Medic Kaul stood at his workstation, studying the next sample. He had a long row of them that he was working through. He had run tests on the zombies they had contained; With that, coupled with using blood samples taken from both Jada, the half-zombie, and Hope, the immune. Neither of the girls' blood had made any changes in his tests, none at all. There were a total of two prisoners who had been found immune to the virus. Including Hope, he had discovered three total immune humans. Like the others, their blood resulted in nothing.

He was getting frustrated. He could find no way to utilize their blood to find a cure or a vaccine.

In a last-ditch effort to find a cure, he decided to compare the blood of all the immune. Then compare his findings with the blood of Jada and one of the captured zombies to test the serum. He needed to isolate what was different in each of their blood samples, then compare them. He had no further ideas on what to try next.

They had been sending teams out to capture as many zombies as they could. They were being housed in the cells with the prisoners. Each zombie had its own cell, just like the humans. The idea was that when he found a cure, he could inject all of them to fix them rather than kill them all. They wanted to avoid killing as many as possible because they knew the zombies could be fixed by draining the toxin.

Aleigha was proof that a cured zombie was just another normal human. She was the first one to be cleaned of the toxin, and it had worked perfectly. All he did was isolate the toxins and drain them from her bloodstream. Once it was out of her body, she was perfectly fine. There were no side effects. It was as if it had never been in her system in the first place.

Alice was the second one. She had to be drained of toxins along with her two fetuses. For Alive, though, it was a much longer process due to her being pregnant with twins. It still worked. She turned out completely fine, and her babies tested clean when he scanned her abdomen to check them.

So far, during the search and containment of the zombies brought in from their searches, there have been no injuries or contamination. Medic Kaul hoped it remained that way.

As he worked on his samples, the med clinic door slid open, and Council Leader Vorik entered. "How's the testing going?" he asked, eyeing the line of tubes and Petri dishes on the counter.

Medic Kaul gave his leader the gesture of respect. "I'm sorry, sir, I have not had any luck with finding a cure or a vaccine. There might have been one, but that option is no longer with us. I looked through the scan reports. The one with prisoner 1192F has something in her blood that might have helped. I only have the readings from the scanner. I did not take any of her blood to test it. I didn't think I would need it at the time. I wish I had."

Council Leader Vorik raised one brow. "Her name is Mia. What did you find in the reports of her blood from the scanner?" he asked. Mia was still around; it was just that Kaul didn't know it. He had put her in danger. She needed time to heal, so she was taken out of his reach, allowing her to get better.

Sighing heavily, Medic Kaul sat on his stool. "The DNA of what appeared to be similar to Kreqs DNA showed that even though she was not immune, something in her blood would have absorbed it, yet it would have done nothing to her. I would have liked to look at her blood."

"Doesn't that make her immune?" Council Leader Vorik asked. Confused about what Medic Kaul was trying to say.

"Technically, yes, but also no," Kaul stated. It was clear he didn't know how to explain. "One who is immune, their body fights the toxin. For the girl, her body would have absorbed it and changed the toxin into something else."

Council Leader Vorik stayed silent for a moment. Then a realization hit him. "The toxin came from Tosh. Is there a record of where he obtained it?"

"It would only be in your files, sir," Kaul stated. "If, of course, you received all the security clearances after Tosh was killed."

When he took over, Vorik had found the access codes to Tosh's files. He just hadn't looked at any of them yet. He walked to a control panel and typed in a long, complicated number.

Council Leader Vorik and Medic Kaul watched the monitor load a very long list of files. They scanned the titles. One of them was named 'toxins.'

"It can't be that simple," Vorik sighed, pressing the file to open it.

It listed the toxins used by his people. One of them was even the truth serum. There was a secondary file stating: 'battle toxin' to be used in blasters.

He had found what he was looking for, unless there was more than one. The only one he knew about was the one that was given to him for use during the invasion of Earth. It was also the toxin that created the zombies. It was the only one they had that was placed inside blasters to poison the enemy.

Opening that file, there was a document written to Council Leader Tosh from Commander Grev of Krogen.

"Krogen in the Kreq's home planet, sir," Kaul pointed out. "Doesn't that mean the Kreq provided the blaster toxin?"

Council Leader Vorik's eyes narrowed at the screen. "And Commander Grev is the name of their leader. All evidence is pointing to that happening."

"Doesn't that mean that Tosh and Grev were working together?" Kaul asked, horrified at the prospect of his former leader working with the leader of a race that made his home planet unlivable. So unlivable that they had to come to Earth and inhabit it. "Could Tosh have actually helped the Kreq ruin our home planet?" It was a thought that Kaul didn't want to think about. It would mean that their own leader had betrayed them.

Vorik read the document, scanning each page. His face grew paler the more he read of the document. "This shows that the Kreq leader gave him the toxin that we used to create the zombies. It looks like our suspicions are confirmed."

"Does it show a cure?" Kaul asked. "An antidote? Something that would help us deal with this mess?"

"It states that the toxin was created for use with his own people to control them. It made them obey orders without resistance. It makes them puppets," Council Leader Vorik stated. "It says here that the Kreq and humans are nearly identical. The difference between humans and Kreq is the genetic code inside their blood that gives the Kreq a green tint to their skin. The genetic difference also binds their souls together. When there is a soul-bound pair, it doesn't just affect the pair as it does with us. It affects everyone close enough to the couple."

"How close?" Kaul asked, interested. "If it affects everyone, then doesn't that mean if a soul-bound mated pair of the Kreq were near the rest of them, it would cure them of the toxins?"

Council Leader Vorik turned and looked at his friend. "I'm not sure what you're suggesting. Explain again from a human standpoint, since they are who we are dealing with and not the Kreq."

Medic Kaul thought for a moment, trying to find the correct words. Vorik gave him the time he needed. It was too important to rush. He knew Kaul had an idea but was having trouble putting it into words.

"Ok, how about this? If all the zombies are in one room and a soul-mated pair is placed in the room with them, they would revert to their former selves. The toxins in their blood would dissipate, and they would be cured," he explained.

Council Leader Vorik frowned. "But, Humans are not soul-bound to their entire race. Only the Kreq are. Humans do not have fated soul mates, either."

Remembering what he had opened were anyone in the clinic could see, Vorik quickly closed the Council Leader's confidential files and withdrew the access code from the medic's computer. It was still confidential. He would have to look into it when he had time.

"I need to go ask some questions to someone. I will return as soon as I have the answers that I need. If I find enough information, it may give us an insight into what to do about the toxin," Vorik stated.

Vorik left the clinic quickly and headed for his shuttle. He needed to go back to the mother ship and finally interrogate Mia Danicky.

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