"Cupcake? That's a new one..." Clo said, opening and closing her hand as she got ready to strike. Her right hand flew towards Lia's face, fingernails poised to scratch.
As she watched Lia stumble back, the buzzing sound filled the air. Clo spun around, grabbed her high-heels and bag and ran towards Fall. Her eyes were on the thing landed on the ground.
"No one's ever burned you, nothing's ever left you scarred and even though you want to, just try to never grow up." -Taylor Swift, Never Grow Up
Lia just stared at summer when she suggested that a slap fight would not fix anything. "Whaa?" she asked, beginning to come out of Kitteh mode. Then she remembered Clo.
And received a punch in the nose. Luckily, it was not as hard as it could have been. Still, it was hard enough to knock her onto the ground. Wow, she thought. Slime molds are softer than I expected.
Standing up, but still a little dizzy, Lia looked around. She noticed that Clo was rather preoccupied with the buzzy thing that fell from the sky. Maybe it was a beehive and the bees would sting her. That would be lucky.
Changing her focus from Clo to Cyko, who was sleeping on the ground just outside of the molds. Poor cyclops, thought Lia. Too bad he isn't here on the comfy mold...
Then she had a brilliant idea.
Grabbing Cyko's wrists, Lia began to pull him onto the slime molds. It took all of her strength, but finally she got him onto the mold all the way.
It was then that Lia noticed something strange about Cyko. He was waking up.
Looking around the circle of mold, it hit her. Only Lia, Summer, and now Cyko were inside the mold. All the other agents were just outside of it. And they were sleeping. "It's the mold!" whispered Lia to Summer. "If we can get the other agents onto the mold they'll wake up! Like Cyko is!"
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Agents were still sleeping on the floor. Only a couple of moments ago, Summer had been one of them, dreaming of kittens and poodles, until she had landed into the mold somehow and had woken up. Now, she nodded to what Lia was saying, and began to sneak into the ruckus to drag an agent over. She heard a strange buzzing, but had no idea what it was, or cared at the moment.
Finally, she found Echo and Mal'ady lying over in a ditch. "Lia," she quietly called, "I found Mal'ady and Thorn-er-Echo! I need some help!" It would take her awhile to get used to Echo, but because they were both HumETZ, she felt a special and unusual connection to her. And hopefully, the real Thorn was ok wherever she was.
Summer finally placed Echo out of the ditch, and turned to get Mal'ady. But before she moved, a ninja squirrel threw a rope around her and tied her up. She was about to cry for help, but Squose climbed out of her pocket and squeaked, "Ichallengeyoutoaduel!" The two started fighting with paws, and Summer watched anxiously, hoping that Squose would win. But Squose was knocked down by the ninja squirrel, which only sniffed at the passed-out rodent, and started heading for Mal'ady.
"Lia! CyKo! Hurry!" she cried.
Lia ran over to where Summer was. Clo an Fall were still occupied with the buzzy thingy, so she assumed to would be safe to come completely out of the Kitteh mode that she had been in.
Grabbing the squirrel by it's ninja mask, she threw it outside of the mold circle. It fell asleep in midair. "Oops," said Lia. "I guess I don't make a very good queen if I'm throwing my subjects around."
She and Summer leaned over as far as they could without leaving the mold and took hold of Mal'ady's wrists, yanking her into the circle. Looking around, Lia noticed that some of the agents were to far out to reach. Others, like Boe, who was sleeping with his SPELR dribbling coffee all over the weird little doctor squirrels, were within reach. Sort of. They would need Cyko's help to get to them. But Cyko was still waking up.
After she was sure the Echo and Mal'ady were waking up, Lia went back over to Cyko (resisting the urge to push Clo face first down into the mold) and got a big long stick. She then began to poke him with it.
"Wake. Up. Now." she said, continuing to poke Cyko harder and harder.
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CyKo was deep in dreamland.
His first dream was the best. He was at home, in his kitchen, eating marshmallow peeps. Well, marshmallow peep. A two hundred pound marshmallow peep. But then he feel into a sugar coma. So in a way, it felt as if he was asleep within sleep. It was weird.
His second dream was that he acquired an iPad and was robbed in a parking lot. Ungh.
His third dream was interrupted due to continual poking.
"Wha....." He merely turned upside down.
And yawned. Upon closing his mouth, he inhaled a mouthful of slime molds. Blech. CyKo coughed, bolted up, and began spitting brilliantly quick... what CyKo didn't notice was that he was spitting onto Clo's shoes. Stifling an embarrassed laugh, he realized that only those in the slime molds were awake.
In a split-second dash, CyKo pushed Clo to the ground and out of the mold, then jumped over to Fall. In an epic struggle of power, CyKo was punched in the face. Recoiling, he grabbed Fall's neck and held his head outside the mold.
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Fall hadn't seen CyKo coming, and vowed he wouldn't be so distracted. But there had been a helicopter that had just landed, and not just anyone's...
He instantly broke out of CyKo's grasp, and yanked the ANTI agent out into the open with him. "Are you mad?" he grunted. "I learned how to become immune to the perfume ages ago." He stood up to his full height, and pulled out his Spider-Spray. "This'll teach you a lesson you won't forget!" With that said, he sprayed CyKo, and many different types of spiders were now crawling onto CyKo.
Fall easily stepped back, and pulled out his Absorb Orb. "Anyone try that again, and they get a not-so-pleasant trip to the inside of this orb, got it?!"
CyKo was pulled out of the mold and into the open. He shoved Fall away, whom he had now learned to be immune to the smoke. He quickly grabbed his gas mask. CyKo wasn't one bit scared of spiders, but these spiders looked pretty intimidating- so he slapped on his gloves and made sure all his buttons were buttoned.
Then he lit himself on fire.
his tuxedo gleaming orange and red flames, the spiders fell off bit by bit, screaming that their little worlds were being burned alive with themselves.
CyKo quickly pulled off his tuxedo coat and threw it onto Fall's face, still burning.
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Yet again, Fall did NOT see it coming. And instead of being grabbed, a burning tux had been thrown on his face. "HELP!" he yelled, the pain of the fiery tux and his burning face becoming evident. He couldn't touch the tux without burning his hands, so there was one thing left for him to try. He glanced at his Absorb Orb, and softly and weakly called, "Take me it, Orb! NOW!" With that, Fall instantly vanished, and all that was left was the flaming tux and the Absorb Orb.
Only Fall himself knew that he had been sucked and trapped into his own invention, and although he could talk to those on the outside, he passed out over the pain in his face.
Lia was rather surprised when Cyko set his tuxedo on fire. After all, it wasn't everyday that you got to see a flaming ball of coat being hurled at your worst enemy. For a full thirty seconds in shocked silence. "That. Was. Awesome."
She noticed the absorb orb on the ground where Fall had dropped it when the fiery clothes were thrown at him. "Huh," she said, poking it with her stick. "What should we do with that?"
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The smell of something burning (was it feathers? Cloth? Buttered popcorn?) registered in Mal'ady's sleepy brain. She opened her eyes groggily, gasped as she remembered what had happened, and struggled to her feet in the slime with a loud squish.
CyKo was engaged in an epic showdown with the MUPPETZ agent called Fall. Mal'ady blinked the sleep out of her eyes and watched. CyKo definitely deserved points for creativity--she couldn't remember any record of a battle involving a flaming tuxedo anywhere in ANTI history. Suddenly, Fall vanished into his Absorb Orb, and Mal'ady waded to the edge of the slime to have a closer look as Lia poked at it.
She bent down and carefully tickled the ball's surface. "TeeheeheeheeheeHEE!" the ball replied, squirming away. Mal'ady frowned. "Oh dear." Suddenly, the orb began to vibrate under her hand, echoing the loud buzzing which now filled the clearing.
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Summer could only stare. She felt like saying "Good riddance," but also felt like saying "Fall! Are you ok?" Fall had been her friend for many years, and now his face had been burned and he'd disappeared, just like that? She knew it was good that one less threat was there, but how could CyKo be so cruel? She felt like screaming at both the missing Fall and CyKo, but kept quiet while fuming.
She didn't see what use it'd be to keep the Absorb Orb. At least it'd be a reminder of Fall. It seemed weird that it could make noise, though. As soon as it began to vibrate, Summer was almost sure that it was a bad sign.
"They killed out leader! ATTACK!" A black MUPPETZ screeched. That being said, the MUPPETZ started racing towards both the sleeping and wide-awake ANTI to attack for real.
After staring dumbfounded at the now attacking MUPPETZ, Lia began to attack as well. It was then that she saw poor Summer. she had forgotten that Fall was Summer's friend. Running over to her, Lia gave her a hug. "I'm sorry," she said. "But we do need to win this battle..."
She turned back to the attacking MUPPETZ wielding her laser sword. She walloped several of them as they entered the mold area. "Careful," screamed Lia as a MUPPETZ tried to drag her out of the mold. "They know about the sleeping stuff!"
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Clo's eyes widened as CyKo attacked Fall and as he disappeared. Her Fall. Her beloved Fall was gone.
"No." She shook her head, her pink lips pursed. "No. No. No. No. No. No. NO!"
Her hands balled into fists after she dropped her possessions and she gave her hair a flip before stepping forward. She slapped the girls away from the Absorb Orb, grabbed it and ran back toward her belongings. Shoving the Absorb Orb into the purse, she picked it up, slipped on her heels and waited, her arms crossed and a frown present on her lips.
"No one's ever burned you, nothing's ever left you scarred and even though you want to, just try to never grow up." -Taylor Swift, Never Grow Up
The moment Echo saw the perfume bottle come out, she knew what was coming. But although she moved to cover her mouth and keep from inhaling the noxious fumes, her hand just wasn't fast enough. She heard the perfume bottle shatter, and pinkness clouded her vision. As she struggled against the perfume's sinister effects, she saw Summer drop to the ground next to her. Echo's knees buckled, and she too fell. Mind swimming, she became aware of nothing but a faint buzzing noise and the overwhelming urge to curl up and sleep for the rest of her life.
Must not sleep...must...fight.......come on Echo....get up....must get...up.......
In all honesty, she wasn't sure if she ever actually fell asleep, because the next thing she knew, she was lying facedown in a pile of something slimy, something that smelled oddly like the ship's bathroom, the one near the MUPPETZ' quarters.
"Bleck!" Coughing, Echo spat mold out of her mouth and sat up. As the world came into focus again, the first thing she noticed was Clo and Fall staring dumbstruck at the source of the buzzing sound: a giant, fiery red MUPPETZ was climbing out of a landed helicopter. But not just any MUPPETZ. Even from only seeing pictures, Echo knew exactly what it was. The ANTImaul!
With flaming eyes, razor-sharp claws, and overlapping fangs built for crushing, the ANTImaul was the prized creation of the MUPPETZ' most skilled scientists. And just as it's name suggested, it was built for one purpose: to obliterate the ANTI organization. But Echo's father had told her that it's capabilities hadn't been tested yet. That would explain why Fall and Clo looked almost frightened of it. Echo gasped when it swiveled it's great shaggy head around, it's buzz-like growling permeating the moist air, calling the other MUPPETZ to rally around it.
While Echo stared at the ANTImaul, still recovering from the sleeping perfume, Cyko knocked Clo out of the mold circle and attacked Fall with a flaming coat. He disappeared into his absorb orb, and at another roar from the ANTImaul, the MUPPETZ raced forward to attack. But Echo didn't have time to help. She had just realized what the ANTImaul was doing; it's eyes had locked on the various agents lying scattered and sleeping outside the circle. With a great roar it lumbered in the direction of Boe.
Echo leapt to her feet. She knew the sleeping perfume was built as a weapon against humans - it had no affect on MUPPETZ. She whirled around and shouted to Summer. "If you really are a HumETZ, you have to help me!" Then, without waiting for a reply, she transformed into her shaggy blue MUPPETZ form and dove out of the mold circle. She raced for Boe, hoping to reach him before the ANTImaul did.
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Whit came into Dori's room holding her breath. She walked around the room quietly making sure noone was there. The room was empty, she rushed out of there.
Whit, since she was a big member of MUPPETZ, had a pass to allow her to places normal grown ups usuallt wouldn't allow her to go. She walked through the place easily. She did get lost a few times but had plenty on minions ready to help her. Including this really cute one named Justin, if Whit ever returned she would definitally have to promote him.
Whit reached the launch pad and boarded her own personal pink jet ski. The ride was suprisingly short, she reached the island in 11 minutes and 34 seconds. She stepped to the island, suprised by all the maddness.
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