“Alright, so here's what's gonna happen,” Sanded Stones began. The trucks started their drive, moving down the street towards the northern gate. “We're heading to the Skipping Stones water park to take out a group of Feral Weeds. This new brute type is our main objective, after that, we split into small teams to find and burn all of the flower beds in the area. Once we arrive just wait for my instruction.”

The broadcast ended and the trucks had exited town, quickly traversing the tunnel and emerging onto the main road. The drive to the park was much faster than the walk and we arrived within a few minutes. The trucks parked along the entrance and everyone disembarked.

Sanded Stones was talking to a few flyers before they flew off towards the park. Everyone else made final checks on their weapons and armor. I floated my SAER from my back and onto the ground. The case still had dried blood on it. Opening it, I carefully looked over its components, which also had a bit of blood, and began to clean them to the best of my ability. With the mechanisms mostly cleaned, I closed the case and floated it back onto myself.

“Sanded Stones has given the go ahead to enter the park. Scout reports show the brute to be moving through the southern lazy river; target marked.” Fae told us, a red ‘X’ appearing in my vision.

The group moved inside, flyers took to the sky and snipers posted up in the still standing water slide towers. We moved through the courtyard holding the fountain. I looked to the store that we entered when we first arrived, the fresh memories of our encounter with the flowerbeds floated throughout my mind.

“Teams Fillytrot and Greenhorn, secure the left and right sides. Team Canterlot, you're on me.” A gruff sounding earth pony called out.

The teams split away from each other and moved to their sides. Without a group of our own we just kept moving with the other groups further into the park. Moving on the right path, we made our way towards the bridge that went over the river. Looking inside, I could see the large mass of vines sloshing through the dark water.
The rest of the teams encircled the brute and set up a few shock traps further along the river, behind and ahead of the creature. With everything in place, the snipers and flyers opened up, sending beams into the top of the brute. It let out a gurgled howl as it started running along the river, water splashing about in its wake. It ran toward one of the traps, setting it off. One blast of electricity later and the beast came clattering to the ground in a slurry of moss and water. The snipers and flyers stopped firing, allowing for the ground unit to press the advantage. We sent beams into it and I could see large chunks beginning to fall from it, black ooze spilling from the inside. The beast trembled, its limbs becoming flaccid and collapsing beneath it. Its vine exterior began to loosen before it finally stopped moving all together.

“Cease fire!” Someone ordered over the broadcast.

Sanded Stones walked past us and towards where the Brute lay. “Extraction team, prepare for gem retrieval!” She yelled.

Two griffins and a unicorn jumped down into the river. The unicorn opened the back of the creature as the wetsuit-wearing griffins hopped inside and began to pull out what they could. The sludge darkened the surrounding water as it left the carcass. The griffins pulled out pitch black bones, most of which seemed to be slightly digested, as well as ruined saddlebags and other belongings. Then one of them pulled up a sludge covered object.

“I've got it!” He said wiping it off, revealing the glowing green gem beneath.

It was much larger than the one I'd retrieved from the moss hound, about the size of my head!

Sanded Stones stepped to the edge of the river, “Great work you three. You get yourselves washed off and standby for further orders.”

The three nodded and hoisted all of the gear out of the sludge, then placed it on a blue tarp someone else had laid out.

“Amazing job everyone,” Fae exclaimed, “Sanded Stones has asked me to issue new orders for everyone. You five, including Aria, will be heading to the old funhouse on the west side of the park. A burn unit will also be waiting for you at the entrance. Two griffins to be exact and I think Isu may find them familiar.”

“Let me guess…”

We made our way to the fun house in the Dry Zone. Two griffins with flamethrowers stood outside its entrance.

“If it ain't my favorite drinkin buddy, let's get some booze!” Jhekl slurred, showing signs of inebriation.

I looked at him, puzzled, “But Jhekl… we've never drank together.”

“Yea, ya drunk lug. Yur thinkin’ about Xaige. This is the tall one.” Hyd told him.

“Ohhh, now I see. My apologies good sir.” He swung an arm across himself and bowed, resulting in a quick slap from Hyd’s wing.

“What tha fook are ya doin!?”

“What, is it bad to apologize now? Jeez bro, you needa lighten up.” Jhekl said while rubbing his head.

“Fuckin-A, this is why I ‘ate everyone and everythin.” Hyd squeezed the bridge between his eyes. “Okay Isu, yur friends ‘ere, acquaint us, so we can get this show on tha road!”

I turned to the others and started listing them off to Jhekl and Hyd. “Well, here we have Solani.”

“It's a pleasure to meet you two.” She said with a slight bow.

“This is Xileel, Xye for short.” Xye simply bobbed his head head at them. “The pegasus on the end is Chaser.”

“Sup!” He exclaimed with a raising of his head.

“And the little bird on his head is Aria.” She tweeted happily.

“Where'd ya get tha bird?” Hyd asked, tilt his head.

“She kinda just… showed up and we just sorta… kept her?” I seemed to ask the others, who all nodded in agreement.

“Cool, she do any tricks?” motions in the air.

Aria lept off of Chaser's head and flew through Jhekl's legs, flew up into the air before free falling back towards us, stopping inches from the top of Chaser's head and landing gracefully.

Chaser gasped, “You did the thing I showed you!”

Aria tweeted happily at Chaser as he patted her on the head with a wing.

“Cool bird, might have to find me one.” Jhekl wondered to himself.

“I swear to fook, if ya bring home another one of those damn pigeons, I'll make ya eat it and all the shit it leaves behind!” Hyd growled.

“Oh come on bro, you know the last one was house trained.” Jhekl protested.

“Nu-uh, not again. Little cunts always shat in my room and always found a way in!”

“Jeez, such a buzz kill.” Jhekl pouted.

“Do you two… fight, a lot?” Solani asked.

In unison, Jhekl said no, while Hyd said yes. Hyd looked at Jhekl and only shook his head in disappointment while Jhekl simply grinned at him. “Can we just… go already?” Hyd said, sounding a bit defeated.

With introductions out of the way, we readied our weapons and stepped through the decrepit pony head entrance. Walking down what I assumed was the tongue, we stepped into the funhouse. The damp air was filled with the scent of decaying corpses. The lobby walls shown of cracked, technicolor wallpapers, most of which were pock-marked with ivy. The floor was dingy, the multicolor tiling faded and broken. Small weeds grew all around, brushing against my hooves as I walked.

“Alright, so which way are we goin, or do ya want ta spli’up, groups a’ three and such?” Hyd asked, looking around the room.

“Fae, do you have anything on this place?” Xye asked.

“Sure do! Pulling it up now.” Fae responded.

We all checked our Pipbucks, looking over what little was useful. The rooms and corridors looked spacious enough to fit a small chimera inside. Four different rooms made up the funhouse; the mirror maze, nausea room, funny mirrors and then the ball pit obstacle course.

“Hmm… I would assume that there would be at least one flower bed in the building, but there's only one way to know for sure. Quaerite, et conteret.” Xye stated.

“Why don’t we just level the place? Seems a bit tedious ta burn each individual flower bed.” Hyd asked flatly.

“Because we could still salvage the buildings and other attractions,” Solani explained. “It’s much harder to find useful scrap in a collapsed and burned building.”

Hyd mulled that over than shrugged, “Whatever, I just feel like there’s probably an easier way ta do this.”

“You two done?” Jhekl asked, “cuz while you’ve been talking, something in the building ‘sbeen eyeing us.”

I looked at my EFS and saw the lone red mark. The slow creaking and moaning of stressed metal echoed from somewhere in the building, but before anyone could even react, light exploded from everywhere and blinding us all. The sound of heavy machinery clanked and banged, along with the whir of electronics as they came online.

“Welcome to *stzzzz* fun-fun house! Please *tzzzz* your children through the attraction, as some *skzzz* our rooms may be a bit more challenging than others and the *tzzz* thing we want is a frowny filly! What are you doing here?!.” The offputting glitchy voice said over a loudspeaker.

“Fuckin-A! A little warnin woulda been nice ya cunt!” Hyd yelled, rubbing and blinking his eyes.

“Please refrain from *tzzz* profanity, children are near. Please, run while you can.” The voice said.

“OH, she’s interactive!” Fae said, sounding surprised.

“That is correct! Now if you’re here to enjoy the-the *skzzz* funhouse, please step through the door on the right! Before they find you.”

Was I the only one hearing the voice beneath the voice?

The group started to make their way into the mirror maze, until they realized I wasn’t following.

“Isu, what's the matter?” Solani asked. The others also stopped and looked at me.

I guessed I was the only one. “Nothing, just spaced out a bit.”

Xye chuckled, “Isn't that something I usually do?”

Upon entering the room, we could clearly see the exit door at the left corner. The flower bed sat in the right corner of the room.
“Pshh, mirror room,” Chaser said mockingly, “this’ll be-” Chaser was stopped midair and clattered to the floor, groaning in pain after flying muzzle first into something.

“Oops, did I forget to activate the mirrors again? Stop it… Please. One-one moment!”

The room filled with shimmery walls that coalesced into reflective panels. The room looked as if it ran on forever.

Hyd stifled a laugh, “Better slow down there lad, ya might end up runnin inta somethin worse than a mirror.”

Rubbing his muzzle, “That doesn’t count, I couldn’t even see it!” he protested.

“My point exac’ly.” he said poking the panel before us. “This one’s actually just surprisingly clean glass.”

Looking to the left and right, I could see a reflection of us that ran on forever.

The sound of falling metal clacked somewhere in the room, putting us all on edge. Aria also began to make her chittering noise.

“What’s it making that racket for?” Hyd asked

“There’s something else in the maze, keep your guard up.” I told him.

The red mark on my EFS slowly made its way across the bar. The sound of claws on metal echoed and the shrill laugh of a hyena came from all around. Soon after, whatever it was, clambered back into the roof.

“We haven’t even moved yet, and this is already ten times harder than it should’ve been.” Jhekl groaned.

“Oh, come now-now. It’s not that hard, *skzzzt* It’s just a hop-hop-jump! Why aren’t you listening?!”

“Yea, easy for you ta s-s-say.” Hyd mockingly snarled, getting a slight chuckle from Chaser and I.

We slowly moved through the maze, everyone occasionally bumping into clear panels. The roof above groaned, the faint sound of claws clicked against the other side.

Chaser oriented his body to fire straight up and sent a torrent of beams into the roof.

The creature above yelped, and the claw-clicking made a hasty retreat. Black ooze began to drip from the ceiling and Chaser letting out a triumphant huff.

We continued through the maze, making our way to the flower bed. As we neared, more and more vegetation covered the floor and walls, as if we were walking into a jungle.

“Be sure to watch for moving vines, they’re hard to get off and with all the fire that’s going to be in here soon; I’d rather no one get cooked.” Xileel told us.

“Yes sir, mister captain, sir!” Hyd said sarcastically with a half-assed salute, resulting in an eye roll from Xye.

As we reached the corner of the maze, vines had completely covered every surface. Colorful petals pulsated as we passed, seemingly to lure us further inside. We finally reached the flower bed, tucked away in the corner with wildflowers growing all around. Hyd and Jhekl took little time to move forward and aim their flamethrowers.

“Everyone ready?” Hyd asked.

“You know I am!” Jhekl responded, before they both sent forth gouts of flame.

The fire quickly burned the flower bed and began to spread along its vines. We made our way back the way we came, the area quickly becoming much warmer and filling with thick white smoke.

“Fire de-de-detected *skzzzt* activating fire suppression subroutines! I've gotta think of something.”

The sudden blaring of a fire alarm filled the room, followed by the deluge of dark-colored water from above.

“Maaaagna…” I groaned, my mane slowly beginning to lose form and fall into my face. My coat also began to darken.

“Won't this put out the fire?” Solani asked.

“If it does, tha flower bed is already done for.” Hyd told her. “Now let's get tha fook outta here, this water’s startin’ ta stink up me feathers.”

We made our way through maze and with all the water droplets coating the glass and mirrors, it was much easier going. Once we stepped through the door at the end, the attraction’s annoyingly happy A.I. piped back up.

“Congr-gr-gratulations! You are so v-v-very-very, *skzzzt* good at getting through mazes! Now, onto the ball pit obstacle course!”

We made our way up the old metal stairs. With Chaser flying in front, it took Xye's face plant into the stairs for us to realize they rocked back and forth unevenly.

“Quae lubuit.” He said sarcastically, before Solani helped him back up.

“You okay?” She asked.

“Yea, I'll be fine.” He assured her as he rubbed his chin.

The rest of us careful made our way up the stairs, entering a tall, wide room with windows on the right side. The same color scheme from the rest of the building had decorated this room as well, rust. My eyes slowly drifted to the ball pit itself and I finally found a ball pit I did not want to immediately jump into. Not only where the balls discolored and slightly misshapen, they were also… writhing. The same black ooze from those vine monsters had filled the pit, along with some sort of long dark leech or worm and the sounds alone made the others hide crawl. Aria definitely didn't seem to like them much as she flew around chirping angrily at it.

“That is one nasty pit of awful!” Jhekl stepped closer to the pit and poured some of his beer into it, listening to the squelching sound the worms made as it made contact. He chuckled, “Groooss.” A small mass of worms had gathered at the edge where Jhekl was standing and before they could slither onto him, Hyd yanked him back by his tail.

“Why… why are you like this?” Hyd anguished, receiving a drunken smile from his brother.

I looked at the obstacle course itself, nothing too difficult, even for a child, but it was a bit long; about the length of one of those old inflatable courses. Looking right I saw the easy way around, a grated walkway spanning the pit and leading to the halfway point in the room. It looked... mostly intact, at least to me. I put my weight down on it, hearing the groan of the old bolts and metal. It didn't break, so I kept walking, keeping my eyes on the wriggling mass below. I could see the plastic balls move aimlessly along with them. The metal creaked as I passed the center, so I hurriedly crossed the rest of the way, not wanting to press my luck. I turned to look at everyone else as they began to make their way across.

“O-o-oh rats! *stzzz* Did I also forget-get, This should work, to turn on the low gravity generators? One mooomeeent!” The AI sang.

The deep hum of some nearby machinery made it to my ears and I could feel my weight slowly decrease.

However, before our weights reduced to nothing, Xye screamed, “NO! Don't do that!”

Our weights stopped getting lighter and the AI spoke with concern in her . “Is there a pro-o-blem?”

I looked at him as if he was crazy, wondering if he was afraid of floating or something. The slight tickle on my hoof caused me to jerk away, only to realize just why he had stopped her. The worms!

“If you turn on those generators, we’ll all be dead!” Xye warned.

“Oh don’t be s-s-silly, *sktzz* nothing bad-ad is gun-n-n-n…” she suddenly powered down, as well as the rest of the building. The lights turned off and the room darkened, the only light penetrated through the glass panels along the walkway. The black mass sunk back down to its original depth and we all let out sighs of relief, then continued through the room.

Somewhere I the middle of the room, we got a broadcast ping and joined in immediately.

“What's the situation inside the Fun House, any activity?” Sanded Stones asked.

We all looked to each other, wondering who would answer until-

“Barely ma'am, there's a malfunctioning AI running the place that had been quite a pain, but the whole building lost power a while ago.” Solani instantly responded, taking even me by surprise.

“Good to hear and about the outage; we had a team go into the maintenance building to get the generators running and it seemed as though they still had power, but not long after, they just died, like something… overclocked them on purpose.”

Maybe that's what the AI was really talking about?

“We're also getting reports of hearing strange ghost-like voices. Is any of your team hearing anything?”

So, it wasn't just me.

“I've been hearing a voice, ma'am.” Everyone looked at me confused. “I thought it was just my mind playing tricks on me at first, but she said something about ‘needing to do something’ a few minutes before the power died.” I told her.

“Interesting, the others that heard her said something along those lines. She doesn't want us here, but for what reason, we can't be certain, so for now, just continue on your mission and we'll all get outta here asap. Sanded Stones out.”

The broadcast ended and was immediately followed by the squirms and wet sloshing of the pit below, so we kept moving.

We made a left into the next room, which was essentially pitch black, even after my eyes adjusted, I couldn't see much farther past my own hoof. We turned on our Pip-buck lights, lighting the room showing in an amber and blue light. With the way lit, we could see the room was actually a black colored room. The slightly fuzzy material clung to the floors, walls and ceiling. Long tear marks had all but destroyed most of it; as if it was used as a scratching post, revealing the also scratched up wood behind it. Spinny circles with spiral designs behind panes of plastic lined the walls, while inactive lights clung to the ceiling. Moving further through, I began to hear the muffled crunching of bones. I checked my EFS and saw a singular red mark and stopped the rest of the group behind me. I moved forward to the edge of a corner and peaked around, spotting an old carcass of a pony further down, along with the beast that likely killed them. A blood stained vine hound, twice the size of a pony, with protruding teeth and a tail of sharpened bones wrapped in vines. It stood over the body, feasting upon the old flesh. Before it could notice me, I slowly backed away, managing to get back to the others. I motioned for them to back up and we made our way back into the ball pit room.

“What’d you see Isu?” Xye asked me.

“I think it’s whatever was inside the maze with us, a large vine hound, its... eating someone.” Solani gasped, “I don’t know how long they’ve been dead, but we can’t get passed the room with that thing in the way.”

“Well we definitely can’t fight it in there, we’ll have to lure it outside or something.” Hyd added.

“Fae, any ideas?” Xye asked.

“Analyzing… analysis complete! There seems to be an emergency exit door, on the left side of the hallway, that leads directly to the rooftop above the maze. If you can get the creature through that, then it will make taking it out much easier.” Fae answered.

I looked down the hall, just to check if the hound had seen us yet and saw no sign of the creature. The unlit ‘Exit’ sign hung above the door, but I couldn't see the door itself. Maybe it was behind all the black material on the walls.

“Sounds like we've got a plan, but uhh… how are we going to get it out there without getting killed.” Solani asked.

Unknown to us, Jhekl had already made his way back down the hallway, with beer bottle in-claw. “WHAT'S UP FUCKER?!” He yelled, followed by the immediate winding back of his arm and chucking of his half-empty beer bottle down the hallway and into the vine hound. The glass shattered on impact and the beast let out a sharp hyena-like screech before dashing at Jhekl. We ran as fast as we could in the sudden panic, the beast lept at Jhekl and our collective hearts sunk, before Jhekl flopped to the floor, the vine hound to flew over him and into the emergency exit, tearing the old door frame straight from the wall and crashing to the roof outside. We all ran to Jhekl, thinking he had gotten hit, only to find him drunkenly chuckling on the ground.

Hyd slapped Jhekl across the face in anger, “What tha fook were you thinkin?!”

Jhekl just laughed, probably unable to feel the slap, “I wasn't, obviously.”

A wave of relief swept across the group before we turned our sights to the vine hound outside, it was having trouble tearing apart the wall-cloth that had covered it. If it had eyes, they'd be searing with rage and malice. We stepped outside, just before it finally ripped the cloth away and roared grotesquely, as if it had rocks in its throat along with a smoking problem. Several nearby pegasi noticed the commotion and made their way over, weapons focused on the hound. It looked around at us, seeming to weigh its options, or pick out its first target, but before it could move an inch, one of the pegasi yelled to the others, “Open fire!” and a laser shower engulfed the rooftop. The alcohol soaking the hound's body ignited, setting it ablaze. It yelped and howled as its body burned away, its inner black ooze seeping out and onto the roof. The beast fell and flailed in a desperate attempt to put out the flames and ended up tearing itself, and what little vines held it together, apart. The black ooze sloshed onto the roof and spread across it, thinning out until a large glowing green gem peered through.

The pegasi landed around us, as well as who I suspected to be their leader.

“Great job getting that thing out here, I'm sure it woulda been a helluva fight inside.” the lead mare said, pointing into the dark room behind us. “You all okay?”

“Besides one'uv us bein severely stupid, I'd say we're a’right.” Hyd said with a thwack of his wing at Jhekl's head.

The mare chuckled, “Well, continue on with your sweep and clear, then report back to Sanded Stones at the fountain.” she made a hoof motion to the other pegasi and they flew off. “We'll see you then.” she then walked over to the black puddle and starting talking to Fae about the Extraction team.

“Shall we get back to it then?” Hyd asked, looking back at the dark room.

“If everyone's all set, then let's go.” Xileel said, checking his SAER.

We all checked our weapons and reloaded, then reentered the fun house. The light from outside had flooded in through the open door, illuminated most it. The mostly-eaten corpse sat just at the edge of the light's reach, a dark substance coating it. We moved past it, moving further into the darkness before turning our pipbuck lights back on. Again the room was aglow with amber and blue light. One of the smaller tunnels that lined the wall had vines and the same pulsating flowers that the flower bed from before had. We moved closer, looking into it revealed the flower bed at the very end. Jhekl and Hyd tore away any of the black cloth connected to the tunnel before sending a gout of flames into it. The fire wooshed back out of the tube and dark smoke bellowed out.

Hyd let the fire burn for a about half minute before pulling out a silver canister. “Keep yur distance.” We all backed away. He pulled a pin on the the canister and tossed it into the flames. He moved to the side of the tunnel before a plume of white dust exploded from it, engulfing and extinguishing the fire.

Jhekl gasped, “Ice cream!”

“Don't you fookin dare!” Hyd snapped.

Jhekl pouted as the rest of us giggled and chuckled. “You're never any fun bro. This is why I always got invited to parties and not you.”

“Oh woudja bugger off aboot that, not like I gave a shite.” Hyd dismissed.

“Hehe, it's also why you're still a-” Jhekl was quickly cut short as Hyd locked his claws aroumd Jhekl's beak.

“Not. Another. Word.” Hyd growled, his eyes promising pain in the near future. “Understood?” Jhekl nodded his head before Hyd threw it away, causing Jhekl to fall over. Jhekl rubbed his beak as Hyd stomped away.”Can we hurry this up!?” he yelled back to us.

Xye helped Jhekl back up and we all followed after Hyd.

Aww yeaaa… Who's the strongest pegasus alive?
That's me.

I thought to myself as I flexed in one of the less broken mirrors in the room. The others were walking around, looking for any signs of a flower bed. Aria sat on top of the mirror that I was looking into, with a wing over her face shaking her head.

“You're just jealous because you can't look this good.” I flexed one long and final flex before leaving the mirror, Aria flew onto my back and chirped dismissively. “Did you find anything yet?” I called out.

“Nothing so far, I think we’ve got them all.” Xileel told me.

“Sweet, means we can get outta this dump right? Mission completed?” I assumed.

“Seems about that way.” Isu added.

“Fiiinally!” I huffed.

We started to make our way to the exit, our SAERs folded back up and Jhekl, more or less drunk than before; I honestly couldn't tell and I could probably learn from him. Walking back out through the large pony-mouth entrance, we saw a number of other groups all going about their own tasks, rushing to and from different areas of the park. In a way the park looked as if it was running as it used to, except the maintenance teams just went on strike or something. We crossed back over the bridge and made our way back towards the fountain. Sanded Stones was talking to a group of guards who left before we got close.

“Good to see you all. Mission successful?” she asked while checking off something on a clipboard.

“Yes mam, there shouldn't be any more flowerbeds in the funhouse.” Hyd responded.

“Good work. Jhekl, Hyd, you're free to go back in or return back to Doveport via the transport trucks by the gate.”

Jhekl and Hyd saluted. Jhekl started to walk back towards the park before being dragged by his tail in the opposite direction. “We're goin home ya idiot.” Hyd grumbled.

“If you four have time, I'm sure you'd like to examine the gems we've collected so far.”

I saw Xye's eyes light up at that as he nodded his head furiously.

“Right this way then.” Sanded Stones lead us back through the entrance to the park and out to the parking lot, which had been changed alot since we first walked through it. Large white tents were set up around the area. Most of them were field clinics but a few of them held other supplies. Sanded lifted up the flap of a tent and ushered us inside. We were met with long tables with different glowing green gems on each.

Great, looking at glowing rocks, this is gunna be sooo much fun.

I found a comfortable corner and sat down, waiting for Xye to stop looking as if he was a colt in a cake shop.

I just couldn't take my eyes off of the assortmented gems, they all seemed to contain something similar but… they were all unique from one another. All of them glowing softly, yet none of them in sync with another. I walked around the tables before setting my eyes on a gem that somehow stood out to me. It was on the smaller side and looked like that of a water drop with a spiky and jagged tail. I held my hoof out to touch it but it was immediately batted down.

“Ah-ah-ah. It's hard enough to know what each of them do, let alone what they'll do to you. We'll have our research teams back in Doveport look them over, and once we know if they're even safe to touch, we'll call you.”

Well of course that wouldn't work Xye.

“Oh, sorry,” I apologized. “about how long do you think that will take?”

“Best estimate I can give is three days minimum. Depending on how many tests they conduct, that could extend upto a week.”

“Ah, okay.” I could wait a bit longer.

She resides in the world tree, but you are far from ready.

The voice's words replayed in my head, so many questions, but no answers… yet. “Thanks for letting us see these, we really appreciate it.”

“No problem at all.” she said with a smile. She led us back outside and over to a transport truck, others were already waiting in the back of it. “You four,” Aria tweeted at that. “Five, get some rest. I'll try to get in touch with you soon. And good work out here today.”

With that we left the tent and made our way to the gate and the nearby transport trucks. Hyd was trying to help Jhekl into the back of one, before finally giving up and just thrusting him into the back. We got into the last truck as the first few in line started to pull off. The truck lurched and we were rolling down the road in no time. I looked back to the water park, seeing its old and forgotten attractions become hidden behind the trees. I closed my eyes and laid down on the hard metal seat. The bumps of the road shook up into me, so sleeping wasn't an option. Instead, I fell into my thoughts to pass the time.

Footnote:

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Tadaaaaa… Yea, I know this took forever to get out. Life just kinda happens and ya gotta get whatcha can done to do the stuff and things. So yea! Here we are, Chapter 5. Thanks again to all of you who helped in encouraging my writing or sharing what little I have to others. I probably won't be able to stick to a schedule like I used to, so I'll supplement that with art and updates when I can. Thanks again everyone! Hope you enjoyed.