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Pencil, Eraser, and Ruler all split up to look for that villain.

Ruler found two clues. Pencil found no clues. Eraser found one clue. Ruler’s two clues were: a plastic screw cap, and sticky footprints that were purple. And Eraser’s one clue was a diary with a code lock on it. He gave it to Pencil to keep safe.

But then Ruler had an idea. It was to pop the bubbles and go through that way. So Ruler tried popping one of the bubbles and it worked. Eraser just punched the bubbles and they all flew everywhere. Pencil tried catching the bubbles. He should have used his head.

“Pencil, use your head!” said Eraser. But he was just having fun, so Eraser grabbed him by the carbon and dragged him out. But then, before he could poke and pop any bubbles, this sort of force field pushed them all the way back.

Then Pencil saw a key in the distance. So he took the key. Pencil stuffed the key in his eraser pocket and ran back to get back into the conversation. Wow that was weird, thought Pencil.

But his friends had disappeared! So straight away he started looking for secret doors. Perhaps, maybe, probably… the key would open some sort of magnetic-complex-future-customized sort of door.

So Pencil held the key up high in his hands. But nothing happened. So Pencil just sat there all broody and sad. (I know, Pencil is kind of crazy.)

But then, quite unexpectedly, the whole floor broke into pieces.

What did Pencil see?