This takes place just before Acmegeddon, and it is in Mastermind's POV.
Disclaimer – I do not own Mastermind, Pen Pal, or the Loonatics Unleashed universe.
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Ode to Pen Pal
With an excited beep and sweet hum
Bounding over to Mama you'd come.
My little friend, you have served me well;
You did free me from this prison cell.
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Though from the guard's hand a pen I snatched
And modeled it for a plan I hatched,
I had affection for you, my friend,
And you were loyal until the end.
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You came and went at my slightest whim
And aided me as I vent'd on him
Who destroyed my life within an hour,
Remaining atop his iv'ry tower.
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Piles of books and those silly guards
And a cell wide only a few yards—
Oh, little friend, my metallic dear,
Such company was so wanting here!
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And now, my Pen Pal, you have been smashed;
All chances of revenge have been snatched
From my hands, and once again,
I am defeated by that false friend.
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The minutes pass within my deep cell.
I am once again trapped in this hell.
I am closely watched and tightly kept
While in freedom that mongrel does step.
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The guards are changing; it's almost noon.
A prisoner transfer will be soon.
I will be watched by a crime fighter
As they take me to a prison tighter.
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I might escape, and perhaps again
I will discover an unheed'd pen.
But as surely as I once was "Mal",
It could never be like you, Pen Pal.
