"Kael, can you hear me?" He was groggy and looked around, seeing Snowflake in a wheelchair, River Prince in human form, and Snowy's adoptive mom, Rose in casual attire. He looked at Snowflake and said, "I was meaning to handle this myself. I don't want anyone to worry about me." Snowy almost burst into tears as she choked up. "How can you humans be so damned STUPID?" Rose said, looking concerned over at Snowy, "I can field that one. In his case, pride and self-reliance. Remember he's from Adamesh, which got nuked two hundred years ago. Some problems from fallout and radiation were bound to happen. Leukemia is one of the more common cancers under those circumstances." Snowy asked, "What is the prognosis? Treatment? Options? I found only cursory mentions of cancer on the net. Something about Tananu roots?" Kael nodded sleepily. "Tananu root was the genetically engineered cure for cancer for over four millennium. It went extinct almost five hundred years ago. Since there had been no nuclear wars or such for almost the same time, no one noticed it's extinction. Cancer got forgotten in the dustbins of history." "Aldus gives me another two or three months of activity before my system collapses. Then maybe another three or four months after that, then death. There isn't much that can be done now." Snowy exclaimed, "What about some of Toxic's blood?" Rose exclaimed, "Don't be so sanguine! I don't believe half of what you just told me. Humans love power. Giving a population cancer by nuking them THEN holding the cure over their head is a typical human ploy. City 32 was the Jade Imperial capitol, before the revolution. Their might be samples, medicine or seeds there of the Tananu plant. If we can get a gene sample, we can fabricate it. I'm contacting people while we speak. Also, we could get you a cyborg body..." He held up a hand. "Won't work. the cancer has metastasized into my brain and other internal organs. Also, Toxic's blood won't help me. Actually...that IS part of the present problem. I was in remission for years until I got the shot to inoculate me from the Blight. THAT was made from Toxic's blood. It's causing my CANCER to REGENERATE! Not what ANYONE needed. There are thousands of people on Adamesh suffering from this right now." Snowy looked relieved and said, "Maybe for not much longer. There is a tech on Flying City 32 that found a file in the old Imperial Archives that seems to be gene transcription of the plant in question. We'll have to check for corruption and clone it, but there is a chance." Kael smiled at her and said sadly, "I have five or six months. It'll take a year or so to clone a plant from scratch. I don't have the time. Quick work, though. It'll save a lot of lives." Prince whispered, "Not your's? No, no, NO! Won't work. Snowy! Heal Kael! Borrow Neblae's power!" Snowy dropped her head, "I'd give my life for Kael, but the Four Sisters are no more." Rose snapped, "No dying on my watch. There is only one thing to do. Chalchilaloq infected the system. We DESTROY Chalchilaloq. What ever it takes. Toxic seems to be the only hold out on this plan, because Chalchilaloq was her mother..." Snowy said, "I get it, MOM! I'll talk to her. We have to be unified in this. Balaam is dying. Kael is dying. Maybe..." She paused a long time. Kael asked, "Maybe... you can do more than just save my skinny ass from the cold grave?" Snowy nodded. "I have an idea. A loony idea, but it might work. The air is poisoned, the land is lifeless, and the seas are dead. When Toxic came back to life, she sifted over 175 tons of matter from another time-line onto the Nautilus using the goofy 'transformation power' from the re-activation sequence of one of the Four Sisters!" Snowflake looked ecstatic, "Maybe when ALL of use reboot, we can use ALL of our power in a way we never thought to try. Maybe we can HEAL the planet!" Prince asked, "Like a big band-aid?" Snowy laughed. --TO BE CONTINUED!--