Trick or Treat, Pt 3.
By Jill Weber
Big Guy and Rusty characters owned by Sony and Darkhorse and are used without permission or intent to make a profit.
It was hard to hate somebody when you didn't know his name, or even what he looked like, Neugogg decided. It wasn't impossible, however. The giant spider knew there was a human pilot inside the robot known as Big Guy. He just didn't know who it was. He just knew he hated that pilot with every fiber of his mutated being.
'It must be one of Big Guy's maintenance crew,' he deduced for the umpteenth time. However, that did him no good. Back when he was a mere human, he had never paid any attention to the BGY-11 much less the military peons who tended to the giant robot. However, since the bizarre accident that had transformed him into a giant, four legged spider, he'd come to regret his indifference. He'd love to know the name of the man he was planning to murder.
'Once I get out of this maximum security cell,' Neugogg sighed. He glared at his chess set with impatience. He'd grown tired of chess as a diversion. Fortunately, he'd come up with a new one, unknown to his human captors. His mutation had given him vast psychic powers like telepathy, precognition, hypnosis and the ability to suck the mind out of any human he could get his second mouth on.
Recently, he'd discovered he had telekinesis, too. He could move objects with his mind. Well, he could move very small objects with his mind. Okay, he could manipulate electrons. In this technology dependent world that had to be good for something, didn't it? He hadn't been able to get the cell lock to unlatch, mostly because the system had back ups coming out the wazoo (a term he'd picked up from that infernal pilot). However, he found that he could tap into nearby computers. Since his escape proof cell was in the Quark Tower, this gave him access to a lot of computers. Surely one of them had the information he needed to open his cell.
He continued to poke his way through Quark Industries' computer network, unaware of the havoc he was leaving behind him.