Next chapter! Now things will come together a bit faster, and you should start being able to see where everything falls into place. I hope you'll enjoy this, as it is going to be very complicated this chapter and the next, so pay close attention.

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-United States Space Colony ARK-June 12th, 1952-Robotnik's Office-

"Sir." Jane pushed a little harder on the old man's shoulder, calling a bit louder. "Sir!"

"Wha? Huh? What happened?" Gerald asked, finally awaking from his 'nap'.

"The Chaos Cure is ready. But…we don't know how well it will work."

"Did you extract it from the life form?"

"Yes You know how much that darned lizard has inside of it."

"Good. Good. Well, let's do this now. I hope this works." He remarked, thrusting his bodyweight forward and standing up.

-Sick Bay-5 minutes later-

"Japheth, this is it. I hate to be blunt, but…this may kill you." Gerald said, standing over his patient and holding the vile.

"I-" He heaved again, much faster as if he was struggling to capture any oxygen at all. "don't…careeee."

"Nurse, prepare to monitor him. Don't overlook any information!"

"I will sir."

"And don't overlook anything!"

"You already said that sir."

"I did, didn't I?" The scientist mused to himself, and then pulled up the shirt on the boy's body. His chest was covered in red and purple blotches, showing where blood and broken through the vessels and tried to re-heal. All of this the case of a common cold interacting with NIDS. The entire body turned against itself, trying to kill itself. He had to hope this pure, perfect energy could work.

"Injecting." He said, pushing the needle carefully between two of his upper ribs on the left side, getting as close to the sternum as he could. The needle entered into the heart of the young boy, and several alarms went off as he threatened to go into Cardiac Arrest from the sudden intrusion. The gloved thumb of the old man pressed down on the needle, and the vein of glowing…energy was pushed into his blood stream.

"Gerald, you should look at this!" The nurse called out, and Gerald ran over to the monitor that she was looking at. Behind his glasses, his eyes widened. The up-to-date X-Ray showed the white Chaos Energy going to the lungs, cleansing them of the bulk of the disease and spreading through the entire blood stream, catching and annihilating every bit of imperfect tissue, whether it be scarred, damaged, or just in err. The energy completed full circle through his body, and even his brain, and then passed back through his heart.

"My god! It's working!" Gerald shouted, looking up at the boy as the pigment flowed back into the boy's face.

"No it's not sir! His Brain and heart!" She stepped back. "It's to much! It's going to blow!"

"I'm ready!" Japheth shouted out loudly. "OH God, Just kill me!" It had not caught the doctor's attention at first, but obviously the cleansing process had caused overwhelming pain for the young boy, despite how healthy his voice suddenly sounded.

"He's going to have a Heart Attack!"

"God, please bless Maria, and Mom, and Dad! And the Doctor please…But just kill me now!"

Dr. Robotnik ran across the room. "Japheth, stay with us! You can still make it!"

Suddenly the young man's chest rose involuntarily, and he cried out with a pain that sounded as if his very soul was being torn form his body.

"His heart! It's, it's-!" the nurse shouted in shock, unable to speak the horrors she was witnessing through the monitor.

"Tell me Nurse!" Before she could finish though, the exposed skin where he had injected the needle suddenly turned redish-white from all the Chaos-filled blood, and the skin broke apart as the blood sprayed upwards. His heart didn't just have a heart attack, it self-destructed and exploded, showering his life-liquid flying through the air.

"Oh God! The young man shouted one final time in pain, pain that no other person may ever comprehend in their life, and then his entire body slumped down. Blood began trickling out of his mouth while the gapping hole in his ribs where his heart had once been bled productively in the new hole, slowly filling it up.

"Doctor…he's…"

"I know Jane." Robotnik remarked, standing up and stepping back, removing the protecting mask from his face. "He's dead." With his gloved right hand he reached over and shut the boy's eyes.

The two of them stood there for several minutes straight, still in shock.

"Why. Why?" The doctor turned around, back to the boy's body. In anger he slammed his fist into a tray containing unused operations tools, said tool jumping from the hit and some landing on the floor. "We did everything we could! And it didn't work! He didn't have to die, and his death didn't even help contribute to society!"

"I'm sorry sir. Maybe we could…"

"No nurse! I'm not going to make a biological super-virus out of the Chaos Energy, no matter how much America wants to pay me for it!"

"At least…he won't have to suffer any more. His brain will totally shut down in a few minutes, making him full dead."

"He's still alive?"

"Sir, his brain is still sending out messages. The pain that had been going through his body had overloaded the nervous system, except for the brain, brain stem, and the spinal cord. But although that may be the case, his…essence is gone."

"If we could save his brain…and nervous system!" He turned and faced the nurse. "We could put that forward for the Ultimate Lifeform project!"

"You said that after the Biolizard you weren't going to continue that anymore. Sir."

"I wasn't serious! I still have things in progress to try and work it out, but I have to figure out what to fuse human DNA and animal DNA with so they don't destroy each other!"

"Sir?" She looked at him, raising her eyebrow. She was only an assistant nurse after all, not skilled in anything but handing the correct things to the doctor and saying what the advanced screens of ARK's computers were showing.

"Nurse, put his body on ice before he's totally dead! We can still save some of him! His death won't be a total waste! He can still help Maria!"

"Sir?" She asked in confusion again, but still opening a freezing chamber on the side of the room.

"Your death won't be pointless Japheth. I promise." The Doctor said to himself, almost as if he thought the young boy was still alive and could hear him.

With that, a low buzz sounded from a control panel by the door. Gerald Robotnik walked over to it, putting his fist on the button. "Dr. Robotnik here."

"Sir, the Black Comet is now within Contact range. When should we send a probe?"

Already the gears in the Doctor's mind changed pace to work for his other project. "I'll be there in a few minutes. Don't launch the probe until I'm there!" He removed his hand from the button, and with a yank pulled the bio-hazardous protection mask off of his mouth, tossing it into the toxic-chemical disposal. Following it with his blood-stained apron and gloves, he couldn't get out soon enough. Maybe he also was moving so fast because he needed something to take his mind off of the death.


-Probe Control Room-25 minutes later-

Gerald stared hard at the large screen with his co-worker on this project. "At least something is going to go right today." The lines on the screen outlined the Black Comet with green, the dust trail behind it with gray, and the probe with blue. "Let us just hope that the dust has the qualities that refract light like it does so well."

"Japheth didn't make it, did he?" The Italian asked apprehensively.

"No he didn't Caesar." The doctor removed his glasses and rubbed his eyes, then replaced them. Rather he was just rubbing his eyes or trying to cover up tears Caesar wasn't sure, but a slight beeping from the screen diverted his attention.

"The probe is in the dust-trail sir! It's catching the particles sir!"

"Good. Good to know."

Suddenly a fourth color of line appeared. It came from the 'back' of the comet's body, stretching outward quickly and then suddenly making contact with the blue octagon-line pattern that had represented. The red line faded away shortly afterwards, but the blue pattern flashed on and off, stating that signal was lost.

"It…was it destroyed?"

"Could that thing be inhabited?" Robotnik asked himself.

"How could a Comet be inhabited?"

"Don't ask sir! I know it seems sudden, but we need to try and make contact! It might be friendly!"

"Doctor, it just destroyed our probe."

"But still, it could have been a slight misunderstanding!"

"There is no need."

The voice that had answered chilled the two men to the core. It sounded from behind them, deep, dark, and menacing. And not human. Slowly, very slowly the two turned around to look at the responder.

The creature was tall, maybe 7 or 8 feet. It had three ghastly eyes, and it's head looked like that of a pick-axe head. It wore black and red robes that adorned it's body richly, and it's arms hung out of the gaping holes, ending in two chubby fingers and a thumb. Most noticeably, it floated in the air. The room was silent as the two men stared at the alien being, neither human knowing what to say.

"I am Black Doom."


I know, it seems like I'm rushing things here. But I want enough of this done so that way you readers will stay with me and think that we have gotten somewhere with this. But now a lot of this really makes sense now, does it not? I hope you enjoyed this, so REVIEW! And again, HAPPY SHADOW DAY!