R O B E R T A
Usually Roberta would never really listen to what Leon had to say on his discoveries, thinking they were nothing special, but this time she had to admit, this finding was very,
very interesting. A super whose power is to cancel other supers. Roberta wondered how those abilities operated. Was it part of her immune system? How do they block out an abilities effect on her? Had the antibodies in her blood had evolved to protect the body from more than just diseases and viruses. The gears whirled in her head as Roberta analyzed the different possibilities.
"All I need now are those two sweet test tube babies you've made," Leon said.
"They are not 'test tube babies,'" she said indignantly. Oh, but how she would have loved it if her creations had started out as embryos. It would have saved her all the trouble and stress of creating formulas, figuring out ways to mutate already mature cells, and psychologically raise them to be the more obedient, perfect weapons, rather than have to deal with the two rowdy, spirited teenagers they were. Too bad their little GUARD DOG organization was cheap.
Still Roberta thought the success in turning them into the supers they are was a bigger accomplishment than test tube babies. While many of their cells were matured and their development already slowing down as they neared closer to adulthood, she was still able to work and change their genetic make-up. A feat so much more difficult than changing newly fertilized embryos.
"Our deal was I would work for you if you help me find them," she said. What did he want with her creations? Whatever it was she would now have to be more wary of Leon, make sure to keep this power cancelling blood from getting inside the bodies of her own supers or else all her hard work would have gone to waste. Roberta stared at the data gathered on the super-cancelling blood before her. "I too want the formula loaded in the Cluster. And another chemical too. Every heard of Zyklon B?"
S H I V E R
"You're name, is it really Shiver?"
"Of course not," he said in reply to Alice's question. He hesitated for a moment before opening his mouth to tell her his real name when the robot walked in, gears and wires of her body exposed for all to see. From the conversation between the two girls, Shiver felt as if he were staring at the body of a naked girl. He looked somewhere else other than the robot, gaining feeling at the tips of his ears.
Don't they realize I'm a guy?
His guard went up the moment he felt the house rumble. Alice shouted something and he briefly saw the glass shatter followed by a green round object flying through. Shiver threw his arms over his head to protect himself from the glass, peeking out of his arms as a masked man stepped in the house. He remembered the face from Leon De Wiles' speech earlier; from the monitors behind him as Leon said he was going to eliminate all supers.
He pulled back his hand, using the puddle on the floor to make a large snowflake in his palm.