Author's Note:

Hello, everyone...I have nothing to share with you all. Other than maybe the fact that I surpassed five million words. Didn't even notice it until I went to go read the reviews posted for the previous chapter. As I've stated before, I stopped caring about the word count a long time ago. Quality over quantity, baby. So, guest reviews...the first review is from Guy w the Jokes, who has a suggestion this time around:

"I have an idea. Sometimes in the summer, when we know enough of the Engage cast, you can try and have them appear in groups. For instance, Alfred and his guys from Firene, Diamant and his dudes from Brodia, Timerra and her buddies from Solm, and finally Ivy and her pals from Elusia. It can be separated into four different chapters, as you did to the Three Houses cast in 2020. What do you think?"

I like this idea. I can do four separate chapters, and give everyone the same amount of love. Now for the joke:

"Since you use rings in Fire Emblem Engage, I'm gonna give you a ring joke. You know, somebody stole my mood ring once. I don't know how to feel about it. Get it? Mood...feel...yeah it sucks, I know."

Yeah, that joke wasn't the best. But I can see where you were going with it. Next is A JRPG enjoyer:

"Gotta say, the Persona parts are fine. Definitely much better than having the Persona 5 cast buying Halloween stuff, I guess. The parts with Kotone are...interesting, to say the least. Does this mean Dimentio tried to have her join the gang, but she refused? Or is she putting up a front and trying to ruin the mansion from the inside? A fun theory I might say."

Ooh, I love this theory! But that said, I won't answer either one of those questions and let you guys keep speculating. Moving on:

"Also, I think you might've forgotten, but it doesn't seem that Joker is commenting about anything related to Kotone. There's literally no scene concerning him and his picture of a "red-haired girl". Sounds weird, don't you think? And speaking of which, you might also forget that the manor got a time machine that brings out Akechi and Shinji from the past, are they still around?"

Due to my focus on getting as many P4/P5 characters featured as possible, I may have forgotten about that Joker detail. But I will revisit the subject in a later chapter. And you could say that Akechi and Shinji are still around, but I'll leave that up to your imagination. Random question has a question:

"Where is Elizabeth and Margaret during all this? And why is Theodore not here. He's canon, unlike Kotone.

OH SNAP I FORGOT ABOUT THEODORE! I feel horrible now. As for Elizabeth and Margaret, they didn't make the cut due to all the Fire Emblem stuff going on. I had no room for them. Ending this author's note with David:

"Is the other Anna from Fire Emblem Engage gonna show up to work alongside current Anna? Has Conker sobered up since showing up? Is K. Rool gonna bring out the Blast-o-Matic and call his brother K. Lumsy to help deal with the True Organization XIII? Any nods or references to Digimon World Next Order? (The Switch port comes out February 22). Is Zelos gonna get into a backstabbing contest with Alvin for the Symphonia chapter? And finally, do you think Cody Rhodes returning to the Royal Rumble will finally give him a chance to become champion?"

Gonna stick with the current Anna for now. Conker has sobered up. King K. Rool may bring out his Blast-o-Matic and K. Lumsy. Might have a few Digimon references in mind. A backstabbing contest involving Zelos and Alvin does sound funny. And I think that Cody Rhodes returning to the Rumble (and winning) will finally make him the world champion. A Wrestlemania match between him and Roman would be mint.


Episode 371: Mafia

Master Hand was totally relieved that he made up with Cloud. And Cloud himself was relieved that he was back on good terms with Master Hand. The handshake and apology that took place two episodes ago was a move that was best for both parties.

For Master Hand, he no longer had to fear anyone slighting him for how he was always hating on Cloud. As for Cloud, he didn't have to live with the fact that Master Hand despised him for an honest mistake. Better yet, he didn't have to be forced to live down south in Oregon either.

Now that he won back Master Hand's trust, Cloud was back to being depended upon by Master Hand to handle stuff. For instance, the swordsman was bought to Master Hand's room to fix Master Hand's TV.

"Just for the record, this is something that Mr. Game and Watch could do," Cloud said to Master Hand, who was helping the giant hand get Amazon Prime on his television. The swordsman wasn't man enough to tell Master Hand the truth.

"Master Hand thinks that you can do it better," Isabelle explained to Cloud, who was phoning it in as he pretended that he knew what he was doing. Master Hand was watching Cloud's every move.

"Had I gotten this resolved earlier, I would've been able to watch those Thursday night football games on my television," complained Master Hand, who felt deeply ashamed about having to check the box scores of the games he missed. "Had to watch them on a smartphone! The horror!"

"You're not the only one to do that." After tinkering with the TV remote for a bit, Cloud decided to call it quits as he put the remote away. "Sorry, Master Hand, but I did the best that I..."

"Come in!" Master Hand interrupted Cloud, shouting after he heard someone knocking on the door. Jigglypuff opened the door, and a handsome-looking Italian man entered.

"Good afternoon," greeted the Italian man, whose handsome face almost caused Isabelle to swoon. Mans was looking like Johnny Depp. "I am Robert Garcia, an insurance man. Is Anna home?"

"She's kinda busy at the moment," replied Isabelle; Anna was operating her shop at the moment, which in itself was a huge rarity. "But you can wait for her in the living room. I'll accompany you there."


Why couldn't Master Hand rely on Link and Zelda, the voices of authority, to "fix" his television? It was because the Hylian couple had some business to settle. Stuff was going down in downtown Seattle, and Dimentio was believed to be behind it.

Link: A lot of petty crimes have been taking place downtown. Property being stolen, shopping carts removed from grocery stores...even heard a few claims about jaywalking.
Zelda: Only one individual is responsible for committing these crimes, and the authorities described them to us as a man wearing a dark cloak. You know what that means...
Link: ...Organization XIII.

Link and Zelda arrived at a police station, looking to speak with the local authorities about the extent of the actions that this Organization XIII perpetrator had done. When they got out of Link's truck, they saw Junpei dancing down the stairs Joker style.

"He must be on crack," Link assumed to Zelda, wondering why Junpei was so jubilant. Junpei kept up that energy as he reached the end of the stairs, dancing his way over to Link and Zelda.

"Guess which baseball team's gonna take the championship?" Junpei asked Link and Zelda, having to give the answer since neither Hylian knew what was up. "Omnis Adesti Fideles! Wooo!"

"Baseball season is over with," stated Zelda, and that got Junpei to stop dancing in a hurry. Junpei looked at the princess in disbelief.

"That's what everyone keeps saying. But I know that there's a baseball season going on out there. And we're gonna kick names, and take butt!"

"You mean kick butt, and..." Link was about to correct Junpei, only to later save his breath as he let out a deep sigh. "...just keep doing you, Junpei."

"Right on, brother! Woo!" Junpei excitedly smacked Link on his chest, causing the Hylian to flinch before strutting down the sidewalk. "Baseball championship, here we come!"

"He is in for one rude awakening," Zelda murmured to Link as she and her husband pressed forward to the police station. Time to focus on some more important matters.


Isabelle sat with Robert Garcia in the living room, as she and the businessman waited on Anna. The wait finally came to an end as Anna showed up.

"Mr. Garcia, this is Anna," Isabelle introduced Robert to Anna, as Robert stood up from the couch he was sitting on and properly adjusted his collar. "She's the person you should talk to."

"Oh hi. I'm sorry, just a sec," Anna said to Robert, before pulling Isabelle to the side and whispering in the Shih Tzu's ear, "Isabelle, you're supposed to be the gatekeeper, do you have any idea how valuable my time is?

"Checked your schedule, and it just says nine til noon is 'creative space' and I thought this could be part of that."

"Do you know how creative space works? Okay, I just canceled my afternoon."

"You don't have anything in the afternoon. It just says 'free play.'

"Push free play til tomorrow morning." Done speaking with Isabelle, Anna reverted her focus to Robert and appeared friendly as she smiled. "Hi. Sorry. Crazy day. You're seeing how the sausage gets made...Most of the time. Come into the meeting room and I will show you a finished sausage!"


With Omnis Adest being in close proximity to the mansion, Cafe Leblanc was always bustling with folks. Riku, who enjoyed how lowkey the cafe atmosphere was, was unnerved by how packed Cafe Leblanc was these days.

"I miss the good old days," Riku said to Sans, sitting at the counter as he looked around at all the cafe patrons. Almost every table was full, which didn't happen that often unless it was the holiday season.

"Coo...this coffee needs more pigeon milk," Brewster informed Viridi, as he handed his cup of coffee to the goddess of nature. Riku was staring at the pigeon with his eye twitching.

"WHY ARE YOU EVEN HERE, YOU HAVE YOUR OWN CAFE!" Riku snapped at Brewster, who slowly turned his head to the silverette. For an instant, it seemed like Brewster was ready to throw hands, but the pigeon turned his head back around.

"i'd fancy a flutter on brewster," remarked Sans, who would put all his money on Brewster to whip Riku's behind in a no holds barred fight. As he proved with Pit in episode 307, Brewster was no stranger to fighting dirty.

Brewster: There is nothing wrong with getting coffee with Cafe Leblanc...it's very important to scout out your competition. Coo.

"Police say that they're still trying to nab the suspect secretly running amok in the downtown area," a female news anchor said, as a news broadcast was playing on the TV in the cafe. Pit watched as he cleaned off the counter.

"This suspect was described as having silver hair and of average height," added the male news anchor, providing a brief description of the suspect as Pit suddenly gasped. "If you have any idea where this individual is, please call the number on the screen."

"Silver hair? Could be anyone," smirked Riku, before eating a spoonful of his curry. Pit was pointing accusingly at Riku, who didn't notice until seconds later.

"You...it was you!" Pit accused Riku, who furrowed his brow as he stared at Pit with a puzzled look. "You were the one doing all those petty crimes!"

"Pit, today isn't the day for this kind of foolishness," Joker advised the angel, who was undeterred as he looked to bring Riku to justice.

"I never did petty crimes," admitted Riku; most of the villainous stuff he had done in the past was all behind him. "Worst that I did was kidnap a living puppet - and I was only forced to do that."

"Aha! So you admit that you're guilty," accused Pit, refusing to stop pointing at Riku until the silverette came clean and admit his wrongdoings. "If you did bad once before, then you're guaranteed to repeat your behavior!"

"Yes, screw self-improvement," Kirby followed up on Pit, wishing for his best friend to get back to work. He was already envisioning Pit leaving the cafe the moment Riku left.

"Whatever, just know that the guy doing those crimes wasn't me," said Riku, chilling as he folded his arms behind his head. He knew that Pit had no evidence to back up his claim, so why bother to further engage with the angel?

"Suit yourself...soon enough, you'll see," Pit vowed to Riku, before looking around at everyone in Cafe Leblanc and pointing his finger at them. "You'll all see."

"Pit's been having too much caffeine on the job..." Chun-li inferred to Ryu, as the two fighters were seated at a table together. Knowing Pit's history, Chun-li desired to sit as far away from the angel as possible.


Anna met with Robert in the meeting room, where Robert was talking about the one thing he knew best other than fighting - business. And Anna couldn't be any less enthralled than being part of the conversation.

"As a manager of a business, you have a lot of pride," Robert said to Anna, whose eyes were drifting asleep as she was struggling to keep awake. "But you also got a lot of responsibility. None greater perhaps, than your need to be sure, that your small or large business is secure in the event of a covered loss."

Anna: There is nothing more insulting to a great salesperson, than having to listen to a bad salesperson. It's like a great basketball player having to listen to a bad basketball player.


Spyro: Mario wanted to go on what he called an "ocean spree", so he rented a catamaran and his family is cruising on it while Hunter and I are stuck at home. Well, we could've gone, but Peach didn't want to bring Hunter for the trip. And by consequence, I was forced to stay behind to make sure that Hunter doesn't break anything. He just broke a vase, so, I'm already in hot water.

Mario and Peach were out of their house, as they brought their two kids out on a little cruise along the Washington coast. The Mario family was traveling in a catamaran, which was being piloted by Kapp'n.

"The frog croaks out songs that don't make any sense..." Kapp'n sang, the gentle sea breeze blowing behind his ears as he piloted the catamaran through the Pacific Ocean. "...he's an old frog, so he can't hit any high notes."

"Your songs-a don't make sense," Mario called out to Kapp'n, who turned his head to stare at Mario only to turn his head back around a split second later.

"Ain't a frog that I be. Fortune smiles upon me. But I'll sing the frog's song, and if you can, you should sing along..."

"We'd appreciate it if you stopped, you're making Lou cry," Peach kindly stated to Kapp'n, as she held the crying Lou in her arms. Kapp'n saw Lou crying but didn't think much of it.

"Tell him to get better ears." Taking great offense to Kapp'n's remark, Peach gasped as she took out a frying pan and threw it at Kapp'n's head. "How did you pull that frying pan out of thin air...?"


As the meeting went on in the meeting room, Fox and Falco watched through the open door. Both pilots were keeping a close eye on Robert, whom they had serious doubts about.

"What do you think?" Falco asked Fox, whose brow was furrowed as he slowly found Robert to be a highly suspect individual. Something about Robert gave off bad-guy vibes to Fox.

"I think you're right," replied Fox, his mind made up after Falco talked up the possibility of Robert not being trustworthy. "It definitely looks suspicious. And his southern Italian heritage raises some flags."

"God forbid you...should have a fire in the basement," Robert discussed with Anna, alluding to the goods that Anna stored in the mansion's basement.

"Oh, yup. Yeah, definitely," Anna voiced her agreement with Robert, nodding her head profusely to make it seem like she was following along. "All that stuff burning up."

"Yeah, and a truck, goes off the side of the road, there's injury."

"Mmhm, I hear you. The truck. Do I even have a truck...?"

"You will be hearing from me, Miss Anna. I can be very very persistent."

"Do your worst." Anna and Robert both stood up as they shook hands, signifying the end of their meeting. Robert knocked over a coat stand as he tried to grab his overcoat. "Oh, great..."

"Would you look at that? What an unpredictable world we live in, huh?" Robert tried to play off his embarrassing moment with a smile, as he exited the meeting room. Fox and Falco stood off to the side so that Robert wouldn't see them.


Since Cloud "failed" to get Amazon Prime on his TV, Master Hand depended on Sonic to remedy the issue. Unlike Cloud, Sonic googled some instructions on getting Amazon Prime on the television screen.

"Let's see what Amazon's customer service says!" exclaimed Sonic as he clicked on the link, glossing through the instructions. Only one thing was required for the instructions to take effect. "Uh, is this an Android TV?"

"This is a Samsung flatscreen," replied Master Hand, and that's when Sonic realized what the problem was - the answer was staring right at him.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk...there's your problem. Amazon Prime on the TV will work if the TV is an Apple TV. We would also need a Chromecast while we're at it."

"Cloud's room has an Apple TV; why don't you use that?" This was a suggestion that Sonic wasn't so keen on, for he did not wish to anger Cloud. "Switch this TV out with his! He won't notice the difference."

"But what if he does notice the difference?" Sonic tried to get Master Hand to think things through, but some growling by Master Hand had him intimidated. "Uh...I'll be right back!" The blue hedgehog grabbed Master Hand's TV, and sped out of the room.


Anna wasn't returning to her shop just yet, so Fox and Falco brought the merchant to the gaming room for a hot minute. There, the pilots would ask Anna about Robert and what was discussed in the meeting.

"What happened in there?" asked Falco, demanding that Anna provide all the details. Preferably the bad details, just for the narrative.

"Nothing, other than once again, I am just thankful that I am a shopkeeper," replied Anna, as she could only imagine how much trouble she'd have on her hands if she owned a large business. Like a law firm, or a cheesecake company.

"Did he threaten you?" asked Fox, doing a brief examination of Anna as he looked at the merchant from head to toe. No signs of bruises or scars.

"No Fox, not everything is a threat." Anna tried to get away from the pilots, but Fox and Falco got ahead of her to stymie her getaway escape.

"Mobsters are!" proclaimed Falco, letting Anna know the kind of danger that she was falling into.

"There are no such things as monsters," stated Anna, before being forced to change her tune when she saw Arthur and the Luminary halting their pool match to give her weird looks. "Well, certain monsters, hehe!"

"He drives an SUV!" That alone was more than enough confirmation for Fox, who was pointing his finger at Falco.

"I knew it!" exclaimed Fox, more convinced than ever that Robert was a crook. "More trunk space. Or should I say, corpse space?"

"Hey guys, I drive a SUV, does that mean I'm in the mob?" Jacky Bryant approached Fox and Falco; the racecar driver did in fact own an SUV, although he rarely ever drove it.

"No, not that, by itself. But look at all the facts. He seems like a mobster."

"Wait, when did we start talking about the mob?" questioned Anna, having no idea which direction the conversation was headed. "The guy was trying to sell me insurance!"

"All mobsters have a front, sometimes it's selling insurance, sometimes it's waste management or sanitation," stated Falco, delving slightly into some Italian American stereotypes that may or may not be true.

"For the record, not all Italian-Americans are in the Mafia," stated Chrom; if all Italian-Americans were in the Mafia, then Mario and Luigi would be bona fide crime lords.

"I think, he just seemed like he was just trying to sell me insurance," stated Anna, finding Robert to be a peaceful soul...and maybe a little easy on the eyes.

"Yeah - buy my insurance or I'll burn your basement down!" exclaimed Falco, who was seeing right through Robert's ploy. Robert couldn't fool him.

"He did talk about a fire in the basement...and he also vaguely threatened me with ovarian cancer...

"Uhh. Alright, who else is here?" asked Chrom as he looked around, hoping that he wasn't the lone voice of reason. But the swordsman was all alone...

Chrom: Link and Zelda are out handling business. So there's not the usual balance between "sane and others." Samus has mentally checked out since Sunday. It's a very dangerous time. The "coalition for reason" is extremely weak.

Samus: Chrom says I checked out, huh? Huh. *nods head*

"Little Mac, you lived in New York, what do you think?" Anna asked the boxer, asking for his two cents on the situation. Little Mac had enough living experience and street cred to be qualified enough to answer.

"Well, first of all, there is no such thing as 'The Mafia,'" replied Little Mac, fairly confident that the mafia was a trope that only existed in the Godfather films. "What you have are specific families. What's the guy's last name?"

"Um, it is, Garcia," answered Anna, as Fox and Falco both gasped; that was not the kind of name that they were expecting.

"But that's a Hispanic name..." said Fox, trying to process this information one bit at a time.

"Garcia is an Iberian surname, it's not just delegated to Hispanic people," Chrom informed Fox, who was generally annoyed by Chrom's know-it-all attitude.

"That is beside the point, you idiot!" shouted Falco, as things were getting heated between the avian pilot and Chrom. A peacekeeper was strongly needed.

"It's, it's a completely different name!"

"So he won't get caught!"

"No, what are you talking about, what mobster would change his name to Garcia? That's like changing your name from Gotti to Grotti. It weakens it."

"No, I disagree," Fox disagreed with Chrom, as he had a resounding argument to back up his disagreement. "'R' is among the most menacing of sounds. That's why they call it "murder." And not 'muck-duck.'"

"Okay too many different words coming at me from too many different sentences," said Anna as she quickly left the gaming room, growing distressed from all the constant back-and-forth. The merchant just needed a moment of reprieve.


Ever since Link moved out of his room, Champion Link was the lone Hylian who had to deal with Cloud and Sephiroth as his roommates. Poor him. Champion Link was sitting on his bed brandishing his sword as Sonic poked his head inside the bedroom.

"Sup Champ, is Cloud nearby?" Sonic asked Champion Link, who looked up from his sword and looked around, seeing that Cloud obviously wasn't present.

"Nope," replied Champion Link, before going back to brandishing his sword; Sonic tiptoed inside the room and carried the Android TV out before putting Master Hand's TV in place.

Champion Link: No, I don't use Cloud's Apple TV. The fascination that I had with it went out the window when I found out that I couldn't cast the Sheikah Slate onto the television. Purah said that the slate was advanced technology!

"Okay then, see ya!" Sonic said to Champion Link, nonchalantly leaving the room with the Android TV as Champion Link was too busy to notice. Would Champion Link even acknowledge Sonic's presence?

"See you around," Champion Link spoke - albeit just seconds after Sonic had already left. The Hylian soon held up his Master Sword as it looked shiny and good as new.

"You will not believe what Aerith just..." Cloud was about to tell Champion Link as returned to his bedroom, only to notice that something was terribly amiss. "...what happened to my TV?"

"What TV?" Champion Link looked away from his Master Hand sword and noticed that the TV sitting on the television stand was different from the one he was used to seeing. "Uh oh..."


Chrom was bothered by how paranoid Fox and Falco were acting with Anna, so the swordsman had to make an important business call. He had to call the one man that could reel in Fox and Falco and put an end to their crazy ways. Since Link and Zelda were out of the question, there was one person that Chrom could depend on...

"Hello?" Mario answered from the other line after he answered the call. Chrom was conducting the phone call with Mario in the privacy of his bedroom.

"Mario? It's Chrom," Chrom spoke into the phone, turning around just to make sure that no one entered through the bedroom door that he could have obviously closed. "I'm so sorry to be calling you on your little vacation."

"Chrom! Uh, what is going on?"

"It's Anna, she thinks he's being shaken down by the mob. I don't know how you usually handle this."

"Look, we're kind-a of busy so..."

"Hey, Chrom! It's Princess Peach," Peach was heard speaking, as she most definitely snatched the phone away from her husband and was taking charge. "We're on our family vacation."

"Princess Peach, I'm sorry..." apologized Chrom, who couldn't afford to hang up the phone just yet. Anna greatly needed some assistance.

"Unless someone very close to us is in immediate physical danger, you should not be calling us."

"You're right. You're right." Chrom was in full understanding, as Peach promptly hung up the phone. "Oh, okay bye."


Fox brought Anna to his house, and he and Falco asked Anna to log into her email. An email that was seldom used, even for business purposes. Anna logged into her email using Fox's laptop.

"It's Garcia, he's following up," stated Anna, who saw an email sent from Robert at the very top of her inbox. The email was flagged as important, so you know Anna had no choice but to answer it.

"Already? This, this guy is persistent!" frowned Falco, as Anna clicked on the email; a whole bunch of text appeared on the screen, but Anna was only focused on the first line.

"'I feel that you will regret missing this great opportunity to be in business,''" Anna read the first sentence of the email, leading Fox and Falco to believe that Robert was attempting to guilt trip Anna into something bad.

"That's bad," Fox gave his two thoughts on the email, thinking that Anna should forfeit reading the rest for her own sake. Krystal looked on from the kitchen, wondering what had gotten into her husband.

"Yeah. What are my options here? Do I just ignore it, or...?"

"Yeah right! You heard him!" Falco said to Anna, knowing that if Anna chose to leave Robert alone then things would escalate. "He's gonna burn down the basement or run Link's truck off the road."

"Okay, I'm calling the police." So Anna got up and ran to Fox's house phone, only for Falco to get one step ahead and rip the cord from the phone.

"That is the stupidest thing you could do right now!"

"He's right," confirmed Fox as he nodded his head, commending Falco for doing the right thing and taking out that phone cord. "Cops can't do anything until a crime has been reported."

"Not only that, but if they find out you snitched, you get a dead horse's chopped-off head in your bed!"

"That's not gonna happen," stated Krystal; no one's gonna put a dead horse's chopped-off head in her house, inside Anna's bed.

"You know what?" Fox said to Falco, as his avian pilot was growing crazier by the second. Even more so than him. "That's an exaggeration."

"That's how it works!" defended Falco, as if he had snitched on someone before and found the head of a dead animal underneath his bedsheets.

"What am I supposed to do here?" Anna asked Fox and Falco, slowly growing more convinced that Robert was a mobster who chopped up dead animals for laughs and giggles.

"When somebody threatens you, you give in right away. Okay, you need to buy insurance from this guy and get him off your back."

"I was thinking exactly the same thing."

"No, criminals are like raccoons," said Fox, comparing a criminal to a wild Zigzagoon with the Quick Feet ability. "You give 'em a taste of cat food pretty soon they'll be back for the whole cat. The only way to defeat a bully is to stand up to him. Trust me, I have bullied a lot of people."

"You bullied people before?" Krystal questioned Fox, wishing to know more about her husband's secret past. Fox looked to the side as he scratched his neck.

"I don't know, I don't know about that," said Anna, unconfident in standing up to a guy like Robert. She had no problem dealing with down-selling customers, but Robert Garcia was a different story.

"Wait let's hear him out, this is interesting," Falco encouraged Anna, as he was liking where Fox's plan was going. All eyes and ears were on Fox.

"Here's what we do..." said Fox, leaning in close as he was about to delve straight into his master plan. "...we meet him in a public place. Ask him to lunch or something like that, someplace he can't be openly violent. Let him know you're not the typical kind of guy that he can shake down. That you're stubborn. That you might even be a little bit dangerous."

"I like this plan. I'd like to officially withdraw my plan." Falco showed how on board he was with Fox's plan, as he snapped his fingers. Anna, however, wasn't as on board. "We do this the hard way."

"Alright...I will meet with him, but I'm not going alone," stated Anna, as she looked to Fox and Falco for backup. If they got her this far, the least they could do was be at her side.

"Well you're gonna have to," Falco said to Anna, as he was overlapped by Fox who said, "We'll be right beside you." Both pilots looked at one another.


Link and Zelda met with the police at the police station, going over some photos that were taken in downtown Seattle. The photos showed a person wearing an Organization XIII cloak, doing things like messing with shopping carts, breaking windows, or even literally taking candy from a baby.

"You obviously have a history with these kinds of people," the deputy sheriff said to Link and Zelda in his office, after showing them the slideshow of pictures on a projector screen. "Any idea who it is?"

"Need to see their face first," replied Link, and so the sheriff pulled up one of the pictures and zoomed in. The Organization XIII member's face was zoomed in, front and center, although the resolution was a bit blurry.

"Eyes are gold; that tells us nothing," stated Zelda, who required a bit more physical features to determine the member's true identity. "Do you have any other pictures?"

"These are all the pictures we have," the sheriff replied, zooming out of the image before closing out the slideshow. "Although one of my men did say that the perpetrator had silver hair..."

Link, Zelda, and the deputy sheriff soon got a surprise visitor, as the wall was punched through and a giant hole was made. Standing in the hole was Winston, who was acting awkward with everyone's eyes upon him.

"I must apologize...I'm a little 'hangry,'" apologized Winston, who debated whether or not angry was a real word. He thought that it was a misprint when he saw hangry in the dictionary.

"Cheers, love - the cavalry's here!" exclaimed a certain British pilot, as Tracer appeared along with Genji and Mercy. The Storm Rising crew was in full force.

Winston: Amazingly, that hole I made wasn't a result of my Primal Rage! Speaking of which, did you know that my primal Rage is triggered by my friends being in danger? As well as losing my glasses? Tracer has the audacity to call me "Velma" whenever I lose my glasses. Which in itself is another trigger.

"Can't you see that we're busy?" Link asked Tracer and company, appreciating them for stopping by but not needing their presence. The deputy sheriff didn't appreciate the Overwatch agents for obvious reasons.

"Aw, did you forget so soon?" Tracer asked Link as she made her way over to the Hylian to remind him of something. "We built a watchpoint in Washington state specifically to deal with Organization XIII!"

"And the Heartless," mentioned Genji, looking to vanquish as many Heartless as possible with his ninja blade. "Sora won't stop telling me nonstop stories about them."

"Don't forget the Nobodies," added Mercy, who was lightly intrigued by the Dusk encounter that Yu and several others had in the last episode. "Been told that the Organization has those in spades."

"These folks seem to know more than I do," the deputy sheriff said to Link and Zelda as he got up from the table, putting his trust in the Storm Rising crew to get the situation fixed. "You should count on them."

"You are so right, sheriff," Zelda told the sheriff, who nodded his head as he exited his office. Once the sheriff was gone, Zelda muttered her breath. "That man was no help at all..."


Pit stopped by the buddy cops' police station, letting them know that there was a person they had to arrest. The person in question didn't commit murder (as the buddy cops had hoped), but an arrest was still an arrest.

"Are you sure that it's him?" Toon Link asked Pit, wanting to verify before they got the wrong person. Arresting the wrong person would look poorly on the buddy cops' record.

"If it's not him, you can have my laptop for a week," Pit made a deal with the buddy cops, putting his money where his mouth was. Go big or go home.

"Done deal," said Young Link as he and Pit shook hands, with Pit giving a firm handshake because of how confident he was. "Now let's get to arresting!"


Anna, Fox, and Falco arrived at their destination - The Pink Door, the same restaurant Yu and Rise went to on their date. It was also the restaurant where Anna would meet up with Robert. The trip was made in the Gray Fox, as the three occupants got out.

"What are you wearing?" Anna asked Falco, who had come out of the Gray Fox dressed up as a mechanic. The coveralls were dirty for added authenticity.

"Well if I'm gonna back you up, I need a weapon without drawing suspicion," replied Falco, who had a tire iron in his possession. He clearly had no idea how to properly wield it. "And I have to justify it somehow so, I'm a mechanic with a tire thing."

"Do you know how to use it?" Fox asked Falco, who pretended that knew as he wielded the tire iron like how a mechanic would. Well, at least how he pictured a mechanic would wield a tire iron.

"To change tires, no. But it's metal, I can hit somebody with it."

"Let's go, come on," Anna said to the pilots as she led them inside The Pink Door, while also whispering a few choice words under her breath.

"Should I change?" asked Falco as he took a quick gander at his shoes, not liking how his footwear meshed with the rest of his outfit.

"You're wearing loafers!" Fox shouted in response, as he and Anna had to wait on Falco. Anna was losing her patience already.

"Forget it! Forget it!" yelled Anna as she hurried on inside the restaurant, as Fox followed suit. Falco stopped looking at his shoes and went on inside.


Among the folks who moved into Omnis Adest was Adeleine - a young artist and Kirby's best friend (other than Pit). Looking for inspiration, Adeleine went to the mansion's lounge to work on her latest painting, while Riku watched.

"A good friend of mine likes to do art," Riku said to Adeleine, who was painting away on her easel board as she painted the foreground of her masterpiece. "Her name is Naminé."

"I'd love to meet this Naminé one day," responded Adeleine, as Riku smiled hoping to make this meeting come true. It was all calm in the lounge, until...

"FREEZE, SUCKA!" shouted Toon Link, as he and Young Link barged inside the lounge. Adeline stopped what she was doing, as the buddy cops brought Riku down to the floor.

"Riku, you are under arrest," Young Link told the silverette, who was being handcuffed by Toon Link. Riku saw Pit standing outside the door, and glared at him.

"Pit, what's going on?" Adeleine asked Pit, looking for answers...but Pit wouldn't provide any answers, for he was too busy smiling smugly as Riku was helped up to his feet.

"You never told me what I'm being arrested for," Riku said to the buddy cops, as it was his first time being under arrest. He was used to getting tickets for nonsensical reasons. "Also, how did you know where to find me?"

"The lounge is your favorite hangout spot," replied Toon Link, who ensured that the handcuffs were firmly locked tight on Riku's wrists. "A predictable suspect you are..."

"Come with us - we're gonna take you to the local authorities," Young Link said to Riku, as the buddy cops led Riku out of the lounge as Pit followed along. Adeleine looked on, puzzled.


Anna and the pilots were inside The Pink Door, as they were expecting Robert's arrival. Falco was playing with the tire iron, much to Anna's annoyance.

"Take that thing off the table! Please!" Anna begged Falco, who refused to listen as he kept on tinkering with the tire iron. Falco eventually stopped after Anna frowned at him long enough.

"Well then I can't use it," insisted Falco as he unfolded a napkin on the table and placed the tire iron underneath it. "I'm just gonna hide it."

"Bathroom checks out clean," Fox notified Anna and Falco as he came from the men's restroom, carrying a roll of toilet paper and dropping it onto the table. "Nothing behind the toilet except for this roach motel."

"Ack!" screamed Falco as a flurry of cockroaches came running out of the roll of toilet paper. Anna shrieked as she smacked the toilet paper unto the floor.

"You'll never kill it that way. You want to separate the head from the thorax."

"Guys, guys, cool it. There he is..." Anna said to Fox and Falco, standing up as she saw Robert entering the restaurant. Robert was on the phone, most likely speaking with a client.

"We'll chat later, goodbye," Robert spoke into the phone as he was finishing up his phone call. Done with his phone call, Robert put his phone away and went inside The Pink Door, seeing Anna sitting by.

"Hello, Mr. Garcia, we meet again!" Anna greeted Robert, before bringing the businessman's attention to Fox and Falco who were sitting beside her. "These are my associates."

"Hi, Robert Garcia," Robert introduced himself to Fox and Falco, who both said their hellos to Robert. Robert then took a seat in the available chair. "So, Anna, you got this table? This is one of those half booths, can't-decide-what-it-is type of thing."

"Well..." smiled Anna as she tapped her fingers, looking to the side as Robert looked around the restaurant for a waitress.

"Waitress, we're gonna sit over here." A waitress came over to Robert, who pointed at a table that he wished to sit at.

"That's fine." Anna was willing to play by Robert's rules...if it meant getting one step closer to being done with him.


With Mario and Peach gone, Spyro and Hunter had all the freedom in the world at Mario's house. But most especially Hunter - the cheetah was enjoying himself, eating food out of the fridge while foodstuffs were on the kitchen floor. Amidst the splurge, the house phone rang.

"Hello," Hunter quickly picked up the phone, conducting the call while he was eating from a whole container of ice cream.

"Hello, Mr. Mario," greeted the person that was making a call, a credit card representative. This was an important call that Hunter simply couldn't botch by any means necessary. "I'm calling from the identity theft department at Capital One. We've detected some unusual activity on your credit card."

"Oh man, do you think it was stolen?"

"First would you mind verifying your home address?"

"Um, yes." Not knowing the address at the top of his head, Hunter looked at a piece of mail on the living room table. "Um, 1997 Smash Avenue, Seattle Washington."

"And may I have the last four numbers of your Social Security Number?"

"Six-six-five-zero."

"Well, Mr. Mario. You're obviously not in Port Angeles."

"Wait a minute! Yes, I am."

"I'm going to go ahead and put a hold on your card."

"No. That...I think that we should let the criminal use the card a little longer."

"Very funny sir. We'll get a new card out to you right away. Have a nice day, and thank you!

"Shoot..." Hunter goofed up big time; Mario's credit card was on hold, and it was all his fault.


Luckily Mario had yet to know about his credit card being put on hold, for he was enjoying his time on the catamaran. But it wasn't until Kapp'n was gassing up the air that Mario began to feel some type of way.

"He keeps farting..." Peach whispered to Mario, forced to hold her nose tightly to prevent the foul stench from reaching her nostrils. "...go in there and please tell him to stop."

"I'll try my best," assured Mario as he went to the bridge to let Kapp'n know about the fumes that he was letting out. Mario didn't get that far to Kapp'n when the foul stench stopped him in place.

"Here comes the big one..." announced Kapp'n, his butt cheek clenching up as he let out a silent but deadly fart. The worst of its kind. The smell of the silent but deadly fart was so foul, that it caused Mario to faint.

"Heard a loud thud, you didn't use my frying pan on him did you?" Peach asked Mario as she hurried to the bridge, only to see her husband knocked out cold and on the floor. "Mario?"

Kapp'n: I do have a farting problem - don't judge me. A little wind in my southern hemisphere can't kill anyone. *smiles nervously*


"If you want to supplement your coverage, we can do that," Robert discussed with Anna, while he and the others were deciding on what to order. "If you want to replace your current coverage, all the better. Ah, you seem like a nice lady."

"Oh, she's not that nice," Fox shook his head, letting Robert know that Anna was a twisted evil lady. Kind of how Master Hand used to think of her.

"That's not true," asserted Anna, who believed herself to be one of the nicest folks on the earth...upselling tendencies and cheapness notwithstanding.

"Hmm, very true," Falco nodded his head, finding himself on Fox's side; the avian pilot would always side with Fox, regardless of what the opinion was.

"Have you decided?" the waitress asked Robert and company as she went over to their notepad, with her notepad and ink pen ready to go.

"Yeah, I'll have the linguini, red sauce on the side," Robert gave his order to the waitress, as Fox and Falco both listened attentively. "If the sauce does not come on the side, I will send it back. I want garlic bread, toasted, not burnt. If it comes burnt, I will send it back."

"Okay then." The waitress wrote down Robert's order, before turning her attention to Anna. "And for you ma'am?"

"I will have the gabba-gool," requested Anna, hoping that the waitress understood what she was saying. Sadly for her, the waitress had no clue.

"The...what? I don't really know what that is."

"You know, gabba-gool," Falco informed the waitress with Sporano inflection, putting his Brooklyn accent to good use. The waitress was still confused.

"I don't, I don't have to have that," Anna told the waitress, understanding her bewilderment as she opted to order something that was far less confusing.

"What she's trying to say is, Gabba. Gool," Fox informed the waitress, who had enough of the gabba and the gool and all that jazz. The waitress just wanted to take everyone's order.

"I don't really think that we have that," the waitress kindly stated to Anna, who figured as much based on how the waitress was reacting.

"Bring her the gabba-gool! Bring her liberty, or bring her..."

"Shh," Anna shushed Fox, before consulting her menu as she was forced to order something else. "I will have spaghetti, with a side salad. If the salad is on top, I send it back."


Hunter was in hot water, as Mario's credit cards were canceled. The cheetah had no idea how to get out of his prickly situation, so he consulted Spyro for advice. But rather than giving advice, Spyro was chewing his best friend out.

"Why would you cancel Mario's credit cards?" Spyro questioned Hunter in their room, as Hunter was showing a lot of deep regret on his face.

"I usually can think quickly on my feet, but they were so fast on the phone," replied Hunter, who wished that he was more quick-witted. The pressure of speaking with a credit card rep on the phone probably got to him.

"This constitutes identity fraud."

"Oh no. I wouldn't last in jail, Spyro. I'm not like you."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"Oh, you don't know about jail? Oh, you would like jail."

"Why would I like jail?"

"Because...you would like it." Such a resounding argument by Hunter - Spyro would be unwise to even argue against it.


With Cloud's Apple TV in tow, Sonic was able to cast Amazon Prime on the television. He would perform this in Master Hand's room, while Master Hand and Isabelle watched the magic.

"First things first, your phone and your TV must be connected to the same wi-fi," Sonic informed Master Hand as if he expected the giant hand to pull a cell phone out of nowhere. The lack of action was killing Sonic. "We'll just use Isabelle's phone..."

"Do your worst," Isabelle dared Sonic as she handed the blue hedgehog her phone. Sonic verified that the wi-fi on the TV was the same as Isabelle's.

"Settings...Prime Video...Local Network...on! Now for the final step." Sonic pressed an icon on Isabelle's phone, as someone was heard knocking on the door.

"I know you got my TV, Master Hand, so give it up!" Cloud shouted from behind the bedroom door, knocking repeatedly to make sure that he was heard. The swordsman was not in a good mood.

Cloud: All I wanted was to be back on equal terms with Master Hand. What I never wanted was for him to steal my TV.

After selecting the device, the magic finally happened...Amazon Prime was on the TV! Master Hand marveled as Yellowstone began playing, with Kevin Costner gracing the screen.

"Simply incredible!" exclaimed Master Hand, as he was feeling like a kid again - must be super hard for a guy like him. "What channel number is this?"

"Channel number?" snorted Sonic, seeing that the giant hand who once claimed to be all-knowing clearly still had a lot to learn. "I don't think you understand how Amazon Prime works."

"Well, you're not leaving until you tell me the channel number. Your choice." Not a fan of those terms, Sonic looked at Isabelle, who had no choice in the matter as she shrugged her shoulders.

"This isn't funny, Master Hand - give me my TV back!" shouted Cloud, who vowed to keep knocking on the door until his demands were met.


"I don't think my business actually needs any more insurance," Anna conversed with Robert while she, Robert, and the pilots were eating salad. "So I am out."

"Look closely, Anna," Robert said to the merchant, getting too close for comfort as he put his hand on her shoulder. "I feel there's a plan here for you."

"Maybe we have a plan for you?" Falco asked Robert, as his (and Fox's) plan involved bullying the businessman and beating him up in some dark back alley somewhere Sopranos style.

"How about you, Mr. Lombardi? Maybe you can use supplemental coverage of some kind. Anybody can get hurt! You always think it can't happen to you, and..." Robert dropped his hand loudly on the table, for some emphasis. "...think about it."

"Excuse me, sorry to bother you," a woman approached Falco, bringing her child with her as she looked to ask a question. "Are you a mechanic?"

"Yeeeeah," Falco nervously replied as he eyed around the restaurant, trying to hide a lot of reluctance.

"My battery is dead, I've got my kid, can you please help?"

"Yes, I can." Somewhat up for the task, Falco rose up from his seat only for Anna to grab a hold of him.

"No, no no, no. Come on," Anna said to Falco as she sat the avian pilot back in his seat, before looking at the woman and smiling. "I'm sorry, we're having our salad."

"Come on!" exclaimed Robert, hating the fact that Anna was holding Falco back from achieving greatness. "Lady in distress? Go! Go!"

"Okay!" shouted Falco, having Robert's word as he jumped up to his feet. With Robert rallying behind him, Falco could accomplish anything without fail.

"Thank you so much, I really appreciate it," the woman said to Falco, taking her child with her as she followed Falco out of the restaurant.

"Hey, do you need any help?" Anna called out to Falco as she stood up, doubting that the avian pilot could solve the woman's problem without breaking anything.

"I'm sure he can handle a simple jump-start," Robert assured Anna as he gently sat the merchant back down in her seat. "Now come on, sit down."

"He's a good mechanic." Anna was lying through her teeth when she said that, and she despised it a lot.

"Where were we?" Robert adjusted his collar and even fixed his hair a bit, as he looked to resume the conversation.

"You were trying to force Anna to decide on a policy," replied Fox, before looking through the insurance policies that Robert had laid out on the table. "So we're choosing...Check out Dental?"

"Put it down," Anna instructed Fox, who did as he was told as he put the papers back on the table where they once were.


Falco was outside in the Pink Door parking lot, doing some mechanical work on the woman's car. Or at least he was doing his best attempt. The woman and her child looked on as Falco was doing his thing.

"Black goes on the red," said Falco as he was putting the connections together with the hood up. Can't say that he wasn't trying. "With the...if we...positive...it being a motor drive, it's probably down."

"He seems bad at this," the child said to his mom, able to see that Falco was far removed from being a good mechanic. Let alone an average one.

"You want to do this junior? I didn't think so. Sorry. It's kind of a long day at the...mechanic store." Falco placed the connections wrong, as smoke appeared and an explosion was set off. "Aaaah! You got a leaky spark tube."

"What?!" the woman angrily shouted, after Falco brought unintended damage to her car. You blew it, Falco, you really blew it.

"So your car's totaled. Uh, you're just gonna want to get a refund on that. Or my guy could do it. He's great. But uh, I can't do that for you. I work exclusively on motorcycles." Falco walked away, while the woman was exasperated.


The police weren't much help for Link and Zelda, but the Hylian couple could rely on Tracer and her crew to nab the Organization XIII member in town. Thanks to Overwatch operative Echo doing recon work, finding the member would be a walk in the park.

"Ooh, I wonder if this crook is Master Xehanort's Heartless," said Tracer, fantasying who the Organization member was as the group was strolling through the downtown area. "Or the girl created from Sora's leaked memories!"

"Actual people, I should mention," Winston said to Genji and Mercy, his mind forever haunted by the info dump Sora did in episode 356. Winston had so many headaches that day.

"You told us about them already," stated Genji, who learned about all the members of Organization XIII at an Overwatch briefing. "During your endless complaining about Sora."

Genji: Half of our meeting concerning Organization XIII was actually about Organization. The other half was Winston throwing shade at Sora. Almost everyone tuned him out or left the room - I remained seated and listened because I agreed with everything Winston said.

"Here comes Echo," Zelda told the others, as Echo came flying down to the princess and company to give a brief update on her mission.

"Scanned the entire area of Seattle," said Echo, who did much more than what she was meant to do. Way to cover your bases. "An Organization XIII member was spotted near the Space Needle."

"Then that's where we're heading," confirmed Link, determined to reach the Space Needle before the Organization performed a potential terrorist attack on the observation deck. "Let's move!"


"Now if you could just sign this letter of intent, I'll bring this back to my boss, and we can get this in motion," Robert said to Anna, as he was pointing his finger at the dotted line of a contract. Falco, who was back inside The Pink Door, cleared his throat loudly. "You okay, Falco?"

"Yeah, just thinking about how, uh, I had this car, this Italian car, and I was driving it, and it kept telling me how much it needed oil, but I wouldn't give it any oil," replied Falco, who was forced to come up with a story on the fly with the way Robert was looking at him. "And then, one day it exploded and it killed everyone and that's what I'm afraid of."

"Aren't you a mechanic? Why wouldn't you put oil in the car?"

"It was before my tech...my technical training."

"Don't do it!" Fox encouraged Anna, seeing all the dangers that could come from signing the insurance papers.

"Do it," Falco encouraged Anna, as the pilots were doing their best to convince the merchant in their own separate way.

"Look, Anna, I don't know what your friends are telling you, but you have to decide for yourself," Robert told Anna, reminding the merchant that this was her decision to make, not Fox's or Falco's. "Are these guys gonna take care of your things if you die tomorrow?"

"Yes," confirmed Fox, more than happy to take care of Anna's possessions - Anna does sleep in a bedroom at his house, after all.

"Okay," said Anna as she took the contract from Robert, making her final decision as she took the pen. What decision would Anna make?


"So if I turn it to channel 927, it'll go to Amazon Prime," Master Hand said to Sonic, wanting to see the blue hedgehog access Amazon Prime without having to rely on a wi-fi connection. A very, very tall order for Sonic.

"...perhaps," replied Sonic, using the TV remote to change the station to 927 with the press of the number buttons. The result was a black screen. "Oh, what do you know - Amazon Prime's out of order!"

"Well, get it back in order!" So Sonic did as he was told, borrowing Isabelle's phone yet again to rework the magic. "Does it explicitly state the channel number on the Amazon website?"

"This is the last straw, Master Hand..." Cloud shouted from outside the bedroom, tired of knocking on the door as he made his leave. The swordsman was about to get some backup.


The meeting with Robert Garcia was over with, as Anna, Fox, and Falco met outside in the parking lot. After thoughtful consideration, Anna decided to sign up for the insurance policy. Fox was disappointed with Anna, while Falco on the other hand was proud.

"I don't understand, why would you buy a policy?" Fox questioned Anna, worried that her shop outside the mansion was somehow going to go down under.

" It's just the cost of a cup of coffee an hour," replied Anna, confident that she had made the correct decision. In her mind, having an insurance policy was better than not having one.

"You were man enough to back down Anna, I'm proud of you," Falco commended the merchant, who furrowed her brow as she was not a fan of the avian pilot's word choice. "Woman enough, I mean."

"I had to make a snap decision Fox."

"It wasn't a snap decision, you were sitting there for an hour," stated Fox, disgruntled that Anna made him wait that long only to ultimately sign the insurance policy that he did not want her to sign.

"It was a lot of snap decisions."

"Do you know what 'snap decision means? It means like this." Fox snapped his fingers for Anna, and he even did it multiple times.

"Just get the Gray Fox started up so that you can take us back home..."


The group out in Seattle didn't have to walk entirely on foot, for they had Link's truck to travel in while Echo flew in the sky. However, Link had to come to a stop as there were too many passengers in his vehicle.

"I'm sorry, I can't do this anymore..." remarked Link, as he got out of the truck, which he parked just beyond the Space Needle - which was not even close to within walking distance. "...Winston, you're too heavy."

"But I was riding in the back!" complained Winston, who was riding in the cargo area due to how large he was. Once he got out, the truck almost toppled over making Link uneasy.

"My point exactly. You're gonna have to walk to the Space Needle. We'll see you there." Done speaking with Winston, Link hopped back inside his vehicle and turned it on.

"We're supposed to stick together!" But Link refused to adhere to that memo, as he pulled out of the parking space and drove off to the Space Needle. Winston was now a lone gorilla.

Link: The cargo area is not a passenger seat. Might look that way, but it's not. I learned the hard way.

"What the...?" uttered Winston, as Mega Man suddenly teleported to where Winston was. Accompanying the Blue Bomber were the buddy cops, Pit, and a handcuffed Riku.

"Hi, Winston, do you know where we can find the police?" Mega Man asked the gorilla, purely out of desperation. "Please say yes..."

"Do it for the both of us," Riku implored Winston, speaking on behalf of Mega Man and himself. The silverette was raring to be a free man.

"Not now - I have to get to the Space Needle," replied Winston, before turning around and looking ahead as the Space Needle was in view. "A member of Organization XIII was spotted there!"

"But...we have the member right here," Pit told Winston as he pointed at Riku, who looked oh so done with life. "This man is responsible for the trail of petty crimes. He's a traitor!"

"Pit said that Riku matched the description in that news broadcast," added Toon Link, as Winston facepalmed Pit and the buddy cops for their foolishness. "Minus the black cloak, which he likely threw away."

"Winston, the Space Needle is approximately ten minutes away in terms of walking distance," Echo flew down to Winston to inform him, finding it bold that the gorilla was going to reach the Space Needle on foot. "You must hurry."

"I'm coming..." responded Winston, who was done facepalming as he looked at Mega Man and company. "...you boys come with me so that we can possibly clear the air."


Once she returned to the mansion, Anna desired to speak with someone over the phone. So the merchant borrowed Arven's phone, after crossing paths with him, as she was outside making the call.

"Hello?" asked the person that Anna was calling, Mario; Arven was standing off to the side, waiting patiently for Anna to hurry up with the phone call.

"Mario?" Anna spoke into the phone, finding much relief as Mario was able to answer the call in spite of how busy he might be. "Oh thank goodness..."

"How did you get-a this number? Anna, we're on a catamaran."

"It wasn't easy. I had to tell Arven it was a medical emergency. I chose massive coronary, cause you told me that your brother had a bad heart. Listen, Mario, I got a problem, I think I'm in trouble with the mob. Or a major insurance carrier."

"That sounds bad." Considering that Mario himself was Italian American, perhaps there was a reason why Anna consulted him. Luigi probably wouldn't be that much help.

"Yeah, I know and you usually can get out of stuff like this, so I'm turning to you, my friend."

"I'm gonna help-a you through it all right? All you're gonna need to...and...it...and then go to...and then-a you'll be saved."

"What? Wait, I didn't hear a thing you just said." Little did Anna know that Mario was faking a bad connection.

"Just..." Mario's voice suddenly went out, and it was all of Mario's doing. "...and then-a you'll be saved.

"No! I missed, I missed the important part again!"

"A...ah...and you'll be saved."

"No, Mario, please, repeat what you're saying! I can't understand you!"

"I..." Mario's voice (purposefully) went out a second time. "...at the Bermuda Triangle. An...please don't call again.

"Mario?" Soon the dial tone sounded, as Anna was now greatly concerned for Mario's well-being.


Rest assured, Mario was in good hands as Kapp'n parked the catamaran up to the pier. The Mario family got out of the catamaran, thankful to be away from Kapp'n's toxic fumes.

"The gift shop is over yonder!" shouted Kapp'n, as a Port Angeles beach gift shop was within view. All sorts of goodies were on the display. "Shop to your pleasure!"

"Gonna put this credit card-a to good use," Mario said to Peach as he took out his Capital One credit card. The dude was in for a rude awakening...


With Mario unable to save her from her predicament, Anna looked to ask someone who was good with money and finances to help her out. Her best bet was to speak with Kazuya, who was a businessman that knew a thing or two about insurance policies.

"Hey uh, a question for you," Anna approached Kazuya in the fitness center, as Kazuya was weight-lifting with some dumbbells. "I recently purchased some insurance that I can't afford given my standard income. Is there anything accounting-wise I can do to sort of make it all go away?

"Accounting-wise, no," replied Kazuya, who was making arm reps with fifty-pound dumbbells in both of his hands look pretty easy. "But phone-wise, just call up and cancel it."

"Oh no. Um. What about this Cash For Clunkers thing?"

"Just, no. No. Cash For Clunkers is not even around anymore."

"Alright. Well, it was a thought. Thanks."


Fox was concerned for Anna's livelihood, as he envisioned the merchant being gunned down by the mafia and shot to death in the very near future. The pilot and Falco met in the Star Records room, unsure of what action they should take.

"We have let Anna down, and it's 85 percent your fault," Fox said to Falco, putting all the blame squarely on the avian pilot's shoulders.

"She's alive, so you're welcome," replied Falco, fortunate that Anna made out of The Pink Door with nary a single scratch on her body.

"Not on the inside she's not. Look at his life! Broke! Living in fear! Very few friends, dead-end job."

"Yeah, some of that existed before."

"Not the living in fear, that's new."

"You're right, that is new."

"Yes. She's got to stand up to this mafia guy."

"Well, I don't see that happening."

"Me neither. Not the way things are now. But what if Anna felt no fear toward the mafia guy?"

"Are you saying...that we surgically remove the fear center from Anna's brain?"

"What is wrong with you? I am talking about convincing Anna that the guy's not mafia!"

"That seems a little far-fetched."

"Well more far-fetched than a mobster approaching a merchant lady for a low-level shakedown? And that happened."


Sonic was unable to find out what the channel number for Amazon Prime was, so Master Hand made the blue hedgehog call Amazon customer service. Customer service from any other company never failed Master Hand.

"So instead of one Prime channel, you can get multiple," the customer service rep informed Master Hand over the phone, sounding more energetic than most people with the same occupation. "You can get Paramount Plus, Showtime, NBA League Pass..."

"I can get multiple channels at once on my TV?!" asked Master Hand, already claiming Cloud's Android TV as his newest possession. "Say no more!"

"Yup! But here's the kicker - you have to pay for those channels. Some of them cost around ten dollars or more. And you need an Amazon subscription on top of all that."

"Alright, Isabelle, get to paying." So Isabelle took out her phone and open the Amazon app - which she primarily used to access Master Hand's Amazon account - and pulled up the list of channels.

"So does this mean that I can leave now?" Sonic asked Master Hand, who shushed the blue hedgehog as he wanted silence for Isabelle. Sonic groaned as he was kept hostage for a bit longer.

Isabelle: Oh, I already knew how to get Amazon Prime cast onto the television screen. I just wanted someone else to do the dirty work for me, in the event Master Hand was in a mood. Today's not a good day for being yelled at.

Suddenly, Master Hand's bedroom door came crashing down, as it was knocked off its hinges by Tifa. Tifa stood in the doorway, arm outstretched as her mighty fist had broken the door.

"And...done!" confirmed Isabelle as she made the purchase, only to look up and see Tifa standing by. Cloud joined the martial artist, standing at her side. "Um, Master Hand..."

"Thank you for your assistance, good sir, goodbye..." Sonic quickly said to the customer service rep, before ending the call as all the attention was on Cloud and Tifa. Cloud had a major bone to pick with Master Hand.

"Give me back my TV...now," Cloud commanded Master Hand, wanting the transaction to go without a hitch. But Master Hand was too reluctant to give in to Cloud's demands.

"Cloud, it's not what you think!" Master Hand assured the swordsman, who didn't want to hear it - he just wanted his TV back, simple as that. "I just wanted to borrow your TV to test something."

"Switching out your TV with Cloud's?" Tifa chastised Master Hand, as Cloud previously told her the story of what happened. "Thought that you were finally above doing that stuff."

"Either you return my TV, or I'm reconsidering our friendship," threatened Cloud, forcing Master Hand's...hand and giving him a pivotal choice. Valuing the bond he had with Cloud, Master Hand chose to keep that bond intact.

"Sonic, unplug the TV and give it back to Cloud," Master Hand instructed the blue hedgehog, who unplugged the Android TV from the wall. "Guess I have no choice but to watch those awesome channels on Isabelle's phone..."

"Thank you." Cloud was now a satisfied customer, as Sonic brought the Android TV to the swordsman. Cloud soon received his TV from Sonic.

"We used a different Amazon account, so...might wanna get those new channels yourself," Sonic advised Cloud, who primarily used his TV for background noise. Talk about an absolute waste.

"Good to know. Thanks." Cloud held his TV with one arm, as Sonic sped down the hallway. Sonic was finally a free man. "And thank you for the assist, Tifa."

"It's nothing - just let me know if anyone else gives you problems," Tifa smiled in response as she cracked her knuckles; the martial artist still had another devastating punch in her.


Anna was unable to secure anyone that could help free her from being hunted by the mafia, so she chose to return to running her shop. She was visited by Fox and Falco, who both had some big news to announce.

"Anna, incredible news...Garcia is clean!" Fox announced to Anna, hoping that this good news would cheer the merchant up. Instead, Anna remained living in fear and on edge.

"No, he's not," responded Anna, refusing to believe Fox's news announcement even for a second. "He's just good. Nothing sticks to him. You still don't understand how this works."

"No, Anna, what we're trying to say is, we made a mistake assuming he was mafia," stated Falco, as he and Fox were holding themselves accountable for falsely accusing Robert of being associated with the mafia. "I have a buddy who's a Fed, and we did a background check on the guy. His background is perfectly clean."

"It's true, he's clean," confirmed Fox, backing up Falco in an attempt to make Anna convinced in any way possible. "I have a couple of friends still on the force. Checked with them. Ran his Fed friend up the flagpole to make sure he wasn't on the take. Turns out he's a totally lovely guy. Sweetest guy on the force really."

"Class act. Boy scout." Robert as a boy scout would undoubtedly make him the most handsome boy scout to have ever existed.

"But Garcia acts like he's mafia though," stated Anna, believing that Robert expressed a lot of mafia tendencies during those negotiations at The Pink Door.

"He's trying to intimidate you to close sales," Falco convinced Anna, who was slowly coming around as she took Falco's point into consideration. "He's just a pushy salesman."

"And he made us all look like chumps!" added Fox, as he and Falco finally had Anna convinced with Anna letting out a grunt.

Anna: If there is one thing I hate more than the mafia it is a liar. I wish the mafia would go out and kill all the liars. Bury them in the yard. And I wouldn't tell the cops a thing. Not that I would be lying per se. But I would just get really quiet, all of a sudden.


Winston finally reached the base of the Space Needle, where Link and the others awaited. Mega Man, Riku, and the buddy cops were pretty much holding Winston back from reaching his destination sooner.

"Took ya long enough," Tracer said to Winston with her hands on her hips, as Winston took the time to readjust his glasses. "You kept us all waiting!"

"I'm sorry, these gentlemen were lagging behind," apologized Winston, bringing everyone's attention to the guys that were accompanying him. Echo swooped down from above, floating above everyone in the air.

"We have one more person joining us," announced Echo, as Pit flew down from above and nearly crashed into Echo. The angel did stick the landing, though.

"Guys, guys, we figured out who was committing those petty crimes!" Pit excitedly exclaimed before pointing at Riku; Riku wished that he had broken out of his handcuffs sooner. "It was Riku!"

"News broadcast earlier said that the crook has silver hair...and so there you go," stated Young Link, putting all the attention on Riku. However, no one was buying the claim one bit.

"Hate to burst your bubble, but the suspect in question is from Organization XIII," clarified Zelda, while also appreciating the buddy cops for putting in the effort. It was the buddy cops' first time involving themselves in a local crime.

"Exactly - Riku is a secret agent for the Organization!" proclaimed Pit, causing Riku to roll his eyes at the angel's ridiculous accusation. "Kinda makes sense, given his evil backstory."

"That can't be any farther from the truth," remarked Riku, only to hear an evil snicker from a distance. Everyone was on edge as they donned their weapons, sans Riku.

"Show yourself!" shouted Link, as a dark corridor suddenly appeared in front of everyone. An Organization member exited the corridor, as everyone was ready to fire.

"That is the Organization XIII member," confirmed Echo, as the member's height and body shape was the same as she saw before at the Space Needle.

"So you think that Riku is one of us, huh?" the anonymous Organization member asked Link and company, although he was more specifically speaking to Pit. "I can't fault you for thinking that."

"He sounds just like Riku..." gasped Toon Link, prompting the anonymous Organization member to make the big reveal. The member took off his hood...

...revealing himself to be a man who looked just like Riku. The main difference was that his eyes were gold just like Demyx and Vexen's, and not blue.

"It's Riku's evil twin!" exclaimed Pit, who was convinced that this evil twin was a result of Riku dabbling in darkness. The evil twin, Pit believed, was produced out of the darkness.

"Not his evil twin...that's a replica!" Tracer informed Pit, recalling the information that she received from Sora in episode 356. "Riku Replica!"

"Already know who I am? How flattering," the Riku look-alike smirked evilly, before feeling the need to clarify something. "But you can just call me Dark Riku. I'm not like the fake one over there."

"Who are you calling a fake?!" Riku angrily shouted at his evil counterpart, as a huge face-off was brewing between the real Riku and the replica Riku. "You're the fake one around here."

"No, I'm the real one. You're just a fake. These folks gathered outside might not know about it yet, but they'll eventually understand the truth."

"When are you gonna get it through your thick head? You're fake - you're just a replica created by Vexen to serve Organization's purpose."

"Not a fake! I don't care if you're "real", you're not better! We share the same body and the same talents, but there is one easy way to tell us apart though. Unlike you, I fear nothing."

The face-off between Riku and Dark Riku was suddenly interrupted, as a baseball flew over the horizon and struck Dark Riku in the head. Dark Riku was caught off-guard as he held the part of his head where the baseball struck him.

"What the...it's not funny!" Dark Riku shouted at Tracer, who couldn't help but giggle at the misfortune that was brought upon the replica. Dark Riku growled as he picked up the baseball. "Who threw this?"

"Baseball, where's the baseball?" Junpei was heard from afar, later showing up at the scene along with Owain. Owain, who was holding a baseball bat, saw Dark Riku holding what he was looking for.

"There it is!" the myrmidon shouted, as Link and the others stood their ground while Dark Riku was in a world of hurt. "It's in the hand of that...Riku clone?"

"I'm not a clone, I'm the real..." Dark Riku was about to inform Owain, only to wince in pain as his head was hurting from being hit by the baseball. Was it possible for replicas to suffer from concussions?

Mighty Gazelle: Owain is our team's power hitter, so he's prone to sending balls flying. He's also prone to dishing out a lot of foul balls. Some of them hurt.

"You know what, you can have your stupid ball; I'm out," Dark Riku said to Junpei and Owain, still holding his head as he tossed the baseball to Junpei. Junpei caught the baseball, as Dark Riku summoned a dark corridor.

"And where do you think you're going?" Tracer questioned Dark Riku, blinking in front of the replica before he could make his getaway escape. The pilot refused to let Dark Riku leave without asking him some questions first.

"I said I'm leaving. Now leave me alone!" Dark Riku shoved Tracer to the side, as he went through the dark corridor. Tracer was about to follow Dark Riku through the corridor, but the corridor was gone a split second later.

"Wonder how we'll explain this to the police," remarked Zelda, who figured that the police would've loved to arrest an Organization XIII member. It would make up for how they dropped the ball during that invasion a couple of years ago.

"We didn't mean to intervene in your little affair," Junpei said to Link and Zelda, coming off as slightly apologetic. "Owain here got too energetic during baseball practice..."

"Told you that holding practice at that park was a bad idea," Owain informed Junpei, as he held his baseball bat over his shoulder. "That said, I still remain the team's best hitter..."

"You ran off Organization XIII for us, so it's all good," Link assured Junpei and Owain, appreciating the latter for that assist. Owain's power hit really came through in the clutch.

"Well, Riku, I guess you're not the bad guy after all," Pit said to Riku, who was freed from his handcuffs by Toon Link. Riku held up his hands, happy to finally be free.

"As I've tried to tell you," responded Riku, who was trying to tell the buddy cops and Pit that he was not the criminal. It was his delusional replica doing those petty crimes instead.


Anna had to borrow a person's phone yet again, for she had another call to make...and this one to Robert. So the merchant was at Fox's house, using Fox's phone so that she could give Robert a piece of her mind.

"This is Robert Garcia," Robert answered the call, as Anna was standing in the middle of Fox's living room with Fox and Falco.

"This is Anna, the merchant lady," Anna spoke into the phone, the tone of her voice hiding how angry she was with Robert.

"Oh! Great. Anna, I'm finishing up your paperwork right now."

"Oh really? Is that supposed to scare me?"

"I...I thought you'd be pleased."

"Well, you thought wrong. Because I am not pleased. I'm actually kind of PO'd. I think you know exactly why - because you were trying to scare me into buying insurance."

"I don't get it. How was I scaring you?"

"I think you knew exactly what you were doing. And frankly, I think you were being a total and utter jerk. You suck!'

"Woah!" exclaimed Falco, he and Fox caught by surprise by how savage Anna was. They had never seen such savagery from her before. "Okay, that's..."

"And I'm not gonna buy your stupid insurance." Anna would let Robert know how she felt, as she blew a raspberry into the phone.

"That's good, let's wrap it up," Fox encouraged Anna, wanting the phone call to end ASAP before things started to go off the rails.

"How about that? The only person that actually needs insurance is you, if you show your face around here again, got it?"

"Look, Anna, when we all calm down here, maybe at some point in the future, you change your mind, why don't you give me a call?" an exasperated Robert asked Anna, not expecting such a 180 turnaround from the merchant.

"Doubt it." Anna disconnected the call, as Fox and Falco were both relaxed now that the phone call was over. "What a tool." Anna was about to hand the phone back to Fox, who was exchanging looks with Falco. "What?"

"Next time you look in the mirror, you're gonna be looking at a girl who stood down the mafia!" exclaimed Falco, wishing that he had a party popper to make it rain confetti all over Anna for a job well done.

"No. What do you mean?" Anna was crinkling her nose, puzzled by how generally happy Fox and Falco were.

"We just told you he wasn't mafia, so you wouldn't be scared," Fox admitted, glad that Anna was able to hold her own and not bow out. "You successfully backed down the mob!"

"You made the mafia apologize to you!" added Falco, unable to recall a single moment when he ever saw a mafia member show signs of weakness. "You made the mafia be polite!"

"Aw shucks, I should be mad at you guys," Anna said to the pilots, no longer scared for her life as she found herself to be elated. "But I'm not."


Dimentio and Rufus Shinra were having a conversation, one that took place beyond the city limits. The two villains were conversing in an open field, as the lack of people made the conversation feel more private.

"While we're on the subject, do you think there's anything suspicious about Giovanni?" Rufus asked Dimentio, talking about the leader of Team Rocket as a dark corridor appeared in his midst. "He was super gung-ho about Organization XIII and time travel."

"I'll keep a close eye on him, should he get out of line," replied Dimentio as Dark Riku exited from the dark corridor, still holding his head. "Hello, Dark Riku - how was your first day in the city?"

"Not good - all I did was commit stupid crimes to keep myself entertained," replied Dark Riku, wanting a nice, comfy bed to lie down and rest in. "Now I got this awful headache..."

"He must've learned that he's not as real as he thinks he is," Rufus whispered to Dimentio, cracking a joke at Dark Riku's expense. Dimentio giggled quietly with his hand over his mouth.

"Let today be your first taste of the Emerald City," Dimentio said to Dark Riku, letting the replica know that better days were ahead. "We'll entrust you with the big guns at a later date."


Anna was on such an emotional high from standing up to the mafia, that she wanted to recount her story to the others. So she went to the gaming room to tell everyone how she finessed Robert Garcia.

"So I looked him in the eye and I said, 'Not today Garcia, not today'" Anna told her story to the residents in the gaming room, who were hanging on to every word that came out of the merchant's mouth. "'And not tomorrow, and not the next day. Or the day after that. And you can tell all your friends that if I see them, then they're already dead.' I said something like that."

"Very close," confirmed Fox, who along with Falco was with Anna to verify that parts of the merchant's story were true.

"Just to be clear, she backed down an insurance agent from a family business," clarified Ryo Sakazaki, who knew about Robert Garcia better than anyone - he was literally the dude's best friend! He should've intervened sooner.


Meanwhile, Hunter had yet to fix the credit card fiasco, for Mario's credit cards were still on hold. The cheetah gave Peach a call to tell her the bad news since he wasn't man enough to say it to Mario.

"Are you kidding me?" an angry Peach was heard over the phone, as there was a lot of commotion going on in the background.

"Hi Peach, is Mario there?" Hunter nervously asked the princess, wanting to deliver the bad news to both Mario and Peach.

"Listen our credit card has been canceled and we have to deal with that, and I really can't handle the fact that you're calling us here!"

"Okay, that sounds good. Um, I'll let you go, just...tell Mario, that I said hi."

"Oh, I will. I will Hunter. I will make that my top priority."

"Cool. Okay." On that note, Peach hung up the phone as Hunter found himself in even deeper trouble. "Bye."

Hunter: They have no idea what happened.