And here we are! Starbucks Adventures WITHOUT Marcus, as it was originally planned, for those of you who prefer it that way. Starts at the end of chapter 10 from Part 1:

Fox went through a dungeon full of booby traps that were so easy he didn't even notice them (and therefore, won't be mentioned again), and finally entered a large room with a floating purple head in the middle of it. Tricky was awed by the spectacle.

"Wow mister, who are you?" he asked.

"I am the head of common mockery. I will grant you three wishes," boomed the Krazoa.

"Whoa! Is that true? Are you really gonna grant me three wishes? :D" asked Tricky, excitedly.

"No," replied the spirit, "my real purpose here is to FIRE MAH LASER! BWAAAAAAAHHH!"

(...)

Fox could not believe his eyes. This spirit thing he was supposed to find had just vaporized Tricky. He breathed a sigh of relief as he felt the pressure in his head lighten substantially, making his migraine disappear.

"Climb inside before he comes back!" ordered Fox.

The spirit shot forward and knocked Fox back. The vulpine thought he was about to fall on his ass, but was relieved when he gently floated to the floor.

"Now that Trickster is gone, I can get some peace and quiet," Fox said to himself as he turned around to leave.

"Yup, now it's just you and me, :B" said the spirit inside Fox's head.

"Oh hell no! DX" shouted Fox.

He ran back down Moon Mountain Pass as fast as he could, the entire time arguing with the voice in his head.

"Are we there yet?"

"No."

"Are we there yet?"

"No."

"Are we there yet?"

"No."

"Are we there yet?"

"No!"

"Are we there yet?"

"No!"

"Are we there yet?"

"Yes."

"Really?"

"NO! DX"

Fox finally reached the Hollow and ran over to the warp stone, only to discover a smoking crater.

"Holy Bumblebees on a body board! Where'd the warp stone go? D:" shouted Fox.

His hologram floated up beside him and an image of of Slippy appeared.

"He's dead, Fox. You had me blow him up in chapter 4 for being retarded. Remember?"

The fiery vulpine scratched his head upon hearing this.

"I do now, but for a moment I could have sworn it slipped my mind."

"Odd," replied Slippy, "Well anywho, just hold still and I'll have you to Krazoa Palace in no time."

"You can't defy this fiction's summary, it says you're useless! :O" snapped Fox.

"Would you rather I let Rob handle it?" asked the frog.

Fox thought about it for a moment and decided that getting rick rolled again wasn't worth the risk.

"Alright, juice me!" he said, standing straight.

A beam of light shot down and zapped Fox, sending him through the fairy universe again before he appeared on a metal platform connected to a huge ass palace suspended over nothing in the middle of a heavy rainstorm. Fox looked over the edge and only saw more rainclouds. There didn't even seem to be anything underneath the palace itself, only rainclouds, which pretty much left the palace suspended in the endless storm over nothing.

"And whose brilliant idea was this part of the game?" asked Fox in frustration.

Recieving no response- much to his relief- Fox ran toward the entrance of the palace. Inside the first room were a few Sharpclaw that were so easy that they won't be mentioned again. In the next room was utter blackness, so Fox reached for the firefly lantern in his pack, only to discover it wasn't there.

"Dammit, shoulda bought it back at the Hollow," thought Fawx out loud.

"I could warp you back there right now so you can get it, :D" offered Slippy.

"OR you could warp me a flashlight so that I won't need the damn lantern!" shot back Fox, "Logic, people!"

"Fine," sighed Slippy, pressing a button.

A small pink flashlight with strawberries painted on it materialized onto Fox's armor vest. Reaching for it, Fox discovered he could almost hide it in one fist.

"Slippy...this is bite size...I WANT A FUCKING WHOPPER!" boomed the furry Merc, tossing the girly light stick outside the palace, and over the ledge.

"Have it your way," replied Slip, pressing another button.

Fox suddenly felt enormous weight pressing against his back and fell forward before he could adjust himself. Rolling onto his side, he unstrapped what looked like a bazooka with a camera lens on the end of it. On the side it was marked Active Denial System.

He aimed the device into the dark room and flipped a switch and a bright beam shot out of the lens, cutting through the temple's darkness like a knife. The blocked off door was illuminated by the bright beam, then it began to glow bright orange, gradually fading to charred black before disintegrating into a pile of ashes.

"Now THAT is a flashlight! 8D" grinned Fox.

He continued through the temple. After doing a complicated ballet move past the moving wall torches, then vaporized the second door, only to find himself in another blocked off room, with a floating shield bot, to boot!

Nothing the WHOPPER FLASHLIGHT can't handle! :B

"BOOM! DENIED!" whooped Fox as the shielded cannonbot crashed and burned under the heat of the ADS.

He turned the Whopper Flashlight to the big door blocking him for the third time since he'd entered the palace and switched on the ADS again, and it shone brightly, as did the door, but unlike the first two, this door remained standing. Fox tried a second time, with the same result, and would have gone for a third try, but the cannon was nearly overheated.

Fox tried to contact Slippy on his com, but the palace walls seemed to be interfering, so the vulpine did the next best thing he could think of to open the door: he hit it repeatedly with his giant flashlight.

(CLANK!CLANK!CLANK!CLANK!CLANK!)

Then, to Fox's surprise, he heard a response from the other side: "Who is it?"

"UPS!" he replied sarcastically.

The sharpclaw on the other side, who had to take the GED test 50 times to pass, pressed the magic button and the big ass door slid apart to reveal the barrell of a Desert Eagle point right at his noise.

A loud bang and a bright flash later, the reptilian's brain matter decorated the palace walls, making them even shinier than before. :D

His compatriot soon joined him.

"Not bad!" beamed Fox, "One obstacle down...8,999 to go. :("

He stepped lightly over the bodies and noticed a sparkly, glowing circle on a pedestal, similar to the one he used to find the Krazoa Spirit, but instead of warping him somewhere, a green troll face with a red X running through it appeared above the sparkly, spinning. Fox decided that meant this warper was currently inactive, so he went over to another pedestal near the wall, this one brown with a six pointed thingamajig painted on it. He stood on top of the brown thingamajig and was raised several feet to a tunnel carved in the wall. The tunnel was octagon shaped and was lit by an overhead light, giving it a sci-fi edge.

"Where have I seen this tunnel before?" pondered Fox.

Then a bunch of stormtroopers jumped out from behind the corner and unloaded their blasters at Fox.

"Now I remember!" said Fox, as laser bolts flew past him (these are stormtroopers we're talking about, they couldn't hit a barn if they were inside one).

After killing the stormtroopers by poking them, Fox continued down the tunnel and took a left, where he found himself in a room full of wind turbines.

"And here I thought these reptiles were still living in the stone age," Fox thought out loud as he gazed upon the 1st- and only- wonder of Planet Sauria: actual technology!

Then a swishing noise caught the Vulpine's attention, and he turned around to see a floating jellyfish waving its tentacles around as it spun.

"You spin me right round, baby, right round, like a record, baby, right round, round, rou-"

"Oh hell no! I seen enough hentai to know where THIS is going!" protested Fox as he turned and ran toward the wind funnel, which shot him up into the air, away from the ghostly horror.

He landed safe and sound on the platform above, sighing with relief as he rested his hands on his knees.

"Okey dokey artichoke!" chanted several voices in front of him.

Fox looked up to see half a dozen more jellyfish spirits looking down at him.

(One gay tentacle scene later...)

Fox flew up out of the wind tunnel leading to the roof, and landed beside the hole he just shot up out of.

(SPLAT!)

After catching his breath, Fox pushed against the marble floor to force himself upright. It took great effort, now that he was weakened, as evidenced by his life bar, which was down to a single hit point.

"That's...the last...time...I watch tentacle pr0n," gasped Fox as he climbed to his feet and walked up to the altar, upon which set the biggest diamond Fox had ever seen.

However, it was what was inside the crystal that caught Fox's attention. It looked like a person, and as he got closer, his suspicions were confirmed. It was indeed a person, and a Lylation to top it off, but not just any Lylation, this creature was a blue furred goddess that matched the deep blue of the sky around her, making her appearance all the more divine, the creamy white fur on her frontside the only thing making her stand out, leaving Fox with only enough brain wattage to worship the vixen with the non-rhyming poetry running through his head:

She has such a delicately beautiful face. And a body that can melt a cheese sandwich from across the room. And breasts that seem to say... "Hey! Look at these!" She's the kind of woman who makes you want to drop to your knees and thank God you're a man...she reminds me of my mother, all right. No doubt about it.

"Fox! Snap out of it! You're staring at her like she was your mother, for God's sake!" bellowed Peppy's hologram as it popped up out of nowhere, "Now release the spirit and get out of there!"

"Okay! Okay, I'm going," replied Fox awkwardly, before turning around once more to look at the vixen encased in her namesake as sourceless jazz music surrounded the two.

He didn't know who she was, but simply gazing upon her had him completely lovestruck. In only a minute's time, she had him hooked, and he hoped against hope that she'd feel something similar for him, knowing full well that wasn't likely since they had never met. They were like two hummingbirds...who had also never met.

Bad analogies aside, Fox ran around the rooftop trying to figure out where he was supposed to release the ghost in him, until he stumbled upon a metallic trollface sticking out of the wall, surrounded by silvery liquid that defied gravity. Figuring this might be the spot, Fox got down on his knees and immediately felt a change within himself. He collapsed onto his hands as he felt a powerful force stretching him from the inside, threatening to burst him like a water balloon. Fox would have screamed, but had lost the use of his voice from the excruciating pain shooting through him.

But just as he reached his limit, the spirit shot out of his backside flatulently, releasing the pressure on the vulpine's bowels.

Fox fell over and watched as the spirit (now a lolface) floated over to the metal rage face and planted itself inside, finally disappearing from his life.

"Thank Gawd that's over!" said Fox in relief as the statue opened its mouth.

"Good job, Fox," congratulated Peppy, "only four more spirits to go."

As Fox was sucked into the statue's mouth, the last thing heard from him was, "FFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU-"