Author's Note:

Many of you in the past have asked about a Neptunia chapter in the past...and now, you got one! With Neptunia x Senran Kagura: Ninja Wars coming to the Switch, I imagined that now would be a good time to finally pull the trigger. This chapter will mark the first appearance of Senran Kagura characters, so for one chapter, Asuka won't be feeling so lonely. Guest reviews:

"I find the lack of yakisoba pan and hemborger very disturbing..."

Honestly, if I knew more about 13 Sentinels, then maybe I would've included a bit regarding yakisoba pan and hemborger. On that note, yakisoba pan wins. Another guest review, but with exciting news:

"Don't panic, but I have a WONDERFUL news...BUGSNAX IS COMING TO NINTENDO SWITCH! Yup. The greatest game of all time, Bugsnax, is coming to the Switch on April 28. Any plans on some Bugsnax on the story?"

Another indie game is coming to the Switch? Wowza. Next week is the Nintendo Switch sports chapter, so I might be able to squeeze in a few Bugsnax characters into next week's installment Another anonymous review:

"Well...FE: Awakening is celebrating their 10 year anniversary. Hope you don't forget about it."

The appearance of the second-gen cast in the previous chapter was more or less a small celebration of Awakening. Could've done a bit more, but with 13 Sentinels and Neptunia x Senran Kagura...it was hard to pull anything off. Another anonymous review:

"That guy thinks this is some Doctor Strange sh*t. Please don't go that route."

Promise I won't go that route. That route is simply too big to take...one last anonymous review:

"Do you realize Amy's action in the movies can also lands them in prison as well for attempted assault? If so, do you think they will be in jail if that happened? Was she kicked out of previous movie theatres for her actions that in like fighting the janitor and almost attacking the baby?"

You're right about Amy getting herself in trouble with attempted assault. I'd like to imagine that her behavior has gotten her banned from multiple movie theaters. Here is Random question with a...random question:

Why is there no female Villager? You got female Inkling, female Robin, female Corrin, female Byleth, but no female Villager? What's up with that?"

Good question! Quite frankly, I don't know. At this point in time, it might be too late to let her join the fray. But let's just say that the female Villager is the mayor of some town somewhere, and leave it at that. David has questions:

"Sonic's not gonna get back at the Persona crew by forming a group that is worse (in terms of writing) than Retribution from WWE is he? Any Mario Golf references? (The N64 game just got released on Switch Online recently). Is the Neptunia X Senran Kagura chapter gonna happen next week? A Pac-Man Musem chapter or reference when it comes out? (Maybe have Pac-Man react to Namco erasing Ms. Pac-Man from history). And finally, do you think Jon Moxley will renew his AEW contract when it expires next month or will he go back to WWE as Dean Ambrose? (Sorry for the wrestling question)."

No, he won't. Might be a few Mario golf references in next week's chapter. I can do a Pac-Man museum chapter (or reference). And I see there being a 50/50 chance that Mox will return to WWE. Cody Rhodes went back, since having a kid caused him to make a financial decision...so who's to say that Mox will do the same? An NFL fan has a question about the newest football league in town:

"So...did you watch the first week of USFL? What do you think of it? I can see some potential from watching the games, but the kickers, oh my God. Hope they got some kicking training."

Watched a little bit of it. It was alright, from what I saw; the game I watched between the Generals and Stallions ran on far too long, I think. I do agree that the kicking needs to be improved. But overall, a fairly solid debut. Last is A JPRG enjoyer, who has news about an upcoming Switch title:

"I just watched the new Xenoblade 3 trailer, and guess what? It's coming on JULY 29! Faster than the expected September date! Hope you're ready for some Xenoblade on that date!"

Was shocked when I saw the new release date earlier this week. That means I'll have less time to plan for the XC3 chapter...not that I'm complaining.

Episode 331: Ninjatastic

Asuka essentially had the best of both worlds - not only was she a co-host of Microwave Idol Mamorin, but she was also part of the all-exclusive ninja pals. When she wasn't microwaving stuff in the kitchen with Mamori and Ashley, she was usually hanging out with the likes of Sheik, Greninja, Yuffie, Kat, and Ana. And the other way around.

It was mostly thanks to these perks that Asuka was a long-time resident at the mansion, despite not having any affiliation with Smash. But given that she had been a mansion resident for so long, it wouldn't be too much of a surprise that she felt homesick about her old stomping grounds, Hanzo Academy. It was a ninja academy where she made plenty of friends.

But Asuka wouldn't have to feel homesick anymore (or at least for today), for three of her friends were coming to town to see her. The moment Asuka got that letter in the mail indicating such, Asuka was completely over the moon. But the friendly reunion wouldn't take place at the mansion, mind you...for it would occur at another locale.

"Luigi, you have to move from the couch when Asuka's friends are coming over," Daisy told her husband, as she was moving about in the living room cleaning stuff with a duster.

"This is my couch, you can't make-a me move," Luigi said in defiance, sitting on the living room couch wearing his housecat as he watched his favorite sports channel on the television. He showed no signs of energy whatsoever.

"Luigi, I am NOT going to ask you again." Angered by her husband's defiance, Daisy frowned at Luigi with her hands on her hips. Yet Luigi didn't seem to care.

"Good. Then just be quiet, and let me be." Luigi showing Daisy some attitude? The act was enough to make Daisy gasp in shock, as Luigi grabbed his glass of orange juice off the floor and sipped it.

Luigi: Asuka's friends are coming by later today, and they're going to meet-a up at our house. My house. Which is apparently the ninja pals' "base of operations". I never agreed-a to this!

Daisy: Won't have to worry about Luigi being on his best behavior...once those ninja chicks come in, Luigi's getting the boot. The kids, Elfilin, and Polterpup get to stay if they can be on their best behavior.

"Hello! I've been told-a that there's a couch potato that needs-a to be taken care of," Mario shouted from outside, having received a text message from Daisy earlier that morning.

"There is no couch-a potato, Daisy was just messing around," Luigi called out to Mario, as Daisy dropped her duster and answered the front door. Mario wasn't alone, for he was accompanied by his compadres Spyro and Hunter.

"Hunter, why did you bring a fork and knife with you?" Daisy questioned the cheetah, who was holding the aforementioned eating utensils in his hands. Someone must be in a hungry mood this morning.

"Oh, so you meant that kind of couch potato..." said Hunter when he looked inside the house and Luigi sitting on a couch like a lump on a log. Spyro, as he would usually do, facepalmed at his best friend.

Mario: Who eats-a potatoes with a fork and knife? Let alone a fork? Have I been doing some-a thing wrong all these years?

"Please be gentle with him, boys," Daisy requested to Mario and company, who made their move as they entered the house. "He feels pain very easily."

"Luigi, you have-a to stop," Mairo encouraged his twin brother as he, Spyro, and Hunter were standing in front of the television. "There can be only one-a couch potato around these parts...me!"

"Yeah, yeah, that's-a good," Luigi responded as he tried to look past Mario so that he could see the television. Mario had moved in the nick of time, much to Luigi's chagrin.

"Don't you see how angry you're making your wife feel?" Spyro asked Luigi, who didn't have enough in him to look at Daisy. He was more focused on looking at that TV screen. "She obviously doesn't like seeing you like this."

"Well, she doesn't have to be here." No matter their best efforts, Mario and company couldn't make Luigi move not even a single inch. "There's nothing you can-a do to make me leave this couch, Mario, not even..."

Suddenly a puff cloud of smoke appeared, causing everyone in the living room to cough and gag. Once the smoke cleared, guess who was in the living room? Kat and Ana, standing front and center.

"It's tickling time!" exclaimed Kat, as she ambushed Mario and brought him down to the floor. Luigi looked on in horror as his twin brother was tickled, being forced to laugh.

"Mama mia! Why am I so ticklish?" wondered Mario as he laughed away, with Kat showing no restraint. Mario was laughing to the point where he was banging the floor with his fist.

"Man you're so weak, Mario..." Spyro shook his head in disappointment at the plumber...only to be ambushed by Ana and get tickled as well. Now Spyro was laughing along with Mario. "...stop it! I have scaly skin!"

"I wouldn't mind being tickled," said Hunter, feeling left out as Mario and Spyro were being tickled. The cheetah kept on waiting, but his wish was not granted. "Any moment now..."

"C-Cut it out, you two!" Luigi commanded Kat and Ana, refusing to see Mario and Spyro a laughing mess. Mario was laughing so hard that tears were rolling down his face.

"We'll stop...only if you agree to move from the couch," Ana told Luigi, presenting him an offer where he simply couldn't say no. "Otherwise, we'll make you join the tickle party!"

"I'm up, I'm-a up!" Stricken with fear, Luigi rose up from the couch and hurried out of the living room, saving himself from harm. Their work done, Kat and Ana ended the tickling charades.

"Aw, why'd-a you stop?" Mario asked Kat as he and Spyro got back on their feet, while Hunter waited for someone to tickle him. "I was starting to enjoy that."

"Why did you have to say that out loud...?" Spyro questioned Mario, feeling the exact opposite of whatever Mario felt. Kat and Ana consulted Daisy, as Hunter lowered his head in sadness and walked away.

"We heard that Luigi was being a handful, so we had to drive him away for ya," Kat explained to Daisy, as Luigi could be heard sneaking out through his back screen doors. "Heard your entire conversation from outside."

"Sounds creepy, but I'll take it!" Daisy smiled in response, hoping that the young ninja sisters weren't spying on her and Luigi from outside. That would make her uncomfortable. "I might be able to get this living room spotless now that Luigi's gone."

Where was Yuffie during that whole ordeal, you ask? The perky ninja was at the mansion, where the residents were in the middle of breakfast. She was speaking with Zelda about Asuka's friends.

"Three of Asuka's friends are coming, right?" Yuffie asked Zelda, who was trying to enjoy her blueberry pancakes in peace. "That means three potential honorary ninjas!"

"Let's hold off on the honor ninja thing for today," advised Zelda, deflating Yuffie's overall excitement as she poured some syrup over her pancakes. "We're just treating them to lunch, and nothing else."

"And then after lunch, we're naming them honorary ninjas." Yuffie smiled and clicked her fingers at Zelda, who ignored the ninja girl's question as she took a bite out of her pancakes. "C'mon, Zelda, don't leave me hangin'!"

Yuffie: Asuka will occasionally tell us stories about her friends. Mainly stuff about how they have fun water gun battles, and how they enjoy hobbies such as online writing, napping, and bathing! If that doesn't scream honorary ninja material, nothing else does.

King K. Rool: Are Asuka's friends well-endowed just like her? *smiles* Her friends have better be in my age range...

Also enjoying blueberry pancakes was Sonic, who was eating his breakfast under his scrutiny. As you can recall in the last episode, Sonic was forced by Caroline and Justine to stay in a pillory for an entire day, as punishment for telling others about Mini Mementos. Now the twin wardens were treating the blue hedgehog as their "prisoner".

"How many times do we have to tell you, no syrup!" shouted Caroline, as she swatted Sonic's hand away when he was about to reach for the syrup. "It has too much sugar."

"But it's sugar-free!" stated Sonic, but that didn't matter to Caroline as the warden shook her head. Sonic grumbled, forcing himself to eat his bland pancakes as Wario walked by.

"You got nutritionists now?" Wario asked Sonic, extending his deepest sympathies to the blue hedgehog by placing one hand on his shoulder and his other hand on his heart. "Allow me to send you my condolences."

"Get lost..." Sonic said to Wario, who did as he was told as he walked away. Justine would whack Sonic with her nightstick, making him yelp loudly in pain. "Ow! Why didn't you hit Wario for touching me?"

"Wario has every right to touch you as he pleases," replied Justine, only to smile sheepishly when she saw those sitting near Sonic give her dubious looks. "Under certain conditions, of course..."

"Imagine being harassed all day by those twins," Shulk discussed with Yu, as Sonic went back to eating his bland blueberry pancakes. "Wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy!"

"Neither would I," responded Yu as he cracked a knowing smile, finding himself oddly delighted with how the twin wardens were treating Sonic. "I'd say he deserved it one hundred percent..."

Yu: Thought that I would let Sonic off the hook, didn't you? I'm not letting him off just yet. Since the others used our private hangout spot for about three weeks, I'll keep Caroline and Justine on Sonic's toes for that long. The twins can treat Sonic as they please; I'll just be there for the ride. *smiles*

Fridays were usually the day for doing laundry at the McCloud household, and Krystal was doing it much earlier than usual as she was busy in the laundry room that morning. She was in there for so long, that the sound of an outsider's voice was the one thing that drew her attention.

"You're right, Fox, Krystal does-a make a good omelet!" Luigi was heard from outside the laundry room, causing Krystal to furrow her brow after she turned on the dryer. Krystal went to the kitchen...and there she saw Luigi, standing at the stove with Fox.

"Told you I wasn't lying," smirked Fox, as he allowed Luigi to sample an omelet that was still cooking on the frying pan. Krystal went over to the stove and snatched away the fork that Luigi was eating with.

"I said to watch over the omelet, not let our guests eat it," Krystal scolded Fox as she threw the fork in the dishwater, which made Luigi upset. "And speaking of guests...why is Luigi here?"

"Because Kat and Ana forced him to leave. Or so I was told. But he's not the only company we have..." Dreading what Fox had just said, Krystal looked towards the living room...and saw Falco lying on the couch.

"Morning, hot stuff," Falco greeted Krystal as he held up an extra pair of house keys in his hand. Krystal gave Fox a vicious glare. "Certainly pays to be your husband's bestie, right?"

"To be fair, Krystal, I only let Luigi in because he was evicted," Fox explained to his wife, who was more concerned about Falco being in his house. "And as for Falco...he just showed up, I guess."

"The backdoor was wide open," stated Falco, as Fox angrily shushed the avian pilot before looking at Krystal with a sweet, innocent smile. Too late, the damage was already done.

"You have to stop letting people in our house all willy-nilly," Krystal told Fox as she grabbed the frying pan, keeping it out of reach from Luigi who wanted more of the omelet. "Not like we have an open-door policy."

"But you should though," Falco recommended to Krystal, who gave the avian pilot the most vicious glare that she ever gave him. That got Falco to back off rather quickly.

"Hey, I don't let everyone in through the door," Fox defended himself, as Krystal placed her now half-eaten omelet inside an empty container. "Not like I'm letting in some monster...or even a powerful goddess."

After breakfast was over at the mansion, Joker went Pit and Kirby out on a mission. Their mission? To find new coffee beans for Cafe Leblanc. Given that Pit had no clue about shopping, Kirby pretty much had to take charge of the shopping trip. And he knew just the place to go...where no shopping was required.

"Three bags of coffee beans, please," Kirby made his request known to Brewster, as he and Pit were down at The Roost. Pit had dropped three empty sacks on the counter, as Brewster stared at the angel inquisitively.

"How much are you paying?" Brewster asked Pit and Kirby as he held his feathery hand out. Kirby knew for a fact that Brewster wouldn't give out any coffee beans just for free.

"Do you have any cash on you?" Kirby asked the angel, only since he was unable to bring anything of monetary value with him. Pit would thankfully come through, as he pulled out not cash, but rather a check.

"Here's a rain check for ya, consider it an IOU," Pit handed the check to Brewster, who checked to see if it was legit. In his mind, Kirby wondered if Pit knew what he was even doing.

"Your 'IOU' has a thousand dollars listed...I take it you'll pay me that in full?" Brewster asked Pit as he held up the check, which had a thousand dollars written down. Also inscribed was Pit's awful signature.

"Pit, why does that...rain check have a thousand dollars?" Kirby asked Pit, now hoping even more than ever that the angel had any clue of the stunt that he was pulling.

"I dunno, I didn't think that he would want that much," Pit shrugged in response, as Kirby facepalmed at the angel. Unless Pit had a secret stash of money saved from Lloyd's delivery service, he might find himself in a financial rut.

"Let me get you your coffee beans..." Brewster said to Pit and Kirby, stuffing the IOU into his vest as he went to the back. The pigeon came back with a large barrel of coffee beans and stuffed them inside the sacks on the counter.

"At least he's giving us the beans," remarked Kirby, no longer facepalming as he watched Brewster stuff the three sacks with coffee beans. Much like how he did with brewing coffee, Brewster performed his current task slow and methodically.

"I expect to be paid one thousand dollars in full very soon..." Brewster said to Pit and Kirby as he handed them the sacks of coffee beans, which Pit grabbed. "...or else I'll get very violent."

"We won't let you down!" promised Pit, having bad memories of Brewster pecking his head repeatedly in episode 308. With the coffee beans in tow, Pit and Kirby both left The Roost.

Brewster: I rarely get violent; violence simply isn't my thing. Not in my nature. But whenever I see someone drinking iced coffee in my cafe, let alone in my face...that's when the bell rings.

As Pit and Kirby made their way out of The Roost, they saw Blathers speaking with four girls. These four girls were gathered around Blathers, standing in the middle of the dinosaur exhibit.

"Did you find these dinosaur bones yourself?" one of the four girls asked Blathers, a girl with purple hair, purple eyes, and a cheery personality. "That must make you really old!"

"Oh ho ho! These are fossils, dearest child," Blathers informed the girl, more than happy to tell her all about the fossils if she desired. He would love nothing more than to ramble on about fossils for an entire day.

"Hey, Blathers, starting a new harem?" Pit asked out to the owl, as Kirby was appalled that his friend had the gall to ask such a question. And out in the open, no less.

"Pipe down, Pit..." Kirby whispered to the angel, who was doing the opposite as he took a couple of steps closer to Blathers. He must really want Blathers to be publicly shamed.

"Those girls look too young and out of your league, don't you think?" Pit was bringing a few museum goers' attention to Blathers, making them frown and distance themselves from the owl. Sweat was running down Blathers's face.

"Why on earth would I ever start a harem?" questioned an increasingly flustered Blathers, not liking all the attention that he was getting thanks to Pit. "I don't even care for anime or manga!"

"Really? Because I can recommend you a few anime. Like the one with..." Pit was suddenly sucked in by Kirby, who spat the angel out at a fossil stand. Pit crashed to the floor, as a bunch of dinosaur bones fell on top of him pinning him down.

"I must apologize for Pit's behavior," Kirby said to Blathers, doing as much damage control as he could. Pit had a strong habit of making anyone associated with him look bad. "So, who are these ladies?"

"They're a cordial group that arrived not so long ago," replied Blathers, as whatever profound awkwardness he felt slowly vanished away. "CPUs, as they call themselves. Neptune, Noire, Blanc, Vert...give your kindest greetings to Kirby."

"What a cute little alien you are!" gleamed Vert, the oldest out of the four CPUS, as she picked up Kirby and squeezed him like a teddy bear. "...and so squishy, too!"

"I prefer to be called a marshmallow, but call me what you wish..." Kirby told Vert, feeling uncomfortable as Vert squeezed him tightly. He was partly hoping that no one else was looking.

"C'mon, Vert - quit hogging him!" shouted the purple-haired girl, Neptune, refusing to wait her turn. Someone was being rather impatient today. "I wanna hold him, too!"

"No, let me hold him next!" Noire said to Vert, grabbing Neptune and shoving her out of the way. Neptune was taken back by the aggression that her friend had eschewed.

"My goodness...women and their silly catfights!" Blathers said to Blanc with a smile, before shuddering as he feared retaliation. Blanc, however, kept to herself as Neptune and Noire were quarreling with each other.

"STOP IT!" Pit boomed, picking himself up off the floor; Neptune and Noire ended their needless arguing, as Pit marched over to the CPUs. "You ladies have no right to cuddle Kirby."

"Much appreciated for sticking up for me, Pit," Kirby offered his thanks to the angel, as Vert apologetically placed the pink puffball back on the floor. "I knew that I could depend on you to..."

"I wasn't done! You ladies have no right to cuddle Kirby...but you can cuddle him as you please at our mansion. Or more specifically, Cafe Leblanc."

"You two own a mansion?" Blanc asked Pit, speaking for the first time; Kirby knew that Pit sticking up for him like that was too good to be true.

"Uh...yeah! We can take the bus there. What do you ladies say?" Deep down, Kirby wanted the CPUs to answer no, but unfortunately...

"Long as I get to hold Kirby, I'm down!" squealed Neptune, who then looked towards her three friends; all of them nodded in agreement, much to Kirby's great dismay.

"Cool! First, we need to figure out our bus fare..." Pit dug into his pocket and pulled out another so-called rain check - or an IOU, as he technically called it. "Got plenty more of these as backup..."

The ninja pals were gathered in the living room of Luigi's home an hour after breakfast, getting themselves prepared for the arrival of Asuka's friends. Daisy got the living room spotless, thanks to her adept cleaning skill, and was now in the kitchen cooking lunch for later. And since it was a ninja affair, one ninja was forced by Sheik to come...

"Moments like these are why I question my existence..." grumbled Ninjara, sitting in the living room with the ninja pals his arms folded. To this day, the ninja pals were still trying to get the ARMS veteran to join their club.

"You question your existence because you're sitting in your neighbor's living room?" Sheik asked Ninjara, who refused to turn his smile upside down. Not even the smell from the kitchen could allure him. "Or are you so anti-social that you don't want to meet potential new friends?"

"I don't need any 'friends', all I need is myself." As Ninjara kept on brooding, Daisy heard a knock at the back screen door. The princess went to go see who it was and saw a certain ninja standing by.

"Goemon!" Daisy greeted the ninja in question after opening the screen door, as the ninja pals were on alert. Goemon was the one ninja that Sheik and her friends didn't care for. "I knew those ninja pals were forgetting someone."

"It seems that Sheik forgot to invite me," Goemon said to Daisy, as Yuffie hustled her way over to the princess after Sheik nodded her head towards her. "Wouldn't make much sense if..."

"Get lost, you freak," Yuffie said to Goemon as she rudely slammed the screen door on Goemon. Goemon just stood there, salty that the ninja pals were leaving him out of the fun.

Goemon: It makes no sense as to why those ninja pals don't want to include me. I'm a ninja just like them! Maybe they think that I'm too good for them - which must also mean that they suck. Go figure!

"I see three women heading this way, zzrt," alerted Rotom, looking out of one of the windows in the living room as Asuka instantly perked up. "My word, their breasts must be d-cup at least!"

"That must be them!" exclaimed Asuka as she got up off the couch. Ninjara grumbled loudly as Asuka opened the front door and looked outside.

Turns out that Rotom was right, as there were indeed three ladies heading towards Luigi's house. The very moment that they ventured further into the mansion grounds, they suddenly ran into Terry and King Dedede.

"Good afternoon, ladies," Terry greeted the ladies with the tip of his hat, doing his best not to look at their ample chests. King Dedede, on the other hand, found himself too distracted. "Came here for a visit?"

"Yeah, we wanted to stop by and..." replied one of the ladies, Homura, only to frown when she saw King Dedede staring at her and her friends in a totally not creepy manner. "...uh, what's the matter with your friend?"

"My oh my...those are some big melons," remarked King Dedede, saying a comment that he definitely should've kept to himself. The second-hand embarrassment that Terry felt was nigh.

"What melons are you talking about?" asked another one of the ladies, Miyabi, sounding deeply offended - and her reason for feeling that way was obvious, as King Dedede was forced to change his tune.

"Uh, I was talking about those melons over there! At the melon cart!" King Dedede pointed in the far distance, as Miyabi and her friends looked in the direction that Dedede pointed.

"What melon cart? We don't see one..." said the third lady, Yumi, as King Dedede took the opportunity to scram while the ladies were distracted. King Dedede saved himself from one heck of a beating.

"Homura! Yumi! Miyabi! Over here!" Asuka called out to the ladies from Luigi's doorway, waving to them once King Dedede left the premises. The three ladies looked over and saw Asuka, who was unable to contain her excitement.

"Hi, Asuka, I see you haven't changed as..." Homura greeted her friend and long-time rival, who was suddenly ambushed by her ninja pals. "...much."

"Wow, Asuka, you and your friends sure have a lot in common!" Yuffie said to the ninja as she and the ninja pals...and Ninjara, against his will, got a closer look at Homura and company. "Did all of you get breast implants?"

"Why is that a question...?" wondered Asuka as she picked herself up off the ground and dusted herself off. Yuffie found herself oddly fixated with Homura's chest - likely out of pure jealousy.

"Let me handle this..." Sheik said to Yuffie as she moved the ninja girl to the side before she could further humiliate Asuka. "...hello, ladies, we are the ninja pals - otherwise known as Asuka's closest friends. I'm Sheik, that's Yuffie, those two are Kat and Ana, the frog guy is Greninja, and..."

"...and I'm Goemon!" exclaimed Goemon as he sprung up in-between Sheik and Asuka's friends, causing those near him to shriek. Ninjara, meanwhile, felt relieved that he wasn't introduced yet.

"What is that vile creature?!" Yumi asked with her hands cupped over her mouth, thinking of Goemon as the most hideous human being she had ever laid her eyes on. Could be because of his eyebrows.

"A vile creature? Where is he? Show me!" Goemon unsheathed his katana and looked around, hoping to unleash the beating of a lifetime. Said beatdown would prove his worth to the ninja pals, he believed.

"Let me give you a head start," Ninjara offered to Goemon as he grabbed the ninja and held him up in the air...and then punted him away like a football. Everyone watched as Goemon flew over the horizon.

"I WILL GET MY HANDS ON YOU, DEMON!" Goemon vowed to this nonexistent demon, shouting loudly before crashing at a location far away from the ninja pals. That ought to keep him away...for now.

"So, this is your 'base of operations?'" Miyabi asked the ninja pals, furrowing her brow at Luigi's house; she clearly didn't think that highly of it, and no one could blame her.

"Eh...only unofficially," replied Ana, wishing that she and Kat had decked out the exterior of Luigi's house prior to the arrival of Asuka's friends. "But the woman inside is cooking us all rice balls for lunch!"

"I'm sold!" exclaimed Homura, who enjoyed rice balls as much as Asuka did. Rice balls were a tried-and-true delicacy of the Hanzo Academy. "You lead the way, Asuka."

"Don't think you're going anywhere..." Sheik said to Ninjara, whom she saw trying to make a run for it; Greninja grabbed Ninjara in the nick of time and took him away from the mansion.

"No, you can't make me be a part of this! Let me go!" Ninjara demanded Geninja, who followed Asuka and the other ninjas to Luigi's household. Terry stood by and watched the ninjas head in, smiling as he felt inspired.

Terry: Seeing Asuka being with her friends has given me motivation - motivation to invite a few friends of mine! I'll bring the whole gang - Blue Mary, Joe Higashi, Kim Kaphawn, Ryo Kusanagi, and Athena Asamiya. Might even reel in my son Rock, for a nice little family reunion. But Mai Shiranui won't be getting an invite, though - she has no clue how to cover up. With her around, I'd have to spend the whole day hearing cat-calls and wolf whistles!

As the ninjas entered Luigi's household, Luigi himself got thrown out of Fox's house by Krystal. The green plumber landed on the ground, getting a faceful of dirt as Krystal stood at her doorway.

"Haha, she kicked you out before she could do it to me!" taunted Falco, as he was heard laughing at Luigi from inside Fox's house. Krystal turned her head around, and all of a sudden Falco was laughing no more.

"Leave...my omelets...alone," Krystal commanded Luigi as she reverted her attention back to the green plumber, frowning intensely to let him know just how serious she was.

"But don't you need a taste-a tester?" Luigi asked Krystal, who responded by slamming the front door. Luigi sighed - the taste of the omelet still fresh in his mouth - as Terry helped him up.

"Look on the bright side," Terry said encouragingly to Luigi, cleaning the dirt, mud, grass, and other stuff off of the plumber's face. "At least it wasn't your wife that kicked you out of your own house!"

"That's very common for me, unfortunately. It's almost-a tradition, at this point." Since he was still barred from returning home, Luigi looked at the neighboring houses as his eyes fell upon Marth's home. "Wonder if Marth is home..."

Marth was indeed home, and he had invited Link and Cloud over to his place for he had a dilemma on his hands. The hero-king got a streaming service for his home, as a recommendation from Caeda and Lilina, and there was one tiny issue that he couldn't fix. What was that issue, you ask?

"These channels won't play any TV commercials," Marth explained to Link and Cloud, sounding frustrated as he held the TV remote in his hand. Link and Cloud couldn't tell if Marth was being serious or not.

"You actually want to watch these TV commercials?" Link questioned Marth, who unironically wanted to answer yes but not at the risk of being judged.

"Marth, the point of streaming is to avoid seeing advertisements," Cloud laid it out for the hero-king, who was failing to understand the point. Not a surprise. "No interruptions. It's something called, 'convenience.'"

"I dunno, the lack of commercials takes away from the overall viewing experience," said Marth, speaking from a personal standpoint as he was starting to miss traditional television. He really was that old-fashioned.

"Speak for yourself; I've been watching television more than ever now," Roy said to Marth, as he was at the fireplace inserting some firewood. The swordsman screamed and jumped back when he saw a head sticking out through the chimney.

"Mama mia! The chimney trick-a finally worked!" rejoiced the man stuck in the chimney, Luigi, who fell down and unto the firewood. The green plumber yelped in pain, as he now had a few splinters on his forehead.

"Marth, Luigi, if I were you I'd show him out the door..." Link suggested to the two swordsmen, not appreciating how Luigi sneaked his way inside the house like that. While Roy would follow up on Link's advice, Marth had other intentions.

"Say, Luigi, you have streaming at your house, right?" Marth asked the green plumber, who was busy picking the splinters out - and wincing every time he picked one. "Care to help me with mine? It won't play any commercials."

"Is that so?" asked Luigi as he went over to Marth's television set. "May I see your television remote?" Marth handed Luigi his TV remote, and Luigi opened up the guide.

"I think you're doing it..." Link was about to tell Luigi, only for Cloud to cover the Hylian's mouth as Luigi selected a program from the guide. Marth had yet to say a word.

"After I finish-a watching this program, I'll sort-a this no commercials thing out," Luigi promised to Marth - awfully suspect that the program Luigi selected was one he usually watched around this time of day.

"Go ahead, take your time," responded Marth, as Luigi happily took a seat on the living room couch...in Marth's usual spot. Marth would tell Luigi to move, but he was too nice to do it.

"Let's see how naive Marth is..." Cloud whispered to Link, as Luigi was back to being a couch potato...but not the kind that Hunter originally thought of.

Anticipating Asuka bringing her friends over, Master Hand had Isabelle print out a bunch of posters and post them around the mansion. The message inscribed on the posters was written in all caps: "TO ALL SINGLE MALE RESIDENTS; STAY AWAY FROM ASUKA'S FRIENDS". Short, effective, and to the point.

"Such a shame that these posters even have to be posted," Master Hand lamented to Isabelle, who was sticking a few posters on the wall in the hallway. King K. Rool stood by, watching Isabelle doing her thing.

"I agree, Master Hand," the Kremling sided with the giant hand, acknowledging the effort that was being done. "By the way, how old do you think Asuka's friends are? And what size is there..."

"King K. Rool!" Master Hand boomed at the Kremling, who ran for his life as he scurried down the hallway. "Isabelle...we need to make the posters bigger. Gotta get the point across."

Master Hand: Unfortunate that those posters were made, but sadly it had to be done. Because when you mix desperate single men with attractive, voluptuous women...it makes for a messy combination.

"I cannot believe that you paid that bus driver with Monopoly cash," Kirby said to Pit, as he and the angel were coming down the hallway with four CPUs behind them - Neptune, Noire, Blanc, and Vert.

"And I can't believe that he actually accepted that cash!" exclaimed Pit, who had only used Monopoly dollars since his IOU/raincheck scheme was no success. "Poor guy; he must've been seriously broke."

"Pit, is that your harem?" an astonished Master Hand asked the angel, extending his deepest sympathies to the CPUs. "Tell me, how much did you pay them?"

"For your info, Master Hand, I won't start a harem unless Viridi agrees to join. As for these girls, they're a part of Blathers's harem..."

"...they're four nice ladies that we met earlier at Blathers's museum," explained Kirby, cutting off Pit before he could spew even more nonsense. "Nice minus the hugging part..."

"We can't help the fact that you're so cute!" Neptune smiled at Kirby, kneeling down and embracing the pink puffball in a hug. Kirby groaned, wondering when it would end.

"Well, it's a good thing that you four aren't terribly busty!" Isabelle said to the CPUs, who gave the Shih Tzu very curious looks. "Not that there's anything wrong with that..."

"Cafe Leblanc is down this way, ladies!" Pit said to Neptunia and company, walking past Master Hand and Isabelle with the sacks of coffee beans in tow. Cafe Leblanc was like a to-go spot for visitors, at this point.

"Coming!" shouted Neptune, picking up Kirby and holding him tightly as she and her friends followed Pit's lead. Master Hand watched as the CPUs left.

"How much do you think Blathers paid them to be a part of his harem?" the giant hand asked Isabelle, curious as to how much money Blathers was throwing around.

Mario was at Cafe Leblanc, being among the first to try out Joker's new mushroom curry. Also at the cafe was Sonic, who still had the warden twins Caroline and Justine on his tail. Oh, and Sans was there, too. Can't forget him.

"i have so mushroom in my tummy for more bowls of curry," quipped Sans, who had just finished his bowl of mushroom curry; it made him so satisfied, that it made him crack a pun. Although he would've cracked one regardless.

"Go on, laugh at his joke," Caroline encouraged - no, commanded - Sonic, as she poked him repeatedly with her finger. But Sonic wouldn't budge. "I said do it, inmate!"

"I'm not laughing at Sans' crappy puns," said a defiant Sonic, as Justine smacked him in the leg with her nightstick. "I mean, HAHAHAHA! SO FUNNY! BEST JOKE I'VE EVER HEARD!"

"His laughter, while fake, makes my heart swell up with joy..." smiled Sans, beaming with joy as he almost felt a tear running down his skeleton face. "...i am such a fungi."

"You know those twins-a better than anyone," Mario said to Joker, as Sonic didn't know when (or even how) to end his fake laughter. "How long will-a they keep bothering Sonic?"

"Yu said it'll last for about three weeks," replied Joker, preparing another bowl of mushroom curry for anyone that wanted one. "Essentially, it's payback for..."

"Joker, we secured the goods!" Pit announced to the young man as he and Kirby returned to Cafe Leblanc with the sacks of coffee beans. The two friends brought the CPUs inside, as Viridi furrowed her brow.

"Have you been seeing other women, Pit?" Viridi questioned the angel; she always felt some type of way whenever she saw Pit hanging out with two or more females. She was still a tsundere at heart.

"Oh, you mean Blathers's harem? They're just friends that Kirby and I made at the museum. Figured that you'd want new customers, Joker."

Joker: Blathers has a...harem? Well, I get along with ladies just fine, so this doesn't bother me. Blathers can do what he wants.

King Dedede: Blathers of all people has his own harem?! I have to do better...Ryu Hayabusa's lady friends are still available, I think.

"Whatever, just bring the coffee beans over here," commanded Joker, as Pit joined the young man behind the counter. The CPUs sat at the counter, as Sans felt the urge to crack a pun.

"this right here is a cup of mocha," Sans said to the four ladies as he held up his cup of coffee, which was covered at the top with whipped cream. "it mocha me go crazy."

"Haha, that was pretty funny!" laughed Neptune, as she expected Noire, Blanc, and Vert to react the same way; sadly for Sans, none of the three were huge fans of the joke.

"I've heard better...and worse," remarked Blanc, her mostly stoic visage unbroken - would've meant a lot to Sans if Blanc could even muster a smile.

"everyone is a critic..." Sans sighed in defeat, drinking his cares away as he took a sip of his mocha. The warden twins were leering at the CPUs, sensing that there was a lot more to them than they let on.

"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Caroline whispered to Justine, who was plotting something devious with her twin sister. "Since Asuka's friends are in town...wanna start a fight?"

"If only there was someone who can do that for us...wink, wink," Justine whispered back, smirking as she nudged Sonic with her nightstick. Sonic, who finally stopped laughing, saw the twins smirking at him.

"I heard you two say something about a fight?" Sonic said to Caroline and Justine, whose smiles grew bigger once Sonic was slowly catching on. Once Sonic figured it out, he pinched the crown of his nose. "Why am I being an instigator...?"

Daisy was not yet done making the rice balls; Asuka's friends had arrived much sooner than she expected. But for now, the ninjas were free to hang out in the living room of Luigi's home until lunch was ready.

"What so-called ninja wears a dumb kimono?" Ninjara criticized Yumi, as he was not a fan of the shinobi's attire. He was being very nitpicky today - partly because of his sour mood.

"As the leader of the Gessen Academy, I can wear exactly what I want," replied Yumi, putting Ninjara in his place; no surly ninja was going to boss her around and tell her what they think.

"If you're gonna be rude to my friends, Ninjara, you can just leave," Asuka said to the fellow ninja, who was muttering something under his breath. Something not very friendly, or even appropriate. "Oh wait, that's right...you can't!"

"I know I can't...I'll just shut up," groaned Ninjara, folding his arms and sitting back on the couch as he slowly accepted his fate. "...once I find out who took my smoke bombs, you will all be very sorry."

"So, what fun ninja things do you all do around the mansion?" Miyabi asked the ninja pals, knowing that they had a bunch of wonderful adventures to tell.

"Asuka co-hosts a show called Microwave Idol Mamorin," Yuffie randomly stated, wrapping her arm around Asuka; Asuka, who didn't expect Yuffie to mention such information, was forced to smile.

"Microwave Idol Mamorin?" inquired Homura, who along with the other shinobi had never heard of the show before. They all had a lot to learn. "Since when did you join the show business, Asuka?"

"That is mostly irrelevant," stated Sheik, forced to take over the conversation as Yuffie was steering things in another direction. "Kat, Ana, why don't you tell our guests about how we captured Ryu Hayabusa?"

"The legendary ninja, Ryu Hayabusa?" asked Yumi, her eyes growing wide as Homura and Miyabi were also hooked. Hayabusa was obviously a big deal to the female shinobi. "Must have been hard."

"Not really, we just kinda lured him to us," stated Kat as she took out the object that successfully lured Hayabusa to the mansion - a fake Smash invite, inside a white envelope. "Worked like a charm."

"We also had a hold on his Dragon Sword," added Yuffie, now wishing that she had the Dragon Sword with her as proof that the ninja pals had Hayabusa as their hostage. "Could've made a fortune with it at the pawnshop..."

"No, you shouldn't have," Sheik sternly told Yuffie - at least she respected Hayabusa enough to return him his blade after that whole pawnshop fiasco. "Hayabusa's sword is not meant to be trifled with."

"When you were about to pawn the sword, how much did they ask for?" Homura asked Yuffie as she leaned in close to the ninja girl. Sheik shook her head and facepalmed.

After they sampled some of Joker's mushroom curry, the CPUs were free to roam around and see what the mansion had to offer. Although they could be literally anywhere else, Vert and Blanc decided to hang out...at the computer room.

"Um, ma'am...that's my save file you're playing on," Bowser Jr. kindly told Vert, who was seated at a computer playing some kind of shooting game. Vert was killing it so far...or so she imagined.

"Never played a game quite like this before," remarked Vert, clicking the mouse as she was shooting away. Suddenly her player character got shot at, falling to the ground along with bags of loot. "Oh, dear! It seems that I'm poor now."

"THEY'RE TAKING MY STUFF!" panicked Bowser Jr, when he saw opposing players flocking towards his player character and stealing his loot. The Koopaling ran to the computer, trying to respawn. "Worked so hard to have all that moolah..."

"Well, as they always say, money isn't everything." Vert tried to cheer up Bowser Jr. as she patted his head, only for Bowser Jr. to smack her hand away. Sitting next to Vert was Blanc, who was trying to read a book in peace.

"So noisy..." Blanc had this to say about Bowser Jr, before muttering a few choice words under her breath. Bowser Jr. overheard the girl and gasped.

"What did she call me just now?!" the Koopaling asked as he was about to leap at Blanc, who was calmly reading her book. Vert had to hold him back. "Let me at her, let me at her!"

Vert: Blanc has a very strong tendency to use curse words. She may not look like it at first, but once you get to know her...it takes time getting used to. The adjustment period is harder for some.

As Vert held Bowser Jr. back from Blanc, Sonic reluctantly entered the computer room. He looked back at Caroline and Justine, who were both standing in the hallway as Caroline gave him a thumbs up.

"I don't think I ever introduced myself," Sonic nervously said to Vert and Blanc, garnering their attention - and even Bowser Jr's attention as well. "I'm..."

"We know who you are...you're Sonic the Hedgehog!" exclaimed Vert, recognizing Sonic right off the bat as she dropped Bowser Jr. to the floor. "We are both aware of your exploits."

"Where do you know him from?" Bowser Jr. questioned Vert and Blanc, who both got up and made their way over to Sonic. Blanc stepped on Bowser Jr. along the way, causing him to yelp in pain.

"Well, this is going pretty smoothly!" said Sonic, having to change his tune as Vert and Blanc were now standing in their presence. "Uh, I mean...do you chicks know about, uh, some ninjas?"

"What ninjas do you speak of?" inquired Blanc, cocking her head to the side as she was slightly intrigued. So far, so good; Sonic had to keep it up.

"Did these ninjas harm you in any way?" Vert asked Sonic, willing to put anyone that might've hurt the blue hedgehog in their place.

"Honestly these, um, ninjas, didn't really harm me..." replied Sonic, losing his train of thought, only to see Bowser Jr's shooting game on the computer screen. "...maybe they were talking trash about the Xbox and Wii or something."

"They did what?" questioned Blanc, now frowning as she was showing the most emotion she has ever given all day. Vert was frowning too, as Sonic had both ladies hooked.

"Uh, yeah! They were talking all sorts of crap about those consoles. Thought that you two wanna be in the know." Just like that, Sonic had Vert and Blanc even more incensed.

"Tell us their names!" commanded Vert, looking to put the ninjas in a world of hurt. Caroline and Justine were liking what they were seeing

"Don't know their names, but...that's all I can tell you for now. Peace!" On that note, Sonic sped out of the computer room and came to a halt when he saw the warden twins standing by. "So how did I do?"

"Did good, inmate," Justine commended Sonic as she patted him on the head - something that Sonic greatly disliked, but had to accept anyway. "But your work is far from over..."

Neptune and Noire, being the more sensible out of the CPUs, went to the gaming room hoping to have some fun. Said fun, however, was hard to come by given how the other residents were acting. Specifically the male ones.

"YES! I got a boogie!" cheered Chrom, who was playing golf on the golf simulator; the prince would do a boogie of his own, as he dropped his golf club and did some awkward dance moves. Dance moves befitting for a dad of his caliber.

"Father, this is one reason why Robin and I ditched you during that egg hunt," said Lucina, who as a daughter was feeling second-hand embarrassment from Chrom's dancing. Chrom stopped dancing after he heard Lucina's comments.

"But Fox and Falco told me that you won the egg hunt..." Chrom was so proud of Lucina's "victory", that he went around bragging about it to a couple of select residents. Until he got a black eye.

"Whoops...how could I forget." Choosing to let her dad be great, Lucina walked away as she allowed Chrom to carry on with his celebratory dance.

Lucina: Yes, I apparently "won" the egg hunt by leaving without really telling anyone. *shrugs* I'll take it.

"These guys are so not rad..." a worried Neptune said to Noire, as Chrom's dancing was understandably freaking her out. She never knew that it was possible for a human being to be so awkward at dancing.

"From what I've seen so far, at least they're not ugly," responded Noire as she and Neptune walked away from Chrom...only to bump into two kings, King Dedede and King K. Rool. "Spoke too soon..."

"Dang it...you two aren't physically attractive enough," lamented King Dedede, getting a good look at Neptune and Noire from head to toe. Who knows how long he was waiting to check them out.

"And you look too young as well," added K. Rool, who had enough sense to not make an underage girl his significant other. He and King Dedede knew and understood their limits.

"Not physically attractive enough? Too young?" questioned Noire, taking offense to King Dedede and K. Rool's comments as she looked ready to throw hands. "What are you two getting at?"

"N-Nothing, we were just making a few observations!" replied King Dedede, him and K. Rool backing away as Noire angrily marched over to them. Neptune stayed behind. "Please don't hurt us..."

"Hold it!" Sonic shouted from outside, playing peacemaker as he ran inside the gaming room and stepped in-between Noire and the two kings. "These guys are the wrong dudes to lay your hands on."

"And why is that?" asked Noire, who was feigning to kick some Kremling and fat penguin butt. Neptune, meanwhile, was trying not to geek out as seeing Sonic filled her up with excitement.

"NO WAY! It's Sonic the Hedgehog!" squealed Neptune, unable to hold in her excitement any longer. How she barely noticed even Sonic at Cafe Leblanc was truly a mystery. "Look, Noire! It's Sonic! This is so totally awesome!"

"Yeah, Neptune, I knew who he was at that cafe..." said Noire as she turned her head towards her friend...and when she turned her head back around, she saw Sonic telling King K. Rool and King Dedede to leave.

"Go, run along - be free!" Sonic told K. Rool and King Dedede, who did as they were told as they exited the gaming room. Once the kings were gone, Sonic went back to Noire. "As I said, those two are the wrong guys to..."

"Omigosh, I never believed that I would actually get to meet you!" squealed a fangirling Neptune as she ran to Sonic and embraced him with a hug. She was causing a scene with just her overexcitement alone.

"Personal space, hello!" Sonic pushed Neptune away from him, only for the girl to hug him a second time. There was no way out for him.

"I know that you probably don't care, but I'm like, your biggest fan!" As Neptune hugged Sonic, Sonic knew just the trick to repel Neptune.

"I can tell you about a few chicks who are far from my biggest fans." The trick worked as intended, as Neptune ended her hug and gasped at Sonic. "All of them hate! Out to get me, too!"

"There are people out there that don't like you?" Apparently, this was a major shocker to Neptune; someone oughta introduce her to the Internet.

"Go and talk about it with your other friends. Counting on you two." Sonic clicked his fingers at Neptune and Noire, walking out of the gaming room as he feared what chaos he was starting. "Catch ya on the flip!"

Luigi remained at Marth's home, and he had yet to remedy the hero-king's streaming problem (if it was even worth considering a problem, that is). The green plumber was still watching his program, promising not to help until said program was over.

"Program ends-a around two," Luigi informed Marth, who looked up at the clock above the fireplace to see how much time Luigi had left. Would Marth keep allowing Luigi to have his way?

"Okay, take all the time you need," responded Marth, as the answer apparently was a yes. Roy, who was standing by with an observant Link and Cloud, stomped his foot in anger.

"I can't take this anymore..." the swordsman quietly voiced his frustrations to Link and Cloud, dismayed by how much Marth was being played like a fiddle. "...you two put an end to this."

"Pass," replied Cloud, surprising Roy with his answer; he and Link weren't done observing Marth just yet. "This is Marth's dilemma to solve, not ours."

"Mama mia, my stomach's-a growling!" alerted Luigi as he heard loud growling noises from his stomach. The green plumber was too much of a couch potato that morning to even fix himself breakfast.

"Roy, will you be a dear and fix Luigi a sandwich please?" Marth requested of the swordsman, whose mouth went agape; Roy couldn't believe that Marth was bossing him around.

"How about you do it if you care so much?" retorted Roy, only for Marth to give him a stern look. Roy sighed as he plodded to the kitchen, glaring at Marth and even Luigi along the way.

"Think I should be heading back," Link told Cloud, having to perform his man of the mansion duties - especially with Zelda away. But as Link made his move, Cloud grabbed the Hylian's arm.

"Not yet just..." Cloud said to Link, keeping a close eye on Roy who was going through the fridge. Roy pulled out a jar of mayonnaise, as a wicked idea entered his mind.

"Hey, Luigi - want some mayonnaise with your sandwich?" the swordsman called out to the green plumber, before throwing the jar of mayonnaise at his head. Luigi yelped in pain, as Marth looked disappointed.

"Roy! That was extremely uncalled for," Marth scolded the swordsman, who waved off the hero-king as he stormed off to his room. Marth attended to Luigi's aid, checking for any bruises. "Are you okay, Luigi?"

"He nearly broke-a my nose," replied Luigi, grateful that his nose was still intact as he pulled on it a few times. That nose of his was indestructible.

"Yeah...might as well stick around a bit longer," Link said to Cloud, remaining in his usual spot as he and Cloud kept to the back of the living room.

Daisy was all done preparing lunch and treated the ninjas in her living room to some rice balls. Of course, rice balls weren't the only item offered - Daisy had also got catering from a Japanese restaurant. Teriyaki meat and sushi rolls were a few of the items served.

"C'mon, Ninjara, eat up!" Daisy said to the ninja, who was sitting at the dining room table staring blankly at his plate of food. "Don't make me spoon you!"

"Spoon me and I will break your arm," threatened Ninjara, wishing for Daisy to try him; Daisy, valuing both of her arms, decided to leave Ninjara alone.

Daisy: Sure, I could've spooned Ninjara just to mess with him, but Luigi wouldn't do anything about it. Even if he was here. If he saw Ninjara break my arm, he'd probably start crying and ask Ninjara for forgiveness. He routinely apologizes to Charles for not letting him operate the lawnmower; that's the kind of man I'm stuck with.

"Sheik! Are you there?" Goemon called out to the ninja from outside, causing Sheik and the other ninja pals to groan. "I have found the vile creature. Turns out it was just an old lady on crutches."

"He is always messing around with the elderly..." sighed Yuffie as she facepalmed, knowing that this wasn't Goemon's first instance of bothering an old person. And it probably won't be his last.

"A cop saw me beating up the old lady, and now I'm on the run. Please, I beg you, let me in!" Goemon was banging on the door, wanting to hide before the police caught up to him.

"Aren't you going to let him in?" Yumi asked Asuka, who was eating her sushi rolls in peace as she ignored Goemon to the best of her ability. Ignoring Goemon was not an easy task to do.

"Give him time, he'll tire out eventually," replied Asuka, with the other ninja pals sharing her mindset. Yumi looked towards Daisy, wondering what the princess would do as the lady of the house.

"I would keep him away, but...it's not worth it," Daisy said to Yumi with a shrug, happy to let Goemon completely tire himself by out knocking on the door. If it meant he would be less annoying to everyone later, then so be it.

Goemon stood outside Luigi's front door banging on it with his fist before he eventually stopped. Not because he was tired or anything, but because he had grown frustrated. That frustration turned into fear, however, when Goemon sensed red-and-blue flashing lights behind him.

"Ack! They've spotted me!" panicked Goemon, as he quickly hid in some nearby shrubbery. Little did he know that the police never showed up; Caroline and Justine were testing out their new police flashlights.

"Joker said that the colors were unnecessary, but we can agree to disagree," Caroline said to Justine, as the twins were alternating between the red and blue lights on their flashlights. Meanwhile, Sonic was at Luigi's house, peeking through an open window.

"Asuka's friends sure are buxom," Sonic turned his head around and said to the warden twins, before turning his head back around seconds later. "Ain't no way their breats are natural!"

"Do these ninjas look formidable to you, inmate?" Justine asked Sonic, who was almost salivating over the food that the ninjas were eating. Ninjara still had yet to even touch his plate.

"Eh, I'd say so - they look like they can beat me up in a fight." That was what Caroline and Justine both wanted to hear, as they looked at each other smiling. "No offense to myself."

"Can you do us one more favor? We promise it'll be the last one you'll do..." Now it was time for the warden twins (and Sonic) to truly set things in motion.

Mario was heading to the vending machine room, looking to get himself a snack after treating himself to multiple bowls of mushroom curry. The plumber had eaten so much curry that he was almost suffering from a stomach ache, among over symptoms.

"BUUUUURRRPPP!" Mario belched as he came down the hallway, having burped multiple times. Samus, who had walked past Mario, stopped and stared at Mario with disgust.

"An 'excuse me' would be nice, Mario..." the bounty hunter told the plumber, shaking her head as she kept on walking. Mario burped a second time, and that made Samus pick up the pace.

"It's the call of nature, Miss-a Aran," Mario called out to Samus, seeing the bounty hunter making her retreat. The plumber continued his trek to the vending machine room, and as he got close to the room he heard a conversation from inside.

"Really? They said all those things?" Noire was heard speaking, as Mario peeked inside the vending machine room and saw the CPUs gathered around. All four girls looked like they were ticked.

"That's what Sonic told us," confirmed Vert, as there was a level of unease and resentment among the four girls. Almost as if they had an ax to grind.

"Those ninjas were also talking trash about Sonic, too!" stated Neptune, who was still in sheer disbelief that Sonic haters existed. "That's not very...ninjatastic at all!"

"'Ninjatastic'?" Cappy said to Mario, befuddled by this new word that Neptune conceived on the fly. Sonic sped past the vending machine room, only to retract his steps when he saw the CPUs.

"Just the ladies I wanted to see!" the blue hedgehog said as he entered the room, as a curious Mario moved to the side. "Found out where those dastardly ninjas are hiding."

"Where are they?" asked Blanc, looking ready for a fight; Mario was furrowing his brow, not liking how the conversation was taking shape. "And what do they look like?"

"They're, uh, all female, and they're all hiding at Luigi's house." Sonic was being very mindful of Mario, whom he glanced over at with a nervous look. "I would show you where it is..."

"Forget it - we can find this house ourselves!" said a confident Neptune, taking charge as she had a ninja beatdown on her mind. "Let's go!" So the girl led her friends away, as Sonic and Mario looked on.

"Stoking some-a fires now, are we?" Mario questioned Sonic, who grew even more nervous as he was feeling the heat. "Trying to turn-a my brother's house into a battle zone?"

"Honestly, I have no dog in this fight," admitted Sonic, as the warden twins came into his view standing in the hallway. Caroline beckoned to the hedgehog. "Uh, sorry Mario, gotta go!"

"Gotta go where?" Mario stood there dumbfounded, as Sonic sped out of the vending machine room. The plumber then shook his head as he went to one of the vending machines.

While Mario was getting a snack out of a vending machine, Luigi was getting a snack out of Marth's kitchen. Luigi was raiding the hero-king's fridge, tossing various items out. During that time, Caeda and Lilina returned home from the mansion's beauty salon.

"Nice to see that Marth had company over," smiled Caeda when she saw Link and Cloud, who were quietly standing in the back of the living room. "How long have you two been here?"

"We've lost track of time," admitted Cloud, who was slightly relieved that Caeda didn't ask what kinds of fun he and Link had with Marth and Roy. He had no suitable answer for that one.

Link: Marth has failed to notice that Cloud and I are still in his living room. It's almost as if we have become blind to the naked eye. *takes out a bag of potato chips, takes out a chip, and holds it in the air* I wonder...

As Caeda and Lilina went to their kitchen, they caught Luigi in the act of raiding their fridge. Food was either on the floor or on the kitchen counter. Lilina gasping in shock caused Luigi to stop, as he looked guilty at Lilina and Caeda.

"...I can explain," said Luigi, as he felt Caeda steadily growing in anger. He could see the princess tightening both of her fists, holding in her rage.

"Marth, why is one of our neighbors raiding our fridge?" Caeda called out to her husband, who frantically ran out of his room and to the kitchen. There he saw Luigi with the fridge wide open, and at that moment he knew just who to blame.

"ROY!" Marth shouted the swordsman's name, sounding like a proud father greatly disappointed with his son. Hearing his name called, Roy joined the others in the kitchen.

"What is it now?" asked Roy, sounding as annoyed as he looked, only to stop when he saw the mess that Luigi had created. "Sweet mother of pearl! Luigi?!"

"See what you have done?" Marth angrily confronted Roy, letting him know how disappointed he felt. He could just smack Roy. "If you had fixed Luigi a sandwich as I told you to, this wouldn't have happened!"

"Oh yeah! Well, if you didn't let Luigi have his way with you, he never would've thought about raiding our fridge!" The tension was brewing between Marth and Roy, as both men kept on quarreling.

"Do they usually fight-a like this?" Luigi asked Caeda and Lilina, blaming himself for getting the two ladies' husbands to quarrel among themselves. It was becoming a full-blown shouting match.

"Isn't any different from them arguing over napkins, apparently," replied Lilina, as Luigi, against his own conscience, went inside the fridge and took out a cake. Lilina grew wary in a second. "Um, Luigi, I made that cake for Celica..."

"Well, she waited too long-a for her chance. Come-a to papa!" Luigi licked his chops, walking past Caeda and Lilina as he took the cake with him. Caeda stared at Luigi, taken back by the audacity of the green plumber.

"Observation time is over..." Cloud whispered to Link, as Lilina went over to snatch her cake away from Luigi while Roy and Marth continued arguing. What a hectic scene at the Marth household.

Mario knew for a fact that stuff was about to go down with the CPUs and the ninjas, and he wanted to nip things in the bud before someone got hurt. So the plumber went to the lounge so that he could make an important call.

"Blathers, you must-a come to the mansion at once," Mario spoke into the phone, looking out through the lounge window while Pit was standing by. "Your harem has gone-a crazy!"

"For your information, Mario, I have very minimal interest in anime and..." said the person on the other line, Blathers, who came off as irritated before he stopped speaking. "...did Pit tell you of this fallacy?"

"Look, I get it - I'd be ashamed-a too if anyone saw me leading a horde-a of cute-looking women. But I'd be even more ashamed if said-a women were beating up others!"

"Especially other cute women!" Pit shouted into Mario's phone, trying to hammer Mario's point home. "Nobody likes a catfight." Mario feared that Pit might've convinced Blathers to hang up, but instead.

"Did someone say...catfight?" asked an oddly intrigued Blathers, who seemed to apparently have a thing for women throwing fists with each other. "At the Smash Mansion? Do tell me the fine details!"

"It's actually gonna take-a place at Luigi's house," clarified Mario, fearing any possible damages to Luigi's home - and how much Daisy might make him pay for said damages. "Can't tell-a you when it'll start."

"No matter - I shall make my arrival at my earliest convenience. Celeste's here, so she'll run the museum while I'm gone." Blathers was taking time off from curating his museum just to spectate a catfight - talk about skewed priorities.

"Sure, just get-a here soon. Bye." Mario ended the call, hoping that blathers wouldn't waste any time getting to the mansion grounds. "I've got a bad-a feeling about this..."

"Pit, are you done with Mario?" Joker called out to the angel from outside the lounge, as Mario put away his phone. "We could use you back at the cafe!"

Joker: I could tell that those coffee beans came from Brewster. One of those sacks had a recipe for pigeon milk inside.

Looking to get Luigi out of Marth's home, Link and Cloud went to go stop by Fox's house. The swordsmen didn't have to wait long for anyone to answer the door, for Fox came running out of his house along with Falco.

"Bruh, I'm telling you, the sasquatch is legit," Falco said to Fox, running past Link and Cloud who were both looking understandably confused. "That image sure ain't lying!"

"If it turns out to be a hoax, then you and Yoshi are gonna get it," responded Fox, following after Falco to who knows where. Link and Cloud watched as the pilots ran off, as Krystal went to the front door.

"About time that idiotic bird left..." Krystal had this to say about Falco, a bit salty that the avian pilot took her husband with him. The vixen was in a happier mood when she saw Link and Cloud. "...ah, some actually pleasant company."

"Hope you aren't too busy," Cloud said to Krystal, seeing the vixen as the only help that he and link could rely on. "Luigi is being a pest over at Marht's place."

"He was being a pest over here this morning..." Krystal had the evidence to show it too, in her now half-eaten omelet. "...what has he been doing?"

"Basically being a couch potato and going through Marth's fridge," explained Link, fearing that Luigi might've devoured that cake whole. He would be Celica's number one enemy if that were to happen.

"I see...let me finish what I'm doing with Marcus first." So Krystal went back inside her house, as Link and Cloud waited patiently for the vixen.

Link: Krystal isn't our only option; we have kept another woman in mind. Luigi had better hope that his wife isn't too busy...

Elsewhere outside, King Dedede and King K. Rool were sitting together on the mansion porch. King Dedede was in a lamenting mood, reflecting on the failures of his romantic life.

"Life for me hasn't been the same ever since I broke up with Captain Syrup..." King Dedede lamented to K. Rool; after that fat penguin got owned by Captain Syrup on Christmas Eve, he cut her off ever since.

"Take it from me - never trust a private," K. Rool advised King Dedede, knowing just how untrusting most pirates can be. "You should shoot for a goth chick instead, they'll never leave you. Ever."

"Thanks, K. Rool, I can always count on...what were you saying just now about not trusting pirates?" Before K. Rool could answer, the CPUs came out through the front door.

"Which way to Luigi's house?" Neptune asked K. Rool, who pointed the CPUs in the right direction. "Alright, thanks!" Neptune led her friends to Luigi's house, while King Dedede and K. Rool looked on.

"You think they might lead us to potentially hot babes?" a hopelessly optimistic King Dedede asked K. Rool...who apparently had the same hunch that the fat penguin did.

The ninjas at Luigi's home were full, having helped themselves with rice balls and teriyaki meat and all that good stuff. The only ninja that never touched his plate was Ninjara, much to Daisy's chagrin.

"I'm not gonna let this food go to waste," Daisy said to Ninjara as she stood over the ninja with her hands on her hips. Ninjara refused to care. "Do you want to starve, Ninjara?"

"I would happily starve to death if it means finally getting away from those posers..." replied Ninjara as he glared at the ninja pals, who were in the living room hanging out with Asuka's friends. Seeing everyone having a good time made Ninjara sick to his stomach.

"To be honest with you, Asuka and I didn't start off as friends," Yumi confessed to the ninja pals, ready to spill some tea about her past with Asuka. "We both wanted to kill each other!"

"You wanted to kill each other?" an astonished Ana asked Asuka and Yumi; Yumi confirmed such with a smile, as Asuka nervously bit her bottom lip.

"Never would've guessed that you were out for blood, Asuka," Sheik said to the ninja, who was feeling slightly humiliated; Homura patted Asuka on her back, trying to lighten up her mood.

"And who can forget that time when you spared my life?" she asked Asuka, barely doing much to make the fellow shinobi feel any better. "Could've died at your hands!"

"Please stop..." pleaded Asuka, burying her face in her hands as Homura gave her a playful nudge. The doorbell rang, and Asuka saw it as a get-out-of-jail-free card.

"Greninja, can you get the door?" Daisy asked the ninja Pokemon, as she was about to feed Ninjara a small piece of teriyaki meat against his will. Greninja hopped to the front door and opened it, seeing the CPUs standing together in the front yard.

"Remember, ladies, just like we rehearsed..." Neptune said to her friends, clearing her throat before pointing accusingly at Greninja. "...YOU!"

"Oh...we point now?" asked Vert, missing her cue as she slowly lifted up her arm and pointed at Greninja. "Like so?" Blanc would follow Vert's lead, while Noire simply did nothing.

"Told you guys this wasn't necessary," said Noire as she folded her arms, unamused that her friends were looking like dorks. Greninja had no idea what to make of the scene before him.

"Greninja?" uttered Greninja, who had many questions that he would've asked if he was capable of human speech. Sheik joined Greninja at the front door, catching Neptune's attention.

"Aha! You must be one of those despicable ninjas that Sonic warned us about," Neptune pointed accusingly at Sheik, before having sudden second doubts about the ninja. "Wait, are you a man or woman?"

"I'm sorry, what?" asked Sheik, who was in the same boat that Greninja was. Both sides were equally confused and for different reasons. "What sort of lies did Sonic feed you?"

"They're not lies, he spoke the truth! At least I think I did. Now show us where your ninja friends are hiding, so we can..."

"Are we...missing something here?" asked a certain Hylian, as Link was idly standing to the side with Cloud and Krystal. If not for the high level of confusion, this would make for a very intense scene.

"No, Link, I think these four have been misled somehow," Sheik said to the Hylian, as she harbored no ill will towards the CPUs. Nor did she want to engage in a fight with them.

"Is Daisy home?" Cloud asked Sheik, desperately needing the princess to knock some sense into her husband. Sheik looked back inside Luigi's house and saw Daisy holding a spoonful of meat towards Ninjara.

"Princess Daisy, Cloud wants to see you," Sheik said to Daisy, who held the spoon closer to Ninjara's mouth...only for Ninjara to smack said spoon out of her hand. On a positive note, no arm was broken.

"Got my hands full with Ninjara here," said Daisy, refusing to leave Ninjara alone until he sucked up his pride and ate (all of) his food. "You and your friends handle it."

"But we're in the middle of..." Seconds later, Daisy grabbed all the ninjas from the living room and pushed them out through the front door. Daisy was not playing around; Asuka's friends were all getting a taste of her ferocity.

"If you excuse me, Ninjara and I need a little...one-on-one time." On that note, Daisy slammed the front door - and was heard yelling angrily at Ninjara moments later.

"There you are!" Neptune pointed accusingly at Asuka and her friends, recognizing the four shinobi who were getting up along with the other ninjas. "You're the ninjas who were saying those...nasty things...from earlier..."

"Nasty things about what?" inquired Asuka as she got a good look at the CPUs that were accompanying her. Curiously enough, Asuka recognized all four of them. "Neptune?"

"Oh! Asuka! Well, um...this is awkward!" Neptune was feeling the awkwardness coming down on her, smiling sheepishly while scratching the back of her head.

"Know her from somewhere?" Krystal asked Asuka, who could only imagine the shame that the CPUs were feeling right now.

"Master Hand and Fox let me take a leave of absence last October to fight in some ninja war. That's when I met Neptune and her pals. Now here they are..."

Krystal: That Fox..he told me that Asuka was taking time away so that she could get breast reduction surgery done! I've always wondered why Asuka's breasts remained the regular size. Although there's nothing "regular" about her assets.

"Hold on, how about we clear up the air," said Link wanting to clear any and all confusion so that everyone was on mutual terms. "Who was saying these supposedly nasty things?"

"Sonic the Hedgehog told us that there were four ninjas that hated him so much, they were out to get him," Noire explained to Link, who was already reigning to punish Sonic for spreading misinformation. "Neptune wanted to defend his honor!"

"He also told us that these ninjas hated certain gaming consoles - like the Xbox and Wii," added Blanc, and Link was soaking in these tidbits of info as he slowly began to scowl. "That kind of added fuel to the fire..."

"We can assure you that we have never played those consoles," affirmed Miyabi, feeling sorry that the CPUs allowed themselves to be duped by Sonic. Sonic was gonna be in big trouble real son.

"Yeah, and none of us want to kick his butt either or kill him either," stated Homura, only to change her mind a split second later. "Although after this, we might change our minds..."

"So it was just one big misunderstanding?" asked Neptune, after seeing that the four shinobi were all showing signs of tranquility. Maybe except for Homura.

"Our apologies for any perplexity we might've caused," Vert apologized to not only Asuka and her friends, but to the ninja pals as well. "If only we knew beforehand what 'ninjas' Sonic was referring to..."

"This wasn't your fault, Sonic just played you four like fiddles," Link said to Vert and company, knowing that Sonic's actions simply couldn't go unpunished. "Speaking of whom, I'll be right back..."

"Go easy on him!" Yuffie called out to Link, who marched towards the mansion; the ninja girl snorted as Link went inside. "Ah, who am I kidding..."

"Guess nobody's getting beat up today," remarked Noire, forced to save her violent intentions for another day. As he heard that, Cloud looked towards Marth's house, where Luigi remained.

"Probably wouldn't say that just yet..." Cloud said to Noire, before reeling everyone as he came up with a seemingly fail-proof plan. "...everyone come closer, here's what we're going to do."

As a "reward" for his efforts today, Sonic was granted a plate of chili dogs by the warden twins in the dining room. Caroline and Justine had restricted the blue hedgehog from eating his favorite food while they treated him as their inmate.

"Chili dog, you have no idea how much I've missed you!" Sonic said to the chili dog, taking a bite out of it as he happily reminded himself of what his favorite frankfurter tasted like. Caroline and Justine were both looking on.

"His fascination is becoming Doc Louis levels of cringe..." Justine quietly discussed with Caroline, as Sonic finished off his first chili dog in almost record time. "...curbing his chili dog intake will be for the best."

"SONIC!" Link boomed from outside the dining room, just when Sonic was about to grab another chili dog. Link stormed inside and confronted Sonic, slapping the chili dog out of the hedgehog's hand.

"Woah there buddy, chill out!" Sonic said to Link; a part of him felt personally triggered as the wasted chili dog was lying on the floor. "If you wanted a chili dog, you could've asked!"

"It's not about your chili dogs. Did you seriously try to pit a war between a couple of girls and Asuka and her friends?"

"For the record, those two put me up to it." Sonic pointed accusingly at the warden twins, but little did he know that Caroline and Justine would admit their fault so easily.

"Sonic acted out on his own ambition," Caroline told Link, putting all the blame squarely on Sonic's shoulders as Sonic was shocked and afraid.

"We could've stopped him, but he told us not to," added Justine, as she helped her sister dig Sonic into a deeper grave. Those twins got Sonic in serious heat with Link.

"Anything I've done today was done in the name of love," Sonic said to Link in a lousy attempt to deflect - his earnest smile not nearly enough to soften the punishment that he was bound to receive.

Since he was forbidden to eat Lilina's cake, Luigi helped himself to the other food that was in Marth's fridge. The green plumber was in the living room watching television while eating individual pepperonis...topped with whipped cream.

"Marth, you have to do something," Caeda stressed to her husband, as she couldn't bear to see Luigi lounging around in her house anymore. "He's becoming too complacent!"

"I'll see what I can do..." Marth said to Caeda, finally stepping up to the plate as he approached Luigi. How would the hero-king fix the situation? "...is your program over already, Luigi?"

"It is, but this new one-a just started," replied Luigi as he pointed at the television; Caeda could not believe what she was seeing. "I'll put the commercials back-a on once this show ends."

"Good to know. Thanks." Having Luigi's word, Marth returned to Caeda who was left facepalming at the hero-king. "Looks like Luigi will be sticking around."

Lilina: Roy was in a bad mood after his argument with Marth, so he's outside letting off some steam. We won't know how angry he is unless we hear a loud thud sound. That means he chopped down a tree.

Luigi would be interrupted from watching television when a smoke bomb appeared in the living room, causing Luigi, Marth, and Caeda to cough. Once the smoke cleared, Luigi was greeted by Kat and Ana.

"Tickle monster!" exclaimed Kat as she and her sister began tickling Luigi. Luigi couldn't help but laugh, as he tapped out repeatedly on the couch.

"Haha! How did you girls-a find me?" Luigi asked during his laughing fit, as his laughing was on the verge of uncontrollability. "Thought that you were with..."

Fortunately for Luigi, the tickling came to a stop as another smoke bomb was detonated in the living room - this one producing an even bigger cloud of smoke. After the smoke cleared, Luigi saw that he had more company...the ninja pals, the four shinobi, and the CPUs.

"Oh, uh, hi!" Luigi nervously greeted the large group, able to tell that they all had a few intentions in mind for him. For what reason, he didn't know.

"Don't call the cops..." Caeda told Marth, who was about to reach for the house phone after he saw a couple of unfamiliar faces.

"We've been told that this home had a couch potato problem..." Sheik addressed the issue to Luigi, who had sweat running down his face as the group was staring him down. "...and look who it is."

"A couch-a potato? Couldn't be me..." Luigi chuckled nervously, knowing that he was in for it now. He was all sorts of defenseless.

Mario was outside the mansion, on the lookout for Blathers. He had no idea what kind of vehicle the owl drove - nor did he know if the owl could even drive - but he kept his eyes peeled regardless.

"He should-a be here any minute now," said Mario as he checked his watch; the moment he looked up, he saw Blathers finally arriving at the mansion. "Blathers! Right-a on time."

"Walking on foot is terribly time-consuming, I'll say," smiled Blathers, who opted to walk to the mansion entirely on foot. Despite having wings. "So, has this catfight started yet?"

"I'm not too late, am I?" Pit asked Mario and Blathers as he showed up still wearing his cafe apron. "I wanna see Blathers's harem in action!"

"Pit, those females are not part of..." Blathers was about to tell Pit, only to catch his breath and facepalm at the angel while shaking his head. "...oh, why do I even bother?"

"The goal is to stop Blathers's harem from-a fighting," Mario explained to Pit, as all this harem talk was making Blathers beyond distressed. "Not watching them throw fists."

"Aw, but I asked for time away from the cafe so I could watch them fight!" whined Pit, who should be absolutely penalized for how much time he spent away from the cafe. "I just told Joker that I had to use the bathroom."

"Yet he falls-a for that every time..." sighed Mario, wondering how Joker fell for Pit's bathroom break trick so easily. "...those girls should be at Luigi's house, so let's head-a over there."

So Mario led Blathers and Pit to Luigi's house, but they came to a halt along the way when they passed by Fox's house. Goemon had popped out of the bushes, making his presence known.

"Hiya!" shouted Goemon as he wielded his katana, only to lower his guard after seeing that Mario, Blathers, and Pit were unfazed. "Did...did the police ever show up?"

"No, not-a to my knowledge," replied Mario, as a now relieved Goemon put his katana away. Even if the police never came, Goemon was likely still at large for his elderly abuse.

"That was a random question that I felt like asking. Totally not like I beat up an old lady or anything. Even though I did...I mean, if I did..."

Suddenly, Luigi was flung out of Marth's house through the front door, getting a second faceful of dirt for the day. The person who flung him out was Homura, who stood at the doorway dusting her hands off.

"We tried to play nice..." Homura said to Luigi, who lifted his face up and spat some dirt out as Homura whistled into her fingers. "...have at him, you guys!"

"Who's ready for a tickling session?" asked Kat as she came outside wiggling her fingers; Ana, Yumi, and Miyabi accompanied her. "We tickle in the name of justice!"

"Four on one...such justice," said Luigi, as Yumi and Miyabi came over and turned the green plumber over on his back, before pinning him down to the ground. "No, please, spare-a me!"

"Did you not raid someone's fridge?" Yumi asked Luigi, as Kat and Ana drew near; those young ninjas never struck so much fear in someone as they were doing with Luigi. "I'd say this is a worthy recompense."

"I was just-a hungry, that's all...you don't have to...haha...HAHAHAHAHAHA!" Luigi couldn't speak anymore, as he started laughing the moment Kat and Ana tickled him. Nothing he could do to break free.

"Let me join, let me join!" pleaded an eager Goemon as he ran over to the ninjas...only to stop when Miyabi gave him the hand.

"Not any closer..." Miyabi commanded Goemon, who lowered his head in sadness as he walked slowly to the mansion. Cloud and Krystal joined Mario and company, watching Luigi get tickled.

"Your brother was being a nuisance to his neighbors today," Krystal explained to Mario, not in the mood for telling him all the bad stuff Luigi did. "So we had to teach him a lesson."

"Have you two seen-a Blathers' harem anywhere?" Mario randomly asked as Blathers looked away and facepalmed once more. "Specifically four girls looking for a fight?"

"Since when did Blathers have a..." started Cloud, only for Krystal to whisper something in the swordsman's ear. "...they're inside Marth's house, Mario."

While Kat, Ana, Yumi, and Miyabi were handling Luigi, the CPUs were at Marth's house helping Marth with his dilemma. The four ran into the same problem that Link and Cloud did - Marth's stubbornness.

"How can there be no commercial breaks in this streaming service?" Marth questioned the CPUs, who were all losing their patience; the remaining ninja pals, meanwhile, were fixing up Marth's fridge. "It's television, for goodness sake!"

"An Internet television service, you mean," Neptune clarified to Marth, causing the hero-king's eye to twitch. Apparently, that was an important detail that Marth had missed out on.

"Caeda! Why didn't you tell me that you programmed the Internet into our television?" Marth was beside himself, marching to his room so that he could give Caeda a piece of his mind. "The Internet belongs on computers only!"

Caeda: It was Krystal who suggested to us that we get YouTube TV. Thanks to the DVR, I've been able to watch my favorite shows without any commercials breaks! Sadly, Marth wasn't a fan when I turned on those settings...in secret. *smiles* Wait until he sees the first bill.

"He is so far behind the times..." Noire had this to say about Marth, while also having a bit of sympathy for Caeda. Mario, Pit, and Blathers were peeking through the doorway, looking at the CPUs.

"Don't they look-a a bit too...young, for your tastes?" Mario asked Blathers, wondering what kind of pull the owl had with females.

"That's what I said!" replied Pit, happy that he and Mario were seeing things from the same perspective. Blathers was annoyed more than ever.

"My work, albeit nonexistent, is done here..." sighed Blathers as he walked away from the door to avoid any harem talk. Such discussions might make the owl abstain from the world of anime altogether.

Daisy had no idea how she pulled it off, but she managed to convince Ninjara to eat all the food on his plate. Without spooning! The princess was particularly happy, while Ninjara was feeling the exact opposite.

"See, was that so hard?" Daisy asked Ninjara, smiling as she pinched the ninja's cheek. Ninjara had no choice but to take it.

"Yes, yes it was," replied Ninjara, as Daisy cleaned off the ninja's face with a napkin. Soon an exhausted Luigi came back home, plopping to the floor seconds after entering his house.

"Those ninjas...really depleted-a my energy," said Luigi, turning over to the side as Polterpup came over to lick his face. Elfilin tried to follow Polterpup's lead, only to realize he had no tongue.

"That's what they will do to you." Ninjara had no doubt that Luigi was referring to the ninja pals, and he was partially happy that Daisy had kicked them out of the house.

"Are Asuka's friends coming back?" Daisy asked Luigi; a return of the three shinobi would accelerate Ninjara's impending departure. "I didn't get to speak with them as much."

"Don't count on it..." replied Luigi, pulling himself up to the living room couch so that he could get some rest. "...they got their hands-a full with another group of Asuka's friends."

The ninja pals and Asuka's friends later reconvened at Cafe Leblanc, and this time they had the CPUs over. It was quite a social gathering, as there was not one table big enough for everyone.

"Turns out his wife has a setting that prevents commercials from playing," said Vert, explaining to everyone the whole situation involving Marth and the streaming service. "That's why he and his wife were fighting."

"What a silly little thing to start a dispute over," remarked Yumi, before she saw King Dedede and King K. Rool coming over. The two kings were looking at Yumi and Miyabi especially. "Yes, may we help you?"

"Au contraire...may we help you?" asked a smiling King Dedede, as an also smiling K. Rool did a wolf whistle at Yumi and Miyabi. Sheik slowly arose from her seat, intimidating the two kings.

"Okay, good talk!" said K. Rool as he and King Dedede scrammed out of the cafe. Sheik sat back down once the fat penguin and Kremling were gone.

"Sorry that you guys got fooled by Sonic," Asuka said to the CPUs, grateful that no fighting ever came out; four shinobi versus Blathers' "harem" definitely would've been something. "He can be very...like that."

"We can tell," responded Neptune, whose view of her favorite hedgehog has likely shattered all things to Caroline and Justine. "I hope he got what he deserves..."

Fox and Falco were heading back to the mansion grounds, and the former pilot was in an unhappy mood. Why? Because he didn't get to see a sasquatch.

"You lied to me, man," Fox frowned at Falco, glaring at the avian pilot with heavy disdain. His day was pretty much ruined. "You and Yoshi are liars."

"The picture didn't lie, perhaps we went to the wrong location," Falco defended himself, as he and Fox reached the mansion. There, they saw Sonic with Caroline and Justine...as he was back to being in the pillory. The warden twins were standing at opposite sides.

"Yeah, keep on walking..." Sonic said to Fox and Falco, who were laughing at the blue hedgehog's expense as they walked away.

Link: Master Hand never took down that pillory Sonic was in, but hey, I'm not complaining. It's Sonic's loss.

"Lemme guess - you had me instigate that fight on purpose just to see me get..." Sonic said to the warden twins, only to be silenced when Justine pressed her finger against his mouth.

"You're opening your eyes a little too wide, inmate," Justine said to Sonic, as she gently took her finger away from the blue hedgehog's lips. "But believe us when we say...this is only the beginning."

If this was "only the beginning"...then what else did those twins have in store for Sonic in the coming few weeks?