"Whoa! Pete! Did you see that?" Myka suddenly asked.

"See what?" Pete responded, suddenly startled at her tone.

"The artefact! It jumped!" she exclaimed.

"What do you mean it jumped?"

"As in it jumped! What don't you get about that sentence?"

Pete leaned forward towards the artefact on the dashboard and narrowed his eyes. The artefact was now in the position it was before it starting pointing. However, after a few seconds, it suddenly sprang up and jumped into the air, which caused Pete to recoil back in shock.

"Told you!" Myka said, quickly turning the wheel off the dirt road and parking onto the side.

"What do you think it means?" Pete asked.

"Well, from previous experiences, I'd make an educated guess and say that the artefact is saying that the other part is nearby, Pete!"

Pete felt like Myka had just slapped him in the face with that comment, but he shook it off when he saw Myka getting out of the car and running around the car and up the hill. He looked at the artefact, then back at Myka. Grimacing, he reached for the artefact, but then took his hands back just before he touched it and glared at his partner, who was still making her way up the hill.

"Ugh…MYKA! DO I TAKE THE ARTEFACT?!" Pete yelled.

"YES! JUST DON'T TOUCH IT WITH YOUR BARE HANDS!" she yelled back.

"I KNOW! I'M NOT AN IDIOT!"

Pete quickly stretched on the purple gloves and picked up the artefact. It was humming in his hands and he thought that it might shoot out of his hold and straight into his face, but luckily it didn't. He shut the door with his foot and jogged up the hill to where he could see Myka standing on top, her hands on her hips and staring at a spot that he couldn't see.

"See anything?" Pete yelled.

"Yeah. You might want to take a look at this," she said. Now curious, he quickened his pace into a run and sprinted up the hill. When he got to the top he was out of breath, but he turned to Myka and asked "What's wrong?"

"I think I just found a good spot to look for the artefact," Myka responded.

"Oh yeah? What makes you think that?" he said. She looked at him and pointed to the front. He followed her finger until he saw it.

There was a bit of space just before the hill dropped again, but in that space the air seemed to be twisting around in a spiral shape. Almost like it was being sucked into something, but an invisible something. Or somehow it was pulling itself into an abyss of nothingness.

"Kinda reminds me of how my stomach feels right now," Pete muttered to himself. Then he looked at Myka and asked, "What do we do?"

Before she could answer, there was a brilliant white flash and Pete covered his eyes to stop the glare. He heard a scream and thinking it was Myka, he ran over to where he remembered she was and tackled her away from the light, bringing them both to the ground.

"Pete!" she yelled and there was a sound of glass shattering. Then, suddenly, the light stopped and Pete rolled off Myka.

"What was that?" he asked, opening his eyes and sitting up.

"Oh god, Pete! It was you who tackled me?" she responded, which caught him off guard.

"Yeah…why?" he asked.

"Because…well…I just hoped that it wasn't a random person or something. Plus…you kinda…accidentally…"

"Accidentally what?"

"Let's just say that you might have haphazardly fondled my area of femininity."

Pete could feel his cheeks going bright red and he tried to start apologizing, but Myka (looking equally as embarrassed) brushed him off and looked towards the area which the light came from. Her eyes widened and Pete looked where she was staring. There was a teenage boy lying on the hill, appearing to be unconscious.

"Is he okay?" Pete asked.

"Are you okay?" Myka shouted at him in response. The boy lifted his head in confusion and looked at Myka.

"What? How? I was…just…"

Pete noticed the Roo toy right beside him and he was trying to tell Myka, but she ignored him and ran over to the man. Grumbling, Pete followed her and they both knelt beside the man.

"What? I w…was just in that weird place! How did I end up here?" the boy asked. His eyes were filled with fear and he was quivering slightly.

"The weird place?" Myka asked cautiously.

The boy nodded. He looked around seventeen or eighteen years old. He was slim and pale with dark brown hair that hung in his grey eyes. Kind of reminded Pete of a friend he had back in high school.

"Can you tell us what happened…erm…sorry, I didn't catch your name," Myka asked. The boy nodded. "D-David. And I was just walking around with my friends and I saw this toy and I got curious—"

"Did it look like a kangaroo?" Pete cut in.

"Y-yes. How did you—?"

"Not important."

"I've got it here. Catch!" he said. He picked up the toy and before Pete could react, he threw it at Myka. In a split second, Pete realized what was going to happen, and fear seized him. "NO!" Pete shrieked, and she held up her hands in a natural defence. The toy contacted her palm and suddenly her hand started to glow purple.

"Myka?" Pete muttered. Myka looked at him in shock and then back at David.

"What's going on?! Why's her hand glowing?!" he asked.

She looked around a few times as if she had discovered something. Suddenly she shot up and ran towards the base of the hill.

"MYKA!" Pete shouted, getting up and chasing after her. She didn't appear to hear him. Her whole body was now starting to glow in purple, and Pete tried desperately to catch her. She abruptly stopped in front of him and he skidded to a halt before he could run into her. She suddenly swirled around and looked, panicked, up at the sky.

"Myka! I'm right here!" Pete said. But his words were falling on deaf ears. She turned around a few times, ran a few metres and then finally collapsed onto the ground. He sprinted for her, but she was encased in purple light and she disappeared. She had been taken away by the artefact.

"MYKA! NO!" Pete screamed. He fell onto his knees and clawed desperately on the ground where she was lying, but she had completely vanished. He heard David coming up behind him screaming his confusion in some very violent words. He sank deeper on his knees and felt a big emptiness inside him. He heard footsteps coming and he saw David's figure kneel beside him.

"Please just explain to me what's going on!" David said. Pete looked up at him and saw how lost and confused David looked. Pete took a deep breath in. "Well…basically…we're looking for a toy that looks like a kangaroo. It seems to…do weird stuff, to put it simply," Pete explained as best as he could.

"You mean the toy I threw at her?" David said, looking down and appearing guilty.

"It's okay, man. You didn't know. I'll get her back. We always manage to find each other."

"How are you gonna do that? She disappeared into thin air!"

"Just like you did?"

David faltered. "I…I guess. But I was just walking in the shopping centre at one point and then somehow I ended up in this strange place that looked like it was drawn out. Like…it looked like the…the old animated movie of Winnie the Pooh."

"So you think that's where my partner is right now?" Pete asked.

"I…maybe. If the same thing that happened to me happened to her as well."

Pete got up onto his feet and reached for his Farnsworth before realizing that Myka was the last one to hold it. So there was no help from the Warehouse.

"David…are you sure there's nothing else you want to mention?" Pete asked curiously. "I'm sure."

Pete sighed and stood up. If he was going to get Myka back, he needed to think. He was often told by Myka that "he had a brain, so he needed to use it".

"Alright, let's go back to my car and try and figure something else," Pete suggested.

"The one down there?" David asked, pointing towards the vehicle.

"Yep, that one," Pete confirmed. David started to walk down the hill and Pete followed, only taking a few steps before stopping. He turned up to the sky and scanned the clouds.

"I'll find you, Myka," Pete said. "I will."

And with that, he ran down the hill and joined David in the car.

I'm getting really horrible at sticking to deadlines. So let's just forget the 'one chapter a week' deal and I'll just say that I'll be uploading a new chapter whenever I feel like writing. It won't go over 3 weeks per wait, though, I promise. Unless I say so otherwise that I won't be putting up a chapter because of a certain reason.

Anyways, this story is possibly nearing to a close. It's nice to know that people are still reading and appreciating it though! Makes me feel really good ^-^ so yeah, nothing really new to report. Other than I'm doing a writing elective for next years school electives and I'll probably learn how to write better than I do now. Uhmm...yeah. That's it. Alright, catch you all in the next chapter~