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HaVTitC The Singing Cyborg Sensation part 4

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(Outside of the House, Katie and the Rockster Girls are now setting up their four colorful tents while Bella is setting a campfire. Katie sets the power generator battery pack and connect four HMDI cords into it)

Katie: All set, girls. :)

Ashley: Now we finish set up our camp site here,  let's have S'Mores for nighttime snack time before bed. :)

Katie, Zoey and Bella: (smile while Melina simply smiles silently) Yeah. :)

(They are sitting in their foldable chairs and hold their marshmallows with sticks over a campfire to roast them. Petunia Rhubarb, Tina Celerina, Laura Carrot, Granny Asparagus, Mrs. Fuzzyface and Bacon Bill approach them)

Petunia: You girls did good tonight.

Granny: Yes, wonderful performance.

Ashley: Oh hi. I don't think we met you ladies before, except Bacon Bill we met earlier. :)

(Bacon Bill grins in response)

Petunia: Oh, I'm Petunia Rhubarb.

Ashley: We're sorry we screamed and ran away. We've never met talking, giant vegetables, fruits and meats like you guys are before. ^^;

Granny: It's quite alright, young ladies.

Bella: (hands her roasted marshmallow with stick to Melina and rolls up to Mrs. Fuzzyface) Excuse me, ma'am. Can I pet this cherry cat? :)

Granny: Mrs. Fuzzyface? Sure. :)

Bella: (picks Mrs. Fuzzyface up in her hands) Hi, kitty. ^^ (hugs her gently)

Mrs. Fuzzyface: Meow. ^^

Bella: (rubs her cheek against Mrs. Fuzzyface's cheek) Aww. ^^ (lets Mrs. Fuzzyface licks her cheek) :giggle:

(Tina Celerina and Laura Carrot are having close looks at Katie Jadie and the Rockster Girls)

Laura: I've never seen real cyborgs before.

Tina: Me neither.

(Then, Tina examines closely at Katie Jadie.)

Tina: Are you really a human? :?

Katie: No. I am an Equestrian human from Canterlot City. (Show a photo of herself and the Rainbooms that are Sunset Shimmer, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy and Applejack in Equestrian colorful human forms)

Tina: Oh, okay.

(Laura Carrot looks at Melina who looks at her curiously.)

Melina: :?

Laura: Can't you talk?

Melina: (exhales and then speaks up) Yes...well, hardly because if I talk too much, my voice in my robotic throat will short circuit.

Laura: :o

Tina: :o

Melina: Sorry if it shocks you. You know what happened? Watch this. (Sings loudly) :music: La la la la laaaaaa!!! :music: (Then her voice in her throat is short circuited so she coughs as she turn away from Sonata's face. She cover her mouth and cough while her throat is electrocuted and blew a fuse)

Zoey: See what I mean? That is why she can't talk very much and needs to rest her voice. If she talks too much, her throat will go short circuited or blew a fuse. That's why she needs to stay mute much longer so she can save her singing voice. Ashley and I are different cyborg types from her. She is a different kind of audio cyborg that needs to be mute. 

Melina: (hold her own throat worriedly) :worry:

Zoey: (look at Melina with her eyes worriedly) She's not a social cyborg type. :worry:

Laura: Will she be alright? :worry:

Zoey: Yes so we have Melina's voice oil medicine can. (To Melina) Come now, Meli. Let me apply some voice oil into your throat so it can soothe it for a while. (opens Melina's blue suitcase, took out the can of oil, attach the tip to her throat and pours this oil into it) It feels good, doesn't it? 

Melina: (smiles and try not to move her head and throat) ^^

(Then, Melina's robotic throat stops short circuiting)

Laura: :phew:

Katie: So anyway, want some S'Mores? :)

Laura: Sure. :)

Tina: We'd be glad to. :)

(Bella picks up the S'More from the paper plate that is on foldable table and she hands it to Bacon Bill.)

Bacon Bill: :)

(Then, they finish eating S'Mores and got full. Suddenly, the Rockster Girls' eyes turn dark and grey meaning their energy batteries in them are low)

Granny: Are you girls okay?

Ashley: Our batteries inside us are getting low so we have to recharge ourselves every night. (Yawns)

Petunia: Okay.

(The Rockster Girls pick up the charger cord ends and plug them to their chests to recharge them)

Katie: So you guys will go home. I'll take care of them. Goodnight. :)

(Petunia, Tina, Granny Asparagus, Mrs. Fuzzyface, Laura, and Bacon Bill leave. Later in midnight, the campfire is out. Katie and the Rockster Girls are sleeping in their own tents while the cords connected from the power generator battery to their chests and recharging the Rockster Girls. Bella is seen sleeping next to Melina. Then, Aprilcot and her brocolli henchman jumps out of the giant bush and sneak into their campsite area.)

Aprilcot: There they are, sleeping soundly.

Broccoli Henchman: Do we strike now?

Aprilcot: Not yet, henchman. First, we need the element of surprise.

(Unbeknownst to them, Ivy and the Jackalroos have been camping a ways from them, as Flopsy wakes up when her ears pick up what Aprilcot and Broccoli Henchman have been saying. Aprilcot and her brocolli henchman unplug the cords from the Rockster Girls so they can bring the power generator battery and charger cords into their pickup truck. Next, they drag Katie Jadie and the Rockster Girls into the back of the pickup truck. Finally, the broccoli henchman picks up the sleeping Bella Aura.)

Aprilcot: Perfect, these cyborgs are as good as ours. (chuckles)

Ivy: (Off-screen) Oh no, they're not! Get 'em, Jackalroos!

(The Jackalroos suddenly run out and jump Aprilcot and Broccoli Henchman before they can get into the pickup truck.)

Katie and the Rockster Girls: (woke up by that commotion) Uh...

Aprilcot: Get off of us, you pesky mutts! >8(

(Broccoli henchman sprays sleeping gas at Ivy and the rest of the Jackalroos with a sleeping gas spray can.)

Katie: (jumps off of the pickup truck and karate fights the brocolli henchman) Hiya!

(However, the broccoli henchman dodges her every attack and sprays at her face with a sleeping gas spray can)

Katie: (feeling dizzy) Oh...:nirvana: (falls asleep) :sleepy:

The Rockster Girls: (get off of the pickup truck)

Ashley: Come on, girls. Let's get out of here and warn Bob and the others.

Melina: (beeps worriedly at them with her antennas) www.soundboard.com/sb/sound/30… :worry:

Zoey: Don't be foolish, Meli! We have no time to save Katie and our friends. I suggest we run and get Bob and his friends for help. >8(

(They ran up to the House, but Aprilcot and her brocolli henchman jump in front of them to block their path)

Ashley: Which we could be wrong and we're too late. :worry:

(Then, the broccoli henchman sprays at them with his sleeping gas spray and the Rockster Girls started to feel sleepy)

Zoey: Oh no... (yawns)

Ashley: They are getting too fast for us to handle so...we're falling asleep... (yawns) Now...

(Then, Ashley, Melina, Zoey and Bella fall asleep)

Aprilcot: (chuckles) And now, to pull off the rest of the job.

Broccoli Henchman: Right!

(However, Flopsy was able to avoid the sleeping gas before she uses her ears to whip up large gusts of wind that pick up Aprilcot and Broccoli Henchman into the air.)

Both: Aaaaaahhhh!!!!!!! :noes:

(Flopsy then uses her ears to whip up the gusts of wind that are able to save her Jackalroo friends, the Rockster Girls, and Ivy. The gusts of wind also wake them up.)

Rockster Girls: (woke up) Uh... <Bo

Ivy: Good girl, Flopsy. :)

Flopsy: Bark! :)

Katie: I'll take it from here. :) (run up and karate fights Aprilcot) Hiya!

Aprilcot: You'll pay for that! >8(

Ivy: I don't think so! Aurora?

(Aurora nods then fires a blast of ice that causes both Aprilcot and Broccoli Henchman to get stuck in a block of ice from the waist up.)

Katie: (backflips to dodge Aurora's ice breath) Ivy, you do realize I also took karate lessons besides just singing, inventing machines and playing guitar. :)

Ivy: I can see that, Katie. :)

Aprilcot: Curses! Foiled again! :x

Ashley: Let's take them to jail. :)

Ivy: Right!

(Next morning, Katie and the Rockster Girls woke up in their tents. The Rockster Girls are fully charged so they disconnect the charger cords from their chests. They exit their tents and see Bouillabaisse prepared breakfast on the foldable table for them)

Ashley: Wow. You made this welcome breakfast for us, Bouillabaisse? :)

Bouillabaisse: Bark! (nods)

Ashley: Thanks, Bouillabaisse. :hug:

(Tubby and Needles next come up to the Rockster Girls.)

Katie and the Rockster Girls: (grab some fried eggs, bacons, pancakes and sausages onto the plates, except Bella since she has no human stomach and is the ball robot with her only human head)

Zoey: Oh, hello there, Tubby and Needles. :)

Tubby: Bark! :)

Needle: Bark! :)

Zoey: (translate of what they are saying with her half robotic mind)

Tubby: Bark, bark, bark! Arf! Brrrrrrr!

Needles: Brrrrrrrr! Bark!

(The English translation subtitles appeared on screen to show what they are saying)

(Tubby was saying, "You are very nice for robot girls", while Needles is saying, "Yeah, we've never seen anything like you before".)

Ashley: What did they say, Zoey?

Zoey: Tubby said that we are very nice for robot girls while Needles said that they've never seen anything like us before.

Tubby and Needles: :nod:

Zoey: And Bouillabaisse, thanks for the breakfast you set it for us. :)

(Then, Katie, Ashley, Melina and Zoey start eating breakfast and drink orange juices.)

(Tubby licks his lips.)

Ashley: You can eat some if you want to, Tubby. :)

Tubby: Bark! :)

Zoey: (translates what he said)

(Tubby says, "Thank you".)

Ashley: What did he say?

Zoey: He says "Thank you."

Ashley: You're welcome. :)

(Tubby nods. Later, Katie and the Rockster Girls walk into Veggie School as celebrity guests of honor while Bob the Tomato is the substitute teacher.)

Bob: Today, class, we have some very special guests. Say hello to the Rockster Girls.

Rockster Girls: :wave:

All: Ooooooooooh!

Ashley: Hi, kids. We came here to tell you our life stories and how we became a famous celebrity band. :)

All: :)

Ashley: Katie will go first. :)

Katie: Thank you, Ash. :) (to Laura, Junior, Callie, Gary Garlic and the children) Before I was born, my father told me that my mother is actually a unicorn from Ponyville that is a town filled with talking ponies, Pegasus, unicorns and even Alicorns that are hybrids of a Pegasus and a unicorn. My mother has a same high IQ intelligence and Katie Sense instinct like mine. (Suddenly felt her eyelashes twitching) See? It is one of my Katie Sense. My twitchy eyelashes told me that the weather is gonna change into a rain from sunny after one minute now.

All: Cool!

Katie: So anyway, my mother graduate from Ponyville school and university. She moves out from Ponyville to Canterlot City where she turns into an Equestrian pink human being and she first met with my father. They fell in love with each other and got married before she gave birth to me. When I turn 5, I became strangely intelligent when I solve a simple math problem like 5 + 5 = 10 and other stuff. That is how I am a half unicorn and half Equestrian human because my mother is normally a unicorn before she turn into an Equestrian human in Canterlot City and my father is a complete Equestrian human with brown hair like mine and an orange skin.

All: :o

Katie: (show two photos to them. The first one is her mother in a pink unicorn form in Ponyville as a graduated student and the ponies, Pegasus and unicorns cheer around her. The second one is her mother in pink skinned human form and her orange skinned father who holds baby Katie Jadie in his arms) This is what my mother looks like as a real unicorn.

All: :o

Katie: When I turned 6 years old, my mother got pregnant again and this time, she gave birth to the baby twins: Maple Sweet and Soccer Blast. 1 year later, she decided to take a job as a maple tree syrup harvester and farmer in Canada so she moves out on her own to work there for life and this leave me and my father to raise my baby siblings: Maple Sweet and Soccer Blast in 10 years while we are waiting for her to return one day.

(The class is even more dazzled.)

Katie: When I turned 16 which I am now,  I became an expert in science and friendship. More academics stuff. I study friendship, science, filming, farming, parties, fashion designs, costume designs, sports, nature of life and animals, magic, myth and math about, like, all the time. I am mostly the student of the filming class of Canterlot High School. :)

All: Oooooh!

Katie: So this is who I am. My story is done. The End. True story. :)

Junior: Wow! That was cool! :)

Katie: Thank you. Any questions or comments? :)

(The class is silent.)

Bob: That was a nice story, Katie. :)

Katie: Thank you. :)

Ashley: My turn. (To the entire class) To tell the true life story, Melina, Zoey and I are orphans when our parents died in different accidents like Melina's parents died of the city flood in Japan. We first met each other as new adopted sisters when we were babies. The owner of the orphanage was mean and greedy so when I turn 7, Zoey turn 6 and Meli turn 4, we ran away to Pontiac, Michigan from the owner that try to use us as singing pawns and sources to make money all for herself and exploiting us too far. This is where we moved in and find jobs until we work at McDonald's restaurant in 7 years. During 7 years, we lived in a new Michigan orphanage where the lady owner was more kinder, patient and forgiving. Eventually, we end up mess things up and got fired so we have to find another job.

All: :o

Ashley: After working for years, we are still poor and live in the downtown street until we find the newspaper that shows "Help Wanted: Singers for Audition" so we decide to audition for a singing group in the live concert of Pontiac, Michigan and we made it to it. We have the auditioner to listen to us and we sing "New Altitude." This impresses the auditioner, who convinces his boss to give us a recording contract, and thus our first big break. :)

Zoey: And this is how we became famous, talented singers and musical performers so we travel all around the world and we sell soundtracks, host charity events and help the poor. :)

All: :)

Ashley: We gave ourselves a band name is "Rockster Girls". When I turn 16, Zoey is 15 and Melina is 13, we got abducted by a mysterious mad scientist in a black cloak and we don't know what he looks like. What I remember is we got knocked out, taken to his secret lab base and turn us into half robots very painfully while we are unconscious with his secret robotizing invention. He left us out and disappeared. Now we spend time our musical career and our fans recognize us by looking into our eyes and find out who we are. So we kept being who we are with our talents in 6 years to now.

Zoey: After six years of being cyborgs until today, we never aged physically.

All: :o

Bella: And this year, I found them with curiosity so I follow them when I saw them as cyborgs like me, but I was caught by Teedo the scavenger alien in a desert planet before Katie and the Rockster Girls save me. This is how we first met. In 38 years, I was looking for my family that mysteriously disappeared after I turn into a cyborg. I had no voice so I beep with my antenna on my head until I met Katie and the others. Katie and her friend; Twilight repair my voice so I talk like a real human girl and my robotic eyes are replaced into my real human eyes so I can see like a normal human.

All: :o

Gary Garlic: Who's Twilight?

Ashley: A purple Equestrian human girl student. She's my friend and I am her science partner of Canterlot High School where I attend as a smart student. :)

All: :o

Melina: (speaks up) It's my turn now but only for my short talk. Otherwise, my voice will short circuit.

Gary: Why?

Melina: I'm an audio cyborg type, not a social bot type like my sisters. Laura Carrot is the one who saw me what happened last night.

All: :nod:

Melina: Before I met Ashley and Zoey, my parents did died of the city flood. But I had a real aunt who survived and she is a sister of my mother. My aunt told me how her parents died according to the TV news she watched long time ago. She told me and my sisters that my parents died of the disastrous flood and I somehow survived in the lifeboat when I was a baby. I was found by the strange hooded person. My aunt is my mother's older sister. Before my parents died in the flood disaster in Kagoshima, Japan where I was born, my aunt moved out to Sunset Valley City one month ago to work as a culinary chef and make delicious seafood meals and sushis. We didn't know the flood occurred and it was very unpredictable. :(

All: :(

Melina: And when I turn 10, my grandfather died of the heart attack in the middle of my singing performance in the dinner karaoke show. :(

All: :tears:

Melina: (puts the video tape into the TV so Bob and everyone can watch it)

(In the TV, there was a 10 year old Melina Thermopiles as a human in her colorful kimono, wore a Sailor Moon hairstyle, white socks and Japanese sandals. She is standing on the stage in the musical dinner theater. It was recorded or video taped by Rushina)

Rushina in TV: (aim her video camera at herself like a selfie) Hi. I hope you like to see my beautiful, little Melina sing in the dinner theater. I'm gonna watch her sing with my daddy; her grandpa, Ashley Asey and Zoey Halen. Hope you enjoy, everybody. (aim her video camera at Young Melina who is holding a microphone and standing on the singing stage)

(The song starts and Young Melina started to sing "Total Eclipse of the Heart" by Bonnie Tyler on TV)

Background vocal voices on TV: :music: Turn around :music:

Young Melina on TV: :music: Every now and then I get a little bit lonely
And you're never coming round :music:


Background vocal voices on TV: :music: Turn around :music:

Young Melina on TV: :music: Every now and then I get a little bit tired
Of listening to the sound of my tears :music:


Background vocal voices on TV: :music: Turn around :music:

Young Melina on TV: :music: Every now and then I get a little bit nervous
That the best of all the years have gone by :music:


Background vocal voices on TV: :music: Turn around :music:

Young Melina on TV: :music: Every now and then I get a little bit terrified
And then I see the look in your eyes :music:


Background vocal voices on TV: :music: Turn around bright eyes :music:

Young Melina on TV: :music: Every now and then I fall apart :music:

Background vocal voices on TV: :music: Turn around bright eyes :music:

Young Melina on TV: :music: Every now and then I fall apart!
And I need you now tonight
And I need you more than ever
And if you only hold me tight
We'll be holding on forever
And we'll only be making it right
'Cause we'll never be wrong together-- :music:


(Young Melina stops singing as she saw her Japanese grandfather is coughing and falling onto the floor. He is having a heart attack)

Young Ashley on TV: Agri?

Rushina on TV: Otousan! Otousan! (hold him in her arms) Somebody! What's happening to my otousan?!

Young Zoey on TV: According to what I learn from the books, I think he's dead...from the heart attack.

Young Melina on TV: (gasps as her tears drip from her eyes as the karaoke instrumental music is still playing) No...No...(ran to the backstage and crying)

All: (watches with shock and horror about what happened) :ohnoes:

(The TV scene changed to Young Melina with her long buttocks-length hair down, wearing a black headband, same white folded ankle socks, black sandals and wore a black kimono for a funeral. She is singing and standing next to the casket where her grandfather is in)

Young Melina on TV: :music: Once upon a time I was falling in love
But now I'm only falling apart
And there's nothing I can do
A total eclipse of the heart
Once upon a time there was light in my life
But now there's only love in the dark
Nothing I can say
A total eclipse of the heart...:music::music:


(The video ends with a TV screen static)

Melina: :depressed:

All: :tears:

Melina: And then I remember my grandfather promise me that I should never ever give up singing and my dreams as a Rockster Girl. He supports my dream and talents. :(

Bob: It's good that you had someone who understood your talents and dreams, Melina. :)

Melina: <8) (to the class) About me, I am normally talkative when I was a human and when I turned into a cyborg, I am forced to be mute. Otherwise, my voice will short circuited. So that is why I am an audio type cyborg or whatever type I am so I had speech limits. :(

Bob: (nodding in understanding)

Melina: That's it for me. (Took out her voice oil medicine can, opens her mouth and sprays it into her mouth to let it sooth her voice)

Zoey: I suppose it was my turn. Ahem, while I was with the Rockster Girls, after we became famous stars, I remember we are found by Melina's biological aunt; Rushina who gave us home in her house and took care of us ever since when we were little kids. We start our first day of school and I end up reading all the books in the library. I impress our teachers with my intelligence and I became a straight A bookworm student.

All: :o

Zoey: Here. Let me draw on the board. (Draws a sun with a planet earth on the right side and then a Solar System with a white chalk) As you see, the moon is not a planet because, by definition, a planet is a "spherical ball of rock or gas that orbits a star." The moon is the Earth's only natural satellite and the clearest object in the night sky. It is 240,250 miles away from the surface of the Earth and the closest celestial object. The rugged lunar terrain is responsible for the dark and light spots, observable from Earth.

Callie: Wow, that's impressive. :)

(Then, Zoey glows in green and pony up by her human ears turn into pony ears and her extending long hair sprouted from her back neck and tied into a low ponytail. Her high pigtails length remain the same like Aria. The light blue and light green streaks magically appeared and spread on her bangs and hair)

All: :o

Zoey: See what Ashley mean? I am the Element of Intelligence.

All: Wow!
This is the fourth chapter of Human and VeggieTales in the City - The Singing Cyborg Sensation which is a crossover special between my envisioned version of Veggie Tales in the City and My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - The Rockster Girls.

Plot Summary: When Katie Jadie and the Rockster Girls read the newspaper about the new place called the House that is a giant house where talking vegetables, fruits, meats and humans live in there and it has a city in it. They even heard "Musical Showcase Charity Show" by Mayor Archibald Asparagus who plans to have the special park playground built once he gets all the money he needs as charity. This interests the Rockster Girls so they decided to go there. Katie Jadie became worried about their Equestrian magic that is still inside the Rockster Girls forever due to the magical incident and she believes if they found out about their Equestrian magic once they pony up every time they play music and sing, she fears that it might be cheating and even offending the town society.

Katie Jadie invents an new invention, that looks like Human Twilight Sparkle's gadget pendant, except it is silver and it has a star on it, to strip all of their Equestrian magic from their bodies so that way, they won't pony up by accident every time they play music and sing and they will remain as normal cyborg girls without Equestrian magic in them. She became a musical band manager of the Rockster Girls much to their delight. They use the Rockster Girls' World Tour RV Bus to head to the House using a GPS. The chauffeur of the Rockster Girls got the GPS with the House's address in it so it will take miles to go there from Human Canterlot City.

Once they enter the world of Human and Veggie Tales in the House, their cartoon style forms of Equestria Girls changed into the style of HaVTitH. They arrived in the House to look for Mayor Archibald to tell them that they accept his "Help Wanted" for the Musical Showcase Charity Show and said that their friend; Katie Jadie is their manager and they are the singing girl musical celebrity band. When they play music, no magic happens meaning that the invention is working and completely took away all of the Rockster Girls' Equestrian magic from their bodies so they are ready to perform to raise money for Archibald's charity.

Unbeknownst to Katie, that device ends up having a mind of its own. If it goes overload and cannot hold it much longer which Katie didn't know, it will blast lasers and chaos anywhere and they will return into the Rockster Girls' bodies, exposing their true magical pony up forms. Feeling ashamed that their true identities exposed like their magical pony up forms, Katie Jadie and the Rockster Girls decided to give up and go home. Find out more...

The lesson in this special crossover is no matter who you truly are, you are still special the way God made you and you must not give up your goals of helping others. Even with special, strange abilities and talents like Katie Jadie has her own "Katie Sense" instincts that are related to Pinkie Pie's "Pinkie Sense" which she inherited from her mother.

Story written by me and Cave-Cat-87

Style and characters, except the human characters (C) VeggieTales In The House and Veggie Tales in the City created by A Big Idea Production (or Entertainment) and Dreamwork Animation Production

Canterlot City (C) My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and Equestria Girls (or MLP:FiM and MLP:EG for short) produced and created by Lauren Faust at Hasbro Animation Studios and Productions

Song, "Set It All Free" sung by Scarlett Johansson who voiced Ash the Porcupine (C) Sing the 2016 American 3D computer-animated comedy film produced by Illumination Entertainment, directed and written by Garth Jennings and co-directed by Christophe Lourdelet at Universal Studios

Song, "Naturally" (C) Selena Gomez

Song, "Steven and the Crystal Gems" (C) Steven Universe by Rebecca Sugar in Cartoon Network

Katie Jadie and the Rockster Girls: Ashley Asem (orange), Melina Thermopolis (blue), Zoey Halen (green) and Bella Aura (orange and white) (C) Me

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I thought of a funeral HaVTitC episode where Helena's adoptive maternal grandfather Misako Shiro's father, Hiroshi died of old age and has to be honored in a Japanese way so the Humans and Veggie gang joined Helena and Miwa in a journey to Japan. Helena's adoptive family are welcoming but her adoptive father, Daisuke Shiro wasn't impressed with Larry and he would glare at him if he ever tries to cause mischief. During their stay in Japan, Helena and Miwa's uncle and Misako's brother, Akihiro got help from Helena, Miwa, Kristina and the others in writing his eulogy while Daisuke would talk with the other grownups about the preparations for the funeral. While the grownups talk about it, Bob, Kristina and the others ask Helena about the Japanese traditions about funerals and Helena tells them that funerals all over the world is not the same as in the U.S.A and explains to them how a Japanese funeral is done. During the embalming, Helena and Miwa with the Humans, Veggies and their family would watch the embalmer prepare Hiroshi for the funeral and each relative wipes his face as a sign of saying goodbye before Hiroshi is placed in a wooden coffin. They followed the hearse to a funeral home, where a Shinto service was conducted (Hiroshi is a Shinto believer but his daughter, Misako converted to Christianity) and Akihiro spoke out his eulogy. After the service, Hiroshi was cremated and his bones were placed in an urn, where it was placed in a Japanese cemetery.