The Nuclear Option

Rome picked up one of the two remaining blue vials and held it up to the light. After examining it, she handed the vials and injector to MINIMCOM. “We’ll have MINIMCOM analyze them but I can already tell you what it is,” she said sadly.Contacting the Overmind will reveal the fact that Rome and Rei are violating the conditions of their exile. What will happen?
“What?” asked Rei.
“When you and I confronted MASAL underneath Kilauea, he offered to modify my genetics to transform me directly into one of the Onsiras. Like those soldiers that captured us. He never said how he would accomplish that but this must be it.” Her eyes grew wide as her own words hit her like a ton of bricks. Helplessly, she said “Rei…” Her voice trailed off as she tried to figure out the implications.
“It may not be as bad as you think,” Rei said. “Aason has our 25th chromosome. He may be immune. But your Mom and Dad…and Ursay, I don’t know.”
“How do you explain the fact that I cannot reach him?” Rome asked, her voice catching. “Our poor baby?”
“Like I said before, maybe he’s wearing a T-suppressor,” Rei said. “They did it to you. They can do it him.”
“I hope you’re right…” Rome said. She walked over and sat down on one of the chairs. She put her face down into her hands to think. She had to force herself to not dwell on the negatives. She had to come up with something positive. Suddenly, her head snapped up.
“MINIMCOM,” she said, “my PPT transceivers. The ones that connected me to the Overmind of Earth. You activated them, correct?”
“Yes,” MINIMCOM replied.
“Then I am going to contact it. If anyone or anything in the world would know where they are, the Overmind of Earth would know.”
“But we were banished from the planet,” Rei said. “As soon as you let him know we’re here, he’ll have us arrested.”
“I don’t care,” Rome said defiantly. “This is more important.”
“OK,” Rei said. “But I sure hope you know what you are doing.”
“I don’t,” Rome said. “I admit it. But I am going to try anyway.”
Published on October 25, 2017 06:09
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