Summer understood what Lia had meant by "winning this battle," yet it still hurt her deeply. She had joined ANTI because she wanted to defeat MUPPETZ at all costs. But she had never expected meeting her brother. Discovering she was a MUPPETZ. Learning that Clo was a spy. Realizing that Fall had joined the enemy. One time, she had felt so powerful and excited to do her best. Now, she felt emotionally exhausted and miserable.

When she heard Echo call out to her, she tried her best to gulp down her pain and focus on the real situation. To her shock, she saw a scary and bizarre creature (which had been making the noise) heading for Boe. "Not if I can help it," Summer muttered. She looked down at her necklace, feeling nervous at becoming a MUPPETZ for the first time. Before she could change her mind, she ripped the necklace off. It didn't take long before she transformed into a red MUPPETZ.

How weird, she thought, staring at her furry body. But she remembered what she needed to do, and sprinted towards the creature. Other MUPPETZ were now attacking, but they didn't seem to notice that one of them, or so they thought, was racing towards the monster. "Leave my friends alone!" she declared, and jumped onto the back on the monster, which had been flying close to the ground at the moment.

The monster was outraged by her action, and began trying to claw and bite her. Summer nimbly dodged each of his blows and clawed his back. The monster apparently didn't like that as it flew higher and higher. In the air, she was sure she saw a pink jet going down to land, but didn’t focus it that long. She was about to stab him near his heart area (it's not like I know where else it would be, she thought), when the monster stopped flying altogether and started falling down. In that process, it turned around and clawed Summer aggressively, who was falling above it. Summer cried out in pain, but as soon as she looked scarred and weak enough, the monster flew away from under her and headed back for Boe. She, on the other hand, smashed into the ground below with a sickening thud and crack.

My leg, she thought in agony. She knew Echo would still be able to fight the horrid beast, but she wanted to help. "Echo," she weakly mumbled and tried to stand up. It was no use, though, as she collapsed back down. So her friends could find her, she shakily slipped on the necklace again, and became a human again. There she lied, dying, with a broken leg and blood all over her, and struggling to breathe.

Lia had seen her dear friend Summer hesitate before joining the battle. When she did come to fight, Lia mentally applauded her decision. She saw Whit Send standing at the edge of the mold circle. And she was still awake. Great, more MUPPETZ agents. Just what we need, she thought. Grabbing her other laser sword with her left hand, she did a quick flip over several ninja squirrels (who complained rather loudly about it not being fair that she could do flips) and landed in front of Whit.

"What are you doing here?" she asked rather harshly. "We don't like traitors very much here." She brandished her laser swords.

Then Lia heard a slight squeal to her right. Turning she saw Summer flying through the air. Huh, she thought. I didn't know Summer could fly. Then she noticed a rather large beastie coming towards her. It was the ANTImaul. "This has been a most awful day..."

Echo had almost reached Boe when one of the attacking MUPPETZ crashed into her leg and sent her sprawling. By the time she had picked herself up from the ground, Summer had overtaken her and leapt onto the ANTImaul's back, attacking it fiercely. Echo watched as the creature unfurled a set of enormous wings, which had escaped Echo's observation before, and launched into the air with Summer still onboard. Echo jumped and managed to catch hold of the beast's hind leg, but it gave a violet kick and knocked her free, sending her tumbling back to earth.

She landed a few feet away from Boe, who was slumbering on with his SPELR still in his grip. Echo grabbed hold of his wrists, meaning to drag him over to the mold circle. As she struggled against his weight, a horde of MUPPETZ, who at last seemed to realize she wasn't on their side, came charging at her. Echo whipped out her Hypnowatch and pointed it at them, but she doubted it's hypnotic effects would have time to help her. Setting Boe down, she gritted her teeth and braced for impact, expecting to be brought down by ruthless blows at any moment...

But then, mere feet from her, the horde of MUPPETZ stopped. When Echo saw the telltale glassy look in their eyes, she knew that they were now under her control.

"You!" she shouted to a pair of green MUPPETZ standing nearest to Boe. "Take him over to the mold circle, and then go back for any other sleeping agents!"

"Yes Master," they replied together in monotone voices. As they each grabbed an end of Boe and began hauling him away, Echo heard a cry from somewhere above her. She whirled around just in time to see the ANTImaul send an injured Summer crashing to the ground.

"NO!" Echo screamed. "SUMMER!"

Summer tried to get up, but she fell back down again. Meanwhile, the ANTImaul was heading their way, it's buzz-like growling making Echo's eardrums rattle painfully. She gritted her teeth, her heart hammering away in her chest. This beast had hurt Summer! And it was going to pay.

"Now!" she screamed to her hypnotized MUPPETZ. "ATTACK!!!"

"Attack!" all the MUPPETZ said in unison, and while their voices were anything but lively, their actions certainly were. The moment the ANTImaul hit the ground, it was instantly covered by a dozen or so MUPPETZ clawing at it and trying to beat it senseless.

Echo rushed past them to where Summer lay, now back in human form. The moment she saw blood, her vision flooded with tears. "No. No, please no!" I did this she thought breathlessly. I called her out. This is all my fault!

Dropping down, she felt Summer's arm for a pulse and breathed a sigh. She was alive, but by the look of those injuries, not for long. Summer needed first aid - and fast. Echo's gaze landed on one of the nearby helicopters. There would be a first aid kit in there, most definitely. But how to get it?

She thought for a moment. Wait...a helicopter! That's it! If she could just get a hold of one of those helicopters, she could fly them all out of this mess. Piloting would be the easy part; Echo had studied enough diagrams to know how to fly one if she ever got the change. But hijacking it from its current MUPPETZ occupants? That was going to be tricky, if not downright dangerous.

Echo stood up and firmed her chin. Dangerous or no, she was going to have to try. If she didn't, Summer would be...would be...she didn't even want to think about it.

Lia was saved by Echo and her hypnotized MUPPETZ. They had defeated the ANTImaul just as it was reaching for her with it's rather large scary talons. She could see Echoheading off in the general direction of the helicopters. "No," said Lia quietly. Se knew there was only one helicopter that the MUPPETZ would willingly fly.

The Ellecopter.

And if she was right, they were all in trouble.

Whit was not ready for the not so friendly welcome she recieved from Lia as she entered to the group. Lia's initial words shicked Whit so she raised her arms in the general "don't kill me" style.

"Lia...its me, Whit. I had been brainwashed, but I'm back. I was able to mind defeat the MUPPETZ. I had been keeping an eye on you all and you seemed like you needed help, so here I am!"

She eyed Lia worriedly until she saw Lia's eyeline follow a helicopter, no....the Ellecopter! Her boss... this would make things complicated.

Lia nodded to Whit. "Glad to have you back." She still held her laser swords handy though... Just in case. She looked over her shoulder at the battle. Thanks to Echo's hypnosis, it was just about over... and the ANTI Agents had some new allies. In the shape of fuzzy multicolored MUPPETZ.

Lia wasn't sure where Cyko was, but the flames on his tuxedo (now laying on the ground in the slime mold) were finally dying out. That should make him happy, thought Lia.

CyKo stood, smiling as he saw Echo mind control the MUPPETZ. (What fun he could have with that! )

Then he instantly turned to a frown when he saw Summer on the ground, bleeding from the leg. CyKo ran and slid onto his knees and sat right beside Summer. Without a second thought, he immediately began bandaging her wounds... but he knew the bandages wouldn't help. The wounds were deep, and blood was flowing freely through the severed veins.

From behind, the buzzing grew until it shut off to a sputtering end. CyKo turned to look and again saw the Ellecopter, with a dark figure visible through the tinted windows.

A sudden sense of fear crept over him, as he saw the dreaded leader of all the MUPPETZ emerge from his 'copter.

CyKo quickly finished bandaging Summer and propped up some shrubbery to make her comfortable. "I'm sorry I can't do better. I'm trying to figure a way we can get you to a hospital..." and CyKo hugged her.

CyKo walked towards the Ellecopter and readied his nerd whip and sweet-tart pistol, hoping that he could at least hold him off for a time- and should it come to it- suffer an honorable death.

Ellemo had been hovering around the area, keeping tabs on how the battle had been going. When he saw that it was going in favor of ANTI, he scowled and directed his minion to land. Once on the ground, he climbed out of the Ellecopter and just stared at CyKo evenly, not at all fazed by the sight of the nerd whip and sweet-tart pistol. He had an unlimited supply of sugar starved minions at his disposal who went berserk and attacked anything and everything nearby if they even saw a PICTURE of sugar.

"I see we finally meet in person, little agent." he told CyKo condescendingly, clearly not thinking CyKo was worth anything special.

He then continued to just gaze at the ANTI agents silently as a score of flaming mutant muffins came hopping out of the Ellecopter as well and surrounded Ellemo, doing their best to look as intimidating as possible. Suddenly (and quite without any sort of warning as well), the flaming mutant muffins started to bounce in an alternating, yet synchronous, pattern, as they shouted in unison, "Look at me! I'm flaming! And BOUNCING PRETTILY!"

Ellemo only rolled his eyes at the muffins and let them have their fun, knowing that they would be down to business when it was time.

Echo was just circling around to come at the Ellecopter from behind when she saw Ellemo himself step out and face Cyko. She felt a twinge of panic deep down, so she quickly morphed her appearance back to Thorn's to keep from being recognized by the MUPPETZ' fearsome leader. Luckily, the pink sleeping perfume seemed to have dispersed by now.

She crouched low in the bushes, watching the Ellecopter. Even from the distance, she could see shapes milling about inside - presumably Ellemo's MUPPETZ guard. This wasn't going to be easy, but Echo didn't have time to dawdle. Summer needed her. With a deep breath, she sprang from the bushes and sprinted low towards the Ellecopter, hoping she could take the MUPPETZ inside by surprise.

"Ok, so I've finally found the way to where Summer is. I should fix this human tracking device faster next time. Yeah, I know, Mom, I love you too. Bye!" Clover Springs turned off her cellphone and took a good look at where she was. When she did, she nearly groaned. In front of her, furry creatures and classy agents were fighting off left and right. It would take eternity to figure out where her friend was if this kept on going.

Summer, Fall, and Spring (as she prefered to be called) had always been the bestest of friends. But one day, when Summer had persuaded her and Fall to ride on "Mr. Cheese Puff's Roller Coaster of Cheeziness," the machine had been ransacked by some pranksters, and in result, Spring had gotten into a catastrophic crash. This had left her blind in her left eye, and she nearly died. After surviving, she vowed that she would never be friends with Summer or Fall again.But things had changed now, and now here she was, hoping to apologize with her at-one-time pals.

But she had never seen such strange monsters before. What where they? Fall had said more then once that there was a horrible type of mutated creatures in an organization called "MUPPETZ." Neither she or Summer had believed him, and Spring still thought it was a silly myth or story of some sort. Yet those monsters did fit the description Fall had given them. Could he possibly be right? She shook her head. Whatever the deal was, she still didn't believe that was true. But Summer was somewhere in there, and who knew, maybe Summer was in trouble over her heels!

She swiftly and cautiously sneaked into the craziness of the battle. "Excusxe me," she called, "Have any of you seen Summer? She's a friend of mine!" Spring weaved through the monsters, but got snatched by a big yellow one.

"I have a friend, too," it sneered, and a even larger hairy brown creature thumped behind her. Their faces were screwed up in fury and agression

Spring had nothing to defend herself with, and wailed, "Help!"

CyKo heard an unknown voice call for "Help", but it was out of his power to do so. Right now, he saw Echo inside the Ellecopter, followed by two quick one-two punches and two shadows disappear onto the floor of the 'copter.

CyKo, who had been holding Ellemo's attention during this time, sent a code 92742 through his wristwatch to the other ANTI agents (this code means "Board the Helicopter ASAP"). CyKo jumped and crashed into Ellemo, throwing him to the ground.

A quick glance to his right and he saw everyone had entered the Ellecopter, aside from Summer and Boe ((and Boe was near boarding)). CyKo ran over to Summer, threw her over his back, and ran to the helicopter. Cy kicked a flaming muffin on the way.

CyKo messaged a code 92745 on his way to the Ellecopter (which means "take off immediately"). CyKo planned on boarding the 'copter with the other agents (it was an abnormally large helicopter, which could fit near double the number of ANTI agents already in it), jumping in with Summer, then flying straight to Muppetzylvania.

He did just that. Sitting on the side of the Ellecopter, Cy laid Summer down on the floor. She was unusually still. CyKo's face turned to utter terror. He stuck his head upon her stomach and listened for a heartbeat. Nothing. He felt for a pulse. Nothing. Summer was indeed dead.

Tears came to his eyes, clouding his vision.

Pulling back his tears, CyKo's face hardened. The Ellecopter was still less than 10 feet above the ground. Looking to Lia (who was sitting in the pilot's seat with a squirrel resting on her shoulder) CyKo said grimly, "Fly to Muppetzylvania, let nothing hinder your way. I hope we meet again, all of you."

And he jumped out.

Landing with a roll, he blasted Ellemo with every single sweet tart he had in his pistol. He swung left and right with his nerd whip at the flaming muffins that came upon him unrelenting. One of the flaming muffins grabbed at his hands, burning the nerd whip. The sugars melting into his hands, he screamed in pain. Punching the muffin to the ground, three more took its place. And more muffins. Until he was overcome.

Lia screamed when Cyko jumped out. Now she had to fly a gigantic Ellecopter without a copilot. This would be interesting. And to make matters even better, Summer was dead. Lia began to cry.

This truly had been a most horrible day.

Lia wondered who gave the orders now that Cyko was gone for who knew how long. She sent him a message on her awesome ANTIphone. "Who gives orders now?" she asked him. "Who is most experienced Agent?"

Then Chatter (it was him perched on her shoulder after all) poked her saying, "It's against regulations to fly and text at the same time."

So Lia stopped and concentrated on fly the humongous Ellecopter.

When had Echo rushed headlong into the MUPPETZ guarding the Ellecopter, she had underestimated their size and strength. Not that she was bad at tackling things. On the contrary, she had become quite good at it (shoving people out of your way was generally a necessary skill while living in close confinements on a ship full of MUPPETZ). But these MUPPETZ were particularly massive creatures. She only managed to knock one to the ground; the other one roared in surprise and punched her twice across the face. She staggered and fell, but with cat-like reflexes she grabbed the MUPPETZ's shaggy fur and managed to drag it down with her. The two of them writhed on the ground, struggling, punching, kicking, and grunting in pain.

Echo was vaguely aware of others rushing towards the Ellecopter. In that moment of distraction, the MUPPETZ seized her around the throat and squeezed. Echo twisted in its grip, lashing out with her foot, but that grip remained strong. Panic set in. She couldn't breath. Her vision clouded and darkened, and she could feel the life slowly draining out of her...

The next thing she knew, she was on the ground, gasping for breath. Looking up, she saw a small, brown blur furiously attacking the two MUPPETZ, driving them back, back...through the Ellecopter's open door, where they disappeared below. Only then did Echo realize that they were in the air. Flying. The next thing she realized was that the blurry brown thing was really...

"Cherry?" she croaked.

The squirrel's tail twitched happily. Echo was about to offer her thanks when she saw someone jump out of the Ellecopter. She heard a scream, and her head spun around to the pilot's chair where Lia was sitting, hand on the controls, looking truly distraught.

With cry somewhere between shock and panic, Echo jumped into the copilot's seat and snatched the controls. Allowing her own appearance at last to revert to normal, a black-haired girl with blue eyes, she said to Lia breathlessly, "I've got this, don't worry. I didn't know you were a pilot!"

She saw that Lia's eyes were flooded with tears. And then she remembered. She felt her heart miss a beat. "Summer! Where's Summer?" Spinning around in her chair, she spotted her lying deathly still on the floor of the cabin, Cherry standing over her with wide, tearful, squirrel eyes.

Echo's mouth ran dry. "Is she...is she...?" No. She couldn't be.

On hand still on the controls, Echo pointed at the wall. "Quick! Someone! There should be a first aid kit and a defibrillator in that compartment over there!"

Whit followed everyone into the Ellecopter, hoping to blend in and hide from Ellemo, but she also thought that getting into her copter was not a fantastic way to hide from her. She watched as Cyko heroically jump off after seeing for the first time ever tears escape from his eyes. He went after Ellemo and told Lia to fly the large flying beast.

Whit finally looks over at Summer who Cyko proclaimed dead. It was hard just seeing her lying there, not moving. Her emotions overcame her and she began to make sobbing noises in the back of her throat. She cralwled back to a corner. She pulled her knees up to her chest and put her head on her knees and sat there quietly. But wanting to prove she is back on their side she walks up to Lia

"Uhh..... what now? Do you need any help?"

Before her death...

Summer was trying all that she could to gasp air, but she knew that it was no use. She was about to die. Never had she expected her life to end this way, and she still had so much to say, so much to do. While no one was paying attention, she barely was able to grab a piece of paper and write a list:

1. My belongings will go to my trusted friend, Spring.
2. I'd like to be buried somewhere. There's more important things for you all to do than to choose somewhere in paticular.
3. Echo: I was happy to know someone who knew what it was like to be a HumETZ, and I'll always cherish your companionship. Please, could you make sure my brother Winter is ok for me? Thanks.
4. Whit: I'm glad you're back. Do your best for the team for me!
5. Lia: Lead your squirrels with grace and wisdom. I was happy to know you.
6. Boe: Thanks for the fun and all of the adventures.
7. Thorn: I don't know where you are, but I hope you're ok. Hopefully, you'll be found soon. May you not fall the fate I have.
8. Spring: I don't know where you are either, but may you not cry for me. I didn't believe in MUPPETZ, but when I did, I found a great adventure.
9. Fall: I don't care if you don't care, but thanks for being my friend, and sorry about your face.
10. Winter: I wanted to get to know you more, but I guess that's not the case anymore. I'm sorry, but I am thankful to have finally met you, my brother. I love you.
11. CyKo: MUPPETZ needs to be stopped as soon as you can achieve that. They are up to something worse then we might think. Lead your teammates, and thank you for letting me be one of them.

Summer, AKA Eula Summerson, ANTI Agent.

With that, she was so weak, that at last, she took her final breath, and passed away as she released it.