Juulian creeps his way into the Baldie Convention after passing the survey, and heads into the bathroom to start vaping. While he's in there, though, he spots Poblano's secret tub of concentrated Capsaicin, and cannot resist the urge to plunge his hands into it and fish around until he finds some kind of switch and pulls on it. This results in the spicy suppressor being turned off, and Juulian screams as he experiences the sensation of his flesh being turned to magma. Poblano comes rushing in, and promptly turns the spicy suppressor back on, but Juulian is already melted beyond recognition, so Poblano just tosses him into the tub and acts like nothing happened, since there's nothing he can do to rectify the situation.
Shark Supremo hears a knock on her door again, and opens it up, but when she sees who's on the other side, she promptly tries to slam the door closed, but the person's gloved hand catches it.
"You couldn't hide forever. Especially since you hardly made an effort." the person states. "It'd be in your best interests to do exactly as I say, and absolutely nothing else."
"I could say the same to you, bitch. I know your whole deal, Kassandra." Shark responds. Kassandra T. raises her eyebrow and snickers from behind her face mask.
"Clearly that's not true. You just know my name." Kassandra says tauntingly, before unveiling a vacuum unit much like the one Hhid N. used to kidnap Cybr. Before Shark Supremo can react, she finds herself captured within, and Squidd follows shortly after. "You see, I could've done this a while ago, but I've been very, very busy. It just so happened that you showed up around the same time I left to deal with Cybr, and you were on the way."
Kassandra heads outside and gets in her car, placing the capsules containing Shark and Squidd in the back seat, before driving out of the best and towards Costa Brava.
Back at the Baldie Convention, one more person has taken note of Dumb Donald's advertising, which consists entirely of dropping the sign over and over while trying to spin it. This person is Shekels E. Stanton, a jolly lad who is notable for holding the number 37 spot on the skeleton leaderboard despite not seeming to be a skeleton in the traditional sense.
"Hey buddy pal friendo, what are we doin' over here?" Shekels asks Donald. Donald points at the sign, and the nearby poster board with a more in-depth explanation of General Albert's mission, since Donald himself was strictly told not to try to explain things on his own. Shekels looks over the poster, and only one thing seems to catch his eye.
"It says here you guys offer free snacks to your members every time you meet, is that true?" Shekels asks, and Dumb Donald gives a nod. "Count me in, then!"
Shekels shakes Donald's hand, and writes his name on the applicant list, being the only other name there besides Windmillard. Shekels then gets in line to attend the taco eating competition.
After driving for several hours, Kassandra arrives in Costa Brava, and parks her car outside of the World Crime League's current headquarters. She steps out of the car and walks up to the front door, finding it to be locked, to her surprise.
"Hm. I was under the impression this place was open to visitors." Kassandra mumbles to herself, before knocking aggressively on the door. Windsor opens up the door.
"Hi, welcome to the WCL! Are you here to apply for a job?" Windsor asks cheerily.
"No. I have business with someone who works here." Kassandra states.
"Good, because we aren't hiring right now. Who do you have business with? I can take you to their office."
"Cybr."
"Okay, follow me." Windsor leads Kassandra up to the second floor, and knocks on the door to Cybr's office. After getting no response, Windsor turns to Kassandra. "Are you sure this is the time you were supposed to meet him? He might be busy or something."
Kassandra ignores Windsor, instead slipping the master keycard for the building out of Windsor's back pocket, and using it to open Cybr's door, before tossing it back to Windsor.
"Hey, wait, you can't just go in there uninvited like that!" Windsor calls out, scrambling to catch the keycard, but Kassandra doesn't listen to him, and instead walks right inside. By the time Cybr turns around to Kassandra, she's already brought out another vacuum unit, and doesn't give Cybr any opportunity to get away as she captures him inside. Windsor watches Kassandra walk past him, and follows her as she goes outside and back to her car, but makes no effort to stop her, as she clearly seems much stronger than he is. Kassandra glances back at Windsor and leers at him with her single eye, before tossing the container holding Cybr into the back seat, and driving off. Unable to take any further action, Windsor heads back inside, closing the door behind him and locking it.
Kelbeo arrives back at the Painforest with Alabaster Alan, and leaves him with Benny to get accustomed to his new job.
"Ah, so you're the new guy." Benny notes. "Nice to meet you. My names Benny Hills, what's your whole deal?"
"My name is…" Alan looks back and forth, glancing over his shoulder as though he thinks he's being followed. He peels off his nametag from the convention and looks at it, before crumbling it up and putting it in the pocket of his golden shorts. He then leans in close and lowers his voice to a hushed whisper. "Alan. Alabaster Alan. I am…" Alan inspects his shaky fingers, as though performing some kind of calculation with them in his head. "Pleased to have this position. Yeah. Can't wait to help guard the jungle."
"Well, great to see you're enthusiastic about it!" Benny remarks, ignoring Alan's odd behavior. "Seems like you'll fit in just fine."
When Cybr, Shark Supremo, and Squidd regain consciousness, they find that they have all been placed in a large glass cell, with no clear entrances or exits. Based on what can be observed beyond the cell, it seems they are in some kind of lab environment, though it doesn't seem all that organized, with random junk and papers seemingly just scattered about the floor as if it's someone's messy room.
"I feel like I'm allowed to blame you for this shit." Shark declares, glaring at Cybr.
"Hi allowed to blame you for this, I'm Dad!" says Dad, appearing on the other side of the glass.
"Real funny, Dad." Shark groans.
"You chose to leave." Cybr states.
"Ugh, just shut up. It'll be ideal for all of us. You have any idea who we're up against?"
"No."
"Well, just know that whatever the fuck we're in for, it sure isn't gonna be pleasant. Even the Order considers this chick's methods a tad…extreme."
Shark Supremo examines the walls of the cell, and finds them to be very heavily reinforced. The chamber as a whole seems entirely airtight, without even the slightest crack or opening to be taken advantage of. It seems that the trio is totally trapped, and at the absolute mercy of Kassandra and whatever it is she may have planned for them.