The heroes walked along the path, Carrying Sanji's mobile cooking station.
"Man, this thing is heavy." GutsMan said.
"What are you complaining for? You're strong. You can handle it.' Sanji said.
"No biggie. I can see the restaurant up ahead." Guts man said as they saw the restaurant.
"Volcano Soup is ready to be served!" Magmar shouted as the customers inside cheered. Magmar then saw Sanji.
"Hello there, Black Leg. You ready to get to this challenge?"
"More than ever, fire face." Sanji said.
"Well, you better bring your A game, cause I'm about to barbeque it." Magmar grinned. "For today's challenge, we are making a soup dish. But one catch, your soup has to be hot enough to re-energize a person." Magmar said.
"Energy, huh? Time to put Iva's attack cooking recipes to use." Sanji said getting out his cooking station. "Hold it. We need a judge first. Anyone here feeling punked out?" he asked looking around.
"Uh, that would be me." said a man coming from the crowd. "My names Deke and I haven't gotten a wink of sleep in a fortnight. I need this."
"Well, there we go. So, get your station ready and we can get to work." Magmar said.
It didn't take long for both to get their stations ready. It then began as quickly as it started. Magmar peaked over at Sanji as he made a few noodles.
"Looks like he's making a ramen like dish. Well, he better hope it works." Magmar said as he grabbed several spices and tossing them into the soup. When he was done, it was on fire with red broth. "Volcano Soup, my speciality." Magmar grinned.
Deke stuck his soup in and saw it melted. "You know, maybe I'll just skip the fo-" he said before Magmar began force feeding him the soup. Deke cried out in pain as he ran about. "Water! I need water!" he shouted.
"Looks like he didnt like it. Too much spice can really spoil the appetite." Sugarcoat said.
"I feel more sorry for the guy who had to eat it." Rainbow said watching the guy run about.
"So Sanji, is your dish really Ramen?"Naruto asked him.
"Yeah. But it's not just ordinary ramen." Sanji said putting a bowl down of brown broth and vegetable pieces and few meat noodles. "Sanji Special Rich Ramen." Sanji said.
Deke hesitantly used the chopsticks to grab the noodles before tasting them. His eyes open wide. "Oh. It's like angels!" he said slurping them down. "It's like I've been touched by an angel's kind hand!" he declared.
"The broth is a base to bring out the flavor of the meats. It's actually made from a few vegetables to make it more energizing." Sanji said.
"You win! You win!" Deke said with tears rolling down his cheeks.
"Huh. Guess hotter isn't always better. Well, you bested me." Magmar said extending his hand.
"For the upgrade, I'm thinking some exotic spices could make up for the loss. I want a place to make them." Sanji said.
"Of course. I'll have it processed immediately." Magmar said.
Sanji got a high five from Hope. "Two down, eight to go. Then we go for their guild master."
"Our Master Head Chef, she's getting more and more anxious to face you herself in battle." Magmar said. "Her name's Olivia. Unlike most guilds, she's a human. Word has it, she's a chef among chefs. She's like the cooking goddess or something."
"Oh, great. It's gonna be hard beating a girl, especially for a ladies man." Jexi said.
"In cooking, there is no gender. It'll hurt for a while, but I'll still face her eventually." Sanji said as tears rolled down his face.
"Next chef you gotta face is our fish course master, but you'll have to wait a while for him. He's on a fishing trip right now." Magmar said.
"That's fine. We need to see Dahlia anyway. Would you know where Reinhold Manor is?" Ruby asked.
"Yeah. Go to the right, you'll see a servant in a suit near a wooden boat." Magmar said before leaving.
The heroes soon arrived at a river where they saw a man near a wooden boat. "Hello there, my name is Ramon, escort for the Reinhold family and the one in charge of letting people onto the property. How can I help you?" Ramon asked the group.
"Dahlia sent us. We wish to travel to the manor." Layton said.
"Ah. So you must be Professor Layton, or...are you an impostor? Can't be too careful these days." Ramon said looking them over.
"I am the real thing. This town is famous for it's puzzles, and to prove we are real, do you have one?" Layton asked.
"Of course. This one is pretty fun." Ramon said.
Puzzle No. 007: Wolves and Chicks
Get the three wolves and three chicks seen below to the other side of the river while obeying the following conditions.
-No more than two animals can ride the raft at the same time.
-There must be at least one animal on the raft in order for it to move.
-If more wolves than chicks stay on either side of the river, the wolves will eat the chicks, and you'll have to start over.
You can move the raft as many times as you like, but this feat can be accomplished in as few as 11 moves.
Fluttershy stepped up for this one.
"If there is one thing I know, It's how animals behave. Let's see, I take over the two wolves first, then take a wolf back. Grab a wolf than a chick, take a wolf back. Take the two chicks, take back a wolf, move two wolves, take one back then move the last two wolves over to join their friends." Fluttershy said.
"Wow. Didn't think you'd get that so easily." Ramon said in surprise.
"That's Fluttershy for ya. Now, let us across." Rainbow Dash said.
"Fine. Get in the boat and I'll escort you." Ramon said.
He then rowed the heroes across where they came up to the large building.
"And they call this a manor?" Sunny said.
"Hey, be nice. Someone just died here." Happy said as they headed inside. Inside was a short man in a suit.
"Welcome. My name is Matthew, loyal butler to the Reinhold family." he said pointing to two pictures. One was a large man in a suit with a mustache and beard and the other was a young girl in a red dress.
"So, this old guy was the Baron who owned the place?" Luffy asked looking at the man's portrait.
"Yes. You have the honor of looking at the last image of the late Baron Augustus Reinhold. May he rest in peace." Matthew said.
Guts man then stopped. "Hey, you sense something, Mega?" he said.
"This guy...he kind of reminds me of Dr. Light." Mega Man said. "Who's the girl in the picture?"
"That is the late baron's daughter, Flora. Unfortunately, no one has seen her in the village for a while." Matthew said.
Suddenly, a robot dropped from above. "Avast, mega, time to meet yer maker at the hand of...Pirate Man!" he declared.
"One of shade man's cronies. I know cause I can't copy your weapon." Mega Man said.
"Indeed. He insured us protection from your weapon thievery." Pirate Man said.
"Time for a different approach, then." Sunny said taking out a sphere.
"Wh-what? Why lass, that'd be.."
"Yeah. Its Cross Armor. Thank your maker for it." Sunny said putting it on as armor overtook her. She now was covered in red armor with torches over her hands and a torch on her head.
"Fire Armor Active." Sunny said.
"Cool! So Cross armor allows the wearer to tap into the abilities of other robot masters!" Luffy said
"Yeah. Boss had it in developement for a while. He's only managed to make a few of them for now." Gutsman said.
"Lemon Zest got Elec, Indigo has Guts, Sugarcoat's got Shadow Armor, Twilight's got Number Armor and Sour Sweet's got Gemini Armor." Sunny said. "But, let's see what this thing can do." Sunny said as flames began to form on the hand torches. "Fire Blaster!"
Fire then came out from the torch, enveloping Pirate Man.
"Ye have to do better than that. Remote Mine!" Pirate Man shouted firing a mine at Sunny.
"Careful! Those things are controlled!" Tails shouted.
"Little late with that, fox boy." Pirate Man said pushing the detonator.
"Yeah. Besides, I can take it." Sunny said as it went off, but Sunny was undamaged.
"What sorcery is this?" Pirate Man said
"Yeah. A perk of my armor. It protects me from any sort of explosion." Sunny said.
"I just figured out how to counter the firewall for mega man's copy data. Sunny, use this EMP ammo to fry the Firewall!" Sci-Twi said.
"Afraid ya won't get the chance." Pirate Man said pressing a button on himself. "Self destruct just got activated. Long Live Nebula!" he shouted.
"Oh no ya dont! Triple Current!" Lemon Zest shouted armor ignited. She fried Pirate mans Circuts and shut him down. He fell over, completely lifeless.
Tails then inserted a flash drive with the counter-virus. "There. Now you can copy Pirate Man's data."
"Remote Mine acquired." Mega Man said.
"My, how nerve racking. I'll have this piece of trash removed at once." Matthew said.
"Man, being a hero is awesome." Lemon Zest said. "And this armor is pretty sweet too."
The heroes then showed themselves up the stairs where they saw a large man and a thin one with glasses.
"Who are these guys? Relatives?" Weiss whispered.
"Yeah. The guy on the left is Gordon Reinhold, the barons brother and to the right is his son, Simon Reinhold." Jexi said as they heard footsteps. From the next room came a woman in a long dress petting a cat in her arms. "Ah. You must be Professor Layton and the Dimensional Heroes I presume. Its an honor to make your acquaintance." she said.
"No please. The pleasures all ours." Layton said.
But just as he was about to shake her hand, a large shake was felt as the cat in the womans arms jumped out and ran out the door.