Rose conducted Obett down to the mess-hall where he used his 'Synchronized Particle Doorway' to return to his ship. She looked up Captain Tkarro and looked for Toxic. They found her on deck two, heading towards the girl's room as Rose yelled,"Toxic! Wait!" Captain Dokka Tkarro said,"I wish you'd tell me what this plan is." ROse said,"I'm about to. Toxic--can you shape-change into Sunshine?" Dokka exclaimed,"That is bloody brilliant! Toxic can change into a little red bird, Sunshine should be a snap!" Toxic growled,"A snapped bone, maybe! That isn't right. I won't do it." Rose looked surprised, and Dokka asked,"Why NOT? We KNOW that the Thena in that room is NOT the real Thena and the Erhlutians have the real one SOMEWHERE and they are after Sunny. If we can stick an agent in there with her, maybe we can get out where?" Toxic said,"If Prince catches me being Sunshine, HE WILL GO OFF! He'll bite me, and not as a human either! I wouldn't blame him. If I caught him...being JIN, I'd beat the crap out of him! If King catches me....oh,boy! He might bust up the ship beating me! He'd be REALLY PISSED OFF!" Rose exclaimed,"WHY? This doesn't make any sense at all! WHY? The Druaga have genetic ethics? We are trying to save Sunny from kidnappers and rescue Thena from who has her!" Toxic exclaimed,"You do NOT BE other people! It's immoral! Like stealing food from people when you aren't hungry or killing people who didn't do anything to you because you're angry! It's not RIGHT. Besides, how do you know it's Thena?" Rose snapped,"Snowy and Sunny both have hyperframes and Snowy is linked to Kael! Thena has to be it! Besides,how would you feel about it if Sunny gets grabbed by these people and YOU could have stopped it?" Toxic grabbed a hand-hold and shook it angrily,"I'd feel bad! Is there no other way?" Rose said,"Even I could talk Prince into this... I don't think I'll talk an adolescent boy into spending the night with a teenage girl! This might be too traumatic for all involved in that case!" Dokka exclaimed,"Yeah,no KIDDING! Toxic, I realize this a hard thing. Maybe the most unethical thing we have ever asked you to do, but no one else has ANY chance to pull this off! Thena needs you. Sunny needs you. I feel firmly that something is going to happen in the next few hours. Thena might disappear forever if we don't do something. Then they'll be after Sunshine. YOU KNOW THAT." Toxic dropped her head and whispered,"This is wrong... but if it's going to save Thena AND Sunshine... I'll do it." Rose said,"Sunny's in the brig for the next twenty hours. I hope we can resolve this before then." Toxic looked up and snapped,"Captain's right! It'll be tonight. I'll end it quick. I'll stay on-line with Kella and Snowy. When I need her to do something, I'll ask. Sunny's in punishment? That will explain why I'm so mad when I'm being Sunny." Rose asked,"Can you be convincing?" Toxic paused and thought of when she had been in Sunny's body. After a moment, she shifted and flowed into Sunshine. She asked,"How's this,Mommy?" She pinged Rose with her radar in irritation. Rose stepped back with a look of pure horror. Rose swallowed nervously,"Th-that's pretty damned convincing! I didn't know you could do RADAR.too! That is a bit frightening." Dokka said,"Seeing the look on my X-O's face like that almost made ME piss myself! Toxic,we will try our quickest to wrap this up and rescue Thena. Rose, maybe you get her normal clothes? The bunny shirt and hot-pants doesn't look right on her!" Rose tried to laugh and sound normal, but the strain was strange sounding as she exclaimed,"Like I'd let ANY daughter walk around in THAT!" Toxic grabbed Rose's hand and snapped,"Let's get this over with." Rose looked VERY uncomfortable being lead off toward her own room by her fake daughter. Dokka muttered sadly,"The things we have to do to save the galaxy from a fiery death!" --to be continued!--