He had no idea why he was there, he didn't like the plan and he didn't like having to drive. In all of his life he had never driven a vehicle, he had seen them over the near five hundred and fifty years of his long life but he had never actually sat in one and he had never actually drove one. He was still very nervous about the vehicle, it didn't move right for him, was much too jerky and to him, unstable. Nervously he swallowed, his throat made a clicking sound that made his wife turn to him. She saw the nervousness on his face and gently placed her hand on his shoulder. He glanced at her then look forward, any moment now he would have to turn the key as he had been taught and at any moment he would have to slam his foot down on the gas pedal.
"Atlas, you need something to drink?" Helen asked him. "You're sweating horribly."
"I's fahn." Atlas said, his voice shook some. "I's fahn, Helen."
The plan had called for four drivers, the two mature males had walked up so confidently and assuringly. They had been given the keys to two stolen vehicles and given instructions to wait at the entrance of the Crystal Palace's park. Another male, a young one that looked no older than nineteen years, had walked up and said he wanted to be the third driver but his Angel, the woman who still had his heart, and the woman who still wrought his frustrations, had turned him down due to his not having a license, the youth had persisted for two days then Angel had caved. A fourth driver had been needed, his son Hannibal had stepped up to offer his help but he had insisted that he stay out of the plan. He had offered just to keep his son from trying again and that had started a fight between him and Angel. He had no license, he didn't know how to drive. That Lieutenant had called him a big risk, an unneeded risk, that had hurt him bad and he had near thrown him out of his mountain stronghold. After a few days of fighting Angel had started training him to drive. When he had learned the basics; how to start up and shut down, how to drive, how to make turns and how to use the pedals, Angel had given him the keys to an army jeep, the very vehicle he had learned to drive in.
"I's not drivin' agin afer dis!" he said to his wife. "I perfor hosses and camels to dis ting."
"I agree with you there, honey." Helen replied. "Smoother ride and less dangerous."
Angel had teleported them, and their vehicles, to Crystal Palace, London, a residential area located in South London, England. Lieutenant Rollins and Captain O'Nell were stationed at the entrance of the Crystal Palace Park, Jason was stationed at the Crystal Palace railway station while he, Atlas, was stationed just outside of the Stambourne Woods. Angel was with Kat and Aisha, the two teenage girls would get Angel's grandfather's attention then Angel would show up and a chase would ensue. KurukVile Surfeit was alone, the rest of his group had gone off to scout other areas of London for Angel. Atlas fiddled with the radio, the chase had started a few seconds before, the last he had heard was that KurukVile had seen Angel and had given chase. He knew how to use a radio, he had plenty in his mountain stronghold. Only static came through and that made him more nervous. He had his finger ready to turn the key to start his vehicle up when the younger teenage girl, the one named Kat, radioed him.
"She's heading to the railway station!" Kat reported. "Jason, be ready! He's in a car, Angel's riding a motorcycle."
It had started out nicely, she had teleported everyone and their vehicles to Crystal Palace, London and everyone had taken up their positions. The only one who looked nervous was Atlas and she knew well why. He had not only himself to worry about, but his wife who was with him and his people. Atlas had been a good learner, he was nervous behind the wheel but that was expected as he had never driven a car before. Regardless of the small fights they had had over the week, he hadn't much helped in making the plan but he had taught her well on how things went down during a hostage situation, that was enough for her. She wasn't pressing him hard to help, she asked gently and nicely and he, although reluctantly, would help. Sometimes, there was a price for his help and at other times he had just walked off in frustration. She was grateful, regardless.
"There he is." Kat pointed her finger through the bushes.
"You two know the plan?" Angel asked her two friends.
"Get his attention." Aisha responded.
They were near the Crystal Palace transmitting station, a tall communication and broadcasting tower loomed over them. They were hiding in a bunch of bushes and directly in front of them, getting out of a car, was KurukVile Surfeit. Angel's grandfather was alone, he had instructed his group earlier to split off to cover other areas. They had found this out only because they had overheard him say it. Angel's grandfather was wearing an all brown furred robe, a belt of brown leather was around his waist, from it hung small finger bones from the animal whose fur he was wearing, Kat thought it was a Grizzly Bear but wasn't sure. On his feet were a pair of brown shoes. Angel looked at the two girls and nodded her head, they nodded back then jumped out of the bushes together.
"Hey! Kowok!" Aisha yelled, she waved her arms up in the air. "Getting a bit of extra skin on you aren't you?"
"You look as if you've gained a hundred pounds of fat on you!" Kat screamed, KurukVile was glaring at them angrily.
"Ah, the two teenagers that were not found in Angel Grove." KurukVile walked forward. "Very far from home, both of you are."
"At least here it's better than dingy old Gamma-Vile." Kat called out.
"Watch your tongue, Girl!" KurukVile barked.
There was a sound behind them then Angel ran out from the bushes, KurukVile blinked his eyes once then gave chase. They ran around the transmitter once then Angel led him towards the railway station, he stopped and turned around. He passed by Kat like a whirlwind, her hair flew back as he ran past and she near fell down from the force of him running past. He didn't touch her, he simply ran past and went to his car. He got in, started the engine and sped off, in the direction that Angel had gone. Angel had expected something like this to happen and she had placed a motorcycle just in case near a curve. She leaped up on the seat, turned the key and revved off.
Angel heard Kat telling the others about how it had begun, they had their orders now to get to the Crystal Palace Park and hop in with either Lieutenant Rollins or Captain O'Nell. Looking back once, she saw that her grandfather was giving chase, he was only ten feet behind her. She made the motorcycle move faster, the railway station was above and she saw the tracks. Before she hit the first one she lifted herself up, the motorcycle bounced over the railings and near flipped over but she was able to balance it before it did. There was a sound of sparks behind her and she looked back, her grandfather had gone over the metal train tracks at near seventy miles an hour, he was catching up now. Angel looked around for Jason, the plan had called for Jason to come up behind her grandfather, to practically ride the back of the vehicles bumper that her grandfather was driving. She was about to radio for Jason when suddenly, she heard a motor catching. Jason pulled his vehicle right behind her grandfather's.
"What the hell?" Angel heard her grandfather exclaimed when Jason accidentally hit him.
They zoomed past the railway station and headed for the Crystal Palace Park, Angel's grandfather had rolled his window down and was yelling now at both she and Jason, for her to pull over and for Jason to back off. Angel smirked and increased speed, they were now going at eighty miles an hour, the motorcycle she had could reach eighty-five and her plan had called for it to reach that. Her grandfather gently bumped her vehicle and she near lost balance, luckily she leaned left and managed to escape an accident. Just as they went past the entrance of the Crystal Palace Park they heard two engines start. A dark green army jeep pulled up and kept pace with her grandfather's car, Captain O'Nell in his blue SUV pulled up on his left. They pulled in tight, making it difficult for her grandfather to escape.
"Back off of my car you idiots!" Angel's grandfather yelled.
"Angel..." Lieutenant Rollins' voice came over the radio.
"What is it Charles?" Angel spoke into her headset, since she had her hands full driving she had to wear a headset.
"Why are four drivers needed again?" Lieutenant Rolls asked.
She didn't answer, with the Lieutenant being so close to her grandfather and speaking through his radio she didn't want her grandfather to find out what they had planned. She throttled the motorcycle a bit more, made it move a foot away from the front bumper of her grandfather's vehicle. It was a mile to the Stambourne Woods, where Atlas was stationed. Behind her she heard her grandfather pull to the left, metal scraped metal in loud squealing sounds but she didn't hear an accident happen and she didn't hear any of the vehicles behind her get loose. A yell from her grandfather confirmed that he was still there. A sign up ahead told her that they were just a hundred feet from the Stambourne Woods, she kept her motorcycle moving forward then veered it left, going along a dirt path. She heard the start of an engine then saw the headlights of Atlas' car. He pulled up just in front of her, she slowly and carefully moved away, letting him take her place. When that was done she jumped from her motorcycle to the hood of Captain O'Nell's car.
"Angel!" KurukVile shouted.
"Be careful, Angel." Captain O'Nell said to her loudly.
"What are you doing, Girl?" KurukVile roared. "Trying to get yourself killed? Get off of that vehicle! Jump in mine before something happens!"
The plan was for her to jump onto KurukVile's vehicle and reach her hand in through the window, she had a cloth in her hand which she had dampened with some chloroform but she was never able to use it. Atlas up ahead suddenly pulled his vehicle away hard left. Angel was angered by this at first but then she shrieked in terror when she saw the stump, a big wooden stump that had a plaque on it saying that the tree that it belonged to had fallen three years ago and that the tree which the stump had once been apart of was in a photograph with one of London's most famous. Her grandfather saw it a bit too late and was never able to prepare for it, Angel watched in horror as her grandfather struck the tree head-on going eighty-five miles an hour. He flew right through the windshield and struck the ground hard, bounced twice then came to a stop. Captain O'Nell slammed his foot on the brake, Angel jumped off and ran to her grandfather who was still silent and still. When she got to him she turned him over gently, he was breathing, he was alive.
"He alive?" Lieutenant Rollins asked when he ran up.
"Yes, his ribs are either cracked or broke but he's alive." Angel replied. "Lets tie him up, get his feet."
"You heard the lady," Captain O'Nell ran up and started tying her grandfather up. "tie him up good, we'll probably need to add some chains when we get to that cell at Atlas' place but at the moment ropes will do."
Atlas and Helen ran up just as KurukVile was shaking his head, Angel had all of them form a circle around her then she teleported them back to Atlas' mountain stronghold. The second they were back the men started trying to move her grandfather to the cell that Hannibal was holding open. It was a strong, sturdy, wrought iron cell with a heavy steel door that had bars on the window. Atlas quickly took his pace with the men and helped them move KurukVile, Angel even ran up to help move him.
"Jesus, does this guy weigh five hundred pounds or what?" Lieutenant Rollins exclaimed.
"Roughly between three hundred and fifteen and three hundred and fifty." Angel replied.
Just before they reached the cell KurukVile woke up, he thrashed himself around and they dropped him. Angel went and knelt down by his head, she smothered his face with the chloroformed cloth and waited. After fifteen minutes, he was still conscious so she removed the cloth and placed it around the bottles opening, she saturated the cloth with the whole bottles contents then placed it back on her grandfather's face. KurukVile, cursed out at them and spoke in Vilian, he thrashed himself about, kicked his legs, swung his arms, he sent a great many fire and air attacks out of his hands, most of which just struck the mountains walls and did no harm. After another fifteen minutes had passed he finally closed his eyes and went to sleep.
"Chain him up." Angel said, she led the way into the cell. "Wrap these chains around his arms and chest."
She had gotten Atlas to get his welders to make the biggest and strongest and heaviest chains for her, she had been impressed when she had seen them, their thick metal about five inches in size and their strength great! Lieutenant Rollins and Atlas wrapped the chains, two each, around her grandfather's arms and then again around his chest. When they stepped back KurukVile was on his knees, his big, strong and well muscled body only staying up because of the chains that were around him. Atlas' face was pale and he was breathing rather heavily, seeing as all of the men were looking about ready to keel over she escorted them from the cell and locked the door behind her.
"Kat, Aisha and I will stand guard." Angel said.
"You men go rest, I think of all of us, you guys have earned a rest." Kat walked up and stood beside Angel.
"Yeh be careful, Angel." Atlas gasped, he walked off slowly.
"Call us if... anything happens." Tommy said, then all the men turned and headed in the direction that Atlas was going.
When Aphra walked up to Angel two hours later she saw that her enemy looked as drained as Atlas was. She had tended Atlas herself, had whisked him away to a large bathtub and bathed him, talking sweetly to him all the while then had walked with his to his chamber where she had helped him into bed. She had hummed to him and smoothed his hair back, something that made him turn to her and gaze with them lovely brown eyes he had at her. When Helen had come into the chamber she had left, knowing full well the rules of the palace. Atlas loved his women, all of them, but their was a hierarchy. Helen was on top, with Aphra below her. Selma had been the latest beauty to be added to his harem before Angel had come along and now, with Angel being added Selma found herself fourth on the hierarchy pole. She still found herself getting jealous though, as with all of the addings she had felt jealousy, and fear. Fear over Atlas forgetting about her, fear over being cast out. It had never happened and as of late, she found herself getting more and more attention from Atlas, she had given all the thanks to Angel. Atlas had been devastated when she had run off, he had been running around like a piece of him had been torn from him. Now that she was back, Atlas was back to his old self. That, she was glad for, thoroughly glad for.
"Can I speak with you?" Aphra asked Angel. "We need to talk."
"You shouldn't be anywhere around here." Angel walked up to her. "Surely, Atlas has told you that."
"You're not the only one that takes chances." Aphra led Angel away.
"What is it?" Angel asked.
Aphra voiced her concerns and apologized to Angel for being such a bitch towards her, Angel waved her hand at the apologee, she accepted the apologee but she kept her eyes on the cell's door. Aphra noticed the worry and concern on Angel's face and in her eyes and she wondered what side she was on. Atlas had spoken so much about how mean Angel's father and grandfather had been to her, even going so far as whipping her with whips that were commonly used on livestock or whips made from a time ago long past.
"How long have you been with him?" Angel asked suddenly. "Atlas, I mean."
"Seventy-six years." Aphra answered. "I was with the King Tut expedition and got lost."
"Lost in the desert and Atlas found you." Angel nodded her head, a slight smile pulled at her lips.
"Yes, I was nearly gone." Aphra sat down. "He saved me and brought me here. After three months, he bedded me and I've been with him ever since."
Angel was about to say something when a loud crashing sound came from the cell, Kat and Aisha, who had been sleeping up against the door, woke up with a start. Aisha had just stood up when KurukVile's fist swung through the heavy steel door. Kat screamed when KurukVile grabbed her around the shoulders. Aphra ran screaming for the palace while Angel ran over to help Kat get loose. She jabbed at her grandfather's hand with a pick then she tried peeling his fingers back, neither worked, they heard KurukVile laugh inside the cell. With a yell, Angel drove the pick down hard right on the webbing between his thumb and index finger. He howled in pain and pulled his hand back. Angel looked in the cell from the hole that her grandfather had punched in the door and saw that he was shaking his hand, he was bleeding but not badly. Before she could call out to her grandfather to calm down he started attacking the door with his elemental powers.
"Being in the cell lose your power!" Angel screamed. "Drain, become non-magic. I command you!"
"So, you want a fair fight eh?" KurukVile snickered after he had been removed of his powers by Angel's spell.
Angel had never expected for her grandfather to be able to punch through a heavy steel door, she was even more surprised when her grandfather ran into the door and one of the hinges gave way. The only thing that kept the door from swinging wide open was one hinge and the lock, Angel pressed herself up against the door tightly, when her grandfather ran into it again the other hinge gave way. A well placed kick sent Angel flying through the air and the door flew open. Kat and Aisha were able to close the door before KurukVile was able to run out but when they did it slammed shut on his leg. KurukVile howled in pain and pulled back, the force of their closing the door on his leg had opened a large gaping wound from which his green colored blood flowed from.
"Open it slightly!" Angel screamed when she saw the blood. "Just a tiny bit! You've hurt him!"
"Good, let him be hurt!" Aisha screamed back.
Angel shoved Aisha back and pulled the door away from her grandfather just a tiny bit, he pulled his leg back inside the cell and she slammed the door back. She was able to look at what he was doing inside the cell from the barred window. Her grandfather was wrapping a cloth that he had taken from the inside of his robe out and tied it around his leg. The chains behind him, the ones that were so thick and heavy and had looked like they were so strong, looked as if they had been exploded. Bits and pieces of the chain littered the cells floor, how she had missed hearing her grandfather waking up and destroying the chains was beyond her. She heard the sound of running feet coming near her and looked back, the rest of the rangers, Lieutenant Rollins and Captain O'Nell with Hannibal and Julius following were just coming around the palace wall. It was at that specific time that her grandfather charged at the door, a roar coming from him that was so loud everyone in Atlas' stronghold and outside could hear it. The door was dented in two and KurukVile was out, before he could run off Angel grabbed his arm and swung him hard against the mountain's wall.
Tommy, Jason and Billy ran into KurukVile at the same time, they grabbed his other arm and held him up against the wall of the mountain. Adam, Lieutenant Rollins and Captain O'Nell grabbed KurukVile's legs and pulled them out from underneath of him. KurukVile was able to do a twirl when he fell and rolled right on top of Angel. Angel felt like she was being suffocated, her grandfather's great muscled body was on top of her and all of his weight was unchecked, she had a hard time breathing. It seemed like forever before her grandfather was rolled off of her. Angel lay on her back for a short while, catching her breath. Beside her Tommy and Jason were trying to tie her grandfather's wrists together and they were having a hard time doing it. Julius had her grandfather's legs tied up at the ankles and looked as if he was on a log on a raging river, KurukVile was kicking both legs up simultaneously.
"I'll have each and every one of you blasted humans arrested and given heavy punishment for this!" KurukVile exclaimed.
Angel got up and lunged at her grandfather, who had just gotten one of his arms free. He was reaching up for Lieutenant Rollins when Angel shoved him back. Instead of grabbing the Lieutenant, KurukVile wrapped his big, strong hand around her neck and squeezed tightly. Hannibal had just ran up with a syringe and a bottle when he saw Angel being choked, he dropped both items and raced to help her. It was night outside and dark in the mountain stronghold, someone somewhere lit up a torch nearby and when KurukVile saw that it was Angel that he had his hand on he yelled in startled horror and released her. She flopped back and started gasping for breath. Hannibal, seeing as she had been released, ran back to the supply building and grabbed another bottle of Vercuronium bromide and another needle. When he ran back he filled the needle fully.
"Shit! Angel if you would have told me you was nearby..." KurukVile started to say, when he saw Hannibal with the syringe he shot fire from his mouth. "Angel! You and I need to have a good, long discussion!"
Hannibal pulled back from the breath of fire but he came back and with a shout, he jabbed the needle into KurukVile's neck. KurukVile thrashed around and spoke some bizarre language that Hannibal couldn't understand, in all it took five minutes for the medication to take effect. Near the end Billy lost hold of KurukVile's arm and suffered a punch which severely broke his nose. Before KurukVile could get away he suddenly lost all feeling in his extremities, he lay in silence, he could only move his head. Lieutenant Rollins looked around, Billy had twin blood trails running from his nose, Angel was gasping still for air and everyone else looked as if they had ran a marathon.
"Alright, lets move him back to the cell." Lieutenant Rollins took charge.
"Are you insane?" Julius exclaimed. "He's busted that cell to pieces! No, I say lets kill him."
"You touch him with any weapon and you will be sorry." Angel rolled over on top of her grandfather. "Lisa Walberg's place, I'm sure she'll let us keep him there."
Despite still having trouble breathing, a heavy red ring was starting to form around her neck, Angel helped the men hoist her grandfather up. She led them to Lisa's place and sure enough, they were allowed to keep him there. Angel quickly made up a table by making five slabs of Earth rise from the ground, her Earth-made table suited her grandfather well. It held up against her grandfather's weight and they were able to tie her grandfather's arms underneath of it, she had made vines come up from the ground from which she had bound her grandfather's wrists with, she was able to tie the vines around his chest as well. When she started binding his ankles with another coil of vines her grandfather started coughing.
"Oh shit! He's choking!" Angel exclaimed.
Lisa ran to the supply building and grabbed everything that she needed; bandages, bags of fluids and blood, medication, needles and wooden sticks. When she returned to her building she found that the big being on the Earth-made table was coughing up a yellowish substance that had blood in it. Before she got to him his eyes rolled back in his head and he started gasping for breath. Working quickly, she placed a wooden stick in between the large beings teeth and started an intravenous drip. The being was a big one, she had not been told how big he was when Angel and Atlas had come to her place a week before. The being on the table was tall and had to weigh over three hundred pounds. He had a long set of ears that went only halfway across his shoulders and were a gold color with red Tiger-like stripes. His head and face were bi-colored, the right side of his head and face was white while the left side was red, the wrinkles that were on the right side of his face looked a deeper red while the wrinkles on the left side of his head looked almost gray. He was wearing a furred robe which without a doubt had made him overheated.
"Angel, he's overheating!" Lisa exclaimed. "Undo the vines around his chest and get his robe off."
Angel would have torn the robe off if it was anyone other than her grandfather on the table but after she had the vines untied she slid the robe off gently, when she untied the vines that she had bound around her grandfather's wrists she found that her grandfather was totally immobile, could not move a bit. She slid the arms of the robe down then gently pulled the robe from under her grandfather, she tossed the robe to the side then retied the vines. After she was done with that she went to the closet in Lisa's residence and took out a long scarf, Lisa nodded when she came back with the scarf and a bucket of cool water. KurukVile had calmed down, his breathing was stable and his eyes slowly opened, Lisa gasped when she saw that they were fiery red, with tiny black pupils in the center.
"This guy is a demon!" Lisa exclaimed, she backed off slowly, her hands were held in front of her.
"Keep in mind, I don't know much about this man." Angel said as she wiped the sweat from her grandfather's chest. "Just the basics. He's my grandfather, my father's father, and he's very powerful. That's about it."
"He sure is big!" Hannibal gasped. "Big as in muscle-bound."
"Did you see what he did to the chains?" Angel asked, when Hannibal nodded his head she added. "I'm surprised on that one myself, made it look like them chains went boom. Chain parts all over that cell."
"Them vines be able to hold him?" Tommy asked. "After what he did to the chains..."
"Right now, yes." Angel replied. "He's paralyzed from the shoulders down."
"I have no more of the bottled Paralyzer." Hannibal reported. "I can melt some of the Paralyzer pills, they're weaker but should be able to do the trick to keep him this way."
"Do so!" Angel exclaimed so loudly that Billy, who was closest, pulled away in shock. "Do it now before he gets movement back in his extremities."
Hannibal wasn't able to make a liquid based Vecuronium bromide fast enough, his father ran in and demanded to know what was going on and he had to tell him. His father was furious and ordered that Angel's grandfather be destroyed, that got Angel mad. She charged at Atlas and kicked him in the groin. A furious fight ensued between the two of them which lasted all of fifteen minutes, in those fifteen minutes KurukVile regained his ability to move his body. In one clean snap, he was free of the vines and rolled off of the table. Tommy, Billy, Jason and Adam leaped on top of him before he could get up. They found that even with the four of them on top of KurukVile's back, KurukVile was still stronger. Adam was thrown off quick, but he jumped back on just as fast. Lieutenant Rollins, Captain O'Nell and Atlas jumped onto the pile, Julius followed after a few minutes.
"Hannibal!" Angel yelled. "Make the stuff, quick!"
"I'm working as fast as I can!" Hannibal yelled back.
Lisa yelled out loud when all eight men were thrown off of KurukVile's back and KurukVile stood up. The being looked even more massive in size and strength standing! He stood a good six foot three inches in height, his muscle mass made him look even bigger. His chest was rippled in great muscle, his arms were bulging and huge, when he turned and looked at her she saw muscle even on his neck. She pressed herself up against the wall as far as she could go, would have disappeared into it if she could have, when he walked up to her her breath caught in her chest, she near fainted in fear when he stretched his hand, which had long purple colored fingernails on the end of each finger, towards her.
Atlas and Julius ran into KurukVile together, at first they thought that he'd fall over but instead he turned around. KurukVile had only one look at Atlas to know who he was, with a growl he grabbed Atlas by the chest and picked him up. Atlas was only wearing a non-bottomed Cheetah-furred loin cloth, nothing else. The second Angel saw Atlas gasping, his hands clasped around her grandfather's hand tightly, she charged forward. With one well placed kicked she made her grandfather fall to one knee, Atlas was released and fell to the floor of Lisa's house gasping for air. Angel didn't let her grandfather get up, she swung her leg four more times, she kicked him in the face, in the stomach and twice more in the groin. When KurukVile fell back against the floor all eight men jumped on him, when KurukVile got one of his arms free Atlas grabbed a hold of it and pulled it back. Lisa, Angel, Kat and Aisha knew what was going to happen next and before Angel could prevent it there was a pop and a cracking sound then KurukVile shrieked at the top of his lungs.
"Atlas!" Angel ran forward and started clawing his hand off of her grandfather's arm. "You've broken his arm, Atlas! At the elbow and wrist!"
"This creature has bones?" Lisa asked.
"Of course this creature has bones you stupid human!" KurukVile shouted. "I'm not much different from you humans."
Hannibal had the liquified Vecuronium bromide made but when he went to administer it he found an issue. KurukVile had made all of his muscles tense up, his body was like a solid block of stone, no way for a syringe to get through. Angel grabbed the syringe and emptied the syringe's contents into a vial, she clamped her fingers over her grandfather's nose and waited. It seemed like forever before he finally opened his mouth to breathe and when he did she slid the vial in. When she removed the vial she clamped her hand over her grandfather's mouth to force him to swallow the solution, he shook his head from left to right fiercely but she was able to keep him from spitting the liquified Vecuronium bromide out. After five long minutes, her grandfather swallowed, the solution took effect almost immediately and they were able to release their hold on him. Hannibal ran off to make more, he had a feeling that they were going to need a lot. While he went to make more of the solution KurukVile was hoisted back up to the table and tied securely, his arms this time were tied at his sides.
"His muscle structure is similar to our own but much more... dense." Lisa said after she had helped Angel mend KurukVile's arm. "His bone structure is the same, not thick or thin."
"You was expecting to find something different?" KurukVile turned his head and looked at her. When she inserted a needle and took some blood he pulled his head back and yelled. "Angel! What the hell is going on?"
"Calm down granddad." Angel ran a wet cloth over his forehead. "Take it easy."
"His blood is green!?" Lisa exclaimed.
Lisa ran the blood sample over to her genetics machine and ran it through. Her machine beeped then shot out a long series of papers ran out of the printer. As they rolled out she read them, the DNA in the blood was slightly different than a humans but it was similar as well. She was amazed but the age that the paper had on it for the being on the table read a hundred and sixty thousand, three hundred and twenty-two years, the creature on the table was ancient and he still looked and acted as if he was a spring chicken!
"You know what things this creature can tell us?" Lisa said, her eyes were wide with shock. "This paper says he is over a hundred fifty thousand years old!"
"No surprise there, I'm aware that my father is over a hundred thousand." Angel replied.
"Are you sure you are related to this guy?" Lisa asked Angel. "He looks nothing like you and you look nothing like him."
"I'm related, yes." Angel caressed the side of her grandfather's face.
"Are you one hundred percent sure?" Lisa asked. "Let me check to be sure."
"She's my granddaughter, human!" KurukVile yelled. "No need for your non-intelligent poking or prodding."
"I've had a DNA test done already, I'm related." Angel said.
"Do you know the full lineage?" Lisa asked.
"Does anyone know their full lineage?" Angel counter asked, she gave a glancing glare at Lisa then sighed. "I know some, some inbreeding involved."
"Young lady!" KurukVile exclaimed, he turned his head and gave her a watch it look.
"This guy here is the sixth line generation from LynkVile Surfeit," Angel explained. "Dione's granddaughter had a LynkVile sperm shake made to make my mother. And Dione used WexVile sperm to make her daughter, Perniceie."
"And who is Dione to you?" Lisa asked.
"My great-great grandmother." Angel answered.
"Do you know her lineage?" Lisa asked, she was writing everything Angel said on the back of the paper she had taken from her genetics machine.
"She's his daughter, by Agola." Angel patted her grandfather's shoulder. "I don't know Agola's line."
"So you've got LynkVile and WexVile in your line twice and this big guy twice." Lisa said. "All recent."
Lisa babbled on about inbreeding and its physical effects then asked Angel if she had any deformities of any kind which both Angel and her grandfather answered at the same time that she had none. KurukVile took over and, between the insults he'd shout out, explained that Angel's inbreeding wasn't terribly recent and thus, she was in perfect health with no deformities and was eligible for the Prominent Family Law which allowed for his son to claim her as his mate and produce offspring through her. Lisa nodded her head then walked off, Angel snickered when she saw Lisa making the "he's crazy" motion with her finger.
"Well, sometimes inbreeding has its good points and its bad points." Lisa said when she returned. "Personally, I'm not one for incest."
"Neither am I." Angel replied. "Supposedly, I'm infertile."
"No, you are not." KurukVile laughed. "You've conceived for my son..."
"Once. I aborted." Angel finished for him. "I've also conceived for Atlas here, one miscarriage and one abortion."
"You're welcome." KurukVile said when Atlas walked up beside Angel, Atlas gave KurukVile a hate-filled look which made KurukVile laugh.
"Are you sure you are infertile?" Lisa asked Angel.
"To humans, yes." Angel answered. "When I went to Pronghorn I was told that I can have children with magical folk."
Atlas spoke up in Arabic, Hannibal translated that he was telling Lisa that Helen had miscarried three times before Hannibal could be conceived then was able to conceive on the first try afterwards. Lisa pulled Angel to her lab and asked her if she could harvest four of her eggs, which Angel, although reluctantly, said yes. It was painful, Lisa had to insert a probe which made Angel yell out twice but she was able to collect four eggs, when she checked she saw that she had collected a further two more, she apologized for the extra two eggs then asked if she could take a sonogram of Angel's abdominal region, mainly for egg count in her ovaries. In all, Angel was gone for thirty minutes, Hannibal had just given KurukVile another dose of Vecuronium bromide when KurukVile had started getting movement back in his unbroken arm and legs, Angel's grandfather went back into a non-motioned, harmless state.
"Angel! You shouldn't be wasting your eggs!" KurukVile yelled at her when he saw Lisa walking in with the trays that held Angel's eggs and the sonogram results.
"Some years ago I was able to build this machine to show an exact number for eggs in each ovary." Lisa patted the machine in front of her. "I can also check for viable cells and attempt fertilization."
"You need sperm for that." Lieutenant Rollins said loudly.
"Yes, which calls for..." Lisa looked at Atlas, who nodded his head and left the room. Her eyes then landed on KurukVile.
"Oh no!" Angel held her hands up. "I am not touching him anywhere near the nether region!"
"My father told me that you came back with a vial of semen, he says it came from the Sperm Ward on that planet of theirs." Hannibal walked up. "We have it stored in a freezer."
"I wondered what happened to that." Angel walked over to her grandfather and wiped his chest which was shined up with fresh sweat. "Is it still useful? I know that I had that for a few days outside of a freezer."
"Be glad my father took it while you wasn't looking." Hannibal walked off, he was gone for ten minutes. When he came back he had a frosted vial in his hand. "Frozen solid."
Lisa took the vial and placed it to the side to thaw out, she pressed a button on her machine and a yellow light shone on the wall. Angel's sonogram results were shown and it clearly showed many more eggs than that of a human female would carry. Lisa clicked a button on her machine and the number tally on the eggs in both ovaries showed as over a billion viable oocytes. When Lisa took the results from her machine away she replaced them with one of Angel's harvested eggs. The yellow light on the wall showed a detailed image of a circular clear egg with nothing inside, no cell growth, nothing that showed it was viable at all. Atlas came in at that time and gave Lisa a glass carrying a milky-white substance, Kat and Aisha gagged at the realization of what the milky-white substance was.
"I can make three times that in one sitting!" KurukVile exclaimed, then he started laughing.
Lisa tested Atlas' sperm and it came back as one hundred percent viable, she next took a needless syringe and took a sample from the glass. She applied the sample to the egg that the machine was projecting on the wall and they watched. Atlas' sperm were swimming around the egg, from time to time one would touch the circular clear egg's outer edge then would swim off. It went like that for five minutes before one of the swimming sperm finally went inside the egg.
"Took a while didn't it?" Lieutenant Rollins asked. "They acted like they had no idea what that thing was."
They weren't expecting it but suddenly, the egg imploded. Atlas walked up to Angel, clearly shaken, and she patted his back. Lisa, working feverishly, removed the now imploded egg's container from the machine and replaced it with a new container with a fresh egg in it. She repeated the previous action and again, Atlas' sperm swam around Angel's egg, one or two would shyly touch the egg then move off. When one of Atlas' sperm went inside the egg imploded. Lisa replaced the container with a new one and tried again. This time one of Atlas' sperm swam inside and fertilized the egg, the egg didn't implode but remained intact.
"She can get pregnant by a human, but it'd take a lot of patience." Lisa turned after discarding the fertilized egg. "She has less than a thirty percent chance of getting pregnant by a human, but that doesn't mean she can't ever get pregnant."
"Dat mahk me feel betteh!" Atlas exclaimed, he pressed his face up against Angel's neck.
"How many times would it take before..." Angel trailed off but Lisa already knew what she was thinking.
Lisa placed a new container on the machine and took a sample from the now unfrozen vial of Master Vile's semen. When she applied the sample the image on the wall lit up like a Christmas tree. Milky-white and light gray semen with long tails swam as if swimming for a marathon to the egg and attached themselves to it. When one made it inside the egg the others stopped moving and floated away, they looked as if they were depressed. The egg began changing fast, became double chambered then four and then six. When Lisa discarded the egg it had just changed from having six chambers to eight. She turned and looked at Angel, Angel nodded her head but didn't say anything.
"So a less than thirty percent chance with a human," Angel said, she sighed. "and a hundred percent for my old man. Gah-reat!"
"That sort of goes against Haldane's Rule, which states that hybrids cannot produce offspring." Lisa said.
"You humans make me laugh something fierce!" KurukVile broke out in roaring laughter. "Angel, let me explain here something to you. I don't know this Haldane's Rule crap but I do know how hybridization works. The male hybrid cannot reproduce, the female can but only with her father's species. You can breed with and have offspring with my son due to this. You can also breed with other magical folk but it would take a short while before offspring will be born, although it won't take as long as with a plain human. Do you understand?"
"That is sort of Haldane's Rule, the X and Y offspring is sterile while the double X is fertile." Lisa said, she pulled her chair up to KurukVile and looked at him closely. "Although the offspring from such a pairing would be terribly weak and unstable."
"Is Angel a true hybrid?" Kat asked.
Angel was about to answer then clamped her mouth shut, Perniceie had mated with a human and produced Azura who was a hybrid then Azura had had a sperm shake make of LynkVile Surfeit's sperm and had birthed Helen and Helen had mated with, and unintentionally conceived by Master Vile. She scratched her head then had Lisa do another test of her. It took a short while for the results to come in but when they did Lisa looked at her as if she had grown a second head.
"Y- you're not a hybrid." Lisa said to her. "You're not human, you look it but your not. But you're not a hybrid. The results here show you as only have five percent human in you."
"So... if she's not human what is she?" Lieutenant Rollins asked.
"The results don't really say, it's got an unknown genome that has ninety-five percent next to it." Lisa handed the results over to Angel who looked at them then handed them back. "What is this thing on the table? What's his species?"
"Beats me, I have no idea." Angel replied. "Granddad..."
"Granddaughter." KurukVile said in a silly sing-like voice.
"What are you?" Angel asked.
"Vilian, sweetheart. My species is Vilian."
Everyone backed up in shock when KurukVile sat up, he tossed the vines off of him with his unbroken arm then jumped off of the table. Hannibal, being closest, ran at him with a syringe. KurukVile, who had been reaching down to grab his robe, suddenly stood up and slammed the back of his hand back. Hannibal flew back against the wall hard. Atlas charged forward, as did Tommy and Jason, but each found themselves being thrown back. Julius grabbed a knife and slashed it at KurukVile's broken arm, Angel's grandfather yelled in pain then grabbed the knife's blade, before everyone's shocked eyes he bent the blade and broke it. Julius took one look at the broken knife then backed away, his brown eyes wide in shock.
"Now that you're little science lesson is over with, it's time for us to go." KurukVile said as he picked Angel up.
Atlas, having recovered from being thrown, ran roaring at KurukVile and leaped onto his back. He wrapped his arms around KurukVile's neck and choked him. KurukVile dropped Angel and leaped back, Angel screamed in horror when she saw her grandfather drop to the floor, Atlas squashed underneath his weight. The fall must have only dazed Atlas because, although he was gasping for air, he didn't let go of her grandfather. KurukVile rolled over and reached behind him, he tossed Atlas off of him then turned and grabbed Atlas by the throat with his only good hand. Julius, seeing his father in danger, ran forward and grabbed KurukVile by his legs. KurukVile kicked Julius in the face and continued choking Atlas, Angel pointed her finger at her grandfather and shot a white lightning bolt from it. Her grandfather dropped Atlas, who coughed violently and breathed heavily, then turned towards her. That gave Hannibal enough time to jab the needle into his leg and administer the Vecuronium bromide. KurukVile dropped to his knees then fell face down on the floor.