~3~

29 0 1
                                    

It's yet another normal day for Astro. Well, at least until the MUCC started buzzing its head off.

Astro : (jumps in fright) Oh my god that gave me a scare! (looks down at the floor) And...it caused me to drop my sandwich.

Astro (sighs) : Well, what is it this time?

NobodyBS : Hi Astro. I have another dare for you.

Astro : Yeah. That I expected. SO...what is it?

NobodyBS : Get anyone to cause crazy chaos in Tara's Bazaar. Bye!

Astro (calls out) : HEY WAIT, WHO???

It was too late, the screen had already went dark.

Astro (exasperated) : Okay...well, let's see who causes the most chaos. (thinks carefully) We need someone like a ghost, able to scare the hell out of people. Sandy's sandstorm is too obvious...and he'll be sleeping. So...how about Leon?

At his words, the RTDL, which he had newly programmed to be displayed on one of the screens of the office of his planetarium, conjured up a picture of Leon, below were the words, "LOCATED".

Astro : Next, we need someone mischievous, someone great at pulling pranks, both stealthy and cunning. So how about...our jester Chester?

Chester's face flashed across the screen next, showing him hiding behind a large series of jars, what looked like a candy ray in his hand pointed at Mandy who was busily shifting numerous containers of sweets.

Astro : Lastly, we need someone who can cause collateral damage. One that can change everything in seconds, and truly cause chaos.

The RTDL flashed Moe's face on the screen like a recommendation.

Astro : No...he's too small for the job, and he'll probably kill people with all his sinkholes and craters and whatnot. I think I'll go with...Gale.1

Gale's face appeared on the screen last.

Astro : Okay, time to go. Vija kluweise! 

With his magical command, a lightning bolt enveloped Astro, and when the light faded away, there were three of him. All of them darted through three different portals, and with each challenger in hand, they re-emerged in the sandy, sweltering but busy bazaar in the Sahara desert.

Astro : Kumero kluweise!

After merging into one again, he instructed everybody based on the dare he had been given.

Astro (whispers softly) : So everyone, today, you're going to be causing chaos in Tara's Bazaar, according to a dare given by the writer of this book. So do whatever you gotta do to scare the hell out of them while having fun. Got it?

Gale : Do we have to?

Astro : Aidela Sortom! (conjures a dozen lightning bolts that point at Gale, gleaming with list for torture)

Gale (gulps) : Okay, okay, chillax.

Astro : Finneux Sortom. (the lightning bolts disappear) Okay, 3, 2, 1, GO!!!

At his order, the three rushed in different directions, Chester whipping out dozens of different-coloured magical candies, Leon going invisible and speedier than ever, and Gale reluctantly taking out his snowblower.

Leon : (sneaks up on three customers of a jewellery stall) BOO!

They screamed and ran away fearfully, thinking the stall was haunted. Leon continued to race between stalls, hurling random objects everywhere, making people cower as they shattered deafeningly, enveloping the left area of the bazaar in glass and ceramics. He then chased screaming people here and there, using a partial vanish to make a cloak he wrapped around himself hover in the air and bolt towards the poor people.

In the middle of the bazaar, Chester was toying with the food everywhere. 

Chester (yells loudly) : FOOD FIGHT TIME IDIOTS!

With his candies, he blew numerous stalls up, sending the shop-owners and random passers-by flying everywhere and crashing against rubble or food on the floor. Chester then took out a odd gun and threw lots of food scraps and candy inside and fired everywhere, splattering people's faces with pies, weird melty coffees, sticky liquids and hard chocolate bars. Everybody around him pushed and shouted as they fled the area, trying to find cover to avoid the hailstorm of sweets.

And on the right of the bazaar, Gale had summoned an actual hailstorm. Hail rained on the stalls everywhere, smashing the wood to pieces and making all the stalls collapse. Then, a snowstorm came, enveloping the whole area in a large blizzard and blurring my vision of the region. When it had finally faded, Gale was in the centre, using his snowblower to send snowballs flying everywhere and splattering on the running people's faces, making them trip over and fall face-first into the snow mounds.

Then Astro watched in half-horror, half-exhilaration as the owner of the bazaar, Tara, emerged only to be hit on the head by a huge chunk of hail, then in the face by one of Gale's snowballs.

Her single eye flamed with anger, and she howled some sort of curse as she summoned shadowy versions of herself and pulled Gale into a black hole.

Astro (angrily) : NOBODY STOPS MY CHALLENGERS FROM FULFILLING A DARE, YOU BITCH! AIDELA SORTOM!

Everybody watched in fear as Astro's originally ice blue eyes blazed with lightning yellow, and he channelled thousands and thousands of lightning bolts towards Tara, whose single eye widened in fear. Before she could react, they rained on her, zapping and electrocuting her, making her howl in pain. The rest of the bolts closed the black holes and deleted the mini-Tara-figures, freeing Gale.

Astro : Finneux Sortom.

Tara collapsed, completely unconscious.

Astro : Huh. What do you know-that was fun.

Brawl Stars : Truth Or Dare?Where stories live. Discover now