As they were on their way into the lobby, Mr. Salamone changed the clock yet again and there came a young boy, but looked older, even than Felicity and Vincent, in a red uniform with his own coat and suitcase. He was then walking to the line to the front desk. Eloise had special privileges of course, so she came next to the line to personally talk with Miss Thompson, she rang the bell to summon the woman.

"Hopefully she'll answer some questions." Akito said.

Miss Thompson walked over and smiled to the little girl.

"Any messages?" Eloise asked.

"Let's see," Miss Thompson looked, then took out a paper for her. "Oh! Yes, the Chairman of the Stock Market is wondering if you could ring the closing bell next Tuesday."

"Oh, I can't..." Eloise pouted. "My ring finger's all worn out... Please send my regrets."

"Yes, please." Akito said.

"Miss Thompson," Mr. Salamone came to the woman's side. "Daniels wants this invitation to the debutante ball to-" he then looked forward.

Eloise and Akito stood next to each other, looking up at him.

"Uh, our special guest." Mr. Salamone then continued. "Could you send it up to his... Or her room immediately?"

Miss Thompson nodded and walked off to leave him at the front desk.

'That was oddly suspicious.' Akito thought to himself.

Mr. Salamone looked down to them.

"Good morning, Mr. Salamone!" Eloise chirped to him.

"Morning, Eloise and Atiki..." Mr. Salamone replied, hiding the bell from her.

"Akito," Akito corrected him. "So who's this special guest?"

"Is it the prince?" Eloise added, having a pretty big hunch.

Mr. Salamone gestured for them to walk the other way to talk about this. Eloise walked with Akito to the other side of the desk as the man walked with them, behind his desk.

"How did you know?" Mr. Salamone nearly growled at Eloise, proving her hunch was correct.

"Yeah, Eloise, I've been meaning to ask you that myself, how did you know?" Akito asked.

"Oh, AKito, don't you know?" Eloise smiled innocently. "I know absolutely everything!"

"Eloise, please, I'm begging you," Mr. Salamone sounded desperate. "You must behave today. Between the ball and the prince, we can't afford for one thing to go wrong."

"You worry too much," Eloise replied. "What could possibly go wrong?"

"Eloise..." Mr. Salamone glanced at her, then pointed to five stars on his desk. "Do you see those stars?"

"Let me guess, if one thing even one thing goes wrong, then you'll lose one of your stars and this place won't be a five star hotel AKA Plaza anymore if that happens, right?" Akito asked with a hunch from his detective skills.

"Precisely," Mr. Salamone nodded. "You see, I take pride in that and i live by what these five stars stand for," he then pointed to each star of what they represented which bored Eloise worse than her tutoring. "Service, attention to detail, courtesy, luxury, and, of course, clean-"

Eloise escaped and she stood on top of a luggage cart to change the clock once again. The boy in uniform saw that and chuckled to her antics. Akito did find this funny, but also knew how serious Mr. Salamone was about how serious this all was and decided to go and get his cousin and change the clock back to it's correct time.

"Aww..." Eloise pouted to him, she then looked behind him and found the older boy, going to him.

Akito decided to keep a close on his little cousin this time due to how sneaky and active she was like Urchin was as a child, she really took after him that way.

"I'm Eloise, I'm six." the blonde girl introduced herself to the slightly older boy.

"Uh... I am Leon... And I am nine." the boy replied, then looked away from her.

"Nice to meet you, Leon, I'm Eloise's cousin, Akito." Akito greeted.

"He's seven." Eloise then added in, she then came in front of the boy to make him look back at her. "Are you staying at this hotel, Leon?"

"Yes, I am supposed to see Mr. Salamone, and-" Leon tried to explain.

"I never wait for anyone," Eloise cut him off right there. "I let them wait for me! Come on, I'll take you to him, the long way!" she then took Leon's hand, hid his bags underneath one table and ran with him. "Come on, Akito!"

'I can already tell this kid is not going to Mr. Salamone just to check which room he's in.' Akito thought to himself.

Eloise took her cousin and new friend to the emergency staircases. "So, Leon, why are you wearing that perfectly awful coat?"

"It's my uniform," Leon informed. "I go to boarding school."

"They teach you to be bored?!" Eloise asked, nearly devastated.

"No, boarding school is where rich people send their kids to." Akito said.

"I live there." Leon added in.

"I don't go to school," Eloise replied as she led them down the endless flights of stairs. "School comes to me."

"It's true." Akito said.

"What about you?" Leon asked him.

"My mom home-schools us." Akito explained.

Leon looked curious. "So you live in the hotel too then?" he asked, thinking the younger boy meant himself and Eloise when he said 'us'.

"No, me, my twin sister, my older brother, and other cousin are just visiting Eloise." Akito said.

"Oh... Okay..." Leon supposed he understood now as he followed down more and more steps. "Eloise, where are we going?" he then finally asked, running out of patience.

"Hold on, Leon, we're going to have fun," Eloise smiled reassuringly. "Buckets and buckets of fun!"

'I can already tell that Mr. Salamone might be looking for Leon.' Akito thought to himself.

Eloise led the two older boys into the laundry room and they fell out of the laundry chute, right into a pile of white fabrics. "Come on!"

Akito and Leon then followed Eloise the best that they could as she took the lead due to knowing this hotel inside and out.

"Down we go!" Akito called out.

Leon yelled out as they slid down the chute and ended up in sheets. Eloise helped them out and led the way out as a woman passed with a carrying cart of fresh clean sheets for guests staying at the hotel. Then out of nowhere, Larvitar came out of his Pokeball to join in the fun. Eloise sent the boys in all sorts of different directions. Akito kind of expected this due to how the girl was most of the time.

Leon was curious though. "Are you looking for something?"

"Clues about a guest on the eighth floor." Eloise replied, also hoping that the word 'clues' would keep Akito's attention since he wanted to be a detective like his father.

"Did you say clues?" Akito asked, interested.

"I think she did, Dad." Larvitar smiled.

"As a matter of fact, I did." Eloise replied proudly.

"I'm in." Akito smiled.

"Clues always seem to tickle your funny bone, don't they, Dad?" Larvitar said.

"You could say that." Akito smirked.

Leon looked to Larvitar in great awe. He was seeing a real living and breathing Pokemon up close. Larvitar simply waved at Leon, finding him friendly.

"Wow..." Leon whispered in awestruck, then returned his focus on the blonde girl. "Anyway, clues to what, Eloise?"

"It's amazing what you can tell about a person from their laundry." Eloise said as she went to a pile of dirty clothes to demonstrate.

"Really?" Larvitar asked.

"Oh, yes," Eloise said as she reached up to the 'Floor 8' door up above them and pulled on it which made a buzzer noise and dirty clothes fell on top of them, knocking them all down to the floor instantly and she popped out of the pile with a large white collared shirt. "See this? A golf shirt. This man golfs, but he's not very good."

"How can you tell?" Leon asked.

"Akito, if you would mind?" Eloise asked, knowing that he could explain it.

"Uh, well, that shirt's pretty big and if he were better at golf, it'd be a thinner shirt." Akito guessed the best that he could.

"Wow." Leon said.

"And if you're good, you take vacations near golf courses..." Akito then continued, making it up as he went along honestly. "And if you're not very good, you come to the Plaza and wear your golf shirt to lunch."

"Precisely." Eloise nodded in agreement.

"Cool." Larvitar smiled.

Eloise then gestured and saw a large red stain on the front of the shirt. Leon looked disgusted of the stain, not wanting to guess where it came from. Eloise then bent down and pulled the clothes all around to look for something.

"Cousin Eloise, what are you looking for?" Larvitar asked.

"I can't tell ya," Eloise replied as she kept searching. "It's an absolute secret! But I will tell you this... He's my date for the Debutante Ball."

"What's a Debutante Ball?" Leon asked.

"It's basically a dance." Akito said.

"It's only the most, most, most fantastic ball for girls in New York," Eloise added in. "They dance all night and wear above-the-elbow gloves. My mother was a debutante. She has grace. She's in Paris now, but she'll be home in three days."

"Yep." Akito said.

Eloise then continued to look through the clothes.

"Eloise!" Leon rushed to her side. "We shouldn't be going through people's laundry. There are rules! I can't be a party to this!"

"A party you're not part of?" Eloise smiled mischievously. "What fun is that?"

Leon merely shrugged, unable to think of anything to say to that.

"Have you ever been to a party?" Akito asked.

"Umm... Well..." Leon seemed weird about answering that question for some reason.

"How about a deal?" Eloise proposed as she was taking off Leon's red coat. "You help me find my date to the ball, and I help you."

Akito saw where this was going and sighed, playfully rolling his eyes at his younger cousin. "Spy Time."

"You got it." Eloise nodded to him.

"Should have seen this coming." Akito said.

"Wh-What are you doing?" Leon asked as the girl was taking his uniform off.

"If you're going to be my assistant spy, you'll need to get rid of that coat," Eloise instructed. "Spies don't stand out, they blend."

"It's true." Akito said as he picked up Larvitar.

Eloise took off Leon's coat and hat and threw them into one of the washing machines.

Leon was only in his pants, under shirt, and black striped tie, he tried to get his clothes, but the blonde girl wouldn't let him. "But someone might take it!"

"If we're lucky." Eloise said, looking to Akito.

"You, follow me." Leon said once he heard someone coming.

The three kids and Pokemon then went off as a couple of adults were coming into the laundry room.

"Where are we going now?" Larvitar asked.

"Anywhere but here!" Leon whispered.

"Oh, I know where we can go!" Eloise suggested as she led the way to the staircase and to the elevator to go to the penthouse top floor of the hotel.

'There's more to this kid than meets the eye.' Akito thought to himself.

Eventually, they were back at the top floor in Eloise's room. Eloise introduced her other cousins to Leon and along the way, decided to let him meet her pets as well.

"This is Weenie," Eloise brought the pug dog out into Leon's arms. "He likes to have his back scratched with a wire hanger," she then reached into the water and brought out her unique pet that was a turtle. "And this is Skipperdy, he likes to eat raisins and wear sneakers, and last but not least, this is Ditto," she then brought out her very own Pokemon. "He likes to make funny faces with me and sleep in my hair."

Ditto smiled while nodding to her.

"I also know a pigeon, but he's fat and grisly, so I holler at him," Eloise went on as she saw a pigeon outside the window and yelled as loud as she possibly could. "Shoo! And he flies over to the Sherry-Netherland..." she then bent under her bed and took out rag doll before throwing it onto Leon as he carried her Pokemon, pug dog, and turtle. "This is Sabine, she's from Jamaica, she's rather unusual... And this is Saylor," she then took out a rather battered plastic baby doll with loose strands of hair and had a bandage on its forehead. "She's a very sad sourpuss. She was in the most terriblest of accidents. And she bleeded so hard, this ambulance came and took her to the hospital. They gave her these terribly dark medicines..." she then put on Urchin's coat while taking out binoculars as she rambled on about her doll's backstory. "She was reeeeeeaaallly... Weak!" she then smiled once she found what she was looking for and went to it. "So I gave her a strawberry leaf from under my grapefruit for not whimpering. And Weenie licked her face. It was extremely a lot of work."

Ditto nodded, agreeing with that. Eloise placed a clown wig over the older boy's head and she handed clothes for Akito, Estelle, Vincent, and Felicity.

"What's this for?" Leon asked her.

"Your disguise of course," Eloise replied like it was obvious, she then looked to her cousins. "Obviously has no experience in spying. Luckily, he's working with a pro."

"Yes, yes, he is." Akito nodded.

With that, Akito, Estelle, Vincent, and Felicity searched for clothes to wear as 'spy disguises'.

"Where'd you get the coat, Eloise?" Vincent asked.

"It's my daddy's," Eloise replied as she helped Leon in his disguise. "He lives in the ocean."

"Your father lives in the ocean?" Leon looked at Eloise like she was crazy.

"Yep." Eloise smiled.

Leon looked to Eloise's cousins.

"Uh, he works in the Navy." Estelle lied.

"Yeah." Akito added.

"Really?" Leon sounded dubious.

"My daddy lives in the ocean," Eloise glanced back. "He's a-"

"Navy Seal." Estelle quickly said while covering the blonde girl's mouth.

"She means a navy soldier." Akito added.

"Yeah, that." Estelle nodded.

"Oh... Okay..." Leon shrugged as he set Weenie, Skipperdy, and Ditto down on the floor.

Eloise came to talk with her cousins in private after they put on their disguises. "Why did you tell him that?!"

"Eloise, not everyone believes in mythical creatures or magical creatures." Vincent told her.

"Hey, my father's not mythical!" Eloise folded her arms and pouted.

"No, but to everyone, mermaids AKA merpeople, are mythical creatures." Vincent said.

"Hmph..." Eloise pouted and put her hands on her hips, she then put on a bandanna and wore it around her mouth which made her like a Wild West bad guy. "All right, we're ready, we need to move out and do some spy work."

"Yeah." Akito said.

Eloise crawled out which signaled the others to crawl with her. The Pokemon climbed onto their backs as they went along. Nanny was in her bedroom and was remaking the bed and putting on the clean sheets. Eloise then stood up and tiptoed on her pink roller-skates and snuck Leon out the door.

"Children!" Nanny called before the others could get out with him.

"Yes, Nanny?!" They replied back.

Nanny walked over, not even commenting about their disguises, but held out the book to them. "I've rung Phillip... I said you'd bring the book back to him in the lobby and I believe an apology is in order."

"Yes, he was rather rude to me." Eloise replied as she collected the book from her nanny.

"Eloise, you already know who really needs to apologize." Vincent said.

"Absolutely." Nanny agreed.

Eloise lightly groaned and rolled her eyes which were blue as the deep blue sea.

"Now, now, Eloise, we are better than that," Nanny saw that. "We are much, much, much better than that!" she then noticed the strange clothes that the children had on. "What are you all wearing?"

"Nothing!" Eloise said quickly.

"What are you up to?" Nanny asked firmly then.

"Nothing, gotta skitter!" Eloise said quickly again and left out into the hallway with her cousins and new friend.

"Well, be sure to wait for him in the lobby!" Nanny quickly reminded.

"We will!" Estelle called back.

Eloise hid the book in her coat as they were walking along, though she was rolling due to her roller-skates.