Back in camp...
"I, Eliza Lockhart, decree that it is indeed inevitable we find this new town they call 'New Yorkshire'!" Angelica came on stage while the piano was played and the other campers had to sit down to the show.
"It's been cloudy and cold for six weeks in a row!" Susie added.
"Makes a fellow wish he were in California." Randy added.
The spotlight then came down on Angelica, Susie, and Chaz.
"Go pack your bags and fuel your mules, You're all invited, Let's carpool it, if you stay behind, you'll feel a fool!" Chaz sang while dancing before he fell on the floor.
"California or bust!" Angelica and Susie sang together.
"Wow, and you thought I was a terrible singer." Penn whispered to Cindy.
"Can't wait for Terracotta." Susie sang.
"Don't forget to wipe your feet-a." Chaz added.
"These golden shores, they could be neat-a!" Angelica sang.
"Caliornia or bust!" Angelica, Chaz, and Susie sang together.
The older people in the audience seemed to like the song until Chaz sang about 'dried bison dung'.
"We'll be right back after we gather food, water, and firewood." Drew said as he took out a slip of paper from his hat.
"And don't go a-eatin' all the berries while we're gone, I counted 'em." Kimi added before she walked off with Macie and Ginger.
"What are we supposed to do while they're gone?" Susie asked as she held up a tree. "I'm bored."
"We could play Hangman." Didi suggested before nudging Randy.
"Or look for shooting stars." Randy suggested.
"Or..." Kira was about to suggest until she coughed on cue.
"No, we can't do anything." Betty said.
The spotlight then shined on her as it was her turn to sing.
"Don't move a muscle, Don't talk and don't breathe, 'Cuz you know what I know all of that leads," Betty sang as she began to dance. "You're asking for trouble if you steal glances, Just don't do anything, 'Cuz everything leads to dancing~"
Susie, Angelica, and Eliza soon moved onto the stage while chanting and dancing. Betty then continued to sing and dance just like everyone else is doing as well. Penn and CIndy were then forced into the dance since they were now apart of this. The audience seemed disinterested in the play.
Drew and Kimi went under the others as they were holding each other's. hands Chance waved to the audience, but didn't go under just like Drew and Kimi did. The music stopped and everyone shrugged and looked for the first missing settler.
"Oh, I get it," The old woman commented. "He went missing."
"Thanks for clearing that up." The man deadpanned before going back to sleep.
Back in the woods, there were ominous howls heard. The others were then up close in front of the rock.
"Whoa." Courtney looked surprised.
"If only this rock could talk," Dil commented. "Oh, the thing's he'd say."
"You bring gum gum, Dum Dum?" Twister joked before laughing. "I love Night at the Museum. It looks like Squidward's house."
"You're wrong, Stu," Charlotte said. "This baby puts my forehead to shame," she then noticed that her brother-in-law went missing. "Stu?"
"Uh, where's Dad?" Tommy asked as he looked around with his camera.
"Smithy Spencer went missing!" Howard cried out.
Everyone then hollered out Stu's name, but there was no response.
"Where is he?" Tommy asked. "You know what that means..."
"Mr. Pickles is the first victim of brain-sucking pioneers?" Dib guessed.
"Awesome!" Dil beamed.
Chuckie and Sam soon screamed like the cowards they were.
"Now, now, let's just stay calm..." Arnold tried.
"I'm sorry that I doubted you guys before, BUT NOW, I'M DEFINITELY A BELIEVER!" Otto said.
"WHY ARE YOU YELLING?!" Chuckie asked.
"Because the scared non-believers are always the first to go." Otto whispered with a glare.
"This is really scary," Courtney whimpered. "I don't wanna become a zombie!"
"Oh, to be young and ridiculously naive," Charlotte scoffed. "Stu felt guilty about bailing on chance, so he went back to the show!"
"Of course he did," Howard replied. "And we should do the same... NOW! Right, now!"
"I need to charge my game console." Gaz muttered.
"If he did go back, then why didn't he say goodbye?" Phil asked.
"Yeah." Twister agreed.
"Well, I dunno, maybe he didn't know how to say it in Old English." Charlotte shrugged.
"I'm not leaving until we find my dad!" Tommy narrowed his eyes in determination.
"Well, all right, I'll play along," Charlotte rolled her eyes. "Stu, where are you? If you're already a zombie, cough twice."
They didn't hear anything. Not a single sound.
"This is what we do," Tommy suggested. "We split into groups and search through the woods near the rock. We have to find him now before it's too late."
"Too late for what?" Dil asked.
"Don't got no brain or nuthin'." The boys recited, remembering what the old woman told them.
Back in the musical...
"There's no sign of Smithy Spencer." Cindy said.
"Or our horse-covered wagon." Penn added after looking in the bucket for a script.
"Are you saying that Smithy Spencer stole Julie the horse and made his way west to the land of sun and raining oranges," Cindy began before looking at her arm that had her other lines. "Leavings us without food or water or even, uh, something that starts with an N?"
Chance then pointed to Penn. "Sing."
Penn cleared his throat and the spotlight was on him now.
"Oh, no..." Cindy moaned quietly.
"Zip it!" Chance scolded.
Cindy then nodded fearfully and covered her ears. Penn soon began to sing which seemed to horrify the audience much more than the rest of the musical.
Chance face-palmed and soon grabbed Susie by her shoulder. "You, go!"
"Huh?" Susie asked until she was forced out onto the stage.
"Sing!" Chance told her.
Susie then begin to sing which made the audience look relaxed and interested. All except for Angelica of course. When Susie sang, the audience soon cheered and really got into the musical now.
"Wrap it up, Carmichael!" Angelica whispered loudly as Susie curtsied after the applause.
"Where art thou, Town Physician/Barber?" Susie asked before walking away.
"Town Idiot Savant, is that you?" Drew gasped.
Drew and Kimi then fell through the trap door and the audience was now getting interested by this play. Penn and Cindy looked down nervously and looked to the crowd.
In the woods again...
"Stu..." Charlotte called out for her brother-in-law. "Oh, Stu..."
"Don't wear yourself out, Mrs. Pickles." Mike scoffed to the blonde woman.
"What? I have to stay by the big bad rock in case he gets drawn to it," Charlotte defended until she then heard something. "Did you hear that?"
"What?" Otto asked.
"I didn't-" Chuckie was about to add.
"Shh!" Charlotte shushed.
The others stared at her.
"That's running water!" Charlotte soon ran off. "Underground hot springs, come to Mama!"
"She's a sitting duck." Dib commented.
"You're right, Dib." Dil agreed about his aunt.
"Can you say victim #2?" Junior asked.
"And you all know what comes next." Chuckie whimpered.
"Don't ever got no brains or nuthin'." The others memorized.
"Charlotte, I order you to stay with the group-eth!" Howard called out as he ran after the blonde woman.
"DAAAAD!" Phil and Lil cried out.
"Oh, no, this is bad." Reggie frowned.
"Not Dad too." Lil whined.
"Oh, Lil, it's okay." Mike comforted her girlfriend the best that she could.
"Oh, they're picking us off like flies!" Chuckie groaned. "The pioneers are gonna get us all, Tommy, they're gonna get us all!"
"I wanna get out of here!" Sam screamed. "I don't want to become a zombie!"
"Don't go hysterical on us, guys!" Tommy told Chuckie and Sam. "If we start to panic, it's gonna get bad!"
"It is getting bad, don't you see?!" Sam reminded him.
"Oh, right, and, I thought it was bad now!" Chuckie added.
They kept walking through the forest together and there was soon a rustling in the bushes.
Chuckie and Sam screamed as they saw glowing white eyes from the bushes, but it was just a doe who then ran off into the woods.
"You were right, Bro," Dil said to Bean as Chuckie and Sam climbed up a tree out of fear. "That rock has a hold on us."
"I know, we're in the middle of a crisis here, possibly on our way to zombification." Reggie replied.
"But it is important to know that climbing is a skill!" Tommy added. "A talent!"
"Yes, it is," Chuckie smiled. "But not that impressive when you take into account that I was running from a deer!" he then began to climb down the tree.
"Hey, what's this?" Sam asked as he found a book before he and Chuckie fell out of the tree and landed in a bush.
Lil walked over and picked up the book. "It's a journal!"
"Oh, nothing broken, thanks for asking." Sam scoffed.
"Property of Deborah May Lou, surviving member of the Everwood's settlers: 1872." Reggie read aloud.
Everyone looked shocked while Bean had a hidden look on his face. When no one was looking, he then took out a gun and loaded it with silver bullets.
"'Winter is upon us and I fear the worst for those lost'," Mike began to read as Lil sat close to her and everyone else listened to the journal entry. "'Today the physician/barber was declared missing, the third to go. His disappearance remains a mystery and with our brains half frozen, it's become too complex for us to solve'."
"The first brain freeze." Otto noticed.
"'I wave to him as he fetched the water from the old old oak tree by the man-faced rock he will be deeply missed, no not necessarily fair accordion playing'," Mike read which made Chuckie flinch slightly. "'And I regret this is my last entry, my fingers are fro-'."
"What's fro?" Phil asked.
"Fro-ZEN!" Lil and Mike replied.
"Oh, I love that movie!" Courtney giggled before she gasped. "Oh, no, she was frozen alive!"
Chuckie soon stood up in determination and stormed off.
"Where are you going?" Tommy asked his best friend.
"Don't you notice the similarity of disappearances?" Chuckie replied. "All three settlers went missing after getting water from the oak tree by that rock."
"Yeah, well, that rock is bad news." Tommy told him.
"Face it," Twister said. "We're all gonna fro!"
"You know... There might be a logical explanation for all this..." Chuckie hummed in thought.
"I don't think this is a good idea," Otto spoke up. "I've seen enough scary movies to know we're walking into the belly of the beast!"
"Otto's right," Tommy admitted as he brought back out his camera. "Which means I can't stop taping now!"
They were then walking in the darkness again.
"What's the gun for?" Mike asked Bean.
"In case we face anything dangerous," Bean replied. "I'm very protective of my friends and family... Especially my little sister, Amelia."
"You have a sister?" Mike asked. "Where is she then?"
"She was murdered a long time ago." Bean replied.
"How?" Mike asked.
"She was eaten by a pack of wild animals." Bean explained.
"Oh, dude, I'm sorry..." Mike frowned to Bean.
"It's okay, I have protection this time." Bean replied as he held his gun steady.
