This is what Starlight went through while the others were planning.

Disclaimer:

I do not own Camp Lazlo. But I do own the wolves in this story.

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Chapter 12. While You Were Planning.

Starlight awoke dazed and confused. All she remembered was being in the woods with Nova, and then nothing. She looked around her, only to find herself in an iron cage. She panicked. She stood upright and looked around the room, panting with fright. It appeared to be some sort of abandoned warehouse.

Suddenly, from behind the cage, came a sinister voice. "Oh, good; you're awake." Starlight turned around abruptly, looking for her source of the voice. She found a buck standing there, with a gun held in his hands. He continued, "I didn't want to kill you in your sleep, which lasted about 3 hours. That would be too nice of me. No, I wanted to kill you while you were awake… to make you suffer and squirm."

Starlight showed him her 'I'm not afraid of you' face and asked, "Who are you? And what do you want with me?" The buck put his hand over his chest, as if he were going to apologize for something. "Oh, silly me. I forgot to introduce myself." There was a short pause, and then, "My name is Buckweed. Master of business, hunting, and your…" He pointed to Starlight, "…worst nightmare." Starlight now changed her facial expression. Now instead of being unafraid, she was slightly worried.

"What do you want with me?" Buckweed approached the cage, anger and determination again raged in his eyes. "I want revenge for what you did to me five years ago!" His voice was threatening and full of pure rage. Starlight looked at him with confusion in her eyes. He noticed this a explained.

"Ah, I see you don't know what I'm talking about. Well, you're just a naïve wolf…of course you wouldn't know what I am talking about." Buckweed approached the cage again, and this time he stopped right in front of Starlight's face. "Five years ago, I made a deal with a man who wanted a full pack of wolf furs. When I told him that the local one had more than 15 of you, he was ecstatic. He was willing to pay big money for all of those furs. Well, see I counted all of you and found out that there were 29 of you. When we took you all, I called the guy up and told him there were 29 furs. He said he would be over to the abandoned factory, which was where we were housing the furs at the time, as soon as possible. He came over, with a suitcase full of money, and counted the furs. He had a big smile on his face until he got to the 28th fur. His smile disappeared and he turned to me. "You're short one." With that he took the suitcase and left, telling me he would never do business with me again."

Buckweed paused and turned away from the cage. He said, with his back turned, "I could have been rich. But I had to miss you!" He turned to the cage again. "Well, now I'm going to get my revenge!" Starlight was now backed into the back of the cage, her eyes filled with terror. Buckweed laughed an evil laugh, which was abruptly ended by a telephone call. He sighed and headed for a door, which Starlight guessed, was the old boss's office.

Starlight sighed and slunk down to the bottom of the cage. She wondered where her friends were. No doubt Nova was going to try and rescue her. She would do the same for him. She loved him more than anything. She would die without him.

Starlight was distracted from her thoughts when she heard a little shuffled scurry. She raised her head and found a mouse standing in front of her cage. The mouse's nose twitched and he asked, "Are you Starlight?" Starlight nodded her head, surprised that this mouse was looking for her. The mouse smiled. "My name is Valiant, and I have been sent by his highness, Nova, to distract these evil men." Starlight again, looked confused. "There is more than one?" Valiant nodded, "Yes, there are two more. Freedom has just distracted them into coming outside so I could get in without being noticed." Starlight's eyes went wide with shock. "Wait- Freedom the eagle? And… Nova sent you? He really does care."

Valiant smiled, "Yes…but now I must do my job. Now, let's see…where is that power box? Ah- there it is." He left the cage as soon as the two other henchmen entered the building. One was an otter and the other was a mountain lion. They both looked frustrated. "Dumb bird", the otter spat. The mountain lion nodded his head in agreement. They passed by the cage, but stopped when they noticed she was awake. They smiled evil smiles. "Well, lookie here. Our victim is awake", the otter said. Starlight shrunk down in her cage, pretending to be afraid of the men. They laughed and walked away, moving towards the back of the building.

Starlight searched around the room for the mouse, and saw him climbing up to the power box. The lock was rusted, so he easily opened the box. She saw him gnawing on a wire very quietly, but quickly. Suddenly the power went out. All of the lights went off and the building went dark. Usually, if the building hadn't been boarded up with wood on the windows, the sun would have lighted the building. But since the building had most of the windows boarded up, the room became very dark.

Buckweed barged out of the office. "What happened to the power!" His henchmen approached him. "We don't know, boss", the mountain lion said. Buckweed yelled again, "Well, go check the power box, Sundar!" The mountain lion obeyed, but stumbled in the dark, unable to see where he was going. Buckweed sighed, "Skipper, go help him out." Skipper obeyed, but ended up doing the same thing Sundar did. Buckweed became very frustrated. 'Must I do everything around here?" he grabbed a flashlight from a nearby desk and approached the power baox.

Starlight felt a tickle up her arm, and discovered that Valiant was climbing up to her head. He hid behind her ears as Buckweed discovered the broken wire.

"Must have been a mouse's work. Stupid mice. You two-." He pointed his flashlight at Skipper and Sundar, who were lying on the ground after stumbling. "-go find some candles or lanterns, or something, in town." They scrambled up, and quickly obeyed. He smiled to himself, and said, 'As for me…I'm going to go check my other traps. Maybe I caught some more animals to skin."

After he left Valiant let out a sigh. "Oh, good, they're gone. Now I can clog his rifle, with some napkins Freedom found in the front seat of the vehicle." Valiant climbed down Starlight's leg, and left the cage. He climbed up the wall to a clear window. He opened it and whistled to Freedom. He came up to the window and threw the napkins through the window. They landed in a heap on the ground. He thanked Freedom and scampered down the wall. He then dragged the napkins in his mouth to the nearby desk, and walked into the chair opening. (A/N: you know, where they put the chair at a desk.) She heard grunting, popping, and rustling. When he came out he was coated in gunpowder. He smiled triumphantly, and said, 'The rifle is clogged. Now if he tries to shoot you, he won't be able to."

Starlight smiled so big, it would be impossible to beat the size of it. "I could kiss you if you weren't so small, and I wasn't in a dire situation." Valiant smiled back. Suddenly the door to the factory swung open and Skipper and Sundar entered the room. Valiant quickly disappeared behind Starlight's legs.

They brought in a really large battery powered light. When they set it up and turned it on, it filled the whole room with light. Starlight had to squint her eyes because the light was so bright. Both henchmen smiled with pride. Skipper said, "The boss sure is going to be happy about this." Sundar nodded in agreement. Then they left the area to go to the back of the room to wait for Buckweed to come back.

After 4 hours of waiting Buckweed finally returned. His clothes were torn to pieces, his fur was mused, and he had a black eye and scraps all over his body. He looked very tired, and when he walked in he walked with a limp. Skipper and Sundar immediately came up to him with curiosity of what happened to him. They gave him a chair to sit on, so he could take a rest. Finally, Buckweed told them what happened to him. "I was attacked by an angry mother bear, chipmunks, porcupines, hawks, and other animals. Then I got lost and headed in the opposite direction of town for about two hours. Then I turned back and that took another two hours. And now I'm too tired to finish that wolf off. I'm going to bed." He grabbed a sleeping bag from the back of the room, and headed into the office. Skipper and Sundar shrugged and headed to the back of the room to where their sleeping bags were.

After about an hour all three were sound asleep. Valiant laughed very quietly, only so that Starlight could hear him. He whispered, "I knew that guy was wanted, so I told those animals to attack him if they saw him. They told me he would be back that day, because he had traps set out."

Starlight shook her head in amazement and said, "If I get out of here, you are going to be a close personal friend of his majesties." Valiant bowed slightly and said, "Thank you." He paused before he continued. "We had better get some rest. Your rescue team will come tomorrow." Starlight agreed and laid in the bottom of the cage, and eventually fell asleep.

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The title got from the movie While You Were Sleeping.

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