Creatures Caves

(It gets better when the trouble starts. Ratchet and Clank get press ganged into Yllamr's army and you find out that Drac, the Maulrien one of course

, got left at the altar by Aaron. Bwahaha! Plot spoilers)
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“Hi, um, Simba.” Draconorn cautiously approached the giant cat.
“Hi Drac.” Simba said, using Draconorn’s name.
“Well, if you are my imaginary friend, I guess we should…um, hang out? I can’t remember anything. It’s been, what, 5000 years? And I’m sure Hands get their memories wiped every 1000 years.”
Simba smiled and gave the Hand a lion hug.
“We’d better go and keep an eye on Malurien, the very first group is going in.” KC11 came up and dragged the two away.
“Mac! You can go in! Grab a weapon and your partner, and get Awmanman to zap you in!” Draconorn yelled across the yard before she was dragged into the warp room by KC11 to do her shift.
“YES!!” Mac and Bloo raced towards the building, knocking over Spike as they went, rushed in, grabbed a weapon each (Mac got a nice big truncheon, Bloo got a sling shot) and went into the warp room.
“Right, here we go.” Awmanman said dully.
He pressed a few buttons and the machine started rumbling. It seemed like an ominous sound, and Bloo got weird vibes from it.
Mac felt dwarfed, since the warp ray towered over him, and the silver, pristine and clean walls made him feel like a guinea pig on a lab table.
“Close your eyes, because the light might blind you, hold Bloo tight to stop you from getting separated and keep all limbs inside the vehicle.” Awmanman announced as he grabbed a lever.
“Wha?” Mac cried incredulously.
“Sorry, just had to say that.” Awmanman grinned and gave the lever an almighty pull.
There was a blaze of bluish light from the ray gun, and the whole room rattled.
Mac and Bloo felt a queer sensation of motion while standing still, and suddenly they appeared in a forest, four feet off the ground. They landed with a thump.
“Wow!” Mac and Bloo said at the same time. The forest was… different. The trees were unlike any they had ever seen, and the weirdest creatures walked past as they carried out their everyday jobs.
“Pika!” Squealed a little voice. Looking down, Mac saw a pikachu grinning up at him and waving. It was so cute that he picked it up and cuddled it, even though he was more of the type of kid to play with toy soldiers.
Bloo, however, was more interested in a dragon that was sitting and eating massive fruit off an even bigger tree.
A tree further away suddenly moved, revealing itself to be a Copycat (a creature that shape changes to scare people for fun). It changed into a rock, and then rolled away.
“Hi guys!” A brunette woman walked up to the two with a broad grin. “It’s me, Draconorn.” Simba trotted up behind her. “This place is so awesome.” The lioness said, looking around.
“I agree.” Mac smiled.
“Well, I’ve got this shift handled. Maybe you guys can take a look around, learn a bit more about Malurien?” Draconorn suggested.
Bloo rushed away, and Mac followed.
“Bloo! Calm down, there’s could be something nasty around here.” Mac panted as he tried to catch Bloo before anything happened to him.
“Let’s actually play the game!!!” Bloo shrieked excitedly, and started running round in circles.
“Bloo, we can’t! We’re responsible for the people who play, we have to do our job as moderators!”
“Didn’t you hear Drac? She said she had it under control.”
Mac gave in to Bloo’s pleading with a sigh. “I suppose, but do you even know what we’re supposed to do?”
“Well, players are supposed to follow a path to find a clue that tells them what they need to do for the first world, I heard Drac say so once.” Bloo said, rubbing his non-existent chin.
“Sometimes I’m really glad you like to eavesdrop on people.”
“Me too.”
So they hunted around for a while until they came across a paved path. “Are you sure this is the right one?” Mac said doubtfully.
“It’s paved, so it must be the one!” Bloo said impatiently, and zoomed away down the path.
“Bloo!” Mac stumbled after him.
The path stopped abruptly at the edge of a deep, murky river. A line of giant lily pads stretched from one bank to the other.
“Easy peasy!” Bloo grinned, and started hopping from pad to pad. Mac followed, but he felt uneasy. It was almost as if there was a nasty tune playing in the background. ‘Dun, dun, dun, dun…’ The river surface rippled suddenly, as if something glided past in the water.
At that moment, a huge pair of jaws burst out of the river. “AAAAAH!” Mac jumped to the next lily pad, just in time, as the mouth clamped down on the pad Mac was on and dragged it down. The massive jaws belonged to a ten-foot long crocodile.