"Okay: we have large, reptilian footprints at the main entrance," Batman noted, he walked over to the dining hall, "There are slash marks nearby the Italian dishes, and it looks like that the cake had a large bite taken out of it," He returned to the Mario brothers, Murphy, and Zelda, "I'd say that Bowser's in the building.

"I coulda told you that, bub." Wolverine replied.

A cartoonish question mark appeared over Mario and Luigi's head, and Zelda turned to him inquisitively.

"How so, Logan?" The Hyrulian princess asked.

Logan tapped his nose, "The nose knows." He replied with what could be described as a shit-eating grin on his face, "Plus, I saw him come in while I was getting a beer."

"And why didn't you tell us?" Batman asked.

"Eh, figured the jump-men there could handle it." He gestured to the Mario bros, as he walked out of the room.

"Well then," Zelda continued, "What do you know about the big B that could help us in our investigation?"

"Other than he a-likes to kidnap the princess?" Mario asked sarcastically, "He enjoys Karting…" He replied, after getting a glare from the dark knight.

"Alright, to the racetrack!"


"He ain't here."

The quartet looked at Yang and Cloud in disbelief, "What do you mean he's not here?"

Cloud rolled his eyes, "He's not here. The Karts are all intact, and still have full tanks," He gestured to the vehicles, "In fact, all vehicles have full tanks. Sunnie here has been working with me to help set up a track for an upcoming race we wanna do."

"'Sunnie'?" Zelda asked.

Yang facepalmed, "It's T's new nickname for me. But she gets a bit jealous if someone else uses it."

"Ah got it." Luigi replied.

"How are you two getting along, anyway?" Batman asked.

"Still doing great. But Tails has been avoiding us for some reason…"

"Probably has something to do with what Stark said…" The dark knight muttered.

Zelda winced. Once word had gotten out about who spread that rumor, Tifa had unleashed every single one of her limit breaks on him… Twice.

"Well, good luck with this… race of yours." Batman replied, walking out, "Thanks for the help."

"No prob-" Cloud looked around, seeing no sign of Batman, "I hate it when he does that."

"I got used to it with Blake and Ren a while ago," Yang responded, noticing the other three walking out, "We just need to wait for Ghost Rider and a motorcycle Transformer to enter the ring. Then, we can have a speed battle."


"So, he's not in the kitchen?"

Hanzo shook his head, "He's not in here. The only people who have been here are , Kirby, Buu" Hanzo shuddered, "Spider-Man, Vegeta, Ryu, Peach, Hercule, Sonic and you guys."

Luigi looked wary, "What happened with Kirby, and Buu?"

Hanzo had a distant look in his eye. "E-e-e-ea-ea-ea-eat-t-t-ting competition." He replied with fear in his eyes.

The four investigators shuddered at the image in their heads, though, Batman was better at hiding his.

"Well, thanks for the help." Luigi replied.

The quartet then exited the kitchen hall.

"So much chaos…" Hanzo shuddered.

"Is anyone here at all freaked out that two pudgy pink aliens were able to make Scorpion of all people have a break down?"

"Not really Bro."


AN: Well, two locations down, a few more to go. Bonus points to those of you who can piece together where Bowser is. You can choose what other song a different character or characters sing once the karaoke competition starts.

The disclaimer was roughed up by Batman when he rescued it from the Villain bar. Sorry 'bout that.