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Here, take this.

What are you guys doing down here?

We're facing this thing together, sis.

SINISTER GROWLING

MENACING SNARL

Careful, Bert.

It's close.

My Bert scent's officially in overdrive.

Let us hope that the hunters have not become the hunted.

Anything? Green.

No spooky activity.

Er, Xen...

SINISTER GROWL

Time to trap, Bert!

LOUD PIERCING SHRIEK

We got it! Spooky in the bag.

What are you nerds doing?

Spooky capture practice.

Spooky being our word for any supernatural,

paranormal or abnormal creepy creatures

of an unexplained variety. Wow.

What an effort for something that's, you know, completely made-up.

And dinner's ready.

Mmm, lime. Yum!

Did you call them in, Bill? They were busy.

Soz, Mum. Quick trip to slime town.

Fun fact. Slime in nature is called mucus.

OK, let's save the mucus chat for after dinner, yeah?

Xena, are your parents cool with you being over for dinner again?

This is the third night this week.

Soz, my bad. Watch it!

Dad, I'll be my room.

DOOR CLOSES

Give it time, honey. She treasures that mug, yes?

It was her mum's.

It's very special to her.

I assumed living with a similar-aged human would be fun.

I was wrong.

Patience.

I'm 175% committed to being an A-plus little brother.

I commend your optimism, Bert.

Bert! You've eaten all our popcorn.

I didn't chow it, I promise.

LOW GROWL

Did you hear that?

Something spooky? Bert scent...

..tingles. BEEPING

The spooky detector!

It's at orange, Bert.

It's never been orange.

It's only ever been green. You know what this means?

There's contact!

We've actually got a real spooky.

Yes!

CACKLING

That's new.

Hey, Billie. So stoked to see you this weekend.

Say hi, everybody.

Hi!

This sleepover's going to be sick. We miss you!

KNOCKING Yeah?

How was dinner, my wolf?

A-woo! A-woo!

A-woooo!

A-woooo!

I can't wait to go home for the sleepover.

This is home now, Wolfie.

Maybe we push pause on the city trip. What?!

You promised. True.

But you said that you were going to make an effort.

I am.

Sorta.

Kinda.

URGENT BEEPING

Bert!

High alert.

It's in here.

FOOTSTEPS

CACKLING

THEY SCREAM

DISTANT COMMOTION

Ow! Watch out, Bert!

Ow! Where is it?!

Make an effort.

It's totally invisible!

It's just you. Should I even ask?

It's a spooky. For real this time.

OK. Where? Erm...

..we don't know. It's invisible.

How convenient.

Show her, Xen.

It's back at green.

It's gone.

Course it has. Keep quiet, nerds.

Chin up, Xen. We still got our first spooky!

Boomshaka!

OWL HOOTS

Hey, Billie. So stoked to see you this weekend.

Say hi, everybody. Hi!

This sleepover's going to be sick. We miss you!

GROWL

LOW GROWL

GROWL

Ow!

Tents are for outside, yeah?

Castle Fordward's an inside tent.

And he's got a name for it. OK.

Look, I'm just, well...

Since Dad left, I like to make sure Mum's safe.

You never know what kind of things are out in the world.

Strange, spooky stuff and things.

Right. So, like a son in shining armour.

Nice. I wish I thought of that.

It's yours. Keep it.

PS, I get the whole keep-watch thing.

I used to sleep at the bottom of Mum's bed, right till the end.

If you ever need anything, I'm here for you, Bebe.

If I'm low on slime, I'll reach out. And don't call me Bebe again.

Soz. Night...Billie. Night, slimeball.

CACKLING

Today, we focus on identifying

last night's landmark spooky encounter. I'm with you, Xen.

But this is Billie's third week at school and she's made zero friends.

And that's your business how?

Didn't see you there!

Activate mega-quiet mode.

Activision initiated.

Billie has one bud.

Who? She has you.

I don't count. I'm only ten.

Billie's cool.

She needs cool buds.

Oh, I see.

High-status people.

Who's the coolest person we know?

Robina. She's the school cap.

One day, she'll be the prime minister.

Hey, Robina! Over here!

Bert. Billie, is it?

Belated welcome to my school.

I'm Robina and this is Derek.

Sports cap. Plays a lot of sports.

Yay for you.

Can I just say, I love your kicks.

Thanks. I like your...clipboard.

Erm, I'd love to stay and chat, but so much to do.

Take my job of school cap super seriously.

Kinda get that vibe.

Derek, let's bounce. Like a ball. Cos balls bounce.

Littering is so disappointing.

Derek, put it in the bin, will you?

Thanks, Bert. So great you did that. Huh?

SPOOKY CHUCKLING

Bert, more popcorn peculiarity.

SPOOKY CHUCKLING

GROWLING

Derek for the win.

And did you hear that growl?

SINISTER CHUCKLING

Hmmm...yah!

Robina, look out!

O-M-G.

Wow. Bold move, new girl.

Not cool, new girl. Not cool at all.

So, what? I ran over there, got the sanger and threw it at you?

Get a grip!

Come on, guys, let's hug it out.

Billie, SVP students are team players.

I'm a team player, Derek's a team player.

Even Backpack Jess is a team player.

For the good of my fellow students, I will have to report this.

But I do hope that our future interactions can be more positive.

This is so unfair - I didn't even do it

and that fake school captain dobbed to the principal.

We've been here almost a month.

I'm at a loss, I really am.

I'm trying, OK?

I think we should cancel the sleepover,

focus on what's in front of you instead of what's behind. Wow.

Put that on a T-shirt, Ed.

If I did, would you try harder?

A-wooo...

Not funny.

Sis needs cheering up. Let's go.

BEEP!

Don't you knock?

I know you didn't sandwich Robina. Duh.

So, who did? A spooky did it.

Wow, that'll totally get me off the hook with Dad.

Excellent! Problem solved.

Sarcasm alert, Xen.

Look, I know you didn't believe in spookies and

you think Sunny Valley sucks limes,

but there's one place that rocks to the max.

Bowl-O-Rama 5000!

A bowling alley? You'll love it, I promise. Except I won't.

I was just trying to help.

I don't need to help from a little baby who sleeps in a tent

outside his mum's room.

It's a fort.

Bert.

Bert!

Get...out!

I hope you can repair this, for your sake and for Billie's.

It wasn't us.

Put...it...down.

It was an accident, Bill.

And Bert's sorry.

It's important the two of you patch this up. Can I make a suggestion?

What if you took up these two on their bowling invitation?

After what they did? No way.

It would take a lot of effort, wouldn't it?

I go bowling, sleepover's on.

HE SIGHS

Yes!

Bowl-O-Rama 5000!

Rad, right? There's no-one here.

All right!

Tour time!

Vintage games.

I've got top score for Medieval Space Farmer IV.

That's the outback. Not the OUTBACK outback - outback of the pins.

Best party pies in town.

Slushies, ice-cold.

And last but not least,

John and Jon!

Who's the noob?

Billie - basically my new sis.

The Johns are our bosses.

You're ten. Is that even legal?

Due to "the law", we have to deny being their bosses,

but if they polish bowling balls for a 6% slushy discount.

Slash 5% bowling discount.

Slash unlimited looks at the finest collection of

ultra-rare action figures of the world...

Then that's on them.

40-year-old doll collectors, cool. I'm getting shoes.

They're not dolls, they're action figures.

Oi, Bert, when did you last top up the popcorn machine? Yesterday?

Empty popcorn machine says otherwise.

John, please make a note that Bert is not fulfilling his duties.

Roger that. Reducing Bert's bowling discount to 4%.

Ooh! Ouchie.

I totally topped up the popcorn machine.

Do you think perhaps the spooky could have followed us here?

But why? Spookies again? Great.

Some things you got to trust in your bum, you know?

Yeah, real science there.

There's popcorn in my slushy.

CHOMP!

HEE-HEE! What are you doing?

And he's dancing. OK.

Something's got my arm!

Maybe it's an imaginary spooky.

It's here! My arm...

It's controlling you?

You wouldn't...

HEE-HEE!

Good old slushy smash.

Me and Xen do it all the time.

Right, Xen?

See? No sleepover's worth...this.

Sis, wait!

Not your sis. Not now, not ever.

BZZT!

What's it doing now?

I would say creating chaos.

Seriously, I'm out of here.

Billie...!

Argh!

HA-HA!

Ha!

What is that? That's the Spooky!

We might need some help!

WHISTLE!

What's he doing here?

Getting in front of us.

Grrragh!

Argh!

Aaaaah!

What just happened?

Bert, you OK?

We tried to tell you, Billie.

Our first real-life spooky! Intense!

Did you see the teeth on that spooky?

The kids I get, but aren't you too old for this?

We got a spooky to catch. You coming?

Are you for real?

Ugh, could today get any weirder?

I guess this answers my question!

The sign won't hold, we need to retreat!

That way.

Three, two, one - run!

Bert, what are you doing?!

I think we need this!

What is this place?

I don't know, but if it follows us, we're trapped.

SNIFF-SNIFF!

Bert, your plan?

We feed it. It loves popcorn.

SNIFF-SNIFF!

If only we had access to our usual trap-making equipment.

Erm, guys...?

Get ready, it's coming.

Xena, popcorn.

CHOMP-CHOMP!

It's eating it!

Derek, now! Argh!

Shoot it into the trap!

Argh!

It's going for it!

Fun fact - we just caught our first real spooky.

It's kind of cute.

Woo!

We were right, Xen!

So, what now?

We show this dude to everyone...

Bert, think about what would happen

if grown-ups knew that spookies were real.

There'd be labs and tests and government agencies.

Good point, it wouldn't end well.

For us or the spookies.

Fine. Cone of silence?

Trust no-one.

Except each other.

Hold on to your bums.

I just got the bestest, gold-certified idea ever!

Welcome to Spooky HQ!

We're going to need a place to store all our spookies, right?

All of them? You mean one.

And that...thing could have infinite explanations.

Like?

Right now, no idea.

So, you want to join the Spooky Crew?

Please tell me you don't call yourselves that.

Just thought of it now.

Your calm under pressure is like kicking a match-winning goal.

Agreed. I foresee you being a valuable asset to our trio.

All of those in favour of Billie joining the Spooky Crew,

say boom-shaka!

To be clear, you're all delusional and need someone to keep it real.

PS, not saying boom-shaka.

Just did.

Boom-shaka!

KNOCK ON DOOR

Come in.

Today was crayfish, even for me.

Never thought I'd say it, but Sunny Valley's full of surprises.

And we get to investigate together, baby.

Erm, I mean, Billie.

And I'm sorry the spooky broke your mug.

Sorry for calling you a little baby that sleeps in a tent.

Water off a duck's bum.

You doing homework?

No, writing up what happened today.

I'm calling him Chaos. Seems appropriate.

You started a file?

Like a Spooky File? No. Just some notes.

But we can call it the Spooky File,

and you can be in charge of the Spooky File...!

Bert, stop.

One file of one yet-to-be-explained thing.

For now.

But who knows what else is out there?

CLUCK-CLUCK!

BUKAW!