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Ghost Smasher deck complete!

Hey, Billie, check it! Made you this...

It's a good luck Ghost Smasher card from the stand thingy today.

Did Bill tell you she won all the science awards at our old school?

They used to call her "Billie the science book slayer".

Nobody called me that.

Then I definitely nailed your superpower!

95 Superpower Points!

Logic? Cool!

And yours is baking! Whoa!

How many of those did you make?

Most of the class, plus you!

Your superpower's cuddles - 92

Superpower Points for you, Mama.

JANE GROWLS What about you, Bertie?

What's your superpower?

ARCADE MUSIC PLAYS

Enthusiasm.

Nailed it!

Good morning, five-sixes.

Start the day with a rhyme, glad you're here...

..on time!

Great. So who's ready to get their STEM on?

Boring!

Sh! CLASS GASP AND GIGGLE

Thanks, Caleb. Write that out for me 100 times by end of today.

ARCADE MUSIC PLAYS

Jess, have you fed Waffles this morning?

WAFFLES CLUCKS Yes! And topped up his water.

Right, so...

..Eggvention!

Time to test those engineering skills we've been practising...

..this term...

CLASS GIGGLES I'll clean that up later.

Stinky shoe, teams of TWO!

First round, everyone participates...

..but only two teams will go through to the final round

where the winners get...

Can I have your attention?

Maximise crack prevention

Or suspension

HORN BLARES

OK, listen up - the winner gets FREE unlimited bowling

at Bowl-O-Rama 5000.

So, get rolling down to Bowl-O-Rama 5000. Tell. Your. Friends!

BEATBOXING

HORN BLARES CLASS APPLAUD

OK, partner, with my enthusiasm

and your fun fact memory superpower,

..we'll win for sure. ARCADE MUSIC PLAYS

Impressive design... Alas, Backpack Jess and I teamed up weeks ago.

Say what? I feel the competitive urge and you lack focus.

You talk nonstop.

I can be quiet, like that time in the library,

when you told me to be quiet.

And then you were ejected from the library for not being quiet.

Oh, yeah - I do talk a bunch.

This is business, Bert.

Backpack Jess!

ARCADE MUSIC PLAYS

Team up time! With my enthusiasm and your physicalness...

ARCADE MUSIC PLAYS Sorry, bro, I'm already partnered.

Robina, oh... Smart choice.

This never happened.

On your lonesome, Billie?

I don't think that's allowed. Whatever.

She doesn't even need a partner, she's a STEM wizard!

Bert!

Maybe next year, the STEM queens can unite? Girl power!

Jack, come help.

You know, with my enthusiasm and your... Dude, we're a team.

50/50 on the bowling.

Bowling's yours.

I just want to beat her.

Brace yourself for TRIUMPH.

I knew we would make an excellent team,

so, I took the liberty of preparing a few snacks.

WHOOSH!

WAFFLES CLUCKS

Pumpkin seed, deliciously nutritious.

Oh.

Jess, get off the table!

Ooh, boss lady!

Jess, focus.

Righto, round one! Build a capsule from this...

Jess, horses, hold them.

The two teams to drop their eggs without smashing it

will go through to the finals.

Ticktock, start the clock.

Derek, twine me.

Is this what clouds feel like?

Backpack Jess, focus.

Dude! Eyes on the prize!

Capsules upfront!

EGGS CRACK CLASS GROAN

Maybe a bit too brave, Zadie. Next!

Secure. Ready for the egg.

Fine. I'll do it myself.

WHOOSH!

WAFFLES CLUCKS

How does this work again?

I forget where to put this.

CLASS GASP

Whoa.

Xena, Jess, you're out. Next.

Eyes, egg, now!

Cheese and brine, so far, you're in the fine...

...nals. Next!

CLASS APPLAUD Yasss, Queen.

Robina and Derek, Bert and Billie,

you'll battle it out in the finals after lunch.

Another nit outbreak? Nurse, now.

Xen never stuffs up, unless it's a stuffing up competition.

Don't come near me with those nits.

What nits? The ones Miss Norris sent you to the nurse for?

I can't recall that.

How does this open?

Are you OK? Maybe she's dehydrated?

XENA GROANS

This is more than a lack of H2O, dude. I smell a spooky!

Or a million other logical possibilities.

Low blood sugar, iron deficiency, not enough sleep...

I've just never seen Xen like this.

Is the spooky detector here?

Hmm.

I don't know. I can't remember.

Xen remembers everything!

My Bertstinct's pinging.

You were going to keep it in your locker, just in case.

Was I? Where...is my locker?

BERT SIGHS I'll draw you a map.

Here.

Chipotle! We need a super-mega investigation, now-o'clock!

Sure, whatever. After the finals.

Nope, spooky can't wait.

Fine, you do you, I'll practise solo.

To win, we must respect the egg.

To respect the egg, we must be the egg.

Be the egg, Derek.

Backpack Jess, it's lunchtime.

You're not allowed in here. Am so, you two are.

That's because I'm school cap, and Derek's my plus-one.

Why aren't you outside?

Need my backpack. You mean the thing on your back?

Ah, yeah... SHE GIGGLES

CAGE CLANGS WAFFLES CLUCKS

It's getting crowded in here. Derek, let's bounce.

Like a security guard, because they're also known as "bouncers".

Come with us, Waffles. Get some fresh air.

WHOOSH!

Coming?

Stop, we're going to get in so much trouble!

Millie!

Stop!

Millie!

You'll get us in trouble!

The horror, the horror... Where is it? Don't!

Millie!

Hey, Bill, you've got to come and check this out.

Bert, please, I get that you're more into spookies than science,

but I really need to win Eggvention.

Why?

Because it's my thing, OK?

I know I haven't made much effort to

make friends since I got here, but...

You want people to know you rock STEM?

Maybe.

We'll make it happen, I promise.

Just let me give you three spooky points. Fine! One?

Some kids are being kooky today.

Kids are always kooky, dude. Two?

What about the maximum scratch?

Nits? That's what they do. Three?

My Bertstinct. Tell me that doesn't equal spooky.

That doesn't equal spooky.

OFF-Yo!

Boom! In your face, Derek.

You see that? D-train's a handball Wizard!

He's Mikey Mahaki-level good!

OK, I'll admit, that is weird.

What's going on, D-train?

Look!

Xena and Backpack Jess were scratching too!

Derek, where did you go after class?

Um...practice with 'Bins,

and then I started scratching, and Miss Norris sent me to the nurse.

The nurse is biting the kids!

They were scratching pre-nurse, dude, she's a person, not a spooky.

What if she was in disguise?

What if she was pulling kids

into her office to pull their brains out of their bums?

A - gross. And B,

you can't accuse people of brain theft with no proof.

Then we'd better get some!

Nurse?

Are you in here?

Nurse?

Oh! Hi, kids, nit check? Up you hop! Thanks, Nurse Jay.

Let me just get my nit comb. Here it is.

Lovely. HAMMER TAPS

No nits, no nits, all clear.

Hmm, time for my cheese toastie.

She's been bitten too!

Wow. OK, so what came first?

Chicken or the egg?

WAFFLES CLUCKS

It's Waffles, the cheeky chuck! It's gotta be!

So, the class pet is biting kids,

making them weird and itchy because...?

Waffles is a spooky!

Waffles is a chicken!

Waffles is being possessed by a spooky.

Say you're right - you're not, but let's just say you are - why?

I don't know, why do beavers build dams?

To create beaver lodges to protect them from predators. Bad example!

Your theory's got holes, and we've got Eggvention to win.

But, if I'm right and Waffles makes the whole school go kooky,

that's bad. Bert please!

I'm not missing my one chance to prove myself

to chase a chicken!

But, if you want to break your promise...

BERT GROANS

Now, what was I here for?

Brain food...

I'm supposed to be looking for something...

Fog...clearing.

Spooky detector - that's it!

DEVICE HUMS

Fun fact - Xena's back!

Come on, where are you, Waffles?

Seriously. They're just stairs!

STUDENTS LAUGH

All right kiddos, we've got a doozy of a challenge for our two teams -

the tower of terror!

You lot have got to build the tallest tower with...

CLASS GROAN

Tower's got to hold one egg. Break the egg you're done like dessert.

DRUMMING

Jess, what's got into you today?

Put that down and go sit over there, please.

Maybe you can focus more there.

CLASS MURMUR

You've got ten minutes - tallest tower wins!

All right kiddos, don't break an egg...

Break a leg! CLASS CHEERING

Jess, I am very disappointed in you

- this is the final warning! WHOOSH!

WAFFLES CLUCKS

DEVICE BEEPS

BEEPING INTENSIFIES Getting warmer...

Looking good, Billie!

Bert, help!

You know what? I got this!

Yeah, I might just stand over here and not touch anything!

CLASS GROAN

Intense.

Oh, Xena, you're a little bit late!

DEVICE BEEPS Never mind!

Go, Billie! You can win, Robina!

BERT CLUCKS CLASS GIGGLE

Waffles?

Chicken boy, focus or I'll puck you!

I'm multitasking!

You cannot. Fact.

I lay, you tape

Woo! Come on Billie, you can do it!

Go, Team Robina!

DEVICE BEEPS

Waffles isn't a spooky?

BEEPING INTENSIFIES

Backpack Jess?

Backpack Jess, come with me, if that's even your real name...

What the...?

Oh, you kids can't... OK, then... Never mind...

This is not personal, quite the contrary.

spending time with you today was far more entertaining than anticipated.

Pleasantries aside, we KNOW it's you.

We have EVIDENCE!

Huh? What are you up to?

Argh light! Are you being possessed by a spooky?

Are you under the employment of a spooky?

Are you a spooky?

JESS GIGGLES

XENA GROWLS

XENA SIGHS

That can't be right.

DEVICE BEEPS AND WHIRS

Backpack Jess...

..where is your backpack?

I don't know.

CHEERING

Come on! Do it, Bert! Do it!

Go on, Billie!

Go, Billie!

CLASS GROAN

Oo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-oh...

Yes! CLASS SIGH

Oo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-oh...

Oh! Ooh.

Come on, Billie, you can do this!

Argh!

Time's nearly up!

Let's just chuck it up. You CANNOT do that!

Why not?

Gravity! How don't you know that?

Sis, you've been bitten.

Oh, no.

No, no, no, no, no, this can't be happening.

Robina can't win! STEM is my thing, Bert.

Come on, Robina! You got this, Robina!

Aw, pressure's too much? I get it.

Game. Set. Match.

I don't know how to win!

Don't worry, sis. I got you.

Come on, Bert! Go, Bert!

SPOOKY CROAKS

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Oh-h-h-h-h!

YES!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

XENA SIGHS

Sorry, Bill, I really wanted to help you show everyone your STEM skills.

I know. It's fine.

Seems this Spooky's power was taking away OUR superpowers. Say what?

Like Bert's cards. Billie - logic.

Derek - physicalness.

Me - remembering.

When we got stung, we lost them. Kind of fogged your brains up.

Indeed. It appears my serendipitous brain food discovery

suggests that the effects are entirely reversible.

OFF-Millie, not the egg!

We should get them all some brain food. Put them down!

You ROCKED today, Xen! Thank you!

It did feel rather radical to rock.

I better...

Yeah, we'll get whatever that thing is back to HQ.

See you, then.

We did it, amaze! All you, Bins!

Two in a row. Yo!

What was up with you today?

Um, ran 12 Ks before school without my orthotics. You know.

CLUCKING OFF-SCREEN

Even when they lose they're happy. Weird.

Anyway, um, got to hit the track.

Sesh with my sprint coach. Congrats, us!

Wait, when are we going to use our...

..voucher?

What do we call this thing?

It's a brain that fires spit balls.

Brain Fogger!

Oh, nice.

We should probably get Backpack Jess' backpack back to Backpack Jess.

Backpack Jess is just Jess without her backpack.

Actually, Backpack Jess is far more than just her backpack.

But I'm sure she misses it nonetheless.

Just like Billie's still a STEM champ,

even if she didn't win Eggvention.

True! Guys!

You don't need to say all that.

She's gritty, organised,

excellent music taste... OK, stop!

I know I'm more than just my science skills.

Just didn't feel like it today.

But thanks, I guess. You're good eggs.

CRASH!

You know, Bert, I've been thinking about that beaver thing you said.

Why do wild animals do what they do?

Spooky is what Spooky does. Not quite science.

But do the Spookies want something?

Are they only in Sunny Valley?

And why us? Those questions aside,

I must say, Chaos has taken rather well to their new home.

Yeah! Like, Chaos is basically eating from my hand.

See...

ARGH!

I said "basically".

We might have these Spookies under control,

but what else is out there?

They may be bigger...stronger...

..scarier?

MENACING LAUGHTER