Down at the Misfit Fishing Hole
That Wednesday at the Misfits had started out uneventful. After training the Misfits then went to class with their guest teacher Airtight. Five minutes later after the fire had been put out it was decided that the kids would have the rest of the day off and that Airtight would no longer be allowed to teach any chemistry classes for a long time.
So that afternoon Roadblock and Low Light found themselves by the dock of the Joe base fishing with Todd and Xi. "We're not gonna catch anything you know." Low Light grumbled.
"The purpose of this is not to catch but to try," Roadblock explained. "It's about spending time with Toad and Xi."
"So this is fishing with a pole," Xi observed. "Interesting. So you just sit here and wait for a fish to come and eat the bait?"
"Yeah," Low Light nodded. "IF CERTAIN OTHER PEOPLE DON'T EAT IT FIRST! TOAD KNOCK IT OFF!"
"But these crickets are good," Todd gulped another one down.
"Yes why are we fishing if we already have food?" Xi asked. "Is not the purpose of fishing to take the life so that we may sustain life? If we do not need the fish's life, are we not taking it for sport? And isn't that wrong?"
"Look Xi in the first place the chances of us getting a fish around here are pretty much nil to begin with," Low Light said. "Between all the activity in the harbor here and your racket I can't see how any fish would want to be here!"
"But there is no one else in the harbor here today," Xi pointed out. "They are all on maneuvers. It is possible we can catch a fish."
"Xi even if that did happen we'll just throw the fish back," Roadblock explained.
"But isn't that cruel?" Xi asked. "If we want to spend time together wouldn't it be better to watch TV instead?"
"The kid has a point here," Low Light remarked.
"Yeah and you don't need a pole to get a fish," Todd shot out his tongue into the water and grabbed a fish. He showed it to them. "Theee?" He said, trying to speak with a fish in his tongue. He gulped it down. "Yummy!"
"Okay we're done," Roadblock started to pack up. "TV time!"
"Yay!" Todd rejoiced and hopped away. They were unaware that they were being watched from the water by a Cobra sub.
"I thought they'd never leave," Mindbender hissed. "Zandar are you ready?"
"As ready as I'll ever be to infiltrate that base full of lunatics," Zandar grumbled.
"Just find the device and get out of there fast," Mindbender told him. "The Joes will never know what hit them!"