>>6094117“That gremlin is active already? It's far too soon.” Towa mutters, her tone stopping Meloka in her tracks. Your wife immediately turns, coming back up the ramp and stopping between you both. “He shouldn't be active for another thirty, thirty one years. Something has happened to accelerate his growth.”
“What are you talking about?” Meloka asks, Towa looking to her then to you with an unsure expression. So you turn to Meloka, reaching out to her and Towa telepathically.
“There's a Tuffle survivor on the loose. Some sort of body snatcher, and it has Raditz. As well as his wife, and their unborn child.” you tell them, both mothers' faces twisting in shock and horror. As mothers themselves they know just how horrifying this situation is, quickly followed by rising anger. You quickly explain everything Kars showed you to them, then your conversation with Chaya and how she's getting scanned to make sure no sort of mind control device was implanted in the food she ate or on the crystals she was shot with.
“No, it wouldn't be transferred that way.” Towa speaks up, projecting her thoughts explaining how, in most timelines the Reborn Tuffle King, King Kudamo, most often referred to by the title Dr. Myuu of the Machine Mutants dubbed him, Baby, leaves his 'eggs' behind in someone's brain, which allow him to remotely subjugate one whose body he's conquered. “Even your king Vegeta, in most timelines where he lives to AGE 789 and has broken free of even Babidi's mind control before is unable to resist that being's total and complete control over his body.”
“It's that powerful? Then how do we save Raditz? And stop this monster from spreading?” you ask her, this time aloud. “Kars told me that it spreads like an 'infection' from those who're already under the monster's control, that it doesn't have to go from host to host personally.”
“Yes, it did something before as well. However, such a takeover usually relies on a planet's Guardian to have been conquered.” Towa tells you, raising a finger seriously. “And then from there, it usually requires special, additional steps. Or either technological or magical devices to allow for mass distribution on a planetary scale. Such as infusing a magical substance like the Black Water Mist with his eggs, or perhaps even something more conniving like the Tuffles' unique concoction, the Destron Gas itself. Which I'm sure you remember from when you fought Hatchiyack and the living grudges that were the Ghost Warriors.”
“Damned Tuffles should have just stayed dead.” your wife mutters darkly. “Don't know when to give up.”
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