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I think you might be a tad overpacked for two nights, Xena.

Oh, dear Ed, so delightfully naive.

HE CATCHES HIS BREATH

You are going to have so much fun, you'll be back before you know it.

Plus, you've got your special tape with you, in case you need it.

But what if you need me while I'm away?

Oh, I promise I'll look out for your mum, Bert.

Just like Billie's going to look out for you.

Billie the baby-sitter, at your service.

Fun fact - the three of us are much more likely

to meet an unfortunate end in the woods

than your parents are in the safety of their home.

Uh...

Shall we board?

Now, to consult my trusty planner.

Bus boarded, premium seats selected.

An excellent start!

Billie, I'd recommend sitting upwind

if you have sensitive mirror neurons like Bert.

She means I sympathy spew.

Xena gets motion sickness.

If she voms, I do too.

A fun fact that we learned on the Ferris wheel

at the Sunny Valley Show. Remember, Bert?

THEY RETCH

Hello, Sunny Valley Primary.

Before we head off, I just want to say,

I know that camp can be a teeny bit scary sometimes.

So if you need anything while we're away,

as your school cap and friend, I am SO here for you. SVP for life!

I'm so glad you decided to join me on the camp committee, Derek.

It's kind of hard to find time to hang.

I'm pumped, Bins. We're going to be a camp committee dream team.

Try this one, Bert.

A fashion parade is a fun distraction from nervousness.

XENA AND BILLIE GIGGLE

This is going to be the best camp ever.

UPLIFTING MUSIC

RECORD SCRATCH

This is NOT what I was expecting.

Is this what fresh air's meant to smell like?

Hey, hey, hey.

We have a lake, we have tranquillity...

We also have limited time till sundown,

so let's get those tents set up!

Action Jackson!

ALL, Make it happen.

This spot will allow sunburn avoidance

whilst also providing maximum ventilation.

Very pleasing.

Hmm? What?

Billie...

..you're sticking with us, right?

I guess this spot stinks as much as anywhere else.

GUTTURAL ANIMAL NOISES

Having escaped from its clutches, he didn't look back.

He didn't want to know what was chasing him.

He kept running until the sound of footsteps stopped.

And it was only when he made it to the middle of the field,

that he realised Scarecrow was gone!

Because the field was empty and a scarecrow was no longer required?

No! Because it had come to life!

Because of the curse...

..from the witch with the hook hand.

Was NOBODY listening?

Derek?

All right, kiddlywinks, all your valuables need to be locked up

until we're back on the bus.

Wallets, tablets, phones especially.

Red Rover!

Hand it over!

Uh, Miss Norris, perhaps I could do the rest of the collection for you,

take the chance to make sure everyone's settling in OK.

Nice idea. Just pop it back in my tent when you're done and I'll...

Oi, oi, Elroy!

Nah-ah! What did I say about weeing in the bush?!

OK, phones in the box.

DISTANT ROARING

Not to worry, everyone. Our gentle native creatures

are far more scared of us than we are of them.

LOUD ROAR

OMG. What is that?!

I'll come collect your phones before lights out.

I'm not staying out here.

According to my visual schedule, in the afternoon,

we have various crafts followed by supper, and then finally,

the coveted Mega Marshmallow Roast.

Sorry, Xen. Billie's on the other line.

Copy that. I should set out my socks for tomorrow anyway.

Night, Xen. Night, Bert.

Yo, you got Bert.

Due diligence call, as requested by the parents.

BIRD CALL You good?

WINGS FLUTTER OVERHEAD Uh, yeah, Bill, I'm totally cool.

You should get some sleep. Yep, night.

All right, Bert.

It's only two nights with your best buds.

You'll be fine.

ANIMAL GRUNTS

OWL HOOTS

CRICKETS CHIRP

Not fine.

TAPE CLICKS ON

BERT SIGHS IN RELIEF

DISTANT ANIMAL NOISES

Affirmations for cap, part one.

Robina, you are strong and brave.

You shine bright like Greta Thunberg and Taylor Swift.

And no matter how you feel inside sometimes,

you are loved and capable of greatness.

ANIMAL ROARS

SQUELCHING

Ugh, our gentle native creatures are the worst.

ANIMAL GRUNTS

SQUELCHING

Mum, close the window. It's cold.

CREATURE GRUNTS

LOUD SHRIEK

What was that?

Xena, what's wrong?

My visual schedule, it's gone!

Agh!

Ugh, gross, slime porridge.

Miss, Miss!

One at a time! What is going on?!

Someone took my special lantern!

My koala slippees are gone!

I woke up and blanky wasn't there!

My foam roller's vanished.

So stinky, so squelchy.

Holy fruitcake!

We have a spooky heist on our hands!

I'd like to think that the kids of Sunny Valley would know better

than to help themselves to other people's stuff,

including my coffee plunger.

It's more disappointing than this awful instant coffee.

Now, if the stuff isn't back by the end of the day,

the Mega Marshmallow Roast is cancelled!

JESS GASPS

Now, finish your brekkie, dishes in the sink, brush those teeth

and head to the rock climbing wall. THEY ALL GROAN

This is literally the most pointless prank I've ever seen.

It's not a prank.

It's a spooky.

It unzipped my tent, nicked my tape player and left slimy pond slime

all over the place. See?

I'm trying to eat here.

Did you see Backpack Jess?

So stinky, so squelchy.

She totally had a close encounter of the spooky kind.

Or she's just freaked out from a night in a gross swamp.

Something is out there, Bill.

What if it comes back tonight and takes one of us?

Xen, back me up here.

Breakfast...climbing...teeth...

..dishes?

How is one meant to know when to do all the things

without an adequate planning document?

It's OK, Xen.

Here -

dishes, climbing,

teeth.

See?

Sorry to interrupt whatever this is,

but we've taken an inventory of everything that went missing

and we have a few quick Q's. Billie, it seems you had nothing taken.

That makes you the only one. How strange.

So not being a victim makes ME a suspect?

What did you have stolen?

Billy, this about the collective loss, not my personal one.

I just want it sorted out.

Last night was pretty weird.

You could even say...spooky.

Spooky? Yeah, like...

BERT IMITATES GHOST

Bins, I reckon there's something these guys aren't telling us.

How about we put them on washing up duty?

Give them some time to think about anything they might want to share?

What?! You don't have that power.

Miss Norris, are we OK to assign chores?

Sure. Why not?

Then it's settled. Have fun washing those pots, friends.

Fine.

Just let me update my schedule.

Urgh, we didn't even have spaghetti for dinner.

Have they been saving these up since the last camp?

I really need my roller.

My legs have never been this unstretched.

Seriously, Derek, washing up duty?

I had to get us away from Robina somehow.

And you couldn't think of any other way to have a secret regroup?

It was all I could come up with.

Bert, your spooky dance was rad, by the way. Catchy as.

THEY IMITATE GHOSTS

So, do you have anything that can actually help us?

Bam! Robina's list of everything that's gone missing.

Hopefully it helps your investigation.

OUR investigation. Because I suppose you've got something better to do.

If I skip out, Robina's gonna know something's up.

Then we've got no chance of getting our stuff back.

And without a roller to stretch out my quads,

I'm just going to slow you guys down.

But if you really need me, Xena, you got comms?

DUCK SOUND Dying duck it is, then.

If you're in trouble, honk.

Otherwise, bring it home, Spooky Crew. Yo!

Ow, ow, ow.

Eurgh.

So, Derek, you're up first.

Show them how it's done.

Actually, Miss N, I'm not really feeling it today.

I think what he means to say is that he would love

to fulfil his camp committee duties.

Right?

Yeah, let's get hyped.

On ya, Derek.

Bert's tape player, Backpack Jess's backpack,

Derek's roller, a coffee plunger, some torches.

What's the link?

Is it worth noting that every tent is surrounded by stinky pond slime?

If only we had the Spooky Detector,

we could track this sucker down in seconds.

Or we could use actual logic to find what or who took our stuff.

OK, if I were a sticky-fingered spooky, I would run off...

..that way.

A slime trail?!

UPBEAT SYNTH MUSIC

in the woods tonight

you're running out of time to...

SYNTH MUSIC PLAYS

SQUELCHING

CREATURE GRUMBLES

THEY MURMUR

Fine, I'll do it.

Robina, all our stuff from last night,

when's it going to turn up?

Well, we can only hope that once we've...

Because I'm not sleeping outdoors tonight without blanky!

I could freeze to death!

Plus the mega marshmallow roast.

Mum won't let me have sugar at home.

This is my ONLY chance!

Robina's school captain, it's her job.

If she's not trying to fix this, who is?

I do worry we're getting awfully far from camp.

Whoa!

That's going to lead to a spooky hideout.

If I were a stinky mud creature, I'd totally live across that cool lake.

Let's go. This might be a good time to mention

that my motion sickness extends to water as well.

I'm afraid even the idea of an aquatic crossing

is making me... Oh, dear.

Sympathy spew.

THEY RETCH

OK, enough! We're clearly not crossing the lake

if it involves bringing up breakfast.

Let's just head back, rethink our plan.

And Miss Norris will be looking for us.

I must admit, if we were to find the culprit right now,

I'd feel rather unprepared.

I only have six soy sauce fish,

a thimble,

some marbles.

I do, though, seem to have an...

Bert, could you go any slower?

Bert?

Bert!

That was not here before.

Bert!

DUCK CALL

What was that?

I'm really sorry, Bins.

Just... You'll thank me later. Promise.

Derek! What are you doing?

ALL TALK AT ONCE

DUCK CALL VIBRATES

NOISE FADES

Alas, I'm spent. We can't wait for Derek, we need to go now.

Come on.

Oh, Billie, I wish I could, but...

SHE HEAVES Here we go again.

Come on, Xena, we can do this.

If you just shut your eyes, maybe I can guide you in...

Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow... Wait. What's that?

Hey, guys. I heard the duck.

What happened? There's a Spooky, and it took Bert.

We need to get across the water but it's making Xena seasick.

Wait, it took him? He didn't just get distracted and wander off?

Classic Bert stuff.

No! Derek, we're wasting time.

No spew bags required, Xen.

My legs may be killing, but you're hitching a ride

on the D train.

Oh!

Ready?

Onwards noble steed to rescue our friend.

Whoa.

That is creepy.

Look. More slime.

Creepy or not...

..we're going in.

BILLIE COUGHS

BERT! Sh! Are you crazy?!

We don't know what we're up against.

SQUELCHING

Did you hear that?

GROWLING

SQUELCHING

CREATURE GROWLS

Hey, what have you done with Bert?.

CREATURE GROWLS

I said, what have you done with my brother?

CREATURE GROWLS

Get away from us.

Whoa!

What's it doing?

MECHANICAL TICKING

HUH?!

Is that a Spooky?

Where's it going? Quick! Follow it. It's getting away.

What...?

Bert?

Bert!

Hi. What is that?

Oh, it's a Sludge. Cutest Spooky yet.

So you're OK?

I'm totes fine.

As soon as Sludge got me in here,

she ditched her stinky swamp disguise and just wanted pats.

I think she just wears it to look tough.

SLUDGE CHIRRUPS

I must admit, she's quite cute in an utterly hideous kind of way.

Hey, it's my roller and Millie's blanket.

And Xena, your schedule. Ah!

Rendered obsolete by today's occurrences,

but a sweet reunion nonetheless.

Guys, we've got to get everyone's stuff back to camp

before Miss Norris finds us.

Got it, D Train. Operation Get Stuff Back is a go.

Robina was supposed to hand her phone in.

Huh. All right, guys, we got everything?

Sludge, you're coming with me.

In conclusion, my hypotenuse...

Hypothesis?

..is that everything that Sludge took is super special to someone.

I would agree that every one of the missing items

offers essential comfort to their owner.

But why?

Bingo!

I think Sludge took them to make herself feel better,

cos she's...homesick.

Not watertight, but that could make sense.

Team, I don't want to bust up the hypotenuse thing,

but how are we going to give this all back without getting

into super, mega trouble?

Good question. SLUDGE SQUEAKS

We can explain everything.

I guess we'll see what Miss Norris thinks about all this.

Oh, and while you're at it, maybe ask her what she thinks about this.

I saw you hand this in but I guess you snuck it out again.

Feels like a misuse of power to me.

Trying to blackmail me?

All I'm saying is maybe there's a way we can make

this work for everyone.

And that's how brave Robina ventured

through the Enchanted Forest,

leaving no stone unturned

until she found the scary,

abandoned train

and recovered every single thing

that mysteriously vanished.

Yep, Robina totally saved the day.

It may sound utterly implausible, but I, for one, am convinced.

That is exactly what happened.

I just did what any school captain would have done.

Right, kids, today's been out of sight.

How about we... Call it a night!

Oh, yeah!

D train is back.

So you're seriously not going to tell me what happened today?

Better if you don't know.

Got to keep that school cap rep squeaky clean.

Camp was meant to be a chance for us to hang out

and you spent most of it doing secret stuff with those weirdos.

Bins, come on. We're buddies for life, you know that.

But I'm allowed to have other friends, too, aren't I?

You know, I'm actually so glad you raised this,

because juggling you with all my other friends

can be a real struggle sometimes.

So, the fact that you're finally deciding to branch out,

I actually love that for you.

I mean, we could all hang out some time, you know.

If I can find a gap in my diary, we should totes tee that up.

Speaking of, I've got camp stuff to do, so...

Crossing into enemy lines? Risky business.

It's not like that.

It's just Robina can be kind of...

Look, some peeps need to be hitting sixes 24/7

with an all star cheer squad or they feel like they're

behind the eight ball. That's Robina to a T.

But peeps like you don't need a stadium full of fans to kick a goal.

They know they're the GOAT, no matter who's watching.

You're saying I'm a goat?

Greatest of all time, Billie.

I love that you're too cool to know what GOAT means.

Aha!

Could I point out something unspoken of, that's obviously going on?

We've established that everything that was stolen

was incredibly special to the person who lost it.

It appeared everybody had something stolen except for Billie

until the Spooky took Bert.

Ergo, Bert must be the most special thing to Billie on this camp.

Hold the phone.

I'm a special thing?

No, not true. I knew it!

I knew I was going to win you over.

Spooky fam for life.

You know, fam feels like a bit of an overstatement.

Really? Because when you hip and shouldered that Spooky,

you did call Bert your brother.

SLUDGE SQUEAKS Hey, buddy, we're back.

Is she OK?

Yeah, I think I just need flip to tape for her.

All right, Bert, got to fess up. What is on that thing?

Well, given we've all shared a lot today,

I guess I can play it for you.

LOUD SNORING

Dude, is this thing broken?

It's Mum snoring.

It's one of the last things I hear before I go to sleep.

So it calms me when I'm away from home.

SLUDGE SQUEAKS Fascinating.

Even Spookies find comfort objects essential

during times of reduced predictability.

Do you reckon the other Spookies are the same? Homesick, I mean.

Maybe. But if we're going to get them home...

We have to figure out where they're coming from...

Before anyone else finds out about them.

SLUDGE CHIRRUPS

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