Astoria walked stealthily through the dense forest-like planet, being careful as to not touch a single leaf on the trees or in the bushes. One thing she noticed about this planet was that it was very quiet. Eerily quiet. Too quiet to be infested by Huggables,she thought. But ABBi reported that there were, and someone demanded the Battle Bears to come and deal with them. But she couldn't see any, no matter where she looked. She couldn't even see any inhabitants of the planet, which was really strange. The Huggables couldn't have gotten to all the residents, and the one who sent the alert to them this quickly. Suddenly, she heard Huggable chants on the other side of the bush. She went to climb the tree, but then realised what Malcolm had said; Detection devices on every single object. There was no way she was at an advantage against the Huggables on this planet. She heard the tiny footsteps of about five Huggables, she calculated, coming her way so she reached into her bag and pulled out her Fairy Dust and threw it at the ground as she ran further away. She heard the screaming chants of "hug me" coming from behind her as she ran. She guessed they were blinded by the dust and were hugging anything in their way, including themselves. She got the furthest away from them as she could and looked around, noticing everything was the same. No life, no noise, no nothing. This planet was sure a strange one. There should be more Huggables than those five she came across before. And where was this bear that sent the alert to them?
"What kind of a planet in need is this?" She asked herself as she continued walking.
Just then, she was ambushed by ten Huggables and a shadowy figure. She went to pull out her weapon, but the Huggables on her right grabbed her waist before she could even touch the rifle. Luckily for her, they weren't hugging. They were...carrying her?
"Okay, what's going on, you little pink demons?!" Astoria shouted as the Huggables carried her through some bushes.
She saw the figure march quickly before the Huggables, but it was clear the Huggables knew this figure. They were following it, after all. She saw a giant silver building that was identical to the H.I.P. Factory in front of them. Just before the Huggables could take her in there, she jumped free of their grasp and within seconds pulled out her Deadeye. The Huggables were a bit confused as to what happened at first, but then turned towards her.
"Don't even try to come near me again" Astoria told them, firmly aiming her rifle at them.
The Huggables didn't understand her threat and started walking towards her, chants of "hug me" coming from their mouths. Astoria walked backwards and headshot each of the ten Huggables, dodging their attempts at grabbing her. She placed the Deadeye into her bag and took a look around. The figure the Huggables were following had disappeared. Asoria looked at the building in front of her with curiousity. This seems to be the only building on the planet. But why were the Huggables going to bring her in here? She decided to stealthily enter the building. It looked remarkably similar to the H.I.P, but obviously Rho couldn't be behind this. Not after what Wil had done to him. Or so she was told it was Wil. She walked through the building quickly and quietly. There were no Huggables to be seen in any room whatsoever. She made it into a giant room, and stood at the doorway, scanning it. It was a wide open space, with a bridge surrounded by a wire fence at the far back. Then she noticed it. In the middle of the room. It was the shady figure. She slowly stepped towards it as the figure did the same. When they were face to face with each other, she realised what it was. It was another bear. But the odd thing about this was that the bear looked remarkably like her, except it had wavy brown hair which was tied in a ponytail with a pink hairtie. Three strands of the bear's hair fell down it's face, the middle being the longest. Astoria raised her eyebrows as the bear did the same. She tilted her head, the bear copied. She held out her right arm as the other bear did aswell, but just before their paws touched, Astoria heard a voice she knew all too well and stopped what she was doing, looking up to the bridge.