The Maze

**The Maze** is the second episode of Adventures of Team Dogs. The next episode is **Little Monsters.**

## Transcript

* (At night time)
* Mieshu and Jax were in Mieshu's bedroom. They were sitting around a board game.
* Mieshu: "In summary… The story of this game is about two good friends that are lost in a maze and to escape, they must find the one key to freedom in a box that is far from their reach. Got it?"
* Jax: "So, basically… We are just playing a dumb boardgame inside your bedroom, with the lights off? Why are the lights off, anyways?"
* Mieshu: "Because I don't want my mommy, daddy, or Josh knowing I'm still awake this late at night."
* Jax: "But why are we playing a boardgame when video games are much cooler and more, well… Fun?"
* Mieshu: "Because a video game would make too much noise and likely wake them up."
* Jax: "Ok. But what's so fun about this one specific boardgame that's worth us staying up this late at night?"
* Mieshu: "The fun thing is that you can press a button that will actually teleport you inside the game! This button, to be specific. It'll be like a real life adventure!"
* Mieshu showed Jax the button. Jax pressed the button! Suddenly, they appeared in a maze made out of walls of diamond blocks, like in Minecraft, and a floor that looks like an infinite dark void!
* Jax: "Woah! Did you know about this awesome place all this time?"
* Mieshu: "Yes... But this is the first time I entered this version of the maze, so what happens during our travels might be shocking to both of us."
* They heard someone yell: "HEELLP!!!"
* They ran towards the direction they heard the yell come from and saw Skylar trapped in a big pink brick castle in the distance, at what looked like the end of the maze. Skylar was in a princess costume.
* Skylar: "HELP!!!"
* Jax asked Mieshu: "What's going on?"
* Mieshu: "I honestly have no idea."
* A voice said: "I do!"
* Mieshu and Jax jumped a foot. They saw a bald man wearing golden armour standing straight in front of them!
* Mieshu: "Who are you?"
* The man said: "My name is Dave. I'm the miner at this fine diamond village. I'm also the food hunter, mayor, and gardener of this place."
* Mieshu thought for a minute: "I recognize that name from someone or somewhere… But where?"
* Jax: "Why is Skylar yelling from that castle?"
* Dave: "You mean Princess Skylar?"
* Mieshu: "Princess Skylar?!"
* Dave: "Don't you know? Princess Skylar has been captured! And I believe it was the Evil Wizard that captured her!"
* Jax: "How do you know that?"
* Dave: "Well, after all, that IS the Evil Wizard's pink castle."
* Jax: "Oh, of course. I definitely knew that."
* Dave: "You must complete this maze, find the golden key, and use it to free Princess Skylar!"
* Mieshu: "Freeing Skylar? It would be an honor to free the princess!.. And I feel like all of my dreams are coming true."
* Dave: "I wish my dreams would come true. I always wanted to go camping somewhere in Otis City. And maybe even get a dog named- Hm… What would I name a dog?"
* Jax and Mieshu were already walking away from Dave and could no longer hear him.
* Jax: "Sorry, me and Mieshu are already entering this maze. See ya!"
* Dave thinking to himself: "That's it! I would name a dog Mieshu! He'd be my dog. And we'd go camping together and give each other company, and- Hey, where are those two dogs going? Ah, oh well. I wish them luck."
* Mieshu and Jax walked until they saw two paths. One on the right. One on the left.
* Mieshu and Jax said at the same time: "Left!"
* Mieshu: "Jinx!"
* Jax said: "Double jinx, bro!"
* Mieshu and Jax took the left path. Then left again. And again. A goblin stood right in front of them.
* Jax: "Who the heck are you?"
* The goblin exclaimed: "Who am I? Who am I? That's insulting!"
* The goblin started playing loud beats on a pair of drums.
* Mieshu: "Please don't start singing."
* The goblin sang: "You say you don't know! This will be your worst day! I just came! I have lots of fame! I'm the evil Goblin! Now let me sing! I'm the evil Goblin! Now let me sing!"
* Mieshu sarcastically said: "That's uh, great. It really is... But-"
* The goblin continued singing: "I will get you good! Under this hood! I'll fight you two! Oh you don't have a clue! I'm the evil Goblin! Now let me sing! I'm the evil Goblin! Now let me sing! Let me sing! OH YEAAHH!!!!!" The goblin stopped singing.
* Mieshu: "Jax, do you think you could use your superpowers to erase his mind?"
* Jax: "You're asking too much from a retired dog that's me."
* Mieshu: "I'm retired too. But you don't have to be a full time superhero to beat a board game."
* Jax: "Technically, it's a board game that sent us to a big magical maze with evil maniacs in it. But I guess I could try, for you, my old chum."
* Mieshu's eyes widened as he thought to himself: "Chum? CHUM?!"
* Jax: "Mieshu, are you ok?"
* Mieshu: "Yes, I'm fine… I just uh… Had a flash of a bad memory I'd like to forget, that's all. Just do your thing."
* Jax showed the goblin a gold coin attached to a necklace. He moved it left and right.
* Jax: "You are getting sleepy... Sleepy... Sleepy... You shall now sleep."
* The goblin fell asleep.
* JAX SUDDENLY SHOT ELECTRICITY AT THE GOBLIN, YELLING: "TASTE MIND ERASING SPIRIT ELECTRICITY!!!!"
* The goblin woke up and asked: "Who am I?"
* Jax, shocked it actually worked, answered: "Uh… You're um, a duck… A duck without wings."
* The goblin walked away making duck noises.
* Mieshu: "Great job, Jax! It worked!"
* Mieshu and Jax ran away from the goblin.
* Mieshu: "Wow! That was-"
* Jax: "Awesome?"
* Mieshu: "No, that was sad how easily his mind was manipulated, like a metaphor for how we're all just people ready to cling to any truth that gives us a reason to exist, whether or not it's true. It's like there's really no point to all of this… But, yeah, awesome is close enough to enlightenment."
* Jax: "Gotta be honest, I didn't understand a word you just said."
* Mieshu: "Basically, yeah. Awesome."
* They took 5 rights. Then they took a left. The rest of the path behind them got blocked off by a metal wall that magically appeared!
* Jax: "I have a bad feeling about this. We should probably turn around."
* Mieshu: "We can't. That wall that just magically appeared is blocking us from going back!"
* Jax: "Wow! Mind blown!"
* Mieshu: "Yeah. I know, right?"
* Suddenly, a witch appeared in front of them!
* The witch: "I am the evil Witch of Knowledge! The only way I'll let you move forward to save the princess is if my brain starts to hurt!"
* Jax asked Mieshu: "What should we do?"
* Mieshu: "I have an idea. Hey, witch!"
* The witch looked at Mieshu.
* The witch: "This better be good! You know why? Because I'm going to destroy you soon!"
* Mieshu: "I have a riddle!"
* The witch: "What is it?"
* Mieshu: "You have a dime and a dollar, you buy a dog and a collar, the dog is a dollar more than the collar, how much is the collar?"
* The witch: "That's easy! If you have a dime and a dollar, and the dog costs one dollar more than the collar. The collar costs a dime. Any other riddles?"
* Jax: "What runs, but doesn't walk? What has a face, but not a head? What sings but doesn't talk?"
* The witch: "A clock. You disappoint me! I trusted you, thinking you have a good riddle for me! So if you don't, you shall also not live!"
* Mieshu: "I have a confusing statement! It's that you need to trust me when I tell you to never trust anyone!"
* The witch: "That doesn't make sense! If I take your advice to never trust anyone, I can't trust what you say. So I trust people, because I'm not trusting your advice to not trust anyone. But then I would be trusting what you say because... Oh, please just go already! Take your two confusing minds away from me!"
* Jax (talking to Mieshu): "Wow! That actually worked!"
* Mieshu and Jax walked past the witch.
* The witch laughed, then said to herself: "Soon, those two will get what's coming to them!"
* Jax: "So Mieshu, how did you come up with that sentence?"
* Mieshu: "I don't know. I just did."
* They kept on walking.
* Jax: "I've been reading a knock knock joke book."
* Mieshu: "Rad!"
* Jax: "Especially since it's written in BARK! BARK! dog language, that way no humans can read it without my permission!"
* Mieshu: "Tell me a joke!"
* Jax: "I, uh… Can't."
* Mieshu: "Why?"
* Jax: "By read, I meant I've been chewing on it, because I uh… Can't read."
* Mieshu: "That's ok. Nevermind."
* They took a right.
* Jax: "How's life been going at your kingdom?"
* Mieshu: "It's wonderful! Finally mommy and daddy respect me as a king! But I still can't legally file that restraining order against the mailman on the television, so it's kind of a bittersweet victory."
* Jax: "That stinks. Do you have a girlfriend?"
* Mieshu: "Oh Jax... It's complicated. Skylar is awesome! She really is. But then there's Sugar... I guess what I'm trying to say is... A dog can't have two girlfriends. It causes too much drama and competition. But I can't choose JUST Skylar or JUST Sugar. What about you and Bella?"
* Jax: "Mieshu, me and her are just friends. But… Sugar-"
* Mieshu yelled: "YAY!!! WE ARE FINALLY HERE!!!"
* Jax: "Where is 'here'?"
* Mieshu: "We are at THE BRIDGE OVER LAVA! This bridge leads you inside the Evil Wizard's castle! It's guarded by the Evil Wizard's army! If you fall off this bridge, you'll fall into lava! Then you'll get eliminated from the game!"
* Jax: "How will we get passed them?"
* An army member at the back of the line tripped over their untied shoelace, onto the army member in front of him, creating a domino effect resulting in them all falling into the lava.
* Jax: "That was weirdly convenient."
* Mieshu: "Come on! Now let's unlock the front door so that we can free Princess Skylar! Oops..."
* Jax: "What's wrong?"
* Mieshu: "We were supposed to find the key hidden somewhere in the maze, THEN unlock the door and free Skylar."
* Jax: "WHAT?!!!"
* Jax pressed the button, causing them both to teleport out of the giant game.
* Jax: "Too lazy. I'm never stepping foot in that maze, ever again!"
* Mieshu: "At least we had fun."
* Jax: "Yeah… True. I guess there is a point to life, which is making the most out of it as you can."
* Mieshu: "Now what?"
* Jax: "I'm going to bed. I'm still lazy."
* Mieshu: "Me too… Old chum!" Mieshu winked.
* The End!
* Narrator: "AND NOW… a sneak peek to the next episode, titled 'Little Monsters'."
* Mieshu talking to Skylar: "Ok Skylar, I was thinking about hosting a party. Who should I invite?"
* Skylar: "Every member of Team Dogs!"
* Mieshu: "Maybe Henry and Jodie!"
* Skylar: "And don't forget your two cat friends!"
* Narrator: "More Adventures of Team Dogs… Up next!"