The Adventures of the
God Squad
Episode 56 "Malla"
After we solved the burning building mystery, I thought that finally all of our troubles were over, but I should have known better. Though much of Slugterra had converted, few still remained that still would either not believe or not obey me or accept me.
(Theme Song)
A few days after the mystery, a different group of students were taking a relaxing walk, chatting, laughing; enjoying the weekend break. Whilst walking, a strange flower popped up from the ground. It was absolutely, beautifully, stunningly, gorgeous! The flower itself was perfect red, the stem was bright, healthy green, and the leafs were golden yellow. What to do?
The boys wanted to smell it, but one said that they should report it. "Ah common! It's just a little flower. What harm can it do?" another asked. He leaned over and inhaled the flowers rich scent, but as soon as he did, the plant's seeds entered his, and took control! The boy was now under the influence and control of the flower. It commanded that he pick it and tell his friends to smell it. Once they all took sniffs, they were all under the power of the strange plant.
Soon the plant told them to plant more flowers in a secret garden, were more and more of them grew and produced. Soon they began to spread to other cities. The students took the flower to the school. One by one, they were taken over by the plant's psychological powers. Soon even my own team and family were infected! Finally, Anna took a flower and asked me to smell it, but something didn't feel right to me. I smiled and took the flower, but snapped it and took Anna into a hold. I heard a screech come from the plant, as a small cloud of pink dust emitted from it. "What's going on Anna? Another one of your tricks?" I asked. She began to laugh "Malla will soon control all of Slugterra, including you and everyone in the land." She said. She told me about the plant and that it will murder all of Slugterra and that nothing can stop her. "We'll see about that!" I said as I knocked her out. I escaped my facility and headed for a secret hiding place that only I knew about.
Jordan and Joseph were visiting their friends in northern Slugterra, but I didn't know if I should risk calling them, hence then them being able to track me. I called and asked for them to meet me in a remote location for a meeting. When they arrived, I was hiding in the shadows and corners on the ceiling. "Ok, were here. What do need Yvan?" They asked. I activated a shield so they couldn't escape. I scanned them and the readings showed that they were clean, then explained the situation to them. We headed to the Shadowclan, in hopes of getting some answers. They told us that Malla was a very dangerous plant and that they thought she was extinct, but apparently not. To kill her, we needed a special, rare plant that can kill her and make sure that she didn't return. But to get it, we needed to pass various obstacles.
The Shadowclan told us where to go, but couldn't help us because they were forbidden to enter those caves. We thanked them for their help and found the caves. We walked until we found a room full of sand and a slight trail and a small button on the wall. We pushed it and all the sand blew off the trail and we felt a slight rumble. We were about to set foot on the stone, when a spirit appeared to us. "Nothing may touch sand, or you shall see no more land." She said as she drifted away. Once we were about halfway through, we felt another rumble and the ceiling began to break and rocks began to fall! We shot slugs to catch or incinerate them and soon everything was calm. Once we got to the other side we headed to our next challenge. The next room was shaped like a cylinder and the floor had many tiles on it. The spirit appeared again and told us "You must cross the tiles of wisdom. Step wrong, and you all go bottom." She said as she disappeared. We sat and tried to figure out that challenge and what we were supposed to do. "Tiles of wisdom? What the heck is that supposed to mean?" asked Jordan frustrated. "Wisdom...wisdom...hmmm." I thought. "I've got it!" shouted out Joseph. "If these were the tiles of knowledge, then we would need to step on the right tiles because you guys know that there is a difference between knowledge and wisdom. As I see it, we need to be wise and figure out how to cross in the best possible way. Maybe we can somehow climb around it, do you see those bricks there? That's probably what we have to use to get across." He told us. We climbed around it with our mechanical arms and proceeded to the next test.
Finally we reached the final challenge and the spirit appeared to us once more. "This is your final challenge. Choose carefully..." she said as she vanished from us. The final room had 3 plants, one was slightly shining blue, the second was flashing green, and the third was shining bright yellow. We knelt down and began to pray, asking God to help us choose. We prayed and waited for hours, until we finally opened our eyes and looked up at the green plant. "It also makes logical sense, because green is the opposite colour of red." Said Jordan.
We approached the flower, but when we did, one of the steps sank, and the whole place began to crack and fall apart. "GET OUT, NOOOOOOWWW!" I shouted. We finally, just barely made it out of the cave when the cave entrance collapsed and was now barricaded in rocks and boulders. We all slowly got up and gazed at the cave. I slowly walked up to it and fell to my knees filled with grief and anger. Jordan put his hand on my shoulder and lifted me back to my feet. He put something in front me, but I didn't want anything at that moment. "Yvan, please." Said Jordan. I opened my eyes and I couldn't believe my eyes, it was the plant! I was overjoyed, but Joseph suddenly became stiff with fear. He charged at us and tried to grab the plant, but we dodged his attack and took him down. "It looks like Malla can hide her seeds from our scanners." Jordan said.
We wasted no time in getting back to the facility and started to craft the cure. We got into the secret jet and loaded the cure into self-injecting needles. We flew around all of Slugterra and soon everyone was cured. Malla was defeated! I congratulated and thanked Jordan for his service. Me and Jordan headed down to the bar for a drink. "Cheers!" we all said as we banged all our mugs together with everyone else in the bar. "Another day of saving all of Slugterra, nothing special." I said sarcastically. We all began to laugh and celebrated.