"I'm trying to meet each of the Cyclops as they come back to the ship. Doctor Blue, I didn't recognize you at all." Captain Dokka Tkarro knew there might be some confusion after the transformation wave, but the whole world was reeling from the implications. Doctor Blue said, "My shuttle from Telegardia was incoming when it hit us. I got a pair of pants from Thistledown, and a shirt from Jahntu. The boots got delivered a few minutes ago." "I've been running some tests on the different races of Cyclops that exists now. There seem to be three distinct races now. Many hybrids of those races also exists also! I'm one. This is exciting and terrifying at the same time." Doctor Blue paused and the Captain nodded. "Please go on. Everyone thought that just Hawkwing would transform, but that wasn't just the only transformation! ALL the Cyclops on this face of the planet were affected!" Rose snapped, "The wave did NOT affect ANY Cyclops who had up a RIF field, either!" Dokka asked, "Rose, what's wrong?" She sighed, "You know that the Cyclops Consensus took my baby boy, Omega, from me because he was a danger because he was born with a RIF field generator in him? He had it up during the change and was NOT affected. At all. BUT WAIT! There is more, Doctor Blue, if you will....?" Doctor Blue looked grave and said, "ALL of Rose's line now has RIF generators in them. Including Sunshine. Her's doesn't work as yet. It seems her's is still being formed inside her body and will be ready to function when she hits puberty at age twelve or thirteen. An excellent safety mechanism to have graduated learning without the chance of fatality that Omega entailed." Rose said, looking over at Sunny, "Just what every mother wants. An invulnerable, super-speed tween with super-strength! At least for short bursts until her power runs out..." Sunshine said, "I'm not a baby! I won't fly into people and almost kill them like Omega did with Lime! You taught me with ability comes responsibility! I'm responsible! Right, Mom?" Rose reached out and hugged Sunny. "Very responsible. Just stay that way. Are you copying me?" Sunny laughed and nodded. Dokka asked, "So all the Cyclops that the Oracle had injected with an extract of Toxic's blood that was in 518, developed RIF generator units? Is that so?" Rose nodded. Doctor Blue said, "I hypothesize that the 'blood of Typhon' that was in Toxic, was passed on in enough quantity to have some effect on the Altha-Krommium transformation wave. It used Rose,Snowflake, and Bluebell as templates. Now some of the population have robot-like feet and noses. Some have no noses and soft phased radar arrays--BOTH sexes! The last race can pass as human looking as long as they wear visors covering their one eye. The last has the greatest variety of colors. All the colors of the rainbow, in fact!" Dokka asked, "No chance of cross-breeding with the other Cyclops with hard shells?" Aldus spoke up,"NONE! In fact, they are all sterile, now! They weren't transformed, but were rendered sterile! Their soft children WERE changed at the cellular level! They will grow up to be one of the three new races! Hard shells are apparently an evolutionary dead end! Seems that the wave reached through the core of the planet. There was no escape for anyone!" "Doctor Panchetta? Why are you out of uniform?" Dokka was curious. Aldus said, "There is no escape for ANYONE! I'm turning myself in on that crimes against nature charge about making illegal clones! As much as I might irritate people, I AM a doctor and my main mission is to alleviate suffering. If they storm the ship with a battalion of marines, SOMEONE will get injured! Besides, I can support my daughter like this. I'm not going to let one psychopath destroy my daughter!" Rose said, "Go for it, Aldus. You have my support." Dokka sighed, "Mine ,too. Do you need a lawyer?" Aldus shrugged. "An army,too!" He laughed. --TO BE CONTINUED!--