A/N:Has anyone pronounced it yet? Oh well, thank you to all reviewers, and to theflamehat, YES this is based on Zoombinis Logical Journey, the game where you try to get little blue people to a new home. You are the only one to notice :) ONWARD!

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Chapter 5: Mudball Wall

"Neutron, this is getting tiring. I am sick of this!" Cindy was insulting Jimmy, as usual, as he, Cindy, and the rest of the group, trudged on through the woods. Now they were sheltered from the oddly colored sun, but now there were no landmarks to tell if they were making any progress or just walking in circles, and, since the trees blocked out the sun, it was difficult for the to see merely the path in front of them.

"Jimmy, I can't take much more of this," Sheen complained. They were all tired of walking, but they had to go on. No one really looked around. Soon Carl spoke.

"Jimmy, I can't climb very well," he said.
"Why do you mention that Carl?" Jimmy asked.

"Jimmy, you should look up," Sheen told him. Jimmy lifted his head. Before them stood a high, wide, stone, wall. Jimmy gaped open mouthed at it.

"Okay, how are we going to get over that Neutron?" Cindy asked. They all looked around.

"Fulcrums!" Jimmy yelled excitedly. He rushed over to the marsh that stood in front of the wall. There were three planks. Under the middle of each plank was a stone, making a sort of teeter-tauter. "But how do I get them to propel us up without leaving behind anyone?" He realized that no one was strong enough to even fling another up. He looked around again.

"Hey Jimmy, what do you think that is?" Libby asked. She gestured towards a contraption that looked like a chocolate ice cream cone with a rectangular cone that had a tube leading from it to the depths of the marsh. There were several buttons with different shapes and colors on them, and the familiar shiny green button. Jimmy looked at the wall again. There were faint lines, making a sort of grid. He also noticed there were dots on some of the stones. But Cindy figured it out before him.

"Libby, Carl, Sheen! Stand on one end of a fulcrum. I think I get it," She said. Libby trusted Cindy and jumped right on one end. Sheen and Carl were a bit cautious, but got on the other two quickly. Cindy walked over to the device. She pressed two buttons, a square and a purple panel. A sort of mud ball sat on top of the cone making a sort of "squish" noise. A nozzle came up and squirted the mud ball with some purple-ish liquid, coloring it purple and a metal arm also came up and imprinted a square on the mud ball. Cindy thought and then pressed the oh so familiar green button. The machine targeted and sent the mud ball flying through the air and hit the wall on one of the triple dotted panels. Three stones sailed through the air and hit the other end of the three fulcrums that Libby, Sheen, and Carl were standing on.

"WHOA!" all three screamed as they flew into the air and landed on the other side of the wall. Cindy smirked at Jimmy, obviously pleased that she had figured something out before him. She gestured to him to step on one of the fulcrums.

"Ladies first," she said smiling. Jimmy scowled. Cindy delightedly went back to the contraption and studied the wall. She pressed a yellow button and a triangle button. While she was doing this Jimmy realized something Cindy hadn't yet.

"Cindy wait!" he yelled to her. She looked up. "If you press fire the mud ball, it will hit the wall alright, but the stones will fall on the fulcrums, but you won't be on it!" She took this in then paused. After about five seconds of thinking she hit the button. As soon as the wall had been hit she leaped over the machine, the stone barley missing her head, and landed on the end of the fulcrum just in time. The stone hit the other end and both went flying through the air and landed hard on the other side of the stone wall.

"Well, that was pleasant," Cindy said sarcastically as she stood and brushed herself off, and they all started off again, leaving mud ball wall far behind them.


KEEP REVIEWING PLEASE! I am having so much fun writing this. I am sick and have nothing else to do anyway. Cindy saying "ladies first" is NOT a typo, just in case you were wondering. I must sleep now, see you later peeps:)