"At some point in my life… I'm going to find whatever god that invented abusive parents and stab them. Repeatedly."

"Y'know, if that came from anyone else, literally anyone else, that would be unsurprising. But you're a shrinking violet." Barbara paused for a moment, "Is there a non-binary equivalent for that?"

"If there isn't, I'm fine with that. What with my hair and all…" Crona shrugged.

"Are you two done talking?" Geese asked, to which the other two nodded, "Good. Now, we want to renegotiate. Those 'vaccinations' that you use to kill the Viruses?- we want them."

"We already send them to you. Flash drops it off in a care package every week." Barbara said, "Seriously. What do you idiots do if you're going through them that fast?"

"What care packages? We never got them!" Heihachi slammed the table, "You're lying!"

"We have no reason to lie though." Crona pointed out.

"YEAH! You guys must be a bunch of idiots if you didn't notice them!"

"Ragnarok, we appreciate you backing us up on this, but can we try to not aggravate the two deadbeats?"

"Deadbeats? If by that, you mean we'll be beating you to death, then yes. You are accurate. Those shipments stopped coming four weeks ago, and we demand to know why they haven't come, and-"

"HURUARAUUUAAACCKKK!" A grotesque arm made up of slime shot out from under the floor and started thrashing around, forcing the four people there to avoid the attack until it latched onto the table and sucked it away to another location before disappearing completely.

"Well… I think I know what happened to those shipments…" Barbara said.

"A hand shot out of the floor?" Jon asked.

"More like an arm. It was covered in slime and it thrashed around. We were all so startled that we kinda forgot to actually attack it."

"A hand." Jon repeated.

"Jon, this is the seventh time you've asked that in ten minutes. At this rate, I may as well get a punch card. Can you take a look around and see if there's anything else?"

"Okay. I'll give the message to Shoto and Saberwulf. Talbain out." He clicked his communicator to stop his audio feed, "Alright you two, we're dealing with a slime-covered arm that can grab things and transport them to another dimension… Apparently. Be on the lookout for anything that looks out of place."

"That's going to be tough. There are a lot of things that are out of place here since guys like Barry and Doctor Strangefate aren't around anymore."

"It's just Doctor Strange and Doctor Fate?" Saberwulf asked.

"It's not like I really care that much." Shoto shrugged, "If they were as strong as people claim they are, then why aren't they here? Why haven't they fixed everything?"

"Perhaps they got de-powered." Jon suggested.

"That sounds like a comic writer's cop-out for trying to actually justify why a certain hero can't fix all the problems when they made their characters too powerful." Shoto sighed.

"Mood."

Jon and Shoto's heads snapped to Saberwulf's direction.

"Who taught you that?"

"Broly."

"WHO TAUGHT HIM!?"

Saberwulf shrugged.

"I have… A lot of questions…"

"We'll have to save it, Jon." Shoto pinched the bridge of his nose, "Meanwhile, we have this… Whatever that we need to chase."

"Assuming that it's a singular creature." Jon pointed out.

"Knowing that the last few creatures were all in groups, we should take that into account. Good call there, Jon."

"And then we can start getting back to work. A bunch of thieves isn't exactly something I wanted to concern myself with, even if there is a battle to be had."

"Shoto, remind me to help Saberwulf here with his meditative techniques when we get back."

"Will do."

Dude: Holy crap. That was a long wait for that result.

Wade: I know, right? That was insane! How high of a percent did we deal out?

Dude: Pretty sure it was less than 100% before the last attack.

Wade: Yeah. That was pretty craz- hey, Where's Pinkie?

Dude: Alexis is gone too!

Wade: Crap! We need to go and find them and- Wait, did they make this massive mansion thing while we were doing this?

Dude: Probably? It doesn't look like the one that Mitsuru, Weiss, Jotaro, and Luigi are trapped in.

Wade: The one that's basically like those mystery dungeons from that Pokémon spinoff game?

Dude: Yeah that one.

Wade: Welp… They're not going to find themselves. Let's go find them.

Dude: Eh, I have nothing better to do.