Blood Sisters
Chapter 9

Miss Liberty streaked across theAtlantic, leaving a long wake of pale green bio-mutant energy behindher. Allison was a power-plant of the stuff. It infused every cell inher body fueling her incredible powers. She was one of the only newhumans where you could see the bio-energy in its raw form. Whenevershe flew, or discharged it as an energy beam to hit a target atrange, you could see it, white at the core, diffusing out to darkerand darker green at the edge, and bands of the same colors wrapped inaround the core like ivy.

When flying at top speed likethis, or using her energy beams, Allison had to tap into thereserves of energy stored within her. If this went on for an extendedperiod of time she would start to feel somewhat weaker until her bodyreplenished the energy.

Miss Liberty had been in Germanyhelping to clean up after a train wreck, there was a bridge out, anda deep gorge. She had lifted up the train cars, which had survivorsin them and flew them to local trauma centers. When she liftedsomething very heavy like a train if you looked close there was afaint field of bio-mutant energy that helped maintain the structuralintegrity of what she was lifting, and balanced the load in her hand.

After rescuing as many people andfallen train cars that she could, she then began assisting inclearing the fallen bridge debris which were clogging and pollutingthe river below. She smiled as she worked, someone had startedplaying her newest album Texas Nights over a PA system. Sheeven sang along some, and people cheered as she worked. Germans lovedcountry music, who knew?

Miss Liberty's uniform today wasclose fitting blue beta-cloth, with a solid white chevron bordered inred wide at the shoulders angling down to a point at her waist. Therewas a single gold star that was emblazoned on the white chevron. Asalways she had the M-Tech golden bracers on her wrists, and a goldenbelt at her waist. On her feet were her favorite leather cowboyboots, a gift from the State of Texas when she was made their“Official State Hero.” The M-Tech boys had developed some kind ofcoating for them that helped them survive whatever extremeenvironment that Miss Liberty ended up in. They were custom fit forher, amazingly comfortable, indestructible, waterproof, never gotdirty and went great with almost everything in her wardrobe, a girlcould not ask for more.

Goldstar had contacted her only afew minutes ago that Jenny was hurt and Allison shot herself like acannon to the west, shaking several houses as her sonic boom pressurewave reached the valley floor. Miss Liberty, even pushing herself hadnever been able to hit the 1000 mph mark, her top speed at analtitude of 10,000 feet was about 880 mph. Which at the moment wasnot nearly fast enough for her. Goldstar in his energy form could flyanywhere in the world in minutes, if only he could come give her aride...

As she flew west the skybrightened back into daytime and she started to hear the sounds fromthe deep sea fishing boats a few hundred miles off the east coast ofAmerica. Goldstar kept her informed of Jenny's condition and herheart sank. Like her husband, a situation like this, her daughterinjured and out of reach, was her nightmare.

Just after Allison got to theskies above her homeland, she heard a man speaking through herprivate earpiece communicator. “Miss Liberty, this is D-Day. I haveone of my remote armor units with your daughter and I have beenapprised of the situation. I believe I have a way to help if you...”Allison spoke urgently, the sound of her voice modulated through herjawbone to the communicator. “Get your stuff and get on the roof ofyour office Paul, I will fly-by and get you. “...you got itAllison”.

That was out of the way, but shetrusted Paul, and if he said he could help, he meant it. Allisonpoured on a much speed as she could, the bio-mutant energy jetpropelling her flared hot as it exploded out of her body. If not forM-Tech's beta cloth, her clothing would have long since burned away. Allison felt noticeably weaker, and the feedback system in her goldM-Tech bracers kicked in, which helped slow the loss of her energyreserves. The bracers were a kind of capacitor, making her bio-energyconsumption more efficient, and took some of the strain from hersystem so it could begin slowly replenishing itself. At the rate shewas burning through it, she would overcome the bracers limit, butthey would still keep her going longer.

Ashton thundered into theAppalachians until she got over Shay's Mountain, moving at top speedshe dove down and grabbed Paul's master D-Day suit off the roof. Evenwith the armor's acceleration compensator, going 0-800 miles an hourin the fraction of a second would have normally destroyed the unitand killed Paul inside it from the massive g-forces, however the samefaint field of bio-mutant energy that maintained the structuralintegrity and balanced out the loads Miss Liberty lifted, alsolargely eliminated damage sustained by a sudden change in velocity,acceleration or deceleration. All the people who fell from a greatheight that Allison caught over the years have been most appreciativeof this feature. Of course, when Miss Liberty needed to hit somethingreal hard, which she often did, the field did not activate,indicating at least some kind sub-conscious control of it.

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Back at the MSCC, Jenny hadfigured out a way to press her force-field against her injured sidewhich had all but stopped the bleeding out, buying her some time. Itwas getting hard to breathe, with her punctured lung and the bloodpooling in her abdominal and chest cavities. Jenny was very pale, andwas starting to feel quite sleepy. If she passed out, her control ofher force-field would stop, and she would likely start bleeding outagain... blood she could not afford to lose.

Marty Goldstar was at hisdaughters side, offering encouragement, holding her as best he could.Jenny's field prevented most energy from passing through it as well,so even in his energy form, which consisted of more then just visiblelight, he could not reach through to touch her.

Jenny as laughing and wincing atthe same time at her dad. “Dr. Goldberg, really?” she coughed.Marty said “That's not the half of it Sparkle, there is a doctordownstairs named Alice Cooper...” Marty laughed “A woman namedAlice Cooper, can you imagine?” he smiled down at his little girl.“Who's Alice Cooper dad?” Jenny asked, giving her father 'thelook'. Goldstar looked back at his daughter like she was from themoon “how can you not know...” he sighed “Ah.. never mind” hesaid.

Miss Liberty and D-Day arrived atthe heliport on top of the hospital. Paul jumped out of his cockpitand started growing, reaching full size before he hit the ground. Hepopped open the storage space in the D-Day unit and pulled out ametallic briefcase. Allison waited impatiently. “OK I'm readyAlly”. The two rushed down into the MSCC to Jenny's room. Allisonwent over to her daughter, gently placing her arms around her energyfield “Oh, baby... don't worry. I am here, I am not going to letanything else happen to you”. Jenny smiled at her mother best shecould “I am going to be fine, no need to worry, mom” she winked.Jenny had no doubt.

D-Day unpacked his case and spoketo Dr. Goldberg “These are some medical nano-bots I have beenworking on. Your surgeon can control them here” Paul pointed to acomputer in the case's lid, with an attached special keypad. “Hewill get visual and other information displayed here, with this knobyou can control the transmission frequency until you replace one thatwill let you talk to the bots on the other side of her field”.Goldberg nodded “I will be doing the surgery myself, I will get myteam ready”. “Right then, now for the tricky bit”. Paul tookthe controls and had all the nano-bots crawl onto him, then he shrunkdown to 6” tall, the bots covering more and more of him as heshrunk, until he was literally covered with them. With a smallbio-energy field similar in many ways to Miss Liberty's Paul couldshrink a limited amount of mass along with his body, but in this caseit did not matter, the bots were already tiny. “I don't have myjet-pack on Allison, pick me up and hold me over towards yourdaughter”. Allison nodded and did so. Jenny smiled at the littleman “Hiya Paul”. “Hey kid” he replied. “Jenny, I need youto get up enough juice for one more port, you have to get hold of meand pull me in there with you”. Jenny replied “what, no dinner,no movie, you just want me to let you in here?” Paul smirked. Jennycoughed.

Jennyclosed her eyes and concentrated, what was once effortless, now feltalmost impossible. She cried out in pain; coughing up a jet of blood,there was a flash, and suddenly Paul was inside her force-field. Thefirst man to ever touch her in any way. Jenny smiled, then her eyesrolled back as she slipped into unconsciousness.