From Zee pan, into Zee fire.

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Cassandra nodded and plugged in the memory stick, much to Holly's protest. The 0s and 1s started turning red, and then everything else changed....
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Holly's screens faded to blackness, then slowly, a fog of changing colors appeared drifting around the screens.

White Wolf's ears flicked back and forth as he quickly moved over by the sealed door and said "They've stopped."

"Ah ha! We've defeated them!" Seymour said excitedly.

"Not so fast there, wrong way legs." Interrupted Jay, "They could be up to some new plan. What Can you hear White Wolf?"

"So far, nothing." Replied the overgrown hamster, "Wait. Can someone give me a boost up to that air vent over there?" While pointing diagonally upward to a grill located above the door.

“Si Señor!” Gomez said cupping his hands.

White Wolf stepped into his hand while Gomez hoisted him up. White Wolf quickly pulled off the grill and stuck his head inside.

Cassandra watched the screens intently trying to determine what was happening with Holly. The 'off the charts' network activity she was seeing was beginning to concern her.

"Guys, this could be real bad." Mentioned Cassandra as she was tapping at one of the keyboards in front of the consoles bringing up the various computer diagnostics she knew of, "I've never seen this many spawned processes active in Holly before."

"Maybe he's mailing everybody in the known universe about how he's the latest Nigerian prince and want's to hide his fortune in your bank accounts." Remarked Jay sarcastically.

"Their moving away." a metallic echoing voice of White Wolf came from the vent, "I barely heard one of them saying something about going to back to engineering to build the device."

"A Device? We've got to stop them! My private wine collection has already suffered enough.", Blurted out Seymour, "Why they may completely ruin my aged cheese by fermenting them or something."

"I'm on it chief. Gomez, we need to get that door open pronto!" Ordered Jay.

"Alrighty then, I'm coming down." Said White Wolf jumping out of Gomez's hand. As the rotund hamster hit the floor, it gave away with his impact and he disappeared into the room below with resounding crash and small dust cloud billowing up through the hole in the floor.

“¡Ay, Caramba!” Gomez said moving over to look down.

Phi quickly asked "Did you injure anything?" while pulling on a pair of latex gloves.

"My pride!" answered White Wolf, "Can somebody pull me back up? It's like another tomb down here."

"Uh oh!" Said Cassandra pointed the screens as the colorful fog slowly came together in the form of a horned demon from the game Diablo. (The first one).

And a malevolent voice quietly issued from the speaker, "I shall rise again my minions! Quickly now my pets, Raise our minions of undeath!"

"I hope Holly is just showing somebodies bad taste in Halloween screensavers." Mentioned Jay, "Because that would qualify as not good if he isn't."

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<OOC – Holly has taken on the personality of the big bad guy from Diablo, and just ordered the Simulants to create a device which will raise all the past living crew as walking dead, who are only interested in our brains - and not in a good way.

Also I'd like to apologize for not posting for so long, I've been dealing with a lot of problems in real life which has put a slight damper on my muse at the moment. >