"His brain is not working because of a VR helmet," Archie questioned once her granddaughters were already home and they were talking in the kitchen while he was cooking dinner.

"Yes," Perfida confirmed. "Toca is worried, that's the headgear that made Void a vegetable."

"That is concerning."

"Maybe the ghost is getting revenge," Perdita said.

Perfida had the same thoughts "he's kinda not a ghost since he is alive, sort of, but it is possible."

"Where is he now?"

"Toca, Vance and Leyo took him far away from here".

"I guess that's a safe way to handle it."

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In Toca's house, Brett was actually moving like he was sleepwalking, his eyes were still closed but the headgear was on and it was controlling him. The helmet even controlled every gadget in the house like the security system and the cameras that should've kept an eye on him, he was going out the door and just kept walking in the dark.

Perfida was sleeping and was dreaming where she was surrounded by bunch of trees with x marks in it, she felt losts then she heard barking but couldn't see any dogs around. All of a sudden, she woke up from her phone ringing, she got up and rubbed her face a bit to wake herself up then answered the call "hello?" she said in her soft voice.

"Perfida, you need to get here in TocaTokyo, NOW," Toca urged her, Perfida became wide awake once she heard his alarming tone.

"Why? what's up?"

"It's better if you come here and see it for yourself, I'll call the others, just get in here."

"Okay, I will, just give me time," then ended the call which made Perfida's brow raised and just got out of bed.

Toca got to his restaurant that was not opened yet, feeling fidgety and he was pacing too, the Soulpadres arrived "what's up?" March yawned. "Why'd you call us here this early?"

"Yeah, is everything, okay?" Perfida asked.

"It's Brett," Toca answered. "He's gone."

"What?!"

The kids were gobsmacked "gone?" Vance exclaimed. "What do you mean 'gone'? we just left him like an old coat in your house."

"Apparently, the old coat got up and left," Toca pointed out.

"Hold on. Are you saying he's back in his anal geeky self?" Perfida asked. "He's okay now?"

"Not exactly."

"Huh?"

"I woke up this morning and I checked the cameras but..."

"But what?"

Toca took out his phone from his pocket and showed them a clip as to what happened to Brett after they left him in his vacation house, "look at this, it's from the baby monitor we installed to keep an eye on him."

Everyone watched the short video in Toca's phone and saw that Brett got up from the bed, it was very brief becaus the camera went fuzzy after that "oh, my crapolai, he's moving," Perfida agaped.

"Is it just me or does he look like a zombie?" Vance noticed.

"He's not himself," Toca aghasted.

"It's the helmet, I think he's possessed," Perfida gulped, Perdita was just beside her who got anxious when her sister said the word.

"Uhm hello," a voice said, everyone got startled and turned around.

"Oh! it's you," Toca panted. "Hey! Crol, what's up? haven't seen you in... a while."

"Yes, anyway, have you seen Brett?" Crol asked. "I went by his house but he's not there."

"Brett? me? have I seen Brett?" Toca was starting to panic. "No, I haven't seen him."

"Oh, okay, do you happen to know where he is? I want to talk to him."

"Me? do I happen to know where he is?" Toca then glanced over to the kids yet they had no idea what to say to Croll. "Do I?"

"Maybe you should stop repeating his questions," March whispered to Toca.

"Uhm... he's... uhm..." Vance uttered.

"Out of town," Perfida blurted and everyone went along with the lie. "He wanted to unwind and think of things and he wants to do it alone after, you know..."

"Yeah, what she said," Toca stuttered.

"I see," Crol seem disappointed. "When do you think he'll come back?"

"As soon as we find him," Perfida mumbled.

"In a few days," Toca answered. "Or so. We'll tell him that you're looking for him if I ever find... I mean reach him, okay? okay. We need to go". After that, they all went ahead leaving Crol alone looking confused, he had no idea that his friend was actually in danger. We have to go back to the vacation home."

"Okay, but not the truck," Vance nervously pleaded.

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They arrived in Toca's house and went inside "wow! nice place you got here," March commented at the layouts.

"Thanks," Toca said. "Now, come on, hopefully he didn't go far."

Everyone spread out to search Brett and also called out his name loudly, Toca went straight to his room to see where if he was back but he wasn't there. He looked around the room and saw the baby monitor was not working "Toca!" Vance called him out loud.

Toca ran to the kids, they were at the kitchen and saw that there was a backdoor that was left open "oh crap, don't tell me he..."

"He got out to the woods? I think he did," Vance said because there were footprints by the ground outside the doorway.

"Let's follow the footprints then and let's see if he's... okay," Perfida said.

They see where the footprints would lead them and it lead them to the woods "I hope he's not hurt," Toca said feeling worried.

But then the trail was starting to fade for about ten footsteps away "oh no, it's gone," Leyo gasped.

"No, no, no, Brett," Toca moaned feeling despair that his friend could be gone.

"Toca," Perfida held his shoulder feeling bad for him even Perdita empathized him.

"Toca, we don't know what happened," Vance said. "Let's keep looking."

"He's right, why don't we all spit up so that that search will be faster."

"Good idea, let's call each other if... when we find him. Come on, Toca."

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They each went to different parts of the forest by shouting his name and the twins searched for Brett together. They went around the woods very much separated from the gang then several minutes went by and Toca decided to call the Soulpadres for some news "guys, anything?" he asked them by calling them.

"Nope," Vance said.

"Nada," March replied.

"Same," Leyo respond.

"Me too," Perfida answered

"Okay, let's keep looking," Toca told them.

"No problem," Perfida put down her phone and continued searching.

"This is impossible," Perdita huffed. "There's no way we can find him here."

"We have to try, Purdey," Perfida told her sister. "We can't not find him," then she kept walking and so did Perdita.

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Leyo was in the other part of the woods with bunch of tall bushes in the area or at least taller than him, he heard a faint rustling sounds and tried to see where it was coming from but he did not manage to catch it "calm down, must be a small animal," he said to himself and continued searching for Brett.

About a minute later, he heard a wailing sound from one of the bushes and it was loud that he started to feel scared for his life so he grabbed a large branch of wood from the ground, he carried it like a bat ready to hit whatever it was.

The sound was getting louder and louder like it was coming right at him. Leyo was shaking yet he was holding the branch very tightly and hid behind a tree. He saw from the shadows on the ground that it was getting closer. Once it got to him, Leyo yowled and striked it.

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Meanwhile, Perdita went to another direction a bit farther to her sister then she saw something in the distance "PEACH! PEACH," she yelled, Perfida ran to her. "is that him?" she gestured to her with her mouth.

Perfida saw that it was Brett walking further and further away "it's him," she confirmed then quickly took out her phone to tell the others while chasing him. "Hey, guys, I was about to call," she video called her friends, everyone picked up except Leyo. "I found him".

"Stellar," Toca expressed and sighed in relief.

"Wait, where's Leyo?" Vance asked.

"Maybe he put his phone on silent again, he does that, I'm sure he's fine," March assured him.

"Where is he? is he okay."

"Yeah, I think," Perfida said. "He's moving fast."

"Send us your location as soon as you get him."

"Okay."

All of a sudden, Leyo came in the video call "hello," he greet with a smile on his face.

"Oh, thank goodness, Leyo, I got worried," Vance expressed.

"Sorry, I was preoccupied, I..."

"By the way, Perfida found Brett," March interrupted.

"I'm sorry?" Leyo was also taken aback by that. "You found Brett?"

"Yeah, and I'm trying to catch up to him," Perfida was about to get near to Brett.

"Perfida, stop!"

"I can't, I might lose him," Perfida was stuped at what Leyo told her to do but she just kept running to Brett.

"Because, I found Brett," Leyo claimed, the other three guys were confused.

"What? what do mean you found Brett?" Perfida stopped and was stunned at what the little Livo said then looked at Brett who was still moving. "He's right over here."

"Maybe, you both are in the same place," Vance said.

"Where are you guys?" Toca asked.

"That's not possible, I'm with him right now." Leyo panned the camera at Brett, he was lying on the ground and he was not wearing the helmet, Perfida's mouth dropped at what she saw and so does everyone. "He's unconscious, I hit him because I thought it was an animal, he seems okay but his clothes are dirty."

"Wait. I don't understand."

"If that's him, then who...?" Perfida's voice was shivering.

"Peachy," Perdita stuttered as she stared at the other Brett, he was turning around and facing them.

"Perfida, where are you?" Toca questioned.

The other Brett turned into a dark shadow glaring at Perdita and just in a blink of an eye, it streaked through Perdita that she vanished before Perfida's eyes like it wiped her out "PURDY!" she screamed.

The boys didn't know what was went on yet they were in distress watching Perfida in trouble through the video call "Perfida! what's happening?" March called out to her into dust.

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In the Sweeney home, Archie was having a relaxing afternoon reading in his tablet and having a cigar outside at the back of his house by the lounge chair, it was calming until there was a call. He groaned in frustration then answered it "Ophelia, it's so wonderful to hear from you."

"Archie, I'm sorry to bother you, I tried calling my daughter but I can't reach her, is she with you?" Ophelia asked.

"No, she went out with her friends, why?"

"How is she after...?"

"You shit in her achievements."

"... Expressing my thoughts".

"Okay, after you 'expressed your thoughts' on her, Perfida did not express it well, of course, so I talked to her."

"What did you tell her?"

"That unlike her, you look like a browless hag when you were in the front page of AresDaily," he explained.

Ophelia glared at him "well, I just want to talk to her about it, what time will she come home?"

"Tonight, probably."

"Where is she?"

"I don't know," he shrugged.

"She didn't tell you where she is going?".

"Will you relax? she's not gonna put herself in any trouble."

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The dark figure then slowly had his red glowing eyes towards Perfida and began coming at her so she ran as the others watched her but they did not understand why "Perfida, where are you going?" Vance quipped but she could answer since she was trying get away from a monster.

Perfida just ran, she looked back and the dark figure was still on her tail, once she looked back at where she was going, she stopped when she was almost going run to a downward hill but then the dark figure shoved her there that she dropped her phone, "PERFIDA!" March shouted for her.

She rolled down the slopes and got hurt by every bump then she got to a flat ground that her specs took off, every inch of her body hurt that she couldn't get up then she passed out and blood was coming out from her nose.