After everyone that were on patrol had gotten what they wanted done, they went back to doing what they were doing before.
Which was basically messing around.
"I'm still trying to figure out what's up with this computer here." Zelda grumbled, "It's not working for some reason."
"We literally live in a place called 'Net City' and you can't figure out how a computer works?" Sonya asked, "So much for the Triforce of Wisdom."
"Wisdom doesn't equate to 'technologically adept.'" Zelda countered, "Now can you give me a hand here?"
"Fine. What's wrong?"
"I'm trying to use a certain website so that I can try to put together a little event for those kids in the nearby hospital, but this thing won't let me make the event public." Zelda bemoaned.
"Are you on the right Wi-Fi network?" Sonya asked.
"Desktop. It's already connected to the internet." Zelda pointed out, "Even I know how the internet works. I'm not that helpless when it comes to technology."
"Well it can't be that hard to figure out what is wrong with this."
Being excited about her friend coming over to join them, Pinkie had drafted several other people into helping her make decorations for the upcoming party. Among them were Sub-Zero, Scorpion, TJ Combo, and several other characters that were really not appropriate for this kind of plan.
"Why the dolls?" Guts asked, picking one up. He had just set up the stereo system with Yang's help.
"If you recall, we are not exactly that friendly towards each other." Hanzo mentioned, "So to quell the outcries of parents who had no problem allowing their children to watch Batman's movies from the eighties, we had to introduce 'friendships' to counteract the violence."
"They are also technically those 'pop figures.'" Kuai Liang corrected, "Remember when we tried to encourage people to buy them?"
"I recall seeing many people copying our appearances, and that was about it." Hanzo replied.
"You are too cynical and sarcastic right now." Sub-Zero deadpanned.
"My clan and I are stuck defending Earthrealm for eternity." Hanzo replied, "Excuse me if I don't believe that the job of being eternal defenders isn't something to be super excited about."
"Better than fighting demons who want to beat you to a pulp and drag you back to their master." Guts said, stopping nearby the nachos and taking a chip for himself.
"Is this everything? - I swear, if this wasn't mandated for our therapy session, I would have smashed a wall instead."
"I liked you better when you were more happy and pun-loving." Rainbow Dash mumbled.
"And I liked it when I could trust my family to not reveal personal information to people that they've only known for a month or two at most." Yang answered, "I'll put the mask back on when I head back to my own world. Not before."
"Okay, are the streamers - No no no! Those are supposed to be lavender! These napkins are clearly a dark plum!" Pinkie sighed, "How am I supposed to make the best party for Twilight if we can't even get the right streamers?"
"Considering that it's McGruff putting up the streamers, I'd say it's impressive that he managed to get a color remotely close to lavender." Guts said, "Aren't dogs colorblind?"
"I don't like talking about it." McGruff replied.
"You're just mad that you basically fell into obscurity while Smokey only got more popular." Raiden replied, "Now can we hurry this up? - I have patrol in a few minutes, and I don't feel like getting an earful from Cammy for missing it."
"Crap, I'm also on today's patrol schedule." Yang realized, "Me and Red are taking the skies, since Cloud is letting me borrow Fenrir. He's getting a replica for the remake, and he said I could borrow his."
"It flies now?"
"Since we modded it, yeah." Yang replied, "He modeled it after some obscure world where there's 'incredible transforming technology' and 'elemental gemstones of incredible power that need to be mined.' At least, that's how Mewtwo described it."
"Uh, Yang?"
"Yeah yeah. I know." Yang deadpanned, "Cloud mentioned it several times. Same with Mewtwo, but he went into detail or whatever reason."
"Hanzo!" Pinkie called out, "I need you to bake a cake, and fast!"
The yellow-clad ninja sighed as he made his way to the kitchen, "I'll get on it. Send Peach a message to help me out, I might need some help if the size is what I think it's going to be."
"We need it to be big enough so that everyone can get at least one slice!" Pinkie clarified, "Or enough for the same amount."
"That's means what? - a hundred people?"
"One hundred and forty five people!"
"That can't be right. Shouldn't most of those be or robots?" Hanzo argued.
"Well, it would still be nice to let them know that we're thinking about them." Pinkie said back.
"He has you there, Scorpion." TJ Pointed out.
"Don't call me that." Hanzo snarled, "Very well, I'll get to work then. Tell that JARVIS A.I that I may be… incapacitated. When my patrol shift comes tomorrow."
"Will do!" Yang called back as she started sorting through the music to find acceptable songs to play during the party.
"Have fun, Hasashi!" Sub-Zero smirked.
"Sometimes… I wish I did kill you back then." Hanzo muttered under his breath.
"Then we wouldn't have the ability to save money on air conditioning though!" Yang called back.
"Okay, I'm looking through this manuel, and there's nothing about what's been going on!" Sonya said, "What's going on?"
"I don't know!" Zelda replied, "I feel like I did something wrong! Did I do something wrong?"
"Dammit! Why did Cap have it so that JARVIS couldn't be tech support?"
"Because of our personal search histories, and passwords." Zelda deadpanned, "What about Otacon or Grim? Any luck finding them?"
"They're running systems checks for our defense grid, and are reprogramming the tech in the gym." Sonya answered, "It won't be for a long while."
"Dang it! Why?" Zelda moaned.
"I'm a military general!" Sonya grumbled, "I'm not losing to a piece of technology like this!"
It was at that moment, Cloud walked in.
"Hey guys, what's up? - I was hoping to help out with the party planning by taking over for Yang and Raiden, and I need to know a few things about Twilight."
"Can't you ask Pinkie Pie or Rainbow Dash?"
"I can barely understand Pinkie as she is." Cloud answered, "And Rainbow Dash cheated in a race, so I'm not talking to her right now." He grumbled the last part.
"Awfully petty if you ask me. Besides, I don't think you can use the internet right now." Sonya added, "We can't connect to the Wi-Fi for some reason."
"Have you checked the wire to the router?" Cloud asked.
"Yes we-" Sonya stopped herself before turning to Zelda, "Wait, did we…?"
Zelda tried to recall, "Uh…"
Sonya dropped to the ground and started looking around. Sure enough, the wire to the router was unplugged.
"You have got to be kidding me." She said as she reconnected the plug, "How did we not try this first?"
"I guess we ignored Occam's Razor." Zelda shrugged.
"You have the Triforce of Wisdom!" Sonya shouted, "How did this not once occur to you?"
"Again, I would like to reiterate: I'm not familiar with technology!" Zelda shouted back.
"I'll just start using it now." Cloud said, "You guys seem like you're going to be busy for a bit." Cloud said as he moved past the two bickering women and started his research on his account, "Man, thank goodness that Cap convinced Tony to not let JARVIS monitor our searches… I'd never hear the end of it if he found out what I'm looking up right now…"
Pinkie: And what exactly is wrong with a man like Cloud garnering an interest in my series?
Wade: Yeah! Do you think that her show is only meant for little girls?
X: No. But, I doubt Cloud would be comfortable watching this unless he was watching it with Marlene and asking her questions like, "which one's your favorite?" or "What's your favorite song?" And would probably add that he hopes that it isn't that Winter Wrap Up song because that song is an earworm that I don't feel like having to deal with.
Wade: You'd have to listen to Let It Go a dozen times to get it out of your head…
