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The gang had just finished the game Caine had assigned them to, the game was was battle of taking down robots, it took what felt like hours, but the gang had finally completed the challenge and were rewarded with some candy that the bubble made, but…most of them didn’t want to eat since…you know, it came from Bubbles.
After that entire game, Pomni remembered something, she went to Ragatha and Oliver, “Guys come on, let’s get back to Oliver’s room, I need to show you something.” Pomni told them, “And this time, there’s nothing holding us back.” She continued, “Alright.” Ragatha and Oliver responded and they headed off.
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Pomni opened Oliver’s door and instantly went to his bed, “Alright, what do you want to show us?” Ragatha asked, “Well, I found these glitching things under his bed, look.” Pomni explained, she pulled the cover up, but Ragatha and Oliver were confused, “Where’s the glitching stuff?” Oliver asked.
“Wait, what!?” Pomni answered, she turned back to see the glitching papers and stuff had disappeared, she then looked around the room, (Where did they go?) She pondered to herself. Ragatha and Oliver just looked at each other, “I don’t know where they went, they were right there, but…” Pomni said, she freaking hyperventilating.
“Woah, woah, calm down Pomni, listen we believe you, we're just confused on where it went too.” Ragatha said, Pomni started to calm down, “Don’t worry Pomni, even if we lose these glitch objects, we’ll find more clues.” Oliver chimed in, “Yeah, you just gotta hold faith.” Ragatha siad, “O-Ok, I will.” She responded.
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Down in the cellar, a mysterious figure was walking around on the water floor, he was just looking at the abstraction creatures as they made distorted noise and there eyes shifting like crazy, he reached into a pocket like place on him, he then pulled out the glitching pieces of paper that were in Oliver’s room.
He just laughed to himself, “Those three think they can stop my plans from going through.” He muttered to himself, “Well, this plan shall be foolproof.” He continued on, he then brought something else out of him, it was a needle filled with something, he injected the glitching objects and fed them to an abstract, “Eat my little one, you’ll need it.” He muttered.
The abstract ate the glitching product, at first, nothing happened, but the figure just waited, finally, the abstracts started going crazy, they started roaring, he then took more glitching object, injected them and fed them to the other abstract, causing them to go crazy, finally, they were ready to pounce, “Alright, showtime.” He muttered to himself.
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Meanwhile on the surface, Jax was talking to Zooble, they were talking about Caine, “Those robots were super creepy.” Zooble commented, “Tell me about it, we should do something so we don’t have to continue doing these terrifying games.” Jax suggested, “Jax, I don’t think that’s gonna work.” Zooble said.
“Oh come on, I will work, I’m sure he’s up to listen.” Jax replied, “Alright you can do that, but I don’t think it’ll work.” Zooble replied, suddenly, the ground beneath them started to shake, Zooble and Jax wondered what was going on, “What’s happening!?” Zooble shouted, “How should I know!!?” Jax shouted back.
Then finally, the ground near them exploded, “GAH, WHAT THE!!?” Jax shouted, out from the ground, came the abstraction monsters, both Jax and Zooble looked on with horror, the monster then saw them, “Oh…hey guys, long time no see.” Jax smiled as he greeted them, but all they did was roar at them, “Jax, run.” Zooble said, suddenly, she was hit and started glitching, Jax quickly took off.
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Ragatha, Oliver, and Pomni were coming out from the hallway, “I wondered what we’re gonna do now?” Pomni asked, “Don’t worry, we’ll figure it out.” Oliver replied. Suddenly, an abstraction monster climbed up and roared at them, “OH MY GOD, WHO ABSTRACTED!!? Ragatha shouted, “That doesn’t matter, RUN!!” Oliver shouted.
The three took off with the abstract monster hot on their tail, suddenly, Ragatha tripped and fell, “RAGATHA!!” Both Pomni and Oliver shouted, “Go on!” She yelled, both didn’t want to, but had no choice, the beast approached, “Oooo, not again.” Ragatha muttered before the beast picked her up and threw her around.
Oliver and Pomni kept on running, until they eventually found a place to rest, away from the abstract creatures. At this point, Oliver was starting to cry, “Ragatha…she’s…” He cried, Pomni comforted him, “Shh, it’s gonna be okay, she’s gonna be okay, but first, we need to find a way to deal with these abstracts.” Pomni told him, she then peaked out to see if any abstracts were around, thankfully, there wasn’t.
She then grabbed Oliver's hand and they ran off, they kept running before suddenly bumping into something, they held each other, thinking it was an abstract monster, but when they opened their eyes, they saw it was Jax, “Jax!?” Pomni shouted before Jax put a hand over her mouth, “Shh, be quiet, don’t let those things hear you.” He grumbled, “Jax, do you know what’s happening?” Pomni asked him.
“The cellar broke open and all the abstract monsters escaped.” Jax said to them, “What, how is that even possible?” Oliver said, “Beats me, but we got a whole new problem on our hands.” Jax told him. “Yeah, we know.” Oliver muttered, “But that begs the question, what are we gonna do now?” Pomni asked.
“We have to get Caine, he can fix all of this.” Jax said, “Hey guys.” Kinger said, which scared the gang, “Jeez Kinger, don’t scare us like that.” Jax said to him, “Oh sorry, it’s just that I’m seeing a bunch of abstract monsters roaming around and thinking about you guys.” Kinger explained, “How are you not smushed, or glitched.” Oliver questioned.
“Doesn’t matter, follow me guys.” Jax told the gang, they followed after him, and as they followed, Pomni spoke up, “Um, where are we going?” Pomni asked, “Well Pomni you see, there’s a door that leads to Caine’s place, we just gotta find the door and we can tell Caine what happened.” Jax explained, “But, we need to be careful.” He continued.
The gang snuck through the halls and floors of the circus, almost having a few run ins with the monsters, but through be slick and being quiet, managed to dodge the monster, soon, they at the stage area, “Alright, we just need to go backstage, his door will be there, we'll tell him and everything will be normal.” Jax said, “Got it.” The gang replied, “Alright, let’s go.” Jax said.
The gang ran out, but were soon stopped when they saw Zooble, laying on the floor glitching like crazy, “Oh hey Zooble.” Kinger greeted her, “H%$^P, IN ^^#&&IN!!” Zooble said, but no one could understand her as she was glitching, “Listen Zooble, we’re getting Caine, just hang tight.” Jax told her.
As the gang was about to go, they heard a roar, they turned around to see the abstract monsters looking directly at them, “RUN GUYS RUN!!” Jax shouted, the gang took off except for Kinger, who Jax picked up, the abstract charged at them, the gang ran behind the stage and ran to the door.
Jax then opened the door, “Get in, come on!” He shouted, they ran in and Jax closed the door behind them. What met the gang was a huge flight of stairs, “Oh god.” Pomni muttered, “Keep going guys, this door ain’t gonna stop the monster.” Jax told them, the gang began running up the stairs, sure enough, the monster burst through the door and began running up the stairs after them, “Eeee, are we almost there!?” Pomni asked, “Just keep running!” Jax responded.
After about another 5 minutes of climbing the stairs, they were right at Caine’s door, Jax knocked as hard as he could, “CAINE, CAINE!!” Jax screamed, the monster was getting closer, “Jax, hurry up!” Pomni yelled, “I’m trying!” Jax responded, he kept banging on the door, but it wasn’t opening, soon the monster was ready to reach out to them, they braced themselves…nothing was happening, they looked to see Caine had come out.
“My, has someone abstracted!?” Caine asked them, “N-No, the cellar somehow broke open.” Jax muttered, “It broke open! Ah well, no problem, I can just refix it with a snap.” Caine said, they also told Caine about the other abstracts, “Well come with me folks, we got some work to do.” Caine said, the gang followed.
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It took a little bit, but finally, they had gotten the abstracts together and put them back into the cellar, the cellar was fixed and Ragatha, and Zooble were returned back to their original forms, “Oh Ragatha, I’m happy you're okay.” Oliver cried, “Don’t worry, I promise to not scare you like that again.” Ragatha said to him, “Wow, that’s…touching.” Zooble admitted.
After all that, the gang then started pondering how this all begin, even when Caine said, “That is weird, that suppose to the most reinforce part on this world.”, “Something, or someone had to do this.” Pomni muttered, the gang couldn’t help but agree with her, but they didn’t know who could do such a thing.
Not far from them, a mysterious figure lurked out of sight, “You wretched fools.” He growled, “I’ll admit, you have what it takes, but I will win, just you wait.” He growled, he then looked back down at his needle, then he hatched an idea, “I got just the thing.” He laughed and snaked away.