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“Gossip Girls have been taken over by the Docs!” Annus announced as he spun the points board. Patton cheered loudly while the Gossip Girls scowled.
”Brains are third place, Bloody Eyes in fourth, Magic Company in fifth, Spiked Shots in sixth, and the Brawns in last.” Unus announced before hearing the reactions.
”How arewein last place?!” Jackie shouted. Illinois shrugged.
”Oi Docs! Stop being smart!” Ed shouted.
”Please, they are so smart.” Janus scoffed and rolled his eyes.
”It is physically impossible to change one’s IQ.” Logan shouted back. The Docs team cackled loudly.
”Continuing with the game.” Annua chuckled. “We’re slowly getting to last few slips so be ready.” The ego clad in white pulled out the slip and read it aloud. “I have a double digit kill count.”
Loud exclamations were heard in the crowd. They were in a room with many egos who could possibly have even triple digit kill counts. After moments of hushed whispers, the groups lifted their boards up.
”Alright, please shout your guesses!” Unus shouted.
”Gossip Girls say it’s Anti!” Brianna shouted.
”The Docs say it’s Google!” Dr. Iplier shouted.
”Bloody Eyes say it’s Wilford!” Remus cackled.
”The Brawns say Remus!” Freaking Courtney howled.
”Spiked Shots say Dark!” Chase and Bing shouted at the same time. Chase was giggling loudly and was leaning on the orange android for support.
”Magic Company says Host!” Bim announced.
”Brains say Bim!” Sarah Christ shouted as she downed a glass of punch.
”Alright! Votes locked in!” Unus clapped his hands as Annus opened the rest of the paper. “The one who has claimed to have a double digit kill is… Schneeplestein!”
The crowd gasped as the spotlight was directed to the German doctor. Schneep sheepishly stood up and waved a hand. “Failed operations happen much more than I like.”
Anti howled from the back of the room, a hand on Dark’s shoulder for support. “I ain’t the only murderer in the Septics!”
”Unfortunately that means there are no points this round.” Unus chuckled. “I suppose we should call a break time before continuing huh?” Shouts of agreement were heard from the crowd. Unus nodded his head and Annus clapped his hands, the lights turning on.
”Schneep with a double digit kill count?!” Marvin exclaimed. “That’s insanity!”
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Abe chuckled giddily as he slung an arm around Noir’s shoulder. “Ah ha! I figured it out!”
”What did you figure out?” Drowned asked as he tilted his head to the side.
”I- *hic* I have had one too many drinks.” Abe snickered. Noir snorted as he helped the detective down on a chair.
”Bing! I messed up.” Chase chuckled sheepishly as he called for the orange android over.
”What did you do?”
”I uh… I poured a whole bottle of vodka into the punch instead of half.” Chase stared down at the ground. Bing’s jaw dropped open before he started laughing.
”Everyone is going to besohammered after tonight!” Bing wheezed.
Wilford popped next to the two, wiggling his mustache. “Did I hear you two spiking the punch?”
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It wasn’t long before the lights began to flicker on and off.
”What is that glitch doing now?” Google growled as he turned to the back of the room. He tilted his in confusion as he saw the green glitch look equally confused.
”Oi Dark! Your lights are actin’ up.” Anti poked the dark entity.
Dark looked up with furrowed his brows. “Odd…”
Virgil was finally loosening up before he felt someone tap his shoulder. “Who the-.” He turned around and saw no-one behind him. “Bim are you messing with me?”
Bim shook his head. “What are you talking about?”
The lights flashed off and a weird giggle echoed in the room. It sounded like the giggle was made underwater. Annus screamed loudly before the Host made a string of words. The string of words glowed, being the only illumination besides the phone’s flashlights that were on. All the lights diverted to the stage as they saw Annus up in the air, his wings flapping violently. Clinging to his feet was what appeared to be Unus but having green scaly legs and webbed feet. He wore goggles and was drenched, seaweed clinging to his arms.
”Gongoozler go away!” Annus screamed as he flung his leg around violently. “Go back in a pond or something!”
Unus was underneath Annus trying to pry the Gongoozler off his leg while laughing. The crowd also began to laugh while Host and Freaking Courtney ran up to help yank the cryptid off. The Gongoozler fell to the floor with a wet splat. The crowd yelled as he began to crawl off the stage on all fours like a weird man-lizard.
”The hell is he?!” Anti screeched as he floated up as a cloud of green glitch and code.
”I don’t know.” Dark mused as he floated up with the help of his shadow tendrils. His red and blue aura radiated dimly as he watched the chaos under him. “We should help shouldn’t we?”
”But this is hilarious!” Anti cackled.
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“Ew ew ew! What is that?!” Brianna squealed as she stood on the table. The Chosen had thrown a chair at Gongoozler before using his katana and swatting it around.
E-Boy nearly did a spit take and fell out of his seat. “Why ishehere?!”
”Whatever he is, get him out!” Roman squealed. “He looks disgusting!”
”Don’t be rude!” Remus shouted.
”That was very nice of you Roman.” Janus hissed.
”Geez! Sorry!”
”Oh this brings me back to our cryptid-hunting days don’t you think Dumpster?” Krungle chuckled.
”Ah ha! The days when we hunted for the Yeti!” Dumpster Wizard chuckled fondly.
”I knew it! The governmentdidhave aliens!” Redacted shouted as he hopped from one foot to the other.
”Everyone calm down, we will have it under control.” Illinois shouted as Jackie swooped in.
”How can this get any worse.” Virgil rolled his eyes. “Wait, was that the thing that touched me?! Ew ew ew!”
JJ had scrambled on top of a table and held Robbie close to him. The whole ballroom was basically in a frenzy while Annus, Unus, Illinois and Jackie worked together to catch the crazy Gongoozler. It wasn’t long before Jackie had the Gongoozler in his arms. “We caught the cryptid!”
Everyone in the room cheered before the lights turned on. The music began to play again. Everyone had to help fix up the place and were laughing about the whole predicament. Unus led Annus and Jackie to a lake that was not too far from the Iplier’s base. “This lake should be a nice home for him.”
”Aight.” Jackie huffed before dropping the aquatic cryptid into the water. The Gongoozler flailed in the water with loud garbles for a good minute or two before all the three could see was the Gongoozler’s fins and tail in the water.
”Why did he come all the sudden?!” Annus exclaimed, still flicking his leg to rid of the slimy residue left from the Gongoozler as the three flew back to the base.
”Dunno, but now I gotta call Ethan.” Unus chuckled.
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Dark groaned as he woke up. His black button-up shirt was completely unbuttoned and he could tell that everyone had stayed over for the night. They must have partiedhardif even King was out of it. He looked down and saw Wilford staggering around with JJ giggling giddily while the Googles had started to clean up. Bing was snapping pictures of everyone, Chase’s face in the spiked punch bowl included
”Alright… I bet we best get cleaned up now.” Dark chuckled as he watched the green glitch slowly wake up with a groan. Erik, Derek, Engineer and Heist had skipped out on the party so they were peering in confused.
”Woah… you guys really went crazy last night huh?” Heist snickered as he slowly helped Virgil up.
”Where were you the whole time?” Virgil groaned as he got up and rubbed his head.
”Hiding. I don’t like parties much.” Heist shrugged. “Man, we have a lot of cleaning up to do huh?”
Virgil chuckled as he grabbed his purple jacket not to far from his hands. “Yup…”
