Camp Fear

***Camp Fear*** is the eighth episode of *Clock 10: Choose Your Own Adventure*.

## Plot

While driving along a cliffside, Geralt swerves to avoid hitting a child walking down it. Seeing the child almost fall over the side, Clock changes into Wildmutt, using his front paws to hang off the cliff and back paws to grab the child. Although the sight of Wildmutt causes the kid to faint, Wildmutt does successfully rescue him.
Bringing the kid into the camper, they find he has a nametag with the name "Gilbert," as well as a badge on his shirt's sleeve identifying he's a camper from Camp Opinicon, which the group heads to immediately.

When the group reaches the camp, they find it almost entirely abandoned, aside from meeting two twins named Andy and Mandy. Geralt brings Gilbert in before deciding to go see about making food for the group, while Clock inquired as to where everyone went. Although the twins don't give much of an answer, Gilbert suddenly wakes up screaming about someone coming. Hearing an odd noise outside, Clock looks up to see several humanoid figures approaching, the moonlight revealing them to be mushrooms.

Clock instructs Taryn to protect the kids before leaving the cabin and running to the mushrooms, transforming into Heatblast. Realizing he could cause damage to the camp, he leads the mushrooms closer to the nearby lake so he can have access to water in case things get out of hand. Blasting through a couple of mushrooms, Heatblast opts to fly up and then bash through them all head first, managing to destroy them before he transforms back.

Reaching the cabin, Taryn relays that they heard the screams of Geralt while Clock was away. Clock runs to the kitchen to find Geralt completely gone, then accesses Wildmutt again to head into the woods. Wildmutt tracks Geralt's scent to a large pit in the ground with several more mushrooms near it which he proceeds to destroy before heading into the pit. Running through the underground tunnel, Wildmutt uses his quills to take out some more mushrooms before meeting Geralt who is trapped by roots sticking out of the wall. Before he can do much of anything, though, Wildmutt is suddenly transformed back and trapped by roots as well.

Although trapped, Clock manages to reach the Omnitrix, and attempts to hit it several times with the intent of using Ghostfreak's intangibility to escape. However, when he finally transforms, he finds himself having become Wildvine instead. Wildvine gets himself and Geralt out of the root traps, but they end up getting pulled further underground by a force that reveals itself to be the Mycelium, the brain of the mushroom.

Wildvine intends to use his seed bombs to destroy the Mycelium, but this proves to do little damage. The Mycelium tells him that the spores have already grown above the ground to the size of windmills, and taunts that Wildvine isn't capable of stopping it or its spores. Leaving the Mycelium with some thorns in its side, Wildvine manages to take Geralt and escape, only to find themselves trapped in a group of monster shrooms.

Protecting Geralt, Wildvine shoots his thorns to destroy the mushrooms, and slices down one of the gigantic spores, though Geralt explains this will only cause the Mycelium offspring to spread. Transforming back, Clock intends to use Heatblast to burn the mushrooms down, but Geralt mentions that would burn the forest as well. Alternatively, he suggests using the athlete's foot medicine he saw back at camp to kill off the fungus.

Returning to camp, Clock finds the medicine and runs off with several canisters after becoming Four Arms. He uses his multiple limbs to swing through the forest and pour the medicine over the spores, as well as heading back underground to directly apply it to the Mycelium. After Four Arms finishes, the rest of the camp manages to return, no longer held hostage by the Mycelium, and the family heads off.

## Characters

* Clockwork Firefly
* Taryn Firefly
* Geralt Firefly
* Gilbert
* Andy
* Mandy

### Villains

* Mycelium
* Mutant Mushrooms

## Aliens Used

* Wildmutt *(2x)*
* Heatblast
* Wildvine *(debut, selected alien was Ghostfreak)*
* Four Arms