A/N PLEASE READ THIS PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE! If you wanna talk to me off of fanfiction, find me on deviantART. My user name is Dark-Ansalong. No, I'm not kidding. NOW GO FIND ME!

Anyway, guys, don't get mad at Cosmo! I love him with a passion – heck, even the threequel is gonna mainly be about him and Nat! He only did that to protect his sister. You would probably do the same thing if you had a sister as awesome as Nation McKinley! xP

"Cosmo, do you promise you make them go away?"

"Yes, Nat, I promise. Those bullies won't hurt you anymore."

"Thanks Cosmo!"

"No problem, Nation."

"You're the best big brother ever!"

A loud crash echoing around him, Cosmo suddenly woke up from his dream. Or flashback, really. He looked around, trying to find the source of the sound that had woken him. He blinked his large blue eyes. His vision was rather blurry thanks to the fact that Dark Ansalong had taken his glasses. He knew she had no good use for them. In fact, she probably just did it to mess with him. He shook his head, his stomach knotting with shame. He wondered where Sonny was now.

He looked around the room once more. Betraying his friends had not exactly done much for him. In fact, all it had done was force him to be alone. He was now stuck in a slightly larger prison cell away from the others. Dark Ansalong said it was fancy, and that he deserved it for being so helpful. This thought made him feel even sicker, and he found himself gagging slightly with disgust at himself.

Sighing, the doctor thought back to Sonny and the others. He wanted to redeem himself. He needed to redeem himself. He had been in such a state of panic at the idea of seeing Nation hurt – or worse, dead - that he had been willing to do anything to keep her safe. But now, he realize that his sister would much rather die than watch her big brother betray everyone just because of her. He sighed again and growled to himself. He was an idiot.

Without warning, light poured into the room. Cosmo had been in the darkness of the prison cell for so long that the brightness of the outside made him wince and turn away. Then, darkness returned. Cosmo realized that it was because of a door opening and closing. But if the door opened… someone had to have come inside, right?

Cosmo's question was immediately answered by loud footsteps as his blurry vision focused slightly on a figure before him who he soon realized was Dark Ansalong herself. She smiled at Cosmo in a sickeningly sweet way and waved.

"Hello, Doctor McKinley!" she called, her voice quiet and almost even… testing. It was as if she was testing to see what he would do now that he had decided to work for her. The man in question turned away.

"What did you do to Sonny?" he muttered, narrowing his eyes and clenching his fists, trying desperately not to turn around and punch her. He remembered that, deep down, the true Ansalong was there somewhere. And if he killed Dark Ansalong, or injured her too much, he would be injuring the true Ansalong by extension.

Dark Ansalong chuckled softly. "Oh, he's fine. He's with Riff Raff and the others." She explained. She suddenly went quiet. She tilted her head and stared at her captor with an eerie curiosity. "Are you lonely? Do you want to be with them?" She flicked her reptilian tongue out, making her look less human than she already did. She chuckled softly once more. "You shouldn't." She sighed, the smile never leaving her face. "They hate you. You know that, right? They hate you now. You betrayed them." She practically sang the words aloud. Suddenly, however, she became quite serious. "You've lost any chance you have to redeem yourself. You're much better off here, with me." She paused and raised an eyebrow as if waiting for a reaction. Cosmo tried desperately not to reply. He knew she was just giving him a hard time. And yet…

"Shut up!" snapped Cosmo, whipping around and trying to attack. Dark Ansalong simply took a step out of the way, the smug grin never leaving her face.

She shook her head and laughed in a playful manner. "Tsk, tsk, tsk," she sighed. "How rude! You know better than acting like that, Cosmo. I know you do." She folded her arms. The doctor growled when he realized that he had done exactly what she had wanted him to do. He had reacted. He had actually listened to her.

"Just stay away from the others, Cosmo." she told him. "They hate you now."

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Meanwhile, underneath the castle in a much darker, smaller prison, Sonny, Riff Raff, Farley, and Ricky sat, helplessly waiting for someone to come recue them. Sonny was beyond upset. He should not have gotten captured so easily! He had had the chance. All he had to do was… not trust Cosmo. He sighed at this realization. It had not been his fault he had been captured, it was Cosmo's.

Farley was quick to point this out, almost as if he could read the king's mind. "You know, this is all Cosmo's fault." he muttered. Suddenly, his tone changed quite a bit. "Stupid!" he cried out, making Ricky jump back in surprise. "Everyone who worked for me ended up being insane!"

"It's your fault!" snapped Riff Raff, who had obviously waiting for the chance to yell at someone. "Ansalong is acting like this because of a side effect of the machine that you used on her, remember? And the only reason Cosmo did what he did was to protect Nation, who's also damaged thanks to the same machine. And Neely… you're also to blame for what happened to her! She wouldn't have gotten herself into this mess if you hadn't started tampering with that stupid machine anyway! If it's anyone's fault, it's yours."

The man in question had never looked so offended in his life. His eyes narrowed threateningly. "This is not my fault! I- I-"

Ricky was, once again, the first person to step in and try to make peace between the two. "Stop it! Enough!" he snapped. "It doesn't matter who started it right now! You're acting like children! Look, when it comes down to it, the only thing we can be absolutely certain of is the fact that we're all locked up down here while Dark Ansalong is up there-" (he pointed to the ceiling, implying that he meant above the ground) "-taking over the planet, and possibly the universe." He paused and looked at each of his companions. "Does anybody here want that to happen?"

Everyone was silent. Slowly, the different prisoners exchanged glances. Finally, Riff Raff spoke up. "No, nobody wants that to happen." he muttered. After another pause, he sighed. "Ugh, I should've shot her with that stupid machine when we had the chance! None of us would be here right now!"

Sonny shook his head. "It's not your fault, Riff. We didn't get a chance. Dark Ansalong won't hold still long enough, and, at this rate, she doesn't plan to anytime soon. You've done all you could." He forced a smile. Truthfully, everything felt beyond hopeless, and he felt like giving up a long time ago.

The alien could see how strained the king's words were, but it still made him feel slightly better. He sighed again. "Okay…" he paused. Everyone waited for someone else to speak, no one wanted to be the one to interrupt the silence. Finally, Riff Raff continued. "We have to find a way out. That's the first step in fixing this mess, right?"

A/N AAAAAAH. LONG DELAY AGAIN (though not as long as last time, luckily!). I would've uploaded this sooner if I hadn't been so BUSY. School ends in, like, two weeks and finals plus fan fic writing is never a good combination. But now that Summer's so close, I'm hoping to update faster!

And I'm insanely close to finishing this fan fic and starting on the threequel.

Oh, and remember Rocky Horrors? That Halloween fic I started and never finished? I think that's gonna be a strictly October fic. In other words, I won't update until October this year. It just… fits, and leaves me less busy. xP