[ Dated to 3.4; early evening : IN QUARANTINE ]

[princess_bruiser]

"Mnnmm... Chase?"

Molly wakes up, sorta, but her eyelids are so heavy it's really tough to open them. She sits up, rubbing her eyes, and immediately gasps.

Where am I?!

"Guys? Gert? Nico? Vic?" Sliding off the bed, she spares just a second to look at the weird clothes she's wearing-- a gray outfit that makes her look like a janitor-- and runs out of the little room she's in, only to bounce back-- hard-- once she hits what she thought was an open door.

"GUYS??" The last thing she knew, she was with everyone, fighting that creepy dragon lady by something she thinks is called the L.A. Aqua Duck, but when she tried to grab the lady's tail it moved really fast like a giganto garden hose and flung her into the water. If Karo had been there she would've swooped down to save her, but she's in space, now, so she couldn't have, and now Molly's in, in...

...in JAIL. There are no bars but the police are way too smart to put her in a room with bars, right? She could just bend 'em and walk right out and find the rest of her friends and bend their bars and they could all escape and the frog would be waiting for them and they'll just fly off and go back to the dinosaur pits but first pick up tacos for dinner because that's what they said they were going to do if they won with dragon lady and had totally been winning, right?

Nico had said it was illegal to swim at the Aqua Duck when Molly had suggested it earlier, but... it's not fair! She hadn't meant to go swimming! The dragon lady threw her in!

"Aw, crap," she whimpers, and absently touches her neck, where there's a weird bump that feels a little bit like a mosquito bite. Part of her wants to try and punch her way out of the walls just like she did in the Hostel but part of her is afraid of getting in more trouble especially because they probably know who she is and who her parents were and that's why she's in an extra special cell for bad mutants.

Molly stands up, and all of a sudden--

Hello, and welcome to the space station Proserpina. We're happy to have you on board. We apologize for the inconvenience...

She stares up at the blonde lady and all of a sudden she understands. Whew-- she's dreaming. Just the other day she was watching that movie Treasure Planet with Old Lace and Treasure Planet turns out to be a space station with tons of gold and then the main guy rocket surfs out of the way just before everything explodes and then he gets to go home with that super cute little pink guy as a pet. She's just been so worried about all of them getting in trouble lately that when Nico said swimming was illegal her dumb brain made up this story about jail and a space station and an invisi-wall and in a little while Chase is gonna come wake her up and tell her there's tacos.

Nodding to herself sleepily, Molly curls back up on the bed, snuggles into the rough space-jail blanket, and waits to wake up in Los Angeles.

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[princess_bruiser]

This is definitely the craziest dream she's ever had. It's not a nightmare or anything, cuz the only bad thing about it is that her friends aren't here, and it's sorta boring. Maybe it's a little scary the way she can't seem to wake up. Everything's so real-- she even ate a PB & B sandwich from the little cubby in the wall-- but there's no way she's really in space. That'd be insane-o.

Right?

She drifts in and out of sleep for a few more hours until, finally, she feels something shift and she knows, even half-asleep, she's not on the dream-space-jail-bed anymore.

Molly opens her eyes and looks around, then gasps loudly as she jumps to her feet.

"HOLY CRAP!"

Where is she? It looks sorta like an airport and it's nighttime and nobody's around and it's definitely not LAX because she's been there before when her parents take her on vacation and there are always tons of people there.

"GUYS?" She runs off the transporter pad, sprinting across the room for no real reason other than to do something in her panic.

That's when she remembers her cell phone. Duh!

Molly reaches reflexively into the pocket of her space-prison-jumpsuit...

Wait, if I'm awake, why'm I still wearing this weirdo outfit? ...and where's my cell phone? Where're my clothes?

She stares up at the Hub, and all of a sudden, she's pretty sure she's gonna puke.

If I got kiddernapped, I'm gonna be grounded so hard.

"HEY!" she shouts at the room, voice at full, angry volume, her hands balled up into fists at her side. "HEY, JERKFACES! Unless you want me to make a new window in your fancy house, you better come explain yourselves now!"

She thinks Chase would be proud. All she has to do is scare them, punch their lights out, and find the door.

[ Come find one pissed-off fourth grade dropout in the Hub, ready to rumble. ]