Chapter 19
Alley saw him from a distance. "Dad… that looks like Dr. Genus… why he is here?"
Her father stared at him oddly, but shook his head. "That's not him, that's a clone. Still, you're right. Why is he here?"
When the doctor went on his rant to Pac, claiming he was experimenting on him, trying to force his next evolution, he thought that was the cause of Pac's discomfort. When in reality, Pac just ate too fast and gave himself gas. However, what was said made Alley's blood run cold. "If you didn't eat the food then…" That's when she saw them. Three men cringing in pain, folding over trying to fight the agony placed upon them. The crowd began to run for their lives, unaware of what the threat was about to befall upon the heroes. Her father stood at the ready, but Alley sat him back down. "No, dad, not with mom. We got this!" she said.
Reaching under her seat she took out her serums. "I wish I had more time to test these!"
With that she jumped into action. The closest to her was Suiryu, with her arm serpents she injected herself before having her snakes bite into him. It will spread it faster but he has to keep moving. Alley saw Hunter run off, only to return with a wolf mask he found at the souvenir stand. He struck Suiryu hard enough to get his attention. It got him to stand and move about, but they have to keep him going until the serum could take affect. Next were Max and Snek, she was about to get to Snek but he waved her off. "No… Get… MAX!" he insisted.
Max was starting to grow jagged armor over his body, thick yellow plated skin, his eyes became demonic, his teeth jagged. She was able to hit him quickly, but knew she had to get him moving too.
Then, there was Snek. Worst of all out of the three. He was on the ground, unable to move. "Snek! Hold on, please, hold on!" She injected herself once more and get the serum into him. "Please, move, start moving, it will work faster, crawl if you have to, but please move!" she begged.
He slowly turned himself over, he began to drag himself across the ground, resisting the turn. Max was running, he contended with bursts of energy, when he ran, he gathered electricity. But the more he ran, the more he gathered until he had to unleash it in a burst of power!
"Remarkable, incredible! The delayed reaction to the monster cells I modified, it affect them in strange but beautiful ways!"
"ASSHOLE!" shouted Alley. "Who the hell do you think you are!"
He smiled. "Dear child, I am here to show the world the future through you and your family. The next stage of evolution isn't through the animal kingdom. It's the monsters! Your talents, powers and abilities are second to none, your family has the pinnacle of everything a human could want or desire! This… THIS is the next stage of the human development!"
"You are forcing change, that is not evolution!" she snapped back. "You cannot claim to be creating a better world when it is at the hands of those who do not wish to turn themselves into something they aren't! You cannot tell me with a straight face that what you do is for the benefit for all! You… you are scum… you are nothing more than a waste of flesh. How could you do this to people! How DARE you come after my brothers!"
He wasn't the least bit startled by Alley, in fact. He appeared amused by her. "Your intellect is second to none, I am aware you have taken everything my creator has possessed in the way of knowledge. But you are far from scratching the surface of your true potential. Your mind can be far greater broadened dear girl. I can help you with that since I never stopped where my creator did!"
Alley shook her head to him. "You do what you want, for the sake of your own ego. Not what is best for the world around you."
He shrugged his shoulders. "That maybe so, but at least, I succeeded. What can you say about this day? Did you succeed?"
Alley turned, despite the fact that they were kept moving, her serum didn't appear to be taking affect at all. "Perhaps, next time child. You will dare to dream a little bigger… and take a greater risk… For now, let's see how you contend with that…"
She turned, Kujo had eaten the food too, but his transformation was delayed! He became a giant of a monster, and was smiling from ear to ear about it! "Oh… BOYS!" he teased. His eyes were set on her brothers. No doubt he wanted revenge. She had just enough serum left to get into Kujo. But realized Kujo was too far gone. Yet she would try anyway. As she attempted to get close, Kujo stared down at Alley, only to swatted her away! She hit a wall hard, but not enough to really be damaged by it. "NEVER! I won't go back to being a pathetic human. This, THIS is power!"
Much to her surprise though, Max appeared enraged to what just happened, the power he gathered was turned on Kujo just as he was about to step on to the ring and attempt to squash Pac and Hunter! He was thrown back by the blow and stumbled.
Alley shook off the strike before glaring at the monster Kujo. She then turned to the clone of Dr. Genus. "Really? You think that's a problem? Did you forget something?"
"Oh, like what?" he said with a grin.
She didn't even turn around as she heard the monster Kujo get struck, thrown into the air and out of the arena. "I came with my dad!" She then summoned her serpent, and took one lash at the doctor. The fangs struck but he wasn't the least bit impressed. "Oh… you hit me with your serum?" he asked teasingly.
"No, I used all that up… you're about to go night night!"
"Do you take me for a foo…." He suddenly went limp.
With the clone down, Alley went to check on the others. Snek was still trying to keep himself moving. Suiryu was slowing down but became more coherent. Max finally calmed himself enough to stop running around. She noticed Max's eyes return. Snek no longer appeared to be in agony. Three great fighters brought to the brink of exhaustion. They all collapsed and hit the ground.
"Alley… you're cure is working!" said Hunter as he took off the wolf mask.
She shook her head. "It only stopped the transformation… not curing it. I got to go back to the drawing board."
Their father returned, yet he was picking his teeth. "What I miss?"
"My failure," said Alley. "But let's not dwell on it. We got to get them to the hero hospital."
