Featuring:

Otto Somppi

Jonne Tammela

Ryan Lohin

Taylor Raddysh

Libor Hajek

Brett Howden

Yanni Gourde

With Special Guests:

Jason Garrison

Braydon Coburn

Brendan Gallagher

Andrew Shaw

**

The seven Baby Bolts reappear underneath an archway that reads "Florida State Fairgrounds". Inside they find a giant Carousel, a Merry-Go-Round, a Sky Ride, a giant Ferris Wheel and a ton of tents, including a Funhouse.

"Oh, sweet a Carnival!" Jonne exclaims. "Come on Brett, let's go into the Funhouse together!!" He snatches his friend's hand before Brett can say or do anything and yanks him into the Carnival, heading for the Funhouse to the right side.

"Tammy!!" Brett whines.

"Come on it'll be fun!"

"But we can't leave the others! Tammy!!" Brett snaps. "Turn. Back. Now." But he is flung into the Funhouse and then joined by a chuckling Jonne. He looks to the side into a mirror and gasps. "OMG! I'm so fat!"

"Yeah, and I'm super skinny!" Jonne begins to gesture to his body in the mirror, which makes him look like a stick.

"Not fair! You shoved me to the 'fat' mirror on purpose, you big meanie!" Brett complains like a child. "Where's a regular mirror around here?" He glances around and his eyes slowly wander around the room to a shadowy corner, where a pair of glowing yellow eyes suddenly blink in the darkness. He screams and takes a step back. "Tammy, we gotta get out of here!"

"Come on, Brett, can you man up please? It's a trick mirror, you're not really fat!" Jonne sighs, turning to him with an obvious eye roll.

"No, not that..." Brett squeaks out, before he throws his arm out to point at the shadows. "THAT!"

Jonne looks to the shadows and sees the glowing eyes. He gasps. "Okay, I'm sorry Brett! Run!!"

They both turn, screaming and run from the Funhouse, just as a robot emerges from the shadows, followed by Gallagher and Andrew, who high-five one another. The two bolt back to where Yanni and the others are walking toward the Funhouse, nearly colliding with them in the process. They dart around and hide behind Libor and Taylor, who spin to look at them, bewildered.

"What happened?" Yanni questions.

"Yellow...eyes...scary...shadows...fat..." Brett chokes out.

"Yeah," Jonne says.

"Fat?" Yanni questions.

"The mirror made him look fat, Yanni!" Jonne blurts out.

"Why you go in 'lone on first place?" Libor growls, folding his arms across his chest.

Yanni nods. "He has a point, you two. What did I tell you about going to places alone?" He puts his hands on his hips.

"I had a buddy though! I had Bretty!" Jonne remarks, reaching over and grabbing Brett's wrist and pulling him over to him as he gives a cheesy smile.

Brett puts on an awkward smile. "Uh, yeah."

"Okay, so you saw glowing eyes...? It could be Gally!! And if it's Gally, Garrison and Coburn are close!" Yanni says. "Let's see here where would those two villains keep Garry and Coby??"

"Ferris Wheel?" Ryan questions.

Yanni nods. "Maybe...let's go check it out."

The group heads to the Ferris Wheel, but they find nothing. Jonne and Brett both lean into look in one of the closed pods. They are about to report nothing, when they are shoved into the pod and then zoomed around the wheel and into the air. The two grab one another and scream, which alerts Yanni.

"ROBOT!!" Otto shouts, pointing at the robot that had been in the Funhouse before. It turns to them with the glowing yellow eyes.

"Oh...the yellow eyes...it's a Robot!" Yanni states.

The robot zooms at them and the others dart off, unknowingly splitting up along five different paths. Yanni skids to a halt in an alleyway and spins around to find himself staring at Andrew Shaw.

Yanni backs up.

"The brave leader of the Baby Bolts...where's your friends?" Andrew snarls, pacing toward Yanni, his eyebrows knit together darkly. "Didn't you impose a 'don't wander off alone' rule? And yet, here you are, ALONE!"

"He's not alone!" Ryan and Taylor's voices snap from behind Andrew. "We've got Yanni's back!"

Yanni swallows his fear as he hears Steven Stamkos' voice echo in his mind, Have no fear Yanni, lead by example. Leaders do not cower in fear and you ARE a leader! Do not let Shaw into your mind.

At once, Yanni stomps his foot on the ground and unleashes a terrifying scream before he launches forward and dives at Andrew, who is shocked. Yanni smacks him against the hard concrete ground and snaps, "Leave my friends alone! Let us find the Bolts and don't get in our way...or I'll make you sorry!"

"And what can you do, Baby Bolt? You weren't even drafted!" Andrew jeers.

"Neither was St. Louis or Tyler Johnson!" Yanni spits back.

Taylor and Ryan share a look with one another.

"Yeah, well at least I'm playing in the NHL!"

"And I'm gonna be captain of the Syracuse Crunch!"

"I could kick your ass right now!" Andrew growls. "I'm letting you win, but if I were to really wanna hurt you, I totally would! So I dare you to push me!" He catches Yanni off guard and throws him to the side, before scrambling to his feet.

Yanni brushes himself off and gives chase, as Andrew dashes away. Taylor and Ryan shrug and launch after him.

In another part of the fair, Otto glances behind him, spotting the robot hot on his tail. He tries to lose it, but find that he cannot. In one last valiant effort, he skids to a halt suddenly finding Brendan Gallagher blocking his path.

"Otto Somppi, the memory extraordinaire, where are your friends?"

"No here." He glances behind him to see the robot stop, blocking off his other route. He quickly gazes around, looking for a way out, before a loud grunt comes, followed by Libor Hajek tossing the robot to the side.

Andrew then races past Libor and Otto and to Gallagher's side. Taylor, Ryan and Yanni join Libor, who has a fist clenched at his side.

"Where's Tammy and Brett?" Yanni gasps.

Meanwhile,

Jonne and Brett, still screaming and hugging one another reach the top of the Ferris Wheel and finally stop swinging back and forth. They slowly stop screaming and share a look with one another.

"We gotta get out of here and get to the others and then find those two Bolts!" Brett says.

"You don't mean--?" Jonne begins, unhappily.

"Yes, Tammy, we gotta work together...no goofing off!" Brett confirms.

"But we're at the top of the damn Ferris Wheel! How are we supposed to get down from here?" Jonne inquires. "Only Yan-Yan can get us down!"

"We can't wait for him and the others to get us down from here! I don't even see them on the ground!" Brett insists, looking over the side of their pod. "But I can see the controls...the lever is jammed...I can also see...OMG! Tammy, look!" He leans out and points across the grounds, opposite of where the Funhouse and entrance had been.

Jonne joins him and looks out. "It's Garrison and Coburn! They're on the Swing Ride!! We gotta get Yans!" He clears his throat and shouts out, "YANNI!! YAN-YAN!!!!"

Brett smacks him across the back of the head. He freezes in place at once and mutters, "Oops."

Jonne turns to him. "I'm sorry, you're right, I shouldn't yell...Gally or someone might hear us...but at the same time...IT'S THE ONLY THING THAT WILL GET US DOWN, BRETT HOWDEN!! Do you want us to die?"

Brett shakes his head. "You're right! YANNI, HELP US!!"

They continue to scream out of the pod, hoping to alert the others.

But the group are facing off with Gallagher and Andrew. Yanni steps forward and puts a hand on Otto's shoulder. Before he can say anything, the two Habs share a look and nod and then vanish into thin air, cackling wickedly.

"What the--how and why do they do that?" Yanni remarks, shaking his head.

"Yanni, I think they are purposefully trying to elongate something...and I bet it has to do with Garry and Coburn!" Taylor remarks.

"And what about Tammy and Brett?" Ryan pipes up.

Libor nods. "As much as hate to admit, can no conduct mission with no Jonne Tammela and Brett Howden."

Yanni sighs. "Let's split up then. Gally and Shaw seem to be finished getting in our way, cause their plan is almost complete...Ryan and Taylor, go back to the Ferris Wheel and figure out what happened to Jonne and Brett. Libor, Otto and I will go find Garry and Coburn. If you can, come find us with Jonne and Brett - hopefully...I can't imagine the havoc those two are causing with one another..."

Ryan and Taylor nod at Yanni and backtrack to the Ferris Wheel, while the remaining three head to discover the Swing Ride. As the two get near the Wheel, they can pick up Jonne and Brett screaming.

"Tammy, it's Ryan and Rads!" Brett suddenly exclaims. "Our shouting worked! We're saved!"

Jonne high-fives Brett and they share a hug like two best friends.

Taylor and Ryan, with Brett and Jonne's help, eventually find the jammed lever. They work to unjam it and soon manage to successfully get the two back down. They celebrate quickly, before Brett exclaims, "We saw Garry and Coby! They're strapped into the Swing Ride, that way!" He points in the direction and they all take off.

Meanwhile,

Yanni, Otto and Libor head onward, coming across the Swing Ride. They stare up at it and almost instantly spot the two Bolts strapped into two swings on opposite sides of the ride. They take note on how the cables holding the swings have been sliced into, so they are slowly stretching and threatening to break or snap to kill the two.

"We gotta get 'em both down! The cables aren't gonna hold 'em much longer! Damn those Habs!" Yanni snarls, darting over to the control panel as fast as he can with Libor and Otto close behind. He stares at the panel and notices that the lever is jammed, so that the swing can continue to go around and around and help out in speeding up the cable separation. His heart pounds in his chest as he works to unjam it, having no success. "It's jammed!"

"Just like the Ferris Wheel was for us, right Tammy?" Brett says as they skid into the scene.

Yanni spins around to see Brett and Jonne sharing a laugh together and then high-fiving. Ryan and Taylor shrug, confused like Yanni. But they can't worry about the new-found friendship, they have to get the two Bolts.

Ryan steps forward, having been the one to unjam the Ferris Wheel. He gives this a shot and manages to finally get the ride to slow to a stop. When it does, they realize that only Braydon Coburn is still there.

In the heat of the moment, they had not seen Garrison or where he'd gone. They look around and nothing around them to give them a clue and Taylor rushes over and unstraps Coburn, who stumbles around like he's drunk. He eventually uses Taylor as a crutch and staggers over to the group.

"Where's Garry?" Yanni questions, his breath catching in his throat and his heart pounding in his chest. "Brett, Tammy, go look for him!"

They dart off as Otto exclaims, "Flew!" He points up at the sky and in a trajectory.

Brett and Jonne, with their heads hung low, push the swings and the ride around a full 180 degrees to where Garrison had been. They see the cable has snapped and Garrison and the swing are gone.

In other words, they'd just lost another Tampa Bay Lightning player.

Yanni steps back in horror.

"First Nikita Nesterov, now Jason Garrison..." Libor whispers.

Taylor hugs onto Coburn, who has recovered from his dizziness and has his head bowed. But after a few minutes, he snaps his head up and spins to the young Bolt, looking him dead in the eyes.

"Garry won't be forgotten, avenge him! Find and save the others and no matter what those two blockheads from Montreal tell you, know that you are doing your best. You can't always save them all..." He dips his head and then vanishes into the air.

Yanni wipes his eyes and then turns to the stunned others. "Let's...get out of here guys! It's time to move on, no matter what. Nesty and Garry won't die in vain, we still got to get the others and we'll make Coburn proud...and Stammer! We'll get those Habs back by the one way we know how, not by cheating, by winning. We'll save the others and end this and get the victory and if I have to drop the gloves with Gally so be it!"

They trudge back to the entrance, passing a flattened tent along the way. They can see the swing broke in pieces, but parts of it sticking up in their vision.

The horror creeps in as they spot the lifeless body of Jason Garrison in the rubble. How could a person do this to another? From now on they'd have to mindful of time and Gallagher and Shaw's distractions.

Yanni turns away, unable to look anymore.

As soon as they reach the entrance and exit to the fairgrounds, the phone goes off. Yanni heaves a sigh and pulls it out. "This...is gonna be good." He reads the new message to the others:

Precious Baby Bolts,

Or maybe I should call you losers now! Ha-ha! You lost Jason Garrison!! I WIN!! I WIN!! Team Montreal: 2! Okay, I know you guys are all cry like little babies, when their mommy or daddy takes away their favorite toy! Aw, man up guys, loses happen!

Maybe you'll just need a little Roman influence...some time at the Colosseum might do you all well - especially you, Brettulet. Oh, that's right, don't think I'm letting that nickname go anytime soon.

Later losers!

And with that the seven Baby Bolts teleport to Rome, leaving Florida, the Fairgrounds and the miserable tragic death of Jason Garrison behind.