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Jul 14, 2004, 11:27 AM
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Me too =P
Long time no update ... oops.

They set off once more, Acid in tow. Benedict had no idea where they were going. Finally he lowered Autumn to the floor and plopped himself down next to his friend. Acid immediately began inspecting the walls.
"Doesn't look like we'll ever get out of here, Gale," he sighed. "We could follow this tunnel till doomsday and STILL be going in circles."
Acid glanced up from the wall ("Fred loves Minnie" "Over my dead body"). "You guys want out?"
"No, we enjoy going aimlessly in circles," Benedict snickered. "Yes, Acid. We've been looking for a way out since before we met you."
"Well, you should have told me," Acid said. "We passed an exit just a few minutes ago."
Benedict slammed his head into the wall a few times before turning back to Acid.
"Where?"
"Well, just back there a ways. You want me to find it for you again?"
"Please."
Acid trundled off the way they had come, Benedict and Autumn trailing after.
It was more than a ways. After about five minutes of walking, Benedict stopped concentrating on where they were going and focussed instead on his feet. Thus, when Acid stopped abruptly, they ran directly into him.
Benedict untangled himself from the heap and helped Autumn up. He surveyed the wall skeptically.
"This is it?"
Acid picked himself up. "Yeah. What's the matter, can't you see the exit sign?"
Autumn looked around expectantly, clearly looking for the sign, and Acid laughed. Then he turned his attention to the wall. Benedict tuned out his excited muttering and turned to Autumn.
"You okay?"
"Yeah. I think I can walk now."
"Why couldn't you have decided that earlier," Benedict grumbled, glowering at Autumn, who looked innocent.
"But you were doing such a good job, I didn't want to distract you. You mgiht have dropped me."
"Scratch the 'might'," Benedict said. 'I WOULD have."
"See? That's why I didn't mention it."
"Come to think of it, if you can walk, why am I still supporting you?"
"Um ..."
Benedict dropped Autumn, who caught himself and glared fiercely at Benedict. Whatever he had been about to say was cut off by a grinding noise. Acid stepped back, looking triumphant, as a portion of wall swung in. There was a dropoff into a tunnel.
"Ha! What'd I tell you?"
"Yeah, but where does it go?"
Acid peered into the dark, damp-smelling tunnel, then turned to Benedict with a straight faced, "down!"
"I KNOW it goes down," Benedict said with mock-forced patience. "Where does it END?"
"Uhm ... " Acid leaned into the tunnel, overbalanced, and fell in. After a moment his disembodied voice floated back to them. "So sorry, but I can't tell from here." His green-furred face appeared out of the darkness. "Quite a drop, huh?" He was level with Benedict's knees. The dark blue rabbit scowled.
"Can you be serious for once?"
"Sure. I don't think I can pull myself up."
"You need a hand?" Benedict reached down to help Acid out. THe slender rabbit took the pro-offered hand and tugged. With a squawk of dismay, Benedict too fell into the tunnel.
There was a pause. Then, "sorry, Benedict."
Benedict picked himself, glared in the direction he imagined the sheepish-sounding Acid to be, and gathered his shredded dignity about him.
"If I thought that was on purpose, I'd kill you."
"... I know."
Autumn stifled something that sounded suspiciously like a snicker. Acid sighed.
"Can you hand me that light, Autumn?"
Autumn moved to comply. As he bent to hand the lamp down to Acid, he tripped and fell facefirst onto the scientist, with a muffled "whoops!" The lamp went out.
Benedict sighed into the darkness. What were the chances that all three of them would fall in? He fumed silently. None of this was helping them. FOr all they knew, this was a dead end.
A grinding noise behind him made him turn. The dim illumination provided by the corridor was vanishing, and Benedict realized that Acid was shutting the hidden door.
"What the heck are you DOING?!"
"Well, you don't want those rebel types to find you, do you? I doubt they'll be able to find this door, even if they try."
"But - but - "
The door shut, leaving them in darkness.