Corruption by @Kooshmeister (Bill Hiers)

An oldie from '07. Since I disliked the very heavily implied demise of Dr. Zyme in The Giant Bacteria, I of course wrote a fanfic wherein he survives the incident. Since his death occurs mostly offscreen, and the bacteria monster was visibly distracted by Feral's helicopter, I figured Zyme's escape was believable (if non-canon).

In the story, titled, aptly, Whatever Happened to Dr. Zyme?, Zyme, along with a Megakat Biochemical Labs guard, is spirited away to Dr. Viper's lair following his narrow escape from the bacteria monster.

Here, Viper attempts to persuade his former boss and colleague to see things from his point of view, intending on making Zyme his assistant. Zyme eventually does agree, if only to prevent him from sharing the fate of the guard, who gets transformed by Viper into the mushroom monster from Katastrophe. Here, though, he is visibly distressed and disturbed by Viper's proposal that they work together.