May 14, Location, Time, and Place: CLASSIFIED
Pearl's eyes opened for the first time since she was sedated. Upon inspecting the room, she saw that leads had been attached to her chest in order to record her heart rate. It beeped somewhat frequently, and showed that her heart rate was 70 beats per minute.
She tried to move her neck, but severe pain was felt whenever she moved it the slightest bit. It became obvious that the "surgeon" she had seen earlier had sliced into her neck tissue and had done something with it.
"But what would someone want with my neck tissue?", Pearl wondered. "My body is just like everyone else's."
She then attempted to speak, but she was met with extreme fits of coughing when she tried. Pearl then found that a plastic tube ran out of her mouth and into some sort of machine.
Her chest rose and fell at regular intervals. It was impossible for her not to breathe, so she assumed that the machine was breathing for her for some reason. Before she could think anymore, footsteps became audible. Scared for her life, she fell back onto her pillow and shut her eyes tightly.
The footsteps got louder and more frequent. She thought all was well until she felt something was being pulled out of her. Her eyes shot open and she tried to scream in fear, but she instead started gagging on her ventilation tube and she felt her intestinal contents rushing back into her stomach.
After about 10 seconds, the tube was pulled out of her mouth, and she stopped gagging, coughed a few times, and breathed loudly several times to get the feeling of the ventilator out of her throat tissues. The "surgeon" was silent, but he handed Pearl a mirror.
She slowly tilted it towards her neck, where she saw nearly 30 stitches holding the sides of her incision together. She handed the mirror back to the "surgeon", who walked away laughing.
"I can't believe she didn't even resist! And now we'll be able to continue our mission."
He looked over his comrades, who were experimenting with a piece of thyroid tissue, when another man entered with an ampule, which contained a liquid.
"Here it is, Master. All 250 micrograms of it. Synthesized trinitrolutein."
"Yes... now we will be able to proceed with my plan. With this, we are now unstoppable! The Los Angeles Police Department will not be able to halt us any more!"
May 15, 7:34 A.M. Wright and Co. Law Offices
Phoenix asked Maya, "Any news on Pearls yet?"
She sighed, "Nope. It is still a mystery to where she might be. It is so hard waiting for the police to find her!"
The attorney looked up at a few case files, which were from 2011. One had a cover that read: United States of America vs. Andrea Helprin.
He asked, "Maya, do you think that it would be a good time to read another case from the old days?"
She implied, "I think reading this case would be quite interesting. It seems that the national government was suing someone, not just the state of California."
Phoenix held his breath as he turned the page.