518 moaned awoke. He had been dreaming of another place. The first face he saw was familiar in an unfamiliar way. He looked at Martya and said, "Hey, Martya, where am I? Who are these people?" Martya blinked and looked shocked. She looked over at 399 and remarked, "Alright--I'm freaked out. How does he know me?" At 518, she looked down at him and asked, "How do you know me?" He blinked and said slowly in a weak, hoarse voise, "I saw you, Toxic , someone calling herself 'Yellow-Knot-Woman', and the Measure? I saw some blue-looking place with tubes and stuff. I think I was dreaming." 399 said, "You were in shock and probably overheard it. Little wonder you didn't recognize me, I've changed so much. I'm 399." Martya hugged herself and looked bothered by what 518 had said. It was true that SHE had seen a blue place with tubes and stuff, and she had told noone about it. 518 looked surprised and asked, "What happened to you? I know what happened to me. I thought." 64-25515f came over and snarled at the two of them, "The humans want to see if you two are contagious to other Scavs, like me! I don't want to turn into a freaky mutant!" Martya snapped at 515f, " 'Freaky mutant' ? You want me to slap you on your bald head? You been complaining about being locked up more than US! And we're the 'freaky mutants'? You sure do complain a lot!" 518 asked, "We're in some kind of Bio-Isolation room?" 399 nodded. He said, "Yah. Caught in Panchetta's Lab. It was booby-trapped. We walked right into it, and the aero-vectored retro-virus rewrote our DNA. Aldus Panchetta was one clever bastard." Off in the distance was a big boom that rattled the building. They all fell silent as 399 though about the explosion. Off in the bowels of the hospital, alarms went off warning of an external attack. 399 blinked and said carefully, "That was dead on Panchetta's lab, I think. Maybe a self-destruct bomb to open up the building, and eliminate evidence? Don't know." 518 fell asleep again, and 399 sighed and patted his old friend's forearm. He looked around and said quietly, "I suggest we ALL get some sleep. I don't think we're in any danger here." The girls made some vague noises and grabbed beds as far from each other as possible, as 399 lay down on a hospital bed next to 518, and hoped he wasn't a liar. --TO BE CONTINUED-- Media is Poser 6