Mason and Cheerily glared at Toxic as they took Snooper and Scoop and pushed the children away from them. Mason cracked his knuckles getting ready for a fight as Cheerily got a similar position.
"Oh that's cute! You think you can stop me!" Toxic said, Screwball looked at the adults before her eyes landed on the children. Screwball huffed and flew over to Snooper and Scoop putting each child on her back before flying into the air.
"We don't think we can stop you…" Mason said,
"But we'll give it a heck of a shot!" Cheerily confidently said with a smirk.
"Oi! What are you doing you stupid—" Snooper demanded to Screwball before Scoop slapped a hand over her mouth, but it was too late as Toxic looked up at the three. Screwball, Snooper, and Scoop froze in response fear coursing through their veins.
"There you are my little slaves." Toxic said before her amulet glowed and she shot out a blast of gold magic from her hands, Screwball let out a scream before she successfully dodged the attack. Toxic snarled and was about to shoot off another beam until she heard Cheerily scream out a fierce battle cry. The she-demon turned just in time to see Cheerily running towards her, Toxic then shot a blast of magic at Cheerily but just before she could get hit Mason pushed his wife out the way. The golden magic then hit Mason straight in the chest and he cried out in agony as his body began to painfully glitch and spasm.
"NO!" Snooper said as her birth father literally began to fall apart turning into nothing but a pile of pixels. And for a moment the room was completely silent as the pile of pixels still remained on the floor instead of reforming back into Mason.
"Dad…..Dad please no…" Snooper said her eyes glossy with tears,
"H-Honey…?" Cheerily said looking towards the pile of pixels that used to be her husband. Toxic looked at her hands and back at her first (official) kill, and slowly a smile spread on her face before she began to laugh.
"Wow! Looks like Mocho's magic is much more powerful then I thought!" Toxic said before she again shot a blast at Screwball, Snooper, and Scoop again. Screwball once again dodged the blast and the beam of pure magic created a hole in the ceiling with a loud boom.
"Run!" Cheerily said and Screwball nodded not hesitating as she made her escape,
"No! Don't you dare leave my mama! Go back!" Snooper said as Scoop held her to keep Snooper from doing anything risky. But Screwball kept going and the last thing Snooper heard was her birth mothers bloodcurdling scream.
*
Meanwhile underneath Jawbreaker Forest a huge rabbit hole (that had tunnels leading to other rabbit holes) with over half the population of Sugar Rush was buzzing with life. And in one tunnel hole there was Cinnamon and Kit watching the people use their weapons. Sweet-Tooth, Baking, Petermint, Annaween, Lucy, Kevin, and lots of other people we're wearing noise-cancelling headphones as they shot their guns at targets across the room. The other people in the training room tested their secondary weapons on dummies, jawbreakers, and even a few of Toxic's minions.
"Put your back into it!" Kit shouted,
"Posture straight, head up, grip firm! Don't drop your gun!" Cinnamon said wearing a serious and determined expression. But suddenly her expression turned to mild annoyance as Cinnamon saw a flash of pink. And in less than a second Sweet-Tooth was in Cinnamon's full sight. The boy took off his headphones opening his mouth to speak but the female hybrid was quick to interrupt.
"No." Cinnamon said,
"What!? Yo-You didn't even know what I was gonna say!" Sweet-Tooth replied. Cinnamon rolled her eyes,
"Fine, what is it?" The female hybrid said.
"Let me go on the mission!" Sweet-Tooth blurted,
"No." Cinnamon replied without even having to think.
"Why? I wanna see my Loco Mocho, I want to make sure he's okay." The cotton-candy-haired boy whined, the female hybrid rolled her eyes once more.
"No, you wanna be a knight and shining armor and single-handedly save my brother from whatever peril or doom he is in and as the sun sets you kiss passionately in a cliché sappy happily ever after ending. Am I wrong?" Cinnamon said, crossing her arms slowly gaining a smug grin at Sweet-Tooth's overly red face and withering curly hairy.
"Uh…uh…well…I'm sorry." Sweet-Tooth mumbled his eyes glossing over, Cinnamon cringed at this she didn't like it when people (other then her brother that is) started to cry and she knew Mocho would not be pleased with her if he found out she made Sweet-Tooth cry.
"Alright, look, I'm not knocking your sexuality or my brothers. What I'm saying is you could be a distraction to my brother and he which is why I'm not going on the mission. The only people going on the mission are Lucy, Kevin, Screwball, and Annaween." Cinnamon explained and Sweet-Tooth perked up slightly but still looked a little confused,
"…Okay…but why them?" Sweet-Tooth asked.
"Kevin is meant for distraction, Screwball and Lucy are meant to fight and stuff, and Anna is gonna be the main leader. Plus with Lucy on the team Mocho will be more inclined to cooperate depending on how he is doing." Cinnamon said and Sweet-Tooth nodded,
"So when is this master plan gonna happen? And now that I think about it….what is the master plan?" The boy asked.
"The plan is that Screwball, Lucy, Annaween, and Kevin will infiltrate the castle and turn off all the castle security while we take out all of Toxic's minions, then we'll storm the castle. And the plan is gonna come into play when Screwball gets here." Cinnamon said, and as soon as she said that Screwball flew in and landed on the ground. Everyone stopped what they we're doing am surrounded the group.
"What did you guys learn?" Annaween asked taking off her headphones as she pushed her way through the crowd, Snooper didn't reply however all the did was get off of Screwball fury and grief blazing in her eyes. The girl then pushed a path for her through the crowd taking in deep breathes.
"What happened?" Cinnamon asked, Scoop winced looking away from the female hybrid knowing he wasn't on good terms with Cinnamon already.
"U-Uh…well…To-Toxic at least I think….is using Mocho as a power source….or somethin'." Scoop said and for a moment Cinnamon looked him over before speaking,
"Alright so I take it Snooper's birth parents are permanently retired then?" The female hybrid asked and Scoop nodded. "Okay….looks like we know one thing for sure Mocho is inadvertently giving Toxic a power boost or is taking magic from Mocho like last time or both. So…..Lucy, Kevin, Annaween, Screwball make sure to get to Mocho as soon as possible." Cinnamon said as Lucy, Kevin, Screwball, and Annaween nodded,
"Alright so you guys head out of the rabbit hole and stay by the entrance I'll meet you there. Everyone else back to work!" Kit said and everyone did as they we're told. And as Kit left following after Lucy, Kevin, Screwball, and Annaween, Scoop walked up to Cinnamon.
"Hey wait! What about my peaches birth parents?" Scoop said tapping his foot impatiently, the female hybrid looked at the school gossip with cold eye's before glaring at him.
"Look, let me make this clear, I only care about people that I care about. So….I don't give a damn about you or Snooper, you humiliated my brother so don't even try to garner sympathy from me. The only people I care about are Annaween, Mocho, Sweet-Tooth, and Baking. And to add to that the only reason I even consider caring about Petermint, Lucy, and Kevin is because if they're upset they upset someone I really care about. And let me make this clear as soon as all of this is over….I'm gonna make you and your peach pay for every wrongdoing you've committed." Cinnamon said, before she left a paralyzed and pale Scoop in her wake.
*
"So, why did you want to meet with us?" Annaween asked as Kit came out of his freshly-dug rabbit hole holding a GPS locater remote,
"I wanted to give you this." Kit said putting the remote in Annaween's hand.
"What is it?" Annaween asked looking over the remote,
"A GPS locater remote, I'll help you find Mocho." Kit replied a nervous look in his eyes. Annaween raised an eyebrow at this,
"Wait….how would this help find Mocho? I mean the only way this could is if you…..hold it did you chip Mocho?" Annaween said her mind quickly coming to a possible solution. Kit chuckled nervously his face pink,
"Well…..yeah….along with Cinnamon." He mumbled.
"What!?" Lucy said,
"Your kidding." Kevin added both twins surprised.
"Nope….Fudge and I got Cinnamon and Mocho chipped as soon as they were old enough to talk. Now get going the longer you guys take to get Mocho the more deadly Toxic gets." Kit said, and the three children bit back anymore questions they had and saved them for later. As they got on Screwball's back and held on right as Screwball flew off.