The fleeing scientists first name is Jerry and he is a minor
baddie in Miss Goldie Faust's plan to dominate the worlds gold
supply by cursing it with the Curse of the Dragoness.
What Jerry knows is that Miss Goldie Faust had figured out
that although leaving the worlds gold supply by turning it
radioactive was the best way of putting the gold she had no control over out of circulation
nuclear warheads,required to do the deed
were hard to come by in this Arms Reductions world of ours.
So the third best option,the method she'd settled for,was to look
for a dragoness,living or dead,lying on a pile of Cursed Golden
Dragons Hoard.
It was the third best method because the dragoness on this
island retreat of Miss Fausts was just a skeleton,dead for centuries from stomach burn apparently,when Faust and her team ,including scientist Jerry,stumble apon the huge cavern
that later would house the TF Dragoness Curse Machine.
No gold either and most of the mad scientists had quit when Miss Faust's paycheques bounced 3 months into the scheme.
Jerry had hung around however and figured out how to curse
some of the gold a grumbling Miss Faust had lent him to test out
on that dragoness skeleton.
It had worked,as you and other dragoness's penned up elsewhere
on the island lair had showed.
However the system was unstable because it needed a bubbling volcano and lots of glowing magma to make the dragoness
transformation effective.
And there was the issue that Miss Goldie Faust was perfectly happy with her human figure and didn't want to get turned into a
dragoness herself.
So when the TF Machine went into Self Destruct mode
Miss Faust and everyone else ,including transformed you
and the other new dragoness's was on the other side of the
100 ton lead and iron Survival Door
leaving Jerry all by himself with a self destructing TF machine
and lots of dragoness cursed gold dust whirling about him as the chamber shook and kicked it into the air Jerry was
breathing in.
So kmnowing a explosion would kill him off regardless of whether
he was a dragoness or his human self
Jerry the scientist looked for a hideyhole to survive the blast.