Hey everyone! Here's Chapter 5! Hope you enjoy!

I start school in two days, so updates may not come every 2 days like I've been doing, but I still plan on updating regularly. There will definitely not be weeks and months in between updates, but maybe a few days. I promise to keep up with somewhat regular updates, but you know how school can interfere with that.

RPGPersona: That would've been funny! It's fun to imagine a jealous Robin! They're slowly gathering more and more information, which will lead to a lot of action in the upcoming few chapters. Hope you enjoy it! :)

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The team talked to the rest of the injection victims, and all of them had about the same story. All of them had been walking in the jungle, usually during the evening or at night, and had been attacked by a tall, white man who fled towards the waterfall following the attack. A few of the victims had been able to get a better look at the man, and said that he had short brown hair and a muscular build.

After they had finished talking to the victims, Raven, with the permission of the nurses on staff, attempted to heal the victims. She was able to calm some of their fevers and lessen their pain, but she wasn't able to cure them. She hoped, though, it would be enough to hold them over for a while until they could potentially cure them. Even after her somewhat failed attempt at healing them, she stayed behind at the medical facility and began to study the disease and learn as much as she could about it.

She already knew that it was a virus that latched onto the victims' DNA and killed them within 48 hours. She had learned that most animals, with the exception of humans, are immune to the virus and therefore won't get sick. Humans though, when bitten, experience a horrible death. Within minutes of being infected, the host body will begin to rise in temperature. The body temperature continues to rise rapidly and will soon reach temperatures upwards towards 104ᴼF or 105ᴼF. Victims become severely dehydrated. Victims' bodies reject any and all food, so rehydration and nourishment is nearly impossible. After about 24 hours, the victims' bodies will begin to bleed profusely. The lungs begin to bleed, causing the victims to choke and cough up blood. The capillaries throughout their bodies start to break, causing extensive bruising, bloody noses, and bloodshot eyes. The cause of death for victims is usually some sort of combination of extreme dehydration, severe blood loss, and high fevers upwards towards 107ᴼF, and it's unbearably painful.

Cyborg, with the permission of the nurses, took some samples from the victims. He had taken blood samples and samples of their DNA, as well as samples from the bite marks and injection sites. He got samples from those who were recently infected, those who had been infected and were close to death, and those who had recently passed. He wanted to study the samples and see if he could pinpoint the virus and figure something out. Maybe if he could pinpoint the virus and how it affects the DNA, he could figure out how to reverse the effects of it, or completely eradicate it from the host body. It was a stretch, but he knew it could potentially be possible. Beast Boy somehow managed to survive it, so he knew there was some way to manipulate the virus or DNA.

After taking the samples and putting them in a safe spot so that he could begin to inspect them later, Cyborg reviewed medical records of the victims that the nurses had provided him with. All the records were eerily similar considering they had all fallen to the same fate. As the nurse had told him back at the medical facility, there had been 29 victims total, 8 of which had died so far. The oldest victim was 17, and the youngest three. Most of the victims were injected rather than bit. He struggled with deciphering any sort of logical pattern in the records. Register wasn't targeting a specific gender because about half the victims were male, the other half female. There wasn't a specific age that was targeted more so than the others, although the majority were ages seven and up. The only reason why the three year old was bit was because he had gone into the woods with the assistance of an older sibling who was also attacked. There was no pattern regarding family or status or anything. The attacks seemed to be completely at random, which was frustrating to him. At least with an identifiable pattern, they could potentially prevent more infections from happening by alerting the villagers to said pattern, but there was nothing. The only thing that would potentially prevent victims is to not allow villagers outside of the village, but he knew they couldn't get that to happen. Their lives depended on leaving the village to get food and water, so there was no way to control that risk.

Starfire and Beast Boy had gone around together and interviewed the villagers to see what information they could get about Register. They were only able to provide a little bit of information, some of which the teens were already aware of. According to the villagers, Register was a scientist who specialized in genetics. He worked with Beast Boy's parents, Mark and Marie Logan, while they were studying the genetics of animals and surrounding wildlife. After the death of Beast Boy's parents, Register disappeared, but not before being caught raiding the Logan's research facility. Important documents such as medical journalings and test serums were stolen and have not yet been recovered. No one had seen him since. Some had reported that they thought they saw him, but nothing was proven. Most of these reports were in the jungle; none had been in the village. There was information that suggested that Dr. Register had worked for S.T.A.R. Labs, to which Beast Boy confirmed.

It had been difficult to get the information out of the villagers. Many of them were hesitant, to say the least, to speak with Beast Boy. They exhibited a lot of prejudice towards him; some acted out of fear, some acted out of pure hatred. Luckily, he hadn't been alone. Because Starfire was associated with Beast Boy, they exhibited somewhat of a hatred towards her as well, but it was nowhere near as intense as it was towards Beast Boy. Beast Boy hated how they acted poorly towards her as well, but was glad to have her company nonetheless. Only a few acted out violently against him, but none of the attacks caused serious injury and were taken care of quickly before they escalated out of hand. Despite all the hate and anger directed towards him, Beast Boy handled the situations very well and remained professional throughout the whole event. Starfire noticed how it upset him, even though he didn't show it much.

Robin met with Abioye again to discuss the situation and get more information out of him. He was able to provide very little, and none of the information he got was new compared to the information that the rest of his team had gathered. More than anything, Abioye provided more threats and warnings towards him and his team, to which Robin countered. All in all, Robin's meeting was him was unsuccessful.

After all of them had completed their tasks, they headed back to their camp and waited to discuss the information they had gathered.