Author's Note:

On November 1, 2019, Overwatch 2 was first announced. And now on October 4, 2022, Overwatch 2 has been released to the public! Albeit as a free-to-play game. The waiting queue has been insane - wrote this chapter to bid my time. But at least I got my account merged and I don't have to play (and win) a bunches of matches so I can unlock my main, Ashe (and B.O.B too, I guess). This chapter will focus on Overwatch 2, with some Nier Automata dabbled in since that game has also arrived on the Switch. On to the reviews, first from Guy w the Jokes (who actually has a joke this time!)

"Well, since the Chimera name is kinda misleading people about an Astral Chain chapter (even though it's an important part of the episode), I had an idea of a title. How about naming it...Support? I know, doesn't really make sense, but they are the Special Support Section, and they supported (as in helped) the mansion."

I can totally rename it that. Now for the joke...

"What do you call a policeman in bed? An undercover cop!"

There it is! Nice joke, my guy. Can't wait to hear the next one. Next is An NFL fan:

"Listen, I have no interest on baseball, but the Seattle Mariners have finally clenched a playoff berth for the first time in 20 years. There should be a celebration from Master Hand in the next chapter."

That celebration will be saved for next week. Congrats on the Mariners for breaking the longest playoff drought in North American sports; Sacramento Kings, you got one job to do in the upcoming NBA season. Moving on:

"Here I am again with a huge bombshell. Tom Brady is having family problems! He even got a divorce lawyer, I guess this is it for his marital life. Do you think Brady made a mistake by returning to NFL after retiring? Look what it did to his personal life!"

Yeah, the dude should have stayed retired and be with his family. The lesson of the day: never pull a Brett Favre. Ending things with questions from David:

"Are the two professors from Pokemon Scarlet and Violet gonna appear when the game is released? Is Ryuji secretly a fan of Jon Moxley? (Since Pit probably likes Roman Reigns). Will Yosuke and Chie have their date for the Persona 4 Golden chapter? Any nods or references to Hades Misguidance? (It's a fandub that parodies Palutena's Guidance but with Hades). And finally, what are your thoughts on WWE Extreme Rules having more stipulation matches than before?

The two professors will appear. Ryuji is a John Moxley fan. Yosuke and Chie will have their date for the P4G chapter. No nods/references to Hades' Misguidance. And I love Extreme Rules having more stipulation matches. Isn't that what Extreme Rules is all about?!


Episode 355: Watchpoint

If you were wondering if they had stopped, the foursome of Alm, Celica, Berkut, and Rinea was still making brownies. Their brownies remained a hit not only with their neighbors but with the mansion residents and tower tenants as well.

The four had so much success with their brownies, that they decided to sell their chocolate treats for money by delivering them to the city folk and beyond. Berkut argued against it, for his own (misguided) personal reasons, but that didn't stop the group from making a small fortune in a two-week span. Berkut quickly got over himself.

Even with the brownies being available to the public, Alm and company still shared their brownies with their many friends and acquaintances. Alm and Celica were giving a secret stash of brownies to Mario outside the mansion.

"These were meant to go to a retirement home," Celica said quietly to Mario, who was helping himself to the brownies that Celica had presented on a plate. "Don't tell anyone about this."

"Man, these brownies taste-a better than the last batch!" exclaimed Mario as he stuffed his mouth with some brownies, unable to wipe off the smile on his face due to how tasty they were. "Did you do some-a thing different with them?"

"A wise baker never shares their secrets..." Alm replied with a smile, being awfully close to the vest. "...but if you must know, we didn't change a thing in regards to the recipe."

"Alm! You weren't supposed to say that!" Celica scolded her husband as she smacked him in the side. Alm should've known better than to keep running his mouth. "Now you've ruined the immersion for Mario."

Berkut: Selling our brownies has been an even bigger success than I could've possibly imagined. All the poor folks are literally surrendering their life savings to buy our precious confections! How lovely of them to go completely broke for our own advancement.

"For real? I can-a barely tell," Mario said to Alm, stealing Ryuji's famous catchphrase as he stuffed another brownie into his mouth. Mario's comment made Celica feel better, but not as much.

"Alright, is everyone ready to go?" Lakitu was heard shouting, his voice coming from the front of the mansion. Mario stopped eating, assuming that Lakitu was taking a group photo of epic proportions.

"Wait just a minute, love!" replied a cheeky British voice - a voice that Mario had heard several times before. "We're still waiting on Reinhardt and the others."

"Is that Tracer...?" wondered Mario as he slowly came around the corner, certain that Tracer was in town. Alm and Celica followed after Mario, in the event that Mario wished to further stuff his mouth.

Mario arrived at the front of the mansion where he, Alm, and Celica saw Lakitu about to take a group photo. Positioned at the mansion's front was Tracer, along with several other Overwatch members - Winston, Genji, Mercy, and Mei, one of the newer members of the organization.

"Here I come!" shouted a large boisterous man - a German who wore metal armor and had a beard. He showed up and entered the frame, positioning himself next to Winston while also stretching his back. "Had a few back problems to take care of."

"Told you to find a chiropractor," said a red-haired Swedish woman, also showing up as she joined the Overwatch members at the mansion porch. She stood in between Winston and Genji.

"Reinhardt, Brigitte! Excellent timing," Winston said to the German man and Swedish woman, respectively - but Lakitu couldn't snap a picture of the Overwatch gang just yet. "But wait! There's one more person missing."

"Personality synchronization: 100%," said a white robot, who slowly made her descent to Winston and company as she positioned herself next to Mercy. "I am ready for the shot."

"Now that should be everyone," said Tracer as she looked around and counted the heads, making sure that everyone was accounted for. Once she was done, Tracer gave Lakitu a thumbs up.

"Here we go!" exclaimed Lakitu as he got his camera ready, making sure that all the Overwatch members were lined up in the frame. "Overwatch on three! One, two...three!" Lakitu snapped the photo of the Overwatch gang, which was picture-perfect.

"Good job, everyone!" Winston commended his fellow Overwatch comrades, leading everyone down from the porch. Genji went over to Lakitu to retrieve the photo.

"That should look well hanging up on the wall at our new base," remarked Mercy, as Genji took the photo from Lakitu and was staring at it with his head cocked to the side. Something about the group photo seemed...off.

"Um, guys? You might want to see this," Genji said to the Overwatch gang, who all gathered around and looked at the photo together. For the most part, everything seemed fine - not a single person was goofing off.

However, there was one slight problem...Mario was in the frame, trying to catch his hat which was blown away. Mario tried to catch his hat at the last minute, just when Lakitu snapped the picture.

"Darn it, Mario! You were in our..." Winston snapped at the plumber, whom he saw standing by putting his hat back on his head. Winston went from angry to friendly in an instant. "...Mario! Hello once again!"

"Cheers, love!" Tracer said to Mario, as she and the other Overwatch members said their greetings to the plumber. Mario couldn't respond until he had his hat properly adjusted.

"Hey," Mario returned the favor once his hat was on right, hoping that another breeze won't pull it off his head. Mario suddenly screamed as he was picked up and held in the air by Reinhardt.

"Nice to meet you, Mario! My name is Reinhardt," Reinhardt heartily introduced himself to Mario, holding the plumber by just his collar. The German gleefully shook hands with Mario, as the hand size discrepancy was huge.

"Hi, Reinhardt, I'm-a Mario!" Mario introduced himself, before mentally slapping himself in the face; being held in the air had the plumber acting all awkward. Nonetheless, Reinhardt laughed as Brigitte appeared at his side. "I take it that's your daughter?"

"Eh, close enough," Brigitte smirked in response, not blaming Mario one bit for thinking that she and Reinhardt were related. "I'm his god-daughter. I'm also a member of Overwatch!"

"Ooh! I'm a member of Overwatch too," stated Mei; raising her hand so that she could be recognized by Mario. Mario was placed back on his feet by Reinhardt.

"Good-a for you! Way to make nerds-a feel included," Mario said to Mei, who had a terribly forced smile on her face in response to Mario's comments. "Anybody else that I know who's a part-a of Overwatch?"

"All done with the photo-takin'?" asked a certain gunslinger, as Cole Cassidy stepped out from the mansion's front door asking the Overwatch crew. Upon seeing Mario, Cassidy tipped his hat to the plumber. "Howdy, Mario."

"We're all done, Cassidy!" responded Tracer, before turning to Mario and seeing how shocked the plumber was. Tracer was amused as she let out a giggle. "Seems like we have to do a bit of explaining. How about we get you caught up to speed?"

"He still goes-a by Cole Cassidy...?" asked Mario as Tracer took the plumber's hand and led him to the mansion. Tracer came to a stop, however, when she saw that Alm and Celica had brownies.

"Are those brownies? Well, don't mind if I do!" Using her Blink ability, Tracer teleported to Celica and took the plate of brownies before teleporting away. "Thank you!"

"Those weren't for you!" Celica shouted at Tracer, who was already walking away while eating the brownies off of the plate. Celica felt helpless as she sighed.


Winston: Got some very big news - Overwatch will be building a new base in the state of Washington! It'll be our "secondary watchpoint" if you will.
Tracer: *zips into frame* We had been mulling building one for months, but Master Hand kind of accelerated things a bit. Something about an Organization XIII, he mentioned.
Winston: We let him choose the location. But I will say one thing about Master Hand - whoever this Organization XIII group is has got him worried sick!
Tracer: Think I might've heard about this Organization on the news somewhere...they had the Heartless and stuff. And some other monsters.
Winston: *furrows brow at Tracer* You're seriously not giving any ounce of credibility to that Sora kid, are you?

As stated by Winston, Overwatch was building a new watchpoint, which would be along the Seattle coast. While most of the Overwatch members were in the foyer discussing the construction of this watchpoint with Link and Zelda, Cassidy introduced Mario to some of the Overwatch members.

"This here's Pharah, the big 'un to my left is Zarya, and this guy over here is Baptiste," Cassidy introduced Mario to three Overwatch members - Zarya, a female Russian bodybuilder; Pharah, an Egyptian security chief; and Baptiste, a Haitian combat medic.

"You look so short, I should make you my dumbbell," Zarya said to Mario, as she towered over the plumber; Mario didn't know if he should be offended by that or not.

"No need, I already bench-a press my wife," Mario said to Zarya, expecting the Russian to be impressed - Zarya and the other Overwatch heroes laughing wasn't the kind of reaction that Mario intended.

"Somebody's a showoff, I see," chuckled Baptiste, impressed by Mario's bravado. Mario took Baptiste's comment as a small personal victory, looking for whatever he could find.

"Just got word from your commanding officer, Sojourn," Link said to Tracer, Winston, Genji, and Mercy - otherwise known as the Storm Rising gang. Provided that anyone ever called those four that. "She said that construction is progressing nicely."

"That's good," said Tracer, who was now the one stuffing her face with brownies as her comrades gave her judging looks. Tracer stopped eating, as she offered some brownies. "You guys want some?"

"I could knock that plate out of your hands if I wanted to..." Genji threatened Tracer, showing restraint as he knew how horrible it would be to waste brownies. If it was Palutena's or even Mythra's cooking, fair game.

"Is there any threat or obstacle we should worry about?" Zelda asked the Storm Rising gang, wanting the construction of the watchpoint to go as smoothly as possible. Otherwise, she and Link would never hear the end of it from Master Hand.

"Talon does come to mind," replied Winston as he adjusted his glasses, hypothesizing that any interference from Talon would throw a wrench into Overwatch's plans for the watchpoint. "Especially Widowmaker."

Zelda: We gave Widowmaker a longer ban than anyone else in Bowser's so-called "killer7". Why? Simple. A person like Vega may only be interested in looking pretty and making mariachi sounds...whereas Widowmaker would straight up kill an infant baby point black, even without being asked. That right there is the difference.

"Someone should be on the lookout for her," continued Winston, as he looked around the foyer and spotted two Overwatch members - Mei, who was chilling with her drone buddy Snowball, and Lucio, who was vibing to some music. Lucio was also a member of Overwatch, in case you weren't aware.

"Aw yeah, I'm feeling this beat!" smiled Lucio, with his hand on his headphones as he played an imaginary turntable in front of him. The Brazilian DJ stopped his music when Winston approached him.

"Lucio! How would you love to be on the lookout for Widowmaker?" Winston was smiling hard to convince Lucio as much as possible, but he could tell by the look on Lucio's face that he wanted no part of Widowmaker whatsoever.

"That reminds me. I promised the peeps in the gaming room a huge party! Later, Winston!" Lucio hurriedly skated away from Winston, nervously looking back to make sure that the gorilla wasn't following him.

"Scoping the area for an assassin is just as fun!" Winston called out to Lucio, but it was no use. So Winston turned his attention to Mei, who looked bummed out as she knew what was coming. "Perhaps you can see the light, Mei."

"This is all the mustard we have," Pyra said to Cortex, as she followed the evil genius out of the living room. Cortex had stopped by asking for condiments and was now holding a large jar of mustard. "Please don't use it all up..."

"But how else can I heal my burns?" asked Cortex, only to come to a stop when his eyes fell upon Mei. Cortex was suddenly all smiles as he handed the mustard back to Pyra. "Dr. Mei-Ling Zhou! I have something I want to show you."

"You do?" inquired Mei, as Cortex took hold of the climatologist and led her away. With Mei gone, Winston turned his attention to Cassidy, Zarya, Pharah, and Baptiste.

"Think I'm gonna check out the sauna..." Baptiste said to Winston as he pointed down the hallway, slowly backing away before making a run for it.

"Today is leg day; you can never skip leg day," stated Zarya, as she too made her retreat from the foyer; that left Cassidy and Pharah alone at Winston's only options remaining.

"Ashe should be here at any minute now..." Cassidy said as he walked away, looking out through the window to avoid being called upon. It was now Pharah or bust for Winston.

"Let me check on D. Va, see if she's available," Pharah told Winston, taking out her codec and turning it on as she entered the living room.

"Why can't you keep watch of Widowmaker yourself, Winston?" Tracer questioned the gorilla with her hands on her hips, only for a Yiga clansman to exit the living room with a bunch of bananas. Winston licked his lips at the sight.

"Sorry, Tracer, but my biggest vice is calling out to me," replied Winston as he followed after the Yiga clansman, being mindful of any banana that might fall onto the floor. "It is in my very nature to respond to this particular stimuli!"

"Hey! Did you even ask to borrow those bananas?" Pyra shouted at the Yiga clansman as she chased after him, with the Yiga clansman suddenly picking up the pace. Winston did the same, as a cloud of smoke appeared in the foyer.

"Oh no...not you again," Genji moaned after the smoke cleared, as he was greeted by the ninja pals - Yuffie, Greninja, Kat, Ana, and Asuka. Genji made a run for it, dashing away as the ninja pals followed after him.

"Make sure not to let him out of your sight!" Zelda called out to the ninja pals, giving her support for their efforts in making Genji an honorary ninja. Link shook his head in dismay at the princess.

"Brigitte, Echo, and Reinhardt are nowhere to be found, so..." said Tracer as she eyed around the foyer - her eyes soon settling on Mario. The pilot zipped to the plumber and shook his hand. "...congratulations, Mario - you're on Widowmaker watch duty!"

"Do I get a reward-a out of this?" asked Mario, who was just assigned to keep an eye out for the same woman that tried to kill him three years ago. Because of that backstory alone, Mario believed that he deserved a handsome reward.

Mario: Dr. Eggman was banned-a from the mansion for a period of time, and he returned a changed-a person. So who's to say that Widowmaker isn't the same? *chuckles nervously* Is her ban still intact, by the way?


Work was being done on Overwatch's west coast watchpoint, and the work was being done by several Omnic robots. Master Hand oversaw the building of the watchpoint along with Anna and Overwatch's commanding leader, Sojourn.

"We should make this watchpoint open to the residents," Master Hand suggested to Sojourn, who wasn't interested in the idea. "Free watchpoint tours, baby!" The Master Hand of old would charge his residents for the tour.

"That won't be necessary, Master Hand," Sojourn told the giant hand, before turning her attention to Anna; Anna was standing close to Master Hand, taking a sip of her coffee. "Don't you have a shop to run?" Sojourn asked Anna.

"I do, but I came just to have some coffee!" Anna happily replied as she took another sip from her cup of coffee. One of the Omnic robots was apparently serving coffee - quite ironic since it can't drink coffee itself.

"Gotta say, this coffee sure hits the spot!" a Viking dwarf agreed with Anna, as he joined the merchant and company with his own coffee brew. Except that he wasn't an actual Viking, but rather Torbjörn - Brigitte's dad and former Overwatch engineer.

"Torbjörn, we cannot thank you enough for gathering the Omnics to construct our new base," Sojourn gave her thanks to Torbjörn, who drank his entire cup of coffee in one gulp. A suspicious amount of lava was in his drink.

"Only because my sweet daughter talked me into it." Torbjörn let out a loud burp - and never once thought about saying excuse me. So rude. "Would only be a matter of time until these lousy bots go rogue and burn this watchpoint down. Speaking of robots...where's Bastion?"

"HE'S OVER HERE...CHILLING WITH US COOL CATS..." R.O.B. called out to Torbjörn, chilling with his robot friends Ray and Chibi-Robo. Bastion was with them, marveling at a bird on his finger.

"Take it easy, Torbs..." Sojourn calmly advised Torbjörn, who was growing incensed and seething with rage when he saw Bastion with the robots. But it wasn't Bastion he was angry with.

"More robots?! Let me at 'em, let me at 'em!" Torbjörn growled as he tried to make a mad dash towards R.O.B. and his robot friends, only to be held back by Sojourn. Sojourn held Torbjörn tight to her chest, while Master Hand and Anna laughed.

Meanwhile, away from the construction site were anarchists from the land down under - Junkrat and Roadhog. The two Aussies had followed Sojourn to Seattle, and both had destruction on their minds. Obviously.

"Heads, we blow up this watchpoint; tails, we blow up the Smash Mansion," Junkrat said to Roadhog as he held a coin in his hand. The anarchist flipped the coin in the air - only for it to be caught by someone else's hand seconds later.

"I'd say we put our focus on blowing up the watchpoint..." said the person who caught the coin - a very tall Australian woman sporting a blue mohawk. Junkrat looked surprised when the coin was caught.

"Hey! What gives..." Junkrat looked at the woman who caught the coin and shrieked as he fell on his back in shock. "...the Junker Queen?!" Junkrat was pointing at the Junker Queen as if he was seeing a ghost.

"Missed me, boys?" The Junker Queen smiled at Junkrat and Roadhog, with Junkrat startled that he hid behind Roadhog just to compose himself. "It appears that we both have the same prerogative."

"To cause as much destruction as possible," stated Roadhog, and the Junker Queen confirmed as such with a nod of her head. Causing mass destruction was truly the way of the Junkers, for any current or former members.

"I may have kicked you two out of the Junkers, but we can work together just this one time. I did follow you here to Washington for a reason." Wielding her axe behind her shoulders, the Junker Queen walked away from Junkrat and Roadhog. "After me, boys!"

"She followed us to Seattle...?" Junkrat whispered to Roadhog, overwhelmed by the prospect of being bossed around by the Junker Queen. If he handled it before,e he could handle it now.


Widowmaker was a trained assassin with a high killer instinct, and that made her a dangerous foe. Mario knew he couldn't go about dealing with Widowmaker alone, so he enlisted some of his neighbors - Luigi, Fox, Marth, Roy Olimar, Pac-Man - to be on watch duty with him outside.

"For the record, I did not agree to die today," Fox stated to Mario; like Mario, the pilot was also one of Widowmaker's former targets. "Krystal forced me to take up your offer. Why can't anyone from Overwatch do this?"

"Because they're all busy," replied Mario, leading Fox to give the plumber a skeptical look. Mario sighed, as he had to do a lot of explaining. "Lucio's throwing a party, Winston's busy eating bananas, Genji has his hands-a full with the ninja pals, and Mercy...is probably writing a love-a letter to Genji or something."

"All of those sound like pretty understandable reasons," said Olimar, who was the designated sacrificial lamb for Widowmaker - just in case the opportunity presented itself. "Except for Winston eating bananas. Bananas are the worst kind of..."

"Shh..they can-a hear you," Luigi shushed Olimar, grabbing the space pilot and holding him tight before carefully scanning the general area, "Who knows-a where they are hiding..."

Luigi: Last month I made the worst-a banana split ever created. When I threw-a that horrible banana split out, some Yiga clansmen ganged-a up on me and beat me up. It was like a drive-by shooting, except there was no shady-looking van and the gang-a members used sickles instead of guns.

"I know a good way that we can scope out for Widowmaker," Pac-Man suggested to his neighbors, as he brought his fellow men to the newly-finished treehouse in his backyard. "We can scan the entire area!"

"Widowmaker likes to analyze things from the higher ground," stated Marth, acting as if he knew how most deadly snipers operated. Roy tried to make Marth feel smart as he nodded his head in agreement. "This would be our way to tip the scales."

"Correctamundo! Treehouse's so high up, I bet we can see the entire Olympic Mountain range from our perch. And it has room for all of us, which means..."

Pac-Man didn't have much of a chance to keep on rambling, as a pink mech landed near the neighbors. The pink mech looked as if it was about to explode - or even self-destruct! Meh, same thing...

"Everyone run for cover!" shouted Roy as he and the neighbors hid behind the tree that Pac-Man's treehouse was perched on. A pilot leaped out from the about-to-detonate pink mech, and guess who it was? D. Va.

"Zing!" exclaimed D. Va as she took out her phone, doing a wink and a peace sign as she took a selfie. Her mech detonated in the background by the time the selfie was taken, as Pac-Man's treehouse was destroyed in the blast.

"MY TREEHOUSE!" wailed Pac-Man, as the destroyed treehouse pieces were lying at the base of the tree. The eater of ghosts fell down to his knees while D. Va looked at her selfie. "You destroyed my treehouse!"

"Argh! Mario, you were in my shot!" D. Va noticed that Mario was in her selfie, as the pilot had peeked from behind the tree at the last minute. Mario had a knack for ruining pictures today.

"My apologies, D. Va," Mario apologized to the pilot, who didn't seem to care that Pac-Man's treehouse was destroyed. Pac-Man was in shambles.

"Oh well, it was an honest mistake." Accepting Mario's apology - but not apologizing to Pac-Man - D. Va deleted the selfie from her phone as she called up another pink mech with her wrist tech. "D. Va selfie, take two!"

"You know, maybe this treehouse can be salvaged..." said Pac-Man, convincing himself as he gathered any piece of wood that wasn't terribly singed. Not that much to pick from. "...I can just start over! Yeah, that's what I'll..."

So much for salvaging the treehouse, as a large Omnic robot landed on the rubble crushing it under his feet. Pac-Man jumped back, as a female gunslinger riding on top of the Omnic jumped down.

"You make for a mighty fine ride, B.O.B.," the gunslinger said to the Omnic, patting him on his back. Pac-Man was in even more shambles, as he took a piece of wood and chucked it.

"That robot is your chauffeur?" Mario asked the gunslinger, who adjusted the black cowboy hat on her head. A strong possibility that this gunslinger was quite chummy with Cassidy.

"You could say he's more like my butler." Once the gunslinger was done adjusting her hat, she got a good look at Mario and crinkled her nose. "Aren't you..."

"Elizabeth Ashe! You and D. Va finally made it," Cassidy called out to the gunslinger who was known other than well Ashe - Deadlock gang leader and a former friend of Cassidy's. Cassidy wanted to meet with her in episode 340 but was met by the Blue Lions' Ashe Ubert instead.

"Jesse McCree...been a while. I've yet to hear back from you. Still going by Cole Cassidy?"

"Sure am. How about you come on inside, and we do a little catchup? Bet you missed me."

"Your picture hasn't been removed from the dartboard...wanted to let you know that."

"I'm so flattered. Heart's must've been achin' real bad since we last spoke."

"Don't follow me inside...I'll handle him myself," Ashe said to B.O.B., who stood at his post as Ashe followed Cassidy inside the mansion. Begrudgingly, that is. D. Va's second pink mech arrived, as D. Va hopped inside.

"Boosters, activate!" shouted D. Va, flying her pink mech into the air as she sought to reach the highest altitude possible. Whatever made the final result of her selfie more epic.


Cassidy personally invited Ashe to the mansion, hoping for a friendly conversation that wouldn't result in a full-blown shootout. But Ashe wasn't the only person that was invited; Symmetra, who had some close affiliation with Overwatch, was another guest who was invited. (By Lucio, ironically enough). The architech was at Cafe Leblanc, enjoying curry while also being annoyed by Bowser.

"Please forgive me for offending you last Halloween..." Bowser begged Symmetra with pleading hands, while down on his knees; Symmetra ignored Bowser as she kept sipping her curry.

"And why should I?" Symmetra asked Bowser, who was not worth any of her time. "Would it be right for me to apologize to a potential racist?" Bowser was insulted by Symmetra, quickly standing up on his feet.

"I'm not a racist - I just say stupid things most of the time!" Bowser needed backup, and he looked for some in a big way as he turned to the baristas. "Guys, do you think that I'm racist?"

"I dunno, you did do that Chris Rock standup routine on Wednesday," stated Pit, who was there in the gaming room when Bowser did the routine. "How did it go...'basically, there are two types of black people and black people are actually more racist because they hate the other type of black people.'"

"He's butchering it. Lemme show you how it's done." Bowser cleared his throat, as he was now doing his best Chris Rock impersonation. Somebody was about to get slapped soon. "Every time...every time black people want to have a good time, some ignant..."

"Bowser, stop! Control yourself!" Simon commanded the Koopa King, who was using all sorts of profanity much to the genuine shock of Symmetra. Even a few racial slurs were slipped in.

"...they always want credit for something they supPOSED to do!" Bowser was getting way too much into his routine, and it brought Simon over the edge.

"STOP IT!" Simon belted at the top of his lungs, bringing Bowser's Chris Rock impersonation to a halt. It was at that moment Bowser finally realized how problematic his comedy routine was.

"Oh no...I used a bunch of racist slurs...I really am racist!" Ashamed of his own ignorance, Bowser ran out of the cafe with his hands on his head. No doubt Bowser was setting a bad example for his kids.

"Took ya long enough..." Doc Lous muttered under his breath, sitting at a table with Little Mac while nibbling on a chocolate bar. With Bowser gone, Symmetra enjoyed her curry in peace.

Bowser: How come Chris Rock can do a routine and everybody finds it hilarious and ground-breaking and then I go and do the exact same routine, same comedic timing, and people make a complaint to Master Hand, Link, or Zelda? Is it because Chris is black and I'm...white? Mexican? Chinese? Samoan? Gonna go with Samoan.

Shortly after Bowser left, a pink mech suddenly crashed into Cafe Leblanc. D. Va opened the hatch, smiling and waving at everyone while her mech was stuck in the wall.

"I have lost my will to live..." muttered Joker, with his cafe set to undergo yet another fix job. He had already lost track of the number of times Cafe Leblanc had to undergo a renovation due to damages.

"Hi Joker, hi Pit, hi Incineroar!" D. Va greeted the young man, angel, and heel POkemon in that order, giving all three baristas a smile and a wave before moving on to the baristas on the shorter side. "Hi Kirby, hi...Viridi?"

"Welcome to Cafe Leblanc, D. Va!" Viridi greeted the pilot with a friendly face, as D. Va was reminded of how xenophobic Viridi was back in episode 199. Remembered Viridi's xenophobic rant quite well. "Care for a bowl of curry?"

"Uh, sure." D. Va was surprised when Viridi prepared a bowl of curry and handed it to her. D. Va held her bowl, looking bewildered as Viridi stood by.

"Go on, it's not that hot. Take a sip!" So D. Va took a sip of the curry, expecting it to taste horrible. But to her surprise, the curry tasted delicious! D. Va even took another sip, because the curry was just that good.

"Mmm! So delicious." D. Va was unnerved by how smiley Viridi was, sensing the goddess of nature's friendly demeanor as a facade. She wasn't fully convinced that Viridi wanted her dead...


If one were to be on the lookout for Widowmaker, they would require the necessary materials, such as a pair of binoculars for instance. Fortunately for Mario and his neighbors, Fox knew where to find one as he went inside the mansion to speak with Falco.

"I'ma lose it if he sold those binoculars to the thrift shop," said Fox as he was heading down the hallway, en route to Falco's bedroom. "Just like he did with that old oven..."

"That's it, Mei, push that coffin!" Cortex shouted at the climatologist, who was pushing a coffin down the hallway with all of her might. Uka accompanied Cortex, disturbed that Cortex wasn't doing any hard work.

"Why aren't you the one doing it?" Uka questioned Cortex, believing that the evil genius was a lowkey misogynist for shouting at Mei. "I want to see you push that coffin just so I can have an excuse to laugh at you."

"Which is exactly why I'm not doing it." Cortex was beside himself when Mei came to a stop, just to take a breath and wipe away some sweat. "Who said that you could stop?"

"Aw snap! Somebody died?" Fox asked Cortex and Mei as he came over to the coffin, curious as to who was inside. He was almost tempted to uncover the lid. "Whose dead body are we trying to sneak outta here?"

"There is no dead body," Mei informed Fox, whose great interest in whatever was inside the coffin decreased tenfold. "This is a, um, gift that Cortex and E. Gadd received from the future via...a thingy!"

"Indeed, we did receive this gift from a thingy!" Cortex followed up on what Mei said, as Mei nodded her head convincingly while looking nervous. Fox could tell that something fishy was afoot.

"Why are we acting like this?" Fox questioned Cortex and Mei, knowing why the two geniuses were acting so skittish. "What's so wrong with mentioning a..." Mei gasped as she quickly covered Fox's mouth with her hands.

"Did he not get the memo?" Mei asked Cortex as she carefully looked around for you-know-who. Fox's voice was muffled, as he was demanding Mei to take his hands away from his mouth.

"All the bright minds in our group chat got the memo," replied Cortex, who as you might recall was in a group chat with Mei, Moira, Hal, and several Pokemon professors. "Doubt the same can be said for anybody else..."

Falco: Dr. Wily is so backward, man. Nobody else is allowed to mention the words "time machine", but when we say it, he goes into a frenzy! You know what, I really do think that he has dementia.
Wily: Time machine? Where? *runs into frame, grabbing Falco's shoulder. Where is it, Lombardi?
Falco: Uh, at the daycare center downtown. You can't miss it.
Wily:
So that's where they're hiding it...don't worry, little children, I'm coming to save you! *runs away*
Falco: As I said, I think he has dementia.
Wily: *walks in the other direction* Meh, those kids aren't worth my time...the time machine can wait.

"Glad you're doing better, Conker - talk to ya soon," Sonic spoke into the phone, speaking with Conker before ending the call. The blue hedgehog came across Fox, Cortex, and Mei, with Fox finally freeing himself from Mei's clutches.

"Since when was there a memo issued?" questioned Fox, while Sonic took a gander at the coffin as he put his cell phone away. "Hate when I'm left out of the loop...story of my life ever since I moved out!"

"Oh cool! Is there a dead body in that coffin?" Sonic asked Fox and company as he pointed at the coffin; judging by how fancy the coffin looked, Sonic assumed that whoever was inside was of great significance.

"Nope - just a visitor from the future," answered Uka, spoiling the big surprise for Fox and Sonic while also garnering concerned reactions from the two. Cortex had no choice but to reveal the coffin's contents now.

"They're not dead, I can reassure you," stated Cortex as he took off the lid of the coffin...or at least he tried to. It was an amusing sight for Uka to see the evil genius struggle. "Just need some elbow grease..."

After many seconds of trying, Cortex finally took off the lid, dropping it to the floor before falling down in exhaustion. Fox, Sonic, and Mei peeked inside the coffin and saw...a body. A human woman with short white hair, pale skin, and a black dress to boot. Not to mention a blindfold around her eyes.

"Totally looks like a dead body to me," observed Fox, as the woman in the coffin was looking the part. Suddenly the woman awoke, as she reached her arm out and grabbed Fox's neck with her hand. "Ack! Sonic, save me!"

"Sorry, dude - my experience with these kinds of situations is minimal!" responded Sonic, as he and Mei could only watch Fox being choked out. Slowly the woman sat up in the coffin, staring at Fox and seeing him through her blindfold.

"You are not a threat...my sincerest apologies," the woman apologized to Fox as she let go of the pilot. Fox fell down to his knees clutching his neck while gasping for air.

"Dr. Cortex...who is that?" Mei asked Cortex about the woman, who pulled her legs out of the coffin and hopped out. The woman's voluptuous body was now on full display.

"Based on the conversation that E. Gadd and I had with her, she is 2B," replied Cortex, who was done catching his breath as he the coffin to pull himself back up to his feet. "Said she's an android."

"She also isn't much for conversation, to begin with," added Uka, as 2B was getting used to her new surroundings; 2B could tell right off the bat that she was no longer in the much distant future.

"What year is this?" 2B asked Uka and company, as the time she found herself in had a much less dreary atmosphere than what she was used to. In a way, it was a culture shock for the android - but not a terribly unpleasant one by any means.

"We might have to get you acclimated..." Fox said to 2B, all done clutching his neck as Sonic helped the pilot up to his feet. Forget about asking Falco for those binoculars - Fox had to get 2B accustomed before she presumably killed somebody.


Cloud and Aerith were in Arcadia Bay, as Cloud was ordered by Master Hand to keep Aerith protected in the Oregon seaside town. After their initial stay at the Arcadia Bay Bed and Breakfast (which was apparently run by Big the Cat), Cloud and Aerith opted to stay at an inn. They had to get separate rooms, just to dispel any concerns Master Hand might have about them "playing house".

Soaking in as much of Arcadia Bay as possible, Cloud and Aerith stopped by a shop to do a bit of window shopping. Cloud wasn't keen on using his wallet much while in Arcadia Bay, but if Aerith wanted something then Cloud had to buy it. Those were the unspoken rules.

"Such a cute little teddy bear!" Aerith gleamed as she was hugging a teddy bear, while Cloud looked on failing to see what the big fascination was. "This is the kind of gift you would buy for a friend."

"Too bad I won't be buying that many teddy bears, then," commented Cloud, who wouldn't even buy a teddy bear for himself. Thought that he was too grown for such a thing. While Cloud and Aerith continued window-shopping, two Talon operatives were spying on them from afar...Reaper and Sombra.

"Why in the world are we here?" Reaper whispered to Sombra, as he and the hacker were hiding behind a rack of Halloween costumes. Sombra was watching Cloud and Aerith's every move. "Oddly enough, I feel dirty doing this..."

"Who would you rather follow orders for - Widowmaker or Samus?" Sombra asked Reaper, who shut his mouth up as he folded his arms and remained silent. "My thoughts exactly..."

"Think it's about time we head out," Cloud said to Aerith as he took the flower girl's hand, ready to leave. Whatever interest the swordsman had in the shop had dwindled down to zero.

"They're coming this way! Hide!" Sombra was able to hide easily, activating her stealth so that she went invisible. Reaper was left alone, as he quickly jumped onto the rack of Halloween costumes doing his best mannequin impersonation.

"Look, Cloud! A Grim Reaper costume!" marveled Aerith as she pointed at Reaper, just when she and Cloud were about to exit the store. Cloud looked at Reaper, who was holding a toy scythe he found among the costumes.

"Grim Reaper sold out, huh?" wondered Cloud as he noticed a tag on Reaper, which said "SOLD OUT" in all caps. "That's kinda unlike him." Once Cloud and Aerith left the store for good, Sombra deactivated her stealth.

"You sold out!" chanted Sombra as she pointed and laughed at Reaper, who was seething as he tore the tag off of his chest. For Reaper, there was no worse feeling than being laughed at by Sombra.

"I'm really sorry for asking, but are you two a couple?" a young woman asked Reaper and Sombra, hanging around in the store with her camera. It was Max Caulfield, and she found Reaper and Sombra to be very interesting subjects.

"Let this be an example of why we should stop hanging out so much..." Reaper said sternly to Sombra, dropping the scythe as he led the hacker out of the store. Max lowered her camera, her chance of chronicling a new potential couple now squandered.

Max: Fox and Falco are heavily invested in Cloud starting a fling with Aerith. Perhaps to a fault, I'll say. They both think that Cloud will do a lot of "romancing" here in Arcadia Bay, so they want me to take pictures of Cloud with Aerith in secret. I know it's a weird request, but I gotta put at least something on my online portfolio or Fox and Falco won't be too happy.


Construction work on the new watchpoint continued, as Master Hand, Anna, and Sojourn were inside watching the progress. While the Omnic robots kept doing their thing, Chibi-Robo lent a hand by scrubbing the floors with a floor scrubber.

"Before you ask - no, we don't pay him," Master Hand said to Sojourn, who was impressed by how adept Chibi-Robo was at cleaning. Chibi-Robo wasn't missing a beat, getting every nook and cranny possible.

"I see that the small robot's doing a bit of cleaning, but where's Bastion?" asked Torbjörn as he approached the group; earlier he had contemplated squishing Chibi-Robo with his foot.

"He's still on break with his new friends," replied Sojourn, and that caused Torbjörn to grow angry as his face turned red. Sojourn cautiously backed away. "Take cover, everyone..."

"WHY WOULD BASTION NEED TO GO ON BREAK, HE'S A ROBOT! Robots are only meant to slave and work, and then slave some more! Why is Bastion going against the order?!"


Meanwhile, Junkrat, Roadhog, and the Junker Queen were spying from outside, watching Torbjörn's robot rant through the window. Torbjörn was so loud that the Junkers could hear every word.

"He's the crazy Swedish guy who hates robots, isn't that right?" the Junker Queen asked Junkrat and Roadhog, as Torbjörn pounded his robot fist in the palm of his hand to show what he would do to any robot that crossed him.

"It's funny 'cause his robot arm makes him part robot," snickered Junkrat - did Torbjörn himself know that he was possibly part robot? He'd have the biggest identity crisis known to man if he hadn't already.

"Enough talk - it's time to destroy!" said Roadhog, anxious to blow the watchpoint to smithereens. It would be a successful day for Roadhog if the watchpoint was reduced to ashes.

"Did someone say...destruction?" a certain Gnorc asked Roadhog and company, who all turned around and saw Gnasty Gnorc standing by with his hammer. "Allow me to introduce myself. I am Gnasty Gnorc..."

"Good for you," the Junker Queen said to Gnasty, taking her axe as she, Junkrat, and Roadhog walked away and left Gnasty alone. "But we got this covered."

"No, give me a chance! I destroy all sorts of things, like dragons, and um...more dragons!" Gnasty was ignored, as the Junker Queen waved him off. So much for joining forces.

Gnasty: Destroying the watchpoint will be the closest way to indirectly harming the mansion without running into Spyro. It's along the coast, so I should be in the clear. Should be in the clear... *looks up into the sky* ...how can such a small dragon give me so much anxiety?


Lucina had gone to a thrift shop, mainly to find a few bargains for her room. It was a solid shopping trip for the most part, as the princess found a few trinkets that she liked. The one downside, however, was Chrom accompanying her - mainly because of how "dad" he was acting.

"You said far too many dad jokes to the cashier, father," Lucina said to Chrom as she and her dad were walking down the sidewalk. Chrom was carrying a oven in his hands. Hmm...

"All the more to embarrass you in public, my dear," Chrom wholeheartedly responded; Lucina was a married woman with two kids (from the future), so she could care less about her dad embarrassing her.

"And why on earth did you buy that oven? Where are you going to put it at?" The only possible option that Chrom had was to put the oven in his room, but that would be a huge fire hazard.

"Do you realize how hard it is to buy a oven these days? Besides, it was only $14.99! We could use it as a replacement oven or something."

"FREEZE!" a man shouted as he jumped in front of Lucina and Chrom, holding his gun out. Pretty bold move to rob a man and his daughter in broad daylight. "Hand over your money!"

"Why don't you take my daughter instead?" Chrom dropped the oven and grabbed Lucina, holding his daughter in from of him. Lucina looked at Chrom, deeply insulted. "If you like something...set it free?"

Chrom didn't have to set his daughter free, and Lucina didn't have to worry about being shot, as a volley of small blue rockets was fired at the robber. Chrom released his hold on Lucina as the robber fell to the ground, injured.

"Don't think that I killed him..." someone said, as a man wearing a visor and wielding a gun came over. He knelt down at the robber and saw that he was still breathing. "...maybe if I had gone for the head, he'd be a goner."

"Thank you for saving us, kind sir!" Chrom thanked the man wearing the visor, as he ran up to him and shook his hand. The man scowled to show how little he appreciated the abrupt handshake. "Mind telling us your name?"

"Ain't got much of a name these days." The man had grown tired of the handshake, as he let go of Chrom's hand and slapped it away. "But if you must know, I go by Soldier: 76."

"Our lives our indebted to you, Mr. 76." As Chrom showed his admiration toward Soldier: 76, Lucina crinkled her nose. She might've heard about Soldier: 76 from somewhere...or from someone.

"Soldier: 76?" Lucina approached the man, who didn't expect to be recognized on the street - and by a blue-haired princess from a faraway land, no less. "Mercy told me stories about you."

"Mercy? From Overwatch? As in Angela Ziegler?" A nod from Lucina confirmed things for Soldier: 76, who gently smiled as he took a rather brief trip down memory road. "I haven't spoken to her in a good while..."

"She's at the Smash Mansion with us. Mainly because a new Overwatch watchpoint is being built in Seattle, along the coast." That was all Soldier: 76 needed to know, his smile fading as his trip down memory lane came to an end.

"Yes, the new watchpoint! I have to be there before something bad happens. As a former Overwatch member, I must ensure that the watchpoint stays intact..."

"Why did you ever leave Overwatch in the first place?" Chrom asked Soldier: 76, who grunted as he looked to the side. That was one trip down memory lane that Soldier: 76 did not wish to go down.

"It's a very long story; can't give you any details. Does either one of you know where the new watchpoint is? We have to get there before it's too late!"

"I can call someone and find out the exact address," replied Lucina as she took her phone - something that Solder: 76 did not expect her to have. Chrom, meanwhile, picked up the oven. "We're not taking the oven, father."

"But it could be a gift for the Overwatch folks!" argued Chrom after lifting the oven, only to lose his grip and drop it on the robber's unconscious body by accident. "I am so sorry..." Chrom apologized to the unconscious robber.


With Seattle primarily known as a great place for fishing, the city had no shortage of fishing spots. Villager and Red the Pokemon Trainer both had grown tired of fishing at the mansion's lake and were testing out a new fishing spot - the Bitter Lake in northwest Seattle.

"Aw, why did you toss that fish away?" Villager asked Red, who had thrown his catch back into the water with heavy disgust. Almost like the fish he had caught was worthless.

"It was a red carp..." shuddered Red, likely overwhelmed with feelings of PTSD; that's what catching a lot of lousy fish Pokemon in your life can do to a man.

"So what? It's not like it's..." Villager looked over, and suddenly gasped when he saw two individuals coming his way. One had a long rifle, and the other was floating at free will.

"What's got you so shook?" Red asked Villager, who jumped into the lake for safety; once Red saw who was coming, he followed Villager's lead and jumped into the lake too.

Who were the two individuals that had Villager and Red afraid? Widowmaker and Sigma - two operatives from Talon. Both were evil, and both ended up as such due to some intense brainwashing. Although Sigma's brainwashing was less subdued.

"Do you remember what our mission is, Sigma?" Widowmaker asked the astrophysicist, who was too fixated on whatever was on the ground much to Widowmaker's great chagrin. "Listen to me!"

"An ant crawling on the ground!" marveled Sigma, somehow able to discern the ant crawling despite how tiny it was to the naked eye. "Where are you going, little friend?"

"I'm speaking to you!" Widowmaker snapped her fingers in Sigma's face to garner his attention, and yet Sigma's gaze was unwavering.

"Oh, there's another one!" Sigma saw another ant crawling on the ground, a few feet away from the first one he saw. "What delightful creatures."

Widowmaker: Amazingly, Sigma's mind didn't deteriorate following his brain aneurysm after he was asked to move the Smash Mansion to Tokyo. Not that I care about Sigma's well-being, but for some reason that whole incident made me dislike Master Hand even more.

"ACK, I FORGOT! I CAN'T SWIM!" screamed Red, who was splashing around on the surface flailing his arms about. Villager, who knew how to swim (thanks in part to his flippers) appeared out of the water and swam Red to safety.

"I got you, Red!" Villager said to the Pokemon trainer, guiding him to the surface. Once he was on solid ground, Red caught his breath after thinking that he was a goner.

But that thought returned to Red straight away, when Widowmaker had her rifle pointed at the Pokemon trainer and Villager. Both Red and Villager were intimidated by Widowmaker, as Sigma floated behind her.

"Master Hand...take us to him at once," Widowmaker said to Red and Villager, who were both shivering in fear as they hugged each other.


Widowmaker was in town, but Mario and his neighbors had no way of scoping her out. As they waited on Fox to retrieve some binoculars, they were chilling with Ashe's Omnic butler, B.O.B. Spyro and Hunter came outside, and were enchanted by B.O.B.'s presence.

"Quick question for ya, B.O.B..." Hunter said to the butler, flexing his fingers as B.O.B. turned his head to the cheetah. "...are you a flat-earther?"

"Of all the questions to ask him, and that's the one you chose," Spyro shook his head at Hunter, as B.O.B. did not answer the question - only because he couldn't speak. A true silent butler.

"Just checking to see if he was any different from that rapper dude." If Hunter wished to ask B.O.B. another question, he would have to wait as Mario pushed him and Spyro away.

"You used-a up your one-question quota, now go back home!" Mario said to Spyro and Hunter as he brought the two friends to his house, before tossing them in through the front door. The plumber returned to his neighbors, who were growing impatient.

"Fox is never going to find those binoculars," said a pessimistic Marth, knowing that it was unwise to trust Fox with such a simple task. "Who's willing to bet that he ran into Falco, and got carried away with something?"

"No reason to bet - that has probably happened by this point," replied Pac-Man, who was still salty about the fate of his treehouse. "Would be super convenient if he could just teleport to..."

Speaking of teleporting, Sombra teleported to where the neighbors were standing with her Translocator, startling all of them. The hacker was tinkering with her Translocator, before looking up and realizing that she was in Seattle.

"Estupendo! Translocator works like a charm," rejoiced Sombra, before seeing the neighbors giving her shocked looks. The hacker playfully smiled and waved. "Hola, chicos. Did I scare you?"

"You didn't scare him," replied Roy as he pointed at B.O.B., who was rock-solid as he didn't flinch or move a muscle. The neighbors could learn a thing or two from the Omnic butler.

"Eh, not surprising...anyway, I'd like to stick around and chat, but I gotta get back to Arcadia Bay. Gotta give Cloud his special gift. Hasta luego!"

"Special gift? What kind..." Mario was about to ask Sombra, who used her Translocator to teleport back to Arcadia Bay a second later. "...and she's gone."


Mamori and Ashley had to shoot a new episode of Microwave Idol Mamorin, but there was one problem standing their way - Asuka wasn't available! Asuka and her ninja pals were hunting after Genji, restarting their pursuit of making the ninja an honorary member. The two co-hosts waited around in the kitchen of the idol singers' house, hoping for Asuka to arrive soon.

"How would we even explain Asuka's absence?" Mamori asked Asuka, who was assembling the food that was going to be featured in today's episode. It was the first time that Mamori had to deal with a co-host being unavailable prior to the episode's shoot.

"We'll just tell the viewers that the microwave ate her alive," Ashley suggested to Mamori, who didn't seem enthused by the idea as she curled her lips inward. "The people watching are dumb enough to believe anything."

"Spoke with Princess Zelda just now," Itsuki said to Mamori and Ashley as he entered the kitchen to give the two co-hosts an update on Asuka. "Overwatch is in town, so that means Genji is..."

"Welp, guess that means no new episode today." That was good news for Ashley, as the young witch gathered up all the food and put it back in the fridge. "Finally I get a Friday off..."

"NO! The show must go on," proclaimed Mamori, as Ashley grumbled and pulled the food out of the fridge and back onto the counter. That day off would have to wait another week. "We can do this without Asuka."

"Good luck with that..." muttered Itsuki, doubting that Mamori and Ashley could have that same usual energy without Asuka in the fold. The doorbell rang, and Itsuki went to go answer the door while Mamori and Ashley got prepared.

When Itsuki opened the door, he was greeted by a duo of Talon operatives - Moira and Doomfist. For anyone else, Moira and Doomfist would send chills down anyone's spine. But Itsuki was on (mostly) friendly terms with the duo after their past visits.

"Moira O'Deorain, Doomfist...welcome!" Itsuki greeted the geneticist and Nigeran cyborg, wondering why they were stopping by the idols singers' home. "This is quite the surprise..."

"Surprises are warranted, aren't they?" Moira asked Itsuki, as she and Doomfist waltzed inside the idol singers' house. Itsuki had no choice but to let them in, lest face the vicious wrath of Moira.

Moira: Widowmaker is on our way to the mansion, I presume, and she wishes for us Talon operatives to be "stationed" there. Honestly, I don't know why Doomfist continues to let her boss him around.

"Something smells good," Doomfist sniffed the air, following his nose as he ventured into the kitchen where Mamori and Ashley were. "What do you girls have cooking today?" Doomfist asked the two co-hosts of Microwave Idol Mamorin.

"We haven't cooked anything just yet," replied Mamori, as Doomfist looked at what Ashley had assembled. Rice, chicken, and some shrimp - all of it allured the Nigeran cyborg. "But we do need a guest for our show! Would you like to join us?"

"I would love to. This is a cooking show, I assume? Where's my chef apron?" Fortunately for Doomfist, Mamori had an apron that was the right size for him. Ashley got a stool for Mamori to stand on, placing it behind Doomfist.

"Akande, we shouldn't involve ourselves with the matters of the idol singers..." Moira advised Doomfist, who was barely even listening as Mamori fastened the apron around the cyborg. Moira pinched the crown of her nose, sighing.


The Junkers found access inside the uncompleted watchpoint, and they didn't have to destroy anything to get inside. So how did they infiltrate the watchpoint, you ask? Someone apparently left the door open.

"Master Hand, who are these people?" Sojourn asked the giant hand, as the likes of King Dedede, Dante, Tingle, and many others were looking around the watchpoint. They weren't interfering with the robots' work, which was good.

"They invited themselves without my permission," replied Master Hand, as Sojourn looked skeptically at the giant hand. "Anna can back me up on this one." Sojourn looked toward Anna, expecting the merchant to lie for Master Hand.

"He gave me a list of 'trustworthy' people to invite," stated Anna as she held up the list in question; while Sojourn facepalmed, the Junkers ran by unseen.

Two of the 'trustworthy' folk that were invited to the watchpoint were Ness, Lucas...and Jigglypuff, who was messing with a robot by scribbling all over it with her black marker. The robot was still doing its work, but it was clearly bothered.

"No...unacceptable," the robot said as Jigglypuff was drawing all sorts of doodles over its robotic body. Lucas and Ness looked on, debating whether or not they should stop Jigglypuff.

"Go ahead, get rested," Ness said to Lucas as he pushed his friend forward; Lucas looked at Ness like he was crazy. "Too scared to discipline Jigglypuff?"

"I just don't want to hear her singing," replied Lucas - loud enough for Jigglypuff to hear him. Jigglypuff stopped scribbling as she looked at Lucas, offended. "Because it's so good!"

"Jigglypuff Jigglypuff?" Jigglypuff angrily confronted Lucas, believing that the PSI whiz was lying through his teeth. Lucas was backing away from Jigglypuff, while Ness watched from a safe distance giggling.

"Ha, you're on for it now," Ness said to Lucas, as Jigglypuff looked to mark up Lucas really bad. Suddenly, the Junker Queen snuck up on Ness and held him in the air, gagging him.

"G'day, mate! Hope you weren't having fun without us," the Junker Queen said to Ness, who tried to free himself from the Aussie's grasp as Junker and Roadhog appeared. "Alright you two, get to it!"

"With pleasure!" cackled Junkrat, handing Roadhog a bunch of mines while he took out a Rip-Tire. While Roadhog looked for places to stick the mines at, Junkrat was getting his Rip-Tire ready, until...

"Why do I hear singing?" wondered Roadhog, as a gentle singing voice caused the Junker to slowly drift asleep. A drowsy Roadhog sat on the ground as the Junker Queen and Junkrat both fell victim to the singing voice's drowsy spell.

"Don't know why, but I could really...go for a nap right now," the Junker Queen yawned, dropping Ness to the floor before she fell asleep. Junkrat did the same, as the three Junkers were all sleeping away.

"It worked?" asked Ness, who had his hands covering his ears while Lucas had done the same. All the attention was focused on Jigglypuff, who was singing into her microphone.

"Jig, Jigglypuff..." sang Jigglypuff, ending her singing performance once she saw that the Junkers were all fast asleep. The balloon Pokemon smiled deviously as she approached the Junker Queen, rubbing her stubby hands together. Or at least she tried to.


Gnasty sat alone on a log outside the watchpoint, disgruntled that the Junkers wouldn't give him a chance. The Gnorc wanted to cause some destruction just like the trio but was hardly given the time of day.

"Look on the positive side, Gnasty - there's no sign of Spyro yet!" Gnasty tried to encourage himself, only to turn around and look up at the sky just to be safe. Suddenly, Gnasty heard a loud "PING!" sound, as the Junkers flew out of the watchpoint and landed at Gnasty's feet.

"Bested by a lousy balloon Pokemon..." grunted Junkrat as he and the Junkers got up, pulling off the flower that was on top of their heads. "...we may never live that one down."

Lucas: Rest has two uses - it can either make a Pokemon go to sleep and replenish their health, or it can send you flying. I forgot that Jigglypuff is sometimes capable of doing the latter, in most instances. We've all learned the hard way.

"Hey, hey, hey! Today's your lucky day," Gnasty said to the Junkers, irritating the Junker Queen the most; Junkrat feared for Gnasty's life at that moment. "Why not give a chance to..."

"Why should we give a green oaf like you a chance?" the Junker Queen asked Gnasty as she stood up and angrily confronted the Gnorc, pointing her shotgun in his face. "Give us a reason..."

"I know the main guy who's in there...Master Hand. Well, I sort of know him. If you can trust me to find a way to neutralize him, then destroying the watchpoint will be a piece of cake for you guys!"

"What say you? Do you trust him?" the Junker Queen asked Junkrat and Roadhog, not completely sold on Gnasty; but if Junkrat and Roadhog were, then she would have no choice in the matter.

"Anybody who can get by with Master Hand is trustworthy in my book," answered Junkrat, who was pretty familiar with Master Hand based on his past interactions with him. Roadhog nodded, as he too knew what Master Hand was all about.

"You said your name was Gnasty Gnorc, right?" the Junker Queen returned her attention to Gnasty, before putting her hand on the gnorc's shoulder. "We will let you have your way with this Master Hand. Give us the opening we need, aight?"

"You can count on me!" replied Gnasty as he gave the Junker Queen a salute, looking to do a major solid for the Junkers. The Junker Queen smiled, as Gnasty had her full trust.


How were Cloud and Aerith handling themselves at Arcadia Bay? The two friends were at a lake, with Aerith skipping stones while Cloud sat on the ground soaking it all in. Max was nearby, with her camera.

"C'mon Cloud, give it a try!" Aerith encouraged the swordsman to join her in skipping stones, as she threw a rock across the lake. The flower girl was pleased as the rock skipped across the water.

"What does anyone even get out of this?" wondered Cloud, failing to understand how skipping stones could be considered an actual hobby. Meanwhile, Max was sneaking up on Cloud and Aerith, trying not to look conspicuous.

"You literally said the same thing about rock-climbing! Broaden your horizons a bit more, Cloud." Unfortunately for Aerith, Cloud elected not to broaden his horizons as he remained seated on the ground.

"Um, excuse me!" Max said to Cloud and Aerith once she got close enough to the two. Aerith was about to throw another rock when she heard Max. "Mind if I snap a picture of you two? It's for my portfolio."

"We're game," answered Cloud as he stood up, having enough in him to pose for a photo or two. Aerith stood next to Cloud, and Cloud made sure that Aerith wasn't standing too close.

"This is a small request, but can you like, wrap your arm around her?" Max asked Cloud, who looked slightly exasperated in response; Cloud could tell that Max had an ulterior motive up her sleeve.

"Don't get any wrong ideas." So Cloud wrapped his arm around Aerith, doing a smirk while Aerith went all out and smiled from ear to ear. Well, she was going all out compared to Cloud.

"One, two, three..." After the countdown, Max snapped a picture of Cloud and Aerith and showed the results to the two friends. Aerith liked how the photo turned out, and so did Cloud.

"That had better be for your own personal collection," Cloud warned Max, who had strong intentions of posting the picture on her online portfolio - but only because Fox and Falco put her up to it. She had no choice in the matter.

Max: So I've already drawn the ire of Cloud, all because I took a picture of him with Aerith. Nice going, Fox and Falco.

"Let's do a second picture over there, near the lakeside," suggested Max as she pointed at a new spot to take the picture. Cloud and Aerith followed Max's lead, while Reaper was peeking from behind a tree.

"Where are you, Sombra?" wondered Reaper, resenting the fact that he was all alone; Sombra appeared right on time, making herself visible as she was standing behind Reaper. "If you don't return soon, I'm gonna..."

"Sorpresa, Gabriel!" exclaimed Sombra, spooking Reaper and causing him to turn around. Reaper was glaring at Sombra, who was laughing at the mercenary's scared reaction. "I didn't know you could be so easily scared!"

"Never sneak up on me like that again..." Reaper pointed his finger in Sombra's face, and Sombra responded by taking out a paper bag and showing it to Reaper, smiling apologetically. "...did you seriously go out to buy lunch?"

"I may have grabbed some Mexican food while I was away. Got you a burrito." Sombra tossed the bag to Reaper, who caught it with both hands and took a look inside. In the bag was a burrito, and Reaper unwrapped it slightly and took a peek at the filling.

"Mozerella cheese, Spanish rice, carne asada...the usual." Pleased with his burrito, Reaper wrapped his burrito back up and placed it inside the paper bag. "This is yet another sign that we spend too much time together."

"Thank you for your cooperation, have a good day!" Max was heard shouting, as Reaper saw the young woman waving to Cloud and Aerith as they were leaving. The friends' departure made Reaper facepalm.

"Least I got you some lunch," Sombra said to the disappointed Reaper, doing her best to cheer up the mercenary. Max headed toward Reaper and Sombra's way and ran into the Talon operatives a second time.

"Hey, guys! So how about that picture?" Max asked Reaper and Sombra; Reaper grumbled and faded into the shadows while Sombra went invisible a second later. Max stood there, perplexed. "That was strange..."


Cortex and E. Gadd were greeted by a visitor at E. Gadd's mansion when 2B arrived from the future via...a thingy. You probably know what the thingy really was. Cortex, Mei, Fox, and Sonic took 2B to the gaming room, as they waited for Link and Zelda to arrive.

"Amp it up, party people!" shouted Lucio, who was throwing a party in the gaming room; the Brazilian DJ was behind a turntable, as he was raising the roof. "Get yourselves into the rhythm!"

"Get yourself into the rhythm..." reiterated 2B, figuring out a way to follow Lucio's party command. She observed several folks on the dance floor, such as Waluigi who was dancing while being shirtless.

"Shirtless Wah-Man is here to stay!" exclaimed Waluigi as he was cutting a rug, doing all sorts of breakdancing moves. He wanted his dance moves to impress the others but instead, he brought forth much disgust.

"Hooray for indefinitely being scarred for life, wahoo..." Champion Link sardonically cheered, as Waluigi went for a grand finale and did a split. Waluigi screamed as he had also ripped his pants, adding insult to injury.

"Ha! Totally saw that one coming," smiled Shulk, as Waluigi was left crawling away from the dance floor in pain. 2B watched as Waluigi crawled to a corner of the gaming room.

"So how did you encounter 2B in the first place?" Fox asked Cortex, as the pilot and evil genius were standing off the side from where the party was. They were partially monitoring 2B.

"E. Gadd was working on his machine when a time portal happened," explained Cortex - not the first time that a guest time-traveled to the present time at the hands of E. Gadd. "After she introduced herself, she was about to threaten E. Gadd...so I knocked her out with a frying pan!"

"That would explain a lot..." Fox was massaging his neck, as the effects of the chokehold that 2B had on him could still be felt. "...how many times did you have to hit her head?"

"Throwing shade at me, aren't you? I'll have you know that I'm stronger than I look!" Cortex shook his fist at Fox, who looked away as he snorted loudly. Uka even laughed along with Fox. "Your laughter hurts my confidence, stop it!

"DANCE BATTLE TIME!" shouted Wario, hopping onto the dance floor as Waluigi was no longer hogging the spotlight. "Who's willing to step up?" Lucio was all for a dance battle, as he amplified the party tunes.

"Yes, I would love to 'dance battle,'" 2B answered the call, stepping up to Wario as she whipped out a sword and pointed it at the fatso. It was a sharp steel blade that scared Wario straight.

"Hold up now, there are no weapons in a dance battle!" shouted Lucio, hopping away from the turntables as he got in between 2B and Wario. 2B was about to advance towards Wario, only for Lucio to hold her back.

"I believe that your friend is acting out," Riku informed Sonic, who was playing a game of darts with the silverette when he saw the action that was unfolding on the dance floor. Lucio needed some extra muscle.

"This is what I get for being side-tracked..." Sonic sighed as he dropped the dart to the floor, before rushing in and helping Lucio keep 2B away from Wario. Riku was looking at 2B, feeling some type of way.

Kamui: You looked pretty bothered back there, Riku. What's on your mind?
Riku: The way she wore that black blindfold...reminded me too much of me. Back when I was suppressing the Darkness.
Kamui: Suppressing the darkness by wearing a blindfold over your eyes? Doesn't that sound...backward?

"It's fortunate that Lucio's party won't garner us a noise complaint," remarked Zelda, as she arrived at the gaming room entrance with Link and Tracer. But before the three could enter... "Tracer, aren't we forgetting someone?"

"We sure are," replied Tracer, as she looked down the hallway cupping her mouth with her hands. "Orisa! Hammond Over here!" Tracer waved her hands in the air to get Orisa's attention.

"We are coming!" shouted Orisa, as a green Omnic robot with four legs made her way over to Tracer and company. "The white dog with the guitar was too adorable to not be petted." Riding on top of Orisa was Hammond, the pilot of Wrecking Ball; both Orisa and Hammond were invitees.

"You petted K.K. Slider? On his head?" Link asked Orisa, who was looking guilty; Link later shrugged as he entered the gaming room. "Eh, he probably enjoyed it..."

When Link led Zelda, Tracer, and Orisa inside the gaming room, the first thing he ran into was Sonic and Lucio holding 2B back from Wario. Lucio had to hold 2B's arm to keep her from stabbing Wario with her blade.

"No violence in the gaming room should be allowed!" shouted Orisa, her eyes turning red as she suddenly went into protective mode. The robot took out her javelin and threw it at 2B, knocking the blade out of the android's hand.

"Hey, watch where you're..." Lucio was about to snap, only to see Orisa standing by. Orisa's eyes went back to their usual yellow color, as the robot gave Lucio a friendly wave. "...I mean, thanks for the assist, Orisa!"

"I suppose we will have our 'dance battle' another time," 2B said to Wario, sparing him as she went to go retrieve her sword. But Sonic stopped her as he sped and stood in front of the android.

"Nuh-uh! You aren't getting this back," Sonic said to 2B as he picked up the android's sword, confiscating it for the time being. "You're already too much trouble!"

"Sonic, who is this?" Zelda asked the blue hedgehog as she and the others came over to inspect 2B. Tracer was zipping all over 2B to look at her at all different sorts of angles. "Is this the android you wanted us to tell about?"

"Yeah, her name is 2B! E. Gadd brought her over from the very distant future." As Sonic explained to Zelda and company - while keeping the sword out of 2B's reach - he was joined by Fox, Cortex, and Mei.

"What is it with E. Gadd and summoning random people from random time periods..." wondered Link, readily losing count of how many times this particular instance has happened - in just this year of 2022 alone.

"We were hoping that you could keep 2B company until E. Gadd is done fixing his...thingy," Mei said to Link and Zelda, who knew from the get-go what the thingy was. Which was why they kept their lips sealed.

"A thingy? As in like...a time machine?" Tracer asked Mei; the mere mention of the words "time machine" caused a whole bunch of people in the gaming room to gasp collectively. The party music even stopped on its own!

"Oh no...she did it now," panicked Diddy Kong, who ran for cover as he hid underneath a pool table. Tracer covered her mouth, sensing the damage she had done based on folks' reactions.

"Was it something that I said?" Tracer momentarily took her hands away from her mouth to ask this question, before covering up her mouth again. Link and Zelda both looked at each other, worried.

"I don't think we're well equipped for watching over an android," Zelda said to Mei, thinking that 2B would be too much to handle. Soon the perfect plan B came to mind. "But we might know a place where she can stay..."


Genji was still on the run, as he was trying to lose the ninja pals. The cyborg ninja was running around the mansion in an effort to throw the ninja pals off his scent. He made a sharp turn around the corner of the hallway, before coming to a stop.

"Come out, come out, wherever you are!" shouted Kat, with Genji hiding against the wall as the ninja pals ran past by. Once the coast was clear, Genji inched away with his back against the wall.

"Finally I lost them..." rejoiced Genji, whose hand soon came in contact with a doorknob. He encountered the door to the training room. "...this looks like a good spot for some reprieve."

Genji opened the door, and when he looked inside the room he saw a familiar face...Zenyatta, Genji's master and an Omnic monk invited to the mansion. Zenyatta was holding a meditation class with four of his students - Twintelle, Lucario, Dark Samus, and Wily.

"Embrace tranquility," Zenyatta said to his students, who were all standing on one leg with their eyes closed. "Liberate your mind, and you will be free."

"Liberate your mind, and you will be..." repeated Wily, only to open his eyes when he was struck with an abrupt epiphany. The robot inventor hurriedly stood up like he had forgotten to turn off the oven at the tower.

"Class isn't over yet," Twintelle said to Wily, who was putting on the lab coat that Zenyatta asked to take off prior to meditation. Wily was moving with haste.

"Little children at the daycare center, you will be saved!" Wily vowed after putting on his lab coat, before running out of the training room and zipping past a bewildered Genji. Zenyatta and his remaining students were just as confused.

"I thought he hated children," Lucario said to Twintelle and Dark Samus, curious as to where Wily's change of heart came from. Most old guys don't evolve that quickly.

Lucario: I wasn't originally on the whole "Dr. Wily has dementia" camp, but judging from what I saw today...psychosis may be a more apt diagnosis. If only he can be saved.

"Ah, if it isn't my pupil, Genji," Zenyatta gleamed when he spotted Genji standing at the door. It was like a dad reuniting with his son - except that the son was older than the dad. "Care to join us?"

"Yes, Master, I would love to..." Genji was about to accept Zenyatta's offer, only to be distracted when a mystical fox spirit ran inside the training room and ran around the three remaining students. "What the..."

Then an arrow was fired at Genji, grazing past his ear and striking the wall in the training room. Closing the door, Genji unsheathed his ninja blade as he turned around at the man who fired the arrow...his older brother, Hanzo.

"We have crossed paths yet again..." Hanzo said to Genji, as he had another arrow ready to fire at Genji. He was committed to not missing his shot this time.

"Hanzo..." Genji uttered the name of the elder Shimada, as a ninja teleporting herself right next to Hanzo prompted the cyborg ninja to lower his guard. "...and Kiriko? Hm?"

"Hi, Genji!" the ninja, Kiriko, waved to the cyborg ninja as Hanzo gave her a scowl. This was supposed to be a serious moment, and Kiriko's bubbly nature was killing the mood. "Sorry for crashing your moment of brotherly love."

"Ignore her, she is...very clingy," Hanzo advised Genji, wanting his little brother to put all his focus on him and him only. "It is me that you want."

"Brother, why are you doing this?" Genji asked Hanzo, as he wanted no smoke with his big brother. Especially at a time like this - and with Kirko also present. "I have already forgiven you..."

"SILENCE! You are not the Genji that I know. The real Genji would've never fallen into the snare of indulgence. Try as you might, your forgiveness will not..."

"Guys, I think he went down this way," Ana was heard speaking from afar, as Genji tensed up; soon the ninja pals showed up, with Ana leading the way. Genji had nowhere to go.

"Oh wow! We got ourselves a family reunion on our hands," said Yuffie, geeked out from seeing Genji and Hanzo within each other's vicinity. The tension that had built between the Shimada brothers had all but faded away.

"Stay back...he is mine!" Hanzo shouted at Yuffie, firing a flurry of arrows at the ninja girl. Greninja jumped in front of Yuffie and deflected the arrows with a swipe, before firing a Water Shuriken at Hanzo.

"Look out!" shouted Genji as he tackled Hanzo to the floor, saving him from being struck by the Water Shuriken which traveled down the hallway. "We have to escape..."

"Say no more," Kiriko said to Genji, doing a hand jutsu of sorts that summoned a mystical fox spirit. The fox spirit ran past the ninja pals, as Kat and Anna were both entranced.

"Ooh, such a pretty fox!" gleamed Kat, as she and her sister chased after the fox spirit. Better catch that fox spirit soon, before it returned to the spirit world.

"Um, guys, we're supposed to recruit a cyborg ninja!" Asuka called out to Kat and Ana, as she and the remaining ninja pals ran after their friends. Genji was so relieved.

"Some very interesting friends you got there," Kiriko said to Genji, who took Hanzo's hand and helped his brother up to his feet. Hanzo would've slapped away Genji's hand if he had the chance.

"They're not exactly my friends; they're quite the opposite," explained Genji, as he put his ninja sword back in its holster. "Every time I visit this mansion, those 'ninja pals' keep bothering me..."

"If I may, I can get rid of them for you," Hanzo offered to Genji; nobody antagonized his little brother but him. Those ninja pals oughta get back to the end of the line.

"Thank you, brother, but I can handle them myself," responded Genji, choosing to fend off the ninja pals alone. "This is my battle to fight..." The cyborg ninja went down the hallway, saving his meditation with Zenyatta for later.

"Maybe a peace offering could satisfy those ninja pals," Kiriko suggested to Hanzo, who was now looking at the ninja while scratching his chin in thought. "Why are you looking at me like that...?"


Villager and Red were previously fishing at a new fishing spot, but now the two were stuck guiding Widowmaker and Sigma to Master Hand. And given Widowmaker's history, the two were skittish about leading the assassin to Master Hand's whereabouts.

"Are we not going to the mansion?" asked Widowmaker, who along with Sigma was being led around in the Central District area of Seattle. Projects and houses were at every corner of the neighborhood.

"Master Hand is at the dry cleaners up ahead," replied Red, as Widowmaker furrowed her brow; the dry cleaners was the last place Widowmaker expected Master Hand to be. "He's getting his sheets washed."

Red the Pokemon Trainer: We know where Master Hand is...and we know what Widowmaker plans to do with him. So we're gonna take Widowmaker to random places in town, and hope that she doesn't catch on. Sigma's lost in his own world, so we won't worry about him.

"Sometimes I detest thinking about gravity - it brings me down," Sigma randomly proclaimed, with the others unsure if Sigma really felt that way or if he was telling a pun. With the state of his mind, no one will ever know.

"Gravity brings me down too," Villager said to Sigma, letting him know that he wasn't alone. But Sigma wasn't listening to Villager, for he was fixated on some graffiti art on the wall.

"This artwork reminds me of Iris...I have met Iris in person, in fact! It was a sublime meeting of wonderful proportions, dare I say."

"I'm sure that it was..." Widowmaker sarcastically responded as Villager heard his phone ringing; to Villager's surprise, it was Yashiro who was calling him.

"Yes, Yashiro?" Villager answered the phone, while Sigma continued to admire the graffiti - even stroking it with his finger since he liked it that much. "No, I'm not going to catch the caterpillar in your room! Do you guys not have bug spray?"

"He's scared of a caterpillar? What a sissy," snorted Red, who has never met a caterpillar that he was afraid of. When most of the caterpillars that you saw were Caterpies, Weedles, and occasionally Wurmples...

"What's that? Doomfist is on Microwave Idol Mamorin?" Villager suddenly got Widowmaker's attention, as he had the assassin smiling. "And he's doing a pretty decent job? Why did you have to say it like that?"

"We will be there shortly," Widowmaker took Villager's phone and spoke into it, before ending the call and giving Villager his phone back. "This microwave idol show - where is it shot at?"

"Don't you wanna see Master Hand?" Red asked Widowmaker, who delivered a glare that sent chills down the Pokemon trainer's spine. "Mamori films it at the idol singers' house, which is near the mansion..."

"Then to the idol singers' house we go. Surely Master Hand will be done with his laundry by then." Widowmaker turned to Sigma, who was still admiring the graffiti art. Almost wanted to kiss it. "Sigma! Leave the graffiti alone. We're moving out!"


Because he had his hands full with 2B, Fox never got the chance to ask Falco for the binoculars he used in the previous episode. But now that he was free, Fox stopped by Falco's room to speak with Falco...and was met with some bad news.

"What?! You gave the binoculars to the thrift store?" Fox asked Falco, who nodded his head smiling with his arms folded. Almost like he was proud of what he had done. "This is just like my old oven all over again..."

"To be fair, that oven was a worthless piece of punk," said Falco, before surprising Fox when he revealed the binoculars that he kept under his pillow. "Ha, got 'em! Here ya go."

"I just knew you were playing games with me." Fox accepted the binoculars from Falco and looked through the binoculars, only to grimace seconds later. "Sheesh? Ever thought about cleaning these lenses?"

"Fox, we're about to head out to the watchpoint," Zelda informed the pilot as she poked her head inside Falco's room. "Want to come with us?"

"Lemme give Mario these binoculars first." Fox soon noticed Falco looking past Zelda, as someone standing in the hallway caught Falco's eye.

"Hey, princess, who's that chick with the blindfold?" Falco asked Zelda, as 2B commanded his attention. Could be because of how stunning she was. "And why is she wrangling with Sonic and Cortex over that sword?"

"That's 2B, she is a..." answered Zelda, only to look back at 2B and see the android trying to get her sword back from Sonic. Cortex was doing his best to help out but to no avail. "...2B, stop that!"

"And he claimed that he was strong..." chuckled Fox, amused by Cortex being horsed around by 2B; at least Sonic was standing his ground.


The watchpoint was nearing completion, as the robots were 95 percent done with construction. Sojourn, who oversaw the construction, was relieved that the "tourists" didn't interfere with the robots while they were building.

"We have an android from the future in our possession," Tracer spoke with Sojourn over on the codec, which Sojourn had pressed against her ear. "Should we keep her temporarily stationed at the watchpoint, commanding officer?"

"We should have enough room for her," replied Sojourn, knowing that the watchpoint had an ample amount of room for any android to roam about in. "If she is the destructive type, she won't be much of a..."

"Sojourn! I have found a robot," Torbjörn alerted the commanding officer, as the engineer was on top of Geo Stelar's back. Geo tried to fight Torbjörn off. "He definitely gives off the vibe!"

"I'm not a robot, get off of me!" Geo shouted at Torbjörn, who was clinging to the young man as he aimed to put him in a chokehold. "You got me mixed up with someone else."

"One moment, Tracer..." Sojourn spoke into the codec, before running over to Geo and prying Torbjörn off of the young man. "...remember, Torbjörn, you're still representing Overwatch!"

Volnutt: Torbjörn was acting like a total jerk to me. Claimed that I was a bad person simply because I was a robot. When I pointed out that he was part robot due to his robot arm, he went into hysterics! Viking guys are crazier than I've imagined.

"This watchpoint will be a success," Master Hand discussed with Anna, as he and the merchant were chatting at the watchpoint entrance. A certain Gnorc was peeking through the window. "Organization XIII won't know what hit them!"

"What if the threat of Organization XIII never actually comes?" Anna asked Master Hand, who dared not to dwell upon that very thought. Once the time was right, Gnasty waltzed inside the watchpoint unseen.

"My, my, what a lovely watchpoint!" exclaimed Gnasty, as Master Hand and Anna were both drawn to the Gnorc. Master Hand was irritated. "A fine institution, if I..."

"Oy vey, it's the weak link of Dimentio's troupe..." groaned Master Hand, who hardly saw Gnasty as anything of a threat. Not after the last time he saw him. "...why don't you vamoose before I send Spyro on your behind?"

"Me? The weak link?!" Gnasty was deeply offended as he clutched his pearls, with Master Hand putting disrespect on his name. "Why I never..."

"You got bossed around by Kratos and didn't even fight back. And from what I've been told, you let some dog scare you away. For a supposedly intimidating villain, you sure aren't that intimidating."

"First off, that was a wolf who scared me away...not a dog. No shame in that. Moreover, I just wanted to say that...Dimentio is on his way here."

"He is?! How did he..." Wasting no time, Master Hand floated over to Sojourn, who was holding Torbjörn in her grasp. Torbjörn was angrily fighting back.

"Yes, Master Hand? What's up?" Sojourn asked the giant hand, tightening her grip on Torbjörn; Torbjörn may be short, but he was strong enough to fight out of Sojourn's clutches.

"Dimentio is coming to the watchpoint! We have to stop construction. Engage all defenses!" Master Hand believed that with the Omnics on his side, Dimentio would be done for.

"Who is this Dimentio? Must be an evil robot!" inferred Torbjörn, who wanted to build a turret that would knock Dimentio out of the sky. Or off of the ground. Either or.

"Not every evil person is a robot, Torbjörn," Sojourn said to the engineer, before returning her attention to Master Hand. "It's too early to put the watchpoint in defense mode...Master Hand?"

"Move, people, it's time to move!" shouted Master Hand as he was directing the 'tourists' out of the watchpoint. Smacking folks left and right just to get them to skedaddle.

"Well, that went according to plan," remarked Gnasty, seeing Master Hand easily distracted; the Gnorc then looked outside the entrance and gave a thumbs up. It was go time for the Junkers...


But the question was, would there be anyone to stop the Junkers? One possible person was Soldier: 76, who was within reaching distance of the watchpoint with Lucina and Chrom. Chrom had brought the oven during the entire trip.

"We're getting close..." Soldier: 76 said to Lucina and Chrom, with Chrom's legs wobbling due to the heaviness of the oven. "...drop the oven already, bub."

"As you wish," Chrom said to Soldier: 76 as he dropped the oven to the ground, feeling relief as the pressure on his back vanished away. "Phew! I could really go for a break right now."

"A break at a time like this?" Lucina questioned Chrom, who was stretching the back muscles as his spine was likely crying for joy. "Why take a break when we're close to the..."

Suddenly a tranquilizing dart was fired at Chrom, striking the prince in his neck. Soldier: 76 came over and knelt down at Chrom, who was napping like a baby with his butt sticking in the air.

"This dart...I recognize it from somewhere," remarked Soldier: 76 as he pulled the dart in question out of Chrom's neck. The vigilante looked in the direction the dart was fired from and saw some shrubbery.

"Pulled the trigger by mistake, my bad," a female voice said from behind the shrubbery, as the voice was easily recognizable to Soldier: 76. An Egyptian woman wielding a rifle emerged from the bushes, smiling at Soldier: 76.

"Ana Amari! Boy, am I happy to see you." Soldier: 76 was happily reunited with Ana, his second-in-command back when he was Overwatch's Strike Commander. Their friendship endured to this day.

"Headed to the watchpoint? I was on my way there as well." Ana walked over to Soldier: 76, before looking around and leaning close she had some juicy info to share. "The Junker Queen is set on destroying it..."

"Figures - that watchpoint is just asking to be blown up." Although Soldier: 76 was reunited with Ana, he could still kick it with Lucina. "It's never too late to turn back, Lucy."

"It's Lucina..." Lucina corrected Soldier: 76 as she grabbed the sleeping Chrom and hoisted him over her shoulder. "...and no way am I going back home."

"Whose oven is that?" Ana asked Soldier: 76 and Lucina, as the oven was lying on the ground with its door open. Ana wondered if the appliance could possibly be of use...


Genji was running from the ninja pals, certain that he lost them again as he reached the sixth floor. The cyborg ninja discovered the staircase that led to the roof and was scaling up the steps.

"Those ninja pals shouldn't be on the roof," hypothesized Genji, as he mulled jumping down from the roof and running free. But when he arrived at the roof, guess who he saw?

"Thought you could run from us forever, huh?" Yuffie asked Genji, gathered on the roof with Asuka, Kat, and Ana; Genji tried to return inside; only for Genji to slam the door shut.

"Open the door this instant!" Genji demanded Greninja, who was preventing Genji from twisting the doorknob. Greninja swiped away at Genji, sending him down to the roof floor.

"You might've escaped your initiation last time, but today you won't be as fortunate," Asuka said to Genji, as Kat and Ana had Genji's limbs pinned down. "Spyro can't save you now!"

"Halt!" a commanding voice shouted to the ninja pals, who looked up and saw Hanzo and Kiriko standing above them. Genji lifted his head and looked, wondering if Hanzo was going to save him.

"Hanzo?" uttered Genji, as Hanzo and Kiriko both leaped down to confront the ninja pals. Greninja summoned a Water Shuriken just in case.

"It's not him you want..." If Hanzo wouldn't let the ninja pals make Genji an honorary ninja, then who else could fill the void? "...it's her!" Hanzo pointed at Kiriko, who happily waved her hand.

"News flash - I'm a ninja, too," Kiriko explained to the ninja pals, as Genji looked at the young ninja as if she was crazy. "I'd love to be an honorary member of your group."

"Say no more!" exclaimed Yuffie, as Kat and Ana let go of Genji; Yuffie formally "knighted" Kiriko with her kunai. "Congrats, Kiriko - you are now officially a member of the ninja pals!"

"Thanks for having me on board." Kiriko gave a wink to Genji, whose sympathy for the young ninja was going through the roof.

Kiriko: What has Hanzo gotten me into...?

"Can we play with your fox spirit, pretty please?" Kat asked Kiriko, as Hanzo picked up Genji and held his young brother in his arms. Little did Genji know that Hanzo was walking to the roof's edge.

"All my thanks go to you for saving me, Hanzo," Genji thanked Hanzo...who casually dropped Genji down to the ground. Genji was in a world of hurt, as Hanzo was left satisfied. "I need...healing..."

"That reminds me - I have heard that Kazuya Mishima lives here," said Hanzo as he returned to the mansion's interior, leaving Genji to writhe in pain. "Perhaps he can give me pointers on throwing relatives into a volcano."


It took a lot in her, but Aerith successfully convinced Cloud to ride on a bus in Arcadia Bay. Just like with the rock skipping, Cloud failed to see what Aerith would get out of a bus ride.

"Money doesn't grow on trees, you know..." Cloud reminded Aerith, with the bus fare in his pocket as a bus pulled up to the bus stop. When the bus door opened, Cloud and Aerith both got inside...

"Hop aboard!" greeted the bus driver, Big the Cat, as he tipped his hat; the presence of Big made Cloud change his mind instantly.

"We'll wait for the next bus," Cloud told Big as he took Aerith's hand and got out of the bus, with the bus door closing afterward. "What is his problem...?"

"Boo!" exclaimed Sombra as she snuck up on Cloud and Aerith, startling the two friends. Their reaction made the hacker laugh. "Hola a todos. Samus wanted me to give you this, Cloud."

"She told you where I was, didn't she?" Cloud would receive a gift from Sombra, as the hacker gave him his very own Translocator. "This for me?"

"Your own Translocator! With it, you can teleport to the mansion if you ever feel homesick. Or if you wanna give Aerith some alone time. But don't keep her lonely for too long!"

"I will make sure of it," Aerith assured Sombra, giving Cloud a whimsical smile; she knew that Cloud wouldn't abandon her out of the blue.

"If you see Samus, tell her I said thanks," Cloud said to Sombra, as he placed the Translocator in his pocket. "Let's go, Aerith." Cloud took Aerith to another bus stop, fingers crossed that he wouldn't run into Big again.

"One for him...and one for me!" smiled Sombra, as she pulled her own Translocator after Cloud left with Aerith. "All new and improved."

"I just spoke with Widowmaker..." Reaper said to Sombra as he caught up to the hacker, putting his earpiece away. "...she and Sigma are heading to the mansion. We better go."

"Can I get just one picture?" Max called out to Reaper and Sombra from afar, waving her hand to the Talon operatives. Reaper and Sombra boarded the bus Big was driving, and the bus door closed afterward. "Aw, man..."


Yashiro: Had to be a man today...had to kill a caterpillar with my bare hands. Curse you fly swat for breaking! Do I feel bad about killing a caterpillar? If it was a cute caterpillar, then I would've. Now, can you please tell Doomfist to keep it down in the kitchen? I'm not... *eyes around* ...man enough to do it myself.

Much to Moira's chagrin, Doomfist was enjoying himself on Microwave Idol Mamorin - the Nigerian cyborg was showing exuberance, and even gave honest critiques on the food. He was one of the better guests on the show.

"Remember, little ones - only Mamori can warm up your heart, with the press of a button," Doomfist said directly into the camera, ending the episode; a disappointed Moira stood outside the kitchen watching. "And Ashley, too, I guess..."

"That's my line!" Mamori said to Doomfist, as she playfully slapped Doomfist's leg...and Doomfist allowed it. Moira was beside herself. "But it's cool. See you next week, Mamorinis! Bye-bye!"

"Thank goodness it's over," rejoiced Moira as Ashley ended filming, pressing the stop button on the digital camera. "Widowmaker can't come soon enough..."

Instead of Widowmaker and Sigma, Moira got Reaper and Sombra as the duo teleported to the kitchen. Via Sombra's modified Translocator. Reaper was hugging Sombra so that he would be teleported with her successfully.

"Not a single word..." Reaper warned Moira and Doomfist as he ended his hug, pushing Sombra away - if Max took a picture of that hug, it would spell the end for her.

"So this is the idol singers' new digs...nice," remarked Sombra as she looked around the house, checking out the kitchen and living room. The doorbell rang, and Moira answered the door delighted by who she saw.

"We have arrived..." announced Widowmaker, standing on the doorstep with Sigma; she and Sigma entered the house, and now all six Talon operatives were reunited.

"All done with the episode, Mamori?" Itsuki asked the idol singer as he came down the stairs, only to gasp when he saw Widowmaker. He locked eyes with the assassin, who drew closer to him.

"I have a question for you." Widowmaker took out her rifle, letting Itsuki know what would happen if he didn't answer right. "Where is the watchpoint?"


Mario's neighbors had some obligations to fulfill, so they returned to their homes and left Mario behind. At least Mario now had a pair of binoculars. But Mario had to grab a bite to eat, and so he entrusted the binoculars with a certain Keyblade wielder to take his stead.

"Wonder what's got them so afraid," Sora said to B.O.B. as he saw Villager and Red retreating to the mansion through the binoculars. The Keyblade wielder turned his head and saw the Talon operatives exiting the idol singers' house.

"It's okay, stomach; your craving has-a been satisfied," Mario said to his stomach, patting his belly as he exited the mansion with a doughnut. He returned to Sora, who was slacking off on his job. "Sora, is that Widowmaker over there?"

"I dunno, is it?" Sora easily discerned Reaper, Sombra, Moira, and Doomfist, but Widowmaker and Sigma were completely foreign to him. "I thought she wore all black! Or was it all white?"

"THAT'S THE BLACK-A WIDOW, YOU DOLT!" As Mario was shouting at Sora, the Talon operatives all buddled together...and teleported away. "Did they just teleport...?"


When Viridi first met D. Va, she heavily resented the mech pilot - mostly because she was keeping Pit away from her. Even caused Viridi to go on a xenophobic rant. Fast-forward to 2022, and Viridi and D. Va were on friendly terms as they chatted at Cafe Leblanc.

"I use this color to paint my whiskers on," D. Va said to Viridi as she showed the goddess of nature a pink paint swab. "You can find it easily in the store!"

"Write the paint code on this napkin," Viridi said to D. Va as she handed her a napkin, and an ink pen to write with. "Pit, you better remember this code!"

Pit: One of my biggest fears was Viridi wanting to turn into a cat. If she invests in buying a pair of cat ears... *shudders*

"They grow up so fast," Cassidy said to Ashe, sitting next to the fellow gunslinger at the counter as he smiled at Viridi. He was once a victim of Viridi's past xenophobia, albeit off-screen.

"What are you, her dad?" Ashe asked Cassidy, as D. Va handed the napkin to Viridi; D. Va's codec was ringing on the counter, and D. Va couldn't hear.

"Hello! D. Va?" Mei's voice was heard from the codec; the closest person to the codec was Spyro, who was napping with his head on the counter. "We have an emergency at the watchpoint!"

"Someone talking to me?" asked Spyro as he awoke from his slumber, assuming that Tracer was speaking to him. His attention was drawn to the codec.

"The watchpoint is under attack! I repeat, the watchpoint is under attack! The others aren't responding, D. Va, so we need your help!"

"Watchpoint's under attack? Must be Gnasty Gnorc's doing!" Spyro rushed into action, as he charged out of the cafe. D. Va saw Spyro leave, wondering where the purple dragon was headed.


The Overwatch crew reached the mansion by aircraft - and Link, Zelda, Tracer, Mei, Cortex, Sonic, Fox, and 2B rode this aircraft en route to the watchpoint. The aircraft touched down near the watchpoint, which was under attack as it was rocked by explosions. Everyone stood from a safe distance.

"I don't think she heard me..." Mei said to the group as she put her codec away, hoping that D. Va got the message. Uka, who was gone for a moment, returned to the group from the watchpoint.

"Did some scoping around," said Uka, about to report what he discovered in the watchpoint. "That fool Junkrat is causing the destruction...along with some friends os his.

"The Junkers! Should've known," frowned Tracer as she pounded her fist in the palm of her hand. "Only they would think about doing this."

"May I have my sword back?" 2B asked Sonic as she reached out for her sword, which Sonic was still holding on to. Sonic wouldn't even let 2B touch it.

"Think you can handle the Junkers?" Sonic asked 2B, who nodded her head with slight eagerness; Sonic returned the sword to 2B, giving it back to its owner. "Show 'em what you got..."


With Master Hand having evacuated everyone from the watchpoint, the Junkers were given more freedom to destroy, destroy, destroy. Joining in on the Junker's efforts was Gnasty, who was wrecking stuff with his hammer.

"Sure appreciated that assist!" the Junker Queen said to Gnasty, destroying a few computers while Gnasty was driving his hammer through the walls.

"What can I say, I'm a good troublemaker," grinned Gnasty, creating holes in the wall with his spiked hammer. Junkrat was throwing bombs, while Roadhog fired away bullets with his gun.

"Haha! Nobody can stop us now!" proclaimed Junkrat, as he was on a roll; Roadhog was on a roll too as he ventured into the next room. But then, he came across something...an oven, lying conspicuously alone by itself.

"I could use a snack..." said Roadhog, ending his barrage of bullets as he walked over to the oven. Rubbing his hands together, Roadhog opened the oven door...as Chrom slid out. "...hey, this isn't a snack!"

"Now isn't the time to slack off!" Junkrat informed Roadhog as he checked on his bodyguard...who was struck by a tranquilizing dart. Roadhog went to sleep in a hurry, falling to the floor. "Roadhog?"

"Is he goofing off?" asked the Junker Queen as she and Gnasty entered the room; soon enough, Junrat also was struck by a dart, taking a nap right on the spot.

"We have been spotted!" fretted Gnasty, as the Junker Queen slowly backed away - only to feel a tip of a blade poking into her back. The Junker Queen turned around and was met by 2B.

"Stand down..." 2B said to the Junker Queen, pointing her sword upwards at the Aussie. The Junker Queen frowned, refusing to let 2B scare her.

"I ain't standing down to no one!" the Junker Queen said to 2B, wielding her axe as she and 2B dueled. The two ladies dueled away from Gnasty, who looked out a window peering at the sky.

"No sign of Spyro, what a relief," the Gnorc smiled, before squinting his eyes as not one but two flying objects were headed in his direction. "Oh no...don't tell me that's..."

"INCOMING!" shouted Spyro, as D. Va crashed through the window in her pink mech. Spyro crashed into Gnasty, who was then pinned down by the mech. "Third time's the charm, huh Gnasty?"

"But how?!" questioned Gnasty, as D. Va leaped out of the pink mech and landed with her foot on Gnasty's face. Gnasty grunted in pain, as D. Va snapped a selfie with Gnasty in the background.

"Nice work, everyone," a man shouted from up above, as Soldier: 76 came down running the stairs to D. Va. Ana and Lucina followed after him. "That oughta teach them."

"Why does my neck feel sore?" asked Chrom, yawning and finally waking up as he rubbed his neck. Eventually, he realized his new surroundings. "Is this the doctor's office? Why is it so...?"

"You obviously need more sleep," Ana said to Chrom, firing another dart at the prince's neck. Chrom fell asleep again, getting his Z's in. "You can thank me later, Lucina."

"He could really use the extra sleep," responded Lucina, as she gently pulled her father out of the oven. Soldier: 76 heard the sounds of blades clashing nearby, as he ran out of the room to see the Junker Queen and 2B dueling.

"I'll let that blindfolded woman handle her..." Soldier: 76 said as he returned to the room...where the pink mech was about to detonate. D. Va had her phone out for a selfie. "...no, now isn't the time!"

"D. Va selfie, take three!" shouted D. Va, wanting to make this selfie count - even if it came at the expense of damaging the watchpoint.

"Everybody run for cover!" shouted Spyro, as everyone found a hiding spot; the Junker Queen, who was still dealing with 2B, looked over and saw the pink mech about to self-destruct.


Eventually, the pink mech exploded, and the explosion could be seen from outside the watchpoint. Master Hand, Anna, Sojourn, and Torbjörn witnessed the explosion from a safe distance.

"Should be the last of the explosions," inferred Torbjörn, as several windows were broken from the pink mech's self-destruction. "We should've left those robots for dead."

"What is wrong with you?" Sojourn frowned at Torbjörn, displeased with the engineer's heavy disdain towards the Omnic race that knew no bounds.

"Master Hand, hello...it is I, Sigma," a certain astrophysicist greeted Master Hand, as Sigma approached the giant hand and company. Sojourn and Torbjörn were both on high alert.

"Hello, Sigma!" greeted Master Hand, meeting Sigma for the first time since the middle of last year's Summer Olympics. "Have you come to formally thank me for paying for your hospital bill?"

"If this was the right time, then yes, I would've. But instead, I have brought...some friends of mine." Sigma brought Master Hand and company's attention to the Talon operatives that appeared - Doomfist, Reaper, Moira, Sombra...and Widowmaker.

"Greetings, Master Hand..." greeted Widowmaker, as Master Hand tensed up; Sojourn and Torbjörn both took out their weapons. "...before you fire, why don't you listen to our proposal?"

"Your proposal?" questioned Sojourn as she lowered her guard...what was Talon up to?


With the coast now clear, Link, Zelda, and the others entered the watchpoint to inspect the damage. They came across 2B, who was standing over an unconscious Junker Queen.

"The final explosion took her out," explained 2B, taking small credit for the Junker Queen's defeat believing that she had weakened her.

"She's not the only one," said Spyro, as he dragged an unconscious Gnasty over to the android, the Gnorc covered entirely in soot. "He got the brunt of it."

"A miracle that he even survived," remarked Tracer, knowing how lethal a mech explosion was. Soldier: 76 and Ana showed up, dragging Junkrat and Roadhog with them. "Hi mom, hi dad!"

"Please don't call us that..." Soldier: 76 said to Tracer, as he laid Junkrat and Roadhog next to Gnasty. The Junkers and Gnasty are all down for the count. "...about time we take out the trash."

"Tracer, have you arrived yet?" Sojourn reached over to the pilot over the codec, as Gnasty was stirring. Ana fired a dart at the Gnorc to keep him asleep.

"Yes, and we have brought the android!" replied Tracer as she rested her arm on 2B; 2B gently knocked Tracer's arm away. "Can we still keep her at the watchpoint?"

"We sure can, once everything's patched up. But that's the least of our concerns...Talon's here. And Widowmaker's with them."

"Widowmaker?" exclaimed Fox, who was scared for his life as Link and Zelda exchanged worried looks. What did Talon possibly want?


Master Hand: As it turns out, Dimentio wasn't on his way to the watchpoint. It was just a ruse for the Junkers to wreck shop on the watchpoint. Australians can be crazy sometimes. Do Junkers not have other hobbies?

Link, Zelda, and Tracer met with Sojourn outside the watchpoint, where she was gathered with Widowmaker. Cortex accompanied Link and company, for whatever reason.

"I got this - I know how to get on Widowmaker's good side," Cortex said to Link and company, before looking at Widowmaker and giving her a wave. "Hello, Widowmaker! How do you..."

"Get out of my sight, Dr. Cortex..." commanded Widowmaker, as Cortex scurried back inside the watchpoint. With Cortex gone, Link and the others met with Sojourn and Widowmaker.

"Widowmaker, we meet again!" Tracer said to the assassin, being cordial with the Talon operative as Widowmaker hardly returned the favor. "What's got you and your friends chatting with our commanding officer?"

"Dimentio...have you heard of him?" Widowmaker asked Tracer and company, as her knowledge of Dimentio astonished Link and Zelda. Dimentio must still be making rounds with the villains.

"He's been a thorn in our side as of late," replied Zelda, left wondering what other villains Dimentio had encountered. "Did you run into him?"

"Yes - and so have my closest confidants. He presented us individually with an offer to join his pact, but we all turned him down. When he consulted me a second time, he vowed to destroy Talon out of pure spite...before destroying the Smash Mansion. And then our universe."

"Widowmaker wants to retaliate against Dimentio," Sojourn explained to Link and company, as Widowmaker believed that Dimentio was standing in the way of Talon's goals. "Therefore she wishes for Talon to side...with Overwatch."

"Anyone looking to annihilate our universe definitely needs to be taken care of..." stated Tracer as she mulled Widowmaker's plea, before looking up at Widowmaker and smiling. "...we will work together! But just this once!"

"Then we have a deal," said Widowmaker, as she and Tracer shook hands - truly a handshake for the ages. "We'll go our separate ways after this, but for now, Dimentio is our target. No fun can be had if our universe doesn't remain intact, is there?"

First, the mansion and the manor agreed to be on the same page - and now Overwatch and Talon have done the same. The powers of Dimentio.