Adventures on GamersHood Planet

[EscapeGirl]

Selena’s mom drove furiously to the airport, pushing the speed limit and weaving in and out of the traffic on the freeway the entire drive. When she arrived at the airport, she approached the ticket counter and asked to buy a ticket to Tibet, where Dr. Nayna’s clinic was located. “Tibet,” she thought, “how the heck did my daughter turn up in Tibet!?” As she waited for the plane to board, Alyx called Dr. Nayna’s clinic and asked to speak to her. Surprisingly, Dr. Nayna took the call.
“Hello?” she said. Alyx, not being sure where to begin replied, “Yes, my name is Alyx and I’m calling to check on my daughter who is apparently a patient there, Selena.” “Oh, er, um, of course,” replied Dr. Nayna as a thought struck her. “However, I am sorry to inform you that I am unable to release any information on her as she is not a minor. Unless you have power of attorney over her, I can give you no information.” Dr. Nayna was proud of her quick thinking. “WHAT!? I don’t care that my daughter’s 27 years old, she is still my daughter, and if she’s in a mental institution, I have the right to know about her condition!” Alyx screamed into the phone, the people at the airport glancing her way as she yelled. “Alyx, your daughter is suffering from ‘gamer horror ridiciulis’ and isn’t feeling quite like her…um…self.” “What do you mean!?” Alyx demanded. “Well, she’s feeling…well…like a whole other person,” Dr. Nayna answered truthfully. “And she’s exhausted, a bit….deflated, I guess you could say.” Alyx said, “Well, I’m at the airport, you tell my daughter I’m coming, and I’ll be there for her the whole time.” Dr. Nayna, sat upright in her seat, “NO! You can’t do that!” she answered abruptly, “Um…er….it would be devastating to her mental health…” “What? That’s bologna!! I think psychiatry is a bunch of hooey and is for loonies, anyway! I’m coming to see MY daughter!!” Alyx hollered into the phone before pushing the END button on her cell. Dr. Nayna heard the distinct click of being hung up on, and stared at the phone. “Oh God, she’s coming HERE…” she mumbled to herself, as her gaze shifted to the deflated clone across the room that was at one time, a clone of Selena/Escape.
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After the Bengals won the series, the stadium was full of celebration. The group of friends cheered, ate hot dogs, and drank beer and/or soda. Freakshow continued to seem disinterested in the whole thing as he played his PSP. Hyper jumped off Adventure’s head as they were leaving the stadium and landed in Escape’s popcorn. “Oh, no! I’m in a pot again.” Escape looked at him, one eyebrow raised, “Um, Hyper…you are in a popcorn bucket, not a pot.” Hyper looked around him at the fluffy popcorn. “Oh, nevermind,” he paused, “Can we stop somewhere and get some ramen? In a pot?” The group of friends looked at eachother, burst out laughing, and Lili petted Hyper and said, “Sure. We’ll pick you up some.” Hyper, seeming satisfied, jumped back onto Adventure’s head. “Rawr!” He growled before lying down, his fluffy fox tail wrapping across Adventure’s forehead. “Well, I have to take care of my new dog and go shopping with my two year-old, but I’ll try to catch up to you guys later.” They exchanged phone numbers. After they bought the ramen for Hyper, and put it in a pot, he hopped in and began to enjoy his lunch, slurping noodles. Adventure looked around when she heard the ‘slurp’ expecting to see another creepy Slurp Spider, before realizing it was just Hyper. “So, where are we going next?” asked Escape questioningly, as she looked at Lilliputt. “Weeeellllllll, I was thinkin’ maybe we could take a plane over to the United Kingdom, and visit Dazed. She’s my sister in arms, ya know!” “What about Jess?” asked a still tipsy Adventure. Escape, also still feeling the effects of the beer from the stadium said, “She’s visiting her family in Sweden. We can see her when we get to Europe.” Escape and Adventure hiccup simultaneously, and begin to giggle uncontrollably – again. The group, now very used to Adventure and Escape’s silly drunken outbursts, just shake their head, laugh and make them sit in the backseat on the way to the airport. When they arrive at JFK Airport in New York, Freakshow suddenly shows signs of life. His eyes begin darting back and forth at all the movement, and he puts away his PSP. Amazingly, everyone has just enough money in their pockets for a ticket to fly to Europe. Lilliputt looks at Lili, “Mistery…she always comes through for us,” as she thumbs through her recently discovered money. Once on the plane OneBun hops softly to her seat in the back of the plane and takes out her notepad. Freakshow gets excited and starts running down the aisle, “Good thing I’m in a good mood today!” he yells as he scrambles over people trying to place their luggage into the overhead bins. Hyper, jumps from Adventure’s head and lands in an overhead bin just as an elderly man shoves his heavy carry-on suitcase into the bin, squishing Hyper. “Ouch. Someone help me. I’m not in a pot, I’m in a bin!” Escape and Adventure have already begun harassing the confused flight attendants by asking for carrot rum, but quickly settle on helping themselves to whatever alcohol they can get from the drink cart when the attendants refuse to help them. Lilliputt and Lili, seeing all this confusion, shake their heads, and Lili tries to open the bin to help out Hyper. Hyper yells, “You can’t help me. There’s a spell on the bin.” Lili easily opens the bin, pulls out Hyper and shakes her head. Hyper, feeling defeated, “No, I’m an unlucky fox!” jumps out of her arms and scurries quickly under the feet of the other passengers, opens the lavatory door and hides. Lillputt and Lili quickly chase him through the mayhem of the other passengers, past the already drinking Adventure and Escape, and past Freakshow as he hangs from the overhead bin, upside down, and over to the lavatory. As they reach the door, they hear a toilet flush, and Hyper shriek. “Aah! I’m all blue!! I got flushed down the toilet!!” The door flies open and Hyper immediately bursts out and jumps onto Lilliputt’s head, the blue water dripping down his tail and onto Lilliputt’s forehead, then between her eyes. “Eeeww!! Hyper!” exclaims Lilliputt. Lili falls to the floor and begins rolling on the floor laughing. The angry and irritated flight attendants begin trying to take control of the rowdy group, and make them all take their seats.
Meanwhile, a very, very quiet OneBun sits in the back of the plane taking notes on everyone’s odd behavior. “Possiblity blue fox was not blue from birth, but blue from frequently flushing himself down airliner toilets.”
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[Lilliputt]

As Alyx finds a taxi to get to Lhasa City she realises that there might be a language barrier now that she is in a country where everyone speaks Tibetan. “I want to go to dr Nayna private clinic.” The confused driver looked at his passenger eyes wide open, “Yes miss?” and nodded his head. “It’s MRS and no, dr Naynas private clinic!” Alyx said and tried to show the address she had written on a note. The driver took the note and turned it up side down and looked as though he was trying to read. He gave it back with the words “yes, miss?”. As genuinely nice as the driver was, Alyx realised she could not get anywhere like this so she got out of the car and somehow found a shuttle to Lhasa city. In the shuttle she met some people who could speak English very well, but no one had ever heard of dr Nayna or her famous clinic. This was a draw back for a poor mothers heart. “How could a doctor so well reputed stay unknown in her own country”, she thought. She asked if there is an American embassy she could visit. “Of course there is an American Embassy”, said a man, “in Beijing”. He smiled. “But that is in China?”, Alyx replied and the man nodded and smiled. “I need to reach this private clinic that is supposed to be here, how do I do that?”. “You should try the Tourism Administrative Bureaus of Tibet Autonomous Region”, was the answer. “The Tourism of…”, she scribbled it down thanked the man and got of the shuttle. Somehow she made her way to the bureau’s offices. “Hello, I’m looking for the private clinic of dr Nayna”, she said as she grabbed hold of the first person she saw that seemed to be working there. “Aaah, you mean the famous doctor Nayna?” said the young man in a blue suite and tie. Finally someone that KNEW what she was talking about, “YES!!” she said in relief. “Why are you looking for her in our bureau?”, the man politely asked. At this point Alyx was about to explode but tried to put a strain on herself. “I am looking for her clinic and I was hoping that I could get some help to get there.” The man looked puzzled. “But she is a famous Swedish doctor, her practice is in Sweden. Why do you think we can help you get there?”. Alyx was absolutely shocked and tried to dig in her purse to get the note with the address. It said Tibet all right, but as she examined it further it also said “Sweden”. She was in the wrong country. She gave the note to the young man, “no”, he said and frowned ”this cannot be. Wait here.” Moments later he returned with a cup of nice warm coffee and a smile. “Somebody gave you the wrong information he said. Doctor Naynas private clinic is in Tibro in Sweden”.
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To the flight attendants relief the passengers took their seats and the airplane landed on Manchester International Airport without any major incidents, well, apart from when Hyper tried to sneak in to the pilots cabin. Lili caught him and then put him back into one of the overhead bins. “Im such an uuuunl…” the bin was shut because by then everyone knew what an unlucky fox he is and no one really wanted to hear it one more time. As they were exiting the gates Adventure and Escape were giggling, still tipsy from their drink, the Lillies were blossoming with their happy smiles, OneBun occupied herself with her notes and Freakshow was still on his psp. The two tipsy ladies might not have made such a good impression. While having hiccups Escape said: “I agreeeee” and putting her arm over Adventures shoulder she went on “witz myyyy friend here....Adventtir...”. She smiled vaguely, “we shouldz reeeeeeeaally viisitt Dazedaaaaaaaandclazed”. Adventure leaned toward her friend and smiled said, “ofcourrrrze!”. Now trying to get through customs with this unusual gang turned out to be a little difficult. “They should have gone as my luggage”, Lilliputt thought to her self and tried not to pay attention to her tipsy friends as they tried to get through customs. “Excuse me madam”, the officer said, “what is that on your head”. Adventure tried to stand straight and gave the officer a dim look,”…uhm…oh, thaz…whyyy, thaz addabee Hyperz. Itz a blue foksh…he zits on wolfsh headz, buuut nowz on mine…he, he”, she tried to smiled but lost her balance so she took a few steps to the right. “Why are therez twoz of ya?” she asked and pointed at the officer. “We are not two”, he abruptly cut himself off, ”I mean…errr..open your bags please.” He went through the luggage but found nothing of interest and this was also true for Escape. However the girls attitude had caused the customs officer to call the police. Then Freakshow showed his FBI badge that somehow appeared in his pocket and they got through more or less without any trouble. It was still amazing to Lilliputt how come nobody noticed the pink bunny taking notes while all that was going on. OneBun simply leaped her way through customs as if it was the most obvious thing for a pink bunny with a notebook to do.
The trip to Dazed from the airport was long enough and alcohol free enough for the girls to sober up a bit. As they reached her door they were greeted on the street while the cab driver helped them unload their stuff. As they made their way into her home Dazed asked “So what do you want to do?” Before Adventure and Escape had a chance to say clubbing, Lilliputt beat them by saying, “I want to see the museum with the Prehistoric Life Exhibition!”. Dumbfounded by this suggestion, the others murmured in agreement. For some reason Dazed found the suggestion or perhaps the reaction to the suggestion very funny and started to laugh.”All right” she said with a merry smile” so we’ll go to the museum and see the Prehistoric Life Exhibition. Are you sure you don’t wanna stop by the mental ward first?”. “Why”, said Lilliputt “I’m sure I don’t know what you mean!”, but her red face told it’s own tale.
The museum looked as museums usually do, quiet and full of stuff that nobody else can or will collect. OneBun did get some ideas about redecorations for her cellars. The Lillies tried to ignore her input and Dazed giggled at it while Adventure and Escape concentrated to walk straight though they seemed to have some problems with it. Freakshow had disappeared. FBI matter he had said and was off to visit Scotland Yard. As they reached the exhibition room were the dinosaur skeletons were displayed, Hyper who was still on Adventures head jumped up and started to sniff around the montage. OneBun was very disturbed at the sight of the gigantic skeleton and started to sniff around as though she might catch the scent of a hunter. She had no desire to end up on display. There was a whole in the wall, a vent, so she sneaked in feeling a lot safer and observed the room while taking notes. The Lillies stood with mouths wide opened and looked at the dinosaur skeleton, amazed at the sight of it. Hyper was running around in circles so Adventure tried to catch him but since she was not so steady on her feet, she tripped over herself and went crashing into the montage. Escape tried to help her friend only to follow into the huge skeleton. The whole thing came tumbling down while Lili, Lilliputt and Dazed froze at the disastrous sight. The girls didn’t get hurt, but laughed as the crawled up on their feet. “Ooops…” said Adventure. “OOOPS?! Whatta ya mean “ooops”?! You just managed to wreck a reconstruction of an extinct creature that is like a million years old and all you have ta say is “OOOOPS”?! That is not even a word!”, Lilliputt said furiously. Adventure and Escape blushed and suddenly became very interested at the pattern on the floor. OneBun of course found the mishap fascinating, and she filled her notebook with notes. Then she realised she would need a new one. As Lilliputt angrily glared at her friends Hyper crawled towards Lili. “I’m such an unlucky fox”, he said as he showed her a nasty bump on his head. “Oh, it was just a dumb old skeleton anyway”, said Dazed and then they hurried to get out of the Museum, while OneBun visited the bookshop to “borrow” a notebook. Finally out of there, Lili noticed that Hyper was trying to hide something. “What have you got there, Hyper”, she asked with a friendly smile. “It’s a big bone”, said Hyper and proudly showed off his new treasure.
Back at Dazed, they all had a good rest and then decided they really should go clubbing a little and so they did.

----------> To be continued by EscapeGirl

[EscapeGirl]

Alyx went back to the airport to catch a plane to Sweden. Unfortunately, the last plane for the evening had just left, and she was stuck spending the night in an airport. Worried, flustered, and uncomfortable, she made herself a makeshift bed between three chairs and stretched out. Right before she nodded off, the tried hopelessly to remember what Selena had told her in their conversations in an attempt to find out what may have led Selena to this mental path of destruction. The doctor had said, “gamer horror ridiculis.” What could that be? Confused, but exhausted, she fell into a fitful asleep, knowing the next plane would not be for another 6 hours. She was awaked briefly in the third hour as a crowd gathered around a young man who was rolling on the floor laughing hysterically. She briefly thought, “God, if my daughter ever had that problem or did that in public, I’D think she were crazy. That guy needs to be committed!” She closed her eyes and went back to sleep as someone shouted, “Get up Sir Theme!”
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The group of friends hopped on a bus and rode down to Dazed’s favorite hangout and club for Saturday nights, the Sound Factory. As they waited outside, music could be heard echoing through the street. They finally made it to the front of the line, and walked into the club. Escape, now sober, looked at Freakshow, “How’d you get in? I know this is an over 21 club only.” Freakshow, glanced up from his PSP, which he had brought with him, “I’m F.B.I. I show the badge, and they don’t ask questions. Besides, I’m working with Scotland Yard on something. I’ll see ya later.” He headed into the shadows of club and disappeared. Adventure, again wearing Hyper as a blue fuzzy hat, complained that she wanted to hit the bar, and then dance floor as quickly as possibly, but she was feeling ridiculous with him on her head. She wouldn’t be able to toss her head back with each shot she took. Hyper rolled his eyes and “rawred” at her, grabbed his token exhibit bone from the museum, and hopped onto Lili’s head. “Thanks, Adventure,” Lili said as Hyper curled into a ball on her head. Then she chuckled and joined Adventure, Dazed, and Escape at the bar, as the trio had already started to drink. About an hour and half later, they were ready for the dance floor. OneBun, who had seated herself at the end of the bar for observing purposes, mindlessly chomped away on a carrot as she watched the girls stumble and almost fall as they attempted to get off their bar stools. They staggered toward the dance floor, and Dazed looked at Lilliputt, Lili, Adventure, and Escape and said, “I’lllll beeee rigghhht – hiccup - uupz theree,” and she pointed to a cage suspended from the ceiling. Before anyone could say anything, she disappeared into the crowd. Adventure put one arm around Escape and one around Lili and stammered, “Let’s gooo girrrlzzzzz. Leeet’s shooow *hiccup* them howta daaannce.” They all giggled and started to continue their drunken path to the dance floor, OneBun hopping soberly behind them. No one seemed to even notice the pink bunny hopping through the crowd, taking notes. Suddenly, the music stopped and a disco ball lowered from the ceiling, and everyone looked up. The raised dance floor was empty, and a spotlight appeared. Intrigued, Lilliputt and Lili stopped walking, and Adventure and Escape continued on, mostly unaware. All of a sudden disco music came over the sound system, and a figure appeared in the spotlight. Lilliput’s jaw dropped and Lili’s eye’s lit up, as they saw Darknight, dressed in his usual suit, though this time it was covered with silver sequins. It was so bright that you almost had to turn away from it. Darknight began disco dancing on the stage. Everyone, including Adventure and Escape, watched him as he wowed the crowd with his wild, and outdated, disco dancing. When the song was over, everyone started dancing again, and the usual music returned. Adventure and Escape danced several songs before heading back to the bar for more drinks. “She’s gonna fall!!! Somebunny *wink, wink* do something!!!” someone from the crowd shouted. Everyone, except the very wasted Adventure and Escape looked up to the cage where an equally wasted Dazed hung upside down from the cage bars. “Looks aaaaat meeee!!!” she yelled, and then her leg slipped. Darknight, appeared so suddenly, it seemed as though he had warped there, and caught Dazed before she hit the floor. “Whaja do daaat foor?” Dazed asked, not even aware of the danger she had been in. Darknight, still in his silver sequined suit and always the gentleman, set her down on a chair, bowed slightly, and backed away into the shadows. Lilliputt and Lili, who was still wearing Hyper, hurried over to Dazed. “Are you okay!?” asked Lili. “Whatcha talkin’ about? The sequined bat made meee stttopppp dancinn’ It’s noot fairrr!” answered Dazed. Hyper, looking up for just a moment said, “You’re a lucky person. Not like me. No one would’ve helped me.” Then he went back to sleep. OneBun, shocked at the silver sequined Bat and the latest development quickly took more notes in her new “borrowed” notebook. “It’s time to go. Come on everyone,” said Lilliputt very worried about Dazed and trying to figure out a way to control Adventure’s, Escape’s, and Dazed’s drinking problems. As they were leaving the bar, Freakshow joined them. “Did I miss anything?” he asked not looking up. Lili just shook her head, and they helped the three drunks into a taxi. OneBun climbed into the front seat, and the taxi driver didn’t seem to mind, or even notice, the pink bunny sitting next to him as she took notes.
--------->To be continued by Lilliputt

[Lilliputt]

Sir Theme rose to his feet. There was something familiar about that strange lady all crawled up on some airport seats. Of course she had the same look as all the other travellers that were gawking at him, but still. She turned to sit and motioned for him to come forward. "Do you now my daughter Selena?" she said with out introducing her self. Sir Theme had to analyse this since in his data on human communication suggestion a proper greeting phrase, but this human for some reason seemed to think there was no need for it. Puzzled sir Theme answered "Has Selena ever visited GamersHood?". "I think so, why, do you know of it?" the lady asked inquisitively. "I do", sir Theme said frankly "does your daughter have a user name?" "Uhm, yes I guess, it's Landscape or Mindscape or....err...well, something with "scape" in it anyway". Sir Theme accessed data of all known players of Gamers Hood. "Escape?", he finally suggested. "Yes" the lady said and finally smiled, "do you know her?". "Oh, yes", sir Theme said glad to be of help, "she is the nicest cat I know". This answer did not seem however to please the lady as much. "I'm gettin? really tired of this. All I want to know is if you can find her for me. She is supposed to be in Sweden at dr Naynas private clinic." Sir Theme processed this data and came up with the logical solution. "I can have Mistery the alien beam us up on her space ship and then beam us down to this dr Naynas private practice. Would you like some carrot rum on the way?" Sir Theme didn't really notice that Escapes mother was bothered by his suggestion and tried to adjust herself so she would sit a little further from him. She looked around to see if anyone was observing her talk with this Maniac. Sir Theme got up and said "if we go out now I could hide a little and transform to my spider self. Then all you have to do is climb up on my back and we can rush to the spot were Mistery can beam us up. It would be easier for her if we do it that way". "This boy is a raving lunatic and my daughter just might have something to do with him. Is she really this mad to?", Alyx tried to compose herself as she thought of this, struggling to make some sense of it all. She didn't really resist as sir Theme took her by the hand and lead her to the exit. "What was that?" she thought as they turned a corner, "but...it looked just like a ...pink bunny taking notes." She rejected the thought as just a delusion from having slept so little. "Why were you rolling on the floor?" she asked hoping to get an answer that would make more sense than she had got so far. "Oh, that!" said sir Theme, "it was just the GH virus that got to my system. You might have heard OneBun the pink bunny call out for me." This was too much for Alyx so she fainted and the next thing she knew, she woke up at dr Naynas private clinic.

Suddenly OneBun jumped out of the car and out on the street. There was a man hole nearby so she somehow removed the cover and jumped in. The gang was too tired to realise what had happen, they arrived at Dazed place and got some much needed sleep. In the morning they decided they should go to visit miss Holland and then see Mistery and her space base in Switzerland. For some reason Lilliputt insisted she would swim her way to Europe through the English Canal. No matter how the others insisted, she was being very stubborn about it. Somehow they got to Dover and where Lilliputt prepared for her big swim. Now that she was there the water did seem different from the beautiful Ocean of Knowledge that she was used to. It was odd to her that it actually looked cold. She took a few steps into the water and froze. Maybe it was not a good idea after all. The others had already checked in on a ferry so Lilliputt stood in the water all alone. She started to swim and got pretty far out into the water when it somehow seemed to arise from under her. She had somehow managed to get on to an enormous turtle like creature. "Need a hand?" said GamersHood, and Lilliputt smiled and said "Whohooo! Let's conquer the waves and reach Calais." GamersHood was used to the loony members of his planet, so he simply smiled and swam carrying Lilliputt on his back. The friends were reunited and they where all shocked to see that Lilliputt had beat them to Calais. "How did you do that?" said Lili. "Oh a friend gave me a hand but sadly he couldn't stay with us". "Your dragons are at it again huh?" said Escape. "Well, dragon might not be the best description", Lilliputt replied cryptically.
All they had to do now was finding their way to miss Holland. "It is very simple", said Lilliputt, "we just go this way" she said and started to walk. The others wouldn't move and then Adventure said "Lilliputt, that's the south, we should probably head north." Lilliputt returned blushing and so soon enough they found their way to miss Hollands home after a long and slightly boring bus trip. Miss Holland answered the door and was shocked by the surprise. There they were, Adventure with Hyper the unlucky fox on her head, Lilliputt the carefree Carrot Islander, Lili the intelligent ceramic figurine and... and ...ESCAPE?!". Miss Holland held her breath for a moment, "but your clone?". She cut herself off. The gang was very surprised they didn't at once receive the big hug they thought they would get. "You don't wanna hug?", Lillputt said disappointed and so miss Holland regained her self from the shock and they hugged. Miss Holland could then explain the predicament that dr Nayna was in and it was decided they should all together go and see Mistery. Just as they were about to leave the pink bunny turned up. "Where have you been?", said Adventure. "Oh had to go to Tibet, but I am back now". "Tibet?", said Lilliputt, "you mean on the other side of the world TIBET??". "Yes", said OneBun and started to sniff around because she thought there was a familiar scent like...carrots. "How did you do that?" Lili asked puzzled. Starting to nibble on a fresh carrot she somehow found and "borrowed" she said "I'm kinda good at digging. Did anything happen while I was away?". With that she had her notebook and started to carefully study the surroundings.


----------> To be continued by EscapeGirl

[EscapeGirl]

The group of friends decided it would be best to go to a nearby internet café, contact Mistery, and then go to a hill nearby so she could beam them all up and back to Gamershood Planet. Escape was in a very large hurry to get back to Dr. Nayna’s clinic so that her mom would not go crazy upon seeing the lump of rubber, that was once her clone, deflated in the corner of Dr. Nayna’s clinic.
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Alyx found herself in the waiting room sitting next to the odd gentleman who had called himself Sir Theme and said he could sometimes be transformed into something called a Slurp Spider, though he was normally a logical robot. “What happened?” she mumbled, holding her forehead. “You fainted.” Sir Theme answered matter-of-factly. “Your human mind was clearly unable to comprehend your current predicament. But you should no longer worry, you should be seeing your daughter shortly.” Alyx got up, her legs still feeling wobbly, and got herself a cup of water from the water cooler in the corner. The cool water was very refreshing. Sir Theme, addressing Alyx, said, “Please do excuse me, I am being summoned by the Alien, Mistery, as she needs me to help gather the butterfly, the disco bat, the blossoming Lilli’s, the blue fox, the FBI agent, and the pink note-taking bunny, along with the rest of them for an urgent meeting at Gamershood Planet. Before Alyx could say anything he exited through the side door. His message from Mistery, Sir Theme noted, was definitely an urgent one. Mistery had to locate Escape and beam her back to Dr. Nayna’s office right away, and she needed the others immediately for their next round of injections so that mass ‘rolling on the floor laughing’ did not occur while they were traveling Europe.
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As the group entered the Internet Café, they began to get odd stares from the other patrons. “What were they looking at?” thought Lilliputt, as she glanced at her friends. Then she realized…they weren’t looking completely human anymore. Lili’s face had become ceramic, Escape had grown a tail and cat ears, Miss Holland had gotten an exceptionally long nose, and Adventure had small delicate wings beginning to protrude from her back. They were becoming in the ‘real’ world the way they were in Gamershood. Everyone had a humorous smile on their face, as though they would burst out laughing at any moment. It even appeared to Lilliputt that the patrons of the café were maybe even seeing the glowing pink bunny chewing on the baby carrot nearby! “Come on guys, we gotta hurry!” she exclaimed as she realized the urgency of the situation. Adventure and Escape looked at eachother and began to laugh at nothing in particular. Lili, seeing them laughing for no reason, also began to laugh. The very serious Darknight, who had appeared out of nowhere and no longer wearing his silver sequined suit, also began to laugh. Dazed, too hungover to be laughing, walked over to Lilliputt as she searched to contact Mistery. Luckily her favorite alien was online and acknowledged her quickly. There was no time for more traveling, and no time to go to a hill. Mistery asked Lilliputt to take the elevator to the top of the building so she could bring in her spaceship and beam them in all at one time. Lilliputt, with Hyper still sleeping on her head, gathered the group, and tried to speak to them seriously. She was finally able to get them to listen and they headed for the fire escape outside, climbed it and safely reached the top of the building. “Okay…Mistery should be here any moment…” said Lilliputt softly as she looked into the sky. “Did you ask her to bring a really, big aspirin for my hangover?” groaned Dazed as she covered her eyes from the sunlight. As OneBun, Lilliputt, Dazed, Freakshow, Darknight, Lili, and Miss Holland all stared at the sky, Adventure and Escape walked over to the edge of the building and looked at the street below. They had been drinking carrot rum from flasks they had kept hidden from the others. “Drinking problem…Hmph!” said Adventure as she took another swig. “Do you remember us flying at Gamershood Hotel? Let’s do that again.” Escape said. They looked at eachother, broke down into complete laughter, and simultaneously jumped off the side of the three-story building. “We’re Flyyyyyiiinnnnng!!” Adventure yelled. Everyone heard her yell and saw the two jump from the side of the building. At that very instant, a bright light from a large ship above beamed down covering everyone, including Adventure and Escape who had almost reached the ground. They all appeared in Mistery’s ship. They were all surprised to not only see all the members of the Gamershood gang awaiting their arrival: Mistery, Sir Theme, Maniac, Beanman, Becky, Ace, Slimy Jim (donut in hand), Sammy, Doglover, 'Doctor' Nayna, and the rest of the gang sitting at a long dining table covered with food, but also saw a woman sipping carrot rum and a chimpanzee eating a banana. Escape, shocked to see her mom and boss there, exclaimed, “MOM! Oh my God! What are you doing here!?!” Then she glanced at her boss, “Don!?” The group all began to laugh at the very serious, yet drunk expression on Escape’s face. She hugged her mom hello, and everyone started chatting and enjoying the cuisine that Chef Becky had prepared for them. Even Mistery was satisfied with her plate of cat hair that Becky had sheared off her cats from room 998 in the Gamershood Hotel. Adventure, laughing at a joke told by Lili, fell out of her chair and rolled on the floor laughing. Shortly after, everyone was laughing uncontrollably and not a single chair was filled, as everyone was rolling on the floor laughing. Mistery, who had begun her alien dance on the tabletop, decided not to ask OneBun to inject the group with the serum, because rolling on the floor laughing was too much fun! Darknight soon joined Mistery on the table disco dancing, as Freakshow took over the job as DJ and bartender, and the Gamershood family, their guests Alyx and Escape’s boss, Don, partied and danced the night away.

THE END

[Mistery]

Graphophobia

On a Sunday morning, all the GamersHood Planet residents gathered in the Big Room of GH Hotel, to have a huge breakfast together. Of course different dishes had to be prepared, but Becky, the Chef de Cuisine had thought of everybody. They were enjoying their breakfast, spilled a lot of coffee and milk, and afterwards they decided to go on a trip to the Google Mountains. Becky howled, with Hyper on her head: "Ahhhh Wooo, now everybunny get up and let's go!"
At this moment Adventure and Doglover stared at each other, and asked simultaneously: "Apropos everybunny, where is OneBun? We haven't seen her for a while now!"
There was silence in the room and everyone realised that this was true, OneBun had not shown herself for a few days now. So they decided to look for her first. They marched lock-step to Bunny Island which was also known as GamEscape Island. They started to shout and call: "OneBun, where are you?!? Are you here???", but there was no answer. Lili discovered a hole in the ground and said: "This must be one of the entries to OneBun's basement. Let's get in." Escape was afraid to climb down, but Darknight explained her that he will take care of the ladies, so that none of them had to be scared. He entered the hole and then helped all the ladies to climb down. After Adventure, Becky with Hyper on her head, Lilli, lili, Doglover, Dazed, Murph, Escape, Hollandgirl and Mistery had safely arrived in the huge basement, the rest of the group jumped down (Freakshow, Sir Theme, BeanMan, Maniac, bread, Slimy Jim, bige, bobin and Vault). They followed the crooked tunnels, and finally came to a huge place filled with carrots, carrot rum, and staples of notes. Something was moving under one of the staples, and Darknight decided to go to see what it was. But Murph exclaimed: "Once a pirate, always a pirate, I'm going with you!", so both approached the moving pile very slowly and carefully, lifted it, and cried out: "It's OneBun! We have found her!"
Everyone gathered around OneBun, who had tears in her eyes and seemed to be ashamed and sad. "What's wrong with you", Doglover asked. "Nothing.", OneBun answered, but all knew that there was something wrong. Lilli tried again: "OneBun, why did you hide here for a long time? Is anything wrong?", and Adventure ran to the sad pink bunny with a bottle of carrot rum and said: "Drink this OneBun, it helps."
OneBun looked up with tears in her eyes, took the bottle and drank of the carrot rum. She was hesitating, but finally started to talk: "I... I have a ... huge... problem. During the last couple of days I have developed a graphophobia, and I'm scared to write anything. I have lost the meaning of my existence.", and this said, she bitterly started to cry.
Escape hugged her and said: "No, OneBun, don't tell things like that. The meaning of your life is not taking notes, it's being our friend, you see?"
But OneBun shook her head and said: "I need to get rid of this graphophobia. But I have no idea how."
It was very quiet, and everybody was thinking about possible solutions. Suddenly Murph had an idea, and whispered something in Becky's ear. Becky nodded.

[Lilliputt]

Becky sat herself close to the unhappy bunny and said “I’m gonna teach you how to howl.” Now, to suggest that howling could have any effect on graphophobia would have probably been ludicrous in any other situation. But here they were, a wolf that could cook dinner for her friends, an alien with a space ship, a talking cat, a butterfly and so on. Perhaps howling was just the thing a pink bunny needed to get over her predicament. To support their dear bunny all the friends started to howl under the supervision of Becky the wolf. Adventure and Escape had sneaked off earlier to retrieve some barrels of carrot rum they had hidden in OneBuns cellar. Now and then they sipped a bit while listening to Beckys instructions. As the lesson went on two voices howled louder then anyone else, that of Adventure and Escape with a little help from their rum. OneBun tried the best she could but she didn’t think it worked very well. “It might be that you need a higher pitch”, said Becky and from one of those unknown sizes of her pockets she picked up a disposable helium cylinder. “Try it” she suggested, but OneBun Seemed unwilling, so to show how to do it Becky inhaled some of the gas. Sounding like a little smurf she again tried to hand the cylinder to OneBun. “Try it”, she said encouragingly “it really helps”. Under normal circumstances OneBun would have thrown herself over her notebook and scribbling away about a wolf that inhales helium to help her howls, but now she only looked unhappy at the round object before her. Then Lilliputt stepped forward, “Oh, all ya need is a dictaphone, then you don’t have ta write anything.” This suggestion did seem to have a positive effect on the pink bunny and sure enough, Mistery had just the thing that she beamed down from her ship. But as OneBun tried to use the dictaphone it turned out it could not register colour or movement. OneBun looked even more depressed. “…so, ya dontz…have a …*hickup* …vidieocamrrraz.. ? *hickup*…”, blurted Adventure. Now that was an idea but sadly Misterys video camera was on maintenance. Then sir Theme said “I can act as a camera” and he kneeled before OneBun who turned his head left and right. But it was of no use. The smells and impressions and most importantly emotions could not be recorded. Lili then said “I think that OneBun has graphophobia because the virus is not spreading fast enough.” "Excuse me?!”, said Lilliputt, “what are you talking about?”. “Well, if OneBun is the symptom of the virus and she has graphophobia, that means she cannot appear as a symptom of the virus. In other words it is not spreading”, Lili explained. “My data is insufficient at this point”, Mistery said in thought, “but it does not compute that the virus has anything to do with this”. So the friends set out to find the virus. Lilliputt thought that if they ever did find the virus, maybe they could ask it why it wasn’t spreading.

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[Mistery]

But where should they look for the virus? Everyone started to walk into different directions as soon as they arrived at the surface, but suddenly Sir Theme shouted: "STOP!", and all the loony friends froze and turned around. "This is a too important issue, and we have to organize it first", the robot explained, and Mistery nodded confirming this logical information. Adventure exclaimed: "Yesssss, go ooorganisationnnn, dazzz gooood!", and Freakshow and Slimy Jim as experienced officers started to make plans, and draw maps.
Meanwhile Escape jumped on a tree. Hyper tried to follow her but slumped and landed on a cactus under the tree. "I'm such an unlucky fox", he stated. Lilli and Becky started to pull out the spines that were stuck all over in Hypers body, and the wolf just asked: "How is it possible that the spines are stuck everywhere, in your feet, on your side, on your back, in your face?", and Hyper answered: "I don't know how it happened."
The rest of the group took care of OneBun who was still very sad. Lili asked her if she could feel in which direction the virus might be. The pink bunny started to turn slowly, shook her head, went on turning around, and all of a sudden she whispered: "I feel something." "Where?!? What?!?`", everyone asked. "I feel some kind of a connection if I turn to this direction", the bunny explained. "The virus might be in this direction, then", Sir Theme reasoned. But Freakshow and Slimy Jim seemed to be worried and explained that according to their maps, they had to cross Slurp Spider Island if the had to go in that direction. The alien decided to beam up the group on her spaceship and make a scan for the virus in the announced direction in order to avoid the slurp spiders, but she wasn't able to find her beaming device. A feverish search followed, but the device was gone.
Suddenly Maniac began to dance around and chuckled. Mistery asked him what was so funny in that serious situation, and Maniac explained her his idea. Mistery smiled and walked over to Darknight. "Could I borrow your cape for a moment, please?" Darknight of course wanted to help but since he felt naked if he didn't wear his cape, he hid behind a tree and threw the cape to Mistery. The alien then took her small object cloning device and made some copies of the black cape. Then she returned Darknight the cape, so that he could put it on and join them again.
Mistery announced to the curious group: "Now, that we have to cross Slurp Spider Island, we have to act like slurp spiders in order not to attract any attention. Therefore, two and two go together, and crawl on all fours. According to my calculations, this gives 8 legs each. Each group of two will be covered by a black cape. And we need to make some slurping sound." So everybody got on all fours in groups of two, and they were covered by the black capes. They started to crawl into the announced direction and exercized slurping sounds.

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[Lilliputt]

“Err…Mistery, may I ask you something?” Lilliputt asked in confusion. “Sure”, said Mistery from under another cape, but Lilliputt couldn’t tell which one. As she clumsily tried to follow her sister in arms speed Lilliputt said, “if we are going to cross Spider Island shouldn’t we also cross the Sea of Knowledge. I mean we are now on Bunny Island so…” she drifted off because keeping the pace of Dazed turned out to be quite exhausting. “I know what you mean,” said Mistery, “we will use the portals”. “But that’s just it”, said the little islander while trying to catch her breath, “there is no portal on Slurp Spider Island”. The group made an abrupt halt so that one team after another stumbled on each other. They all lay in a heap and by coincidence Darknight and Escape ended up face to face. Although still slightly tipsy Escape did have a clear memory of the hero trying to hide behind the tree underneath her. She blushed, but Darknight did not understand why since he never knew that Escape had seen him. He smiled and said “I’ll wear a plated armour suite next time” as he thought of the abrupt halt that caused them all to fall on each other. At this Escape started to laugh frantically and started to roll on the ground. “Is there a problem?”, sir Theme inquired while Escape was laughing. “It seems we cannot use the portal to get to Slurp Spider Island”, Mistery answered while Escape still could not stop laughing. “And why is that?” asked Slimy Jim. Everybody except Escape who was still laughing turned their heads towards Lilliputt. “….err…weeeeeeell, ya seee…he,he, OneBun kinda sorta “borrowed” something from there once. She told me it was for a study.” “What did she borrow” Freakshow asked and raised an eyebrow.”Oh, uhm nothin’ much….maybe it could have been important to ‘em, I dunno….ok, so it was an egg”. “AN EGG??”, Lili the intelligent ceramic figurine said. “Yes weeeeell…actually, she sorta “borrowed” two” Lilliputt added. “You mean that crazy bunny stole TWO slurp spider eggs??” Doglover blurted out. As the group stood silent and Escape tried hard to restrain herself to chuckles and giggles, Lilliputt stared at the ground in front of her. “The slurp spiders got a little upset and…well,” she said feeling even more silly, “ they sorta ate the portal.” “And how do you know all this?” BeanMan asked. “Cuz I sorta suggested it and we kinda went together…” Lilliputt said silently. This unforeseen turn of events made Mistery and sir Theme recalculate their possible options. “Well”, said Mistery, “We will just have to cross the Sea of Knowledge then”. “How?” Lilliputt wondered. “Well, we walk of course,” said the alien feeling a little irritated at the carefree little islander. The group dropped their jaws at this. “Uh, Mistery, you do know people cannot walk on water right?”, Dazed said. “Why not?” said Mistery, “It is very easy, you just levitate over it.” Mistery said simply. “Now see, we do not levitate. In water, we sink” said miss Holland. So the gang started to build boats, but Lilliputt could not understand the purpose of that. She took Dazed, her sister in arms aside and also Becky the wolf. “Don’t you think it better to cross the sea on dragons instead of wasting time to build rafts”. They agreed that Lilliputts idea was good and so she sang the dragon song to call for her friends. The whole family of dragons came and so the whole gang crossed the Sea of Knowledge on fire breathing dragons.
Meanwhile OneBun was still on Bunny Island feeling sorry for herself. In an attempt to cheer herself up she had “borrowed” an item from Mistery. Little did she know it was the missing beaming device. Normally she would have picked it apart to examine it, make some interesting notes and filed it in her collectors cabinet but she only turned it over and over not really knowing what to do with it.

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[Mistery]

Suddenly, as they were flying above the Sea of Knowledge, some spaceships appeared and started to aim at the dragons. "What is going on here?!?", Doglover exclaimed. Mistery explained: "These are the Antidragonians, they are attacking the dragons sometimes. I don't know the exact background though, need more data."
The dragons had to avoid the ships, so they turned around, flew up and down, when finally the whole group lost hold of the dragons, and fell down screaming and yelling. There was a huge splashing sound when they hit the water. Fortunately nobody got hurt. But the Sea of Knowledge had a very strong effect on each of them, their knowledge and understanding of the world started to grow. "Wow, wow!!!", they exclaimed, and were completely exalted.
"I know where the virus is!", Slimy Jim shouted, and everybody joined: "Yes, we know it, too!!! Yes, hahaha!!!" Meanwhile the spaceships disappeared again, and the dragons took the group on their backs again. The GamersHood Planet residents showed to way to the virus, and they were flying above the Slurp Spider Island, the Worm Island, the Robot Island, and the RIDDLER!!!! Island. When they arrived at their final destination near the virus, they thanked the dragons for their help.
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OneBun was turning around the strange device and pushed some buttons. All of a sudden she found herself on Misterys spaceship. "Oh", she thought to herself, "nobunny is here, so I'm the captain", and she started to giggle. She went to the control room, where some clones and robots were at their work. Since they were not infected by the virus, they could not see the pink bunny. OneBun soon realised that she was invisible to the clones and robots and had a funny idea. She went to the kitchen and took some carrots, searched for some glue, and then she walked back to the control room. She jumped in front of the huge main screen and glued the carrots on it spelling the word "BOO!". The clones and robots froze, tried to process the data, but since it was not possible to come to a logical explanation, they got short-circuited, and remained frozen. OneBun turned around to see the effect of her joke, but was terrified when she saw what she had done. She sat down in a corner, nibbled on the remaining carrots and hoped for a good idea.
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The group approached the entrance of a cave, where they suspected the location of the virus. Only Darknight was annoyed because his cape was still wet and the water was dripping from it. Escape suggested him to take it off and hang it to dry, and she started to giggle. Darknight froze, and as a result of the bath in the Sea of Knowledge, he suddenly realised that Escape was sitting on the tree looking down on him when he had taken off his cap. He shouted at the cat: "What have you done?!?". Escape blushed and her fur turned into a dark red color. She looked on the floor, and started to dig a hole where she could hide. The others did not notice this incident and continued their way towards a huge rock. And they had been right: The virus sat in a crevice, and was whining. The group gathered around the crevice and happily greeted the virus: "Finally, we have found you! There is a huge problem. OneBun has got a graphophobia, and we suppose that it is because you are not spreading. What's wrong, why aren't you spreading anymore?" The virus answered in a wheepy voice: "Can't you see it? I'm stuck here. Please, help me to get out!". Freakshow grabbed the virus and started to pull it out, while the virus screamed: "Noooo, stoooop it, it huuuuurts!!!" Becky jumped next to Freakshow and said: "Let it go! We have to find another solution."
Meanwhile Adventure took out a bottle of carrot rum and went on a search for Escape. "Scape, mi frend, where r youuuu?", when she noticed a hole and took a closer look. She saw a red furry something and asked: "Hyyyper, s that youuuu?" Escape looked up with teary eyes and said: "No, it's me, Escape. I'm very ashamed." Adventure gave her the bottle of rum and said: "Here, driiiiiinggg, that hulps *hiccup*, heeelps." Darknight, who remained hidden behind a tree near the rock, braced himself, and joined the group. There was a very important task to accomplish, and he decided to overcome his shame. He examined the virus that was pretty badly stuck in the crack, and seemed to be very worried.

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[Mistery]

(Upon agreement with Lilliputt, I add a side-story before she continues the main story)

-----Meanwhile in the Other World also known as Parallel Reality:----

The company Brick & Partners, located in Philadelphia, needed new electrical doors. The boss, Howard Brick, charged one of his best employees to take care of this problem. This employee, a tall man with short brown hair, made some phonecalls, and finally found a company that offered automated doors of a very good quality to acceptable conditions: Robo-Doors Inc. A very experienced staff member was sent to Philadelphia to meet the mandatary of Brick & Partners. The two men met at the airport in the early morning, and drove to the head office of Brick & Partners. They talked about different designs, and possible innovations, and suddenly it was noon. The mandatary of Brick & Partners invited the guest for lunch at the best restaurant in Philadelphia. After they had ordered their favorite dishes, and also a bottle of wine, the mandatary said: "Phew, this was a hard morning. But let's forget about our jobs until this afternoon. Tell me, do you have a family?" The guest from Robo-Doors Inc. answered: "Yes, I have a wife and two children. And you?" The other man shook his head and said: "No children, but I'm married. It must be funny sometimes with the children, right? But well, my wife and me are laughing a lot lately." "You do? My wife and me have also had a funny time for a while now. Well, with the kids it's sometimes a challenge, but they can make you laugh sometimes. My wife is a member in a community and tells me about it a lot, it's much fun, yes."
The waiter brought the wine, and they rose their glasses and smiled at each other: "Cheers!" Their meal was put in front of them, and they began to eat. The man from Philadelphia said: "I've thought about what you said before about a community. My wife is also a member of an odd online community, and we laugh a lot when she is quoting posts from there." The guest stared at him and asked: "Is it possible that you are talking about GamersHood?", when the other man started to laugh: "That can't be true, hahaha! Yes, I'm talking about GamersHood Planet! So who is your wife?" The employee from Robo-Doors Inc. snorted with laughter, and said: "It's Mistery, hahaha! And .... hahaha, your wife?". "OneBun!", the other man almost fell from his chair from laughing, and started to cough because some potatos got stuck in his throat. "You have a really crazy wife", the guest giggled. "Well, pretending to be an alien with a spaceship isn't better at all.", the other man replied, and his face suddenly turned serious. "But... a wife who is a pink bunny constantly taking notes and at the same time a symptom... I mean, this is REALLY weird", the guest explained, and his smile disappeared.
The two men stared at each other and seemed to be a little angry. "Yes, but using a beaming device, doing an alien dance, eating cats for breakfast, and drinking tmani juice is much much much worse!!!!", OneBun's husband shouted. Every guest in the restaurant stared at the two men who seemed to be inflamed with rage. But the angry husbands didn't notice that they were watched by so many other people. "Yes, yes, sure! That IS FUNNY! But being an invisible pink bunny symptom nibbling carrots and taking notes IS JUST CRAZYYYY!!!"
A man approached the table with the disputing men, and asked: "Mistery and OneBun? So you are their husbands? Ah, that's funny. I know the loony bin gang, too." "Who are you?", the two husbands asked. "I'm Adventure's hubby, hihihi! Now stop fighting. I mean... they are all just crazy, but in a good way, aren't they?", the third man asked with a wink.
The anger was gone, and Adventure's hubby was invited to seat at their table. They began to tell about the stories which were told them by their wives. Fifteen minutes later they snorted with laughter, and just minutes later, they fell from their chairs, one after the other, and started to roll on the floor laughing. The waiter stood next to them and shouted: "Get up!!! What are you doing here?!? Get uuuuup!!! I will call the police!!!"
So the three new friends braced themselves, payed the bill, and left the restaurant. Since they wanted to hear more about the stories that the others have heard of, they decided to go to the circus, where the special clown day was held, so that they could laugh and ROFL without attracting too much attention. After that, Adventure's and Mistery's hubbies returned to their hotels, and OneBun's husband went home to tell his wife about the funniest day of his life.
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[Lilliputt]

Freakshow stubbornly held on to the tiny little arm of the virus no matter what Becky told him. He pulled and pulled. Suddenly he fell back and landed on the rocky ground with the torn off arm in his hand. “What are you doing?!” Becky exclaimed. “Well I was only trying to help”, said Freakshow still puzzled by the little arm he had in his hand. “Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!”, said the virus, “you really thought that was ME!”. Mistery turned around as if the voice came from another direction. “That is not you?”, she asked. “That is a dummy doll”, the virus explained. “Oh”, said Mistery, “I’m so sorry if we just tore up your inner self.” Realising that she had just learned that dolls are not inner selves, she almost bit her tongue. “Ha, ha , ha! Oh, you are so good at multiplying me”, said the virus “Thank you!”, said Mistery in confusion, “Uhm, may I ask where you are, then?”. “I thought a logical creature such as your self ought to know that a virus is of a microscopic size and cannot be pulled out of a crevice.” “Then why did you call out for help?” Freakshow said harshly still holding the little doll arm in his hand. “Because it was funny! Practical joke you know”. Here they were, with the virus they had fought to find and it was actually playing a joke on them. “Will you tell us where you are”, Mistery said impatiently. “I’m in the realm of viruses of course”, the virus said simply, “I’m just now inside your heads, all of your heads.” “WHAT THE HELL!” Doglover shouted, “Are you telling me I’m hearing voices?!”. “That’s right”, said the virus. Mistery tried to process this information. It seemed to her that the virus had some sort of telepathic abilities. Somehow she thought of the virus as though it was communicating with them with a very wide grin. “So, I suppose you are not stuck and that means that you can help us, “ she said finally. “No”, said the virus, “I am stuck, but in this realm.” Suddenly it’s tone of voice changed and it didn’t sound like it was joking any more. “Well, what happened?” Maniac asked, “Yeah”, said Beanman I want to know too. “Can you tell us?” asked miss Holland. “Well, I was minding my own business spreading my self around like any good virus should when suddenly I walked in to a war between worms and slurp spiders. It was a very unpleasant ordeal as you can imagine,” the virus made a dramatic pause, but since nobody seemed to understand it the virus continued, “as they were fighting I’m almost sure we got scanned by something and then some of the worms disappeared. Well, I thought nothing of it at first but then the emptiness that seemed to swallow them came closer and closer.” Another dramatic pause and more impatient coughs, “as I stood there not knowing what to do. Suddenly a Trojan Horse appeared and swooped me away from the emptiness. Gently it let me down here and as I turned to thank the horse it was already on it’s way somewhere else. Now I have been isolated in the realm of viruses and I need help to get out.” The virus fell silent. “Well”, said Doglover, “that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard! Come on, let’s go. The virus is not going to help.” Then Lilliputt said, “at least we can see what the problem is. Maybe we are able to help.” They hesitated. “Well,” Freakshow asked “what do we need to do?”. “You need to find a red slurp spider and get a sample of its blood form a seringe, then inject the blood into one of you and I will be able to spread.” “Waaaait a minute”, said Dazed “where you not rescued by that Trojan Horse.” “Yes, but there was an unfortunate mishap and I ended up inside the red spider. I have been exploring it’s inner self ever since and trust me no one knows an inner self better than a virus.” “So what happened?” Murph asked with a grin. “It ate me”, the virus said with a hint of embarrassment in the tone. “How come we can hear you so well now, when we have never heard you before?”, said Maniac. “You didn’t take a dip in the Sea of Knowledge before reaching here?” and then all understood the point the virus made. ”Well”, said sir Theme I can transform myself into a slurp spider and then get the needed blood. “But you need to be a red spider not black.” “No problem we will take one of the cloned bat capes and recolor it red”, Mistery suggested. “It won’t be hairy enough”, the virus said. Then everybody realised the solution to the problem. “Are you suggesting we should shave Escapes fur off, virus?”, Dazed asked in amazement. There was a silence and then the dreaded “yes”. “I would gladly help out with that”, Darknight ginned and Mistery not understanding the joke said “Oh, good so Darknight will help Escape to shave her fur.” First the gang was stunned and then burst into laughter.”Uhm, I better help with that”, said Dazed, “it is not ladylike for a lady to cut hair in front of men.” Mistery was puzzled at this new information. Her database clearly showed that hair amongst humans or humanoids were quit the same.

Adventure had finally got Escape out of the hole when Dazed found them. In their drunken state it was a bit difficult to explain whet needed to be done and when Escape finally realised what Dazed wanted she said, “….*hiccup*,… thazz neverz goooonna happlen…*hiccup*,….haaaappen I meanz….*hiccup*,….I wontz do itz…*hiccup*…”, she gave Dazed a vague look and leaned on adventure who almost lost her balance. “But don’t you want to help OneBun?” asked Dazed. “……..whazz thaaaa… *hiccup*.?… Onezzzbunzzz… *hiccup*,….. Suuuuuuure…*hiccup* …I’ll dooo aaaaaanythiiin’ foooo Onezzzbunzz…...*hiccup*. It took a long while to convince Escape but then finally there she was in a paper bag that Dazed had brought. Not even in her drunken state did she manage to forget her predicament and when reunited with the others she hid inside the big bag. Darknight smiled at the sight of the bag. But turned his back as the gentleman he is. “Weeeeeeeell……. *hiccup*….whaz Escapezez proooaaaablem…..*hiccup*…?” Adventure wanted to know. “I think that she wants her fur back", Dazed explained. “Weeell, thaz…….*hiccup*….eeeeaaazyyss…I’ll wisssh foor it bax”. And so she did and the fur grew back beautiful as ever.

The clone cape was prepared and all they had to do was to decide who would seek out the dangerous Slurp Spider Island to get the virus back.


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[Mistery]

OneBut was still sitting in the corner on Mistery's spaceship. "I'm such an unlucky bunny. All my friends are trying to help me with my graphophobia, and what do I do??? I distroy Mistery's clones and robots... I need to find a way to help them somehow as a compensation of my infelicitous action. Hmmmm.... maybe I can find the instructions on how to locate them.", and she went for a search for some instruction manuals for the spaceship.
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Of course everybody wanted to help, and the decision who would get the blood of the red slurp spider, resulted in some debate. Freakshow insisted that it was his task since he was an FBI officer. Slimy Jim said that as the official police officer, it was his job to get the blood. Sir Theme argued, that he was the most qualified canditate for this task since he had a lot of knowledge about slurp spiders as he had been on that island many times before in his spider form. Adventure and Escape shouted: "We aaarnt 'fraid af reeeed spiderz!!! We juuump ooon them aaaand bzzzzzzt, staaab them wittt syr...sringe...syringe, yay!!!" Doglover made a grimace when hearing that, and shook her head. BeanMan was determined to go on the island by bike and run over the spiders. Darknight, usually very polite and a real gentleman, got too excited and exclaimed: "I am a hero, therefore it is my challenge to get the virus back!" Lilli and Mistery tried to calm down the agitated group, and suggested to write all the names on a piece of paper each, gather them in the hole where Escape had been hiding and to draw by lot who shall be the one to get the spider blood. Finally everyone agreed. But when they put the pieces of paper into the hole, Sir Theme raised his left arm and said: "The cape and the syringe are gone." The group was shocked! What happened? Where was the cape??? Mistery and Sir Theme did an attendance check, and it turned out that lili, the ceramic figurine, was not there anymore.
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OneBun finally found a pile of instruction manuals, and she was very happy to see that reading didn't cause any problem to her. She sighed with relief, and started to read the manuals. After reading them, she was convinced that she had understood everything. The pink bunny hopped back into the control room, and looked around. Finally she found the location device on the left wall. She switched it on, and after turning some buttons and moving some levers, she suddenly cried out when her friends were displayed on the screen. The group made a confused impression, they were walking around, discussing, and made strange gestures of disorientation and perplexity. OneBun grabbed the small beaming device, set it at the coordinates that she had found out, and pushed the green button.
Everything became dark around the pink bunny, but she heard her friends talking nearby. "Helloooo?!?", she shouted.
Darknight pricked his ears and exlaimed: "Silence!!! I hear a familiar voice!", now everyone grew silent and listened. "Heeeellllooooo!!!!", they heard OneBun's voice and ran over to the huge rock with the small crack, where the voice came from. "OneBun??? Is that you???", they asked. OneBun, relieved and scared at the same time, replied: "Yes, it's me. I managed to locate you and beamed down, but something must have gone wrong. It's dark in here. I'm such an unlucky bunny...". Hyper, very excited, called: "OneBun, are you in a pot?!?"" "I don't know where I am.", the pink bunny answered. Mistery explained: "OneBun, you are in a cave. We are standing in front of the rock in which the cave is. Here is a small crack in it, do you see it?" "I see some brighter area, wait, I go there.", OneBun answered, "Here I am." Her voice came now from very near, but the crack was too tiny to see anything. Mistery asked OneBun if she had taken the beaming device with her, and OneBun said she did. "Good. Now adjust the settings a bit, raise the left and right values, the middle one is for the height, and I don't want you to beam up to the air and to fall down." "But, I don't see anything, it's just too dark in here.", OneBun almost started to cry.
The group was shocked. Doglover ran away screaming: "I can't stand it any longer, OMG!!!!", and Escape and Adventure started to cry: "Nooooo, Bun is iiiin da caaave, heeeeeelp!!!!" Freakshow quickly took some dynamite from his backpack and said: "Everyone, step back!!!", but Becky shouted at him: "Freakshow, no!!! You will kill OneBun! Stop it!" But Freakshow didn't care and started to place dynamite into the crack. Hyper said: "OneBun, it will get a little hot in the pot." and giggled, but Mistery, usually calm and logic, shouted at him: "Hyper, this is not funny at all!", then she turned to Freakshow and said: "Don't do it, it's too risky." Darknight turned to Mistery and asked: "Is it possible for OneBun to set the height? I could catch her in the air, no problem." Mistery smiled at the bat: "Yes, very good idea", then turned to the rock and said: "OneBun, put your paw on the middle button, and push it 10 times. Then push the green button at the bottom of the device. You know where it is, you don't need to see it. You will be beamed up to the air, and Darknight will catch you and bring you safely down. Everything is going to be okay.", but OneBun was too scared. Lilli felt that her empathy was needed now, and started to calm down the pink bunny and to give her courage. It took her a half an hour, but then OneBun was ready to beam up to the air. "Now!!!!", OneBun screamed, and everyone looked up to the sky: Yes, in fact, there was a pink something between the clouds, and Darknight immediately took off. The friends observed this amazing show, almost hypnotized. Then Darknight returned with the shivering bunny in his arms, put her gently to the floor and bowed politely. Lilli hasted to OneBun, gave her a huge hug, and calmed her down. Everyone gathered around the pink bunny, who finally started to smile, being happy to see her friends again. But suddenly she asked: "Where is lili?", and the friends suddenly remembered that lili, their brave and intelligent friend, was on her way to Slurp Spider Island under a cape with red fur, crawling on all fours, to find a red spider and get some blood from it. They wished her all luck in the world in their thoughts.


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[Lilliputt]

Lili had found herself a very big boot on the beach where the friends had come to rescue the virus. She used it as a boat and with a stick she tried to make her way through the waves. She knew that it would have been possible to swim to Slurp Spider Island but the sea had made her uneasy. Her dip in the water earlier had had a strange effect on her intelligence and she didn’t want to things getting even stranger. It was enough to know that she could hear a voice in her head. Sadly, as she was paddling the boot forward it started to sink. She knew that the water would not be bad for her but as she was a ceramic figurine, water was not really her favourite element.
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Lilliputt still held the pink bunny in her arms, but started to feel worried that her friend Lili would disappear and then they would no longer be able to blossom together. A very frightening thought. “So, OneBun”, said Mistery “you have been to my space ship.” OneBun curled up a bit in Lilliputts arms. “Uh, yes” she said carefully, “how did you know”. “Because it is the only reasonable explanation how you could have located us, my friend”, Mistery said with the kind of smile she had learned had an encouraging effect. OneBun seemed reassured and leaped off Lilliputt to stand in front of the alien. She couldn’t really face her friend so she stared at the ground as she spoke “Ehm, yes, the space ship. Well, there might have occurred a little accident….”, she hesitated but Mistery didn’t seem to be concerned so OneBun continued. “…it was strange. Your robots were unable too see me so I sort of tried to play a prank on them only…” she broke off again and blushed, “….it got a little out of hand.” “What do you mean?” said Mistery and tried to say it in a kind way to encourage OneBun to give full data. “The robots are a little destroyed”, OneBun finally admitted. This would normally not have had a particular impact on the alien, but because of the dip in the sea of knowledge and the presence of the virus in her head, she developed an acute case of Tomatitis Nervosa. Running off to gather enough tomatoes she left the gang standing around OneBun in confusion. Moments later Mistery returned with a bundle of tomatoes and a strange grin on her face. To the gangs astonishment she started to throw tomatoes on OneBun and the pink bunny just stood there getting all splashed with tomatoes. Darknight then took hold of the alien and sir Theme prepared an antidote shot. Regaining her senses, Mistery realised that the bunny in front of her was all covered in tomatoes because of her temporary insanity. “Ah, thank you sir Theme and Darknight”, Mistery said then tried to help OneBun get rid of the tomatoes. “I’m sorry my, dear friend. This virus business has had a very odd effect on me. Don’t worry about the robots, I have clones stored away in case of emergencies. They are probably repairing the old ones right now. I need to get to my space ship and take a look at it though.” Most of the group agreed to go because it was always fun to visit Misterys space ship, but Lilliputt took hold of Dazed and Becky. “I really need to know that my fellow flower is OK. Will you come with me? Spiders are really not my thing.” They agreed and soon they were flying on Lilliputts dragon friend to try and find Lili the brave intelligent ceramic clay figurine. Lilliputt felt relieved she had her friends were with her. To do brave stuff really wasn’t her thing, Dazed however was brave and she knew Becky to be valiant. Lilliputt was more the provider of silly ideas, making her friends laugh and be cheerful. She hoped she could restrain her self from doing something clumsy again and getting them into trouble. She sighed and gazed over the ocean. There was something there that seemed odd, was it a rowing boat? no. It was a rowing boot. BOOT?! But that didn’t make any sense so she looked harder and realised it was Lili fighting to stay afloat inside a big boot. Lilliputt made the dragon fly near the boot and the friend helped to get Lili and the boot off the seawater. “Out for a swim, are you?” Dazed said and smiled.
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At the space ship the first thing Freakshow and Slimy Jim did was to sit down and work out a strategy plan how to go about saving Lili and getting the blood sample of the red slurp spider back to the ship. Darknight however disappeared into the shadows. Beanman and Maniac joined the policeman and FBI agent, while the rest of the gang followed OneBun who explained what had happened. At the sight of the of the huge main screen with the glued the carrots spelling out the word "BOO!" everybody laughed out loud. Even Mistery could not help but find that very funny, and OneBun suddenly felt pleased that her joke was appreciated. They decided to take care of the ship first and keep an eye on the other members of the gang. If need be, they could always beam them up.
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Lilliputt and her friends had reached Slurp Spider Island and as they helped Lili into her costume, the brave intelligent ceramic clay figurine said she needed some clay. “Why?” asked Becky. “Because I need two more arms and I can make them out of clay and attach them to my body.” It was a very good idea and soon Lili had transformed into a being that with a very vivid imagination could be taken for a spider. Lilliputt, Dazed and Becky didn’t want to point that out so they said she looked just like a red slurp spider. Lilis three friends then disguised them selves as shrubberies, thinking that would fool the spiders and then they could follow their friend from a distance. It didn’t take long to locate the red spider because, well, in the flock of spiders only one was actually red. That was unexpected but Lili braced herself and slowly started to move towards the spider. As she got near it, she realised it was heavily asleep and so she took a sample of the spiders blood. It was not red, as she expected but kind of colourless goo that was not pleasant to handle at all. As she took the blood she noticed something that seemed strange with the blood. When she got back to her friends, they all ran towards the beach because it would probably not take long before the spiders would discover their presence. As they ran Lilliputt stumbled on a root, a very squared looking root oddly enough. “OOOUFF!” she said awakening the spiders attention. Dazed halted and turned to stand behind Lilliputt facing the spiders. As Lilliputt rose to her feet Becky joined Dazed and they both stood guard while Lilliputt and Lili ran as fast as they could. As they reached the beach Lili said “I wish I had a microscope”. “Here you go”, said Becky who easily had caught up with the Lillies. She picked the device out from one of her bottomless pockets, “why do you need it?”. Lilli took the microscope and placed a small sample of the spider blood on it to take a look. There it was, and yet couldn’t be. A binary code. “We really need to get back to Mistery and the space ship”, Lili said, “quickly”. Then Dazed showed up with a grin on her face and spider goo on her clothes. “I think they will remember me”, she said. Just as she said that they were beamed back to the ship.

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[Mistery]

The spider blood was handed over to Sir Theme for further analysis, since it was known that robots were very qualified to decode binary data. Dazed went to take a shower and to change clothes because the spider goo was very itchy.
Lilliputt stared at the main screen that had still not been cleaned from the carrots, and yelled: "Very interesting!" "What?!?", everyone turned to her, and Lilliputt explained that although OneBun was suffering from graphophobia, she managed to form the word "Boo!" by using carrots. OneBun became very agitated and asked if somebody could write that down for her database, since she didn't have enough carrots and glue left to record this fact, and in addition, she didn't want to make Mystery angry again by misusing her ship. Maniac explained that unfortunately he could not do it, because he was about to write a diary about his experiment of polyphasic sleeping. But Doglover agreed to take notes as substitution for OneBun, she then gathered some paper and a pen, and sat down at a desk.
Mystery walked over to Sir Theme and asked if he had already got some results about the binary code in the spider blood. "Yes, I have decoded it, but it doesn't seem to contain enough information on how to handle it." "Why, what information did you get?", Mystery asked and the robot said in a very strange voice: "Do not shake." The alien looked at Sir Theme with wide eyes and a confused expression on her face: "Do ... not .... shake?", she asked, and the robot nodded. "That's in fact not much information. Let me see it.", and Mystery took a closer look at the blood. After a while she had to agree with the robot on the decoded data, but she also noticed that underneath this first binary code, there was something else. She explained: "We need to look at it from a different angle.", but no matter how she turned the sample, it looked still identical since it was rotating to the same position.
To the astonishment of the GamersHood Planet residents, Mystery suddenly performed a headstand, and stated after a short while: "It says: 10 g wolf.". Becky squeaked and asked in a shivering high voice that was very untypical for her: "But, you don't want to add 10 g of me to it, do you?", when Freakshow, completely forgetting about his status as FBI agent, glanced at Becky with an evil grin on his face.
Sir Theme then started a long speech about possible interpretations of the new data, while Doglover tried to write down every single word because OneBun stood behind her making sure that not a single word was missing on the notes. Since Doglover could not really follow the speed of the explanations, she exclaimed every 30 seconds: "Wait, wait! Please repeat it.", the robot decided to switch on his loop mode. "... the third interpretation might be the following; the third interpretation might be the following; the third interpretation might be the following; injecting 10 g of the blood into a wolf; injecting 10 g of the blood into a wolf; injecting 10 g of the blood into a wolf..."
Bread, BeanMan, Freakshow, Hyper, Slimy Jim, Escape, lili and Adventure found the long statement of the robot quite boring and fell asleep. After Sir Theme had finished his explanations, Becky said impatiently: "If I remember correctly, the stuck virus doll was talking about injecting the spider blood in somebody in order to let it spread again. And it seems that this somebody must be me. I agree to get a shot of 10 g of this spider blood, and I hope that everything will go well." "Wait, could you please repeat it, Becky?", Doglover asked, but Becky was too nervous to do so. Luckily OneBun had a very good memory and she was able to tell the sentence very slowly to her temporary secretary. Lilliputt hugged her wolf friend with tears in her eyes, and tried to be brave. Then Murph, the former pirate who was currently living in her bengal tiger shape, approached Becky, put a paw on her shoulder and said in a triumphant voice: "My dear wolf, do not worry! We shall be successful as long as we live!" Becky knew that this was not really a very logic statement and glanced at Sir Theme and Mystery, who - knowing that this was an extraordinary situation - nodded as sign of encouragement. And Lilliputt added: "I'm sure you'll get a kick out of it!" Becky stared at her friend for a second, then she realized that she was trying to encourage her, so the wolf started to smile although she didn't quite understand what Lilliputt exactly meant.
The sleeping residents of the group were woken up, and Sir Theme prepared a shot for Becky, making sure not to shake the syringe.


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