Yep... there's gonna be a lot of issues being addressed like character development, story writing, and real-world stuff to make it even more meta than it already is.

Today's a Saturday, and our group of four was just relaxing.

Aaron staring at the sky doing nothing, he sighed happily.

"Man, thank god for Saturdays." Max said

"Agreed my dude, agreed." Aaron said

"I mean, no camp activities." Max said

"No crazy adventures." Nikki continued

"No crazy hijinks." Neil said

"And no copious amounts of character development that relates to an ultimate plot that sooner or later makes a story more interesting a so-called climax when in actuality the climax doesn't occur until later and ends on a serious note relating to a character with most likely an epilogue detailing what happened to some of the characters after the events seeing if life's been well for them with credits rolling by afterward with a possible hint to a sequel sometimes on occasion." Aaron said

The three others looked at him confused, he looked at them.

"Hey, a lot of that has been going on here." Aaron simply said

That's when he noticed an egg near him.

"An egg?" Aaron asked

The three other campers near him looked at him, he held up the egg.

"Where did it come from?" Neil asked

"Don't know but we shouldn't mess with it." Max said

They then noticed the egg trail, Aaron sighed as Nikki's eyes sparkle with excitement.

"Okay, we're leaving this alone. I'm not wanting another wacky adventure today dammit." Aaron said

"Yeah, I agree with Max and Aaron." Neil said

Nikki was suddenly gone, Aaron groaned loudly.

"Not in the mood for this fucking shit." He said

They see Nikki and follow her to a bush, inside was... the platypus.

"Oh, the platypus is a female?" Aaron said

"Didn't you notice that?" Max asked

"No, never bothered to check really." Aaron said

Aaron sighed as he smiled a little.

"You know, if we back away, we might not get caught up in this." He said

"Caught up in what?" Cameron Campbell asked behind Aaron

He simply looked up to the sky deadpanned.

"I hope you're having a good chuckle at this." Aaron said in a deadpan tone

Cameron peered over his shoulder to see the eggs, he grinned.

"It looks like I have a cash machine!" Cameron said

"Isn't the sale of Platypods illegal?" Aaron asked in the background

"I mean... I can make a zoo." Cameron said

"Then you could just take one of these and use it." Aaron said

"Well I'll do exactly that, and you're gonna raise them for me." Cameron said

"What?" Aaron asked

Five minutes later

David stood in front of the Campers with Cameron and Gwen (her holding a box full of the Platypuses egg's with an irritated look on her face).

"Alright Bonus activity day! I hope you Campers are excited as I am to be working on a Sa-"

"Shut the fuck up, hand me an egg, give me a couple of hours, we're not doing an explanation. Fuck this." Aaron said already irritated

He then grabbed an egg and walked off, not even caring about having to work with someone.

"Why are we doing this again?" Max asked

"We're not gonna let some dumb animal take care of these valuable eggs, I'd probably lose it if we did." Cameron said

Aaron then popped out of nowhere, saying this.

"Cameron, that's not true. Animals can take care of their kids pretty well, though considering how aggressive this platypus is. I'd reluctantly have to agree with you." He said

He then walked away again, everyone got paired up and decided to work together (against their will).

Later

Aaron had made a makeshift incubator with a small pillow (the same one back in the Flower Scouts chapter), he played some games while the egg was under it. He looked at a thermometer he made for the whole thing.

"Hmm, 98 degree's, should be lower." He said

He turned down the heat a bit, he sighed.

"This whole thing is stupid but at least I should be able to do this." Aaron said

Aaron then looked at the egg, he sighed sadly.

"It's too bad you're gonna be born into this terrible world... raised only by me... alone." He said

Aaron had a small tear go down his eye.

"God... I'm getting too attached, unlike some parents." He said with a small bit of venom at the end

Aaron then hears Max and Nikki walk in, he looked over at them.

"Hey guys." He said

"Sup Aaron, you mind if we dump our egg off here?" Max said with Nikki punching his shoulder

"...Why do you ask?" Aaron asked

"Max doesn't want to take care of it but I do." Nikki said

"Didn't think you cared about something like this?" Aaron said

"Yeah, I don't know what's going on in my lower parts but I really want to nurture this thing." Nikki said

Aaron raised an eyebrow in suspicion but lowered it.

"You guys should stick around, put the egg nearby the other one and just relax here with me. I've been doing a great job with it so far." He said

Nikki looked at Aaron egg under the incubator.

"Are you sure you should be doing that?" Nikki asked

"Nikki, the egg has to remain at the temperature of 90 degrees Fahrenheit." Aaron said

"Oh, well I guess we should put it there also." Nikki said, putting it near the other egg

Aaron, Max, and Nikki had a few discussions about life, the eggs, whatever have you.

After a bit, Aaron saw the egg's cracking.

"The eggs are hatching." He said pointing at them

"Ooohhh, someone get a camera!" Nikki said

The platypods came out and Aaron instantly knew which one was his as it waddled up to him shortly after and nuzzled him.

"...Guess I have a pet platypus now... cool." He said

"Aren't platypus illegal to have as pets?" Max said

"Right right... welp guess I should.." Aaron said looking at the baby

It looked at him with such innocent eyes, Aaron felt a bit bad. He sighed.

"Listen to me little one, I'm going to send you somewhere that would be better than here. I may not ever see you again but I won't forget you." He said

The platypus baby softly growled at him, understanding the situation despite it being a few minutes old.

"Good." He said

Later

Aaron saluted as the platypus was taken away by the proper authorities while Cameron took Max and Nikki's (Max and Nikki didn't feel too great after that) and Aaron sighed as Neil patted his shoulder.

"You've gotta let them go sometime." Neil said

"I know, I just wasn't expecting so soon." Aaron said

"Could have been worse." Neil said

"Yeah, he could have been with someone irresponsible." Aaron said

He felt a bit hopeful that the platypus would do well back in Australia.

It probably would since... it's a platypus, those things are though.

Just like its mother.

Welp, that was nice.

I'll see you guys in the Fandom.