Lunch was soon being prepared.

"Steaks..." Connie sighed.

"Are you okay, Mama?" Alexandrite asked her mother.

"Oh, I'll be fine, dear," Connie smiled. "It's just that these steaks remind me of my old dog Rover before he went to live on the Hill farm with Daisy and your father and I adopted two puppies."

"Cadpig and Tripod." Alexandrite remembered.

"That's right." Atlas nodded.

"I'm sure he's okay, Mom." Alexandrite soothed.

"I know he's happier with Daisy, but I really miss him sometimes..." Connie sighed gently as she thought of her old dog back in Las Vegas.

They all soon got ready with the food.

"Lunch time?" Yumi asked.

"Have you guessed?" Nana replied. "Come on."

"Yeah, come on." Mo added.

"Um, just a minute!" Yumi replied. "The game went into extra innings!"

"Move it!" Mo told her, pushing her off of the chair and into the kitchen.

Wabisuke was now giving his respects to Sakae. Alexandrite sniffled and found herself crying. Hercules pouted and then hugged his sister to settle and soothe her. Akito had left the world of OZ to join in the meal.

"You okay?" Emi asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine," Akito told her. "Let's get some lunch, I'm starved."

"We'll need a lot to eat with the battle ahead." Emi said.

"Yeah, we're gonna need as much energy as we can get." Akito agreed.

They all then gathered together to begin eating their family lunch, and where Yumi was explained the entire issue at hand.


"Back in the summer of 1615, we stood tall against Tokugawa's army of a 515,000 with the Jinnounchi's." Atticus educated.

"Amazing." Lee smiled.

"But didn't we lose that war?" Yumi asked.

"There's more to valor than fighting only when think you'll win or sitting it out every time you think you'll lose," Mansuka said. "The Jinnouchis and Fudos have fought losing battles throughout history."

"Which is a surprise since Atticus has never once lost a battle." Cherry said.

"Idiots! All of them!" Rika complained.

"Sure, but that's our heritage." Mariko replied.

"In my case, the apple didn't fall far from the tree." Naomi shrugged.

"So, does anyone have a plan of how to beat Love Machine?" Connie asked as Wabisuke joined them.

"Yeah, I'm gonna hack into his code and take him apart," Wabisuke started. "There might not be enough time to pull it off, so-"

"Everything's happening because Love Machine stole those accounts, so what's going to be the most efficient way to steal them all back." Kenji replied.

"The most efficient way?" Kazuma asked out of confusion.

"You said he likes games, didn't you?" Kenji reminded.

"Huh?" Kazuma shrugged.

Kenji soon brought out the Honafuda deck of cards.

"I think that's a casino thing in OZ, I better look into it. "Marc nodded as he saw where this was going.

"And I know just the person to challenge him." Estelle said as she looked to Natsuki.

"I'm in." Natsuki nodded after taking a deep breath.

They then continued to eat until it would be time for the challenge and there was no time to waste, and where Estelle would include herself in the challenge as Natsuki's avatar.


"I was right, your avatar looks like a mix of you and Princess Tutu." Akito said.

"Who is this Princess Tutu anyways?" Tony scoffed.

"We'll tell you later." Lee glared at his tone, but smiled to Estelle.

"I'll be using this for the challenge." Estelle said as she brought out her Digivice.

"Thatta girl." Lee smiled to his girlfriend.


'Welcome to the OZ Casino Stage!' the OZ announcer announced.

Love Machine began to look around wondering why he was in there. Estelle soon entered the world of OZ with help from her Digivice and where her digital form combined with Natsuki's avatar.

"Hey, you! You really want accounts that badly? Fine, then help yourself to mine!" Estelle glared. "Take it! If you can beat me at a game of my choosing!"

'Japanese Hanafuda selected,' The OZ announcer commentated. 'Player 1, please make your wager.'

"My wager is going to be the Jinnouchi family, my family, and my friends!" Estelle wagered as a lot of other avatars and the ones with Digivices to appear behind her.

"Lee, your girlfriend is NUTS!" Tony cried out.

Lee looked back to his little brother with a glare.

Tony looked sheepish in response.

"Please, Sakae and Celestia, look over Estelle and Natsuki..." Cherry prayed.

"Of course this family would bet its lives on Hanahuda," Wabisuke muttered. "Who invited The Dragon Lady anyway?"

"I'll have you know that I'm an honorary Fudo!" Cherry glared.

"Okay, okay." Wabisuke said before staying focused back on his own computer.

"You need to be looking for ways to dismantle him." Kenji reminded him.

"We don't even know if he's gonna accept the bet," Tasuke said. "With Sakuma there's only 20 of us. He might not care about a prize as paltry as that."

"Ahem!" Mo glared.

The others then looked to her.

"Paltry or not, those are our own lives you're talking about." Mo firmly replied.

"That's right!" Connie added.

"Take the bet! Come on!" Atlas coached.

"It'll accept," Wabisuke reassured. "I know it."

And where he was right.

'A challenger has appeared.' The OZ announcer announced.

"Here we go!" Estelle and Natsuki called out together.

"The fate of world is in your hands, girls; show this thing what your made of!" Mansuke told them.

Estelle and Natsuki nodded firmly.

'Casino rules are in full effect in this area,' The OZ announcer announced. 'The pot is doubled each time Koi-Koi is declared. The last player able to score gains all points from that hand. Determining order of playing. Natsuki and Estelle have drawn the better cards and will go first. Now, let the game begin.'

'Here we go.' Estelle thought to herself as they soon made their move.

"Everybody, shut up!" Natsuki told the others.

"Will you declare Koi-Koi?" The OZ announcer asked the girls.

"Koi-Koi!" Everyone declared.

"Koi-Koi." Estelle and Natsuki declared.

"Natsuki and Estelle declare Koi-Koi," The OZ announcer informed. "Dry three bright. Will you Koi-Koi? Tanzaku. Will you Koi-Koi?"

"You can do it, girls!" Megan cheered.

"Natsuki and Estelle have won the hand." The OZ announcer commentated.

"This thing is an amateur," Mansaku said. "Maybe we will survive."

"Of course we will." Atticus said.

"Granny taught us to play this when we were kids," Rika commented. "You can't score Jinnouchi style!"

"Including a little Fudo, Forte, Clark, and Strongman style." Connie added.

"Transferring 26 accounts to Natsuki and Estelle." The OZ announcer announced.

"26 down." Marc said.

"412,000,000 to go..." Wabisuke added.

"Again!" Natsuki and Estelle called out.

"Establish your bet, Estelle and Natsuki, you will begin to play." The OZ announcer told them.

Natsuki and Estelle nodded to each other as they played their hands.

"Dry three bright. Viewing the cherry blossoms. Dry four bright. Rainy four bright. Five tens. Boar, deer, butterfly," The OZ announcer replied. "Natsuki and Estelle have won the hand. Natsuki and Estelle have increased the game's ante."

"Koi-Koi! Koi-Koi! Koi-Koi!" Natsuki and Estelle chanted together.

"Un... Believable..." Sakuma said as he couldn't believe how many avatars the girls had won back.

"You, guys, they've already won back over 300,000 avatars!" Marc beamed. "But he still has whichever one's controlling the probe's GPS!"

"Wabisuke, hurry!" Kenji cried out.

'Viewing the cherry blossoms.' the OZ announcer announced.

"Oh, no!" Estelle and Natsuki gasped.

"Unknown does not declare Koi-Koi," The OZ announcer announced. "Natsuki and Estelle have lost the hand."

"Oh, no!" Lee panicked.

"Transferring the accounts to unknown," The OZ announcer informed. "Natsuki and Estelle currently hold 74 accounts."

'No...' Estelle thought to herself wide-eyed.

"Thirty minutes to go," Hercules panicked. "Do something!"

'Insufficient funds. You cannot place the minimum bet. Do you choose to quit the game?' The OZ announcer repeated like a game over screen.

There was nothing they could as Estelle and Natsuki were to shocked to do anything but then suddenly the number changed to 75 which told Estelle and Natsuki another account had been added to the wager.

"It's from a boy in Germany, but why?" Emi observed. "Is he one of your fans, Kazuma?"

"I don't know him." Kazuma shrugged.

"No way!" Sakuma said. "It's 13.837% of all OZ accounts worldwide! We're looking at 150,000,000 avatars right now!"

Millions of avatars from around the world gathered behind Estelle some of which were friends and family of the Fudo, Forte, Clark, Strongman, and Ketchum families.

"Why'd they all come?" Naomi wondered.

"Natsuki and Estelle being pretty certainly doesn't hurt." Mansaku said.

Estelle and Natsuki read why they all came and where it was so they could win and save all of them. The two whales soon shot out two beams of light from their blowholes which combined together and hit Estelle and where she soon transformed.

"What just happened here?" Tony asked.

"OZ's guardian angels granted Natsuki and Estelle an auspicious rare item, and it's enough to make Estelle transform." Felicity informed.

"I have no idea what that means, but thank you!" Tony said to her.


Estelle now looked like a Japanese-like human Equestrian form with her wings glowing as bring as the sun and where Atticus saw how grown-up his daughter looked. He blinked back some tears. "My little girl is all grown up!" he cried out before blowing his nose into Cherry's sleeve.

"HEY!" Cherry glared at him.

"What the Hell is THAT?!" Shota asked about Estelle's transformation.

"Estelle's transformation, now we've got a chance to win." Vincent smiled.

"She's prettier than Sailor Moon." Megan commented.

"She's prettier than Zadavia, but not as pretty as Emi." Akito said since 1, that was his twin sister, and 2, he thought Emi was the most beautiful girl he had ever laid eyes on.

"Unknown has increased the game's ante," The OZ announcer informed. "Each point is now worth 10,000,000 avatars."

"Whoa." Tony said.

"10,000,000?" Naomi asked out of astonishment.

"He's making this the last hand," Marc bit his lip nervously, then saw he had an incoming video chat from one Penny Forester. "Um... I gotta go."

"Marc! This is more important!" Lee glared.

Marc groaned, he hated to miss out on a call from Penny, but he ignored her call as Lee was right.

"Now let the game begin." The OZ announcer announced.

Estelle and Natsuki made the first move.

"Dry three bright," The OZ announcer said. "Boar, deer, butterfly."

"KOI!" the others called out.

"Rainy four bright." The OZ announcer continued.

"KOI!" The others called out.

"Red tanzaku." The OZ announcer said.

"KOI! KOI! KOI! KOI!" Everyone else called out.

The others cheered for Natsuki and Estelle. The final card that would finish the match was Estelle's attack.

"Estelle, end it!" Akito told his twin sister.

"Hit him hard!" Atticus added in.

"Dry five bright," The OZ announcer announced. "Estelle has won the hand. Transferring the accounts to winner."

All accounts, but two were soon transferred to Estelle.

"Look!" Natsuki looked amazed.

"It's stopped..." Kenji was amazed as well.

"Guys, I won, I beat him, he's gone, I won!" Estelle beamed to the others.


Everyone soon cheered, thinking that they won.

"Wait a minute, guys!" Marc told them. "The timer's still counting down!"

"Are you serious?!" Tony complained.

"The clocks have stopped everywhere else in the world," Marc explained. "I-I don't understand!"

"I think I know why." Megan gulped as she pointed to a screen that showed an image of the outside of the house getting closer and closer.

"Dropping the probe on the house?" Atticus pondered.

"There's nothing else like it possibly means." Atlas replied.

"Damn it!" Atticus growled. "That bullshit!"

"Haven't you taken it apart yet?!" Cherry glared at Wabisuke.

"Working on it!" Wabisuke told her.

"Ten minutes left!" Sakuma called out.

"We have to evacuate the house!" Forte told everyone.

Everyone then filed out as quickly and safely as they possibly could.

"We still have a chance to stop him!" Estelle told them all.

"Is he still in the admin building's user logs?" Kenji asked.

"What? Um, let me check them." Sakuma replied.

"Kenji, what are you doing?" Tony asked.

Atticus sighed as he smiled to Estelle and Lee as they shared a small dance out of victory.

"I think I know how to fix this." Kenji replied. "Riichi. You said the Arawashi uses GPS for navigation. Isn't that right?"

"Yeah, why?" Riichi replied.

"If we can upload binary junk into its atomic clock like Love Machine did yesterday." Kenji suggested.

"Okay, but how is this important now?" Tony asked.

"I found his trail," Sakuma said. "It wasn't subtle."

"We can create an error in its flight data." Marc suggested.

"Yeah but there's no guarantee it'll work, so you'll still need to evacuate." Kenji replied.

"Unless it lands some place a few feet from here." Vincent said.

"Kenji..." Natsuki said uneasily.

"Hurry up! We have to leave! Come on!" Mariko called out.

"We're not leaving." Mo said.

"We haven't lost yet!" Estelle added in.

"That's right." Megan said.

"Password prompt, where are you hiding?" Kenji looked over. "Aha! There you are! The… What the …"

"The password's been changed," Sakuma informed. "Looks like Love Machine just did it!"

"Y-You're kidding me..." Kenji muttered.

"Kenji, this is like Math, you can do it!" Marc coached.

"The two of you can do it." Vincent said, referring to Kenji and Akito.

"Uh... Well..." Akito got nervous.

"You can do it, Akito..." Emi lifted Akito's chin to make their eyes meet. "I have always believed in you from the moment we first met. And no matter what happens, I will always love you. You're more than just my boyfriend, you're my soulmate... My Prince Charming... You're my everything..." she then gave him a sweet motivational kiss on the lips, and where that seemed to do the trick.

Akito felt much better now. "Let's do this." He said.

"That's my Kito." Estelle smiled to her brother.