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[cachemoney]

[Fiona is a little out of breath, like she just hustled very quickly away from somewhere. Which she did, but that's neither here nor there. The background behind her is some innocuous wood panelling; she's in a house.]

Okay. So. Crunch time. Things are getting nuts out there, if you didn't notice. We are gonna wind up super screwed if we don't hop to figuring out what the hell to do.

[She holds up a vial. It has some alien writing on it, as well as a familiar symbol on the label.]

We found this inside the hospital. A shit-ton of them, actually. So who wants to find out what Zymandis asshole is responsible for this mess and beat an antidote out of them?



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[cachemoney]

No, I know. It's-- I'm aware of how bad of a thing this is. [She wakes up to it every day.] I'm just saying, maybe that wasn't their intent.

[Not that it really matters. She shakes her head and wills herself to focus before she gets too far off-track.]

Well, anyway -- the important part right now is hunting this shit-head down.

[secondnature]

Why wouldn't it be their intent?

[Keith wants clarification on this before he agrees with her final statement.]

[cachemoney]

[She pauses, smacking her lips a little awkwardly before she answers. She doesn't like talking about how fucked up her home planet is, what was done to it, because it means people might pity her. But it's the only way she can think of to explain her reasoning.]

Let's just say I have experience with evil organizations using human beings as test subjects. Just to see what will happen to them if they're injected with this or that, in case the "data" is useful down the road.

[secondnature]

[That's ... honestly something that he can buy more than some of the other theories being thrown around.]

What if it's supposed to work both ways? If it works—then good, this planet is gone. If it doesn't, then they won't use it again, and whoever came up with that idea is gonna be, uh, fired. ["Fired." "Killed." He definitely means the latter, which is why there's a pause.]

[cachemoney]

[She smiles grimly.] That works with my experience, too.

[secondnature]

Mine, too.

A virus could be a subtle way of taking over entire planets. If they can get there first—[Then even if ALASTAIR is trying to stop it, they'll have to continue to put agents at risk.

And that's if they even get the coordinates for the planets where Zymandis is at work. Keith has the sense that they might've been lucky this time ... and last time. That something is leading them to cross paths after so long.]

[cachemoney]

That's why a cure is so important. [She'd originally been more concerned about a vaccine because that's what their mission was, but now that someone close to her is sick, she's changed her opinion. It just so happens that that's a better solution for multiversal health, too.]

If we can't always be ahead of Zymandis, at least we can clean up after them with as few casualties as possible.

[secondnature]

The good news is that they probably won't try anything once we have solutions.

Though I'd like to know how many times they've succeeded. How many worlds have they destroyed? [This is getting outside of the mission's paygrade, but it is a question that he wants answered.]

[cachemoney]

It sounds like they have more manpower than us, so... my guess would be a lot.