(The next part will be marked as the "Answer". I will release it tonight. I am still writing it. If you would like to be added to a notification list, please say so and I'll PM you when I release my stories.) Verbatim was aware of everything that was going on. But the reason he didn't respond is because he was obviously suffering hallucinations caused by LSD that Camnator somehow snuck into his body. He was having an acid trip. The last thing he wanted to do was to go anywhere or do anything, who knows what might have happened. That terrible ordeal where those women gave birth on him? It didn't happen. So Verbatim decided to ignore everything he heard or saw until the hallucinations began to go away. He was going to murder Camnator when this was over. He didn't even react when Vien supposedly stepped out of the stall as a sanghieli wearing a thong. Vien wasn't really there, he was still with the others. Verbatim was alone in the bathroom with his hallucinations. But they were incredibly powerful hallucinations...Verbatim had a hard time denying the quake that shook the room because it felt so real. Even seeing Sigourney Weaver turn into an armored female sanghieli looked incredibly real...were acid trips supposed to be this detailed? He didn't know, but there was no way this was actually happening. So he stayed in his corner curled up in his fetal position, trying to go to his happy place....the field of dead babies. But the babies were not dead, they were crawling toward him smiling with eyeless smiles....and they were laughing. Verbatim flinched, it was Camnator laughing, not the babies. He wasn't sure Camnator was there or whether it was a hallucination. A hallucination that was now smoking a hookah, with a plastic bag sitting next to him labeled "Super weed". Well, it certainly seemed like Camnator, perhaps he was really there, tripping on the very same LSD. Verbatim felt like lunging at him, but didn't want to take the chance. So he just kept still....even when something burst through the door and took it off it's hinges. "Do not move, it isn't happening" Verbatim thought, but he was finding it harder not to move, especially when "Sigourney Weaver" now "Jane", picked him up. He was startled to feel he arms wrapped around him, they felt too real to be a hallucination. "Do not move" he thought to himself again...he began to tremble. Then she thrust him into Vien's arms and he felt his head sag against Vien's cool chest. Verbatim felt Vien's big scaly muscles flexing against his cheek. It was at this point that Verbatim knew he had to do something, he had to move. Hallucination or not, he could not stand this. But he was too afraid to move, he was paralyzed with fear. "Move damn it!!!" he thought to himself. Vien put a hand under Verbatim's chin and tilted his head up. He was forced to look into the sanghieli's face looking down on him. Vien's mandibles clacked as he spoke "Do not fear, I will protect you." Verbatim felt Vien caress the back of his head and neck. This snapped him out of his paralysis. He flailed in Vien's arms and shouted "LET ME THE -blam!- GO YOU FREAK!!!" He felt Vien let him go. "Now listen, I know you are all probably hallucinations and you will fade with time. But until then, STAY THE -blam!- AWAY FROM ME!" he shouted. "Dude, Verbatim," Camnator said, obviously very high, "Get the stick out of your ass man." "DON'T YOU TELL ME TO GET ANY STICKS OUT OF MY ASS, YOU DRUGGED ME YOU PIECE OF SHIT!" Verbatim screeched. "Naw dude, you've gone incoherent. I only smoke weed. Weed clears your mind bro, perhaps I should give you some." Verbatim was about to shout again when uddenly he felt a loud painful smack against the side of his cheek. He stumbled across the bathroom and hit the wall, tears watering up in his eyes. "Do visions cause pain, human?" Jane said, putting her armored glove back on. Verbatim stood there, dumbfounded and sore. No matter how powerful hallucinations are, they could not possible cause pain like that. This was too crazy. What the hell was going on? "Jane" Vien said, "You could be a bit nicer" "I DO NOT HAVE TIME TO BE NICE!" she roared. "WE NEED TO GET OUT OF HERE!" Verbatim watched her walk up to the door, shove Camnator to the side with her foot, then she flashed an energy sword to life and cut apart what appeared to be the corner of some wooden structure that was sticking through the door frame. Then she kicked the broken pieces out of the way. Verbatim could hear somebody screaming "ALL BOW TO THE MIGHT LORD OF PORCHES!!!" followed by another scream and an explosion. "Come, we must go." Jane said, but then a moan came from behind the group. Jay had awakened. "Wha....where am I?" she began to murmur, then she opened her eyes and saw Harlow and 2 other women laying unconscious next to her. She then looked up and saw Camnator smoking a bong while gazing at her with reddened eyes, Verbatim glowering at her, then she saw Jane and began to whimper with fear. Then she saw Vien, standing there in his sangheili glory wearing nothing but pink thong. "You have awakened," Vien said. "You've had a rough time." Jay immediately let out an ear piecing shriek, it seemed to stab at Verbatim's brain and he immediately covered his ears, but to no avail. Jay was like a banshee, her scream was worse than nails on chalkboard, it was almost as bad as child's laughter. Jane took several strides over and with one simple movement, snapped Jay's neck, and let her fall to the ground. Then she took out a device that looked like a large robotic beetle, pressed a few buttons on it. The beetle immediately lept off Jane's arm and crawled up to Jay's neck, and pierced it. Her body convulsed for a bit and then seemed to freeze. It was as if she were in suspended animation....except that she's dead. Strands of her hair remained in the air. "JANE!" vien shouted "YOU MURDERED HER!" But Jane cut him off "I muted her. She is not dead. It would be a mercy to her if she were." Then she had the beetle robot do the same to Rose, Shadows, and Harlow. "It's the only thing you can do to the corrupted. It's the only way you can fight them....but you forgot....haven't you?" she asked Vien. She didn't wait for an answer. "Do NOT go near ANY of them." Jane ordered, "Do not give them ANY attention. That will break the hold and they will be free again." Then Jane looked out the door, she seemed to be Surveying the area. Verbatim could hear fire alarms sounding, people screaming. Another voice shouted "TODAY IS THE DAY OF THE PORCH!!!" Jane quickly ducked back into the bathroom. A large object sailed past the door and crashed down the hallway. "Come, we must go quickly. We have delayed long enough. They all followed her outside, Camnator clunked his hookah along with him. Jane immediately grabbed it from him, pulled out a plasma pistal and vaporized it. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! WHY?!?!?!" Camnator wailed. "If I didn't need you, I would leave you behind. But it seems you have a role to play in the events that are transpiring. Be that as it may, I will not be slowed down by your drugs. I need you sharp." Jane responded. "b-but you ignoramous" Verbatim heard Camnator murmer..."it makes me sharp." Jane ignored him, touched a button on her wrist and spoke into it. "Viktor, I am sending you my location. They found the host. There are several corrupted humans around my location. One of them appears to have gained the ability....to spawn porches. We are no match for him. We need your help. Please hurry." "JOOHN CENA!!!!" said a loud voice over Jane's communications device. "No way.....!" Camnator said, a look of glee coming over his face. "This is going to be awesome!" But Verbatim groaned....it couldn't possible get any worse. This whole situation felt like something some deranged autistic creep with no life would dream up. (To be continued)