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“Course I do! Here, I got just the thing!” Shinko replied, reaching behind into her hammerspace.

Belial and Falcon managed to calm down and give the two some space when Shinko pulled out a Toon hole.

“Aha! Here we go!” She slammed it into the floor, effectively making it usable.

“Jump right in! First light in the ceiling you see, climb up and you’ll be in Duckburg!” Shinko told Marie with a grin, placing her hands on her hips in a proud manner. Really, she was just happy she could help a friend.

Marie looked on with interest as Shinko pulled out a portable hole. It was her first time seeing such a thing happen; the Repairman usually just walked to other worlds.

“Um…well,” she gulped, peering into the hole. “…All right. Here goes…”

She gently clambered in, breathing a sigh of relief when she realized the “ground” wasn’t that far below.

“Thank you so, so much for this!” she said, waving back out of the hole before she moved out of sight.

A few moments later, Shinko could hear echoes of the Repairman’s older-audio-quality voice. He sounded nearly out of breath.

“THERE you are! What happened to you?! I was worried sick!”

“Heh, sorry. I um… got a bit lost…”

“Well, as long as you’re back…”

M!A Epilogue

The two blobs came to a few moments later.

Marie rubbed the side of her head, getting up off the Repairman.

“…Wha…what was that about? Why were you trying to hold me…?”

The Repairman got up, smoothing himself out.

“You don’t remember? I spent the last week taking care of you…”

“Come on, now, Repairman. What happened?”

“…What do you remember…?”

“…Well, something about a magic floating bucket…that’s about it.”

The Repairman was about to speak, but thought better of it. She still wouldn’t believe him without proof. Instead he went over to Cat Slime, who was putting the last few pictures into a normal-sized album. Being six inches tall, it was no small feat to work without damaging any of the photos.

“Hey, Cat Slime, can I see that?”

Cat Slime squeaked, happy the Repairman was interested in his photography.

He went back to Marie, who was mumbling to herself about forgetting the entire past week, and the two of them looked through the album together. It was full of many, many pictures of a baby Marie, being held by the Repairman, playing with Cat Slime, them interacting with others, Marie playing meticulously with blocks…

“Yeah, the dust from that bucket turned you into a baby. Anon magic, I think.”

Marie flushed, eyes darting across the pages.

“Y-you mean…?“

The Repairman noticed her shaking, and gently plucked the scissors from her hand.

“Yeah, but really, most people we talk to know about Anon Magic, so they understood. Don’t worry about it, okay?”

Marie looked her brother straight in the eye.

“Fine. But the thing stays hidden. Got it?”

The Repairman sighed.

“Fine. It’ll be with Cat Slime, okay?”

Cat Slime, for his part, took the album and left to hide it deep in his house.

“Right,” the Repairman said, “that’s that. Back to work?”

“Back to work!”

They left, but Marie briefly hurried back to pick up the book that was on the ground. The Little Octopus in the Little Cove. She smiled as she looked at the cover, as if she saw an old friend. Huh. It was only a moment until she packed the book away in her hammerspace, but she wondered if it was a sense of nostalgia. An odd sensation when you were drawn less than a year ago.

Beep gave her head a slight shake. “Oh no, I could never do Mr. Sir’s job for him,” she said. “Although, I am pretty good at fixing things. And hey, you’re always welcome to stop by our place if you need advice or just want to talk.”

“Hey, that sounds like fun, though,” Quartz spoke up. “Not only are you two brother and sister, but you’re co-workers now too!” she leaned back in her seat. “Kinda wish I had a sister too…”

The girls sat eating in silence for a minute, until Bowyetta noticed something: Barrette was starting to look tired, and was drooping her tiny metal head over the table. Bowyetta picked up her daughter. “Um… Bowyetta is sorry to be interrupting, but… She is thinking Barrette is needing of a nap.”

“Hey, thanks!” Marie smiled. “But, um, where do you come from…?”

“Don’t worry,” the Repairman assured her, “I’ll show you sometime.”

They said nothing as Quartz expressed fascination at their new working conditions, though the Repairman let out a small sigh. She wouldn’t want someone made to take her job, would she?

Marie, meanwhile, simply ate, taking in the Repairman’s friends. She enjoyed their food, and they were happy to see her, it seems. Maybe she could ask for some culinary advice sometime.

“Oh, all right,” the Repairman said cheerfully, looking at his siren light. “I should get going too…”

Marie coughed.

“…We should get going too,” the Repairman corrected himself. “Thanks for coming!”

“…Can I have my bow back, please?”

“Huh? OH! Here! Now, let’s go get cleaned up! I hear Scrub-Niggurath is giving a discount to bloblike creatures this week!”

[[And so the belated and not-well-done conclusion to the Blended arc is here. Keep in mind, if we had threads or ask chains going prior, we can continue those if you like!]]

“…Ahh~!” Vinny was startled as he was quite suddenly pulled out of
Bowyetta’s hair. His usual smile returned once he saw Mr. Sir. “Oh, Mr.
Sir~!” he greeted. “How is everything going~? Was Bowyetta able to-”

When
he saw Bowyetta, however, his eyes widened and he pulled away from Mr.
Sir. “Oh no… Is… Is she going to be okay…? What… Happened to
her…?”

Vinny wasted no time in diving back into Susumu’s
hair. When he returned, he was followed by several other arrows. “Right,
everyone, you know what to do~!!” he instructed. The arrows gathered
around Bowyetta, and after some trying, managed to lift her up,
carefully placing her onto the stretcher. As the rest of the arrows
returned to her hair, Vinny turned back to Mr. Sir. “Do you need any
more help, Mr. Sir~? Or, can we get her out of here now~?”

“I don’t know, she just fell over…” he started, worried, before watching Vinny fly back into Bowyetta’s hair.

The Repairman was quick to put the stretcher onto his tool cart, after moving his toolbox so it was next to the other one on the bottom shelf.

The toolbox squashed quite a bit. Not enough to endanger the toolboxes, but it would have been irreparable if it wasn’t a cartoon. As it was, the inkblot was sure it would spring right back up when Bowyetta moved off of it. At least, he hoped she would…

“No, I think we’re going back to the void now,” he sighed, gripping the handles. It was going to be a long trip, but he certainly could get there…

After some grunting and strained pushing, they were out of this bizarre place and on their way home.

Quartz stared at Cat Slime in silence. She didn’t actually understand
Slime just yet, so she was unsure of what to say or do. Bonk was
snickering at Cat Slime’s performance, while Bowyetta stared with wide,
starry eyes.

Barrette, however, threw her doll into the air.
“Hooray!” she exclaimed, as the doll landed somewhere behind the group
with a thunk. She then turned around to hug her mother, as well as the
rest of the girls, before reaching out to hug Mr Sir.

…But after a minute, Barrette turned back to her mother. “Hungry!” She declared.

:Oh!
Barrette, you are wanting to be eating something?” Bowyetta asked. When
her daughter nodded in response, she looked back at Mr. Sir. “Will you
be staying for lunch with us, Mr. Sir?”

“Huh?”

The Repairman shook himself out of the story they were just in.

“O-oh…no, sorry, I think I should get back to work…”

Cat Slime sat himself back up, grinning at the reaction his performance got. The Repairman scooped him up, and both of them waved.

“It was nice meeting ya, Barrette! We’ll see you around!”

“You’ll see! He’s- oh!” Shinko was interrupted when she saw Cat Slame coming over with their newly developed pictures.

“Those all look great! Do you want to pick which ones you want to keep first?” she asked.

Crystal smiled at them both as she led them out of the Akuma Cafe and down a few blocks where they could easily spot the bakery.

Cat Slime gave a quick nod, before taking a couple of the pictures with just him and Shinko, the one smudged by the Repairman dashing in, and the very last picture.

The Repairman looked at them appreciatively, then pulled a safe out of his toolbox and gently placed them inside. A Disneyland Mickey hat, a busted-up security camera, instructions on taking care of a slime, several other photos, and an unlabeled CD could be seen before he closed the safe again.

Both inkblot and slime were smiling as they followed Crystal to the bakery, looking around curiously. It wasn’t long before Cat Slime sniffed the air, and then kept sniffing. He sighed, happily. This was going to be great!

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“Aww, I guess that means you have to go now, huh?” Green said, feeling a bit dejected at the conclusion.

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“Don’t look so blue, Green! We had an entire afternoon together, although it felt like a lot longer and I’m sure Inky won’t be a stranger after this! If nothing else, the others are pretty bad at… you know… staying in our lane.”
Vio offered, trying to cheer his brother up. Sparky was a bit too
engrossed in how exactly a blinking light could tell Inky that much
information to process the fact that he had to leave at first.

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“It
can do that? That’s so neat, how does that even wor- oh. Heh, sorry, we
probably shouldn’t keep you!” he sheepishly concluded, scratching his
face a little bit. “Well, like Vio said, don’t be a stranger around
here! If you have spare time someday I’ll show you more of New Hyrule if
you want, or we can just… hang out somewhere where your stuff won’t get
snagged on moving trains, haha.”

“Yeah…” the Repairman said. “Sorry, but I have a job to do…”

He noticed Sparky taking an interest in his light. More out of a sense of personal space than anything else, he backed up a step.

“Heh, I never thought much of it,” he admitted. He suspected it had to do with the willing suspension of disbelief, but he kept himself from saying that. He already had a job to do somewhere else, after all.

“Anyway, yeah, thank you so much for helping me with this…Heh, I’m pretty sure I’ll be back here again! See ya!”

Cat Slime waved an ear, the Repairman waved normally, and they both set off for the universe next door.

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“Okay,” the Repairman finally said, looking at the mind-swapped duo. “I do think I have some things we can try…”

He began wringing his hands. If he had feet, they’d be shuffling awkwardly. He’d never tried anything like this before, but it was a common enough trope that he would at least be able to do something, he hoped.

“…Ready?” he finally asked, his uneasy gaze shifting between the two.

“Is this really gonna work or am I going to have a bruise on my head…seems kinda absurd but at this point I’m willing to try anything.”

“We’ve got no other options, Ravio. I’m desperate to make this end all this.”

“So what, do you have some kinda magic spellor something? Lay it on us.”

“…Uh…yes,” the Repairman replied, carefully. “I do have things that I think are magical, but…let’s see if more mundane, common solutions work, first.”

He took a deep breath. This was all for curing this. Don’t worry…

And with that, he leaped up, grabbed their heads and banged them together. A sound like a cymbal clashing was heard. Quickly, he jumped back. Understandably, they would probably be a little miffed at that.

After a moment to let their pain ease a little bit, he looked at the two.

“…Sorry about that,” he said, truthfully. “It apparently works a lot for this kind of thing. Any luck?”

“What the– OW?? Lorin Almighty I’m gonna have a headache for a week! You could have been a bit gentler blobby chuchu guy!”

He paused, before looking down, seeing the robe and his own flimsy arms.

“I’m me again!! I don’t have to be blond anymore! Sweet gods above it I may have a concussion but it worked!!!”

“ACK–!”

“What is your problem!? This isn’t some kinda… Ah?”

Link looked between his friends before staring at his own hands. He held onto Ravio and began hopping in sheer joy.

“Oh thank the goddesses golden we’re back to normal! I was afraid we were gonna be stuck forever!”

The Repairman smiled, satisfied with a job well done. Still, something in the back of his mind felt…off. Too easy, a voice from there was saying, too easy.

He mentally hushed that voice and turned back to the joyous duo.

“Yeah, I’m glad it worked too…honestly didn’t expect that…”

He coughed after a moment.

“So, uh, you need ice or that weird fruit or…?”