One sunny afternoon, in the McBride front yard, the following kids were sitting in a circle on the freshly cut lawn; Lincoln, Clyde, Ronnie Anne, Liam, Zach, Rusty, Rocky, and Penelope (Clyde's partner for the Egg Baby project in the episode "Shell Shock"). They were playing a round of Duck, Duck, Goose today.

"I'm surprised we're playing here at Clyde's house," Lincoln tells everybody.

"Well we always play games at your house. How bout a different location for once," Clyde explains.

"Besides, I don't want to be around your sister Luan for a while," Rusty confesses while rubbing the top of his head.

"Right, because of the whole Go Whack a Noggin incident," Ronnie Anne says.

"Yes," Rusty answers, "I know it's been a week since it happened, but I'm not taking any chances."

"Hey Lincoln," Rocky began, "Thanks for not inviting Lucy. I mean I love my little bat, but it seems like I've been playing games with her a little too much. It's nice to have a little break," Rocky confessed.

"So who's going to go first?" Penelope asks.

Everyone just kinda looks at each other, uncertain of who should go first.

Rusty looks at Lincoln and Clyde, who are sitting next to each other, "Since this was your guys' idea, why don't one of you go first?" He suggests.

Lincoln and Clyde look at each other. "Rock, paper, scissors for it?" Clyde wonders.

"Sure, why not," Lincoln says as he puts his hand in a fist. Clyde does the same and they both move their fists up and down.

"One, two, three," they both say in unison.

They both end up with an open hand, which is paper.

Clyde gets a smirk on his face and shakes Lincoln's hand, "Pleased to meet ya," Clyde teases.

Lincoln chuckles and puts his hand in a fist so they can try again.

"One, two, three," Lincoln chants.

This time, Lincoln ends up with a fist, which is rock and Clyde ends up with two fingers, which is scissors.

"Rock beats scissors," Lincoln pounded his fist over Clyde's two fingers.

"So I guess I'm first," Lincoln gets up from his spot and makes his way around the circle, touching the heads of everybody.

"Duck," Lincoln touches Clyde's head.

"Duck," Lincoln touches Liam's head.

"Duck," Lincoln touches Zach's head.

"Duck," Lincoln touches Rusty's head.

"Easy," Rusty whines as he starts to slightly cringe.

Lincoln looks at the top of Rusty's head and notices a red bump on his scalp.

"Ouch! You've got a big bump," Lincoln says with concern.

"I know. But to be fair the swelling has gone down significantly," Rusty explains.

"I'm gonna talk to Luan about this," Lincoln says as he moves away from Rusty.

"Duck," He touches Penelope's head.

"Duck," He touches Rocky's head.

"Goose!" Lincoln touches Ronnie Anne's head.

"Aww, you tease!" Ronnie Anne gets up and the two of them start running around the circle.

They run around the circle at least twice before Lincoln jumps to Ronnie Anne's spot next to Rocky.

"Aww!" Ronnie Anne groans.

Now it's her turn to choose the goose, so she goes around the circle touching Clyde, Liam, Zach, and Rusty while saying "duck".

Then she reaches Penelope, "Goose!" She shouts while smacking Penelope's head, unintentionally hurting her.

Penelope gets up from her spot between Rusty and Rocky and starts chasing Ronnie Anne around the circle. Ronnie Anne was much faster than Penelope, so she was able to snag her spot.

Penelope looks at Lincoln, "Just out of curiosity, how long are we going to play this?" Penelope wonders.

"Until everyone has had a chance to be goose," Lincoln says.

"Got it," Starting with Rocky, Penelope goes around the circle and touches everyone on the head while whispering "Duck".

Once she reaches Zach, she yells "Goose" while touching his red hair. They start to run around the circle twice. Just as Penelope reached Zach's spot between Liam and Rusty, Zach pounced and grabbed Penelope's ankles, making her trip and fall forward. When she fell, she just missed falling into Rusty's lap.

"Zach!" Lincoln gasps in surprise.

"You didn't have to be so rough with her!" Clyde berated.

He got up from his spot between Lincoln and Liam and walked towards Penelope. He grabs both her hands and helps her sit up.

"You alright?" Clyde whispers to Penelope.

Penelope's cheeks started to tint a light pink hue as she looked up at Clyde. "Y-yeah, I'm fine. Thanks Clyde," Penelope whispers.

Clyde walks back to his spot, but not before narrowing his eyes at Zach and placing both his fingers in front of both his eyes and pointing them at Zach in the "I'm watching you" gesture.

Now it's Zach's turn to choose who will be the next goose. Since he's the shortest person here, he can't quite reach the top of everybody's head. So instead he has to touch everybody's shoulder, which is what he does as he goes around the circle.

"Duck," He touches Penelope's shoulder.

"Duck," He touches Rusty.

"Duck," He touches Ronnie Anne.

"Goose!" He taps Rocky on the shoulder and gets ready to run. Rocky gets up and chases Zach around the circle at least twice.

Zach eyed Rocky's spot between Ronnie Anne and Lincoln, so he literally slid towards it, with his hip smacking into Lincoln's knee.

"Geez you klutz," Lincoln whispers disdainfully.

Before Rocky could walk around the circle, he looks around for who he wants to be the next goose. When he finally chooses one, he starts to walk around while touching everyone's heads and saying "Duck".

Once he reaches Liam, he shouts "Goose" and starts running. Liam chases Rocky around the circle but was unable to catch him, so Rocky snagged his spot between Clyde and Penelope.

"Aww, you got me. It's my turn to choose the next goose," Liam says.

He knows immediately that his goose is going to be Rusty, but since he's right near him, he doesn't want to choose him right away. Instead, he goes around the circle touching everyone's heads. When he finally gets to Rusty, he places his hand on Rusty's head, unintentionally smacking his palm right on his bump.

"Watch it!" Rusty whines.

"Oh sorry about that. I forgot that you're hurt," Liam whimpers as he guiltily rubs his arm.

Rusty takes his index finger and rubs it on the bump on his head, "It's alright. You didn't do it on purpose," Rusty mutters in understanding.

Liam taps Rusty on the shoulder, "Goose! Can't catch me!" Liam squeals.

Rusty gets up and dashes after Liam as the two of them start running around the circle a total of three times. Liam eventually lands on Rusty's spot, and by land, I mean he falls and lands with his hip on the ground. Penelope and Ronnie Anne, who he lands in between, start giggling at him.

Rusty starts to scan the circle so he can choose who the next goose will be. He eyes Clyde and remembers that he's the only one who hasn't chased anybody yet. So, naturally, he feels obligated to pick him. Rusty lightly taps the head of everybody in the circle while whispering "Duck" in his high pitched voice. Just as he reaches Clyde, a smirk creeps onto Rusty's face.

"Goose!" Rusty cries as he touches Clyde on the head.

"Finally, someone actually chooses me," Clyde comments as he gets up.

Clyde and Rusty run around the circle twice, which gave Rusty enough time to snag Clyde's spot between Lincoln and Penelope.

"So...has everybody had a chance to be goose?" Clyde asks as he looks at everybody.

Everybody takes a second to look at each other and nod as they reassure that they all have had a chance to be to be goose.

"Ok good," Clyde says as he stands there with his hands on his hips.

There's silence for a couple seconds before Ronnie Anne speaks up, "So...now what?" She asks.

Once again, there's silence as the eight kids just look at each other and shrug, uncertain of where to go from here. Clyde motions for Lincoln and Rusty to scoot over so that he can squeeze between them.

"We could just...talk a little bit," Rocky suggests.

Uncertain of exactly what to talk about, the kids just look at each other in silence.