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.