Tales of the Monkey Princess

Noodles or Death 🕷️🕸️

Summary:
Amid a regular market visit, Tang and Pigsy encounter The Spider Queen.

It was a busy day at the Market, Tang and Pigsy were out getting food supplies for noodles. Pigsy smiled, admiring a carrot he's holding. "Ho-ho! Now this is a beautiful carrot! A couple more finds like this baby and we're golden."

Tang raised an unimpressed brow, taking the carrot from his husband, examining the small vegetable. "Looks the same as the last 20,000 carrots we looked at."

Pigsy grumbled, takes back the carrot. "Gimme that! I wouldn't expect you to appreciate a fine carrot like this. You ain't no culinary genius, like me, Hon."

"My, my, my. you boys are making quite a scene." A soft voice said.

The two turn to see a woman emerge from the darkness of her stand, leaning on the wooden counter. She had pale lilac skin with long, jet black hair and bottle green eyes. "You boys looking to buy some ingredients? something tasty? Then you've come to the right place." She smiled seductively, blowing a kiss at Tang.

"Uh...oh! uh, come on Sweetie," Tang sighed, feeling rather uncomfortable. "C'mon Pigsy, Let's just keep going." He turns, only to see that Pigsy wasn't beside him. Tang looks up to see Pigsy at the stand, smiling at the woman.

"Hah...y-you are selling beautiful vegetables today?" he asked.

Tang looks down at the stand, the crates practically empty, looking up at Pigsy. "Are you blind?"

"That's right, sugar. This is the finest store in the whole market. Why don't you come around back and look at my exclusive wares." Pigsy was intrigued, hopping around the stand to follow the woman, but Tang stopped him.

"Honey, I'm not sure, uh.."

"Don't wreck this for me! I need this!"

Tang frowns, watching Pigsy as he walks into the shop. He jumps at a sudden sound, hesitantly following behind him.

"A little closer, a little closer." The lady encouraged them.

As they step inside, Pigsy steps on something, activating a trap door. Pigsy and Tang scream, falling into the trap.

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Meanwhile, Mei had gone over to the Sea-Crate HQ to play Monkey Mech with Sandy. "Hey, you think it's weird that we don't spend much time in the Sea-Crate Base?" Sandy mused for a moment breaking silence. "Like, we haven't been down here for weeks."

"Yeah," Mei agreed. "And if you think about it, do we even need to be down here right now?"

Suddenly MK came bolting from the base elevator, running over to Sandy and Mei. "Guys! Pigsy and Tangy are missing!" She cried.

Mei doesn't seem to be bothered by this as she continues playing. "Pfft, missing? What do you mean their missing?"

"I mean..." MK says, trailing off for dramatic effect. "Pigsy didn't open the shop this morning!" She exclaimed.

Mei and Sandy gasped dramatically, their expression mirroring the gravity of the situation. "But he's never not opened his store before!" cried Sandy.

"They must have been kidnapped!" MK flailing her arms around, tears running down her eyes, anime-like. "I immediately feared the worst!"

The sound of people talking catches the girls attention, who looks over to where Mei stood in front of a screen, Tang and Pigsy were looking at stalls of vegetables when Pigsy seemed suddenly under a trance, grabbing Tang and pulling him over to a shady stall where a creepily dressed lady stood.