Shade leapt up from the coffee table where she had been sleeping with a curse. The reason? An earthquake had struck.

"Fucking shit fuck fucking-fuck" She shouted as her fiends woke from the various places they had camped on, being chucked around the room.

"What the hell happened?" demanded Zackera, rather peeved at having been woken so soon. (Shade snored damn it!).

"Earthquake." Shade rolled her eyes as Fox Ears stated the obvious.

"Zackera, can you check the cameras? And Fox Ears, turn on the lights. Please." Zackera raced to the computers, trying to reboot them and access the cameras strategically placed in The Room while Fox Ears scrabbled around trying to get the lights on. Both attempts failed.

"Powers out." Incredulous eyes turned to Zackera.

"Ya think?" Fox Ears cried. "Do we even have food? Water? Something to keep It in?"

"Yes, Yes, and in case of power outage we go into automatic lockdown, Nothing gets in or out."

"Until?" Zackera asked slowly ever so slightly worried about the answer.

"Once the power comes on we enter a pass phrase and whala, unlocked." They could imagine Shades triumphant look even in the pitch dark.

"And what's the phrase?" Fox Ears requested. The silence that followed was not reassuring.

"You do remember what it is, right?"

"Of course I do." Shade was indignant "I just know you'll laugh at it."

"Fine, keep it to yourself, see if I care." Fox Ears was rather paved but something occurred to her that pushed all that out of her mind. "Um, what about the room?"

"What about it? The wall's glow, they'll be fine."

"No food, no water. Ring any bells?" Really, people these days.

"We hope for the best?" Sade surged, a near invisible movement in the darkness. Zackera shook her head.

"It's gonna be 'Lord of the Fly's in' there"

The first thing Zeno noticed was the walls. They were glowing in an early light that cast everything in a ghostly glow. Everything also seemed to be shaken, not like you-were-just-told-a-devastating-secret shaken but someone-just-flipped-your-house-upside-down-and-used-it-in-a-game-of-interglactic-pinball. Everyone was in various states of un-conciseness and in a large heap in the middle of the floor, none seemed aware of their current state and he couldn't see Dufort which suggested he was buried somewhere under them all. Zeno surged, wiping out his camera and snapping a few pic's before they woke up. Once this was dune however, Zeno was bored. Very, very bored, and a bored Zeno is not a good thing.

Carefully he made his way around the room stepping over limbs with care. Sure he was evil, but it was so much easier when they were asleep and not prattling on about one thing or another. Tapping the walls as he went something seemed off. The walls, well, they were almost... squishy. And it wasn't just one wall or certain parts, they were all squishy. Zeno was ever so slightly freaked. This was not good. So making one of the stupidest decisions of his life Zeno ran full speed into one of the walls. Lockdown procedures activated imminently and Zeno found himself feeling rather 2D.

Megumi didn't think she could be having a worse day. Not only had she woken up at the bottom of a pile of bodies, but there was a certain gothic mamodo curled up sleeping on her. So she did what any sane person would do in that situation: she screamed. Loudly. Which made everyone wake up and get the hell of her. She considered it a success, everyone else was just pissed.

"Well about time you lot got up" Almost as one all sets of eyes turned to the sores of the noise.

"Zeno," Dufort asked carefully, "Why are you two dimensional?" Zeno's glare was impressive but didn't answer the question.

"I don't know" he growled "but if someone could work out how to get me the hell of the wall it would help. I've been here for 3 hours." And at that point Megumi could not help but laugh.

After all, what were you meant to do when Zeno was wallpaper.

Shade was bored. Power cuts were bad, especially when you were in lockdown so and your friends had gone to sleep. She couldn't even use her laptop since that was three doors down and therefore unreachable until the power when back on. Shade sighed and resigned herself to a long and boring night. She wished she knew what was going on in the room.

"Wait, let me get this straight. Mr. I'm-So-Much-Better-Than-You-Zeno thought hat running into a squishy wall was a good idea?" Sherry couldn't believe it. This was quite possibly the weirdest thing that had happened in this room, and that included becoming psychic.

"Yes but that isn't even the worst thing." Zeno actually looked horrified which certainly worried the assembled teams. "Look behind you." They group turned, expecting monsters or Mary-Sues or some kid of killing thing. What they got was worse, far, far worse.

Still sleeping silently was a perverted pop star and a duck faced mamodo.

Zeno smirked, actually kina glad that he was wallpaper. Even if he did really need to pee.

Sherry turned to Wonrei "Can you please give me the petty-coat?" Wonrei looked mildly confused but removed the underskirt, handing it to Sherry while idly wondering if he was ever going to get his cloths back. He then watched in a mix of concern and amusement as Sherry tore strips off the garment.

"What are you doing?" asked Kiyo cautiously, he really didn't want to be the one who woke them up.

"Making sure they stay still and quite." Was the answer and they all watched in amusement as Sherry gagged the two new additions before tying them up so they resembled mummies.

"Perfect" Sherry said, stepping back. Just in time too, as it was at that moment they started to wake up.

"Minf minn ming mi" Sherry just ignored them and raised an eyebrow at the shocked looks coming from the slightly safer side of the room.

"What? I was in girl scouts" the shocked looks didn't go away. "Now about Zeno, I would suggest we try our spells but as we aren't in possession of our books and i don't want to try ripping him from the wall I suggest we wait for the Shade, Fox Ears and Zackera to free him."

"Groovy" surged Sunbeam "But until that happens, I'm starving" how he could think of food shocked Brago, of course he knew that not everyone was use to little to no food for days at a time like he and Sherry.

"Folgory brought a bag with him." Eyes snapped to the large duffle bag.

"Bags not me!" screeched most of the group, and Dufort ended up rummaging through the bag for food.

"16 bottles of water, 923 king-size chocolate bars and 12 giant lollipops. Noting else" Kanchome looked terrified as Dufort took the bag and all its contents to the starving tortured partners.

Li-en paused as everyone rushed at the food and caught sight of Wonrei. She sighed and shook her head.

"Wonrei, where proper pants" she gave the dress an evil look. Wonrei opened his mouth to reply,

"BURP" the sound was huge and LOUD. Wonrei looked mortified as the gathered food munches laughed. Sherry looked like something had just occurred to her.

"Li-en has a point, I would like my dress back at some stage" Wonrei looked uncomfortable, understandably so, no one had any idea what the three girls would do if they switched back. Also he didn't want to strip around this lot. Sherry shrugged and daintily ate her chocolate bar.

"No hurry, just keep it in mind."

It continued in much the same way for the next two days, the food lasted well and would have lasted longer if it wasn't trying to feed several hungry mamodos. They had even tried feeding Zeno but that had just resulted in a chocolaty smear. After an ungodly number of solitare games and tic tak toe everyone was on the verge of mass murder. The tension had reached its peak when they were blinded. There was also a scream of agony but who cares about that?

Sunbeam shielded his eyes.

"The lights, They burn." It seamed no one had truly understood just how bright the lights were.

"Does this mean the games back on?" Zacth asked. No one liked what that meant.

"SHADE, WAKE THE FUCK UP" Zackear's voice tore Shade from the arms of Hypnos. The words Lockdown Initiated echoed alongside a siren. Shade merely snuggled down further into the pillow.

"Shade, turn it off before i skin you with a spoon" Shade groaned.

"Go fuck yourself with a rusty cheese grater." Yeah polit.

"Shade, now." Fox Ears demanded. Groaning Shade made her way to the keyboard, jabbing letters in what seemed to be a random order. She stepped back and blessed silence filled the room.

"Night" she curled up on the coffee table and fell asleep once more.

"How does she do that?" The two left awake steered at their friend. The friend who had managed to curl up an fall asleep on the most uncomfortable surface know to man not once, but twice!

In an empty lab a stunning girl opened her eyes, moved swiftly to the other side of the room in three glowing canisters were three girls. Girls who would follow her every command. Yes, she would be the one to develop a plot.