#oc: aite!andrew

[forthedancingandthethriving]

Arle: A moment in the sun sounds awful to me.

Arle: I would rather have a moment in the moon, the superior of the sky circles.  

Shantae: .. please don't ever refer to them as 'sky circles' again.

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A!Andrew: If I'm dead, what are you doing here?

Aite: I forgot to give you an ass-whooping, so I came back.

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Saiko: There's plenty of fish in the sea. But you know what else there is? Trash. There is a lot of trash in the sea.

Meggy: Not sure if you got cheated on or you're just trying to raise awareness about pollution.

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SMG4, to SMG3: What’s in the suitcase?

SMG3: Vodka.

SMG4: You brought an entire suitcase full of vodka?

SMG3: No, there are mixers as well. Im not a savage.

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Root: Tired of everyone telling me I've 'lost too much blood' and 'need to go to the hospital'. It's my severe head injury not yours. Stay out of it.

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SMG4: Do you believe in true love?

SMG3: I believe you’re a true pain in my ass.

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Ozymandias: You punched me in the face!

Leto: You bit my tail!

Ozymandias: You punched me in the face!

Leto: YOU BIT MY FUCKING TAIL!

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Nimbus: Do I look nice?

Ambrosia: You look like you're about to set someone on fire.

Nimbus: Perfect.

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Cursor: Are you ever going to listen to me?

Lag: Possibly.

Cursor: When?

Lag: When you’re right.

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Ozymandias: 'Revenge' sounds so mean.

Ozymandias: That's why I prefer to call it 'returning the favour'.

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SMG10: Are you alright? you didn't sleep at all last night.

Tulip: I got a solid eight minutes.

Tulip: Not consecutively but still it is fine. You're not even that blurry.

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Vee: So... what’s going on?

Elanore: You want the long version or the short version?

Vee: The short one.

Elanore: Everything sucks.

Vee: Oh. Well, yeah, that’s definitely not an optimal situation.

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Ozymandias: How dare you mock me in such a manner!

Root: Well, then how would you like me to mock you? I take requests!

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Nimbus: Ew. What kind of tea is this?

Tulip: I boiled gatorade.

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Laharl: Clownery. Tomfoolery. Absolute fuckery, I am going to revoke your life privileges.

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Abyssal: Sometimes, the best way to scare your opponent is just to walk straight at them menacingly. That way, they can't even tell you have a brain the size of a walnut.

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Root: *flicks out her tongue and tastes the air*

Lil Coding: Well damn, does it taste good?

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Leto: You have two choices. One: I fling you into a bottomless pit. Two: I curse you.

Queen Melody: Actually, there's a third choice.

Leto: There is?

Melody: Yes. I could beat you to a bloody pulp.

Leto: ...I see. And which of the three will you choose?

Melody: Guess.

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Tulip, to the Elanore and Tama: Remember to get something to eat, drink lots of water, and get plenty of sleep!

Ash: When was the last time you did any of that?

Tulip: This isn’t about me.

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Plurality, after arriving at the Mushroom Kingdom: Day one of eating every plant I see.

Plurality: Something bad is happening.

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SMG3, at Starbucks: Can I get a venti caramel macchiato with seven espresso shots?

Saiko, behind him: Fuck's sake, dude, just do cocaine.

[duckapus]

The Orpheus Family Reunion

One day while Ash and Olimar are visiting, the manor gets an uninvited guest.

No, it's not the escape crew yet. Instead it's Daffy Duck, Door-to-door salesman and Amateur Inventor, looking to get a job at Styx Technologies... which isn't actually a company yet, and Tulip honestly isn't sure how Daffy even knew about the Styx brand given she hasn't actually marketed or sold anything with it beyond a few commissions for people she knows personally.

He isn't even from this universe, as evidenced by him having a Donandan Kirlia named Lulu (Donandan Kirlia are Electric/Dragon Because Reasons and can have either Synchronize or Rough Skin) when the Donanda region only exists in Avatar Ash's world specifically.

Anyway, after a few minutes of everybody being trapped in a Looney Tunes short one of the walls explodes, burying the duck in rubble and revealing the Escape Squad (who really need a new name now that they've accomplished that goal) plus Daisy, Archie, a bunch of anime characters (mostly girls of course) with glowing blue outlines, and a captured and unmasked Aite, who most of the group is quick to realize looks like an older, scarred Tulip with dyed hair, which Andrew confirms is because she is.

Anyway, Andrew's here to get his daughter and his house back and kick out everybody else. They can give him what he wants willingly, or...

To demonstrate exactly what they mean by "or" Francis has one of his drawings attack Ash, who just barely manages to halt the red-and-black blur with a quick Protect. That character turns out to be Ranma Saotome, in girl form of course, who's implied to have been the first character Francis drew with his Inkweaver 2.0 and who would've landed a just-barely-subsonic kick squarely into Ash's throat if his reaction was even a bit slower.

Anyway, they're obviously not going to go down without a fight, so the brawl is on! It starts with Alice trying to turn the security system on the invaders, only to find that Tippitron is already in the middle of infiltrating it (hence why no one was alerted to a group of wanted criminals showing up) so those two are going to be occupied for a while.

Ash and Ranma are also in a one-on-one martial arts duel that nobody else can keep up with.

Spamton can't just flatten everybody with his Virus Powers because he's stuck dealing with Waypoint.

SMG7 is managing to give a lot of the anime horde and Lady Rose a run for their money with her extremely weaponized wheelchair. She's assisted by Ash's Sgrub, who's doing his best.

Olimar and any of Ash's Pokemon that aren't busy fighting the anime characters are trying to rescue Aite from Marianne and an increasingly reluctant Archie (since they otherwise can't really contribute to the battle).

Dale gets cornered by a vengeful Andrew in Honeytrap form, which is both terrifying and a bit awkward, with the ghosts (and an admittedly much more effective Lulu) trying to save him since Tulip's a bit busy trying to take down Francis so he can't keep adding to his waifu army and hasn't noticed.

Nermal is in a fight with Ash's Hisuian Lilligant and gets the upper hand for a bit by invoking the Ganondorf Suavamente meme (he's Harmonian of course he favors song-based memes)

Daffy digs himself out, sees what's going on, and gleefully decides that a home invasion is the perfect opportunity to show what his brilliant creations can bring to the (currently nonexistent, I remind you) company. In his defense he really is helping... for the most part.

SMG10's attempt at vengeance gets interrupted partway through (she managed to mess Daisy up pretty bad but was aiming for something permanent) when a third party (fourth if you count all the chaos Daffy's causing) joins the fray; Liana, who's realized that every single living Orpheus is in one place and has decided that nobody is leaving this property alive!

Which is. You know. A pretty high-stakes problem given the three Avatars present.

So along with fighting each other everybody who can even touch a ghost is now trying to get rid of the ridiculously powerful vengeful spirit.

While this is where things look like they're going horribly wrong, it's actually where they're starting to turn around.

Sgrub defeats enough of the Anime characters that he evolves into Roughiant and gets to be the one to knock out Rose which is pretty cool.

Ash eventually manages to hit Ranma with an improvised Scald using a pond in the backyard and Blaze Kick, which changes her into his boy form... and somehow turns him into a real person and frees him from Francis's control, presumably because he's no longer the drawing that Francis made in the first place. I have no idea why Ash thought it would work like that or how he was right.

Alice and Tippitron have been stuck in a stalemate so far, which is rectified when Daffy finds a Suspicious Drive in his briefcase that he doesn't remember putting there and impulsively plugs into Tulip's phone, which causes Alice to evolve into a Porymod and suddenly have a significant advantage over her opponent.

The ghosts unfortunately had to help deal with the one opponent they could actually touch since their poltergeist antics weren't really doing much against a straight-up demon from a universe with some frankly absurd power scaling, so for a bit it's just been Dale and Lulu against Honeytrap, and it isn't going well (not that it was to begin with), only for Ash's Gardevoir and a recently freed up Tulip (Ash and Ranma had jumped in to help with Fancis and took over there when the three of them noticed this mess) to swoop in. Lulu is absolutely starstruck by the alternate form of her eventual final stage.

All the spectral bullshit that's happening upstairs gets Leo's attention, and he's ultimately the one to defeat Liana by busting out of his box so he can drag her down into it with him. I don't know why he decided to do that, I just figured it'd be an interesting way to take her out. And I thought it'd be fun to make everybody go "wait, shit, he can do that!?"

Also, Tulip uses this opportunity to lock the box with her Keyblade just in case either of them get any ideas. She would've done it earlier but for once her absentmindedness was beneficial.

Though, Liana does manage one last trick before she's locked away, sensing the hints of death magic within Ranma and using the last of her power to snag a bit of it and plant it in Archie. She's got no idea what it does, but it's death magic so it must be horrible, right?

And with her out of the way, everybody can focus on the Escape Squad again, who are significantly worse off than the manor group, mostly because the guy supplying their superior numbers both ran out of ink and got the shit kicked out of them. They all get corralled onto the driveway and Tulip manages to pull off a Trinity Limit with Ash and Ranma that sends them all blasting off.

Anyway, now all that's left are repairs and medical attention (not that that's any different from a usual Tuesday really), an explanation from Aite of what exactly her deal is, congradulating Roughiant and Alice on their evolutions, and figuring out what to do with Ranma and Daffy. I mean, Ranma's literally got nothing right now, and he's clearly not gonna just disappear like the other Inkweaver drawings. And Daffy and Lulu did give them a lot of help when they didn't really have to and Daffy's inventions are certainly impressive, but that doesn't change the fact that Tulip just doesn't have the tech company that he thinks she does yet, and doesn't feel ready to create it currently (even if that is one of her future plans).

In Ranma's case there's the simple solution of just staying with them. I mean they're the only people he knows right now, he's already good enough friends with two of them to pull off a magic-of-friendship-based super-move, and it's not like Tulip doesn't have the space.

Daffy's situation is... admittedly more complicated, albeit less pressing, and I'm not actually sure what to do with him.

[duckapus]

Alright, so what happens with the escape squad is they use Andrew's omni-gauntlet to travel to the Bitlands, where Fort Francis and its mechanical workforce are patiently waiting for their master to return from his "business trip" in the Mushroom Kingdom... never mind that it's been several years now.

Francis has regained his senses (or at least what passes as senses for him) but is still stuck as a cute anime girl so when they reach the gates he has to get scanned by Tippitron to confirm his identity. That scan also reveals that the spaghetti's effects are going to last approximately another thirteen hours. He grants the rest of the group access to everywhere in the castle except his room, the merch vaults, and Lab B, has the Meowmaids prepare some guest rooms for them, then heads to Lab B himself.

What's so special about Lab B? Well, it's where he created the Zuccers, and where he transferred all his research notes on Inkweaver just in case things went pear-shaped on Anime Island. He obviously hadn't expected things to fall apart quite that drastically, but oh well.

After checking that everything's in its proper place, he pulls out a ceramic bowl stained with blue sauce and places it in a sample analysis tube. He decides to name the research file Project Jusenkyo because of course he does.

Again, surely giving the guy who nearly committed genocide just because he wanted some anime titty a way to turn people into anime girls won't cause any problems!

Meanwhile, Andrew starts testing out his new transformation abilities and asks Tippitron to find him a copy of Tulip's Road Trip, and Lady Rose tries to find a way to get in contact with her remaining followers while still staying below the radar. Assuming she still has any followers.