Nine

"Spencer Gilpin," Dr. Bravestone spoke out. He pointed to Ruby Roundhouse, "That's Martha." He continued pointing to each person, "Fridge, Bethany, and Tillie."

Bethany held out Shelly Oberon's hand and waved.

Tillie piped up, "Hi."

Alex looked at Shelly Oberon shocked, "Bethany, you're a girl."

She smiled, "Woman."

Fridge smirked, "In real life, you would probably want to hit that."

Tillie and Bethany smacked him simultaneously.

"What?"

-

Van Pelt was through the bazaar angry. He walked up to one of his men.

The man sighed, "They got away and it looks like they had help."

Van Pelt grumbled, "Seaplane."

The man responded, "Seaplane must have crawled out of his hole. I'm sorry boss." He shook his head, "It won't happen again."

Van Pelt got closer, and spoke into his ear. "I know it won't." Van Pelt opened his mouth, allowing one of Jumanji's many small creatures to crawl out. The scorpion crawled onto the man, and stung him in the neck with its tail.

The man gasped out in pain, before ultimately falling to the ground in a heap.
-

Once the blender finished, Alex picked it up and began taking the lid off.

"What are you making over there?"

Alex smiled, "Margaritas, it's actually one of my strengths. That, and piloting is the other. Although, I did get shot down by a couple of fighter jets so maybe not that great at piloting." He poured some of the blended margarita into cups, "Anyways, cheers." He handed a cup to Spencer.

Spencer handed the cup over to Martha, who grabbed it from him.

"Thanks."

"Sure," Spencer nodded before taking the second cup from Alex.

"I've never had alcohol before."

"Me either."

Alex and Fridge both took a drink from their cups.

"You know what? What the hell."

Tillie spoke up, "It'll probably be a hit or miss. Some people like it, some don't."

Martha and Spencer both took sips from their cups. Spencer immediately spit his back out into his cup. Martha tried to slyly spit hers back into her cup, before wiping her mouth.

"And I'm done with that." Martha set her drink down on the table in front of them.

"It's good."

Fridge walked around the post and held his cup out, "Can I get some more?"

Alex nodded, "Sure." He poured some more into Fridge's cup.

From where Bethany stood, she looked at the various sized candles that Alex had out and lit. "Alex, what's up with all these candles?"

Tillie bent down, looking at all of them curiously.

"Uh, citronella. One of my weaknesses is mosquitoes, which is kind of a bummer when you live alone in an open hut in the jungle."

Bethany smiled at him before looking away, "He's single."

Fridge spoke up from his place by one of the logs used to make the hut. "Who's this?"

Tillie walked over and stood next to him. She brushed a hand across the words carved into the wood. "Alan Parrish was here."

Fridge spoke up, "Who's Alan Parrish?"

Alex replied, "He's the guy that built this place."

Spencer looked at Alex, "Wait, you mean other people have been stuck here too?"

Alex nodded, "Yeah, this was his house. I'm just living in it."

Bethany fanned herself with the hat she was wearing, "So Alex, tell me... How long have you been here in the game?"

"Oh, it's kind of hard to say.. Time is kind of funny here. But, I would say a few months at the very least."

Martha and Spencer both gasped, "A few months?"

Alex nodded, "Yeah, I just can't seem to make it past the transportation shed.

"What's the transportation shed?"

He responded, "It's the next level. First time I went, my hot air balloon wouldn't even take off. Then there was the whole plane thing I mentioned to you guys." He pulled up his sleeve, showing the tattoo on his arm. "And one I got down to my last life, I realized that I was screwed. That I wasn't going to ever get out of here by myself."

He continued, "You can't kill a black mamba with a margarita."

"You sure can't, you need a zoologist for that."

Spencer stood up, "Alex, we can help each other out. You've been here a long time, you know the game. Between all 6 of us, we have a lot of strengths."

Martha nodded, "Yeah, we are actually all pretty good together."

"I don't know, If I miss up one more time... I'm toast, I get completely freaked out just thinking about going back there. I don't want to die here in Jumanji."

"We have to stick together. If we do that, I know we can win."

Bethany let out a gasp after realizing, "Oh my god, you are our missing piece. You were what we needed to find."

"So, the clue was to go to the bazaar and find the missing piece we need. It wasn't the elephant."

Alex looked at them both, "It was me."

Bethany responded, "Uh yeah."

"Dudes, let's do this."

They all shook hands.

Fridge spoke up, "Hey Spencer, are you going to drink that margarita?"

Tillie laughed, "That was random."

"This is one good margarita."

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