" Wake up mercury what's wrong, hey come on wake up" . Heather calls out to mercury as he lays there on the floor unconscious.
primus mocks Heather's attempts to wake up mercury from inside the subconscious of his and mercurys mind holding mercury by chains in this dream scape composed of his and mercury memory merged together.
" There is no response no matter how much you shout or scream , I won't let mercury out of here until I get a few pointers through his thick skull now sit tight there clone and get your note book and pen ready because class is in session, that's right this is just the tip of the iceberg mercury I gonna get my revenge."
The dark space dream world turns into a classroom merged with a library, a torture chamber ,a lab with glass cylinders housing creatures, a forest with half dead trees and surrounded by a burning city as Primus creates a black board and forces mercury to attend his class.
He controls Mercury's body like a puppet making him sit on a dilapidated desk of rotting wood and rusty metal,
Mercury musters strength to question Primus of his antics " you what are you trying to accomplish by this?".
" Silence clone!" Primus shouts as his voice echos through out the dream and then he scratched the black board making a screeching sound so loud it shatters the glass cylinders in the room.
He twirls around and dances around the and stops at the decayed parts of it and points at it .
" this represents my state of well-being my health and right now it's not looking too good" he leaps to the intact parts of the room.
" now this is your side, see the difference little Rex, you're healthy have a complete body and brain, while I'm just a few cells short close to dying! ".
He then floats up the ceiling and spreads his arms and opens the roof to show the interwined memory's they share that look like streams of light interlocking each other.
" Don't put yourself in a situation that requires me to channel energy from your power core again, when I ask you to give me the wheel you just go to the passengers seat and let me fight".
" Or you find a way to regrow my body so I can be out of your hair that's something yes if it's even possible, that was the whole reason the Mercury series was made, a spare body".
Primus snaps his fingers and dissolves the dream scape. "everything rotates spins on an axis and we all rid on it remember that".
Mercury is then flung to the dark side above entering a light at it's center causing him to slowly regain consiousness as he hears Heather's voice distant as it's echos in his ears he goes to sleep.
On the outside of Mercury's mind scape Heather is found by mirai and Sheena as they were heading to the residential area, they are stunned to see the Carnage left in the wake of mercury and primus fight with the thugs and the robot assassin.
" Hey you two don't just stand there come help me get him to the hospital ! Hurry" Heather shouts at mirai and Sheena.
Then they both hurry over to find mercury laying in the floor , Sheena activates her communicator and notified the authorities. Within a short time space the tunnel is filled with police and investigators, mercury is loaded into a ambulance transportation miniture ship that hovers and flies to the hospital area.
Mirai and Sheena accompany Heather on a separate shuttle enroute to the hospital tat follows the one mercury is on, once they arrive at the hospital with the shuttle they immediately go over to the room where mercury is being treated.
The doctor in charge, approaches them as they enter the room and asks what their relation to the paitient is, Heather responds,
" we are cousins, he came here for a visit when we were attacked by thugs who tried" she tries to hide the truth of mercury's nature.
The doctor asks about the energy core embbeded in his chest,
"so can you tell me about why the paitient has a nuclear reactor in his chest?"
Heather replies to the doctor's question ,
" it's confidential doctor, besides I don't know why he has it in the first place".
The doctor the proceeds to inform her " when scanning his body I noticed that the energy core is fused with his organic tissue and it's getting unstable if it comes under sudden stress again it will explode,so i would advise that we perform an operation to remove it but perhaps once he regains consiousness ask him directly to have it extracted to save his life".
Heather smiles and agrees with the doctor's suggestion" I will do that immediatly he wakes up doctor".the doctor leaves the room and Heather notices mercury waking up she goes to his side and sits on the chair next to him.
Mirai walks up to her and crosses her arms "what is going on here ? I'm getting really curious about this whole situation, almost the entire station is in utter chaos and seem to know more about what's happening".
Heather leans backwards on the bed " just bad timing , I was supposed to get him back to Earth but now that his core is almost in critical condition I have no choice ..."
" What is this about my core being unstable, even Primus chewed me out about that " mercury questions the conversation between Heather and the doctor. " Oh hi mirai and Sheena.... " He greets them.
Sheena turn her head and replies " hello mercury" then turns her back facing the door way. Mirai gets excited as mercury gets up " hello mercury you've been unconscious for at least 72 hours are you alright?".
Mercury responds in bluntly " yes but Primus is dying and my core may be what is killing what is left of his brain, I over heard the doctor saying it's possible to extract my core ( he smiles) does that mean I'm not the only one with an energy core powering their abilities?"
Heather answers quickly " yes you're not the only one but your power core must have degraded over the past ten millienium but are really sure you want to go through with this it could kill you".
" (Sighs) don't worry my cellular regeneration to top notch but Primus normal human cells will die out eventually and I would like to save him at least one time if possible" he gets up from the bed shirtless his chest glowing and pulsating where his core is.
"Yes the unknown variable, you're able to communicate with what's left of the armored phantom? That's something my ancestor theorized but this just proves she was right all along, but(tilts her head) how are you planning to save Primus any way? You do realize that some of his cells are deeply embedded at the center of your brain".
Heather expresses her concern for mercury.
Mirai becomes even more intrigued by the conversation carefully listening in.
" We just need to remove the cells on the surface just one would do and clone it so he can attach his Consiousness to a new body and properly separate from me by burning out the reminder of the cells in my brain by channeling energy simple as that" mercury continues to explain.
Mirai interjects " whoa whoa is it really ok for me and Sheena to even listen to this conversation, this should be regarded state secret you know"
Sheena notices the doctor return and informs them" the doctor is approaching" as she steps away from the doorway
The doctor enters the room "ah I see the paitient is awake have you made your decision?". Heather , mirai and Sheena look at mercury who nodes his head approving the operation to extract his energy core
" Alright I will inform the surgeons to prepare the operating room and a replacement energy core for you will be ready, though it..."
Heather inttrupts the doctor " don't worry doctor this my family I will go to any lenths to help him and there is an additional procedure he wants done at the same time with this operation".
The doctor smiles with teary eyes as he walks out the room, the operating room is ready and the surgeon wait to operate on the paitient.
Mercury is sadated and taken to the operating room to extract his core, at the entrance of the hospital Greg and Max are waiting for mirai and Sheena, at the counter whilst jack is outside the hospital walking towards it .
In the operating room the doctor and his surgeons perform double operations.
One Pierce Mercury's head as they follow the heat signature to locate the cell on the brains surface that's different from the rest. It's located any extracted and placed in a test tube.
the surgeons attempting to remove the core fail to replace the core after removing it as Mercury's body regenerates too quickly as the core is extracted, his skin becomes impenetrable making the procedure difficult until the doctor in charge calls off the operation.