"So," the Delightful Children said. "How's the new job, Hoagie?"
Hoagie P. Gilligan slid out from under the large truck he was working on. He had traded his school uniform and pilot goggles for blue overalls and safety goggles and he had a tool belt around his waist. "It is great," Hoagie said in his new monotone voice. "Tommy and I are making plenty of money with the new garage we've opened up."
"And," the Delightful Children said. "What do you intend to do with the money?"
"Well, with enough money, I will be able to construct..." He pulled out some blueprints and showed it to his new friends. "THIS!"
The Delightful Children took the blueprints and looked them over. They grinned wickedly. "Oh, yes. This will destroy the Kids Next Door forever!"
Even after being Delightfulized, Hoagie and Tommy Gilligan never gave up their love for technology and aircraft. In fact, Hoagie took a job as a mechanic while Tommy took a part time job as a garage worker so he could be by Hoagie's side. Together, the two of them fixed cars, trucks, planes, boats, ships, bikes, you name it, they could fix it. That was to be their future when they grow up and join glorious adulthood.
On the sidelines, however, they also crafted weapons and vehicles to destroy the Kids Next Door. Tripod fighting machines with hot sauce rays, robots with tree-chopping, flaming chainsaws; embankment machines for uprooting KND tree houses and many more vile contraptions. They planned on giving it to the adults in exchange for money. That was how business worked.
"Say," Hoagie said. "Are you interested in buying a new vehicle?"
"What do you have?"
Hoagie led them to the vault where all his new weapons and vehicle were stored. Unlike the Kids Next Door's 2x4 Technology, these were made of steel, stone and concrete, perfectly capable of wiping out anything made of 2x4 Technology. He showed them the latest one: it looked like a winged saucer made of brass with a green front and wing tips. Mounted on its back was a red periscope with an orange light.
"Very latest fighting machine. It will disintegrate every Kids Next Door weapon within a five mile radius, leaving them nothing but a pile of dust!"
"And rendering them very easy to defeat once their technology is gone," the Delightful Children laughed. "Oh, Hoagie. If we knew destroying the Kids Next Door would be so easy, we would have you Delightfulized ages ago!"
Hoagie smirked wickedly. "Well, better late than never."