Getting used to being unstable.
In the normal dimension the next day, Jennifer was waking up on the seat with her core sitting down on it. She woke up and put her core inside her chest so she knows where it is. Ashley was up on her computer checking through her company and seeing what it was up to.
Jennifer: Ashley?
Ashley stops what she was doing.
Ashley: Mom, you are awake.
Jennifer: Was a little hard to get to sleep like this since I'm not flesh and bone anymore.
Ashley: Understandable mom.
Jennifer: What time is it?
Ashley: It's still morning but pretty late; we should get you something to eat and more stabilizers.
Jennifer: How am I going to get there?
Ashley: Seth assigned a drone to carry you around so that you won't melt anything.
Ashley whistled and the drone came and latched on.
Ashley: Let's go.
Ashley got up and the drone allowed Jennifer to follow behind her. Both of them went to the cafeteria to get Jennifer something to eat. Xiao was there going over notes when they came in.
Xiao: Hey you two.
Ashley: Hi Xiao.
Jennifer: Xiao is a dark dragon right.
Ashley: Yup.
Jennifer: And she is a researcher?
Ashley: She is the one who helped stabilize you.
Xiao: Well, I'm going to have to continue stabilizing you until you reach a stable state between you and that form. There isn't enough of your original blood to make you go back to one hundred percent.
Jennifer: What about cloned blood?
Xiao: No, too risky with how your body is, any foreign substances might destroy what we are trying to bring back.
Ashley: What about the food she has been digesting?
Xiao: That is something her body recognizes and needs so that part is easy. Now, you two need your stabilizers today with the rest.
Xiao grabbed two bottles from her bag, each marked with their name.
Jennifer: Do you need to take that?
Ashley: So our bodies can get used to stabilization, there are three more that are unstable.
Jennifer: Claire, Eli and Jasper, you told me they got altered and exposed to certain elements.
Xiao: Claire is over there with her imprinted mother; Eli is in the training area and Jasper is over there talking to Khrys-Marie.
Ashley reached out her hand and there was a built-in needle to feed her the stabilizer. Xiao placed the bottle in a slot on her shoulder and connected to the needle on the back of her wrist. Once it was installed the stabilizer started to go into Ashley.
Xiao: Ok, your turn.
The drone undid the cover and Xiao flew up. Xiao reached down and poured it in and Jennifer started to mix herself with the stabilizer until it was fully mixed in. When she was done she came back out of the slime.
Xiao: Feeling better?
Jennifer: Yes, thank you.
Xiao: What do you like for breakfast?
Jennifer: What do you have?
Xiao: Whatever you want.
Jennifer: I'm feeling something heavy today.
Xiao headed into the kitchen and was cooking up something for Jennifer, over in the training area. Eli was trying out his new strength. The only person available to help him at the time was Rashida since Trinity, Zhēnbǎo and Jack were busy on construction and upgrading the fort, plus Rashida wanted a challenge. Both Rashida and Eli were locked in a strength test to see how much he had.
Rashida: You are stronger than I thought; you must be packing more than I can see.
Eli: I must be packing more strength but less mass.
Both of them were locked in the test while the heart monitor was keeping track of his vitals and any changes to his body in which the Doctor was picking up. The Doctor contacted Eli with the piece of Exo-suit he had on.
Doctor: Easy Eli, you are pumping more adrenaline than usual, I suggest you back off now.
Eli and Rashida backed off, which caused his adrenaline levels to drop.
Doctor: You shouldn't push it too hard; your body is still unstable so take it easy.
Eli: -panting- Got it.
Eli sat down and Rashida got him some water.
Rashida: -panting- You should keep a check on your limit.
Rashida got the water and sat down with him.
Eli: I'm still wrapping my head around how you are a succubus and you haven't taken my soul yet.
Rashida: I'm one of the low risk ones and this collar prevents me from getting any ideas.
Eli: So who is the leader?
Rashida: That would be Carolina, one of Pure's wives.
Eli: How does Pure have two wives?
Rashida: He asked about it and it was legal plus both of them loved him and he loves both of them equally.
Eli: So they aren't at each other's throats?
Rashida: Surprisingly not, sometimes they are together like their own couple until Pure is done with what he has to.
Eli: That is unique.
Rashida: It is.
Eli: What about you?
Rashida: What do you mean?
Eli: I mean if you ever wanted something like that or you rather would stick to the same way you are now.
Rashida: Then would it surprise you if I'm looking for love now.
Eli: You have me interested, but what's the reason?
Rashida: I was a warrior before, alcohol, fighting, men; I was relentless at all of them until I got killed by an assassin who I actually slept with.
Eli: Ouch.
Rashida: Yeah, after that I was sent to the circle of lust where...
Eli: Wait a minute; weren't you supposed to be in the circle of violence if my history is correct?
Rashida: The lust outweighed the violence by just a little bit when I was judged.
Eli: Oh, go ahead.
Rashida: After that I became a succubus and was given my halberd over there.
Both of them look at the halberd leaning against the wall.
Eli: Aren't the blades on that oversized?
Rashida: I like them that way, gives me more to hit and I can handle the weight.
Eli: Fair enough.
Eli looked at his vitals and he was fully stable.
Rashida: You're back to normal.
Eli: At least that is good but back to you, why are you looking for love now?
Rashida: I never actually had it to start.
Eli was shocked.
Eli: What?
Rashida: I was always feared but never loved; found that out when I was being judged.
Eli: Oh.
Eli looks at Rashida and she felt down. Eli was thinking on what he should do to help then he got something over the earpiece in his ear.
Trinity: Need a little help?
Eli was startled.
Trinity: Don't say anything, just listen.
Eli listens.
Trinity: Girls like us need a lot of love and if you want to give her some you can, type on the screen on the monitor.
Eli sees a keyboard appear on the monitor and he started to type.
Eli: What about her being a...?
Trinity: They have a limit on that.
Eli: Even If I help her, how am I going to do that?
Trinity: Just talk to her, get to be her friend.
Eli: When were you watching us?
Trinity: When your vitals were going crazy, I'm on watch too since I'm the one who works out with Rashida and I was seeing how much she was pushing you.
Eli: Well, she is thoughtful at not pushing it when I was in the red zone.
Trinity: Help her from there, but don't scare her, I'm getting off the line now, good luck.
Trinity gets off the com, Eli looks back at Rashida and he went close to her.
Eli: Maybe you need someone to talk to for a start.
Rashida: You would do that?
Eli: Hey, I'm stuck here for a while and my family knows it, might as well get used to some things that are here.
Rashida: So, what do you want to talk about?
Eli: How did you get so strong but still look so good, you been juicing?
Rashida: Hmm, special cocktail I know about but I think you would need to be fully stable before we start doing anything to you.
Eli: -sighs- Good point; I'm still stuck on sixty percent for now until I get higher or at least one hundred when I'm in-between myself and this hulking body.
Rashida: True.
Eli and Rashida continue talking to each other to get to know each other better, back in the cafeteria, Jennifer was looking at Claire and Claire was curious.
Jennifer: So you are telling me her memory was completely wiped?
Ashley: And they can't recover it.
Madeline: We let her look at things she had before but she doesn't recognize them. Even her parents that came a few days back when she woke up, she doesn't know them either.
Jennifer: Her parents must have been devastated.
Ashley: Her parents were here before when she was sleeping and being stabilized. They knew about this already and if they would trigger anything but nothing.
Xiao: Madeline, time for her stabilizer.
Xiao gives Madeline her usual bottle and she feeds it to her like a baby. Claire starts holding it for herself with Madeline supporting her a little.
Jennifer: She really is like a child.
Tanya: Yup.
Tanya comes with the children, two of the wolves, Chun and Ming, they were in hybrid form carrying some of the kids. The others were on the wolves for the ride.
Tanya: Thanks Chun and Ming.
Chun and Ming put down the children and turned back to their Fox Spirit form. The children then got into their fur and were playing in it. Chun and Ming keep close so that they can go from Chun to Ming and back. Jennifer was watching them play together.
Jennifer: They all play together so they keep together?
Ashley: Yes, you can't separate them.
Jennifer watches them as they play together; Amethyst came to her with her cube floating around.
Jennifer: What's that with her?
Tanya: It's her magic cube, she controls it.
Tanya heads to get the children something to eat. Amethyst undid her blocks and used them to make stairs and a platform. Lilith was using her spider string to repel down and hook on with her spider legs.
Ashley: They are always curious.
Jennifer was watching them as they were looking at her and she was looking at them. Soon enough all the children were looking at Jennifer, even Athena and Talia with her worm.
Jennifer: They are all so different.
Just then Claire came out of the water because she was curious too. She couldn't walk but she could crawl. She came to the tube and she was careful not to shock anyone. She looked as just as curious as them but she was starting to get dried out.
Claire started to realize this and Athena picked her up gently, she put her back in the water where she was wet enough to turn back to normal, well for her.
Jennifer: How come Claire can't stay out of the water for long but this big girl can?
Jennifer was meaning Athena, Tanya came with their food.
Tanya: Athena is a hybrid between human, dragon and Scylla so her body acts like human so she can keep her water.
Jennifer: So how is she that big?
Just then Lucinda came in and surfaced in the cafeteria, Athena saw Lucinda and ran to her.
Athena: Mommy!
Lucinda realized and reached out her hands to grab her.
Lucinda: Mommy's home!
Lucinda caught Athena and held her in her arms.
Jennifer: Is that her mother?
Tanya: Yup.
Jennifer: OK, now I see where she gets her size from.
Tanya: Snack time kids.
The kids go to Tanya and they all help each other to the seats. Tanya usually gets one big plate for different things for them to share. Talia and Athena get separate plates so that since they eat big they would be satisfied.
Jennifer: So they work together.
Tanya: Like you would never believe.
Xiao: Heads up!
The drone opens the top and Xiao throws in a big piece of meat, it landed in the slime and it started to be absorbed by Jennifer. You could see the nutrients going into her core and being distributed.
Xiao: That has a special blend of stabilizers; it should stabilize you further after studying the process.
Jennifer looked at herself and she was starting to not drip anymore, Xiao came over and her stabilization was at forty-nine percent.
Xiao: Stabilizing nicely, all that is left is to get rid of the acidity so that you can walk around but still have it so you can digest stuff instead of melting when you walk.
Jennifer: Thank you.
Ashley: What about the extra slime when she is out.
Xiao: Hmm, maybe if she is stable enough, she could remake her body to become a solid itself and the extra slime could be her clothes and other things she can use.
Jennifer: How do you mean?
Xiao: If I read my manga right, some slimes can completely turn human, clothes, accessories, whatever they want. Sometimes they can do it by touch or by thinking of what they want but I wouldn't risk it until we get you to at least get you to eighty percent or higher.
Ashley: What about the rest of us?
Xiao: You might get powers but they may be unstable until your body gets stable. Right now, you may get some sort of phase power now but, who knows?
Ashley: What about my brother?
Xiao: His lawyers can't get him out of this one, the detox team found several items and surveillance of him in the lab.
Jennifer: Was I there?
Xiao: Yes but he kept the core separated from you. When it was built you reacted and woke up. I looked over the process and it is completely nuts. You must have been drilling through the containment while he was gone to get to your core. You wanted to be whole again.
Ashley: How nuts?
Xiao: He had to take your brain and heart out to merge them in a way I have never seen before.
Jennifer: But how was I still alive?
Xiao: Machine bypasses, also learned from a Chinese mad doctor about brain handling, he must have perfected the craft.
Madeline: That's unpleasant.
Xiao: Yeah, I wouldn't even go there, Pure handles that part when humanization or mechanization is necessary.
Jennifer: That part I was told about, those either repair or improve certain parts of the body from them being damaged.
Xiao: That is why it is only authorized by the governments so that people could be repaired and treated against diseases but not to let a person live forever. We always check your age for certain treatments so nothing gets out of hand.
The children were done eating and went back to playing while some went to Chun and Ming to rest. Talia went into her worm and got comfortable.
Jennifer: How does she sleep in that?
Xiao: Talia is mind-linked not body-linked so she doesn't know the difference.
Jennifer: So, she is the worm?
Xiao: Yup.
Talia takes a nap in her worm and the others sleep in Chun and Ming's fur, Lilith makes a web with Ming's tails and gets comfortable.
Jennifer: They look so beautiful together.
Tanya: They always are.
All of them sit down and watch the kids either play or sleep, back with Pure, he was still in the cyber world controlling the nanites. He got a call from the US President and the Barbadian Minister.
Pure: Hello?
Barbadian Minister: Haven't heard you in a while, what's going on?
Pure: Just upgrading the fort with the nanites for now. Going to take a few more days, I'm speaking to you in my head.
US President: Ok, what about Gram?
Pure: Carolina showed the authorizations, findings, and evidence of Gram's dirty work local police forces are rounding up with support from us to make arrests and seizes.
Barbadian Minister: What are you going to do with them?
Pure: Ashley and I have been talking and we are going to partner up, she doesn't want the same thing happening again.
US President: We are currently checking on other research labs to see if they have anything they are hiding.
Pure: They will only show us what they want to see, hang on I got an idea.
Pure put Rick and Jasper on the line.
Rick: Yeah Pure, what is it?
Pure: I need you and Jasper's squad to make a check on all research labs to see if they have anything hiding.
Jasper: They need permission.
US President: You have the green light; don't want any other surprises like what Turkey got while repairing.
Barbadian Minister: What is the status on the acid?
Pure: That acid was actually a person, worse it was Gram's mother.
US President: You are kidding me right?
Pure: Unfortunately not.
Pure opens up a camera that was in the cafeteria.
Pure: Switch to video call.
The US President and Barbadian Minister switched to video call where they saw her in the tube sitting down and reading on the computer with the nanites.
US President: My god.
Barbadian Minister: That is just wrong.
Pure: You have no idea, the case on him he can't do anything about and we informed the families of the wavers he had.
Barbadian Minister: Hopefully they find closure when he goes to jail.
Pure: Ashley is handing the closure for the families, they have suffered enough.
US President: Get those labs checked out and get him in a cell, it's time they take everything seriously.
Pure: Get on the mission; I don't want anyone else lost to these twisted ways.
Rick: We will contact the squad, keep upgrading.
Pure: Over and out.
Pure ends the call and gets back to work. Rick and Jasper contacted his squad and got clearance to do the search.
Hollow: You got it man; we still got our equipment and will be ready to go.
Rick: I'll be with you on this one, no one is harmed and all Intel is checked. Seth and Xiao are waiting when the Intel comes in.
Hollow: Looks like you will be joining the Specters Grim.
Rick: Temporarily, I got powers of my own too.
Hollow: That I have to see.
Seth came over the com.
Seth: All known research labs listed, any unknown labs would be on their books, Victoria and Reese is our overwatch, they are launching as we speak.
Hollow: What kind of feed are we getting?
Seth: Encrypted satellite coverage, we got your six all the way.
Hollow: You said they were launching.
Rick: I will explain once we meet up.
Rick gets in a drone and heads out to meet up Hollow. Seth headed inside to get ready for when the mission will commence. No one else wants what happened to Jasper, Claire, Ashley, Eli and Jennifer to happen to anyone else. This time no one gets away with doing something that or anything else evil for that matter.
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