"Spaaaartaaa!!! Hm? Oh, hey, just having an insane 300 dream....and also. Why. The hell. Did you stop ME?!" I angrily looked at Ms. Peacock, or rather minus the 'Pea' because I was completely livid.

"Can it, Slinky! You were going to get wasted...your welcome," She told me, somewhat mocking the Moana song.

Normally I'd chuckle, but not today; she stole my fight. You can't just do that, even during that display.

"Don't Dwayne Johnson me! I am proper angry with you! How could you do that......*sigh*...is the Skullgirl dead?" I asked, sitting up.

"No luck chuck," She replied. "Although the Slutty Nurse has sang like a canary...dunno' what she is cooking up, but, hell, anybody is good company..."

"Whatever...." I sat up, and realized my arms were gone. "Patricia?"

"Need a hand or two?" She was holding my spring arms.

"How dare you make a clever joke, that is surprisingly similar to neko...nevermind," I growled. She wasn't listening.

"Sorry, Slinky, you aren't leaving on my watch!" The monitors flared up; Valentine. That bitch!! "Hot damn, Nurse! How did?"

"Easy...zis systems are so old, hacking was child's play,"

"Now I have something to kill. Get my arms, I'm going to strangle this woman!!" And she obliged rather quickly. "Oh, my arms are back! Wow, fast. Anyway, Nurse...how do you feel about being dissected?"

***

It was a massacre, since most of the time, Lab 8 was a bloodbath. Literally and figuratively. There was always a shade of red somewhere, and...wait...who was that lathering blood on their skin?

"Ah, this feels better...oh...you," She glared my way, the wannabe Cleopatra, Eliza.

"Hey Lass? We cool?" A random projectile said no. "C'mon, held against my will, doesn't that register?"

"Yes, normally...but...I have my own little thing to get through. Valentine struck a hard bargain to pass up, so..." Eliza replied, a little smugness becoming more apparent. "Eh, I have two people to get rid of,"

"You bitch! That's it, I'm going to pound your face into the pavement!" I yelled. And fell into a plot hole. Peacock...again?! This is becoming less amusing and more irritating to me.

I ended up near a random place, with Leduc, Hive, and Big Band...obviously unconscious.

"Isaac? How'd...oh, Patricia, wasn't it," Hive answered her own question. And I finally understood what she was trying to accomplish; save her friends.

I guess I could let this surprise go for now...

Walking over to the cage, I thought a minute. I tried to find a fuse-box, instead, just ripping out random wires, until finally, I found a couple transformers. Leduc stopped me.

"Isaac, that is crazy! It's over 50 gigavolts in there!"

"I know, it's crazy! What made you think anything I did would be sane?" I grabbed the transformer, filling it with my own charge, trying to force it to burn out. I felt Leduc also jump in, using his own little bit of electrical discharge to short circuit the Lab's power.

Soon, it was dark, before emergency power reset the systems, meaning, the doors were open.

"Shite, Ducky, that was too close. I felt my entire life flash before my eyes...mostly watching YouTube and drinking root beer. I...really didn't get out as much until now," I shook my head, suddenly high on adrenaline from the near death experience.

"It's Le-duke. Say it right please," He cringed visibly.

I only grinned, letting him know that wasn't going to happen.

"And get Tuba Man outta' here. I'll find Miss Busty Nurse....oh, this is gonna be proper cathartic," Chuckling evilly, I ran across the hall before finding Eliza rocket past me, before hitting a wall.

"...aannnnddd that's the way the news goes!" Peacock...love that kid. Best character, 10 outta 10!

Puffing a smoke out of her eyelid, she found me.

"Hey, what should would we do to this skank?" She asked me, mostly about the wounded Eliza.

"Strip her nude, post in on the webs?" I laughed.

"Hm...good start, but not good enough. How about we put her on a parade float and show her off across the entire city? That'll definitely be humiliating!" Peacock, you fucking evil genius.

"Uh, no, what about Valentine?" Leduc came up, helping Hive carry Big Band.

"Oh right...can we do that to the Nurse too? Before murdering her?" I asked Peacock, immediately getting objections from the others. "Aye, you guys and Justice and shite..."

"I know right?" Peacock agreed nodding a little.

"Meh, I'll settle with murdering her face...hehe..." I immediately ran to the area where the control room would be, Peacock in tow.

Scanning the area, I found Valentine........wait....

Unconscious? The hell?

And this strange creature just ran past me.

"What the-" I stopped when Valentine coughed. Normally I'd be ready to kill her, but right now I wanted answers. "Alright, Nurse Busty, give me an answer to what the hell that was,"

"Double," Peacock interrupted. Hm? Sounds like a half assed name. "Some creepy beast that mimics people. I bet since she is here, Nurse here was betrayed, am I right?"

A grunt confirmed that idea. Wow. That sucks for her...but still, she needs to pay.

"Give me one friggin reason why I shouldn't paint the walls with your guts right now?!" I demanded, lifting her to my face; she actually had a scar on her mouth, huh, nice.

"....Rain....I know where she is...Double was supposed to help me, but crossed me......."

"Uh huh, skip to the part where you tell us where?" I demanded.

"....Iceland. That is where she'll be..." Valentine told me. I dropped her, allowing her to fall on her knees.

"If you even move an inch, I'll break your neck lass," Growling at her, I walked away to find that Dr. Avian was missing. Strange...he would at least leave a body.

"If your wondering about ze Doctor, he is also in Iceland...for insurance. Double replaced him while you were gone..." Okay, that really sucks balls. "And by ze way....zat experiment on you...wasn't my idea...just so we're clear. You can go ahead and blame Brain Drain for zat,"

"Yeah, that makes it way better missy. But fine, I guess you'll continue breathing today....for now," I grimaced. Not only do I feel bad now, I had to deal with somebody I didn't even think about. Brain Drain...Aye, now I know why Springshot was my code name.

Iceland, right? Oh balls...