Ziri: Laser Shark Invasion
Ziri: Laser Shark Invasion - An invitation to the Bacon Cat Force
The Hero's return to Ziri's secret headquarters brings a different welcome from their earlier rivalry. Ziri decides that the fight with Kitty Boo Boo proved the Hero worthy of joining the Bacon Cat Force. His headquarters is under attack by the Laser Shark Brigade, the Force's declared arch-enemies, and he needs help. He also acknowledges that the Hero now has his necklace. Ziri says imagination lets him keep his Bacon Cat Palace, while wishing through the necklace lets the Hero see it too. Ziri is glad that the Hero has it, because sharing the spectacle is more fun.
The first threats are fins beneath the clouds. Ziri asks for six Cloudy Hides as proof that the Hero is clearing out the Cloud Sharks. Then the invasion becomes personal: sharks are eating his ice cream. He sends the Hero through the ice-cream-marked door in the room with five doors to recover five Moglinberry Ice Cream. The recovered treat still smells of fish, leaving another problem for his new recruit.
Ziri: Laser Shark Invasion - Improving the sundae and the scenery
Ziri tries to rescue his sundae with six Lemon Drops from the ice cream room and four Big Cherries taken from the fish. He reasons that lemon should remove the fishy taste. The result is not wonderful, but he accepts that it is better than having no ice cream. Defending the headquarters repeatedly means preserving the little pleasures around which he has built it.
The Sketchy Room has its own Sketchy Sharks. Ziri proposes an eraser large enough to remove them, directing the Hero to Loremaster Maya in the Battleon Town Librarium for one Really Big Pencil. With it, the Hero's next task is to erase six sharks through the stick-figure-marked door and add four Pretty Drawings in their place. Ziri approves the improved scenery. The native instructions mark this drawing task as available once per login.
Ziri: Laser Shark Invasion - Cheat codes and borrowed cat clothes
Eight-bit sharks have also entered the eight-bit room. Ziri sends the Hero back to the Super Ziri Brothers game to fight its turtles and flower creatures for four Cheat Codes. The next task records four Codes Entered and six Snot Kicked as the Hero powers up against the invading sharks. Ziri celebrates having his room made awesome again. This second game task, like the drawing task, is explicitly limited to once per login.
The trouble in the Monorail Cat room is an impersonation. The figures there are sharks in cats' clothing rather than Ziri's Kittarians. He asks the Hero to recover six Kittarian Clothes, four Kittarian Spoons, and four Kittarian Forks, then calls for his kitties to return now that he has their belongings. The invasion threatens the inhabitants and costumes of his imagined headquarters as much as its rooms and games.
Ziri: Laser Shark Invasion - Trophies and a secret assignment
Ziri is not finished testing his recruit. He asks for three each of Cloud Shark Farts, Shark Sprinkles, College-Ruled Paper, Great White DLC, and Kittarian Costumes from the different invaders. Their return impresses him. He then requests ten Shark Teeth for enormous streamers, insisting that he can be tough like his friend Pax and that the sharks need to know the Bacon Cat Force means business. When the teeth arrive, he wonders whether he might eat them instead.
The underground branch gives the Hero a special assignment while other members hold off the minions. Ziri welcomes the Hero into his Special Bacon Cat Forces Unit and promises to keep in touch through a communicator. A giant cat carrier conceals the entrance to the underground lair, a disguise he considers impossible to guess. This is the member route of the source story. Its native menu requires an upgraded character and the earlier counter to have reached Save the Kittarians; it does not require that every ordinary-route trophy task has been completed first.
Ziri: Laser Shark Invasion - Walking sharks and arcade rivals
The underground campaign begins with a sight Ziri finds particularly disturbing: walking laser sharks clanging around his headquarters. He wants ten Shark Legs Smashed. In the terrarium, four Paper Bushes must be smacked to expose what is hiding among the cardboard. He immediately worries about the damage to props that took time to make. The next task destroys four of each of the two walking-shark types, but success does not make the idea of sharks on legs any less creepy to him.
The arcade gives him another reason for alarm. Sharks might take the high scores on his games, so the Hero collects seven Shark Quarters. When one is already playing, Ziri sends the Hero directly into the game to stop it from winning. Shark Invaders! requires a Hi Score of 100 and one BONUS! objective. Ziri's triumphant response turns the defense into a competition the Bacon Cat Force has won.
Ziri: Laser Shark Invasion - Restoring the rooms and defending the bridge
In the Bee Room, the Hero must recover six Honey and put six Honey back into the honeycomb. Ziri thanks the Hero on behalf of both the bees and himself. The party room needs three Party Hats, three Feather Boas, and three Room Cleaned objectives after its shark occupants have made a mess. Both tasks are marked once per login. Looking at the repaired party room, Ziri suggests that he and the Hero could hold a party there when the trouble is over.
The next call is urgent: the Bacon Cat Force is fighting the Laser Remora Brigade on the bridge. The Hero is asked to defeat ten Laser Remora and help hold the attackers back. Ziri's response asks after the Hero, the other defenders, and the bridge itself. His concern now reaches beyond snacks and high scores to the people helping him protect the place.
Ziri: Laser Shark Invasion - A whirlpool and an empty cavern
Beyond the defended bridge, Ziri discovers a whirlpool that was not there before. He concludes that it must be the sharks' way in and guesses that the treasure room behind the kitty statues is their target. Those are his deductions, rather than an explanation supplied by the invaders. Into the Whirlpool requires one descent. The menu's invitation to jump is considerably less reassuring than Ziri's earlier confidence: he asks whether the Hero will go alone or needs a push.
The silent opening moves through the Hero's leap, Ziri's hop, and the Hero's tumble through a blue vortex before the pair stand on a rocky ledge in a dark cavern. The Hero thinks the place looks empty, but Ziri is sure the sharks came from here. His reasoning is simple: sharks must have arrived through water. The Hero points out that this invasion has already included walking and flying sharks, giving little reason to assume ordinary shark behavior will explain it.
Ziri: Laser Shark Invasion - A warning behind the Hero
The Hero continues reasoning aloud that an underground pool could be a distraction, leaving the real entrance unguarded. Ziri repeatedly tries to interrupt by calling the Hero's name. When the Hero finally responds, a giant, mechanically augmented shark looms across the water opposite their ledge. The Hero's elaborate theory gives way to a small, deflated acknowledgment. The visual reveal turns confidence in a clever explanation into an awkward confrontation with the creature before them.
The opponent is the Great Cyborg Laser Shark. Ziri takes its enormous size as evidence that it must lead the Laser Shark Brigade and believes defeating it will defeat the invasion. The final quest requires one Great Cyborg Laser Shark Defeated. Its completion text has Ziri asking whether he can open his eyes yet. His fearful response qualifies the martial confidence with which he recruited the Hero; it does not establish that every remaining shark has been destroyed.
Ziri: Laser Shark Invasion - BaconCat brunch
After the battle, Ziri praises the Hero as the best and declares that their place in the BaconCat Force will make it unstoppable. The Hero remarks that bacon and cats are two of the best things on the internet. Ziri does not understand the word, but a place containing both immediately becomes something he wants to seek out and rule. Some of the remaining sharks, he decides, can serve as target practice for new members. His recruitment project survives the invasion with its ambitions intact. His later conversation admits that he likes having the Hero in the Force much better than fighting them.
Ziri has another use for a small fish. He wishes it into a cat, then decides that the Hero must be hungry after all the fighting and wishes the kitty into breakfast. The authored poses show him holding the fish, then a cat, then strips of bacon as he declares that BaconCat brunch is on. The Hero answers with silence. These wishes continue the palace's imaginative spectacle after the original tale exposed the necklace's perceptual trick; the sequel does not establish that the amulet has acquired real power to grant wishes.