Today, the mission in the spaceship of the Skeld consisted of 10 crewmates once again. There were Lava, Squee, Billy, Yikk, Arnie, Navy, Vienna, Pop, Nori and Rice.

Today, Charlie and Choco stayed 'home' at their living block.

"Man" Charlie said, "it's only been the morning so far and it's already very dusty and such here." She got up from one of the sofas to walk to the supply closet and fetch the vacuum cleaner.

"Seems logical with fifteen people here when there are no missions" Choco replied with a chuckle.

"You know what, I kind of feel like busting all of the dust around here. Yup, even upstairs where the bedrooms and bathrooms are." The tomboy shuddered a little at the thought of Lava's room. "Oh, man, I so don't hope she'll mind me entering and just busting dust there…"

"Is it about Lava? She will probably appreciate the fact that there's less dust in her room, though. You know what, I should keep my eyes on you while you do her room. You can trust me." The chocolate and gingerbread addict put a hand on his crewmate's shoulder. "C'mon, let's go upstairs so you can do her room first and be rid of that burden a little earlier."

"Thanks, Choco."

The two headed upstairs, where the dust-busting went quick and well in all of the rooms and the hallway. And within no time, the ground floor was also all dust free, mainly the sofas that were apparently filled to the brim with all sorts of crumbs and dust before.

"Thank goodness we can sit properly again" Choco chuckled, as he helped Charlie put the vacuum cleaner back into the supply closet.

"You'd better eat those biscuits and such of yours at the table subsequently" Charlie replied, "because otherwise, we'll have to clean the entire sofa out again, and to be honest, I hate that, albeit not as much as entering Lava's room."

"Oh, you." The chubster pinched both of the tomboy's cheeks, leaving the both of them laughing.


Meanwhile, on the main spaceship of the Skeld, the mission had only just started for the group of ten.

Every crewmate was now in the possession of an ID card to swipe in the admin room, so they didn't have to use their pager for that anymore.

They all looked at their pagers, and Rice couldn't help but smirk at their current status.

"What's the matter?" Nori asked, as he wanted to take a peek on his younger sibling's pager to see what made them smirk like that.

"Hey, get your filthy hands off of that!" the white crewmate snapped as they took their little device close to them, "that's none of your business! I'm not just going to peek on your pager either, am I now?"

"I'm sorry, alright? And please don't overreact next time, okay?"

Man, the younger twin thought, I really wish I could punch his guts right now, but then, I would easily be ratted out with everyone else around us…

Most of the crewmates started at the admin room, where they had to swipe their ID cards that they finally received before their departure.

Lava was frustrated at the fact that she consistently swiped her card too fast, or so the screen of the device said.

"Here" Navy said, "let me handle that." He wanted to take Lava's card in a gently fashion, but the snob put a stop to that.

"I can do this by myself perfectly, thank you."

"Well, that's not the kind of reaction that I'd expect from someone like you. Not very lady-like."

"Oh, shut up, you fool." At the same time, she succeeded. "Well, I'm off. See you around somewhere."

"She doesn't seem too trustworthy" Pop said.

"Because she isn't?" Yikk stated.

"I agree" Billy replied.

"I'm going to call up a meeting, because I have a bad feeling about this…" The girly girl headed to the cafeteria, where she pressed the button for emergency meetings.

Not everyone seemed to be pleased about the sudden happening.

"I suspect Lava, you all."

"Again?!" the red crewmate yelled at the top of her lungs. "C'mon, it's not possible to be the impostor twice in a row!"

"Lava" Arnie said, "please think of the children and those with the sensitive ears overall…"

"Oh, stop telling me what to do, I do what I want!"

Rice was feeling quite nervous during the meeting, and had a gut feeling in their stomach, afraid that they would be tattled on instead.

"We should skip for now" they said as calmly as possible, while grabbing their pager to cast a vote.

"That's right" Vienna said, "we don't have any good proof just yet."

"I'm very confused" Squee said. "I don't trust anyone. Anyone could be an impostor at this point!"

"Save the yapping for the snacks time" Nori said, "and please cast a skip." He did the same on his pager.

Once all of the votes were cast, no-one was ejected for the tasks outside of the ship, and everyone could simply continue their tasks.

Yikk and Arnie had tasks in the weapons room. The former got to shoot asteroids, and the latter had to download data to subsequently upload in the admin room.

"Whoa!" the childish youngster said, "this be fun!" They took almost perfect aims at the incoming asteroids for most of the time. "Pew! Pew! Pew! Wow, man, this wuwes!"

"I see you're really enjoying yourself there, huh?" the former private said. "And you're trustworthy, too." He patted their shoulder.

"Thanks, Ahnie." The cutesy crewmate giggled heartily.

Meanwhile, in the electrical room, Squee was struggling with fixing the wires.

"Ah, man! Why must I suck at this?! They all go in straight lines, don't they? Then why don't they woooork?!" They banged their fists on their upper legs out of frustration. "Screw it, I'm diverting the power."

With an easy shove-up of one of the power switches, the lover of oranges soon headed to the security room, where Rice was watching over the cameras.

"Hello, Squee" they said in an unusual tone. "You know, I'm just making sure that the whole environment here is safe."

"That's only very good, Rice." Squee headed towards a glowing spot on the wall, and turned a gem-like thingy there, in which they succeeded, meaning that the security room had accepted the diverted power. "So how's life overall?"

"Fantastic, thank you." Suddenly, they cold-clocked the orange crewmate unconscious before jumping into the nearby vent. "Or should I say… vent-tastic?" They chuckled at their own little pun.

At the medical bay, Navy was busy inspecting samples, and just as he found the one with the anomaly…

"Daddy, I hear something!" Nika said, as she pointed at the nearby vent.

"Are you sure about th-" the naval guy wanted to ask, and at the same time, Rice jumped out of the vent.

"Peekaboo!" they exclaimed. "I see you!"

"You have very good ears. Now, come to the cafeteria with me."

The kindergartner swiftly grabbed her father's hand and they both headed to the cafeteria for the next emergency meeting, when they suddenly heard someone through a megaphone.

It was Lava, who had discovered Squee's unconscious body, and called up an emergency meeting that way instead.

"Whewe didya find it…?" Yikk asked with a tiny voice, still being scared of their arch-nemesis.

"Speak up, you dumb baby" the snob scoffed.

Nori, who stood next to Lava, bonked her on the head/helmet in full force.

"Ow! What was that for?!"

"First of all, for insulting poor Yikk like that" the crewmate in black said. "Second of all, spill the beans!"

"Fine. I found Squee at security, you happy now?"

"Rice just jumped through the vent!" Nika exclaimed. "I heard something there, and Daddy thought I was just imagining things!"

"You were, too" Rice said with a straight face.

"Oh, she definitely wasn't" Navy confirmed. "You definitely scared us quite hard from that vent back there, Rice."

"A-ha!" Nori smiled in an evil fashion and pointed straight at their younger sibling. "So that's why you smirked back there! I knew something was amiss!"

"U-uh…" Rice blushed and was completely speechless.

"Listen. We busted each other way more often before this, so I'm quite used to it already. I'm sorry, but I'm definitely voting you out, youngster."

Some of the other crewmates silently nodded in agreement and nodded Rice out as well.

"See?" Lava said. "I'm definitely not an impostor. I'll have you know, I was headed for the reactor to do that dreaded start-up task there, and then I saw that dumb tangerine just aimlessly laying there in the security office while I also thought I heard something through the vent."

"Don't just call Squee a dumb tangerine!" Billy exclaimed. "They may be blonde and a lover of orange citrus fruits, but that still doesn't give you the right to insult them like that!"

Squee's spirit, who was also at the meeting, nodded in agreement.

"Thank you, Billy… if only you could hear me right now."

Once everyone's votes were cast and Rice was sent outside of the ship, everyone simply finished their tasks, except for Arnie and Nori, who were done with them and took their time to take Squee to the medical bay instead.

"Don't worry" Arnie said. "I know how to wake unconscious people back up. Even if I was a simple private for 8 years, I do know CPR." He put the unconscious Squee in a comfortable position on their bed before applying a combination of pressure on their chest and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to them.

"Wow" Nori said, as he applauded for the former private. "That does look pretty skilled."

"Thanks."

Slowly but surely, Squee's spirit noticed that they were being resuscitated, and fled back to their body to wake back up. They groaned as they fluttered their eyes.

"What just happened…?" They saw Nori sit across of them, but thinking he was Rice instead, they backed off and started hyperventilating somewhat. "You… you just punched me, didn't you? I owe you something way-"

"Relax, Squee, that wasn't me. That was Rice, and they're outside of the ship now." The older twin got off of the folding chair and carefully approached the blonde youngster.

"Oh, I should've known that you two are so much alike…"

"We're not alike that much. They talk more and are more of a clown than me. I'm a tad more serious."

"But at least we're glad you're back awake and doing okay" Arnie said, "and please take it easy now. Should I get you a glass of water?"

"Noooo, I want orange juice."

"Alright, then orange juice it is, coming right up." The dark green crewmate headed to the cafeteria to fetch the fruity drink.

"Should I leave you alone?" Nori asked.

"Please do, as I don't want to be reminded of that dreaded sibling of yours at the moment…"

"They're not dreaded, they're just the impostor this time, that's all."

"Fine, whatever floats your boat, Nori." Squee couldn't help but laugh, however.


"Man, that was one heck of a movie!" Charlie said, when she clicked at the end of the progress bar of the movie that she and Choco were just watching.

"Tell me about it" the chocoholic said, "so sad, yet so amazing, too. Those 3 hours and many minutes were definitely worth it."

The laptop was closed and the table was swiftly freed from all of the crumbs and stains that were caused by the many gingerbread biscuits, chocolate bars and glasses of fruit juice that were consumed during the progress of the long, medieval-time movie.

"We should definitely do this more often, I enjoyed myself a ton! But please hold back on handing the biscuits and chocolate to me, because I don't want to get any chubbier than I expect to become with all of the food you're giving me."

"I'm sorry, I know my sharing is only just a gesture of kindness, but I'll try to remember." Choco briefly scritched his thin beard with the tip of his index finger. "What else do you like to eat during movies?"

"Most of the boring-tasting foods: crackers, bananas, plain toast, applesauce, breadsticks and natural biscuits."

"They make you less nauseous, huh?"

"That's right." Charlie looked at the clock on the kitchen wall. "Ah, looks like we should prepare the dinner ingredients since the others will come home any minute now." She searched the fridge for the needed ingredients for tonight's dinner.

At the same time, the front door opened up, and everyone else could be heard in the hallway.

"Dude, the floor looks different!" Squee said.

"They most likely raced the vacuum cleaner through here" Arnie said.

"As long as they have been careful with my room upstairs" Lava said, "you won't hear me complain." She went upstairs to check. "Neat, no dust or whatsoever for the time being. And neither did they touch my ashtray… I approve." She closed the door behind her and headed for her balcony to have the cigarette she's longed for all day.

"Where'd she go?" Nori asked.

"Wuining hah wungs wif one of those cigawettes" Yikk replied, "most wikewy, that is."

"To be fair, she did deserve that after a day of hard working" Pop said. "My older sister does the same, albeit way more often, indeed, to the point where both me and my parents are quite concerned about that behaviour of hers."

The nine other crewmates headed for the main room, where they all took a seat on their usual sofa spots.

"Ah, would you look at that!" Billy said, "the sofas are also all free of crumbs and dust bunnies!" They breathed in deeply to speak up. "Thanks, Choco and Charlie, you two are the best!"

"Anytime!" Charlie replied from the kitchen.

"What?!" Choco asked.

The tomboy repeated what Billy said, and the chubster nodded in approval.

Suddenly, everyone's pagers beeped with a seemingly important message.

Tomorrow, there'll only be a small mission with 4 crewmates. Who those crewmates (and impostor) will be, will be revealed tomorrow at the usual time. Have a nice evening! -Mack

"Hmm" Rice said, "looks like there's a chance for most of us to sleep in."

"Rice, there's no such thing as sleeping in here" Nori said. "We must get up at 7 a.m. every day, even if you're sick."

"Says who?"

"Mack said that."

"Now hold on, you two" Arnie said. "Mack never mentioned that you have to do missions when you feel a certain level of sick from the time that we're mandatory to get up. If one gets sick during a mission, however, they're allowed to postpone their tasks and take a rest at the medical bay. If too many of us are too sick to do a mission, however, the entire mission will be postponed instead, and someone else will take care of us in the meantime."

"That'd be kind of weird" Vienna said, "for us all to be sick at the same time. I do hope it doesn't happen, though."

"Bedtimes do differ in between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m., though" Nika stated. "I'm not old enough to stay up past half past 7, and neither is Neri. I'm sorry, little brother, but I mean it… However, you guys, the crewmates, aren't even allowed to stay up past 9 p.m., because imagine you guys consistently yawning and nodding off during important tasks and even sabotages!"

Most of the others laughed about Nika's statement.

"Imagine the impostor falling asleep in the vent!" Neri laughed, "while secretly planning a surprise attack!"

Another burst of laughter followed.

"I think the sound of snowing fwom the vent must be somefin' obvious to heawe, huh?" Yikk grinned, "especiawwy when it comes to me sweeping without my thumb in my mouth!"

"Aw, c'mon, Yikk, you made us curious" Billy chuckled, "now I'm considering to really take your thumb out while you're sleeping to listen to how hard you really snore!" They patted their fellow crewmate on the shoulder in a friendly and funny fashion.

The childish youngster playfully attacked the Latinx and tickled them all over their body.

"Eek! Stop it, man, I'm very ticklish!"

"Now I really wonder if an impostor ever fell asleep in the vent during a mission?" Navy asked. "Perhaps someone out of those other twelvesomes of crewmates in this area?"

"Or if a baby of theirs did?" Vienna stated. "So far, Yuri has taken quite some naps during the missions, I must say. They probably think that the sound of static electricity and computer beeps are way more soothing than a heartbeat." She and her husband chuckled.

Yuri babbled a little something and chuckled along with their parents.

"I guess they agreed with my statement. Oh, aren't you just a little weird bean, huh…?" The mother softly pinched both of her baby's cheeks, making them smile and giggle a little.