Blitz just sat at his desk still staring at the file folder that Lina had given him to look at before she left. He couldn't believe it. He was aware of Vernas' original registration into STF but he couldn't believe that Vernas had managed to get in a second time. But the thing that confused Blitz the most was how exactly did Lina think of something like this. He didn't fret about it for long because he had to finish his report to the STF higher officials.
Vernas sneezed.
"Getting a cold are you?" Ozer looked with mild curiosity to Elbor Vernas.
"It does make sense since I've been cooped up down in this dark cavern place for so long. But I don't feel like I'm coming down with something. Anyway how are plans going right now Ozer?"
"Since your discovery things appear to be going a bit more smoothly. We are even going to be able to get the plans in motion soon or later. It's just a matter of getting the last of our needed materials. And hopefully since my little venture into STF headquarters, STF wont be able to interfere as much as they had before."
"I'm kinda wondering if Luna Inverse is dead yet."
"If she isn't yet then I wouldn't be surprised. Inverse's do have a tendency to be a bit hard to get rid of."
Luna's condition hadn't changed at all. She was still the same and her condition was still boggling every yellow agent's minds that were assigned to help. No one could seem to figure out the toxin or a way to help Luna. But Rezo on the other hand did find something familiar about the toxin but he couldn't place his finger on it. He took a quick break and he was greeted by Blitz.
"How's Luna doing?"
"More of the same. Sorry we haven't been able to do anything helpful yet."
"As long as your trying. But Rezo I just came across some information that you might find useful. Tell me do you remember a man named Darrik Clay?"
"Hmm... Clay? That does sound familiar. Oh yes now I remember! He was that rather unruly fellow whom was kicked out of STF because of his experiments as a yellow agent and what he did to a fellow agent." Rezo mused thinking to back then. Clay had attacked another agent and that agent had almost died. It did confused Rezo quite a bit back then because he rather admired Clay quite a bit. He was a bright man whom seemed have a bright future. It was appalling to find out he was doing illegal experiments and that he'd even go as far as attacking a fellow agent just because they found him out.
"Well I'm not sure what was Lina's motivation was, but she went searching through the files and figured out that Darrik Clay was actually Elbor Vernas pretending to be someone else."
"What?! They are the same person?! That is very odd."
"Yeah but can that be of any help to you?"
"It might be. We still have Clay's I mean Vernas' work files. There might be some information about some of Vernas' early work that might help us figure out some of the toxin's properties."
For once in the past day and a half Blitz smiled. "Thanks Rezo."
"No thank Lina for finding us this bit of information. Now if you excuse me I have a lot of work to do."
Blitz excused the high ranking yellow agent and let him get back to his work.
Lina sat down at a table wondering if she was supposed to be relived or unnerved that her dream had some truth to it. Why did I even dream something like that? It just seems so weird. She mused while eating a cup of strawberry yogurt uncharacteristically slow.
"Hello earth to Lina? Is there someone in there?" Leviathan joked as he took a seat next to his sister.
"Of course I'm here. What would give you reason to think otherwise?"
"Well you just looked so spaced out. What are you thinking about anyway?"
"Remember that dream I had that? Well I dreamt that I was in STF headquarters, only I didn't recognize where in STF I was. There were things far too different about the halls and stuff. But then I ended up in this weird laboratory in STF somewhere and everything turned black and white like one of those ancient old movies. And in the lab I found Vernas working on something. Only Vernas was a definitely younger and he didn't seem to be able to hear me."
"Then what happened?"
"He turned and saw me and charged me with a knife and slashed my stomach." Lina mentally shuddered. Though it had only been a dream, it had seemed and felt so real.
"That's definitely a very strange nightmare."
"Well it gets weirder then that. I thought of this idea that maybe Vernas had worked in STF when he was younger but I wrote it off as being a stupid idea."
"But you did end up checking it up didn't you?"
"Yeah I went to see Smu. Apparently Elbor Vernas was an orange agent 26 years ago and was permanently discharged from STF soon after. But then four years later Vernas dyed his hair and wore contacts and signed up for STF again under a different name. This time he was being a yellow agent instead of trying to go for a red agent position."
"Let me guess he was discharged again for attacking a fellow agent?"
"Yup. That fellow agent saw exactly what experiments Vernas was working on. So Vernas attacked the person to shut them up. Of course that agent didn't die, Rezo managed to save the agent."
"Lina I have to say this, that is really creepy!"
"Oh yeah I'm well aware of that. The whole situation seems to defy logic in a way. I can't explain how or why I had the dream nor am I going to try. So how are things with the others?"
"Gourry went off to see a girl named Sylphiel, Martina and Zangulus walked off arguing again and Zelgadis went to see if he could find his father. Lina I had no idea that Zelgadis' father worked at STF, did you?"
"Nope, but then I didn't know that Rezo was Zel's great-grandfather either."
"But speaking of Zel, Lina how exactly did you manage to get his phone number anyway?" Leviathan looked to his sister with a questioning glance. Lina just smiled coyly back.
"You want to know how I got his number?"
"Yes."
"Well it's... a secret." Lina laughed while Leviathan grumbled.
Zelgadis had no idea where to start looking to find his father at STF. Last time he had just bumped into him by chance, but he really had no idea where exactly in STF did he work. So the only way he could think of to find his father was to ask someone else who knew Kendan very well. Rezo being the best choice. So Zelgadis went back to where he knew Rezo was, and that was working on trying to help cure Luna. When he reached the place he found Rezo pouring over a computer screen.
"Um, Grandfather? Can I ask you a question?"
Rezo broke off from his thoughts and looked over to Zelgadis. "Ah Zelgadis, how are you doing? I've heard that you've taken your next exams. Did they go well?"
"Yeah they went fine. Um Grandfather, do know where I could find my father."
"Hmm... now where would Kendan be on a day like this? Oh wait he was on one of the earlier shifts helping out here with Luna's condition and analyzing the Ozer DNA. He probably wont be back till way later. Sorry Zelgadis."
Zelgadis' face fell but it wasn't as if he wasn't expecting this. Especially since all this business with Vernas, Ozer and Luna he figured that both his parents would be very busy with work related things. "No really it's okay you don't need to apologize. I just want to have lunch with him or something. I tried to see my mother too before and she wasn't in."
"Yes your mother is quite a busy one. She's always working on something new. But since you are here maybe I can give you an update on what's been going on here."
"You mean something new has come up?" Zelgadis did find this a bit surprising. From what he's heard there hadn't been much progress on anything with Luna's condition or the examination of the DNA samples.
"Yes, Blitz delivered some news to me earlier that Lina had found out. It seems that Vernas was an orange agent many years back and was kicked out only to come back pretending to be someone else named Darrik Clay. When he was going around as Darrik Clay he was a yellow agent here. As I've managed to look some of the old files and find the notes to some of Vernas' earlier work."
"And this helpful in someway?"
"Yes I have a few of the notes to some of the earlier versions of the toxin that was used on Luna. I'm actually starting to see how Vernas made this toxin. This makes things a little more possible to find a way to cure Luna of her condition."
"Well I'm sure everyone will be glad to hear that."
"I'm not going to promise anything until I've got proof that that I can do something. But I can honestly say is that despite how much of a genius Vernas is, his a sick wacko with no care for other human lives."
Vernas was sitting as his desk making some more calculations making sure that his little experiment would go off without a hitch. He really didn't care about human lives. The only thing he cared about was himself and that was part of the reason why he was doing all this in the first place. He wanted revenge on the world, but most importantly anyone whose ever criticized his work and forced him to stop. What Vernas wanted to do was to prove that he was the best scientist in the whole world and he was willing to go to great lengths to prove it. But what of Ozer? What did he get out of all this? What is that he wants? Not even Vernas was aware why. He wasn't sure why Ozer was wiling to go through with his experiment but not that he complained or anything. Vernas needed Ozer for this experiment. Without him it could not work.
"I wonder what everyone at STF would do if they knew what our plans are." Ozer mused with a dark laugh. Whether or not Vernas knew, Ozer did have a reason for wanting the plan to go through, a very good reason. But for now that shall remain a mystery.
Xellos walked back to the to where the other yellow agents were with obvious confusion shown on his face.
"What's up with you? Did you go and see De Tanga?" Filia interrupted his thoughts. She was just going on a brake herself. She was sitting on a chair in the hallway right outside the research room where they were doing their work on Luna and examining the Ozer DNA samples.
"Yeah I did."
"And?" She prompted.
"Well he's depressed I can tell that. But he wouldn't tell me why. He just avoided my question by asking me a question." Xellos sat down next to her.
"Sounds like a typical De Tanga thing, avoid a question with a question. Nothing out of the ordinary there."
"Yeah but he normally tells me what's wrong. This is different then all the other times." Xellos mused thinking back to the past. De Tanga and Xellos grew up to together and were best friends. They were together so often that most people thought that they were brothers or something. But one thing that Xellos always remembered about De Tanga was that he was never really that depressed out anything. Sure he would have his down moments but nothing to serious and he would also talk it out with Xellos.
"Well things haven't been that normal around here the past few days now have they? Don't worry Xellos I'm pretty sure everything will turn out okay." Filia gave him a pat on the back as she got up.
"Aww! Filia-dear you're concerned about me?" Xellos squealed out in delight doing a happy Amelia pose.
"No it's not that! Why would I be concerned about an annoying piece of trash like you?!" Filia fumed at the said monster.
"I don't know, maybe it's because you like me?" Xellos said with a grin and gave her a quick peck on the check before phasing out and teleporting elsewhere.
"Why you little! AHHHH!" Filia screamed out in frustration because she couldn't take out her annoyance out on him.
A darkly cloaked man with others dressed in a similar fashion sat in a dimly lighted room with tones of video screens. On each screen was another portion of the STF each one pointed on a different person. Neither one said anything to the others, they just sat and observed what they saw. They even had a few screens with pictures of Ozer and Vernas' current hideout.
"Sir they are proceeding like we predicted." One of the people said to the person whom was obviously in charge.
"Excellent. Keep me posted if anything we didn't expect to happen, happens."
"Yes Sir." The subordinate said to the head while he walked off. One of the view screens clearly showed the experiment plans that Vernas was working on.