#292. The Cure Chapter 9. Date Night
Ch 9.7 *
#292 *
Jun. 3, 2026
- Smoke surrounds the machine. Several parts of it are on fire. Sunlight pours in through the damaged roof.
- Smoke starts to clear, and everyone rushes over. A dark figure lays in front of the machine. Amy starts putting out the fires with a fire extinguisher.
- Sophia (laying on the ground, now blue, human-shaped, and translucent): "Ugh..." "Anybody get the number of that bus?"
- Chloe (freaked out): "HOLY HELL!" Zia: "Are you — okay?" Sophia (rolling onto her side, her liquid pooling under her): "I've felt worse."
- Amy (measuring with a handheld device): "43.9% reduction in chimeric energy. It really worked." Chloe (softly, eyes wide): "It really did." Sophia starts to sit up, her hand and feet disappearing into liquid dripping off the steps of the machine.
- Zia (points at the destroyed roof): "Yep, it only used up enough power to light a city, three months of refined thulium isotopes, and destroyed half the building, but it worked." Camera pulls back to show massive damage to the room; every screen shows errors; much of the machinery is ruined; and figures in the background are putting out fires.
Characters: Amy, Chloe, Sophia, Zia
...huh. It really worked.
— Inker
