By the time the gang reached the pyramid, the squirrel was nowhere to be seen. Also, there was no way up to it and no entrance that could be seen. It was just a massive upside down pyramid floating menacingly above them by like 20 meters. How were they even supposed to get up?? Well the answer is more than you may have guessed.
“How are we even supposed to get up??” asked Mushpuff.
“Behold!” said Plagiarize, picking up an acorn he had spotted on the ground. “That bitch-ass squirrel must’ve left this behind!”
“How is that going to help us?” asked Snorter inquisitively.
“You!” shouted the squirrel, suddenly stepping out from behind a tree.
“What do you mean, ‘you’?” asked Bird. “You, you! You stole our Energy Cube! And I was totally gonna take that bracelet! You’re a thief, yo!”
“I only stole it because I mistook it for my Energy Cube!” yelled the squirrel, whipping out two Energy Cubes. The resulting gasps ruptured the fabric of reality.
“AND if you give me my NUT back,” said the squirrel, climbing Plagiarize’s leg and snatching the acorn, “that’s our way up!”
The squirrel threw the acorn at the ground and a tree began growing up out of the shattered nut.
“Everyone grab a branch!” he shouted over the sound of growing tree.
Everyone grabbed onto branches as they sprouted from the sides of the now quite sizeable tree. Qaeron had to try multiple times before the branch he grabbed didn’t snap and drop him. Klumpkrump made sure to grab the gang’s Energy Cube before getting on a branch. She had a realization that if anyone dangerous caught wind of a group of people with two Energy Cubes, they’d all probably be dead pretty fast. She also noted how the squirrel’s cube glowed far brighter than their cube. This was probably because it had not been used as much as theirs and had more power in it (because theirs had been used to power a giant cheese factory for many years, of course).
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When the tree’s top reached the bottom point of the pyramid, it did not stop growing. It simply began growing along the pyramid, crawling up the mossy bricks. As the tree grew up the ‘mid, the gang and the squirrel came to the sudden realization that there was no entrance to the pyramid along its bottom sides. That would be quite a problem if not for the fact that both the squirrel and Klumpkrump had Energy Cubes and they could easily blast through the walls.
At the exact moment that both the squirrel and Klumpkrump were about to shove their appendages into their respective cubes, the branch supporting Qaeron the bear snapped and he plummeted downwards. On his way down, Qaeron collided with the squirrel’s Energy Cube as well as Klumpkrump’s Energy Cube, and both of the cubes fell all the way to the ground. Extremely inconvenient, I know.
“Oh my god!!” shouted the squirrel. “Someone get those back RIGHT NOW!!”
“Maybe you should, since you’re, like, the best tree climber among us,” stated Klumpkrump. It was a factual fact.
“Shut up!!” yelled the squirrel, attempting to punch the cat in the face. He then lost his balance and fell to the ground, landing on Qaeron.
“Bear!” shouted the squirrel. “I demand you to carry me and those cubes back up the tree AT ONCE!!!”
Before anyone could say anything about anything at all, some rustling was heard in the bushes.
“Oh no!” yelled the squirrel. “NOOOO!!!”
“Bro, nothing is happening!” shouted Hoofa down to the squirrel.
“IT’S SQUETTLES!!” he shouted back as he grabbed both Energy Cubes. “GIMME THESE!”
The squirrel then ran away screaming just as a bunch of squirrel-like creatures appeared on scene from the opposite side of the clearing. They looked like squirrels but had smoother tails and rounded ears. There were about six of them, and they were all running in a pack towards the squirrel. These creatures were known as squettles, and this was their planet.