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Super Smash Brothers, a tournament where many icons from around the world come together to duke it out. While many arrive to participate or contribute to the tournament, only certain individuals get the spotlight while the rest are thrown off to the side.

A lone Mimikyu sat alone on a front seat bench while a tournament match was going on, a 4 person match between a purple dragon, a crocodile with a cape and crown, a duo of a bear and bird, and a big guy with a funny mustache that looks like a W, he looked like bad hygiene in human form.
Mimikyu was invited to be an assisting fighter who would show up for a brief amount of time to help whoever summoned her, but assists were banned for this battle so she just sat alone and watched.

Until, a marionette like individual in a blue hat and cloak walked up to the bench.
"Is this seat taken?"
Mimikyu shook what seemed to be her head in what appeared to be a "no" gesture.
The marionette took a seat beside her and they sat in silence for a while watching the match.
Attempting to make conversation, hoping that will pass the time quicker, he looked over to her.
"Enjoying the match?"
2 thin black arms came out from under Mimikyu's rag and did a shrugging motion.
"Not that fun when you're not in the action huh?"
What appeared to be Mimikyu's head did what looked like a nod.
They "chated" (more so just the marionette saying things and Mimikyu emoting in some way, occasionally making a "kee~kee" sound) for a bit and got to know each other

The marionette introduced himself as
"❤🎵!?" But quickly realized that that may be hard to pronounce, so he asked Mimikyu to call him "Geno".
They talked some more, got to know each other, as both were "rejects" for the tournament, they had many things in common
Suddenly they were rudely interrupted.
"Scoot over will ya! This is the best seat in-a the house!" A lanky man wearing a purple hat and black overalls, also with a funny mustache, this one looking like an L, sat down between them eating popcorn.

Geno spoke up
"Excuse me we were in the middle of a-"
The man swatted Geno away while shushing him
"I'm-a trying to watch the game, my bro's playing! I-a bet a lotta money on this"

"Ok but you can at least ASK for a seat, not plop yourself right in the middle of us while we're talking, who do you think you are?"
The purple man turned to Geno
"Waluigi"
Then pointed to himself with his thumbs
"Numbah one"
Geno didn't know how to respond, he technically got the answer he wanted.

Geno realized there wouldn't be any way to make this man budge, so he gave up and tried to make small talk.
"So you're an assist too huh?"
"Yeah, I don't-a recognize you're face though, you a new assist?"
"No, just a visitor, but she is" Geno said, gesturing to Mimikyu.
Waluigi turned to her "Hey do y'all pokeball guys have-a your own rejection circle?"
"Rejection circle?" Geno asked, confused
"Y'know? A circle of chumps who didn't make-a the cut for the tournament.
He continued "I-a got a circle with the other assist chumps, and I imagine you've got one with the pokechump ones right?" He said looking at Mimikyu, who nodded as confirmation
Waluigi turned to Geno
"Well, ya got one puppet man?"
"I used to"
Curious, Waluigi asked "what-a happened? Those chumps kick you out or something?"
"No.." Geno pointed towards the match
"They joined"
"Ah, the forbidden 3, legends in Rejection circles" Waluigi said with his finger and thumb on his chin.
"Were you a secret fourth-a member" He asked
Geno shrugged and said "I guess?"
"Interesting, What's ya name?"
"❤- Geno"
"Ah I think I've-a heard of ya, you went on an adventure with that Mario chump right?
"One time yes"
"More times than-a Waluigi"

The 3 of them all began chatting while the match happened, becoming close together as rejects.
As the match came to a close, Wario lost miserably which caused Waluigi to jump up and spill his popcorn in excitement as he placed a couple thousand against him.

With Waluigi a couple thousand dollars richer and Geno and Mimikyu 2 friends richer, they all headed out of smash stadium.
Waluigi then mentioned to Geno
"Hey did ya know in-a between matches these guys lounge around in a giant mansion?"
"Where'd you hear that?"
"Been there, once in a while they host a party and the chumps in-a the Tournament can invite one guest, Wario invites me. Gotta be honest though, don't know if I could stay there the whole time if I did get in. Not really into the sharing rooms thing" Waluigi explained
"So you'd prefer something like a hotel with personal rooms?" Geno said
"Exactly"

Geno thought about that for a while, he also thought about the rejection circles Waluigi mentioned.

"Why don't we do that?" Geno proposed
"What? Make a hotel?" Waluigi and Mimikyu seemed confused
Geno elaborated
"Yes! We make a hotel and host a bunch of parties just like the smash mansion, and we invite people who didn't make it in to the smash tournament. We could be one big Rejection circle!"
Mimikyu seemed to like the idea, excited about being part of a massive friend group while Waluigi seemed more interesting in the money he could make

"This is a great idea and all, but where do we get the hotel?" Waluigi asked
Geno already had a plan
"As part of the forbidden 3- or I guess 4, I know Banjo, and he knows a guy that just loves to build at any opportunity, I'm sure I can work things out"

The plan had begun

A few days later, Geno met up with a man named Steve, a mostly very normal fellow even though he was made out of blocks, him and Geno found an empty bit of land, negotiated prices and got into detail of what the Hotel should be, and then Steve drank a potion and went off building like there was no Tomorrow.
Next day, Geno, Mimikyu and Waluigi arrived at Steve's build site, the Rejection Hotel was finished, beautiful, and ready for business.
As part of Steve's pay, he was allowed to stay free of charge.
Steve headed off into his room and the other 3 sat behind the reception desk.
They got the hotel, but now they needed one thing

Guests.

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With the Mansion opened for business, the 3 sat behind the reception desk and brainstormed ways they could get more guests.

Geno looked to Waluigi "you're in the assist circle, you have any of their phone numbers or something?"
"You think I keep in-a contact with those chumps?"
Geno turned to Mimikyu who quickly shook her head.
"Well do you know ANYONE that isn't in the tournament?"
"Well.... I-a know one guy but he's a bit....complicated.. he's a racing buddy of mine"
"Waluigi, we're not gonna turn down anyone. The hotel is open for everyone"

Waluigi sighed and called his friend on the hotel's phone while Geno and Mimikyu discussed more ways to get guests.

After a few minutes, an idea struck Geno
"Hey Waluigi, you said you were invited to a smash mansion party with Wario right?"
"Yeah every smash-a Tournament, next ones in like a week" Waluigi confirmed
"Well why don't you look for guests there, there's gotta be someone there interested?"
Waluigi groaned as the thought of starting conversations was disgusting to him, but he ultimately agreed.

"In the meantime, we could maybe print flyers and hang them around town?" Geno suggested, Waluigi and Mimikyu both seemed to like the idea.

About half an hour passed, Mimikyu was printing flyers, Geno was sitting front desk, and Waluigi was slacking off in the back.

Geno heard a noise. A loud noise. The sound of a motorcycle. It grew louder, and louder, and louder until

*CRASH*

A white motorcycle bursted into the lobby, breaking the doors off its hinges, sending the flyers and Mimikyu flying and Geno cowering against the wall.

A man with Black spikey hair, yellow tinted sunglasses, some stupid magical girl anime shirt, and a red jacket hopped off the motorcycle.
"YO! This the rejection hotel?
"y-yes it is, n-name please? Geno asked, though he couldn't help but wonder what would've happened had he said no.

The man gave Geno multiple names, most of them to brag, such as "Best Goddamn assassin you'll ever meet", The Crownless King", and "The No more hero". Though in the end he just gave his name,
Travis Touchdown.

"Holy shit" Travis realized "YOU'RE GENO!"
"You've heard of me?" Geno said curiously
'Yeah you were in the Mario RPG game! Played the shit out of it in high school!"
Geno seems confused as he never gave his likeness to a game, he chose to just ignore it.
"I'm glad to have been part of your childhood" Geno just said politely

"Hey sorry for the door, man. I just wanted to make a kickass entrance for everyone." Travis looked around "where uh.....where is everyone? I thought at least one guest would be in the lobby"

Geno laughed nervously "it's funny actually. You're kinda....the first real gueest??"
"Number 1 huh?......heh Bitchin'" Travis said with a smirk
"Well ya gotta get more guests soon, if people wanna meet me they better act fast"
"Going somewhere?" Geno asked
"Smash mansion duh, I'll get my invite any day now"
"That's a nice Mindset" Geno said

"Hey what all does this hotel have beyond rooms?" Travis asked
"Oh well, he have a food cafeteria ….without a chef. A pool….without lifeguard. An arcade, and a nice little nature walk outside at the back of the hotel. In addition to the rooms of course."

"Nice. Definitely wanna check out the arcade. OH! One last thing" Travis added "are pets allowed?"
"Of course!"
"Sweet" Travis pulled open his jacket and inside was a small white cat who hops out onto the desk
Geno goes to pet it but the cat used Geno's arm as a scratching post.
"Down Jeane! You ok? You hurt?" Travis asked, picking up the cat.
"I'm fine, This damages this vessel, not me." Geno assures.

Waluigi stepped out of a backroom
"EY TRAVIIIS"
"WAHMAN!"
They embrace each other by putting one of their arms on the other's shoulder.
"I-a take it you met this-a guy"
"Yes. So you two are racing partners?"
"Oh yeah, This guy can tear some shit up with a motorcycle!" Travis said, pointing to Waluigi.

"Speaking of motorcycles, would you mind taking that outside?" Geno asked
"Right sorry"

Travis went to park his motorcycle but not before doing donuts in the lobby.
Geno could see that one of them had an influence on the other but was not sure who.

"Fun guy eh?"
"He'll definitely make things more exciting" Geno said. "Let's get his room sorted and then work on your social skills, we'll need them if we want to invite people from the party."
Waluigi groaned

Even if they had only gotten 2 guests, and those guests being some nerd and his cat, they were still making progress.

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It was a big day, Waluigi had practiced social skills all day and was ready to go to the party and hand out invites. He was just waiting for his invitation from Wario, a normal letter but with a blue wax seal with the smash tournament's logo, blue so that they didn't get their hopes up.

A Koopa Paratroopa wearing an aviator hat and a mailbag arrived at the hotel and handed Waluigi not one, but 3 invitations.

Waluigi opened them, not only had he been invited, but so had Geno and Mimikyu.

"Ridley? He invited me?" Geno questioned, but he thought about it and Ridley didn't really have any close friends as he usually kills anyone he encounters.

"That thing can-a write?"
"He can also speak fluently in many different languages, but chooses to scream"
".....I can-a respect that"

Mimikyu seemed a bit upset and angry at her invitation, the 2 go over to see the issue.
Mimikyu was invited by Pikachu
"What's-a wrong? Ain't that the most famous Pokemon?" Waluigi asked
"Mimikyu hates Pikachu with all it's heart and soul" Travis piped up
"How do you know that?" Geno asked
"I do my research, I love Pokemon"

Geno sat down to talk to Mimikyu
"Listen I know you may not like him, but you should give him a chance, maybe you'll learn you're not so different. Plus...
well.... you're the only one who could speak to other pokemon there so.."
Mimikyu wasn't sure and needed to think
Travis spoke up again "If you really don't like him just ditch him after you get there"
That was enough to convince her to come along.

Geno was worried, he knew Steve wasn't a talker, so he had no choice but to ask.
"Travis, do you think you'll be able to work the reception desk until we get back?"
"Oh I can do way fuckin more than that! I'll fight off every and any intruder!" Travis then pulled out a metal device with a spike on the end and spun it around in his hand before dropping it."

Geno was confused "What..is that?"
"Check this out" Travis pressed a button on the device and it extended and emitted a blue beam.
"Blood Berry! Best goddamn beam katana in all of California! Lost count of how many heads I've cut off with this baby!"
"Heads??" Geno said frightened

"I told you. I'm 'the best goddamn assassin you'll ever meet'. Literally, the best, number 1 in the UAA"
Waluigi chimed in "I don't doubt your abilities to protect us, but why would we need-a protection?"
"Well I'll be honest, as number 1 I kinda got a target over my head so I gotta be on the run constantly, that's why I'm here, figured a nobody hotel would work as a hiding spot."

Waluigi leaned over and whispered to Geno "He's not-a really gonna hurt anyone if Nobody's here"
Geno sighed, ANYONE was welcome to the hotel, that included assassins
"Just don't break anything"
"And check out everything we got why don't ya?" Waluigi added

With that, Geno, Waluigi, and Mimikyu (tucked inside Geno's hat) all headed to the party, but while outside, but not before hearing Travis's screams from inside the hotel
"MINECRAFT FUCKING STEVE?"

...

They had arrived at the party, they agreed to split up.
While exploring the mansion, breathing it all in, Geno ran into a familiar face.
"Geno!" Mario embraced Geno with a big hug.
"It's-a so nice to-a see you again!"
"It's nice to see you too Mario"
"I thought you'd-a be watching the star road"
"I work for a higher authority, they're taking care of it at the moment"
"Aha I see well it was nice to-a see you again! Take-a care and enjoy your visit!"
"Thanks I will"
Geno and Mario parted ways.
Before he went looking for potential guests, he at least needed to say hello to Ridley, their conversation didn't last long, Ridley screamed in his face to which Geno responded with "good talk" and Ridley finger gunned at him.

So Geno was off talking to anyone he could find that he knew wasn't in the tournament.

But before he could make any progress, he was quickly grabbed and pulled aside by 2 stretched out arms.
He was met face to face with a woman with green hair and gold spring like arms.
"MY MY! This craftsmanship is outstanding! You can walk and talk like all these low lifes! Can you tell me the name of your maker?"
Geno seemed confused "My maker? Well I was just brought into existence and then I possessed a child's toy. This body is a replica."
"You're a ghost?" The woman asked
"No. Just a spirit from above that grants wishes. I'm using this body to visit while using my vacation days"
The woman laughed maniacally
"WISHES? don't make me laugh, you don't wish for something and have it magically come true. You make it true YOURSELF. I didn't WISH for these ARMS, I ran experiments on myself, NOW LOOK AT ME! You robots know NOTHING!"

Geno attempted to correct this mad scientist "I'm actually more of a Marione-"
"DON'T YOU TALK BACK TO ME! I'LL DISASSEMBLE YOUR MOLECULES! DON'T YOU KNOW WHO I AM?"
"I don't actually.."
"hmmm. You're definitely the most human man made being I've seen. You will call me Dr. Coyle. What's your name"
"Well my *name* isn't pronounceable by humans so you can call me Ge-"
"I AM MORE THAN HUMAN YOU SILLY TOY, YOU WILL TELL ME YOUR NAME AND I *WILL* PRONOUNCE IT AND IF I DON'T I'LL MAKE IT PRONOUNCEABLE!"
Geno was scared "I-IT'S ♥️🎵!? MA'AM!"
"hmm. You're coming with me. I need to study you more"
"NO YOU CAN'T DO T-"
Geno's hand suddenly began vibrating, it opened and inside was a star shaped cell phone.
"I'm sorry one minute please" Geno said before taking the call. "Who's this?"

"It's me Travis! Wah Man gave me your number and told me to call you if something went wrong"

Geno groaned "What went wrong?"

"Oh nothing yet, it's just this one guy that came in, I know him like how I knew you, and he's a bit of trouble. Real mad Scientist, that's not the bad part, bad part is, he was carrying this briefcase and I swear I could see something moving inside, just...look into it when ya can." *beep*

Geno breathed in. "Look Doctor, let's make an arrangement. I'm trying to start up this hotel for people that didn't make it into the Tournament. You come and stay, and you can study me all you want."

"Hmmmm how tempting. If not for you, I'd definitely like to learn about this 'Travis' creature"
"You could also study the guy Travis mentioned."
"So I could..... very well. I'll come to your hotel"
"PERFECT! I'll make reservations!"

And so, Geno had recruited another guest. Unfortunately Dr. Coyle had waisted pretty much his whole time at the party.

Geno sighed and called Waluigi.

"Hey. I got someone and someone came while Travis was working the desk, you have any luck?"

"You won't-a believe how many folks I've-a convinced. We've got a chef and a lifeguard now! Blame it on-a the Waluigi charm! We'll probably need more staff"

Geno just hung up. And then went to find Mimikyu.

"You get anyone to come?"
Mimikyu nodded her head
"That's nice"

Geno took the time to process. Was the creepy purple man and creepy rag really more charming than him? It didn't matter. Their hotel was starting to go somewhere.

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The 3 had all gotten back from the party, quite a few people had shown up, but there were other issues at hand, the mysterious man Travis had mentioned. Geno got his room number and went up to investigate.

He knocked on the door and entered after hearing the sound of someone in a hurry for something and a not suspicious "come in"

Geno introduced himself "Hi I'm one of the owners of this hotel and one of our guests noticed something about your briefcase. Can you tell me the contents of the briefcase."

The man grabbed a blue metal ball, "well you see, while I'm an inventor, I'm also a gem collecter, I used my inventor skills to make a gem locator."
"It spins whenever it detects gems." He said loudly.
"It's also voice activated. Turn on!" he again said loudly

The ball began to spin.
"See? That's why I'm staying here, I've detected rare gems in the area. I guess it somehow turned on in the briefcase Terribly sorry for the inconvenience.

"Don't worry it's fine" Geno assured the man. "But just in case this happens again, I'll need your name"

"You may call me Dr. Ivo 'Eggman' Robotnik" He held out his hand and Geno shook it before leaving.

Eggman quickly locked the door.
"They're getting suspicious, we need to act quick" he said to the blue metal ball, which unfolded into a blue robotic hedgehog which laid on the bed
"Hey! You don't sleep there. I do"
The robot didn't move.
"So that's how you wanna play huh?"
Eggman picked the robot off the bed and then layed down. The robot just climbed back up and layed on Eggman's stomach.

Back at the lobby, Waluigi signaled Geno over.
"Hey, you ain't met our-a new staff have ya?"
"I don't think so no"
"Oh come on I'll show ya around! Hey Mimikyu, you can-a handle the reception desk right?"
Mimikyu gives a thumbs up
"Nice! Now Let's-a go!"

Waluigi takes Geno outside to the parking lot.
"Meet our chauffer!"
He gestured to an ape wearing shorts, a white sleeveless shirt, sunglasses, and a red bandana.
The ape walked over and shook Geno's hand.
"YO DUDE! How's it going? The name's Funky! Funky Kong!"
"This is another racing buddy of-a mine"
"YEAH DUDE! I'm the fastest parker you'll ever lay your eyes on! I can park any car faster than you can say Banana Slamma!"

Geno was confused about what Funky said. "Banana...what?"
As Geno said that, Funky had quickly parked Travis's motorcycle.
"What I tell ya dude!? Pretty rad huh?"

"Yes....very. well it's nice to meet you Funky, I look forward to working with you."
"Alrighty lemme-a show you the garden"

Waluigi takes Geno to the garden, there they see a giant blue turtle watering the plants with water canons it has on it's back

"That's-a Blastoise, he's one of the pokemon guys Mimikyu met at the party"
"Hm. He reminds me of a friend of mine."
Blastoise waved at them and Geno waved back
"Well he-a seems busy. Let's head to the cafeteria next!"

At the cafeteria, they see a little orange guy in a chef's hat who notices them

"Oh hi there! I'm chef Kawasaki. Best ("and only" he says under his breath) chef in Cappy Town!"

"Best-a chef ey? Wanna prove that?" Waluigi said.
Geno didn't wanna waste the chef's time "come on he's probably busy" he said quietly
"Nonsense! Let me make you something real quick! For here or to go?"
"To go" Waluigi said

The chef began cooking, as they peeked into the kitchen they could see him accidentally setting stuff of fire, which only more confused them when he brought out a plate of a single Banana

"Thanks?" Geno said
"Alrighty! Last is-a the pool"

On the way there, Waluigi took a bite of the Banana and all he could say was
"It's burnt'

They get to the pool and they look up at the lifeguard chair to see

Funky Kong again

"Funky's the chauffeur AND the lifeguard?" Geno whispered to Waluigi
"We're on a budget" Waluigi whispered back.

"YO DUDES! HOW'S IT- you gonna finish that?"
"Take it" Waluigi tossed the Banana to Funky who eats it in one bite and just throws the peel to the side

"Do we have a janitor?" Geno asked
Waluigi just shook his head

"Wait Funky, how do you be chauffeur AND the lifeguard at the same time?"

"OH it's simple dude, when I gotta park cars THIS little dudette takes over"
Funky pointed to a smaller monkey who introduces herself as Dixie Kong.

"Huh. Well I still look forward to working with you to"

Geno and Waluigi head back to the front desk.

"Well, Now you-a know our new staff. But... we'll probably need more people behind the desk"

"Yeah I was thinking that too. I DO have a....slightly risky idea"

Geno headed up to Travis' room.
"What's good?"
"Hey listen Travis, we're getting popular, you've been here for a while, you handled the desk pretty well. How would you like to work here for a bit?"
"BRO! are you kidding? Running a luxury hotel for all my favorite gaming mascots AND LIVING AMONG THEM? That's almost what I'd call paradise!"
"Almost?" Geno asked
"Well yeah. I mean, there's the smash tournament and don't get me wrong I'd love to chill with you guys but... IT'S THE SMASH TOURNAMENT! Also... even outside of these mascots of my childhood..I've got a family. A wife, 2 kids, and a respectable but shithead brother."
"So it's a no?"
"FUCK NO! Of course I'll work here, just not forever, Y'know? Tell ya what, when I have to leave I can call my brother to cover, he's still kinda in my debt."
"Well then. It will be great to work with you Mr. Touchdown"
"Hey cut that shit out, we're no just business partners we're friends right? Just call me Travis, man"
"Alright Travis. You start tomorrow"

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It was Travis' first day officially working at the hotel and he was ready for anything, even something like a black alien hedgehog, which coincidentally was exactly what came walking through the door.
Travis already knew who he was but he kept that to himself
"Hey man, welcome to the rejection hotel. Name?"
"My name is Shadow. Shadow the Hedgehog. Listen. I'm on the lookout for someone"
"Alright describe them to me and I'll ask someone in they know someone that matches that"

"Well he's tall, pink nose, obviously fake mustache..."
"Alright one sec"
Travis headed into a back room and out came an angry Waluigi rolling his sleeves up
"You-a gotta problem chump?"
"Yeah. I'm looking for someone, do you have a 'Dr. Robotnik' staying here? He looks like what I described"

Waluigi looked him in the eye "you just- narrowly avoided death rodent" before walking back into the room without hearing Shadow say "I'm immortal" under his breath.

Travis flips through a guest book
"Yep we got one, but for safety reasons you have to specify why you're looking for them"

Shadow leaned in and whispered "Alright listen, I work for the G.U.N., I've been following the Doctor for years and he's nothing but trouble, he blew up half the moon once. He did that by using these mysterious artifacts. They give the user immense power, especially when all gathered, I need to keep my eye on him so he doesn't get them, he's staying here because he suspects there's one of these artifacts here, understand?"

Travis chuckled
"You mean the chaos emeralds? I'm gonna assume you mean the Chaos emeralds cause if that's what you're concerned about..."
Travis then opened his jacket slightly to reveal a red gem in his pocket
"...I've got one of em right here"

Shadow was shocked, "Where did you get that"

"Buddy, let me tell you about a magical place where I often hunt for treasure, I can't discuss it now though. Let me get you checked in and we can discuss it later'

An hour later Travis and Shadow sit alone in the cafeteria.
"Alright. Tell me about this place."

"Well. it's a magical place called 'Ebay' I've found many treasures there. Like my blade, the Blood Berry, I had to battle for it against a man named Victor, I merely defeated him, but years later I found him and killed him with the same blade. Many other things, a phantom game console, an effigy known as a "Funko Pop', and of course the Emerald"

"That last thing, you need to keep that emerald a secret from everyone. You're human so you don't have chaos powers, and you're also the perfect hiding spot for the emerald."

"Yeah? How so"

Shadow looked at Travis's stupid ass anime shirt
"You're the last person I would've expected to have an emerald, and the last person the doctor would expect too"

And with that, Shadow left for his room

"What the hell is that supposed to mean?"

Travis ignored Shadow's comment and decided to get some food while in the cafeteria, a bowl of ramen.

He sat at a table that already had an occupant there, Dr. Coyle.

While eating he attempted to make small talk
"Hey'd you know one of the chicks in the Smash Tournament uses ramen as arms?"

"I'm very aware thank you" she said, clearly not interested in talking to him

Though after a bit, she realized something. Travis' voice seemed familiar. She tried to think back to when she would've heard it. It hit her.
Geno's phone call.

Surley this nerd with the stupid anime shirt and dumb sunglasses in hotel that's not even that bright couldn't be the creature she had been looking for.

In a fearful voice, shaking, she asked "E-excuse me but...what is your name sir?"

"Travis Touchdown" he said, smugly

Dr. Coyle slammed her fists on the table screaming "UGH HE'S JUST A MAN! A LOWLIFE HUMAN!"

"WOAH! THE FUCK'S YOUR PROBLEM?" Travis said in retaliation

Dr. Coyle realized she had just screamed that outloud and her face went red

"Shit if you want something interesting, there's an inventor here, or an alien hedgehog, you can try finding them if you want"

"Hm. You're not bright but you certainly know the right people. Very well then. Nice chat" Dr. Coyle said with a smile, though gagged when she turned and walked away from Travis.

Travis felt accomplished for his first day, he finished his ramen and then started brainstorming some ideas to spice up the entertainment in the mansion, perhaps a poker night?.

...

In Shadow's room, he answered a call

"I'm here Rouge"

"You certainly took your time, Shadow, you find him?"

"Yeah he's here, but I don't think he's alone"
"What? You think Metal's with him?"
"Maybe. Probably"
"And the emerald?"
"It's here, it's being kept safe"

"Good. And what about the little guy you found?"
"Him? Well... he certainly likes to clean. I've been in here for only an hour and he's scrubbed the room down top to bottom"
"What are you gonna do with him?"
"I'm not sure. Maybe I can get him a job as a janitor for the place. I don't wanna leave him alone for now, he seemed lonely when I found him."
"Maybe if Omega gets fixed you can bring him here I'm sure he'd be a great influence on him"
"Maybe, but I'm not sure how."

"Well keep an eye out for Eggman, report back if anything happens"
"I will"
Shadow hung up

A few minutes later Shadow heard a knock at his door. He opened it to find Dr. Coyle who picked him up.

"Amazing. So you're the ultimate lifeform?"
"Put me down"
"Why would I do that? There's analysis to be done. Just a small dose of blood is all I need"

Shadow violently shakes, trying to escape.
Though an idea struck him
"You're an inventor right?"
"The greatest. I'm a genius"
"Look let's make a deal. A robot friend of mine here is lonley. I have another robot friend who's currently broken down. If you can make a teleporter to bring him here and fix him so the little guy has company you can......have some of my blood."

"It's a deal! Wait....is that one of your robot friends there?"

She immediately let herself in and looked at the small robot

"Wow. A real Chibi Robo. Where did you get this?"

"On the street. He was just disowned, from what I've gathered his owner just went broke."

"Hmm tragic. I would certainly like to take a look at this one."

"Teleporter and Omega first."

Dr. Coyle sighed.

...

Eggman was working on Metal Sonic and breathed in

"Alright. If I make you Neo Metal, you have to promise you won't rebel"

Metal held out his pinky finger

"A pinky promise.....good. If you break this you're basically Satan"

Eggman shook Metal Sonic's pinky and began the upgrade.

Chapter Text

Travis went through with his Poker idea and set up some posters in the lobby for his poker night. He gathered all the things he needed and headed to the cafeteria later that night.

That night, Travis sat at the table and met 2 guests who had been staying at the hotel.
One looked almost identical to Bowser, someone in the Smash tournament, but he was a skeleton, he went by "Dry Bowser".
The other player was Cory Baxter from hit TV shows "That's so Raven" and "Cory in the house".

"Alright we all here?" Travis asked
"Not yet man, there's a new guy staying here I invited to play"

And as if on cue, the doors to the cafeteria swung open, and a robotic rabbit came slowly walking in. He spoke in a deep gravely British voice "y'all motherfuckers ready to play some poker?"
He looked like a rotting corpse

The rabbit sat down at the table
"Whaddya go by" Dry Bowser asked
The rabbit responded with the name "Springtrap"

That was enough talk. It was time for poker, until a few minutes passed and they all realized nobody there knew how to play poker.
"It shouldn't be too hard, I've played tons of table top and card games, shit should take like maybe a few minutes to learn and we'll be done in no time!"

3 hours into the game

Cory made his move by placing his cards down
"Full house"

Springtrap retaliated by placing a piece of paper on the table
"eviction notice. Not so full now huh?"

Travis groaned
"A landlord." He whispered to himself.
Cory just slammed his fists into the table in defeat
"Fucking shit man!" he said

"MY TURN!" Travis said confidently
"I summon pot of greed to draw 3 additional cards from my deck!"
"That's not what it does!" Cory screamed
"That's what it do Cory!"
Travis got his 3 cards and because he's a pro gamer, according to the rules he get to play one.
"HOLOGRAPHIC
FIRST EDITION
SECRET RARE
CHARIZARD!
And since he wasn't cut in gen 8, he summons the other dragon kings!" Travis said while placing 3 other cards down.
"Your move"

Dry Bowser just sat there in silence before muttering "one minute" before leaving

More than one minute later he came back, this time, holding something, or rather, someone
It looked like Mario, but made of Paper

Travis, Cory, and Springtrap were confused for a moment.
"What? Is he playing now?" Springtrap yelled
Then Dry Bowser did the unthinkable, he slammed Paper Mario on the table and played him like he was a card.

"No..." Travis and Cory both said in complete shock

Springtrap gave Dry Bowser an intense death glare.
"So you wanna play the long game, huh bitch. Fine. Let's play."

Springtrap reached into the box Travis brought, grabbed the many chest pieces, mashed them together with tape to make a chess -a-tron

"King me"
Paper Mario began an epic battle against the Chess-a-tron that had been given to life by this rabbit.
Paper Mario dodged all of the Chess-a-tron's attacks, but the robot had been parrying all of Paper Mario's attacks too.

Cory just laughed.
All 4 looked over to him as he placed a card down.
"Blue eyes white dragon...."

Springtrap laughed a laugh that turned into a cough "what's that gonna do?"

"I'm not done. I'm giving blue eyes white dragon...."

He slammed another card beside blue eyes white dragon

"....a gun"

"YOU'RE CRAZY" screamed Dry Bowser
Paper Mario fainted
Chess-a-tron was destroyed on the spot
"This is no mere boy....this is a God" Springtrap whispered to himself.

Travis didn't react, in fact he chuckled back

"What? You've lost man, why are you laughing" Cory smugly asked

"Did I? You know you should never celebrate too early kid. You're just gonna embarrass yourself."

With that, Travis played his Trump card.
His exclusive Halloween Goofy Funko POP figure

"NO!" screamed Cory

"I'm sorry Cory..

But it looks like you're going to the shadow realm."

With that, a dark portal opened behind Cory and many dark arms grabbed him and dragged him in all while he screamed in terror. Once he was fully submerged in the darkness, the portal closed leaving no trace of it or Cory behind.

A silence fell in the room for a minute until Springtrap broke it.

"......he's coming back right?"

The silence continued.

They looked at eachother..

And they all ran, Springtrap ran back to his room, Dry Bowser used his fire breath to burn everything they used except Paper Mario, Travis ran to Mimikyu working at the computer

He quietly but quickly said "Hey I need you to get rid of any record of Cory Baxter being here. Burn everything he brought, you might need to get a new key made for his room."

Mimikyu looked confused until Travis slid her a 20 dollar bill

"Cory. Was. Never. Here."

She nodded and got to work as Travis ran back to his room

So his attempts at activities for the hotel had failed, no matter, he'd simply try again some other time, but right now he had to bring all Cory's stuff to the parking lot so Dry Bowser could burn it.

Chapter Text

Dr. Coyle examined the big red robot in front of her.
"Seems like a standard robot, a bit more bulky than the robots I'm used to though. Shouldn't be too hard. What exactly are the injuries?"

"A lot. Zombie robots, magic Jackal, god of darkness, metal hedgehog, you name it there's a 60% chance we fought it."

"I see."
She looked closer at Omega
"Yes these seem like metal hedgehog scratches, I've seen a lot of these. These scratches seem aggressive"

"They were. It went all out'

Dr. Coyle took a plate off of Omega's back
"I see the dagamed innards. This may take a bit"

She flips a switch which fails to turn Omega on.

"Seems more damaged than I thought. This may not be a one person job.
What about the doctor with the silly mustache? I hear he's good with robots"

Shadow quickly shot down the idea
"No he can't know Omega's here he'd try to destroy him or at least reprogram him to be a world destroyer"

"And why would he do that?"

"Omega was one of his creations that rebelled against him. Since then he's been like family to me. I'm sure there's more mechanics around here, I'll go find them, just do what you can for now please."

Dr. Coyle sighed

Shadow went down to the front desk and had Geno print a list of the mechanics at the hotel.

"How do you know these things?" Shadow asked

"We get guests to fill out lists of jobs and hobbies they have so we can show them places around the hotel you may like, we didn't get yours though"

'I've been busy, sorry"

Shadow looked through the list

He already had Dr. Coyle.
Eggman was off the table
Shadow knew Tails was busy at the time
Springtrap surely must be some kind of mistake
And that left
Funky Kong

Shadow headed over to the pool where Funky Kong was guarding lives

"You're Funky Kong right?"
"SUP DUDE! Don't think we've met before"

"Listen I need your help. I hear you're a mechanic and I have something broken and I need your help fixing it.

"Sure thing dude! Glad to help!"
Funky pointed to Dixie
"Don't let anyone die!"
Dixie gave a thumbs up

The 2 talked along the way.
"If you're the lifeguard AND the chauffeur, do you have anyone fill in as the chauffeur when you're not around like at the pool?" Shadow asked

"Yeah we recently got this new dudette, calls herself the Mach Rider, she can park pretty fast, but not as fast as me bro!"

They arrived at Shadow's room

"Good you're back. It's started talking again but that's-"

She paused and just stared at Funky Kong
"This must be a joke right? That's an ape"

"He was the only mechanic available, I don't doubt his abilities"

Funky Pointed to Shadow "This dude gets me! I'm the smartest and raddest Kong in the whole family. I've made rockets from barrels and Shotguns from logs and coconuts, don't underestimate me dude"

"I am a lady! You will refer to me as Ma'am or Doctor!"

"Sure thing, sorry dudette!"

Omega spoke
"Did you say you were a Kong?"

"Sure did dude, you heard of me?"

"Donkey Kong has repaired me in the past and has succeeded well. If Funky is smarter than him then Shadow, tell the doctor to let the ape operate"

Shadow looked at Coyle
"Just let him help"

Dr. Coyle sighed and Funky Kong got to work.

She dragged Shadow aside
"Now about our agreement...."
"I have my blood in a test tube, Waluigi has a doctor's license and I had him help me. You'll get it once the jobs-"

"DONE!" Funky Kong shouted
Omega stood up and began to walk around.

"Well I'm a hedgehog of my word, here you go"
Shadow handed Dr. Coyle his blood while she looked confused at what happened

She just took the blood and slowly walked away muttering "upstaged by an ape..."

Shadow handed Funky a meal voucher for Kawasaki's burnt banana special from the cafeteria for his time
"You pay well man!"

Lastly, Shadow teleported him and Omega home before arriving back shortly after without Omega

Chibi Robo came out of hiding behind Shadow's pillow.
"Hey, do you wanna go with him? He could probably teach you lots"

A red X came out of Chibi Robo's head, signifying "no"

He then showed Shadow a poster he found in the hotel lobby saying "janitor for hire"
"You wanna be the janitor here huh?"

A green checkmark came out of Chibi Robo's head, signifying "yes"

"Alright let's pull some strings"

...

Dr. Coyle was on her way back to her room, it was late at night at this point.
She walked past Eggman's room and stared at it just wondering
"What kinds of robots does that man make"
She knocked on the door
No answer
"He must not be here......I'll let myself in"

And so she did, upon which she was greeted with a blue robot, similar looking to Shadow, but blue and silver instead of black and red.
Instead of running in fear from the robot who had intentions of attacking her, she was amazed, intrigued, she walked around the robot admiring it, complimenting it
"My goodness the craftsmanship, the material, the movement, so smooth so powerful, you're beautiful"
The robot spoke
"You will leave now"
"You can talk too! Amazing"

"What are you doing?" Eggman was awake and was wearing purple striped pajamas.

"So you're the Dr. Robotnik I've heard much about. I'm very curious about your creations."

"Are you now? Well I'm flattered but-"

"I'm especially interested in this one, so real so aggressive"

"That's Metal Sonic, meant to match and surpass the speed and abilities of Sonic the Hedgehog"

"Amazing. I've made a robot clone or two but never to this quality"

"Well thank you I take pride in my work. But can we discuss more tomorrow? It's very late"

"I'd love to doctor, I look forward to our next meeting"
With that she left

Eggman layed back down in bed

Metal Sonic spoke "I scanned her, she's come into contact with the ultimate lifeform"

"Great. Shadow. Just what I need."
Eggman sighed
"I'll get him in the morning. Remember Metal, early to bed, early to catch the ultimate lifeform".
Eggman went to sleep

Dr. Coyle laid in her room and just stared at Shadow's blood

"Immortality is mine" she said with a grin

Chapter Text

Travis sat at a small bar in the cafeteria drinking away his problems.

Springtrap also came up to the bar and ordered a drink.
"You look like shit" he told Travis

"Yeah I know man, just had a rough couple of weeks, my ga-" Springtrap cut him off
"Oh I don't care I just wanted to put that out there"

Travis stopped talking to him for a moment. But Travis kept looking over to him, trying to figure out what was up with the robot, or whatever it was.
Travis wasn't sure, he's played many games in his time but he's never gotten into Springtrap's, he's heard the name one or twice but he was completely in the dark until the night of the Cory incident. Travis was trying to figure out how to politely ask Springtrap.

"Hey what are you?" Travis asked

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"It means..what are you. Are you a robot? A cyborg? A rabbit? A corpse? I just can't really figure it out

Springtrap paused.
"I guess I'm a cheater of death"

"The hell's that supposed to mean, were you human or some shit?"

"I was, died in this suit right here, Springlocks are a bitch sometimes, but no matter how many ghosts, how many locks, how many fires, I'll always come back."

"Ghosts? Like regrets? Was it suicide?"

"Nah. I mean ghosts, spirits, people I've killed wanting revenge"

"Are you an assassin too?"

"Nah, when I was alive I just found anyone that fit the criteria"

"Oh.... so you're just a filthy murderer"

"Well, so are yo-"

Travis cut him off
"I kill assassins, they know what they're getting into, they know the dangers, and they're just as strong as me, and I've quit killing for the most part unless I need to, you just kill random people who probably haven't lived yet."

Travis was starting to get annoyed but Springtrap remained calm

"Relax, it's not that deep"

"Not that deep? Have you ever wondered if someone you killed may have had a family? A wife waiting for him at home not knowing she'll never see him again?"

"Pssh. They didn't have wife's, they were just kids"

The cafeteria quickly fell silent after that, as everyone had been listening to Travis and Springtrap's argument.

"Just kids?...
You killed....kids?"

"I need remnant somehow, how do you think I'm still alive"

Travis was silent. Until he asked "hey, could you stand up, arms out?" which Springtrap did

"What, you look for weapons or something?"

Travis proceeded to wrap his arms around Springtrap's arms and then fucking destroyed him in a Full Nelson suplex.

Springtrap just layed on the ground while a bunch of snaps went off in the suit, causing him to violently twitch and shake while Travis and many others left the cafeteria.

Travis walked into the staff room and gathered everyone around

"Hey I think we need to get rid of Springtrap man, dude's a child killer"

"That's-a the rabbit, right?" Waluigi asked

"Yeah he needs to go"

"We already kicked him out days ago" Geno said with a sigh
"He just keeps coming back, even when we
don't give him a room, he just appears in one and claims it"

"So what do we do then?" Travis askdd

"We can't do anything, no matter what, if we use force, lock the doors, get him arrested, he always finds a way back" Geno replied

Travis grabbed his blood berry "Then I'll deal with him"

"No you can't!" Geno said in a panic "what if people find out an employee killed a guest? Nobody will want to come here and everyone might leave"

"But you said it yourself, he's not a guest"

"Well yeah, but, he still acts like it and people think he is."

"Well then what the fuck do we do?"

"We just gotta let him-a leave on his own accord"
"You-a seem stressed. Why not meditate in-a the garden for a bit?"

Travis left the room in silence but ended up taking Waluigi's advice

In the garden he sat on a bench and closed his eyes for a while. Sat in complete silence, he ended up falling asleep.

When he woke up, he saw someone working in the garden planting seeds, it was a Knight with a Shovel, who knows what his name could possibly be, other than Travis of course.

Travis went to ask him a simple question
"Hey. Why do you use Shovels to fight? And why the same Shovel that you use for gardening? Wouldn't a sword or at least some kind of battle shovel work better?"

Shovel Knight answered simply
"This shovel's never failed me so I have no reason to not use it. I'm sure you have your own way of fighting"

"Well yeah, but still, swords would get the job done a whole lot quicker"

"Well you can't just go around slaying everyone you meet. Too much power can get to your head and corrupt you, after that it's hard to come back"

"Ok but what about the bad people?"

"Well you need to think, would slaying them be the right thing to do? Wouldn't that make you just as bad as them?"

Travis was silent. All he could say was a quiet "I don't know"

He headed back to his room to sleep on the thought.

Would killing Springtrap really be the right thing to do? He's a child murderer but there's a lot of weirdos at the hotel and in the smash mansion. Springtrap was no worse than someone like Ridley, or even Travis himself. Yeah he kills mostly assassins, but what about the people he killed along the way, those probably outnumber Springtrap's kills by a long shot.

Travis went to sleep confused about what to do.

Chapter Text

It started off with what seemed to be a normal day at the hotel.

Travis woke up and decided that he is legally better than Springtrap so there's no need to worry about that anymore.

Travis was called for a private meeting, so he headed to the staff room immediately

"Hey what's going o-"
Before he could finish. He noticed something in Geno's hands.

A letter, with a red wax seal in the shape of the smash tournament logo. This was an invitation to the smash tournament.

"Holy fucking shit. You got invited?" he whispered

"Not exactly, they mailed it to the hotel itself, no name, no nothing" Geno told him

"They do this-a kinda thing, they just put a letter somewhere and then just-a let whoever gets it in. Someone stole an invitation once and he got added"

"So then how are we gonna decide who gets it? Just start a war?"

"Well no, I was thinking maybe hold a tournament and whoever wins gets the invite. We're not savages"

"Mimikyu already stole it"

Sure enough, Geno looked down and around him, Mimikyu and the letter were both gone.

Geno sighed "could you please get her without making a scene"

"On it"

"And you're not gonna steal the letter right?"

"Of course not"

"Promise?"

Travis paused
"Nope"
Then he ran off.

He chased after Mimikyu through the hotel hallways for a good 5 minutes before finally catching up, Travis grabbed the letter from her and began to walk towards the exit before the letter was stolen from him almost as fast as light

Neo Metal Sonic stood in front of him and glared at him before quickly making off to Eggman's room.

"Son of a bitch! Fucking Snatcher!"

Neo Metal made it back to Eggman's room and handed him the letter

"Atta boy! This is my ticket to victory!"
Eggman celebrated and cheered while Metal just stared at the letter.

At that moment, Metal snapped
"I'm sorry father"
As he said that he tripped Eggman with a low sweep kick, grabbed the letter, and ran out the door while Eggman screamed

"I KNEW YOU WERE SATAN!"

Eggman took this opportunity to run into the lobby and hack into the speakers that normally played peaceful music for the guests to play an announcement

"I'VE COME TO MAKE AN ANNOUNCEMENT, NEO METAL SONIC'S A BITCH ASS MOTHERFUCKER! HE STOLE MY SMASH INVITATION! TRACK THAT ROBOT DOWN AND RETURN THE INVITATION TO DOCTOR "EGGMAN" ROBOTNIK IN ROOM 623 AND YOU'LL BE REWARDED HANDSOMELY!"

Obviously nobody would do that, it's a smash invitation, but now the word was out.

Geno was panicking in the staff room, now everybody knew about the invitation.

"Don't-a worry about it. It's-a gonna be fine!"

Waluigi said that while walking out the door.

"Where are you going?"

"Imma just thirsty, that's all"

Waluigi closed the door and Geno could hear him scream
"THIRSTY FOR BLOOD! WHO WANNA DANCE WALUIGI STYLE!?" and then a battle cry

Geno just signed and sat down in a corner in silence. He breathed in. He breathed out. Everything was calm.

"I need that letter"

The full battle had officially began

Neo Metal Sonic ran down the halls when he came to a corner, as he turned, there stood Shadow, he went to turn around but behind him stood Travis

The 2 tackled the robot and Shadow grabbed the letter

"Hey thanks man, listen I need that back now"
Shadow just round house kicked Shadow in the back of the head and ran off

Shadow was dodging many different attacks

Paper Hammers
Blue Fire
Plugs
Spears
Chef utensils
Bombs

Although it was a tricky swing of a Shovel to the face is what got him, and Shovel Knight grabbed the letter

Shovel Knight decided to play it safe and hide in the garden until the coast was clear

He hid behind the Scarecrow for a few seconds before quickly realizing
"This hotel doesn't have a scarecrow" and he was quickly ambushed by Geno using his Geno whirl attack.

Geno made off with the letter before he himself was quickly ambushed by a large stretched out fist

"ENOUGH GAMES PUPPET BOY!" Dr. Coyle say before running off while laughing maniacally

She made it to the lobby, the door was right there, but then a large white robot came flying in and blocked the door.

"Drop the letter Doc!"
It was Travis are you kidding me

Soon everyone caught up to the lobby and soon everyone got into a brawl. The ruckus caused the letter to go flying but nobody realized until the one person who didn't fight started clapping slowly

It was Springtrap

"I'm sorry to interrupt this battle, if this is what you want to call it, but I'm afraid you've been misinformed. None of youl are not gonna get the letter nor will you be personally invited. Your lust for the chance to be in the tournament has driven you in endless circles, chasing an invitation that always seems so near, yet somehow out of reach. But you will never get it, none of you will, this is where your story ends."

As he said that he flashed the letter in his hands which was a stupid decision because now everyone attacked him

The battle went on for hours
Its was horrible, yet beautiful, sad, yet hilarious.

After nearly 5 hours of fighting everyone stopped out of exhaustion, in a pile of each other.

Out of that pile, rose one man who had claimed the letter for himself. One legend, one hero that will go on into smash.

Steve

Steve walked out the door but not before waving goodbye (which just looked like he was punching the air)

Steve walked on into his future at the smash mansion.

Travis, Geno, Waluigi, and Mimikyu all sat in line at the small infirmary at the hotel. Travis was the only one to break silence

"Fuck man........

Steve...."

The Master and Crazy hands were watching from a distance
"There's no way we can use that for a trailer…" Crazy said

"I guess it's time for plan B" after Master said that he called someone on the phone
"Hey how do you feel about getting punched into Minecraft?"

Chapter Text

Travis screamed in terror

"Please Master Hand! Don't turn me into a Mii costu-AHHHHHHH"

Chapter Text

Waluigi and Travis' cat Jeane came to comfort Travis in his time of sorrow

"You alrighty tiger?" Waluigi asked

"....I just wanted to congratulate Steve, man. But when I went to visit both him and fucking Sans jumped me and took my shit."

"What did they-a take?"

"My shades, this purple jacket I had, all my clothes minus my underwear actually, my blood berry, my power glove, and a strand of my hair to use to make a clone so they could cut it's hair and make a wig. I don't know where that clone is now but if the clone theory is true than that's a clever way to set up the Travis clone in No more heroes 3"

"Y'know what forget that last part" Travis quickly said

"I mean I can get replicas of all of the weapons, they can't use the glove without the death drive, and I have a bunch of those same jackets, glasses, and hair strands. It still hurt emotionally though"

"Sounds-a rough"

"Yeah it was, and to make things worse, my brother found out and promptly told me to get fucked, fuckin Irish dickhead"

Waluigi sat next to Travis and put his arm on his shoulder

"Heya pal, would laser tag make-a you feel better?"

Travis gave a light smile
"Maybe"

So they headed out to a local laser tag arena with a couple of people from the hotel, Metal Sonic and Funky Kong

Travis invited Funky and Metal Sonic overheard and invited himself.

When they arrived they got all their gear on and went out to battle.

However, there was some 5th player, a hooded figure that also happened to be there.

As they entered, Metal's laser tag vest didn't fit him and just fell off.

But nonetheless the battle began.

Travis fired at Funky, Waluigi Fired at Travis, Funky fired at Waluigi, the hooded figure fired at all of them, Metal stood in the corner just...charging.

Travis tried to use this opportunity to fire at Metal but it just reflected off of him and hit Travis instead

"Fuckin Nude robot ruining all our laser tag games, can't shoot him cause he ain't wearing the vest, can't rack up any points against him" Travis mumbled to himself as he walked away

Many minutes went by, the guys were constantly being beaten by the hooded figure, eventually the figure got them all backed into a corner, it seemed like the end, until a laser blasted behind them, a real one, destroying many of the spacey cardboard cutouts.

They all looked to the source of the laser, Metal Sonic

"This tagging of lasers is boring, these lasers are weak"

"Hey what's-a wrong with you? We're-a trying to have a good time!" Waluigi shouted

Funky joined in "YEAH DUDE, THAT WASN'T TOTALLY RADN'T!"

"I was promised lasers, and you give me a child's toy!"

Travis piped up "We didn't promise you shit, you invited yourself! laser tag with actual lasers would be crazy fuckin illegal!"
Travis paused
"Wait Funky what the fuck did you just say?"
"Radn't, it's opposite of rad, dude"

Metal Ignored them and began charging again

"Y'know, it's LASER tag, they never said you have to only use guns, I think laser swords are on the table"
As Travis said that he grabbed his Blood berry and charged into battle

"ALRIGHT BRING IT YOU BLUE BASTARD!"

Metal just stood there, staring at Travis
"Lifeform data successfully copied"
Metal's hands folded into his arms and in their place was 2 beams much like Travis' katanas

"So you wanna play doubles huh? Alright, let's play"

Travis put away his blood berry and pulled out 2 nearly identical red Katanas with engravings in them
"Rose Nasty" on one of them
"Gregory Bishop" on the other

Their battle began
Metal was blocking Travis' every swing, Waluigi and Funky Kong joined in to help

Funky held Metal's arms behind his back and Waluigi stomped Metal into the ground

Travis slashed and slashed at the robot, he was about to finish him off.
"FUCKHEA-"

But the Hooded figure shot Metal in the head, they had modified their laser gun into a real gun.

"Fuckin Snatcher" Travis mumbled

Thus the problem was over and the arena was destroyed.
"I'll go talk to the manager, someone has to pay for all this shit"
Travis left, leaving Waluigi, Funky, the hooded figure, and the broken Metal Sonic.

"We should probably bring this dude back to the hotel"
"Yeah, we should.....you guys wanna get-a lunch first?"
"Sounds Rad"

Waluigi looked at the hooded figure
"Heya, who even are ya anyway?"

The figure took off their hood and revealed themself.
It was her in the flesh
The ultimate Laser Tag champion

Hatsune Miku.

"Ok cool"
So the 3 left, Waluigi shouted "Tiger come on we're getting lunch"

"Coming!.........

Was that fucking Hatsune Miku?"

Chapter Text

It was Halloween at the hotel and also in other places in the world but we're focusing on the hotel right now.

The hotel had been decorated to match the event, jack-o'-lanterns, orange and black colours everywhere, special Halloween themed treats, Halloween themed cups and paper plates, a CD played on the loud speaker that exclusively played The Monster Mash and Thriller at the same time for 24 hours, and special Halloween party games such as pin the tail on the evil donkey, it was much like regular pin the tail on the donkey but now the donkey had angry eyebrows and a gun.

Of course, what's a Halloween party without Halloween costumes

Geno decided to dress up as Snufkin, from the Moomin books, books the star spirits often read to him when he was a mere starling.

Geno went around making sure everybody was having a good time at the party

"Ah Travis! How's everything going?"

Travis looked almost identical to himself, he wasn't wearing his usual glasses and he just had some colour changes, his jacket was now blue, he wore a black shirt, and long green cargo pants, the most drastic change was his hair which was now blonde with orange highlights.

"It's been going alright, it was a bit hard to find my costume when the power went out"

Geno seemed a bit confused "This is your costume? I hope you don't mind me asking but...what exactly are you?"

"Psh yeah, it's just a cartoon, it's pretty obscure, you've probably never heard of it, it's called Johnny Test, I'm dressed as Johnny who's a personal hero of mine. Seems like you've done something similar"

"Yeah I guess"
Geno quickly went back to an earlier topic
"Wait the power never went out, what do you mean?"

"Well the lights in my room went out and didn't come back on"

As Travis said that, all the lights in the hotel went out.

"Aw shit. We got some fuckin ghosts" Travis said.

Geno got on the loud speaker
"Alright everyone, it's Halloween so we're haunted, in the Cafeteria, Garden, and pool rooms there's anti ghost rooms, anyone willing to tackle the ghosts with up would be heavily appreciated, preferably if you have experience dealing with the paranormal. "

Most people ran to the rooms, a few stuck around
Shadow, dressed as a vampire

Mimikyu, dressed as a witch, who was only there because the anti ghost rooms work on her too.

And Waluigi, dressed as the Joker.

Waluigi spoke up "Alrighty so everybody has-a dealt with ghosts before?"

Everyone nodded

"Good.. good, so whadda we do?"

"Perhaps we try to learn what the ghost wants?" Shadow suggests

"And how exactly do we do that?" Geno asked

"Simple, ask an expert"

Shadow than crouched down to talk to Mimikyu
"So? Do you think you might know what kinda haunting this is? A prank? Revenge? Do you think you may know the ghost?"

Mimikyu just responded with a "kee kee~"

Shadow paused "could someone translate?"

Everyone shrugged and mumbled

"Great, we have a trump card but we can't use it"

Geno spoke up "well....if we need some paranormal being that we can understand...."

Travis caught onto Geno's idea real quick
"Aw fuck no" he mumbled

And so they all headed up to Springtrap's room.

Waluigi tried opening the door but it was locked

"Anyone here know how to pick a lock? One that-a needs a key card?"

Travis stepped in front of Waluigi "I think I know a trick. First you-" Travis then quickly kicked the door in, making it fly off its hinges
"And presto it's open"

They walked in to see Springtrap slouched over against the wall covered in orange paint

Geno, confused tried to ask "...what ar-"

"Charmander. I'm Charmander" Springtrap spoke up.

Shadow stepped forward
"Listen we need your help, the hotel is haunted. We can't understand the ghost that could've helped us, so we figured you, a walking corpse, would be our second best option"

Springtrap was hesitant "and what's in it for me?

"We won't force you out" Geno said

"I'm still not convinced"

Geno then motioned to the orange paint Springtrap used "well the paint you used is permanent, help us and I know someone who can get your colours fixed up"

Springtrap looked over to the paint in fear, it was definitely permanent.

"You're a very persuasive doll"

Now with Springtrap on board they needed a plan.

Springtrap would try to figure out what kind of haunting this was

Then they needed someone who would try to find the ghost

Finally they needed someone who would look for traces of the ghost, perhaps it left hints on what it wants

They decided it was best to split up into groups, Waluigi and Travis left immediately after hearing that

"We'll look for-a the clues" Waluigi shouted

They put Mimikyu on the job of hunting for the ghost, perhaps it would be easier to come out if they saw a familiar.

"As an immortal being, I feel it makes sense to be put directly in front of the danger, so I'll go with her" Shadow said.

Leaving Geno with Springtrap

The 2 headed down to the lobby and tried to get a reading

"So what kinda ghost do you think it is?" Geno asked

"Can't say for sure, but if I were a betting man, I'd say it's probably a dead one"

Meanwhile, Waluigi and Travis went back to Travis' room, if the lights went out that might've meant something.

But when they arrived, there were words engraved into the door

They both analyzed it closely
"Fuck what could this possibly mean?" Travis mumbled

'Travis Touchdown must die' was engraved into the door

They figured they should report back to Geno

They explained their findings to the doll and rabbit.

"Well from the looks of it the ghost has a grudge against Travis" Springtrap suggested

"Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?" Travis replied.

Suddenly they heard a shout from the stairway

"HERE IT COMES!" Shadow shouted, with Mimikyu hanging off of his cape

Behind them a cloud of purple smoke came chasing them

Mimikyu was able to hold the ghost down, Travis walked up to ghost and put his hand inside it

"Holy shit you're an actual ghost. This is wild and....almost familiar"

"Actually... I feel this sense of familiarity too" Springtrap mentioned

That's when something clicked in Travis' brain, he quickly ran over to the ghost repellent rooms

He brought out Dry Bowser and Paper Mario

"Hey guys, does something about this....aura feel familiar?"

The two paused for a minute
Paper Mario nodded
"Yeah I feel it too" Dry Bowser said

Travis' suspicions had been confirmed, he slowly walked towards the ghost

"Holy shit......it's you....isn't it Cory?"

The room fell Silent

"Wait who exactly is Cory?" Shadow asked

Dry Bowser spoke up "well he was some kid we played poker with and it got a little out of hand, Travis kinda sent him to death"

"I'm sorry Travis you killed a CHILD?" Geno screamed

"WHAT-A THE FUCK MAN?" Waluigi yelled

"WHAT KINDA SICK TWISTED FUCK DOES THAT SHIT!?" Springtrap shouted

Travis paused
"Welp...cat's out of the bag. Happy Halloween everyone, hope you enjoyed the show"

"Show?" Everyone asked confused

"Yeah, an act months in the making to spice up Halloween!"
Travis then pointed to Dry Bowser, Paper Mario, Springtrap, and ghost Cory

"He was in on it, HE was in on it, *HE* was in on it, even this fucklet was in on it"

"Come on guys let's celebrate" Travis took the 4 other guys outside where He, Dry Bowser, Springtrap, and Paper Mario all beat up the definitely not an actor and definitely real dead Cory ghost and sent him back to the shadow realm.

"You really saved your ass back there, huh" Springtrap said

"Yeah. Thanks for playing along, maybe you're not the worst"

And so the party went back to normal, no more hauntings, no more fear.

Or at least that's what they thought, until the main doors opened and everyone heard the voice of a young man

"Oh... there was a costume party and I'm the only one not dressed up, how unlucky of me"

Everyone turned to look at the door to see a teenager with white hair wearing a green hoodie.

Chapter Text

Twas the night before Christmas, a very jolly time.
I don't wanna keep this up so this is the only rhyme.

Everyone was getting the hotel decorated in time for Christmas. Of course many people had one thing on their mind

Waluigi approached Travis
"So, whatcha' want from Santa"?

"I've got a list, I'd like my purple jacket back, yeah red looks better on me but I'd still like it back. The Playstation 6 too, keep ahead of the game"

"Hey wait, didn't ya say your best- friend was murdered a while back? Wouldn't ya want him back for Christmas?"

Travis paused.

"Bishop would've wanted me to have the PS6. Besides, heaven's probably pretty chill, I don't wanna ruin that for him y'know?"

Meanwhile in hell, a man named Georgy Bishop turned to Ronald Reagan. "....so have you heard of Bizarre Jelly? It's really cool you should watch it sometime"

Back at the hotel, Geno asked
"Hey Travis, aren't you worried you might be on the so-called 'Naughty List'? Y'know with the whole assassin.....killing people thing?"

"PSSH NAH! Please Santa's one of the top ranked assassins outside of Santa Destroy, ever wonder why you never hear from Frosty or the Grinch anymore? And lemme tell you, assassins have huge respect for other people in the business. I'll be fine."

He shortly followed up with
"Hey, what do you want for Christmas?"

"Actually my people don't know much about Christmas because we don't celebrate it. We just have a tradition where every year around December, a being known as Culex comes down from the sky and must be slain by the star road's greatest warrior, which is your's truly"

"Do you get anything from it?"

"Immortality for the following year"

"Huh, so you can't get killed? Hey wanna help me out with something?"
"Hm?"
"Getting my purple jacket back from Steve, I imagine someone who's basically a god would probably scare him and force him to give it back. Maybe I could teach you about Christmas? Make it a rad experience"
Geno smiled "Sure let's go!

Travis and Geno started walking to the Smash Mansion as Travis explained the origin of Christmas.

"So basically what happened was some dude named Jesus did some real rad shit, walked on water, turned water into wine, probably walked on wine. But like they killed him off. They brought him back for a bit but killed him off again and I THINK he came back as Santa?? I'm not too caught up on the Christmas lore. But yeah he basically started giving presents to people"

"Very interesting" Geno commented.

They had arrived at the mansion, Steve was waiting for them.

Travis shouted
"YO ASSHOLE! I'M HERE FOR MY JACKET AND I BROUGHT A GOD!"

Steve just stared blankly, and then to the sky as a grey haired figure with one black wing descended down from the skies.

The One Winged Angel spoke
"Good to see you,Geno"

Geno turned pale

"Sephiroth...."

Travis was exploding with fear and excitement
"FUFKCINNNGG. SEPHIROTH??????"
He looked to Geno
"YOU FUFKKINKING KNOW HIM????"
"We were in the same circle with many other people, like Cloud and Hero" Geno replied
Travis slowly approached Sephiroth
"Listen I just wanna say I'm a huge fa-"

Sephiroth quickly slapped Travis away while Steve trapped him in a prison made of Obsidian

"I'm just here for you Geno, we need another Mii costume"

Geno readied himself for battle
"I've defeated Culex countless times, you'll be a walk in the park, I'll defeat you and defeat Culex after"

"Culex is already dead, he stood in my way of you, all I need is your body."

Sephiroth then dashed at Geno and in one slice of his masamune, knocked Geno's star spirit right out of his body, now only ❤🎵!? remained.

Sephiroth and Steve went back inside the mansion, dragging Geno's soulless corpse behind them.

After like 8-12 minutes of punching, Travis finally broke free

"FUUUUUUUCK my hands!"
The pain quickly went away when he noticed Geno was missing.

He started looking around and shouting
"Geno!? Where'd the hell you go!?"

A star spirit floated and spun in Travis' face.

"Oh shit, what happened?"
The spirit didn't respond
"Oh shit we can't talk ok um...lemme see"

Travis looked around in his Jacket and found some anime girl figure.
"This should work, try this"

The star spirit circled around the figure for a bit and then possessed it.

"Thanks...This body may take some getting used to" Geno said

"Yeah no prob man. And don't worry, we'll get your old body back"

"I sure hope so...."

Travis stopped Geno.
"Hey...so that- YOU'RE a limited collectors item so uh.. lemme just."

Travis picked up Geno and carried him back to the hotel.

...

They arrived back at the hotel.
"Hey sorry if the was a bit weird" Travis apologized

"Nonsense, I felt like royalty. Besides, I needed a break after....that." Geno assured

Waluigi walked over to Geno recognizing his new body.
"Ey you're a lot smallah than when we-a played laser tag"

Geno was confused
"When did we play laser tag?"

Waluigi froze, breathed in, and walked over to Travis.
"Did you... turn Geno.... into Miku?"

Travis explained the situation to Waluigi

They all discussed what to do about Geno's new Hatsune Miku body. Sure it worked but Miku was already at the hotel after befriending Travis, Waluigi, and Funky Kong at Laser Tag. That would stir up confusion. Plus the body lacked all of Geno's arsenal. No hand gun, no canon, no beam. Modifying the body wasn't an option because Travis paid Hundreds for it.

Then Travis got an idea.

"Hey, since you're free, with the whole Culex being dead thing, maybe celebrate Christmas with us. Maybe Santa will bring you a replacement body, because the whole Geno name and body comes from some random figure right?"

"Yes... it does. I might do that." Geno's smile got brighter.

Then a gravelly voiced laughed

"Y'all still believe in Santa Claus? Oh come on."

It was Springtrap.

"How the fuck did you get in here?" Travis yelled

Geno followed up with "Yeah, this is the staff room, you're not employed here. You're not even a customer.."

"Bloody hell. I'm leaving. I'll find people who know a thing or two" Springtrap said before leaving.

He headed over to the cafeteria where he saw Dr. Coyle, Eggman, and Metal Sonic all sitting.

He hadn't met them before so he struck up a conversation, they all hit it off well, Coyle was very interested in how he was able to cheat death. But then Springtrap mentioned

"Hey, y'know the guys running this place STILL believe in Santa?"

Eggman spoke up
"Listen, I'm a man of science, I've seen everything, I don't fall for silly fairy tales and let me tell you, Santa is very real"

Metal Sonic added on to the conversation
"The big red man, I may not approve of his invasion policies but he knows how to get people what they want.
For example, I've been wanting an army, every year, there's a small trinket under the tree on Christmas day, by the end of this year I'll be able to build my first soldier."

Dr. Coyle also joined in
"For a creation of beauty you really are thick in the skull. Where would those parts the metal hedgehog got come from? Parents? Oh please. Most parents are only human and they'd have no way to wrap ALL those presents, go to ALL those houses, drink ALL that milk, eat ALL those cookies. Not only that, but doing that ALL in a single night? That makes no bloody sense you imbecile"

"OH COME ON" Springtrap shouted before storming off to his room.

He went to bed angry that night

...

"Wiiiilliam...."

Springtrap shot up from the floor he slept on and looked around to see what called him.

Suddenly he was met face to face with a ghostly figure resembling....

"CORY?" Springtrap shouted.

"Nah not that."
The Ghostly figure continued.
"William Afton-"

"HOW THE FUCK ARE YOU ALIVE?" Springtrap shouted

"Let me finish. William Afton, I am not Cory. I merely look like him. I am the ghost'

"Ah fuck Christmas past right? Alright let's get this over with" Springtrap said while standing up

"I appreciate your cooperation, but not exactly, I'll explain on the way there"

The ghost brought Springtrap into a vortex that looked like a snowstorm.

"So basically I'm the Ghost of Christmas 1980 something, no specific date it just happens in the 80s."

"What happened to the ghosts of past, present, and future?"

"Present is still here though recasted, but the others have been replaced, they're basically the same though, just more specific."

"Oh. Well what happened to them. And why do you look like Cory?"

"Not sure about the first one, I'd say for that one ask the third ghost of Christmas. As for Cory, we go off of your memory. Cory was someone in your past, this will remain true for the other 2"

The ghost quickly followed up with "oh it seems like we're here!"

"Where the shit am ?.."Springtrap groaned

What Springtrap saw was a scene in a pizzeria filled with colorful animatronics. A man in a rabbit suit with 5 children following behind him into a back room. After a few minutes, Blood began to leak out from under the back room door.

"Now look at that" The Ghost said, pointing to 2 people, a grey haired man and a lady. The man was pointing towards the door" the lady dropped cup of soda in shock

"What?" Springtrap said, confused.

"Now...look at what happens to the cup" The ghost said

Suddenly a business man walked up to the cup, stared at it for a few seconds then grabbed his head and shouted "I GOT IT!" and bolted out the door!

"....I don't get it"

"You see William, what you just witnessed was the invention of littering which led to the creation of pollution. Now because of you the streets and Christmas snow are littered with trash." The ghost explained to a confused Springtrap

"Ok but besides the snow, what does this have to do with Christmas?"

"Look at the door"

When the blood covered rabbit came out of the back room, he was wearing a little Santa hat

"See? Where has your Christmas Spirit gone?"

"Just looked it up online to see if Santa was real, he wasn't, so I stopped believing." Springtrap replied

"Well we'll be sure to make you believe, speaking of, I believe it's time to leave now"

On their way back Springtrap asked
"Ok so explain it to me again why are you Cory?"

"Well, Cory is someone from your past, while I am not the Ghost of Christmas past, I do basically the same thing just more specific, I do all the past stuff that takes place in the 80s. This will be similar to the other ghosts. Present will be someone you know in the present and future will be someone you know in the future."

The ghost quickly followed up with "oh, we're here. Well, I'll be off now"

And with that, the ghost vanished

....

Another ghost appeared

"Aw shit" Springtrap said

The ghost resembled Mimikyu. Springtrap tried to remember if he saw her recently. Then it hit him. The moment his life changed forever.
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Earlier, before he went to his room, he saw Mimikyu in the hallway, and the words he said to her echoed through his mind

"Hey" he said with a nod.
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"I remember everything now..." he said silently to himself

The ghost spoke, in actual words unlike the real Mimikyu
"Greetings, I am the ghost of Christmas present. Don't ask about gifts because I'm not afraid to kill"

"But why?" Springtrap asked, "What could I possibly have done in the last 24 hours that would require you to show up here"

"Really?" The ghost asked before dragging him into a portal

Meanwhile in the portal, Springtrap asked. "Hey, why are you guys called ghosts of Christmas whatever. Like I get you but like, the Cory ghost took me back to December but there was still like 2 weeks before Christmas."

"Well we really only use the Christmas name for fun now, but I guess it can be argued that we're called that because we come out AROUND Christmas. Doesn't matter, we're here."

What Springtrap saw was Mimikyu, Waluigi, Travis, and Geno all working together to help Geno's temporary body feel a bit more comfortable. Mimikyu was tailoring a cape and hat much like Geno's old ones, Waluigi was taking measurements, Travis worked on the finer details, and Geno of course was their model.

Travis suddenly brought up the topic "Hey Springtrap fucking sucks right?"

They all hesitated for a moment but then nodded in agreement.

"What the fuck" said Springtrap.

"You were kinda being a bitch earlier, of course they hate you" The Ghost replied

"What the fuck" Springtrap said while being dragged back to his room.

Before the ghost left, it had one last thing to say.

"Just a heads up, the ghost's appearances are tailored to you personally. The last one has um.... an aura... you'll see what I mean."

The ghost left.

Not long after, behind Springtrap he heard a voice.

"Excuse me"

He jumped and fell over in fear and was met with a ghost resembling the white haired boy from the Halloween party. The kid kinda ruined everything when he arrived.

"Are you the ghost of Christmas future?" Springtrap asked.

The ghost spoke
"No, my name is Nagito Komaeda. By some bad luck it seems we ended up in the same room and I think out of fear you accidentally locked me inside your closet and haven't let me out since. Luckily I've found some food rations to hold myself out for a while. Luckily earlier this morning I found a book on how to Master evil magic and I'm able to speak to you now, please let me out of your closet."

"Nah"

Then Springtrap felt it. He HEARD it. The aura. The song of space...

~Rocket maaan, burning out his fuse up here alone~

"You've gotta be fucking shitting me." Springtrap said, as he turned around to see a ghost resembling the Sir Elton John himself

"Hello there. I am the ghost of Christmas Thursday November 27th 2036"

"Fuckin hell"

Komaeda's ghost spoke "ah, Excuse me sir, but if you're able to, do you think you could just open the closet door for m-"

Springtrap and the Ghost already left into yet another portal.
Since this was probably the last ghost, Springtrap needed to ask a question that had been on his mind since the start

"Hey, what happened to the old ghosts of Christmas?"

"Well.. the ghost of Christmas past said some rather offensive stuff online and everyone agreed it would be best to cut ties with him, didn't really show the beauty of Christmas. The old ghost of Christmas present simply quit due to creative differences. And the ghost of Christmas future sadly passed away a few decades back."

"Aw man that sucks."

"Yes, it did. Since then a bunch of different ghosts filled the roles. There was an all female reboot of them in 2015 but it didn't do too well. You could tell the writer didn't really know what he was doing. Anyways, We're here."

Springtrap saw a ruined world with red skies and orange clouds

"What the hell happened here?" Springtrap asked

A big screen on one of the few remaining skyscrapers quickly answered his question.

It was Waluigi who was now a newscaster

"Good-a morning Aftonville, it's a very special day as it's been nearly 16 years since President Afton murdered Santa Claus and brought the world to chaos"

"Dope" Springtrap said to himself

The Elton John ghost spoke "that's not the full story...you didn't just kill Santa"

The ghost brought Springtrap to a graveyard where in front of him, he saw a tombstone with the words

"Here lies The Grinch.

He was a mean one"

Springtrap fell to his knees

"You killed him. And much like Tim Allen's the Santa Claus rules, you became him. By trying to end Christmas, you yourself ended up becoming a symbol of Christmas" the ghost explained

"How....how do I fix this?" Springtrap asked

"Only one way" the ghost replied, pulling out a ghost gun

The ghost fired into Springtrap's head.

Then everything went blank for a moment.
In the darkness he felt he could hear something. Someone

"Hey? Can you hear me?"

Springtrap opened his eyes to see Komaeda, but this time he wasn't a ghost

"Are you ok? You seem pretty out of it." Komaeda said

Springtrap stood up and just walked away.

"That was fuckin wild lol"

He looked out a window to see a big jolly man in red approach the hotel and at that moment, his target was acquired.

Someone's halls were about to get decked.

Chapter Text

A few months ago, someone arrived at the hotel.
He had white hair and a zip up hoodie, his name was Guzma and he was cool
But sometime later, on Halloween night, a young boy arrived at the hotel with White hair, pale skin, and a green zip up hoodie.

His name was Nagito Komaeda.

Not that many people knew about him, but the people that did knew he was trouble. Many people who didn't know it sensed it to. They knew he needed to go, and they needed to make him go, no matter what they had to do, who they had to work with, they just needed to get the job done.

Springtrap walked into Travis' room and said simply
"Mr. Touchdown, I need to talk to you about the GHA initiative"
He then gave Travis a card which told Travis to meet him and the rest of the group in the cafeteria.

The group consisted of 6 people, Travis, Springtrap, Dr. Coyle, Metal Sonic, Chibi Robo, and Miku.

Travis started
"So to be clear, everyone here has been with Komaeda, right?"

There was nods around the table, then they each went around the table talking about how Komaeda troubled them

"He just asserted himself into my room" said Springtrap

"He stole the last piece I needed to make a soldier" said Metal Sonic

"He angered the funny robot" said Dr. Coyle.

"He stole my lunch' said Miku

Chibi Robo got a piece of paper and wrote "He threw a plastic bottle in the garbage" on it.

"What about you Mr. Touchdown?" Springtrap aksed

"I just personally don't like him"

"So what's the plan?" Coyle asked

"There isn't one. We just have to get his ass. I asked the doll if I could call the kid slurs but he said no" Springtrap said.

"So we're just gonna do our own things to get him?" Miku asked

Springtrap shrugged.
"Sure"

So they went off, waiting for the right time to strike.

Travis casually knocked on Komaeda's door and let himself in.
He walked over to the closet where Komaeda was still tied up.

Travis introduced himself
"Hey my name's Travis and I need to kill you for a sec, it's entirely personal."

"Wait.....could you be Travis Touchdown? THE Travis Touchdown, the crownless king, the one who climbed Assassin rankings twice and walked away twice? The no more hero?" Komaeda asked

"You've done some research huh?"

"You're truly amazing, would it be fitting to call you the ultimate assassin?"

"Heh, that name's not bad, yeah let's go with that"

"I'm sorry you had to waste your time talking to scum like me, that's probably why you're here to kill me. I'd love to just listen to the knowledge you have, anything. But I understand, make it quick, let me be your stepping stone."

Travis paused..
"Well I mean.....I have time, I could maybe share some knowledge with you"

"You really mean it? Oh I must be dreaming"

Travis sat down and started explaining the Kirby lore to Komaeda.

A few hours passed. Springtrap returned to the room he and Komaeda shared, he walked in to see Travis talking to Komaeda on the floor.

"....so it turns out Void Termina is the original form of Kirby and Void Termina becomes Kirby whenever it gets reborn with positive energy, but if it's reborn with negative energy then it becomes Dark Ma-"

Travis noticed Springtrap. He quickly stood up.

"Hey can I talk to you in the hall?" Travis asked.

They walked out.

"So what's the plan, are you the distraction and then I just mutilate him?" Springtrap asked

"Look, he's just a kid. You can't kill him" Travis said

"I thought you wanted to do this"

"I DID but....it's just.., he's the only one that seemed actually interested in what I have to say. Like Waluigi's cool but doesn't care about the lore of things, and my wife and kids just don't get it. It's not like I can ask if anyone around here is interested, most of the people here are assholes" Travis Explained.

"Really? Even me? Am I an asshole?" Springtrap asked, somewhat sarcastically

"Yes. You've killed like 20 kids, that's not ok"

"Let's make it 21"
Springtrap proceeded to approach Komaeda before quickly getting shot through the head and falling to the ground.

Travis looked up to Komaeda who was holding a smoking pistol.

"I picked this up from my trip to America, I planned to use it as an offering and bargain for my life but it seemed to fire itself, I guess I'm lucky to have survived" Komaeda explained

Travis Paused "...He'll be alright. Come on, I work here, let's get you your own room"

Travis and Komaeda left the room and went to get Komaeda a new room to stay in.

After they left, Metal Sonic entered the room, holding a cup of oil with a bendy straw sticking out of it

He went rummaging through the closet.
"IT'S NOT HERE!" He yelled while throwing his cup of oil to the ground.

Sensing a mess, Chibi Robo came rushing down the halls and into the room to clean up the oil spill. Metal just watched him scrub and scrub until the stain was gone, it was like there was never even a mess to begin with.

Metal looked down at the robot.
"You seem very skilled, you could be a valuable ally."
Metal kneeled down to Chibi Robo's level

"Listen, I have a proposal for you. You see, the world is run by many fools, while there may be some exceptions like my father and the lady with the long arms, the world is filled with fools. I plan to make an empire. Be rid of the fools and have the world be run by pure geniuses and bots! No more fools!-"

"Hey are you guys done? I'm trying to watch Jimmy Fallon" said a once again alive Springtrap

"Sorry we'll leave" said Metal, him and Chibi Robo walked out into the hallway, Metal kneeled down again

"Listen, I'm asking you to be my second in command for my empire, together we could make a smarter world, a better world, a CLEANER world! No longer can fools damage our world! What do you say?" Metal Sonic held his hand out.
Chibi Robo blocked pretty much everything out except for the idea of a cleaner world, a sign of a green check mark raised out of his head and he hopped onto Metal Sonic's hand.

"BRILLIANT" Metal said
He raised Chibi Robo in his hand high above him
"YOU WILL BE MY METAL PRINCE IN MY PERFECT KINGDOM"

Chibi Robo did a little dance while raising his arms up and swaying his tiny little robot "hips" side to side

Chapter Text

"Hey Geno, can you come here for a second?"

Travis called Geno to the staff room.

"Listen I know I've been on your back about the body you have, it's just important to me, I've been trying to find someone selling the Geno figure after Santa weirdly didn't come last Christmas. I haven't been able to find the Geno yet, but I found this"

Travis then handed Geno a figure. It looked similar to his normal body except with curly hair, a bit more clothing, eyelashes, a gun on both hands as opposed to Geno's 1 hand, and a pink where Geno's blue would've been.

"W-What is this?" Geno asked

"I think it was supposed to be the female counterpart to the normal Geno figure, like the Bat Girl or Super Woman of the Geno figures. These didn't sell too well so you can find a lot for super cheap, I thought it could be a suitable replacement body for now, until we get the real body at least."

Geno placed the doll on the ground before abandoning his Miku body and possessing the new "girl Geno" doll

Travis quickly rushed over to the Miku figure and inspected it for scratches or anything broken, he lightly brushed it off before putting it back in his jacket pocket
"All good. Oh you probably want these back."
Travis threw the clothes Mimikyu made on Christmas to Geno

"So how's it feel? A bit more comfortable?"

"Yes, I feel this body suits me more than the last." Geno replied.
Geno paused before continuing

"Hey Travis? I know you've been searching online for the doll and I'm immensely grateful for that, really I am, but the thing is, the body Sephiroth stole wasn't just a Geno figure, it was specially made for me by my mother so it means something to me personally."

"Hey man, we'll get the real body back one day, this is just to hold off for now. If it really takes a long time to get your original body back, if we can get a replacement, I know a chick who's a tinkering wizard, she can turn a regular Katana into a beam Katana in a matter of hours, she could probably give the replacement figure all the upgrades your old body had, just to make it feel more right. But believe me, Sephiroth can't keep your old body forever!" Travis reassured.

"Travis....thank you" Geno said

"No problem man, I'll let you know if I find anything."

The rest of the day went by as normal, Geno showed the new body to Waluigi and Mimikyu before heading to bed.

Many days went by and Travis found nothing. Geno dolls are pretty hard to come by, they were only ever in one toy line after all.

Until one morning, Geno woke up bright and early and headed into the staff room to make some coffee.

Travis quickly came running shouting
"GENO! GENO! I FOUND ONE!"

'REALLY?" Geno said surprised

"YEAH I FOUND A GUY SELLING ONE ONLINE, WE AGREED TO MEET UP AT A PARK NEAR HERE!"

"WELL LET'S GO!" Geno said excitedly

"HELL YEAH LET'S DO IT!"

they headed off.

After they arrived at the park, they began looking for the guy

"Ok so he told me he has long grey hair and he's wearing a purple jacket, cargo shorts, and sandals." Travis said

"Is that him?" Geno said, pointing to a guy with long grey hair, a purple jacket, cargo shorts, and sandals.

"Yeah probably"

As they approached him Travis was speaking to himself out loud
"Heh, I like this guy's style, kinda looks like my purple jacket"

Then they got closer

"...That is my jacket...what the fuck"

And then they got closer

"Oh fuck off"

If the man's hair didn't give it away, the shirt he was wearing did, it featured the words "YOU JUST GOT SEPHIROTHED" in white bold letters with poorly photoshopped images of Sephiroth's face over people squatting and throwing up sideways peace signs.

The man was Sephiroth, wearing Cargo shirts, sandals, as well as Travis' stolen Jacket and Sunglasses.

"Good to see you, Travis" said Sephiroth, calmly.

"Look, I'm not here to have you make fun of me, I'm here for the Geno doll, you DO have it right?" Travis replied

"Of course, but you couldn't have expected to just take it off my hands did you?"

"What the hell do you want from me, you.
goddamn creep" Travis asked

"A simple request. Travis, give me 300 dollars and 73 cents" Sephiroth replied

"Fuckin hell, you think I can afford that?" Travis yelled

"Well if you can't then I guess I'll be on my way" Sephiroth went to walk away

"Wait!" Travis shouted
"I have an idea"

Sephiroth stopped and turned around

Travis continued "Look, I'm the top ranked assassin in America, you're the top ranked soldier in the world. Maybe we can work something out" Travis then pulled out his katana, offering to duel for the doll

Sephiroth smirked
"No. I want your money Travis. Give me 300 dollars, plus 82 cents. You wasted my time"

"Fuckin hell.... FINE!" Travis said before reluctantly giving Sephiroth 301 dollars

"Good choice Travis"

Sephiroth paused. Then started sprinting away

"YOU FUCKING BITCH!" Travis screamed. He began to give chase to Seohiroth but it was too late, Sephiroth disappeared in a puff of smoke.

Travis and Geno stood there speechless for a second.

"What the fuck...?"

It was a silent ride back to the hotel.

When they arrived the two just sat for a minute.

"Well what the fuck do we do now?" Travis asked.

"I don't know" Geno replied

They sat in silence for a bit

Travis began to sadly beatbox

"Well. There's a couple ideas I have" Geno said

"Well spit em out man!" Travis said, raising his voice a bit.

"Me, you, and some others go to the smash mansion and fight Sephiroth for my body" Geno Suggested

"Ok, but who? Waluigi and Mimikyu are off work today" Travis asked

"I have friends. Friends that would like a word with Sephiroth. We were in a group, Sephiroth was there but nobody paid too much mind to him because nobody thought he'd do anything. But now he went to the mansion. I'm sure I can talk my friends into paying him a visit" Geno explained

.....

A couple hours later, an army approached the smash mansion. Leading army was a warrior sent from a higher authority and a Crownless King. Their soldiers were a Keyblade user, a Tomb Raider, an Android, a black mage, and all the other Square Enix characters I couldn't come up with cool names for like Crono, Neku, and Noctis.

Geno knocked on the door and out came a spikey haired blonde boy.

"Ah Cloud, perfect. Could you get Sephiroth for us? We need to talk to him." Geno said

Cloud went inside and to Sephiroth's room

"Sephiroth, some people are here to see y- what the hell are you wearing." Cloud asked

"Someone's here for me?" Said Sephiroth, who was still wearing Travis' purple jacket, cargo shorts, and sandals, along with still having long grey hair.

He went outside to be greeted by the army

"Sephiroth. I believe you have something that belongs to me" Geno said.

"m-me too" Travis said a bit quietly.

"My, you're right. I owe you all something. A few months ago I offered to buy you all Papa John's, I've been so busy lately I haven't been able to fulfill my promise. Fortunately I came into some money recently, so..."

Sephiroth pulled out his wallet which contained multiple 50 dollar Papa John's gift cards he went around and handed one to everyone, even Travis and Geno.

"I hope it can suffice while I'm busy" Sephiroth said

All of Geno and Travis' soldiers thanked Sephiroth and left. Sephiroth went back inside.

They once again sat in silence, Travis slowly lifted his hand to his mouth ready to start beatboxing again.

"No" Geno said
"I have.....one last idea.... I only wanted to use it as a last resort"

Geno breathed in and knocked on the door and asked for a blonde woman in a blue dress.

Rosalina came to the door.
"Geno? What happened?"

Geno began crying and sniffling "m-mom *sniff* a mean man took the doll a-and *sniff* and he won't give it back"

"Who?" Rosalina asked

"He *hiccup* his name was S-Sephiroth he has long grey hair *sniff*"

Rosalina went inside, before coming back out, dragging Sephiroth by the ear.

"Ow!" He yelled
"Give the doll back now young man!" Rosalina yelled back at Sephiroth
"No"
Rosalina twisted Sephiroth's ear
"NOW!"
"FINE!" Seohiroth yelled before throwing the doll at Geno

"It looked stupid anyways" he said as he walked back inside to his room

"Let me know if he ever bothers you again" Rosalina say before kissing Geno on the forehead

"Thank you," Geno said.

Travis spoke up
"Say while you're here could you help get my Ja-"
Rosalina had already left.

The two headed back to the hotel.

After they arrived and got settled, Travis passed by Springtrap wearing the same "You just got Sephirothed" shirt.

"Where'd you get that?" Travis asked.

"Some merch store, they were selling them for 80% percent off. The guy who makes them must've got some cash recently for the sale to be THAT good" Springtrap answered.

"Fuck" Travis said under his breath

Geno came out back in his normal body.

"Thank you Travis, for everything you did to help"

"Yeah no prob man. You owe me though, just saying" Travis responded

…

Sephiroth was in his room.
"A minor setback, but I'm sure you will come to fruition soon....all of you will"

Sephiroth looked upon a lifeless Geno clone in a cloning pod, surrounded by many empty cloning pods.

Chapter Text

Travis was walking out the door with a bouquet of roses and a small heart shaped box of chocolates with "Shit bitch you is fine" written on it in all capitals

"Ey whatcha got there?" Waluigi asked

"Oh I uh, I'm gonna spend Valentine's Day with my wife. I haven't been able to see her for a while so I thought today would be an good day" Travis explained

Waluigi paused for a minute, then said "Well, have fun"

"Thanks" Travis said before leaving the hotel while Waluigi went off to tell Geno and Mimikyu what was going on

"Heya, Travis is-a gonna be gone for bit" Waluigi said

"What happened? Is he ok?" Geno asked

"Yeah he's-a fine, just went to spend valentines day with his-a wife"

Geno paused
"It's......March. He knows it's March right?"

"I don't think he-a does"

"Why didn't you tell him?" Geno asked, confused.

"Well he seemed happy, he doesn't get to see her too often, ey?" Waluigi explained

"I guess not. Don't tell him I said this but it may be nice to have it be slightly more peaceful, even in just a little bit" Geno said

As Geno said that, they heard the front doors swing open and an unfamiliar voice yelled

"YOO WHO'S READY FOR UNPROTECTED PRE-MARITAL GEX!"

Geno and Waluigi ran out to the front desk to see a green gecko in a tuxedo

"Umm. Hello, nice to meet you. how can we help you today?"

The gecko spoke

"My name is Gex, I heard someone I'm looking for is here, I'm looking for-"

Gex suddenly spotted Waluigi

"-my son...." he said

Gex ran over to Waluigi and put hit hands on Waluigi's shoulders

"Walter. It's me, I am your father" Gex told him

"Walter? Father? I'm-a part lizard?" Waluigi said while looking at his hands

"Yes, Walter is your real name. Also you're a Gecko, not a lizard" Gex explained

Gex continued
"It's been so long. We must make up for lost time, I wanna spend every moment I have left with you, my son"

"I....I-a don't know what to-a say" said Waluigi

He continued
"We're-a understaffed today so I might no-"

Geno interrupted
"It's ok. I'll cover for you, for spend time with your father"

Waluigi and Gex's faces both lit up

"What do you say son?"

"Let's-a go pops"

Waluigi and Gex both left the building to spend the day together

They spent the day doing many father and son bonding activities.

The 2 were playing a game of catch, before Gex spoke up

"Catch kinda sucks ass. We've just been throwing a tennis ball for 9 minutes"

"But isn't it the moment that-a counts?" Said Waluigi

"Nah. Let's try fishing instead" said Gex.

They both agreed that fishing sounded like a better idea.

They went out on a boat in a river.

Waluigi kept coming up with boots and tires, Gex ended up falling in the water which they both ended up laughing off.

They went out for dinner then ice cream afterwards.

"Man, I'm getting tired, but I still wanna spend more time with you son" said Gex

"Weeellll.... I could probably getcha a free room at the hotel, that-a way we could be near each other all the time" Waluigi suggested

"You'd really do that for your old man?"

"Of course, pops"

Gex sighed
"You're the best son a man could ask for"

As they got back to the hotel, Gex noticed Nagito walking around

Gex then nudged Waluigi
"Hey, you wanna see something really cool?"

Gex proceeded to walk up to Nagito and called him every slur, every single one. Every slur used to discriminate against a group whether due to race, sexuality, income, gender identity, no matter what it was, Gex said them all, some of them he said multiple times but in different languages, some of these were words Waluigi had never even heard before

After Gex was done, he collapsed

"POPS!" Waluigi yelled

"You alrighty?" He asked

"Yes, I'm fine, I'm just really old and I don't know how much time I have left" Gex replied

"Is there any way I can-a help?" Waluigi asked

"I don't think so. If only you had the power to grant wishes....."

"HEY, my-a buddy Geno can grant wishes lemme ask him. HEY GENO GET OUT HERE FOR A SECOND!"

"Wait? So you CAN'T grant wishes?" Gex asked

"Nah" Waluigi replied.

"Oh well fuck you then"
Gex proceeded to stand up and approach Geno he had entered the room.

He placed his hand on Geno's shoulder

"Walter....it's me, your father. Yes. Walter is your real name, it's the name-"

Geno swatted Gex's hand off his shoulders
"Don't touch me, you're not my father, I have no father, and you're not Waluigi's father either" Geno said

"Yeah no shit, I just need the wish to get power" Gex replied

Suddenly the front doors opened and Travis walked in

"How was ya trip?" Waluigi asked

"It was alright. Found out it was March so that kinda ruined a lot but y'know it was pretty nice, nice to see them again after a while" Travis replied

He continued
"Hey is that fucking Gex?"

"Enough!" Gex shouted before pulling out a gun

"You're gonna wish all power to Gex or I'm gonna blow your fucking heads off" Gex shouted

Gex began to count down

"10!"

"9!"

"8!"

"7!"

"6!"

Gex paused at 6, he felt something, a presence.

He turned around to see Chibi Robo standing there.

"What's happening?" Geno asked quietly

"It's him.....the Anti-Gex" Travis muttered

Gex aimed his gun towards Chibi Robo instead
"You don't scare me, I took you down before and I can take you down again"

Suddenly, Gex was tripped by 2 long dark arms, it was Mimikyu, who proceeded to hold Gex down while Geno, Travis, and Waluigi all kicked him while he was down.

Chibi Robo climbed on top of Gex, raised his tail-like plug up high, and stuck it into Gex's chest, Chibi Robo began absorbing Gex's life force through the plug while he moaned in pain.

When he was finished, Gex was purple and could only spit out a few final words

".....so am I just.......cancelled now....?"

Before becoming limp and lifeless

They all stood in shocked for a minute before Travis broke the silence

"So do you guys wanna go to like Denny's or something?"

They all agreed that would be better than just staring at a corpse.

So all 5 of them headed to Denny's while leaving Gex's body alone, it would be gone by the next day probably

Chapter Text

It was a quiet day at the hotel, too quiet. Geno, Waluigi, Mimikyu, and Travis were sitting inside the staff room.
Geno broke the silence

"Hey, doesn't it seem a bit....quieter...recently?"

Travis followed up "Yeah it does, usually we've been getting tons of people per day, but now it's been real low, not one person has come in today"

"You -a think we're just not popular anymore? Waluigi asked

"I don't know, maybe" Geno said

"You guys wanna get stress lunch or something about this?" Travis suggested

All 4 agreed it would be good to relax over a nice lunch, as they walked out the door they immediately saw something across the street. A building the size of the hotel with a giant neon sign reading "THE EXCLUSION MOTEL"

"What the hell?" Travis said under his breath

The immediately went inside to see what was going on, once inside they were met by 3 figures, a man in a long dark coat with a katana and slicked back hair, a little girl with black pigtails and a red dress, a tall owl with a green hood, and front and center was a little green man with swirly glasses and a red coat who greeted them

"GREETINGS TO YOU! THE FINK-RATS HAVE FINALLY ARRIVED!"

"Hello Fawful..." Geno said under his breath

"You know this-a guy?" Waluigi asked quietly

"Yeah....he trapped me inside an arcade machine about 17 or 18 years ago. Took me forever to get out"

"What's-a ya plan, green man?" Waluigi asked

"Simple plan, yes, simple indeed. Fawful plans to run Dolly's hotel out of business. None more customers will show!" Fawful said

The girl in the red dress spoke

"He wasted months trying to find perfect ways to combat you...."

"Correct! Ashley is the smarty pants! This will truly be the mustard on the meal of doom!" Fawful yelled

Ashley continued "He said he wanted to find perfect people to combat you. In his own words....." She began pointing to people

"Fawful would take on Dolly" she said pointing to Geno

"Decidueye would take on Rag" she said, motioning to the tall owl, then to Mimikyu.

She continued in her own words "I just agreed because my mansion needs to air out after last potion, he wanted me to take on 'Purple' as he called it, I think that's you" she said, pointing to Waluigi

Fawful interrupted
"AND THE SPICIEST OF ALL! JACKET WOULD HAVE TO FIGHT HIS OWN BROTHER! HEHEHE!"

"That's it? I've been waiting to fight him again for years" Travis said.

"HO HO! You may be thinking it will be fun, but soon you will be the one crying 'oh brother Vergil, please stop the hurting' "

Travis paused

"Vergil?.......My brother's name is Henry....I don't know anyone named Vergil personally."

One of Fawful's glasses cracked
"Give me some time..."

Fawful ran to their own staff room where on the table someone was sleeping, it looked like Shadow except he was more of a blue and purple color and looked like he was made out of crystals.

"MEPHILES YOU MUST AWAKE! WE HAVE DONE THE FUCKING UP ON A MAJOR SCALE" Fawful yelled

"Fawful" the crystallized hedgehog replied

"The man of wrong is looking to be the man we are having" Fawful said

"The wrong guy? Damn....well figure it out" Mephiles said before going back to sleep

Fawful went back to the lobby, a bit scared

"Vergil, you must do listening.." Fawful said to the man in the dark coat

"Is there a problem?" Vergil said

"Nothing, nothing it is just being..." Fawful lowered his voice
"A mixing up has been occurring it is seeming. Your brother won't be doing the arriving on today"

Vergil seemed a little annoyed, but not too much, his eyes only looked down as his brow slowly went down.

"That's.....unfortunate. But that is not too much of a concern for me. Perhaps that's better for him. Besides, he's not why I'm here."

Waluigi then spoke up

"LISTEN! It's-a obvious you punks want us gone, well we feel-a the same. So why don't-a we settle this the old fashioned way.

A classic game of Base-a ball"

Fawful grinned

"I am accepting of your challenge. You will be having a day to be choosing your team. We are going to be doing the same. The one of losing will be shutting down forever. Are we having a deal?" Fawful held out his hand

Waluigi shook it.
"Deal"

"Let's-a go guys" Waluigi said to his friends.

When they got back to the hotel, Geno started yelling at Waluigi

"ARE YOU CRAZY? YOU'RE GONNA GET US SHUT DOWN"

"What's-a wrong? Don't think you can play a little base-a ball?"

"NO! I'VE NEVER PLAYED BASEBALL!"

Travis separated them and tried to calm down
"Guys, guys, relax, lucky for you I happen to know some of the best baseball players in the world"

Travis grabbed his phone and called someone

"Heyyy Badman, listen I need your help with something, basically my hotel's about to get shut down and- oh yeah? Really? Cool!"

"He told me to go fuck myself and hung up"

Travis said before dialing again

"It's me again, hey could you put your daughter on the phone for a sec? ........Heyyy BadG- she hung up"

Travis breathed in a calm breath

"Alright we're basically fucked, find anyone you can" Travis said

So they all ran off for the day looking for people that would be best.

Later that night, the 4 came back and made a list of players that would be good and why

Springtrap - striking fear into enemies
Nagito - his luck could end up being the final factor in securing the victory
Shadow - his speed is crucial to the game
Funky Kong - he's just a cool dude, probably knows how to play baseball.

There was one spot they had left, they knew who to fill the role. A being of pure darkness

Travis kneeled down to Mimikyu.

"Listen. You're the only ghost here, you're the only one able to go into the shadow realm. We need you to get Cory"

Mimikyu put her hand on her head in a salute, and went off.

She came back a few minutes later, with Cory by her side

Travis approached him.

"Cory, listen. I know you hate us, but please. We're gonna die out there without your help."

"Why should I be concerned about that?" Cory said in a cocky manner

Waluigi spoke up.

"If he dies then he's-a trapped with-a you for all eternity"

Cory closed his eyes for a minute, breathed in slowly, breathed out slowly

"Ok. I will assist"

Their team had been decided, all they had to wait for was the morning.

...

The morning came and as such, the players headed to a baseball field, there was till about an hour or so before the match, so the players used that time to at least get to know each other.

Shadow went over to the concessions stand to get a bottle of water

As he took a sip he glanced over to see Mephiles. He had to do a double take as he spit out his water, pointed to Mephiles and screamed "YOU CAN'T BE HERE, YOU'RE DEAD!" Shadow passed out after screaming "YOU'RE DEAD" one more time, dragging out the A. Shadow's teammates ran over to see what happened

"Fuck he's dead, man" said Springtrap

"I'll go get a back up" said Geno

"Damn...." Travis said, before he quickly saw the person running the concessions stand, it was a blocky person just like Steve.

Travis slowly approached the person

"Hey....what's your name?"

Despite asking, Travis was a little surprised when when the person spoke back

"My name's Jessie, what's your's?"

"Oh damn. oh, uh Travis, Travis Touchdown."

"Nice to meet you Travis, what can I get you?"

"Actually I was just wondering, Do you know anybody named Steve?" Travis asked

Jessie's face became a bit more annoyed

"Yes.... I do....he's my cousin. He stole my favorite jacket"

"HE STOLE YOURS TOO? HE DOES THIS SHIT OFTEN?" Travis yelled, surprised

"YEAH, That's why I can't wait to beat him in this game, obviously you guys brought him because he's like one of your best players, right?"

Travis paused

"You don't know?" Travis asked

"Know what?"

"Steve GOT IN, like he's at the Smash Mansion.

"Really??"

"Yeah"

"Huh.....man..."

"Hey has anyone told you you sound like ratatouille?" Travis asked

"His name is Remy, never talk to me again" said Jessie

Meanwhile, Funky Kong was doing some arm exercises as he prefers to use his arm as a bat, but suddenly he heard a voice from behind him, a voice he recognized too well

"Funky Kong" the voice said

Funky turned around

"Barack Obama" Funky said back

Obama slowly approached Funky
"You know, it will almost be an honor to defeat you"

Funky responded with "You can try dude, but it would be extremely painful.......for you"

While Funky and Obama were having their staredown, Springtrap looked in awe as 2 ghosts has the same staredown

One of them was Cory, the other was one on Fawful's team, he made his name very clear by constantly shouting it

"GIBBAY"

Springtrap was so distracted, he hadn't noticed someone approach him, it was a girl in a cheaply made white rabbit costume, she scared him a bit

"Hi...I'm Vanny. Look I just wanna say you've been a huge inspiration to me" the white rabbit said

"Your game's not out yet, you don't have anything to go off of yet" Springtrap said

"Shit you're right"

Vanny left the motel

Eventually Geno came back with Shadow's replacement, it was Metal Sonic

"Alright let's get this done quick, I have somewhere I need to be" he said, before quickly realizing what he was up against.

Before he could even react, he was approached by a small highschooler. He has purple messy hair, and a checkerboard patterned scarf

"Woooaaahhh. You're like a robot hamster? That's SOOOO COOOOL!" the boy said, which somehow came off as both genuine and sarcastic at the same time.

Metal Sonic began to walk away before the boy continued talking.

"Seriously, you look like you're about to start an evil organization. Can I join? C'mon please? Hey, hey, hey c'mon please? I'm the ultimate Supreme leader of evil. I can totally see our name too. 'Kokichi Oma and the robot hamster corporation' "

"Be quiet you little rat" Metal Sonic said without even looking at Kokichi

Kokichi wouldn't be quiet
"Oh c'mon it'll be great, I can be racist just because I'm a funny little guy-"

Metal Sonic slapped him with the back of his metal hand before Kokichi could get another word out

There was no time for slapping children though, the game was beginning

Geno was up to bat and Vergil was pitching

"I gotta warn ya, I swing real well" Geno said, Vergil didn't say anything back

Vergil wound up and Geno hit the ball pretty far.

He began running but before he could make it to second, Vergil had sent out a blue, demon-looking doppelganger who caught the ball and tagged Geno out.

Everyone on Geno's team was just stunned at what just happened and took a minute to huddle and get a new strategy while Vergil's doppelganger celebrated by doing the worm

"Ok so what the hell do we do now? I mean, the guy keeping track of points is one of theirs, and he just gave 5 home runs to the other team because of that damn catch." Travis said

Waluigi responded
"As-a team captain I'm-a tell you what you're gonna do-a. Excluding our team, just punch anyone you-a see"

Their team charged at the the other, bats in hand

It was a riot

Geno ended up smashing Fawful's glasses

Travis severed one of Mephiles' arms

Nagito tried to attack Kokichi but ended up fainting after Kokichi invented racism 2 on the spot.

Funky Kong came charging through Vanny but stopped when he almost hit Ashley

"Nah man, I ain't gonna hit a little girl, I got standards dude" he said

"Move aside then, pussy, let me show you how this shit's done" Springtrap said, cracking his knuckles and charging at Ashley while Vanny screamed "YOU FUCKING MURDER THE SHIT OUT OF HER!"

Before Springtrap could reach her, he was stopped in his tracks when he felt a blade go through his stomach.

He turned his head around to see Vergil

"Scum" was all Vergil said before quickly bringing his blade up, slicing Springtrap in two.

"You saved me.....why?" Ashley asked

"Mmm,....power..." was all Vergil said in response

While this was going on, Mimikyu was sending Gibby back to hell, "GIBBAY" was all he could say before grabbing Cory, who in turn, grabbed Obama, who in turn, grabbed Nagito.

All 4 were sent to hell. The job was done, except for one thing

Travis pointed at Metal Sonic
"You! Call your dad, tell him to bring something from the staff room fridge, it's the green thing, he'll know what it is when he sees it."

Then pointed at Geno
"Dude, call a health inspector here, after that we gotta bail"

...

An hour later, long after Waluigi and his team left, a health inspector arrived at the exclusion motel, he had grey hair he wore down, and a dark red coat.
As he walked it, he saw Gex's rotting corpse sitting in the lobby

"Ew gross" was all he said before shutting the place down, with an inspection certificate from an organization called "Devil May Become a Health Inspector"

There were only 4 people who saw him, Fawful, Mephiles, Vergil, and Metal Sonic who stayed behind. Ashley was asleep while Vergil was carrying her on her back.

Metal noticed Vergil was staring at the health inspector intently.

"Do you need something with him" Metal asked

"Maybe, but now isn't the right time. But the time will come soon." Vergil replied

He paused for a minute, before turning around to see his doppelganger, still dancing and doing the worm.

"That's ENOUGH" he said before slashing the doppelganger, causing it to vanish into thin air

"Why are you still here?" Vergil asked Metal.

"You of course, your powers have impressed me, and may be useful to something I have planned. Although I have one question. What is it with this girl you have?" Metal said, looking at Ashley

"Think nothing of her, when I heard she could give me all the power I needed through her magic, I knew she would be of great use to me. I don't find it ideal to ask for help in my quest for power, or to be in this.....humiliating situation, but I'd be a fool to pass up an opportunity like this" Vergil replied

"Interesting...well... I have somewhere to be soon, but I think it would be wise if we kept in contact. Perhaps come stay at the hotel" Metal Sonic said before leaving.

Vergil began to leave soon too, along with Ashley.

...

"Hey Mephiles, I have done the realizing of something"

"What is it Fawful?"

"Why are they calling it oven when you of in the cold food out of hot eating the food?"

"....Fawful I'll be honest 99% of the time I have no fucking idea what you're saying

Chapter Text

Metal Sonic had an appointment at the Smash Mansion. He sat face to face with a mysterious figure.

"So all I ask for is your help. Then we can rebuild the planet to be a better world. No more of those pathetic lowlifes. A world run by us, it's for the planet's own good." Metal said

"And what exactly would be in it for me?" The figure asked

Metal glanced at the figure's hat. It said "I ♡ funny monkeys"

"Not much. Perhaps some monkeys? Funny ones maybe" he said

"I'm in." The figure said
It continued
"So what exactly do you need from me?"

"I want to use your army" Metal said bluntly

"What makes you think I have an army?"

Metal looked at their shirt.
"I am definitely not making an army lol" it said
"Just a hunch. Am I wrong?

"Maybe not. May I ask one question? Who else is a part of this?" The figure asked

"Me, my metal prince, and you. Though I have my eyes on two in particular...."

...

Vergil and Ashley had moved into the hotel recently after "losing" the baseball game. They shared 1 room with 2 beds. Vergil's side of the room remained mostly untouched aside from Vergil's personal belongings such as an amulet and a katana. Ashley's side had been completely redecorated looking like a witch's hut. She would normally be fiddling with a spell book or cauldron, but this time she was lying on her bed, sighing and groaning, while glancing at Vergil every once in a while. Vergil didn't notice, he was reading. Ashley's groans and sighs grew louder and louder until Vergil finally noticed, he tried ignoring them for a bit but it was very clearly becoming too much for him to ignore.

"Can you quiet down, I'm reading"

Ashley sighed
"I have to go back to work soon"

"How did a child like yourself find a job at your age?" Vergil asked bluntly

"Some big gross guy asked me to make microgames for him. I go back in September, I need to think of some games quick but my mind is completely blank" Ashley said

"And why do you feel the need to tell that to me, this seems like it's your problem"

"Yeah I know. I was just talking out loud."
Ashley got up, pulled out a notebook, and started talking to her broom

"Alright Red, let's use our magic and maybe that'll help us get an idea" Ashley said.

She proceeded to speak up
"Man this might use so much power, possibly all of it. It would take months. Possibly even years for it to come back".

That caught Vergil's attention
He sighed before standing up.

"What would ignite your inspiration?" He asked

"I wanna go to an arcade. I feel that would help" Ashley replied

Vergil groaned before stepping up
"Fine." Was all he said

Luckily there was one down the street.
A big bright building with neon lights that spelled out

"Sans Gaming"

When they entered they were greeted by even brighter lights and tons of arcade games.

"You wait here I'll go get tokens" Ashley said, leaving Vergil by the vending machine.
He glanced inside really quickly and noticed one particular drink.
A bottle that said "Powerade"
Vergil's eyes focused strongly on it.
He crossed his arms in an X formation, 2 metal gauntlets appeared on Vergil's arms as he proceeded to punch the glass to break into the vending machine and steal all the powerade he could.

This caught one person's attention. A young man about in his 20s or so riding one of those spaceships clearly meant for young children. He had short white hair, a blue jacket, and a robotic right arm. He stared at Vergil for a few minutes. Vergil stared back unable to move, the two men's eyes were locked, staring intensely at each other. Eventually Vergil was snapped out of it.

"hey"
Vergil looked down to see a short skeleton in a blue zip up sweater and pink slippers. Vergil slowly reached for his katana

"how are you doing? I'm the manager. my name is sans, sans undertale. can i help you find anything?" The skeleton said

"I'm waiting for someone, begone" Vergil said back

"alright. hey before you go you should check out this one game he have it's called undertale it's really cool it's unique compared to other RPGs there's a funny skeleton"

"I said begone" Vergil said, raising his voice.

"alright fine. damn. fuck."
The skeleton walked away.
Vergil tried going back to his intense stare down with the other man but he was gone by that point

"I'm back" Ashley came back with a cup of tokens

"Alright. What do you plan to do first" Vergil asked

"That one" Ashley pointed to a machine that said "Dance Dance Revolution"

"What...is this?" Vergil asked

"It's a dancing game. You have to step on the arrows in time to the music. Depending on how good you do, you get tickets." Ashley explained

"Well are you gonna go up?" Vergil asked

"No. I'm not a dancer, my coworker is, but not me. Plus it would harm my magic level" Ashley said

"Well I assure you, I am NOT dancing. I still plan on keeping my dignity" Vergil said

While the 2 were arguing, Vergil's blue demon doppelganger once again appeared in a blue flame, and pushed the two aside, grabbed some tokens, and stepped up to the machine

"What is...?" Vergil said to himself

The doppelganger put in the tokens, selected a song called "Devil Trigger" and then took off.

Ashley watched in amazement, Vergil watched in horror.

"How drool...." Vergil said, putting his hands on his katana.

"Don't. He's winning" Ashley said.

Vergil and Ashley sat and watched for the next 3 minutes while Vergil's Doppelganger kept dancing.

At the end, the machine spit out about 50 tickets.

The doppelganger brought the tickets over, Vergil violently grabbed the tickets while wearing the metal gauntlets before punching the doppelganger through the chest, causing him to vanish once again.

"Are we finished here?" Vergil asked

"No way! We're just getting started. Come on!"
Ashley started pulling on Vergil's sleeve, making him walk.

They came across a machine that had 2 basketball hoops with a thin wall separating them as well as basketballs near the bottom of the machine.

"I don't know about this one" Ashley said
"I was never good at Basketball. Plus if I wanted to I could do this for free outside" she continued

"Then let's find another" Vergil said

"What? Scared of a little ball?" A voice said behind Vergil

Vergil turned around slowly to see a man in a faded red jacket. It was the health inspector who shut down Fawful's motel

"Dante..." Vergil said

"I totally get it. You know you're little brother's gonna destroy you in this so you think it's not even worth trying" Dante said

Vergil just stared silently.

"Come on let's go" Ashley said, tugging on Vergil's sleeve

Vergil didn't move

Dante noticed her
"Hey there little girl" he said to Ashley, before turning to Vergil
"Been busy huh? Didn't like the old one?" He said

"This child can give me more power than you could ever imagine" Vergil said.

"Sounds neat. Maybe you could come back sometime after she gives you that power, maybe then you could beat me." Dante said

Something in Vergil snapped

He stuffed his hand in the bucket and grabbed some tokens, and forcefully put the tokens into the machine, all while Dante chuckled.

They both battled it out in a game of basketball. Dante was scoring some hoops, Vergil was scoring none.
Ashley took notice, she went to find a place to hide while she discreetly used her want to direct Vergil's shots to the hoop. After a while, Vergil destroyed Dante in basketball. He was truly ballin, with Ashley's assistance mind you.

"Well I'll be damned" Dante said.

"What are you so shocked about? You knew this would happen" Vergil said

Dante chuckled
"Maybe I did"
"Welp. See you around bro." Dante left the arcade

Ashley joined back up with Vergil
"He seems annoying. I kinda hope a square man and a shirtless buff guy jump him and take his clothes" Ashley said.

"Why such a specific wish?" Vergil asked

"Not sure. Just feels right. Now come on" Ashley said, dragging Vergil by the sleeve.

Ashley went on to play many of the games while Vergil watched.

As the night came to a close, Vergil noticed one thing in the arcade.

A tall pillar with a bell at the top.

"What is this....strange monument?" Vergil asked

"Oh it's a game where you hit the platform with a hammer and it sends a metal piece up to hit the bell. It's a test of strength." Ashley explained

"A test of strength..."

Vergil approached the machine and picked up the hammer. He quickly slammed down on the platform. The metal piece lifted up just a little bit.
Vergil breathed in before slamming down again. It only reached halfway.

Vergil was upset. He breathed in deeper, though this time he was surrounded by blue flame ashes. His form changed as he went from a human to a demon resembling his doppelganger. He was grey with blue highlights.

"DIE" he screamed, throwing the hammer at the bell itself.

This caused a commotion, and caused the staff to alert the owner.

"Mr. Undertale! Some old guy just swung the hammer at the bell!"

"i mean. he hit the bell. he won" Sans said

"I think it's time we leave" Vergil said to Ashley

"Wait there's one more thing!" Ashley pointed to the prize counter

...

Vergil and Ashley left the arcade, Ashley carried a small demon doll while Vergil carried a light up sword.

"Do you think you've found your motivation?" Vergil asked

"Yeah...but I have one question." Ashley said

"What is it?

"You're little brother. He said you got bored of 'the last one'.... who was the last one and what were the last of?" Ashley asked

"Don't think about it. The last one was a deadweight anyways" Vergil responded.

...

"Well this seems like a very interesting opportunity Mr. Neo. I'll be happy to contribute" the mysterious figure said to Metal Sonic.

"It's a pleasure....

Mr. Sephiroth" Metal said

He went to leave.

"One more thing. Keep an eye out for these gemstones known as the chaos emeralds. They will help us greatly in our mission" he said

Chapter Text

Ashley was looking out her room's window when she noticed something. Someone who was clearly in pain limping towards the hotel. She squinted before realizing

"Hey Vergil... isn't that your brother?"

Vergil woke up, his bed and surrounding area littered with empty powerade bottles. He maneuvered through the bottles to look out the window to see Dante enter the hotel. Vergil and Ashley rushed to the lobby.

When they got there, Travis, Geno, and Mimikyu were surrounding the body while Waluigi was on the phone trying to call an ambulance.

Dante looked up at Vergil, before collapsing. His body was beat up and looked like it was even burnt.

Mimikyu went over to the body and felt it.

"Is he...?" Geno couldn't even finish his words.

Mimikyu nodded

A silence filled the room, Waluigi hung up the phone. Vergil visibly cringed.

"I'll be in my room" he said before leaving.

Nagito came through the front doors
"Hey guys I found a way out of hell!"

He looked at the body
'WOW! I can't believe I'm in the presence of the ultimate Devil Hunter himself!" He said excitedly

"He's dead Nagito" Travis said

Nagito sighed
"Just my luck."

"Does anyone know if he had any family?" Geno asked

"His brother was here just a minute ago" Ashley said.

"Fuck... That's rough buddy" someone said

Everyone looked at the owner of the voice. It was a small child who wore a white t shirt and blue overalls. He had blonde hair that covered his eyes.

"Who the fuck are you?" Travis asked
"TRAVIS! Watch your language around children" Geno said.

"I'm Porky. I was taking a nap in my robot, I had it on auto pilot for like a year. The guy with the katana at the baseball game broke it so I'm pissed"

Porky pointed at his robot. Everyone looked over to see Springtrap's broken limp body.

"Oh you're fucking shitting me" Travis said.

He was frozen in place for a bit

"I think it might be best if you go to your room sir" Geno said to Porky.

"You alrighty bud?" Waluigi asked Travis
"I....I need to sit down for a second" Travis whispered

Waluigi brought Travis to the staff room. Geno motioned to Mimikyu and Nagito to bring Dante's body.

Back at Vergil and Ashley's room. Vergil was laying silently in his bed.

"Are you alright?" Ashley asked

"It was supposed to be me..." Vergil said to himself.

"I understand this is hard for you bu-" Ashley was cut off

"*I* was the one who was supposed to kill him, now he gets killed by someone else who we don't even know!?"

"Oh" Ashely said

There was a knock at the door

Geno came in the room

"Excuse me. Are you Dante's brother? I think you should come see this."

Vergil and Ashley followed Geno to the staff room where they saw Dante standing alive and well, but something was off. Dante looked younger, his stubble was gone, his messy grey hair was more of a clean white.

His jacket was a more vibrant red and he was completely shirtless, aside from a strip of leather attached to the coat stretching across his chest.

This younger Dante noticed Vergil staring at him.
"Hey bro what's wrong? What? You want a kiss or something?" He said with a cocky smile

Vergil looked at Geno

"I need to speak to you outside" he said

"Mr. Dante if you could wait here for one second" Geno said to Dante

"Tch" he said with a smirk
Dante sat down on a chair and rested his legs on a nearby desk.

Geno and Vergil left the room.

"What is this?" Vergil asked

"We're not sure... we brought him into the room to see if we could help him. He was encased by a bright light and then that guy showed up." Geno explained

"Does he look familiar?" Geno asked

"From when we were young. But that was a long time ago. Must have been around the time of.."
Vergil got a look in his eyes, a mixed emotion, somewhat of fear and regret, but somewhat accomplished. All he could do was give a deep exhale

The 2 suddenly heard a loud bang

They rushed back into the room to see Dante laying on the ground with a bullet wound on his forehead and Nagito holding a smoking gun.

"HOW COULD YOU KILL HIM LIKE THAT?" Travis yelled, pointing at Nagito

"It was your idea!" Ashley yelled at Travis

"Yeah but the white-a haired boy agreed to it!" Waluigi yelled at Ashley

"What happened?" Geno yelled

"Ok so. I asked Dante if he was shot in the head if he would survive. He said 'Hell yeah let's try it', he gave Nagito one of his guns, then Nagito killed him" Travis explained

"I guess my bad luck never ends" Nagito said to himself

"His own stupidity got him killed" Vergil said

"I'll be leaving" He continued before leaving the room

He left too soon as on his way out, he could see a bright light beam from underneath the door.

"Hey Vergil???" Ashley shouted

He rushed back into the room to see Dante once again standing alive and well. But once again something was off. He was older than the last Dante, but still younger than the original. Notably, he was mostly naked aside from his underwear

"This is....curious" Vergil said

Travis went in for a closer look.
"Steve...." he said to himself

"I'm going to find Coyle to see what the hell is happening

"What's wrong? You guys are acting like you just saw a ghost" Dante said, before turning around to see Mimikyu

Geno whispered to Vergil

"You said you recognized that young Dante from your past. What about this one?"

Vergil whispered back
"Something feels familiar, but it's not too clear. Perhaps I wasn't myself when I saw him"

Travis came back with Dr. Coyle.

"Alright so like he just keeps dying but then he keeps on coming back to life. Do you have any idea what the fuck could be happening?" Travis asked

"Well, has anyone seen him before today? Does anyone know if this is a common occurrence?" Coyle asked

Ashley spoke up
"Just the other day me and Vergil saw him at the arcade down the street just the other day"

"There's been an arcade down the street this whole time!?" Travis asked

"Yeah my ex runs the place" Nagito said

"Your what?" Geno asked

"We're getting off topic! How was he when you saw him?" Coyle asked

"He looked fine" Vergil said

Coyle paused for a minute to think

"Well the only explanation is that your friend seems to swap into various versions of himself at different stages of his life every time he's killed" Coyle explained

"So we just gotta keep-a killing him?" Waluigi asked

"Seems to be the case. Kill him enough times and he'll have to wrap back around to his current point in life eventually" Coyle explained

"Hey uh.... where did he go?" Geno asked

"He left out onto the street" Nagito said

Everyone ran out to the street just in time to see Dante get hit by a large truck

Coyle stretched out her arms to grab Dante's dead body and brought it back into the hotel.

They waited around for a little while for Dante to resurrect again.

When he did. He looked similar to the most recent one, though he was wearing clothes, pretty fancy ones too

"Hm. Now this one I have no recollection of." Vergil said

He wouldn't say anything. At all. It's like his whole personality was gone.

He was very quickly and violently decapitated by Travis

His blood got over everyone

"WHAT WAS THAT?" Geno screamed

"As a gamer....this was personal..." Travis replied

So it was back to waiting. Surely this would be the right time, right?

"I feel....something horrible is coming" Travis said.

When Dante came back, something was very off

His stylish red jacket and pretty white hair was gone. Instead he had a generic grey jacket and short black hair

"Hey! What the shitting fuck is going on here bitches?" Dante said

"We need to run..." Travis said

Everyone ran and barricaded themselves in the staff room

"WHAT ON EARTH IS THAT ABOMINATION?" Coyle asked

"I've never seen him like this" Vergil said

They could hear Dante outside the door

"I'm so cool! I'm gonna say words like fuck and shit and bitch and I know about sex and fuck and shit and fuck-" Dante kept going on

"I've seen him before. He's a monster. He nearly ended a world at one point" Travis explained.

"If he's gonna leave, we gotta make sure he's never coming back" Nagito said

Ashley looked at Mimikyu
"I think she has potential. I've seen what she can do"

"Well little one? Are you up for it?" Coyle asked Mimikyu

Mimikyu jumped up and down before exiting the room.

The group peered out the door to see Mimikyu trap Dante in her cloak

"Now that is a face only a mother could love" Dante said. An actual somewhat clever line. This was shortly followed up by his screams of pain and terror.

All that remained was his skeleton.

The group huddled around the body one last time to see Dante come back.

When he did, he looked normal and older.

"There's only one way to see if this is the one I'm looking for" Vergil said.
He went to the desk to grab a pen and paper

"Dante..do you have even the smallest idea what this is?"
Vergil held up a piece of paper that said "SEX" on it and nothing else.

"Of course, it's pretty n-" Dante was cut off by Vergil stabbing his blade into Dante's chest, before ripping it out from the side. He continued to slice Dante's body into pieces.

Vergil waited around for one more time.

When Dante came back, his hair was more grayish than white, his jacket was faded, he had a beard stubble, and a blue shirt.
He finally looped back around.

"What the hell happened" a confused Dante asked

"Don't worry about it you'll stress yourself out" Geno said

"Alright then" Dante said

Everyone went back to their rooms, Dante even decided to stay at the hotel for a bit.

Ashley and Vergil were in their room. Vergil got up to leave.

"Where are you going?" Ashley asked

"I'm going to tell Dante what happened to make him worry about it so he stresses himself out" Vergil said

Chapter Text

Early in the morning, Geno came out of the staff room to notice Dante at the front desk with Travis talking to him

"What's going on here?" Geno asked

"Oh well I got something I need to take care of today so I'll be out. Dante offered to run the place as thanks for helping him out" Travis explained

"Are you sure that's alright?" Geno asked

"Mimikyu checked his resume and it's pretty good" Travis said
"Anyways I gotta go I'll be right back" Travis left the hotel

Geno looked at Dante

"Well. Thank you for covering the hotel today" Geno said

"Hey, it's the least I can do to pay you guys back! When's the last time you had a day off anyways?" Said Dante

Meanwhile Waluigi and Funky Kong were outside, the 2 stood in front of Waluigi's broken down motorbike

"So what's the deal dude?" Funky asked

"Well I just tried to drive it and it wouldn't-a start." Waluigi explained

Funky walked over to the bike and examined it closely

"See dude. Here's the problem"

Funky lifted the bike and tilted it. Ravioli started pouring out of the tailpipe. Waluigi looked on in awe and confusion

"You can't be putting ravioli in the pipes dude!" Funky said

"THAT WASN'T-A ME!" Waluigi yelled

"So what you're saying is someone pranked you bro?" Funky asked

"Seems-a like it" Waluigi said

Porky came walking over, holding multiple empty cans of ravioli and wearing a shirt that said "filling vehicles with ravioli like a boss"

"Oh hey what's going on here?" Porky asked

Funky Kong quickly looked at Porky before picking him up

"Hey little dude did you do this?" He asked sternly

"What makes you think that?" Porky asked

"Just a hunch. Listen. Not only is this really unrad, doing something mean like ruining someone's bike, but it's super wasteful dude, that's a crazy amount of ravioli. I mean look at that"
Funky pointed to the pile of ravioli, it was taller than the bike at this point

Something caught Funky's eye. A zipper on Porky's back. It went down his whole body.

Waluigi saw it too

"EY WAIT JUST A MINUTE! IS-A THE LITTLE KID A COSTUME TOO?" Waluigi yelled

Porky paused.

"Hee ho no I've been found out" Porky said. He jumped into the air and shed his false skin. What came down was a snow white little person with blue jester clothes and Jack-o-lantern styled face

It was Jack Frost from famous video game Shin Megami Tensei

"Well well, what's going on here little dude? You're doing all sorts of pranks huh? Not that bodacious dude." Funky said with his arms crossed

Jack Frost Pointed at them
"Hee ho you got owned" he said before running away.

"Pesky little chump..." Waluigi said, clearly annoyed

Funky was frozen solid.
"I-....I'm not owned.....I will never be owned"
He looked at Waluigi
"I'm not owned....right, dude?" He asked, his voice shaky
"Of course you're not. Now let's-a bring you back to your room" Waluigi said
"Sorry we couldn't get your bike done today, dude. Real major bummer" Funky said
"It's ok" Waluigi assured

Waluigi brought Funky back into the hotel. He passed Mimikyu in the hall.
Mimikyu was walking around when she noticed Miku in one of the lobby's lounge chairs holding a white board.
"Operation: CRIME" was written on it. Miku saw Mimikyu looking at her.

"Well hi there little friend, how are you?" She asked

Mimikyu just made a quiet "Kee kee" sound.

"Come closer for a second" Miku asked
Mimikyu did as asked.

Miku started to whisper while showing the white board to Mimikyu

"Alright listen. Me and my cousin are planning a huge heist. I'm getting the goods and my cousin's the getaway driver.We really need some sort of distraction, we think you'd be perfect. If you help we could give you a share of the goods." Miku explained

Mimikyu took a second to think, before holding out her "hand" to shake Miku's, a sign she was on board.

"Great" Miku said, shaking Mimikyu's hand

"Now my cousin's driving us there, he's outside right now let's go."

The pair left the hotel to see a black truck with the license plate "JNVAMOBL"
The 2 got in the truck, Miku's cousin was behind the wheel. He had long grey hair and wore a purple jacket, cargo shorts, sandals, and a specially made shirt with white bold letters saying "YOU JUST GOT SEPHIROTHED" with poorly photoshopped pictures of Sephiroth's face over people squatting and throwing up sideways peace signs. It was Sephiroth

"We all good? Alright let's go" he said

On the drive Miku explained the plan

"Alright, so, you little friend, you're gonna distract the owner, maybe by doing a funny dance or something, when he's distracted I'm gonna grab the goods, when you see me leave, that's when we go. Then we'll all head back to your hotel and make an alibi."

They arrived at a convenience store. It had a light up sign reading "7-eleven: Sans edition"
Miku and Mimikyu entered. The owner spoke to them

"hey how you doing" he said. It was the arcade owner.

"Hey have a look at this" Miku said

Mimikyu climbed onto the counter, and began to "dance"

"wow that's a funny dance. I'm completely distracted by it" the owner said

Miku approached the corner with a slushy machine. Her eyes were set on a cup of straws. A sticky note was attached reading "free straws take as many as you want"

She took the cup and stuffed it in her hair before casually walking out of the store.
Mimikyu soon followed.

"farewell funny dancer" said the owner

"WE GOT THEM" Miku screamed as she and Mimikyu jumped into the truck. Sephiroth slammed on the gas as they sped back to the hotel.

"Alright when we get back we'll split the goods evenly and make an alibi" Miku explained.

When they got back, Mimikyu and Miku headed to the hotel.
"One sec I need to change'' Sephiroth said.
He went to the back of the truck to grab a fake mustache and a specially made shirt with white bold letters saying "YOU JUST GOT STEPHEN ROFFED" with poorly photoshopped pictures of Sephiroth's face wearing fake mustaches over people squatting and throwing up sideways peace signs.

As he entered, Sephiroth was immediately confronted by Geno

"Do I know you sir?" Geno asked
"No sir, my name is Stephen Roff and I'm just visiting my cousin for a day" Sephiroth explained

Geno just stared at him
"Well have a nice visit sir" Geno said before walking away

While walking away, Geno ran into Dr. Coyle.

"We have some unfinished business little one. Come with me" Coyle said
Geno followed behind while she continued talking

"Now, I agreed to come to this hotel for 1 reason, but I've been distracted and you've been busy."

The two arrived at Coyle's room

"Well I'm free, and a little birdie told me that you have a day off. So tell me..."

She picked Geno up

"What are you?" Coyle finished

"Well...I-" Geno stopped mid sentence as he noticed Shadow's limp body on a chair.

"Is he alright?" He asked

"No he's been unconscious since your little baseball game. I've tried everything" Coyle explained

"Have you tried the WWE&B technique?" Geno asked

"No, I'm unfamiliar, you'll need to try later. We're busy right now. Have a seat" Coyle said

Geno sat on the floor.

"Alright so tell me little one, where did you come from?" Coyle asked

"Well my soul came from the Star Road but my body comes from the Comet Observatory. But even then the body I have now is just a perfect replica of a toy I first inhabited in Rose Town from the Mushroom Kingdom" Geno explained

"I see. And your creator?"

"Well. The original body I'm not sure about, but the replica was made by my mother. And I don't really know where my soul comes from. I don't really need this existential crisis on my day off" Geno explained

"You see, now I know you're lying to me"
Coyle pulled down the bit of Geno's cape that covered his neck

"Your creator is listed right here. Seems they didn't know how to spell, real idiot they are. So tell me, who is this Maiden China?" Coyle asked

"I don't think that's a person, I think that's where my original body came from." Geno explained

He continued
"I'm getting the impression that you think I'm a robot or something. I'm not. I'm just a spirit"

"Oh. Well that's no fun. Alright you're dismissed" Coyle said

"One more thing..." Geno said, walking over to Shadow

He leaned to his ear and whispered
"Wakey wakey, eggs and bakey"

Shadow's eyes slowly lifted open.

"Well. Thank you for your service" Coyle said to Geno as he left the room

Geno went back to the staff room to relax. The day was coming to an end.

Travis entered the room not too later

"Oh, you're back!" Geno exclaimed

"Yeah just went to do something real quick, see the family. Hung out with my friend Bishop"

"Wait didn't you say your friend Bishop died?" Geno asked

"Yeah but that was the old one. I have a new one now he's Bishop 1's little brother, cool dude." Travis explained

He continued

"Other than that, nothing too eventful at all. Definitely couldn't make a game out of it with aliens and stuff."

"That's unfortunate" Geno said

"Yeah. Probably won't be able to do this again for like 10 years" Travis said

"Why's that?" Geno asked

"Marvelous owns 90% of my existence so it's not as easy as Suda just deciding to make No more heroes 4. Plus it might he best to wait for the next console." Travis explained

"Travis I have no clue what that means but good for you" Geno said

Chapter Text

Vergil was following the directions on a business card given to him by Metal Sonic. Something about a "Special Offer"

He arrived at a small shed. As he entered there were only 3 people. Sephiroth, Metal Sonic, and Chibi Robo. Metal was dressed as a grim reaper and Chibi Robo was dressed as a small round spaceman. They were too busy having a conversation to notice Vergil

"...So then she finally uses snowgrave" Sephiroth explained

Metal Sonic gasped. Chibi Robo looked shocked

"What is this?" Vergil asked, unpleased

"Ah! Welcome to the headquarters of the new world!" Metal Sonic shouted, holding his arms out and spinning around.

"Dude you don't need to shout" Sephiroth said

"Why are you here? Don't you have a mansion to live in?" Vergil asked

"Yeah no. They kicked me out. Didn't like me." Sephiroth explained

"Seriously?" Metal asked

"Yeah. You know those like figure clones I had?"

Metal Sonic looked concerned
"What about them?"

"Yeah I had to sell them to get an apartment" Sephiroth explained

"YOU WHAT!?" Metal stood up in anger

"I needed money. You aren't paying me for my time." Sephiroth explained

"YOUR ARMY WAS ALL WE HAD FOR OUR PLAN!"

Sephiroth looked upset
"Hey man. You still have me, you still have the funny robot. Maybe even that guy if he joins" Sephiroth motioned to Vergil

"I'm not joining unless you have a plan. So, what IS your plan?" Vergil asked

"Well..we were like gonna rule the world and stuff and like-" Metal Sonic began

"I'm leaving" Vergil said
"Yeah I'm out too" Sephiroth said

"Why are you leaving?" Metal asked

"Bro it's Halloween I've got more important shit to do" Sephiroth explained

"Oh. It's Halloween already?" Vergil asked"

"Yeah dude." Sephiroth said

"Perfect"

Vergil and Sephiroth walked off to the hotel.

The hotel was once again decorated for the holiday, and everybody was dressed up.

As Vergil and Sephiroth walked in, Sephiroth was greeted by Geno, who was dressed up as Michael Myers.

"Woah Stephen. Awesome Sephiroth costume!" Geno exclaimed

"Thanks man. Love your Mike Myers costume. I fucking love Shrek dude." Sephiroth replied

Geno stared blankly as "Stephen Roff" walked away.

Travis soon met up with Geno. Travis had his hair all spikey and slicked back. He wore a long black coat, a vest with a white shirt and tie. On his face were black circle sunglasses and a fake green eye on his forehead

"Hey Travis, what are you supposed to be?" Geno asked

"A huge piece of fucking shit, that's who" Travis replied

Geno was silent for a second.
"Cool?"

"So what's your plan for Halloween?" Travis asked

"Not much honestly, maybe I'll just watch around the hotel tonight." Geno said

"Well shit if you're not doing anything, I'm heading back to my town for tonight to do some trick or treating with my kids and friends. Maybe you could come along. My kids and my friend Bishop would love to meet you" Travis said

Geno thought about it for a minute
"You know what? Sure. It sounds fun" he said

"Nice! We're leaving soon so get ready quick" Travis said, before leaving the start the motorcycle

Geno went to grab a couple things from the staff room, there he met Waluigi, dressed as Harley Quinn.

"Hey Waluigi I'm going out for the night" Geno said

"Have-a fun" Waluigi said blankly, he seemed to be focused on something else.

Geno made his leave, passing by Mimikyu, who was ironically dressed up as a sheet ghost.

Mimikyu was sitting alone until she was approached.

"Well hello there little one"

It was Dr. Coyle, dressed up as Dr. Frankenstein
"How would you like to help me out with something?"

Mikimyu shrugged with 2 black arms coming from underneath her cloak and followed Coyle to her room.

Coyle explained what her plan was
"Now you see, you seem to be important here, yet the people here can't seem to understand you. I want to help with that."

As they walked into the room, there were.2 things on the bed, a small device, and a tall cat almost floating, dressed as the Cat in the Hat.

"That's Mewtwo. He'll help me with translation." Coyle said
"I had to go through the mansion to get him" she whispered

She grabbed the device and put it on Mimikyu like a necklace.

"Now I just want you to think of something to say" Coyle said

Mimikyu closed her eyes.
The machine spoke back

" https://external-preview.redd.it/lTUgmmA959o-QsoBzFThZxYvQFc-vcUip0AyxbCHNQ0.jpg?auto=webp&s=00f6f9c93bfff829b2927bf008d69d674e27a607 "

Coyle stared blankly. She turned to Mewtwo

"Can you give me a translation just to see how far off I was?" She asked

Mewtwo closed his eyes to read Mimikyu's mind. He was still for a bit as Mimikyu repeated herself. Mewtwo's eyes opened, filled with fear.
He turned to Coyle.

"I don't know how to tell you this. Your invention's spot on. You're on your own with this thing" he said

As he said that, he teleported away.
Coyle blankly stared back at Mimikyu, speechless.

"Well thanks?" She said

Mimikyu left the room.

Meanwhile, Travis and Geno arrived at Travis' hometown of Santa Destroy. They pulled up to a motel with a sign saying "No More Heroes"
There was a group of people waiting for Travis.

2 small kids dressed as Mario and Luigi, a girl dressed as a Disney character with a key blade prop, and an older man dressed as some old video game character, he had a triangular head and yellow overalls.

"Holy shit is that really him?" The older guy asked

"Yeah, it's him" Travis said.

The older guy walked over to Geno
"Hey, I'm Bishop! I just wanted to say I'm a huge fan of you, man. I was really rooting for you for that whole Smash thing" He said

"Ah- thanks" Geno said, flustered.

"Alright you guys ready to go?" Travis said

Everyone was ready, Travis looked to Geno

"Alright here's the plan. You're not my friend, your my child" he said, handing Geno a bag

"EXCUSE ME?" Geno replied

"That's how we get more candy, dude. In this scenario everybody here is my kid. Jeane and Hunter are my actual kids, you, Bishop, and Shinobu are quote unquote adopted." Travis said

"But like...they're adults" Geno said, confused

"That's why Bishop's wearing a mask. They'll just think he's tall. Shinobu still looks like a highschooler, and you're pretty small so you'll look like a kid, no offense." Travis explained

"None taken but...you really think this will work?" Geno asked

"It's worked before" Travis replied

"Alright then, let's go."

The group walked off, having conversation with each other
"Hey wasn't your friend Kamui gonna come?" Bishop asked Travis

"Yeah but he decided to go out with his girlfriend instead. They're going as like a serial killer couple, I've never heard of the people they're dressed as before though" Travis replied.
While the two talked, Shinobu leaned down to Geno
"My master said you personally know the guy I'm dressed as" she said
"Well we're not CLOSE close but yeah we used to hang out sometimes" Geno replied
"I see..." Shinobu paused for a moment "...Do you think you could introduce me to him?" She asked
"I mean I'll see what I can do" Geno responded.
Shinobu's face lit up.

Back at the hotel, Vergil was walking down the hall with Ashley. She was dressed as an angel, he was dressed as Elton John.

"Why are you so excited for tonight?" Ashley asked
"The night of demons... this will surely give the both of us so much power" Vergil replied

'Stephen Roff' came walking down the hall, he briefly jumped when seeing Vergil's costume.

He made his way back into his room, unbeknownst to him he had been followed by Waluigi.

Waluigi entered the room and looked around. He saw many costumes, costumes of Porky, Jack Frost, some costumes he hadn't even seen before. What really caught his eye was in the middle of the room was the broken down remains of Springtrap.

Stephen came out of the bathroom, dressed as a highschool girl with pink pigtails and black and white bear hair clips.

"What are you-a doing?" Waluigi asked, sternly

"I'm dressed up for Halloween, though it's a bit more than that. Do you know what kinning is?" Stephen responded

"No not-a that. All the costumes and-a the robot"

"Oh that. Yeah I made the robot to spy on Geno because it would've been an epic prank but like then I sorta got side tracked and tried pranking Travis, he was way easier to fuck with. I think the robot ending up travelling back in time to kill some people, went on some sorta Christmas Carol adventure, and then got super into politics for some reason. So I'm kinda glad it got destroyed." Stephen Explained

"Who even are-a you?" Waluigi asked, mad

Stephen took off his wig

Waluigi gasped
"STEPHEN! Why do you-a have 2 costumes on?"

Stephen laughed. He put on a fake mustache, then immediately took it off

Waluigi gasped
"SEPHIROTH! I CAN'T-A BELIEVE YOU'VE BEEN IMPERSONATING STEPHEN! WHERE IS HE?" Waluigi asked

"Stephen is an alter ego I created. I'm a master of deception. Springtrap, Jack Frost, Porky, even the costume I'm wearing now, they too are alter egos" Sephiroth explained

"SO YOU'RE-A THE ONE WHO PUT RAVIOLI IN MY-A BIKE!" Waluigi yelled

"That is correct. And what do you plan to do with this information?" Sephiroth asked

Waluigi paused
"I'm not-a sure to be honest" he said

"You wanna just talk it out?" Sephiroth asked

"Sure" Waluigi shrugged

Metal Sonic came bursting in the room, pointed to Waluigi.

"Get out, now!" He yelled

Waluigi left and headed back down to the staff room he saw Mimikyu who he waved too

"👁" she responded

Waluigi just stared at her

Geno came walking in the room

"I'm back" he said

"How was-a your trip?" Waluigi asked

"It was alright. We had to stop early because Travis got into a fight with someone dressed as Thor" Geno said

"Sounds-a rough" Waluigi said

"Yeah" Geno replied

...

Metal Sonic and Sephiroth were in Sephiroth's room.

"So what did you want to talk to me about?" Sephiroth asked

"We need to scrap everything we're planning." Metal said frantically

"What's wrong?" Sephiroth asked

"My father found out. He says if we go through with it, he'll take my Xbox away for 2 whole weeks. We can't risk that." Metal explained

Sephiroth smiled
"Well...YOU can't risk that"

"What do you mean?" Metal asked

"I can continue on my own. I've already done so much" Sephiroth said.

"Just last night, I searched out all the calendars in the world and changed the dates. Everybody thinks it's Halloween, but it's actually November 4th."

Sephiroth went to leave with an evil grin on his face.

"I'm fucked up and crazy like that. Farewell" he said

Metal Sonic just stood there.

"This is your room...."

Chapter Text

A snowy night. 2 people stood on a roadside. One of them was Sephiroth, the other was a mysterious man in a black coat and black sunglasses, the man had slicked back spikey black hair.

Sephiroth spoke up "So, Mysterious Man in a black coat and black sunglasses with slicked back spikey black hair..."

"That's me" the man replied.

"Listen. Christmas is coming soon, but there's an issue. I'm pretty sure a robot I made killed Santa last year. I can't let the people I live with know that. If they find out, they'll tell my mom, and my mom will ground me for like a month. She already took away my IPad after I messed with all the calendars." Sephiroth explained

"So what is it you want?" The man asked

"Just get the presents and shit. I can play Santa just get me the stuff. Have you and your guys research the people I live with, get the gifts that would work, and I'll deliver." Sephiroth explained

"And what would I get out of it?" The man asked sternly

"Money"
Sephiroth pulled out one of the plastic straws he stole from the convenience store

"Me and my cousin got some of these. With enough, you'd have more than enough money to retire" Sephiroth explained

The man smiled and took the straw
"Consider it done"

The man walked away into the road. He stopped and looked out.
He was immediately hit by a truck. Many trucks proceed to run over the body.

"Oh fuck" Sephiroth said, frozen in shock.
His shock quickly unfroze and Sephiroth went to leave, only to see the same mysterious man standing in front of him, with a slight green glow.

"Consider. It. Done." The man went to walk away. He said last thing as he was walking away

"This is a reference but the character who got run over wasn't me, but everybody thought it was. I don't know how. The guy was bald and had a different voice actor and everything. But I still thought it would be cool to recreate it." He said

"Cool" Sephiroth said.

Back at the hotel, Geno, Waluigi, and Mimikyu were lying around in the staff room

"You know what's weird?" Geno said

"What?" Waluigi asked

"It always feels like we go from Halloween IMMEDIATELY to Christmas, like it's the next day" Geno said

"Yeah, I guess that is-a pretty weird" Waluigi said

Suddenly, Travis came running in holding a poster

"Holy shit you guys aren't gonna believe this!" He said

"What is that?" Geno asked

"They're doing a play of my favourite Christmas movie. 'All I want for Christmas is Revenge' " Travis said excitedly

"I've-a never heard of that-a one" Waluigi said

"Oh it's amazing. The Grinch kills Heat Miser and so Snow Miser sets out for revenge. You just don't get movies like this any more" Travis explained

He continued
"Anyways, they're just letting people in for free! No charge at all!" Travis said

"So you want to go?" Geno asked

"Hell yeah dude!" Travis yelled

"Well it could be fun. Maybe if we photocopy the posters we can hand them out and bring some of the guests. Our treat" Geno said

"Hell yeah dude let's go!" Travis left. Geno, Waluigi, and Mimikyu followed him out

They got to work photocopying the posters and posting them around the hotel. Soon many of the guests took notice and headed off to the theatre.

...

When everybody arrived, they were greeted by a tall black and pink humanoid robot sitting in a director's chair. Its name was made clear when instead of "director" it said "Mettaton" on the back of the chair.

Mettaton stood up.
"Welcome to the show Darlings! How are you enjoying your night?"

"Oh we're doing great!" Geno said

"That's wonderful darling!" Mettaton replied

"Sooo uh....when does-a the show start?" Waluigi asked

"See that's the thing Darling, our actors bailed last minute, so some of you will fill that role" Mettaton explained

The was mumbling and complaining amongst the crowd

"WE ACCEPT" Travis shouted

The crowd got angrier and directed their anger at Travis

"WONDERFUL Darling! We'll see you on the stage in 5 hours. My assistant will pick our stars in the meantime!"
Mettaton left

"What was that for Travis!?" Geno said angrily

"This is the pipeline my friend. It starts with small theatre roles. Then it goes to sitcoms. Then gritty movies you wouldn't expect the actor to star in. Then it's the MCU. Then after that you've finally reached it, a starring role in the next big Takashi Miike film." Travis explained enthusiastically

Geno paused

"Travis I have no idea what that means" Geno said

Suddenly, a skeleton in a blue sweater walked

"Yo what's up my names Sans, Sans Undertale, I'm the producer and casting director here." He said

He walked around the room, among the crowd he noticed Vergil

"Oh sick, Snow Miser your already in costume. Nice. Here's your script" Sans handed Vergil a script and walked away

Vergil was displeased
"What is...."

"You said you liked theatre. Maybe this is your chance to be a part of it" Ashley explained

Vergil flipped through the script

"This is garbage. Humiliating" he said

"The king laughs at the jester but still appreciates his skill" Ashley said

Vergil looked at her

"You're like 5 where did that come from?"

Mettaton came walking in

"CASTING HAS BEEN DECIDED. NOBODY CAN BACK OUT NOW. WE'RE ON IN 4 HOURS AND 50 MINUTES DARLINGS" He said

"Well there's no backing out now. Go on Snow Miser, give them a show" Ashley said

As the hours passed, soon it was time for the show. The seats were filled with guests. Both people outside the hotel and the hotel guests who weren't casted.

Sephiroth was sitting in one chair, there was an empty chair beside him. Soon the same mysterious man he was taking to earlier entered the theatre and sat down next to him.

"So you got my text?" Sephiroth said

"Yes. I did." The man said

"The people I talked about are in this play, you should be able to figure them out from this" Sephiroth said

"Then I'll pay very close attention" the man replied

Mettaton walked on stage

"Welcome to the show darlings! In association with Sans Gaming Entertainment, and MTT co. I bring you 'All I want for Christmas is revenge'! Written by, directed by, and starring Mettaton! And produced by Sans Undertale!"

The audience clapped as Mettaton left the stage and the curtains rose.

Eggman was narrating the play

'There once were 2 brothers, Snow Miser and Heat Miser...'

Vergil dressed as Snow Miser and Funky Kong dressed as Heat Miser

'...These brothers fought here and then but one thing was for certain. They were brothers, and at the end of the day brothers still love each other, and blood shouldn't fight'

"Oh this play is bullshit" the man whispered to himself

'..But one day...everything changed'

Waluigi walked onto stage in a Grinch costume and holding a prop gun

"I'M-A TIRED OF STEALING CHRISTMAS. I'M-A GONNA STEAL YOUR BROTHER'S-A LIFE INSTEAD" Waluigi said before shooting the gun at Funky.

Funky fell dramatically as Waluigi walked off stage. When Funky's body hit the ground he went limp.

Vergil held Funky's lifeless body in his arms as he screamed and cried in anger and sorrow.

'And now introducing, in association with Sans Gaming Entertainment. It's the SANS SHUFFLE'

music began playing, "You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch" by Tyler the Creator

Sans stepped on stage and stood front and centre and began to do dances from a popular video game. This went on for 20 minutes, the song ended after 2. The remaining 18 minutes were filled with nothing but silence, minus Vergil's continuous crying, Sans kept dancing. Eventually the crowd started to cheer him on, this caused the dances to become more furious. Sans was dancing like his life depended on it. After the remaining 18 minutes were up, Sans exited the stage and the play continued like nothing happened.

Vergil looked up with death in his eyes
"I know what I must do" he said

The next scene followed Vergil's Snow Miser visiting Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus. Played by Shadow and Dr. Coyle respectively

"Snow Miser my good friend, what brings you here today?" Said Coyle

"I need to ask your husband for one thing" Vergil said

"Well what is it? Come over here and tell me." Shadow asked

Vergil walked over to Shadow

"I want you to kill the Grinch. He killed heat miser" he said bluntly

Shadow was silent for a little bit

"Snow Miser, my boy, revenge is not something I'm capable of" Shadow said

Vergil looked down in sorrow, Shadow put his hand on Vergil's

"But you can. This is your family. So it's your responsibility" Shadow said

"But I can't do this alone" Vergil said

"You don't have to. You have a younger brother, remember? Give him a call. It's his family too after all" Shadow explained

"...alright, I will. Thank you Santa"

Vergil left his Santa's home and went back to his own

He pulled out a phone and made a call. Not long later, Dante walked onto stage in a black coat and a fedora.
As he walked on, music chimed in. The classic Miser brothers' song.

Dante began singing

"I'm Mister Black Christmas, I'm Mister Gun

I'm Mister Steel Pistol, I'm Mister Puddle O' Blood

Friends call me 'Gun Miser', whatever I touch

Starts to die in my clutch.

I'm too much"

Dante began dancing like Michael Jackson as a bunch of mini robots came out dressed similarly to Dante. They all began singing

"He's Mister Black Christmas, he's Mister Gun

He's Mister Steel Pistol, he's Mister Puddle O' Blood"

Dante chimed back in

"Friends call me 'Gun Miser', whatever I touch

Starts to die in my clutch"

The robots chimed in once again

"He's too much"

Dante continued singing

"I never wanna know a man who still continues to breath

I'd rather find and shoot, knock the bitch down and let him bleed"

Dante dragged out the word "bleed" while the robots came back in

"He's Mister Black Christmas, He's Mister Gun

He's Mr. Steel Pistol, He's Mister Puddle O' Blood."

Dante chimed in one last time

"Friends call me Gun Miser, whatever I touch.

Starts to die in my clutch.

I'm too much"

The robots came back to end the song

"TOO MUCH!"

the robots exited off stage

Vergil looked annoyed

"Hello, Gun Miser...." he said

"What's going on big bro? I heard Heat Miser was killed earlier today, that sounds kinda lame." Dante replied

"Yes. It was." Vergil said, somewhat annoyed

"Let me guess. You called me because you need my help to kill the guy who murdered our brother?" Dante asked

"That is...correct" Vergil said

Dante chuckled
"Well then let's get going. There's no time like the *present*!"

The 2 began walking off stage

"Do you get it because like, it's like Christmas present but like also present is like ti-"
Dante continued to explain the joke as the walked off stage

The next scene followed the 2 brothers with Dante still continuing to explain the joke as they walked.

They were in a snowy field with 6 snow covered trees in the background. However the theatre only had 5 tree props so the role of Tree number 6 was played by Travis who stood still. Silently

The mysterious man is the audience saw this

"Son of a bitch"
He said while standing up.

He made his way to the stage

He began pointing and yelling at Travis

"YOU FUCKING SUCK! YOU'LL NEVER BE SHIT! YOU'RE A SHIT ACTOR I HOPE YOU FUCKING DIE ALONE!"
The man continued to yell as Travis got moving and pushed Dante and Vergil out of the way to argue back with the man

"OH I'M NOT GONNA SHIT? YOU'RE MAKING A FUCKING SCENE YOU FUCKING MCU LOVING CRYBABY! THAT'S WHY I'M SLEEPING WITH YOUR EX-WIFE!"

The man shot back with:
"THAT'S WHY YOUR SISTER'S DEAD!"

Travis went silent as the man continued

"-DEAD AS HELL! WHO WAS SHE SLEEPING WITH? WHO'S SHE SLEEPING WITH IN HER CASKET?"

Travis tried to say something under his breath

"She's... your s-"

The man cut Travis off

"THAT'S WHY YOUR LITTLE APPRENTICE HAS NO ARMS EITHER! CAN'T HOLD NO SWORD! YOU ARE NOTHING. YOU SERVE ZERO PURPOSE. GET BACK IN PLACE! Fuckin Tree"

The man walked back to his seat

"What the hell was that all about?" Sephiroth asked

"I'm taking a nap. I imagine I won't miss shit. This play is basic as hell" the man said, before tilting his head back, falling asleep.

When he woke up, he was looking at the end of the play he saw a group of people
Dante and Vergil in their Gun Miser and Snow Miser costumes respectively, Mimikyu in a snow man costume, Geno in a green elf costume, Mettaton in a Jesus costume, Nagito in a white tank top and jeans, and Miku in a schoolgirl outfit, along with Waluigi in his Grinch costume, laying dead on the ground

Miku spoke up
"I guess the true meaning of Christmas is about all the presents you receive, right Vin Diesel?"
Miku looked at Nagito

"That's right Rei Ayanami, and we now know that the only thing stronger than family, is a gun." Nagito said

The actors took their bows as the curtains closed

The man leaned over to Sephiroth
"what the hell was that? How long was I asleep for?" He asked

"About like 5 minutes" Sephiroth said

"Anyways, you think you can work the presents out?" Sephiroth asked

"Of course" the man said, before standing up to leave the theatre along with everyone else

The main actors were walking home

"That was.....incredible!" Travis said

"Did you see me up there?" Travis asked

"Yeah you were-a great" Waluigi said

Geno spoke up

"One thing I found weird was my shoes. Every step I took they played a sound bite of some guy saying 'gay people'. I have no clue what that was about" he said

"Yeah that was-a kinda weird" Waluigi said

"But it's nice to do these things, especially because I don't know how much longer we'll be able to do this" Geno said

"What do you mean?" Travis asked

"It's just...the Smash tournament is over now, they last contestant joined and they did the final matches. The rejects don't really need a place to stay anymore, as such, some people are starting to leave. So I just wanna enjoy what time we have left, y'know?" Geno explained

"Yeah I guess you're right." Travis said

"Well I guess we gotta make-a the most of what time we-a got left" Waluigi said

"I guess so" Geno said

The next day, Geno, Mimikyu, Waluigi, Travis were in the lobby.

Sephiroth came running down the stairs on a Santa costume

"FUCK sorry here's the gifts"
He dropped a red sack and ran out the door

"I forgot I had a dentist appointment today. Shit" he ran off

The group looked inside the sack, there was only one gift, a small envelope dressed to Travis

Travis pulled it out and opened it

...

"MOTHER FUCKER...DID HE DRAW THIS???" Travis shouted

All that was in the envelope was a picture of the same mysterious man, glowing green, his eyes were glowing white, including a third eye on his forehead. The background was lighting. And giant white text that read

"You should kill yourself

NOW!"

In the bottom left corner was a signature

"Unhappy Holidays little brother

-Henry Cooldown"

Chapter Text

It was an early morning. Eggman was pacing in his room, rubbing his hands together. Metal Sonic was in the room too. Eggman was snickering to himself

"What's so funny?" Metal asked

"It's time" Eggman replied

"Time for what?" Metal asked

"Breakfast. But AFTER THAT. That's when things get good" Eggman said

"What's so good? You're being really vague" Metal said

"Over the past few months I've been working on a device that will show me the exact location of the chaos emeralds. I finished it just now! But it needs 5 hours to boot up so come on let's go to the dining hall. I need waffles." Eggman said

As Eggman left the room, he was met by Shadow who was eavesdropping on them.

"And what exactly were you doing?" Eggman asked

"I was eavesdropping on you so I could get the details to your plan in order to stop it from happening." Shadow explained

"Well alright then. See you around" Eggman left

When Eggman left, Shadow spoke into a device on his wrist

"Rouge, we have 5 hours left. There's an emerald here that needs to be kept as far from the doctor as possible." Shadow said

Rouge's voice came through the device
"Do you know where it is?" She asked

"Yeah. It's with the nerd. I'll go talk to him now"

Shadow headed to Travis' room and knocked on the door. Travis opened the door

"Hey. What's up?" Travis asked

"We need to talk" Shadow said before letting himself into the room

"What's going on?" Travis asked

"The doctor is making a machine that's going to help him locate every emerald, so I need to get the emeralds far away from him as possible, if I can't stop him I can at least make it difficult for him to get them to buy me time to think of a proper counter measure" Shadow explained

"So you wanna take my emerald back, is that it?" Travis asked

"Well it's not really YOUR emerald exactly, but yes, I'd like the emerald back." Shadow said

"I mean, surely there's another option right? I mean I paid like twelve bucks for the thing, and that's not even counting shipping" Travis complained

"How much was the shipping?" Shadow asked

"Well it was free, but still, twelve bucks" Travis said

Shadow grew annoyed
"Is the world worth 12 bucks to you?"

"I mean....." Travis was silent for a bit

"You can probably get more on Etsy for about the same price" Shadow said

"Well then I feel like I'm scamming the seller, that shit takes time and is way more than 12 bucks" Travis said

Shadow was growing even more annoyed
"FINE, HOW ABOUT THIS? My friend has this replica emerald that he made himself that has the same wavelength and properties as the real one? It can chaos control and everything!;You can just have it, we're not using it. It's one of a kind too. I can even get it signed if you want!" Shadow said.

Travis paused. He took a moment to think.

"You know what? Replica emerald signed by The Chaotix and we have a deal" Travis said

"Deal, now hand over the emerald" Shadow asked

"Oh I don't have it on me, it's in one of my spare jackets, I'll go get it"

Travis walked over to the closet and rummaged around in it for a bit. He spent a while in there.

Travis nervously turned around.
"Hey... Eggman's grandfather made you right?" Travis asked

"Yes. Gerald Robotnik" Shadow said

"Right, so basically you're this Gerald guy's son kinda?" Travis asked

"Well... I guess?" Shadow said

"So if you're Gerald's son, and Eggman is Gerald's grandson, doesn't that sorta make you Eggman's uncle or something?" Travis asked

Shadow's eyes widened as he just stared at Travis

"What are you trying to say?" Shadow asked, nervously.

"I'm saying you're pretty much Eggman's main authoritative figure. Why not just ground him and not let him get the emeralds that way?" Travis asked

A big smile stretched across Shadow's face
"That's genius..." he said

"Or better yet, just destroy the machine he made, he left it unsupervised I imagine" Travis said

"No, I can't...What kind of uncle would I be if I destroyed the things my nephew loves?" Shadow said

"Well, go ground him then" Travis said

Shadow excitedly left the room

"You can keep that emerald for a little bit longer after all" Shadow said before leaving

"Great..." Travis said through gritted teeth

Shadow headed down to the cafeteria where Eggman was and sat at the same table

'I need to talk to you doctor" Shadow said

"About what?" Eggman asked

Shadow explained the situation

"So yeah, you're grounded, no emerald stealing for a week, and you're leaving this hotel by the end of the day." Shadow finished

"What the heck!? You're the worst uncle ever! GOSH, You're darn lucky my parents are dead or they'd totally tell on you to your dad if he was alive! Man you're the worst!" Eggman said. He held back, he wasn't going to swear in front of his uncle of course, he would tell his parents if they were alive, then they might've grounded him for longer.

"This applies to you too Metal" Shadow said

"Fuck you Shadow" Metal said.

...

Hours later Eggman was packing up his bags, Metal Sonic was talking to Chibi Robo

"I suppose this is goodbye for now. Don't worry, we'll meet again I'm sure. Keep in touch" he said

Chibi hugged Metal's finger. Chibi waved as Metal left the room, heading over to Sephiroth's

Sephiroth was gaming, he was in a heated PUBG match trying to kill another player

"What a fucking-"

Metal Sonic walked into the room

"Dude I'm gaming right now but what's up?" Sephiroth asked

"I was just coming to say I'm leaving the hotel now so I was just coming to say bye" Metal said

"Oh damn, well see ya man. Keep in touch. If you wanna keep in contact my Twitter is @dril and my twitch is Sephiroth Gaming Official. Sephiroth gaming was already taken"

"Alright, goodbye Sephiroth" Metal said

Metal headed downstairs and met Eggman at the door

"You ready to go?" Eggman asked
"Yes" Metal Sonic said

The two left the building and went back to their home.

...

Sephiroth was still streaming

"Thanks BallsHater100 for the 5 dollars. Hey guys, a while ago a friend of mine beat this Johnny Knoxville lookin piece of shit and stole his jacket, he gave it to me and I only found out that there was this red diamond in one of the pockets. Can we get some poggers in chat for theft and red diamonds?"

And the poggers came flying.

It was the beginning of the end.

Chapter Text

Late into the night, Travis Touchdown ran to Geno's room

"Hey man I need you to wake up, I'm in some serious shit right now!" He said

Geno woke up, still drowsy

"Travis, it's 3 in the morning, what's wrong?" Geno said, slightly annoyed.

Travis was panicking and breathing heavily
"Ok so, a while ago I had a really powerful emerald, like the kind that could give you a god's power. But here's the thing, I kept it in my purple jacket."

Geno just stared at Travis, confused

"The one that Steve stole" Travis clarified

Geno kept staring

"The one Sephiroth now has" Travis clarified again

"So Sephiroth has your jacket?" Geno asked

"YES! But the only thing worse than that is he has the emerald." Travis said

"Oh ok" Geno said, going back to sleep

"What the hell!?" Travis yelled before waking Geno up again

"What else?" Geno asked

"Sephiroth has the emerald with a god's power" Travis stated

"Oh" Geno said, lying back down

He quickly shot back up, as if he only just now woke up

"OH" he shouted

"Yeah!" Travis said

"OH That's bad!" Geno said

"I know!" Travis said

The two kept going back and forth, expressing how bad the situation was.

"So what are we gonna do?" Travis asked.

"I'm not sure, I think we need to get the others and head to the staff room." Geno said

...

Geno, Mimikyu, Waluigi, and Travis sat in the staff room discussing a battle strategy.

"Alright so first things-a first, I think we-a need to gather everybody here who can-a fight" Waluigi said

"I don't know..." said Geno
"Our top priority is to protect them"

"Hey, I've seen some of the guys here, a lot of them are real capable dudes, we kinda need their help." Travis said

Geno looked to Mimikyu who nodded her head in agreement.

"Alright then. Let's find who we can." Geno said

The 4 spent a couple hours making a list of who could help, after a while they headed off in search of help. Going room to room getting the best of the best. After a long amount of time, they had them.

...

Waluigi, Mimikyu, Shadow, Dr. Coyle, Dante, Vergil, Ashley, Chibi-Robo, and Nagito, who was there for a luck boost, all gathered in the staff room.

Geno was going over battle strategy

"Alright so, Sephiroth is pure chaos, we can't really form a proper quote-unquote 'plan' to stop him. We'll just have to rush in and hope for the best." Geno explained

Vergil turned to Ashley.

"Now." He said

"What?" Ashley asked

"Give me your power now, there isn't a better time than now. I'm ready" Vergil said

Ashley nervously laughed.

"So...funny story, I may have made some of that up just for a little help from you." She explained

Vergil took a deep breath in, then out.
He took a kneel, staring Ashley in the face. Then he slapped her across the face with the back of his hand and headed for the exit.

"Where are YOU going?" Dante asked

"Home" Vergil replied

"We can do this with 10" said Geno

Dante checked his watch

"Ah crap I just realized I have a dentist appointment, sorry I gotta go"

Dante headed out, with Dr. Coyle following close behind him

"Where are-a you going?" Waluigi asked

"I just remembered I'm his dentist, I need to be at work in an hour!" Coyle explained

"Just fucking....do it he-" Travis was cut off

"Shut up, I need to go now!" Colye ran out of the hotel

Shadow slowly began to walk out too.

"Oh what the fuck man..." Travis said, his voice growing more depressed

"I'm...a dental assistant....Farewell, and good luck..." Shadow raised his hand to wave goodbye, before leaving

Geno clapped his hands together
"OK! Is anybody else here a dentist, or needing to do something dental related!?" He yelled

Ashley pointed to Chibi-Robo
"He makes the fake teeth" she said, with Chibi-Robo nodding in agreement

"Just-a go." Said Waluigi, pointing to the door.

Chibi-Robo gave a salute and ran out the door.

Travis began pacing in a circle hands on his head, extremely stressed

"Ok, we have like, six left right? Six on one isn't too bad, I'm pretty sure that's not too bad right?" Travis said desperately

"Yeah, I mean I'm pretty sure it was only like three people that really took Sephiroth down originally" Geno assured Travis

Nagito spoke up
"Oh shoot I gotta go. Apologies"

"Oh what fuckin dentist appointment do YOU have to go to, huh!?" Travis said, agitated

"Oh nothing like that. Me and a friend just have this thing we do on Sundays, I think I'm running a bit late." Nagito explained before leaving

"It's Saturday!" Travis yelled

"Time Zones, man!" Nagito yelled back

"....Five....we have five..." Travis said sadly

"Four actually, the little rat thing told me she was going to the dentist to collect the pulled teeth" Ashely said

Travis walked over to a corner, sat down, and put his head in his hands.

Geno walked over to Ashley.
"I think you should go home kid, there's no point anymore." He said

"Ok" Ashley said, heading back to her room

"Or that works too I guess" Geno said

Travis stood up with confidence

"You know what? This is about me and my jacket, it's something I need to handle alone." He said

"You-a sure pal?" Waluigi aksed

"I'm sure. It's the job I've been given and I'm gonna do a damn good job" Travis said.

"Well you just need to head to the mansion now" Geno said

"Actually he's-a here at the hotel" Waluigi said

"HE IS?" Geno said in a shocked tone

"Yeah he's been under an alias, Stephen Roff." Waluigi explained

Geno was frozen with shock.

"Stephen....was Sephiroth???" He said

"I'm shocked too buddy, you really think you know somebody. But Stephen is the past, and kicking Sephiroth's ass is the future. Let's get this shit done." Travis said before walking out of the room and walking over to the front desk. He turned on the intercom

"Alright Sephiroth, why don't you come down here to the lobby and we settle shit like real men!" Travis yelled over the intercom

After a few minutes, the man of the hour showed up in the lobby. Sephiroth in a long black buttoned up coat

"So you've finally caught up to me." Sephiroth said

"Damn right I did, but I didn't do it alone. My friends got me to where I am today, can you say the same?" Travis said

"Not sure if I can, but I don't need that. But I do know that you want something from me." Sephiroth said

"That's right, you stole my favourite purple jacket you son of a bitch!" Travis yelled

Geno and Waluigi were watching from the staff room

"Something tells me this isn't about the emerald" Geno whispered to Waluigi

"I have-a no idea what emerald you're-a talking about. I always assumed this-a was about the-a jacket" Waluigi whispered back

Geno just stared disappointingly at Waluigi

Waluigi turned around to see Mimikyu crawling back into the hotel through a window with a full bag.

"Oh you're back!" Geno whispered

"Some heavy stuff's about to-a go down" Waluigi whispered

Mimikyu joined the two in watching the stand off.

"Hey, is that a bag of teeth?" Geno asked quietly.
Mimikyu responded with a shushing gesture

Sephiroth smiled

"You know Travis, before we begin there's something you should know. Something ALL OF YOU...should know" he said

Travis turned around to see the three peeking out the door. He motioned with his head for them to come out.

The 3 walked over. Geno, Waluigi, Mimikyu, and Travis all stood before Sephiroth.

"What did you want to say?" Geno asked in a stern voice

Sephiroth gave a light chuckle.

"Well... the truth is..."

Sephiroth opened his jacket

"ALL OF YOU HAVE BEEN ON SEPHIROTHED THIS ENTIRE TIME!" He yelled, his open jacket revealing a T-shirt with a colourful logo for the Sephirothed TV show.

Cast and crew members came running out of doors cheering, they ran up to the group of 4 and pointed out the hidden cameras.

The cast does talking head segments with the group of 4

"Well of course it surprised me! I mean how can you even expect something like that?" Travis said, smiling.

"Well I've always-a been a huge fan of the show so I-a knew something was up" Waluigi explained

"He like, still ruined a lot of our days. He still kills people, he still robbed Travis. I don't know why he didn't mention that." Geno said

They skipped Mimikyu out of fear

Sephiroth began talking to the camera
"Alright thanks for watching, shout out to the Rejection Hotel for letting us film here, shout out to the owners, and of course a very special musical guest SIR ELTON JOHN!"

The cameras pointed to Elton John standing in a corner, he has no piano, he doesn't know what to do, he's scared.

Sephiroth continued talking to the camera

"Tune in next time where we prank the president of the United States on May 17th 2025 so HARD! I don't wanna ruin the surprise but let's just say it's gonna be a BLAST! Until next time, goodnight everybody!"

The cameras turned off.

Sephiroth turned to leave.
"Oh one last thing guys, Steve wants you out of here before Monday, anyways later." He said before leaving.

The camera crew were busy taking the hidden cameras down while the 4 stood in the middle of the room dumbfounded.

"Well fuck" Geno said

Chapter Text

It was the end of the road for the 4. They had gotten the word that Steve was kicking them out of the building. Waluigi was disgruntled.

"THIS is-a why you need to-a read your contracts more-a carefully!" He shouted at Geno

"How was I supposed to know he was gonna stab us in the back like that?" Geno said back, defensively

Mimikyu was reading over their copy of the contract, she pointed out a specific part that read "on February 18th 2023 I will stab you in the back and kick you out of the hotel because it will be really funny and Sephiroth will reveal this to you on his prank show"

"Fuck dude the proof was right there" Travis said

"Well, maybe it wasn't meant to last" Geno said

"Whaddya mean?" Waluigi asked

"The Smash Tournament is a limited time event. We offered housing for a specific purpose that wouldn't exist within a few years. It was gonna end eventually. Our time just ran up. Besides, Pretty much everyone moved out anyway, so it's not like we were using this place besides housing for ourselves." Geno explained

Waluigi sighed
"I-a guess you-a right...."

"I gotta say though. Really rude of him to just leave that poor old man here" Geno pointed to the corner of the room where Elton John was still standing. Still scared.

Travis tried to lighten the mood
"Look. Out of everyone here I joined this project the last, but I'll say. You guys had something pretty amazing going on here. It was a fun way for everyone to meet new people and just have a good time."

"Yeah. It's sad that it's over now but I still don't regret starting this with all you. And hey it's not like this is the last time we can do this. The Smash tournament is too profitable for this to be the last one. Once a new one starts we'll just start again, hopefully with a better contract." Geno said

"You-a sure they're not gonna just redo this old tournament over and over?" Waluigi asked

"Hiring Cloud being in the base cast alone cost them way too much money and nearly ruined their 'everyone is here' plan, so having to do that again but with the addition of Cloud's friends plus that one boy owned by the rat? Yeah no fuckin way. Plus the organisers straight up said they'll never be able to do something like that ever again." Travis explained

"So what you-a saying is, the rejected veterans are-a gonna be potential customers in-a the future?" Waluigi asked

"Yeah. I guess that's true. Sounds like that could be fun!" Geno said.

"I'm down" Travid said
"Me-a too" Waluigi added
"Kee-Kee" Mimikyu said

In a flash, the once depressing air from worrying about the present, soon became optimistic with excitement for the future.

Travis looked around
"Looks like we're done packing up. I guess I should get going." He said

"So you're leaving now?" Geno asked

Travis made his way to the door.
"Yeah, but listen. You guys all mean a lot to me, it was great to meet you all. And whenever any of you guys need me, I'll always be available. You know why?" He asked

"Because we're like a family? And family is always there for eachother?" Geno asked

Travis got on his motorcycle, looked at the gang, and gave a light laugh

"Close. But actually it's because God won't let me die."
Travis revved up his bike and drove off.

The group of 3 stood in bewilderment watching Travis drive off, they watched as in the distance, he drove into a wall which caused the bike to explode. In the smoke, they could make out Travis' silhouette, knees to the ground, looking up, cursing God.

"Man. That's-a like, so true though" Waluigi said

"Sure is..." Geno said

"Well there's-a not much left to do here. Imma gonna head home too. You gonna do-a the same?" Waluigi asked

"Yeah, my mom probably needs help around the house." Geno replied

Waluigi began walking out the door
"So-a long!" He said

Geno waved farewell

Soon just Geno and Mimikyu remained in the hotel.
Geno handed Mimikyu a set of keys

"Think you can lock up?" He asked

"Kee Kee" Mimikyu replied

Geno chuckled
"I hope that's a yes, I never actually knew what you were saying"

He took his leave
"See you around. Freak" Geno said.

Soon all that was left was Mimikyu. She looked around the empty hotel. Thinking back on the memories. The laughs, the tears, the crimes, the other crimes, and the felonies. She started her journey alone, but now she has a distant family out in the world. Mimikyu headed towards the door. She looked back at the hotel one last time.

"Finally I can use my real voice. COME TO ME MY NOBLE STEED!" Mimikyu said

Elton John walked out of the hotel, picked Mimikyu up and put her on his shoulders.

The two walked off into the sunset, looking for more crimes to commit.