**The four of them awaken to find themselves in a sea of endless darkness. There is a no noise except for a faint echo like dripping water, and for a moment they are all paralyzed by fear**
SHEEN: Who turned out the lights?! Jeez, I feel like my spleen and my appendix just switched places! Guys….? Guys, are you there?
JIMMY: Yes.
LIBBY: Uh-huh.
CARL: Me too.
JIMMY: Let’s try to find each other. Follow the sounds of my voice.
SHEEN: I think I know where you are. Hold on, I’m coming…
**Sheen stumbles blindly into the darkness, then blunders into something and falls back**
SHEEN: Oh…ah…I think I sat on something. Ouch! Jeez, Carl, what is in your pocket?
LIBBY: OW! That’s not Carl, and that’s NOT a pocket.
SHEEN: Libby?
LIBBY: Ya, it’s me. And I’m…Hey, what the….AH! You little freak, what do you think you’re doin’? Don’t touch that! Get off of me!
**There is a loud clunk, and Sheen cries out in pain**
SHEEN: Hey, that hurt! I’m delicate!
LIBBY: I said get off me! Jimmy, do you have a flare or somethin’? I can’t even see the hand in front of my face, and if we don’t get some light in here pretty soon Sheen’s gonna get it!
JIMMY: Sure thing. Goddard, activate emergency lights!
**A lightbulb appears from Goddard’s back and flickers on. Orange light floods their surroundings, and reveals their location to be a small cavern of some sort. Stalagmites protrude menacingly from the ceiling, and little beads of water fall from their tips and accumulate in pools on the rocky floor**
CARL: Jimmy, where are we?
JIMMY: I don’t know, Carl. This appears to be a cave of some sort, but I can’t be sure. This is an alternate universe after all, and we have no way of knowing what we’ll find here.
CARL: (trembling) Jimmy, I’m s-scared. I don’t like it here.
JIMMY: Neither do I, Carl. But there’s nothing we can do about it. We came here to save Cindy…
LIBBY: Where is my girl anyway? Shouldn’t she be here too?
JIMMY: Yes, that’s what concerns me. C’mon guys, we’d better go look for her.
**There is a sound like footsteps nearby, and Carl scurries behind Jimmy and peeks out in fear**
CARL: Who’s there?
SHEEN: Ya! Come out and face us like a man!
**The footsteps echo off the walls like cruel laughter, and Sheen cowers and dives behind Libby. They all stand helplessly as the footsteps grow louder, until at last a familiar figure darts out from an alcove in the wall**
JIMMY: Cindy? Cindy! You’re OK!
**He lurches forward and grabs her arm, but she pushes him away**
CINDY: Of course I’m OK, no thanks to you!
JIMMY: What’s that supposed to mean?
CINDY: (bitterly) Oh, don’t even get me started. My list of complaints against you would take YEARS to read. But for starters, it sure would’ve been nice if you hadn’t abandoned me like that! I’ve must have wandered around this cave for hours!
LIBBY: Huh? Cind, what are ya talkin’ about? We came in right behind you.
JIMMY: Ya....Libby’s right. No more than ten seconds passed between the time you left and the time we left. We came right away.
CINDY: Um, NO you didn’t. I’ve been here for at least an hour.
JIMMY: Are you sure?
CINDY: Of course I’m sure! I’m not a complete loser, unlike SOME people.
CARL: “Some” people? Who are they?
**Cindy rolls her eyes, and Jimmy scratches his chin as he thinks**
JIMMY: Hmm, interesting…there must be some sort of time dilation between our universe and this one. It appears that time passes faster here than back at home. Perhaps if the spacetime fabric were stretched tighter in this universe then the decreased quantum entanglement would result in a temporal displacement paradox…
CINDY: (impatient) Ya, ya, not that this isn’t FASCINATING, but there are more pressing issues at hand. For starters, let’s get out of this cave. I can’t stand it in here another second. Besides, you’re not going to believe what I found outside.
SHEEN: Unless it’s Ultralord, food, a bathroom, or a bunch of runway babes, I’m not interested.
CINDY: Just shut up and follow me!
**The others follow blindly as Cindy expertly navigates her way through the cave. She stops and feels different sections of wall, as if looking for landmarks**
CINDY: (muttering to herself) OK, if we go a little further down this passageway and then turn right, we’ll find the exit…Aha! There’s the light ahead. See it?
JIMMY: Wow Cindy, I’m impressed. I had no idea you were so good at navigation.
**She gives a snort**
CINDY: Believe me, I wandered around for a long time before I found the exit to this place.
JIMMY: Well, Cindy, if we ever get back to our own universe, you could always pursue an exciting career as a spelunker.
**She gives half a laugh as they continue walking towards the exit**
CINDY: No thanks.
SHEEN: Um, yeah, maybe it’s just me, but what the HECK is a spelucker?
JIMMY: “Spelunker”…you know, a person who explores caves.
SHEEN: Oh yeah! I had an uncle who was a spelunker! He was a professional bat guano gatherer. He always used to eat the stuff on our family camping trips…apparently it’s considered a delicacy in some countries or something. I tried some dog guano once, but I didn’t think it was all it’s cracked up to be.
LIBBY: EWW!! You ate dog doo???
SHEEN: It was a delicacy!
LIBBY: Um, remind me to stay at least ten feet away from you at all times.
**They reach the exit, and Cindy points out into the glaring light of the open**