Chapter ?: BROADCAST INTERRUPTED Part 1

Guardians:

Ruby (Pokémon Adventures): The Charmer

Junko Konno (Zombie Land Saga): The Showa (Zombie) Idol

Linhardt von Hevring (Fire Emblem: Three Houses): The Healer

Bucky Barnes (Marvel Cinematic Universe): The Veteran

Blaze The Cat (Sonic The Hedgehog): The Fire

Yamcha (Dragon Ball): The Wolf

Komaru Naegi (Danganronpa): The Heart

Sapphire Birch (Pokémon Adventures): The Conqueror

Michiru Kagemori (BNA: Brand New Animal): The Beast

Masaomi Kida (Durarara!!): The Casanova

Scott Lang/Ant-Man (Marvel Cinematic Universe): The Ex-Thief

Ponzu (Hunter X Hunter): The Queen Bee

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Zetsubou Members:

Monaca Towa (Danganronpa): The Brains

Ultron (Marvel Cinematic Universe): The Machine

General Tao (Dragon Ball): The Mercenary

Agatha (Pokémon Adventures): The Elder

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Third-Person POV

(We interrupt this program to bring you a glimpse into two other universes with their own problems…)

Meanwhile… at an abandoned theme park.

Insert Song: Mean Street Thinner (Epic Mickey)

After destroying the Monokumas by the rabbit and man statue, Komaru takes a look around the town square. The emporium had been left a mess, with rabbit ear hats on the floor, paintings all scratched up, and a board for pins broken in half. Cash register didn't really have cash in it either, just old amusement park tickets.

Komaru feels uneasy, seeing such a happy looking place so ravaged makes her believe that she'll get attacked at any moment. She holds her hacking gun close to her chest and walks out to look somewhere else.

"Okay… over there now." She speaks aloud to herself as she looks over at a row of other buildings.

Bonk*

"Ouch!" Komaru walks into a wall that is painted to look like another area of the street, "What is with this place?".

"Hello?! Is anyone out there?! I've been captured inside City Hall!" A voice suddenly rings out.

Komaru was slightly startled, "Huh?".

She immediately began to run over to see the first person in this crazy area, while still skeptical since she had her finger on the trigger of her hacking gun.

"I'm here… what the?" Komaru says as she sees the captured… creature?

"A girl? You don't look like a toon from I can assume, perhaps one from East Asia… Japan maybe?"

He spoke with a gruff, but polite and intelligent voice. Contrasting with him being below the size of Komaru's waist, having green skin, a white mustache, and wearing a red and white jumpsuit. He was trapped inside a glass container with an electric force field, while also behind jail bars.

"I am from Japan, yes, but I'm not a… Toon? Um… what exactly are you?" Komaru asks while confused.

"Ah, I see! Gomenasai for my rudeness, I am what's known as a Gremlin. Additionally, Toons refer to cartoon characters, which is what I most certainly am, young lady. You can call me Gus!" He says while bowing to her.

Komaru, while still puzzled, reciprocates the bow, "Gus, huh? Well, um, I'm Komaru, Komaru Naegi."

"Ah, nice to meet you Naegi-san! I'd love to get to know you more and learn about how you've ended up in Wasteland, but at the moment I'm boxed in. Those new bear beetleworx are just monstrous…" Gus gestures to the glass cage he's in.

"Oh, um, sorry! I can't really let you out unless I know I can trust you. I mean, I just got here so…" Komaru apologizes.

Gus thinks for a moment, "Ah, I'm untrustworthy, am I? What can I do to prove otherwise… I know! That weapon of yours, perhaps I can fine tune it to handle threats we may face on the outside. Those robotic monstrosities won't stand a chance if you'd allow me to work on it!"

Komaru ponders this option, since he does look like he knows something about machines and devices. Although like she said, she's skeptical.

"I won't even lay a finger to harm you, on my honor as a Gremlin!" Gus raises his right hand up while his left is on his chest.

Komaru takes a few more seconds to think before making an answer.

"Well…. Okay, I'll let you out, but um, how do I do that?"

"Ah, you simply shock the marked electricity switch and then smash the cage! I assume that weapon of yours has some sort of electric ammunition you could use?" Gus explains as he points to her Hacking Gun.

Komaru smiles and gives him a thumbs up as she switches to Paralyze Bullets. She fires one bullet at the switch before switching back to Break Bullets and shooting the cage itself.

"Bravo! Thank you Naegi-san, I can finally taste fresh air again!" Gus cheers as he stretches his Toon body.

"You're welcome but… you're still behind the bars. I've got them." Komaru prepares to shoot the bars.

"No no, this is one I can get past."

Gus does a quick salute before disappearing and reappearing right in front of her.

"What the—You could have just done that this whole time?!" Komaru shouts in surprise.

Gus shakes his head, "Unfortunately the cage disables my teleporting, makes me feel powerless. But yet again, I must thank you for your assistance."

The Gremlin holds out his hand and Komaru shakes it.

"Now then, I should go and repay my debt to you. Let us return to my base via the Train Station and I shall craft some new functions for your… what is that device?"

"It's called a hacking gun. It's got a bunch of different electric bullets to fire!" Komaru shows it off.

Gus strokes his mustache as he looks at it, "Truly fascinating!".

They walk up the ramp to head to the train station and sit down on a bench. The train had not yet arrived yet, so they had to wait… but unfortunately trouble reared its ugly head.

"Watch out!" Komaru grabs Gus and pulls him out of the way of an attack.

Gus recognized the metal menace, "Ugh, a Spinner Beetleworx!".

A big metal spider creature with glowing green eyes and sharp buzzsaws and scythes on its legs.

"Well, it's a good thing the train is running late, it looks like we'll have our hands full with this!" Gus said as he took out a red wrench.

Komaru has her finger on her Hacking Gun trigger, "Hope we can get back on track after this…"

Suddenly the Spinner was shocked by a stream of electricity, before a weak point on its rear end was struck by a boomerang-like object. The Beetleworx had been disabled and it exploded into pieces.

"E-Eh?" Komaru lets out in surprise.

It was then that the culprit hopped out of the shadows. He slicks down his long ears towards the back of his head, before they sprung back up again.

"Geez, Gus. Where the heck were ya? Don't tell me you were goofing around, that's another toon's schtick!" He tells Gus, who sighs with relief.

Komaru then recognized him, "Wait you're… the rabbit from the statue."

Meanwhile… in a "small quiet mountain town".

Aka… South Park, Colorado.

Transition Guitar Strum*

"Is everyone here?"

A plump boy wearing a racoon mask, with sharp claws on his fingers and a red cape on his back.

"I thought we told you to take down the Coon Alarms in our houses, fatass. You're not even in our team anymore!" A boy with a kite on his head tells him.

"Shut up Kite, we're in real danger here! You'll be glad that the alarms are still there when you see what we're up against." The "fatass" rolled his eyes.

A girl with black hair, a pink outfit with various phones on it and a pink mask steps forward.

"This better be important Coon, we have a book report to do within the next few days."

"Oh it definitely is Call Girl, look at this!"

The Coon pointed to a somewhat blurry video on his phone and the rest of the group of kids watched. It was in an alleyway and you could see a few shadows on the walls.

"Puhuhuhu~!" A cartoonish guffaw rang out before sounds of stabbing and slashing were heard.

"AHHHHH! OH MY GOD! HELP! HELP! Ack, agh…" A man screams as he is brutally killed.

"Huh, whozzat?" The same cartoony voice asks aloud as the person with the camera begins to run.

The last thing that was seen was of a bear with a glowing red eye and a sinister smile. The video ends and the reaction to it was a split from horrified to doubtful.

"That is why I gathered you all today, we need to protect this town from this evil bastard known as… Murder Panda. This could be the plot of one of our team-up movies!" The Coon explains.

"... Are you serious, dude?" A boy with a white shirt and a toolbelt asked, unphased.

Call Girl raised an eyebrow, "You do realize people can fake these things right? Where did you find it, Twitter? TikTok?".

"It was Twitter and it's REAL. Come on guys, are you telling me that you don't believe this after all the shit we've gone through?" The Coon shouts.

"F-F-Fair point, but Murder P-Panda? That's ridiculous." A handicapped boy with crutches on his arms and a lightning bolt shirt stuttered out.

A blonde boy with a tinfoil helmet quivered, "Aw geez fellas, I know I'm a good guy now but… I don't wanna take any chances if this is real!".

"Y-Yeah…" A boy dressed like a mosquito agreed.

The Coon pinched the bridge between his eyes, "Goddamnit you guys, fine! We all split up into groups and search the town for two hours. If we find nothing, you can all go home and do your boring homework, Wendy…"

He glares at Call Girl, who just rolls her eyes.

"If you do find some clues on if it exists, WHICH IT DOES, report back to us. If you run into it, kick its ass. If it kills you, I'll personally prepare your funeral."

"And what if we do what you do and just choose to go 'screw this, I'm going home.'?" A boy with only a large S on his sweater asks.

"It's 'screw you guys, I'm going home', first of all. Second, I'll set the alarm to go off all night." The Coon crossed his arms and smirked.

The kids looked at each other and considered their options before coming to a decision.

"Ugh, if we have to…" A boy wearing tupperware as armor sighed.

"Great! Human Kite and Mosquito, you see if there's anything near Raisins."

"Ah, those temptress waitresses may know something about Murder Pandas…" Mosquito ponders.

Human Kite sighs, "Oh here we fucking go…".

"Tupperware, you, Wonder Tweek, and Super Craig go check the school."

"G-Gah! I hope we don't see that thing in it the playground!" Wonder Tweek twitched.

"Calm down, it's not even real." Super Craig stated.

"Fastpass, you're with me, we're going to Freeman's Tacos."

"R-Roger!" Fastpass nods.

"Diabetes and Chaos, you take the New Kid to—Wait, where the fuck is the New Kid?"

Captain Diabetes raised his hand to answer, "They uh, didn't answer when I knocked on their door. They're probably asleep by now."

"Ugh, fine you two wait here until they're here! Mysterion, take Call Girl and Toolshed to the U-Stor-It. That's all, roll out Coon and Friends!"

"Freedom Pals." Human Kite corrected as he and Mosquito left.

"Whatever." The Coon states as the rest of them are separated.

"Hey Mysterion, do you believe this crap is actually real? I mean we have seen weirder things, but this is Cartman."

Toolshed asks the dark hooded boy with the question mark symbol on a spring above his head. They along with Call Girl have already entered the storage facility undetected and are now on the roof of one of the storage units.

"It doesn't matter, whether this bear is real or not, Cartman has gotten us involved in this mess." Mysterion replied while staring out at the town.

Call Girl nodded, "And we'll be sure to beat his ass either way too, right?".

"Yup!" Toolshed agreed.

"Definitely." Mysterion did as well, "I'll go scout on ahead. Stay safe you two.".

"We will, see ya man." Toolshed bumped his fist with Mysterion's.

The hooded hero then whispered to his friend, "Don't have too much fun now, heh."

Stan felt his cheeks going red at what he implied as Mysterion dashed off to explore the facility.

After a minute of scouring online for the "Murder Panda", Wendy decided to break the silence.

"It's um, been a while since we've had time alone like this. How have things been?"

Stan sighs, "It's been… the usual. The whole living on a weed farm thing… I'll never stop hating that."

Wendy looks at him with sympathy, "Yeah, I'm really sorry. You know, if it's okay, you can just talk to me if things get too rough. Maybe we can… spend some extra time together again?"

Stan smiled, "I'd like that."

The two of them etched closer until their faces were about a few centimeters away from each other. The smiles have not left their faces as the both leaned in and—

"BWAHAHAHAHAHA! That was extreme!"

"You idiot! The projector screen's all f*cked up! Do you know what's gonna happen if it breaks?!"

"The fuck?" The two of them said at the same time, since they couldn't believe their eyes.

Not just one Murder Panda, two of them. Walking out of a storage room laughing and drinking red wine.

"Are those the…?" Wendy stared blankly at them.

"Murder Pandas… Cartman was right. Go message Mysterion and the others." Toolshed told her.

"On it!" Call Girl texted them all and took a picture as proof, "All right, they should be here… huh?"

She then saw a bright light emanating from inside the Murder Pandas' storage container. The bears were busy getting "drunk", so Call Girl decided to slip down a drain pipe and sneak in.

"What is it? Wait, Wendy, where are you going?" Stan whispered.

"Come on." She whispered back.

The two of them entered, just barely avoiding the bears' sight and they saw an old school projector screen. Although it looked strange, like it was a carpet that had moving folds.

"What is this thing?" Wendy wondered as she waved her hand in front of it.

It then sucked her right into the screen and she was gone without a trace.

"WHAT THE FUCK?! WENDY!" Stan shouted with surprise.

"Heyyyy, what're you doin' here kiddo?" Both of the Murder Pandas heard his yelling and they came back into the storage facility.

"Oh crap." Stan said with regret.

"He's messing with the portal! Let's get 'em!"

The Murder Pandas charged at Toolshed, but one of them is interrupted by Mysterion's arrival.

"HYAH!" The hero kicked one bear into the other, causing them both to fall over, "Go now!"

"I owe you one man." Stan tells him before being sucked into the portal too.

"Who the hell are you?" One of the Murder Pandas asked.

"Your worst nightmare…" Mysterion answered.

"You're me with my pants pulled down at a school assembly, after I was thinking horny thoughts?!" The other Murder Panda asked.

Mysterion was utterly baffled, "... I aspire to be your worst nightmare."

Wait, this isn't Hard Hitters in Hoenn Part 4! Yeah well, I've been having this on my brain for weeks so cut me a bit of slack, alright? The new Guardians we see here are not gonna be focused on for a while so I might as well set them up now before continuing on. It's not like they're gonna be in this chapter or the next one. We delve into the worlds of Disney's Epic Mickey and South Park, a very contrasting pair. Having Komaru explore Mean Street like I did when I was younger felt good to write, and it was fun crafting the familiar South Park character banter. Also Stan and Wendy are so cute together, and I miss them in the actual show lol. I hope this was an entertaining break from the adventures in the Hoenn region, if not we'll be back next time. Leave your comments/reviews if you want as always. Also I still need to work on Epicenter… whoops. See y'all next time peeps!