"Okay, who's ready?" Jade asked the next morning. She had drawn a large ring in the sand with a stick she had in her hand. She held it like a lance and pointed it at the challenger, Dana. In her hand was another stick and it looked as though she did not want to be here. Which she didn't.

"Er...can I have a say in this?" she asked.

"Hey, you drew the shortest straw," Amy said. "Now move it!"

"Ohhh..." Dana gulped and stepped into the ring. "Now what?"

"We bow," Jade said, lowering her body. Dana mimicked her. "And now..."

"Wait! Can I say something?"

"ATTACK!" Jade jumped into the air and was about to strike Dana, but she swung at the air instead as Dana took off running. "I guess that means you're out."

"I wasn't ready!" Dana shouted before finally finding the courage to step back into the ring. "Okay. Please take it easy."

"Kick her butt, Dana," Amy shouted.

"Knock her brains out," Sasha cheered on.

Dana felt a little more confident and she held her stick like a sword. "Okay."

Jade swung her staff, but Dana blocked it, pushed her back and swung the stick, but Jade did not back down. Jade swung the staff, trying to get a beat on her, but she was so fast, Jade couldn't even touch her. Still, she left herself wide open. With a quick sweep, Jade knocked Dana off her feet and pointed the staff at her. "I win."

"Best two out of three?" Dana asked as she stood up.

"Oof!" Dana fell flat on her face.

"Hey, look on the bright side," Jade said as she helped her up. "You actually managed to hit me that one time. Too bad you didn't knock me off my feet. Wanna go again?"

"No way! I think I pulled something that time!" Dana dropped the stick and marched off.

Jade shrugged her shoulders. "Oh, well. Who's next?"

Sasha stepped forward and picked up the stick. "I don't know much about what you know, but I won't lose!"

Jade smirked. "Bring it."

Sasha swung the stick at Jade, catching her off guard and forcing her to block. Jade blocked more of her attacks then when she saw an opening, she took a jab at Sasha's stomach. Sasha groaned and put a hand on her belly. Jade jumped into the air and tried to smack her upside the head, but Sasha rolled out of the way and hit Jade from behind with the stick.

Jade mentally growled as she thought, She's not going to give me a chance to counter. In that case... A shadowy tendril snaked up Sasha's leg and pinned her foot down. "What the..." Distracted, Sasha did not see the staff coming and she fell to the ground.

"Oh, yeah! Who's bad?"

Sasha groaned as she stood up. "What was that? Something caught my leg!"

"Maybe you got stuck on a root?" Jade asked as she helped her up.

"No. Something popped out of the ground..." Sasha looked around. "It looked like a snake or something."

"Really? I don't see anything," Jade said, pretending to look innocent. Unbeknownst to her, Sasha was raising her eyebrow at her.

"Assistance please. Assistance!" the girls heard Tara call out. They found the girl in the shelter, lying on her bed with a look of pain on her face. Her beet red face.

"What's wrong with you?" Jade asked.

"Mother nature is soooo unforgiving."

"Can you sit up?" Amy asked.

"I'll try." Tara slowly stood up, groaning as she did. "Ow! Look at me!"

"Do we have to?" grimaced Amy.

"My mom is going to flip! Do you know what she's going to say?! 'Tara, you nincompoop! I told you to pack your sunscreen when you go on this trip!'"

"It's just a little sunburn," Jade said.

"Don't toy with me, Jade! I'll be shedding for weeks!"

"Welcome to the great outdoors, my friend. What a whiner."

"I wouldn't be so quick to say that," said Sasha. "You're looking a little red, too." Jade looked down at her arms. Indeed, they were turning a little red, and now that she thought of it, she felt itchy. In fact, the only person on this island who wasn't red and itchy was Vanessa Barone.

Dana sighed. "It's too bad we don't have any aloe vera."

"There is some in my bag," Vanessa said. "You can use it."

Dana nodded and ran to get the bottle of the soothing lotion. Tara let out a yelp as she applied it to her red skin. Jade meanwhile, just gave Vanessa a suspicious frown. The treasure hunter smirked at her.

Jade sat on a branch of a tree while Tara, Dana and Amy played on the beach. She wondered where to go from here next when she heard Sasha's voice say, "Hey, whatcha doing?"

"Oh, just resting. Wondering what new adventures will await me once I get off this boring island."

"Well, we're going to go back to the camp after this whole thing blows over. There's still a spot for you, you know."

"Eh, thanks, but no. I still want to live the life of an adventurer."

Sasha made a disappointed face, then she made a smile and said, "I understand. Being a Buttercup Scout is not enough for a cool kid like you."

Jade looked down. "You think I'm cool?"

"Of course! Although, truth be told, I am going to be a little sad when you leave."

Jade thought it over. "We could always come here. The entire troop. It would be our vacation hideaway."

"How will we do that?"

"I have my ways."

"You can tell me. I am your friend, after all. We all are."

Jade made a smile. "Wow. That's...really..."

Suddenly, there was a loud scream followed by sobbing. Jade and Sasha took off running to the source of the sound: Dana writhing in pain while Tara and Amy tried to keep her still.

"What happened?!" Sasha exclaimed.

"I was picking sea shells," Dana sobbed. "And something stabbed my foot!" On the ankle of her left foot was a bloody wound.

"It looks like she's been stung by a stingray," said a voice. The scouts turned to see Vanessa, free from her bounds.

"How did you get loose?!" Jade exclaimed.

"Please. I've escaped worse. Like I was going to be bound by a bunch of Girl Scouts." Vanessa inspected Dana's wound. "Oh, yeah, this is really bad. We have to cure this right away."

"How are we gonna do that?" Amy asked. "We're right in the middle of nowhere!"

"There's a plant on this island that acts as an antidote for poisons and venoms. It grows in the center of the island." She stood up and started walking only to be stopped by Jade. "What?"

"And why should we trust you to get it?"

"Because I'm the only one who knows what it looks like," Vanessa snapped. "Now, stay here and help your friend. Apply some pressure to the wound, it should leak out some of the venom."

"Nuh-uh! I'm not trusting a bad guy with my new friends! I'm coming with you!"

Vanessa just laughed. "You're just a kid who's in way over your head." She ruffled Jade's hair before walking into the jungle.

Dana continued whimpering as her friends applied pressure to her wound. "It's really bad," Amy said. "We really need to get her to a hospital."

"But Vanessa says she can find that plant!"

"Can we really trust her, Sasha?"

"Well, no, but it's better than nothing, right Jade?" No one answered. "Jade?"

Amy looked up. "Hey, where did she go?"

Vanessa growled as she trudged through the jungle. "I can't believe I'm doing this!" She suddenly fell flat on her face. Groaning, she looked and saw that she tripped on a root. "I hate this jungle." She parted pushed some bushes aside and walked to another beach where a handmade raft with the Butterfly Scouts flag as a sail and bags of fruit were waiting. "It's a good thing I managed to build this while everyone wasn't looking." She scoffed. "Stupid kids. I've escaped from worse prisons than this. In fact, the only thing I couldn't stand was that annoying chatter!" Suddenly, out of nowhere, the raft exploded. "What?!"

"I knew there was something up with you." Vanessa looked around to see Jade coming out from a line of trees. "There is no plant on this island, is there?"

"Oh, there is," Vanessa said with a smirk. "But since you've ruined my only way off this island, there's no way I'm helping anyone!"

Jade wasn't falling for it at all. "Tch. Help? If you were helping, why didn't you tell us you built that raft?"

Vanessa crossed her arms behind her back, feeling the spare whip she kept in her sleeve. "I hate people like you, Jade. Too darn perceptive." She produced the whip and was about to strike the girl with it, only for it to be grabbed by a blue hand. "Huh?" Vanessa asked, dumbfounded. Holding the whip's end was a ninja garbed entirely in black with only the red eyes showing.

"You shouldn't have done that," Jade said, her skin turning blue and her eyes turning red. "My real friends don't like it when their Queen is in danger." With a snap of her fingers, Vanessa found herself surrounded by dozens of the ninjas.

She then chuckled. "So, I really wasn't seeing things when I was building my raft at night. You're full of surprises. You could have gotten off this island any time you wanted. Why stay?"

"Let's just say I have appearances to keep."

"What a coincidence. So do I!" She yanked the whip out of the ninja's grip and whipped its face, making it vanish. Then she slashed the whip at three more ninjas before they had a chance to pounce her. One ninja snuck up behind her and wrapped its arms around her, but she slammed it into a tree behind her, making it vanish.

Three of the ninjas tossed throwing stars at Vanessa, but she deflected them all back with a kick. They struck their owners, making them vanish. Another ninja tried to slash at her with a dagger, but she dodged all the attacks before grabbing its knife arm, twisting it at an awkward angle and making it stab itself, destroying it.

"Is that all you got," the treasure thief asked with a smirk until she felt a pair of hands grab her ankles and pull her down into her own shadow before she had a chance to scream.

"I learned that trick from Viper," Jade said with a smirk. Then she frowned as she remembered Dana, who's probably in agony at this point. "No time for subtly now." She vanished into the shadows and found herself in Sector 13, more specifically, the vault where the talismans were kept. She grabbed the one talisman she needed before she transported herself back to Desolation Island. She turned back to normal and ran back to her friends as soon as possible.

Jade found the girls in the shelter and Dana had taken a turn for the worse. She was whimpering with pain, sweating profusely and her foot was starting to swell and turn purple. "Whoa! How long have I been gone?"

"Where the heck were you?!" Sasha demanded. "Where's Vanessa and the plant?!"

Jade held out the ruined orange flag. "You're not going to believe this. Vanessa built a raft every night while we were sleeping and was planning on ditching us."

"What?!" exclaimed Tara. "But she helped us all those times."

"She was just buttering us up. I knew she couldn't be trusted."

"But what about Dana's medicine?" asked Tara.

"It didn't exist," Jade said. "It was just an excuse for her to escape the island without us."

"But Dana's..."

"I have an idea. Stand back." The other girls walked out of Jade's way and allowed her to stand next to the whimpering girl. She took out a hexagram-shaped stone with a horse carved into it. She placed the stone on Dana's foot and it began to glow. Slowly, Dana's foot began to deflate and its color turned back to normal. Then her breathing began to ease and slow. Finally, Jade lifted the stone off of her. "Done."

The other girls blinked in surprise. "How did you do that?!"

Jade smirked. "Horse for healing."

"Is that one of those talismans you talk about in your stories?" Sasha asked.

"Yep! Pretty cool, huh?"

The girls looked at each other. "Uh, can that cure sunburn as well?" asked Tara.

"Step right up! Dr. Jade is in the house!"

The girls found eventually found Vanessa after some further exploring. She was bound like a mummy and a pear was stuffed into her mouth. "Whoa, you really did a beating on her," commented Tara.

"She deserved it," Jade said. Vanessa flinched at the sound of her voice.

"Wait," Dana said. "Do you hear that?"

The girls listened. "You mean the sound of waves crashing?" Jade asked.

"No. I hear..." Dana's eyes widened. "A boat engine!"

The girls' felt excitement. Boat engine means... "Help has arrived!" They began laughing and singing and dancing. Jade then said, "Hey, I'm going to check it out. Stay here with the prisoner." The scouts saluted as she took off. "Oop!" she exclaimed, before putting the Horse Talisman in her shoe. "Don't want Jackie getting suspicious. Better put this back before anyone notices it's gone."

Jade found Jackie on the beach, calling her name. "Jackie!" He saw her, ran up to her and gave her a hug. "Where are the others?" he asked.

"With little miss globe trotter crook," Jade said, pointing behind her. The two found the scouts, playing on the beach with the bound and gagged Vanessa Barone still right where they left her.

Jackie smiled and put his hands on his hips. "Ah, you used those first aid skills I taught you."

"Actually, it was a little something I picked up on TV," said Jade. "'Robinson Crusoe Goes Hawaiian'."

"So how are we going to get home, Buttercup Mom Jackie?" asked Sasha asked.

Jackie led the girls to a tiny dingy. "No way that will hold us all," Jade pointed out.

"Ahem." Everyone looked to the right. There was Tohru, on a dingy big enough for everyone; nearby was a small yacht. "Hello!" he said cheerfully. The girls cheered.

"Tohru?" asked Jackie, confused.

"I was hoping to purchase some more cookies."

"Once we are back home, I will buy you all you can eat!" Jackie said, patting the large man's back.

The girls shared a cabin in the yacht Tohru rented. "Finally we're finally going home!" Dana exclaimed.

"So, what will be the first thing when you get home?" asked Jade.

"First," Dana said. "I'm going to be getting out of these leaves and back into real clothes."

"I hear you. I was a tad uncomfortable with these," Tara said. "I don't know how hula dancers put up with them."

"What about you?" Amy asked Sasha.

"I'll keep doing what I do best: being a Buttercup Scout and who knows, maybe I'll be a Honeysuckle Scout now that Jade is quitting."

Jade just shrugged her shoulders. "Eh. I can live with that."

"Well, if it means anything," Sasha said. "We're going to miss you."

Jade handed the scouts some slips of paper. "My number. Call me if you want to have a sleepover, or hang out or...whatever."

"Thanks."