"Hypnotized?" Kari echoed blankly, "How?"

The doctor gave them a thoughtful look, "Well, someone would have had to spend a lot of time learning how to do this, and then took a chance while no one else was around." He explained. "You say this started sometime after he was in the ham-hospital?"

Silence engulfed them as the same thought ran through all of their head: 'Flora did this.'

"Thanks Doc," Sandy said, her eyes narrowing to dangerous slits as she thought of all the horrible things she was going to do to the Nurse.

"Now, the cost for this check-up won't cost much, since there isn't really much I can do. Ten sunflower seeds will suffice."

Sandy tossed him a couple of seeds carelessly, turning to the others, "I think we have a certain somebody to see."

They nodded together, and then took off out of the clubhouse, leaving a somewhat understanding and confused doctor behind.

-Ham-Hospital –

"Hello." Sandy said fake sweetly to the clerk.

The clerk glared at her, "Didn't we throw you out once already?"

Her fake sweetness disappeared, "What of it? Anyway, we need to see Flora. She's a nurse here."

"Weren't you kicked out for pummeling her?"

"What of it?" Sandy snapped impatiently.

The clerk glared at her, then clicked a button, "Will Nurse-Ham Flora please come to the front desk, Nurse-Ham Flora to the front desk." She said into a little microphone.

Sandy blinked in amazement, "Like, wow, I didn't think you'd actually, like, help us."

The clerk shrugged, "I don't like her, so I don't care." She said as Flora appeared in the stairwell.

Flora stared at all of them in turn, and then turned to run back up the stairs.

"Flora!" Sandy shouted, taking off after her, the rest of the gang close behind. "Get back here and tell me what you did to my brother!"

Flora turned into a room, slamming the door shut behind her. Sandy jiggled the knob insanely, and then when it didn't open, kicked the door down.

"Does she realize that she'll have to pay for that?" Chestnut whispered to Panda, who shrugged.

Flora was throwing things around uselessly, trying to find a place to hide.

"Flora," Sandy growled, gaining her attention.

Her eyes widened in horror, "W-what do you want?" she asked turning to them.

Kari stepped forward, "What did you do to Stan? How do we cure him?" Flora remained silent. "Explain yourself!" Kari screeched, making Flora cringe.

"So you found out?" Flora asked, smirking, "Well, took you long enough!" she declared when they nodded. "You wanna know what I did? Well, I didn't get to finish my hypnosis because you walked in, but I could explain the just of it for you. I could also not, though."

She continued as they advanced on her, "Okay, okay! Stan is hypnotized. When he came in injured, I saw my chance. I had been practicing hypnosis, you know, I did say I'd get Stan in the end. Anyway, so he came into the hospital, he was put into my section, so I had a pretty good chance at getting this done. I didn't get very far, only enough to get him into a trance and tell him what needed to be said to wake him. I never got to the point to get him to love me." She finished with a sigh, "So, Stan is basically sleep-everything."

There was a moment of silence as everyone registered that Stan was acting this way because he was asleep of all the things.

"So," Sandy started, frowning, "What's the word to, like, heal him?"

Flora smiled, "I'll let you figure that out by yourself. Your hint is sickness. That's all I'm going to tell you." She took off, leaving the ham-hams thinking about her hint.

Sandy turned to Maxwell, "Well, you're the smart one, start listing off medicine, sicknesses, anything!"

Maxwell sighed as they started leaving, "Cold, medicine, cough, stomach, throat, doctor, nurse, hospital, cancer, insomnia, disease, restless-leg-syndrome…" the list seemed to go on and on.

"I know!" Pippin declared as they walked outside. Everyone turned to him expectantly, "Chicken noodle soup!"

Some of them sighed and some shook their heads. Stan however, perked his ears, "I don't really like chicken in my soup, I prefer- hey, why are we at the hospital?"

Everyone, except Stan, froze in there tracks.

"Hey, why'd we stop?' Stan asked in puzzlement, looking at each of them, "Are you guys okay?"

"Are… are you serious?" Pashmina asked, "Pippin was right?"

Stan looked at them all curiously, "Pippin was right about something? What?"

"You…" Sandy started, staring at him, "You… IDIOT!" she pulled her ribbon out of nowhere, and attacked him with it.

Letting out a cry of horror, Stan turned to run, but was helplessly caught by Sandy's torture device. "What's going on? Let me go! I didn't do it! I didn't!"

Boss sighed, "I guess we should get back to the clubhouse and explain all of this."

-A little less than an hour later-

"So… that's about it." Kari shrugged.

Stan stared at them disbelievingly, "You're kidding! Stan-Man does not act like that!"

"That's why we were worried." Panda deadpanned.

He nodded slowly and blankly, "So… I really let Pippin stick grass in my nose?"

Sandy slapped her forehead in frustration.

"You were asleep." Hamtaro told him. "Double asleep."

"Did you leave out a part? Cause I have no idea who this is." He said, indicating to Chestnut.

Chestnut blinked, "My name is Chestnut." She introduced simply.

He blinked at her frankness, "Well I'm-"

"Stanly." She finished.

"I prefer Stan. Stanly makes me feel like I'm in trouble."

"Too bad. I shall call you Stanly."

He glared at her, and she glared back, "Fine." He decided.

Panda blinked, "You know, whatever happened to Ringo?"

"Who?" Stan asked.

Chestnut shrugged, ignoring him, "Probably went home. Or got halfway home and fell asleep. One or the other."

"Are you sure he wasn't eaten by a wild animal? I mean he was pretty out of it." Panda continued.

"Who's Ringo?" Stan repeated.

"Like I said, I've done worse. He usually manages to shake it off after an hour or so, then go do something random." Chestnut said, still ignoring Stan.

Panda sighed and shook his head, giving up.

"Who's Ringo?" Stan demanded impatiently.

Chestnut glared at him, "He's the moron that I am ashamed to know! Now shut up before I hurt you."

Panda shot him a glance, warning him to not continue.

"Well," Kari announced, "Lets just be glad Stan is back to normal." She stretched and yawned loudly, "I think we should head back to our houses, I'm pooped."

Pippin burst into a fit of giggles at the word 'poop', but was interrupted as he yawned to.

Stan smiled at him, "I'm not very tired, but we should head back I suppose."

Chestnut rolled her eyes, "Of course you're not tired, you were asleep for days!" she sighed.

Stan looked like he was about to retort, but Kari slapped a paw over his mouth, "Now, now, you two, don't make us regret waking Stan up."

"You didn't tell me he was… argumentative and stubborn and rude and – how'd you two end up together? You're opposites!" Chestnut ranted.

Kari shoved Stan out the door, "Seriously, I can be dangerous too, so shut up." She said, glaring back at them. Pippin, Tiki and Cocoa scampering out the door as their parents left.

As the next couple of hours passed, the hamsters slowly filed out, until only Boss, Snoozer, Bijou, Hamtaro, Panda and Chestnut were left.

"Well, I'm gonna go." Chestnut said, standing up and stretching.

"I'll join you." Panda offered, getting to his paws, "I should probably head back before Mimi notices I'm missing." He added as Bijou giggled knowingly.

Chestnut blushed lightly, "W-well if you insist." She said, shrugging.

"Have fun you two!" Bijou called, giggling again.

So… not very long chapter. But you'll have to live with it, cause I actually updated the day after I… updated. Anyway, clearly this story is coming to a close.

Join me on the next chapter as Chestnut and Panda start walking home, and meet an… unexpected acquaintance.