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The Bad Guys Season 2: The Baddest Trip (chapter 4) - Trouble In Spain

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Trouble In Spain

Somewhere in Spain, the Bad Guys' jet landed and parked somewhere hidden out of plain sight. Already in Barcelona, the Bad Guys entered the city, where they waited on the sidewalk for the traffic light to go. It was a busy street for them to cross without the pedestrian traffic light to signal "Go."

"Come on, Piranha, out of all the world, why do you want to go to Spain?" Snake complained.

When Piranha opened his mouth to answer, Hornet cut him off and guessed, "And don't say you want to take me out on a romantic date. The whole world is already romantic."

Piranha rolled his eyes and smiled in defeat, "Alright, fine. I wanna go to Spain because it has good Spanish culture here. I mean, I lived in Bolivia, but I feel Hispanic in Spain."

"Not to mention its historical colonization in a lot of countries," Hornet mentioned to the rest of the team.

"I also want to learn their other practices, like their sword fighting, taming bulls, and some romantic gestures."

"That also counts as asking me out on a date here."

"Trust me, it'll be all worth visiting."

When the traffic lights signaled "go" for pedestrians, the Bad Guys safely crossed the street to explore the city.

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Later, they ended up near the Basilica De La Sagrada Familia church, where the Bad Guys couldn't stop staring all the way up to the top. It was a big and beautiful building they had ever seen.

"You're right, Piranha, Barcelona is a beautiful city, especially by this big church," Tarantula admitted.

"I wonder how high I can reach there," Hornet said, imagining himself flying all the way to the top of one of the towers.

Now that they had seen this place, Piranha thought there were more places to explore in Spain. "Where do you guys wanna go next?"

"Piranha, we're not familiar with the place. We don't know where to go," Wolf noted.

"Yeah, we might get lost in this country," Snake added.

"Worried that you might get lost?" A female voice called out. On their left, a female piranha held a map before putting it down to reveal her face. "I think I can help with that."

Piranha was familiar with this fellow piranha, "Fuchsia?"

"Hola, Pepe," Fuchsia waved hello at him.

Piranha rushed to the female piranha and hugged her. "Hey. What are you doing here?"

"Oh, I've been in Spain for a while. It's like it's been my home," Fuchsia responded.

"No wonder I haven't heard from you in years."

"And you've been gone for years."

"Umm, hi there," Wolf interrupted the conversation when he and the rest of the team joined them. "Piranha, can you tell us who she is?"

"Oh, right," Piranha chuckled, "Hermanos, this is Fuchsia. She was a good friend of mine since I was a kid back in my old town." Then he turned to the female piranha, "Fuchsia, these are my friends: Wolf, Snake, Shark, and Webs, and this is Hornet. He's my boyfriend," he gently held Hornet on his fin.

"Oh! Ay caramba! You never told me you like boys!" Fuchsia exclaimed surprisingly.

"I like girls too. There are people like that," Piranha noted.

"Oh yes, of course," Fuchsia smiled calmly, "You know, your family missed you."

The thought of home reminded Piranha of the incident he caused with his family. He wasn't hesitant to lie to Fuchsia about it: "I've already been home. They don't want me anymore."

Fuchsia's face dropped as she could sense it wasn't very good between Piranha and his family. "Oh. I'm so sorry about that, Pepe."

"Yeah, well, I have my friends now." Piranha extended his fins around his team. "They're family to me."

"Aww, that's so sweet," the female piranha grinned, "I can show you amigos around, huh? Maybe catch up with some lunch."

"That would be great," the little fish agreed.

When Fuchsia walked off, Piranha followed, as did the Bad Guys.

"I kinda like her," Tarantula whispered.

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The Bad Guys and Fuchsia had lunch at Bodega Biarritz, where they were laughing at stories about Piranha while eating.

"He did! Pepe literally made the bees angry when we tried to get some honey from their hive," Fuchsia held her laughter while recalling that memory.

"Hey, I was foolish enough to fight those bees," Piranha admitted while taking a bite of the piece of tortilla de patatas.

"You're lucky I'm not a bee," Hornet pointed, making everyone laugh loudly.

"And you must tell me. Did Pepe ever get shot by a bullet?" Fuchsia asked the Bad Guys after they revealed their crime job to her.

"No, but he got attacked by a possum when he wanted to challenge it into a wrestling match!" Shark answered as everyone laughed hysterically, except for Piranha, who felt embarrassed by that moment.

"Come on, guys, enough about me," Piranha chuckled shamefully before turning to Fuchsia, "What have you been up to? Fuchsia? It's like you know about Spain more than anyone."

"Well, I've been a lot of places here, but I do practice fencing, and I was going to watch the bull run today."

"That's awesome! Maybe we should catch up with you, and we'll watch together."

"Yeah, it'll be so much fun," Wolf offered.

"I'd love to. And I'll pay for lunch." Fuchsia took out her wallet to find her credit card.

"Oh, Fuchsia, you didn't have to do that," Piranha insisted.

"But I want to. Anything for my good friend and his friends." Fuchsia found her wallet and left her seat to pay at the counter.

"Wow, she seems very nice," Shark commented.

"Yeah, I'd never seen her this nice before," Piranha said.

"What do you mean?" Hornet asked.

"Well, Fuchsia was a little…" Piranha was about to explain about Fuchsia when they were younger, but he realized she might've changed for the better. "Nevermind. That was years ago."

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Soon after, Fuchsia led the Bad Guys to the hotel she suggested for them as they took a cab, and they stopped in front of the door.

"Thanks for showing us around, Fuchsia, and thanks for giving us a hotel," Wolf thanked her.

"It was nothing. There were so many hotels in Spain, and I figured you guys needed one. Enjoy your stay," Fuchsia declared.

"We will," Tarantula nodded as the Bad Guys went inside the hotel to check in.

But before Piranha could join his friends, Fuchsia placed a fin on his shoulder and requested, "Oh, hey, Pepe, can I talk to you privately?"

"Sure," Piranha nodded before turning to his friends, "It's okay, guys. You go right ahead."

Wolf, Snake, Shark, and Tarantula proceed, and Hornet gave Piranha a peck on the cheek before following the others. Piranha and Fuchsia were left outside to talk.

"Pepe, why didn't you want to tell your friends about us?" She asked.

"About what?" Piranha asked.

"You know, that your dad arranged for us to be married once we were grown up?"

Piranha remembered now. When he and Fuchsia were younger, his father and her parents agreed to have their children marry together once they reached the right age. Piranha then shoved Fuchsia with him further from the door so no one could hear them.

"Fuchsia, that was a long time ago."

"Well, I'm still available, Pepe, and I'm still willing to marry you!" Fuchsia threw her arms around her supposed fiancé.

But Piranha made her release him from the hug. "Fuchsia, I'm not ready to be married. I already have a boyfriend, and I'm happy living with my friends."

"Oh, then I suppose your friends and boyfriend are entitled to know that you were arranged to marry me," Fuchsia smirked.

Piranha gasped in shock. He realized he was blackmailed, and he won't allow Fuchsia to tell his friends about this arranged marriage.

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Meanwhile, the Bad Guys already got themselves a room, and they decided to relax for a bit since they had been traveling by foot for hours. They could explore Spain again tomorrow.

"Isn't this great, guys? We're relaxing in Spain!" Wolf exclaimed as he dropped himself on the bed and relaxed.

But Hornet wasn't relaxing at all. He sat beside the window, worrying for Piranha, "What's taking Piranha so long?"

"Will you relax, Hornet? Piranha was only talking to an old friend. There's no big deal," Tarantula reassured him.

"Well, I… I guess you're right, Webs," Hornet tried to calm down from worrying.

Snake then grabbed the TV remote to turn the TV on. "I wonder what's on TV."

The channel showed a serie romántica. At first, Snake didn't like it because it was in Spanish, but soon, he got interested due to its theme and the language. He slowly settled down and watched.

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Back with Piranha and Fuchsia, the two were at the Caravelle Café, drinking coffee, and Piranha was to settle this issue with her.

"Look, Fuchsia, I know my dad arranged for us to be married, but I left, and so did you. And Papa didn't want me anymore, so the wedding is off. There's no need for us to get married. Plus, I'm already in love with Hornet," Piranha explained in a settling way.

Fuchsia sighed sadly, "Well, he's a lucky bug, and I'm sorry for what I said. You were right. Since the town doesn't want you back, I guess that arrangement is off. I certainly don't want to cause any trouble for you and your new family. It's just that when I saw you here in Spain, I was just excited to see you."

"That's nice, but I should go. I promised my friends to go on another tour around Spain, and I promised Hornet I'd take him to a romantic date in Barcelona," Piranha said as he got up from the chair.

But Fuchsia held his fin for a moment and said, "Wait, before we say our final goodbye, what do you say we have one last hurrah? We can go to Sonar."

"Oh, I—I'm not sure that's a good idea. It feels a little weird going out with someone else when I'm already in a relationship. And I can't bail on my friends now."

"Oh, come on, Pepe, for old time's sake. Let me give us one last good memory together, and then I promise, you have heard the last of Fuchsia."

"Well, I should probably say no, but I've never been known for my good judgment. Alright, we can go."

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At night, at the Sonar, the festival was so wild. The music was so loud, and lights were dancing in the air. People were cheering, shouting, and jumping joyfully. It was like a wild rave. Piranha felt uncomfortable having people pushing him in different directions while they were jumping around. This led to Piranha leaning closer to Fuchsia. Something inside him made him feel this wasn't right. He liked Fuchsia, but he moved on and had new friends and a boyfriend. He couldn't abandon them now for one last get-together with an old friend.

Piranha backed away from Fuchsia and told her, "I'm sorry, Fuchsia. This—this was a mistake. I just feel too guilty being out with someone else. I can't do this to my friends and Hornet."

"Ah, I understand, "Fuchsia chuckled in defeat, "Well, I guess there's no shame in coming in second, huh?"

"That's right. Except in, like, wars."

"Aw, you are still funny, sweet Pepe Piraña."

"Yeah, I guess so." Piranha stood up from his seat and said, "All right, I gotta go. My friends would call me any second now."

Right on time, Piranha's phone rang, and when he answered the phone, Tarantula's voice was heard on the other end of the line, "Piranha! Where are you?"

"I'm coming, I'm coming! I'm on my way!" He tried to squeeze himself through the crowd to find his way out.

"That's my Pepe," Fuchsia smiled before frowning jealously, "That's my Pepe."

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The next day, the Bad Guys were exploring the rest of Spain. They were having fun as they continued strolling down the sidewalk while eating empanadas and croquetas.

"It was fun visiting Park Güell," Hornet chuckled. "I love the colorful mosaics and ceramics. And the garden is beautiful! Love the flowers, though."

"And don't forget Medieval Corridors in Girona," Shark added," It felt like a labyrinth in there! Did you know it was a film site for Game of Thrones?"

"And La Lolita Barcelona was one of the best restaurants yet in the city," Snake ate a piece of his leftover Polbo á feira.

"Speaking of restaurants, I better go explore on my own for the rest of the day," Piranha said before holding Hornet lightly on his fin, "I want to take this young bug on a romantic date tonight."

Hornet blushed, "You and your plans for dates. Wherever we go, I'm cool with it."

"Cool. I still want to find a romantic spot. I'll see you guys later."

As Piranha went in a different direction, the other Bad Guys headed in another direction, where they took a cab and drove off.

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The five Bad Guys managed to get back to the hotel and decided to relax again. Snake was excited to watch another serie romántica. But as Hornet put his helmet down, he noticed a folded paper on the desk.

He picked it up and read that it said, "To: The Bad Guys," "Hey guys, there's a letter here."

"Huh. How did this letter come here?" Tarantula approached Hornet, wanting to see the letter herself. "Did we lock the door when we left?"

"Yeah, I gave the key to the desk," Wolf answered, showing the keys.

"Then how did it get here?" Hornet wondered before opening the letter and read it, "Oh, it's from Fuchsia!" He continued to read the rest of the letter, "It says here she wants to meet with us in her apartment."

"Why does she want us there?" Snake asked.

"Do we have to call Piranha?" Shark questioned.

Hornet read the letter again and found the postscript, "It says here she doesn't want Piranha there."

Wolf arched a brow, wondering why Piranha's childhood friend didn't want to meet Piranha, but just them, "That's strange."

But Shark wasn't suspicious at all, as he thought it was just a friendly invitation, "Hey, we've been invited by a friend of our friend. We can't say no."

The other Bad Guys glanced at each other. They were wondering and had their suspiciousness, but they wouldn't find out what was going on until they saw it for themselves, so they agreed to go to Fuchsia. It might be something important.

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The Bad Guys followed the address on the letter, and they found Fuchsia's apartment. When they got there, the door was unlocked, and the room was dark.

"Fuchsia?" Wolf called as he entered first while holding the letter, "We get your letter that you want to meet us here?"

But there was no answer. The Bad Guys entered the room and tried to search for Fuchsia or anything else suspicious.

"Are you here?" Hornet called out.

Suddenly, the door behind them snapped closed, and the whole room was nothing but black. But then, light came out of the windows when Fuchsia opened the blinds as she stood by the windows.

"Bad Guys! Isn't it?" Fuchsia inquired.

"Hey, Fuchsia. What's going on?" Tarantula asked.

The female piranha kept the smile on her face, trying to be patient about what she might do. "Oh, I just want a teeny, weeny chat with you," she gestured with her fins on the table where there was a tea set on it.

The smile crept out of the Bad Guys, but they couldn't jump to conclusions just yet. This might be how Fuchsia smiles.

"Umm, okay," Snake said as he and the others nervously settled themselves on the table.

Fuchsia sat on her seat and grabbed the tea kettle. "Tea?" She poured some on each of the cups. Though the Bad Guys just watched her serve them tea, even with that creepy smile, they felt nervous that she might do something to them.

"Umm, you invited us to talk?" Hornet reminded.

"Oh yes!" Fuchsia put the kettle down and took out some biscuits and sandwiches. "You see, it's all about our dear friend, Pepe."

"Piranha? What about him?" Shark questioned.

"You see, he and I went way back. As in way back since we were kids, or since the day we were born. We were close friends. Best friends. We thought about our future together; that we could be best friends forever and ever. But there were some turnarounds with that promise."

Snake chuckled nervously, "Hehe, you mean us, right?"

"It depends!" Fuchsia took out a knife and sliced herself a bikini sandwich.

"Okay, I just want to defend on behalf of my team, but you seem pretty happy," Wolf noted.

Fuchsia let out a little laugh and grinned, "Right. I'm always happy."

The Bad Guys sighed in relief with Wolf responding, "Oh, alright then."

"Well, the only thing that could ever make me unhappy isif people stole something or someone from me." Fuchsia waved the knife around, making her own view that the knife was placed on Wolf, Snake, and Shark's necks. The three tried to move their heads, but Fuchsia kept moving the knife as if she wanted to cut their heads off at this view. Even Tarantula and Hornet noticed this: "When Pepe left our home to find his own life, found you, and formed a team of criminals, then that promise he and I made a long time ago just went down the drain!" She then took out a fork while laughing.

"Fuchsia, we swear we never meant to steal Piranha from you. It was fate that we found Piranha, and he decided to join the team," the team leader said cautiously while noticing she held the fork as if she wanted to stab them with it in her view.

"Oh, I know you didn't," the female piranha replied while gripping hard on the fork and gritting her teeth, "I know you didn't!" She stabbed a biscuit and ate some.

"Just to be fair, Fuchsia, you don't own Piranha. You two are just friends, and sometimes, things change with friendship. They lasted forever, but just not how you expected it to be," Hornet expressed about the facts of friendships.

Surprisingly, Fuchsia jumped closer towards the five Bad Guys, which startled them. "That is why I called you here… to get rid of you."

"Wait, what?!" Snake exclaimed.

"As soon as you five are out of the way, I and Pepe will be together again forever and ever and ever!"

"It sounded like you want him for yourself as more than a friend," Tarantula pointed out.

"Quit talking, and let's get started!" Fuchsia yelled as she wore a gas mask and sprayed something on the Bad Guys.

"Hey, what—?" Hornet was about to dodge, but it was too late.

The mist of gases sprayed all over the room as the Bad Guys accidentally inhaled its air, causing them to lose consciousness and fall on the floor. All of them passed out.

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As the Bad Guys woke up, not knowing how long they were out, they realized they were no longer in Fuchsia's apartment. They were outside on the streets. The streets of Pamplona, Spain, not Barcelona anymore. They also noticed they were wearing different clothing. They all wore white shirts, red bandanas, and red sashes. Additionally, Wolf and Shark wore white pants and espadrilles. They all groaned in pain after getting knocked out and didn't know how it happened.

"Ugh, what happened?" Shark rubbed his head.

Fuchsia then showed herself, which surprised the Bad Guys again in terror. They suddenly remembered what Fuchsia did to them, and now they were on the right track.

"Oh, you guys were knocked out, so I brought you guys to a special event as your last vacation ever!" She declared.

It was revealed they were at the sidewalk with a lot of crowds cheering, and the banner titled the event "Bull Run." The streets are full of participants and loose bulls that chased them.

"Is this a bull run?" Tarantula guessed.

"Yeah, it is, and this is where you'll meet your demise," the female piranha's eye twitched while continuously holding her smile.

"Ha! Joke's on you. This is for participants only, and we're here just to watch! How could you get rid of us this way?" Snake smirked.

"By this!" Fuchsia rushed behind the Bad Guys and pushed them all into the street where they were exposed and unprotected.

The Bad Guys groaned in pain until they noticed running participants and got stampeded by them and the bulls.

"Ole!" Fuchsia cheered before the Bad Guys approached her, shading the light by their shadow.

"Ha! You won't get rid of us that easily!" Snake hissed.

Fuchsia silently pointed at their clothing. They were confused by this gesture or the clothes. The clothes made them fit right in with the crowd, just a harmless culture.

"So?" Tarantula spoke.

Fuchsia pointed her fin to the left, pointing at the bull that was glaring at them and ready to charge at them, kicking its hooves backwards. The bull was targeting them because of their red scarves and belts as it ran forward, pointing its horns at them.

"AAHHH!" The Bad Guys screamed as they ran for their lives!

They ran through the streets with crowds moving out of the way. The five Bad Guys then hid behind a truck but realized the truck was painted red.

"Oh, it's red!" Shark yelled.

"Or in Spanish, 'Rojo!'" Hornet shrieked.

A pair of horns stabbed through the truck and has been thrown by the bull, finding his target and snorting angrily at them. The Bad Guys grinned sheepishly at the bull before waving at it and running away. The bull continued to chase after them.

The Bad Guys then hid behind a wagon of flowers, which they noticed was all red.

"Rojo!" Wolf, Snake, and Tarantula exclaimed in panic. They all noticed the bull coming as the five jumped out of the way, and the bull crashed the flower wagon.

The Bad Guys continued to run for their lives while encountering several red objects, like a poster sign, a guy wearing a red helmet and riding a Vespa, and a guy playing a red guitar, which the bull trampled every one of them. The Bad Guys ran down the street and noticed a dark tunnel. This might be their best hiding place, as they rushed into it while the bull missed them heading to the tunnel.

The Bad Guys panted tiredly as they thought they were safe, but when they looked around, it was a block painted with all red!

"ROJO!" They screamed. They looked around, trying to find a place to hide before the bull would find them.

"Hey guys, that's the only thing that's not red." Wolf pointed at a wall that was painted white. "I got an idea!"

He encouraged everyone to remove all of their red scarves and belts, hiding any color they had in their skin by painting themselves white, and blended with the white wall.

When the bull arrived, everything it saw was red, which made it very angry as it trampled everything in place before galloping away without noticing the Bad Guys on the white wall.

Wolf's plan worked! The bull didn't suspect them.

"Phew!" They all sighed in relief.

Now it was clear, they could go safely and casually, exposing their natural colors without any red by removing the white paint.

When they moved to the next street, a tomato splatted on Shark's head. They turned to see where it came from. Then, another tomato splat on Wolf's head. Then, another one on Snake's face.

The citizens of the block raised their tomatoes, ready to fire. The Bad Guys realized they were in a block that celebrated some kind of tomato festival.

"'La Tomatina'?" Hornet read the banner and murmured, "Uh-oh."

The citizens started throwing tomatoes at each other, but the Bad Guys were involved in this as well, as they were covered in tomato juice. From the distance, the bull returned and saw the Bad Guys covered in red, which made it even angrier. The five Bad Guys screamed as they ran for their lives yet again. The chase led through the tomato festival, which was now flooded by tomato juice. The current carried the Bad Guys and the bull with it and flew down the street.

With their only chance of escape, Shark grabbed a nearby streetlight, and carried himself and his friends out of the river of tomato juices, and slid through the narrow gap between building, which led them back to where the bull run event took place. The Bad Guys continued to run just as the bull crashed in when it followed them, but it was all covered with tomato juice as well, making him exposed in red.

"Rojo," the bull whimpered as it noticed its fellow bulls charging at him.

The bull screamed as it ran away from its peers. The Bad Guys kept on running away but noticed the red bull was running away from the other bulls too. They all screamed in panic and ran.

But ahead, Wolf saw Fuchsia laughing joyfully, having the time of her life waiting for the Bad Guys to be tortured.

Getting tired of Fuchsia tormenting his team, Wolf couldn't run away anymore as he shouted, "I've had enough of this!" He removed his jacket and had all the red on it.

He stopped and held a hand on the bull as it and the rest of the Bad Guys stopped running. Wolf wiped all of the red from his friends and the bull, showing the latter the red, and so was the rest of the bulls. Wolf waved the red clothing around as the bulls kept following it. Wolf then threw the red jacket in front of Fuchsia. The crowd noticed this as it knew what it meant and ran out of the way. But Fuchsia wasn't alerted by this. She picked the red jacket, and the bulls were charging at her with the Bad Guys riding on them.

Confident to avoid getting trampled, Fuchsia threw the red jacket at one of the bull run participants, and the bulls followed the running participant, causing the Bad Guys to stumble off the bulls' backs and fall on crates of fruit. Now the bulls were back on track, the bull run continued, and the crowds cheered for the event.

The Bad Guys felt dizzy from all that running and crashing on a fruit stall, but they managed to recover from the torment.

Fuchsia approached in front of them and said, "You survived. I'm impressed."

"Now would you let us go?" Hornet, asked angrily as the other Bad Guys glared at her.

Fuchsia paused for a moment to think before revealing her sleeping spray again, the same one she used at the Bad Guys that knocked them out earlier. "No!"

She sprayed on them, making the Bad Guys sleep once again.

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Later, the Bad Guys woke up once again, but this time, they were in an abandoned warehouse. It was quiet and quite empty. Not until they heard a loud screeching. It was Fuchsia sharpening her saber sword with a grinding metal. The Bad Guys tried to move but discovered each of them was tied up on chairs with ropes; even Tarantula and Hornet were tied up, despite their small size.

"You won't get away from this!" Wolf growled.

Fuchsia heard Wolf as she got the message that the Bad Guys woke up. She finished grinding the sword and played around with it, "Don't worry. This time, I'll let Pepe know."

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Meanwhile, Piranha was strolling down the street, carrying a bag of bread, and about to buy flowers for his boyfriend. He suddenly heard his phone chiming. He reached for his phone in his pocket with his spare hand and opened it.

"Ooh, a text." He opened the message and read, "'I'm taking care of our problem. We'll be together soon. Love, Fuchsia.' Huh?" At first, Piranha didn't understand what the message meant, but as his brain kept working, he knew what he meant as he panicked and rushed away, dropping the bread he bought.

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Back at the warehouse, Fuchsia walked in front of the Bad Guys with her sword.

"So, you're gonna kill us with a sword?" Shark guessed.

Fuchsia poked her fin on the tip of the blade. "The sword is not strong, but it's painful, and it's the last thing you'll ever feel once you die."

"Well, she has a fair point," Snake stated.

Right on time, Piranha arrived, panting from all that running.

"Guys! Fuchsia wants to kill you! Oh, you already know that because you guys are trapped," he figured out when he noticed his friends got tied up.

"Yeah, no sh*t, Sherlock!" Tarantula shouted.

"Pepe, I'm glad you're here to see this. You and I can finally be together," Fuchsia said excitedly before pointing her sword at the Bad Guys with a sinister grin on her face.

"Piranha, seriously, what's going on?!" Wolf exclaimed.

"She's nuts is what's going on! I don't want to be with her!" Piranha cried.

"Oh, yeah? You still haven't told them what we were?" Fuchsia hinted about their secret.

"What is she talking about?" Hornet asked.

Piranha sighed as he couldn't keep this as a secret anymore. If he won't say anything about it, Fuchsia will. Piranha gestured to his friends to lean closer to him to have all ears on him. When the five Bad Guys did, he whispered what was going on, which shocked them.

"You were arranged to get married to her?!" Hornet yelped.

"Guys, Hornet, listen to me. It's true, my dad arranged for me to be married to Fuchsia, but I don't love her as much as I love you, Hornet. It was my decision to love you," Piranha explained. Even though it hurt to find out the truth about Piranha's life back then, especially how he was arranged to get married to someone else, Hornet believed him as he smiled in response.

"But we promised we would be together!" Fuchsia shouted, still holding the sword at the Bad Guys.

"It's not my promise; you wanted this, but I don't! This is one of the reasons I left in the first place! To live out of my father's roof so the wedding will be off. But somehow, you won't let it go!" Piranha snapped back.

"I loved you first!"

"There was nothing between us. Either you let my friends go, or I'll let them go."

"I won't let you do that."

Fuchsia waved his sword, ready to strike one of them, but, to everyone's surprise, a sword pointed at her, which belonged to Piranha. He found himself a sword in the last minute when he arrived, just to defend his friends from his crazy admirer. "Then you leave me no choice."

Piranha held his sword firm, his feet apart, and got into a stance, ready to go toe-to-toe in battle.

"I would hate to scar that pretty little face of yours, Piranha, but if you aren't gonna be with me, then I'm gonna make you be with me by force," Fuchsia taunted as the blade of her sword made contact with Piranha's sword.

"En garde, tu perra loca," Piranha declared before both piranhas swung their swords at one another, the metal of the thin blades bouncing off one another as they each tried to strike one another.

Quick as lightning, Piranha and Fuchsia kept swinging their swords at one another, with Piranha trying to push Fuchsia back toward the wall so he could pin her and prevent her from moving; every time that she tried to strike him with her sword, Piranha would block with his sword to keep the blade from hitting him.

Fuchsia tried to do a high head slash with her sword, which prompted Piranha to lean back and duck under, avoiding the blade, before he used his leg to sweep under her feet and cause Fuchsia to trip and fall back. But Fuchsia quickly slammed her sword's tip into the ground to quickly pull herself up before she pulled her sword out and tried to swing it at Piranha again. Piranha blocked her strike but felt himself being pushed back as he moved backward while blocking the sword strikes.

Piranha saw that he was approaching a steel pillar and quickly climbed up it, using it as leverage to leap up and over Fuchsia, landing on his feet on the floor behind her. Fuchsia growled angrily as she charged at Piranha and tried to stab him with her sword, as Piranha held his sword tight and intercepted her slashes with some of his own, the metal of their swords bouncing off one another with slight sparks.

"Quédate quieta, bolita resbaladiza de locura," Fuchsia shouted as she tried to swing her sword at Piranha's head again but missed as Piranha dodged it and started to run up the metal stairs that led up to the steel loft up on top of the warehouse.

"You can't outrun me forever, amado," Fuchsia declared as she chased after Piranha. Piranha saw Fuchsia coming after him, and they dueled once more with their swords, back and forth, trying to push one another to a section that allowed someone to pin one another somewhere where they couldn't escape. Every strike Fuchsia swung at him, Piranha would quickly dodge or intercept with a sword strike of his own, and neither fish looked ready to bow down. Piranha jumped onto the steel banisters and kept his balance as he leaped up and tried swinging his sword at Fuchsia. However, Fuchsia was just as quick on her feet and could slide from each strike Piranha delivered as if the floor was made of butter.

Piranha then felt Fuchsia use her free hand to harshly push him back and quickly tucked under and somersaulted to the back wall to avoid a stab from Fuchsia.

Fuchsia grimaced angrily and charged at Piranha, set to slash her sword across his chest, but Piranha quickly dodged it at the last minute and saw Fuchsia land her sword into the wall, which was where the sword became stuck for a moment as Fuchsia tried to pull it out.

Piranha took a moment to catch his breath before he saw Fuchsia pull the sword back out, and they returned to dueling up close, the sound of the metal hitting one another loud as it echoed through the acoustics of the warehouse.

Piranha looked below and saw a massive pile of empty wooden boxes as he jumped onto the banister and leaped down to the boxes. Fuchsia was quick to follow; not once did the clashing of their swords stop as Piranha tried to climb onto each box, using its leverage to get up and land a hit on Fuchsia and let the boxes act like a shield, while Fuchsia furiously slashed through each box, the wood chips flying and littering the floor like confetti, but with splinters.

Piranha threw a box at Fuchsia and watched her cut right through it before she used her sword to slash the box where Piranha was standing on, and Piranha fell, losing his balance, but landed safely on his feet.

Fuchsia leapt down and tried to tackle him with her sword, both piranhas now in an almost wrestling-like hold where they tried to push each other's sword blades towards one another to deliver a fatal blow, or at the very least, knock either one off balance.

Piranha was soon pressed onto the floor as he kept pushing, locked in a little stalemate with Fuchsia, who wasn't backing down and kept pushing her sword blade towards Piranha.

"Nowhere to run, Pepe; you're mine now." Fuchsia taunted as she kept pushing, her sword blade almost overpowering Piranha's as his own blade was being pushed back, just barely missing his chin.

"Not on your life, Fuchsia," Piranha shouted as he mustered whatever strength was left to push back and, with enough force, pushed Fuchsia back, causing her to land on the ground, her sword falling out of her hand.

Piranha quickly stood up and ran towards Fuchsia with a speedy charge, set to swing his sword at her as Fuchsia rolled out of the way and got a hold of her sword again, standing on her feet, toe-to-toe with Piranha; both piranhas were getting tired but had enough energy to light a fire in the warehouse if they wanted.

"Gotta hand it to ya, Pepe; you always had a way with sharp objects," Fuchsia commented mid-pant.

"When it comes to protecting my amigos, who have been more of a family than my own familia has been, I can get crazy with knives." Piranha retorted back with determination, the pride and confidence in protecting his friends and loved ones burning in his heart and soul.

Fuchsia cackled as she spun her sword a bit, ready to deliver another swing while stating, "I'm gonna enjoy this," before giving a loud Spanish battle cry as she ran at Piranha.

Piranha shouted a Spanish battle cry of his own as he charged at Fuchsia, and both fishes dueled their swords at one another, determined to block any weak points and try to deliver a brutal hit.

Piranha kept maneuvering his sword to block each of Fuchsia's strikes that were pointed in his direction, and he fired back with one of his own.

Before long, Piranha spun and hit his sword against Fuchsia's with enough force to knock Fuchsia off her feet and onto the floor. Seeing his chance, Piranha leaped forward and was about to plant his sword into Fuchsia's neck, but Fuchsia was quick to bring her sword up and meet it against Piranha's sword, the tips of each other's blades just barely missing their necks. Both piranhas were now locked in a heavy stalemate, where either move that was made next could result in someone getting killed or injured very badly, and neither fish could be able to move from their position.

"It's over, Fuchsia; you've lost." Piranha spoke while breathing heavily, trying to get Fuchsia to admit defeat, though Fuchsia was not gonna let herself be defeated so easily.

"Listen, you're strong and I'm tired. If this continues, you'll probably escape with your friends. Here's the thing: Once I find you again, I won't go easy on you this time." Fuchsia didn't want this to be over, but she met her match. She won't win against Piranha.

She lowered her sword, got up on her feet, and walked away without a second thought of getting a chance to win. It was a fair deal to end this nonsense, and she'll get her man next time.

When Fuchsia finally left the warehouse, Piranha didn't forget his friends as he sliced all the ropes off and set his friends free so they could get out of here.

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The Bad Guys finally made it back to the hotel, but Piranha couldn't bring himself to enter the building with his friends when he realized they almost got killed because of him. It was his fault. He brought them to Spain, and they encountered his crazy childhood friend.

"Amigos, I am so sorry about Fuchsia. I didn't know she would go crazy," he admitted deadly.

But his friends didn't blame him. Nobody did. It just happened in any way.

"Kinda like you," Hornet teased since crazy was always his boyfriend's thing.

"Very funny," Piranha rolled his eyes.

Wolf didn't like how Piranha thought this was his fault as he proclaimed, "Look, why don't we just have one last explore, and we can get out of here, huh?"

"Sounds good to me, hermano." Piranha made a thumbs up.

"Whatever happened in Spain stays in Spain," Snake said.

The Bad Guys nodded in agreement before heading into the hotel.

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Next on The Bad Guys: The Baddest Trip...

Snake: ARE YOU CRAZY?! You've always get us all killed!

Wolf: You know I won't do that

Webs: Hey, I've got an idea! Check this out!

Hornet: Wow, and it's in Bahamas!

Wolf: Guys, I can't believe you tricked us into coming on a friendship counseling retreat!

Snake: This retreat is over! Fire up the boat! We're leaving!

Resort Staff leader: (holding a gun) We're taking this island back!

Snake: Run! Everybody run!

Shark: Look! We got to get the attention of that plane! (firing a flare gun at the plane, but got blown up, and the dead pilot fell in front of him) You got to help us!

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Cast:

Michael Godere - Mr. Wolf

Chris Diamantopoulos - Mr. Snake

Ezekiel Ajeigbe - Mr. Shark

Raul Ceballos - Mr. Piranha

Mallory Low - Ms. Tarantula

Eugene Lee Yang - Mr. Hornet

Melissa Barrera – Fuchsia

Jordi Caballero - Bull

Author aggimaginary

Co-Author MasterClass60 TU4QU0I53T4IAN6L3

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Sorry it took more than 2 weeks for me to finish this chapter. I needed to check my grammars and had to make notes about this chapter.

Special thanks to TU4QU0I53T4IAN6L3 for letting me borrow his OC, Fuchsia, BEFORE the… incident. And Special Thanks to Masterclass60 for helping me adding Spanish culture and tourist attractions of Spain, and creating the sword fight scene.

In this universe, Fuchsia acted like a crazy ex-girlfriend who wanted Piranha to herself and destroy anyone stood in her way. This was referenced to Family Guy: Take A Letter which Fuchsia was similar to one of Peter's ex-girlfriends, Gretchen. Fuchsia's lunch "meeting" with the other Bad Guys while holding a fork and knife at them was referenced to The Emoji Movie when Smiler invited Gene for a private talk, and while cleaning her teeth, the dental tools' view pointed at Gene with deadly gestures. Lastly, the Bull Run was referenced to Mickey Mouse shorts: Al Rojo Vivo.

Spanish Translations: Hermanos – siblings/brothers Hola – hello Serie romántica – romantic series En garde, tu perra loca – En garde, you crazy b* Quédate quieta, bolita resbaladiza de locura - Stay still, you slippery ball of madness Amado - beloved Rojo – Red Amigos - Friends

I hope you like this chapter so far! Stay tuned for more if you keep liking this story!

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The Bad Guys Season 2: The Baddest Trip (chapter 3) - Learning Japan

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Hi again, everyone. Here is the 3rd chapter. I also had decided to post new chapters ever 2 weeks to give readers time to read every chapter. I hope you'll enjoy this chapter!

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Previously on The Bad Guys: The Baddest Trip...

Piranha: Welcome to Letifecto.

Prima: Aah! My little hermano has finally come home!

Primo Sr.: We are gathered here tonight to celebrate the return of little Pepe. The prodigal son has finally come home.

Piranha: If Papà finds out about me became part of a criminal gang, he'll be furious, guys! And he depends on our family to have a good reputation for the whole town!

Prima: Pepe is a criminal, and he and his friends are a wanted criminal gang called 'The Bad Guys,' and our reputation is ruined!

Primo Sr.: Do you know what you put yourself into?!

Piranha: The only reason I have sacrificed my own likings and happiness from your pressure and expectations for all of us to be good and perfect is for this family to be happy and complete and to satisfy you like everyone else did for you and the whole town!

Prospero 172: Papà, you've always been too hard on Pepe, especially ever since Mamà died

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Learning Japan

The Bad Guys were up for another around-the-world trip. Shark took a sip of the champagne while watching the sky and the clouds through the window. It was a good view of the ocean.

"Do you think we have a chance to stop by in India?" he asked before taking a bite on a shrimp.

Snake took his blindfold off and groaned about the topic, "I don't wanna go back to India. I dated a tapeworm once, and she made me barf."

Shark and Tarantula glanced at each other and cringed in disgust about that fact from Snake.

Meanwhile, Hornet set up a board plan that pinned pictures of vacation sites per country to decide where to go next.

"Has anyone tried China?" Wolf called from the cockpit.

Tarantula rolled her eyes and gagged, "Don't get me started. They want me to wear those chopsticks, and it didn't work out for me."

Suddenly, the turbulence shook the jet and caused some of the pictures to fall off. Hornet caught some of them, while others reached the floor. When Hornet readied to scoop the fallen pictures, he encountered a picture of the city of Tokyo, Japan.

As he stared at it, Hornet began to think what it was like in Japan. He also realized about his species and figured out where they came from. This idea came to Hornet as he wanted to try it for himself.

"Hornet, are you okay?" Piranha approached him from behind, feeling concern for his boyfriend.

Hornet appreciated that his boyfriend was looking out for him. He turned to him and gave out a smile, gesturing he was okay, but Hornet looked back at the board, staring at the photo of Tokyo, and sighed, "I always wondered what it was like to be in the origin of my species. I was called an 'Asian Giant Hornet,' but another term for that was a 'Japanese Hornet.' But I don't feel Japanese."

"It's because you've never been to Japan," Snake overheard Hornet's confession.

"Why don't we go there?" Shark suggested.

"Yeah, I mean, we got a chance to visit my home country, and it was a bust," Piranha recalled, "Now let's try yours."

Hornet felt hesitant with this idea, but this was what he wanted too, so he couldn't say no to this once-in-a-lifetime offer to visit his origin, "Yeah, I think that would be okay."

"Yay! The Bad Guys are going to Japan!" Wolf howled before hearing the bang of a gong.

At the cabin, it was Shark banging the gong as he held it with one fin and the other held its mallet. "What? I always wanted to do this," he struck the gong again.

The jet flew in a different direction to head for Japan.

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When Wolf found a hidden place to land the jet, just behind Mt. Fuji, the other Bad Guys packed up the stuff they needed for the trip in Japan, but Snake wasn't so excited for this trip. He has no bag to bring this time, not for this country.

Wolf noticed Snake's grumpy face as he sat beside him. "Come on, Snake. Japan will be fun. You liked The Last Samurai."

"That's not how I remember it," Snake uttered. "Besides, if we wanna see Japanese people... we could have gone to Harvard University."

"Snake!" Wolf exclaimed for Snake offending Japanese people.

"What? The guy who runs the academic program is Japanese. His name is Satoshi," Snake explained. "He's in my book club."

Meanwhile, Hornet found a brochure and told his boyfriend, "Look, Piranha, the brochure was written in haiku!

Best restaurants here Flowers dance in air Watch for street races."

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When the Bad Guys traveled to Tokyo, the Bad Guys found themselves a hotel where the bellhops bowed to them in their presence as they passed through the door.

"Wow, they bowed so much, they never noticed us or figured out who we are," Tarantula whispered to Hornet, who chuckled at her observation.

"Japan is so welcoming and polite," Wolf stated after receiving the key from the front desk.

The Bad Guys found themselves a room after checking in, and the doors were Shoji.

"Here's our room," Shark declared as he walked through the doors, ripping the sheets of Shoji paper.

"Shark, you're supposed to slide those doors open," Wolf scolded as he and the other Bad Guys walked through the hole Shark created.

"I don't have time for that," Shark then threw their bags into the closet that also has a shoji door. Like what he did to the door, Shark refused to slide the door open as he threw the bags through the doors, ripping the sheets and punching a large hole through it.

And just like the last two doors, Shark walked himself through the Shoji door to the bathroom. There, he encountered a talking toilet.

"Welcome. I am honored to accept your waste."

Shark pushed a button on a nearby keypad, and the toilet made dancing water like a fountain, "They're years ahead of us."

Meanwhile, while settling in. Snake turned the TV on and saw Shark above the toilet bowl.

"Hey guys. Check it out. Shark's on TV," Snake called his friends, and they gathered around to watch Shark without realizing they were watching through the toilet.

Back in the bathroom, Shark removed his pants and sat on the toilet to take a number 2.

"What a relief!" He sighed but failed to hear his friends screaming at the bedroom when they were watching TV.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" The other Bad Guys' screams muffled in Shark's perspective.

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At the window, Hornet was sightseeing and could see all of Tokyo from up there.

"It's breathtaking." Hornet smiled as he saw one of the tourist attractions, "Look. There's the Himeji Castle." Then, he saw another one, "The Nara Park!" and shifted to a factory that has a 'Hello Kitty' logo on it, "The Hello Kitty factory."

As one of the trucks drove away, the cats yowled loudly from the factory inside, and smoke fumed out of the smokestacks.

Hornet looked back at his friends and asked, "Who's up for some exploring?"

"Hey, I'm still checking out Japanese TV." Snake turned the volume up. "Isn't this that cartoon that causes seizures?"

The Japanese cartoon showed a little Pokémon-like monster was ready to attack while the foreground and background rapidly flashed bright light onscreen.

The flashing light caused Snake to fall to the floor; his muscles jerked and stiffened and twitched uncontrollably.

"Snake, what are you doing?" When Wolf turned to the TV to see what Snake was watching, he had the same reaction as he fell to the floor and his body twitched like crazy.

Hornet turned to the TV as well as his eyes widened, "Hey, what the—" He fell to the floor with his wings stiffened, unable for him to flap, and twitched uncontrollably as well.

"Hey, what is tha—?" Tarantula crawled on the bed to see what was happening and had her eyes on the TV before falling on her back; her body stiffened and twitched.

Piranha took a look at the cartoon and had no effect on him at first. "This cartoon won't give me any—" But he stared at the TV for another second, and it caused him to stiffen and twitch too.

Shark came out from the bathroom and watched his friends twitching on the ground. He didn't know what was going on, so he shrugged and said, "Hmm, alright." He fell on the ground and twitched alongside them.

When the show changed to the commercial, the effect of the seizure wore off from the Bad Guys, and they got up in their normal state.

"Whoo! All that seizing made me hungry," Snake said.

"Me too. Let's go to an authentic Japanese noodle house," Hornet said excitedly.

"The toilet recommended a place called Americaworld," Shark noted.

"Shark, we didn't come halfway around the world to eat at Americaworld," the little insect pointed out.

"I'd like to see the Japanese take on the club sandwich," Piranha commented, "I bet it's smaller and more efficient."

"We now return to 'Seizure-fighting Mightymons,'" the TV proclaimed as it switched back to the episode, and it gave the Bad Guys a seizure again as they fell on the floor and their bodies twitched.

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In the AmericaWorld, the tables were shaped like the states of the USA and were arranged by the right location, and on stage, there were animatronics dancing that all looked like American models, like the Statue of Liberty, Abraham Lincoln, Snoopy the Beagle, Marilyn Monroe, Muhammad Ali, and Neil Armstrong.

The Bad Guys found themselves a table that was the state of Arkansas.

"I can't believe they stuck us at "Narc-can-sas!" Shark complained as they sat down, "Hey, you know, I once knew a man from Little Rock."

"And?" Tarantula asked,

"Let's just say the stories about him are greatly exaggerated."

"Howdy, neighbors," a Japanese waiter greeted them, wearing a blue shirt, orange pants, and a cowboy hat. "I am average American Joe salaryman waiter."

Tarantula looked at the menu and complained about the price, "These prices suck. 20,000 yen for fries?"

"Don't you serve anything that's even remotely Japanese?" Hornet requested.

"Don't ask me. I don't know anything." The waiter responded, "I am a product of the American education system. I also build poor-quality cars and inferior-style electronics."

Shark laughed, "Oh, they got our number."

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Later, the Bad Guys were exploring the city when they stopped by the fruit stall.

"One square watermelon, please," Shark asked as he gave the vendor a bill, and he gave him the square watermelon.

"Oh, my goodness. Shark, those are $1.50," Tarantula calculated.

"It's worth every cent. I'm tired of fumbling with round fruit," Shark admitted before the watermelon in his fins expanded into its rounded shape, and he accidentally dropped it on the ground.

"Well, maybe we should just head back to the hotel," the team leader recommended.

"But you promised me we'd do something Japanese." Hornet pleaded

"Oh, of course you're right!" Shark exclaimed, "You know, I read about the Children's Peace Monument... where it commemorates Sadako Sasaki and the thousands of— Run, Snake!" He blurted out as he and Snake rushed away from the team, deciding to explore Japan on their own.

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Snake and Shark ended up in the Sumo Stadium, where they could watch Sumo wrestling. The sumo wrestler was pouring salt all over the ring while the audience was watching.

"Mmm. Fifty-dollar popcorn," Shark hummed before noticing the wrestler, "Hey, what's Baby Huey doin'?"

"Says here they throw salt before they wrestle to purify the ring," Snake replied, reading the brochure.

"Hmm," Shark looked at his food as he figured he wanted some salt on his popcorn. Shark climbed up on the ring and asked the wrestler, "Spare some salt, chubby?"

"'Chubby?'" The wrestler spoke in Japanese, "`Po tchari' to iu namae wa kizutsukimasu. Watashi no taijū no mondai wa sen ni yoru monodakaradesu. Anata wa sore o taberu tsumoridesu ka?" The wrestler snatched the popcorn from Shark, "Yoink."

"Hey, that's mine!" Shark whined as he charged at the wrestler to retrieve his popcorn, but the wrestler pinned him down.

At the edge of the ring, Shark was able to reach for Snake. He held his fin to him as Snake offered his tail to him. Shark tagged his tail with his fin, which meant to pass the fight to the one who tagged the other.

It was his turn to fight as Snake grabbed a chair and beat the wrestler with it, claiming him defeated. "Like we say in my county, 'Hasta la vista, baby.'" Shark said as he retrieved his popcorn.

Just then, Emperor Naruhito arrived, mistaking Shark for a sumo wrestler, as he approached him on the ring, "Congratulations. I am the emperor."

"Yeah? And I'm " Thrasha-minus," Shark also thought the emperor was another sumo wrestler as he lifted him up, spun him in the air, and threw him into a box of Sumo Thongs.

"All hail Emperor Thrashaminus," Shark cheered for himself, but the audience booed at him, and Snake facepalmed, knowing Shark screwed this up.

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Snake and Shark were sent to prison, where they were both wearing kimonos. Shark was pouring tea on a small table, and Snake was painting Mt. Fuji.

The Japanese police unlocked and opened the prison bars and declared, "Your friends have paid your bail, Misutā Sunēku and Misutā Shāku."

Wolf, Piranha, Tarantula, and Hornet were standing right beside the cop, revealing that they were the ones who bailed them out.

"Thank golly. Couldn't take another minute in this hellhole," Shark said nervously before eating a bowl of noodles before giving the finished bowl to the female Japanese, and they bowed to each other.

When Snake exited the opening door, Shark passed through the Shoji door instead, ripping another hole through the sheets.

After they left the police station, the Bad Guys walked at the park, but Hornet was still saddened that they wasted their time and money to bail Snake and Shark from prison.

"Now can we do something Japanese?" he begged.

Shark groaned in frustration, "Oh, I'm sick of doing Japanese stuff. In jail we had to partake in this dumb tea ceremony where you sip from a bowl instead of a cup... and I wanted to have biscuits, but they made me eat dumplings."

"Then we had to do two hours of origami... followed by flower arranging and meditation," Shark added, expressing his exhaustion at jail.

"Karera ni kokoro no heiwa no himitsu o oshierubekideshou ka?" Shark asked Snake in Japanese.

Surprisingly, Snake replied to him, also in Japanese, "Īe, karera wa gaikoku no akumadesu."

"Mi amor, I know you wanna see Japan... but we're down to our last million yen," Piranha explained as he took out the last paper bill.

"Don't worry, little bug. I'll show you something Japanese," Shark gently ruffled Hornet's head before taking the money from Piranha and folding it into a crane.

"Oh, it's beautiful, Shark," Hornet complimented impressively.

"It's a crane. The Japanese believe they bring good luck."

"Oh, be careful. We need that money for the rest of our trip. Besides, we landed our jet very far, and we won't have enough money to pay for the hotel and a trip back," Wolf cautiously warned.

But then, the wind blew, and it took the folded money with it, making the paper crane fly away.

"No!" Wolf and Piranha shouted.

"Īe" Shark yelled in Japanese.

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Since the Bad Guys have a little money left, they forced themselves to have a temporary job. They were now working at the seafood factory, where they had to cut the fish open, remove its insides, and throw them back into the pile.

"Every truckload of fish we gut brings us 31 cents closer to our trip home," Wolf said as he kept cutting fish before removing its insides.

Hornet felt hesitant to kill the fish and remove their insides, but he tried not to think about their deaths. He still feels bad for them. He sobbed all the way, "Oh, why do they have to die?! Why?!" He then whispered to the one he was killing, "Don't worry... you can't be hurt anymore."

"And I think I finally found what I was put on this Earth to do," Piranha chuckled joyfully as he kept slicing fish open and removing their guts. "Knife goes in, guts come out. Knife goes in, guts come out."

Just then, Piranha found a fish that could talk as he cried for his mercy, "Spare my life and I will grant you three wi—AAHHH!" But Piranha failed to see or hear the talking fish as he kept slicing him open and pulled its guts out.

"Knife goes in, guts come out," Piranha continued his ramble.

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After that hard work for hours, the Bad Guys earned some money, enough to pay the hotel service. They traveled back to the hotel by foot. They didn't want to spend more money on taking a cab.

"Great. We earned just a little," Hornet mentioned as they arrived at the hotel.

Wolf decided to go ahead of his friends to give half of the money they earned to the counter, "Let's just pay back the hotel, and we'll use the money we have left to get back to the jet."

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While Wolf paid the bills, there should be another to get back to the jet, fast and easy. Then, Hornet looked up, and there was a large banner hanging from the ceiling that showed an illustration of a train. This gave Hornet an idea, "Do we have enough for a train?"

Snake, Shark, Piranha, and Tarantula gazed at Hornet, readying to listen to him.

After checking out from the hotel, the Bad Guys got their bags and headed to the train station. A lot of people walked in different directions as it was one of the busiest places in Tokyo. Everyone in this country liked taking the train more than driving their cars or riding in cabs.

The Bad Guys found themselves in a line where they had to pay for their tickets for their train.

When they reached the computer, Tarantula managed to check on which plane they should get into to get to Mt. Fuji. As a tech wiz, Tarantula knew what she was doing. When the boys gave her the money they had left, she put it all into the ticket computer, and the screen showed 4 different kinds of trains: blue, red, yellow, and green. One of them could get them to Mt. Fuji. Tarantula chose green, and the machine slot slid out 6 green tickets; one for each of them.

When they got the tickets, they were trying to find where the green train was. They just had to follow the colored lines below their feet. They followed the green line, and ahead was the green train, just arrived. The gang let a line of people pass first, and when it was clear, it was their turn to move ahead to reach for the green train. But a dozen other passengers stampede on them, pushing the Bad Guys to the wrong train: a blue train! They were squeezed in very tightly in the train as there was no way to get out.

The doors were closed; the train was leaving the station. The train moved fast, like a speeding rollercoaster. The shockwave of the fast train caused the road to snap off, and the cars were flown off the ground. They were stacked in towers now. The train moved onto elevated tracks as the passengers inside were bumping into each other and the walls while trying to keep themselves standing. This caused the Bad Guys to shift from their spots and accidentally split up from each other.

Though the boys ended up near the exit of the cart, Tarantula was left behind to where they were a second ago.

"Guys, guys, where are you?!" Tarantula called out to her friends.

"Webs, we're here!" She could hear Wolf's voice, but not nearby.

Tarantula climbed out of the crowd and saw his friends at the end of the cart. Then, she had to come to them. Tarantula dove back into the crowd and crawled up on one man's sleeve. He jumped to another man and came out from the other man's jacket through the opening of its collar. Tarantula then crawled into a nearby man's jacket and appeared from the shorter man's hat. Her legs were shown from under the hat, and she crawled up to the taller man's head, which she tripped on the wig, and it landed on the shorter man's bald head. Tarantula dropped her "hat disguise" as it fell on the taller man's head, and she jumped onto the next man's pocket. Tarantula tried to squeeze herself out between two people with her rear end coming out first but didn't notice there was a sharp spike behind her, which poked her rear end and caused her to yelp.

Tarantula noticed the next group of passengers was wearing spiky clothing. With no way through without getting poked, she opened the briefcase and got herself in before lifting herself up like an elevator to the man's newspaper. She passed above the spiky passengers using the tsurikawas. Tarantula finally made it to her friends, who cheered for her for passing through that crowd and landed on Shark's shoulder.

"Good work, Webs," Shark commented.

"Now let's get…" Hornet turned around, and before he could finish, something else blocked him.

There was a fat guy blocking the Bad Guys' way to the exit with no gaps on both sides to slide in. The Bad Guys didn't know what to do now until they noticed the green train was heading the same direction as the blue train. Realizing they might have a chance to catch up with the right train, the Bad Guys weren't ready to give up. They had to find a way to get through this giant guy.

Shark was confident that he could take this guy down as he shoved his friends aside. "Step aside, my friends. Let me handle this."

But Snake held Shark's grip with his tail, recalling the incident the latter made hours ago, "Oh no. You had quite enough since that sumo ring."

"Guess I'll do what I can do best," Piranha volunteered to fix this problem.

He took his shirt and shoes off and made his pants into a loincloth. Piranha whistled to the overweight man to get his attention. When the man turned to the little fish, Piranha gestured to challenge him into a sumo wrestling match by marching both his legs apart.

Knowing this gesture, the overweight man accepted the challenge as he ripped his clothes off, having nothing but a loincloth. The overweight man and Piranha were ready to engage in sumo wrestling. The two charged at each other with screams until Piranha slid below the giant man between his legs, which fooled the larger man to crash into a crowd of commuters, giving the Bad Guys a way now to the exit.

The Bad Guys were impressed by Piranha's strategy without using violence.

"That's impressive, Piranha," Wolf clapped his paws.

Piranha smiled confidently before receiving his clothes back when Hornet saved them for him. "I'm glad I tipped that off," he put his clothes back on.

The Bad Guys had a chance to climb over the crushing crowd to reach for the exit.

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Now they were outside, the Bad Guys clung to the roof of the blue train as it raced along the tracks. The train was so fast as its tracks were curved and dove down like a real rollercoaster ride. When they stood up, ahead where railroad signs as the Bad Guys narrowly avoided them all, no matter how fast this train was. They continued to keep their feet on top of the train as it headed into a tunnel.

Inside the tunnel was like a pixelated video game, similar to Super Mario Bros, when the Bad Guys hopped, dodged obstacles, and collected coins and hearts for lives.

After the blue train exited the tunnel, the Bad Guys showed to be handling a bunch of cold coins from the game. They immediately kept them in their pockets and bags, or in Snake's stomach in this case, to save them when they needed them. They then noticed the green train had pulled up alongside the red train, and they tried to jump to its roof. But their attempts to jump got interrupted when a billboard was blocking their way. They tried to jump again, but another billboard was ahead of them. They tried to jump again but were repeatedly interrupted by more billboards until the green train drifted away from them and headed down below, where the Bad Guys could no longer reach it. Eventually, the blue rain crossed over a bridge that passed over the green train's path. Seeing this opportunity, Wolf had an idea to reach the train.

"Guys, we gotta jump!" He suggested.

The rest of the Bad Guys exclaimed in disbelief," What?!"

"Are you crazy?!" Snake yelled.

"Trust me. We must jump when I say so!" Wolf instructed.

The Bad Guys leaned in closer together, waiting for Wolf's signal to jump. When the green train passed by below the blue train's bridge, it was their chance to catch the train.

"NOW!" Wolf shouted.

All the Bad Guys jumped off the blue train and fell downwards, passing the flock of ducks, and finally landed on the roof of the green train. Wolf's pants suddenly left behind, but he got the chance to retrieve them.

Right on time, the train arrived at its destination, near Mt. Fuji. When the passengers of the green train went in one direction, the Bad Guys rushed in the other direction, where they found their hidden jet plane.

Finally, they could leave this country.

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Wolf started the jet as the Bad Guys fastened their seatbelts in the cabin, and they could finally rest from their complicated trip in Japan.

"Goodbye, Japan. I'll miss your teriyaki chicken and your complicated storylines in anime!" Piranha waved goodbye at the sight of Japan through the window as the jet was taking off.

"Oh, Japan, isn't it beautiful?" Hornet sighed as he gazed on the home country of his species one last time.

"I hope you're not disappointed we didn't do anything Japanese," Tarantula apologized as if Hornet was upset about their trip.

"Eh, it's fine. At least I get to see Japan and know the origin place of my species," Hornet admitted, much to his friends' delight. "And I'm never coming back to this place ever again," the bug confessed, flying into the other cabin.

The other Bad Guys were frozen in shock at Hornet's thoughts about Japan.

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Cast:

Michael Godere - Mr. Wolf

Chris Diamantopoulos - Mr. Snake

Ezekiel Ajeigbe - Mr. Shark

Raul Ceballos - Mr. Piranha

Mallory Low - Ms. Tarantula

Eugene Lee Yang - Mr. Hornet

Hiroshi Kamiya - Emperor Naruhito, Japanese police officer

Kenjiro Tsuda – Talking toilet, Commercial announcer, Sumo wrestler

Gedde Watanabe – Japanese waiter, Talking Fish

Author Aggimaginary

Co-Author MasterClass60

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Snake: Come on, Piranha, out of all the world, why do you want to go to Spain?

Piranha: I lived in Bolivia, but I feel Hispanic in Spain.

?: Worried that you might get lost? I think I can help with that.

Piranha: Fuchsia?

Shark: Wow, she seems very nice.

Piranha: Yeah, I'd never seen her this nice before

Fuchsia: That's my Pepe… That's my Pepe.

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Hornet was based on the "Asian Giant Hornet, aka "Murder Hornet, which originated in Japan, so I decided to make a chapter about Hornet's origin country.

Half of the chapter was referenced to "The Simpsons: Thirty Minutes over Tokyo." Masterclass60, and I made a couple of changes for this fanfic.

Emperor Naruhito made an appearance here since he was the current emperor of Japan. The scene where the Bad Guys got the seizure from a cartoon show was a reference to a real-life incident when a Pokémon episode, "Electric Soldier Porygon," caused viewers and children to be sent to the hospital because of a seizure caused by the flashing light effects.

The other half of the episode was referenced to Mickey Mouse shorts: Tokyo Go.

Inside a train tunnel was reference to the 1985 Nintendo Entertainment System video game Super Mario Bros.

Fun fact: At the end of the chapter, Hornet confirmed he hated Japan and didn't want to go there ever again.

Japanese translation: 'Po tchari' to iu namae wa kizutsukimasu. Watashi no taijū no mondai wa sen ni yoru monodakaradesu. Anata wa sore o taberu tsumoridesu ka? - The name 'Chubby' is hurtful, as my weight problem is glandular. Are you going to eat that? Karera ni kokoro no heiwa no himitsu o oshierubekideshou ka? - Should we tell them the secret of inner peace? Īe, karera wa gaikoku no akumadesu - No, they are foreign devils. Īe - No

Special thanks to Masterclass60 for helping me with this chapter.

I hope you enjoyed this chapter. See you soon! Sayonara!

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