Chapter 5-The Hike. (Special Thanks to incrediblesfan1 for the request!)
Dash, Violet, and Karen had backpacks on their backs as they climbed up the side of a mountain hill.
"Man, am I glad we decided to go for a hike." Violet said as she took a drink of water.
"Yeah, thanks for inviting us, Aunt Karen." Dash said as they headed near the halfway checkpoint.
"No problem, kids." Karen said as they reached it and noticed a sign that said, "DETOUR". It was pointing in the direction opposite of where they were headed.
"That's funny. That's not what our map says. Oh, well." Karen said before they went down the route. Along the way, Dash thought he heard something. He looked at a log where he heard grass rustle and what came out terrified him so much he jumped into Karen's arms like Scooby-Doo.
"Dash, what's wrong?" Karen asked before Dash pointed with a shaky arm at what it was. Karen and Violet looked and froze at seeing a large snake.
"Y-yikes! A sn-sn-sn-snake!" Violet said before she grabbed Dash's bag and hid behind Karen.
"Just move slowly, kids. If we don't aggravate it, it'll leave us alone." Karen said as they moved away slowly, watching the snake and sighing with relief as it slithered away, only to freeze in terror when they saw a hug gathering of snakes in front of them.
"Hey, Aunt Karen, think you can use your powers to get us past these snakes?" Dash asked.
"Okay." Karen said before she opened a portal to the other side of the snakes.
The three of them went through slowly before inching away from the snakes and running.
When they stopped to catch their breath, Violet handed Dash his pack.
"All right. Onward!" Karen said before they resumed their trek.
After another 30 minutes, they arrived at a trail that was full of sharp rocks that were shaped like spikes and a few thorns.
"Yikes. Sharp trail, huh, kids?" Karen asked.
"Yeah." Dash and Violet said before they all inched forward carefully, Dash singing a song he heard on Looney Tunes to try and calm himself as he carefully moved past the sharp cutting thorns and rocks.
"To trip it, trip it, trip it, trip it up and down. To trip it, trip it, trip it…" Dash started before he literally tripped over a rock in the ground.
"Trip It! TripItTripItTripItTripItTripItTripItTripItTripItTripItTripIt, WHOA, Whoops!, TripItTripItTripItTripItTripItTripItTripItTripItTRIPTRIPIT!" Dash said rapidly as he stumbled down the hill and ended up falling down at the bottom of the hill, scared but seemingly unharmed.
"Hey, Dash! You okay?!" Karen called.
"Yeah!" Dash called back before he felt a sudden sting in his leg. He looked at the back of it and saw it was bleeding.
"Hang on, I'll be right down there with a bandage!" Karen said before she and Violet slipped and slid down the hill, Violet getting a cut on her arm and Karen a cut on her leg.
"Well, can't say we got too badly hurt." Karen said before she bandaged herself and them up.
As they neared the end of the trek, they heard slithering behind them and turned around shakily, making a break for it when they saw the snakes coming after them, having been awoken by them making noise falling. They scrammed farther ahead, trying to avoid the snakes as they chomped at their feet. Eventually, the snakes gave up and went away after the three of them climbed to higher ground.
"Whew, I think we're good." Karen said before they moved on and they neared the finish post, only for a nearby steam pipe to suddenly leak a green cloud.
"What the heck is that?" Violet asked before the gas entered their nostrils and they started snickering before Karen started to laugh, as did Violet, and then Dash.
"Whahahahahahahahahat's wrohohohohohohohohohohohohong with us!?" Karen asked as she fell on her back, laughing.
That hahahahahahahaha hahahahaha must behehehehehehehehehehehe laughing gas!" Violet laughed as she fell to her hands and knees.
"Well, whahahahahahahahahahahahahahahat do we dohohohohohohohohohohohohohohoho?!" Dash asked as he rolled around on the ground, laughing.
"Let's tryhehehehehehehehehehe to mahahahahahahahahahahahahahahake it to the end!" Violet said as the three heroes struggled to get up before they walked towards the end of the trail.
"Almohohohohohohohohohohohohost there." Karen said as they tried not to collapse in fits of laughter again and eventually made it to the end. By the time they had, the gas had worn off.
Violet wiped a tear out of her eye, "I don't think I've ever laughed so hard in my life." she said.
"Right?" Dash said.
"You know, kids, the sign shouldn't have led us to that kind of route. I get the feeling that one of our old enemies had something to do with it." Karen said.
"You might be right, Aunt Karen." Dash said before they headed to a nearby shack to get lunch.