Section two....I'm not encouraged by the amount of reviews we have.....and right now, my legs,
knees, and back are really bugging. And that's NOT a pun! I am in need of painkillers, which
means in the near future, this story will in fact get funnier. The Authors, desperate to get their
investment back....end up offering a hundred dollars for every spider captured...alive. If they
are dead, they don't count. If they bite you....well, you're dead and it doesn't count anyway.
But mind you, you can only be bitten and killed once. You cannot die twice by the same spider
venom. (by rules of Magna Carta "You cannot be hanged twice for the same offence") On our
set, this applies to deadly viruses and venom....generally African Motaba and poison venom.
Believe it or not for those who have not read the spoofs, African Motaba is very common
around our set...generally when you spend as much time around Betsy as some do....speaking
of Betsy.......well, we'll just get back to the story now....Enter Lizzie, Sven, and more......
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CHAPTER TWO: JEFFERY IS IN THE BUILDING
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Elizabeth Corday stepped off the elevator with a sense of dread. What on earth could she have
been paged for this time? She sighed as she approached Abby. "Who paged me?" She asked,
sounding tired.
"I did, Mom." Abby retorted with a grin. **Spacefreaks, Lizzie and Romano became Abby's mom
and dad**
"That's not funny, Abby." Elizabeth answered, annoyed. "Now if you would direct me to the
emergency..."
Abby nodded, and motioned toward the Admit Desk, where Cassi was seated...on top of the
desk, and talking on the phone. Romano stood nearby, looking as if he wasn't sure he was
going to have a monster headache or just strangle the woman.
"What's going on?" Elizabeth asked, eyeing the pair.
Abby bit her lip. "Are you sure you really wanna know?" She asked, seriously.
On the phone, Cassi continued talking. "Look! I don't have the slightest CLUE how he got
here!" She went on. "All I'm saying is that we need the blonde guy on ice brought back, and
down here NOW!" She paused. "And while you're at it, bring back that Kevin Spacey clone
we've had for the last seven spoofs! Blonde guy needs to be Motaba vaccinated, and Casey
needs anti-venon for Jeffery. And hurry up and get Atherton down here before the whole
building drops dead!"
Next to her, Romano was eyeing the patients. "Uhh, Cas? Can you possibly talk any louder?"
He asked quietly. "I don't think they heard you IN SCOTLAND YET!!!"
Cassi looked at him, sternly. "I'm on. The phone." She snapped. "Besides, don't go blaming
me! I'm not the one who let the giant killer spider into the building."
Elizabeth paled and looked at Abby. "Please tell me she's joking, right?!" She demanded.
Abby looked at the floor and shook her head.
Beside Romano, a med student approached, looking excited. "Do you want me to get some
Haldol, sir?" He asked, quietly.
Cassi, hearing this, turned sharply. "Who the heck is that?!" She spat out.
"A med student....he's new. Ignore him." Carter spoke up, pulling the student back.
"That's the future of medicine." Romano muttered.
Cassi eyed him. "Well put him back in his cage before I shoot the future of medicine." She
remarked, glaring. "It wasn't my walkman that set off that metal detector, pal."
Elizabeth rushed over to the desk. "Please tell me this isn't for real." She whispered.
Romano sighed. "You wish." He snapped, then shook himself when he realized it was Lizzie
he was talking to. "Cassi thinks Jeffery's in the building."
"There's no proof of it yet, but Cassi got a hold of a Doctor who knows that sort of thing.....at
least she says he knows them." Jerry explained.
Cassi smiled. "Dr. A had better know them....they DID kill him." She told them. "He's the one
who brought Jeffery out of the jungle anyhow."
Romano rolled his eyes. "Oh thankyou very much." He muttered. "That makes me so much
more confident in him."
"Um, the fact that they killed him....doesn't that mean that they can't kill him again?" Jerry
put in.
"Yes." Cassi answered, hanging up the phone. "Dave said he'd escourt him in when they get
him back."
Before anyone could respond to this, Elizabeth's pager chirped. She pulled it off, looking at it,
and groaned. "Looks like there's been another death." She told them, heading for the elevator.
"Where?" Romano asked, catching her elbow.
"Recovery. I'll have to talk to Shirley." Elizabeth remarked.
"If you find a bite, call Carter. He makes the pills." Cassi told her as the elevator doors closed.
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"That didn't sound promising." Chuny spoke up.
"Um...yeah....just....avoid the spiders." Cassi remarked, heading back for the main desk. "Oh
yeah....watch it. They are jumpers."
"Oh thanks. That's what I needed to hear." Haleh muttered, cautiously looking around the
floor.
"Cassi!" Jerry called from the desk. "Dave's on the phone. He says Dr. A's back and he would
like to speak with you."
Cassi grabbed the phone. "Oh, put him on.....hey Dr. A! You know you're really cute?" She
paused. "Aww...you're kidding! We like Dr A!" She paused again. "Well you know we're
gonna call you that anyway, right?"
Romano, next to her, was staring like she was from the moon. "Cas? Spiders? Killing people?"
He reminded her.
"Oh yeah." Cassi answered. "Yeah, we've had about three deaths so far....we think...but one
was a banger and not important...something about heroin." She paused, listening. "Yeah, he's
probably here. Why, did you want me to put him on? I mean I haven't seen him yet, but Carter
could probably find him." She paused again. "Right...schematics...no problem. Creepy had a
set when we changed them into five year olds....no, you don't wanna know. Okay, we'll see
what we can do....Later!" She hung up. "Dr A needs a set of schematics for the building and
a live specimen. Have one of your med students go catch a spider....he also says someone
might wish to go to the morgue and check the dead guys...assuming there are still some down
there, after Jonathan had his party."
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An hour later, Sven had arrived...with a decidedly suspicious-looking fellow, who was rather
short (meaning about five inches shorter than Romano), with green hair, and a white mohawk,
wearing a pair of green shades, and a black outfit. He was known only as Stripe, and had
volunteered his entire family to help hunt the spiders....with the exception of one cousin, called
Mohawk, who liked spiders and wanted no part of their demise. **We'll let you figure this out,
although Mohawk also appears in Forbidden**
Sven had sent two of her Assistants, Chris Mason and Dor, to find a man known as Chris
Collins, who had been an Assistant to the late Dr. A, and would know more about the spiders
who were most definitely loose in the building.
A trip to the morgue, made by Gallant, had turned up hard evidence that there was definitely a
problem. The bodies in the morgue, of course, were untouched. It was the presence of several
piles of dead spiders beneath the Snap Dragon plants, that had apparently been left there by
Dawn and Irene in the Youth Elixir spoof, who had grown the plants to guard the girls base...
**And as Snap Dragons are not the easiest plants to move, they were left to guard the
morgue....and apparently, the plants did not like the taste of killer spiders.**
Unfortunately, no one had come up with a live specimen for the good doctor. However, Gallant
had brought several of the corpses to the lounge, where Romano had managed to move Cassi.
Carter was seated in the corner, making miracle pills, and the others were discussing where the
infestation could have originated.
At the main desk, Jerry was seated, cautiously looking around under it, when Dave entered the
hospital with a VERY gorgeous British man, who had long blonde hair, pulled back in a pony-
tail. **And for those who are clueless as to who Julian Sands is...we're sorry. He's most well
known for the Warlock, although he's in Arachnophobia as well as Vibes, and lots more, but
these are just the ones we own** Anyway, Dave and Gorgeous Pony-tail Man.
"Hey Jerry, this is Dr. A." Dave informed him, motioning to the gorgeous guy...**Fine, Cassi
will stop now...but he is gorgeous**
"Dr. James Atherton." He corrected, shaking Jerry's hand. "Where is this Cassi?"
"They're in the lounge." Jerry answered, pointing. "Dr. Romano wanted to keep this as quiet
as possible."
Atherton nodded. "Are they absolutely sure it's the Venezuelan spiecies?" He asked.
"They are, now." Jerry told him. "Gallant found a load of dead ones in the morgue. They got
ate by Snap Dragons."
Atherton blinked, and nodded. "Did they find me a specimen yet?" He went on, as if they
were discussing the weather.
"Ummm, no." Jerry answered. "But Dor can question the dead ones when he comes in....at
least that's what Sven said."
"Right then." Atherton remarked, shaking his head. "Please direct me to your lounge, then,
Dr. Dave."
As the pair entered the lounge, med students and patients staring after them, three more men
walked in. A biker with waist length hair, a kind of nerdy guy wearing glasses, and Dor. The
biker, in case you're wondering, is Chris...um okay, there's two Chrises, but the biker is Chris
Mason. "Hey Jerry!" Chris called out. "Dave make it yet?"
Jerry nodded and motioned to the lounge. "Is this the other spider guy?" He asked, quietly.
Dor nodded. "Chris Collins." He introduced.
"They're in the lounge." Jerry replied, still looking around the desk.
LOUNGE
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Atherton was looking the dead spiders over. "Hard to say." He muttered. "These look the
same, but I can't tell from just the dead ones."
"Wait for Dor." Sven told him. "He can at least find out if the spider was poisonous."
"Where's the most likely spot for these guys to put a nest?" Romano questioned.
Atherton shook his head. "I would have said the morgue, but as your killer plants are in there,
it's hard to say." He answered. "They need someplace dark....and where they won't be seen."
"Elevator shaft?" Stripe suggested. "That's where I would go....that and the maintenance
closets....under stairways....ventilation systems...."
"Who is this?" Atherton asked.
Stripe pulled off his shades to reveal a set of yellow slit pupiled eyes. "I'm Stripe." He informed
them. "I used to be a Gremlin, but now I can change shapes." **Thanks to a gypsy, in a story
that Sven never finished, and can't find, and really doesn't remember all of.**
Romano groaned. "You brought a GREMLIN in here?!" He demanded, staring at Sven. "Don't
we have a big enough infestation without them!?"
Stripe gave him a Look. "Hey, we can get into places that you can't, and we know more about
infestations than any humans do....including Dr A over there." He informed them all. "It was
just Mohawk that didn't want to help catch them. Ole Mohawk wanted to join the spiders."
"Somehow that doesn't surprise me." Elizabeth mused, with a small grin.
"Mohawk?" Atherton asked. "Sorry, I've only been alive for about an hour and a half now.
Would you care to explain this?"
"Mohawk....the Spider Gremlin." Stripe answered. "He's really big.....he prefers to build his
webs in the hallways and stairways."
"That's because he wouldn't fit anywhere else." Sven retorted, flatly.
"Gremlins come in spiders now?" Atherton asked in disbelief. "I HAVE been dead a while."
"Genetics lab." Cassi explained. "Long story...needless to say, there's a Veggie one, a Bat one,
a Girl one, a smart one, an electric one, and a bunch more we forget, but that's not important."
Before there could be more comments made, Dor and Chris opened the door, entering with
Chris Collins.....who was a little surprised to see his boss alive again.
"Dr. Atherton?!" Collins managed to get out before he fainted.
Atherton eyed him. "Yes, that's about how I remember him." He remarked. "Tell him to quit
wasting time. We have to get these creatures out before they have to have the building
evacuated."
"No kiddin'." Cassi retorted. "If we do that, we'll have to tell the Chief of Staff....quite frankly,
we were waiting for her to get ate."
"Your Chief of Staff doesn't know?" Atherton demanded. "Why on earth not?!"
"Because we decided to tell her after the spider bites her." Dave informed him. "Besides, until
recently, Romano WAS the Chief of Staff."
Collins, having finally picked himself off the floor, was now staring at Dr. A. "What's going on?"
He asked, quietly.
"Ah, Mr. Collins." Atherton spoke up with a smile. "It seems our Venezuelan spider has found
its way here. They need us to help get them out before too many more of the patients are
killed."
"Tell me you're not serious." Collins answered, sitting down. "How?"
"That's what we're not sure of." Romano replied. "All we know is that he's here and we're now
up to five deaths as a result. Carter's working on getting them back, but we really can't have all
our patients dropping dead on us with spider bites....it's bad for the hospital."
"Why haven't you evacuated the building?" Collins asked, as if they were insane to have not
done so....okay, that one's a true statement. **We are well aware that the number one protocal
would be to get all patients out of the building....however, we also know that this problem came
from our set...and we're bringing back the dead guys.**
"If we evacuated the building, screaming there's killer bugs in here, they'd shut us down in a
second....we really can't afford to have another evacuation within one year." Romano informed
him. "We'd have to pay for the fumagation, and from what we've already been told, the pesticide
might not even work."
"We can bring back the dead people, but we need help catching the spiders." Carter remarked
from the corner, where he now had a pile of miracle pills.
"We'll have to leave them dead until we get rid of them." Dave put in. "We bring them back,
they could get killed again."
"Actually, that's not true." Atherton reminded him. "Once brought back from this venom, the
person is then immune to it....trust me."
"Oh...yeah." Dave admitted. "Good point. So what do we do?"
Dor shrugged, and picked up a dead spider. "Are you poisonous?" He asked.
"No, I am dead." The spider answered, turning the heads of all in the room. "When I was alive
I was poisonous...deadly poisonous, but now, I am no more."
"I don't suppose he knows how they got here." Romano remarked.
"No, I do not." The spider answered. "All I remember is being spit out by a Snap Dragon."
"Back to square one." Carter spoke up. "We really need to find a live one. Why don't we get
Lucy in here? Her talent can help catch them....while we're at it, so can Ardeth's."
"You do realize that not all the people in this building are aware of the fact that Lucy is even
alive, don't you?" Elizabeth asked. "Last time, she was mostly a child, and they didn't know
her, but as an adult, she may cause a few shocked reactions."
"Yeah, but not as much as Greene would cause." Dave reminded her. "He was saying that if
we needed help, he'd come."
From the direction of Chairs, there was a loud and hysterical scream.
Carter lept up from his chair and ran out of the room. "JEFFERY!!!" He called, slamming the
door shut behind him.
"Sounds as if we have a live one!" Stripe stated with a grin.
"We have to make sure they don't kill it!" Atherton exclaimed, following Carter out the door.
In Chairs, they were greeted with a flat spider. One of the med students had squashed it.
Atherton leaned against the wall, groaning. "Figures..." He muttered.
Romano patted his back. "There there...we'll find another one." He reassured the man.
"It crawled into this lady's lap!" The med student defended. "I was afraid it would bite her or
something."
Dave shook his head in disgust. "Well of COURSE it was going to bite her!" He snapped.
"That's what they DO! But we needed one ALIVE!"
Sven shrugged. "Ladies and gentlemen!" She called out. "We have a problem concerning
spiders in the building. We need them captured, and returned to us ALIVE! For every live
spider you catch and give us, we will give you a hundred bucks! But they have to be alive!"
"And be careful, cause they're poisonous!" Dave shouted.
As he said this, part of the people in the room ran out the door, and the rest began looking for
the alleged spiders.
"Well, that takes care of that." Cassi sighed. "Nothing like a hard day's work!"
Sven grinned. "Look, we cleared the board for you." She told Romano, who was massaging
his head.
"Faster than the med students." Kovac's clone replied.
"You think we should have told them that one bite could kill an elephant?" Susan asked,
sounding concerned. "Or shall we just let them figure it out?"
Atherton sighed. "They'll figure it out soon enough." He concluded, heading back for the
lounge to gather some equipment, before they joined Stripe in looking for the main nest.
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End section two. Yes, there's now Gremlins in the building, and not all of them are big on just
catching spiders....eventually, we WILL tell Kerry, but as we said, we're waiting for them to
bite her. As you can see, the plot thickens....now give us some more reviews. We're not all
that motivated. And My BACK STILL HURTS!!!!
knees, and back are really bugging. And that's NOT a pun! I am in need of painkillers, which
means in the near future, this story will in fact get funnier. The Authors, desperate to get their
investment back....end up offering a hundred dollars for every spider captured...alive. If they
are dead, they don't count. If they bite you....well, you're dead and it doesn't count anyway.
But mind you, you can only be bitten and killed once. You cannot die twice by the same spider
venom. (by rules of Magna Carta "You cannot be hanged twice for the same offence") On our
set, this applies to deadly viruses and venom....generally African Motaba and poison venom.
Believe it or not for those who have not read the spoofs, African Motaba is very common
around our set...generally when you spend as much time around Betsy as some do....speaking
of Betsy.......well, we'll just get back to the story now....Enter Lizzie, Sven, and more......
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CHAPTER TWO: JEFFERY IS IN THE BUILDING
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Elizabeth Corday stepped off the elevator with a sense of dread. What on earth could she have
been paged for this time? She sighed as she approached Abby. "Who paged me?" She asked,
sounding tired.
"I did, Mom." Abby retorted with a grin. **Spacefreaks, Lizzie and Romano became Abby's mom
and dad**
"That's not funny, Abby." Elizabeth answered, annoyed. "Now if you would direct me to the
emergency..."
Abby nodded, and motioned toward the Admit Desk, where Cassi was seated...on top of the
desk, and talking on the phone. Romano stood nearby, looking as if he wasn't sure he was
going to have a monster headache or just strangle the woman.
"What's going on?" Elizabeth asked, eyeing the pair.
Abby bit her lip. "Are you sure you really wanna know?" She asked, seriously.
On the phone, Cassi continued talking. "Look! I don't have the slightest CLUE how he got
here!" She went on. "All I'm saying is that we need the blonde guy on ice brought back, and
down here NOW!" She paused. "And while you're at it, bring back that Kevin Spacey clone
we've had for the last seven spoofs! Blonde guy needs to be Motaba vaccinated, and Casey
needs anti-venon for Jeffery. And hurry up and get Atherton down here before the whole
building drops dead!"
Next to her, Romano was eyeing the patients. "Uhh, Cas? Can you possibly talk any louder?"
He asked quietly. "I don't think they heard you IN SCOTLAND YET!!!"
Cassi looked at him, sternly. "I'm on. The phone." She snapped. "Besides, don't go blaming
me! I'm not the one who let the giant killer spider into the building."
Elizabeth paled and looked at Abby. "Please tell me she's joking, right?!" She demanded.
Abby looked at the floor and shook her head.
Beside Romano, a med student approached, looking excited. "Do you want me to get some
Haldol, sir?" He asked, quietly.
Cassi, hearing this, turned sharply. "Who the heck is that?!" She spat out.
"A med student....he's new. Ignore him." Carter spoke up, pulling the student back.
"That's the future of medicine." Romano muttered.
Cassi eyed him. "Well put him back in his cage before I shoot the future of medicine." She
remarked, glaring. "It wasn't my walkman that set off that metal detector, pal."
Elizabeth rushed over to the desk. "Please tell me this isn't for real." She whispered.
Romano sighed. "You wish." He snapped, then shook himself when he realized it was Lizzie
he was talking to. "Cassi thinks Jeffery's in the building."
"There's no proof of it yet, but Cassi got a hold of a Doctor who knows that sort of thing.....at
least she says he knows them." Jerry explained.
Cassi smiled. "Dr. A had better know them....they DID kill him." She told them. "He's the one
who brought Jeffery out of the jungle anyhow."
Romano rolled his eyes. "Oh thankyou very much." He muttered. "That makes me so much
more confident in him."
"Um, the fact that they killed him....doesn't that mean that they can't kill him again?" Jerry
put in.
"Yes." Cassi answered, hanging up the phone. "Dave said he'd escourt him in when they get
him back."
Before anyone could respond to this, Elizabeth's pager chirped. She pulled it off, looking at it,
and groaned. "Looks like there's been another death." She told them, heading for the elevator.
"Where?" Romano asked, catching her elbow.
"Recovery. I'll have to talk to Shirley." Elizabeth remarked.
"If you find a bite, call Carter. He makes the pills." Cassi told her as the elevator doors closed.
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"That didn't sound promising." Chuny spoke up.
"Um...yeah....just....avoid the spiders." Cassi remarked, heading back for the main desk. "Oh
yeah....watch it. They are jumpers."
"Oh thanks. That's what I needed to hear." Haleh muttered, cautiously looking around the
floor.
"Cassi!" Jerry called from the desk. "Dave's on the phone. He says Dr. A's back and he would
like to speak with you."
Cassi grabbed the phone. "Oh, put him on.....hey Dr. A! You know you're really cute?" She
paused. "Aww...you're kidding! We like Dr A!" She paused again. "Well you know we're
gonna call you that anyway, right?"
Romano, next to her, was staring like she was from the moon. "Cas? Spiders? Killing people?"
He reminded her.
"Oh yeah." Cassi answered. "Yeah, we've had about three deaths so far....we think...but one
was a banger and not important...something about heroin." She paused, listening. "Yeah, he's
probably here. Why, did you want me to put him on? I mean I haven't seen him yet, but Carter
could probably find him." She paused again. "Right...schematics...no problem. Creepy had a
set when we changed them into five year olds....no, you don't wanna know. Okay, we'll see
what we can do....Later!" She hung up. "Dr A needs a set of schematics for the building and
a live specimen. Have one of your med students go catch a spider....he also says someone
might wish to go to the morgue and check the dead guys...assuming there are still some down
there, after Jonathan had his party."
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An hour later, Sven had arrived...with a decidedly suspicious-looking fellow, who was rather
short (meaning about five inches shorter than Romano), with green hair, and a white mohawk,
wearing a pair of green shades, and a black outfit. He was known only as Stripe, and had
volunteered his entire family to help hunt the spiders....with the exception of one cousin, called
Mohawk, who liked spiders and wanted no part of their demise. **We'll let you figure this out,
although Mohawk also appears in Forbidden**
Sven had sent two of her Assistants, Chris Mason and Dor, to find a man known as Chris
Collins, who had been an Assistant to the late Dr. A, and would know more about the spiders
who were most definitely loose in the building.
A trip to the morgue, made by Gallant, had turned up hard evidence that there was definitely a
problem. The bodies in the morgue, of course, were untouched. It was the presence of several
piles of dead spiders beneath the Snap Dragon plants, that had apparently been left there by
Dawn and Irene in the Youth Elixir spoof, who had grown the plants to guard the girls base...
**And as Snap Dragons are not the easiest plants to move, they were left to guard the
morgue....and apparently, the plants did not like the taste of killer spiders.**
Unfortunately, no one had come up with a live specimen for the good doctor. However, Gallant
had brought several of the corpses to the lounge, where Romano had managed to move Cassi.
Carter was seated in the corner, making miracle pills, and the others were discussing where the
infestation could have originated.
At the main desk, Jerry was seated, cautiously looking around under it, when Dave entered the
hospital with a VERY gorgeous British man, who had long blonde hair, pulled back in a pony-
tail. **And for those who are clueless as to who Julian Sands is...we're sorry. He's most well
known for the Warlock, although he's in Arachnophobia as well as Vibes, and lots more, but
these are just the ones we own** Anyway, Dave and Gorgeous Pony-tail Man.
"Hey Jerry, this is Dr. A." Dave informed him, motioning to the gorgeous guy...**Fine, Cassi
will stop now...but he is gorgeous**
"Dr. James Atherton." He corrected, shaking Jerry's hand. "Where is this Cassi?"
"They're in the lounge." Jerry answered, pointing. "Dr. Romano wanted to keep this as quiet
as possible."
Atherton nodded. "Are they absolutely sure it's the Venezuelan spiecies?" He asked.
"They are, now." Jerry told him. "Gallant found a load of dead ones in the morgue. They got
ate by Snap Dragons."
Atherton blinked, and nodded. "Did they find me a specimen yet?" He went on, as if they
were discussing the weather.
"Ummm, no." Jerry answered. "But Dor can question the dead ones when he comes in....at
least that's what Sven said."
"Right then." Atherton remarked, shaking his head. "Please direct me to your lounge, then,
Dr. Dave."
As the pair entered the lounge, med students and patients staring after them, three more men
walked in. A biker with waist length hair, a kind of nerdy guy wearing glasses, and Dor. The
biker, in case you're wondering, is Chris...um okay, there's two Chrises, but the biker is Chris
Mason. "Hey Jerry!" Chris called out. "Dave make it yet?"
Jerry nodded and motioned to the lounge. "Is this the other spider guy?" He asked, quietly.
Dor nodded. "Chris Collins." He introduced.
"They're in the lounge." Jerry replied, still looking around the desk.
LOUNGE
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Atherton was looking the dead spiders over. "Hard to say." He muttered. "These look the
same, but I can't tell from just the dead ones."
"Wait for Dor." Sven told him. "He can at least find out if the spider was poisonous."
"Where's the most likely spot for these guys to put a nest?" Romano questioned.
Atherton shook his head. "I would have said the morgue, but as your killer plants are in there,
it's hard to say." He answered. "They need someplace dark....and where they won't be seen."
"Elevator shaft?" Stripe suggested. "That's where I would go....that and the maintenance
closets....under stairways....ventilation systems...."
"Who is this?" Atherton asked.
Stripe pulled off his shades to reveal a set of yellow slit pupiled eyes. "I'm Stripe." He informed
them. "I used to be a Gremlin, but now I can change shapes." **Thanks to a gypsy, in a story
that Sven never finished, and can't find, and really doesn't remember all of.**
Romano groaned. "You brought a GREMLIN in here?!" He demanded, staring at Sven. "Don't
we have a big enough infestation without them!?"
Stripe gave him a Look. "Hey, we can get into places that you can't, and we know more about
infestations than any humans do....including Dr A over there." He informed them all. "It was
just Mohawk that didn't want to help catch them. Ole Mohawk wanted to join the spiders."
"Somehow that doesn't surprise me." Elizabeth mused, with a small grin.
"Mohawk?" Atherton asked. "Sorry, I've only been alive for about an hour and a half now.
Would you care to explain this?"
"Mohawk....the Spider Gremlin." Stripe answered. "He's really big.....he prefers to build his
webs in the hallways and stairways."
"That's because he wouldn't fit anywhere else." Sven retorted, flatly.
"Gremlins come in spiders now?" Atherton asked in disbelief. "I HAVE been dead a while."
"Genetics lab." Cassi explained. "Long story...needless to say, there's a Veggie one, a Bat one,
a Girl one, a smart one, an electric one, and a bunch more we forget, but that's not important."
Before there could be more comments made, Dor and Chris opened the door, entering with
Chris Collins.....who was a little surprised to see his boss alive again.
"Dr. Atherton?!" Collins managed to get out before he fainted.
Atherton eyed him. "Yes, that's about how I remember him." He remarked. "Tell him to quit
wasting time. We have to get these creatures out before they have to have the building
evacuated."
"No kiddin'." Cassi retorted. "If we do that, we'll have to tell the Chief of Staff....quite frankly,
we were waiting for her to get ate."
"Your Chief of Staff doesn't know?" Atherton demanded. "Why on earth not?!"
"Because we decided to tell her after the spider bites her." Dave informed him. "Besides, until
recently, Romano WAS the Chief of Staff."
Collins, having finally picked himself off the floor, was now staring at Dr. A. "What's going on?"
He asked, quietly.
"Ah, Mr. Collins." Atherton spoke up with a smile. "It seems our Venezuelan spider has found
its way here. They need us to help get them out before too many more of the patients are
killed."
"Tell me you're not serious." Collins answered, sitting down. "How?"
"That's what we're not sure of." Romano replied. "All we know is that he's here and we're now
up to five deaths as a result. Carter's working on getting them back, but we really can't have all
our patients dropping dead on us with spider bites....it's bad for the hospital."
"Why haven't you evacuated the building?" Collins asked, as if they were insane to have not
done so....okay, that one's a true statement. **We are well aware that the number one protocal
would be to get all patients out of the building....however, we also know that this problem came
from our set...and we're bringing back the dead guys.**
"If we evacuated the building, screaming there's killer bugs in here, they'd shut us down in a
second....we really can't afford to have another evacuation within one year." Romano informed
him. "We'd have to pay for the fumagation, and from what we've already been told, the pesticide
might not even work."
"We can bring back the dead people, but we need help catching the spiders." Carter remarked
from the corner, where he now had a pile of miracle pills.
"We'll have to leave them dead until we get rid of them." Dave put in. "We bring them back,
they could get killed again."
"Actually, that's not true." Atherton reminded him. "Once brought back from this venom, the
person is then immune to it....trust me."
"Oh...yeah." Dave admitted. "Good point. So what do we do?"
Dor shrugged, and picked up a dead spider. "Are you poisonous?" He asked.
"No, I am dead." The spider answered, turning the heads of all in the room. "When I was alive
I was poisonous...deadly poisonous, but now, I am no more."
"I don't suppose he knows how they got here." Romano remarked.
"No, I do not." The spider answered. "All I remember is being spit out by a Snap Dragon."
"Back to square one." Carter spoke up. "We really need to find a live one. Why don't we get
Lucy in here? Her talent can help catch them....while we're at it, so can Ardeth's."
"You do realize that not all the people in this building are aware of the fact that Lucy is even
alive, don't you?" Elizabeth asked. "Last time, she was mostly a child, and they didn't know
her, but as an adult, she may cause a few shocked reactions."
"Yeah, but not as much as Greene would cause." Dave reminded her. "He was saying that if
we needed help, he'd come."
From the direction of Chairs, there was a loud and hysterical scream.
Carter lept up from his chair and ran out of the room. "JEFFERY!!!" He called, slamming the
door shut behind him.
"Sounds as if we have a live one!" Stripe stated with a grin.
"We have to make sure they don't kill it!" Atherton exclaimed, following Carter out the door.
In Chairs, they were greeted with a flat spider. One of the med students had squashed it.
Atherton leaned against the wall, groaning. "Figures..." He muttered.
Romano patted his back. "There there...we'll find another one." He reassured the man.
"It crawled into this lady's lap!" The med student defended. "I was afraid it would bite her or
something."
Dave shook his head in disgust. "Well of COURSE it was going to bite her!" He snapped.
"That's what they DO! But we needed one ALIVE!"
Sven shrugged. "Ladies and gentlemen!" She called out. "We have a problem concerning
spiders in the building. We need them captured, and returned to us ALIVE! For every live
spider you catch and give us, we will give you a hundred bucks! But they have to be alive!"
"And be careful, cause they're poisonous!" Dave shouted.
As he said this, part of the people in the room ran out the door, and the rest began looking for
the alleged spiders.
"Well, that takes care of that." Cassi sighed. "Nothing like a hard day's work!"
Sven grinned. "Look, we cleared the board for you." She told Romano, who was massaging
his head.
"Faster than the med students." Kovac's clone replied.
"You think we should have told them that one bite could kill an elephant?" Susan asked,
sounding concerned. "Or shall we just let them figure it out?"
Atherton sighed. "They'll figure it out soon enough." He concluded, heading back for the
lounge to gather some equipment, before they joined Stripe in looking for the main nest.
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End section two. Yes, there's now Gremlins in the building, and not all of them are big on just
catching spiders....eventually, we WILL tell Kerry, but as we said, we're waiting for them to
bite her. As you can see, the plot thickens....now give us some more reviews. We're not all
that motivated. And My BACK STILL HURTS!!!!