CHAPTER TEN: Shadow's Of The Abyssal

The chief Respertorian looks at Ulkesh and Nanarke. "So Ulkesh and Nanarke, what brings you to the abyssal?"

Ulkesh Kosh looks at the mer-individual, "WAR!"

The haft fish-Human hybrid laughs, "War—ha—now with whom?"

Ulkesh Kosh replies, "ALL."

The smile on the Respertorian melts away. "Liberators?" The Vorlon's with out their encounter suits don't say a word. "You do understand that bring flesh down to the abyssal will doom our relationship."

Ulkesh Kosh looks harshly at the Respertorian."RELATIONSHIP IS IRRELEVANT."

This time the Resperlizers says nothing. "So what do you want us to do?"

Kosh Nanarke speaks gently. "BRING AS ONE."

"As a race?"

YES." Nanarke nods.

"How, they are so multicultural and you remember what happened last time we created a multicultural race, they almost leveled this world with that plague." A brief moment of silence. "Well lets run their genes through our machines, you want to add any type of separate life support?"

Nanarke answers. "NO, ONLY USE THE CODE."

The Respertorian looks at the bodies, "But those wont do much."

"YES." Says Ulkesh.

The Vorlon's swim away to Fuji to recall their ships. "Tarpez, prepare the genetic makeup debreaker I have to situate the bodies in the room."

Tarpez enters to run into Kosh Nanarke who decided to stay behind. "You scared me, so how do you want the genetics arranged?"

Kosh Nanarke looks at Tarpez. "ENTER THE CODE ON THE COMPUTER THE REST HAS BEEN DONE."

Tarpez looks at the numbers. "I do have one question, what is there to break?"

Nanarke looks at Tarpez, "THE PAST."

Tarpez is confused. "Of what?" The Vorlon does not answer, but instead turns and exits the complex to swim to Fuji. On the computer is Vorlon text ready to enter.

Abyssal computer Mainframe Password

ABYSSAL COMPUTER MAINFRAME

Welcome Doctor Tarpez Today schedule?

Experiment number: 962142 Condition? Active

Number being cocooned? 9 Activation Number?

Please enter new DNA code

Delenn 3rd, Nanette, Iris, Gram, Arimira, Casthmatic, Jake, Delteine, Deltalenn

Please enter new RNA code

Nan 2h, 1a, 1m: Del 2m, 2h: Del 4m: Gra 2s, 1a, 1v: Ari 2s, 2v: Jak 2h, 2a: Iri 2h, 1a, 1m: Cas 2h, 2a: Dey 2n, 2m: Proto: 12 h12a7m10s4v3sa12 sq12 rp12

New species finished press

OK

As Tarpez presses, 'Begin process' the DNA and RNA mixers turn on and enters the chamber. As the doctor gets up to the lab above the sleeping chamber he tells Tarpez to hit the 'Inject Process' button. As the doctor looks at his watch he tells that the process will be over in two hours. As Tarpez looks out the window ever one of the nine are being cocooned.

As the second hour passes the large dark domed room looks like an giant spider ness with nine cocoons being held up by strains of cocoon like material, the cocoon is a quite strange object that respirate's them, feeds them, provides protection, and changes them. As Tarpez, Dr. Icemic, Ulkesh, and Nanarke stand above in a concealed room, Dr. Icemic wants to solve two problems at once. In their makeshift prison is a prisoner called Knife Kelly a disturbed Resperlizer who had killed nine other Resperlizers. Dr. Icemic agreed to release him if he can survive and kill nine more people with any knife of his choice. As Knife Kelly enters the dome he is horrified by what he sees, there is nine oozing cocoons that emit a smell and gas that is pungent. As Kelly walks slowly in the center of the room he uses his knife to cut the trip lines that hold the cocoons in stable place. As he walks towards Delenn 3rds cocoon he raises his knife to strike a fatal blow to the protoplasmic shelter, but as he is ready to strike he feels like if needles are jabbing straight into his hands as the pain rattles throughout his hands he notices the fine white cocoon spindles from Iris's cocoon on the left. As he tries to tear the fleshy strings off, more needles pierce into his body now from all sides, burning. As the white lines begin encasing him. As Dr. Icemic listens to screams of pain he wonders what is happening to Kelly's body. As Kelly's body is now encased in cocoon material it sits off on the site where he fell. As Dr. Icemic mechanically removes Kelly's cocoon it is sent to the trench to be destroyed. This test tells Dr. Icemic not to send anyone into the lab till the transformation is complete. A few hours latter steam erupts out of the cocoons and the doctors risk their lives to clean of the fluids off the cocoons or be tortured by Ulkesh Kosh. By the second hour after cleaning, the nine emerge, clothed in ice white clothes, but seeks more clothes because it is too cold. As Dr. Icemic looks at the nine Delenn 3rd and Deltalenn have not altered, but have changed, they are both nine years old and are fully human! Kosh tells Dr. Icemic that this is normal for Minbari, she'll change by her 16th birthday as all Minbari-Human hybrids. Deltalenn goes to Iris, the closes to her. "Wake up Iris!"

Iris awakens, he feels slimy to touch. "What happened?"

Deltalenn looks around at the complex. "I don't know, but the entire crew of nine is alive."

Iris looks at the gooey ooze. "What is this slime?"

Deltalenn looks at it, it's disgusting! "I don't know, some type of protoplasm."

Iris looks at the fleshy cocoons, "Where are we?"

Deltalenn looks around. "Again I am not sure; it looks like some type of bubble."

The door opens and an Asmaraqua like person walks in. "Welcome to the home of the Resperlizers, we've been awaiting the return of the Hybritical Respertorians."

Nanette who has been awake for the past 30 seconds, looks at the fish-like creature. "Hybritical what?"

"Hybritical Respertorians, a culture we created to help you battle the Shadow's, Liberators, and Hand as one." Looking at the crew of fully young Human's. The Armada's crew is confused. "Okay, in a more understandable way the Liberators have taken their place as the ruler of all species. They have the Hand, and the Shadow's as servants pulling the trigger as they sit back and liberate other planets. They were forced back by their children billions of years ago, but now with the Shadow's back; forgiven; the fight to become master is destroying all creation."

Nanette looks at the owner of this place they are in. "So we are your creation?"

"No, and yes, we were only servants of the Race of Light we created the group to be organized and created the false makeup to hid you until now."

Deltalenn is becoming annoyed. "Cut to the chase, who are we and what are these new DNA's?"

He looks over at Deltalenn. "All right to the chase, your all hybrids of Minbari, and Human, that is why you're here!"

Nanette questions. "So you created the first Minbari?"

The creature shakes his head. "No it was the Liberators that created a massive army of super spiders—they serve the Eye and are known as the Soldiers of Darkness."

Nanette continues. "So then tell me this who created the triluminary?"

The creature looks out at the dark blue water. "The Vorlon's did. There were three of them create to control all life. The problem with creating powerful objects—everyone wants them for their own use. One triluminary creates life by taking two lives and fusing them as one, this would be in your case. The second triluminary creates life by taking your past to create the future an a example would be Ambassador Delenn, the only problem with creating yourself as a hybrid is that you take your soul carrier and the present soul and divide them in half. So for a Minbari transforming he or she, so lets take Delenn as an example and she would take half of her Human host which is given half of her genetics thus producing to hybrids at two different times, so in Iris's case when you look at him you see Delenn of 2261, problem for Iris" As the Resperlizer looks at Iris. "Is that he is now the recessive gene carrier and to become half which is a equal mix of recessive and dominate genes he has to become the replica of the one who started the transformation."

Iris looks at himself, "You mean I am going to become Delenn."

The Respertorian smiles, "When you become of age in Minbari. Which is 16 in Human years and 32 in Minbari. But to get back on track the last triluminary was taken by the Liberators during one of their wars with the Vorlon's, they used this triluminary to create the very first hybrid and very first mage, they called it their "black chrysalis". This chrysalis is only to be used for Vorlon use so as you can guess, the Shadow's and Liberators lost control and instead of controlling the triluminary it controlled them."

Nanette looks at the place. "So tell us who we are!"

The Respertorian looks at the nine. "You are called Hybritical Respirtorians, your race is Minbari-Human except for those who are not part of this group, and then they will form much different."

Deltalenn looks at the Respertorian. "But how?"

The Respertorian looks at Deltalenn. "It was a risk to come down here, and if your not the one then by your 16th birthday you will leave your Human form to develop a Minbari crest bone, Minbari arm structure, no sweat glands due to the lack of sweat pores and the protoplasm layer, Human hair and emotions, the ability to live underwater and one punishment from the Vorlon's—and from what I know four of you are not the one, but who I don't know. Now we are on a busy schedule and have to get you back into space. We've have brought this ship for the arrival of the Hybritical Respirtorians, so follow me please."

The Respertorian alouds Nanette and Deltalenn wake the other. As the others wake they look at the place in shock and awe, never in their lifetime have they ever thought that anything could live in this harsh condition on Earth. As the nine arise they looks at one another, all appear to be Human, but most don't know the embarrassing fact that they were mutated into a multi-breed, and they themselves have unconsciously already killed one person with their bodies own evolutions. As they follow the Respertorian they whisper to one another on the fact, does anyone know what has happened? It seems that they know that they are hybrids, but being change does not please all of them. As they enter a second dome and there is a Vorlon like vessel. It is about half a mile long with slender materials. As the eleven walks closer to the ship, Dr. Icemic and Tarpez stop walking knowing that if they go to close they will die. As Nanette looks at the vessel, never in her life has she seen one of these ships in person, the technology is about 1000 years behind the Shadow's, 500 years behind the Hand, 2000 years behind the Liberators. But with regards, the technology is at least 1000 years ahead of Human technology. As the other nine look at the vessel one at a time enter thought the plasma wall. As Dr. Icemic and Tarpez leave the dome the walls open and the ocean water rushes in, but the Vorlon like vessel handles it. As the vessel launches off it hits the surface in one minute and is in space.