Disclaimer: I don't own The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
A/N: The idea that the Criminologist exists in a dimension separate from both our own and that of the movie seems somewhat possible to me.
I would like... if I may… to take you on a strange journey. Another strange journey. Not the one I took you on all those years ago.
It seemed a fairly ordinary night when Hugo Smith and his girlfriend Anna Hapschatt… two young, ordinary, healthy kids… left Denton that late Novem- er, I mean... that June evening to visit that mysterious castle…
It's true, there were storm clouds that were very dark and didn't resemble anyone's naughty bits… toward which they were driving.
It's true also that they weren't carrying a spare tire with them. But they being ordinary kids on a night out… well, they were not going to let a storm spoil the events of their evening.
On a night out…
It was a night out they were going to remember for a very long time...
And so, the two of them drove down the road to the old castle. By then it was getting dark and Anna was getting rather nervous. Maybe a dark creepy castle wasn't a good place to go at night. Especially in a thunder storm…
Suddenly they heard a 'bang' somewhere outside the car.
"What was that bang," Anna shrieked.
Her boyfriend chuckled nervously. "We must have a blowout! Aw, darn! I knew I should've brought the spare tire. I just thought… well, I didn't think we'd be driving anywhere more than to the diner and back home."
"How close are we to the castle?" Anna asked.
"It's only up the road a mile or so," Hugo replied with a shrug.
And so, they both got out of the car. She held a newspaper, which she'd found in the back seat of the car, over her head to keep her hair from getting wet. As the rushed toward the castle, the couple bore a striking resemblance to another couple that'd also ran to the castle. Yet nearly 20 years had passed… and these two had a very different reason for being there.
"Our English teacher was a groupie?" Will asked, eyes wide with shock.
The strange woman laughed. "Or so she told us. Zat girl vas quite secretive, you know. She was the master's lover for a while, which is how I met her."
"Who?" Mina asked.
"I'd rather not talk about it," the woman muttered, suddenly quite somber.
"Who are you?" Terra shouted.
"I'd rather not say much… my name is Magenta, for one thing."
"Is that your actual name?" Will asked, laughing nervously.
Looking only slightly offended, she nodded.
"At least its not as bad as 'Slartibartfast," Helena pointed out.
Nobody knew what to say to that. They tried to figure out what she'd meant for far too long. If you happen to be wondering, dear reader, it was a reference to the BBC radio show The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Helena had a rather annoying tendency to make popular culture allusions at the wrong times.
It was then that Terra left the kitchen. None of the others noticed as she snuck out of the room.
She walked back to the front hall. There was something oddly familiar about the house, she realized. After a moment, she decided to go find the lab. It didn't occur to her that she'd never been here and shouldn't know the floor plan this well.
It seemed that only a few rooms were still lived in.
Terra had to bring one of Will's flashlights to see her way around.
The lift hadn't been operated in decades, but still worked well enough. It creaked ominously as it took Terra to the second floor of the house.
"Yes, up to the lab…" Terra muttered, grinning.
Something about this place seemed very familiar to the girl. She wandered around the room. Chipped paint in a strange shade of pink covered the walls. There were lots of machines with lots of buttons all around her.
To her surprise, she knew what many of the buttons did!
Soon enough she found a proper light switch. When the room was properly illuminated, it looked nicer. Less shadowy. And even more familiar.
She walked over to a strange box (or was 'tank' a better word?) of some kind that was in the middle of the room. Something about it seemed oddly coffin-like. Though she wondered what was inside, cowardice got the better of her.
Nearby was a television screen of some kind. After messing with a few buttons, she managed to turn it on. She quickly realized it was a security camera… not unlike the secret cameras she'd set up in Anna's house!
With a laugh, she began pressing more buttons. All of the empty, decaying rooms of the castle could be seen. As could the gardens and the road outside.
"What sort of people lived here, I wonder?" she muttered.
The next button she pressed made a secret compartment open. In that she found many boxes. One box was labeled 'November 1975'. In that box she found a collection of plain squares of metal (10 in all). Somehow she knew exactly what they were.
"Transylvanian archiving cards," she whispered.
Without a second thought, she inserted one of the cards into a slot on the television and old footage began to play.
A group of people seemed to be at some kind of dance party. That's all it showed, she soon realized. Boring!
So, she watched bits of each card's records. Every one seemed to correspond with a different part of the castle. Terra was almost getting bored when she found a very interesting video.
A man who Terra didn't recognize appeared to have his mouth on another man's... you know what. The latter was clearly Mr. Brad Majors, who Terra still thought was her father.
Terra wasn't sure whether to laugh or vomit. Yet she continued to watch with some kind of morbid fascination. Something seemed oddly familiar about the man who she didn't properly recognize.
The next archiving card she played also involved sex and the man Terra sort of recognized. Except, this time, it was more traditional in position and the other person was Terra's mother.
After that, she played the beginning of various cards before finding one that appeared to have been filmed in the very room she stood in.
This seemed to involve her mother and a blonde muscle man. Terra's mom was wearing just her white bra, half-slip, and underwear. The muscle man was just wearing gold underwear. For some reason, Terra's mom wanted to have sex with the muscle man.
Why did it all have to do with sex?
"What a slut!" Terra said to herself, laughing.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN HERE?"
Terra spun around to Helena and the strange woman called Magenta standing right in front of the elevator. Magenta looked furious.
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