Evolution from the ashes of extinction

Christmas Season

After the rest of the team got their knighthoods from England everyone was preparing for the Christmas Season. All of the soldiers and workers were sent home to be with their families, leaving the main team at the fort. This was the time Arachnid could talk to the last of the diseased dozen.

Arachnid: Hello, anyone here?

#10: Hi.

Arachnid: Hi, my name is Arachnid, one of the monster girls living here.

#11: And you are?

Arachnid: An Arachne, half-spider-, half-woman.

#12: How do you live like that?

Arachnid: You get used to it at birth but how was it for you having to deal with your diseases.

#10: Of all the most lethal diseases ours is the rarest of them all.

Arachnid: I never thought a rare disease could get that lethal?

#10: This earth is full of surpasses. My disease comes from meningitis which means the sections where my spine and brain get inflated and don't allow me to move very much or I can't tolerate much noise. This started in my childhood where I couldn't move very well while playing, even being outside made my ears started to hurt. When they took me in they discovered that this was a new type of infection they had never seen before. They shipped me off to China where I met Shen and he subjected me to cryogenetics where the inflammations would be slowed and I could still move around but not as much.

Arachnid: So that is why you are in that chair?

#10: Yeah, my legs gave out a few years ago but I'm still here.

Arachnid: That is very interesting.

#11: Yeah, we all have our ways of getting here.

Arachnid: So what is yours?

#11: Mine is advanced stroke, the blood vessels in my brain either shut down or explode. I as a researcher before and I did a lot of it but I didn't catch up much on my sleep. It was then I caught not one stroke but three strokes. The lower half of my body was dead and couldn't' be moved anymore, then my limbs started to shut down one by one.

Arachnid: That's terrible, so you would be trapped in your own body?

#11: Kind of like that yes, but that wasn't the case when Shen came to the rescue and put me in cryogenetics to cool me down and he gave me this Exo-skeleton with a helmet that links to the sections of my brain that sends the signals to my feet in order for me to move again.

Arachnid: So why didn't you leave when that was fixed?

#11: If I stepped out, it would cause for me to have stroke again and possibly kill me this time.

Arachnid: So it's more of a temperature problem?

#11: Kind of.

Arachnid: Ok, moving on, so what is your problem #12?

#12: Mine is Advanced Sars, nobody knows where it comes from originally but it developed rapidly, even faster than before in my body, I didn't want the disease to claim the lives of more people so I told them to take me out of the equation but Shen proposed to save me and kill the disease at the same time. I was hesitant at first but then I agreed and he subjected me to cryogenetics where the disease could not be spread since the bacteria coming from me would freeze and die before it even left my skin.

Arachnid: So all of you live together?

#7: Yes, and we have found love in here but our diseases would have to be cured before we can ever start a real life together.