"Who the heck is Shovel Knight?"

Many of the patrons were confused as much as Ken was. Apparently, an indie game character wasn't that well-known amongst the hotel-goers, and it was more apparent here.

"Look, I just got here, I only got word that Lara won her fight." Yang said as she held her hands up.

Ken rolled his eyes, "The next fight is Scrooge McDuck vs. Shovel Knight. It's… Interesting to say the least."

"Wait, which video game villains are they?"

"Y'know, Bowser asked the exact same question." Ken said, scratching his head, "And the answer is: They aren't. Scrooge is from some old television show, and Shovel Knight is from a new indie game."

"Huh." Yang sat down, and just looked surprised.

"So, has Tifa glomped you yet?"

Now Yang was flustered, "Wha- no! Tifa's just a friend. She's not like… Stop teasing!"

Ken chuckled, "It's just too much fun though. Now I see why Dante does it so much."

"That little…" Yang muttered under her breath.

"Yeah, just wait until Tifa glomps you."

Yang was already gone when he turned around.


"Okay, I'm just going to throw this out there, but…" Lara looked one more time at Nathan's slumbering body before turning back to Zelda, "Nate's quite the pretty boy."

"I'm sure he gets that a lot." Zelda replied, not even looking up from her book.

"Seriously, I'm thinking of asking him out."

This caught Zelda's attention. "Uh, you do know that he's married, right?"

Lara turned her head so fast Zelda almost thought it would snap, "Wait, really?"

"Yes." Zelda replied bluntly, "Elena Fisher. It happened recently."

"Well, that's a shame that he's taken." Lara replied in a solemn voice, "He was really cute."

"We can agree on that. But he's taken. I'm surprised that you're not going to try and steal him away from his wife." Zelda commented.

"I'm a treasure hunter, not a homewrecker." Lara responded indignantly.

"Good. I just wanted to make sure you weren't going to try and steal anyone." Zelda replied.

"Hey, I only take things that aren't mine. Not people." Lara responded.

"Good, because I'd hate to have to kill you." Zelda chuckled.

"What makes you say that?"

"Just stay away from my man." Zelda replied darkly.

"Huh? I don't-" Lara was cut off by the sudden appearance of Zelda right in her face.

"I said, 'Stay away from my man.'" The Hyrule princess restated, "Do not touch Link, do not talk to Link, do not even look at Link. Got it?"

"Yes ma'am." Lara whimpered.

"Great. Glad we could have this discussion." Zelda said, getting back to her book.


Typically, in his own universe, Spider-Man would sometimes chat up with one of the stone gargoyles on a building.

Goliath was here, so that generally made things a little awkward.

"So, what do the guys in your universe say about you?"

The stone protector of New York sighed, "They typically call me a monster. I'm used to it, really. I'm sure that you are used to being called a menace, or a threat to society by that news outlet."

The Web-Slinger also sighed, "Yeah. How do you keep staying on the heroic path? I usually use the memory of my Uncle Ben, Gwen Stacy, and all my friends to keep going."

"I typically do it because of my code of honor. " Goliath responded, looking at the specialized medallion that Zelda made to replace the one that Doom made.

Don't need his stuff around here to force a deal with the heroes.

Crash!

"Darn it, Tony! What did we say about drinking and wearing the suit at the same time?"


X: ugh, I feel like I lost my muse for this story.

Pinkie: Muse? What's that?

Wade: You cannot be serious right now.

Pinkie: I'm serious! I want Exxy here to have a good time writing this stuff!

X: So what? You want to go on an adventure to find my 'muse'?

Pinkie: GREAT IDEA! Alexis, you can come along too!

Alexis: Chirp?!

Pinkie: Wade!

Wade: Yeah, I'm on it. X doesn't own these characters, and ACK!-

Pinkie: I'm not talking about the disclaimer! This'll be a great big adventure!

X: Oh. So this is going to be a story arc or something?

Wade: Looks like it.

Alexis: Tweet…