Trial of the Lost Child

Trial of the Lost Child is the 48th episode of WarioWare Adventures Season 1.

Cast

 * Young Cricket
 * Master Mantis
 * Lulu
 * Lemonade (As a carousel horse and a plush toy)
 * Ashley
 * Red
 * Milton M. Bottle (main antagonist)

Summary
Cricket meets Lulu at the Diamond City amusement park. Thinking that she's lost, he takes care of her, later finding out that being a big brother is not as easy as he thought...

Plot
The episode starts after Cricket finishes his training with the Precious Prancers, taming his loyal steed, Lemonade the horse (which he named himself). Unbeknownst to Cricket, a little girl named Lulu was on the same carousel as he was, clinging to his arm. This marks the beginning of the Trial of The Lost Child, another type of training created by Mantis. After struggling to get Lulu off his arm, Cricket brings her for lunch, where the trio happen to meet Ashley and Red.

Since Cricket is learning to babysit for the first time, he asks Ashley for advice. Though hesitant at first, the little witch tells him about how she often bonds together with Red over food and games outside of their spell casting. Taking that advice, Cricket asks Lulu what she wants to eat, only to find out that she often brings big lunches with her, which contain a mix of junk food and other food that is often wasted in her snacking sessions. Of course, as a practitioner of kung fu who keeps himself in shape, Cricket helps Lulu differentiate between foods that are good for her and cuts them down into reasonable portions, using some of the food that Mantis had brought for him to create a balanced lunchbox meal, acquiring his new move, "Lunchbox Layout". Amazed by his new move, Lulu clings onto Cricket once again, only for him to push her off so he could eat.

After lunch, Cricket, Lulu and Mantis check out the carnival games, with Lulu taking a ride on Cricket's arm. Remembering that she called him "nice horsey" in a similar manner to how he referred to Lemonade, Cricket looks around for a game that offers stuffed horses as prizes. That's when he finds a new obstacle in his way- The Bottle Toss.

As the trio approach the carnival stand, a debonair man is seen running the stand, claiming that they will be able to win a stuffed horse as a prize if they knock down the bottles. Since the stuffed horse resembles Lemonade, Cricket gathers up all his determination to win the prize for himself... or Lulu if that's the thing that would get her off his arm. Try as he might, he uses his strength and accuracy to knock the bottles down, but they do not seem to budge. Even his special "Overhead Dragon Throw" was unable to get the bottles to fall.

As Ashley walks past them once again, she uses her Zombie Vision spell to check if the game has been rigged. It is revealed that the man is an evil wizard named Milton M. Bottle, a scammer who travels around amusement parks to glue glass bottles to the stand to prevent customers from knocking them down. Prompting Red to transform into her trusty wand, Ashley stops Cricket from wasting his money using a pollen spell, causing him to sneeze uncontrollably. Her next step was defeating Milton in a magical cooking contest with Mantis as their judge. Although their dishes ended in a tie at first, Ashley comes up with a plan to include some secret ingredients in her last dish. With his new Lunchbox Layout move and the lunch that he was initially going to eat, Cricket throws in some Shao Kao skewers into Ashley's cauldron. Wanting to follow in her idol's footsteps, Lulu offers some assistance by throwing in the carrots that she had left behind from her lunch, resulting in the winning dish- Exquisito Esplendido. Defeated, Milton rightfully awards the Lemonade plush to Cricket, admiring his determination in attempting to win his game before disappearing. However, Cricket gives it to Lulu, knowing she needs it more than he does. As the group head home at sunset, the episode ends with Cricket giving Lulu a piggyback ride, as she sleeps with her new horsey.

Running gags

 * Lulu clinging to Young Cricket
 * Mantis claiming that the dishes are "to die for".


 * This marks the debut of the antagonist, Milton M. Bottle.