Big guy and rusty the boy robot #36: invasion of the body snatchers.
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Rusty is sitting in front of a TV watching a movie. A woman walks up to a man on screen.
“Watch out! That’s not a man, it’s a body snatcher!” Rusty yells.
But of course she doesn’t hear him and she touches the man. He turns around and draws his fangs and a long snake like tongue appears. The woman screams.
“Rusty what are you doing in there?” Dr. Slate asks.
Rusty quickly hits the button on his game console.
“Uh just playing magetik warriors.” Rusty lies.
Dr. Slate walks in and notices the game is still loading.
“Rusty what have I told you about lying?” Dr. Slate asks.
Rusty looks down.
“I’m sorry. I was watching a movie about body snatchers.” Rusty says.
Dr. Slate shakes her head.
“How many times do I have to tell you that? Those movies will give you nightmares.” Dr. Slate says.
“I don’t have nightmares. I don’t dream.” Rusty says.
“Well it’s still damaging to your growing emotional grid.” Dr. Slate says and leaves the room.
Rusty smiles and turns back to the movie. An army man is on screen.
“Have you found the body snatcher host yet?” The man asks.
“I’m right here.” A voice says.
The Army man spins around and yells when he sees a monster.
“Rusty!” Dr. Slate yells.
Rusty turns the monitor off. Later on Rusty is running off of the mouth.
“And then the snatcher ate the woman. Then the army tried to find the host and it got the jump on the army guy.” Rusty says.
“Sounds too scary for me.” Donovan says.
“The Muppet movie would be too scary for you.” Jenny says.
“Oh yeah? Casper.” Donovan says.
“Where where?” Jenny jumps up and looks around scared.
She stops and glares at Donovan.
“Very funny wise guy.” Jenny says.
Thorton appears.
“Have you installed the new drive in him yet?” Thorton asks.
Donovan shakes his head.
“I was about to do it.” Donovan says.
“Then stop talking to a monkey and do it! We need the extra power so he can enhance the defense made by the bgy-12.” Thorton says.
“I’m not a monkey… Oh never mind.” Jenny says.
She jumps off and runs away.
Donovan sighs.
“Time to say nightly night.” Donovan says.
He takes out Rusty’s power pack.
Donovan puts rusty on a table and opens his back up. Dr. Slate shows up with some tools and they take out his old thruster.
“Now be very careful. If we cross the wrong wires this thruster can crap out without any warning.” Dr. Slate says.
“What do you think I am? An idiot?” Donovan asks.
Dr. Slate decides not to answer that.
The new thruster unit is inserted and connected to the main processor. They close his back up and put him right side up again. Donovan reinserts the power pack and Rusty comes to life again.
“So did you do it?” Rusty asks.
Dr. Slate smiles.
“Yes. This should increase your speed.” Dr. Slate says.
“Oh boy!” Rusty yells.
He zooms around the room at an incredible speed. He knocks over some equipment.
“Uh Rusty. Save it for when you are outside. Please.” Dr. Slate says.
Rusty stops and pouts.
“But I want to try it out now.” Rusty says.
Dr. Slate smiles.
“Okay you can go out and try it. But keep in touch with us just in case.” Dr. Slate says.
“Oh boy. Hypersonic!” Rusty yells.
He zooms into the tube and flies outside. Dr. Slate smiles.
“Sometimes I wish I was still young.” Dr. Slate says.
Rusty flies as fast as he can and watches as the town flies by and he reaches the ocean.
“How is the drive working?” Dr. Slate asks.
“It’s awesome!” Rusty yells.
Rusty turns around and heads into the uninhabited area.
“Don’t stay out too long. We need to still do some tests to make sure the drive will work well with your system.” Dr. Slate says.
“No problem. Don’t worry.” Rusty says.
He flies on by a bunch of trees and into a park area. Suddenly the drive cuts out on him.
“The drive is out.” Rusty says.
Suddenly he finds he can’t hover either. He yells as he falls to the ground and hits it hard. A piece of his head hits a rock and causes a short.
“Dr…S..ll….a..tt..e..” Rusty tries to say.
Rusty powers down.
“Rusty! Rusty!” Dr. Slate yells over the communicator.
After about a half an hour Rusty comes back to life as his head has fixed itself a bit. He gets up and looks around.
“Dr. Slate?” Rusty says into the communicator.
But there is no response.
“Anybody?” Rusty asks.
But still no response.
“Something must be wrong. But I didn’t get the big guy jr. signal.” Rusty says.
He looks around.
“I better go back and help!” Rusty yells.
He tries to take off but the motor is still malfunctioning.
“Darn it!” Rusty yells.
Rusty shrugs his head and looks around. He finally sees Quark’s tall tower not far away. So he walks. He finally enters Quarks.
“Dr. Slate!” Rusty yells.
The security officer frowns and goes over to Rusty.
“Can I help you little boy?” The officer asks.
“I’m not a boy. I’m Rusty a robot.” Rusty responds frowning.
“Let me see.” The officer says.
He calls up on the communicator.
“Donovan here.” Donovan says on the communication screen.
“There’s a boy here claiming to be a robot named Rusty.” The officer says.
Donovan frowns.
“Okay let him up. He’s ours.” Donovan says.
The officer lets Rusty in and he goes up to the main lab.
“That was strange.” Rusty says.
He rushes into the lab.
“Dr. Slate!” Rusty yells.
“Hello Rusty.” Dr. Slate says.
“Oh it was awful. My drive cut out on me and I crashed. I had to walk home.” Rusty says.
“That’s nice.” Dr. Slate says.
Dr. Slate seems subdued and not very interested.
“Are you okay Dr. Slate?” Rusty asks.
“I’m sorry I’m just busy right now. We can talk about how the test went later.” Dr. Slate responds.
“But I just told you how the test went.” Rusty says.
But Dr. Slate is focused on something else. Donovan walks in.
“Donovan. Can I tell you how the test went?” Rusty asks.
“I’m busy right now. Go tell Jenny.” Donovan says.
“Where is Jenny anyway? I thought you too were joined at the hip or something.” Rusty asks.
But Donovan is also focused on something else.
“Something is wrong here. Something must have happened when I was gone.” Rusty says.
He looks into a lab that usually isn’t in use. It has an unknown scientist and a woman in it. Suddenly the woman changes into a creature.
“Body snatchers!” Rusty yells.
“What did you say?” Dr. Slate asks.
Rusty backs away.
“Get away from me you monster!” Rusty yells.
Rusty leaves the room. A screen comes to life showing a strange man.
“Is the test going along satisfactorily?” The man asks.
Dr. Slate and Donovan turns towards the screen.
“Yes it’s going along great. I think you will be very pleased with the results.” Dr. Slate responds smiling.
Meanwhile Rusty is racing through the lab. He bumps into a stranger and screams. He finds a dark corner and sits to think.
“I need to think. How did they defeat the body snatchers in the movie? If only Dr. Slate would of let me watch it.” Rusty says.
His face brightens up.
“Big guy jr.! He’ll help!” Rusty says.
He thinks and remembers seeing Dr. Slate pushing something on a device to activate the big guy signal. He sneaks back into the main lab and waits for Dr. Slate to leave. He then sneaks in and finds the device and pushes on it.
“Big guy jr. please hurry!” Rusty says.
Meanwhile in the communications room Diana calls.
“This is Diana, did you just activate the big guy signal?” Diana asks.
The officers look at each other.
“We’re sorry but that was a false alarm.” The officer says.
“O-kay.” Diana says.
The officers put in a call to Dr. Slate.
“Dr. someone has activated the big guy signal. We have dealt with it.” The officer says.
“Rusty must of done it. But why would he do something like that?” Dr. Slate wonders.
Meanwhile Rusty is hiding again.
“What’s taking him so long?” Rusty asks.
“Rusty I know you are out there. Please come out.” Dr. Slate says.
Rusty keeps quiet. But a rat startles him and Dr. Slate hears the noise. Rusty gasps and takes off.
“Rusty come back here.” Dr. Slate says.
Rusty runs into a security officer who holds him.
“Hold him. He needs to be checked for abnormalities in his emotional grid.” Dr. Slate says.
“NO! You are just going to body snatch me and replace me like all the others.” Rusty says.
“What?” Dr. Slate asks shocked.
Rusty kicks the officer’s shins really hard and gets away when he grabs in pain. He rushes into an area he’s never been to before. He finally arrives at a really big door and stops. He finds himself at a dead end. The security officer is walking towards him.
“NO! Leave me alone!” Rusty yells.
He hits the wall and accidentally pushes a switch. The wall pulls up and reveals another alcove. Rusty runs inside and collides with something. When he opens his eyes he yells when he sees his mirror image.
“Who are you?” Rusty asks.
“I’m Rusty the boy robot. Who are you?” The other Rusty asks.
“I’m Rusty the boy robot.” Rusty responds confused.
Dr. Slate walks up and turns on the lights.
“Stay away from me. I won’t let you replace me with that.” Rusty says.
“Terminate the test.” Donovan says off to the side.
Dr. Slate pushes a button on a remote and suddenly Rusty changes and becomes a normal robot.
“What was that Dr. Slate?” Rusty asks.
“That was the completion of the first test of the chameleon device.” Dr. Slate says.
“But he thought he was me.” Rusty says.
“That’s the amazing part. Not only does it look like the subject but I thinks it is the subject.” Dr. Slate says.
“Who knows what else we are going to get out of that alien data packet.” Donovan says smiling.
“Maybe something to make you smarter.” Jenny says.
Donovan glares at Jenny.
“Nah even aliens can’t work miracles.” Jenny says.
“Why you little.” Donovan says.
Jenny jumps off and runs away.
Epilogue.
The front security guard looks up at the latest visitor and gasps then salutes.
“Welcome home sir.” The officer says.
He leads the visitor to the elevator and the visitor rides it up to the main lab. The visitor steps out and all the scientists that see him gasp. Dr. Slate turns around and gasps then runs into the visitor’s arms.
“Dwayne!” Dr. Slate yells.
To be continued…
Next time the prodigal son has returned, or has he? A dramatic homecoming episode with a ending you’ll never see coming. Only 2 episodes left before the explosive Season finale that changes everything.