“So, we’re looking for a magical Costco...”

“Yup!” Aru said, like she was talking about a trip to the dentist. They had just left a coffee shop, where she’d filled Mini in on the basics of what had happened, and were about to open a portal.

She didn’t go into to much detail, incase it didn’t fit with she already had stored. From what she’d been told, they were both part of a group called the Potatoes - Mini was relieved to hear she didn’t pick the name - who had defeated a villain called the Sleeper. But one of his followers went rogue, began to kill people to steel their power, and started another army twice as strong. She calls herself the Riser (Aru had said that she really needs a creativity boost) and she managed to split up all the potatoes.

Mini had, apparently, managed to escape and find out where the others were, but had gotten her memory erased in the process.

In short, Mini was the only chance of uniting the potatoes, beating the Riser and stopping the end of the world. Oh, and the whole Otherworld was going into lockdown to find Aru, so they had 5 days – tops - to do it.

# LovinglifewithMini

On the bright side, each of her unlocked memories would have a clue to the location of the next Potato

# Brainscavenger-huntwithMini

Once they had gone through the portal (which felt kinda familiar) they ended up outside a Costco. In fact, it was the same Costco from the vision. They walked towards the doors. They were about to enter before Mini stopped.

"There won't be any, uh, bees, will there?" She began, "I don't know if I'm allergic, but I'm pretty sure, and I don't know where all my epi pens are, and bee stings are in my Top Ten Worst Ways To -"

"Die?" Aru finished, smirking. Mini scowled. "Well, there aren't any bees... only Godzilla-sized burning fireflies. Now let's go," she said walking into the Night Bazaar.

Phew, no bees, Mini thought before the whole sentence processed.

"GODZILLA-SIZED WHAT?" she yelled running after Aru, bee stings being swapped out of her Worst Ways To Die list.

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The night bazaar was not how it used to be. Even Mini, who had no memory of what it was before could tell that dystopian wasteland was not the original vibe.

Some stools were broken, others on fire, some not even standing at all. All the bright colours were drowned in soot, leaving the whole place a depressing shade of char. The earth was littered with ripped cloth and burnt wood. Nothing had the bright shimmer she'd expected. Or if it did, it was smothered by despair. The whole place felt like a crime scene.

"W-what happened?" Mini asked, her voice wobbling.

"The Riser." Aru's voice was bitter, "How can someone have so much power and such bad taste?"

"Mini?" A voice said. It sounded quite a bit younger than both girls. Aru smiled.

"Who was that?" Mini asked.

"Your children." Aru replied.

"My what!"

"The twins Mini, the twins!"

"Who?"

Aru sighed. "Sheela and Nikita. There parents were missing so you basically adopted them."

Nikita and Sheela... their names sound familiar in Mini's head. She faintly remember laughter and smiles.

"That sounds about right..." she paused. "Nikki? Shels? Can you come out?"

One girl with braid ran out smiling and waved wildly. Sheela, she was sure.
Another identical girl with a tiara sauntered after. Nikita. (A/N #westannikitajagan)

"Mini!" Sheela ran up to Mini. "So much has changed. We've turned 12 now - exciting, right? And now we've got our celestial weapons! I got a slingshot," she pointed to her weapon, which floated at her side, "and Nikki,"

"WASSUP SUCKERS!" came Nikki's shout as she blasted a stool to bits.

"Nikki got a bazooka!" Sheela finished proudly. Nikki walked forward to join them all.

"You remember us though, right?" Nikki said hopefully. They're eyes met and Mini disappeared into the past.

"It's a fake." Nikki said. "The tree of wishes is a fake!" The twins were much the same, but there braided hair was shorter.

"Does that mean we have to do another quest?" Aru groaned.

"Yep!" Sheela said popping the p. Her face was alight with excitement.

"You can't come." Aru said bluntly, "it's too dangerous."

"But -"

"I'm sorry," Mini added, "you have to stay safe. Please,"

Mini crouched down and Sheela hugged her. When they pulled apart Sheela smiled sadly.

"Okay."

Once the scene ended, other things came back too. She knew about Nikita's style and Sheela's Seeing and everything about Aru. And a random thing called Rudy rocks. That came with feelings of irritation.

"I remember you. I remember all 3 of you." A smile flicked across Mini's face, "we need to go to the fake Tree of Wishes"

# questingmemorieswithMini

Hi! Me again... so this is part 3, hope you like it! Also thank you so much for the kind comments - it's really cool to see people liking your writing. Have a good day!

-BBB