The Great Adventure

Bird was forced to disconnect the Bear Phone as the pirates pulled their ship into a chamber on the surface of Kearth. Everything (including Kearth itself) was made of some sort of dark metal. Soon after their ship was dropped into this large empty room, doors on the sides opened and robot mech thingies started walking in. They each had 2 legs and 2 arms, kinda like humans. Their heads, however, were pyramid shaped and each had a red light in the center, which was a camera that let them see to make sure they wouldn’t bump into something and die to death. Each robot held a very large gun-looking thing (they were at least a meter long each) which had red laser scope thingies coming out and aiming at wherever the guns were aimed.

All the robot things continued to yell, “DROP YOUR WEAPONS AND EXIT THE SHIP” in very robotic voices. So the gang dropped their weapons (plot twist: they didn’t have any) and exited their rock spaceship out of the door.

“Now follow us!” shouted one of the robots.

The gang was led through a door and out into a hallway. It turned out that the entirety of Kearth was built by whoever the pirates were. There were no walls or ceilings in this hallway, so it wasn’t really a hallway. More like a walkway. All around them were all sorts of disconnected rooms and more pathways and beams and chains and odd moving machinery, all built of the dark metal stuff.

It turned out that Gumpton was far too large and heavy for the pathway, so while the gang was following the robots, the walkway near Hoofa gave way. She, Gumpton, Qaeron, and Mushpuff fell down and landed on a different pathway about 10 meters below their current one. Then that pathway also fell apart and they plummeted another 10 meters into a room. The robots took no notice of this.

“Uh oh?” said Klumpkrump.

“Yeah, that’s probably not good,” said Plagiarize.

“Yo!” yelled Bird downwards. “Yoohoo!” There was no response from the room that Gumpton and Hoofa and Qaeron and Mushpuff fell into.

“Keep following!” yelled the robots. So Klumpkrump, Bird, Plagiarize, and Snorter kept following.

Meanwhile, the other half of the gang had just fallen into a room filled with tons of mice. When they landed on the ground, the mice ran here and there and everywhere and out the doors.

“Huh,” said Mushpuff. “I wonder what that was about.”

“Maybe the room was abandoned or something,” said Hoofa, looking around.

The room, however, did not look very abandoned. It looked like a meeting room and there were no signs of abandonment, such as dust or cobwebs.

“Furniture is zmall, yez?” said Qaeron. Indeed, he was the first to notice that all the furniture in this room was rather mouse-sized.

“Very small!” said Hoofa.

“Small enough for those mice!” said Mushpuff. Everyone in the immediate vicinity gasped at this shocking revelation.

“Well now what do we do?” asked Hoofa.

“Maybe we should just wait here until the Bearmy shows up,” said Mushpuff. “They should be on their way, based on Bird’s conversation on the Bear Phone.”

“Yeah, but it took us, like, five days to get here from Bear Stone Planet,” said Hoofa. “So it’ll take at least five days for the Bearmy to appear. We need to escape somehow.”

“And alzo find those artifactz, mmmm?” suggested Qaeron.

“Yes, because that is the reason we came here in the first place,” said Mushpuff.

“Well, I’m sure this door will help us,” said Hoofa, riding Gumpton over to a door on the wall.

Gumpton opened the door with his trunk. Behind it was a hallway - an ACTUAL hallway this time, with walls and a ceiling. Only one problem presented itself here: the door? Door-sized. Gumpton? Elephant-sized. Such things were not compatible.

It was here that Hoofa made the difficult decision to leave Gumpton behind. It was either that or staying in this room for five days and potentially getting the other half of the gang in danger. They needed them! Hoofa promised to return to this room. Would she? I don’t know, and neither do you. I’m making this all up as I go, for the most part.