Season 3- The ThanksGiving Bloodshed [Final Season]

[_IshEric]

Here it is, one of my biggest projects

Writing and editing were a hell of a mess but I hope you enjoy the story? Hope you have an hour or two of free time because this story is pretty long

I present: The Thanksgiving Bloodshed: Season 3, The Final Season

Chapter 1- Where Do We Go?

Not so long ago, a group of brave heroes tended to save the world by ending the true secret behind the history of the war. Unfortunately for them, the war ended by one brave hero surviving all the nuclear chemicals, gunshots and everything that comes close to ending your life in a flash of a light. With no light from the sky, the young hero knew that the war wasn't officially over.

The sky particular seemed almost like it was telling her something, something that could parenterally save the world... once more.

As Meagen slowly lifted herself up from the broken glass surrounding her, dusting off the gunpowder covering half of her blonde hair that completely looks like a different hairstyle, she takes a look around, gasping to see everyone dead. Meagan rushed to one of her friends that mysterious has two slightly sharp broken glass shaped into both of her eyes, looking like someone did this on purpose before any bombs were hit from the moon.

"Oh no." Meagan's words drifted into the air, drops of tears dropped onto her shoulder, wiping off some dust she had on her.

"It's going to be okay." Meagan's hands gently laid below her cheeks, slowly patting them in a circle shape.

"I gotta go. I promise you that this will all be okay." Meagan taking her hand away lightly from her cheeks, leaving her under a pile of pebbles with a small river of blood dripping from her eyes.

The journey that awaited her wasn't like she thought it would be when she played pretend when she was little.

"I don't think I could do this, I really don't" Meagan takes a long look of her hands covered in dust and blood. One of her eyes was coated in earwax which was harshly disgusting but she couldn't do anything as it might cause a toxic reaction to the rest of her body.

Meagan stared up ahead to see a gust of wind blowing dust along with a yellow sky surrounding everything around her. The building each had foggy broken windows, looking like it could collapse at any moment from now. The road looked like some maniac got a hold of a hammer that somehow could break roads. All the flashbacks coming into Meagan's mind, it had to mean something to her, or that's what she thought.

A couple of yards away, she spotted a small hill made of big flat rocks that were easy to climb. Rushing up the steps and stepping foot on the top rock like a queen, she felt something. Like a spirit talking to her as light like a spotlight surrounded her, almost like God was hearing her. Meagan didn't hear anything but once her eyes locked shut, she could hear something, well, not literally but like a message being sent into her head somehow.

Meagan felt like she was flying into the air, feeling like she had superpowers. Once the message was fully sent, her eyes opened up without her doing anything.

"That's it!" She shouted out loud like she had a group of teammates.

Meagan quickly glancing towards the broken road that had a path loads of burning cars from inside, she knew exactly where she had to go.

"I knew this wasn't the only war the world was fighting against. Then again, I never knew there were more people out there fighting for the same reason." Meagan kept on gasping on what the message told her to do and what information was given.

Meagan was excited to save the world once again but she also remembered something else that she was told.

"Oh shoot." She stopped running to the path she was told to go. Meagan also remembered that there will be other people stronger than the group of teammates she worked with. At first, she didn't believe so but if one of the goddesses told her personally, she must be right. Afterward, that got her thinking, what happens if they kill her instantly as they might think of me of a present from the enemy's team just to spy on them?

All these ideas came back into her head, rethinking her decision. Meagan took a small rock from a dead person that was laying his head on, pulled her dress up and sat down gently as she took a look at a map she mysterious found once she was done talking to the Gods.

"3,000 miles? That's crazy!" She takes a big sigh, glancing up above her to see a yellow-ish sky filled with dust.

"But then again, I have nobody else left on here to save, nothing else to feed on. Nobody." Meagan takes a stand from her spot, takes a quick look at the map and then, the road she was supposed to take.

Meagan starts to take small steps forward into the road but stops a few yards from the buildings surrounding the road.

She takes a look at the dead bodies, either crushed by rocks or a part of them completely cut from them that made them bleed to death. Her heart started to beat faster, indicating that even her heart couldn't decide what to do. Risking her life to save another world or die here from hunger, saving nothing.

"I'm Meagan, Meagan Slarway. My mother didn't raise a failure that was going to give up on the world. And even after God spoke to me, was I really to ignore them? Oh hell no I won't." Meagan finally took out a black mask from her purse, fitting perfectly well onto her face.

"I'm Meagan Slarwar and I'll be the one saving the world." Wrapping the mask around her face, Meagan slowly walked the pathways she was told to walk on.

BAM, the building collapsed behind her, completely blocking the way back to her dead people.

"Well, no choice now, huh?" She took a hard stare to the buildings' that collapsed into each other. She found it weird that they collapse right when she entered the pathway.

"I swear some idiot is playing jokes on me." Meagan finally reveals the final thing she had on her, a silver metal made machete.

"I'm not afraid." She shotted out, holding the machete with both of her hands.

After a couple of minutes, nobody came out, as she expected it to be.

"That's what I thought." She slid the machete into her back, making a satisfying sound once put back.

"My favorite part of it."

Meagan continued to follow the path intently with cars filled with fire and who knows, fresh gas in some of them. She spotted some rats along the way, smelling like a pit of cow poop in the road.

"Ya know, maybe I should've been killed during the war cause God, why me? Why me saving the world?" She gazes around and only detects rats eating what appears to be some parts of a human flesh.

"Okay then." She walked at a slow pace this time, closely looking around her, making her nothing dangerous lookin' will kill her.

It appeared that she was outside a factory by the looks of the big windows barely showing her reflection from all the dust covering them.

"Whatever." In the long run, her legs felt like a robot being ordered to do all the shipping in a company called Amazon. I mean c'mon, a human legs can't be compared to a robot as most of them don't have feelings. Meagan felt so helplessly that from a flash in her eyes, her body shut down, dropping her onto the ground as she banged her head onto a small rock.

Meagan woke up minutes later, being trapped in a dust storm. She quickly reacted by hiding herself in a dumpster that was magically standing in front of her.

"Shi-" As she was about to scream, a herd of rats came rushing onto her, complete covering her body. Even she couldn't scream with all the rats' small tails covering her mouth and nose.

"MmmmH-mm" Screaming and screaming, she felt tired from doing so that she fell asleep once again.

This time, she didn't know how long she was asleep as time somehow stopped since her watch stopped working unexpectedly. The rats were all gone from the dumpster which meant that she was free to go from the storm.

With the might she still had inside of her, Meagan lifted open the lid and was surprised by the mess the storm made. The good news from all this is that the storm wiped out all the fire that was lit inside all the cars.

"Someone is really playing some type of sick joke with me" But within Meagan, it didn't feel like someone was playing around with her. She spotted all her friends in that awful pit and sure enough, she counted every single person she knew that fought against her side.

"I will find them." Meagan still feeling considered that she was being played.

Meagan didn't bother to look back but just head forward to what seemed like a ship from a distance.

"Oh shoot! A boat! Fantastic! My, I really thought I was going to find a way to get across the ocean." As the map Meagan got, she recently found out she was in this country called the "United States?" She had no idea what that means but if she had to go to this other state called "The Netherlands," across the ocean then yea, she will do anything to save the world from the innocents' souls that were on risk.

Meagan got all jumpy and started to make her way into the gigantic ship that looked like a pirate's ship. She was expecting a "fancy" ship with strong iron surrounding it but this was fabulous enough. Meagan was ready to sail this ship off the coast since she took engineering class back in Middle School.

"This is going to be the best memories I will tell my children if I make it alive from here." Meagan was ready to sail off the coast until she noticed something moving in the barrels.

"I knew it." With the flexible hands she had from karate class, she took out her machete like a ninja ready to fight. She started to take some small steps into the barrel that was unanimously moving; Meagan looking some anime girl that is incredibly talented in those manga books.

Before even taking out the barrel, the lid popped open like a soda cap and came out a bunch of rats.

"WHAT THE-" But shocking enough, a mouse stood up and said, "Shh, we're friendly."

But that instantly sent Meagan into a faint, poof.

 

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Chapter 2- The China Sea

"Dude, I told you you would make her faint once you open your mouth." One of the rats hit Sam in the head as they started to head out of the barrel.

"Take a step. back" Sam quickly headed up front and stood on his fine two tiny feet.
"Whose idea was it to talk to the innocent girl and make her pass out in the middle of a war crisis? Huh?" Suddenly, all the rats looked in opposite directions, knowing damn well the leader planned to make Sam talk to her.
"Cowards, I'll say." Sam retreated from his position and stood on Meagan's face. He laid his small paw onto Meagan's pauls and listened.

"She'll awaken in about 25 minutes from now. Now, if I were you, I would stop standing there like idiots and lend me a hand." Some moved a muscle but most rats stood there still looking confused.
"I SAID MOVE!" Sam's rat cheeks puffed in anger, ordering the rats to lay Meagan in the cabinet.
"AND HURRY IT UP IF I WERE YOU! WE GOT A SHIP TO SAIL!" Within those simple orders, the rats quickly opened the doors to the small cabinet where it smelled like roses, putting Meagan in a small bed along with a blanket that said "Stranger Things."

"Now, let's set this boat to sail! We got a long way to go." Sam somehow got a mini rat mustache that matched his fur. The rats each laid their mini paws onto the back of the boat and before your very eyes, the boat started to move faster than a fire forest ready to take over.

"Heee-hov-hees-hov!" The rat's teamwork when into effect when the boat was finally into the ocean.

"Ayeeee! Great work rats!" Sam's angry face disappeared, going into a happy face.

Just when the rats were ready to celebrate their accomplishment, Meagan out of nowhere woke up, frightened as she had no idea where she was.
"What the-" "How?"

Meagan threw the blanket over her head, knocking the cabinet door down to see a bunch of rats with mini champagne's glass in their tiny paws.

"Woah." This time Meagan didn't freak out, she was just surprised.
Sam noticed Meagan woken up and freezes.

"This isn't what it looks like!" Sam puts his paw up, his whole body freezes at the moment.

"Wait, no. I'm not here to kill you. I'm just surprised." Meagan looks ahead to see the deserted island being left there; smoke coming out from way ahead of the island.
"Woah, is that a blue sky? Oh my, I haven't seen a blue sky ever since the-" "- The war. Yea, we know."

Meagan gets onto her knees and gives Sam eye connection. Meagan speaks in a low voice, "wait, you and your rat friends knew about the war?" Sam just shakes his head, hoping it doesn't make Meagan mad enough to step on him.

"Oh, ok." Meagan slowly gets off from her knees and glances onto her map and then into the sea.

"Wait," Meagan stands tall, all the rats looked directly into Meagan's direction; creeping Meagan out a bit.
"How did this boat sail if I... fainted? I think?"
Sam steps in front, almost close to her ripped off shoes.

"First, yes, you did faint but we never intended to do so. Our apologies. Second, my teammates and I helped out by setting the ship to sail as we assumed that was what you were going to do?" Sam tried to give in a small smiley face.

"Oh, I understand now." She takes a look at the rats all gathered together.

"Thank you, erm, I didn't catch your name." Meagan reaches down and gives Sam her index finger.
"I'm Sam, it's nice to be of a help!" Sam shooked or tried to shake Meagan's hand with his tiny hands.
They both stood there awkwardly looking at the opposite direction, each looking at a different root of the ocean.
"So, do you know where we're going?" Meagan hides her face with the map she's holding as she's shy.
"Um, maybe that map you're holding could help us?" Meagan's cheeks turn red as she embarrasses herself.

"Oh shoot, yes, this. Take it." Meagan spreads the map onto the dock so the rats could see where they're sailing.

"The Netherlands? My, that's a long way but we'll get there pretty quick." Meagan picks up her map and stores it in her purse that looks like it's ready to rip apart.

"How?" Meagan carefully sits on the side of the boat.
"Careful there, and to answer your question, you'll just have to see." Meagan gave one of those "I don't trust you" faces but by the looks of these rats, it's the only thing she had to survive the war that was upon her.

After all, she can't be doing this on her own.

"Dumb question but how did you learn to drive a boat?" Meagan got closer to Sam as she studied how a rat drives a boat.

"Oh, honestly, I don't quite remember how? Maybe it was back in rat school where I learn the difference of if the food was safe or a trap you humans always put around your houses."

Meagan got uncomfortable once Sam said that last part.
"Sorry but that's what we humans do, I suppose." Meagan tried her best not to piss off Sam more than what he was already.

"Well, it's fine. Humans are supposed to do so since we rats seem like a big threat to society." Sam stares off into the sea, not making any eye contact with Meagan.

*

"Oh." Meagan stares into the sea for a while before getting off her position.

"I'll let you on what you have to do." Meagan takes a look at Sam's tiny body, hoping he'll say something to her before leaving but no, nothing.

She sighs as she returns to her cabinet, sitting face front as she thinks about what went wrong and how she was able to kill Lauren with her bare hands.

"I'm a monster," Meagan says to herself. In a flash, a flood of memories stacked inside her head, making her seasick. She rushed out of the cabinet, throwing up from the side as some of the crew rats stared at her.

"You okay miss?" One of the rats from the crowd asked her.

Meagan started to cry as she kept on throwing up. She wondered how the hell she was throwing up since she hasn't eaten since God knows how long it has been.

"Y-yea." Meagan wipes the smirk of the throw up left on her mouth as she says so.

"Tell Sam I'll be in my cabinet." The rats shake their heads as Meagan returns into her cabinet.

She stares into the ceiling, wondering how she got into the mess she's in right now. I mean, what? Talking to rats? Helping her as she's sick in the middle of saving the goddamn earth? I swear, they picked the wrong person to save the world, that's for sure.

Soon after, Meagan found a rubber ball under her bed, rolling around as the ship started to cress around. Meagan felt too sick to even open her eyes fully. She decided to take a quick nap and forget everything that was going on at the moment.

"Oh, this feels nice and my, I never noticed the smell of roses inside this cabinet, it smells like heaven." Before Meagan noticed, she was fast asleep in the bed, having a Stranger Things blanket over here.

. . .

"You okay, Sam?" A fellow rat climbed onto the stood Sam was on to drive the boat.
"Never better." Sam didn't even move his head to Daisy's direction.
"You know how I know you're lying? I know when you use that toon around everyone and you don't turn your head." Daisy lays a small teacup next and pats him.

"C'mon, tell me. What's going on in that small brain of yours?" Sam takes a small sigh, still driving the boat into some rather dark clouds.
"I miss our home, I miss everything about it." Sam makes a hard left, moving some gunpowder on the ship.
"Woah, careful there honey." Daisy takes a sip of her tea before speaking again.
"I know things are way out of hand right now but you're doing God's work right now, literally." They both chuckle, staring into the sea.

"Meagan, she's a nice person," Sam tells her.
"yea, she is." Sam finally looks at Daisy as she takes her cup and hovers it near her mouth.
"She gonna save the world, I know she will. She has the spirit inside of her that nobody else has." Sam smiles a bit, the ship started to stare roughly.

"Listen, honey, I know things are out of the ordinary right now but we got this, well, Meagan mostly. She risking her life to saving the rest of the population in the world. Those people." Daisy points into the moon that's barely showing in the sky. "They already wiped out the United States, that's 375 million people, gone. We can't let them take more lives." Daisy sips her last drop of tea and leaves Sam to be.

"Hey." Meagan comes out from the cabinet.
"Hey, Meagan." Sam takes a quick look at Meagan, then going back to the ship.
"I know you think I could save the world, but really, I don't think I can't" Meagan takes a seat on the barrels takes a long look at the ocean.

"Meagan, don't say that." Sam gets off the wheel and stands on Meagan's knees.
"I know you can." Sam gives a hard look into Meagan's eyes.
"What makes you say that?" Still staring into the sea.
"Meagan, we rats knew one person was going to survive the war and the Godse told us that we had to help that one person everything we can for them to save the rest of the world." Sam stands there, waiting for a response.

Meagan takes another look at the sea and then, the clouds.
"Wait, the God?" Meagan stood up, Sam falling onto the ground.

"Ow, and yes, the God. Before you go into details, we also saw you speaking to it so let's move o-" But before Meagan and Sam noticed, a big storm with angry-looking clouds came crashing down on them.

"EVERYONE! TAKE COVER!" All the rats imminently rushed into Meagan's cabinet, along with Sam and Meagan.

"How did we not see the storm coming to us?" Sam started to panic in the small cabinet. Nets and barrels inside started to move everywhere.
"This is my fault, I'm so sorry." Meagan blames herself when she knows it wasn't.
"No no, it wasn't. It was my fault in letting go of the steering wheel. Now, we're all going to die here!" Sam started to panic everywhere, rushing like a rat escaping from death.

"Sam, SAM!" Meagan quickly grabbed Sam and hushed him down to sleep like a baby."
"Awww," the rest of the rat crew awwed, everyone except Daisy.
"Everyone take cover." And like that, water started to fill up the place, crushing them.

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Chapter 3- NightScape

Chirp, Chirp, the sounds of birds or rather saying, seagulls come laying down in front of Meagan's face and start to peck her.
"Hey, get lost!" But all that did was scare off the seagulls a few feet from her before coming back and pecking her again. Meagan stood up, this time, scaring away the seagull from her spot.


"Wait, where am I?" Meagan takes a look around her to see a giant ocean in front of her along with wet sand shocking inside her shoes.
"Ew, yuck." Meagan decides to not take off her shoes as she might need them for the adventure ahead of her. She assumed the rats died during the crash as she can't spot a single one nor the ship.
"Is this really happening?" Meagan began to panic, almost having a meltdown in the middle of the beach.

"Oh shoot! Am I really in the.." Meagan quickly grabs the shocking map that was completely torn apart fom the tidal waves. She could barely get a good look at the map up close but, she could see the Netherland along with a big statue a few miles away from it.

Meagan heads the farthest she can before the ocean waves touches her and before her eyes could believe it, there it was, the big statue ahead of her, looking like the statue of liberty but such a bigger picture from a far view.
"I'm here! I actually made it across the ocean! The Netherlands here I come!" But there was one problem with that, she didn't know where to head. She was... lost.

"Arh, butterfingers, where do I go now?" Meagan lets her body fall backward, landing softly onto the sand.
"That feels so good." She closes her eyes for a few seconds before a big shadow covers her view.
"Hey! Do you min-" But before arguing any further, she got a sweet surprise.
"Sam? SAM! And the group! Oh, shoot!" Every rat there gave Meagan a big warm hug.
"I thought you guys were a goner" Meagan hugs tighter than all of them combined.
"Erm, Meagan, a little too harsh Meagan." Meagan realizes it and lets them all go lightly.

"Whoopsie, sorry!" Meagan gets up from the ground, her body somehow all warm which meant that she was laying on the sand for quite some time when she was washed up

"So, what's the plan Ms.GonnaSaveTheWorld?" Daily come out from the bushes behind them saying so.
"Oh, Daisy also survived." Sam pointed out. Meagan gave a mini-wave before discussing her plan.
She looks at the dozens of rats in front of her, not fully sure what her plan was. And with the rats putting her pressure on top of it, she was going to go with the "Meagan's trail of plan" plan which actually was making up the plan as they went along.

"The first thing was gotta handle is setting up our new home. Now, I know you rats are mostly used to sleeping beneath us or outside, but this time, you guys can sleep inside with me since I know you guys are friendly!"
"Well, most of us." Daisy came out of the crowd to point out.
"Oh, okay then."

"Guys, you might want to take a look at this" Meagan and the rat crew looked behind them to see one of the rat crew pointing at a direction.
"What is it, Roger?" Roger started to sprint to a big wooden mess that was torn apart.
"Is that our-" Meagan gasped, her mind heating up as she stared at her ship being torn apart.
"Well, a ship like this didn't stand a chance surviving a big storm, sorry Meagan."

"It's fine." She sat down on the sand, put both of her hands on her face and started to sob quietly.

"C'mon Meagan, you're stronger than this. Plus, we got to a world to save right now. So, save those tears for later after you're finished with all this." Sam pats her knee as Sam looks up from her hands.


"This is why I like you, Sam." Meagan smiles as Sam does the same back.

"That's the Meagan I know. Now, let's put our thinking caps on and head into the woods. Plus, I think I encountered a trail into it." With Sam's cute small body, he directed the crew plus Meagan into the path where they were supposed to travel in order to reach The Netherlands.

"A-are you sure this path is the safest to take?" Even the rats hid behind Meagan's leg because they knew it wasn't safe looking.
"Well, now that you say it like that, it doesn't look safe that it looked like from afar.

Sam stops before heading anymore into the route.
"If it's the only path we can go through besides going to any other path that will 100 percent spikes us to death from those devil-ish spike bushes then I'm willing to risk my life and take it." Roger steps in front like some sort of hero.

"Damn Roger! That's my boy!" Every rat from the crowd started to cheer Roger up like he was the president of the crew.
"Yes." Is all Meagan said.

"Alright then, our discussion is made. In we go!" And just like, Meagan led the way along with the rat crew right behind her.
"Why am leading the crew if I may ask once more." Meagan was upset that she was like bait to anything that comes out on them.
"Cause you're the biggest out amongst all of us and if something happens, we got your back, don't worry. Plus, if there is a bird, we have a big chance of hiding before it has a chance of seeing us."

Sam was pretty convincing after that since Meagan didn't say anything afterward.
They kept on walking from big bunches and small bunches and even crossed big rivers with heavy enough lily pads that made Meagan and the rat crew across without sinking it to the bottom.

"I'm tired," Roger started from the back of the crew.
"Shut up Roger, we still got a long way to go. What kind of rat are you that you can't even cross more than 1,000 miles on land? Pathetic. And Meagan's not saying anything about her feet so shut up.

"Is everything okay back there?" Meagan stops and looks below her to see their fellow rat crew fighting in the back.
"Everything is okay, Meagan. Let's keep on going." Sam smiles as Roger kept on an angry face for the rest of the walk.
"Alrighty, I think I found a nice spot to set up camp up ahead." Meagan started to pace faster than she usually does. The rats catching up to her like it was nothing.

"Woah, you cute little rats are faster than was I expect you guys to be." Meagan smiled as Sam and Roger smiled back, not Daisy.
"The first one over there is rotten cheese." Roger giggle, picking up his pace along with Meagan and Sam.

In the end, Sam got there first even though Roger got a head start on the race. Meagan, of course, came in last along with the rest of the rat crew that didn't feel like running in the first place.
"Okay, I'll go look for wood while you guys find two big long logs and return them here, alright?" All the rats shook their heads as they separated from their spots.

"Woah, this is going better than what I expected it to be." Meagan smiled the biggest she ever did.

She felt like she back home where everything was normal before any of this started.

Like being on vacation where the sun is shining on you as you drink a soft drink from a wine glass on a hot summer day. But those days are gone as right now, she needs to save the rest of the world before the entire population goes bye-bye.

Meagan started to explore the place, to her surprise, she finds some soft sheep, pigs and even a small chicken following her all the way she went until he spotted some rats up ahead of it. That's when the chicken panic and fled away.

"I found some fresh food laying on some wooden chest that looked brand new." That got the rat's attention and all of them looked at each other.
"Wait, did you say that box looked 'new?'"
"Yes, new."
"Oh-oh" It took Meagan a long second before figuring out that they weren't alone out here.

"Well, I also found a garbage can with some rotten food of all of you." Meagan dumbed the metal garbage can onto the floor, making a small pile, big enough for them to eat all up like a thanksgiving feast.
"Yo, thank you, Meagan." Daisy comes up from the rest of the rat crew and sits down next to Meagan on the logs they brought back.

"I gotta admit, I was kinda jealous that Sam was hanging out with you a lot since he is my, um, boyfriend but I know you're just trying to help out around her which I appeared much. Thank you" Dasiy smiled, diving into the garbage food with the rest of the crew.

"You're welcome." Meagan grinned, setting up her small tent on the side along with a campfire.

As Meagan takes a bit of her last stack, she was filled more than a stuffed turkey on thanksgiving.
The sky started to get dark, now, Meagan didn't know that well that it was named "night" since all she saw during the war was smoke and yellow-ish mixed with an orange sky.

"Meagan." Roger climbed up onto the log she was sitting on.
"Hey Roger, what's up." Roger finishes up munching the last rotten cheese he had into his hands and said, "tell us some spooky stories."

Now it killed to see Roger's puppy eyes looking straight into Meagan's soul but she didn't know what a "spooky story" was either.

"I'm sorry but I don't know what that is." She sighs as the crew looks disappointing.

"It's fine Meagan. Go get some sleep." The rats all spread apart, nowhere to be seen after a blink of an eye.
"Yea, night." She says into the crowd of nothing.

Meagan starts to head to her small tent. On the odds she had, she found herself a nice meal and a delightful working lamp that looks like it could last all year.
For the first time after months, she could finally have a nice nap after all the war and traveling stuff. She quickly turned off the lamp and started to fall asleep.

Not even a few hours later, she started to hear loud noises outside. She couldn't resist but to check out what was making all that loud fuss.

She got with her machete on her back. She followed the noise that was making her not sleep.
The more she kept on moving, the louder the noise became into her ears. She was ready to chop off on whatever was disturbing her sleep.

Finally, her heart started to beat faster as she spotted the one and only, the rest of the people that were on war, The Netherland people.
"SOMEONE TOOK OUR FOOD AND LAMP!" One yelled out.

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Chapter 4- Netherlanders

"Shoot, shoot, shoot" Meagan's mind started to flash every single memory she had over her 14 years living on planet earth.
Meagan dived into the open tent, zipped it up faster than chess stuck filled with fire ants.

'I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die." The haunting words spreading into her mind, like a spot of ink spilling into a white lined paper during a test.
Meagan started to count sheep in her mind, her eyes shut tight, ignoring her soundings as she tries to get a good night's sleep.

The morning came back so fast that she hasn't noticed what happened last night.
"I swear I saw- never mind." Meagan spreads her hands into the air like it was a Saturday with no school.
Meagan places her feet into her shoes that were ready to rip right off her foot.

She unzips her tent to see a crew of rats eating the extra garbage that was left for them yesterday.
"Morning Sam." Meagan yawns, her hair being an absolute mess.
"Morning." Sam was about to head for his morning breakfast where Meagan asked him, "Hey, I need to tell you something."

"Sure Meagan, what's going on in your mind?" Sam takes out to pieces of cheese from the pile and hands on to her girlfriend Daisy.
"I... I saw the Netherlander's crew yesterday." Meagan takes out a piece of fresh French bread from her pocket and eats it whole.

"Woah, you really are hungry." Roger comes out from the bushes near the sea.
"Oh, morning Roger." Meagan throws a small piece of bread onto the ground for Roger.
Roger looks up at Meagan and sees her having her finger on her lips. Roger winks and eats the bread slowly, dragging the rest into his hideout.

"That's great news!" Sam swallows his cheese he was chewing.
"Erm, they seemed rough." Meagan glances at the direction she went on last night.
"Well, the Goddess did tell you that these people were pretty rough, rougher than your crewmates... no offense.

"That's true." Meagan wiggles her fingers, sighing in place as she takes a glimpse at the fireplace she wiped out.
"Mmhm, you should take us!" Sam took the last bite of his breakfast and heads up onto Meagan's lap.
"Yea, take us!" The rest of the rat crew yelled.

"Alright then." Meagan giggles as she started to walk the direction she spotted them.

Walking in the tall grass with high boots wasn't easy and having rats crawling beneath you was like a challenge for Meagan in a game show.

"Are we there yet?" Roger started to wander like a drunk person looking for his own house.
"Yes Roger, we're here and-" Meagan took a glance to notice that they were no longer there.
"I-I swear this is the place where I saw them. Look, there's even a mark of where they made their campfire."

Meagan's face turned into a complete disappointment but at the same time, relieved as she knew they were nowhere near them anymore.
"Let's head back." As said so, Meagan and the crew headed back with the weapons they hold in their hands. From a fire touch to a knife that can magically do tricks.

"Who are they anyway?" Daisy jumps into their conversation.
"Daisy-" "No, it's fine. I'll tell everyone once we get back to the camp."
With Meagan still struggling to walk on the tall grass with the boots she had, she was way behind from the rest of the rat crew.

When Megan got there, she spotted all the rats in a circle, ready for Meagan to tell them her story.

Meagan slowly steps into the middle of the campfire, grabs her dress once more and sits down on the log as she begins to tell her story.

"So, not so long ago, 2 years ago, this war we're in which mysteriously called "the thanksgiving war" was made to protect the earth from the moon landers that want us humans to die so badly. Yes, I was in the first war of thanksgiving. A lot of blood and dead people were involved but I survived.

From there, we settled an agreement to never had this fight again and go our own ways. From the rest of the year, I lived my life like a king but not so much as half of my friends died during the war. Then, something unexpected happened.

One exact year later, the moon people started to attack us, marking that day "Thanksgiving world" cause we were saving our world? Moving on, that time, my entire teammates died, along with the moon people. But by the looks of them, it seemed like they multiplied in that 365 days I was asleep or rather saying, in a coma.
Now, 2 years later, we're in the war again, but this time, I'm ending the war and calling it "The Thanksgiving Bloodshed." as many freaking people will die on the moon."

"Oh my, I don't even know what to say. God must've blessed you since you survived all those wars."
All the rats around Meagan were silent, like... a rat!
"It's okay guys, times haven't been treating me so well." Meagan looks up at the moon, wondering how the hell they survived up there for so long.

"Well, if it makes you feel better, I was also in a war." Sam laid on Meagan's lap.
"Sam honey, you don't hav-" "No, I have too."
Meagan surrounded Sam with her warm hands.
"Five years ago, I had one of the greatest friends a rat could ever had. he went by the name Cole. We knew each other the minute our mother rats gave birth to us.

We went to rat school together, even went to University together. Then... then it happened. It was a normal hot day, I was wearing shorts that day. In the middle of class where I heard the news where my friend stepped into a mousetrap, killing him instantly even before touching the cheese.
So when you brought up your world, it reminded me of the mousetrap and how my friend died. I'm sorry." Sam bursts out of tears, snuggling on Meagan's lap.

"Oh my God, I never intended to hurt you. I'm dearly sorry, Sam." Meagan pats Sam's tiny head, making him sleep on her in the middle of the day.

"He'll be okay." Daisy snuggles agents Sam.
The rats seemed pretty calmed as so Meagan is. They thought things couldn't get better but that's where they were wrong. Meagan began to hear noises coming from the bushes in front of her.

"Oh shoot!" Meagan quickly stands up, letting Sam and Daisy off their lap without noticing.
The guy spying on them immediately runs away, Meagan chasing him along the way.
"I know who you are!" Meagan shouts, hoping he'll stop but he didn't
They ran and ran, it felt like they were running a marathon.
"Please, I just want to talk."

At that point, tall trees and broken glass laid around on the ground. Meagan knew she couldn't dodge them, especially with boots on her. But she wasn't going to give up that easily. She studied his moves on how she got to pass the tall tree and the broken glass. Before she knew it, she was back on his tail.
"Still behind you!" Meagan reminded him as he kept on running.
"Jesus, how long can this guy run." Meagan was right about to jump onto him where... WOOSH!

A rope tagged her on the knee, flying into the air and hanging backward.
"No no no, c'mon."

The boy she was chasing stood in front of her face, having sleeping powered on him. Before Meagan could've said her last words, she was fast asleep.

* * * * *

"Fking hell dude, you caught one Cap!" Everyone shared a guy which appeared to be named Cap. Meagan couldn't see anything as she had a black bag over her head like she was about to get her head chopped off.
"Now, let's see who this freaking person is." Within minutes, the black bag lifted up, staring at at least 7 fresh faces.
"Oh, um, that doesn't look like anyone from the moon." A guy with a yellow mustache on him gave a small girl that had blond hair a list of what appeared to be everyone from the moon.

"Alright, you sent you here?" The tallish guy there started to yell at Megan.
"N-nobody. I sailed across the sea cause I heard the Netherlands was under attack."
"Psst, KSP, get over here." Meagan glancing in front of her to see the group whispering to each other, some glancing in her direction.
After a solid 3 minutes, KSP slowly paced towards Meagan with a knife in his hand. Meagan wanted to take out her machete but strange enough, she left it back at camp.

"No, NO! Please don't do this." KSP stands in front of her for a few seconds, seconds later, bursting into laughter along with the rest of the crew.

"This peep thought I was really gonna kill her!" KSP takes a second to catch his breath as he cuts the rope behind her.
"Hello Miss, sorry about that. We do that when we think the moon" people are going to kill us. I'm KSP." They both shake hands as KSP steps aside so he could introduce the rest of the crew.

"This is Addy. She's our code writer." Addy waves.
"This is Bear, he's our nature explore. Seeks things that could help us in battle." Bear nods.
"This is Katy, she's our high tech programmer," Katy says sup.
"This is Bell, our nerd person. She doesn't do much but she's really helpful in battle." She doesn't do anything.
"This is Cap, he's our playful guy and the watcher of the field around us" Cap salutes him.
"Alright. Last but not least, this is Thrones, she’s our queen or more likely our main head leader of the crew."

She heads for our direction. "Nice to meet you." She gives a bright smile like some sort of dentist.

"And you are?" Thorns finally step in front.
"I'm Meagan, Meagan Salway."
"Nice to meet you." She shakes hands like she was her lost sister.
"What brings you here?" All of them stare at Meagan's direction.

"I heard there was a war going on from across the ocean." Meagan wiggled her fingers.

"Wait, you crossed the ocean just to help us?" Addy mirrors her glasses.
"Yea."
"Cool," Bell says.
"Cool? That's way cooler than what any person has done!" Katy jumps like a puppy meeting their new home.

"Ah, shucks. I came here to stop the war. I already lost the war back in my country. I won't let that happened to this country. Cause my name is Meagan Slayway, and I was born to risk my life in helping others."

Meagan stands her ground, then finally, getting off the metal stand.
"Well, in that case, Meagan Slayway, we would like to welcome you to OUR crew."

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Chapter 5- Moon Riders

"Sweet! By the way, excellent choice of floor mat you got here. It suits the mood perfectly in this room." Katy blushes as she knows she was the one that chose the floor mat color.

"Why thank you, our lovely assistant Katy choose this floor color for us. She indeed has the best taste of house decoration. After all, she was the prize winner for 2 years in the row for the most modern house in the world." Meagan was astonished to see a bunch of talented people in one single room.

"Well then, I gotta give you credit for it, it makes me wanna sleep on it alone, haha." This gave Katy a big smile.
"Alright then, let's not waste any more precise time. After all, we are in a war we have to fight off." Thorns took out her machete that was decorated with rose petals and almost every single color the rainbow has to offer.
"Oh my, neat machete. I also have one but yours beats me by 100." Meagan and Thorns have a great time talking as the rest of the crew follows them into the hallway.
"So tell me, brave one, what makes you think that you could save the world?" Addy pushes into the conversation.

"Hm, I haven't really thought of that. I planned to find you guys which I did but once I did, I just thought of you guys having a plan." Meagan glances at the paintings on the walls, some look like they were painted in the 1900s.

"See, she doesn't even know! I don't trust her." Meagan heard this loud and clear and she didn't like it one bit.
"Addy, that's enough." Thorns stop and orders Addy to head back to her room.
"I can't believe you." Addy throws her science paper all around, leaving a big mess before leaving.
"Don't worry," Thorns laying her hand on Meagan's left shoulder.

"She does that a lot." Meagan glimpses upstairs where she could see Addy yelling in anger, shutting the door behind her minutes later.
"Um, Miss, shouldn't be continued to take this tour a bit faster? No rush, just, maybe the moon atta-" But Thorns interrupts Cap before he could say another thing.
"Moon attackers? I heard of them." Thorns takes her hand off of Meagan as Meagan pauses.

"We'll talk about that later on." Thorns' voice sounding upset.

"It's fine, Thorns. Can we keep on going with the tour." But Thorns seemed to be having flashbacks as the crew don't understand what's going on.
"She's having a flashback." Bear pops in and wipers it into Meagan's ears.

"About what?"
Bear takes out his glasses for his pockets in his suit. "I can't talk about it out here. Only Thorns is allowed to talk about what happened, only her, nobody else." Bear sighs as he knows Meagan is disappointed to hear that.
"What I can tell you is that you can't be talking about that out here when our queen is around. So please, try not to bring out the moon attackers, thanks." Bear takes off his glasses and steps back into the crowd.

Meagan stared at Thorns for quite a while before returning to her own proper self.
"Alright, let's keep going. Next time, the science lap." This got Katy and Bell's attention as they're the ones that worked there.
"You're going to love it there!" Katy starts to slow sprint in front of the science lab which had a big iron door on it.

"Wait, you guys c-can't go in." Bell shyly comes out of the crowd.

"Um, exactly why not?" Thorns start to get defended.
"Yea Bell, why not?" Katy crosses her hand and looks dead serious into Bell's eyes.
It didn't even take a minute before the whole crowed crossed their hands towards Bell.
"Because... because... Meagan is here." The whole room gasped, and before Thorns opened her mouth, Bell escaped herself from the emergency escape slide.

"I'm gonna kill her when I get the chance." Katy breaks the pencil she was currently holding.
"It's fine, let her be. Now, shall we continue?" Katy pressed her keypad onto the scanner where it glowed green once it fully read her ID.

Katy was the first to enter the room along with the rest of the crew.
"Meagan, we'd like to welcome you to our science lap!" Meagan's eyes were shocked, and it wasn't because multiple colors were shining at the same time like a Dave And Buster's place but because this room had millions or robots doing all sorts of incredible things.

"This Meagan is where multiple parts of our weapons pieces are made for us to take in battle. Of course, it isn't just one process, oh no. It takes days or even weeks to make a weapon, depending on the weapons you designed the robot to perform." Katy glances up at one of the robots, smiling gratefully.
"Meagan." Meagan heard her name being shouted from across the room. Meagan glances over to see Thorns waving at her on what appears to be a different room where it leads out of the science lab.

She started to walk towards Thorns to see what she had to say to her.
"Um, I need to talk to you about the past of my crew and me." Meagan takes a sharp look into Thorn's eyes, she does the exact same thing.

"Alright, but quickly, before the rest of your crew notices."
"Nah, they'll be alright. That gumball machine is detracting enough for at least 20 minutes. Let's go." Meagan and Thorns probably walked about 2 minutes before they were fully away from the science lab.
"Okay, what I'm about to say is something devastating and you can't tell a soul, got that?" Thorns looked pretty serious throughout this whole trip. So she took her word and shook on it.

Alright, where should I started, oh yea.

"1 year ago, on The Thanksgiving World! The Netherlands were probably the nicest people that existed in the world. We had great food, great history pieces, we had it all, that is, until the moon landers came around.

Our force team wasn't strong enough to fight them back, not even NASA could've done anything. That's when we knew, we were done for. The minute the moon landers started to attack us with more powerful weapons, we thought we were a goner at that point. Then, the most unexpected thing started to happen.
After almost a full week of the moon landers attacking us, killing around 50 percent of our population, we spotted the west also attaching them, and they attack them as well.

It was like they had multiple people on the moon attacking each country at the same time. But I guess the West coast was way stronger than what we were capable of. Because one day, we saw a gigantic laser shouting up at space, and space shooting one into the west coast, kinda like star wars. To our surprise, the west coast one, destroying the moon people in one bam. Unfortunately for the west coast, it also went into destruction.
Afterward, a month after the attack, I because the new head person of The Netherlands since our other headmaster died. I order them to never step foot on the west coast has it might contain hazardous chemicals.

So after one year later, when we found you yesterday and found out you were the only one that survived the exploration, we were surprised.
Sorry if some of our team freaked out on you such as Addy or Bell, they just think you might still have Hazardous chemical on you."

It took Meagan a whole lot of time to register all that into her head. She took a look at Thorns and could see that she wasn't herself anymore.
"I-I just don't know why they started to a-attack us." As Thorns began to cry, Meagan patted her on her back, Thorns still crying on her shoulder.
"That's a lot to take in, I'm sorry you had to go through such a rough time." Thorns stopped to cry a bit, wiping the tears from her face.

"B-but your team s-saved us. We're the ones that should be saying thanks to. Cause without your sacrifice, it would've been our population that would've been extinct." Meagan was started to get heated up as she knew that she lost her whole team one year ago since the US was just a puff of smoke at this point.
But that was that she couldn't risk any more counties to go extinct just like the US.

"Well, if it makes you feel better, you're welcome." Meagan began to pat Thorns once more, then hugging at the end as their mini happy celebration.

"Trust me, I came here for that to not happen. I promise you that." Thorns began to cry again, but happy tears this time, hugging Meagan once more but tighter.
"There they are!" Meagan heard a familiar voice from the hallway which happened to be one of their crewmates, Cap.
"Oh, shoot." Meagan and Thorns pushed each other out of their hug.
"This isn't what it looks like." Meagan and Thorns both said at the same time.
There was an awkward silence between the hallway for a couple of minutes.
"Um, yeah, I think we should be getting back to work." All the crewmates started to go their way back to their rooms.

"Oh, Our queen, you have an alert up at your space station." KSP reminded her before taking off in the slippery slide.
"Ooo, you have your own space station? Cool!" Meagan was excited to see it and so was Thorn was to show her.
"Well then, what are we waiting for? Let's go!" Meagan and Thorns rushed up the stairs, passing by the crew's rooms and up 'till the very top of the cave.

"This my friend, is my very own space station." Thorn opens it up slowly and there it was, millions of buttons and screens, side to side.

"Now, give me a moment to see what KSP was referring to when he said I had an alert. Thorn quickly got onto her computer, Meagan, on the other hand, explored the place a bit more to see what cool things she had in the room.
She noticed a bunch of trophies which meant that these were every single trophy her crew has won during school since she spotted the two trophies Katy have won.

"Oh no." Thorn's voice seemed to be panicking.
"They're here!" Thorn started to yell, grabbing the mic decides her announcing a lockdown. Before I knew what was going on, I noticed on her screen the moon attackers.

"Oh sh-" Thorn quickly slammed the door opened, Meagan following her as well
"Everyone! Hide!" In a matter of minutes, the entire cave was dead dark plus silent. Thorns covered Meagan's mouth, and hearing footsteps inside wasn't good.

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Chapter 6- Skylanders

"Over here." One of the commanders spoke in a gentle voice. The mask that they were wearing looked exactly like star wars one, in fact, they probably are from the Star Wars franchise.
"Found anything?" A group of two searched the hallways, shouting in just the right voice for the rest of us to hear.

"Nothing here." We thought that they were going to leave from there but nope, we were wrong.
A big shadow started to approach the moon attackers, this time, it seemed like the big shadow approaching them was their captain. Meagan wonders what in the world they were doing down here.
"If any of you worthless bugs find that girl, report imminently." The captain spoke in a deep voice just like Dark Vader. I swear, these were people from StarWars.
"Yes sir," All 8 of them marched out of the cave in a straight line. Thorns and Meagan waiting for a few minutes just in case if anyone returns back. When the coast was clear, Thorn gave out this secret message in a different language. Whatever it meant, everyone came out at the same time.

"Is everyone safe?" Thorns removed her hand out of my mouth, leaving a big slop on her hand.
"Wonderful." She said.
"KSP, thank you for notifying me about the alert. If I was any second late to check it, we would've definitely been a goner."

I glance at KSP and by the look of his face, he felt like he just saved the world.
"Hey Bear, go check on the H2 floor and tell me if Addy and Bell are okay."
"Yes, mama." Bear saluted before leaving upstairs.
The rest of the group including Meagan and Thorns stood there pretty awkward looking.
"Those of the people we fear, for now." Thorns glance up at the sky from outside, giving out a big sigh before heading back inside.
"Those people," Thorns points up at the sky. "Those people feed on the fear we had." Everyone around Meagan sits down, so she does the same.

"We need those people to fear us, now us." A big silent in the room.
"Now, we don't have an official plan on how we'll take down the moon attackers but with Meagan's excellent help, we will have a plan sooner or later, right?" Everyone in the room glanced at Meagan like she was some sort of superstar that protects the Netherland people from being killed.
"Erm, yea?" Meagan knew perfectly well that she had no idea how she was going to take down the moon attackers for revenger of her people and saving the Netherland people.

"I WILL SAVE THE WORLD, AND SO WILL YOU!" Meagan raised her hand, followed by everyone else in the room. For Meagan, she had to make a promise she's not granted to do but on the other hand, if she didn't do anything quick, the crew will think she's just a weakling.

"That's my girl!" Katy clapped the loudest.
For the first time in a while, I spotted all these people smiling their biggest smile on a girl that can't guarantee to save the world.
"Okay, Okay everyone, enough celebrating. Those moon attackers will be back sooner than what our results will say. Back to work!" The crew gathered together in a mini circle, put hands in the middle and cheered themselves out.
"One, two, three, GO!" And just like that, they spread out and went along to do their work.

"You're doing the world a big favor, not just us." Thorn came down from the stairs, giving Meagan a warm hug before going back to supervising her crewmates.
"I wish you the best for your plan." Thorn leaves, dragging her dragon dress on the ground as she heads for the technology room.

Meagan is left near a campfire, a wide warm couch along with some s'mores on a wooden log as a table. She makes herself comfortable, staring at the large painting above the campfire which had everyone from the crew, the queen in the middle of course.
She felt like she was at home, but something inside of her heart was pinching her, telling her that it wasn't. She knew she had to come up with a plan by tomorrow but she had no idea what her plan is. Hell, this is the most powerful group left in the entire world, and letting a girl in that just survived the war and has no experience in almost anything, she was doomed from the start.

"I know you don't have a plan" Meagan hears two voices speaking from her from above.
"Don't worry, we might be able to help you with that." It was Addy and Bell speaking to her. They were in their PJ's which was a surprise since we're in a war and they're acting like nothing is going on.
"What do you mean by that?" Meagan didn't feel safe about these troublesome helping her on her plan but they were like the rest of them, smart, then why not? They just might be the only solution I have on saving the world.

"Wait, first off, how do you two know I don't have a plan? I might have one right now!"
"Okay then, let's hear it." Addy slides to the left of the couch, take off her slippers. Bell slides to the right of the couch, almost snuggling next to Meagan.
"Erm, I don't have one."
"Yea, we thought so." Bell gets up, takes out a pen and line paper from inside the log and a notebook from the other side.

"Woah, cool."
"Hey, hey, don't get distracted. Let's get to work before anyone sees us out of bed."
Meagan panics, having no idea what to say.
"Okay, let's start simple." Bell sighs.
"Let's start with small ideas."
Meagan's mind lit up a bit but yet, still not having any idea of what to write.

"Well, at first I was planning on taking down the moon attackers by building a giant laser to destroy the moon once and for all but from above, they could probably see what we're up to so no." Meagan takes a second to write all that down on her notebook.
"That idea could just work." Bell and Addy said at the same time.
"Um, didn't you guys hear that part where they moon attackers could see it?"
"Not if we build it underground!" Meagan thought of it for a second and before you knew it, all of them were smiling and excited at the same time.

"Hey, you alright Meagan." A voice sounding like Bear's voice came down from the right hallway.
"Um, yeah, I'm alright." Meagan raised her voice a bit louder.
This gave Bell and Addy just enough time to sneak themselves back to their room.

"Oh, it's just I thought I heard other voices here and thought that you were being attacked. My mistake." Bear took a look around before heading back to his bedroom.
"An entire room, just to build a gigantic laser machine." Meagan wondered. She didn't have any clue where this room was located. So the best thing she could've done is sleep until tomorrow. That's when she can tell everyone her plan and of course, give credit to Addy and Bell for helping.

A few hours later, she heard some noises coming out of the cave. She peeked outside from a hole to see her fellow rat friends and they didn't look so happy to see her.

"Oh my God, Sam!" But Sam had his piece of mind and punched Meagan's eyes from the hole with his small paw.
"Ow, what the hell!" Meagan's eye was pretty hurt.
"We have been looking for you for two damn straight days and this is where we find you?" Meagan starts to sweat as she knows this sounds like rejection.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Meagan tries to accomplish but they don't take it to grant.
"Please, guys" but the rat crew were already yards away from her, leaving her in the cave with the rest of the crew.

"Freak, I really messed up this time." Meagan sighs, sitting straight on the couch. The fireplace still shines with the warmth coming from it.
"Better get some sleep." It was hard for Meagan to sleep since her eye just got pow-ed by a rat.

The morning came faster than what Meagan expected it to come. The sun shined bright throw the squared windows from above the cave. It was a nice fit for the living room. Then she thought, this was all Katy's work of art, probably.
Meagan got up, having a blue tray with eggs and bacon already served for her on the wooden log.
"Food? Real food? I haven't had this for such a while." Meagan begins to dig up on the food. The crew watched her eat from above as they were surprised and shocked on how many days she might've gone without food.

"And you guys complaining that you have the worst food. Pathetic." Thorns reminded them. The rest of the crew head along to their working space while Thorn, Bell, and Addy head down to the couch where Meagan was finishing her last bit of bacon on her tray.

"Morning, Meagan." Thorns smiles.
"Morning, Thorns."
Addy, Bell, and Thorn sit next to her to tell her the big news.
"I noticed you were talking to Addy and Bell last night. Don't worry, you guys are not in trouble." All three of them look at each other, not convinced enough.

"But I did hear something that caught my attention when my fellow helpers were trying to help you out with ideas." Thorns takes a quick sip of her green tea before speaking again.
"And they're right, we do have a big space for you to build your gigantic laser machine. That is if you have the experience in building it." Meagan began to worry, knowing well she doesn't have the experience but this is the only chance she'll get."

"I do." Faking a smile.
"Then let's not waste any more time. Bell, Andy? Will you take Meagan to the space garage for me?"
"Yes, mama!" Thorn left as Addy and Bell pulled Meagan to space garage which was the farthest door in the hallway. Taking a secrete step downstairs, she was fantasizing about the space she had to work with.

"By the way, I know you don't have the experience so we'll come down here often to help you." Addy smiled before locking the door behind her, leaving her in the quite iron room with part of a rocket ship to her left and a shelf of tools on her right.
Meagan took a look at one of the space parts she had to work with and she knew from her dad's experience of working with NASA, she had to put the engine parts in first before she could officially build the laser ship which later on, will be the best part of the shop.

"I got this."
Meagan started up the chain wheel, a flamethrower and before she knew it, she was already building her machine.

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Chapter 7- BackStab

2 hours later

Meagan got hold of a fire engine or more saying, an oil tank from the back room where it was filled with rats, and not the one she knows. Apart from that, some parts for making the giant laser were out of place; not being able to fit the perfect shape the engine was supposed to have.

On the other hand, the engine parts and all that stuff such as the oil tank, the fire tank were all in perfect shape which was a surprise since you don't see this much often or in fact, you never see an oil tank since the government are the only ones to get a hand of them.
Meagan then remembers that Thorns was their new leader after the instance a year ago. So basically, she could have anything she wants from the entire Netherland people. Meagan took a deep breath, looking at the blueprints back and forth, figuring out how to work out the foul engine and all that crazy tanks that could possibly kill her if she makes a wrong move.

After hours of fixing up and putting the engine in order, she was finally able to build the laser ship from scratch, her favorite part
Meagan thought she had the perfect plan, but the others didn't think so.

Cap started to pick up bad vibes from Meagan as a stranger to the plan. After so, it started to spread across the entire cave. Before Bell and Addy has a chance to find out what was going on, Thorn had to step forward to stop the rumors about what was going on downstairs.
"She could be planning to kill us, like those Moon attackers," KSP yelled.

"Okay, first of all, she was not one of them. I counted how many troops there were when we were attacked and there were exactly 8, including the leader. So she can't be one of them." Thorn claimed.
"She could be an assistant and she could be a spy for the Moon Attackers," Cap claimed.

This all started a new fight agent who's right and who's wrong. Thorn ordered Addy and Bell which were the only ones there not fight since they know what was going on to take them to the blank room to calm down.
This then caused a massive fight, some screaming that they were treaters, some even started to bite Addy and Bell's fingers, trying to let themselves out of the net.

"I don't know what in the world hit their minds." Thorns glance at her own crew fighting each other.
"Can we really trust this Meagan?" Addy leaves Thorn the question in her mind as Bell and Addy take them to the blank room.

"Can I trust myself?" Thorn asks herself.
She takes a glance up at the giant painting above her, upset on how far they have gone just to be fighting each other. She then headed downstairs to the iron room, paying attention to Megan's movement as she built the laser ship with her own hands.
"I know I can trust you." Thorns' tells Meagan through the 1-1 glass (which is a glass where on one side, the walls are iron and the other side, it's full glass).

Thorn heads back to the blank, surprised to see everyone asleep, each one of them either lying on the ground or sleeping on the sides of the room.
"They're okay." Bell passes by Thorn, wearing a white doctor's coat.

Addy then passes Thorn but stops her before leaving the room.
"Hey, Addy!" Thorns' lays her hand on her shoulder.
"I do trust her." Addy smiles, catching up with Bell as the white door closes behind her.

"But do my teammates trust her?" Thorn sits on a chair above them as they sleep.

Meagan, on the other hand, is not having a great time trying to design her laser ship which was supposed to be the fun part of all this. But this is turning out to be the worst part of the ship so far.
"Get out of here!" Meagan kicks one of the spaceship's wings across the room, knocking down some of the tools from the shelf.

"ARH!" Meagan then smashes 2 large pieces onto the ground, luckily not breaking in half.
She then puts her hands around her head and starts to cry herself to sleep, saying that she's a loser and that she can't do this.
"I'm a failure to my family and my crewmates." tears coming out faster than an Uber calling you down.

Thorns then enters the room from above to see Meagan all stressed, crying herself on the floor next to the laser machine that was not even half done.
"That ain't good." Thorn rushes down to the iron lab where Meagan is ready to burn up her design up.
"Woah, Woah, Woah, what do you think you're doing?" Then the unexpected happens, Thorns out of nowhere makes a water ball with her bare hands and splashes on the laser machine.

Meagan notices it all and becomes speechless.
Thorns also doesn't dare to say anything that could potentially make the conversation even more awkward.
"Y-you have powers!" All of Meagan's vanishes as she stands up.
"Erm, yes, I do have powers." She sighed, rubbing her shoulders up and down.
Meagan, on the other hand, looks confused, not believing in what she just witnessed.

"Does your crew members know about this?"
"They do." She imminently responds.
"Damn, that's amazing." But Thorns didn't look too happy in Meagan finding out she had powers.

"Hey, what's wrong?" Meagan sits back down with Thorns. Then she discerns a devil sign on the left of her below.
"Oh my." Thorns lefts on another big sign before explaining her story.
"My friend, it's time for you to know my last secrete I hid from you." Meagan sits down with Thorn along on her side.

"2 years ago, on The Thanksgiving War Story, our team was suffering so badly that our weapons were basically water guns compared to the rest of the moon attackers. Our entire team had to hide from them but ya' know how their techniques are.
They instantly found out we made a cowardly move and they started to attack our hideout. Not this one. I thought hope was lost at that point until a red flashing light appeared in the sky with a person coming down from it.

At first, I thought it was God but with the red sky glowing, I knew it was the opposite of God.

I thought it was coming down to end the entire race of the human but no, it was actually coming to make a deal with me! It promised me that if I was on his side, he would protect our town with a bubble shield that can't get any nuclear weapons in. But for my case, I would have to get the Satan sign on every of my crew's shoulders.

I-I had no other choice but to accept the.. devil's deal, literally. We shook on it and moments later, he granted a gigantic bubble around our hometown. The moon attackers had no other choice but to kill themselves. We won that war but we also lost the trust of our God or so I thought we did.
4 months later, I was sleeping next to my brother when a bright light came into my room.

It... it was God! And he was there to make a truth with me. He told me that he'll grant one special wish whenever the next war came around. I couldn't take any chances since this was God talking to me. So I took his deal.

But when the devil heard when I made a deal with God himself, he was furious and that he'll start another war with the Moon Attackers and that if your team manages to win, he'll make sure that I'll die when it's all over.
It was almost like I sinned but at the same time, not.

So now here I am, having a deal with God himself but also a part of the deal I made with Satan on my shoulder these past 3 years."

Meagan stood there, shocked and rather depressed that Thorns also had to go through this much after the other story she just told Meagan.
"Thorns," Meagan tried to lay her hand on Thorns' shoulder but he rejected it.

"You should really get back to work. I'm sorry I ever came here." Without any second word, Thorn left her to work, not even looking back before the door closed behind her.
"And I thought my life was rough." Meagan stood there like a statue that couldn't move.

Thorns seconds later came out of the room, having a long face on her.
"Everything okay, Miss?" Katy came out of her lab room, having foggy glasses on her.
"Yea, I think I just need to rest." Thorns head up the top steps, shutting the door slowly behind her as she takes a break.
"I'm telling you, I don't trust this Meagan." Cap comes out from hiding.

"I mean, look at our queen. She has never acted like this until this 'Meagan' came into our cave." Bear said.
Katy took a hard look through the window, spotting Meagan almost finishing the laser machine by herself.
"But then again, she is helping not just us but the rest of the world in getting rid of the Moon Attackers," Katy said.

Cap then takes a look through the 1-1 window, gazing at Meagan as she builds the top of the machine.
"She has a point. Meagan hasn't done any harm to us."
"Yet." KSP points out.
"Well, we should just leave her be. We shouldn't even be here creeping at her without her knowing." Addy says.

Everyone stares at Addy, even Bell; like she was up to something. They took another hard look at Addy before retreating back to their work.
"I would be careful about what you have to say, Addy." Bell pats Addy slowly in the back before heading back to her nerdy library.

Addy stands there, wondering what the hell she has done to piss the whole crew off. She takes another look at Meagan coloring up the ship in white and black before heading back to her lab with her crazy lab partner, Bell.
"Jesus, I never expected to be finishing a laser machine all by myself. My dad would be really proud..." Meagan pauses, thinking about what the times were when everything was just a peaceful day. No war, no Moon Attackers, nothing. Now, here she is, building a giant 50 feet large through 35 feet tall laser machine to fly up to space.

"Incredible job, Meagan. I do admit, I never expected you to build such a fascinating laser machine in such a short time." Meagan laughs as Thorns slowly closes the door behind her.
"Well, my dad used to work as Amazon for quite a while. You do learn a bit or two once you work for such a long time." Thorn grimes, taking a seat next to the masterpiece that will soon fly to the moon, hopefully killing everyone there.

"I do have one more thing." Thorn smiles.

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Chapter 8- Destruction
"You said this ship is built fully almost out of oil, correct?" Meagan shakes her head, glancing at her hands.

"Well, I got a plan that is risky for me and might end up killing me fully. But if it means saving the world once and for all from the Moon Attackers than I will risk my life."
Meagan wasn't abroad with that idea at all. Sure, she was exhilarated that Thorns is willing to sacrifice herself just to save the world but when she does, she wouldn't have anyone else to talk to that are real. She could talk to Addy and Bell since they are trustworthy after the war but after all, they don't trust Meagan as Thorn would.

"Listen, Thorns. I... I don't want to lose you too." Meagan begins to tear up, eventually hugging Thorns pretty tight.
"Oh, no baby." Thorns and Meagan both hug each other as this might be the last time they might see each other.
"Please, promise me, you won't die after doing whatever you're planning to do." Meagan places both of her hands covered in oil on Thorn's cheeks.

"No, Meagan, I can't promise you that."

"Fu*k" Meagan says her very first curse word.
"Oh shoot, Meagan, you okay?" Thorns look surprised. She never expected Meagan to curse in her entire life.
"It's just, I never had a real friend until now. But now that the world is ending and you're willing to sacrificing yourself just to save the world, it means a lot to me." Meagan and Thorn glance up at the spaceship, almost ready for taking off.

"Okay, before we get any more weird ideas, here's my plan on how we can fully destroy the Moon attackers without anyone surviving up there." Thorn picks something from her pocket and comes out holding a red crystal in her hands, glowing, almost looking like a button you want to push badly.
"This is called the Demon Crystal. My mother gave it to me 16 years ago when I was born. She told me that one of the Gods gave her this and commanded her to give this crystal to her firstborn child. My mother and I never understood why they specifically gave me this but now I know why they did so.

The Gods knew a war was going to happen and that my mother wouldn't survive it but I would. Afterward, the moment you came into my life, the crystal for the first time after 16 years, started to glow. I knew that crystal was trying to tell me something, something it knew that I didn't.
Sooner or later, I fingered it out. This isn't just some special antique. This is a bomb! And with the powers, my mother left me before she died, I had to connect my mind to the bomb like a Bluetooth speaker... sacrificing my memory and my heart in order to push the button with my mind.

So what this means for you is that when you're all set to send a rocket to the Moon Attacks, it will cause a massive explosion, I give you that but with the old oil and gunpowder loaded up in the laser machine, I don't think it will be enough to eliminate the entire Moon Attackers.
With the Demon Crystal around me, I can place it inside the gunpowder, making a BIGGER explosion and a higher chance of killing everyone up there."

"But," Meagan points out. "It will kill you." Thorns sighs.
"Man, that sucks." Meagan takes a seat next to Thorns once again.
"I have no other choice though, this is the moment my entire life has been waiting up too. I can't say no cause this is it." Meagan didn't try to stop her this time, cause she knew she had to do what's right, for the world.

"Just promise me one thing." Meagan looks Thorn straight in the eyes.
"Take care for me in the overworld." Thorn smiles, hugging Meagan once again.
"And promise me, you'll look after my crew once I'm done my work here." Thorn takes out her hand for a shake.
"Damn yea I will!" Meagan and Thorn shake hands, then, noticing her crew standing right in front of the door.

"Oh, hey crew!" Thorn waves at them as she gets closer to them.
"Hey, queen. I was wondering if I and your crew can have a word with Meagan here?" Meagan peaks over Thorn's shoulder as do the crew.
"You may, if that's alright with you, Meagan?"
Meagan shakes her head.

"We promise we'll be in the living room in a few minutes." Thorn smirks, leaving the crew to talk with Meagan.
"Erm, hey Meagan" KSP started off.
"I know we haven't been the best of friends, in fact, I might've hated you when you first came in here because I thought you were here to spy on us but the more we see in you, the more we realized that we were all wrong in thinking that.

I don't want you to keep thinking that we all hate you cause yea, we did at first cause we don't let a stranger enter thing place without our queen scanning them fully. But the more we see our queen spending time with you and willing to sacrifice herself just to save the world, that means a lot to us, and I'm sure it means a lot more to you."
Meagan couldn't believe what she was hearing right now. She never expected someone like KSP to be saying those things right in front of her.

"And well, we all came here to apologies on what we thought of you, along with a special gift that Thorn helped when you were building the laser machine that will save the human king." The crew takes a moment to appreciate how much work and dedication Megan put into the 50' wide 35' tall laser machine she builds from scratch.
"Before I give you my gift, I would like to take this moment to appreciate how big you built this machine. It's amazing. You must've destroyed your competition in a building tournament." KSP and Meagan chuckle, some of the crew members chuckle as well.

Well, here's my gift to you." KSP hands Meagan a red piece of a heart that looks like it's missing other parts of it along with a T on it.

Addy steps in.

"Hey, Meagan." They both beam, having their hands behind their backs.
"I'm dazed how far you went to in building this laser machine for not just my Queen and us but the rest of the world that are on the risk of dying in a few days from now.
I remember the first day you came into this place. I thought of you as some weird stranger with a bad hair day but I also saw the good in you even though I freaked out, I knew you still saw me as a good person or more moral, you saw everyone in a good way. Thank you for that." They both give each other a mini hug.

"Alright, here's my gift for you. Enjoy." Addy hands Meagan another piece for the heart, this time orange but no letter.
"Thank you so much." Meagan high-fives Addy before Bear steps forward.

Bear steps in front.

"Megan or Meagan? Sorry if I got that wrong. Anyways, hey, I'm one of those people that don't speak to you that much. In fact, I haven't seen you since the tour that our queen gave you. My mind is pretty much everywhere.
Alright, so, the first time I saw you stepping into our territory, I didn't like it and as Addy said, seeing strangers in our cave was never a great sign. But you, Meagan, you were something special. I like you and thanks for building this massive machine, it will help kill those Moon Attackers once and for all." Bear shakes Meagan's hand, sneaking her gift during the handshake.

"Oh?" Meagan glances at her hand to see a yellow piece for the heart, having the letter h on it.
"Enjoy."

Up next, steps

"Yo, I don't have much time as I have to head back to the lab to test one last test for your machine, no gift from me, sorry. But I promise to bring it later on when it's ready. Anyways, I'm gonna make this quick.

Meagan, I have to be honest here, I never liked you whenever you hung around with our queen Thorns. It made us feel like you were planning to kill her for some odd reason, it was stupid for us, especially me since I started to spread rumors of you being a spy for the Moon Attackers. I later noticed that you weren't. I'm sorry about that." Meagan and Katy shake hands, giving her a green piece of the heart with the letter O on it.
Bell steps in.

"H-hey." Bell nods.
"I don't usually make public speeches nor private speeches but once you came into my life, something of me changed, like a special part of me changed. You made me a stronger person from the heart and from the outside. I always used to be a shy person around people but once you took place as a mini leader, I realized the real person I was.
The first time I saw you, I knew right away that you weren't a Moon Attacker as I'm a nerd and I studied every face from the Moon Attack group. Once you were doing the tour, sure, I did freak out since you were coming for the other state and I thought you had dangerous chemicals on you but I was wrong.
You're a great person, keep being that person!" Bell didn't hug Meagan, just gave a simple handshake.

She gave her a blue piece of the heart with the letter r on it.

Up next, was last but not least, Cap.
"Meagan, hey," Cap said in a deep voice.
"I have to be fully honest here, I never saw the good in you when you first came into the cave. I thought you were here to do something bad to our cave we been hiding in for the past year or so. And the fact that you were hanging around with our queen a lot started to give me the shivers like something bad was about to happen.
It did confuse me on who to fully trust which is why I started to spread rumors about you just to get a confession on you but backfired when we were sent to the blank room. But here I am, making up to my mistakes and owning up to them.
One more thing, I would love to take a moment to give a big to you for building this economize machine that will end the Moon Attackers once and for all." Cap gave a big handshake, giving her a violet piece of a heart, having the letter n on it.

"Thank you, so much, Cap." Everyone stood apart, Katy having to rush out as she had to finish her task she had to do.

"And here's the last piece your necklace is missing." The entire crew steps aside as Thorns comes in, giving Meagan the final piece the heart needs.
Thorns hands her a black piece, having an s on it.
"This is amazing! and it spells-``''Thorns." Thorns smile, tearing up a bunch.

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Chapter 9- The [D]emon Crystal: Part 1

"Alright everyone, it looks like this machine is ready for take-off." Thorns takes a glance at the laser machine one last time before it's sent up at the top of the cave.

"You did a great job. I'm proud of you, Meagan." Thorn pats her on the back before opening up the big doors to the outside.
"Oh, this wagon is pretty rough and will require a lot of strange from all of you." Within those short words, the entire crew gathered around from the front to the back of the wagon, giving it all they have but unfortunately, nothing.

"Ugh." Everyone said at the same time, restless, laying on the ground.
"Shoot, now what?" Meagan bit one of her fingernails.
"Wait, that's it!" Meagan rushed to the front of the machine as Thorns looked confused.
"What is it, Meagan?" Meagan spread her arm up in the air in front of the ship.
"Use your powers!" She shouted.

Thorn seemed uncomfortable with that idea, considering she never moved anything that big in her life.
"Erm, I mean, I could try doing so but I can't guarantee it will work."

Thorn takes three big steps in front of the laser machine. She then closes her eyes shut, raises her head and starts to hum inside of her mouth.
"You can do this Thorns!" Meagan wipers to Thorn's ears before backing out.
Thorns smirked at her before going back to moving the machine. It started off normal as in humming slowly and moving her hands up in the air like a flashlight. Later on, that's when the real action starts.

2 minutes later, Thorn's face went from a calm face to a straight-up stressful face. Her humming became louder, her hands started to shake more up in the air. Before Meagan could believe it, the machine started to move slower and slower up in the air. It was like what she was seeing in front of her was just magic editing in a movie but no, this was real, THIS. WAS. REAL!
"Keep going! Keep going, Thorns!" Thorns were about to pop by the looks of it. Her hands were ready to crumble down. Her humming was loud enough to kill a bird in an instant.

And just like that, POP. The machine was up in the air, landing softly on the tippy top of the mountain. Ready to shoot to the Moon Attackers and end them once and for all.
"OH. MY. GOD! THORNS! YOU DID IT!" Before Thorn could glance at the ship from up above, Meagan came out of nowhere, giving Thorn one of the biggest and warmest hugs she could ever give someone.
"Did I actually?" Thorns looks so surprised, gasped when she saw the machine on the top of the mountain, shooting straight at the Moon.

"Hot damn. I did. I gotta say, I'm impressed with myself!" Thorns says to herself.
"You did all of us very proud." Cap comes out of the corner along with the rest of the crew.
"Cap! Hello crew!" The entire crew gives her a big hug as Meagan glances up at the machine on the top of the mountain.

"It's almost time to shoot it up," Meagan says to herself.
"She takes a look at Thorns as she knows she risking her life to end the Moon Attackers, possibly losing her when the ship lands up there."
"This calls for a storyteller celebration!" The entire crew cheered Thorns into the living room, Meagan following behind with a glass of wine.

"You did us proud Thorns, I'm very proud of you for managing yourself and controlling yourself." Meagan sips a drop of her grape wine.
"Well, thank you, Meagan, also, if it wasn't for your smart a*s brain, we could've been toast by now." Thorns talks in a voice that sounds like she's getting drunk.

"Alright, alright, let's tell each other something embarrassing we did back in Middle or High School, not elementary." KSP spins the wheel, dropping some of his wine onto the carpet.
"Bell! Bell, you go."
Bell looks around, trying to find an excuse in getting away from this but couldn't.

"Hm, well, there was this one time I asked someone out on Halloween, yes, I was wearing a devilled egg since my mother forced me to-" but it took Katy and Bear 2 seconds before they lost their minds and laughed like monkeys.
"Holy sh- is that embarrassing or what!" Then the entire crew was bursting out of laughter, Bell even chuckled.

"C'mon guys, I haven't even gotten to the funny part, yet." Bear giggled some more and said, "Well, I think that's enough from you Bell today, thank you, holy moly." Katy lost her mind again and had to go to the bathroom to calm herself.

"Alright, alright, anyone out there that can beat bell's story is crowned king of the night." KSP takes another fast turn on the wheel, slowly going pass Addy and landing on Cap.

"Oh no, not me!" Cap waved his hands that were filled with wine juice in a no way sign.
"Cap! Cap! Cap!" The crew went wild as Cap was ordered to do so.
"Okay, so one day, I was on a farm where the government pulled over to check on my farm. At the time, I was milking the cows and didn't have time to get dressed nor cleaned up since they were already knocking on my door.

So, with milk on my hands, I opened the door, hoping they wouldn't notice but with my bad luck, they noticed right away. Their eyes were WIDE as hell. They said they would come back some other day and year..."
Cap resembled around the room and everyone looked like they were about to lose it. Minutes later, Thorns let out a burst of a laugh, followed by the rest of the crew.

"I think you have it in the bag! My man!" At this point, Meagan was drunk as a skunk and completely forgot about the ship.
"Okay, okay, I think we got time for 3 more stories before we hit this puppy into space."
KSP was even more wasted that the entire crew combined. "Hierro geeeee!" KSP spun the wheel in the opposite direction, landing directly on Katy."

"Arrr, cemon oeon!" Katy sat her drink aside before he began to tell her story.
"Only Bell will get this fully she was actually there, any also Cap in some part.
One day, Bell and I were experimenting with some new chemicals we found from a bug in the lab, for fun. I, on the one hand, was mixing chemicals left and right, like some sort of evil genius. Bell, on the other hand, was taking out some pills to put into the chemical to see the reaction to all sorts of them.

Once my chemicals were done and ready to be tested, Bell came over with a white try, having 16 pills in each one of the boxes. I especially wanted to test this rainbow pill first since it looked so coo-" but Bell started to laugh before it got to the funny part, even Cap chuckled.
"Guys, quite." Thorns said.
"Anyways, Bell passed me the rainbow pill into my hand when suddenly, the pill slipped right out of my hands and into my sweatpants. Unfortunately for us, that was the only pill left in the tray and my hands were way too small to fit in my pants.

So... erm, I asked Bell to reach under my pants. The minute she got my pill from my pants, CAP, out of nowhere, comes out telling us that dinner was ready. But with the scene going on, HE FREAKED OUT AND LEFT US, HAHAHA!" Katy, Bell, and Cap broke out of laughter.
But unfortunately for the rest of the crew, they just found it disgusting, even though all of them were drunk.

"oH shooT, iT's alMost Time guys!" Meagan recovering from the drink, all of them rushed upstairs to the top of the mountain.
"This is it, it just takes one button to destroy the Moon Attackers," Meagan said.
Thorns heads up to Meagan's position, staring at the stars.
"Beautiful stars, aren't they?" Thorns lays down on the grounds.
"They sure are." Meagan smiles.
They both then start to name random stars on the sky; the rest of the crew then starts to do the same thing.

"I'm gonna miss you." Meagan slowly breaths.
"Yea, maybe it won't kill me, look at the bright side."
"Yea, perhaps, but I'll take any chance in hopes you won't." Meagan heads up with one of her elbows holding her up from the ground. Thorns takes a long look at the stars, then, the deadly moon that haunts her

"I don't like that." Meagan points to the Moon.
"Ah, me neither." Meagan giggles.
"Alright guys, the machine is almost ready." Katy and Bell remind them, both having a hard metal mask on them.
"We'll be right there. Give us a sec."

Both Meagan and Thorn look straight into their eyes, then, at the stars.
"You know." Thorns smirk, pulling her blond hair back.
"I don't think you'll ever see me again." She turns back to Meagan's face.
"Yea, you're right," Magan smirks back.
They both close their eyes slowly, then, moving each other closer and closer and then...

"HEY! NO KISSING!" Bear shouts from the hill.
"Oh, no, no, no, it isn't what it looked like." Both of their cheeks turned hot red.
"Yeah right." Bear rolls his eyes, going back with the rest of the crew.
"MEAGAN! THORNS! It's almost ready. You might want to finish your conversation and do what you have to do."

Both Meagan and Thorn look at each other in an embarrassing way but yet, in a friendly way.
"Before you say anything, I'm the one that made it awkward. I'm sorry." Meagan rubs her left hand with her right, look up at the sky before looking at Thorns again.
"No Meagan, I think something was going on over there but we're not quite ready?" Thorns was out of ideas.

"Eh, it's fine. We should be getting going. The girls already have the engine started up."
Meagan and Thorns both hold hands on the way to the laser machine where Addy and Bell awaited them.
"Meagan" Thorns tells Meagan.

"I'm scared." Meagan holds Thorns in place; Thorns taking off her Demon Crystal in the meantime.
"Wah- why are you giving me this." Thorns hands over Meagan the Demon Crystal.
"You're the one that has to put in on." And without any second thoughts, Thorns forces Meagan's hand that she had the Demon crystal on onto the laser machine.

"What was that?"
"What had to be done." Thorns stares at the Moon, then the Demon Crystal.
"Meagan." Thorns holds her hand.
"It's going to be okay." But Meagan couldn't speak as she was heartbroken, crying a river.

"Guys, it's been great." Everyone stands in a circle, ready to salute her away with the Demon Crystal.

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Chapter 10- The Moon Attackers

"Hey, hey! Wake the hell up!" A voice from a distance speaks to you, not too loud, not to low. Just the right amount of toon for the hero to awaken.

"Erm.." The mysterious kid sleeping on the moon wakes up unconscious, scared, and a bit confused in where in the world... or universe he was.
"How in the world did I end up here?" The boy wakes up, floating up in space, slowly coming back down 3 seconds later after floating.

"You're not alone!" The voice spoke again, Ham not knowing where the voice was coming from.
"Hey! Come out!" ham yelled out, realizing something else. Ham was breathing in space without a spacesuit. She didn't know why and how this was happening but hell, it was a pretty epic scene for him to be in.
"Woah, this is cool man!" Ham began to admire the things around him.

"Am I able to fly with the stars, heck, if I can breathe in space without a spacesuit then sure hell I could ride a star without burning myself."
Ham was like a curious kid, looking around on the moon, but after a while, he noticed that there isn't much to do on the moon.

"Come over here, Ham" The voice whispered to Ham this time like it was getting closer to him more and more.
"Hey, leave me alone, voice lady." Ham got annoyed by the voice he didn't know that could penalty save his life.
"You need me." The voice repeated before disappearing.
"Yeah right, what I think is that you need me." Space went silent after that. Ham decided he ever had this conversation and that he would go on and live the rest of his life.

"Wait, how old am I? What time is it? What year is it?" Ham had a lot of questions in his made that unfortunately, she can't figure out.
He decided that he was worrying too much and that to enjoy the moment right now before anything bad happens on the moon.
Ham did some usually stuff he would most like never do back home such as pooping in space or saying the entire dictionary of curse words out loud.

He also did some wicked things on the moon like writing curse words on the moon like it was chalk, and let's not forget him pooping ON the moon.
"You're not going to survive out here by yourself." 20 minutes later, the voice started to speak to Ham again.

"You sure about that?" Ham takes the last dump he was holding on for quite some time.
"Hey, voice lady, be useful and tell me what year, time, day, and month it is." Ham scratches his butt, letting out a fart which the particles floating in space.
"WOAH! Excuse me! I also have feelings as well!" The voice lady sounding like Siri completely changed voices, sounding more friendly like Google Assistance.

"Oh shet! I'm sorry! I thought you were a robot trying to annoy me to death."
Sam quickly pulls up his pants, trying to apologies as much as he could to get the voice lady back on his side.
"Well, that's more like it, Sam Mac." The lady's voice said.
"Oh, you know my name? How?" But the voice lady doesn't say anything.

"Hello?" Still nothing.
"Am I dead."
"Perhaps." The voice lady instantly responses.
"Okay.... who are you?" The lady's voice does something new, she displays 3 dots on the screen, sorta like a loading screen.
"My name is July" It response five seconds later.

"So, you're like Siri, Google, Alexa basically?"
"NO, I'M NOTHING LIKE THOSE BOTS!" July's voice raises up to the max.
"Alright, alright, I'll keep that in mind." Ham steps back, actually float into space for a few seconds before landing back down.

"I'm sorry, I was never really a big fan of those pesky little gadgets. Always trying to steal your information." Ham was about to say the same thing to July but it was best if she doesn't get angry again.
"So tell me." Ham slowly sits down on the moon.
"Damn, even sitting down takes experience. Anyways, what are you doing here and how long have I been here?"

July takes a long pause before responding to Ham's question.
"You see, it's not about what am I doing here or you, it's why we're both here.
You see, not too long ago, the moon Gods agreed to be chill with the Earth Gods and that we should get along together like a family.
unfortunately, that headed downhill pretty quick.

The moon Gods only wanted to make peace with the Earth Gods so my father could kill the Earth Gods and they could rule the world.
They noticed pretty fast on what our plan was. So they punished us by killing off the entire population of the moon people, only leaving 8 people behind on different planets, oh, along with a person trapped in a dimension that she could never escape but could help people out, which happens to be me!

Ham calculates all that in his head before responding to July.
"So my parents are dead?" July shakes her head in distressed.
Ham sighs, not crying, just pretty depressed.
"I wish I could've said something before this whole thing happened."
"Me too bud, me too."

Ham went backward, gravity taking it's time for him to fall fully back on his back. Ham could glance at the stars, even more, closely since he had all this space to himself.
"Oh, that's another thing, you can't stay here that long. This planet will fall apart in less than 48 hours after someone awakens on it. Your job right now is to find the other seven people that are left on the universe and head for the golden plant. From there, it will tell you what all eight of you have to do."

Ha didn't like the idea that the world was at his stakes but if July was right about this, then he had to go right away.
"Let's go!" Ham rushed to the edge of the moon, but that's where July stopped him before he stepped out of the moon.
"Woah, Woah, are you nuts? You need to be on this planet for at least 5 hours in order for your organs to fill up with puffy air so you're light enough to float from either planet without sending yourself back to Earth.

Once again, Ham didn't want to believe what he was hearing but if this July knew what she was doing, then Ham had to do what July told him to do.
"Then what do I do on this planet in the meantime?"
"I don't know, maybe be the disrespectful person you were before you knew me?" July crossed her hands behind the screen.
"Look, I didn't know I was going to need help from you. I thought you were just another robot that was sent from NASA or something to spy on me." Ham glanced up to see July still having her hands crossed on the screen but later on, taking deep breaths before talking again.

"Alright, Ham, I forgive you. But next time, pay attention to who you're messing with." Ham turns serious.
"I'm joking, Jesus, You should've seen your face when I said that." July chuckled, but Ham headed out, looking like Kanye West.

"Hey, Hammy! Come back." July decided to have some fun with Sam since this was probably the only chance she'll ever get.
"So, what are your ideas as a 'fun' or exciting thing to do on the moon?" Ham gathered some ideas in his head in what astronauts did when they first reached the moon. July, on the other hand, brainstormed some ideas she had when Ham was ready for take-off.
"Do we have any flags by any chance?" Ham asked July.

"Well, even if I did, I can't just give them to you over screen now can I, hmm?"
"You're right." Sam takes a look around the room, then jumping up and down every 5 seconds cause ya know, gravity.
"2 hours already passed, just want you to know."

"Already, damn, space-time must be faster than the time in Earth."
"Yea, every minute that passes on Earth is 10 minutes in space."
Ham gazes on the news he was hearing.
"But every planet has its own time. So on some planets, it's slower and on other planets, it's way faster than the moon. Now, of course, the moon isn't a planet but you get it.
Ham was amazed to hear this news coming out to him. It was like he lives here now, well, he always lived here but not on a different planet.

"Okay bud, it's almost time for you to head out in a couple of minutes and when I mean that, I actually mean that you will be able to fly to save the others that are stuck in about 3 moon minutes." Ham was excited to finally be able to float to different planets.
"You know how you're going to do it?" Ham stopped jumping, look out at space, clearing knowing that he can't do such a thing."

Yea, that's what I thought. No worries, I can teach you how to do it. It's pretty simple.
July began by teaching Ham how to land a landing on a planet once he's off floating in space.
"This doesn't seem too hard." Ham does it perfectly 3 times in a row on his first try.

"Pff, beginners luck. Now, do you know how to float yourself?" Ham floated a bit that he usually does when he jumped up in the air, nervous as he sits back down to the moon.
"Hey, hey, you can't be nervous when the moon is at risk in the palm of your hands. Now, let's try this again."

Ham jumps up into the air, this time, floating in space for a full minute before landing back down.
"See? I told you you can do it!" They both were happy, knowing well that they were ready to leave.
"Oh, and before you leave the moon, I do have something I want you to do."
July tells Ham to head south where he'll find a box all covered up in the moon. He digs it up to find out a flag was in it this entire time.

"But how did you-"
"I used to live there, Mr.Ham. Now, what are you waiting for? Put that damn flag on the ground like you're mean it and get the heck out of there."
Ham quickly makes his small speech, gently digging the USA flag on the moon before leaving to the north for his real adventure.
"Now, I do say, even though I'm a bit nervous to see how you do but by the looks, I think you're ready to head off on your own!"

Ham puts both of his feet on the ground, his back feet ready to push him in space and into Mars, where one of his people awaits him.
"Alright, Ham. Before you go, I have to warn you about big rocks coming straight to your way. The path to Mars is a bit risky but I know you got this! Good luck!"
From there, Ham was alone, all by himself once again, in charge of saving the moon planet people.

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Chapter 11- 7 Teammates, 1 Spirit

“Alright Mr.KnowItAll, I think it’s time for you to take off.” July floats around Ham as he had some kind of angle on his side which partly, was partially true.
“Are you sure this is the best idea? I mean, I have never done this before.” But before Ham had a chance to have a great jump, a gust of wind pushed him into space, having no way of returning back.
“What the-” sooner or later, Ham was now floating randomly in space, panicking.

“Haha, the wind pushed you!” July said.
Ham was upset as he could’ve been the first person to step out of the moon without any fancy space station telling him what to do and what he can’t do.
“You know what? This actually feels great!” Ham giggles, enjoying the free space around him. July floats in every direction, finding Mars minutes later.

“Hey, hero! I found your destination!” Ham glances over July’s direction to see Mars miles away.
“Woah, how come it seems so close from this point but in reality, it’s around 40 million miles to get there.”
Ham was stressed when he noticed that but July on the other laughed so hard it looked like she was to pass out right there.

“Excuse me?” Ham slowly floats to July’s direction.
“Why are you laughing in a time like this?”July counted to ignore Ham as she kept on laughing her socks off.
“God, this is why I hate girls ever since I got a partner with one back in elementary school.” Ham expressed how he was feeling, adding a few of his personal memories.

“I’m sorry! I’m sorry! And by the way, that last part of your sentence wasn’t necessary.” July wipes away her laughing tears from her face and cotton striped shirt.
“Okay, to start off, those are Earth miles, equalling to the distance you’ll take to head somewhere, Now, space miles are different if you haven’t noticed. The provider of the angles between planets is different, kinda like time. So, it’s not that long.”
July catches her breath, explaining all that information in one breath. Ham, on the other hand, didn’t understand one bit of what July just explained to.
“I’m sorry? English please?” Ham expected July to chuckle a bit instead, giving out a disappointing face to Ham, already knowing that this wasn’t a great sign.

“Well, maybe while you’re up here, you could understand some space logic.” July unwinds her blond hair, looking like some Hollywood star walking a red carpet.
“What I meant is that Earth’s miles are way different from us space people use. A trip from the Moon to Mars is like taking a 10 minutes ride to your local 7-eleven.” July explains.
Ham floats a bit away from July, understanding what was explained to him bit by bit.
“Alright, I think I got you?”
July sighs, glancing away from Ham.

“Never mind, you’re tiny brain can’t understand my highly IQ logic.”
“Yo, that last part wasn’t necessary.” Ham smiles like a nerd outsmarting the math teacher.
“Oh, wow, well played Mr.Ham.” They both chuckled.
“Ah, well, I am one of a kind, eh?”
July messes her hair around, smiling.

“Hmm, you’re a fun one Ham. ``alright, let’s get you to Mars before the Moon crashes you down.” Ham grins, holding July vertical hand as they make their way to Mars with July’s special powers.
“Damn, this speed trip is incredible? How are you doing it?” Ham does a roll as he travels 20 miles per hour in space, being surrounded by blue lines that represented the speed they were going.

“Well, when you’re stuck in a vertical world for such time, you kinda tend to learn some fun and exciting things thee and then. Unfortunately for me, 95 percent of the powers I hold can only be used on other people such as you. I can make a person travel twice it’s speed a human being runs on Earth.”
“That’s amazing! What else could you do?”
July glances up ahead, spotting a small meteor heading straight to Ham’s direction.

“Do you trust me one this one?”
“Um, sure?” Ham said confused.
July switched options, speeding up a bit more as Ham heads for the small meteor that is 4 times his size.
“Hey, July? You might want to slow down a bit!” Ham screamed helped, heading faster and faster into the meteor
“July PLEASE!” before Ham hit the small meteor, July surrounded him in a protective bubble, completely bouncing him off it.

Ham slowly opens his eyes, completely missing everything that just happened.
“You missed everything that just happened, didn’t you?” Ham fully opens his eyes, noticing that the meteor passed him a few miles away.
“Erm, ya, sorry for that. But thanks for showing me what else you could do, that was pretty neat.” Ham’s cheeks turn red.
“July rubs her eyes over and over again, before noticing Ham on her side, kinda like her own child; July is the mother and Ham is the child.

“How did you get your power if you don’t mind me asking?” July floats slowly after hearing that, staring off space.
“Oh, sorry if it meant something bad,” Ham observed July staring off space, finding out that whatever he passed was, wasn’t good at all.
“It’s fine, I think it’s time that I tell someone about it. And since my parents are basically… all dead, and you’re the only one that could understand amongst the other 7 that are still alive, they might as well tell you.” July stops floating near Mars, so does Ham.

“You don’t have to tell me if you don’t want too. I understand that it’s kinda personal for you.”
“My boy, that’s what makes us human. Anyways, shush or I won’t tell.” Ham smirks, laying back in the middle of space.
“So when I was going back to my homeland which was the moon, we were some peaceful people. And you know the rest of the story, how the moon Gods wanted to kill the Earth Gods but we were outsmarted and turned out like this. But what I didn’t tell you is how I got my power. So, I haven’t been honest with you fully.” July looks away from Ham.

“I was one of the planners that decided to kill the Earth Gods. My father was one of God's best friends and he knew that this will backfire from the start since he studied people very well. One day, when we were all asleep, he came into my room, handing me over a glowing pill. He directly told me to drink it down and when the attacks begin, he’ll wish me the best.
At the moment, I was scared and quite confused about why he gave me that pill. After everything that happened, I realized something. He knew exactly what I was going to be once the attack was done and 99.9 percent of the population would’ve been wiped out.

He knew that 8 people including you would’ve survived and that I would have to find the chosen one to save the world.
Once I woke up in a different dimension that could only travel in space, it took me quite a while to find out what the rainbow pill was for. This was like a year ago when this happened which is why I managed and learned such unique skills and powers that could help the chosen one which happens to be you in killing off the rest of the population down at Earth, starting off with a state called the USA? Beats me but yes, that’s my story.”

Ham takes another hard stare at Mars, cooking some questions to ask July so it seems like he understood her backstory which he did but not fully.
“Damnum, how did you manage to survive all those years all by yourself,” Ham said.
“Ah, well, when you get used to living by yourself all alone, you pretty much get the hang of it.” She giggled.
Ham chuckled, staring at July as she stares at Mars.

“Righty, we shouldn’t waste more time floating here like idiots. It seems like our Mars person is about to die. Take this.” July uses her magic to teleport what seemed like a vaccine in Ham’s hand.
‘Woah, Woah, what’s this for?” Ham glances up at July but she suddenly disappears into thin air.
“Save him.” The voice Gam heard when he woke up the moon speaks to him again, spotting the person on Mars coughing up blood.
Ham quickly dives or more likely said, bounces himself into Mars, slowly landing on the planet like he was taught, opened up his shirt and quickly ingested the vaccine onto his blood.

He stood back, waiting for him to get up. Minutes passed and he wasn’t moving. This wasn’t just the problem. The problem was that Ham needed him in order to operate the special thing that was awaiting everyone on the other planet. Ham felt like a failure as more minutes passed. Ham was about to bounce to the next plant which was Saturn when the kid started to move his leg.

“Oh thank God!” Ham said inside his brain. Seconds later, the boy started to stand up fully, then operating as a normal human being.
“Oh, hello there. Didn’t know there were more people out here. And hey man, thanks for saving my life!” Ham grins.
“My name is Bop you must be Ham.” Bop shook his hand before Ham even told his name.
“H-how do you know my name?” Ham raises an eyebrow, taking a great look at what he was wearing. It seemed like he was sleeping because he was in his PJs.
“Oh, that? Before the attack began, I was told that a hero named Ham was going to save the world? I don’t know man, when I first heard that, I thought it was total BS but now that I witness it, it is believed that voice lady that told me.”

Ham raises both of his eyebrows, glancing out of space as if he knew July was spying on them.
“So tell me, what’s your exact plan of ‘saving the world? Or much saving, the galaxy?” Ham freezes, he hasn’t really thought of that that much.
“Erm,” But Ham was saved by the light as the voice lady came in front of Ham.
“HIS… plan is to find everyone left on the galaxy which one of them happens to be you,” July points to ? with her long nails. “And gather everyone to a planet I happen to know, operate a machine on it and destroy the Earth’s population once and for all.

Bop's jaw wide open.
“Oh, and my name happens to be July, nice to see you again, Bop”
“Um, can you see this July person?” Bop whispers to Ham.
“Up, and I gotta say, she’s the only that’s going to help our as*es out of here.” Ham smiles towards July.

“Alright, then let’s get going, eh?”

Ham, July, and Bop rushed their way onto the edge of Mars.

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Chapter 12- Ring Holder

“Hye, hold up.” July flies in front of them, holding up a stop sign on her hand.
“Cute sign.” Bop said.
“Shut up. Anyways, you guys can’t just go to Saturn that easily. That planet is harsher than what both of your planets are combined.” July puts down her stop sign, hides down for a few minutes and comes out holding what seemed like a red-ish orange dark rock, half of it glowing.

“What is that?”
“What you need if you want to survive Saturn. And don’t worry, the kid stuck on that planet already has it installed into their body. The only reason why you need to save that kid is that the rocks are unstable over there, one hit and that kid is a goner.”
July holds up the glowing rock on her hands closer to them.

“Okay? Then what are you waiting for? Teleport it to us.” July takes away the rock on her hands.

“It’s not that simple, I could do so but it will only teleport half of the rock; that being said, you’ll still have the power but it will only work for a few minutes before the effect disappears and you’ll both be crushed by the storm.”
Ham and Bop stare at each other before deciding on what to do.

“But, I do have something that might increase the odds of you both surviving Saturn. If you gathered enough Mar dust from the north side of this plant; you’ll see some special dust or different color of what Mar’s color is supposed to look like. Sweep some of that baby up and you got an upgrade of the glowing rock that I’m currently holding in my hands.”
Ham and Bop thought the country was going to be easy, that is until July told him the side effects it could have on them.

“There are only a few side effects that it could have on you. The north side of Mars is quite intoxicated, filled with dangerous chemicals where once you smell nor it gets on you, it will kill you before you have a chance of saying your last words.” July spoke in a serious voice.

Bop looks ahead, rethinking if this is worth it or not.
“Is this really worth it?” Bop asks Ham
“I honestly don’t know, but if it’s the only way to upgrade this… so-called gem then I’m willing to risk my life to get that dust.” Ham sprinted slowly to the north side without waiting for Bop’s opinion.

“You better get going, Bop. We’re going to need every person we get in order to operate this machine.” Bop nods, but before going, he tells her something.
“How do you know about this machine?” July makes a face where she knows she’s guilty of it.

“Cause I’m the one that built it. When the attack began, I wanted to end the human race from below but the Gods wiped us all out, leaving me and 8 other on here. Now, go on, don’t tell Ham about this.” Bop makes a zipping picture with his hands near his lips, spriting fast at Ham as she tried to catch up to him.

“Kid these days.” July shakes her head, disappearing into the air.
“Hey, this isn’t really that bad.” Ham digs himself from the dust being covered up below his boots.
“Not bad? Dude, you’re getting your shoes covered in dust before you even have a chance to pull them up.” Bop covers his face with both of his hands, the storm around them started to get uglier as they kept moving on.
“Maybe we should head back,” Ham suggested. But Bop just keeps on moving, even when his shoes were so close to being stuck to the ground like cement.

“Bop! BOP! I see the special dust up ahead!” Ham kept on moving 0.5 miles per hour, with the dust and snow being stacked on them, plus no gravity to pull them down, they were pretty much on thin ice, close to floating away with the storm on them.
“Yo! YO! HELP!” Ham glances back, barely spotting Bop with the dark particles going crazy.
“H-heyyy! T-akk-take th-i…” Bop throws a small plastic container to Ham, disappearing into the storm as he does so.
“I’LL COME BACK FOR YOU!” Ham yells into the storm, trying to move closer into the storm.

Ham’s heart was beating faster than his own blood pressure. With no one else to save him on here, he practically had to do this in one shot or else, he was going to freeze up there.

A few minutes after heading closer to the storm, Ham spotted the special dust up ahead.
“F-f-fina-finally” Ham’s teeth shiver, collecting dust as fast as he could.
Ham was about to head back but he had another problem on his hands. There was no way he could unfreeze his friend Bop from the storm. The only way he could save his friend from this situation is too… stop the storm.

Ham has zero plans of knowing how to stop a storm on Mars. he dearly wished his parents or July was here to explain it to him. But if he was the chosen one here and he couldn’t do a simple task like this, then who was he?

Ham had a quick plan. He poured some of the special dust into the storm and to his surprise, BAM. The stormed disappeared in front of his very own eyes. Unfortunately for Ham, the storm was powerful enough to knock out Ham fully, lading him softly onto Mars. That wasn’t the problem, as the chemicals started to gather up, Ham has a higher chance of being killed if the chemicals got on him.
“Ham? Ham! Please wake up!” Ham heard a familiar voice speaking to him.
“G-god?” Ham slowly opens on of his eyes but it just happens to be July trying to get him up from the ground.

“Dude, get up.” Ham helped himself up, still recovering from the storm that blasted him.
“Oh?’ It took Ham about 2 solid minutes to get his mind back in place.
“Oh shoot! BOP!” Ha searched everywhere, up and down but couldn’t find Bop anywhere.
“I’m too late, am I?” Ham sighed, getting down on the ground all disappointed.
“Hey, Ham.” Ham feels pressure onto his shoulder, glancing back to see Bop a-ok.

“Holy shet, I thought I lost you for a second.” They both hug it out, as for July, she wasn’t enjoying the scene that much.

“Alright, alright you two. Yes, you got together and I was the one to rescue him… somehow. Anyways, you got the special dust, Ham?”
Ham pulls out the special dust he collected in a plastic cup.
“Great work, Ham. Now, hold still, I’m gonna teleport that plastic cup to me.” With making eye contact, Ham and July stared into each other’s eyes, soon, turning into a green circle, kinda like she was hypnotizing Ham.
With a snap of her finger, the plastic cup was no longer there.

“Damn, that was pretty cool,” July smirked, pouring the special dust into a tiny hole in the glowing rock.
“All set.” She gently closes the top of the hole, teleporting the glowing rock into Ham’s rocket.
“You really did use your time wisely,” Ham said.
“Indeed I have.” She smiled.

Ham takes out the glowing rock that was sent to him, rubbed it for a few minutes before passing it on to Bop.
“Woah, neat rock.”
“Just rub your hands on the rock. If you hold on to it for too long, it will start to burn your hand off, finger by finger.” Bop eyes widen, rubbing it as fast as he could before handing it back to Ham.
“That’s good to know.” Ham places the glowing rock into his pants.
“But wouldn’t the rock heat up in my pants?” Ham asked.

“Ah, my boy. That’s another effect it has on the rock. Once the special dust is placed into some kind of leather clothing. It won’t burn until it makes contact with human skin.” July explains.

“Neat.” Ham, July, and Bop start to make their way back to the path where they headed.
“So tell us, Bop. How did you end up on Mars from all the planets you could have landed on?”
Bop breathes in heavily before talking.

“Well, it was pretty weird when it all started. So, I was being chased by some bullies in my school when all of a sudden, the sky turned dark red. Minutes later, the entire town freaked out, throwing trash, even attempting on killing each other. While I was hiding in the back of the school building.

I was hoping everything would’ve turned back to normal but after glancing up at the school for a couple of minutes, the sky suddenly turned bright light and poofed, before I even had a chance to say my last words, I heard a voice explaining to me that a young hero by the name Ham will save me? I didn’t even have time to think about what she was talking about before I found out I was being rescued by… well, you... In space!” Both July and Ham’s eyes widen, Ham, taking notes in his head as he still doesn’t know why this all happened. Sure, July explained what happened to her and the Moon plus the Earth people but it feels like July wasn’t telling him the whole truth.
“Yea, well, happy to see you once again, this time, fully.” July and Bop laugh, Ham on the other hand speed in front of both of them.

“Hey, Ham! Wait up!” Ham sprinted as Bop did the same. Ham forgot for a second that July had superpowers, which surprised him once he spotted July right in front of him.
“Oh, hey, July.”
“You know you can’t survive out here all by yourself.” Bop said.
“Hm, what makes you say that?” Ham askes.

“Hmm? If it wasn’t for me, Bop would’ve been dead by now. But since you got knocked out from the storm and I had to save not one by two doofus that can’t even get passed a small storm!”

When Ham heard that the storm was just a small one, then he surely doesn’t want to know how a giant storm looks like.
“I’m sorry, July. It’s just, many things are going through my mind. Yes, we both lost our parents but even if you get rid of the entire population of the world, how will we feel about that when it’s all over.”

Bop hand signals Ham, telling him to stop talking or July will go full-on on Ham.
“You do have a point. But, we’ll figure it out after it’s all over. Besides, we could even repopulate afterward. Bop indeed loved that idea when he heard that.

“Alright then, but I’ll think about it also.” Ham starts to walk towards the edge of Mars.
“I think we’re ready to blast off to Saturn, in the trust from your mind that this rock will help us, and not get us killed.”

"Yea, you can take my word for it, right?" Ham and Bop nod their heads.
"Yes, we do. besides, you're the one helping us, right?"
There was a long pause between them. After a minute, July blinks twice and says to them, "Yea."

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Chapter 13- The DevilGod Spirits

Away they want to float in space like it wasn’t a big deal because it wasn’t. On their way to Saturn, Ham and Bop got to know a little bit about the other. Things such as what are your favorite food, what type of sports do you play, what were your 1900’s video games. Usually, the basic things some 17-year-olds conversation would sound like.
July, on the other hand, was having the time of her life, sipping some green tea as she watched two losers going off-topic from their mission just to talk about their basic pathetic lives.

“Oh, so how did it go for the both of you?”
“Well, she took it pretty harsh which from the inside of me, it was like glass being pressed down to my heart. It hurt for both of us but years after a few years or so, we became close friends, not together, just friends.”

July jumped in at the wrong time. As Ham listened to Bop boneless, July was trying to give both of them the wake-up call.
“YO!” They both stop laughing, glancing straight ahead to July.
“This whole ‘couple’ conversation is cute and all but you guys have a mission. And if you were to pay attention, your destination is on your left.
Ham and Bop both glace to their left, spotting Saturn; almost missing it by the bit.

“Tanks for the heads up.” Ham and Bop both head for the left side of Saturn where it’s the less dangerous, July rolls her eyes, observing the two idiots landing perfectly well on Saturns.

“Not bad for a couple of noobies.” She smiled.
“Now, this place is covered with traps.”
“Why?” Ham asks.
“Well, the people that used to live here always wasted every cent they got into putting taps all over this planet. Why? Because one of their great-great-great-great grandmothers found a person trying to sneak overnight to steal the gold they found.

My calculations tell me that this person is near to almost dead. Lucky for both of you, you’re going to get your butts into that cave, let them be free and take them to the next planet, which happens to be Jupiter.” Without any questions, July flew off on her own, leaving Bop and Ham in the same situation as the storm, all alone.

“Um, Ham? July gave me a map.” Ham snatches the mao out of Bop’s hands, ripping off a small piece of the map from the bottom right.
“Wow, I see how it is,” Bops yells.
“Sorry.” Ham rolls his eyes, dragging his finger over the map.
“That’s not going to help.” Bop naches the map back.

“Stop wasting time and get a move on.” Bop starts to walk towards the direction the map supposedly told them to go.

“Shet, how does he always win?” Ham had no other choice but to follow him as he was the one with the map.

“You coming or what?”
“Yea, piece of sh-” Ham does a slow dance to Bop, weirdly looking like a gay character in those movies.
“Well, wasn’t that weird enough?” Bop eyes widen open, looking kinda surprised and impressed on how great of a slow dancer Ham was.
“Well I’ll be! Mr.Ham!” July jump scares Ham, hiding behind Bop as he shoves him in front.

“You never told me that you we-” but the three of them get a fright when the door closes behind them.
“-re a great dancer.” July pinky goes down.
CLICK. A light appeared from the entire accent, dark hallway.

“Don’t worry, I have the map right here. As long if we don’t step on any booby traps, we should be okay.” Bop leads the way, not fearing a thing that comes out.
“Well? What are you waiting for?” July whispers to Ham.
“Jesus, I’m going.”
July makes a foggy appearance as Ham carefully takes a step on the tiles one by one.

“Hey, Hammy! I think I found that secrete place July was talking about
Ham shines his flashlight over to Bop, spotting a key cord along with a puzzle they have to solve.
“Boy, when July said hey brought ever trap they could buy, she did not mention the expense of this puzzle plus this pass cord.” Ham takes a closer look at the puzzle. He hands it over to Bop since he was one of the best on solving riddles back in the old days.
“Hello no, I can’t solve this.” Bop throws the riddle up in the air, Ham barely catching it before hitting the ground.

“Ah, and I thought you were the smart one here.” Ham laughs.
“Erm, yea, I am?” Bop stashing the riddle box off of his hands.”
“Only stupid people will fall for this.” he flips the wooden box upside down, revealing the code for the password.
“Use your brain, Hammy.” Bop throws the box at Ham.
Bop heads up to the password, tip-toeing up as he’s pretty short and the password cord was higher than him.

Beep. beep. Bloop.
“Access accepted.” Bop and Ham step back, a gust of dust spread everywhere, covering their clothes in it.
The door slowly opened in front of them, revealing a jail cell along with the gold that was never used.

“HOLY SHOOT! JACKPOT.” But when Bop tried to pick up the 24k gold, it was stuck onto the wall pretty good.
“Frick! So much for the jackpot. Let’s go.” But the door shut closed behind them, leaving no pass cord on the side they were in.
“Oh, that’s just great! We’re now stuck here in this room, with no one to help. July is probably out there somewhere enjoying her damn self while we’re stuck here, finding an empty jail cell with gold stuck to the wall. UGH!” Bop kicks the jail cell three times before getting restless, failing on the ground.

“Hey, not all hope is lost.” Ham and Bop glance up to see a human being in a black coat, wearing Bose glasses, along with her foot on the wall.

“Oh my, are you-”
“Nope, the person you were trying to save dead 2 Moon hours ago.” Ham and Bop both look at each other.
“Hahaha! I’m kidding. Damn, you should’ve seen your freaking faces!” Strel laughs herself off, Ham and Bop not accepting her prank.

“Not cool.” They both stand up from the ground and cross their hands.
“Awww, c’mon, you gotta admit, that was a funny prank.” Strel takes off her hoodie, revealing her full face.
“My name is Strel, and you’re wasting my time. Let’s go.” Strel teleports away from the vault, opening up the vault from the outside.
“Woah, you can teleport?”
“Indeed she can” July appears next to a lamp heating up the place.

“Yooo, what’s up July” Strel and July do this crazy weird handshake before returning back to Ham and Bop.
“Yea, this is Strel, and she’s going to help you both helpless as*es to the next planet in order to save them.”

Strel chuckles.
“Hey now, you gotta bring Ham and Bop to the next planet with you.”
“But why?” Strel chews up a bubble from the bubble gum she was chewing.
“Cause you might need them,” July said.

“Excuse me? I could’ve already saved the other half of the humans at this very moment but nooo, you had me wait here for these…. TWO… little kids can save me? I’m out.” Strel teleports away but July teleports her back with her eyes.
“You’re not going anywhere without these fellow kids.”

“Hey, can you not call us kids?” Ham asked.
“Hmm, you’ll be kids in my eyes.” Strel popped her bubble.
“Ew, okay then, don’t say that. Now, let’s get hopping.” Bop pushes Ham and Steel out of his way, heading for the entrance as he points to it; glancing at Strel.
“Oh, no you want my help?” Strel teleports right in front of Bop.

“Yea I want your help, you got a problem with that?” Ham jaws wide open, surprised that Bop snapped on some girl that he could be getting.
“Yea, I do. You’re in my way. BACK OFF.” Strel teleports outside. Bop grin.
“That’s my man, Bop.” Bop and Ham hand numb, hearing the front entrance opening up.

“Strel would be taking it from here, Good luck. Don’t get on her bad side.” July gives a hard stare at Bop before poofing into thin air.
“C’mon you, slowpokes, I already have the next stop on my teleporting machine. You come or you take the long way, chumps.

Bop gets a close up at her teleporting, machine which ends up looking like the home screen of a Nintendo 3D
“And the long way would be ...?”

“Floating to the next planet, which just happens to be one of my favorite.” Strel puts back on her glasses, jamming up as her machine starts up.
“I’m not getting the great vibes from her.” Bop whispers to Ham.

“Yea, don’t you think that I feel the same? Cause I do. I never trusted this ‘Strel’ but if she can teleport us to different planets in a snap of an eye, then we gotta give her a chance. Plus, she doesn’t seem that bad, she just acts like a punk.” They both glance up at Strel, but she happened to be gone.

“See? She already left.”
“Um, nope. By the way, I can be of a sweetheart if you want.” Strel turns off her flamethrower which happens to have a skull face on it.
“Erm, no, I’m good. Keep being you.” Strel blows a bubble, popping it and getting back to her coding.
“Alrighty you punks, y’all coming or what?” Strel machine makes a beeping sound, having a blue bubble surrounding her.

“Well-” “SURE!” Bop jumps right in front of her, making space as the machine puts him right next to her on her left.
“What did you expect from that, hmmm?” Strel for the first time grins at Bop.
“Erm, I don’t know.” Bop’s head heats up.
“C’mon Ham, let’s go!” Ham glances at Jupiter, then at Strel.

“Fine, but I’m not going to like it.” Ham crosses his finger, Strel putting him to her right.
Strel then puts out her arms to both of them.
“Um, what?”

“Ugh, don’t get all cute and all. Just, hold it, alright?”
Ham and Bop both look at each other from her back, quickly holding her hand before getting yelled at.
“Now, close your eyes, and say cheese.” Ham and Bop say as they’re told. Before they know it, they were wearing 3 coasts along with a chili breeze coming from aside.
“Jesus, are you sure we’re on the right planet.”

“Nooo, I just wanted you guy- OF COURSE, THIS IS THE RIGHT PLANT!” Strel stomps her foot onto the ground, making a small gust of wind.
“Hey, hey, calm down.” Bop lays his hand on her shoulder.

"GET OFF ME." Strel shovers away Bop's shoulder, stepping ahead as she calculates the missing person on Jupiter.
"It seemed like the person on this planet is in huge trouble. We gotta act fast."
Strel dashes into the winter trees, leaving Bop and Ham very confused.

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Chapter 14- Mountain Core

“Hey, wait just a minute.” Bop stops Steel from teleporting herself to the top of the mountain.
“Hmm?”
“Um, I know your power is cool and all but don’t we, us normal humans can’t teleport just like you.” Ham kicks some snow below his boots.
“Did-did you just telling me that I’m not a human b-being?” Ham noticed Strel’s head heating up, looking dead eye to Bop.

“Well, I’m sorry we’re making your life a living hell. Yea, I rather be doing this with my fellow partner Ham over here but July told us that we have to stick together. So if you’ll excuse us, you’ll just have to take a break from your powers and lead us up this mountain without them.” Bop’s mouth had ice sticks growing from the slide of his lips, freezes up his lips in the meantime.
Strel takes another massive heat, or simply saying, angrier that Bop demanded that on her. Ham could tell that Strel never tired to go without her powers for one full day.

“C’mon Strel, it doesn’t kill to do something different.” Strel took another hard look at Ham and Bop before making her final decision.
“Fine, but even if something terrible happens by me not using my powers, the only one that’s going to be dead is from being for my hate for one of you. Let’s go.” Strel’s head cools off, heading inside the snowy woods with an ax on her hands.

“Where the hell did she get the ax?”
“Better question, why can’t she teleport us just like she did from Mars?”
“CAUSE IT ONLY WORKS ONCE EVERY 5 MOON HOURS!” Strel shouts from the woods.
“Ugh, get your butt together. Go!” Ham pushes Bop in front, leading Ham the way to Strel.

“You both have some guts in shutting me down, I do admit that. But if I’m at risk of dying in front of my eyes, I will not hesitate in using my powers, got that pipsqueak?” Ham and Bop both shook their heads before any beeth stated with the three of them.
“That’s what I thought.” Steel began to whistle Let It Go out loud.
“This song is boring,” Bop whispered to Ham. But the more Bop heard her beautiful voice whistling, the more he started to fall in love with her voice.

“Mmmm, you think it’s boring now?” Ham grind. Bop chuckled as Strel heard the entire conversation behind her back, but she pretended she didn’t hear a thing.
“Hey guys, we’re almost to our first obstacle, hurry it up.” Strel stopped in front of what appears to be a giant lake with a boat on the lake.

“First one to the boat is a rotten egg.” But Strel quickly pulled on Bop’s shirt before he jumped onto the boat.
“Are you out of your mind or what?” Strel yells out to Bop.
Bop gets confused.
“And why exactly can’t we get past this lake on this boat?” Strel headed further into the woods and came back holding a few pebbles on her hands. She threw a tiny one onto the boat and in an instance, 10 fish monsters came out chewing the people before it even hit the boat itself. Some fish were even biting themselves as they came out of the water.

“You wanna jump onto the boat now?” Strel lets go of Bop.
“So what’s your plan then?” Ham asked.
“Hm, I could use my power to turn this lake into hardening ice or-”
“-OR, we could solve this problem ourselves and find another way besides using our OWN powers.” Ham spits out.

“Woah, okay then.” Ham searches through some bushes before finding a path that leads up the hill.
“See? It might be a longer path but it’s the safest way to heat up the mountain.” Ham grins like he outsmarted his science teacher.
Strel rolls her eyes, pushing Ham and Bop out of her way as she entered the passway.
“Thank you!” Ham shouts.
The three of them kept following the snowy path that Ham kindly found through the bushes.
“You know, this isn’t that bad.” Strel explored the place some more, then covering herself in Elsa’s colors.

“Hey, look guys! I’m Elsa!” Steel teases them with her dress coming from her back.

“Hey, I said no powers!”
“Alright, alright, suits yourself.” Strep turns back to her regular black hoodie and blue pants.
“Let’s keep going.” Crossing her hands as she crosses a small river.

“Dude, what the hell!” Bop heads up front Ham and yells at him in a low voice.
“What do you want?”
“What do I want? What do I want? Dude, this is why you have no game when it comes to girls. First, yuck, you’re way too honest around them, sure, a few honest doesn’t hurt but a girl wants to see the true self of someone, not some boring person that thinks they’re better than everyone else.

Second, you’re disgusting. You’re telling a girl what she can or can’t do. Like right now, telling a girl that probably only has superpowers and you’re forcing her to not use them? I mean, who the hell are you?”
Ham swings his sword back into his back, pressuring his lips into his mouth.

“I’m the person that’s going to save the world.” Ham pushes up his backpack like a little kid and sprints across the snow, catching up to Stel.
“YOU ARE UNBELIEVABLE, HAM!” Bop yells in rage.
Bop takes a moment to calm down and catches his breath before sprinting back to Ham and Strel.

“So tell us Steel, you haven’t really explained the full story on how you got your powers.”
“And may I be clear, you don’t have to tell us.” Ham pushes in.
“Dude, that was a di- move.” Bop slaps him in the back of his neck.
“Well, I guess telling you both won’t hurt a bit.

Strel, Ham, and Bop make their way to a small cliff that they need to climb. Strel thought of this place as a numerous place to tell her story.
“Alright, everyone, settle down.” Ham and Bop found themselves a big rock to sit on, dusted off the snow from it, and began to hear her backstory.

“Before any of this war stuff happened, I was actually presented of the Sun, yes, the actual sun. Now, we all know nobody in the entire world can set foot on the sun, the reaction will melt your body in milliseconds before you even have a chance to step on it. Moving on, what is meant is that I was in changed of every single person in the entire galaxy, well, except Earth, Earth had its only leader and I wasn’t allowed to control them.
For 5 years straight working as the headmaster of every planet in the Galaxy, it was like a dream come true. Being able to have full power on everyone but also being able to control that power and use it whenever it was needed, basically, nobody would have replaced me.

But something terrifying happened one day. One day, my father which was the headmasters of all the Gods, told me that he was planning to attack the Earth Gods. When I first heard that, my ears couldn’t believe what they just heard. ‘Attack the Earth Gods?’ If my dad would’ve known better, those Gods were way stronger than what we were capable of doing, even though we own the galaxy and Earth was in it.

But as stupid as that sounded, my dad still went on it. You guys probably know the rest of what happened but in my experience, it was terrifying. My father was the first one to die, followed by my best friend my father got along with.
We were basically useless and that these Gods were going to destroy everyone on here. But one of the Gods did something, I don’t recall what happened but it wiped out 99.5 percent of us Moon people, only leaving eight people including me and one voice lady which just happens to be named July.”

Out of nowhere, July jumped off the cliff they were supposed to climb, landing right in the middle of the circle.
“Yea, Strel’s story is probably the third most terrifying out of all eight of the people.” ham couldn’t even imagine what the other people had to go through just to find out that they're stuck on a planet and their parents are dead.

“Sup, July.” July salutes her, glancing back at Ham and Bop.
“You guys hanging out okay?” Strel took a sharp eye on them, making Ham and Bop shake their heads.

“Alrighty, keep ongoing. Remember, I’m always watching.” July disappears above the snow trees.
“We can still see you,” Strel shouts.
The black smoke above them fully disappears.
“So, what’s your plan now, Mr. explorer.” Strel kicks some snow with her boots that looked like they were going to rip apart once she takes them out.

“Erm..” Ham was getting nervous, not knowing what to do as the only option here is to use her magic to teleport them up the cliff.
“Wait, I might have something in my bag that could help.” Bop pulls out the items from his bag, holding three helmets, helmets and hooks to lift themselves up the mountain.
“Guess we’ll be climbing that mountain after all!” Bop smiles, handing Strel and Ham their equipment as Bop puts on his.

“Dude, thank you for saving my butt right there.”
“Hey, what are good buddies for?” Bop smiles, ready to climb the cliff above him
“Whatever.” Strel surprised Ham and Bop as they watched Strel climbed up the cliff in less than a minute.
By the time they were halfway climbing the cliff, Ham and Bop were just halfway up the mountain.
“Hurry it up down there.” Ham and Bop were struggling down the cliff, each giving each other a push.

“Take my hand.” Strel scratches her hand up to them, having Ham and Bop pulled up at the same time.
“Thanks, Strel. You must be strong to let us both up at the same time without you falling front.”
“Oh, that? That’s nothing. Now, let’s head to the victims that are frozen.” Ham, Strel, and Bop make their way up the hill where they meet their people they have to unfreeze.

“There’s two there? I didn’t know that.” Ham takes a closer look at them to see if he recognizes any of them.
“How are you planning on unfreezing them? They might be dead as we speak.”

“Hey, stand back Mr.Hero.” Steel pushes Ham back, Strel warming up her hands as the ice slowly melts down.
“Alright, all we have to do is wait a couple of minutes for them to fully starts breathing after being frozen.

Strel stares at the landscape around them.
"It's a beautiful view." Bop sits next to her from the cliff.
"Aye, I know what you're trying to do." Strel chuckles, elbowing him.

"Nope, that's not it." Bop and Strel smile brightly at each other, staring off at the landscape filled with snow.

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Chapter 15- Party At L.A

“Ya know,” Strel slides her hand into the snow near Bop’s hand.
“This place isn’t that bad. Think about when, when the world goes back together, we would have to go back to our regular self, paying rent, doing our jobs, waking up early. I mean, nobody wants that!” Steel moves her left foot near her face.
“You do have a point, but we have no choice. You heard July. If we don’t get to that machine that she has been talking about this entire trip, then sooner or later, the Earth people would’ve found a way to get rid of the rest of us.” Bop glances back at Ham, Ham heading off into the woods holding what appeared to be a shotgun on his hands.

“Yo! Where are you heading?” Ham hears Bop yelling at him from the back.
“None of your business.” Ham sprint off into the wood before Bop had a chance to say something else.
“I don’t really like him.” Strel sloops some of her lip gloss onto her lips, making a satisfying click once she closed it.
“He’s a good person. He just acts like this for some odd reason.” Bop takes a large bite from his chicken sandwich he got from Strel.”What’s even weirder is that he started to act like this ever since you showed up.”

Bop takes a look at Strel, clearing looking upset once Bop said so.
“Well, I never liked him from the start anyway.” Strel glances into the woods before shoving her sandwich into her mouth fully.
“We should probably head back and see if the two have unfrozen.”
“Great idea.” Bop and Stre stick around the cliff for a bit before returning back to their clients.

“My friends, I’ll show him friendship.” Ham swings his ax in the air, hitting an oak tree a couple of years ahead.
“Stupid kid, like I even needed him.” Ham pulls on his ax that got stuck into the tree.
“Looks like someone isn’t enjoying the view.” A black smoke above appears in front of Ham’s eyes, revealing to be July.

“Oh, look who finally came after all these hours.” Ham finally gets his ax out of the oke tree, making him fall onto his back slowly.
“Sorry, I was caught with a friend. Plus, it seems like you hit rock bottom.” July flys over Ham, looking down at him as he tries to cover himself with the snow around him.
“Dude, get up. It’s not the end of the world.” But by the time July realized Ham was not on the ground anymore, Ham was chopping down some wood tree from a distancing away.

“Hey, hey, what are you doing?” July observed Ham as he cut down the tree slowly but steadily.
“What else do you think I’m doing?” Ham said.
July stands still, still overserving Ham.
“Yea, that’s what I thought.”

July sighs, hovering over back to Bop and Steel, staring as they both hold hands, laughing; probably telling each other some adult jokes. She notices hoe Strel uses her powers to impress Bop but as she airdropped, Ham clearly told her not to do so.
“Those two.” She shakes her head, taking out a mini camera from her pocket, having a little G on the top left.

“Now that will go into my collection of the best copies.” July knew those two words were not true but it was easier to say instead of one of the worst couples.
July puts her camera away, floating back to Ham, noticing that he already had five stacks of logs for what appears to be a campfire.
“I’ll give you props for working so fast. Like dude, you cut down like 5 logs in those 2 minutes that I was gone.” July got closer to Ham, gazing at him as he cuts down half of an oak wood with a chainsaw.
“I honestly can’t believe that this pant hasn’t attacked us with a winter storm yet.” Ham wipes the sweat from his forehead, putting down the chainsaw and the log at the same time.

Just as a heads up, Strel just used her powers to impress your little friend Bop over back at the cliff. So, whether you can do something that Strel doesn’t know how to do without using her magic, then Bop is pretty much hers at this point.” Ham carefully places down the log he was golding, looking at July for a good minute.
Finally, Ham opens his mouth slowly as he begins to say, “You were spying on them for those 2 minutes, weren't you?” July smiles, Ham, noting that he got that right and had no other excuse to say.

“Yea, you’re right, but what else do you want me to do, Mr.Ham? I mean, I’m stuck in a bubble or a different dimension that could only help people out in the Galaxy, not the Earth.” July smile disappears, Ham stares down at his snow boots, all covered in wet spots.
“I never really liked her in the first place.” Ham picks up his ax from the ground, raising it up and smashing it down onto the wooden log, completely cutting it in half in one go.
“I’m guessing that’s rage you just put into that, huh?” Ham puffs out of his nose like a buffalo ready to charge at someone.

“You do like her, I know you do. But hear me out, LOVE… will distract you from your main mission, which in that case, is to save the others from the other planets that are probably dying as he speaks, get to the machine on the golden moon, kill the people on Earth, bim-bam-boo, we win. Now, get your butt moving.” July disappears from Ham’s sight.
“I hate you for this!” Ham shakes his hand up in the air, giving her the middle finger before returning back to Bop and Strel.

Ham slowly crept up on Bop and Strel, catching them in the scene where they were pointing out at different trees out on the west side where the sun was setting down.
“Hey, you guys.” Bop quickly retrieves his hands from pointing what appears to be a rock shaped like ahead.

“Glad to see nobody missed me.” Ham lifts down three logs he was holding, turning back and coming back dragging more logs, one on each hand.
“H-hey!” Ham, Bop, and Strel dash their heads to the direction where two girls come out with ripped clothes from the snowy trees.
“Oh, you must be Panda and Alise,” Bop tells them.
“I-indeed w-we a-re.” Ham noticing both of them shivering, almost looking like they were about to pass out.

“What are you standing there for? GO make the fire camp for these two poor girls.” Ham rolls his eyes, rubbing two rocks the size of her hands and cracking them both.
“See? He’s useful!” Bop points out quickly to Ham. What Bop didn’t know is that Ham was one of the greatest hearing in the world. So when Ham heard that whisper to Strel, he was ready to throw him into the fire.
“The fire will be ready in a couple of minutes.” Ham tried to change the conversation but it seems to backfire when Bop and Steel were already far away from him; back at the cliff.

“It’s okay.” A girl with green and white hair approached Ham at a slow pace.

“Bop wasn’t such a great guy when it came to romance.” The other girl with the brown blond hair started to walk slowly towards Panda.
“Hey, my name is Panda, what’s yours?”
“Ham, Ham Gally.”
“Nice to meet you, Ham.” Ham and Panda shake hands, as for Alsie, she hides behind Panda.

“Oh, and this is Alsie, she doesn’t really talk to strangers because she thinks she’s gonna get stabled.” Ham glances at Alsie, Alsie staring back at him and then, completely closing her eyes.
“Um, please try not to do that around her, she doesn’t really like that, special from strangers.” Ham was getting annoyed that he was being called a stranger after saving these two from an enteral of being frozen, possibly dead.

“Hey, I will appreciate it if you don’t call me a stranger since I just saved both of your butts.” Without looking, Ham throws in a piece of log into the fire, making a perfect throw into the campfire.
“Okay? Then stop looking at my friend in a weird way.” Panda snaps at Ham, hugging Alsie for extra warmth.
“It’s okay Alsie.” Panda rubs her soft, short head, wiping those words into her ears. As for Ham, he wished he just letting them both freeze to death instead of bathing with their nonsense.

Ham sighs, glancing up at the sky as it gets dark. It wasn’t much of a problem until the temperature started to lower down.
“Hey, make more use of yourself and grab me a piece of that log from your back.” Ham imminently noticed that Panda didn’t like how she was being talked at. Cause by the time he notices her in front of him, she gave Ham a great big slap in the check, yelling at him “DON’T YOU EVER TALK TO ME LIKE THAT, DO YOU HEAR ME?” Her eyes wide open for a full minute before returning back to her place.

“Go burn yourself in the fire.” Ham was about to leave them and go to Bop and Steel but to his luck, Bop and Strel came right towards them, quietly laughing between them.
“Oh, Hey guys! Hey, you wouldn’t believe how much fun memories Bop has to tell.” Both of them chuckled, sitting down to the log next to Alsie and Panda.

“Mmmm, mind if you tell them what you just told me to do?” Panda smiles, crossing her legs as she places her hands on them.
“I’m good.” Ham picks up some snow from below him, throwing it right at Panda.
“HEY! What was that for-” Alsie woke up in surprise, panicking before noticing what was going on.
“Shhh,” Panda tries to get Alsie to nap again but she refuses once Panda’s hand was around her.
Alsie stands up, glancing at Steel and Bop, then at Ham for a few seconds before returning back to Panda.

“You need to chill.” Alsie yawns.
Panda stays silent as Alsie scotches over to Panda, Bop, and Steel doing the same. Ham, on the other hand, was busy thinking about if they have basically powers, like Strel. Then again, if Bop didn’t com with powers when Ham found him, them what makes Ham think that both of them have powers?

Besides, if they couldn’t even unfreeze themselves from an ice cube that there’s no way these two have powers.
“Hey Hammy, throw on log into the fire, would ya?” Strel lays her head onto Bop’s shoulder, Bop putting his hand around her.
“Yuck,” Ham said under his breath.
Ham throws a big log into the fire.

“Alright, everyone, we have at least 4 other people to save left from other planets. So, get a good night’s rest and we headed off early in the morning." Bop, Strel, Alsie, and Panda were fast asleep, leaving Ham all alone, staring at the sky as his eyes got heavy.

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Chapter 16- My Missing Star

Ham woke up in the middle of the night by the tell of where the moon was.
He stared around, each looking at Strel, Bop, Panda, and Alsie, each one of them hugging their other partner.
Ham decided to take a nice walk into the woods and sit down, glancing at the landscape in front of him. The tall mountains, the snow falling off from the trees, the giant rocks covered in snow, you name it.

“How did it come to this?” Ham tells himself, staring at a random star up in the sky. Ham grabs a handful of snow and throws it off the cliff.
“Why the hell did my team turn their backs from me when I needed them the most?” Ham throws another big pile of snow off the cliff before he started to tear up.
“You know, my life wasn’t as far as you thought they might be.” July slowly walks towards Ham, sitting down next to him on the cliff.

“Sometimes, I think of my powers as a curse or a tease my father gave me.” July takes out a cigarette from her pocket and smokes it.
“Think about it, my powers can only be used towards other people and not myself. I’m literally a robot, a robot to help other humans live. I mean, fk! Nobody has ever told me if I was doing fine or not!”
July blows out the smoke she has been holding from her nose from the minutes she expressed yourself.

“Damn, that was amazing! Anyhoo, hm, if it makes you feel any better, I’ll be here if you ever want to rant about anything you never told anyone from the past.” Ham swings his legs off the cliff like a little kid swinging on a swing.
“Maybe I should, maybe I should.” July takes her last smoke before dumping the two cigarettes into the trash can.

“I always thought you were some selfish kid that just wanted to be crow 3d hero by saving the world but you, Hammy, you have a warm heart and a great addition from the inside.” July gets up but lays her virtual hand onto Ham’s left shoulder.
“You should… I don’t know, maybe try not to be such a big doofus and be a bit nicer, it doesn’t hurt to try.” Ham and July take a nice long grin before July disappeared into the trees.
“Sneaky little July” Ham decided to lay down on the snow, letting the small particles of the snowfall onto his face, slowly melting on him.

“This isn’t that bad.” Ham’s heart started to beat up a bit, his smile being so big, it might just as well fall of his face.

Ham stood there for a couple more seconds and stood up before getting covered in snow.
Ham threw one last snowball off the cliff before returning back to the campfire and finishing the rest of his sleep without anyone noticing he was ever awake.
Ham woke up to the smell of bacon being cooked near the fireplace. Bop was on one side of the fire camp toasting up a line of five bacon while Strel, on the other hand, was teleporting like crazy, tree to tree.

“Hey, morning Ham.” Panda walked towards Ham, sitting next to him.
“Erm, morning?” Ham rubbed his eyes slowly, making sure it was Panda that was actually talking to him.
“Can we talk?” Panda quickly grabs Ham’s hand, steering him a few years away from the campfire, only both of them.

“Look,” Panda pulls her messed up hair in the hair, out of her face since it was covering pretty much her entire face.
“Last night, it wasn’t me. I never entered for u to hate me so much. It’s just when a random person comes into my best friend’s and my life, you never know what they might be planning.
So you can call me an overprotected person, yea, I got that a lot before any of this happened.”

Ham froze in his position for a while, listing and staring at how the words from Panda’s mouth came out in such a smooth way.

Ham came all this way so far and yet, now he’s just getting noticed by the stuff he has done so far.
“Well, it’s fine I suppose. I kinda used to people mistreating me before they get to fully know me.” Ham wiggle his fingers, Panda does the same.
“Hey, do you do that often.” Panda points to Ham wiggling his fingers.
“Um, yea, it’s what I do when I, well, nervous or stressed.”
Panda smiles, pulling her hair away from her face as she gets up close to Ham’s ear and tells him, “You don’t have to feel afraid when I’m around.”

Panda pats him on the head before returning back to the campfire.

“I think I have something hard in my pants?” Ham swipes off the sweat coming from his forehead. Ham also tried to control the heartbeat beating faster than asking your crush out for the fall dance.
“C’mon Mr.Hero, the bacon won’t eat itself.”
“Oh, can I eat it if Ham doesn’t want it?” Bop grabs the last stick of bacon, teasing Ham with it.
“Don’t you dare!” Ham naruto runs towards Bop, crushing him into the ground as ham takes the stick off of his hands.

“Mmm, yummy, best space bacon I have ever eaten.” Ham licks hands that were filled with grease.
“Ugh,” Strel teleports in front of Bop, handing him a hand.
“C’mon Bop, get up.” Bop takes Strel’s hand, taking off the snow on his clothes, giving Ham a hard stare before heading off with Strel.
“By the way, my best friend will love to talk to you for a few minutes while Strel and I get ready to make a plan to Venus.” Panda pats Ham on the back, leaving just Alsie and Ham alone.

“So, I’m guessing Panda told you everything, how we feel about new people?” Ham nods his head twice.
“Right, so.” Alsie fixes her scrunchy from her hair before talking again.
“I know I wasn’t such a great person for the first time I met you. Yes, you did save my life and it did feel awful Panda and I treat you like some stranger. But the more I see you, the more I see that you were just trying to help us out.”
Alsie lays her hands around her neck.

“So, now that you’re not just some kid looking for love, I can finally take you seriously.” Alsie glances back at her friend Panda, working with Stre in whatever they were talking about.
“Panda can be a pain in the butt sometimes, but she knows what’s she doing. I mean, heck, I wouldn’t have survived high school if it wasn’t for her.” Ham then glances at Panda, lastly at Strel as they laugh and joke around.

“Um, yea.” Alsie pulls her hair up once again.

“We should probably get back with the others.” Alsie grins at Ham, slowly walking away towards Bop and Strel
“When I expect to love someone by heart, this is not what I meant by it.” Ham by the fact already started to notice what Panda and Alsie were doing to him. Sure, he did like the talk but if he was going to be used by them then he would have to act quickly before things get out of hang.

“How was that with Ham?” Steel hammers in a piece of nail into the racket they were currently building.
“It was pretty decent.” Alsie picks up a tin can filled with nails, handing it over to Strel.
“Thanks.” With Strel mind, she hammers in the nail in what appears to be the lower part of the rocket with her mind.
“Show off.” Ham drags himself near Strel, knocking off her lunch food which was a small tuna fish sandwich.
“Hey, that’s my lunch idiot.” Strel shakes her head near Ham, giving him a hand slap on the face without even touching him.

“I’m really starting to hate your powers now.” Ham stares at the tuna fish sandwich laying on the ground; the snow slowly melting into the tuna fish sandwich.
“Don’t you dare do what I think you’re about to do.” But before Strel and Bop had a chance to stop Ham, Ham was already chewed down the tuna fish sandwich into his mouth.
“You’re honestly disgusting.” Bop shakes his head in disappointment, sprinting away into the woods to get some more pines.

“You are.” Alsie comes out from the back of the rocket ship, having her hair looking like a disco ball.
“But in a cute way.” Alsie stops in front of Ham’s face, having her see him chew up the tuna sandwich in front of him.
“What do you want, Alsie?” Alsie looks confused and concerned by the toon of his voice.
“I’m just here to help out, not here to make any moves on you.” Alsie takes a step back, dragging her boots as they get more covered in snow.

“I never said you were her to make any moves.” Ham then picks up a big hammer that is a perfect size to kill a human being with one slang, grabs two pieces of nails and hammers them both onto the iron spiral window.

“SHIP IS ALL SET!” Ham takes off his iron mask for protection, takes a long look at Alsie before heading off inside to test the engine.
“How did it g-” but Alsie headed off by her own into the woods before Panda finished her sentence.
“I’ll take that has a bad.” Panda stares at Ham from the rocket window, observing how he codes the engine from Python, Java, to eventually C++.
“He’s a good person.” July sneaks up on Panda, Panda having no clue who she was.

“Oh, hey ghost.” Panda waves at her like it was nothing, glancing back at Ham seconds later.

“... you’re not scared of me?” Panda glancing back at July, responding in a low toon, “Eh, I’ve seen scarier things back at my homeland.” Panda smiles.
“Oh, my name is Panda.” She then retreats from the window as she spots Ham heading out the front door.
“Oh, my name is July.” July follows Panda as she hides behind the snowy trees.
“OKAY!” Ham shouts to the crowd.

Bop and Steel were the first to arrive at Ham since Strel had teleportation powers. Alsie came out from a bush seconds later behind Bop.

“Hey! Where’s Panda?” All four of them glanced around, looking around but not being able to find Panda. Panda, on the other hand, could see them struggling to find her.
“Well, are you going?” July whispers to Panda.
“Just don’t tell Ham, alright?” Panda toons sound like a threat to July, which is exactly how she took it.

July watched Panda running towards her teammates, her hands crossed as she thought of a prank she could pull on her.
“Oh, there she is!” Alsie points out Panda running towards her from a few yards away.
“Where were you? Actually, nevermind, let’s go.” Ham slowly opened the rocket door like it was a safe lock, only without the code pad.

Slowly but surely, he opened the rocket door up.
“Ladies first,” Ham smirked.

Strel and Bop rolled their eyes as the other two winked him.

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Chapter 17- Fire/Ice Sword

“This isn't what I expected at all!” Strel takes a look around the spaceship, fascinated by the artwork painted onto the ship. From the 1500s to the simple 1900s, all the simple artwork painted in such a short space.
“I gotta hand it to you Mr.hero, you are an amazing artist. I don’t know where got the materials to paints these but wow, I’m impressed.” The crew glance around at the space work as ham gets ready to start up the engine.

“Hey Panda, can you check if the door if seal shut?” Panda lowers her head from the warning bump sign above the iron door, pushing the holder on the door forward to observe if the door was completely closed or not.
“All set to go, Hammy!” Panda gives two thumbs up, Ham only giving one before putting on his microphone.

“Testing, testing, this is your plane pilot. If you would, please settle down as we begin to head to our last destination, Venus.

Everyone in the room cheered with joy, everyone except Strel. Strel was still outraged that she wasn’t allowed to use her powers cause as they speak, Strel would have already been on Venus hours ago.
“Plan will blast off in 10 Mississippis… 9miss-” Bop and Alsie begin to unpack their plastic bag which had a sandwich along with bacon, salad and a hint of salt inside of it.

“We just got on the ship and you’re already starting to eat your nighttime meal?” Panda glances back at the passenger's seat, staring at two idiots already running their hunger.
“Panda, let them.” ham lays his hand on Panda, Panda imminently turning back to Ham.

“It’s their loss anyway, not yours.” ham smiles before taking away his warm hand from Panda, leaving a wet spot on it from the snow he has been carrying on him.
“1 Mississippi, 0 Mississippi, blast off!” The engineer paused for a solid 5 seconds, shocking everyone after it started to make a rumbling sound from below.
“Everyone! Hold on tight!” As the rocket ship began to settle up into space, the crew members were hanging on tight under their seats, everyone but Strel.

Strel had her own plans of having a great time in space. While Ham hoped everyone listened to his rules, Strel completely ignored every single rule he just mentions. When the rocket ship started to fly into the atmosphere, Strel was having the time of her life flying thought objects in the spaceships.
From face-swapping the artwork’s faces, Ham painted to flying in front of the rocket ship’s window.

‘Whatsapp Duffus.” Strel threw a gang sign at him before flying back into her seat.
“Was that?” But Ham ignored what Panda had to say, shaking his head for at least 10 seconds.
“Hey, Strel is just trying to have fun. It’s not her fault that you one, take away the rule of being able to use her own powers, two, you’re so damn boring and you’re like this nerd that nobody likes in class.” Bop goes full-on Ham, but Ham had his own ideas. Alsie handed Panda some earplugs as Panda handed over Ham some earplugs.

“Tell Aslie i say thanks.” Panda nods in a smile, inserting the earplugs into her ears as Ham and Alsie do the same.
“Idiots!” YOU’RE ALL IDIOTS!” Bop goes in outrage but is silent by Strel; as she covered his mouth in Hershey chocolate
“It’s not worth your breath, besides, look at what they have in their ears.” Bop glances over the three, having earplugs into their ears.
“They be lookin’ like those AirPods Pro into their ears, or even worse, mentos.” Strel and Bop giggle, both sharing a piece of chocolate like an awkward date.

Alsie nods at Panda, as Panda nods at Ham, giving a signal that Bop was done having his fit.
“Hey, cut the romance back there. We’re almost to our hot planet, which fun fact, is the second planet next to the sun, Venus.” Strel finally buckles up into her seat next to Bop.
“Um, who are we saving in this last planet in order for your so-called plan to work?” Panda pushes the unbuckle button to her seat, stretching as he floats in space. “Alright, alright, this is pretty cool!” Panda said.

“I mean, yea, we are in spacer after all.” Ham watches Panda doing backflips in space.
“Hey, that’s cheating!” ham points out, still laughing as he notices how hilarious bad clips in space look like.
“Come and stop me!:” Panda giggles.
“Actually, you should pay attention to the planet you’re about to hit.” Ham quickly glances back at the screen as he approaches a red planet coming right towards him.

“Oh, shi-” Ham puts on the breaks to the rocket ship, slowing down the ship a little bit; giving him just enough time to steer the ship out of the planet.
Unfortunately for him, the ship lost one of its wings, crashing the potential the ship had.
“Yo! Everyone! But on the mask under your seats and take cover!” Everyone quickly took out a mask that looks exactly like the ones people will wear during the purge, buckle their seat sight and hope for the best.

BLAM went the ship dragging onto the surface of Venus.

The crew was all safe, well, except Ham. Ham was somehow plated into the front window of the rocket ship.
“H-h-how’s e-very-” Ham talked like a robot that was about to die of battery before fainting. Panda lifted herself up, checking ham’s pulse to make sure he was alive.
“He’s fine. He just fainted but he’ll be okay in a while. AS for the rest of us, Ham told us to put these masks on from the radiation the planet has. So, if I were you, I wouldn’t dare to take off those masks.” Panda pushes Bop and Strel out of the main entrance and declares one more thing before heading out.

“One more thing, STICK. TOGETHER.” her eyes widen with a shiver, opening the iron door in one try.

“Now, if Ham were walking on his own two feet, he would’ve wanted us out of here the first minute we got.” saying so, Panda jumped out of the rocket ship, quickly landing on Venus’s surface.

“I hate our new leader.” Bop rolls his eyes, opening the iron door a bit wider.
“I hated her since the moment that ice around her melted.” Strel pushes Bop off the rocket ship, landing on Venus’s dust as Strel lands softly beside him.
“If I stand up all covered in orange dust, I will kill you.” Strel giggles, kicking some dust in his face as she teleports to Ham and Panda.
“That is if you can stand up.” Strel shakes her head in distress, following Ham and Panda ahead as she leaves Bop and Alsie alone.

“Need a hand?” Alsie peaks out of the ship both ways as she was waiting for the rest of the crew people to leave them in peace.
“No, no, I’m good.” Bop tries to lift himself up from the dust but fails before he even got his knees uptight.
“Okay, now you can.” Bop rolls his eyes as Aslie surrounds his chest with her bare hands like lifting a little baby from the ground.
Alsie then intends to slowly lift up Bop like a WWE champ, only instead, she not there to knock the living daylight out of him.

“Aye, thank you…. And I’m all covered in orange dust, frick!” Bop tries to wipes out the orange dust from his pants to his shirt but it was no use.”
“Hey, for what it’s worth, don’t let your stress get to the best to you.” Alise makes a high-five signal with Bop; Bop high-fiving her hand before starting to walk towards Ham, Strel, and Panda.

“We should probably get going. This is the last planet where we had to find two more people to get to the machine.” Bop face grins slowly, pacing towards the rest of the crewmates that are probably half a mile away from them already.
“Well then, we should probably get heading!” Alsie catches up to Bop, having a mini race to see who can make it to others first.

“Oh, a mini face?” Bop said.
“Yea, a mini face,” Alsie says.
Bop takes a stare at Alsie, having her right hand onto the top of her right shoe while she bends down to race.
“Oh, we’re doing this right now?” Bop gets down on his knees, having the same position as Aslie was in the moment.

“You ready?”
“Born ready?” As they begin screeching their shoes onto the ground, a sudden mist of gust surrounding them. Before they knew it, the dust has covered every part on their face from mouth to nose.

In a blink of an eye, both Alsie and Bop were in front of Strel, Strel having her hands crossed as she doesn’t look too happy to see the both of them.

“Um, we could ex-” But Strel imminently pressed her fingers agents Bop’s lips; Strel having to point to the front to see what was going on.
“Shut up, nevermind that. What matters right now is that I for one, can’t use my powers to get cross these lasers, two, the last two people have somehow been brainwashed and will KILL anything that moves beyond that metal plate.” Strel points towards the metal floor where off the bat, already has a small booby trap on it.

“One wrong step and you’ll be the next turkey on Thanksgiving table.” Strel angrily whispers to Bop and Alsie.
“I have a plan that everyone had to do right in one shot.” Ham waves his hands in place, signaling to gather around in a circle.
“So me and Panda-” “Of course.” Bop shouts out.

Ham gives Bop “I’m gonna kill you after these eyes,” before proceeding to his plan.
“Anyways, as I was saying, this plan where everyone has to put in the effort if we want these two fouls to be unbrainwashed.”

Ham licks the tip of his finger before proceeding to glance at the objects needed to shut down the machine from the inside the cave.

10 minutes later.

“Now, I do admit that Strel’s job is a pretty graphic and could cause her to lose her powers, but with her help and with everyone doing their part in the plan, we should pull this off easier than Ms. Smith giving out that math problem.”
Ham glances towards everyone. Everyone either seems shaker, ready for action, or ready to look like they’re about to die tonight, or morning, whatever time it is.

"Everyone at 3?" Alsie announces. Everyone put hands into the middle before splitting apart to their location.
"1...2...3! Let's go Mets!" After Ham said so, it left some people confused but imminently rushed to their position around the cave.

As everyone got to their location, Ham was a bit worried that this plan might backfire.

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Chapter 18- BrainWasher Attack

“At the sign of my five fingers going up, we’ll all make our moves, got that?” Ham spoke not by words but by sign language which surprised everyone.
“Did you just speak in sign language?” Panda whispers quietly next to Ham.
Ham nods, pressing his finger next to her lips.

Everyone around Ham glanced at him, waiting for his signal.

“Dude, what are you waiting for?” Strel teleports behind Ham, scaring him a bit.
“Hey! Get back to your spot! I’m waiting for the coast to be clear!” Ham points to the camera in the corners of the room, roasting 180 degrees every second or so.
“Well, hurry it up, Alsie and Bop are complaining that their legs hurt.” Strel shakes her head as she teleports back to her spot.

“Hey!” Panda pinche Ham in the shoulder.
“Don’t look now but the cameras are now in the opposite direction and by the looks, it seems like they won’t be rooting for the next minute.” Ham’s heart starts to beat faster; spotting the crew getting angry with him, it was probably time for Ham to take action.

“Ham, it’s time.” Ham didn’t realize everyone had their black mask on until Panda started to put her mask on.
“NOW!” As Ham started to sweat, Panda and the others were ready to take action without is signal.
Without any hesitation, Ham lifted his hand as quickly as he could, holding it up for 3 solid minutes before everyone rushed to their mission.
“Hey, wake up Bop, let’s go!” Aslie slapped Bop harder than your favorite pop music jamming into your Spotify playlist cause ya’ know, fk Apple Music.

Bop was left with a big red mar onto his face, Aslie, on the other hand, was already beneath the underground cave, stopping the laser that surrounded the entire place as the other went to their location which they were ordered to stop the brainwashing machine.

“Oh shet, that’s my role!” Strel almost forgot what her mission was after Ham lifted the signal hand up.
Panda on the other hand even got a head start before Ham even lifted his hand up in the air.

Now, we go to the point of view of everyone and how they were able to stop the brainwashing machine in one shot… well, almost in one shot.

Ham’s POV:

"The more I thought out this plan, the more I regretted being part of this plan. I mean, sure, I assigned myself the easiest part which is to get rid of the booby traps but even that, I still can't do it.
I feel like a coward right now but hell, all I need to do is jump into this tiny hole without moving a muscle, deactivate the booby traps from the coding area, bim-bam-bo, panda takes the next step from here, simple as that." ham shocked in fear, one eyeing the hole he was ordered to jump.

"Well, here goes nothing." With his eyes closed, Ham jumped into the tiny hole that was the right fit for a cat to fit in. Ham prayed that he wouldn't activate any traps from his movement body since these lasers were a millimeter away from touching either his hands, legs, or even face.
After 10 seconds of jumping into the hole, his back was the first to hit the front along with his head onto the metal floor.

"a low."

Ham stood on the ground for a good minute before slowly lifting himself up with the fall he just took.
"You know, maybe next time, I won't take the fall with my eyes closed." Ham looked around and noticed that he lost his key to deactivate the lasers.
"No, no, no! This can't be happening right now!" Ham glanced at everyone but no sight of the keys. he looked everywhere from his clothing to the top of the room but nothing.

it wasn't until he notices the keys laying flat near the key plot. "Holy shet, I thought I lost you." Ham carried the kye up onto his face like it was a hamster.
Ham then glanced at the screen to the coding password to open up the keypad.
"Pff, Python? Can it get easier than this?" Ham typed in the passcode like he owned the place. In no time, he imminently opened up the keypad, inserted the key into the pad and before he knew it, the lasers were shut down.

Ham gave the thumbs up from the glass window to Panda so she can make her next move.

Panda’s POV:

"To be fair right now, nobody tell this to Ham or else, I'll eat you alive, he did a pretty decent job in deactivating the lasers." Panda glasses at ham as he starts to observe Panda.
"Now, to set these two idiots free, someone is going to have to deactivate the energy source to shut down the hardened plastic these two are stuck in.

Panda takes a peek around the place, spotting 5 booby traps that she'll need to deactivate.
"You doing okay, Panda?" The announcement from above begins to talk to Panda, realizing that it was only ham talking to her. Panda gives two thumbs up before proceeding to shut down the booby traps which were laid across the lava pit.

"Oh, I'm gonna kick your jazz, Ham, if I get myself in trouble from this." Panda gives a hard look at Ham before jumping up like a ninja, slicing a mine bomb near one of the cameras.
"Like a pro," Panda said. She stood up from one leg off the ground like an anime character finishing his/her fight.

Panda then found herself a sweet bow which was perfect enough for her to shoot the other booby bombs which were stuck onto the walls; places that were unbreachable for her.

In a blink of an eye, panda dominated two bombs just from using her bow.
"Nice job, Panda." ham said over the microphone.
panda slice opened another booby trap without any sudden movements. Panda thought she was done until she still notices the lights from above were still on. She meant to her that she wasn't done.

"Where the hell can this last booby trap be?" Panda glimpsed above to below her, nothing. After a couple of seconds, panda noticed the last booby trap on top of the entrance.
"I can't do it!" She shouts out. Panda knew that if she were to destroy that booby trap, the door will instantly close down, leaving the rest outside.

"It's up to Aslie to turn down the power vault in order for me to destroy the booby trap without it going off." But Panda was more focus on the fact that she'll have to destroy the bomb at the exact time Alsie shuts down the power to the cave.

Alsie’s POV:

"I think Ham and Panda made a pretty good cop- I mean, a great team but hell, those were baby moves. Let me show them what a true superhero is!" Without any skepticism, Alsie jumped into action, her black mask appearing like the next black panther.
She jumped onto a small light lamp from the roof, one after another. With one leg standing, she did a karate stand before proceeding to enter the energy vault where she had to take down the power or else, she'll be stuck down there for a pretty good time.

In a snap, Alsie dived face front into the tiny hole in the energy vault without worrying about any poisoning spikes touching her.
"Oh, Alsie Grand, how your practice has paid off." Alsie face turned hot and red from her success, pulling her hair out of her face as she debunks the coding for the energy going through the cave.

"Java+? Oh man, Ham will kill me if I tried to get him to code this shet." Alsie fast fingers type out the shutting down code and before you knew it, it was ready or activation.
Alsie and Panda both destroyed what they needed to, having 2 successful missions down at once.

Bop’s POV:

"Yea sure my mission might not be the best one out of all the people but hey, as one wise person said to me, every single mission is important for the big result at the end. Oh, wait, nevermind, that was me saying that!"

In order to completely shut down the backup energy from the harden plastic ceiling, Bop will remain to shut down the lava around the entire place, that way Strel will have 10 seconds to help out the two idiots stuck in the plastic ceiling before the entire cave collapses into pieces.

"Strel, you better be ready once I pull down this lever." Bop sprints carefully up the tightrope ladder, sweating as he spots the lava right beneath him.
Once he was up the control room, Bop glance at every level in the room until he came across the hot liquid lever which probably meant to shut down the lava.
"On 3!" Bop raised his hand, three fingers showing...two...one.. and there we go, Strel was up to the last mission.

Strel’s POV:

10 seconds.

Strel teleported to the two kids left on the ground as soon as the power shut down.
"Get up! Get up!"

9 seconds.

Strel was panicking, and not because the two idiots weren't waking up but the fact that they were extremely heavy

8 seconds.

"Come on, please!" Strel shakes them as hard as she could, still nothing

7 seconds.

"I swear if I have to do that one thing just to get these kids up, I will-

6 seconds.

Strel noticed one of the kids getting up slowly from his knees.

"Hey, hey!"

5 seconds.

Strel imminently lifted him up, teleporting him out of the cave and teleporting back into the cave for the other one.

4 seconds.

"Please, get the hell up" but it was no use, she wasn't budging.

3 seconds.

Fr-, I guess I'll have to do what I never thought I would have to do. Strel gets down on her knees.

2 seconds.

"By the power of my sins, I command you to teleport us to safety, please."

1 Second.

Gigantic rocks started to fall onto the hard plastic, teleporting them away as it completely crushed the plastic.

0 seconds.

Now:

"You guys did pretty decently, I'm not gonna lie." Ham takes a look at the two girls barely waking up from the time they were being controlled.
"It seems that their memory was being controlled as when I went to get them, they seemed like they were dead. Now, if they were-" but before Strel finished her sentence, Aslie came in yelling, "Alright Strel, nobody cares."

"So, what do we do know."
"Hmm, you wanna know?" A black smoke behind Ham appeared, revealing the one and only, July!"

"Well, well Ham, it seems like I just met you seven chapters ago. You made me very proud." The two girls were finally awake to hear the next step they had to do.
"Now, the final step is to head to the golden room, activating the machine and our mission is done." She smiled.

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Chapter 19- The [D]emon Crystal: Pt 2

“Who the hell are you?” Ethereal eyes finally opened up fully to see a bunch of people surrounding her and the next door girl which her name happened to be lovable.
“We’re the people that saved your azzes from that hell pit!” Ham pointed directly to the cave that was completely crumbled down.
“Now, I’ll appreciate changing that addicted to yours and get up. We have no time to waste.” Strel lends a hand at Ethereal, Ethereal instantly rejected her hand as she got up by herself.

“Okay then.”
Ham then helped lovable up as July came down from above to explain the next set of instructions.
“Heros from above, heroes from right now, our time has come to strike back at the Earth people for taking what used to be us.” July the proceeds to draw an image on the sky representing them and where they were and where they needed to go.

“Hold up. Wasn’t it us that caused all this to-” But Strel slapped Ham on the chicks before he said another bs out of his mouth. July stares down at Ham like an old angry library teacher.
“As I was saying, you brave heroes now have two missions left to do. One, to get to the golden planet. Two, well, I can’t tell you right now, you just have to get there so I can explain it to guys.” Doing such, July disappeared into thin air, this time, leaving a note with the black smoke that was left behind.

“She left something.” Bop went to pick it up, having black smoke stain onto his left hand.
“What does it say?”
Bop squeezes his eyes, reading out loud, “Just don’t fu*k up!”
Bop ripped the paper up, eating it along the way.

‘Disgusting.” Ham shakes his head.
“Ugh.” Strel headed for the edge of Venus, calculating the miles and Moon hours it will take to get there no that everyone is here.

“Aright idiots, I tried this before with these fouls, Ham and Bop but I don’t know if it will work with you other guys.” Strel rubs her hands, creating energy and even some electric flee out of her hands like Pikachu.
“Well, it doesn’t hurt to try, like I always say.” Ham got everyone in a circle so they can start the teleportation.

“Are you sure about this?” Panda glances at Strel, having her hands as hot as an oven.
“I mean, no, but this is the best shot we got, eh? Besides, I know Strel, she’s like this evil person that can’t ever be underestimated.
Panda wasn’t so sure about that idea but if Ham was right about this, then she had to take her chances.
“I’m ready! I’ll start up this baby while you guys… erm. Hold hands?” Strel knew nobody liked that cause after she said so, everyone started to whine under their breaths.

"Look y'all, God knows how much time we have left before those... those people down there start to attack us. Now, if you'll cooperate on this 5-second piece, that would be a big help, thank you." Strel takes a moment of silence as everyone agrees to hold hands for Strel to teleport them.
"We're ready, Strel," Ham said, looking down at his shoes. Strel stares off into space, looking at the Golden Planet from afar glace before looking back at her crewmates.

"Alright then, let's do this." Bop and Unlovable both unattached hands as they make room for Strel. Strel takes another look at everyone gathered all together as they hold hands, all staring down at their shoes.

With a breath, Strel started to say some random words out loud which probably meant some kind of spell to her. What Ethereal and Alsie did catch is that Strel said "Safe travels," which gave the intentions that she hasn't done this ever and that she wasn't lying at all.
"Please, with all the might I have, travel us to our destination." With a snap of a finger, a small blue circle started to form in the middle of them, slowly forming to a bigger circle.

"Woah, Woah, Woah!" Panda was panicking that this might be a trick but nobody else was panicking so she remained calm.
"Shet, everyone doesn't look good." Strel quickly noticed that everyone was started to feel something that wasn't supposed to happen.
"It's fine, it takes a couple of seconds," July whispered into Strel's ear, magically popping out of nowhere.

"But, you never saw me do-" But July kept her pinky to her lips, commanding her to keep going with the progress. As the circle started to develop into the size of a spaceship, the more pressure it began to be put on onto the crew members, including Strel.
"This definitely doesn't feel normal!" Bop shouts, shutting his eyes as hard as he could.
"Just hang on tight!" Strel yells.
But not everyone was on board with that as some people started to let go of their hand finger by finger.

Suddenly, a gigantic thunder sound stuck right in between them, completely taking them in shook as it teleports them into the final task they have to complete in order to finish this war once and for all.

One by one, each one of them sprang to open their eyes, noticing that everything went fine.
"Brave heroes," July floats down from above them with her hands folding.
"This is the planet I have dealy been dying to show."
With July's magic powers, everyone takes notice of her as she presses a button behind a glass window that needs a key to open.
"I present you, The Golden Machine." July processed to push the button, summing the gigantic machine appearing in front of them from the ground.

"Jesus Christ! Did you fking build this?" Everyone stares at the gigantic machine that summons in front of them, pretty much speechless.
"Well... I do have my own ways." July said, smiling. Everyone places to walk towards the big machine that looks like a coca-cola factory, only if you see it in a tall scenario, not a wide.

"Wait, we can't program this?"
"Yea, you can't. Which is why for this final task, I'll be your guild in helping you which one of you idiots is in charge of." July takes her gum out of her mouth and sticks it in her ears.
"Where in the world did you get- nevermind."
Ham walked towards the crowded which were still amazed about the machine in front of them.'

"Alright, magnets, July here will help us, guild, to program this giant machine. Alright?" Everyone shook their heads, well, except Strel.
"Oh, and this here is Ally, she'll be helping you also." Ally pops behind Bop, startling him.
"Now, what are y'all standing there for, didn't I make myself loud and clear? MOVE!"

"But miss, you... didn't give us the instruction on what to do?" Panda said, crossing her hands. July's face went to an instant red as she gets played by her own line.
"Um.. right, right, I was just about to get to that before you guys left, yea."
July floats down to everyone, giving them their role and what time they needed to activate whatever part they were doing.

"GO!"

With everyone doing their part to activate the beast that was going to help them end the human race, July, on the other hand, was having her own problems and secrets that she has been hiding this entire time.
"Jesus, where did I leave that crystal of mine?" The crystal July was trying to find was the crystal that could help her get back to the real world and finally be able to get out of the spectator view.

"Whatever, I look for it later. Besides, .this sh*show shall be a blast to view at." July's eyes grew dark, dark as a villain preparing for its assassination.

July watched as everyone put part to part into the machine, it was partially owning her own tycoon but with real people working for her. Then again, she couldn't go anywhere without that crystal so with that, she didn't feel guilty one bit. In a flash of her eyes, they all raced agents time, having almost the entire machine armed in under 40 minutes.
30 minutes later, before July had time to out her new dress on she has been keeping, the crewmates were all done.
"My, I didn't expect you guys to be done in a blink of an eye, I'm impressed." July takes a hard look at the machine as it sparks a nice golden color.

"Well, the time is almost up as we strike the Earth people." July pulls up a map of the entire Earth along with red dots covering the entire east side, with no dots on the west side.

"There are people down there, waiting for us to make our attack. Now, we're not dumb." Everyone in the scene looks confused about what July is talking about.
"Ugh. What I mean is that we'll wait until they make their attack. That way, when we see whatever the hell they're sending to us, we make our attack." July explained.
This got a lot of people humming. Some disagreeing saying thoughts like "Oh, but what happens if they plan us to take us down in one shot like your machine?" Other people agreeing, saying thoughts like, "Oh, but perhaps they might be sending a nuke or something. With the power this machine has, it can send our flaming shoot plus the nuke back to them as a bonus."

July finally broke the tiebreaker by suggesting that they wait for the Earth people to attack and that was finally.
"Alright, everyone. For the moment, y'all can chill in your spots that were assigned to you. When you spot something usually, call me. For now, go to your spots and I'll be off. Peace." July disappeared in thin air.

"Okay, you heard her, we can go back to our work spots or.... we can chill here and report something suspicious when we see it!" Strel yelled.
But it didn't take long until July found that the minute she left, the whole crew started to party.
"Oh, I forgot that-" When July got to the scene of everyone carrying a drink, she was furious.

"Excuse me, but I never remember telling you guys to party, now did I?" Everyone stood still, holding their beers behind their backs. With Strel magic, she snapped her fingers, making the entire beers disappear from everyone's hands.
"I swear, we two-"
"Hey! Something big is coming!" Ally pointed out a gigantic ship coming straight towards them.

“EVERYONE, GET TO YOU SPOTS!” In a snap of an eye, everyone imminently got into their spots, ready to shoot down or reflect back to the ship that appears to be a laser machine coming directly straight towards them.

"Holy shi-"

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Chapter 20- January 1, 2020

Earth:

“I think we have this W in the bag,” Addy said, observing the ship slowly floating around the moon.
“Yea, and it couldn't have been possible without Meagan’s help.” Thorns said, smiling. The crew watched the ship disappearing in their view as it heats itself up to space. The rest of the crew left after the ship vanished in the sky, everyone but Thorns and Addy.

“Um, you did a great job.” Addy throws herself onto the soft grass, laying in a way were couples lay.
“Yup. Erm, thanks for lending me your workspace! It was kind of you.” Addy’s heart rate began to raise up.
“No, thank you for saving us. We were worried that we're going to lose since…” Thrones look both ways as it looks like she doesn’t want anyone to hear what she’s about to say.
“Don’t tell anyone this but my team kinda actually sucks.” Thorns glance down at her sweatpants.

“Oh, no, no, I promise I won’t tell anyone,” Addy said, slowly covering her hands around her blond hair.

“Oh, I love what you’re doing with my hair.” Thorns giggled; Addy smiled.

Moon:

July wasn’t about to lose that easily agents something that she has been told since the day her God's dad told her that they were going to end the Earth Gods.
“This is for my dad!” So, as the rest of the team fought agents the spaceship coming straight towards them, July was busy trying to find the red crystal for her to help them.

“C’mon, c’mon, I fking left it on the top shelf.” July looked up and down, left to right, but couldn’t find it. It was at the moment where she realized that she WAS the red crystal.
“Holy sh*t! I am the crystal!” July stool back from her room, glancing at the stuff she has thrown everywhere.

“By the power of my spirit God, I command you to teleport me to the people that need me right now!” For a few minutes, July stood there looking awkward. It wasn’t until a colorful gust of wind surrounded her, disappearing with her within minutes.
Seconds later, there she was, in front of the gigantic machine she built along with the crew fighting it off.

“Hello, bi****s!” Jul yelled, having her hands filled with fire.

Earth:

“You know, I never expect seeing myself laying on the ground with a bunch of amazing people,” Meagan said. “And do thin that I was about to give up on the world when I found you guys.”
Meagan spotted a daisy from ahead, standing up and walking towards up and picking it up.
“Whatcha got there?” Thrones stood up, spotting Meagan putting the daisy into her hair.

“Don’t worry, I got one for you too,” Meagan said, handing her a daisy with some dirty still attached to the roots. Thrones notice Daisy being held in front of her, her face turning red.

“Oh, um, for me?” Thrones asked, looking at every direction.
“Yes, for you silly! Who else!”
Before Thorns notice that nobody was watching, Meagan, on the other hand, was inserting the daisy into the front of her fluffy hair.
“Oh..” Daisy’s face was a full cherry color red.

“Aw, you look so cute like that!” Meagan squicked, holding on to her cheer. Thrones look a look at herself from the reflection of the river behind them.
“Oh, my,” Thrones said, gazed.

Moon:

“Holy sheet, you’re actually here!” Ham dropped his gunshot from a high height, everyone else noticing July standing right in front of them seconds later.
“But...but, that’s impossible!” Alsie yelled, all confused. July blond hair flew up into the air, lookin’ like your dream girl you have as a wet dream while you’re dreaming.
“Hey, I never told y’all to stop working! YOU STILL HAVE A LASER MACHINE COMING STRAIGHT TOWARDS YOU.” The entire crew noticing the machine getting closer and closer

“But Miss, nothing we’re doing is even slowing down the machine a bit.”
“Yea, which is why now that I have everyone’s attention, I have a way to fully blast off the machine, those losers sent from Earth back to them along with another surprise.”
“Erm, what’s that other surprise then?” Panda asked.

“It’s right in front of you stupid.”
July’s face turns mad as Panda’s face turns the color blooms, too embarrassed to be seen by anyone.
“Now, if y’all dumbheads would stop talking, it will be much appreciated while I go over the rules into stooping that machine that will kill us in less than a minute.”

Earth:

“You know,” Thorns slides her finger onto Meagan’s law.
“After we… win the war, we could start a new life here if you’re up to it.” Thorns said, quickly removing her finger off of Meagan’s lap.
Meagan takes a glance over her shoulder, spotting the crew playing volleyball behind a glass window. Most of them had their clothes taken off like it was a normal day.
“That’s not a bad idea,” Meagan said, giving out love signals to her. Thrones instantly notice her signals as she was doing the same thing to her.

The ship has fully vanished from the sky, probably already killing the rest of the population of the moon people. Meagan loved the idea of starting a new life here with her crewmates. The food, the gigantic space, everything! Meagan thought of this as an early Christmas gift to her.
“But?” Thorns asked.
Meagan took another glance at the sky as she spotted something coming right towards their way.
“Hey Meagan, isn’t that the same ship you sent to the moon coming suddenly coming straight towards us.” Meagan took a quick look at the sky, spotting the ship coming towards them.

“Oh fu**, that’s not a good sign.”

Moon:

“Alright, I’m only going to ask this one more time. I promise (hopefully) that this will be the last time I will be asking for this favor.” July explained. The entire crew was speechless as they didn’t know what July wanted from them.
“Erm, what exactly would that be. Miss?” Strel asked, looking behind her as Bop appears.
“...”

“You guys are going to hold hands…” July last words lower down as she closes her eyes, but not hearing any whining as she expected.
“We’re ready,” Ham spoke. July glanced at everyone holding hands, leaving a space between Aslsie and Panda.
“Oh, well,” July shakes her, unexpected and shooked on what she was seeing.

“Right, right, let me get my magic ready. Woah, I didn’t see that coming!” July giggled, Ally, smiling as the rest of the crew started to giggle under their breaths.
“Ham, will you do the honors?” Ham nodded, saying the magic words as a blast of heat blasted onto the ship, sending it back along with a special surprise just for them.

Earth:

“Is this defeat?” KSP asked, taking off his hat.
“Yes KSP, this is defeat,” Cap told KSP, looking down.
Everyone in the crew gathered around in a big circle, holding hands as they look above at the sky; the spaceship heading towards them faster and faster.

“Well, this is the end, isn’t it? We’re going to die here.” Bell stated, vice creaking ost of the words coming out of her mouth.

“No! NO! I won’t give up!” Meagan shouted, heading into the woods and coming out with metal bars and nails.
“Meagan, please, there’s nothing we can do.” Thrones told Meagan from behind, glancing up at the moon. “Those people won fair and square.”
Meagan cried onto Thorn's chest, leading her back to the camp where everyone had their hands together in a circle.

“I’m sorry, God,” Cap said out loud.

Moon:

“And there she goes, off to where it REALLY belongs,” July says, smiling as she glances at the ship heading straight back to the Earth people along with a hot steaming fireball behind it.
“That fireball idea was an excellent bonus for those losers.” Ally tells July, patting her on the back. The crew takes another hard look at the rocket as it disappears into Earth’s asthenosphere.

“Can I be honest for a second?” July announces.
Everyone on the Moon glace towards July as she begins to tell her speech.
“This all wouldn’t be possible if our fellow crew leader Ham!” Everyone cherried their beer up in the air for Ham.
“And not just to give Ham all the credit, everyone on this planet did an incredible job not just to our God’s that risked their lives but reclaiming our freedom once again!” July gave out a giant cheer along with the rest of the people.

“Ah, this sure has been an adventure!” Addy cheered drunk.
“It sure has been!” Everyone yelled out.

“So, you have any idea what the Earth people are thinking about right now?” Panda asks July, sipping her tea as she watches Earth slowly melting in front of her eyes.
“Holy sh*t, that’s cool,” Everyone said at once.

They watch Earth explored right in front of them! Every single piece coming out of the planet, trees, buildings, not animals or humans cause they got smoked the minute that rocket touched the surface of Earth.
The hot lava from inside the Earth’s crust went crazy as it started a gigantic metro shower around Saturn.
“Oh, rest in peace Saturn.” Ally said.

They kept on watching as Earth began to disappear in front of their eyes. One by one, the water slowly started to drift off into space and suddenly into a black hole. With all that being said, in less than a minute, there was no more Earth, just them.
Finally, July her head towards Panda and tells, “Well? I don’t know, cause they’re dead and that’s not our problem anymore.”

Earth:

“Well, this is the end of us, huh?” KSP says, taking his full look up at the sky.
“I can’t believe this is the way we’re going to die. After all of Meagan’s work, all gone, just like that!” Ham speaks, taking a long look at his palms.
“Damn, and to hope that I would see my cousin in the middle of France.” Bear’s voice cracks.

“It’s such a shame that the Moon people were smart enough to reflect our own weapon back to us.” Katy cries.
“I know Meagan tried her best but I guess they were stronger than what we expected,” Bell explains, her cheeks turning red.

“Meagan did her best, but somehow, they were way smarter than us,” Cap said, taking off his hat.
Thrones heads fro Meagan and pats on the shoulder.
"There was no other way." Thrones glance up, looking at the rocket coming at them.

"I guess this is the end."

"Indeed, but it could be worse, you could be watching Grey's Anatomy."

The End.

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