We're Inside And Losing

By. Tate Icasa

Chapter Four: Yittzie's Explained

As soon as they got hom, Phil kept his promise to Keely, and exlained Yittzie's Disease.

"Some time around 2087 a war broke out beween Earth and her first Lunar colony. The war was fought using mainly biological weapons. The colony was losing rather horribly. So they began working on a new weapon. A mind-control weapon.

"See, they figured that if they could link their mids the the mind s of the Earthpeople, and could control then, then they could win the war. It took them until 2093 to come up with what they considered a viable solution. They'd created Yittzie's.

"What they didn't realize was that it was fatal to both sides. Yittzie's didn't merely link minds. It almost always destroyed them. Almost no one who got it survived. And the once who did. . .most of them were different. Finally, a rebel Lunar scientist, Marabelle Yittzie, engineered an. . .antidote. It cured all but those in the farthest stages of the disease. THe Earthpeople decided to honor her by naming the disease after her. A few months later, Yittzie negotiated the Luna-Earth Peace Pact, and ended the war.

"Years later, Shenan Yittzie, Marabelle's great-great-grandson, decided ti would be safest if the remaining samples of the disease were sent back in time, to the age of the dinosaurs."

"So that's what killed them!" Keely interrupted.

"Yeah, that was also a major reason for our vacation. My father was supposed to release them all, but I think he missed one." he fell silent.

"So." Keely said. "We're going to die?" A kind of numbness set over her mind.

"Uh, mom?" Mim asked suddenly. "If Phil and Keely have this Yittzies, shouldn't I?"

Sara gasped. "That's right! Honey, who's been in our house lately?"

"Oh, no. Not her." Kim said.

"Who?" Sara asked.

Phil had a pretty good idea of who she meant and smirked when she shuddered and whispered. "Berwick!"

A/n: I know, I know, I'm messing up the seasons. . .I apologize, but I wanted Debbie and Pim in each other's heads. . .dunno why. . .