Artie laid on a warehouse map with his glasses on the top of his head. He took a sip of coffee and put his mug down on the map of the warehouse to hold down the curling edge. Purple lines were superimposed over warehouse rows and matched with red and blue lines in places. He pulled his glasses down from his head to peer at his computer screen which showed the same area but with pulsating yellow alert areas. He frowned and traced a purple and red line with his finger.

Claudia entered the room holding two spare video monitors and a fully stocked tool belt.

"Displays- check!" She had a thought and dug through a large toolbox. "Welding torch- check!"

"Are you bringing the plasma gun?" Artie said without looking up.

"You think I should?" Claudia pulled out a small glue gun with a bright blue glass handle.

"It might come in handy. Oh- and here." Artie tore himself from his map to pull out his protective goggles and handed them to Claudia who ogled. "They take up less room than that full mask. Take care of them!" he ordered.

"I will!" Claudia packed everything into a backpack as Artie watched thoughtfully.

Claudia glanced at Artie twice but said nothing. Maybe if she waited, the old curmudgeon would say something without snapping for once.

"You're bringing neutralizer?" Artie said.

"Wasn't going to…. You think I should bring some?"

He nodded. "I'll be working on clearing a blocked neutralizer supply pipe. I may have to stop the flow of neutralizer in some sections. I'll feel better if I know that you have some goo on you. Er—" not wanting to alarm Claudia unnecessarily just because *he* once had a bad experience, he added "Just in case." But Claudia was half a step ahead and held up two empty glass cylinders ready for goo. She smiled. Apparently she had considered the idea before he did. Artie nodded, "Good, good."

"Oh. I listed the sections that you have to go to- in order." He handed Claudia yet another piece of paper and she tried to translate his scribble. He started talking across the room before she realized that she was suppose to follow him to the warehouse map on the wall. She jogged after him.

"If you follow that you should save some time. You can start here in this section." He pointed to a blue coded area on the map. "Check on the Mask of Zonorobo. It likes to uh.." he glanced at her. "-laugh. Mostly harmless… just make sure that it hasn't moved!" He traces his finger across to a coded yellow section and stopped to look at her. "Did you bring the watering can from Leena's?"

Taken a bit aback from the rapid change of subject Claudia stammered "Um.. yeah. I did. What's it for?"

"Ah! Good. Ok- take that with you. You'll need it. You can fill it up downstairs. That will go with you to this section- row 118. You can take care of 4 artifacts here. THEN you can hit-" Artie jerked the map which retracted and pulled down another map of another section of the warehouse. He traced his finger through some rows. "row 347-349. Which brings you back… to the office… or – or close enough." He sighed at the end of his presentation, satisfied. Then he saw the lost look on Claudia's face. "That's…that's the fastest way that I've found…. Um- to do it." He paused and looked at her again, reconsidering sending her into the warehouse alone.

"You have your Farnsworth?"

Claudia snapped out of her daze. "Yup!" She patted a pouch that she made to hold her Farnsworth on her tool belt so she could have it near while doing repairs. Come on Claudia-you can do this! Somehow… "Ok- Blue, yellow, 347-9, 118- and… " She looked and located the can. "Watering can!"

"118 THEN 347-9!" barked Artie.

"Ok! 118 then 347-9!" responded Claudia with no real idea of how to do any of this.

Artie put his hand out. Claudia looked up to see that he was holding out a pocket sized map of the warehouse with her route outlined.

You dolt! She smiled, relieved. "Thanks." She smirked and took the map.

"Hey- Where will you be?" she said.

"I'm going to be in late 1700's section." he said. "There's a pressure alert in the neutralizer line. Hey help me with this will you?" After a few minutes, Claudia and Artie managed to pull a plastic looking blue jumpsuit over Artie's clothes.

"You're going to bake in this thing!" she says.

"Nonsense!" he responded. "I'll be right next to the cool section." He hastily added, "It's where we keep the biological artifacts. The ones that create flesh eating trees, the rapid growing bean seeds, stuff like that. The temperature is kept near 40 degrees. That helps to keep the artifacts from growing or germinating or whatever they do. Well the neutralizer does that too of course."

Claudia didn't hear a word past flesh eating trees. "Trees and beans?"

"Oh you've heard of them." He paused. "Jack and the Beanstalk?"

"We have THOSE Beans? Hold up- what about the giant?"

"Oh please- you can't believe everything you read." he brushed past her to gather the rest of his blue protective outfit.

A short time later Claudia left Artie's office and started on her seemingly endless tour of Warehouse 13. She readjusted her really heavy pack and started walking into the aisles.

"Right- Yellow, Blue 118, and water the what!" she said to herself.

"Claudia!"

She spun and spilled some water from the can. "Shoot… Yeah!" she shouted to a blue clothed Artie who was watching her from the banister of his office.

"Take the Edison car!" he yelled.

Artie shook his head. That girl.