curiously.

"… a new yo-kai watch?"

"It's a Yo-kai Watch Dream, it was just added this expansion, Inaho and I already have ours, but I managed to also win one for you," he smiled.

"You won it?"

"I'll explain about that later, as well as some things you should know about that watch, and you probably shouldn't attempt to use it until I do…"

"Okay… so if this is the latest model, and you have one, why aren't you wearing it?" Fumika questioned, pointing to the Yo-kai Watch U Keita was sporting on his wrist, the boy held his wrist up.

"That… will be explained along with the details of the new watch, okay?"

"Okay, either way, thank you for the gift Keita-kun, that was really thoughtful of you…"

"Well… it was only fair to get you one too, so you know…" the two smiled as they went a bit red in the face, Whisper let out an annoyed cough.

"Excuse me, I hate to break up this moment but… YOU TWO NEED TO GET TO CLASS! WHISSU!" the startled kids jumped up, Fumika pocketed her new watch before they rushed into the school building.

"We're going!"

After class Keita and Fumika were walking side-by-side, Inaho had opted not to join them this time; stating she needed to go home because her brother was going crazy, or something…

"So, the roulette function, you're not sure what it's for?" the brown-haired girl questioned after Keita had finished explaining.

"I don't think I want to be summoned that way, that's for sure," Kyubi huffed.

"There's probably some benefit depending on how it lands, but until I've had a better chance to study it I don't really want to use it," the Anchor shrugged, Fumika nodded in agreement, internally deciding to keep her Yo-kai Watch Dream in her pocket, for now.

"It is surprising we got another model of the yo-kai watch, our Expansions are usually pretty inconsequential, though there are occasional big ones I suppose," the Looping girl shrugged.

"Well there's more to this Expansion than just a new watch, Keita-kun's also got himself some new neighbors, whiss."

"Neighbors?" Fumika blinked, Keita nodded.

"Yeah, someone moved in, not sure where that will go; all I know is they can either see yo-kai, or are a yo-kai in disguise, since I met their roommate."

"Roommate? I assume it was a yo-kai?" Fumika guessed.

"Yeah; a nekomata from America named Tomnyan," he pulled out the medal to show her.

"Huh… looks a lot like Jibanyan," she noted.

"Well… most nekomatas in our Branch do," the Anchor shrugged, putting the medal in his pocket, "That's a dream medal by the way, you get them by exchanging your yo-kai medals at Yo-kai Dream Land, you can use them to play the Dream Roulette game there."

"Yo-kai Dream Land? That's where you got the Yo-kai Watch Dreams, right?" the young girl hummed, her mutual crush made an affirmative sound, "Oh, there's my house!" Fumika noted, moving over to her home and waving to Keita, Kyubi gave a subtle wave of his own, "We can talk more later, Keita-kun!"

"Okay, see you later!" the Anchor waved back along with Whisper, before continuing their path home.

"I'm home!" Keita greeted as he entered the house, but paused in confusion when he heard unfamiliar laughing coming from the living room, "Huh?"

"Haha! We sure are good friends, huh," spoke a large, cheerful man as he greeted Keita's parents, Keita noted he seemed to have a yo-kai watch on his wrist; the same model as the one Whisper had given him when they first met.

"Oh, we have company," the seemingly-young Anchor noted with a contemplative expression, his parents noticed his presence and smiled at him.

"Ah, Keita-kun, welcome home," his father greeted, before his mother spoke up.

"This is the man who moved in next door, Jerry-san. He came over to meet us."

"Oh, nice to meet you," Keita bowed, Jerry approached him and smiled, extending out a hand to shake.

"Hello! I'm Jerry!"

"Yes, hi," Keita tried his best to keep his smile as the man took his hand and started shaking it enthusiastically.

"We're great friends already, right?" he laughed.

"Yeah, sure…" Keita took a step back and took a deep breath.

"We'll, this isn't really what I was expecting for our new neighbor, whiss," Whisper stated as he hovered around his friend/master, Keita nodded with a small sigh.

"Hey, Keita-kun! Sorry for just barging in on you! Meow!" Keita turned to see Tomnyan standing by the stairs with his guitar in hand.

"Ah, Tomnyan, I assume he's the roommate you mentioned before?" Keita gestured to Jerry, Tomnyan nodded.

"That's right, meow!" he started to strum his guitar and sing, "~Meow meow mya-mya-meow kitty kit– "

"Er, maybe not play that while you're here, Jibanyan really doesn't like it, and he's right upstairs," Keita interrupted gently, Tomnyan stared at him for a moment, before shrugging and putting the guitar away, "Thank you…"

"Wow! So this is your room, Keita!" Jerry exclaimed as he looked around the room eagerly, the Anchor nodded, noting Hikikōmori peeking through the closet door, before swiftly shutting it, Keita internally thought that was probably for the best at this time.

"Yes, it is, feel free to look around," Keita shrugged; it's not like any item he really cared about wasn't kept in his sub-space pocket, Jerry nodded, and began shining the yo-kai watch light around.

"Hmm, that's a pretty old model of the yo-kai watch, isn't it Keita-kun?" Whisper noted, Keita shrugged.

"I still find uses for that one, even if it's not my go-to summoning watch," having heard a bit of what the Anchor said, Jerry looked towards Keita with an enthusiastic smile.

"Oh! Keita, you had this watch too!?"

"Yeah, that and many other models, including a lot of custo– "Keita was interrupted when Jerry suddenly jumped up and did a twirl, showing his yo-kai watch proudly.

"It's my 'That's Not It' Watch!" he exclaimed, Keita and Whisper stared, Jibanyan let out a few snores from the bed.

"Um… I'm sorry, 'That's Not It' Watch?" Keita questioned in confusion, Jerry nodded.

"Yeah! That's what it does when I set the medal in! Watch!" Jerry took out a Tomnyan medal and proceeded to insert it into the watch… upside down.

"That's not it!" Jerry seemed pleased with the voice that emitted from the watch, Keita was unsure if he should correct him or not.

"… Should we tell him that's not how you use the watch?" Keita asked Whisper with a blank expression.

"Er… I don't know if I can really say, Keita-kun, whiss," the spectral butler shrugged.

"Hey, hey, hey! Reeeal ready!" Jerry cheered as he spun around, showing the watch again, "The 'That's Not It' Watch is the best!"

"Yeah!" Tomnyan cheered along with him, giving Jerry a high-five.

"I really don't know if it would be right or wrong to say anything here…" Keita muttered with a dumbfounded expression, he looked to Whisper confusedly, "But, wait… didn't my old watch only do that because one of the MitoMEN decided to live in the watch?"

"I… don't know what to say about that, Keita-kun, maybe it became a standard after yours?" Whisper looked just as confused as his Anchor, the two just stood back, watching Jerry place another yo-kai medal he pulled from… a shopping bag(!?) and inserted it upside down, getting excited again with the watch's repeated phrase.

"Yeah, I didn't actually know you could use the watch to summon yo-kai at first," Tomnyan said as he walked back over to Keita and Whisper, "So Jerry thinks saying 'that's not it' is all the watch does, but he sure does like it," the gold nekomata noted, watching as Jerry inserted another upside down medal.

"That's all good I guess, but shouldn't he also know how to actually use the yo-kai watch?" Keita pointed out, Whisper nodded.

"It would be most beneficial for him to be aware of the ability to summon his allies, in case he is ever in a bind, whiss."

"Yeah, though… which medal should I demonstrate with…?" the Anchor pondered, Jibanyan let out yawn as he awoke from his nap, looking around sleepily; Keita mentally noted not to summon Jibanyan, "Mind if I summon you, Whisper?"

"Not at all Keita-kun, whissu!"

"Alright, great! Hey, Jeri-san!"

"Hahaha, huh?" Jerry stopped in the fun he was having with the 'That's Not It' Watch and turned to the younger male, "Yeah, what's up Keita?"

"I wanted to show you something you could do with the yo-kai watch," Keita smiled as he pulled out one of Whisper's medals, "Come on out my friend! Calling Whisper! Yo-kai medal, set-on!" he inserted the yo-kai medal face-up, Jerry looked intrigued.

"Ladies and gentlemen! Nyororon tribe! Nyororon! Nyororon! Nyororon! Nyororon!"

"Whisper! Whissu!" Whisper did a pose as he appeared, Keita smiled at Jerry.

"See, you can use that watch to summon your– "

"Where's the 'that's not it?'" Jerry questioned, looking both disappointed and confused.

"Huh…?"

"I wanted to hear your watch say; 'that's not it,' what a letdown," the large man let out a sigh and shrugged, Keita and Whisper stared at him for a moment, before glancing at each other.

"I… guess the 'that's not it' is all he really cares about regarding the watch," Keita muttered, Whisper looked unsure of what to say.

"So, what's going on exactly? Nya," a more awake Jibanyan questioned, jumping down from the bed.

"Jibanyan! Meow!" Tomnyan greeted, pulling out his guitar, Jibanyan preemptively covered his ears.

"Wait, he doesn't like that! Remember!" Keita pointed out, Tomnyan halted just before touching one of the strings.

"… Oh yeah! Meow!" he put the guitar away, Jibanyan let out a relieved sigh.

"Hmm… Tomnyan, are there more yo-kai here?" Jerry questioned, before he started shining the light around the room, it landed on Whisper and revealed him.

"… Um, hello? Whiss," Whisper waved, Jerry stared at him for a moment, before going back to searching, as if he hadn't seen him, "Well… that was rude, whiss."

"Kind of," Keita agreed, Jerry continued to shine the light around the room, until it landed on Jibanyan.

"Nya?"

"Wow! I found a Japanese yo-kai!" Jerry let out a cheer.

"And what exactly am I then?" Whisper muttered, Jerry approached Jibanyan and grabbed hold of one of his front paws.

"Hello! We're friends now!" he rapidly shook the paw up and down, making Jibanyan a bit dizzy.

"Wait, hold on! We just met!" the red nekomata protested as he was shaken up and down, until Jerry stopped shaking his paw and held out his hand expectantly, "… Nya?" Jerry looked confused at the questioningly look Jibanyan was giving him.

"Your medal?"

"… Huh!? I'm nyot giving you my medal!" the cat yo-kai jumped back and hissed, "I only give my medal to my friends! I don't even knyow you!"

"Come on, where's the medal at?" Jerry approached eagerly, holding his hand out, Jibanyan hissed more but Jerry paid that no heed and reached forward, digging his hand into Jibanyan's pouch.

"Come on, medal? Please? Please!?"

"What!? NYO GET OUT OF THERE!"

"Come on, Jibanyan, my friend! Medal, medal!"

"No!" Keita suddenly rushed over and slapped Jerry's hand away before picking Jibanyan up in a protective embrace, "No grabbing the kitty!" Jerry held his hand, a disappointed look on his face.

"But… medal."

"No! My kitty!" Keita growled; stroking Jibanyan's head, the nekomata let out a happy purr.

"I would steer away from bothering the cat, as well as the bat, if I were you, whiss" Whisper suggested wisely, Jerry looked at him curiously.

"Bat…?" before anymore could be said, Keita moved over to Whisper and grabbed him.

"We can't let this guy meet Hiki-chan, not yet anyway, he'll freak her out," Keita hissed quietly, after a moment of thought, both Whisper and Jibanyan had to agree with their Anchor's assessment.

"Hmm, but I want to get a Japanese yo-kai medal," Jerry stated in disappointment, Jibanyan hissed at him again.

"Well you're nyot getting mine anytime soon!"

"Hmm… hey Keita, please show me around town! I want to make friends with lots of Japanese yo-kai! Okay?" Jerry moved over to Anchor hopefully, Keita sighed.

"Sure… but I won't hesitate to stop you if you start doing anything like you were to Jibanyan…"

"Hmm… what do you mean?" Jerry looked confused, Keita sweatdropped, sharing a dull look with his yo-kai companions, before looking towards Tomnyan.

"… He can't be serious, can he?"

"Meow?" Tomnyan tilted his head, Keita let out another sigh.

"This guy better not turn out to be like Billy…"

"Come now, Keita-kun, I'm sure he's not that bad, whissu."

"Let's hope so, nya…"

9.28

"… You think I should start a club for Looping otakus?"

"Dani?" USApyon looked over from the couch towards the other Looper; Hailey was sitting at the front desk of the detective agency, a thoughtful expression on her face, "What are you talking about now? Dani."

"You've got that 'Council of Looping Pets' you're part of, right? I was just thinking of what kind of group I'd like to be part of," Hailey did a bit of stretch, USApyon gave her a deadpan expression.

"Considering you're not likely to find many Loopers that would proudly self-identify as an 'otaku,' I think you'd be better off focusing on a different aspect… dani."

"Okay, Order of Looping Magical Girls!" the purple-haired girl stood up to do a pose.

"You're not a magical girl, dani…" Hailey fell over at the yo-kai's blunt words.

"WHY MUST YOU REMIND ME!? WHY MUST THE TREE TORMENT ME!" the Looping girl cried out, USApyon groaned.

"… I literally have no idea what you two are talking about," Whapir commented with a duster held in her trunk.

"Dani!?" USApyon jumped a bit, looking at the white baku in surprise, "… How long have you been there? Dani…"

"The entire time…" the three sat in silence for a moment, Hailey still sulking, when the sounds of panic hit their ears.

"What's going on out there," Hailey stood up, her previous sour mood completely forgotten, she moved over to the door and opened it.

"Run! The androids are coming! Run for it everyone!" a man in a police uniform shouted as he motioned for people to run through the streets, "Get yourself and your families to safety! Woman and chil–AH!" he was suddenly struck with a beam of light, the people that were near let out screams of horror.

"No!" a man reached towards the glowing officer, but a woman grabbed him by the arm.

"It's too late for him! We need to move!" the people kept panicking and moving forward, the the glow around the officer subsided and in his place was now an android, resembling the yo-kai Android Yamada.

"What the…?" Hailey muttered slowly, USApyon and Whapir peeked out curiosly. The sounds of panic died down as the last of the citizens funneled out of the street, followed by the sounds of mechanical parts moving, slowly.

Android Yamada came into view, walking slowly towards the newly transformed android, once the officer-turned-android spotted him, Android Yamada raised an arm in a stiff wave, the new android returned this gesture, but when Yamada started to move towards him, the other android turned and began running off as quickly as his stiff, mechanical legs could take him.

Android Yamada stood in silence, his unchanging expression somehow letting off a mood of depression, before continuing on his way.

"… Well that's probably something we should be concerned about, dani," USApyon stated, Hailey looked to be thinking.

"… Oh!" her eyes brightened, "Order of Looping Sci-fi Fanatics! I bet there's a lot of people that would be interested in that!" USApyon and Whapir stared at her.

"… Did you even pay attention to what just happened? Dani."

"The apocalypse is here, not in the form of zombies, but machines! Somehow this rogue robot has the ability to turn humans, dogs, mailboxes, truly anything into an android like itself!" the news reporter spoke gravely, an image of Android Yamada displayed in a menacing manner behind her, along with other images that flashed by showing various people, animals and objects, transformed by Android Yamada, "Turning to sports…"

Nate pressed the power button on the remote, shutting the TV off before letting out a long sigh.

"So… you going to do anything about this?" Whisper asked as he floated over to the Anchor's side, Nate let out an even longer sigh that slowly turned into a groan.

9.29

[Yo-kai Watch/Doki Doki Literature Club]

"Is something wrong Keita-kun? Whissu," the UnAwake Whisper asked as he followed his master/friend to school, the young boy not looking very enthusiastic.

"Well…" Keita, having only just Woken up, skimmed through his memories, "Whisper, have you noticed Fumika and her friends have been acting… odd lately?"

"What do you mean by odd? Whiss," the ghost questioned with a confused look, Keita sighed.

"Well, not that I'm complaining, but Fumi-chan's been wanting me to spend a lot more time with her the past week, without Kanchi and Kuma that is. On top of that Mika's been trying to get me to play sports with her, and Satoko keeps trying to invite me to go out with her… and the three of them keep getting all passive-aggressive about it towards each other…" Keita muttered the last part uncomfortably, Whisper hummed in thought, before nodding.

"I see. Well, I assure you it's nothing to be concerned about, Keita-kun," Whisper smiled with his arms crossed, "Those three girls are simply at the age where they have started to notice boys, you're a fairly frequent appearance in each of their lives so you're the lucky fella they've decided to focus that attention on for the time being, whissu."

"I am not feeling lucky, if that's the excuse," Keita grunted in annoyance, "If that is the case, why me alone? Why not Kanchi or Kuma? Heck, why not Mao?"

"I wouldn't try thinking too hard about it if I were you, whissu," Whisper stated in a wise tone, "The crushes of young girls can happen for no decipherable rhyme or reason, Keita-kun, not to worry, it's simply a faze. Soon those girls will realize there's nothing really special about you and turn their focus to other potential romantic partners," the yo-kai butler assured smugly, Keita glared at him.

"Oh, is that so…?" the boy's eyes flashed blue, Whisper wasn't sure why, but he suddenly felt a shiver travel down his nonexistent spine, Keita's eyes narrowed… before he gained a cheerful smile and nodded, "Ah yes, you're probably right. There's nothing special about me whatsoever, soon they will be back to normal and I can go back to catching bugs with Fumika, Kanchi and Kuma and not worry about girls, thanks Whisper," as the young watch-holder continued on his way to school, the ghostly butler remained in his spot with a look of confusion and terror on his face.

"What… was that feeling just now? Whissu…"

Keita stepped into his classroom just before class would begin, he looked his classmates as he walked towards his seat.

"Everything seems relatively normal…" the Anchor muttered to himself, Whisper gave him a quizzical look as he followed behind.

"Keita-kun!" Fumika stood up from her seat with a big smile as she approached the boy, "Good to see you!"

"Yeah, hi Fumi-chan…" Keita nodded to his crush, giving her a suspicious look, Fumika didn't seem to notice as she kept her cheerful demeanor.

"So, how's your day been so far? Anything cool happen on the way to school… oh! How about you sit next to me in class today?" the UnAwake girl offered, Keita gave her a questioning look.

"But… that's not where I sit, and neither of the seats next to you are free…" the boy pointed out bluntly.

"Fumi-chan wants you to sit next to her and you're questioning it? Who are you and what have you done with Keita-kun!?" Whisper exclaimed out of shock, Keita chose to ignore him.

"Hold it!" Satoko's voice suddenly interjected, she came from behind Fumika with an angry look on her face, but it was quickly replaced with a friendly smile when her eyes met Keita's, "Hey Keita-kun, you always spend so much time paying attention to Fumika, but never me, why don't you sit by me instead?" Fumika glared at her dark-haired friend as Keita let out a sigh at this situation.

"That's because we aren't really close, Hayashi-chan, why are you suddenly so interested in spending time with me?" as he spoke, Keita subtly used his yo-kai watch to scan the room, but he couldn't seem to find any sign of a yo-kai, the same as when his UnAwake-self checked, according to his memories, his eyes narrowed.

"Yeah, you guys barely have anything in common anyway, so maybe you should just stop bugging Keita-kun," Mika spoke up as she walked over to both Fumika and Satoko, both giving her annoyed glares, "But she is right about Fumika taking up all your time, how about we play soccer after class? Just you and me?" the tanned girl gave a smirk.

"I don't think you can play soccer with just two people," the Anchor countered with a groan, before any arguments could be made, the bell rang, signelling that class would be beginning shortly, "Look, we can talk more later, but I should really take my seat," Keita moved towards his seat, a little creeped out that he could almost claim to feel the three girls' eyes following him as he moved to his chair.

"Well… you handled that a lot better than yesterday, I'll admit I expected you to get all flustered again, whiss," Whisper said as he hovered by the boy's seat, Keita just nodded with a thoughtful expression.

"I can't find a yo-kai inspiriting them, but this is not normal behavior… hoping this isn't just another 'Harem Loop…'" Keita muttered a bit to himself, he glanced around the classroom and nearly reeled back when he saw the three girls staring at him intensely from each of their seats, he quickly looked away and shook his head, 'I don't want to imagine such a creepy look coming from Fumi-chan, even an UnAwake one, without some external cause…'

"Dude, what did you do? Those three are all over you lately," Kanchi questioned from his seat, Keita sighed as he wiped the sweat from his brow.

"I have no idea, Kanchi, I just have no idea…"

Keita snuck through the halls of the school with narrowed eyes, it was now lunch time, and he'd luckily managed to escape from Fumika, Satoko and Mika's attempts to get him to sit with each of them, away from the other two, and snuck out of the cafeteria without anyone noticing.

"Keita, what exactly are you doing? Whissu," Whisper questioned as he floated up behind the Looper.

"I have reason to believe that Fumi-chan and her friends are being inspirited, so I'm looking for a yo-kai…" Keita answered simply, shining the watch's light around as he moved through the halls. Whisper shook his head disapprovingly.

"Keita, Keita, Keita, there you go again with that nasty habit of yours for blaming yo-kai for everything, strange, sudden interest in you aside, we already checked and there was no yo-kai around them, whiss," the yo-kai butler chastised, Keita barely acknowledged his words as he approached the computer lab.

"Don't you remember when Gurerurin was inspiriting Kanchi? The affects didn't stop, even when they were separated, so couldn't the same logic apply to what's going on with Fumi-chan, Satoko and Mika?" Keita looked suspiciously at the computer lab's door, 'Computer lab… has this room always been here?'

"That was one person, Keita-kun. For a yo-kai to be able to keep inspiriting three separate people while being apart from all of them it would need to be a very powerful yo-kai, plus I've never heard of a yo-kai that makes girls obsess over a boy! Whissu."

"Yakimochi, Motemoten, Motemacool…" the Anchor muttered under his breath as he opened the door, he stepped into the room and started shining the light around.

"I'm telling you, there is no yo-kai. And, even on the highly improbable chance that I'm wrong, such a yo-kai would not be found in a compu– "

"Found it!"

"WHAT!? WHISSU!" Whisper's eyes nearly bulged out of his head as Keita's yo-kai watch revealed a yo-kai hovering over one of the computers; resembling a highschool girl, with pale skin, glowing green eyes, and pink hair with a ponytail that split off into three tentacles, the tips of which were each glowing.

"Oh my, it seems I've been found…" the yo-kai spoke, sounding a little emberrased, Whisper started looking through his yo-kai pad, Keita noticed a Ping and sent out his own, noting that the yo-kai did react.

"So, are you the one inspiriting my friends?" the Anchor asked carefully, the visiting Looper tapped her fingers together nervously.

"Well, see the thing about that is– "

"Found it! That's Monika!" Whisper suddenly exclaimed, pointing towards the girl, "She can use her influence to cause a group of girls that are normally the best of friends to become obsessed with the same boy and fight each other over him, destroying their friendships in the process! Whissu!" Whisper shouted accusingly, Keita noticed as Monika looked down in shame, "She's the yo-kai that makes you go; 'Eh, why are all those girls fighting? They've always been such good friends, but suddenly all they care about is that new guy,' whissu."

"Great…" Keita stated sarcastically, before looking towards Monika, "So, I take it from your body-language that you're not exactly proud of that description."

"You could… say that," Monika nodded, giving a sigh as she looked back at him.

"I see, so you can't really stop yourself from inspiriting people," Keita concluded after getting an explanation from Monika, the visiting Looper nodded.

"Yes, I don't mean to make friends fight, but when I'm around it just sort of happens…" she let out a depressed sigh, gripping the tentacles that sprouted from her hair, "All three lights are still active, that means the girls are still in the 'running' to win your heart, once only one is left and a girl has 'won,' the inspiritment should wear off… but it's often at the cost of the girls' friendships…"

"I see, that's troublesome," the Anchor muttered thoughtfully, Whisper nodded in agreement, "So you don't know how to stop the inspiritment without one of them 'winning?'"

"But by that point their friendship will likely be ruined beyond fixing! Whissu!" the yo-kai butler exclaimed dramatically, Keita sighed.

"Yeah… plus I'm not ready to date," at this comment, Whisper gave the Anchor a strange look.

"Not ready to date? But what of all your pining after Fumi-chan!? Whissu!"

"That's a topic for another day, Whisper…" Keita grumbled as he averted his eyes, "The fact of the matter is, we need to find a way to snap those three out of this…" the Anchor looked to be in thought for a few more seconds, before he seemed to get an idea, "Whisper…"

"Um, yes Keita-kun? Whissu…"

"Do you think you can go to the yo-kai world and see if you could find anything that could help with the situation, anything at all that you think might help," the human boy pleaded, the yo-kai butler stared at him with a look of slight shock, before shaking his body and giving a salute.

"Why of course Keita-kun! Your faithful yo-kai butler will not let you down! Whissu!" Whisper gave an enthusiastic shout, before flying out of the room, Keita waved while Monika stared with an unsure expression, before the Anchor nodded.

"Now that he's gone…" he turned his attention back to the visitor, "Let's have another talk, Looper-to-Looper…"

"… Yes, let's," the visiting Looper nodded back to him, giving a small smile.

"I can tell you're not comfortable with what your inspiritment is doing to my friends, so I'm sure you really don't know of a way to undo it in a simple manner…"

"Yeah, it… hits a little close to home," Monika admitted with a frown, "Though I fudged the truth a little on how I ended up inspiriting them; my UnAwake-self actually did it on purpose, gleefully in fact. I Woke up soon after, but it seems while my current form can easily inspirit a group of girls, unispiriting them is not so simple."

"Waking up soon after your UnAwake-self does something stupid, and you don't know how to fix it?" Keita muttered with a nod, "That sucks…"

"Yeah, it does," Monika brushed a bit of her hair to the side with a small grumble, "I am sorry about your friends, I just don't know how I could fix it…" Keita smiled.

"Don't worry about it, I can nullify that inspiritment no problem," at the cheerful assurance from the local Anchor, Monika gave him a blank expression.

"… Wait, you can just fix this? Than why haven't you yet!?"

"Well, Whisper's not Awake, and I didn't want to try to explain to him why I can just nullify a yo-kai's inspiritment," Keita explained with a shrug, "Plus, I wasn't sure if they were being inspirited, since I couldn't find anything. But now that I've found you, and Whisper's out of the room, I can just cancel your powers and give Whisper some other excuse when he gets back…"

"Well, fine, why not," Monika shrugged back to the other Anchor, before letting out an annoyed sigh, "Sheesh, I really thought I screwed something up here for a second…"

"No, but your concern is appreciated," Keita smiled as his body was surrounded by a blue aura, Monika felt her yo-kai abilities being suppressed as the boy held out his hand towards her, "There, Fumika, Satoko and Mika should be back to normal by the time we get back to class…"

"That's good to hear," Monika sighed as she hovered around the room, glancing at some of the computers with an unreadable expression, Keita kept his eyes on her as she moved around.

"So… you want to talk about anything else…? Oh right!" the boy took a quick look in his pocket, before pulling out a yo-kai watch, Monika looked at him strangely, "Standard procedure, every first-timer to our Loop gets a yo-kai watch!" the human grinned as the visiting Anchor took the watch and looked it over curiously.

"Oh, well thank you, not sure how useful this will be back home though," she smiled sheepishly, Keita chuckled.

"I know, but it's still nice to have, especially if you ever end up back here as a human, it also tends to work in most other Branches with invisible spirits or creatures of sorts…" Keita reached into his pocket again and handed Monika a medal depicting Fuu2.

"Huh, a yo-kai medal?" the humanoid yo-kai took the medal, her in-Loop memories informing her on what the object was.

"That's my yo-kai form; Fuu2. We're friends now, so it makes sense to give you that," Keita nodded.

"Isn't it a little soon to start calling me your friend?" Monika questioned skeptically, Keita looked at her with a tild of his head.

"Huh… is it? I didn't think so, you seem nice, you didn't cause any trouble on purpose, I don't see why we shouldn't be friends," Keita muttered thoughtfully, "Though… if you don't want to be I suppose I shouldn't try and force the idea…"

"No, it's fine," Monika quickly assured the child, waving her hands a bit after pocketing the watch and medal, "It was just a little surprising is all, that you'd want us to be friends so soon after meeting…"

"I suppose I can be a bit too quick to call someone my friend, that's just how it usually is with yo-kai I meet," Keita admitted with a shrug, Monika let out a small laugh, before handing the boy a medal depicting her current form.

"Well, if you're going to give me your medal, I might as well give you mine as well… even if I'm not usually like this."

"Thanks, Monika, I'll be sure to keep it safe with the medals of other Loopers I've met in yo-kai form," Keita smiled graciously as he took hold of the medal, before quickly storing it away, "So, do you mind if I ask what your home Loop is like?"

"No, I don't, though there really isn't much to say," the visiting Looper admitted unsurely, "My three friends and I live in a computer game, kind of… Well, it's technically four friends but… the fourth is…" Monika seemed to be struggling to find the proper words for what she was trying to say, "We thought he wasn't really anything, just a… puppet? Something with no mind of his own, but… lately… I don't know. I feel like things aren't so certain," Monika let out a defeated groan, "Sorry, I don't mean to start bringing this up with you, but it's… a difficult topic for my friends and I back home…"

"It's fine, you don't need to talk about it if you don't want to, but I'll listen if you want," Keita assured, Monika nodded, though it didn't look like she was planning to continue, "… So, you live in a computer game? What's that like?" Monika didn't have to think long on that.

"Well, to be honest it was pretty boring at first. Until I learned a bit more about coding, now I can do some interesting things back home," the visitor grinned, "Of course, programming some basic things like being able to eat I find necessary almost every Loop."

"You don't have that by default?"

"You'd be surprised what we don't have by default. But once I get the basic stuff out of the way, there are some other directions that I can go…"

"I can't believe Monika was able to just 'figure out' how to turn off her inspiritment! And I looked all over for this 'harem-repellent, whissu!" Whisper lamented with a small shopping bag in hand, Keita sweatdropped, though he smiled at his incorporeal butler.

"Well, I thank you for the effort anyway, it was all kind of unexpected…" the Anchor assured as they stepped into the classroom, when he noticed Fumika talking with her friends in what appeared to be a friendly manner, his smile grew.

"Oh, Keita-kun," Fumika greeted as she took notice of him, Satoko and Mika smiled when they saw him, "Sorry about all that nonsense earlier, we don't know what came over us."

"No problem Fumi-chan, I'm just glad to see you back to normal," the Looping boy assured, Fumika Satoko and Mika all giggled a bit with slightly red tinted faces, "Huh…?" the Anchor took notice of this with a bit of suspicion.

"Yeah, it was so silly. After all, why fight over you…" Mika smirk as the three moved closer to the boy, Keita took a step back.

"When we can all spend time with you!" Satoko grinned.

"Though we haven't decided on a schedule yet, but we think on the weekend we should all spend time together, but for today maybe you should decide which you should spend time with," Fumika suggested, sharing a cheerful grin with her two friends, Keita's eye twitched.

"… I knew it! It was a Harem Loop in disguise all along!" the Anchor suddenly shouted, rushing out of the classroom, much to the shock of his teacher and classmates.

"Amano-kun, you can't just– "the teacher started, but was interrupted by the three girls that rushed out the door after him.

"Keita-kun, where are you going!?" Fumika called out.

"You haven't even decided which of us you'll spend time with today yet!" Satoko added as she and Mika followed closely behind Fumika.

"Wait Keita-kun! The repellent! The repellent! Whissu!" Whisper shouted as quickly flew out of the room to catch up to the Anchor, the class was left in silence as the teacher tried to figure out what to do now. But out of the class, none were more confused than Kanchi and Kuma.

"… Hey, Kanchi," Kuma started, turning to his smaller friend.

"Yeah, Kuma?" the other boy responded blankly.

"What. Did. Keita. Do…?"

"I don't have any good answer for that Kuma, but I would very much like to know… for science," Kanchi stated firmly, Kuma looked like he didn't know how to respond to that, so they just sat in silence.

9.30 Black Omochao & Mighty TAB X

"So… this is odd," Nate commented at the sight of numerous emus, invisibly walking around the town.

"Meh, ghost emus don't seem that weird for our Baseline," Katie smiled at his side.

"But why are there so many? Was the town built over some mass emu graveyard or something?" the Anchor asked skeptically.

"Hard to say, but I don't think it's worth worrying about," the female Looper shrugged, Whisper, Jibanyan and Kyubi all nodded, though Jibanyan gave a hiss when one of the emus tried to bite his tails.

"If you say so, but I still question why there are so many," Nate grunted, picking Jibanyan up and holding him away from the spectral emus that were taking an interest in him.

"Nya…" Jibanyan groaned.

"… Dude, what are you guys talking about?" Bear asked as he and Eddie looked towards their friends with confusion.

"You keep looking out into the crowds, but there's nothing of interest I can see," Eddie pointed out with a bit of frustration, Nate and Katie looked at the two, before turning to each other again and chuckling, their friends kept staring at them with confusion.

"Hey, no biting the tails!" Kyubi snapped at one of the ghost emus that tried to bite at one of his tails.

"I am not food in any way, shape or form!" Whisper shouted as he floated out of reach.

"It must be ... a YO-KAI!" Katie exclaimed.

"Katie, Nate and I have been Looping for much longer than you. It may just be a glitch, not even a worry– "Whisper explained before he was interrupted.

"Found it," Nate said simply. The yo-kai in question was an emu with a cowboy design.

"... I was just testing you," Whisper responded to Katie's stare.

9.31 Darkflare75

[Red vs Blue/Yo-kai Watch/RWBY]

Griff glared at the Red vs Blue loopers with a seriousness that their branch of Yggdrasil very rarely experienced from a member of Blood Gulch, "Nobody under any circumstance is going to mention anything about our latest Expansion to my Looping family until I talk to them first. Is That Clear?" he finished darkly promising pain and misery to anyone who disobeyed, getting general sentiments of agreement from everyone Griff walked away.

Simmons followed after him a few minutes later. He found Grif sitting on the cliff in the middle of their boxed canyon. He carefully approached his friend. "Sooo" Simons softly drew out, "Do you have any idea what you're going to tell them?"

Grif looked over his shoulder and seeing that it was only Simmons let out a depressed sigh,"Not a fucking clue. I just attempted suicide in Baseline Simmons, over pizza! What am I supposed to say about that?"

"I don't know." Simons answered helplessly, "We all love the RWBY Loopers and they have gone through so much as is, at least you didn't succeed. I really don't know what we would tell them then."

Grif snorted, "Ya, I really need to thank Doc for saving me. Even though I doubt I will in Baseline."

"Well, we aren't our Baseline selves, we can try and be better," Simmons said, glad that Grif was at least lightening up a little bit.

"You're right," Grif said standing up, "I think I will go thank Doc now. Then, I'm going to spend the next couple Loops thinking about how I'm going to tell Ruby and the rest of the family."

Several dozen loops later.

Grif looked at his assembled siblings in team RWBYs dorm room. Nate, Ruby, Yang, and Cinder were all sitting around the room in various states of boredom. He realized that this was probably going to be the largest gathering of their family until the wedding Loop.

He really didn't want to have this conversation during that Loop, which meant that he had two options: Do it now or wait until after the wedding. With much reluctance, he cleared his throat to get his siblings attention, "Hey, guys, we need to talk," he said solemnly.

The rest of his siblings shot concerned glances at each other. They weren't sure what was going on, Grif wasn't the type to call a family meeting without reason so they knew that whatever was going on was serious.

Seeing the concern on his siblings' faces before he had told them what had happened made Grif hesitate but knowing that they would find out sooner or later gave him the strength to push on. He would rather have them learn about this from him than someone else, "You're all aware that we have been getting Expansions?" He asked.

"You're not dead, are you?" Ruby asked nervously. There were a lot of Red vs Blue loopers who had died in Baseline, so Grif's death was a possibility.

"No," Grif said, shaking his head, "My Baseline-self attempted suicide."

The relief they felt at finding out that Grif wasn't dead was quickly replaced with alarm at finding out their brother was currently suicidal. Cinder was the quickest to ask a follow-up question. "What happened?"

"Doc and Me time-traveled into a world where pizza never existed."

Yang, Cinder, Nate and, Ruby all winced. They knew what pizza meant to an UnAwake Grif, having seen him eat at least 50 times his own body weight of it in one go.

"When I realized that Pizza didn't exist, my Baseline-self grabbed a grenade and pulled the pin. Fortunately, Doc got the grenade away from me, tackled me to the ground and protecting me with his own body."

"Is Doc ok?"Asked Nate.

"Yeah, we both walked away from it. The big thing about this talk is that I wanted you guys to hear about this from me and to tell you that everything is fine. Doc and me went back in time and are trying to recreate pizza for the future," his siblings appeared unconvinced by his claim that everything was fine, "Ok, so Doc might have made an abomination out of pizza but that's between me and him," he said nervously.

They still seemed to not trust him. Grif sighed "You know what, let's just watch the new episodes. They will do a better job of explaining than I can."

Two episodes of Red vs Blue latter Grif slowly looked over at his siblings all of them were glaring at him for not mentioning the fact that Doc had abandoned him in the sixth century. He chuckled nervously. "Would you believe that I'd been so busy worrying about how you were going to take my attempted suicide and my anger with Doc about the pizza he made that I completely forgot that he left me there?"

Ruby, Yang, Cinder, and Nate all let out exasperated sighs before looking at each other. They enveloped Grif in a group hug as one. Since Ruby was the fastest of the group had gotten to Grif first she ended up squeezed up against his chest. She smiled at her big brother.

"Don't ever change Grif."

9.32

"We got some more days again this Loop, do you suppose something is going to happen?" Keita muttered, flopping onto his bed and looking towards the ceiling, Whisper floated around the room; absentmindedly dusting, Jibanyan slept at the foot of the bed, Hanahojin stood in the corner of the room, picking his nose.

"Eh, just more days for us to live our lives, I doubt anything big is going to happen so soon after last Expansion's additions of new neighbors and a new yo-kai watch, whiss," Whisper stated with confidence.

"I suppose, but I can't help but… hmm…?" Keita paused, his eyes widening a little

"Hmm, Keita-kun? Whiss," the yo-kai butler looked over at the Anchor curiously.

"Dad? Everything okay?" Hanahojin asked in concern.

"Did… either of you just feel that?" the human boy looked towards the yo-kai, his eyes still wide, "That… huge burst of spiritual power…?"

"What…? Keita-kun, we haven't exactly honed our senses as much as you apparently have over the Loops, whiss," Whisper explained with a shrug, "But I will admit, now that you've pointed it out I do feel… something, what exactly do you make of it? Whiss," Whisper shivered a bit as he put his focus on the strange burst of power.

"I'm… not sure, but…" Keita got up from the bed, causing Jibanyan to stir a bit, opening one eye, Keita moved over to his window and looked up at the sky, staring at it intently, "Something's out there guys, something big…"

"Is that good or bad?" Hanahojin questioned carefully, Keita stepped over to him and put a comforting hand on his son's head.

"I can't say for sure, but whatever it is, I doubt it's something we can't handle…"

"Nyawn, so, I only caught like, half of that, but are you sure you didn't just imagine it… or maybe it's a visiting Looper? Nya?" Jibanyan questioned, padding over to Keita and rubbing his head against the Anchor's pant leg affectionately.

"Maybe I did Jibanyan, but this is uncharted territory for us, Baseline has expanded, and we have no idea what could happen…" Keita let out a sigh, the cat yo-kai narrowed his eyes as he looked in the direction of the window, they widened a bit as he picked up a bit of the spiritual energy, but quickly shook it off, forcing a confident grin.

"We handled Tomnyan and Jerry just fine, whatever else could happen, I'm sure it will all work out, nya," the small nekomata let out a purr as rubbed up against the Anchor again, Keita smiled and stroked his fur.

"You're right, Akamaru, we can handle whatever comes our way, I suppose I just can't help being wary; our Expansions have been very inconsequential for such a long time, and now suddenly we've been getting bigger Expansions, with a new tribe of yo-kai, than new neighbors and the Yo-kai Watch Dream, I can't help but feel it's all building up to something…"

"Maybe the multiverse is telling you to finally buckle down and ask Fumika to be your girlfriend? Whissu," Whisper floated over with a playful smirk, Keita froze up at this, his face going red.

"… Dad? Will it be okay for me to call Fumi-chan 'mom' soon?" Hanahojin questioned.

"He already does it behind both of your backs, nya," Jibanyan climbed up the flustered boy's shoulder and whispered to him.

"What, gah!? Why would you… this is not the time for that!" the Anchor protested, a wave of yo-kai energy knocking back Whisper and Jibanyan.

"No… need to get all huffy, Keita-kun, it was all in good fun, whissu," the Nyororon yo-kai butler muttered dizzily.

"Why didn't Hanahojin get knyocked away? Nya…" Jibanyan groaned, pointing towards the nose-picking yo-kai still by the Anchor's side, Keita crossed his arms with a stern look on his face.

"Because, one. He's my son. And two. He asked a legitimate question, you two were just teasing me!"

"Okay, so maybe not the time for teasing, whiss," Whisper admitted, floating back up and glancing at the window, a look of worry flashed across his face, "Do you really think something's going on Keita-kun? That something big is out there? Whiss…"

"I can't say for sure Whisper, but I do know one thing; my soul is not at ease, not at all…" the human boy stated, clutching his chest with a slightly pained expression, Hikikōmori watched from the closet, a concerned look in her eyes.

"Fumika, you noticed that, didn't you?" Kyubi floated by his human partner's window, his tails and ears sticking up as he stared at the sky, eyes narrowed, Fumika walked over and opened the window.

"Kind of… something ominous, right?" she clutched her chest, eyes flashing pink.

"I can't say for sure, something worth reporting to our Anchor at least, though he probably already noticed…" the nine-tailed fox kept his eyes focused on the sky as he spoke, Fumika looked at him in surprise.

"What? You actually think something is worth reporting to Keita-kun? This must be serious…"

"I don't know what it is, but I'm on edge, and that's not exactly easy to do to a Looping, S-rank yo-kai."

"Unless you're Cinder," the human girl pointed out, Kyubi twitched.

"… Can we not mention Cinder, especially with the possibility of this latest Expansion bringing some kind of disaster?"

"Er… sorry, still… I get what you mean, something about this sudden burst of energy is… unsettling," Fumika admitted, staring up at the sky just as intently as her companion.

"Dani…" USApyon let out an unsure noise as he stood in the InaUSA detective angency, Inaho looked over at him blankly.

"USApyon? Something up?"

"Don't know, just had this… strange feeling, dani…"

Komasan, Komajiro and Jinmenken were having a picnic together, in celebration of the success of their band; Mr. Inudren, this Loop, however as they were about to eat, they all froze and stared at the sky.

"… So, I'm not the only one who just had all the fur on their back stand up straight, right?" Jinmenken questioned worriedly, the two komainu remained silent, both shivering slightly as they kept staring at the sky.

Ningyo came to the surface of the water, looking around curiously.

"What… was that feeling?"

Guts K stood on the roof of his home, making sure to keep watch of his wife as she sat on the front deck of their home, when he suddenly froze up and turned to look at the sky, in the direction of New Sakura Town.

"… That can't mean anything good."

"I'm not sure what that power was, but we should probably call the others and make sure nothing huge happens and catches us off guard," Keita concluded as he paced around the room.

"Now, Keita-kun, aren't you getting a little too worked up over a little burst of spiritual energy? Whissu," Whisper questioned, though he seemed a bit unsure of his own words.

"Yeah, it's too early for this… nya," Jibanyan yawned, Hanahojin turned towards him.

"… Jibanyan, it's mid-day…"

"… Nya?" Jibanyan blinked, before looking over at the clock, he let out a gasp and his eyes widened, "OH NYO! I'M LATE FOR THE NYAKB CONCERT!" Keita and Whisper gave the panicking nekomata deadpan expressions.

"Are you serious?" the Anchor questioned crossly, Jibanyan simply rushed out the door without responding, Keita sighed, "Well… nice to see Jibanyan has his priorities straight…"

"Give him a little credit, it's been a while since a 'new' NyaKB event came around for him to enjoy, whiss," the yo-kai butler pointed out, Keita let out another sigh and nodded.

"Yeah, I get that… still, I feel like something's going to happen, and we shouldn't ignore it…"

"Well if something is going to happen, we'll know it when it happens, right?" Hanahojin tilted his head a bit.

"Exactly! No use worrying about a future we have no idea about before it happens, whissu!" Whisper exclaimed, Hanahojin blinked and looked up at him.

"… That's not exactly what I said," as Hanahojin spoke, Keita stood to the side, looking out the window again, still looking worried and contemplative, his eyes widened as the power he sensed suddenly spiked, but before he could speak up about it, a loud shockwave seemed to emit from the sky, permeating throughout the city, the Anchor and his companions covered their ears at the sudden noise.

"Ah! Whisper, what is that!?"

"I don't know Keita-kun! But it's loud!" Whisper cried out.

"Too loud!" Hanahojin protested, reluctantly removing his fingers from his nose so he could block out the sound.

"NyaKB! NyaKB!" Jibanyan chanted after using a teleportation grenade (or as Jibanyan insisted on calling them; 'Master Grif's Future Cubes') to appear just outside the concert area; rushing in and finding Robonyan F-type and Bushinyan.

"You're late, nya" Bushinnyan commented in a calm manner.

"Very late, the concert is almost over. I assume you overslept," Robonyan F-type commented robotically, Jibanyan groaned.

"Yeah, yeah, I knyow! It can be hard to balance both laziness and NyaKB you knyow!" the red nekomata exclaimed, Bushinnyan gave his descendant an unimpressed look, though Robonyan F-type nodded in understanding, Jibanyan looked towards his mechanical counterpart, "Please tell me we're having a Mikasa glitch and I'll get your memories nyext Loop!"

"Affirmative!"

"Oh, thank Enma! Nya!" Jibanyan gave a sigh of relief, Bushinyan gave the two a strange look, but didn't question their words, however their conversation was cut short when a loud sound assaulted their ears. "Ah! What is that!? Nya!"

"Nyo idea! Nya!" Bushinyan cried out, Robonyan F-type turned off his ears. Strangely, none of the humans in the crowd seemed to notice the booming noise, nor did they notice as the world began to change around them.

"What is this… nya?" Jibanyan muttered as he recovered from the sudden noise, looking over his body and the world around him.

"What happened, nya!? Everything looks…" Bushinyan tried to find the right words.

"Photogenic?" Robonyan F-type suggested, Jibanyan sweatdropped.

"That's nyot the word I'd use… nya."

"… Liar," Robonyan F-type stated plainly, Jibanyan groaned.

"… Whisper, what happened?" Keita asked carefully as he looked around the room, noting how the style of the world around them had changed.

"Everything's so much more detailed… it's unsettling," Hanahojin stated, hiding behind Keita, his fingers already back in his nose.

"I don't know Keita-kun! But I'll now admit you were right about something maybe happening! Whissu!" Whisper exclaimed as he zoomed around the room frantically, he was looking through his yo-kai pad, "I can't find anything on this phenomenon! There's no information on something like this! Whissu!"

"This is too weird," Keita shook his head, walking over to a small mirror and looking at himself, "… My hair shrunk!" Whisper stared at him.

"That's what you take note of!? Whissu!"

"It's what stuck out to me most, but this is weird!" Keita sighed, "We've changed style to very… Hub-like?" he paused in that thought, "But… normally we don't notice things like 'style' don't we? Whenever I've Looped into another world, or had a Hub-Loop, I've never noticed a difference in my 'style,' unless it was like being chibi, or a lego-figure, but now I do? That doesn't make any sense!"

"I'd be less concerned about that, and more about whatever had the power to cause this massive shift in reality," Hikikōmori commented from the closet, Keita shook himself out of his current mental-state and nodded.

"Right, right, whatever caused this is significant, especially with that power we felt before, it had a large spike right before that noise, and that's probably what caused the world to change!" the Anchor concluded with a serious tone, "But… what do we do about it?"

"Well, as the Anchor it is your responsibility to insure the stability of our world… so we should make sure whatever caused this isn't a threat to that stability! Whiss!" the egg-shaped ghost exclaimed in a dramatic fashion, Keita seemed to take this thought into consideration.

"I mean… that makes sense, we've dealt with time-travel, so I wouldn't be surprised if this was another thing that could crash Loops if not handled correctly…"

"Keita!" a voice suddenly called from downstairs, along with the sound of footsteps coming up to his room.

"Mom?" Keita jumped a bit at the sudden voice.

"Grandma?" Hanahojin blinked, his father nodded.

"Will she notice the change of the world? How would she even react to that?" Keita muttered worriedly, "Why is she coming up anyway?"

"Keita" any further thoughts were halted when Keita's mother opened the door, seemingly unbothered by the changes that had taken place, the Anchor halted himself from showing any reaction of surprise.

"Yes, mom?"

"Your father is out of supplies; can you go buy some?"

"Um… sure, I can do that," Keita nodded.

"Thank you, be sure to get them before the end of the day," his mother smiled, Keita nodded again.

"Yeah, okay… um, mom?"

"Yes, Keita?" Keita looked unsure of how to ask the question he wished to.

"Do you notice anything… different?" the dark-haired woman gave her son an odd look.

"Different? What do you mean Keita-kun?"

"Well… about the world, about me?" Keita gestured to himself, his mother stared at him for a moment, before smiling.

"Oh! Well Keita, that's just part of growing up; as you yourself go through changes, it seems like the world does as well; it can seem scary yes, but it's all perfectly natural and nothing to worry about, but if you ever need to talk to anyone about it you can always ask your father or I," the woman assured with a motherly tone.

"… Right, that's what I meant," Keita nodded slowly, "But, um, don't worry; I don't need to talk about it… not now anyway, just, um, let me have my room for a few more minutes and I'll be sure to get on that errand!"

"Well, okay, just as long as you remember to get to it," Keita's mother shrugged, moving to exit the room, Keita nodded as he closed the door behind her.

"Yes, yes! I'll definitely do it!" after the door was closed he turned to Whisper and Hanahojin with a flustered sigh, "Well, that almost went in an awkward direction…"

"True, though we did find that your mom doesn't seem to notice the way the world has changed, whiss," Whisper stated as he hovered by his friend/master's side, "Or, if she did notice, she's really good at hiding it! Whissu."

"Yeah, I'm pretty sure she didn't notice… which raises more questions about what actually happened," Keita groaned, "Though… we do have an excuse to leave the house now, I've already got any supplies dad could need in my pocket, but we need to get out there and find the source of that energy, and most likely, that noise, to figure out what is going on!"

"Couldn't agree more Keita-kun! Let's get to the bottom of this! Whissu!" Whisper cheered, Hanahojin gave a noise of approval.

"Grah! What is this!? What was that!?" Kyubi shouted in a near panic as he hovered around Fumika's house, said girl watching him from the porch, occasionally fidgeting with her shirt or hair.

"I don't know, but it's really weird!" Fumika stretched a bit as she stood back up, looking as people passed her house, none of them looking any bit concerned, "The other people don't seem to have noticed, but is this a yo-kai thing, or a Looper thing?"

"I don't know, and I don't care, I just know I don't like it!" Kyubi howled as he hovered down to her level, giving a deep breath before seemingly calming down, though he still seemed a bit twitchy, "I think we should go find Keita…"

"Well, that's a given," the Looping girl shrugged, "Though… for some reason I don't think he's going to have any more information than we do on what has happened…"

"What, is that your soul-mate, true-love mental connection going on?" Kyubi questioned blankly, Fumika stared at him, getting a bit flustered.

"… Now is really not the time for comments like that!"

"If whatever this is destroys our Branch, you will regret not telling him when you had the chance!" Kyubi shouted urgently, the response he was given was a deadpan expression.

"… Destroys our Branch? Seriously? Don't you think you're jumping to extreme conclusions there?"

"You're right, but I'm still in mid-panic!"

"Calm down!"

"Alright! Alright…" the fox yo-kai took a few deeper breaths, calming down, for real this time, "… Still, you really should tell him…"

"Can we deal with the immediate issue at hand, please!?" the red-faced girl snapped.

"Fumi-chan! You better get back in here and get ready if you don't want to be late for cram school!" the Looping duo heard Fumika's mother call from in the house, both of them blinked and looked at each other.

"… Fumika, since when do you go to cram school?" the fox spirit questioned.

"I don't, last I checked at least…" Fumika muttered with a look of pure confusion on her face.

"You know, I always thought my dad was the kind of businessman who would golf with his associates, but he never really talked about it before," Keita commented after leaving their house, having seen how his dad had not only changed in appearance, but demeanor to an extent, "I'm really not sure what to make of this…"

"Yes, this is very curious, whissu," Whisper muttered, Hanahojin was looking around at the changed world with a look of unease in his eyes.

"This is all very weird…" he stepped closer to Keita, the Anchor placed a hand on his head as a comforting gesture.

"I know, everything looks different, but it's also the same," Keita commented as they walked through town, noting that none of the people walking around seemed the least bit concerned, "Nobody seems to have noticed the change, just like my parents…"

"Yeah, they're just walking around like everything's normal," Hanahojin seemed even more unnerved by this fact, "Is it just us?"

"Somehow, I doubt that," Keita crossed his arms thoughtfully.

"Keita-nya!" the Anchor was suddenly pounced on by his best, nekomata friend, shortly followed by his future-self.

"Er… Jibanyan? Did you get heavier?" the the boy grunted from under the weight of the two cat spirits.

"A little, I think, but that's nyot what's distressing you, nya…" Jibanyan gave the upgraded Robonyan a look.

"My bad," Robonyan F-type bowed, hovering off the human boy, allowing him to get back up, taking hold of Jibanyan and placing him on the ground, he glanced at Robonyan F-type curiously.

"Robonyan… so, have you noticed…?"

"The change to the world? Yes? Or do you mean the Loops? In which case; also yes!"

"Um… thanks for that clarification, so this time is it because you remember being Jibanyan, or–"

"Mikasa glitch," Jibanyana and Robonyan F-type answered together, the Anchor nodded in understanding.

"I will stay in Robonyan F-type form to avoid any confusion," the mechanical nekomata assured, Jibanyan nodded in approval, "Also; the reason I won't know what's going to happen is because, this Loop, Robonyan chooses to lock his memories of events during his time as Jibanyan when he travels back in time, to avoid the chance of paradoxes!"

"… That would actually explain a lot in Baseline, whiss," Whisper muttered after a moment.

"Nyever mind that right nyow! Do either of you knyow what's going on! Nya!" Jibanyan exclaimed, shaking his paws around, gesturing to the world around them, "Nyone of the humans seem to nyotice a thing, but the yo-kai are in a panic! Nya!" this caught the Anchor's curiosity.

"Wait, so none-Looping yo-kai notice this?" Keita questioned, Jibanyan and Robonyan F-type nodded quickly, Keita gained a thoughtful look again, "So… this isn't just a thing Loopers are noticing? It must be, at least partially yo-kai related…" the boy looked himself over for a moment, "Not sure if I only notice because I'm Looping, or an UnAwake me would notice anyway because of how much I associate with yo-kai, and have become one before…"

"That doesn't really matter right now, dad, if yo-kai are panicking we need to do something about it!" Hanahojin exclaimed, Keita blinked, before looking down at his yo-kai son.

"That is true… that huge amount of spiritual energy is still around, fainter than before, but it hasn't left!" he glanced up, "But we should gather up the others before we figure out what to do, first off; to Fumi-chan's house!" the human boy exclaimed, stepping forward, but sharply turned back to his yo-kai friends and son before they could speak, "And, it's because her house is closest, not because I have a crush on her, which; yes I do, but that's irrelevant to the current issue! Understand!?" they all nodded, Keita smiled, "Good, let's go!"

"I'm telling you, I can't go today, I don't feel well," Fumika pleaded with her mother, doing her best fake cough, she disliked lying to her mother, but she needed to get out of this 'cram school' situation and go help with whatever was causing this.

"I don't know… you don't seem sick," the adult woman muttered skeptically, she placed her hand on her daughter's forehead, only to quickly pull it away, wincing, "Oh dear! You're burning up! Alright, no cram school for you, straight to bed! I'll call the school, so you don't get marked as absent."

"Thanks, mom, I just want to go to bed…" Fumika faked a tired voice, subtly sending a thankful look her yo-kai companion's way, Kyubi smiled back at her, opening and closing his hand as a flame flickered in his palm, the two headed up the stairs as they heard Fumika's mother dialing the phone, once they reached her room they moved over to the bed.

"Okay, what's the plan now?" Kyubi questioned, his ears twitching a little, the human girl smiled his way as she pulled out a yo-kai medal.

"We make this quick, and make sure we're not caught," she spoke quietly, inserting the medal into her pendant-version of the Yo-kai Watch U.

"Ladies and gentlemen, Pretty family!"

"Baku!" the purple, tapir-like yo-kai announced after the summoning song, she looked towards Fumika, "What's going on? Did you notice what's happened to the world!?" this surprised the two Loopers a bit.

"So, did all yo-kai notice…? Never mind, yes, yes, I'm hoping I can do something about it, but I need you to do something for me first," this statement caught the newly summoned yo-kai's interest, "My mom thinks I'm sick and I need to sneak out, so I can help try and figure this strange change out, so you need to take my place in bed, so she won't notice."

"Sure, if you're trying to solve this, I'm happy to help," Baku smiled, "Though if it's not too much to ask, could you let me dine on your dreams tonight in exchange, if you don't mind."

"Not at all, you do this for me you can have all my dreams you want," the Looping girl gave a thumbs-up, Baku nodded, before taking Fumika's form and flopping into the bed.

"What if she checks your temperature again and finds you're not burning up anymore?" Kyubi pointed out, Fumika paused in thought, before pulling out another medal.

"This should do the trick," she inserted the medal into the watch.

"Ladies and gentlemen, Isamashi family!"

"Merameraion! Mera!" the fire-lion yo-kai appeared in the room, looking ready to get someone fired up.

"Hold it, Merameraion!" Fumika waved her hands for him to stop, the fiery yo-kai looked at her curiously, "I know it might be a bit much to ask, but I need you not to get anyone fired up and just make it look like Baku, who's in my place here, has a fever if my mom comes in, can you please do that?" she pleaded, Merameraion stared at her for a moment, before smiling and giving a thumbs-up.

"Mera! Mera!"

"Oh, thanks!" the Looping girl smiled.

"So, does he not notice the world change, or does he just not care?" Kyubi muttered quietly, Merameraion gave a salute before he moved to stand by the bed, Fumika nodded in approval before heading towards the window, willing herself to be unnoticeable to humans, like a yo-kai.

"Now, let's go find Keita-kun, and get to the bottom of this," she opened her window.

"I'm right behind you," Kyubi assured, Fumika smiled at him, before using her psychic powers to float out the window, the nine-tailed fox following with his natural abilities.

"I'm sorry, Keita-kun, but Fumika's sick, so you can't see her right now," the human/yo-kai duo heard Fumika's mother speaking from the front door, they looked down to see Keita's group in the front yard, with Keita himself on the porch.

"Oh, well…" Keita noticed Fumika and Kyubi exiting the window and smiled, before putting on a concerned look and turning back to Fumika's mother, "I'm sorry to hear that, I hope she gets better soon…"

"Thank you, Keita-kun, I'm sure she just needs some rest and she'll be better before you know it," the woman assured, before closing the door, Keita let out a relieved sigh, before motioning for Fumika and Kyubi to follow them out the front gate, they did so.

"Hmm… this is really strange, dani…" USApyon muttered as he looked around, Inaho was as well, but a lot more animatedly, with a look of amazement on her face.

"This is so weird! But also cool! It's like some sort of 'dimensional-shift!'" the girl took on a serious demeaner as she went into thought, "Perhaps this has something to do with that 'UFO' that's been mentioned being spotted in the area!"

"Dani?"

"Yes! That's it! Aliens, it's the only explanation!" Inaho shouted as she jumped into the air.

"Or… it could be yo-kai related, dani," USApyon pointed out blandly, Inaho glared at him, before deciding to ignore him, going back to cheering about aliens, USApyon groaned.

"Hmm…?" Inaho stopped halted in her excitement when she noticed a table full of various lab equipment and what looked to be chemicals in containers, "Since when did I have a chemistry set of this sort…?"

"That… doesn't look like a chemistry set, dani," USApyon pointed out, Inaho stared at it for a few more seconds, before adjusting her glasses, the serious look returning to her face.

"Truthfully these aliens alterations to the fabric of reality are numerous, one can only speculate what their goal is…"

"It's probably a yo-kai, dani," USApyon, once again, went ignored, "Ug, fine, think whatever you want, I'm going to find Keita-dani!" the otter yo-kai exclaimed, exiting the room, Inaho kept on raving about aliens, until she processed what USApyon had said.

"Wait… Keita…?" she looked around, seeing USApyon was no longer there, before rushing out the door and after him, "Hold it! You can't go see my BFF without me!"

"So, you're just as clueless as us," Kyubi sighed as the group walked along the sidewalk, or floated, in his, Robonyan F-type's and Whisper's cases.

"That's what I was afraid of," Fumika muttered worriedly, Keita placed a hand on her shoulder.

"Yeah, but don't worry, I have a pretty good idea of where to look for the source of this, but I want to get everyone together soon; we don't know how big of a threat this is… but the good thing is it's not a null-Loop, and we're not Pocket-Locked, so we can probably handle whatever comes our way."

"Well… that's at least encouraging to hear," Fumika and Keita shared a fond smile, Kyubi smirked at this.

"Keita-kun! Zura!" a panicked voice called out, the group turned to see Komasan rushing towards them, followed shortly by Komajiro and Jinmenken.

"Do you guys know what's going on? Zura," Komajiro asked as he stepped over.

"The world has doggone crazy! I don't know what's what!" Jinmenken exclaimed shakily, the group flinched but held their tongues when they got a look at how the human-faced dog looked, but he noticed, "Go ahead! Say it, I'm hideous! I know!"

"N-no, it's… not so bad…" Fumika tried to assure, the others gave a few coughs and tried not to look, she looked to the Anchor for help.

"Er… yeah, it's not any worse than you normally are–I mean! Um…?" Keita helplessly looked to the remaining Loopers, but they didn't look to have any ideas of what to say, Jinmenken let out a groan.

"Look, it's fine, I have no problem being creepy at this point, but I'd rather it be back to my normal levels!"

"Um... right," Keita scratched his head with a nervous look, before shaking it off and nodding, "What we need to focus on is what is causing this weird thing! I know something connected to that surge of yo-kai energy is in this area, we just need to find it!" at Keita's exclamation, the other Loopers nodded, though Jibanyan and his mechanical counterpart took notice of someone passing by.

"Emi-chan? Nya," Jibanyan muttered in surprise, watching the familiar girl walk by.

"Emi, here?" Keita looked surprised, but grabbed Jibanyan before he could run off, "No! Wait!"

"Keita! Let me go, nya! Emi-chan! Nya!" Jibanyan cried out as he tried to chase after his former owner.

"We need to focus on finding out what's happening! We can't go gallivanting off in our own directions right now!" Kyubi snapped as he floated in front of the struggling nekomata, Jibanyan went limp in Keita's arms and groaned.

"I knyow… I'll go see Emi-chan later, I suppose, nya…" Jibanyan sighed, before he noticed Robonyan F-type was gone, "Huh? Robonyan? Nya…"

"Oh, come on!" Fumika cried out as she took notice of the mechanical nekomata flying off in the direction Emi had gone, Keita sighed as he set Jibanyan down.

"He'll probably catch up…" the Anchor muttered.

"At least I'll get the memories of seeing Emi-chan nyext Loop," Jibanyan said thoughtfully, Whisper flew over to him and pulled his ear, "Nya!"

"We still don't know anything about what's going on! For all we know, the stability of our entire Branch is at risk! So, I would appreciate it if you didn't contemplate abandoning us any more in the future! Whissu!"

"Nya! I won't!"

"Whisper… that's a bit much, don't you think?" Keita winced a little as the watched the ghost pull on the cat yo-kai's ear, Hanahojin nodded with concern in his eyes.

"Huh?" Whisper glanced between the others looking at him, and the struggling Jibanyan, before letting go of the pointed ear with a notable 'snap!' "Right, right, sorry… whiss," Jibanyan glared at him as he rubbed his ear.

"Ouch, zura…" Komasan empathized, rubbing his own ear.

"Look, if we want to figure out what's going on, we can't go turning against each other. That means; no abandoning each other, and no harming each other," Keita spoke firmly, looking towards Whisper and Jibanyan, both looked away briefly, but nodded. Keita let out a small sigh, before he twitched a bit and looked around.

"Keita-kun? Is something wrong?" Fumika questioned, Kyubi looked around suspiciously, Jinmenken let out a bark, before covering his mouth and muttering an apology.

"I'm sure an important yo-kai is around here, one connected to this change in scenery…" Keita turned on the light in his yo-kai watch, to make it easier to find the hidden yo-kai.

"While I'm sure you're correct about a yo-kai causing this, I can't say I've ever heard of a yo-kai that can do something like this, whiss," Whisper stated as he floated back over to the Anchor's side.

"I wouldn't think you would have, but still…" Keita shined the light around the neighborhood, before it focused on a shadow watching them from just around a corner, the yo-kai was revealed as a blue, koala-like being, with a bit of a resemblance to Jibanyan, "Found it!"

"Puku, puku?" the yo-kai tilted its head as it looked towards the group of Loopers, Fumika's eyes widened.

"Oh my… it's so CUTE!" she squealed suddenly, Kyubi backed away from her with a flinch, the female Looper looked at the new yo-kai with a big smile, "What's an adorable little guy like you doing out here?"

"Puku?"

"Nyot as adorable as me though, right? Nya," Jibanyan interjected smugly, Fumika looked at him briefly, before going back to fawning over at the new yo-kai, "NYA!?"

"Yes, yes, it's cute," Keita waved, looking towards his butler/friend, "Whisper, do you have anything on it?" the ghost immediately pulled out his yo-kai pad.

"Hmm, let's see, this yo-kai is, um… ummm…" he lowered the yo-kai pad, looking towards the Anchor with a baffled expression, "I… can't find anything on this yo-kai, there's… nothing! Whiss!"

"Puku?" the unidentified yo-kai looked curious as it waddled over to the duo, looking between Keita and Whisper, he seemed to want to stay clear of the sulking Jibanyan.

"Cuter than me? How!? Nya!" Jibanyan cried out, Fumika sighed and pat his head, he let out a purr, Kyubi sweatdropped while trying to look away.

"So, this yo-kai has no name? Zura," Komasan said, looking over the koala yo-kai.

"Seems like it… zura," Komajiro nodded, Keita hummed as he crossed his arms.

"Well… we need to call it something," he took another look at the yo-kai, that was now standing next to Jibanyan with an innocent expression.

"Puku?"

"How about… Koalanyan?"

"Nya?" Jibanyan's ears twitched at Keita's name idea.

"Seems a little basic, huh, Keita-kun? Whiss," Whisper pointed out, the brown-haired boy shrugged.

"It gets the job done, doesn't it?"

"I think it's an excellent name," Fumika smiled, patting Koalanyan on the head.

"Whatever it's called hardly matters, the point is if it's important," Kyubi stated in an uncaring tone, Fumika gave him a glare, the fox yo-kai shrugged.

"Hmm… you have something to do with this, don't you?" Keita muttered as he stared at Koalanyan.

"Puku?"

"You sure about that, Keita-nya? It doesn't seem like a big threat, nya?" Jibanyan seemed to have completely gotten over his worry of anything being cuter than him, Keita stared intently at the new yo-kai.

"I'm sure there is something significant about you…" he stated calmly, Koalanyan smiled, pointing to his nose.

"Puku!"

"… Nose?" Keita blinked, reaching forward and pressing Koalanyan's nose, like a button. Koalanyan suddenly moved back and started doing a strange dance.

"What in the…?" Kyubi hovered closer, now looking confused.

"What exactly is happening? What dance is that?" Jinmenken questioned, suddenly a loud noise seemed to come from nowhere and the world began to shift.

"What!? We're back to normal!" Fumika exclaimed in surprise, Kyubi looked around with a shocked expression, before smirking.

"Oh yes! Back to normal! It feels so good!"

"Is it over?" Hanahojin looked around with a confused expression, Keita nodded as he also looked around.

"Oh, it is good to be back! Whiss!" Whisper did a stretch.

"But… why? Nya," Jibanyan questioned, he glanced at Koalanyan, Keita also turned his focus to the little, blue yo-kai.

"Could it be… you did this?" Keita asked, Koalanyan blinked.

"Puku? Puku?" Koalanyan looked around, before he suddenly started jumping around and pointing frantically, "Puku! Puku! Puku!" the Loopers exchanged confused looks, but before they could question the little guy on what the issue was, someone else stepped in.

"There you are!" Inaho exclaimed, jumping over to the group, she looked around at the area and crossed her arms with a pout, "Eh? The supernatural phenomenon is already over? I didn't even get to do anything cool!"

"That's not the point here, dani!" USApyon snapped as he followed after the girl, letting out a huff before focusing on the other Loopers, "Everything changed back to the way it was, but why did it change in the first place!? Dani!"

"Um… Keita-kun just pressed that cute little thing's nose," Fumika stated, pointing towards the frantically moving Koalanyan, Inaho blinked, looking down at the new yo-kai.

"Puku! Puku!

"Hmm, this thing?" she kneeled to his eye-level and stared, Koalanyan stopped jumping and looked at her blankly.

"Puku…?" Inaho narrowed her eyes with a serious expression, before pressing the nose.

"Puku!" Koalanyan did its dance, changing the world back to the realistic style.

"There it is again, the world changed back!" Keita exclaimed, "It's definitely because of this yo-kai!" Inaho kept staring at Koalanyan, before pressing the nose again.

"Inaho, I don't think that's wise! Dani!" USApyon waved his arms as the world returned to normal, Inaho pressed the nose again.

"Okay, I am already freaked out enough by this without you acting like a kid flicking the lights on and off!" Kyubi growled as he prepared a fireball, Fumika grabbed onto him and tried to calm him down, Inaho pressed the nose again.

"Hmm… interesting," the purple-haired girl muttered thoughtfully as the world returned to normal, "I have developed a new hypothesis!"

"Have you now…?" Keita questioned with a dull expression, Inaho nodded, gaining a proud smirk.

"This is… a vessel for the aliens' dimensional-distortion device!" all the other Loopers fell over.

"It's clearly a yo-kai, moron!" Keita shouted angrily, USApyon sighed.

"Don't bother, she's in her own world… dani…"

"Sometimes I wish I could see the world like she does, if only for a day," Jinmenken commented wistfully, Komajiro gave him an odd look.

"Puku, puku…" Koalanyan let out a tired noise as he drooped a little, Inaho glared at him.

"Don't go trying to incite sympathy from me, alien device! I've got your game!" at this shout, Koalanyan whimpered, running and hiding behind Keita.

"Hey, don't be mean to Koalanyan!" Fumika hissed, Inaho glared at her intensely.

"Hmm… clearly Fumika has already fallen to the aliens' influence…" Fumika glared back at her, Keita let out a groan.

"Inaho… please stop…"

"… Fine, for now!" Inaho sent Koalanyan and Fumika one last glare, before backing off, USApyon sighed.

"Well, mystery solved? It's this little guy causing the issue, whiss," Whisper shrugged, Fumika shook her head.

"Mystery not solved! Koalanyan may be able to switch between the worlds, but that doesn't explain the loud noise that occurred the first time, or what caused such a thing to even start occurring," the female Looper concluded, Whisper drooped a bit.

"Of course it's not that simple… whiss…"

"To get real answers we must find the mothership!" Inaho exclaimed.

"It's not aliens! Get it through your head! Dani!" USApyon growled.

"Are we sure it's not aliens? I've never seen any yo-kai cause such weird problems as this, zura…" Komasan looked around nervously, Komajiro patted his shoulder in a comforting manner, Hanahojin seemed bothered as well.

"Dad? Could it be aliens?"

"Anything's possible, son, but knowing our Branch, I'm sure it's yo-kai related, a lot of power, but still yo-kai related," Keita assured in a calm tone, "Though… Inaho's not entirely wrong," this caught some of the others off guard, especially Inaho and USApyon.

"I'm not?"

"She's not!? Dani!"

"Probably not about the 'alien' stuff, but the going for the 'mothership' is the right idea! Koalanyan likely isn't the source of this, he's definitely not the power we sensed earlier, he's probably just a consequence, but the true source… the mothership, is yet to reveal itself," Keita explained seriously, the others considered his words, Inaho was looking super excited.

"You're correct, Keita! The yo-kai responsible for this phenomenon has yet to reveal itself!" the sudden voice caused the group of Loopers to look up, where a caped, blue cat yo-kai floated.

"Fuyunyan!" Keita called out in surprise.

"That's right, guts!" Guts K jumped down from a roof and landed in front of the group, Fuyunyan floating down to his side, "We noticed all this going down in our home town and decided to head over here as fast as we could!" Keita's deceased grandfather explained, before moving closer to Keita and whispering in his ear, "Without using any Looper powers or pocket stuff, just for fun," at this, Keita gave his grandfather a bland look.

"So that's why you took so long…?"

"The yo-kai responsible for the shift in the world is a large, mysterious beast, that is one thing I can say for certain!" Fuyunyan exclaimed, before pointing to Keita, "Keizo and I have determined that the fate of the world depends on you, Keita!" he pointed at Fumika, "You, Fumi!" he paused as he pointed at Inaho, "And… maybe you!"

"Maybe!? Well that's just rude," Inaho huffed, before giving the floating cat a curious look, "Say, are you sure this has nothing to do with aliens?" Fuyunyan ignored this question.

"Still, we don't have very much information, but there is one that is sure to know about what is occurring!" Fuyunyan pointed to the sky, taking a heroic pose, "Lord Enma!"

"Oh, that guy's cool!" Inaho smirked.

"Is this really a time to make a detour to the yo-kai world? I think we can probably solve this problem without bothering the king of yo-kai," Keita insisted.

"Do not worry, you continue your investigations in this world, Fuyunyan and I will go see Lord Enma and see if he can help us! Guts!" Keizo exclaimed excitedly.

"Are you sure that's a good idea?" Kyubi questioned plainly, Keizo and Fuyunyan nodded, before the shaodowy humanoid jumped on the flying cat's back, and they zoomed off.

"GUTS!"

"… Your grandpa's weird, Keita-kun," Fumika muttered awkwardly, Keita just nodded with a sigh.

"Puku?" Koalanyan blinked, before he noticed a large shadow looming over the group, his eyes widened, and he started panicking, "Puku! Puku! Puku! Puku!"

"Huh, Koalanyan, what is… WHALE!?" Keita exclaimed, pointing to the sky, the others looked up and saw what he was referring; a huge, blue whale, floating in the sky!

"No aliens, but sky-whale? I think I can work with that…" Inaho muttered with a nod, USApyon gave her an incredulous look.

"SERIOUSLY!? DANI!"

"I… what is that thing?" Fumika questioned as she backed up.

"A yo-kai, I'm sure of it," Kyubi growled as he narrowed his eyes, his tails flaring slightly.

"Nya!" Jibanyan glared at the whale.

"A whale… in the sky? Well that's another yo-kai I don't think I've heard of, whiss," Whisper admitted, Keita gave a slow nod.

"Just what is it doing? Jinmenken asked worriedly, "Why is it in the sky!?"

"Did it get lost? This is far from the ocean, zura," Komasan pointed out.

"Big bro, I don't think it's that kind of whale, zura…" Komajiro sweatdropped, Keita glared at the whale, a look of realization crossing his face.

"… That's the 'mothership!' That whale yo-kai is responsible for the shifting in our world's reality!" the Anchor exclaimed while pointing up.

"How can you be so sure…? Whiss," Whisper questioned, before a response could be given, the whale opened up its mouth, and bellowed loudly.

"HOGEE!"

"It's that noise again!" Keita exclaimed as the group all covered their ears at the painful soundwave, the world shifted around them, back into the realistic style.

"Back to this hideous visage again! Why!?" Jinmenken cried out.

"You know… I was only saying it to make you feel better before, but after seeing it a few times, you're not really any creepier than normal," Fumika muttered with a sweatdrop, Jinmenken looked at her, his expression going blank.

"Somehow, that comment doesn't make me feel any better…"

"Reality has been changed again, what is the overall goal for this!? Why!?" Inaho shouted, she than took notice of something in front of her eyes, grabbed some of her hair and stared at it, "Wait… did my hair change color!?"

"Huh, didn't really notice before, but it looks like it did! Dani!" USApyon exclaimed, as Inaho's hair was now black, instead of purple. The sci-fi-obsessed girl took a moment to process the change, before she gained an enraged look.

"Oh! That's it! Messing with our reality was one thing! But taking away my glorious purple-locks!? That is going too far! The kid gloves are coming off now! You hear me you ravenous sky-whale alien-yo-kai-whatever you are!"

"I thought messing with reality would be where it went too far…" Keita pointed out, but he noticed something else, "Wait… the whale's gone!"

"Huh… AH! It is gone! Whiss!" Whisper exclaimed in realization, the rest of the group looked up in surprise.

"How exactly did something that big just disappear…?" Fumika questioned, Kyubi narrowed his eyes skeptically. Jibanyan looked around for any sign of the whale, when he noticed someone approaching.

"Robonyan?" he questioned his other self, Robonyan F-type hovered over to the group, before landing on the ground and slumping, "Nya? What happened?"

"… It's better if I don't tell you, you'll find out next Loop, just know that; this problem with the world needs to be fixed as soon as possible!" the futuristic feline stated seriously.

"… Nya?" Jibanyan looked confused but nodded.

"Over this way! Nya!" Jibanyan led the group forward, having remembered some place he had seen the whale before, "There! I remember seeing it across the street when buying chocobars!" the small nekomata pointed to a sign atop an art supplies store, depicting a very similar whale to the one that had appeared over the city.

"A sign? But… how?" Fumika questioned in confusion.

"Hmm… perhaps aliens are involved after all?" Inaho smirked, USApyon groaned and shook his head.

"Likely just more yo-kai weirdness, I don't think there's any limit to how weird it can get," Keita stated firmly.

"I was a booger!" Hanahojin exclaimed, trying to be helpful.

"I did not need to be reminded of that, dani," USApyon grunted.

"Related or not, how does this help exactly…? Perhaps if I destroyed the sign?" Kyubi prepared a fireball.

"WHISSU!" Whisper moved in front of the fox yo-kai in a panic, "Property damage is not the answer!"

"Yeah, plus I really doubt it would do anything," Fumika added, Kyubi huffed, but allowed his flames to die down.

"But what do we do? We've figured out that the whale is only in our regular world, and there's a sign here that looks like it, but what does that even mean?" Jinmenken questioned seriously, none of the group looked to be able to give an answer, he slumped to the ground, "Doggone it! How hard is it to get some freaking answers around here!?"

"Don't get all dramatic nyow…" Jibanyan deadpanned as he looked at the human-faced dog, before his eyes widened, "Nyo!? The candy store! Nya!" he suddenly exclaimed, the others turned to see him on his knees as he stared at a large building, "The candy store was right here in our regular world! Nya! How can this be!? NYO! I can't get more chocobars like this!"

"We can make more chocobars," Robonyan F-type stated, a few chocobars falling out of his mouth, "But I understand that's not the point."

"… Hospital?" Keita read the sign in front of the building curiously, "Where there's a candy store in our world, there's a hospital here?"

"That's very odd, I was thinking that the world was just being altered in a slight way, but is this actually an entirely different world than our own? Zura," Komajiro questioned with concern in his voice. Keita didn't answer, he approached the hospital with a serious expression.

"Keita-kun?" Fumika looked worried as the Anchor was stepping forward.

"This hospital is important, I can feel it… something here… is connecting everything together, you guys coming or not?" it only took a moment of glancing at each other, before the other humans and yo-kai nodded and chose to follow their Anchor.

The group of Loopers made it to the roof of the hospital, Keita motioned for the others to stop when he spotted someone; staring out at the city.

"… It's her…" the Anchor muttered with narrowed eyes; the person was a young girl, seemingly a few years older than the three human Loopers, dark hair and dressed in white, her back turned to them.

"Puku! Puku!" Koalanyan jumped up and down frantically.

"A girl… it's a human girl?" Jinmenken questioned in disbelief, Keita nodded.

"She doesn't look dangerous," Fumika stated with narrowed eyes.

"Well, neither do you," her nine-tailed companion pointed out, she glared at him briefly, but smirked a little.

"She's definitely the vessel, the alien invasion begins with the innocent and the pure, before spreading through the– "Inaho's incoming rant was halted by a smack to the head from USApyon.

"NO! DANI!" Keita looked at the others, before focusing on the girl again and stepping forward.

"… Hello," at the sound of the young boy's voice, the girl turned around, staring at the group with an unreadable expression, "You're doing this, aren't you?"

"Doing this…?" the girl paused in thought, "You… are not from my world, are you?" she glanced to the others behind him, "None of you are…?"

"No, we're not," Keita nodded, his expression calm, "That whale… it's yours, somehow? Isn't it?"

"What does that matter? What is wrong with it?" she questioned, her expression still unreadable, Keita narrowed his eyes a bit more.

"It matters to me, I don't know what exactly is going on between the worlds, or whatever, but the stability of the world is my responsibility," she kept staring at him, silently, "… I'm sure you have your reasons for this, but I'm going to have to ask you to stop, this cannot be allowed to contin– "

"Why should it stop?" the girl interrupted, her eyes seemed to narrow ever so slightly, "I love your world the most… so why must I stop?"

"What…?" Fumika muttered from behind Keita.

"HOGEE!"

"That sound again! Whissu!" Whisper exclaimed in surprise, the Loopers looked around as the rainbow-colored soundwave rippled through the air.

"Puku! Puku! Puku!" Koalanyan pointed to the sky in an animated manner.

"Ah! That horrible beast is back!" Inaho exclaimed, pointing to the air where the whale appeared, as the world changed around them, back to the one they knew. The girl let out a small giggle, smiling as she changed to match their world, floating up into the air.

"She's flying!? Whissu!" Whisper shouted in surprise.

"This world is great… here I'm so free," the girl kept smiling as she flew higher and higher into the air.

"Gah! The hospital is disappearing!" Jinmenken cried out.

"This hospital doesn't exist in our world, it's a candy store…" Fumika noted, using her psychic powers to float, catching Komasan and Komajiro before they fell. Koalanyan grabbed onto Whisper, Kyubi caught Jinmenken, Keita floated and held onto Hanahojin, Jibanyan grabbed onto Robonyan F-type, USApyon used the Force to keep both him and Inaho afloat.

"What the heck! Are you trying to kill us!?" Keita snapped at the girl, she didn't acknowledge him, just giggling a bit more as she floated in front of the sky-whale, her clothing transforming into a ballet attire, she kept giggling as she danced through the air, the whale following her.

"… I think she might be insane," Inaho muttered as USApyon set both himself and her onto the ground.

"Let's not jump to that sort of conclusion, but regardless, we need to go after her!" Keita exclaimed seriously, flying after her, the others following.

"Here you go guys," Fumika put the koma brothers down, the two thanked her politely.

"Don't worry about us, we've got an idea! Zura!" Komasan assured, Komajiro nodded. Fumika smiled, before flying after Keita.

"I know this will end badly…" Jinmenken groaned.

"Could you not complain, for like, a minute?" Kyubi grunted as he set the human-faced dog on the ground, before flying after the Anchor, Jinmenken seemed to consider this for a second, before he noticed everyone had gone ahead of him.

"Huh… hold on! I'm coming!" he scampered after the other Loopers, on all fours.

"I can do anything in this world, anything I wish to," the dark-haired girl chanted as she skipped and twirled through the air.

"No, you can't!" the harsh voice caused her to pause for a moment, looking back with an uncaring expression as the Anchor floated after her, Hanahojin gripping onto his back, "This world has rules like any other, it's not a playground for you to mess with as you please! And the amount of power you're using to disrupt our reality can't be good for anyone!" she frowned a bit as she stared at him.

"Why… are you trying to stop my dancing? Why are you trying to stop my fun?" Keita growled a bit as he glared at her.

"What? Are you even listening to me!? Did you even hear a word I said!?"

"Keita-kun!" Fumika caught up to her friend/crush, shortly followed by Kyubi, Whisper (carrying Koalanyan), and the Jibanyans, "Somethings wrong with her! She's not in a stable emotional state!"

"Puku! Puku! Puku!" Koalanyan pointed towards the dancing girl while struggling to stay on Whisper, said ghost trying his best to keep balance. Keita noted Fumika's words, nodding a bit.

"Yes… I can see that, still… she can't do this… I can't say exactly what, but I know something bad will happen if this continues," the male watch-holder stated, a bit more calmly, focusing on the girl once more, but she was already dancing away, "Hey! Get back here!"

"Also wait for us!" Inaho exclaimed from the ground, she USApyon running, along with Jinmenken, "How come I don't have a way to fly yet!?"

"I've got plenty, but I don't feel like it, dani," USApyon commented, Jinmenken let out an unenthusiastic bark.

"Lazy Sith Otter…" Inaho grumbled under her breath, USApyon didn't react.

"Hey, hold up!" they had gotten to the park when Keita had decided to set his son onto the ground and speed up, getting ahead of the girl and blocking her path.

"Why do you keep following me?" the girl questioned; as if Keita were merely an annoyance, the Anchor glowered, but kept his emotions in check.

"I told you; I don't know why you're doing this, I'm sure you have a reason, but I can't allow it to continue! Stop this, before I'll be forced to take matters into my own hands!" Keita spoke seriously, the rest of the group watched as they settled on the ground of the park, watching the airborne confrontation. The ballerina girl barely acknowledged him, just smiling as she started to dance in the air.

"Huh… she's pretty good, whiss," Whisper couldn't help but comment, Koalanyan jumping from his head, onto the stable ground.

"Nya," Jibanyan nodded, as did Jinmenken, Koalanyan looked concerned as he stared at the girl.

"Puku…"

"Now's not the time to gawk at dance moves, we need to figure out what to do about this!" Kyubi hissed, Fumika nodded.

"She's obviously being manipulated by the alien sky-whale's reality-alteration machine," Inaho commented in a dramatic manner.

"I thought you finally dropped the alien-thing, dani," USApyon facepalmed.

"NEVER!" the bespectacled girl exclaimed loudly, her yo-kai partner shook his head with a quiet sigh.

"I'm sure dad knows what he's doing, he can handle this," Hanahojin assured, Fumika nodded, though she still looked concerned as she watched the Anchor confronting the dancing girl.

"You know, I'm getting really tired of you disregarding me…" Keita seethed a bit, he backed up, glancing down at the group, his eyes focusing on Koalanyan, "Hmm…"

"Puku?" the koala-like yo-kai tilted his head confusedly, noting the Anchor's eyes on him.

"Somebody, press Koalanyan's nose!" Keita called out.

"Huh… why? Whiss," Whisper questioned, Fumika seemed to think for a moment, before moving over to the small blue yo-kai.

"I think I have an idea of what he's going for," she stated.

"Puku?" Koalanyan blinked, just before Fumika pressed his nose, and he did his little dance.

"HOGEE!"

The world changed back to the realistic one, the girl stopped dancing, her eyes widened, before she started to fall.

"Thought so," Keita nodded, quickly flying after the girl, catching her before she could hit the ground.

"Huh…?" the dancer blinked in surprise as she was lowered to the ground, falling to her knees as the young boy hovered over her.

"Keita-kun, how did you know that would happen? Whissu," Whisper questioned, floating over to his human companion.

"It was the things she said, she was talking about how 'your world' was so much fun, and how she was free, so it stands to reason she can't fly in this one…" Keita nodded with a small smile.

"Oh! A brilliant deduction indeed, Watson!" Inaho giggled, Keita narrowed his eyes at her.

"I told you never to call me 'Watson' again…" Keita growled, before turning his focus to the girl that had previously been flying, now on the ground in a distraught state.

"Why are you messing with me…?" the girl started to cry a bit as she sat on the ground, Keita let out a huff.

"Again, it's like you can't even hear what I say to you…" he muttered with a bit of frustration, landing on the ground and walking over to her, "I cannot allow you to mess with our world, I don't know if you're being manipulated or… something, I can try to help you, but I needed to put a stop to that! I still don't know what would happen, but I knew that if it continued it would be something bad!" Keita explained firmly, "It's not we who is messing with you, you're the one who's messing with us!" again, she didn't seem to hear his words, as she started speaking to herself.

"All I wanted to do was dance…" she whimpered, Keita blinked, glancing back to the others briefly.

"Puku…" Koalanyan looked a bit sad as he watched her.

"Look… you can't just do whatever you want, our world isn't a toy…" Fumika stepped forward, looking a bit sympathetic, but the girl did not seem to hear her any more than she did Keita.

"If I don't dance… nobody… will ever look at me," the girl muttered as she stood back up, Keita and Fumika shared a confused look, Inaho stepped forward with a smug look.

"I think I can solve this little– "

"I will never stop dancing!" the girl suddenly shouted, Inaho blinked, before glaring at her.

"Well will you ever stop whining?" that, she seemed to hear… the girl began screaming, rising into the air again.

"That was not the correct thing to say, dani," USApyon pointed out bluntly.

"Wait, she can fly in this world now too!? Whiss!" Whisper exclaimed in surprise, the girl's eyes seemed to glow faintly as the wind picked up.

"What is this…?" Keita muttered cautiously, subtly taking a protective stance in front of Fumika.

"Nya! Look!" Jibanyan exclaimed, pointing up at the sky, where a portal opened.

"The whale-thing!" Hanahojin shouted.

"She's becoming more powerful…" Keita commented, watching as the girl rose into the sky, a purple aura surrounded her, the whale coming through the portal, "She can now summon the whale to this world too!"

"Huh!? But… how do we stop it!? What's going to happen!?" Jinmenken looked to be panicking a bit.

"As I said… I don't know," Keita gritted his teeth, the girl looked down at them emotionlessly, before flying off, the whale following.

"We need to go after her!" Kyubi roared.

"Yeah, we've gotta stop the bad guys before they wreck all of space and time, and we have to start all over!" Inaho shouted.

"We always have to start over anyway, but we do need to stop them! Dani!" USApyon pulled out a lightsaber.

"Puku! Puku!"

"Huh?" Fumika looked over at Koalanyan, the small yo-kai was pointing in another direction.

"What is it?" Robonyan F-type questioned, flying over to Fumika, before taking notice of Koalanyans behavior, "Hmm…?"

"He wants us to go that way?" Keita asked as he stepped over, Koalanyan kept pointing with a look of urgency.

"Puku! Puku! Puku! Puku!"

"But we need to go after the bad guy!" Inaho protested, but froze for a second, as if she was struck by an idea, "Wait… this could be the secret to winning! This little fella will lead us to the origins of the villain, and the solutions!"

"What…? Dani," USApyon blinked.

"I… don't know about that, but I think we should follow him," Fumika insisted.

"Keita-nya?" Jibanyan looked to the Anchor for his opinion, as did Whisper and Hanahojin, he thought for a moment, before nodding.

"Okay, let's see what Koalanyan wants us to see!"

"Puku! Puku!"

"HOGEE!"

The world returned to its original state, the group of Loopers rushed forward as they moved to confront the flying girl, who they now knew was named Kanami Minami, thanks to the info they had gotten from her old ballet instructor.

"There she is, we need to get her to stop and listen to reason!" Keita exclaimed, pointing at her, Kanami's eyes seemed to gain a red tint as she glared down at them, sending waves of energy at them, the group of Loopers managed to dodge them.

"I'll get her to stop, just give me five minutes…" Kyubi growled as he rose up into the air.

"Hold on! We can't hurt her, remember?" Fumika grabbed onto his arm before he could fly over to Kanami, "We need to get her to listen to us!"

"I don't think she's in the mood to listen!" Jinmenken pointed out, the group gasped when a pair of large, black wings sprouted from the floating girl's back, only to almost immediately dissipate, but leaving Kanami with new, black attire, a dark aura surrounding her, and an evil look in her eyes.

"Her mind has completely gone to the parasite," Inaho commented with an observant expression.

"Now there's a parasite? Can't you at least pick one theme of delusion and stick with it? Dani," USApyon growled, she simply stuck her tongue out at him, "She's messing with me… I know it, dani…"

"HOGEE!"

The world shifted again, Keita stepped forward, staring in Kanami's direction.

"Kanami… how is she doing all this…?"

"It's her grief," the Loopers looked surprised when Fuyunyan came flying in, along with Guts K, "The darkness from the grief in her heart is binding our two worlds together!"

"Fuyunyan, Keizo! Whiss!" Whisper exclaimed at the return of the two.

"If this continues, she'll stop being human," Fuyunyan spoke seriously.

"Huh, stop being human!?" Fumika exclaimed worriedly.

"How do we stop it?" Keita questioned, his grandfather walked over to him and looked him in the eyes.

"We need to expel the darkness inspiriting her from her heart!"

"But, how do we do that, nya!?" Jibanyan questioned, Koalanyan was running around fearfully, Fumika picked him up to calm him down.

"Puku! Puku…"

"With this! Guts!" Keizo exclaimed, showing Keita a fire-themed sword of some kind, "The Enma Blade!"

"Enma Blade?" Keita took the sword, looking it over carefully, he noted it appeared to be a Dream Link tool.

"Use the blade to cut her off from the power of darkness! Quickly!" Fuyunyan exclaimed.

"Why does he get the sword?" Inaho questioned.

"You got the rocket launcher last time, dani," USApyon pointed out.

"Here goes," Keita pulled the Yo-kai Watch Dream from his sub-space pocket, removing the face and inserting into the hilt of the sword, "Yo-kai Watch Dream Link! Lord Enma medal!" with the sword ready, Keita looked back at Kanami; she was charging up another dark attack, "Here goes nothing…" Keita slashed the sword, sending a fiery energy slash through the air, at the same time Kanami sent her own.

"Beam struggle time!" Inaho cheered as she watched the attack collide, but the one from the Enma Blade prevailed and came sailing towards Kanami, "Yeah! That's my BFF for you!"

"Don't call me your 'BFF' either!" Keita snapped, before looking towards Guts K and Fuyunyan, "This won't hurt her, will it?"

"No, the power of this blade should only cut her off from the dark power that has inspirited her," Fuyunyan assured, the energy slash hit Kanami, she let out a pain gasp as purple smoke burst out from her body.

"Did that do it?" Fumika asked, holding Koalanyan tightly.

"I don't think it's that simple," Robonyan F-type stated firmly, Keita nodded, staring at the smoke as it formed together, his eyes narrowed as they took the shape of a whale.

"The sky-whale again!? Where did it go before anyway…?" Inaho questioned.

"This looks much worse than last time…" Jinmenken whimpered, the whale now being a very dark, almost black, purple instead of blue, red eyes that seemed to be emitting fire, a set of massive sharp teeth and a repulsive blue tongue filled its mouth, the dark whale yo-kai prepared a massive roar.

"HOGEE!"

"What is that thing!? What happened!? Dani!" USApyon looked toward Fuyunyan and Keizo for answers, as did the others while the world returned to normal.

"I thought that sword was supposed to fix this…" Kyubi muttered with an annoyed sigh.

"What is that thing…?" Keita questioned, Whisper searched through his yo-kai pad.

"That is… AHA! That's the yo-kai; Daiyōki Hogehoēru! Whissu!"

"There's actually info on this one!?" Jinmenken exclaimed in surprise.

"A heart of darkness born from inside humans, inspirited by the will of Kaima!" Fuyunyan exclaimed.

"Wait, now Kaima are involved?" Fumika questioned, Koalanyan let out a whimper in her arms.

"Puku…" he looked up at Kanami, still floating in the air, but now she had returned to her normal form, and seemed to have lost consciousness, Daiyōki Hogehoēru let out a different kind of roar, sending out a shockwave that nearly knocked all the heroes back, without changing the world.

"This isn't good…" Robonyan F-type stated, scanning the enemy with his robotic eyes, "If this keeps going as it is… it could destroy both worlds!"

"Destroy both worlds! As in like… our Branch could really be destroyed!?" Kyubi shouted with a shocked look, Robonyan F-type shook his head.

"I can't say for sure how high the level of damage could go, I'd imagine the Admins would intervene if it was truly something that could destroy our Branch, but regardless, we have a duty to halt this before it gets any worse!"

"Keizo explained this Looping stuff to me, and you're correct!" Fuyunyan stated, "We have no choice, for the sake of everything in our world, we must defeat Hogehoēru!" Kanami opened her eyes as the purple aura from before formed around her.

"I will never stop dancing, never…" she spoke softly, she seemed to be in a delusional state.

"We need to save her, as well as everything, this needs to stop…" Fumika glared at the whale yo-kai.

"Puku, puku," Koalanyan whimpered.

"Let's do this than," Keita growled, pocketing the Enma Blade and bringing out Spectral Fang.

"Yami Kyubi!" Kyubi announced as he changed to his more powerful form, the group all looked to be getting ready for battle, Daiyōki Hogehoēru glared down at them along with Kanami… when suddenly, a small airship shaped like a komainu statue crashed into the whale yo-kai.

"HOGEE!"

The world shifted back to the realistic one at the giant yo-kai's unintentional cry, the ship flew around erratically for a moment as the group watched in surprise, before it landed and Komasan and Komajiro stepped out.

"Sorry we're late! Zura!" Komasan cried out as he ran over.

"Wait… you guys went to get your airship? What took so long!?" Inaho exclaimed loudly.

"We had some trouble finding where it was in big bro's pocket…" Komajiro sweatdropped.

"Zura…" Komasan gave a sheepish smile.

"… Let's never mind that for now, we need to fight that thing, now!" Keita exclaimed, pointing towards Daiyōki Hogehoēru, the two komainu nodded inunderstanding.

"There's no doubt about it, the abilities of yo-kai are weaker in this reality," Keizo concluded after a few failed attacks on Daiyōki Hogehoēru; Jibanyan's Paws of Fury couldn't lay a scratch on it, Yami Kyubi couldn't even do any noticeable demage…

"Well… if yo-kai abilities are weakened in this world, we'll just have to use other abilities!" Keita smirked, sharing a look with the other Loopers as he formed a ball of ki in his hand.

"Got it!" Fumika jumped floated forward, charging up an attack, "PK Freeze!" Daiyōki Hogehoēru let out a pained moan as the attack nearly incased its body in ice.

"HOGEE!"

The world returned to normal at the roar, but this only gave the yo-kai more opportunities to attack with their abilities.

"Owari no Hajimari!" Yami Kyubi took the chance to unleash his soultimate, Hanahojin joined in with his own attack.

"HOGEE!"

The world changed again, but with the strategy the team had decided on it did nothing to slow them down.

"Personya!" Jibanyan smashed a card, summoning his persona, which went in to attack with fiery claws, this demaged the beast again.

"Take this! Guts!" Keizo exclaimed, adding in a barrage of ki-blasts.

"HOGEE!"

"Spirit Dance!"

"Wandering Thunder!"

"Dokonjō Sutorēto Nikukyū!"

Komasan, Komajiro and Fuyunyan unleashed their soultimates on the whale yo-kai.

"HOGEE!"

"Kame-hame-ha!" Jinmenken unleashed the legendary technique onto the monstrous apparition, USApyon and Inaho joined in with some lightsaber and rocket-launcher attacks.

"HOGEE!"

"This is the end for you," Keita spoke up, hovering over Daiyōki Hogehoēru with Spectral Fang in hand, he inserted a Fuu2 medal into the weapon, turning it yellow, "For the sake of our world, and that girl's life!" he slashed his weapon, sending a powerful wave of wind towards the weakened beast, it struck causing it to roar out in pain.

"Did we do it… is it over? Nya," Jibanyan questioned after Daiyōki Hogehoēru had seemingly exploded into a huge dark cloud. Keita landed on the ground, his weapon still in hand, glaring at the sky.

"No… it's not over."

"No, of course it's not, we must face the boss' true final form," Inaho nodded.

"I'd argue this isn't a video game… but, dani?" USApyon shrugged.

"The video game back-up in the hub isn't our Baseline, whiss," Whisper pointed out.

"Yeah, I don't really care, sometimes it still feels like we're in a video game, dani," USApyon stated plainly. A distorted roar erupted from the sky, switching the world's style once more.

"It's as you said, Keita-kun, it's not over," Fumika muttered, Keita nodded; watching as some sort of pulsating mass fell from the sky, onto the street with an audible 'splat!'

"Ew, what is that thing…?" Jinmenken looked repulsed, Fumika expressed a similar distaste to the vision, the thing pulsating some more, before a humanoid shape started to rise out of it.

"Daiyōki Hogehoēru?" Keita questioned, recognizing the head of the yo-kai, but not much else…

"It's taken a new form! Guts!" Keizo exclaimed, Whisper began searching through the yo-kai pad again.

"There's nothing on this form! I'm drawing a blank! Whissu!"

"Well… either way, whatever form it takes, we need to defeat Daiyōki Hogehoēru…" the Anchor paused, "Actually… that name is getting kind of tedious to keep saying, since he changed, let's just call him… Kujiraman."

"Isn't that a little arbitrary? Whissu." Whisper pointed out, Keita shrugged.

"How about instead we call him; Gojiraman!?" Inaho suggested excitedly.

"That doesn't fit at all!" Keita countered with a glare, Kanami landed on a telephone pole, looking down at them.

"Kujiraman, attack," she ordered.

"Huh, she agrees? Kujiraman it is I suppose," Inaho drooped, the newly dubbed 'Kujiraman' beat its chest madly.

"Huh… maybe 'Gojiraman' would have fit…" Keita blinked.

Kujiraman opened its mouth wide, before sending a wave of… bubbles from its mouth.

"Move, we don't know what those do!" Keita exclaimed, the other Loopers, and Fuyunyan, dodged the bubbles, though a few people walking by got caught by them… turning them into fish.

"What the, fish!?" Fumika gasped in shock.

"Puku!" Koalanyan cried out as she squeezed him.

"Oh, sorry!" the eleven-year-old girl quickly apologized, loosening her grip.

"Don't let the bubble hit you! Nya!" Jibanyan shouted, his persona luned forward and slashed at Kujiraman.

"Hey, what's going on!" a female voice called out, before a yo-kai that looked like a mermaid floated over to the group, looking around with an annoyed look.

"Ningyo!" Keita exclaimed.

"Yeah, so what's the deal? I see some crazy stuff has been happening and I've been trying to figure out why all day! Seems this is why…" she stared at Kujiraman, who sent another wave of bubbles out.

"Don't let those hit you, they'll turn you into a fish!" Fuyunyan shouted as he flew around the bubbles.

"Well if that's the case, don't worry, I'm already half-fish, so I've only got half as much to worry about as you all!" Ningyo smirked as she gracefully dodged the bubbles.

"I'm pretty sure that doesn't work like that," Keizo muttered, before shaking his head and dodging more bubbles.

The battle with Kujiraman had eventually lead the heroes to an amusement park, Kujiraman seemed to be growing steadily as they fought against him.

"We've got to figure out how to take this guy out," Keita spoke seriously, holding Spectral Fang tightly, despite the weapon's reliance on yo-kai energy making it not very effective in the realty they were currently in.

"We need to give it everything we've got… but we need to change things up a bit to do that," Yami Kyubi stated seriously, Hanahojin ran over to Fumika, looking straight at Koalanyan.

"Right, we need to do this quick…" Fumika narrowed her eyes, Kujiraman let out another wave of bubbles.

"Is that all this guy does!?" Ningyo exclaimed, Kujiraman roared, starting to jump around and try to attack with its fists.

"Now, why did you have to say that!?" Inaho snapped.

"Now! We need to attack with everything, everyone charge your soultimate, or some form of powerful attack, we need to wipe him out!" Keita shouted, nodding to Fumika, she nodded back and pressed Koalanyan's nose.

"Puku…?"

The attacks were unleashed on Kujiraman before it could react, Kanami covered her eyes at the lightshow that was the combined explosion of all the attacks, Kujiraman screamed one last time, this time the scream that switched the style of reality, just before it exploded, for good…

When the group came to, they found themselves scattered about the park, Kyubi had returned to his normal form.

"Wow… what an anti-clamactic way to beat a final boss," Inaho huffed as she stood up.

"We unleashed all our attacks at once in a huge explosion! Dani!" USApyon countered.

"Don't know… just didn't feel very… epic," Inaho muttered, USApyon sighed.

"Don't talk to me about things being anti-clamactic, I barely even was part of this battle…" Ningyo grunted.

"That was your own fault," Kyubi commented, Ninyo glared at him.

"Oh, thank goodness that's over with! Zura," Komajiro gave a relieved sigh.

"Yeah, I'm glad we won! Zura!" Komasan cheered.

"Our guts prevailed! Yes!" Keizo exclaimed, Fuyunyan cheered, Keita smiled, before he took notice of a defeated girl on the ground, he approached Kanami carefully.

"… We met your teacher," Kanami looked up at Keita as he stood over her, "She told us about the accident, what happened to you… she also told us that if you work towards rehabilitation, you will dance again, your legs will move, if you just– "

"Shut up!" Kanami clutched her head as she refused to look at the Anchor, "You don't understand anything about me! You don't understand how much I worked towards ballet, only for it to all be taken from me by that accident!"

"But it wasn't all taken from you," Fumika interjected, walking over with Koalanyan and Kyubi, "You're the one that gave up… sorry, that sounded mean," Fumika looked away for a moment, "But it's still the truth, if ballet was really as important to you as you say, shouldn't you put in the effort to go through the rehabilitation process? Even if it might take a few years, you could still dance, you could still fufill your dream…"

"No!" Kanami snapped again, now glaring at the Loopers, "I won't… let my dreams die in this hopeless world… that's why I wanted to erase everything! Erase all of it!"

"Wow, that's dumb!" Inaho stated bluntly as she stepped over.

"Inaho," Keita hissed at the rude comment, Inaho waved him off.

"What? It's true! I'm just saying what you two are too nice to," Inaho looked towards Kanami with a serious look in her eyes, "Look girl, so you got into an accident, now you can't do the thing you love to do, that you worked so hard to be good at; okay, yes, that sucks," Inaho nodded, "But come on, 'erase everything!?' Don't you think that's a bit extreme!? Especially since you were specificially told you could dance again, it's not like you were told it could never happen! But you just disregarded all of that, all the people that supported and cared about you, and almost destroyed both our worlds! Granted, I'm sure the whole 'sky-whale nearly breaks the world' thing wasn't planned out, but still!"

"Inaho, please stop…" Keita groaned, looking back at Kanami, "I mean, she's not entirely wrong, did you really wish to erase everything? Even everything and everyone that was important to you…?" Kanami looked at him, glancing at the two other kids, as well as the yo-kai that joined the group, thinking about the people in her life.

"I thought… because I wasn't able to dance, people were separating from me…"

"But you were the one pushing them away, none of them wanted to be apart from you…" Kyubi stated in a calm tone.

"Hardships are a part of life, accidents happen…" Keizo floated over, "But, you had fun practicing ballet, didn't you? You have good memories of these experiences, shouldn't you want to be able to make more of those memories, even if it will take a little extra time and effort?"

"… I was the only the one who gave up on me, wasn't I...?" Kanami muttered after a moment of thought, she began to cry, "Everyone else wanted to support me… I was the only one… that gave up…"

"Puku?" Fumika set down Koalanyan, Kanami stared at him as he approached her, "Puku, puku?"

"Koalanyan came into being because of your feelings too, didn't he?" Fumika stated as Kanami looked at her, "Like Kujiraman, but… Koalanyan didn't want to give up on you, he wanted you to believe in yourself again," Fumika smiled, Kanami kept staring at the little yo-kai, he nodded.

"Puku…"

"… What was I doing this whole time?" Kanami smiled a little, picking up Koalanyan as she stood up.

"Puku?" she gave the blue-furred yo-kai a hug.

"I'm so sorry for the trouble I caused you all…"

"Well I'm not so sure we should be so for– "Inaho smirked as she noticed the others glaring at her, "Just kidding! Of course you're forgiven!"

"Yeah, you weren't in your right mind anyway! Nya!" Jibanyan nodded.

"You are no longer showing any signs of dark power, there is no longer any reason to consider you a threat," Robonyan F-type stated.

"I'm glad you understand…" Keita smiled, "And I'm also glad this is over…"

"Yes, it was quite hectic for a moment there, whiss," Whisper nodded, before he noticed Fumika moving over to another part of the park, while motioning towards Keita for him to follow her.

"Um…?"

"… You probably shouldn't keep her waiting, whiss," Whisper smiled, Keita went a little red, but nodded and went after her, Kyubi floated over to Whisper and watched them with a smirk.

"So… Keita-kun," Fumika spoke up as they stood beside each other, behind the ferris wheel, "There has been something I've been wanting to talk to you about for a while, and… after everything that just happened, I figure now's as good a time as any…" she smiled at him, he smiled back, "… I know, you like me as more than a friend…"

"Yes, and I know… you like me as more than a friend…" Keita and Fumika both went a little red, "And… the reason we haven't done anything with that for so long is because…"

"… We're both scared?"

"… Yeah," the two nodded to each other, "Scared of things changing…"

"Of things not working out, and us not being able to go back to how we were…" the two nodded again.

"But…" Keita spoke up, "I do want to… give it a try… if you want…"

"Well…" Fumika giggled a little, stepping closer to the boy, "That is why I wanted to talk to you, afterall…" she leaned forward and gave him a quick kiss on the cheek, they both went a deeper shade of red.

"So… are we… together?"

"… I'd say we are," the two smiled wider, before embracing in a hug…

"WHAT!? THAT'S IT!?" Keita and Fumika both nearly jumped at the sudden exclamation, breaking their embrace and turning towards the source of the yell; Inaho, "I've been waiting all this time for you two to FINALLY make it official and start dating already, and THAT'S IT!? A kiss on the check, a hug, and BOOM! YOU'RE TOGETHER!?"

"Inaho…" Keita gave a low growl, the glasses-wearing girl's eyes widened, she backed up a bit.

"And, I will leave you two to your date!" and she sped off, Keita sighed, Fumika put a hand on his shoulder, the two smiled.

"Thank you all, for helping me remember how much my dream means, to both me, and all those that support me…" Kanami smiled as she stood infront of the hospital while holding Koalanyan, the Loopers, and Fuyunyan, stood before her to say goodbye, Kyubi subtly smirked when he spotted Keita and Fumika holding hands.

After a few farewells, Kanami pressed Koalanyan's nose, and entered the hospital with him, the group of humans and yo-kai watched as the two of them vanished along with the hospital, leaving only the candy store in their place.

"… You know, despite all the craziness… I still have many questions about how this all happened, dani," USApyon sighed, the others nodded a bit…

"I'd say it's not that important, let's just all consider how we can handle this faster when it happens again," Keita and the other Loopers shared a sigh.

"Lucky me for not being a Looper," Fuyunyan smiled.

Next Loop

Fuyunyan, or as his memories told him he was named; Hovernyan, came into consciousness to find he was trapped in a shed again, with his oversized body, a realization dawned on him after a moment.

"I'm back here… I suppose that means I'm Looping now… I don't know if I should be happy about that or not…"

9.1: Inspiritment and making new friends, in the Yo-kai Watch Loops the two go hand-in-hand :3.

9.2: Maybe Nate/Keita should learn to sleep with his eyes open…

9.3: Jibanyan giving a fellow undead feline a bit of advice.

9.4: Yes Manjimut/Jinmenken, watch the language; there are children present… even if they are technically billions of years old.

9.5: Many fun and magical adventures at Luna Nova await, once this is continued. Just don't tell Hailey/Inaho…

9.6: The Council of Looping Pets shall do many cool things! Once they get some more members… This will also be continued in the future.

9.7: Maybe Manjimutt/Jinmenken should rethink his business strategies.

9.8: USApyon; perhaps one of the least intimidating Sith Lords in the Multiverse, until he goes In/Vader Mode…

9.9: Well… I'm sure this will end well.

9.10: At least he's not trying to erase people's memories out of resentment this Loop.

9.11: They don't seem to realize this; but time traveling items don't typically work outside of their home Loops, so they're probably going to have to take the long way back…

9.12: USApyon's not the only Sith in the Multiverse, and it seems he may still have a bit to learn.

9.13: Reverse Harem Loop for Katie/Fumika? Well, it was bound to happen eventually. Seems she's no more fond of them than Nate/Keita is of his Harem Loops.

9.14: An unexpected meeting with a new Looper, well the Yo-kai Watch Loopers are happy to help out and try to explain the insanity.

9.15: This is what happens when Loopers get bored… well, one of the infinite possibilities that is… you can't really predict Loopers.

9.16: No, no he is not…

9.17: If nothing else, at least free ice cream is cool.

9.18: Those powers may be useful, at least for preventing more fishing incidents in the future.

9.19: Android Yamada is a kind-hearted android, when his friends are in danger he will act to defend them.

9.20: Emerald's probably thinking 'kind of boring' is kind of fitting for Nate/Keita, but she knows better than to say it out loud…

9.21: Chiyo is sure to use her yo-kai watch to make many, many new friends!

9.22: Whisper and Weiss having a nice discussion, it is a little surprising that they haven't really talked before now…

9.23: A brother reacting to his sister dating. A sister teasing her brother about his crush.

9.24: A group of friends getting together in celebration of their lion friend, how nice.

9.25: Nothing like the bond between a girl and her nine-tailed fox-spirit.

9.26: Hailey/Inaho keeps a shipping chart about other Loopers… somehow, this is not surprising.

9.27: A new Expansion, bringing a new yo-kai watch, new friends, and surprisingly; new neighbors!

9.28: Android Yamada is a kind-hearted android, and will stop at nothing to spread that kind-heartedness to everyone…

9.29: Harem Loops, seems Nate/Keita can never escape them, doubt even 'harem repellent' would help.

9.30: Yes, it seems even ghost emus can be caused by yo-kai…

9.31: Another nice bit of family-time in the Loops.

9.32: As Nate/Keita and Katie/Fumika affirmed their relationship, a resounding 'FINALLY!' seemed to echo throughout the Multiverse. Also, Hovernyan/Fuyunyan is Looping…

A small note: I mentioned in the previous chapter that I wanted to edit the older chapters to add closing comments to those that don't have them, what crossovers are used, and spelling and grammar if needed.

Also; to give each chapter a name, the nonstandard Infinite Tunnel Saga being an exception. I've begun work on that, this chapter and the previous now have their own names, and I'll likely be updating the other chapters from newest to oldest. If a chapter gets a name, that means I've updated it.

There won't be anything added that would require you to go back and reread the chapter, it's just something I felt was worth noting.