Authors Note: What's up guys! Here's chapter 15, where Rigby has just been kidnapped, and Thomas is standing right in front of Mordecai and Benson! How will they get out of this situation? Let's read and find out! :D Also, I'm trying to finish this story as soon as I can so I can finally start the sequel to A Not-So-Regular Time!

Rigby was completely confused as to what was happening. One second, he was trying to help his friends out of a cell. The next, he's being held next to a man in a robe with a dagger to his throat! He started to yell, but the man put his hand over his mouth.

"Silence, you mongrel! You, and your friends, will pay for breaking into our sanctuary!" he hissed to Rigby.

'What the hell is going on?! I've got to escape from the crazy, smelly dude!' Rigby thought, panicking.

Rigby quickly thought of an escape plan: while he couldn't overpower him with his strength, he could use his speed and short stature to squeeze out of the man's grasp.

He mentally prepared himself, 'Okay on 3. 3...2...1!'.

Rigby somehow moved his free hand up to the dagger, grabbing the handle and stabbing the man in his hand over Rigby's mouth. The man screamed in pain, letting go. Rigby then bit down on the wrist of the arm holding him, which made the man yell even louder while also dropping the dagger. Rigby then squeezed out of his grasp, running as fast as he could on all fours back to the cell door, but stopped.

'Wait, I wonder...' he thought, looking back at the dagger.

He picked it up and put it between his teeth, then continued back to the cell. He then inserted it into the lock, jiggling around until he heard a "click" noise.

"Guys, come on! We need to find the others and get out of here!" he yelled, opening the door.

"What? Rigby where-" Eileen started.

"I'll explain later! Now let's go!" he ordered, putting the weapon in his mouth again.

The three friends ran down the hall before being stopped by the man from before.

"STOP! You will go no further!" he yelled.

"Uh, Rigby? Who is that?" Eileen asked, scared.

"I don't know. He kidnapped me but I escaped and took his knife." he answered.

The man became furious, his eyes starting to glow a bright yellow under the hood, "NO! It's a ceremonial dagger, not a knife and I NEED IT! Now, give it back to me, or be disintegrated!"

Rigby just gave him a blank expression for a few seconds, "...nah."

The man then shot yellow lasers out of his eyes, aiming straight for Rigby! Rigby raised the dagger in front of himself, which made one beam ricochet off into the cave wall, and the other hit the man straight in his chest, knocking him to the ground. The man laid there, stunned in anger and disbelief.

"WHAT?! How are you not ash right now?!" he shouted, waiting for his eyes to recharge with the mystical energy.

"HOLY CRAP! I-I blocked the laser with this thing!" Rigby smiled, while Eileen and Margaret just had wide-eyed faces.

"Rigby, we'd better go while he's down!" Eileen suggested.

"Yeah, let's go help our friends!" Margaret added.

They ran off towards the ceremony room, while the man stood back up slowly. He took off his hood to reveal a horribly decayed, rotting face, with missing teeth, rotted nose and only one eye, with the other having a yellow gem in place of an eyeball. He began to limp to them.

"They won't leave here alive..."

Meanwhile, in the main room, Thomas was looking directly at Mordecai and Benson. Thankfully he couldn't see Skips, who was behind the tunnel meditating on a plan to save Thomas' mind from the cult.

"What are you guys doing?" Thomas asked.

Mordecai lowered his voice, "Oh us? Uh, we were, um, taking a break from all the chanting we've been doing."

Benson spoke up, lowering his voice as well, "Yes, now go join your brothers, uh, apprentice. Or we will tell them you've been slacking on your duties!"

Thomas' eyes bulged, "Oh I'm sorry masters! Please forgive me!"

Mordecai and Benson just looked at each other, confused as to why Thomas is being so weird and scared of zombies.

"We, uh, forgive you apprentice! Now go!" Benson ordered.

"Oh thank you, kind masters! I promise I'll kill as many people as you ask for, especially the park employees!" he smiled, running back to the chanting group.

"God, that dude's lost it!" Mordecai sighed.

"Yeah, he has Mordecai. Hey Skips, how are you coming on a plan for helping Thomas?" Benson asked, poking his head around the wall.

Skips poked an eye open, "I'm still thinking, but I have some things to go off of though: it appears their leader carries a golden dagger and has a gem somewhere on his body. I hypothesize, that if we can remove and destroy the gem plus kill the leader, Thomas could return to normal. But, we'd need to do it before the sacrifice. If we don't, Thomas will be under their control and will become the new leader meaning he'll be completely turned!"

"Whoa..." Mordecai and Benson said in unison.

"When do we act?" Benson asked.

"Let's wait for Rigby, Eileen and Margaret. Maybe they can help?" Mordecai said.

"Well...they'd better get here soon. We don't have much time, I'd think." Skips replied.