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While SPBRR Is Exploring ZDR
"Tum tum te tum~" Mythra hummed as she was happily cooking. She was blissfully unaware that there was a purple aroma coming out of the casserole that she was making. She turned her back on it and looked into the fridge. "Let's see… what would work great in here… celery, Super Mushrooms, tomatoes…"
Unbeknownst to her, a certain rat climbed up the wall and jumped onto the counter. His mission? Get some snacks for Sora and Kairi. Of course, he didn't understand why he couldn't just get it himself but apparently humans tend to stay glued to their seats while watching a movie.
Oh well, at least he's getting some exercise in.
He scurried over to the other side, hopping over the stove. He took a quick peek at what Mythra had made and scurried on… until he got a good scent of it. He turned to look at Mythra's "creation", and he immediately gagged at the smell of it. In fact, he fainted.
"Ah! I know! Some ranch dressing will be perfect for this sort of thing!" Mythra smiled, taking out the ranch and walked over, humming to herself as she layered it up with a hum.
Ranch dressing?
Remy sprang back up the moment he heard of such an atrocity. The moment Mythra turned her back again, he looked at the abomination that she created. The smell was enough to nauseate him, so he took off… and came back with a small rat-sized hazmat suit.
Once he was mentally ready, he decided to see what was in this horrid creation.
Scrambled eggs, ranch dressing, celery, tomatoes, small pork chops, spaghetti noodles, barbecue sauce at the bottom…
What kind of monstrosity is this?
It seemed to be some sort of experiment that she's trying out. Admirable, yet… if it's enough to him to nearly puke at the sight of this monstrosity… well, it was enough for him to try and fix this. Make it smell a lot more pleasant, and hopefully taste better.
He immediately scurried up and opened up a cabinet, then he looked around to see what they had. He immediately saw a turkey baster and snagged it, then he jumped down and hid while Mythra added in shredded cheese into the fray. Once her back was turned, he quickly sucked up all the barbecue sauce and shot it out into the sink, then did the same for the ranch dressing.
He then pushed a jar of spaghetti sauce nearby as he opened up the lid and grabbed a spoon, then glazed it over. He took off the mask and gave it a good whiff. Sure, the aroma of the barbecue sauce and ranch dressing was still there, but it wasn't as intoxicating.
He went over and grabbed a bag of crackers to act as breading for the abomination that he was fixing. He tore apart a few of them and sprinkled it around. He was so lost in his art making… that he didn't notice he had attracted an audience.
He paused as he destroyed another cracker as he slowly turned his head to see Mythra staring at him. He lowered his ears and dropped the crumbs.
"KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
"Huh?" Pyra turned her head.
"What the?" Sora turned his head.
"Is Mythra okay?" Kairi wondered.
"Let's go take a look."
In the kitchen…
"DIE! DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE!" Mythra yelled, slamming the meat tenderizer onto Remy, but unfortunately for her, he was squirrely enough to dodge it all, though he did feel his life was on the line given there were imprints where the tenderizer had left.
The kitchen door opened up. "Yo, what's wrong?" Sora asked.
"THIS! DAMNED! RAT! WON'T! DIE!" Mythra yelled.
"Rat…?" Sora wondered before it dawned on him. "Oh!" He quickly Airstepped over and restrained her. "Easy! Don't destroy the rat!"
"Don't destroy it?! I think you've been hanging around Pikachu and Pichu too much!"
"No no no, see… he's a companion of mine!"
"…Eh?" Mythra looked at him. "Companion? Like that lion dude?"
"The very same, yes!"
Mythra turned to Kairi. "Kairi, your boyfriend is speaking nonsense!"
"When isn't he?" Kairi rolled her eyes with a chuckle. "But seriously though, Little Chef is a companion to your little bro. He helps him cook."
"Oh, that is such a cute name!" Pyra gushed.
"Little chef?" Mythra quietly mouthed in confusion. "Okay, so what does he do then? Does he cut and dice the tomatoes? Cut the carrots?"
"Weeeell… technically yes." Sora said as he nodded at Remy ran up Sora's arm.
"…I cannot believe you are letting that disgusting creature run around you. I swear, that is the most disgusting-" Remy lifted up a few strands of hair, to where Sora's arm raised up. "-WHAT?!"
"Ooooh, so it's like puppetry!" Pyra's eyes sparkled in awe as they witnessed Sora cooking up a meal, while also watching Remy pull the strings, er… hair strands.
"…How the hell does that even work…" Mythra said, completely dumbfounded as Sora finished making an omelette.
"Here you go!" Sora smiled as Kairi and Pyra immediately dug in while Mythra was hesitant to try it out. She immediately went for it after seeing Kairi and Pyra's eyes light up.
"…Oh my gosh, the rat can cook." Mythra said after taking a bite. "What the hell."
"Why do I smell something delicious?" A voice asked as they turned to see Futaba peeking into the kitchen along with Banjo, Kazooie and even Min Min peeked in.
"Oh hi, Futaba! How was your date with Jade?" Pyra asked.
Futaba smiled. "Oh, it was pretty greaaaaaa-" She spotted Remy. "…Hey, is that Remy?"
"Remy? What? Scrooge said his name was "Little Chef"." Sora said.
"Yeah, because he didn't know his name." Neither did Linguini. Futaba thought to herself. "You see, Sora. It all started when-"
One summary of Ratatouile later…
"And that is how he became a chef." Futaba said proudly.
"Fascinating… I wonder if he can help me cook ramen…" Min Min wondered.
"Is it wrong that I'm thinking that she's a bigger nerd than she already is?" Kazooie snarked.
"You say that like it's a bad thing, bird brain." Futaba smirked.
"Sora, did you make this?" Banjo asked.
"Well, technically, yes, but he did most of the work." Sora said, nodding at Remy who pulled his hair strands again.
"…Oh my feathers, he's a puppet master." Kazooie said. "Stay away from my head!"
"Mírén..." (Fascinating…) Min Min said with intrigue.
"How are you guys fascinated by this?! It's a regular sized RODENT controlling our favorite dork!" Mythra said.
"I dunno, Mythra… I think this is pretty liángshuǎng de." (Cool.)
"I'm with Min Min, It's pretty cool!" Pyra said.
"Well, I don't think it is. Besides, he was messing with my casserole anyway."
"Your casserole? What were you making?" Futaba asked.
"I was making a Pork Chop casserole… then that little asshole decided to make it a Pork Chop Jackasserole!" Mythra grumbled. "Little bastard ruined it…"
"I was ruining it?! You were the one adding barbecue sauce in it, don't get me started on the eggs!" Remy exclaimed.
"…Oh great, I don't know what he's saying with that "squeaking", but I feel like he's sassing me!" Mythra growled. "Go to hell, rodent."
"Let's see here…" Min Min took a look. "It seems like you didn't put it in the oven yet… what the…? Why are there eggs and celery in here?" She took a look in the sink. "Ranch dressing and barbecue sauce?! Ai yai, Mythra… were you trying to poison us?"
"Me? Poison?! Of course not!" Mythra laughed. "Do I look like the type of gal to make something poisonous, serve it to everyone in the Smash Mansion, kill everyone off in some type of murder mystery, some new guy comes in and starts reviving people left and right, and to top it off, this so-called murder mystery takes almost a year to wrap up!"
"…Why would this kind of murder mystery take a year to solve?" Pyra asked.
"That's the most convoluted murder mystery I've ever heard." Futaba said.
"I feel like the two of us would be revived by the power of friendship…" Kazooie said.
"I wouldn't mind that." Banjo mused.
"I would! It sounds ridiculous!" Kazooie rolled her eyes.
Min Min rubbed her chin in thought. "Wonder if a special type of noodle will revive me…" She wondered as they all looked at her. "Huh? Oh, don't mind me, wǒ zhǐshì zài zuò bái rì mèng." (I'm just daydreaming.)
"Hmm…" Kairi looked at the casserole. "It does have potential… take out the eggs and celery, and it'd be good."
Remy hopped down onto the counter, grabbed a marker and wrote something down on a card as he lifted it up in the air. "Her cooking nearly made me want to puke. And she didn't even cook it yet!"
"Excuse YOU?!"
"Wait a minute…" Futaba rubbed her chin in thought. "I've read somewhere that it's scientifically impossible for a rat to puke becaue they don't have gag reflexes. If what Remy says is true… oh my gosh, Mythra… you're the second person I know who broke the laws of nature."
"Oooooh, someone's getting in trouble with Viridi!" Kazooie mocked.
"Can it, bird!" Mythra yelled.
"Who's the first?" Sora wondered.
"Linguini." Futaba said.
"Hmm… I wonder if I could recreate it." Pyra said, looking into the dish as she proceeded to make it from scratch. "Hmhmhmhmhm~" She hummed, forgoing the eggs and the celery. She even tasted it. "Hmm… something's missing."
Remy looked into it, sniffing it for himself as he snapped his fingers and went for the ranch dressing.
"What?! I added ranch dressing to it!" Mythra said.
"Judging by how much ranch dressing is in the sink… I'd say you yān sǐle tā." (Drowned it.)
"What's wrong with a heavy coat of ranch dressing!" Mythra complained as Remy put on a light glaze to it as Pyra tasted it again.
"Oh, that's perfect~!" She smiled, putting it into the oven and several minutes later, Pyra pulled it out. "Oooh, delicious!"
"It's glowing?!" Mythra said in surprise as she decided to throw her monstrosity into the oven and after several minutes, she pulled out purple gunk.
"…Please tell me that's boiled grape juice." Banjo grimaced.
Futaba paled. "I've seen ENOUGH of Chie, Yukiko and Rise's cooking to know where this is going… it got to the point where Ann and Makoto had to stage an intervention and taught 'em how to cook properly. Strangely, it also made Yosuke and Kanji worship them for a while…"
"You're just being ridiculous, Futaba! This looks pretty good!" Mythra said.
"I'm not touching that." Sora said.
"Yeeeeah, I'll take a rain check on that." Kairi agreed as Kazooie gagged at the sight of it.
"Ai yah… is it supposed to smell like that?" Min Min groaned.
"Well, I suppose we ought to do a little taste test then. Luckily, I've heard of someone who lives in Gensokyo who happens to be a big eater!" Mythra smirked.
Later…
"That… that doesn't look appetizing…" Youmu said.
"Oh, don't worry about a thing, Youmu~ It probably tastes better than it looks~" Yuyuko smiled as she happily took a bite… and her face immediately went green and she fell on her back with her eyes over her head.
"OH MY ZUN, YOU KILLED LADY YUYUKO!" Youmu cried in horror as she desperately tried to revive her.
"…You killed a ghost. How is that even possible?" Futaba asked.
"CLEAR!" Pyra yelled, stuffing her own casserole into Yuyuko's mouth, where she immediately sat up with a gasp.
"Delicious!" Yuyuko smiled.
"…Oh for pete's sake. It's not that bad!" Mythra said, taking a bite of her own. She immediately started coughing violently. "It… it needs more salt…!"
"Have you tried cooking lessons… like at all?" Kazooie asked.
"Yeah, like cooking's hard?" Mythra folded her arms.
"Just because anyone can cook doesn't mean they should." Kazooie added.
"Don't make me stuff you into this oven, beak breath!"
"You will cook me? I'd rather die by Gruntilda's magic!"
Sora looked at Remy. "Think you can help her out?" He whispered.
Remy gave him a thumbs up and started to scurry up Mythra's arm. "Wah! Hey! HEY! Claws off, rodent!" Mythra yelled as he crawled up to her head. "I swear, if you think about moving my limbs-" Remy smugly grabbed a hold of her hair, causing her to lift her arms up. "Wah! H-hey!"
"I think we should leave the two alone." Sora said.
"Agreed." Futaba nodded.
"Wh-what?! Leave me alone with this little… shitheaded puppet master?!"
"You might learn a thing or two." Sora chuckled as they started to walk out.
"SORA! PYRA! NO!" She yelled.
"Have fun~!" Pyra casually waved as they walked out, closing the door behind them, leaving Mythra alone with Remy.
"…Oh no…" Mythra groaned as Remy mischeviously rubbed his hands and messed with her hair, causing her to move. "Wah! Why are you moving my legs?! HOW are you controlling my legs?! I will not be controlled by you, rat!"
"So, anyone want ramen?" Min Min asked.
"Sure, I could go for some!" Sora nodded.
"Sure!" Kairi smiled.
"I'll call Jade and see if she wants any." Futaba said.
"That sounds lovely~!" Yuyuko smiled.
"I'll go for some ramen." Youmu nodded.
"Same!" Kazooie nodded.
"Ah, what the heck!" Banjo smiled.
"Hey, Pyra!" A voice called out as they saw Rex approaching.
"Oh hi, Rex~!" Pyra smiled cheerfully. "We're gonna have some ramen. You want some?"
"Sure! …Where's Mythra?"
"Trust me, dude, you don't wanna know." Futaba said, pushing Rex toward Min Min's stand.
"Wah! Hey!" Rex yelped. …That's odd, why do I hear screams of frustration? Must be my imagination.
"YOU DAMNED RAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!" Mythra continued to scream while everyone else went to have ramen.
Wooden Plank Studios, I love you, but goodness gracious, this murder mystery arc has almost been a full YEAR and they're still getting revived from Sephiroth's master plan. I had a feeling this was going to take a while but not THIS long.
Ibuki: It's still highly entertaining though!
Oh, absolutely!