Well, folks, we have some pretty bad news.

I don't even know if we should tell you.

It's that bad, right, Atlas?

I have to admit, we've had better news to share, like when we found Daisy.

That was a good day.

The best! It's always a good day when you find a talking 40-foot squid,

and it becomes your constant companion.

Yup. So, are we going to share the bad news or what?

For once, I wish you'd steal my thunder and spill the beans.

But I'll take this one.

Thanks, Xavier.

Atlas and I have been busy while you were gone.

We've visited five more of the locations where machine parks for the Cracking are hidden. That's the

mysterious machine at the bottom of the Flugerville Ocean that was built by Lucy Wow's great-grandmother.

So, we've been to six of the secret locations searching for parts. There are only seven total places to look.

And guess what?

All we found at all six locations were snood coins.

I thought you weren't going to steal my thunder.

Oops, sorry about that, Xavier. I lost my cool.

This means the snood pirates have at least six of the seven parts to fix the cracker machine and start it up.

But there is some good news.

There's one more secret location to search, and there's still a chance we could beat the snood pirates to it.

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