CHAPTER 42
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The war with the Great Vampires was finally over. The Gallifreyans had won at last and had killed all of them except for one. The King had escaped when some of his people put him by himself onboard a special transport ship that was sent out at the last minute right before the last of the vampires fell. The King had still been in terrible condition when he had left so it was unlikely that he would survive for long on his own. The Gallifreyans felt assured that the menace of the vampires was finally over at last. It was too bad that their leader didn't share their opinion.
Sekhmet woke up in what looked like a hospital room. She had no idea what she was doing here at first, but then she remembered that she had been dying after having been drained of all of her blood. She didn't feel near death now though. She felt better than she ever had in her life. She wondered what had happened while she was out. Obviously, they must have given her a blood transfusion but what else? She was sure that a blood transfusion wouldn't be responsible for her sudden burst of energy.
Rassilon came on the monitor in the room then as he said, "Hello, my dear. I'm so happy to see you awake and looking well again. I see that our special treatments worked."
"Special treatments?" Sekhmet asked.
"Yes. We had to give you a special blood transfusion I'm afraid. Your own blood was severely diminished, and you were about to die permanently without regenerating. I had to therefore give you a complete blood transfusion with the only supply of blood that we had handy," Rassilon said.
Sekhmet's eyes widened with horror and revulsion as she began to realize just what he was saying.
"Yes, that's right. I gave you vampire blood. It's healed your body completely; and from what I can see, it has made you healthier than you've ever been in your life. Of course, the blood will start transforming you into a vampire very soon now. That is unless my inoculation against its effects works this time. You are to be my latest test subject for the current batch you see. Some of my people will be coming in there shortly to take you to the laboratory for the experiment," Rassilon said in a cold, unemotional voice.
"Are you insane? There is no cure. You've condemned me to become one of them!" Sekhmet screamed.
"You were going to die. Now you're not. I see no downside," Rassilon said.
"I'll be a bloodsucking monster. That's a huge downside," Sekhmet said.
"Not if my cure works, you won't. Of course it hasn't worked so far, but you might prove to be the exception. We can always hope, can't we?" Rassilon said with an evil smile.
"How dare you do this to me after all that I've done in the war!" Sekhmet shouted.
"What you did in the war was never just you, you know. Part of it at least is a result of my ongoing experiments with you," Rassilon said.
"What experiments? What are you talking about?" Sekhmet said in shock.
"You poor, poor girl! You were always so clueless, weren't you? You had no idea at all. Why do you think that your mood has gotten darker and darker as your fighting prowess has increased? I've been experimenting on you ever since the start of the war. I saw so much potential in you, and I wanted to see what you could do with that potential fully realized. Do you remember those injections that were supposed to keep you from catching any airborne diseases on other planets? For you, there was much more in those injections. I've been pumping you full of nanotechnology that has slowly reshaped your body. The nanobots have increased your strength, agility, speed, and reflexes. They've also been changing your brain chemistry. You've been made darker and more violent so that you would always be ready for battle. They're continuing to change you even now. All unnecessary brain functions will be removed from you so that your brain will be totally focused on whatever mission that I choose to send you out on. Soon you will have no will of your own or memories of your past. You will be the perfect soldier with no thought of anything but warfare," Rassilon said with a smug grin on his face.
"When I find you, I'll declare war on you!" Sekhmet said furiously.
"You won't be going anywhere except to the laboratory to receive the inoculation for the effects of vampirism. If it works, you'll be immune to all of its effects and never be in danger of becoming a vampire ever again. If it doesn't, then you'll shortly become a vampire or maybe something much worse; and then I'll have to have you put down just like all of the others who the cure didn't work on. If you do manage to survive, you won't be allowed anywhere near me until the nanotech has made you into my servant. Either way, your life as you have known it is over. You belong to me now. You will live or die as I will it. You belong to me," Rassilon said with absolute arrogance.
"I will never serve you. I'll find some way to stop you. I'll bring you down and make sure that you don't do to anyone else what you've done to me ever again," Sekhmet promised.
"I'm sure. Goodbye, dear Sekhmet. My men are coming to take you for the inoculation now. Good luck!" Rassilon said with mocking laughter as the monitor switched off.
Some guards came in armed with stasers, and Sekhmet snarled in anger at them. She was not going to let them take her without a fight!
The guards backed away from her in fear, and she realized that she was already beginning to change. She could feel fangs slowly starting to come down in her mouth.
She had to hold onto herself for just a little longer until she could break free from here, then she would find some way to destroy herself when she was alone. She would rather die by her own hand than by Rassilon's. She certainly didn't want to become his servant either. That would be worse than death or vampirism!
She attacked the guards and started throwing them across the room. She quickly made her way through them and left them lying in various states of consciousness all throughout the hospital room. She ran down the hallway as she could feel the changes in her body from the vampirism continue.
Tears flowed freely from her eyes now as she thought of everything that she would never have in life. She was especially saddened by the thought of never seeing John again. She knew that he would never be hers, but she still valued him as a friend. Despite wanting to see him more than anything, she was glad that he wasn't here now so that he couldn't see her like this.
She had almost made it to the outside when an incredibly alien looking creature appeared in front of her. It punched her in the face and knocked her unconscious with one blow.
The creature took her down to the laboratory for the inoculation to begin. The Avatar had done Rassilon's bidding this time, but it would not continue to do so forever. One day it would rule this miserable world, and then the universe would bow before it soon afterward.
Sekhmet was given the inoculation while she was still unconscious. She soon woke up though and started screaming over and over again. She was filled with unbearable pain that would never stop. It just kept getting worse and worse.
Rassilon watched her from a position of safety in another room as she started to beat against the walls of her holding cell with incredible strength and ferocity. She struck out at everything around her in mindless pain and tried to tear the entire area apart. She was like a savage animal now.
"I've never had anyone respond to the inoculation like this before. Her body is slowly transforming into something else, but I'm not sure what that is yet. The transformation is causing her incredible pain though, and it's making her run a high fever from what the still working sensors in the room can tell," one of Rassilon's lab technicians said.
"Monitor her progress. If she survives and still appears to be normal, I want her to be tested to see if she is resistant to vampirism. I must know if this inoculation is the right formula or not. I need a cure for the effects of vampirism in case the King of the Great Vampires returns for another war again. The safety of Gallifrey is at stake," Rassilon said.
"Of course, my Lord," the lab technician said with a salute.
Robin, of course, wanted to know what had happened to Sekhmet. He came to the hospital where he had been told that she was recuperating and that her doctor said that she wasn't allowed to see any visitors for at least a week.
Robin was furious. He wasn't going to be told that he couldn't see her. He had to know if she was alright.
He came back later that night when only the evening staff was at work, and then he stole a doctor's outfit and snuck in. He searched through the medical records until he found a mention of her name and her current location.
Luckily, he was able to read Gallifreyan somehow. He suspected that it was his link with Lily which still worked even now, perhaps because her past self was here. It had altered his mind in some way that allowed him to be able to understand not only their spoken but their written language as well.
He made his way through the hospital until he found Sekhmet's room. As he drew closer to it, he could hear her screaming. She sounded like she was in incredible pain. He quickly picked the lock on the door and ran into the room to find an enraged Sekhmet standing before him. She ran at him in a blind pain-filled rage and threatened to rip him apart.
"Sekhmet. It's me. Stop!" Robin yelled at her.
She was in such pain that she was out of her mind though. She didn't recognize him and threw him against a wall with incredible strength. She ran out of the room, but she was quickly recaptured by a nearby set of guards.
"Ah, John is it? Don't think that I didn't know that the name that you gave us was a fake one. I know everything, John Little. I kept you around, however, because you were an incredible fighter and because she favored you. You kept her mind otherwise occupied which is what I wanted so that she wouldn't pry too closely into things," Rassilon said.
Robin slowly got up off of the ground and smirked at Rassilon even as he was quickly surrounded by guards. He thought that he was so brilliant, but he really knew nothing. He still had no idea that he was from the future, and that his name was not John Little.
"I don't know what you're smiling about because you've just earned yourself a permanent stay here. You will now be locked up right alongside your precious Sekhmet. Perhaps you will come in useful in the future. The current experiment grown from her genetic material is proving to be rather difficult. I believe that her genes combined with yours may produce a much better creation. Yes, perhaps it is very fortunate that I have you here now. Together the two of you can help me to create a new army of unbeatable, unstoppable warriors. You should be happy. You and your beloved Sekhmet are going to help me to create a new empire with Gallifrey as its center!" Rassilon said with pure lust for power in his eyes.
Next: Sekhmet recovers from the inoculation, and she takes her first steps towards being reborn as the woman that we know now. Robin sees firsthand the results of the combining of his genes with Sekhmet's. What will be born from this union? Will it be a powerful new weapon or something completely different that not even Rassilon could have anticipated?