Lydia waited in the closet for a while, petting Mr. Bonkers. Where was Lucien? Shouldn't he be back now? It seemed like she had been sitting there for hours. She sighed softly, hugging Nergal Jr's bear, inhaling the scent the doll retained of Nergal. She could find no words to describe that inhumanly hypnotic aroma.

She remained there a bit longer, then slowly opened the door a few inches, peeking out into the empty room. It was as silent as it had been while in the closet; freakishly quiet. Lydia cautiously pushed the door out farther and crawled out, looking in all directions. She shivered lightly, crossing her arms after standing up. She nervously left the room, each step causing her heart to pound more furiously in her chest. She wanted to call out for Nergal or Lucien, but fear prevented her lips from opening. She had realized the danger they were all in, and it terrified her to the core of her soul.

Soon she traveled through three identical rooms and two identical corridors. Six and four. Nine and six. She stopped walking, combing her fingers through her hair in a kind of strange way of trying to comfort herself. She pulled one of her shoes off, afraid her idea would work. What if it did?

She set the glittery sneaker in the middle of the room, slowly continuing to the next corridor. She stopped in the middle of it, glancing behind her. The room was out of her view, along with the room that was sure to be next. She took a deep breath and resumed walking, her fears confirmed. Tears of shock, fear, and horror collecting on her eyelashes as her eyes locked on that shoe, and she collapsed to her knees.

I'm never getting out of here. She thought, soon followed by the sobs that broke the silence. She curled up on the floor with the bear doll, trembling and wishing Nergal was with her. Oh, and Lucien. Wait...Lucien... If this room and corridor was a cycle, why wasn't she seeing Lucien? Where the crap was he?

Suddenly the floor shook beneath her, cracks webbing out until she fell through. Her crying increased; "I'M FAT TOO, APPARENTLY!" She cried out in pain as she hit the floor, pain flowing through her back.

"Oh, no! I am NOT dealing with another BRAT!" Him got up and grabbed Lydia's wrist, pulling her up and pushing her out of the room.

"Lydia!" Lucien exclaimed, rushing to her. Him growled darkly and slammed the door, locking Lucien in while he hurried Lydia to another room and closed the door.

"No! Lucien!" Lydia screamed, pulling on the door to no avail.

"What is the meaning of this? Who does he think he is to bring you here, to my lair, to me, Mojo Jojo?" A short monkey asked, frowning deeply. "Now you are here! And not there! And I do not have time for you! Because I am busy! And I do not want to deal with you!"

"Wh..what.." Lydia turned to stare at him. A talking monkey? Could this place get any stranger?

"I cannot believe this. Now I have to figure out what to do with you! And I have more important things to attend to! Because I am integral to the mission!"

"Mission? What mission?"

"Oh, wouldn't you like to know! But you cannot! Because you are not me! Mojo Jojo!"

Lydia sniffed, rubbing her eyes, "I want Nergal and Lucien and I want us to go home.."

"Oh, you are that brat that came here with Nergal! The son of Nergal! With the green eyes and the glasses. He is a nerd! And a nerd is a nerd, don't you know? No! You know nothing! What is the square root of 36?"

"Uh..six..?"

"Lucky guess! But you will not be so lucky! Because you will die! Because I will kill you! No, not really. I will not kill you. Boogey wants you. You will see soon enough, but for now I will knock you out, because Boogey said so, because he is Boogey and-"

"HELP!" Lydia screamed, her fists banging on the door.

"No one will help you! I-"

Lydia ran at him, kicking him hard in his face.

"AGH!" He fell down, and Lydia rushed to his computer to grab a conveniently located key. She picked up a laptop and threw it at Mojo while she rushed back by him and to the door, quickly unlocking it and fleeing to the room Lucien was held in. She unlocked the door and exclaimed, "Hurry!"

Lucien ran to her, "Where do we go?"

"I don't know! You go first."

"You go first!"

"No! I saved your butt, you go first!"

"Not gonna happen!"

"Fine, be captured again when the red guy comes back!" Lydia exclaimed, running off in a random direction. "I fell through the floor, I was grabbed by a freaky guy, I knocked out a monkey- GAH!"

Not too long into their frantic escape were they faced with a problem. Somehow Mojo had used a shortcut to catch up. Lydia thrust Mr. Bonkers into Lucien's arms and shouted, "GO! Find Nergal! I'll take care of this monkey guy again!"

"What? You're crazy! ...But okay!" Lucien fled. Mmm, Nergal..

Mojo fired a laser gun at Lydia, who barely dodged the fatal blast. She gathered all her strength and directed it into her hands, releasing a torrent of green fire. Her eyes widened as she held the deadly stream there, incinerating Mojo Jojo, his screams filling the air. She let the energy go and stared at where Mojo had once stood, the sight of fire having invoked intense fear. She slid down the wall behind her, hugging her knees to her chest and crying. When she was quiet again, she remained sitting on the floor, shocked and afraid.

She slowly looked up at the creature approaching her casually. She did not wish to speak, but he answered her question.

"I am Katz. And you will be coming with me." The catperson stated calmly. He snapped his fingers, and Lucien popped up in the wrong direction, crashing into a wall.

"Ow!" Lucien exclaimed as he hit the floor. He stood up and spun around, "Not cool, man! Not cool!"

Katz smoothly approached him and lifted cloth to his face. "Does this smell like chloroform to you?"

Lucien sniffed it a few times and replied, "Hm..No..Not really.."

He collapsed.

[Lucien: Hey ya'll! Sorry about not updating for a while! School has just about been killing us! ARGH!We [Lydia and I] finally decided to take time out of our busy, busy schedules and work on this! Trust me, even that took forever. You should not expect an update anytime soon, unless we just explode with creativity, due to the fact that our synthesis paper for English [College level of course] has begun.

Lydia: Freakin' synthesis paper!

Mrs. Davis: Mr. Halstead and Ms. Wright you had better start on your first major work! Don't make me go all Hello Kitty on you!

Lydia and Lucien: UGHHHHH! –shakes fists quite angrily-

Lydia: But I already finished the first part!

Mrs. Davis: Then start on the next part!

Lucien: So anywho, I hope you enjoyed this chapter! REVIEW!]