The gang had been successfully sucked and were now in a bear meeting room aboard one of the Bearmy ships.

“Welcome back to… us,” said the bear they were meeting with.

“Who are you?” asked Snorter.

“And what are you going to tell us??” Klumpkrump.

“Well, you see, those questions were about to be answered by me,” replied the bear. “I am Fish, head of Bear Foreign Relations. Yes, yes, I am one of the Five Powerful Bears of the Bears. Contain yourselves. So anyways, we have come to inform you that the bears live on!! Despite losing our planet, we still have our fleet of Bearmy ships. Also Bear Fortress. It can fly.”

“Woah, it’s still intact?” asked Snorter.

“False. The cows destroyed it.”

“Oh.”

“But we have its floating rubble. So we can rebuild it. Anyways, the bears have been significantly weakened. We lost a lot of Bearmy ships and many thousands of precious bears. But we have also come to tell you something important.”

“Well, get on with it!” said Plagiarize.

“Since the Cow Galaxy has attacked us, we’re now at war with them. And since you’re allied with us, you must help us fight them.”

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“Oh, well we were already kinda doing that, yo,” said Bird.

“Well now you have to do it more,” said Fish. “And call me Fish. Yo is the current Bear President.”

“Oh good, you found a replacement for Chunk,” said Klumpkrump.

“Yes, after you so murderously murdered him,” said Fish.

“Sorry about that.”

“No, we were enemies. He kept stealing my pancake mix.”

“Oh, good,” said Klumpkrump. “Well, bad. But good that he’s dead now so he can no longer do that.”

“Quite right,” replied Fish, who was not and had never been a fish.

“So what’s your plan of action for destroying Cow Galaxy, yo?” asked Bird.

“If you want to know that, I suggest speaking with our new Bearmy leader.”

“What happened to DeBear??” asked Snorter.

“He got killed by the cows,” Fish replied. “But don’t worry. A few years ago, he asked the Bearmy to construct an exact robot clone of himself, so in the event of an untimely death, we’d still have DeBear. I quite admired his ways.”

“Well, I’m glad he lives on as a robot,” said Snorter.

“The robot was stolen by the cows.”

“You’ve gotta be kidding me!”

“But don’t worry. Just go down that hall and through the door marked with the bear and you’ll be face to bear with our new Bearmy leader!”

“What hallway?” asked Hoofa from atop Gumpton.

Suddenly, a massive boot attached to a spring slammed down from the ceiling, pushing the gang through the floor and into the hallway below.