After they had finished with lunch, the four friends made their way to Professor Mccoys office. After they left through the doorway of the cafeteria that lead outside the building, the four friends made their way across to the complex ahead of them. The four friends walked up the steps to the two front doors. Jack reached out and grabbed Onto the door handle. He pulled it open before walking in, still holding it open for his sister. After she came and,pushed the door open for herself and Kristoff, Jack came into the front lobby of the complex.
He began walking toward the hallway, till it was then the right wall came into view, revealing two elevator doo. rs. There was a few people there, waiting at the left one for the arrival of their defending platform.
"Right here, guys." Said Jack as he turned to the elevator doors.
Jack came up to the elevator on the right of the other. It was by that time the doors opened and the several students walked. As they settle, Jack came toward the open elevator doors."Hey is there..."
Before he finished the elevator door closed, sliding over the open doorway.
"I guess not." Said Jack as he turn to Anna, Kristoff and Tadashi.
"Looks like we're taking this one."
Jack came pass the right elevator door and pressed the arrow like button that pointed upward. He stepped back, gazing above the elevator door to the five floor numbers above, placing his hands on his hips. Slowly did the the yellow light shifted from four to three. Anna, Kristoff and Tadasho stood behind him, waiting patiently for the doors to open.
"I feel bad about doing this." Said Anna.
"I mean, just getting rid of all the work Mr, McCoy did."
"Well there's not much we can do about it." Said Tadashi.
"He's already made quite a constribution to physics, some of it will be remembered."
"Yeah, it's not like we're just going to toss him away." Said Kristoff.
"just gotta make way for someone new."
"I know your right, it's just... He was a really great guy."
The four friends could all agree on that. He was a really great guy and a very well educated professor. They've met him in several time in the past, he offered such great wealth of knowledge to many things. He wasn't a professor who was full of his theory and believe that he was right. He was always open to hear whatever opinion there was from he's colleges. It was a shame for him to have passed away at this time. Just then, the elevator door the slid to the side, opening to a boxed room with mirrors on the back and both sides.
"Finally." Said Jack, relieved that it was the door opened.
"Alrights lets go."
Jack walked into the elevator as his sister and friends came in after him. Once they were all aboard, Tadashi pressed the forthbutton, making it light up. The door the slid over the open entrance and seal them inside. The small boxed room then began to be be pulled upward to the forth floor above. Jack walked and leaned back on the wall behind him, making the mirror relect his back. All the while they waited for their stop.
After a few short minutes of waiting, their elevator finally stopped and the door way came open.
"Here we are." Said Kristoff as he walked out the open doorway.
Jack leaned off the wall and walked out of the elevator along with his friends.
"Alright let's get to his office." He said.
The four began walking down the hallway leftward of them. Just ahead of them was a corner that shifted right. As they came upon the turning corner, they came to see a large blue recycling bin, sitting next to the door of Mccoys office. Jack stood there, staring toward the blue bin. He sighed, seeing what was to be the last time he would see this to be Mccoys office. Just as Anna, he didn't want to just throw away all he had made. He was a friend and he didn't want to just toss away all that he did in his time of life, but just as Kristoff said, you gotta make way for the new.
"Let's get this over with." He sighed as he walked over toward the doorway.
"Kristoff can you bring the bin in?"
"Sure I got it." Said Kristoff.
Jack came to the front of the door. He reached for the handle and pulled it down, opening it to reveal the old professors office. It was a wide boxed room with a desk in the centre of it all. There was also shelves of books, some of them binders of his research and also white boards, one at the back, littered with equations.
"Alright, let's start with his book shelves." Said Jack.
Jack walked up to the tall, full case of books.
"What should we do about his books?" Asked Anna, curiously.
"I think Callaghan would want us to take them to the library." Said Jack, as he began taking books from the high shelves down.
"We might need some boxes."
Jack turned to Kristoff, as he saw him push the recycling bin inside the office.
"Hey Kristoff." He said.
"Could you go down and see if you can get some boxes, we're going to need them for theses books."
"I'm on it." Said Kristoff, as he turned and walked out the door.
As Kristoff left the room, the young white haired man turned to the wall on his right. There upon the white surface lied a framed picture of McCoy. Jack walked to face the picture. The full frame ame before him and was given sight of the full picture. There he was, an old Professor, dressed in a grey site with a red tie, standing in front of the picture, holding his masters dagree in front of him. To both his sides there was professor Callaghan and a man with brown hair and a thin mustache. For a moment, Jack only stood there staring at the photo, thinking in aww of his passing.
As he continued to gaze upon the picture, it was then his sister came up next to him. She placed her hand upon his shoulder. Jack turned to Anna, seeing her look in such grief as he. As Jack looked back to the photo, he focused his sights on Professor McCoy for sa short while. It was then that Anna looked from McCoy and her sights came upon the man who stood at the right.
"Hey who's that?" She asked curiously.
"Huh?" Asked Jack as he turned to her.
"That guy right beside McCoy." Anna said pointed to the man with the thin mustache.
Jack turned back to the picture and looked to the man who stood next to McCoy. He stared curiously, for never in his time in the University had he seen him.
"I don't know." Said Jack.
"I've never seen him before."
Jack turned to Tadashi, who was standing in front of McCoy's filing cabinets and looking through all that he had stored away.
"Hey Tadashi!" Said Jack.
Tadashi stopped and turned to Jack.
"Do you know who this guy is?"
"What guy?" Tadashi asked as he walked around the desk and came up to him and Anna.
Jack turned back to the picture and pointed to the guy on the right.
"This guy." he said.
Tadashi looked to the man in the photo. Upon his sight of the man did the young Aisan looked in in recognition of who it was
"Hey, that's Professor Adgar." He said.
Jack and Anna turned to Tadashi curious of what he knew.
"Professor Adgar?" Said Jack.
"Yeah, he was one of the Universities top professors." Tadashi explained.
"I actully read about him in several articles in science magazines. They said that he reaserch end several theory's to do with biology. He and professor Callaghan were also colleges, they both studied in the same schools together."
"So what happened to him?" Asked Jack as he turned to Tadashi.
Tadashi turned to Jack.
"I don't know." He said.
"Last I heard, people said that he became obsessed with some reaserch on a herb. After of which they said that he and his family disappeared somewhere in Africa trying to find it."
Tadashi turned back to the photo.
"The whole University said that he went mad. He said that this would be a break through and it would be a new medicine, might even be a cure for cancer."
Jack was comeletly left without a single thought of doubt about what he heard about Adgar. He sounded to be as they way he was decribed. To be consumed by his own thoughts. It wasn't that he didn't believe that there was a cure for cancer, but this sounded to be something out of Science-fiction.
"Your right." Said Jack as he gazed back to the picture.
"He sounds completly sain to me."
Jack turned away from the picture and walked to the other side of the room. Tadashi turned and followed after him. Anna turned back to the frame. She came up and took the picture from the wall and brought to McCoys desk.
With a passing hour, Jack Anna and Tadashi had already cleared out most of McCoy's shelves of his book. Anna and Jack had already cleared the top shelves from the professors books. Tadashi had went through his cabinet, tossing most of his papers and equations in the the blue bin. Over top of McCoys desk was stakes of books aswell as hindered filled with his reaserch papers. Jack was kneeling down at the middle shelf, taking the books off and setting them down on the desk behind him.
Just then, Kristoff walked in carrying boxes in his arms.
"I'm back." he said.
Jack turned to Krisrtoff and stood up from the floor.
"What took you so long?" Asked Jack.
"Sorry." He said as he came up with the boxes and set them down in front of the desk.
"I went to cafe here. Had to wait through a long line before I could ask if they had any. It was a good thing too, there were going to throw them out soon."
Jack came around and took one of the boxes.
"Think these will be enough?" Kristoff asked, having to only carry seven of them in a stake.
"I think they'll do." Said Jack, before he turned walked back around the desk.
"Alright, let's put his books in some of these boxes."
Jack set the box down on the ground as he turned and picked up a stack of books and set them down in the box. As he, Kristoff and Anna continued to fill the boxes with McCoys belongings. Tadashi continued to skim through his filing cabinet and pull out files that kept his work in an orderly fashion. As he pulled out his files, Hde skimmed through the Professors notes and equations. Some of them seemed to be well though out as can be expected.
Tadashi closed the binder and shut the cabinet drawers.
"That's another cleared." He said as he walked up to the recycling bin and open the lid, throwing it in with alot of his work.
"Still can't believe we're getting rid of all his things."
"Me either." Said Jack as set his books down in the box.
"A man's great work all gone to waste."
Tadahsi nodded his head to Jack before he turned back to the filing cabinet. He came to the very top and slid the drawer open. There was another huge line of files to go through. Tadashi sighed as he began to rummage through the files. As he pulled one out, the young Aisan opened the folder, expecting to find more of McCoy's work. However, upon opening the folder and skimming through the notes, the young adult came to find something strange.
"What the..." He said as he read.
As he continued to skirmish through the folder, he came to find more notes. Each of them were talking about a chemicle forrmula's and also testing of a strange herb. As he continued reading through the notes, he came across a name written at the top. Professor Adgar Handrick. Tadashi's eyes widen. This was professor Adgar's work. The reaserch he was doing before his disappearance.
"Oh my god." He said in a whispering tone.
"Tadashi?" Jack called.
"Huh?!" He said, lifting his sights from the notes and turning to Jack, Anna and Kristoff who were staring towar him.
"This is no time to be reading right now." Said Jack.
"We still got to pack up the rest of Mcoys stuff."
"Hang on." He said as he turned to them.
"Think I found something."
"What is it?" Kristoff asked curiously.
Tadashi came up to the desk, continuing to read the notes in the folder.
"I just found a folder bunch of notes and formulas about a herb." Tadashi explained.
"Whats McCoy doing studying a plant?" Asked Kristoff asked curiously.
"These arn't McCoy's." Tadashi said.
"This is Professor Adgars work."
The three stood curiously, looking to Tadashi.
"Let me see that." Said Jack as he came around to him.
Tadashi gave the folder to Jack. The young white haired man read through a few of the notes. They all were explanations that discribes a herb with had a strange chemicle formula that could be used in traditional medicine. There was also some of entries of some strang tribe legend that told of a healing plant. Adgar had went one to explain that tribes men were of a strange mind set that this was a gods gift to them. For whenever they found the erb had it brought them a cure for their sick and injured.
"So this is what the guy was studying?" Jack asked.
Tadashi nodded his head. While it may had sounded something fictional. It did look to give something promising.
"What's it doing here in McCoys office?" Asked Kistoff curiously.
"It's possible that he might have wanted to continued on with Adgars work." Tadashi said, knowing that McCoy was also knew allot about Biology.
"Who knows." Said Jack as he looked back to the notes and continued to read the notes.
"Hey guys hear this... The Test subject I treated with the sample of the herb has proven to be making a recovery from it's wound. The herb sample had healed any sort of damage dome to it mussel or flesh and is well on it's way to being able to walk again."
Jack lifted his head from the notes as he continued to ponder about what he read.
"This guy was on the fast track of making a scientific discovery." Jack asid as he looked to Tadashi.
"This sounds like it could be a possible Medicene."
"So he was in the mindset of finding something that could help people." Said Kristoff.
"That's what he was saying he was doing." Said Tadashi.
Jack continued to ponder about this. He knew at first that this sounded to be something out of science fiction, but with what he read, this did indeed sound as if it could be a possible breakthrough in the field of Medicine. For them to have come across such a thing was but a great opportunity for them.
"So if it was that he was actually on to something?" Jack said.
"Maybe this could be real. I mean, people are in the hospital sick and injured. This could be something we need."
Tadashi, Anna and Kristoff were all in the same mindset. With a need for Medicine and treatment to people sick or suffering injury. This could in fact be the next best thing to be furthered.
"Jack might be right." Tadashi said.
"We should take this to Callahan's office and see if we could get this research continued with."
The four friends had walked out through the front doors of the building. As they walked down the stairs, Jack flipped open the folder and continued to read all the scientific facts that it contained. It was according to the words presented to him that the herb had some kind of chemical that could help regenerate the wound of the victiem. The journal entries in the folder had explained that all his test subjects received a great healing rate from the small samples of the plant. Those that were slick were also treated and brought back to health. With this reaserch continued and more samples found, there could perhaps be a bright future for the University.
"I think I'm getting a good feeling about this." Said Jack turned to Tadashi, Kristoff and Anna.
"It's definitely something that Professor Callaghan would say yes to. Just imagine, San-Frinsisco University makes a break through in the world of Science as we know it. A new form of medicine taht can both treat sick patients as well as injured. The whole country would be giving a massive fund for it. Think how many people we'll save."
"Yeah." Kristoff agreed.
"We'll be know as the four university freshmen that brought hope to people who are suffering."
"Not to mention, we'll make this University the biggest symbol for education." Said Tadashi.
The four friend could only dream of the doors that would open. Not only would the University be a savour to the public eye, but also become a place of great wealth an knowledge with the funding. They could further other work of physicist and engineers. This was the chance of a lifetime, for them to prove themselves to the University and the whole country. But there was something Els that Jack though of, something important to him.
"We might even be able to give a better life for our families." Jack said, looking to his sister.
Anna looked in a curious manner to her older brother. She didn't exactly see as to what was so wrong with the life they had. They seemed to be fine the way they are.
"What's wrong with the one we got?" Asked Anna curious.
"Well nothing, but..." Said Jack.
"Don't you think we should leave something behind for Jamie and Riley. I mean give them the life we never had?"
In that manner of speaking, Anna could see where he was coming from. With the love and care they had for their family, the would do anything for them. It wasn't like there life was bad or anything like, but it wouldn't be so bad to give their younger brother and sister the life they deserved.
"Well I guess." She said.
"Come on, Anna." Said Jack.
"Our family deservers this more then anything. After everything that happened, we should at least give them a better life."
Anna then showed a smile and nodded her head, agreeing with what Jack was saying.
"Yeah, your right, Jack," She said.
"Our family does deserve a better life."
Jacked smiled to his younger sister. There wasn't any doubt in his mind that he couldn't count on her. They both wanted their family to be given a life worth living. It was for them that they will see it through.
"Now that's my sister talking."
It was a short time before they came to the main office building on campus. On the very top of five floors, the four were walking down a long hallway at the third floor of the main office building in the university. Jack held the stuffed folder of research close to his left side, as he walked in the front of the group. Up ahead at the end of the hallway stood the door to Professor Callahan's office. The four were all so eager for this moment to come. With the discovery of what could possibly be a new medicine, they were all so eager to show the president of the University of the possibilities that Professor Adgar had left for them. This could be something that would open a door for the whole University.
With so much promising factors before them, they were all so excited to hear what Callaghan had to say. Jack came up to the wooden door that stood before them. Jack raised his right hand up wards and knocked upon the surface of the door. He then stepped back and slid his hand in his pocket. It was a sort second before they were given a response.
"Come in." Callaghan said.
Jack turned to his two friends and younger sister
"Alright guys." He said, reaching for the door handle.
"Moment of truths."
Jack pushed down the handle and pushed the door opened.
"Professor Callaghan?" He said as he stepped foot in his office.
It was a small room with two windows at the left and the back behind the aging professor was sitting behind his desk, filling out some paperwork. Callaghan gazed up from his papers and looked the opened door, to which he was greeted by the sight of Jack, Anna, Kristoff and Tadashi. A smiled appeared on his face just as he set down the sheet he had in hand.
"Jack, Anna, Tadashi and Kristoff." he said.
"Come in."
"We're not keeping you from anything are we?" Asked Jack.
"No, not all." Callaghan said.
"please come in."
The four friends came into his office. Kristoff was the last one in after of which he turned shut the door behind him.
"I trust that you have Professor McCoy's things ready for his family." He said.
Jack and Anna came and sat in the two seats that stood in front of Callaghans desk. The two siblings looked to one another, knowing that they were not entirely finished with it.
"Well not exactly." Said Anna.
Callaghan looked to Jack curious to what was meant by that.
"We've got got most of his things ready to go." Answered Jack.
"But while we were doing it we came across something in his filing cabinet."
"Oh really?" Said The professor, curious to hear what it was the found.
"What did you find?
"We found this reaserch that seems to in the field of biology." Said Tadashi.
"It seems like something the University should further."
Jack handed Callaghan the folder they had found. The aging professor took the folder and then sat back in his chair. Upon opening it, he began to skim through the papers inside, taking in the info they held. Jack and Anna looked to one another, each of them believing that there was going to be an acceptance to their request. Callaghan was always opened to find anything for the University to find and research. The research by professor Adgar would surely be something of great knowledge to the focus studies upon. However their expectations would soon to be proven false. As they looked back to Callaghan who continued to read the research they found, a frown appeared on his face.
He then looked up from the papers and looked to have a shocked expression on his face. He closed the cover of light brown binder and set it down on his desk. He sat in silence for a moment before gazing up toward the four.
"Well…?" Anna asked.
"What do you think?"
There came no answer from the professor. Jack looked curiously to professor Callaghan. He saw the elder professor gazing back down to the folder full of research. He stared completely horrified as if he had witnessed something tragic. The research of his long lost college and friend, brought here upon his desk. The one thing that his friend had put his life's time into finding, but also the one thing that had driven him to his disappearance.
"Where did you say you found this?" He asked, looking back up to them.
"McCoy's filing cabinet." Jack answered.
Callaghan was once more silent as he continued to stare down at the folder. Jack was left a bit confused. It wasn't the reaction that he expected from him, not on the topic of finding what could be a new scientific discovery. He seemed to be shocked and it was apparent that he was surprised. Thought not the way he was expecting.
"We each read over the research and we thought it could be something that the University should look into."
Callaghan shook his head no.
"I'm afraid that this is out of the question." He said.
The four stood speechless. Jack turned to Anna with an expression of astonishment that Callaghan had turned down a chance to discover a new medicine. Here was a great opportunity for the University and yet it was responded with disinterest.
"What?" Jack said as he turned back to the university president.
"Professor Callaghan, you can't be serious." Said Tadashi.
"I mean…"
"I am serious, Mr Hamada." he said as he got up out of his desk.
"This university is looking for actual science discoveries. Not some jungle folklore."
"But Professor, this is your friends work." Kristoff pointed out.
"Why wouldn't you want us to continue on with his research?"
The aging professor sighed and turned to the window behind him that overlook the entire campus of the University. While it stood to be the truth that Adgar was his friend, a great friend at that. But however there was still a factor that discouraged him from accepting the friends request to further Adgar's lifelong work. It was what Adgar had turned into that brought a concerning feeling for him. His eternal dedication to find the answers he seeked for the questions he had, brought him to the point where he was so condemned and obsessed with it. He wanted nothing more then to find this herb and he followed this path all the way, till the disappearance of him and his family. He feared that the same would happen to these four young minds. For them to follow the same path that his friend had gone, to suffer the same as him, his wife and young daughter. Callaghan couldn't let it be so.
"He was my friend." Said Callaghan, remembering his past with Adgar.
"We've been together since I was the same age as you, Jack."
Callaghan turned to the four friends.
"But you should know that even with that, I don't agree with all that Professor Adgar had done in his time."
The professor walked around his desk and came to an old picture that stood on the wall beside the window.
"He was one of the greatest minds of our time." Callaghan explained.
"And his achievement and construction to science was duly recognized by me. But It was how he used his choices of researching that I didn't see the same eye as he did. This was one of those matters of speaking."
"You didn't agree with his work on this?" Asked Jack.
"Not at first." The professor said.
"The first day he came from his trip to Africa he told me all about this herb. He said that it was a secret medicine used by a trip somewhere in the Congo. They said it was a rare gift from their gods and spirit to heal their people when they were sick or injured."
Callaghan turned to his four visitors.
"Just like you, I was astonished by it. I supported him with his choice to research it. But I saw what it was turning him into. He spent so much time with his research of the herb so much to the point that he had neglected the people around him. I tried convincing him of what he was doing, but he didn't listen to me."
Callaghan sighed and frowned. Jack sat in silence as he listened to the professor's story of his fellow college.
"He was already so obsessed with finishing his work."
Callahan turned and picks up the folder full of research.
"It was this obsession that killed my friend." Callaghan explained As he handed the folder back to Jack.
"I'm sorry, but I'm afraid that I can't allow the university to continue this research."
"But professor…" Said Jack.
Before he could speak, Callaghan took away his chance.
"Jack." He said.
"I respect what you all are trying to convince me. But there's something you have to learn. There are things in life we have to learn are not worth following, no matter how great the reward may seem."
Jack narrowed his head as he pondered to what Callaghan had said. He respected the president to no end, but he felt comply
"Now, is there anything else that I should be notified of?" Asked the University president.
The four shook their heads no.
"No." Said Jack.
"There's nothing else." Jack said Just before getting up from his seat.
"We'll let ourselves out."
Callaghan nodded his head to them.
"Very well." He said.
"I'm sorry for not accepting your request. But I think that it's best for this to be left in the past."
The young white haired man nodded his head.
"I understand."
Jack turned to his friends as they walked back toward the doorway. Kristoff was the first to be faced with the doorway and turned the doorknob and pulled the door open and walked out into the hallway. Tadashi and Anna followed after him and Jack was to last to walk out the door. Coming out into the hall, he closed the door behind him, feeling so unsatisfied by the answer given by Callaghan.
"Well that didn't go as well as we thought." Anna said.
Jack sighed and began to walk back down the hallway. Tadashi, Kristoff and Anna followed after him. Anna came o his side and looked to her brother.
"So what do we do now?"
Jack only shrugged.
"I don't know." He said.
Jack kept walking down the hall, pondering about their denied request for the continuation of Professor Adgars research. He found it to be completely dumbfounded that Callaghan just turned it down. This was such a remarkable find for the world of science and he only turned a blind eye to it because of the fate Adgar had endured.
"I don't believe this." He said as he and his sister and friends walked down the hall.
"This is a great scientific discovery and he just just turns it down."
"Jack, I think that Professor Callaghan might be right about this." said Tadashi.
"I mean this is a rare plant if it does exist. Even if the he said yes, what would happen if we couldn't find it?"
"Yeah, but he turned it down because of his friend." Said Jack turning to Tadashi.
"I mean, he didn't think what this could be for the university."
"Well what can we do?" Kristoff asked.
"He just turned it down and I doubt he's going change his mind."
The four friends came to the elevator doors at the end of the hall. Jack press the bottom just before he stood back from the silver doors. He looked back down to the folder in his hand. He couldn't neglect what the information of this research he read, the theory that it had brought to mind. This couldn't just be shoved to the side and ignored.
"Guys, what if... We continued it?" He asked turning to his sister and two friends.
The three turned to Jack, gazing with a surprised expression.
"What?!" said Anna.
Just then, the elevator doors slid open, revealing a boxed shape room with mirrors on each side and at the back.
"I'm serious." Said Jack as he walked into the elevator.
"We can continue Adgars research."
"Jack are you kidding?" said Kristoff as he came on board the elevator.
"We don't even know anything about Biology."
"Then we'll have to get someone who does." Jack suggested.
The four friends had all piled into the elevator. The doors then slid back over the open entrance and the elevator began to descend downward to the main floor.
"Come on, guys." Said Jack.
"We didn't just find this research and then just decide to dump it because Callaghan rejected it. This is something the world needs. If Adgar is correct about what he was researching, then think of what we can do for those people who need help."
Anna, Tadashi and Kristoff looked to one another. With all that Jack had said, he did bring up a good point. This was a new medicine they were turning down. People suffering because of sickness or injury, they needed what could be a saving grace from their suffering. They couldn't just toss away a chance as great as this, not with that on the line.
"I hate to say it but, Jacks right." Kristoff said.
"We shouldn't just Bail on this."
Anna and Tadashi nodded their heads, knowing that Jack was right.
"Yeah, we're in." Said Anna.
The young white haired man smiled proudly to his friends. Their choice to handle this matter would bring so much, he knew it to be true.
"Alright, so we're all on the same page." He said.
"Let's finish what Adgar began."
