The Beasties have finally learnt how to cope and control their powers and have already mastered the ability to transform and un-transform. They go to decent schools like all Beastie kids go and they have learnt to adjust to their new life in their new planet, thanks to Maeye’s help.
But, as much as they like Danger Zone life, they still had some sentimental issues on Earth. So they were allowed to visit Earth once every 6 months. So, once again, our story revolves on our dear Planet Earth. The Beasties have reached Earth through physical space traveling, and as soon as they got there, the first thing they did was visit their family. Of course, they just sneaked in and took a peek. No emotional reunion involved.
After sneaking in to meet the parents, the Beasties went to Mr. Oakland’s home to spend their days there. Mr. Oakland was expecting them, and was very hospitable. Of course, The Beasties were pretty much grossed out to know that their gay Headmaster and his boyfriend Win Wirrer were actually married! Eew!
Josh discovered that Mr. Oakland had a bouquet of blue roses in his living room and was sure Win bought them from Benedict’s florist shop. So, the next morning, she decided to pay him a visit. Her early morning started with a sort of weird vision, but she decided to ignore it.
With the business card Mr. Oakland gave her, she found where Benedict worked. Benedict offered to treat her to breakfast. There they had a few talks, mostly about each other’s new life.
After breakfast, Benedict suddenly requested to hold Josh’s hand, and that’s when she got another vision of her different self staring lovingly at Benedict’s different self. She had to let go and leave. Of course, she didn’t tell The Beasties where she went. She didn’t want to bring in the old past life grudge on her fellow Beasties.
Later that day, when The Beasties and Mr. Oakland went out shopping for their meal, they came across a flyer saying that PlayStation has come to town to promote a new virtual reality game that was so real, you could never recognize the differences. It’s called the ‘Annihilation Raiders’ and PlayStation needed Free Test Players to test out the game before sending out on sale. To be able to be a Free Test Player, they must get a silver coin made inside Cadbury chocolates bars. The Beasties were, of course, extremely interested and got bars and bars of it.
They succeeded in getting the silver coins and wanted to get rid of all the leftover chocolates. Kale decided to give them to his squatter friend Aloysius whom she knew when she was a kid. Her twin sister Laurel was able to see that Kale has a crush on this Aloysius character. They asked for Win’s help to take them to the building that held the tests. As soon as they got there, Kale was surprised to Aloysius also got silver coins for the test. Lucky guy. Anyway, there were several groups ahead of them and they were all taken to the testing room. The Beasties and the other groups drew lots and they got the last turn. Needless to say…
It was a really interesting game of wits and adventurous feats as the teams go in one by one to test the game, giving a really good response. Suddenly, the 3rd group (there were 5 groups ahead of them) have problems in the VR. The last one to come out alive from the VR claimed that a couple has just killed the other 3 of his mates. At first, they thought he had too much shock due to the vivid realistic elements of the VR, and even jokingly told the 4th group to play the VR and try to save the mates who ‘passed out’. But when only one came out with an arm missing, all hell broke loose. Even when they sent in the best PlayStation player in the company, they received his dead body as a result. The Beasties could see that the couple in the VR was real and a threat.
The whole PlayStation began to panic and were struggling to find out what causes all these havoc. The Beasties decided to play the game to find out who was the culprit of all these killings. They went in and immediately, the battle began. The virus couple seemed to know The Beasties and had the game altered to disarm them. They were trapped in illusions that reflected their inner animal fear and their true human pain. Now that’s a drag!
Everyone was trapped in the illusion. When it was Josh’s turn to be captured, she was saved in the nick of time by a mysterious Puma Beastie who called himself Zebeth. He and Josh helped to save the other Beastie members, including Journey who was hurt pretty bad.
Soon, the culprits appear—a couple who seemed like a Beastie but a little more different and evil. They seemingly knew about The Beasties and they keep calling them the Cyprine Princesses, which really was a mystery to the Beasties.
These weird Beastie-like characters called themselves The Superior Beings, and they seemed to know Zebeth too, because they keep saying about Zebeth keeping a secret from The Beasties, which Zebeth kept denying. The Beasties and The Superior Beings got into a great battle and The Superior Beings sent them into a sort of dimensional vortex where they were shown a sort of scene from a certain past life. The Beasties couldn’t help feeling quite familiar with these scenes.
But all in all, they broke out from the vortex and they finally destroyed The Superior Beings. When they tried to find out who Zebeth is, he had already disappeared. But Josh and Fresco had a little head-start about that guy, because both of them felt an aura about him. Fresco then gave a call to Derek to ask about Zebeth.
Later that night, Josh and Fresco paid a visit to Kale’s squatter friend. They have found out that Aloysius was actually Zebeth himself. He was here in Earth because he had heard wind of The Superior Being clan coming to Earth to harm mankind although they have tried to eliminate The Superior Being clan years and years ago. The Superior Being clan was also another kind of Rebel Beastie who practiced the Dark Arts.
While they were trying to get together and wanting to ask about the Cyprine Princesses (which Zebeth refused to disclose), Zebeth felt something big incoming. It was the Big Guy of The Superior Being clan and he has come in a big way to conquer the Earth. The Beasties and Zebeth got together to start battling for Earth again. The Superior Being Big Guy who called himself The Superior Lord (I think that’s what he’s called) dispatched his three trusted warriors to fight them. One of them, Thunder Bolt, was actually Zebeth’s brother Xayide who got lost in a wormhole and was, well, ‘used’ by the King from the cold dimension. He had a sort of grudge with Zebeth because he blamed him for not saving him in the first place.
The battle was as hectic as before. The three warriors were really strong, especially Thunder Bolt, who has a serious grudge over his brother. The Beasties were defeated one by one, their sparks (reincarnation soul) broken and their physical body turned into the animals they were. Josh was, surprisingly, able to withstand the crash. The other warrior, Tidal Wave, wanted a one-on-one battle with Josh. She almost lost but her inner conscience brought her back.
Meanwhile, Zebeth was trying to make peace with Xayide but he would never hear of it. Zebeth decided to give out some of his spark to The Beasties. Their human appearances were restored and were fit for battle. Fresco, who had the power to filter through people’s mind, filtered Xayide’s memory that was altered by The Superior Lord. Actually, it was The Superior Lord who has been ‘using’ him and not the King from the ice dimension. The final warrior Fire and Tidal Wave were into this. Fire tried to destroy The Beasties and Zebeth but Xayide shielded his brother and got himself sacrificed. His spark was completely destroyed and his physical body turned to dust.
When Josh returned from her battle with Tidal Wave, she was really pissed at The Superior Lord when she found out about this incident. Luckily, with Journey’s power, she revived Xayide’s spark from the dust. They fought again but The Superior Lord still had the upper hand. He had revealed that he was the one who gave access to Erodius to come into Earth to destroy The Beasties and he watched with relish as Benedict (when he was mad) killed The Beasties one by one but lost the chance to destroy their sparks.
That really pissed all The Beasties off. Before they gathered themselves, The Superior Lord suddenly saw a weird vision of a different version of The Beasties. Could it be the Cyprines?
The Beasties, including Zebeth, gathered themselves and with their powers, created a magnificent staff. Josh, as if she had been using the staff all her life, used the staff and destroyed The Superior Lord, turning him into smithereens. She then used the staff to restore the Earth and its people back to its original state. Then she collapsed, because she had drained too much of her powers and need to be restored before both her body and her spark is destroyed. But then they had to wait until the Andromeda star is high in the air before they could do any physical space travel, so Josh had to spend some time in bed.
On the last night of her stay, Benedict sneaked in. He came to check on Josh’s condition and asked her to stay in Earth with him. He said he was willing to let his late Kristina go and really start anew. Josh had to decline because she knew that she didn’t belong on Earth and that she’ll die if she doesn’t restore her powers. It was a pretty sad scene~
The Andromeda star finally raised high in the sky and they were ready to leave. Unknown to The Beasties, besides Mr. Oakland and Win, Benedict was also there at a distance to bid them goodbye. As soon as they reached Planet Beasts, Josh was rushed immediately to be restored of her powers. When Herbert and Maeye asked about what actually happened to Josh and to the Earth, this was what The Beasties replied:
“Nothing much.”
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