*bounces about excitedly* YES YES YES! THIS FIC IS ALMOST DONE!!!!! *does cartwheels*
Chapter 14
Bas took a deep breath before answering: "He'll be alright."
The clan cheered; Shriek nearly fainted with relief.
"But..." Bas continued, stopping their cheers short, "He will take a while to recover."
"Why? It didn't take him very long to get back on his feet last time..." Kilk said.
"We had to operate on him to remove the cause of the electric shock that did this to him. Something that he must have had in his neck from when he was still in captivity years ago."
"What...what was it?" Hoth asked, curiously.
"Some sort of control device, according to Doc Simvass. He’s studying it now."
"You mean... like one of them accursed implants?" Skan asked, wincing in spite of himself. “EnnEsses, they called ‘em, I think…”
"A whatits?" Kilk asked confused.
"An EnnEss...a control device the Cartel at one time was having implanted
in all of its...less trustworthy employees. Spider first came to us not long after our own 'encounter' with those things...so I wouldn't be surprised if that's what it was."
"It's not a EnnEss..." Bas said reassuringly, "I remember Rek tellin' me 'bout them and the thing that was in Spider's neck doesn't even look like one. Looks like a little box with wires comin’ out of it, but EnnEsses were like insects."
Skan was about to say something...but Shriek interrupted.
"Can't this wait til later? I want to see Spider..." she said, her eyes pleading.
"Yer right... Bas said with a nod, "He is weak...so won' be able to talk much."
“We moved him to wards, as operatin’ theatres ain’t the best place to go and kip after anesthetic. They give people the creeps, I heard…” He cocked a head and set off down the corridor. “C’mon, peeps, this way…”
Shriek nodded with understanding and followed Bas into the Medcenter, the rest of the clan following...
On the way to the wards the group met up with Dr Simvass, who told them what he found out about the device that he had removed from Spider's neck. In short it ended up being a rather simple remote controlled device designed to administer an electric shock when (prompted? activated? *shrug*). Apparently, when Malice bit Spider in the back of the neck a few months back, it was damaged and started drawing and storing more energy then normal. The bang Spider gave it recently was enough to cause it to discharge all that stored energy at once...nearly killing him.
Simvass also warned them that due to the nature of the surgery he had to perform, Spider has to remain heavily drugged with painkillers for a while, so he would be dopey at best when they saw him . He also reassured them that Spider should make a fully recovery.
When they finally got to see him a few moments later, they found out Simvass wasn't kidding; Spider was barely awake and didn't much sense all when he said something. But still they were happy he was alive, especially Shriek, who took up a position right next to his bed and simply refused to leave when the nurses came and said visiting time was over. After she growled and bared her teeth at them they got the hint and left her alone. Fortunately...the rest of clan weren't so stubborn and left without a struggle. Though...one of the aides had a spill when he slipped on a puddle of Goliath's drool....
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