"So far, so good," Max Goof said, looking through a yellow pair of binoculars.

Wearing his red lifeguard swim shorts, he was in a lifeguard's boat on the sea next to La Sugarville Beach in Florida. He was with his friend and lifeguard partner Cyber-Crocodile, who was half crocodile and half cyborg from St. David, Wales and wearing her lifeguard's red one-piece swimsuit. Her nickname was Cy-Croc and that was what he always called her. The two lifeguards were sent by their boss Captain Board to do their boat watching duties and keep an eye on the people in the sea, as she and the other lifeguards were busy looking after the people on the beach. As today was a very warm summer day, there were a lot of people having fun in the sea, including swimming, playing ball, snorkelling, scuba diving, snuba diving and helmet diving, and there were a lot of people having fun on the sea, including surfing, water skiing, wakeboarding, parasailing, tubing, windsurfing and kitesurfing. Despite how very busy the beach and the sea were, everyone was a lot of fun but they were still behaving and following the safety rules.

"No disasters so far," Max said. "No accidents, no fights and none of our flaming monster friends after us."

He was referring to the evil Fire Army, who for some reason wanted him and they would have done it if his friend Cy-Croc wasn't there to make sure he never did.

"Or maybe that's what they want you to think, Max," Cy-Croc said. "Just don't let your guard down, like you were taught in lifeguard school."

"I know," Max said.

"I know this past week has been calm and peaceful without our flaming monster friends around," Cy-Croc said, "but we must remain alert. I just don't want to risk losing you to our flaming monster friends."

"I get you," Max said. "I just want this business with our flaming friends to be over."

It had been nearly two weeks since the day those flaming monsters tried to grab Max and take him to their leader back in Spoonerville, but Cy-Croc managed to get him first and took him with her in order to keep him safe from those flaming monsters. He had to stay with Cy-Croc until this business was over because whoever wanted him and whatever that person wanted him for wouldn't be good at all. He couldn't even contact anyone he knew – not by phone, email or social media – because if anyone knew he was okay, not only would that put him and Cy-Croc in danger, but them as well. The only way he could contact anyone with was through his disguise as Budlin Maskton or Bud Mask for short, which a lot of people called him after he told them that was his name. Cy-Croc had her own disguise as a full crocodile to hide her cyber parts and she had a fake name, which was Awel Caddell.

Max wondered how long this business with the flaming monsters would have to continue and he could go back to being himself and his family and friends instead of pretending to be someone else to avoid capture.

But this hiding in disguise business wasn't too bad; some good did come out of this. For a start, Max and Cy-Croc became great friends. They didn't have to; he just had to trust her and do whatever she said, but they both became better friends than either of them expected to be. They also had somewhere where they could take shelter and eat – in a pool house that belonged by his former neighbour and the closest thing he ever had to a mother, Peg. It was her way of saying thank you for rescuing her teenage daughter Pistol, who was also the closest thing Max ever had to having a sister. But the trouble was, because none of them knew that he was Max and he would always use his Bud Mask disguise in front of them, both mother and daughter had a crush on him. They didn't know that his partner was half crocodile and half cyborg because she was using her Awel Caddell disguise in front of them as well.

More good came out of this adventure with Cy-Croc because they have been very busy lifeguards and they rescued a lot of people. One rescue he remembered doing very fondly was rescuing Jane-Lynn Johnson, the teenage daughter of his idol Powerline and one of social media's biggest celebrities, which happened on their official second day on the job. Jane-Lynn and her friends took her dad's most expensive yacht and then they did their own helmet diving. They were wearing plastic diving helmets and wearing their bikinis and without supervision. They were exploring some sunken ships, but they all got trapped in them. They wouldn't have even survived if Cy-Croc wasn't in the lifeguard boat with Max and she hadn't spotted the victims with her digital red eye on their way back to the beach. Max put on his scuba-diving gear on; Cy-Croc didn't need any breathing equipment as she was half cyborg and could breathe and stay underwater for a very long time. But both of them put on their disguises before they dived in and rescued the victims from the ships before them ran out of air. When Jane-Lynn regained consciousness, she thanked 'Bud Maskton' for his heroic deed and took a photo of him and her together for her social media accounts to show how grateful she was to him. After that photo got posted, liked and shared, Bud Maskton and Cy-Croc became social media celebrities. No, THE biggest social media celebrities of all time. Everywhere they went, whether it be on La Sugarville Beach or on the sea or down the streets of La Sugarville, people would spot them. Almost every girl and woman, even the married ones, who saw Max in his Bud Maskton disguise would hug him, ask him for a photo or an autograph and beg him to marry her. The same went for Cy-Croc, or rather her in Awel Caddell disguise, with every boy and man, even the married ones. Cy-Croc could act better with it because she wasn't into guys. Despite them becoming social media celebrities and considered being very good role models, both Cy-Croc and Max were glad that it was their disguises that were getting the attention and not themselves otherwise the Fire Army and their leader would come for them immediately.

"Maskton! Caddell! Come in!"

Cy-Croc grabbed the radio on the boat. "Receiving you loud and clear, Captain Board. Go ahead."

"We have spotted a yacht a mile west away from you. It's on fire, smoking and sinking, but no one has called the Coast Guard. Go over there and do the very best you can until more help arrives. I will send lifeguards Park and Nelson to relieve you of your boat watching duties."

"Yes, Captain. Heading there now." Then Cy-Croc put the radio back. "Hang on tight, Max!"

Max held onto tight. "Ready, Cy-Croc!"

Then Cy-Croc grabbed the wheel, pulled the throttle down, turned the boat in the west direction and speeded away.