And so it continues...
Come together now
We've got the night all to ourselves
Let's show them that we allow
Unified we arrive
We know just what to to do to prove
To them that were ALIVE
At the campgrounds, Galaxy was waiting for Comet's bait to arrive. The trap was finished, so Andromeda took up the watch while the others either chatted or treated Black Hole's wounds.
"I hope we don't get any lawsuits from this", Chris mumbled to Chef. The cook nodded. Galaxy, aware what they said, looked over his shoulder and scowled. The then returned his attention to the water, knowing Comet's bait would arrive soon. All he could do was wait.
On the other side of the lake, a boat was speeding its way to Boney Island. Quasar and Ennard were on it, along with a group of six heavily armed soldiers with them. There mission was simple: Find anything on the island, do it quietly, and get out quickly.
"What do you think we'll find?" Ennard asked.
"Not sure", Quasar responded, "Hopefully Swarm's supposed sighting of Mimic wasn't true, otherwise a war will follow." A chorus of agreement came from the troops behind them. Ennard nodded.
"All we can do is hope."
Back at Wawanaka, Comet's bait had finally arrived: A small black diamond on wheels with two small headlights on top. Galaxy brought it over to the others. He understandably received confused looks because of the small device.
"What the heck is that?" Cody asked.
"This is a RASC, or Remote Activated Simulated Child. This bad boy will speed around the island and attract all those beasts here." No one chose to question the... odd... name the small device had. Galaxy set the small bot down and turned it on. The RASC immediately sped off into the forest, periodically making a child's laughter. Galaxy turned towards the others and continued. "We need to be ready when that thing gets back here. It's programmed to rush back here when those animatronic nightmares are chasing it. We need to be ready! Grab what you can to defend yourselves." Everyone dispersed at that, going to find any sort of weapon.
Except Harold, who pulled out his nunchaks. "I need nothing but my mad skills, rugged good looks, and maybe one hundred thousand dollars." He mumbled to himself while twirling the sticks around.
On the shore of Boney Island, Quasar and Ennard stepped onto the sand, the twisted dark woods. As their assembled squad prepared the equipment, Quasar and Ennard had a conversation about their current situation.
"Do you honestly think Mimic is here, old chap?" Quasar asked.
"Maybe", Ennard replied, "He's always been a slippery bastard. Wouldn't be surprised he did something then bounced, leaving us to clean up his sh*t."
Quasar laughed. "Always forgot you loved using those foul words, old friend."
Ennard smirked and was about to retort, but fell silent when he heard...
Whispering.
Quasar obviously heard it too, cause both turned to the trees, listening intently. The whispering was there, and barely audible.
"I'm scared."
"Something's wrong"
"Hello?"
"TARGET ACQUIRED"
That was accompanied with many red beams locking onto Ennard. The sound of guns loading up made Quasar and Ennard jump out of the way, barely missing a barrage of machine gun bullets. Both friends shared a shocked glance.
"Guess we have a lot more sh*t to clean up than usual", Ennard said.
Back at camp, everyone were waiting for the RASC to return. All were hiding in any place they could find. The night was deadly silent, the Moon's soft glow illuminating the grounds. After a few minutes of silence, Galaxy saw the RASC racing back, a huge group of animatronics following behind. Many were already encountered, although two were new: One was the chicken from earlier, just orange and glowing like jack-o'-lanturn, another was a large yellow bear with a purple hat and bowtie. The RASC sped through where the trap was set, and stopped. The beasts, entranced by the small device, slowly trudged right into the trap. When all of them were in position, the RASC shut off. The robots all shook their heads and began looking around frantically.
"NOW!" Galaxy yelled. Instantly, four metal prongs erupted from the ground and blasted electricity, causing all the animatronics to scream and howl in pain. After a few seconds of a shockingly good light show, the trap stopped suddenly, and all the monsters fell to the ground. Everyone waited on baited breath, wishing the trap worked.
It sort of did.
The glowing jack-o'-lanturn chicken, who was actually holding an actual jack-o'-lanturn this whole time, the two-headed fox, and the yellow bear all slowly rose from the pile of singed robots, obviously furious.
"Okay, there's only three robots, we got this!" Galaxy quietly said. Gwen and Trent, who were the only ones beside him, nodded. The three of them burst from their hiding spot and charged the robots. The beasts turned towards their attackers.
"COME AND BURN WITH ME!" The chicken screamed. The others took this as a sign, so they jumped and charged the others. The two-headed fox let loose a roar that sounded like a screeching police radio and charged Milky Way. The yellow bear was pounced on by Black Hole, but because of its injuries, the bear grabbed the maniac with little effort. BH was being held up by one hand, the bear's other hand attempt to him an arm off.
"LET'S SEE HOW MANY TIMES YOU CAN BE PULLED APART", the bear said.
"Not on your life, you oversized teddy bear!" Andromeda yelled as he rammed into the bear at full strength. BH fell to the ground as the beast was sent flying.
Right on top of the chicken.
Meanwhile, Milky Way was being flung around by the fox like a chew toy. Courtney, equipped with a bat, was attempting to smash the smaller head, but it kept dodging. She was at her wits end, and after the head dodged again, she snapped. She screamed with rage and swung her bat, but not at the head...
Right at the body.
The force of her swing caused the body to shatter like glass. The fox's two head immediately lost all life and fell limp. Milky Way faceplanted on the grass. Courtney dropped her bat and helped her boyfriend up, who had a face of pure shock.
With the chicken, whom was able to get the bear off her, was now chasing DJ and Owen.
"THE FIRE WITHIN ME BURNS ETERNAL, AND NOW YOU SHALL AS WELL!" She screamed, her flames erupting from her as her anger grew. Chef kicked the door of the mess hall's door open wielding a fire extinguisher. A fierce glare on his face, he ran at the chicken and let the extinguisher rip. The flaming monster let loose a horrible scream as her flames were instantly put out. The beast was left as a statue, jaw open right over Owen's head. He fainted instantly. Chef let out a grumble akin to a laugh, but stopped when the bear let out a roar. Everyone thought the same thing: He wasn't going down without a fight. Everyone charged at him as he stood his ground.
"WE KNOW WHO ARE FRIENDS ARE, AND YOU ARE NOT ONE OF THEM."
Back on Boney Island, things has escalated quickly. Intended to be a simple get in, get out stealth mission, it had become a full scale war. Turns out several Apertrue Science turrets were set up in scattered groups around the forest. Quasar and Ennard had to lead their squad through the forest, destroying every enemy bot in their path. After an hour of endless detours, they came face to face with-
"Well hello."
Quasar and Ennard snapped behind them, seeing Garmadon smiling smugly at them, his shadow skeletons surrounding the squad. Ennard growled.
"So your the one causing all this madness!" The mangled man of wires spat. Garmadon laughed.
"So I assume you found my buddy Nightmare out?" The dark lord asked innocently. "But, no. This was all Mimic's idea. He dragged me and the floating orb here to do what we do best: cause some chaos."
Quasar quirked an eyebrow. "Floating orb?"
"Did you really have to give me away?" Wheatley scoffed as he floated down.
"Sorry, buddy. Just couldn't resist." Garmadon then gestured for his army to attack. Quasar thrust his cane down, a massive cloud of smoke engulfing him, Ennard and their troops. Garmadon hacked and coughed, attempting to waft the smoke away. As it cleared, Galaxy's friends were gone. Wheatley sighed as Garmadon roared in rage.
Quasar and Ennard were running back to their boat, their squad not far behind.
"Of course Mimic wouldn't do this himself!" Ennard cursed as he ran.
"That slimy bugger really knows how to make things difficult, does he?" Quasar said.
"Well, we got what we came for. We report this to Comet and come up with another, better plan for dealing with this."
"Agreed."
The group finally made it back to the boat, and left Boney Island behind, Garmadon's security cameras watching intently.
Back at Wawanaka, the yellow bear had finally fallen, now joining his fallen robotic allies in a massive pile of scrap. Galaxy said that he and Andromeda would deal with all the scrap, so everyone else went to bed, considering Chris said their challenge with Chef would be finished tomorrow. As things were winding down, Nightmare watched from the forest, furious his creations failed him. All but three.
"I'm thankful not all of you were useless", he spat. On one side of him was the purple bunny, his claws securing his red bowtie on. On Nightmare's other side was a thin black creature with long slender fingers and a mask, a mask that had what looked like black tear streaks on it. The final one was a small green rabbit resting on his master's shoulder. "You two", Nightmare pointed at the skinny creature and small rabbit, "will come with me back with me. Bonnie", he pointed at the purple rabbit, "will stay here and watch."
"Of couse, milord", Bonnie said with sofistication as he bowed. He turned and walked deeper into the forest, while Nightmare and his two companions vanished.
It was now the morning, and the remaining campers were in the process of finishing the challenge. The final part was simple: hang upside down on a tree as long as you can. Gwen, Galaxy, Owen and Heather were fighting for the Gophers, while Geoff, Courtney, Milky Way and Duncan fought for the Bass. None of them showed any fatigue from last night, which is surprising considering how late they stayed up.
"How are you guys feeling?" Galaxy asked his teammates.
"Great!" Owen answered.
"Fine", Gwen said nonchalantly.
Heather just scoffed.
"Okay, I'm done", Duncan said as he let go and jumped down.
"Same here", Heather said. She landed on the ground, only for Owen to fall on top of her. "Get off me, you ox!" Heather's muffled complains said. Owen stood up.
"Oops, sorry Heather", Owen said with a sheepish grin. The queen bee rooled her eyes. Suddenly, Courtney began to have a giggle fit, hiccuping every so often.
"Stop laughing solider!" Chef barked.
"I'm sorry", Courtney said between giggles, "I... can't." She then fell, still giggling when she hit the ground.
"Courtney!" MW yelled, letting go and landing next to her. "You okay?"
"Yeah", her giggling slowly died down, "I'm good."
Chef came up to them. "I expected more out of you solider." He was clearly disappointed.
"Master Chief?" Courtney began, "You really need... to take a pill." Everyone's jaw dropped, except Duncan, who high fived the CIT, and Milky Way, who tried to stifle his laughter. "Geoff, you've got to do this!"
"You got this Gwen?" Owen said, "You too, Galaxy?"
"Don't worry, I can hang here all day", the goth responded.
"Same", was all Galaxy said.
"Woo hoo!" Geoff cheered. Suddenly, his face paled, and he went limp. "I don't... feeeel soooo... gooooooood..." The party man slurred before falling. The Bass gasped, while Andromeda sighed.
"The Screaming Gophers win!" Chris announced. Said team cheered while the Bass slumped in defeat. Gwen and Galaxy jumped down, only to be scooped up by Owen and carted off, the rest of the team with them. They stopped when Chef.
"Soliders, I'd go to war with you any day", the war vet said while saluting.
"Yeah, sure", Gwen said with uncertainty. Galaxy just returned the salute. Chef nodded and let the team go celebrate. Chris approached the Bass.
"I'll be seeing you losers at elimination tonight!"
Confessional
Galaxy - "I'm surprised everyone was able to shake off what happened last night so quickly! Maybe it's because me the my gang were here."
Static
Black Hole - "I. Need. A. Break."
Confessional End
At Galaxy's cruiser, Comet was still reeling at the information Quasar and Ennard had told him last night. He wasn't sure what to do. As he sat angry and confused in his private quarters, IG entered.
"Do you want me to spy on Garmadon and Wheatley to make sure they don't do anything else?" IG asked in his monotonous voice. Comet was silent for a bit, contemplating the idea.
"Yes."
IG nodded and left.
"Good luck, IG."
It was now time for the elimination ceremony, and the Bass were well aware of who was getting booted. Chris cleared his throat.
"All I've got to say is thus challenge took a turn no one was expecting. Let's keep what happened last night to ourselves, okay?" Everyone nodded. "Good. Now, let's get this wrapped up.
"Milky Way."
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"DJ."
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"Bridgette."
Courtney and Harold sat quietly, neither showing any weakness. The air was still as Chris held up the final marshmallow.
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"Courtney."
Courtney happily caught her marshmallow, but pat Harold on the back, who slumped in defeat. He made his way to the Dock of Shame, the Bass following to say their goodbyes. Harold happily accepted them as he boarded the boat. Bonnie watched all of this from the shadows, before walking back into the forest.
Bonnie was deep in the woods, leaning against a tree with his eyes closed and arms crossed.
"All I'm asking is you help me, and I'll help you with anything you wish", the rabbit said to someone.
He received radio static as his answer.
"Good", Bonnie held out his hand, and long, bony fingers returned shook his hand. Bonnie began to make his leave. He stopped after a few steps.
"Don't worry, they'll regret hurting you, Siren Head."
Siren Head let loose a garbled static that sounded like a laugh.
So Siren Head still lives and now is helping Bonnie. What is he planning? And what are Garmadon and Wheatley's next move?
Teams
The Screaming Gophers: Gwen, Trent, Owen, Heather, Lindsay, Leshawna, Black Hole, Galaxy
The Killer Bass: Courtney, Duncan, Geoff, Bridgette, DJ, Milky Way, Andromeda
Eliminated: Ezekiel, Eva, Noah, Justin, Katie, Tyler, Izzy, Cody, Beth, Sadie, Harold