*Hey guys! The first thing I want to say is Happy Father's Day for all of the dads out there. The second thing I want to say is that I'm starting summer school tomorrow and it's going to be time-consuming so I decided to upload a part of the new episode here and hopefully get it published next weekend when I'm not too busy with homework or lazy. LOL! So, this is published on June 21, 2020. If you guys like this part, please vote and/or comment. That would be much appreciated. Again, thank you all for giving this story 2k reads and hope you are having fun with the story. Have a blessed day everyone! Enjoy!*

Gluntz and Louis arrived at the wooden cabin in the dark pouring rain, far out in the country about twenty-two miles away from Glurfsburg. Both of them exited out of the vehicle they were riding in and strolled towards the cabin.

"So...is this where we'll get more clues about Snerz's location?" Louis asked while they approached the front door.

"Yeah. They have a library full of books that were banned in public libraries mostly," Gluntz responded as she pressed on the doorbell, making a pretty soft ring.

"Do you know the people who lived here?" Louis inquired out of pure curiosity.

Before Gluntz answered his question, the front door was prompted open to reveal an older woman who's yellow-furred like Gluntz's. She had an apron on as if she's just cooking dinner while the woman smiled enthusiastically at Gluntz.

"Gluntz!" The woman shouted as both of the girls hugged each other tightly.

"Hi, Mama!" Gluntz uttered happily while hugging her mother tightly.

Louis smiled softly at the exchange between Gluntz and her mother.

Gluntz's mother noticed Louis standing idly behind her daughter. "Who's this?"

Gluntz perked her head while both she and her mother broke away and smiled brightly. "Oh, Mom, this is Louis. Louis, this is my mom."

Louis waved slightly while extending his hand for Gluntz's mother to shake. "Hello, Mrs--"

"Oh, what a respectable young man. You can call me Nancy, dear," Nancy, Gluntz's mother, responded in a sweet tone while shaking his hand. She shifted her curious gaze at her daughter. "Is he your boyfriend?"

"What?!" Both Louis and Gluntz exclaimed.

Louis blushed madly while covering his face with the collar of his coat and shaking his head.

Gluntz chuckled giddily at her mother with her face bright pink. "N-No! We're not in a relationship...Ahaha...h-he just works with me. That's all."

Nancy smirked with her arms crossed against her chest. "Are you sure?"

"Yeah, we're just working on the case together. Right, Louis?" Gluntz inquired Louis.

Louis cleared his throat while trying to hide his blush. "Yeah. Yeah."

"Oh, Mom, get this! Louis is the son of my former partner," Gluntz pointed out the fun fact excitedly while her arm was wrapped around Louis's.

Nancy's brows jumped and gasped. "McWinkle?"

"Yeah."

Nancy's smile brightened up. "Well, why don't you guys come on in? Dinner is almost ready."

Gluntz sniffed in the air as both she and Louis walked through the door of the cabin. "It smells good in there."

"It's green eggs and ham," Nancy responded sweetly. "Ted! Look who came home!"

As if it's on cue, a buff yellow furred man walked into the scene with a gray and yellow flannel shirt and a funny brown-furred looking mustache underneath his nose. He smiled warmly when he saw Gluntz approaching him.

"Hi, baby girl!" Gluntz's father, Ted, cooed as he gave Gluntz a big bear hug.

"Hi, daddy," Gluntz chirped happily with a few chuckles from her dad.

Ted suddenly noticed Louis standing idly next to Nancy, piercing a withering glare at Gluntz's partner.

"And who's this stranger?" Ted asked, his voice immediately changed into a low growl.

"Oh, Dad, this is Louis McWinkle, McWinkle's son. Louis, this is my Dad," Gluntz introduced both Louis and her dad excitedly.

Louis extended his hand out to shake Ted's. "It's nice to meet you, sir."

Ted shook Louis's hand firmly. "You have a good grip, kid."

"Thank you, sir."

Ted let go of Louis's hand and shifted his attention to his daughter. "Is he your boyfriend?"

"Uh...no. He just works with me," Gluntz answered with a shade of pink showing in her cheeks.

"Uh-huh," Ted responded with a smirk.

"Yeah, we're just working on the case together," Louis confirmed Gluntz's answer with a nod while trying to hide his blush still.

"Ah, I see. Well, dinner is ready," Ted replied, gesturing to the kitchen table. "While we're eating, you can tell us about your jobs."

"Yes!" Nancy exclaimed excitedly. "We would love to hear all about it!"

Gluntz scratched the back of her head. "Well, it's kind of complicated."

"Your mother and I had faced complications, sweetheart. There's nothing you can say that would phase us," Ted answered with a chuckle.

"Right," Nancy concurred with her husband.

Louis clenched his jaw a bit. "You sure?"

Ted smirked. "Try us."

~.~

While they were sitting in their seats around the wooden table and eating dinner, Louis and Gluntz explained the whole case and situation to Gluntz's parents. Nancy had her pupils shrunk in pure horror while Ted sipped his tea slowly to the point of slurping, imagining all the horrid stuff they were describing.

"So, that's mostly why we came here. We figured that there's a clue about Snerz's partner and we thought that you could help us," Gluntz explained while trying to plaster a smile on her face so that her parents knew that everything will be okay.

Ted cleared his throat. "Are you sure you can tackle this case?"

"I've tackled worst, sir," Louis informed respectfully.

"I'm asking Gluntz but I'm glad you can handle it," Ted acknowledged as he shifted his glance over at his daughter.

Gluntz nodded her head. "Yeah. It's hard but I can handle it."

Nancy held Gluntz's hand in endearment. "We just want you to be safe, dear. That's all."

"You guys don't have to worry about me. I'll be fine," Gluntz responded while smiling at her mother.

Ted nodded his head slightly. "You both can use our library. Find Snerz and put him back where he belongs."

"With pleasure," Louis muttered underneath his breath but no one heard him.

Ted finished his plate while getting up from his seat and strolling across the living room. He approached the wall on the other side of the room, using his hands to examine the texture of it. He felt a button and pressed it. The secret door that blended naturally within the wall slid open.

Gluntz and Louis stood up from their seats and approached behind Ted to see that the secret door had stairs leading into the library that Gluntz was talking about.

Ted turned to them and gestured them down the stairs. "There's the library. If you have any questions, you come talk with me or your mom, okay?"

"Okay. Thank you, daddy," Gluntz uttered as she hugged her father. "You're the best."

"Any time you need help, dear," Ted responded while hugging his daughter back tightly.

Gluntz and Ted broke apart as Gluntz headed downstairs. Louis trailed behind her into the library downstairs.

~.~

Two hours passed by as both Louis and Gluntz were reading through the books that had to do with the nuclear bombs and Snerz's and Jeckles's alliances. However, Louis had the picture of the familiar circular symbol with two snakes crossing each other like an 'X' mark out, just to search through the book.

"Did you find anything?" Gluntz asked while reading through the history of nuclear bombs.

Louis shrugged as he noticed something golden at the corner of his eyes. He pulled out a golden book with the cursed symbol engraved.

"Um, Gluntz, why do your parents have this book?" Louis uttered his question while showing Gluntz the book.

Gluntz raised a brow. "What's that supposed to be? And why do my parents have it?"

"Well, it's worth finding out." Louis opened the book and the first thing he noticed was the list of names that were written in cursive. He scrutinized the names until he got to the name that he was familiar with.

Gluntz arched a brow when Louis's finger was underneath a name that she didn't recognize. "Sara?"

"That's-That's my mother's name." Louis saw the page number for the name and flipped it over to the exact page. Louis had his eyes bulged out immediately in horror as he analyzed the sketches of the familiar girl being tortured for no reason. Or was there a reason? Whether there's a reason or not, Louis's heart shattered in instant realization.

"M-Mom?" Louis whimpered as he caressed his finger on his mother's sketched out face.

Gluntz gasped in surprise as she noticed Louis's lip and eyes trembling. She put her hand on his shoulder. "Do you think McWinkle knew?"

"I-I don't know. Dad and I don't usually keep secrets from each other. Maybe that's-that's something to ask him," Louis stuttered, beyond speechless of what he's saying.

They suddenly heard footsteps coming down the stairs. They whipped their glances up at Nancy, who just brought a tray with lemonade drinks with cute colorful umbrellas on each of them.

"I hope you guys wouldn't mind a drink of lemona--AAAHHH!" Nancy screamed at the end of her sentence while losing her grip on the tray. The tray clattered on the floor with glass cups shattered. The lemonade was stained on the wooden floor as Nancy breathed heavily from staring at the golden book.

Gluntz immediately widened her eyes and zoomed over to her mother's aid. "Mom, is everything okay?!"

They heard running feet stepping downstairs.

"What's going on?" Ted demanded harshly, not intentionally at anyone.

Nancy put her hand over her chest while pointing at the golden book. "Where did you guys find that?!"

Louis instantly made the connection between the book and Gluntz's parents. "I found it in one of the shelves, ma'am. Why do you guys have this book?"

"Why would you even ask?" Ted growled defensively while comforting his wife.

"This may be the connection to the case we're trying to solve," Louis explained to Ted calmly, keeping his composure.

"Why did you keep the book, Ted?" Nancy uttered, panicking.

Ted shifted his worried glance back at his wife. "I threw it out a long time ago. H-How did it even end back here?"

"Why did you guys even have it in the first place?" Gluntz questioned both of her parents immediately, seeming afraid of what's going on.

There's a brief unsettling silence in the air. Nancy gathered herself, calming herself down from freaking out earlier. She shifted her gaze up at her husband, who exchanged a soft gaze back to her. It's almost like they're reading each other's minds, knowing what they must do.

Ted and Nancy shifted their attention back to Louis and Gluntz.

"Why don't we sit down," Nancy uttered softly as they sat on the wooden stools surrounding the wooden table full of books scattered everywhere. 

Nancy shifted her focus on her husband. "Are you going to tell her? Or do you want me to tell her?"

"It's best if I tell her," Ted answered willingly, with gentleness in his tone.

Nancy nodded her head in understanding while she leaned back to let her husband take over the talk.

Ted took a deep breath and gazed into his daughter's eyes. "Gluntz...there's something that I should've told you--well, that we should've told you a long time ago. You were only a baby but at the time we thought it's best if you didn't know."

Gluntz leaned in closely. "Yeah?"

Ted had his eyes closed for a moment while reopening them with a sigh. "When your mother is pregnant with you, your mother and I went to this place. At first, we thought that it's a wonderful place to raise you but...that changed."

Flashback: Thirty-Seven years ago.

Ted and Nancy, in their younger years, drove through the village surrounded by a forest with light grey cloudy skies in the background.

We moved into a nice neighborhood full of people wearing masks. At the time, we didn't know why. It might be a virus going around for all we know. Or they're just completely scared of germs...heh, that's kind of our inside joke. However, as soon as we moved in, we received this book...

Ted and Nancy, carrying their briefcases, moved into a two-story wooden house. Nancy smiled brightly at how elegant the place appeared to be.

"This is beautiful," Nancy uttered while noticing the crystal chandeliers hanged up in the highest ceiling while stairs were placed aside from the huge living room.

"I feel like this is where the rich people live in," Ted muttered while setting the briefcases down.

"Well, it certainly looks wonderful."

"We might get bored of it eventually. I'm wondering if they have a hunting range or something--"

"We don't have those," A kid-like voice interrupted him. Ted jumped a bit and turned around to notice a grey-furred kid staring up at him while holding a golden book with the newly circular symbol engraved on the book cover. There were two black masks and earpieces placed on top of the book.

"Uh, hello there," Ted uttered, having his hand over his heart. "What's that?"

"Please, take it. It's our generous gift for newcomers. You belong here now," The kid responded with a plastered smile.

Ted had his brow raised, almost like he noticed something off about the kid.

"Oh, lovely," Nancy spoke up from behind Ted and took the book along with the masks and earpieces. "Thank you for the gifts."

"You are very welcome," The kid responded kindly as he began to walk away.

Ted tapped on the kid's shoulder, causing the kid to turn around anxiously.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you," Ted immediately apologized while kneeling down to make the same level-eye contact with the kid. "You must be new to this whole introductions thing in neighborhoods...my name is Ted and this is my wife, Nancy."

Nancy waved gently to the kid. "Hi."

"What's your name?" Ted asked gently, keeping his soft gaze on the kid, who seemed skittish.

The kid looked around frantically and then cleared his throat. "I'm Magnus...Magnus Stanley."

"Well, it's nice to meet you, Magnus," Ted replied while extending his hand out to Magnus for the kid to shake.

Magnus shook his head while giving a deadpanned stare at Ted. "The whispers told me not to shake your hand, Ted."

After he said that, Magnus took off and sprinted away from both Ted and Nancy. Ted arched a brow while standing back up on his feet. He slowly closed the door.

"Aww, what a nervous little boy," Nancy uttered, with pity nesting in her eyes.

While she took her own briefcases upstairs, Ted felt uneasy with hands rubbing against each other. "That-That boy doesn't seem nervous."

There's something suspicious about that kid...it could be that he had social anxiety as your mother theorized. Or it could be more. Sometimes I would get carried away with my worries. We were invited to attend to what the people in that village called 'The Purge' or something like that. We were required to wear a mask and earpieces. Both your mother and I decided not to wear the earpieces since...they have these weird creepy voices in them. So, we just wore masks instead...and...that's when things go terribly wrong.

"Rejoice, death is not the end!" The priest preached boldly on stage over the crowd of thousands of people.

Ted and Nancy had their eyes widened with confusion shown on their faces. The masks covered their mouths in the overcast morning, having shortness of breath from wearing them for too long.

"It's getting hard to breathe," Nancy whispered to Ted.

"We'll leave in a minute," Ted muttered back, holding her hand.

They watched on as they noticed a young teenage red-furred boy strapped onto the machine, shaking violently as the priest continued on with his preaching.

This bothered both Ted and Nancy as to why the boy was up there unless he had done something terribly and maliciously wrong. They knew that they had to ask someone around them.

"Excuse me," Ted uttered while tapping on a woman with a black dress. She slowly turned and stared coldly in his eyes. "Hi...uh, was the boy put on trial or something?"

"Oh no...no...no...no, no, no," The woman answered tenderly that hid some kind of brokenness in her tone, almost creepily.

The chills went down on Ted's spine while he shook it off. "Well, why is that kid up there?"

"He's-He's supposed to be made perfectly."

"I'm sorry, perfectly?"

"Well, look at him, he has a disorder. A mental disorder that is."

Ted arched a brow. "I beg your pardon but what kind disorder does this kid even have that you made you think he needs to be 'made perfect'."

"Autism...mostly."

"Uh...I'm sorry, autism? Why? If you're going to electrocute that kid...you're going to make his symptoms worst. Even traumatized him more severely if you guys keep this up," Ted pointed out as the kid was beginning to scream out in pain from being electrocuted. Both Nancy and Ted witnessed this with small gasps.

Tears edged out of Nancy's eyes. "Oh, dear."

"He's supposed to fit in...and this is how he learns to fit in," The woman responded as she turned her head back to watch the commotion go on.

As the priest concluded his sermon, the kid screamed louder than both Ted and Nancy had ever heard. The pain and agony in his scream clenched at the couple's hearts. They saw that the blue-furred teenage girl couldn't watch anymore as she passed through the crowd and headed straight for the plugin for the machine. She pulled the plug and the machine turned off instantly, letting the kid strapped on it to breathe heavily. One of the doctors turned to her with a glare.

"You, woman!" The doctor barked at her as she ran away from the stage. However, there were buff men at the front row of the crowd who snatched her by the small arms. She struggled against their grips but it's useless to fight against their strength. They carried her up on stage next to the priest and threw her at the priest's feet.

"Did the whispers tell you to commit such acts?" the priest asked the teenage girl.

The girl licked her lips a bit. "Yes."

"Why would the whispers want you to break its own rule?"

"She didn't have her mask and earpiece on!" The woman in front of Ted and Nancy screamed from the crowd.

The priest turned to the girl with a sneer. "Where is it, child?"

"I-I lost them."

"You lost something that you could've easily worn all the time?"

"Yes, sir." The girl flicked a glance up at the kid strapped onto the machine, who appeared to be desperate from the couple's perspective. She shifted her gaze back at the priest.

"Do you know what else those whispers were telling me?" the girl asked the priest.

"What, child?"

"To do...this!" The girl charged at the priest and grabbed his knife before he could make any reaction. She used her shoulder to shove the priest away from her while obtaining the sharp knife. The two doctors came at her but she cut them in the arms and throats to get them out of her way. The buff men who took her on stage, came after her until she was able to stab them in the chest, leaving them wounded and unable to get up.

The audience gasped in horror except for Ted and Nancy. She quickly cut the leather straps holding the red-furred boy down to let him go free. The red-furred boy seemed confused by her actions.

"Go!" the girl screamed her demand as the kid bolted out of the city without any hesitation. Before the girl could go with him, a sharp needle jabbed at her shoulder blade from behind. Ted and Nancy gasped in shock as the doctors grabbed her by the arms and strapped her onto the machine.

"Wait, you can't do that--!"

Ted shushed Nancy while gripping her hand tightly.

"Sara had committed the acts against the village, the whispers! Now, she'll receive the same punishment!"

The doctors plugged the machine on and flipped the switch. The teenage girl named Sara was electrocuted for all to see. She cried out in pain as Ted covered Nancy's eyes while he watched her screaming out with pure horror.

That poor girl...she's tortured just to save an innocent autistic boy from those lunatics. We knew...we just instantly knew...that we couldn't stay here any longer. And most importantly, we couldn't raise you there.

In the dead of night, Ted and Nancy packed their stuff and loaded it into the car.

"Hurry, honey, hurry," Ted urged quickly as Nancy had the last of her stuff in her hands.

"I'm coming, I'm coming, I can't run fast when I'm pregnant," Nancy uttered as she hopped into the yellow car that they used to drive them here in the first place.

Ted jumped into his car on the driver's side and stuck the keys into ignition quickly. The car roared to life as he slammed his foot against the gas pedal. The car screeched to drive off and zoomed through the village. As he drove onto the road, he spotted an exit ahead of them.

"Don't worry, honey. We'll find a nice place to live in that doesn't involve torturing disabled children. That's just sick!" Ted cursed, finding it disturbing that the villagers found torturing kids with disabilities as a way of 'fitting in'. What if their child had a disorder similar to that of poor boy's or worst? There's no way that Ted wouldn't let those sickos touch his child.

Before they could cross the line of finally exiting out of the area, a truck came out of nowhere from the side and rammed into them, shoving them onto a ditch next to them. The yellow car flipped over the cliff, tumbling down from the cliff from what felt like forever. Finally, the car reached the bottom, broken and upside down.

Ted groaned in pain as he immediately checked on his pregnant wife. "Honey...ugh, are you okay?"

Nancy screamed in immense pain. "Honey! I-I think the-the baby is coming right now!"

"What?! At this time?!" Ted groaned while cutting off the leather seatbelt and crashed onto the ground. "Hold on!"

Ted crawled out of the vehicle and stood up quickly to his feet. He immediately circled around to see his wife in pain. "Okay, honey, come on, we got to go."

He crouched back into the vehicle and helped his wife down gently.

"Be careful...the baby--"

"I know, I know."

Ted and Nancy immediately stumbled away from the car while hearing voices coming from behind them. There's a hole in the barbed wire fence that could fit both of them. Ted continued to guide his wife through the hole on the fence and sprinted towards the open country road.

"W-Where's the hospital?" Nancy uttered a question.

"I don't know. The important thing is that we find a safe place for the baby to come. Come on," Ted urged as they trudged across the street, trying to find a safe place where the baby could be born.

They noticed upcoming headlights approaching them. Ted had his arm over his wife to protect her from the vehicle that came to a stop. There's a distant pause as the couple wasn't sure if it's those weird lunatics worshipping the whisperers. As the door was prompted open, Ted was ready to fight whoever was getting out of the car. But luckily, he didn't have to fight. He saw a big blue-furred man with a black cowboy hat, staring at them with confusion in his eyes.

Nancy screamed out in pain as Ted heard the voices coming from the side.

"Please, help us, sir...we mean you no trouble. My wife...she's pregnant and she's having the baby right now--!"

The big blue-furred man quickly gestured them to get in the vehicle without hesitation. "Get in! Quickly!"

Ted and Nancy quickly hopped into the red car that the big blue-furred man was driving. As soon as they got in the car, the blue-furred man quickly drove off towards the nearest hospital so that Nancy could deliver the baby.

As Nancy was breathing in and out rapidly, Ted shifted his glance over at the big blue-furred man.

"Thank you so much," Ted uttered, his tone grateful.

"It's not a problem. This is my first time running into some kind of a situation," The big blue-furred man responded with a nervous chuckle. He flicked a glance at Ted for a moment and then back on the road. "Boy or girl?"

"Girl," Ted answered, seeming to be out of breath.

The blue-furred man nodded his head in understanding. "Congratulations then."

"Thank you." Ted paused for a moment. "I-I'm Ted, by the way. My wife's name is Nancy."

"McWinkle," the big blue-furred man, McWinkle, introduced himself while tipping his hat to Ted in greeting.

Ted extended his hand. "Nice to meet you."

"Nice to meet you too." McWinkle shook Ted's hand firmly.

Present: Thirty-Seven years later.

"We drove to the hospital as fast as we can and then...you were born," Ted finished his story.

Louis and Gluntz had their eyes widened.

"That's an interesting story. Wait, my dad was there?" Louis asked.

Ted nodded. "Yep."

Louis chuckled a bit. "My dad must have been a saint."

"He truly was," Nancy responded with a soft smile.

"I never imagine him hitchhiking with strangers," Gluntz added. "Wait, Mom, is that why you gasped slightly when you 'first' met McWinkle?"

Nancy nodded her head. "Yep. I think McWinkle recognized us too."

Gluntz dropped her jaw. "And you guys didn't tell me that you knew him!"

"Well, we didn't think it was important at the time. Again, you are inside your mother's womb when this all happens," Ted explained further.

"The important thing is that you survived despite being in a car accident," Nancy reassured her daughter while rubbing her daughter's knee to comfort her.

"You're a miracle child actually. Most babies wouldn't survive after the car accident," Ted remarked while Gluntz still had the shocked look on her face.

Gluntz cleared her throat. "You know what? I'm going to get some fresh air outside."

Gluntz strolled out of the library quickly, trying to wrap her mind around the situation.

Nancy had her hand over her heart with a guilty look on her face. "I think we just made her upset."

Ted sighed heavily. "I'll go talk to her."

"Actually, it's better if I talk to her, sir," Louis volunteered. "She probably needed a second pair of eyes since hearing that story."

"Oh...uh, okay," Ted uttered, arching a brow.

Louis headed out of the library and ambled through the living room. He noticed Gluntz standing outside on the wooden porch in the dark rainy night.

He opened the door to the front porch with a small smile. "Need company?"

Gluntz turned her head as Louis stepped next to her and leaned on the banister of the porch.

Gluntz blushed lightly while facing the rainy scenery. "I-I'm still trying to wrap my mind about this story."

"You never heard of that story?"

"Well, I was told a couple of times that I was a miracle baby...but I never understood why."

Louis cornered a soft grin. "Well, now you know."

"Yeah...but why did I make it out alive? How? What was the purpose?"

Louis lost his grin and pondered about the question. "If you hadn't made it, you wouldn't be standing here today. Maybe the purpose of having you survive is for you to help those in need like being an agent in the B.A.D.G.U.Y.S force."

Gluntz gazed up at Louis with a small hopeful smile. "You think so?"

Louis nodded his head while shifting his focus on her. "Yeah, I think so."

They exchanged warm smiles at each other. They noticed their soft stares at each other and then quickly glanced away.

"I don't know how the story was supposed to have anything to do with Snerz," Gluntz uttered while rubbing her arm nervously.

"Actually, I think it gave us a deeper understanding of what type of business partners Snerz is dealing with."

"How so?"

"Think about it. Snerz is partnered with Jeckles's former partner who we're not sure the name of yet. Whoever Jeckles's former partner is, he's probably part of this cult...I think they're some kind of a cult that my mother...used to be a part of. So, Snerz might be joining in the crazy religious cult stuff since he's partnered with Jeckles's former partner."

"Hmm, that's an interesting theory--"

They heard vehicles driving up to the wooden cabin, causing them to be silent. Louis had his arm over Gluntz to protect her from the upcoming danger. They slowly backed away inside of the cabin as Nancy flipped the television on in the living room. She had her eyes widened in shock.

"Uh...Gluntz...Louis, you might want to take a look at this," Nancy uttered.

Louis and Gluntz turned to see the television showing pictures of Louis and Gluntz in wanted posters.

"We-We didn't do anything wrong," Gluntz muttered underneath her breath as she glanced up at Louis. "Right?"

Louis noticed his wanted poster with his photo on it and words that were written underneath his portrait: Jeckles's Murderer.

Luckily, it was only a quick flash that only Louis saw but not Gluntz and Nancy. 

To Be Continued...