What The Luck!?

"Why are they all calling me a master mind?" Asher looked at Jane who had slightly red ears and a rough breath. 

"I might have told them that it was your plan to escape the capture." Jane was a little embarrassed when she had gone to help with the plan and found it easier to tell people it was all Asher's idea. This led to every camper taking Asher's name to heart. 

With the thought of Asher being a ruthless battle master thrown away and instead replaced with a brilliant master mind that wanted to rescue them, they had all idolized him. They knew that not everyone had escaped but it was a small loss in the grand scheme. 

"Asher, Jane!" Louis called out for the two of them since he was resting nearby. "I found Sammy and Laura. Have you seen Art?" The only one missing that none of them had seen was Art. The last they saw of him was when they were about to start sharing the plan with the others. 

"So, we lost Art...It's not as sad as I thought it would be." Jane acted a little dramatic but laughed it off. 

"Poor Art, my dear friend lost to the prisoners. I will attend your funeral my friend and lay down flowers." Asher followed her lead only to feel a punch top his shoulder. 

"I'm not dead. I just got here after you. I think this is almost everyone. That little flash bang stunt nearly blinded half the forest I swear." Art was annoyed that his friends so easily gave up on him. But the smile of victory he had overpowered that. 

"Then we all escaped. Wait...Jackson?" Asher was about to say they were all back together when he noticed that the largest of them was still not there. 

"He's so quiet sometimes I didn't realize he was missing. How will I go on without Jackson to tell me what I can or can't eat from the forest?" Laura had realized that she would not be able to safely snack on the wild berries without Jackson's input on what is safe to eat.

"Should we hold a funeral for him? If Garnet got him after we left and came here he might actually have died due to over training." The group was ready to admit that they had lost Jackson. There was no way that he had been able to resist any of the fake prisoners, especially Garnet. He was just too gentle and inexperienced. 

"What do you think I do to my campers? They wouldn't get overworked. They would just be pushed to their extremes to promote positive future growth." Garnet came out of the dark with a small group of campers behind her. There were some fake prisoners who had not been near the captured prisoners and could still see properly. 

"Jackson! You're alive!" Sammy and Jane shouted out seeing the larger kid behind Garnet. 

"Umm, why wouldn't I be? I got captured while I was trying to find my way back but then I ended up helping with first aid. There are a ton of the staff members that are temporarily blind or super uncomfortable with bright light. Garnet won't tell me what happened though." 

Jackson had been clueless about what had happened with the prison break due to him being in the forest alone. He had been found by one of the other fake prisoners and just made it back to the tent the campers had been kept at after Garnet yelled. 

"Oh. yeah...Super weird. I have no idea why they would be like that." Asher tried to avoid the conversation but the campers behind him were all actively speaking about the tactics used to help them escape. Jackson soon started to piece together what had happened just by listening to the talking around him. 

"Now. My staff members are going to be cleaning up. Part one of the night training has been completed. You were all left to your own devices while in the forest at night. All of you should have gained something from this and I will let you decide what it is. Now for the second part of the training. All of you are going to run a lap around the camp and complete one set of the circuit I will display." 

Campers started to whine about wanting to sleep and hope they had already run around the entire time. Others just plain didn't want to work out at all. Garnet held a serious gaze with the group making them close their mouths and stop complaining. "If you had all been captured it would be five laps and five circuits. You all earned the discounted work out. But that is a loss in my opinion so I will gladly return it to the normal amount if you would like?" 

Garnet's threat made everyone start running immediately. They refused to be held there longer with five times the work. The only ones that were stopped from doing this were Asher and his friends. Garnet appeared to have more to say to them before she let them head off. "So you went to the storage cabin and found the egg?" 

"Yes we did. Jim was very night and gave us a tour. He even showed us the game he likes to play." Asher responded instantly not wanting to anger Garnet at all. He was worried that Jane and his plan to stop her and escape was enough to make her unhappy for a while. The gals he had been given were enough to make him almost sure of this. 

"No one goes to the storage cabin until the last free days of the camp. It was a smart move to go there now. I am sure that guy couldn't help but point you in to a better direction." Garnet knew that Jim was always a little help to campers and figured that this was all because of him. "I will have the luxury carbon unlocked for you, just make sure that you leave the egg outside so that we can hide it again in a few hours. I will be hiding those miniature flash bombs for tomorrow night's group." Garnet left them there and the group was able to move on with their work out.