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Ragatha, OLiver and Pomni had finally made it back to Oliver’s room, Oliver went and opened the door, “Alright, let’s see if anything got messed up.” Oliver told the others, so they started looking around for anything, but they found nothing that was glitching out, or looked the slightest off, “Great.” Pomni muttered, “Now what are we gonna do?” Ragatha asked.
As Pomni thought, she then noticed something, it was coming from under Oliver’s bed, she noticed glitching coming from under, she got down on her knees and crawled over to the underside of his bed, she lifted the cover, what she saw was shocking, it was a few things that Oliver had either made, or drawn, “Guys, I think I’ve found something?” Pomni told the others.
“Found what?” Oliver asked her, “Something…” Pomni was about to say before they were all suddenly lifted off the ground and teleported to the main area once more, they weren’t alone, Jax, Zooble, Kinger, and Gangle accompanied them, "What the, what’s going on!?” Pomni asked, “We don’t know, we just got taken from our rooms.” Zooble responded.
As the gang wondered what was going on, Caine suddenly appeared, but this time, he seemed a little off, “Alright guys, time for a new adventure!!” He shouted. “Caine, what the @$%#, why did you drag us from our room!?” Pomni yelled, “No time to explain, as it’s time to go on an adventure!” Caine replied, this puzzled Pomni and the others.
Usually when they swore, Caine would yell at them not to, and not only that, but he dodged the question Pomni asked, and skipped straight to the adventure part. “Caine, can you please…” Ragatha asked before they were teleported again, this time, they weren’t in the circus tent, or even the fairgrounds, they were instead in a real life type setting, although the graphics looked hideous.
“Ah great, where are we now?” Zooble asked, as if Caine heard them, he suddenly appeared, “Glad you asked…thing.” Caine said, “What, but you know my…” Zooble was saying, “Anyways, the challenge today is very simple.” Caine said, he then took his hat off and Bubbles appeared, “That’s right, so listen closely.” The bubble said to the gang, who were a little freaked out at how the two AIs were acting.
Bubble got a board and the stick, “Alright so here’s the deal, you guys are gonna have to fight…a huge monster.” Bubble explained to the group, “WHAT!!?” Pomni shouted, “Didn’t we just do an adventure like that…not too long ago?” Jax asked, “Yes you did, but this one is even bigger and harder to defeat.” Caine told him, “Oh great, yeah, just what we all needed.” Jax muttered, Caine suddenly put a finger to his mouth.
“Shhhh, shhhh, let Bubbles speak.” He creeply whispered to Jax, then he teleported away from him, “Alright Bubbles, you may continue.” Caine told the bubble, “Alright, so you may be asking, how do you escape, well it’s really simple, there’s a door hidden somewhere on the map and once you find it, open it and you’ll be free, if you get caught…you abstract.” Bubbles explained, “I’m sorry, we what?” Zooble asked.
“No more time for questioning!” Caine said, he then snapped his fingers, and a huge abstract monster came to life, “Time to get on with the game, good luck!” Caine said before he and Bubbles disappeared, the gang just stared at the monster before it screamed at them, which was enough to make the group run, after running for a bit, they found a safe place to hide.
“Okay, something is seriously wrong.” Pomni siad, “Yeah, why would Caine put us in a game like this?” Ragatha asked, “That’s a good question, I mean, his adventures are weird and scary, but not on levels like this.” Zooble said Oliver thought to himself, he knew why Caine was acting off…cause either something was tampering with him, or the AI had gone crazy.
“May I offer a suggestion?” Oliver spoke up, “Uh, yeah sure, what’s up Oliver?” Ragatha asked, Oliver thought about what he was gonna say, “Uh Oliver, is something up?” Ragatha asked, getting closer to him, “I think his AI has gone coco again.” Oliver suggested, “Wait, what do you mean again?” Pomni asked him, “Well you see Pomni.” Ragatha started, “A while back, Caine went crazy and we managed to settle him down.” Ragatha summed the experience up.
“Basically, he did something like this before and we used his own creation against him, which reverted him back, he thanked us and we were rewarded.” Jax explained, Pomni thought for a moment, “So, how exactly are we gonna do this?” Pomni asked the others, “It’s simple, we have to track down Caine and also lure the monster with us to him.” Jax explained.
“Yeah, but it’ll be difficult.” Ragatha responded, “It was pretty hard last time we did it, remember?” She continued on, suddenly, the wall exploded in front of them, they looked to see it was the abstract monster, “Oh hey there buddy, you’re looking great today.” Jax commented, “RUN!” Ragatha yelled, the gang ran, except for Kinger, who had to be carried by Zooble, “Alright scatter guys, let’s try to put this plan into action.” Ragatha said.
“Copy that!” The rest of the gang commented, and they ran 3 separate ways, the monster followed Jax and Gangle, as that was going on, Pomni, Ragatha and Oliver were catching their breaths, “Ok, first thing first, let’s find Caine, or see where he’s stationed at?” Ragatha told the group, “Are you sure Caine’s around here somewhere?” Pomni asked.
“Yes, with games like this, he usually sits somewhere, observing from a distance.” Oliver said, “Yeah so we just gotta find the building he’s settled on and then Oliver will go find the others and lure the monster to him, and remember, all it’ll take is one good hit.” Ragatha explained, it was at that moment another thought struck Pomni, “Wait, how will the abstract beast fix him, wouldn;t he glitch out?” She asked.
“No he won’t, like we said, this has happened before, and we knocked the glitch out of him by using the glitch monster that chased us…okay, we may have forgotten to add what the other monster looked like.” Oliver explained, “Oh, alright.” Pomni responded, Ragatha suddenly grabbed both of them, “Come on guys, let’s get going.” She told them.
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The three ran across the horrible looking “City” looking for Caine, after looking around for 5-10 minutes, Ragatha finally noticed Caine sitting on top of a building, “Ok, Oliver, go get the other, me and Pomni are gonna sneak up there, ok?” Ragatha whispered to him, “Got it, I’ll be right back.” Oliver whispered back, with that, he ran off while the other two ran up into the building and up the stairs.
At this point, Jax, Zooble, Gangle and Kinger had met up, “Alright, wonder if anyone has found Caine yet?” Jax asked, “I hope so, I don’t know how long I can go for?” Zooble said, “GUYS, GUYS!!” Oliver shouted as he ran up to them, “Oh hey there Oliver, you got any good news for us?” Kinger asked him, “Yes I do, we found Caine.” Oliver responded, “Well that’s good.” Gangle replied.
“Where is he?” Zooble asked him, “Um…you’re gonna have to follow me to get your answer.” Oliver responded, “Pomni and Ragatha are sneaking up to the top so we just have to get there.” He continued on, suddenly, they heard the roar of the monster, they turned to see the monster had found them, “Come on, let’s go!” Oliver shouted, the crew ran off with the monster hot on their trail.
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Pomni and Ragatha had finally reached the top and were now very close to Caine, “What do we do now?” Pomni asked, “Let’s just wait, Oliver should be coming back with that monster.” Ragatha responded. Suddenly, both were thrusted out into the opening, “Well, well.” Caine started, “Looks like I’ve caught you two and your little plan.” He continued on.
Pomni then started to get mad and got up, “Who are you, what have you done with Caine?” She demanded, “Ah, glad you ask, you see, you and that little dog kid have been getting pretty close to discovering some important details, details I need to be kept hidden.” The man behind Caine’s voice said to them, “Grr, you ain’t gonna get away with this.” Ragatha growled, “Oh no, I am, after all, I hold all the power and…” He was explaining before the entire gang burst through the door.
“We’re here!” Oliver shouted, “What the, but…” The man was confused, until the abstract monster came up from behind, it saw Caine first and prepared to hit him, “Oh cr…” Caine was about to say before he was slammed into the building, when the monster removed it’s hand, Caine instantly flew up, this time, not that creepy man controlling him.
“My, how did this happen?” He asked, he then noticed the monster, “Oh, you shouldn’t be here, into the cellar you go.” He said as he put the beast down into the cellar, once it closed, he took everyone back to the circus grounds, “Now, I wondered what happened?” Caine asked, he then got Bubbles, but just like with Caine, Bubbles knew nothing, which was very strange to everyone, “Alright, so who’s ready for a new game!?” Caine asked the group, “Please no.” Pomni said, “Too late!” Caine responded and with that, the crew were thrusted into a new game.