𝕎𝕆ℕ𝔻𝔼ℝ𝕃𝔸ℕ𝔻.𝔼𝕏𝔼

Road Catastrophe

        A relatively peaceful silence settled in on the group once they took off across the soft, pink dessert surrounding the kingdom. Only the rumbling of the engine was all that could be heard as Barbie drove the truck forward down the road. It was not long before they caught sight of what appeared to be a second tanker truck similar to their own just up ahead, the distance between them gradually shrinking as they began to catch up to it. It was safe to assume that the ones driving the vehicle were the bandits they were to target for their adventure, and that the tank contained the valuable maple syrup they had stolen from the Candy Canyon Kingdom.

        "...looks like those are our guys." Barbie remarked, darting her eyes at the others as she rested one arm on the back of her seat while she kept the other hand on the steering wheel. "Anybody got a plan on how to deal with these suckers? I...probably should've asked on the way to the kingdom earlier."

        "Oh, I've got a plan, alright." Jax smirked, glancing over at the candy-themed witch with his perpetual grin widening by the second. "When we catch up to them, I'll jump over, crawl inside – " He proceeded to reach over to the side of his seat and pull out a rather large waffle-made and chocolate pistol, a crazed grin on his face. " – and shoot them repeatedly until they're unrecognizable!"

        "...I feel like that violates some kind of convention..." Gangle whimpered timidly from the back seat at the rabbit's violent suggestion, which she was sharing with the other members of their group as she sat besides Kinger. Jax shot an irritated glare towards her direction, his smile quick to fall upon hearing her meek comment.

        "You're violating my ears with your clap-back." He brashly snarked, briefly poking his ears with the end of his gun before pointing it at her. "And I wasn't talking to you, anyways. No backseat driving, backseat driver!"

        "I don't know, Jax. Gangle might have a point..." Barbie began with an oddly-contemplative expression, which earned her a rather disbelieving expression from the anthropomorphic rabbit and hopeful blink from Gangle. A confident smirk suddenly flickered across her lips as she placed both hands back on the steering wheel. "Everyone knows you have to shoot the wheels like in The Matrix, too! What better end to a truck chase is there if at least one of the trucks get in a horrible crash? Way better than wasting perfectly shootable bullets, if you think about it ~ "

        "Phew!" Jax flashed his perpetual smile once more, lazily leaning back in his seat as he playfully wiped his forehead with his newly-acquired gun. "You almost had me there, Barbs. For a moment there, I was worried that the crybaby was gonna score a point against me for once."

        "Th-that's not what I – "

        "Shut up, we're gonna make someone die on this adventure." He abruptly cut Gangle off, threateningly pointing the pistol back at her for a few moments, which was enough to successfully silence the timid ribbon woman with a few whimpers escaping her. Ragatha shook her head with a knowing sigh at their interactions before eyeing Pomni besides her, the small jester still sporting a lethargic demeanor. 

        "...so, Pomni." The ragdoll began, quick to send her typical reassuring smile down at the shorter woman as the latter returned her gaze with a neutral stare. "I'm sure there's some way you could help out there. Maybe when we catch up to them, we could – "

        "Decide how to act in five seconds cause we're already here." Barbie abruptly finished Ragatha's sentence in her stead as she stared outside Jax's window from the driver's seat. Indeed, their vehicle had already reached the bandits' tanker, the two trucks driving right next to each other by only a few inches apart. It was more than enough to see the thieves inside struggling to outrun the group, despite already pressing the gas all the way down.