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In the most 60ist kitchen you ever seen, four people, two adults a man and a woman, and two children a girl and a boy were sitting by a table with the man, woman and boy looking at the young girl, all the while they wear old 60's clothes. The girl looks down at the three sadly. "I'm sorry Mom and Dad, I should of known not to eat cookies from the cookie jar." The Girl said as the parents hugged her. "It's ok Martha, we forgive you." The mother said as the father spoke. "Indeed, you always were the one with the sneaky hands, me and your brother should of been born with that and you should of been born with iron hands." The father said being sexist as laughter could be heard In the room.

"Golly gee wilkers, I sure am not getting noticed!" The young boy said as the parents and Martha erupted Into laughter the same time as the laugh track, soon the credits started as a jazz solo began to play.

The entire thing you just read was part of an episode of Little Springs, a new popular show that had surfaced In the Life Sphere and brought the attention of many residents of the sphere, the episode was on TV's of a display store which got the attention of many people, as they said. "Mani, Mani." repeatedly, one of the viewers who was not affected, Paula looked at the crowd and sighed. "I don't get why they like that show, It's bland, sexist...And stupid." Paula said as she stood by the entrance to a dark alleyway, waiting for her partner, Kashe to appear.

"Well, Kashe will soon be here, and then we can go Studio 665 to find out what goes on with this show."

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Kashe was quick to arrive as the "TV Show", This word being used very lightly, ended and the crowd burst into Mani Mani's. He had caught a glimpse of the end, and all he could do was shake his head as he spotted Paula, who was questioning the show just as much as he was. "Hey, you must be Paula right?" As he asked this, he took off his hood, and with it his red headphones, which he had just been using to listen in on the radio chatter of the life sphere. "Now I remember why I stopped watching TV, that's so... Stupid." He clearly was unamused, and wanted to figure out how ANYONE could enjoy this kind of show.p

"Bad programming aside, what do you say we get to work? Because I see what you mean."

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Paula smiled when she saw Kashe appear and nodded when he asked for her name. "Yup, that's me, Paula." Paula said as she turned towards the alleyway as Kashe wanted to get to work due to also finding the show stupid. "Anyway, Studio 665, the ones who make Little Springs, are just through this alleyway, hopefully we wont be encountering any deranged fans, I gotta feeling this show has a crazy fanbase and some fans." Paula said as she started to walk Into the alleyway, just In time for the Life Sphere to start raining. "Oh, It's raining, I love rain." Paula said happily to Kashe as she continue to walk In the alleyway.

"It's hard to think It's true, but I think an evil object I encountered, a evil statue, might just be the cause behind this TV show, that chant they always say, It's exactly what those who are affected by The Mani Mani statue say." Paula said to Kashe...As the alleyway started to get darker, eventually It reached the point where Paula and Kashe were covered In darkness. "Now why Is everything dark?" Paula said, however a bright light soon shined In front of her and Kashe as everything was back to normal again, while the odd light revealed Itself.




To be Studio 665, the only building In the area.

"Looks like this Is It, strange...Why Is there no buildings around here other then this studio?"

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Kashe simply nodded, glad he'd spotted Paula so easily. He began to walk as Paula started talking, sharing her sentiments. "Oh goody, crazed fans. That should be fuuuuuuuuuuuun." As he said this his voice was laden with sarcasm, he clearly wasn't fond of crazy fans, and had a nasty feeling they'd be common. Suddenly it started raining, Kashe was never fond of rain, but Paula liked it apparantly, so he just flipped his hood back up and decided not to say anything, figuring his tongue would get the better of him. "An evil satue? That's a new one..."

As they decended further into darkness, Kashe was having a hell of a time seeing. His eyes were just Begining to adjust when the light hit him, and he had to cover them, bright lights had never been good on his eyes. But, then the studio revealed itself as they re adjusted and he removed his hands from his eyes, squinting. The building was the only one around... How the hell... He looked behind him and all he did was stare into the abyss. "What in the... Ok, that's just my life now I guess." He looked back at the studio and was baffled by the lack of other buildings and decided to flip his headphones on, checking for any bizarre radio signals as he walked towards the studio.

"Well, we won't figure out just standing around here." With a pat of his side arm, he began to check for any way in that wasn't the front door, continuing to cycle through the radio.

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Kashe looked around the studio to see If there's any alternate ways of getting In, however there was nothing, no windows and the only door was the front door to the studio. "Odd, how do people breath In here?" Paula said to Kashe as she entered the front door of the studio and stumbled Into...







A waiting room, In the studio? Probably for the fans of Little Springs. It was also obviously a waiting room due to the smell of medicine that all waiting rooms have...And gum for some reason, a woman with large glasses sits at the front desk as Paula walked towards her. "Excuse me Miss." Paula said as the woman was typing very fast on the computer she was on, looking like she Is ignoring Paula. "Were here to see Little Springs, well the set, we may think that there something suspicious going on with the show." Paula said to the woman...As she spoke.

"So?"

The woman spoke again. "Everyone has problems with the show at first, It's too 60's, It's too sexist, It's too bland, but In the end, they always like It, except for me, I'm just here for the money, not unlike Carlton Curly, the creator of the show and anyone else who works In this studio." The woman said as Paula looked around, she, the woman and Kashe were the only people In the room. "I don't see anyone here, can we please speak to Carlton Curly then please?" Paula said to the woman, who stopped and sighed, she got up from the desk and walked towards a door behind her without saying another word.

"I guess we have to wait." Paula said as she walked towards one of the chairs and sat on one of them, waiting for the woman to come back...Or for Carlton Curly to appear.

"Nice music, I swear I heard It before."

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Kashe wasn't picking anything off up on the radio, so he took his headphones off once more following Paula inside, irritated at the annoyingly good security of the studio. After all, hard to sneak in when there's only one entrance. Paula was confused about how people were breathing in here and he gave the only answer he really had: "Mist have a damn good ventilation system." He may have access to good tech, but vents have been and always will be a necessity.

As they opened the doors, a waiting room was not what he was expecting, he was expecting some kind of lobby with staff milling about and to be tossed out the door right away. And yet, this was surprisingly simple, may as well roll out the red carpet while they're there. Then he looked over the secretary as Paula talked to her... Sheesh, first bad 60s stereotypes in the show, and now stereotypes were infecting the staff. Kashe flopped down into the chair and watched the secretary walk off, as Paula voiced her annoyance.

"Everything involving this studio so far is a stereotype, first a stereotypical 60's show, and now a stereotypical douche of a secretary that's only in it for the money. This damn studio is stereotype Heaven. 50 coins say we wait an hour only for her to come back and say he's not taking visitors."

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As Kashe spoke about how cliché the studio was, he expected to wait for hours before the woman comes back and saids that Carlton would not be interested In seeing them, Paula was not sure. "I'm sure we wont have to wait that long, besides were the only ones here...For some reason." Paula said noticing how odd that they were now the only two people In the room, eventually a voice was heard from a speaker somewhere In the room.

"Would Paula Polestar and Kashe Hunt come to the recording room!" The voice said as a door leading further Into the studio opened, Paula sat up. "Oh, you see that was fast." Paula said to Kashe as she got off from the chair and walked Into the door, once she entered Paula found herself In a short but white hallway, It looked like something from an asylum, nobody was around and there was only one door.

Once Paula entered there was a lot chairs and a very cheap set In the middle of the room, In fact the sets were so cheap the some of the objects In the background were made from cardboard, this confused Paula as some of the sets In Little Springs looked realistic. "Odd, why are all these sets so bad?" Paula said to Kashe...As a voice was It, It was a guy who sounded bored.

"Ladies and Gentleman please, get ready for another showing of...Little Springs!"

Two stage lights shined on the set...And started to move around In circles as instrumental music started to play In the room, Paula was not amused.

"Maybe there's something behind this set."

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Paula certainly was optimistic about the outcome of this. Kashe however felt like the time he'd stumbled into a Bydo hive, as if he was caught in a spider's web. He didn't know what was going on, and he didn't exactly trust these people. Then they asked for them, and he instantly knew something was up. "We never told them our names... So how do they know?" That screamed suspicious. It was like they were expecting them... But how? Paula just accepted it and entered the door, but he was reaching for his blaster, suddenly his trigger finger was twitching, everything about this screamed, "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIL."

"No wonder the secretary hates this place... It's freaking depressing in here..." This was no understatement, it was just a pale white hall, who could work in these conditions when it was like being in a loony bin? As they entered the set, he just flat out deadpanned. "What's with the arts and crafts project?"

With that, the show started, whoever was talkin, he really wasn't interested. Paula however, pointed out an interesting possibility. "I'll check it out, cover for me." He didn't want to be in this place anymore, it was irking him, and it was unnerving him. As he muttered about this, he flipped up his hood to try and blend into the darkness further, and began to slink towards behind the set.

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"I know, this place looks like the lair of some serial killer, and I know after watching the crime channel one time when I was four, and let me tell you, I saw some weird stuff criminals do that will make you go wow." Paula said to Kashe as he was about to look behind the set, Paula nodded when he said she should cover for him and watched him enter behind the set. "I'll keep an eye out on the door in case someone comes In." Paula said as she began to look around at the fake set, however so far there was nothing Interesting In the front.

But behind the set meanwhile...Is a different story. Everything was messy behind the set, It would take Kashe awhile to find anything interesting, however even If he did, It probably wont help him or Paula find out the meaning behind this studio, that Is, until something growling was heard beside Kashe, If he looked right he would see It.

An odd tunnel covered In gooey flesh and muscle, It growled monstrously at Kashe but did not seem to do anything, It looked more or less another door to somewhere In the studio, but to where, Paula did not hear the growling.

"Did you find anything Kashe?"

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Getting behind the set was surprisingly uneventful, minus tripping over a stray roll of duct tape, which he promptly picked up and shoved in his pocket. "When in doubt, duct it." Who knows when he would need it to make sure something went together right in his fighter, or to patch one of the control rods on the force for his ship. With that minor mishap taken care of, he got his way back stage, and scratched his head at the sight of the mess behind it. "Here I was thinking the place was orderly..." He was about to start digging around when he looked at... A... Giant meat tube... And it was growling at him...

There was only one reasonable reaction to this scene he was witnessing. "What in the actual F***?!" How was he supposed to respond to this?! Then he heard Paula ask if there was anything interesting, and there was only one reasonable response to this. He left from behind the set, grabbed her, and pushed her behind the set, and then promptly made a gesture towards the tube thing, gesturing in shock at what he was witnessing. "If that isn't interesting, I don't know what is!" He was not amused by this site, in fact, he was quite disturbed...

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Paula looked around the set but still, she couldn't find anything very useful, soon she saw Kashe walk towards her. "Found anything, there doesn't seem to b---Woah!" Paula said as Kashe grabbed her and took her to the back of the set. "It looks like you found something, what I---However before Paula could answer her question, she already got her answer...And saw the fleshy portal In front of her. "Oh my gosh...Why Is something like that doing In a TV studio?" Paula said to Kashe as he looked at him, before looking at the portal.

She thought of an idea, an idea that Kashe may not like.

"I'm going In there."

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"This... This is NOT normal." Kashe was at a loss as to what to do here. He hadn't personally gone into a full blown mission against the Bydo, but he had fought out of a nest here and there, and they had NEVER been like that. But now Paula wanted to go INTO the damn thing! "Paula, trust me when I say, THAT IS A HORRIBLE IDEA... And dammit you're technically my employer so I have to go with you... Well then... I guess if you're going I'm going with. But I'm taking pictures." As he said this, he pulled a line on his backpack, and suddenly his body was enveloped by his combat armor. He was READY to dive into hell.

He'd technically done this in the past before after all... So here's to hoping he survived another suicide mission. At least that's what he hoped, as he put on some rock in his helmet to keep him focused, and gripped his blaster tightly, but not before pressing a button his helmet's visor, saving a picture for later use. He needed to set up a base of operations. "Alright... Let's do this."

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Paula looked at Kashe as he said that he should go with Paula since her going In by herself might be a bad idea. "Ok, I guess your right, but I'm going In first, hopefully nothing bad happens like some enemy's randomly appear or we get sucked Into another dimension." Paula said as she keeled down and burnt some of the gunk off the tunnel with her fire before crawling Inside. As she kept crawling she couldn't find anything dangerous other then the appearance of the tunnel.

"There appears to be nothing wrong here so fa---However before Paula could finish...The tunnel quickly closed before Kashe could enter, before disappearing, leaving Kashe alone behind the set.


Soon...The lights began to flicker as the sound of the door opening was heard nearby.


Paula's missing and now someone has entered the room, things cant get any worse for Kashe.