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Mal'ady peeked out the window at the MUPPETZ chasing them, and then turned to go back to her seat. Agent CyKo's sudden revving of the sub caught her off guard, and she jumped in surprise, then lurched forward as their speed increased. Just when she had nearly recovered her balance, the toe of her boot caught in the worn carpet of the sub, and she tripped and staggered across the room, landing in a seat just behind the cockpit.
She quickly checked for any broken bones or crumbled Doritos. Satisfied that all was well, she tightened the buckle on the gun holsters at her side and gave Agent Summer an encouraging grin.
Suddenly, Mal'ady's brow furrowed as mental images of the tunnel leading to the lake, the sub, and the pursuing MUPPETZ all came together in her mind. She pulled a slender, leather-covered book from her satchel and pressed a spot on the binding. A light blinked once, and the leather cover transformed into a state-of-the-art A.N.T.I. satellite phone.
Mal'ady pressed a few buttons on the touch screen and was soon searching through the online A.N.T.I. database. . "A-ha!" she cried. "I knew it! Dratted MUPPETZ...they're worse than Orcs and sparkling vampires combined!"
"Agent CyKo, I've found this lake in the database. Somehow...I doubt it was a coincidence that we found ourselves here. And CyKo," she took a deep breath, "we are headed into a minefield."
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Before she could tell about the first time she had eaten a cheese puff, the stranger had clapped her hand over Agent Thorn's mouth, muttered something about footsteps and needing help, and shoved her into a closet and slammed the door shut.
Eyes wide, the dryad pushed her boot-clad feet hard against the metal of the floor, feeling for vibrations. Sensing other objects' weight, proximity and movement was an ability that all dryads possessed, called woodsight. Agent Thorn was no exception. Her abilities were sharpest when she was inside her tree and could feel the roots in the soil, but years of training with A.N.T.I had sharpened this awareness for times when she was thousands of miles away from her home tree, and even when she was on water.
Trying to keep quiet, Agent Thorn pressed her ear against the door, straining to hear what was being said. Trees didn't have ears, after all, and her hearing was thoroughly average.
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"A minefield?" CyKo stuttered, then grew dull and serious. "This would be the perfect place for a cliche about courage, but I think that a cliche about danger would work better. 'Better strap your seatbelts, agents!'"
CyKo realized that he hadn't yet taken off his helmet. "Help me unstick my helmet, guys!" He tried every which way to take it off, but the ducttape wouldn't budge. After a while, he just gave up and let it be. "At least I look cool."
He now knew that both Weirdsworth and Thorn were together and safe.... for now.
Aquatic MUPPETZ continued to attack, and ultimately splat on the windshield of the submarine. "Turn on the window wipers." (here he clicked a button) The furry googly eyed Muppetz were wiped away, and vision was restored.
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A.N.T.I. (American Nitwits Think Intelligently): The Rebellion
hearing Cyko's orders to take your sits, Whit exits her closet with a couple precautionary swipes to her eyes to try and hide any puffiness and any stray tears. She put on her biggest prefected brave face and walks to her sit in the rear of the sub.
Just to be safe Whit kept her eyes shut as the MUPPETZ splatted on the windshield. several more orders were thrown about until she realized it had become a bit more dark, even with her eyes closed. Tentaviely opening her eyes to not see any more MUPPETZ but they were in a cave... but then she remembered the word she heard earlier...minefield. The group of agents seemed pretty dumbfounded as to what to do in this situation, the sub was slowed down to keep caution not to hit anything. Brainstorming fiercely Whit scanned through ideas, she wanted to help so very badly. Thinking on an okay idea she suggests
"Um...is there anyway we can make it so they MUPPETZ hit the minefield? Distract them somehow"
looks from her group showed they werent entirely convinced...thinking quick she decides this is a good time to tell them her plan
"Look, I am a complete and utter liability for this group, I always have to hide and can't help, I almost got us killed by trying to aviod that stupid shark, I can distract them by putting myself out there, maybe long enough all of you can get away. I want to help, I'm willing to do this"
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"Please, no!" Summer cried. Another memory flashed by as she thought of the last time this situation had occured. If someone was to experience water again, it was her. "If you must do it, I'll come with you in case!"
And before anyone could protest, she snatched a scuba bunny suit and got out of the sub. The dark ocean surrounded her, and she wished she had brought her Hydro Icy Shooter (HIS) with her. But before she could think anything else, she suddenly felt like something was pulling her in. She flipped around to identify a underwater cave sucking her in like a vaccum. "Help! Someone!" she pleaded, but it was too late. In a flash, she disappeared into the cave.
~*~ Brywahr Academy ~*~
"Lily.." murmured Darek, standing and gently laying a hand on her shoulder before she could leave entirely. "Never, and I mean never, hesitate to ask us for help. OK? I'm sure this wasn't a welcome intrusion on your day either." He smiled quietly and gave her shoulder a soft squeeze.
"Yeah," agreed Atom, "I guess it wasn't for Nan either." He winced at his own words and fell silent.
Darek nodded to Lily's leg as he opened the door for her. "Put some hot cloths on that as soon as you get back to your room. That should assist in mollifying the pain." He winked in an oddly big brotherly "yeah, I saw that" sort of way. But he did not ask about what had happened. "Trust us, Lily. We'll do what we can to solve this mystery of the odd gadgets."
"Or die trying!" cried Atom with mock gallantry.
Darek rolled his eyes, "No chance of that, Atom."
Atom snickered and mimicked being scared to death, complete with mute scream and wild clutching of the air as he fell over. Unfortunately, the look on his face was rather too comical to really look like he was afraid. For a moment he disappeared behind the bed, the next his curly head was peering over it.
"I know, I was only kidding."
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"Summer no!" Whit cried, this is exactly what she was trying to END. Having people do things for her and in the end them getting hurt on her account. She put on her scuba suit quickly and stepped to where she could jump out of the sub into the dark abyss to find Summer, whatever the cost, she was going to find her and get her back safe. She didn't look back at her fellow agents, she had no clue who to explain their reaction to this whole thing. But she muttered quietly
"I'll miss all of you. Keep looking for Thorn, I'll find Summer and bring her back". and then went into the cave in search of Summer
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Agent Boe watched in horror as Summer was sucked into the cave, and Whit followed voluntarily. "Hey! Being sucked dangerously into underwater caves is definitely against protocol!" Despite his warning, the two continued to be slurped inside the cavern until they disappeared.
Boe knew he would have to work quickly if he was going to rescue the two agents from breaking protocol (and potentially dying, or something). He rushed to the broom closet (which was apparantly a scuba suit closet as well). Summer had taken the bunny scuba suit, and Whit had taken another suit. The only one left was a green frog scuba suit. "Jeepers, a frog suit! I wouldn't be caught dead in that thing. So, let's hope I don't die." He quickly pulled it on and zipped it up, now looking like a huge SPELR-toting frog. "CyKo, the rope!" He said, and grabbed the rope that CyKo had previously used as he rushed through the air-lock and was shot out into the water outside.
Before he could even begin his rescue plan, he was inundated by a dozen MUPPETZ diver warriors, who all thought he was one of them, for some reason. They all held hands and formed a ring around him, singing some ridiculous song about being green. "If there's one thing I hate, it's a bunch of soggy scuba-diving sock-puppets singing in a circle," he muttered annoyedly. With blast of his SPELR, and a resulting explosion of bubbles, the MUPPETZ were cleared away. He then headed directly toward the cave, which was now sucking him in.
Before he reached it, however, the rope went taught, and he could go no futher. "More slack!" He called through the suits comsystem, hoping his companions would be able to give him more rope.
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~*~ Brywahr Academy ~*~
Lilly's heart felt a little lighter after that and she said "It was only McKenzie... I just... always get hurt somehow and I didn't want people to think that I'm as much of a caitiff as I actually am." She gave a morose little chuckle. "Thanks for your help." She nodded at both Darek and Atom. Then she left the room and headed towards her own.
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Evil Doctor Joe Weirdsworth the II appeared in Admiral Hank's chair. Sitting with his feet up on top of Admiral Hank's desk. Getting his muddy boots all over Admiral Hank's important papers.
"I'll tell you what happened; your ship has run out of two very vital life support systems. Your Oreo stash is gone as well as your Cheese puffs, sir. This is unacceptable for a boat this large; the SSS (Seagoing Safety Staff) would have your head my friend, how do you plead my friend?
"Guilty? Or non guilty? Wait. Why am I even asking you this? I already know you are guilty, you, you, evil fiend. Tell me one reason I should not blow this ship up! And before you ask I already wired the whole underneith of this ship with explosive powder. The makeup of which I cannot reveal. So I suggest you turn this boat around and take us back to the USI"
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When Admiral Hank ran into the room, Echo watched his face go through about ten different emotions in three seconds. It was quite amusing. She smirked. That had always been one of his weaknesses - you could read him like a book.
His face finally settled on a shade of red, similar in color to a cooked lobster.
"You - what - how did you get in here?" He immediately rounded on Echo.
She threw her hands in the air. "Hey, don't look at me! You're the one who doesn't allow cheese puffs on board!"
Hank was not amused. "What happened here? Who's he? Where'd this come from?" He held up a thorn.
"I - um -" Echo stammered. "I was trying out new foods. Crunchy thorns!" She grabbed it from him, severed its sharp tip, and popped the rest into her mouth. She cringed. "Um, yummy!"
Hank blinked. Echo read his face. He's going to make fun of me for being vegetarian, isn't he?
Then the Admiral turned back to the stranger who had teleported into his chair. His favorite chair. "Get your feet off my desk!"
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Princess Lia was on the submarine. It was obvious that Summer and Whit were in trouble, but it was also obvious that the sub was doomed. Agent CyKo sat in the pilot's seat, but the ship was still headed straight for the mine field. She pulled out a wad of Play Doh. It began to move like it was real. "Person!" she yelled, trying to ignore the odd looks from the other Agents. The Play Doh changed and shaped itself like a human. Lia's eyes got rounder and rounder as the Play Doh man walked towards the windows. He stared at the MUPPETZ for a full forty-five point five seconds.
Then he turned and looked at Lia expectantly. As he did so, Lia realized that he was waiting for her to give him the signal that meant it was okay to attack. She inclined her head slightly to the left and gave a small nod. "MUPPETZ bad. Attack!"
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Darek smiled at Lily's comment about being a "caitiff". "The modern dictionary definition of that word is 'base; despicable, or cowardly'. You are not a caitiff. Sensitive? Gentle? Yes. Cowardly? I think not."
He smiled again at her thanks and gave her a little bow as she walked out the door.
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In a flash, Summer felt herself being pulled through the cave. As much as she tried to grab the rock wall or the creepy clumps of something at the bottom, it wasn't working at all. For a moment, she looked back to see how far she'd gone. The entrance had vanished, but then she spotter another figure some ways back. Oh, she thought, I hope no one tried coming in here if there's something bad at the end of this cave!
As she turned back around, she nearly screamed. There ahead of her was total blackness. Ok, she panicked, it's ok, girl! You're not going to drown, and you'll be fine. So, she was sucked into the blackness, and before she knew it, she could see nothing. Summer pulled out her electric eel powered flashlight, but even that couldn't shine enough to show her were she was going. All of a sudden, she felt herself dropping down with no water. "Red Roaches!" she shrieked as she fell down into the darkness below.
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Mal'ady edged her way around Lia's Play-Doh creation, just as a flash of light and a sudden rumble surrounded them. Apparently a luckless MUPPETZ had stumbled onto one of the mines in its quest to catch the ship. Another explosion rippled through the water, and the sub rocked from side to side, its lights flickering.
Mal'ady stared at the map of the minefield on her phone's screen. "CyKo, steer left!" she cried, leaping into the copilot's seat. "Okay, good, now left again. Right, turn left, right, no, no, the other right! Now left!" The sub seemed to reach clearer waters for a moment, and she took a relieved breath.
She looked down at a bunch of flashing lights on her screen, and her eyes went wide. "I've lost the signal from Whit and Summer's tracking Doritos!" She stared, frozen, at CyKo for a moment before she burst out, "No, no, no! I mean their tracking chips!" Her shoulders slumped. "That always confuses me..."
Her screen beeped, and she looked up. They had only begun to navigate the minefield, according to the map, and yet in front of them, no light penetrated the water. They were sailing into utter darkness.
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