The cloaked figure ran around a block corner. Eventually, the group make their way to the corner and peek around it, but the figure is gone. Instead, there was a giant escalator factory.
"I know for a fact that this building wasn't here before." Floran mumbled to herself. "And where'd that person go?" Cutecumber asked. They looked around but couldn't find the figure anywhere.
Brazilian Bug Boy stepped forward and said, "I think we should check out this factory. If it wasn't here before, that makes it pretty suspicious."
Lusha smirked and spoke up as well, saying, "Yeah exactly! Time for an investigation." She quickly transformed into wearing a detective outfit, holding a magnifying glass.
"DETECTIVE TIME!" Octopus Man yelled, also transforming into wearing detective clothing.
Kookakoo gasps. "I wanna be a detective too!" she shouted. She transformed into flames. "AAAAH WRONG TRANSFORMATION!" she screamed.
Kookakoo was burnt to a crisp. Emberlyn looked down at Kookakoo's charred body and said, "See. Being on fire constantly isn't fun."
"Come on already. Let's just go inside the factory." Floran urged. Kookakoo got up and transformed into detective clothing this time. "Okay." she said with a smile.
They walked up to the factory. Octopus Man, Kookakoo, and Lusha looked around the door of the factory, inspecting it with their magnifying glasses.
"Hmm... I think I see something." Octopus Man stated. Cutecumber and Brazilian Bug Boy walked up. "What did you find?" Brazilian Bug Boy asked.
"I'm not sure... wait... yes! It is! It's a door!" Octopus Man exclaimed. Cutecumber and Brazilian Bug Boy just sighed in response.
Lusha came back, wearing her original purple suit instead of the detective clothing. "What happened with you?" Octopus Man asked. Lusha yawned and replied, "Being a detective is boring."
"Yeah true." Octopus Man said, removing his detective clothing, returning to just wearing his normal shirt and cape.
Kookakoo did the same. "Yeah. I thought I'd finally be able to discover the crystal of life, but I guess not." she said.
"What's the crystal of life?" Floran asked. Kookakoo turned to her and answered, "it's a giant goose that can..." Floran cut her off and said, "Never mind. I don't care."
Floran then stepped up to the door and began to open it, but she stopped when she heard something inside. It sounded like voices laughing. She used her energy ability to create a tiny drill that created a hole in the door so she could peek inside.
Her eyes widened in shock when she saw that inside was Dinkleflop, tied to an escalator. A man with white hair, holding a backscratcher was laughing at him. It was Scratchy. Standing next to him was Can of Grape Juice. "Fill his arteries with grape juice!" Scratchy commended.
Out from the corner came Jinjin and Mimi. They raised their magical wands, and the wands started glowing. Dinkleflop instantly started screaming in pain.
Octopus Man tried to push Floran out of the way. "Let me see what's happening!" he shouted. Floran tried to push him back. "Hey, be quiet!" she whispered in an angry tone.
Kookakoo then jumped on to Floran's back and yelled. "I WANNA SEE TOO!" The force of Kookakoo jumping on Floran's back caused her to lose her footing and fall into the door, causing it to collapse.
Scratchy, Jinjin, and Mimi all turned around with blank stares. Floran looked up and said, "Umm... I..." she then stood and created energy spears around her. "DIE!" she yelled. She pointed at them, and the spears started flying towards them.
Mimi raised her wand, and the spears froze in midair. Scratchy looked at the frozen spears and laughed to himself. "Nice try but..." he stopped in the middle of his sentence when he noticed that Floran had moved towards him in the blink of an eye. She had a determined look in her eyes as she prepared to punch him with all her force.
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"WATCH OUT SIR!" Can of Grape Juice yelled, while jumping in front of Floran's fist. Floran punched right through Can of Grape Juice, and the juice started spilling out of him.
"NO! NOT CAN OF GRAPE JUICE!" Scratchy yelled with tears in his eyes. He gritted his teeth and held his backscratcher tightly. "YOU'LL PAY FOR THAT!" he yelled. He raised his backscratcher, ready to strike Floran.
He swung the backscratcher, but Floran grabbed it with one hand casually. She then squeezed her grip and snapped it in half.
Jinjin and Mimi watched in fear. They were about to cast a spell on her, but Cutecumber drew her cucumber sword, and swiftly sliced their wands in half.
They fell on to the ground and started crying. "Oh, don't play the crybaby game." Cutecumber exclaimed.
Scratchy was backing away from Floran in fear. He ended up bumping into the back wall of the factory, unable to move backwards anymore. He tried to move to the left, but Brazilian Bug Boy flew in, blocking him.
Lusha walked up to Dinkleflop and untied him. "Thanks for saving me." he said. Lusha shrugged and replied, "It was Floran's idea. I would have left you to die to be honest." Dinkleflop looked a bit upset at this.
Emberlyn stood in the back, scared to interfere. She looked and Octopus Man and Kookakoo who were digging a giant hole in the ground.
Emberlyn walked up and asked, "You're not going to help them?" Octopus Man looked up from the hole and replied, "They've got this. Besides, we're busy trying to dig to Mars."
Emberlyn scratched her arm shyly and said, "I know you two like to have fun, but you're the main characters. You can at least do more." she said softly, not trying to aggravate them.
Octopus Man and Kookakoo looked at each other before looking back at Emberlyn. "Nah." they both said, shrugging their arms.
Emberlyn looked down a bit in disappointment, but when she looked up, she noticed someone coming in the distance. The person walked up to them, and Emberlyn tensed up in fear, but the person just walked past them. Emberlyn sighed in relief.
As Scratchy found himself cornered by Floran and Brazilian Bug Boy, he heard some footsteps from the front door and said, "Oh, you may be stronger than me, but the boss has finally arrived. You guys stand no chance now!"
They turned around to see the person walking in. It was a woman with long white hair that mixed with purple in a gradient. She had an emotionless expression on her face, and was wearing white boots and black leather pants, alongside a black leather jacket that had a fluffy white collar. The jacket was unzipped, and she had a cloth white shirt underneath. All of these items were very expensive, and it was obvious the money she used to buy them was dirty money.
Lusha scratched her head and asked, "Who are you?" The woman looked over. "The one that's going to kill you." she replied bluntly.
Floran sighed and said, "We already got Dinkleflop. We're just gonna go now and you can't stop us. Your other minions here were incredibly weak so I doubt you can be any stronger."
The woman just snapped her finger, and a shockwave rippled through the entire city. Everyone fell to the ground, feeling dizzy from the sound.
Despite being dazed, Scratchy still managed to let out sinister laughter. "Our boss Xanthe can't be beaten. She harnessed the crystal of life.
"TOLD YOU IT WAS IMPORTANT!" Kookakoo yelled from the hole she was digging.
The woman just walked up to Floran. She was slightly taller than her. She tapped Floran on the head, causing her eyes to go blank, and collapse to the ground.
Brazilian Bug Boy looked furious and held his sword tightly. Since he was in his unsealed state after removing his gloves, he could amplify the insect power in the sword by 20 septillion.
The sword glowed so bright it lit up the entire factory. Everyone started covering their eyes except for Xanthe. She just swatted at the sword and knocked it out of Brazilian Bug Boy's hands. He didn't even notice it happened because it was so quick. She then tapped him on the head, causing him to collapse as well.
She then turned to Lusha. Lusha just laughed and raised her arms. "Listen, you can't kill me because I'm a conceptual being. But I know I can't kill you either, so just back away and we can avoid a useless fight."
"You put your nose into my business. I don't care what you'd think." Xanthe responded, still showing no emotion. She walked closer to Lusha. "Just so you know. I hate doing things myself." she concluded. A light flashed in Xanthe's eyes and Lusha went unconscious.
Emberlyn hid behind a bush outside after seeing that Lusha, who could even resist the Gatekeeper who removed her phenomena, couldn't resist an attack from Xanthe.
Dinkleflop started trembling in fear. Xanthe created a purple flame in her hand. "Never mess with the grape juice gang." she said in a bone chilling tone.
Lusha rubbed her eyes and got up. She yawned and said, "What a good nap." Xanthe turned to her and sighed before saying, "So I guess me going easy on you didn't work."
Lusha noticed the purple flame in her hand and said, "Ok settle down. That's grape juice fire isn't it. I don't stand a chance against the power of Turkmenistan, let alone grape juice fire which is 20 times stronger. I surrender."
Xanthe shook her head and replied, "I don't feel like sparing you." Just as Xanthe was about to kill Lusha, she heard two voices yell "WE DID IT!"
She turned to look outside the door and saw Octopus Man and Kookakoo holding a goose shaped crystal. "We may not have made it to Mars, but we found the crystal of life part 2." The power of the crystal was then absorbed into the both of them.
Lusha smirked with her sharp teeth and said, "I think you have some good opponents now." Xanthe looked unamused.