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.
