Darkest Blight - Part 1
Chapter 5
Andy opened his eyes. Wherever he had woken up it was very bright. The first thing he noticed was that his glasses was on. The second thing he noticed was that he couldn't move. He was strapped in by belts that constricted his body, arms and legs to a medical table that was slightly tilted forward. He heard a sound, a groan from a familiar girl. He turned his head and saw Naomi strapped in the same manner to a table next to his. She was just waking up.
"Ah, you're awake." An unfamiliar voice said. Andy and Naomi turned to the voice's owner. He was a dark skinned boy, wearing a blue hoodie-shirt. He did not seem to be much older than they were. His posture was slouching, although this seemed to be less because of a bad spine and more because of a kick-back attitude.
"Who are you and where are we?" Naomi asked.
"My name and where you're at is none of your business." LabRat replied. "Now, normally if someone trespasses I'll simple knock them out, give them some drugs to make them forget everything they've seen and then have the authorities drop them off at home but the girl had an allergic reaction to the knockout gas so I had to treat her."
"Great now I'll have to add knockout gas to the long list of things I'm allergic too." Naomi sighed.
"You stopped breathing for a moment but I managed to get you stable." LabRat said.
"Thank you." Naomi said friendly.
"Don't mention it." LabRat shrugged. "Now, maybe you can answer my questions. You two came in thru a pathway only accessible for two of our agents. So who are you?"
"Um…Ty and… Abby." Andy bluffed, hoping this guy didn't know the Archers siblings.
"Really." LabRat chuckled. "Man, you must have been hit by some sort of shrink-ray cause you are much shorter than last time and apparently it also made you wear glasses and change your hair colours."
Hermes climbed up LabRat's shirt and positioned himself on his shoulder as usual. Naomi took notice of the rat and put two & two together. "Wait, are you LabRat?"
LabRat blinked surprised. "Yes, how did you know?"
"I overheard Abby talking to you. Please, you have to believe us, we're harmless. We're Ty's friends. I'm Naomi and he is Andy."
"Naomi? You're the girl Ty can't stop talking about?" LabRat asked puzzled.
Naomi blushed and blinked surprised.
"See, I told you." Andy exclaimed jolly.
"Wait." LabRat pinched his nose bridge. "I do recognize you two, now. I've never meet you but our bureau have had to deal with you two before. You're the Pusulator."
Andy raised a confused eyebrow. "The Pus-Ulator?"
"Yeah, we once thought there was a new villain running lose, copying Lance Boil's crimes. Turned out it was just one of your misplaced inventions."
"Right, it was the day Ty and Abby confronted Boil in the school's chemistry lab and I invented a cure for acne." Andy said. "So I have my own Supervillain name? That's awesome. The Pusulator." He worded the name out, liking how it sounded.
LabRat walked closer to Naomi. "And you were one of two girls that was held hostage by Dr. Colon."
"Hehe, Colon." Andy giggled.
"The other one was Paige." Naomi stated.
LabRat shuddered. "Don't tell me about her. I only met her once and it was one of the most awful experiences I've ever had."
"So, are Ty and Abby your friends as well?" Naomi asked.
"Sadly, they are the only friends I got." LabRat replied. Hermes squeaked a few times. "Oh, and Hermes of course."
Hermes then jumped down from LabRat's shoulder and ran over to Naomi. The white rat then started running up her dress and shirt. "What is he doing?" Naomi asked, slightly worried. Hermes got into the croak of her neck and started stroking his head against her warm skin.
LabRat chuckled lightly. "He seems to like you."
Naomi smiled. "Awe, he's cute." Hermes liked the sound of her voice and the smell of her hair. He bedded himself in-between her hairlocks and her neck, rolling up into a ball.
"So why exactly where you two trying to get into the gaglab?" LabRat asked. He seemed a bit more relaxed and chipper now than when he started to interrogate them.
"Ty and Abby was kidnapped by supervillains and we are trying to find them. We just want to know if they are okay." Naomi explained.
LabRat sighed. "Sorry to say but we haven't heard anything from them since they were kidnaped three hours ago."
*BEEZ* *BEEZ*. A buzzing sound echoed thru the laboratory.
"What's that?" Andy asked.
"That's my boss calling. I need to take this." LabRat replied and headed out the room.
"You're just gonna leave us tied like this?" Naomi asked worried.
LabRat stopped in his tracks and turned his sight to the two civilians. "Listen, I'm not a bad guy but you two don't belong here. Soon I'll inject you with some forget-me chemicals and ask The Detective to take you home. Then you will wake up with no memory of this and hopefully Ty & Abby will have returned safe and sound." With that said LabRat left the room.
"Well, he was helpful." Andy vented sarcastically.
"He is only doing his job Andy." Naomi stated. "With that said, I don't want to forget today or all the things I've learned. We need to either convince LabRat that we can keep their secret or we need to get out of here."
Hermes raised his tiny little head. He then ran down to Naomi's wrist where her arm was strapped to the table. Using his teeth, the rodent unbuckled the belt and used his head to push the pin out of the hole.
Smiling with gratitude, Naomi pulled her arm free. "Thank you, Hermes." She undid the belts for her other arm, body and legs. She then slid off the table and Hermes jumped up onto her shoulder. She then helped Andy out of his constrictions.
"Thanks."
"Don't thank me, thank Hermes." Naomi said,held up the white rodent and stroked her cheek lovingly against his fur.
Andy looked around the room before walking up to a medical slab. "Wow, all of this equipment is so advanced." He picked up a small electric scalpel. He pressed a small button and it changed into a blow-torch. He pressed on the button again and it changed into an electric toothbrush. "I wonder if that LabRat has built all of this himself."
"We don't have time for sightsee Andy. Come on." Naomi exclaimed and the two got out of the room.
"GROSSOLOGISTS, HELP ME! Please." The Director pleaded thru the large screen.
LabRat was immediately scared. The Director sounded even more alarmed than usual. "We can't sir. Ty and Abby has-
"HE IS OUT TO GET ME!" The Director shouted. One could see a brownish fog covered his office, from floor up to his navel. "Fartor is trying to get into my office. He has already let in stinky fart-gas thru the vents and now he's trying to break thru the door." At that moment, a laud boom could be heard as The Director's door was blown up. The middle aged man rigged back in fear and shrieked. "Aaaahhhh!" A tidal wave of brown gas complete overrun the room, knocking out The Director.
LabRat saw the silhouette of a sphere-shaped figure with yellow eyes thru the fog. The figure was coming closer to the screen.
"Listen Fartor, whatever you have planned it will never work. I demand that you-
Suddenly, the fog diluted and revealed the true nature of the figure. It was Far-Ty. Far-Ty smiled devilishly and LabRat gasped at what he saw. "Oh, no."
"Hey there LabRat. Glad to see me?" Far-Ty mused.
"Ty, listen. Whatever you're thinking, its not true. Fartor has brainwashed you again."
"SILENCE!" Far-Ty snapped. "I am sick of your lies LabRat. You and the Director sent me out on missions like some expandable soldier, never considering my wellbeing or my personal life but no more. I will have my revenge and this time you won't have anyone to protect you." Far-Ty laughed maniacally. "Hahahahahahahahaha! Oh, Also I managed to block The Director's signal before he contacted you. This is all pre-recorded. I should be at the gaglab in less than three minutes now. Thanks for taking valuable time being distracted. Bye."
The recording ended, leaving LabRat stiff with fear.
"Was that Ty?" LabRat heard Naomi's voice. He turned around and saw Naomi and Andy in the Gaglab, with Hermes on Naomi's shoulder.
"How did you two get lose?" LabRat asked.
"Never mind that. Was that Ty on the screen? Is he safe, is he on his way?" Naomi asked in a strained tone.
"Yes…" LabRat scratched his neck. "…and no."
"I dare you to make less sense." Andy exclaimed.
LabRat let out a tiered sigh. "This is not the first time Fartor has kidnapped Ty. The first time he did it he brainwashed Ty with some sort of methane-based mind control gas. He turned him into a supervillain called Far-Ty. Now it seems he have done it again and Far-Ty will be here any minute."
Naomi and Andy looked incredulous at each.
Suddenly an electronic stink-bomb dropped out of the ventilation shaft and started ejecting brownish gas into the gaglab, causing the three teens to cough violently. "I stand corrected *Cough* he is already here." LabRat said.
"Yuck! It stinks." Andy said as he pinched his nose shut.
Naomi held her shirt over her mouth and nose. "I don't want to be knocked out again."
"I don't think this gas is meant to *cough* harm us.*cough* Far-Ty is trying to *cough* scare us with it." LabRat stated but then realized something. 'No, not us. Me. He doesn't know that Andy & Naomi are here and who knows what he will do when he sees them.' "You two must come with me." LabRat took a hold of Naomi's and Andy's arms and lead them away from the gas and into a workshop. "Okay, this room is airtight and the door is of reinforced steel so Far-Ty shouldn't be able to get in here but you two have to promise me to stay in here no matter what."
"But what if-
"Promise!" LabRat interrupted with a stern finger pointing.
"We promise." Naomi and Andy said in unison.
"Alright, I'll see what I can do about Ty's…let's call it condition." LabRat grabbed the door handle and was about to open it when Naomi suddenly grabbed his arm.
"Wait. You're not gonna hurt him, are you?" She pleaded.
LabRat stared right into Naomi's large glistening eyes. 'Ty is a lucky guy. This girl seem to be just as in love as he is.' He smiled reassuringly at Naomi and removed her hands from his arm. "Don't worry. Ty won't get harmed. What will happen to me thou, is up in the air." LabRat said before leaving the room and locking the door. Naomi stepped back, clutching her hands together like she was praying. She felt so worried.
"Don't worry, I can get this lock open in like ten seconds." Andy waved off with a somewhat arrogant smirk.
"You don't think any of that is true, right?" Naomi asked fearful. "I mean, Ty would never hurt anyone?"
Andy blinked confused. "Nah, I don't think so…but then again, I didn't think Ty was a secret agent until today. I guess anything is possible."
In the Gaglab, LabRat pushed a button on one of the keyboards and the room was quickly ventilated. The disgusting gases was sucked out of the room. "Okay, now that's taken care of. So, what to do about Far-Ty?" He placed his fingers on his chin as he contemplated his next move.
Suddenly, the entrance to the gaglab exploded and Far-Ty hovered over the smouldering remains of the door, carrying The Director's body in one of the tentacles. "Heeere's Fartyy!" He sassed in his best Jack Nicholson impersonation.
Even thou Naomi and Andy was locked inside the workshop, they could still see into the gaglab thru a window on the door. Naomi gasped when she saw Ty, or rather the dark parody of her beloved Ty.
Far-Ty held up The Director for everyone to see. "Here is your fearless leader." He said sarcastically and threw the short man across the room before he hit the floor.
"What did you do to him?" LabRat exclaimed, partly scared, partly angry.
"Oh, nothing. Well, nothing in comparison to what I will do to you." Far-Ty threatened and started moving towards LabRat.
LabRat backed away till his back hit a table. Despite the fear filling him, LabRat tried to stay calm. "Ty, listen. No matter what you're thinking, it's not true. Fartor has been messing with your head to make you think we're the enemy. He has done this before, remember? He made you think you were worthless to Abby but she proved that she needed you and if I'm gonna make a wild guess, I think Abby might need you now as-
"ABBY DOSEN'T MATTER!" Far-Ty shouted and slammed one of his tentacles against a table, smashing several test-tubes to bits. "This is isn't about her. This is about you and that stupid bureaucratic toddy." He pointed at the Director on the floor. "You ruined my life with your stupid Grossology. You prevented me from having a life of my own."
"Wait, is this about Naomi? All this because of one bad date?" LabRat exclaimed.
"Don't belittle my pain LabRat! What could you know of having a life? You have never had friends or been in love or had any dreams beyond these walls. You hide inside this lab, your comfy little comfort zone and as soon as things goes bad, you have me and my sister stick our necks out for this city while you huddled safely in here." Far-Ty was now less than six feet from LabRat. "So tell me LabRat, do you feel safe now?"
LabRat smirked. "Yes." He pushed a red button on the table behind him and captured Far-Ty inside a forcefield (the same forcefield they had used to capture Clone Abby). LabRat smiled and crossed his arms triumphantly.
Far-Ty rolled his eyes, unimpressed. "Oh, no. Whatever should I do?" He exclaimed sarcastic with an evil grin, he pressed a button on the inside his suit and the forcefield turned off.
LabRat flinched in fear.
"Did you really think I would challenge you on your own turf without being prepared for your old tricks?" Far-Ty mused. He then lashed out with one of his tentacles and pinned LabRat to the desk. Far-Ty towered over the scared shut-in. "Any last words before I'll free you from this pathetic excuse of a life?"
LabRat saw a wrench laying on the desk, just an arm's length away. If only he could reach it. "Ty, this isn't you. You don't hurt people, not even really bad people and I am your friend. Before I meet you and Abby, my only friend was Hermes." LabRat looked up at Ty as he talked but his arm kept reaching for wrench. "I also know you're smart enough to know that Fartor has messed with you. So how about we relax, go out for a walk…" His hand finally grasped the wrench. "…and take a whiff of fresh air." LabRat brought the wrench down hard on Far-Ty's armour, completely breaking the glass visor.
Far-Ty fell to the floor and started hyperventilating. "My gases, my gases, I can't breathe without my gases."
"Ty listen, you don't need the gas. That's just the brainwashing talking. I can help-
LabRat stopped talking when to his surprise, Far-Ty's visor regrew until the damage was completely fixed.
Far-Ty shrugged nonchalantly. "Oh right, Fartor had my suit upgraded with organic alloys with self-generating abilities. Totally forgot about that." Far-Ty smirked, grabbed LabRat with his tentacles and lifted him up into the air. "Now, I was simple going to rip your heart out but now I think I will make you suffer instead."
LabRat gulped nervously.
Far-Ty let go of his former friend but before he hit the floor Far-Ty's tentacle whacked him and he flew across the room before crashing. When LabRat tried to rise up, one of Far-Ty's tendrils snaked up on him and sprayed him in the face with a gas. LabRat coughed and his eyes started running. "Tear gas." Far-Ty grabbed LabRat by the leg and threw him across the room again. The boy flew over a computer table and tore down the electronics on his way down.
Meanwhile, Naomi looked on in horror from the workshop. "I can't watch." She turned around and shielded her eyes with her hands. "I came here to find Ty and now he is some sort of maniac who is beating that poor guy into a pulp. Andy, we have to do some…" When she opened her eyes she saw that Andy was no longer by her side. "…thing."
She found Andy at the other end of the room, staring into a closet. "Andy, have you been paying attention at all? Ty is out there, acting like total jerk. We have to stop him." Naomi cried out but Andy just kept smiling at his recent finding. "Andy?"
"Sorry Naomi but you and Ty has just been outdone by this awesome new tech I've found."
LabRat was once again thrown to the floor. He sat up and looked up at Far-Ty. LabRat had gotten a black eye, his left cheek was swollen and blood ran down his nostrils.
Far-Ty moved closer to his victim. "How does it feel to die like a rat in a trap in its hole?" The maniacal teenager riddled. Far-Ty was ready to strike again but before the blow could be dealt, a blast of green slime hit him in the glass dome. Angered, Ty turned around.
There, in the middle of the gaglab stood The Director's armour with an inbuilt goopshooter aimed at Far-Ty. The armour was a military green, robot-like thing with red eyes. Far-Ty remembered when The Director used it to free him, Abby and LabRat after they'd been entrapped in goo by Kid Rot.
"Director? How did you recover so quickly?" Far-Ty asked annoyed.
The Director said nothing.
"I guess I'm getting sloppy but at least I get the chance to maim you twice." Far-Ty thrusted one of his tendrils at the Director but he managed to jump out of the way in the last second. Far-Ty attacked again and this time he managed to clamp down on the robot suit and slammed his opponent against a wall.
Seeing an opportunity now when Far-Ty was distracted, LabRat tried to crawl behind a desk when he saw something odd. The Director, still unconscious on the floor, still in his grey office suit and green tie. LabRat crawled over to The Director and checked his pulse. "He's alive. That means that Ty is not so far gone as I feared. But if the real Director is here, who is inside that suit?"
Far-Ty's claws grasped onto a big desk and lifted it up above his head before throwing it at the man in the metal suit. A circular saw popped out of the armoured arm and he tried to cut the furniture but it didn't help. The desk fell right on top of him and pinned him to the ground. He grunted in pain and tried to move the heavy object off him but Far-Ty got on top of the desk, pressing it down. "I have to admit, I did not think you had the stones to take me on but I guess I was wrong. At least you won't die like you lived, coward."
"Ty, wait!" The Director exclaimed and held up his hands in defence. He then pressed a button on the suit and the mask opened up, revealing that the person inside wasn't The Director but Andy. "Hey." The nerd greeted with an awkward hand wave.
Ty was not just surprised, he was right down shocked. 'What is this? Andy doesn't know where the Gaglab is? How can he be here?' Instead of saying anything, Far-Ty pulled the desk off the overweight geek. At first it seemed like a kind gesture and Andy sighed in relief. Then Far-Ty grabbed Andy again, lifted him up and started ripping the armour off him, starting with the limbs before cutting open the body armour like a can opener. Remarkable (or maybe not?) Andy didn't get hurt in the process.
"What a waste of good metal." Andy lamented, looking down at the pieces of the suit.
"What are you doing here Andy?" Far-Ty barked.
Andy didn't know how to answer, he was too scared. Andy wasn't a very brave guy. There was a lot of things in life that scared him but never had it been his best friend. "I got worried when I saw you getting kidnapped. I have hypothesised for a while that you and your sister were Grossologists so me and…" Andy hesitated. He was going to mention Naomi but decided it was safer if he kept her presence a secret till Ty was himself again. "…and Sentry-Pede located the Gaglab to find you."
"How did you manage to get into The Director's suit when he's so thin and you're so fat?" Far-Ty asked, just out of curiosity.
"Oh, it was very painful but I have to say it was worth it. I looked awesome!"
"So, now that you have found me, what are you gonna do?" Far-Ty asked with a vicious smirk.
It took a while before Andy answered. "First, I want you to put me down cause this is making me uncomfortable. Second, I want you to stop beating up Packrat."
"LabRat." Far-Ty corrected.
"Whatever. Also, I want you to stop acting like a nutjob so you can save your sister." Andy stated, trying to sound stern.
Far-Ty pouted as he contemplated. "Hmm…no."
With a sadistic smirk, Far-Ty threw Andy to the floor. Andy hit the floor face-first, a collision that shattered his glasses. Despite the pain he was in, he managed to sit up. "My glasses! Do you have any idea how much these cost?"
Far-Ty approached Andy, snapping his claws threateningly. "I'm kind of glad you're here Andy. It gives me the opportunity to tell you something I've always wanted to say. I never liked you. You were just some pathetic loser I kept around to make me seem less nerdy by comparison. You cowardly, fat, girl repelling dolt!"
Andy knew Ty didn't really mean it, it was just the mind control talking but the words still hurt.
Far-Ty slammed Andy into the nearest wall with one of his tendrils and he slumped down onto the floor. Far-Ty approached Andy again but then was hit from behind by green goo. He turned around and saw it was LabRat with a goopshooter, doing the same for Andy as he did for him.
"I am getting sick of you geeks!" Far-Ty shouted and went after LabRat. LabRat fired his goopshooter at him but Far-Ty averted it just in time. He proceeded with grabbing him with one clawed tendril while ripping the goopshooter off LabRat's hand with the other one. He pinned LabRat against the wall.
LabRat sighed in defeat. "Just cut my throat and be done with it."
"Oh, I have something much more delicious in store for you." Far-Ty smirked sadistically and held up his free tentacle. The tentacle's claws retracted and was replaced with a valve. He directed it at a computer screen and sprayed it with yellowish gas. The metal and plastic of the computer rusted and corroded. LabRat gasped at the sight. "I have managed to engineer a flatulence so acidic that it corrodes solid steel. Just imagine what it will do to human tissue." Far-Ty held the valve aimed at LabRat's face and laughed maniacally. "Hahahahah! You will be literally farted to death with one blow."
LabRat closed his eyes and clenched his teeth in fear, readying himself for the pain. Far-Ty smirked, relishing in his victims fear. LabRat sweated cold. Far-Ty's smirk widen. The smoking valve inched closer.
"STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP!"
The female voice cut thru the air like a massive axe. The silence that followed almost as chilling.
Slowly, Far-Ty turned to the source. Naomi stood there, right outside the workshop where she'd recently been hiding. She scowled at him with defying eyes, clenched fists and Hermes on her shoulder. The first thing that came over Far-Ty was shock, followed by confusion, then shame, then anger. He let go of LabRat who slumped down to the floor. Hermes jumped off Naomi's shoulder and ran to his injured master, squeaking.
Far-Ty advanced towards his former love. "Naomi, have you turned against me too?"
Naomi stood her ground. "No Ty, I came to help you. I still want to help you."
"Help me?" Far-Ty hissed. "I don't need your help! I don't need anyone's help!" One of his tentacles wrapped itself around Naomi's body, like a boa constrictor and lifted her up to Far-Ty's head level. Naomi tried to squirm but to no avail. His grip on her was hard, hard enough to cause her pain but not hard enough to cause damage. "Fartor has lifted the vail from my eyes, I see clearly now. Everyone is against me, including you. I did everything I could for you and you still rejected me. What else could I possible have done?"
Naomi scowled, staring Far-Ty right in the eyes. "Then let's do something neither of us has ever done."
"What?" Far-Ty hissed venomously but there was a certain curiosity in his voice.
"Talk."
Far-Ty froze up at that one word. He blinked puzzled, not knowing what it meant. He eased his grip of her just a bit.
"That is the one thing you and I have never been able to do, not openly anyway." Naomi said. "Oh, we can blush, giggle and complement each other all day but we have never been able to talk about how we truly feel. I've never been able to cause I was scared of letting you know and you have never been able to because of all of this." She gestured to the rest of the room, the gaglab. "But guess what Ty, I know now that you and Abby are Grossologists so there's no reason for you to keep your secrets and I, I am no longer scared. The only thing I'm afraid of anymore is losing you and it seems like that has already happened." Naomi sighed sadly before looking at him again. "I was never anyone special Ty. I always saw myself as that wallflower that no one talked to and unless I was dying from one of my thousands of allergies, even my family didn't seem to care what did but I was okay with that. I just thought Hey, that's me. Little unassuming me. I was contempt until you showed up. You treated me like I was someone special. The way you looked at me made me feel beautiful. Soon I started to believe the praise you gave me but at the same time-at the same time you seemed to ignore me and lie to me so I started wondering if all the things you said where lies or if I had disappointed you somehow. That's what hurt me the most Ty, you made me feel beautiful and then you took it away from me."
Far-Ty was overcome with shame, shame and hurt. Inside his metal armour he suddenly felt very vulnerable. "I-I never meant to hurt to you Naomi." He lowered himself closer to the floor and placed Naomi on the ground. "Honestly, every time I got really scared on a mission cause I didn't know if I was going to make it I thought of you, how I was never gonna see you a again and I promised myself over and over again that I would tell you how I felt but I always chickened out. I was too afraid that you wouldn't feel the same."
Naomi placed a compassionate hand on Far-Ty's visor. He met her gaze. "What do you feel, Ty?"
Ty could feel the inside of his throat thicken. His body almost shacked in anxiety. 'How can I tell her? After the things I've done she can't possible love me but how can I refuse to answer her and how can I lie to her when she knows everything already?' The words left his mouth in a soft whisper.
"I love you, Naomi."
Naomi smiled. "I love you too, Ty…"
Her words felt like a shockwave that reached into Ty's heart. For years he had wanted to hear those words but now that she had said them he didn't know how to feel. Joy, sadness, guilt, disbelief. All of it erupted from his core, all at once.
"…but if you keep doing this, if you keep hurting your friends, abandoning your sister, letting Fartor get away with his evil deeds, then I know that the boy I knew is gone and I won't love you anymore." Naomi explained, turning her gaze away from him.
Ashamed, Ty looked at Andy. The fat little geek sat against the wall he been forced up against. The lenses of his glasses where chattered and a small drop of blood ran from one of his nostrils. Yet, he looked at Ty with hope and compassion like the loyal friend he had always been. Ty then looked at LabRat. The young scientist's mangled face was all Ty's doing. Hermes sat on LabRat's knee, twitching worryingly. LabRat calmed down the rodent by stroking his back.
"What have I done?" Ty whispered to himself and pressed a red button on the side of his suit. The armour shut down completely, hit the floor with a light thud and the visor retracted. Ty cried as he crawled on his stomach out of the Far-Ty suit. "I'm so sorry, Naomi. I don't know what I was thinking. Please forgive me."
Naomi quickly went down on her knees and wrapped her arms around him. "It's okay Ty, we forgive you. We understand."
Ty nuzzled into her shoulder and kept crying. "I did so bad, Naomi."
Naomi stroked his back reassuringly and shushed. "There, there. It's okay Ty, everything will be fine… You can put the wrench down."
Ty opened his eyes. "Wrench? What wrench?" He turned around and saw The Director standing behind him, holding a wrench above his head, ready to hit Ty over the head.
Awkward.
Embarrassed, The Director let the tool fall to the floor. "What? I was just trying to be on the safe side."
Author's Note:
And finally the two storylines merge and thank god for that. I have to admit that the biggest challenge when writing this story was keeping up with two storylines that I knew would align later. Now, normally this isn't a problem for me but here I had one for storyline with a lot of things happening and another where relatively few things where happening. Sometimes it felt like I had to speed up things in the Ty & Abby story and slow down the Naomi & Andy story. Hopefully that didn't come across as too obvious to you guys. But now that Ty has teamed up with Naomi & Andy, the story will be a lot more straightforward from now on.
I know that drugging people into making them forget about the Gaglab is something that LabRat never did in the show but seriously, after Roger, Chester and probably a few others finding out about the gaglab you would think he would at least develop a few precautions against people finding the lab. Just saying.
Hope you guys liked this chapter. As always, your reviews are greatly appreciated.