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[ MOD’S NOTE: posting these as is; images are to follow whenever I can get to them, because I have various jobs and other things to do. Thank you for your patience and understanding. ]

[ EDIT 5/22/2025: A correction has been made regarding a joke that was typed up in 2022. Thank you very much to the person who reached out to me regarding changing the joke, and I apologize for any discomfort. ]

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|| KIDD // THE PLAN OF ACTION ||

Gathering the others hadn’t been that hard, all things considered. They’d already sent Jerome and Ozzy down to Buggs’s room as the gathering place so that they could stay put in a single location already, while Nugget had been asked to assist Buggs in rinsing out Billy’s eyes with the water the first two had brought over. That had involved a lot of spluttering and flailing on Billy’s end, but it had worked well enough - Billy had stopped hallucinating Jerome as his father.

Kidd internally breathes a sigh of relief. There would be no more Billy-induced deaths today - and hopefully ever, if they got this right.

While Lily chatters with Billy about what had happened to him, Nugget turns to look at Kidd. There is an indescribable look in his eyes as Kidd goes to meet his gaze. Nathaniel Goujon was not exactly that much taller than him, so it was easier to meet his gaze head on than if he’d been, say, Cindy - the shortest of them all. Nugget, whether he admitted to it or not, liked to use his size to intimidate others as necessary - but it never worked on Kidd.

“You know something.” It’s not a guess on Nugget’s part.

Kidd glances at Billy. The guy was currently bowing in apology to Lily and Buggs, main ‘hands’ or tentacles just curled around each other in a manner that implied guilt.

“That depends on what you mean,” Kidd replies carefully.

Nugget frowns. “You are not telling Nugget something important.”

“And I won’t until Alice, Ron, Madison, Penny and Felix are all back home.”

“You want to bring Felix back home too?” It’s Buggs who asks this question, having overheard the tail end of the conversation. He, Billy, and Lily all turn to face Nugget and Kidd as Deedee perches on his shoulder, preening. He frowns, an eyebrow raised.

Kidd sighs before nodding. “I’m not elaborating here, because everyone and their mother knows I’m going to have to repeat this over and over if I don’t tell this to everyone in one place, but yes. We’re bringing all of them back home.”

“He broke Nugget’s ribs,” Nugget points out bitterly. “And Carla’s.”

Lily scowls. “He forced Madison, Ron, Alice, and Billy back into their mutated forms. He literally dressed up as Penny - still weird, by the way - and knocked Ted out and then pretended to be Ted and then kidnapped Penny. And you want him back?”

“Lily,” Kidd massages his temples. “Not now.”

“Kidd, Billy nearly fucking killed us - it’s not your fault Billy, don’t worry - because that rat bastard was-”

“We are not discussing this ĥ̵̠͙̯̳͗̽̕͠͝é̶̥͉͒̒r̸̬͖̰̞̫̞͇̔̒͗̈́͗͝e̷̛͎͎͙̓͆̚͝, Lilith Kurosawa!” Kidd snarls, voice dripping with venom.

In response to his yell, the world seems to distort for a moment, to glitch, and the snarl lodges itself in Kidd’s throat and he chokes, eyes wide, as the very reality he’s in briefly stops making sense-

- until the brief glitch stops, and everything is back to normal... for the most part. It’s like it had never happened, and like he’d just finished shouting, because Lily is flinching as though it had just happened and Billy is hissing at him, wrapping his arms around his sister protectively. Nugget too seemed to be on edge at this response, and Buggs was wary judging on his body language.

What had happened?

Did none of them feel that?

No... Kidd thinks bitterly. They’d never felt the resets. This... sudden break in the universe wouldn’t be any different - even Nugget didn’t seem to have noticed the sudden shatter that had happened. He’d ponder on it later though.

Deedee cocks her head to the side curiously at him. “Here?”

With a sigh, Kidd inhales sharply, and exhales, before saying, “... sorry. I shouldn’t have lashed out at you like that. You... you didn’t deserve that. I’m sorry. You’ve been a big help, Lily, I just... lost my cool.”

“No, it’s... okay,” Lily says, but he knows she’s still spooked. Lily was not that good at hiding her fear as she thought she was. Kidd knew that without a shadow of a doubt. “I was... I’m sorry too. You just woke up after being unconscious and here we are already burdening you with all this because we thought you knew the most out of anyone.”

“And I do know a lot more than everyone does on the subject, but I don’t know everything. That’s why we’re going to discuss all of this as a group. This is a group matter and those are our friends in trouble.” Kidd glances between all of them before adding, “You should all go to Buggs’s room. Wait- no. Nugget, you take Billy and Lily to Buggs’s room. Buggs, come with me.”

Buggs blinks, mildly surprised. “Why?”

“We’ll be fetching the others ourselves. And I need you to catch me up on the blog. Tell me anything and everything that’s happened while I was out.”

“Ah. Okay.”

-=-=-=-

“What are your feelings on it?”

“Hm?”

“My decision that we’re bringing Felix back with us.”

Buggs is quiet for a good while as they walk towards where they guess Cindy is lurking - either the kitchens or the library, looking for books on whatever she thought interesting at that current moment in time. Kidd’s almost about to repeat the question when the other answers, “Why are you asking me one on one? You told Lily we’d be discussing it as a whole.”

“Well, you’re interested in Cindy.” Buggs stiffens slightly at his bold declaration, but he doesn’t stop walking with him. “And Cindy does like you, but she also had a childish ‘thing’ for Felix when we were in kindergarten.”

Buggs scoffs. “She had a thing for most of the boys in kindergarten and you know it. She even eyed you.”

“Don’t remind me.” The pink flower was enshrined in his room back home, actually - trapped in glass for eternity. He’d had every single quest item frozen in glass and tucked away somewhere where he couldn’t look at them - a terrible reminder of the past, but a memento regardless.

Buggs sighs and scratches the underside of Deedee’s chin. “We were kids. So what if I may hold a candle for Cindy? She’s not interested in anyone right now, and I’m not doing anything to fuck with our friendship right now except be there for her. So I don’t have any strong opinions on Felix coming back, except for concern that it could be dangerous.”

“Alright.”

It’s silent as they pass down the corridor, before Buggs says, “Wait. We can pick up Monty and Carla first. This hallway is where their rooms are.”

“Which one?”

Kidd watches as Buggs looks around before pointing at a door. As he approaches, he picks up on the faint sound of people talking behind the door - which increases in volume when he gets closer. It sounded like...

“Cindy?” Buggs wonders as Kidd opens the door.

Cindy and Monty both freeze mid-argument as the door swings open. Carla, arms crossed, nods in acknowledgment at him. “Good to see you awake, Kidd. Sleep well?”

“Hardly,” Kidd snorts before turning to Cindy and Monty. “We’re all gathering in Buggs’s room. Whatever you three are doing right now, stop, and head over there right now.”

“I’m busy,” is Monty’s automatic response.

Cindy scowls darkly. “Busy trying to get yourself killed more like.”

“What the fuck is she talking about?” Buggs asks.

Carla groans, a hand massaging a temple as she shifts her weight to one side, cocking her hip and crossing her other arm under her chest. “The cat’s out of the bag, cariño. Stand down already like I’ve been telling you.”

“What’s out of the bag?!” Kidd exclaims in frustration. “Can somebody please just tell us what’s going on?!”

Cindy jabs a finger in Monty’s direction. It would’ve been hilarious considering how short Cindy was compared to Monty, but even with the height difference Cindy made up for it in pure firepower. “He’s been making plans to take down Penny’s mom alone and won’t listen to either of us. Maybe you can make him see sense, Kidd, because the boy genius is losing his braincells.”

“Monty, literally what the fuck.” Kidd whirls around to face the glaring Monty. “Are you out of your fucking mind? Are you for fucking real?”

Monty scowls at everyone in the room - well, everyone save for Buggs and Carla, that is. His fists clench by his sides as he bites out, “You don’t understand.”

“No, I really fucking don’t.” Kidd answers with the same amount of bite. “What makes you think you can just waltz in there and save all of them?”

“I’m going to fucking save my sister,” is all Monty growls. “No matter what it fucking takes.”

Cindy hisses through gritted teeth. “So you’re just going to leave the others to rot then. I thought they were your friends.”

“The fuck do you take me for, Hausmannin?!”

“An idiot! You’re going to get fucking killed and where’s that going to leave your moms, huh?! You gonna join Daddy Montgomery up in the sky already, smartass?!”

“DON’T YOU DARE TALK ABOUT MY FATHER THAT WAY!”

“ENOUGH!”

Cindy and Monty fall silent as Carla steps in between both of them and shoves them apart, shooting looks at both of them before facing Cindy first. “Cindy, you took it too far, hija. Monty, querido, just stop for a minute. I’ve been telling you this for days. Just stop. You haven’t slept in days doing what you’re doing. A break will not kill you or Penny.”

“What has he been doing?” Buggs asks.

Carla shoots him a dry look. “He’s been developing a stronger laser from the remnants of the eye lasers he took out of Penny years ago that’ll be able to zero in on Penny’s location and evaporate Felix in one hit.”

“You know what?” Kidd snaps his fingers, and Buggs takes it to mean ‘manhandle Monty’. The larger young man immediately goes to pick Monty up by the waist and throw him over the shoulder effortlessly, prompting the genius to shriek in protest.

“PUT ME THE FUCK DOWN and LET ME WORK!”

“Carla?” Buggs looks at Carla with a raised eyebrow.

Carla sighs and grabs Monty’s face by the cheeks. The sudden contact makes him freeze as she says, “Querido, please don’t make it so difficult for everyone. We’re going to get Penny back, but we also need to make plans with everyone else, not just us. You and I both know we can’t do this alone.”

“Yes we can.”

Carla raises an eyebrow. “Idiot. No we can’t. You may have lasered that old bozo’s knees and fixed Penny up and built yourself some fucking legs, but this is Felix Huxley. Well. Felix, but a robot. You saw how he took down all of us on his own. We’re going to need to work with everyone else and you know it.”

“Fuck you.”

“For every person you tell that to, my explosives rise in market value, my love.” Buggs tries not to choke at that, but Carla maintains a straight face as she smooths out Monty’s hair. “Much as I enjoyed the thought of sauntering in there with just my favorite explosive tubes of lipstick to see us through, it’s a kamikaze mission even I’m not keen on participating in.”

Monty scowls, but Kidd can tell it’s a weaker one this time as Carla’s gaze softens. “We’re bringing Penny back home, Monty. I promised you we would, and you swore on your father that you would. But I’ll be completely transparent with you: I’d rather you thought this over after a full night of sleep.”

“I thought you were trying to wrestle me into a meeting with the others,” Monty grumbles. “Buggs, put me down.”

“Only if you follow us afterwards,” Buggs replies.

“No promises.”

“Then I’m not putting you down, tough guy.”

“I don’t need to wrestle you into going into the meeting, Buggs can do it for me,” Carla points out. “I’m trying to peacefully convince you into listening to what everyone else has to say on the matter before you go take a night of rest and look over your plans once again.”

“Uh huh.” Monty stares at her, unimpressed.

Carla meets his gaze levelly. “You do not want me to pull out the trump card, Montgomery.”

“And that would be...?”

Carla pulls out her phone with one smooth action and hits a number on speed dial. After a few minutes, Kidd witnesses Monty’s face grow five shades whiter at the voice that comes out of the phone. “Carla? You called? Are you alright, dear? Anything you need us to get you while you’re all there?”

“Hi, mamadonna,” Carla greets the more heavyset of Monty’s mother figures with an easygoing smile - except the smile is very clearly laced with smug victory, because Monty is writhing nervously in response to the conversation. “Just letting you know that I’m feeling a little better.”

“That’s good,” the woman sighs over the phone. “Don’t forget to phone your father today, alright? Honestly, he’s been worried sick over you - he could use the reassurance.”

Carla bites her lip guiltily. “Yeah, I’ll call papa later, I promise.”

“How about Monty? Is he getting any sleep?”

Everyone in the room stares at Monty. Monty wilts slightly under their stares as Carla answers, “He’s... trying.”

“Oh, my Monty... tell him to get some sleep for us, alright? He’s a lot like his father in that regard, honestly - always forgoing sleep for something or another. Let me guess, trying to figure out something that’ll save Penny?”

Carla blinks in surprise. “Um, well... yes, Mrs. Montgomery. How did you know?”

“I may have married his mother only after his father had passed on, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t practically raised him myself. He’s as predictable as his times tables.” Monty turns bright red at the comparison. “Monty, if you’re listening in on this conversation, sweetheart, please just listen to Carla and your friends. Let Mommadonna handle what she can with Penny’s kidnapping, okay? You’re no good without sleep.” There’s a crashing sound in the background, and the woman groans. “I have to go, Carla. Three of the Mabini siblings are here and I believe they just broke something.”

“Wait, Ron’s siblings are-” CLICK! BEEP...

Carla lowers the phone from her ear, frowning. “... Well? Are you coming, or not?”

“... I’m going,” Monty grumbles, and Buggs puts him down as he warns, “But I am not letting anyone else in on this. That includes you Kidd.”

Kidd rolls his eyes. He’d end up getting dragged in at some point - he knew that for a fact. “Keep telling yourself that, Monty Montgomery. Come on, everyone. We have some things to discuss.”

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