Chapter Nine
Tac
"Any idea where we are?" Tac asked.
"The Labyrinth," Three remarked.
"No, I mean in the world above," Tac stated.
"No clue," One responded. He continued walking forward before Mila used her telekinesis to pull him back.
"All of you need to stop trying to blindly trudge forward," Mila snapped. "That is the third time within the past hour that I have had to save one of you. You need to give me time to deactivate the traps. The only person that I haven't had to save yet is Scorpius, and he is scrolling through the character list to try and find a character that could contact Kurt."
"Guys you might want to come take a look at this," Three remarked. He was standing at the entryway to another room. On the ground in front of him were 13 rubber suits. "One, Tac, you realize where we are right?"
"The Mosamorph cave," Tac muttered.
"Wait this is the location of the first task that you guys did in the Labyrinth?" Scorpius asked.
"Yes," One stated. "Meaning that we now have a set path to go down. Scorpius, get a message to everyone telling them that I think I know what constitutes as the center." Scorpius nodded, quickly getting to work.
A low pitched whine echoed throughout the cavern. "Congrats," Setne's voice started up. "You figured me out. I am currently in a hidden side room off of the room of fear smoke. Von Light's speakers still work if you want to hear his voice."
Tac wanted to test it out. "Ony say what you said after the speakers activated when we were here the first time."
"Great. More speakers for him to speak to us."
Von Light's voice started up, "I heard that One."
"See what I mean," Setne stated, cutting off the rest of the message. "I repurposed each of the rooms for my purposes. Your task here is simple. Make a bridge across without using the obvious way of manipulating Three's molecules. Once you reach halfway I have a surprise for you."
"We need plants ASAP," Tac stated.
"On it," Scorpius replied. "Swamp Thing powers coming right up." He found it almost instantly. A flower started to grow from the palm of his hand. Tac plucked it out of his hand and started to make it grow. When a bridge was formed they each started to slowly trudge across. Once they reached the halfway point a surprise was definitely in store. They were flung off the bridge and hit the floor hard. When they stood back up they came face to face with shadowy versions of themselves.
"Remind me to never have Setne plan a party," Mila snarled. Tac and One took back to back positions against their shadow clones.
"I go for me, you go for you?" One suggested.
"No, we fight together Ony." As she said it One's shadow clone turned into a tank-sized spider with a skull on its back.
"A gray widower. Be careful of its webs, they can burn through skin."
"Got it." She brought down the nearby vines to enclose shadow One, but shadow Tac stopped her. "One chose an animal quickly."
"Done and done." One had turned himself into the badass Predalien and was tossing Shadow One around the room like it was a ragdoll.
"You mortals irritate me," Shadow Tac snarled, pouncing on Tac. "Anything you can do I can do better."
"Not true," Tac smirked.
"And why is that? I have enhanced shadow powers."
"We have a Biollante," Tac remarked, using Two's line from the Battle for the Sibylline.
"What does that even mean?" Shadow Tac asked before the ground below them rumbled. The ground broke open and swallowed her whole.
Tac would have also fallen in if it wasn't for Mila once again saving her life. Tac looked around to see that Shadow Mila was encased in an earth cocoon, Shadow Three was held fast to the floor, Shadow Scorpius was being held back by a Patronus, and Shadow One was decimated.
"Let's get going to the death trial," Tac remarked.
