Full Moon High: the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Hyde

Chapter 11: A Good Hero on Both Sides; Good on the Hyde Legacy pt.4

Elsewhere

It is often said that when you have a hammer, every problem looks as though it was a nail. For Jaqueline it felt as though she had skipped that first step as currently it felt as though her current problem was feeling as though it were a nail. The headache split her skull, ratcheting up the pain, the longer she kept her eyes closed. Yet try as she might her body did not want to stir.

You know, said the all too familiar voice of Jackie. If we had just moved in for the kill none of this would have happened.

Jaqueline winced as her skull pulsed with another round of dull pain.

"S-shut up..."

Her reply was half-arsed, the feeling as though her skull would have expanded out of her head was a little more pressing. Still she could get her thoughts together as she managed to think.

"H-how are you not... affected by this."

It was almost as if Jaqueline could see her Amazonian other half smile in her mind's eye.

Jaqueline dear, I get off on this shit

"Y-your a-a f-freak..."

The laugh from Jaqueline seemed louder now, almost as if the voice was whispering in her ear.

Well I am you.

There was a double round of pain and Jaqueline felt her body convulse, or was it shiver. Needless to say she heard a moan in the back of her head, while she herself winced in pain.

Oh come on dear, embrace it. You loved everything about that last fight. The combat, the blows, the way you landed and just walked through the crowd as if you owned the place... She paused and once more Jaqueline thought Jackie was smiling. The muscles on that huge stud of a Hyde.

"S-shut up"

To which Jackie laughed.

Still stirring in her delirium, she began to feel her eyes open, a blurry film covered her eyes as a face came into view.

The Wolfman Alpha, who looked in concern but with a detailed hint of suspicion, as he asked her, "Hey, Jaquel... um, Miss Jekyll. You okay?"

Jaqueline groggily sat up, as she groaned, "Ugh, I'm fine. I'm just a bit disoriented after being thrown around by that..." But then she went wide eyed and freaked out, silently, as she looked at the wolfman, and asked, "I'm not 6-7 feet tall, muscled, pale white or have black hair with a red highlight streak on my bangs... do I?"

Alpha shook his head, "Nope. Sorry to say... you're back to your normal self. Well, your normal pretty self, compared to the old scrawny nerdy version that I've seen you as. On patrol. When I'm patrolling. For Evil. Which I fight."

Jaqueline gulped, as she curled up in a fetal position, sitting up, and asked, "And Comette?"

"You mean Miss Mari," Queen asked, as she held a struggling and agitated Mari by her head, like a frenzied kid, as the blonde werewolf groaned out, "She's right here."

Mari never one to let someone else speak for her began to struggle against the pseudo chokehold, as she began to try and pull out of it. "Will ya put me down!"

"Not until you settle down," Queen shot a glare a the still-fighting girl. And then turned to Jaqueline, who only shrunk back with the glare, "And you, start explaining. What was that thing? And..." arched an eyebrow, as her confusion came up, "What exactly are you two?"

It was at that point Alpha turned his lupine face to Queen and gave what Jaqueline assumed had to be a wolf's version of a frown

"Queen, is that really necessary?"

"Don't tell me you're not the least bit confused on what we just saw, Alpha," Queen questioned, her curiosity was poking out, as she pointed to the two girls in general, "I mean, we're werewolves, that's explainable. But what are they?"

"Martians," Mari lied.

Both werewolves arched an eyebrow, as they both droned out, "Riiiight…"

Mari just glowered as she began to now rock back and forth. "Oh I will show you 'right' Talbot!"

There was an awkward silence as the male werewolf turned away and the blonde one tightened her choke hold.

"Yeah that's right I... ack!"

"One more word out of you Mari and the school will know about your little secret!"

It was at that point Jaqueline had enough. "STOP!" Her hands wrapped around her head she just cried out had shook growled. "Just stop please. Can you tell me what happened."

Alpha arched an eyebrow, as he asked, "You mean our origin or what happened the moment you guys were knocked out and shrunk back to human form?"

For a second Jaqueline just stood there, blanked face and finally said, "yes."

Both werewolves shared awkward glances, as Queen tried to keep Mari tied down.

"Yes, to origin story or yes, to what happened while you were knocked out," Alpha asked again, not sure if she said yes to one or to both.

"Well how about..."

"Oh I have had enough of this," roared Mari, and with that her eyes began to glow.

Bewildered as they watch the small Hispanic girl begin to grow, her skin turning a golden orange, the two werewolves we're unprepared for what happened next.

Mari stood up. Just stood up and dragged the 6'5 foot werewolf with her. The blonde wolfs grip around Maria next causing her to dangle from it as Mari just stood there with a huge smile.

"You know you wolves are rather adorable up close," she commented in her Hyde forms distinctive, deeper voice. She leaned and rubbed her nose against Queens. "Also, nice chest," she stated brazenly, as she puffed out her own chest, forcing the two amazons' breasts, one A Cup and the other D Cup, to rub together.

Queen leapt back at this. Holding her hands out in a defensive move, yet Mari just put her hands on her hips and to Alpha who with a coy wink just asked. "So, Talbot, she always this antsy?"

Jaqueline blinked as her brain just scanned that titbit of information. "Wait! Talbot?!" As she stared at Talbot her mind conjoined up an image of the class nerd from her own class.

He was small, skinny, with glasses and a sickly frame, not unlike herself. She could see the hair matching to this werewolf, in that it was messy, sticking up at the back and lightly spiked towards the front, but the werewolves build was completely the opposite to the mental image she knew.

The black and grey werewolf was built. Strong, with athletic muscles, and a dominating frame. She felt a little giddy as her eyes ran over his torso, and a little voice whispered in her ear.

"Actually, I agree." Jackie told her, "lets destroy these losers after we get some werewolf tail."

Jaqueline shook her head as if to remove the dirty suggestion from her mind.

Alpha sighed, and then much to the two Hyde girls' surprise, he shrunk back down and reverted to human form, as Peter Talbot. The young man sighed, as he scuffled up his hair, "Well, it's clearly obvious we all know each other. So let's put the cards down now." He looked to the two werewolf girls, "Why don't we show them, Ashley? Maria?"

Huntress, or rather Maria, just nodded and shrank down. A Porto Rican girl with honey sun kissed skin, long smooth brown hair and a body that was as near athletic as her werewolf form shrunk down and stepped out of the corners in silence.

As at school Jaqueline was unsure if she was bored or just stoic.

But Queen, or rather Ashley just flipped out. "Peter, I respect your decision as pack leader, but really why do I have to change back? They never saw me or Ma..."

Mari however almost pounced on the blonde werewolf, the superhuman Hyde gripping her and pulling her into a grapple.

"Like, oh my god" she squealed, "Mrs. Queen of the bitches is a werewolf," she turned to laugh in Jaqueline's direction. "Get it? Werewolf... bitches?" Colette just wiped her eye as she sighed, managing to restrain Ashley with just one arm.

Ashley naturally was not impressed.

"Seriously, Mari! What happened to you!"

"Sorry. Hyde me is a bit more flippant," she exclaimed as she cradled Ashley like a teddy bear.

Peter looked to Jaqueline as she asked, "And you?"

Jaqueline blushed, as she confessed, "W-Well, my sides is… what I wanted to be. Beautiful, strong, confident…."

"Cocky and flirtatious," Peter finished, smirking and arching an eyebrow.

Jaqueline blushed, "Mmmhmm. If deep down, you're a bit repressed and hopelessly romantic. I become some sort of a powerful, love-crazy, powerhouse of a beauty."

"Like me," She added her voice suddenly becoming deeper.

Everyone froze for a second as Jaqueline stood up and began to talk to herself, "Oh no, you're not coming out."

"Oh yes I am. What you thought you could mention me and not give a demonstration?"

The three werewolves blinked at this, as Peter arched an eyebrow, as he asked, "What is going on?"

"The Jaquelines are emerging," Maria shrugged, and looked to Mari, "That's the side-effect of being what you are, isn't it? A Split Personality."

"A fine hello to you too." The deeper sultrier voice that was Jackie said as she stood up, her skin paling to an alabaster white as she began to grow in height until she surpassed the human Peter. "You're lucky you're cute," she stated with a smile as she placed one hand on her hip. "Otherwise I would break your legs for that fight," she flexed her arm as it exploded outwards into a wall of muscle that no human could ever hope to attain.

Few werewolves too.

Peter sighed, knowing full well this was going to be one of those nights, as he groaned, "Great, just when we were trying to find Mikey and Derek, we run into a female version of Jekyll and Hyde."

But Jackie snapped back, as that name struck her. Even though Jaqueline had given up on Mikey, he was still a dear friend, as she asked, "What? Mikey Corvis is missing?"

"Yeah, he and Derek were the reasons we've been patrolling," Ashley answered, getting Mari's attention too, as she listened to interest, "We've been trailing a lead. Roland Zellinski, whose been trying to get an edge against us weres for a while now. They might be forcing Mikey and Derek to turn some of their gang members. Make a gang of werewolves to fight us."

Jackie thought about it, as she tapped her chin in thought. Peter caught sight of this, as he asked, "Something on your mind?"

"The virus that you Lycans carry was the primary ingredient to try and augment the human side of us Hydes," Jackie explained. "I extracted it from a quaff of hair I… Jaqueline grabbed by accident when one of your brown-haired werewolves saved me. The one wearing the purple jumpsuit."

Peter lit up, as he blinked, "That was Mikey!"

"Yeah. I extracted the virus from the hair samples and added it to a formula from one of my…" Jackie explained, but then went wide eyed in realization. "Jaqueline's Journal. It was missing from the lab in the apartment complex Jaqueline and Mari live in."

Mari, or Comette realized it too, as she looked at her, "You don't think someone stole it and used it to make…?"

"That giant behemoth, or Brute as he called himself," Jackie finished, and nodded. "It wouldn't surprise me if they did."

Ashley paled, as she asked, "Wait, you're saying that thing we all fought was what you call yourselves, a Hyde?"

"Yeah, but nothing like us," Jackie corrected. "That Hyde seemed more… monstrous than what we are."

"You think someone's trying to tweak your… I mean, Jaqueline's formula," Peter asked, but groaned, "Yeesh, it's tough to talk about you since you're two people. At least with Lycans, it's easy." He paled as well, realizing how monstrous the Hyde thing was becoming, "You think this person's working for Roland?"

The pale Hyde nodded as she thought on it, "And they'll need a lot of concentration of the Lycan virus for the formula. But if they're making that much…"

The blonde then paled, as Ashley pieced it together, "They could make an army of you guys. Or that thing."

"We can only hope they aren't."

Meanwhile

Roland's Factory

"Mwhhahahahahahahahahahahaha!"

Python's laugh echoed throughout the meeting room, his maniacal laughter as he unveiled his schematics in front of a gathering of Roland, Castle, Elaine, a gathering of several of Roland's other top henchmen, and a rather young spidery blonde kid who Roland had his arm around, almost in a choke hold.

For Python and his saviors turned lab partners he was hoping the laugh would at least impress or show them the significance of the design. As he expected they failed to respect the genius of a true laugh of a masterful scientist. So naturally he had to switch onto plan B.

"The Delta-A infusion chamber will be the crowning achievement of my experiments thus far. Complete and total inclusion of animal DNA to a human genetic code in a stable and reliable factor which can and will produce you your animal warriors in short order." The Python like mutant gestured to a particular part of the diagram which said 'insert subject here.' "With the safety measures I have installed, and the micro DNA analyzers we can create the next stage of humanity at factory level of productionssss."

His long lizard like tongue stuck out as he hissed out the final words. His jovial if hiss like attitude quickly shifted as it became apparent that the claps, he was receiving were purely half arsed. Indeed even a sarcastic clap would have been better.

It was the idiot Castle who spoke first, Roland's right hand toady who had been trying to undermine his project with his own inferior plan.

"Sooo… we have to build this thing right?"

Python drew himself up to his full height. "Issss that a problem," he hissed, "I expected one such as yourself to be experienced with manual labour."

Castle to his credit let the insult slide as he turned to Roland and pointed at the diagram. "To be fair boss that thing will take time to build, my project is already entering stage 2."

Python opened his mouth and hissed angrily at Castle, his jaw opening wide enough to show enough teeth for the gathered crowd of thugs to all go for their weapons, before Roland put his foot down.

"Enough!" He stood up dragging the small teenager with him, as the pint-sized lookalike to him dangled from his arms. "If I wanted feedback on yours, Castle, I would have asked. Plus at least his project hasn't caused the factory to collapse."

"To be fair boss it's only a few rooms and we didn't know the quakes would cave in your bedroom."

Rolland's resulting kick to the door punted his second in command back over the couch before he turned back to Python. "So, snake man, tell me how long 'til ya ready?"

Python clicked his clawed fingers together as he smiled. "Oh not long, we can repurpose one of the industrial mixing pits for it as the frame and work from there."

Castle leapt up from his punt over the sofa. "Hey, we are going to use those to mix Elaine's formula once it's..."

Roland just huffed as he looked back over his shoulder, it was enough to stop Castle in his tracks.

"We'll get to that when we get to that," Roland huffed. "Leave that whore to her own devices. I don't even want to know what's going on with what she's doing."

Meanwhile

Vault Holding Cell

Elaine opened the door once again, as she was carrying extra clothes. Though she arched an eyebrow to see the scene before her. Chained up at as usual were the two werewolf's, Scope and Scar. Their chains had not been loosened but they were looking on the whole a lot thinner than they had been. Going three days now without turning back had proven Elaine's theory right, that even with then being given plentiful meat their bodies were burning through their own energy supplies a lot faster than they practically support.

She scoffed as Scope looked up and meekly turned to face her. "Huh... hey Scar... we got a visitor."

Scar just growled under his breath and turned away.

He was wearing down, Elaine noted, that was good. Made harvesting the hair all the easier.

She took brief note of the two infected gang members at the far end of the hall, Trash and... she forgot the boy's name and just walked in, nor pretending to look happy as she pulled the coat around herself.

"How… much longer," Scar wheezed out.

Elaine turned around and responded, "Not long. I almost have all the samples I need to mass-produce the…"

"No, that's not what I meant," Scar managed to speak up. "I meant… how long do you think you can keep us locked in here? And how much longer do you think until our pack gets wise on this… and tears their way through here to get us back? How long… until you think you're caught?"

Elaine was honestly taken aback by the question. The bravado was surprising given how much time had passed, but her shock just turned into a smirk as she shook her head.

"An interesting idea," Elaine replied, as she adjusted her glasses, "And how are you so certain they will find you?

"They can smell us! They can hear us! They can..."

Reaching into her coat pocket Elain withdrew a small bottle that read, Munroe brand shampoo. With a short squirt the strawberry selling liquid was puffed into Scars nose and he recoiled howling in pain.

"A nice idea. Shame I thought of that first." She said as she gave herself one more spray before beginning to sprinkle the air around them.

"Like it? It's a cheap but fragrant brand, excellent when coating an air controlled and sound proof room."

Scar went to growl but Elain raised her hand and slapped the werewolf across the face.

"Face it. I am in charge here. I have you cornered. No one is going to save you. No one!"

Outside

Outside of the warehouse, Jeremy was hiding behind one of the shadowed corners of one of the older buildings that was abandoned by the factory. Following behind him was Theodore Tekk, as he stumbled a bit. Jeremy had managed to find some good leads on Roland's gang and their whereabouts. Though it was simple deduction on Jeremy's part on finding large abandoned buildings. A perfect place for gangs to hang out and do stuff in the shadows. With Theodore's help, he managed to find some places online of such places. And this place was number four on a list of twelve.

Glancing now at his partner, Theodore Tekk, he took a second to glance down at the address on his phone, to he semi dilapidated factory in the back.

"I am certain. This is where Roland is hiding, and Jaqueline stated that if we found him we can find out who has been stealing her formula."

"Perfect," Jeremy smirked. He then turned to Theodore, as he began, "There's just one thing now." And then looked serious as his smile disappeared and a look of thought came on, as he asked, "How the heck do we get in there?"

Theo just cracked a smile as he held up his phone, waving it from side to side with the same shit eating grin Jeremy knew he always got when he proved useful. The brown haired boy just rolled his eyes at the blonde and sighed.

"Okay, can you stop teasing me and just tell me... please?"

Theo let out a small snort of a amused laugh, as he looked down at the screen and five seconds later pointed down into a ditch not far from the ancient cargo crates they were using for cover. He pointed past a dilapidated chain linked fence which had supposed to keep people out, but was now full of holes and rusting in the rain that seemed to be hanging in the air.

"Okay the schematics I pulled up said there should be a connection to the sewer in that direction."

Theo stopped as soon as he saw Jeremy's expression.

"H-hey... don't looks at me like that... y-you know it makes me nervous."

Jeremy just sighed, as he took another look at the factory. "Just... a sewer Theo... really a sewer?"

"W-well..." the blonde boy said pushing his rimmed glasses up his nose as he tried to talk, his cocky demeanor disappearing as his nerves overtook him. "Maybe it is a bit of a dumb idea."

Jeremy just grabbed his friend and pulled him toward the ditch. "You and me ain't going to get a scoop from here."

"Or help Jaqueline."

Jeremy blushed. "That too." Jeremy snapped out of it, as he asked, "So how are we going to do this? If we go in the sewers, we might accidentally get lost and thrown into a sewage mulcher, getting chomped up with the sewage and gray water."

"But if we go in through the busted wall, we'll be easier to spot and be caught by any guards nearby," Theo pointed out.

The two boys were silent, as they thought about it logically. There wouldn't be an easy way in either way. But there would be only one way where they wouldn't get caught. Both sighed, as they said, "Sewers it is."

As the pair began to get the gate open however, the pair failed to notice the huge shadow cast over them. To them they just thought it was a cloud as they climbed into the sewer, but what they failed to notice was the figure walking out from behind the crates.

Although how they could miss Justine in her new 9 foot tall form was anyone's guess.

But the Hyde just bit her lip as she smiled, standing there bare chested as she smiled.

"Seems we have an infestation," she said coolly.

The two boys slowly made their way into the sewer via an open manhole with several hoses going down below. Possibly something to do with the inside. As they slipped in, they failed to notice the Nine-foot woman shrinking back to a six foot size.

Though now, Justine was completely different than how she looked before, body wise.

A smile crept across her face as she began to jog back towards the factory, her chest bouncing as she went, not even fazed that she was naked in human form any more.

Meanwhile

The Hideout Main Office

The office was now somewhat tidy. After a few days of moving in, and the fact most of the gang were now off preparing the old chemical tanks, Gus had, had time to himself. He had spent that at first throwing all the disused paper away, and filing all he could into an underside draw. Now all he had left was a coded letter for some chemicals Elaine and Python had asked for, as well as to the sheet he had in front of him right now.

"Okay so the square root of 144 is..."

Homework. As much as Gus was Roland's right-hand man, and as much as hi 'friend' told him to knock that school shit off and drop out, or be kicked out, as he had, Gus valued his grades. He knew if he was going to make deals and back his boss up he needed to be sharp as he could. Even if it meant doing maths.

Jotting down the answer, Gus then checked it against a calculator and grinned, seeing he had worked it out in his head.

Smiling he allowed his pen to hover over the next question when he heard the door open, and looked up to see Elaine come in.

The mousy girl smiled as he saw him glance at her, and Gus, the big dark muscular guy that he was smiled back.

"Hey Elaine... sorry doing homework right now... but I got a minute for you."

Elaine walked over and casually asked, not showing signs that she was a mad scientist, "Algebra?"

"Yeah, I know Roland's always sayin' that I should drop school like he did and do this full-time," Gus retorted as Elaine walked over and stood next to him, as he continued, "But he's always used brute force to intimidate everyone. I'm more of brains."

Elaine leaned over, as she examined the problem that had yet to be finished. she sighed, as she replied, "The answer's 11, in case you're still suck on problem 34."

Gus just raised his pen and frowned. "Thank you. But please I don't need your help for this?"

Elaine snorted. "Well I just assumed you would, considering you needed my help all the way up until now." Elaine pushed her horn-rimmed glasses up her nose and flashed a cocky smile, one which Gus returned.

"Yeah yeah," the big muscular senior said. "I am grateful mrs magic potions herself came to me with cash and an idea for a new wonder drug... dear god your insufferable." But yet despite the annoyance in his voice he still laughed, and Elaine even smiled at his teasing.

"So any news on Roland's plan?"

Gus just snorted as he jotted down the answer to the next question. "Well he is still dead set on Pythons chamber... although I am unsure if he is keen on it because Python can serve as an example or because he just thinks giant mutant animals are cooler." he paused as he leaned back in his chair. "Ya know its probably a bit of both all things considered."

Elaine sighed, "Either that, or the fact that this Python has managed to keep toe-to-toe with these werewolf vigilantes was a bonus." She looked away, as she sighed, "But then again, animal-human hybrid mutations are a bit on the unpredictable side of things."

Gus arched an eyebrow, "Why's that?"

"True they gain the animal's strengths and extra senses," Elaine stated. "But they gain the flawed weaknesses of instincts. Eating your prey, being the key one."

"You think Python's gonna eat Roland when his back's turned," Gus asked, as he set the homework down to look at Elaine as she walked over to the couch.

She sat down, as she leaned her head upward, "That would actually be a blessing in disguise… for both of us." A silence befell them both, until she spoke up again, shaking her hand of the notion, "Though I doubt Python would risk getting either heart burn or indigestion from eating someone like Roland. He's not that sure of himself."

Gus said nothing as he turned away and shook his head.

"So did you come down here for a reason orrrrr?"

Elaine just grinned as placed a hand on Gus's shoulder. "Do I need a reason?"

Gus just snorted. "Well you have had a lot up until now? Still I am waitin on those reports from those three girls you asked for... also got to ask… why did you ask for girls specifically?"

"Well, knowing Roland, he wouldn't give up any of his men. I also knew that you had either those in debt from your loans, or female employees who were causing problems for business rather than solve it. I also had a study that female bodies can last longer under stress, more specifically those that are in the teen ages," Elaine logically deduced, but then smirked uncharacteristically, as she pointed out, "That… and they say that females are considered twice as deadly in any species."

"Bias and sexist reports not withstanding, what happened? I hope none of them died at least."

Elaine flashed a smile. "Before that I wanted to show you something."

With a deliberate slowness Elaine held up a vial of caustic green liquid. Its bubbles rose and pushed against the cork, charring it a dark black. "Do you know what this is?"

Gus just scowled. He knew what it was, he had gotten used to seeing the vast tanks of Helens Hyde formula, but he knew what she was really asking him and he had seen enough B movies to see where this was going.

"If you dare say 'the future' 'the world' 'or the genetic destiny of mankind' I will deck you."

Placing a hand on her slight chest, Helen let out an incredulous, but sarcastic gasp. "You would hit me?! A girl?"

She flashed a smile at the dark muscular teen, as he collected his homework and threw it under a pile of finance reports. Gus then leaned back in his chair and folded his hands behind his head.

"Well you know me. Always been an equal opportunity arse kicker." He then tilted his head as if to look past Helen and his grin grew wider. "Dam shame though, you do have a mighty fine arse."

Elaine chuckled as her eyes lingered on the gang lieutenants' arms. She then climbed onto the table and looking into his dark smolderin eyes, she slid the vial across the table to him.

"So why the hostility?"

She could feel his heavy breath on him, and she felt a shiver as he whispered his name.

"Helen your incredible." He whispered his lips hovering by her neck. "But..."

Elaine felt his large hand curl around hers before he snuck the vial from her and placed it back in her chest pocket.

"You're incredible as you are, and I don't need no drug or to be some meta human freak to tell you that."

Elaine felt the small peck on her cheek as she saw the wall of muscle stand up and loom over her. He was smiling awkwardly.

"Let's just keep this between us," Castle coughed looking away. "We can do lunch sometime..."

Elaine sighed, as she nodded, "Very well." She then got up and strode towards the doorway, "I have to continue the research. Roland's becoming impatient for the PUMP to be ready for distribution."

But before she could reach the door, it burst open as a bare chested, slight muscular busty and naked girl walked in, brushing her metallic blond hair from her eyes. Elaine knew it was Justine but Gus just leapt to his feet blushing like crazy.

"What the..." he looked around and grabbed a coat, yet Justine just laughed as she saw this.

"Put that away, Castle," she said with an oily cool confidence, with her Russian accent accentuating as she talked. She slowly turned her head and looked down at Elaine who she towered over. "Also hello, Elaine."

Elaine grinned. This was a bit sooner than she would have liked but it made an impressive entrance. "Justine, feeling well?"

Justine just grinned. "Oh yes" she said rubbing a hand along her side.

"Glad to hear it," Elaine smiled. She looked down as she noticed the girl's state of undress, "I see you're rather comfortable in your state right now."

Justine grinned as she stretched out, "Very much. But that's not why I'm here." She then stopped as she stood straight up, causing her DD boobs to jiggle, "It seems we've got intruders on the premises, Lady Elaine."

"Werewolves," Gus asked.

"Uncertain. Though they seem human, as they didn't transform," Justine explained. "They were heading into the sewers to sneak in. I thought I would report this to you straight forward, Lady Elaine."

Gus, who was now fiddling with a draw under his desk pulled a large hand canon out, although fumbled it a few times as he tried to not get distracted by the bare women in front of her, the suns raise glinting off her cool skin.

"A-and you didn't think to inform any of the guards because...?"

"I was asked by Elaine to report any intruders," Justine replied, as she looked to the girl who cleaned her lenses. "Is that right?"

"I had a feeling that my experiments would get out. And that Jaqueline Jekyll would send someone to investigate," Elaine explained. "That's why I leaked out that a particular way through the sewers was a backdoor to get in. But they don't realize that the backdoor…" and then put her glasses on, as her lenses hid her eyes, as a demonic smirk slowly spread on her face, "… leads to my territory."

"And why would you need them to go into your territory," Gus asked.

She turned to face Gus with a side glance, hiding her true intents, "My experimentation screams out for more test subjects. And what better way for Jaqueline to suffer for trying to be better than me… than for me to take something of hers and make it mine."

Meanwhile

Sewers

The drainage pipe was surprisingly dry, proving Theo's theory it had not been connected to the city's sewage system. Still decades of neglect and chemicals had left the place smelling like overturned socks, found down the back of a radiator. Jeremy of course eyes the walls with suspicion as they were covered in a thick black crust, that was semi-reflective when he shined his torch on it.

Ascending the ladder, Jeremy looked up to Theo who had managed to reach the manhole cover overhead. Covering his mouth with the hake chief he had bought with him he managed to splutter

"Is it open?"

"Yeah," Theo said, as he struggled to push it open. "But it's a pain to push open."

Jeremy arched an eyebrow, as he spoke aloud, "Something about this doesn't seem right."

"Nnng, what do you mean," Theo asked, as he struggled to push the lid off.

"I would have thought this passage would have been… you know," Jeremy shrugged, as he finished the thought out loud, "More guarded if this was a back door. But surprisingly we got in without any signs of resistance… or surveillance."

It was true in part, even for the intel they got. So far, on their way down, nothing had been shown that they were guarding this place. There were no goons or dogs on patrol to ensure nobody would come down there or be caught if they did. There weren't any booby traps or surveillance equipment shown of any kind; not even cables to connect to said stuff if there were any noticeable. It was almost as if they tried to invite anyone down here at any way possible.

"Hold up Theo," Jeremy called as he stored the flashlight in his belt and pulled out his phone. "I best call Jaqueline, an let her know what is happening."

Theo just grunted as he began to lift with both his hands against the manhole cover, even pressing his head against it to give it more lift.

"Don't worry pal... I ain't going anywhere."

Jeremy punched in the quick dial as the phone rang for three times, until it finally answered, as he heard Jaqueline's voice on the line, "Hello?"

"Jaqueline? It's me, Jeremy," he replied. "Where are you?"

There was a short pause before a voice like Jaqueline's replied.

"Umm... hey hot... I mean Jeremy... hi?"

"Ummm…" Jeremy held the phone away from his ear for a few seconds before he asked. "Jaqueline... is that you. Your voice sounds deeper?"

"Oh totally... yeah totally me... just have... a cold yea, just a cold." There was a sudden sound like coughing.

"In the six hours since I saw you?"

There was a pause before the voice gave a frank "yes."

Jeremy arched an eyebrow; his investigative intuition wasn't buying it, but he went with it anyway, "Okay… look, we're at the facility where we think Roland and his friends are at. We're about to sneak in about now. Just wanted to give you a heads up. I'm sending you GPA coordinates for use."

Suddenly, his phone was snatched from his hand, as he and Theodore whipped around. There, standing behind them. It was Lana, and with her a newly renewed Dirk. Lana looked different now, as her slim figure filled out to be slender and sexy. Her waist had tightened with a small six pack, long legs, sexy voluptuous buttocks, and a D-Cup chest. Her hair now reached down to her ankles and she had it done in a ponytail, leaving two bangs to frame the right side of her face and the left one framing it in a straight line. For the moment, she was wearing the jumpsuit, but due to her boobage, it couldn't be zipped up, so the V neck was left open from neck to belly button.

Dirk, on the other hand, was looking amazing. He still retained his lsim build but now he was packing small but tightly packed muscles and height now. He had one of the jumpsuits on as well, but had the top tied around his waist. And like Lana, he was bare footed.

Lana shook her head, "A couple of nosy nerds, Dirk."

"I think Elaine would like to meet these two new guinea pigs," Dirk smirked, as he lunged at the two.

Both were grabbed as the phone fell to the floor, all the while Jackie's voice called out, "Jeremy? What's going on? Jeremy? Jeremy?!"

Next Chapter: A Good Hero on Both Sides; Good on the Hyde Legacy pt.5