Enemies of the People

[Fenitchka]

"I better go do the dishes. It was nice talking to you!" I smile brightly then skip away to the kitchen to do the dishes from breakfast.

Next week I am going to take my graduation exam. I will have to study a little today once my work is done.

[Mikhael Nadyezhda (Mischa)]

I stand up, and straighten out my clothes and hair, then examine the box.

"Ah, well, that's interesting... Maybe it's a bomb or something... I'm a little leary about opening this. You know that Red Infinity is doing their purges right now, right? Someone probably took it upon themselves within Red Infinity to attack us to make themselves not get purged. Do we have anything that might be able to X-ray this?"

["Zero" Americanski]

I see Bassarov and Mischa fussing over a box. "Do you want me to just open it for you?"

[Joukahainen]

"Nice talking to you as well, thank you Fenitchka." I say, smiling. I sit down on the couch, and read the Red Infinity paper, so's not to disturb Iris's sleep.

[Valodya Bassarov]

"I have some x-ray glasses I bought when I was 13. But I am afraid they don't work as well as the advertisement claimed." Bassarov replies. He thinks of his other options.

"We can just open later. There must be an operative with x ray vision powers that can examine this. Otherwise I don't think we have access to any sort of x ray machine." Bassarov sets the box back on the counter in the other room.

"No Zero, I wouldn't want you to take that risk."

[Mikhael Nadyezhda (Mischa)]

"Well, if you're comfortable with the notion of opening a box that could explode, then by all means. Just open it outside, Freakboy messed up a lot of my apartment already."

I leave my room and head to the bathroom, not thinking too much about the box.

["Zero" Americanski]

"Okay... It could well be a bomb, I mean they've sent them to us before, but why would they just send one when there are three of us?"

[Valodya Bassarov]

"It is intended for Mischa and I, so maybe they assumed that we would open it together." Bassarov hands Zero the box, but isn't sure that he wants her to open it. He has a bad feeling about it.

["Zero" Americanski]

I set my cigarette in an ashtray and carefully heft the box. "Maybe ten pounds. Pretty small for a bomb meant for two... Hell, an X-ray machine is easy to build, but we have no film for one..."

[Valodya Bassarov]

"This is the first time we have needed an x ray machine so I doubt we need one built. We don't recieve that much mail anyway."

[Erika "Zwei" Faust]

I come back to with a mind numbing headache and am nearly blind because my eyes are powered down. "What happened?"

["Zero" Americanski]

"Well like I said even if we had the machine we have no film for it so it wouldn't do us much good." I set the box down and pick my cigarette back up. "So what's for breakfast?"

[Professsor Doctor von Kraus]

Herman's hologram thinks for a moment, as if trying to pull all the details from his memory banks.

"Vell, you asked for my help, so I vent into your mindscape and communicated vith Tsvy. She vas less than hospitable, but zhe communication vith me forced her to abandon control, so you're back to normal now... your eyes should reboot in a few seconds." the hologram said.

[Mikhael Nadyezhda (Mischa)]

"I have some film, but I don't know if it's the right kind. If we ghetto rig an X-ray machine, couldn't we configure it to hold this film though? Maybe we don't really need one... We could open it from really far away or something..."

I start to think.

"We could put a knife on a stick...? But yeah, let's worry about this later. Food is nice. I can make some pancakes."

[Iris Faust]

Iris closed her eyes, and a tear fell from them.
"Its a dream. Its my dream and FreakBoy...I can't stay asleep for much longer..."
She didn't want to admit it.