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break on this operation." 5 We carried our gruesome trophy back into the ship, plopping it down on the table right behind Sears and Roebuck. When they turned, they stared, eyes almost popping out of their skulls. "What that is?" "I was hoping you could tell us," I grumbled. I had gotten used to Sears and Roebuck's galaxy-weary, we've-seen-everything-twice pose; I was even more shocked than the Magillas themselves at their confu- sion. "Are you saying this is an entirely new race of beings you've never seen before?" "No," they said, "and whatever disgusting is it is. The color is all wrong and the eyes are something horrible. Where did you get it?" "Ship fell on it," explained Arlene. "Could this be a Newbie, the race Rumplestiltskin was on about, the guys that wiped out the Freds?" "Well something outwiped the Fred, that is sure," of life here, then is logically that is the Newbie." "Great, fine, cool," I interrupted, "but can you revive the bloody thing?" I jabbed a meaty finger at them. "And don't hack off any arms or legs this time! You turned my stomach with what you did to Rum- plestiltskin." Sears and Roebuck didn't answer. Instead, they grabbed an ultrasound and an X-ray and began map- ping the gross anatomy of the Newbie. After half an hour of building up a reasonable 3-D model in the data stack, they dragged the heavy corpse into a ring that looked like it was made of bambooЧprobably some sort of CAT scan or Kronke mapper that the Fred doctors used. Arlene and I kicked back and talked about old sci-fi movies we had watched. She thought the creature looked like the aliens in Communion, but I held out for a giant-size version of the things from E.T. Fi- nally, an hour and ten minutes into the examination, Sears and Roebuck suddenly answered, "Yes." It took me a moment to figure out they were answering my original question. "Say again? You're saying you can revive it?" "We can revive them if the other half you find." |
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