Cerealnation: Volcanic Caverns/Story

This article contains the story of Cerealnation: Volcanic Caverns, a fic written by Cereally.

## Chapter 1: Penguins and Potatoes

*Reddit post*

Emax and Nd are cooking marshmallows on the camplava. It's like a campfire but with lava instead of fire. Its a lot less efficient, but a hell of a lot cooler.

Nd: ok fine, anyways how's SussyBot coming along?

Emax: It's going...fine. Well, better than last time at least. I am trying to program it to fire at enemies, but instead its shooting everyone.

Nd: That sounds really bad

Emax: Yeah, I managed to coerce Garibaldo into coming over and i accidentally killed him, so thats prett-

Nd: YOU KILLED GARIBALDO?!!!?!??!

Emax: Uh, yeah, but like none of us knew him so how much does it really matter?

Nd: I mean like, it *does* matter quite a bit-

Emax: In the grand scheme of the ultimate plan of the universe, does garibaldo matter?

Nd: I guess not but still-

Emax: I have proven my point- wait wait WAIT WAIT

Emax burnt the marshmallow, he tosses the burnt marshmallow into the burnt marshmallow pile, which has 23 marshmallows. He somehow burnt every single marshmallow that they had brought

Nd: That sure just happened.

Emax: Well, maybe next time.

Nd: ok then

Emax gets up and then Nd sequentially also gets up.

Nd: Why did we start our camplava 13 kilometres away from town in the first place?

Emax: I reckoned we needed some exercise, and the scenery here is actually pretty cool anyways.

Nd: there is nothing but desert here.

Emax: Yeah but it's a pretty cool desert.

Emax walks into the village, but Nd notices something in the sand.

Nd: Hey, uh, look.

Emax: Nd, it's just an empty nimcka cola.

Nd: No emax, look.

Emax stares and then runs down behind.

Its a dark gray-ish skeleton in the shape of a mushroom.

Emax: That's definitely Budder, right?

Nd: Yeah.

There is a momentary silence.

Nd: are we going home?

Emax: Nd, tell me how old you think that corpse is.

Nd: I'd say it's a few hours old.

Emax: THEY could still be here. We have no protection.

Nd: Should we go?

Emax: Yes, but don't walk too fast, THEY may think that we are scared.

Emax speedwalks away to the village. Nd stands in the darkness for a few seconds. They stare back at the skeleton mushroom. Nd gets scared and runs back to Cerealnation.

Nd enters the village, it used to be a bumbling city, alive and powerful before 'The Incident', now it's just a minute town. Almost everyone misses the old days, but still, something about this small town is somewhat more appealing.

Nd: Here's my passport, Nim.

Nimckits examines the passport, strokes his moustache before allowing entry for Nd.

The restrictions have increased quite a bit since what happened to Moron. He went out one day to test his new knife on some roosters, but he never came back inside. It's quite scary to think of, really, Moron was one of the most combative members of Cerealnation, and if he didn't stand a chance against THEM, how can we expect anyone else to.

Fact: Hey! ND!

Nd: hi

Fact: 'The Incident'''s 1 year anniversary is ending in like an hour. What're you doing?

Nd: Ohh right! I forgot that's why I was celebrating.

Fact: It *is* strange to think about. Anyways, I'm thinking of going to Craig's art museum to end off the day. What about you?

Nd: I think I'll just go and watch Nimckits News on the TV.

Fact: Okay, bye!

Nd: Bye.

Fact: Oh, Nd! One last thing!

Nd: What?

Fact: Don't binge watch Nimckits News for 3 hours again!

Nd: Why did you say that? I've never done that.

Fact: The thing is, I am a character with no established prior interactions with you on an empty road. I can't really comment on anything but this conversation needs to have more reason, so I've decided on saying ominous foreshadowing thats *kinda* outta character but not that out of character, really.

Nd: uh, okay, cool.

Fact walks away and leaves the street Nd is on empty.

It's getting quite dark out now, and it's a bit scary. Wow, it's actually *really* scary...like, *really* scary.

Nd rushes through the door as fast as they can and closes the door rushedly. Now they're safe...

There is a knock on the door, Nd knows it's probably nobody dangerous but nonetheless grabs their remote to slam into the person if the person *is*.

'H-'

Nd: AAAAAAHHHHH

Nd throws the remote square at the person's face. It's Gamer64dd, a notorious pyromaniac criminal in Cerealnation, almost as infamous as Manic.

Gamer: OW!

Nd: We told you to go away and never come back, why are you here?

Gamer: Well, I spent a few months living in PippinsPalace, but honestly, that place was very boring. So I've travelled by camel all the way back here to Cerealnation, and-

Nd: But why do you have to come to *my* house specifically? Emax is the mayor, talk to him if you want a house here.

Gamer: Well, in my mind you're still the mayor, y'know, because EMAX isn't one of the four-

Nd: Ok, I get it, I guess you can sleep on the couch for the day or something and I'll figure out if you can live in Cerealnation tomorrow

Gamer: NICE! Also can I watch your TV?

Nd: Yeah, yeah...sure.

Gamer runs onto the couch and grabs the remote as if he is an olympian.

Gamer: 'Nimckits News'...I guess I need to catch up so I'll watch that.

Nimckits: Good afternoon folks, and today we are here with our weather forecast, yeah FMA, yeah take the sign here, now...you're really bad at this, ANYWAY! All around it will be sunny in the desert yet again, however we have picked up some signs of Penguin storms, so it will not be a good idea to go out today, unless you want to be a Moron, I mean you'll be a moron, but also like the guy called Moron...that guy should really change his name-

Gamer: Hey I remember this guy, he's the guy that I snuck past to get here, is he the passport guy AND the news guy?

Nd: Yeah, he is. If you look closely you can actually see him stamp the passport...yeah look he just- he just- y'know.

Gamer: Huh, never noticed

*3 hours later*

Nimckits: Here's a cat meme to demonstrate the current emotions of Cerealnation, as you can see, it's a very grumpy cat and...

Gamer: How poetic.

Nimckits: Anyways, sports news, HAHA APRIL FOOLS! I mean its not April...but you get the point, no one exercises!

Gamer: How funny.

Nimckits: You know, its like 1AM now, if you're watching this your sleep schedule is screwed!

Nd: ugh...how long have we been watching Nimckits News for?

Gamer: Like uh...three hours. Oh and I also microwaved 5 of your popcorn packets, you okay with that?

Nd: Yeah, yeah...fine, I think I'm gonna go to sleep now...

*6 hours later*

Gamer: C'MON! Zuma NEVER gets to do anything, what the hell Ryder, *IS IT BECAUSE HE'S A BROWN DOG-*

Nd climbs out their bed way too early for their liking and enters the living room

Nd: What are you yelling about..

Gamer grabs the remote quickly and changes the channel.

Gamer: Nothing. I definitely wasn't watching Paw Patrol. I'm just watching Nimckits News.

Nd: You've been watching TV all night?

Gamer: Look, when you spend like a week riding on a camel in the middle of nowhere, you don't really keep your sense of time. I had just woken up when I came here. Anyways, I have eaten everything in your fridge.

Nd: Oka- wait, there's someone calling me on my phone.

Emax: I got reports from Besic that said he heard G64D talking from your house. I know he's definitely not here, but I just wanted to check so I could confirm with Besic.

Nd: UH...yeah, he *is* here.

Emax:...Wh- okay, I don't care for reasons. Just get him out of here, pronto. Okay?!

Nd: Yeah, okay.

Nd hangs up.

Gamer: I heard the conversation.

Nd: yeah, so uh, leav-

Gamer: No.

Nd: I mean, you exploded like so many buildings you kinda deserve-

Gamer: And what makes you think I can't do that now?

There is a short silence.

Gamer takes a small spherical bomb from out of his pocket.

Gamer: It's my magnum opus, a lavabomb. I have collected lava from the outskirts of Pippins Palace and poured it into a bomb with a wire seperating it from a pile of gunpowder. Upon lighting the fuse there's a not very brief moment before the wire falls and the lava pours onto the gunpowder. And look what I got from your kitchen.

Gamer takes out a matchbox and begins lighting the bomb.

Nd: NO! STOP! YOU'RE GONNA KILL US!

Nd rushes towards Gamer, and he throws the bomb out the window and it lands in front of Besic's house.

Gamer: Well, now its not gonna kill *us* so-

Nd: NO!

Nd rushes out the door and, with a slight moment of hesitation, runs up to the bomb and kicks it onto the empty road.

Gamer: nO I CAN'T WASTE MY MASTERPIECE ON THIS!

Gamer runs onto the street and throws the bomb all the way over to Nimckits' passport booth.

Nimckits walks out of his booth.

Nimckits: Hm, what is this, I could show this on my news show-

Nd: NIMCKITS NO-

Nd runs as fast as they can possibly manage and kick the bomb up and out of the Cerealnation gate. It explodes loudly and only barely damages the outside.

Gamer: Why'd you do that?!?!

Nd: Nimckits and Besic were gonna die!

Gamer: It would've been death by TALENT! Paw Patrol was WAY nicer than you.

Gamer walks towards Nd slowly and they exit Cerealnation

Nd: Wha- IM NOT PAW PATROL.

'Enemies spotted'

They both freeze in their spots.

Gamer: Oh god…

'Two targets'

That's the voice of a penguin bot. The bomb's explosion has alerted them, evil mechanical minds roaming the world, controlled by *him.*

They both run in opposite directions, a few bots chase after Gamer, but most of them are after Nd.

A laser lands right next to Nd and they know that they cannot run much longer.

'Probability of your escape is unquantifiable'

Nd: PLEASE DON'T HURT ME-

They are in complete panic mode, as more and more penguin bots arrive.

Nd has no idea what to do.

But they spot a hole.

Nd picks up a piece of trash and throws it at the penguin bots, distracting them so that they could just jump in.

*1 hour later*

Nd wakes up with a surprising lack of any of their bones broken.

Nd: Huh.

Nd didn't know why the penguins didn't follow them into the hole. Should've been an easy victory. They weren't complaining.

*30 minutes later*

After Nd walked deeper into the cave, they realised they should probably shout for help, they didn't want to do so earlier as they didnt want to alert the penguin bots. Then again, it probably wouldn't help but still.

Nd: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

'woah'

Nd thought for a moment that they might be having another prophetic vision, but the voice sounded pretty real. And...familiar?

Nd: Anyone?

'uh, yeah'

Nd: Where?

'i dunno, i don't see you'

Nd walked around for a bit.

'I think you're closer, I can hear your footsteps now'

Nd could clearly pinpoint who the voice sounded like now, it sounded like...

Nd: Moron?

'wow that's rude waIT YOU MEAN MY NAME?'

Nd: yeah

Moron: And you're Nd right?

Nd: yeah!

After a few more minutes of searching, they finally find each other.

Moron: Nice searching! Anyways can you-

Nd: I don't see you. The only thing I see is a potato in this hole.

Moron: Oh I forgot to tell you...THEY TOOK MY SOUL AND PUT IT IN A FREAKING POTATO.

Nd: What!?!?

Moron: The penguin bots! They took my soul anD PUT IT IN A POTATO. I DON'T HAVE ANY FREAKING LIMBS ANYMORE!

Nd: How did they-

Moron: DON'T ASK ME. I HAVE N O IDEA

There is an awkward silence.

Nd: So it's like the portal 2 thin-

Moron: S H U T U P. This is N O T a portal 2 reference! THIS IS MY L I F E NOW! I HAVE TO LIVE MY LIFE AS A GODDAMN FU-

*1 hour later*

Moron: And you being so DISRESPECTFUL, is reminiscent of the Scottish warfare of 1984!

Nd: okay...wait, I hear mechanical whirring, oh no-

Moron: AH-

Moron goes silent, seemingly realising that saying something right now could cost them both of their lives.

'Enemies Spotted'

A gunshot is fired toward Nd

Moron: NO PLEASE NO DONT I CANT DIE AS A P O T A T O-

Emax: Oh sorry.

A bot emerges from the darkness, it's not a penguin bot, but instead SussyBot. Emax face is being projected through a screen on SussyBot like it's a livestream.

Emax: I told you earlier, SussyBot has a tendency to fire at non-enemies...I should really fix that soon.

Nd: yeah...you really...should…

Emax: I used SussyBot to search for you, also is that some kind of exotic potato, it says on the life scanners that it's alive?

Moron: I AM ALIVE! Man, if you weren't being livestreamed I would PUNCH YOU...also yeah i don't have any limbs, so that's another reason.

Nd: Yeah, Moron's soul got transferred into a potato.

Emax: Wha-, oh, it's like in portal-

Moron: DO YOU THINK MY SUFFERING IS JUST A VIDEO GAME REFERENCE-

Nd: Anyways, can you please fly us out of this cave and stuff.

Emax: Well, no.

Nd: I thought you said you installed the jetpack today?

Emax: I was PLANNING to but Fact came over and ruined everything after our campfire meeting. She was all like 'you should probably fix the thing where it fires at everyone first' and i didnt want to do that so i just wasted the day doing nothing. So complain to her, this is not my fault at all.

Nd: oh

There is yet another awkward silence.

Moron: Man, Emax does Sussybot have a box or something? I've been lying on this ground for a few hours now and I'm pretty sure I peeled one of my arms off accidentally .

Emax: Well, uh, i have this Paw Patrol lunchbox, NOT BECAUSE I WATCH IT OR ANYTHIN-

Moron: Oh, I like Paw Patrol!

Emax: oh, well then I'M THE BIGGEST PAW PATROL FAN EVER I LOVE ROCKY HE IS THE BEST ONE

Moron: oH YEAH OH YEAH HE ROCKS

'Enemies Spotted'

Moron: Woah, Emax, did you make another SussyBot while I was gone cause-

Emax: I didn't.

Everyone turns to face where the voice came from.

'PENGUIN BOTS! DO NOT FIRE! I WISH TO SPEAK TO THEM MYSELF!'

Lots of penguin bots emerge, but the last one to emerge has a crown and seems to not be fully robotic, and more cyborg. It is EmperorPenguin.

Emp: Well look who we have here.

Moron: HEY, YOU'RE THE GUY WHO PUT MY SOUL IN A POTATO! FU-

Emp: Oh yeah, it was actually a reference to the popular game portal-

Moron: NOOOO-

Emp: The thing is, Moron, you are, well, a moron. I don't trap intelligent people in potatoes, if you had just shown more class this wouldn't have happened to you-

Nd: Your penguin bots seem like morons, they didn't follow me into the hole after I jumped in.

Emp stares back, flabbergasted, before returning back to his confident pose.

Emp: Jumping into the hole was a coward's move, the penguin bots don't interact with cowards.

Nd: Building an entire army because you aren't good enough at fighting is a coward's move!

Emp: That's kind of hurtful…

Moron: SO IS TURNING ME INTO A GODDAMN POTATO-

Emp: Moron, your feelings are unimportant, only mine matter.

Emp: Side note: Nd, my penguin bots are not morons.

*Back a few hours ago*

PengBot1: Aw, I really don't wanna have to go into this hole, I got a new paintjob and-

PengBot2: Ooh! me too, you wanna just leave and come back later?

All the other penguin bots agree and fly away.

Nd: So what are you gonna do to us??

Moron: Honestly after becoming a potato I doubt he could do much worse.

Emp: You think? I will give all of you morons a lesson, especially that cheap imitation of my Penguin bots!

Emax: HEY!

Emp: You morons would not be my victims of you were a bit more classy.

Nd: Was Budder a moron?

Emp: Budder, of course not? He was quite intelligent and-

Nd: Then why'd you turn him into a skeleton?

*In the background sussybot starts playing "the skeleton appears"*

Emp: Budder's a skeleton- what?

Emax: Oh yeah, we found the skeleton earlier yesterday.

Nd: You and your penguins killed him!

Emp: We did?

Emax: I mean, I can't think of anyone else who would.

Emp: We didn't- what- no- he -they all- was- were not so- intelligent cool- but- dont- dont -disobey -follow -rules -anymore

Emp is now flying around and punching themself in the face, the penguin bots just stare because they dont wanna do something without instructions.

Emp: Attack, PengBots- uh- CRITICAL THINKING OVERLOADDDDDD

Emp explodes and all the robotic parts fly and scatter around the cave. Nd stares in horror, Moron also stares but not really in horror more because he thinks it looks cool, Emax however, upon seeing robotic parts he starts formulating an ultimate plan.

SussyBot jumps into the air and grabs the parts one by one and slams them onto its body. A PengBot jumps forward and tries to shoot it, but SusBot throws a sharp piece at it and it flies back and explodes its comrades, scattering more robot parts everywhere. SussyBot attached every enhancement it could get its hands on until it was an indiscernible circle of lasers and knives and explosives, firing shots everywhere like it was the average comedian when they see a person doing something mildly strange.

SussyBot landed on the ground with almost every PengBot murdered, the remaining 3 flying upwards and away.

Nd: ohmygosh what if one of the lasers hit US?!?!

Emax: They didn't.

Nd: But they could've.

Emax: But they didn't.

SussyBot was now deciding which weapons to keep and which ones to leave, only picking the most versatile and dangerous.

There was now one PengBot left who had both of their arms sliced off, unable to fly and was running around panicking. Eventually they stepped on Moro and fell down and died.

Moron: Haha! Even as a potato I will never stop being a murder machine!!!!

Emax: Well, SussyBot now has a jetpack on it, we can fly out of this hole now.

Nd: Man, this is *not* how I expected to spend the day after 'The Incident''s anniversary.

Nd decides to grab a buncha guns and make it like a throne on top of SussyBot that was made of weapons. They were a bit nervous they would accidentally trigger one of the guns and die but other than that it was fine. They flew up into the sunset, it was beautiful...and then they remembered they forgot Moron. So they flew down, got Moron, got back up and then looked at the sunset again.

They flew over the gate of Cerealnation and SussyBot was just gonna drop them off without passport business or anything. Nd remembered something then, Gamer64dd, Nd asked to be dropped outside the gate, and it was as they expected. The dead dark grey corpse of G64D lay there. Of course, they did not like him, in any capacity at all. But something about someone so threatening just dying so easily was a tad bit scary.

Nd: Gamer64dd… What did they do to him??

Moron: Whatever they did it must've been much worse than what happened to me.

Moron: I guess they're dead now.

Nd: Yeah.

Moron: Good riddance.

## Chapter 2: USB BS

*Reddit post*

Nd and Moron, after a long day of fighting sit down on Nd's couch and watch some Nimckits News

Moron: Ah, it's been so long since I could properly watch this show, this is gonna be great!

John: Hello, and welcome to Nimckits News. Today in the morning we have a lot less penguins, which is sad-

Moron: WHAT THE HELL! WHERE'S NIMCKITS! Nd, call up the Nimckits Phone Line for me.

Nd: ok

Nd puts in the number and gives the phone to Moron.

Meth: I am Mr Meth, social business manager of-

Moron: WHAT DID YOU DO TO NIMCKITS!

Meth: Oh, mate, his brain was damaged by a bomb.

Nd: Huh, I guess the bomb's explosion *was* pretty big.

Moron: I DON'T CARE! THIS NEW GUY BORES ME TO DEATH!

Meth: Feck off, you're lucky he's alive.

Moron: I'M GONNA STOP WATCHING NIM NEWS THEN! I'M GONNA WATCH PAW PATROL!

Meth: Oh yeah, that show's great.

Moron: Yeah, I know, it is!

Moron rolls onto the remote and spends a few seconds trying to press the 'hangup' button.

John: News...more like...Jews. Amirite?

John: Also Emp, if you happen to be watching this I wanna say your penguin bot is so handsome-

Moron: Screw this guy, put on Paw Patrol.

Nd: ok

*3 hours later*

Moron: Rocky...rocky...rocky, RUBBLE. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

Nd: Alright, I think I'm going to sleep.

Moron: It's like 8PM! We can stay up *way* later.

Nd: I think I've had enough of not getting to sleep.

Nd shuffles over to their room and goes to sleep.

*10 hours later*

Nd wakes up to the sound of someone knocking into the living room. They walk into the living room and paw patrol is still on, even as Moron is sleeping (it was hard to tell if a potato was sleeping though). Emax is the one knocking on the door.

Nd: hi.

Emax: I've been calling you for 2 hours now. Why didn't you answer!

Nd: I was asleep.

Emax: Oh, I forgot. Me, as the mayor, is required to only sleep 6 hours a day. YOU actually like, sleep a normal amount. How foolish of me.

Nd: Well, anyways, what are you here for?

Emax: I found these two USBs flying off after Emp exploded. One is labelled 'Prsn Orig.' and the other is 'Prsn Mod.'. I'm not *exactly* sure about the specifics of what they can do. But I think it could be worth trying to run it on some sort of computer.

Nd: Alright, we can go to my computer.

Emax: Yyyyyeah, the thing is. I tried running it on my computer and it exploded and killed Vіrukki-

Nd: YOU KILLED VІRUKKI?!?!

Emax: Yeah, but like we hardly knew them, so does it really matter.

Nd: I mean, it *does* matter

Emax: In the ultimate plan of god displayed in the bible, is Vіrukki ever mentioned as a key to the plan?

Nd: Well no, but-

Emax: Then I have proved my point. Anyways we need to find a gaming-

Moron wakes up.

Moron: DID SOMEONE SAY GAMING?!?!

There is a short silence.

Emax: Yyyyyeah, y'know what, there's actually a brand new video game in that drawer over there.

Nd is confused.

Moron: Really? Oooh I wanna see! What game is it!

Emax: Oh it's the um… Paw patrol kart deluxe 8!

Moron: OH MY GOD IS IT ACTUALLY-

Emax takes Moron to the drawer.

Moron: Wait, there's nothing here waitwaiteaitwaitWAITSTOP.

Emax closes the drawer and Moron is stuck inside.

Nd: That is...kind of cruel.

Emax: Look, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity.

Moron: HELP!

Emax: There is no other time in my life where I get to trap someone in a drawer so easily. I just *have* to do this.

Nd: What about that time you flattened me in a compression machine?? I could've easily fit in a drawer.

Emax: there were no drawers around there.

Nd: ok...anyways what were you saying?

Emax: Well, it seems that in order to run these complex and ram consuming USBs we need a hardcore gaming pc. So we need to find a hardcore gamer...a...gamer...

Emax and Nd stare at eachother.

Emax: Get Moron.

Nd takes Moron out of the drawer. He doesn't say anything.

Nd: Uh, sorry 'bout that.

Emax: He's giving us the silent treatment is he?? So childish sometimes. Anyways we're gonna go on an adventure now and we're gonna meet all the paw patrol characters and we're gonna get recruited and-

*10 minutes later*

Emax and Nd are walking on the street.

Emax: We need to find records of where G64D used to live, he literally has gamer in his name, he's CLEARLY the key we need!

Nd: Hate to break it but couldn't we just go to any of the other gamers around? I kinda don't wanna be in a pyromaniac's house, let alone his computer.

Emax: I barely know any of them so G64D is our best bet.

Nd: It's a great sign that your team is reliable when your only hope is a psychopath who recently was murdered.

They go to Nd's office building, it's a skyscraper with around a dozen different floors.

Nd: I usually hate Mondays y'know, but this Monday could actually end up being pretty fun!

Emax: I dunno, the chances we are being blown up by a bomb are astronomical.

Churro and Besic are talking by the water cooler

Churro: So what I'm saying is, þis town could really benefit from some linguistics education.

Besic: I literally don't care in the slightest.

Emax: Heyyyyy, Churro, what's up my friend!

Churro: oh no, are you here to fire me again?

Emax: What, of course not! What gave you that idea?

Besic walks away awkwardly and steps on a landmine (he actually didn't, but that would be pretty funny right? ok I'll shut up.).

Churro: You're ðe mayor, you only interact with me if you want to fire me.

Emax: Um uh uh uh um WELL ANYWAYS. Can you help me find G64D's records? I need to know...because...uh...mayor reasons.

Churro: You can tell me you know, I have better things to do þan judge you. Anyways, I'm ðe linguistics guy, not ðe records guy.

Emax: Oh...well-

Churro: But I can do ðat anyways.

Emax: Oh okay then.

Churro walks away

Churro: Follow me.

Emax turns to Nd.

Emax: This guy really needs to learn how to say something simply.

Nd: Yeah I thought his linguistics thing only applied to letters, not to his actual speech patterns.

*A few minutes later*

Nd, Emax and Churro are in the records room, full of long papers spanning infinitely.

Churro: Now, Emax, as ðe mayor, I imagine you know where all the 'g' papers are?

Emax: Uh, yeah, TOTALLY!

Churro: Okay, so you definitely know how to get to þem?

Emax: Uh...no nevermind I don't know.

Churro: Well, ðe answer is the only person who knows is John, so you should call him instead of wasting your time.

Emax: ok.

Churro calls up John.

Churro: Where do we find ðe 'g' papers...okay...i þought...okay...blue smiley face, got it.

Churro hangs up.

Churro: So we go to ðe printer which has ðe badly drawn blue smiley face on it, and ðe 'g' papers should be on top of ðem.

They walk around the big record room for a while.

Churro: Legend is ðat You-Know-Who himself drew the blue smiley face on ðe printer.

They stop upon the blue smiley face printer, and Churro gets the paper.

Churro: Gamemaster...Gamer64dd...Garibal- wait, ðere he is! G64D!

*Emax bends over looking at the files and takes the paper.*

Emax: Alright let's see...wait, 'has divorced parents', look at that...that's hilarious, wait...ohmygosh he doesn't even have a DRIVER'S LICENSE, i've had mine for like a billion years now…

Nd: Emax, that's your record.

Emax: What do you mean???

Nd: Look at the nametag.

Emax: HUH WHAT-

Churro: ha, I played a prank on you, anyways, here's his actual record.

*Churro picks up a different file with G64Ds name on it and hands it to Emax*

Emax: Aw… He also had divorced parents and no drivers license… it's not as funny after looking at my own one…

Nd: Uh, do you think you're getting sidetracked a bit?

Emax: OH YEAH! Er...CerelComplex, 604! We got it!

Nd: Nice!

Emax and Nd start walking away, but Churro stops them for a moment.

Churro: Just asking, are you actually trying to *stop* You-Know-Who?

Nd: Uh, no-

Emax: So what if we are?

Churro: Just saying, ðat seems kinda impossible.

Emax: Better than just sitting around and watching Paw Patrol like we have for the last year.

Churro: To each ðeir own.

Emax and Nd walk off.

Emax: I'm the mayor, I can give you a vacation day so we can continue exploring this.

Nd: Thanks.

They exit and start walking to the CerelComplex, an apartment complex owned by Fluorine. Fact runs up to start a conversation.

Fact: Hey Nd!

Emax: We're kind of in the middle of something right now-

Nd: What's up?

Fact: My birthday is coming up in a few days! Are you coming!

Nd: Yeah, of course!

Fact: Cool!

Fact walks away.

Emax: Alright, no more getting sidetracked, CerelComplex, it's over there.

They walk inside.

Flu: Oh god no Emax, what did I do this time? Please I need this complex to live.

Emax: Why are you- okay, you know what, we don't have time for this. We need to go to room 604.

Flu: Room...604? You sure? The only person who has ever been in that room has been G64D. Ever since then nobody has entered because...well, nobody wanted to be in a room that was formerly inhabited by a pyromaniac.

Nd: Okay, that's great! Give us the key!

Flu is confused, but obliges.

Emax: Letsgo, letsgo LETSGO.

Emax drags Nd into the elevator and bounces around to the surprisingly jazzy music.

Emax: Floor 4...Floor 5...YES, FLOOR 6!

Emax drags Nd all throughout the hallway until they reach Room 604.

Emax: Come on, get out the key!

Nd gets out the key, Emax grabs it and opens the door.

From entering you could immediately tell the room was inhabited by a pyromaniac. There's explosion marks on practically every wall and mad scrawlings about gunpowder and danger.

Each room was broken down and messy in one way or another, except for one room, that being the room with the gaming pc. It was completely immaculate and obviously a lot of time was spent cleaning it.

Emax took out the USBs and started to put them in the gaming pc, with 'Prsn Orig.' being added first

Emax: Alright, this is the moment we've been waiting for...

The PC lights up and a robotic face resembling a penguin appears.

Emp: Uh...what's happening?

Emax: We found these USBs after we exploded you.

Emp: Oh right, sorry for trying to kill you, and also like, actually murdering Budder.

Nd: You're not mad or anything.

Emp: I mean, I kinda deserved it. Don't know what I was thinking, really. As an Emperor, I should probably be smarter than this.

Emax: No, actually, I think you're pretty average intelligence for the average world ruler. Anyways, time to add 'Prsn Mod.'

Emax puts the USB into the second plughole and the screen turns red.

Emp: AAAAA, YOU DESTROYED ME AND MY ARMY! I'M GONNA KILL YOU, I'M GONNA-

Emax takes the USB out.

Emax: It seems like the first USB is just Emps normal personality and knowledge and all that, and the second is one that makes him evil.

Emp: Yeah, captain obvious.

Emax takes the first USB out, stomps on it repeatedly and puts it back in.

Emp: OW! THAT SQUAWKING HURT!

Emax: That's what you get. Anyways...to deal with 'Prsn Mod.'

Emax gives it to Nd, and Nd throws it out the window.

Emax: Hold on, I think I have an idea. We can transfer Emp's soul into SussyBot.

Emp: Sussy...bot? I do not want my soul transferred into something that's called SUSSYBot.

But Emax was already gone.

Nd: So...uh...remember when you...tried to kill me.

Emp: Oh yeah! That was pretty fun!

There is a momentary silence.

Emp: That's because I was evil. I wouldn't do that now of course, but it *was* pretty fun.

Nd: Alright, I think I'm gonna explore now.

Nd walks around the other rooms in the house, and one of the closets creaks open. Nd looks inside and finds explosives of all different unusual, all labeled with scrawled complaints. 'ADD MORE GUNPOWDER' 'TOO BIG' and so on. But none of them caught Nd's more then one that was labelled 'Pipisball (modern remake, orig 1997)'. It just looked like a blue rock, but Nd took it over to Emp to ask what it was.

Emp: Let me scan my databases...hmm. 'The Pipisball is an old explosive disguised as a blue egg called a 'pipis'. It was made by Spamton G. Spamton, and it's rumored that the entire supply was destroyed by the Queen's Guard, since none have been found from March 1998 and onwards'.

Nd decides to keep a few in their pocket, maybe they will be useful one day.

Emax barges right back in with SussyBot in tow.

Nd: I'm pretty sure if you put that USB in SussyBot, it's gonna explode.

Emax: Yeah, I know, I'm just gonna have to delete a buncha files off the USB.

Emp: WHAT! NO! You can't just destroy my files! They're beloved to me.

Emax: Well, it looks like I just have to see.

Emax goes onto the computer and sees the files on the USB.

Emax: Alright 'Crazy Taxi Strategy'...what? There's an entire kilobyte of this...strategy for Crazy Taxi.

Emp: IT WAS THE ONLY GAME US EMPLOYEES HAVE TO PLAY! I'VE SPENT THE LAST FEW MONTHS PLAYING AND COMING UP WITH STRATEGIES! YOU CANT DELETE IT *PLEASE*

Nd: I think there's some empty USBs in this drawer, we could just transfer all the useless data onto a different USB and put it back later.

Emax: Good idea.

Emax puts all the Crazy Taxi data into an empty USB.

Emax: Alright, let's see what else..'Shapes and Alphabet'...I guess that probably won't be important for now...

Emax removes that folder from Emp.

Emp: Wow...my mind feels a lot clearer now...I can tell exactly how stupid you are Emax, 46%!

Emax: Uh...is that a compliment or-

Emp: Yes, that means you are 54% smart, which is a good number.

Emax: Thanks?

*5 minutes later*

Emax: 'Language English'

Emp: WAIT DON'T CHANGE THE LANGUAGE.

Emax: 'Language Chinese'

Emp: 哈哈，我让你浪费时间翻译这个

Emax: 'Language English'

Emax: ...oh yeah that's important, and there's...'Secret Files'...what..?

Emax enters that folder and sees two things.

Nd: A...picture of an apple pie?

Emp: Hey, don't ask me why I have that. I don't know either.

Emax: There's something else in this folder...'enterance to hideout'

Nd: Oh my god, that definitely sounds important.

Emax: 'The enterance to You-Know-Who's hideout is on the top of the volcano...there is a door located inside it'

Everyone is shocked by this.

Emax: Nd, do you know what this means! After years of searching for where You-Know-Who is, we finally know for certain! We...can infiltrate. We can MAKE CEREALNATION GREAT AGAIN!'

Everyone stares out the window. The volcano lies there. There's nowhere to go but up.

## Chapter 3: Mount Milk

*Reddit post*

Nd and Emax are sitting at the foot of Mount Milk, the tallest mountain in Cerealnation at 7309 metres.

Emax: Where is Emperor??

Nd: He said he was gonna get himself some fuel.

Emax: But Sussybot is electric-

Emp: HELLO AGAIN!

Nd and Emax both look up and see Emperor (whose soul is inside sussybot) and many many bright shining lights, projected all across the foot of the mountain.

Emax: WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO TO SUSSYBOT!?

Emp: I attached a disco ball to the top of its head!

Emax: WHY??? WHAT'S THE POINT???

Emp: I’ll have you know, all us penguin bots have a built in disco ball!

Emax: THAT STILL DOESN’T EXPLAIN WHAT THE POINT OF IT IS

Emp: Now Nd, are you ready to begin our venture to Mount Milk?

Nd: Yeah… I think so… We have to use you to fly up to Mount Milk.

Emp: Okay.

*5 minutes later*

Emp: Why didn't you give this 'SussyBot' thing arms?

Emax: Deal with it, better than being trapped on a USB forever.

Emp: Y'know, at any moment I could just hurl you off and you'd fall to your death.

Nd: Please don't.

*A minute later*

Emax: Hey so Emp?

Emp: Yeah emax?

Emax: What else were you doing in Cerealnation, other than attaching a disco ball on your head?

Emp: Oh yeah, I sorta convinced everyone that you’re french.

Emax: WHAT!?

*Nd is laughing in the background*

Emp: You’re gonna have a tough time unconvincing everyone, Emax.

Emax: If you weren’t using sussybot as your body, I would kill you right now.

*1 minute later.*

Emp: This flying thing is really consuming my battery...thank god we're almost at the top.

Emp stops right behind the top of the volcano, and Emax and Nd jump off.

Emax: Alright, check the blueprint you have Emp, see where the door is supposed to be.

Emp: If we look down, we should see a door.

They all look, but none of them can see anything. Emp eventually turns on SussyBot's metal detector.

Emp: Nothing...nothing...where's the goddamn door...wait, I think I see something..!

A metal penguin-resembling bird covered in lava starts crawling up Mt. Milk quickly. It's barely held together with exposed wires and has long lanky limbs.

Emp: WHA- THAT'S NOT A DOOR!

It emerges from the top and screeches.

Metalbird: AAAÀA2372A1132ÆA56A2Ā

It flicks a bit of lava at Emp and he starts tumbling down.

Emp: ahsdjsjsdnfdusjaASHDJSAaisjdhusja

Emax: SUSSYB- I mean, EMP!

Emax jumps down and starts tumbling down the mountain with Emp:

Nd is left with the metal bird and it screeches at them.

Nd jumps off and now all 3 of the heroes are tumbling down Mt. Milk.

Emax grabs a rock and falls down to Emp and attempts to scrape off the lava from Emp, but more importantly, SussyBot.

He's mostly unsuccessful and just falls down a lot.

Nd is just trying to survive.

Nd falls headfirst and is just trying not to hit their head on rocks as much as possible.

Nd eventually grips on a part of rock and gets to think for a moment.

It really seems like survival in this situation is impossible, if they try to go down slowly the metal bird will clearly catch up.

However if they go quickly they'll probably end up breaking all their bones on the hard mountainside. Nd doesn't get much more time to think as they see a bit of lava trickle down beside them, before looking up and seeing the metalbird, causing them to lose grip.

Nd starts falling.

Nd: Oh god… This is the end.

*Suddenly, Nd notices a keypad hovering in the air.*

They grab it and look at it.

The keypad has 5 digits, and a decimal after the first digit. Nd can't think of anything that would fit that mould but realises this is probably the only way they can survive. They rack their brain, trying to remember *anything* at all that could possibly help them out.

*Did Emp say anything about this? The only thing of importance was that entrance diagram...the other thing in the 'Secret Files' folder was just a picture of an apple pie...apple pie...pie...pi...wait- PI!*

Nd stares back at the keypad, it's worth a shot. They enter '3.1415' into the keypad, and a part of Mt. Milk opens as if it's a screendoor and reveals that there's a mechanical passage inside. Nd lands inside and the metal bird puts its head through the door and starts screeching. Nd looks around and finds a 'close door' button. They press it and the door closes shut, except its interrupted by the metal bird's neck. It screeches even louder and resists until the door closes completely shut and the bird gets decapitated.

Nd sits down for a moment and rests before remembering Emax and Emp, they open the door and look outside. Emax is trying to hold on to Emp, who is flying wildly in the air, if Nd doesn't do something they will both die.

Nd: HEY!

Neither of them hear Nd. Nd is now trying to figure out how to get both of their attention. They remember the Pipisball they stole from G64D's apartment. Nd looks around in their pocket, and finds it...wait no that's Moron, okay, now they have the Pipisball. Nd throws the Pipisball next to the door and Emp and Emax stare at the explosion. Emp flies over and notices the door, so he hurls himself and Emax inside.

Emp: yey!!! I dod ti!!@@

Nd: What?

Emax: SussyBo-, I mean, Emp is like completely broken from the lava and falling down the volcano.

Emp: waoh! tats not vry NECE!

There's a bit of silence.

Emax: Y'know, I'm just remembering, Moron hasn't said anything this entire time.

Nd: Yeah, true...

Nd takes Moron out.

Nd: What's up?

There is more silence.

Emax: Are you sure you got the right potato out of that drawer?

Nd: I do remember having another potato in that drawer now…

*Back in Nd's house*

Moron: HELP!

Moron: OH GOD NO! PLEASE I'VE BEEN HERE FOR SO LONG!

*A spider crawls next to potato boy and starts nibbling at him*

Moron: OH GOD IS THAT A SPIDER GET ME OUT OF THIS LIVING *NIGHTMARE PLEASE*

*Back inside Mount Milk*

*Emax stares into the distance.*

Emax: Wow there’s not much distance in a hallway, probably more accurate to say something less exaggerated.

*Emax stares into the next 20 metres*

Emax: D'you think we should go down the rest of the hallway now?

Nd: Yeah, probably.

Emax gets up and drags Emp along.

Emp: kjHEY! be gegentle! he!

Emax: Shut the hell up.

Emax stares at the decapitated head of the metal bird.

Emax: I'll take this too, I just have a feeling that it could be useful.

The walk down the hallway and it progressively gets darker.

Emp: wewies! thayts scrary!

Emax: Hold on, I think I feel a doorknob. Nd, take the bird's head.

Nd takes the bird, though they find it a bit unsettling.

Emax moves the doorknob around in the dark a bit, before opening it.

It's a sterile white room with nothing in it except a door.

Emax: Oh MAN it feels nice to actually SEE again!

Emax stares around for a bit.

Nd: There's nothing here.

Emax: Yeah, let's go to the next room.

Emax opens the door, and it's another sterile white room with nothing in it.

Emax: Wow, these rooms sure are interesting.

Emp: interestding, more like SPLINTEResging!

Emax opens another room and begins to comment on how it is another sterile white room with nothing in it, but then sees a PenguinBot in the middle drinking some oil.

Emax and Nd try to tip toe past when…

Emp: HE!1!! Peninbot registererfedd TWo 23 ameigt 3 no drinkking oil onNnn cccCCom pany time, THIaYHuourS IS AN RodRwre From uR HIgH Comnd

Emax: Emp shut up, what the hell are you doing-

The PenguinBot turns around and stares at them.

PenguinBot: Enemies Spotted.

Emax quickly closes the door. And tries to keep it closed for as long as possible.

Emax: Wait, Nd, give me that decapitated bird head.

Nd gives it to him without hesitation. Emax opens the door and throws the bird head at the PenguinBot, and it explodes.

Emax: Whew! That was cool!

Nd: I agree, that was indeed cool.

More PenguinBots burst out of another door. Emax throws the decapitated bird at the first bot, and uses the body of it as a baseball bat to hit the bird head at the other birds.

Emp: owh a!

Emax: what.

They slowly go through a maze of sterile white rooms, all filled with varying amounts of PenguinBots. Eventually they stumble upon a white room with a grate, similar to something you'd find in a library to return books.

Nd: It says 'Bot Repair'

Emp: bobobobot

Emax: I think it's for penguins only, so it probably won't work on SussyBot, SussyBot may explode if the wrong thing is used on it.

Nd: I dunno...we could try?

Emax reluctantly puts it in the grate. There's a bit of rumbling but then Emp comes back as a brand new PenguinBot.

Emp: OH MY GOD! IT'S EMAX AND THEY-WHO-MUST-NOT-BE-NAMED! SOUND THE ALARMS! SOUND THE-

Emax: YOU'RE ON OUR SIDE!

Emp: Wait..oh yeah, I *am*.

Nd: Who is, uh...'they-who-must-not-be-named'?

Emp: Oh yeah, we're not allowed to say your name here.

Nd: O...kay then. I didn't think they hated me that much.

There is a bit of silence.

Nd: Anyways, Emax, can I stop holding this bird head? It's pretty heavy, and Emp can just kill them for us, so we won't need this.

Emax: Er...how about...no? You have to keep holding it till the end of time.

Nd: This is cruelty.

Emp: How did we end up here again? I didn't...see a door inside the volcano.

Nd: There was a keypad outside the volcano, I figured out the code and it opened a door that led here.

Emp: Oh yeah, hold on, I think I can vaguely remember something about a keypad, if I try to remember...I guess that data was stored on the 'Prsn Mod.' USB, so that's why I don't remember it. What I still don't understand is why they have a false file about there being a door on the inside of the volcano...

Emax: I guess so that if someone hijacked you they would be misled and be killed by the metalbird.

There is yet another silence.

Emp: Well, this has been a pretty stressful day, wanna go to the employee lounge? I remember there's a vocal command that gives you access to it, I guess the words were in 'Prsn Mod.' but I'll just ask another PenguinBot.

Emp walks over to a broken PenguinBot rotting on the floor,

Emp: Hey PenguinBot registered 1938 (Unrepairable), what's the lounge code?

PenguinBot: im...not...telling.

Emp: Why not? I'm your Emperor.

PenguinBot: saw...the conversation...

Emp: This is an order from your High Command, EmperorPenguin himself. Refraining from performing this action can result in disintegration.

PenguinBot: Death would be relief from the pain I'm feeling right now.

Emp: Alright, N-Max, you got anything I can bribe this guy with?

Nd: N-max? That's...weird, but I've got two pipisballs and a potato-

PenguinBot: A POTATO?!?!

Emp flies over and snatches the potato from Nd.

Emp: Us penguins don't get to eat any food with potatoes, since all of them are used to keep our captives' souls.

Emp tosses it to the PenguinBot.

PenguinBot: Mmm...that's good...the code is 'Flamingos rule, other birds drool'

Nd: That is an incredibly strange code.

Emp: Eh, you don't know You-Know-Who as much as me, he is quite fond of flamingos.

Nd: I doubt that, but okay.

Emax: Anyways, do I just say like...'FLAMINGOS RULE, OTHER BIRDS DROOL'

The ground on the floor collapses and they fall down to the employee lounge.

PenguinBot: oh...god

The bot falls into eternal sleep.

The employee lounge is also a sterile white room, but with a tv and couch in the middle.

Emp: Alright! Let's play some Crazy Taxi!

Even with all the Crazy Taxi strategies removed from Emp's brain, Nd and Emax are absolutely crushed by him.

Emax: Alright, I think I'm done with this, is there anything else we can do?

Emp: We can watch Netflix?

Emax: Yeah, let's do that.

Nd: Yeah, Besic changed their Netflix password a few days ago so I've just been watching Nimckits News...and maybe some Paw Patrol sometimes BUT MOSTLY NIMCKITS NEWS!

Emp turns on Netflix.

Emp: Wanna watch Ninjago… OR WAIT… Maybe the Cereally Movie?

Nd: Oh, *that* old thing? I dunno about that-

Emax: I think you're just mad because you weren't in it, Nd.

Nd: Shut it. Anyways, maybe we should watch Nimckits News. I wanna see if Nimckits is back.

Nd grabs the remote and turns it on.

Nimckits: Hello, it is me Nimckits. And welcome to Nimckits News!

Nd: Oh, he IS back!

He seems to have a massive explosion mark on the top right of his face from the bomb.

Nimckits: After getting out of the hospital, I stumbled across a USB labelled 'Prsn Mod.' on the floor.

Emax: Wait, that's *our* USB, right?

Nimckits: After some consideration, I've decided the most logical thing to do is to eat it. Here I go!

Nimckits consumes the USB.

Nimckits: Wow, that tasted pretty good for a USB, 3/10. And...I'm starting to feel EVIL! HAHAH! I'M GONNA DESTROY THE SHOW! HAHAHA! I'M GONNA DESTROY THE CAMERA, WATCH THI-

*Nimckits gets pushed off-screen by a few security guards and gets replaced with John.*

John: Apologies about this but OH GOD HE’S COMING BACK-

*The two security guards get thrown from the left side of the screen to the right side.*

John: SAVE YOURSELF WHILE YOU CAN-

The screen flashes with a 'Technical Difficulties' screen.

Emax: Hey! Not that guy again.

Emp: I prefer him over nimckits when it comes to news.

Nd: o...k. Do you have any snacks? I haven't eaten anything today.

Emp: Oh, there's snacks in the drawer next to the TV.

Nd walks over and opens it.

Nd: OH MY FREAKING GOD.

Emax: W-

Emp: I know right? The raw haddock is so-

Nd: IT'S THE LIMITED EDITION GARLIC BREAD FLAVOURED CHEETOS. I'VE NEEDED TO TASTE THESE FOR 4 YEARS NOW!

Emax runs over.

Emax: Can I have some-

Nd: No.

Emax: But-

Nd: No.

Emax: Alrighty then.

Emax walks back to the couch, takes the decapitated bird head (that they still have for some reason) and throws it at Nd.

Nd: OW!

Nd drops the cheetos and Emax grabs it.

Nd: Well how does THIS FEEL!

Nd throws the bird head at Emax. And Emax throws it back. And Nd throws it back. And they are now angrily throwing the bird head at each other. Even Emp joins in, though he doesn't really even want the Cheetos. This is definitely the 1# BirdheadBall battle of all time.

'WHAT IS GOING ON HERE!??'

A voice comes from the outside door.

Nd and Emax hide behind the TV. It's You-Know-Who.

YKW: What was going on here?

Emp: Er, um, uh, I was just talking to myself. You know...schizophrenia...uh

YKW: Schizophrenia?

Emp: Yeah… Schizophrenia…

YKW: You’re a robot.

Emp: It's um… robot schizophrenia.

YKW: ok. anyways...

Emax starts whispering to Nd.

Emax: Do you think we can kill him?

Nd: He's a literal god.

Emax: Yeah, but, I dunno. He's gonna find us eventually. We might as well put up a fight.

Nd: Yeah, but-

Emax: Okay, you know what. I don't care. We're doing this.

Emax drags Nd out in front of the TV.

Emax: WE'RE HERE CEREALLY!

Cereally, also known as You-Know-Who, stares.

Cereally: Okay then, I guess I'm killing you today.

Cereally pulls out his halbird.

Emp pushes Nd and Emax back

Emp: I will fight him.

Nd finds a door and they both run through.

Cereally: Let's do this, random penguin bot.

Emp: I'm uh, EmperorPenguin?

Cereally: Oh. Why do you look like a normal penguin then?

Emp: It's a long story. I'm just saying because it makes the battle a lot more climatic and emotional.

Cereally: Yeah, yeah, it actually does quite a bit.

They start fighting, Emp flies around and shoots lasers everywhere and Cereally deflects it with the halbird.

Emp: Cereally… Stupid old fool… YOU FORGOT MY SECRET WEAPON!

Cereally: What-

A disco ball pops out of his head and he starts dancing.

Emp: Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! STAYING ALIVE, STAYING ALIVE-

Cereally smacks Emperor across the other side of the room.

Emp: Hey! You killed the mood!

Emp turns himself invisible, but Cereally elbows him in the face and sends him flying across the other side of the room.

Emp turns up his music and starts shooting lasers at Cereally while jumping all around the room, practically defying gravity.

Eventually a laser flies back and hits Emp in the face, and Cereally takes this opportunity to slice part of Emps face off. Before he can slice again Nd and Emax run inside and use some stolen PenguinBot lasers to shoot at Cereally. He tries to dodge them but eventually gets shot in the head.

Emax: WAIT, DID WE JUST KILL HIM?!?!?!

Cereally regenerates his head.

Emax: oh. he can jusT DO THAT?!?! THAT'S SO OVERPOWERED!??!? HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO BEAT HIM NOW?!??!

Cereally: You know what, I'm gonna use *the project*, screw it.

Emp: the...no...RUN!

Cereally decides to kick Emp at the wall, before going out the door.

Nd: I think we should leave.

Nd runs to get Emp, but a lava hand emerges from the ground.

Nd: OH MY GOD

Emp: Ha.. Ha… Ha… Ha… Save yourself… Staying alive…

The lava hand smashes Emp, and he gets incinerated.

Emax runs to Nd and drags them out of the door. They run back through the white maze but the lava hand is quickly catching up to them, destroying all the obstacles in the way. Nd, in panic, throws a pipisball at it, and it stops in place.

Emax: WHAT DID YOU DO!?!?

Emax grabs a bunch of broken PenguinBots and uses them to shield him and Nd. The lava hand explodes and lava splatters all over the room, and only barely misses them both.

Emax: Oh my gosh...that...was...scary.

Nd: I just wanna go home.

They both slowly walk out.

Emax: Well...uh, what did we get from that?

Nd: Well, uh...we now know the entrance to You-Know-Who's hideout-

Emax: And we *almost* got to taste Garlic Bread Cheetos.

Nd: Still sad about that.

Emax: Also, let's just call him Cereally now.

Nd: Yeah, honestly, he doesn't need the respect of some funny lil nickname.

They look out of Mount Milk and to Cerealnation.

Nd: Oh, whatever happened to this place?

## Chapter 4: An Unflash Flashback

*Reddit post*

Nd and Emax land back on the ground after scaling down Mount Milk.

Nd: oh my god, that took SO LONG!

Emax: Yeah, if only Emp was still alive...anyways, what are you gonna do now.

Nd: I guess I should probably get Moron out of the drawer, and then I'll go to sleep.

Emax: Well, as the mayor I am required to stay on the grind, constantly and forever until I die. So I think I'm gonna go and fundraise for SussyBot 2.

Nd: Man, glad I'm not the president.

Emax: Yeah, everyone back in the day was like, begging for *you* to be the mayor. I'm really lucky I even managed to get this position.

Nd: 'lucky', sure.

They say goodbye and head in their different ways.

Nd quickly runs into their house to get Moron out of the drawer.

Moron: I HATE YOU!

Nd: Sorry.

Moron: Like seriously, screw you, if i wasnt a potato i would freaking murder you on the spot.

Nd: yyyyyyeah.

Moron: Why were you walking around for like an hour in your house before taking me though?

Nd: I just entered the house

Moron: Really? I've been hearing footsteps for...an hour now.

Nd: Hold on.

Nd puts Moron on the couch and takes the remote.

Nd: What do you wanna put on? Nimckits news?

Moron: Nah they practically replaced Nimckits news with John news by now. Paw patrol please!

Nd puts on Paw Patrol, then looks around in their house.

Nd hears footsteps in the laundry room.

Someone is in here.

Nd finds Nimckits inside the laundry room with a matchbox.

Nimckits: Oh, hello there! Nd, my dear friend.

Nd: Hold on, didn't you like, turn evil a few hours ago?

NImckits: Oh, THAT? That was just a funny joke.

Nd: O...kay...

Nimckits was holding the same matchbox G64D used to light that lavabomb. It didn't really *feel* like yesterday.

Nimckits: Anyways, wanna come and hold an interview with me?

Nd: It's...midnight. Sorry but, maybe tomorrow?

Nd was staring at the explosion mark. The brain damage must be bad. Nimckits runs into the living room and Nd follows him.

Nimckits is giving Moron a paper, after staring at it a bit Moron stares at Nd and talks

Moron: 'Oh my dearest friend Nd, I truly enjoy your presence so much, and you truly make very little mistakes. But I, Emax-', wait,

Nimckits walks over and scribbles something out with his mustache, which doubles as a pen.

The new penstache craze has become viral after Nimckits popularized it on his TV show.

Moron: okay, 'But I, Moron, think that you are making a massive mistake by refusing this monumental offer from Nimckits. He, came to your house with a proposition-'

Nd: Alright, alright, I'll do it.

Moron whispers to Nimckits.

Moron: Payment in 2 days...kay, good enough.

Moron: Wait, what are you paying me in?

Nimckits: Paw Patrol action figures.

Moron: HAHAHA HELL YEAH!

Nimckits: Anyways ND! Let's go do that interview.

They walk outside and begin walking in the direction of the news station, which is conveniently also the passport booth.

Nd stares up into the sky, and sees a combination of stars that seemingly forms a cat.

But after blinking it just looks like a normal constellation once more.

Nd notices that Nimckits isn't moving in the direction of the passport booth anymore. Nd assumes it's brain damage.

Nd: Hey wait, aren't we meant to go to the booth?

Nimckits: Oh no no no… I don’t do interviews in the booth.

Eventually Nimckits lets Nd walk in front of him, but Nd spots something strange on the ground.

It's a satanic symbol engraved in red spraypaint. Nd stares back to find Nimckits lighting candles on the edges of the symbol.

Nimckits: Ha...

Nd: What-

Nimckits: I AM A VESSEL *666*, OBEY THE DARK LORD ABOVE US.

Nd is frozen in place.

Nimckits: PRAISE SATAN, SACRIFICE TO SATAN, *SACRIFICE*

Nd: what.

Nimckits: Satan is whispering in my ear, he says to murder the gods. I must obey him.

Nd: I'm not a god.

Nimckits: LIAR! Now...after I'm done with you it'll just be the bird and the block...WHERE IS THE BLOCK?

Nd: I don't know.

Nimckits: Sigh...I shouldn't have expected you to share your knowledge. AGAB...and all that...at least the pink one got what it deserve-

Nd feels inside his pocket and finds the Pipisball.

Nimckits: What do you have in your pocket-

Nd throws their final Pipisball at Nimckits, and he is knocked out cold.

Nd: Well...I guess I'm unsubscribing from Nimckits News then.

Nd starts walking back to their house.

But before Nd steps off the satanic symbol, Nimckits gets up.

Nimckits: Hey.

Nd rummages in their pocket for a Pipisball, but they have none left.

Nimckits: It's me, Emp.

Nd: What?

Emp: I survived and went into You-K-, actually y'know what, Cereally's room and his computer gives me access to any lifeform that is connected to the 'Prsn Mod' USB.

Nd: I thought you died… YOU WERE COVERED WITH LAVA!

Emp: Don’t you remember?? I said my penguin bot could survive over 12 degrees celsius temperatures???

Nd: Wha-

Emp: Lava is over 12 degrees celsius, remember??

Emp: Anyways, Nimckits ate the USB I guess so now he's connected to the network.

Nd: I don't think that's how USBs work.

Emp: Yeah, but y'know how like a year ago Cereally started becoming mad interested in inventions, especially my pride and joy, “Penguin Bots.” I think these are like special USBs.

Nd: You mean he made Ingestion activated USBs???

Emp: He’s got a USB that can activate for anything.

There is a momentary silence as Emp stares around at the satanic symbol.

Emp:...I'm not gonna ask.

Nd: Yeah, appreciate that.

Emp: To be honest John was always the best news anchor.

Emp: Anyways, uh, the reason I'm doing this broadcast is to tell you to perhaps check G64D's computer another time. I found something...interesting and was about to tell you before Emax came in and started talking about SussyBot and I got distracted.

Nd: Wha-

Emp: OH NO ARE THOSE FOOTSTEPS, DISCONNECT, DISCONN-

And Nimckits fell down on the ground.

Nd stares at CerelComplex. Nd knows that if they go now their sleep schedule will be completely ruined, but at the same time Nd is really curious.

Nd eventually decides to go inside CC, and is greeted by Flu.

Flu: Wha-, I was about to go to sleep, what are you doing here at this time?

Nd: I need to go to Room...I think it was...604?

Flu: You need to pay for an apartment.

Nd: How about, if you don't let me in I'll tell Emax to fire you.

Flu: Okay, FINE!

Flu gives Nd the key and then gets the key to their room, 001, and puts a closed sign on the outside of the complex. Nd goes to the elevator and goes up to G64D's room again for the second time today, only instead of 1PM it's 1AM. Time sure flies when it's the end of the world.

Nd enters the room and it's just as damaged and untidy as before. They rush over to the computer and open it up. Nd enters the personal files and finds a few different documents.

Nd first enters 'Explosive Guide', and for the most part it's just a bunch of engineering mumbo jumbo. But at the bottom of the page, there's a name...a name called 'Haha yes'...

That's a name Nd hasn't heard in a year...but did Emp just call them here for this?

Nd secondly enters 'Travel Guide', and at the start it's just a simple document detailing how he rode on a camel to PippinsPalace. But at the end...there's another mention of Haha Yes. He apparently has a small factory next to PippinsPalace that G64D uses to get explosives.

Nd starts having a strange prophetic vision, usually when they have these they slam their head on something until it stops. But Nd embraces the vision and remembers a distant memory.

*In the Cerealnation Inc. lounge*

Cereally: So, we've finished the Cereally Movie.

Emp: Yes, we indeed have. We have an 80% on rotten tomatoes and the stonks are through the ROOF!

Cereally: Brilliant! we have truly outdone ourselves.

Emp: Well, we know the company policy. 'Don't stop at success, go to EXCESS!'!

Cereally: Right, we need to do something to capitalize on our success. Maybe something to do with Mount Milk. The youth nowadays is obsessed with that big ol' thing.

Emp: I’d like to say, those remote controlled Emperor flying action figures have sold out!

Cereally: Yeah we’re really good at making robot birds!

Kat: Man, the company is really skyrocketing lately.

Nd: Sure is.

Nd and Kat are sitting the Cerealnation Inc. chat corner, along with Cereally, Emp, Haha Yes and Frozen Potato. Cereally and Emp are chatting away about Economics. Haha Yes and Frozen Potato are typing away on their computers silently, and Nd and Kat are just having a nice chat.

Kat: Do you feel a bit out of place here too?

Nd: Yeah, I don't really *feel* that much like a god.

In Cerealnation, there are four gods (well, more accurately, demigods) with magic powers and rule over the land of Cerealnation. Cereally, Nd, Kat and Haha Yes

Nd: Everyone else is sitting around chatting about economy stuff and like I'm just watching TV.

Kat: Yeah, ha, me too. Did you hear of that new show 'Nimckits News'? Meth retired and now Nimckits, the weird passport guy, is taking over the news scene.

Nd: Gotta say, the new guy has charisma. I think the new news thing could work out pretty well.

Kat: I dunno, for all I know he could be some weird satan worshiper, I need to take a while to get trust in this new IP.

Nd: Anyways, like, my assistant Emax is always chattering away about Engineering and is trying to use my god-powers to power circuits and stuff.

Kat: Glad my assistant isn't like that.

Each god has an assistant, Cereally has Emp, Nd has Emax, Kat has Lav, and Haha Yes has Frozen Potato.

Cereally: VOLCANO CLIMBING! YOU'RE A GENIUS EMP, THAT'S IT!

Emp: Always was, my buddy.

Cereally and Emp run out and Haha Yes is audibly annoyed by the amount of noise they make and puts on headphones.

*A few days later*

Kat: How are the ratings, Lav?

Lav: Hmmm, they seem to be dropping from the start where they were at an all time high, but that was expected. The ratings are still incredibly impressive.

Kat: Nice!

Nd, Kat, Lav, Haha and Frozen are all sitting in the lounge room and are watching Cereally climb up Mount Milk.

Kat: How can we see him from here?

Nd: Beats me. Frankly all he looks like is a blurry pixel.

Nd: So, uh, this is kinda boring can I put on Paw P-

Kat: Hold up.

Cereally stops in place during climbing the volcano.

Haha: What is he- Frozen, call him.

Frozen dials Cereally. Cereally on the volcano, picks up, before throwing the phone at the cameras, indirectly stopping the broadcast.

Frozen: Oh.

Haha: He can't do this.

Haha Yes walks away angrily and Frozen follows while shrugging at everyone else.

Kat: What just happened?

Nd: Don't ask me.

*A few days later*.

Cereally came back a few days later and kept to himself in his office. Haha Yes seemed to be angry about something constantly but didn't share it. He just kept working on his research on this famous bird called 'Alacante'. Apparently he died back around a decade ago but nobody found his body, he thinks its a vital case, Frozen thinks its a stupid case but he doesn't say that to not be fired.

Cereally eventually held an assembly where he shared a new invention he made.

Cereally: Now, any questions before I show my newest invention?

Nd raises their hand.

Nd: Since when did you make inventions?

Cereally: Alright, Nd, I have a question for you. Since when were you such an unlikable stupid idiot?

Nd put down their hand.

Emp tottles onto the stage.

Emp: Hello Cerealnation Demigods and Demidemigods! Nice to see you all here as my lord Cereally is testing his new invention!

Emp: He will be turning me into the closest thing to a Demigod!

*There is an awkward silence.*

Emp: Man I wish I had a disco ball attached to my head to lighten things up a bit-

Cereally: Alright, here I go!

Cereally throws Emp into the machine and he comes out the other side as a cyborg.

Cereally: Yes! That is right, I turned him into a remote controlled robot!

Emp: Wait I’m remote contr-

Cereally pulls out a remote and makes Emperor go flying through the roof.

Haha yes jumps onto the stage.

Haha: Cereally. This is irresponsible. This violates multiple laws. You can't turn people into cyborgs!

Cereally: Is creativity a crime now?!??!?!

Haha: We need to talk about this, OUTSIDE!

Haha ran out angrily, Frozen also walked out shrugging at everyone again, and Cereally went out last.

Emax, Kat and Nd stare at the door.

Nd: I don't have a good feeling about this.

Kat: Wanna eavesdrop?

Nd: Yeah, sure.

Emax: AM I INCLUDED?!?

Nd: Uh, yeah, of course.

Emax: WOOOOO! I'M EAVESDROPPING WITH THE GODS-

Kat: Be quiet.

All three of them go up to the door, and start listening.

Haha: I'm LEAVING, Cereally! You can't keep screwing us over like this. Me and Frozen have worked hard to get here, right?

Frozen: Uh, yeah.

Cereally: Deal with it, I'm the god in charge.

Haha: That- that doesn't make it fine! Alright, if you keep this up, me and Frozen are gonna make a NEW Cerealnation, WITHOUT you! And-

There's a loud noise from beyond the door, Kat breaks open and Haha Yes is laying on the ground. Cereally is holding a gun with an indecipherable label on it.

Cereally: Teach you to mess with creativity!

Nd: What the-

Cereally: Oh god not you.

Cereally shoots at Kat, Nd and Emax accidentally.

Emax: HEY!

Emax, who is somehow not affected, runs to Cereally and karate chops the gun out of his hand, whilst all this is happening, Frozen grabs Haha and they run out the door.

Emax decides this is a good idea, and he gets Kat and Nd, who are somehow alive and they run out.

Kat suddenly remembers they're a god and tries to start flying out of the building, but they somehow can't.

Emax, who had stored the gun in their pocket to possibly use for parts, looked at it and tried to read the label.

Kat: WHAT THE HELL IS THAT GUN-

Emax: It’s a… It’s a…

It was a 'Power-Remover' gun. Nd, Kat and Haha were no longer gods.

Eventually they all get out, but Emps flies out the top of the building and throws Cereally's Halberd from the top and it flies to the ground.

It decapitates Kat. They are now dead.

Emp: Hahahahahah! Never liked you anyways!

Nd: Kat… They…

Emax: Oh god. What happens now!?!

Emp: What happens now is that you losers are gonna lose!

Emperor flies away.

Everything from then on is a bit strange. Cereally suddenly disappears, then, a few days later, 'The Incident' happens, Cerealnation gets flooded with lava and it becomes a volcanic wasteland. PenguinBots fly and kill unsuspecting citizens. And Haha Yes is never seen again.

The strangest thing of all is that they never found out why Cereally became evil. Why he robotizized Emp, killed Kat, and made Haha Yes and Frozen Potato leave forever.

It is now an year later, and Nd has been sitting on G64D's couch just thinking about things for an hour now. They eventually realize it's 2:50am and they decide to just sleep in G64D's room, as they don't want to be outside at 3am, the most satanic hour of the day.

They'll find Haha Yes tomorrow. It just seems like it would be the key. Before falling asleep Nd feels something on the pillow, they look beneath it and find a sticky note.

'5 Cackeen Street, PippinsPalace'

## Chapter 5: Tale of a Pink Pelican

The camel spits on Moron.

Moron: HEY! Pick me up Nd.

Nd puts Moron back on the camel.

Emax: Ugh...that sticky note better lead to...who are we going to again?

Nd: Haha Yes.

Emax: Oh wow, actually talking about the gods for once! That's a change.

Nd: We're never gonna defeat Cereally if we ignore vital information such as the gods.

Moron: Hey, is that PippinsPalace?

Nd, Emax and Moron are all on a camel trip to the location of the sticky note G64D had. Some may call it illogical to take all this time based on a single sticky note. Nd would call you an unlikable stupid idiot.

Moron: it’s quite illogical to take all this time based on a single sticky note.

Nd: You are an unlikable stupid idiot.

Emax: What kind of insult is that???

Moron: Alright, here's the gate. Ahem...ANYONE THERE?!??!?

There's a silence.

Moron: ANYONE! THERE!

Another silence.

Moron: Well, Nd, it seems that you have wasted my time riding on a camel across the desert for no reason. MY RESPECT FOR YOU IS SLOWLY FADING! KNOW IT!

'uuh, who's there?'

Everyone turns to the gate. There's a key sound and the door opens.

Criss: What is it?

Nd: Criss?

Criss: Yeah, that's my name. Why're you here?

Nd: I'm uh, looking for someone.

Criss: Is it Lav? They died like a month ago.

Nd: Uh, no- wait what?

Criss: This town is notoriously infected with Bubonic Plague. Everyone here is dying.

Nd: Hold on, but, why are you guys here then?

Criss: I dunno, the volcano scared me, guess it's the same for other Cerealnationers. I guess I should probably leave and stop dying of Bubonic Plague but I can't really bother.

Emax: Wait, didn't we invent a cure for that??

Criss: Yes but I won’t bother using it.

They walk inside and the town is broken and hollow.

Nd: Where is everyone?

Criss: Most normal PippinsPeople moved to KrakaKingdom after the whole bubonic plague thing.

Moron: This is sure one conversation.

Criss: I spend most of the time in my house slowly dying of the Plague so honestly I'm not good at socializing. Anyways...uh, location? You're going to?

Nd: 5 Cackeen Street.

Criss: Oh...*Manic*.

Nd: Manic?

Criss: He's- nevermind, I'm just gonna go back to my house and continue rewatching the Cereally Movie and being sad that I'm not in it.

Emax: Wait criss-

Criss: What?

Emax: You were in there, just look at that one bottom left slightly brown pixel at 24:35 to 24:38! Those are you.

Criss: Oh cool.

Cris walks away and the others find 5 Cackeen Street.

Emax: Please don't tell me…

*Nd opens the door*

Manic is inside eating chips.

Manic: Hello?

Nd: AAAAAA

Emax: IT'S A MONSTER!

Moron: KILL IT KILL IT!

Manic is a criminal in Cerealnation, notorious not really for shoplifting minor things. But mainly for how annoying he was while being interrogated about it. The police knew he should do community service but he was just so annoying that they decided to just give him 10 dollars to get the hell out and go to PippinsPalace.

Manic did not have Bubonic Plague because no one stood close enough to him for him to get it.

Nd instinctively pulls out a Pipisball, they took 2 more from G64D's room earlier in the day.

Manic: HEY! I didn't do anything wrong!

Moron: I can name a few, such as, existing.

Nd: Ok...ok, Manic, do you know anything about Haha Yes?

Manic: Isn't that something you say like, in a text?

Nd: No, like, the god!?

Manic: Gods?

Emax: My god, how goddamn clueless can you goddamn be about gods, god.

Nd: Alright...let's look around in this house.

They explore Manic's house but can't find anything valuable.

Emax: Nd, you *sure* there's something of value here?

Nd: I mean, I dunno.

Emax: What if G64D was just friends with Manic or something? They're both criminals-

Nd: No, I don't think even G64D would be friends with Manic-

Manic: HEY!

They go back into the living room.

Moron: WHAT?!?!

Manic: I was trying to watch Nimckits News to catch up on this 'god' stuff, but it just has this message! Emax, I thought you're an engineer, maybe you can help?

They stare at the screen. It's a black screen with red words engraved on it.

'THIS PROGRAM HAS BEEN HIJACKED BY CEREALNATION INC. THIS TOWN WILL BE DESTROYED. YOU HAVE ONE DAY LEFT UNTIL IT EXPLODES.'

Emax: No way...

Nd: This can't be...

Moron: Hey! Where's Nimckits!?

Emax and Nd walk into a different room.

Nd: This...this can't actually be real.

Emax: We need to get out of here, STAT! I can't be HERE while my city is being destroyed.

Emax starts running to the door, but Nd stays in place.

Emax: What? Come on!

Nd puts Moron on the window.

Nd: But...we came all the way here. What if we're missing something? I wanna keep looki-

Emax: What's there to find? We can't waste more time!

Nd: But...what if-

Emax: I get Haha Yes would probably help out in this situation, but where is he? He's not here! The only person here is MANIC, and I doubt being annoying is gonna defeat the god of the universe.

Moron: Hey, wait...

Nd: How are *we* supposed to beat him? Even if we stab him, shoot him, drown him, he's never gonna die! I-

Moron: LOOK!

Everyone stares out the window. There's a sewer grate right outside Manic's house. There's a label dug in the sand.

'HY'

Emax: Heck You??

Moron: Hallelujah Yeah!

Nd: HY...Haha Yes!

Nd runs towards it, before realizing there's a wall there, and instead runs out of Manic's house and goes into the sewer grate, followed by Emax who is carrying Moron.

There's initially nothing there of note.

Emax: Nd...slow down...

Nd runs throughout the sewer and Emax does his best to run at the same pace. They eventually find a metal house. Nd knocks on it.

Emax: Phew...finally caught up...

There's some rumbling until the door opens.

Haha Yes: Yo, wassup gsixty, wait-

Haha Yes, stare at Nd.

Nd: HAHA YES!

Nd dashes into the house and stares around. It's filled with insane mechanical inventions that would make Emax say 'oh my innersloth'

Emax: oh my innersloth

See, I told you.

Haha: Frozen, come here.

Frozen walks in and gives no verbal discussion of his feelings about this. Mostly because he doesn't have a mouth anymore, his lower face is just a bunch of bandages wrapped around.

Emax: What...happened to him?

Haha: Yeah, after being hit by the gun Cereally fired he launched across the room and hit his face on this spiky rock. It's not really much of a difference, he didn't say much to begin with.

Frozen stares blankly.

Nd: Wow, Haha, I knew you were good at inventions but you've really outdone yourself with these.

Emax: Yeah...they're...fine, how did you make them?

Haha: I didn't.

Emax: Huh?

Haha: Hold on.

Haha walks into a different room. It's just Nd, Emax, Moron and Frozen now.

Moron: Hey, look at that robotic suit.

There's a robotic shell on the side that kind of resembles a PenguinBot.

Moron: Maybe they can transfer me in there. Kinda tired of being a potato.

Frozen writes something on a piece of paper and passes it to Nd.

'HELP ME. I'M BEING HELD HOSTAGE'

Nd doesn't know what to do with it, so they just put it in their pocket. Since Frozen didn't have a face, it was hard to tell, but Nd could swear if he did he would be sobbing violently.

Haha walks back in with a bunch of files.

Haha: Alright, I've been waiting for someone to share this with. So...

There once was a flamingo named Alacante, who spent his time making these insane inventions, rumored to be inspired by Paw Patrol, a show he watched as a child. Around a year and a half ago. Alacante always wanted to achieve immortality. He frequently tried to somehow do it, but always failed. One day he thought he cracked the code, with this little device to attach to his spine. He would jump into the volcano, the device would take his soul and transfer it into Mount Milk.

Unfortunately, it didn't work. Alacante was an incredibly smart man, but he could not simply become the volcano. Instead, fragments of his soul tumbled around in the volcano. It teetered and tootered and bumped around, for months. Useless. Tiny. Powerless. Needless to say, when one day a random bluebird started climbing up and chattering away, Alacante was quite desperate to get the hell out. The crushed the pieces of his soul against the wall of the volcano. Eventually he managed to crack a hole in the wall.

The pieces of the soul managed to crawl into Cereally's ear and eventually went into his brain. He became possessed by Alacante.

Haha: At this very moment, Cereally is not Cereally, but instead Alacante, in the shell of Cereally. I don't know what he's planning on doing, but I know it's not any good.

Nd is shocked by this news, Emax is still comprehending it, and Moron thought that was a pretty epic story.

Haha: Anyways, we found all of Alacante's old new stuff. I've currently been selling it, mostly to this one guy called 'Gamer64dd'.

Nd: You're selling stuff to *him*!??

Haha: What's wrong with him?

Nd: He's a goddamn criminal, he destroys everything, he destroyed the original Cerealnation skyscraper.

Emax: Yeah, I spent forever rebuilding that.

Haha: Damn, that building was really cool. But, uh, I guess I could always tell there was something wrong with that guy.

Nd: Why didn't you...not sell stuff to him then?

Haha: Look, I don't pick good or evil anymore, I pick money. Anyways, any of you want some of these cool things?!??!

Moron: Can you put me in one of those robot suits?

Haha: AAAAAHHhhhh, wait, the potato talks?

Moron: I'm MORON, I got transferred into a potato.

Haha: Moron...isn't that the one guy in the office who kept trying to knock over the water cooler? Alright, anyways, I can try that. Frozen come here, we're gonna do something with the PenguinBot prototypes.

Haha and Frozen meddle with some of the bots for a while.

Emax: That's amateur work. Let me show you how its done.

Emax tinkers for a bit but gets electrocuted.

Emax: Alright...fine...you can stick with it.

Eventually Moron gets transferred.

Moron: WOO! Mmm, but this plain gray suit is really boring, hold on, do you have some markers?

Moron begins using the markers to draw on the suit.

Moron: Sunglasses...cool jacket...yeah I look AWESOME now! What do you think, Emax?

Emax: Do you want me to say what you want or be honest?

Frozen gives a thumbs up and leaves to sit on the couch and continue staring into the distance.

Nd: Do none of you remember, Cerealnation is ending today! We shouldn't be wasting time like this.

Emax: Huh, I actually did forget.

Haha: What do you all mean?

Nd: Cereally is destroying Cerealnation today. We have to stop him today, but we're HERE! I don't know what to do, honestly.

Haha: He is? Hm. I think I know what to do. Come here.

Haha walks into another room, Nd follows him and Emax follows.

There's a chest laying inside the room, Haha opens it.

Haha: This is Alacantes ultimate invention. A weapon that can destroy everything.

Inside the chest laid a giant churro.

Nd: A giant churro?

Haha: Not just that.

Haha clicks a button on the churro, and it opens up and reveals a laser.

Haha: It can destroy anything.

Haha aims at a few blocks, clicks a few buttons, and a giant beam of light flies out of it and they get sucked up and completely atomized.

Nd: Woah.

Haha: With this I think you can completely destroy Cereally, quick and easy. I've been waiting for something to use this on. I think this is the time.

Haha gives it to Nd.

Emax: Huh, this could really end this entire thing. It could stop Cerealnation from being...just...Cerealnation: Volcanic Caverns!

There's a silence.

Nd: Why'd you say it like that?

## Chapter 6: Happy Deathday

Emax: Ah it feels...mediocre to be back.

Nd, Emax and Moron arrive back at Cerealnation, after a long and arduous camel ride.

Nd: It's already night time...wow.

Moron, with his awesome new robotic body, is holding the churrolazer.

Nd: So the plan is, we go up to the base in Mt. Milk, and we just shoot Cereally.

Emax: Yeah, it should be easy. Give me the lazer, Moron.

Moron: Laser\*

Emax: MORON HOW ARE YOU CORRECTING OUR TEXT, WE’RE SPEAKING OUT LOUD! GIVE ME THE “LASER”!

Moron tosses it over and almost smashes Emax's nose.

Moron: Aw man I wish that had smashed emax’ nose.

Emax: Shut up moron, Now fly us up.

*Emax and Nd hop onto Moron and he begins flying upwards.*

Nd: Emax, it's hard to breathe up here.

Emax: Wha-

Emax: MORON WHEN I SAID FLY US UP, I MEANT TO THE MOUNTAIN, NOT THE OZONE LAYER.

Moron: My bad.

Moron begins flying downwards.

Nd: Wait...my god, it's Fact's birthday today.

Emax: Oh. Okay. I guess you'll have to miss out.

Nd: Do I? I mean, there's still time in the day.

Emax: Time you're gonna have to spend with us defeating Cereally.

They arrive at the keypad on Mt. Milk

Moron: We're here, Nd, enter the code.

Nd enters '3.1415'

Emax: Cool, let's go.

Moron throws Emax and Nd inside the hallway. Everyone except Nd runs along.

Emax: C'mon Nd, we don't have time for you to brood, or whatever you're doing.

Nd: I'm going to that birthday party.

Emax: You've gotta be kidding me, Nd.

Moron: Yeah this seems completely out of character considering this is a chance for revenge-

Nd: You know I don’t want revenge on anyone.

Nd: Look, you two go along and kill Cereally. Just do it without me.

Emax: No, you look, in the grand scheme of the ultimate plan of the universe, does this lil birthday party *matter*?! It doesn't.

Nd: But how about this, in the grand scheme of the ultimate plan of the universe, I don't care.

Emax: ND!

Nd starts sliding down the volcano.

Moron: What an idiot.

Emax: Ah, whatever, let's just go.

They walk along the hallway and open the door.

Moron: Wow, this is a really sterile white room.

Emax: Get used to it.

They walk through the different rooms and there aren't many PenguinBots.

Emax: Guess I killed all of 'em.

They walk around for a bit more.

Emax: God, where's Cereally...I mean Alacante...

Moron: Same thing now, practically. Might as well call him Cerante.

Emax: No you idiot. Alareally!

Moron: That sounds stupid-

They walk into two penguin bots.

PenguinBot198: Halt! Who goes there?

Moron: Um… I’m penguin bot 1 with a prisoner here, he’s French so I had to capture him.

Emax: HEY!

PenguinBot197: You are PenguinBot1?

Moron: Yeah pretty much-

PenguinBot198: That PenguinBot has been removed from the official liable PenguinBot list, after betrayal of Cereally himself. You are to be imprisoned.

They get the giant churro lazer taken away from them and start getting escorted to a jail cell.

Emax: Moron you idiot! Why did you think pretending to be Emperor was a good idea?!?

Moron: Look, I didn’t really know what I was meant to say!

Emax: We should’ve just attacked them with the lazer, now we lost our only way to attack Cereally!

Moron: Wait wait, these cells were probably made to contain ordinary people, not penguin bots.

Emax: What’re you saying?

*Moron begins fiddling with his body until a chainsaw hand activates, and he saws through the bars.*

Moron: I guess that's a new way of discovering your body.

Emax: I guess so, but we need to get that churrolazer before they take it to Cereally!

They start running through the corridors until they reach a cart with the Churrolazer, that is being pushed by two penguins.

Emax headbutts one of the penguins, with enough force that the bot would say “Ouch!”

PenguinBot: Ouch!

See, predicting this stuff is easy when you’re writing it.

Moron kicks the other bot in the face and destroys him.

Moron: Excellent, well, let's get that laser!

Emax grabs the Churrolaser and walks to the employee lounge.

Emax: Wait, hold on, I think I remember how to get to the employee lounge...FLAMINGOS RULE, OTHER BIRDS DROOL!

The ground opens up and they fall into the employees lounge.

Moron: I would ask what just happened, but I've learned not to question it.

Emax: I gotta say, that code makes a lot more sense now. Hmm, wait-

Moron: Should we watch some paw patrol while we’re waiting for Cereally to begin the final battle?

Emax: Sure.

Emax: Hey where is the remote?

Moron: Maybe it's under the couch. I put my remote under the couch all the time.

Emax: Why?

Moron: So it doesn’t get lost.

Emax looks under the couch.

Emax notices something peaking out of the couch. He takes it out and realizes…

Emax: It's the power erasing gun that took away all the gods other than Cereally's powers!

Moron: Ong!

Emax: Man, I remember I dropped this after exiting that building. I guess they still have this. Kinda useless though, no other gods than Cereally...

Emax keeps it in his pocket for the memories.

Moron: Hey wait… do you see that door over there?!?

Emax: I DO!

They open the door, and it is another employee lounge.

Emax: I guess that makes sense, a new employee lounge under each room. Hold on-

Moron: ARE THOSE-

Emax runs over to the TV, and grabs the Garlic Bread Cheetos.

Emax: I can finally eat these...

Moron: HOLY SHIT ARE THOSE THE EXCLUSIVE GARLIC BREAD CHEETOS?!??!? HOLY-

Moron lunges at the Cheetos and starts eating them very loudly.

Cereally: What's that noise?

Cereally's voice echoes throughout the rooms.

Moron: OH GOD HE'S GONNA PUT ME IN A POTATO AGAIN- wait, oh right, we have the lazer!

Cereally bursts through the door and Emax points the churrolazer at him.

Cereally: Wait, is that my- I mean, uh-

Moron: WE KNOW YOU'RE ALACANTE!

Cereally: oh.

Cereally: That was supposed to be like, a mega super awesome twist that I was planning on revealing.

Moron: Alright, just shoot him Emax.

Emax would've already shot him but there's tons of knobs and stuff on the lazer, and he's not sure which one to press. There's an 'intensity' lever with different levels on it, Emax moves it to the top level and presses the button.

A giant lazer pierces through the wall, Cereally jumps back just in time.

The lazer pierces all throughout the volcano, and there's a hole showing Cerealnation at the end.

Cereally: Is that the best you can do?! I’m getting bored!

The intensity of the lazer causes Emax to lose grip of it, and Cereally along with Emax both lunge back at it.

Emax probably would've won but Moron flies in and slams in onto Cereally's hands and it bounces upwards.

Sadly, Emax falls backwards so Cereally manages to grab it in the air and punch Moron away.

Cereally calls in the remaining PenguinBots to start killing Emax and Moron.

Nd is in Cerealnation walking towards Fact's house. It's nighttime, so they know the birthday party has probably ended, but they want to go anyways. Nd opens the door and everyone is there.

Churro: yo.

Besic: Hi!!!!

Hello: Hello.

John: John.

Flu: Oh, salutations my dear chum Nd-

Meth: Wassup!

Craig: hoi!!!

Fact: You're here! I thought you wouldn't come.

Nd: Of course I've come! I think this is actually a nice way to spend the last day of our lives if we die.

Besic: What?

Nd: Y'know...the last day on Cerealnation...didn't you watch Nimckits News yesterday?

Churro: No, we watched ðe new show by me. Churro News.

Nd: So none of you know about Cerealnations...

Fact: What?

Nd: Nevermind.

Nd did not want to ruin the day with the information that it could be the last.

Meanwhile, at Mount milk…

Moron: PENGUINBOT?!?! MORE LIKE. *DEAD*GUINBOT.

Moron shot the PenguinBot in the face.

Cereally: Alright, screw it!

Cereally: You irritating pigs have brought the end to you with your foolish schemes! I AM initiating the destruction of Cerealnation now!

Cereally flies away and the PenguinBots fly along too.

Cereally: HAHAHAHAHAHA! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Moron: WHAT?!?! WE NEED TO GET THAT CHURROLAZER NOW!

Moron flies out the hole in the volcano. Emax jumps out too and barely manages to grab Moron.

Emax: god...WAIT FOR ME NEXT TIME!

Moron begins flying downwards towards the lazer, but the volcano roars suddenly and Moron stops in his tracks, making Emax lose grip and fall straight down around 400 meters.

Moron stares up at the volcano, and the giant face of Cereally emerges from the top.

Cereally: FOOL! YOU DARE CHALLENGE ME! I AM THE GOD! THE GOD OF YOUR DESTRUCTION!

Cereally sprouts out lava hands on each side of the volcano.

He finally figured out how to become the volcano. A piece of lava flies downward and burns off one of moron’s arms.

Moron: MY ARM! I just got those back today and now I'm losing them again!??!?!??!!?

Moron: OH GOD THE LAZER!

Moron flies towards the churrolazer and grabs it and begins aiming at the giant lava face of Cereally, who is trying to figure out how to use his new volcanic hands. But with only one arm, he is unable to both aim and shoot. With the lava erupting from the volcano closing in, Moron decides to fly off with the churrolazer so he can find Nd and maybe have them shoot the lazer.

Churro: See, now ðis is the point in the show when I...yeah, look at that. Ðat was hilarious, wasn't it.

Churro is doing a director's commentary over the latest issue of Churro News that's premiering.

Churro: Right, now is ðe point where I do the daily hypothetical, here I go…

John: Honestly I think my news is better than yours.

Churro on TV pulls out a cuecard and starts reading it.

Churro: Alright, so, today's daily hypoðetical is...'What would you do if you had one day before you died?'

Hello: Hmm, I'd use all the money I've been saving up for stock market usage and use it to try and buy one of those exclusive 'garlic bread' cheetos on ebay. You agree with me, Nd, right? You LOVE garlic bread.

Nd: Hmmm...well, uh...

Nd was surprised because, well, they were spending their last day alive. And maybe they would've said that earlier, but today, Nd actually knew the answer.

Nd: I would spend the day hanging out with you guys.

Churro: Ðat was a really lame answer.

Moron bursts through the door and starts yelling.

Moron: LOOK OUT THE WINDOW! LOOK AT THE WINDOW! LOOK OUT THE WINDOW YOU *MORONS*!!

Everyone looks out the window and sees the giant volcano eruption that's consuming the town.

Churro: 👍

Moron: We need to get on the roof, *STAT*!

Everyone walks outside, and the lava is destroying everyones houses.

Moron throws everyone up on the roof.

Besic: Oh man...my house just got incinerated...it's a really good thing we were all here for Fact's birthday.

Churro: We gotta get out of Cerealnation.

Moron: There's no civilization for like 5km, by the time we reach halfway Cereally'll probably find out we escaped and kill us some other way.

Nd: Is Cereally the volcano now??

Moron: I suppose so.

The lava eventually reaches Fact's house, and now it's floating in the lava, slowly melting.

Nd: What do we do, Moron?!? The only surface we have is slowly being destroyed, we need to find something tall...wait...

Nd notices the skyscraper office that everyone works in. It's incredibly tall, they could probably stand on that for about an hour before it completely melts.

Nd: Moron, fly everyone all the way to the skyscraper.

Moron: Good idea! But first you need to hold the churrolazer.

Nd takes the churrolazer and climbs onto Moron as they fly up to the skyscraper.

Nd: Hold on...what happened to Emax?

Moron: Uh...hold on. I don't remember.

*A few minutes earlier*

Emax wakes up after falling down the 400 meters, with an unsurprising amount of broken limbs. He stares back and notices the lava right behind him, slowly crawling towards him.

Emax: Oh...no...

Emax tries to get up and run away from the lava, but due to his broken limbs he just falls down again. There's no way he's gonna be able to get up before the lava incinerates him. But then...a silhouette appears from the lava, rusted and partially melted.

Emax: Emp?

Emp begins shooting the lava away, which admittedly, didn't slow it down that much. But it managed to buy enough time for Emax to finally get up and start limping towards Cerealnation.

Emp: EmperorPenguin...at your service.

Emax: Thanks Emperor…

Then Emp falls down and slowly gets consumed by the lava.

Emax sees Nd and Moron flying towards the skyscraper, and slowly limps towards that exact skyscraper.

Moron: He's probably dead. It's too late to save him, we can't bother.

Nd: O...kay.

Cereally, who has finally figured out how to use the lava hands, flicks a large piece of lava at Moron. Moron quickly throws Nd towards the skyscraper before the piece of lava hits them. Nd manages to grip onto the edge of the building, and hoists themselves up. Unfortunately, the same thing can't be said about Moron, who gets hit by the lava, and slowly falls down into the lava.

Moron: *REMEMBER MEEEEEE-*

Nd stares back at Fact's house, and it's mostly consumed by lava. There's clearly only a few seconds before everyone in it sinks in the lava and dies. Nd doesn't know what to do, they don't have any way to get all of them to the skyscraper, where they're safe.

They only have two pipisballs, which could possibly launch them from the building, though probably not alive, and then the churrolazer. Nd stares at the Churrolazer. It sucks things up, usually in a way that completely destroys the thing it's sucking up. But, there is actually a power setting called 'unlethal', perhaps Nd could use the laser to transport the others to the skyscraper.

Nd knows there's not much time left, so they grab the laser, make it unlethal, and aim at everyone on top of Fact's house.

Nd: I hope to god this works.

Nd presses the button, and they suddenly come flying over to Nd, perhaps too fast. By the time Nd stops holding the button, they're flying over behind Nd and hurdling towards lava. Nd pulls them back again, and they go flying over Nd. After juggling with everyone for around a minute. They all land on the skyscraper.

Hello: That was...the most horrifying experience of my life...

Nd: Alright so, now that everyone's safe. I guess it's finally time...to kill Cereally.

Nd grabs the churrolazer, adjusts it to 'Extreme', and aims it at the volcanic face of Cereally. Nd begins shooting, and Cereally's face slowly gets sucked inside the lazer, Nd begins to think 'my god! is this the-'

You may notice that the thought is unfinished. That's because before it could be finished, Nd died.

Cereally, in the wild panic of beginning to die, uses his lava hand to throw Emp, who is lying in the lava. He zoomed through the air like a large metal bullet, and hit Nd, along with the lava that burned their face. The churrolazer fell into the lava, their only hope demolished.

'C'mon, gsixty! You can't just keep lying around and making me do all the work!'

'I just died, can't I get a few days of vacation?'

'Look, when *I* died, I immediately got to work! If I could do that in a day, you can do it in two-'

'Budder, if you're a workaholic, that's not my fault'

Nd wakes up in a white void and listens to Budder and G64D arguing for around a minute before getting up.

Nd: Where am I?

Budder: Oh. You're in the afterlife-

Gamer: Oh, hi Nd. I guess karma finally bit you in the back!

Nd: What?

Gamer: You caused my death!

Nd: I'm pretty sure that falls into your fault.

Budder: Yeah, from what I'm hearing it just seems like you tried to kill Nd and accidentally died while being angry-

Gamer: LOOK, Budder, I may have been in the wrong *legally*, but what about morally?

Budder: Frankly anything illegal is immoral.

Budder: Oh whatever, I'm gonna get Kat. Maybe I'll ask Lav to buy some garlic bread for you, as a 'Happy Deathday' meal.

Budder walks away.

Nd: Kat's here? And...wow. I didn't expect to be meeting them again this soon. Anyways...uh, what's there to do here?

Gamer: Garibaldo and Vіrukki have started a board game club. But they're always arguing about what the correct rules are.

Nd: Huh, what do all the other dead people do?

Gamer: Cornflake Cultist runs the store, Fanoki...we don't talk about him. And there's-

Kat runs over.

Kat: ND!

Nd: KAT!

Kat: It's been so long! What's up!

Nd: Uh...endless whiteness, apparently.

Kat: Ha! Yeah, what have you been doing for the last...year?

Nd: Not much, the whole of Cerealnation got overrun with lava-

Kat: Really?

Nd: Yeah, and I imagine there was a lot of complicated legal stuff with it, I wouldn't know though. I just, as the final god still in Cerealnation, appointed Emax as mayor and let him deal with all of it.

Kat: Oh yeah, he would totally be a great mayor. Anyways...what was up with Cereally?

Nd: He turned out to be possessed by this flamingo called Alacante, anyways he went into hiding for around a year before taking over the world and...killing me.

Kat: That's...I don't get that.

Nd: Yeah, honestly I'll talk about it later. Let's have some food first, I'll tell you later.

Kat: Oh yeah! Lav has ordered garlic bread from The Cornflake Center, let's go over to our house and eat it, I imagine it's there by now.

Kat starts running along and Nd tries to follow, but they can't seem to raise their legs. Actually...it's almost like they're sinking in the ground. Kat runs back over.

Kat: What's going on?

Nd: It's like the ground is quicksand...I don't wanna suffocate, HELP!

Kat attempts to pull Nd out of the ground but it seems to accelerate the sinking more than it's stopping it.

Kat: I'll call someone, hold on.

Kat turns around and starts running, but they look back and Nd's gone.

Nd wakes up at the top of the building with Emax chattering away.

Emax: Oh no oh no oh no no no oh no, wait- ND!

Nd quickly notices that a part of their face has melted away, and they only have one of their eyes. Staring to the left, Nd also notices that one of their arms is now disconnected from them.

Nd: How...am I alive.

Emax: Well...

*A few minutes ago*

Emax is standing alone in the skyscraper elevator. The music is incredibly jazzy, and Emax probably would've been dancing...if not for his broken legs. Emax bursts out the elevator and hears everyone at the top of the skyscraper. He would've used a ladder to climb up to the top...if not for his broken legs.

Emax stares around confusedly, until he notices someone rummaging around inside. Emax limps around and notices that it's Nimckits, with 2 explosion marks on him.

Emax: Why are you here?

The question would've been meaningless however, if Emax had just looked a little bit extra around, to the satanic symbol Nimckits is painting.

Emax: Oh.

Nimckits stays mostly quiet and continues painting. Emax starts limping away but then hears a sound through the roof

Emp: AAAAGHAHGH!!!!!!

Emax immediately recognizes Emp's voice, but Nimckits doesn't seem to.

Nimckits: SATAN?!?!?!?

Nimckits instantly tries to get on the roof, he throws a chair at the roof until he somehow manages to break a hole in it. Then uses a bunch of office supplies such as chairs, brooms, printers and tables to craft a sort of ramp that he climbs through the hole with.

Emax: Well then.

Emax manages to, even with his broken legs, climb on the ramp and get on the top of the roof, where everyone else in Cerealnation is.

Nimckits: Where's satan?!??!?!

Meth kicks Nimckits down through the hole and he's knocked unconscious.

Meth: That's what you get, IP stealer.

Emax: Whew...why is everyone...crowded in the middle of the building...

Emax limps closer and sees Nd's dead corpse.

Emax: Wha...no...I'm killing Cereally! Where's the churrolaz-

Churro: Huh? What did you say?

Emax: I wasn't talking about you Churro, I was talking about the churroLAZER!

Churro: oh.

John: Do you mean that weird big churro? Because it fell into the lava.

Emax looked at john with a face that looked like it was going to say “My innersloth...I need to throw something!”

Emax: My innersloth...I need to throw something!

Emax rummages around in his pockets, and finds the power-eraser gun that he found in Mt. Milk. He throws it out off the building and it falls into the lava.

Emax starts wondering where Moron is, and is about to ask before something strange happens. Three spheres fly out of the lava from where the gun melted. One green, one yellow and one pink.

Meth: Ah, feck, I knew I shouldn't have done drugs today...this is the worst time to hallucinate-

Craig: What are those??

Meth: Wait...you can see them too?!??!

The spheres begin to hover above Nd's dead body, before suddenly shattering.

Emax: Aegh! Nothing happened! Ohno oh no oh no nono oh no wait-

Nd then wakes up.

Emax: ND!

Nd: How...am I alive?

Emax: Hold on...those spheres came from the power-eraser gun that I melted in the lava, what if those were the god powers that Cereally took away from the gods an year ago?

Nd: So...I have god powers again?

Emax: No, Nd...you have god powers...cubed!

There's silence.

Churro: Uhm, ackually, it would be god powers tripled, cubed implies-

Emax: Shut up, my version sounds cooler.

Nd stares over at the volcano, Cereally is just holding his head angrily, he seems to have a headache from when Nd almost killed him.

Nd messes around a bit, and accidentally shoots a bunch of water from their hands.

Nd: Water powers...that's gonna be helpful!

Nd jumps off the building, and uses the water to launch them above and hover over the ground, sort of like F.L.U.D.D from Mario. Nd flies over quickly to the volcano. Cereally notices this and begins shooting pieces of lava at Nd, but Nd evaporates it with their water. Nd eventually manages to position themselves right above the volcano. They take out their 2 pipisballs, and begins to use them.

Nd manages to combine the two pipisballs and also their water powers to make an ULTIMATE WATER BOMB. Nd flies downwards towards the volcano and there's a tsunami of water that erupts around everything.

Nd wakes up an hour later in a pile of broken rock that used to be Mt. Milk. Cereally is dead. Alacante is dead. Nd is not. Nd walks over to greet the Cerealnation folk. They're all staring around at all of their broken houses.

Emax: Good job, Nd. You have saved all of us.

Emax is holding the broken robots called Emp and Moron.

Emax: They're still alive...just...stupid.

Emp: HeyyyY~!yy. Moorn, yOu loock like wors me!

Moron: NOOO!Oo1o1O§10. I will punch you!>q

They both get on the floor and pathetically start punching eachother.

Emp: Stollllen desig!11

Moron: Tak Dat back!

Emax: I'll fix them eventually. Not today though, I find this kind of funny. Also, uh, can you maybe use your god powers to fix your face. You look creepy with only one half of your face.

Nd remembers how Cereally managed to heal his face by simply holding up one arm and pointing it at his head. Nd does the same and it works.

Emax: Maybe you can fix my leg too.

Nd tries to do the same with Emax's leg, but it doesn't work.

Nd: Huh.

Nd tries to shoot water out of their hands but it doesn't work again.

Nd: What happened?

Emax: Right, I think I get it. God-like powers need nutrition and water just like humans, I think after being trapped in that gun for the last year they became weak. So yeah, I imagine they can only work for a few hours before destroying themselves.

Nd: So...I'm not a god anymore?

Emax: Yup.

Nd: Honestly, I'm fine with that, being a god is way too much responsibility.

Nd and Emax chat with other Cerealnation folk for a few hours. Before they all sleep in the stray wood that used to be everyone's houses. Everyone eventually decided that they will have to move to another place, most agreed to go to KrakaKingdom. They all shook eachothers hands and commemorated eachother for a fine few years of living in Cerealnation, before they would all move on tomorrow.

But then, tomorrow morning, Nd is woken up early by the same camel they traveled to PippinsPalace with, who is holding an envelope. Nd takes the letter and starts reading it. It's from Haha Yes.

'Hello, Nd. I'm currently writing this at around 3am, but I imagine by the time it comes to you its morning. Well, I was using my telescope to stare at Cerealnation from PippinsPalace, and I saw you kill Cereally. I just want to say that I found that display of perseverance quite admirable, and when I saw the broken down Cerealnation, I knew I wanted to help. So, I went on the stock market and began selling all of Alacante's old inventions. We worked all throughout the night and eventually, we made quite a bit of money. I hope you can use it to make Cerealnation great again.'

Nd finds something else in the envelope, and it happens to be a check for 10 million dollars. They run around and wake up Emax, who is just as flabbergasted as Nd at the money. With this money, they could rebuild Cerealnation, they could make it better, they could do anything they want to do.

Nd and Emax: WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!