[Video]

[screwloose]

[The view opens on Stein, Sherry, and William Birkin standing outside of Stein's house, looking up at its grey, silent bulk. The moon is high overhead, grinning bloodily down at them and laughing quietly.]

[Stein is on his cellphone]

Yes, excuse me, do you do emergency calls? We need an exterminator, immediately.

[Pause]

Ah, slightly larger than a cockroach. Do you charge by the size of the house or the size of the insect?

[Strangely, Birkin is also on his cellphone]

Hi there, any chance you guys have any vacancies fooooor... Tonight? For maybe the next... Week or so?

[Pause]

Yeah, no, I know it's short notice. But- Lady, don't you tell me to "Calm down, sir" you don't know what I've been through tonight.

[And Sherry is also on her cellphone]

Hi, um, I have to cancel you coming over tomorrow, I'm sorry. My dads messed up the whole house, you know how it - okay, sorry about this.

[Pause]

Okay, I'll see you at school.

Comments

[Video]

[material_guy]

Oi. Mr. Science. Should I tell the crew construction's on hold for the next few days?

[voice]

[exceedingwords]

[okay, okay, what just the fuck did she watch?]

First off, is your unit safe and sound? I don't wish damage upon you three. Secondly, is the matriorb remains safe?

[Video]

[vinodejerez]

I wouldn't send anyone in there but trained professionals.

[Video]

[touchofgenius]

Yeeeeeeah. I'm sure you don't want to deal with your construction crew getting eaten by a giant zombie queen bee, so that might be safest.

[voice]

[vinodejerez]

It'll be fine, it just needs someone to come look at it and get the pests out.

I don't know about the matriorb, though.

[Video]

[screwloose]

Might want to hold off. What construction crew are we talking about?

[voice]

[screwloose]

The matriorb is safe. But I think it's laying eggs all over the place in there.

[voice]

[touchofgenius]

Well we're all in the same number of pieces we were in this morning, so I think we're good.

And the orb's fine. We've been keeping the pieces under lock and key in my Class II BSC. Trust me, nothing's touchin' them any time soon.

[Video]

[material_guy]

Professional what, exactly?

[Video]

[material_guy]

...Inn't the queen the one that births out all the other ones? That's a pretty big problem, oi...

[Video]

[vinodejerez]

Pest control.

[Video]

[material_guy]

A regular circus side-show, but compared to zombie bugs, nothin' special enough to be worth talkin' about.

[Video]

[material_guy]

I think they'd been to be a pro at somethin' more than just that, from the sounds of it...

[Video]

[touchofgenius]

Don't worry, I'm... Pretty sure that all the eggs it's laying aren't fertilized? So. It's more making a mess than doing anything too terrible.

...Other than existing, I guess.

[Video]

[screwloose]

Zombie bugs do tend to steal the show, in my experience.

Especially when they're the size of ponies.

[makewayforroze]

Did something bad happen?

[vinodejerez]

We kind of had an accident.

[Video]

[material_guy]

You sure zombie bugs need fertilizer? Regular zombies get by without a lotta things normal people need to keep living...

[Video]

[vinodejerez]

I mean really big pests.

[Video]

[material_guy]

You sound kinda proud of it.

[Video]

[touchofgenius]

I might not be an expert on insects, but I know my zombies, and I know those can't reproduce. God willing that doesn't change with species.

[touchofgenius]

Is a bug the size of an SUV a bad thing? Because if it is, then yes something bad happened.

[Video]

[material_guy]

You got a place to crash?

[Video]

[screwloose]

Well, in some sense, it's progress!

[makewayforroze]

Was anyone hurt?