Two Peas In A Pod (Final Chapter!)

What's to do when there's a problem that requires thinking? A Midbus fist to the back, duh. Midbus came to the rescue by hitting Beef with a "freeze and sneeze", where he froze Beef's back with his icey powers before smashing the now solid Beef, preventing him from staying still due to his blobby build. "OH WE ARE NOT HAVING THIS RUINED BY SOME FAT HOG!" Kaley bursted, the surprise pissing her off and leading her to swarm and attack Midbus on her own. Grin was launched face first onto the stairs of the main castle, getting up and breathing profusely so his lungs didn't feel as crushed anymore. Midbus eventually got his hands on Kaley, rolling her like a bowling ball at Dieter, and forcing Beef to catch the two of them. This was a chance to take as much as they could from BFF! Fawful hastily called for as many mechawfuls as he could, depleting his supply by almost half as they all lifted just the castle and tower of Neo Fawful World. Although BFF would still have the fiery lower half and the base of the castle, the main fortress itself had now been flown out of their grasp. "...We still have enough giant robot, let's get this exercise started!" Dieter proclaimed, rushing off to the control room with Kaley and Beef so they could start injecting Malatone into everyone. Fawful and Grin watched from the distance of their now severely neutered and broken down castle, in just a moment they went from kings to the possible prisoners of their lap boys. Midbus looked outwards as well, steam leaving his snout as he cracked his knuckles. "Dunno bout you, but I say we shouldn't go down without a fight. It's your call, my Lords." Midbus kneeled in front of Fawful and Grin, awaiting for his kings to make a decision. Fawful and Grin exchanged looks, and then looked back at Midbus with determined smirks on their faces. It's payback time.

Back on the ground, Geno had gathered mostly everyone except the Black Sugar Gang, which was about to be a positive more than a negative. The base of the first castle had fused with the second castle, using the base as a shell for a much smaller than intended mech. This didn't stop BFF however from raining down a storm of Malatone, infecting the Kremlings, Snowmads, the Black Sugar Gang, as well as anyone on the ground that wasn't under a ceiling or wearing something resistant. This meant that F.U.R.Y only had their mechanical minions to help, and what little firepower he had left to try and wrangle the battle into his victory. The last to take the malatone were the three BFF members themselves, each taking the remaining supply. "Have one of our little meat stools record this, we're about to relive the glory days!" Dieter proudly proclaimed before he took his share of the Malatone, fusing with Kaley and Beef. The three of them merged into a tri-colored monastery mesh of themselves, a perfect abomination. One that was just bigger than Fredrik, and just barely less sentient than him too. "UUAGHHH! I WILL DESTROY YOU ALL!" shouted the Brute Force Frankenstein, as its pumped up Malatone minions rushed the beaches and rushed the light houses to try and destroy anyone and everyone that wasn't the BFF. Geno led the charge against the malatoned madness, all while mechawfuls flew around the skies trying to take back the lighthouses and fire weapons from them to defeat everyone. All hell had broken loose.

"Leave the wonky workout instructor to me, Doll Man! You work on what you can down here! Best of luck!" Peasley saluted to Geno, flying up to the machine as ships followed behind him to provide backup knights for him. Peasley unsheathed his sword and aimed it at BFF, laughing with all the bravado in him. "You need your fancy little boosts to even stand a chance to me, and you'll still lose!" Peasley exclaimed, before running and maneuvering around the amalgamate. BFF formed tendrils out of its long tumor shaped arms, slashing and piercing surprisingly fast for its size. Peasley could barely leave a scratch, the Malatone was working as a buff to keep simple jabs at it from hurting it. "PUNY MAN! YOUR FISHNETS HURT MORE THAN YOUR THUMBTACK!" the BFF roared, catching Peasley in its throbbing grip. "PEAS ARE RIPE IN VITAMIN C! GLRUAGAGHH!" The BFF proceeded to then throw Peasley into its maw, trying to tear Peasley apart and swallow him whole. Peasley was barely able to hold on, extending his legs and arms as wide as he could to try and slow down the bite. "G-gnnh! Quick! N-now's your chance! Someone fire! I–" Peasley shouted to the ships, before the BFF's long serpent tongue wrapped around him and brought him down. Peasley would have been a healthy diet snack if his knights didn't have good aim, landing a cannon ball directly at the monster and causing it to wheeze out Peasley before he could be harmed. Although definitely grossed out, this gave Peasley an idea. "If I can just fool the dimwit into standing still.... Ahah!" Thought Peasley, as he ran to try and find any way into the machine. "You hooo! Over heeere!" teased the beanish prince, as he made himself bait.

Geno stuck by his friends, not only could he not just bum rush the malatoned enemies like the mechawfuls and Grin before them, but his friends were struggling with them before. There was also the issue of the massive robot swinging and firing intense cannons of mass destruction at basically everything, that didn't help the situation either. That's when Grin noticed it, the lighthouses! F.U.R.Y had been going after them for the wrong reasons! When their light hit the Malatone monsters and the black goop, both were neutralized! "Fawfs! I'll get the lighthouse down there! You get the one off in the distance! We're getting our pawns back!" Grin said, before turning off his com and flying to a swarm of mechawfuls, fighting off some koopas that had gotten a similar idea. Through clever use of some of his remaining bombs, as well as some plainly good aim on Fawful's end with his raygun, the lighthouses were aimed towards one creature in particular: Fredrik. Fredrik could be used to get a leg up, so he was a valuable asset! With prolonged aim on him from the lighthouses, Fredrik was getting cornered and weakened. "Geno! Over there! That's the big guy that was kicking our butts earlier! He's stuck!" Mallow pointed out, running from the jaws of some hungry crocodiles with the taste for a cotton candy shaped boy. Geno took a glance at Fredrik, then glanced at where the light was coming from and saw a chance of his own. "Mallow! Shock my whirl if you can! Cover me!" Geno said with little warning, as he bum rushed Fredrik and all the snowmads surrounding him. He just had to time this whirl perfectly, and Fredrik's KAOS coating would be destroyed. He just had to land it, he just had to–

KAOS's shell had been shattered to dust, once the skull was gone so too was everything else. Fredrik was once again in control, no longer boosted by Malatone and knowing he was missing his horn. He took one look at what he assumed were traitors now attacking him, and wasted no time going ballistic on them. Instead of a wrecking ball on F.U.R.Y's side, there was now a wild card that was going after everyone. "CRUD! Unintended, so unintended! Midbus look out! I think he wants a rematch!" Grin panicked over coms, as Midbus was sent flying back into the castle. Fredrik only had to take one look at the bright neon wreck in the sky to find where he was heading next, grinding Midbus around on the ground savagely. If Fredrik was holding back before, he sure as definitely wasn't now. Without much thought put into the maneuver, Midbus pulled out Fredrik's horn from under his shell and blew into it as hard as he could to blow away the frost giant. Fredrik however wasn't going to fall for his own tricks, as he held onto the horn itself so he would drag Midbus away with him and the wind if he kept blowing, unless he let go of course. Closer and closer did the two edge to the battlefield below, and Midbus could barely hold on any longer without being sent tumbling below. As much as he wanted to continue the fight, he knew no one else would be aboard the Fawful Castle to prevent it from being destroyed, meaning he had to let go. That didn't mean he let Fredrik off easy though, kicking him so hard in the gut that he was sent flying out. Fredrik was launched directly into the black goop in the center of the lake, and oddly enough... he didn't sink. Instead, a weird sphere rose a little out of the center and launched a spike, one that directly hit the BFF mech.

While this was going on above, Fawful was cornered in one of the lighthouses. Although the Snowmads were making a retreat now that most of them were unbrainwashed from Fredrik's intense beatdown, The Koopa Troop wasn't one to leave just because they got hit with a light punch to the everything. Fawful tried his hardest to push them off of him, firing his ray gun and working in tight corners so he could have any sort of advantage, but it was clear Geno was going to take the lighthouses from F.U.R.Y too. The mechawfuls that had helped take the lighthouse in the first place had to flee so they wouldn't be destroyed, and Fawful was all out of ideas. That was, until Fredrik was sent flying and made a spike launch towards the BFF robot. "GRAUGHHH! I AM INVINCIBLE, YOUR SPIKES WON'T DESTROY ME!" BFF bluffed, as its focus on the ships flanking its machine was focused more on whatever put a dent in the mech. Fawful then saw another, better opportunity. He climbed to the absolute top of the lighthouse and jumped, confident his headgear would catch him. ...He didn't realize that it, too, was in the BFF castle, leaving him to fall into the black goop below and drown. At least, that's what would have happened if Grin wasn't there to catch him at the last minute! "You're skydiving without me? For shame! Guess I'll just invite myself! Haha! Can't have my lord be dying on my watch" Grin joked, with his tone becoming more sincere at the end, with Fawful falling in love with him all over again.

"Midbus! Fire all of our weapons at whatever is making spikes be launched! Fawful is having the gut feeling that it will be our victory!" Fawful commanded over his com, as he watched a rocket rain storm shower the center of lake lapcat in a barrage of fire. While Mallow found shelter and healed up anyone hurt, Geno, Johnny and Mallow prepared to activate all of the lighthouses at once to completely destroy the Malatone. "READY!" Mallow yelled as his light was activated. "Ready!" Geno said, with his light activating just after Peasley's. There was radio silence from Johnny's end. "Johnny, you ok?" Geno asked, concerned and puzzled since only moments ago did he see Johnny rush off as chipper as ever. That's when he saw the silhouette of a crocodile-like figure at the lighthouse, holding Johnny like he was bait on a fishing line. "Brainwashed so easily? Bah! Remember you half wits! Remember who your one true rool-er is! Remember the one and only: KING K ROOL!" K Rool belted, throwing Johnny and Karnage off the tower to show himself off in his finest hour. K Rool had been stalking and following the Kremlings ever since F.U.R.Y had brainwashed them for himself, and now he was taking this chance to try and get through to his people and retake his place as their king. "W-wait! Stop! You're getting its atten–" "GLUGGGG! HOMERUN!" yelled BFF from its castle, making the robot swat at the lighthouses and its own minions, sending the Kremlings and the Black Sugar Gang flying for treason. Geno and Mallow jumped off of their towers, picking up Johnny's unconscious body to bring to Mallow. While running, Mallow looked on in pure confusion, "I won't lie, I expected something grander from their king with how he was talking" BFF looked out to find where the barrage of spikes came from, pinpointing it from the shell at the center. Peasley was exhausted and badly wounded, he couldn't fight on much longer, but Geno could. With the help of Peasley's cloud, the two switched places as Peasley fled while Geno stayed to try and stall BFF.

Geno reloaded his arm cannon and fired directly at the BFF's mouth, being reciprocated by its own laser of pure malatone and power. The beam clash was a bright spark compared to the otherwise stormy climax, and nothing would seem to break the little tie that the two had. "GRAACGHH! THIS WHERE IT ENDS! WOOD BURNS AT THE STRONGEST THERE WILL EVER BE! ME! YOU COULD OF BEEN ONE OF US, NOW YOU ARE NONE!" it cried, using its gigantic size to stomp closer and closer to Geno, eyeing him and laughing three laughs at once as it relished in what it thought would be Geno's death. A massive spike flying towards the machine had other plans however, shaking and the ground Geno and BFF stood on and moving BFF's laser away from Geno for a moment. Geno took this chance to slide under BFF, still keeping his laser active as he melted through the lower half of BFF and its back. BFF let out a guttural howl of pain, as the gooey inside of the monster was revealed. Geno thought he could use this to separate each member of the fusion, but was sorely mistaken when BFF grew gooey pink tendrils to slam Geno down and away, trying to regenerate as best as it could. The BFF was severely hurt, and needed more malatone to regenerate, something it was putting aside every possible concern to find. "I think this is what you're looking for. I'm sorry, but I dropped it. My bad" Geno sarcastically quipped, holding the closest malatone supply he could find while he was sent away from BFF and its tendrils. "NO! NONONONONONONOOOAAGHHH!" The BFF roared again, sending all its anger at the rising goopy sphere, making the robot fight as hard as it could to destroy it.

The worst mistake that would be made during the entire battle

The spikey shell began to spin and spin, the constant attacks and the light had weared off the black goop more and more, until the shell flew high up into the air. F.U.R.Y looked on, trying to back up their castle so it wasn't hit in the landing of the flying sphere that they inadvertently just launched. The actual storm that had been raging on began to halt, and the sky began to crackle. The sky became more and more red, as whatever BFF had just unleashed seemed to awaken. While everyone watched the coming apocalypse, Grin noticed something in the distance. In a more elevated part of the lake that no one had touched, something was moving in response to the change in weather. No wait... not something... someone. They almost blended in, but the colors stuck out to Grin. It was a mix of orange and red, as it glided along the water to go to a weird statue of a cat that had been in the area of the battle. Suddenly, the cat statue lit up, and seemed to become a giant power up. "Hey wait a minute... Fawful? I-isn't that..?" Grin stuttered, pointing at the red blur that was becoming more visible. Fawful's attention shifted only slightly, but what he saw put him into utter madness. "RED STACHE!?" Fawful screamed, as he could see the man he had blamed everything for finally in plain sight again. All other priorities became nothing as Fawful screeched, "I HAVE FURY! WHATEVER MECHAWFULS WE HAVE LEFT! DESTROY THE MUSTACHE OF BADNESS!" Fawful's crazed order was then interrupted, as the flying sphere finally came crashing down, sending both castles flying back and F.U.R.Y stranded on what had just crashed down. Fawful, Grin and Midbus were all shocked in their own ways, as they stood on the snout of the strongest beast they had ever seen. The beast locked its eyes onto the three and snarled... it was the Koopa King, Bowser

Bowser roared and swatted the three remaining F.U.R.Y members away, just barely being caught by some of the remaining mechawfuls. Bowser was different this time however, he had increased so dramatically in size that he could crush Midbus at his giant form like he were a soccer ball. The same applied for BFF and its castle, as that was the closest thing for Bowser to wreak havoc on. The Brute Force Frankenstein looked on and paused for a moment, before regaining its composure and roaring back at the kaiju. "POWER! I NEED MORE POWER!" It barked, as it saw some of the black goop that had been washed off of Bowser land on the castle. BFF tried to grab and eat some of black goop, but that just meant it was in severe pain and could no longer pilot the robot. Bowser beat and tore and kicked and bit and slashed and crashed into the machine, taking what was once the crowning achievement of BFF and F.U.R.Y's might, and turning it into a soccer ball made of scrap. Geno did his best to hold onto the machine and not fall off, following BFF as clawed up to the top of the scrap ball. Geno saw the pain BFF was in and offered his hand to show some mercy, but was repaid by a painful but weak slash from BFF. It had become hard to look at, it was dripping on the floor and looked like a walking pile of mud that wanted to tear you apart. It eventually became to much for BFF to bear, as they defused back into Dieter, Kaley and Beef. The black goop had slightly mutated and damaged them, with them all now resembling just one third of the amalgamate they were, instead of three individual people. Before any of them could realize this though, Bowser spotted hopped off before the inevitable outburst. Bowser tore the scrap ball into pieces, grabbed BFF in his colossal grip, and crushed them brutally, before kicking them off to timbuktu. BFF were all launched into different directions, exploding in the sky like fireworks, resembling each of their faces. While this soundly removed the previous threat, it just made it clear that no one would survive the new threat if they didn't get out, NOW!

Bowser roared again, collecting the three cat statues that were scattered around the lake, trapping them in a bubble bubble that was around the size of his body. This was what the red plumber was going after, without them there was only one thing he could do, chase the beast down. That just left everyone else in the mix, especially for F.U.R.Y. The beast lost a target his size, so that just left the already severely wrecked floating F.U.R.Y castle to destroy. The chase was on, as F.U.R.Y fled from Bowser, who was fleeing from the plumber. The beast fired his spikes and thorns in a massive barrage, shooting fire into the sky to rain down and burn everything to the ground. It was a nightmare for F.U.R.Y, as the castle could barely move from side to side, so they all just had to pray that they could hold out just a little bit longer while the beast barraged them. Geno watched the chase as it looped around the lake over and over, the hellish sky crackling as everything in the distance seemed so far away. "If anyone's up for it, can we go after Fawful and his cronies? He's on the run, we can catch him now!" Geno asked politely. No one else was up for the task, they were all preparing for a retreat since the plumber seemed to have it under control, and they were all scared. "I'll follow you to the end Geno! We got this!" Mallow said confidently, holding onto Geno. Geno looked down at Mallow and hugged him, "We've got this."

The bloodshot lightning in the sky began to fade, in favor of Mallow's more aimed thunder. Grin rushed around the castle, trying to maintain it as best he could and fire back. "We're out of firepower! We're losing mechawfuls by the minute! It's a dead end!" Grin cried, having to keep his jet boots activated at all times so he wouldn't be flung off balance every two seconds, and even that didn't help. Midbus was standing at a hole in the wall, throwing whatever he had under his shell at the kaiju to keep him under. It was a futile effort, nothing even remotely scratching the shell of the beast, and only making F.U.R.Y's presence more known. Fawful tried his best to steer the castle anywhere else that was off of Bowser's track, but in the process he got struck by one of Mallow's lightning bolts since he was in sight. Although it stung like crazy, that jolt of pain gave Fawful the only idea he had for escape. "That's it! Grin! Find our teleportation device here! Find a mechawful anywhere out of here! It's our chance of finality!" Fawful hastily ordered over his com, with Grin not wasting a moment to follow through. "There's only one! It's a bit rusty and it's on the surface! We might not make it!" Grin nervously replied, raising an antenna at the top of the tower for where the lightning would need to strike. Fawful tried to steer the castle towards one of the bloodshot bolts, but those faded just too late as the castle's power went into power saving mode, preventing them from moving any further. "I HAVE TERROR!" Fawful shouted, as the beast was seen hurling towards them faster and faster, jumping and taunting the plumber as he closed the distance. Midbus was F.U.R.Y's saving grace, as he leaped to the top of the antenna and shouted "OVER HERE KNUCKLEHEADS!" to get Geno and Mallow's attention. Just as Midbus climbed up, the plumber had launched Bowser directly at F.U.R.Y, which would completely destroy the castle. The lightning came down, Bowser only inches away from destroying F.U.R.Y, but at the last possible moment the lightning got to F.U.R.Y first, teleporting them away.

The mechawfuls that were repaired when the pipe to the Sprixie Kingdom had all gone down the pipe to assist their lord, all but one. A rusty mechawful had struggled to come online, and had barely made it down the pipe. Now if a large ship was enough to sound like a cannon shot, imagine what happened when an entire castle was sent through? F.U.R.Y teleported to the rusty mechawful, and got sent flying out of the pipe, barely still within the atmosphere. F.U.R.Y was launched over the middle of an ocean, with some rocks scattered around that poked out of the water. The mechawfuls that were launched all had shattered from the fire of crashing back down, so F.U.R.Y just had to hold on tight and pray the impact wasn't too bad. The crash was rough, a good chunk of the west wing and a bit of the tower fell off, and some of the rocks pierced through the castle floors, but overall the castle was fine. As for F.U.R.Y, they weren't so lucky. Grin was bruised and his cloak was torn, he had bite marks from some of the kremlings and a shard of bowser's spikes stuck in his back. Midbus was roasted and could barely still move, in a cruelly ironic reversal of the last time he was beaten to near death. And Fawful's glasses were shattered, his cloak was gone and his dominant arm was temporarily paralyzed. However, despite losing everything they had worked for and maybe even more, F.U.R.Y didn't feel too bad over their loss. They instead focused on what survived, each other. Grin hugged Fawful, Fawful hugged Grin, and Midbus hugged the both of them. After all, when you're at rock bottom, where else can you go but up?

"The teleporter's gone, we're gonna be stuck here for a while. All of our rooms are still intact I think, just a bit messy is all, so we can sleep comfortably. We should probably fix this place up" Grin sighed, looking at what might as well have been an abandoned disgusting mansion instead of a grand evil lair. Fawful looked around holding his hands in a way that resembled a portrait, trying to get his vision for the new decor in his head. "When we are filled with vigor, the rocks will be first on our menu! Destroying them will be too much of a hassle, especially for Midbus who is feeling the heat of a summer volcano. That just gives us the juices of creativity though! Furururu-ughck" Fawul's little giggle was cut short as he wheezed and coughed, the smoke and fire from lake lapcat still heavily flooding his lungs. Grin tried to help Fawful with a bottle of water, but dropped it when he felt his bruises flare up. Midbus picked the both of them up, just touching them being a harsh sting on his crisp skin. "Save whatever grand plan you got for later. You can barely carry a person, I don't wanna see you pick up a tool box with that arm" Midbus groaned, carrying his lords to their bed so they could rest. Midbus looked out on the starry night sky, then he turned back to look at the knocked out Fawful and Grin. He could vaguely see 3 stars, red, blue and yellow. Midbus looked again at Fawful and Grin, both of them holding onto the pillow they were laying on as if they were still held by him. Midbus smiled to himself, and went to sleep in his room.

"And so the masterminds behind the Nimbus Land and Beanbean Kingdom attacks have been revealed! The infamous mercenaries Dieter, Kaley and Beef had used the image of the late mastermind Fawful to exact their own wicked desires. The chase for them is still o–" Geno turned off the radio on his little boat, sailing outwards to where he had calculated that BFF had landed. It was still gnawing at the back of his heart that he couldn't catch Fawful himself, even more so Grin after how thoroughly he made the whole ordeal personal, but he had to ease the public somehow. Other than a culprit, every loose end had been tied in his journey. He had helped out those hurt by F.U.R.Y's scheming, the snowmads and kremlings had been freed and were going under the radar, the koopa troop had been reunited with their king, and Nimbus Land and the Beanbean Kingdom had been repaired and brought back to peace. Well... there was one last bit, one that he'd have to think more on after he took care of the mercenaries. Speaking of those same mercenaries, he eventually found them stranded on a small island with a single coconut tree. The black goop that had been ingested into their systems had altered the three fitness fiends severely. Dieter's more stoic resting face now was given more menace, with sharp rabid teeth and two large fangs. His hat had either disappeared, or got brushed back and merged with his hat to form a sharp spike mohawk. Beef had grown a mouth and tusks, with his blobby skin solidifying slightly and removing his softness. And Kaley's cute wings and eyes being more sharp and reptilian, now her wings being tipped with claws.

Geno landed on the island and stood stoically, waiting as Dieter turned around and realized he was there. Kaley was the first to be filled to the brim with anger, flying directly towards Geno and scratching and clawing at him, which did leave marks on Geno's body but didn't do anything productive. Beef was next, pushing Kaley aside for Dieter to hold, as he prepared to use his newly grown mouth to tear Geno's head off. All Geno had to say was a simple "No.", firing a Geno Whirl right at Beef and knocking him out could, knocking Kaley out of Dieter's grasp and knocking her out too under his weight. Dieter looked at Geno with complete bitter disdain, understanding there wasn't any way out for him. "You just had to ruin it, didn't you? You just had to rain on our parade, you want a medal? Some sort of prize? Well done, you've won. What now? You're really just going to keep doing this until the end of your unusually long life? Your legacy will be forgotten, and no one will be alive to care about you. Leave us alone, I'd rather rot out here than in a cell" Dieter finished, turning to his fallen comrades and sitting on them, using Kaley's new sharp buck teeth as a toothpick. Geno had nothing to say, but he did have something to give. Dieter forcefully received a drink and a candy bar, as Geno purposely ate one of his own in a stiff puppet like manner. "I thought you might be hungry, so I brought this." Geno then pointed to the boat softly, with Dieter still refusing to move. Geno however was patient, and didn't move either "Why are you being so nice to me?" Dieter asked, confused. "What else can I do?" Geno then sat next to Dieter and waited.

Grin was working on cooking breakfast for Fawful and Midbus, he wasn't exactly the best at cooking, but maybe he could work some placebo magic. Fawful walked in looking exhausted, making a bunch of back and forth trips to drop off books that he found in the library of the castle, or rather what was left of it. "Fawful is missing his arm, it was my most favorite dominant arm. Good morning beloved! I am having most apologies for the lack of food, the shortage in mechawfuls is giving me headaching!" Fawful spoke exhausted, despite Grin waking up earlier than him to make breakfast, Fawful had spent a lot of his energy reading through ancient books about powerful artifacts. "You serious? We haven't even carved statues out of those rocks stuck in our floors yet! You need to take a break, or break something! Haha! Just relax, we'll get them next time" Grin spoke in a joyful tone, trying to cheer Fawful up in some way and cheer himself up too. Fawful looked for the closest mug in the room so he could chug enough coffee to re-energize himself. Fawful chugged his coffee and smacked his head against the table, "I have fury, but also hunger. Fawful will be here when the food is done" "As a matter of fact, it isn't! But I'm sure using a homemade flamethrower is the same as actually cooking it! Bone apple teeth!" Grin giggled as he slid the food down the broken table to Fawful and Midbus who just entered the room.

Later that day, Midbus was staring out on the ocean again, watching the waves and waiting for the perfect chance to strike. He still hadn't fully recovered from his burns, but he was well enough to use his ice powers again. Grin sat on his shell and watched, bored out of his mind. "What if we joined one of their go karting tournaments and made a bet to win the whole kingdom?" Grin asked, proposing outlandish ideas to get revenge on the puppet and cheer Fawful up. Midbus just shook his head if he didn't agree, or paused looking out on the sea to give Grin a side eye. "What? I'm just saying they'll invite anyone to those! I think they put in a caterpillar and a bee one year!" Midbus sighed, "you're nuts" before seeing the waves hit the perfect peak he needed. Midbus leaped out of the hole in the wall and breathed frost and snow on the waves, freezing them and making them launch high into the air due to the sudden shock of him dropping down. Midbus then used the disorder of the one ice wall he made to make more that surrounded the whole castle. While they weren't perfect at all, they did their job well protecting F.U.R.Y while they were defenseless at the moment. More waves crashed on the already built ice walls, which Midbus would use to make even bigger walls. Before long the whole castle was surrounded by what would look like an iceberg on the outside. Midbus climbed back through the hole and looked at the new defense, Grin being giddy watching. Midbus then picked Grin up by the back of his collar, holding him like a cat. "Lord Fawful plans round here. Stresses himself out. You make him smile, do that instead." Midbus then put Grin down and left to go to his room and train, Grin watching him leave laughing, "You totally liked the go kart plan!"

Fawful was sitting in the library again, setting up evidence boards and trying to do as much as he could with just one arm. He was looking back on his loss, trying to figure out how to prevent a fourth loss in the future. The planning on this endeavor had been pretty sloppy, and now it was in Fawful's head that insubordination was rampant! Just three low life mercenaries had swept all that he had worked for away from him, and they would have succeeded if the situation hadn't gotten even worse! And to top it all off, both the Red Stache and Turtle Breath had shown up! Red, red red red red red! It flooded his head! The beatings and brusings, his weakness in the face of a fat man who ate more than he used his head! Bad punishment, so much bad punishment! Fawful spiraled into hysteria again, he was weak, oh so very weak. He tried so hard, he never got off his feet, never wasted effort on a break and yet he still came up short! It was foolish of him to think he'd have the whole world, he had cut out too much and choked on eggs he had counted before they hatched. He needed to go on a smaller scale again, stay far away from the Red Stache at all costs. Anyone who was related to him, anyone! The puppet, Turtle breath, all of them! So much stress, where to choose! Where to go! What next, how would they even get out of this scenario! Fawful grabbed his head tightly, sitting on the floor and–

"Fawfs?" Grin asked in a concerned voice, walking in and sitting next to Fawful. Grin looked around at the boards, some of them had actual writing and ideas on them, but most were just scribbles of M's and fire and two red eyes. Fawful turned to Grin and held him shakily, "Are you having wellness? Is puppet boy still troubling you?" Grin looked down instantly hearing that, getting tensed up as he tried to maintain eye contact, but just failing. "He's still in my head, yeah. But better question, you good? You probably shouldn't be working yourself up like this so soon" Grin laid on Fawful's chest, looking at him and trying to ease him down. "Would you have disappointment if we were to not be conquering the world so soon? Fawful is under much pressure trying to fix the error of our villainy. There is much to be fixing, more tight planning and more isolation! They cannot be finding us until the time is late and their lives are flavors of icecream that everyone is forgetting! We are needing more strength! Midbus cannot have weakness, Grin cannot have weakness, Fawful cannot have weakness!" Fawful started to stand, looking at his boards again and trying to push past the headaches and near inability to move from his episode. Grin stood up as well and rubbed Fawful's shoulders. "Fawfs you're the strongest person I know, you'll figure this out. Genius can't work if it's all worked up, think of it like a bomb! You gotta let it calm down so everythings in place... THEN BOOM! HAHA!" Grin stopped massaging and laughed, with Fawful unable to resist and let his frustrations out by cackling with Grin. The stress didn't fully go away, but it did make the two feel a little better

Back over at Nimbus Land, a party was being held to celebrate the return of peace to the land and neighboring kingdoms. The fireworks could be seen from each of the kingdoms, with different fireworks being launched to celebrate each of the heroes that had contributed. Geno watched in a more isolated part of Nimbus Land at the hot tubs, as he wasn't exactly a people person. Besides, he also was thinking hard on the adventure, and not in a positive way. Most of the time he had to fight off a threat or stop a scheme. It was simple, or at least not like what he had just faced. Geno thought of Grin's rage, and how even if he had chosen a dangerous dark path, deep down there was an unfortunate truth as to why he gave in. He thought about Dieter's attempts to manipulate him and how he would outlive his family, it rang true and Geno had tried to ignore that for as long as he could. He wouldn't be corrupted by this, no, he knew what he was going to spend his life doing and he was committed to it. It was just uncomfortable to know. Geno's deep thought was interrupted though, when Mallow found him and gave him a hug. Mallow wasn't alone either, as behind him was Peach, Mario and Bowser, who had been looking for Geno. The four of them had been looking for Geno, and spent the rest of the celebration with him. Geno's spirits were raised, and in this small moment he felt content. He was lucky to be here, lucky enough to have this love and these bonds with him. And even when it was gone, Geno felt content knowing he had lived it to begin with.

A week had gone by since F.U.R.Y crash landed into some far off spot in the ocean, and they had made some progress with the poor hand they were given. The castle wasn't near the grand standing it held before, definitely not, but progress was progress. Some holes in the walls had been patched up after some trips to the mainland and back, and the power was back after a nasty ordeal with a giant electric eel. The rocks that had pierced the floor and kept them afloat were carved into three statues, each depicting one of the members of F.U.R.Y in their prime. The hole that Midbus had used to form the ice walls surrounding the castle was now a landing pad for the small amounts of mechawfuls Grin and Fawful had created. For a small group without a budget, F.U.R.Y had surprisingly been excellent at renovating their once ruined stronghold. To celebrate, Fawful had set up a ribbon cutting for F.U.R.Y and a small banquet. None of them knew which would actually cut the ribbon since no one had been, so instead there were three ribbons for each of them to cut. Fawful twirled fast enough to cut his, Grin bit through his because he thought it would be funny, and Midbus punched through his so hard he saw it fly out the launchpad. After the quick ceremony, it was time to feast!

There weren't enough tables for it to feel like a proper banquet, so instead all of the tables they could find were pushed together so it looked like a long royal table. The mechawfuls spent a good while preparing the dinner, and it was filled with all sorts of foods that could be described as "edible" and "can consume this". Midbus was the first to dig in, since even if it wasn't edible it wouldn't stop him. Fawful sat at the head of the table, doing his best to fix the meal for himself with any sort of seasoning and flavor. Usually he added at least 12 culinary handbooks into the mechawfuls databases so they could reach the near perfection of his cooking, but he also had to manage his resources well, so he was stuck with school cafeteria food. Grin was the last to eat, but only because he had to find napkins for everyone that didn't have one already, which was just the mechawfuls. He would have given some to the mutated birds he had flying around the castle, but due to the teeth he gave them they probably would have just torn them up. Grin's only problem with the food was the aftertaste, confusing Fawful on how he could eat this at all, which he didn't bother wondering the same about Midbus because he was Midbus. When the food was finished, Fawful dinged his glass with a fork, he had an announcement to make

"Furururu! You are all having such fondness in Fawful's heart, we are gathering here to feast and enjoy ourselves! At least... that is what Fawful was leading you to believe! I have discovered new destinations for us! In the kingdom nearby, there is much magic for us to be using! And the part of bestness? They are having an abundance! There is as much magic as there is leaves in a den of ants that run a gourmet restaurant! Wonder Flowers! They are not in bloom often, but the rare time of year that makes their petals bloom is when we will be striking! Now finish up your food, for Fawful is not done with the scheming and dreaming! Furururururu!" Fawful announced in a chipper tone, he still looked stressed but was covering it up with a devious look. Grin listened intently, and when his speech was finished he ate almost as fast as Midbus ate casually. Midbus on the other hand just dumped the three bowls of food he had directly into his mouth to get things over with. Grin, Midbus and the mechawfuls all stood back once they finished, watching as Fawful hunched over a small bag he had recently taken. Fawful held the bag tightly, before turning around and revealing a plastic bag that held blue glistening petals.

"Watch! Witness what wonder is possible with the simplicity of a flower!" Fawful exclaimed, as he took the petal out of its bag and used its power, warping the reality around himself and everyone. The Sprixies were just the beginning, their power was based solely on constructing imagination into reality, and that was limited. The Wonder Flowers had no such limit, as with the little power this single petal held, the castle was fully redecorated and refurbished again. It didn't just end there, either. The mechawfuls were modified into a new variant of mechawful that reigned during Fawful's time with the dark star, that being the dark mechawful.5. The wonder petal tried its best to go further beyond and make more mechawfuls, but gave out due to being just a small fragment of the actual flower. Midbus and Grin stood thoroughly impressed, looking at the now renewed castle and deadlier mechawfuls. The palace's color scheme had gone from dark blues, blacks and purples, to shades of red, orange, green, yellow, purple and brown that was reminiscent of Bean 'n' Badge! Midbus surprisingly was the first to express his excitement. "I'd be able to plow through at least 5 Bowsers! Great idea, Lord Fawful '' Midbus then leaned on one of the dark mechawful.5's, glaring it as he cracked his knuckles, ready to see what this new model was capable of. Grin looked out a window and saw some of his birds he created flying around and screeching at each other, "Just imagine what kind of monstrosities I could make with that thing! Hehe! I wouldn't even need it to have a sensical organ system!" Fawful threw the bag away and hopped onto the table, "Then our next goal is set! The Flower Kingdom will be blossoming into the age of F.U.R.Y! Eeeyah hah hah!"

You "wake up". You turn to your old alarm clock, if it weren't for your dead end job it would probably be just as dusty as your dreams, if you even did dream. No, no, your sleep was just like it was yesterday, and the day before that, and the week before that, and whatever happened beyond then, it's all fuzzy. Why bother remembering monotony anyway? Before your rhetorical question can be answered by the thin musty air in your cramped "bedroom", the alarm clock begins going off. "That's odd" you think, as you push yourself to flimsily turn off the damn thing, "I'm usually on top of that..". You slam the alarm clock off and get out of bed in your work uniform, its bright colors somehow still being as obnoxious as ever, despite this basically being the only thing you ever wear, why bother changing clothes when you only ever go to one place? You sigh and get some deodorant and cologne so you don't smell, as well as some mouthwash to at least not have your breath smell like a dumpster. Just another day... just another uneventful day... Just. Another. Day.... But that isn't Grin's life anymore, is it? We're finishing this story how it started, but this time, we're doing it right

Grin woke up. He turned to look at Fawful in their shared bed and smiled, if it weren't for him he wouldn't be here to begin with living the dream. A dream that changed day after day, a sleep that would at one moment be aboard a stolen ship, the next as the king of a kingdom, and the next in a lair in the middle of the ocean. It was all so hectic but it all stood out to him. Grin got up and fed his latest abomination, a creature that could vaguely fit the role of a weird Fawful looking dog. Grin put on his cloak over his pj's, although he had a wide enough variety of clothes to put on, his cloak was nostalgic to him now. Why wear anything else when this outfit made him feel special? Grin looked out the window to watch the waves crash, before running through the halls to greet each mechawful like they were alive. Grin then went to his lab, sitting down on his spinny chair to spin around and watching his latest creations come to life in front of his eyes. They all had to be in tip top shape, he couldn't be looking sloppy in front of the people he would soon rule over, now could he? Fawful walked into the lab as well, placing down his toolbox to start working on more dark mechawful.5's. Grin scooted over to Fawful to kiss him on the cheek, which made Midbus roll his eyes and stick out his tongue, before smirking and standing by to guard his masters. Of course, things never go fully as planned for F.U.R.Y, and it seems the new chimera had gotten a bit of an attitude! "Oh goodie!" Grin thought, "I can test out this creature's power AND my latest bombs!" Yep. Just another day for Grin. Just another day for F.U.R.Y. Just. Another. Day

The End