Facades

Chapter 30 cover shows Muko and Kalita doing a gravure session.

## Chapter Info

**Chapter 30: Facades** is the thirtieth chapter of Furry Fight Chronicles. It's also the first chapter of the fourth volume.

## Summary

The chapter starts with a flashback of 1994. A young hedgehog woman finally reached the best training facility of Tendonchi, the Fortune Factory. She sees some Combagals doing squats and recognizes Temsia and Copymeleon, but she can't recognize their training partner, causing her to realize she's a newcomer. She gets surprised at the newcomer being very tall. The hedgehog approaches the Combagal. She introduces herself as Ida, voicing her desire to become a Combagal. The newcomer, revealed to be a younger and happier Freydar, tells Ida that Cookie is inside before resuming her training.

Ida goes to the Fortune Factory, pleased with how nice Freydar is. She considers the possibility of her and Freydar being tag team partners since they're both new. As Ida ponders over taking the first step to make her dream come true, she meets Fortune Cookie, who tells her to not bother. Ida voices her desire to become a Combagal, causing Cookie to ask her how do hedgehogs wrestle. Ida is distressed when Cookie tells her that she can't be a Combagal because her quills make her a hazard for friend and foe. The flashback ends with Cookie asking Ida to leave since she's useless to her.

Back in the present, in 1997, Cookie introduces her Combagals to Ida Huggler, the best seamstress in Tendonchi. She informs Muko that Ida made her maid costume thanks to her third eye for fashion and her quills acting as giant sewing needles. Ida coldly tells Cookie that she's not her friend, considering the squirrel as one of many clients. Her mood shifts to an excited one when she shows a dominatrix outfit to Muko and Kalita.

Cookie complains to Ida, saying that her Combagals have a cheerleader motif as Team Pom Pom Power. Ida is disgusted with the outfits, stating that they came out of a soapland. Kalita agrees with Ida, choosing an undead angel devoured of hell as her motif, which makes Ida happy at Kalita's taste. Meanwhile, Muko puts on a black wrestling match that Ida deems a perfect choice for the rabbit. Cookie gets angry, telling Muko that she looks like a Heel. She reminds Muko of Adelgund's sacrifice, telling her that she let Nyarai defeat her so that Muko could remain a Face. Feeling guilty, Muko takes off her mask, much to Ida's displeasure.

Cookie gives Muko and Kalita a bikini for each of them. They will use Ida's professional photo studio to have their first gravure session. Kalita is dismayed, while Muko is excited as she tries to control her urges. Cookie wants to use the gravure pictures to promote her Combagals while using the money to keep the loan sharks away until the day of the match. As Cookie takes the pictures, Ida states that Cookie's desire to have Face Combagals is because she doesn't want to be hated. Cookie tries to rationalize herself using sociology, causing Ida to point out that Cookie is still a has-been at the bottom of her career. Offended, Cookie accuses Ida of holding a grudge on her for not letting her be a Combagal. Ida states that she loves her current life, stating that she outgrew Cookie in size and bust. Enraged, Cookie states that she's tall and well-endowed for a squirrel as she tackles Ida, getting her face comically covered in quills as Ida notes how easy to tease she is.

Ida turns her television to show Cookie and her Combagals the Tendonchi Challenges Recap Show, stating it may give them a clue of what they're supposed to do in the current Tendonchi Challenges. The chapter ends with Muko, Cookie, Kalita, and Ida watching the show. An extra page shows Muko close to Kalita as she admires her body, much to the vixen's annoyance.

## Continuity

* Ida is the tailor who made Muko's maid dress in Chapter 3.
* Muko finds the wrestling mask that she uses in the cover of Act 1 and Part 1.
* Cookie mentions Adelgund's sacrifice in Chapter 17.

## Trivia

* Muko's mask being cursed and coming from a mask merchant is a reference to The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.