The Stone of Artos The Sparticle Mystery

-We are on a race to bring back the adults.

-I don't want them back!

-Polish that Head.

-We've found what we've been searching for.

The Key and the Head belong together.

Serena, the stone head is not just a head! It's a stone person.

-A statue, you mean.

-It's you who's been secretly helping us.

Holly found a sword with Celtic symbols on it.

Looked like our next clue.

Stand on one leg. Hop up and down.

Wave your arms up and down.

Ugh!

Did you just use your powers on us?

Well? What've you got?!

Stitch. I've been around that rock three times. There's no statue.

Well?

Did a great wheelie just over there.

Fallester Lake, the mouth of the River Artos. There.

The "rock that speaks". There.

Well, I'm listening! But I'm not hearing.

You're right, Sadiq, go and get Reese

to double-check her translation of the Stone of Artos.

Lemon Meringue, any sign of Holly and Serena yet?

Nothing happening, Sausage Roll.

Major news, I've lost my favourite sunglasses.

-'Popcorn? Over.'

-No sign of Holly and Serena.

Flaxseed cookie?

Sausage Roll. Call sign for "Danger" for this mission is "flaxseed".

'Roger that. Flaxseed means danger.'

-Ugh!

-Frank...

These are Tia's. The Sparticles are already here.

What? How did this happen?!

HE GRUNTS

You sure this is the Quantum Nexus? Bit ordinaire, innit?

This location was inscribed on the Stone of Artos.

Artos, schmartos.

We're very close to the greatest triumph of your Empire,

keeping the world just the way it is...adult-free, for ever.

Now that's what I like to hear, my Number Two.

I'm still your Number Three, yeah?

Sure, Furry.

It's Fury.

Is it? Like it matters!

I pay you good fizzies to do a job.

Actually you don't. You've not paid me in weeks.

Paid us.

Tell you what, Furry,

after we reduce the Quantum Nexus to rubble

I'll make you Commander in Chief.

And the rest of you, OFEs - Order of the Fizzy Empire.

Now, whatever this Nexus thing is, we better find it, and find it fast!

All right, you lumps, pick up the pace!

Callum! Look.

Do you reckon this is the rock that speaks?

'Let me out! You have no right to lock me up!'

SHE KNOCKS ON VAN DOOR

If you two are looking for the buried treasure as well,

there isn't any.

And you are...?

Dreary, of the Druids, obviously.

Jeffrey of the Sparticles.

That sounds like fun. I spend my life doing rituals.

Because that's what druids do.

I've carried on the tradition since my parents died.

CLOCK CUCKOOS

That reminds me. I've got to get on with my next ritual.

It's called Behold The Colours of Nature's Magnificence

That Show The Way From The Crown of Light.

Would you like to watch?

-No, it's all right, thanks...

-Need to be getting on.

Bit of a mouthful, but Mum and Dad liked to use the proper titles.

I just used the Ritual of Artos.

Did you say Artos?

Yes.

Artos is the God worshipped by the Celtic tribe

who lived in these very rocks.

Probably, Dad made it up, though.

Er, I don't think so.

The grown-ups are still alive.

We're on a quest to rescue them, and the Statue of Artos is the key.

Statue of Artos, did you say? Er...

Sorry, I don't think I've actually ever heard of it.

What's that?

That? It's my table.

That's not a table, it's the Statue of Artos!

It is?!

This is it! The head will fit exactly onto HERE.

-We've got the head in our van.

-Goodness.

CLOCK CUCKOOS

I have to get ready for the Ritual of Artos.

I can only do it once a year, in the Summer Solstice at midday...

TODAY!

That's in three quarters of an hour!

It's the first time I will be doing it without Mum and Dad.

Maybe something will actually happen this time.

The Ventriman's sketch shows the sun's rays

hitting the crown on the head.

So we've got to get this Artos fella back onto his feet, then.

-Sadiq!

-What are you doing here?

-Fizzy's here, Sadiq.

They're going to destroy the Quantum Nexus. I want to help you.

Is this a trick? Part of Fizzy's strategy?

-You, me, this?

-No, I'm serious.

What if I trick Fizzy, get him to think

I've found the Quantum Nexus, buy you some time?

You really think you can do that?

I'm an undercover double agent!

Fizzy and Holly have never suspected a thing. Not once.

You're so good at lying, why would I be dumb enough to trust you?

I miss my family. I miss going to school and learning.

Yeah I know, tragic,

but someone's got to be a surgeon and do the operations.

And hey, listen, it's not you taking the massive risk, is it?

If anyone finds out, I'm...

Well, with the risks you've taken, I guess I could keep a secret.

Keema Kebab to Sausage Roll. Do you copy?

'We've found the Statue.'

-WICKED!

-'I'll guide you once you're on your way.

'And watch out for the Dims.'

On our way. Grab the key, the head and the sword. We're in business.

Serena is a double agent.

You're not sure if you can trust her.

Reese! That's a lie! Stop meddling with our minds!

We're all sick of it, and sick of YOU.

Do you want to be locked up in the van again?

Wait till I tell the others about Serena. I saw you together!

You can't say a thing. You mustn't.

Serena's life depends on it.

Ow! You're hurting me, Sadiq.

Reese, come back!

It's not going to stand up without its feet.

Where's Dreary?

That walking sheet is the only chance we have of finding the Feet of Artos.

GASPS AND WHIMPERS

BOTH: Ernesto!

Ach! You stupids! Do my friends look like Dims, well do they? Huh?

Well, er, no, but you said...

Silence, Bonny! Release my compadres!

And Holly, my chi-chi? How is she?

WHO is she, you mean?

She's still on the Dark Side, Ern.

What are you doing here, Ernesto?

Fizzy is here, he followed you.

I thought you could use my stealth and cunning

to help you on your noble quest to find the grown-ups.

My good friend Callum the Sheriff

has kept me updated on your progress.

We're looking for a statue! Do you think you can help us search?

Of course, belleza.

What dog goes there? Do not lurk in the shadows!

Show yourself, man!

Er...

Terribly sorry to bother you. Hi, everyone!

It's just that every Summer Solstice at midday

I stand on that stone platform and...

I'd really appreciate some privacy for

my Behold the Colours of Nature's Magnificence

That Show The Way From The Crown of Light, also known as the...

We haven't got time for this.

A revolutionary believes in freedom of expression. Please.

'Meringue, where are you?'

Reading you, Sausage.

We're with Ernesto and he's going to help us!

'We're looking for a Druid and a pair of stone feet.'

Popcorn to Sausage. We've found both of them!

The Druid is standing on the feet waiting to do

a ritual at midday on the Summer Solstice or something.

The Artos Ritual!

That's it! That's why Dreary's ritual was at midday on the Summer Solstice.

It's the only time of year when the sun will be in exactly

the right position for its rays to hit the crown.

What? Dreary's crown?

The crown on the statue!

The statue should be standing on the stone feet, not Dreary.

Call up Frankie, and quick!

The Summer Solstice hits in less than 20 minutes!

Hurry up.

Come on.

'Change of location, head due west, 200 yards

'and look for a gap between two rocks.'

Roger that.

'We need to put the stone head on the stone body

'on the stone feet where Dreary is standing.'

And we've less than 20 minutes to do it

or that's our chance gone for a whole year.

My Ritual of Artos could help bring back Mum and Dad?!

Well, it looks like it. Yeah.

Quantum Nexus located, my Leader.

'Yes!'

Fury, do you copy?

'Copy that.'

Hold the Dims at the Lake. Confirmed sighting on the Sparticles.

'Got that. Going there. Oh, yeah!'

'We've got to widen our search, Holly.

'No sign of anyone or anything. Over.'

Nothing, Serena. Meet back at the Candycruiser like we agreed?

Over and out.

Greetings, compadres. Make yourself at home.

-How are you doing, mate?

-Good to see you.

-Get off!

-Ow!

-What's going on?

-A revolution. And you lot are in my way.

Get off me!

Keema Kebab calling.

'Just approaching the rocks.'

Reply as if nothing is wrong or your petit panita will pay the price.

Hurry up, Sadiq!

And I hope you've left some of those flaxseed biscuits for me.

I'm starving.

She's always talking about food.

I have sympathy.

The food of the jungle is not enough for me either.

You did good, Sombrero.

Flaxseed biscuits! What a time to be thinking about food.

Flaxseed biscuits!

Flaxseed's codename for danger!

Keema Kebab calling Popcorn.

'Copy, over.'

I can't carry the head any further.

I'm just nearby, can you come and help me? Over and out.

Let me go so I can help him.

You think I was born yesterday, huh?

No, I will go and assist Sadiq.

I told you where the Sparticles were heading in trust.

I am only interested in one thing.

-Yourself?

-Quiet! I am only interested in the revolution.

Bringing back the adults will ruin the chances

of a safer, more equal world!

The old world wasn't perfect but at least it had my mum in it!

It's terrible that our parents have died,

a tragedy to end all tragedies.

The adults didn't die. They just disa...

Guard them with your life, Bonita!

Don't cry Bonny. No-one's dead.

It's ten to twelve!

You've only got ten minutes to put that statue together

before the Summer Solstice!

Please help us bring back our parents. All of them.

Wh...!

Yes!

Now you can be a pathetic bystander on the sidelines of history!

Argh! You know how to hurt a man!

Ernesto! You lied to me!

You told me my mama and papa had passed away!

You bad boy!

It's five minutes until midday.

You guys have really got to put that statue together, fast.

Head, key...we're missing something!

The sword! Sadiq, where's the sword?

With Reese! I'll find her, you build Artos.

Muna!

-How are you here?

-Only with my mind

Your powers are so mighty.

What is this place? Is this heaven? Are you dead, Muna?

-I'm sorry.

-Don't be.

I didn't die at the Sparticle Project,

I just came back here, to limbo.

You must be very lonely.

No. I can travel anywhere I want.

This place is like a huge junction between all the dimensions.

And there are billions of them. I can show you.

That's your present dimension and...

RUMBLING

Is that Mars?

It's Earth, but a version of Earth where life has never existed

and the conditions will never support it.

Are you sure about this, Serena?

Certain. These...

..these rocks will be transformed into the Quantum Nexus

by the people carrying the "keys," or the treasures.

So the Sparts are on their way?

Yep. Holly and the Dims are tracking them.

I'll make you a Dame when all this is over.

How are we going to realign the right dimension,

the one with the parents in it, if there are so many?

-How do you get the right one?

-You can't.

RUMBLING

That's a dimension where the earth is covered in a gas called sulphur.

It's poisonous.

If you realign that particular dimension with yours,

you'll wipe out the whole entire world of children.

And there are many more dangerous dimensions like that.

Muna, my tribe, they're going to unlock the Quantum Nexus

and attempt to bring two worlds together!

You must stop them, Reese. It is far too dangerous.

Accept the world the way it is.

The way I have accepted I must live in limbo.

I'll rescue you.

How? You're not really here. Look!

RUMBLING

Is that the dimension I came from?

I think so.

There could be many versions of you, but I think so.

I think that's you.

You must go back and stop your friends.

Now you've seen what you've seen, you must tell them it's impossible.

I'll save you, Muna! I promise.

Save yourselves, Reese!

Reese, stop her! Reese!

What are you doing? We've got about two minutes to catch Holly

and get the sword to the statue!

Stop Sadiq! It's too dangerous!

Two minutes to midday! Hurry!

We haven't got all day!

-Is it on?

-Liam, shut up.

You took your time.

It's a long climb.

Where are the Sparticles?

Ask your Number Two. She's with the Sparticles' Number One.

What?!

Well?

Well, you don't really think I'd respect someone like you.

Seize her!

Not so fast.

What are you doing?! Fools!

When you pay us, you can call us what you like.

When you don't, we pick our own sides.

Go and help your mates bring back their parents.

Truth be told, we're pig sick of this little runt.

Any minute now, the sun's going to hit the statue.

The sun's going in! It won't work without the sun's rays!

It's midday! Reese! We'll have to leave the sword.

The sun's coming back out.

-The Sword! Where's the sword?

-Long story.

The sun's coming round. It's going to hit the statue any second.

Get the key in. Where's the key?

Where's the key? The key!?

Hurry, Sadiq!

Put it in the Crown.

Help me.

The light is going to hit the statue!

CLOCK CHIMES RING

The Summer Solstice. This is it.

The adults will be back any minute.

Where are they, where are the adults?

Why is nothing happening?

Don't look at me.

Is this the Quantum Nexus?

We're going to lose the sun when it moves round.

We must be missing something.

The sword. we need the sword to open the Quantum Nexus.

We don't have it! Holly stole it.

Excuse me, but there's no sword in the Ritual of Artos.

We're stuffed.

No. Look here, on the floor.

It's an Ogham stone - with something on it!

Reese, decode the stone.

Reese! Get her notebook with the symbols.

No, you can't! Leave me alone. We're all going to die!

Here you go Frankie, decode it.

Reese, what's wrong with you?

-It's an S!

-Let's see if we can find any more.

-I'll help!

-I've found another one! Give me the book!

-Here.

And me! Here!

-Where've you been?!

-They tied me up! I just got free.

-Do you have one?

-Sadiq, over here.

I've found one.

And me here.

Another one here.

-Behold the colours of nature's magnificent...

-Shut up, Dreary!

..nature's magnificence that show the way from the Crown of Light!

This is what druids were told would happen in the Artos Ritual!

It's Reese's jewel making a rainbow.

The colours are part of the ritual.

But it can't be part of a ritual

when the jewel is some old thing in Reese's hair.

I don't get it. There are so many stones.

How do we know what order to translate them in?

We're running out of time! The sun will move off the statue soon.

Behold the colours that show the way from the Crown of Light!

Sadiq, where did the jewel in Reese's hair come from?

From the Stone of Artos. Katy Creature prised it out, remember?

I think it's meant to be in the middle of the key.

The crown on the stone head is the Crown of Light

-Reese, give me the Jewel, quick.

-No!

-OW! No...you can't have it!

-Reese, just give me...

You don't understand. No! No!

Frankie! Go! Go!

-Put the jewel in the key.

-I can't reach.

The Artos ritual is REAL. Mum and Dad were right after all.

It's lighting up some of the stones

It must spell out the message. Ignore the rest and translate them.

You shouldn't be meddling with dimensions! It's not safe!

S...

I...

That's an L.

It's a V.

Why, Reese? Why isn't it safe?

Muna told me.

E...R. Silver!

-It's spelt out "silver!"

-Keep going!

Reese - Muna's dead. She died at the Sparticle Project.

No she didn't! I saw her in Limbo, I really did.

And Sadiq, it's too dangerous to try and realign the dimensions.

We could all die.

It's all right, Reese,

maybe you overdid it at the warehouse with all the mind control.

Come here. Just... Reese, come here!

What is it then! Silver what?

That's a tree symbol! We know that means forest.

Silver Forest!

The Quantum Nexus isn't here, it's at the Silver Forest.

We're here in the Silver Forest?

Look, that stone's lit up and it's not in the book.

I know what we're looking for!

Holly's here. She's heard everything!

Serena, let's go! Serena!

Where is it, then? The Quantum Nexus!

I'm going to smash it up and none of you are going to stop me!

No! That is sacred, you vandal!

Aargh!

KIDS LAUGH

-You will live to regret this day.

-Shut up!

Oh, I love it when you are angry.

Do you think your Quantum Nexus is the same as my buried treasure?

Mum and Dad always said it was buried

somewhere in the Silver Forest.

They've been right about everything else so far

so maybe they're right about the Nexium.

Nexium. What's that, Dreary?

The Artos tribe made their weapons from Nexium.

Legend has it that their swords never broke.

The Sword!

And the key - they're both made of Nexium.

Nexium, Nexus, Quantum Nexus. They must be connected.

-Dreary - you're brilliant.

-I am?

Shame we don't know where in the Silver Forest the Quantum Nexus is.

We can't dig the whole thing up.

We'll just have to settle for a world without adults.

No way! Somehow Holly understood the final clue - I know she did.

Excuse me, this is a Tribe Sparticles discussion.

Sadiq?

Serena's always been on our side. She's a double agent.

So, I'm not a liar?

So, now you're suddenly on our side, after being captured?

Hmm, convenient(!)

Holly is the only one who knows what to look for in the Silver Forest!

If I catch up with her, I can lay a trail for you.

Ah...

Maybe this will help.

See you at the Quantum Nexus.

What? It's tribe leader perks.

-How did you get away?

-Fizzy turned up.

-And then...

I wanted to get directions to the Silver Forest off that Druid.

And the Sparticles?

The Dims are taking care of them.

So, the last clue's on the Sword?

It's on the underside of the disc.

To the Silver Forest!

Reese, you have been chosen to help us.

You made me believe in you. You tricked me.

I know who my real friends are. Do you?

-Frankie, pipe down and do as I say.

-You're not my parent!

She's trying to kill us!

We'd better get a wriggle on!

-You won't call off the quest?

-No. Never.

Do you want to be gassed? Poisoned? Killed!?

-Chi Chi! Take care.

-I know. It's a jungle out there.

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