Chapter 23

Hollis POV:

After the big explosion that happened, all of us immediately ran into the Heptadome after Raz said that Rosie had retreated into his mind, more tired than ever and that we had to check on Alma. After all, the blast was strong enough to burst holes in the Psitanium-rich walls of the Heptadome and spread shrapnel in some places, luckily only harming Gaster and GIFfany, who immediately healed their wounds after.

When we went in, we saw that Agent 33, AKA Alma was laying on the ground, her looking confused at what the place looked like before Ford then used his now-sane mind to teleport the different brains to each of the areas they needed to, with Helmut going to Alma's body, then Gristol to his, and Truman back to his own. And after this, we then witnessed an amazing sight of Alma gaining a new human body and it being a mixture of herself and Helmut, them looking just as young as they were during the Battle of Grulovia, which made Bob Zanotto look at them in surprise.

"Helmut... is it really you?" he asked, Helmut nodding at that.

"Yes, it's me, Bobby. I've missed you for so long," Helmut said, that making Kanna and Sabrina smile.

"A happy reunion and ending," Kanna said happily, though still holding it in.

"Um... am I also Helmut?" asked Alma from his mind, me smiling and shaking my head.

"You are Agent 33. You wanted to assist in combining your essence with Helmut to give him a new body, even going as far as erasing your memories to do so, because of a previous, painful life before you became a Psychonaut," I explained, her then nodding.

"I see... and how did my memories get erased?" she asked.

"They were erased because of our most amazing agent, who is the only one of the new interns who has impressed me so much, she's going to become a regular Psychonaut Agent, same with her host in Raz, while the others are going to be junior agents," she said, that making the others groan a bit before Raz then spoke.

"Thanks, but I don't think she'd want to be highly promoted while everyone else gets the short stick. She might want to do the opposite," Raz said, me looking at him in surprise, but then smirking.

"We'll see what she says. And whatever she says, we'll go through with it... as for right now, we should get out of this place and get back to the Motherlobe. We have a lot of paperwork and things to do. And on no account do we mention Naraku, the SCPs, or anything that happened in this gulch. We don't need to deal with the media calling us liars for all of this madness," I spoke, Milla smirking at me along with Oleander.

"To be quite honest, even if we didn't, the heads are sure to roll when they see most of the new agents and the new interns, isn't that right?" Milla asked as she looked at the Tunnel Monster, the creepy, goopey skeleton, and the glitchy anime-like girl.

"Y-Yeah... I'd like to be an intern..." said the girl, me remembering her name to be GIFfany.

"Being a Psychic in a world filled with humans... such a fun concept for a monster that does not technically exist. I accept," the skeleton said, me being shocked at how he had speech bubbles and weird noises occur whenever he spoke, followed by the words turning into Wingding messages that were hard to read or decipher.

"I'd love to, I really would... but I don't really have any Psychic powers. Just the horrible screech attack and the teleport to tunnels ability that I never want to use again," the Tunnel Monster said, me looking at him in confusion.

"Yeah... so how come you're... acting like a human?" I asked him. And the response came from Gisu, who I could tell was looking at his mind.

"Because of the teleportation from Naraku. It apparently turned him to who he used to be before he became the SCP he was turned into in his own world, which is actually the closest world in the space-time continuum to the world that Mitsy, Jenna, Rosie, and her family come from," Gisu said, that making Dion look at her with a smile.

"So... um... do you think we can have some time off for a bit?" Dion asked, that making me smirk as I could sense it. He felt love for Gisu. And I then looked at Raz's circus family and saw that the others were feeling relieved and happy, minus one, that being the father, who was very conflicted... and one look at his mind, I could tell why. It was because of him remembering that the old lady was Lucrecia, who was his great aunt... and that he had been given false memories to think that he was her son, and she was his mother, even though, as Maligula, she accidentally killed her sister and her husband in one of the floods of Grulovia.

"I think we should get some time off..." said Truman, who finally woke up, causing Lili to immediately hug him, me smiling at that, but then saying one thing.

"Except for you, because I've had to work so many hours of overtime at the Motherlobe while you were down and out in that safe. I deserve some vacation days myself!" I said, him nodding.

"Very well... but then who will assist me in getting back on my feet?" he asked, Mitsy stepping up.

"Me," Mitsy said, him looking at her and looking confused.

"Mitsy?... You look... uh... different..." he said, Oleander smirking at him.

"Boss, we have QUITE the interesting story to tell! HAHAHA!" Oleander chortled, us then joining in.

...

And then we had to wait... for roughly 3 days. Why? Because Rosie wasn't waking up in Raz's mind. It was really concerning us, even Jenna and Gloria tried to go in deeper to find her inner self but couldn't! But then, just when we were about to resort to using either the Brain Tumbler or a Psycho Portal, something incredible happened. She finally projected herself from Raz's head, her then looking around and then at me before then smiling.

"Why am I in Sasha's lab?... What happened while I was asleep?... And how long has it been?" she asked, everyone immediately cheering and then going over to hug her, but to my surprise, none of them got shocked! She then smirked at them widely. "Yes... we're all family now... can I get my questions answered?"

"In the order asked, you are in my lab because of were completely comatose and we were going to resort to a Brain Tumbler dive or using a Psycho Portal on Raz," Sasha said.

"While you were asleep, we managed to get Helmut his new body and 33 and him have been itching to have a trio song with you," Milla smirked.

"And you've been down and out for 3 days and 6 hours," Oleander said after, me smirking at that.

"I see... please tell me we can have a party to celebrate?" she asked, me chuckling at that.

"Only after I ask you a question," I said, her nodding. "I'm willing to give you and Raz senior Psychonaut badges while the others get Junior ones. Would you prefer that, or the opposite?" I asked, her smirking at me.

"I know the right thing to do. Either all of us get the senior Psychonauts badge, or none of us get one," she said, me smirking at that.

"Haha, very well, that's what we'll do then," I chuckled as I then looked at the others and they then smiled widely. "I'll go and get the badges in question. In the meantime, you can go ahead and warp over some stuff needed for this party of yours," I said, her then nodding at me happily.

Rose POV:

It was very weird to know that I'd been asleep for three days, but what was even weirder was that... for some reason, I had trouble remembering certain things about my past. Most of it I could remember, but as for anything about any of my negative memories that I'd had were... gone! As a result, I didn't know what caused me to lose said memories, so I had to ask that question to Raz.

"Raz... I forget what happened that caused me to get asleep... as well as how we defeated Maligula. Can you tell me without telling anyone else?" I asked, as everyone else was busy getting the food I'd teleported from multiple worlds prepared in the atrium, as it was going to be a party for all of the people at the place, me getting enough food of enough variety to make a giant line through the entire center room.

"Well... you defeated Naraku in Nona's mind and managed to erase him completely from history and time and space using the Brain Blast attack. But you were extremely drained because the process was very painful. Then you teleported Maligula herself to a world you called the Home for Infinite Losers, where you said she'd be tortured for eternity... how would she be tortured, though?" he asked, me then nodding at that.

"She'd probably be tortured like another person in that place was, that being a tyrannical overlord called Frieza. She'll be trapped in her own personal coccoon and she'll have to deal with nonstop positive things like happy bunnies and sickeningly sweet happiness. Imagine it like hearing It's a Small World After All, but on loop and sung by multiple shrill voices," I said, him nodding.

"So eternal hell, got it. And as for A-... er... Agent 33... you then did the Brain Blast technique on her as well so she couldn't give any of her painful memories to Helmut when they merged so he could get a new body... and the result was that you became so drained from the pain, that you were booted back to my mind and had to rest up for 3 days straight. And as for 33, she now has a new lease on life and wants to have a trio instead of a duet," Raz said, me smirking at that as I then looked into Helmut's and 33's minds and then shared to them the song that I wished to sing, that being a song from my world. What song was it? It was Ain't no Rest for the Wicked, one of my favorite non-game songs. And Helmut smirked at me after and approached me in his new body, which looked like a mixture of both his massively powerful physique mixed with 33's more thin and frail body.

"That sounds good, and I think we could work it out to have you girls singing the stanzas while we all three sing the chorus," Helmut said, me smirking at that.

"Aw, you're so noble and humble, Helmut! I can see why Bobby loves you so much... is it wrong that I kinda like him too?" 33 asked, me seeing that she was acting not at all like the doom and gloom mood killer as she was before. And it just made me so happy.

"No, it ain't. In fact, I've been hoping to use an experimental time bubble to have him shrink some of his years to be our age again," Helmut said, me smirking at that.

"Please, I can do that in my sleep. Bob? Bob, can you come here?" I asked, him then hearing me and coming over with concern on his shy face.

"Yes?... What is it?" he asked, me then saying the words to him.

"Would you like to be Helmut's age again? Because I know how to have you age down to be 40 again," I said, him then gasping and looking at Helmut before then nodding.

"Will my clothes be okay?" he asked, me nodding as I then focused and imagined Bob to be 40 years old. And just like what I did with Raz and Lili in the past, he then turned back into a 40-year-old man, him actually losing the bad smell he had, and his beard shortened greatly!

"O-Oh my god! That's an advanced time bubble technique! Ohoho! Not even I could've done that so easily without the Astralathe boosting my strength! You more than deserve your senior promotion!" Helmut smirked as Bob then looked at himself in a mirror and he then looked surprise before then looking at Helmut.

"This... actually feels great!... I wonder if Truman would be okay with me looking his age?" Bob asked as I smirked.

"I'm more concerned at the fact that you have the same name as my personal friend in Bobby, which is sure to end up getting a bit of confusion in the future," I smirked as I saw that the kid in question was getting a round of food in the form of some steak, nacho cheese and chips, and even a special food from another world being a Krabby Patty, which I took from the underwater restaurant itself. Boy would Krabs be livid!

"I wouldn't worry too much. We psychics know how to discern people just through thought," Bob smirked as I then saw that Lili was coming to me and Raz with Frazie and they then went to us and the former kissed Raz while both kissed me, which made me smirk.

"Just wanted to let you know, we've been collaborating with Doctor Otto to try and get our personal other selves a new body using his Hall of Brains. We already tested it out with your dad and he's actually alive again but needing a bit of time to regain control of his new form," Lili said, me being shocked at that as I saw that my dad in question was currently in a hover chair similar to Morris's transport. And that he then waved to me, me smirking at him in his new body. He looked exactly as he did before, just a tad bit younger!

"Oh, daddy!" I smirked as I then rushed to him and gave him a big hug, him smirking at me afterwards.

"It's been far too long since I've hugged you in person, Rosie, darling," he said, me smiling at him.

"Does this mean that I could finally be out of Raz's body?" I asked, Raz smirking at me.

"That's all up to you, Rose. But before that, I think you still need to deliver on your promise to Loboto," he said, me then looking to see that he was next to Mitsy, me then going to him and, the whole time, I tried to search across the globe for his missing kid. And when I actually managed to find him, I was triple shocked! First, his kid was actually D'Artagnan, pronounced as Dart-uh-nin! Second, said Dart was actually hiding right outside of the Motherlobe underneath the entrnace where you could find a secret Psi Card that you could access with a boat! And he was hiding there with one final person, that being his mother! And the third shock? The mother was... related to me? In fact, her DNA strands were extremely similar to my own mother!

"Um... Loboto?" I asked, him looking at me in confusion. "Um.. could you tell me what the name is of your kid's mother?" I asked, as for some reason, I couldn't get the name from the woman because she shut me out of her mind with a steel trap just as strong as mine!

"Oh, that's an easy one! Belinda Dosina-Loboto. She and I are uh, separated but still together... why?" he asked, me gulping at that. Why? That was my aunt! My aunt was Belinda Dosina! I immediately then did something else and teleported the duo right next to us, the duo looking around in shock before then seeing Loboto.

"W-What the... Lobie?..." Belinda asked before she then saw me and then she gasped. "Rosie!" she shouted in shock before she hugged me, me being shocked at that, but not before Dart then did the same and I was shocked that... he didn't get shocked! And I already knew why, even if I didn't want to admit it. I was a blood relative!

"H-How did you find them so easily?" Loboto asked as I then smiled.

"They uh... were under the entrance to this place. And from looking at Dart's mind, they were trying to find a way to bust you out, even though you're just a visitor," I said, Belinda looking at me with a smile.

"Well, that, and because I wanted to know who this Mitsy person is and why she took him on a month-long trip without telling us," she said, me then looking at him and then at her.

"That... wasn't Mitsy who did that. It was a bad guy that was controlling her. And that same bad guy then controlled Loboto's mind and forced him to do bad things, very much against his will," I said, him nodding.

"I see... so what's all this, then? It looks like a party!" Dart said, me smirking at how he sounded like I did when I was a kid, only with a slightly deeper voice.

"It is. A party for saving the day from that same bad guy and for miss Rosie and the other interns being promoted to Psychonauts," said the voice of Mitsy as she then approached and looked at Belinda with a smile. "I want to formerly apologize for what happened... I'm not the same as the Mitsy you're familiar with, as that was the bad guy controlling me ever since I arrived at this world," she said, me then looking at her and then at my aunt.

"Auntie? Just asking for curiosity's sake, but why do you have a mind like a steel cap?" I asked, her smirking widely as she then proceeded to grab a cup of water from the table before then forcing some of it to turn into individual ice cubes and then taking a drink of it with a conjured straw! "You're... Psychic?" I asked.

"Yes, I always was, even back home. In fact, everyone in our family had latent psychic powers, no thanks to your grandfather. I saw everything when at the gulch from afar, especially 33. I never knew that he did that, but now it makes perfect sense as to why we have psychic powers in this world," she said, me being surprised.

"I still hate him, though. For torturing that poor girl for her whole life," I said, her nodding at me.

"We both know that he has paid for his crimes," she said, me nodding at her.

"So... that means we're... related?" Loboto asked, me smirking.

"I guess so... so do I call you Uncle Loboto?" I asked.

"I wouldn't mind," he said, me then having a small hug, though it was slightly uncomfortable due to his mechanical hand. We then had a bit more food and I then had myself, Helmut, and 33 go to the upper levels of the Atrium and to the entry to the Nervous Center, as it was called.

"Attention everyone! Time for your entertainment for the party! It's time to perform a feast for the mind," I smirked as I then had my mind proceed to play the music to everyone as I then started to sing the song's first verse with 33 singing the second verses.

"~I was walking down the street
When out the corner of my eye
I saw a pretty lookin' thing approaching me!

She said I never saw a man
Who looks so all alone
Uh could you use a little comapny?

If you pay the right price
Then your evening will be nice
And you can go ahead and send me on my way!

I said "You're such a sweet young thing
why do you do this to yourself?"
She looked at me and this is what she said:" we sung before we all three started to sing the next part and for our performance to start emitting a lot of colorful lights.

""Oh, there ain't no rest for the wicked!
Money don't grow on trees!
I got bills to pay
I got a mouth to feed
There ain't nothin' in this world for free!

I know I can't slow down!
I can't hold back!
Oh, you know, I wish, I could!
But there ain't no rest for the wicked!
Until we close our eyes for good!"" we all three sung as we could hear the cheering as we then immediately got to the next part, me saying that I'd sing the first parts then both 33 and Helmut would sing the next parts!

"Not even 15 minutes later
I'm still walking down the street
When I saw the shadow of a man creep out of sight!

And then he swept up from behind
He put a gun up to my head
He made it clear he wasn't lookin' for a fight!

He said, "Give me all you got
I want your money not your life
But if you try to make a move, I won't think twice!"

I told him you can have my cash
But first I gotta ask
What made you want to live this kind of life?"

He said, "There ain't no rest for the wicked!
Money don't grow on trees!
I got bills to pay!
Got a mouth to feed!
There ain't nothin' in this world for free!

Oh, I can't slow down!
I can't hold back!
Oh, you know, I wish, I could!
But there ain't no rest for the wicked,
Until we close our eyes for good!"" we had sung before then going into a very awesome guitar solo with the colors turning into the silhouette of the story the song was showing, told through figments! We included everything that had been told thus far before the figments then joined in for the final part, including some of my Archetypes in the form of my Christian side, my gothic side, and my judge side! I would've included the giant me, but she couldn't sing for the life of her.

"~Well now a couple hours passed
And I was sitting at my house
The day was winding down to an end.

And so I turned on the Teevee
And flipped it over to the news
And what I saw I almost couldn't comprehend!

I saw a preacher man in cuffs
He'd taken money from the church
He'd stuffed his bank account with righteous dollar bills!

But even still I can't say much
Because I know we're all the same
Oh yes, we all seek out to satisfy those thrills!

You know there ain't no rest for the wicked!
Money don't grow on trees!
We got bills to pay!
We got mouths to feed!
There ain't nothin' in this world for free!

Oh, we can't slow down!
We can't hold back!
Oh, I know, I wish we could!
But there ain't no rest for the wicked!
Until we close our eyes for goooooooodd...~" we sung before one more guitar twang, the whole entire Motherlobe cheering for us happily, which made me feel so proud. Proud to not only have performed an amazing piece of song with Helmut and 33, but to have managed to make everyone happy, even some that were considered as villains in the past like Oleander, Bobby Zilch, Bill Cipher, GIFfany, Gaster, and Joey! Even a ring in my pocket was signifying that Monika was also amazed by the performance.

And to be honest, I could only hope that being a senior Psychonaut would be just as fun!