"Master, I'm back!" Parlax shouted, with a sleeping Gorix in his arms.
"It took you long enough," Sloth sighed, "Though I do wonder how you got him to sleep."
"Oh, just an unmarked vial of mind control serum. Nothing special really, in fact I think it work quite we-" babbled Parlax, until he was interrupted by the Doctor himself.
"You what?!"
"Took an unmarked vial... Of..." Parlax's voice seemed to get quieter and quieter as he was speaking, "Mind... Control... Serum... Oh..."
"YOU IMBECILE!" Sloth roared, "THAT WAS AN EXPERIMENTAL PROTOTYPE! IT ISN'T GOING TO WORK RIGHT!"
Gorix started stirring in Parlax's arms, which started to freak Parlax out.
"Master, cou-"
"IT HASN'T BEEN TESTED ON LIVE SUBJECTS YET!"
"Master, I know now but-"
"WHICH MEANS, IN TERMS YOU CAN UNDERSTAND, IT. DOESN'T. WORK."
Gorix stirred more, with every intention of waking up. Parlax started clutching him in an attempt to keep him still.
"Master, plea-"
"AND IN TERMS YOU CAN ALSO UNDERSTAND, DO. NOT. TOUCH!"
Gorix's eyes snapped open, as he slowly started to take in all of what was going on, but the only thing he knew for certain was that Dr. Sloth himself was yelling. Loudly.
"Master, you woke him up!" Parlax squealed, equally terrified by Sloth's anger and the fact that Gorix might just get violent when he discovers what happened to him.
"Guuuuhhhh..." Gorix groaned groggily. He had no idea what had happened after Parlax slipped him the serum, but all the feeling from his waist down seemed to have vanished. He did remember that Parlax did attempt to hypnotise him in the most cliche way possible though.
"Oh no, oh no..." Parlax murmured, as he tried to cover up Gorix's face to shut him up. This was not good at all. Sloth looked on at the situation unamused.
"I have an idea," Sloth spat out in bitter sarcasm, "Why don't you two SHUT UP?!"
It took a bit for Sloth's voice to register for Gorix, but once it did, he made every attempt to get out of Parlax's hold. Parlax held his hand steady on his victim's mouth, trying to keep him down and, by extension, away from Sloth.
"Mffffmmm!"
"Shut up!"
"Mmmmmfffffmmmmmmmmm!"
This was going nowhere fast, and Gorix was well aware of that. So he did what any sensible captive would do, and licked the hand of the person who held him captive.
"Aww gross!" Parlax moved his hand away from Gorix's mouth, and this left an opening for long enough to let Gorix wiggle his way out of the arm that was still holding him. He promptly fell face first to the floor, since he still couldn't feel his legs.
"Ugh!"
"Dammit!" Parlax muttered under his breath. This was going far worse than he had ever intended it to. Sloth just sat and glared at the two, occasionally shaking his head at their idiotic antics.
"Why can't I feel my legs?!" Gorix yelled, clearly upset by the fact that he couldn't feel his entire lower body, and parts of his upper body were tingly feeling. This caught Sloth's attention.
Sloth smirked, smugly declaring, "That was a prototype that you were slipped! So it does work!"
"What are you talking about?!"
"You were slipped a mind control serum!"
"That was water. Right?"
"No, you idiot. Parlax, like the fool he is, slipped you a prototype mind control serum on accident!"
"Well I could have figured that he was a fool."
"Ah yes, he gets into my experiments without proper authorization from me all the time."
"Well, joining you is probably his biggest mista-"
"Hey! Stop changing the subject!" Parlax interjected.
"As I was saying, he slipped you a prototypical mind control serum. I have no idea what it did to you, and if it wasn't in the testing phase, I wouldn't care. But since it is, I guess I have to care about what happened to you. What a waste of serum."
Parlax was getting quite tired of being berated.
"Master, if you'll exc-"
"But I wasn't done scolding you!" Sloth groaned, annoyed at how much free will this particular minion was displaying.
Parlax decided to get sassy, "Well you're not the one with the prisoner, are you?"
"I wasn't done listening to this," Gorix paused for emphasis, "Informative speech."
Sloth just groaned in annoyance, motioning Parlax off to take his prisoner somewhere on the ship besides annoying him.
