Author's Note:

Sorry for not updating very often. You people who have been supportive of me, thank you. You all rock. Out loud. For real.

Anyway, here is the next chapter. Finally.

The Squeaks

"Kirbeh!"

I turned around at the sound of my name. I brightened when I saw who it was. "Storo!"

"Hey, matey! It's been forever!"

"Indeed it has, man. How've ya been?"

"I been good, Kirbeh, I been good. What brings ya allda way out here?"

"Well, I'll explain that in a minute." By that point, the rest of the Squeaks had gathered around. I looked around at the gathered group, and addressed each person there. There was Storo, Spinni, Doc, and of course, Daroach, the leader. "Hey, Daroach, how have you been holding up?"

"Fine," He answered. "But I'm not in the mood for small talk right now. I truly want to know: why did you want to see us so suddenly?"

"Well, here's the story..." I explained the issue to them. The seemed genuinely intrigued, and then worried, which added to my doubt that they could be in on any of it.

Daroach began speaking. "So, let me get this straight. You think that—" He began, but was cut off by Storo.

"Ya don't really think we did it, matey, do ya!? We'd never do such a thing! We turned over a new leaf, so we did, and we ain't flipin' it back over again. Not now, not eva'. So if ya think—"

"Whoa, Storo! Calm down! I'd never accuse you guys of doing any of that."

"Well then," Doc began, "why did you come here, my boy?"

"Well..." I tried to think of a good answer. "Um... because... Well, because Meta Knight. Also because I was wondering whether you guys would have heard anything about it in the treasure business."

All four mice thought about it. "Well," Spinni said, "there was this one time i heard about a party and it was supposed to be totally great and all the bad guys were invited and i got invited cuz i used to be a bad guy but i didn't go cuz im not bad anymore and daroach wouldve been mad. Yup."

I nodded. "Impressive. 0.105 seconds per word. Almost a new record. But that actually sounds interesting. What kind of party was this?"

"Well there were rumors that it was a revenge party and the bad guys were gonna get revenge and that they were gonna kill stuff and stuff like that and they were gonna do that secretly and stuff."

"0.107. Do you know where the 'party' was?"

"Well yeah it was the bonkers house cuz he hates everything except people who hate good guys and he also hates animals and stuff."

"Wow. 0.099. New record."

Doc decided to speak up. "If you went to the site of this 'party', do you think you would be able to find some clues?"

I smiled. "Yeah, Doc. Lots of clues."

"Hoh hoh! Let us go, then!"

"You guys wanna come, then?"

They wholeheartedly agreed.

And with that, they set off towards the bonker's house, to investigate the place for clues.

Sorry again for the short chapter. I kinda didn't have any good ideas tonight.

I'm thinking of starting another fanfiction. I had an idea, but if I start a new one, I'm afraid I would never finish this one. It's up for input. If you think I should or shouldn't, let me know.