Yo-kai Watch Infinite Loops Chapter 11: Bonds are Unquantifiable, a yo-kai watch fanfic

10.1

"So, you're Looping now?" Nate questioned as he looked over Hovernyan, having just released him from the shed and reverted him from his Meganyan form.

"It appears so…" Hovernyan looked at his paw thoughtfully, "This is so strange, Keizo, or Nathaniel, told me about the Loops, but not once did I consider I'd remember next Loop…"

"Nate's grandfather really made an effort to keep you 'in the loop' so to speak, I'm surprised it took you this long to Loop," Whisper stated as he floated beside the Anchor, Jibanyan was resting on the ground nearby.

"Well… first thing we should do is teach you how to Ping, and access your pocket," Nate said, patting Hovernyan on the head, which the cat yo-kai seemed to appreciate, but he quickly gained a serious look.

"I would like to know how to do those things, but first things first; considering I was in the shed, that means Nathaniel didn't Wake up early and deal with the Wicked yo-kai! So, we need to go back in time and put a stop to them!"

"Oh, that is true!" Whisper exclaimed.

"Sorry guys!" Nathaniel's yo-kai form called out from the bushes, the four Loopers blinked, looking over at him.

"… Nathaniel?" Hovernyan questioned slowly, the shadowy yo-kai smiled and gave him a thumbs-up.

"Hey bud! Glad to see you Looping, moxy!"

"Grandpa… first of all, don't apologize for not Waking up early," Nate sighed while scratching his head, "And second of all… if you're Awake, why are you hiding in the bushes?"

"Well, I only Woke up a few minutes ago, and I now find you guys talking and that my old buddy is Looping, I was trying to come up with a good entrance…" the creator of the yo-kai watch smiled.

Nate and Whisper both sweatdrop.

Hovernyan smiled. "Nathaniel… Keizo… it's nice to see you…"

"Hovernyan, Fuyunyan, whatever you want to be called, I can't express how happy I feel right now," Moximous N stepped out from the foliage and approached the floating, cat yo-kai, "My wife and son not Looping still pains me, but one of my oldest friends is no less important to join in these time Loops…"

"Nathaniel… Lucy and Aaron will join us eventually, but I am very happy to be a part of this now," the two hero-themed yo-kai joined hands in a showing of camaraderie.

"Hmm… that's really nice," Whisper smiled, before a thought came to him, glancing towards his friend/master, "Do you think Mermaidyn would be happy to hear about this? She's lived through the Game Variant enough times that I'm sure she'd consider Hovernyan a friend, and a mermaidyn is one of the yo-kai your grandpa summons in Baseline, even if it's variable if she's the same one…"

"Mermaidyn will definitely be glad to hear this, I'll be sure to inform her as soon as possible," Nathaniel grinned as he separated his hand from Hovernyan's, "Though, I think she's Awake, so you could just get out a fishing pole…" he gave his grandson a sly look.

Nate quickly held his hands up in denial, "No way! I promised her I wouldn't fish when we're Awake in the same Loop! You'll just have to tell her later in the Loop!"

"Fine, fine, just a thought," Nathaniel shrugged, "But, we should go back in time and deal with those Wicked Yo-kai first!"

"Yes, I have the time-stone right here," Hovernyan nodded, pulling out the small object.

Jibanyan got up and yawned, sensing he would be needed soon, Nate and Whisper both nodded.

"Do you think Dame Dedtime can be reformed this time?" Nate questioned hopefully.

"Hard to say Nate, we're not in a Game Variant, so it's not a sure thing…" Whisper sighed.

"I know… I just don't like destroying her…" the Anchor said sadly, Whisper patted his shoulder kindly.

Hovernyan floated over to Nate and smiled. "You are a very kind boy, Nate-Keita, I hadn't even considered that Dame Dedtime could be reformed," he held out a paw, "I'm glad to trust someone like you with the stability of our world…"

"Thank you Hovernyan, though you might think twice about that if you've seen some of the stuff I've done in Baseline," Nate admitted as he shook the cat yo-kai's paw.

Hovernyan shook his head. "Baseline is Baseline, Nate, that's one thing Nathaniel made very clear when he was explaining the Loops to me, I can tell just by your demeanor that you have matured greatly beyond your physical age, you may have the markings of someone on level with Moximous Mask himself as opposed to Bold Basher now!"

"Well, I'm Moximous N, so Nate could inherit the title of Moximous Mask… if he worked for it," Nathaniel spoke with a contemplative look.

Nate sweatdropped. "Um… I don't think I need that title… can we just go to the past and talk about this stuff later?"

10.2 Boohoooo!, edited by Black Omochao

Gamera grunted as he fought Gyaos for the umpteenth time. Though at least this time he had a very good motivation: His nemesis had kidnapped a child!

"This is sooooooo cool! I'm in the middle of a kaiju battle! Yayyyy!" Inaho Misora cackled from within Gyaos' claws, seemingly completely oblivious to the danger she was in.

The giant turtle kaiju nearly let out a sigh despite the battle he was currently engaged in, this girl was very strange, also a little annoying. But still, a kid was a kid no matter how strange, and this one needed rescuing! Even if she didn't seem to realize it...

After a few precision strikes in vital areas, Gyaos gave a roar as he was defeated and fell into the sea. Gamera smiled and picked up Inaho. With how many times he had done this over, at least it had become easier and faster to take his enemies out.

"Woo! That was fun! I can't wait to tell USApyon I was in the middle of a real kaiju battle! He'll be so jealous!" Inaho cheered as she jumped around on Gamera's hand.

Gamera let out a satisfied grunt. He still had no idea why he was time traveling, but at least this was another job well done.

"Hey!" Inaho called out, bringing the turtle kaiju's attention back to her. "Chi-watchi! Thanks for the save big guy!" she grinned widely while giving thumbs-up. "You were awesome! By the way; can I ride on your shell!?" Inaho asked eagerly as she attempting to crawl up the giant reptile's arm

Gamera chuckled a bit at the child's attempt, before gently gripping her with two fingers and placing her on the ground. He gave a small wave before he walked off into the distance.

"Hey! You didn't answer me! Can I?!" Inaho's voice suddenly filled Gamera's ears.

The kaiju looked up to find that the child had somehow appeared atop his head. Confusion filled Gamera's mind as he tried to figure out how this small creature had gotten onto his head.

Inaho made a slight whining noise as she was placed onto the ground again. She glared at the kaiju with her cheeks puffed out as Gamera stared her down carefully, slowly walking backwards away from her, turning around when she could no longer be seen in the distance.

'That was weird...' Gamera thought to himself as he headed towards the ocean. He didn't understand what happened back there, perhaps it was, like the time-travel, one of the things in the world he'd probably never find the answer to...

"Come onnnnnn!" Inaho begged, appearing atop the kaiju's head once more, halting all of his current thoughts. "Just let me ride on your back! Keita's ridden kaiju before, I'm sure! And I also never get to be a magical girl! It's not faaaaaiiire!"

'What's with this kid!?' trying to ignore the reality-defying child's nonsensical rant, the anxious turtle creature grabbed hold of her and put her back on the ground, as gently and quickly as possible. Gamera jumped into the air, retracting his limbs and head into his shell, before rocketing off into the sky.

"Yeah! This is so cool!"

Gamera's arm shot out from his shell and snatched the purple-haired girl from his shell. He landed and placed her on top of a hill, before charging off into the ocean.

'There's no way she could follow me down here, right...?' Gamera questioned himself as he drifted under the water. The giant turtle shook his head, whatever she was doing seemed impossible, but surely even that girl needed to breath... Gamera released a few air bubbles from his mouth as he allowed the soothing calm of the ocean to wash over him... before he felt a small tap on his head. The turtle kaiju's eyes slowly trailed up.

Inaho silently waved, sitting on the scaly monster's head with an air bubble over her own. Gamera's eye twitched as she grinned eagerly, pointing towards his back.

A loud roar echoed throughout the surrounding area as a colossal turtle erupted from the water, frightening all local wildlife into scattering.

"Huh?" Inaho had a blank look of confusion as Gamera grabbed her, before she was dropped and kicked into the horizon by the kaiju.

Gamera let out a few heavy breaths as he stood there. After a moment he realized what he had just done. The giant reptile's mind flooded with guilt as he internally went over all the ways that kid could be injured, or worse! All because he lost his temper–

"That was fun!" Inaho smiled as she hung down in front of Gamera's eye, which began twitching soon after.

"Yeah! I'm queen of everything!" Inaho cheered as she rode atop the massive turtle shell.

'Figures I'd find one kid I can't stand...' The Turtle Kaiju grumbled in his thoughts.

"Man, the Loops are awesome!" Inaho smiled as she looked out into the horizon. "In Baseline I'd probably never end up riding a kaiju!"

Gamera looked up at the annoying girl quizzically, 'Loops...?'

Inaho took notice of the turtle kaiju's change of expression, before chuckling.

"Oh yeah, I guess you can understand me. You probably have no idea what I'm talking about," Inaho nodded thoughtfully, noting the turtle kaiju was still paying attention. "You know, like time-loops? It's a little hard to explain to someone that's not Looping, but ya see..."

One Welcome to the Multiverse Speech later...

Gamera's eyes widened after the kid finished her explanation, his brain trying to process so much at once.

'Loops! So that's it!' it all made sense now! That was why time kept restarting! Without a second thought Gamera hugged the child that had given him answers to what had been driving him mad for what felt like an eternity at this point, careful not to squish her.

"Awwww... Love you too bud!" Inaho smiled obliviously as she attempted to hug the kaiju back. Completely unaware that she had just given another Looper their Welcome to the Multiverse Speech.

10.3

[Yo-kai Watch/RWBY]

"Rubinyan, and Emenyan… why am I not surprised that these are actually yo-kai that exist in your Loop?" the sparkly green nekomata groaned as she stood in Triangle Park, glaring at the local Anchor.

"Well, along with Dianyan, Sapphinyan, Topanyan, and any of the other countless 'nyan' yo-kai that seem to pop up infinitely," Nate shrugged, not showing much reaction to the glittery red feline climbing on his head.

"Come on Emerald, this isn't that bad! Embrace being a feline! Nya!" Rubinyan cheered as she stood atop the Anchor's head proudly.

"Don't say 'nya!'" Emenyan snapped with a fierce glare.

"Ruby, get off my head," Nate sighed.

"Never! Carry me to the nearest bakery, big-little brother!" Ruby/Rubinyan cheered, pointing downtown.

"How about we go home, and I bake you something," Nate suggested as he started walking in the direction of his home.

"Okay, but I will decide the recipe!" the visiting Anchor approved with a wave of her paw.

Emenyan grunted and followed them. "So, what can this 'Emenyan' do anyway?"

"Simple: you're a healer," Nate answered casually.

"… Meh, not completely useless," Emerald/Emenyan shrugged as the trio made their way back to the Anchor's home.

10.4 ThanatosTiger

(Danny Phantom/Miraculous Ladybug/Channel Awesome/Red vs Blue/Pokémon/Fairly Odd Parents/Invader Zim/Yokai Watch/Spongebob/Phineas and Ferb/Sonic/Mario/Garfield/Seaman/DC/Marvel/SCP Foundation)

Nostalgia Chick glared as she looked at the various loopers that joined her cause. "So, the two superheroes I hired got me an asshole of a computer program, a nerd, two failed thieves and their pet cat, two crazy aliens, a teacher, a bunch of kids and a racist wizard. Doing so ended up getting even more Loopers coming to defend the Nostalgia Critic and this stupid holiday. Color me impressed."

The visiting loopers started to yell, each one arguing against the Nostalgia Chick's words until Danny interrupted it with an ectoplasmic blast.

"Look, we're all here, let's come up with a plan to beat these guys. Church, you're an AI, right?"

"Yeah, dipshit, I am, any other stupid questions you want to ask me?"

Danny smirked. "Just wanted to see if you'd help run this Meta suit/Ecto suit Tucker gave me." He then pulled said device out of his Pocket.

Church sighed. "Fine, just give me a sec. Not as good at this as Epsilon," The cynical AI left the robot suit he possessed and entered the Meta suit. "Ready."

Danny turned to his cousin. "Hey Timmy, you've got the inators from Dr D?"

"Yep, even the useless ones. How are you gonna conquer something that turns everything into turkey?" Timmy said. "Wish I could make some of them handheld, but–"

Without missing a beat, Draco pulled out his wand and started to wave it around. The inators flew in the air, then shrunk and grew a pistol grip, turning each one handheld.

As the collective loopers stared at him, Draco shrugged. "He did say 'I wish'."

Mrs Bitters sniffed, pulling her cloak closer around herself. "Well I hope you're fine with granting his wishes in battle, since I won't do so. The boy doesn't have his fairies."

Timmy frowned. "Wanda & Poof didn't want to, and Cosmo seems overkill since I have Dark Laser's Death Ball, as well as a borrowed Darth Laser Suit."

Gaz smirked. "We're good too. Zim and Tak have their ships as well, I've brought my Krampus mech, and Dib & Mrs Bitters can handle themselves."

"Indeed, that foolish human will rue the day that the boy decided to pick a fight with the mighty looping Irken fleet! Oh, and I'm sure the meager human contributions will benefit us."

Jessie growled. "Meager, you say! Meowth, show this mini Elgyem our mighty mechanical marvel we made!"

Meowth nodded, then pulled it out of his Pocket. It was a large mecha built to resemble the Pokémon Wobbuffet. "What we got here not only resembles our blue friend, it acts like him too. If yah attack it, it'll be sent right back at ya with a lot more power."

James grinned. "Since we couldn't bring our dear friend into battle, we went for the next best thing!"

Adrien smirked. "While your sci-fi stuff will kick ro-butt, I'll be sticking with my magic ring. Plagg, Claws Out!" The teen model then quickly turned into the superhero Chat Noir, then faced the local Loopers. "You guys have any Channel Awesome stuff with you?"

"I've got my NES stuff, but I'll equip that when we fight Nostalgia Critic."

"Paw-some!"

As Team Scrooge began planning their assault, the Koma Bros looked down at the scene with worry.

"We've got to warn Spongebob, zura!" Komajiro exclaimed. "Oh, if only we had weapons to fight with, zura!"

"You're right, I'll inform him on the radio, zura. Don't worry about fighting, zura. Your great older brother will keep you safe, zura."

"Great plan, bestest brother, zura!"

"Spongebob, their militia is worse than we thought, they've got two giant mechas, all of Dr. Doofenshmirtz's inators, and one has an armor that looks like the Meta Grif talked about!" Komasan warned. "Have you contacted the Critic yet?"

"Not yet, but I'll run over there and grab him, can you add Sandy to this call?"

"On it, zura!"

"Howdy, Spongebob, what do ya need."

"Ready the troops, I'm about to head over to the Critic."

"Already ready, Spongebob, we're all waiting on you."

"I'm ready!"

Putting the radio back in his Pocket, Spongebob redonned his Quickster costume and dashed to the Nostalgia Critic household. Arriving in a millisecond, Spongebob pounded on the door several times a second.

Nostalgia Critic then opened the door, stared at the non-native looper, and asked; "What the fuck are you doing here?"

"Critic! You gotta listen to me! Adrien Agreste, Danny Phantom, The Angry Videogame Nerd and a bunch of others are coming to destroy your Christmas party!" Spongebob warned.

Spongebob's eyes grew wide as the Critic began to change. His hair became spiky and red, his shirt and pants turned into a green morph suit, his skin became paler as two depictions of ornaments appeared on his cheeks, and even his tie changed from maroon to a bright red, white, and green.

"NNNNEEERRRRRRDDD!" Critic shouted to the sky. "Where is he, Spongebob?" He asked, his voice becoming a deep, growling baritone.

"The Koma Bros are scouting them. I was sent to tell you before Team Scrooge gets here!"

Critic and Spongebob heard the sound of the pop as Team Scrooge appeared a few feet away from the building, though Nostalgia Chick took the time to hide in her Pocket.

"You really should have prepared better." Chat said, smirking.

"Look, Spongebob, we don't want to fight you. We mostly want to stop a crazy guy from going too far in his planet ending obsession." Danny said calmly.

"Crazy? Christmas is a wonderful holiday…" Spongebob began.

"Unless your father and mother fight over something completely asinine during the holidays or have a magical supervillain as a parent." Chat Noir argued. "Now, I'm sure the Critic wants to fight as much as we do, especially with The Angry Video Game Nerd here, so let's see if we can get it started."

"Gladly." Critic said, pulling both sword and gun out of his Pocket. Spongebob nodded, pulling a beach's worth of sand out of his Pocket before making it into a legion of Santa Clauses, who charged at the opposing army.

The frontline collapsed against a Ghostly Wail, but several more charged toward, keeping the rest of Team Scrooge at bay.

Danny charged at the Nostalgia Critic, but Spongebob intercepted him in the blink of an eye, then began striking him with lightning quick karate.

"Alright, time to play hardball." Church said as he activated the suit's speed boost. Soon Danny was able to match Spongebob blow for blow.

Nostalgia Critic began firing his gun at Chat Noir, who deflected them with a swing of his baton.

A hatch opened from the Wobbuffet mecha as Jessie fired a net at the Critic, who cut it in half with a swing of his sword and a roll of his eyes.

"Seriously, that was stupid as hell." The Critic fired a lightning bolt at the mecha, which proved to his detriment as it struck him back with far more power. Pissed off, he charged at Team Rocket, knocking Chat Noir aside. Picking up the Wobbuffet mech, he then charged at The Angry Video Game Nerd, who escaped by jumping into his Pocket.

"What a coward." The Critic turned to face Chat Noir, but a blast in the back stopped him. Turning around, he saw the Angry Video Game Nerd decked out in his NES Weaponry.

Critic began shooting at the Nerd, charging at him to get in close with the mecha. Nerd gladly returned fire, lasers evaporating the bullets. Critic swung the mecha, but the U-Board deflected it easily. The Nerd grew to the size of a skyscraper, and picked up the mecha with his hands, Critic barely keeping his grip. Seeing an opportunity, Ms Bitters flew up to to the reviewer, cackling all the way. When she was a few feet away, Critic pulled himself on top the Wobbuffet mecha, then stabbed the Nerd in the hand with his sword, causing him to drop both.

While they were in free fall, Team Rocket pocketed the mecha and fled the war zone out on jetpacks, swearing they'll return another day, with a more sure victory.

Ms Bitters flew down as the Critic fell, ready to attack him once more, but the Angry Video Game Nerd stopped her.

"I can see the rest of Team Santa arriving on one of Bowser's ships a few miles away. I need you to get Draco, Timmy, Zim, Tak, and Gaz to attack the ship."

Ms Bitters nodded begrudgingly. As she flew, Timmy lifted all the sand warriors with the force, formed them into a ball, then blasted the sand ball with Doofenshmirtz's Turkeyinator. Seeing where Danny and Spongebob were fighting, Timmy dropped the baked bird on them, Danny turning intangible before he could get crushed.

"Wizard! Turner! Gaz! Tak! Zim! Attack Bowser's ship!" Ms Bitters yelled before flying off.

Draco unpocketed his broom and flew off, Timmy, Tak and Zim following in their respective ships. Gaz followed suit, her Krampus mech at full speed.

As the rest of the flying members of Team Scrooge went off to fight Bowser's ship, Danny began blasting Critic, Chat Noir and Dib following it up with some strikes from staffs and fists. These attacks barely impeded Critic, who began hacking away at them with his sword, necessitating the Nerd to stomp on the Critic.

At Bowser's ship, the fight was even matched between the two forces. Missiles, spells, lasers and a shadow traveling Ms Bitters damaging the ship and its passengers through hit and run tactics.

The tide turned though, with Seaman hopping towards Draco, then using Egyptian magic to turn him into a ferret. Draco valiantly tried to hold on to his broom, but eventually fell off.

With one of Team Scrooge's members down, Team Santa began to go on the offensive. Phineas and Ferb unpocketed their Treehouse Mechas to fight against Gaz's Krampusmech, Inaho and Bowser unleashed a litany of fire attacks, and Sandy began attempting to lasso any member of Team Scrooge she could. The blasters from Gaz, Timmy's and Tak and Zim's ships, fended them off, but barely.

Shadow smirked at this, victory was nearing. Pointing towards the Death Ball, Team Dark broke off from Team Santa and began approaching Timmy's ship, Super Shadow flying at lightning quick speed, Rogue and E-123 not far behind.

Timmy frowned as the group began attacking the Dark Laser face on his ship.

"Alright droids, you guys man the Death Ball, continue blasting the pirate ship, I'll battle deviantart's moneymakers."

The droids nodded and began manning the controls Timmy abandoned. Timmy ran out the open mouth of Dark Laser, then began blasting Team Dark with heat vision as soon as Shadow's fur turned black. Not that it did much to the hedgehog.

Shadow ran at the kid, who barely managed to keep up with Shadow's blows. Timmy swung his lightsaber, which caused Shadow to back off, temporarily. One Chaos Emerald later, and the world stood still. Shadow nudged the kid off the Death Ball, then time was restored.

Timmy barely caught himself with his dark powers, flying back onto the Death Ball. Shadow continued his onslaught, Timmy still barely keeping up. Taking the initiative E-123 began blasting away, coming close to hitting Timmy. Rouge flew at him, dealing devasting kicks. Timmy was able to melt E-123's arms, but was met with even more vicious kicks from Rouge. No matter how hard Timmy fought, three on one was still three on one. Shadow and Rouge smashed Timmy through the Death Balls engine, Timmy surviving only thanks to several healing potions from his Pocket.

"Good fight, Turner, I'm surprised you fought so well."

"Thanks, mind staying out of this?"

"I'm afraid not, I was looking forward to fighting more than you."

"No way to convince you otherwise, is there?" Timmy snarked.

Shadow shook his head, amused.

"Good luck, then." Timmy barely coughed out the words before passing out.

Despite the droids best efforts, the Death Ball crashed to the ground, making a crater twice the size of an Olympic swimming pool.

Tak stared down at the smoking ship in worry. The Team Scrooge forces against Critic's calvary were dwindling down to nothing, and she had already saw how much devastation the reviewer could wreak. There was no way for them to win.

Then Bowser's ship disappeared.

It didn't seem to matter much to Team Santa. The Mario Loopers were able to unpocket their karts and hang glide down. Team Dark and Seaman flew, and there seemed to be a man in an exosuit saving anyone who couldn't fly. But it was a good distraction. One she was able to use to her advantage as she blasted Team Santa with glee.

The blasts only shook Team Santa momentarily. The Mario Loopers sped towards the Krampusmech at breakneck speeds while Miss Bitters' assault on the exosuit wearer was kept in check by a few well placed kicks.

The Mario Loopers' karts transformed into huge bullets, and sped towards the Krampusmech even faster. Tak wasn't sure if it would survive such a thing.

Then the Krampusmech disappeared, and the giant bullets crashed into each other.

"I must say, this has been a wonderful experience," A voice drawled behind her. "Yes, Draco Malfoy singlehandedly saves the day as a ferret. Very nice."

With a loud CRACK, Tak and Draco appeared back where they fought the Nostalgia Critic. Said reviewer was fending off most of Team Scrooge with ease and glowing even brighter than before.

The Angry Video Game Nerd, despite his colossal size, had been knocked out, or worse.

"Keep trying, it makes it more fun." The Critic ripped off pieces of Danny's armor, and chucked them wildly. One nearly collided with her ship's engines, causing her to crash.

"Why does this keep happening?"

The Critic refocused his attention on Danny, who turned intangible. With his blows non-effective, Critic changes tactics once more, focusing on Cat Noir.

Despite the suit's magic, Cat Noir could still feel pain from the Nostalgia Critic's blows. Chat was on the defensive, focused more on deflecting blows with his staff then strikes.

Dib and Tak tried to take advantage of the distraction by dealing some powerful blows but were kept at bay and eventually got knocked out by huge explosions.

Seeing this, Danny, Draco, Zim and Gaz retreated to a further distance and focused on blasting the reviewer.

Ms Bitters shadow traveled on top of the reviewer, possibly trying to use more hit and run tactics, but was stabbed fatally with the Critic's sword.

Cat Noir rushed at him with a Cataclysm but was stopped when Critic crushed his hand. Luckily for Chat Noir, Danny distracted him from a killing blow with a blast.

Team Santa soon arrived, smiles wide as Santa's waistline. They were winning, all thanks to the Nostalgia Critic. Time to celebrate!

The pouring of champagne was interrupted by a huge explosion and several bullets fired. Critic was a red, white and green supernova, and the earth was beginning to crack under his feet.

Team Scrooge began to back away even further.

Inaho marched towards the reviewer, fury in her eyes. "Hey, we came here to help! Stop shooting us you–" Inaho was cut off with a bullet inches away from her face. "Jerk?"

Sandy lassoed Inaho away from the Critic, and Team Santa retreated, but Critic was in hot pursuit, the ground shaking with every step. Critic was about to swing at Inaho with his sword but was cut off with two katanas.

"Really, that's how you introduce the Merc with a Mouth? Unbelievable! Well, since I'm finally here, may as well drop some exposition on spacecraft. Batman, Tony, Superman Linkara, and the SCP got a bunch of rockets ready for everyone when this planet goes kablooey. Head west, and don't stop. Batman will evacuate you guys when you get there."

"Wait, we need to contact the Koma Bros!" Inaho yelled.

"Yeah, you could do that, or you could leave!" Deadpool said, barely keeping the reviewer at bay. He was able to fire a tranquilizer gun at the reviewer, which slowed down the Critic. He was soon joined by Spider-Man, Superman, and Iron Man in the Hulkbuster, who were able to push Critic on the defensive. "Alright kids. Time to run down to Bloomington!"

"Not without the Koma Bros!"

"Enough." Shadow stepped forward. "I'll run towards the Koma Bros location and run them towards the rocket."

"Great plan! We'll fend them off with Batman tested gadgetry, while you guys run like Hell now! Welp, looks like it's time for a scene transition. I'll teleport over to Danny and company, tell them where to go." Deadpool teleported over to Team Scrooge, where every member seemed to be relieved they were no longer fighting the Nostalgia Critic. "Alright nerds, time to get off the planet before Critic goes supernova. Linkara parked a couple miles east, so teleport yourself there. I'm gonna go fight Critic 'offscreen.'"

Draco Apparated the group once more to where Linkara was. They boarded the ship and took off from planet Earth, Batman's ship not to far behind, the Koma Bros on board.

Soon Superman, Iron Man, and Spider-Man left as well, leaving behind a half-drugged Critic, who exploded the entire planet in rage.

Back on the Comicron-1, Team Scrooge was healing up from the fight. Linkara walked in and approached Danny and Adrien, who were happily resting, and in the case of the latter, reading manga.

"Mind joining me in another room? Kinda want to talk to you guys for a bit."

Danny and Adrien looked at each other, shrugged, then nodded. They entered another room and sat down.

"So, how exactly did this start? I have a feeling you guys didn't just sit down and say you wanted to beat up the Critic."

Danny and Adrien winced.

"Not exactly. Originally, we were just gonna mess around as Christmas themed villains, but Nostalgia Chick told us about the Critic and how much of a nutcase he was, especially about Christmas, we decided to fight him. We thought he was a villain, more or less. As we continued, we thought it'd be cool to actually beat him, and that it'd be like challenging someone to a fight." Danny stated.

"You know, I can't help but wonder what would happen if you had just decided to stay home? Would someone come after you guys? Though I want to focus on a different hypothetical. What if you had done your research?"

"Hey, I researched Nostalgia Critic! His weapons, powers, abilities." Adrien shot back.

"Anything not related to combat?"

"... No."

"Yeah, if you had researched a bit more, you'd probably learn that Nostalgia Critic isn't that bad, even if he does go cuckoo bonkers around this time. He isn't entirely his Christmas mania, just like you guys aren't just Scrooges. I normally handle the guy pretty well, though I do have practice as the Anchor." Seeing their shocked faces, Linkara let out a sigh. "You guys really need to do your research. Anyway, why do you guys hate Christmas so much? Maybe I can suggest a way around it."

"Christmas sucks ash in our Baseline. Danny's parents argue over Santa's existence, and has to deal with a reality warping writer if he breaks his masterpiece. As for me, my dad is…"

"Emotionally constipated and pushes Adrien into things he doesn't want to do and hasn't tried to get over his grief." Danny interrupted.

"That."

"Families suck around Christmas huh. Maybe take a Vacation loop, there are quite a few Loops with evil Santas. Try to expand your family a bit as well. You can choose them when you loop."

"They aren't that bad." Danny argued. "But I think I'll try a Vacation loop. Thanks for the advice, dude."

"No problem. Grab something to eat before the loop crashes."

The two superheroes' eyes widened. Adrien was quicker on the uptake. "Do you have croissants?"

"Second shelf. Happy Holidays!"

10.5 Boohoooo! (Continuation of 9.9)

(Yo-Kai Watch X Tom and Jerry X We Bare Bears X RWBY)

Nom Nom's eye twitched as Inaho was distracted for the umpteenth time.

"Oohhhh! An amusement park! Can we go, pretty pleaseeeeee?!" Inaho begged.

"No! We're supposed to get these taco supplies!" Nom Nom snapped.

"Pleaseeeeeee?!" Inaho whimpered.

"... Fine." Nom Nom grunted.

"Yay!" Inaho cheered, grabbing her siblings and running inside the Amusement Park.

"Hmmmph. It's time to mess 'em up!" Sailornyan cackled, striking a cute pose.

"You're really sending mixed messages." Sailornyan's minion, Crunchy, pointed out.

"Shut it and attack them." Sailornyan glared. Crunchy shrugged and went to do as told.

"Your time of wreckening has come..." Sailornyan cackled to herself.

Zwei and Jerry laughed as they posed for a picture. Inaho smiled as she rode a roller coaster. Even Nom Nom was enjoying himself, getting his picture taken by fans.

"Nothing could ruin this!" Inaho cheered.

"PREPARE TO MEET YOUR MAKER, ON MY BOSS' ORDERS!" Crunchy cackled, posing in a giant robot.

"... I hate everything." Nom Nom deadpanned.

10.6

"Hey, Fumika, glad you could make it!" Inaho greeted the other female watch-holder as she came up to the door of the InaUSA detective agency.

"Nice to see you too, so what was it you wanted from… me?" Fumika trailed off as she stepped inside, she noted the absence of USApyon, as well as the out of place visage of Hikikōmori, sitting on the couch, looking like she didn't want to be here.

"Great, so with you here, we only need one more!" Inaho cheered despite Fumika's confusion, pulling a yo-kai medal from her pocket, she paused before inserting it into her watch. "Huh… you know, I never actually noticed how few female Loopers our Branch has in comparison to our male ones… and Hikikōmori's not even female in Baseline, that was a glitch!"

"Please don't talk about that in front of me, especially not by yelling…" Hikikōmori pleaded timidly.

Fumika patted the bat yo-kai's head comfortingly.

Inaho sighed, "Fine, but first chance I get, I'm lobbying to our Admin to get some more girls Looping!"

"I'm not sure if that would do anything… what are we here for anyway?" Fumika sweatdropped.

"Girls' night! Fun times, and all that! No boys allowed! Get it?" Inaho smiled at the two.

"… Can I go home now?" Hikikōmori asked.

Inaho let out a groan, "Just give it a try, would you? I need to summon our last member," she held up the Ningyo medal and grinned. "Come on out my friend! Summoning, Ningyo! Yo-kai medal, set-on!" she inserted the medal into the Yo-kai Watch Dream she was wearing.

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

"Ningyo!" the half-fish, half-girl yo-kai announced her name as she appeared, before giving an annoyed look and immediately slapping Inaho with her tail.

"OW!" the purple-haired girl fell to the ground, clutching her head, "Why did you do that…?"

Ningyo huffed as she looked away, "I specifically said not to summon me with that 'Yo-kai Watch Dream' until you all figured out exactly how it works, I don't want to set my mouth on fire!" Ningyo snapped, before glancing over to see an unsure looking Fumika, and Hikikōmori trying to hide herself in her wings. "… What is this?"

"Apparently, it's a girls' night," Fumika shrugged, petting Hikikōmori some more, hoping to help her calm down. "I don't know what exactly Inaho has planned, but… you know, it could be fun?"

Inaho got back up and nodded.

Ningyo stared at the three for a moment with a semi-thoughtful look, "… No." the classic yo-kai shook her head, turning to open the door and leave.

"Wait! Wait! Give it a chance, it'll be fun! I swear!" Inaho pleaded.

Ningyo glared at her for a moment more, "… Yeeeeaaaah–NO!" Ningyo opened the door and was about to exit the building, when she was blocked by an invisible barrier. "Huh…?" she banged her fists against the force stopping her from leaving, a frustrated expression forming on her face, "What is this!?"

"Ha…ha, I kind of made a magic circle around the detective agency to make sure you wouldn't leave…" Inaho shrugged with a sheepish expression.

Ningyo turned to the human girl slowly, her eyes covered by shadows and a dangerous aura emitting from her, "You… what?"

"AH! Fumika, help me!" Inaho ducked behind the other human girl.

Fumika let out a small sigh, "You really want to do this, huh?" Fumi shook her head before looking towards the slowly approaching Ningyo. "Okay, Ningyo, you're mad, I can understand that, I'm a little miffed too that Inaho invited me over without informing me about this 'magic circle' of hers, or even what she wanted me for, but let's not lose our heads…"

"She basically kidnapped me," Ningyo hissed.

"Well, if we tried, I'm sure we could break out of whatever barrier Inaho set up," Fumika pointed out, this seemed to calm Ningyo down a little. "… Say, how did you set up a 'magic circle' anyway? Aren't you always complaining about not getting magic?" the brown-haired girl questioned the purple-haired one.

Inaho blinked, before frowning, "No, I'm unhappy that the tree hates me, and I never get to be a magical girl! You know? Flashy transformation sequence, a name I can announce to the heavens, maybe a cool, marketable weapon… but nothing's stopped me from studying magic before," Inaho shrugged.

Fumika facepalmed, deciding to not try and decipher the other girl's logic. "… Anyway, maybe we could at least try whatever Inaho has planned, and if you, or any of us don't like it, Inaho will drop the barrier and they can leave," Fumika suggested, before giving Inaho a serious look, "Won't you, Inaho…?"

"Er, yes! I will drop the barrier whenever you want!" Inaho insisted, looking a bit nervous. "Just give my girls' night idea a try, please!"

Ningyo kept her glare, letting out an annoyed sigh, "… Fine." Inaho started to cheer, but Ningyo moved over to her with a dangerous glare in her eyes. "But, if I don't like this little 'girls' night' of yours, and you still don't let me leave, I'm turning you into chum, clear!?"

"Crystal," Inaho nodded quickly.

Ningyo nodded back, before slinking away from the human.

"So… what do we do?" Fumika tried to break the tension.

Inaho twitched a bit, before looking towards her guests and smiling widely. "Oh, right! Hold on a second!" Inaho began to look through her pocket.

Ningyo flicked her tail back and forth with a bored expression.

Hikikōmori tried to hide her face in her wings, occasionally peeking out to give the room a quick glance over before hiding again.

Fumika just looked unsure of the entire situation.

"TADA!" Inaho cried out proudly, holding up a box with the characters of Sailor Piers on it. "The official Sailor Piers card game!" Inaho was immediately met with a tail-slap from a ticked-off Ningyo. "Not a fan, I suppose…?"

"I'm out of here," the mermaid-like yo-kai growled as she loomed over Inaho. "Drop the barrier, now!"

"Wait! Wait! Please, just give me a chance!" Inaho pleaded, digging through her pocket again.

Fumika noticed both Inaho's desperation to find some activity, as well as Ningyo's increasingly thinning patience. With a small sigh, the brown-haired girl decided to lend a hand to the situation. "Hey, how about we play Truth or Dare?"

The sudden interjection brought both Inaho and Ningyo's attention over to the other human girl, the aquatic yo-kai's eyes narrowed with suspicion, while Inaho's held hope.

"Truth or Dare?" Ningyo questioned slowly, her expression unchanging.

"It's a fairly standard activity for these types of get-togethers," Fumika explained with a kind smile. "I figure if we're going to do this, it's a good place to start."

"Fumika, you're a life-saver!" the purple-haired host praised with teary-eyes.

Ningyo scoffed with a roll of her eyes, "Fine, I'll play."

"Yeah!" Inaho cheered loudly, causing her guests to wince.

"BUT!" Ningyo slammed her tail onto the ground, bringing the attention back to her, "Only one game! After that, I'm out of here! Got it!?"

"Got it!" Inaho gave a thumbs-up to the disgruntled yo-kai. "But trust me, once this girls' night gets rolling, you'll change your tune!"

Ningyo huffed, "I highly doubt that."

"Okay, okay! I'll start!" Inaho clapped her hands in excitement, looking around at the other Loopers. "Hmm… who should I pick," Inaho smirked when her eyes focused on the one the guest that was trying to make themselves unseen in the corner. "Hikikōmori!"

"Eek!" the called yo-kai squeaked, backing further into the corner. "Y-yes?"

Fumika frowned a bit, looking between the nervous yo-kai and eager girl. "Um, Inaho, maybe it would be better if you picked me for the first go?"

"N-no, it's okay. I can do it," Hikikōmori assured despite her shyness, carefully hovering forward.

"Alright Hiki, that's the spirit!" the bespectacled girl praised. "So, Truth, or Dare?"

"Um… Truth?" the bat-like yo-kai nodded nervously.

Inaho gave a mischievous smile, "Okay Hikikōmori, do you have a crush on anyone?"

Hikikōmori didn't take more than a moment to think about her answer, "Hmm… no."

Inaho frowned in disappointment, "What, seriously? You don't have a crush on anyone!?"

"No, I don't," the flying yo-kai shook her head.

"You're not lying, are you? It's Truth or Dare! You can't lie, unless you're dared to, but you picked truth!" the purple-haired girl exclaimed with a serious expression.

Hikikōmori shrank back a bit, "I really don't have a crush on anyone, at the moment."

"At the moment, hmmm…?"

"Hey! Misora, she answered your question, so let's move on!" Ningyo suddenly shouted, breaking Inaho's train of thought.

"Huh? Well… I guess she did," Inaho gave a sigh at the failure to get anything entertaining out of her turn.

"I guess it's my turn then," Hikikōmori nodded, briefly scanning the room. "Ningyo?"

"Yes?" the mermaid-like yo-kai unenthusiastically chimed.

"Truth or… um, Dare?"

"Hmm… well considering everything," Ningyo tapped her chin thoughtfully, before letting out another sigh, "I guess I'll go with Dare."

"Oh, dare! Way to get this party started mer-girl!" Inaho grinned, despite the glare she was given in return.

"Okay, hmm… I dare you… to…" Hikikōmori hummed in thought, "To…"

"Come on Hiki, think of a good one," Inaho encouraged.

"Inaho, just let her do it," Fumika lightly scolded the other human.

"To…" Hikikōmori scanned over the room again, trying to come up with some idea.

"I don't have all night here!" Ningyo impatiently tapped her finger on the floor.

"Eek! O-okay, hold on…" the bat yo-kai whimpered. "Um… I dare you to…" her eyes suddenly widened with realization. "I dare you to call Kyubi and confess your undying love to him!"

The mermaid-like yo-kai nearly flipped over as her eyes went wide, "WHAT!?"

"Oh, good one! Didn't think you had it in you Hiki!" Inaho chuckled with a clap of her hands.

"Yeah, I really didn't see that one coming," Fumika admitted with a surprised expression, before pulling her phone out of her pocket, "You want his number Ningyo, or do you already know it?"

Ningyo's neck swerved around as she looked between the other girls, before letting out an angered growl. "I don't want his number, because I am not calling that pervert-fox friend of yours and confessing my none-existent love for him!"

"B-but, you have to," Hikikōmori pointed out unsurely, "That's the rules, you have to do the dare…"

"I won't!" Ningyo snapped back, making the bat-like yo-kai shrink back in fear. "I don't care if it's the rules!" she turned her glare to Fumika, who was putting her phone away. "If I get that sleazy kitsune thinking I have feelings for him, you know he won't ever leave me alone!"

"I'd explain to him later that it was a dare," the brown-haired human assured, but Ningyo's glare didn't fade. "… I mean, he'd get the hint eventually. He's not that bad…" again, Ningyo's glare went unchanged. Fumika let out a cough.

"… I'm not doing it," the Nyroron yo-kai repeated with a firm tone, her expression showing she was unwilling to budge on this matter.

"Um… do I have to think of a different dare now?" the winged yo-kai squirmed in place helplessly.

"Nah!" Inaho shook her head, "If Ningyo doesn't want to do the dare, she doesn't have to. The game can still continue," after saying this, the girl's smile slowly creeped into an evil smirk as she turned her eyes to the aquatic yo-kai.

"What's with that look?" Ningyo's eyes narrowed with suspicion.

Inaho chuckled, "You can pass on Hiki's dare if you want, but… there's something else you have to do in exchange…"

"She does?" Hikikōmori looked confused.

"I do?" Ningyo still looked suspicious.

Fumika let out a mischievous giggle as she got what Inaho was aiming for.

Inaho nodded her head, her smirk still in place.

Ningyo huffed, "Fine, whatever it is can't be worse than that dare. What exactly do I have to do?"

Ningyo growled a bit as she sat in the middle of the room, a chicken hat on her head and a fake beak strapped over her nose, "You guys better not film this."

"Don't worry Ningyo, we'd never do that," Fumika tried to keep herself from laughing.

"Especially not for blackmail," Inaho openly laughed.

"Is this reallya rule of the game?" Hikikōmori questioned with a mixture of confusion and concern.

"If you want to get out of a dare, you have to do the chicken dance! It's an unbreakable rule of Truth or Dare!" Inaho insisted, tapping her glasses with a smirk. "Now do the dance already Ningyo!"

"Do your glasses have a recording mechanism?" the aquatic yo-kai's eyes narrowed.

Inaho paused, she slowly moved her hand up to her glasses again. "Noooooo…"

"They do, don't they!? I'm not doing a humiliating chicken dance, dressed like this, while you film it!" Ningyo snapped, shaking her fist.

"You know, you could still call Kyubi," Inaho pointed out with a small smirk.

Ningyo intensely stared at Inaho for several seconds. "… Just take your glasses off and I'll do the stupid dance!"

The purple-haired watch-holder frowned, "But then I won't be able to see your dance!"

Ningyo snarled, "Inaho!"

"Inaho, could you just take off your glasses? We all know you've been able to see without them for a while now," Fumika pointed out while shaking her head.

"Oh, fine! But I'm telling you, there's no recording-device in my glasses!" Inaho exclaimed, taking her glasses off and storing them in her sub-space pocket. "There, happy?"

"No," Ningyo answered bluntly. "But I'll just get this over with, so we can move on."

"Great!" Inaho smiled.

Fumika moved over to the other human and whispered to her, "Say, was there a recording device in your glasses?"

Inaho subtly chuckled, "No, but now she doesn't suspect the one in my hair."

Fumika stared at the other girl for a few seconds. "… Nice."

"Shh! It's starting," Inaho hissed with an evil grin, her eyes focused on Ningyo.

The mermaid-like yo-kai let out a long sigh before taking a 'chicken pose,' "Cluck, cluck, cluck! Look at me, I'm a chicken! Cluck, cluck, cluck! Watch my stupid chicken-dance!" she spoke in a sarcastic tone as she did the chicken dance; flapping her arms like wings and pretending to peck at the ground every now and then. "Cluck, cluck, cluck…"

"I'm, um, don't think the 'clucking' is necessary…" Hikikōmori timidly suggested, but went unheard.

"Okay, that's enough," Inaho chuckled, waving for the yo-kai to stop. "That was great, I've definitely got enough blackmail."

"You've got what?" Ningyo narrowed her eyes dangerously.

"I said you've had enough punishment! Time to move on with the game!" the purple-haired girl quickly insisted.

"Nice save," Fumika whispered with a small smirk.

"Shut up," Inaho whispered back, before smiling at Ningyo, "That means it's your turn fish-girl!"

Ningyo kept her eyes narrowed. "… Fine. Misora, Truth or Dare!?"

"Huh, me?" the host looked surprised, before smirking, "Okay, well I'm obviously going to pick dare! Hit me with your best shot! Chi-watchi!"

Ningyo glare slowly turned to an evil smirk, "I thought so."

"Um, Inaho, I think you maybe should have picked truth," Hikikōmori pointed out worriedly.

"What? No way! That's boring," Inaho denied.

"I actually think Hikikōmori might be right, at the least you may end up doing the chicken-dance," Fumika nodded.

Inaho blew a raspberry at that idea, "Me? Nope! I'm a professional at this kind of thing guys! It don't matter what kind of dare she gives me, the bigger the challenge, the better the feeling of triumph!"

"That's not proper grammar," Fumika deadpanned.

"Nobody cares, Fumika," the purple-haired girl shot back. Inaho arrogantly smirked at Ningyo, "Besides, there's no dare you could possibly come up with that would be too much for me, just you try!"

"Oh, okay then…" Ningyo's smirk grew as a fire seemed to burn in her eyes, "I dare you to…"

Across town, the fur of a certain Sith-otter-yo-kai dressed like a space-rabbit suddenly stood on end, "I… just had this ominous feeling… like that Inaho was in grave danger, dani…" USApyon muttered with a haunting expression.

"Does that mean you're out?" Jinmenken smirked, lowering his cards, sunglasses gleaming.

"Dani!? And let you stay on top? No way, I'm all in, dani!" USApyon moved some donuts into the center of the table, among other objects such as chocolate bars, and various odd trinkets from across the multiverse.

"Your loss, kid," the human-faced dog chuckled arrogantly.

"We really should have knyown better than to play poker with someone like Jinmenken, nya" Jibanyan muttered with a defeated expression, glancing at his own cards.

"So, do you want out?" Fuu2 question with a concerned look.

"Nyo way, we nyeed to win your body back, Keita-nya!"

"You know I have more in my pocket, right?" the Anchor pointed out.

"It's the principal! Nya!" the cat yo-kai exclaimed.

"Are you two done talking? Let's get back to the game already!" Jinmenken howled, "Let's say winner-takes-all this round!"

"You're on!(Nya!/Dani!)" the three other Loopers shouted with determination.

"I'm a little concerned about how long this has been going on, whissu," Whisper muttered as he watched poker match from nearby.

"I wouldn't worry about it, it's all in good fun," Guts K smiled, Fuyunyan nodded in agreement.

"… I'm not sure if that's true, but I suppose I should trust your judgement, whissu," Whisper still looked concerned. "By the way, have you seen any of the girls? Fumika could probably talk at least Keita and Jibanyan out of this."

"I do believe I heard Inaho say she was planning a girls' night, so that's probably where they are!" Fuyunyan nodded.

"Oh…" Whisper looked a little disappointed, but shrugged, "Well, at least they're probably having a better time than us…"

In the midst of the destroyed detective agency, the ground littered with various cooking utensils, undercooked pies, and burnt lasagna, Inaho lay, her clothing charred, smoke trailing from her hair, and her glasses fogged over.

Ningyo had a shocked and horrified expression on her face, staring at the purple-hair girl with her mouth gaping wide.

Fumika stood with her hand to her forehead, shaking her head in disappointment.

Hikikōmori whimpered as she desperately tried to hide herself amongst the debris of the now destroyed building.

"… So…" Inaho's voice was empty, her body unmoving as she spoke. "I think we can call it for the girl's night, wouldn't you guys say?"

"What is wrong with you!?" Ningyo suddenly shouted. "I made that dare so that you would quit this! Not… WHATEVER JUST HAPPENED HERE!"

"You should have known better," Fumika stated plainly as she stood by. "It's Inaho, of course this would happen."

"I would like to go back to Keita's closet now…" Hikikōmori shivered as her eyes darting around.

"I'll take you back," Fumika assured softly, before glancing back at Ningyo and Inaho with a stern expression. "And I hope both of you have learned some things tonight…"

"I certainly have that girl is CRAZY!" Ningyo shouted, pointing towards Inaho. "Much more so than I had thought possible!"

Inaho suddenly sat up, her glasses clearing up, before smiling. "So, we should do this again sometime, right?" she glanced at the other girls hopefully.

The response was unanimous, "NO!"

10.7 Boohoooo!

(Skylanders Academy X Yo-Kai Watch)

Kaos cackled as he stormed the President of Japan's office.

"FOOLS! With my power amassed from Looping, I, KAOS, will be UNSTOPPABLE!" Kaos cackled as he swatted people away.

"Hey, sir! You can't just barge in here and disturb the President!" Whisper glared. Kaos rolled his eyes and went to swat the Yo-Kai Butler away...

Later...

"Can I come out of this box yet?" Kaos complained, having been trapped in a box by Whisper hours ago.

"Not until you apologize!" Whisper huffed.

"... You drive a hard bargain, ghost! A hard bargain indeed!" Kaos grumbled, making Whisper roll his eyes.

10.8

[Yo-kai Watch/Doki Doki Literature Club]

Sayori Awoke to find herself in a small, one-room building, sitting on a chair with a desk and laptop before her, she glanced around, noting the room was lightly furnished with things such as shelves that housed models and manga, as well as two couches in the center of the room, with some sort of small creature in a yellow rabbit-themed spacesuit sitting on one.

"Um… wait, what was that last thing?" Sayori questioned, quickly going through her memories and letting out a Ping. She got about three back and noted the small creature–yo-kai–had taken notice of her.

"Oh, you Awake? Dani," the being Sayori's memories told her was named 'USApyon' spoke curiously. "Darth Somnus, I presume? Pleasure to finally meet you, dani."

Sayori stared at the strange creature sitting before her in surprise, but more so by what it had referred to her as, rather than its appearance. "You… know of me?"

"I had heard of you from Cognita. It's nice talking to another Sith every now and then, even if I'm not a member of your group 'Looping Sith Ladies,' dani" the yo-kai explained with a shrug.

Sayori nodded in understanding, "Cognita… right… Cinder. I'm sorry, but… can we drop the titles for the rest of this conversation? Please?"

USApyon shrugged, "Makes no difference to me. Either I'm 'Darth USApyon,' or just plain USApyon. So, I'll call you Sayori, that what you want? Dani."

"Yes, thank you," the currently human girl bowed in thanks.

"Well you're certainly more respectful than my usual partner, though probably won't be long before I miss her annoying me, dani," USApyon shook his head with a sigh.

"Oh… sorry about that, taking your friend's place that is…" Sayori looked away a bit guiltily.

"Meh, I could use a break from her anyway," USApyon dismissed. "Not like you could have any say in where you Loop to anyway. Don't go beating yourself up over things that aren't your fault, okay? Dani."

"Yeah, that's true," the visiting Looper admitted with a nod, glancing toward the local curiously. "So… 'dani?'"

"It's a verbal-tick, dani," USApyon answered plainly.

"Right, okay…" Sayori nodded in understanding. "And also, 'Darth USApyon'… is that really your Sith name?"

"Yes. Dani."

A silence settled between the two Sith Loopers for a brief moment.

Sayori let out a cough, briefly going over the rest of her Loop-memories before speaking again. "So… we're like, yo-kai detectives?"

"Yup! We solve cases involving yo-kai, for yo-kai, or otherwise. Though usually it's not all that interesting since Inaho and I have already solved all the Baseline cases for the time being. But there is still variants and all the Loop variable time we potentially have," the otter yo-kai explained confidently. "Plus, with Looper abilities and knowhow we can typically expand our business to a lot more than what we were capable of in Baseline," USApyon paused as he glanced at Sayori again, "Though… since you're a visitor, we should probably keep things simple… dani."

"Well… being a detective could be interesting," the often-digital girl said thoughtfully. "Monika mentioned she visited this Loop before, though she became a yo-kai…"

"Monika, oh, she's here too," the local Looper pointed out.

Sayori's eyes widened with a bit of surprise, "She is?"

"She's replacing Fumika, other than Keita, she's the only other Awake Looper currently," USApyon pulled out a yo-kai pad and began swiping on it. "She said to contact her if you Woke up, she'll probably want to speak with you, make sure you're doing okay and everything. Dani."

"Yeah, that sounds like her," Sayori chuckled a bit.

"She wants us to meet at Keita's house. We can discuss how to handle the rest of the Loop from there," USApyon nodded, moving towards the door.

"It'll also be a chance to meet your Anchor, Monika talked about him once and mentioned we'd probably get along," Sayori smiled as she got up from her seat and followed the local Looper.

10.9 smxsonic

[Kamen Rider Decade/Yo-kai Watch]

Yokai, Riders, and Pores

This new expansion was a weird one, there was no doubt about that in Keita's mind. Variants were even weirder.

They got to the point where they met Koalanyan when he realized that he didn't have the Yo-kai Watch Dream with him while in the other world. He checked his Pockets and found that he was pocket locked, and the only things in his physical pocket was an oval-shaped slate and a weird folio. He recognized the two Items from Junior and Tucker's shenanigans. The OOO Driver and the accompanying Medals.

"So… We're in a fused loop then?" Keita asked while looking around. Whisper was still there, and he didn't see a disembodied avian hand.

Keita decided to shelf those problems and had to find and befriend Koalanyan the old-fashioned way.

The last change was the strangest, and it was only made known in the "normal" world.

"WHY IS THE WHALE A PTERODACTYL!?" Keita screamed, as the world switched.

On the other side of town, a solitary click of a camera was heard. The Owner of the camera wound the film and looked on to the city.

"So, this is the World of OOO for this loop."

Despite the weird variant, things went along as closely as it did to Baseline. The trick Keita pulled with KomaKaa-san to pull Kanami down still worked. Apparently yo-kai stuck around, only the Yo-kai Watch Dream seemed to disappear. Which was good to know.

Things got weird again when Kanami started explaining her backstory. Her eyes glowed purple and Keita's Medal holder started vibrating. Keita took it out and it suddenly opened. Three Purple Medals flew out and went through Kanami. Four medals flew out of her and joined the giant Pterodactyl than had just phased in from the normal world.

Kanami floated up and then danced off with the pterodactyl.

"What… Just happened?"

"The Dinosaur Greeed," a voice called.

Keita turned to see a man wearing a magenta shirt under a black blazer. A Twin lens camera was hanging from his neck.

"Eh?" Keita vocalized.

"Greeed are beings that represent and feed off desire. The Dinosaur Greed however, represents the lack of Desire, and feeds on Broken dreams."

The world shifted, and the man disappeared.

"Who was that guy?"

"Keita! We have to follow her!" Whisper yelled.

Keita nodded and ran off alongside his butler yo-kai.

The battle with Kanami was fairly standard: Whenever Keita's yo-kai buddies tried to attack her, she would shift the the more realistic world. Decreasing their attack power dramatically. It was a sort of game that Keita really didn't like. He turned his attention to the slate that was in his jacket pocket.

"Do you know how to use it?"

Keita turned to see the Camera Man walking nonchalantly towards him.

"You…"

"That driver you hold is the key to victory. Are you familar whit how to use it?"

Keita looked at the Driver, "I've dabbled in some Kamen Rider gear before. I can figure this one out... Who are you, anyway?"

The Cameraman chuckled, "I'm just a man on a journey; A passing through Kamen Rider, Remember that."

He took out his own driver, an oval piece with a red window in the middle. He attached it to his waist as belt straps appeared to secure it. He pulled the tabs on either side, turning the buckle 90 degrees. He pulled a card out.

"Henshin!"

He flipped the card so that the face was facing him and inserted it into the buckle.

"Kamen Ride!"

He then turned the buckle back to its original position.

"DECADE!"

He was then surrounded by nine ghosts wearing armor, which all phased into the Camera Man. Leaving him in magenta armor, Holographic card landed through his head forming a helmet with a Barcode design.

It hit Keita just who the Camera Man was. Tucker and Junior really liked his driver the most because of its sheer versatility. This was the True owner of the Decadriver, Tsukasa Kadoya, Kamen Rider Decade.

"Are you ready?"

Keita snapped back to reality and nodded. He then slapped his OOO driver onto his waist producing belt straps and the O scanner. He took out the Medal Holder and took out a Red, a Yellow and a Green Medal. He inserted the medals and turned the slate 45 degrees. Keita ran the Scanner down the slate, each medal chiming as it was passed over.

"Henshin!"

"TAKA! TORA! BATTA!"

"TA-TO-BA! TATOBA! TA-TO-BA"

Ketia was surrounded in giant Holographic Medals. Each set settling on a color and enveloping him, forming his suit: a Red Helmet that was modeled after a hawk, a Yellow chest pieces that included the Arms with claws folded up until they were needed, and Green legs that were ready to jump with the power of a grasshopper.

This was the natural form of Kamen Rider OOO.

"Alright, so we're transformed, how do we get to her?" Keita asked.

Decade took out his Ride book and took out a card. The action sounded a lot like a Bike Reving oddly enough. "I think I have a solution…" Decade opened his driver again and dropped the card in there.

"Final Form Ride."

He closed the driver again.

"O-O-OOO"

Decade then stood behind Keita. "This might tickle a bit…"

"Eh? What are you doing?" Keita asked

Decade then pressed a disk on OOO's back, and it looked like OOO himself had split and folded himself into different armor parts. The claws attached to Decade's arms, as did the Leg pieces to Decade's own. The Helmet split itself and fit itself around Decade's.

"Wha-What What's going on?" Keita asked, now being a voice in Tsukasa's head.

"This is our true power," Tsukasa answered smugly.

Red ethereal wings spread on Decade's back. He jumped up and flew towards Kanami and the Pterodactyl. His Claws were extended and slashed at the pterodactyl, silver medals erupting from the dinosaur.

Kanami had the Pterodactyl switch the worlds, but the rider remained.

"The worlds are coming closer together," Tsuakasa pointed out, "I can actually experience your world now."

Decade slashed again, and more Medals erupted from it. The Dinosaur started snapping at the Rider but Decade swiftly doged and weaved through the air while slashing at the pterodactyl.

The sky rained down medals as Decade did more and more damage.

"I think it's time to finish this." Tsukasa said as he took out another card and put it into his driver.

"FINAL ATTACK RIDE!"

Decade flew up high above the pterodactyl and closed his Driver.

"O-O-OOO"

A circle appeared under Decade, and the OOO armor detached from him and reformed into a Rider and fell into the circle. The circle then split in six other circles and six different OOO flew out of them and kicked through the dinosaur. Decade then sliced through it with his Ride booker in sword mode.

The dinosaur exploded, raining down medals all over the place, along with four Purple medals that floated down around Keita. He then went to pick them up.

He had managed to pick three up when the fourth started to glow. It lifted off the ground and the other silver medals gravitated towards it.

The medals coalesced into a humanoid form and reptilian features started to form.

"Is that… A Dinosaur man?" Keita asked.

"This is the true form of the Dinosaur Greed: Giru."

"Which is a better name than anything Keita-kun would've come up with." Whisper piped up.

Keita glared at the ghost Yokai under his mask.

The monster shambled towards The Riders.

"He doesn't have his full facilities." Tsukasa observed, "He's scraping by only using one core medal."

Tsukasa eyed the medals in Keita's hands, "Those should be able to do the job."

Keita looked at the Medals in his hands and nodded. He turned the Belt Buckle straight again and took the medals out. He then put the purple medals into the belt, turned it 45 degrees and scanned the Medals.

"Ptera, Tricera, Tyranno: PuToTyrannoSAURUS!"

OOO's costume changed. The Headpiece resembled a Pteradactyl, the arm pieces had horns on the shoulders and the leg parts included a purple tail.

Keita felt a great surge of power that took all his will as a Looper to control, although he still punched through the ground and pulled out a purple axe molded to look like a dinosaur.

Keita looked to Tsukasa, who nodded as if it was supposed to happen.

Keita rushed at Giru, connecting with each one and Medals flying out of him.

"Must… Destroy…" The Greeed growled out.

Keita took a handful of medals and inserted them into the blade. He turned a lever, making the dinosaur head "Swallow" the Medals. Another handle flipped out from under the axe to make it look like a gun.

"PuToTyranno HISSATSU!"

Keita pulled the trigger. Sending a ball of purple energy at the greed. Disintegrating it into medals and destroying the purple core medal.

Everything wound down as Kanami finally found her life worth living again and agreed to separate the worlds again. Keita convinced her to hold off on activating Koalanyan for a while, so he could talk to his new friend.

"Thanks for your help," Keita said.

"It was what I was here to do," Tsukasa replied, while holding a photo of Kanami holding Koalanyan.

"So, what are you going to now?"

"Continue on my journey, until the loop ends."

"Well, see you again soon, Tsukasa."

Tsukasa waved goodbye as he disappeared into a photo studio and the world shifted one last time.

10.10 Boohoooo!

[Invader Zim/Gregory Horror Show/Godzilla/Scooby Doo/Yo-kai Watch/Who Framed Roger Rabbit]

Zim, Neko Zombie, Zilla Junior, Velma Dinkley and Jinmenken were currently floating in space, arguing.

"THIS ALL YOU NON-ZIMS' FAULT! ZIM IS ENRAGEDDDDDDDD!" Zim shouted.

"Would you shut up?! You're not accomplishing anything other than giving us headaches!" Velma snapped.

"Meh, I've been in worse situations." Neko Zombie yawned.

"Well, while we're up here, we might as well reminisce..." Jinmenken sighed.

"...Why?" Zilla Junior blinked, before realizing everyone was reminiscing about how they got in this situation, causing him to shrug and join in.

Three weeks earlier...

The aforementioned group Awoke in a police station.

"I AM ZIMMMMMMMMM!" Zim shouted in introduction.

"We knew that already due to Loop memories..." Neko Zombie deadpanned, rubbing his ears.

"NEO TOON PATROL! REPORT TO MY OFFICE!" A voice shouted over the intercom. The group did as told with a shrug. The Police Chief was there.

"Do you yahoos know why you're here?" The Chief glared.

"No, but we also don't know why people would still use the word yahoo unironically." Zilla Junior joked. The Chief's eye twitched.

"You're HERE because you almost killed several of your fellow officers! You Toons are LOOSE CANNONS!" He roared.

"... Are you done? We got better things to do." Neko Zombie yawned.

The Chief promptly pressed a button, resulting in anvils dropping on the 5.

"Just be more careful, ya goobers." The Chief sighed as birds surrounded the 5's heads.

10.11

[Yo-kai Watch/LBX]

"This is nyot funny, guys, nya…" Jibanyan growled as 'her' friends tried to hold in their laughter.

"Oh, come on, you're adorable," Fumika smiled as she patted the cat-girl's head.

Jibanyan hissed, swatting the girl's hand away, before brushing a few of the blond bangs out of her own eyes, despite the large, paw-like gloves on her hands making it somewhat difficult.

"She sure is, but why is this a thing?" Keita asked as he tried not to laugh at his friend's predicament.

"YOU KNOW NOTHING!" Inaho suddenly shouted, Keita fell over in shock, the other two girls staring at her while Whisper backed up, USApyon let out an annoyed sigh, "Turning an obvious mascot like Jibanyan into a cute anime girl, that's a no-brainer decision! Keita Amano, you know nothing! As your friend I must educate you!" the purple-haired girl grabbed hold of the Anchor and ran off.

"HOLD ON!" Keita cried out, but he was already gone.

"… I'll try to get them back, dani," USApyon sighed, following after.

Katie and Jibanyan both sweatdropped, Whisper was looking at Jibanyan thoughtfully.

"You know, nekomata have been known to shapeshift into women often, this may be just par for the course for you Jibanyan, whissu."

Said yo-kai-turned-girl's eye twitched, before she hit Whisper with one of the tails extending from her metal-plated skirt. "I DON'T CARE WHAT NYEKOMATAS ARE KNYOWN TO DO! IF WE'RE SHAPESHIFTERS, WHY CAN'T I CHANGE BACK!" Jibanyan huffed as Whisper fell to ground.

"Were you always this ill-tempered? Whiss…" Whisper muttered dizzily.

Fumika sighed and sent some healing energy his way, before smiling at Jibanyan again. "You really do look cute, you know."

"I don't want to hear it, nya," Jibanyan growled, before glancing at her reflection on some of the armor on her arm, "… But yeah, I suppose I am, nya…"

10.12

"What is this," Nate questioned at the sight of two identical girls, hugging.

"Nate, I don't know how to say this… but…" one spoke nervously, before the other spoke up.

"Katie and I are in love!"

"… What?" Nate blinked with a dumbfounded expression.

"Sorry Nate, Fumika and I just have more in common."

"You'll always have a special place in our hearts," the identical girls spoke gently as they snuggled closer together, Nate stared blankly for a moment, the two soon started giggling, the Anchor sighed.

"Really?"

"Okay, okay, sorry," Katie smiled as she and her duplicate released each other.

"You gotta admit, it was funny, right?"

"More like annoying," Nate crossed his arms with a glare, the two female Loopers glanced between him and each other, smirking. Nate's eyes widened as a realization came to him, before he could respond he was pounced on by two girls.

Keita walked over, spotting his double caught between the loving embrace of Katie and Fumika.

"Mikasa glitch?"

"Seems like it…" Nate smiled as the two girls tightened their grip on him, Keita crossed his arms.

"… I can't wait for our memories to combine next Loop."

10.13

"So, what's the agenda for today, Nate?" Whisper asked as the Anchor got ready for school, so far, the Loop had been a normal Baseline run, aside from the Loopers typical habit of halting most small-time yo-kai trouble before it began.

"Go to school, like always, hang out with the guys and Katie at lunch, maybe Hailey too, then Katie and I are going on a date at the amusement park," Nate explained cheerfully.

"I still can't believe you guys are finyally dating," Jibanyan lazily munched on a chocobar as he reclined on the ground, Nate rolled his eyes as he finished getting ready, before going down to eat breakfast.

During breakfast, Nate couldn't help but notice his mom had this odd look on her face, as if she was both contemplating, and troubled by something, after his dad left for work and Nate himself got up and began to head out for school though, she said something that he did not expect...

"Keita, did you change the calanders…?" the Anchor froze, slowly turning to look at his confused mother.

"What did you just call me…?"

"Nate, wait, I mean…" Lily rubbed her head with a concerned expression, "I-I think I might just need to lie down…"

"Mom… this is going to seem a bit crazy, but does it seem like you may have, say… gone back in time? Only now your memories are telling you everyone has different names than you remember?" at this question, the Anchor's mother stared at him with wide-eyes filled with shock and disbelief.

"Wha–son, what are you talking about? That's… ridiculous," despite her words, his mother's expression told Nate otherwise.

"Mom… there are a lot of things we need to talk about, it's going to sound insane, completely, but I need you to listen," the eleven-year-old boy spoke with a completely serious tone and expression.

Lily was at a loss, but she quickly hid this and tried to walk out of the room. "Kei-Nate, I don't have time for this nonsense, I just need to sit down, and you need to get to school, now if you'll excuse– "the woman's exit was interrupted when a red blur moved in front of her, a few rose petals dancing in a trail behind it, Nate now stood in front of her, hovering slightly off the ground.

"Now will you listen to me?"

Without a word, the newly Looping woman nodded.

Nate let out a relieved sigh, landing back on the ground, "Good… well how to begin…? I suppose like any other Looper, but it feels so weird to be doing this for you," Nate briefly glanced at his mother's troubled expression, "… Right, anyway; imagine a big tree…"

"Hmm… Nate wasn't at school today," Katie muttered as she walked away from the building, along with Kyubi, Alex and Sarah.

"You worried something happened to him?" the fox yo-kai questioned as he invisibly floated by her side.

Katie smiled. "I'm sure he's fine, but I should at least check and see why, and make sure he didn't forget our… plans," Katie's face went a little red when her yo-kai companion gave her a sly look, and her other friends giving her weird looks didn't help.

"You and Nate sure have been spending a lot of time together lately," Alex commented with a chuckle.

Sarah nodded with a mischievous look.

Kaite huffed a little, turning away from her non-Looping friends. "Well that's because we're dating."

Sarah and Alex both nearly froze in shock at the bluntness of the comment.

"Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to check and make sure my boyfriend is okay," she kept walking, leaving her friends behind with dumbfounded expressions.

"R-right… see you later I guess," Sarah waved unsurely.

"Yeah, bye…" Alex did as well.

Katie didn't look back as she kept walking.

"That was a little mean, wasn't it? They're your friends after all," Kyubi pointed out.

Katie sighed, taking a deep breath. "I know, I know, I will apologize to them before the Loop ends. But we should check and see what's occupied Nate's time today," the two Loopers nodded and headed towards the Anchor's home.

The sight Katie and Kyubi were met with when they came to the home was not one they were expecting; Katie had knocked on the door and was let in by a troubled looking Whisper, when they entered the living room they found Nate, standing in the corner, leaning against the wall with his arms crossed, a serious look on his face, while his mother sat on the couch, staring at the floor with an expression of vacancy. Nobody said a word, but the tension in the room was thick enough to be cut with a knife.

"… Nate?" Katie weakly called over to the Anchor, he looked towards her, as did his mother.

"… Hey Katie, sorry I wasn't at school… something's happened," Nate said, glancing towards his mom, she quickly looked back towards the ground, Katie and Kyubi could only guess at what this meant.

"Nate… is your mom… Looping?"

Both the Anchor and his present parent flinched at this.

"… So, she's part of this too?" the older woman questioned.

Nate nodded slowly.

His mother let out a heavy sigh.

"I know you're overwhelmed mom, but there are still more things you need to know… about our Loop in particular," Nate started.

Lily let out an empty chuckle, "Overwhlemed? I was just told that my son, my little baby boy, has been stuck in a time-loop for billions of years, and is responsible for keeping our world stable, one world among countless others, stuck in these time-loops, monitored by gods. 'Overwhlemed' is an understatement if there ever was one!"

"I understand, but there is still more you need to know," Nate glanced around the room, spotting Whisper hovering by the entrance to the room unsurely, Jibanyan was also peeking in nervously, the Anchor let out a sigh, "All yo-kai should probably show themselves, now."

Before Lily could question what exactly that meant, a few puffs of smoke burst as the forms of Whisper, Jibanyan and Kyubi became visible. "W-what in the…?" the glasses-wearing woman looked around frantically, Whisper and Jibanyan moving closer, Kyubi gave a bow.

"My apologies for coming into your home uninvited, but it's nice to officially meet you, I'm Kyubi…" the golden fox stated with a smile.

"A… nine-tailed fox?"

"He's a bit of a show-off, but a good friend," Katie assured, smiling awkwardly.

Nate's mother didn't look like she knew how to respond to this.

"Um, beg your pardon?" the dark-haired woman turned her attention to the ghost now waving at her, "Greetings, I know this is all very shocking for you, but I will try my best to help you, like I have your son many times in the past!"

"A ghost!?" Lily backed up a bit.

Whisper chuckled, "Now, now, I am no mere ghost. Allow me to introduce myself; I am Whisper, yo-kai butler extraordinaire! Charmed!" Whisper did a bow.

Lily just stared at him.

"Easy…" Nate sighed.

"Y-yo-kai butler?" the newly Looping mother was having a lot of trouble processing this.

"Hi there, my nyame's Rudy, but you can also call me Jibanyan!" the nekomata caught her attention, jumping up and waving, "Nyate let me live here!"

"He… what?" Lily looked towards her son for answers.

Nate shook his head. "Not the best way to start, Jibanyan," the Anchor stepped over to his mother, taking a deep breath, "Okay, so as you can see, Katie and I have some… odd friends, they're yo-kai…"

"Yo-kai? Yo-kai…?" the Anchor's mother looked completely lost, "Is this… because of the Loops too?"

"Um… no," Nate looked towards the yo-kai watch on his wrist, letting out a troubled sigh, "They're part of our Baseline, you just… haven't seen them, but they've been there… pretty much since the beginning," the (seemingly) young boy held up his wrist, showing the watch, "This is a yo-kai watch, a device that allows the wearer to find, and summon, the hidden yo-kai that cause day-to-day troubles…"

"Yo-kai… are real?" Lily stared down at Jibanyan as he smiled at her, she allowed herself to smile a bit at his cuteness, but still looked unsure of how to proceed, "That watch let you see these… things, how long have you had it?"

"Um… since before the Loops started," Nate looked away briefly, his mother started to give him a stern look, "But timeline wise, in-Loop? A couple of weeks ago."

"And, you never thought about telling your father or I about this?" she spoke slowly.

Nate groaned, "I did a few times… and I have in some Loops, but… it's just easier to keep it a secret I suppose…"

"Easier!? Nathan, you have monsters living in our house!" Lily exclaimed, gesturing to the three yo-kai.

"Monsters?" Jibanyan glared at her.

"I assure you, Miss. Adams, we are nothing less than true companions to your son!" Whisper exclaimed.

"Um, I actually don't live here…" Kyubi muttered with a sweatdrop.

"Should we leave…?" Katie asked unsurely.

"But what about your date?" the fox yo-kai pointed out.

Lily twitched, Katie and Nate both stiffened before glaring at Kyubi.

"DATE!?"

"… Oh, I probably should not have said that," Kyubi facepalmed.

"Is it safe to go back down yet?" Jibanyan questioned with a frightened expression, standing in Nate's room along with Whisper, Katie and Kyubi.

"Whisper, go check," Kyubi instructed the Slippery Tribe yo-kai.

Whisper turned to the nine-tailed fox with a shocked expression. "What!? Why me!?"

"You are a butler, right?"

"I don't see what that has to do with risking my hide! Why don't you check you coward of an S-Rank!?"

"Coward!? How dare you, of all yo-kai, call me a coward!" Kyubi's tails flared as he and Whisper glared at each other.

"Oh, for the love of Lord Enma! I'll check, you bunch of babies!" Katie snapped.

Kyubi and Whisper both drooped in shame, Jibanyan nervously munched on a chocobar.

Katie gave a sigh, before her body collapsed and Mifu formed in a plume of pink smoke, she carefully fazed through the floor and peeked into the living room.

"I'm billions of years old!"

"I don't care! You're still a child, so you're still too young to date!" Nate and his mother glared at each other fiercly, Nate expelling an aura of yo-kai energy, while his mother had one seemingly made from motherly fury.

"I'm the Anchor of our world! If I want to go on a date with my girlfriend, I'm going on a date!"

"Don't you dare take that tone of voice with me young man! I don't care if you're the Anchor of the entire Multiverse! So long as you live under my roof you will follow my rules!"

Subtly, Katie's yo-kai form slipped back through the ceiling, into Nate's room. "Yeah… I think we're going to be here a while," the pink ghost stated nervously.

The group all shared a sigh.

10.14

[Yo-kai Watch/RWBY]

Weiss Awoke near the beginning of Baseline, already in the Emerald Forest with her assigned partner; that wasn't too out of the ordinary.

Her partner was also Nate/Keita, as opposed to Ruby; again, not that out of the ordinary, at least as far as Fused Loops were concerned.

The visiting Anchor's behavior though?

"Stupid shadow monsters! Get out of our way!" the brown-haired boy shouted, knocking grimm away with wind blasts without even bothering to look at them, a very visible scowl on his face.

This was a bit out of the ordinary…

"Keita is there something wrong," Weiss asked once the the two had managed to find a secluded area in the forest to talk after the ceremony; where Team RWBY was formed, but with Weiss as the leader.

"Why do you ask, was I too obvious?" Keita questioned with a frustrated grunt, he shook his head before looking towards her, "Yes, something's wrong…"

"Okay, are you willing to talk about it?"

At this question, Keita looked around suspiciously. "… Yes, it's… how do I put this," the yo-kai watch holder looked troubled, "It's… it's my mom…"

"Your mom?" Weiss looked curious as the (currently) teenage boy nodded.

"Yeah, she's… well she's Looping now…" Keita trailed off a bit as he looked aside.

"Huh, your mom is really Looping?" the Schnee looked surprised as her companion nodded, "Well… I'd imagine you'd be happy about that, but I can tell things aren't that simple…"

"Yeah, she… didn't take that it all too well…"

"I could imagine," Weiss looked thoughtful, "Finding out time is Looping and your eleven-year-old son is actually billions of years old and is essentially connected to your universe's stability would be shocking on its own, but she also found out about all your daily interactions with the spirits of the world, and the ones living with you…"

Keita sat down and looked up at the sky with a nod. "Yeah… though she was shocked at first, she has accepted the idea of Whisper, Jibanyan and Hikikōmori living with us at least. Whisper may be a goofball, but he takes his job as a butler seriously when he needs to, Jibanyan just needed to be the cute cat he was for a bit, and as soon as she interacted with Hikikōmori she couldn't bear to say anything even mildly aggressive to her…" the visiting Anchor explained, "But, that's not the problem; heck even finding out I regularly deal with yo-kai wasn't a huge issue, since our Baseline isn't all that dangerous, save for a few points… it's just…"

"Having trouble accepting that her 'little boy' isn't so little anymore?" the white-haired girl interjected.

Keita groaned, "You could say that, though she's still a bit freaked from the whole 'the universe is broken' revelation, so that could be playing into her reactions," the brown-haired boy used his wind powers to blow a few small rocks away, "But her reaction to my relationship with Fumi-chan was probably one of the most frustrating to deal with…" his face twisted into a slightly angry expression.

Weiss placed a comforting hand on his shoulder. "You have to admit; from her perspective it's all really overwhelming. Any parent has a tough time accepting their child is growing up… but she didn't even see you grow up. To her it was just; one moment you're her little baby, just barely starting puberty, the next; you're this immortal being that has experienced a billion lifetimes, is in a relationship with a girl, and has his own child…"

At this comment, Keita put his hands to his head. "Oh Enma, we haven't even discussed Hanahojin…" he let out a long sigh as he covered his eyes with his hands.

Weiss watched him carefully. "… Do you want to talk more, or do you need a few minutes?"

"No… I just…" Keita let go of his face and shook his head, "I really need to talk to her more, don't I? I got so steamed before about the Fumika thing it just ended in a shouting-match, but there's so much more I need to talk to her about…" he got back to his feet and began walking again, his partner not far behind, "It's strange, I'm so happy she's Looping… but I know this is going to be difficult…"

"You're not a little boy anymore, you can handle it," his friend assured kindly, "And I'm always available for you talk to, whenever we're in the same Loop that is."

"Thanks Weiss, you're right… I'd like to talk a bit more about this with you, later…" Keita smiled back at her, "But right now; I just want to have a bit of fun, I'll get my mom up to speed and… try to get her to ease into Looping and the… home situation better," he held Spectral Fang up with an eager gleam in his eye, a look Weiss was amused to note she had seen in Ruby's eyes many times, "Now, let's go forward and be the best Hunters we can be!"

"Good to see that didn't take too long," Weiss smirked, "But that's to be expected from the leader of team 'NWBY,' isn't it?"

"… You're never going to let me live that one down, are you?" at the boy's deadpan expression.

The local Looper chuckled, "No, no I'm not… Say, isn't that where your favorite deathstalker lives?" at this comment, the Keita's eyes lit up as he spotted a cave up ahead.

"Greta!" the boy dashed forward, leaving a trail of rose petals.

Weiss nodded to herself as she followed, it was certainly going to be another interesting Loop.

10.15 Masterweaver

[RWBY/Yo-Kai Watch]

Taiyang Xiao Long was having an interesting morning.

He'd had interesting mornings before, of course. The morning after Raven left. The morning he walked in to see his younger daughter mysteriously vanished, with a note left behind. The morning his eldest finally put on her replacement arm. And that was all baseline, the Loops provided even more interesting mornings. Like the time Zwei talked to him for the first time, or the time Yang accidentally blew out a wall trying to make a father's day meal, or the time Ruby decided to play the 'can we keep this strange new animal I found as a pet' game with increasingly dangerous Grimm.

The less said about the eldritch washcloth fiasco, the better.

Taiyang Xiao Long, like many Loopers, was no stranger to interesting mornings. Especially interesting mornings that began when he Awoke for the first time in a Loop. And, much to his annoyance, the strangeness of this particular morning was not exactly new-waking up to a strange yet familiar face in the same bed and seeing the slow, terrified dawning realization.

He'd tried to calm the woman down, but she'd immediately shot for the bathroom and locked the door. With a long-weary sigh, he'd knocked on the door and told her he'd be making breakfast downstairs. That had been something like... fifteen minutes ago. A small spread of breakfast pastries had covered the table since, as well as a few rice bowls and fish plates in deference to the woman's native culture, and he'd sent a heads-up to Ruby about the situation. And now, he sat, patiently waiting for his... guest was the best word, to gather herself and come downstairs.

She did, eventually, awkwardly poking her head into the kitchen. "Ah... so. About what just happened-"

"I'm Looping, if that helps."

"Oh. So, I don't... I'm married," she explained. "Well, obviously I'm... what I mean, in my own world. I'm married to somebody else, so-"

Taiyang smiled gently. "This is not the first time I've Woken up in situations like this. I understand, really. We can agree that whatever we had before Waking Up doesn't have to mean anything to our looping selves. Clean break, start over as friends."

"That... would probably make things easier, yes." Her eyes drifted to the table. "You made all that?"

"Well, I had to learn to bake for my daughters pretty quickly and it became sort of a habit to whip something up when they were feeling down... If nothing else, I figured you'd need a good meal after that little shock."

"Oh. Well... thank you." The woman adjusted her glasses, stepping into the room fully. "I... suppose I should introduce myself properly. I'm Lily Adams. Of, ah... the Yo-Kai Watch Loops, apparently."

"Taiyang Xiao Long. Welcome to Remnant."

Lily sat down across from him. "... Xiao Long, you said?"

"Yes. Father of Yang Xiao Long and Ruby Rose." He let out a small chuckle. "Learning that they'd adopted siblings from other worlds was quite a bit of a surprise, obviously. They didn't stop after I activated either."

"I... suppose I'll have to meet them," Lily mumbled, idly poking her chopsticks through a rice bowl. "Wait... if Nate adopted them as sisters, and you're their father, then you and I-"

"Happen to share a few children, with no need for there to be any romantic implications. Family ties are a bit more flexible in the multiverse-not that they're unimportant, just that they don't always have to fit into the usual standard model." Taiyang shrugged. "It can be overwhelming, I know. That's why most of us take things slow with new Loopers, trying to get them used to the situation before... well before strange things like waking up in another life with another husband."

Lily managed a small smile, taking a few bites of her rice. Suddenly she blushed. "Oh god, I-you and I, before-"

Taiyang nodded. "Yes, that happened, but that was our unawake selves-"

"But, you, me, we-" Lily clutched her head. "Oh my god. This... this is insane. I'm not... I mean, you're a nice guy, and I can see why my unawake self fell for you and... but I'm married, and that-"

"The Lily Adams that fell for Taiyang was not married. The Lily Adams sitting at this table is not... personally responsible for her. You may need to clean up whatever mess your unawake self falls into, but that does not make her you-you choose who you are."

"...Right. Right, that... that's a good way to... but then, who even am I?" Lily mumbled. "I just... This. All of this. And... you. I mean, you're not a horrible person but-"

"But I am in a position that perfectly represents how unnerving this whole situation is." Taiyang nodded. "Trust me, I know the feeling. As to who you are now, that's... a very complicated question, and one you'll have to answer for yourself, but a lot of people are here to guide you. Nate, obviously, and the Loopers of your world... and a number of us from Remnant would be more than willing to-"

A red gash in the world opened, admitting an annoyed-looking woman with spiky dark hair. "Hey Tai. Hey Tai's guest-Looping?"

Lily blinked. "Y... yes? Who are you?"

"Tai's ex. Not going to get between you two, just here to steal some tea."

"For the love of..." Taiyang sighed into his hand. "Raven, this is Lily Adams. Lily, this is Raven Branwen."

"Hey." Raven waved off-handedly, pulling out a number of boxes. "Tai, why do you have peach tea? That's disgusting."

"I don't buy my tea for you, I buy it for me and the people who actually live in this house."

"Couldn't even have any green tea," Raven grumbled, stuffing a good half of the boxes back in the cabinet. "Ooo, fresh olive oil. Taking that."

"Excuse me," Lily managed with a flat glare, "what right do you have to just come in and take our-or, uh, Taiyang's things?"

The woman gave her an over the shoulder look. "Adams... you're ghost-boy's mom, aren't you? Neita or whatever."

"Nate, yes. Or Keita, or-"

"I'll level with you. I am a bandit. I am a leader of a bandit tribe. I raid villages and steal things, and I'm basically a horrible person. But I'm not the worst in the multiverse-hell, I'm not the worst in this Loop. Keep your mouth shut, Tai," she added, "you and I both know it's true."

Taiyang groaned. "Raven, she's still new to Looping, she only just woke up a good thirty minutes ago-"

"You're doing the hand-holding thing. The multiverse won't give a fuck." Raven shut the cabinet and gathered up her spoils. "...Look, just... whatever issues you need to work out. You can't run from them. Not in the loops. Maybe you can talk to Kali and Ghira, I mean Tai's not horrible, but he took a while to get over his own problems-"

"You were a big cause of those problems."

"-not going to deny that, and frankly he doesn't quite have a good angle on the whole 'whoops my significant other isn't Looping' thing like Kali does. Or you can just huddle up in this hutch and wait for the big scary problems to solve themselves, because reasonable adults do that all the time."

"Okay," Taiyang said flatly, "out. Now."

Raven smirked. "I still got it." With a mocking salute she opened a portal under her feet and fell to another continent.

"...I am so sorry," Taiyang said, turning back to Lily. "Raven is... there's no nice way to put it, she's a bitch."

"And you married her?"

"I was young, she was sexy, we were part of a team, and I sort of thought I could change her for the better." Taiyang snorted. "Then she walked out and left me with our infant daughter. And then the Loops happened and... we're sort of friends now, because we had to get used to things together, but she's still... well, you got to see her in one of her friendlier moods."

Lily adjusted her glasses. "That was friendly."

"For Raven? Yes."

"... You know, the worst part is she's probably right. I really should actually... work through all this." Lily picked up her chopsticks. "... Actually, yes. I... I think I'll get started trying to understand. I suppose meeting my son's extended family is a good place to start."

Taiyang hummed in amusement. "Why don't you stick with his siblings first? Believe me, that will take up enough time as is."

10.16

The sound of crying was the first thing Lily heard when she Awoke.

The Looping woman looked around the dark room for a moment as she lay in her bed, she spotted her husband; Aaron, in his bed across from hers, sound asleep.

Quietly, Lily pulled herself from her bed, grabbing her glasses from the nightstand, and walked out into the hallway, moving over to the nearby room and the crib she spotted, she looked down at the small bundle wiggling around and reaching up with tears in his eyes, she couldn't help it as a small smile made its way onto her lips.

"Oh… sweetie, did you have a nightmare?" she cooed as she picked the wailing infant up, the baby version of Keita slowly calmed down as she rocked him in her arms, eventually settling on just staring up at her with his big brown eyes, full of wonder.

"M-ma…" the baby waved one of his tiny hands around, trying to reach for her face.

Lily laughed a little, "You're not Awake, are you?" she smiled lovingly.

He stared innocently as he let out a few baby-babbles in an attempt to communicate.

She pat his head and he giggled. "No, of course not… you wouldn't look at me like that anymore if you were…" she frowned a bit as the recent change in her life came to mind, "He really doesn't need me anymore… not like you do…"

"Bo…" baby Keita babbled out, looking confused why his mama suddenly seemed sad.

She managed to smile again, albeit sadly, as she held her son close. "It's nothing you need to worry about… not yet at least, I do wonder… if you Awake later in this Loop, will you remember this?" the only response Lily received was a blink, followed by a little yawn, she pat his head again before placing Keita back into his crib. "It's time for bed now, Keita, you need your rest…"

Despite his yawn, Keita just kept staring at her as he sat in the crib.

Lily chuckled a bit, "Oh, not listening to your mother already, huh? Well I'm sure I can convince you," the Looping mother began to hum a lullaby. As she hummed, Keita's eyes seemed to grow heavy, before long he had fallen asleep. Satisfied, Lily gently kissed her infant son on his forehead, before turning to leave the room.

"You're wrong, you know…"

Lily nearly jumped at the voice that had spoken; one she hadn't expected to hear, but that sounded familiar, she looked around, before spotting a purple cloud drifting into her vision, a small, shadow of a humanoid shape began to form, with a very familiar hairstyle. "Nathaniel-Er-Keizo…?" Lily managed to squeak out, feeling an odd mixture of shock, fear, and nostalgia at the sight of her deceased father-in-law.

"Guts!" the small yo-kai posed, zapping the tension from the atmosphere.

"Y-you're still doing that I see…" the dark-haired woman sweatdropped as Keizo nodded enthusiastically, "How… what are you doing here…?"

Keizo glanced over at Keita's sleeping form, starting to stir a bit. "Let's talk in the other room," he said quietly.

Lily nodded before the two exited the room and moved towards the living room.

"So… I'm sorry about my reaction," Lily sighed as she prepared some coffee, Keizo sitting on the couch while looking towards her, "I had a lot of the stuff about 'yo-kai' explained to me, and Keita said you were Looping, but…"

"Hearing about it is very different than seeing me for yourself, correct?" the ghostly being said with a small smile.

Lily nodded slowly, pouring two cups of coffee and walking over to the couch, handing Keizo one which he greatfully accepted. "Yes… it's just… it's been so long, and I'm not even sure what our relationship was for sure anymore…" Lily muttered with a small sigh.

Keizo kept smiling. "You take good care of my son and grandson, my wife adores you, I can't imagine any version of my Baseline-self thinking negatively of you," the Looping yo-kai assured kindly.

Lily managed to smile back, taking a sip from her coffee, before a thought occurred to her. "Wait, Lucy-I mean Yukiko, does she know about…?"

"Yo-kai? Yes, she has a marble on her glasses that lets her see us," Keizo nodded, "Same kind as what I originally made the yo-kai watch lens from, actually…"

"Right… you invented that watch," Lily looked thoughtful, "But… Whisper said he was trapped for– "

"Trust me, none of us have figured out how he got the watch, considering everything about our Baseline, it's probably time-travel related," Keizo sighed as he thought about more time-travel shenanigan possibilities.

Lily decided to change the subject back to her mother-in-law, "So, Yukiko knew about yo-kai, but Aaron doesn't… or does he…?" any thoughts about her husband deceiving her were quickly dealt with by Keizo's next words.

"He doesn't know, at least in most versions of Baseline he doesn't," Keizo nodded thoughtfully, "Though my time raising him with Yukiko is very Loop-variable, most of the time it's decided not to tell him about the watch or yo-kai being real, even the Loops where we did tell him, he rarely becomes involved or thinks about it once he reaches his teenage years," he briefly glanced to the stairs, "If he did, I'd think he'd recognize his own son's use of a yo-kai watch, and become at least somewhat involved, after all…"

"Right… I'm sure he would," Lily smiled a little, but it quickly gave way to a frown when she remembered the words Keizo had spoken when he first showed himself to her, "What did you mean by what you said? That I was wrong?"

Keizo let out a long sigh, "You're wrong about your son not needing you anymore…"

"What… how can you say that Keizo? Have you seen him?" Lily looked to the ground, "He's not a kid anymore, he's billions of years old… he has more family that's helped him, he has a girlfriend, he has his own son!" tears started to well up in the dark-haired woman's eyes, "He… he died Keizo!"

At this, her father-in-law's glowing eyes widened a bit. "He told you…?"

"Whisper mentioned it, I don't think Keita wanted me to know…" Lily choked out as she continued, "My son, my little baby boy… he died! He fell down a manhole, he turned into a ghost! And I… I didn't know about it! I-I should've been able to protect him, I– "

"Stop right there!" Keizo snapped as he jumped down from the couch, carefully placing his coffee onto the table, giving the Looping mother a stern look, "You have no fault in that, there was nothing you could have done about it. Even if you had been there and were able to prevent him from falling into that hole, he would have been killed some other way, it was a test set-up by Lord Enma," Keizo's eyes narrowed a bit, "A rather cruel test, if you ask me, but a test nonetheless. One your son passed, and his death was undone," Keizo pulled himself back onto the couch with a sigh.

Lily shakily placed her coffee on the table next to his as she processed what he said. "Lord Enma…" her eyes narrowed slightly, despite her tears.

Keizo nodded. "You can yell at him later, we're still talking."

She looked back at him and nodded, wiping her eyes a bit and letting out a breath to calm herself.

"As for his family, yes he has made connections with a lot of different Loopers, in a way that isn't particularly common in the Loops, to my understanding… many siblings, some people he considers like aunts and uncles, even a man he can look at as a father-figure, despite his reservations on viewing anyone but Aaron in that light…"

"Taiyang mentioned something like that when I…" Lily suddenly went a little red, looking away from Keizo shamefully, "I mean…"

"You Woke up married to him, didn't you?"

She nodded reluctantly, refusing to look his way.

"Don't be like that, you didn't cheat on my son," Keizo stated bluntly.

Lily nodded again, still refusing to look at the shadowy humanoid.

"I'm sure Taiyang gave you whole thing about not being responsible for what your UnAwake-self does, and I assure you I learned that long ago…"

"R-right," Lily managed to look back towards him.

Keizo smiled again, "Despite the family Keita-or-Nate has become a part of, he has never forgotten who his real parents are, he cares a great deal for you and Aaron, despite how long he has Looped, he always showed concern for you two, even knowing you wouldn't remember whatever happened each Loop, he never wanted anything bad to happen to you…"

"Yes… I know he loves us, I know…" Lily nodded slowly, having gone back to her melancholy mood, "But that doesn't mean he needs me…"

Keizo let out a sigh, moving closer to Lily and placing his hand on hers.

Lily almost jumped at how odd his hand felt to her, she had never made physical contact with a spirit before…

"Keita needs his mother, not to watch over him, not to tell him the difference between right and wrong, and not to protect him from harm…" Keizo looked Lily in the eyes with a serious expression, "Keita needs his mother to support him, to be there for him, to love him…" Keizo nodded slowly, "You and I are regular Loopers, we will only be Awake some of the time. Keita is the Anchor, he'll be Awake every Loop, many of those Loops there will be no other Loopers Awake, he can go many, many Loops without anyone Waking up… These lonely Loops, I can only imagine how going through so many must feel. We need to be able to be there for him, as fellow Loopers of this Branch, as his family… Keita wants you to support him, he wants to reach out to you… Guts!" Keizo did another pose, despite his serious expression.

Lily couldn't help but crack a smile. "… What do I do?" Lily's smile faded in favor of a solemn expression, "How can I help my little boy…?"

Keizo grinned, keeping his pose. "As I said; supporting him will go a long way. Let him know you're there for him, give him and Fumika your blessing, show him you care about Hanahojin…"

"Fumika… she was such a nice girl, if Keita was ever going to date she was the first that came to mind, but I never imagined it would happen so soon…" she trailed off, "Well… I suppose it wasn't soon, not from their perspective…"

"Trust me, you have no idea…" Keizo looked to the side with a deadpan expression.

Lily looked confused at this but decided not to question him as she thought about the other family member he had mentioned. "Hanahojin… my grandson, to whom I've never spoken to…" she let out a long sigh, "I think… I will take your advice, though for now… I would like to just enjoy taking care of him… Once he Wakes up, I'll talk to him…"

"I understand, Loops like this are pretty rare actually," Keizo spoke with a nostalgic expression, "Due to the time-travel aspect of our Baseline, it's not uncommon for our Loop to actually start around the time I begin work on the first yo-kai watch, or even as far back as the Sengoku period, when Whisper, or Shittakaburi, served Ishida Mitsunari, it's just not very common for any of us to Awaken in those time period in the past…" Keizo chuckled, "I appreciate it whenever I Awaken before I created the watch; I can usually deal with the Kaima problem myself so Keita doesn't even need to time-travel, and I get to enjoy almost my entire, though somewhat Loop-variable, life…"

"That sounds nice…" Lily admitted, "I wonder… does that mean I could Awaken as a child someday?"

"It's very possible, though your childhood is another aspect of our Loop that is somewhat Loop-variable," Keizo stated, a smirk forming on his face, "Though this Loop… I distinctly remember a little girl sticking a newt down Aaron's shirt the day she moved in…"

At the mention of this, Lily's Loop-memories flashed before her eyes and her face went red. "I-um… we're not responsible for what our UnAwake-selves do…" she coughed a little as Keizo chuckled

Before any further conversation could be had, a sudden cry hit the two Loopers ears, they both looked towards the stairs.

"I suppose we were a bit too loud, seems we woke the baby," Keizo sighed regretfully.

Lily just smiled wistfully as she moved to go back up the stairs, Keizo smiled as well and followed her.

10.17

The Anchor of the Yo-kai Watch Loops carefully stepped down the stairs, spotting his mother standing in the kitchen area connected to the living room. He took a deep breath, before moving over closer, calling out to her, "Mom are you Awake and… um, in need of any Anchors?" Nate spoke in an awkward tone as he looked towards his mother.

The woman seemed to flinch for a fraction of a second, before stiffly turning to face the Anchor. "Yes… and I'm feeling rather Loopy," Lily responded, just as awkwardly as her son.

The two Loopers stared at each other wordlessly, the tension in the air seemed to be thickening with each passing moment of silence.

Finally, after what felt like an eternity, the Anchor opened his mouth to speak, "I… think it's about time we had a talk."

Lily tapped her fingers together nervously, giving her son, whom was in actuality much older than her, an unsure smile. "Yes… I suppose we should."

Despite the two's decision, several more moments of silence passed before one of them would speak again…

Nate coughed a bit to break the silence. "Mom, I think… we might have gotten off on the wrong foot when you started Looping. I didn't want to overwhelm you all at once, so there were some things I tried not to tell you of immediately, but that didn't work out so well."

"No, I don't think it did," Lily nodded with an unreadable expression.

Nate frowned as he looked to the floor. "I didn't want to argue with you like that, but…"

"I understand completely, Nate," the newer Looper held a hand up, giving a small sigh as she spoke. "I had no right to get so… angry over the idea of you going on a date, of you acting so… grown-up. But surely you understand a bit of what I was going through… what I've been going through?"

The Anchor gave his mother an understanding look, nodding slowly. "Yes, it's something I've been thinking about actually, you are probably feeling a lot more overwhelmed than most of our Loopers did upon Looping."

Lily gave an empty chuckle as she looked up towards the ceiling, "Maybe, though I don't want to claim anything like that. But I can't say this was something I was prepared for, and not just the whole 'broken world-tree, time-looping reality, and also there have been invisible spirits infesting your world that your son has been fighting and making friends with even before that' deal." The dark-haired woman looked towards the boy again. "But… I think, much more than that, I don't think I could handle… I don't know if even now I can handle, that you: my little baby boy, grew up… and I missed it all."

"Mom…" Nate looked at his Looping parent sadly.

Lily gave her son a forlorn smile. "It's okay though, I at least know you were in good hands, and I'm very proud of how much you've matured. I don't need to look out for you anymore, I see that now."

Nate's expression wavered, looking as if he might break into tears at any moment. "Mom, no… I don't want you to think like that, I still need you, I– "

"No, Nate," Lily spoke sternly, despite her expression remaining unchanged. "Don't try and act like what I said wasn't true. At this point, you know much more about this world and the multiverse than I do, and your power has reached what our Baseline would consider absurd levels. You can't honestly believe you still need me to look out for or protect you."

Nate drooped, but nodded. "Yes mom, you're right, I don't need you to protect me… but that doesn't mean I don't need you."

Lily's smile brightened slightly, approaching her child and placing a comforting arm around him. "I know, I spoke with your grandfather before, he gave me… some idea of what I should do. It's true that you've grown up, but I can still support you as your mother; as your family…"

"Mom… mom," the physically young Anchor gripped his mother emotionally, a few sniffles coming from his nose. "I'm so glad you're finally Looping…"

"I am too, Nate," Lily smiled softly as she stroked her child's hair.

Nate sniffled a bit more, before looking up at his mother with a smile. "So… you don't mind that I'm dating Katie?"

The adult woman chuckled a bit, "No, it was a shock to me, yes, but if she makes you happy, I don't see any reason to protest against it. Not that I really have any right to, because as I said; you're a grown-up."

Nate hugged his mom tightly. "Thank you."

Lily hugged back. "No thanks are necessary."

After a moment of hugging, the Anchor broke away and looked at his mom with a wide smile. "So, you're okay now?"

Lily smile back with a small nod. "Yes, I think I really am. I… did have quite a bit of time to process things after that first Loop, talking to some Loopers and such. I really just needed to talk you to finalize my feelings on these matters."

"Good, I'm glad…" Nate gave a relieved sigh. "I probably needed to talk to you too… I'm glad everything is okay now," the Anchor paused after speaking, before looking towards his mother with a serious expression. "Oh, there's one more thing: You really should meet your grandson…"

Lily's smile didn't fade, but she visibly stiffened. "Oh right… that's a thing… I need to do."

10.18 smxsonic

[Neptunia/Yo-kai watch]

Lily Adams woke up while cutting some carrots. Fortunately, she has had enough experience as a Looper to avoid any injury. She looked around her house as she went through her Loop Memories. The house looked very futuristic with the walls coated in chrome accented with purple lines that seemed to be providing power to the house.

She looked out the window to see a street that followed much of the same design conventions as her house, plus a track that supported a Trolley. Planeptune, that was the name of the locale she was in. Nate was in school, but in this Loop, she had another child, before Nate. Lily barley had the time to mull over the name her unawake self chose for her daughter when the door opened.

"Mom? I'm home!"

Lily looked up to see a young girl wearing what looked to be a cross between a black dress and a hoodie jacket with purple accents, a strange fashion but something that was acceptable in this world according to Lily's memories. The Girl looked to be around 18 with waist length purple hair (which Lily could not begin to explain) and had something of a baby face.

"Er, Welcome back, Neptune. Back from your bug hunt already?"

"Yeah, I felt a little Loopy and wanted to talk to Nate."

Lily had enough Looping experience to prevent harm to herself, but not enough Looping experience to Ping automatically. To everyone their own.

Lily fixed that immediately, "You know you should be his Anchor as his big sister."

Neptune's eyes went wide and she squeeled happily.

"So... You're the Anchor... of this branch?" Lily asked.

The two were sitting at the dining room table, Lily drinking coffee and Neptune eating a plate of pudding in a surprisingly dignified way.

"Yeah, although it's not often that I loop in as Big Me."

Lily raised an eyebrown, "'Big Me'?"

"Heh, yeah..." Neptune chuckled as she scratched the back of her head, "This branch has multiple Dimensions, I'm currently looping in as my Ultradimension self."

"What's the other dimension?"

"Hyperdimension." Neptune leaned back in her chair, her arms crossed in thought, "There's also Superdimension, where I'm a motorcycle, Another Superdimension, but I call that 'console wars' to keep my head from exploding, then there's Zero Dimension and Heart Dimension, but those are more like pocket dimensions..."

Lily blinked as she tried to process all of that information.

Neptune took a bite of pudding, "Eh, HyperDimension and Ultradimension are Baseline anyway."

"Right... How do you know Nate?"

"Eheh..." Neptune scratched the side of her cheek, "I assume he's told you about Remnant?"

"I've actually Looped there before... They're nice. I'm not so fond of the circumstances of my being there."

Neptune quirked her eyebrow questioningly.

Lily sighed, "I usually end up married to Taiyang after ... Well... you can guess."

"Oh! Yeah, you're usually my mom when the whole family Loops in. Nate's not too fond of that fact either."

Lily took another sip of her coffee, "You seem closer to Nate than the folks from Remnant."

Neptune shrugged, "I looped in as a yo-kai sometime after the wedding. I had fun."

Lily Hummed, "I'm still not sure about this Looping family business, although I will admit they are good people. Even if the soldiers are a bit too sweary for my tastes."

"Hey... why don't I show you around the city! Little Nep should be coming in soon, so we can see all of Ultra and maybe hyper dimension!"

"That's nice and all, but what about-"

"Nope, no objections, I'll make you come along anyway. Gonna show my friends my new Nep-Mom!"

Lily had some weapon training in Remnant, but she got refined in Ultra Gamindustri.

10.19

"I'm done!"

"Katie! Wait!"

Jibanyan and Whisper blinked, watching Katie marching down the stairs of the house in a huff, Nate desperately following her.

"This was a misunderstanding!"

"No, forget you, cheating jerkbag! I'm out of here!" Katie snapped.

Hailey trailed down the stairs with a distressed look.

"Nya…?" Jibanyan blinked slowly.

Lily stared from the kitchen.

"Please Katie, it wasn't like that!" Hailey pleaded.

Katie turned her glare to the other girl. "You're just as responsible! In fact, I'm pretty sure you instigated it! Why should I listen to you!?"

Hailey blinked, before her eyes widened in horror, tears started to form in them. "Y-you're right, I'm sorry! It was a moment of weakness! I wasn't thinking!" Hailey suddenly started wailing.

Nate looked at her with a concerned expression. "Hey, don't start that, you're making it look like we are guilty…"

"You are, CHEATER!" Katie snapped again.

"No, Katie just listen!" the Anchor pleaded, but Katie was already storming out of the house, slamming the door behind her. "Please, wait!" Nate chased after his girlfriend.

Hailey kept crying as she sat on the ground, Lily, Jibanyan and Whisper just kept staring with stunned expressions.

"Well… I must say, I thought Nate was more responsible than this, he pined after Katie for so long, and suddenly this?" Whisper crossed his arms with a disappointed look.

"Don't jump to conclusions now! There has to be something we're missing here!" Lily snapped defensively, Jibanyan nodded.

"The situation looked pretty clear to me, and Hailey's cries of guilt are hard to refute," the yo-kai butler pointed out.

"Seriously, talk about drama, dani…" USApyon's voice sounded from up the stairs, the three confused Looper's looked over to watch the otter yo-kai walking down the stairs, carrying several Duel Monster cards, "They even left their cards behind… dani."

"… Cards?" Whisper asked.

"Yeah, you'd think they'd talk about which 'banned list' they were using before they started, dani," USApyon shook his head.

"I didn't even know there was a banned list! I never should have asked to build Nate's deck for him! It's all my fault! WAAAAHHH!" Hailey kept crying.

USApyon sweatdropped while the other three just kept staring.

"… What?" Whisper, Lily and Jibanyan muttered in unison, the latter two slowly turning to look at the ghost.

Whisper let out a cough, "Er… of course that's what they were talking about, did you two not pick up on it… Nate and Hailey should have really known better than using banned cards if Katie thought a banned list was being used…" Whisper nodded wisely.

Lily and Jibanyan narrowed their eyes at him, Hailey kept crying, USApyon looked at her with an annoyed expression.

10.20

[Yo-kai Watch/RWBY]

"So, this is the grimm you guys have been debating about?"

"Yup, calling it a 'sphinx' has been going on, but look at it! It's clearly a chimera!" Ruby explained to her younger brother, the havoc of the grimm attack preventing any non-Looper present from questioning why an eleven-year-old boy was helping with the defense.

The visiting Anchor hummed a bit, narrowing his eyes at the debated grimm, dodging as it lunged to attack. "I'm not sure… have you considered a nue?"

Ruby paused, giving her brother an odd look. "A 'nue?'"

Nate nodded, maneuvering around the giant grimm's swipes as it continued to attack. "Yeah, a nue. It's a creature from Japanese mythology with the body of a tanuki, limbs of a tiger, head of a monkey, and serpentine tail. They're also known to be able to fly."

Ruby looked at the grimm for a moment, narrowing her eyes, before turning back to the younger boy. "… Nate, while I can't for sure deny that 'body of a tanuki' part. There's not even a speck of monkey in that thing!"

Nate blinked, looking back towards the grimm as it preformed another lunge. "I don't know, the head looks like it could pass for kind-of monkeyish…" he reasoned as he rolled out of the way of the attack.

"You're reaching," Weiss interjected as she flew by, freezing the attacking grimm of still-debated-name in place. "Not to mention that, despite being able to fly, the nue does not possess wings."

Nate frowned at the white-haired Looper. "Well, artistic liberty and everything, you know…"

"It's not a nue, Nate!" Ruby raised her arms. "Thanks for the information on a creature I've not heard of, but I will be sticking with 'chimera.'"

"Well, you asked what I think. I don't exactly disagree with you," Nate shrugged, before shooting Weiss an annoyed look. "Though, I don't appreciate the unwanted interruption."

"If you didn't want to be interrupted, you should have just killed or tamed the thing, instead of spending so much time toying with it while having a conversation with your sister," Weiss countered smugly, shattering the frozen grimm to pieces with a well-placed strike.

10.21

[Yo-kai Watch/Pokémon]

'This is so humiliating… dani,' the agitated oshawott sitting on the table beside the, significantly less agitated, tepig and snivy, thought with a scowl on his face.

"Well Ms. Misora, which would you like? Think carefully though, picking your first pokémon is a very important step in becoming a trainer," Prof. Juniper gave an encouraging smile as she gestured to each of the starters. "Will it be, the grass type: Snivy, the fire type: Tepig, or the water type: Oshawott."

'It should be obvious which to pick, dani,' the oshawott internally grunted, glaring at the purple-haired trainer to be and sending out a Ping.

Inaho blinked as she noticed the Ping, looking towards the oshawott as it gave a nod. The young girl slowly gained a mischievous smirk. "Hmm… I don't know, on one hand, that grass snake looks pretty cool." Inaho glanced between the starters with fake thoughtfulness, ignoring the glare the oshawott was sending her.

'Are you kidding me!? Just pick me so can get out of here, Inaho! Dani!' the little otter Pokémon growled as it jumped up and down. "Oshawott! Osha-Oshawott!"

"Hmm… on the other hand," Inaho's eyes trailed over the water-type, before quickly focusing on the third. "That fire-pig is super cute!"

"Tepig!"

"OSHAWOTT!"

"Gah!" Inaho cried out in pain when a shell flew through the air and hit her forehead.

"Oh, are you alright?" Prof. Juniper asked in concern.

Inaho waved her hand with a smile, rubbing the bruise on her head. "It's fine. On third thought, I'll take the feisty little otter that looks like it's about to explode."

'FINALLY! DANI!'

"Um… are you sure? That one seems a little… unruly for a beginner," the professor spoke with concern, though she looked at the oshawott with a bit of curiosity. "But it is strange, he never showed this level of aggression before…"

"Osha-wott-wott!" the water starter crossed his arms with a grumpy expression.

"Oh, I'm sure it's nothing. He'll warm up to me in no time," Inaho assured.

"Well, if you say so…" Prof. Juniper still looked unsure but handed the young girl the pokéball.

"Alright! USApyon, return!" Inaho exclaimed, pointing the circular device towards her chosen starter.

"Osha!" the water Pokémon jumped out of the way of the red beam, giving his new trainer a harsh glare.

"Hmm… so you're going to be like that, huh?" Inaho nodded slowly, shrinking the pokéball before placing it her pocket. "Fine, but don't blame me when the fanbase hates you."

"… What?" the Pokémon professor gave the new trainer a blank expression, before shaking her head and sighing, "Never mind, so you'll be giving your oshawott the nickname 'Usapyon?'"

"No, no, no! It's not 'Usapyon,' it's 'USApyon!'" the purple-haired girl chided while shaking her head. "It's really important for the 'USA' to all be in capital!"

"… Okay," Prof. Juniper nodded with a neutral expression. "I'll keep that in mind. So, here's your pokédex and five pokéballs. I assume you have all the supplies necessary to set out on your journey?"

"Yeah, don't worry about me professor! I've been thinking about how to tackle my Pokémon journey for centuries!" Inaho confirmed as she took the items from the woman.

"I'm sorry, did you just say 'centuries?" Prof. Juniper questioned with confusion.

"Oshawott! Osha!" USApyon hissed from the ground, kicking Inaho's leg. 'Don't say stuff like that out of the blue to non-Loopers! Dani!'

"Anyway! I'll be taking this little guy on our journey now! So, thanks for your help professor!" Inaho suddenly shouted, grabbing the agitated water pokémon and charging out the door.

"Are you sure you're– "whatever other concerns Prof. Juniper had regarding the new trainer were left unheard as the girl left. "… I'm sure they'll be fine," the pokémon professor sighed in defeat.

"Finally! I thought we'd never get out of there! Dani!" USApyon growled as he sat by the river's edge.

"Hmm, I thought you were fond of labs, Chibi," Inaho chuckled as she munched on some trail mix.

"Don't test me Inaho, dani," the yo-kai-turned-pokémon growled threateningly.

"Fine, fine. No need to get all huffy, 'Darth USApyon,'" Inaho shrugged uncaringly, before suppressing another chuckle, "'Darth USApyon…' Seriously, you need a better Sith name."

"What I have already is fine, thank you very much! Dani!" the otter huffed, before jumping to his feet and looking around the area. "More importantly, we should figure out what we're going to do for this Loop… Dani."

Inaho blinked, glancing at her starter Pokémon in surprise. "What we're going to do? Is it not obvious?"

"Dani?" USApyon looked back at the human questioningly.

Inaho smirked as she stood to her feet, pumping her fist into the air, despite the bag of trail mix still clenched in it. "We're going on a Pokémon Journey of course! Chi-watchi!"

10.22

[Yo-kai Watch/Skullgirls]

"Ug… what happened last night…?" Nadia Fortune muttered as she rubbed her head, as she came to, she noticed a short, vaguely humanoid creature staring at her, with two fingers stuck up its nose. "GAH!"

"Hello to you too, cuz…"

"Oh, Snottle!" Nadia shook her head as she regained her senses, "Sorry… you startled me."

"Hanahojin," the yo-kai corrected, Nadia blinked.

"Huh?"

"I'm Hanahojin right now…"

"… Oh! Like Uncle Nyate can be Uncle Keita, right…" Nadia nodded.

"You say dad's dub variant name like Jibanyan…"

"Yeah, that's what I was going for," Nadia chuckled, before she looked around again, "Wait, where are we?"

"Not sure, I just Woke up here, in both senses of the word… I assume the same is true for you?"

"Yeah…" the two examined their surroundings, it seemed to just be a white, square room, with no doors or windows, Nadia walked up to one of the walls and knocked on it, "So, you don't have any memories of how we got here?"

"Nope, my memories for this Loop are all a blur," Hanahojin shook his head, Nadia let out a thoughtful hum.

"Yeah, same for me…" she crossed her arms, she let out a Ping, only getting one response back, "I presume that was you?"

"Of course…"

"Right…" the Skullgirls Looper glanced towards her adoptive cousin, "Do you need to keep picking your nose?"

"Sorry, hard habit to break," Hanahojin bowed, before reaching into his pocket and pulling out a backpack, "Luckily this is the reason dad gave me this!" he strapped it on.

Nadia jumped back a bit when two robotic arms sprang from it. "… Cool!" the cat-girl admitted with a smirk, which soon faded as she gained a sweatdrop, "But… you're still keeping your real fingers in your nose?"

"Yup," the booger-made-yo-kai nodded, stretching the robotic arms a bit.

Nadia sighed, "Well, as cool as that is, it doesn't tell us where we are or how to get out," the female Looper grunted as she tried to think, "What to do, we can't just stay stuck here… well we can since I probably have enough food in my pocket, and you probably don't need to eat– "

"It's Loop-variable."

"But I don't want to stay in here for who-knows-how long this Loop will last!" Nadia smashed a fist into her hand, a determined look in her eyes.

Hanahojin clapped with his mechanical hands.

"So, if there is no way out of here, I'll make a way out!"

"Great, great… or we could just use the door."

Nadia froze up when her yo-kai cousin spoke, she looked at him with a blank expression. "… What door?"

"That one," Hanahojin pointed with one of his robot hands, Nadia looked where he pointed and there was now a clearly visible door on one of the walls, that she was certain had not been there before!

"But… but!" Nadia tried to a process this, before shaking her and letting out a groan, "Loops, right, don't question it… let's go," she grabbed hold of Hanahojin before marching up to the door and opening it.

10.23

[RWBY/Yo-kai Watch/DinoZaurs/Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid]

"What do ya' think?" Komasan looked down at Neo, from his position atop her head, holding out a chocolate ice cream cone.

Neo licked it, before giving a dissatisfied face, "Blah! What is wrong with that ice cream, Komasan!?"

At this response, the small komainu pocketed the cone, a frown on his face, "Okay, I guess Mama's stew isn't a very good ice cream ingredient…"

"You think!?"

"Well… guess any time Mama makes good stew, it's better warm… and not mixed with cream and sugar," Komasan paused with a thoughtful expression.

Neo groaned.

"What about you, Neo? What'cha got?"

"Glad you asked," the tri-haired girl smirked, before pulling what looked to be a vanilla ice cream cone from her sub-space pocket, handing it to the lion-dog, "Try this."

Komasan took a lick of the cone, his face scrunched up a bit, before he forced a smile, "That there's a… interesting flavor…"

"… You hate it."

"No! No! It's not that!" Komasan shook his head rapidly, before looking back at the cone with a confused look, "But… ya' ever think ice cream wasn't supposed to taste like dragon meat?"

"Oh, come on! It was a real hassle to get that right without including any actual meat!... And, how do you even know what dragon meat tastes like!?"

"We all have memories of variants we'd like to forget, Neo," Komasan stated plainly, before handing the cone back to her with an apologetic look, "It's just not the kind'O ice cream I'm looking for…"

"Fine," Neo sighed, putting the cone back in her pocket.

"What even is you two's relationship, I cannot for the life'O me tell," Komajiro muttered, sitting across from Neo at the table in front of a café, a yo-kai leaf on his head making him appear human to any passersby's, so they wouldn't keep asking if the chair was taken.

"I'd call it somewhere between a big sister-little brother, and master-pet relationship," Roman commented from the remaining chair.

Neo sent a glare towards her father/brother/mentor-figure. "Don't try to label it! I don't want you giving Ruby any ideas!" Neo hissed, quickly scanning the area around them, almost sure she spotted a Chibi-Ruby skittering between people's shoes.

"What are you two even trying to do anyway?" Komajiro questioned, tilting his head.

"Me and Neo have been trying ta come up with new ice cream flavors! And tradin 'em them when we meet up!" Komasan exclaimed, clapping his paws as Neo nodded.

"Yeah, but… we're running out of ideas…"

"Most flavors we've already had in some form, coming up with something new is really hard…" Komasan rubbed his head with a small smile.

"And, all of our out-of-the box thinking has mostly resulted in…" Neo glanced up at Komasan, as he glanced down at her, before they both stuck out their tongues with disgusted looks.

"BLAH!"

"If nothing good is coming out of it, why not stop?" Roman crossed her arms with confused expression, "Don't you two like the standard flavors of ice cream."

"Of course we do!" Komasan nodded.

"How can you even ask that!?" Neo scoffed, "But… we still want something new!"

"We love all our traditional ice cream flavors, and sometimes ones that come from variants, but dream'O making something special, the Looper-special ice cream! Ice cream that's better than anything that came from any ol' Loop! The perfect ice cream!" Komasan exclaimed with enthusiasm.

Neo smiled and nodded in agreement.

"What about that fourth flavor? From the Kids Next Door Loop? Isn't that supposed ta be the perfect ice cream?" Komajiro pointed out, taking a sip from his milk.

"Supposedly, but we want to make something even better!" Neo exclaimed, "It's just taking us a long time to find a truly good flavor concoction."

"… Stew, and dragon meat," Roman pointed out bluntly.

"Okay, so it's taking us a really long time!" Neo huffed.

"What have ya already tried?" Komajiro questioned.

Suddenly, Komasan produced a really long list that unrolled over Neo's face, under the table, and off onto the sidewalk, into the distance.

Roman glared at electric komainu, who was regretting asking…

"Kaito, we're out of ice cream! Can you go to the grocery store!?" Kira called to her boyfriend from down the hall.

Kaito let out an annoyed groan, "Why? I'm sure you have more than enough ice cream in your pocket…"

"I'm saving that for Loops where ice cream doesn't exist!" the alien girl walked into the room, arms crossed.

Kaito sighed. "Rena, I'm heading to the store!"

"What, you serious? You're just going to do it?" the red-headed Looper walked in from the kitchen, she looked at Kira with a glare that caused the dragozaur girl to give her an innocent smile, "Kira, just go to the grocery yourself, don't make Kaito do it!"

"But we're in Remnant, what if I run into Neo?" Kira questioned with narrowed eyes.

"… Don't fight her," Rena answered with a dull expression.

Kira scoffed at this, "Easy for you to say…"

"Look, why don't we all just go out, we're running low on some things anyway," the DinoZaurs Anchor interjected calmly.

Rena glanced back into the kitchen before sighing, "I suppose you're right…"

"Yeah! We're going out!" Kira cheered, grabbing hold of both Kaito and Rena and hugging them close.

"To get more than just ice cream," Rena pointed out firmly.

"So long as we get enough to last me the week, I don't care what you two get!" Kira smiled.

The other two Loopers sighed.

"Hmm… not really anything unique this Loop," Neo muttered as she looked through the ice cream in the freezer aisle, Komasan still nesting in her hair as he curiously looked around the store.

"Maybe we should try some fruits as ingredients…"

"I'm pretty sure we've already tried most fruits, and combinations of fruits, you could obtain in this store at one point or another," the tri-haired girl pointed out.

Komasan scratched his head with a contemplative look.

"What kind of ice cream do you want?" a male voice was heard from nearby.

Neo rose an eyebrow in familiarity.

"ALL KINDS!"

"That's not helpful!" two female voices.

Neo smirked as her eyes narrowed.

"… What's going on?" Komasan questioned, before he noticed the three people walking into the isle, Neo focusing on the dark-haired girl.

"I'm just saying what I want, that's what you he asked me," Kira smirked as Rena let out an annoyed groan, before Kira looked over and noticed Neo staring at her, the two locked eyes.

"Huh, Kira?" Kaito looked at the dragozaur-girl confusedly.

Rena narrowed her eyes at her, before looking in the same direction she was, her eyes widened. "… Kira, don't you dare…" Rena hissed dangerously.

Kira smirked.

"Oh no…" Kaito muttered worriedly.

"What's going on?" Komasan repeated blankly.

Neo got into a battle-stance.

"At least take it outside the store if you must!" Rena shouted angrily, before wings sprouted from Kira's back, and she flew at Neo, "… Idiot," Rena muttered in defeat.

Kaito sighed and patted her back.

"This place is pretty interesting, huh Kobayashi?" Tohru asked with a big smile as the two of them walked along the sidewalks of Vale.

"The place definitely has some fascinating things, though are you sure you should be walking around like that?" the pink-haired woman questioned, giving a side-glance to her maid's tail.

Tohru giggle a bit, "Oh, don't worry about it, people with animal parts aren't abnormal here, so there shouldn't be any issues," the dragon-girl smirked a bit at the conclusion she had come to.

Kobayashi didn't look so sure. "I'm not sure how… normal you're coming off as," she noticed the people they passed walking along didn't give Tohru's horns much regard, though many of them did a double-take when they spotted her tail.

"Oh, you worry too much Kobayashi, it's kind of endearing, but I assure you everything is fine," no sooner than Tohru finished speaking was a large explosion heard from the nearby grocery store, the two visting Loopers turned to stare as small, tri-color-haired girl bounced out, gleefully wielding a parasol like a weapon, shortly followed by a large, black dragon, giving off a mighty roar before chasing after her.

"… You were saying?" Kobayashi turned to the dragon maid with a blank expression.

Tohru didn't look like she had anything to say.

"Kira! Dangit!" Rena shouted as she ran after the combat-locked girl and dragon.

"Wait up, Rena!" Kaito called as he also emerged from the grocery.

Tohru's eyes lit up at the sight of her friend. "Oh! Kaito, hey! Over here!" the brown-haired boy looked over in surprise.

"Huh, Tohru? Kobayashi?"

"Hi…" Kobayashi waved.

"So… that dragon was Kira?" Tohru asked, looking in the direction Kira, Neo and Rena had gone.

Kaito nodded slowly.

"Good to see she's doing well… so how are things between you, Kira and Rena anyway?"

"Still together, Kira still insisting we're all dating each other, Rena still insisting she and Kira are nothing more than friends and are just both dating me," Kaito answered simply, his eyes drawn to the direction where explossions and shouts were coming from.

Tohru nodded thoughtfully, "Oh, good, good… and what's your stance on that anyway?"

Kaito turned to stare at the dragon-girl. "… No comment," he frowned when a louder explosion sounded, following what sounded like multiple Renas shouting, he sighed, "Look, Tohru, I'd love to catch up, but I need to deal with this and hopefully prevent a Loop Crash," Kaito stated, before morphing into a red raptor and running in the direction the fight had gone.

Tohru frowned, "Huh? Think we should get involved?" she looked to Kobayashi.

"I don't think we should, we do need to pick up Kanna from school…"

"Yeah, but she can wait a little bit, she's Awake, plus that's my sister, and possible-future brother and sister-in-law, feels like I should do something," Tohru went into a more thoughtful stance.

Kobayashi sighed, "Tell you what; you go help out Kira with her destructive impulse-control problem, I'll go pick up Kanna from school, and we meet up back at the apartment?"

"You sure you won't need me?" Tohru questioned with concern.

Kobayashi smiled, "I assure you, I can pick up Kanna from school with no with no issue you, I should be the one concerned for you, but I know you can handle… whatever they're doing," the visting Anchor waved off the concerns.

Tohru nodded with a smile. "Okay, I'll bring Kira, Kaito and Rena over and we can have a party!" Tohru shouted excitedly, speeding off in the direction of the action.

"Oh my swirls, that happened so gosh darn fast, I don't know what's going on anymore..." Komasan muttered as he emerged from the partially demolished grocery store, drawing Kobayashi's attention before she could move her own direction, she looked at the small yo-kai curiously, "Neo…? Where'd you go now?" Komasan looked around helplessly.

The Looping woman considered her options for a moment, before sighing and decided to try and help the confused little creature, along her way to pick-up Kanna.

"Kira, Neo! Seriously, stop it!" Kaito called out as her ran towards the battle between the two in raptor form, there were seven Renas flying around, trying to restrain them.

"It's no good Kaito! These two are in their own world!" Red Rena huffed as she tried to grab hold of one of Kira's dragon horns, only for Neo to kick the black dragon in the head, sending her flying off.

Kira let out an intimidating roar, glaring down at Neo, who just smirked back with her umbrella weapon ready.

"This is a waste of time and energy, and this chaos is bound to attract attention from local law enforcement… or at least the other local Loopers," Green Rena sighed as she adjusted her glasses.

Kaito sweatdropped as he looked at the intelligent split of his red-headed girlfriend. "I know we should prioritize stopping those two, but I still can't help but wonder where you get the glasses from. None of the other yous get stuff from the split other than your colored prisms." The only response the boy-in-raptor-form got was a shrug.

"Um, guys!" Yellow Rena called out in an unusually worried tone for being the 'happy' split of Rena. "It looks like they're about to get more intense! If we don't find a way to stop them, I think we should probably move back!"

Sure enough, Kira had reverted to her humanoid form and she and Neo were now both staring at each other with rising intensity, auras of energy seeming to grow around them.

"What a bother," Orange Rena commented as she lazily floated upside down.

"Kira, this would really be the time to stop!" Kaito tried to call out, but his voice failed to make an impact on his draconic girlfriend.

With a trade of smirks, Kira and Neo rushed at each other at supersonic speed, blowing away bits of the road along the way. Kira tried to slash at Neo with shapeshifted claws, but the tri-haired girl continuously blocked the hits with her open umbrella.

Kira!" Kaito called out again, groaning at the lack of response. "Rena, what should we do!?"

"What are you asking me for? I've already tried all I could think of!" the seven Renas spoke as one as they floated around the area.

Kaito sighed in defeat, reverting to human form. "We have to do something…"

Before Kaito could decide whether or not it was a good idea to attempt to physically separate Kira and Neo, a large shadow covered the area, surprising the group of Loopers.

Even Kira and Neo paused in their battle to look up, at the giant green dragon now flying overhead.

"… Tohru?" Kaito blinked in realization.

The dragon gave a roar, moving towards Kira and Neo's location.

The two ice-cream-loving Loopers jumped in opposite directions as the dragon landed between them.

"Okay, that's enough fighting, both of you! Don't worry, I'm here to help!" Tohru announced proudly.

Kira and Neo both silently seethed at her appearance.

"I don't think they appreciate her butting in on their 'play time,'" Purple Rena said with an earie chuckle.

Kaito and the other six Renas let out a collective groan.

"Kira?" Tohru looked confused at the way the other draconic girl was glaring at her. "What's with that look? Don't you recognize me? It's Tohru: your sister!"

At that comment, something in Kira seemed to snap, before she let out an angry roar and transformed back into dragon form and charged straight for the green dragon.

Neo blinked in confusion, before shrugging and pulling a carton of popcorn out of her sub-space pocket.

"Oh no, this is bad," Kaito noted nervously at the impending dragon fight.

"You think?" the Renas all deadpanned together.

"Kira? What the heck are you doing!?" Tohru cried out in outrage as she ducked under a swipe from the other dragon's claws, just before jumping over a tail whip.

"Why do you always make me so MAD!?" Kira roared as she continued to try and attack her 'sister' in her blind rage. "Why did you ruin my fun!?"

"Fun? Couldn't you have picked a better place to play with your friend, outside of the city?" Tohru reasoned.

Kira growled again, though her anger seemed to subside, slightly, "Well… yeah. But you didn't have to interrupt! Spoilsport!"

"… I just don't understand you sometimes," Tohru sighed, shaking her head in defeat.

Kira's eye twitched. "HOW DARE YOU ACT DISSAPOINTED IN ME! I'LL KILL YOU!"

"What?" Tohru blinked in confusion, before she was pounced on by the other dragon. "Ah! Kira, stop!"

"And still, nothing is resolved," Blue Rena facepalmed as she watched the dragons' scuffle.

Kaito let out a loud groan of frustration.

Neo giggled as she continued to watch, still munching on popcorn.

"You gonna share that?" Orange Rena questioned Neo as she floated by her, still upside down.

Neo glared at the other girl, holding her popcorn away from her and sticking her tongue out.

10.24

[Yo-kai Watch/RWBY]

"Winter? Weiss?" Whitley called out as he looked around the small village in Patch, his father was there on business and had decided to take his children, for reasons Whitley didn't quite understand. He had left his six-year-old son in the care of his sisters, but now they were nowhere to be found, "Where did you guys go…?"

He wouldn't admit to being afraid, but the boy had never really been left by himself before, and in this unfamiliar area, that left him a bit uneasy, he jumped a bit when he heard shifting nearby, followed by a few sniffles, "W-who's there…?"

"Akamaru?" a brown-haired boy, about the same age as Whitley stumbled out from the bushes, looking around desperately, a few tears in his eyes, "You're not Akamaru…"

"Um… no, I'm not…" Whitley spoke carefully, taking a step back; the kid looked like he was about to break down, "Ah… this 'Akamaru,' is he your friend…?" he didn't really know why he was asking, but this kid looked so sad he couldn't help it, the boy whimpered and nodded.

"Yes, he's… my kitty, I-I lost my kitty," the small child sniffled.

Whitley looked unsure of what he should do, he usually had someone else around to take care of things, or at least tell him what was the right thing to do, but now he was alone… "Um… so his name's Akamaru? And, what does he look like?"

"Yes… Akamaru, he's little, and red, and lost!" the brown-haired six-year-old cried out, more tears flowing from his eyes. "M-my kitty! I want my kitty!"

Whitley took another step back, this situation wasn't something he had any experience with, he did want the kid to stop crying, but he didn't know how to… except for maybe… "Ah… do you want help finding him?"

"C-could you? You would help me?" the smaller child looked up at Whitley with hopeful eyes. Unknown to one member of the duo, they were being watched by a trio of older siblings in hiding.

"You sure about this?" Winter asked carefully, looking at Weiss and Yang.

"Not really, but Keita is, so I say let him do what he's going to do. He likes Whitley, for whatever reason," Yang shrugged.

"He's made friends with him before, though I don't think using mind-tricks on Jacques and setting up this scheme was entirely necessary," Weiss commented with a roll of her eyes.

"I agree, I should be using this time for more lazinyess excercises, not playing the damsel in distress, nya," a red cat padded over, the three girls looked at him blankly.

"Jibanyan, you're supposed to be in a tree," Yang said with a light glare.

"I'm going, I'm going, just nyeed to find the right one, nya!" the feline Looper shrugged before running off, as he left.

Winter turned to Yang. "I'm inclined to agree with my sister, this does seem unnecessary."

"Look, the plan's already in motion, so just let my brother do it! Alright," the golden-haired brawler snapped, turning her focus back to where their younger brothers were.

Weiss and Winter turned to each other and sighed.

10.25

[Yo-kai Watch/Kingdom Hearts]

"This place seems fine," Sora admitted as he and Riku exited the gummi ship, into the new world which looked like a modern day Japanese town, the UnAwake Donald and Goofy not far behind the two Looping Keyblade wielders. "No signs of heartless, or anything…"

"Well, heartless won't necessarily just pop up as soon as we show up. If we were led here there's something we need to do," Riku stated calmly.

"Enough talk! Let's find the Keyhole and get out of here, fast!" Donald exclaimed, waving his staff around, the others looked at him strangely.

"Garsh Donald, what's the hurry?" Goofy questioned.

The magic-using duck's eyes shifted a bit. "Nothing… this place just gives me the creeps is all…" Donald shivered, glancing behind himself.

"Heartless will be showing up any minute now, I just know it," Riku stated as the four walked around the town carefully.

Sora smiled. "You sure about that? Nothing's seemed out of place so far?" he pointed out cheerfully, of course it wasn't more than ten seconds later that a ring of shadow heartless appeared around the group, who all immediately took offensive stances.

"What was it you just said?" Riku questioned plainly.

Sora simply let out a chuckle before both summoned their keyblades, Donald and Goofy held their staff and shield out respectively as the team prepared for battle.

"Hey! Stop! No!" the voice of a child suddenly rang, the group looked over in surprise as a brown-haired, eleven-year-old boy approached.

"Hey, kid! Stay back, it's dangerous!" Sora called out, but the boy ignored him, approaching and giving the group of heartless a glare.

"Leave them be! That's not how we greet people around here!" the younger boy scolded, the heartless backed off, lowering their heads in what seemed to be shame.

"… What just happened?" Sora asked slowly, none of his companions had an answer.

"There, see? When we greet someone new, we need to show them proper courtesy." Keita pet some of the heartless as they moved around him, their antennae twitching animatedly.

"What are you doing!? Do you have any idea how dangerous those things are!?" Riku exclaimed at the ludicrous sight, after taking a moment to regain the use of his voice.

The local Anchor waved his hand. "Nah, these guys are harmless," Keita dismissed, scratching under the heartless chin, "Aren't you? Yes you are! Yes you are!" Sora and Riku just stared, unsure if what they were seeing was real, or hearing for that matter, as it started to sound like the heartless was purring!

"… Well, it looks like he's got this under control, so let's say we get something to eat, huh guys?" Sora offered, managing a smile.

"Oh, I know a good burger place!" Keita spoke up, still surrounded by docile heartless.

Riku and Donald just kept their blank expressions.

"… I could eat," Goofy admitted.

10.26 KaiserRichard

Nate blinked at the envelope he got in the mail. "From Lord Enma? No, wait, Yama." There were somethings that not even trillions of years of memorizing could help with. He went to his desk upstairs and began to read the letter from the Admin of his branch.

Dear Keita Amano/Nathan Adams

I regret to inform you of a minor error that will affect your Looping experience. While preparing to start up the new Expansion of your Loop, I encountered a bug within your Loop that can not be fixed as easily. When you are in your English/dub Loop, about when your purple haired friend gets her watch, you and most of the other Loopers voices will be changed. Seeing how this is not too major and with other branches having similar effects, this bug will be added to the "Fix when tree is almost fully fixed" pile of bugs.

Sincerely yours,

Admin Yama.

Nate looked at the calendar and saw that today was the day Hailey Anne got her 'Space Watch'

"So, when will this voice swap?" Nate wondered out loud, just as the switch happened. Nate sighed "Jibanyan should know a thing or two about being hit by trucks. I just got run over by a trunk named Puberty."

10.27 smxsonic

"Sooo..." Hailey started, " You-Say-Pyon?"

USAPyon nodded, "Yeah, I guess it makes sense, seein' as that's how they say 'USA' in the states."

"And the Texan accent?"

"Ya, gotta problem with that, missy?"

USApyon held his thumb to the button under his helmet.

"No! No! I think it's cute, actually!"

USAPyon sighed, "Yeah I guess it just somethin' to do with the Space center in Huston... How're the others dealin with their new voices?"

Hailey Shrugged, "I don't think it made much of a difference for them, they probably had weirder variants. Nate was sulking about something having to do with 'not having many power rangers loops anymore' but that's about it."

"Don't know who he think's he's kiddin', The tree's got a mighty long memory."

Hailey shrugged, "I guess there's not much else to do but wait for the rocket, huh?"

10.28

"I have psychic powers!" Fumika suddenly shouted, standing up from her seat in class. All the other students, and the teacher, stared at her.

"Ms. Kodama, shouting in class is not– "the teacher started to scold her, only for him to let out a gasp in surprise as objects around the class began floating in the air.

Fumika smirked as text books, pencils, a globe, and other learning devices orbited around her.

"What's going on with Fumi-chan!? This doesn't make any sense!" Kanchi cried out.

Kuma was too stunned to say anything.

Keita just groaned and shook his head.

"So… I guess subtlety's out the window, whissu," Whisper commented, floating by the Anchor.

Keita nodded. "Seems so, for this Loop at least," he smirked a little as everyone in class still tried to process what to make of his girlfriend's sudden telekinesis. "Well, after this I'm sure some super-speeding around the track won't be too shocking…"

10.29

[Yo-kai Watch/RWBY/Fairy Musketeers/Red Vs Blue/Neptunia]

A five-year-old Ruby stared through the bars of a crib, at the baby napping inside. The small girl reached between the bars, a single finger outstretched, as she attempted to poke the infant.

"Ruby, Akazukin."

The voice of an adult woman caught the attention of Ruby, as well as the four-year-old at her side. They looked away from the crib and up at the dark-haired woman looking down at them.

"Hi mommy," the five-year-old waved with a smile.

"Mommy!" Akazukin mimicked her sister.

Lily sighed as she looked at the two little girls, glancing towards her still sleeping son briefly. "You two should let Nate sleep, he's still very little and needs his rest."

"But I wanna play with baby brother," Ruby protested childishly.

"Yeah, play!" Akazukin continued to mimic Ruby's movements.

"You can play with him later, but right now he needs to sleep," the mother explained calmly, gripping the two girls' hands to lead them out of the bedroom.

"Awww… bye baby," Ruby disappointedly waved as she was led out of the room.

"Bye-bye…" Akazukin waved.

In the crib the brown-haired infant squirmed a bit, his face scrunching a bit.

"Now, if you two want to play, I'm sure– "Lily's suggestion was cut off by the sudden wailing coming from the room they had just left, she let out a tired sigh.

"Yeah! Baby brother!" Ruby cheered with her free arm in the air.

"Baby!" Akazukin mimicked, again.

"I don't think he'll be in the mood to play right now, girls," Lily groaned, before glancing towards the living room. "Val, can you watch Ruby and Akazukin for a bit!?"

"Sure!" a young male voice called back.

"Thanks!" Lily nodded, looking down at her two youngest daughters, letting go of their hands. "You two go play with big brother Val now, okay?"

"Okay!" the two red-clad girls exclaimed before scurrying off to the living room.

Lily nodded with satisfaction, before turning back towards the bedroom where the crying was coming from. "I'm coming, sweetie. it's okay!"

Meanwhile Ruby and her younger sister stumbled into the living room, where they spotted a ten-year-old boy with a pair of furry ears sticking out of his head, seated on the couch with the TV on.

Akazukin quickly ran over to him and pointed towards him with a big smile. "Doggy!"

Val rolled his eyes as Ruby also walked over. "If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times: not dog. Wolf."

Akazukin stared at her adoptive older brother for a few moments, before climbing up on the couch and patting him on his head. "Doggy!"

"Akazukin, stop," Val grunted in a slightly annoyed tone, not made any better by Ruby's giggling.

Back over in the bedroom, Lily had managed to calm the infant Nate down and was currently feeding him a bottle of milk. "There, see? Everything's fine, my special little guy," the mother smiled fondly as her baby son stared up at her as he suckled on the bottle. "Your big sisters are a little zealous, but they love you very much, you know."

"I see the baby's up," Taiyang commented as he walked by the room.

"Yeah, he made a bit of fuss, but he was just hungry," Lily commented to the only other Awake Looper, as far as either of them could tell.

Taiyang nodded, walking over and looking at the baby in the woman's arms. "You sure he's not Awake? The way he keeps looking around sure looks like he's planning something," the blond man commented in an amused tone.

"I'm pretty sure," Lily chuckled a bit as her son released the bottle.

"Da… dada!" Nate managed to say as he looked towards the man.

Taiyang nodded. "Yup, he's not Awake. Nate-Keita-whichever refuses to call me 'dad,' and he'd never call me 'dada.' 'Papa-Taiyang?' Yes. 'Dada?' Definitely not." As he spoke, Taiyang waved a finger in front of Nate's eyes, which he tried to grab a hold of.

"Da!" Nate exclaimed with a smile as he gripped the digit.

Lily laughed a bit as she patted her son's head. "Well, there is a reason for that. But I'm sure he would admit you are a very good father, he's spoken very positively about you in the past, and I can see why."

"Just spend a bit more time with me and you might just fall for me for real," Taiyang said with a laugh as Nate released his finger.

"Not a chance, I am still a married woman you know." Lily looked away with a smirk, before a thoughtful look crossed her features. "… Well, technically married to you right now. But you know what I mean!"

"I know, I know. I was just kidding," the local Looper defended despite his amused expression.

"Baba," Baby Nate whined, helplessly reaching for his bottle again.

"Oh, are you still hungry?" Lily questioned with concern, lowering the bottle back into the one-year-old's reach so he could keep drinking.

"Akazukin, Ruby, quit pulling on my EARS!" a shout came from the other room, startling both parents and causing Nate to let go of the bottle and start crying again.

"I'll go take care of that, you calm him down," Taiyang suggested, glancing towards the living room with concern.

Lily nodded in agreement, rocking the infant in her arms and trying to show him his bottle again as the man left to check on their two youngest daughters and adopted son.

"Now, Ruby, Akazukin, we know you were just playing. But, we need you to understand that it's not okay to pull on your brother's wolf ears," Taiyang explained seriously to his two young daughters that sat before him.

"But… doggy," Akazukin pointed out innocently.

"Wolf," Val grunted, standing nearby, at his mother's side.

"We were just playing," Ruby defended with a dejected look.

"I know…" the father sighed as he tried to figure out how to explain the issue to the children. "But, Val's ears are sensitive, it's hurtful to pull on them like that. You need to be respectful towards other people, especially your own brother,"

At their father's words, both Akazukin and Ruby drooped more and more, guilty looks on both girl's faces.

"It's fine, we're not even really family…" Val's sudden words caught the others by surprise.

"Val!" Lily scolded lightly.

The wolf faunus looked away from the woman with an unreadable expression. "What? It's true, isn't it? I'm just some kid you found digging through a dumpster and took pity on, I'm not really one of your kids…"

"Val…" Taiyang sighed, trading an unsure expression with Lily, he was about to comfort the boy, but Ruby and Akazukin beat him to it.

"No! Big brother!" Ruby cried out as she and Akazukin hugged him from both sides.

"Brother! Brother!" the younger girl whined, clinging to him tightly.

Val looked surprised by the two girls' sudden actions.

Lily traded a parental smile with the other Looping parent before speaking to the ten-year-old. "It seems you're outnumbered Val, you're a part of this family. Whether you like it, or not."

Val let out a huff but smiled a bit as he hugged the little girls back. "If you all insist… Just don't pull on my ears again."

"Okay," Ruby nodded.

"Yeah! Bro-bro Doggy!" Akazukin cheered as Ruby and their parents laughed.

Val twitched slightly. "How many times do I have to say it: Not dog. Wolf!"

Over in another room in the house, a ten-year-old girl was holding onto an infant, a six-year-old at her side.

"Why do I have to watch Mr. Poopy-pants?" Cinder grumbled as she stared at her baby brother.

"Nate doesn't have any pants, he's still in diapers," Nepgear pointed out, poking the smaller child's puffy diaper to emphasize her point.

Nate let out a giggle, waving his arms around as he looked towards Nepgear.

"Hey! I'm the one watching you," Cinder protested with a scowl.

Nate looked up towards Cinder with a blank expression, before his face morphed into a similar scowl, as if to mimic her.

"Mom and dad aren't going to be happy if you teach Nate to make mean faces at people," Nepgear stated with a shake of her head.

"Mean!" Nate repeated, pointing at Cinder, sticking out his tongue after speaking.

The ten-year-old girl's eye twitched as she glared at both her younger siblings.

"That's rude, Nate," Nepgear coughed, flinching at her elder sister's look. "Bad baby…"

"Who's a bad baby now?" a seven-year-old Yang questioned as she stepped into the room.

"Who do you think?" Cinder growled as Nate blew a raspberry at her.

"What? Nate? Nah, he's a good boy, aren't you baby-bro?" the blond girl cooed as she moved over to Cinder's side and made a funny face at Nate.

The baby's mood instantly changed, giggling and clapping his hands together. "Yam! Yam!"

"It's Yang, but close enough," the seven-year-old chuckled.

Cinder glared at Yang, before turning Nate back towards her. "Excuse me, but I'm still the one watching you."

Nate's expression immediately turned grumpy again.

Cinder's eye twitched. "Why only me!? What's wrong with me you little brat!?"

Nate blew a raspberry at Cinder again.

Cinder's eye twitched even more as her body shook, Nepgear took a couple steps back, while Yang openly laughed. "That's it!" she handed Nate to the nervous Nepgear, stepped over to the doorway, before turning back and glaring at her two sisters. "You watch him!" without another word, Cinder stomped off.

"Um… okay," the six-year-old Nepgear spoke weakly, looking over the infant that was now giggling in her arms.

"Poor Cinder, she just doesn't understand that babies react to the emotions of those around them, you'd think as one of the oldest she'd be used to babies by now," Yang laughed as she pat Nate on the head. "She's just not as cut out for this as us, I suppose."

Nepgear looked unsure of how to respond to her sister's words, before she noticed a smell coming from the one-year-old in her arms. The purple-haired girl's eyes widened with dread, stiffly turning to her still laughing sister. "Yang, do you know how to change a diaper?"

The blond girl's laughter slowly died down as she processed what her younger sister said, until she finally stopped and slowly looked between Nepgear, and Nate.

Nepgear shuffled nervously, the baby in her arms had stopped giggling and was beginning to show signs of discomfort.

Yang took a couple of steps backwards, before rushing out of the room. "Cinder! Hey, Cinder! Come back!"

Three months after Loop-start

Neptune narrowed her eyes at the four-year-old smiling in front of her.

"Wipe that innocent look off your face, Aka. I know it was you!"

"Zukyun?" the red-clad child tilted her head confusedly.

The eight-year-old scoffed, "And don't you think you can 'zukyun' your way out of this either! I've already found evidence of your guilt!"

"Guilt?" Akazukin blinked, sitting on the ground, yawning a bit. "Wazzat mean? Why you angry-face big sis?"

Neptune flinched a bit at her sister's cuteness but kept her glare firm. "You know why, Aka! Don't think I'll fall for your act! Just fess up!"

"What's going on here?" a sleepy-eyed thirteen-year-old boy mumbled as he lumbered into the room. "I was taking a nap, why are you being so loud Neptune?"

Neptune huffed. "Don't look at me, Grif. It's this little thief's fault that I'm yelling, and I'm going to keep yelling until she tells me where my game system is!"

"Game system?" Akazukin still looked confused.

Neptune turned her glare back to the younger girl. "Yes! My game system! Where is it Akazukin!? I know you took it!"

"Oh, that's why you're shouting so much? I took that," Grif yawned as he shrugged.

Neptune froze up, the accusatory finger she was pointing at her small sister falling to the ground, her body twitching. "… You took it!?"

"Big brother's the thief?" Akazukin still didn't look like she had any idea what was going on.

"Why would you take my game system!?" Neptune shouted in outrage.

"Because it feels nice under my pillow?" Grif reasoned. "Why did you think Akazukin took it?"

"That's not the point! You put my game system under your pillow!?" Neptune balled her hands into fists as she growled.

"So, baby's asleep, homework been helped with?" Lily asked her 'husband' as she set her infant son into his crib.

"Yup, had no issues on that area. Though, on a separate note, we may need to go clothes shopping soon; Ruby needs new socks."

"Did she wear them out again?" Lily smiled a bit as Taiyang nodded, thinking about the little hyper girl that was but one of her many kids this Loop. "Well, that shouldn't be too much of a problem. Honestly, I was a bit worried that I wouldn't be able to handle being a mother to so many children aside from my Baseline son, but, while it definitely isn't easy, I can say that it has been a very enjoyable– "

A sudden burst of shouting from upstairs broke the Looping parents out of their peaceful discussion, as well as caused the present infant to wake up, and begin wailing.

"… Okay, it's not always pleasant," Lily sighed.

"Don't worry, I understand completely," Taiyang sighed, taking Nate into his arms and rocking him as Lily went to check upstairs.

"Okay, so Neptune, tell me again: why did you hit your brother with your shoe?" Lily asked as she looked at the three children sitting before her.

"He started it!" Neptune shouted in protest.

"Denied," Grif grunted, placing a hand to his black-eye.

"You did!" Neptune shot back with rage.

"Enough!" Lily raised her voice, setting a firm glare on Neptune, then Grif, before settling her sights on the youngest, and currently least vocal of the three kids. "Akazukin, what happened?"

The red-clad four-year-old blinked, before she hummed a bit thoughtfully. "Well… first Nepty took Akazukyun to her room and made angry-face and started yelling at me…"

"She doesn't need to hear about that part. I'm sorry, okay!" Neptune spoke up with a guilty expression but went silent when her mother looked towards her.

Akazukin blinked again. "… Well, then… Griffy got woken up and wanted to know why Nepty was yelling, and she said Akazukyun took her game system. And big bro said he took it and put it under his pillow…" Akazukin trailed off as she tried to think of what happened next, but Lily held up her hand for her to stop.

"That's enough, Akazukin. I think I've managed to piece together what happened," the adult woman said calmly, before looking at the two older children. "So, Dexter did you take Neptune's game system?"

Grif looked away for a moment. "… Well, yeah."

"See! He admitted it!" Neptune exclaimed while pointing at her brother.

"But she still didn't need to throw a shoe at me!" Grif countered with a glare.

Lily nodded. "No, she shouldn't have done that. But you shouldn't have taken her game system either."

"She plays that thing too much, I was doing her a favor," Grif stated with crossed arms.

"I'll give you a favor," Neptune growled, reaching for her other shoe.

"Kids!" Lily snapped, before sighing. "Dexter, apologize to your sister and give her game system back. Neptune, keep your hand away from your shoe, and apologize to your brother for hitting him!"

Both Neptune and Grif refused to look at each other for a few moments, before Neptune sighed.

"I'm sorry for hitting you with my shoe."

"And you should be," Grif grunted. "… I'll go get your game system, sorry…" the teen boy mumbled as he got up to retrieve the device.

"Good," Lily nodded, letting out a relieved sigh as her oldest son walked past her.

"Zukyun!" Akazukin cheered with her arms in the air.

Three and ½ months after Loop-start

"Has anyone seen my hairbrush?" Yang asked as she stepped into the living room, before she spotted her little brother in his playpen, with her hairbrush. "What the?"

"Aba, bababa, blah!" Nate babbled as he rubbed his head against the hairbrush.

"… How did you even get that?" Yang asked with a perplexed expression.

"Awa-ba!" Nate giggled, waving the brush around.

The blond girl chuckled a bit, "Okay, cute. But I need that back, so if you could just…" she reached into the playpen carefully, her baby brother eyed her hand, before hiding the brush behind his back. "… Come on Nate, that's mine. Give it back."

"Gagaba!"

"Okay, I see your point, but it still belongs to me," Yang sighed, not wanting to just snatch the brush from her infant brother's hands. "What if I got you a better toy?"

"Baaaaa…" Nate drooled a bit as he looked up from in his playpen.

"Oh? You like that idea, do you?" the young girl smirked. "Okay, you wait right there! I'll get you a toy that will make you forget all about that silly old hairbrush!"

Nate watched his sister leave the room with a blank look in his big eyes, after she left, he stared at the hairbrush he was holding. "Ga, aba-goo?" he waved the brush around again, before his expression grew bored and he threw it aside. "Ba!"

"Dad, can I have an advance on my allowance?"

Taiyang looked down from his seat at the kitchen table, at his eldest Baseline daughter, giving him a pleading look. "Yang, you just got an allowance three days ago, why do you need more money now?"

"Um…" Yang paused, she didn't want to say it was to buy Nate a toy to trade for her hairbrush, she was pretty sure her dad would just take the hairbrush from the infant, and she didn't want him to cry! That's the whole reason she didn't just take it herself. "I want… to buy new boxing gloves... for training…?"

The Looping father gave the seven-year-old an unconvinced look but nodded. "Well, reasons aside. If you want extra money, Yang, maybe you could do a few extra chores around here?"

The blond girl blinked, trying to keep a straight look from forming on her face. "Extra chores? Um… like what?"

Taiyang smirked. "Well, the toilet could use some cleaning, if you manage to do that, I'd say you'd certainly be deserving of some extra allowance."

Yang almost recoiled in revulsion but give a stiff nod. "C-cleaning the toilet? I can do that… yeah! I can do that! Just you wait, dad, that toilet will sparkle!" Yang rushed off to the bathroom without another word.

Taiyang watched her go, before shaking his head and looking at the newspaper. "At least someone will finally clean that toilet… how much money should I give her if she actually does it…?" he gained a contemplative look, before decided to get a second opinion. "Lily!?"

"Coming!" the Looping mother called from up the stairs, the sound of her footsteps were heard, but before reaching the kitchen she stopped in the living room. "Huh, now where did you get this?"

"Ma!"

Taiyang grew curious as he heard Lily speaking to Nate.

"This isn't for babies, Nate. Here, play with your rattle."

"Gagoo!"

Taiyang heard the sounds of a rattle shaking in the living room, before Lily entered the kitchen, a yellow hairbrush in hand.

"What is it, 'dear,'" she spoke in a semi-sarcastic tone as she smirked at the man, placing the hairbrush on the table. "You wanted my opinion on something? Also, we should talk to the kids about letting Nate get ahold of their stuff, where's Yang? I'm pretty sure this is hers."

Taiyang blinked, glancing towards the bathroom, where the sounds of fierce scrubbing could be heard. The scrubbing from the bathroom and the rattle shaking from the living room seemed to harmonize as he listened to both…

10.30

"Just a few more minutes and it will be ready," Keita grinned eagerly as he watched the timer on the oven.

"It certainly smells heavenly, whissu," Whisper praised as he took a whiff of the smell emitting from the oven.

"How much longer? Nya…" Jibanyan stuck himself to the front of the oven but was quickly pulled off by the Anchor.

"I just said; a few more minutes. Be patient Akamaru, you'll appreciate it more when it's ready if you wait," Keita explained to the small nekomata, a kind smile on his face.

"But it smells sooo good, nya," the cat yo-kai drooled as his eyes were drawn to the timer, which had just turned over to five minutes. "Nyaaaaaa."

"Keita?"

The voice of his mother caught the human boy's attention, he turned to see the dark-haired woman stepping into the kitchen with a bag of groceries in hand, a somewhat confused look on her face. "Oh, hi mom!"

"Welcome home Mrs. Amano!" Whisper greeted with a bow, before floating over and taking the bags from her. "Allow me to handle these groceries, whissu!"

Lily gave a small smile despite still looking confused, "I appreciate it Whisper, but you know you don't have to go overboard with the whole butler-routine, right?"

"Nonsense Lily! As a professional yo-kai butler this is not just my duty, it is my pleasure! Whissu!" the ghost insisted as he moved around the kitchen to put the food away.

"Don't bother arguing with him," Keita spoke up, "I've told him I'm happy to have him around even if he doesn't try to be a butler many times since he started Looping, but he always insists he wants to do it."

"Do you not appreciate my position as your butler, Keita-kun?" Whisper frowned a bit as he looked towards the boy.

"I appreciate your position as my friend," Keita clarified. "But, you are a pretty good butler."

Whisper smiled, before going back to putting the food away.

Lily gave a small cough, looking at the oven curiously, noting the sweet smell that was coming from it, "Keita… are you baking?"

The Anchor blinked, before a look of realization crossed his face, "Oh right! I've never baked anything for you since you started Looping, have I mom?"

"Nya!?" Jibanyan jumped in surprise. "Keita-nya, you haven't baked anything for your mom!? I'd think you would have made her something by nyow!"

"Well, I mean… her Looping in itself was kind of a hectic event, and she hasn't been Awake every Loop, it kind of slipped my mind I suppose…" the Anchor muttered a bit as he looked a little ashamed.

"Wait, slow down, I'm confused," Lily spoke up, drawing the attention back to her. "Keita, when did you start baking?"

"Um… well I think it was not long after I met Ruby," Keita scratched his head as he tried to recall. "It was so long ago, I can hardly remember the time before I started baking… not that I bake all the time, but I enjoy it."

Lily's confused look slowly gave way to a small smile as she noticed her son's own wistful smile, "Well, that isn't the kind of skill I expected you to pick up, but I must say it is a pleasant surprise that you enjoy it. Baking is a very constructing hobby, tasty too!"

"Tasty is an understatement!" Whisper chuckled as he floated over to the woman's side, having finished putting the groceries away. "Why Lily, you simply haven't lived until you've tried one of your son's confectionary masterpieces! Whissu!"

"Quit exaggerating Whisper, my stuff's not that good," Keita looked away with an embarrassed expression.

"Nya, he's right though! Your choco-fudge brownies are the tastiest chocolate-treats I've ever had! Nya!" Jibanyan interjected cheerfully. "By the way, I'm almost out, would you…?"

"I'll make you some more soon," the Anchor nodded, petting the cat yo-kai on the head, inciting a purr in response. Keita chuckled, looking towards his mother again, "I'll be sure to make something for you too mom."

"That's very nice of you, Keita, I look forward to seeing what you can make," Lily nodded. "Speaking of which, what are you making in the oven?"

Before the Anchor could give his response, the timer on the oven ran out and a loud beep was heard.

"Oh! It's done!" Keita smiled as he sped over to the oven.

"Oh boy! I can hardly wait! Nya!" Jibanyan meowed eagerly.

"Oh yes, time to see all that hard work come to fruition, Keita-kun! Whiss!" Whisper exclaimed.

"So, what is it anyway?" Lily questioned as her son put on oven mitts and opened the stove. "It smells really good."

"I would hope so, I've been planning this creation out for several Loops!" the Anchor smiled as reached into the oven. "It's my cookie-gun-sword!" Keita cheered as he removed the tray, holding it up proudly before placing it on the counter.

Lily blinked. "… Your what?" the Looping mother looked at the tray and saw it was filled with various parts laid out in an organized fashion, from bolts and screws, to larger pieces that seemed to make up the shells of the gun and sword components her son had mentioned, and all of it was made out of what appeared to be sugar cookies!

"Does it work!? Does it work!? Nya!" Jibanyan jumped around in excitement.

"Give me a moment, I need to assemble it first," Keita stated, before he got to work on putting the pieces together in a blur of motion.

"Cookie… gun-sword?" Lily spoke again, looking completely baffled.

"Oh right, if Keita hasn't mentioned baking to you before, he probably didn't get around to talking about his other passion either, whissu," Whisper chuckled with a shrug. "Let's just say, he decided to combine them."

"Combine…?" Lily still didn't look like she knew how to respond.

"Finished!" the Anchor exclaimed, proudly holding up a sword made out of sugar cookie, he opened up the blade to reveal a gun nozzle underneath before clicking it back in place.

"Yeah! Can we eat it nyow!? Nya!" Jibanyan drooled in anticipation as he jumped up at the baked weapon.

Keita held his creation out of the nekomata's reach. "Not yet Jibanyan, first we need to take pictures and test it out!"

"… Cookie-gun-sword!?" Lily threw her hands into the air, a completely blank expression on her face.

10.31

"So, Keita, what's on your agenda for today?" Kuma questioned the Anchor, both them, and Kanchi, heading down the sidewalk after school.

"Probably just go home, watch TV, play video games," Keita shrugged, mentally adding a few things he'd rather not mention to his non-Looping friends, 'Make some modifications to my latest weapon designs, organize my Extended-Looping-Family photo album, maybe concoct a new cookie recipe…'

"Such an ordinary response, that's what's to be expected from you I suppose," Kanchi mocked light-heartedly.

"Yeah, you sure are predictable Keita!" Kuma laughed, patting star-shirted boy on the back.

"Yup, that's me, oh so predictable Keita," the Anchor rolled his eyes, having long since stopped caring about his non-Looping friends calling him 'ordinary,' 'normal,' or 'average.' Still, that didn't mean he'd let them get away with it completely scot-free. With a mischievous smirk the Anchor considered what sort of extraordinary (non-malicious) act he could perform to get back at his friends, when he suddenly felt a tug on his shirt collar. "… Huh, what the?" the Anchor blinked, glancing at what looked like a fishing hook snagged on his shirt. "… Oh, I think I– "

"Keita!?" both Kanchi and Kuma's eyes widened in shock when their friend was abruptly yanked into the air by what looked like a fishing line and dragged away.

"… Wha-what just happened, Kanchi?" the larger boy asked his more logical friend, but he got no response back. "… Kanchi?"

"I didn't see anything!" Kanchi shouted as he ran off in the direction of his house.

Kuma stared after him blankly, glancing again in the direction Keita had been dragged off in. "… Really, what's going on here? I'm kind of freaking out!"

Keita sighed as the fishing line dragged his body through the air, until it pulled him into the river with a large splash. Once Keita opened his eyes, he was not at all surprised to see Ningyo's staring back at him, fishing pole in hand, and a smug grin on her face.

"Ha!" The mermaid-like yo-kai pointed and laughed at the submerged Anchor, her fishing pole held up with triumph.

10.32

An image of a messy room came into view, a young, purple-haired human girl with glasses held up the camera so it had a good view of her.

"Hi everyone! My name's Inaho Misora, and this here's my partner USApyon!" the purple-haired girl gestured to an otter yo-kai seated on the bed behind her, polishing his lightsaber, he only gave the human an annoyed glance. "And welcome to the first ever so exciting episode of: InaUSA: Investigations throughout the Multiverse! Doo-da-doo-doo-da-doo!"

The yo-kai let out a small sigh, putting his lightsaber down. "Inaho, who are you talking to? Dani," USApyon questioned slowly.

"Why our loyal viewers, of course, you silly Namekichi!" Inaho gestured to the video camera with a wide grin.

A tick-mark formed on USApyon's head. "What did you just call me!? Dani!"

"Anyway!" Inaho ignored her partner's rising temper, a large grin still plastered on her face. "As many of you probably are aware, despite all we Loopers know, there are still many mysteries in this Multiverse that are yet to be uncovered! Well, we the InaUSA investigation team will not stop until all mysteries are uncovered! So, tune in for the thrilling ride as we uncover the truth of all realities!"

"Inaho! They can't 'tune in!' This is the Loops! The only people that will see this footage is those that get ahold of the tapes! Dani!" USApyon stomped his foot on the ground out of frustration.

The human girl gave the yo-kai an unimpressed look, before smiling at the camera again, "Don't mind my partner folks, he's just a rather under-motivated cosplay-bunny! But don't you fret, we will be uncovering many mysteries! In-spite of his negative attitude!"

USApyon snapped. "Okay, that's it you little…" the otter-yo-kai reached for the buttons on the bottom of his helmet.

"VADER MODE!"

"Ah! USApyon, no! I didn't mean it! Sorry!" Inaho cried out as she dodged the lightsaber swings from the enraged yo-kai, while also trying to keep the camera focused on herself. "Come on Chibi, stop! Ah! Watch the camera!"

The yo-kai lunged forward without a second thought

*WE ARE CURRENTLY EXPERIENCING TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES*

The image of static fizzled a bit, before a blurry image formed, which soon came into focus to reveal a somewhat frazzled Inaho with a grumbling USApyon by her side, now standing in front of the elementary school.

"Hello again, sorry about that little hiccup in our program," Inaho smiled despite what had previously occurred.

"Yeah, sorry… dani," USApyon grunted reluctantly.

Inaho chuckled, "Now then, while I'm sure you'd all love to hear how I calmed the heart of this raging beast– "

"Calmed the heart of nothing! I just got tired of chasing you! Dani!"

"I know that you're really here to help us solve this mystery!" the purple-haired girl ignored her yo-kai companion as she gestured to the school. "As many of you may know, there is a mystery that is well known here, and probably many other worlds! The legend of Hanako-san!" Inaho spoke with a sinister undertone.

The ears on USApyon's ears twitched. "Wait, Hanako-san? Inaho, are you seriously– "the yo-kai's critique was cut off by a flashy scene transition, using UFO's flying across the screen.

Inaho stood in front of the girl's bathroom, an eager smirk on her face. USApyon just looked annoyed.

"The legend of Hanako-san is definitely a spooky one for us to start with, the legend claims that if you go to the third stall, on the third-floor girl's bathroom, and knock three times while asking 'Hanako-san, are you there?' she will appear!"

"Yes, it's quite the legend, wonder if it's true… dani," USApyon muttered with a bored tone.

"Well that is what we're here to find out, my faithful companion!" Inaho winked.

USApyon muttered a few things under his breath and looked away from the camera.

"Now, let us enter the possible lair of Hana– "

"Inaho?" the female Looper's words were cut off by the appearance of a blue-haired girl.
What are you doing?

"Oh, Yuka! Hey!" Inaho sweatdropped, rubbing the back of her head with her free hand. "I was, um…"

Yuka noticed the video camera in Inaho's other hand, a strange look forming on her face, "Were you… filming yourself going to the bathroom?"

"What?" Inaho blinked, before noting her hand on the bathroom door, as well as the camera she was holding. With a nervous laugh the Looping girl hid the recording device behind her back, moving the view to USApyon. "No, no! Why would I do something like that? You know even I'm not that weird Yuka! Hahaha! You kidder!"

"Not like she'd have much to comment on if she knew what you were really doing, dani," USApyon commented to himself, he was suddenly knocked down by a subtle kick from his partner. "Gah! Why you little…" the otter-yo-kai sighed and rubbed his helmeted head, "No, keep calm, remember your disciplinary training… dani."

"I suppose you're not… but, what are you doing?" Yuka's questioned from off-screen.

"Oh, I was…" Inaho lifted the camera back up, giving it a view of herself and Yuka again. "Doing a… um… documentary on the unsanitary conditions of our elementary school bathrooms! For the greater good! Yeah, that's it," she gave a proud nod.

"Oh, you are?" Yuka gave her friend a skeptical look. "I don't think they're that bad."

"And that's exactly what the people keeping the bathrooms in such subpar condition what you to believe," the purple-haired girl spoke wisely.

"Hmm…" Yuka stared at Inaho.

The human Looper sweated a bit.

USApyon tapped his foot impatiently.

"… Well, okay," the blue-haired girl smiled, giving a nod. "I don't really get it, but I hope you succeed in your goal, Inaho!" Yuka waved as she continued walking down the hall.

"Don't you worry, Yuka. I am determined to reveal the truth!" Inaho waved back to her leaving friend, before letting out a sigh of relief once she was out of sight.

"Handled that one like a pro, dani," USApyon commented bluntly.

"Shut up cosplay-bunny!" Inaho snapped, before barging into the bathroom.

The Looping yo-kai shrugged, following his partner.

"Sorry about that nonsense, loyal viewers, but sometimes the road to uncovering the truth is paved with lies. Yuka would no doubt panic if she knew we were trying to summon Hanako-san, and our entire investigation would have probably been halted, luckily I averted that crisis!" the human girl explained to the camera proudly.

"More like she averted her own embarrassment, dani," USApyon snidely whispered to the camera.

"Aha! Here we are, the third stall!" Inaho exclaimed, pointing the camera at the stall door. "USApyon, would you do the honors?"

The otter-yo-kai in space-rabbit garb walked over to the stall and gave his partner a deadpan expression. "… Okay, before we go and do this: Really Inaho? Are you really going to act like this is some big mystery!? We all know Hanako-san exists! We've met her before! Dani!"

"Less talking, more knocking! What, you scared?" Inaho giggled a bit under her breath.

USApyon sighed while shaking his head, turning towards the door and gently knocking.

*Knock*

"Hanako-san, are you there? Dani."

*Knock*

"Hanako-san, are you there? Dani."

*Knock*

"Hanako-san, are you there? Dani."

Several seconds of tense silence passed as the camera focused on the stall door.

"… I think you need to do it without the 'danis,'" Inaho concluded after a moment of waiting.

USApyon twitched, glaring at his human partner, his hands inching towards the buttons on the bottom of his helmet.

Before 'Vader Mode' could be unleashed again however, the door to the stall creaked.

Inaho quickly focused the camera back on the stall with baited breath. "This is it, viewers, the truth is about to be revealed: Does Hanako-san exist?"

"News flash: she does," USApyon muttered, having lost his anger in favor of disinterest.

The stall door was slowly pushed open, before a dark-haired little girl in overalls, with a shadow over her eyes, floated out and stared at the two sleepily. "Hmm… Inaho? USApyon? What do you two want?"

The two visitors remained silent for a moment longer, the camera still focused on Hanako-san.

"And there you have it folks!" Inaho broke the silence with enthusiasm in her voice. "Hanako-san, the legend of the bathroom, really does exist!"

"Why did you guys interrupt my beauty sleep? Are you filming?" Hanako asked with a yawn. "I'm not ready for any kind of interview right now, could you come back tomorrow night? Thanks," without another word, the ghost girl shut the door.

"And thus, episode 1 of 'InaUSA: Investigations throughout the Multiverse!' has ended with exemplary results! We hope you tune in next time for another exciting mystery!" Inaho exclaimed, giving a wink to the camera.

"Let's hope next time it's actually a mystery, dani," USApyon grunted in the background.

"Until then, loyal viewers, keep your minds, and your hearts, open!" Inaho gave a cheerful smile and a thumbs up.

10.33

[Yo-kai Watch/RWBY]

"The humans have kept us down for too long, the White Fang will see to it that they regret that. We will pave the way for the future of all faunus kind!" Adam spoke with cold confidence, however the other White Fang members all seemed to be having a hard time taking him seriously… probably due to the position of his fingers. "What's wrong with all of you? What are you staring at!?"

"It's just…" a deer faunus seemed hesitant to speak, glancing back at the other present members, all shuffling around uncomfortably.

"What's wrong with all of you? If you have something to say, say it!" Adam snapped angrily, but it did not do anything to intimidate the other White Fang members. "What's with those looks!?"

"Adam," Sienna Khan spoke as she stepped into the room, looking at some documents. "I have some concerns about your last few operations, but if you…" the tiger faunus' voice faded as she layed eyes on the bull faunus, her stern expression morphing to one of disgust. "Adam, why do you have your fingers in your nose!?"

"… What?" Adam response was slow, as if he needed a moment to process this question. He glanced down at his hands, his eyes widening in shock when he relized that he did have his two index fingers stuck firmly up his nostrils. "How!? Why!?"

"That's what I want to know! Stop it this instant!" Sienna ordered angrily.

Adam attempted to comply but found he could not remove his fingers from their current positon. "What the!? What is this!?"

"Adam…" the High Leader of the White Fang growled, clearly losing patience with her officer.

The other faunus present were baking away fearfully, while Adam tried desperately to move his hands.

Unknown to all the non-Loopers present, a mischievous little nose-goblin stood near the bull faunus, invisible to them all.

"Dig deep for gold Mr. Taurus, you'll need it after you lose your job," Hanahojin snorted as he imposed his power over the faunus man.

10.34

[Yo-kai Watch/Kemono Friends]

Nate groaned, opening his eyes to a sunny sky. "Dangit… did Mirapo drop us someone weird again?"

"Nya…" Jibanyan's tired voice meowed from nearby.

"Jibanyan, okay… Whisper, you also here?" the Anchor pulled himself up into a sitting position, glancing around the area as he let out a Ping. He got two back, one he knew was the red nekomata sunbathing a short distance away from him.

"He's probably around here somewhere, Nyate…" Jibanyan waved in a carefree manner.

Nate got to his feet, taking a good look at the surroundings, which looked like the Savannah plains… "Really, how did we get here?"

"How should I knyow? We just Woke up," Jibanyan shrugged.

Nate gave the cat an unimpressed look. "Well… yeah. But we should at least be able to look at our memories and figure it out, but I've got nothing."

"It's not worth worrying about," the yo-kai shrugged.

Nate shook his head, letting out a sigh.

"Help! Nate! Jibanyan! Anyone!"

"Whisper…!?" the human boy's eyes widened in surprise at the sudden shouting, glancing in the direction they were coming from. "Sounds like Whisper is nearby and could use some help!"

"He's fine, Nyate," Jibanyan waved off the concern, not wanting to get up from the sunny spot he had claimed.

"Help me! Please!"

"… Nya!" the cat yo-kai growled, reluctantly pulling himself up. "Okay, let's go help the ghost-butler!"

"Good to see your enthusiastic about this," Nate rolled his eyes, before moving over to his yo-kai friend and picking him up, and speeding in the direction of Whisper's cries.

"Please save me from this beast!"

"Whisper! There you… are?" Nate blinked as he came to a stop, gaining a confused look at what he was seeing.

"Nya?" Jibanyan peeked over the Anchor's shoulder curiously.

"Nate, Jibanyan!? HELP ME!" Whisper shouted as he narrowly dodged a clawed-swipe from his pursuer.

"Hold still you crazy, talking-Cerulean! I won't let you eat any of the Friends so long as I'm still standing!" the strange, cat-like girl cried out as she chased the ghost.

"Cerulean!? I am clearly of a shining-white complexion!" Whisper huffed in offense, before dodging another swipe. "Gah!"

"I'm so sorry for mistaking you for a Cerulean and attacking you!" the wild cat-girl bowed apologetically to the yo-kai butler.

"Er, it's no issue, I assure you. And I probably could have done more to get away…" Whisper scratched his head with a shrug.

"What exactly a 'Cerulean' is, other than a shade of blue, aside, can you tell us where we are, and… what you are?" Nate questioned with a confused look.

"Oh! Hello! I'm Serval! Nice to meet you!" the cat-like girl exclaimed brightly as she looked towards the human. After a moment she gave a curious expression. "Are you a new Friend? Were you born from the last Sandstar eruption?"

"… Sandstar?" Nate blinked. "If you want, we can be friends. But I don't know anything about being 'born' from a 'Sandstar eruption.'"

"Also, where is this place!?" Jibanyan shouted, climbing up on Nate's head.

"Huh…?" Serval stared at Jibanyan with a curious expression, carefully reaching a hand out. "… Nya?"

"Nya!" Jibanyan batted the cat-girl's hand away.

"You're in your original form, but you can talk…?" Serval look amazed as she stared at Jibanyan.

"This isn't technyically my 'originyal form,'" Jibanyan muttered quietly.

"What exactly do you mean by that? What's going on here?" Nate asked, crossing his arms.

"Hm, do you not know about how Friends are born?" Serval asked with a tilt of her head, poking Nate on the shoulder. "What kind of Friend are you anyway?"

The Anchor backed up a bit at the contact, giving Serval a questioning look. "As I said, I don't mind being friends. But, as for my species; I'm human. My two friends here are yo-kai, to be specific Jibanyan's a nekomata, and Whisper's a ghost."

"Human? Yo-kai…?" Serval looked confused as she glanced between Nate and his yo-kai friends.

"Yeah, so… Serval, can you tell us where this place is? Maybe give a clue of how we got here, because we have no idea," Nate sighed as he glanced around.

"Yes, I was actually about to ask about that. I can't seem to recall what caused us to end up in this mysterious place," Whisper scratched his head in befuddlement.

Serval took on a contemplative look. "Hmm, if you weren't born from the Sandstorm eruption, you had to come from somewhere, but where…?" she smiled cheerfully, holding a hand up. "Well, I have no idea!"

Nate, Jibanyan and Whisper all fell over in a comical manner.

"… You okay?" the native looked down at the three in concern.

"Yes…" Nate muttered.

"… Anyway, this place is Japari Park, the Savannah area to be specific!" Serval nodded proudly as the three got back up.

"Japari Park…?" Nate blinked as he processed the new info, along with his yo-kai companions.

"Yeah!" Serval nodded again. "And I might not know how you ended up here, but I know a place we could probably find some answers; the library!"

"A library? How boring," Jibanyan groaned.

"You have any better ideas," Nate shook his head at the two-tailed cat, before looking back towards Serval. "Thanks for informing us, do you think maybe you could direct us towards this library?"

Serval grinned, grabbing Nate's hand and shaking it rapidly. "I'll be glad to lead the way!"

"… Thanks," the Anchor gently pulled his hand away, trading a few confused looks with Whisper and Jibanyan, before the three began following Serval.

"So, this substance called 'Sandstar' erupts from a mountain every so often, and when it comes into contact with animals it turns them into 'Friends?'"

"Yeah, I still find it hard to believe you didn't come from the last eruption," Serval nodded to Nate as they walked through the Savannah, along with Whisper and Jibanyan. "Though, I guess I've never seen a… 'human…?'" the cat-girl looked to the boy for confirmation, continuing when he nodded, "Around here before, at least I don't think so."

"It is a bit strange, especially since these 'Friends' as you call them, appear to have taken human form in their transformation," Whisper spoke with curiosity as he floated along.

Serval looked at Whisper for a moment, glancing back at Nate and nodding. "Yeah, that is kind of strange… oh well, I'm sure the library will have the answers to these questions, as well as how you guys got here!" the Friend let out a cheer as she charged ahead of the group.

"Hey, don't do that!" Jibanyan snapped from atop Nate's head. "We don't want to run around too much in this heat!"

"You're not even walking," Nate pointed out as he followed Serval.

Serval slid down a slope, soon followed by the three visitors.

"So, where is this library located anyway?" Whisper asked as he floated up to Serval's side. "I am very interested in seeing what information it has on this place, and you Friends."

"The library is in the Forest area," Serval said, looking over Whisper's body with a both unease and interest, but keeping her smile. "It will take some time to get there, but it will be fun sine you'll probably meet lots of Friends on the way!"

"Hmm, well Nate is always happy to make friends," Whisper couldn't help but chuckle.

Nate trailed the two, Jibanyan starting to nap on his head. The Anchor smiled a bit at his butler's words, and also how cheerful Serval seemed to be even though she seemed unnerved by Whisper's appearance.

A sound similar to liquid sloshing caused Nate to stop in his tracks, looking down and spotting a small, blue creature with a single eye, looking like some kind of goo creature, peeking out from behind a rock and looking up at him. "Huh? Now where did you come from."

Serval's ears twitched at Nate's voice, she glanced back, and her eyes widened in surprise. "A Cerulean! A real one this time!" acting quick, the wild cat-Friend readied her claws. "Nate, Jibanyan, get back! That thing's dangerous!"

"Wait, that's a Cerulean!? How could you ever have mistaken me for one of those things!?" Whisper exclaimed in outrage.

"Stop shouting, I'm trying to nyap!" Jibanyan growled in a groggy manner, not moving from Nate's head.

"Everyone, calm down!" Nate suddenly yelled. "You're scaring her!"

Serval froze, giving the human boy a confused look. "… 'Scaring her?'"

"Oh, here we go again," Whisper shook his head, but couldn't keep the smile from his face.

"It's okay, little one, we won't hurt you," Nate spoke in a gentle tone as he knelt down to the Cerulean's level. "You were just born, weren't you? I bet you're really confused and frightened, aren't you?"

The Cerulean looked like it was about to attack in some manner but stopped when Nate placed a comforting hand on its head. The Cerulean twitched slightly, seemingly in some sort of conflict, before it gave in and accepted the affectionate contact…

"There, there, it's alright," Nate smiled as the Cerulean accepted him.

"… What is happening?" Serval questioned with a blank expression, barely believing what she was seeing. "Is being able to communicate with Ceruleans a normal human thing!?"

"Hmm… this is more of a 'Nate thing,'" Whisper chuckled as he floated around the baffled cat-girl.

"Hmm… well, we should be getting to that library…" Nate remembered, giving the Cerulean another pet on the head, before getting up and walking over to Serval and Whisper.

The Cerulean made what could be described as a whining sound as it watched Nate walk away, before it attempted to follow.

"Hmm…?" Nate blinked, looking back at the small creature. "… Do you want to come with us to the library?"

The Cerulean made a sloshing sound as it bounced up and down.

Nate stared for a moment longer, before smiling. "Alright, come on Tiny, welcome to the team!"

"Um… we're actually taking a Cerulean with us…?" Serval spoke with a wavering expression, eyeing the small blue blob carefully.

"Of course! We can't leave this little one by her lonesome," Nate insisted, picking the Cerulean up and holding 'her' protectively.

'Tiny' made a few pleased noises, nuzzling against Nate happily.

"Well, there's no helping it. That creature is already attached to him," Whisper sighed with a shrug.

"… Well, it doesn't seem like it's going to attack," Serval reasoned to herself as she watched the Cerulean interact with Nate. She nodded, smiling again. "You know what, yeah! An adventure with a friendly Cerulean could be a ton of fun! Let's get going!"

"Yeah, that's the spirit Serval!" Nate cheered.

Tiny gave her own cheer in the form of a guzzling squeal.

"QUIET!" Jibanyan suddenly snapped, before curling up into a tighter ball on the Anchor's head. "I'm nyapping…"

"… Lazy cat," Nate shook his head in disapproval.

"Hey…" Serval whined a bit, looking offended.

"Him, not you," Nate pointed out, before the group began moving again, now with a new, small, blue addition.

10.1: A hero cat full of guts and moxy joins the Loops!

10.2: Well, now Inaho can cross 'ride a kaiju' off her bucket-list, still waiting on that 'become a Magical Girl' thing though…

10.3: Let's all be honest, this was inevitable.

10.4: Christmas cheer, and crazy crossover-battles for all!

10.5: An epic quest continues!

10.6: And Inaho learned absolutely nothing.

10.7: Let's all remember, Whisper still has mastery over boxes.

10.8: A meeting between two Looping Sith… it's not as 'dark' as you'd expect…

10.9: Just wait until Keita tells his grandpa about this adventure!

10.10: Not really sure where this is going… could be fun!

10.11: This is a thing.

10.12: Nate really should have seen it coming, they do have a lot in common.

10.13: Nate/Keita's mom is Looping! Cue the celebration! Also, a bunch of issues…

10.14: Emotions are complicated, even in the Loops, sometimes it helps just to have a friend to talk to.

10.15: The Loops can be very awkward.

10.16: Lily has a talk with someone she probably never thought she'd speak to again and gains a bit of confidence.

10.17: And, with a warm hug, the tension fades…

10.18: It's always nice to meet new family!

10.19: Don't worry everyone, Katie forgave Nate and Hailey soon after this incident!

10.20: And the debate rages on.

10.21: Inaho and USApyon's Pokémon Journey begins here!

10.22: Hanahojin and Nadia Awake in a mysterious room, where will this lead?

10.23: As it seems; any attempts to resolve chaos, just results in further chaos…

10.24: Whitley may not be Looping, and he may be corrupt, but Nate/Keita views him as his friend, so he'll do what he can to help him.

10.25: Yo-kai, Grimm, Heartless, is there anything Nate/Keita can't befriend…?

10.26: Not sure if it falls into quite the same category as puberty, but it certainly feels weird.

10.27: Some things are stranger for some Loopers then others.

10.28: Sometimes the Loops can be really boring, and you just want to do nonsense with the powers you've acquired through them.

10.29: No question about it; being a parent is hard, especially to so many kids.

10.30: And that's probably not even the craziest thing Nate/Keita's ever baked…

10.31: Was bound to happen eventually, I suppose.

10.32: Wonder what mystery they'll tackle next episode?

10.33: Hanahojin's powers can be nastier than you'd think, depending on when and where he uses them.

10.34: The beginning of a grand journey! There will be many Friends to meet along the way!

And there, another chapter of snips compiled just in time for the new year!

Also, I know some people were expecting Shadowside stuff this chapter, don't worry, that's coming, next time…