A/N: I think it's time we go back to some light and humorous stuff. Elizabeth especially needs a break considering all the crap that happened to her. Let's give her some happy fun times for a change 😊 Gonna try a new idea for this chapter, which will either turn out really well or really badly lol.

This chapter will focus mostly around Fritz and Elizabeth. For now, their relationship is strictly "close siblings/friends". I'll only upgrade it to romantic feelings if the majority of reviews favor that particular direction.

Shout-out to Gokai for helping direct another reviewer to "A Legacy Laid to Rest." Thank you for helping him/her out, and I hope the answer clarified things up for you.

The Henry Stickmin series is owned by Puffballs United. Oh yeah, and SPOILERS if you haven't seen/played "Stealing the Diamond." I HIGHLY recommend you play or watch a Let's Play on the series first, you'll get a lot of good laughs out of it. In fact, some LPers, like Markiplier or BONNIE THE BUNNY (yes, really), make it even more hilarious. If you don't want the game to be spoiled or you don't care, the only parts REALLY important parts are the first page and the first part of the second page (aka the New Name part). I could have had the two play a major game like Super Smash Bros., Mario Kart, Crash Bandicoot, etc., but I figured that would be something better saved for the whole family.

Chapter 7 – A New Name, A New Game

Elizabeth floated/walked down the stairs as Mike began working on his "adult paperwork crap." She could hear the noises of a movie echoing from the living room, and assumed that the other ghosts had gone back to watching whatever movie they had been before she'd arrived.

She decided to make her way to the kitchen, wanting some time to think for herself. To her surprise, however, she discovered that Fritz was already there, looking at Mike's laptop and chuckling, which made her assume that she was watching something funny. She didn't really make any noise as a ghost, but Fritz was able to sense her presence anyway and looked up.

"Hello," she greeted him nervously. "Aren't you going to watch the movie with your friends?"

The red-headed boy shook his head. "Nah. I missed a good chunk of it in the beginning, so I think I'll watch it on my own time. Maybe when the rest of us are asleep or something."

Elizabeth nodded. "I…I never really thanked you yet for defending me back there. I still don't know why you did it, but I don't think they would've accepted me if you hadn't helped me," she stammered. "So…thank you. Thank you for giving me a chance."

Fritz sighed. "To be honest, I kinda followed Mike and Mary out to the porch, and I eavesdropped on the whole thing. Let's just say you made a wounded puppy look like the happiest animal on Earth. There was no way you weren't telling the truth. I didn't want to spill the beans on that in front of the others, though. Didn't seem right."

"I can't thank you enough…" Elizabeth repeated quietly, her voice barely above a whisper. "You don't know how much this means to me."

Fritz smirked, though his eyes were much gentler than they normally were. "Long as you're happy," he thought, before suddenly cocking an eyebrow. "You know what?" he suddenly declared. "What I think you need is a name change, Elizabeth. Absolutely nobody in this house likes the name Afton, for reasons that should be obvious. Least of all, you. Wanna put the past behind you? Getting a new identity is one of the easiest ways to do it!"

The girl thought for a moment. "You mean like…changing my last name to Schmidt?"

"Yeah, that's a good way to start!" Fritz agreed encouragingly. "But you can do more than that. Is there any way you can change your first name? A nickname you liked, anything?"

Elizabeth thought for a moment. Her memories of her life when she was alive had all but faded entirely, but maybe she didn't need to think that far. If she shortened her first name… "Beth doesn't really sound right. Maybe…Liz?"

Fritz grinned. "Perfect. Liz Schmidt. Got a nice ring to it."

Liz laughed, looking the happiest she'd been so far ever since she'd showed up. "Amazing! I feel better already! I can't wait to tell Mike and the others!"

"We should probably all change our last names to Schmidt," her new friend mused. "I mean, we ARE his family now." He shook his head. "Eh, whatever, we can talk that over with Mike later. For now, I was about to play this cool game that's part of a series we found earlier on the net. Do you wanna help me?"

Liz smiled. "I'd love to," she replied, and she moved next to Fritz. Her brow furrowed. "Does that say…Steal the Diamond? And is that guy a stick figure?"

"Yep," Fritz confirmed, "but don't be fooled. We spent almost five to six hours on the Internet today after Mike introduced it to us, and this series is still one of the funniest things we've seen today."

He turned on the game, and both he and Liz smiled as they watched Henry's eyes flash with green dollar symbols upon seeing the massive Tunisian diamond. "I'm about to go full Foxy the Pirate on this museum," Fritz all but cackled as the intro ended. The first choice appeared: Bust In or Sneak In.

"Sneak In might be smarter…" Liz thought out loud, "Nah. Bust in!"

Fritz's grin grew. "I think I just found my new first mate," he gleefully said as he clicked the option. On the screen, Henry got on a motorcycle and began racing towards the two guards in front of the museum. "Quick!" he called out. "What should I do?"

"Jump?" Liz suggested tentatively. The two of them were rewarded with Henry jumping off the motorcycle, only to fall flat on his face and crash. A FAIL screen promptly showed up, scolding them for thinking that jumping off of a moving vehicle was a good idea.

"Yeah…I don't know why I thought that would be the one," Liz admitted. "Kinda panicked. Maybe try ram?"

Fritz shrugged and redid the sequence. This time, Henry crashed through the door and sped deeper into the museum, even as one of the guards desperately tried to call for help. "That's more like it!" he whooped as the next options showed up. Unfortunately, he was so caught up in the thrill that he failed to click any option in time, resulting in Henry getting smacked in the face by a police baton.

"I think you need to pay a little more attention," Liz deadpanned as the FAIL screen popped up. "Ha ha, very funny," she muttered dryly as she read it. "We're ghosts, we can't even get sick."

Fritz rolled his eyes as he restarted the sequence, this time clicking shield. The option worked perfectly as Henry blocked off all the bullets and the police baton with the shield, and continued his charge straight into the diamond exhibit. "Pick the tow cable!" Liz exclaimed, and Henry promptly attached a tow cable on the diamond and made his escape.

"First try!" Fritz grinned as Henry sped past two night guards who were talking. Both he and Liz cringed a bit as the policeman talked about "night guarding being safer," but the thought quickly faded past their minds as the chase sequence continued. Fritz and Liz were so caught up on the action that they failed to make a decision between the rock and the branch in time, resulting in Henry getting shot by one of the policemen.

"I can see all those hours of video game playing has really sharpened your reflexes. Oh wait…" Fritz read from the FAIL screen. "Okay, screw you game!" he ranted. "I've been stuck in a goddamn pizzeria for 30 years! I don't even know what a video game is!"

Liz grabbed Fritz's shoulders. "Calm down!" she insisted. "You saw all those game consoles near Dad's TV. He'll show us soon!"

"Yeah, I guess you're right," Fritz admitted. He replayed the sequence, and clicked branch. Both Fritz and Liz were impressed as Henry deftly spun up off the motorcycle and into the tree. "Wait, what happened to the…" he didn't even get a chance to finish his sentence as the screen revealed the diamond still on the road, right in front of the police offer. Fritz and Liz glanced at each other and then wordlessly facepalmed as the FAIL screen popped up.

Fritz restarted the sequence and this time picked the rock, and he smirked as Henry threw it at the officer and knocked him out. His smirk quickly faded, however, as a helicopter with a sniper sitting on its perch flew in. "Quick!" Liz exclaimed. "Pick the bubble!"

He selected the option, and both of them cheered as it turned into a defensive shield that effortlessly blocked the sniper's attacks. "Hey, wait a minute, how does a guy who's so poor he has to steal a diamond have advanced defensive technology that doesn't even exist in real life?" Liz questioned as the chase continued.

"Who knows, who cares," Fritz blithely replied as the policemen cornered Henry on the broken bridge. On a whim, he clicked on the diamond, and the two watched as Henry fell off the bridge inches before the policeman shot him. Henry climbed out of the river, exhausted, but his eyes lit up as he saw the diamond in front of him.

"YES!" both Fritz and Liz cheered as the message "You won the AGGRESSIVE way!" appeared. "We have to play more!" Liz insisted as Fritz reset the game back to the game.

"Not gonna disagree!" Fritz replied as he clicked on "Sneak In." His eyes narrowed as he saw one of the options was "teleporter." "Oh fuck no," he growled, "I saw Cassidy and Jeremy both get fucked over by that thing in the other two games, I am NOT clicking it." He looked down at the options pointing "left." "Got a Shrink Ray, a Pick, and a…Liquidifactor?"

"Shrink Ray sounds like it will work," Liz commented as he clicked it. Henry shrunk down and fell to the ground, where he could see a small crack leading into the museum. "Yeah, it worked just…"

A "giant" worm suddenly lunged out of the ground in front of him, and the screen shifted back to the museum wall before the FAIL screen appeared. "Actually…yeah, things like bugs and worms probably are scarier up close and personal," Liz admitted as Fritz reset the choice.

"Pick seems kind of stupid, but then again, so does Liquidifactor," Fritz commented as he clicked on the pick. "Oh, fuck…" he mumbled as a green creature thingy showed up behind Henry and caused the wall to explode. Both waited for the FAIL screen to show up, but to their surprise Henry was still alive and no worse for wear after being exploded through a wall. "Wait, that was the GOOD option?" he asked dumbly as the scene shifted over to 2 night guards. As they talked about some random crap that neither of the two ghost kids cared about, the scene shifted over to a choice between the Gun, Bomb, and Plane.

"Gun sounds fun," Liz commented, and Fritz clicked it. There was a crash as Henry leaped in front of the two officers, ready to fire…except that the only thing coming out of the gun was empty clicking noises. The two ghost kids exploded into laughter at the expression on his face once he realized the gun had failed.

"Oh my God," Fritz wiped a ghostly tear from his eye. "That face…that face is just too damn perfect! Ha ha ha ha ha ha!"

Liz wasn't faring much better. "Best FAIL so far by a long shot," she gasped out as Fritz reset the choice. "In all seriousness though, if the gun didn't work there's no way the bomb will."

"True," her new brother agreed as he clicked on the Plane. The two of them were treated to an amusing show as the plane knocked one of the guards out and the other ran smack right into a column. Henry progressed over to the next part of the museum, where he had to sneak past a drowsy guard.

"There's no way just walking into that Grand Exhibit is going to work," Liz commented, and Fritz picked the room next door instead. True to their expectations, that turned out to be the correct choice. Henry sneaked open the door to the exhibit there, and found two guards waiting. Four options popped up, while Liz and Fritz watched baffled.

"Uh…what exactly are those?" Liz asked. She'd never seen any of those things before.

"I think those are video game references," Fritz explained. "I don't know much more apart from that, I don't know any more about video games than you do."

"That Pokeball looks interesting," Liz replied, and Fritz clicked it. The two of them watched in interest for any hints on how the game would play out, only to look on in horror as the MissingNo glitch fucked up the entire "game world" beyond recognition. Both of them cringed as a blue screen of death showed up, along with a FAIL screen.

"Okaaaaaaaayyyyyyy…" Fritz finally found his voice again. "If and when we ever play this Pokémon thing, let's NOT fuck up the game with a glitch."

"I'm with you there," Liz agreed as he reset the screen. Fritz decided to pick the Crowbar this time, only for a ton of head crabs to fall on his head. "Ouch," they winced as the FAIL screen popped up. "How did that even happen?"

"It's a video game, who knows?" Fritz replied as he clicked on the Super Mushroom. They watched in awe as Stickmin grew to a giant size, easily shrugging off the guards' bullets and snatching the diamond for himself.

"Does being larger actually protect you from bullet wounds?" the former Afton asked as the museum descended into chaos.

"Probably not, but this makes me want to pretend," Fritz replied as a cannon ball shot into Henry, forcing him down to normal size. The game switched perspectives over to the Center for Chaos Control, where the supervisor instructed one of his subordinates to take care of the chaos going on at the museum.

"Ooh, so many choices," the former Foxy inhabitant leaned in excitedly. "What's that one on the top left?"

Liz shrugged as Fritz clicked on the "/ 0" button. A calculator suddenly dropped from the sky, and he suddenly understood. "Oh, fuck…no, no, no, no, no…" he mumbled as the calculator typed in the equation: "1337 / 0 =", which resulted in the destruction of the entire world. "As a meme, Dividing by zero causes a reality-breaking, world-destroying paradox," he explained to Liz as the FAIL screen popped up. "It's one of the many things we found on the Internet earlier."

"Isn't dividing by zero supposed to be impossible in actual math?" Liz pondered as Fritz reset the scenario.

"Ugh, who cares? Do you think I remember anything, or want to remember anything from math class?" he scoffed as he chose the nuke and satellite options in that sequence. The two of them were treated to two darkly hilarious scenes of complete and total destruction, as well as two FAIL screens. "I knew these were wrong," Fritz admitted, "but I couldn't resist picking them anyway." He clicked on the final gear option, and a gigantic robot suddenly emerged from a pack dropped off in the center of the museum.

"Uh, Henry?" Liz commented as the robot began rampaging around the place. "You might want to get the hell out of there." Fortunately, Henry took her advice, and started running out of the museum as quickly as possible leaving the diamond behind. The two of them couldn't resist a chuckle as they watched Henry run from the museum in slow motion. Liz and Fritz both looked disappointed as Henry stopped to catch his breath, until the diamond suddenly landed on the ground a few feet away from them.

"Aww hell yeah!" Fritz cheered as the message, "You won the EPIC way!" appeared on the screen. "This was even better than the aggressive ending!"

"There was one more way to win, right?" Liz asked.

"Yep," Fritz confirmed, "going up the wall instead of to the left." He reset the game, going back to the wall where the six choices had been. "Okay, any ideas?"

Liz thought for a moment. "Well, I'm pretty sure the Anti-Gravity thing is just gonna send us flying to space," she reasoned. "Are you SURE that teleporter is gonna screw us over?"

"Yeah, just watch," he clicked on the option, and the two watched as the teleporter sent Henry into the sky…only to land him perfectly on his feet on the roof of the museum, unharmed. Liz smirked at her brother as Fritz shrugged. "Hey, of course the teleporter works for me! I'm the best!"

Liz rolled her eyes as four options showed up to get past the guard on the roof. "The Penny option sounds really dumb, so it's probably correct. What's that Falcon Punch thing?" she asked. "I want to see it!"

Fritz clicked on the option, and Henry leaped in front of the guard, ready to deliver a devastating blow…only for him to deliver a weak, normal punch with a fart sound. Both Fritz and Liz chuckled as the guard took his gun out and the FAIL screen popped up.

"Video game reference?" Fritz guessed as he clicked on the invisibility pill. Henry disappeared, and took a few steps forward…only to fall off the root. Both of them gaped at the FAIL screen. "What the fuck?" he spluttered. "How the fuck does this make any sense? Other people don't see you, not the other way around!"

"I'm not even going to comment on that one," Liz muttered. Fritz decided to just proceed with the penny and Henry snuck into the museum. "Dropping down sounds like it's completely wrong," she said. "Wire?"

Fritz clicked the option, and the two high-fived as Henry made it down to the bottom safely. He then proceeded to choose the hammer, and Henry shattered the case with the diamond. The stick figure "hero" snuck his way over to the same exit that he'd broken out of earlier, and a choice of cheese, plank, or cannon presented itself.

"Cannon sounds like it'd be too loud," Liz said.

Fritz pouted. "Aww man, but I wanna go full pirate!" he complained, before sighing, "But yeah, you're right. Let's go with the cheese. I bet with this game's logic it's gonna turn Henry into a god or something." The two watched as Henry ate the cheese….and that was it, leading to a FAIL screen. "What the fuck…" the two of them muttered. "That's it, I'm just done." He clicked on the plank, and Henry used it to launch himself onto a pillow and sneak past the guards.

"I think this is the last choice," Liz said as they watched Henry consider snapping a neck, the diamond, jumping, or a gun on how to get past the last remaining guard outside. "Maybe steal his gun?"

Fritz clicked the option, and Henry leaped forward in front of the guard, snatching his gun from him. He then proceeded to fire at the man…only for him to miss an entire volley of bullet shots on a man literally standing in front of him. "You've got to be fucking kidding me," Fritz deadpanned as the FAIL screen popped up.

"That's just embarrassing," his new sister dully agreed as Fritz reset the choice. "What now?"

"Maybe snap his neck?" Henry leaned forward to snap the guard's neck, only to stumble and tumble backward down the stairs. "Are you serious?"

"Henry, you are a goddamn idiot," Liz muttered as she facepalmed. At this point, Fritz was getting fed up and clicked the diamond option. To their satisfaction and relief, Henry dropped the diamond on the guard's head and ran off, leading to the message, "You won the UNDETECTED way!"

"Still think the Epic and Aggressive endings were better," Fritz commented as he shut off the game. "That was still a lot of fun, though."

"Can we…do something like this again sometime?" Liz asked hesitatingly. She didn't know the other ghosts as well as Fritz did, and she just felt…more comfortable around him. He was already becoming a new brother to her ever since her older brother Mikey had disappeared.

Fritz smiled at her. "You're a great gaming partner, Liz. We should definitely do this again sometime. Until then, wanna watch Empire Strikes Back after the rest of our friends are done?"

The newest addition to their family smiled back. "That would be amazing."

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Yay, some light-hearted humor and family fluffiness between Fritz and Elizabeth! Or perhaps I should call her Liz, now that she has discarded the tainted identity of Elizabeth Afton, broken and corrupted daughter of a child murderer, and replaced it with Liz Schmidt, newest "adopted" daughter to Mike. She kinda needed this after two straight chapters and an entire backstory of serious and depressing atmosphere.

I apologize if my humor attempts flew over your head, but you really need to have been exposed to "Stealing the Diamond" to fully appreciate it. Luckily, most videos of it are only around 13-15 minutes long, so it shouldn't be too much of a time investment.

We'll be shifting back to the whole family next chapter. These kids have not yet been introduced to the glory of video games, and Mike has a LOT of work cut out for him XD