RIB
Part Eight
K and J were in C's office when Astro entered with Marvin and Zaphod.
"I found him." Astro said, "With some help from Marvin, here." he added.
Zaphod was still a little groggy and he plopped down in the nearest chair he could find.
"What did you do to him?" K asked.
"I neuralyzied him." Astro said. "I thought it was only supposed to remove very recent memories."
"Only on humans." K said. "It can have other weird effects on aliens. "Let me see your unit."
Astro handed K his neuralyzer. K looked at it for a few seconds and then handed it back to Astro.
"You had it set on discombobulate." K laughed. "Which in Zaphod's case was probably the right setting."
"Hey fool!" J yelled at K. "You did that to ME the first time we met. I was walking into walls for a good half hour after that!"
Zaphod's four eyes slowly uncrossed and he became aware of his surroundings.
"Where the Zark am I?" he asked.
"You're in MIB HQ." C told him. "You were brought in for questioning. Seems you got yourself in the middle of a gang war with the Vogons. Care to enlighten us?"
"Shoot man, that was a Joke!" Zaphod cried out. "When I heard that those retard bureaucrats were moving in on Earth, I thought I'd give them a line of bull and laugh as they ran away scared. I didn't think they'd resort to a bug army."
"So you don't have your own army?" K asked.
"Well, technically as the president of the Galaxy I did," Zaphod started, "But since technically the president of the Galaxy is really only a figure head, and since I technically I was impeached from that position, even though technically having never been officially removed from office I could still claim to be in charge, though I'm technically only a figure head, though the army doesn't know that..."
"What?" K asked.
"He's shoveling it," Astro said, "With a front end loader."
"Yeah, so I figured." K agreed.
"So, what do we do?" J asked.
"Sorry, my mind is a blank on this one." K said.
"Well someone better think of something." C pointed out. "We're facing a bug invasion from the Vogons." C pressed a button on his desk console and two armed guards entered the office.
"Please escort Mr. Bebblebrox to his quarters." C said.
"What do you mean by that?" Zaphod asked.
"It means, we're keeping you on ice for a while." C said. '"You'll be treated well, MIB wouldn't want the president of the galaxy to complain."
Zaphod was escorted out of the room to a holding cell on another level. As soon as he was out of earshot, C motioned for K to speak up.
"Jeltz still insists that the bug story was Zaphod's invention, and that Omnicron was fed that information from him." K said. "I agree with you, the stinking Vogon is probably lying."
"Well we'll interrogate him some more later" C added.
"I think I have an idea." A interjected.
"Let's hear it." C insisted.
"Well, we've got both Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz and Zaphod Beeblebrox in custody, and neither one knows that we have the other one here." Astro said. "So why don't we get them to interact in a controlled setting and see what happens?"
"Zaphod will probably end up pooping in his pants." Marvin said.
"Maybe, he'll be braver if you are with him." A suggested.
"I doubt it." Marvin moaned. "He never gave a mega-dingo's kidneys about me."
"Jeltz doesn't know that." A said.
"I think I see where you're going with this." K said. "It might work. We'll set things up and cross our fingers."