Angel: Alright, so...I'm on episode 78, 14 left to update, and I might have to stop updating daily probably before I leave Georgia. The wifi recently in my aunt's place has been wonky as heck, and it's slow now to use Disney Plus. I don't know, it's like the wifi is connected, but it doesn't wanna work on certain stuff with my phone? Because I get stuff that says I have no internet connection even though I do, which shouldn't even be possible. So now I have to use the sucky non-streaming method that is kimcartoon-which somehow works better on my phone than Disney Plus, without wifi. And I have data. If you read my author's notes, you'll remember that the website was what I used before I came across Disney Plus having all of the episodes at a time. Because when they put this show on the app, they only had like...maybe 3 or 4 episodes for I'm assuming a reason.
I may be a fast writer: I wrote Sisters' Tangled Adventure in under 7 months back in 2019-and season 3 wasn't even out yet at that time. That wasn't even my shortest time writing a story-a remake of one of my old stories took me 2 months. Though I am definitely not a miracle worker but apparently to others I am since I keep getting asked to write other cartoons. Let's just hope this doesn't slow me down.
*reads the recent review from Ritsel Abuan* No...just no...no more death! Why XD Technically, I didn't know about this one, it doesn't count, so I am not counting this as number 6 XDD
Jebens1, who drew two other OCs of mine, Hana and Harmony, has now drawn Amy from the TMNT 2018 series. It's basically her getting piiiiissed at Donnie XD Go check it out, it's hilarious!
And thanks to the guest who said my stories are awesome and that I'm number one! YOU guys are awesome and number one! Everything is awesome~
Heidi starts her broadcast while holding a microphone. She's standing in front of a tent for the Norrisville Food Faire. "Sup, hungry peeps? Hizzle sizzle casting at you live from the ultimate Flav fest, the Best Buds Tasting Competish."
A car screeches and she turns to see Randy and Howard coming out from a limo. "Look out! Big tongue, coming through," Randy announces and Howard waves his tongue around, spinning for the cameras. Bouquets of flowers are thrown at him as he steps forward towards the tent.
"Thank you, thank you," Howard tells the crowd, Randy glancing over his shoulder. "Best Buds defending champs, eat it up."
Randy grabs his shoulders and pulls him backwards into the tent. "Howard, you know who's not posing for pictures? Our competition. They're hungry, Howard. Literally," He glances at Theresa and Debbie, Julian and Bucky, and Tiny Tim and Rhymez all practicing for the competition.
"Cunningham, relax. I'm just giving their eyes a taste of what they came for," Howard points to his eyes. "Besides, your girlfriend is here~" He teases slightly, earning a wide-eyed look from Randy.
"What? Girl—she's not my girlfriend," Randy replies in a high-pitched tone, slightly blushing as he glances at Amy and Heidi appearing before all of the tables.
"Moments away from lick off, weiner-migos. I also wanna give a big shout-out to my biffer Amy for cooking all the food today and being my co-host."
Amy waves with a smile, flinching when she sees McFist, Viceroy, and Bash sitting at a table. "Something wrong?" Heidi raises a brow at her.
"Uh, nope, all good," She chuckles awkwardly since Heidi doesn't know that McFist is her enemy, and yet he's here!
"Let's review the rule-ios," Heidi decides to keep going. "The feeder feeds, the taster tastes, points are pointed and the top teams move to the next round."
"The top tasting team takes the title of Best Buds," Amy finishes for her, and it's a carp trophy with a fork and knife.
"We got this in the bag because of you, right, Ames?" Randy calls out, earning annoyed looks from both girls. Amy crosses her arms, raising a brow. The look on her face says 'You really want me to answer that?' He freezes at how that must've sounded and sinks back in his seat. "No, that's cool. I'm good."
Viceroy places something over Bash's tongue, and the device fits just right. "I must admit, I was rather surprised you wanted to enter this contest with Bash," Viceroy finishes putting on the blindfold, crossing his arms.
"Marci says I have to 'bond' with the boy," McFist uses air quotes on bond.
"And if we don't win that trophy, Mom says you have to take me camping!" Bash threatens, Viceroy turning his head around so that he can face his stepfather.
"Got a lot riding on this, Viceroy!" McFist then threatens the scientist.
"Mmhm," Viceroy moves the hand away. "And my nanopartical tongue sock will cheat you straight to victory, baby," He pulls out his remote that controls the tongue sock, turning it on. Bash babbles as the tongue sock glows purple.
"I don't taste nothing."
"Viceroy," McFist states angrily, and Viceroy simply shoves an apple in Bash's mouth. He takes a bite and the tongue sock analyzes the food in his mouth, giving the results as an apple.
"Ap-uhl. Uh, apple?"
"Mm-hmm," Viceroy nods in accomplishment, earning a happy giggle from McFist.
Howard signs his name for Doug, Randy feeding him some soup. He uses it like mouthwash and then spits it out into the bucket Randy's holding, while still signing.
"Soup," He answers simply as Amy approaches them.
"Mah!" Randy waves it off for him not being specific. "What kind of soup?"
"Alphabet. And you know what it spells? Calm down. I know you wanna win. I wanna win, but-" Randy shoves a banana in his mouth and he spits it out. "Plantain. Can't you have some fun too?"
"Howard's right, Ran," Amy speaks up, getting their attention. "It's not really about winning."
"Yeah, but look," Randy turns around so that she can see McFist and Bash. "Our arch-enemy is here, and if we don't beat him, it'll look bad on our Ninja and Kunoichi resume!"
"That's not a thing," She looks at him in confusion.
"It will be after we win! No time for fun. We need to warm up," He glances around for more food.
"Warm up? I am never cooled off," Howard brags with a grin.
"Howard knows his stuff, have a little faith this time," Amy explains to Randy, eyes widening when she sees him take a pepper. "Wait, don't-"
Randy shoves the pepper into his friend's mouth and Amy facepalms. "Okay, concentrate," Randy guides the red-faced Howard. "What kind of pepper did I just ram down your throat? You wanna win this? Dial in, baby. Howard! Howard!"
"That's enough!" Amy pulls Howard away and Randy finally realizes what he's done.
"Oh boy."
Howard lets out a painful scream as the red pepper burns his tongue to the point where it has to be bandaged. Randy has a guilty look on his face as he sits next to his best friend. Not even milk helped when the brunette got him some...
"What have I done? The nurse says it could be hours till you can taste again. We're shoobed," He puts his head into his hand with a deep frown.
"And you stink at tasting," Howard states with a lisp.
"No, I stink at tasting," Randy repeats, thinking that Howard suggested he do it.
"Just hold down the fort and maybe I'll get my taste back," Howard points to his tongue.
"No. I gotta hold down the fort. Maybe you'll get your taste back. Quick, switch places," Randy switches seats with him.
Heidi and Amy are in matching red dresses. Heidi has all types of pasta pattered on her dress while Amy has just spaghetti lines down her dress. Both of them have bow-tie pasta bows on, but Heidi has hers on the top of her head, and Amy has two holding her low-tie pigtails. The two girls also have matching yellow knee-length socks and red flats.
"Round one, Noodle-Rama!" The two announce together, gesturing to the screen behind them.
"Okay, pastafarians, on your mark, get set, what's in your mouth?" Heidi starts off.
Stevens feeds Flute Girl and she slurps, licking her mouth. "Spaghetti. Some sort of meat ball with garlic and basil."
The referees hold up two flags with smiles. "Lick down, four points!" Heidi announces as the scoreboard changes to give them four points.
"Yes! Super awesome!" Flute Girl pumps her fists. Bucky feeds Julian.
"Mm," He smacks his lips together. "Oh. Just a hint of...and subtle notes...there's a floral, yet earthy...I have no idea!"
Bucky facepalms and they get a buzz. Amy sighs a bit, facepalming herself as well.
Bash has a bunch of food all over his face as he's taste testing. "I'm eating food," He grins happily.
"Yeah, I know you're eating food. What are you eating?!" As McFist yells the last part, Bash cringes at the volume of his voice.
"Uh..." The tongue sock analyzes the food. "To-ma-toes. Ra-vi-ol-is. "Par-me-sian and or-eg-ano. Are these words?"
Nevertheless, he gets four points despite the mispronunciation of all of those words. Amy glances up at the scoreboard, looking at Bash. "Hmm," She narrows her eyes suspiciously. It's no surprise that Bash is kind of slow, but the way he's saying the ingredients is a little too off, even for him. He literally calls cookies eating circles. Something else was at work, and she didn't know what it was, but it was weird to say the least...
Randy smacks his lips together once Amy steps away from his table, having dropped off the food. "Mm. Mm-hmm. Okay. Okay. Macaroni-ish, but also butter-esque. Melty and warm yellow. I'm feeling yellow. Lot of yellow."
Amy winces slightly as the referees glance to each other, shrugging. They give them a half-hearted 2, to Howard's annoyance as he facepalms. Randy removes the blindfold to see that it's simply mac and cheese...
"Macaroni and cheese? This is so hard."
"Sorry guys..." Amy states in sympathy as she starts taking away the plates.
A few seconds later, she joins Heidi's side. "Round onezo's donezo. Say ciao to the losing chow hounds," She throws away her bow accessory, waving to Rhymez, Tiny Time, Principal Slimovitz, and a few other participants.
"Two teams are tongue-tied for the lead, while the reigning champs barely survived," Amy announces, Flute Girl and Stevens fist bumping each other. Bash goes to fist-bump McFist, but he just awkwardly shakes the hand with a nervous smile.
"Chew it or lose it, boys!" Heidi announces as Randy frowns a little, shoulders slumped.
"Ugh. We are losing it. We gotta chew it," The taller boy complains.
"And whose fault is that?" Howard accuses him, pointing to his still-bandaged tongue.
"You're right. I should check the Ninja Nomicon for...for something," Randy dives for the table as Howard crosses his arms in annoyance.
"That's not what I said."
Amy steps up to Howard, having seen Randy hide. "Uh, what is he doing?"
"Checking the Nomicon when it's his fault for my tongue!" Howard points to his mouth, and since she can read lips, she can understand him easily. And if she wasn't co-hosting with Heidi, she would've made a great translator...
"Oh boy..." She sighs deeply, pinching her nose. "I keep telling him don't resort to the Nomicon for stuff like this, but noooo..."
"Maybe you could help?" Howard wiggles his eyebrows deviously and she glares at him.
"Just because I know you doesn't mean I'll help you win."
"It was worth a try," He shrugs at her.
Randy opens up the book underneath the table, the pages flipping. Once he's shloomped, he falls to the side, his mouth wide open. He yells as he falls, landing in a canoe at sea. He sits up, wearing a doodle life jacket. He rubs his hands together.
"Okay, Nomicon, we're barely holding on out there. What do ya got?"
The advice then appears on the water. "Sometimes the only way to push forward is to pull back."
A flash of pink doodle clouds appear from opposite sides, and when it's gone, it's a doodle Ninja and Kunoichi. The Kunoichi doodle is sitting behind him, while the buff Ninja doodle is up in front, and both of them are holding oars. They start to row the canoe forward and then backwards.
"Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Very helpful," Randy starts to get impatient. "For a paddling contest! I don't need lessons. I need, like, super taste! Yeah." He smiles happily while clenching his fists. The two doodles give him confused looks. "Super taste, you got that, right? Come on, you're the Nomicon. You gotta have something for this. Clock is ticking. Hit me with super taste," He starts rocking the boat back and forth with his hands. He then grips the oar from the doodle Ninja, trying to snatch it. "I want super taste!"
The doodle Ninja lets go and he falls backwards into the canoe, suddenly alone as the two drawings have vanished. He looks around in confusion and water rises in front of him. He looks upwards as the water moves over to him, and part of it turns into his head. His eyes widen and it holds out the tongue. Randy is baffled, but opens up his mouth anyway, showing his tongue. The water moves forward into Water Randy's tongue touches his. He tries to pull back, feeling weirded out, and then the water engulfs him.
Once he's out of the book, he gasps as he sits in the chair. Howard looks at him wide-eyed, a bit startled from it. "Well?" He asks and is only earned with Randy licking at his mouth. He smacks his lips together and then chuckles at the new feeling in his mouth.
"Super taste," He has a smug look on his face.
"Super taste?" Howard asks in confusion.
"Super taste," Randy answers, waving his hands mysteriously.
"Super taste?" The obese boy turns to him fully.
"Super taste," Randy nods at him.
Amy's not around them because she had to change into a new outfit along with Heidi. They're now both wearing folk dresses, with white bonnets over their heads. Heidi is wearing a gown with various shades of blue with white ties. Amy has on a red smock, with a white ankle-to floor tunic, and her hair is in a low ponytail, tied with a white bow.
"Me thinks it's the medieval round," Heidi states, causing Amy to laugh a little. "Let's count down Roman style."
"I-I-I," The two girls say in unison, the symbol appearing between them on the screen. "I-I. I. Consumption!"
There's a bowl of porridge in front of Bash, who is once again a mess. "Porridge? What? That ain't a real thing."
They get 4 points and Amy looks at them again, raising a brow as she rubs her chin. Okay, now her suspicions are confirmed Bash couldn't possibly be winning on his own. He tasted it, and yet he knows what it is despite claiming it's not a real thing? Something was definitely awry. Now if only she could just figure out what it is...
"The boy's a natural. We're a lock!" McFist screams, gripping Bash's shoulders and shaking him slightly.
"Mm-hmm. I'm sure my invention has nothing to do with it," Viceroy replies smoothly.
"Way to turn a 'me' thing into a 'you' thing," McFist deadpans at him.
"Invention?" Amy murmurs to herself after reading their lips. "What?" She would call them out for cheating, but she'd also need proof, and she had a feeling that her accusations would be denied instantly, making her look like a fool.
Howard catapults a variety of food into Randy's mouth. He catches it into his mouth and then starts chewing. Super taste works like a charm as his eyes widen, his pupils getting bigger. The tongue opens up its pores, and in his head, three ingredients appear: barley, mutton, and stock.
"That is mutton in a broth of cabbage and salted herring with pickled barley," He chuckles, rubbing at his shirt. Amy and Howard both look at him in shock. "The mutton was seared a in hearth at 375 degrees. That cabbage, organic. The barley comes from a farm in west-mm, North Umberland. Hey, nice job picking out the ingredients, Ames, you know your stuff!"
Her mouth opens in disbelief at him as the duo gets 8 points! The two boys do a little victory dance and Randy grabs Amy, kissing her briefly.
"Mwah!"
"You may have some competition after all," Viceroy jerks a thumb to the duo.
"Crank it, Viceroy!" McFist yells, shaking the man urgently. "I do not sleep in a tent."
Viceroy cranks it up from 2 to 3.
"Ran, how did you know all that?" Amy asks in surprise. Just before, he was awful at tasting, and now he's suddenly an expert?
"You won't tell anyone, will you?" He glances around to make sure no one else is listening.
"McFist is already cheating and I can't expose him for it, what's worse than that?" She retorts back, crossing her arms.
"Super taste," He whispers, pointing to his tongue. She slowly raises a brow, staying silent for a few seconds.
"What...?" She questions once it's processed in her brain. "What the heck is-" Her eyes start to dilate and she grunts, putting a hand on her head.
"You okay?" He asks in concern.
"Yeah, it's just...I don't know what happened there. It was like my senses weren't working there for a minute..." She snaps out of it and then walks away, deciding to drop it.
Chew it or lose it
The competition continues on, with McFist and Bash in the lead, Randy and Howard catching up slowly.
It's all about mind over mouth
Amy eyes Randy and Bash, both using unconventional ways to help them advance. She's just grateful that Flute Girl didn't resort to their methods...
Feel your tastebuds come alive
Stevens, McFist, and Howard each stand next to a cannon, the co-hosts behind them. Both are now wearing pirate outfits with eye patches and feathered hats. Amy is wearing a white open-buttoned shirt under a maroon waistcoat, a brown belt and a dark turquoise jacket with ochre collars and gold buttons. She also has a golden hoop earring on her right ear. This time, her hair is in a waterfall braid resting over her right shoulder. She places a hand on her splitting head, still feeling a bit dizzy, though she had no idea why.
The three fire off the cannons one by one so that the tasters can catch them in their mouths...or at least, feel for them. The only one who catches it in their mouth is Randy, who falls backwards. He stands up while chewing and is in the lead with Howard.
The referee blows a whistle, and the two boys celebrate after winning more points. McFist grits his teeth, turning the level on the tongue sock from 3 to 4.
Chew it or lose it
The tongue sock works overtime, analyzing the food quickly to read it as beef and wheat, and they gain the lead again, cheering. Howard glares at them, rubbing his friend's shoulders and feeding him noodles with chicken. He only knows it's that because of super taste, and the two teams are neck-and-neck, with Flute Girl and Stevens just barely behind Howard and Randy. The other two teams score higher and higher to try and gain the lead, which is eventually given to Howard and Randy.
Heidi and Amy stand on stage wearing space suits, complete with their own helmets. The older girl is also holding the carp trophy in her hand. "Prepare for launch, tasternauts. The final round is Space Food!"
"Mm," Amy rubs at her eyes going crazy, and Randy's eyes start acting the same way. "Huh?" He notices the mole on Heidi's cheek, which turns into a zit somehow.
"Um, ew. When did your sister get that zit?" He turns to Howard, who is scraping his tongue with a fork. The sound of it reaches his two friends, Randy covering his ears out of sensitivity.
"What's happening?" Amy murmurs in confusion, holding her hair and gripping it. She looks up at Howard and then they hear clapping from another student, the sound of it intensifying. Amy looks to Heidi and steps off stage. "Heidi, I'm gonna go lie down..."
"Okay," Heidi stares after her in slight concern. A baby cries, and it's like a loud screech. Amy covers her ears as she passes the others, stepping outside. The noises from the faire start to pound in her ears and she stumbles back a bit, sweating a little.
Julian eats a burger, lets out a fart, but it's like an explosion to Randy, who gets a whiff of it. It then comes out of his mouth.
"What's happening to me?"
"Three, two, one, blast off to planet yum!" Heidi fires a space blaster in the air and Howard laughs as he fires a rocket, unaware of what's happening to his friends. The rocket opens up and the food goes flying into Randy's mouth, sending him backwards once again. He slowly chews and then swallows.
"Tastes overwhelming. It's freeze dried tofu. Powdered pot roast. Liquified broccoli."
They get major points and Howard holds up his arm with a laugh. McFist glares at the two.
Amy slowly walks past other people who wave to her, but she doesn't respond as she drags herself forward. She has no idea what's going on, it's like all of her senses are on overdrive. She can't even think straight to deduce what's happening to her.
"Thinks he's gonna win, does he? We'll see about that. Crank that tongue. Crank it all the way!" McFist declares to Viceroy.
"It hasn't been tested all the way," He protests to his boss.
"All the way!" The business man insists, grabbing the device and turning it up to all the way. "Alright, focus. I've got a camping trip to not go on."
The tongue sock starts acting weird as Bash's cheek moves. "Hey, this is tickly." His cheek inflates again. "Bad tickly." The other cheek inflates and then both his cheeks open, showing his teeth. His cheeks get bigger and McFist stares at him weirdly before Bash's tongue turns into a legitimate monster.
"Yeee. What's that?"
The monster roars loudly.
"That's all the way," Viceroy gestures to it.
Bash's body is dangling from his tongue, being swung around as the tongue moves on its own. "This isn't very fun," He mumbles from behind.
"It's a tongue-tastrophy!" Heidi runs away screaming as the monster tongue knocks over a table. It also smashes the remote that controlled the intensity of the tongue sock in the first place.
"Viceroy, stop that thing!" McFist yells at him.
"How am I supposed to do that?" Viceroy asks incredibly. "Tongue sock's out of control. And it's hungry."
Randy holds his head, groaning as everything is swirling in his head. People run past him screaming, but it just makes that worse for him and Amy. Amy falls onto the ground outside the tent. Randy glances to Howard sitting next to him.
"I think it's Ninja o'clock."
"No, it's Ninja o'clock," Once again, Randy did not understand a word Howard is saying. "Time to fight...somehow..." He crawls underneath the table to transform. "Ah. My eyes. I felt that in my eyes!"
Amy hears the commotion outside, lifting her head up to see the out-of-control tongue sock. "This has McFist all over it. Knew he was up to something..." She groans slightly, dragging herself over to an empty booth, hiding underneath the table. "Gotta stop it somehow with these wonk senses that somehow happened..." She sighs wearily and transforms. "Ahh, why is this so horrible to feel?!"
Ninja and Kunoichi both appear in a cloud of red and pink smoke, standing side-by-side. However, they can really smell the farts, which overpower the strawberry smell from Kunoichi's smoke bombs.
"Whoa. It's so schnasty..."
"Great, it hasn't worn off," Kunoichi pinches her nose in disgust.
"My senses are on overwonk," Ninja looks at his hands.
"You too?" Kunoichi turns to him in confusion. "But then why am I feeling this...?"
"I...may have acquired super taste from the Nomicon to help me and Howard win the competition?" Ninja asks nervously, hands behind his back. Kunoichi turns to him slowly, looking a bit miffed.
"So you cheated."
"I wouldn't use that word!" He denies, waving his hands as she places a hand on her splitting forehead. "...Okay, yes, I had the intent of doing that."
"That must be why I'm feeling the effects; it's just like when you abused your powers and I lost mine too in Booray's swamp," She gestures to him, sighing and rubbing a temple. "No wonder why I wasn't feeling well earlier. All of our senses right now feel like I'm on an energy drink! I hope you're happy."
"I'm definitely not, we've got taste, sight, smell, hearing. Feels like I'm forgetting one."
Before Kunoichi could even tell him, the tongue sock uses Bash's body to knock both of them into a food truck. They fall into a heap over the counter.
"Touch. I forgot touch, didn't I?"
"Oh yeah," Kunoichi puts a hand on her stomach as they both fall down onto the grass.
"That hurt so bad."
The tongue sock exits the tent as they both pull out their weapons, but because of the sun shining down on them, the weapons flash in their eyes.
"Ow."
"My eyes!" Kunoichi covers her eyes with her hands, dropping her fans. The tongue sock then smacks them into the sun, but they fall back down screaming. Once they land in front of the tongue sock, it smacks them again into a taco food truck. The pot of salsa tips over and falls over them.
"Salsa, so spicy. It burns!" Ninja writhes in pain on the grass as Kunoichi shakes off her salsa-covered hands.
"Hot, hot, hot!"
"Ninja! Kunoichi!" Howard thankfully comes in and sprays the two of them with milk to get rid of the salsa.
"Ah. Milk. So cool. So cold. I'm freezing," Ninja hugs himself, shaking on the ground. Kunoichi glances down at him and then looks up at Howard.
"Okay, no way we can fight that thing this way. We need our senses back, ugh," She squeezes her eyes shut as some milk goes over her eyes, which make her shiver slightly.
"You're both a mess," Howard states with his lisp.
"No, Howard, we're a mess," Ninja opens his eyes and Kunoichi facepalms at him. She didn't even read Howard's lips that time and she knew what he was saying. "We have been ever since I yelled at the Nomicon."
The tongue sock's tentacles then come in and grab the duo by the legs, causing them to yell as they're pulled backwards.
"You yelled at me too," Howard points out. The tongue sock throws them around and Ninja looks up at the obese boy, seeing his bandaged tongue.
"Sometimes the only way to push forward is to pull back." The two get pulled backwards, being flung over the tongue sock's head. "I pushed Howard and I pushed the Nomicon too hard." The tongue sock then throws them and they speak while flying backwards. "So it pushed back harder."
"So if we wanna get our senses back, we have to..." Kunoichi starts off.
"Pull back!" They say in unison, hearing something. They locate the source of the sound wave to a bee flapping its wings. The two take deep breaths, getting into calming positions. When they open their eyes, they turn back to normal and the sound from the bee gets quieter. They watch the bee fly by and then Ninja lands on top of the Food Faire tent, balancing himself on one foot. Kunoichi lands on top of another tent to his left, balancing herself with one hand at the top, her legs straight up above her. Both of them have their eyes closed as they focus.
"Are you okay?" Howard calls out to them.
"I gotta be honest, I haven't understood a word you've said all day," Ninja tells him.
"He asked if we were okay," Kunoichi chuckles at her partner.
"Oh! Then yeah, we're a-okay!"
The tongue sock screeches and they close their eyes again, listening for something being thrown. Howard looks up and sees a flying food truck heading his way.
"Ninja body block!" Ninja pushes him out of the way so fast that Howard blinked and missed it. He turns back to Howard. "Howard, my ninja super senses...I think I can control 'em...Huh?" He glances behind him to see the tongue sock throwing some fallen food at Kunoichi. She opens her eyes and releases her hair, holding a part of it to block the food. She flips and lands behind Ninja. She notices some tacos resting in her hands. "How about you?"
She simply picks up a taco and lifts up her mask. She takes a bite, smiling at the taste. "Mm, yummy."
"I guess that answers your question," Howard grins, grabbing the tacos from her in glee.
The tongue sock attacks again, and they simply move their arms around to block. "Ninja block. Ninja block. Ninja block. Ninja tentacle yank!" He grabs one of the tentacles and so does Kunoichi. Together, they spin around and throw the tongue sock into a stand. "Oh-hoo-hoo! This is the cheese!" Ninja cheers as he fist bumps Kunoichi, pulling her arm forward so that her body gets closer. She blushes as he leans forward, kissing her cheek. "I'm glad you're okay."
She looks up at him with a small smile behind her mask. "We can see better. We can hear better. We can smell..." They both take a sniff and Kunoichi recoils back with a gag, covering her mouth. "That you haven't changed your underwear in three..." Ninja lets out a groan. "Four days."
"Seriously, Howard? Disgusting."
"Hey!" Howard chuckles as other people watching look just as disgusted as the two Ninjas. "Thanks for saying that in front of everybody," Howard then glares at them.
"You tell me stuff I don't wanna hear all the time, should've thought of changing them before today," Kunoichi deadpans, pointing at him.
The tongue sock advances forward, and the two focus their senses again, staring at their opponent approaching. It lets out a growl and Ninja notices the peppers that he put in Howard's mouth just earlier today.
"Hmm?" Ninja takes a big sniff, and their guide tells them to put the peppers in the monster's mouth. "Ready?"
"Ready," She nods and they rush forward, running on one tentacle each. They glance at each other before jumping and dodging another tentacles.
"Ninja pepper pull!" Ninja grabs the three peppers off the plate, tossing them to the tongue sock. It smacks the peppers out of the way, but Kunoichi grabs them with her hair, capturing the tongue sock with another part of it. She flips and throws the peppers again, and this time the tongue sock eats them. It starts to burn up as she backflips, landing on the ground. Ninja slides to a stop next to her and she uses her hair to shield them both. The tongue sock explodes, but doesn't harm Bash in any way as he's sitting in the middle of the mess, groaning.
Ninja stands up, hands on his hips boastfully. "Tastes like victory."
Howard pulls off the bandage from his tongue. "Booo!" He jeers at the two.
They ignore him as they release two smoke bombs. "Smoke bomb!"
The three enter the tent, Randy waving them forward. "Come on, Howard. We can still win this thing."
"Really?" Howard raises a skeptic brow. "You're gonna start with that again?"
"Uh, I mean, if you want...if you want," Randy corrects nervously and Amy winces.
"I hate to break it to you guys, but..."
"As the only team who stayed at their table, the new Best Buds are Stevens and Flute Girl," Heidi announces, giving the girl the trophy.
"Yes!" Flute Girl cheers, hugging the trophy. "I'm so psyched!" She runs off with the prize, Stevens playing a tune as he leaves.
Randy gives Amy a look and she shakes her head. "If you had known that rule, would you really have stayed at the table?"
"...Good point," He agrees with her.
"You made us lose!" Bash accuses McFist. "I'm telling Ma!"
"Hmph," Viceroy smirks, crossing his arms.
"What are you smirking at?" McFist looks at him in the eye. "You're coming camping with us," He walks off after Bash.
"But I hate the outdoors," Viceroy protests as he follows.
"I know..."
"Well, at least the team who played fair won," Amy smiles a bit in amusement, glancing up at Randy. He turns to Howard.
"Howard, I'm sorry. Thanks to me, we're not the Best Buds anymore," Randy says in guilt.
"We may not have won Best Buds, but we're always gonna be..." Howard places a hand on Randy's shoulder. "Best buds."
Randy smiles a bit at the sentiment and then both boys end up laughing. Amy just shrugs with a small smile on her face. Knowing them, they're not as touchy-feely like Randy is with the brunette, and that was just fine with her.
"That's so good. That almost sounded sincere."
"Ha ha ha, I know, right?" Howard wipes away a tear from his eye. "You know, I think my taste is finally back. Maybe we should pop down to the bucket, start training for next year, huh? Your treat."
"It's always my treat," Randy smiles down at him, leading Howard and Amy away into the sun outside.
"And that's my treat."
Amy then flinches as she realizes something, turning back around. "You guys were just gonna let me walk into town wearing this space suit, weren't you?" She deadpans as the two snicker.
"But you look like a real astronaut!" Randy calls out to her. She just rolls her eyes and Randy catches up with her. "Wait, Ames," He comes to a stop in front of the girl, surprising her. "You and me, we're cool, right? I mean, about the whole super sense thing," He smiles nervously, hands in his pockets.
"Oh. Yeah, we're cool," She takes off her helmet. "Nothing surprises me about you or Howard anymore."
"Nothing?" He blinks at her, trying to sense for lingering anger, but it appears there isn't any. "Not even when I do shoob stuff like this?"
"You made potatoes come to live and attack us," She has a blank look. "Anything is possible with you."
"Yeah, but how do you deal with it?" He asks her incredibly as she walks past him to get her clothes.
"Patience. Lots and lots of patience. Oh," She looks over her shoulder to smile at him. "And because I know you have the right intentions most of the time. I trust you to realize your mistakes with or without my help...eventually."
He smiles back at her, hugging the girl. "I knew we were destined to be partners!"
She just laughs as he kisses her forehead.
