The boys lay asleep in the main room of the tree house. They wouldn't be asleep for long, though.

Suddenly a ringing burst through the room. All the boys shot up besides Hoagie.

"WHO'S THERE?" Nigel screamed, whipping out a weapon with one hand and fumbling in the dark for his sunglasses with the other.

Another ringing burst through the room. The ringing grew louder and louder, and shapes raced across the floor. One bounced across Hoagie and woke him up. Then one jumped up and hit the lightswitch. The boys could now see thousands of alarm clocks hopping across the floor.

"Catch them!" Patton cried out. The boys fumbled in all directions, trying in vain to catch and stop the clocks. Wally was wrestling with three and losing, Hoagie was trying to hop on them, Lee was whacking them over and over with his yo-yo, but they just kept standing up again.

"WHAT THE CRUD IS GOING ON?" Wally managed to scream out before an alarm clock wedged itself in his mouth."I DON'T KNOW, BUT-" Nigel started, but then suddenly the ringing stopped and the clocks went limp.

"They're dead," Wally said. He dropped one on top of another. "Now they're broken."

"WHO DID THIS?" Nigel screamed.

Kuki giggled from the shadows. "Alright, come out," Patton said. Out we came, Kuki, then Abby, then Rachel, Sonya, Fanny, and finally me.

"Why?" Hoagie screamed.

"Because you ATTACKED us in our tent last night!" I screeched back.

"Hey!" Wally said. "That was funny!"

"NO IT WASN'T!" we all screamed out.

Lee picked up one of the running clocks and examined it. "Cool," he said. Sonya came up behind him. He notised her and flashed her a smile. She giggled and took the clock so they were both holding it. Their hands touched and they looked at each other, blushing fiercely. They both felt something special.