"What do you mean take out the Yerk Pool." She asked. The Yerk Pool is a place where a Kanadra, a false sun, fills a pool of water with specialized radiation that Yerks must recharge every three days.
"He means," Jerry said. "take it out, go in there with guns blazing plant some C-4 hightail it out of there, press the detonator, BOOM! Blow the little fuckers back to Hell." Rachel didn't know what to say, it had obviously caught her off guard.
"I, well, I really don't know. I mean that's a big decision I guess I'd have to talk it over with rest of us."
"Yeah that makes sense." I said. "Tomorrow I'll let you leave and go to the valley, me and Karen can go with you so we can hammer out a game-plan."
"Um, Erik, right? I don't know if showing up with 2 more morph-capable people is a good idea, Jake is on edge right now, and I don't want to put too much stress on him…"
"Look," I said. "We need to do this, even if you won't help us with that our combined forces could still do a lot more damage if we worked together."
"I'll have to think about it." She said.
"Think quickly," Jerry said. "Fuck!"
"Huh?" I said, Jerry may not be squeaky clean in his language but he wasn't known for yelling out curses at random. Jerry pointed to the TV. When I saw what he had seen I said the same thing. A woman was standing in front of the hotel we had attacked.
"Last night there was a commotion at this local hotel. At about 6:00 pm this hotel was attacked by two armed suspects attempting to sabotage the hotel's opening. Witnesses say that the group consisted of one man and one woman. Both of these killed several hotel security staff with what appears to be animal based cutting objects, most of the dead were disemboweled." The woman had a look in her eye that said that she was happy to have given all of her viewers the excellent piece of information right as they were eating they're scrambled eggs.
"While there are no reports on the identity of the male suspect, police are looking for a white female," a police sketch of Rachel appeared on the screen. "about 211 pounds 5'6 to 5'9 with blue eyes and shoulder length blonde hair. The suspect is considered armed and dangerous anyone with information should call the police the hotel owners are offering a $300,000 reward for information leading to her arrest and an additional $200,000 if she is convicted." Jerry switched off the TV and slinked towards the phone.
"Not funny." Karen said.
"This could be a problem." I said.
"Could be?" Rachel asked. "This has just taken public transportation off my list of ways to get home, now I have to fly there."
'Whoa, fly? How far is it?" I asked.
"Maggie Valley," she said. "It's about a days flight away."
"Me and Karen have to go with you then." I said. "Karen has a good sense of time, flying that far in such little time it's easy to go over two hours and get stuck in a morph." Rachel's eyes had a faint trace of tears at that mention.
"I guess your right," She said. "but don't expect a warm welcome from Jake."
"Okay then," I said. "we'll leave tonight."
8:30 am
Becky and Anna got up a little later, they didn't seem surprised about Rachel's rise to fame. They knew there was trouble when the guards saw her clearly. Rachel seemed kind of nervous about the whole thing, so I decided to show her something that may have made her feel better.
I took her into my lab hidden via another secret passage in the house. As I said earlier I was researching morphing technology. Using money from the trust fund my parents had left me I was able to get my hands on some choice lab equipment, of course it was also in a sense 'stolen' but the end justifies the means in this situation, and hey I have immunity on all crimes relating to my resistance anyway so… getting back to my point, I showed her my biggest project.
The cylinder rose from it's liquid nitrogen bath. Inside was a bright orange liquid that was barely frozen despite the -300 degree temperature.
"What is this?" She asked.
"This," I said "is a mixture of several different chemicals that have high radiation outputs, it is safe for human or animal use and It has the ability to flush out the DNA strain of impurities."
"Come again." Rachel said.
"Sorry couldn't resist using the doc talk, this is a drug that may be able to release a person from a nothlit state." I let it sink in. Her eyes widened, she smiled, then laughed a happy laugh.
"Are you serious, does it work?"
"I haven't tested it on anyone yet, but I have used blood samples and computer model testing, chances are it does work."
"Oh God, oh thank God," her voice lowered, she seemed to be talking more to herself than anyone me. "I knew it, I always told him there was a way to help him, yes oh this is wonderful…"
"Now Rachel, I have to tell you that one of the side affects is that Tobias will have to re-acquire all of his morphs, if it works, and there's no guarantee it will, but Rachel there is a very good chance I can make Tobias human again." I had done what I wanted to do, Rachel has cheered up a lot after I brought her back up stairs. In addition to helping out a person in need I now had a bargaining chip to help cement support from Rachel. I pressed a button on the computer in the room and the container sank back into its bath.
