Chapter 12: B-I-N-G-O

Chapter 12:
 So the children (along with Julian's family and present day Adrian) disembarked on their journey, however, they were already two blocks from Julian's house when they realized that they didn't know where they were going.
 "Wait, what are we even doing?" Mary said with concern in her voice.
 "Let me check," Adrian grabbed what appeared to be a more advanced version of Alex's machine from his back pocket, the crew huddled around Adrian to see a large, grey mass, labelled "Starforce Mine"
 "Uh, what is the 'Starforce Mine' supposed to be?" Kayla asked
 "Oh, well, Terri, you know how the Prototype has 2400 players now, but only about thirty or so regularly play?" Terri nodded "Well, I stumbled upon the Starforce Mine, and found out most users of the Prototype are imprisoned in the Starforce Mine, where they mine a mineral called "Starforce" for an unknown user." Kyle gasped when he heard of this news
 "We need to go in there and stop the Starforce Mine! I bet that's also the reason why no new users come to the Prototy-" Kyle was interrupted
 "We can't just go into the Mine and stop whoever's running it Meta- er, Kyle, to have a mining project that size, the user must be a wealthy man, or woman, or animal." Adrian kept scrolling through the map displayed on the machine, looking for any kind of dot within the grey mass, and finally finding a yellow dot, labelled "ThatOneEnderMan"
 "What is a yellow dot?" Alex asked
"I believe it means that the person that the dot represents is neither human or Figure, but that can't be right, it's not like ThatOneEnder is a dog, right?" Adrian chuckled at the thought of Ender being a dog
 "So, that means Ender, regardless of what he is, he's in the mine, so we should either save him from the mine or stop him from continuing the mine, right?" Mary asked, growing impatient with the children and Adrian
 "Yes, that is what we are going to do-" Adrian was interrupted by Kyle
 "Adrian, when we were with Mars, or MegaBoy, we found out that there are eight Invisible Figures that we need to defeat in order to get to the capsule in the Earth, is that still a thing now, because we haven't fought a Figure in a while now." Kyle murmured
 "Oh, yes, I should have probably informed you about that. Yes, Invisible Figures are still kind of a thing." Adrian paused "Maybe it would be easier if I start that answer with a story. A new chief of the Figures named 'Aries' tried removing the capsule, but found out that the capsule attacks when it's touched. So now, the title 'Invisible Figure' is just a titile that Aries gives to people that guard the capsule. There's five, counting Apollo and Plutus, so just three now, since you already defeated those two." Adrian stopped and took a breath.
 "I'm just going to the Starforce Mine before you guys have a conversation again." Mary walked off, and the others decided that they should go too.
 The crew followed the directions to the Starforce Mine, and found a small, rectangular shed. It was painted red and was out of place compared to the houses around it. Mary lead the party and opened the door to the shed, revealing an elevator that only had an up and down button.
 "Do you think it still works?" Ron said as he pressed the down button. The elevator played quite a snazzy tune for the elevator to a mine. Eventually, the elevator brought the crew to a vast room with rock and other minerals as far as the eye could see. The gemstones that were being mined were beautiful. The gemstones wear shaped like a star with eight points, each point a bright color. These gemstones glimmered in the light. The gemstones were beautiful, but not the people mining them, they all appeared to be overworked and malnourished, and all wore a miner's uniform, they were all people from the ages of 12 to 26.
 "Oh wow, this isn't pretty, well, we should find Ender, and either save or stop him." Adrian continued walking, with the machine beeping at a faster rate than the previous second. The machine made a "ding!" sound when the crew bumped into a well-groomed and healthy looking Golden Retriever, and disturbingly, the dog could speak.
 "Hello, I am a dog, I am also what you people call "ThatOneEnderMan" but I am better known as Bingo, or at least that's what my owner calls me." Bingo started levitating, his eyes now turning a blood-red "I can see that you are here to harm my Starforce Mine, so, get ready to tango with Bingo." A shadowy mass emerged above Bingo, the dog made a gesture a the crew, the mass formed into four large, black clouds, one of which hovered over the crew and started dropping acid rain upon the humans.
 "Oh no, I didn't plan for there to be a fight, quick, what weapons do we have!" Adrian pointed to the first four Chosen Ones, they all emptied their backpacks, only the silver-plated violin bow and a few broken pencils remained from the last fight.
 "Step back, I know why I'm a Chosen One." Julian paused for effect "And that's because I'm great with dogs." Julian and Mary ran towards the dog, dodging the acid rain and other shadowy masses the dog summons.
 "Time to unleash our ultimate attack, Julian." Mary and Julian agreed it was time for the ultimate attack. The couple decided to start petting Bingo.
 "Stop, I surrender!" Bingo called off all of the shadowy masses that were strewn across the battlefield "I'd love to close this mine, but there's someone who's above my command, you'll have to take it with him."
 Yes, you read right, Bingo was his name-o.