"And here I thought seeing both Spider-Men and Batmen playing poker with each other was going to be the weirdest thing I'd ever see in this place."

To say that Hawkeye was weirded out was an understatement. Then again, this was the first time he had come across Mario, Peach, Luigi, and Bowser all sitting down to play a round of Mario Party 10.

Appropriately, they were all playing their respective characters. Bowser was on the other couch separate from the others, so that his opponents could not sneak a peek at his screen.

"Alright, let's-a-go!" Luigi declared as the game started up.

"To the castle?" Mario asked everyone.

"TO THE CASTLE!" Everyone declared.

Mario, being player one, selected the appropriate stage and the game began.

It was about thirty minutes until the trio and game A.I managed to get to the second part of the stage. Oddly enough, it wasn't Luigi's bad luck that was taking them down (in fact, Luigi came out of the last two minigames unscathed), it was the A.I's.

Bowser was right behind them, and it was Luigi's turn. "Come on, Luigi…" Peach prayed.

"A three!" Luigi cheered. Thankfully, they had needed either a three or a five. While a six would have been preferable, the fact that they managed to get a few more hearts to continue the fight.

"Okay Princess," Mario pointed out, "We just need a four or less, and we're safe."

"Don't worry, Mario." Peach assured, "The computer will use the special dice block to get us to the finish. Then all we have to do is to keep guessing until we win the game."

"Bowser's right behind us though." Luigi pointed out, "Anything above a five, and his claws go into us."

"We won't falter!" Peach declared, as she rolled.

"This seems like a really bad idea." Future Spider-Man pointed out.

"Yeah, I'm with the spider on this one, old man." Future Batman said to his 'past' counterpart, "Creating a swarm of these things is probably going to eat up a lot of power."

"Shut it." Bruce Wayne snarled, "These new cybernetic tarkatans-"

"Coulda sworn we called them 'cyber-kartans.'" Miguel muttered.

Peter Parker walked in, "Okay, my Spider-Sense has been going off for the past twenty minutes. What the heck is going on?"

"My old man is doing his usual obsessive thing again." Terry deadpanned.

"This doesn't have anything to do with the fact that he couldn't beat the cyber-kartans with stealth, does it?"

"This is the guy who has a contingency plan just in case anybody he knows goes nuts." Terry pointed out, "If he can't figure out a way to beat these things with stealth, nothing's going to stop him from obsessing over it."

"But they used that weird grimm magic to make it so that everything on those cyber-kartans dissipates when they die." Peter pointed out, "We couldn't get a full sample to replicate it here.

"Still have no clue how they managed to put that into technology, but what the shock do I know?"

"The nutjobs at the villain hangout made the only thing that we couldn't counter with sneak attacks."

"Okay, now I'm done." Batman classic declared.

"I only got a vague warning from my Spider-Sense, what the hell is he doing?"

"He's forcing the machine to create a massive swarm of Mavericks to train against. He figures that the cyber-kartans only managed to beat him because they were more technologically advanced. So beating a few dozen of them shouldn't be a problem." Terry explained.

"But the machine can only handle six at a time…"

"This is my old man we're talking about. He gets obsessive after a while."

Peter looked at the futuristic Batman as if he grew a second head, "I share a room with him. I'm well aware about his obsessive nature."

"I know you can't tell, because of the mask and all, but I'm rolling my eyes right now."

"Likewise."

"The modifications are done!" Batman classic declared, "Get ready!"

Batman hit the button to send out his swarm.

Exactly one minute earlier…

"Okay! Bowser's not going to go for the obvious, he's smarter than people give him credit for…" Peach reasoned, "but, he also knows that we know that he's smarter than people give him credit for, so maybe he would go for the obvious choice…" The cursor hovered over Bowser Jr.

Mario and Luigi rolled their eyes. Ever since Peach saw Princess Bride, she started over-thinking a lot of things. Channeling her inner Vizzini, Peach kept switching between the options of Dry Bones and Bowser Jr.

Bowser also rolled his eyes as Peach continued her tirade, "BUT! He would also go the completely unexpected route and put it in the hammer brother…"

"But he would clearly put in the left, because he knows that we know that he knows that we know that he would try to go the unexpected route…"

Luigi pantomimed looking at a watch as if to signify that the princess was taking a long time… Admittedly, she was, but that was beside the point.

"… But Bowser has a nasty habit of putting his downfall right behind him, and who backs up the boss? - The mini-boss, so he would obviously give the star to the hammer brother."

"I think she's a-overthinking this." Mario mentioned.

"It was your idea to watch Princess Bride, Mario." Luigi pointed out, "Don't look at me."

"I can hear you from over here, and I actually recall it being either Link or Zelda who wanted to watch that film." Bowser pointed out.

"Oh yeah…"

"And using this deduction, we can say, with confidence, that Bowser would give the star to Dry Bones!" Peach finally declared, as she selected her intended target. The star was about to pop out of the character that Peach chose, and the on-screen characters gathered around to celebrate as Peach was extremely confidant in her choice, and-

*BWWWP!*

The power in the entire building went out.

"Oh no…"

"THIS IS YOUR FAULT, OLD MAN!" Terry shouted as he, Batman classic, and the two Spider-Men went running for their lives as Peach was chasing them.

"THIS IS ON THE OUTDATED POWER SUPPLY THAT WE HAVE, NOT ME!" Batman classic shouted back as he grappled to the next rooftop where Miguel helped him over the edge to save time.

"TELL THAT TO PEACH!" Peter shot back.

Mario, Luigi, and Bowser were all staring into the distance. Peach's competitive spirit was a fiery one. The sheer fire that was her competitive spirit burned hotter than Natsu, Charizard, and Ace's fires combined.

"Was the star really in Dry Bones?" Luigi asked.

"She should've gone with the simple approach. It was with my son." Bowser answered.

"GET BACK HERE!"

"And here I thought that it was Banner that we weren't supposed to anger." The Koopa King commented as he saw peach break a stone gargoyle with a single slap.

"Hopefully, she'll tire out eventually." Mario replied.

*SMASH!*

A car just landed right in front of them

"Hopefully."

Wade: You done now?

X: Yeah… Hey, you know that episode of Batman: Brave and the Bold? Where Neil Patrick Harris basically sings about all the things that make Batman irritating? - I feel as if that song perfectly encapsulates all of my frustrations about this whole thing.

Alexis: Tweet tweet chirp.

Wade: Hell yeah the music's catchy!

X: I swear, the guy drives me bats! I'm done here. See you when the battle actually airs, I need a break.