Chapter 14
"Thank you. That's very generous of you, but I think I should stay here with my brother until we get a handle on things." Susan told Victor as she turned around to face the raven as he walked over to her and then placed the shirt back in her suitcase.
"Susan, I think you should let my doctors have a look at you." Victor then told Susan causing the blond to cross her arms over her chest as Reed's voice filled the air.
"Victor." Reed told the raven haired man as he walked into the room with some sheets for Susan.
"What are you doing here?" Reed curiously asked Victor causing the raven haired man to look at Reed before he looked at Susan once more.
"I'm starting to wonder the same thing." Victor told Reed and Susan before he looked at Reed once more.
"How much do you know about what happened to you?" Victor asked Reed causing the raven haired man to sigh as he placed the sheets on the nearby desk.
"Not much." Reed told Victor.
"We need to run tests to see the extent of the damage." Reed then told Victor as he walked over to Victor and Susan.
"You let me know what I can do. We're all in this together now." Victor told Reed before he looked at Susan once more and then walked out of the room.
+With Victor, outside of Sue's room+
"Victor, wait." Reed yelled at his former boyfriend as he ran out of the room and stood a few feet away from the enterece of the room as Victor walked over to the elevator and then pressed the down button.
"I just wanted to say I'm sorry the mission didn't go as planned." Reed told Victor causing the other raven haired man to turn around.
"Didn't go as planned? It was a catastrophe. You ruined the lives of four adults, a preteen and a five year old child." Victor angerly told Reed.
"With all due respect, we're both to blame. It wasn't my idea to have a preteen and a five year old on the flight. You refused to let us even do the flight unless Johnny and Kayla were with us and I told you to abort." Reed told Victor as he took a couple of steps towards Victor.
"Abort? I put my company, my name, billions of dollars on the line. I will not let you make me look like a fool." Victor angerly told Reed and then yelled at his former boyfriend as he stalked over to Reed.
"Victor, if we could understand-" Reed began before Victor angerly interupted him.
"I don't want to understand it! This isn't one of your science projects! I just want to fix it, fast!" Victor angerly yelled at Reed as the lights began to flicker just as Ben's voice filled the air.
"Is there a problem?" Ben asked Victor as he walked out of Reed's lab with a scared Kayla clinging to his head.
"No." Victor sighed as the light's stopped flickering.
"No problem, Ben." Victor weakly told Ben asked the elevator dinged.
"Just pay your dang electric bill and get to work on finding a cure." Victor then weakly told Reed before he turned around and then walked into the elevator before the elevator's doors could close once more.
+With Victor+
Still furious, Victor punched the elevator causing a dent to appear in the elevator causing Victor to look at the dent and then look at his now scarred hand in shock.
+Testing chamber, Reed's lab, a few hours later+
"Whoa!" Johnny yelled in awe as he covered his entire body in fire.
"Wow!" Johnny then gasped as he looked at his flame covered body.
+Control room+
"He's heating up from his core." Reed told Thomas and Susan as the blond haired man took notes.
"And his vitals are completely normal." Susan told Reed in awe as she and Reed looked at some computer screens.
+Control room, an hour later+
"If we're going to identify the source of the mutation..." Reed began as he looked at another computer that had an image of Ben on it and his data on it.
+Lab, a fmew minutes later+
"We need to isolate your recomviant D.N.A so we can activate positional genomes." Reed then told Ben as he and Susan lowered a machine in front of Ben as Thomas continued to take notes while Marcus, Agumon and Gaomon kept an eye on the kids and their digimon.
"Huh?" Ben curiously asked Susan.
"We have to do a physical to see what got zapped." Susan told Ben as Thomas nodded.
"Oh. Why didn't you say so?" Ben asked Reed as the raven haired scientist x-rayed Ben.
"His internal organs are completely solid." Thomas told the group in awe as he looked at the computer moniter that was attacked to the machine as Ben's heart beat filled the air.
"How bad is it? You know, I used to smoke." Ben asked and then told Reed, Susan and Thomas as the three adults looked at him.
+Lab, a few minutes later+
"It's not invisibility pre se." Reed told Susan as he looked at a computer screen with her image and data on it and then looked at Susan through a special magnifying glass.
"You should be able to bend light around other objects, even people, if you could control your emotional state beter." Reed told Susan as Thomas took down notes while Reed typed on a keyboard.
"Excuse me?" Susan asked Reed as Thomas shook his head knowing that Reed was making a mistake.
"I'm saying, if you had more self-control, you could locate the trigger." Reed then told Susan causing Thomas to groan.
"Can you remember your exact emotions on the bridge?" Reed then asked Susan as she crossed her arms over her chest.
"Anger. Rage. Frustration." Susan explained to Reed as she tried to remember how she felt on the space station's bridge.
"Okay, is there any way to duplicate that feeling? Some memory or-" Reed began to ask Susan as he tried to think of a way Susan could duplicate the feelings she felt on the space station's bridge.
"I'm sure I can come up with something." Susan then told Reed.
+Lab, a few minutes later+
"It seems your vocal cords have been modifyed to enhance your screaming. However, I do not know how loud Kayla or you are." Reed explained to Thomas as he looked at a computer screen with Thomas's image and data on it and then looked at a computer screen with Kayla's image and data on it.