"Gilligan! Mary Ann!" Tegan called as she and Nyssa searched for their two missing friends. "Where could they have gone?"

"I don't know, Tegan. They couldn't have gone that far," Nyssa replied. She looked down to the ground. "Their footprints stop here."

"Yes, but then where are they?" Tegan asked.

"I don't know, but look at this," Nyssa knelt down to examine the ground around where the footprints stopped. "It looks like the ground has been disturbed here. Almost as if..." Nyssa got no farther as the mysterious aliens reappeared and pulled the two of them underground.

OOOOOOOO

"How long do you think they're going to keep us here, Gilligan?" Mary Ann asked. The two of them were sitting in cave and had been since the aliens had brought them there, not long before.

"I don't know," Gilligan replied. "At least they haven't hurt us, or tried to eat us."

"Not yet at least," Mary Ann said. "I'm beginning to miss our island more and more."

At that point, Nyssa and Tegan were brought into the cave.

"Boy, are we glad to see you two," Gilligan said. "Mary Ann are I were... Well, we were just minding our own business, when these guys popped up out of ground and grabbed us."

"The same thing happened to us," Tegan replied. She looked at Nyssa. "Nys, are you okay?"

"I'm fine, Tegan," Nyssa replied as she put a hand to her forehead. "The aliens seem to be trying to communicate with me via telepathy."

"Any idea what they're saying?"

"Yes, the aliens, or the natives perhaps, are called Terrians," Nyssa said. "They're wondering what we're doing here."

"You can talk to these Terr... Terr... These guys?" Gilligan asked. "Mary Ann and I tried, but we got nowhere."

"The Terrians use telepathy to communicate," Nyssa said. "My mind has been more in tune to that, since that incident with the Xeraphine."

"We'll explain later," Tegan added for Gilligan and Mary Ann's benefit.

"The Terrians mean us no harm," Nyssa went on. "They seem to be curious about us. They've never seen beings like us before."

"So that means no humans have ever visited this planet before," Tegan said.

"No yet, at least," Nyssa said.

"So they're not going to harm us?" Mary Ann asked.

"No, as I said, they're just curious about us," Nyssa replied. "From what I understand, the Terrians are symbiotically linked to this planet. They know all the native life forms."

"Symio..." Gilligan began with a baffled look on his face.

"It means that their minds are in tune with the harmonics of the planet," Nyssa said. "What the planet feels, they feel."

"So I guess our arrival stirred things up a bit," Tegan said.

"Yes, and that is why they brought us here. They just want to know who we are and where we came from," Nyssa replied.

At that point a group of Terrians entered the cave and gestured for the group to follow them.

"And now I guess they're going to ask us in person," Mary Ann said.