As a stunned Katherine stood in the kitchen, a white truck pulled up to
the house. Men in white jackets came up to the door. And then they busted in.
"We're looking for Katherine Riggs." said one of the men. Katherine's
mother pointed to Katherine. They grabbed her.
"Let me GO!" she shouted, wiggling hard. The men tried to put Katherine in
a straight jacket. "HELP ME!" Katherine protested. "No! I'm NOT insane! I'm NOT
INSANE!"
Susan ran up to one of the men struggling with Katherine and grabbed his
arm. After a few tuggs, she bit the arm. She wasn't going to let Katherine go
without a fight. Blip started bumping into the other man, because that's all he
could do. (Hey, he HAS no arms or legs.) "Get her off me! And get the robot,
too!" the asylum worker commanded. Someone pryed Susan off, and another got
Blip and held him down.
Susan got an idea. "push hand" she shouted to the general direction of the
norns. Jenna and Karr went up to Susan and gave her a big tickle. 'THAT
hopelessly backfired.' thought Susan, realizing it was to late to save
Katherine. They had got her out onto the lawn, in a straight jacket. She was
holering, amoung several very unkind words, "NO! Creatures is good! Creatures
is PEOPLE! Creatures is PEOPLE! I'm NOT INSANE! I'm NORMAL! Ask the rest of
a.g.c! LET ME GO!" They threw Katherine in the truck, and drove off.
Susan simply looked at Katherine's mom. She wasn't going to say anything,
but God knows she wanted too. She just walked out the door and home, knowing
almost all hope was gone of ever seeing Katherine again.
* * * * *
Luckily, Katherine was alowed visitors. Susan got Katherine's mom to take
her and Blip to the place of Katherine's jailing. After several secutity
checks, and running Blip through a few scanners ('To make sure he wasn't a
bomb'), Susan and Blip were alowed into Katherine's cell.
The cell was a horrible sight. It was totaly padded with white cloth.
There was one window facing the outside, but it wasn't much of a view since
thick steel bars blocked the path. But the worst of all was seeing Katherine in
the corner, shaking, trembeling. She was still in the straight jacket that
Susan tried so hard to save her from.
Katherine spoke first. "I... I want to thank you both for trying to help
me."
"No biggie." Said Blip, trying to remain cool.
"I just don't understand. They're jailing you, literaly, for playing a
game and trying to connect two cultures. Why not jail Cyberlife, or a.g.c., or
Mindscape, too?" Susan started.
"I heard other patients talking. They said there were more like me...
They've already commited several players." admitted Katherine. "They also said
that the doctors thought we were the worst they'd seen in a while... I was the
worst case of them all, they said, and soon they'l move me from this cell to a
smaller cell without a window. Just a light at the top."
"Katherine!" Susan got an idea. "I- I think maybe Blip and I can get you
out of here. Huddle closer to me." The trio disscussed an idea very quietly.
They couldn't risk overhearing.
Once all the details were worked out, they sat back. Then the door to the
cell opened. It was a rather portly nurse, with a needle. "Time for your
medicine!" the nurse chirped.
"No, oh Gosh no...not again..." Katherine stuttered. "HELP ME!" But she
could'nt move very fast, because of her straight jacket, so the nurse easily
pinned her. Katherine struggled hopelessly. The nurse stuck the unusualy long
needle in Katherine.
Katherine stopped struggling. She kind of looked dazed. "I like
cheeeeeese!" she mused, then began laughing. Susan and Blip backed away in
fear. "Cheeeheeeheeese! CHEEEEEEEEEEEEEESE!" Katherine shouted. Then she stuck
out her tounge and made that 'Phbt' sound with her tounge. The visitors took
this as a sign to leave.
* * * * *
It was now dusk. Susan, Blip, Jenna and Karr were sitting in the bushes
outside the asylum. "Everyone understand what they do?" Susan asked.
"Got it." Blip replied.
"Push yes." Jenna answered.
Susan took a look at the faces that surrounded her. 'Odd, how Katherine's
old creations of the past come back to ensure she has a future.' Susan thought.
"Let's do it." she commanded.
Jenna and Karr went out of the bushes, and through the front doors. Once
inside, Jenna went up the the front desk. "Push yes hand. Get hand. Hand get
hand. Jenna push hand." she began babbling.
Karr helped too. "Push hand yes. Run asylum. Get yes hand. Hand push hand.
Hand run."
The person at the front desk picked up a WalkieTalkie. "Hello? Security?"
the attendent said. "We got a doozey down here."
Meanwhile, Susan and Blip stood outside the side of the asylum.
"Katherine's cell is on the second floor, right?" Blip asked.
"Right there." pointed out Susan. "You up to it?"
"Better be." Blip gulped. Susan grabbed onto Blip's bace. Blip then
carried her up, up to Katherine's Cell. Then, he used a new feature Katherine
showed Susan how to make: a laser. The laser cut through the thick metal and
through the glass pane. Susan used a free hand to clear the hole Blip made.
Inside, Katherine sat, awake. Susan grabbed Blip with Both hands, and used him
to swing into Katherine's cell.
"Better hurry, they're going to medicate me soon!" whispered Katherine.
Susan silently undid Katherine's jacket.
"Jenna and Karr are keeping the guards buisy. Blip is outside. Hold tight
to my feet." Susan said. Then, she climbed out the window, and held on tight to
Blip. Katherine climbed out the window and grabbed Susan's feet. Blip lowered
them all to the round. The trio then tiptoed to the front, looking in the front
glass doors.
Karr saw them. "Run!" he shouted. Jenna and Karr pushed through the ring
of security guards that had formed around them, trying to figure out what was
happening. They joined up with everyone outside, and then dissapeared.
The group of five ran all the way to Katherine's home and in to her
bedroom.
Blip looked out the window. "Katherine, they tracked us! We gotta get
Jenna and Karr back to Albia. They're too easy to recognise." he spattered.
"Push mover" Katherine commanded, after turning on the HoloDeck and making
sure it was linked to Creatures. Jenna and Karr scurried onto the 'Deck,
sensing tention, and beamed themselfs back home.
"Katherine, I think they'll catch you! You don't have a choice!" Susan
responded, realizing that her plan to get her friend back had failed.
"Wait." Katherine slyly said. "What if I'm not in the country?"
"Explain to me how you're gonna get Cuba tickets and blow this place in
thirty seconds." Susan argued.
"I'm not. I think, if I'm not mistaken, we have a link to another country,
another world." Katherine reasoned. "I have no choice. To exape, I have to use
the HoloDeck. I have to beam myself- to Albia."