Darknights Challenge

[Mistery]

Lilliputt stared at Zox with eyes open wide: "Sing... it... down? Umm... ya mean... well... why? I mean... why me?", but Zox got impatient and said: "Somebunny needs to stop this chaos! And since Mystery is not here to take care of it, you have to help us! Sing!", and turned to the loonies who were still running around and yelling, or sticking to the floor and covering their heads or ears: "Everybunny, leave the hangar! Quickly!"
The loonies immediately started to run towards the entrance of the hangar, and even Lilliputt joined them. She crossed her arms and said in hurt voice: "Yes, sure. If Mystery is not here, I'm good enough to solve your problems. Hmpf!", and walked over to the office to grab some carrots that were still left.
The loonies stood outside, watched the ship turning and tumbling in the air, and felt very helpless. Becky walked over to the office, sat down next to Lilliputt, and hugged her: "Oh my dear friend, don't feel hurt. It's not at all like you think. We all need your help, and since you have been able to help us so many times, we trust in your abilites. Please come over and save Hyper and the spaceship, you are the only one who can help." Lilliputt looked with teary eyes at Becky and said: "Why don't you ask the robot? He has always more logical ideas than I have. At least everybunny says that." The wolf told her friend to wait and walked out. She had a long discussion with Sir Theme, who finally entered the office and sat down. "Well, I have to admit that I can't do anything right now. I don't have a beaming device to beam into the ship and land it safely. And I wasn't able to contact mom. You are the only one who might be able to stop the ship. Let's not argue about different ways of thinking, I'm sure that if we use both, we might be most successful. I promise that I won't say anything about your Eenie Meenie method anymore. Really.", and the robot stood up and left the office.

Darknight assumed that the communication device had also a translator function, and that the dialogue was a translation of what the slurp spiders and worms had been talking about in the other room. He felt very alerted about the fact that there were underground worm spies on Myranda Island, and even a secret agent in Sir Theme's head. He knew that he had to talk to Mystery as soon as possible.
Just at this moment, the spiderweb that had covered the room began to fade away. He quicky hid around the corner and watched the spiders and worms step out of the room. The spiders turned around and sealed the door with spiderweb again. <<Hmmm, very efficient method...>> the hero thought to himself, while he was watching the opponents climb up the ladder to the next floor. He quickly hid in a corner, and said: "Mystery, can you hear me?"

Mystery was still busy trying to make a plan after she had not been able to contact her Perfect Friend. Suddenly the device started to make a strange noise, and the alien heard: "....tery..........me?" Mystery got very excited and turned to her hubby: "It's Darknight! Finally! But... I can't understand much!" Mystery's hubby stayed cool and explained to his wife that now that they knew Darknight's location, they could beam down an enhanced communication device. Mystery agreed and felt so happy about this idea, that she started to run around in circles yelling: "Yes, beam, do, yay!" Her hubby looked at her in astonishment, and said: "Honey, I think that you need to reboot.", then stopped his wife and pulled her thumb. During her rebooting process, he beamed down an enhanced device to Darknight.

The hero was about to leave the basement, since he had not received any reply from the alien. Just at this moment, something hard hit his right big toe, and he shouted: "OUCH!", but then quickly put his hand over his mouth. He looked around to see if any spiders or worms could have heard him, but everything remained silent. Then he looked down to his feet, and discovered the communication device. He looked up, frowned and remembered how he had been stuck in a hill after beaming down to Slurp Spider Island. He whispered: "Perfect Friend, your error calculations are getting better....", and made a strange grimace.

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[Mistery]

Lilliputt considered what Becky and Sir Theme had told her, and decided that she was obliged to help her friends. And after all, it was about saving her daughter BatCat. She walked to the hangar, where the spaceship was still moving in the air with a loud noise. The loonies watched very curiously what would happen next. Lilliputt stepped in, took a deep breath and began to sing in a loud and clear voice:

Slooooooow dooooooown deeeeeeear shiiiiiiiip,
Giiiiiiiive reeeeeeest to the ooooooold chiiiiiip, <<OMB, I'm singing computer gibberish!>>
Reeeeduuuuuce locomoooootion, <<I'm turning alien!>>
Imaaaagine thee ooooocean, <<Yes, that's better.>>
And nooooow land on the flooooor,
Siiiiilent without a rooooooar. <<I'm turning Murph!>>


Darknight was finally able to talk to Mystery and give her all the necessary information about the secret agents on the island and in the robot's head. He also told her about his plan to go up to the tower, and continue the search for BatCat. The alien asked her Perfect Friend to be very careful and to report her any news. She promised to take care of the worm problem.
The hero slowly climbed up the ladder made of web, but suddenly felt a pain at his arm. He realized that two worms were staring at him and throwing burning balls of spiderweb at him. He quickly took a small fire extinguisher out of his utility belt, and used it first on himself and then on the worms. The two creatures looked like snow worms after the treatment, and began to cough. The hero cought them in a small box, and continued his way up. Finally Darknight arrived in the tower. He saw guards walking around in front of a room covered by a very thick spiderweb. Was BatCat in there?

Mystery directed her ship immediately towards Sky Island. As soon as the spaceship arrived over the island, she beamed herself down to the office. Nobunny was to be seen. She walked out, and there, in front of the hangar, she saw the large group of loonies staring at the inside of the building. She had a bad feeling, and began to run: "What happened, are there any problems?!?" As soon as she reached the entrance, Lilliputt walked out of the hangar, crossed her arms, and said: "No, not anymore."
The alien didn't understand anything and so she entered and saw her baby son Hyper sitting on the head of her robot son. Hyper was shaking, and all his fur was wet. Sir Theme tried to calm him down and to take him off, but he was not able to move his brother. The alien asked the robot what had happened and Sir Theme explained the whole story. "I'm such an unlucky fox, I just wanted to help.", Hyper said in shivering voice, and looked with sad eyes at his alienish mom. Mystery smiled at Hyper, and took him off Sir Theme's head: "Don't worry, I know that you only wanted to help. It's okay." She told Sir Theme to wait there, then walked up to Lilliputt, and hugged her: "Thank you dear friend. I'm so glad that nothing bad happened. And this is your merit." The Carrot Islander smiled very proudly, and finally felt that she finally gained recognition. Mystery quicky informed the group about the current situation, still holding the small fox in her arms.

The guards were much too watchful, and Darknight started to miss his invisibility cloak. <<Ah, that's it! I ask Mystery to beam down a cloak>>, he thought to himself, and looked for a safer place to contact his Perfect Friend.
But no matter how he tried, there was no answer from the alien. <<Hmmm, should I sing the Alooney Song now? Hehe... No. Dear Perfect Friend, would you be so nice and come back? I know that you are taking care of the worm problem, but I neeeeeed you here aswell. I neeeeed the invisibilityyyyy cloooooak. OMB, now I'm turning Lilli.>> He decided to sit down and to wait for a while. He hoped that her Perfect Friend wouldn't let him down. He was so near, all that he needed was the cloak.

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[Mistery]

Mystery agreed with the group to take two ships and direct them to Slurp Spider Island aswell. Then she said goodbye, and took her sons to the ship. She quickly talked to her hubby, and they decided to fly back to Darknight, and to prepare an antiworm update for their son as soon as possible. But since they didn't want Sir Theme to give away any information in the meantime, a clone of the alien took the robot and the fox to the beach of Carrot Island.

The group of loonies finally managed to choose two ships, one would be led by Zox because he was a spaceship engineer and was able to fly it. The question was who could fly the second ship. OneBun, who still remembered her earlier adventure on Mystery's ship, reassured the group that she had taken enough notes meanwhile to be able to fly a ship. Finally the spaceships took off and flew towards the island of the spiders.

Darknight, who had started again to take away a letter of his Perfect Friend's title, arrived at Ct Friend when he heard a noise coming out of the communication device. He asked the alien for an invisibility cloak and added: "Mystery, I have a request. Would it be possible for you to pay very much attention on the calculation of the error probability?" The alien was stumped and didn't really understand why Darknight asked her for that, but promised to do so.

In the meantime, Hyper and Sir Theme were relaxing at the beach. They decided to go for a swim in the Sea of Knowledge. The robot put a lot of oil over his body to protect himself against any damage caused by the water, and jumped in. He immediately started to scream and to shake his head: "There is a worm in my head, mother do something!", and started to run around in circles. The clone was very alerted but could not do anything. Finally it contacted the alien and asked for advice. Mystery promised to be there as soon as possible and directed the ship towards Carrot Island.

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[Mistery]

Darknight hid under the invisibility cloak, and slowly approached the guards who were watching the area around the door very carefully. Meanwhile there were 4 guards, and the hero decided to spill some oil on the floor. He took a small oil can out of his utility belt, and poured the oil with a quick movement all over the area in front of the door. The spiders began to move their legs, trying to run away, but they didn't manage to move in any direction. It looked very funny how they slid on the floor, and finally landed on their backs, still rotating on the floor. Darknight quickly used his special knife to cut the thick spiderweb that covered the door and entered the dark room.
What he saw, terrified him for a moment. BatCat was standing on a bed of metal, fighting with her claws, her eyes closed, and singing the Alooney Song in a very loud voice.

My Moooooommy is over the ocean
My Moooooommy is over the sea
My Moooooommy is over the ocean
Oh, bring back da carrots ta meeeeeee
Bring back
Bring back
Oh, bring back da carrots ta me, ta meeeeeee
Bring back
Bring back
Oh, bring back da carrots ta meeeeeeeeee

My Myyyyystery is over the ocean
My Myyyyystery is over the sea
My Myyyyystery is over the ocean
Oh, bring back da space ship ta meeeeeee
Bring back
Bring back
Oh, bring back da space ship ta me, ta meeeeeee
Bring back
Bring back
Oh, bring back da space ship ta meeeeeeeeee

My rooooooobot is over the ocean
My rooooooobot is over the sea
My rooooooobot is over the ocean
Oh, bring back Sir Theme here ta meeeeeee
Bring back
Bring back
Oh, bring back Sir Theme here ta me, ta meeeeeee
Bring back
Bring back
Oh, bring back Sir Theme here ta meeeeeeeeee

My Daaaarknight is over the ocean
My Daaaarknight is over the sea
My Daaaarknight is over the ocean
Oh, bring back my hero ta meeeeeee
Bring back
Bring back
Oh, bring back my hero ta me, ta meeeeeee
Bring back
Bring back
Oh, bring back my hero ta meeeeeeeeee

My Adveeeeeenture is over the ocean
My Adveeeeeenture is over the sea
My Adveeeeeenture is over the ocean
Oh, bring back her flutter ta meeeeeee
Bring back
Bring back
Oh, bring back her flutter ta me, ta meeeeeee
Bring back
Bring back
Oh, bring back her flutter ta meeeeeeeeee

My OneBun is over the ocean
My OneBun is over the sea
My OneBun is over the ocean
Oh, bring back that symptom ta meeeeeee
Bring back
Bring back
Oh, bring back that symptom ta me, ta meeeeeee
Bring back
Bring back
Oh, bring back that symptom ta meeeeeeeeee

Darknight stared at his sidekick, and felt very sorry for the cat. What had she gone through? He tried to speak in a calm voice with her: "Hey, BatCat, it's me. Darknight is here to take you home." BatCat who only felt that there was somebody in the room, was even more scared, and determined not to hear any more slurping noises. Therefore she raised her voice once more, and fought even more desperately with her claws. She changed her song.

I'm scratching you all you slurp spiders
Even if you are good fighters
You have no chance, I will survive
Until my looney friends arrive!

Darknight shouted: "BatCat, your looney friends are here! Please stop it, we will save you!" But the cat didn't hear anything and went on defending herself. The bat was desperate, what should he do? He didn't want to hurt the cat, and so he had no chance to stop her. He quickly took out the communication device and yelled: "My Most Perfect Friend, I need you! I have found BatCat, but I can't stop her fighting! Do something!", but there was no reply.


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[Mistery]

Mystey's ship arrived above Carrot Island. She grabbed the antiworm update and told her hubby to beam up Sir Theme, but since he was running around in circles, the beaming device could not locate him properly. The alien had to beam down. She was determined to stop her son, and stood in his way. But unfortunately the robot didn't notice anything, and had an enormous speed, so that they collided and fell on the ground. The clone quickly took the antiworm update and used it on the robot. After a while the worm could be deleted, and mother and son regained consciousness. They felt a little dizzy, but otherwise they were okay. Now that the worm problem was solved, Mystery took her sons and the clone onto the ship again, and directed her ship back towards Slurp Spider Island.

OneBun took her piles of notes, and distributed them among the passengers. "I will tell you what information I need and you look it up." Her friends agreed and waited for the instructions. "Okay, now... We have to set the direction. Please look up the process to set it, and also the coordinates of Slurp Spider Island." The loonies started to search among the notes, and only the sound of paper was to be heard. After a short while Doglover shouted: "I got it, here!", and ran over to OneBun. "Hmmmm, let me see. To set the direction, touch the screen in the 4th line at the bottom and choose the coordinates of the goal. Okay, that sounds easy. Has anybunny found the coordinates of the island yet?" Adventure and Becky exclaimed at the same time: "Here!" They handed OneBun the notes, who began to study them. "Hmmm, two different coordinates. I seem to have forgotten to note down which one was invalid. Okay, let's try to contact Zox. Please look up everything you can find about communication with other ships."

Freakshow was very curious how it felt to fly with warp speed, and asked Zox if he could demonstrate it. The ship pilot replied that for such a short distance warp speed was not necessary. But the looney group begged him to show them how it was, and finally Zox agreed. He pushed the warp speed button, and the ship accelarated. "Oh, look at the stars on the screen, wow!", Freakshow yelled. "Stars?!?", Zox asked in a shocked voice and glanced at the main screen. What he saw, made him alerted. They had arrived in another galaxy. Zox pushed the button again and yelled: "OMB! I forgot that I was changing some of the ships to TRIPLE WARP. Uffff! Here we are." "Where?", asked the group, and Zox answered: "Ummm... well... I have no idea."

OneBun wasn't able to contact Zox, although she was sure that she had followed the instructions on her notes. Finally she said: "Okay, we have two different possibilities. May I ask our decision expert to use her Eenie Meenie technique?", and smiled at Lilliputt, who got very excited.

Darknight heard some slurping noise coming nearer, and it was clear that he had to do something. First he thought of putting the invisibility cloak on BatCat and himself, but since the cat was still singing in an incredibly loud voice, this seemed to be a bad idea. "Okay, I need a backup plan.", he said to himself, and facing the consequences of his action, he put BatCat on his shoulder, clenched his teeth, and left the room. He saw a big group of slurp spiders coming nearer, and quickly jumped on the window sill, cut the spiderweb, and lifted up into the air with the singing and fighting cat on his shoulder.


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[Mistery]

Mystery decided to ask about news from the two ships, but could only reach one of them. OneBun replied her, and told about their difficulties, but also reassured the alien, that thanks to Lilliputt's decision taking method, they finally found the island. The report of the pink bunny was interrupted by a roaring voice: "I see Darknight flying in strange loops near the harbor! There must be something wrong!"
The alien recognized Murph's voice, and got alerted. Just at that moment her instruments showed that there was something wrong with the matter-antimatter drive system on her ship, and the vehicle slowed down. She quicky updated OneBun with the latest problem, and promised to join them as soon as she was able to fix it. Sir Theme and his alienish parents immediately ran some data to find out the cause.
Murph was determined to beam down and shouted: "I will save BatCat! Let me beam down!", but the other loonies tried to hold her back, and explained that this was too dangerous. Becky turned to OneBun and asked if they could beam up Darknight. "Well, let me see. Look for the notes about beaming.", and the group began to search the piles of paper. Once all the notes had been found, OneBun put them next to each other, and tried to figure out how she had to proceed to beam up the bat. After reading the relevant notes, she was confident that she was able to do it. But no matter how she tried, it wasn't possible to locate the bat properly, since he was tumbling too fast through the air.
The tiger felt very nervous, and began to walk around. Suddenly she discovered a small beaming device. The problem was that she had no idea how to set it. She saw that she had to enter 3 coordinates, and knew the coordinates of Slurp Spider Island for the ship from the notes. But when she entered them, a small red light lit up on the device. "Hmmmmm... think Murph, think! Why doesn't it work? Hmmmm.... I think I got it! The coordinates for the ship were probably for the whole island, and now I need to set the beaming device to more exact coordinates of a location on the island. Okay... Darknight is near the harbor..." Murph walked back to the notes, and tried to find one that contained the coordinates of the harbor. Meanwhile the rest of the group was discussing different plans to save Darknight and BatCat. They didn't notice, when Murph started to smile happily.

Darknight was suffering from the claws and the loud voice of BatCat, and had big difficulties in concentrating on his flight. He was flying up and down, turned in the air, and decided to find a place without spiders and worms to be able to put the cat down from his shoulders. BatCat was still very determined to keep away any kind of enemies.

You cannot come near to meeeeeee
I am worse than a beeeeee
Go away, don't come baaaaack
I will never be your snaaaaack

Finally he spotted a place near the harbor which seemed to be completely free of spiders and worms. He flew in that direction but due to his concentration problems, he hit the ground. BatCat fell from his shoulder, landed on her back, and continued her behavior without noticing anything. Darknight was exhausted and desperate for a moment, but he remembered that he still had 2 tomatoes in his utility belt. He took them out, put one of them into BatCats mouth, who immediately stopped singing, and he began to eat his tomato.


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[Mistery]

BatCat immediately froze, and hit the tomato out of her mouth. She started to yell: "What's that?!?", and Darknight realized that this was his chance to explain everything to his friend. He talked in a low voice with her, and managed to calm her down. When BatCat opened her eyes, she looked around and didn't understand anything. She stared at the bat with huge eyes: "Where am I? Why am I here? What...", and Darknight told her what had happened before, but tried to be very diplomatic about the cat's behavior. While Escape was listening, she began to eat her tomato. Just when Darknight finished the story, they heard an enormous loud SPLAAAAAASH! and immediately stood up. They saw a big fountain on the Sea of Knowledge, and Darknight decided to fly there and see what had happened. He put the invisibility cloak on, and directed towards the sea. He saw something very deep down in the water, but could not recognize what it was. It started to come nearer and nearer to the surface, and Darknight almost yelled when Murph's head appeared. Murph began to cough and to grasp for air, but finally managed to breathe normally again. The bat uncovered his head, and asked very surprised: "What are you doing here?!?", and Murph said with a big smile: "I have come to save you!"
This was a very weird situation, and the hero felt speechless. But as polite as he was, he just pulled Murph out of the sea, put the cloak on both of them, and flew back to BatCat, who immediately jumped on Murphs shoulder: "Auntie Murph!!! I'm sooooo happy to see you!", and Murph hugged her niece with tears in her eyes.
Darknight waited patiently until his friends calmed down a bit, and then turned to Murph: "So now you are going to beam us up, right?", but Murph froze. "Well, ummmm... I just beamed down somehow, and didn't think of a continuation.", and blushed. Darknight shook his head, sighed, and tried to contact Mystery, but he had still no luck.

Zox sat on the floor, putting his arms over his head, and seemed to be in a shock. He had no idea where they were, and the screen showed the coordinates XYZ, which meant that these coordinates were not known. Where should he direct the ship now? He had already tried to enter the coordinates of Slurp Spider Island, of Myranda Island, Carrot Island, and Worm Island, but nothing had happened. He felt desperate. Crazy, Freakshow and Maniac tried to cheer him up, but Zox sat there in a deep depression. For some reason, most members of the group were not that desperate, and began to make jokes: "We are lost in space, haha!" "We have spread the virus into another galaxy, lol!" Finally Freakshow decided to use the Eenie Meenie method on the 4 directions, and to push the warp button after the decision had been taken. "Eenie, Meenie, Miney Mo, Catch a tiger by the toe. If he hollers let him go. Eenie Meenie Miney Moe. Okay, we got it!", he shouted, and pushed the warp button.

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[Mistery]

"Can't you just contact OneBun? You know, Mystery has some problems with her ship, I think she said something like fuel material problems. She is far away from here, and maybe that's why you can't reach her. But OneBun's ship is just above the island, that's where I beamed down from. OneBun tried to beam you up, but you had some strange choreography, lol."
"Oh, have we been dancing?", BatCat asked smiling at her hero, and Darknight replied: "Yes, sort of.", and pulled his cape on his neck to hide the scratches. Then he turned to Murph: "Well, do you have any idea how to set the communication device?", but the tiger shook her head: "Maybe if I beam myself into the Sea of Knowledge again? Lol."

The group finally agreed on a plan, when Doglover exclaimed: "Where is Murph?!?" Everybunny began to look for the tiger, but they could not find her. Suddenly Becky whispered: "She wanted to beam down... Can it be that...", and she looked shocked at OneBun, who immediately started to use the locating device. After a while she shouted: "I got them! All the three are there! BatCat is saved!", and she followed the instruction for beaming up beings. But for some reason it didn't work. OneBun was very disappointed, sat down, and grabbed a carrot. "Let me think... Hmmmm... Yes! Maybe the weight is too high. I have to raise the beaming energy somehow. Could you please look for this information in my notes?", and the group searched the piles of paper again. Adventure found the relevant note, and handed it to the pink bunny, who looked at it very vonfused: "Yes, hmmm, okay. There is an equation to calculate the approximate weight related to the beaming energy. Hmmmm... me maths not so good." OneBun decided to try it withouth any calculation, just according to her feeling. She raised the energy, and pushed the button that started the beaming process.
There was a huge rumbling, the spaceship began to shake, and the group screamed in shock. OneBun immediately plugged carrots into her ears, and looked around, Becky howled in a strange voice, and Doglover ran around in circles, carrying Hollandgirl on her back. Lilliputt covered herself with the notes and said to herself: "I'm not scared. I'm not scared."
On the platform BatCat, Murph, and Darknight appeared, sitting on a hill. "Oooops, I think that was too much energy.", the pink bunny concluded. The three beamed up loonies were very surprised, looked around, and finally recognized where they were. The bat put BatCat on his shoulder, lifted Murph and flew down the hill to join the group. They had a huge group hug , and started to dance of joy. Then BatCat and Darknight told about their adventures, and Murph also added her beaming story. OneBun finally realized that it would be good to let the others know that everything was okay. She contacted Mystery, who was already on her way to Slurp Spider Island with Sir Theme, Hyper, her hubby and the clones, after fixing the ship. She was very happy to hear the good news, but was very worried that she had not been able to reach Zox' group.


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