Carlos and Tracker arrived to quite the sight. They had a rough idea of what it looked like from the start, obviously, but you really can't prepare yourself to see an entire city of people covered with blood and bodies. Seeing some of your best friends in conditions like they were, it's a miracle not a single one of the survivors vomited. They were tempted to, but not enough for it to happen. Onto what you care about, they tried to get as much blood cleaned up as possible. It's kinda hard to clean the blood of the people you've come to know and bond with. It was hard, they didn't want to do it, but in their minds, they had too. They really didn't though, Canada has much more than just the PAW Patrol as any form of emergency contact, but I guess to an extent, it makes sense. This is their city, their friends, their people; they saved these people many times, it would just be wrong to leave their corpses to random people. It's kind of a nothing excuse but if you try, it makes sense. There's also the fact that it really looks like they did it from an outside perspective.
Part one to their mission was to clean it up. Part two was to figure out what happened to the people. Rocky and Skye had ideas based on what happened prior to the end of Adventure Bay, but they don't have proof of anything, and maybe they'll never have any. They can try though.
There were only four of them and they were all getting sicker by the minute, so they decided to call for more people. They could also help them in figuring out the mystery. The first person they tried to call was Jake, to see if he was still around, and judging by the fact that the call was left unanswered, it seems like a hard no. Next up was Everest; just because Jake was gone doesn't mean Everest was, it only implies it. Sometimes implications come true, and this time it did. Unfortunately, Everest didn't answer either, so it appears the mountain was also hit with the massacre.
"No one is left around here." Skye said, with the same sadness as always.
"If no one is left here, we need someone from somewhere else." Rocky began, "Like Foggy Bottom."
"But Humdinger isn't really the helpful type." Carlos explained.
"He's not a killer, he has feelings. I'm sure Humdinger has something within him to help us out." Rocky replied, convincing all of them.
Following this was pure suspense. If Humdinger answers, Adventure Bay was likely the only place hit, and if he doesn't... it's best not to think of that...
He answered. Relief swept over the four as Humdinger answered with reluctance and his usual grumpy attitude was displayed.
"Huh? What is it? What do you want?" Humdinger asked, with a tone showing nothing was wrong in Foggy bottom.
"Mayor, we need your help with something..." Skye responded, thinking in her head how to properly break the news.
"Now I'm sure that whatever you need my help with cannot possibly concern me." Humdinger replied without hesitation.
"No, it doesn't, but... Just look..." Skye explained, showing Humdinger the scene of Adventure Bay.
Following this was the only time Skye could recall Humdinger being genuinely concerned for her and anyone else in the PAW Patrol. Yeah, he's not the best person in the world, but seeing innocent people who were killed in the most gruesome ways it seemed possible, it showed them he had a heart, just as Rocky had said. He eventually agreed to come over and help with whatever they needed help with, which was mostly cleanup. As I said before, they refuse to call actual authorities because they think this is their responsibility, so they're calling people they know for help when they want it. The one problem with that is that most of the people they know are dead. They're doing this slowly, but eventually it will be done.
Humdinger arrived and did everything he said he'd do. Yes, he's greedy, no, he doesn't care much for the PAW Patrol, but this is extremely bad, and Humdinger thought that he could do something useful, and he did. He basically acted as the Ryder of the group, giving out commands and everything. He was the least mentally affected by this than everyone else by an absolute mile, which meant he would've been the calmest and therefore most fit to command. Although he was Humdinger, they trusted him in this situation. They had other people that they could've called, but they decided not to bother more than they had to and Humdinger was more than enough.
It took forever, it was grueling, it was mentally damaging, but they did it. Adventure Bay was for the most part, cleaned up. Obviously they didn't expect themselves to clean absolutely everything up, and they new that eventually someone would come around and see the carnage. All they could hope for was to find the answer to what happened, rebuild Adventure Bay, and hope that whoever comes doesn't believe that the group did it.
"Now that that's all over, what do we do?" Skye questioned, still with all kinds of bad feelings in her mind.
"We try to figure out what happened here." Rocky answered, with the same feelings as Skye.
"What happens if we can't?" Carlos asked, only ever so slightly less emotional than the others.
"I said try for a reason, Carlos. If we don't, we dont, but we need to try because we should know." Rocky responded, gaining a nod from Carlos.
That is what they decided to do next. They went hunting for answers to what caused this. Rocky and Skye had the right idea with the apples, but what did it? What did the apples have to do with what did it? There are many unanswered questions that may never be answered, but they were going to look. It's not a matter of if they find it, it's a matter of if they look, and they were going to do that.
"We need to think of something to call this moment. Something that's not super simple." Skye recommended.
Rocky heard that and began thinking, "...How about... The Armageddon?"