Just Another Grimm

Adrift in Space

"The Big Veggie Revolt"

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Grimm's Note: Science fiction, eh? Well there is good science fiction and then there is that stuff from the 50's & 60's and none worse than the 'monster of the week' made for the 8 o'clock time slot aimed at kids. Star Trek seemed like Shakespeare…

And for those of you who read any of the "You Can't Make Me" adventures of the Fab Five slave boys, know that their masters make and sell incredibly rare videos to their Patrons. Patrons can send ideas and huge sums of money and our group of slave boys re-enact some favorite movie, book, video clip or whatever.

This month's patron desired to see what would happen with the old tv show from the 1960's. With some cast changes, more satisfying costumes and not so gentle re-working of the plot.

If you've seen the original it had two parents, Don and Judy engaged couple, stow-away Dr. Smith, two kids and a robot.

Needless to say with only one boy some changes must occur. Our cast has:

Richie (12) as Will Robinson – change – his hair dyed a strawberry blonde, a genius kid.

Dr. Zachary Smith is played by Kris (13) – now Zack is a weasel of a boy genius and abject coward instead of a fifty-ish comic fop. Only change was the age of the character.

Mom, Dad & Don – crashed in a pod lander, gone and forgotten. Won't be around at the end of the episode to save the day.

Will's older sisters – Judy and Penny. Judy will be played by Brian (14) and Penny by Tim (14) so to give the show some diversity both boys have had treatments (more for Brian, hardly any for Tim) to help them fill out their costumes. Those are still mini-skirts, just no longer over opaque stockings.

And our fifth character is Mike (12) who will play the Robot. Changed to a android pal for Will. Change now the silver bulbous tracked robot is a silver skinned android boy.

And guest starring is Max (15) as Tybo. The Fives resident tormentor.

Oh, and the Patrons are played by the readers. Keep your suggestions coming. But remember I am a bit slow.

If you are confused, feel free to ignore all of the above and watch our 1960's redux. I'm sure you can find it Lost in HuluSpace or somewhere.

And on with this week's episode!

********** Great Veggie Revolt *********

Chapter 1
Danger! Danger! Danger!

"Danger, Will Robinson! Danger."

"Of course there's danger, Robot, my sister and that idiot Zack are missing," fumed the ticked off Will Robinson. He unzipped his metallic silver space suit down to his chest, this planet they were on was hot and humid, and he was pissed that 'Dr. Smith' and Penny had gone off in the only landing pod to pick some flowers for the Robot's birthday. It had been Will's idea to give a birthday party for the robot, and giving vent to his frustrations ranted to the Robot. "Of course 'old Zachary' had to use it as an excuse to outdo all the others. Of course he was to chicken to go to the surface alone! And the only one gullible enough to help him would have been Penny."

"I would have helped him, well if he wasn't so short and he is skinny. And why doesn't he ever make a pass at me?" asked Judy, Will's ditzy blond sister.

Judy wore a yellow mini-skirt that barely covered his bottom. Both of Will's sisters were female on top and boy below.

"What was the Space Command thinking sending out eight colonists to Alpha Centauri," muttered Will. He knew of course that none of this mattered now. "And only one non-family member? Well, Dr. Smith was a stowaway, so its not like they were counting on him. Am I supposed to mate with my sisters?"

"That does not compute! Your sisters were your brothers, but my master Dr. Smith thought they would be more fun if they were females" boomed the robot in his flat mono-toned voice.

"And that was as successful as any Zack plan. Whatever college gave that mental screw-up a degree…"

"And he has figured there must be another ship filled with a family of girls," the Robot continued oblivious to any criticism of Dr. Smith who had done the primary programming on the Robot. Will was making changes, hoping to make the Robot less Smith's sycophant and more of Will's companion.

As Will's last change to an emotion circuit had been a bit of a failure, causing a fight between Zack and the Robot, which led to the Robot sulking Smith taking Penny out to find 'Posies for my Pal,' Will decided to change the topic.

"What is the Danger this time. The Jupiter 2's scanners confirmed that there were only plants on this planet. That's why I felt it was safe to land."

"Will, you know I am Senior now. I read your report, and I gave the order that said it was safe," Judy pouted, tossing her blond hair, done up in an elaborate hair-style as usual, and batted her long fake eyelashes.

The Robot, shimmering in the bright sunlight, wore only the smallest of thongs. Silver of course. He did have some spinning radar dishes and a circular plastic ring that hovered over his platinum blond hair. "According to my calculations these plants are not in random locations. That bush there should have been 16 centimeters to the east to be truly random… "

Will ignored him.

Chapter 2
How Smart is Smith?

Some distance away, and a while before…

Zack and Penny were near the Pod. They had landed in an area that was a riot of color when seen from the top edge of the atmosphere. Zack had his shears and was about to cut a huge red blossom off a plant when they heard a strange warbling beep. Smith, easily startled quickly decided that was too big a blossom.

"What was that? Was that the flower?" Penny inquired.

"Nonsense girl, don't be silly."

"It might not be silly, maybe the atmosphere let's us hear plants talking." Penny was amazingly naive and naturally sympathetic toward all creatures.

"That part of my experiment worked fine, your IQ was cut in half, but I wasn't trying to make your breasts grow bigger… I need that Robot's help. We must find some Posies for my Pal."

Penny, decked out in a pale green skirt, could still operate the computer and helped Judy pick out their new clothes. Tight fitting tops with just spaghetti straps to hold them up that ended above the navel, and the little low riding skirts that hugged her hips. She was sure she liked seeing those on other girls, but she wasn't sure why.

One disadvantage to the super-accelerated learning programs the children had to take before they left Earth was that any gaps in their education became wide chasms. Penny had been distracted by a kitten during sex ed. Absolutely a space cadet about anything to do with the differences between boys and girls, so Dr Smith's experiment was puzzling until the new she saw a butterfly video, and she forgot it all.

Zack moved to a smaller flower, again the fluttering beep, but Smith cuts off a bloom.

From out of the heavy foliage behind them comes a giant carrot. Well a carrot-ish torso, with a teen boy's arms and legs (bright orange of course!) A cute face was filling a sort of carved out part of the carrot. But it was an angry carrot.

"Hideous warm-blooded killer! That's what you are, you will pay for this! A life for a life!" Saying that Tybo misted Zach and Penny with a cloud of green gas. Penny almost immediately fainted like a true damsel in distress, thereby saving dialogue.

"What have you done? We have done nothing to you!" Zach protested.

"Do not worry about it, I have just altered your basic DNA structure. Now I just have to evaluate you for a new life form. Hmmm, you have a very weak skeleton, you are very brittle boned, almost a jellyfish. Maybe I can give you a cabbage heart, well if that doesn't work I'll just use you for compost."

Fade to commercial, and then return to our other trio.

Chapter 3
Fun on the Trail

Will is leading Judy and the Robot, he is fighting their way through the jungle with a machete. His silver suit is showing some strategic tears in what should be impervious fabric. Judy is holding a machete of her own, but just waves it a bit. Her costume is of course intact. The Robot continuously intones "Danger, Danger Will Robinson."

"Robot why do you have to keep saying that? And are there any other Wills around here? How come you never say Danger Judy Robinson…"

At that moment Will is stumbles into two vines that cross his path. Another two snap up behind Will and Judy, trapping them. Other vines spring from the ground running up Will's leg, splitting open the tight silver foil.

Judy drops here machete as her bodice is ripped by a tendril that crawls up her back. Will's right hand is immobilized as clearly some intelligence is directing the attack. The pair quickly lose most of their clothes before Will grabs Judy's machete in his left hand and frees them. The Robot trails along bellowing "Danger! Danger!" the plants ignored the Robot or were they repulsed by the noise? Will was already theorizing their rescue.

As they burst into a clearing they found Zachary Smith. Or was he? Zack was pale green and he was buried up to his knees in moist brown soil. Hugging a tree, his arms fastened to a slim straight trunk by vines that were moving of their own accord, wrapping him tighter with each turn around his back. What looked like celery was growing out of his head. Like Will's, Zack's suit had seen better days. In fact the top half was gone, the legs were tattered showing Zack's smooth pale green legs. All that remained was a fragment that wrapped around his hips, sagging in back to reveal his still boyish butt.

Will quickly took in the confused sing-song blather coming out of what was Dr. Smith. One minute moaning he should have been an orchard, the next murmuring about his true destiny.

Will wasted no time cutting him loose. With a loud explosion Zach lost all his plant attributes and what remained of his space suit.

"Robot take him back to the Jupiter. Judy and I will go after Penny." Will and Judy race off to the right, leaving the Robot with Zach.

As they plunge onward they of course plunge into a pit. Their semi-nude bodies tumble around in front of a large leafy weed? Cabbage, romaine, a meat eater's nightmare rises up and starts to stalk them as we again break for commercial. We see Judy's skirt being pulled off as we fade out. This may be science fiction of the worst kind, but we still have bills to pay.

Chapter 4
Will loses Judy

Will is waving the machete weakly at the lettuce monster. Both he and Judy's bodies are glistening with sweat and very little dirt after they roll away from their growling pursuer. All of a sudden a rope!

The rope dangles down from above and Judy scrambles to climb out of the pit. Will helps push her up with a well placed hand on her very soft ass. Will quickly reminds himself that that is his brother's ass, but it doesn't help. It is still a great feeling, and he gets a tween twinge even as he spies Judy's cock outlined against the yellow panties that is now the whole of her outfit.

It takes the salad monster ripping off the remaining left leg of his suit to get Will moving up the rope.

Waiting at the top is the trusty Robot. Will is surprised to notice that he is noticing the android's well proportioned body as it hauls him up. Maybe all this green is waking up long evolutionary urges of springtime… maybe …

"Errr, Robot… where did you come from? And where is Dr. Smith?" Will finds himself changing the subject.

"I carried him back to the Jupiter 2. He'll be safe as long as he stays inside. I sensed that you were in Danger Will Robinson."

"I bet he doesn't have the sense to stay in the Jupiter. Why didn't they make any doors with locks on that thing. Sliding wall panels … oh, and thanks for saving me."

"That makes 358 times I've saved you Will Robinson."

"Now I keep telling you that all those times in the bathroom shower I was not in danger."

"My circuits clearly show that your heartbeat was racing and you were clearly out of breath."

"Forget that. I ordered you to forget that."

"I erased those memories, but it keeps happening several times a day and your order to forget is hard to obey when you keep re-enforcing my memories."

As they bickered they did not notice Judy grabbed by Tybo the carrot mastermind.

Chapter 5
Planting the Girls

Judy looked up, or at least she thought she looked up. But when she raised her head she saw her hair hanging down towards the ground. She remembered choking on some green gas that had shot out of nowhere. Judy tried to clear her head, but the last week was a disconcerting jumble that made no sense. And that was before she saw the lettuce monster!

It sure seemed like she was a lot dumber. Will said it was because she was a lot blonder than she was last week. And she didn't remember having breasts this big either. Not that they were huge, in fact she didn't know what her bra size was, surely she would know that. And by the covert looks she was getting from Will and the really weird stares she got from Zack, and the 'Those Do Not Compute' from the Robot… they didn't seem to be reacting normally … "IS THAT A GIANT CARROT?" Judy screamed as she saw Tybo walking toward her. He was easily her height, and he was standing over her as she dangled down from a branch.

"Ah, a human monster is waking up, now you can pay for your crimes against the plant kingdom."

"No, please, you've got it all wrong. I love flowers, I like vegetables. I always eat all the vegetables on my plate." As soon as she said it Judy realized she might have tried a bit to hard on that one.

"When I told that jellyfish that I had the power to transform him, he boasted that he could help me. He bragged that he had changed you last week, and that he would be of infinitely valuable to my work. I told him he would be more valuable as a celery stalk. And it seems you and that red haired one have ruined my efforts with that one. I had to send some of my pit soldiers to go find him again."

"Do you mean those lettuce things that attacked me and Will?"

"Yes. And that is another thing you have to pay for, not only did you scare one of my best mulch workers that mechanical boy ruined several grapevines to make his rope to 'save' you two. Just more work for me, of course. And it isn't easy you know getting things to grow to super large sizes with no really good fertilizer. Of course that is about to change."

"You understand that it is very rare that I come across an animal specimen with as weak a will as that of the one who calls himself Dr. Smith. And the shock of changing into a noble vegetable only to be ripped away from his newly grown roots completely broke him. So he lost a couple of toes… your transformation will take a lot longer I'm afraid. Do you know how many years it takes for decent cellulose to form from those healthy lean muscles. Meat to wood takes a long time. Look how long it takes to grow a decent tree, and there I am starting with decent plant sap not that pink slime inside of you. And I've got to keep you fed and watered. On top of my other work."

"That silver one is a complete bust. I'll be lucky if I can use him for parts to keep my hothouses functioning. I'm hopeful that I can transform this one-waving toward a nearby plant-into some kind of useful lackey. Maybe if I give her a new heart, cabbage is a possibility," Tybo walked away muttering to himself, Judy found the struggling bush he had pointed to contained Penny who was entwined in a plant with dozens of tentacle like stalks.

Penny was jolted out of her gas induced stupor by a sharp prick as a thorn jabbed her in the ribs. If Judy had been as smart as the boy she was BS (Before Smith) she would have figured that Penny was shedding the first drop of blood to be replaced by sap. Tybo was hoping that he could turn this pretty one into a much prettier trailing arbutus. Maybe some nice pink and white flowers someday. Drops of blood were easy enough to create, but these meat sacks die off if you do it too fast. Eventually you can train the cells to produce sap. But even getting it to pink… those humans think plants feel no pain, but soon we plants see how humans can take it.