Those around BB were concerned about him. Sure, he was smart, but nobody fights their own nature. Nobody is like Dials. Nobody is smarter than Dials. Those facts drove BB insane. When they made a plan to get into the place, BB could only think about what was going on after the events of the mansion fire with the Diostars. Dials and Lighter are out there somewhere. When all is said and done, I'll drop by. Maybe we can do something fun, something families do. Like... I don't know, make roast beef?
"Alright, you'll make this work, right?"
"I'll make this work to the best of my abilities."
The lawyer lingo, he used it regularly. Parts were subconscious, other conscious.
"I don't like that."
Using His abilities, they made the cart they stole to look more acceptable. Dr. John was to be a high merchant selling the best goods around. Sugar was going to be a creature that would be shown off. A man beast. Meanwhile BB would sneak into the palace and find the poem. This plan was faulty, but it was also just using everything because of the fact that half their crew was getting punished or they wouldn't fit in.
"Hello there!"
With a violin and some hard work, Dr. John had begun playing and dancing for the grieving folks who'd just lost what they believed to be a demigod.
"This is so embarrassing."
As he spoke, a group of guards had come out front. The doctor immediately went into fight or flight mode and began to attack the group for a few minutes with his violin in hand. After some time, Sugar crawled out in his beast costume and the real plan came in, see, Sugar wanted in on the action, so he rigged BB's plan. He began by alerting the palace guards of a violin holding thief.
"Who's the idiot now?"
"Ow ow ow! Who knew these guys could fight!"
Dr. John got his start as a medic, and he was putting those skills to work. The next step in the plan b of sorts was for Sugar to attract some hell hounds and to blow things up. See, there were twelve things in the world that couldn't change no matter what you do in the time machine. One of those was the collapse of Babylon permanently. There would always be a way of survival.
"Come on. Where are they?"
Like clockwork, the hounds had come for something, it wasn't his best moment, but Sugar went ahead and stole one of Lia's dresses and put on a wig to look like her. The hounds would immediately run to Sugar as a way of protecting their master meal.
"Oh my."
BB almost had a heart attack at what he saw but, in all seriousness, he probably wouldn't shock anyone if he did. He found the poem in the back of the palace. It was a stone tablet wrote in perfect English.
The poem went a little something like this,
He who claims the seas, is brought to his knees. Don't he dare pursue. Every lie is true.
A summer night I'm waiting. There, we'll do trading. I hate the world around me. Can see none but beauty.
Lighter - 2020, July 9th
"Get em'."
Sugar sat by as the hounds made short work of the guards. He remembered the model of the castle BB had made in the dirt. It should be in the back. That means that he's probably not going to notice. Because I'm about to have a heat stroke, that also probably means that he's already in there.
"Sugar, why are the hounds here?"
It became a three-way fight before eventually; Sugar had placed a few explosives here and there at the palace and ran away with his partner in crime. Come on old man.
"We have to get back to the ship!"
"What about BB?"
"He can help himself!"
As the two had finished their adventures by making their way to the watery floors of the Tempest Tide, they saw that their only cyborg crewmate was there. His name was Joseph, but he was called Joey. He had been in a horrible accident so now he did odd jobs for BB, like making sure that nobody had left without him.
"Where do you two think you're going?"
Joey had stopped them and taken out a few wrist blades. He was loyal, so loyal that he could be seen as a plain robot.
"We're waiting up on the captain."
"Sure, let's just get you two to work."
He picked up a broom and tossed it to the doc before making Sugar clean up his quarters and eventually, BB returned with the key to their puzzle. July 9th, 2020.