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Tri-Genetics 2 CH 2
Lab Rat, Ty and Abby stared in horror at the vents as enraged hissing and squeaking seeped through them. The vent cover started to shake.
"They're coming through!" Ty cried out as Lab Rat darted back to his computer.
"Not if I can help it" He growled, his fingers flying across the keyboard. Suddenly an alarm started blaring and red lights began flashing. Lab Rat's look of anger melted into a look of surprise as a loud beep emanated from the computer. "I can't stop him!" He cried out to the others. "He's locked me out!"
Lance's face, still on the screen, laughed. "Indeed, there is nowhere you can run now. My minions will be there any second. I'm going to enjoy every minute of this!" He grinned, like a hungry man sitting down to a feast.
Ty and Abby looked at each other in terror as the sounds of squeaking and snarling grew louder. The siblings glanced upwards as the shafts in the roof of the lab began to groan and bend. "There is nothing you can do to save yourselves Grossologists!" Lance cackled.
Lab Rat glared at Lance's face. "Oh yeah?" He yelled and slammed his hand down on a button. The lab was plunged into darkness and quiet, save the noise in the vents. A few seconds later, white lights along the walls snapped on, bathing the room in dim white light.
"Lab Rat, what did you do?" Abby asked, glancing around.
"Cut the power" he replied, still typing. "We're running on reserve right now, but the good news is, Lance can't hack into our system anymore."
"Okay, what's the bad news?" Ty asked, looking even more worried. Before Lab Rat could answer the screeching from the vents seemed to increase.
"The bad news" Lab Rat glanced up at the ceiling. "Is that with the main power cut, I can't keep lock-down active. From the sound of it, those creatures will be popping through the vent covers any second now."
"Great" Abby growled. "At least Lance can't gloat on how we're still trapped like rats. No offense" She added quickly, glancing at Hermes, who was perched on Lab Rat's shoulder.
"Forget that, how are we going to save Naomi and the other students?" Ty added, looking crestfallen.
"Don't throw the muck yet, guys" Lab Rat announced. "I've prepared for just such an emergency!" He typed a command on his computer keyboard and his desk slid backwards, revealing a trapdoor in the floor. "Emergency escape route. I installed this after Boil left. No way he knows about it"
"Sweet" Ty smiled, but then he looked sad again. "But how are we going to save everyone without the Lab?"
"I've got an answer for that too" Lab Rat dashed over to another wall panel, which opened, revealing a glass flask full of a purple liquid. "Using the samples you guys brought back, I've whipped up an antidote that should reverse the effects of Boil's serum."
"Yes!" Abby pumped her fists, smiling. But her smile faded when she saw the tense look on Lab Rat's face.
"There's one problem, though" He continued, holding up the flask. "This antidote is concentrated. I didn't have time to congest it into a vapor. You guys are going to have to find a way to dilute it and distribute it to the mutants"
"How exactly are we going to do that?" Ty asked, narrowing an eye, as Abby started climbing down a ladder inside the hole.
BANG! Everyone jumped as one of the vent covers shuddered and buckled. Clawed fingers gripped the edges and pushed it out. It fell to the floor with a clang. Everyone glanced up as a pair of glowing green eyes glared at them from the dark vent. "Too late!" Lab Rat cried, thrusting the flask into Ty's hands, and pushing her and Ty towards the hole. "They've beached the lab, get out of here!"
"But, what about you?" Ty asked as Abby reached the bottom of the ladder.
"I'm staying" Lab Rat answered. Ty gasped.
"What? Are you crazy?" Abby demanded, sounding just as surprised as Ty felt.
"I've got to. I need to seal the entrance so the mutants can't follow you. Plus..." Lab Rat's eyes narrowed and his voice hardened. "These guys are on my turf now"
"Lab Rat, now is not the time for stupid heroics!" Abby screamed, struggling to be heard over the screeching of the mutants. But ty set his mouth in a frown and nodded.
"Abby, catch!" Ty dropped the flask into the hole. Abby neatly caught it, then glanced up at her brother.
"Come on!" She demanded, but Ty shook his head.
"I'm staying with Lab Rat!" He announced. Lab Rat smiled, clapping Ty on the shoulder.
"You two are both nuts! Get down here!" Abby yelled up at them
"Think about it, Abby!" Ty yelled back. "If we both get away, Boil will know something's up. If only one of us gets away, he just might let his guard down."
"You don't know that!" Abby's eyes were wide and Ty thought he saw something moist on them.
"Good luck! Do it!" Ty called over at Lab Rat, who nodded and pressed another button. The desk slid forwards, covering the hole.
"Ty!" Abby's cry was cut off by the desk covering the hole. Ty and Lab Rat turned to see two mutated teens emerging from the broken vent cover.
"You ready?" Ty asked as he grabbed a goop shooter.
"You know it" Lab Rat replied as he grabbed a few snot grenades. Both teens glanced up as a vent cover over their heads rattled and the two teens already in the room inch forward, fanged mouths hissing and clawed hands raised. Lab Rat threw a grenade at them, which stopped them, but two more emerged through the hole. The top vent cover came off and another one entered, a girl with braces, who Ty recognized as one of his friends.
"Sorry" He said, before shooting her with a stream of goop that pinned her to the wall. Ty turned spraying another mutant, but no matter how many he sprayed, more kept coming through the vents. As they fought, they didn't notice a small mutant slip over to the controls and type in a command. With a WHIRRR, the main door to the gag lab opened and a horde of mutants rushed inside. Ty and Lab Rat were overwhelmed and wrestled to the ground.
Lance Boil and Roger Pink-Eye strode in, Roger carried an acid shooter.
"Well Paul. I admit, nice touch on blocking me out, but not good enough" Boil sneered.
"The name's Lab Rat" Lab Rat snarled back. Hermes hissed and squealed as he wriggled in the hands of another mutant who was holding him very tightly.
"You'll always be Paul to me" Lance replied, smiling as Lab Rat struggled to break free.
"Where's Abby?" Roger glanced around.
"She's gone! Sorry to disappoint you" Ty said smiling.
"I'm not disappointed. We have you two, and I think she'll be back soon enough" Lance smiled back. Ty's smile faltered as both villains laughed evily.
Meanwhile:
Abby crawled through the escape tunnel, which turned out to be nothing more than a glorified pipe. Her smile suit was covered in gunk and algae, but she kept trudging. She froze when she heard Boil and Pinkeye's evil laugh filter down the pipe and she growled in rage. Glancing up, she saw a grating and pounded against it. After a few hits, the grating popped off and fell with a loud clang. Abby froze, waiting for any sounds of life, but all was quiet. Silently, she lifted herself up through the hole and glanced around. Not seeing anyone, she lifted herself out of the hole and reached back down for the flask, but as she did she heard a small noise behind her. Abby's eyes narrowed, one of Boil's mutants! Her fists clenched and her muscles tensed.
"Take that!" Abby whirled at the voice, in time to see something come flying at her.
WHAM! Something hard and heavy collided with Abby's head. Abby saw waves of color dance before her eyes. Then the color faded to black, and Abby sank to the floor.