Chapter 10 The Show
At the end of Vidcon, The Squads were outside of a restaurant having a well deserved breakfast. All of them felt really drained and exhausted from the week they had with the panels, meetups, and everything else.
"Phew this was a long week guys I'm beat," Josh said.
"Me too, today is the last day and we'll be going home tomorrow," Erick stated as he took a bite from the omlet he had.
"I can't wait to get home, relax and read a good book. I've got Gamer Girl waiting for me at home," Jane said, knowing what she'll read first.
"I'm hoping to finish some games I'm playing right now," Jake said.
"I just wanna watch anime," Lila stated.
"I know that my siblings are going to storm me with a whole load of questions when I get back home," Jenny explained.
"Yeah, knowing them I have a feeling they will do that, I know my parents will have questions for me," Ed stated.
"Well I'm just going to be happy to get back home and practice some more magic with Apollo," Iris explained happily.
"Iris don't you have a better way to relax?" Erick asked.
"Hey we all relax in our own ways, right Hannah?" Iris asked.
The group looked to Hannah; however, they saw that she wasn't paying attention to what they were saying. Instead she looked even more tired than before, to the point that she almost fell asleep in her pancakes. However, Erick pulled them away before Hannah's face became sticky with syrup. Hannah passed out on the table, so Jenny took her hoodie from around her waist and gave it to Jake. He then folded it up into a little pillow and put it under Hannah's head.
"Um, is she alright? She looks like me when I'm working on a big video, and let me tell you I stay up for almost a full week," Josh explained letting them know how hard he works on his videos.
"Wow, but I don't know. She's been like this for a while now. Last night I saw her walking with a start when I got up to go to the bathroom. She stayed up the whole night afterwards. I didn't know what to do so I offered her one of the books I brought with us. I thought it could help her relax and go back to sleep," Jane explained.
"Well it looks like she stayed up the whole night," Jake commented.
"I wonder what's going on, did she have another bad dream again?" Iris asked.
"Possibly, but why? She's been like this for weeks and it's very strange that this is happening all of a sudden," Jane stated.
'Hmm strange, why would Hannah have bad dreams all the time so suddenly? I hope whatever it is we can figure it out and help her,' Jake thought to himself.
Later, The Squads was heading to an art center that they had gotten tickets for. Jake was carrying Hannah on his back as she was still sleeping, while she felt heavy Jake didn't complain.
"AHHH! NO NO NO!" Hannah screamed as she suddenly jolted away and fell out of Jake's arms and hit the back of her head on the sidewalk.
"Wow! Hannah! Are you alright?!" Jake asked, worried about Hannah.
"Ugh I-I think so," Hannah said as she rubbed the back of her head.
"What was that another bad dream?" Josh asked as he and Lila helped Hannah up.
"Ugh I don't know, it was like some kind of flashback, or a memory?" Hannah explained, confused.
"Well try to explain it to us, maybe if we could figure out what it was about we could try to help you out," Iris explained.
"Yeah let's walk and talk as I want to see the art ASAP," Lila explained.
Everyone agreed and they began walking as Hannah explained her dream and what it was about. In her dream she once again woke up in the same dark hallway as she was in at the beginning of Vidcon. She then sat on the ground not wanting to go anywhere after the last time she was there. "Hehe well got nothing better to do here so I might as well just sit here," Hannah said to herself. However that was until she felt something wrap around her; she looked in a panic and saw red strings tying around her. The strings tightened around her and pulled her towards a door in front of her. When she slammed into the door the strings disappeared and she was left dazed.
"Ugh that hurt," Hannah cried out. She then got up and tried to let go of the door handle, but her hand seemed to have been glued to the handle. "W-What the heck!" Hannah screamed as she yanked on the door handle. However her hand then opened the door on its own and when it opened she saw the same two men she saw in her dream back at the beginning of Vidcon.
"Oh hey man, what took you so long?" one of the men asked while turning to Hannah.
Hannah didn't know what to say or do, that was till her amulet glowed and an image of a man who looked like he was around her age.
"Sorry Jack Rainbow Squad Training and all, I'm beat after all of it, hey once you two are done you wanna grab a bite to eat?" the man asked.
"Sure I'm starving, what should we have?" the other man asked.
"Well John on my latest trip to earth I learned about this food they have called pizza. We should go there and try it, it sounded very good," the man explained.
Hannah stood there in shock as she watched the three talk and mess around like good old friends.
"Hehe, well look at this," a voice said from behind Hannah.
She looked back and saw that it was Craindre behind her in a more neutral looking figure.
"Well isn't this interesting, the last owner seems to have made a grave mistake in the past, and it led to terrible things happening to these two," Craindre as it pointed to the man who also wore the amulet.
Hannah looked at him again; she wondered what Craindre meant by it. However she couldn't help but feel like he looked very familiar to her, as if she had seen his face somewhere before. "W-What are you talking about?! Who are they?! And what does this have to do with-?!" Hannah asked and looked back to Craindre but saw that it had disappeared. She looked back and saw that the three men were all looking at her now. The man with the amulet looked at her with a horrified look on his face, while the other two just smirked.
"Oh dear, how rude of me to not have noticed you earlier," Jack said as his current appearance melted away and he took on the appearance of a jester.
"Yes my deepest apologies my dear, but you're just in time for us to show you our latest spell," John said as his current appearance also melted away and he looked more like a cowboy from the wild west.
The two brothers then grabbed each other's hands and combined their powers together.
"Um N-No thanks I was just on my way out so I'll-," Hannah was saying as she backed away but was stopped by a hand resting on her shoulder. She looked back and saw the third guy with the amulet; he started to look much older now and Hannah could see that he had regret in his eyes.
"Hey Kid sorry you have to clean up the mess I made due to my mistakes, I'm really sorry about this, but please do me a favor and... don't make the same mistake I did," the man explained.
Hannah turned in time to see the two blasted a projectile at her.
Back in the present Hannah was finishing up her explanation, "And that's when I woke up from all of it," Hannah explained.
"Wow! Okay, that was intense," Erick said.
"But what did it all mean?" Jenny asked.
"I don't know," Hannah said.
"I think I know what it means," Iris stated.
"What? Iris what does it mean?!" Hannah asked, scared and confused.
"It was a flashback of one of the previous owners' memories. Apollo explained that the amulets will sometimes share memories of the past, but I don't know the reason why they do that," Iris explained.
"Wait what?! Really? Well when does it stop?!" Hannah asked scared and worried about when it would stop.
"I don't know, I'll ask Apollo when we get home alright?" Iris asked.
"Okay thanks Iris, I hope I can stop it cause I can't sleep like this," Hannah explained.
"I know I know, I'll help as much as I can so don't worry," Iris said reassuring Hannah.
Hannah smiled and continued on with her friends to the art studio to see what they had in store.
Meanwhile in the shadow realm, Jack was in his room hanging from the strings he had up on the roof. He was laying down while also playing with the puppet of Hannah that he made.
"Sigh... Such a waste that such power would go to such a puny child, but I'm also shocked that she's connected to him," Jack said to himself as he hung the strings. Just then he heard the door to his room open up and when Jack looked he saw Adrienne coming in.
"HEY JACK WHERE ARE YOU!" Adrienne called out.
"I'm up here my Queen! Don't bother coming up cause I'm coming down!" Jack called out and then jumped down.
"Oh there you are! I want to ask you and John when you two go to earth and destroy the Rainbow Squads?" Adrienne asked aggressively.
"Oh my dearly beloved Queen we will soon, but we'd like to do some... Observing them, do you think you could create a monster that they could fight and allow me and my brother to gather data on them?" Jack asked.
"Hmm why do you need data on them?" Adrienne asked.
"Oh simple, so we can gain the upper hand on them," Jack explained.
"Hmm, fine I will do that for you two," Adrienne said and left to go create a simple monster.
"Hehe oh this will be exciting to watch! I can't wait to learn more about the Rainbow Squads and their ways of fighting. This will be especially useful for my puppets! Oh how I can't wait to use them again!" Jack exclaimed excitedly.
Jack left his room to go tell his brother so they could observe it together.
Back on Earth, The Squads had just gotten out of the art studio and it was about time for them to go to a concert that was being put on.
"Man, I can't wait to hear some good music!" Erick exclaimed.
"Me too! I heard that the DownTown Shout is playing," Ed explained.
"Aww Yeah! I love them, they are so good!" Erick exclaimed, even more excited than before.
The lights in the theater then dimmed and The Squads all got ready to watch the show. However when the curtains were drawn they were shocked to see not just the band there but also some Shadow monster. The monster did not look like any animal; it was on all fours with tentacles that were holding on to the band members. The Band members were all trying to get out of the Shadows' tentacles. The audience were all confused by this as Downtown Shout often did some kind of stunt before a show, but there was always a warning about it first.
"Is this part of the show?" someone in the audience asked.
"I don't know," someone else replied.
"Um guys I think you all should go and transform; that's not part of the show it's an actual shadow! But It wasn't made by a human, it was made with clay?" Iris whispered, confused.
"Um clay? Why is that?" Josh asked equally as confused.
"I don't know but you all just take it easy and make sure no one gets hurt," Iris explained.
The others all nodded and ran out of there as fast as they could to transform in private. Meanwhile up in the bleachers Jack and John had some popcorn and opera glasses to allow them to watch the show.
"Oh my, isn't this exciting dear brother of mine?" Jack asked as he reached into the bag of popcorn and took out a handful.
"Yes it will be, and a great idea for asking Adrienne to use a clay monster, their weaker yes, but oh will they be useful to make a good observation for the Rainbow Squads fighting. I also know that it is important for when your puppets are ready," John explained.
"Yes it will be, oh I can't wait! This is so exciting!" Jack exclaimed as he watched.
Then the Rainbow Squads all flew in on stage and when the audience saw them they began to cheer.
"Wow, I did not think that would happen," Josh whispered to Erick.
"Well we are a big deal back home, so it would make sense that people would cheer if they heard about us," Erick whispered back.
"Hey You evil monster! Let those men go right now! Or we'll make you sorry you crashed this show!" Hannah declared.
The monster however just screeched at them and went in for an attack. Jake used his shields to protect them and the audience from the attack.
"Ugh! Guys hurry and get the band mates out!" Jake exclaimed.
"Don't worry Green I got this!" Jane exclaimed and used her super speed to get the monster back.
When the shadow felt Jane on its back it scratched and tried to shake her off. "Wowow! Ahh!" Jane screamed as she almost lost her balance but grabbed onto one of its tentacles that was holding one of the band mates.
The shadow then turned around and tried to slam its body into the wall hoping that would get Jane off of it.
"Oh no you don't!" Ed screamed. He ran up to the shadow and jumped in between it and the wall. When the shadow tried to make contact with it, Ed used his strength to push it off; however, it wasn't enough and the shadow pushed harder.
"Ugh! Light Blue! Purple! Help!" Ed called out.
"Don't worry Orange we got you and White!" Lila exclaimed.
"Yeah no one messes with our friends and thinks they can get away with it!" Erick exclaimed.
Lila wrapped her hair and ribbons around the Shadow's legs and body and pulled it towards her. Erick then grew to a big enough size that he was able to help Lila pull it away from the wall.
Once it was far enough away from the wall Ed got on its back and helped Jane with freeing the band mates. When Jane managed to get one of them free he looked behind her and screamed. Jane looked and saw another tentacle, with a stinger coming at her.
Jane screamed and braced herself for the impact, but it never came. When she looked she saw Jake using his shields to protect both her and the band mate from it.
"Ugh! White you alright?" Jake asked.
"Yeah I am, thanks Green! Hey Yellow, Red, Dark blue, help us out here!" Jane called out to Josh and Hannah.
The two nodded and ran up to the shadow to help their teammates out. Josh first shot his gun on the ground which made a sticky substance that limited the monster's movements even further. Jenny shot her arrows at its tentacles causing them to become immobilized on its own body.
After making sure it couldn't move much, Josh, Jenny, and Hannah all jumped onto its back and helped their friends out. Josh used his gun to shoot its tentacles and set a band member free.
Hannah used her sword to slice a tentacle, up allowing another band member to get free. Ed used his super strength to rip off a tentacle freeing another band member. Jane reached to her earrings and pulled out two white fans, she opened them up revealing them to be as sharp as a knife. She quickly sliced through another tentacle allowing another band member to get free.
Soon the whole band was free and the Squads put them in Erick's hand as he let go of the shadow to put the band down safely. Erick then shrunk back to his original size, Lila let go of the shadow with her hair and ribbons, and the rest of the Squads all jumped down to the stage floor below. Once they were all off the Shadow they looked at it as it roared and tried to get free from the restraints that Jenny and Josh had put it in.
"Alright team, let's finish this once and for all!" Hannah exclaimed.
The rest of them all nodded and they got into the position to use Rainbow Collision.
"All together you guys!" Hannah screamed.
Then together the Rainbow Squads all screamed at once, "RAINBOW COLLISION!"
Then a blast of colors shot out and hit the Shadow. It screeched as its body made contact with the blast and it soon turned into black clay. Once the blast ended the clay crumbled away into dust before disappearing into nothing.
"Phew that was intense, but once again we saved the day!" Josh exclaimed.
"Yeah we did! High five guys!" Erick exclaimed as he raised his hand.
The Squads all joined in on the high five and cheered. They all then heard loud cheering and looked to see the audience was giving them a round of applause.
"Wow I was so caught up in the fight I almost forgot about them," Jake said.
"Yeah ladies and gentleman give a big round of applause for the ones who saved our lives! THE RAINBOW SQUADS!" Downtown Shout's leader announced.
The audience cheered even louder than before making the Rainbow Squads all smile with joy.
"Now that the nasty shadow thing isn't here anymore we're going to sing our number one song! And it's an honor to you Squads for saving me and my friends! Hit it guys!" Downtown Shouts leader exclaimed.
The other band mates all ran up to their instruments and the Squads decided to give them their space to play. "Guys we gotta go now," Hannah stated.
"Alright but let's be quick, their number one song is a banger!" Erick explained as he followed his friends as they ran off stage.
Later after the show, The Squads were out at a local park chatting about the current events. "Wowow! Okay that was awesome! I never thought the show would go like that!" Erick exclaimed, happy with what just happened.
"Yeah that was a lot of fun!" Jake exclaimed.
"But I'm just confused why Adrienne would use a clay Shadow; they aren't that strong and they are very easy to defeat," Iris explained.
"Well whatever her end game is, we'll stop her!" Josh explained.
"Yeah I know we can stop her, her father, and restore your kingdom Iris," Jenny stated.
"Thanks guys," Iris said while smiling at her friends.
"Oh I don't know how true that'll be for you Squads," the group heard a voice say.
They all then whipped around and saw a guy in a clown suit, and another guy in a cowboy outfit.
"AHH! CLOWN!" Jake screamed in fear as he fell over.
"Wow! Jake, are you OK?!" Hannah asked worriedly.
"Y-Yeah The guy in the clown costume just freaked me out as I have an intense fear of clowns," Jake explained.
"Oh you think I'm scary? Why thank you. I love your kind words," Jack said flattered, showing a crazed smile. Even with his upper face obscured by the mask Jake could just feel the clown's eyes borrowing into him.
"Um, that wasn't a compliment. Who are you two and what do you mean?!" Josh asked, scared of this guy's insanity.
"Oh nothing, just coming to tell you Squads that there is a much bigger war coming than the one you all are already fighting," John explained.
"Yes! And once it's here you all will fall to both me and my brother!" Jack exclaimed.
Hannah quickly examined the two of them again and she instantly recognized they were the same men from her dreams. "Hey I recognize them! They're the same ones from my dream!" Hannah screamed.
"Wait what?! They are!" Ed exclaimed.
"Oh you've dreamt of me and my brother? How interesting. What did you dream about? Did you see how my glorious face looked before that tragic accident?" Jack asked.
"W-What are you talking about? What accident?" Hannah asked, confused.
"Oh so you still don't know yet, but whatever. Me and my brother have to go now, but remember Squads, a war is coming and we'll be the ones to take you all down!" Jack exclaimed physically as he and his brother left.
"Wait no! Ugh I had some questions for that freak and his brother!" Jane exclaimed angrily.
"Oh this isn't good!" Jenny exclaimed, concerned.
"Yeah, what were those two talking about?" Lila asked.
"I-I don't know but what they were saying was pretty evil!" Josh exclaimed as he started hyperventilating.
"Yeah it was and I'm worried about this "war" they were talking about. Earth already has enough wars under its belt. It doesn't need another one," Ed explained.
"Well whatever they were talking about, we'll be ready for them," Hannah explained sternly.
"Are you sure we'll be ready for them?" Iris asked worriedly.
"Yeah we will be, cause we're the Rainbow Squads, and we're not going to let anyone hurt our home and our families!" Hannah declared.
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