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Jadyn looked around, her blue eyes wide.


As the men coninued to work hard to try and survive, Seth, Dirk, Gabe, Al, and some of the others tried to figure out what they were going to do next. The recon patrols began to return from their scouting missions, and came over to report what they had found. Connie came flying down and, landing next to the group, morphed back to normal; she too started reporting what she had come across. Just then, the sound of the grinding and scraping of twisted metal on twisted metal, followed by a loud scream of pain, resonated from the other side of the Liberty's hull. Seth and a few other men ran around the hull to see what had happened, and dicovered that a large chunk of debris had fallen off of the port engine braces and landed on one of the crew members. He was alive, but he was pinned hard to the ground by the debris; this piece of hull was laying on top of his entire body from the waist down, and looked to weigh at least several tons. Seth called over a number of the other men, and they lined up around the edge of the hull piece where the man was pinned. Then they all lifted as hard as they could, as two of them stood poised to yank the wounded man out of harm's way. To everyone's surprise, the 10,000 pound piece of metal practically jumped up in the air when Seth lifted on it. Regardless, the two other men were more than ready and pulled the victim well out of the way before the large hulk came crashing back down. Everyone stood confused at what had just happened for a moment, then Seth, feeling that he had something to do with it, slowly stepped foreward towards the debris. He reached down and lifted slightly on the edge. Amazingly, it rose up in the air all the way to Seth's waist; even though he didn't feel like he was lifting more than a 30-pound weight at a gym. As if to make sure his whole brain wasn't tricking him, he picked the chunk of durasteel framework up and set it back down several times almost without breaking a sweat, dispite the fact that it weighed at least 5 tons. Then, shocked and amazed at what had just happened, he politely told the crew to get back to their work and headed over to where he had been before and told Dirk what had just happened. He then asked if Dirk knew anything about what might have just happened. Dirk sighed heavily and led his friend into a make-shift tent nearby where they could talk in private. Gabe and Al continued to de-brief the scouts.


Jadyn giggled when she saw Seth's strength. "My own personal Hercules." She whispered to herself.
 
"Sure." Jadyn walked into the tent calmly.

Dirk came back into the tent behind her, closing the flap as he entered. Seth was sitting on a small chair in the tent, looking slightly depressed. Dirk pulled up a chair for Jadyn before sitting down himself. "So," he began, "whlie we were in the Med-Room and we were working on Seth, we noticed that the EMP shorted-out some of the circuts in his shifting tech. While it didn't really do any lasting damage, there's a glitch in the system that is beyond our power to fix, and it reset the form that it changes him back to when he de-morphs. Normaly this wouldn't be a huge problem, but his wounds were severe enough that... well... maybe you should just see." That said, Seth reached over to his left shoulder and it looked like he was peeling the skin off his arm; only, it wasn't skin. It was a protective sleeve that was covering the outside of his arm, but underneath that cover was no flesh or anything. There was only a huge mess of wires, servos, and electronics. Dirk continued, "the injuries were so severe that we had to amputate his left arm at the shoulder and his right leg below the knee. We also needed to do some spinal reconstruction and strengthening. The main problem is that shifting to an animal then back won't fix the problem. It won't reset the DNA all the way, like it should, so he's still going to have an artificial arm and leg for the rest of his life." Seth tried to lighten the mood a bit by saying, "on the plus side, now I can lift like 15 tons more than anyone else; that may come in handy when we need like a forklift or something when we don't have one." The two boys chuckled a little, it was the first time any of them had laughed since the crash.
 
Shamal stood there in his pigeon morph. < There's another problem. Seth's morphs won't have those limbs. He's completely useless on the battlefeild without his morphs. And even worse, if he does morph, all those carefully placed parts will fall apart. The morphing tech gets rid of any forign material in his body, so we'll have to rebuild it over and over. It's just how it works, so that keeps you from getting lead poisoning from a bullet or something. > He shuffled his wings.
 

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