Disclaimer: Do I own RD? What the hell do you think?

Well here is chapter 4! Sorry It's got such a crap chapter title again, but nevermind - More exciting stuff to happen soon and if anyone guess's correctly my revised plot... I'll be very very impressed and shocked!

Technician

Rimmer opened his eyes and stood up as he heard the door open. He waited in anticipation, hoping it was Cat being brought back so he wasn't alone to think the swirling things spinning round his mind.

Unfortunately it was a female simulant who appeared, carrying a tool kit in one hand.

"I am here to check your system is functioning sufficiently." She stated in an unfeeling manner as the door was locked behind her and she knelt down next to him.

She opened the case and took out a small metal instrument.

"What are you going to do with that?" Rimmer asked quietly as he moved away from her and slouched down against the far wall.

"It's a scanner used for diagnostics in our machinery, it will detect problems in your programming so we can correct them." She said monotonously as she moved towards him and ran the scanner up and down in front of his body.

"Is Cat ok?" Rimmer asked, breaking the cold silence that surrounded them.

"Cat?" The simulant replied in a questioning tone.

"The felis sapiens." Rimmer corrected as he listened to the low hum of the scanner.

"The species is still undergoing surgery."

"So what you going to do if he doesn't get healed enough to make a good profit to the 'hunters'? Wait, let me guess – You'll kill him!" Rimmer spat, beginning to feel less frightened and just more grumpy and angry with their situation.

"Affirmative." She replied without a hint of emotion or concern. "However I doubt it will come to that as the healing cycle is being quite successful." She added as she finished her scanning of Rmmer's systems. "You have 7 flaws with your program. 6 are personality defeats evolved from your original design parameters which I see no relevance in correcting. The 7th is an imaging problem brought on by your system degrading from acting independently to its supply source for long periods of time, I can correct this now and upgrade your system to run and charge independently of outside systems without degrading in the future." Rimmer blinked as she finished her speech but nodded anyway – Not that he really understood what she had just said.He gasped as her leather clad hand thrust into his stomach and turned off his light bee so she could work. Rimmer's last thought was how the unnamed simulant's glove reminded him of Lister's…

Cat opened his eyes and blinked as he became used to the bright light around him, he moved his weight and found he could now move his right arm and leg easily and that all his bones seemed to be in the right place again. He took a deep breath and froze – A simulant was in the room with him. He turned his head to see a quite beautiful yet cold looking female simulant crouched on the floor, tending to Rimmer's light bee.

"Do not be alarmed, I am currently just repairing his systems as it would be illogical to take any destructive action now." She said monotonously, without turning round.

Cat thought for a second how pretty she was, but decided to say nothing more – The last pretty female simulant they had encountered had tried to bury them under ship debris.

He shuffled over to the now stale cup of water and looked at his reflection, gasping at the state of his face. He felt the small bump where his nose had been repaired and the scarring on his face, it seemed to be healing because of whatever treatment he'd been given and he knew the bruises would soon go, but this was his face, his most prized possession, he moved his fingers delicately over to a long scar down his right hand cheek - It was much deeper than the rest.

A single tear rolled down his face and through he told himself it was in pity of what had happened to him and his looks, he knew he couldn't forget what had happened to Lister or Kryten.

A low growl came from deep within him and he turned, launching himself at the simulant. She grabbed his arm with one hand, not even dropping the tool she held in the other. She twisted back his arm till he yelped in pain.

"As much as we detest each other, physical violence is not advised, besides you are still weak yet worth a bit of money and supplies to us alive, dead you are nothing but another body of the pathetic creatures we loathe." She let go of Cat and he collapsed to the floor, gasping the pain of his previous injuries as well as the tightness in which she had gripped his arm.

He watched from the far side of the room as she put away the instruments and threw Rimmer's light bee into the air, activating his holo projection unit.

Rimmer looked around in a disorientated state for a few seconds as his memories returned.

"Your repairs are complete, you will both be auctioned off tomorrow as a job lot with other holograms, GELF's, mechanoids and deserters." The simulant stated as she turned to leave.

"Deserters?" Cat asked quietly, still holding his arm tenderly.

"Simulants who have either deviated from our cause or are sympathetic to your kind – humanoids and those who are slaves to them." She said matter of factly as the door slammed shut behind her.

"You ok?" Cat asked as Rimmer sat down besides him.

"Sure, it's just what I always wanted – To be sold off by simulants, to simulants who will make us take part in 'games' until we're all slaughtered." Rimmer replied bitterly as he laid his head back against the wall.

"You know what I mean, though it all comes back to cat and mouse bud. And one things for sure – This time we ain't the cat."