Sorry it's taken me so long to put this together. And a BIG thanks to Danielle for helping me remember a few important bits. So, with my apologies for any continuity errors that result from my bad memory, I give you...
Fire and Ice, Part 3
As the investigation continues, The Reliance is able to uncover some valuable information. First, Phanuel attempts to learn more by leaving her communicator in the ARC dome's conference room. It isn't until later that they discover her device crushed. Iron Hand burns through the ice covering the "Eskimo" bodies, revealing that they are in fact white males with blotchy skin and dark swollen areas around injection marks in their right arms.
This would seem to indicate that Dr. Motrel has been performing more experiments with the strange biological samples referenced by other STAR labs employees.
Dr. Motrel appears and offers to give Iron Hand some information if he will speak to him in private. However moments later the good Doctor vanishes and a living cyclone appears and attacks! After a brief skirmish, the cyclone is gone and the reliance regroups inside.
After a few moments in their guest room, a female doctor appears and says with a sneer, "You ask too many questions..." Throwing off her lab coat, she revealse her true nature. Shimmer uses her transmutation powers to turn the air in Surge's lungs into concentrated acid. Phanuel responds with a massive mystical assault that leaves Shimmer unconscious for the remainder of the fight. Meanwhile, Mammoth, the powerful giant, enraged at Shimmer's fate, runs on a collision course toward Phanuel, only to be slammed through the wall and into the connected room by the mech-powered might of Iron Hand.
Gizmo also wastes no time by targeting Phanuel with his high tech weaponry, but as Candice uses her healing powers to revive Surge from a near death experience, the tormented teenager unleashes a storm of electric fury that silences both gizmo and his squad of robotic canines.
In the aftermath, Mammoth manages to escape into the blinding snow, possibly rejoining Dr. Svoboda in some other location.
The Reliance, unfettered now by ARC staff, give the laboratories a much more thorough examination. In one of the labs, documents are discovered that make reference to an alien space craft under the facility. The papers also reveal that Motrel has been using bilogical samples from aliens in the discovered craft to trigger reactions of the meta-gene in human beings. This would explain the various thugs with powers the Reliance fought at the STAR lab location in Coast City. It doesn't take long for the heroes to travel down the tunnel of ice and find what they are looking for.
A scan for life in the space-craft by Phanuel reveals 7 life forms, one of which is moving. Reliance members steel themselves as they prepare to make their next move.
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