Bob's Life: Global Warming

Chapter 16: Rising Storm

"Are you sure that Joseph is tall enough?"

Joseph hissed in annoyance. "Please shut up, Pierre."

But the fact remains that the Poltergust 3000 was almost Joseph's height, just barely shorter than him by one or two centimetres. It is indeed larger than your average vacuum cleaner, although it was bought online like many others. That made the collection of ghosts much easier, but now that Joseph was using it...

Pierre had a point., even though he said it as a joke.

"I'm sure he'll be fine." Min said, exchanging a slightly concerned glance with Moonfishy.

Luigi crouched down and pointed to a small button on the side of the vacuum cleaner. "That activates the grass mode. Official Sushi Dictionary came up with the idea. I think it sprays out grass or something."

Joseph looked extremely skeptical of the idea, but decided not to question it. If they could have a bubble tea cannon, they could have a vacuum cleaner that shoots out grass. Cat Cult was now known for it's strange weapons.

It has been four months since Joseph and Pierre joined Cat Cult, and it was now the beginning of March. From what Moonfishy had heard, it was way too warm outside for normal March weather. It was like one huge disastrous pun: Sunny took over the world, and now everything is heating up. Moonfishy's wandering thoughts brought her to wondering how the polar bears were faring.

Today, Min had insisted on watching how much progress Luigi had made with teaching Joseph every little detail of the Poltergust 3000. Moonfishy came along, of course, mostly to see for herself how the vacuum cleaner looked like up close. To her disappointment, it looked exactly like a cheap vacuum cleaner, just with tons of buttons.

And Pierre was there, because he had every right to visit his fiance. 'Fiance' has an accent on the 'e', right? Moonfishy didn't know, and most likely wouldn't have to deal with spelling that word properly ever in her life. Although she was a thesaurus, she was too socially awkward to care about romance, meaning any words she misspelled are probably related to romance.

Also, their desperate search for new recruits had ended. Of course, if someone who knows the code stumbles upon their hideout, they'd be gladly accepted. But their numbers have grown rapidly, from 128 to almost 1 billion people from all around the world. Min was still creating new portals and new rooms (with magic, of course) to accomodate all these people, and he was going to teach Moonfishy how to make portals as well.

"What are you guys doing?" Official Sushi Dictionary's familiar voice sounded, and Moonfishy turned to see him by the doorway with Jolyne. Of course.

Her brother had started spending way too much time with the new recruit, especially now that she decided to become a cook as well. And then there were the multiple gifts that he made for her. It was sweet, but seemed a bit too much. The pair seemed inseparable, and the way that Official Sushi Dictionary hung onto her every word made Moonfishy a bit unsettled. Moonfishy had seen Jolyne fidgeting uncomfortably around him, like she wanted to go but was too polite to say so.

But she shouldn't be so concerned about Official Sushi Dictionary's friends, right? That wouldn't be a good thing to do. Moonfishy wasn't controlling, she couldn't be.

"We're seeing how the Poltergust 3000 works." Min explained.

"Oh. Can we join you?" Jolyne asked, and Min nodded. Her eyes were wide with fascination, and listened to Luigi just as intently as Joseph did.

Sunny still didn't attack their base, and Min suspected that she might have given up on making the world more apocalyptic, but they were still laying low just in case. But Min seemed to be more focused on a project of his own, rather than hiding their base better and making weapons.