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[center][b]Christopher Arthur III[/b] | [b]Kelly Brown[/b] | [b]Samantha Kadowsky[/b][/center]
[center][b]The Sherman Center, Lost Haven, Maine[/b][/center]
[center][b]Time: Days After the Defeat of the Hounds of Humanity[/b][/center]
	[color=khaki]“So, this is the device you were talking about,”[/color] Kelly stated as she examined the chair that Chris had designed to the false memories that had been sprouting in peoples’ heads. [color=khaki]“But does it work?”[/color]

	[color=c0c0c0]“Well, hypothetically it does,”[/color] Chris reassured Kelly, although his expertise did not do much to convince the brunette.

	[color=khaki]“So you’re telling us that you want us to use an [b]untested[/b] machine?”[/color] Kelly then turned around and face Chris, Veronica, and Sammy. She had her arms crossed and was shaking her head, showing that she was unsure about this plan.

	[color=c0c0c0]“Well, it is highly [i]unethical[/i] for me to force some supervillain I had apprehended to be my guinea pig, so I needed someone who would help me out willingly,”[/color] Chris tried to defend himself, but from the expression on Kelly’s face he knew that it was an uphill battle.

	“I would have done it, but I’m apparently banned from testing it out,” Veronica chimed in, much to Chris’ chagrin.

	[color=c0c0c0]“I’m not going to subject my only sister to an experimental treatment before I know it works without a hitch.”[/color]

	[color=khaki]“So you [b]don’t[/b] know whether it will work, do you? Yet you want us to test it?”[/color] Kelly snapped at Chris.

	[color=c0c0c0]“You have to understand that she’s all the family I have left! I’m not going to risk scrambling her brains.”[/color]

	[color=khaki]“Yet you want us to take that risk! That’s just so reassuring!”[/color]

	“I’ll do it,” Sammy finally interrupted the arguing with her calm, yet sorrowful voice.

	[color=khaki]“Sammy, Chris even admitted that he doesn’t know what the risks might be. You can’t possibly accept that type of chance!”[/color]

	“I already have a broken heart. What more harm could scrambling my brain do,” Sammy answered her best friend back. Kelly would have tried to continue to dissuade Sammy from this path, but she knew that, once Sammy had made up her mind, there was nothing in this world that could change her course.

	Sammy then slithered over towards the chair and took a seat. Her serpentine tail coiled tightly around the base of the chair, as she tried to calm her nervous. Although Sammy had made up her mind, that did not mean her nerves would not get to her.

	[color=c0c0c0]“Take this,”[/color] Chris suggested to the snake-girl as he handed her a mouth piece, which she immediately popped into her mouth. [color=c0c0c0]“This should be over soon.”[/color]

	Once Sammy had been prepped for the procedure, Chris stepped back and manned the controls that operated the chair. With a press of a button, the device that would rest above Sammy’s head descended above her. The machine then started to hum louder and louder. The metal that composed the base of the chair began to creak, as Sammy’s snake tail squeezed tighter and tighter around it. Sammy grasped at the armrest as the procedure continued.

	Almost as quickly as the machine had warmed up and fired, the device also shut down just as fast. During the procedure, Sammy’s body had grown slack and limp, and her tail slipped from its grip on the chair. Thinking that the experiment had gone utterly wrong, Kelly rushed over to her friend’s aid. With a flick of her wrist, Kelly used a quick magical incantation to yank out the protective mouthpiece out of Sammy’s mouth and flung it across the room.

	[color=khaki]“Come on Sammy, wake up,”[/color] Kelly pleaded as she gently sat Sammy up in the chair. Kelly gave a sigh of relief when Sammy began breathing again and started to come to.

	“How did I get here?” Sammy asked aloud as she realized that she was not in Albany, New York anymore. Instead, she was in the Sherman Center building, where the heroes had assembled for the Pax Metahumana crisis.

	[color=khaki]“It’s kind of a long story, so let’s get you home,”[/color]

	As Kelly was helping Sammy out of the chair, Sammy had not realized that she had different powers now and therefore tried to take a step as if she still had two legs. As a result, she fell straight into the floor, face first.

	“Okay, who’s the wise guy who tied my feet—” Sammy began to say until she looked at her ‘feet’ and saw that a giant snake’s body had replaced everything below her waist. “What happened to me?”

	[color=khaki]“That’s kind of part of that long story,”[/color] Kelly responded, not quite sure where to begin explaining everything.

	“Please don’t tell me there was some Freaky Friday shenanigans involving Mr. Arthur’s sister!”

	[color=c0c0c0]“Oh, it was nothing like that,”[/color] Chris finally interjected into the conversation. [color=c0c0c0]“I haven’t figured out what caused it, but something made you think a different version of you, who had a different life than the real you, if that makes any sense.”[/color]

	“What do you mean a different me?”

	[color=c0c0c0]“Can you recall anything from the past twenty-four hours?”[/color]

	“Not really. Everything is sort of hazy,” Sammy replied.

	[color=c0c0c0]“Maybe take a moment and see if anything comes to mind.”[/color]

	Sammy then closed her eyes as she tried to rack her brain to figure out whether she remembered anything that had recently happened to her. At first, she wore a tired, confused look on her face, showing that she was drawing blanks. However, when Sammy’s cheeks began to blush, her snake coils gave out from underneath her, and she began biting her lower lip, it was clear that she had recalled something.

	“Kelly, please tell me that Lyger and I didn’t…um…do [i]it[/i], did we?”

	[color=khaki]“Well, you did claim to have, but I can’t possibly fathom that it actually happened.”[/color]

	“Maybe I should call Ky…Lyger. He should—” Sammy stopped midsentence when she was suddenly hit by another memory like a wall of bricks.

	“Oh my God, what did I do?” Sammy cried as she held her hands up against her mouth in shock. “Did I really try to seduce and rape him?”

	[color=khaki]“Come on, Sammy. It wasn’t exactly like that. You weren’t yourself and your other you thought was going to be consensual.”[/color]

	“But it was!” Sammy told Kelly as the waterworks began to flow. Kelly naturally allowed her friend to cry on her shoulder, hoping she could at least somehow calm down her stressed-out friend.

	“Well, since we know it works, I guess it’s my turn!” Veronica tried to talk her way into using the machine next. However, Chris was not having any of it.

	[color=c0c0c0]“You’re going to have to wait your turn. It’s guests first,”[/color] he chided his younger half-sister. [color=c0c0c0]“Anyways, it would be incredibly rude for us to rush them when one of them is having an existential crisis.”[/color]