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Two Teleporting Up To The JLA Med Center

Sep 08, 2005 08:50

When the riots broke out, Danette Reilly was in Savanah, staying with Dr. Nancy Saunders. The first night, she came between a collection of families that were huddled together in a supermarket and an armed mobbed furious with them for hoarding food.

Civil order has broken down here. Broken down everywhere, far as she could see. Everything she ( Read more... )

brainiac-5, the circle, mr. terrific, firebrand, plague

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jsaboss September 8 2005, 08:35:08 UTC

"Glad you could join us, Doctor. Firebrand."

Michael nods politely, but he's still mostly unsteady. His fever would have killed a lot of people, and his knuckles are swelling.

"We're looking at an enchantment that masquerades as, or is piggybacked on, a lethal retrovirus. It rewrites the subject's DNA strands, evidently to force a backward fall in evolution.

"I'm transmitting data into your suit. According to to research on the ground, once we lift the spell, we should be able to treat and contain this situation like a normal lethal and unstoppable virus."

Dr. Saunders begins reading the data as it flashes across the screen.

"But you don't know how to prepare for the virus post-enchantment because you don't know what will happen exactly when the spell lifts, correct?"

Teriffic nods.

"I think I do," says Saunders.

12thlevelmind September 8 2005, 13:13:46 UTC

Well, don't keep us in suspense.

allstargal September 8 2005, 13:30:41 UTC

Danette steps away from the scientists for a second. She's not entirely sure why she's here -- she's staying intact because she's not human anymore. Not technically. She's living, magic fire of some sort. But Nancy needs her, so she watches.

"Sorry," says Nancy. "Needed a moment to finish transferring data."

Saunders pushes a button on her wrist console, and a holographic display of a DNA sequence appears.

"This is a DNA sample we took about seven years ago from Kent Nelson, the original Dr. Fate. In the wake of the Dominator invasion of Earth, the aliens unleased a bomb that put every metahuman on Earth into a state of catatonia, killing several.

This is the point where we discovered the existence of the metagene, but what we couldn't understand was why Fate, ostensibly not a metahuman, was effected."

The image closes in, and a numerical representation of an RNA strand appears.

"What we learned at that point is that a handful of human beings, as well as related off-shoots such as homo magi, have an extra series of codes hereShe ( ... )

12thlevelmind September 8 2005, 13:48:59 UTC

Doctor, are you all right?

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