You relax with some of your guests

“...and thats the shit I’ve been up to since the last Gardner wedding,” You finish regaling your fellow tablemates with your adventures since finding Starfire. Around you were several of your cousins and siblings.

“I’d call bullshit but I know you better than that,” Leonard Gardner-Peach of the Peachville Gardners said as he nursed a rum punch while a shy Lotte (from Little Witch Academia) was bandaging his arm. The moving lump around his groin revealed where Leonard’s Momo Yaoyorozu was, the tablecloth barely hiding her from sight.

“I can’t say anything, I got stuck in a haunted mansion for a month,” Raphael Gardner-Maxwell of the Orlando Gardners said as his Ryuko Matoi kicked her feet up on the table as she drank a lemon drop. Out of politeness, you looked away as Ryuko’s low cut dress rode up slightly exposing her blue-striped panties. With how short the dress’s shirt was and the cleavage going low enough to reveal Ryuko’s belly button, it was hard not to spot something. “At least I had Ryuko, Akko, and Michiro to keep me company. We even got to play ghostbusters at the end.”

“The third remake or the sixth?” Asked your new Jen Tennyson (a Genderbent Ben 10 who was a friend of Starfire’s from the kennel).

“Real life ghostbusters with proton packs and everything.” Raphael explained as Lotte finished bandaging Leonard’s arm and sat down next to Raphael. “Good job honey.” Raphael kissed Lotte on her cheek causing her to squeak a bit.

“Fine pog pog guess champ,” Ryuko said as she took a few more shots from a passing Toad while your Yunyun happily clinked glasses with her.

“What was that?” Leonard grunted as his Momo continued to suck him off while at the same time a grape bounced off his forehead. Said grape had been thrown by a bored Star Butterfly. Apparently, Leonard didn’t let his Star Butterfly out of her CharacterBall to participate in the raptor brawl. She’s been throwing bits of food ever since.

“Guess little lit champ you my,” Ryuko said as she caught a thrown grape with her mouth. You snorted as you translated the sentence.

“Yeah, not many people bother to figure out pokespeak, though your accent makes it a bit harder to understand,” you said, causing Ryuko to look at you with wide eyes and almost topple over.

“Wait, you understand her? She’s not speaking nonsense?” Lotte asked after gasping. Ryuko gritted her teeth and glared at Lotte causing her to shrink in her seat.

“Yeah, it’s a weird dialect of Pokémon speak.” You explain before addressing Ryuko. “Why are you speaking like that? Is that how you speak in your universe?” Ryuko looked a bit excited that someone understood her and sat up to explain her story but Raphael butted in.

“You know how I’ve been gathering all the Studio Trigger girls?”

“Yeah, I was there when Jane gifted you Akko and when you proclaimed your goal of becoming a ‘Studio Trigger’ Master,” you said with an exaggerated pose causing snickers and giggles. Leaving the pose, you recalled something, “do you still have that panty trophy board thing?”

“Champ,” Ryuko confirmed.

“Go juggle a hedgehog,” Raphael grumbled. “Anyways, I was browsing a Studio Trigger merchandise store for a particularly beautiful Ryuko to bring into my life when I spotted this one.” Ryuko once again gritted her teeth but you could see an embarrassed blush on her face.

“And it wasn’t until you were home that you realized that Studio Trigger had released their Meme Line and Ryuko was modded to only speak in the words of that old pog champ meme that keeps making the rounds,” you deduced for him. “Quite a few had ended up at work a few months back.”

“What do you mean by Meme Line? I never heard of that,” Yunyun asked as she tried not to stare at a passing Morgiana from Magi who was very clearly going commando and was reaching under the top of her mistress.

“Well, I assume someone told you what a Meme is?” At Yunyun's hesitant and somewhat distracted nod (you glance to the side and see the previously mentioned Morgiana slip a vibrator into her dress when she thought no one was looking), you continued. “Well, people would create certain memes around a couple of characters like confused caveman spongebob, chungus Bugs Bunny, or that pouting mom from that one isekai.”

You pause to accept a Planter’s Punch from a bikini clad Tifa. ”If a certain studio or franchise gets enough popular memes, they might do a promotional line of characters modded to reflect that meme. Its an uncommon tactic since most people want their characters to be servants or lovers and having them stuck meme’ing puts most of them off.”

“Yeah, the deformed looking crying Akko was a bit…off putting, she looked normal one second then the face stretched and everything. I thought someone was pranking the store, didn’t realize that she was doing that meme,” Raphael said.

“Yeah, thankfully the ones that come into work are easily unmodded,” you say, recalling some of the characters that were turned over to Rein Corp. “Raphael, shouldn’t your universal translator translate Ryuko’s speech for you?”

“Fine can can! {You understood me!}” Ryuko shouted accusingly at Raphael who just glared at you.

“Nope,” Raphael said before he stole a shot from slightly swaying Yunyun. “I swapped pokespeak for Japanese.” From the twitch you noticed in his corner of his mouth, you knew he was lying but you didn’t call him out on it.

Your group swapped stories and some advice for quite a bit of time while some things were getting cleaned up and repaired. Eventually, the speakers crackled as the music that has been playing quieted.

“Attention everyone, we finally reversed some lets say ‘unauthorized alterations’ to the venue and my equipment and it's getting close to that time today,” the DJ/MC announced getting most people’s attention (certain couples and three+somes were too busy ‘getting to know’ each other in dark corners). “May the brides and groom please report to the dance floor.”

“Duty calls,” you say getting up. Hearing their farewells while you were adjusting and straightening your suit, you walk towards the recently repaired dance floor.