I feel frozen for a moment, taking in the meaning of the phrase.

Then time starts to move again and my free hand is shooting toward the pocket where I stowed the note. I rip it out of its hiding place and begin to read the odd word aloud, frantically stumbling over the gibberish phrase.

"Y-ROT-SEVAC!" I shout.

For a moment I think nothing is going to happen, but then a portion of the wall opens to reveal a woman with long green hair.

"Hurry!" she says, "Get in!"

I don't waste any time in obeying.


I sit at the table, watching Sue's mom watching me from the other side of the table. I can see suspicion smoldering in her eyes.

"Who are you?" she asks, "How did you learn the password."

"Sue told it to me," I say, taking out the letter and putting it on the table, "She told me to come and find you, told me that you'd help me."

Sue's mom reads the paper hurriedly, scanning it with her eyes while her lips move slightly. When she is finished, she puts it back on the table and looks back at me.

"I see…" she says slowly, then she becomes suddenly more animated and friendly, saying, "I have a plan, if you're willing to help me."

Her sudden change in character startles me, but I readily agree.

"Whatever it takes to stop the Doctor."

She nods.

"Well I'm going to need you to go get something from outside, in the plantation."

I listen as she outlines the plan. It is relatively simple, and once she hands me a rubbery mask, I am ready to go.


I run with my arms wrapped tightly around the sprinkler. I was almost able to get away without any conflict, but at the last moment, one of the giants got suspicious.

Suddenly the ground gives away beneath my feet and I'm falling.

I quickly activate the booster, but with the added weight of the bulky sprinkler system I merely glide into a rough landing. I am sent sprawling across the coarse gravel while the sprinkler slides out of my grasp.

The momentum from my fall keeps pushing me until I am up against the lip of a cliff. Fear takes hold of my body and I scramble to try and keep from falling. But all the struggle is in vain.

I fall.


I open sore eyes and attempt to move a sore body.

After looking around for some time, I realize I am in a small cavern. The only source of light is far away, falling down through a hole in the ceiling.

It's hard to judge the distance, but I'd say it's something near ten meters.

I start to get up and realize that I'm lying in a bed, though it is completely concealed in the darkness.

"You're awake..." A snakelike voice says.

I spin around, feeling the dread build until my prediction is confirmed. A pair of bright yellow, glowing eyes stand just a foot and a few feet away.

A Cthulhu. I've seen a few of them during these past few days, but I suspect they'll never stop creeping me out. There's just something, off about them.

"Yeah," I blurt out, trying to edge myself closer to the light. Maybe if I can get out of here quickly enough, the Cthulhu won't have enough time to… To do what? I don't know. But I don't want to stay here long enough to find out.

"Don't you want to stay…" the Cthulhu whispers, its voice cutting through the air like an oily knife.

"N-no, I'm… I've got to…. Someone's waiting for me." I stammer out.

"But, what about your friend?" the Cthulhu murmurs, "She's just like you. I thought you might know her."

I feel confused for a moment, helplessly confused, but then my gaze lands on a second bed lying directly next to mine. And more importantly, I see the android sitting up in the bed. Even more importantly, I see that the android is Curly.

She is looking at me with confusion etched on her face, but that doesn't matter. I found her, or the Cthulhu found her.

She's been found.

"Curly!" I exclaim, feeling relief flood my mind.

"You do know her, but she doesn't know you. Not right now…"

"What do you mean?" I demand, turning on the Cthulhu. "What happened to her? What did you-"

The Cthulhu cuts me off, its voice sounding angry and aggressive for the first time instead of merely creepy and disconcerting.

"I didn't DO anything to her, you idiot! I found her like this. She's got amnesia and doesn't even remember her own name. She was about to drown when I found her, so you should be thanking me for helping her."

I apologize profusely to the Cthulhu before asking if it (he, she, I don't know) knew any way to help her get her memory back.

"Actually, there is a mushroom that can bring back her memory. It's called the Ma Pignon. The legend says it resides near the Mimiga graveyard."

As the Cthulhu speaks, I grit my teeth and focus myself on this new venture.

I've found Curly, now I just need to get her memory back and it will all be okay.


Here's your chapter, hope you enjoyed it. I'll have another chapter for you next weekend, so hold in there. I won't be disappearing again, at least not until this story is finished.

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