Radioactive: Chapter Twenty-One

Radioactive

Chapter Twenty-One

~Toro! Toro! Ole!~

“There you are Kaiba!” Ing called as hung onto Fang’s back.

“I really don’t get why we even bother finding him,” Riu complained. “I’m just here for Kiri,” she looked around, “Where the heck is she anyway?”

“Good question,” Fang said as he looked around.

Kaiba pointed down a hallway, “She went after Jumper. They ran down that way just before you guys showed up. I was about to follow but I heard you coming.”

“Well, let’s go help her out!” Riu started running off down the hallway when Fang stopped her.

“If she’s chasing Jumper than who is this?” Fang asked. He looked down at the body of Jumper.

Kaiba sighed, “He jumped into another body when we had him cornered and took off. Now are you going to stand there looking like idiots because if you are, I’ll be on my way. I have a criminal to catch.” Kaiba turned around and walked down the hall, “Make yourself useful and bring the body to the surface. We could use it as bait to lure him out.”

Riu pulled her hand out of Fang’s grip, “Aren’t you coming? We’ve got to help Kiri out!”

Fang looked at her, “I suggest that you stay away from him.”

“Hey, I don’t like him but I’ve got to stand by my girl. Stay here for all I care!” Riu walked off after Kaiba.

Fang stood back and watched them. Kiri dropped off of Fang’s back and walked up beside him. He bent forward and looked up trying to gage Fang’s expression. Ing looked down the hall then back at Fang.

“I don’t get it,” Ing stated.

Fang shook his head. Kaiba and Riu were still within sight. As Fang watched them, Kaiba looked over his shoulder. Fang thought he saw a faint smile on his lips. The twosome disappeared down the hallway and could no longer be seen. Fang nodded when his suspicions were confirmed.

“Did I miss anything?” Jekyll asked as he walked into the room. He looked just as bored as usual.

“I think Kaiba isn’t himself right now,” Fang stated.

Jekyll raised a curious eyebrow, “Really, interesting. I wonder if it would still be frowned upon to nearly kill him in this state.”

“Unfortunately, I think it’s still very frowned upon,” Fang smiled, “Just keep in mind that his father wouldn’t take to kindly to you killing his son.”

“What do you mean that Kaiba isn’t feeling like himself?” Ing said.

Fang looked down at the little android, “He doesn’t smell right.”

“You mean…” Ing thought a moment, “But he said that he took control of another person and took off and that Kiri was after him.”

“Can you track Kiri down?” Fang asked, “I don’t know where she is but I can tell you that she isn’t down that hallway.”

Ing did just that. He ran to the railing and stood on the lowest bar. Ing looked over the edge and saw a vat of chemicals below. He pointed down, “It says she’s down there.”

Jekyll walked up to a control panel. He pressed a few buttons and raised a grate that was on a chain in the vat. A round grate rose and revealed the damaged android. She had substantially more damage than when she fell into the chemicals. The chemicals had started eating away at her frame. The grate lowered beside Ing. The little android ran up to the grate and analyzed the damage.

“She can’t use her body anymore but her initial programing should still be intact,” Ing reported. He looked up to Fang, “I’ll need to download her data in order to save her. I need permission to start the download process.”

Fang looked up at Jekyll, “Do you know what that entails?”

“An androids memory space is equal to about…a lot of government grade computers,” Jekyll stated, “It shouldn’t affect his effectiveness.”

Fang looked at Ing and nodded, “Go ahead.”

Ing looked down at Kiri. He changed his form into a strange white misty appearance. A thread of purple light came from Kiri’s android body and swirled wistfully toward Ing’s body. The purple light turned into white as Ing absorbed her data. When he had downloaded her data completely he assumed his normal appearance and looked up at Fang.

“It’s complete,” Ing stated, “Are we going after them now?”

Fang nodded, “That sounds like a plan to me.”

“I guess I’ll come along for amusement,” Jekyll walked past the duo and started down the hallway.

Fang motioned for Ing to follow and started walking off after Jekyll. Ing skipped after Fang as they went to get fake Kaiba before he caused any real trouble.

~§~

Kaiba walked down the hallway. Riu walked behind him. She looked around frequently, not being able to shake off an uncomfortable feeling that she had been experiencing. Kaiba looked over his shoulder and smiled. Sure it wasn’t as easily as he intended but taking them out one by one would work fine. He didn’t like the look that the one known as Fang gave him. Kaiba suspected that Fang knew that something was up. He wasn’t exactly sure how but taking Fang down would be more difficult than he thought.

“Hey, do you even know where you’re going?” Riu asked.

Kaiba sighed and rolled his eyes, “Yes. This way.” He walked into a side room.

Riu followed him. She entered a dark room. It was pitch black and she had trouble seeing where she was going. She couldn’t see where Kaiba had gone and he didn’t make any attempt to let her know where he was. On top of that, the sinking feeling in her stomach wasn’t going away. She stopped; her agitation was through the roof. Riu crossed her arms and refused to take another step.

“Come on, Kaiba! Come out! This isn’t funny! Where are you!?” she called. No one answered. Riu looked around trying to find something that would tell her where she was. The lights suddenly turned on and Riu sighed, “Finally! Where the heck were—”

She stopped; her eyes grew wide with shock. A monstrous mutant was mere inches from her. It towered over her, the horns on its head added to its height. The mutant growled before swiping a massive hand at her. Unable to move quickly enough, Riu was thrown to one side. Riu struck the wall. She grunted in pain before quickly getting to her feet. Riu looked around the room. Kaiba was nowhere to be seen and she was stuck with a rampaging mutant. The room looked like a kind of generator room. It roared and charged at her.

Riu ran around a cylindrical device, placing distance between it and her. The mutant ran into the wall and was stunned for a few moments. Its horns got stuck in the wall. Riu looked up and saw a grate in the ceiling. She looked at the mutant and took several steps back.

“Come on! Come at me!” Riu yelled.

The mutant dislodged his horns from the wall. It turned to her and bellowed. The mutant charged at her. Riu smiled and ran at it as well. As the creature dipped its head to strike her with its horns she jumped on to its back, using it as a step and jumped toward the grate. The grate swung open on its hinges as the creature ran on in to another wall beneath her.

“Aggh!” she grunted as she struggled to hang on to the grate as it swung open.

The creature turned quickly and ran at her. Riu looked over her shoulder. She pulled her legs up and tried to avoid getting her legs skewered by those horns.  The creature passed underneath. With a breath of release she dropped her legs. She started climbing the grate as if it were a ladder. Her legs flailed back and forth as a means of balance. The creature turned again and ran at her. This time it jumped in an attempt to reach her. Again, Riu pulled her legs up. She closed her eyes as she strained to hold on as her center of balance changed. The creature landed with a thud and Riu lowered her legs and climbed a little bit faster.

Finally, as the creature attempted to catch her again, she pulled herself into the ventilation system. Riu flopped over onto her back as she breathed heavily. Once she had caught her breath, she turned over and started army crawling through the ventilation system.

“Oh, when I get my hands on that creep I’ll ring his neck!” Riu muttered to herself as she tried to find her way to the surface.

~§~

Kaiba sighed with annoyance. He sat in a dark corner as he watched the scene unfold, “It looks like she got out. Go after her.” The creature beside him crawled up the wall and disappeared into the vents. Kaiba rolled his eyes, “This is going to be a little harder than I thought.”

Radioactive: Chapter Twenty

Radioactive

Chapter Twenty

~Doctor! Doctor!~

The others ran into the hallway from the subway system. Fang looked around, smelling the air. Ing clung to his back and made obnoxious noises to which Fang told him to “stop or I will rip your arms off”. The little android didn’t seem to take him to seriously and made the noises on a quieter level. The others followed behind them with Jekyll bringing up the rear. Duke walked beside Riu nodding occasionally to what she was saying but not really listening.

Fang led then to a fork in the hall and turned down the left hall leading to a larger room, “This way.”

“Are you sure?” Riu asked, “I think it’s the other way.”

Fang looked over his shoulder, “Are you the one who can track someone through a rain storm though the jungle in the middle of a blinding fog in the middle of the night with smell alone?”

“Well maybe I can!” Riu placed her fists on her hips.

“Unlikely,” Fang stated.

Riu took a few aggressive steps toward Fang, “What was that!? Just because all you can do is smell very far you think you’re better than me!?”

Duke quickly intervened. He grabbed Riu’s arm and held tight. Duke pulled her back away from Fang and didn’t let her go.

“What do you think you’re doing!? Let me go or I’ll gouge your eyes out!” Riu screamed.

“Let it go,” Duke said simply.

Surprisingly, Riu calmed down enough for Duke to loosen his grip on her. She pulled her arm away roughly and stomped off muttering something about how all men were the same. Riu followed Fang down the hallway he had chosen. Duke didn’t follow right away. He looked over his shoulder.

“Are you coming?” Duke asked.

Doctor Jekyll looked down the other hallway. He started walking down the other hallway away from Duke, “I need to check something. I’ll catch up later.” Jekyll waved over his shoulder.

Duke watched for a moment before turning around to follow the others. Jekyll continued down the hallway. He walked past several laboratories with medical equipment still functioning. Half changed humans were strapped to medical beds, the steady tone of the heart rate monitors told the doctor that they were no longer among the living. Jekyll entered a few rooms and glanced at a few computer screens. He absorbed the information that he gathered and kept it in mind.

“Who are you?” the doctor walked in, seeing someone else he didn’t know in his labs, “What are you doing here? Are you one of them?” the doctor nodded in the direction where Fang and the others disappeared to.

Jekyll didn’t answer him. He looked around, “I see you’ve been busy. What exactly have you been working on exactly?”

“I don’t have time to explain to the likes of you, people of inferior minds,” the doctor said.

“Well from the looks of this you have been turning normal humans into others,” Jekyll said, “Seems like something went a little wrong. Instead of keeping their human forms, they changed into different creatures, a mix between human and monster. I guess that happens when you combine human DNA to animal DNA.”

“It wasn’t supposed to happen,” the doctor defended himself. Then he smiled, “But when I saw the first one change it was like creating a new creature, a new life, that never before existed!”

Jekyll said, “Playing god?”

The doctor smiled, “Well, I only didn’t started for medical research…”

“It gives a rush doesn’t it,” Jekyll stated, “Whether you’re creating or taking something away, it gives a nice good rush to have another person’s life in your hands. Their very fate is in the palm of your hands, either they live,” Jekyll turned toward the half mutant on the medical bed. He walked up and unplugged the heart monitor, “Or they die. All the while, you think you’re in the right.”

The doctor looked curious, “Have you done experiments of this sort too? If so, we could share out different results! Not here of course but maybe a more private location where we can talk without the threat of being discovered. What do you say? Two magnificent minds working together to make a new species!”

Jekyll turned to the doctor and smiled, “I don’t think so.” He threw three scalpels into the doctor’s shoulder.

The doctor staggered back into the wall, “What—!”

“We aren’t the same,” Jekyll said. “You see, you get a thrill out of creating life, I enjoy the thrilling experience of taking it, crushing it and smother every ounce of light out of it. At least I used to. In a way, I guess I still do but I have certain obligations now.”

“Are you going to kill me!?” the doctor asked.

Jekyll shrugged, “I haven’t decided.”

“Please, please don’t kill me!” the doctor begged.

Jekyll walked over to the doctor, “I imagine that you’re victims here begged like that as you changed their very DNA structure. It must have been incredibly painful,” Jekyll dug his heels into the scalpels in the doctor’s shoulder. The doctor screamed in pain as the blades dug deeper. “In fact, you probably did them a favor by killing them. At least now the pain has stopped,” Jekyll looked over at the dead half mutant.

“Ahh!” the doctor screamed as he grabbed Jekyll’s ankle.

“Shh,” Jekyll said, “I’m just getting started. Now as a doctor myself, I find your practice, what’s the word, deplorable.”

“They don’t matter!” the doctor shouted, “No one would have missed them! I made their lives better!”

“You remind me of the people I used to kill,” Jekyll sighed, “They didn’t care either. And let me tell you, that isn’t a good thing. I had what you call a psychotic brake, started killing them as a kind of vigilante to protect the people of my neighborhood.”

“It wasn’t like anyone cared!” the doctor cried in defense.

“I cared for them,” Jekyll stated, “Their friends and family cared.”

“I made them into something beautiful!” the doctor shouted, “I turned them from the scum of the earth into beautiful creatures! Yes, they were in pain but I did the best I could to lessen their pain!”

“I made my victims beautiful too,” Jekyll smiled, “by painting the walls with their blood. Would you like me to do that to you, scum of the world? I can think of several ways to make you, how did you say it, more beautiful.”

The doctor shouted, “No please! Ahh—”

Jekyll threw three more daggers into the doctor’s other shoulder. He stomped his heel into the three new scalpels. The doctor screamed in pain. Jekyll put his foot down. He stood up straight and looked down at the doctor as the man gripped his newest wound.

“You can come in now, Duke,” Jekyll said as he turned and walked across the room.

Duke stepped into the door way. He looked slightly embarrassed for being found out. Duke looked down at the doctor.

“What do you want to do with him?” Duke asked.

“What do I want to do with him?” Jekyll looked over his shoulder and smiled, “I want to slit his stomach opened and paint the walls with his blood. But that’s just what I want. We should bring him into custody. I’m sure the Tower has just a few questions to ask him.”

Duke bent down and yanked a group of three daggers out of his shoulder. The doctor shouted in agony.

“Would you be more gentle you twit!?” the doctor yelled.

“Sorry,” Duke said emotionlessly.

He dug the three blades back into the wound and yanked them out again quickly. With the second set of three scalpels he twisted them first before removing them. He smirked slightly as the doctor cried in pain. Duke turned the doctor and pulled his arms behind his back and tied his wrists together. He pulled the doctor to his feet.

“What now?” Duke asked.

Jekyll turned and walked toward the door, “Bring him to the surface. I’m going to have a chat with Kaiba.”

“I bring him to the surface?” Duke asked, “Why don’t you bring him to the surface?”

“Because I could skin you alive,” Jekyll said as he left.

Duke nodded, “That’s a pretty good reason.”

“I’d say so,” Jekyll stated.

Radioactive: Chapter Nineteen

Radioactive

Chapter Nineteen

~Open Window~

Sorry for the extended delay, work got really crazy the last few days. -.-,

“Are you sure this is going to work?” Riu asked. She ended up coming along, not wanting to be left behind, “I mean they could just be hidin’ from us. How do you know they are headed for their home? They can’t be that stupid to—oh gross!—lead us there. I mean they would have to be pretty stupid. And by pretty stupid, I mean really, really stupid. Eww! This freakin’ sucks! There just isn’t a rank on a scale that could measure how stupid they would have to be. So overall, they couldn’t possibly be that stupid.”

“They also aren’t that stupid to not be able to hear you all the way down this tunnel,” Kaiba muttered.

Riu looked up ahead of her, “You are so paying for a new pair of shoes.”

“Just agree,” Fang sighed, “The sooner you do, the sooner she will shut up.”

Riu looked over her shoulder, “What did you say!? Just wait till I get over there!”

“Yes,” Fang stated mindlessly.

“Are you just saying that!?” Riu asked, “Because I will beat you up!”

“Yes,” Fang nodded.

“You’re getting on my nerves!” Riu shouted.

Fang shrugged, “Yes.”

“Arggh,” Riu faced forward and proceeded to ignore Fang.

Fang looked over his shoulder at Ing, “See, told you it would work.”

“Yep!” Ing clung onto Fang’s back as Fang carried the little android in his human form.

Kaiba rolled his eyes as he led the way through the tunnels underneath the city. Kiri lit up the path ahead of them. She still didn’t have full use of her right arm but it wasn’t something that would too much of a problem. Jekyll walked a few places behind the two. He was just a little more quiet than usual. Duke walked behind everyone else. He rolled his eyes as the others talked back and forth to each other.

“Shh!” Kaiba shushed as they walked forward.

Ahead of the group, a couple of mutants scurried around each other. They took a look at the coming group and ran off. Kaiba ran after them. The mutants crawled onto a tunnel. Kaiba looked inside the tunnel and slid down inside. He landed on his feet into the abandoned subway. Kaiba watched as the creatures ran down the subway toward an opened door.

Kiri followed Kaiba down the tunnel. She bumped into him unintentionally receiving a death glare from Kaiba.

“This way,” Kaiba said.

Thought the mysterious door, it was an entirely different vibe and feel. The walls, ceilings and floors were all white and well lit. There was a clean vide throughout the building. There was something else too that Kaiba couldn’t place his finger on. Together Kaiba and Kiri walked into a larger room.

“Looks like you finally made it,” Jumper leaned against a railing on a catwalk. He looked down at the two with a kind of smug expression. He didn’t seem intimidated in any way.

Kiri stepped forward but Kaiba stopped her. He looked up at Jumper, “Well, it wasn’t like you left your address lying around.”

Jumper shrugged, “I don’t have a home. I drift, body to body, home to home.”

“You never seen so far from you’re original body,” Kiri said

“There’s a saying, “Home is where your heat is.” And frankly, my heart is here. I take very good care of this body. And I’ll everything I can to protect myself.”

“I see,” Kaiba said quietly.

“That means; I’ll kill you before you can even touch me!” Jumper vanished and appeared behind Kaiba.

Kiri turned and grabbed onto Jumper with her right hand. She stepped to one side and threw him across the room. Before he could get onto his feet again, Kaiba dashed forward. Jumper was quicker though, by the time Kaiba tried to attack him Jumper had already disappeared. He appeared suddenly and started attacking Kaiba with quick and precise movements. Kaiba took several steps back and did his best to dodge and parry. The compartment in Kiri’s left arm opened and the contraption placed a sword in her hand. She grabbed the sword with both hands and tried to attack Jumper while his attention was distracted.

He saw her coming easily and ducked. Jumper’s movements were smooth and effortless, he sidestepped and pivoted behind her and grabbed Kiri’s neck. Kiri switched her grip on the sword and drove the blade behind her, trying to stab him that way. Jumper stepped to one side avoiding the attack with his grip on her neck. He pulled her down to the ground and slammed her head on a railing. Kiri’s vision temporarily went dark as she tried to recover from the blow. She slid to her feet in a daze.

With Kiri in no immediate condition to assist, Jumper focused his attention on Kaiba. He disappeared and reappeared in front of him. Kaiba jumped back, slashing with the blades in his arm. After one slash, Jumper was nowhere to be seen. Jumper’s laughter could be heard echoing around the large room. Kaiba looked around cautiously.

Jumper laughed, “Oh Kaiba, I do have to say, you are quite the person. Now, I know we haven’t known each other for long but I can just tell from personal experience with others that you are the son of a rich father aren’t you. The question is why are you here? Daddy issues? Spoiled Rich Kid Syndrome? What is it? Why do you care? These people will just end up being statistics in a few months anyway. At least this way, they matter.”

“What about you? Why do you help subject people to painful experiments?” Kaiba asked.

“Yes, but they all thank him in the end…before their mind capabilities degrade into animalistic instincts,” Jumper didn’t sound like he cared at all. “Unlike you, I don’t care. As long I get my pay I could care less.”

Kaiba looked in the direction he thought he heard the voice originate before echoing, “I doubt you would have that outlook if you were the one being tested on.”

“I doubt I would,” Jumper laughed, “But I’m not. And neither are you. So again, why do you care?”

Kaiba looked around. The direction of the voice was completely different than where he last heard it. He decided to answer in order to keep Jumper talking.

“It’s my job to care,” Kaiba said.

“Don’t give me that bull crap,” Jumper sounded annoyed. He sighed, “I guess I’ll just have to find the answer myself.”

Jumper appeared suddenly in front of Kaiba. He grabbed Kaiba’s neck. Kaiba felt a sharp pain though his head as their eyes locked. Jumper smiled and laughed as he inched his way into Kaiba’s mind. Kaiba grabbed Jumper’s wrist with his left hand in an effort to get the hand around his neck off. With his right he tried to stab Jumper with his blades but his opponent grabbed his wrist with his free hand.

“I’d ask you to stop struggling,” Jumper smiled, “but then it would be less fun stealing your body.”

“Aagh!” Kiri shouted as she used her sword in a downward attack behind Jumper.

He looked over his shoulder and disappeared. The sword hit the ground, not even grazing the body jumper. She looked around; her vision was a little glitch still from the impact. Kiri stood defensively around Kaiba, doing her duty to protect him. Jumper appeared again to her left. The compartment in her arm opened again and placed a gun in her hand. She turned quickly and unloaded the on him. Jumper somehow avoided all the bullets and teleported the short distance between them. He struck her in the face causing her to stagger back. Kiri tried to fight back but Jumper grabbed her right fist in the middle of a punch. Jumper ran past her and grabbed the back of her neck. He threw her over the edge of the railing.

“Stop interrupting you little wretch!” Jumper shouted as he tossed her over.

Kiri fell into a tub of liquid on the level below. Upon impact of the liquid, error messages appeared in Kiri’s vision. The thick liquid chemical clogged her filters as she tried desperately to get out and assist Kaiba. Slowly, she found in more and more difficult to move. She tried to call out but naturally no one heard her. Kiri dropped to the bottom of the tub with a metallic sound and lay motionless.

Jumper sighed and looked over his shoulder, “Now that we’re alone, let’s finish what we started.”

He walked over to Kaiba and lifted his head. Racked with a mind-numbing headache, Kaiba couldn’t move as he gripped his head in pain. Jumper looked into Kaiba’s eye.

His smile grew wider, “They say that the eyes are the windows to the soul. I can say for a fact that they defiantly are on to something.”

Kaiba felt his mind slipping the longer he looked into Jumper’s eyes. Colors started to blend and blur and it was also getting harder and harder to concentrate. He tried to look around for Kiri, at least that what he thought her name was, but she was nowhere to be seen. In his mind, faces had no names and words were starting to lose meaning. Muscled didn’t do what he wanted them to; no matter how hard he tried he just couldn’t move. He couldn’t hold himself up with his own strength and depended on Jumper to hold him up. Kaiba shivered as the surrounding air felt cold all of a sudden.

“Fath—,” Kaiba muttered weakly. It couldn’t really be called a mutter really, more like a meek sound of weak resistance.

Jumper sighed, “Oh, Kaiba, just give up.”

Weak and barely functional, Kaiba collapsed. Jumper’s own body slumped over as well. For a few moments, nothing happened. Suddenly, Kaiba opened his eyes.

He sat up and stretched. When he was finished, he looked at his hands and smiled. He stood up and walked around Jumper’s body, stretching out his legs. All of a sudden he started to laugh uncontrollably.

“Oh, Kaiba,” he said out loud, “I can get used to this. You are going to make a nice fit. I didn’t find my answer though, oh well; it isn’t going to matter now.” He looked down at the second body at his feet, “What to do…what to do…”

Kaiba looked up when he heard something down the hall. He narrowed his eyes. That’s right; there were others to take care of. It would be easier in this new body. He raised his hand and partially extended the blade. Kaiba winced slightly, he wasn’t yet used to pain. He sighed. This would have to do. Besides, with their guard down, they won’t know what hit them.

~§~

“Kaiba!?” Sirius turned suddenly, knocking over his cup of coffee onto the floor.

Bridget, his new temporary private secretary, dropped the folders she was carrying onto the desk and grabbed a box of tissues. She started cleaning up the mess on the floor, avoiding the bits of glass from the mug until later.

“Are you alright, sir? You didn’t cut yourself or something did you? I’ll get this cleaned up right away!” she said as she dabbed up the coffee. She laid down a piece of tissue and started placing broken pieced of the mug onto it. When she ran out of her own stash she looked up onto the desk to reach for more.

Bridget stopped. She stood up and looked out the window where Sirius was looking. When she didn’t see anything she looked back at him, “Mr. Galaxy? Are you alright, sir?” He didn’t answer. His attention was undivided. Bridget tried again, “Sirius!”

“What?” Sirius looked at her.

“Are you alright, sir?” Bridget asked, “You weren’t responding.”

“Oh,” Sirius nodded, trying to grasp reality, “Yes, yes, I’m fine.” He looked down at the mess on the floor and stooped down to clean it up.

Bridget joined him, “If you don’t mind me asking, what was all that about?”

“Nothing, I just though I heard someone call me, that’s all,” he still seemed very out of it, “I just must be tired.”

“Sir, I can clean this up if you need to splash cold water on your face,” Bridget offered.

Sirius nodded, “Yeah, I think I’ll do that.” Sirius stood up and walked toward the door. He stopped a moment and turned around, “Have you ever had that feeling that someone you love is in trouble and you just can’t shake that feeling?”

Bridget sat on her legs, “I couple of times. Do you think something happened?”

“I don’t know,” Sirius said.

Bridget tried to console the worried father, “If you’d like I could give everyone in your family a call.”

“No,” Sirius shook his head, “I think I should do that myself.”

“Alright then,” Bridget nodded, “Shall I hold your calls?”

Sirius opened the door and looked over his shoulder, “Naturally, you’re the best in the business at holding a call. I’d hate to keep you from doing your job.”

Bridget saluted, “Always an honor, Mr. Galaxy, sir!”