"Okay." Zara called to the worms when they finally stopped cringing, expecting Kay to die at any second from the medicine. "I need you to use that scanner again so I can see if the medicine did what it should."

"Well, all right." a worm said as he picked it up. Their confidence, something the worms really hadn't had large amounts of, was starting to come back faster now. It didn't seem like the medicine had hurt Kay, and didn't the MIB let Zealtor hand out drugs all the time? And everyone knew that he was insane. Why shouldn't they be allowed to mess with medicine too? What did Zealtor have that they didn't have? "Here you go."

"Okay." Zara said as she looked at the readings on the scanner the worm held up. Kay's heart rhythm was stabilizing a bit, but not as much as she hoped. She was going to take it for the moment, though. At least he was pulling back a bit from the brink of a cardiac arrest. "Can you show me the other humans that you thought looked pretty sick? We need to give that medicine a few more minutes to really get into his system." As she was talking, she flipped through the information in the JeeDangian medical records, trying to find what they had on humans and cardiac issues, and the best drugs to treat them with. If he didn't respond fast, she was going to have to walk the worms through something else, and hope that her cousin could get there fast. They were trying their hardest, but if he went into cardiac arrest, with the size difference, there wouldn't be anything those poor little things could do. Or maybe... "While I'm looking at those other humans, can one of you run back to the med lab and get that cart that had the injectors for me?" The worms were smart, a lot smarter than she had expected given some things she had heard from her cousin. Their size did limit them, but maybe there was something they could do if worst came to worst. She wasn't willing to give up on that particular human just yet.

"How bad is it?" Aileen whispered as the worm who had brought the injectors back hurried away while the others moved over to Zed and pointed the scanner at him so that Zara could work out what to do. The fact that he was sick enough that Zara had risked having the worms give him drugs was a bad enough sign but if she was sending them for more things, and what she had a bad feeling was a crash cart... "How long?" she somehow managed to speak firmly this time. She had to know.

"It's still fixable. It's still fixable." Zara tried to reassure her before turning back to the worms. "Okay. can one of you give him the injection just like your friend did with Agent Kay?" This really wasn't making sense. Zed's heart rhythm was shaky but it wasn't anywhere near as bad as Agent Kay's. With his age, he should have been in worse shape. What in the world was going on?

"That doesn't make sense." Zeredon said as the worms showed Zara the readings again after injecting Zed. "He's responding. Why isn't..."

"I don't know. And he did respond a little, just not as much as I'd like." Zara said. "Okay, Worms. Show me the next human." "How long?" Aileen asked again. She knew the JeeDangian didn't want to say, but she had to know how much time Kay likely had left. When she found out who did this, and she would, if it took her the rest of her life, she would kill them. "I don't know. Really, I don't. And hopefully it's just taking the drugs awhile to kick in." Zara wasn't going to say out loud how long she thought that the poor human could hold out, especially in here where there was a chance with how they had things hooked up that he could hear her. There had been cases she had heard of, where patients heard the staff giving up, and it was like they gave up too. She wasn't going to risk that. "Aunt Zoe, would you call that cousin of mine and see what in the world is taking him so long?" If they could get some sort of treatment for the poison started, then she thought the humans had a decent chance. "Okay, just like before for this one too." It didn't make sense, though. Why was Kay so much worse than the others? "Worms, has something else been going on there that I need to know about?"

"Not that we know."

"Wait, U's allergies have been acting up. Is that what you're wanting to know?"

"Yeah, Jay was scared that Zealtor might give him some cough syrup."

"He gets drunk on cough syrup."

"And on vanilla syrup."

"On practically anything, really. It isn't pretty."

"That might explain that." Zara murmured, at least if U was the human they were currently looking at, and Zed was explained by his age, and the other humans that the worms had pointed out were smaller, and more vulnerable. But that didn't explain Kay. He shouldn't have been hit that hard at least not this fast.

"Someone knew what they were doing. If there you're going to take out the MIB, Kay and Jay would be the first ones to go after." Edie said.

"Jay's not that sick though." one of the worms called.

"He's sick enough!"

"But not as bad as Kay." a third worm disagreed as they headed for the next human.

"I don't think any of them are as sick as Kay." the fourth worm called as he came in, dragging the cart. "Where do we need to put this?"

"In the middle of the room for now. Let me see those other humans and then we'll check Kay again. Hopefully it's just taking the drug a bit to kick in."

"Aileen?" Edie got her partner to her feet somehow and drug her out of the room, past Zoe who was waiting for X to pick up, and into the kitchen. "Aileen? Listen, I know you're scared, but you have to try to hold it together, okay? Kay isn't going to leave you. He isn't. But if he can hear how upset you are..." Edie couldn't believe this, that she was having to try to be the calm one for a change.

Aileen slowly nodded, even as tears started to roll down her cheeks. She wanted to believe that Kay was going to pull through this, but from what she had seen on the monitors... How long did he have?

"Hey, he's going to be okay. Aileen, he's going to be okay." Edie said as she hugged her partner to her. "That JeeDangian seems to know what she's doing, and I've always thought those worms had to be smarter than they let on. They'll fix this, and then we'll get to Earth and find out who did this to the agents and make them sorry they ever thought of it. Any ideas? I would think Alpha, but..."

"He'd already be there to gloat." Aileen murmured. Who else could it be, though? MIB didn't have a shortage of enemies.

"There you are." Zara said as she came in. Hopefully what she had thought of would help. "Come on. I need you in the living room now."

"What happened?" Aileen demanded as she hurried after Zara. Was Kay worse, or... No! He couldn't be dead. She wouldn't accept him dying like that.

"I've got another idea." Zara said as they came in, and Zeredon tossed the communicator back to her like it was on fire. "Okay, worms. Try the other injector, now. The second one I had you find." she told them before handing the communicator to Aileen.

"Talk to him."

"What?"

"It might not be strictly the poison that's causing the problem. He's got to be in a ton of pain. That might be messing up his heart more. Maybe if he can hear a familiar voice, it might help a little, and buy some time for the drugs to kick in." She had already had the worms try a round of the first medicine, and then a second drug without any significant effect.

"She could be right." Edie said. "Would it help if you could switch to Jay's communicator? I think I've got the number around here someplace."

"Kay?" Aileen whispered his name. It felt a little strange, doing this in front of an audience, but if it might help save his life, she didn't care. "I'm here. I'm right here, and we're trying to help you. You just have to hang on for a little bit longer, okay? I know you can do that." She blocked out everything else, and just focused on Kay, tuning out the JeeDangians and Edie bustling around in the background. The more she looked, the more she thought that the JeeDangian girl might be right. Kay's entire body was tense, and it couldn't all be from the poison. Was he trying to fight the pain, or in a worse move for his health, trying to fight to get to his feet somehow? "Kay, you're safe. The other agents are safe. Everything's okay. You just let us help you now, all right? Kay, please. Please trust me. Everyone's okay. I promise you they're all right. Just let us take care of you. Please."

"That's working. That's working." Zara sighed with relief as one of the worms showed her the latest readings on the scanner. The poor human's heart rhythm still wasn't terrific, but it was stable. She would take stable. "Just keep talking to him, okay?" She told Aileen. "And the four of you, give it a couple of minutes, and scan him again." Hopefully by then, the drugs would have kicked in fully and pulled him the rest of the way back. And hopefully her cousin would somehow manage to find his way back from wherever he was lost at, too.