"While those fools are distracted by games, I'll have their entire world in chains!"

Gruntilda was intensively mashing away at the keyboard and clicking away at her mouse, which was one of LOG's pet mice forced to serve out her function. "Now to continue my programming, to reboot the island under my likening!" Looking at the monitor, she saw that they had already rescued that traitor Jingaling! Her eyes widened in surprise and she gasped. She made a huge mistake not paying more attention to that first game, making it a point to control the stipulations, rules and physics against the heroes. "They got past the undead Jinjos?! Well, they'll certainly hit their lows!"

Gruntilda looked at her Mumbo Party disc running in the system, spinning around as it ran on a television monitor. "If they're looking for a quick victory," the witch then pressed some buttons, hacking into her own shoddy game. She then set the amount of turns to infinity.

"Then let's see them try to win at INFINITY!" With a loud cackle, she smashed the button to set the stipulation into place. That bear and bird will have a rude awakening, they will.

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As they appeared on the party map, it felt incredibly corny. The entire arena looked like a condensed version of Mumbo's Mountain, except with a clear trail of red, blue, and mystery spots. Almost like a party game.

"Wow, this has got to be the stupidest thing I've ever seen." Kazooie groaned. King Jingaling on the other hand absolutely adored the idea.

"Oh, how fun! I've always wanted to do this sort of thing with my kingdom. A real life party game! It would've had a giant pair of die, some Jiggies if they're still worth anything, some spots where we would duel, a-"

"Jingaling, not to interrupt or anythin', but we need to save Mumbo." Banjo killed the excitement from the king swiftly.

"O-oh, right. My apologies." The king grinned and felt himself turn red a little. "I just get very excited over this sort.. Wait a second." Jingaling looked around for his little servant, and looked back up at the two. "Oh dear, my subject Twig is missing!"

"Oh, hold onto your crown, King Chickenwing, we'll find him. Probably hasn't strewn off too far.." Kazooie muttered.

The duo took a few steps forward onto the starting line until a blare of music trumpeted out on the map. Suddenly, a Gruntbot popped up in front of three of them, wearing a mushroom cap.

"We-we-we-welcome, to Mumbo's Mountain!" He yelled out with audible gears being heard from within the metal body, clanking together. "I am your robotic guide, Granty! That mountain you see behind me is Mumbo's Mountain! Your goal is to get as much Golden valuable Jiggies as possible to win the game, and become the Super Star of Mumbo Party!"

"Yeah, okay, and then we'll get our skull boy back after we win, right?" Kazooie wanted to waste no time, if it meant actually beating the game to save Mumbo.

"Oh, of course!" Granty looked at his notebook and skimmed through to see their settings. "Hmm, the stipulations you've set for this round.. four players, no handicaps, CPU players set on hard.. oh, and an infinite set of turns."

The heroes widened their eyes. Banjo and Jingaling looked at each other in shock, while Kazooie snickered. "Hahaha, good one. I never knew robots could tell jokes.. but seriously, how many turns?"

Granty ignored this question. "Oh, it appears you're missing a player! Hmm, that can't be good, no no, we need to add a fourth player!"

The breegull was starting to get worried, and called out for the bolt head to reply to her, waving her wings and leaping in place. "Hey, Danger Will Robinson! Answer me! HEY!"

Suddenly, a figure appeared behind the three players. A familiar shaman who has equally purple and green tinted eyes as Jingaling did under Gruntilda's control. "YEEHOO! I'AAAAM THIBBIST!" Mumbo apple in an uncharacteristically high voice, posing with a thumbs up, and one of his skull feathers moved above his lip as a mustache.

"Oh no.." Banjo looked at Kazooie, equally disturbed by what Gruntilda has done with their friend. "Grunty's done worse than I thought to poor Mumbo!"

"I know! If I knew I would have to listen to that voice, I would've let King Shrinkydink stay a zombie to murder me!"

"Ahem." The king crossed his arms and tutted at Kazooie.

"Well, I would."

Some die appeared over each of their heads, and in the order of them playing would be Banjo first, Mumbo second, Jingaling third, and Kazooie fourth.

"Oh, NO FAIR!"

Granty merely kept his composure. "No-no-no rerolls, sorry. Not. Get enough notes and you'll be able to grab Jiggies from the Jiggy Stand over there." He pointed to a Jiggy Stand, with Twig being kept in place with a ball and chain, forced to play his role. "Help! Help meee!"

"Aaaaagh, that hag's gotten us. We need to play her game until we can figure out how to get rid of that chip from Mumbo!" The king felt like it was a duty to help the two who have saved his people as much as they could in the past, with Banjo nodding.

"Uh, hello? We're basically stuck in this game for all eternity!" Kazooie looked at the bear.

"That may be so, but if the ol' hag's games are as bad as they are, we could prolly exploit'em in our favor!"

Kazooie stopped rambling, then brought a wing to her chin and stared down, pondering. "You know Banjo, that just might be conveniently stupid enough to work in our favor."

"Guh-ha-hyuck, ah try." Banjo gave a cheesy grin.

And so, Banjo rolled his dice and got a good five spaces. Right into the blue square. He got three notes! "Gwa-hoo!"

The possessed Mumbo rolled the dice and got one space. Immediately, he was rewarded with a twenty five note bonus.

"Excuse me?!" Kazooie yelled out loud, immediately trying to move after Mumno but finding herself stuck in place. "You.. can't do.. that.. you freakin' CHEATER!"

"YAHA!" Mumbo screeched, fist bumping in the air as he had enough notes to get a jiggy.

Gruntilda, in her control room, was grinning gleefully and giggling. Even if she didn't NEED to make Mumbo win, she had lots of fun toying with the other players and making them lose. "Their anger and rage will be their undoing, see them rage as I keep on screwing! AAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA!"

The king rolled his dice, and landed on a red space behind Banjo. "Oh, nuts. Well, I suppose I'm on the opposing side.."

Finally it was Kazooie's turn. She threw the dice as hard as she could, and moved up nine spaces. Same with Jingaling, it was a red space.

Granty then flew in on a jetpack, looking at every player. "Hoohooo! Okay! We've got ourselves a two versus two match! Bear and Skullman versus Big Bird and Parrot!"

"I'm a BREEGULL!" Kazooie yelled, spitting out various eggs at him that he tactfully missed. "And furthermore, this whole game is stupid and so are you! I wouldn't be surprised if you were in charge of producing this game, since it's producing nothing but A RAGING HEADACHE!"

"I.. I dddidn't…" Do robots feel sadness? It appears Granty did, as he suddenly cried oil fluids and bawled, flying off stage and leaving the four off to be teleported to a minigame.

".. guys?" Twig was left to occupy the Jiggy space all alone. "Hello..?"

And as they appeared on the minigame field, all four of them on bouncy balls. "YAHOO! HERE WE GOOOO! YAAHAAA!" Mumbo yelled. For without the Gruntbot to schedule which mini game they should be in, the game couldn't compute properly!

Gruntilda merely shook her head, disgusted at the Gruntbot showing such dumb emotions. "Robots with emotions make me gag! A lesson learned in engineering for the old hag.. I feel that this game will be the last of the duo, now to work on my inevitable conquest to rule!" She flipped on a random game for the four to be stuck in forever, as she went off to get some pretzels and soda. "PIDDLES! Is my evil snacks ready yet?! I want to rule the world with my hunger met!"

And because of such negligence from the witch, the players appeared in a circle.. on bouncy balls. Banjo, Kazooie, and Jingy looked at their large balls and groped at them with their feet. "Huh, never been on one of these before." Kazooie muttered.

But before Kazooie could get too used to having balls under her, the mini game started.

START!

"What the?!" Immediately, Mumbo went after Kazooie, bouncing into her and attempting to push her off. "AH! Quit it, you mustachio'd douchebag!" Kazooie moved out of the way, and immediately the shaman targeted Banjo. It was clear to the three heroes that they needed to gang up on him. "Kazooie! Dinglehopper! We gotta work together to get that chip offa Mumbo!"

"Yeah, but we don't even know where it is!" Jingaling said, saying a line because he doesn't have enough in this story anyways. Immediately, he saw the chip against the back of Mumbo's skull. "Oh."

"Looks like Mumbo is about to get skullf-"

"KAZOOIE!"

"I was ABOUT to say skullboned!"

"... KA.. zoo.. ie?" Nevertheless, Banjo and Kazooie started to gang up on Mumbo.. before promptly knocked out of the arena into the water by broken game physics. "WAAAH!" Banjo and Kazooie were instantly knocked out of the arena whilst Mumbo was just standing there. Doing nothing. Mumbo was close to winning by doing nothing. This was then left up to Jingaling, who was more than skilled at these nondescript copyright friendly party games, as well as having plays with his balls as the owner of the Jinjo Bingo Enterprises. He and his subjects were experts at fondling with their-

Um, sorry.

King Jingaling revved up himself, and started to charge at Mumbo, who was equally charging at Jingaling. The two balls bounced, as the two glared at each other. The possessed shaman versus the king of bingo and Jinjo. He's a king of a lot of things that end with O. The Jinjo King bounced his ball in place, and leapt off it, charging at Mumbo with his rarely used airborne ability. "JINJOOOOOO!"

And BAM, down went the shaman as he's knocked to the grass, groaning. As he didn't technically fell off the stage, he wasn't in danger of losing. Jingaling knew he wasn't going to let this opportunity pass up though, and rushed over to Mumbo to grab at the Jiggy shaped chip. With a yank, the Jinjo King yanked it off Mumbo, and the game instantly glitched out. Immediately, Banjo and Kazooie fell to the ground once again, and groaned.

"Graaaah, can't we go one chapter without falling to the damn ground?!" Kazooie whined.

"I think I just saved Mumbo, seeing as that I have this chip in my hand." Jingaling waved around the jiggy shaped chip. Immediately, Twig ran up to Jingaling's leg and hugged at it. "Oh, my sire, I didn't expect adventuring to be this hard!" The Jinjo King smiled and patted at the back of Twig's head. Dawwwwwwwww.

"Oh, you were literally a background character, it wasn't that hard." Kazooie said before getting a smack to the back of her head by Banjo. Immediately, she snapped back and pecked at her partner's head. Before they did yet another fight-banter, a staff separated the two. Mumbo's staff, to be clear.

"Woah, woah. Mumbo not know what happen here, but need shave unsightly facial.. And explanation of what going on."

Then the bear and bird clued him in, and without wasting more time on exposition, Mumbo nodded. "Mumbo see, witch back and bear and bird need handsome shaman's help once again."

"I wouldn't say 'handsome'. A zero out of ten at best." Kazooie snarked, rolling her eyes. "Well," Banjo looked at the third game they would be in. "It looks like our next game would be.. Jolly Dance." He said with a bit of a shiver. Banjo respected Jolly and the way he swung.. But he really wished the frog didn't swing towards him.

"Right," Jingaling grinned and placed the second chip back inside LOG's compartment, briefly re-activating him and having him stare at the heroes. "Oh yes, you brought back the one who was useful for two games."

"ALL games."

"Nope, two games." LOG gleamed before twinging and feeling his television screen short out bit. "Ggdfhfgkhhgg- - - - - - I'll activa̖ṱ̣̣̪̗̙̘e̴̬ ͝yo͓̺̮̮͇̰̩̕u̥r̹̰͔͈̬̪͝ͅ ͓̲̩͚̘n͖͙̺e̺͡ͅx͓̺̰̹̗͜ț̶̗̝ ̙̣͠g̣͓̻̖a a a a̖̲͉͇ṃ͍̼̕e…"

And soon enough, LOG opened up the entrance to Jolly Dance, a game where you must do nothing but dance, dance, dance! "In ret-t-trospect, I didn't expect dancing games to still be relevant this year, but eh. That's what the E rated audiences like."

"You mean like, kids?" Banjo asked.

"Of course. You don't think I would keep making cash-in video games for nothing, right? Some of them break my soul, like that damned Bee Movie gam- I'm wasting your time here, JUST GO-o-ooo-OO!"

Twig stayed behind, as he wasn't interested in dealing with games and such anymore after the traumatizing event of being an engineered space on a game map to give out stars- I mean Jiggies. The bear, bird, jinjo and shaman entered into the next game, hoping it wasn't as disappointing as this chapter.