Meltus sneezed through Flamzer's feelers and burnt a hole in the leaves of the coconapple tree. A whole swarm of Nixels were heard, and then a lone nixel, and then Major Nixel.

"WHOO! All right... you guys go on up ahead.. hoo..." Said Major Nixel, tired.

"I'm gonna go back and bake.. cupcakes. WHOO!"

Major Nixel noticed a hole in the coconapple tree, but he was too tired to investigate it. Major Nixel walked back to Nixel Land, giving the four mixels in the coconapple tree a chance to flee. The four mixels exited the coconapple tree as quietly as they could. However, for some reason, Murp Romp Teslo grabbed a handful of leaves from inside the coconapple tree.

(A/N: Teslo from the Murp Romp timeline (aka the Teslo from Chapter 1) will be called "Murp Romp Teslo" while Teslo from the ECA timeline will be called "ECA Teslo." to make it clearer.)

"..What's with the leaves?" Asked Burnard.

"They're for a dizzzzguise." Said Murp Romp Teslo.

"We can't let me from the past see me, or else who KNOWS what could happen!"

Murp Romp Teslo puts the leaves on his head as an example, making it look like an afro.

"Alright, let's go-" Before Murp Romp Teslo could finish, Meltus asked a question.

"Wait, but what if there's another invisible wall around here?" Asked Meltus.

Murp Romp Teslo looked at the path the ECA mixels took, and then back at Meltus. He could go along with the ECA mixels and act natural, or he could travel through the future and past.

*Commercial Break*

Meanwhile, in Mixel Moon, the Orbitons were using a Nintendo DS-like remote control to watch the Magma Wastelands. However, they saw something weird.. it was the glitchy goop!

"You don't see that everyday." Muttered Rokit.

"Yeah, I hear ya." Said Naut.

"We just might've found new life on this planet."

"..Totally." Said Niksput.

The Orbitons' drone (aka the big n' green moon that hovered over the glitchy goop) opened its eye (which was actually a camera for the Orbitons to see through) as it looked at the glitchy goop. The glitchy goop stared at the drone when it stared back and soon enough... it grabbed the drone and swallowed it whole.

"WHAT THE!?" Shouted Rokit.

"It just totalled our drone!" Complained Niksput.

Nurp-Naut switched to Nurp and said that he was scared, and then he tightly hugged Rokit.

"Don't worry, space cadet. I'm sure we'll be safe up here." Rokit assured Nurp.

(Fun Fact: This segment of this chapter with the Orbitons is a foreshadow on an event that is truly "out-of-this-world".)

Back in Mixel Land, Murp Romp Teslo, Meltus, Flamzer, and Burnard were sitting down and figuring out what to do. Burnard suggested that he and the other three mixels create a portal into the past again, but Murp Romp Teslo didn't like the idea. Meltus suggested that instead of the past, he and the other three mixels make a portal into the future. Murp Romp Teslo thought about the idea but while he was deciding if it was actually a good strategy, some static was heard.

"...Uh.. d-do you hear that too?" Asked Meltus, concerned.

"Yeah.. I do- OH SCHNIXEL, YOUR FOOT!" Shouted Flamzer.

Meltus looked at his right foot, only to spot a part of the glitchy goop sticking onto it and slowly growing in size.

"Coool!" Said Burnard.

"It's not cool, it'zzzz HORRIBLE!" Worried Murp Romp Teslo.

"Don't panic, Meltus. Just stay away from us and the glitchy goop won't infect us too."

Despite Murp Romp Teslo's request to stay calm, Meltus got more worried about the glitchy goop infecting the other three mixels. Murp Romp Teslo attempted to shock the goop with his tail, but the goop ended up grabbing the electric part of the tail. It made him startle, causing the leafy "afro" to fall apart onto the ground,

"TESLO!" Shouted Flamzer and Meltus.

"RUN, FLAMZER! RUN!" Worried Murp Romp Teslo.

"AND YOU TOO, BURNARD!"

Flamzer grabbed Burnard and tried to run, but Burnard just stood still.

"Come on Burnard, let's scram!" Flamzer told Burnard.

"Nah, I'm good." Said Burnard.

"What the- have you lost your MARBLES!?" Asked Flamzer.

(A/N: Credits to @GlitchyYoshi for the line above.)

"Well, why should I run? They look cool when they're wrestling, hehe." Said Burnard.

In Burnard's vision, he saw Meltus and Murp Romp Teslo having a wrestling match when really, they were having trouble with the glitchy goop. However, the goop had finally corrupted the dinosaur-like Infernite and cycloptic Electroid. Flamzer grabbed Burnard's hand and ran to a cave miles away from them. The two corrupted mixels used their glitchy goop to form a mech that stuck the two mixels together and had long legs the height of a full-grown coconapple tree.

Burnard and Flamzer ran into the cave, hiding from the monster that is their tribemate and the Electroid leader.

"HĖŁĹO-O-Ø-Õ? ĄÑÝONƏ " Asked the two corrupted mixels in unison.

Burnard was about to say something, but Flamzer covered his mouth with four of his feelers. The two Infernites watched as the monster limped past the cave. When the coast was clear, Flamzer finally let go of Burnard's mouth.

"He got long legs." Whispered Burnard.

"Yes, I know." Said Flamzer, annoyed by Burnard's 'eye upgrade'.

Flamzer peeked out of the cave hole for a double-check to make sure the coast was actually clear, and then he spotted red, orange, yellow, blue, brown, and gray specks runnng up on part of the terrifying Mixel Mountain, and the corrupted mixels were limping after them!

"Oh, Schnixel!" Cursed Flamzer.

"What's up, Doc?" Asked Burnard.

(A/N: This is a reference to Bugs Bunny's famous quote.)

"Wait, what did you-.. nevermind that, we gots to save the tribal leaders on that mountain!" Flamzer told Burnard.

Like what Flamzer did, Burnard peeked through the cave hole and the two Infernites now saw a swarm of dark gray specks coming after the colorful specks. However, they weren't that close to the colorful specks. Back in Orbitopia, Mixel Moon, the Orbitons' drone's camera was nothing but black and rainbow static.

"Ugh, this blows!" Complained Nikput.

"How are we gonna find new life now?"

Nurp-Naut switched to Naut and suggested that he and the other Orbitons just go down to Planet Mixel instead of using the drone.

"Naut, there's a reason we're always usin' the drone." Rokit told Naut.

"It's for just in case the hypothetical life we find next time is really dangerous so if it wants to attack somethin', it can attack the drone and we won't be harmed in the process."

"Yeah, but you probably should've built a back-up drone." Reminded Naut.

"Just sayin'."

Rokit looked out the window to see Planet Mixel from afar.

"I know, but I can't risk any of ya gettin' hurt." Rokit told Naut.

*Commercial Break*

Back in Mixel Land, we see the bottom of Mixel Mountain where we see the corrupted mixel mech climbing the bottom of the Mixel Mountain. Up on the middle, nixels are attempting to climb up the mountain and at the top, we see the Series 1 & 2 tribal leaders.