🧶The Red Strings of Destiny🧶

“DESTINED TO MEET AGAIN!” Destiny Fish called out the magic words activating his most powerful spell.

Despite the disadvantageous starting position, the spell used omniscient cosmic destiny calculations to instantly sort through countless possible destinies. It then formulated a step-by-step plan to destine the reunion of Destiny Fish and Wally that not only had a 95.225% chance to succeed, but also a 100% chance to be epic. It got to work right away.

Step 1: Preserve Wally’s soul.

There was no way to save Wally’s body. The man had simply abused it too much for it to stand any chance of recovery. So the strings did the next best thing. Enormous amounts of red string shot out of Destiny Fish’s wand, wrapping around his soul and emulating ectoplasmite, the metal that can preserve souls.

Step 2: Gift Tomas a copy of “Night Monsters”

Wally’s soul wasn’t the only one targeted, Strings flew out across the Australian bushland, snuck into the church of the wolf compound, entered Tomas' body and wrapped themselves around his soul as he took an afternoon nap.

A few strings poked out of his chest and turned on his game box. Then they entered a coupon code that would gift him the game. Night Monster’s hunting mechanics were the perfect trigger to stimulate Tomas’ hunting instincts and activate his dormant powers. The game was left up on the screen for him to discover after he woke up.

Step 3: Bore a tunnel through space/Turn on Fred’s space TV

Strings flew up, out of Earth’s atmosphere towards planet Bryan. Bryan was much too far away for the strings to make it in time for what they needed to do, so they formed a drill and tunnelled a hole through the fabric of space from Earth to Bryan, shortening the trip from billions of light years to a few kilometres.

This was a crude and violent method of space travel that could potentially collapse the universe in on itself ending all existence. Luckily, this time, it didn’t. The universe managed to seal up the damage and the red strings continued flying down towards the Hungry Hippo University campus, where they entered Fred’s dorm, switched on his space TV, and then hid under his bed among his secret boxes.

As he sat down on the bed, eyes glued to the documentary on World fish, the strings snuck up the other side of his bed and entered his body from behind, wrapping around his soul.

Step 4: Attach Wally to Destiny Fish

The last strings to leave the wand turned back and entered Destiny Fish's own body, wrapping around his soul. Destiny Fish was aware of the strings but didn’t give them much thought. His magic typically did its own thing and was best left alone. Besides, he was too distraught about his bro dying to worry about strings around his soul.

A single string, 2 metres in length, tied one of its ends to Wally’s soul and the other to Destiny Fish’s. Now Wally followed Destiny Fish everywhere.

This cheered Destiny Fish up and ultimately gave him the inspiration needed to sculpt the statue of Goddess Fish on the bottom of his lake.

Step 5: Manipulate internet search results.

The night before he was told of his impending sacrifice, red strings reached out from Tomas’ sleeping body and pressed the power button on his computer. They then used their elite hacking skillz to mess with his web browser so that he was guaranteed to come across the news article that would eventually lead him to Chook’s Creek the next day.

Step 6: Split time into two/ Hide the crown.

Smarty’s got it all wrong. The most fearsome magic in the universe is not vegetable magic, it is destiny magic. No doubt about it.

Early in the morning before Tomas’ sacrifice, The red strings of destiny unwound and exited en masse from Tomas’ body. They wove themselves into a pair of hands. The two hands floated through the church compound and found the Matriarch’s changing room. There, they reached out and grabbed the concept of time and began ripping it into two. They strained and snapped under the pressure of the momentous conceptual task they undertook. But slowly and steadily, a tear formed in time, splitting it into two exact copies of itself. A single woven hand floated in each timeline.

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In one timeline, the strings unwove and divided into two. Half returned to Tomas’ soul, and the other half snuck over to The Matriarch's room, entered her body and took root within her soul as well. Now both Tomas and The Matriarch would show up as containing fish magic on any magic scanners.

In the other timeline, the strings grabbed the Matriarch's crown and snuck it through the compound, eventually hiding it under Head Priest Roy’s bed. This ensured that she wouldn't get struck by lightning in this timeline.

Step 7: Mess with Fred’s alarm.

There was no way Fred was going to wake up on time without his alarm on the morning of the invention convention. He had stayed up way too late worrying about the next day. He dreaded how sleepy he was going to be the next day as he diligently checked and double-checked the alarm on his smarty phone, setting another one, just to be safe.

The moment he went to sleep, red strings reached out and turned all of his alarms off. Unbeknownst to Fred, this saved his life from Weather Fish's wrath.

Step 8: Lure a Yeti.

Destiny Fish cut the string connecting him and Wally after leaving Earth, Leaving Wally’s soul free to roam. The red strings wrapped around it began dragging him deep into the Australian outback.

No Yowies lived near the church of the wolf’s compound as the Matriarch had hunted them all. This means the strings had to cover quite some distance to reach one. The closest one slept by a billabong several hundreds of kilometres away.

The strings were able to reach it in a few moments, however, luring it back was going to take some time. They wove themselves together into a fabric air horn and honked at the Yowie, waking it. It spotted the floating bundle of string and gave chase. For an entire day and night it chased the strings, never giving up until in the morning the strings lured it to a tree by a river where Tomas had hung his robes and sandals.

The bundle of strings floated up into the sky, out of the Yowie’s sight and left it to eat Tomas' clothes in frustration.

Step 9: Reveal Fred’s secret/ Mess with Fred’s alarm, again.

While the Yeti was delaying Tomas’ arrival to Chook’s Creek, red strings of destiny got to work making Fred miserable. In order to reveal Fred’s phobia the strings grabbed his phone while he slept and used their elite hacking skillz/ basic Smarty web design skills to create a fake “10 ways to tell if your teammate is secretly afraid of fish,'' online article using some very ‘Fred specific’ example and posted it online.

Edison browsed so much junk online that he didn’t even need to be manipulated into finding the article. He did so on his own and quickly put 2 and 2 together regarding Fred’s phobia. After some deep thought on what he had learned, he decided to use this knowledge to further the team's success via torturing Fred.

Then just to make it worse for Fred, the red strings repeatedly woke him up by messing with his alarms. He got mad enough to improve the ship’s scanner. The Little Girls team then discovered Fish magic on Earth and off they went.

Luckily the scanner only scanned things outside the ship. It would have been disastrous if Fred learned that he too had been infected by fish magic.

Step 10: Drag soul into body.

This step was simple, while Wanda was staring at Tomas’ soul, the red strings dragged Wally’s soul into the empty body.

Step 11: Turn on Edison’s space WiFi.

This step required a little bit of stealth. While Fred was getting into his battle suit, red strings shot out of his back and quickly typed into the computer console. Using Einstein’s password to dismiss the ban on Edisons’s WiFi.

This was a suitable distraction to keep Fred in the fight for longer down on Earth.

Step 12: Give Destiny Fish an Idea.

With a gentle tugging on his fin, Destiny Fish remembered Earth and its beautiful moon. The perfect place for World Fish’s plan.

Step 13: Turn on sedatives/ Crash flying saucer into the lake.

The red strings messed up this step. They were supposed to turn on the sedatives unnoticed but Fred opened his eyes at an inopportune moment, catching them red-handed (red-stringed). This lowered the success chance of the plan down to 72.66% as Fred would definitely become antagonistic to the plan once he woke.

Fortunately, that wouldn’t be for some time, the strings turned off all safety measures that could potentially wake the four up and didn’t set a time limit to wake them up. A task easily achieved using the ship’s horrible computer menus.

Then with the destined four all tucked in, the strings took a hold of the ship's flight controls and flew it to Lake Fortune. Without stopping, the F.S. Wibble Wobble crashed straight down into the lake, sinking to its depths. And that's where they stayed… for years.