Lollie: Hey guys! *waves* This is kind of short, but meh. I tried my best :] I hope you like it! Yay :D *gives more cookies*

Mandy: Uhm, these aren't cooked enough!

Dex: Ew, it's gooey!

Lollie: Shush, you! *throws a chair at Dex*. Now, where were we?

Once they teleported onto the ship, Dex sprinted as fast as lightning to a small grey room with a locked door. He motioned for the others to follow him, and they did. He tried to twist the handle, then when that didn't work, he eventually resorted to kicking it open.

Skye pulled a bobby pin out of her hair and gave it to him. "Here." She whispered.

He managed to pick the lock, and smiled at Skye when it opened.

At this point, both Mandy and Ryou had red faces.

"Damn alien…" Ryou rolled his eyes. Mandy just glared at both of them as they walked in.

Mandy stared at the interior of the sleek, metalic ship.

"Now," Dex breathed out as he told them the plan. "We're all in groups right?" He continued when everyone nodded.

"You two!" He pointed to Ryou and Isuzu. "You'll need to climb through the air vents, which are right…" he pointed to the roof at the corner of the room, just as Skye but in.

"Can I go too?" She grinned.

"Uh, whatever. Just go! We don't have all day!" He ushered the three towards the corner of the room, where there were three file cabinets (goodness knows what the aliens stored in there) and a few chairs around a circular glass table.

"Now…" Dex looked up at the roof, then back to Mandy and Holly. "They're going to the preservation room…"

"What's the perservation room for?" Holly asked.

"You don't want to know…" Dex said, making Mandy widen her eyes. Holly winced and turned up her nose, thinking of the things that they may have actually had to perserve.

"Where are we going, Dex?" Mandy asked.

"We're going to head to the basement." Dex told them, not looking very up for it.

"Where's the basement?" Mandy asked once again.

"Right there." Dex pointed to the ground.

"Huh?" Holly furrowed her brows in confusion.

"There's a trap door there…" Mandy observed, nudging Holly.

"Oh… what's in the basement?"

"Torture supplies." Dex shrugged casually, lifting the metal lid from the ground with a sharp tug. It came off, and Dex helped the two mews inside, him following shortly after.

"Sooo…" Skye put her hands in the pockets of her hoodie. Ryou and Isuzu were staring up at the roof, as was she, and contemplating who should try and climb up to the vent first. "Who wants to go first?"

"You." Ryou and Isuzu looked at Skye, who was forlorn. Ryou was grinning, while Isuzu just stared at Skye with a serious face.

"What?" Skye's jaw dropped. "But… I'm… I don't… FINE."

Skye opened on drawer on the file cabinet and put her foot inside carefully, shifting her weight to balance her. When she found that the edge of the drawer actually did maintain her balance, she lept to the top of the cabinet, clawing at the edge. When she got up, she saw spider webs. "EW EW EW EW EW YUCK!"

"What is it?" Isuzu asked.

"Are you okay?" Ryou's eyes grew wide.

"I'm… fine. Just deadly spiders coming to eat me; no big deal. Don't you worry you're pretty little head." Skye reached for the vent and opened it, climbing in. "Well," she called out to them. Since the roof was quite tall, they looked like ants! Skye was so glad that it was over and done with. "Who wants to go next?"

"I thought you said this led to the basement?" Holly asked.

"No." Dex looked left and right, trying to avoid any guards. Luckily, their were none at that point. "This leads to the hall that leads to the basement."

"Can't you just zap us there?"

"That's a stupid question." Dex rolled his eyes. "Would you risk teleporting yourself into a room filled with guards that would rip you to shreds, torture you and do painful experiments on you? You're a human. I'm not risking anything."

There were a tiny set of stairs, and Dex ushered the girls down them quickly, looking around to see if anyone was walking near.

Once he also went down the stairs, there were two passages: one left and one right (obviously).

Mandy went to walk through the right one, but Dex held his arm in front of her.

"No, it's left."

"What's right?" Holly asked.

"You don't need to know that." Dex said flatly as he walked to the left.

He walked down the dimly lit hall and turned a corner, but then stopped suddenly when he saw two guards either side of a secure, metal door. It looked like whatever inside was very important.

"Is that the basement?" Holly asked.

"No, we're in the basement now. We just walked down the stairs a few minutes ago."

"This is a basement?" Mandy looked around her. "Isn't this a little big for a basement?"

"No. Not for us." Dex bit his lip. He had no idea how he was going to get past those beefy guards.

Skye sighed as she squeezed through the stuffy, cramped vent. "This smells funny…"

She stopped, making Ryou bump into her. "HEY!" He rubbed his nose.

"Shhh!" She held her index finger out (not that he could see it), motioning for him to keep quiet. "I think this is the end of the vent."

Isuzu put her head to the right, leaning on the wall of the vent, trying to see.

"It looks like a cool room…" Skye observed.

"The perservation room!" Isuzu gasped as Skye knocked away the vent cover, which came tumbling to the floor with a loud noise.

"Shhh! Don't make loud noises!" Isuzu whispered. She lowered her voice even more. "They might hear us. What does a preservation roof store, anyway? Foods?"

Skye jumped down, observing the roof. She covered her mouth, looking like she was going to puke. "I think I just found out… This is disgusting!"

"What is it?" Isuzu asked as Ryou followed Skye. She hopped down and took a look for herself. "UGH! This is so wrong."

Skye squeezed Ryou's hand, and he (surprisingly) squeezed back. After Skye started to breath funny, he locked her into a giant bear hug. The room didn't preserve foods, like Isuzu thought… In little capsules it contained unborn alien babies!

Dex managed to knock the guards out. He gave their uniforms to Mandy and Holly, and told them to cover their ears.

"Why?" Holly asked. "Will their be explosions?"

Dex glared at Holly. Didn't she noticed that her race of humans had pathetic, tiny ears?

When he flashed the guards ID card on a scanner, it read: 'Authentication Denied'.

"Damn." Dex exhaled. "He's not ranked high enough. Give me the other guards ID."
Mandy looked on every pocket, but she couldn't find one. "I don't think he has one."

Dex mentally cursed. "Give me his finger."

"What?"

"Just do it."

Mandy hesitantly picked up the unconcious mans hand and gave it to Dex. He scanned it, and the door opened. He gave Mandy a long victory kiss, and then walked in, leaving Mandy to grasp what had just happened.

They followed him. "What… is this?" Holly asked.

Mandy didn't notice the test tubes and bottles of strangely coloured liquid. She just looked down to the ground, blushing.

"Preservation room." Dex answered quickly. When Mandy finally looked up, she saw Dex grinning at her.

They heard a noise, and the other group of three came tumbling out of the vent, one by one. After a quick look around the preservation room, they heard a rustling behind a long tube. Their heads snapped to the cloning tubes. Ryou's grip on Skye's hand tightened.

"Ah," A familiar alien stepped forward and smiled to the six. "Right on time."

Ooooohhhh, who do you think this alien is? :) I'll give you a hint - nah, nevermind. You guys can work it out for yourself. Review your opinions please :)

- Lollie