Naero's War: The Citation Series 3: Naero's Trial by Mason Elliott Page A

in?” one even muttered in disbelief.
    Naero rolled her eyes for a second. “Yes. The wyrms must be destroyed while they are still within the host in order to completely free the host of them and their influence. That’s why the test subjects were dying. Once infested with the wyrm, it must be purged from them not only on a physical level, but also on a psyonic and a Cosmic level.”
    The medteks looked to Klyne and he nodded.
    In the end, all eleven of the remaining victims in stasis tubes and gravlifts were brought in and positioned around Naero.
    “Everyone get behind me,” Naero warned. “This might get a little crazy.”
    Medteks backed up. They didn’t need to be told twice.
    Some of them who had heard of Naero even left the medical bay.
    Klyne brought up shielding to protect the observers.
    Naero focused her biomancy abilities and opened her third eye.
    She saw through all of the test subjects as if they were crystal, and detected the insidious G’lothc possession wyrms almost instantly. Their sickening aura of malevolence. How could such things even exist?
    And fiends such as these had her child.
    Naero shook her head. She couldn’t afford to be distracted, even by that. She needed to concentrate.
    Obliterate the possession wyrms, purge them from the victims, and keep the people alive.
    She tried to unleash just a part of the Kexxian cure to affect the purge.
    The forces she unleashed blew out that entire side of the flagship’s hull. Emergency beacons flared. It was all that Naero could do to keep herself and the stasis pods from being sucked out into space.
    Finally the emergency shields sealed off the massive hull breach. But the room and the ship were still heavily damaged. Fixer clouds raced in from both sides, within and without, to make repairs.
    Finally the medteks could check the test subjects.
    “They’re all alive. Their life signs are little stressed…”
    “Big deal–at least they’re not dead,” Naero said, cutting to the chase. “That’s what matters, isn’t it? Sorry about your ship, Klyne, but I don’t think this was meant to be unleashed out in space, within a vessel.”
    Klyne raised both eyebrows. “I kinda noticed that.”
    Naero rubbed both hands together eagerly. “Now, we just have to spread these effects over the inhabited areas of the planet Kalathar. We have the medical scanners adjusted now to detect the possession wyrms, correct?”
    “Affirmative,” another medtek noted.
    “Then I go down with Khai and some of the Prime adepts to guard me while I sweep the planet until all of the wyrms have been purged. The people should revert back to their original forms. They’ll be weak for a day or two, and then they’ll recover. And the good news is, that once they’ve been purged and cured, they cannot be re-infested again. Then Kalathar can begin to return to normal, minus the victims who perished in the attack, of course. We can’t bring back the dead.”
    Klyne looked a bit worried. “This is a big job, Naero. You’ll need to sweep over forty percent of the planet’s surface from up in the air. Can you do this without exhausting or harming yourself?”
    Naero grinned. “We’ll find out. Once again, I’ve never done this before. No one has, except for the Kexx, eons ago. Theoretically, it is possible, but like I said, we are entering uncharted territory here, and we’ll need to learn as we go along. Haisha, if anything we do ever comes easy, I think I’m going to faint, or wet myself, or something!”
    Klyne, Gaviok, Master Jo, and several others laughed at that.
    “By the way,” Naero asked Klyne, as she continued to prepare for the main event, “how’s it going refitting the naval vessels with the new tek?”
    Klyne nodded. “The upgrades are going well, but it’s still going to take a long while. And many teks are going without sleep to explore all of the new ramifications for shields, and sensors, scanners, coms, and weapon systems. You’ve opened