Gate of Memoirs/Back to the Lab

Lleva and Buck take a trip down to Vikki's lab for further investigation.
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Music: "Dark Pursuit"	Music: "Dark Pursuit"
 	
*—Vikki's Laboratory
*An eerie silence fills the sterile lab, pricking Lleva's skin as she makes her way through the mess.
*Though the self-proclaimed "evil genius" was now under strict lock-and-key back at headquarters,
*Lleva couldn't help but feel watched in every part of this ominous base.
*Still, she was a woman with a mission, and as a Rezcorps Volper she had to live up to their elite reputation.
 	
*Lleva: All clear on the west.
 	
*Buck: Clear on the east side.
*Buck: Looks like nothing has changed since we were last here.
 	
*Lleva: Well, it shouldn't. We cleared out pretty well...
 	
*Lleva: If only we were just a little quicker.
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*—Rezcorps High Security Solitary Confinement
 	
*Vikki: I've told you everything you need to know. 
*Vikki: You're not going to understand the specifics anyway. So, I'm not going to bother explaining.
 	
*Lleva: It's *still* my job to ensure nothing gets left out.
*Lleva: Your list of charges just keeps getting longer, you know.
*Lleva: Assaulting Rezcorps personnel. Illegal machinery under the Robotics Act. Unlawful transportation of prohibited weapons—
 	
*Vikki: Now, now, officer, you and your men were the ones who barged in and gave me a fright!
 	
*Vikki: It's self defense!
 	
*Lleva: Why you—
 	
*Vikki: Calm down, officer. I'm unarmed! Or...prodigiously armed, whatever.
*Vikki: The simple fact is this: The portal's gone. My little rabbit is gone. The dimensional key was good for only one use.
*Vikki: You can go back and look as much as you like. Be my guest...
 	
*Vikki: Don't say I didn't warn you about my place, though. Some systems might still be...online.
 	
*Lleva: We'll be back before you know it, Vikki. And you'll wish you were forthcoming the first time around.
 	
*Lleva turns over a stack of loose documents, shaking her head as she does.
 	
*Lleva: We don't have time to go through all this.
 	
*Buck: Well, wherever that little bunny went, it's definitely not Paskua.
*Buck: She mentioned some sort of "dimensional key", right? Coulda upped and disappeared altogether to another world.
 	
*Lleva: I haven't the foggiest what she could possibly want from the other side.
*Lleva: Then again, it's not as if people like her are any bit normal.
 	
*Buck: Heh. Didn't you say the same thing when Bonnie left the Academy?
 	
*Lleva: That's not—
 	
*Lleva: What was that?
*Lleva: I swore I heard...
Music: "Mimic"	Music: "Mimic"
 	
*A nearby generator suddenly whirrs to life, and the portal crackles with a faint glow.
 	
*Buck: Didn't Vikki say it was shut down?
 	
*Lleva: Obviously lying. She's got us trapped.
*Lleva: The hatch behind us is locked.
 	
*Buck: I wouldn't be so quick to judge. Look...
 	
*Buck leans cautiously toward the shimmering gate.
 	
*Buck: It feels like something's coming through—
 	
*Buck: ?!
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*Lleva: Whoa!