Meanwhile, With Bruce...
Bruce felt as if he was in his younger days...his REALLY Younger days...when he was a baby...everything he looked at was just either plush, blocked off, or didn't even exist anymore. He then started to unconsciously shake the rattle that was once his cane in his hands "Would it be bad...to just forget about the fruit and just live out my youth again?" He asked himself...as his thumb slowly started to make it's way to his mouth..."Uh...Bruce?" A voice snapped him out of his trance. He turned to see his vaccum Negaboss, Hooverton looking at him as of he'd lost his mind "What in Wonderworld are you doing?" He asked Bruce held the rattle behind his back. "I...Uh...What are YOU doing?!" He shot back, trying to redirect the conversation "I was trying to figure out why on EARTH my plugs had been wrapped in rubber and bubble wrap, why my bombs had become bouncy balls, and why I look like a rubber toy. " Hooverton explained. Bruce looked down "Well, I'm trying to find the Wonder Fruit. This cure for Balan's crazy hiccups..." He explained. "What's a Wonder Fruit?" Hooverton asked "Well...here's the thing Hoovey...I have no idea." He replies "But the only way anyone is gonna find the tree, is the fact that Fortie is traveling from stage to stage on the tree, so we'll know that we're close if we find " Bruce was cut off by Fortie's angry grumbles about "traveling at the speed of magic and you don't have a barf bag" "Fortie..." He finished as the two of them ran towards a wobbly tree that looked like patchwork quilt, as rattle-like cherries hung from the tree. The two of them ran towards the tree before something struck Bruce in his head...a thought...it told him to play with the pretty toys that sat to the side...The old man crawled over to them, as he had forgotten how to walk. Hooverton however, had started arguing with Fortie to get down from the tree "NO! YOU CAN'T MAKE ME!!" The pawn yelled, throwing a soft branch at Hooverton.
"Fortie...You're either gonna get down, or I'm gonna suck you out of the tree myself." The vaccum threatened. Fortie grinned. "I would worry more about your host instead, he seems rather occupied." He said, pointing at Bruce playing with some toy bears "Thisisn'tover!" Hooverton said quickly as he floated towards the old man "BRUCE!! What are you doing?! That's the fruit isn't it?!" He asked, before Bruce yelled in a strange baby like gone "WATTLE!! ME WOVE WATTLE!!" He said, crawling towards the tree Hooverton had a look of disbelief, what has gotten into Bruce? The old/young human crawled towards the rattle shaped fruit before the tree vanished into thin air. Bruce felt tears Well up in his eyes as he released a loud, ear-piercing wail Hooverton covered his ears as he awkwardly rocked Bruve "Now Now Bruce...its OK, We'll look somewhere else and...(Sniff, Sniff...) YUCK! What's that smell?!" Hooverton asked as plugged his face. The old baby man looked down...he needed to be changed...
Meanwhile, With Lance...
The Negati king had tried to what he could when it came to damage control, but it was no use, even with his own power intact, he couldn't stop the power that was Balan's hiccups. All of his Negati had become, as the kids called them "NFTs"...whatever that meant. "This is not good...not good at all. Without the fruit. Wonderworld and their world will fall..." Lance said as he seen the hoards of humans in the real world lose their own Balance over the chaos of Balan's hiccups. "I hope that they find the cure soon, because if they don't, both our worlds are doomed..."