GREMLINS

In the living room they stood over Mr. Futterman's body.

"He was a good man, and a good friend." Rand said.

"He saved our lives on more than one occasion, he deserves our respect." Billy said.

Kate remained silent, crying. Gizmo stood over him, a solemn , grave expression on his face. They laid Murray's body in Rand's room. Billy and Rand came back into the living room, Kate was sitting and watching Gizmo talk with the newly hatched giant white mogwai.

"Wow, what language is that they're speaking?" asked Billy.

"I don't know, it's not like anything I've ever heard." Rand said.

They watched a while longer.

"I think they're discussing what to do next." said Kate.

"We need to go get those last two before they reach water, if they haven't already. It's only 3:00 , they still have a lot of time before dawn comes and they have to hole up somewhere." Billy said.

Gizmo and the mogwai had stopped to talk for a minute. Rand told Billy to ask Gizmo what the newcomer's name was. Gizmo thought for a minute then said with a smile, "Moby."

Rand was on the phone trying to contact the police when Billy interrupted him.

"I don't know why your calling the cops, Dad. You know how much help they were last time."

"Well they should know better by now. And plus, it's our responsibility to tell them about Murray." Rand said.

"Your right Dad."

Rand tried a couple of times then hung up.

"Their phone is dead, but ours isn't."

"What does that mean?" Billy asked.

"I think it means the gremlins are on the outskirts of town. Out there they run different phone lines than this part of town."

"Are you sure?"

"It's as good a place as any to start looking for them, let's go."

Kate was packing her stuff when Billy came in.

"Don't worry about it honey." Billy said.

"I just checked the car and the engine had been shredded."

"Then what do I do?" Kate asked.

"The safest thing for you now is to just stay here. Me and Dad think the gremlins are on the outside of town, we're gonna go track them down now. The phones here are still working, so I'm gonna take your cell phone since I lost mine. I'll call you if anything goes wrong."

"Okay baby, be careful. I don't want to raise this child by myself."

"You won't have to, I'll be fine. Anyway, Gizmo and Moby look like they could take on a whole army by themselves."

Kate saw them off. She kissed Billy goodbye and hugged Rand. She told Gizmo to take care of them both, gizmo nodded. She looked at Moby for a second, then got down on her knees and hugged him. Rand and Billy looked at each other, shocked. She got up and looked back at them,

"According to the book, Gremlins and Mogwai have genetic memory.

Which means that everything Gizmo knows and remembers, so does Moby."

They looked at her dumb founded.

"Does that mean all those other gremlins had the same memories as Gizmo?" Rand asked.

"Most likely, and these ones too." Kate said.

"Somehow that makes sense now that I think about it." Billy said.

With that knowledge they left, heading for the outskirts of town as fast as they could. When they got there they did a double take, the place looked destroyed. The roads were empty except for the lifeless corpses of cars. It looked like the town did that night 21 years earlier. Gizmo and Moby walked in front of Billy and Rand, keeping a careful eye out for anything that moved. Gizmo's head whipped to the side and he darted off, Moby followed him.

"Where are they going?" asked Rand.

"Looks like they're heading for the gym, come on." Billy said as they started to run after Moby and Gizmo. They walked into the gym, it looked like a normal Gold's gym. Exercise machines and weight racks covered the floor, with locker room in the back. But here, there was a large boxing ring in the middle of the building. Goatee was in the boxing ring , shadow boxing, throwing fake punches at an invisible opponent. Spike was off to the left of the ring lifting a 50lb dumbbell with one arm. Spike noticed them first and threw the weight at Moby, who took the hit on his chest, he stood there unphased by the blow. Gizmo rushed over to fight Spike while Moby jumped in the ring with Goatee.

"Looks like we're gonna have to sit this fight out , Billy. Rand said.

Moby walked up to Goatee, who was dancing around with his guard up. Moby cocked his head and looked at him like he was stupid. Goatee moved toward Moby, still dancing, Moby quickly delivered a right hook that sent Goatee flying back to hit the bell.

"Let the fight begin." Billy said.

Gizmo was fighting Spike, who was using weights and bars as weapons. Spike picked up a curling bar and held it like a baseball bat. Gizmo ran toward him. Spike swung the bar but Gizmo caught it with one hand and ripped it away from him. Gizmo took the bar and jabbed Spike in the belly with it. Spike crumpled to the ground grabbing his stomach. Goatee jumped back up and rushed Moby, pounding him with fist after fist. Moby blocked and dodged and threw punches of his own when he could , but Goatee was slightly faster than him. Moby got goatee in a bear hug with his arms pinned down. Goatee tried to use his bony chin spikes to stab at Moby's eyes but Moby dodged his head from side to side. Moby delivered a head butt to Goatee and he fell to the ground. Moby picked him up over his head and threw him as hard as he could against the wall of the gym. Goatee hit the wall and slid down temporarily dazed. Gizmo picked up Spike from behind and started to choke him with the curling bar. Spike fought back, twisting and turning, trying to get loose , but secretly he was raising his tail, getting ready to poison Gizmo. Billy saw this and yelled,

"Gizmo, lookout for his tail!"

Gizmo dodged just in time and grabbed Spike's tail, but Spike turned around fast and slugged Gizmo hard.

Gizmo fell to the ground, letting go of Spike's tail. Spike took this advantage and stuck Gizmo with his tail.

"No!" yelled Billy.

All this time Moby had been moving toward them. He picked up a 100 lb dumbbell in one had and ran at Spike. Moby punched Spike so hard with that dumbbell that it left a permanent dent on Spike's face. Spike went flying and hit the wall next to Goatee. Goatee woke form his daze and was the unconscious Spike next to him. He grabbed Spike by the tail and ran with him out of the gym. Billy ran over to Gizmo and Moby.

"Gizmo! Gizmo, are you ok?" Billy said.

Gizmo was laying on his back breathing shallowly, his eyes just barely open.

"There's nothing we can do for him right now Billy, we have to go get Spike and Goatee, now! I think I know where they are headed, and it ain't good." Rand said.

"Okay, Dad." Billy said.

"Wait a minute, oh god, you don't think they're headed to the lake do you?"

"Yes, I do."

"Damnit, alright, let's go." Billy said as he picked up Gizmo like a child in one arm while reaching into his pocket and grabbing the cell phone with his other hand.