Author's Note:
This chapter was intended to be based around Doom Eternal, but as you may know, the game has been postponed until March of next year. Which made for a change in plans. Instead of Doom, this chapter will feature characters from a game who had DLC released for it this week...BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle? What characters will appear? You'll just have to see for yourself...on to the reviews:
"Is Blue Mary gonna show up in the next chapter? Will Athena Asamiya participate in Microwave Idol Mamorin when she shows up? Is Terry's brother Andy gonna be mad that Mai isn't in the Smash Mansion when he appears? Will Axel from Streets of Rage have his old look or his bearded look from the upcoming fourth game? And finally, what are your thoughts on the Pokemon Sword and Shield controversy being compared to the Fallout 76 controversy?"
Blue Mary unfortunately won't show up in the next chapter. Athena Asamiya seems tailor-made for Microwave Idol Mamorin, so when she shows up she'll be on Mamori's show. Andy probably won't be that mad. Axel will be bearded, because reasons. And I've never heard anyone compare the Sword and Shield controversy to the Fallout 76 controversy. So I have no strong opinion. Up next is el pollo campero:
"1.) Who do you think will be the last DLC fighter in the pass?
2.) What's your opinion on how they FINALLY FIXED SONIC IN HIS MOVIE?!"
1.) The last fighter will likely be revealed at the Game Awards. And it's gotta be a BIG reveal. If it's not Crash Bandicoot or Doom Slayer...then it's gonna be Gordon Freeman, from the Half-Life series. The internet would EXPLODE.
2.) Better late than never! Sonic actually looks like Sonic in the film. Two thumbs up for Paramount Pictures.
Derick Lindsey has a question about Kazooie:
"...does [Kazooie] liking the bird seed that Nakaruru owns mean she doesn't hate Mamahaha (that is a funny name) to her very core because he or she has good taste in bird seed she she only just dislikes him or her now?"
Mamahaha is a funny name...but anyways, we could say that Kazooie respects Mamahama for having good taste, so she'll just dislike her. Last up is PinkRose4452:
"1. What are your thoughts on the Sonic Movie trailer?
2. Can Kyo Kusanagi make an appearance, since he and Iori are rivals? Also, can Kyo became a resident, to make Iori upset that he is a resident?"
1. Better than the original. I feel more inclined to watch the film now.
2. Kyo won't be a resident, but because I like him as a character, he'll appear in the story soon. Much like Iori, his design is on-point.
Episode 205: Sleepover
Daisy always dreamed of having a sleepover at her house. The princess just wanted one night (or two) to spend time with the ladies, and just hang out and have fun. Luigi was perfectly fine with letting his wife have a sleepover...
...or at least he was, until Daisy's weight gain became a huge concern to the plumber. With Daisy still gaining weight, albeit at a slower pace, Luigi simply could not afford to have Daisy host her own sleepover, by any means necessary. Last thing he'd want was for Daisy to devour junk food all night long, and increase the size of her frame.
For the "safety" of his wife, Luigi did everything he could to keep Daisy at home. One idea the plumber had in mind was to fake an injury, just so Daisy would have no choice but to stay where she was and nurse her husband back to strength. Only question was, would Daisy fall for it?
"La dee la dee dee, la dee la dee do..." Luigi happily sang a merry tune, as he was sweeping around the living room while Daisy was sitting on a living room couch knitting her cares away. Luigi, glancing at Daisy, bumped his hip on a nearby table and caused a magazine to fall down.
"Luigi, are you knocking down stuff again?" Daisy asked her husband, as she stopped knitting and glanced at Luigi. "Can you not be clumsy for just one day?"
"Oh no, this magazine fell-a unto the floor." Luigi would point at the magazine in question, while speaking in a surprised tone that totally wasn't fabricated and able to see through. "Can you pick it up-a for me, sweetheart?"
"Why can't you do it? You're closer to the magazine than I am." Just the kind of response that Luigi wanted.
"Okay, guess I have-a no choice but to pick it up-a then. Boy, I sure hope that I don't..."
As Luigi went to go pick up the magazine, the plumber suddenly slipped and fell unto the floor...on purpose. He landed on his back and grabbed his ankle, screaming in fake pain.
"Mama mia, I've sprained-a my ankle!" Luigi yelped in pain, as Rotom came over to inspect the plumber. Daisy couldn't care less, for she knew that Luigi was only faking his injury. She wasn't that gullible.
"You sprained your ankle, Luigi?" Yuffie asked the plumber, as she quickly hopped out of her room. "I got dibs on your car!" The ninja would grab Luigi's car keys from the living room, and bolted out of the front door.
"No Yuffie, get back-a here!" Luigi would sell his injury by pulling himself across the floor, but Yuffie had already left the house. "Those are the wrong-a keys..."
Yuffie: Luigi and Daisy never gave me a fair shake after I took Luigi's car out on a joyride, and almost crashed it. They wouldn't let me hop behind the wheel again, acting like I had an extensive record of bad driving or something! But, since Luigi is hurt...I've got some time to redeem myself. Now to find out why this stupid car won't turn on...
"I have inspected your ankle, and have found out that you're a hundred percent okay!" Rotom informed Luigi, after performing its diagnosis. Luigi scolded the plasma Pokemon for ruining his plan. "You have no injuries, zzrt!"
"Of course Luigi has no injuries - he was faking it the whole time," stated Daisy; with his plan foiled by Rotom, Luigi got back on his feet. "You can't just slip on the floor after kneeling down Luigi."
"Then you must not know much-a about gravity then," responded Luigi as he dusted himself off, before the doorbell sounded. "Ah, that must-a be Yuffie returning my car keys. Told her she had the wrong-a ones!"
Luigi went to go answer the door, and saw a woman other than Yuffie standing on his doorstep. It was Celica, who was accompanied by Rinea. Unlike their husbands Alm and Berkut, Celica and Rinea actually got along.
"Good evening, Luigi - is Princess Daisy home?" Celica kindly asked Luigi, who was a bit reluctant to answer. Who knew what Celica and Rinea had in store for Daisy.
"That depends..." replied Luigi, as Celica and Rinea looked at the plumber with questionable looks. "...depends on which-a Daisy you're looking for! Do you want Princess Daisy, my wife, or Princess Daisy, ruler of-a Sarasaland?"
"Yes, we know that they're the same person," replied Rinea, bustling her way inside Luigi's house. Didn't want to hear anymore of Luigi's shenanigans. "Now where is your wife?"
"Right over here, ladies!" Daisy called out to Rinea, smiling and waving as she put her quilt away. Luigi did his best to stop Rinea, only to be pushed to the side by Celica who entered the house.
"We sure hope you weren't too busy knitting," Celica said to Daisy, examining the quilt that Daisy was knitting. "You are aware of what we're doing tonight, are you?"
"Oh yeah, the..." Daisy stopped speaking, when she saw Luigi staring at her with a frown, before she quickly resumed. "...thing that's going down at your house! How could I forget?"
"You never told me about-a this 'thing'," Luigi frowned at Daisy, feeling pretty hurt. It was always a sucky feeling for a husband whenever his wife never tells him her plans for the night. "What does this 'thing' entail?"
"It's just a bunch of girl stuff...you wouldn't understand. Celica, Rinea, I'll be right back..." Daisy quickly ran upstairs, as Luigi slowly turned towards Celica and Rinea with his frown still intact.
"What is this all about? You're having a sleep-a over with my wife, aren't you?" Neither Celica nor Rinea understood why Luigi cared so much, but they still gave credit to the plumber for showing some interest.
"Yes, and it'll be perfectly harmless," replied Celica, as Luigi looked away in pure disbelief and rubbed his hand down his face. "Not like Daisy will be hanging out with a bunch of strangers."
"She'll have lots of fun tonight, and then some," added Rinea, as Daisy came down the stairs with her sleeping bag. Can't be at a sleepover without a sleeping bag.
"One more thing!" Daisy said to Celica and Rinea, before tossing her sleeping bag to the two princess. The tomboy ran inside the nursery, and came back with Charles and handed the toddler to Luigi.
"Make sure you and Rotom keep good care of Charles while I'm away, alright?" Daisy asked Luigi, before she followed Celica and Rinea out of the house. "See ya!"
"No, Daisy, wait..." Luigi called out to her wife, but it was no use as Daisy had already left with Celica and Rinea. Luigi let out a sigh, as Charles grabbed his father's nose and giggled.
"On another note, now would be a great time for popping popcorn, zroom," suggested Rotom, as Luigi glared at the plasma Pokemon. Nobody was in the popcorn mood, save for Rotom. "What's so wrong with movie night?"
Researcher Zelda: Luigi refused Daisy to have the sleepover at her home, so we had no choice but to relocate our sleepover to Celica and Rinea's house. Alm was perfectly chill about it, but Berkut...he was oddly devastated. Almost reduced to tears.
Luigi, Charles, and Rotom were outside Alm and Berkut's house, looking through the window inside the living room. Luigi watched with heavy indignation, as Daisy, Peach, Lucina, Palutena, Zelda, and Researcher Zelda were all having a great time.
"Isn't this heart-a wrenching, Charles?" Luigi asked his son, as he couldn't bear to watch Daisy eating a celery stick with peanut butter and raisins on top. "Those ladies are gonna make-a your mother fat. Before the end-a of the night, she'll be fatter than King K. Rool!"
"May I remind you that anger is not good for the body, zzrt?" Rotom informed Luigi, who wanted to stuff a giant sock down the plasma Pokemon's mouth right now. "Anger, when it goes unmanaged, can result in abdominal pain and digestion problems!"
"Shut up, Rotom, I've had-a those problems many times before!" If that was so, then Luigi should seriously consult a doctor. "I must find a way to stop-a that sleepover, but how?"
"Hey Luigi, what are you doing out-a side?" Mario asked his twin brother, as he approached Luigi and company. The plumber was with Poochy, Spyro, Hunter, and two of his neighbors, Alm and Berkut.
"Hey, bro! I was just about to start-a planning a way to end those girls' sleep-a over. What are you and-a the others doing outside?"
"Well since Princess-a Peach is at the sleep-a over, Spyro, Hunter, and I decided to have a little...boys-a night out, if you will. Poochy wanted to come-a along. And so did Alm and Berkut."
"Celica and Rinea basically kicked us two out of our house," Alm said to Luigi on behalf of Berkut and himself. Like Researcher Zelda had said, Alm took being kicked out with stride. "But it's no big deal."
"What's the matter with him?" Luigi asked as he pointed at Berkut, who was looking shook. The paladin looked like he got spooked by King Boo on ten separate occasions in just one sitting.
"My own wife...and Celica...booted me out of my house...my house..." seethed Berkut, looking more frightened than he was furious. The paladin then started to shake Alm silly. "...Alm, we must work together to get my house back!"
"Chill out Berkut, it's my house too..." Alm pulled Berkut's hands off of his shoulder, allowing the paladin to resume his loathing. "...as you can see, Luigi, Berkut really likes to be a control freak."
"I can only imagine-a what you and Celica have to go through..." remarked Luigi as he shook his head; can't leave out Rinea, she must suffer the most. "...so! Who wants to join-a me in stopping the sleepover?"
"I was thinking along the lines of Mario," replied Hunter; Luigi would be hard-pressed to find anyone interested in fighting for his cause. "Have our very own sleepover! A manly sleepover!"
"Hunter, men don't typically have sleepovers," Spyro told the cheetah. Unwritten Rule #17: sleepovers should only be done by the ladies, and ladies only. "That's more of a girl thing...you really wanna talk about fashion and beauty, and all that jazz?"
"Wow, so they only talk about fashion and beauty at sleepovers...I was so wrong about women this whole time."
"What else do you think girls like to talk about, in their spare time? It's not rocket science..."
"Why don't we see what Link's got going on-a tonight?" suggested Mario, as he led his troupe to the mansion. Luigi was hesitant to follow, as he looked back through the window and saw Daisy having fun with her lady friends.
"We'll be coming back for-a your mom, Charles..." the plumber assured his son, as he and Rotom joined Mario and company. And as Luigi walked away, a man wearing a suit lurked nearby...
Interestingly enough, there was one girl that was missing from the sleepover, and that was Viridi. While fellow goddess Palutena was invited to the sleepover, Viridi on the other hand was turned down. That left Viridi in a bad mood, as she sat by herself in the foyer feeling salty with her arms folded.
"Stupid girls won't invite me to their stupid sleepover..." grumbled Viridi, as she watched Mario and company enter the mansion. Seeing how much accord there was between Mario and his buddies made Viridi long for being at the sleepover even more.
"What's with the long face, Viridi?" Pit asked the goddess of nature, entering the foyer with Kirby and Incineroar. The angel had finished serving his punishment, having been grounded up to a week for attempting to smuggle Pokemon from the sanctuary. Had he been successful, who knows how longer his punishment would have been.
Pit: I think I learned a pretty big lesson from last week. As it turns out, Professor Magnolia wasn't as much of a bigot as I thought she would be. And Leon is a pretty cool champion, with some pretty cool Pokemon. But I still think that his brother Hop is a Galarian variant of Hau, though. Did he and Hau come from the same mom?
Kirby: Incineroar and I seldom get into trouble with Master Hand, whenever we work with Pit. Master Hand gives us two a pass, and then claim that we were too "manipulated and hoodwinked" by Pit to deserve punishment of any kind. Incineroar and I, we could literally help Pit in an assassination plot to eliminate the president of the United States, and the worst thing that we could get from Master Hand is a slap on the wrist.
"Celica and Rinea wouldn't let me attend their sleepover," replied Viridi, pouting ever harder as Pit encouragingly patted the goddess on her back. "All because of what I said about humans!"
"All of that could've been avoided, you know," stated Pit, who wanted to give Viridi a hug but not at the risk of being shoved down to the floor. "All you had to do was ask D. Va for permission to play games with her!"
"That wouldn't have solved anything, and you know it!" Viridi looked away from Pit, as she sighed depressingly. "Let's face it, Pit, I'm doomed...Master Hand barred me from every major part of the mansion."
"Even the gardens?" Pit couldn't see Master Hand banning Viridi from the gardens - that was the goddess of nature's happy place.
"The gardens, the gaming room, the arcade room, the vending machine room, the cafe...and even Star Records' stupid recording studio. Master Hand seems to think that my xenophobia's contagious or something."
"Is it really contagious, though?" Pit retracted his hand from Viridi, not wishing to catch any germs. "I really don't wanna get sick again..."
"Pit you rarely get sick to begin with...and even if you did, you'd be whining and complaining all day! It's probably a good thing your immune system is top notch."
"Don't know what an immune system is, but that sure sounds like a positive to me!" Just then, an idea suddenly popped in Pit's head. "Hey, why don't you speak with Ashley about your xenophobia? She might help you out."
"Is Ashley even the best person to consult for such a thing?" Kirby asked Pit, knowing that Ashley was far from a people person. Ashley playing psychologist would be a disaster in the making.
"Her potions cured my stupidity once, so maybe her potions could cure Viridi of her xenophobia! I'm sure that Ashley still has a couple of potions left in storage."
"And yet despite taking those potions, you're still not as intelligent...some things will never change." Perhaps Pit was meant to be dumb forever. Not even one of Ashley's potions could change the angel for the better.
"Ashley might not give me a potion...but she would still be a person worth talking to," said Viridi, getting up from the chair she was sitting in as she was ready to make a trip to the tower. "Who knows, she might even give me some advice..."
Although Nakoruru absolutely adored being at the mansion (which made some to question what was wrong with her), one of the warrior's few concerns was not having a place for her hawk companion, Mamahaha, to fly around freely and, you know, be a bird. Nakoruru brought her concern to Master Hand...who came up with a compromise...having a room just for Mamahaha. And a few other birds of the mansion.
With her wish fulfilled, Nakoruru would bring Mamahama to the new bird room, which had tree branches and leaves and stuff. Kinda like a zoo exhibit. In this room, Mamahaha and many other birds could fly around and be at peace, and not bother others in the hallway. A win-win all around.
"Not gonna lie, this is a pretty neat idea," Ryo spoke with Nakoruru, as the two new mansion residents were standing in the bird room. The Duck Hunt Dog brought his duck companion to the room, allowing him to fly around.
"It's always the thought that counts," replied Nakoruru, with a smile; the warrior just couldn't help but do nice and wholesome things. It was in her nature. "I'm sure somebody else came up with this idea before I did."
"Well look at you, trying to be humble..." As Ryo and Nakoruru watched the birds in the bird room, a certain pilot by the name of Fox showed up.
"Hey, this is the room where we can bring our bird companions, is that correct?" Fox asked Ryo and Nakoruru, who looked at each other. Neither one of them recalled Fox having a pet bird. Unless...
"Yes, that is correct..." replied Nakoruru, who could just tell that Fox was plotting something. Already developed that sixth sense.
"Sweet! Alright Falco, bring your scrawny behind in here!" Fox beckoned to Falco, who reluctantly walked inside the bird room while folding his arms.
"This has to be some kind of sick joke..." mumbled Falco, who was wondering why he even agreed to Fox's shenanigans in the first place. "...why am I here again?"
"Technically, you are my bird companion, so it's my duty to bring you here. And since you're a bird, this is pretty much your natural habitat."
"How so, this room is just a bunch of leaves and tree branches and crap. Where's the sun? Where's the water? Where's the fresh oxygen?!"
"Sorry that this place doesn't live up to your expectations, Mr. High Standards..." Fox leaned in close to Ryo and Nakoruru, and whispered the following: "Falco's always like that when he's super cranky."
"Come along now, little goose!" said Cortex, as he led the goose inside the bird room with some bird seed in his hand. For the past several weeks, the goose chased Cortex to no end, but now? The goose and Cortex now had mutual respect for each other.
"What's with that storybook?" Ryo asked Cortex, noticing that the evil genius was carrying a storybook under his arm. Thank goodness it wasn't the Paper Mario storybook.
"I'm going to be reading a few stories to my goose pal." Cortex sat on the floor, getting himself comfy. Might've accidentally sat on a few pine cones. "Sooner or later, he's gonna be my best friend! And then, my pet!"
Uka: Ever since he fed the goose that bird seed, Cortex's been trying to become friends with that stinking bird. And now apparently he plans on befriending the goose and making him his pet...by reading stories to him. Now look, I love watching Dr. Cortex fail as much as the next guy, but he's making it WAY too easy at this point.
"I can't thank you two enough for letting me borrow that bird seed," Cortex said to Ryo and Nakoruru, whom he thought of as heroes. "That bird seed is how the goose and I became mutual buddies. But once I tell him a few stories, we'll both be best friends!"
"You know, it's pretty telling when you're attempting to become friends with some random goose," remarked Fox, making sure not to hurt Cortex's feelings or confidence as much. "You could really use some actual friends."
"I could go for an actual friend right now..." murmured Falco, still bummed out by what Fox had done to him. Just standing in the bird room made Falco feel worthless to Fox.
"For your info, Mr. McCloud, I do have friends!" Cortex stood up for himself, not wanting to be challenged or defied. "Most of which are as smart as me, and more successful than I...probably shouldn't have said that."
"Yeah, whatever...keep telling yourself that," responded Fox, as he looked up at the ceiling and found a few tree branches up high. "Hey Falco, why don't you show off your flying skills to Ryo and Nakoruru?"
"I'd be happy to...if I was in an Arwing," replied Falco, as he walked out of the bird room. Fox would chase after Falco, calling the avian pilot's name.
"So goose, what story would you like to hear first - 'The Goose Girl', or 'The Fox and the Geese'?" Cortex asked the goose, whom he allowed to sit in his lap. Gotta make the goose feel comfy, if he wanted to be his best friend.
"HONK HONK!" the goose replied, extending his wings out wide. Nearly poked out Cortex's eye, but thankfully all Cortex got was a handful of feathers.
"'The Fox and the Geese'? Excellent choice!" So Cortex opened up the storybook and flipped through the pages, as Ryo and Nakoruru gave the evil genius some very judgmental looks.
"This man is insane..." Ryo murmured to Nakoruru, as Cortex was ready to start reading to the bird.
Last week was Ann's birthday, which was on the 12th of November. While everyone remembered that it was Ann's birthday, Ann was a bit peeved that nobody threw a big celebration for her. So her friends would eventually have to make things up to her.
Yu, Minato, Joker, and a few other Persona guys and gals were in the living room, putting up party decorations. Since the party was meant to be a surprise, everyone in the mansion was barred from coming into the living room, so they wouldn't spoil the surprise to Ann.
"Guys, c'mon, I'm gonna miss the antique roadshow!" whined Yoshi, who was standing outside the living room and watching Makoto and Futaba setting up a birthday banner. One that read "Happy (Belated) Birthday, Ann!".
"You know you can watch that somewhere else, right Yoshi?" Makoto asked the green dinosaur, as she was applying some scotch tape to the banner.
"I would, the television in my room broke! I can't afford to miss the antique roadshow - there's gonna be a vintage teapot on sale for only four hundred bucks!"
"He sounds pretty desperate..." Futaba said to Makoto, not minding if Yoshi got to watch his antique roadshow. Who even watched that stuff, in this day and age...?
"Don't even bother entertaining him..." No longer caring about Yoshi's demands, Futaba quietly resumed her work, as Yoshi sighed and left the living room.
"What a shame that Ryuji, Yosuke, and Junpei aren't here," remarked Mitsuru, as she and Teddie were setting up a few balloons around the living room. "How much longer till their punishment ends?"
"They should be done sometime after Thanksgiving," replied Minato, as Cilan brought a birthday cake to the living room. Cilan was the only person currently allowed at the premises. "Although they have to serve a second punishment for dealing with Anna. Just looking at her could get you in deep trouble..."
"Where do you guys want me to put the cake?" Cilan asked Yu and Minato, before being directed to where the cake should be placed at. The moment Cilan mentioned the word "cake", Bowser immediately showed up.
"I heard something about cake, you guys throwing a party?" the koopa king asked, as he rubbed his hands together. Whenever it came to cake, Bowser always made sure to have first dibs.
"The party isn't for you, Bowser," replied Yu, as Bowser snapped his fingers in disgust. Bowser saw Yu arranging a bunch of cupcakes with Rise, and could tell that Yu and Rise were still together. Which made the koopa king snap his fingers a second time.
"Welp, at least you tried, Bowser..." Bowser said to himself as he walked away. No point in there being a next time.
Bowser: Dang it! Yu couldn't break up with Rise and hook back up with Yukiko, which now means that Yukiko is still on the market. She'll claim Bowser Jr. as her boyfriend at any given moment! To prevent that from ever happening, I gotta find a suitable boyfriend for both Yukiko. Either way, Yukiko and Bowser Jr. can NOT be single at the same time. Allowing that would disrupt the universe as we know it.
"Guys, guys, there's a strange lady sitting on top of the mansion!" Sonic alerted Yu and company, running inside the living room and nearly knocking Bowser down to the floor. "Don't know where she came from!"
"Go away, Sonic, you're not supposed to be here," Joker told the hedgehog; Sonic was the last person that Joker and friends wanted to see, since they knew that the hedgehog would tell everyone about the surprise birthday party.
"Yeah, we're setting up a party, in case you haven't noticed," said Rise, apathetic to the amount of worry that was on Sonic's face. "So scram, so we can finish without any distractions!"
"But this is no joke, this lady could mean trouble!" stated Sonic, too alarmed to do anything about the situation. "You gotta come, quick!" Yu sighed, knowing that he and the others had to take matters into their own hands.
"Bowser, Cilan, you two stick around and make sure that Ann doesn't show up," Yu told the koopa king and the connoisseur, done with the cupcakes as he dusted his hands off. "My friends I are heading outside to check out this...strange lady."
"You're making a grave mistake putting your trust in me, you know!" Bowser told Yu, who left the living room along with his pals. It was only a grave mistake because Bowser was in full vicinity of the cupcakes, with no one to stop him.
"I wouldn't encourage eating those cupcakes..." Cilan advised Bowser, who was eyeing the cupcakes very intently with a smile. Cilan wasn't exactly an authoritarian, so Bowser would have no problem walking all over him.
"Who are you supposed to be, my dietitian? You can't tell ME what to do." Bowser grabbed the tray of cupcakes, and poured the cupcakes into his mouth.
"Bowser, no!" It was too late - Bowser had already devoured the cupcakes that Yu and Rise had prepared, and the koopa king smiled as he rubbed his stomach.
"Ah, that really hit the spot!" Shook by what Bowser had done, Cilan laid down on the floor and got himself in a fetal position. "Cilan I know you take food very seriously, but treating those cupcakes like they were sentimental beings is very strange behavior."
"I'm so done for..." whimpered Cilan, as Bowser wondered why the connoisseur was so upset for. He just assumed that Cilan wanted a cupcake, but was too afraid to speak up for himself.
Sonic was joined outside the mansion with Joker, Makoto, Futaba, Yu, Rise, Teddie, Minato, Akihiko, and Mitsuru outside the mansion, in the front yard. The hedgehog pointed upwards, at the mansion roof.
"See that woman, sitting up there?" Sonic pointed at the woman in question, sitting on the roof; she had half-pink and half-brown hair, and was carrying an umbrella. "She's been sitting up there, for who knows how long!"
"And you didn't bother telling anyone until now?" Minato questioned the hedgehog, putting him in his place. Sonic looked around guiltily, with his hands where his pockets would be.
"...I might've been distracted. Probably by an ice cream truck. Or a chili dog on the ground. Could've been a chili dog. But that's beside the point right now; that woman could be up to something!"
"Let me try speaking to her," said Yu, stepping to the forefront as he looked up at the woman with the umbrella. "What business do you have her?" The woman did not respond, instead smiling and waving to Yu.
"Ooh...she definitely told you, master," commented Teddie, as Yu gave the young man a dubious look. Murdered by absolute silence.
"Calling the cops would be our best option..." suggested Makoto, as she whipped out her cellphone and dialed a number. Everyone else kept looking at the woman on the roof, making sure she didn't leave.
As Makoto waited for the police to answer her call, the man with the suit that was around earlier spotted Yu and company, recognizing them. Well, mostly the members from the Investigation Crew and Shadow Operatives. He saw how distracted the group was, and made a run for the mansion.
"No sir, the woman isn't Mary Poppins..." Makoto spoke with the police over the phone, as the man with the suit ran past by. Not a single person noticed him. "...can you just came over and...hello?"
"Something wrong?" Akihiko asked Makoto, who suddenly frowned after the police officer hung up on her. Makoto groaned, putting her cellphone away.
"The police were definitely no help at all..." the brunette grumbled; no doubt the police officers Makoto had called were laughing their butts off. "...I'd really hate to get Master Hand involved in this."
Pit, Kirby, and Incineroar were hanging around inside the foyer, when they heard someone ring the doorbell. Pit rushed to the front door and answered it, seeing the man in the suit standing on the porch.
"Ooh, are you one of those guys with the million dollar checks?" Pit asked the man, who bum rushed the angel inside the mansion before slamming the door shut. The man looked around, relieved that he was inside.
"Thanks for opening the door, kid - almost thought they saw me," the man in the suit thanked Pit - was he referring to the guys and gals outside, just now? "You can call me Tohru Adachi. I'm a police detective!"
"Nice to meet you, Mr. Adachi!" Pit shook hands with Adachi, as Kirby and Incineroar looked at Adachi with a suspicious look. Both of them could tell that the police detective had a very sneaky vibe about him.
Adachi: My life completely sucks, man...can't find a good inside scoop, always doing loads of paperwork, and constantly being mistreated by my boss. That stupid try-hard Ryotaro Dojima is such a fraud, I tell you what. But I can tell you one thing...this mansion could give me a new sense of hope. As long as I can play my cards right, it'll be nothing but smooth-sailing from here on out...
"Hey Pit, who's-a that guy?" Mario asked Pit, as the plumber and his troupe entered the foyer. Three new members were added to the group - Link, Champion Link, and, begrudgingly, Cloud.
"That's Tohru Adachi, he's a police detective," replied Pit; Adachi, who suddenly recognized Mario, smiled as ran over to the plumber and shook his hand.
"Ah, you must be the famous Mario!" the police detective exclaimed, shaking the plumber's hand in a very eager manner. "I've heard all sorts of stories about you."
"Yeah, yeah, tell me some-a thing I don't know..." responded Mario, before his handshake with Adachi was over with. Fifteen seconds in, and everyone save for Mario and Pit already found Adachi to be very off-putting. "...so, what's a police-a detective like yourself doing here?"
"I just wanted to take a break from my job. Having to do paperwork and solve crimes is so taxing on my body." Adachi yawned, as he stretched out his arms. "I could really afford to kick back, and relax."
"You let this guy join us, and I'm heading back to the room," Cloud told Mario, not wanting to be seen around a guy like Adachi. "He looks very untrustworthy, and I don't wanna be anywhere near him..."
"You look very trust-a worthy, and I wanna be with-a you wherever you go!" Mario told Adachi, saying the exact opposite of what Cloud had told him. With his mind made up, Cloud walked away, before Link grabbed his best friend's arms.
"Give this dude a chance," the Hylian advised Cloud, who sighed as he returned to Mario's troupe. The moment Adachi did something fishy, Cloud would bail.
"You sure we can trust this guy?" Spyro asked Mario, sharing the same cynicism for Adachi as Cloud. "We've only met him a minute ago, and he's too cheery. Could be a cover for his true colors."
"I'm still standing here, you know..." stated a peeved off Adachi, greatly offended by the remarks Cloud and Spyro had made. Really got under his skin.
"He seems like a lonely kind-a of person," replied Mario, who wanted to make Adachi feel loved and respected. "Which is why we should-a let him hang out with us."
"I'm not opposed to it," shrugged Alm, who was willing to give Adachi a chance. And so did Berkut, which might be a surprise.
"Adachi might be middle-class scum, but he could also be some great company," remarked the paladin; Berkut sure had high standards when it came to friends. No wonder he had no friends whatsoever!
"He could also help-a me end the sleepover that Daisy's attending," said Luigi, as everyone in the foyer gave the plumber weird looks. That sleepover was still on Luigi's mind, as it still bothered the plumber greatly. "...it was only a joke!"
"If you ask me, I'm a master when it comes to jokes!" boasted Adachi, grinning as he pointed his thumb at himself. "Check this one out...what do you call an alligator, wearing a vest? An INVESTIGATOR!"
"...we should keep this guy far away from Sans, at whatever cost," Spyro whispered to Mario, who nodded his head as Adachi laughed at his own joke. Adachi was the only person laughing, as expected...although Hunter was cracking a smile.
"This guy ain't that bad of a comedian," the cheetah remarked, as Spyro looked at Hunter and wondered what the cat found remotely funny. Hunter would thoroughly enjoy Lucina or Sazh Katzroy's comedic genius.
"Well boys, what are we waiting for?" asked Mario, as he led his troupe away. Now a part of Mario's troupe, Adachi followed the men to wherever the heck Mario was leading them to. "The night-a is ours!"
"Woo hoo!" cheered Adachi, expressing his excitement as he shook his fist. Cloud kept a very close eye on the police detective.
"Hmm, I wonder how Viridi's chat with Ashley is coming along..." wondered Pit, as he and Kirby and Incineroar remained in the hallway. Why don't we see what our favorite goddess of nature was up to?
At the tower, Viridi was in Ashley's room, twiddling her fingers as she was sitting atop Ashley's bed. Ashley was tending to her bookshelf, sweeping away the dust from the shelves with a duster.
"Why did you come over here to bother me again?" Ashley asked Viridi, after she was done with the task. The young witch was rarely open to inviting visitors to her room, as she preferred nothing but solitude.
"I just needed someone to talk about, about my...xenophobia," Viridi opened up, as Ashley placed her duster back underneath her bookshelf. Ashley then grabbed a stool, and placed it near Viridi before sitting down in it.
"Well I don't know why you wanted to speak with me, it's not like I have any potions to cure your xenophobia." Ashley looked towards a shelf in her bookshelf where her potions used to be. "Truth be told, I got rid of those potions a long time ago."
Ashley: Those potions did nothing but harm - it nearly ruined relationships, gave people extreme body problems, and almost caused the whole city of Seattle to go up in flames...I won't talk about that one. And yet, people still came to me, asking for more potions to solve their stinking problems. Some people just can't live without their own failure - or maybe they just let failure be a part of who they are. People like that know who where they stand in this world.
"I don't need any potions, to be honest," stated Viridi, as she grabbed her left arm. Ashley thought that Viridi should just leave, then. "I just needed somebody to talk to, to see from my own point of view."
"You came to the wrong person; I'm not a prejudist," responded Ashley; even after the young witch's reply, Viridi was still looking pretty desperate as ever. "Why should I even care about your stupid xenophobia?"
"You're just like me, aren't you? You dislike being around the company of other humans such as I!"
"Yeah, but only because I'm an easily annoyed person. Just the littlest thing throws me off."
"Right, right...which is why you're just the person I wanted to talk to! You could give me a few pointers, on coping with others."
"Sadly I'm not that well-versed when it comes to giving advice...but I could help you out in another way. Red!"
"Yes, Ashley?" Ashley's assistant Red asked, immediately showing up at Ashley's side as he saluted the young witch. Showed up faster than Speedy Gonzalez.
"Would you be a dear and turn yourself into a wand? I have a bit of a favor I have to do for Viridi."
"You got it, Ashley!" So Red turned himself into a wand, which would land in the hands of Ashley.
"Didn't even put up a fight this time..." With her wand in her hands, Ashley looked at Viridi as the young witch summoned some magic from her wand.
"Um, what's going on?" inquired Viridi, feeling uneasy as Ashley twirled her wand in the air to generate some more magic. "Is this supposed to help me?"
"I guess you could say that. Now stay still, Viridi, or else this spell won't work..."
Mario and his troupe were walking through the mansion, enjoying themselves. Well, the same couldn't be said for Cloud, but everyone else was in the mood.
"Oh yeah, boys night out!" exclaimed Hunter, as he shouted through the hallways before realizing something. "Wait, this isn't a boys night out...this is a boys night IN! We're on top of the world!"
"Isn't dinner supposed to be starting soon?" Champion Link asked Link, grabbing his midsection as he heard his stomach growling. Can't enjoy a "boys night in" on an empty stomach.
"Mario is gonna treat us later, I bet," assumed Link, as he looked towards the plumber in question. "Isn't that right, Mario?" Mario looked around nervously, before giggling as all eyes were on him.
"We'll sort-a things out before the end of the night," said Mario, as he led his troupe to the gaming room. The plumber honestly had no idea what he was doing, or where he was taking his troupe to, but he hoped to find a concrete solution along the way.
Upon entering the gaming room, Mario and his troupe saw a bunch of breaking news segments on the televisions in the gaming room. Several residents were gathered around, as they watched whatever breaking news was being reported.
"Local authorities are still investigating the murder of a victim on Alaskan Way, which happened this morning," said the news reporter, as everyone was watching the television screens very attentively. "Said victim has yet to be identified."
"People are getting murdered in Seattle?!" gasped Yoshi, who was still upset about not watching his antique roadshow. Seriously, who watches antique roadshows, in this day and age? "Man, this city is gonna be like the Chicago of the pacific northwest soon!"
"Two dudes got shot to death two weeks ago, for what it's worth," stated King K. Rool, and hearing this caused Yoshi to faint unto the floor. K. Rool saw this, and shook his head. "What a drama queen..."
Tails: Apparently Knuckles gave some thought about being shot at...said he wanted to be shot anywhere but the heart. That way, he could show all of his "haters" how "hard" he really was. I haven't seen Knuckles all day, so he must be making some modifications to his stupid plan.
"The incident was reported later today in the morning, after the body was discovered," the news reporter continued, as Adachi started looking wary as he bit his nails nervously. "Gunshot wounds were reportedly found in the chest area."
"Mario, shouldn't we get moving?" Adachi asked the plumber, trying to hide his nervousness. It wasn't working fully, as Cloud and Spyro were unto him. "All the bad vibes from the breaking news is gonna ruin our night..."
"Eh, you're right...not like they're gonna show-a us a funny police sketch," replied Mario, as he turned away from the televisions and led his troupe away. "Those are always the best-a part."
"Starting to think that Adachi might be responsible for the murder..." Cloud whispered to Link, drawing the Hylian's attention to Adachi and his body language. Adachi was nervous as ever.
"He's probably having PTSD," assumed Link, as Mario led his troupe away from the gaming room. "He is a police detective...he must've seen some crap before."
"Only question is, has he ever done some crap in his spare time?" That was a question that Cloud would have to answer himself.
Cilan was very much at odds with Bowser, as he was doing his hardest to ensure that the koopa king didn't ruin any of the decorations at Ann's surprised (belated) birthday party. Bowser had already consumed the cupcakes, and was now eyeing the birthday cake.
"Now, now, you've eaten up all the cupcakes," Cilan told Bowser, bravely standing in front of the koopa king and obstructing his path to the birthday cake. "Devouring that cake in one gulp would hurt your sweet tooth!"
"You made the birthday cake yourself, right?" Bowser asked Cilan, looking for a way past the connoisseur without actually harming him. "You can always bake another cake, can't you?"
"Of course, but that would require too much work and preparation. I was already sweating buckets in the kitchen, and I don't wanna sweat anymore!"
"Then why not just literally speak a birthday cake into existence? Corrin did it for his and Kamui's birthday last year."
"That would strongly be considered cheating. I'm not a cheater. And I'm not asking Zero for permission to use his magic printer."
"Okay, now you're just making up excuses..." Bowser would brush Cilan to the side, en route to the birthday cake. "...the cake is all mine!"
"No, Bowser, I can't let you have it!" Frowning, Cilan wrapped his arms around Bowser, making sure that the koopa king's spiky shell didn't poke him. "Keep your hands away from the cake!"
"Excuse me, but...do you mind answering a few questions?"
Bowser and Cilan would immediately stop their shenanigans, when they looked up and saw two girls standing in the living room. One was blonde, the other had blue hair, and both were wearing similar uniforms. Looked like they came from an academy of sorts.
"Uh...we're supposed to deter people from the living room, right?" Bowser asked Cilan, suddenly remembering what Yu told him and Cilan to do. Took him long enough to remember. "I don't wanna tell off two innocent girls, you do it..."
"Why me?" questioned Cilan, before Bowser pushed the connoisseur towards the two girls. Because speaking with unfamiliar women wasn't his strongest suit, Cilan quickly became nervous.
"Hi, I'm Mai Natsume, and this is my friend, Noel Vermillion!" the bluenette introduced herself and her blonde friend to Cilan. "We're from the 15th Hierarchical City of Torifune...it's a military academy."
"A military academy, huh?" smiled Cilan, still nervous as he scratched the back of his head. "No wonder you're both wearing blue blazers..."
"Man you suck at small talk...let a pro handle this," Bowser told Cilan, knocking the connoisseur down to the floor as he approached Noel and Mai. "So, Noel, if that's really your name...you must like Christmas, right?"
"Well I was born on Christmas Day..." replied Noel, as Bowser found that very hard to believe. Assumed that Noel was lying just to make her name sound convenient. Bowser then directed his attention to Mai, checking out the bluenette from head to toe.
"You're not as endowed as the other Mai...which could be a good thing. That means less thirsty men to constantly hound you to death!"
"I could really care less about being some dude magnet..." replied Mai, with a smile, before moving on to more serious matters. "...anyways we just came here to ask you about a stranger in town. The man who kindly let us in through the backdoor was unfortunately no assistance to us."
"Was it Dunban, I assume? Yeah, he really is no help. He's only good at cooking...and crying in private."
Dunban: At first, Sharla was the only person who knew that I cried in private. Manly tears, mind you. Now Bowser knows, after he saw me crying one day, and he had the gall to tell a few others! To think that Bowser would do such a thing... *fans eyes* ...think I feel a few manly tears incoming. Pardon me... *walks away, shielding his eyes*
"Have you seen this person around?" Noel asked Bowser, as she shyly gave the koopa king a photo. Bowser and Cilan stared at the person in the photo together, looking closely at the person's hair. "She stole some intel from our military academy. Gotta find her soon."
"Hair reminds me of an ice cream flavor, not gonna lie..." commented Bowser, as the name of the flavor in particular was at the very tip of his tongue. "...speaking of which, I know the right kind of person to ask!"
Sonic and the Persona gang were still outside the mansion, as the lady outside was still sitting atop the mansion holding her umbrella. It was a cold war of sorts, with no action from either side.
"Any response from the police yet?" Mitsuru asked Makoto, who had contacted the police a second time. The police officers still didn't wish to come.
"You know what, I'm gonna head out..." yawned Sonic, as he walked away from the premises. "...you guys go figure out a plan to deal with that chick, while I go crash Celica and Rinea's sleepover."
"You discovered the woman first, shouldn't you stick around?" Minato asked Sonic, who waved off the young man as he went to Celica and Rinea's home. "Surprised he didn't leave us sooner..." Minato then murmured under his breath.
When Sonic showed up at Celica and Rinea's home, the hedgehog expected to see Celica and Rinea and all the other princesses (and Palutena) having a good time. Just a bunch of ladies enjoying the night, and doing typical sleepover stuff.
However, Sonic really wasn't expecting to see a guest...or two. Or three. Or maybe even four! So when the hedgehog knocked on the door, you could only imagine the look on his face when an unfamiliar face responded.
"Uh, special pizza delivery!" shouted Sonic before laughing to himself, wondering if the ladies would fall for his prank. The hedgehog would keep on laughing, but that laughing would come to an end when a girl with white hair tied up in a side ponytail answered the door.
"Anyone here ordered some food?" the girl with the white hair turned around and asked the ladies in the living room, who all shook their heads. The girl directed her attention back to Sonic...who was looking fairly shook.
"You..." Sonic held up his hand, and pointed at the girl with the white hair with his eyes going wide. "...I think I know who you are..."
"Um...thank you?" the girl responded, as she cocked her head to the side. "Look, did you come here to deliver some food, or not?"
"Weiss, who is that standing at the door?" another girl asked, showing up at the front door; she had short black hair, and wore red-and-black clothing. Sonic was quick to recognize the girl, as he started pointing at her.
"R-Ruby Rose?!" Sonic exclaimed the name of the girl he was pointing at, now shook than ever. "You're actually real?!" The hedgehog was standing in the presence of both Ruby Rose and Weiss Schnee, and it was hard for him to process things.
"Yes, I am real...I was invited to this sleepover by a woman named Princess Peach. She was kind enough to send Weiss here an invitation..."
Sonic couldn't bear to listen anymore, as the hedgehog fainted on the doorstep. Ruby and Weiss looked at Sonic, before deciding to drag the hedgehog in and close the front door.
Ruby: Weiss only got invited to the sleepover because she was a "princess"...even though that's just a name we like to call her. How Peach automatically assumed that Weiss was an actual princess from an actual kingdom...we just won't talk about that.
Master Hand: Strange as it sounds, Ruby and Weiss didn't show up in town until after Isabelle and I installed that Dynamaxing stuff into the mansion grounds. Some of the technology we used must've brought Ruby and Weiss from their universe into ours...
Ruby: Weiss and I don't know when we'll make it back to our universe, but Peach was kind enough to invite us to some Thanksgiving dinner taking place next week. Who knows if we'll even stick around for that long...
Cortex was telling the goose some stories in the bird room, in an attempt to make friends with the bird. Since the evil genius couldn't find any more stories about gooses, he moved on to reciting stories about other birds. Hopefully, the goose didn't mind.
"'And at last he did so, and in a moment the fox was changed into...a man'?" Cortex would read the story out loud to the goose, before furrowing his brow as he continued on. "'And turned out to be the brother of the princess, who had been lost a great many, many years'?! Who writes this drivel?!"
"HONK HONK!" the goose honked, flapping his wings about; Cortex looked at the bird, and could do nothing but sigh with a smile.
"Well if you like the story, then I have no choice but to like it as well! Great, now I sound like Doc Louis...sure hope I don't develop a chocolate addiction."
"Are you sure we can't just ask the Ice Climbers?" Cilan asked Bowser, as the two led Noel and Mai inside the bird room. "They know more about ice cream than anyone else!"
"You think I'd subject Noel and Mai to Popo's unbearable product plug?" retorted Bowser, as Cortex was about to select another story before noticing Bowser and company's presence. "Unlike you, I actually care about the sanity of our guests!"
"What do you guys want?" Cortex frowned at Bowser and Cilan, not at all caring that Noel and Mai were around. "Can't you see that I'm busy? Trying to spark a brotherly friendship here!"
"He's literally telling stories to a bird..." Noel whispered to Mai concerning Cortex - didn't take the two ladies that long to judge Cortex.
"Nobody gives a crap about your storytelling junk," Bowser told Cortex, snatching the storybook from Cortex and tossing it into the tree branches in the room, before showing Cortex the picture Noel gave him. "Now, tell us...does this hairstyle remind you of anything?"
"Light on one side...and dark on the other..." Cortex squinted his eyes at the picture, before snapping his fingers when he came up with the answer. "...oh yes! That hair reminds me of Neapolitan ice cream."
"Is that right, ladies?" Cilan asked Noel and Mai, as Mai nodded her head. Bowser and Cilan were now in the driver's seat.
"The woman in that picture is Neo Politan," explained Mai, as Cortex took a glance at the picture once more. "We've dealt with her before, in the past. She's...she's quite a handful."
"Know a way we could find her?" Noel asked Bowser, who immediately got to thinking. The koopa king saw X walk by, which got him thinking even more.
"We could consult the mansion security footage..." replied Bowser, knowing that he would have to ask for X or Samus' permission first. "...that could be our best option. And possibly our only option."
Sonic was still fainted, lying on the couch in Celica and Rinea's living room. All the ladies were gathered around the hedgehog, with Ruby and Weiss and everyone else looking on.
"So, whaddaya think we should do to him?" asked Daisy, grinning from ear to ear as she cracked her knuckles. "Should we haze him?"
"This isn't a sorority meeting, Daisy..." frowned a person that was strongly against the hazing, Zelda. "...hazing Sonic would be mean-spirited."
"I've never personally involved myself in hazing, but I heard it sounds pretty fun," commented Ruby, unsure of where she and Weiss stood on hazing Sonic. "I think it would be a good experience..."
"It wouldn't hurt if we had a little...fun with Sonic," Peach smiled devilishly, taking out her makeup purse and pulling out some lipstick. "What do you ladies think?"
"I'm not sure, Sonic would complain about it after he wakes up..." replied Lucina...before stroking her chin as she evaluated the options at hand. "...but Sonic has wronged us in the past, so he deserves it."
"Wronged you in what way?" asked Weiss, curious about Sonic's behavior; Peach and Zelda would be up all night telling Weiss all about Sonic being Sonic.
"It's a long story...something that's worth finding out on your own." Lucina dug inside Peach's makeup bag, and pulled out some eyeliner. "So, who wants to participate?"
"I got dibs on the mascara!" shouted Daisy, raising her hand up high, as Lucina tossed the blonde a bottle of mascara. Daisy grinned as she caught the mascara, while Zelda looked up at the heavens and sighed.
Pit, Kirby, and Incineroar were still hanging around in the foyer, playing a game of tic-tac-toe. As expected, Pit was losing.
"Wait, am I an X, or an O?" Pit asked Kirby, whom he was going up against, as Incineroar facepalmed. Someone knocked on the front door, and it sounded very fast and aggressive. "Ooh, that must be Viridi!"
Springing up to his feet, Pit answered the front door and saw Viridi standing on the porch. Viridi looked sad, sniffling with tears running down her face.
"What's wrong Viridi?" Pit asked the goddess of nature, before glancing at her hair. "And why does your hair look shorter than usual? Your hair's falling out? Does that mean you're getting older now?"
"It's all Ashley's fault!" cried Viridi, silently sobbing as she rubbed away the tears from her eyes. "She practically cursed me with some stupid spell, and now my hair's falling out!"
Ashley: I made a deal with Viridi - I cast a spell on Viridi to make her hair fall out at a gradual pace, and the only way she can reverse the spell...is if she gets over her xenophobia and start appreciating humans more. The point of casting the spell wasn't just to teach Viridi a lesson; sometimes, I just like being the only person-hating malcontent around here. Makes me feel almost...unique. *grimaces over what she just said*
"No lie, you'd look amazing with short hair," commented Pit; Viridi gasped, as she slapped Pit silly. "Hey, it's just a matter of personal preference!"
"How could you say that?!" Viridi snapped, with Pit writhing in pain as Kirby and Incineroar came over. "I would be devastated if I lost more than half of my hair! Could you imagine if I went bald?!"
"That would be very insensitive to women who have had cancer, Viridi. Just get a grip on yourself!"
"We should treat Viridi to some comfort food," Kirby suggested to Pit, as Viridi resisted the urge to start sobbing again. "That would put her in the right mood."
So Pit, Kirby, and Incineroar took Viridi to the dining room, treating the goddess to some good ol' comfort food. Which was mostly baked lasagna, that was cooked and prepared by Dunban.
"Only doing this because I'm a nice guy," Dunban reminded Pit and company, keeping watch and making sure that nobody was making a mess. "It's really cutting close to dinnertime..."
"Is it true that you like to cry in private?" Pit asked Dunban, who was maintaining a very manly expression as he sniffed twice to hold back the tears. But the Homs simply couldn't do it.
"Stupid manly tears..." Dunban quickly retreated from the dining room, just so he could cry in private. Better not let anyone catch him crying.
As Pit and company continued to eat the lasagna, someone knocked at the backdoor. Incineroar, who was enjoying his lasagna, stopped eating as he opened the backdoor and saw a teenage boy and girl standing by.
"Woah, wasn't expecting a giant cat..." the teenage boy remarked, trying his best not to feel intimidated. The teenage girl was calm. "...but, he doesn't look so tough, we can take him! As long as he doesn't hurt us as much, right?"
"Not unless you give him some milk and a ball of yarn to play with," the teenage girl replied, before thrusting the teenage boy through the door and stepping inside. "Don't be so cocky."
"You guys new here?" Pit asked the teenage boy and girl, once they were inside the dining room. Incineroar closed the backdoor shut. "The front door is actually on the other side."
"Oh, we're already aware...we didn't wanna go through there because of the crowd," the teenage boy responded, speaking of the Persona guys and gals. "I'm Hyde, and this is my friend, Linne."
"We're, um...we're running from the cops," added Linne, the teenage girl, as Pit's interest went from zero to a hundred in a snap.
"Running from the cops? That's my favorite hobby too!" Viridi gave Pit a worried look, and Pit noticed the goddess of nature's reaction as he tempered his mood. "...so why are you running away from the police?"
"Because of some stupid murder that happened earlier today," replied Hyde, before looking up at the heavens and wondering why the forces that be were rebelling against him. "Linne and I were around the scene, and the police think we're suspects."
"I was just trying to keep to myself," stated Linne, expressing her independent side; she always handled things on her own. "Only got roped into this whole running from the police thing because of...is that lasagna?"
"Oh yeah, some guy baked some for me and my friends!" Pit grabbed his plate of lasagna and presented it to Linne...who grabbed the plate from the angel and started eating away.
"Sorry, all the running I've done today was making me hungry." Linne knew that eating up Pit's lasagna was hurting her stoic image, but she was craving for food. She didn't care.
"Do you guys mind if we kick back here and hide from the police?" Hyde asked Pit and company, not knowing where else he and Linne could go. "Who knows how long we've been running..."
"Sure, you can stay for as long as you like!" smiled Pit, as Hyde let out a sigh of relief. What if the murder that Hyde spoke of...was the same murder that was discussed on the news earlier?
The murder that was on the news was still weighing in the mind of Adachi, who was still hanging out with Mario and his troupe. Mario would take his men into the arcade room, allowing them to play arcade games while he ordered some food.
"...and my dragon friend would like-a the Smoked Ham Club," Mario spoke into his cellphone, with Alm and Berkut playing an arcade game right behind the plumber. "Hold-a the mayo, please...that wasn't a command. Put that jar back-a down!"
"Still can't believe that it took Mario this long to order us some grub," Champion Link spoke with Spyro, as the two were sitting on barstool chairs near Mario. So far the "boys night in" was quite underwhelming.
"You know Mario can't squeeze all of us inside his car, and treat us to some gourmet stuff," responded Spyro, doing his best to look on the bright side of things. "Best to take what you can get..."
Alm: Welp, Berkut might've beaten me in Street Fighter II...but he beat me fair and square. Even had to shake his hand afterwards, to congratulate him on his victory as a sign of respect. I'm sure that he'll celebrate his victory with grace and humility!
Berkut: Ha ha, I beat Alm in an arcade game, and I destroyed him and ripped him into pieces! He even tried to play it off with a handshake, and I only obliged just to make him feel better! He must be extremely hurt right now, and if he isn't, then I'm afraid that my deed was only half-done.
"Is it just me, or is Adachi looking mighty suspicious over there?" Cloud came over to Champion Link and Spyro, directing their attention to Adachi. The police detective was sitting on the floor and looking down, like he was going through a very bad break-up. "Acting like a murder suspect..."
"Maybe he's just exhausted from his job, or bored out of his mind," assumed Champion Link, as Adachi had a thousand mile stare going on. "We should probably leave him alone."
"That might be a good idea...but I beg to differ." Taking matters into his own hands, Cloud walked over to Adachi so he could give the police detective a piece of his own mind. "Hey, Adachi!"
"Please, don't hurt me!" Adachi cried out to Cloud with his hands in front of him, reacting as if some thug had a gun pointed to his head. "Leave me alone!"
"Yeah Cloud, can't you see that Adachi is distressed?" Hunter confronted Cloud; the cheetah was the only person that would defend Adachi, at this juncture. "Lay off the man for once!"
"That's why I came over, to ask Adachi why he was distressed. Am I not allowed to look out for another person?"
"Alright, thank you, see-a you later!" Mario finished his call before hanging up and putting his phone away, before he saw Hunter starting a scene with Cloud. The plumber had to come over to investigate. "What's-a going on?"
"This man Cloud won't leave Adachi alone," replied Hunter, as he pointed at Adachi. The police detective was pretty shook, not wanting anyone to come closer to him. "Just being an annoying pest!"
"I just wanted to see what was bothering Adachi," Cloud defended himself and his actions, as Mario tried to figure out who was in the wrong. "He's been like this ever since we got here. Might be up to no good..."
"Why can't you just leave me be?!" Adachi snapped on Cloud and company, unable to suppress his emotions. The police detective buried his face in his hands.
"Perhaps Adachi was triggered-a by the murder." Hearing Mario's assumption, Adachi pulled his hands away from his face, as his eyes were now wide with fear. "Investigating that murder would take-a the fight outta him! That could be why he's-a like this."
"Oh no...it's happening!" Adachi quickly got up and ran out of the arcade room, screaming at the top of his lungs. Mario and company watched the police detective run away, confused as ever.
"For the record, this was all your fault..." Hunter murmured to Cloud, as he was mean mugging the swordsman. Just then, Luigi came over to Mario and company, looking afraid as he had his phone out.
"Mario, Daisy just sent-a me a few text messages..." Luigi informed his twin brother, before showing Mario what was on his phone screen. "...I think that Sonic might-a be in trouble!"
"What makes-a you so sure about...that?" questioned Mario, before he saw what Daisy had sent to Luigi - pictures of Sonic, whose fainted face was covered in mascara and lipstick and other beauty products. Standing in the background of the pictures was Zelda, who kept to herself.
"Is that Zelda in the background, I see?" observed Link, who came over to the Mario Bros to look at the pictures. "Why is she all by herself? Knew she would be the party pooper of the sleepover..."
"Do you see why I wanted to stop-a the sleepover?!" Luigi asked Mario, before he grabbed the plumber by his shoulders and shook him silly. "They're torturing poor-a Sonic - who knows what other men-a will be victimized!"
"Relax-a Luigi, Sonic looks like he was sleeping," Mario calmed his brother down, gently taking Luigi's hands off his shoulders. "Once he wakes-a up and see what the ladies have-a done, he'll laugh it off and..."
"Uh, don't mean to interrupt, zroom...but where is Charles, Luigi?" Rotom asked the plumber, who realized that Charles wasn't in his hands. Luigi then looked around, and didn't see Charles anywhere in sight.
"Mama mia, Charles must've walked-a away!" panicked Luigi, who should've done a better job watching over his son. Too darn worried over some silly sleepover. "Without him, how will we stop-a the sleepover?"
Charles was all smiles, laughing and giggling as he ventured his way through the mansion. The toddler's curiosity would lead him inside the computer room, where X was inspecting the mansion's security footage looking for Neo Politan. The robot was flanked by Bowser, Cilan, Noel, and Mai.
"You said that the woman in question has a umbrella, right?" X asked Noel and Mai, as he furiously searched through the security footage. Cilan saw Charles walk inside the computer room, and gasp silently.
"It's a pink umbrella," confirmed Noel, as Cilan ran over to Charles and scooped him up off the floor. The connoisseur cradled Charles in his arms, as he returned to where X and company were.
"Let's check the sixth floor..." So X pulled up security footage of the sixth floor, and looked for any signs of Neo Politan. But the woman was nowhere in sight, which only made the search even harder.
"If the woman we're looking for is outside this whole time, then this is pointless," remarked Bowser, as Charles was trying to climb out of Cilan's grasp. "Don't you have security footage outside?"
"I do, but the cameras outside are out of commission at the moment. Samus said that we might need some new batteries..."
"What security system needs batteries to operate?! You're just making excuses, aren't you X? Lemme see that computer!"
"Now now, Bowser, I wouldn't encourage doing that..." Cilan told the koopa king, who was wrestling with X over the computer. Cilan did his best to monitor the whole situation...
...and as he was doing so, Charles crawled out of his arms and landed on X's keyboard. Bowser and X both screamed out of fright, as they pulled away.
"Woah, where did that dumb toddler come from?" questioned Bowser, before he looked at the screen. By landing on the keyboard, Charles caused a separate window with security footage to pop up on the monitor.
"Would you look at that..." said X, seeing that Charles inadvertently pulled up security footage of one of the mansion bathrooms. "...the cameras in the bathroom are up and running again."
"Why do you need security cameras in the bathrooms?" Cilan questioned X, who wanted to answer the connoisseur's question without raising any concerns.
X: There have been several complaints about a few residents taking up too much time in the bathrooms. Samus and I installed a camera in every bathroom to see what was going on, and see any abnormal phenomenon. We've seen all sorts of crap - Wario clogging up the toilet, Captain Falcon singing a Capella by himself, and Corrin...trimming his body hair...with scissors. *shakes his head* That's an image I won't be getting out of my head anytime soon.
Kamui: Why does my beauty scissors have hair on them? *sniffs scissors* And it smells like armpit! Yuck!
"Is that someone in the bathroom?" asked Mai, pointing on the computer screen at someone sitting on the toilet. This person had their face buried in their hands.
"You know them?" asked X, as Noel and Mai got a closer look at the person in the bathroom. Upon further inspection, the two saw that was Adachi, who was still acting like the world was ending.
"Yeah, that's Tohru Adachi! We've crossed paths with him before. He's definitely a wolf in sheep's clothing, if you ask me."
"So you're saying that he's not a very trustworthy guy?" asked cilan, picking up Charles from the keyboard, as Mai nodded her head. If only Mario and the others knew that about Adachi...
"He's a guy who has a bit of a nose for trouble. He might not look much, but having him in this mansion any longer won't be for the best..."
"Does that mean we have to forget about this Neo Politan chick, and give Adachi the business?" asked Bowser, now wondering what the current MO was. "Or do we not worry about Adachi until later?"
"You and Cilan can go look for Adachi," X suggested to Bowser, looking at Adachi in the security footage. "Noel and Mai will have everything else covered, I'm sure."
Still devastated about the "rising" crime rate in Seattle, Yoshi down went to the living room...and was alarmed when he saw that it was left unattended. Which meant that he could watch his antique roadshow in peace.
"It's about that time..." Yoshi smiled to himself, grabbing the remote and turning the television on. The dinosaur then saw Ann's birthday cake, and found it to be quite delectable. "...hopefully the others wouldn't mind if I got a bit of ricing from this cake."
"What cake?" a voiced asked, as Yoshi felt like he was in big trouble. The dinosaur slowly turned his head around, and gasped when he saw someone who shouldn't even be here...Ann.
"Ann, what are you doing?!" Yoshi scolded the young woman, sounding like a dad scolding his daughter for taking his car out on a midnight joyride. "You're not supposed to be here!"
"Why not? Is it because of the party decorations?" Ann had yet to notice the banner hanging up on the wall, which was a good thing.
"DUH! Joker and all your other friends are throwing you a surprise birthday party! A belated one! Joker even told me that..."
Realizing the very words that came out of his mouth, Yoshi gasped as he cupped his mouth with his hands. The dinosaur had said too much, and now the surprise for Ann was ruined.
"Way to ruin the surprise for me, Yoshi..." Ann frowned at the dinosaur, before shrugging shoulders. "...but it's no biggie. I'll just act surprised for my birthday party."
"A birthday party for Ann, and nobody bothered to tell me?" questioned Cortex, who was passing by through the living room along with the goose. "I would've bought a birthday present!"
"Not like you would invited anyways..." Ann told Cortex, who held his head low in sadness as he accepted the bitter truth.
"...I know. Being nice is overrated, anyways. Come along, my goose friend, Nakoruru has some bird seed over in the pantry..."
Cortex guided the goose to the dining room, where the pantry was, and grabbed a box of bird seed from the shelves. The evil genius then closed the pantry door, and looked over and saw Viridi at the dining room table, all by herself.
"Is it just me, or does your hair look shorter?" Cortex asked the goddess of nature, whose hair was falling out at a slower pace now.
"Shut up..." Viridi angrily responded, as Cortex and the goose walked away. The two went to the other side of the dining room table, where Pit, Kirby, and Incineroar were hanging out with Hyde and Linne, playing some tic-tac-toe.
"Can you please stop sucking for once, Pit?" pleaded Hyde, who held an undefeated record against the angel in tic-tac-toe. "I want my wins to feel like they've been earned."
"I'm trying, I'm trying..." replied Pit, who was looking to make his next move, before asking the following: "Am I an X, or an O?" Hyde sighed deeply.
"Good evening, Pit's new friends...have you met my goose friend?" Cortex kindly asked Hyde and Linne, introducing the two friends to the goose. "We've been bonding over the past week, and he would make for a lovely pet!"
"We don't give a crap about your stupid goose," responded Linne; Cortex looked at the teenage girl dumbfoundedly, before laughing his butt off.
"Ah, you must be a comedian! Pit made a great choice befriending you." Once he was done laughing, Cortex looked towards Pit to ask the angel a question. "Pit, are these two really your new friends?"
"Not really - we've only met a while ago," replied Pit, drawing an X on the piece of paper that he and Hyde were playing on...essentially gifting Hyde a win, since he was the X the entire game. So much for an earned win. "They're hiding from the police."
"The police are coming?!" Panicking, Cortex hid underneath the dining room table, as the goose joined him. Already on the same page. "They're not coming for me, too, are they?"
The Persona gang remained outside the mansion, trying to figure out what to do with the woman atop the mansion. The woman in question was simply minding her own business, as a slew of police cars suddenly pulled up to the mansion.
"Guys, look, the police finally arrived!" exclaimed Teddie, as he pointed at the police cars; several policemen got out of their vehicles, and Teddie ran up to them. "Thank goodness you came, police officers!"
"Hold your excitement, son...just doing our jobs," responded the lead police officer, as he led his fellow men in blue to the mansion porch. Teddie was gleaming, as he followed after the cops.
Delivery Guy: Got here at the mansion as soon as I could, with some subs for Mario and his bros...and right after I showed up, the police came. Now my car's blocked off in the driveway, thanks to those police cars...this absolutely sucks.
"Good evening, everyone," the lead officers greeted the Persona gang, showing off some cordiality - which is what every cop should do, in the name of the law. "Have any of you seen two runaway suspects?"
"Runaway suspects such as...?" inquired Akihiko, before the lead officer pulled out a picture - a snapshot most likely taken by an eyewitness - and held it up for everyone to see. "...Hyde and Rinne?"
"You recognize these two?" Indeed, Hyde and Rinne were in the snapshot, and it looked like they were running away. The way that they were looking back seemed to suggest so.
"I had met them some time ago. Long story. So, why are they runaway suspects?"
"Not sure if you've heard, but there was a reported murder this morning - and the boy and girl in the picture were at the scene."
"That can't be true! I'm sure that it was just a coincidence. Hyde and Linne, they've never killed anyone...I think."
"We won't believe you until we hear it from the horse's mouth...so we'll will look for the teenagers and ask them ourselves. We'll get everything sorted out soon."
"Wait, sir, before you go..." Makoto approached the lead officer, before pointing up at the mansion rooftop at the woman. The officer looked up. "...could you do something about that woman atop the mansion?"
"The lady with the umbrella?" Coincidentally, Noel and Mai were looking for a woman with a umbrella... "Eh, I dunno, she's up too high...but we could get the firefighters to get her down. How about that?"
"I mean, it's not ideal, but...it's better than nothing, I guess."
It was now time for dinner at the mansion, as the residents were gathered around the dining room table. Pit and Incineroar stayed around for the chili, while Viridi and Kirby called in a rain check. Hyde and Rinne were already full from eating Dunban's lasagna, but that didn't stop them from being harassed by the others.
"Your name is Hyde, isn't it?" Lloyd asked Hyde, while he was chowing down on some homemade chili. "Does that mean you have a goody two-shoes twin brother named Jekyll?"
"Not sure that's how it works..." replied Hyde, who was trying to keep his sanity despite all the commotion going on around him.
"Quit being so angry, lighten up a little!" the Flying Man encouraged Linne, poking the teenager's face repeatedly. "Turn that frown upside down!"
"I'm not frowning, I'm just...a very serious and independent person," responded Linne, who looked like she was done with life right about now.
Suddenly the commotion in the dining room died down in a snap, when the police officers from outside showed up in the living room. Everyone had their eyes fixated on the officers, who looked around the dining room with serious eyes.
"You two..." the lead officer found Hyde and Linne and pointed at them, before beckoning them to come over. "Come with me..."
"No, you can't take them away!" Pit cried out, who watched in horror as Hyde and Linne nervously went over to the officers. Incineroar had to restrain Pit, as the officers led Hyde and Linne away. "I've yet to beat Hyde in tic-tac-toe!"
"It was nice knowing you, Pit..." Hyde told the angel as he and Linne walked away, unsure of what would happen next.
Noel and Mai were supposed to look for the woman with the umbrella...but along the way, they came across Mario and his troupe. Luigi was worried about Charles, who ran away from the arcade room, and wouldn't stop until he found his son safe and sound.
"He's this-a short, and wears blue overalls, like-a me," Luigi described Charles in detail to Noel and Mai. "Have you seen-a him anywhere?"
"We have seen him before, in that room with the computers," replied Mai, getting Luigi's spirits up. "Last time we saw him, Bowser had him cradled in his..."
"Bowser took-a Charles?!" Luigi's previously uplifted spirits would soon vanish away, having learned that his son was in the possession of Bowser. "Daisy's definitely gonna kill-a me now..."
Charles was still with Bowser, who was standing with Ciln outside a bathroom door. Bowser checked most of the other bathrooms in the mansion, but as for this bathroom in particular...the door was locked! That had to mean something.
"Aight, on the count of three, I'll barge in and bring the bathroom door down," Bowser told his plan to Cilan; part of him wanted to look cool and awesome. "You come in after me, and start screaming."
"For what reason?" questioned Cilan, who felt as if he didn't have enough vocal cords to let out a scream. "What good will that do?"
"It'll make the both of us look awesome! Also, if you just do nothing, it would make me look bad. Gotta be intimidating!"
Cilan: Bowser has surprisingly been a great babysitter to Charles! Charles was crying one time, and Bowser didn't even flinch one bit! Perhaps he was so obsessed with leaving a good impression on Noel and Mia that Charles' crying was dead noise to him.
Bowser: Sorry, did you ask me a question? One sec... *takes ear plugs out of his ears, then sighs happily* Thank you, ear plugs...
"On the count of three...one, two, THREE!" Bowser counted down, before barging inside the bathroom and swinging the door open. Cilan followed the koopa king inside and started screaming, alerting the person inside...Adachi, who was sitting on the toilet.
"Oh man...I've been caught!" panicked Adachi as he got up from the toilet, only for Bowser to grab the police detective and hold him up in the air by his collar.
"Dang right you've been caught, sucker! We've heard that you're up to no good...you're a troublemaker, aren't you?!"
"Please don't hurt me, I didn't mean to do it! I had no choice in the matter!"
"Hey, are those police cars I see?" asked Cilan as he looked out the bathroom window, seeing flashing red-and-blue lights below. Adachi started sweating nervously. "The cops are here!"
"Today must be your lucky day, punk!" Bowser told Adachi, making sure that his clutch on Adachi's collar was nice and tight. "I bet you're the guy that was responsible for the murder today, aren't ya?"
"No...it's happening again! Why did it have to be me?! Why did I play that stupid video game for..."
"Won't be crying to your mama anytime soon once you...wait, what's this I hear about a video game?" Suddenly curious, Bowser placed Adachi back on the floor so he could hear the police detective's story.
"Soul Suspect...I stayed up all night playing a game called Murder: Soul Suspect. First game I played in a long time, just testing it out...I was deprived of sleep, and a saw a lot of scary stuff in the game! Most of which left me very shook..."
"So I take it that playing that game had a big effect on you?" Cilan asked Adachi, just as intrigued as Bowser was.
"I wasn't the same after that night...since then I've been having PTSD, being scared at every little thing! When they started talking about the murder on the local news, that really got me super tense...I retreated to the mansion just to get away from that crap!"
"What you need is some fresh oxygen," Bowser patted the back of Adachi, who was hyperventilating as his eyes were wide with fear. "How about we go outside? We'll take the elevator."
Several firetrucks were outside the mansion, with firefighters standing on a ladder trying to reach out to the woman with the umbrella. Needless to say, the firemen weren't even close...meanwhile, the Persona gang were still outside with Hyde and Linne, who were speaking with the police officers.
"Howdy gentlemen, got here as soon as I could!" greeted Master Hand as he magically appeared outside, in front of the police. "Had to stop a food fight between Diddy Kong and Eight. So what brings you here?"
"We were just speaking with these teenagers," the lead officer told Master Hand, bringing the giant hand's attention to Hyde and Linne. "We found them in the mansion; they were suspected of the murder that took place this morning."
"I had murderers lurking around in my mansion?!" Master Hand was furious, upset that he let two presumed murderers fly right under his nonexistent nose. "Throw those miscreants in the slammer and feed 'em to the wolves!"
"Chill out, Master Hand...Hyde and Linne were not responsible for the murder." Hearing this, Master Hand began to cool down. "They were only suspected because they were around at the scene. But, turns out they showed up after the murder took place."
"Oh thank goodness, that's a relief...thought I was gonna have to scold Samus and X and tear a new butthole over their security system. Hmm, does X even have a butthole...?"
"Master Hand, have you seen-a Bowser anywhere?" Luigi asked the giant hand, as he came outside along with Mario and his troupe. "He has my son!"
"And what do you want me to do, give you a pat on your shoulder to make you feel better? Maybe you should be a better parent..."
Luigi wouldn't have to worry anymore, as Bowser and Cilan came out of the mansion with Adachi and climbed down the porch steps. Charles was in Bowser's arm, delighted like any other toddler.
"How's the night air, smells nice huh?" Bowser asked Adachi, who took a deep breath of relief. Almost like he forgot about what he was so scared for.
"I just need a rest..." replied Adachi, as he sat down on the ground. Luigi would quickly ran over to Charles, plucking him away from Bowser.
"Charles, you're alive!" the plumber cheered, as he held up his son and kissed him repeatedly. Bowser looked on, feeling proud...and salty.
"What, I don't even get a thanks?!" the koopa king yelled at Luigi, who was too busy embracing Charles. "If it weren't for me, your son would've been toast!"
"Uh, here's your sub sandwiches..." the delivery guy approached Mario, handing the plumber the bag of sub sandwiches. "...accidentally put some mayo in the Smoked Ham Club. My apologies..."
Delivery Guy: Dumb police really screwed me over tonight...all I have to do now is tell my boss I got blocked in by the police, and he'll give me a pass. Would be a best case scenario. Worst case scenario? My boss thinks I got in trouble with the cops...and I lose my job. Making food deliveries to the mansion is always the worst.
"Got something you need to get off your chest, Adachi?" Cloud confronted the police detective, as Mario was handing every member of his troupe a sandwich.
"Leave him alone, Cloud - he just had a rough day!" Cilan told the swordsman, sticking up for the exhausted Adachi. "Adachi here stayed up all night playing a scary video game, and has been scared about everything ever since. He's just very tense."
"Very tense, huh? No wonder he was acting so strange the entire evening. Whatever video game he was playing must've really scarred him for life."
"Who's that on the rooftop?" asked Alm, as everyone was looking at the woman with the umbrella on the roof. The firefighters were trying to reach out to the woman, but they weren't close enough.
"Some woman's that's been sitting up there the entire evening," replied Joker, as the firefighter reaching for the woman almost fell off the ladder. "We don't even know why..."
"I got this..." said Master Hand, floating his way up to the mansion rooftop. He looked at the woman, who was smirking at the giant hand. "...lemme make one thing clear, woman - I don't just let strangers like you sit atop my establishment all night long. You hear?"
"This will turn out well..." Cloud told Mario, in an almost sarcastic tone; the woman with the umbrella said nothing, as she did nothing but smirk.
"Did you hear what I just said? Are you deaf, woman?! Or are you giving me the silent treatment? Nobody, and I mean, NOBODY, gives me the silent treatment! Allow me to inform you of who you're dealing with..."
Master Hand would be cut off, when a gun cock sound was heard. The woman with the umbrella turned around...and saw Noel and Mai, with the latter holding a chain revolver gun.
"Not a single move..." Noel warned the woman with the umbrella, as she had her gun pointed at her. "...Neo Politan."
"Neo Politan...Neo Politan...Neapolitan!" exclaimed Bowser, after he put the name fragments together. "No wonder her hair looked like Neapolitan ice cream in that picture Noel showed us!"
"Thought that was already established..." remarked Cilan, although Bowser thought otherwise. Neo Politan slowly stood up on her feet...before kicking Noel's chain revolver away and leaping down from the mansion.
"After her!" the lead police officer shouted, as Neo Politan made a run for it. The woman ran across Luigi's driveway, certain that she was home free...
...before being knocked down by a car. Luigi's car, which was backing up into the driveway. Who was driving the car, you ask? Yuffie.
"Hey Luigi, I found the right car keys!" smiled Yuffie as she waved to Luigi, who stood there with his mouth agape before fainting unto the ground. Alm was there to catch Charles in the nick of time.
Yuffie: With Daisy at the sleepover, and Luigi doing nothing but worry over Daisy being at said sleepover, I had all the freedom in the world to ride around in Luigi's car again! No, I didn't crash the car...this time, but I did have a few near-accidents here and there.
"No need to fear, people - the car's just fine," assured Yuffie as she got out of the car, while having to be mindful of Neo Politan who was lying on the driveway writhing in pain. "Who's this chick on the driveway?"
"Don't worry about her, she's our problem," said Mai as she and Noel came over to Neo Politan, bringing the woman up to her feet. Noel picked up Neo Politan's umbrella, while Mai held Neo Politan's hands behind her back. "But thanks, anyways!"
"You're welcome...I guess." Mai and Noel walked away with Neo Politan, before crossing paths with Bowser and Cilan who were standing by.
"We greatly appreciate you both, for helping us out," Mai told Bowser and Cilan, as the former was arrogantly full of confidence. "Now if you excuse, we have to take our suspect away. Hopefully we can pry an answer out of her..."
"You heard that, Mario? Mai Natsume appreciates me!" Bowser bragged to Mario, who came over to koopa king as Noel and Mai took Neo Politan away. "In your face!"
"Good-a job, Bowser," Mario patted the koopa king on his shoulder, before walking away. Bowser was dumbfounded, unsure if Mario was acting genuine or sarcastic.
"What do you think we should do with Luigi?" Alm, still holding Charles, asked Berkut as Mario came over. Luigi was still fainted on the ground.
"I know exactly what to do..." replied Mario, as he looked towards Alm and Berkut's home, where the sleepover was still taking place.
Ann was walking to the living room, blindfolded. Guiding her along the way was Yoshi, who was instructed to lead Ann.
"Remember what you said...just act surprised," Yoshi whispered to Ann, staying closely behind the young woman.
"Got it..." Ann whispered back, and soon enough she and Yoshi were in the living room. When Ann stopped, she slowly took off their blindfold...
"SURPRISE!" every Persona resident in the mansion (save for Ryuji, Junpei, and Yosuke) shouted, as Ann gasped and with her hands on her face. Sure knew how to fake a reaction.
"Happy belated birthday, Ann!" Mitsuru told the young woman, placing a paper crown atop Ann's head as Ann smiled harder.
"Aw, thanks so much you guys!" Ann thanked all her friends, her hands clasped together in a delightful manner. "I wasn't expecting a birthday celebration like this, especially a week after my birthday, so this is...pretty neat!"
"I regret to inform you that we have no cupcakes," Yusuke informed Ann, solemnly looking at the plate that once had cupcakes on it. "But, we do have birthday cake!"
"And we also got jams!" added Yoshi, acting like he was a part of the party as the grabbed the TV remote. "I know a few good music channels..."
Once Yoshi turned on the television, everyone was surprised to see a breaking news segment on the television screen. Could it be about that murder?
"We have some very shocking breaking news, this evening," the anchor reported, as everyone was attentively looking at the television. "The murder that happened this morning, on Alaskan Way...was faked!"
"Who would want to fake a murder for?" questioned Yu, as a picture of a certain echidna appeared on the television screen...it was Knuckles. The shock on everyone's face was palpable.
"Reports say that the man identified on your screen, Knuckles the Echidna, apparently faked his own death not only to 'boost' his street cred...but to 'pay tribute' to late rappers in the past. The local rapper organized his fake murder with fake blood and gunshot wounds, and bought a medical helicopter to add authenticity to his apparent stunt."
"Ooh, you guys throwing a party?" asked Adachi, who was feeling a lot better, as he ventured inside the living room. Everyone looked at Adachi, with Yu frowning. "Mind if I hop in?"
"Get out..." Yu commanded of Adachi, knowing what the police detective was all about. He and his Investigation Team pals knew him better than anyone else.
Knuckles: Had to get my name out of the news, so I could avoid a few legal charges. But on the plus side, my faked death worked to perfection! My man Spyke came through, with the fake blood and the cosmetics and even the medical airplane...which is gonna cost me soon. Technically, I now have more street cred than a few dead rappers. Not many rappers can claim that they were shot at, and lived to see another day... *pauses* ...okay, well, many of them can, but I still have more street cred than they do! Now it's on to...the next stage.
Having been fainted for a while now, Luigi slowly opened his eyes. The plumber was startled for he was no longer outside, but inside someone's home. He was lying on his back, with two ladies staring at him.
"Wh-Who goes-a there?" asked Luigi, rubbing his eyes before identifying the ladies that were looking down on him. "D-Daisy...and Ruby Rose? RUBY ROSE?!"
"Even he's surprised to see me," Ruby told Daisy, who smiled in amusement. Luigi, with wide eyes, looked at Ruby, then at Daisy, then back at Ruby.
"Eh, you'll get used to it," replied Daisy, before looking back at Luigi. Luigi needed some answers right away. "Welcome to our sleepover, Luigi!"
"Why did you take-a me here for?" questioned Luigi, as he sat up on the living room couch that he was sitting on. "I'm not a woman!"
"Well, no, but Mario was the one responsible." Soon all the ladies from the sleepover gathered around Luigi, with Weiss holding a mirror. "And we all had some fun while you were out cold...save for Zelda. And Ruby, occasionally."
"Get a load of this..." smiled Weiss, as she turned the mirror around...and showed Luigi his reflection. Luigi's face was covered in beauty products, and it made the plumber scream.
"Mama mia, what have you done-a to my face?!" screamed Luigi, acting like the ladies had turned him into Gruntilda. "I look hideous!"
"Could've been a lot worse..." said a certain hedgehog named Sonic...who was sitting next to Luigi, and had suffered the same fate. Luigi looked at sonic's face, and screamed out of his mind.
Watching Luigi scream from outside was Mario, who was holding Charles. Rotom was also there, positioned behind Mario.
"Think your dad likes-a sleepovers now?" Mario asked Charles, as his nephew smiled and clapped. Could be best interpreted as a yes.