Mike ran into one of the larger power dots, turned around, and 
clobbered his Ghost.

     "Yo, Adrian!"  He called hoarsely in a bad Rocky immitation.  "I'm 
a Ghostbuster!"

     He dashed around the corner and saw the Doctor's party, and they 
saw him.  They stared at eachother, frozen.

     "He's cuter than you, Joel" Ace said.  Joel stuck his tounge out at 
her, then eyed Mike suspicously.

     "Explain yourrrrrself," the Doctor trilled at Mike coldly.

     So Mike told his tale, of working as a temp in the Mad scientists' 
lab.  And of helping Gypsy facilitate Joel's escape from the Sattelite, 
and of being sent up there by the Mads to replace him, and of waking up 
in the Labyrinth, and his subsequent horrors.

      The Doctor eyed him skeptically, but before he could make a 
decision one way or the other, Orcs appeared and one end of the 
corridor, and the Ghosts at the other.  Both sides charged.  

       "Down, everyone!"  The Doctor roared, and all but the Maxx obeyed 
him.  Maxx killed a few Orcs, and a few more surrounded him, but the 
rest ignored the others and flew into the Ghosts.  The Ghosts, having 
greater numbers, won.  Ace and the Maxx finished off the surviving 
Ghosts, then all of them fled the maze, by the way Mike came in.  And 
none too soon; Pac-Man arrived and was chopping at the Doctor, Mike and 
Joel's heels.  But he would not follow them outside his own little maze.  
They were back in the Labyrinth.

        Joel and the Doctor still did not trust Mike, but saw no place 
to send him, either.

        "Which way did you come from?" rumbled the Maxx at Mike.

        "That way," said Mike, pointing.

        "Then we will go this way," said the Doctor, and he lead them up 
the corridor.

         "It is coming to a head," said Gone.

         "Indeed," agreed the Toymaker.  "The end is near."
          
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