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Tri-Genetics 2 CH 3
Ty and Lab Rat struggled mightily, but no matter how hard they tried, they could not break the snot that bound them together on the gymnasium floor.
"You won't get away with this, Boil!" Lab Rat demanded, throwing Lance the meanest look that he could, but the rotund-headed villain simply yawned.
"So you keep telling me" He sighed, his boredom clear in his voice.
"When Abby gets back, she'll..." Ty began but Lance interrupted him.
"When dear Abby returns, my revenge will be complete. But maybe we should speed things along, right?" Lance glanced at Roger, who stood there, acid shooter in his hands. He had a confused look on his face. Lance frowned and pressed a button on his remote. Roger groaned and held his head. "Right, Roger? Why don't you go call dear Abby, right now?"
Roger looked up, anger in his eyes, mixed with a little pain. "Right" He growled and stalked away. Lance triumphantly turned back to his captives.
"I can't believe you're working for him again, Pinkeye!" Ty yelled at Roger's back. "Hr betrayed you, remember?" Roger froze, and slowly turned back towards them, his eyes losing thier angry gleam.
"Don't listen to him!" Lance cried out, pushing a button. Roger groaned and dropped his shooter, clasping his head with both hands.
"What are you doing to him?" Lab Rat demanded, staring at Lance's remote. "And what's that remote for?"
For a moment, Lab Rat thought Boil hadn't heard him. "Go and find Abby!" He yelled. Still groaning in pain, Roger shuffled off, a few of the mutants following him. Then Lance turned to them. "A valiant effort Ty, but appealing to his human nature won't help you. As you can see, he is completely under my thrall, thanks to my nanoscopic probes in his brain"
"His brain?" Both Ty and Lab Rat exclaimed, staring at Lance with wide eyes, who simply sniggered.
"It's quite brilliant really. You remember when I invaded your body Ty?" Lance asked, Ty glared at Lance, signifying that he did. "Well, I used the same procedure to enter Roger's brain, and I attached probes to the Limbic lobe of his brain. With a push of the button, I can activate them causing Roger to suffer extreme discomfort."
"But the Limbic lobe is the part of the brain that controls memory, pain is identified by the Insular cortex" Lab Rat corrected him.
"Quiet! I'm not finished yet!" Lance snapped. "Now, where was I? Oh yes, whenever Roger feels pain in his brain, my probes will manipulate his limbic lobe so that he will see an image I want him to see. Mainly the two or you, or your sister Abby."
"I don't get it" Lab Rat looked confused, but Ty's eyes suddenly lit up.
"I think I do" He said, his voice suddenly serious. To Lab Rat he said, "Lance is making it so that Roger sees us every time he experiences pain. Eventually, Roger will come to associate us with the pain and now he thinks that the two things are connected. He's not doing this because he wants to hurt us, he's doing this so that he won't be hurt any more. Lance Boil brainwashed Roger!"
Lab Rat's confused look faded as realization hit him. "Of course, some scientists predict that the human mind is more susceptible to outside influence with the body is in pain. But why go to all this trouble to get Roger on your side?"Lab Rat turned back to Lance.
"Because I was never more closer than destroying you three brats than I was when I worked with Roger" Lance replied. "Besides, once the three of you are eliminated, he will play a far more important role in my city-wide domination. Every army needs a powerful general, and with my probes guiding him, Roger will lead my mutants!" Lance laughed an evil laugh that made Lab Rat and Ty screw up their eyes and ears.
"Come on Abby!" Ty thought desperately, "Don't leave me hanging here!"
Meanwhile:
"Wake up!" The shrill voice made Abby stir, echoing though the dark corners of her slumbering mind.
Abby winced, the voice making her already throbbing head feel like it was about to split open.
"Please, wake up!" The voice called again, and this time Abby felt herself being shaken. She opened her eyes, but all she could see was a wavy, golden, blurry mass. She blinked rapidly and her vision slowly cleared, revealing the frightened face of..
"Naomi?" Abby mused, then sat upright, fully awake as she realized her mistake. Naomi darted backwards, her look of concern faded into one of confusion.
"How do you know my name?" She asked staring at Abby. "Who are you?"
She doesn't recognize me. Abby realized, reaching up to feel that her slop-goggles were still in place. "Um.. I'm a Grossologist" She replied, altering her voice slightly.
"A what?" Naomi cocked her head to one side, looking more confused than ever.
Abby sighed. "Never mind" She tried to rise to her feet, but suddenly felt so dizzy that she had to lean against the wall to keep from falling back down.
"Are you okay?" Naomi's eyes were full of concern again.
"Yeah" Abby replied, shaking her head to clear it. "But I'd love to get my hands on the creep who knocked me out"
"Um" Naomi suddenly looked embarrassed. "Actually, I knocked you out" She confessed, looking down.
"What?" Abby was so surprised she almost dropped her fake accent.
"I thought you were one of them" Naomi quickly explained, glancing towards a door in the far corner of the room. Abby realized that they were in the cellar of Ringworm Junior High.
"You mean the mutated students?" Abby asked. Naomi glanced back at her, looking confused again.
"How do you know about that?" She asked. Abby started to respond, but before she could, her communicator rang. Motioning for Naomi to be quiet, she flipped it open, expecting to see Ty or Lab Rat, but saw Lance instead.
"Greetings my dear" Lance crooned through the screen. The sight of him made Abby feel sick.
"What do you want now, Lance?"
"Oh nothing, really." Lance replied, looking smug. "Except your complete and total surrender!"
"Like that's gonna happen" Abby rolled her eyes
"Oh, I think it will. See for yourself" Lance moved away from the screen to show Ty and Lab Rat bound together by snotty cords and surrounded by mutants.
"No" Abby muttered. Naomi caught a glance at the screen and gave Abby a quizzical look. "who are they?" She mouthed.
Abby shushed her just as Lance's face reappeared, smiling. "You have thirty minutes to give yourself up, or I will mutate these two and make them hunt you down."
"Not if I stop you first, Boil" Abby spat out the last word.
"Not likely. The odds favor me" Lance retorted. "The gag lab has been sealed off, and so has the school. It's only a matter of time" Lance laughed, but Abby cut him off and folded her communicator away.
"Okay, what's going on?" Naomi asked as Abby stood up.
"Nothing, just stay here" Abby turned away, reached into the pipe and grasped the antidote bottle, but as she lifted it, a clawed hand shot out of the pipe and grabbed her arm. Abby cried out in surprise and struggled to pry the cold fingers off of her as a hiss emanated from the pipe.
"Hi-Ya!" A scream cut though the air, followed by a broom head, which slammed into the hand. Thee was a roar of pain and the hand released Abby, who fell to the ground and watched, wide-eyed as a mutant reared up in front of her, roaring.
"Leave us alone!" Naomi darted in front of Abby, twirling a broom around in her hands like a baton.
"Naomi, what are you doing?" Abby yelled, shutting her eyes as Naomi leapt forwards.
WHAM! SMACK POW! Abby flinched as sounds of a struggle assaulted her ears, then there was a loud THUD, and then silence.
Abby cracked open her eyes, then they flew wide in amazement. The mutant lay on the floor, knocked out cold, Naomi stood above it, tossing away the broken broomstick.
"Wow" Abby just stared. "Nice work, Naomi"
"Thanks, now will you please tell me what's going on here?" Naomi demanded. "Who are you? How do you know my name? Who was that guy with the giant head and what has he done with everyone else?"
Abby sighed. It seemed there was no way she could avoid telling her. Her conversation with Ty about him telling her about the Bureau flashed through her mind, making her grit her teeth as she sat down. "Get comfortable Naomi, what I'm about to tell you will blow your mind"
To Be Continued
