Right at that moment, Mike was three floors above, looking for Sully – to ask him where his paperwork was so he could actually do it on time, but neither Sully nor the paperwork was in sight from where he was standing. But Mike had a sudden idea: "Hey! Maybe he's gone to get lunch!" – But then, he scrapped it. "Nah – it takes you five minutes to get lunch from here... he's been gone for an hour – and still no sign of him. SULLY!"
He had asked all the staff at Monsters Inc, and they hadn't seen him either.
"I think I'd better search the whole building again," Mike thought, but as he went down to the waste department, he ran into his girlfriend, Celia.
"Googly Bear!" Celia called to Mike. "Where've you been all this time?"
"Shmutzy Poo! Erm... I can't talk right now; I've errrrr... got to... go look for Sully... Bye." Mike excused himself and ran downstairs.
"OK, but I'll wait for you at lunch!" Celia yelled expectantly. He searched every floor in turn, but found nothing – until he came to the toilets. He walked round the turn – and found his paperwork with the note on top. He picked up his paperwork, and another note fell out, which was sweaty and damp: HELP – IT'S RANDALL – HE'S BACK! Your pal, Sully. (KIDNAPPED)
Mike quickly stifled the scream that was going to come out, and gulped it down. Silently he picked up the paperwork, and set off for the door factory to do his work. He left the toilets, uttering low moans each step.
Every time Mike had passed a door that he had not seen before, he would stop and look hopefully behind it – but it would almost always be a cleaner's storage cupboard.
The second time Mike went down to the toilets during his lunch break (he had temporarily been made boss until Sully was found) he found a small trail of blue and purple fur, which led right to...
A storage cupboard. It seemed that Sully had been pulling out some of his fur, and dropping it on the ground. Mike let out a squeak of delight. This could be where Sully was! He opened the door cautiously, ready to attack – but saw nothing more than bottles of "laugh" stacked together on trolleys.
"Sully? Are you here, pal?" Mike's voice was usually confident, with a hint of bravery, but now it was high and squeaky, with a whole chunk of trepidation.
A muffled roar screeched from further down in the cupboard. Mike took a few steps forward, and trod on an abandoned piece of paper. Mike glanced at it with a look of curiosity on his face, but this look soon turned to anger, as to Mike, the note meant nothing more than an embarrassment, in the form of a picture: Mike dressing up in a human kid's dress, which reminded him of his past friendship with none other than... Randall! None of the other monsters knew about this, and since everyone hated Randall after he had tried to kidnap "Boo" the previous year, he wanted to keep it secret... but where would he put it? He couldn't bear to think about what would happen if someone found it...