A little wired...

Who: Kevn and Rico
where: Blue... erm... Red Dwarf
when: after being placed in a small holding cell for decontamination
Kevn sat on a porcelain bench as a white fog poured from vents on the
ceiling.
"Interesting... This stuff is completely tasteless and has no
smell..." Kevn inhaled the gas for a second, "Very interesting..."
"How is it interesting?" Rico asked.
"It really isn't I'm just trying to sound intelligent... But I do
wonder what it is... It definitely isn't like the stuff back home...
that gas had a lemony flavor to it..."
"Yeah, and god knows what they're dosing us with..."
"What?" Kevn cocked his head to one side, intrigued at what Rico had
just said.
"They're probably dosing us with some sort of toxin or some small
robots to stop out hearts if we don't listen to their orders..."
"You know... that does sound plausable... I wonder..."
Suddenly there was a high pitched buzz, "DECONTAMINATION COMPLETE...
HAVE A NICE DAY!" The door opened and instantly Kevn shot off down
the hall.
"Where the hell are you going?" Rico asked.
"We have full run of the science decks, our all day passes. I'm going
to get a scanner or something and see if there's anything they did
dose us with..." Kevn entered an empty lab, "Looks like they're out
to lunch... Hurry Rico! Look for a scanner."
"How the hell am I supposed to know what a scanner looks like?"
"It'd look like a pen, or a really big remote control with a light on
the end of it." Kevn rumaged through a drawer, "OH! here it is! Come
here Rico!" Kevn switched on the scanner-pen's UV light and ran it
along Rico's arm. It hummed and beeped and a small green screen lit
up.
"Rico, you're idea wasn't as crazy as it sounded... Our blood has
traces of Zeziomangliddiom Gaxyanddiddium Refalaneael
Oilieleleleletoriun."
"What is that?"
"It's a controlled sleeping agent, I used it on some Ranknoss on a
shipping trip to Mercury, it knocks things out like a light bulb for
about an hour, wakes them up so that they can get nourishment or
whatever an organism needs then knocks them out again... The number
of times something goes to sleep depends on the dose... and from the
number on the scanner here someone waned us to be around here for a
while..."
"Is there something we can do?" Rico said.
"Yep... We drink alot of caffeine... Care to join me at the coffee
machine?"
"Fine with me..." They hurried to the nearest coffee machine before
the drugs managed to kick in...