Short Fuse

### Likes

Explosives, his friends, looking tough, working with Corporal, weapons, helping Hansel, wrestling, parties, going fast

### Dislikes

Being called cute, confrontations, Whiskers, global chaos, his inventions not working, Classified's stubbornness, Jett's death

### Status

Active

**Short Fuse** is a tough snow seal and a major character in the feature film, *the North Pup* and in t*he Enchanted Pup* franchise. He serves as the demolition expert of the North Winds and a close friend to the members of his team.

## Background

Short Fuse was born and raised in China where he became interested in engineering. His love in engineering led to him to pursue a degree in engineering. When Short Fuse got his degree, he got a job offer from the North Winds saying that they need a demolition expert. Short Fuse accepted the job offer and became a member of the team where he befriended Corporal, Eva and Classified.

### Development

Short Fuse is based off the character with the same name from the animated feature film, the *Penguins of Madagascar.*

### Personality

Short Fuse may be cute but he sees himself as a living weapon. He is the demolition expert of the North Winds and because of his job, he loves explosives and has a keen knowledge on how to make an ordinary weapon go out with a "boom." Short Fuse's intelligence encouraged him to create new technology to support the North Wind business. His weak spot with creating new technology is when it doesn't work correctly. Short Fuse can be easily frustrated by defective technology or when someone calls him small or cute in a smug manner.

Short Fuse does have a kind and sympathetic side in his personality. For one, when Classified was going through a tough time because of the loss of his brother, Short Fuse comforted the latter when he was telling Hansel, his backstory. When Classified was knocked out by Whiskers, Short Fuse cuddled with Hansel, seeing that he was the one who was sad the most. In the cartoon series, Short Fuse poses as a loyal friend to Hansel, whenever he's in need of help, the snowy seal is more than happy to help his friend.

Short Fuse's optimism and recklessness matches up with Corporal's optimistic and reckless nature, making them both loyal, clumsy and wise-cracking sidekicks to Classified and Hansel

### Physical appearance

Short Fuse is a small Arctic snow seal, he doesn’t feet but he has flippers. The way he gets from place to place, is he jumps.

### Powers and abilities

* **Seal Physiology:** Short Fuse is an anthropomorphic seal
* **Powerful Speed:** With the belt that Short Fuse designed, he is able to get from place to place without jumping or having someone carrying him.
* **Genius-Level Intellect:** Short Fuse's dominant power is his intelligence. Before receiving gear from the North Winds, Short Fuse decided his own technology that not only influenced his family tree, it influenced almost all of America.
* **Immortality:** Short Fuse gained immortality after becoming an EverRealmian.

## Appearances

### The North Pup

Short Fuse is introduced when the thugs almost had the opportunity to capture Hansel and Cerberus. He blasts two of the thugs away by using a sonic cannon. Aboard the ship back to the North Wind Lair, Hansel was introduced to the North Wind agents. Once they arrived back at the lair, the North Winds got more information on what Whiskers was planning to do until he called himself. He informed the North Winds that with the kidnapping in America being a success, he'll be able to kidnap the rest of the kids, outside of America. As the North Winds were about to move out, Short Fuse was planning to grab his missile cannons, only to see Hansel with it. He told the snowy seal that he was making the missiles indestructible in case, Whiskers' missiles are stronger than the North Winds'. Short Fuse thanked the Enchanted Pup and was merely impressed with his knowledge on explosives.

Hansel offered to go on the rescue but Classified refused, seeing that it was too dangerous. He ordered his workers to send the young genius to Canada where he'll be safe. However, Hansel and Cerberus. stowaway in the ship and offered to help when the North Winds failed to catch Whiskers in Germany. The next day, the North Winds stopped by Rita's workshop to get information on Whiskers' plans since she was able to hack into his computers. They learned that Whiskers' next target is at a cooking contest in Paris, France. Classified was about to discuss his plan, not before Hansel offered to share his plan with the North Winds but he silenced him. However, Short Fuse along with Corporal and Eva convinced Classified to let Hansel tell the gang, his plan, much to the latter's dismay.

Short Fuse was ordered to blow up the catwalk, so Whiskers will fall into Hansel's trap. The plan proved successful but when Whiskers was under the giant aluminum pot, he made an escape with the child chefs and Cerberus (who was in disguise). The North Winds quickly fled to the plane and tried to catch up to Whiskers' jet. Unfortunately, the mad scientist fired a nuclear missile at the North Winds. Luckily, they were able to escape before the missile destroyed the plane. While Hansel, Short Fuse, Eva, and Corporal were knocked out by the blunt force, Classified successfully fixed the ship and they flew to Whiskers' remote island where they tried to decide on a plan to rescue Cerberus and the kids. Hansel and Classified began to argue over whose plan is better. The argument led to Classified coldly insulting Hansel's father, Robert Pup.

Deeply offended by that insult, Hansel ripped off his pendant and threw it on the ground while he ran to a log and silently cried over the thought that he might never see family and friends ever again. When Corporal opened the pendant and saw a picture of Hansel's family, they all felt worried about what will happen if Hansel doesn't return home. Short Fuse, Corporal and Eva convinced Classified to go and talk to Hansel. After hearing Classified's backstory, he and Hansel reconciled and decided on a plan to distract Whiskers' men. The plan was to dress up Short Fuse and Corporal as women to distract the thugs, much to their dismay and humiliation.

However, the thugs discovered that they were tricked and they went back into the forest to take Hansel, Classified and Eva into custody. Hansel was sent to the experimentation room and the North Winds were sent to their painful deaths. Luckily, thanks to Cerberus (who managed to escape Whiskers' clutches) freed the North Winds and informed them about Whiskers' plans to turn the kids into mutant monsters and kill them with a space laser. The North Winds tried to rescue Hansel and the kids from being turned into monsters but was too late. Once the kids were released into the city, the North Winds stole Whiskers' ray and was hoping that Hansel could reverse the affects of it. The North Winds found the mutant Hansel and was able to snap him out of the monster trance. Back in the lab in the Pup Palace, Hansel sccessfully made an antidote to help change the kids back to normal.

Meanwhile, the North Winds are going to blast a laser which will transform all of the kids back to normal in one zap. However, Whiskers and his men fought the North Winds and were able to defeat them all, not before discovering that Whiskers is the murderer who killed Jett. During the final battle, Classified was fatally but the North Winds were able to revive Classified after Whiskers fell into a black hole. The kids were transformed back to normal and the North Winds safely returned to Earth where they were praised for their heroism. For his bravery, Hansel was made an honorary North Wind agent and was placed on Classified's team. As gratitude for protecting his family, Hansel welcomes the North Winds into the kingdom of EverRealm.

## Trivia

* So far, Short Fuse is the only North Wind agent who hasn't lost a family member.