Sorry that the last chapter was so short, sorry that this one probably is too. I'm just trying to get this done because I've been really busy lately. Sorry about spelling too, I suck at it:(

P.S. I don't own these characters! I wish I did though!


Gregor crawled into his bed and looked up at the ceiling. His room was very small, in fact, it wasn't even a room – it was a storage closet. The only things that could fit in there was a bed, and a dresser, whose drawers could only open about 8 inches. Gregor heaved a great sigh, and put his hands behind his head. Something was bothering him, but he couldn't decide what it was. Whatever it was though, it was burning a hole in the back of his head.

But then it hit him - Like when the Bane had hit him with his tail and dislocated his ribs -. The crowbar, that's what it was! The crowbar was for "just in case", it was a hint from his dad that Gregor wouldn't be falsely judged by his father if he were to go back down. In fact, his father must have been encouraging it as well.

In that instant Gregor knew that he was going back down. He had to. His own father had pushed him over the edge by sliding that crowbar underneath his bed. Gregor slipped out of his bed and went into the kitchen. He checked the time on the oven clock – 11:35.

Then Gregor opened the family's junk drawer, and grabbed as many batteries as he could fit into both of his pockets. Then he went back to his room and dumped the contents of his school bag onto the bed. Gregor put the batteries in the side pockets, and then he quietly crept into the room that Lizzie and Boot's shared. Their grandma had passed away two weeks after they had returned to the Overland, so it was just the two of them now.

Gregor opened up the drawer that they kept Boot's Pull Ups in, and grabbed a few. He didn't plan on taking Boot's this time, but he never knew what was going to happen, and they would probably work better than Band-Aids. On second thought, the Regalians would probably have something for that, so Gregor returned the Pull Ups to the drawer and left quietly.

He stopped in his sad excuse for a room and grabbed the crowbar out from under his bed. For the life of him, he couldn't understand why he was doing this with such haste. Then he remembered Luxa, and Ripred, and Hazard, and Nike, and Lapblood – with newfound conviction, Gregor put the crowbar into his pack and went back to the kitchen.

There was a faint scratching in the wall behind the oven. He thought nothing of it at first, but then, his mind – which still had the Code of Claw freshly burned into it – deciphered the sounds into a message:

FBRE ZOV REUURP OWERMBPFER

Then applied Lizzie's theory. The end result was transmitted as a question:

Dare you return Overlander?

Gregor took a second to think about his true feelings, and then replied: ZEQ. Which transmitted to yes. Then he opened the junk drawer once again, and grabbed two flashlights incase his echolocation failed him. Like it had for a long time until he broke through while locked in the dungeon of the Regalian castle. He hadn't practiced since he came back up.

After a moment's thought as to where he would enter the Underland. Gregor decided on using the laundry room entrance and he set out.

Gregor didn't bother leaving a note, because as soon as it became obvious that he was gone, his parents and sisters would know exactly where he had gone. He just hoped that Boot's wasn't a mandatory tag alone, he didn't want to risk losing her again.