I'm a little out of practice with this, so if it comes out like total crap I'm really, really sorry. Thanks to Bex, Radar-rox and Reddwarfaddict for reviewing! I love you guys!
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Cat and Kryten, with their fellow clones ran down the corridor as fast as their quirky legs and fashionable shoes with various stylish appendages would let them.
"Jeez, what happened here? Looks like an 'attack of the man who got his head shoved through a windscreen' crossover with 'how cute is your butt?' the musical!" came a voice beside them.
"Holly!" Kryten said, he would have sounded surprised if he could have. The computer was currently hovering on the screen by the wall, huffing her white gold hair out of her eyes with a bored look settled on her features.
"Well finally." She rolled her eyes, "You do realise that I've only had about three lines to say throughout this whole episode! I could sue for that, you've left me alone for so long I've forgotten what two times two is!"
"You didn't know that anyway." Said Cat.
"The point is… I forget… I'm very angry with you!"
"Please, Holly," said Kryten, "we desperately need your help."
She sighed, "Doesn't everyone?"
"Nope." said Cat.
"We need to know the location of Mr Rimmer and more importantly Mr Lister." Said Kryten, carrying on, "Who knows what has happened to them without my care and guidance!"
Holly nodded knowingly, "I know what you mean, I mean look what happened to you lot without me!" she paused, frowning a little, "What did happen!"
"We got cloned."
"Ahh, I see… Ugly-fied as well, or did you already look like that?"
There was silence for a couple of seconds, while the Krytens fought to not be upset, and the Cats fought to stay on their feet and not die of boredom.
"Holly," Kryten said after the pause, "we really need to know where Mr. Lister is."
"Why?"
Cat butted in, "There's sticky monsters all over the place bud! Didn't you know that?"
Holly smiled dizzily, "Oh yeah, I forgot."
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The monsters stepped forward, the soft lighting catching on their slimy bodies, and illuminating the walls around them in an eerie greenish glow.
Lister breathed in shallowly, the pressure on his chest almost unbearable as sharp daggers of pain clawed their way along his ribs. He wanted to cry out, but he bit it back, eyes watering. Hold on, he had to hold on. For his and Rimmer's sake. He had to hold on until the end.
He'd always thought that he'd go down fighting, but it seemed that wasn't going to be the case. It seemed he was destined to die on the floor next to his best friend. Best friend… Is that what he thought of Rimmer?
Smeghead Rimmer, best friend of Lister. Yeah, that sounded alright.
Maybe they could fight them off. Together.
He laughed at that, he was barely able to stand. No, he corrected himself, he wasn't able to stand. There was no way he was going to fight off an entire army of sticky footed monsters. He was going to die and he knew it. He just wished he didn't have to take Rimmer down with him.
The monsters growled and slobbered in anticipation. They could leap and gobble up the two in seconds, but they preferred to stride menacingly forward wallowing at the terror in their preys' eyes. It amused them to see how scared they were, how terrified of death.
And Rimmer was scared, he was terrified. The monsters could see it written deep in his eyes. Rimmer squeezed them shut. He was petrified, but for some reason he didn't want anyone else to know just how much. He didn't want Lister to see him like this.
His hard light drive was damaged, that much was certain. He was no longer invincible, no longer incapable of being hurt. One swipe at his light bee was all it would take.
He'd be gone. Forever.
He looked over to Lister who was forcing his eyes to stay open. The coffee brown orbs looked back into his reassuringly.
They were staring death in the face and dangling salted peanuts under his nose, and still Lister was still trying to comfort him.
Looking at Lister now, Rimmer knew he couldn't let him die. How could anyone?
Sure, sometimes he smelled worse than a dead Frenchman who'd died of garlic poisoning. Sure, sometimes he was so annoying Rimmer wished he could shove him out of the airlock with his guitar and press the 'eject' button. Sure, sometimes they argued for hours on end about their differences and why Rimmer was such a smeghead and should be dangled out of the rear-view windows every so often.
But in the end he was still Lister. Kind caring Lister, who always put others before himself, who was always willing to die for the people he loved.
He was either incredibly stupid, or incredibly loyal. A true friend. Rimmer had never had one of those before, and he definitely didn't want to lose this one
He sighed and stood up.
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Meanwhile, back up the three flights of stairs, take a right then a right then a right, Holly, Kryten, Cat and the clones were still arguing over the position of Lister and what the smeg was happening to them.
Holly uhmmed and arrhed a bit, before giving in and answering Kryten's question. "Well, seen as I've had more than enough time to repair my sensors (thanks to you) I know exactly where Dave and Arnold are."
"Oh thank you!" Said Kryten, the relief blossoming on his square face like a rose on a crash dummy test wall.
"I wouldn't thank me yet." Holly said smiling nervously, and lowering her eyes to the shelf below her screen, "You see… they're both cornered on one of the lower levels by a load of those gooey monsters you're all so obsessed about."
"Oh no!" Said Kryten.
"Oh well." Said Cat.
"And they're both injured, and well… quite frankly I think they're going to snuff it quite soon." She sucked her bottom lip, adding as an afterthought, "sorry."
"Oh my! Sirs, we have to save them." The Kryten clones all nodded in agreement. The Cat clones just raised their perfectly shaped eyebrows with a look that clearly said: 'no way am I gonna put stunning body at risk!'
"You can't leave me!" Holly scowled, "There's no way I'm going to let you leave me here!"
Kryten ignored her, "Which level are they on?"
"Z deck." She replied, without thinking. "Now I order you to stay here with me, and have a lengthy game of cluedo!"
"Sorry holly, maybe some other time." Said Kryten. They all ran off down the corridor, he sounds of their feet slapping the ground and heels clicking echoed back to her.
Holly sighed, staring after their retreating backs. "Ah bugger it."
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