Ever since Becky snuck into an excellent, tiny cameo in Fumblies joining the Feline Army, you could see the styles of the two would make an interesting pair when the two got together, which they do a few times over the course of Season two. (They met before that, too.)

This time, they're heading into the forest to try to get into Hey Daze. And there's a load of NPC's in on this one to keep things entertaining.

Which they always are with Fumblies and Becky!

 
This prologue is very 'red.'

"WHOOO HOOOO!!"

Red soared through the air with a grace defying his pudgy, seemingly out of shape body's ability to move. Darson watched his fellow Knob Goblin impassively, but were one to look close, they would see an impressed glimmer in the elderly Gobiln's eyes.

"Not bad," he conceded as Red pulled down several fruits which Darson figured would be quite hard to reach. Red managed to do it, not through creative use of the resources around him but simply by doing a triple jump. Three jumps in a row ending with a double backflip through the air that would have been impressive for a trained Gnollish gymnast, much less the seemingly out of shape, obese Red.

"How'd you learn to jump like that?" Darson asked as Red took a bite out of an apple he'd just obtained.

"What can I say?" Red answered, smiling. "I just have a lot of spring in my step!"

"Well," Darson answered. "That didn't really answer anything, but okay."

"Like rigatoni!" Red added, pumping a plump fist in the air.

"Now you're not making any sense," Darson answered. "Look, we don't have much time left."

"'Springy rigatoni' makes perfect sense!" Red insisted, pouting. "Mmmmm, pasta reference."

"Look," Darson said. "Can we focus here?"

"Spaghetti, meatballs, steak," Red continued.

"Look- wait, steak? How does steak fit in? It isn't even pasta!"

"I coulda go for one, anyway!' Red turned to leave.

"Hey, aren't you going to finish training?" Darson asked, annoyed.

"Sorry!" Red answered. "Listening to you talk about food is makin' me wanna get some lunch before Miss'a Becky and I gotta take'a off!"

With that, Red dashed into the distance, towards training and away from lunch. Darson blinked a few times and then took off after him.

"I'm not done with your training! Get back here, mister!"

"Gotta catch me first!" Red said, jumping onto a low hanging branch and using it to spring into the distance....

Becky, Red and Green made their way to the designated meeting area as quickly as possible, only to find Sir Fumblies was already there waiting for them. Fumblies wasn't alone, of course. Becky slowed to a walk, wondering how long she had kept him waiting and anxious to see if he was upset at her for it. Fumblies was waiting in conversation with Zap and Twitch (two of his unit commanders) while Tus and a pair of Brutes were patrolling the area.

"Hello, Sir Fumblies!" Becky said, cheerfully. "I hope we are not too late and if we are, then I'm sorry that we're too late!"

"It is okay Becky. I have only been here a few minutes myself. Had to deal with a small problem on the way." Fumblies commented in reply as he looked out into the woods knowing that they were about to be getting a guest or two for this little meeting.

"So do we have a way in?" Red asked, sounding tired, knowing he'd been through quite the workout already and that more was still to come.

"We have a guide if that is what you mean." Twitch commented in his normal nervous tone. "You might not like it though."

"Trust me," Green said, shivering, "I already hate it."

As if to highlight Green's comment a cloaked muscular figure jumped out of a nearby tree and landed at the edge of the camp, causing Green to stumble back, tripping over himself. In a gruff almost snarled voice came a few words in greeting. "Heard you needed a guide."

"W-wh-who or what are you?" Green asked, pulling himself comically to his feet.

"Name's Wolf." The figure turned to look at Sir Fumblies. "You know this is going to cost you big time."

"I will square up with you and the pack AFTER we get back Wolf. You know I wouldn't have bothered you unless this was a dire situation." Fumblies replied, not at all phased by this figure in front of him. Then again after the adventures he had survived this was not a big deal. "Besides Wolf we have to get there and back before I CAN pay you."

"Don't you think about trying to skip out on the deal either Falanges." Wolf commented with a teeth baring grin.

"I has a question!" Becky said. "You don't look like a wolf."

"How is the moon?" Wolf turned his golden yellow eyes to Becky with a slight smirk.

"Huh?!" Becky looked up. "I don't know, do you want me to go and ask the moon how it is? But that's silly, it's too far away!"

"Fumblies, this might just cost you extra." Wolf growled as he took in the group. "So you sure you want into Hey Daze? Most people I know are trying to get out."

"We got a job to do," Green said.

Red chimed in, "When you've got a job to do, you've got to do it well!"

"Yup definitely going to be an increase in the fee for this." Wolf muttered loud enough for Fumblies to hear.

"Well here is the deal while we head into Hey Daze to stop Kadlin's plan the rest of the Command is off working to keep the Ebon Sword distracted." Fumblies made this comment to Red as he awaited questions.

Red got the obvious one out of the way immediately. "So what is our plan, Sir?"

"Go in rescue Catrina, make she isn't under the spells influence then bring her back to fight Kadlin." Fumblies knew it was a dangerously uninformative plan but it was the best he had at the moment.

"Oh," Green said, the color draining from his face.

"So are we all ready to head out?" Fumblies was a bit antsy to get moving as he knew the next part of this quest would result in a potential fight.

"We're gonna save Becky!" Becky Joy said. "I mean Catrina! We should write a song about this and call it, 'Catrina saves Becky!'"

"You ready to lead the way through the woods, Wolf?" Fumblies asked after an exasperated sigh. "Zap, let the troops know we will be heading out."

"Yeah I am ready, Sir, when you guys are." This was Wolf's gruff reply as he eyed the woods thoughtfully. The others followed Fumblies, momentarily silent as they headed into the woods.

~*~*~*~*~

The demonninja moved faster than one might think possible but in the end, neither he nor his various flavors of imps were fast enough to pose any real threat to Sir Fumblies and his backup.

Becky threw her hands up in frustration. "Why does that silly person keep dying and coming back and fighting us and getting beat up again?!"

"Maybe he just wanted to talk to you." This was Wolf's sarcastic reply as he finished cleaning his daggers. While he did, Red and Green got to looting the dea...., er, 'unconscious' imps for any good loot.

"Nope!" Becky answered, taking Wolf seriously. "The first thing I did was offer to talk about my feelings about the woods, or to sing to him!"

"How do we even know it was a 'he' under that burlap?" Red asked, shaking his head.

"Wolf, how much farther is until we get to the gateway?" Fumblies asked while looking around the battlefield.

"The gateway isn't important," Wolf replied, giving a dismissive wave of his hand. "It hasn't been active in months. We just need to get close so I can do my magic. So to speak."

"I can do ice magic!" Becky said excitedly.

"Well still how long until we are close enough for you to do your thing?" Fumblies asked, trying to get an idea of how many more fights they might be might be getting into.

Wolf didn't answer and so Red did. "You're mystically attuned, aren't you, Fumblies? If I understand this correctly, you should sense when you're close enough for a summoning spell. Or whatever dark magic we have awaiting us."

"I am just asking so we know how long we have with more possible random attacks before we get there." Fumblies responded calmly as he finished cleaning his sword and putting it away.

Wolf briefly looked over to glare at Fumblies, but turned his attention back to the task ahead as he answered. "Hard to say, those random attacks being random and all."

Green just nodded in agreement, worriedly. "I'd say at least one more group, anyway."

"What makes you say that Green?" Zap piped up from nearby.

"T-t-the-th-them!" Green spat out, shaking in his Poor Lilbro brand boots and pointing at a white tiger, a black tiger, and what looked to be a tiger with a black skullcap. But rather than looking ready to walk into a bar together for a bad joke, they seemed ready to dine on lunch. As in our heroes. As in our heroes for lunch.

As in having our heroes for lunch, if you didn't follow that.

"Ahhh makes sense." Fumblies sighed and pulled out his sword again as he eyed the tigers. "Do you really want to cause trouble?"

The tigers gathered around, growling, but quickly whimpered, backed off, and turn and ran into the distance. As the tigers left, Fumblies looked around to see if something bigger and nastier had shown up.

"Hey, look!" Becky said, pointing. "It's a demon lord! Can we go say hi?"

"You do that and I will stand here preparing to save you," Fumblies commented upon seeing the demon lord in question.

In a voice that was both baritone deep and simultaneously in an annoying high pitch, the demon called out, "Did someone say.. saaaavings?!" The demon drew close, brushing by Becky and looking down at the much shorter Sir Fumblies. Which wasn't because Fumblies was short- 6'2 is a pretty solid height- but because the demon stood close to seven feet tall. "Would you like to learn more about our.. saaavings program, good sir knight?!"

"At this time we are in a hurry. Fate of the universe and all that," Fumblies replied calmly a he pondered something. "Though I am willing take a scroll from you on the program."

"Certainly!" With that, the demon grabbed Fumblies and tried to usher him forward. "Why don't we take a tour of the facilities now?"

"Where exactly are these facilities?" Fumblies looked at the demon then back at the rest of his group.

"Most of them are in Hey Daze," the demon replied nonchalantly. "But why don't we head over and visit our soda factory in the white woods insteeeead?!"

"No if you want to give a tour then my associates and I would like to see a Hey Daze facility," this was Fumblies' stern comment.

"Right," the demon lord said, his grip tightening. "So the white woods is this way. Shall I tell you a little of the history while we, shall I say, waaaalk?!"

Fumblies smiled slightly and then chuckled in amusement. "I insist on seeing the Hey Daze operation." He looks over at Tus and nodded. "Hey Tus need a bit of help over here."

Wolf sighed and then come up beside Fumblies. "You wanted a guide well I would suggest going with Lispy here. He is going the way we are headed anyway."

"He can't even get into Hey Daze!" Becky complained.

"Oh, of course I can!" the massive demon insisted, his eyes fuming with heat.

"Oh, okay," Becky said. "I believe you. You don't have to prove it or anything."

"Hey Becky I think he needs a snow cone," Zap commented in slight amusement.

"Oh, I don't do snow, only ice," Becky explained. "I could give him a snowstorm!"

"Try that!" Green said, excitedly. So Becky complied. With a scream, the head demon let go of Fumblies, cursed loudly, and summoned up a portal to Hey Daze, quickly stepping through it. Before it could close, Wolf lunged forward to hold it open. With a nod towards Fumblies, Wolf signaled for the group to to hurry up. Without hesitation, they poured through, with the last through, a brute under the command of Sir Fumblies, just barely making it through in time to avoid being split in half by the closing portal.

Wolf felt himself pulled through the vortex as well, exhausted, knowing how close the portal had come to claiming his life. There was definitely going to be an extra charge for that!

Fun little co-write, as I said.. and they're in Hey Daze now! Plus we got some action in it. Stories with Becky's goblins can be fun, too.

Wolf is a nice addition to the story, and I like seeing someone more annoyed than amused by Becky. "Turn the page," so to speak, to see a new addition to the mission. An AIL vet!