The jungle had been hit by a storm, and all men remained inside something. Snaggy sat with the rest of the fools in their segregated logging cabin. Some napped on their bunks in the mid afternoon while the rest played cards on the kitchen table.

“I’ve got all the gold” screamed Joey Jester raking in his winnings from choosing the best chains of stones and elements to branch of off in this round of the game.

“Arrrg” cried Snaggy losing yet more of his crystals.

This week has been a disaster. The head royal fool excused himself from the table. He walked to the dwelling's singular porthole and stared at the raging weather. The fools had stayed inside much of the week regardless of storming in order to avoid being bullied by the loggers.

“Remember when the fools had the balls to trick them all, and the intelligence to humiliate anybody” said Snaggy sighing.

“Those were madmen you speak of, not fools.. Buurrp key difference” protested Joey Jester.

He continued counting his winnings with one hand, and biting into a giant bird wing held by the other.

“You will get over your insecurities someday, Snag” giggled Pimm from where she sat on the opposite side of the table.

She wore her red hair long, but cut most of her jester outfits off short. She did not entertain other fools when it came to relationships. Snaggy’s attempts at romance had been rebuked enough times for them to have become enemies.

“I thought you were going to make us a hot cider with spices” Snaggy grumbled, not looking away from the window.

A deep breath of wind smacked against the cabin threatening to blow open the front. Air blew through cracks in the door dimming the oil lights. Those at the table shuddered. Pimm began to throw on her overcoat.

“Snaggy would you close those farking window blinds” yelled Joey.

“I’d love a good fark, but just a crystal or two of it not a lot, ' giggled Pimm.

“I’d love to see your soul be sucked inside a fark crystal” replied Snaggy with sass.

“No fool, I will be the one doing the sucking of souls into my Fark crystals' ' said Pimm, starting to lay cards from her newest hand.

“Good luck finding any farks, thankfully I don’t give a flying fuck about ever finding one” laughed Joey, glancing down at his cards and grinning.

He kept on laughing, pounding the table with his free arm.

"Good plan Joey there's elements out there much too powerful for us organics to be handling for we become radioactive" said the third, and final person at the table.

He was a knight who traveled with the party. He was the only reason they hadn’t yet been harassed deep into the jungle. Unfortunately he hadn't been awake to stop the toilet paper assault from plying the cabin in many layers.

“Are you calling me stupid?” stammering Joey Jester said confused.

“Of course not. You being here at this very table winning money from all us, all day and night proves your intellect,” said Knight.

“Hello! Old Snag, are you going to get those blinds anytime, any day now!” Pimm yelled a sonic attack that made Snaggy quiver much more than the winds.

“Fine” he said, shutting the first and only blind in the building.

"That's better" said Joey taking out a concealed container from his clown coat.

He pulled out the cork, and slugged it down.

"Hey Joe what's you got in your hand?" asked Pimm leaning forward, her eyes wondered.

Joey Jester lurched back in his chair squeaking with it in protest. He quickly pulled back the contents of both hands, holding them close to his chest.

"Fools are never taught manners and that is why they become fools. Society gets a sick laugh at our crude socially inept remarks.. Sigh everyone else here is a lost cause conceived by fools at the circus and then raised there" said Joey as his chair leaned at a dangerous precipice.

“Some do find you lot entertaining to poke fun at, but many others think that a fool can teach you more than any other teacher,” said the Knight focused on his own hand of cards.

“I’m going to have to see your knight's badge number sir. Any more comments along those lines, I might start to think one of us fools dressed himself as a Knight to play a prank,” Joey laughed, while his chair further dangled on an angle.

"I believe he means that we show the average man how not to live. They have to do whatever opposite action they see a fool do, or risk becoming one. That is why I will always be stuck having to partner another fool with no recourse from this fate available" cried Snaggy.

"Poor you" teased Pimm.

Snaggy leaped into his top bunk. It was a swift jump up, before quickly closing his covers to hide tears. The rest of them continued on with the game.

The next morning a howler frog loudly croaked. It’s cries for help reverberated against the nearby mountains as it was murdered by something growling guttural screams.

Snaggy woke to the racket. He was calmed down by the spiced scent of freshly brewing hot cider entering his nose. He dropped out of bed with a somersault, before cartwheeling to the ladle. He filled a cup with the steaming liquid and joined the others at the table.

"Thank the dozen colors we are leaving this place this morning hey fellas" said the Knight.

He was slurping away on a cup of his own hot liquid of choice. A brown magic bean brew that greatly increased testosterone.

Everything going on was interrupted by the loudest sound in the jungle. Outside the trains whistle blasted a dozen times. The spirits were high as the chairs were pulled out and everything was given a final inspection. Snaggy rushed back to the top bunk. He began frantically packing his bags as the others left the building with theirs already packed.

“Hey guys wait up!” snaggy pleaded, sprinting out the building.

A loose shirt fell out of his untied bag as he ran. The only thing remaining behind was not going to be the head Jester running to the parking lot. The others had already climbed into the waiting royal clown car. A specially reinforced enforcement vehicle designed to safely transport even fools. It had spiked tires, cut off horns ready to stab in rear/front ends, sirens of every sort, and a grab bag of other secret tricks. He scrunched into the driver's seat, swatting away an arm that was blocking space.

The car headed down the bank where it parked waiting for the train to pass.

"This is why you get going earlier in the AM" said the Knight from where he had been crammed into the trunk.

"We have guarding to do of these tracks so we must stay close" replied Snaggy.

"Snaggy he's not a fool while you are. A commoner's logic would tell you that nobody would ever dare try an disturb the crown's heavily guarded rail for a few twigs of timber" said Pimm pilling on.

The very long train kept chugging past, picking up momentum. Of course the head Jester could not reveal to the fools lower in the order that there was also a lot of gold riding aboard.

"Surely a knight would advise following ones orders, while a fool should be suggesting otherwise" noted Snaggy.

"Truly the fools have their day coming if it ain't here already" laughed the Knight from the back.

He who had gotten up early to complete the laborious process of putting on his rigid armor; only to be stuffed in the back of an idling clown car waiting by the tracks.

By the time the train stopped whistling passed Joey Jester was loudly snoring directly into Shaggy's ears. This was going to be a very long escort mission yet he had not come across any escorts out in the jungle to pass the time either. This was standard procedure on all royal escorting affairs.

“Alright we will take this road diverting from the tracks for a second before catching back to the train in ten minutes” said Snaggy who had finally figured out his map.

The clown car lurched over the planks helping the road cross the tracks. After crossing the small motorized death machine climbed a hill out of view.

Hours later the fools found themselves loitering around a ditch. Their car pulled over to the side they stretched while Snaggy frantically looked over his map.

"I told you we should have left early" said the now plainclothes knight his armor still stacked where he had dropped it.

"We would have been fine if this clown hadn't been driving" said Pimm stomping.

"Everybody calm down and give me one second of quite time to think!" Snaggy screamed.

"Alright fine" a few fools agreed.

"Alright now so I think we just got to go back to this bend by rocky brook that's where I lost us and then..." Snaggy pondered.

"Hey that looks like big smoke stacks on wheels barrelling right down this street lets stop em!" yelled Joey Jester interrupting.

Snaggy glared at his crew from where he stood studying the map on the hood.

"No tricks, what he says is legit" said the Knight pointing.

"That's rig has at least 50 tires on her and shes a speed demon" said Joey rubbing his stomach.

"Get ready to flag it down" instructed Snaggy already retrieving his engraved large white fold-able flag from the car.

"Hey that a race.."

"ZOOM!" said Jed flying by in his car, knocking into the tip of Snaggy's extended surrender flag.

The fool fell over backwards tumbling into the ditch before cratering on his ass. Not to be lost out here forever Joey ran into the middle of the road to stop the truck from advancing.

"What the fuck are these clowns doing!" Mule yelled from where he was loaded and barreling down a hill to a target.

"If he don't move you got to hit him" said Jed into his royal band receiver.

"Get out of the way urggg!" yelled Mule blasting the big rigs air horn.

"Joey he ain't moving get out the road" cried Pimm as the Knight sprinted past her.

The truck tried to break right before the Jester. The Knight completed a tackle just in time, saving Joey. The two tumbled off the road before free falling a steep drop...

"Splash!"

They hit the ground splashing into a stream. On the other side Snaggy had climbed back to the clown car. He shook his fist at the big rig driving off.

"Get back here fools we need to take up hot pursuit this instant" Snaggy ordered.

Pimm gave him a nasty look and ran to the other side to check on the others. Snaggy briefly joined her side looking far down at their waterlogged friends. He ran back to the car throwing out rope after rope in a sloppy haste of poor dissensions.

"Tie up these ropes and pull them up Pimm I'm pursuing!" Snaggy screamed climbing into the car.

He turned on the sirens, and pressed the pedal to the floor speeding off. Pimm put out her hands in a rage directed at him. She began to beat up a smaller tree, before body slamming a dead one toppling it.

Ahead on the road Mule had already heard the sirens starting to follow them.

"Some kind of undercover roadblock by empire men, that was definitely a knight I almost splattered with that fool on the road" said Mule.

"All undercover I would guess and now we got trouble with them following us and probably bringing a lot of friends" said Jed.

"What you want to do bud? The options where I can drive this truck out here in the jungle is rather limited" asked Mule.

"You keep driving Mule I'll catch up to you, but for now I'll keep the Knights off your trail while you complete the delivery" said Jed from where he had parked on the side of the road.

"I guess there's no other options, hopefully this will be just a brief detour for you, over" said Mule steaming passed.

"Ahyeahup ten four don't worry about me man they don't make knights like they used to" said Jed.

He could hear the approaching sirens, but could not yet see them.

Where not far off Snaggy had his foot to the floor. He had been pushed around for the very last straw, and wasn't going to be taking prisoners. Legally Jesters could do just about anything they wanted due to be thought of so lowly. Be able to kill for petty reasons was a easy business to cover. Maybe he would just blow up that truck. The culprits would suffer plenty after in the Queen's dungeon. That's funny the race car was straight ahead, and the big rig was nowhere to be seen.

The fool was right on Jed's bumper. He saw the beady little bloodshot eyes glaring at him through the window under a jester cap. The sirens played the circus song of death as two bumpers smashed.

"Damn guess I got to shake him off off-road" said Jed shifting into neutral.

He drifted onto a grassy offramp. Shifting to 2nd gear he gunned down into a gravel pit operation. Meanwhile Snaggy's car spun in circles before he got it under control and could begin to follow Jed's dust into the pits.

"I just can't get rid of this dude" said Jed increasing his speed.

"Mistake to take this off-road when my tires are covered in spikes" laughed the rapid Jester.

A bend was coming up marked by a little sign covered in mud. One side was easy going while the other was taped off with caution tape. Let's see how he handles me now thought Jed smashing past the ribbon.

"It's just one guy stuck to me like a tick but I'm just about to shake him Mule, over" said Jed into his receiver.

"Alright man good luck I got you in my beastly heart" said Mule in response.

Jed roared the car smashing aside branches as the road further narrowed. He could see in front of him now that this road had a dead end straight off a cliff. He kept driving forward noticing that in the chasm below him something was steaming. It was a train running along. It was coming and the sirens behind him where growing close again.

"I got to make this train" yelled Jed accelerating at full power.

He hit a mound of soil and the car hit the air. He looked to his side to see the train extremely close to smashing him; It whistled directly into his ear. Jed's car came smashing down to earth rolling it over several times.

Snaggy had matched Jed's speed and followed him to jump the train. No longer would he be a fool, he would follow whatever this normal man knows. The train kept on blowing as it smashed a clown car to bits.