Note: This chapter might be trippy for some.

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Chapter 2: Mind Palace

Elphaba and Glinda at the Oz of the World headquarters with the people now preparing tomorrow's news headlined SE PERCY ROMANA ARRESTED FOR CORRUPTION. Elphaba scanned the whole building to see the way to get to de Capo's headquarters. "de Capo's office is on the top floor, below his private suite, but there are 14 layers of security between us and him. Two of which are illegal in Oz. Want to know how to break in?" Elphaba told Glinda.

"Is that what we're going to do, break in?" Glinda asked.

"Of course we're going to break in." Elphaba and Glinda destined themselves to the office unnoticed to the staff while Elphaba continues to describe Maganus' security. "de Capo has created a device that respond to only through voice command. Bit futuristic if you ask me. He only goes there through a lift that only he has the key to operate. Anyone who tries to go in, security is automatically informed."

"So how will go in without a key to the lift?"

"I nicked it from his goons while they were searching me earlier." Elphaba and Glinda creeped behind a wall and see the door that leads to de Capo's office. "If I we're to use this key right to the lift right now, what happens?"

"Uhh, alarms would go off and get dragged by security?"

"Exactly."

"Get taken to a small room somewhere with your head kicked in."

"Do you really need so much color?"

"It passes the time Elphie."

"But if I use this powder I used to make from the Grimmerie, it will shut down the power of this building for a quarter of an hour. Being invisible immediately before I use this powder will also make the alarm go off. The powder won't affect the lift because it operates mechanically. That way we'll get into his office and be out of there by the time the power goes back on."

"Or we'll just in the lift already because someone is dumb enough to leave it open." Elphaba then looked at the lift and the door is truly open.

"You always like to take easy and boring ways don't you Glinda?" The two then ran to the lift before the door closes at them. They pass the time in the lift by having a conversation. "So, how is Boq?"

"Oh Boq's fine. He has been very nice to me lately."

"Where does Boq work?"

"He told me that he has been helping people a lot. I guess he runs a charity business." When the lift reached to de Capo's office, Elphaba and Glinda were appalled by the look of his office. "Wow this office looks like mine." Glinda said.

"I guess many people read a magazine that is run by a blackmailer." The two looked around and notice an unconscious body lying on the floor.

"Oh my Oz!" Glinda ran to his side and checked his pulse. "His fine. I guess I'll stay here and take care of him while you go find the fil-"

"Hang on." Elphaba interrupted Glinda and smelled something. "Do you smell that?" Elphaba smelled again and something unusual about it. "Do you smell perfume?"

"Yeah I can smell perfume. And it smells like Flora-line. I always wear it whenever I'm not in cases with you."

"I'll go check the scent of the perfume. In the meantime, take care of that man would you." Glinda was annoyed when Elphaba said that. Elphaba then saw the door to de Capo's suite open and went in there. When she arrived, she saw de Capo still in the building, but is being held hostage by someone dressed in black with a pistol pointing on de Capo.

"Please, I know you're doing this to protect your marriage, but don't do this. I didn't do anything yet." de Capo pleaded.

"Additionally, if you're going to commit murder, you might consider wearing a different perfume, Lady Udent."

de Capo saw Elphaba and was confused when she said Lady Udent. "Sorry, who?" de Capo saw the assassin again and corrected Elphaba. "That's not Lady Udent, Ms. Thropp." The assassin turned to Elphaba and pointed at gunpoint and Elphaba recognized the assassin's face. The assassin turned out to be Boq, Glinda's husband.

"If you're going to ask about the perfume Elphaba, it's because Mr. Magnus here doesn't here has lost the sense of smell. But he found anyway and made him act like a hostage." Boq said.

"So this is your little charity work Glinda told me about, an assassin for hire."

"Lady Udent was tired of waiting for you so she hired me to finish the job. But I have one important question from you Elphaba. Is Glinda with you?"

"Yes, she's downstairs taking care of an unconscious man."

"So what are going to do now, kill us both?" de Capo said and Boq scoffed at him.

"Boq, whatever he's got on you, let me help you?"

"Oh Elphaba if you take one more step, I swear I'll kill you."

"No Mr. Merril, you won't." Elphaba took one step, but Boq pulled the trigger and shot her at her chest.

"I'm sorry Elphaba. I truly am." Boq said tearfully.

Elphaba looked at the blood coming out her chest and was about to close her eyes, but she notice the room freeze around and she looked like unharmed. "It's not like in those moving pictures Fabala." Elphaba look on the right of her and saw Nessarose wheeling towards next her. "There's not a great spurt of blood and you fall backwards. You're almost certainly going to die, so we need to focus." The two sisters were then transported to a bright room with only them and a table wrapped in white sheets. Nessarose partially unwrapped the sheet and showed Elphaba lying down with her eyes close. "It's clever having a mind palace, but you have three seconds of consciousness left to use. So come on, what's going to kill you?"

"Uh… Blood loss." Elphaba answered.

"Exactly. So it's come down to exactly one thing now. Forwards or backwards." The two are back to de Capo's room and with Nessarose in front of Elphaba and Fiyero behind her.

"One hole or two?" Fiyero asked.

Elphaba looked back and was confused that Fiyero was in there. "Sorry, what.?" she asked.

"Is the bullet inside you or is there an exit wound? It'll depend on a pistol." Nessarose said.

Elphaba then sees different models of pistols until she saw the one she needed. "That one, I think." Elphaba said but got confused, "Or is it this one?" Nessarose and Fiyero disappeared as Elphaba was transported to a room and saw her father, Frex, sitting behind a desk.

"Oh for Oz's sake Elphaba." Frex angrily told her, "It doesn't matter what gun killed you. Don't be so stupid. You always were stupid. Such a disappointment."

Elphaba then turned into her eleven year old self and was really angry on what Frex said. "I'm not stupid!" a young Elphaba shouted.

"You're a very stupid little girl." Frex got up and walked around the table. "You're the reason why my sweet Nessa can't walk and your mother's death. If you're not stupid then, what would you hear when a bullet passes through you?" Elphaba turned back to her present day self as she was transported back to de Capo's room.

"The mirror's shattering." Elphaba said.

"So we need to her down backwards" Fiyero's voice said.

"I agree." Nessarose said to Fiyero while she's sitting in front of her. "Elphaba, you need to fall on your back."

Fiyero then appeared in front of Elphaba and continued speaking. "But any pressure or impact on the entrance could dislodge it."

Nessarose appeared behind her and continued where Fiyero left off. "Plus on your back, gravity's working for us. Fall now." Nessarose said firmly.

Elphaba's eyes were half-closed as she is slumping to the ground. Before Elphaba could hit the ground, Elphaba was then transported to a morgue and a cabinet with Elphaba's body open by itself. "What the hell is that?! Tell me what is happening?!" Elphaba said.

Fiyero then appeared again and continued speaking. "You're going into shock. It's the next thing that's going to kill you."

"What do I do?"

"Don't go into shock obviously." Elphaba jumped when Nessarose appeared out of nowhere. "There must something in this ridiculous mind palace that would calm you down. Find it."

Elphaba could hear Frex's voice as she is now transported in her childhood looking for something to calm her down, "The West Wind is coming to get you Elphaba. It's coming to get you." he said.

Elphaba then wandered around the corridor's of her former home and when she opened a door, she could see a brown dog sitting there. "Hello Brownbeard. Come here boy. Come on. It's okay. Come on it's me. That's it good boy!" Elphaba said in her eleven year old form as Brownbeard is running towards her. "Hello Brownbeard, they're going to put me down too. It's no fun is it." Elphaba weakly said in her older form as Brownbeard licks her before falling to the ground. In the real world, Elphaba landed on the ground.

"Without the shock you're going to feel massive pain." Fiyero said as he stands there while watching Elphaba scream in agony. "There's a hole ripped through you. Massive internal bleeding. You have to control it!"

Elphaba is now running through the stairs and went to a room made entirely full of cushions. "Control! Control! Control!" Elphaba shouted to herself. She then sees a man wrapped in a straightjacket and was really angry to see him. "You! You never felt pain did you? Why did you never felt pain?!" Elphaba said to the man.

"You always feel it, Elphaba." the man said as he turned around and revealed to be the former Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The Wizard charged towards Elphaba but he was chained to the wall before he could reach her. "But you don't have to fear it!" The Wizard sneered at Elphaba as she's struggling from her wounds. "Pain. Heartbreak. Loss. Death. It's all good." The Wizard mocked Elphaba.

"Elphaba?" a voice called her. In de Capo's room, it was Glinda as she found her unresponsive on the floor as she slapped her face to wake her up. "Elphie, can you hear me? What happened?" Glinda asked de Capo.

"She got shot." de Capo weakly told her.

Glinda opened Elphaba's jacket and saw bullet hole on to her chest. "Elphie! Oh my Oz. Who did this?!" Glinda shouted at de Capo. She then went to a telephone from de Capo's desk and called an ambulance.

Back in her mind palace, Elphaba is still in pain while the wizard's still mocking her. "It's raining. It's pouring. Elphaba is pouring. It's raining. I'm crying. Elphaba's dying." he sarcastically sings to her as the ambulance is taking Elphaba to the hospital in the real world.

"We're losing you, Elphaba!" Glinda said as they take her and Glinda to the hospital.

"Come on, Elphaba. One little push, and off you pop." the Wizard said. In the hospital, the doctors are trying hard to revive Elphaba, but she's still unresponsive. "You're going to love being dead Elphaba. No one ever bothers you." the Wizard said to an unconscious Elphaba. "Your husband Fiyero will cry. And Nessarose will cry. And all of Oz will cry. And Glinda will cry buckets and buckets. It's him that I worry about. That husband, you're letting her down Elphaba. Glinda Upland is definitely in danger." Elphaba suddenly woke up when she heard from the Wizard that Glinda will be in danger. Elphaba then slammed the floor as she tries to get up. "Oh you're not getting better are you?" a disappointed Wizard said, "Oh was it something I said, huh? Elphaba!" the Wizard shouted her name as she exit the room.

As Elphaba is climbing towards the stairs in her Mind Palace, she is regaining consciousness in the real world. The doctors were shocked to see Elphaba's eyes open and did further treatments to her.

The next day, Boq marched into the hospital to visit Elphaba, but was stopped by Glinda who is waiting outside her room. "Boq you're here. Good news, she's only woken up. She pulled through." Glinda said

"Seriously?"

"And you, Mr. Merrill, you're in big trouble."

Boq then looked concern as she thinks that Glinda has found his secret. "Really, why?'

"Her first word when she woke up. Boq." the two giggled and hugged, but Boq is still worried. When Glinda left, Boq went to Elphaba's room to tell him about Glinda. "You don't tell her." Boq said as Elphaba is trying to regain consciousness, but is fuzzy in Elphaba's point of view.. "Elphaba? You don't tell Glinda. Look at me Elphaba, and tell me you don't tell her."

A day later, Elphaba is still in the hospital with Nessarose visiting. "You're really not a good listener do you Fabala?" Fiyero said.

"What did I do?" Elphaba playfully asked her.

"I told you not to go to his office because you'll cause trouble there

"Hmm, you're right. I should have hypnotized you to say it's okay for me to break in." she said as the two of them laugh.

"While you were out, I bought a nice cottage for me to stay."

"Oh where?"

"By the crystal lake."

"Hmm, nice place."

"Well it's almost Lurlinemas and I'm going out and buy some presents. I'll send my love from Glinda and Boq." Nessarose said before heading towards the door. When Nessarose left, Elphaba went back to her mind palace. She appeared in the corridors and saw Boq standing in front of her. Elphaba tries to read Boq, but all she could from him is "liar".

"So, Boq Merrill, who are you?" she said as she is walking around him. Elphaba then left and she is now thinking on what to do next.

Hours later, Glinda brought Fiyero for company to visit Elphaba. "I don't know how much sense you'll get out of her." Glinda said to Fiyero as they are walking up the stairs. "She's drugged up, so she's pretty much babbling. Oh and what's that thing."

"It's a tape recorder, it is used by the Gale Force so they could record what people say during interrogation. I just wanted to record what she's saying when she's drugged up."

When they entered her room, she wasn't there. They also saw the window to Elphaba's room is opened. Glinda then used the hospital's telephone to call Boq. "So, where did she go?" Boq asked

"I don't know. Try finding her all around Oz."

Boq interviewed the fan club that came up theories on how Elphaba faked her death told her that Elphaba might be in the Emerald Gardens apartment district since that's her number one "bolt-hole". Boq thanked him and he now knows where Elphaba is. At the same time, Fiyero called the entire Gale Force to find her while Glinda also interviewed every person close to Elphaba, but never gets a good answer at of anyone of them. Glinda and Fiyero went back to Kiamo Ko and started questioning why Elphaba would leave the hospital. They stopped when they got a phone call from Elphaba. Fiyero answered it and he told Glinda that it's for her.