Shattered
Part One: Byrne
Chapter Seven
Explanation
The door opened again.
Fizz came in, with Loogie and Old School behind her.
"Deets is coming." She said.
A few minutes later Deets came in.
"Are we all here?" Byrne asked.
"Yeah." I said.
"Good." He was silent for a moment. "I went for a walk. Then I passed out. Didn't know why. Woke up agin in Bedlam's lab, crystal already encasing me. Bedlam explained it to me. That 'Class Five Laser'? There was a delayed second reaction in that shot."
"But there was no residue!" Fizz protested.
"It was absorbed into the clone that fired it. And by the way, Ed, you were right. That clone did say 'meet your doom.'"
It was the last kind thing he said to me for a long time.