A Portal To Mystery

A Portal To Mystery

Season
Team Up!

Episode
2

Air date
*Unknown*

Writer
*Unknown*

Director
*Unknown*

**"A Portal To Mystery"** is the second episode of the "Team Up!" series.

Plot
Catboy, An Yu, Newton Star and Armadylan find a room full of portals and they must find a portal back to Tarabiscoville. The first portal they go to leads to a party in a mansion. However, one guest is killing off the others. Can Catboy and friends find the killer? Or will the killer find them?

Characters
**Main Characters**
* Catboy
* An Yu
* Newton Star
* Armadylan
* Daniel
* Janice
* Wilbur
* Jordan
* Sammy
* Cassie
* Kyle

**Minor Characters**
* Norbert

**Mentioned Characters**
* Owlette
* Gekko

Synopsis
Catboy, An Yu, Newton Star, and Armadylan enter a dimension inhabited by zombies with two moons hovering in the sky instead of one. Catboy is worried about Owlette and Gekko, who are still in their homeworld, and Armadylan in interested in the treasure that this new world may hold. They soon find an invitation signed by an individual called "The Host," inviting them to their mansion to take refuge from the zombies and have a dinner party. However, as Catboy is reading it, an overwhelming number of zombies show up. They make a way through the sea of zombies and race to the distant mansion. They run to the mansion, and Catboy wins the race. However, the front door is blocked by zombies. They enter through a window on the second level by cutting down trees and making stairs with wood.
After breaking the window, the four arrive in the mansion's kitchen. The Gang is met by Jordan and Norbert, two other guests who were invited to the mansion dinner. The four learn that the sea of zombies is not normal for this dimension, but the two moons are normal. After a short conversation, the lights go out suddenly, and Norbert is killed by an arrow trap firing arrows. The lights turn back on, and Catboy examines the crime scene, only to find that Norbert's inventory is sucked into a tunnel.
Sammy enters the room and recognizes Catboy and the others. She soon leads Catboy's gang to the main hall, and the gang is surprised to see that portraits of them are hanging on the wall along with portraits of the other guests in the mansion. They find that Norbert's portrait has been crossed off with a big red "X".
Jordan takes the Gang to the dining room to meet the others in the mansion, including Cassie; Kyle, Cassie's cat; Wilbur ; Daniel; and Janice. In the dining room, Catboy reveals to everyone that Norbert has been murdered and reveals that he was taken out by arrows. There are mixed reactions, and the houseguests act very secretively. Catboy starts acting like a detective and questions the others about Norbert and the Mansion, finding out that Norbert was an infamous griefer and thief, that he claimed to have a "rare item," and that the groups are being very secretive and suspicious.
Jordan shows up and reveals that whoever who invited everyone to the mansion and killed Norbert is probably after the Enchanted Key possessed by one of the guests, and Catboy happens to have one. However, as Jordan gathers everyone's attention, and he sits to reveal this to the others, he is pushed by a piston into the floor and was hitten his head.
The lights go off again as he dies, and the mysterious "Host" reveals himself to be The White Pumpkin and threatens the group that he will resort even to murder to get the enchanted key. Jordan's belongings is sucked into a hole, similar to Norbert's. Cassie and Kyle try to escape but find that they are trapped in the mansion due to the sea of zombies outside.
The group then sees that Jordan's portrait, which is located next to Norbert's portrait on the wall, has also been crossed out, just like Norbert's. The group also sees that Armadylan's portrait is next to Jordan's, indicating that Armadylan might be the next to be murdered. Promising to protect Armadylan, Catboy and Newton head into the dining room to investigate. Catboy finds that there was a button on the table which activated the trap and played a recording, and the "White Pumpkin" revealed during the show was only a costume on an armor stand.
He reasons that the murderer must have pushed to button to activate the trap and that the murderer was sitting at the table when the murder happened. Therefore, one of the house guests at the dinner party is the White Pumpkin. Judging by the complicated traps, the White Pumpkin must be an impressive engineer.
It is then revealed that there are actually multiple buttons on the table to activate the trap, and only Daniel, Wilbur, Sammy, and Newton Star were sitting at seats that had the buttons next to them, meaning that they could be the White Pumpkin. Catboy then interrogates Daniel, Wilbur, and Sammy in the interrogation order of the player's choice. He/she can question the three suspects about their engineering as well as their thoughts on who might have the key.
It is revealed during the interrogation that Daniel and Sammy had been competing to find the Enchanted Flint and Steel for a long time, and Daniel found it first, much to Sammy's dismay. Now, Daniel claims that someone has stolen the key from him. The suspects answer questions about engineering and brewing differently depending on the order in which they are interrogated. Cassie brings in Newton and reminds Catboy that Newton also had one of the buttons to activate the trap, but Catboy chooses not to question him.
Catboy, An Yu, and Armadylan head to the kitchen to further investigate the trap that killed Norbert and sucked up his loot. Catboy sees a suspicious painting and notices that it has eye holes through which the White Pumpkin can spy on his victims. He/she then discovers a secret passageway behind the painting, which contains a lever that activates the trap that fires the Arrows. The three follow the secret passageway to the library, where Daniel is held.
Catboy uses a painting with eye holes to spy on the person who is locked up in the library.. Sammy visits Daniel and reveals that Daniel has accidentally pushed the button under the table and triggered the trap that killed Jordan. Suddenly, Catboy notices that the White Pumpkin is spying on them through a different painting. The murderer pulls a lever, and spiders are released and attack the group. The door to the library is blocked by iron bars, stranding the victims in the room full of spiders.
Catboy, Armadylan, An Yu, Daniel, and Sammy successfully killed all the spiders, only the find that the spying White Pumpkin is gone. Catboy questions Daniel for killing Jordan, but all of a sudden, the lights go off again. The White Pumpkin comes into the room with a diamond axe and kills Sammy. The murderer sweeps the victim's inventory into a hopper and escapes through a secret passageway.
The White Pumpkin breaks into the main hall, and Newton joins Catboy as he chases the White Pumpkin. However, lights go off once again, and Newton is left with the White Pumpkin mask in his hand. Newton tells Catboy that the White Pumpkin caught him and stuffed the pumpkin on his head, but all other guests start to believe Newton is the White Pumpkin because of how he had one of the buttons on the table and how murders only started happening when Catboy's gang arrived. Cassie accuses Newton and tries to lock him up, and Armadylan agrees to watch over Newton.
Catboy and An Yu then discover another secret passageway behind a painting. After solving a puzzle, Catboy finds a huge empty shaft, and An Yu becomes very annoyed with the other houseguests. Catboy reminds her that they need to clear Newton's name.
Eventually, after getting down the tunnel, the two find zombie spawners, which proves that the White Pumpkin created the overwhelming number of zombies inhabiting the dimension. The passageway ultimately leads them to the White Pumpkin's secret lair, where they find a farm, where the murder grows white pumpkins. They then find Wilbur in the lair, who reveals that he has the lime green enchanted key which he stole from Daniel. Wilbur wants to give the enchanted flint and steel to the White Pumpkin in order to make everything stop.
In the lair, Catboy finds some Pearls that the White Pumpkin used to go down the empty shaft. He finds a chest filled with crossed-out portraits and dozens of calico cats. There is, however, no crossed-out portrait of Cassie, and the calico cats look like Cassie's cat, Kyle, proving that the White Pumpkin is Cassie.
Back on the top, Wilbur rounds everyone up, and Catboy accuses Cassie of being the White Pumpkin. He proves it with the evidence that Cassie was in the main hall when Norbert's portrait was crossed out, that there is no crossed-out portrait for Cassie in the lair, and that they found calico cats resembling Winslow. She reveals that she has been trapped in the two-mooned dimension for ages with an exit portal but no enchanted key to activate it and that she invited everyone to find out who has it by killing them and seeing if it is in their inventories. Eventually, Cassie threatens to fight everyone and ultimately end up activating one of her traps and drowning in sand in her own trap.
At this time, the Sun comes out, the Zombies burn away, and Catboy's Gang part ways with Daniel, Wilbur, and Janice. As Catboy goes to light the "portal" back to the Portal Network, a trap is activated, and they fall into the Portal Chamber buried deep underground. It turns out that the portal they lit was not the real one, and the real portal is buried in the Portal Chamber all along. It is revealed Cassie is still alive and has faked her death. Cassie has suspended Catboy's gang above a pit of deadly Endermites as a final trap and threatens them to hand over Catboy's enchanted key. However, Catboy escapes the trap with his super cat jump. Catboy and Cassie fight over Catboy's enchanted key; however, Cassie is able to overpower her with the help of the Gang, and Cassie, yet again, falls into her own trap.
Cassie finally beckons for Catboy to give her Kyle, and Catboy gives him back to her. With the mystery solved, Catboy and the Gang head back to the Portal Network through the real portal.

Trivia* This is the second episode in the "Team Up!" series.
* The story is similar to Murder Mystery.