Meanwhile, back at the Beanbean Kingdom, the assistant to Queen Bean, Lady Lima, was negotiating with someone, or rather multiple people. "So, you know that fiend personally, hm?" Lady Lima was met with a pompous laugh, as the figure's shades seemed to narrow towards something Lady Lima had behind her. "Know him? Honey, we're well acquainted with that loser! Hah! Why he's like the brother we never wanted!" A more cutesy feminine chimes in, replying "No silly! A brother isn't the right word! He's more like a whiny cousin!" Before the first voice could reply, a third deep and growly voiced shut both of them up. "What're you paying us?" This brought the other two back from their insult session and moved the conversation back on topic. Lady Lima then held out a massive bag of coins, so heavy the poor lady almost broke her back trying to lift it. "All yours if you stop Fawful, is that a deal?" The cutesy one and the snarky one then laughed, stating back and forth that, "We'll take your loot, and do it in style to boot!" "We're cute!" "And we're brutes! And we don't ask questions, we just shoot!" "That's why we're... Brute Force Federation! Or BFF for short!" "Sing it girl!" Dieter exclaimed, to which Kaley once again chanted, "Brute! Force! Federation!" The hunt for F.U.R.Y was on now, as not only was the puppet on their trail, but now to was Dieter, Kaley, and Beef, the BFF's

The first order for F.U.R.Y was to find the easiest place to conquer now that they weren't a big priority for their enemies, at least the enemies they knew they had. This is where the stolen prison records would become extremely useful. Fawful plugged the hard drive into the ship's computer, making sure to make as many copies of it as he could so that if anything happened to the ship, he'd still have the info. Grin and Midbus sat at the table in the room and looked at the giant map, watching as Fawful schemed and planned. Fawful's eyes then seemed to ignite with a rage that seemed almost primal, before he turned to face Grin and Midbus with a huge sinister grin. "Midbussss, Grinnnn, did either of you have knowings that the Red Stache fink rat had his own island?" Both Grin and Midbus were surprised upon hearing this, as Fawful showed a map of a tropical island belonging to Mario himself. It had a humongous castle, beautiful scenery and climates, a statue in Mario's own image, a pumpkin yard, a giant house, a hippo statue, a koopa statue, and a giant tree that held a weird "name" no one could quite pronounce. "Revenge is a dish best prepared cold so is the saying, and what's colder than thievery that is full of pettiness? Furururu! Of course, redecorating will be needed, and it is not having the bigness to have subjects in, but starting small is not below us! Now! Our course is set! Eeyah ha ha ha!" Grin laughed with Fawful,and Midbus left to make the mechawfuls change course to head towards Mario Island

Grin was in his room, working on his brews again when inspiration struck him. While trying to perfect his brews, he accidentally had created one more explosive than he had intended, blowing away his progress and leaving him covered in smoke. Grin couldn't help but laugh at his own failure. He then thought back to the fireworks from last night, and then back to firing mind control bombs on the Beanish flagship, and even further with chucking shells and explosives out of the Clown Car during the prison riot. Why was Grin remembering all this at once? Well it was a newfound passion he hadn't realized. Explosives! Grin came to this realization seeing just how funny he found even a small explosion that was ultimately useless. It wasn't just the adrenaline of his new life he enjoyed, but the blasts and eruptions that seemed to follow him wherever he went. With this newfound inspiration, Grin started to work on and perfect his newfound craft of bomb making. This also made carrying things easier, as no longer would he have to cling bottles to his belt, but have it replaced with smaller more effective compact home made explosives! He worked and worked on these, and started to just play around with his craft in general, seeing how much versatility he could gain from the simple idea of making a cloud of smoke and destruction. Of course, Grin didn't just focus on explosions, he also worked on things to boost and help out Fawful and Midbus, creating a wide variety of potions that he littered in his cloak. Who would've known that working a dead end job at Starbeans would come in handy?

Once Grin had finished, he looked around the Cruiser for Fawful to show off his new equipment. Mechawfuls filled the halls and greeted him with their usual cheery mechanical voices, "HELLO LORD GRIN!" "DID YOU ENJOY LAST NIGHT'S ENTERTAINMENT LORD GRIN?" "ALL HAIL OUR LORDS" "BEEP BOOP! WE ARE TOTALLY ANOTHER MACHINE! BEEP!" That last message made Grin very confused, turning around to see a very strange mechawful. Its outer shell still looked like a mechawful, the usual lime green and bulky shape, it was just odd in other weird ways, like its hands looking more like hands painted black and less like the usual wrecking ball hands or ray gun hands, or how the antenna on its head was more hair like. Grin looked at that specific mechawful for a bit, observing it, staring into its eyes to see if anything else was then picked up that it sounded like it was speaking in what sounded like two voices at once, "IS SOMETHING WRONG MY LORD?" The bot moved back a little, as Grin looked down at its legs, seeming skinnier wearing white boots. Grin shrugged this off, there had to have been factory errors every once in a while, especially with how hands off the process was. Grin then left to continue looking for Fawful, leaving the "mechawful" on its lonesome. Inside this mechawful wasn't gears and gizmos, but instead it was BFF, who had used a scrapped mechawful they had lying around from their last rodeo with Fawful, to follow the other mechawfuls, and thus the F.U.R.Y cruiser! BFF then snuck around the ship to find where it was heading, and beat the cruiser there!

Grin eventually found Fawful, who was sitting at a table in his room looking at a map he had made to try and organize his options more thoroughly. Grin excitedly and jokingly placed one of his bombs onto the part of the map that had Mario Land, making a "KSSHHHHHhhhh, BOOoooom!" noise. Fawful let out a weak laugh, as he moved the explosive away to try and focus again. Grin sat next to him and looked at the map, it was made off of the stolen records from before, now in physical form and in a more clear visual form. There were kingdoms on the map that Grin had never seen, all so varied and beautiful, perfect for the taking. The duo seemed to have different approaches on making a first move and general plans. Fawful's priorities were kingdoms that looked nice to live in, as well as people he thought could be brainwashed easily. Meanwhile, Grin looked for places that would give himself another rush again, leading him to focus on places you wouldn't expect to find a kingdom, like for example Kong Island. "I am having curiosity on your thoughts! What is your action?" Fawful asked, pointing to the map and moving back. "SHOW THE WORLD WHO'S BOSS! We're strong enough, we could just take all of these places if we wanted!" Grin then pointed to random kingdoms on the map and made more explosion noises with his mouth, Fawful watching on, finding this adorable

The time eventually came, as the cruiser flew closer and closer, the vague shape of an island began to fizzle into view. Fawful stood on the deck with Grin and Midbus, and a legion of mechawfuls behind all of them. You'd have thought Fawful had been waiting a lifetime for this moment, given the fire in his eyes and the bravado in his attitude. There was no big speech or monologue, no vocal command, instead the cruiser flew closer and closer to the island with a collective determination in the air. Grin looked at the island, seeing all its landmarks and different zones, when something caught his eye. The Mario statue, it seemed different from the photo's used. The mechanical, almost toy soldier vibe that you would find at a theme park, was replaced by something else. Instead, a giant papercraft stood in its place, its outfit was white and red, standing on a fiery platform that looked like it moved a little. Grin thought the statue was a bit suspicious, but his train of thought was interrupted when Fawful's arm dropped in an arrow forward, with the legion of mechawfuls flying out to take each zone of the island, and finally the castle that stood at the center of the island. Fawful started to laugh maniacally, as he shouted with a cathartic enthusiasm in his voice "FAWUL IS NEVER HAVING DEFEAT FOR LONG! FURURURURU!-" Fire. Fire started to rain down on a lot of the mechawfuls. Grin turned to his first suspect, and stood shocked as the papercraft statue of Mario turned towards the trio. Looks like this won't be so easy after all...

Fawful turned and instantly commanded his bots to fly above the fire, turning back towards the cruiser and preparing to fight against the papercraft pretender. The papercraft began to move, and since F.U.R.Y were flying above, they had no way to see that it was BFF who was operating this origami oppressor. The Papercraft replaced the mechanical toy Mario statue, as it was a relic from a recent adventure, where a paper world had mixed with the real world. Neither teams of three knew this however, and just saw it as a tool to their aid, or a thorn in their side respectively. Despite being carried by a twig, a blue bird, and a pink marshmallow, the papercraft was surprisingly fast and lethal as it set ablaze the mechawfuls. The bots swooped and sweeped and swung at the giant statue, to no avail as its light limbs swatted and shot blazes of fire at them. If that didn't work? All it had to do was rush itself into them and the surprisingly durable and fire proof paper would snap the machines into pieces. Grin watched in confused panic, spazzing out as he reached for the bombs on his belt, chucking them relentlessly at the statue from the deck. This seemed like a good idea at first, until the statue then noticed the cruiser. Fawful, now severely understaffed, began to fire as many cannons as he could at once, with Midbus helping. It worked for a bit, at least that's what F.U.R.Y thought, until they saw the statue shaking in place. The statue was then launched into the air, crashing into the cruiser and sending it flying in a humiliating defeat. "Wait, crap we were supposed to catch them-" Dieter mumbled. Beef rolled his eyes and Kaley's wings gave out, as the weight of the papercraft collapsed and fell into a river.

In the distance, two red wooden eyes stare, watching this all go down.

The Cruiser was sent flying high into the air, spinning and sputtering, before its engines would then give out and leave F.U.R.Y hanging onto the cruiser, falling further and further and closer and closer to the expansive ocean depths. F.U.R.Y clawed to get back on their feet, and when they did their mission was clear: save the cruiser, save their skins. Fawful got his headgear on to fly around instead of dealing with the weight of his feet on a falling hunk of junk, flying to the main computers and trying to reactivate them. Grin got his barings after a while, and followed in Fawful's footsteps via activating his jet boots and trying to help find a way to save the cruiser. Grin couldn't think through the high stakes and thus couldn't directly help Fawful, so he flew towards Midbus to work out another plan "Midbus! Can you crawl down to the engines?! I need you to plant these bombs in there to maybe explode ourselves back into flight, give Fawfs more time!" Midbus didn't reply, but he started to crawl and rush under the ship, hanging on with his bare hands and claws and shoving small little pipes into the ports. "Midbus! Are they set!?" Grin panicked on the speaker, with Midbus grunting that "Water's gettin closer, detonate now!" Grin hesitated, as he had no clue if Midbus would survive the blunt force of the explosion, but without much of a choice, Grin detonated the bombs, at the same moment that Fawful got the main engines back on, launching the cruiser back into the air and almost towards the stars, saving the cruiser and F.U.R.Y from a watery demise

Lift off was shaky, the exhaust pipes were damaged a bit from the explosive launch, but that could be repaired in no time. Aside from the minor damage, F.U.R.Y was still in action! Grin sent out some mechawfuls to scan for Midbus, who was lucky enough to have held on long enough and not fallen. Midbus groaned and climbed back aboard, looking at Grin for a bit. Grin couldn't make sense of his expression, but that didn't matter since Grin was thankful he survived. "You alright? I didn't realize we had so little time! I should o–" Grin was cut off by Midbus, simply pinching his mouth to get him to stop talking. "My job'sta protect you two. I was doin my job. I'm good" Midbus, despite clearly being hurt and scratched from the blast, acted as if it wasn't more than a light needle. Grin couldn't help but be worried for Midbus anyway though, and dragged him to his room. Grin then acted as a makeshift nurse, working with the ingredients on board to heal Midbus back to his usual bulldozer self. "I don't care if I'm your Lord, we're all in this together! You helped me, so I'll help you. I have as much respect for you as you do for Fawfs." Midbus didn't respond other than a nod, but greatly appreciated the help, as before Grin left to see if Fawful was ok, Midbus lowly said that "next time make sum'in more explosive, that was nothin" It was thanks in Midbus's own way.

Fawful was seething in his room, crumbling crude hate filled drawings of the Red and Green stache, as well as throwing darts at pictures of them he had scribbled and painted. They looked like unworldly demons, a hydra in the shape of a blue collar plumber, that seemed to have eyes deep and filled with malice, as the creature's disgusting limbs seemed to have more in common with a toolbox than a living creature. Hammers, shoes, shells, flame throwers, electrical plugs, wands, and sharp teeth like knives. Fawful continued throwing and ranting to himself when Grin found him. "Fawfs! You ok? We might have to fix up the cruiser a bit but otherwise we're good! ...Fawful?" Grin was then shocked to see what looked like a mad man's mind splashed around the room. Papers all with the letters M and B on them, with the occasional logo that resembled the Koopa King. "Stupid fink rats! Fawful HATES them! Every turn I am taking leads me to their staches of lice and head trauma! Stupid Stupid Stupid Stupid! I am having so much fury!" These were the kinds of things Fawful ranted as he threw whatever he didn't need intact at the dart board. Grin stood there shocked and worried, inching forward and shyly trying to calm Fawfs down. "You know... There's always next time! You'll get them soon, I know!" It seemed to fall on deaf ears though, as Fawful picked up another dart and prepared to throw, before shaking and wiping his eyes. Fawful then dropped the dart and ran to punch the dart board, but was stopped by Grin holding him back.

"Please, I am needing you to let go of Fawful" Fawful said after a moment of silence. The anger was still there, but Fawful was being as calm as he could to Grin despite that. Grin pulled back and refused, "I'm not letting go! I get you're mad, I am too, but you can't let those two dolts drive you insane! Please" Grin begged, as Fawful shook and stood in silence for a moment. Fawful then clutched his head and sat down, the dart board overhead and the scribbles looking like they almost cornered him. Grin sat next to Fawful and let him let it out, as Fawful's anger boiled over as he cried. There weren't any words spoken between the two of them for a bit, the room growing darker and darker as time went by. "Thorns on my side. They smash and bash and crash Fawful's head many times. Thorns that are never leaving and have stings of wasps covered in hand sanitizer in the open wound of my tears!" Fawful spoke lowly and as clearly as he could. Grin hugged Fawful, not exactly knowing what to say to ease the crazed pain Fawful was in. "Well, you've survived again and again! You're bigger than them, you'll succeed one day, me at your side! It's us against the world! I've never met someone as resilient and determined as you, you'll be ok, I know it. And if you aren't? I'll pick you up every time you fall down" Fawful finally smiled again and looked at Grin, as he let out a little titter and said playfully "All this over a papercraft of poor mustache hair" Grin also tittered and joked along, "Why would he wear white when playing with fire, the smoke would ruin his clothes more than they already are!" The two sat in the dark room for hours, cheering each other up with their jokes together.

One kingdom down the drain was no big deal with as many options that F.U.R.Y had to try once again. It was clear that plain brute force wasn't going to work, at least with the numbers F.U.R.Y had at the moment. That message however should have been carried over to BFF, who were searching their hideout for something. Malatone, or at least a diluted weaker version of it based on the actual steroid, Malatone:X. BFF consisted of three members. First was Dieter, their leader, skinny and tall in figure, who wore fashionable shades and even more fashionable white boots that complemented his black outfit and sharp pink chin and skin. Next up was Kaley, the cute factor. Her blue hair was almost as long as her wings, and her cheery nature was almost as addictive as the supplements she took to maintain that bubbly nature. Finally was Beef, the brawn. It was unclear if his deep sunken eyes was a product of his blobby brawn, but what was clear was that his silent nature was made up for in his deadly combative prowess.

BFF eventually found the malatone, bickering and fighting for their doses, as they were all exhausted and tired and felt weaker. Malatone might as well have been their blood with how much they were taking. Malatone was a steroid that shot up your adrenaline and invigorated every muscle cell in your body, at the cost of your brain basically shutting down. BFF was no stranger to Malatone:X, and in fact had used it to such a degree that they had fused into one creature. However, that plan fell short, and so now they were left weaker and dependent on this knock off version of Malatone to "make them as strong as they once were". Most of their loot was now spent on Malatone, and they were desperate to get back on their feet since their last failure. "Dieter you're hogging it again! You don't even do that much!" "Well I'm sorry I want the pleasure of knocking that little twerp over myself!" "Beeef! Get Dieter to stop!" "You stick to your supplements, I stick to this!" Kaley and Dieter were going at each other again, as Beef tried to do anything else but listen to them. Once their cravings were settled, Dieter struck a flamboyant pose alongside Kaley and Beef, "You may not be the BFF you count on, but BFF is never down for the co–" A loud buzzer noise was heard from their stolen mechawful, as Dieter paused and tapped his foot since he didn't get to finish his epigram. BFF then noticed something odd, F.U.R.Y was heading towards Krem Isle of all places. "What could they possibly want with that ugly duckling of a place? Everyone there is so unfit!" Kaley squealed

Krem Isle. Home of the Kremling Krew, or at least it was before their last King caused a fiasco that sunk the isle to the bottom of the sea. The old Kremling King hasn't been seen in years, and the newly reformed Kremlings were aching for some revenge after the loss of their home land. That would be where F.U.R.Y would strike, that's where they'd build their forces, that's where they'd get their scapegoats for all their new endeavors. First however, they'd have to find the Kommander himself: King K Rool. You'd think it'd be easy to find a giant walking sassy crocodile with a bad case of pink eye and DID, but it's also not easy to find a wanted pirate king either. This was the conundrum Fawful had caught himself in, as he, Grin and Midbus began to try and figure out where to find the tyrant. There was no clear place to start, you could check the Northern Kremisphere, a region holding a connection to a mythical banana fairy, and also home to a deserted castle once belonging to K rool. There was also Yoshi's Island, as it was the closest island near Kong Island and Krem isle, a perfect place to retreat for a while, as well as possibly take over and make a home base. Both these options seemed likely, but Fawful had a secret ace in the hole just in case neither option worked. While Fawful planned out F.U.R.Y's routes, Grin noticed something. In one of the darkest corners of the ship, Grin thought he saw something. Something that just kept staring at him and wouldn't let him be, a stare that felt like it didn't blink, a stare that felt like it came from... the puppet.

Up first was the Northern Kremisphere, not just for the possibility of finding K Rool, but because of something that could give F.U.R.Y a warm welcome to the Kremlings. This "warm welcome" was actually the husk of a machine, KAOS, a machine used to serve as the makeshift ruler while K Rool was in hiding for a time. The cruiser's new course was set, and Fawful being Fawful, decided to get in area appropriate gear by wearing an outfit you'd find on a canadian lumberjack. Grin started to study the region so they'd be more inconspicuous while traveling the area, instead of parking their giant vessel into the middle of the water. Grin, now with a newfound honed knowledge, started to engineer and tinker on a custom speedboat to traverse the rivers. Grin had decided that he was going to focus on doing this himself, to prove to not just Fawful, but to himself that he could succeed at his second passion. It was difficult and sometimes made Grin want to rip out his roots, but he was determined to not just finish the project, but perfect it. The bumps in the road however did change Grin's tune, from the blasters he added to it backfiring and shooting at him and making him laugh from the excitement, to somehow building a helicopter instead of a boat. Eventually, Grin finished with flying colors, celebrating to himself as Fawful and MIdbus watched. "He's a dork" Midbus whispered to Fawful, with him replying "Aren't we all? Fururu!"

Even if the surprise was ruined for Fawful since he had already seen it, he was still pleasantly impressed by Grin's hard work. Grin proceeded to then show off all of his hard work proudly. "So I know a speedboat isn't too cool compared to the walking tin can army you have, but I did this all on my own for one thing, AND I added as many things as I could! The coolest I think is the helicopter fans I added! I'll admit it wasn't supposed to be here at first, I accidentally built a helicopter instead! But then I thought to use that mistake and give us a flying boat! That'd go well with the rockets I added from some broken mechawfuls!" The presentation went on like this for a bit, with some of the mechawfuls watching making a fake snore noise since none of them could actually sleep. Even though Fawful could do better, he was still very intrigued and interested in the detailed explanations and ramblings of Grin. Eventually, it was just the two of them in the workshop after all the mechawfuls and Midbus had been bored to death. "Your creativity brings Fawful most delight! I am filled with rush and inspiration to be making new creations!" Grin heard this and was filled with excitement as well, "IMAGINE SOME PIRANHA LIKE MACHINES! That'd go well with the boat!" Fawful was filled with glee as well, as he got out a wrench and screwdriver from underneath his cloak! "We will have creation!"

Fawful pressed a button and revealed some odd creatures that Grin had never seen before, some that seemed less technical than their mechawful brethren. They almost seemed... organic. This freaked Grin out a bit as he stared at them, their mouths gaping wide and missing their teeth and eyes to an extent. Fawful looked at Grin's disturbed face and patted him on the back, "In this state they are having the charm of a wrinkly old cat who is very person repulsed! Fawful's pets will be back to life again with your help! Furururu!" Grin swallowed his fear and nodded. As scared as Grin was looking at what might just be some animal corpses, he was also somewhat electrified by the prospect of such a complex task. Wires and circuitry was one thing, but flesh and bones? Revitalizing a whole brain? It was a sure step up, and one that Fawful seemed proud to bring Grin onboard with. First things first was a bulky lizard like creature, the one missing its teeth and eyes that Grin had been freaked out by. "This here is a Crawful, most beautiful creature in my image! It was in peak green shape before I even had fawfulization of it! Of course Fawful needed to have re-mixing of its eyes in the batter of Fawful!" Grin stared at the glass like eyes, poking at it and analyzing it, intrigued at how it looked like a glass eye yet functioned as a real one. Grin inserted one of the eyes into the crawful's eye socket, and was shocked when it looked back at him

It took a while and a lot of lightning, as well as rewatching Frankenstein because it'd be more dramatic, but eventually a bunch of crawfuls were walking around and biting at thin air again. The creatures immediately warmed up to Grin, and Grin, while still a bit spooked, warmed up to them too. Fawful pet one of the crawfuls as he looked at Grin with a grin. "I am filled with surprise! You are having more giftedness than Santa Claus after he steals a child's cookies! And to think you had fear, Furururu!" Grin chuckled, trying to figure out why it took barely any time for him to get a grasp on making mutants than it did machines, but he just shrugged it off and replied with "Well someone's got to pick up the slack!" Fawful laughed and pointed to the other creatures that lay dormant in the room, "Then we have not the time to dally with! Sprinkle your condiments of creativity, we are going to have stuckness for a bit!" Grin got to work, mixing in his brews and ingredients from his bombs for something less explosive, but just as volatile! Soon, fawfloppers and fawflants and chain chawfuls ran around without a care in the world, all to Grin's unfiltered amusement! The workshop was filled with more life than it had ever had, all kept quarantined in the underbelly of the ship so it wouldn't wreak havoc on the technology above! Fawful and Grin were so caught up in their mad science, they hadn't even realized they had made it to the Northern Kremisphere!

Although unintentional, the Northern Kremisphere would be a perfect testing grounds for the newly fawfulized animals! An expansive chunk of land with varying climates and conditions, perfectly suited for the wide selection of freaks of nature sitting cooped up in the lower compartments of the cruiser. The cruiser started to make its landing, finding the nearest strip of pure long land it could so the landing would be as smooth as possible. This proved harder than it should have, with just how many trees there were and how much water filled the region. The snowy mountains, while perhaps containing the space needed, was ineffective for the greater mass of creatures on board. There were canyons that also had deep long spaces that could fit a ship, but their deep depths and the uncertainty of if the fawfulized animals would make it out and live up to their nature of being an invasive species. Grin was trying to brainstorm any sort of solution, as while they could land in a forest and risk the damage to the ship and cargo, the attention brought to them wouldn't be worth the risk. Fawful on the other hand had no need to brainstorm, he instead had a thought to make one bright idea, into something so much more. "Grin, Workshop! We are needing a water landing!"

Back to the lab again, and now with another ridiculous idea: Take this military grade cruiser into a military grade seaplane... while in mid air too! For any normal engineer such a feat would seem insane and take extraordinarily long, but Grin and Fawful weren't any normal geniuses. Instead of thinking of a practical way to go about this, Grin had the idea that "We could get reaaally stretchy arms on our backs to swing around and have the mechawfuls help attach the floaties!" Fawful was laughing at what seemed like an infinite thought of ideas, proposing his own outlandish plans. "Maybe we are having flight low and adding springs to our shoes! We have flight and nail and hammer not only the cruiser, but the enemy's of F.U.R.Y! Eeyah ha ha ha!" This went back and forth for a while, with Midbus walking by and not bothering to even pretend he cared at the moment. The plan was eventually set in stone. Mechawfuls would be put into the floats so they could attach themselves to the cruiser, then detach themselves when the fawfulized animals were all on land. "Straight out of an action movie! I gotta get some shades for this" Grin shouted as he ran to his room to get more in style, with Fawful watching and almost sawing his hand off with a buzz saw since he was more focused on Grin's joy.

"Grin log, one hundred, the clock hit midnight a bit ago. 12:14 am, relatively windy and dark. Altitude is...I have no clue, but we're high. They'll never know what hit–," Grin was cut short when Fawful and Midbus came out looking exhausted. "You coulda done that off the speaker, yaknow." Grin rubbed his arm in embarrassment, and Fawful went back to get at least a gallon of coffee to wake himself up. Grin on the other hand sipped some tea since he felt like spicing things up, and watched his partner chug an entire gallon of coffee like it was nothing. Neither seemed to realize Midbus had raided the whole pantry and fridge while they were busy, and to be frank? If they did notice they wouldn't have stopped him, considering one just chugged 3 times the lethal amount of caffeine, and one willingly drank a british drink. Detour aside, once everyone was well adjusted, the cruiser deactivated its jets and began hurling straight for the waters below. The difference between this and last time was clear, as the crash landing was missing one thing that Fawful could never, ever miss out on.
Presentation!

A huge splash and wave hit the Eastern Kremisphere, as waves of creatures big and small, old and young, new and outdated all started to ravage and make this ecosystem their own. Fawful looked on like a proud father, as much of the wild life were helpless to stop the stampede of smiling bastardizations of nature. Grin however felt a much deeper sense of pride. In a field he had never really thought about before, Grin was excelling! These things, these new species would for sure outlive him if successful. It was a feeling he hadn't realized he had wanted to have. His days of doing nothing for nobody with no purpose, no one would ever recognize him or hear his name and think of something big. It's something Fawful himself seems to have also escaped, or is at least trying too. Now it'd be crazy to say that this was the moment Grin fully turned to the darkside, but it was a very strong awakening in Grin. He was good at this, really good, and it was something many more people would know. Not only that, he had wanted posters now and a legacy building up. Grin's pride grew and grew, and so too did his ego. HE did this. HE and Fawful, two nobodies were becoming something much, much more. Grin's composure outwardly changed, as he walked to the edge of the cruiser and started to giggle and giggle and giggle and cackle and cackle maniacally. "AAAAAAHAHAHAH! YOU SEE THAT FAWFS!? I FEEL LIKE A GOD! GO! GO MY FAWFULIZATIONS! GO! AAAAAHAHAHAHAH!" Fawful and Midbus watched, both speechless. Fawful couldn't help but blush and smile at the sudden spike of charisma.

Once every fawfulized animal was released, the cruiser rose back from the water and detached the floats so the mechawfuls could begin scouting and find KAOS. Grin didn't move however, he needed his pride to be aching like a stubbed toe, it wasn't enough. Grin called for a mechawful, awaiting its reply of "WHAT CAN I DO FOR YOU LORD GRINLEE?" When that reply came, Grin didn't hesitate to tamper with it so he could make it a makeshift camera. Despite Grin not being as good with technology as Fawful was, a camera was a camera, and all Grin had to do was make it fly, which he did. Once it was sent out, Grin watched with glee as his little monsters ravaged the land more. Fawful took notice of this and couldn't not join in, watching as well. "Grin! Fawful hasn't seen such fury from you before! It gives me..." Grin suddenly became sheepish, turning away and covering his face with his hands. "Oh right, listen I didn't mean t–" "FURY TOO! Fawful is having much fury with you! Such blossoming into evil! Such power! Fawful is almost flustered! Fururu! And the evil laugh has had much improvement!" Grin was caught completely off guard in the best possible way, grinning a big goofy sinister grin. "Welllllll in that case, let's see where my fury leads us~! Aaaahahahah!" The two then laugh together and continue watching their dreams of cruelty at work.

Neither of the two had realized how long this would take, as they had both knocked out watching the mechawfuls and fawfulized animals in action. Dozing off into another dream world, Grin looked on at what felt like an impossibility. He stood next to Fawful, both of them clad in more elegant and revered cloaks, sitting on thrones and awaited by soldiers and machines and Fawful chimeras alike. Grin got up and walked through the halls, the decor seemed even more expensive than that of the previous castles the duo had visited, and it didn't seem like it was usurped either. Grin looked for a window that wasn't stained glass so he could get a better view of the outside. A kingdom in dedication to the duo, the gothic scenery and steampunk design philosophy felt like a dream come true. Fawful followed Grin and opened the giant doors, holding his hand and guiding him via roads that felt amongst the clouds, clouds that floated past a purple black and blue sky. "They are bowing to us, a world where crazy is genius and the whole world has MADNESS! Furururu! And Fawful is owing it all to you!" Grin smirked and dipped Fawful, giving him a kiss as fireworks went off, a beautiful display to their greatness and power. Grin's dream felt like it could go on forever, like a wish come true.

A wish... A wish falls on star hill, a secluded dream-like summit where one can physically look and find out about someone's wishes. It's usually not visited by most, the few visitors that do are usually there for magic reasons, or much darker machinations. This visit was the former, as Geno walked down memory lane, trying to connect the pieces of his current case. He had visited the Beanbean Kingdom to help them rebuild and recapture the criminals that had escaped in the riot. He had done this in the Mushroom Kingdom as well, especially so since he had friends there that could have been threatened and hurt. Geno, while appearing stoic due to his puppet body, couldn't help but feel worried for his friends, even if they could take care of themselves. He couldn't find any clue on Fawful's current location, any bases he could find were all evacuated or destroyed, and it seemed like he had vanished off the face of the earth after getting defeated at Mario Land, which Geno could easily deduce wasn't his demise. It seemed like a dead end. That was... until he found a wish that he hadn't noticed before. Geno picked it up and examined it, he always enjoyed finding a new wish, it was someone's happiness that he could help grant... at least that was his usual thought process. Geno stopped and realized who this wish was from. Grin. Geno, despite the small amounts of anger now bubbling in him, still gently set down Grin's wish before departing. Geno then calmed himself down and smirked, he finally had a lead.