Yellow was the first person to catch on to the cannon booms that threatened to blow them out of the water.

Jumping into action, he steered the boat far enough to where they weren't hit by the spheres being tossed into the water, the arguments being long forgotten.

"Get inside as fast as you can!" He screamed, speeding towards the land underneath the base.

It had enough to where they could get inside single-file, so long as they didn't continue the freakouts.

"How do we get in now?!" King shouted over the screams of panic coming from the other teenagers.

Green looked around, forgetting Dark and Second weren't there. "The only other two people who know that base inside out aren't here, so getting in is going to be literally impossible!"

"There's gotta be another way in!" Blue shouted over the noise.

"EVERYBODY CALM DOWN!" Yellow screamed. He couldn't think of a decent plan with everyone around him screaming over each other!

"We can't calm down when we're being fired at!" Green shouted.

"Fair point. But still, we should still try and remain calm in order to think of a plan. And you guys are refusing to remain calm, and it's giving me a headache." Yellow said calmly.

"Fine. What's your plan?" Chosen asked, finally getting a chance to speak after the wrangle of kids finally began to relax.

Yellow took a glance at a broken window, and got an idea.

"I think our friends beat us to it." Yellow said.

"How?" Suddenly, Fern had noticed the broken glass. "Oh. I bet that was your other two hollowheaded friends."

"Second, you are a goddamned genius." Yellow said to himself.

Ignoring the original plan of just breaking in, Yellow got everyone inside the window(thank Alan it was on the ground floor), and they began searching for the small group that they had separated from days prior.

It was a very large building, maybe seven stories, with no elevator in sight."

"God, this place is huge." Blue sighed.

"Dark commented it had the layout of a castle." Chosen said.

"Well, he sure as hell wasn't wrong."

"Let's just get through this as quick as we can, without getting captured." Fern said.

As they walked, Yellow began thinking.

If the guards were still active, and were still following orders, but Navy and Orchid were supposed to be dead...

Wait.

"Hey! Earth to Yellow!" Green snapped his fingers in his face, getting his attention.

"What happened?! I was just...thinking of something."

"Like what?"

"How those guards are still following orders, even thought their bosses are supposed to be dead."

King glanced at him. "He does make a point. But putting it into perspective, Night Shade escaped just after Purple killed Orchid, and Navy's been dead the whole time..."

"And Navy and Orchid are the only people they'll listen to...that's it!"

"What's it?"

"Night Shade! He's got some type of...power or something!"

"Like Purple's abilities? Since we've discovered he has some type of resurrection or regeneration abilities, like Second does." King suggested.

"Exactly like that! Night Shade has some type of regeneration abilities or something, which is why Navy and Orchid just won't stay dead!"

Green began putting the pieces together. "Wait...so does that mean..."

"Night Shade is the real villain that we need to stop," King said, earning a crap ton of surprised glances. "So long as he's alive..."

"Navy and Orchid are unstoppable."

Willow punched another guard in the face, sending him flying to the ground when another one jumped on her back, pulling them both to the ground.

She kicked at their stomach, getting them off of her, and she scrambled to her feet to get inside the room she had pushed Red and Purple into.

"This way!"

A voice caught her attention. What the hell was that?!

Another guard got the jump on her, attacking her once she was distracted.

"Shit!"

"Hey! Get your hands off my sister!"

That was the voice that got her attention.

"Fern?!"

A group of brightly colored teenagers attacked the guards, giving Willow a chance to get away.

"Willow!"

"Fern, what the hell are you doing here?!" She shouted. As happy as she was to know her brother was alive, it was a war zone at the moment.

And they were in the middle of it.

"His kid got kidnapped." Fern gestured to the orange stick next to him.

"Purple?"

"Bingo."

Willow gasped. She had just seen him! "This way!"

She rammed her arm against the door, trying to break it down, noticing more arrive.

Gold?

Memories of her childhood came rushing back to her. She had barely remembered Gold until just now!

"Hey, Sunny? I'm gonna get you outta here, okay?" Her voice was gentle, a natural for her. The woman in her family genetically had soft spoken voices unless provoked.

Sunny didn't look up, so Willow let vines curl around the arch supports and they wrapped around the chains.

The chains gradually loosened around Sunny, so Willow grabbed her hand in case she fell.

"Gold! Get ready to catch!" She shouted.

Gold pushed Mocha out of the way and held his arms up, ready to catch the lightweight girl.

Willow gave Sunny a reassuring smile before dropping her into Gold's arms.

She slid down another support and glared at Mocha's friends. "I get why your name is Mocha. Your brain is the size of a coffee bean! A Mokka coffee bean too!"

"And why is that?"

"Because your Mokka pellet bird brain thought it would be so hilarious to let a child be chained up and dangling over woodchips!"

"Your calling me a bird brain?!"

Vines shot put just underneath Willow's palms. "I will make you into bird food if you don't shut your mouth, because nobody asked for your words of disrespect and disregard for a child's life and safety."

Teachers returned moments later. "Willow, Mocha, Sunny. Principals office. Now."

Gold stepped up. "Sunny and Willow are not going with. They are not culprits in this."

"Mocha and his friends chained Sunny up on top of the swings, and Willow rescued her." Another kid said.

The other kids began agreeing. "Willow and Sunny are innocent!"

The teacher stared at them, dumbfounded. "Fine. Mocha, principals office. Sunny, nurses office."

Mocha snarled.

As Sunny began walking with the teacher, she gave Willow a sad smile. "Thank you."

Willow smiled back, happy to help a friend.

She couldn't dwell on that now. They had to get Purple out of there.

She began a fight go on inside.

Was it even a storage closet?

It couldn't have been if there was a fight happening!

"In here!"

"Where's my brother?!"

"Yellow, this way!"

"Perfect timing." They heard from inside.

Willow used all her strength to push the door open, and as guards began trying to grab at them, she kicked it down, and everyone fell in.

And everything went to shit.

The pink stick figure stabbed the needle into Purple's arm, and Night Shade threw a smoke bomb, pushing Red off of him to prevent unwanted company.

The guards quickly ran off, presumably to where Orchid and the others had gone.

Red stared at the group of sticks that was regaining their senses. "That was real great timing, guys."

Green glared at him. "Shut up. Purple's dead."

"Well...not dead. He's a puppet."

"A what?!"

"I'll explain on the way, but we've gotta get to the roof. That's probably where they are."

"Why?"

"I think Navy might be fighting Dark and Second inside Purple's mind, and if we're gonna stop him, we've gotta hurry."

"Why?" Red asked.

"Because that'll cause catastrophic and irreversible damage that we can't risk." Chosen explained.

"As if that isn't bad enough, we just figured out something that could completely destroy their plan." Green deadpanned.

Red's eyes lit up. "And that is?"

"Night Shade is the puppet master behind this entire thing, and as long as he is alive-" King started.

"Navy and Orchid are practically unstoppable?" Red finished.

"Exactly."

"Fuck."

"But..." Yellow started. "I might have a plan to stop him."