The TSD Kids:

The Adventurer’s Agency

Lv. 19

Action in the Air Vents

Last time, the girls told me about a rockin’ new spa, recently opened in LavaReef City. But then they were bummed at the fact that reservations were full up. And now that the next job we get entails enjoying a stay there for publicity purposes, they’re happy again! But they insist on me staying behind, declaring it a girl’s night out! Sure, it sucks for me, but hey, they deserve it! Now I’ve just gotten a call from Akira saying that they’re in big trouble! Time to see what I can do! But oh… just as we get there, we get pwned by some weird flying cloud! What a bummer…

Akira: “T! Cotton! Wake up!”

T: “Uhh… huh?”

We both came to on the floor in the lobby of the spa.

T: “Whoa… what happened? My head feels like it got doinked by frozen salami…”

Akira: “We found you two out cold outside! It must be due to the problem we’re having!”

T: “Say, about this here problemo… how could the girls get themselves into hot water at a spa like this?? Huh? Heh, heh, heh…”

Cotton the Bunny: “(You find that funny? They could be hurt!)”

T: “No! Hot water? Spa? Get it?”

Cotton: “(Oh yeah!)”

Akira: “That is funny!”

T: “But enough about that. Where are they?”

Akira: “Follow me.”

As Akira led us through the building…

T: “Whoa! There’s more of this pink gas here!”

Cotton: “(I think that’s what pwned us not too long ago!)”

Akira: “I don’t know why, but it’s been blowing in a lot!”

T: “Then I’ll blow it back out! Wind!”

I tried using my breath to blow a puff away, but it didn’t even budge!

T: “What is this stuff?”

Akira: “I thought it was a perfume, but it has actually incapacitated most of the patrons in here!”

T: “Oh man, that’s terrible!”

Akira: “And that’s not the worst part… look over here, at the hot springs…”

We were faced with two doors.

Cotton: “(One’s for boys and one’s for girls…)”

Akira: “Yeah a wooden fence separates the sides. It’s usually open-air, but only the girl’s side is filled with gas!”

T: “Aw no… let me guess. They’re in there!”

Akira: “Yeah!”

T: “But I can’t just go in there and get them! Not while they’re… indecent…”

Akira: “Why?”

T: “Well, as good a friend I am to them, they would still scream, scratch, and bite me, and possibly beat me to an ever-loving pulp if they thought I came only just to spy on them. Yet I’m not here for that, but they would still be pissed at me, because of their precious ‘girl’s day out’…”

Akira: “But you have to! I just checked, and the people from the Air Quality Company say that prolonged exposure to this gas is very, very bad!”

T: “Crap! Well screw being polite, I gotta save em!”

As hard as I tried to open the door…

T: “I can’t open it!”

Akira: “It’s locked, I’m afraid. I don’t know who did it, and we can’t find the key anywhere.”

Cotton: “(Oh, no… then how do we find out if they’re okay?)”

Akira: “The other side, maybe. The key should still be in the reception desk at the door.”

T: “Okay…”

I checked the drawer.

T: “What’s it look like?”

Akira: “It’s big and blue. It’s Hot Spring Key B.”

T: “I don’t see it! Just this key here!”

Akira: “Oh dear, that’s just Room Key 1-A.”

Cotton: “(Should we use it anyway?)”

T: "All right, but we gotta hurry. I’m worried.”

We went to Room 1-A and opened the door.

T: “There’s more gas in here!”

Akira: “Aah! What’s that thing!?”

In the middle of the room was a pink soft-looking puffy creature. Cute as it looked, it still looked rather ornery.

T: “I’ll scan it and see what it is.”

Name: Puffty

Species: Elemental Entity

Habitat: Sky Areas

Info:

A Puffty is a cloud-like creature that tends to appear in windy places. Despite its airy appearance, it feels solid to the touch. Its gaseous composition is made of a bizarre substance that can cause paralysis. Its cloud-like, so it’s element is Wind/Water.

T: “I’ve never seen a monster like this. It’s even kookier than the WeatherBee!”

Akira: “Well get rid of it; I don’t want to get paralyzed!”

T: “No problem!”

As soon as I approached the Puffty, it spat out a cloud over me. I got away before it rained its paralyzing contents on me!

T: “Take this!”

I slammed it with my hammer! It disappeared in a puff of gray smoke while leaving something shiny in its wake.

Cotton: “(What’s that blue thing there?)”

T: “A key… it must be Hot Spring Key B.”

Akira: “So that monster had it… I hope there aren’t more of them…”

T: “If only it were that simple…”

We headed to the hot spring doors.

Akira: “I’ll wait here and watch the lobby.”

Cotton: “(We’ll see what we can do.)”

We opened the door and went in.

Cotton: “(Wow, it’s so hot in here…)”

T: “That’s how it is. Man, it’s so neat and shiny in here! Oh!”

Cotton: “(Your glasses!)”

They fogged up due to the heat. I wiped them off.

T: “It’s okay. Now how do we get to the other side? Here’s the wooden wall fencing the section off…”

We waded through the water and checked from top to bottom, but…

Cotton: “(There’s no way to get through, is there?)”

T: “The spaces above and below are too narrow for me. Oh?”

Something was sticking out from the wall near the water’s surface.

T: “Is this a cork??”

I tugged on it.

POP!

T: “Of course, a hole!”

Cotton: “(Someone naughty must’ve drilled it!)”

T: “Indeed, but at least we can make the most of it. Now we can see if they’re okay!”

Cotton: “(But wouldn’t that make us peeping toms?)”

T: “Not if we’re trying to save their life! That’s the last thing crossing my mind at this moment!”

I took a look. Suddenly my glasses fogged up unexpectedly!

Cotton: “(Suspiciously) (Is that due to the heat??)”

T: “Uh… I dunno.”

I got a better look. Through the pink gas, I could see them.

T: “They’re all just sitting there, out like a light. They don’t look too good…”

Cotton: “(We gotta hurry.)”

We exited the room. In the lobby, Akira was speaking to a man in a suit of some kind.

Akira: “Oh! Bad news, you two!”

T: “What of?”

Akira: “Three things… all the important doors in this spa are locked, the keys to said doors are missing, and lastly…”

Cotton: “(Yeah?)”

T: “That person I was chatting with was a worker from the Air Quality Company. He just told me the problem lies in the air climate control system.”

T: “Oh. Shouldn’t be too hard. Just has to open it up and deal with some odds and ends and a few pipes, right?”

Akira: “Actually, it’s more complicated than that…”

Cotton: “(How much more?)”

Akira: “Here’s a map.”

The second I looked at it…

T: “Good gravy! This thing’s like a labyrinth!!”

Akira: “It runs underground. They weren’t able to get too far, due to the hazards in there.”

T: “So, you’d like me to sort it out, yes?”

Akira: “Um… yeah.”

T: “Hey, of course! I have to! But how do I blow that gas away?”

Akira: “That’s a good question…”

We went to the door leading to the air control system.

Akira: “The entrance is already open. If you feel weak, the hot spring can recover HP.”

T: “Cool. Wish me luck.”

I went in.

Akira: “Oh, I hope he can do this… but if he managed to go in and out of that volcano… twice, then he can do this!”

T: “Whoa… this place is huge!”

Cotton: “(Yeah…)”

After walking down a long flight of stairs, we wound up in a large area, filled with spinning fans, turbines, and other air-related machinery.

Cotton: “(Time to start.)”

T: “Yeah! …Uh?”

Cotton: “(What’s wrong?)”

T: “I think that gas swiped my ability to fly for now!”

Cotton: “(Darn, me too…)”

T: “Ah well, true adventurers rely on their footwork to get things done!”

We walked along metal flooring that hung over a deep pit.

T: “That is a long drop! Coupled with the fact that we can’t fly, it’s even more treacherous!”

Cotton: “(It’s never easy for us, is it?)”

T: “Nope. And y’know, I do the most legwork out of everyone else! But I’m not complaining. I’m the leader, after all.”

Cotton: “(It feels like we’ve hit the center).”

T: “Oh?”

I checked the map Akira lent us.

T: “So we are.”

There was a big door in front of us. Slightly smaller doors were on either side of us, two on each side.

T: “Check out this door…”

The biggest door had five keyholes. Of course…

T: “It’s locked.”

Cotton: “(As is all the other doors…)”

T: “This bites! How are we gonna solve this air quality problem, and rescue Sofia and the others if all the doors to our problem are locked? And some goob has run off to who-knows-where with the keys! This is all a real pain in the a…”

Cotton: “(Ack! Look out!)”

Cotton transformed and pushed me out the way before an oddly colored cloud rained on my parade!

T: “What the…?!”

Cotton: “(It’s a Puffty!)”

But it was blue instead of pink.

T: “Wait, it looks different! Scanning time!”

Name: Poofty

Species: Elemental Entity

Habitat: Sky Areas

Info:

Pooftys are like Pufftys, but their composition contains slightly toxic agents, which can poison. Despite this poisonous attribute, Pooftys are still of the Wind/Water Element.

T: “Oh, reminds me of the types of Bomb-Bombs that I scanned…”

Cotton: “(I’ll get him!)”

Cotton lunged forward and gave the airy thing a headbutt. It was still hovering, so I slashed it with the Emerald Sword!

T: “That thing was a bit tougher…”

Cotton: “(It dropped something!)”

T: “It’s a key! It reads, Big Door Key 1/5.”

Cotton: “(It must go in that big ol’ door there!)”

I inserted it.

T: “We need four more. Where…?”

Suddenly, the lower left door opened!

Cotton: “(Wow! It opened that door!)”

T: “The next key has to be in there!”

Inside Room 1, the Fan Room, there was practically no floor!

T: “I don’t want to fall down there!”

Cotton: “(Could we stand on those?)”

Cotton pointed to fans with metal grating over them. They were spinning, creating updrafts of air. As I looked at the current, I saw various platforms along the walls.

T: “Not likely.”

Cotton: “(Oh. Perhaps we could ride the wind up?)”

T: “Although I’m not a heavy fella, I’m still not light enough for that… wait… Bye-Bye!”

Cotton: “(You’re chickening out?)”

T: “No! Bye-Bye Balloon!”

I inflated myself like a balloon! As the bunny hung on, we rose up and reached the ledge on the opposite wall.

Cotton: “(Cool! Now… oh no…)”

What a surprise… Another cloud creep was waiting for us!

Cotton: “(A Poofty?)”

But it was yellow, not blue!

T: “Here we go again…”

Name: Poofter

Species…

T: “Oh, just skip those next two parts and tell us what it does!”

Sure. As you’ve guessed, the Poofter is another variation of the Puffty species. These are considered to be the more ‘flatulent’ counterpart in the species… As such, it’s the strongest of the three.

T: “Ew, then that thing’s a floating gas ball…”

Regardless, we beat it, though it took a little longer.

Cotton: “(Another key!)”

T: “Is it just me, or do all of these Pufftys, Pooftys and Poof-whatever’s have the keys we need?”

Cotton: “(I dunno what this key is… can we ask Akira?)”

T: “Sure.”

We went back to the lobby to see her.

Akira: “Ah that’s…”

T: “We beat up a Poofter down there just to get it!”

Akira: “Poofter? Oh, that key… it’s Room Key 2-A, not Hot Spring Key R.”

T: “Ah, I see. Let’s use it anyway.”

As Cotton waited with Akira, I went to Room 2-A and opened it.

T: “Whoa!”

Suddenly, several Pufftys ran out past me, chattering wildly!

T: “Gah, these things think they run the place! Oh?”

It was a bedroom of sorts. Though there was a cloud of gas here and there, I saw some very familiar articles of clothing…

T: “Hey, this pink dress… it belongs to Ellis! And this must be the rest of their belongings! So they’re staying in this room. What?”

I then saw two Pooftys fighting over a tiara!

T: “Hey! Put that down! That belongs to Nadia, you walking weather anomalies!!”

I beat them soundly, and picked up the tiara.

T: “She always wears this, for her mother gave it to her… they shouldn’t be touching it! But then what were those Pufftys messing w… uh-oh!”

Some of their stuff was missing!

T: “Okay, if the girls knew I was here, they would be mad, but if they found out their keepsakes were missing, they’d be pissed! I gotta find them!”

Back to the lobby…

T: “Hey, did you two see some Pufftys run by here with some stuff?”

Akira: “Yeah, we hid from them before they saw us!”

Cotton: “(They did have stuff! I could’ve sworn one of them had a badge in their hand!)”

T: “Crap… I’ll use A.N.A.L.Y.Z.E.R. to track them down; she recognizes the objects.”

Akira: “But shouldn’t saving the girls come first?”

T: “I didn’t find a key; this is all I can do!”

The first Puffty was relaxing by a pool. A well placed Air Jab pwned it!

T: “I found Ellis’ bow. It’s a cute addition to her dress.”

Puffty no.2 was hiding in a large potted plant, next to the sauna. I smashed the soft little thing, plant and all!

T: “I got Sheila’s beret. I wonder if she’s hidden gems under it before?”

The third Puffty was in the sauna itself. It then realized the room was too hot for it to handle, so I kept it locked in until it overheated itself out of existence.

T: “It’s Tracy’s police badge. It’s so shiny.”

Another Puffty was screwing around on a ceiling fan. The stupid thing got dizzy and ran right into me and my sword!

T: “These hoop earrings belong to Sofia. I’ve seen her wear them recently.”

The last Puffty tried to hide back down in the Air-Con system. I put it out of its misery.

T: “T-na needs these glasses. She’s nearsighted, like me.”

T: “Phew! I got them back!”

Akira: “That’s good. Oh, check this out! One of those naughty Pufftys was trying to get into the hot spring, and Cotton smacked it down! It had a key!”

T: “All right!

Cotton: “(This one is Big Door Key 2/5!)”

T: “We’ll be back!”

Akira: “Okay.”

Back to the Air-Con system…

T: “In goes the key!”

With that, Door 2 opened!

T: “Brr… it’s cold in here!”

Cotton: “(The sign said it’s the AC Room.)”

T: “N-no kidding…”

The pipes in the room were frosted over. We had neared the end of the room after crossing a field of ice.

T: “Man, this would be perfect for summertime!”

For sheer curiosity, I tried touching the pipe.

T: “Ack!!”

It froze me over!! It was just that cold!

T: “F-Freezie!!”

Cotton: “(Uh-oh! Now look!)”

A Poofter started floating my way!

T: “Oh n-no’s! Get him! Get him now!”

Though he had to go it solo, Cotton managed to fend off the gassy adversary and pick up the key!

Cotton: “(Just like before, you got iced but good!)”

T: “J-j-just sh-sh-sh-shut up and h-h-h-help m-m-m-m-me!”

Cotton: “(Okay, how?)”

T: (Teeth chattering)

Cotton: “(I’ll just carry you back.)”

T: “Oh dear! He’s frozen stiff! Quick, you two go in the hot spring, you must be so tired!”

T: “Y-yeah, k-kinda…”

Soon I was defrosted, and we decided to see about the key to room 3-A.

T: “Oh, but first, let put the girls’ stuff back in the room.”

When I set them on the bed, next to their clothes, I noticed the Elemental Stones.

T: “Hmm… the Thunder, Water, Metal, and Light Stones… Though they’re not around their necks, they still give off strong elemental mana nonetheless!”

Cotton: “(What do you have in mind?)”

T: “So far, I’ve only copied and used Sofia’s Thunder ability. I should try something new.”

Cotton: “(How bout’ Metal?)”

T: “Sure, okay.”

I scanned the Metal Stone. The data was stored until I wanted to use it later.

T: “Let’s open the door now.”

Inside Room 3-A was two large tubs. But they weren’t full of water…

Cotton: “(Ew…)”

T: “Nasties!”

They were filled to the brim with mud!

T: “Okay, cucumber on the eyes was weird enough, but you take mud baths here?!”

Cotton: “(Spas are weird!)”

Bubble… bubble…

Something was making bubbles in the tubs!

T: “What could be in there??”

Cotton: “(A piggy?)”

T: “Only one way to find out…”

Reluctantly, I put my hand into the muck and felt around. Cotton dipped his paw into the next one and followed suit.

T: “Bleagh… good thing my shirt is short sleeved…”

Cotton: “(Oh! Oh! I feel something!)”

T: “Let’s see!”

He pulled out something that had a heart-print pattern, despite all the mud and it looked like shorts…

Cotton: “(What is this?)”

He wiped it a little to reveal…

T: “Dude, that’s someone’s underwear!!”

Cotton: “(Ew!!)”

T: “Wait, I feel something too! Feels like a big one!”

I pulled it out! It was a very, very muddy Poofty!

T: “DAAAAAHHH!!”

Out of shock, I yelled, and in turn, the Poofty squealed, too!

T: “Get it off, get it off, get it off!!”

I threw the Poofty to the wall with so much force; it got pwned, and left a muddy key behind!

T: “How about that! This is Big Door Key 3/5!”

We darted back down to the Air-Con and opened up Room 3, otherwise known as the Space Heater Room.

T: “Phew… it’s hot! As Kyle would say, it is toasty!”

Cotton: “(They have one room for cooling, so there has to be one for heating!)”

T: “I bet they use the heat from Mount Smokestack… oh, but wait, it’s been inactive for some time.”

Cotton: “(How far have we gotten now?)”

T: “Well, let’s see…”

I sat down on… something to contemplate this.

T: “We been unlocking the spa rooms, each in turn getting us one of the five keys needed to open these doors and this big one. We just have two more keys to get!”

Cotton: “(Uh, T?)”

T: “(Sniff, sniff…) Hey, do you smell something?”

Cotton: “(Like a bad barbecue?)”

T: “Yeah, you’d y’know?”

Cotton: “(You’re sitting on a hot, hot pipe!!)”

T: “Oh… what?!”

He was right!!

T: “Crap!!”

I ran around, with my pants alight!

Cotton: “(Calm down, maybe I can put it out!)”

T: “Hot, hot, hot, hot!!”

Cotton: “(Oh no, it’s a Poofter!)”

It floated my way, but I was too worried about my own rear to worry about him!

T: “Ow!”

I started spinning to get the flames off, but that only resulted in me doing a somewhat fiery T Tornado! Still in pain, I crashed into the Poofter, pwning it one hit, making it leave the key it held!

Cotton: “(Gotcha!)”

After nabbing the key, Cotton tackled me, covering up the fire and putting it out!

T: “M-my poor rear…”

Cotton: “(I’ll carry you back up…)”

T: “Another accident! You’re smoking! You know where to go to wash away the fatigue!”

T: “(Koff, koff) I know.”

After that, we used Room Key 4-A and went in. We wasted no time and beat up the three Pooftys guarding the key. We showed it to Akira.

Akira: “You found Big Door Key 4/5!”

T: “Yes!”

Akira: “Any chance you’ll find Hot Spring Key R. anytime soon?”

T: “We’re getting to that.”

We went back down to the Air-Con system and put the fourth key in the big door, opening up Room Four, known as the Turbine Room.

Cotton: “(Why is it called the Turbine Room?)”

T: “Maybe cause’ of that…”

We saw a large fan at the end of a long path. As soon as we stepped onto the path, the flooring between the door and us gave way!

T: “No!”

As we ran ahead, the big fan ahead started to turn!

Cotton: “(The wind’s so strong!! We’ll be blown off!)”

T: “We’d have to be heavy to avoid the inevitable! Wait, that’s it! Tanooki!”

Cotton: “(But now you’re even lighter!)”

T: “Not for long! Two-Ton Drop!”

I changed into a giant weight again!

T: “Push me!”

Cotton: “(Right!)”

Cotton transformed and pushed me forward to get close to the turbine.

T: “There’s the off switch!”

After he flipped it, we moved on. We then found ourselves faced with a deep and long pit. One the other end was a Poofter (like that’s a surprise), and on our side was a fan. It was off.

T: “We still can’t fly for the duration of this mission.”

Cotton: “(Then to get over there would be impossible!)”

T: “Maybe, maybe not…”

I eyed the fan, with a mischievous smile.

T: “What do you say we ride the wind?”

Cotton: “(Eh?)”

T: “Hang on!”

I turned the turbine on. I then jumped into the current!

T: “Bye-Bye Balloon!”

The current pushed us across really fast!

T: “I didn’t know how strong it was!!”

Cotton: “(Look out!)”

We were headed straight for the Poofter, as well as the wall! Upon seeing us, the gassy thing screamed, as well as us!

T/Cotton: “AAH!”

CRASH!

We actually collided with the Poofter, pressing it against the wall like a pancake!

T: “Ouch.”

Cotton: “(Wow, whatta ride, Let’s go again!)“

T: “No! Hey… about this key…”

Cotton: “(It looks like Big Door Key 5/5! We found them all!)”

T: “Yes!”

We went to the main part of the Air-Con. I put the final key in.

T: “Now for the heart of the plant!”

The doors opened, and we went in.

It was a round room. We stood in the center. The edges of the platform did not reach the walls, leaving a chasm all around that one would fall in if they were careless.

Cotton: “(What goes on in this room?)”

T: “I’d like to know, myself…”

“Then why don’t we tell you!”

T: “Huh?”

WHOOSH!

A huge gust of wind blew, threatening to send us both off!

T: “Who is that? Who dares!”

“I do! In fact, we all do!”

A mechanical orb floated out from the pit. When it reached us, five people showed their faces after it opened!

“Surprised to see us again?”

I remembered vaguely… I think I saw them at Cobalt Coast that one time…

T: “What? Hey… you guys look familiar… you’re the Deep Six Gang!!”

Of course! These were the pricks that tried to make the seas where Paula lived theirs!

T: “King K, Sally the Swift, Sheldon the Shield, Marshall the Mage, and Pete the Powerhouse!”

Despite the name, there are only five of them. There was a sixth, but it was just their undersea fortress/giant fighting robot, which we wrecked.

K: “Nice to know you remember us!”

T: “Of course! My buds and me always remember the fools we schooled! So spill, what’re you doing here?”

Sally: “We thought we’d pay this lovely spa a little visit!”

T: “A little visit? You call gassing up the place, and putting numerous lives in danger ‘a little visit’?! I oughta smack you all once with my hammer, then again with my sword!”

Marshall: “Not that you’ll ever get the chance to! I see my spell to bring these cloud creatures here worked!”

K: “We were also actually hoping that you TSD Kids would come here; you jerks are so famous now, why wouldn’t they ask you to come!”

Sheldon: “We secretly got reservations, then cancelled them. It was just a matter of time.”

T: “So you did do this! Because of you, my friends had their ‘girl’s day out’ ruined!”

Pete: “So what? Can we smash him now, King K? Can we, can we, can we??”

K: “Yeah, sure! And his li’l bunny too!”

Sheldon: “Time to start it up. Marshall?”

Marshall: “Right. Pufftys, Pooftys and Poofters, combine and be one!!”

Suddenly, the creatures started coming in by the dozens! The Spherical craft they were piloting floated in midair as they formed all around it!

K: “Behold the power of the Deep Six Gang!”

Cotton: “(Five.)”

K: “Shaddup!”

T: “Holy crap! What is this monstrosity?!”

Name: HuffinPuffty

Species…

T: “Just skip it.”

In a hurry now, are we? Fine… HuffinPuffty is a conglomeration of multiple Pufftys, Pooftys, and Poofters fused together. It is still solid to the touch, but it’s still light as a feather, and airy as a cloud. Caution should still be taken around it though; its size and power is immense. But the fact that the Deep Six Gang is hiding in its center is intriguing…

T: “Great, just what I need… another brightly colored windbag that deserves to stay in the clouds!”

Cotton: “(Look out!)”

The HuffinPuffty tried throwing its weight around and tried for a body slam! We dodged and went for a counterattack! But…

BOING!

T: “My sword can’t cut it!”

Its body was too rubbery and springy!

K: “How do you like that, huh? This cloud beast’s near unbeatable!”

Sheldon: “Not even your level of wind can ‘blow it away’…”

Sally: “Hey, keep that quiet!”

Pete: “Take this! Hee, ha, ha!”

They then made HuffinPuffty spit out several clouds, which circled around the arena. Cotton and I dodged the rainfall until it stopped.

T: “Wait… blow it away… yeah!”

Cotton: “(What happened?)

T: “That shy one got me thinking… I can’t pierce it, but it’s still airy like a cloud!”

Cotton: “(But you couldn’t blow away those pink clouds of gas with your gale force breath!)”

T: “Yeah, but this is the HuffinPuffty we’re talking about! But you have a point… I need something stronger!”

Cotton: “(Like what?)”

T: “Like this! The data I scanned from Tracy’s Metal Stone! Let’s go! MetalConversion!”

In a flash, my clothes and skin turned half-metal! My right eye became like a bionic one beneath my glasses, and my ‘Tornado T’ hair gave off a silver shine!

T: “Oh yeah! I feel so good, makes me wanna do the robot!”

Cotton: “(But you are one!)”

Sally: “Did you see that? He changed!”

Marshall: “So what? He’s still fodder to our monster!”

K: “Let’s tackle!”

The HuffinPuffty went in for another body slam! I dodged; making it hit its head on the wall! It then floated back up, holding its head.

T: “Let’s check for weak points…”

I used the bionic eye as a scope and zoomed in on HuffinPuffty’s center. I took note of the Deep Six Gang still hiding within the cloudy… cloudiness…

T: “You’re just an overgrown cloud; I’ll blow ya away! Go, BigFan!”

My torso opened up to reveal a large and powerful fan, powered even more so, as I still use Wind Power in Conversion form!

T: “Get blown away!”

Soon, large cloudy sections of HuffinPuffty started flying off!

Pete: “Hey, what’s happening?!”

Sheldon: “HuffinPuffty’s getting smaller…”

K: “What?! NO!”

Sally: “Then what’s gonna happen?!”

T: “I’ll tell you!”

By now all of HuffinPuffty had vanished, leaving them exposed!

T: “You’re gonna get doinked!”

I flew up to them, with a jet rocket!

T: “Mecha Mallet!”

My fists enlarged and formed a hammer, with which I sent them skyward!

Deep Six Gang: “AAAAAAHHH!!”

Sally: Oh no! My red key!”

They flew right out to the open sky!

T: “Serves you right, ya goobs!”

Cotton: “(Yes! We did it!)”

T: “We sure did!”

Cotton: “(Ooh, what’s that?)”

A shiny something was on the floor. It glowed red.

T: “I don’t believe it! It’s Hot Spring Key R.!!”

Cotton: “(Hooray! We can open the girls’ side now and get them!!)”

T: “Aces! Let’s go!”

Cotton: “(Hold on, there’s something else they dropped! Up there!)”

Something floated down and landed on my face.

T: “Whoa. Looks like a fan.”

Cotton: “(Weird… do you feel that? I feel a lot of MP from it.)”

T: “I’ll scan.”

After a few seconds…

A.N.A.L.Y.Z.E.R.: Analysis verified! This fan has the ability and dispel and remove magical air hazards.

Cotton: “(Like those pink clouds?)”

A.N.A.L.Y.Z.E.R.: Affirmative.

T: “Gravy! Let’s use it right now!”

Cotton: “(Yee-haw!)”

We went through the whole place, waving the odd fan. With every gust of wind, the pink gas blew away into nothingness!

Akira: “That fan is cool!”

T: “Yep!”

Cotton: “(Now to save the girls! I hope it’s not too late!)”

T: “I got it!”

I went to the doors to the hot spring and opened the girls’ side. I took care not too rush in, cause’ the gas was still in there.

T: “Alright gas! Get blown away!”

With a swing, I blew the gas surrounding the tub away. All the girls were still there. Fortunately, none of their heads went under!

T: “Phew… now to get them out…”

I was about to approach them, but soon my glasses started to fog up again for no reason!

Cotton: “(T?)”

Cotton stepped in.

Cotton: “(Why are you so red in the face?)”

T: “I can’t do this. It’s too embarrassing!”

Cotton: “(How? Just hoist them out the water, one by one and take them to their room.)”

T: “It’s not that simple! If one of them woke up while I was carrying them, they’d scream! Which would wake the others up, and then, I’m screwed! Not only that, all they are wearing is towels! I just can’t. No way; Uh-uh…”

Cotton: “(Man, you go through all this trouble to save them, and you let shyness get in the way at the last moment… just get them! They’re getting all pruney!)”

T: “Do’h… man…”

A few minutes later…

Sofia: “Uhh… my head… w-where am I?”

T: “Yo!”

Sofia sat up to see Cotton and I sitting in a chair in their room. The other girls were just coming to.

Sofia: “…T? What’re you doing here??”

Ellis: “Hey… are we back in our room? How’d we get here?”

Sheila: “And why are we wearing bathrobes?”

Nadia: “Weren’t we in that hot spring just now?”

T: “Funny you should say that, ladies…”

I got up.

T: "As it turns out, y’all needed my help after all!”

Tracy: “What? How?”

I explained to them about the long task that I had to do to save them and the other good people at the spa.

T-na: “We were lying, out cold, in the hot springs?”

Nadia: “And you saved us. You have my thanks.”

Tracy: “Wait, then if you opened the door to the girls’ side, and saved us, then that means… that means…”

Suddenly, they all went a little red in the face!

T: “Uh... what?”

T-na: “That means you saw us all in our birthday suits!!”

T: “Say what?!”

Except for Nadia, they all advanced on me and Cotton, and we were not liking the look on their faces!!

Sofia: “You were spying on us!”

Ellis: “How could you?!”

Sheila: “I never thought I’d have another reason to claw you, but I do now!!”

T: “See, bunny buddy? I won’t say I told you so, but I will anyway!!”

Cotton: “(Eep!)”

Akira: “Stop!”

Akira stepped in just in time!

Akira: “Don’t whack him! And after all he did to save you? For shame!”

Tracy: “But he…!”

Akira: “Stop. He did not see you like that. T specifically asked me to get you to the room. Me, a girl!”

Ellis: “Oh…”

Sofia: “What, so you didn’t want to see us looking like that??”

T: “What’re ya… I… uh… Ooh, whatever! Okay! Now, what is it I’m a-waiting to hear??”

Sofia/Ellis/Tracy/T-na/Sheila: “We’re sorry…”

Cotton: “(Won’t you apologize, Nadia?)”

Nadia: “Actually, I knew his actions were justified. That’s why I wasn’t inclined to hit him.”

T: “Cool. As for the rest of you, y’all have something else to own up to on the way home! And you know what it is, too… You left me outta the spa fun!”

So as we headed out the doors of the Deep Magma Spa…

T: “(Singing voice)Say it…”

Sofia: “No.”

T: “Say it…”

Ellis: “No…”

T: “Say it…”

T-na/Sheila: “No…”

T: “Say it…!”

Tracy: “No!”

T: “Say it! Say it! Say it!”

Girls: “NO, NO, NO!!”

Nadia: “Heh, heh, heh…”

T: “Hey! How come you girls won’t admit that you really needed me??”

Sofia: “Because! We were so darn sure…”

Tracy: “And now to have it thrown back in our faces, like pie…”

T-na: “It’s embarrassing!”

T: “Oh come now, it’s not as bad as when I had you say my words of encouragement! Now say it or I’ll sing!!”

And we all know how bad my singing is when I’m Tornado T!

Girls: “(Sigh) We were wrong and you were right…”

T: “Hee, hee!! Now say it in Spanish!”

Girls: “Éramos incorrectos, y tenías razón…”

T: “Oh, this is just too delicious! Now say it in Hebrew!”

Tracy: “If you don’t stop, I’ll make you say ‘Ouch’ in twelve different languages!!”

T: “Heh, heh, heh… alright.”

Nadia: “You guys always make me laugh…”

Sofia: “Can we go home now?”

T: “Sure, sure!”

But just as were neared the LavaReef City gate…

King K: “There he is!!”

T: “Huh?”

Suddenly the Deep Six Gang, in their orb-ship, swooped down and caught me on the front of their craft!

T: “Wa-hoo!”

Ellis: “T!”

T: “Ugh… what?”

I peeled my face off the windshield to see the five furious faces!

T: “Hey, I just pwned you last night! Whatta you want?!”

Sally: Revenge!”

Marshall: “There’s one problem…”

Sheldon: “What?”

Marshall: “We may have caught him, but he’s blocking the view!!”

Soon they aimlessly floated over the top of Mount Smokestack!

K: “Whatever! Ready the missile! He’s right over the mouth; he’ll be carried off!

T: “You pricks! TNT Punch!”

After transforming, I rawked their sox with an explosive punch!

Sally: “Fire!”

But the missile fired anyway! And…

T: “Next time when you get doinked, stay doinked!!”

BOOM!

T: “Aah!”

It hit me square on! I began to lose consciousness and…

Sheila: “Fuzz-face doesn’t look too peachy up there…”

T: “(Dazed) This is Tornado T, signing out. Nighty night…!”

I fell into the mouth of the volcano!

Sofia: “T!!”

Oh no’s! After a good adventure, now look what happens! But I wonder… since I saved the girls; will it be the other way around this time??