The Banana-Part 5

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Lister clutched his temples as the others relieved the lost memory. "Well, the good news is we didn't eat the plastic banana!" Cat said optimistically, grinning.

"Oh yah, right. And having it turned into a lion is better." Lister snapped. Cat held out his hand, defensively. "Hey, hey, hey buddy! I could never go out in public if I had eaten plastic. And yellow at that. Yellow with blue!"

Lister didn't see how yellow and blue were a bad combination, but he tried to concentrate on the situation at hand.

"Kryten...do you have an explanation, or is your brain skiing in Alaska?" Lister asked the mechanoid, who started to nod his head. "I have a theory, sir."

Lister crossed his arms, waiting for the answer. "The plastic banana is not really a banana. It is called a Suckstery, a mutated version of a polymorph." Rimmer looked up at this. "What's a polymorph?"

Kryten continued as if he hadn't heard the hologram. "When the cat race was locked in the cargo decks of Red Dwarf, I believe a Suckstery was locked with them. Suckstery are really rare. It attacks by way of sucking up personality traits. When Polymorphs usually take emotions, Suckstery takes good personality traits."

"Wait!" Lister said, holding up his hand, "Are you trying to say that this thingy sucks up good traits? Like sexiness, cleanness, stuff like that!"

"Well then, I'm #1 on his list!" Cat said, brushing off the front of his suit. "Yes, sir." Kryten answered Lister, tugging at his fingers.

"The Suckstery probably lived off the cats. It has to 'recharge' every 10 years, or hibernate. So, it goes into a cocoon sort of shell. I think this Suckstery was hiding so it could pounce on unsuspecting cats, in the form of a plastic banana, when the cats either finally figured out a way to stop it, or it was just dumb luck."

"Yeah?" Cat said, sitting up in his chair. "Yes. A small dose of liquid dillinium should freeze it into the last position it was in, until we can blow the mother away." Kryten finished, nodding his head.

"What about my mother!" Cat put his hands on his hips, not looking happy at all.

"So, let me get this straight in my head." Rimmer began, holding his head as he basically recapped (Just in case you guys are confused!) what was happening and will happen.

"This...Suckstery thing sucks out good personality traits. It has been in hiding/hibernating state since the cats. It was either frozen into the banana position, or was sleeping in that form. And the only way we can stop it, is to freeze it with liquid dillinium."

Kryten nodded. Lister's face scrunched up, as he had an idea. "Then what was that thing that appeared right after the Banana stood up?"

"Oh, that was an 'after-thought'. The Suckstery must always turn back into it's cocoon form. What I mean is, this particular form is a banana, so it must turn back into a banana when it is not transformed into something else. And, it can only maintain a certain other form for about 5 minutes, then it changes back to the Banana. The banana that stood was just a ghost of the form it has to become. So, basically, it is disappeared shortly afterwards, and so all we have o worry about is the actual Suckstery." Kryten stated.

Then Kryten did something impossible, improbable, and totally un-Kryten like. He rolled his eyes.

"Really, you guys are stupid when it comes to the science of stuff and things. What does it matter about anything? Just kill it!"

The other three looked at Kryten with their mouths open. "What is wrong with you today?"

Kryten shook his head, his eyes blinking. "I am so sorry, sirs. This drug must have a side-affect of the feeling of being guilt-free. I'll stuff my head in the engine at once, sirs!"

Kryten started to move to the nearest window, what he was going to do there once he got there was a mystery.

"Wait, Kryts. You know I can't cook, and tonight is curry vindaloo!"

Um...a tiny installment.

Also, I know some people who don't like 'used ideas', where an idea of the show is re-visited. So, I hope my reading audience is not that minority, which they probably aren't, or else they would read on!