Confession

"You're a monster" Jonah said to him, his voice shaking with anger and hatred. "why did you do all this?" Everett gave him a malevolent laugh.

"Isn't it obvious?" he said. "Eternal life."

"How long has this been going on?" Everet cocked his head, as though thinking about it like lost count.

"I'd say around three hundred years." The last words caused Jonah's anger to rise.

Astrid stepped forward her face a mask of hatred.

"So you take the lives of innocent people to make yourself younger." It wasn't a question. "But then how did you managed to your secret hidden?"

"Well it's very easy, I just use the DNA from the subjects to merge with my own and change my face."

"But there was a reason for publicly show casing your abomination." She said, understanding beginning set in, and a plan beginning to form. "Because there is only so many times that you can merge and change your genetic material before your body begins to reject it."

"Yeah, what about it." He said; panic beginning to set in, while a smug smile spread across Astrid's face.

"You've already reached yours." she aimed her key at his arm. "and it seems your decomposition has started." And was right; Everett's arm was starting to wrinkle and shrink, as though he were turning to dust. He quickly hid his hand behind him.

"Well it doesn't matter, I don't need to change my face anymore, so my decomposition wont accelerate."

Astrid nodded her smug smile still on her face. "Well perfect plan." She said. "I believe you're forgetting something."

Everett looked confused. "What the hell do you mean?" she kept her smile.

"The cliché of distracting you while help arrives." Just then he turned, and felt something hard and cylindrical hit him square in the face. Perfect timing Jonah." She said as he stepped down the stars an towards her. He looked down at him.

"What are we going to do with him?" he asked, but then they heard a strange growl; it sounded like a cross between a hound, a lion, and a gator, and it sounded really pissed. They looked and saw probably the most hideous creature. Its body stricture was a cross between dog and lion, its front paws were that of a dog with the claws of a cat, and vice versa for the rear. Its face had a dog's snout but cat face, and on the neck was a mane; but most noticeable feature was its scaly back, that lead all the way to an alligator tail. And behind it were more creatures like it.

"Chimeras." Jonah said. "Things are never easy are they?" he said. He and Astrid backed up as far as they could, until they reached a wall. They were trapped, and by then Everet had already regained consciousness.

"That was a cheap trick you know." He said as he approached them, rubbing his head where Jonah had smacked him.

"Well seemed to work on you."

"Yes well that hardly matters since you're about to become chimera food." He said. He signaled to the beasts, and they charged. Jonah could only look as the hideous beasts ran towards him, feeling as though tie had slowed down, he saw their faces in their hideous detail, anger in their faces. But before they reached him something came up from the floor. He looked around wondering what could have happened. It was a transmuted wall, and it was shielding them. He looked and saw Astrid, on her knees, palms on the ground, no transmutation circle. He stared at her, he knew there was only one way to be able to transmute without a circle.

"No time to ask" she said before clapping her hands together and opening a doorway. This way she said and crawled in Jonah did the same.

They walked through the tunnel until they finally reached the hallway to the secret laboratory

"How the hell did you do that without losing a limb?" Jonah asked

"What?"

"The whole transmutation by clapping thing?" he said while gesturing with his hands.

"There are other ways of learning things you know." Astrid said. Then she walked to the hole and sealed it up, once again clapping her hands. "I can show how to do it you know." Then began to leave, Jonah ran up to her.

"Where are you going?"

"To stop the dean."

"And how do you plan on doing that?"

She looked at him over her shoulder. "Come along and find out."

A half hour later they came to Astrid's dorm. "What are we doing here?" Jonah asked as the Time Lady pulled out her key.

"The only way to stop him is to have his work exposed." She puts the key in and turns the lock. "but they'll never listen to us and assume that. We're mad," she opens the door and steps in. so we need to figure out a way to get him to confess and get everyone at the party to hear it." She steps inside her dorm, Jonah follows in.

"But how do we do that?" he asked as she headed in to the closet that had her TARDIS. Seconds later she steps out with a key card.. "I mean he isn't going to admit it in front of a room full of people."

She turned to him, a smile spread across her face, a plan already in action. "we'll trick it out of him." She walked across the dorm to her room, then entered the key, and turned the knob and opened the door, and what Jonah saw he almost couldn't believe.

"It looks like a pile of trash that you jumbled together." And he was right, it was very difficult to describe in detail, although it did look very intricate, like a pile of trash that put together rather than jumbled.

"It may look like that, but I assure you it's more that it looks." Jonah was about to ask her something when they heard footsteps coming in, and If at all possible, they sounded angry.

"Jonah mason I swear you are going to far." Jonah stiffened at the familiar voice. He had never heard Eva this pissed before.

"Didn't you close the door?" Astrid asked as Jonah quickly shut the door to the room they were in.

"I didn't think my best friend would follow us." He responded panicking. Then he realized about the device. "How are going to hide that thing?" then there was a fierce knocking on the door.

"Jonah" she yelled, in a rage that she obviously inherited from her mother. "Jonah get out here this instant, you have no idea what you're getting yourself in to." Jonah wasn't sure what to do, Eva was never this mad with this mad with him before, and she was incredibly terrifying. "I swear if you don't open the door, I'm gonna come in." panic surged through him, if she busts inside.

"Can't you get your girlfriend out of here?" Astrid whispered.

"I never dealt with her like this before. And don't call her my girlfriend."

"That's it if you don't let me in by the count of five! I'm busting in. One!"

"Why is she so nosy?"

"Two!"

"I wish I knew."

"Five!" she finally counted skipping the other two. "Okay now what the hell are you-." But the words caught in her throat as she looked at the device. "What the hell is that thing?" she asked apparently terrified at what she was looking at. But before they could explain, she started going out of control. "oh my god, you're planning on taking over the college! And you-."

"Eva, listen to me." Jonah said shaking her by the shoulders. "it's not what you think.

"Oh my god she got to you and now you're some kind of slave to her."

Damn it he's never seen her like this before Jonah thought.

"Allow me Mr. Mason." Astrid said as she casually pushed him aside. I really don't want to do this she thought, but there was no other faster alternative, especially given her hysterical state. Then out of nowhere she head slammed Eva, it hurt like hell, but at the same time a stream of memories flowed through her mind, each one a different experience, a new scene, it was not her memories, but at the same time they were, but in that same instance she came back to her reality, a throbbing pain in her fore head suddenly becoming aware of what was happening.

"Ouch, wait what was that? What did you do?" Astrid, who was also nursing her head with her shared pain, told her.

"Sharing past experiences through telepathy, it was the fastest way you could understand what was happening." And before Eva could talk, she once again head slammed her, once again pouring all her knowledge and experiences.

"Ouch, so you're a time traveling alien helping people in trouble?"

"Yes I am."

"And you've had a previous form?"

"Yes, I'm number two."

"And the dean has been sucking the life out of student. "by this point Eva had calmed down and started to think more clearly.

"Okay, so you're not here to invade, that a good thing."

"Yes could it be any more obvious?" she responded viciously.

"Okay, don't get so pissy." She apologized. "So this plan you have in mind, how can I help?"

"Well let's see." And she recited the plan and in a matter of minutes they had everything formulated and ready.

"Okay now that everything's set, let's move."

"I never knew you could get so hysterical." Jonah told Eva as they walked down the hall. She looked away embarrassed.

"Well I'm unpredictable my mother always told me."

"Alright you two." Astrid said as soon as they got to the party. "Do you remember your posts?"

Everett stood among his admirers shifting his weight from one foot to another, completely uneasy. He needed to find Delany and mason fast, along with destroying the lab, but making sure to keep his notes hidden. He had come too far to just let his unplanned fame come to a sudden end. Then he felt a familiar presence.

"Mr. Green may take this dance?" said a thickly accented voice behind him.

"Hello Ms. Delany," he said as he turned, seeing a smug smile on her face that was starting to tick him off. "Of course you can." He took her hand and stepped to the dance floor; they moved and danced in unison, barley missing a step, each movement complementing the other. "You know that you can't stop me." He threatened silently so only the both of them can hear.

"What makes you say that?" she asked although she already knew the answer.

"Because they'll always take my word over yours."

"And what of that lab you have beneath this place?"

"I'll just incinerate it; I still have my notes, I can live for as long as I want without breaking the taboo."

"By sucking the youth out of college students who are far from home?"

"Yes, and I can keep doing it without anyone the wiser."

"So you're saying that everyone is too oblivious to pay any attention to you?"

"You probably think you're so smart don't you; Hoping to expose me with a dance."

"Well the dance is part of it, but not the whole thing." Those word hade him panic.

"What do you mean?"

"Spoilers." She said as she flashed another smile. "Well it appears that your song is ending soon." He scoffed at her words as the final note played out and she departed. He immediately knew what she meant as she simply walked away among the crowd of people, while he was stick in place, unable to go after her. But let a few second of appearances ruin him, so ignoring his standards he went after her following her to the hall in the back that led to the laboratory, down the stairs to see Mason and Elric standing feet from each other faces stoic.

"Can't you see that you cannot stop me?"

"We know that's not true." Eva said.

"How do you know that? When your friends left I had a half hour all the evidence either destroyed or hidden."

"By hidden you mean lock and key, along with a code that only you know." Jonah asked.

"Why of course."

"And do you remember the location of the safe?" Astrid said coming out of the shadows, once again with the smug smile.

"Why all the questions? And yes I do know the location, only me."

"Well that's good." She said. "We don't want anyone else getting a hold of it."

"What do you mean?" He asked in sheer annoyance. Astrid simply pointed down, he followed to where she pointed and what he saw had sent sheer terror through him. It was a transmutation circle, and on the other side was his latest subject just barely breathing.

"We won't expose you, but you do have to pay for what you have done." And before he could make his escape, a light enveloped him, he began to feel his body begin to fall apart, his molecular structure start to lose its hold on one a another, he looked at his hands, they were nothing but ashes and bust barley holding on, then severe pain followed as he fell to his knees that crumbled on impact sending the rest of him crumbling to dust, until that was all left of him, and the tuxedo he had worn. Meanwhile, the young man o the other side woke up, his body restored back to original form. Barley able to sit up he looked around.

"What's going on?" he asked.

"It's a long story" Eva said as she picked him up. Later that night, when the dean did not return and went to look for him, they found his lab, empty for the pile of dust on the ground that was once him. Since he hid his notes somewhere that only he knew, Authorities and alchemists assumed that his research wasn't very thorough, which resulted in his predicament.

Jonah, Eva, Astrid, and all the party goers looked as the ashes of what was Everett green was carried in an urn, ready to be given a funerary service on campus in the next few weeks. As for the man they saved, they put him in an alley way where police found him, saying that he had no memory, but really he agreed to keep quiet of what had happened

The next day they were in Astrid's dorm, thinking about the night before.

"I don't see why we didn't just send his own confession through the campus loudspeakers." Jonah said.

"If we were to do that, then we had probably put yet another bad mark on alchemy, and the ways its used." She actually made a convincing statement. "Well what now?"

"I promised my parents that next chance I get I'll visit them." She said.

They told her bye as she left out the door. Now it was Jonah and Astrid, the both of them in the room alone.

"Don't you have a place to go?" Astrid asked him after a short while.

"No; my parent won't mind if I'm not there. What about you?" Astrid had to think about it before she finally said something.

"I have a ship that travels through anywhere in the universe, so anywhere is possible." She paused before continuing. "But it does get lonely when you're on your own." He picked up on he message.

"You want me to join you?" she nodded her head. Jonah felt exited at what he was offered, but he knew he couldn't accept it. "I'd love to, but I still have my classes and friends to consider.

"Oh don't worry about that." She said.

"What do you mean?"

"The TARDIS is also a time machine." Jonah scoffed at that.

"Time travel is impossible, I still haven't perfected it." Astrid gave him one of he smug smiles and went to the red box in the closet where he heard the odd sound again, then he saw it rematerialize in the middle of the room, he finally got a good look at it without the confined space it was in. then Astrid walked out, her hair in a ponytail, bringing Jonah a flash back. "But how?"

"Time machine." She said, and it was all he needed to be convinced. He stepped inside aching to see the whole universe before him. He looked at Astrid who was at the console ready to set directions, and all she said was.

"all of time and space, everything that ever happened or ever will. Where do you want to start?"