Holes Left Unfilled

by The Holes Posse

((HOLES)) Six fans of Holes, connected through the Internet, some even friends in real life, never expected that the thing they so admired would soon become very real . . . (Written by the Holes Posse Hangout)

3. Intesting Activities

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Relina, Elanna, Heather, Kate, Meta, Stanley, and Zero all looked at each other.

"We could . . . have . . . a talent show!" Meta said, half joking. No one else picked up on her sarcasm, though.

"Are you kidding?" "What?" "How the hell would we do that?" came the chorus of replies.

"Jeez. I was kidding." Meta sighed.

"I have an idea . . ." Kate stated. "Maybe we shouldn't though . . ." she trailed off.

The rest of the group looked at her quizzically. Kate shifted uncomfortably for a few seconds before she spoke.

"Okay. I'll tell Heather, and if she thinks its a good idea, then I'll tell you, but if she doesn't then I won't."

"Um . . . okay . . .?" Heather said. The rest of the group was a little confused. Kate leaned over to Heather, cupped her hands around Heather's ear, and whispered very quietly. The rest of the group strained to hear what she was saying. A few seconds later, Heather jumped away from Kate and exclaimed "OH MY GOD! KATE! THAT'S A GREAT IDEA! Why did you not want to tell us?!"

"I don't know. It seemed kinda stupid," Kate said embarrassedly.

"Okay, everyone." Heather said. "We are gonna play – " She did a little 'drum roll' on her thighs, "– Truth or Dare."

Chaos broke out. All the girls squealed at the prospect of playing Truth or Dare with Stanley and Zero. The boys however looked at each other, a little apprehensive, as neither of them had ever really talked to a girl, much less play the famed teenage game of Truth or Dare.

"Okay, everyone . . . CALM DOWN!" Relina yelled over the havoc. The rest of the girls quieted. "Who's gonna go first?"

At this, the boys seemed to shrink even more into their seats. Elanna said "I WILL, I WILL!!!" at the top of her lungs, so she was elected to begin.

"So, Zero, " she began calmly. "Truth or Dare?"

Zero's eyes widened.

Stanley laughed and gave him a playful shove, but you could tell he was almost collapsing from relief at not being picked.

"Wh-what?" He asked.

Everybody stared at him, and then realization dawned on Kate. "Zero, you haven't played Truth or Dare before, have you?" she asked quietly, not insulting or woundingly, but just stating a fact. He shook his head. Kate smiled in a benign friendly fashion, and got up to move beside him. She plopped down, and turned towards him. She proceeded to explain the game to him.

"The first person, AKA Elanna, picks someone else, AKA you, and asks them 'truth or dare.' The second person picks one or the other. If they pick truth, the first person asks a question, and the second person has to answer truthfully. If they pick dare, the first person dares them to do something. Get it?" she asked. Zero nodded. Kate stared at him.

"Wow, you're a smart kid. You got that? Man, and I'm horrible at explaining things, too." she exclaimed. Zero smiled and blushed. Kate grinned.

"So, which one is it, Zee?" Elanna asked.

"Zee?" Heather asked, raising her eyebrows.

"The hell?" Kate laughed, knowing full well what Elanna was on about now, but finding it hilarious all the same.

"Zero! It starts with a 'Z!'" Elanna said brightly. "So I called him Zee. Is that not allowed or something? You don't mind, do you Zero?"

Zero shook his head. Stanley laughed again.

"So yeah. Which one, Zero?" Meta asked.

"Yeah!" Relina yelled.

Aly heard Relina's yell, and looked up from her conversation with Magnet. "What are you all going on about now?"

"We're playing Truth or Dare, you and Magnet wanna play?" Heather asked.

"I will!" Aly said happily. She turned to Magnet. "How about you?"

"Sure, why not?" Magnet said.

"Hey Kate, should we ask the rest of D-Tent?" Elanna asked.

"Yeah!" Kate said excitedly.

"Maybe we should go back to the tent, we might get a crowd watching us or something, besides, there'll be more room." Stanley suggested.

"Good idea, Caveman!" Meta said, smiling. Stanley blushed.

The group got up and made their way over to the pool table.

"Hey guys!" Relina said brightly. Kate waved.

"Hello, girls," X-Ray said politely.

"What are we, chopped meat?" Stanley asked jokingly.

"Yes, yes you are," Kate laughed. At the look on Stanley's face, she hugged him. "Aw! I was just kidding, hun!"

Armpit whistled, and the rest of the group laughed. "Oh shut up," Kate said, blushing. Stanley just looked like he ran into a brick wall.

"We're going to the tent to play Truth or Dare, you guys want to come?" Meta asked.

"Wouldn't miss it," Squid said, nodding.

"I'm in," X-Ray said.

"'Kay," said Armpit.

"Oh god Heather, it was you who suggested this, wasn't it?" Landis groaned.

"Actually, it was Kate," Heather said, pointing to the girl, who rolled her eyes. "You said it was a good idea!" Kate exclaimed.

"It was, it was. You don't know how boring it is without girls here," X-Ray said.

Elanna suddenly started to giggle.

"What now?" Aly said exasperatedly.

"The thought of seven guys playing Truth or Dare."

This reduced all of D-Tent to laughter, making them receive stares from other tents as they headed towards the door of the Wreck Room.

"Dammit!" Kate said suddenly, slapping her forehead. "We forgot Zig!"

"Come on, Kate!" Meta said with a grin, and the two girls pushed through the crowded Wreck Room towards Zigzag. Sitting down on either side of him, they each grabbed an arm and hauled him to his feet.

"Uh, girls? Where are we going?" Zigzag asked sheepishly as he was pushed through the crowd.

"Truth or Dare." Kate said.

"D-Tent." Meta added.

"'Nough said." Kate finished.

All of a sudden, Kate and Meta were pushed to the ground, hard, and Zigzag was being held by two boys from B-Tent.

"What do we have here?" None other then Thlump asked, walking forward in a little circle of space that had appeared. Kate and Meta jumped to their feet.

"I'm Meta and this is Kate. We're new campers in D-Tent." Meta whispered, glaring at Thlump. "And who are you?"

"Doesn't matter," he sneered, and walking forward, touched the two girls' chests with his hands.

"GET OFF, YOU PERVERT!" Kate yelled. Arms grabbed the two girls from behind, and Thlump walked forward.

"We're going to have a very . . . . interesting . . . . time with girls at camp," he said softly, looking the girls up and down.

"Get away from them!" Zigzag yelled, trying uselessly to get away from the two large boys holding him.

"Aw, protecting your girlfriends, are you?"

"Fuck off," Meta said.

Suddenly, as Thlump reached towards Kate because she was closer, Kate started screaming at the top of her lungs.

"X! SQUID! MAGNET! ARMPIT! CAVEMAN! ZERO! ALY! ELANNA! RELLE! LANDIS! HEATHER!"

Meta caught her drift, and started yelling too as Thlump punched Kate across the face to shut her up.

"Shut up, bitch!"

"X! SQUID! MAG-"

"GET AWAY FROM THEM!" X-Ray shouted, as D-Tent pushed their way into the circle, and Squid and Landis backed Thlump up against the wall. Armpit, Aly, and Heather pushed the guys away from Zigzag, and Magnet, Stanley, Zero, Elanna, and Relina released Meta and Kate.

"Don't any of you even THINK of touching one of the girls again, or you'll have to mess with one of us," X-Ray told the whole Wreck Room, and D-Tent left quickly. As soon as they practically jogged to the tent, everyone bombarded Kate, Meta, and Zigzag about what happened.

"Kate, Meta, I'm so sorry," Zigzag said suddenly.

"Why?" Meta whispered.

"I shouldn't have let them gotten to you, I should have fought them."

"Ziggy, you tried. There were two frikking guys holding you. There was no way for you to get away, Meta and I both know that," Kate said quietly, smiling at Zigzag.

"What happened, anyway?" Elanna asked, sitting beside Kate. Kate sighed.

"Horny teenage boys," Meta said, shrugging. Kate snorted.

"Idiots. Like they would have gotten away with it."

"With WHAT?" Relina asked, annoyed.

"Come on guys, we've got a general idea about what happened, but can you give us any details?" Aly asked.

Meta shrugged. "We were coming back after getting Zig and Kate and I were pushed to the ground. That . . . . kid, the big one that you were talking to, X, started talking to us."

"He touched their boobs!" Zigzag said with wide eyes.

"He did WHAT?" Stanley spluttered.

"Felt us up." Kate confirmed. She crossed her arms protectively. There was a red mark forming on her cheek.

"Bastards." Squid whispered.

"OH MY GOD!" Elanna squealed.

"Then what happened?" X-Ray asked.

"Well, because I was closer, and I'm pretty sure he intended to do it to Meta too, he touched me more . . . let me just say . . . overally." She finished, looking away. Great, now they would think she was a slut, or 'easy' or something. All of which were extremely untrue, but none of which she wanted the famed 'D-Tent boys' thinking. Oh god, they all probably thought she was a whore now . . .

"And she started screaming for you guys at the top of her lungs," Meta said. "I joined in, but he slapped Kate across the face. That's when you guys got there."

"Took long enough," Zigzag said, glaring at X-Ray.

"Why does everything happen to me?!?" Kate yelled.

"You're just lucky, hun," Elanna said, giving Kate a sort of half hug.

"Okay, from now on, none of you girls are going anywhere alone, at least not for the first while. Agreed?" D-Tent nodded. It seemed X-Ray was still the unanimous leader of D-Tent, 1 and 2.

"So where were we in Truth and Dare?" Heather asked, and Landis groaned.

"I was asking Zero truth or Dare!" Elanna yelled.

"You got Zero to play?" Squid asked, amazed.

"Man, why is it only the new people who can get the kid to talk?" Armpit asked.

"You have to ask the right questions," Zero said.

The original D-Tent save Stanley stared at him.

"Okaaay, who are you, and what have you done with Zero?" Magnet asked, but he smiled.

"Well, which one is it?" Stanley asked Zero.

Zero shifted on his cot. He thought for a few moments, and then said, hesitating a little, "Dare." Though he had never played, he had heard that the Truth questions were stupid (and, as we know, Zero doesn't like answering stupid questions).

"Um . . . " Elanna began. "I dare you . . .  to . . . uh . . . lick . . . Stanley's foot."

"What the hell?!" Kate exclaimed. "Where did THAT come from?"

"I don't know . . . " Elanna blushed.

The rest of the girls were laughing, the D-Tent boys were looking at them like they were crazy, and Landis looked thoroughly confused.

Stanley proceeded to take off his shoe and sock from his right foot.

"EWW! STANLEY! I CAN SMELL YOUR FEET FROM HERE!!!" Aly yelled, causing everyone else to jump in surprise.

"Aly, are you on crack? I'm sitting closer to him, and even I can't – " Meta stopped suddenly. "Wait; never mind. Yes I can."

Zero plugged his nose; it could not be denied that Stanley's feet stunk. But then again, what could you expect? He had just been out in the desert digging! Zero then hastily licked his best friend's foot. Immediately, he rushed outside to get a drink from the spigot. The rest of the tent was in hysterics by the time he got back, save Stanley, who was using his sock to wipe Zero's spit off his foot.

"That was just gross," Zero declared.

"Not grosser then Armpit after he's done diggin'!" Magnet exclaimed.

"An' I'm not as gross as them damn BEANS they serve day and night here!" Armpit retorted.

"I think he's got you on that one," X-Ray said, to end the discussion.

"Okay, Zero, your turn to pick someone." Meta reminded him.

"Okay." He said, somewhat shyly. He wasn't used to this many people talking to him at one, and the fact that half of them were girls didn't really help. 

"Stanley, truth or dare?" Zero asked, not really knowing who else to pick.

"Hmm . . . " Stanley thought for a moment. He didn't really think Zero would embarrass him that much, but then again, the small boy had just been forced to lick his foot after a hard day's digging, so who knew what kind of things he could think up? Not feeling like being forced to answer embarrassing questions in front of a female audience, the word, "Dare," popped out of his mouth before he could think about it properly. Instantly, he wondered whether he'd regret saying that . . .

Zero wrinkled his face in disgust. "I should think of something good because of my dare. I could hardly tell whether you've showered or not!"

Everyone in the tent, save Stanley, burst into peals of laughter. Zero, ever the shy one, blushed at the response he had received. First talking, then having people laugh with him; who knew what could come next?

Elanna was almost crying from laughing so hard. "I'm sorry about that, Zero, really. It was a spur of the moment type thing," she giggled, trying to keep a straight face.

Stanley just sat quietly, awaiting his fate with a slight smile on his face.

Zero sat still, his brow furrowed with concentration as he tried to think of a suitable dare.

"Anyone got any ideas for Zero here?" Squid asked, his mouth quirking into a smirk.

Aly grinned mischievously. "Several, though a lot of them probably wouldn't be great for people who don't play this game often . . . !" Heather grinned and batted her friend on the arm, as Stanley reddened.

"Make him sing? Dance? Gymnastics?" Relina suggested.

Zero looked up, his eyes brightening. "I like that one, singing. Okay Stanley, I dare you to sing part of a song . . . and . . . you have to make it up right now!"

Stanley groaned and drooped over, while X-Ray raised an eyebrow. "A singing Caveman, eh? All right then . . . "

"C'mon, don't make me sing, man!" he cried.

Zero just shook his head and pinched his nose shut, grinning slightly. Again, everyone in the tent collapsed in laughter.

"Okay, sing!" Zigzag said pointedly.

"Hey, give him five minutes to think something up!" Kate chided.

"Five minutes, I'm timing," grinned Meta. "Go over there and think something up."

"Does it have to be a song? Like, can I make it a rap? Those are easier," Stanley pouted slightly.

"Eh," was all Landis replied. Stanley took that as an okay, and moved to the corner of the tent. The rest of D-Tent, as well as the girls and Landis, all started to chatter once they saw that Stanley had begun to compose his 'masterpiece.'

"This should be good," Magnet sniggered.

"Good job, Zero," Aly grinned enthusiastically. "Way to embarrass the Caveman!"

Zero just looked away and grinned slightly - surprised he could be receiving compliments from anyone but Stanley. Not that he actually expected a compliment from Stanley in this particular situation . . .

Armpit was talking energetically. "I think it would have been funny to see his face if we forced him and one of the girls to kiss or something!" he said loudly. Unexpectedly, silence fell, the happy mood that had just been present deteriorating rapidly. Kate and Meta, each who had been in deep conversation with Relina, Aly, Heather, and Elanna, looked away slightly, eyes downcast. Even Stanley fell silent.

"Wrong thing to say, dude," Magnet whispered.

Armpit's eyes went wide. "Oh shit . . . Sorry, I didn't mean like that, I didn't mean like Thlump . . ."

Kate felt sick and disgusted at the mention of Thlump and what he had done, and was luckily prevented from doing. She saw that Meta's face reflected her own feelings.

Suddenly, everyone was talking around them and comforting them; Stanley had come over, all the girls were huddled together and hugging Meta and Kate, and both Armpit and Zigzag were apologizing over and over again.

Relina was enveloping Meta in a hug and Kate was leaning against Elanna's shoulder. Kate was surprised to feel Elanna shivering.

"I was so scared when that happened, for you and for the rest of us . . . " the blonde whispered. Landis looked towards Heather helplessly, while the other guys looked at the girls sympathetically.

"Don't worry, we wouldn't do anything like that to you guys . . . " Squid whispered, looking genuinely sorry.

"We promise, we're not like Thlump," said Zgizag quietly.

Armpit was still apologizing, though X-Ray still whacked him upside the head anyways. "You don't say things like forcing girls to kiss or something after two of the girls you're talking to just got groped!" he hissed.

"Hey, it's okay," Meta whispered. "He didn't mean it like that. What he said just took us by surprise, that's all . . ." Kate nodded, rubbing circles on Elanna's back to get her to stop shivering. "I say we change the subject," she said. "How about some humor slash entertainment? You got your mini-rap yet, Caveman?"

Stanley nodded, still feeling slightly unsettled.

"Okay, let's hear it!" Elanna said loudly, trying to get the subject changed as soon as possible.

"Um, okay, but it's not very good," he mumbled. "It's mostly about this place, actually . . ."

All the girls stopped and looked at each other, hardly daring to think about the possibility of what Stanley's rap could be . . .

Stanley cleared his throat and started to hum the beat.

"Two suits, two tokens in hand,

I got no respect 'cause I'm the new man!

Got my shovel, shoes full of sand;

Check out the tag, the name's Caveman!"

""OH MY GOD!"" all the girls screamed.

"Um, what?" Stanley blushed.

"Oh, that was really good," Heather said lamely to cover up.

"Ya think?" Stanley asked, giving a kind of sideways hopeful grin.

X-Ray furrowed his brow. "That was pretty good actually, Caveman," he said thoughtfully. "We could probably write a whole song with things like that, and we'd have our own parts and everything . . . "

"That's not a bad idea," Squid said. "Give us something to do while we're digging, anyways . . ."

While the guys were discussing the prospect of writing a whole song because of Stanley's dare/rap, the girls were all whispering excitedly.

"I can't believe this! It's the beginnings of Dig It!" Aly said enthusiastically.

"I know! This is one of my favorite songs!" Elanna agreed.

"You know," Relina began thoughtfully, "if we sang my math song, they might get ideas from the tune and end up writing the rest of the verses themselves!"

"Oh my gosh, that would be so wicked!" Meta gushed. "We'll have to plant it somehow . . . "

"We'll do that later," said Aly. "They're done talking now, so let's get back to the game . . . "

"Okay, I did the dare," Stanley said, still slightly red because of the exuberant praise he had received. "So now I get to choose someone . . . hmm, who I shall I pick . . .?"

Stanley looked around the tent, concentrating hard. Then he chose his next victim. "Sorry Elanna . . ."

"What?" Elanna had been in her own little world, thinking private thoughts, as well as Kate and Aly, who snapped back to reality as well.

"Truth or dare?" he asked, a small smile on his face.

"Oh . . . dare . . .?" She didn't seem very sure of her answer.

"Hmm . . ." Stanley had never really done anything to embarrass anybody before, but he needed to think of something quickly or he'd be the delay of the game. He seriously didn't want that to happen. "Okay, I dare you to steal food from the Mess Hall."

"That's it? All right."

As she got up, Magnet warned her that the lunch people were strict. "Steal food and they find out, dishes for a month. Steal scarce food and they find out, dishes for the rest of your stay."

Elanna swallowed. It was more of a risk than she thought, but she knew she could do it. "All right." She exited the tent and everyone followed her to the Mess Hall.

Shaking a bit, she stepped inside and crouched next to a bench. Seeing that no one was around, she continued her dare. Everyone was watching at the door, crouching and watching.

She went beside the counter where the previous food had been. It looked even more horrible when it dried. After a bit of gagging, she crawled to the door that linked the kitchen to Mess Hall. Everybody else had to move, but there was nowhere to go so they had to go back to the tent.

Elanna went in, nervous, but sure that she could do it. She bent over behind a shelf that contained, well, nothing. She smiled. But it quickly faded when she saw three of the lunch people enter the room. Her jaw slightly dropped, but she regained confidence. Slowly, she crawled to the end of the shelf. It was a dead end. A cook was headed her way when Elanna bumped into the shelf. It nearly fell, but stayed upright.

"What was that?"

"What was what? Oh, that? I tripped."

"Oh."

She let out a breath she had been holding. She slid over a counter and waited for everyone to leave. But two more people came in. One including the Warden. Feeling a stab of panic, she shut her eyes tight. She hit her hand on the counter, which opened a cabinet accidentally. Dumbfounded, she peered inside. Getting a feeling of excitement, she ran out of the Mess Hall as fast as she could with a can of beans.

"What was that?" The Warden asked.

"Bill just went to go get some water."

Proud of herself, she marched towards D-tent with the can in her hands.

"You got it?!" shouted Stanley.

Relina shushed him.

"Of course I did, but it was hard." Elanna sat back down with the rest of the group.

"Hmmm . . . cool," Heather said, taking hold of the can.

"Your turn," said Aly.

"Okay . . . " Her eyes traveled around the tent. Who was her victim going to be?

Elanna stared around at the group. She realized surprisingly for the first time, that their own little group was seven, as was the original D-Tent group. That made fourteen kids in D-Tent. Poor Pendanski, she thought with a grin.

"Elanna, hun, generally grinning while picking who to Truth or Dare is taken as a bad sign."

Elanna rolled her eyes at Kate, and then brightened up.

"Kate, truth or dare?"

The tent, which had been talking quietly amongst themselves waiting for Elanna to pick was suddenly quiet. Kate felt the blood drain from her face.

She had been hoping all game that she wouldn't get picked, even though it was she who suggested it. Normally, she'd be willing to play Truth or Dare at the blink of an eye, but after the little 'Thlump' incident, she was a little afraid of boys in general. Even the D-Tent boys. And that was saying something.

Elanna hugged Kate. "Kate, I'm not going to make you do anything . . . like . . . that."

Kate nodded, her trust in Elanna overriding her sudden fear of guys.

"Yeah, besides, we ain't like that." Magnet said. "We wouldn't force you to do . . . anything."

"You'd better not," Meta muttered.

Kate smiled at him, and turned back to Elanna.

"Because Truth questions are the epitome of evil, I'll pick Dare," Kate said, her natural outgoingness returning.

Elanna thought. "Okay . . . um . . . you have to . . . go outside and yell 'Pendanski is a pansy' five times."

There was complete stunned silence for about ten seconds, and then laughter echoed around the tent. After it had died down, X-Ray turned curiously to Elanna.

"What do you guys have against Pendanski? You just got here," he said.

Elanna could have hit herself. Of course, she wasn't supposed to know about Pendanski being a bastard yet.

"He's making us dig holes, that's bad enough for me," Aly said, saving Elanna.

Armpit shook his head. "Nah, it's the Warden who's makin' us dig holes."

"No, it's the lizards!" Zigzag told Meta seriously. She nodded with a straight face, but when he turned away, she mouthed 'He's so cute!' to Kate. Kate grinned in reply.

"Besides, wouldn't you have had to dig holes anyway, being sent to Camp Green Lake and all? Someone would make you dig holes." Stanley pointed out.

Kate shook her head. "We weren't actually sent to Camp Green Lake."

The boys, minus Landis, stared at them. "Then why are you here?" Squid asked.

"Stuck in the desert. Closest place with water, and we needed help since Kate fainted." Landis said.

Stanley whistled. "Feel for you Kate, I got a curse too." Zero looked at him.

Kate laughed. "Nah, I just got bad luck. But it can't be that bad, 'cause at least you guys seem pretty cool. What if I was in Thlump's tent?"

There was more silence, as everyone contemplated that scenario. Kate felt a shiver run down her spine. Creepy.

"Well, are you going to do the dare or not?" Heather asked, breaking the silence.

Kate nodded, getting up. Everyone followed her to the door of the tent. Suddenly, Kate turned back. She ran and grabbed a canteen. At everyone's stares, she grinned. "Might as well do the thing right."

Relina groaned. "Don't get caught, Kate."

"Well, what's the worst he could do?" Kate asked.

"Make you dig another hole."

"Ah," Kate said. She shrugged. "Then I'll dig another hole, pass out in the sun and shrivel up and die. It's a win-win situation."

Everyone stared at her, and then started to laugh as they realized she was kidding. She rolled her eyes at the pause. "Well, you little kiddies stay in the tent and be good little girls and boys, okay?" X-Ray and Aly nodded.

It had been obvious from the start that although X-Ray was the leader of all of D-Tent, 1 and 2, Aly was the leader of D2. Second-in-command. Sort of.

With deep breath, and a giggle from Zigzag, Kate ran out of the tent, banging the empty canteen with the palm of her hand. All heads in the surrounding area turned and looked, including, Kate realized with a jolt, Pendanski. Oh, shit. Might as well get over with it. There was no going back now.

At the top of her lungs, Kate looked up at the clear blue sky and yelled, "PENDANSKI IS A PANSY! PENDANSKI IS A PANSY! PENDANSKI IS A PANSY! PENDANSKI IS A PANSY! PENDANSKI IS A PANSY!"

Laughter met this, the laughter of all the kids wearing orange suits, and two or three voices joined in from some of other the counselors. Mr. Sir leaned against the shower stalls and snorted in laughter. Kate was about to turn on her heel, when a hand grabbed the front of her jumpsuit. A familiar terror overtook her, not that of being grabbed by an official, but Kate was reminded of Thlump grabbing her. Was it him? Was he going to touch her again? What if he went further? What if . . . 

She screamed.

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D-Tent had gone back into the tent after Kate left their sight, and after hearing her yells of 'Pendanksi is a pansy', had all doubled over in laughter. But then they heard Kate scream. Jumping up, they all muttered curse words and ran out of the tent. And saw Kate being held with a hand over her mouth from behind by Pendanski. She couldn't see who was holding her. Her eyes were wide, and she seemed to be trying to breath but not able too. Pendanski was unknowingly covering her nose as well as her mouth.

"Let go of her! She can't breath!" Elanna screamed. D-Tent surrounded Pendanski and Kate, who were surrounded by a crowd of boys in orange jumpsuits. They all wanted to see what would happen to this girl who wasn't afraid of Pendanski's wrath. Well, of course, who was? But he had water-taking-away privileges.

Squid and Zigzag ran forward and wrenched a furious Pendanski's hands off Kate. She fell to her knees gasping for breath. Meta and Elanna pulled her up again. She pushed them away, and stood by herself, finally realizing that it was only Pendanski and not Thlump.

"Y-you! Come with me, we're going to the Warden." Mr. Pendanski grabbed her jumpsuit again. Kate glared at him defiantly. She'd had enough of this. Stupid prick. She smiled sweetly, shook her head, and with all her strength, kneed him in the crotch. Hard.

"Don't touch me." She snarled.

"Whoa." Magnet said. Squid nodded.

Laughter erupted as Pendanski curled up on the ground holding himself. Zero came up beside Kate and grinned up at her. "That's going to hurt him for quite a while." Kate smiled back at him.

Armpit grimaced. "Don't ever let me get on your bad side, okay?"

Kate laughed.

Pendanski stumbled to his feet, and then fell down again. Elanna was nearly on the ground, she was laughing so hard.

"Elanna, breathe." Kate told her. Elanna tried to nod, then started laughing again.

"Come . . . . to . . . . Warden . . . ." Pendanski said with clenched teeth.

"You really think she'd wanna hear about this?" Mr. Sir said, coming up behind Pendanski. He tilted his head so that the scars from her fingernails were clearly visible. Pendanski flinched, and turned back to Kate.

"Well, just this once, you're free of the Warden. But one more toe out of line . . . . "

Kate blinked innocently. "Yes, Mr. Pendanski." She nodded, a fake smile on her face.

"Good." Pendanski grunted, leaning over. "Sir, a little help?" he asked Mr. Sir. Mr. Sir snorted.

"Yeah right."

Slowly, D-Tent inched away, until they were far enough away to run back to the tent.

"That was the best thing ever," Squid laughed, sitting on a cot.

Kate smiled, but shuddered again.

"Kate. He's not going to touch you. You either, Meta. You guys aren't ever going anywhere alone again, I can't believe we forgot that before." X-Ray told them.

Heather groaned. "Really? Our whole time here?"

X-Ray nodded.

"Joy." she responded dryly.

"Hahah," Landis laughed.

"Shut up, Landex." Aly said, swatting him with a pillow.

"So, who next?" Kate said, coming back to the game. She looked around. "I know . . . Armpit!"

Armpit blinked. "What?"

"Truth or Dare!"

"No duh." Relina whispered, rolling her eyes.

"Uh . . . dare." Armpit said after a brief pause.

Kate grinned. "I dare you to eat that whole can of beans without touching it with your hands." Everyone started laughing.

"Dude, you are so NOT sleeping next to me tonight." Squid groaned. "Go fuckin' find somewhere else to sleep. Like, a hole!"

"Mmm . . . sleeping with the lizards. Exciting." Landis commented.

"Better then licking a foot." Zero said with a smile. Stanley scrunched up his face.

"Or singing . . . wait, I like singing better. Never mind," Stanley said quickly.

Heather laughed. "Slight problem though. No can opener."

There was silence, and then Aly turned to Magnet. "Hey, why don't you go steal one from Mess Hall?"

Elanna shook her head. "Nah, too many people there when it's close to dinner. Anyone have a knife?"

Kate looked at her. "Didn't you read the sign? No weapons are allowed on the premis– " she paused as Squid reached under his cot and pulled out a pocket knife. "Okay, that was kind of creepy."

Squid shrugged. "Never knew when it would come in handy."

Meta sighed. "Next time I'm SO going to use it against Thlump." She grinned. "If Kate's kneeing technique doesn't hold up, of course."

Kate laughed. "Right behind ya."

"Well, come on then. Eat those beans, Armpit!" Relina encouraged.

Armpit smiled, and taking the knife, cut it open as close to the edge as possible so it wouldn't kill him when he put his mouth to it. He finished with a surprisingly blunt rim, much to the amazement of D2.

Squid laughed. "Armpit has much practice in the art of opening food."

"Oh shut up," Elanna said. "Alright, now EAT!"

Armpit waited a few seconds before putting his hands behind his back and sticking as much face as he could get into the can.

Relina stuck out her tongue and Stanley's eyes widened quite considerably. Everyone else watched in fascination.

"Wow," said Meta. "I wonder how much he'll be able to get down."

"Yeah," Elanna said. "If he doesn't get it all over the tent first!"

Already, the beans had spilled all over his face, his jumpsuit, a nearby cot, and the surrounding grounds.

Squid and Zigzag went up to hold his arms back. Then Armpit lifted his head. He hadn't eaten it all, but was just taking a break.

"Hurry up," X-Ray urged.

"Okay, okay!" Armpit dove back down.

Squid and Zigzag took hold of his arms again. When he lifted his head again, the can was as empty as it would get, and Armpit was breathing heavily.

"That was quick," said Aly.

"Yeah," agreed Magnet. "I was timing. Forty-eight seconds. No hands, one break."

"All right," Armpit sighed as he wiped the last bit of beans from his face. "What time is it?" he asked.

"Um . . . somewhere around . . . I dunno, look outside!" X-Ray made a gesture towards the door.

Armpit got up and looked outside. The sun was just beginning to set. "Okay, Magnet, truth or dare?"

Magnet seemed to be thinking. Nobody had chosen truth yet, but dare was fun, and so, "Dare."

"Hmm . . . " Armpit cast his eyes down. "I dare you to . . . um . . ." There was a long pause.

"Well, we don't have all day. Well, we do, until we start digging," Heather said.

"I dare you to . . . uh, tell Mom that he's a fox . . . ?" He had obviously delayed the game, but not for long. Everyone exploded with laughter.

"NO WAY!" shouted Magnet, still laughing.

"Fine . . . " Armpit started cracking his knuckles.

"Hey!! Wait! Never mind." Magnet headed for Mr. Pendanski.

Everyone followed him to F-Tent. He wasn't sure if it would be in front of the other counselors or not.

When he got there, D1 and 2 hid in two holes. Magnet swallowed and looked back. Armpit began cracking the rest of his knuckles. Swallowing again, he entered the tent.

"José, you know you're not to be here!" said Mr. Pendanski.

Magnet said nothing, but was relieved that Pendanski was the only counselor there. "Okay, Mom, I think you're a . . . "

"A what?"

"Ithinkyou'reafox!" Then he ran out of the counselor tent completely red.

Mr. Pendanski ran out. "Wait, José! Come back! I feel the same way about you!"

D-Tent burst out in laughter again, only this time much louder. Some guys from the other tents came out then went back in. Shrimp, a member of A-tent, stayed out and approached them. "What'cha doin'?"

The laughter simmered down. "Um . . . Truth or Dare," answered X-Ray, a little confused.

"Can I play too?" he asked timidly.

"Uh, sorry, but it's only for D-tent," said Elanna.

"Oh . . . " he said sadly, and retreated back to his tent. It is a wonder how he ended up at Green Lake (one day he exploded in fits of anger and killed an endangered animal in the zoo).

"Okay . . ." said Aly.

"Let's head back," said Squid.

"Your turn, Magnet," said Relina.

Magnet's beet red face was slowly regaining its original color. Then he said, "Uh . . . Meta. Truth or dare?"

"Me?" Meta questioned. She, like Kate, had been hoping not to get chosen.

"Yes, you. Truth or dare?" repeated Magnet.

Meta was silent, but knew she had to pick one or the other.

"Go on, Metza! Pick one!" called Kate, using one of her nicknames for Meta.

"Yeah, go on, it can't possibly be worse then what Magnet just had to do!" Zigzag grinned.

Magnet glared. "Come on, guys, that was so not funny . . . !"

"You're right, it wasn't funny," said Elanna in a serious voice. Everyone in the tent turned and looked at her like she was nuts. "Not funny - - hilarious!" She burst into laughter, and after a moment's silence in which her statement sunk in, the rest of the tent did as well. Magnet's ears turned red in embarrassment.

After everyone calmed down, Heather again asked Meta her choice. "Come on babe, ya gotta choose something."

Meta's eyes darted around nervously. So far, everyone had done a dare, so she decided to go along the beaten path and not break the dare-streak.

"Dare."

"Yay, more embarrassment," Armpit commented absently, not that he had really been embarrassed by his dare . . . after all, he got to eat extra food, although cold beans that tasted nasty in the first place weren't as appealing as other choices could be.

"Should she have to say something to Pendanski again?" Landis smirked.

"Nah, the fox thing kind of disturbed me enough," gagged Aly.

"Imitations? Pretending to be a train? Something to do with shoes?" asked Elanna, spitting out random ideas.

"Nah, who the hell could we get her to imitate?" asked X-Ray.

Elanna just looked at him and shrugged. "Hey, I'm basically saying whatever pops into my head."

Zero scowled slightly. "The last time you did that I ended up licking a foot. Now you're going to punish your friend as well?"

Elanna turned red and ruffled Zero's hair lightly. "Hey, I'm sorry Zee! I hadn't realized it would be so nauseating at the time . . .!"

Stanley turned to Kate. "I don't know whether to be embarrassed or feel sorry for Zero," he sighed.

"Okay, okay, I've got one!" Magnet shouted. The tent quieted almost instantly, eager to hear Magnet's dare. Meta gulped.

"Okay, I dare you," he paused for effect, "to act like a chicken, for a whole five minutes! That means clucking, waddling, and whatever it is chickens do!"

Meta fell over. "Nooooooo! That's so stuuuuuuuuuupid, can't I do something ellllllllllllllllllllllse?!" she whined.

"Hey, that's his dare. You gotta do it," X-Ray grinned.

"Argh. Okay, I'll do the dare!"

"Oooh, Meta's a chicken!"

"Shut up, Elanna."

"Okay, start when I tell you to," Kate said. "I'm timing you," she pointed to the watch on her wrist. "Okay, five, four three, tw-"

"Wait!" Meta yelled, desperately trying to delay herself from turning into a chicken. "Isn't it time for dinner? I mean, look, it's close to seven-thirty, and the sun's gonna start to set soon, so shouldn't we go to dinner? Please?"

Squid groaned. "Come on, we have time for your dare before dinner!"

Much to everyone's surprise, Mr. Pendanski popped his head inside the tent. "All right D-Tent, it's time for dinner, so get to Mess Hall!" This was mostly for the girl's benefit, as the guys already knew when to go for dinner. He proceeded to jog off, probably so he could grab all the good food for himself with the other counselors.

Inside the tent, everyone looked disappointed, but Meta, who had been hoping she wouldn't be chosen at all, was looking like she might collapse from relief.

"All right, I guess that means no dare for me; let's go eat . . . "

Relina groaned. "Don't try to weasel out of this one, Meta, we're continuing after we eat."

"What? No!"

"Hahah, Meta's a chicken."

"Shut up, Zig."

They all filed out of the tent. Elanna was about to race Zigzag, Kate, and Relina to the hall before X-Ray stopped them.

"Hey, remember what I said? You girls can't go anywhere alone, ya gotta take a guy with you!"

"Oh, yeah," Relina said, stopping. Kate blanched and almost attached herself to Zigzag's arm, but managed to stop herself.

"Okay, the way I see it," Aly started, acting as the leader or second-in-command to X-Ray, "is that each girl should go with a guy. Assignment, if you will."

"Good idea," X-Ray agreed. "We don't want Thlump or anyone else to try anything."

"Excuse me, did you just say 'anyone else?'" Landis asked, raising an eyebrow and looking at Heather.

"Yeah, I mean, who else do we have to watch out for?" Elanna demanded.

"Well, there's Thlump and the rest of B-Tent, they're all bad," Armpit said, his eyes moving skyward as he thought. "A-Tent will leave you alone, some of them are good guys, and C-Tent is kind of half-and-half. There are good guys in C-Tent, and bad guys in C-Tent. The guys you have to watch out for, other than Thlump, are Easy and all the guys in E-Tent. They're almost as bad as B-Tent is."

"How wonderful," Kate commented dryly.

"Oh, shiitake mushrooms!" Elanna yelled, turning her swear into a different word like she often did.

The rest of the tent stood before him and Aly, waiting to see who'd they be 'assigned,' though Aly moved back into the line as X-Ray was obviously in his element.

"Relina, you stick close to me or Pit, okay? You're the smallest, after all, no offence."

Relina nodded.

"I'll go with Aly," Magnet offered. Aly jumped up and punched the air when he wasn't looking, and agreed very enthusiastically.

"Eh. You'll protect me, Landis. And no, you don't get a choice." Heather smirked. Landis glared.

"Squid, you go with Kate, and Ziggy, you stay close to Meta, a'ight?" X-Ray turned to Meta and Kate. "Squid's a damn good fighter, and so is Zig when he hasn't got two guys hanging off of him. You'll be safer with them."

Meta and Kate turned to each other, talking excitedly, once X-Ray moved away.

Elanna, Stanley, and Zero were eyeing each other.

"Ooh, decision, decision," Elanna joked.

Stanley turned away. "I'm not much of a fighter. Ask X-Ray if you can switch or something . . ."

"Hey, I'll be fine. You're the Caveman, after all. Plus, X-Ray didn't give Zero anyone to protect, so he can be your back up or something. Right Zero?"

Zero didn't say anything. He felt Stanley would be enough. And X-Ray obviously didn't think he could protect anyone anyways . . . But he'd be there if things went wrong. That's how he was.

"Wow, going to dinner turned out to be a big deal." Relina said.

"Well, you know, don't wanna take chances . . ."

"Understood."

They walked towards the large building.

"So, what's the food like? I'm actually kinda hungry," Meta was asking Zigzag.

"It's terrible, and coming from me, that's saying something," Armpit said.

Meta laughed uncertainly.

"Dude, I don't think he was joking," Kate said, eyes going a bit wide.

"Well, that fantastic bit of information just made MY day," Elanna griped, much to the amusement of the guys. "Eh, I can eat just about anything if I really have to," she said. "Maybe you're all just exaggerating . . .

They were much closer to Mess Hall now, and Elanna was ready to break into a run.

"Don't," cautioned Stanley. "You never know what you'll run into . . ."

Aly stopped suddenly. "Uh, guys? What tent are those dudes in?" About six or seven guys had come out of Mess Hall, and they were moving towards D-Tent. Fast.

Magnet peered in their direction, then cursed in Spanish. "It's Easy," he said.

Kate paled and moved closer to Squid. "Great, Thlump the Second," she whispered.

"Maybe they're coming to say 'hi . . . '" Relina said lamely.

Elanna held herself upright and kept walking. "Ignore them, and try not to look like you're gonna faint. It makes it that much harder for them to intimidate us."

"Ooh, smart words from a blonde," Landis teased.

"Bite me."

E-Tent reached D-Tent, much to Kate and Meta's chagrin.

"Hey there, X-Ray," Easy began in a calm, smooth voice. "Enjoying the new additions to D-Tent?"

"You might say that," X-Ray said cautiously, pushing Relina behind him and closer to Armpit, who was much bigger then he was.

"They any good?"

"Just what the hell is that supposed to mean?" Stanley spluttered angrily.

"I think you know," said one of Easy's friends. Elanna scrunched up her face in disgust, with similar reactions from the others girls who got the meaning.

"Dumbass," muttered Aly.

"Feisty," commented another of Easy's friends, reaching towards Aly. She let out a yell of disgust and jumped backwards, but Magnet had already batted the guy's arm away and gave him a punch in the head hard enough to send him reeling.

"No one said you could touch," Landis admonished in a joking fashion, even though his face held an extremely angry look.

"You okay, Aly?" whispered Heather.

"Fine, Magnet got him for me," Aly said, glaring at the guy.

Kate, however, remembering last time, slid herself behind Squid. "Please help me," she whispered into the small of Squid's back.

"It'll be okay, don't worry," Squid said quietly and reassuringly. Zigzag's arm was resting calmly in front of Meta. Landis didn't trouble himself with bravado and just stepped in front of Heather completely. You couldn't even see Relina at all, Armpit completely blocked her from view with his bulk.

"I told the whole Wreck Room to leave the girls alone if they didn't want us beating on them. Did you think that rule didn't apply to you?" X-Ray hissed irately.

"Maybe we weren't in the Wreck Room when you said that," suggested Easy slyly.

"Oh, you were," Zigzag said, eyes narrowed.

"Well, maybe we thought you only meant B-Tent had to leave them alone. And we aren't in B-Tent, are we?" Easy spoke again.

"Lame excuse," Squid ridiculed, shifting so he blocked Kate from view completely.

"Maybe you should move closer to Stanley now," Zero whispered to Elanna.

Seeing how close Easy was, Elanna agreed, and hastily moved closer to Stanley. 'Closer' meaning almost falling on him. Easy, however, caught the movement.

"Hey, you! The blonde! He isn't really with you, I saw you move close to him just now! You're free, right?"

'Oh shit . . . He's talking to me, isn't he?! Shit, shit, shit . . .' Elanna thought, horrified.

"Come on, come here!" The rest of D-Tent growled at him, and the girls looked on, starting to get more and more freaked out.

Elanna shrank into Stanley's side, pressing close into him. "Help me, help me, help me please . . .," she mumbled.

"Sorry, she's with me," Stanley said quickly and boldly, hoping to deter him.

"You move one step closer and we're all gonna kick the shit out of you," X-Ray warned.

Easy grinned and took one step closer. The guys of D-Tent, plus Landis, all looked at each other, and at the same time, rushed in and took E-Tent on. The girls stepped back, afraid of getting caught in the fray.

Even more surprising then Stanley rushing in to beat E-Tent senseless when he didn't really fight was that Zero had dove straight towards Easy, and was delivering hard blows to wherever he could reach.

"You don't . . . treat . . . girls . . . like . . . that . . . " he said with clenched teeth, in between blows. He was yelling now, and everyone had stopped; some of the E-Tent boys had never even heard Zero speak, let alone yell. "They aren't things you can just touch, or look at, they're people! You have to respect them!"

Easy looked taken aback. He was going to have several bruises because of that Zero kid . . .

"Let's go. Let the bastards have fun with the girls." E-Tent turned and left, but not before Easy had had the last say - - he punched Zero hard in the stomach to get him off, before turning and leaving with his friends.

"Holy SHIT," said Aly, while Elanna immediately ran to where Stanley and Zero were. Zero had fallen to his knees, gasping and trying to breathe because of Easy's blow to his stomach. She knelt beside him.

"Oh my GOD! Zero! Are you okay?!"

"Easy, give him some room," both Heather and Stanley said simultaneously. Zero just coughed and held his hand up to show he was okay.

"I'm fine," he coughed. "Give me a minute . . ."

Once Zero was able to breathe properly and was standing up, Elanna hugged him, followed closely by Kate. "That was some speech," they whispered to him. He smiled shakily. "I meant it . . . you girls are all right." His gaze traveled to where Meta was hugging Zigzag happily and enthusing about his great job, Aly and Heather talking to Magnet, Squid and Landis, and Relina handing X-Ray his glasses, which had fallen off while he was fighting and finally back to Elanna and Kate, who were gazing at him in awe and admiration. He smiled again, blushing slightly.

"You're okay, right?" Stanley was asking both Zero and Elanna.

"Yep, yep, nice job Caveman!" Elanna hugged Stanley as well. Stanley looked happily embarrassed. Zero nodded his response.

"Right, we should get to dinner . . . " Meta said, trailing off.

"Yeah, we should."

The group made it into Mess Hall. The girls stared all over the place, the building unfamiliar. It was cafeteria style, with a line of boys waiting for the stereotypical lunch ladies to pile food on trays. It smelled very . . . different. The food the lunch ladies were serving looked like piles of dung, and they also saw some unidentifiable green stringy slop. The group made it into the line, and eventually, everyone in D-Tent had a plastic tray and plate full of brown stuff that looked and smelled like dung, stringy green slop, and some small carrots that were an unappetizing shade of vomit-ish orange.

"Lovely," commented Relina, holding her nose.

"Hey, be grateful they're not serving beans tonight," Zigzag admonished. Instantly, everyone turned towards Elanna and Armpit.

""What? Those were dares . . ."" They both complained.

The tables were also like those found in a cafeteria, long with varnished wood, with benches on either side. The members of Tents D and D2 all slid down the benches, and commenced eating.

"EW! This stuff is NASTY!" Meta shrieked, almost spitting the food out and all over Squid, who was sitting across from her.

"Tell me about it," Kate said, making faces as she chewed.

"Yeah, this stuff is gross, but it could be worse," Elanna swallowed beside Kate. "I always have the nastiest stuff whenever I go camping, and this stuff is only slightly worse . . ."

"Well, that's a happy thought." Aly glared at her plate.

"Hey, does anyone else think this stuff looks like poop?" Stanley asked, poking the brown stuff with his knife. "I mean, look at it! It has the texture of poop, looks like poop, and smells like poop."

"I think it's supposed to be meatloaf . . . " Heather said.

"Hah, meatloaf my ass!" Landis choked.

"Yeah, it's meatloaf if by that you mean a gooey brown loaf that came out of the meat!" Elanna cried.

Everyone snorted into his or her plates.

"Hey Armpit, how about you test this stuff out? If it actually is a pile of crap, I'll give you my shower tokens for tomorrow and the day after that," Squid said.

"I don't think shower tokens can make up for eating a pile of shit . . ." X-Ray commented, raising an eyebrow.

"Go on, how bad could it be? I just wanna know if that stuff is safe to eat," Squid persisted. "And if it isn't crap, I'll give you my carrots, 'cause you still tested it. Go on, the carrots are the most decent things here."

"I dunno," Armpit said slowly, staring at the mess on his plate. "Shower tokens if it's crap, carrots if it's not?"

"Yep."

"Ugh, I don't like where this conversation is going," said Kate.

Armpit looked at the brown stuff, studying it.

Five minutes later, Armpit was still trying to decide whether or not to eat the meatloaf/crap.

"Come on, Pit!! What have you got to lose?" Squid chided

"Dude! What if it IS crap?! What if I get sick?!" Armpit argued.

"What if it isn't? And if you do get sick, then maybe you'll get a day off of digging or something." Elanna pointed out.

"Yeah, and either way you get something! Shower tokens or carrots!" Relina added.

"Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeease?" Heather said, folding her hands and making puppy eyes.

"ALRIGHT. FINE. I will." Armpit said.

"YES!" came the consensus of the rest of the table. Meta and Kate gave each other a high five over the table.

Armpit slowly cut a corner off of his meatloaf/crap. He the raised it to his nose and sniffed it.

"DUDE! Well we know it smells like crap." Armpit said, as if this were news.

"No duh." Zigzag said.

Armpit kept stalling, so Aly started a rousing chant of "Do it! Do it! Do it!" which the whole table joined in. Finally, Armpit shoved the fork in his mouth, chewed, made a face, then swallowed.

"So?" Squid asked.

"Dude, I think it is meatloaf!" Armpit said triumphantly.

"Sweeeeeeeet," Landis said, as he took a huge bite of his. He then spit it all back out onto his tray.

"GROSSSSSSSSS!!!" everyone exclaimed in unison.

"Landis. Don't. Do. That." Heather said, as if she were explaining it to a three year old.

"But it was ICKY!" Landis said, as if he were a three year old.

"Don't give me that," Heather said, exasperated.

Squid handed over his carrots, and Armpit wolfed them down as if he hadn't eaten in a week.

A few minutes later, dinner was over. D-Tents 1 and 2 got up to walk back to the tent.

~*~*~*~*~

Written by The Holes Posse.

Editing done by Elanna and Kate.

Author's Notes by Kate.