Zurg and the others had heard her scream from the cellar stairs.

"She is in there! And she is scared! Now lets go!"

All of them ran down as fast as they could. Buzz was especially surprised about the speed on which Zurg was able to move.

"Look! A weak light is coming from there!"

Buzz led the group to the wooden door. They pushed it more open and saw an appalling scene: Miss Dashwood was lying inert on the floor, spiders all over her. One was trying to make a web around her feet. Zurg bawled for fury and worry and rushed straight to her.

"No! Marianne…!"

Buzz, Matt and Katie ran to the spiders and fought hard against them: they kicked and beat them, threw them upside down and Katie used her jujitsu-skills on some of them. Buzz blinded them with his red light bulb and Matt tied their legs to overhand knots.

Meanwhile Zurg had kneeled down to Miss Dashwood and taken off his suffocating mask. He took the upper part of her body in his arms and wiped off the locks that had covered her face.

For the first time he looked at her with his own eyes. He considered her actually quite pretty. No… he thought that she was beautiful. He saw that she had been crying. He felt a torturing stitch in his heart as he noticed that she didn't respond to his words:

"Miss Dashwood…Marianne…tell me that you are all right! Open your eyes… please…!"

No answer. She just laid still. Buzz came to them and looked gravely at the emperor:

"She is not breathing. You do know what to do… right?"

"Yes… I…"

Only now he realized how weird he felt himself. With this fragile, dazzling and totally unconscious lady in his arms, he had difficulties to maintain his calmness. He had never touched her before. And all of a sudden someone came to say that he would have to give her a kiss of life that is to press his lips against hers and blow… That felt kind of odd to him. He was deep in his thoughts and fondled obliviously her lower lip with his finger. He thought her so dazzling… and young. He felt something heavy in his chest.

"Now hurry up you blockhead! Or do you want me to do it?" teased Buzz yelling over the noise.

Zurg returned to the reality.

"Oh…right!"

And then he did it. For the first time he really touched her, put his fingers behind her neck, lifted her head a bit and let his warm lips counter hers. He had not blown more than twice before Miss Dashwood drew air in her lungs and slowly opened her eyes. Her gaze was firm but hazy. Zurg had not drawn his face anywhere but looked close back at her. Miss Dashwood could feel his agitated breathe on her face. There was only a millimeter distance between their lips and Zurg couldn't help trembling a little; this woman had made him suddenly weak. Miss Dashwood whispered, but because of the noise no-one could hear her words. Only Zurg could read from her lips:

"Who are you?"

He pressed his mouth right next to her ear so that she could hear.

"For you…I am Zora."

Miss Dashwood tried to smile but was too exhausted. She took a tight grip of Zurg and buried her face under his chin for she was afraid of falling back to her nightmare. This made Zurg lose his time and place for a moment, and were it not for Katie who came to interfere, he would have kissed her right there.

"Now get'er da rest, Zurgie! Can't ya see she's tired?"

Upstairs Jessie had set a soft bed of woolen sock ready for Miss Dashwood with the help of Bo. They had also taken a warm gown from the Barbies' wardrobe and were now searching for a candle.

"Where is that darn candle now? Mr. Potato, was it you who tried to feed it to the monkeys yesterday?" Jessie was in a hurry of getting everything ready before Miss Dashwood arrived.

"Well…I didn't find their mouths so I threw it away…it is there in the toy box."

"Sufferin' cactus! How deep in there?"

"Em…not that deep."

Mrs. Potato was already in the toy box searching for it.

"I cannot find it! It must be on the bottom!"

Jessie looked angrily at Mr. Potato who felt kind of ashamed.

"Well, we'll have to find some other way to keep Miss D warm, then. Bo, where are … is your sheep?"

"I don't think they would be of any help… You know they are made of porcelain."

"Right…"

Mrs. Potato shouted from the toy-box:

"But here is a lot of other useful gadgets for Miss Dashwood! Like this T-bone-steak in case she has got a black eye… And this Minnie Mouse –dress, it is very warm. And this rubber duckie wants so eagerly to be her pillow."

Mrs. Potato found also Evelyn's phosphor scepter, Uppis that was burst at its seams, poo-smelling plastic Dalmatian puppy, a broken miniature of the spaceship Apollo 13, starving Audrey, a Gadget Hackwrench –whose head Molly had jawed shapeless when being only a baby and who was now in love with her own tail-, and finally a strange button with a duck-pattern.

Down in the cellar Zurg lifted up Miss Dashwood who had again passed out. Katie promised to take care of his mask and Matt promised to take care of Katie. Buzz led them back to the kitchen. Zurg went grave as he finally saw in daylight how horrible in condition Miss Dashwood actually was. She was totally out of color, her dress was wet and dirty, her hair shaggy and her body cold. He squeezed her more tightly to his chest and hurried to the entrance-hall.

When becoming conscious again Miss Dashwood found herself lying powerlessly in his arms. She leaned her head to his left shoulder and observed his face with constant admiration. Who was this man? Gosh, he was so safe and strong! And hot! Had Andy got a new toy during her absence? No…it couldn't be. She felt herself so unreal that she thought of having just a pleasant dream. Nothing to lose. Her whisper hardly reached Zurg's ear, so weak it was:

"I feel so good here in your arms… Zora."

Zurg knew that she was being delirious and didn't take the sentence seriously. However, it made him more convinced that he would've been lost without her. He yelled upstairs for Slinky, who soon peeked through the stairway woods:

"Slinky! Get your butt down here immediately! We need to get this lady warm and fast. I am coming with her, so make sure you have the force to pull us both up."

"Don't worry Emperor… I didn't break up even when Rex was hanging from my tail…"

"Hey, I am not that fat! Why does everybody always want to compare me to something heavy?" Rex had heard Slinky.

"Yea, why indeed?", Slinky was amused, "Now you go and tell Jessie that Miss D is found and that she needs a lot of care. I will take her and Zurg up. Go already!"

And Rex rushed to Andy's room making a great fuzz around.

Zurg threw Miss Dashwood carefully on his shoulder and jumped on Slinky who pulled them up fast. Buzz, Matt and Katie had already run up the stairs and went to make a way to the two. All the toys in the room had gathered around them but luckily moved easily aside when they approached. Zurg saw Jessie under the table and went there.

Zurg laid Miss Dashwood on the woolen sock to rest. She gave him a look so tender and a smile so loving that his heart jumped at least to the seventh heaven. Then Matt suggested him a little walk and talk on the roof and received a positive answer. It was a good idea for Zurg to go outside and cool down a little.

Jessie and Bo surrounded Miss Dashwood immediately and made sure that she had everything that she needed. They were worried about her unclear state of mind.

Katie had got the privilege to tell everybody what exactly had happened, where they had found her, why was she in such a condition and everything else between heaven and earth that the toys wanted to know.