"Are you really asking that?" Aina exasperated, as Jodi took off her hand from Five's mouth. "By the looks of that clipboard and how she look at Phil accusingly, she's someone that we don't need to see the mess we created!"

"It was my fault - I released Garbile. I wanted to play Nobi Gross Out instead of finishing the tutorial-" Five rambled.

"Yeah! And I destroyed Helpie for being annoying-" Aina covered Miko's mouth during her part of the hectic apology.

"Look you two, all we have to is stop Garbile." Jodi told them. "If I knew where he was."

All four saw that Garbile had left the spot where be was eating garbage.

"Maybe he's really gone?" Miko suggested.

"I bet he's still hanging around some...where." Five's voice trailed off when of gooey, green slime landed on his forehead. Garbile laughed menacingly from where he attached himself on the ceiling. The glitch fell on top of Five, suing the boy as a landing cushion.

"Five!" Jodi, Aina and Miko yelled in unison.

"Let him go you creep! Nobody wants to fight you!" Miko strained as she tugged on Five's leg.

"Maximum effort!" With all of her might, Five was free from Garbile's body slam. His slime flew everywhere and his head hung from the ceiling.

"Hey! What? No fair, ref! I had that guy pinned fair and square!" The glitch complained.

"Run!" Aina commanded.

The four ran for their lives and knew it was a matter of time before Garbile would regain his form.

"Hey, maybe we could trap him into that metal chute!" Five pointed, and low to behold, a dark green shoot. "But we'd really need some luck to get him in there."

"Who needs luck? We got egg salad!" Miko said confidently.

Aina gasped at the idea and kicked the side of a nearby vending machine. She grabbed the plastics bag and cringed at the squishiness. Before she retched, Miko did the honors of ripping the plastic off. The true pungent of the egg salad was exposed indefinitely.

"Man that's nasty." Five commented, visibly grossed out.

"Actually, it looks like the food I ate at school once!" Jodi pointed out.

"That looks like one delicious bait," Aina kicked the vending machine again. "For Garbile I mean."

Miko chuckled the egg salads in the chute, rolling out of the way with her friends as the Glitch dived head first into the chute.

"Hey, I think that should hold him!" Aina suggested with a small smile with Miko nodding her head in agreement.

"Hey! No fair! I want my grudge match, sister! Ya can't stick me in this penalty box with all  this moldy pizza and rancid applesauce. Mmm..." From the sound of it, Garbile was enjoying himself to food. Descriptions of food that should of obviously been thrown away by now.

All of their heads turned when they heard the sound of Phil's voice, when was accompanied by Barbara and BITT.

"And speaking of safe, the waste disposal system is right-"

"Waste disposal?" Miko's said, now with a wavering tone.

Barbara gasped when she laid eyes on the four teenagers. "So these are the trainees I've heard so much about!"

"Love to chat, but we should run." The galaxy-haired girl smiled, panicking.

"All of us. Fast as we can. Right?" The Mexican boy hooked his arms around Jodi's and Aina's, panicking as well.

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