Richie turned as he heard the familiar sound and found his friend in that perilous state. Mrs Pulanski’s sonic frequency was much stronger than the one he was attacked with in his dream, it was higher in pitch and more eerie.

Richie rushed to rescue his friend. He pulled him out of the path of the dangerous frequency. Vic and Nerdy were already at the gate.

“Wake up, wake up, Noobie!” Richie yelled at the hypnotized Noobie.

“Come on, run Richie, come on guys, get out of there!” Nerdy and Vic screamed from the gates.

Bizzaro Mrs Pulanski dropped with a loud thud from the top of the door and growled at them in an inhumane manner. Noobie awoke from his daze and dropped to the ground, Richie picked him up and screamed.

“Run!” He left him and started sprinting towards the gate.

Noobie ran too. By the time they reached the gate, Nerdy and Vic were already running south of Bizzaro Bettisonville. Noobie and Richie followed with Bizzaro Mrs Pulanski on their tail, running just as fast but her upper body was still, her hands hanging in front of her like a zombie, her feet running with a scary vigour.

“Run, Noobie, she’s behind you!” Richie yelled looking back then forward quickly.

“I don’t wanna die!” Noobie screamed with tears blowing in the wind and floating in the air.

Vic noticed a couple of other Bizzaro people seeing the commotion and getting interested. Some even now running towards them. He ran into the woods and ran along the creek, the others followed. He ran towards the George Bridge and stopped under it.

Nerdy was about to pass when Vic snatched him then put him beside him. Richie was about to pass when they both pulled him, then Noobie. They stood against the side of the bridge’s arch and hid in its shadow. Bizzaro Mrs Pulanski passed them then came to a halt after passing the bridge.

Vic hurried out from under the bridge then ran towards the dense bushes; they followed him. There they found an opening and hid.

“When we find Rodney, I’m gonna kill him,” Noobie whispered sharply while panting.

They all chortled, tired.

“Okay, we have to figure out what is going on here,” Richie said taking a sip of water, and quickly taking a breath through the mask.

“It would seem the Bizzaro people are light consuming entities and prey on light captured from mirrors. Mirrors in this dimension act as a window to another dimension, whether it is ours is a mystery,” Nerdy said, fixing his mask; he too was hydrating.

“But why were they chasing us?” Richie asked, also wearing his mask.

“Mhhhm,” he scratched his chin for a thought. “Seeing as they are more or less opposite to normal humans then their basic instinct is hostile; they probably feed off of light from our skin.”

“Colour!” Richie said slapping his hand with a fist, “they feed off of colour, that’s why the mirror was black and white after.”

“Light too, have you seen the sun?” Noobie said. “It is a ball of noir white and you can see the same effect inside their mouths.”

“Photons and pigmentation, it’s a guess but a good one,” Nerdy said.

“Photons as in light particles?” Richie asked.

“Yes, they feed off of it and it runs inside of them and helps them function, I think,” Nerdy said.

“But we are something different, something precious, “ he said looking sad, “Rodney is probably dead by now.”

“No,” Richie said with a roar, “we are not losing hope until we see him ourselves.”

“We gotta hit the park, we don’t normally go outside that’s where they could be,” Noobie said with a smirk.

“No, the old clubhouse,” Richie said with a smirk of his own.

“What?” Noobie said, confused.

“Oh yeah, they have a hostage and probably want to keep it from everyone else,” Nerdy said, elated.

“It’s not far from here, just after George Bridge,” Richie said popping up and crouching.

“Y’all ready?” Richie asked the others seeing as he was the only one standing up.

“Is it still out there?” Nerdy asked.

“What?” Richie asked, anxious to leave.

“Is your mom out there?” Noobie said then slapped his mouth shut with his hand, then opened it a bit, “I mean, Bizzaro Mrs Pulanski.”

“I’ll check,” Richie said as he moved outside the bush.

He looked around and saw that Bizzaro Mrs Pulanski had left.

“She’s gone, now come on,” Richie said to the others and slipped out of the bushes.

They followed him out. Noobie took time to admire the Bizzaro forest, the dark shade of black complimented the forest fully. The trees were beautiful with their leaves having white luminescent lining, so did the braches and stem. The bugs lit in a bright white, all of them even the caterpillars. The boys walked as slowly as they could until they reached the treehouse.

Tell us: what do you think will happen next?