Hey People! It's time for another... Sliders: The Rejected Episodes A continuing fanfic by Kristin Taylor Episode 3: "The Child Within" [As our heroes (and Maggie) walk down the street, they are suddenly tackled by a small group of people. As they get up and untangle themselves, the people all pull out Super Soakers, soak the Sliders, and run away laughing.] Quinn: That was wierd. Wade: Why does that not surprise me? [A second group of adults appear. All of them are acting like hyper eight year olds. Two of them spot the Sliders and wave.] Immature Adult 1: Hey! You guys wanna play with us? Immature Adult 2: We're gonna go soak the Elders! Wade: Who are the Elders? IA1: They're the ones that didn't get young.(Shakes his head in disgust.) IA2: But it's much better being young again then it was when we had gotten old. IA1: Much more fun, too. Quinn (hesitantly): I don't think we'll go. [The two adults glance at each other. IA1 signals to someone above the Sliders. Several normal kids all around the age of ten or eleven appear in a building and began throwing water ballons at the Sliders. Two of the ballons nail Rembrandt and Maggie. They are coated with yellow goo.] Maggie: Ewww! Remmy: What is this stuff? IA1 (to Remmy and Maggie): C'mon you two! Before the Elders get here! [The adults leave the street. Rembrandt pauses, then runs after them. Maggie sits on the ground and begans to stare off into space. Soon, Maggie, Wade, and Quinn are the only ones in the street.] Wade: What is wrong with these people? [Quinn and shrugs to examine Maggie.] Quinn: Hello? Anybody home? (Maggie stares through him.) Nothing. Her mind's blank. Wade: And you're just now finding this out? Quinn: I really wish the two of you would stop arguing. It's annoying. Wade: Really? Gee, I rather enjoyed our pointless bickering. [Quinn sighs. Maggie suddenly jumps to her feet, surprising Quinn who falls backwards into a stray puddle of goo. She staggers away, ignoring Wade's calls and breaks into a run once across the street.] Wade (while helping Quinn up): Come on! We have to, Heaven help me for saying this, help Maggie! (The words come out in a strained voice.) [Quinn and Wade chase Maggie through the street. They go into a building. Since they didn't know what direction Maggie took, they split up. For several minutes, Quinn had been feeling rather strange. He figured it was the goo.] Quinn (thinking out loud): So this goo must affect people's minds. Instead of making their bodies younger, it makes them think they're younger. So why did Maggie act diffrently? Must be because she's from a diffrent world then us. [Maggie pokes her head out of a door. She spies Quinn and smiles devilishly.] Maggie (seductivly): Oh Quinn, do you want to play Docter? Quinn (acting very much like a pre-pubescent teenager): Sure! [Quinn enters the room and Maggie closes the door behind them. There is the sound of giggiling from the door. This is quickly followed by the thunderous pounding of footsteps. Wade rounds a corner at a breakneck speed, sprints down the hall, slides to a stop in front of the door, and kicks it open.] Wade (bellows angriliy): OUT! NOW! [Quinn walks out sheepishly.] Wade: MAGGIE! GET OUT HERE! Maggie (barely audible): I can't. Wade (annoyed): Why not? Maggie (pauses, then answers): Scooby Doo doesn't want me to go. [Wade puts a hand to her forehead and sighs heavily.] Wade: Maggie, there is no such thing as Scooby Doo. He is an animated dog. Now let's go! Maggie: Scooby Doo is real! [Wade enters the room. She grabs Maggie's arm.] Maggie (screeches): Let go of me! This is sexual harrasment! Wah! (Maggie bursts into tears.) Get her Scooby! [There is the sound of low growling. Wade turns and finds herself staring at a very large, very dangerous, very mad Irish Wolfhound.] Wade (panicky): Nice doggy... You don't want to hurt me, do you? How about if I give you a Scooby snack? [Quinn walks into the room, completly unconcerned with the mad dog.] Quinn (he hesitates slightly): Wade? Wade (Still staring at the dog, very panicky and shouts): WHAT!?! Quinn (sniffles): All I wanted was to know if I could go to the bathroom! You don't have to yell at me! [Quinn burts into tears. This restarts Maggie. The dog begans to howl. Confronted with two screaming, bawling adults and a deranged, bloodthirsty hellhound intent on tearing her throat out, Wade's mind short circuts. She screams and passes out.] Quinn (stops crying immediatly): It worked! Come on, let's find Remmy! Maggie: Okay! But let's tie Wade up first! ***Commercial Break*** Announcer: On the series finale of 'X-Files'... Mulder and Scully finally find the truth... [Mulder and Scully step off an alien space craft. Several little green men swarm up to them. One begans to poke Scully while another starts to chew on her shoe.] Mulder: I told you so. ***And now, Back to Sliders!!*** [When we last left the Sliders, Wade got tied up by an immature Maggie and Quinn. The others are youthened by some strange goo and run off... Wade sits up and looks around. She's in a perfectly empty room. Not even any dust. She groans. She sees a door and hears voices through it.] Man: She should be awake by now. The sedative I gave her should have worn off. [The door opens and a man and woman dressed in black business suits enters. The man sets a briefcase on the bed near Wade and opens it. There are various darts and a tranquilizer gun in it. He loads one.] Man: Good Morning, Ms. Welles. I take it you had a good nap? Wade: Yeah, I did. Where am I? And where are my friends? Woman: Safe. We caught them and treated them for the youth drug. Wade: Oh. What's the gun for? [The man hands the gun to Wade.] Man: In case this happens again. Wade: Um, what exactly is going on? Woman: You and your friends accidently walked into an experiment. So our agents didn't know that you were not supposed to be exposed to the youth drug. Everything else that happened was the result of that accident. [Wade stares at the man and woman in surprise. She takes the gun and sticks it in her belt. The man hands her the briefcase full of darts and the timer.] Man: Here you go. Wade: So, this city is just one big experiment run by some people? Man: Oh, no. Not just the city. The whole world. But enough of that, you have a slide to make. [He pulls something out of his pocket. Both the man and woman don sunglasses. The object is a small metal cylinder. He holds it up and part of the cylinder pops up.] Man: Now, just watch the birdie. [There is a red flash. Somewhere else....] [In an empty lot, Quinn, Remmy, and Maggie are standing around looking rather shocked.] Quinn: What happened? How did we get here? Remmy: And where's Wade? [Wade runs up to the others carrying the briefcase and the timer.] Wade: Sorry I'm late guys. Maggie: Where have you been? Wade: I really don't know. I remember talking to these two people dressed in black and they had this strange silver cylinder. They said we had to leave. Quinn: Do you have the timer? [Wade brandishes it.] Quinn: Cool. Let's go then. [Wade activates the timer and they all slide.] ***The End*** This episode was not like the previous ones. Why not? Because my sugar rush ended and I had to write this while half-way sane. That's why. Credit goes to where it's due. Thanks to Keri Hofer for the commerical. Blah Blah Blah. Why are you reading this? Why am I writing this? What is the meaning of life? Read the Otaku Wars! found on the alt.fan.sailor-moon newsgroup. I repeat, why are you reading this? Comments? Criticisms? Flames? Ideas for Pizza Toppings? Contact me at sailorfalcon@excite.com and I'll get back to you! This has been a production of Blueberry Enterprises.