It's been a rough week, no-one has been able to find any of the pieces to the puzzle. For some reason, It's felt like a full year since everyone started to help on this scavenger hunt. So, last week Tatiana told us everything she knew about the Plague Doctor, and about how he defeated her in her timeline. But something was about to happen that would change the whole investigation.

Today was the day that New fighters would show up, which was something Chara was very excited about. She has always been one to appreciate new people, and especially people that she knows very well from their games. Chara was up all night pondering over who will walk through those doors, would It be a bunch of Nintendo owned characters, or a bunch of third parties? She would have to find out by greeting all of the new guests. It was about 6 am when she left her room for the cafeteria, there was only a couple of people there. Chara looked around the room while walking over to the feeding table, she spotted that Tatiana was there, and Red too. The food was a pretty good selection, which something she instantly spotted was the Pokemon treats, which only she would ever grab a few for herself to eat, Those Pokemon treats were very good!

"Hey, Soft-Face! Sit here!" The familiar voice boomed into Chara ears, It was Tatiana. Soft-Face is a cute nickname that everyone started calling her because of a hilarious incident that happened in the woman's bathhouse. Apparently one of the ladies was putting on lotion and had a huge blob of it in her hand when she tripped and fell onto Chara, slamming all the lotion onto her face. "I asked you not to call me that..." Chara replied, as she sat down across from Tatiana on the table.

"I allow you to call me whatever you want, so I can call you whatever I want." Tatiana pointed out. Though the agreement was true, It was getting old very fast. "So, what do you think of the Newcomers, you little nerd?"

This came off as surprising to Chara since they haven't showed up yet. "Wait, what do you mean 'Have I seen them'?"

"The Newcomers came in earlier today, they're all probably still sleeping. I saw them all walk through that door, they all look badass!" Tatiana mumbles while talking with her mouth full of the delicious food.

Chara looked both very mad and sad that she missed the new guests. Chara had been waiting for a long time to see who else was invited to join the Smash Tournament. Were the newcomers regular people like her and Tatiana, or are they famous video game characters Chara and many more people have grown up with? Chara scopes around the room looking for Palutena since she would be the one who knows everyone and everything, but she is nowhere in sight. Chara plumps down back down into her seat, with a wave of disappointment, but also anticipation! She ponders for a while on who the newcomers can be? She also doesn't want to ask Tatiana who they are since it will ruin the surprise!

After a while of thinking she gets up from her seat and walks over to the serving table, by now almost everyone has grabbed their food, and some seconds. But some of her favorite foods are still on the table. Chara picks up some tofu salad, a baguette, and some non dairy ice cream for some breakfast dessert. After gathering all of her food she heads back to the table Tatiana was at and sits with her, not realizing at first that Tatiana has just finished her third plate of food! Chara looks over at the food goblin and her massive feast!

"Hey, that's very unwise of you to eat like that..." Chara smirks at Tatiana for eating like a pig.

Tatiana looks over at Chara after shoving another bite-sized hotdog. "It's very stupid of you to eat food like that and expect to be strong..." Tatiana struggles to chew her last bit of hotdog, clearly pushing herself to eat more than her body can handle. "Damn girl, is there any meat on your bones?"

Chara finally realizes what she is talking about, she is poking fun at Chara's vegan breakfast. "Hey hey! I'm not completely vegetarian, I love myself some sushi rolls and shrimp cobbler! I'm just trying to find inner peace within myself, so I can perform better at the tournament, that's why I'm fasting myself from meat!"

"Yeah, and I'm eating this whole cafeteria so I can become a competitive eater! And also did you see Donkey Kong's plate? I think he has the biggest appetite here and I'm trying to beat him! Only I can be the the Glutton King... Or Queen I guess..." Tatiana shouts out with her pure and utter determination!

Chara and Tatiana continue to eat while everyone is finishing their food and heading off to go practice at the training grounds. Chara saves her tofu salad for last since that is the best part of her breakfast, she grabs her fork and starts digging into her salad. The moment the fork breaks through the salad leaves, a huge wave of spicy smell breaks free from the lettuce and cabbage as it fills Chara's nose with a gracious smell of an unknown pepper that was put into the salad. She immediately grows in love with the salad has she brings the bite of salad up to her mouth, further tingling Chara's mouth as she almost drools over the thought of the salad. She finally brings the salad to her mouth as she tastes the millions of spicy particles and tasty goodness of her tofu salad. Chara grows immediately in love with her salad and begins to scarf the whole thing up without savouring the flavour! In a matter of seconds, Chara briefly became a vacuum cleaner and ate the whole bowl of salad quicker than lightning!

Chara looks across the room at the serving table, staring at the left over salad wanting to eat the whole tub of salad! She turns around towards Tatiana who just came back from gathering another plate of food, this time with a little bit of the salad she just ate!

"Hey Tatiana... May I have some of your salad?"

Tatiana looks over at Chara, quickly stabbing the salad and shoving the bite in her mouth, at the same time pointing her other hand towards the counter with the salad. The salad seemingly calls to her with the sweet-smoothing voice, like a siren's song, luring Chara to feast on the salad. She gets up from her seat and grabs the biggest bowl she can find before attempting to fit the whole tub of salad into her bowl. But right has she scooped the last bit in her bowl, she realises what she has done... And how embarrassing it might look to be literally taking the tub of food with her! She peaks around the room looking for anybody watching her, and out of nowhere Palutena is standing right beside her! Her sudden appearance jumpscares Chara and she almost drops her giant bowl of salad!

"I see you like the salad Soft-Face!" Palutena smirks as she puts on her own soft face towards the starving child.

Chara is shot with a huge wave of embarrassment and guilt for taking the tub of salad. She slowly edges towards the serving table and sets the tub of salad back into the serving table without breaking eye contact with Palutena. Chara then slowly backs away from the table like a thieving raccoon after being caught red-handed! Chara looks up at Paluntena and tries to think of something to shave off a lot of the embarrassment.

"Soooo... Who made the salad?" Chara asks with uncertainty.

Paluntena quickly smiles. "It was actually made by an off-worlder like you! Her name is Lorien, she is a beautiful chef who lives in Atlantis as their only human celebrity." The moment Palutena called out Lorien's name, Chara was immediately ecstatic!

"Wait... Lorien? Is Lorien going to be joining us at the mansion? Is she one of the newcomers?" Chara sprays a ton of questions towards Palutena.

"Sadly, Lorien isn't a fighter like the rest of us, also she rejected the offer to join Smash. But she was the one who brought up the idea to cook for us, so she cooks her food in her kitchen at the Sea Depth Diner and sends a group of amphibians, who can breathe air, to deliver the food to us!"

Chara looks down at the floor with sadness that she won't be able to meet Lorien at the Smash Mansion. "Since she's not coming, Is there a way I can visit her in Atlantis?" Chara asks.

Palutena then jokingly says: "Well, if you can live up to 800 years, then you might see her!" Chara's jaw immediately drops through the floor!

"Wait! Lorien is that far into the future? I thought she might be so far into the past since she's living in the Lost City of Atlantis!" This comes as a huge surprise for Chara that Lorien comes from such far of a future!

"Oh she isn't at the Lost City of Atlantis..." Palutena adds on. "She's on the planet of Atlantis, quite far from the Earth you know!"

Chara then notices that Tatiana comes from the far future as well and waves at her to come to her. Tatiana shoves the final bite of her bacon and limps over to Chara and Palutena. "I'm sorry I failed you Palutena... I don't think I can finish all of this food... I tried, I at least got six plates of it..." Tatiana tries desperately not to puke.

Palutena looks over at the hungry-hungry hippo. "You don't look like a big eater, you remind me of Pit a lot... Say, would you be up for an eating contest? I'm sure Pit and a few others would love to join!" Palutena suggests.

Tatiana looks up with her tired face with a disgusted face and smile. "Please... Not today... I've already eating a lot today thank you very much..."

Chara stares at her friend who looks like she is about to throw up her entire skeleton and asks if she knows who Lorien is, but turns out Tatiana isn't that far into the future. They quickly organize a plan to host an eating contest in the passing week before Tatiana limps away out of the cafeteria and disappears from sight. Chara then looks back at Palutena and asks again about meeting Lorien.

"If Lorien is from another planet, I bet she would love to meet someone like me from Earth!"

Palutena flinches a little and looks down at the floor with sadness. "I'm sorry, but the future she comes from..." Palutena hesitates. "Earth is the scummiest of planets and a giant prison for criminals all across the galaxy. Also Earth is used as a garbage disposal planet and everyone in the galaxy resents anyone who is from or around Earth..."

Chara scrunches down and her excited look washes away very quickly. "But... She might understand that I'm not from THAT Earth..."

Chara almost breaks out in tears before someone peaks out from the hallway and into the cafeteria. And what she saw turned that frown, upside down! The tip tap of her shoes echoed through out the cafeteria, her potent smell quickly filling the room. Who she saw was something out of a dream, someone who she adores, her favorite videogame character! It was Inkling from Splatoon!

Chara quickly bolted towards Inkling with joy the galaxy has never seen before! Inkling flinches and almost falls over when Chara jolts to her, Chara completely fangirls over Inkling, talking about everything she knows about Inkling and how much she loves Inkling already. Inkling looks at Chara with a surprised and startled face. Palutena walks over and pulls Chara back by her shoulder away from Inkling.

"I'm so sorry Inkling, its just you seem to have an adoring fan here at the Smash Mansion!"

Inkling looks up at Palutena and speaks out some Inkling language gibberish. "Oh! This is Chara, she is a human from Earth in the 21st century. She is a really big fan you and the sport you play!"

Inkling looks down towards Chara and again speaks some alien language gibberish Chara doesn't understand. "She says it's nice to meet you Chara, Im Coral!"

Coral jumps on Chara giving her a giant hug, her inky and slimy squid skin wrapping around Chara's body. Chara is shocked that Coral just have her a hug and is extremely puzzled at what to do. Eventually Coral jumps back from Chara and speaks some more gibberish, then looks up at Palutena waiting for her response. Chara also looks up at Palutena with a puzzled expression on what just happened!

"That's how Inklings bond with new people, kinda like how you give out handshakes!" Palutena answers out to Chara. "She also insists on telling me that you smell and taste great..!"

Chara jolts her head back towards Coral with a surprised look on her face. "You what?!" She shouts out!

"Ah don't worry, she only drank your sweat and licked your skin!" Coral looks at Palutena and gives out a short mutter while Chara's face cringes even more.

Chara struggles to spit out a few words. "Yeah... I like the smell of your Ink too!.. I paint a lot so I know what high quality Ink smells like!.." Chara replies with the upmost of awkwardness.

Coral gives out some more gibberish and shows off an extremely bright expression! Palutena translates: "She says that she likes to paint too and was wondering if she could see any pieces of her art!"

Chara gets all excited and literally jumps out of her sandles because somebody finally wanted to see her art, and none other than the person she adores the most! Chara takes Coral's arm and attempts to run to her room but Coral's arm slips right through Chara's hand. She tries again and is successful, and drags Coral to Chara's room. They both run out of the cafeteria and up the stairs of the Mansion towards the Woman's side of the Mansion and through the beautifully painted hallway, full of colors and elegance! Just as fast as lightning they pass hundreds of rooms, most are filled with the universes best Heroines and Fighters!

Finally they reach Chara's room where she reaches for her keycard and opens her door. Chara's room is decorated to look like an Art Museum with a large Art Deco theme with a large amount of black marble texture with gold streaks and outlines. The smell of paintings fill the room that perfectly compliment the ambiance of the room! Throughout the extra large room, that is smaller on the outside but bigger on the inside, fits hundreds of paintings Chara has made with a few statues sprinkled here and there to fill up some empty space! Coral looks around Chara's room in shock and awe! Chara looks back at Coral to see her bright face, with her star lit eyes staring at Chara's wonderous room.

"Pretty cool room right? My original room got ransacked by thieves, sadly... But Palutena worked some of her magic and reinvented it!" Chara mutters as she drags Coral to her bedroom.

Inside her bedroom is a completely different style than her actual hotel room. Her hotel bedroom is a straight copy of her real bedroom back at home. Just the thought of her home sheds a single tear that runs down Chara's cheek. Coral walks over to see Chara's saddened face before making a little noise. Coral lifts her arm up towards Chara and wipes off Chara's tear. Coral holds the tear droplet on her hand, not soaking into her skin because of her oily Ink, just staring at the droplet. The room fills with an awkward silence as they both reminisce with sadness. Chara tears up remembering letting go of her family, as Coral feels Chara's depressing aura and shares her sadness as well. Chara goes to sit down on the end of her bed, really in deep thought about her situation. She invites Coral to sit down on her bed as well and Chara repeats the story about the Jackal, the Waterpark Attack, and her injured family. Coral's ink color light shifts to become a darker shade of purple as she leans in to comfort Chara.

"Thank you for being with me Coral..." Chara tearfully sobs out.

They both sit around on Chara's bed for quite some time before getting up and leaving Chara's hotel room. On their walk back to the lobby of the Mansion, they bump into Red and his Charizard! Red and Charizard looked like they just came back from the gym since they both look extremely exhausted and are wearing some sweaty gym uniform. Red notices Chara with his exhausted expression. While Charizard is completely worn out and just continues walking down the hallway.

"Red? What are you doing in the woman's section of the mansion?" Chara asks?

Red looks up from the floor and struggles to reply from his loss of breath. "Wha-at? I-I'm sure I wen-went the right way..?"

"An easy way to remember where your going is the pattern on the floor. The woman's side is filled with flowers and tree designs, while the man's side is decorated with aquatic beaches and underwater textures!" Chara informs Red.

Red looks at Chara with upset eyes and a dropped jaw. "Are you kidding me?! I-I'm so sorry for disturbing you!" Red leans to the side to stare at Charizard already about to head up the stairs to the next floor and yells out: "Come on Chariz-zard... We are on the wrong side..! Its that way..."

Red points behind him as he leans up against the wall waiting for Charizard to catch back up. Red's sweaty hand pouring all over the side of the wall, with the wall soaking in the salty sweat. Finally when Charizard catches back up to Red, Red pushes himself off the wall to give him an extra bit of boost so they can begin walking back the way they came.

As the girls are about to leave themselves, Coral taps Chara on her shoulder and points towards the sweat marks before letting out an inkling noise. Chara looks back to find the sweat mark imprinted on the wall and weird stretch marks around it. Chara and Coral walk to it to examine it closer, this spot of painting on the wall looks oddly shaded and wrinkly? Coral leans in and pokes it with her finger before her finger breaks right through the painting on the wall! Coral then grabs a bit of the painting and rips it off, revealing a secret hole in the wall. Coral then cries out with gibberish of joy.

"Woomy!" she called out!

Behind the hole in the wall revealed an iron bar. Chara reached inside to grab the iron bar, she struggled to pick it up because of its massive weight! She looked at the iron bar and noticed some engravings on the bar saying: "Please don't break or hide this I need it for later... - Your Favorite Plague Doctor."

"Could this be one of the pieces to the puzzle we have been waiting for?" Was what came through Chara's mind as she pressed the sigil on her wrist. Not even in a moments notice, Palutena's light shines into the hallway quickly filling it before teleporting right in front of her, along side Pit and Dark Pit.

"Come on! I was just in the middle of some intense training! What do you want this time wimp?" Dark Pit snaps out as he pushes his way through everyone on his way outside.

"Wait! Pittoo!" Pit calls out. "This is really important!"

Chara looks down towards the iron bar in her hands and hands it to Palutena. "Here! Coral found this in the wall after a bit of paint fell off and revealed that secret hole." As she points towards the hole in the wall.

Palutena looks at the iron bar carefully, reading the message multiple times before coming to a conclusion. "What could he do with one bar of iron? There has got to be more hidden around here!"

Pit jumps in front of Palutena, also Intrigued by the iron bar. "Wait wait... We aren't gonna tear down this Mansion just to find possibly more of these things? I don't wanna destroy this beautiful place!"

Dark Pit stops in his tracks half way across the hallway and makes his way back to the group. "You were talking about destroying things? Because that's one of my specialties!" Dark Pit takes with a sense of pride.

"I would rather destroy this place than to let that Plague Doctor threaten all of our survival. Especially humans like Chara and Tatiana since they don't have the luxury of respawning like we do. Only dark magic can respawn them and that takes a lot of energy! That's why they both have sigils so they can call for assistance from anyone in the Mansion if they are in trouble!"

Chara and Coral look at each other before looking back at Palutena, waiting for her to make a decision. "Alright... Me, Pit, and Pittoo are going to be searching around the Mansion for more clues. Its still pretty early in the day, you two should head down for some training. This is our problem now! Thank you for finding this ladies."

Chara and Coral take her advice and start to head down towards the lobby of the Mansion, when Chara notices something in the indoor swimming pool, she sees Red and Squirtle swimming around and relaxing with Greninja as well! Chara walks down towards the swimming pool and takes a closer look inside.

"Hey Coral, I know you can't swim, but you still wanna hang out in the swimming pool?" Coral then shakes her head no and backs away from the room.

"Aww come on! You don't have to swim if you don't want to!" Coral then agrees to chill out near the pool and heads with Chara inside of the swimming area.

The Pool Room is this huge pool that is used for a ton of different swimming events, like racing, pool volleyball, even for diving! They both jog along the side of the pool and head towards the woman's locker room where Chara gathers her bathing suit from her locker and Coral puts on something a little more comfortable. They walk out into the pool to find a couple more people have joined the party, with a couple more pokemon like Jigglypuff and Lucario to cool off in the pool. Coral scurries along the side trying to find a beach chair that she can rest on, while Chara looks for a suitable diving board to show off to her secret crush- Red.

She looks up at the diving boards; each one significantly higher than the last, for a total of three diving boards. She thinks about going to the tallest diving board since it is more flashy, but her fear of heights will greatly hinder her performance on her dive. And if she chooses a shorter one, it is less impressive but easier to manage? Chara ultimately decides to go on the middle one since it is perfectly impressive while not too high that it leaves Chara in shock when she looks over the edge of the diving board.

Chara climbs up the stair-ladders to the top of the middle diving board, thinking about what she is going to do during free-fall. Since she has had a lot of time spent at the nearby watermarks, she has had time to practice diving! She is midway up the ladder when she hears someone call out her name!

"Look its Chara, she looks like she is about to dive off the diving board! Check her out!" Someone calls out to everyone else.

Everyone at the swimming pool halts what they are doing and take a look at Chara as her triumphant climb up the ladder fill her with determination. She makes her way up the ladder and stands in the middle of the diving board, with her heart pounding and her teeth chattering at the great height of the diving board! Adrenaline pumping through her body as she stares at Red from across the swimming pool hoping to make a great impression to show how awesome she actually is! Her legs more wobblily than a newbie pirate with sea-legs, and her hairs standing up straighter than the trees!

She closes her eyes as she runs towards the end of the diving board, forcing her scared body to take a leap of faith! She leaps off the diving board like a dolphin, doing a backflip so impressive that-that would make professionals jealous! Chara midway through the flight also does a beautiful cartwheel through the air as she straightens out towards the end to dive into the water perfectly. Definitely the most impressive dive she has ever done in her career!

Chara thinks to herself while swimming up to the surface of the water: "Did that impress Red enough for him to like me?"