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Grover physically woke up to the sounds of alarms and running footsteps, though he felt he had already been awake, as he had somehow seen one of his podmates bash another with a fire extinguisher and then eject both of them into the Xanadian atmosphere and then there was some kind of teleconference with a bunch of cats. Pretty weird stuff, but also in keeping with the kind of day he was having.

As his foot stepped onto the floor, he also felt himself walking on the surface of another planet and he was sleeping in a spacecraft on the way to the Barnard's Star System and he was batting at some yarn in a mansion and.... He slipped and fell. This was all pretty confusing.

For some reason, he was supposed to kill all the security guards around here. That didn't make much sense and he didn't really have any good reason for it, but the numerous voices in his head seemed pretty insistent about it and they were making it pretty clear that it wouldn't be to his benefit to disobey. They were also pretty adamant about laying off the Blissitol, but maybe he could try to come to some kind of compromise on that.

Emergency suits were kept in the locker down the hallway. He could see them right now even though he was several meters of curving hallway away from them. Stumbling his way past the rushing guards, he eventually found the locker and pulled on a suit.

"Sir, what are you doing?" asked one of the guards, who had apparently stopped to question him.

"I'm just putting on a suit," he shrugged, popping on the helmet.

The man said something, but Grover couldn't hear him through the glass and plastic. So Grover ignored him and walked toward the Environmental Control Room. There was no one inside the room right now, according to something his brain was seeing, so it should be pretty easy to take care of business there.

He hurried down the hallway and saw someone else in a suit approaching from an intersecting hallway. His suit radio crackled. "Hey, man," greeted the voice. "You on the way to eject the atmosphere from the Hospital Dome, too?"

"Yep." For the first time, Grover felt that he had a friend.