Keto springs into very slow action

The time had come, Keto decided, to finally declare an epidemic
emergency aboard the ship. This sudden realisation of the dangers of
this virus were brought to his attention when he tried to enter the
room containing The Ointment.
The door had somehow turned to a solid block of marshmallow.
After a fruitless hour of trying to eat his way through the door,
Keto cursed roundly for some time. Several Silly Buggers (hmm, I
wonder if anybody here reads Pratchett...) materialised and swarmed
off down the corridor. Keto finally reached for the phone.
"Yes, this is Dr Keto," he said, "I wish to declare a..."
"Beep," went the other end of the phone, "Please hold the line
while we try to connect you. The Captain knows you are waiting..."
"What?" asked a shocked Dr Keto. The intraship communications
didn't have Call Waiting! That hellspawn had been eradicated years
ago. Unless...
Keto looked down at his arm. A bright rash was beginning to grow
there.
"If you wish to hear Greensleeves for eternity, press one," said
the hallucinogenic voice, "If you wish to be plunged into a silent
electronic abyss..."
"NOOOOOOOOOOOO!" screamed Keto, and threw the telephone across the
room. Suddenly he heard voices.
"Hey, he hasn't got any more of that stuff, has he?"
"No, he used his last bottle on us last time."
"GEDDIM!"
Keto stared in horror as three giant vials of Anti-Flu ointment
(read: glue) charged into the medical lab.
"Dr Keto, you've sprayed your last hallucination!" sneered Extra
Max Strength.
"Kill him!" chirped Ribena Flavour.
Dr Ventrite was somewhat surprised when he walked into the medical
lab to see what all the fuss was about.
Max Strength had leapt at Keto, but it appeared that one of Keto's
fears involved the creators of the Matrix - Max Strength had frozen
in midair and was spinning mindlessly around. Ventrite looked at
Keto.
"What's happening mon?" he asked. Keto shook his head.
"Never mind," he said hoarsely, "But I need you to dosomething."
"Sure, what?"
Keto smiled faintly.
"I need you to imagine a tomato plant."
"A what?"
"A tomato plant. A really huge tomato plant," said Keto, looking
serious. Ventrite shrugged.
"Sure, mon, whatever. OK...got it."
"Right. Now imagine it has big teeth. REALLY big teeth. And it
wants to eat you."
"Wha...?"
"JUST DO IT!" yelled Keto. Ventrite blinked, then closed his eyes.
A big tomato plant with teeth that wanted to eat him? It was
tough, but...there it was. Wow, that was actually quite scary. In
fact...
Ventrite opened his eyes to see a giant red tomato looming before
him, snarling.
He screamed and turned to run, but stopped as he heard a squelch
behind him. Turning, he saw Dr Keto pulling something out of the
heart of the now-dead tomato.
"Wh...wh...wh..."
"A fist-sized tomato seed," nodded Keto, satisfied. "Ingredient
number one. Now then..."
The doctor smiled.
"What I need you to do now..."
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How does a giant killer tomato seed help?
Will Max Strength ever stop spinning?
How many things will Ventrite have to imagine before Keto is
satisfied?
Find out in the next exciting post of Blue Dwarf!