Part 9-
-January 7th-
Jaime blinked open his eyes before closing them once more when he was blinded by the strong light.
"Oh, my head" he groaned, "what happened?"
{The completion of the Protection Protocol took more energy than previously predicted, add that to your constant stubbornness and you get sick}
'Oh, so I'm better now?' Jaime looked around, not recognizing the room, "where are we?"
{Mount Justice Medical Room. Jaime Reyes, the doctors took some of your blood and ran it. Due to the Dimension differences, they believe you have a virus}
'What did I have?'
{The Common Cold}
Jaime chuckled, "nice"
The door opened and a doctor in a hazmat suite, they stopped in what seemed to be surprise before heading over to him.
"Mr. Reyes, how are you feeling?"
"I feel fine"
The doctor nodded and checked his vitals, temperature, ect... looking stumped for a moment before quickly covering it up.
"Well, it looks like the virus ran its course"
"Virus?" Jaime feigned confusion.
"The one we detected earlier, we sent a sample to the CDC and it seems to be a mutated version of the Common Cold"
"Oh"
"Luckily, they confirmed that it was not contagious"
"That's good"
"It is"
Jaime shifted so that his back was against the wall as he watched the doctor work.
"When am I allowed to get released?"
"Tomorrow if there is no rebound of the virus"
Jaime nodded in understanding.
Jaime was released the next day after the 'virus' didn't return.
{Jaime Reyes}
Jaime frowned, Khaji Da sounded... worried.
'Go ahead'
{I have reason to believe that the Reach are already here}
Jaime stiffened and forcefully pushed back dreaded memories, 'do you know where exactly?'
{No, I am performing a scan on this planet as of right now, however, they may be jamming their identification coding}
'Understood'
Jaime gasped in surprise when he was suddenly slammed into by a little green monkey.
"Blue, you're okay!" the monkey shouted as he shape-shifted into Garfield Logan, AKA Best Boy.
"Si, I'm good"
Garfield cuddled closer to the bug and Jaime carefully carried him to the main area where everyone else was.
..
-3 Hours Later-
Jaime explained what happened (leaving the fact about the Reach out) to Brenda and Paco and they all had a good laugh.
"I cannot believe that out Dimensions Common Cold is more advanced than theirs" Paco grinned, "that must have scared them so much!"
"It did knucklehead, "no one in, no one out" remember?" Brenda stated.
"Ohhhh yeahhhh" Paco smiled sheepishly.
The two others rolled their eyes good naturedly.