Well it was 1973,which meant oil embargoes,a arms race,recent winddown
of the Moon landings and a pretty tense world overall.
So Reed wasn't too unduly alarmed when two beefy security guards
took position on either side of Hungarian born Doctor Stan.
Stan was still learning English as a Second Language so his constant
explanations in his native tongue weren't helping Reed understand the issue.
Finally the frustrated foreign doctor,muttering about incompetent
and decadent West Medicals
gave up explaining the stack of paper readouts from the UNIX
MetaMorph Computer and instead rolled out a trolley with two
16mm projectors on it.
"Stalinist Secret Weapon" said the muttering doctor as
he switched on Projector One.
On the screen flickered a image of recently retired young and nubile
PE teacher Chelsea Pennyworth,who taught the girl students
swimming classes.
The film showed Chelsea,in her bikini,water streaming off her long red hair and body,emerging from the school pool.
From the date stamp on the school clock that could be seen in the
background,Reed guessed the film about three weeks earlier,roughly about the time Miss Chelsea's lawyer had come into
the school office and reported his client had decided to retire and move
out west somewhere.
Stan shut off Projector One and after making sure Reed knew the subject of the film
switched on Projector Two.
This film had been shot from a movie camera positioned overhead
looking down on a swimming pool down below it.
As Reed stared at the flickering image ,something that looked
like a crocodile with a stretched out neck and tail and two small bumps on its back where its forelegs were along the length of its
lengthy body
swam along the pools surface from one side of the frame to the
other side.
The doctor could see he had gotten Reeds full attention and
after switching off the projector explained in his broken English that Reed had been looking at the transformed and still transforming Miss Chelsea Pennyworth,who had caught the Monster Virus first and was turning into
some kind of monstrously large female bat winged crocodile,
commonly called a western dragon.
Reed still didn't get what he had to do with any of this so
Stanislav explained it to him.Chelsea had cut herself in that school
swimming pool shortly before the Ministry of Monster Health and
Safety had caught onto her infectious state,and her mutting blood
in the pool water had infected others ,such as Reed,who had domne a few laps in that pool afterwards.
When all was said and done,Chelsea's DNA altering virus was starting to turn Reed and a few others into clones,both species and
gender,of what Chelsea was mutating into.
There was no cure and since huge female batwinged crocodiles
were not allowed to mingle with the human public
Reed was about to be sent to a Dentention Animal Reserve
where monsters such as Chelsea had already been locked up.
Since the doctor was a ESL doctor
he made it already harsher then it already was,Reed was about
to be sent to Stalag 33,Concentration Creature Camp,you name it.
Reed panicked and the two security guards rushed in and soon
a rag soaked in chloroform was pressed against Reeds face and he
was knocked out.
Afterwards the same lawyer who had represented Chelsea
Pennysworth and dropped a note from his client Reed,who had decided to retire from teaching all of a sudden and head west.....