Burgertron, Shin-knee, and Spyke were looking at the stars, with a calming look "Tiny spots of light, I have no idea what you are, or why gazing at you brings such
peace to my meaty core."

"Yeah, dudes, This is a vibe man."

"I feel so at peace."

Then a botbot named Sergeant Scrubforce spooked them. "What in the sam hill are you three doing up there, soldiers?"
"Oh, just relaxing on the "thinking ledge", Sergeant."

"You don't say? I don't rightly know how a bot can relax with all the mysterious happenings 'round here!"

They were confused ""Mysterious happenings"?!

"Boy, you Lost Bots sure are out of the loop, ain't cha? Everybody in the Mall is talkin' about it. It all started when the Gamer Geeks found frayed electrical cables. Then the Sugar Shocks discovered
suspicious scratches on the window of their candy store."

"Bot bots."

"Then some Jock Squad bots heard unidentified haunting shrieks...while us Custodial Crew were cleaning mysterious white splatter. Then the pet mobs saw all their food opened and emptied."

"Well, isn't that something. Frayed cable, scratches, ghostly noises, mysterious
splatter and emptied food. What could be going on?"

"That's the question on every
bot's lip-like mouthparts!"

"What's going on?"
"Demons! Must be demons!"

"Why, whatever bot, or group of bots, that figures out this mystery will probably be hailed as the heroes of the Mall! So keep your optics peeled,
soldiers!"

He walked off.

"Huh, wonder who those bots will be, dudes."

Burgertron said with a smile "Heroes of the Mall?"

They went to the lost and found.
"Lost Bots! I've got the perfect
way for us to get in good with our squads!" They noticed it was empty "Bots? Hello?"

Shin-knee asked looking "Kikmee?! Bonz-Eye?!"

Burgertron asked looking in the bathroom "Clogstopper?! Dimlit?! Anyone?!"

They hear Kikmee in the distance "No! You shall never destroy me!"

"Woah! Little dude calm down. Its just us."

"Kikmee?! Sounds like trouble!"

They ran off to the toy room. They saw the four in costume doing random stuff.

"Beep bo, click clack, robot noises."

"Prepare for a sporkening!WHAAAA!"

"I shall NOT, thanks to the
legendary SHIELD OF COFF-AYE-EEE!"

Burgertron was so confused "What. Is. Going. On. Here?"

Shin-knee said "I'm frightened."

"I...im honestly confused." Spyke said.

Then a card botbot said "Who goes there?" Then he cartwheeled over to the three.
"Be ye friend or be ye foe?"

Shin-knee said pushing his hand down "We're with them."

"Circuits malfunctioning. Sad beep."

"More or less."

"Say ye so, good madam collar?! Then I bid thee welcome, for any friends of the
"Lost Lords and Ladies" be friends of mine!"

"And who be are you?"

Shin-knee said "My heads hurting from the talking."

He then bowed then took out a guitar of some sort "Permit me to introduce myself,
for I am"

♪ Bard and Lore Keeper ♪

♪ Playgor Cardquest ♪

♪ Happy to greet a wandering
guest! ♪

Burgertron facepalmed "Look, I need these bots for an
important mission. What have you done to them? Mind control?"

Playgor said "Oh-HO! Nothing so sinister! These brave knights and squires have but entered a most enchanted land, a land of imagination... ♪ Where dreams fly ♪ ♪ And paint the canvas of the
mind's eye ♪"

"Twenty, critical hit!"
"Huzzah!"
"Oh, fie."

Dimlit noticed the three "Burgertron, sir, Shin-knee, Spyke! You're here!"

Burgertron said "Hey, we have a mystery to solve, and I'm not sure what this Play-snore Card-mess guy has you doing."

"♪ Play-GOR Card-QUEST! ♪ ♪ I am appalled at such jest ♪"

"We're just larping."

Shin-knee asked "Larrr-ping? Okay, that can't be a word."

"Nah, Ive heard of this. Its like role-playing but you up by ten lady dude, least thats how I describe it." Spyke said

"Yeah like your friend said. They're pretending to be
characters from fantasy in an age of myth, acting out heroic deeds."

Burgertron grabbed the hace and spooked the dice.
The game we're playing is
"Obscure Darkness :Rise of the Spells of the Necro Realm,. edition."

"And WHY are you playing that?"

"Because the OD:RSNR th edition rules were so unbalanced, of course."

"LARPing is really fun, guys. You get to be anyone you want to be."

"Yes! I'm the Dred Lord Gorp, a Dwarf Wizard who is also a
Dragon Pilot. He's searching desperately for his missing family, lost during the
Dragon-Syrup Wars."

"And I'm Suzanthum,
a Vampire Elf, hence the sharp fangs AND sharp ears, who roams the land seeking revenge on the rabbit that ate her entire green onion patch."

"Lady Glisten-Furr, Troll Barber. I wanted to be a Barbarian but
ran out of room on my character card. My backstory is I'm running from my terrible past of having given some bad
haircuts that one time."

"I am GigaPlex the robot. My backstory is I am a robot."

Shin-knee asked "Aren't you already a robot?"

"DOES NOT COMPUTE!
ZERO-ONE-ONE-ZERO-ONE-ZERO!"

Burgertron said "Really? REALLY? I spend all my time trying to make us look COOL to our squads and you dress up like elves?"

"A vampire elf."

"Maybe if you tried it, you might see how fun it is!"

"Hmm, hmm, let me think about that, I guess I could NO! NO. WAY."

"Sometimes pretending to be
someone else can give you courage. Haven't you ever wanted to be a hero?"

"Well. We sorta already are a hero in many ways. But...I'm listening."

"Perfect. All you have to do is learn a few different rule sets..." Playgor pushed a book bigger than him.

"What?! NO. Nope. No way. I'm out." The book missed them almost squishing them "Oh, by the way, I have the perfect mission to get us back in with our squads, so now I'm off to be a REAL hero of the Mall. Ugh, LARPing. Ha, give me a break."

The three left.

"♪ And so the short sighted
burger ♪ ♪ Left the fabled inn ♪ ♪ For other adventures doth call to him! ♪

"Bots, what are we doing?"

"We should roll a perception
check for Lady Glisten-Furr's last spell-cast!"

They said in unison "Yeah!"

"Don't forget the plus one
modifier."

"Pretending to be
someone else for courage? Huh, not necessary when you're truly as brave..."

Shin-knee freaked out at the sight of claw marks.

Burgertron said "Clawed tracks scratching. Uh, maybe there's some other, less heroic way to show heroism."

He took a deep breath then they went to a room where they saw a crow eating a ketchup packet.

"Oh, that's kinda freaky, em Hmm, uh..."

Then it had its sights on Burgertron and Shin-knee as it squawked at them. Making them scream and Transform.

The crow then took the two then flew off. Spyke chased the bird. The bird dropped them, then attacked the others as Burgertron and Shin-knee landed. Every botbot was screaming.

Spudmuffin screamed then said "What is that horrible, unnatural monster?! It looks grotesque and not like, you know, good grotesque."

Everyone dodged to get attacked by the bird.

Burgertron, Shin-knee and Spyke were shocked.

"Help!"

Dave asked "Is that a bird? Ah, whatever. I'm sure it's not
causing any problems."

Everyone continued screaming

Spud muffin was curled up "I am literally paralyzed with fear." Ulf was annoyed "I know now why Shin-knee doesn't like you." Spud muffin and Ulf screamed as a noddle rope was thrown around the bird. Then a bot landed on the back of the bird. "Yippie-kie-yay beast!" (Don't know how to spell it.) they saw Shin-knee wrestling the bird making it back off from the table. "Spyke get those two out of here."

"On it." The minicon sproke, grabbing the two and sprinting away.

Then a Q-tip made the bird fall back even more.

Kikmee said as the rest was riding on the escalator "Never fear, fearful villagers."

"for the time of your rescue is
at hand. Now we click, enter battle arena."

"No, please no."

"Are those the Lost Bots? I didn't think they could getmore strange but, more strange."

"Spud, they're saving us!"

"Guys hurry! I don't know how much I can hold on for much longer! This sinister dragon is no match for our cunning!"

They each began attacking the bird.
"I have long striven to redeem my history of hair grooming failures, and my opportunity is nigh! Ha!"

Kikmee frightened the bird making Shin-knee scream "Woah!"

"I lost my onion patch to a
creature such as you! Never again, foe!"

"This is weird, but heroic?"

The bird attacked Bonz-eye but shin-knee made the bird attack less.

"Ha! Your hubris has blinded you to the fact that I am a mere decoy..."

"For my stratagem!" Clogstopper landed on the bird next to shin-knee.

"Your kind may have gotten the upper hand in the syrup wars, dragon, but your reign of sticky, slow-moving terror ends
today!"

"Whatever the Lost Bots are
pretending to be, they're definitely the bravest
bots here."

Burgertron got the memo.

"Fie! I have made a grave error!"

He almost fell off the bird "AHHHHHHH!"
But shin-knee grabbed his hand. "I got you!"

Everyone gave a panicked gasp

Burgertron said "Lose no hope, um, fellow paladins! For tis I, umm Burgaeria the Elder of Eld,
returned from my travels to
lands a-a-abroad lands!

Playgor came up "The prodigal one has returned! Huzzah! ♪ Return! Return!
Tis finally the day ♪

♪ He saw the error of his ways ♪

Shin-knee said as he got swooped up "Shut up!"

Shin-knee said "Stop!" The bird didn't listen. "I! Said! Stop!" She pulled hard on the bird then it stopped moving around but only stopped in one spot.

Play-gor was still playing as all this went down.

"Come, dreaded dragon!
I dare thee to flyith up here ith! Remember me!"
♪ Disaster, fiasco,
calamity, and doom ♪ ♪ Our heroes on the edge,
be it victory or tomb? ♪"

"Burgaeria ready for one last adventure?"

"Oh you know it shine bright!"

"Yee-haw!"

The bird then dropped Clogstopper as Spyke saved him.

Burgertron and Shin-knee made the bird fly up to the skylight. Then fell down to be saved by Spyke.

Dimlit said "Rescue achievement achieved,
Burgaeria. Beep-boop-beep."

"Uhhh, I don't know whats going on." Spyke spoke

"We just saved everyone with the help of roleplay."

"Yes!"
"Victory has been achieved!"

They were greeted by cheering, and applause

"Wow, I thought LARPing was weird and totally useless but, it really did help me overcome
my fear of that monster."

"It helped all of us! And we finally impressed all the other squads!

Ulf said "I wouldn't go that far. I mean Shin-knee and Spyke did save us. And we respect that."

Spud said "We realize that flying abomination could have only come inside the Mall the same way it left. Through the skylights."

"The skylight YOU'RE always
leaving open, Burgertron. This whole thing was your fault."

"What? It was my thinking
ledge."

Everyone sighed.

"♪ I allege that his ledge was
nothing but a wedge ♪

Burgertron said "Can-Can you stop?"

♪ He demanded I cease ♪

♪ Though his reputation
decrease ♪
♪ and he... ♪

Burgertron stopped Playgor
"I definitely do not like you."

"Neither do I. Spyke you know what to do."

Spyke only grabs Playgor. "Yeah yeah. Sorry bout this."

Playgor said "It's Alright."

Spyke then tosses Playgor "Safe travels!"

Then it ended.