Jimmy pulled his hand off of the device.  Images and concepts went through his head.  If he understood them correctly, he could now turn into any animal he wanted as long as he "acquired" a sample of its DNA first.  That would definitely be a useful ability.

The alien mentioned the fact that they would keep looking for him if he was gone.  Jimmy addressed the alien, then.  "They won't know you're gone if they can't find a body in the explosion.  I assume you can "morph", and the ship has a self destruct?  If so, set it, and morph Nagini so I can carry you out of here."  He held out his snake's body toward the horse/scorpion hybrid alien.