Thank you to everyone who added this story to their favorites or alerts. Can I assume my last chapter was a good one? ^_^ Hope I can keep it up. This is going to be a short chapter, but I'll try to get up the next one soon. As you all already know, I do not own Dr. Horrible or any of its characters. So without wasting any more valuable time, let's get to the chapter.

My body is still shaking from the shocks. My teeth are chattering. I keep going back and forth between feeling unbearably cold and scorching hot. My vision is blurry. I feel dizzy. My stomach is churning, ready to clear the little amount of content it has. I feel so weak, but I know I have to find power from somewhere so I can stop those psychos. I try to clench my fists and twist my hand back and forth, but I know I won't be able to break free from my binds.

"Doc!"

I raise my head at the sudden voice. I see a figure coming towards me.

"Moist?" My voice comes out as a faint whisper.

"Doc, what did they do to you?"

He runs over to me. I can't believe it. Luck finally decided to come over to my side. If Moist can get my binds open, maybe, just maybe, I can stop Hammer and that sick idiot.

"Let me get those for you…uhh, darn. I can't get them open." Moist struggles to open the ropes tightened around my hands. While he's doing that, his sweat drops on to my hands. Gross! I gag, but then I realize…my hands are slippery. I slide them out of the binds and quickly start working to open the ropes around my legs. When I finally get them open I try to stand up. Now that I'm free, I have no time to waste. My legs are shaking though and I fall hard to the floor on my elbows.

"Doc! Are you ok?"

Moist helps me back up and I lean against a table to try to get a hold of myself. The world is spinning around me.

"How did you find me?"

"Well, this girl, she…well she, kind of looked like…umm…"

"I know, she looks like Penny. What about her?"

"Yeah. Her. Well, I came over and I saw that she totally trashed your place and then she suddenly left with your truth detector and electric shocker. So I followed her and waited outside until she left. I never thought I'd find you in here!"

"Moist, we have to stop them. They…they're after my time machine."

"You have a time machine! Why didn't you tell me! There's so much I want to change! We can win the lottery. We can win ten lotteries!"

"Moist, you don't understand. The machine isn't stable. That's why I hid it. So no one would ever get their hands on it. I made it…I made it to try to bring her back. To bring Penny back. But the machine, it can cause a disastrous ripple in time. If you use it, even the smallest changes can cause total annihilation of the human race."

"How do you know?"

"I tested it. Remember that massive earthquake that happened a few months ago? Well, I had gone back in time to a day earlier and after doing some tests I found out that's what had caused it. If they go back to the day Penny died, which was months ago, who knows what will happen!"

"So what do we do?"

"We need to stop them before they find the machine and use it."

"But doc, you're in no condition to stop anyone."

"I have no choice. I have to do something."

I start to wobble towards the door. In reality, I know Moist is right. I am in no shape to go saving the world. In fact, I don't even think it's in me to save anyone. I'm an evil scientist for crying out loud. But right now I have to look past that. It's what Penny would have done. For her sake, I need to do this.