Part 4 - Khushi seeks help

bOok of cliches

-IV-

So while all the kidnapping hoopla was going on around Khushi, something else entirely was blowing out of reality portions between her virtual friends. Did you know that murkyshadows and InternetSpy had a bet between them that concerned the peace of their online bulletin board? And JohhnyDeepRocks and mrs.edwardcullen had played right into their hands! Apparently, JohnyDeepRocks had made fun of Edward Cullen saying he sparkled too much which had naturally irked mrs.edwardcullen, who had retaliated saying that JDR was too feminine and dead- and in any case she only considered Count Dracula as the real thing ... the clincher had been her line "all that sparkles is not gold" both had been at it since early hours of EST till the wee hours of IST or whatever way it worked itself out. Basically, both had been up all nights in their respective corners of the globe defending global peace...err...I digress.

So after reading the Great Gazoo's note, Khushi did what anyone in her position would do, she ...wait..., yes, fainted *d'oh!* When she finally regained consciousness after how long she had no clue, she knew two things, there were vague memories of a weird dream she had just had had where she was dressed as Little Red Riding Hood and being chased by a pack of wolves...only to be miraculously rescued by Robin Hood, who took her to the bat cave and introduced her to Poison Ivy. Are you confused yet? Of course, I'm messing with your mind, who has such delusional dreams?*rolls-eyes*

So yeah getting back to Khushi, she really did have a dream I wasn't kidding about that, but it had been a strange one. In it, she saw that Arnav was sitting in this swanky hotel room watching something intently on his laptop screen while munching on a bag full of warm-hot-mouth-watering-jalebis. What the!

"Arnavjiii" she called out to him dramatically as soon as she was up. Khushi couldn't make sense of what she had just seen, wasn't she supposed to see some horrific nightmare where his picture would fall on the floor and the glass would break to a million tiny pieces? "I'm such a terrible wife!...Arnavji!!!!!!" she screamed again, and fainted for the second time.

It must have been around midnight, when she woke up with a start, and looked around, the room was still the same, there was no thunderstorm outside, any flickering lights and there really were no wolves howling somewhere far far away! On the contrary, everything was eerily normal. Khushi went over the note again and tried calling Arnav on his cell phone, but to her dismay, it had been switched off! There was something terribly wrong in that scenario, she pondered. Khushi paced around the room trying to figure out a way to deal with this but she could think of nothing, except the second code. That's when the panic set in ... what if she had missed that second code?

After having searched the room for any more colorful post-its, she sat down feeling very dejected, there was nothing, nada, zilch ... no second code.

"What the hell am I supposed to do?" she asked loudly, "Arnav where are you?"

Just at that moment, that green beam of light re-appeared and directed her to a second piece of post-it that had been stuck on to the bathroom door. Khushi rushed to it-, it read ...

What are hot men from Mars called?

Ps. Very disappointed in you Khushiji. You missed the second code too so, we're sending you the third code.

From now on we will green beam locations of all future post-its.

Great Gazoo.

_______

Under all the emotional duress, Khushi did what any wife would have done, she logged in to her online forum and gtalk, hoping against hope someone would help her. She sent out an SOS to all her pals, and finally left off liners to Spunky.

Let's stalk their online conversation, shall we?

JalebiBai: Spunky, come online, where are you?

JalebiBai:Where is everybody when you need them *looks-around-anxiously*

JalebiBai: Spunky 

Spunky: Hey, I am here now.

JalebiBai: OMG!  OMG!  OMG!!  I am freaking out here, where the hell have you been?? I think something really bad has happened!

Spunky: Calm down Chica. I got a totally freakish azure highlights done today.

JalebiBai:  Crap highlights!! My hubby, he's been kidnapped! *dhan-ta-naaa*

Spunky: What the f***! Is this a joke, are you trying to seek attention again!? *rollseyes*

JalebiBai: No..no...no!! *shakes*head*vigorously* You moron! I'm tense. I don't know what to do. Oh god! Where is he? He doesn't even have his medicines with him, what if they feed him something sweet? Oh lord!! *bites-nails*

Spunky: Oh! Oh!!!  You are serious!  O_O 

Spunky:Go call the cops then, why are you telling me instead?

JalebiBai is typing...

Spunky: JB typing forever...?

JalebiBai: Sorry S, I was sending out mass SOS to all my buddies, I posted on our discussion board.

Spunky: Ok link pls, btw why didn't you call the cops yet JB?

JalebiBai: WHAT! Are you freaking kidding me Spunks? The cops ... the moment I call them cops, they may harm him, they told me, I am under watch. I will not risk his life, I will find him myself and rescue him to he can finally give me that bone-crushing hug, I've been thwarting for days. I miss him *sob-sob*

Then Spunky just like their other buddies, namely murkyshadows, JohnnyDeepRocks, mrs.edwardcullen, InternetSpy and MartianHunk read her note ... it went something like this.

HELP!

                                          

What the heck is this supposed to mean ... the little man in green tights and a funky metal helmet says,

What are hot men from Mars called?

Ps. Yes, apparently. The little man in green tights has taken Arnav captive. Help me Ladies, get to the love of my life.

Spunky: ooh, that's the code!? *rolls-eyes-with-a-even-i-cud-come-up-w/-a-better-code-look*

JalebiBai: You tell me, you're the smartass.

Spunky: Are you still writing that desi-show of yours? *thinking-cap-on*

JalebiBai: What desi-show? My life has become a daily soap already. Figure that code out. Please *bites-nails*

Spunky:Hmmm... *virtual-hug* btw how is it safer to post this online and not actually go to the cops instead?

JalebiBai[Status:AWAY: off to make more Jalebis...responses may be delayed]

Writer's note:

So there you go, third clue is out. Sorry she missed the second one.