The Brickson's Escape

Adventure Log #1232016
Adrianna

Twas a normal a day for us monster hunters. We were but lounging, recalling old adventures when Ryder brought something to my attention. Our old nemesis, one I'd been fighting even before gaining my partner, the dastardly Brickson, had been quiet for some time.


He had caused all sorts of trouble in the past.

His crimes slowly escalated. He was once only an annoyance. Stealing people's left socks, clogging drains, misplacing items. I was after to stop the fiend but he hid well. After a while he found a better way to ruin lives, by using monsters.

He started gathering an army, and that was when I knew I had no choice but to stop him.

Thankfully I found myself a partner in Ryder. She joined me on my quest to find and defeat him.

There was one insane day in which I was being framed for many different crimes (Ryder was a cop at this point if I recall correctly). Anyway, we ended up capturing the fiend. And we were later surprised to find he was actually a giant penguin. We put him in jail and he went quiet for a very long time.


So that day, Ryder brought it up to me that it had been a long time since we heard absolutely anything from him. I, knowing the scheming ways of the Brickson, had a suspicion that maybe he'd found a way to escape.

So we decided to make our way to the magical jail, using a Bubble Portal Gun.
She hopped in first then called back "Is the jail supposed to be in ruins?"

It was then we knew for sure The Brickson had escaped.

Our first place of search was in an ice cream shop. Where we were temporarily distracted by the many ice cream flavors. The ice cream shops on alien planets are very interesting, strange, they have the coolest flavors though like-

Oh wait! Right, back to the story. So, I got mint chocolate chip and Ryder got Root Beer with chocolate dipped cones.

Back to our mission, I called in Buffer, our little Robot friend, to help us in our search.

This is Buffer

He rolled around the ice cream shop. Then started his search, beeping and made his way out the door. We rushed out and followed Buffer down the street, licking our ice cream as we went. Buffer stopped right in front of a giant, dark, mysterious looking castle in the middle of the city.

"You'd think he'd be better at hiding his evil lairs" said Ryder.

"Yeah, this is rather obvious" I replied.

"It's probably a trap."

I nodded then stroked my chin thoughtfully. "What do we do then?"

"We go in there blasting the Put A Banana In Your Ear song and hope it annoys him into surrendering"

"Sounds a good a plan as any!"

My Unicorn partner was great at master plans. And I knew that song was terribly annoying so I thought it might just work. Though really, it was probably to annoy me more than Brickson or his monsters.

So I put in my ear plugs. And we went in with a boombox blasting the song at the top volume. At first, nothing happened. We just stood inside the castle at the foot of a giant staircase, with loud music blaring. Then, little round things started flying out from the walls.

Hedgehogs! Flying hedgehogs! We dodged back and forth as they shot out their deadly spikes. I tried speaking to them, turning off the music and letting them know we were on their side. Ryder gave her ice cream to a hedgehog and made him her friend.

We eventually earned their trust and they lead us up to the top of the stairs and into the study room of who would be Brickson.

We busted through the door, letting Brickson know he was caught this time. But the thing that turned around from the tall backed chair was instead a golden bear!

"You're no Brickson." said I.
 
"No he's a bear." My friend replied.

"What are you doing here?" said the bear.

"We're the monster hunters," Ryder announced. "And we're here to free the monsters, and take back Brickson."

The bear sighed. "I know you you are, Monster Hunters. There's no Brickson here. What do you want?"

"A bacon cheeseburger with extra cheese." Ryder answered him.

I was sure that wasn't what he meant, but I didn't have time to tell that to my friend, because the bear soon got tired of us and pulled a lever releasing the trap door from under us.

"Oh, was he a vegan bear?" asked Ryder as we sat in the dungeon under the castle. "Did my order offend him?"

"Perhaps." I replied.

"I really want a cheeseburger now." mused my friend.

"Oh I can get Buffer to get you one!" I whistled for our robot then got him to go fetch a burger and a smoothie for me. Buffer beeped happily in response and went off to go fulfill our order.

"Oh wait, I guess I could have just asked him to get us out of here." I said, realizing we were still in a dungeon.

"If Buffer found a way out doesn't that mean we could too?"

"Yeah, I guess so. But we should wait for Buffer to get back with your burger first."

She nodded then took out the hedgehog and a deck of cards from her hoodie pocket.

We played Go Fish for the remaining time there, waiting for Buffer. (I was also informed that there is no card number 28, which was very disappointing but that's beside the point)

Buffer later returned and we ate, drank smoothies and played cards for a while longer before heading back to HQ.



Really, though we didn't find Brickson we got a new friend Spiky the hedgehog! And we had plenty of fun. We knew we'd have to continue our search, because everyday Brickson was out there more monsters were being mistreated. But it was one adventure, game, laugh,  monster, and/or new friend at a time.