Once our heroes arrived in the room with that weird computer (and even weirder snake creature), they went to work. Coiley and Multi took the cup of water, and went to work heating it up. While it was heating, Fluey put the button on the computer, and then pushed it. On the screen, there appeared an outline of a human body, and the outline of a snake. There were two green boxes, and two blue boxes. There were two sets of circles on the screen as well. The green circles had snake outlines on them, and the blue circles had human outlines. Fluey also noticed a set of buttons that had the outlines as well. He pushed one of the snake buttons, and the snake circles moved.
"I think I see what needs to be done here," he said. "We have to move the snake circles to the green boxes, and the human circles to the blue boxes. I have no idea what that will do, but it's worth testing out."
Immediately, Fluey got to work pressing buttons, and moving the circles. The minute he was finished moving them, the glass container opened, and revealed a young woman sitting in it.
"Slithering serpents!" Coiley shouted. "What in the world . . . . ."
"Are you okay, miss?" Multi asked.
"I'm fine," the woman said. "I feel human again. Thanks."
"You're welcome," Fluey said. "But what do you mean you feel human again?"
"They were mutating me with a snake," the woman said. "They told me this experiment would be completely safe. What a bunch of . . . ."
"Mutating?!" Multi shouted, beginning to look sick. "With a snake?!"
"Yeah, that definitely sounds like something out of the late, late, late show," Fluey said.
"Anyway," the woman said, "I was going to use the money to travel around the world. Now I just want to get back home as soon as possible."
"Can't blame you for that, ma'am," Coiley said. "But we still have work to do here."
"All right," the woman said, standing up. "Just please, be careful. And don't let them give you any shots!"
"We won't," Coiley said. "Thanks!"
With that, the woman left immediately. The boys inspected the container, and found a piece of snakeskin, and a triangle shape.
"I wonder what this thing is?" Coiley asked, looking at the triangle.
"We'll probably find out sooner or later," Fluey said, picking up the snakeskin, and grimacing. "Yuck! I hate shedded snakeskin!"
By that time, the water on the stove was finished boiling. Coiley took the oven mitt, and grabbed the cup. Fluey took the funnel he found, and put it into the opening of the hot water bottle. Then Coiley poured the hot water into it, and the boys took it back to the crocodile nest. Multi walked over to one side of the pool, and started swinging his watch again, putting the crocodile into a trance once more. Once she was asleep, Fluey took the hot water bottle, and placed it onto the crocodile eggs. After a few seconds, they started to crack. Once Fluey removed the hot water bottle, five baby crocodiles came out of their shells. Both he and Multi went back to the edge of the pool, so they would be far enough away from the mother croc when she woke up. Multi snapped his fingers, and the mother came out of her trance. She swam over to her nest, and her babies climbed onto her back. Once the crocodile had her family on her back, she swam out of the lab. Coiley went back to the nest, and grabbed one of the egg shells.
"That does it," he said. "Come on, fellas! We've got to get these to Narnia!"
The boys ran down the hallway, and knocked on the lab door.
"Hey, Narnia!" Fluey called out. "We've got the DNA samples!"
"Great!" Narnia shouted. "Put them in the slot in the door!"
The boys put the DNA samples they collected into the slot, and closed it. The lab door opened, suddenly, and the boys went inside. They saw Narnia standing there, in front of a wall of smoke. Panther looked at her, and arched his back, growling and hissing.
"What's with you, Panth?" Fluey asked.
"Something's not quite right here," Multi said.
"My master will be very happy," Narnia said, with a smirk. "You three have been such good helpers. Precisely the kind of donor Dimon needs. Brave, resourceful, and agile."
"Huh?" Fluey asked. "What in the world are you talking about, Narnia?"
"There's just one problem," Narnia said. "Your hearts are simply too big. You three were so desperate to help your pathetic friend. Oh, not me. I'm nothing but a holographic image. And this is nothing but a trap."
Suddenly, Narnia dissolved, in what looked like a mess of computer text. The Impossibles looked at each other, not sure what to think.
"What the heck just happened?" Fluey asked.
"I don't know," Coiley said, shrugging. "But if that was just a hologram, then what happened to the real Narnia?"
"First things first," Multi said. "We've got to get rid of this smoke before we do anything else!"
"Good idea," Fluey said, walking over to a vent. "The ventilation system must be broken, or else that smoke wouldn't be in here. All we have to do is fix it."
Fluey took the pin the boys found out of Narnia's purse, stuck it int the vents, and pulled the cover off. Inside, he found a bunch of leaves and debris, which was blocking the fan.
"Eeecchh," he groaned. "This thing looks like it hasn't been cleaned in years! And I don't think I even want to attempt to wash it out!"
"I'm with you, Fluey," Multi said.
"Look over here, fellas," Coiley said. He picked up a small, round metal object. "Looks like the metal ball we found earlier."
"Yeah, and those other balls that were in that weird glass tube," Fluey said. "Let's see what happens when we put these things in there."
And with that, the boys went back to the other room. Coiley put the metal balls into the tube, and all of the balls began spinning. The boys backed up, because there were sparks flying from it. As the balls were spinning, a section in the wall opened up, revealing a flower shaped tile.
"This is weird," Multi said, taking the tile. "Who would hide this in a wall?"
"Looks like it goes to a tiled floor or something," Fluey said. "Let's check the lab we were in."
The boys went back to the lab, and looked around at the floor. Unfortunately, nothing seemed out of place. The tile they found didn't match the pattern on the floor.
"I guess this goes somewhere else," Multi said, shrugging. "Nothing's out of place in here."
"Except maybe this," Fluey said, picking up a toy robot. "But I don't really know why there's a . . . . . hold it a minute, Multi, look! There's an outline that matches that tile."
"The robot must've been hiding it," Multi said. "Let's see what this will do."
Multi put the tile in the indent on the floor, and it moved the minute it was pressed in. Underneath it was a pirate hat, and a scrub brush.
"This just gets stranger and stranger," Multi said, picking them both up.
"I think I know what we can use these for, though," Coiley said. "Multi, you take the scrub brush and clean off that moss we found on the rock. I'll take the pirate hat back to that pirate skull. Fluey, you stay here and see if you can figure out how to clean that vent!"
"Check!" both Multi and Fluey shouted. With that, the boys went off to work.
Multi and Skittles walked outside to the rock, and immediately wiped the moss away with the scrub brush. Underneath that mess was a set of numbers.
"Five, three, one," Multi said. "Must be a code of some kind. Hey, Fluey! Come out here!"
"What is it, Multi?" Fluey asked.
"Got a piece of paper and a pen?"
"Yeah, hang on a sec. Narnia's sure to have something . . . ."
Fluey dug around Narnia's purse, and came up with a pen and a piece of paper. He handed them to Multi, who wrote down the numbers. Meanwhile, Coiley arrived at the pirate skull, and placed the hat on it, not knowing what in the world was going to happen. Strangely enough, when he put the hat on the skull, the mouth opened, revealing a feather duster.
"We can use this to clean out the vent," he said, and then he started back to the lab as fast as he could.
When Coiley got back to the corridor, he found Multi and Fluey inside the third room.
"What are you guys doing?" he asked.
"Looking around for something useful," Fluey said. "I'm by no means a genius, but it looks like there might be something in this cabinet. Unfortunately, it's locked."
"And it looks like the only key is another weird outline shape," Multi said. "A cup, and a snake."
"I think I found the cup," Coiley said. "It's behind this lab mouse, and he's not moving for anything."
"Hey, Panther!" Fluey called out. "Here kitty, kitty, kitty!"
Within seconds, Panther came into the room. He meowed, purred, and rubbed against Fluey's leg.
"Can you take care of a mouse problem for us, buddy?" Fluey asked, scratching Panther at the base of his tail.
Panther meowed, and approached the mouse. The minute the mouse saw the black cat staring at him, he took off as fast as he could. Once he was gone, Multi grabbed the cup, and put it in the slot.
"Now all we have to do is find the snake figure," he said.
"Looks like there's a door on this scale," Coiley said. "But I don't think it'll open unless one of us gets on it."
"Meow!" Panther shouted, and he jumped right on top of the scale. As Coiley predicted, the door opened, and inside was the snake figure they needed.
"Good work, Panther," Multi said, scratching the cat behind his ears. He took the snake, and put it in the slot with the cup. That caused the door to the cabinet to open. Inside was a triangle, like they found earlier.
"Another triangle," Multi said. "Wonder what they're for?"
"We'll probably find out sooner or later," Fluey said.
"Yeah, we always do," Coiley said, shrugging. "Come on, we'd better get back to the lab!"
The boys went back into the lab, and Coiley immediately began cleaning out the vent with the feather duster he found. He immediately found the problem.
"Here's the trouble," he said. "This bell hammer's stuck between the fan blades."
Coiley removed the hammer, and the fan began spinning, causing the smoke to disperse. Once it cleared, Panther meowed, and ran to the other side of the room. There was a gate there, and it looked like Narnia was standing there. Panther managed to squeeze through it, and he started rubbing against Narnia, purring.
"Narnia?" Fluey asked. "Is it really you this time, or is it another hologram?"
"It's really me," Narnia said, picking up the cat. "Holograms can't hold cats, you know."
"Gotcha," Fluey said. "But are you okay? What's going on here?"
"I'm fine," Narnia said. "I was never sick at all. They never gave me any shots. I was sent here to look for an AVA agent. His name is Clyde Murdock. He was sent here to scope this place out, and make the bust on it, you know? He hadn't reported in for two weeks, so AVA sent me down here to see what happened. The next thing I knew, this weird looking ape thing jumped out of nowhere and attacked me!"
"Do you have any idea what that thing is?" Coiley asked.
"Not a clue," Narnia said. "In any case, I'm not going anywhere without Clyde. AVA agents are thick as thieves, you know what I mean?"
"Yeah, we're pretty much the same in the SSHQ," Fluey said. "Don't worry, Narnia, we'll help you find him."
"Okay," Narnia said. "I'll start looking around out here."
"Right," Fluey said. "Be out there in a splash. Rally ho ho!"
Fluey went into a liquid conversion, and streamed through the gate. Once he was on the other side, he converted back into solid. Skittles managed to squeeze through as well.
"Hold it," Coiley said. "There's a problem here. How are Multi and I going to get out there?"
"Sorry, fellas," Fluey said, looking around. "I don't see anything that can open it from out here. Maybe Skittles can get a running start and smash the gate if she hits it at mach five or something."
"Or maybe the numbers I found scratched into the wall will open it," Multi said, looking at the keypad next to the gate. He punched the numbers in, but nothing happened. He then found a box of some kind underneath the keypad, and opened it.
"That figures," he said. "It's battery operated, and there's no battery."
"Maybe there's a battery in the robot toy we found," Fluey said. He took the toy out of Narnia's bag, and passed it to Multi through the gate.
"If we figure out how to open it first," Multi said. "I don't see a battery compartment on this thing."
"Let me try," Coiley said, taking the robot. He threw it across the room at the wall as hard as he could, but nothing happened.
"What are you doing?" Multi asked.
"Trying to break it open," Coiley said. "This thing's pretty well made. Not even a scratch. It's going to take a lot more force to open this thing."
"How about that alligator statue in the hallway?" Fluey said. "You know, where we found the watch? Alligators have a lot of pressure in their jaws. And a stone jaw would have a lot more pressure than a normal alligator. If we opened it's mouth, maybe we can close it again on the robot."
"Good idea, Fluey," Multi said. "I'll go try it."
Multi took the robot out into the corridor and placed it into the stone alligator's mouth. Then, he moved the stone tooth, and the jaws of the statue came crashing down on the toy. Multi heard the robot getting crunched, and moved the tooth again to open the jaws. Sure enough, there was nothing left of the toy but dented metal and wires, and a battery that was intact. Multi grabbed it, and ran back into the lab with it.
"You were right, Fluey," he said, putting the battery into the box. Once it was in place, he punched in the code, and the gate opened. Multi and Coiley ran outside.
"Where's Narnia?" Multi asked.
"She went looking for Clyde on her own," Fluey said. "She said she couldn't wait for us to get together. But she said we could hold onto her purse in case we find some more stuff we could use."
The boys looked around a little. They were in some kind of courtyard. To the side there was a bird statue. On the beak there were circles, with two gold birds on them. The other three were blank. There was a dragon statue another side, and what looked like a giant chameleon (which looked like it had a mustache) blocking the way on another side. In the center of the courtyard was a stone pool. There was a crab there, sitting on a stone circle.
"I don't know if I want to even try to get at that stone with that crab there," Multi said. "He may be small, but those pinchers are sharp."
"I think this is a job for our pets," Fluey said, glancing over at Skittles and Panther. The two animals took the hint, and approached the crab. Skittles began growling, while Panther hissed at it, baring his claws. They managed to lure the crab away, and Multi grabbed the stone.
"Looks like there's a bird carved into this thing," he said. "I wonder where it goes?"
"Only one way to find out," Fluey said, as he headed toward the stone dragon. It was the only path that was open.
