S01 E07 Candy Crush

During a school trip, Aurora and her class will stop in the midst of tribal war in the Candy Dimension.

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S01 E08 River Camp

**Candy Crush** is the 7th episode of the 1st season in the series.

## Plot synopsis

When Aurora and Sam’s class was in the Candy Dimension, they’ll camp here for what they realized that they've lost their village again and they need Aurora's help to reclaim it back, but end up soon surrounded by gingerbread men.

## Overview

Aurora and Sam's class, guided by Miss Skullnick, are riding the school bus on a field trip to Echo Creek's Opossum Nature Reserve. After entering a tunnel and Aurora reading to Sam a curiosity about possums in her booklet to try to cheer him up, the bus reaches the light at the end of the tunnel. However, the ground ends and the bus falls into a gorge.

Aurora manages to brake the fall by casting parachutes on the bus and they all descend unharmed. At the top of the valley, Aurora and Sam spot a bright spot, which with the help of the Telescope Spell, identifies it as a dimensional portal. However, it seems unstable and Aurora believes it can close at any moment. Sam asks if Aurora can use some spell to get all of them there, but Aurora says she still doesn't feel confident about casting a spell like that. Aurora thinks about using her dimensional scissors, but when looking for it, she remembers forgetting it at home. They then resolve to walk through the valley until they reach the top.

After exhausting hours walking through the forest of lollipops, the marsh of peanut butter and the fields of hot milk geysers, they pause for resting. Hungry, Sam tries to tear off a lump of licorice for himself from a nearby tree, but at the same time, a gummy bear also grabs the vine. After a brief dispute, Sam drives him away while saying "that's it, run away, Boo-Boo-Bear". It doesn't take long until they are soon surrounded by a tribe of gummy bears with sugar candy spears. Sam and Skullnick threaten to confront the little bears, but Aurora stops them and tries to talk to the tribe. She barely steps forward and the bears are startled. They drop their weapons and start saluting her. Aurora suspects that they think she is some kind of deity, and this is confirmed when one of the tribal bears calls her the "Cheek Goddess". Sam asks her to "use her divine influence and get them out of this situation". Aurora asks the bears for help and they take them to their refugee village.

Upon arriving there, Aurora understands why she is called the "Cheek Goddess" when she spots a huge sugar candy statue of Cosmica the Explorer. The gummy bears tell a story that "in the past, the tribe of gingerbread men took the village from the gummy bears, until a goddess with drawings on the cheeks came out of a portal of light and helped the gummy bears regain their home. She had a little one with her, like Aurora, but with blue stars on her cheeks and blue hair... she tried to take the past chief home with her". They also explain that they've lost their village again and they need Aurora's help to reclaim it back. The gummy bear chief tells them that the gingerbread men see themselves as superior by being made of ginger, when in fact the superior ones are those that are made of gum. Aurora accepts the request to help them because the only way to get to the portal is through the captured village.

When they arrive to the captured village, they see at the end of the hill the dimensional portal, and just like Aurora suspected, was growing smaller and would close at any moment. Sam asks what Aurora's plan is to free the village and she replies to him saying just to trust her. She astonishes them all when she orders them to drop their sugar candy spears and follow her into the village. They are soon surrounded by gingerbread men, but Aurora says they have come in peace and asks to speak to their leader. After a long conversation with the chieftains of the two tribes, Aurora explains that "when two very different people come together, something wonderful is born". Aurora creates diplomatic peace between the two tribes. She ends up distracted by the celebration of the natives and forgets about the portal home. However, Sam soon reminds her that the portal is almost finished closing. Aurora and her gang run to the closing portal. Before she enters it however, both chiefs thank Aurora, saying they are in her debt.

Soon after they return to Earth, the portal closes. The group ends up taking a ride in the van of the Echo Creek Opossum Nature Reserve. Sam comments that he didn't know that dimensional portals could open or close randomly on their own.

The episode ends with Aurora ominously saying that "they can't".

## Appearances

* Aurora Butterfly
* Sam
* Miss Skullnick
* Echo Creek Academy students
* Gummy Bear
* Gingerbread Men