ggsworldstory

[ggsworldstory]

Chapter 3 Act 1: Maize madness

Swiftly sliding across the landscape, the masked hunter had traveled far and wide,gliding across torrents worth of water that she commanded beneath her feet, the wind relentlessly whipping through her ginger hair,stopping only for a moment to speak into her wrist communicator, “he’s close, I can feel it…”

Meanwhile, GG and Terry were approaching the sight of their latest adventure, after all the excitement they’d been through not long ago, they were more than in need of some unwinding but as they trekked onwards, Terry couldn’t help but notice his dapperly dressed friend was looking rather glum, his head down, staring deep into the reflection of his gold crown

“Something up?” Terry raised concern

“Wha? oh it's nothing, just thinking… it’s been so long since I seen Jess last, and even longer outside of a dream while I was in a coma, I’m happy to be seeing the world and all, but it’s just not the same without her, I don’t know if she’s still stuck in that casino, dead or alive or… or….” GG spiraled, his mind racing with horrid possibilities 

“woah woah, calm down, gotta say, it’s not like you to be so worried”

“I’m sorry, it’s just different, I mean I’ve been doing good on her promise, at least I think I am but still, y’know?”

“Eh, can’t say I do, not like I've got any experience with relationships”

“Oh well, y’know, me n her, we weren't … officially, uhhhh, technically…”

“You never told her how you felt, did you?”

“I never told her”

“Yeesh, you really were a coward before I met you, huh?”

“Hey!”

“I’m just messing with ya, still, it’s no use getting so worked up over past mistakes instead of moving forward, you of all people should know that well”

“Yeah, I guess…”

Soon enough, the delinquent duo had arrived at their destination,a small town pop-up fair. In an instant, GG could feel his spirits lifted, even if just a little as he was soaking in the cozy autumn atmosphere as the two approached the main event, the corn maze.

“It’s a lot bigger in person…” GG said in awe

“Yep” the person running the ticket counter remarked “just last week we had 5 separate search and rescue teams get called and half of them ended up getting lost too!” he smugly japed with a hearty guffaw “but sir, you are gonna have to leave that behind” he said, turning to Terry

“My Jetpack?” 

“Sorry, Corn maze policy” he said pointing to a sign of guidelines which GG approached to inspect more closely 

“Yup, says right here, no cacti, no camouflage, no jetpacks… no robots?”

“87’ Don’t ask.”

“Well, meet ya on the other side!” GG exclaimed as he immediately bolted headfirst into the maze, moving up and down and all around, making every sharp turn with focus and agility until he was outta the maze before so much as a goal post could even get there

“Ha ha! Now that was fun!” he said with a chuckle

“Tell me about it” Terry said as he stood there

“How did-?!” GG was taken aback before he took another look at his surroundings and found he’d just ran back to the start of the maze

“All this time and you still can’t stop yourself running headlong into everything, huh?” the cowboy lightheartedly snarked

“You should really be used to it by now”

The two gave their tickets and made their way inside the harrowing heaps of hedges, unbeknownst to them however, the masked hunter had arrived, spotting her target entering the maze, she wasted no time marching in after him

“Ticket please” the ticket collector interrupted, she stopped for a moment, only to raise her arm, raising a powerful geyser of water from the ground, launching him high into the air

 And with that, she took her first steps into the maze to finally claim her targets…

Only to immediately lose them in the first turn

What followed was many, many hours of hopelessly lost, mindless meandering akin to that of a sock tumbling in a drier only slip through an unattended hole into the ventilation, perfectly fall through the machinery, into a stray sewer grate, and ultimately end up in the laundry basket of a ninja turtle

They were twisted, turned around put through enough dead ends to fill a cemetery, and beared witness to so many of the same pieces of corn for so long, they could have seen them grow from saplings to full grown stalks

“Ok…” Terry grumbled, all the time the duo had spent wandering and staring at ever so homogeneous walls of corn, clearly taking a toll on him “after all this time, the exit should be… here!” he said as the two emerged from another pathway, only to find themselves at the same dead end they’d gotten to know well enough to consider marrying

“OH COME ON!” Terry shouted in unbelievable frustration

“What is it?” GG exhaustedly reacted as he followed Terry in

“We’ve taken every path in this place and ended up at this scarecrow EIGHT TIMES!”

“Wait, how do we know it’s really the same one?”

“Because it still has the bullet holes I put into it the last four times!” Terry snapped in anger as he unloaded yet another clip into the poor straw and twine man”

“Surprised they let ya keep that”

And with that, the two could only lay in the abyss of vegetables surrounding them in a desperate bid to recharge their psyches and figure out their next move, soon enough, GG would perk up with a plan

“What if-”

“No.”

“I didn’t even say anything yet��

“Lemme guess, you were gonna rocket jump to get a higher viewpoint and attract a bunch of attention, again”

“...lucky guess”

“Have you really learned nothing from last time?”

“I don’t see what’s the big deal, last time was in a massive bustling city, what kinda bounty hunter’s gonna be in some pop-up fair in the middle of nowhere?”

“It’s just too risky!”

“Oh, so you’d rather walk in circles for another 3 hours?”

“. . . Just make it quick”

As this was happening, the masked hunter continued her search, her largely stoic nature broken by the sheer confusion and frustration that came with meandering about the amber-teal labyrinth for what felt like an eternity, even despite remaining completely silent and her face completely concealed behind the large literal poker faced facade, anyone could tell she was thinking that this was absolutely ridiculous, hopeless even

When all of a sudden she heard a distinct jet-like “fwoosh” she looked up, low and behold there was her hat and crown sporting target, prompting her to spring into action,digging her fists into the ground before launching herself with a powerful geyser

GG scanned the landscape as he was suspended in the air “I think I see the exit this-” abruptly he found himself tackled right out of the sky! “GG!” Terry cried out in express, he thought to come running to his aid but he still had no means of escaping the maze

Meanwhile GG found himself disoriented as he was thrusted into the ground just outside the maze, but he quickly came to as he opened his eyes to the masked figure winding up a punch with a rock encased fist!

Reacting fast, GG rolled out of the way of the blow, standing up with just as much to continually sidestep her stone swings “Jeez! I know I tend to rush into things, but this is ridiculous!”

This flurry of blows continued until GG grabbed the masked agresor’s stone fist, abruptly halting the fight “at least take a moment to introduce yourself, hi, George ‘GG’ Maxwell, you probably already knew that, and you are?”

Not bothering for a moment to humor the boy’s japes, the hunter thrusted her arm behind her, launching her stone fist with GG still holding on until he slammed

“I did NOT miss these silent types…” the boy groaned, he wouldn't stay still for long as he saw a torrent of water blasting towards him, prompting him to dash away, and keep on dashing as his hunter moved her arms to and fro, conducting geyser after geyser to burst from the ground below, barely being able to zig and zag to evade them

As this continued, GG couldn’t help but feel a strange sense of familiarity, “but why?” he briefly wondered, but he had no time to dwell on these thoughts as he swiftly drifted to make a beeline towards his opponent

But the masked aggressor stood her ground as she reeled her hands back before forcefully whipping them back, directing every geyser that’d risen to blast at the toppat

This had no effect in slowing GG down as he continued charging full speed ahead before unleashing a mighty fiery punch at the river bank’s worth of water cascading at him

But this would only cause a massive cloud of steam to appear from the blow, rendering him all but completely blind, GG looked around frantically as he stopped in a vain attempt to anticipate the hunter’s next move, but she wasn’t to his front, sides, or behind

Then he noticed the area got just a bit darker, then he looked up

In an instant, GG found himself trapped under a massive hollow block of stone, with the hunter standing atop, she took this moment to have a breather after such a hard fought battle before getting ready to bring the bounty back…

But all of a sudden, she felt the subtlest rumbling beneath her feet, the slightest crackling could be heard until abruptly

Blam! GG rose like a phoenix through the stone uppercutting the aggressor far off the stone enclosure, victorious against yet another hunter, GG took a moment to boast to his foe

“Hah, underestimated me there, didn’t you…” his voice would gradually trail off as he saw that the hunter had gotten back up, yet her mask remained on the ground

“Jess?!” GG stood there, stunned, he couldn’t believe what was happening, she gave little to no reply, only muttering under her breath “Stronger than I thought…” before making her retreat

This prompted the boy to snap out of his shock, “wait Jess! Come back! I didn’t know- I never would’ve-!” he stuttered and stammered as he tried to catch up, readying to run as fast as he could to get to her, but just as he could begin to build a charge, she tapped some buttons on her wrist communicator and was gone in a flash, leaving GG to just stand there and process the events he just lived through

As he did so, Terry finally emerged from the maze, whacking at the hedges with the scarecrow he was left with, dropping it as he ran to check up on his friend “GG! Are you ok? Who was that?!”

GG stood still, staring in awe and slowly spoke out, “She’s… still alive…”

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Chapter 2 Act 7: Showtime!

It was the night after the delinquent duo’s encounter with Igor Inkwell, the card he left behind sat on the counter of the hotel room that they paced back and forth in, trying to plan out their next move

“So, we both know this is a trap, right?” Terry said

“Obviously, but what if there really is something there we can use to clear your name?” GG replied

“It’s too risky, the second we’re in there, they’re not going to give us the chance to breathe, let alone do any investigation”

“Well how else are we gonna be able to find the truth? Your buddies aren’t exactly giving us a lot to work with”

“Even if there was something there, if they still believe the Director’s lies, chances are it was destroyed long ago”

“So what, you’re just giving up?”

“Look, we’ve tried,as much as I want to believe otherwise, there’s just no getting through to them, I’ve gotten used to being alone, now go to sleep, we’ll need to find somewhere far away to hide tomorrow”

Terry proceeded to walk away and slump into his bed, fast asleep, but GG was anything but, the thought of what seemed to be the last piece of the puzzle being right at his grasp ate away at him, he simply couldn’t take it “I made a promise and one way or another, I’m keeping it!” he thought to himself as he clenched his fist in determination

He proceeded to sneakily slither out of bed, slowly creak open the door to Terry’s room, grabbed the card and made his way to the address…

Meanwhile, at the Rogue’s gallery headquarters

“You did what?!” the director berated at Igor

“What?” Igor responded “those two come in, get our revenge and our cash! Easy as pie!”

“And did you think of anything if they come in from the back, tunnel from underground, take the St Nick play through our chimney?” Wally Interjected

“Uhhhm…”

“Ugh, classic monochrome meathead…” Mr Mech groaned

“Well I don’t see your brilliant ideas, toy maker!”

“At least my ‘toys’ aren’t being beat by some shoddy guitar playing!”

“Oh, callarse tu boca!”

Once more, the rogues were lost in their endless bickering, much to the director’s annoyance, “Will you all just SHUT UP!? The weed and his accomplice are coming to get us in our own home and you still can’t quit arguing for a minute?!”

“Well where’s your strategy then?”

“Yeah, any bright ideas to go with that big talk?”

“Well maybe I could think of one if I could hear myself think over all this noise!” the director then slammed the door behind him, and began panicking to himself, “agh think, I’ve come too far for that weed to mess it all up now, there’s gotta be something…”

All of a sudden, behind him he heard a “hey! Bossman!” Said Action much to The Director’s displeasure “Oh what is it? The weed and Toppat could be here any minute now!”

“Heh, funny ya say that, presenting the solution to all our problems!”

At that moment, Lights and Camera, with faces of pride behind their masks, wheeled in their creation

“That’s just a camera, you imbeciles!”

“Oh, well can a normal ol camera do this?!”

Lights flipped the power switch on their machine and in a flash, the room around them transformed, the mannequins became mountains, the paintings to plateaus, The director was amazed at such a thing “how are you doing this?” he asked in awe

“Heh, Special effects bay-beh!”

“Why, this is brilliant!”

“Mm-hmm!” Action assured with pride, turning to his squad, relishing in the joy on their faces

“I’m so glad I thought of it…” the Director said, as he wheeled the device out the door

“yeah-  wait, what?!” The trio were baffled as they watched the Director wheel away their device back to the other room without so much as a thank you, finding the door was locked as the Director continued his speech to the rogues “and with this, my secret weapon, they won’t last a minute in our territory!”

“The hell does it even do?”

The Director took a moment to look at the device’s controls and quickly realized he had no idea how to actually operate it “uhhh, it needs a moment to warm up”

“Of course it does…”

“I heard that! As for the rest of you, keep your eyes peeled, the degenerate duo could arrive any moment…”

The rogues complied, the plan wasn’t great but it was the only one they had, at this moment, Lights, Camera, and Action managed to break down the door “ough, you accidentally locked the door again… also, WHAT THE HELL!? We made this and you-”

“Oh hush, if the Rogues don’t have a strong leader, who are they to rely on? Each other? They’re more dysfunctional than an animated sitcom family”

“I guess, but you can’t just-”

“For the sake of the gallery, I can and will do anything, now against my better judgment, I’m leaving you three in charge of my secret weapon, can I trust you with that? Or are you just going to stand there and keep being useless?”

The three were scared, at a loss for words and simply nodded

“Ah, there’s the reliable backstage I graciously took in when no one else cared…”

And with that, the Director walked off, leaving the three to their own devices

Meanwhile,

Soon enough, there it was, GG arrived the Rogue’s gallery headquarters, discreetly made out of an abandoned movie studio, he watched the place from a distant bush, planning his next move

“Ok” he said to himself, “the plan is simple, get in, get the evidence, get out, clear Terry’s name, easy as pie!” he confidently began to strut onwards, before quickly stopping himself

“No, it can’t be that easy, it never is! What would Terry do?” he thought to himself for several minutes, when he soon noticed a cardboard box

The doorbell rang, leading to Wally answering “hmm? Don’t remember ordering a package”

But then a thought came over him “oldest trick in the book…” and with a wave of his hands, a bazooka appeared in his arms that he used to blow the box to smithereens!

“What’s all that racket?” the Director said “did my package arrive?” 

Wally, realizing his mistake, said “uhhh, noo… I thought I saw something” kicking what was left of the box aside as GG quickly snuck from behind an adjacent wall and in the door, hiding in a box of props as he entered

“Hah, easy as pie!” he thought to himself “now all I gotta do is search every square inch of this place, find some evidence then get out without being caught”

After taking a quick peek, seeing the coast was clear, GG confidently stepped out of the box

And immediately he stepped on an old car horn, startled, he hopped off hoping the sound would go unnoticed but he accidentally jumped in the middle of a drum set with a cacophony of bangs and pops, he immediately tried to flee the scene but he ended crashing into a costumed mannequin that fell and crashed into another, and another, and another… like dominoes they fell until the last one crashed into the fire alarm

GG could only stand there, flabbergasted as to what just happened “Maybe they won’t notice…” he muttered to himself

Before he knew it, the alarm stopped and he was surrounded by the four rogues, they had in fact noticed

“Well, look what we got here, not one for subtlety eh, toppat?” -Igor smugly remarked 

“So, where’s the weed?” Wally grimaced as he stared the boy down

“He’s not here, it’s just me…”

“That coward, can’t even be bothered to confront his own crimes”

“He’s innocent, I’m telling ya! And I’m gonna prove it, no matter if you’re gonna help me or not”

“Oh” Igor said as he began to crack his knuckles “well if ya wanted a rematch, ya just had to ask…”

With that, the other Rouges followed suit, readying themselves for a brawl, Amelia took out her guitar, Wally, his spellbook, And Mech, a remote control for his machines

And GG too, took a stance… then he ran as fast as he could into the deeper studio, the rogue’s of course weren’t gonna simply let the boy get away as they all gave chase, Amelia played a few strums of her guitar that caused a skeletal hand to reach from the earth and grab GG’s ankles, but he quickly released himself by punching it right in the funny bone! Mr Mech and Wally Warlock both used their machines and magic to shoot their respective homing missiles, GG reacted by dashing to the side, jumping on and running along the wall, he then kept jumping,alternating between the two walls of the hallway until the two missiles ended up crashing into each other. Lastly was Igor, who transformed himself into a cannon which he used to launch himself as a massive ballistic rocket! Seeing this, GG did something unexpected, he stopped and turned to stand his ground! He watched the rocket grow closer and closer until the time was right and he rocket jumped right atop it!

“What the- get off me!” Igor yelled as he attempted to shake the kid off, But GG held on tight until they came flying through an extra-long hallway, GG let go of Igor, sending the both of them careening in opposite directions, Igor into the hall, and GG into the boarded up room behind

GG was disoriented but he soon picked himself up, he couldn’t forget his mission

“Urgh, that should buy me a little time, might as well see if there’s anything in this room”

The Toppat boy then got to snooping, as usual, he searched the room top to bottom, the torn tumbleweed posters on the walls, the collection of bandanas, the initials, T.T above the doorway (which had been vandalized to now read, “the traitor”) Everything was so torn and tattered

soon, he noticed a strange book, “maybe this’ll have some answers” he thought as he began to flip through

“I can’t believe my luck I don’t have to be alone anymore, I’m finally apart of something bigger than myself and I have people around me to call friends, maybe even family, I’ll keep this journal to commemorate every cherished memory I’ll share with them”

GG once more thought to himself “Terry’s old Journal…? I don’t like invading my friend’s privacy like this, but I can’t leave any stone unturned” he continued to flip through

“Igor used me as bait again, but it’s fine, he said I did great and was surprised I was still alive, he even gave me a congratulatory shoulder punch, nice of him, even if it’s a bit hard to write now…”

“I’ve been learning a lot about building and such from watching Mr Mech and today I finally decided to show him my skills with a prototype jetpack I’ve been working on, he yelled at me a bit, I couldn’t quite understand why, something about “staying on theme” but I’m sure he’ll change his mind as I get better”

Tears began to flow through GG’s face and stifled sobs escaped his vocal chords as he continued reading, memories of Terry being so mistreated by the ones he considered friends while he took it all in stride, still clinging onto them, up to the very last page

“The Gallery has been struggling a bit, money-wise, but I’ve got a plan to make it all better, I heard about a newly built casino somewhere, it’s a long journey, but it’ll be worth it when I get back, and in case something happens, my security tape back-ups should be in the VHS player”

GG’s sobbing came to a halt as he realized, lo and behold, there it was, a tape in the broken VHS player, “this is it!” he yelped

“Yes, well done, Toppat” the director remarked as he emerged from the shadows

“I wouldn’t be so smug if I were you, cus I got this!”

“And here I thought I’d gotten rid of all the evidence, but I never knew where he kept that damn journal, so give it, now”

“And I should do that because…?”

“Tell me, what do you think happens after you get the truth out? I’ll get exiled as leader, and the weed gets his happily ever after,but you, you’ve still got that oh-so massive bounty on your head, and you’ve just reunited your own hunters, hell, he’ll probably be the one to turn you in”

GG simply stood there, staring the director down as he continued

“Or, you give that tape to me,join the Rogue’s Gallery, as long as I’m keeping them in line, you’ll have nothing to worry about, what do you say?” The director extended his hand, with a rubber glove this time, waiting for the boy to accept

“Hmmm, lemme think…” 

He instantly ran off

“So you wanna do things the hard way, I see” he reached to his pocket and pulled out a walkie-talkie, “go” he simply commanded and with that, Lights Camera, and Action wheeled out the special effects machine from about the corner and in GG’s direction

At that moment, GG went from seeing the gray, run-down studio, to a lush forest, immediately he was confused and ended up crashing into a wall of trees!

“W-what’s going on!?” he yelped, at his sudden change in environment, attracting the attention of the rogues who once more began to give chase

GG tried to run but he couldn’t tell the walls from open paths as the world around him kept shifting to a scorching volcano, a dry desert, outer space! Soon enough, the Rogues caught up, initially mesmerized by the machine’s work, but there was no time to be standing there in awe as they proceeded to attack the boy

GG tried to fight back, but he was overwhelmed both by having to fight 4 rogues at once and the constantly shifting landscape, seemingly camouflaging the rogues

Blow after blow, he took from all manner of attacks, eventually, Igor grabbed him and stuffed GG into a small cage, that Wally proceeded to cast a spell on to make fireproof

“Not so tough now, are ya?” Igor remarked, while GG noticed he had dropped the tape and The Director had picked it up “well done, Rogues! That’s one down, and one more to go…” he said as the rogues carried GG off

Back at the hotel, Terry had finally woken up and noticed something was off, it was too… quiet, no hollering or whooping, not even the faintest sound effects from a cartoon playing next door, he went to check GG’s room and found he, and the card were gone! Immediately he knew what had happened as he grabbed his jetpack and arrived at the studio

The rogues were in the middle of writing their ransom letter, with GG sitting tight on a shelf when they all heard the door kicked in, “that must be the weed!” the rogues eagerly ran to the entrance, while the Director briefly stayed behind and grabbed the tape to taunt GG, “well would you look at that, I should really thank you” he then walked out, “I’ll be in my office, this tape will look great in the fireplace” GG could only snarl in anger, as he left, but he then noticed a key to his side

Meanwhile, at the entrance, the rogues saw the door had been kicked in but Terry was nowhere to be seen

“Crap, he's loose!” Mech called out

“Fan out!” Wally commanded, “he couldn't have gotten far…”

And so they did, while Terry Jetpacked up and down and all around the studio, searching for wherever that miscreant Toppat friend of his was as the rogues searched every corner, behind every prop, costume and mannequin, leaving no stone unturned in their search, following faint trails of smoke and subtle wooshes of a jetpack

All the while, GG reached and reached as far as he could with his little arm, desperately trying to grasp the key to his freedom! Jostling the cage to and fro in an attempt to shimmy it ever so slightly closer to his goal, eventually he reached once more and finally held the key in his hand

“Got it!” he yelled in triumph, but at that moment, he felt the cage he was in slowly tilt to the side “uh-oh…” he realized before suddenly plummeting off the shelf, the cage smashing into bits upon impact

GG got up, disoriented but he quickly realized that he was free nevertheless and immediately ran off to take back the tape, lo and behold he found the director, casually strolling to his office, only for GG to speed by and in an instant, the tape in his hands was gone!

Seeing what happened he panickedly grabbed his walkie talkie “The Toppat is loose!”

And with that, absolute pandemonium befell the studio, Everybody running about the maze-esque landscape, running into one another, fists flew, lasers shot, skeletons rattled, shots fired, missles launched, fires burned it was absolute chaos!

Until after a while, GG and Terry finally found one another “GG! What the hell were you thinking, we gotta get outta here, now!” Terry yelled with a mix of relief and anger

“I know, it was stupid of me to come on my own but we can’t leave yet!” GG responded as he held up the tape

Terry gasped, as the memories came flooding back, realizing that there was a chance after all   

“If we can just find a way to get them to see this, we can finally clear your name! Is there anything here that  can help us do that?”

Terry thought for a moment, “The Director’s office should have a big TV, we’ll just need to lead the Rogues there”

“Sounds like a plan!” 

Like clockwork The Rogues popped up from behind and immediately gave chase, just what the delinquent duo needed, they evaded as fast as they could, bobbing and weaving through their attacks until eventually they came up close to the Director’s office, victory was within their grasp, but then, Igor’s arms stretched out to sucker punch Terry!

GG reacted quickly, tackling Terry out of the way, letting himself get punched instead, sent flying right into the Director’s office, dropping the tape in the process

“GG!” Terry cried out as he picked up the tape and followed after the boy

When he entered he saw GG dizzy as he sat on the floor in front of the wall but he also saw the Director had beat the duo to the office, as he held a gun to the Toppat kid’s head!

“Long time no see, huh Weed? They say murderers always return to the scene of the crime”

GG interjected “Hey, that’s not how the saying goes-” 

“Shut your mouth, lest you wanna end up a spot on the floor”

“Pfft, like you’re gonna kill me when my bounty says I gotta be alive!”

“Oh, money’s just an object kid, sweet, cathartic karma, especially on that weed, that is priceless”

GG could feel the killer instinct that echoed in the director’s deadpan tone, any confidence he had to taunt or joke disappearing as he continually shoved the gun into his temples

“Now, as for you, Weed, the way I see it the rest of the rogues are on their way, you and your little accomplice quite literally have their backs against the wall, the least you can do is let them turn you in and have some value for once in your-” BANG! 

Without hesitation, Terry quickly drew and shot his gun at the Director’s arm, making him drop his gun as he stared dead into his eyes!

“You… Imbecile!”

Terry gave no response as he continued to stare

“You think this is a case of two wrongs make a right?!”

Still, nothing

“You think there’s ANY chance that they’ll ever want to see you as anything but a corpse in a shallow grave after you do this!?”

Terry would finally respond, “no.”

Then he fired two warning shots

Into his head!

And like clockwork, the rest of the gallery came bursting through the door, they could only stand in utter shock as they saw Terry standing over their deceased leader with a smoking revolver gripped tight in his grasp, Terry simply turned and said “if you’re gonna hate me for something, at least have it be something that’s true” as he placed the tape in the vhs player, and the truth unfolded before their eyes

They saw that fateful encounter, the Director shooting their old leader, before planting the evidence to construct his narrative before the footage abruptly cut to static and Terry picked up the tape and cast it into the fireplace

Even GG had no idea what to make of the events he saw unfolding as Terry reached out and got him up off the floor

The delinquent duo then took their stance, raring to go, snapping out of their collective feeling of awe, the Rogues brandished their own arsenals

At the same time, Lights, Camera, and action showed up and unleashed the Special effects machine but even with the ever-changing landscape, GG and Terry’s focus was absolutely locked in as they stared the Rogues down

Wally went first, with a wave his arms, he raised a veritable army of shroom soldiers from the ground that immediately charged the duo

Seeing this, GG charged two roaring fires in his hands and Terry drew a pair of daggers and they both charged headlong into the onslaught, moving swift as the wind, by the time they were done, every shroom that wasn’t burnt to a crisp was cut into ribbons

Next, Mech, as he commanded his machines to surround the two and shoot their missiles, Terry reacted quickly, switching his blades for pistols and GG grabbed onto his legs and began to spin him to and fro, the rogues took cover as the delinquents became an unrelenting bullet sprinkler

As the way to the exit had seemingly cleared up, the duo rushed to make their escape but Emelia quickly strummed her guitar, making a skeleton once more grab GG’s leg, making him trip as he ran

Igor, trying to take advantage of the Toppat’s vulnerability, stretched his fist for a quick knockout, but in a flash, Terry flew back right past his fist and once more pulling out his dagger, he cut off his arm! Sending it and the fist flying!

Terry immediately grabbed onto it with one hand and reached out for GG, plucking him out the ground as the runaway hand flew the duo right smack into the special effects machine, out the door and into freedom! By the time the rogues could chase them out the door, they were already long gone

“Dammit!” Igor screeched as he slammed his fist on the doorway while the other arm slowly grew back

“Well, it seems we have a bit of a leadership vacuum on our hands” Mr mech interjected “not to worry, everyone I nominate myself for the position”

Immediately, Wally erupted in laughter before abruptly stopping “oh, you’re serious, you couldn’t lead ants to a crumb!”

“Oh, like you could do any better?” Emelia added

Yet again, the Rogues exploded into another spat, voices overlapping, insults thrown like confetti, as the backstage trio just stood there in the middle of it

All of a sudden, the usually silent Camera absolutely snapped, “SHUT UP! EVERYONE!”

In an instant, the bickering just stopped as they stared at the three

Meanwhile, after they’d gotten all the distance they could, GG and Terry released the fist to fly to who knows where and they took their first moments back on solid ground to process what they’d just been through

“Wooo! Nice going, back there, Terry!” GG celebrated before something dawned on him “But, why? I thought you wanted to finally reconcile with them?”

Terry took a deep breath and sighed before replying “I did, but then I got to thinking,the rogues always treated me like dirt and the only reason I couldn’t see it before was that I felt it was the only kinda family I’ve ever had, but then you came along, and you’ve stuck your neck out for me  far more more times in the few months I’ve known you than the years I’ve stuck around with those bastards!”

“Wow…” GG said with a sniff “This coming from the same guy who tried to leave me for dead in a desert when we first met?”

“What can I say? You grown on me kiddo”

“Like moss! Or grass on a cold hard sidewalk”

“Heh, you could say so”

And with that, The duo continued to walk into the beckoning horizon, with a whole world of sights to see and foes to beat, who knows where they’d end up next?

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[Epilogue]

At the Mansion of Cards, there was chaos through the halls as a trio of masked bandits were attempting a robbery, they were running as fast as their little legs could carry them, sacks of loot in tow but as they tried to flee, two of them were shot in the legs by the guards while the third could barely take cover from behind a wall were they took a moment to attempt to catch their breath

When all of a sudden, a flaming dagger appeared right in front of his face, stuck on the wall, panicked, he tried to run in the opposite direction, only for another to appear on the other side

And standing in front of the bandit, K.Lown himself, “Oh, I just love when you guys pick flaming knife day to rob the place!” he hysterically cackled as he juggled and tossed the bevvy of knives the bandits way, and yet despite the onslaught he barely managed to get out the door

At which point, the bandit thought he was home free

When all of a sudden, a massive geyser of water shot up behind, launching a shadowy figure into the sky, that landed in front, she raised her head, covered by a spade card-shaped mask, without hesitation, she slammed the ground, causing a large rock be launched, the bandit once more tried to run but that only sealed his fate, as he was crushed by the rock, trapped where he lied,yet somehow still alive

“Not bad, Rookie!” K.Lown congratulated

Soon after, Dice came out, giving a slow, but very sincere round of applause “you’re ready, go” he said, the masked figure gave a simple nod, before she untied the bun on the back of her hair, letting her ginger locks flow as she raised a small river beneath her shoes, allowing her to swiftly slide across the landscape and to her target

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Chapter -1 Act Jangle: how the government (tried to) steal Christmas

It was christmas eve aboard the Toppat submarine,everywhere you could look holiday spirit could be found, sweet cocoa wafted through the air, Lively decor around every corner, even the two who’d always bicker about what music to have playing agreed to have their playlist on one side and the other’s on their side. Meanwhile, atop the sub, Jess practiced her waterbending tricks, with each wave of her hand, little orbs of the ocean arose before quickly freezing into all manner of shapes and sizes,from snowflakes, to gemstones and much more! while GG watched and gave thunderous applause, “You’re really getting good with that!” he said

“Heh, thanks” She replied with a shiver “but it’s getting pretty cold, we should be heading back inside”

“I guess, unless…” GG said as he got an idea, he folded his fingers into a taut fist preparing to release a warming fire for the two of them, he flicked his fingers open and… nothing.

GG chuckled awkwardly before he tried again, and again, and again several more times, “Dammit!” he cried out in frustration 

“Oh, don’t be so down, you’re bound to get better sometime,besides,I think it’s sweet of you to try that just for my little water tricks.”

“Thanks, but what if what wasn’t just for those tricks, what if there was more at stake and I messed up, I don’t how I’d live with myself…” 

Suddenly, the two felt the loudspeaker go off inside the sub, though somewhat muffled, they could hear the captain announce “All members, please report to the front of the submarine for an important meeting!” 

“Huh, wonder what’s this ‘bout?” GG wondered as the two made their way to the sub’s front, taking seats next to GG’s parents, soon enough, Captain Sharkbite presented themself

“Hello everyone, I know yer all in the holiday spirit especially with our annual holiday heist tonight, but I’m afraid I come bearing bad news, the sub’s autopilot is on the fritz, I’ll need someone else driving this thing through the night” 

GG attempted to inquire, “Wha- why can’t you just keep driving?”

“Ye can’t be serious,I need to be here to get a full eight hours of shuteye. Do you have any idea what happens when I haven’t gotten my sleep?”

“Don’t remind me…” Gerald mumbled with dread

“Just be glad you weren’t born yet at the time” Gabrielle elaborated

“Anyways, ye know just as well as I that I wouldn’t trust any of you bozos alone within 10 feet of my steel baby! But, in times this dire, I’m begrudgingly willing to trust two of ye and we’re deciding who the same way we decide everything else; picking names out of a hat!”

The captain rustled their arm through the hat, as the Toppats in the audience waited with bated breath, hoping for anyone to get picked but them, eventually they picked up two slips of paper and read them aloud

“Gerald Maxwell and Gabrielle Maxwell, welp that settles that, meeting adjourned”

While every other Toppat rose from their seats, relieved to get out of a lousy job, the four elemental wielders did not share their joy

“Oough, this is gonna be painful…” Gerald sulked

“Is it really that bad?” GG asked, concerned

“We’ll be fine, George” Gabrielle tried to assure, “we'll just stay here and not get to go on the holiday heist like we've done every year since before you were born…”

“No way! What if me and Jess took your places?”

“We’ve stayed up so many times, we may as well be nocturnal!” Jess remarked

“No, that’d be far too irresponsible on our part-”

“Gerald, can I speak with you in private for a moment?” Gabrielle interrupted as she pulled her husband aside, “Gerry, maybe we should let them have this?”

“What? Why?”

“Think about it, you know how much George has been so down on himself lately, pulling off something like this could be the confidence boost he needs! Besides, the path is so simple, you could do it in your sleep!”

“Yeah but… oh I can’t say no to you, but what about the captain?”

“Don’t worry, I’ve got an idea”

The parents turned back to the two “Alright kids, here’s the plan…”

[Later that night]

 Every other Toppat was on the surface for the holiday heist, while Gerald and Gabrielle arrived to the front of the sub where Sharkbite was waiting for them with groggy, barely awake eyes, “ah, good… yer here” they said with a yawn before reaching into their pocket, pulling out a piece of paper and handing it to the two, “Just… follow that path, get back here, watch out for rocks and it should be good…”

“Aye aye, Captain!”

"Yeah, yeah, Harry Fish wash and such…" they continued as they trudged to their room flopping into bed, dead asleep near instantly

"Alright, kids, come on!" Gabrielle announced and prompted GG and Jess to peek their heads out from the hallway, proceeding after they saw the coast was clear

“Now, did you get all that?”

“Follow the path, don’t crash into crap, get back to the dock at 8:30 before the captain gets up, easy as pie!”Jess remarked

“Great, take care, you two!” Gabrielle replied as she and Gerald began to make their way to the hatch and catch up with the others

“enjoy the heist, Merry christmas!” GG added as he watched his parents head out

“Are you really sure about this, Gabbie?”

“Have some faith, think about how happy this’ll make him!”

Gerald turned back to his son, waving at him, looking jolly as St Nick himself “alright…” he admitted as a smile began to spread across his face, “I mean, what’s the worst that can happen?”

[Meanwhile]

In a government base, not too far from shore, two people were up to their necks in files of all kinds, one continually grumbled to himself as he sorted through them, the other noticed and asked, "hmm, what's wrong, Larry?" 

"Still can't believe you talked me into this crap…"

"Hey, don't be so glum, this is gonna get us back on the general's good side! Y’know, after what happened" 

"Hey, that time was NOT my fault, Jarvis! How was I supposed to know that wasn't the Motor Mafia?"

"Well those kids' bikes did have the same colors" 

"Doesn't matter, like sorting some papers of our fuck-ups is gonna get us back on the general's good side…"

“Oh, lighten up! Our luck’s bound to change any moment now, we just gotta keep a keen eye out for an opportunity!”

[back on the submarine]

GG took great joy in his role as de facto captain as he held the steering wheel, tapping his foot in rhythm as he whistled a jolly tune. Soon Jess walked in, carrying two steaming hot mugs of cocoa, “Care for some cocoa a la Jessica, Captain Maxwell?” She playfully remarked as she handed GG one of the mugs

“Why, thank you, uhhh… what’s the term for captain’s 2nd in command?”

“Co-captain?”

“I don’t think that’s a thing… but as Captain, I hereby make it a thing! Great thinking, Co-Captain Wagner!” 

The two shared a laugh before taking sips of their respective mugs of cocoa “Mmm, ya can really taste the espresso!” GG complimented, “Alright enough goofin’ around, what’s the map say?” 

Jess took the map out of her pocket and looked closely for instructions, but the longer she inspected, the more confused her face became

“Is something wrong?”

“Uhhh, you might wanna take a look at this…" 

GG took the map to have a look on his own and while it was simple at first, but the closer the two looked, the more obvious what parts the captain wrote while they were half-asleep, or fully asleep in some areas

"Crap…" GG muttered, "ok, no need to panic, let’s just steer to these X’s, X marks the spot, r-right?

“Makes sense”

With that hasty decision, GG made the turn, unfortunately in this instance X may have marked the spot, but it wasn’t a desirable spot in the slightest as they ended up hurtling towards a large pile of rocks!

In a desperate bout to correct his error, GG reeled the sub’s helm back as hard as he could, steering it to the surface, once up their, the two took a moment to catch their breaths and take a sigh of relief

“That was too close…” GG said as he tried to process what had just happened

All of a sudden, the two heard a loud screech that sent shivers down their spines and forced their eyes as wide open as they could go

“Jess, you heard that, right?” GG said in a deadpan tone

“Yeah” Jess replied, equally devoid of emotion

“Any idea what it was and why we stopped moving”

“Not sure, maybe check the windows”

“Yeah, good idea”

The two both walked to the windows on their respective sides, saw what was out and proceeded to walk back to the spot they started at

“So what’d ya see?”

“Giant sea stack” 

“Same here”

GG then grabbed his hat, held it up to his face and let out a massive, muffled scream into it

Larry and Jarvis were in the middle of their organization as before when Larry would notice a peculiar sight out the window “hey Jarvis, hand me that telescope”

“Sure, what for?” 

Looking at the protruding top hat shaped hatch that laid in the distant ocean,an awful, awful idea began forming in Larry’s head “cause we’re about to save christmas…”

Just then GG had finally stopped screaming, “ok, calm down” Jess said, as she pushed a button on the Sub's dashboard, activating a pair of drills on the side, “just give it a couple hours and we'll be back in business in no time” 

At that moment the two noticed something strange appearing on the radar

“Please tell me that's Santa…” GG pleaded as he pulled down the periscope to investigate with GG looking through left lens while Jess took the right, unfortunately instead of Jolly old St Nick, they only saw a boat headed straight for the sub, brandishing an all-too recognizable green circle and white star, with two eager looking passengers aboard

They stepped away from the periscope, turning to one another, attempting to take a moment to process the situation they'd gotten themselves into

GG began to slowly reach upwards and scream into his hat once more

Losing patience, Jess grabbed his shoulders “Pull yourself together, George!” She hollered as she locked eyes with him, they stood there for a moment before awkwardly stepping away

“Uh, thanks I needed that” GG said “so what are we gonna do?”

“From the looks of things, there's still a decent amount of time left before they get here and I think we’ve both seen enough christmas movies to know what we’re gonna do next” she said as she turned to see the many decorations hanging throughout the halls 

[Some time later]

The boat had reached the sub at last “you really sure about this?” Jarvis said nervously, hesitant to go through with his partner’s idea

“Hey, you’re the one yammering about ‘looking out for opportunity’ yet you can’t see when it’s staring you in the face?” Larry snapped back, approaching the Sub’s hatch, “we’ll just go in, find our evidence, and be right out”

“I guess, still, I can’t help but feel a little scared…”

“Please, chances are, they’re all asleep with visions of stolen goods dancing in their sick little heads”

At the same time, GG and Jess were putting the finishing touches on their plans as they stood beneath the hatch

“Ok, let’s go over this one more time” Jess said as she pulled out a map of the sub “when those bozos come in we’ll coax 'em through the sub and lead' em all the way to the front, get them into position, then blast 'em out!” 

“Easy enough” GG replied

At that moment, they heard the handle of the hatch twist and creak “they’re here! Get into position!”

the two hastily scrambled as the government goons made their not-so-graceful descent inside

“We’re really going through with this…” Jarvis nervously muttered

“Oh for the last time” Larry snapped as he began walking “nothing is going to happen-” immediately, he found himself face planting on the floor, tripping on a wire tied to the sides of the room “it’s a sign” Jarvis said with fear in his face “it’s a damned string!” Larry began walking again only to trip once more on a line of unlit christmas lights “if these chuckleheads think I’m gonna be stopped by a couple childish pranks, they got another thing-” Jarvis pulled Larry back, right before he tripped on some tinsel and fell into a pile of jagged Jacks “ok, maybe you lead” now in this new formation, the two entered the main hall, they walked slowly and with caution

Suddenly, Jarvis jumped with shock at the sound of a quick pitter patter that echoed throughout, instinctively, shined his flashlight ahead, revealing GG and Jess standing at the end of the hall, holding up a large ruby hoisted from a rope, before they promptly released it

Jarvis instantly ducked while Larry remarked “Hey, those are just a couple of kids-” Before getting smacked across the face and falling onto the floor “are you alright?” Jarvis said, before subsequently getting smacked by the gem swinging back, Larry soon got up right as the ruby was raring to swing back again, but he managed to dodge this time as Jarvis got up, realizing what was gonna happen, he went “Oh no you don't!” Before grabbing the gem before it could strike

They were both almost immediately hit by an equally massive amethyst, sandwiching them between the gems before they both slumped on the floor

The two toppats let out a couple laughs and hi-fived at a job-well done, but the infiltrators weren't quite down for good

“Why you little!” Larry angrily grumbled as he rose once more and began to chase the duo, with Jarvis following close behind

“Scatter!” Jess exclaimed as she and GG split up to opposite paths of the hall's fork with Larry pursuing the path Jess took, while Jarvis opted for GG’S side

Jess soon arrived at the submarine's armory, immediately, her eyes lit up with a mischievous joy as all the possibilities rushed through her head and hid into position, Larry soon caught up, looking around slowly, both to preemptively spot any potential traps and seek trouble making Toppat teen “where are you, little brat?” He whispered, looking back and forth, when in reality Jess was above, having scaled the tallest shelf, she grabbed some of the armories many blades and tossed one down, landing right next to Larry who responded with shock as tried to get away, only for another blade to fall in his path, prompting him to run away again, this continued for some time, with several blades, spears, swords, shears, machetes, even chainsaws! Till eventually, Larry was left circled in, looking frantically as to where the blades would fall next, but they had seemingly stopped

Deflated from fear, Larry lied down trying to catch his breath, only for Jess to toss down a massive hammer with a jet engine built inside, right in the center of the circle, by the time Larry noticed, it was too late, as the hammer dropped on him like an unfortunate nail

At the same time, Jess climbed back down before letting out a playful “oopsie!” Snickering as she made her getaway

Larry would not take kindly to the girl's taunt as he got up and gave chase once again 

Meanwhile, Jarvis would find himself in the sub's lounge, initially he felt relieved “this place looks pretty nice!” He thought out loud as he went to take a seat on a comfy looking chair “little rest can't hurt” he assured himself but as he went to rest his weary self, he found the chair had a tack on it! Immediately getting him to stand back up and eliciting a sudden “ouch!” but not deterring him fully as he moved on to the chair right next to it, only to find an identical issue and letting out an identical “ouch!” Despite everything that had just transpired, he still persisted and made his way to the third and final chair of the row

This time however, he took some precautions, feeling the seat carefully with his hands, once he assessed the chair was fully tack free, he breathed a sigh of relief as he turned his back and prepared to slump down for some well needed relaxation 

Just as he turned however, GG appeared from behind the chair and swiftly dumped a handful of tacks onto the seat

As Jarvis sat down, he couldn't even bear to get up, he was utterly paralyzed by pain and could only give a soft whimper instead of a shrill shriek, taking him a second to finally get back up, and by then GG had already placed another splurge of spikes onto the floor in front that pierced through his pitifully thin shoes “I was wrong, a little rest CAN hurt…” he said in pain as he tried to waddle away

This pattern would continue for some time, room after room, trap after trap, each somehow getting more sadistic and painful then the last, by the end of it all, Larry and Jarvis were battered, beaten, yet somehow still alive

The two reluctantly opened the door to the cafeteria, wherein immediately they ended up getting struck by what was a bucket filled with water that had frozen very and became a cylinder of ice

After that blow, they stood back to back, shuffling in circles with their flashlights, looking out every which way for potential traps

“I wanna go home…” Jarvis cried

“No! We've gone TOO far and suffered TOO many concussions to quit now!” Larry aggressively replied as they passed into the kitchen, where they became really on edge, sharp knives, hot stoves,eye irritating spices, anything and everything seemed it could spell danger for the poor saps

At that moment, Larry noticed he'd stopped feeling Jarvis’ back pressed against his, he turned to find him with some cookies in one hand and a glass of milk in the other “How can you think about eating at a time like this!?” 

“It's called stress eating and this is a VERY stressful situation!”

“And have you learned nothing from it? Those cookies could be poisoned for all you know!”

“Well if anything in this awful place is gonna take me out, it could at least give me a bit of joy beforehand!”

They argued for some time while GG and Jess eavesdropped on them from behind the door

“Wait, did we put any traps in the kitchen?” GG inquired

Before Jesa could answer, they heard a loud “AGH, THIS MILK'S EXPIRED!” 

“Guess we did!”

Hearing the oncoming foot traffic, the toppats bolted away and prepared for their big finale

Larry burst through the door, fuming mad, “when I get my hands on you two I swear-” when he was once more tripped and fell over “another trip wire? These kids are running out of ideas” Jarvis quipped

“Hey, mind getting me outta here?” Larry said as he found himself tangled in the large pile of christmas lights placed for him to fall into

“Oh sure thing!”

While this was happening, the toppat teens stood just to the side of their last trap, a massive rude Goldberg machine with a large bag of fake snow hanging from a rope “alrighty” Jess said “now all that's left to do is smoke their eyes, and while they're distracted, we shove em in the cannon and blammo! We're home free!”

“Thank goodness” GG replied “you really pulled through for us when things looked awry”

“Aw, thanks” and with that Jess placed down the marble which rolled along the track and knocked down the cup that released the race car which continued along until knocking over the dominoes that would go on to tip over the ball that fell on the scale and weighed it down just enough to touch the broomstick which grazed the toy plane hoisted by string and tied to a knife that swung by the rope and…

Completely missed

As GG and Jess saw this, they were nothing short of befuddled, “what happened?” GG asked

“We were out of string! I thought it'd be just enough”

“Well what are we gonna do now?”

“Uhh, uhh, maybe there's still time, try to get up there and burn the rope”

“O-ok, I'll try”

And with the clock ticking and chills down his spine, GG began to precariously climb the apparatus, trying to move fast but also be careful, to make a mad dash while not making a sound and seeing Jarvis slowly and steadily untangle Larry only piled on the pressure

Soon enough, he managed to get to a point where he could reach out his hand and attempt to get a flame going, he stretched his arm as far as it could go, flicked his finger and…

Nothing

“No no no”

He tried again, nothing

“C’mon, not now!”

Nothing

“please!”

Nothing

He shook his arms and hands every possible way he could think of, trying his hardest for even the faintest spark that could light up the rope to appear but no matter what, nothing

As he continually waited for Jarvis to detangle him, Larry noticed the peculiar sight from up above, immediately recognizing that it was one of the kids that had been torturing him all night, he wiggled his arm into his pocket and pulled out a pistol, with which he shot at beside GG, causing him to lose his balance and fall from the contraption and right in front of the two

“GG!” Jess cried as she rushed over to his aid, only for Larry to point his gun at them both with a triumphant chuckle as Jarvis finally managed to untie the string of lights with only one thing to say “both of you, hands in the air”

GG and Jess soon found themselves tied up to the christmas tree “as much as I'd love to give you little pests hell right here and now for what you've done to us all night, you're lucky I'm not above going through the legal channels first, so we'll just find some evidence and be on our merry way, for your sake I hope Santa can deliver your coal to the prisons you'll be spending Christmas and the rest of the year, rotting away like the FILTH you are!”

“Larry, I found some evidence” Jarvis announced as he handed Larry a photo

“Oh, this is rich, this is really you?” He said, holding the photo up to GG, it showed him as an infant, held up by his parents, in front of many various stolen treasures

“And to think, you managed to grow up into something more pathetic”

With that last snark, the government goons made their way back the way they came, ready to turn in their evidence and put the poor toppats away

While Jess struggled and raged, trying to get out of their confinement, GG could only stay there, still with his head down and utterly defeated “I can't believe it” he muttered as his voice began to break down “this is all my fault, I couldn't drive the sub right, I got us stuck on these rocks,and even after everything you did to help, I couldn't even burn a stupid rope to fix the problem I caused why cant I do anything right?”

“GG!” Jess exclaimed “look at me! When I first ended up here, I thought it was all over, I didn't know anybody, anything about stealing, or even if they'd keep me around for long, but then you happened, you showed me that there was hope, that I couldn't see before, heck, when you saw that you're parents were gonna miss the holiday heist, you didn't hesitate to offer yourself to take their places for their sake and if you're willing to do all that and more, there's no way I'd ever let anyone talk to you like that, ESPECIALLY yourself!”

GG's heart was absolutely touched by what he'd just heard “you really mean that?” He said with a sniffle

“With every fiber of my being, no matter what happens, no matter where we end up, there's no one I'd rather spend christmas, or any other day of the with than you and the rest of the clan”

From what Jess said, GG couldn't help but perk up, tears rolled down his cheek, but this time of joy, he began to struggle and strain until he could reach his arms out of his constraint and firmly grasp the rope 

And what happened? In the Toppat clan, they say: GG’s heart glowed alight that day

And with a swift pull, he burned through the rope, freeing both him and Jess, with no time to waste they made haste to the hatch but when they climbed up, they found the boat already a great distance along

“No, we can't be too late!” Jess said

Thinking quickly, GG said “we're not, raise a sheet of water”

Not entirely sure where this idea was going, Jess did so and with the freezing cold night, the water froze quicker and more solid than ever, at that point they both knew what to do as Jess raised an arc of ice that the duo promptly hopped on and ran across continually as Jess raised the ice for them to race across

Soon, they'd quickly catch up to the boat, but not without catching the attention of Larry, noticing via the rear view mirror “don't know when to quit, do you!? Jarvis, gun em down!” 

Immediately, Jarvis complied, rushing to the mounted gun at the back of the shape, he took aim and began firing, the two noticed this, knowing they'd be toast if they just kept moving forward so Jess waved her aims in a special motion and raised a towering, swirling spire of ice before grabbing tight to GG's hand

Together, they'd slide and scale the spire, grabbkng and twirling one another to and fro, narrowly avoiding the barrage of bullets coming for them until they reached the top and spun with a grand jump

Holding each other hand in hand, spinning through the air as they made their descent towards the boat like a mighty drill about to pierce a heart of wood

Seeing this, Jarvis bolted for the other side of the boat, but this proved a very bad idea, as the two landed, the boat was rocked so quickly, it immediately launched Larry and Jarvis into the night sky like an aquatic catapult 

Soon after, the boat finished rocking and GG and Jess found their footing, they noticed something floating gently back down, GG grabbed it and lo and behold, twas the photo Larry and Jarvis tried to steal, prompting him to breathe a sigh of relief before putting it safely beneath his hat

All seemed well until Jess looked at the time: 8:15

“Crap!” They both said in unison as they realized there was no time for celebration just yet, as quick as a flash they drove the boat back to the sub

Once inside, GG rushed to clean up everything he could, placing the decorations back where they were before, cleaning up all the littered tacks, weapons and other junk all over the floors and FINALLY getting rid of that long expired carton of milk

Meanwhile, as the drills had finally freed the sub, Jess set a course back to the dock and drove as fast as she could 

It was down to the wire, but with only a minute to spare, everything was as it should, the two opened the hatch for GG’s parent and made sure everyone got into position 

With that, the clock struck 8:30 and on the dot, Sharkbite instantly burst out the door and started screaming “I should have known you couldn't do it right! You let me down, you… you… kept everything ship-shape…” 

“Just doing our Job, Captain” Gerald remarked

“Well, consider me pleasantly surprised, I shouldn't have doubted you, Maxwells”

Gerald and Gabrielle looked around the corner to see GG and Jess peeking from the side, they gave a wink, which they promptly returned back

“Now, what are we waiting for? It's christmas! Let in the rest of the crew!”

And so the hatch opened and all the Toppats came flooding in to start partying and exchanging the gifts they got one another for holiday heist, Gerald and Gabrielle came up to GG and Jess

“We can't thank you enough for doing this for us” Gerald praised

“and I'd do it all again in a heartbeat” GG snapped back “so what'd you get from the heist?”

“Oh I don't know” Gabrielle replied “why don't you see for yourselves?” She continued as she and Gerald reached out their boxes

“Aw, ya shouldn't have!” Jess said as she and GG grabbed the gifts

“Please, we insist, Merry christmas you two” Gerald remarked as he and Gabrielle walked off

“Ahh, we did good, Jess”

“That we did” Jess responded “hey, wanna know what my favorite part of Christmas is?” She said as she pointed up with a cheeky smile, GG obliviously followed her direction, his face glowing redder than his hat as he saw the mistletoe. 

[The end, Merry Christmas!]

[ggsworldstory]

[Chapter 2 Act 6: Slapstick showdown]

Through all their travels and trials, there was only one Rogue left for the Delinquent Duo to get information from, and with that the duo took their search to the forest

“So terry-” GG asked before being shushed and cut off by Terry

“Be very, very quiet” he whispered

GG started again, whispering this time “So Terry, why are we here exactly, you didn’t really tell me much about this guy”

“Look, I’ll be honest, I could tell you everything I know and we still wouldn’t be prepared, just keep an eye out for anything out of place”

“Well that’s reassuring”

The duo continued to trek through the trees until soon, something caught GG’s eye, a flier of sorts nailed on a tree

“Well that’s peculiar…” GG thought as he took a look at it “weird looking wanted poster, " 'Weed season’?” he read, prompting Terry to cautiously turn around as a chill was sent down his spine, GG noticed a second flier below the first one and took a look at that as well “Toppat season?” at that moment the realization set in for the both of them

Terry, without hesitation tackled GG out of the way, a loud crash was heard and the duo saw that the tree now had a massive hole blown into it!

The two heard a deep, bellowing laugh as a tall,mustached, pie cut eyed figure emerged from the shadows, blowing out a wisp of smoke coming from his Boxing glove “Looking for me, Palookas?”

Immediately, the two got up, ready to fight “aww, why so hostile? Is that any way to greet an old friend, eh weed?” he japed as he rather aggressively bonked Terry over the head

“And you,” he said, Turning to GG, “We haven’t met yet, have we? Name’s Igor Inkwell!” he introduced while violently shaking the boy’s hand, practically throwing him through the air with every shake, making GG dizzy by the end of it “let’s just get to it, I’m here for your hides and I ain't leaving without em, but I’ll tell you what, I’ll give you one free shot, sound good, Toppat?”

“What’s the catch? GG questioned

“Well, if you don’t knock me out,” Igor chuckled, “I sure will… so whaddya say, kiddo?”

“Alright, lemme get a running start…” GG said, while backing up a good distance, getting into position before bursting into an electric sprint! Giving it his all and jumping before landing a flaming blow right to Igor’s face,he landed on the ground before opening his eyes to see the result, what he saw sent him and Terry into a shock, Igor’s head was gone! The duo were left screaming hysterically at what just happened, the sheer shock and fear overwhelming the two to unbridled proportions 

Meanwhile, Igor’s head bounced to and from the trees like a pinball, soon landing, right back onto his shoulders, after twisting it back into proper position, Igor let out a hearty laugh that stopped the duo’s screaming “Not bad, little guy! Now, my turn…” he bellowed as he cracked his knuckles and began to wind up his arm

 Immediately GG and Terry attempted to escape, “You see what I meant!?” Terry interjected “Yeah, what do we do?!” GG replied, as they swerved and turned about trying desperately to avoid Igor’s arms,”there’s not much we can do, we just have to keep running!” all of a sudden, Igor’s gloved hands stretched through the forest, chasing the delinquents

The fists stretched and slithered across the ground like a pair of snakes, soon enough, both of them were grabbed by the legs and reeled back to Igor, Terry tried shooting Igor’s arms, but the bullets simply bounced off! 

“Tsk, Tsk, should’a known you’d be a coward, well if you’re not gonna fight fair, then neither am I!” he shouted, Tossing Terry aside into a large bottle marked “XXX”

“Let’s see how ya fare Toon against one!” Igor winded up his fist again, Hitting GG dead on in the face, he was sent flying across the woods, knocking into multiple trees and knocking them right outta the ground!

Igor took the opportunity to grab the trees, turned his mouth into a woodpecker’s beak and pecked the trees into massive wooden hammers

At this point GG was aware he couldn’t escape, especially not without Terry, so he dashed forth, dodging Igor’s hammers as he swung and threw them at the boy before GG leaped and landed another punch, this time in his Torso, but it simply stretched back like a violin string before flinging GG back onto the dirt!

“Heh, hah! That tickles!” GG tried many more blows, but his shocks wouldn’t conduct,he tried tossing flaming tree branches, but he simply ate them as though they were but spicy peppers! and with every last blow, Igor retaliated ten-fold,Stomping him, punting him, whacking him with a club as he yelled “fore!” by the end, GG was battered, beaten yet still standing

“Don’t know when to quit, do ya, doc?”

“Huff… I made a promise and nothing you throw at me is gonna stop me from keeping it!”

“Ugh, cut the sappy crap, before ya give me a toothache and let’s get to the climax already!” he yelled, grabbing a can of spinach from thin air and downing every last leaf,throwing his fist back as it turned into a massive ship anchor, and swung it at the boy with full force!

GG reacted quickly with a rocket jump to avoid the blow and began to lightning dash circles around Igor, but he knew this would only buy him so much time, especially as his fists would continually slam too close for comfort turning to things such as elephants, 10 ton weights, even entire cruise ships! “C’mon, I’ve watched tons of cartoons, think, GG, think!” all of a sudden, a smile spread across the boy’s face as he had an epiphany, running back into the woods once more, stopping when he felt was deep enough, then moving the electrical energy to his hands

“Trying to get away again?” Igor laughed at the Toppat’s escape attempt, before blowing air into both his fists growing them bigger than ever before launching them just as he did before!

What the gloved hands were shocked to find was that GG had managed to quickly dig an array of holes across the forest floor, sure enough, he stuck his head out of one of them,”yoo-hoo, I’m over here~!!” the boy taunted, prompting one of the fists to slam itself into the hole, but GG quickly escaped to another hole,”hey!” he shouted to which the other fist followed suit, the fists and GG continued this whack-a-mole game, until the hands decided to simply reach into the holes and scrambled to grab the boy directly

But soon GG emerged out of the hole, the hands attempted to give chase, only to find they were tangled into a tight knot! But Igor was far from ready to give up as his hands morphed into train tracks, GG was confused but then he heard the steam whistle blare loudly and immediately got running, Igor had turned himself into a train, spewing untold amounts of steam to steadily catch up to the lightning speeding Toppat, this chase continued until GG was mere inches from being flattened, but then GG rocket jumped high into the air and at just the right time as the train went over a cliff!

Seeing this, GG went and ran back to the bottle Terry was stuck in and poured him out,

“Did I ever hic say you’re like the brother I never had…?” he drunkenly mumbled

“No time for sweet sentiments! I know how we can beat that guy!”

Just then, Igor jumped back into the arena, “oh you’re gonna get it now, you screwy Toppat!” he didn’t hesitate to throw another punch, but GG quickly moved out of the way, carrying Terry over his head

Igor continued to fling his fists in vain as GG ran circles around before reaching into the man’s pockets and pulling out a pain reliever, to which he nearly instantly came to

“Ahh, what happened?!”

“How about I give you a recap?” Igor threatened, winding up another large punch, but GG reacted quickly and grabbed his fist!

Terry followed suit with the other fist, the two then proceeded to run and Jetpack respectively, stretching Igor’s arms as far as they could, “hey let go!” Igor shouted

“Well, if ya say so!” GG mischievously replied, prompting the duo to release the fists as Igor’s eyes widened in realization, the arms quickly retracted, ready to smack Igor with all the force he’d been throwing at GG this whole time, when all of a sudden they stopped

“Heh, well ain't you a stinker? Don’t worry, there’s not much I can do about this, but before I go,do you really wanna be rubbing elbows with that useless little runt of a weed?”

“He’s innocent! One way or another, we’ll prove it!”

“Hmmph, if you really wanna know the truth, why don’t you see where it all happened for yourself?”

GG was intrigued, but then the fists resumed and Igor was flung far away, much to the boy’s dismay, but then he noticed on the ground, a card was left behind,GG picked it up and it read “A. road 113”

“Terry, do you recognize this address?”

The cowboy took a look and his eyes instantly grew in surprise

“home…”

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Chapter 2 Act 5: Hotel Havoc

With GG’s latest plan having been a success (somewhat), the search for the rest of the rogue’s gallery and to clear Terry’s name was on harder than ever and with a simple description of their next target, He knew just where to go

“Well, I’ll hand it to you” Terry said “this is the most obvious choice” as the duo stepped into the borders of Guatemala city,

"Now, let’s get going!" GG shouted aloud as the duo began to wander about the place

Unfortunately, they didn't notice a row skulls lined up on one of the shop's display, most were decorative, but one was listening, it's eyes glowed as it hopped to a walkie-talkie and relayed the information it heard to the person on the other side

atop a high building,the sombrero and mask wearing Bounty hunter, Emelia Esqueleto was staking out the city, when she suddenly heard a chattering of teeth over her walkie-talkie 

"Dios mio!" She responded to the Skull's warning "Wally was right, and that's a first, they really are after us!" With another bout of chatter, the skull responded "not to worry, I have a plan…" 

"How will they understand you? Just keep your walkie talkie discreet and I'll do the talking"

"No, Hierba won't recognize my voice, i'll make sure to use a filter"

"How I can understand you? por el amor de Dios, you're always such a nitpicker, Jeremy"

Meanwhile, they duo searched and searched hard

They searched the streets, the parks, on the bridges, below the bridges, in the restaurants (after eating in them), they left not one stone, rock, or pebble unturned!

By the end of their search, night had fallen

"Geez, we must've looked through at least half this country" GG remarked in exhaustion 

"What?" Terry replied "no, we've only done this one city"

"Oh, well we'd best get going with the rest"

"You're joking, look at you, you're clearly exhausted!" 

"Nonsense, I could do this all day!"

"You did!"

"AND I'LL DO IT AGAIN!"

"No, we’re gonna get a hotel before you nod off on the concrete” Terry said as he began dragging GG around, trying to find someplace to stay, when suddenly the duo were approached by a hooded figure

“Hola! I couldn’t help but overhear you on the lookout for a place to stay, why not check in to ‘No es una trampa casa’?” they enthusiastically announced “We’re sure you’ll enjoy our luxuries, especially considering we’re the only hotel open for miles!”

The figure said this while giving a deathly glare to another hotel manager across the street, prompting them to back away from turning the ‘closed’ sign over

“So what d’ya say?”

“Sure” Terry said without hesitation as the figure led the two inside, they walked through the resort’s many corridors, it was packed with various restaurants, gift shops, even an exotic chocolate shop

Soon enough, they found themselves to their room, “well, sleep tight!” the figure said, closing the door

With a yawn, GG announced “Y’know, I said I wanted to keep searching, but seeing that soft bed simply calling my name, I gotta admit-”

“We can’t sleep” Terry retorted

“WHAT DO YOU MEAN WE CAN’T”

“C’mon, you think I didn’t see through that crappy disguise? I could easily see the skull through that hood”

“Oh, right, disguise… that means they're here somewhere! Ugh, I’m so tired though, lemme just get some- where’s the coffee? DID THEY TAKE THE COFFEE POT!?”

“Don’t worry, there’s gotta be some more somewhere, you pick yourself up, then we’ll meet up”

“Alright, sounds like a plan”

“Oh and be careful, Emelia’s Skeletons are bound to be all over”

“Yeah, sure, skeletons… WAIT, WHAT!?” 

GG’s shock wouldn’t be answered as Terry left the room, to begin his search

Meanwhile, watching through the eyes of the room’s painting, Emelia saw the two leave the room “They’re still on to us, but they’ve split up, it’s now or never” she said as she strummed her guitar, prompting one of her skeletal allies to hand her her signature weapon, a shining, sharp rapier

GG, meanwhile groggily meandered about the resort, looking for something to wake him up, until he remembered something that made his eyes light up

“S’pose I got time to check out that chocolate shop” he thought out loud, rubbing his hands together, excitedly

A few of Emelia’s skeletons caught wind of the boy’s remarks and snuck out to the back of the shop to prepare for an ambush, just as GG entered through the front

The boy begun to parooze the shelves, marveling at the sheer variety of chocolate in one place, one in particular caught his eye

“Chocolate covered coffee beans? Sweet, kill two birds with one stone!” 

The skeletons tried to sneak up from around the corner, only to quickly hide back as GG looked over his shoulder, though he only did so to check if any staff were watching him, “hmm, seems pretty empty… guess I could sneak a quick taste test” GG said as he licked his lips and peeled back the candy’s wrapper, seeing as he was distracted, the skeletons once more continued their pursuit, one taking his left and the other his right, they got close enough and readied themselves to strike!

Then GG took a bite, any grogginess in his eyes vanished instantly, he had such a spike in energy, he couldn’t help but throw back his arms with a loud “Woo!” unknowingly knocking out the skeletons behind him, turning his head and seeing the boney foes he’d just taken out, he suddenly remembered, “Right, Terry!” he then froze, having heard yet more skeletal clatter, turning around to see the skeletons had reassembled themselves, “hey…” GG fearfully murmured as he attempted to back away, “why don’t we settle this over some… Pocket ash!” as he threw out his hand and launched a blast of smoke and ash, right into the skeleton’s eyes!

Or, lack thereof, seeing as how neither so much as flinched at GG’s attack

GG saw his plan wasn’t going to work, quickly pocketed a handful of beans and dashed off to look for his partner

Terry meanwhile, was vigilant as ever as he searched the resort, “Emelia! Emelia, where are you!?” he cried out, constantly checking over his shoulder, soon he heard a subtle strum of a guitar, suddenly a horde of skeletons surrounded Terry and rushed to ambush him! But Terry quickly jet-packed high up, the skeletons all crashed into one another with their remains scattered all over the floor

“Show yourself, I know all your tricks!” Terry exclaimed

“Well that’s the thing, hierba” Emelia announced before quickly descending from her hiding spot on the ceiling and puncturing his fuel tank with her sword and with a few quick strums of her guitar, the scattered bones on the floor came together, forming a skeletal cage around the cowboy, “I’m always getting new ones” Terry tried to reach into his pack’s storage, but it was empty!

“Looking for this?” Emelia asked mockingly, holding a second guitar from the music shop, before she smashed it on the ground

 “I’m telling you, I’m innocent!”

“And why should I believe you?”

“Why do you believe him!?”

“The Director may be a mierda leader, but what happened that day was undeniable,and if you think you or your little accomplice are going to walk out scott-free, you’re dead wrong. Speaking of which, where is- ”

“Terry!” GG yelped as he stood at the end of the corridor

“Ah, how convenient, you must be the sidekick I’ve heard so much about”

“Sidekick?! Oh, you’re lucky I can’t kill you”

“Well unfortunately I can’t either, will you be doing this the easy way or the hard way?”

“Yeah, are you gonna tell me what you know about Terry’s framing, or am I gonna have to pound you into a tamale?”

“Hmmph, the hard way it is…” Emelia proceeded to grab her extra sword and toss it right by GG’s feet, “pick it up” she said

“You’re… giving me a weapon?”

“I’m not above a fair fight, pequeño”

“Huh, well I am!” GG shouted as he charged quickly with a lightning dash, intending to catch her by surprise by running and slashing her as quick as possible, but to his shock, Emelia’s sword instantly blocked GG’s attempted blow “no, I don’t think you are” she retorted as she knocked GG back onto the ground, GG quickly jumped back up and wildly flailed his sword at Emelia, but she clashed back at every last slash with little effort, no matter what he tried, until GG started feeling winded

“Had enough, little toppat?” Emelia snickered, approaching the boy

“No…” GG said between tired breaths, “I got one more trick up my sleeve…" he announced before taking a pause, much to Emelia’s anticipation

Then he proceeded to run away, but the skeleton’s quickly reacted and swarmed the boy, he tried to fight back with his flames, but no matter what, they would always quickly reform

“GG!” Terry yelled, “You just need a g-” he tried to speak was interrupted as one of the skeleton’s arms covered his mouth

With this knowledge (or lack thereof), GG ran as fast as he could, as he broke out of the swarm “ok, ok” he thought to himself “what was he gonna say? g… g…” he continually tried to figure it out as the horde of skeletons chased him,while they couldn’t quite keep up with him, they’d toss their various limbs at the boy with shocking accuracy,  until he passed by the resort’s bakery and read one of the signs “galletas, that’s it!” he yelped as he ran in and grabbed every galleta his arms could carry before jumping out and throwing them at the army like ninja stars!

He kept throwing and throwing until he realized, this wasn’t working and the only reason Emelia and her army were not charging was because they were in shock at his sheer stupidity

And with a few strums at her guitar, the chase was back on track as GG would repeatedly make pit stops to throw whatever he could think of at them, globes, guacamole, gatos (well porcelain ones anyway) but nothing worked

Soon enough, the chase lead the two parties inside a music store “nowhere to run now!” Emelia arrogantly cried as GG was backed into a corner, his hands thrown back in fear, the skeletons stepping steadily forward, his back against the wall, his arms flailing rapidly in fear

Until, by accident, he strummed one of the guitars hung on the wall, the skeletons lurched back at the sound, GG stood, confused as to what just happened, quickly, Emelia gave a couple more strums and they charged again

GG once more took a pluck of the instrument’s strings and they flinched backwards once more, he figured it out, a smile spread across his face as he grabbed the guitar off the wall and strummed like no tomorrow! It didn’t sound anything like what a sane person would call music, but that didn’t matter as the skeletons were repelled by the sounds, Emelia saw this and jumped into action, rushing at GG with her sword, the boy quickly dashed away, hopping to and fro as he plucked and strummed all across the shop, soon Emelia stopped and once more began to play her guitar, her strums getting stronger, tempo faster, music louder and slowly the skeletons had begun to overpower the influence of GG’s relentless plucking, it seemed he was placed back in the same position he was before

But then, he reached into his pockets, and chowed down on the chocolate covered coffee beans he had been saving, instantly his energy spiked as he used his electricity to amp up his guitar playing,but Emelia was not ready to give up, holding and playing her guitar in one hand and grabbing her sword in the other, she once more charged at the toppat, GG followed suit and they slashed once more

Emelia was shocked to find her guitar’s strings were all slashed and her sword was reduced to just a hilt! She turned back to GG to find him with a smug face, still strumming as he blew out the flame at his fingertip, and unleashing another round of pocket ash into her eyes!

At this moment, she couldn’t see, she could only hear the music get closer and closer as GG approached, then her sight returned and she found GG, standing in front of her and then he hit her over the head with his guitar!

By the time Emelia came to, she was tied up, Terry was free and her army was gone “have a good sleep?” GG asked “now, answers”

“Fine, you want the truth? I’ll tell you, on that day, I was walking down the hall when I heard a loud bang, it still rings in my ears to this day and when I went to check, our leader’s body was lifeless on the floor, next to HIS smoking revolver!”

“That could’ve been anyone using it!” GG retorted

“Hmmph, a likely story,” Emelia scowled,turning to Terry “you snapped, didn’t you, got tired of being the little runt and decided to take to the top by force? Well guess what, you can kill all you want, you can try to run from every last one of your problems, but you’ll always be nothing more than a pequeño hierba!”

At that moment, she reached from behind, giving a little strum to a guitar behind her. All of a sudden a cavalcade of skeletal hands reached from the ground, dragging her through the dirt to make her mistake. GG ran and tried to grab her, but it was too late…

“Dammit!” GG yelled before sighing in disappointment and turning to the cowboy “Terry, be honest with me?” 

“About what?”

“Are you sure the rogues ever really cared about you…?”

“What’s that supposed to mean?”

“I don’t know, all this talk of them hating you, barely hesitating to put the blame on you with barely any evidence, it’s just all a buncha bad signs to me…”

“Look, I know it’s a lot, but there were… some good times, if I could just clear my name… look, it’ll be fine, alright? For now, let’s get some sleep, you must be real tired”

“yeah…I guess”

And so, the duo returned to the room to doze off, in GG’s mind, doubts may have floated about his brain, but for the sake of Terry, he’d stay optimistic to the very end!

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[Epilogue]

“Yes yes, I couldn’t ask for a better backstage!” The director shouted as he shoved the trio of Lights, Camera, and action out of their meeting hall

Seeing another of their ideas be dismissed without hesitation, Lights started to droop their head down 

“Hey, hey!” Action intervened “What we’ve gots is great! So what if that bozo doesn’t wanna listen, once it’s done they’re gonna have their socks rocked off!”

At that moment, both Lights and Camera instantly perked up, much to Action’s delight

“Yeah, that's what I loves to see! Now, what’s the next step? Action announced, turning back to Lights, who responded simply by holding a finger up

“Ah, need some time to think? Take ya time, buddy!” Lights gave a thumbs up as they retreated to their room and opened their laptop, opening their email and sent out a message, within minutes they received a reply

“Sounds to me, you’ve got all your materials in order, you just gotta put 'em’ together, trust me, you stick with it and you and your little menagerie will be on top in no time!”

After reading this, Lights closed his Laptop and returned to the group

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Chapter 2 act 4: all's fair

Since the newest revelation of Terry’s past had come to light, GG was thinking constantly, how exactly would he go about figuring out the truth behind Terry’s framing and clear his name to his old crew? The cowboy himself had only so much information on the subject and it wasn’t like he could just ask the blood-thirsty, money-hungry bounty hunters himself… or could he?

And it was this thought process that led him to decide the latest destination for the duo’s travels

“A theme park?” Terry asked

“It makes perfect sense!” GG snapped back “if we wanna find a bounty hunter, we gotta think like one and if one’s looking for me they’d have to think like me, where would someone like me wanna go?”

Terry just stared, confused

“Exactly!”

“GG, if you wanted to go to a theme park, you could have just said so”

“Did you not hear that very straightforward thought process of mine?!”

“Look, I know the rogues and I’m pretty sure they’re smart enough not to actively pursue a bounty in a largely populated place like this!” 

“Oh…” GG said as his head began drooping down to the ground

Feeling bad for the boy, Terry then said, “Then again, can never be too sure and we did come all this way”

Immediately, GG picked himself back up, “Great!” he yelped, “Now, look alive, we got pages to fill!”

“Pages?” 

“I’m thinking of writing a journal or maybe a blog…”

As the Delinquent duo walked off they remained oblivious to the discreet, camouflage-clad seeker, watching, strategizing their downfall…. From the trash can

“Hmmm… The Toppat boy is onto me! Smarter than I thought it seems… but being a step ahead won’t mean much as he steps on a landmine!” Wally Warlock announced as he flipped through his spellbook and with a wave of his hand, a peculiar creature with a mushroom on its head resembling a soldier’s helmet appeared on the ground beside him

“Glug…” the creature groaned 

“Hey, over here!” Wally commanded, prompting the creature to turn around, “You see those two?” he continued, pointing at the delinquent duo, “keep an eye on them but stay out of their sights, and when the time is right…” Wally once more waved his hand, making a gun locked and loaded with sleeping powder appear in the creature’s hands

“Glug!” the creature responded affirmatively, as it began to waddle off, dragging the gun behind

For about 20 seconds before it walked into a no entry zone of the park and was launched into the sky by an oncoming coaster

Wally, facepalmed as he saw this, “I spent the last of my cash on this third rate spellbook?! Urghh, well if these things are lacking in quality, they’ll have to make up for it in quantity…”

Meanwhile, the Delinquent duo were simply meandering about the park, with GG practically rotating with each step, “the hell are you doing?” asked Terry

“Well, those hunters could be anywhere, right?”

“Well I don’t think they’re gonna strike if they can tell your ready”

“Ah, you’re right, gotta act natural, hmmm…”

At that moment, a Bottle toss stand crossed his sights and immediately he dashed towards it, dragging Terry in tow

“Ah, nothing like some nice rigged carnival games to relax while we’re most certainly NOT on the lookout for bounty hunters, eh, Terry?!” GG loudly announced, much to Terry’s un-amusement

“2 games please” GG said as he plopped 2 bucks on the booths counter and the operator handed the duo 3 balls each

“You first, Terry” GG said “I’ll be on look-out” he then whispered as he stood and tried to maintain subtlety

As this was happening, two of Wally’s shroom-soldiers as one of them walked about a corner, Spotting GG and Terry, immediately the other dragged them back as to remain out of their field of vision, Back in the trash can, Wally was using a communication spell to keep tabs on his fungal forces, when he got a signal from the duo, “You’ve got them in your sights? Perfect! Just get a clear shot and bring those maggots to me!”

“Glug!” the two responded affirmatively

On of them then proceeded to rather clumsily get a grip on their gun

As the creatures began to take aim, Terry ran out of balls and switched positions with GG, “All yours” he said as GG stepped up to the plate

“Alrighty, just gonna wind this one up…” GG said as he reeled his arm back in a circular motion that grew faster and faster, Flames began to fester on the ball and he eventually chucked it with all that built up force!

Completely missing the bottles as the ball tore through the back of the booth, ricocheting off a hard concrete wall, tearing another hole, whizzing past GG, Terry and the booth operator before Smacking right in the Shroom soldier’s face, right as it was about to shoot! Causing the other to promptly flee the scene

“Huh” GG said, “Might’ve packed a bit too much into that one, oh well, I still got two more-” 

The operator didn’t hesitate for a second as they smacked the bottles off the table themselves “Look at that, a winner!” they said frantically as they shoved the largest plush amongst the booth’s prizes in the boy’s hands 

“Soldiers, what’s your read?” Wally asked, trying to reach the duo’s signal, the survivor grumbled its response, “A fireball? Of course you realize, Toppat, this means war!” He then proceeded to signal all of his troops, “all units, I’m being told our foe is wielding some sort of fire magic, but this means nothing, we’ll just have to fight fire… with ice!” Wally announced as he looked through his spells and clapped his hands, suddenly the hues of the shrooms shifted from sickly greens to lighter blues as they were all given ice magic

Meanwhile, the Delinquent duo were wandering around when abruptly, GG came to a stop, turning around with wide, awe-struck eyes, “What is it?” Terry asked, confused until the boy pointed up at the attraction that caught his eyes

“bumper cars!” GG cried out with glee! Reminiscing of the few, yet very fond memories he had attached to the attraction

“Getting distracted, are you?” Terry teased

“Wha- how DARE you accuse me?!” GG yelled, taking the joke rather personally, “I said I’d find one of your old friends here and I meant it! And I can do it while taking in all the frantic swerving, the tires squealing, the…” he was in a trance before quickly snapping out of it “agh, let’s just get in line!” the duo proceeded to the attraction as GG resumed his observation

Despite GG’s vigilant lookout, a horde of Wally’s shrooms remained undetected as they peered from the corner of a stand, they needed to get close, but how?

At that moment, one of them grabbed an unattended box of the Park’s novelty hats, they donned the disguises, hiding their grotesque spore-ridden mugs with more cartoonish, foam fungi as they proceeded to get into line with the delinquent duo, the line moved and the horde along with the delinquents got into their cars as the ride’s operator came on the speaker to rather unenthusiastically announce “ready, set… go!” as he activated the ride’s music and the car’s ignitions 

Now, while GG had ultimately arranged this day-trip in order to lure any of Terry’s old friends and help clear his name, that didn’t change the fact that he was sitting in one of his all time favorite attractions to any theme park, the adrenaline had begun to kick in as the music blared in ears his eyes widened along with a worryingly big smile, he slammed his foot to the gas and he was off! Rushing to the horde and slamming them at full force like a bunch-a bowling pins! He swerved and turned as the horde tried to retaliate, rubber squealed, dust flew, it was utter madness!

“Well that’s… worrying,” Terry muttered to himself as he watched this unfold, until GG’s car inevitably turned his direction, before promptly giving him the same treatment as everyone else in that arena, Terry of course, wouldn’t take this lying down, following the crash, he adjusted his hat and put the pedal to the metal, as the duo chased each other about the area, with GG’s intense, almost maniacal enthusiasm and Terry’s focus and vehicular prowess (jetpack, bumper car, potato, po-tah-to) it was truly an heart- pounding spectacle as they bumped one another to and fro!

Meanwhile, as the horde were recovering from their crashes and attempting to take advantage of their distraction, one of them attempted to fire shots of frost at them, but given the speed of their chase and that they weren’t exactly stellar aimers to begin with, they missed every one, until they got a call from Wally

“What are you doing?! I can see them in your sights, so listen up!” he commanded the soldier as he relayed his strategy, they gave an affirmative “glug!” before shouting at their comrades, waking them up as they all collectively set their arms to drag behind as they all charged forward, creating a layer of ice on the arena, catching the duo off guard as their carts were sent sliding across the stage like billiard balls, they could barely control their cars, just as planned

Trying to capitalize on this disorientation the horde once more tried to subdue the duo with their guns, of course, they only now realized that their ice only made their targets even more erratic than before, but they were in too deep and decided to press onwards to get a closer shot, before getting caught in the storm themselves

At this time GG would try to take back control, he grabbed on to the steering wheel as hard as he could, jolting it left, right, up and down and all around, desperately trying to get any input through as he continually spun out of control, soon enough, he began eliciting his electricity, giving extra power for both himself and the car, finally getting him to veer off, though still at the mercy of the icy terrain

Eventually, the momentum carried him to the edge of the area, where he’d orbit about in spiraling vortex, catching the horde in his grasp

At this moment, the ride’s operator finally woke from their nap, seeing this scene, immediately they pulled the override, causing every car to abruptly stop

Since GG and Terry were the only who bothered to put their seatbelts, the horde ended up being sent flying far off, “they’ll be fine” GG remarked as he grabbed his plush and the duo walked off

After the horde landed, Wally buzzed in “You… lost them again, didn’t you?”

“Glug…”

“Of all the…”

“Glug”

“You what?”

“Glug!”

“Oh-ho, I underestimated you soldier!” Wally hollered as he checked his tracking spell, lo and behold, true to the shrooms word a single spore had been planted on GG’s plushie, now with a direct location wally radioed in every last soldier to tell the good news

After everything, the duo had decided to take a break and eat some snacks, all the while GG lamented the lack of success he was having

“Ugh, what am I doing wrong?” He asked sadly

“Hey, don’t beat yourself up so much, look at the bigger picture, they're bound to show up soon enough”

“Bigger picture…” At that moment, GG noticed the Massive ferris wheel that stood in the center of the park “Jackpot!” he said, as he headed for it, with Terry reluctantly following 

Just as the duo hopped on one of the wheel’s carts, just as the shrooms had begun to pursue, catching rides in the carts behind, soon enough, they were all sitting at the highest point of the wheel’s rotation as it came to a stop

“Alrighty, hand me the binoculars” GG said, holding his hand out

“What? I don’t have any” 

“WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON’T HAVE ANY?!”

“Do you just expect me to have a solution to all your problems in my jetpack?”

“Eugh, alright, it’s fine, maybe if I just look a little closer…” 

As GG tried to stick his head out for a better view of the park’s patrons far below, just then Terry noticed someone aiming a gun at the boy

“Get down!” he yelled as it attempted to shoot

“Haha! So someone is here! You know that mushroom-head?” GG exclaimed

“No,but I recognize that kinda magical weaponry anywhere” Terry began to rev his jetpack “fun day, but we’re outta here”

“What? But this is our chance! If their weapons are there, the guy is probably close by”

“You don’t know what you’re dealing with!”

“Which is why I’ve gotta learn somehow!”

“This isn’t your problem to face!”

“It’s ours, we’re a team, remember?!”

“It’s too risky!” Terry grabbed GG’s arms and attempted to fly and flee the scene

GG meanwhile, wasn’t having it, as he broke out of the cowboy’s grasp with a rocket boost and latched himself onto the ferris wheel, he swung and climbed to and fro as the shrooms tried to shoot at him

“What are you doing!?” Terry screamed as he flew back for him

Soon enough the ferris wheel had begun moving as GG reached the top, prompting him to start running to avoid falling

“The things I do for this guy…” he muttered as he felt the wheel gaining speed from his electric steps, eventually getting to the point he could only hold on for dear life as it spun out of control, shrooms flew until the wheel finally came to a steady stop, luckily as GG was a safe distance from the ground, he released his grip as Terry flew down for him

“Jeez! Can you get any more reckless!?”

Watching closely by the scene, Wally was delighted, “it’s all coming together! Now hold still…” he remarked as he began to slowly aim his own gun”

“Urgh… I don’t feel so good…” GG got up, disoriented before he ran off, holding his hand to his mouth

“What’s he doing?” Wally wondered, before noticing the boy fast approaching “Shit! Where’s the teleportation spell?!” he frantically flipped through as GG came closer and closer before he reached wally’s trash can…

Running right past it and vomiting in a nearby porta-potty, walking out, still dizzy

“Ugh, what were you thinking?” 

“I was thinking of making good on my promise”

“By throwing yourself head-long into danger!?”

“Huh, when you say it like that…”

Terry sighed, “Look, this isn’t something to take lightly, and I’ll admit I haven't exactly been handling this as well as I should, I’ll give more information on the rogues, but could you not do something like that again?”

Meanwhile, Wally eavesdropped right under the duo’s noses, gasping at what he was hearing “He’s plotting to take us out!” Wally didn’t hesitate to jump out his hiding place with his gun pointed right at Terry, “Not today, weed!” 

Just before he could shoot, GG tackled Terry outta the way, Wally proceeded to raise another horde of shroom soldiers

GG proceeded to grab his plush by the leg, before setting it aflame and charging his horde, swatting at the horde like he was in a third-degree burning pillow fight! Rushing straight for Wally himself

Realizing this, Wally quickly used a wind spell to propel himself away and summoned even more shrooms to slow the duo down, even still GG chased him down with Terry close behind, mowing down the decomposers one bullet at a time

Soon, Wally placed himself atop a roller coaster’s tracks, using another spell to summon a small, yet quick tank he’d use to make his getaway, GG followed, Rocket jumping to the tracks, Terry stayed behind, keeping the horde at bay and preventing them from attempting to climb on

On the tracks, GG and Wally’s chase raged on through every turn, slope and even loop-de-loop, even with his speed, GG slowly grew tired, Wally saw this, thinking he was in the clear until he saw something ahead that made him stop in his tracks! An “under construction sign” and piles of sharp debris below

GG began to approach, Wally flipped through his book one more time, looking for any last gambit, before simply deciding to throw the book at the boy, he merely swatted it away as he stopped, huffing and puffing

“I don’t wanna hurt ya,Wizard, just tell me everything you know about Terry”

“Weed? He’s a maggot, always poked into places he shouldn’t and worst of all, he’s a traitor!”

“That’s a lie! He never killed that leader of yours!”

“Is that what this is about? Hehe, well how about you send weed my regards, he can tell all the lies he wants, he was NEVER a part of us and after what he’s done, the only thing he’ll be a part of is the dirt under my boot!”

With rage in his eyes, GG charged a flame in his fist and tried to sucker punch the warlock!

“insidias armis!” Wally called as he clapped his hands, disappearing into the smoke

At this moment, Terry arrived, still wiping off pieces of shroom from his arms, “you good?” he asked

“Yeah, I’m fine, say, the park’s still open, you think we could stay here a bit longer? Could certainly use a moment to take a load off my mind”

“Heh, sounds great!”

And so the duo enjoyed the rest of their day at the theme park, but even still, Wally’s words dwelled in GG’s mind, Terry claimed them to be friends yet it seemed they never cared for him at all,this task was gonna be tougher than he thought…

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Chapter 2 Act 3: Un-fun sized fight

A new day had dawned and after a long night of travel, the delinquent duo woke up from yet another hotel room, as they both headed down to check out of the hotel, they began to converse about their latest destination,

“Ah, here we are” GG keenly announced “here we are, in ‘jo-pin’! Home of squiggly lines, neon signs, neon signs with squiggly lines!”

“You… know nothing about this place, do you?” 

“Pfft, like you know any more?” 

“Let’s just say, I used to know a guy, who takes this sorta thing rather seriously, maybe a bit too much”

“Ok, maybe I don’t know jack about ‘jay-pon’ but that’s what I’m here for, the discovery! And hey, I do know one thing, this place is home to some of the best, legally possible candy around! I’m talking sweet-n-sticky cakes,soda that comes in the form of gummies, bits of stars!”

The two proceeded to check out of the hotel and proceed to the entrance, wafting in the fresh air as they stepped out the doors

“now, don’t think I forgot what happened on the fishing trip, we gotta keep a low profile this time if we wanna stay out of trouble”

“Ya got it, buddy! Even if something does happen, I’ve been working on a new trick up my sleeve, observe”

GG proceeded to walk up to a nearby window, placing a finger on the curtains before setting it ablaze, Terry was understandably befuddled at this, until GG stuck his hand into the flames

“...what exactly am I looking at?”

“Wait-wha” GG turned to see the fire still very much going, let out a brief yelp before waving his arms frantically trying to get his trick to work properly, eventually,he did and the fire got sucked back into his hand like a vacuum (albeit not without half the curtain being charred off)

“Huff… puff… ta-dah! Fire absorption! I’m uh, still workshopping it, but I bet I can do the same for electrical stuff, huff…”

“Right… let’s just get goin”

the duo walked off, their search had begun, but little did they know that someone else’s search was just about to end

Somewhere, far away

Mr Mech clacked away at his keyboard, looking everywhere for answers on the whereabouts of his targets, and just then, he had managed to finally find what he was looking for, hacking into the cameras of the hotel the duo stayed at last night, “hah! I found them, I knew the 47th try was the charm! Hmm, for a pair of delinquent bastards, those two have some good taste in their choice of travels, I must say. I’d like to see The Director deny my well deserved trip after I serve their heads on silver platters. Garnished with the finest-

“WILL YOU SHUT UP?!” The director shouted as he barged into Mech’s room, annoyed at his incessant monologuing

“Urgh, way to ruin my big moment..” Mech responded 

“You’re the only one in the room! Everyone knows a good villainous monologue is reserved for when the protagonists are at your mercy!”

“I am NOT taking criticism from someone who can’t even stick to a color scheme!”

“Just do your damn job…” the Director sighed as he closed the door

“Hmmph! Now, where was I… ah yes, go forth my creation!” Mech screamed as he slammed the big red ‘Launch’ button to the left of his keyboard

At that moment, from the depths of the sea, it rose, flying off to it’s targets

The duo huffed and puffed as they marched aimlessly they'd been walking for so long, night had fallen, their feet aching from countless steps

“This is ridiculous, how much further is the candy store anyway?” Terry asked

“Wha? I dunno” “WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON’T KNOW?! IT’S BEEN HOURS!”

“Hey, hey! Calm down, getting a bit lost while exploring a new place is all part of being an adventurer, I’m sure the place is right around…” GG slowed his speech in anticipation as he went around another turn

“Here!” he yelled excitedly, only to find the same hotel the two started their journey at, prompting a facepalm out of Terry

“Uhhh… I’ll just ask for directions!” GG proceeded to walk up to one of the locals on the street “excuse me, can you tell us where-” GG was almost immediately cut off as the person screamed in terror before smacking him across the face and running off 

“You ok?” Terry asked?

“Ouch! What was that about?” GG inquired

“Ahem” Terry turned to one of the boy’s wanted poster that hung on the walls

“Ah, right, that explains why the hotel staff was shivering so much, ough maybe offering a fire from my hand to warm up wasn’t such a good idea…”

“Nevertheless, we’re gonna need a new plan”

"Hmmm… ah, I got it!"

GG then gave his a nice big stretch before rocket jumping high into the air, with his higher view, he quickly spotted a shop with unmistakable neon signs in candy shapes, letting out a quick burst of flame to slow his descent as he fell back down, "Alright, just 2 blocks then a left!" He proudly said

Terry did not share this excitement, "hey! What happened to keeping a low profile?!" 

"Relax, I doubt I stood out too much amidst the giant 3d cat billboard"

Terry hesitated for a moment, thinking how to respond "...eh, fair enough" as they headed for the candy shop

Unfortunately, despite what GG thought, it, did see them

“How amateurish.” Mr Mech remarked with a snide chuckle and a sip of his soda, watching through one of his machine’s built in cameras as he prompted his machine to pursue the duo

All of a sudden, the two heard a loud crash come from behind them as if a meteor had just careened from the stratosphere and onto the pavement, slowly the dust began to settle as machines piercing red eyes glowed and glared at the delinquents

"So, thought you could hide forever, huh, Tumbleweed? Running from your misdeeds with your complimentary colored comedic sidekick?"

“Oh no…”

"Hey, who ya calling sidekick?! Who even are you?"

“Hmm, hasn’t Weed told you about me?”

At that moment, as the dust settled, and the figure could be clearly seen, it’s steel shining structure, the seemingly endless array of weaponry that covered every crevice and surface imaginable, arm cannons, jet boots and much more

All standing at a towering 30…

Inches tall…  

Almost instantly, GG burst out laughing at how he was being threatened by what looked like a toy, even Terry let out a bit of a chuckle

“Oh, don’t worry about me, my budget will be plenty satisfactory once I bring forth your hides upon-”

GG simply walked up and punted the machine, watching it bounce off the pavement before landing face down

“Welp, that’s that, back to candy!”

“Bastard!” Mech yelled, as he ignited the robot’s jet boots and flew above the duo “Let’s see you stay so smug about your size after this!”

The robot aimed its arm cannon at the delinquents and launched a beam, within moments they were the size of ants! Mech landed the machine in front of, standing in all its high tech glory!

“Ugh.. what happened?”

“Now, let’s see how much of a fight you uncultured swines can REALLY put up!”

Though disoriented at first, the delinquent duo were still just as ready and willing to brawl, with GG placing his foot forward and Terry readying his Jetpack, both parties began to charge forward!

Until all of a sudden, the metallic apparatus seemingly disappeared in the blink of an eye! GG and Terry were confused at first, but they then looked up and saw, a small child had grabbed the robot, thinking it was a toy, rotating it about to examine it

Mr Mech kept shouting in protest as he tried to get his machine out of the child’s grasp and back to the battlefield “Hey, hey! Put my creation down! Didn’t your mother tell you not to touch instruments of war you just find on the ground!? Wait, you can’t understand me, augh! Where’s my Japanese dictionary?!“ He tried activating the thrusters, wheels, everything, but the more his machine did, the more enthralled the child became and the less likely to let go of it, as they walked away. 

“Well, that’s settled, back to candy!” GG said, walking off back on the path

Terry couldn’t even be bothered to respond, instead waited a few seconds for GG to walk back once the realization set in

“...I see the problem..”

“OH, DO YA!?”

Having no time for further banter the duo chased after the kid, they could catch up fairly quickly but even so, they couldn’t make a noise loud enough or a sight eye-catching enough,gunshots, lightning crackles, nothing seemed to get the kid’s attention away from such a fascinating robot!

GG tried rocket jumping up to the kid’s hands to release their fingers and Terry tried about the child’s face to get their attention but no luck, they both ended up swatted away like bugs

“Jeez, what stops this kid?” GG said, frustrated

Looking around the neighboring buildings across the block, Terry was soon struck with an idea “Wait here” he instructed before flying into a store before coming back, dragging a fairly sizable firework

“Light it up!” 

“Wait we’re not gonna-”

“Just trust me!”

Terry took a few moments to aim the thing before signaling GG to light the thing up!

In an instant, the firework whizzed right by the kid before exploding in a colorful beauty in the skies above them, distracting them enough to stop in their tracks and more importantly, loosen their grip just enough for GG and Terry to pull the mech out of the kid’s hands

Once free, Mr Mech wasted no time, making the robot fly off fast as possible, to which the Delinquent duo began to give chase, as well as the kid, after realizing their toy had gone off,

“Go!” Terry instructed GG “I’ll get the kid to buzz off!” as he flew off, leaving the boy to continue his pursuit 

Soon Mr Mech hid his machine in a cafe, though he didn’t physically do much at all, the adrenaline of his escape made him need to take a moment to catch his breath

“That was a close one… note to self, install child guard on next robot” but with his dilemma done, he once more laser focused on his mission, “Now, just need to find those-”

“Meow~” Mech heard, turning the robot’s head, “hey, leave me be, pesky neko! Don’t you have an island or train station you should be on right now?” but soon, the meows multiplied, and more cats began to approach the strange apparatus that had entered their domain, only now Mech realized that it wasn’t just any cafe he had decided to hide in

At that moment, GG peeked his head from just outside the entrance, seeing all the cats about, he couldn’t help but be amazed, “heaven��” he said to himself before, trying to get his focus back in check,“augh, gotta remember, get back to normal first, candy and cats later” looking for Mech, soon seeing his machine getting batted and bitten by all the cats surrounding it, “huh, looks like he’s distracted, now I just gotta-” all of a sudden, GG found himself lifted off the ground, eliciting a yelp outta him as he turned to see a cat holding him by his back it’s mouth “hey hey, nice kitty” GG said trying to keep calm but then the cat tossed GG up and lied on it’s back as it started to juggle and toss the kid about back and forth between its paws

“Hey! Put me down! Oof! I admit this is pretty adorable but please put me down!” GG cried out

Meanwhile, Terry watched the kid, seeing them fully enthralled with the lighter and pile of fireworks presented in front of them

“Ok, that should keep them busy, now where to find…” Terry said to himself as he peered into the neighboring building’s windows before soon seeing a bow tied little toppat being continually tossed in the air by a cat, “why am I not surprised…” he remarked as he flew in the cafe, keeping nice and high as to not become another toy for the surprisingly energetic cats that kept jumping up for him

He landed himself on a stationary ceiling fan to get a safe vantage over the situation “hmm, what’s got these cats all hopped up?” as he observed the area, he soon saw an open cup of iced coffee next to a worker, sleeping on the job “I think I know what’ll get someone else hopped up”

he flew down, swooping back up as he grabbed GG, “thanks, now what's the plan?” 

“Two words” Terry said before throwing GG into the cup, as he landed in the iced coffee with a splash “Drink up!”

Soon enough, the coffee disappeared and out shot the boy like a cannonball from a pirate ship!

He smacked the robot with great force, knocking it on it’s back, prompting Mech to activate the machine’s back wheels and thrusters to launch it out the cafe whilst GG and Terry gave chase

“Enough games!” Mech shouted in frustration as he made the robot stand back up and launch a missile from it’s arm, that chased Terry through the air, before directing a 2nd missile to chase GG, prompting him to run as well

The missiles chased the two relentlessly as they dashed about the ground and whizzed through the air

“Hey!” Terry called to get GG’s attention, before directing him to the arm, GG nodded and the two began heading in the same direction

The mech tried to stomp and swipe at the duo once they got close but they easily avoided

Then, GG rocket jumped over the machine’s arm, and Terry flew under, this prompted the two missiles, to fly in the same place, directly at it

Instantly the arm fell off, blasting another beam as it hit the ground

But this wasn’t another shrink ray…

All of a sudden Terry and the robo found themselves growing to kaiju size

GG peeked from atop Terry’s hat, “Ah c’mon! I couldn’t grow as well!?” he remarked in jealousy

“AGH! Why did I install that?! No matter, the only size I care about is that of your coffin! Mech cried as he held out the robot’s fist in front of it before launching them out at the cowboy, Terry was hit and knocked back into a nearby ocean as GG held on to his hat for dear life, the machine proceed to fly up closer to him for another blow as his fists retracted back, but this time, donning his gold knuckles Terry proceeded to punch two fists right back at the robot, making a great impact, before they docked back into the machine’s arm

Mech let out another frustrated cry before the robot fired lasers out it’s eyes, prompting Terry to fly up high with his Jetpack

Seeing the robot focused on Terry, little GG had an idea as he hopped off the hat

“GG!” Terry cried out, surprised at the boy unhesitantly jumping from so high up

GG veered himself atop the robot, using a burst of fire from his hands to land safely, it was surely daunting navigating himself once he landed, not only was it bigger than a mountain to him but it was in constant and quick movement as well

Nevertheless, GG navigated the machines shoulder and the side of it’s head, “Cmon cmon, there’s gotta be some weakness around here…” soon he turned to find a large glowing button on it’s back that read “self destruct” “yeah, that’ll do” GG said as tapped it 

But all that happened was the ‘button’ sprung back, launching him away!! “HAH! Did you really think I’d place the self-destruct button in anyone’s reach but mine!?” Mech cackled as he gestured towards the actual self-destruct button plopped to his side “enjoy your ride!” he remarked as the boy was ejected off the machine and right into a nearby neon sign!

“Well, so much for being brought in alive eh, weed?” Seeing what had happened, Terry charged in a rage! Swinging right at the robot’s face,back and forth it was an all out slugfest!

But soon, something shot out of the wrecked neon sign and landed on the machine’s leg, It was GG, with more energy than ever surging through him, he ran up the machine, Mech tried to swat and swipe the boy off but to no avail, eventually he ran to the top of the robot’s head, winding his fist before unleashing a massive electrical pulse throughout the robot, making mech lose control of it, seeing this, Terry reached out for GG to hop back on his hand and then his hat, before he lifted his hand and flicked the robot, making it fall on it’s back

“This isn’t over!” Mech shouted as he slammed his fists in frustration, but he was then taken back by a loud buzz, looking to his right, he saw his fist, firmly down and his self destruct button underneath

“As Mech’s screen turned to static, he let out a furious “NOOO!!” before raising his keyboard over his head, but then the Director intervened and grabbed it, “that’ll have been the third one this month.”

Meanwhile Terry, lowered GG back onto the ground where he found the growth/shrink ray, set the beam to “normal size” fired at Terry

“Ahh, that’s better” he let out as the world returned to the size he was used to

“Soooo…” GG said “mind if I ask, WHO THE HELL WAS THAT GUY!?!?”

“One of my old friends I’m afraid…” Terry said with a sigh

“Didn’t seem too friendly to me”

“It’s a long story…”

“Ok then” GG then sat down, ready to listen

“Heh, well in the beginning, I had nothing, I was no one, but then the gallery took me in, gave me a name, gave me a purpose, sure there were plenty of disagreements, teasing, being used as bait a couple of times, but they were still my friends, the only friends I’ve ever had, at least they used to be until that damn director framed me for killing our old leader! And to add insult to injury, he got put in charge!

“That’s awful,how come no one believed ya?”

“Well, when I found out about this, I was coming back from trying to get the gallery some extra money, I had stolen from some casino and then I saw the wanted posters…”

“Crap… there’s gotta be something we can do!”

“Only problem is now that one of them found me, it’s only a matter of time before the rest are hounding us!”

“Well, no matter what they got, I’ll be by your side, I’m sure we’ll get to the bottom of this!”

“Heh, thanks, welp, we better get you back to normal size”

“Wait, before we do that…”

Some time later

Terry walked out of the candy store, and opened a nice big, variety pack, “alright have at it”

GG rubbed his hands together in excitement,letting out a “wahoo!” before diving off the hat and into the colossal sweets below!

“There’s just one thing I don’t get, how did that neon sign get me so hyper?”

“Hmmm… must’ve been the plasma”

“Well that doesn’t make sense, I wield fire and electricity”

“You do know both of those things are made of plasma?”

“They are? Oh-ho! Sounds like possibilities to me!”

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Chapter 2 Act 2: Bozos on boats

(August 8th, one day after launch)

Aboard the Toppat orbital station, a woman with green hat and equally green hair walked into her room and turned on the light to find her red hat and eye patch wearing husband fast asleep with his face planted onto a table

“Gerald!” she yelled, waking him up

Disoriented, the man responded, “Huh- wah- oh, Gabrielle, what is it?” He said with a yawn

“Gerry, I’m worried about you, you haven’t left that spot since the station launched”

“I’ll admit, I have been grasping at straws” He said, turning to his corkboard of miscellaneous ‘clues’ to his son’s whereabouts “But I can’t stop now!” 

Gabrielle took a seat next to him, “I miss him too,” she said, trying to hold back tears, “but even if he’s…”

“HE’S NOT DEAD!” Gerald yelled, resisting the urge to punch a hole in the wall, “He can’t be… if it is, I failed him..”

Gabrielle wasted no time to hug her husband, letting his tears flow through her arms, even if she felt the need to hold back her own, “please… it’s not your fault, at least take a break”

“Ok…” Gerald responded with a sigh as he arose from his seat 

“I just hope, wherever he is, George is doing better than he was before…”

“I hope that too…”

(meanwhile, back on earth)

The sun was rising, a new day had begun, for most people this may not have meant much but for a certain Toppat this was a new beginning, a chance to finally live out his globe-trotting dreams, these thoughts wasted no time flooding to GG’s head as he rose from his hotel bed and donned his signature (and only) outfit before rushing out to the room’s balcony to take in the stellar view of the sun shining it’s golden glow to the city below. Making the boy rapidly tap his feet in excitement before heading back into the room and begin knocking on the next door to wake his partner in crime

“Hey, hey, get up!” he repeated until Terry finally answered, albeit not exactly sharing his enthusiasm, ignoring his friend’s Grogginess, GG continued, “Morning, buddy! The world’s a-waitin’ aren't you excited?

Terry let out a yawn before responding, “Look, I know we agreed to this whole odyssey schtick, but for crying out loud, you couldn’t sleep a bit longer?"

"And miss out on this sunrise? Hah! Fat chance!”

Terry didn’t care to respond and simply slumped back into bed

“Oh c’mon! You’re not even a little excited?” 

“We established nothing good happens when either of us are sleep deprived”

“Can’t ya just drink some hotel coffee?”

“Well can’t you just have some damn patience?”

“You’re telling me that the whole time you spent who knows how long hiding in that desert in the middle of nowhere, you’ve never thought about wanting to go anywhere, do anything or see anything other than that steel bunker?” 

Suddenly changing his tune, Terry began to get up, “Now that you mention it..”

“Yes, yes…” GG responded in anticipation

“There is this one thing…”

“Yes, just say the word and we’ll be on our way!”

(Some time later)

“...you’re kidding right?”

“Nope”

“All the places in the world and you decide to go here?!” GG grimaced as he motioned his hands towards the wooden dock that lead out into the deep blue ocean

“Oh, C’mon! You’re not even a little excited?” Terry remarked with a chuckle as he began to walk to the dock

“Ok, I know karma when I feel it…” GG responded as he followed

“But seriously, I have my reasons to come here, it’s been so long since I’ve had a good whiff of that salty seawater” Terry reminisced as he took in a deep breath

“Well I’ve been on a submarine my whole life, i’m pretty sure there’s some salt caked onto my brain” GG snapped back, he continued as the duo reached the end of the dock, “what are we even doing here? we don’t even have a-” 

He was then be cut off as Terry pressed a button on his jetpack, turning it into a boat

“Boat…” and with the two aboard the jet-boat, they were off onto the sea, but unbeknownst to them, a familiar face had just arrived

Punkhauser arrived onto the dock, he had his fists clenched and trembling in anger as he muttered to himself, this wouldn’t go for long as another motor mafia member, sporting a hockey mask,interrupted with some muffled speech

“Yes, it’s about the damn Toppat! But can you blame me, Auspuff? He comes into OUR territory, drinks OUR beverages, the Miststück takes a NAP in our place like he owns it AND HE STILL GETS OUT ALIVE!?!” Punkhauser was nearly foaming at the mouth until Auspuff spoke again

“Ugh… you’re right, the whole point of this trip is to calm me down, We’re lucky Roadhog let me off as easy as he did”

Auspuff gave an affirmative grunt along with a nod

“Alright, let’s get the boat”

Auspuff playfully let out a muffled “Aye aye!” and a salute, before revving up their chainsaw, they soon returned, albeit with some blood on his mask, and gave a thumbs up

(Meanwhile)

The Delinquent Duo had driven their boat far out to sea until suddenly, Terry hit the brakes. Disoriented by how abruptly they halted, GG asked, “What happened? Why did we stop in the middle of nowhere?”

“We’re here” Terry replied

GG was confused but his question would then be answered as Terry reached into the pack and pulled out a fishing rod

“Oh…”

“Hey, you’re the one who wanted to know if I missed anything, do you have any idea how long it’s been since I had some seafood?”

“Yeah, I get it” GG said as he lied down, mentally preparing for the long haul

Terry, seeing his friend’s sadness, offered a compromise, “Look, buddy, let’s make a deal, when we get a fish, we’ll go back, that sound good?”

Immediately, the boy perked up, “Really? Then what are we waiting for!?” he yelped as he charged a spark into his hands and began to reach into the water

Terry immediately pulled him back, “Whoa! what the hell are you thinking?”

“What? If the fish are shocked, they won’t put up much of a fight, won’t they?”

“Yes, but WE’LL get shocked!”

“The plan might have a few holes..”

Terry simply sighed before reaching into the pack again, “just take these” Terry said, handing GG a fishing rod and some bait

The Toppat boy wasted no time launching the pole far out to the sea… unfortunately he wasn’t told not to let go of the rod as he threw it

GG watched it float along by before turning back to Terry with a thumbs up, who just stared in annoyance

(elsewhere)

Punkhauser and Auspuff had set “their” boat to their own fishing spot and began to take inventory

“Harpoon?” Punkhauser asked

Auspuff let out an affirmative grunt as they loaded into the launcher

“Net?”

Auspuff let out another affirmative grunt as they held up the large net

“Great, now let’s get to it!”

Auspuff gave an enthused nod, They began by grabbing the net and heading to the other end of the ship, immediately chucking it into the engine of another boat and leaving it stranded, before proceeding to grab the harpoon gun, the ship was gone in seconds

“Great!” Punkhauser congratulated “Now no one’s getting our fish!” 

(several hours later)

Terry had fallen asleep but GG’s eyes were bloodshot and wide awake, internally screaming as neither he or Terry had managed to catch a single fish

FInally, he snapped, “OK, This is ridiculous!” he said, tempted to just up and leave, but as he thought more, he resisted this temptation, “you’re lucky I don’t break promises” He said with a sigh, “There has to be some faster way…”  

At that moment, looking into the distance, he noticed another boat with what appeared to be a large pile of fish on it

“Bingo!” he said to himself

Taking care not wake Terry, GG moved to the other side of the boat, using his fire to inch their boat closer to the other one, once close enough, he peeked his head above and there he saw it, his ticket out

Not only that, the two people on the boat were facing the opposite direction, completely distracted!

The stars seemed to have lined up for the boy as he climbed aboard and tiptoed to his goal he was getting closer when suddenly, the wood creaked beneath GG’s foot, he froze for a moment, thinking he was going to get caught

“Come on Auspuff I know you’re frustrated, but I’m sure we’ll catch a fish soon”

“Wait wha?” GG thought, as he got closer to the pile, he saw for himself, there were no fish! Just a load of junk! Initially, he was disappointed and understandably so, until out of nowhere, he heard the sound of a fishing rod reeling, Auspuff began grunting excitedly

“Hang on, I got it!” Punkhauser said as he grabbed the rod and the two reeled back with all their might, a massive fish emerged from the water, flopping about as it desperately tried to get back into the water

The two were sent into a frenzy as they both tried to grab it, but the wet fish kept slipping from their fingers, they chased to and fro, bouncing across the boat

GG soon joined the fray, it was utter chaos! Eventually, the fish was about to jump overboard but GG managed to finally get a good grip on it, the three took a moment to catch their breath, “hehe, that was a close one!” he remarked, followed by some agreeing grunts from Auspuff, “Yeah, thanks, Toppat” Punkhauser replied.

Quickly after, his eyes shot open, “YOU AGAIN?!” 

Auspuff Mumbled, confusedly

“YES, THIS THE ONE I WAS TALKING ABOUT!” Without hesitation, he grabbed Auspuff’s Chainsaw and charged at GG, who began to run away, quick as usual, he hopped back onto the boat, using his flames to propel the boat once more

At this time, Terry woke up, “Hey, we caught something!” 

“Yeah, yeah! Looks great doesn’t it?!” GG spoke quickly and with panic

“Must be real eager to head back aren’t y-” 

He was interrupted by the loud splash of a nearby harpoon, “GET BACK HERE, TOPPAT!” Punkhauser roared maniacally, nearly foaming at the mouth with rage

Terry, turned to his friend with a glare of disapproval

“I may have gotten a bit impatient, can my deserved talking-to wait till after we’re away from the chainsaw wielding maniacs?”

Terry, simply pressed a button on the jet boat, igniting the thrusters, making it much faster

OH YOU ARE NOT GETTING AWAY THAT EASY AGAIN!” 

Auspuff grabbed the harpoon gun once more, aiming steadily before launching it once more, it hit directly on GG and Terry’s boat, they were now tethered together

“Shit!” Terry yelled, “I just got that fixed!” Luckily little damage was done to the pack’s actual mechanisms, but nevertheless they were in a bad position, Terry couldn’t get a clear shot given how unstable their ride was and the harpoon was slowly pulling the duo into Auspuff and Punkhauser’s grasp!

Thinking fast, GG got an idea, which he whispered to Terry who responded with a nod

GG rocket jumped himself onto Punkhauser’s ship “come and get me!” he taunted, the two immediately began to chase him, chainsaws in hand, with them distracted, Terry strapped the jet boat onto himself, switched back into jetpack mode before flying up

Seeing Terry had gotten into position GG rushed to the chain, Punkhauser took another swing of the saw, but GG rolled to avoid, making the biker nearly fall overboard, Auspuff managed to catch him but they were both sopping wet

Meanwhile, GG climbed and climbed the chain like a ladder, fast as he could, once high enough, he began to try and burn the chain but Punkhauser wasn’t going to let his old foe escape again as he too began to climb and just as fast, Terry was about to pull out his gun but GG intervened as he noticed how soaked the biker was

“Say, what was it ya said about water and electricity?” 

Immediately realizing, Terry responded,  “Heh, I like your style!” As the Toppat snapped his finger, letting loose a single spark that landed right onto Punkhauser’s forehead

The barrage of bolts immediately made the biker lose his grip, landing on Auspuff, who would then experience the same, giving GG plenty of time to burn the steel chain and allow the duo to make their escape! Fish in tow!

“Damn… you… Toppat…!” Punkhauser was able to mutter as the shock slowly wore off

Later, after the duo successfully retreated, Terry had found a place to properly cook the fish and plate it for him to eat as GG stood close by, he felt his stomach rumble

Terry noticed, “I know you said  you’re sick of ocean stuff, but you sure you don’t want some of this?”

“Actually, after everything that’s happened, I could use a taste of home” 

Terry sliced the filet in half for the two to share, as he took the first bite, GG’s face immediately lit up “Woah, this is WAY better than the stuff from home,I Thought the old cooking calling herself, ‘Second worst under the sea’ was a joke, I am so sorry for ever downplaying this trip!” 

“And for almost getting us killed, again” 

“Yeah, that too, I guess I'm still the same ol, knucklehead, huh?”

“Eh, no use beating yourself up about it so much, you’re not gonna have everything fixed overnight” 

“You’re right, worst case scenario, I’ll have one hell of a story to tell in the afterlife”

The duo laughed as they continued to dine, their first adventure out in the world might have gone awry, but if that would be the worst their enemies could throw at them, it’s safe to say the two will be just fine… oh who am I kidding..

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Chapter 2 Act 1:

Seated around a table, the 4 members of "The Rogues gallery" have gathered together, called upon by their leader, The Director

The group were Murmuring amongst each other, wondering as to what they could had been called for, their questions would then be answered as The Director entered the room and took his seat

“Evening, I’m sure you’re all wondering what you’re here for, but first, roll call: Igor Inkwell?”

“ ‘ere”

“Wally Warlock?”

“Aye!”

“Emilia Esqueleto?”

“here!”

“Mr Mech?”

“For the last time, it’s ドクターマスターセンシ Mech!”

“Whatever you say, Mr Mech, The green hoods?”

The room remained silent, “Seriously?” Wally groaned in frustration, “those three maggots go on ONE expedition and suddenly they can’t be arsed to show up?!”

“Tell me about it, if it weren’t for them telling me about our latest target, they’d be axed by now” The Director continued as he reached into his pocket, “speaking of which, do any of you remember, Tumbleweed?”

Suddenly the room lit up with furious roars 

“Ugh, that bastard’s got some nerve trying to see the light of day again!”

“Oh, what I wouldn’t give to lay a katana on the neck of that dishonorable dirtbag!”

“Everyone, calm down!” the director ordered, “I’ve had an encounter with the traitor not too long ago”

 he continued as he held up and revealed GG’s wanted poster to the team, “he was ruthless as always and worse yet, he’s indoctrinated a plucky sidekick for his antics, poor kid, I tried to get him to see the light, but not only did he refuse, he had the GALL to act as though I was the bad guy! I saw their plans to flee for the toppat rocket, but I’ve since learned this plan of theirs bombed and they’re still on earth”

“So all we have to do is pop the little palooka’s head off?” Igor inquired as he anticipatedly jammed his fists together

“Believe me, I’d like to for both the traitor and the brat, but their bounties require them to be brought alive”

“Ah, phooey! What difference does it make anyways?”

“Igor, you remember the last time we were supposed to bring a target alive?”

“I’ve still got stains on my hat” Emilia interjected 

“And the worst part, we were supposed to receive $2000 for the target but because of you going off script, we got $500, in monopoly money”

“Cry all you want, I’m never giving up boardwalk!” 

“So what is the plan?”

“Well, that’s what I’ve called you all for, we’ll need to put our heads together if we want to see our antagonists fall, ideas anyone?”

Wally proceeded to continually clear his throat, obviously intending to draw attention to himself

“Wally, you have the floor”

“Well, I’m glad you asked” He proceeded to slam down a large detailed diagram across the table, “As you can see, my strategy is nothing short of fool-proof, accounting for every last possibility right down to what those Maggots had for breakfast! I’ll just be needing an increase in my budget for a little heavier artillery, a bit of extra ammo, maybe another spell book”

“Wally, you’re sitting on a bucket right now”

“Oh, come on! I won’t even need to hire any soldiers! I’ll just borrow Emelia’s-”

“There’ll be a blue sky in Mexico before I think about letting you lay a FINGER on my friends!”

“Emelia, they’re skeletons”

“Well they still have souls unlike your war-mongering arse! And they wouldn’t be caught double-dead with a bazooka!”

“Both of you, calm down! And Wally, could you please try to stay on budget?”

“Ahem” Mr Mech smugly remarked, pushing up his glasses, “unlike the rest of you, I know how to really get things done even under the tightest wad and I’ve already got something quite extraordinary prepared…” 

“Lemme guess, another giant robot?” “NANI?! How did you know?”

“I had a hunch, just make sure the self destruct is away from the on button this time”

“Hey! That only happened once!”

“Well all those explosions are bound to mess with that noggin o’ yers, ain’t it?”

“Shut it, you monochrome meathead!”

The meeting devolved into pointless bickering yet again, as the Director slumped back in his seat he muttered to himself, “ugh.. How can this get any worse?”

At that exact moment, the door swung open and three short figures made their entrance

“not these tontos again…” Emelia said with a sigh

“Sorry we’re late, Boss! No one told us where the meeting was s’posed to be, also I think you accidentally locked the door, but hey, happens to the best-a us, don’t it?”

“Yes, it does…” The Director responded behind his grit teeth “Do any of you three have something to add?”

“You bet D-man! So me n’ camera was just relaxin, y’see? and lights comes up to us all bright eyed…”

“No, you don’t have to… ugh..”

Action continued to ramble on and on and on about every tiny thing about what happened between the trio in long, excruciating detail, leading to the rogues being literally bored to sleep

Some time later…

“And so camera ovah here being a whiz with tools n’ tinkerin', you can imagine the excitement when they told us it’s actually possible! But heck, what am I doin blabbin about? Lemme just show ya… uhhh.. Did you fall asleep?”

Suddenly the director shot awake, “huh, wha? Oh, sure I’m sure it’s great you three, run along now!” He condescendingly remarked as he began to push the three out the door

“Wait, ya didn’t even-”

“Yes yes, I couldn’t ask for a better backstage!” he continued as he shoved them out before the rest of the team groggily woke themselves 

"Oi, wait a minute.." Igor questioned, "where are those two exactly?"

The Director opened his mouth to respond but quickly stepped down as he had a realization

"Oh don't tell me… you didn't put a tracking device on either of them?" “In my defense, I’d like to see you get a clear shot from a discreet bush in the middle of a war-zone!”

“Point is, how the hell are we finding the targets?” 

“Isn’t it obvious?” Mr Mech answered, “Clearly we’ll just have to split up”

The Director attempted to interrupt, “Wait no, that’s an awful-”

“Well that settles it, I’ll meet you all back when I’ve got those bastards bowing at my feet!”

“Pfft, after you cut 'em with that ridiculous haircut?”

“Why you little…!”

“Ya still got more of a fighting chance than Ms Mariachi over here”

“Oh muerde tu lengua!”

The group proceeded to argue and argue as they went their ways, not even bothering to listen to the input of their leader who could only watch in dismay, he sighed to himself before getting up and retreating to his own office

He gazed at the previous leader’s portrait that hung above the fireplace before opening it up, revealing a single USB stick containing camera footage of when the former leader was shot and killed, “I’ll never forget what happened to you” The director solemnly said

But he quickly changed his tune “but they will…” he sinisterly remarked before throwing the stick into the flames, taking great pride as the only evidence to his deeds burned before his eyes

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Chapter 1 Act 8: Last stretch

(August 7, launch day)

After everything they had been through, all the trials and tribulations, The delinquent duo had FINALLY made it to the dogobogo jungle, “This is where the map ends” Terry explained

“So what now?” GG asked

"Gimme a moment” Terry replied as he flew his jetpack high up to scope out the scene,he could clearly see the massive rocket standing clear long into the distance, “yep, it’s right over there” Terry announced as he descended back down 

“Really?” GG responded in shock and awe, “Well what are we waiting for?!”

Once more GG hopped into the pack and the duo blasted off to the rocket, the wind  caressing their faces, bolstering the excited chills of anticipation they were experiencing at the thought of reuniting with loved ones after so long, the thought of having finally found a safe haven from everything that has happened

But as they came closer, something felt… wrong

They began to hear the sound of bullets flying, helicopters whirring, tanks treading, soon enough they were close enough to see a dead giveaway to the situation, many green starred giveaways

“The Government!?”

Immediately following this revelation, Terry swooped downwards to hide beneath the trees

“Shit, how’d they find this place?” GG unervedly questioned

“Calm down, The Toppats deal with this sorta thing all the time, don’t they?” Terry interjected as he began to peek out their hiding spot, “Let’s just focus on getting into the rocket in one pie-”

Before immediately hiding back

“I’m scared to ask what you saw”

“Yeah, the wall’s here”

Somehow still surprised, GG went to look for himself and sure enough, he could see the line of blue tanks entering on the horizon, GG took a deep breath, let out a brief scream before cutting himself off, “NO! We’ve come too far for these bastards to stop us now, ya with me?!”

Terry gave a “Hell yeah” along with an affirmative nod as he took another, longer look out to the scene before turning back, “Alright, I’ve got a plan” GG took a deep breath and returned to the pack, “Let’s do this” He determinedly remarked

Soon enough the duo were back up in the air, flying above one soldier who veered off far from the rest of their team, immediately, GG jumped off, landing on them before taking the soldier’s machine gun and tossing it back up to Terry

Taking advantage of his new weaponry, Terry made a beeline for the array of helicopters heading for the rocket,strategically keeping his distance as to have an accurate shot at the pilots while being hard to aim at himself, especially as he would swerve and glide through the air, one by one many of the copters would fall until Terry ran out of ammo, forcing him to fly away and seek out another weapon

GG meanwhile, ran on the ground, adrenaline flowing rapidly as he repeatedly took cover from anyone shooting at him, luckily most of the troops were focused on other targets rather than him, but that didn’t make having to draw fire from anyone who was long, enough for Terry to sneak attack and snatch their firearms any less stressful

Observing directly beneath the rocket’s launching platform, GG noticed something, 3 government soldiers surrounded by large batteries, upon further inspection, he realized that the batteries were connected to a bomb! (Or emp?)

Knowing he had to act fast, GG lightning dashed to the plattform, before the soldiers even knew what happened, the green streak sped by and the bomb was gone

Now away from the rocket, GG was in panic, the bomb was still ready to go off any second, noticing a group of wall tanks, he immediately chucked the thing into the fray, lightning dashing behind one of the comm towers for cover right before it could blow up!

As GG sat there, behind his shelter, trying to catch his breath, his respite would be interrupted by a heart pounding message from a computerized voice

“The rocket will be launching in 1 minute”

Terry, of course, heard this announcement too, “Crap!” the duo shouted in unison as they both began to rush for the rocket’s entrance, meeting up at the ramp and immediately resuming their pursuit as fast as they could muster to the gate

GG was running full speed ahead with Terry flying close behind, The wind blasting vigorously in their faces that would only bolster the erupting sensation of adrenaline they were both experiencing

“5..”

Tears of joy began appearing from GG’s eyes as the rocket’s gate, the proverbial finish line to his journey grew closer and closer, his eyes were dead focused on it and it alone

“4..”

 but that huper-fixation would prove to be his plight

Out of nowhere and before he could have a chance to react, a metallic hand blocked GG’s path causing him to crash right into it before it took hold of him, GG struggled with all of his might, but he couldn’t escape the armored man’s titanium grasp, with a hiss of the mech’s hydraulics, he reeled back his other fist

“3..”

After Terry noticed, he stopped dead in his tracks, he knew that there were only mere seconds before the rocket blasted off never to be seen again, but he didn’t care, with some quick, sharp shooting of his pistol, Terry made quick work of the armored man as well as the two soldiers beside him

“2..”

GG was finally able to pull himself out of the steel stronghold, taking a brief moment to catch his breath but…

“1..”

They felt the ramp rumble against the rocket as it’s thrusters began to ignite, they were too late, the ramp began to tip over, causing the duo to tumble off down to the jungle floor and as he landed, GG looked up to see the rocket quickly rise and just as quickly, feel his heart sink

Terry descended down where GG was as he stood back up, his head facing the ground, immediately, the soldiers directed their attention at all the Toppats left behind, including the delinquent duo

“Surrender now, hands in the air!” many of them shouted 

“Sir, we’ve found another convict, permission to switch targets?” one of the wall guards asked over his walkie talkie, “sir?” He repeated after getting no answer

Terry complied with the soldier’s demands while silently trying to scope out the area, despite their, as well as the other Toppat’s efforts, the skies were still swarming with helicopters, the ground coated with armed soldiers, all ready to shoot at a moments notice, but there didn’t seem to be anyone behind them, “psst” Terry tried to whisper to GG, “I know this looks bad, but I think… GG?” the boy was not listening, though the shadow of his hat covered his eyes, the tears rolling down his face were all too clear as were his heavy breathing and his hands that remained by his side

“Hands in the air or your head’s in the ground!” one of the soldiers threatened

But nevertheless, GG remained adamant, his hands not only stayed where they were, but also clenched themselves into subtly vibrating fists

“They’re not coming back for you, WHY WON’T YOU GIVE UP!?”

At this point, one of the soldiers fired a warning shot to GG’s side,only then he raised his arm, to catch the bullet then stomping his foot firmly in front of him, before finally giving an answer

“I made a promise…”

In a flash, GG was running faster than he ever had before,keeping his breath steady and his steps rapid, he circled around the green and blue horde in an erratic, unpredictable pattern, making him near impossible to shoot with precision

With the soldiers distracted, Terry took to the skies once more, whittling down the army one shot at a time, soon enough, backup was called, in the form of tanks, GG took note of this, charging a flame into his legs before rocket jumping to avoid their fire, landing atop on of the tanks before rocket jumping yet again up to Terry, they both saw the tank down below and their minds were in sync

GG grabbed onto Terry’s arms and  by shifting the jetpack’s energy to one thruster, the cowboy spun him to and fro, after building up sufficient momentum, Terry let go, Launching the boy like a flaming, ballistic missile, crashing clean through the tank’s hatch, before it’s driver could do anything, Terry had already followed suit, and shot him down

Now it was just the delinquent duo and the controls of a fully loaded tank

At this point, the government realized it wasn’t worth it and began to retreat with the toppats they were able to capture, the wall remained persistent, but only briefly as they saw their forces get blown to pieces by the tank before they decided to get outta dodge themselves   

After everyone else was gone, the duo finally left the tank, “Heh, nice work out there!” Terry congratulated, but GG remained silent, walking to the rocket’s platform and lying down on it, Terry was confused at first, but after seeing the tears return to GG’s eyes,he understood, “It’s alright, let it all out” Terry said, trying to sympathize, but as he approached, Terry noticed something strange, GG wasn’t just crying, he was… laughing?

There was an obvious air of sadness in GG’s tone, but he wasn’t quite in distraught as one would expect him to be

Terry looked on with confusion

GG simply responded “look” as he pointed up to the rocket, though faint, was still visible as it flew into the stars, GG continued, “If we didn’t get here in time, if we didn’t do anything about the government, that wouldn’t be there, my home, my family, they’re safe because of us…”

“Huh, I guess you’re right” Terry replied

GG got up and proceeded to wipe the tears off his eyes, “I dunno how, but I’m sure we’ll find a way there somehow” 

“Any ideas for the meantime?”

At this moment, Gears began turning in the boy’s head, “I have always wanted to explore the world” GG went on as he reached into his pocket, “and I do still have this ‘jackpot coin’ on me” before turning back to the cowboy, “whaddya say, ya with me?”

“Heh, beats being stuck in that desert”

And with that agreement, GG charged a spark in his step, Terry ignited the thrusters in his jetpack and they were off, ready to face anything that could be thrown their way and raring to go through the world as if it were their own, the journey was over but the adventure was far from it

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Chapter 1 Act 7: Duo in Disarray

(August 2, 5 days until launch)

For 3 days,GG remained in his coma, stuck drifting in the dark, inky depths of his own subconscious. Only now however,has he managed to open his eyes, within his mind anyway, but what he saw was no different to when they were shut, nothing. “ugh.. What happened?” GG groaned, receiving no answer as he began to take in his surroundings, “oh, that’s right..” he muttered to himself as he started to remember, “I fucked up, now i’m stuck here” he continued with a sigh

For a moment, he just floated there, pondering upon his actions, all the mistakes he made and wondering, is this the end?...

Suddenly, a blinding light appeared in front of GG, as he stared into it, he saw something that looked beautiful, something that felt familiar to him. But before he could figure out what exactly it was, the light began to fly away

“Hey, wait!” GG cried out, but then he noticed something as the spark kept fleeing, a path illuminated below him, wasting no time he ran to chase this hopeful spark, but as he sprinted, he noticed that his powers refused to work,but GG didn’t have time to try and force them out again, even without it, he was able to keep up with the fleeting glow, barely 

 Meanwhile, Terry was marching profusely,rarely stopping to take breaks unless absolutely necessary, despite the chunk of his map that had been torn off, he could still understand enough of the path he needed to but he was also well aware that he couldn’t get to the jungle in time on foot alone,he needed find some way of fixing his jetpack, he continually grew more and more desperate as he continued his search, eventually, he found some form of civilization, a trailer park

While from a distance it appeared empty, Terry could tell from the steadily-growing sound of music blaring from a boombox along with the smell of exhaust and barbeque, that it was far from so. And seeing the rows upon rows of motorcycles lined up all throughout, Terry was hopeful that someone in there could help fix his pack or at least point him in the direction of someone who could, even small repairs would tip the odds in the duo’s favor

But as he got closer to the barbeque that seemingly all the park’s denizens were gathered at, he noticed something that threw a wrench in his plans. He saw, among the crowd, the same biker gang he and GG encountered in the city! Terry had just walked right into their territory!

Upon realizing this, Terry immediately hid behind a nearby trailer,"shit!" He whispered to himself, considering what happened last time, he knew that if they recognized him and especially his toppat friend, it would mean immense trouble

But despite this, there was still no sign of civilization for miles, one way or another, Terry had to make this work, taking small peeks from behind his hiding as to not get caught, Terry saw a toolbox in the distance, due to his lack of ammo as well as being heavily outnumbered by the bikers, going in guns-blazing wasn’t a viable option, he looked around and found a biker helmet on the ground below, he donned it on his head to hopefully blend in before walking for the toolbox, leaving the pack behind to seem less suspicious, “sit tight, we’ll be out in no time” Terry assured GG, even if he couldn’t hear him.

Back to GG, As he continued to chase the spark, he ran great distances for great amounts of time, naturally, this chase made him very tired, but never enough for him to quit. Something about the light, it made him keep on going, why was it doing this? What was it that he saw? All questions GG simply couldn’t afford to stop and ponder

Soon enough, something strange happened, another, smaller light appeared. As soon as this happened the original spark immediately flew into the smaller counterpart, but unlike before, this glow stayed still. As GG caught up to it, he was initially hesitant to push onward, after all he hadn’t the slightest clue as to what was inside these apparitions,GG himself could have been dead for all he knew, but before he could think twice, the path behind him started to dissipate, leaving him no choice but to jump into the light

On the other side of the apparition, GG found himself in the midst of some treetops, the boy was more confused than  ever as he gauged his surroundings, but this would soon by interrupted by a familiar voice, “Heh, who’s ‘useless’ now?” GG turned to where the sound came from and saw… himself?

"I have so many questions…" GG uttered to himself as he watched his past self, seeing him nearly get shot by the arrow before running off, "Wait! Don't lead them back to Terry!" GG called out, of course his memory wouldn't listen, "Geez… I've really always been an idiot, huh?" He sighed, in self loathing

GG’s fit of pity wouldn't last however, as he remembered the task at hand and resumed his chase for the spark as it flew into another glowing apparition 

Back to Terry, donning the helmet as disguise, he attempted to simply walk nonchalantly for the toolbox, it seemed he was in the clear, but all of a sudden, “hey, get over here!” one of the bikers called out

After having a brief, silent panic Terry attempted to disguise his voice before responding, “uhh, no can do, in a bit of a hurry”

“Ah, C’mon!” the biker exuberantly snapped back as he waved his arm “there’s always time for the story circle!”

Terry simply sighed, grabbed the toolbox and headed for the circle, “just gotta keep this up for a little longer” he thought to himself as he took a seat

“Und I vould'fe kotden avay vith it, if it veren't for zoze meddling kids!” one of them said before passing the metal pipe in their hand to the green-mohawk-sporting biker next them,

He cleared his throat before starting, “I’ve been a bit on-edge since my escape a couple months back, So I decide to treat myself to a drink or two at one of our pubs, but as I’m enjoying myself, Y’know what happens? Some TOPPAT barges in!”

Many of the bikers had strong reactions of distaste and disgust to this revelation, from screams to gasps to some words that would never come out of a decent person’s mouth.

“I know, I know and it gets worse, the little Depp just walks in like it’s nothin, takes a seat at OUR bar, and takes a sip outta one of OUR drinks, one of my personal favorites no less!” 

“So, what’d you do, Punkhauser?” one of the others questioned

“Oh, I’ll tell ya! It took me a moment to realize I wasn’t drinkin too much, but once I did, I made sure that little shit knew he was NOT welcome in our land, And what does he do? Not only does the fucker try to pretend he doesn’t even know the Motor Mafia,but after I tell him just how ridiculous that hat of his is, he has der wagemut to say, ‘you sure you don’t want one yourself?’ and starts laughing like a hyena!

Would’ve broken the Ficker’s arms if it weren’t for some cowboy who punched me in the face before running off!”

Terry had to remain his composure, though he admittedly did have a tinge of fear

"If I ever see those two again, I'll…" At this moment however, Punkhauser noticed the helmeted cowboy and asked “wait.. Isn’t that my helmet?” he asked

"Oh, is it? I just found this on the ground" Terry responded as he began to reach into his pocket, getting ready to pull out a pair of gold knuckles

"Oh, it's alright, Kumpel, need to air this thing out anyway" Punkhauser replied, proudly patting his Mohawk, he might have had too much to drink after all

Terry was relieved but also baffled at the biker's lack of observation skills

"We're outta beer, I'll fetch us some more really quick" the biker announced as he rose from his seat

Seeing an opportunity, Terry attempted to intervene, "Hey, why don't I go get it?" He offered 

"nein, it's good" the biker responded,beginning to turn around,"Don't trouble yourself-" He ended up being cut off by the sound of a backpack falling over, immediately after, he grabbed onto the metal pipe once more and headed to investigate

"WHAT THE SCHNITZEL?!" He screamed as he saw his old foe, slumped over and sound asleep,"This little shit… thinks he can just nap… here…" . Punkhauser was both in disbelief, as well as engulfed in unfathomable rage, "WELL I'LL MAKE SURE HE GETS A REAL GOOD SLEEP!"

He screeched, unhinged as a poorly constructed gate, raising his pipe as Killer instinct colored his face

Acting right away, Terry got up, sprinted to Punkhauser, before decking him across the face with his gold knuckles, Knocking him down! 

“OW, WHAT THE HELL!?” He roared, still blinded by anger

“Fight!” one member of the crowd called out, leading to an all out brawl between the bikers, with Terry and Punkhauser at the center of the madness  

At the same time, GG continued his pursuit, hopping from one glowing apparition to another, Getting a front row seat to some of his less pleasant memories each time.

From when he accidentally drew attention of his and Terry’s bounties, when his argument with Terry led to their encounter with the Director, when he led the duo to K.lown’s supposed house, even seeing Jess as she used what little strength she had to help GG escape the Mansion of Cards prison, leaving herself behind

He kept trying to yell out, warning his past selves to not make these mistakes, but it was useless trying to change the past and his shame only felt to increase, but eventually, it started to become less depressing and more frustrating, seeing his failures back-to-back, “I GET IT ALREADY” GG yelled, “I know Im a screw-up, and APPARENTLY I’ve always been, I don’t need you, or anyone else reminding me!”

At this moment, GG was absolutely DONE, He was focused on one thing and one thing only. Chasing down the spark and finally getting answers

His legs ached, his breath steadily depleted,and his powers still showed no sign of returning but he refused to quit, even as more memories kept flying by, GG refused to pay any more attention to them, he was done wasting time feeling sorry for himself, his eyes glued directly to the spark as it grew closer with each step

Eventually, after hopping through another light, GG found himself back in the void, the spark stayed still as GG huffed and puffed in exhaustion, “Answers… now” he said

Rather than speaking, the glow began to take shape, what GG first saw within was now as clear as could be

“. . . Jess?” GG inquired, unable to believe his eyes as he began to approach her “...how…why… are we dead?” he questioned with concern

“I wouldn’t count on it, seems more like some sorta dream to me”

“You just guessed that?”

“Nevermind, why do you think you’re here? Something on your mind?” Jess asked as she raised her arm, making a pair of rock chairs rise from the ground

GG took a seat and began with a sigh “my whole life I’ve just been dead weight, to the Toppats,to my parents,to Terry,Even you” 

“What makes you think that?”

“Isn’t it obvious? You saw all those memories too”

“I did see those memories, but you didn’t see the whole of them”

“..hmm?”

“Lemme show ya” Jess waved her hand and made a bubble of water spread out above the two like a roll of paper, as the memories projected within them once more, this time, something else was shown, when GG grabbed the archer’s arrows outta the air as the flew towards Terry, when he pushed the Jet cart as the Motor mafia was on the duo’s tails, helped form the plan to outsmart the director and fought through the storm to get the two away from K.lown, “Sure, you make some mistakes, tons in fact, but who doesn’t? Not to mention, I don’t think any ‘Deadweight’ would even acknowledge their own mistakes, let alone go through what you would to make things right for the ones you care about”

“Huh, I didn’t think of that… but what about you? if it wasn’t for you getting roped into my heist just  because I was too nervous to go alone like I was supposed to, you wouldn’t be stuck in that prison right now, even when I made that promise to keep being that happy-go-lucky, ever smiling optimist, I couldn’t even do that … I’m sorry” 

“Is that what you think I meant?”

“What else could it be?”

“Lemme show one more thing” Another memory appeared in the water, this time showing a younger Jess, sitting pensively by one of the submarine windows, “do you remember when we first met?” She commented

“I mean, I must if this my own mind” GG replied, before quieting down to watch the rest, Past Jess Continued staring out the window, with an apathetic expression on her face, until she was interrupted by a jolly sounding, “Hello!” she turned to her side, and standing there was the Red toppat wearing Heterochromatic himself, “what ya doin?” Past GG asked

“Nothing..”

“Mind if I join?”

“Mmm,fine…”

GG seemed to grow a bit concerned, “why so sad?” He questioned

“I don’t like it here… Can’t even have a decent view…”

“Maybe not from here, follow me!”

GG led the two to one of the submarine’s top hatches and they both took seats atop the sub, once there, Jess was absolutely mesmerized by what she saw, the many stars of the night sky, shimmering off the ocean as it’s waves flowed in a peaceful rhythm

“I’ll admit sometimes I feel a bit boxed in, being here all the time” Past GG explained, “when it happens, I like to come up here, to remind myself that there’s a great big world out there and one day, I wanna explore every inch of it”

Jess simply replied “Thank you… maybe this isn’t so bad..”

“What’s your name anyway?”

“Jessica, but you can just call me Jess”

“Name’s George!”

“How about I just call you… GG?”

GG let out a, “Yeah!” as the memory came to a close

“What does it stand for exactly?” GG asked

“well, this is still your mind, I only know as much as you do” Jess responded “but that’s beside the point, I never made you promise to always be happy, What I meant is that even when things seem bleak, you’re always able to find something, even something small, that makes everything worth it, it’s what inspired me to get better control of my powers and when I did my own solo heist…

GG briefly took the crown off his hat, gazing deep into his reflection within

“If you really were, ‘deadweight’ do you think I would have chosen to go with you on that heist or leave myself behind for your sake?”

“I… Guess I didn’t realize that before, but even with that, I just wonder, is it too late?”

As GG finished his sentence, one final Light appeared in the distance, bigger and brighter than ever as yet another illuminated path glowed towards it

“Only one way to find out!” Jess encouraged

GG rose from his chair, and began to walk for it but soon stopped, “uhhm, Jess, do you think I’ll ever see you again, y’know, for real?”

“I dunno, but If you do, I’m sure I’d be glad”

The two stood still for a moment, exchanging warm smiles, before GG took a deep breath and began to march for the light yet again, slowly, GG’s steps began getting faster, his strides getting longer with each breath, sparks emitting from his legs, his breath, heartbeat, his mind becoming one until eventually…

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His powers had finally returned! As he got closer, GG charged a potent flame in his legs, before making a final, powerful, rocket-esque leap into the spark!

Outside, however, the brawl raged on, even if most of the biker’s were busy fighting each other, Terry struggled to keep up with the chaos, but continued to knock many of them out, blow after blow, until several of them tackled and ambushed the disguised cowboy, pinning him to the ground!

At this moment, Punkhauser approached him, “Y’know what? Forget that helmet, Arschloch!” he screamed as he Pulled the helmet off, revealing Terry, Punkhauser was in shock, “..You..” his rage took hold once more, “Keep ‘im alive for a little longer boys!” the crazed biker announced as he reached into Terry’s pack, grabbing GG by the neck and holding him in front of Terry

“Since you care about your little Toppat so much, How about we make him a hood ornament!?” He Threatened as he Drew a knife

Terry Gasped, he tried to struggle with all of his might, but to no avail

Punkhauser reeled his hand back before swinging with all his might! And…

Before his knife could reach the boy's neck, his arm was grabbed, "what the!?" He shouted in confusion, but soon enough, where GG had his grasp, Punkhauser felt his arm start to burn, making him lose his grip!

GG landed with his hand in running start position, before his head shot up, to reveal his determined smile and eyes staring with more focus than ever as he launched himself onto the biker's piled atop Terry, knocking them off like bowling pins!

The remaining bikers proceed to scatter to get their guns, but when they got there, they realized, the guns had no ammo and lo and behold, GG was smugly swinging a bag full of their ammo in his hands before tossing it to Terry as he got up

The cowboy grabbed the ammo, a smile spread across his face as he popped them into his clip, at this point many bikers began retreating, but still plenty chose to stay and fight, enough for Terry and GG to be surrounded

The duo stood back to back, they turned to exchange affirmative nods then they both ran off!

Accurate shot after accurate shot, Terry mowed down the horde as they charged at him, while GG opted to run up close and personal, swiftly dodging the swings of the biker’s knives, machetes and even chainsaws, sneaking in quick, burning strikes as he zipped about and keeping them distracted long enough to line em’ up for a bullet right to the head!

Punkhauser tried to join the fight, but got dragged away to retreating by a fellow biker, when the duo emerged from the chaos, roughed up with some minor cuts, GG noticed the motorcycles escaping in the distance, a smug smirk emerged from him as he picked up a nearby rock, charged up his fire, gave his best throw and…

It landed nowhere near them, “dammit, that would've been so impressive!” GG remarked, before turning back to Terry

“Look,I’m sorry for lashing out at you” Terry apologized

“To be fair, I’m not exactly blameless myself, I got so caught up in wanting to ‘not let' em’ down’ that I forgot to actually do what I promised.” GG apologized back

“You had a good thing going, didn’t you? Back at the rogue's gallery I was always ‘the little runt’  of the team, and when things went south, no one came to my side… I’ve just been so used to having to do everything myself, but I’d rather not go back to that.”

“Hey, we’re still going to the same place aren’t we? I’m positive the clan would welcome someone with all your skills!”

“Heh, thanks K- … I mean, GG”

(some time later)

How’s the repairs coming along? GG asked as he took a bite of some of the Biker’s leftover barbeque

“Everything looks alright” Terry retorted, “but it’s gonna need a jumpstart, luckily I made a little modification for just that” He announced as he opened the pack to it’s inner workings

GG approached the pack to get a better look and he saw a pair of handle bars alongside an electrical symbol, The boy was surprised and turned to the cowboy to affirm what he thought

“Have at it” Terry declared, GG proceeded to take hold of the handle bars, taking a deep breath as he let the electricity flow into his hands, in a flash, the pack was working, good as new!

The duo briefly celebrated with a triumphant high-five, before Terry strapped on the pack and GG hopped into its storage, they blasted off, full speed ahead for real this time, nothing could stop them now!. . .

Right?

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[epilogue]

At the mansion of cards

Atop the Casino's highest balcony, Dice. H Roller has taken a seat, gazing upon the city-folk below, Las-paygas may have an official mayor, but seeing as how they are no less affected by the casino’s allure, Dice practically ran the city, looking upon all he had as the wind gently caressed his face, Dice felt… content

He then got up to return inside, entering his personal elevator to the depths below the casino, as he walked the halls on the way to his surveillance room, he passed by the “outta luck house” the casino’s very own Prison, seeing the seeing the lifeless, mangled faces and hearing the wails and distorted cries of those Dice felt have personally wronged him, once more he felt… content

He would also pass many of his loyal employees, from the spade troops keeping tabs of activity in and out of the casino, ready to deal with whatever might happen using their wide weapon assortment at a moments notice, to the Diamond guards, vigilantly watching over the prisoners, some of these employees were customers who had their minds fully taken by the Mansion of card’s influence, some even being former prisoners, deemed worthy in Dice’s eyes and brainwashed, all of which would immediately salute to Dice the moment they would see him.

Seeing all the power he had in his control, he yet again felt… content

But then, he took a look to one of the prison cells, once occupied by his most recent thief, one that succeeded no less, now only occupied by thin air, seeing this, he took a deep breath, before letting out a scowl… of discontent, before finally getting to the surveillance room.

Inside, awaited Dice’s right hand, K.lown, who saluted him as did all of his other underlings, “back already?" Dice asked, "and yet, no sign of the target, shame." He continued

“Unfortunately” K.lown responded, “but no good performer arrives empty handed…” He announced as he reached into his hat, pulling out the piece of Terry’s map he managed to grab in the midst of his scuffle, it didn’t say much, but it provided all Dice and K.lown needed to know, The destination.

“So the toppat wishes to flee to space?”

“And you’ll never guess who the little runt was tagging along with”

“Nevertheless, Still a lowly, petty thief, not worth any more resources than what we’ve already poured in.”  Dice continued as he picked up and began to dial his phone, “See, Lown, Part of running a business is knowing when to do something yourself and when it’s best to outsource…”

Ring

Ring

“Hello, Petrov, I believe you’ll want to hear this…”

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Chapter 1 Act 6: Captive audience

(July 29, 9 days until launch)

It was a crappy day outside, rain was pouring, wind was howling and unfortunately, the delinquent duo were caught right in the middle of it all, scrambling to find any form of shelter

“Of course it had to storm when we’re in the middle of nowhere!” Terry yelped, expressing his frustration at how barren the landscape was

“Over there!” GG exclaimed as he pointed to a large figure in the distance, upon further inspection it appeared to be a house, under normal circumstances, entering a random house in the middle of nowhere would be a bad idea on par with breaking pasta in italy, but in that moment the two were desperate and pushed onward. Oddly enough, the door was unlocked

For a moment the two stood in darkness

“Alright, we’ll just stay here until the rain dies down” Terry said

“Sounds good to me!” another voice called out 

“Uhh, did you catch a cold, kid?”

“That wasn’t me…” GG spoke, scared and confused

Suddenly the lights came on and in front of the duo was a familiar yellow and purple jester

“Well if it ain't my number one fan!” K.lown exclaimed

“Oh hell no! Not you again!” GG retorted

“Is this the clown you told me about?” Terry inquired

“Y-yeah, and I ain't falling for his crap again!” GG replied

“Ah, take it easy, I’m off the clock!” K.lown responded as he pointed to the purple beanie resting atop his head in the place of his typical jester hat

“Hmm ok, counterpoint” Terry said, nonchalantly shooting his gun right at the jester, but K.lown was quick to react, catching the bullet and chomping it as if it were a kernel of popcorn. “Hmm needs salt,” he quipped. 

Terry could only stare in terror, flabbergasted as to how such a feat was humanly possible 

“...yep we’re outta here” GG stated in equal fear, immediately heading for the door, only for the wind to blast his face until he inevitably closed it again.

“I’m more than welcoming to some good houseguests!” the clown somewhat snarkily remarked

“Look kid, we clearly can’t trust this guy but we also don’t have any other choice the second the rain’s gone, so are we” Terry whispered to GG

“Fine.” the boy said with a sigh

And so, they were stuck, they remained ever-vigilant, refusing whatever offers the clown made as part of his obvious facade. 

But no matter how long they waited, it kept raining, raining and raining some more. Eventually night fell and it was still storming hard as ever.

“Say, you two look tired, how about ya hit the hay?" K.lown offered

"No, we're FINE." GG snapped back, remaining adamant about not wanting to fall for the jester's tricks again

"Yeah…" Terry replied with an obvious tiredness present in his voice 

"Eh, I'm used to tough crowds" the Jester spoke back, "at least let me show ya your room?" 

"If we do, will you shut your clown mouth?" GG irritatedly responded 

"Sure as the grass is green!"

"Alright then" Terry pitched in, still noticeably sleepy as the clown led the Duo to the guest bedroom

And what a bedroom it was, there were beds of all kinds! Soft beds, firm beds, bunk beds and even race car beds! All laid out across a long corridor

The Delinquent duo were in absolute awe at what they were seeing "heh, working for that casino really has its benefits" k.lown boasted, "welp, I'll leave ya to it!" He continued as he exited the room and shut the door behind him

Immediately, Terry went to lie down in one of the fluffy, king sized beds, "ahh, like a cloud…" he said in his overwhelming relaxation

However, at this moment, GG snapped out his feeling of amazement and ran up to his lounging teammate, "hey! Mentally unstable bullet-eating clown, remember?!" He panickedly berated

"Kid, I know, but can't I just lie down without you throwing a pissyfit-"

Terry interrupted himself by abruptly falling asleep 

"Hey, hey!" GG frantically spoke as he rubbed his hands together like a pair of defibrillators and shocked the cowboy awake

"OW, WHAT THE HELL!" Terry screamed in pain, somehow still being earth-shatteringly tired

 "look, I get it, you're tired, I'm tired, we just need to wait it out a little more, so we can skedaddle on outta here!" GG explained with bloodshot eyes

He then navigated him and Terry to the kitchen "so what's your plan?" Terry questioned

"Simple" GG replied, "whenever me and Jess tried staying up all night, we just had some coffee!" He continued as he grabbed a load of random items scattered about the kitchen cabinets "course, Jess was the one who actually made the coffee,but how hard can it be?"

GG then proceed to toss pills, juices, and all sorts of things that are definitely coffee into his pot, somehow believing he was in fact, making coffee 

Terry was absolutely horrified seeing the boy create such a concoction, especially as he proceeded to pour it into a pair of mugs

"Well, bottoms up!" GG remarked as he readied to take a big gulp of his brew, before Terry snapped out if his disbelief and slapped the mug outta his hand

"Hey, I worked hard to make that!" 

"Kid, that was NOT coffee, I don't even think that was legally allowed to exist"

"Since when did either of us care about the law?"

". . .let's just try something else… please" Terry suggested

The duo groggily meandered about the house in search of some way of staying awake, soon stumbling into the TV room

"just w-what we need, r-right?" GG remarked, struggling to stifle his yawns and fighting to keep his heavy eyelids peeled "r-right?" He repeated as he got no response, turning to find Terry nodding off, standing next him

"Hey!" GG panickedly yelped as he slapped Terry to wake him yet again, the cowboy could only mutter a small "ugh…" in his sleep deprived state

Wasting no time, the duo seated themselves onto the couch, as GG grabbed the remote and eagerly pressed the button to see whatever high quality cable the clown had access to

And what he found was… static, just static. GG was befuddled for a second but immediately received an explanation in the form of the sound of thunder from the ever-ongoing storm

In response GG could only scream into the couch cushion next to him, only stopping right before it could put him to sleep

"Kid, look" Terry tried to reassure GG,"if we keep staring this, we should be more awake soon enough from blue light or some shit" He explained, despite retaining little energy in his voice

With this new information in mind, there seemed to be more hope Than what GG initially thought as he replied "I guess you're right-"

Only for the TV and all the other lights to abruptly turn off in the middle of his sentence, once more the duo were plunged into pitch black darkness

Not even being surprised at this extremely unfortunate turn of events, GG simply facepalmed, until hearing Terry’s audible snoring “oh for crying out loud with this running gag…” GG weakly groaned as he once more tried to slap his friend awake

But this time it didn’t work, GG let out a “huh?” before trying again, still nothing, He tried electrocuting him like he did before, still nothing

Worried as ever, GG lit a small fire at his fingertips to see what exactly was going on and he noticed something… A syringe with “K.O” written in a comical font stabbed into Terry’s arm!

And at the same time he saw this, GG heard the floorboards creak, prompting him to terrifiedly turn around to see… K.lown, holding another identical syringe, “Ya need your eight hours…” He sinisterly whispered Before leaping into the air and attempting to dive at GG with the syringe!

Reacting quickly in his blind panic, GG grabbed Terry and ran out of the house as fast as his green booted feet could take him!

Unfortunately, given GG was still sleep deprived, he was far less fast than usual and soon enough, K.lown was hot on his tail, driving a car small enough to be a toy, “With a job this fun, who needs a day off?!” he quipped as he cackled with vigorous insanity

Knowing he needed to somehow go faster, GG began to panickedly press many of the buttons on Terry’s jetpack, hoping to ignite the thrusters, eventually, this would end up in him triggering the pack’s cart mode, GG was thrown off at first as he wrestled with the swerving vehicle with its momentum on the slippery terrain, all whilst trying to keep both himself and Terry on the cart and away from the clown.

Eventually, he managed to get the cart going fast and stable,the chances of escape became higher, but the chase was far from over as K.lown’s car steadily began to catch up 

Frenziedly searching for something to stop the deranged jester with, GG noticed one of Terry’s pistols protruding from his pockets

He grabbed it before struggling to grasp it in the pouring rain, “How do you use this thing!?” GG yelped before eventually managing a firm grasp! . . . before accidentally dropping the ammo clip

K.lown wasted no time to take advantage of this blunder, grabbing the clip and after a few seconds, he stuck his head out the window and spat the bullets back at high speeds as if they were but green peas!

All GG could do was duck for cover, eventually peeking his head after the sound of bullets flying stopped, and he saw K.lown’s car was closer than ever and the jester began to climb out of it before jumping into the jet cart, syringe in hand!

GG couldn’t produce a fire strong enough to not get snuffed out in the rain and he struggled to make significant use of his electricity either, he could only dodge and dodge some more as K.lown continually tried to swing the syringe into him

Eventually, K.lown became noticeably tired of this cat-n-mouse game as the two were standing on opposite sides of the speeding cart, until K.lown noticed Terry’s unconscious body lying on the cart’s floor before looking back to GG with a most devious glare

“Welp, one’s better than none!” he remarked as he tried to grab Terry by his legs and jump out of the cart 

But GG was once again quick to react, Grabbing Terry by his head and trying to pull him back with all the might he had left! 

This intense, tug-o-war went on for some time 

“I… won’t let 'em down! Not again!” GG yelled, even while soaked from the rain, the tears rolling from his eyes were all too apparent

“Open your eyes! You already have!” K.lown retorted

GG’s grip slowly began to dissipate, and with it, K.lown’s deranged smile grew bigger, for a moment, it all seemed hopeless

But in a last minute, adrenaline fueled effort, GG managed to muster a spark, then another, growing bigger with each spark until he built up enough charge within to unleash one large surge of electricity, Letting out an exalted roar as he did, it traveled through the rain and gave K.lown a truly massive shock that quickly made him lose his grip and fall right off the cart!

GG reeled Terry back onto the cart before gazing at the jester tumble off far away, looking with equal feelings of triumph and extreme exhaustion only being able to slightly wheeze in celebration

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(July 30, 8 days until launch)

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GG awoke, the rain had finally stopped, after recovering from his initial drowsiness,  he looked to his surroundings in panic as to what happened

To GG’s relief, Terry was in one piece, albeit face planted on the ground

More concerningly however, the Jetpack was crashed into a rock in the distance, “oh, that’s not good” GG said

At this moment, Terry finally woke up, “ough, my head… WHAT THE!?” he hollered with rage, seeing his jetpack crashed, immediately rushing to check up on it

“Good morning to you too” GG remarked attempting to make light of the predicament

After completing his inspection, Terry turned to GG, “HOW THE FUCK DID THIS HAPPEN!?”

“Say-”

“WILL YOU SHUT IT WITH YOUR WISECRACKS!?”

“Hey! I’m sorry I crashed the pack but-”

“So it WAS your fault! AGAIN!”

“I saved you from that clown!” 

“It doesn’t matter! I don’t have my tools,a chunk of the map is ripped out, I can’t get the pack fixed in time for us to get to the dogobogo jungle AND IT’S ALL. YOUR. FAULT!”

At this moment, GG snapped,

“ALRIGHT, I GET IT! IT’S MY FAULT, IT’S ALWAYS BEEN MY FAULT!” GG yelled, his voice breaking

He continued, “IT WAS MY FAULT WE GOT CHASED BY THOSE ARCHERS, IT’S MY FAULT WE GOT CHASED BY THOSE BIKERS, THE DIRECTOR, THE CLOWN, ALL OF IT MY USELESS, WORTHLESS, FUCKING FAULT!” he screamed as tears poured from his eyes and he began punching the ground in frustration, “It doesn’t matter how ‘good’ I get with my powers, it doesn’t matter how many shitty one-liners I try to hide it behind, Jess, my parents, the toppats, even you… I LET YOU ALL DOWN!”

GG was in complete distraught, bawling his eyes out on the ground, even Terry couldn’t help but have second thoughts as to the blind rage he had just expressed, as he watched GG crumble to pieces before his eyes.

“Kid…”

“Just go without me...”

“What? What about everyone you just mentioned, you’re just giving up on them?”

“OPEN YOUR DAMN EYES! AS LONG AS YOU’RE AROUND ME, YOU’RE BOUND TO GET HURT OR KILLED! You said it yourself, they’re better off without me…”

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“JUST GO!” GG shouted as he began run off

“Kid, wait!” Terry shouted back, as he tried to chase him

GG tried to get a lightning run started, but to no avail, “oh come on, now!?” Terry came closer to catching up, but GG was persistent, exerting himself more and more, desperately trying to force something through, eventually, it seemed to work and his running became faster, but the electricity wasn’t flowing naturally as it usually was soon, it became physically painful for GG, nevertheless, he kept going

Eventually, a thick blockade of trees could be seen, GG tried to force a fire knot his hands to punch them out of the way, causing him even more anguish, but he still kept going, the electricity shocking his soul and the flames burning his brain, but he refused to stop, as did Terry who continued to give chase

Eventually however, it became too much, GG tried to fire punch one last tree…

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“Kid!” Terry called out, rushing to see if GG was ok, ultimately he still had a pulse and was still breathing but showed no signs of waking up anytime soon.

Terry loaded GG onto the pack’s storage, which was still in good condition through everything, taking extra care to make sure GG’s head was sticking out so he could breathe

“I’m not letting you quit, kid. We’re getting to the jungle, with or without you being like this” 

And he walked off into the horizon, Marching towards their goal once more.

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Chapter 1 Act 5: Delinquent detectives

(July 22 16 days until launch)

Another night has fallen and GG and Terry Tumbleweed were in need of another place to sleep, as the duo meandered about the sleazy slums it was fairly obvious that this wasn’t exactly an ideal place for them to rest up unless they were ok with getting mugged or killed in their sleep (which they were not).

“Man, this place is huge… Say, why can’t we just jetpack outta here like we usually do instead of aimlessly wandering around?” GG inquired

To which Terry explained “Kid, we can’t afford to draw any more attention to ourselves, especially this late, let’s just focus on getting out of this crime-hole without making a dozen new enemies for once”

“Ah c’mon what can they throw at us that we can’t handle?”

“Easy, kid, I know you’re starting to get the hang of those powers of yours, but there’s no use in getting cocky and biting off more than you can chew”

“Well being a coward doesn’t help either”

“And rushing headfirst into danger apparently does?”

“Hey! Those weren’t completely my fault, you suggested we go to that pub in the first place!”

“well how was I supposed to know one of your rival gangs would be there?”

“I never even knew about that biker gang!”

The duo continued to argue as they marched for an exit of the maze-like streets, but they were left oblivious to a strange figure sporting a brown detective cap and black cape wrapped around his neck, stalking the delinquents from the rooftops.

Seeing an opportunity as the two were distracted by their arguing, the stalker tossed down a strange disk looking object that landed in front of the duo, before spewing out blinding amounts of smoke.

As the two began to disorientedly cough at the sudden assault on their senses, before the stalker leaped off from the rooftops, ambushing the duo with a powerful roundhouse kick, knocking them down onto the ground before pinning them down, leaving them immobilized.

“The hell is going on?!” Terry angrily asked

“You know damn well ‘what’s going on’, I know criminals when I see em!” The strange man Bellowed

“Oh that’s just unfair, we were just leaving! We haven’t done anything!” GG replied

“You think I don’t know who you are?” the vigilante retorted as he showed the delinquents their own wanted posters

“Of course” Terry grumbled with dread

“Once again, I’ve single handedly stomped out some degeneracy” the stalker remarked with a smug smirk “and that’s why they call me, The Detector!”

“Do you give that opening to every ‘degenerate’ you go for?” GG questioned

“Nothin personal boys” The Detector continued to confidently announce ”just business as usual-”

Right as he said those last words however, a window broke from a bank down the street and a discreet thief quickly scurried along, holding a large bag of money on their shoulders.

“SHIT!” The Detector shouted as he quickly tied up the duo before attempting to give chase, but he wasn’t able to get very far before they faded outta sight

“Yeah, great detecting there” GG quipped sarcastically

“Shut it, I still captured you and you’re still headed for the big house!” The so-called Detector responded in rage “ugh, how do I deal with this?…” After some time of thinking, an idea lit up in the detective’s head as he turned back to the delinquent duo.

“Say, degenerates, how about I cut you a deal? You help me solve this case, and I’ll drop all charges, how does that sound?”

“I’d say that’s pretty fair, wouldn’t you, kid?”Terry snidefully snapped

“I mean, we don’t have much choice, do we?” GG snapped back “except for..” he continued as he charged a small ember in his fingertips, burning through the ropes restraining him and Terry

“Welp, see ya” Terry bid farewell as the team casually walked off.

“Good luck with your ‘detecting’” GG joked

“Ok, I can tell you two aren’t exactly taking me seriously”

“Ya think?”

“But I got, THIS!” The self-righteous sleuth shouted as he pulled out Terry’s Backup map that he stole while he had the team pinned down

This revelation made the two stop in their tracks as The Detector took a good look at their plans

“The Dogobogo Jungle, huh? It’d be a shame if I sent the whole force to mercilessly chase you down, wouldn’t it? My offer still stands, you know” 

Remaining seemingly unfazed by the sleuth’s threat, GG simply replied pu must think we’re really stupid if you think we can’t tell you’re bluffi-”

“We’ll do it” Terry interrupted

“WHAT”

“Look, kid, what if he really isn’t bluffing? Like I said, we’re trying to NOT get into anymore trouble”

“And kow-tow to this bozo?!”

We don’t have any other options, if we kill him, word will get around, Let’s just get this over with”

GG could only stare with an expression of absolute disbelief and disgust.

[several hours later, in The Detector’s office]

“Alright boys, it’s been narrowed down to three witnesses/suspects, just follow my notes, make them sing like tweety birds, and you’ll be home free as I promised. I’ll be in the evidence room, door’s locked so don’t try anything funny! g’luck delinquents” The vainglorious vigilante explained as he shut the door behind him, leaving the duo to their own bearings

GG immediately continued to express his frustration of the situation the two were thrusted into

“I still can’t believe we’re stuck doing that bastard’s busywork” GG frustratedly grumbled “and you of all people just jumped to do his bidding, YOU! ‘Mr no bs mc gunslinger!’”

“Well I’m surprised you’re able to get this salty,” Terry sarcastically remarked

“Maybe I wouldn’t if we weren’t on the clock! We barely have over 2 weeks for me to get home, remember?!”

“Well we’re not getting any time back from pointless squabbling, are we?”

GG could only mumble annoyedly as he followed Terry into the interrogation room and brought in the first witness/suspect

“Do good cop, bad cop” Terry read off the Detector’s notes

“Sounds easy enough” GG commented 

The two approached the desk where the witness was sitting and stood there in silence for a few seconds, until Terry signaled GG with his hands to go first.

Realizing what he meant, GG cleared his throat, before immediately, violently shoving everything off the desk and slamming his hands on it before absolutely berating the witness

“WE KNOW ALL YOUR DIRTY FUCKING SECRETS, YOU GODDAMN SICKO!” He unrelentingly screamed as he began to climb on top of the desk to the speechless fear of the witness being interrogated

“DON’T EVEN FUCKING THINK ABOUT PULLING ANY BS OR I WILL RIP OUT YOUR-”

“Ok! That’s enough!” Terry interrupted as he pulled GG off the desk and on to the side, even as he tried to escape his grasp like a feral animal

“What the hell was that?!” Terry questioned

“What? I thought we were doing ‘good cop, bad cop’?”

“WHEN THE HELL DOES BAD COP GO FIRST?! And why are you, ‘bad cop’ in the first place?”

“Well it’s too late to change it now”

“Ugh, at least let me get some input in this time, ok?”

“Alright”

The duo then walked back to their witness, who was still in visible fear

Terry cleared his throat before trying to calmly talk to the witness, “I apologize for my loose cannon of a partner over here, now, what can you tell us about the robbery?”

The witness almost opened his mouth to speak, only for GG to impatiently interrupt by hopping back onto the desk and instantly go back to screaming like no tomorrow.

Some time later

As the Duo wait for their next witness/suspect/victim, they took a moment of respite to discuss their next move,

“Kid, I think you might be a bit too tense for this sorta thing.” Terry stateted 

“What makes you say that?” GG inquired as he signed a restraining order, before burning it

“...Right, maybe just let me handle this one”

“Fine by me, I’ll just be here eating this bozo’s snacks”

“Ok then” Terry then walked to approach the alleged witness, taking another look at the detector’s notes

“Get as much info as possible, hmm, easy” he remarks to himself as he reaches the desk

“Alright, let’s just make this easy for the both of us, where were you during the heist?”

In a voice with practically no emotion, the witness/suspect replied, “oh, I was in there.”

“So you work at the bank?”

“Yes, definitely, unfortunately I couldn’t see anything as I was taking a nap.” His voice growing even more monotone

“Are you being sarcastic?”

“No, I swear I am telling the honest truth. Please do not lock me up. Ah.”

Terry could only stare confusedly, as the suspects expression somehow continued to become more and more devoid of expression

Some more time later

“Ugh, this is getting us nowhere!” Terry frustratedly noted, as he repeatedly flipped through the detector’s vague notes

“Lemme take a look” GG said as he took the notes to see for himself, he took a few moments, taking in details, then ripping it in half

“Would it kill you to go with your gut for once?”

Terry hesitated for a brief moment, but soon came around “Y'know what, kid? You’re right! (for once)”

“Damn right I- hey!”

“Nevermind that, here’s the plan”

One briefing later

The duo walked back into the interrogation room for the final time, Terry initially stands back, while GG approaches the suspect

“So, did you do it?” GG asks

“No” the suspect replies

“Ok, ok, guess we're done here, just need ya to do one more thing”

“And what’s that?”

At that moment Terry silently, but all too apparently walked up to the desk, with no hesitation he pulled his out his gun and aimed it square at the suspect, with a stare blank as a stone wall

“Answer again” GG ordered with a smug smirk

“Woah, what the hell?!”

“Just answer”

“I- uh”

“There’s a right answer and a wrong answer here” GG continued, lightly laughing sinisterly

The suspect could only rapidly stammer as Terry kept silently threatening his life and GG continued to seemingly garner enjoyment out of it, This went on for some time, until eventually, in a panic, the suspect suddenly shouted,

“THIS WASN’T IN THE SCRIPT!” before, slapping his hands over his mouth

“What was that?” Terry inquired

The suspect didn’t bother to respond before rushing out the door

“And we’re outta here!” GG declared as the duo gave chase into the Detector’s evidence room

The two entered the room, but the suspect was seemingly nowhere to be found. GG tried to keep looking for the suspect, “come out, wherever you are!” he was enjoying his role of intimidation a bit too much

Meanwhile, Terry rifled through the piles of evidence, until eventually he found something that made him audibly gasp

“What is it?” GG asked before Terry handed it over for him to see, it was a script of some sorts

Detailing the events of the robbery, some parts were scratched out and rewritten with a pen, it ended with ‘degenerates take blame, we take the loot’ and at the front of it, ‘by The Director’ with the ‘I’ and ‘R’ scratched out and replaced with ‘E’ and ‘T’

“Wait, so you’re saying the one behind all of this is-”

“Right behind ya?” The Director called as he slowly rose up from a trap door replacing his cape and detective cap with a dark violet director’s beret

“Surprised to see me again eh, Tumbleweed?”

“Are you joking?” Terry retorted, “I could see through that crappy disguise any day”

“Yet you played along with every part of the show, scene by scene, why? Are you scared of me? Of them? Are you finally ready to accept the consequences?”

“Of what you did? Hell no!” Terry pulled out his gun once again, but no bullets were in

“Still can’t keep your ammo safe for shit?” The Director taunted as he held the bag of bullets, before chucking it to the side

“Could someone explain to me what the hell is going on!?” GG confusedly interrupted

“Oh this is simply rich as buttery popcorn! You really never told your little buddy anything?” The director responded “Tell me, little Toppat” He continued, “enjoying the plot twist? I can tell you had a hand in things going off-script near the end, good show, I mean it!”

GG simply tried to back away, not knowing how to process what was happening 

“Kid, don’t-”

“Shut it, Weed, I may have been stringing you along, little guy, but I wasn’t lying about everything, I do know who you are, and I do have a force at the ready who wouldn’t hesitate to bring you two in for that bounty. But, I am a man of my word, so I give you a choice, stick with me and let the credits finally roll on the cowboy, or stay with him and feel the full wrath of the bloodthirsty bounty hunters I have at the palm of my hand, The choice should only be more obvious if you knew everything that bastard didn’t tell you”

“You mean everything you FRAMED me for?!” Terry interrupted again

“Quiet, let the kid decide”

GG could only sit there and think for some time then, he spoke,

“I’ll do it”

“WHAT?!”

“Good choice”

“Kid…” Terry muttered in disbelief as GG walked up to the false sleuth

“Let’s shake on it” GG said

“A deal’s a de-” 

Suddenly, GG sent a surge of electricity to his hand, delivering a nasty shock to the Director

“YOW! YOU LITTLE SHIT!” 

With the Director staggering in pain, the Duo made their escape 

“So I guess ‘stealth’ is out the window?”

“Just get in the jetpack!”

As the duo rocketed far away, The Director could only watch in anger

“Oh they are NOT getting away with this! I’m the director, I’m practically ROYALTY!”

“No, I don’t think you are” one of the Director’s lackey’s noted

“Oh shut up, lights!”

Meanwhile, Back to GG and Terry

“So, I have multiple questions” GG stated as he lights a campfire for the duo

“I figured, it’s a long story”

“I’m listening”

“Heh, well the short version is I used to be part of a team of bounty hunters, things went sour, now they want me dead, or turned in for my bounty”

“So that’s why you went with that guy’s tricks?”

“Yeah, and now they’re not only after me again, I’ve also got you roped in this shit now”

“Hey,once we get to the orbital station, we won’t have to worry about that. We’ll be safe and we’ll have all the oreo cookies we want!”

“What is with you and oreos?”

“They were always my favorite snack and jess’ favorite too”

“I’m sure she’d be proud of ya right now”

“Heh, maybe”

“By the way, why did you put yourself on The Director’s radar for my sake?”

“I doubt they'd let me leave for the dogobogo jungle, y'know the whole reason were on this journey, plus, you may be a bit abrasive sometimes, but let’s be honest, I’d be dead by now if I did this all alone”

“Thanks”

“Welp, G’night” GG said as he wrapped himself in his sleeping bag, and drifted into subconsciousness

Terry took a moment to look behind him, to the wide open path, then back to GG, fast and deep asleep, “nah” he simply said, before heading in his own sleeping bag

In his dream, Terry found himself carrying a heavy bag in a pitch black area before he noticed something, The Director, Terry saw him point and shoot his gun at someone outside his field of vision

Terry tried to yell and bring attention to what the beret wearing bastard just did in front of him but his voice would not be heard, it was as if his throat had been welded shut

Slowly and silently, The Director turned around, pointing his finger to Terry as he began to smile, Terry could hear the sound of many foot steps as a posse of shadowy figures began to approach, in a flash a barrage of swords, bullets, missiles and more began to fly his way, Terry struggled but was unable to move he could only stand there and brace for impact.

Terry awoke, gasping, GG meanwhile remained fast asleep, attempting to shake off what he was just feeling, he went back to sleep

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Chapter 1 Act 4: Ride or die (or both)

(July 18 20 days until launch)

With GG growing stronger and Terry becoming more tolerant of GG's shenanigans, more than ever it seemed the duo would be able to reach their goals with little to nothing that could stop them!

at least it did, until Terry’s jetpack had run out of fuel,to make matters worse all the backup fuel packs Terry had brought ended up getting punctured during his scuffle with the archers, leaving the two to trek on foot at a much slower rate than before, “This is feeling a bit deja-vu-y” GG remarked, trying to make light of the situation.

After a long time, the two came across a possible glimmer of hope, the entrance to the city. The place was run-down as all hell, with Fires, abandoned tires, and abandoned tires on fire every which way.

“I’m really getting tired of all these ghost towns I keep seeing, why are we even here in the first place?” GG asked with a cough

“I know this is a bit of a detour” explained Terry as the two entered the borders, “but we can just go in, head to the gas station and be back on track in a flash.”

“Wait, your jetpack can just run on plain old gas?”

“Yeah, this thing can run on all sorts of fuel, gasoline, gunpowder, corn oil”

“But not electricity”

“Nope”

“Figures, now where can we get directions around here?”

“How about there?” Terry said as he pointed towards a pub that looked to be in much better condition compared to the rest of the city

As the two made their way across the street to the pub, Terry explained to GG his plan to make sure the two don’t end up in any trouble, “Now remember, kid, ya gotta act tough when we’re in there”

“Like crawling in vents and backstabbing people?”

“NO! TOUGH. Not- friggin kid…”

“Oh! I know how to do that! My dad always says,’if they got a face, you can punch it’”

“Just follow my lead and you should be fine”

The duo then proceeded to walk right in, and nonchalantly take two seats at the bar, as they sat, GG noticed Terry placing his elbow atop the counter and immediately did the same, as well as trying to replicate his facial expression to the best of his ability.

“I’ll take a shot of Golden Grain 190 mixed with a drop of lime and topped with grated cinnamon” 

The bartender gave Terry a nod before turning to GG

“And I’ll have a mug of coke mixed with 8 shots of espresso, topped with whipped cream and crushed oreos”

GG turned to Terry with a thumbs-up, which he responded with a frustrated facepalm.

Before the two knew it however, the bartender had returned with their drinks, including GG’s ridiculous order, prepared exactly as requested.

“Hmm, good service.” GG gleefully noted

“Uhh, kid, I don’t think you should-”

Before Terry could finish his sentence however, GG chugged his drink like water careening down niagara falls and the caffeinated concoction was gone as quick as it arrived

“Say this is pretty good-” suddenly, the caffeine kicked in and GG’s eyes widened and he began shaking like a nevadan clown.

“Right…” Terry worriedly said as he turned back to the bartender, trying to maintain his composure, “anyway, got directions to the nearest gas station?”

Before another word could be said, one of the pub’s patrons,wearing a motorcycle helmet, let out a loud, “HEY, YOU!” pointing to GG. 

GG then turned, looked around before pointing to himself in confusion, still shaking immensely

“YES, YOU! GET OVER HERE!”

GG walked up to the mysterious person and he proceeded to remove his helmet, revealing his massive green mohawk, “You got some nerve steppin foot here, TOPPAT.” he spoke, his previously muffled German accent becoming as clear as daylight.

GG simply continued to stand there, his face growing into a confused stare

“DON’T YOU PLAY DUMB! YOU DEPPS ALWAYS THOUGHT YOU WERE BETTER THAN US JUST BECAUSE OF YOUR LOUSY HATS!”

“Sure ya don’t want one yourself?” GG quipped as he began to laugh hysterically while Terry merely stared in disbelief at the kid’s hyperactive foolishness

“Enough with the petty insults!” The biker roared as he slammed his elbow on a table, positioning his hand in arm-wrestling position.

GG’s face stretched into a wide, confident, caffeine fueled smile as he placed his arm in position, accepting the biker’s challenge, while Terry continued to look in the distance, disapprovingly.

GG started off doing well, the sheer energy from his heart blasting beverage, steadily pushing back the biker’s arm with the force of a raging thunderstorm!

But the biker was no slouch either, he had an immense grudge with all things Toppat and he had the brute strength to back it up, proving himself more than capable of keeping up with GG.

To make matters worse for him, as GG continued to push the limits of his strength, his caffeine energy whittled down as he continued to exert more force from his electricity. All the while, many of the pub’s other patrons, especially the other bikers, heckled GG mercilessly

“Go back to your shitty airship!”

“That hat bigger than your arms?”

“Boo-hoo, Didn’t get your tea today?”

This war of attrition would continue, but seemed to be growing more hopeless as the biker’s strength and insults continued to overwhelm him.

But as it looked to be over for the boy, GG remembered some words from his father, “As long as you have the fire in your heart, you don’t have to take bullshit from anybody!” and with that phrase echoing in his head, the anger in GG’s face would turn to a passionate flame in his heart, and soon enough, a powerful ember spread to his arms, until…

SLAM!

The biker immediately rose from his seat, grasping his hand in pain, before turning back to GG, “Why you little!” he screamed as he raised his fist. 

At that moment however, Terry rushed over and Decked the biker square in the face! Knocking him out immediately.

“FIGHT!” someone announced, and immediately everyone in the pub turned to their sides and began to beat the shit out of however was facing them back, through all the chaos however, Terry and GG would sneak away and soon enough find themselves back on the streets.

“Heh, that was some fun, right?” GG jokingly asked, to which Terry remained silent, staring disapprovingly

“KID. Do you ever have a single thought in your brain before you act?!”

“Hey, it wasn’t my fault we so happened to cross paths with some rival german biker gang, or something”

“If you didn’t blindly arm wrestle that guy, we’d probably be back on the path by now!”

“Ok, I know that was bad but it coulda gone worse, at least they don’t seem to know about our bounties” 

“BOUNTY?!” one of the pub’s patrons shouted, and immediately everyone stopped fighting and turned to a wall and lo and behold, two wanted posters for each of the delinquent duo were in plain view

“Me and my big mouth…” GG mumbled in shame, acting fast, Terry knocked over the motorcycles parked in front of the pub to buy time for the two to run off.

Terry pulled out the jetpack from his back and pushed a button, causing it to shift into a wider frame, and sprout wheels, allowing the duo to ride it like a minecart.

“Has this been a thing this entire time?!” GG asked

“I can’t remember every single gadget installed on this thing all the time!” Terry retorted

“And you call me an idiot”

Before long however, the bikers had gotten their motorcycles and the chase was on, it was all too apparent that they were bound to catch up, so GG hopped off and began to push the jet-cart on foot, using his lightning dash to provide ample speed.

But the bikers weren’t gonna let their pay-day get away so easily, many of them pulled out shotguns, revolvers, and all other manner of firearms to slow the two down, as the sound of gunshots grew more frequent, GG panickedly turned and swerved to avoid, while Terry pulled out his own pistol and shot right back at them, neither parties had much accuracy however considering their fast moving vehicles.

“This isn’t working, we gotta shake em off!” Terry commanded

With this in mind, GG frenziedly looked around for some place to hide.

“Come on, come on…” he constantly muttered with panic

His eyes would soon be caught by a desolate looking museum and he didn’t hesitate to make a hard turn for it’s entrance and shut the door behind him as the two managed to get in.

For a moment, it looked as though the team were out of the woods and took a moment to catch their breaths and plan out their next move.

But in just a few seconds, the bikers caught up to their targets and busted through the not-so sturdy door, the chase was back as they raced through the museum's dusty, abandoned exhibits.

They soon reached a medieval exhibit, GG and Terry threw everything from shields and lances to maces to slow down their adversaries “You’re history!” GG shouted, while some of them were stopped in their tracks by the relics thrown their way, many more were still hot on their tails with crazed looks of greed and wrath on their faces.

In an instant after, The duo ramped out the building’s back door and sent flying through the streets, before they landed… at a gas station.

“Well that’s convenient” Terry commented, but the sound of bike engines revving close behind prevented them from dwelling on the circumstances for two long as they pumped all the necessary gas, switched the jet-cart back to a jetpack and fled for the skies once again, in the nick of time before the bikers managed to catch up, “THIS ISN’T OVER, TOPPAT!” one of them shouted with anger.

Meanwhile, back in the air, “Jeez, I really can’t stop screwing up, can I?” GG muttered remorsefully to himself.

“Kid, I’ll give ya credit for finding us outta that, but for pete’s sake, could you tone down your damn shenanigans?”

“I’m sorry, ok?! In case you can’t tell, there’s a lot riding on this journey for me, I just want to take some of the pressure off, y’know?”

“Sure, whatever, but we still have to get there in one piece, in case you forgot, you’re the one who wanted to “be a team” act like it.” 

“You could be a bit nicer yourself y’know”

“Hmmph”

As the Delinquent duo continued to get closer to the Dogobogo jungle, it became all too apparent that GG and Terry had plenty of differences they needed to put aside if they wanted to reach their goals, but it seemed they work quite well as a team. Will the duo reach their objective? Only time will tell.

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Chapter 1 Act 3: The dysfunctional duo

(July 13, 25 days until launch)

After GG convinced Terry Tumbleweed to begrudgingly work together to make it to the Dogobogo Jungle, all seemed to be going well, the two were on the right track and were pushing forward, full speed ahead! At least they were, until Terry’s jetpack broke down, leaving the two stranded in the middle of a large forest.

“How’s the repairs coming along?” GG inquired

“Wouldn’t have to in the first place, if SOMEONE didn’t rocket themselves into my stuff…” Terry resentfully groaned

“You really still expect me to be ok with you trying to abandon me back there, don’t ya?”

Terry simply let out a incoherent grumble

“...So, you have this whole cowboy getup, then you just have a jetpack for some reason, what’s up with that?” GG quipped as he impatiently tapped his feet repeatedly.

Rather than answering his question, Terry angrily stood up to make it clear to GG that he was getting on his nerves, “KID, WILL YOU JUST SHUT UP?!” He roared with rage

 “I could, would, and TRIED to leave you behind in that desert, and the only reason I’m stuck with your useless ass now is because you’re holding my ammo hostage! So could you just take things even a little bit seriously?!”

“Well, maybe I don’t wanna take things seriously”

Terry took a moment to seethe with a sharp breath before talking again, “look, if I don’t get to that jungle in time, I’m stuck going back into hiding and if I understood that story of yours, YOU won’t be able to keep your promise to that shitty girl of yours, and you won’t get to your parents, who are probably better off without your deadweight!”

“Hey, that’s uncalled for! When I self-deprecate, it shows I can at least acknowledge my flaws,maybe a bit too much, when you do it, it’s just plain rude.” 

“Oh, shut up! At least try to make yourself useful and get some firewood in case we have to camp out here for the night”

“Say please”

Terry immediately retorted with a punch straight to GG’s face

“Alright I can take a hint!” GG said as he walked off

As GG walked about the forest floor, picking up twigs he couldn’t help but rant to himself about his rotten new ‘friend’ “Friggin cowboy, can’t a guy have a little fun to take from the pressure of this damn journey? And I already know I’m deadweight, I don’t need everyone reminding me” he looked up with sigh, noticing a large pocket of twigs high in one of the trees

Knowing that should be enough for a good fire, GG wasted no time and began to climb up, while still continuing to rant to himself. Soon enough, he would reach the top, where the twigs he saw were “Heh, who’s ‘useless’ now?” GG proudly remarked.

But at that moment he noticed something strange, the ‘twigs’ he had seen weren’t twigs at all! They were… arrows? And like clockwork, another one would almost immediately whizz right past him, barely missing GG, as he yelped a quick “Woah!”

Looking to his side where the arrow came from, GG saw a trio of hooded archers, with green hoods concealing their shadowy faces, in silence one of them pulled out a piece of paper, before nodding to the other 2 as they all drew their bows.

GG was able to put 2 and 2 together and immediately started rushing to climb down the tree, arrows barely missing him in his descent.

When he reached the bottom, GG started running again, attempting to activate his powers but to no avail, after some time GG managed to make his way back to Terry, unfortunately falling over the jetpack.

“Oi! Watch where you’re going! Did you even get the firewood-”

“No time, sheriff! Run!”

And just like that, GG was off once again, and soon enough an arrow landed right next to him, Terry looked up and saw the archers atop the trees, one of them signaled the other two to keep chasing GG while they stayed behind to keep shooting at Terry.

“One-on-one ay? Bad move, bozo” Terry smirked as he pulled out his pistol, only to remember it had no bullets in it, “Goddammit, kid!” he screamed in frustration, soon enough the one archer would barrage the cowboy with arrows, Terry didn’t hesitate to attempt to hide behind a tree and pull out an emergency thruster and attach it to his jetpack, it wasn’t much but it would at least allow him to hopefully retreat for a short time and be able to fully fix his normal thrusters.

Meanwhile, GG continued to run for his life (again) after some more time, he attempted to hide in a hollow log, he hid for a few seconds, his heart beating like a freight train. After a few seconds however, the sound of arrows hitting the log appeared to stop.

With caution, GG began to peek out of the log, no archers appeared in sight, so he got out fully, thinking he was in the clear. GG tried to get his bearings and look around, hoping to find Terry around somewhere, “TERRY! SHERIFF! WHERE ARE YA?! Frig, I’m back to going solo, aren’t I?” nevertheless he trekked onward to hopefully find his way. Suddenly, GG took an arrow right to his arm! The archers hadn’t left at all, they merely tricked him into leaving his hiding! And yet again, the chase was on

Back with Terry, he kept swerving around the archer’s arrows, his emergency thruster began to run out and he was slowly going back down to the ground. As he reached ground level, Terry wasted no time and took cover behind another tree, rapidly rummaging through his storage for anything else he could use. 

He grabbed a dagger and began using it to climb the tree and meet the archers' elevation “Can’t snipe me now, can you, bitch?” He remarked now that he was close enough to stab him, but the archer wouldn’t go down that easily, throwing punches that Terry would swiftly block and dodge before eventually attempting to swing his dagger.

But as he swung, the archer grabbed Terry’s arm and immediately threw him down back onto the dirt. Terry was able to land without hurting himself, but he was still left unable to fight back yet again, so he was forced to run, and run he did.

Meanwhile, GG continued to avoid the onslaught of arrows being hurled his way, fear flooding his mind as he held his arm with the wound of the arrow he took. “I don’t get it!” GG screamed in frustration “I’m in another life-or-death/ fight-or-flight situation, WHY CAN’T I GET MY DAMN POWERS TO WORK?!” His legs were growing tired, his breath was running out, GG couldn’t run for much longer, “No… not now! Can’t let em down again… Jess… My parents” At that moment, GG remembered something from when he his parents first tried to get him to learn his powers

“I don’t get it!” GG said in frustration “I’m doing my best!”

“It’s alright, calm down George!” Gerald assured GG

“Just calm down, focus on your breath, focus on its energy, you can do it!” Gabrielle encouraged

GG would try just that, his heartbeat and breathing became one, he could feel his energy would slowly return with each breath, a green glow slowly emerged from his eye, and more importantly, his steps would grow faster, sparks would emit from his legs yet again, but this time, he was in full control. His strides growing longer, his steps getting more rapid, until…

BOOM!

He was zooming off with a look of pure determination on his face, leaving the archers in his dust.

Eventually, the edge of the forest would be seen for both of them, and they unknowingly reached it at the same time.

“Heh, that… takes a lot outta me, but I did it, heh.” GG commented on his feat

“I coulda wasted those fuckers if I just had my ammo… but I still got out alive” Terry assured to himself

“I bet that asshole is still grumbling about me not wanting to be abandoned”

“I bet that dumbass is running off in the wrong direction”

“I don’t need that bastard!” the two unknowingly said in unison, before looking to their sides and realizing the other was there

“Oh, you” Terry grumbled “not dead? Unfortunate”

“For your information, I don’t need your banjo-kazooie-ing anymore, I can lightning dash on command now!”

“That’s what you’re calling it, really?”

“It’s a work in progress”

“Yeah,think you could leave me alone now? I packed an extra map in case YOU messed up and ruined the first one”

“That doesn’t make sense, you were gonna leave me”

“You want the damn map or not?”

Before GG could respond however The archers managed to catch up and as a trio once again, they wasted no time and shot right at Terry, But GG was quick to react, grabbing the arrows right out of the air! “I’ll hold em off, you fix the jetpack!” GG explained

“Forgetting something?” Terry asked

“Oh, right” GG reached in his pocket and handed Terry his ammo back, with a devious smile, He loaded his pistol and took aim at the archer that gave him hell, before they took cover behind a tree and tried shooting arrows from behind, at that time Terry would still try to fix the jetpack, he was getting closer to it being fully functional

Meanwhile GG would quickly and consistently keep dodging the arrows flying at him, Eventually, the two got annoyed enough to jump down and try to directly stab GG with their arrows, only for Terry to take them by surprise, stabbing the two with his daggers, now only the leader was left. 

They tried to retreat by climbing further up the tree, but before they could get far, Terry’s jetpack was fully fixed and without hesitation, GG hopped in the storage once again as the two flew up and gave chase until they met all the way at the top of the tree, “All yours” GG said as Terry drew his pistol and..

BANG!

With all three archers down for the count the duo went back on the ground to discuss their experience, “Alright kid, like it or not, you clearly need my know-how if you want a sliver of a chance of getting to the jungle in one piece”

“Really?” GG asked sarcastically

“And as much as I hate to admit it, you definitely got some skills that I don’t see myself being able to get there without.”

“So..?” GG inquired expectantly

“Here’s the deal, let’s get to the jungle and try not to kill each other on the way.”

“Yeah, I can work with that”

“It’s settled then, try not to mess this up”

“Not before you will, heh”

And so, the two were on track yet again, with GG growing more powerful, and Terry being more tolerant of GG’s antics, it seemed the duo had more than a fighting chance of reaching their goals, but their journey had just begun.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~End of act 3~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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[ggsworldstory]

Chapter 1 Act 2: Dashing through the desert

(July 10, 28 days until launch)

For 3 days, GG has been making a mad dash for the dogobogo jungle, with his heart as his compass and his instincts as his guide. The only problem being that neither of those actually had directions to the jungle

“I think I’m making good progress” GG assured himself

“After all, all great journeys have a dessert as their second location! Or was it a chemical plant? Snowy forest?”

As GG, continued to trek through the sandy landscape, the heat beaming down on him would quickly become unbearable, he tried to fan himself with his hat, but struggled to do so given the heavy gold crown at it’s brim

After a while, in a twist of irony, GG would be joyed to see West mesa penitentiary  in the distance and ran right for it, sure it would be foolish for a criminal such as himself to run headlong for prison, but he didn’t care, all he knew was that he had found some shelter and more importantly, air conditioning.

GG stepped inside and began to sit in one of the lobby chairs, his relaxation would quickly come to a halt however, as one of the officers approached him, “Can I help you?” the officer asked,

“I’m not a criminal, I swear!” GG panickedly retorted

“Sure, are you lost, kid?”

“Actually, yes”

“Ok, tell me where you live and we’ll get you back to your folks”

“The middle of the ocean”

“Pardon?”

“Well where else would a submarine be?”

“...”

“Don’t worry, you can just drop me off at the dogobogo jungle”

“W-why?”

“Well I have to get there before the rocket launches with the rest of the….” 

GG slowly began to realize his mistake as he got up from his chair and slowly backed away for the exit. “Y’know what? I think I’ll get home fine, I’m sure you guys probably need to solve some murder-tax-frauds or something, BYE!”

As soon as he was out the door, GG would immediately sprint away, before later tripping over an anomalous, hill of sand, “ugh, gotta watch where I’m going” GG grumbled as he picked himself up and coughed up some sand, he then looked behind and noticed something that seemed like a submarine hatch protruding from the sand.

“Hmm, what’s a sub doing out here?” GG thought to himself, before opening it and hopping inside for a closer look, the inside wasn’t the cleanest, but it was surprisingly decked out, with a computer connected to a printer, a mini fridge stocked with food and a pair of jetpacks as well as several bags, most of which being empty, and some labeled “MOC”

“Damn, this place is loaded!” GG thought to himself in awe

“I wonder who owns it…”

GG’s question would soon be answered as he began to hear footprints coming from above, quickly, he hid behind a chair, while sticking his head out slightly to scope out who had just entered, he wore a brown cowboy hat, and a dark yellow bandana that covered most of his lower face

The mysterious man set down a bag of money he was hauling on his back alongside the others, but he quickly sensed that he wasn’t alone in his hideout, so he searched about before coming the his chair, moving slowly as to not make much noise, pulled a pistol, jumped behind the chair to find…. Nothing.

Aboveground, GG was making a run for it,only getting a short distance before trying to hide behind a small patch of cacti, with his heart pounding in fear as he tried to catch his breath, GG tried to look behind to see if he was being followed. Shortly however, he heard a “hello” come from in front of him, he turned and there was the man standing before him, with his fight-or-flight instincts at the helm, GG swung his fist with a burst of fire, but the man would swiftly dodge it before delivering a grand kick right into the cacti!

“OW!” GG screamed, as the man pulled out his pistol 

“I don’t take kindly to breaking and entering y’know, mind explaining yourself?” the man stated with an abundance of sincerity in his voice.

“Wait, don’t kill me! I was just leaving!”

“To where?”

“The dogobogo jungle”

“Why?”

“It’s a long story”

“Ok then” the man then sat down, ready to listen

“You know that when someone says ‘long story’ it means that they don’t wanna say, right-”

“Kid, I have been here for as long as I can remember, only accompanied by the sound of the occasional armored truck, TELL THE DAMN STORY”

“Ok…”

One long story later 

“So I gotta get there before a month or I’m basically screwed”

“The toppat clan y’say?”

“Yeah”

“And their secret rocket base is in the dogobogo jungle and you don’t even know how to get there?”

“Uh-huh”

“Well, don’t you worry, I'll just find that out, and be outta here in no time,sound good?

“Yeah, thanks man!”

“Perfect, you just sit back and I’ll handle this”

The man then went back to his hideout, after some time,GG would grow somewhat impatient and put his ear against the entrance of the hideout, he would hear what sounded like a printer, followed by some kind of engine.

Quickly the man burst from the hatch with a jetpack and without so much as a word of thanks, he blasted off and left GG behind.

“... he’s… not coming back, is he?” GG commented to himself even with his disappointment and betrayal,he wasted no time to catch up. GG took some short hops, stretched his legs, got into running position… before immediately falling on his face, “right, can’t do that on command, now what?”

He then hopped back into the hatch, looking for some answers. On the computer he found a map for the dogobogo jungle, “so he printed out a map, I’ll just get another one then” unfortunately, the printer didn’t work as it was out of ink. “Great, now I have to get revenge” he then tried to look around the place to find something that could do the trick and quickly stumbled upon a second jetpack. 

A large grin spread across GG’s face as he strapped it on, climbed above ground and engaged the thrusters before, ready to blast off, and blast off he did… out of control, zig-zagging around the air, screaming wildly as he was uncontrollably launched, soon enough however, the jetpack would run out of fuel, sputter, and stop flying

“Phew, glad that’s over” GG sighed with relief, before looking down and seeing that he was high in the air.

“Fuck” GG defeatedly whimpered, before carreeening down and resuming his screaming.

He fell far before… he stopped, however he found himself to be less dead than he was expecting.

GG opened his eyes and found a torrent of flames emitting from his hands and feet, creating a jet-like propulsion that kept him from falling

“That’s new”

GG stayed there for a second, before having an idea on how he could catch up to the man

“Maybe if I just..”

GG said as he slowly steered his arms and legs to face forward, before jarringly being thrusted forward at blistering speeds, despite falling down onto the sand several times, he would quickly catch up to the man and crash right into him like a flying bowling ball

“Argh, the hell is your problem!?” the man yelled as he got up from the sand

“My problem? You left me for dead! What, did you expect me to just be ok with that?”

“I don’t babysit, you little shit! I’ll get to the jungle with or without you being a pest!”

“Well you might wanna reconsider that, I’ve been around the clan long enough to know they aren’t exactly fond of traitors”

The man pulled out his pistol once again before stating, “Why don't I just shoot you in your smart ass mouth-” before realizing the gun had no bullets, “goddammit, where’s my ammo?”

“Ya mean this ammo?” GG smugly remarked as he held a bag filled with ammo that he grabbed during the scuffle.

“Fuckin.. WHAT DO YOU WANT!?”

“Well, we’re both heading to the same place, why don’t we team up?”

“I just tried to abandon you”

“My mom told me not to hold grudges after you’ve already gotten revenge”

“Ugh, fine, hop in the jetpack, I had it custom made to double as a backpack,also can I have my ammo back?”

“Yeah, no, my dad told me not to give someone else a weapon when you’re unarmed” GG replied as he hopped in

“Ugh…”

“What’s your name anyway?”

“Tumbleweed, Terry Tumbleweed”

“Can I just call you Tumbleweed?”

“No”

“Sheriff?”

“No”

“Terr?”

“FUCK NO! DO I LOOK LIKE A VIOLET DUMBASS?!”

“Jeez, sensitive much? GG asked as the duo got off the ground and started flying”

“This is gonna get annoying fast..”

And so, actually knowing where they were going this time, GG and Terry Tumbleweed were off. With a map in tow, nothing could stop this duo now!... except for, well, you’ll see

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~End of act 2~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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