The cat-girl looked up and realized that she had a bit of a task ahead of her. Washu had used a repulsorlift when she wanted out; the others had used the same thing to leave when they entered the dimension, as Mihoshi had brought it back down when she opened the dimensional gateway instead of cloning food. This time, it was still stuck up at the top of the hole, and the spaceship Merle was standing on was on the deep bottom. The spaceship, on its landing, had in fact made sure to redefine the word "deep", barely managing to stay out of the magma layer on its landing. This phenomenon also explained why it didn't seem all that cold down in the hole, despite the fact that very little light was currently reaching the place. (It also meant that it might get a little too hot later on, but, eh, so what?)

Anyway, Merle was stuck down in the hole, and she didn't quite have anything to get out of it with. So, she tried the only thing she could think of - screaming for help at high octaves, which would have worked if everyone wasn't currently deaf due to Mihoshi crying at the same time. Of course, this meant that there was virtually no way out. I say virtually, because the anime world defies physics, and all it took for stimulus for Merle to climb out faster than grease from a frying pan was a stirring from the ship. We won't say what, just because we're saving that for later chapters. But, with her being part cat and all, the noise where there should have been none was ample to make her tear out of the hole rapidly.

After panting heavily, looking down at what she'd climbed out of, and fainting, Merle woke up inside the house and looked up at the faces hovering over her resting place that had changed to the couch.

She decided to force me to use a thesaurus by having another sudden loss of blood flow to the brain.

She'll come to as soon as you click here.