The Green Monsters

Chapter 3

"Jaxine," Lace whispers under her breath. Jaxine, a name meaning the greatest one, was a part of the Green monsters, a group of emotionally charged vegans who were also enviroment warriors and had a weird obsession with Gady lala. Lace and Crush jump to their feet and Jaxine approaches them, kale smoothie in one hand and her portable juicer dangling from her belt loop. "Enjoying Freak week," Jaxine asks sarcastically "I wonder who's to blame for this hell." Lace and Crush share a perfectly in sync eye roll as Jaxine towers over them her eco friendly hair products brushing their faces. Marmie rushes over ready to break up a fight when Jaxine got quiet and sat in an Indian style position like she was ready to do some hot yoga. "Sit," Jaxine commands "I came to give you a message." "You mean you didn't just want to hang out with us on this beautiful day," Marmie snaps. Jaxine ignored her and went on to tell the group "The Green Monsters are more than displeased that this situation has happened every year and that no one has done anything about it," she said "Punishment must ensue, so you Lace have been randomly selected to be sent out to fix this disaster." "Yeah ok randomly," Lace thought "Jaxine has hated me since the second grade when her 'boyfriend' asked me to marry him on the playground." Mr. Kevin strolled in apparently listening to the conversation and asked what the mission would entail. "Lace will choose a team who will help her in her journey to the Jade City, the palace of the Greens, where she must talk to the great and powerful emperor of Jade City and convince him that she will be able to influence people to clean up the planet or else he will destroy everyone who is not a Green," Jaxine explained, "Once she has stopped his planned wrath, she will have a week to get the common people to clean up their act." "And if they don't," Banana questioned joining the discussion with Harry behind her. The ongoing questions made Jaxine angry so she threw her green smoothie in Banana's face and ran away screaming, "The vegans have risen." Lace slowly turned to look at the group around her and with a simple nod, she knew this was her team. "I suppose we should begin the journey," Lace said softly.

Dear Disaster Robot Diary,

I am writing this on a Creyhound on my way to Jade City, so yes it's been a crazy day. Meanwhile outside, already chewed gum is bubbling up from the ground making it, in Banana's words "a sticky situation." This also causing a person to lose the ability to speak at times as if their throat is stuck closed. Mamrie insisted on bringing her pet duck on the trip Creamz, so the promised sleep on this trip has been nonexistent and the bus has to go extremely fast so that it won't get stop moving from the gum. In fact, it looks as though we have already almost made it to Jade City located right inside the city of Los Angeles. Our team should probably form some type of a game plan....

Lace shut her diary closed and turned around to see Crush resting perfectly, despite the constant quacking Creamz, with his mouth slightly open and the rhythmic sounds of his breathing so soft that only Lace could hear them. Lace sat staring unsure of the cutest way to wake him, when Banana broke out in a loud rendition of "You Don't Own Me" Marmie joining in to provide the harmony. Crush opened his eyes slightly to see the choreographed dance that Banana and Marmie were beginning to stand and perform. Once the two ran out of lyrics, Lace called the Queen Team, named by Marmie, to the back of the bus. "Ok so when we arrive we need to go straight to the emperor, no stopping to watch the daily flash mob 'Monster' and be very careful of the gum." Lace said as the rest of the Queens nodded in approval. "We're here," Lace said softly to herself and Crush quietly slid his hand into hers for reassurance. "We can do it," he said "We have the greatest leader in the world." Lace blushed as Mamrie and Banana pretended to throw up. "Haha yeah you can do it," Henry laughed obviously the only one finding anything about the situation funny. The Queens stepped out carefully jumping to avoid sticking to the ground when Mamrie's duck Creamz escaped her travel cage and hobbled in the opposite direction. Mamrie stood still screaming "Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God!" Lace and Crush made their way to the Creamz, who was stuck in a Bubba Hubba situation. They attempted to pick up the duck when marmie freaked out and ran toward them yelling, "Don't you dare fluff that duck!!" She pushed Crush aside and scooped up Creamz, his overly long tongue cemented to the end of his face. Once Creamz was safe Banana began to suggest that they move on when Henry interjected, "Where is Mr. Kevin?" The team looked around but there was no sight of him. Mr. Kevin, caught in the middle of the flash mob, screamed to his friends, yet no sound came out and the break dancing was about to begin where his bones would surely be broken, yet a strange black cloud distracted everyone. Was there another component to this day?