"Are we there yet?" Armpit asked. The sun was high in the sky already and
the D tent boys were all very worn out.
"I don't think we'll ever get there," Twitch moaned.
"Don't worry guys," Zigzag said, shading his eyes from the sun. "Looks like we only have a day or two before we get there."
"A day or two?" Squid asked, he was very tired now and didn't even care if they ever found the girls just as long as he found a nice place to sleep- for hours.
"Can't wait to find that house full of girls in bikinis," Zigzag said to himself as he squinted through the sun light.
"Here we go," Chase said as she began climbing up the mountain. The first third of the mountain was pretty steep, but it was filled with crevices and small ledges the girls could stand on. But some of the small ledges would crumble as soon as pressure was put on them, making the girls slip and nearly slide down the mountain side.
"Hurry up!" Magnetic cried, she was hanging onto the mountain right beneath Static, who had suddenly stopped.
"I can't find any place to pull myself up," Static said, she was frantically searching for a crevice of some sort above her, and was almost out of luck when Fidget lent her a hand.
Fidget pulled Static up onto a huge ledge that grew into a long cave. Chase, Zippy and Rogue were standing on the ledge also, looking down at the long expense of rock they had just climbed.
"Wonder what this cave leads to?" Lei said as Static pulled her up over the ledge. When all the girls were on the ledge Rogue decided to have a look around. She walked into the cave while the others stood outside it, waiting for her to come back.
"It's just an old cave," Rogue said, coming back out of the cave. "There's nothin' in there and it's not even that long."
"Well then, onward we go," Lei said, pointing up towards the sky and the thumb of the mountain which wasn't visible to them now.
The next stretch of the mountain wasn't so easy to climb, as it was very steep with barely any crevices, cracks, or small ledges.
"Whoa!" Chase cried as she slipped and skinned her knees and elbows against the rocks.
Lei grabbed her hand and held onto her tightly, though it was very hard because Lei was now on the verge of slipping. "You holding onto anything?" Lei called down to Chase.
"Other than your hand?" Chase asked. "No."
"Well hurry up and grab something or stand on something!" Lei cried, her hand was slipping from the rock she was now clinging to.
Chase looked around. The only crevice near her was a tiny one that would be a little hard to reach, it was so small though that she feared she would just slip as it would barely support her. But she had to try it out anyway. She stretched her arm out to the full extent, but it wasn't enough; the tips her fingers just brushed it. She tried again, swinging her body a little bit so that she could grab hold of the crevice.
"Okay," she said. "I think I've got something."
"Ya' sure?" Lei asked.
"Yeah," Chase replied, and with that she let go of Lei's hand. Holding onto the tiny crevice for dear life Chase looked around her. There was another tiny crevice just above her but no place to support her feet and the rest of her weight. She reached up for the crevice above her head but it crumbled, and she was left dangling there, scared out of her mind.
"Chase hold on!" Zippy cried, but she was too far ahead to do anything to help Chase.
Chase did hang on-but not for long. As soon as her fingers slipped from the crevice she slipped from the side of the mountain.
Chase slid all the way down to the ledge by the cave, receiving a large, bloody gash on her stomach and a big bruise on her forehead.
"CHASE!" Zippy screamed down to her.
Chase, who was now lying on her back on the ledge, stared up at the other D tent girls with blurry eyes.
"Chase! Are you okay?" Lei cried down, she looked really worried.
Chase sat up and nodded, but had to quickly lye back down again as her head (not to mention the rest of her body) was in terrible pain.
"Chase I'm coming down there!" Zippy yelled.
"No!" Chase cried. "It'll waste too much time! You guys go on, I'll catch up later!"
Zippy stared down in horror at the small figure below that she knew as her best friend.
"GO!" Chase urged.
Magnetic started climbing again, convincing the others to move along as she went.
Chase rubbed her forehead then looked in disgust at the long, bleeding gash across her stomach. Her elbow also surged with pain as she had landed on it when she fell. She wondered how long it would take her to climb the mountain now, and if she would just keep falling down every time she started back up again.
Zippy still stared down at Chase, looking worried, but when she too started to slip she began her way up the mountain again.
Chase stood up slowly; her legs and her back hurt as well. She reached up for a crevice in the mountain and pulled herself up. But Chase had only climbed for a few seconds before the pain became too much for her and she fell back down onto the ledge. She decided to just lye there and rest for a while before continuing.
Zippy climbed up onto a flat ledge that stuck out from the mountain like a platform. She looked around the landscape below, once she thought she saw an animal of some sort, crawling across the desert towards the mountain. But soon she came to the conclusion that she was seeing things as she had never seen an animal that big in the desert, moving at that rate-maybe it was just a mirage?
"What's that?" she asked, as the other girls climbed up onto the ledge.
"What's what?" Magnetic snapped, looking across the desert.
"That!" Zippy cried, pointing at the place where the animal had been. But whatever it had been it had now disappeared into the shadows of the mountain, and the other girls couldn't see it.
"Whatever," Magnetic said, then she turned and looked at the passage to the top of the mountain. They had reached the third stretch of the mountain, which was the easiest to climb-as they didn't really have to climb anything. It was mostly smooth rocks, a lot of them naturally formed stairways, and smooth paths.
"Hey this looks easy!" Magnetic said, making her way across the level walkways.
"Come on," Lei said smiling. She followed Magnetic and so did the other girls. Zippy started walking, but abruptly stopped.
"You okay Zippy?" Fidget asked, turning around.
Zippy was bent with pain as she clutched her stomach yet again. She fell to her knees and started whimpering with agony.
"It must be that Sploosh she ate," Rogue said, it was the first thing she had said all day. "You gonna be okay?" she asked Zippy.
Usually Zippy would have nodded, trying to seem stronger, but today she didn't. She stayed bent, her nose almost touching the ground.
"Come on!" Magnetic cried. "We're almost there! Zippy you'll be fine!"
"Mag, I don't think she can walk," Lei said, she sat down next to Zippy, trying to comfort her.
Magnetic heaved an angry sigh and turned away from the path beyond. "Come on Zippy! It's just over those rocks! You're strong, you can make it! Let's go ALREADY!"
Zippy raised her head just long enough to glare at Magnetic.
"What?" Magnetic said sheepishly as all the girls glared at her.
"Do you want to lye down or something?" Lei asked, looking concerned.
"No," Zippy said, standing back up, though she still looked a little dazed. They began walking again.
"What the hell is that?" Armpit asked, pointing up at the ledge sticking out from the mountain.
The boys had reached the base of the mountain, but unlike the girls they didn't celebrate. They now looked arond for an easy way to climb up, even though they were very tired and their muscles were sore.
"If we climb it," Zigzag had said a few hours earlier, "then we'll be able to see the girls somewhere out on the desert-I think."
So the boys had all agreed on climbing the mountain to get a fair view of the desert. But now as they stood at the base of the mountain they realized with dismay just how big the mountain was, and so they decided just to climb to the ledge Armpit now pointed at.
"What are you talkin' about?" Squid asked, looking up at the ledge too but seeing nothing but rocks.
Armpit had thought he'd seen a person standing up there on the ledge, but now wondered if his was going delirious as there was nothing visible now but rocks.
"Let's start up this way," Zigzag said, pointing to a bunch of rocks shaped as a very messy stairwell. The boys began to climb immediately, Zero having some trouble as sometimes he wasn't tall enough to reach the next ledge or crevice; and Armpit having a lot of trouble due to his weight. But over all the boys climbed at a quick pace, faster than the girls had as a lot of the boys were taller and stronger than the girls.
"Come on Armpit!" Xray shouted down. All the boys, except Armpit, were pretty close to the ledge now. Armpit was farther below, worried about climbing a stretch of rock where there wasn't any large ledges and just a lot of tiny foot holes.
"Come on Armpit, we're almost to the ledge!" Squid shouted.
Armpit shook his head. "No way in hell am I climbin' up that!" he cried.
"COME ON!" the boys yelled.
Armpit reluctantly grabbed for a crevice to help pull himself up. He stuck his feet in two foot holes and began to shakily climb up the mountain. He climbed slowly, cussing as he went, making a lot of the small ledges crumble beneath him, but finally he caught up to the other boys.
"Well finally!" Zigzag said, then he started climbing again, as did the other boys.
"We're almost there," Squid repeated to himself, as he looked up at the ledge sticking out over their heads.
Chase started climbing again, her arms were tired and sore from the many attempts she'd failed, but she wasn't giving up that easy. She reached up for a crevice and pulled herself up, it hurt her head to strain her muscles so much but she had to keep going. She looked around for another crevice off to the left, planning on taking a different path up the mountain than the many she'd already tried.
She climbed as quickly as she could, ever thinking about how far the other girls had gone. She reached up for another crevice and stood on a rock sticking out from the mountain, she had almost slipped before she grabbed hold of another crevice and pulled herself to that.
It took her some time but finally she pulled herself up onto a large ledge; the beginning of the third stretch. She was almost there.
"I don't think we'll ever get there," Twitch moaned.
"Don't worry guys," Zigzag said, shading his eyes from the sun. "Looks like we only have a day or two before we get there."
"A day or two?" Squid asked, he was very tired now and didn't even care if they ever found the girls just as long as he found a nice place to sleep- for hours.
"Can't wait to find that house full of girls in bikinis," Zigzag said to himself as he squinted through the sun light.
"Here we go," Chase said as she began climbing up the mountain. The first third of the mountain was pretty steep, but it was filled with crevices and small ledges the girls could stand on. But some of the small ledges would crumble as soon as pressure was put on them, making the girls slip and nearly slide down the mountain side.
"Hurry up!" Magnetic cried, she was hanging onto the mountain right beneath Static, who had suddenly stopped.
"I can't find any place to pull myself up," Static said, she was frantically searching for a crevice of some sort above her, and was almost out of luck when Fidget lent her a hand.
Fidget pulled Static up onto a huge ledge that grew into a long cave. Chase, Zippy and Rogue were standing on the ledge also, looking down at the long expense of rock they had just climbed.
"Wonder what this cave leads to?" Lei said as Static pulled her up over the ledge. When all the girls were on the ledge Rogue decided to have a look around. She walked into the cave while the others stood outside it, waiting for her to come back.
"It's just an old cave," Rogue said, coming back out of the cave. "There's nothin' in there and it's not even that long."
"Well then, onward we go," Lei said, pointing up towards the sky and the thumb of the mountain which wasn't visible to them now.
The next stretch of the mountain wasn't so easy to climb, as it was very steep with barely any crevices, cracks, or small ledges.
"Whoa!" Chase cried as she slipped and skinned her knees and elbows against the rocks.
Lei grabbed her hand and held onto her tightly, though it was very hard because Lei was now on the verge of slipping. "You holding onto anything?" Lei called down to Chase.
"Other than your hand?" Chase asked. "No."
"Well hurry up and grab something or stand on something!" Lei cried, her hand was slipping from the rock she was now clinging to.
Chase looked around. The only crevice near her was a tiny one that would be a little hard to reach, it was so small though that she feared she would just slip as it would barely support her. But she had to try it out anyway. She stretched her arm out to the full extent, but it wasn't enough; the tips her fingers just brushed it. She tried again, swinging her body a little bit so that she could grab hold of the crevice.
"Okay," she said. "I think I've got something."
"Ya' sure?" Lei asked.
"Yeah," Chase replied, and with that she let go of Lei's hand. Holding onto the tiny crevice for dear life Chase looked around her. There was another tiny crevice just above her but no place to support her feet and the rest of her weight. She reached up for the crevice above her head but it crumbled, and she was left dangling there, scared out of her mind.
"Chase hold on!" Zippy cried, but she was too far ahead to do anything to help Chase.
Chase did hang on-but not for long. As soon as her fingers slipped from the crevice she slipped from the side of the mountain.
Chase slid all the way down to the ledge by the cave, receiving a large, bloody gash on her stomach and a big bruise on her forehead.
"CHASE!" Zippy screamed down to her.
Chase, who was now lying on her back on the ledge, stared up at the other D tent girls with blurry eyes.
"Chase! Are you okay?" Lei cried down, she looked really worried.
Chase sat up and nodded, but had to quickly lye back down again as her head (not to mention the rest of her body) was in terrible pain.
"Chase I'm coming down there!" Zippy yelled.
"No!" Chase cried. "It'll waste too much time! You guys go on, I'll catch up later!"
Zippy stared down in horror at the small figure below that she knew as her best friend.
"GO!" Chase urged.
Magnetic started climbing again, convincing the others to move along as she went.
Chase rubbed her forehead then looked in disgust at the long, bleeding gash across her stomach. Her elbow also surged with pain as she had landed on it when she fell. She wondered how long it would take her to climb the mountain now, and if she would just keep falling down every time she started back up again.
Zippy still stared down at Chase, looking worried, but when she too started to slip she began her way up the mountain again.
Chase stood up slowly; her legs and her back hurt as well. She reached up for a crevice in the mountain and pulled herself up. But Chase had only climbed for a few seconds before the pain became too much for her and she fell back down onto the ledge. She decided to just lye there and rest for a while before continuing.
Zippy climbed up onto a flat ledge that stuck out from the mountain like a platform. She looked around the landscape below, once she thought she saw an animal of some sort, crawling across the desert towards the mountain. But soon she came to the conclusion that she was seeing things as she had never seen an animal that big in the desert, moving at that rate-maybe it was just a mirage?
"What's that?" she asked, as the other girls climbed up onto the ledge.
"What's what?" Magnetic snapped, looking across the desert.
"That!" Zippy cried, pointing at the place where the animal had been. But whatever it had been it had now disappeared into the shadows of the mountain, and the other girls couldn't see it.
"Whatever," Magnetic said, then she turned and looked at the passage to the top of the mountain. They had reached the third stretch of the mountain, which was the easiest to climb-as they didn't really have to climb anything. It was mostly smooth rocks, a lot of them naturally formed stairways, and smooth paths.
"Hey this looks easy!" Magnetic said, making her way across the level walkways.
"Come on," Lei said smiling. She followed Magnetic and so did the other girls. Zippy started walking, but abruptly stopped.
"You okay Zippy?" Fidget asked, turning around.
Zippy was bent with pain as she clutched her stomach yet again. She fell to her knees and started whimpering with agony.
"It must be that Sploosh she ate," Rogue said, it was the first thing she had said all day. "You gonna be okay?" she asked Zippy.
Usually Zippy would have nodded, trying to seem stronger, but today she didn't. She stayed bent, her nose almost touching the ground.
"Come on!" Magnetic cried. "We're almost there! Zippy you'll be fine!"
"Mag, I don't think she can walk," Lei said, she sat down next to Zippy, trying to comfort her.
Magnetic heaved an angry sigh and turned away from the path beyond. "Come on Zippy! It's just over those rocks! You're strong, you can make it! Let's go ALREADY!"
Zippy raised her head just long enough to glare at Magnetic.
"What?" Magnetic said sheepishly as all the girls glared at her.
"Do you want to lye down or something?" Lei asked, looking concerned.
"No," Zippy said, standing back up, though she still looked a little dazed. They began walking again.
"What the hell is that?" Armpit asked, pointing up at the ledge sticking out from the mountain.
The boys had reached the base of the mountain, but unlike the girls they didn't celebrate. They now looked arond for an easy way to climb up, even though they were very tired and their muscles were sore.
"If we climb it," Zigzag had said a few hours earlier, "then we'll be able to see the girls somewhere out on the desert-I think."
So the boys had all agreed on climbing the mountain to get a fair view of the desert. But now as they stood at the base of the mountain they realized with dismay just how big the mountain was, and so they decided just to climb to the ledge Armpit now pointed at.
"What are you talkin' about?" Squid asked, looking up at the ledge too but seeing nothing but rocks.
Armpit had thought he'd seen a person standing up there on the ledge, but now wondered if his was going delirious as there was nothing visible now but rocks.
"Let's start up this way," Zigzag said, pointing to a bunch of rocks shaped as a very messy stairwell. The boys began to climb immediately, Zero having some trouble as sometimes he wasn't tall enough to reach the next ledge or crevice; and Armpit having a lot of trouble due to his weight. But over all the boys climbed at a quick pace, faster than the girls had as a lot of the boys were taller and stronger than the girls.
"Come on Armpit!" Xray shouted down. All the boys, except Armpit, were pretty close to the ledge now. Armpit was farther below, worried about climbing a stretch of rock where there wasn't any large ledges and just a lot of tiny foot holes.
"Come on Armpit, we're almost to the ledge!" Squid shouted.
Armpit shook his head. "No way in hell am I climbin' up that!" he cried.
"COME ON!" the boys yelled.
Armpit reluctantly grabbed for a crevice to help pull himself up. He stuck his feet in two foot holes and began to shakily climb up the mountain. He climbed slowly, cussing as he went, making a lot of the small ledges crumble beneath him, but finally he caught up to the other boys.
"Well finally!" Zigzag said, then he started climbing again, as did the other boys.
"We're almost there," Squid repeated to himself, as he looked up at the ledge sticking out over their heads.
Chase started climbing again, her arms were tired and sore from the many attempts she'd failed, but she wasn't giving up that easy. She reached up for a crevice and pulled herself up, it hurt her head to strain her muscles so much but she had to keep going. She looked around for another crevice off to the left, planning on taking a different path up the mountain than the many she'd already tried.
She climbed as quickly as she could, ever thinking about how far the other girls had gone. She reached up for another crevice and stood on a rock sticking out from the mountain, she had almost slipped before she grabbed hold of another crevice and pulled herself to that.
It took her some time but finally she pulled herself up onto a large ledge; the beginning of the third stretch. She was almost there.