New munks
Fixing cash
" I can't believe you found him." Simon said. " yeah, great job, Andy." Alvin said. The four brothers, the ones spearheading the operation, had all been called over to Xavier's for Andy's report. Cash sat in silence. " Well leader man?" Alvin asked, sounding like his old thirteen year old self. " Well, good work. But, it was still reckless. What if.." " Cash?" " Yes Alvin?" Alvin smacked him good and hard. " Snap out of it. I've been talking with everybody. We need you to realize, your not the only one bearing the pressure here, okay? Look at yourself. Your exhausted, your having awful nightmares, your snapping at Kate. Kate for God's sakes! What I'm trying to say is, stop bearing the weight of the world on your shoulders. You don't have to do this alone, but that's what you seem to be doing. And, you seem upset and worried if somebody does something before you do. If I was in your shoes, I'd be happy I know somebody that brave, and I am. Relax and give the guy a pat on the back." " Yeah, the worlds too heavy, even for you." Theodore said. " Your strong, but you are no Atlas." Simon said. " Not even you can do this alone. I think Agito would tell you that, god rest him." Alvin said. Cash remembered what Agito had said in the dream. He shook his head. ' no, he thinks I was better off left for dead." Now It was Simon who smacked him. " That. Was. A. Dream! The real Agito loved you as his own, he would never had said things like that." But, Sy, it was your voice that said ' Agito must be spinning in his grave.' in the dream.' " Cash, it was a nightmare. A stress induced illusion. Yes, I can figure it scared the hell out of you, but it was a dream. It can not hurt you, or us. And, how well do we know each other?" " We're brothers. Like the backs of our hands." " Exactly. You know I would never use Agito against you and never ever would I use him that way. The man deserves to much respect for that." Cash nodded. Then it was Theodore's turn. " Cash, look at me." " Yeah?" " You have to remember, though you are Cash the Invincible to the kids, your still mortal. You can still be cut, you can still bleed and sadly, you can still die. And that's a major probability if you do this on your own. Right Sy?" " Right now, if he goes it alone, Cash stands a fifty percent chance of surviving and an equal chance of dying." " Exactly. And, you've come this close to death before. Frankly, as your brother, I don't like those odds. Not when it's Frankenstein." " Theodore's right. You stand a much better chance of winning this if we all go at it together. That's what we're here for cash." Alvin said. " Your…. your right. I've been letting this consume me. God, I even yelled at Kate. Let my mind go nuts with my nightmares. I'm sorry guys. Your absolutely right…. All for one?" " And one for all." they said. " Sometimes I wish I wasn't an only child." Andy thought out loud. " oh right. We almost forgot you were here, Andy." Theodore said. " It's alright." Cash walked over and patted Andy on the back. ' What say we cut the head off this snake?" " Sounds good to me." " Uh, not today. I got to take Liz to some singing contest she's entered herself in." ' Yeah, and I promised Benny I'd take him to the beach today. I'd better be going." " Yeah. I should go home too. I need to talk with Kate. Let her know I'm all better. Then, maybe train tom." ' Oh, Cash?" " yeah sy?" " Jeanette and Tony took Helen with them to do some errands." ' Okay, cool. I'll see you guys." " alright bye." " Your not leaving?" Andy asked. ' My son and wife are out of the house, leaving me alone. What else am I going to do?" " you could examine these." Andy said, pulling out the bottles.
New munks
Bad idea?
" Say, Simon?" " yes Andy?" " Quick hypothetical." " alright." " You read Frankenstein's note, right?' " Yes." " Okay, your smart. So, let me run this by you." " Alright." " Hypothetically speaking, let's say somebody drank a little of this, what would happen?" ' Andy, tell me you didn't." " I did." " why?" " I saw what it did to Eli and read that note and I figured, if I took just a little, I wouldn't be breaking my skin like Eli is, but still reap the rewards." " For power?!" " Not for a selfish reason. It was to protect the kids." " that's what the Prometheus is for." " Simon, with all due respect, you didn't see these guys. Eli's barely even human anymore and those animal men are bigger than you think. And, the lizard man is the biggest of them all, next to Eli. Not to mention, Frankenstein looked brawnier than what you remember." " Brawnier? Dear god, tell me he hasn't been experimenting on himself!" ' who knows? Maybe he works out?" " He's a scientist, like me. We don't work out." " but, don't you run on your treadmill at home for an hour?" " Okay, I'm an exception, but for the stuff I have to keep up with, it's understandable. I doubt nerd code would bring the hammer down on me." Simon laughed a little. " but, in all seriousness, how much of this did you drink?" ' About half a bottle." " Okay, I need a sample of your blood." " Why?" " I'm going to test it and see how this formula reacts with the human body. Maybe, I could make an antidote. Cure Eli, and, if I could get some hair or scales from the beast brothers, maybe cure them too." ' a complete gene cleanser?" " Well, yes. That's a way of looking at it." Then go for it." " alright, your going to feel a bit of pain." " Bring it on." Simon sliced Andy's finger with a small knife that was just laying around. He meticulously made sure it was safe in a tube. " alright, let's get this to my lab at home." Later. " Incredible. It's completely merging with your red blood cells, evenly distributing it through your body." " I'm glad your happy about this." ' Don't worry about it. I'll let you keep it until this is all over and then we'll use the cleanser on you. Okay?' ' Alright. Well, I have a lot of work to do. Here's my cell." ' what for?" " We have to tell the guys. It's only right. " " I guess so." Andy got the same reaction from the three brothers as he thought he would. " You did what!?" " I did it for a good reason." He explained it and the others said, that so long as Simon thought it was a good idea to keep it for now, they'd let him. They swore to tell no one but their wives. The kids, Dave, Rebecca, Xavier, Vinny and all the others needn't know. " And Andy?" " Yes Cash?" Think you could have told us this sooner?" " I didn't want to stress you anymore. I swear, once this is over, I'm taking the cleanser Simon is working on." " Alright then. Just keep it quiet." " Got it." " and, I guess it's good you did. Give us a secret weapons. ( maybe we won't have to go wild to deal with Frankenstein and his goons). " " Did you say something?" " I said it may be good you did. Gives us a secret weapon. But.." " You can't help but think it may be a bad idea?' " Just keep an eye on your self." " Got it." " and.." " Yes." don't go running off and drinking weird stuff on your own anymore. It would devastate everyone if something happened to you." " I understand." " alright, evening Andy." " Evening Cash." Later. " Did I do the right thing? Well, let's hope I was just being paranoid and won't need the power this'll give me."