Metroid Prime Remastered suddenly receives an incoming transmission to his in-flight TV, and when he plays it, he sees a video of Ridley mooning the camera. Furious, Metroid Prime Remastered traces the scenery elements to find the coordinates where the video was taken, and has his ship land there. Metroid Prime Remastered gets out of his ship and walks into the nearby cave where he presumes Ridley will be, but after wasting several hours spelunking and searching the depths, he can't find any sign of his foe. When Metroid Prime Remastered comes back to the surface, he sees his ship being ransacked by Copter Enthuzaster, who is tearing off pieces of metal and machinery with his bare hands. Metroid Prime Remastered fires a warning shot at Enthuzaster, who runs back to the Cybr-Copter and takes off before Metroid Prime Remastered can catch up to him. Metroid Prime Remastered gets back on his ship and tries to lift off, but the engine is missing, so he can't go anywhere. However, he is able to analyze the video he received in further detail, and he curses Ridley's sharp wit as he realizes that Ridley used a green screen to change the background of the scene, bamboozling Metroid Prime Remastered into wasting his time on a wild goose chase.

"Your debt's due. Time to pay up.'' The terrifying and imposing Debt Govliath, an agent of the government, stands before Poblano.

"Hang on, I don't have the money right now, but I will soon, I promise!" Poblano pleas.

"That won't cut it. Pay now or suffer the consequences."

"I…um…" Poblano turns around and starts running away, but doesn't get very far before being flattened by the Govliath's massive sword. With his duty performed, Govliath turns around and starts walking away, unaware that he's being followed by Shadust from a distance. Shadust believes that Govliath is employed by a giant monster in control of the government, so he figures that if he tails Govliath for long enough, he'll eventually be able to reach and slay the monster in question.

Meanwhile, in Crypto Canyon, Quatch spots the first sign of another living being after wandering for days. It seems to be an ordinary human, aimlessly walking through the canyon with their hands in their pockets.

"HEY, WAIT UP!" Quatch shouts, running over, but the person doesn't react to him at all, as though he's undetectable to them. Quatch tries waving his hands in front of their face, but still gets no response, and even when he tries pushing them over, they just dust themself off and get back up. Quatch is confused by this behavior, but tags along with the strange individual anyways, occasionally attempting again to elicit any sort of response, to no avail. Soon, over the horizon, a small town of sorts comes into view, and as Quatch gets closer, he sees a sign labeling it as the Crypt. Upon entering the Crypt, Bogfoot, who was in the process of eating a van, looks over at Quatch and the stranger.

"Oh, hey, Blurr, who's your buddy? Wait a second…" Bogfoot narrows his eyes, staring at Quatch. "You look an awful lot like that cryptid hunter. Blurr, you didn't bring a hunter here, did you?"

The ordinary looking person gives a shrug, not responding verbally, and then walks away into a nearby house. Bogfoot sighs and shakes his head.

"Look, buddy, we would all appreciate it if you just went home and left us to our own business. We ain't bothering anyone out here."

"Oh, actually, I lost all of my equipment when I got sent here." Quatch admits, and Bogfoot's attitude immediately shifts.

"Really? Wow, loser. Get a load of this guy, everyone. The cryptid hunter doesn't even have anything to hunt us with!" Bogfoot calls out, and an assortment of other crypto-creatures peek out of windows to jeer and laugh at Quatch, while Bogfoot walks up to Quatch and puts an arm over his shoulder. "We're gonna have a lot of fun with you around, pal."

"WE'RE RICH, NIGHTSTAND! FILTHY RICH! And yet you STILL insist we not spend any money? You greedy pig!" Freeloader Freddy spits at Nightstand, who's protectively clutching the case of money that he got from Buckaroo Banzai.

"Listen, if we save this, and get just a little bit more, we'll never need to pay Rent again." Nightstand retorts. Lobus, already having swiped several large bundles of cash, tiptoes away back into the teleporter, heading to Dethe Bestn with the goal of building up his own personal nuclear arsenal, something with which he of all people definitely should not be trusted.

"Fou thoufht fhat F fouldn'f find ouf fou hafe fhe fifth Fhaos Eferalf, difn'f fou Sonif!" Shafow cackles, appearing in front of Sonif and trying to swipe the Eferalf away. Sonif moves the Eferalf out of the way of Shafow's grab.

"Nife tfy, fut F fame frepared!" Sonif exclaims, pulling out his Anti-Edge Saber and brandishing it towards Shafow, who gasps, unable to get closer to Sonif due to the aura the weapon has.

"Fhat's cheafing!" Shafow snarls.

"Fuh uf, if'f perfectly acceftable." Sonif says tauntingly, twirling the Eferalf in his fingers.

"If fhat cafe…" Shafow takes out an extendo-arm, using it to grab the Eferalf without needing to get close to Sonif. With this power, he becomes Fuper Shafow, and flies away, while Sonif wails in lament.