Eventually they returned with another contraption that looked like two chairs back to back with a metal box hovering over it. This time Chuck and Sarah suddenly fell into a deep sleep and where transported out of their cages to reappear sitting in one of the chairs. Casey dragged himself over to the cage wall. He beat on the wall with his fist yelling at the aliens to leave them alone. The aliens ignore him and caused needles to leave the housing and inplant themselves in the Chuck's and Sarah's necks at the base of the skull.

The procedure took nearly a half an hour then the aliens made Sarah and Chuck reappear in their respective cages. Eventually they both woke up.

Casey told them what had happened to them.

"They are experimenting on us." Chuck said shocked.

"Should we execute plan Delta 7 Niner?" Sarah asked Casey.

"If one of us could reach Bartowski I would say yes, but we can't leave him." Casey said.

Chuck flashed at the words Sarah had said. "You want to kill yourselves." Chuck said his eyes looking at them sadly.

"That would be the plan, but Casey's right neither one of us can reach you..." Sarah trailed off.

"To kill me you mean." Chuck said. "Is it that hopeless."

They didn't have to answer him, Chuck knew that it was.

The three captives sat silently in thier respective cages. When the food and water appeared they just ignored it.

"Starting to wish I had woken up in the underground bunker." Chuck said. "At least I would be wearing clothes." He laughed a little at his own comment. A hollow laugh.

"It wouldn't have been for long." Sarah said. Casey looked at her in surprise. Chuck turned his head to look at both his handlers.

"What do you mean?" Chuck asked.

"Casey and I had a plan to get you out. It would have taken a few days but it would have worked. At least we think it would have." Sarah explained.

Chuck was shocked, "You guys were going to break me out?

"No. We had come up with a plan to make it imperative that you be out of the bunker to help us. It doesn't matter now. Beckman probably thinks we went rogue." Casey answered.

"Or that Fulcrum captured us." Sarah put in.

There were several minutes of silence and then finally Chuck asked in a quiet voice, "What are we going to do now?"

Neither spy had an answer for him.

Hours later the three of them were awakened when the ship lurched throwing them against the sides of their cages. The sound of explosions outside the room and the blast of alarms had Casey and Sarah in combat mode ready to fight to protect thier asset. The ship rocked again and then again. Lights suddenly flickered then went out in the room.

The two aliens rushed into the room in time for four new species of aliens to materialize in the room. The new aliens were insectlike standing at about nine feet tall with six legs holding up the jointed bodies and two sets of legs that had a set of claws at the end. The two smaller aliens had a defeated look about their shoulders as they were surrounded by the insectoids. The ship had stopped rocking and everything seemed to be powered down. One of the insect aliens turned its head and looked at the three human captives with its multifaceted eyes. It made a clicking noise with its mouth and Chuck realized that it was speaking in its language to the other insects.

"What's going on?" Chuck asked not really expecting an answer.

"Those two little Dr. Frankensteins' are being arrested." Casey said.

"How can you tell?" Chuck asked.

"Its just a guess. They seem pretty subdued."

Two of the insectoids dematerialized in a bright orange light along with the two smaller aliens. The remaining aliens moved about the room calling up the holograms that the two grey aliens had used during their experiments. One of the insectoids had a thin pad in its claw that it held upto the holograms.

"I think they are downloading the information." Chuck said.

"If Casey is right and the two grey aliens were being arrested then these guys are probably gathering evidence." Sarah said.

"Unless these guys are planning on taking over the experimenting." Casey put in.

"What..." Whatever Chuck was about to say was interrupted when then three of them suddenly dissapeared from thier individual cages in flashes of orange light.

They reappeared in a larger cage made of the same transparent material. This cage was tall enough that even Casey could stand without his head brushing the ceiling. It was also bigger than the three cages they had been in put together.

Outside the cage were other cages that held strange creatures while others stood empty. Insectoid aliens moved through the area holding the cages tapping on glowing devices attached to each cage. The creatures in the cages did not seem bothered by their surroundings. There was no frantic pacing or hurling themselves against the walls.

The area in which the cages were kept was a huge room with ceilings that looked to be five or six stories high. Catwalks and clear elevators were used to reach the uppper stories were doors opened and closed automatically. Subdued lights produced more shadows but the aliens seemed to see just fine in the darkened areas.

"Wow." Chuck said as he looked around. "This ship is huge. You could fit five or six Buy More's in this room."

"Do you think the experimenting is over?" Sarah asked Casey.

Casey shrugged. "We have no way of knowing."

"We're together now. One of us could..." Sarah couldn't say it.

"No no wait a minute time out on the Delta 7 Niner plan." Chuck said putting his hands in the classic time out position. "There will be no killing of the Intersect, cause for all we know these guys will take us back home to Earth."

"And if they don't, and they start experimenting on us as well what then Bartowski?" Casey asked.

"Then we can maybe rethink the plan. But you thought those grey aliens were being arrested, so maybe they were. Maybe these guys are like the alien version of the CIA or NSA."

Casey grunted at that.

"Casey it won't hurt us to wait and find out. Hopefully Chuck is right." Sarah put in.

"Fine, we wait."

With that the three of them began to explore the cage further. The floor was like the other cages had been with human waste passing through it without even touching it, even so they designated one corner of the cell for such neccesity. Chuck kept looking outside the cell at the parts of the ship they could see and the aliens that moved purposely around them.

At one point one of the aliens tapped on the pad attached to the outside of their cage. Several of the food and water sources appeared in the cage. The three of them took the time to seat themselves on the floor and partake of the food and water. Chuck looked to his left to see Casey sitting next to him with Sarah on Casey's left both of them intent on their food. Chuck wondered if Casey and Sarah would really kill him then kill themselves if they truly believed that their situation was hopeless. Then Chuck prayed that he wouldn't find out.

Time passed and eventually the lights dimmed further and the three of them readied themselves to sleep. Sarah volunteered to be the first to keep watch, so she stood unabashed by her nudity near the wall that looked out over most of the ship while behind her Chuck and Casey laid down on the floor within about five feet of each other.

Eventually the two men fell asleep and Sarah looked at them while keeping a watch for any sign that one of the aliens might enter their cell. Chuck was restless in sleep and kept turning over as if trying to find a comfortable spot. Sarah watched in bemusement as Chuck's shifting brought him ever closer to where Casey lay on his back one hand resting behind his head and the other laying over his chest.

Eventually Chuck stopped moving. Probably because he ran out of room to move, Sarah thought in amusement as she could see that Chuck now lay pressed with his back against Casey who surprisingly hadn't woken up.

Eventually the time came and she woke Casey so that he could take his turn at watch. Casey narrowed his eyes when he discovered Chuck, but just shook his head and got up to take his place at watch while Sarah laid down in Casey's spot feeling the warmth in the floor left over from Casey's body.

Sarah figured that Chuck had moved in his sleep seeking protection unconsciously and perhaps even human contact in an otherwise non-human world. With her own body snuggled against Chuck's back, Sarah eventually fell asleep.

Chuck was awakened by Casey some time later to take his own turn at watching. Yawning, Chuck turned over surprised to find Sarah asleep against his back. Chuck nodded at Casey and went to stand against the wall that they had unsconsciously designated for standing watch while Casey laid down a few feet away from Sarah.

Now it was Chuck's turn to watch as Sarah moved unsconscioulsy closer and closer to Casey, until eventually Sarah was laying against Casey's left side.

Like Sarah, Chuck thought nothing of it thinking that Sarah was cold and was drawn to Casey's body heat.

Eventually Chuck got tired of watching the darkness outside of the cage. He walked around and saw that the other creatures in their cages were asleep. Eventually his ambling brought him to where Casey and Sarah were asleep.

Chuck gazed down at his naked handlers. After being in that state for so long, Chuck had become used to seeing their bodies. Though there were still times that Chuck wanted to use his hands to cover himself, he had noticed from the begining that neither of the agents had been bothered by their own nudity. Chuck wondered if that was some of kind of training given to agents.

His eyes wondered over them, noticing that Sarah was indeed a natural blonde, and that Casey was big in all areas. Chuck felt that he should be blushing at his frank appraisal but there was no warmth in his cheeks. Chuck felt almost as if he were looking at two statues carved by a famous artist admiring the finer details that the artist had added like the scar on Casey's upper thigh or the mole on Sarah's buttcheek.

Eventually Chuck sat down on Casey's right. He was surprised that neither agent woke up at his movements or staring. As he sat down, Chuck reached out his hand toward's Casey's face and stopped himself before touching the bigger agent. Chuck was confused by his reaction and placed his hand back in his lap. He sat and waited for the lights to brighten his hip touching Casey's right arm.