The abrupt entrance shocked the two scientists and gave Ringo a dash of hope. He knew it was too dangerous for them all to be there at once but they were his only chance at getting out still partially human. "Guys!! I'm up here!" He wheezed, thumping as hard as he could against his chamber.

Using his arms, Paul tore through any blockades Drs. Tobias and Himmel sent down at them while John's sharp tusks slashed away at anything trying to keep him from his big brother. "Where is he?! Huh?! What did you do to him?!"

"Urrhg.. You'll never find him in time.." The shorter scientist growled, pummeled under the weight of the walrus man.

George was already on the move, skittering back up the stairs and smashing through every room he could until the oldest Beatle was in sight. "Grrrr, no hurt Richie!!"

The room where it all begun brought back some nasty memories, but the spiderlike Beatle knew he had to go inside in order to find out if Ringo was inside. Just his luck, there he was. But much to his dismay, he was no longer the only human Beatle.

While he still had the same face and hair, the rest of him was changed drastically, he was much more reptilian, serpentine to be exact. He had scales much like Paul before him, thankfully he remained somewhat recognizable even after being mutated. There was no time to worry about him changing too now, Ringo was losing air and fast.

Mustering up all his strength, George pinned his legs down hard onto the glass, creating indents to grab ahold of. "Glass too strong..." He gasped, it seemed to be as thick as a windshield.

Scrambling up behind their youngest, John and Paul had a crack at breaking the glass. "It must be Beatleproof, nothing we're doing is working."

"Come on Paul, nothing is Beatleproof!"

"Your tusks could only make tiny holes, our claws can't even make a scratch in it and not even George's razor sharp teeth can do anything to free him! We'll need to find another way to open this thing.."

Searching around the room for an eject button, John lost all his patience and dug his tusks deep into the power grid. Wincing from the surge of electricity jabbing through his blubber, John pierced all the wires he could until the glass chamber was forced open.

"F.. Free... Finally free.. And I can finally breathe.." Ringo gasped, flopping out of his prison. It was weird having to rely on his stomach muscles to move rather than legs, but he hoped it wasn't something he'd have to get used to for very long.

"Ringo?.. You.."

"I wasn't fully injected, so I have my humanity intact.. Even if my outside self doesn't look all that human."

His pants were completely torn apart with the tail replacing his legs, leading to several of his stitches being perfectly visible. However in all the commotion he didn't notice that the serum he was injected with managed to fully heal his wounds.

"Richie.. You okay?"

Meanwhile back downstairs, Brian had the two tied up in chains he found. "Now you both sit right there until the authorities arrive! I think they might have a few choice words to say to you, I sure as hell know I do!"

"Grr.. We nearly had it, the perfect serum to change all of humanity as we know it! It would have been in all the papers for years on end!! We would have improved the very world as we know it, it could have been legendary until you ruined it all!"

"Legendary huh? Even at the cost of several lives? You could have killed someone with what you did! And I'm willing to bet my boys weren't your first test subjects either, were they now?"

"Heh, you catch on fast Epstein. We have had several others to take our little tests, none of them managed to survive as long as these boys have. Of course it had nothing to do with the serum, but their contact with the outside world. How is this even possible?"

"It seems they weren't given any reassurance, whether it be through song or speech. Ringo knew his mates would never hurt a fly, he was always there for them. Maybe next time you should act on your conscience and not from your psychotic brains."

"Hey Eppy? We could use some of your help up here too, Richie really needs a hug! He's got a tail long enough to snuggle all of us at once." Paul called from above.

"I'll be right there, lemme just tighten up these chains so you don't think of running off."

Rushing up to meet with the boys, he didn't catch the two scientists holding empty needles behind their backs. "We can't let anyone else know about this, once the cops come on in it's curtains for the Beatles."