“Now’s the hard part…”

Sarah was staring at the glass between her and the outside hallway she was running through a moment ago. It was still filled with pink gas, and the sight of it made her spine tingle.

She had discovered a rather unfortunate thing about this gas.

Placing a tendril against the scarred surface that made up her left side and back, she tried to heal the scarring and ripped parts.

Nothing, she couldn’t make it move, could reabsorb the surface within her and replace it.

It was stuck this way.

“This gas can kill me… it's not like the decontamination gas back at the lab.”

If Zlo knew about this, then it’s possible that the other death children know too.

I’ve got to find a way to fix this.

The parts about the report from her former boss worried her too, especially the business with controlling people.

She already knew she could, fixing her brother had already proved as much.

The idea of it though.

“I’m not that much of a monster… I’m not.”

Yet, if her friends and family were in harms way…

Sarah shook her head, now wasn’t the time for this.

She took a stock of her surroundings, noticing a few things that she might be able to use her new bag of goodies.

Making a counter agent for the gas wasn’t going to work, since she might have the equipment, but not the time.

She could try to escape in the vents, but if it was there too, she would be stuck.

She looked at the floor.

“The cement… maybe underneath?”

She winded up her fist, shifting to a gorilla’s massive arm combined with the spring release muscles of both a cat and a snake.

With a smile she launched the fist into the floor.

The reverberating crack exploded into a fissure, ripping the tiles, concrete and a bit of dirt from the floor.

All she needed was a bit of dirt to dig through.

“Mole time!”

She shifted into a mixture of a mole and a bear, gaining massive strength and endurance. Pushing her new body, she felt the skin on her left side tear, and a bit of red blob fell to the floor.

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“Shit!”

She tried to move over the wound with her true form, covering the wound with a layer of her blobbyness.

It worked, but if anything hit it, it was likely to tear open again.

“Okay then, soft digging.”

She made the tendrils she spawned from her body do the work for her, moving so her right side could do its work while the left side tried to stop her leak.

It was working.

After a few minutes of being an excavator, she burrowed underneath the floor to the lab, making her way back towards the warehouse.

Part of her knew it was a bad idea to go back to the place the mad man was surely monitoring, but being under the ground without knowing where she was or how deep she was...

She wasn’t sure if she could fight with this leak, and the doctor clearly had a means to kill her with that gas.

She was out of her league here.

Sarah sighed as she pushed upward towards a bed of concrete, making her way up until she hit a hole in the floor. After a bit of scratching, she pushed out of the underworld and into a room filled with fluorescent lights.

To a sight she couldn’t believe.

“The subject got away four months ago; the agreement was for you to hand over our data after making it look like one of your damn schemes. So, why aren’t you here?! We need the data to make another!”

Chimera stared at Gideon as the young boy was snarling at the massive screen of the mad doctor, who was wearing a smirk on his face.

“Relax you inferior pretender, the data is safe within my sanctum, awaiting the return of your equally inferior creator. My deal was after all, with him.”

Gideon’s face seemed to shift, a lupine form overtook him for a moment, and Chimera thought she might have imagined it if it wasn’t for the reaction from the Doctor.

“Fascinating, I could use that for one of my bits. A true werewolf situation where the Heroes and the Villains have to hunt down the werewolves. I can almost see it.”

“ENOUGH OF YOUR INSOLENCE! Give me the Data right now.”

Chimera flinched, the sound reverberating off the walls of the warehouse making it echo and grow even louder.

Zlo however, seemed uninterested.

“And you will have it pup, once your creator meets with me, and not a moment sooner. Tell that to your siblings as well, Dr. Zlo, Mastermind and genius of the modern age, does not answer to the help.”

“Wait you damn maniac!”

The monitor with Dr. Zlo’s face turned off, and began to retreat into the ceiling.

Gideon meanwhile was furious, growling and throwing boxes to the side as he screamed and howled.

“DAMNIT! I WILL EAT HIS FLESH, MARK MY WORDS, YOU CRACKPOT!”

Chimera took in the meeting as she returned to the earth, closing the tile she was using as a cover.

Zlo was involved… but it looks like he’s hoarding the data on Crimson R… or maybe something even worse.

Either way, so long as Pox is in prison, that data is safe… as safe as a madman’s hands can be.

I really need to get that data before the death children do.

She continued to dig under the soil, making her way towards the hatch she and Gideon fell through. Soon she could go through the pipe and make her way back to the-

A shock ran through Chimera as a fist punched through the concrete and grabbed her.

In a moment she was ripped through and back into the warehouse, with a pissed off werewolf staring at her.

“Found you.”

Still holding her side, she shifted back into a human.

“What are you doing Gideon?!”

His glare and snarl were menacing, and it appeared his fur was bristling as he gritted his teeth.

Gideon’s transformation made his hands into claws, feet into a wolf’s paws and his mouth into a muzzle that extended a good five inches, filled with razor teeth Chimera was sure she would see on a shark. His eyes were no longer blue, replaced with a red gold hue that radiated energy, and his ears and fur were the color of ash.

He was ripped as well, definition applied and no fat or love handles to be seen, not that he had them before.

“Stop the charade, I know you were listening. Digging through the soil like that was clever, if a bit loud. I was almost certain that the gas finished you, but after I heard that noise, I knew.

Whether or not you're really who you say you are, you know too much Chimera. Don’t worry though… I’ll send our teammates along with you, so you won't be lonely.”

Despite his monstrous form, Gideon still wielded a cannon on his arm, and the tech suit along his side was still operational.

He pointed at Chimera, an ominous red and blue light starting to glow.

“So long, whelp.”

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