"I'm actually surprised to find you here," Snowy commented in the headquarters that had been set up, "Australia was never part of the French colonial Empire. It was part of Britain's."
"Yes, it was," General Heroud answered, "but considering that the Paris outbreak potentially had activity going on OUTSIDE France that was connected to it, it was agreed to put together an international commission for dealing with any potential outbreaks... and is being run through the UN. General Sydney Lawrence is our Australian representative and we do have some other contact officers here as well."
"So... I guess you have seniority due to the Paris outbreak?" Snowy asked.
"Generally... yes...," General Heroud answered, "though seniority isn't much in this particular case."
Snowy then shrugged and then. After a few short moments, a thought occurred to hir.
"Do we have any data on who got the Justin Vaccine here?" Snowy asked, "I know that strain was produced enough and actually synthesized to be spread around the world..."
"Those that have had that vaccine aren't in great numbers in Australia, I'm afraid," came a new voice, making Snowy turn to see a man wearing a general's uniform in the Australian army, "Sydney Lawrence, at your service."
"Catherine Snow-Chakat, but you can call me Snowy, everyone does," Snowy answered.
"Anyway, we've evacuated as many as we could who didn't get the Justin Vaccine and hadn't been transformed yet... though we couldn't get to all of them, and those that had gotten the Justin Vaccine did get out," General Lawrence completed his answer to the question that Snowy asked, "Strange though with the vaccine that will prevent people from becoming Kats is named for a Kat..."
"Justin Cain's human blood was used as the base for the vaccine before becoming a Kat," Snowy answered, "THAT is why it has hir name."
General Lawrence only shrugged, "any reports in?"
"Only that the Kats here appear to be calm... like nothing has happened," General Heroud commented.
"It's strange," Snowy commented, "Jess thinks that ultimately this may be the work of the guy that was ultimately behind the Paris outbreak... the guy that had been in London..."
General Heroud nodded. The various British police agencies had raided the London Zoo, and ultimately found nothing more than the fact that someone had been there illegally. They found evidence that the zoo's medical areas had been used to get the necessary animal DNA and that the zoo's security cameras and computers had been tampered with, but whoever had done so had no record with the British police or with Interpol. The prints were also given to the FBI in America in case there was any link to the old Chakat Industries, and that also turned up a big "goose egg" or nothing.
"And if it is," Snowy continued, "I think this guy might be trying to complete what I started in Fee City..."
"You mean turning the world into Chakats?" General Heroud asked, "I'd thought that would be obvious..."
"No, not the transformation... the ending war and such," Snowy answered, "Maurice and I never wanted a "virus" or a problem. We only wanted to make people happy and spread love..."
"Well several of the ones who have changed have seemed to be quite friendly," General Lawrence commented, "One of the pastors, who DID get the Justin Vaccine said several Kats came up to him asking to have him marry them..."
"Good thing it was peaceful, then," General Heroud commented, "We don't want a war or a fight."
"Yes," Snowy spoke up, "but if this person is perfecting the Virus... he's looking for ways to get around the problems we ran into in Fee City."
"What was that?" General Lawrence asked.
"Well, the original idea was that the lust phase of the virus would then allow for it to spread as those that were too horny to think simply went in search of someone to mate with," Snowy explained, "the problem with that was two fold... One was that they seemed to become mindless and were easily contained in Fee City by the National Guard, Police and FBI. Two, is that many of the Kats in Fee City followed true to form with regards to having them love each other. The Chakats there largely found themselves more enamored with each other than with humans... particularly as the numbers of people that didn't have Jess's blood type and antigen level began to get smaller and smaller. That largely helped prevent the Chakats from trying to spread the infection to those making the quarantine."
"I suppose that's where the territorial and violent behavior noticed in Paris came from?" General Heroud wondered, "the violent ones seemed to have more control than the lust filled ones."
Snowy nodded, "The more violent ones had the drive to spread the virus but weren't completely mindless, which allowed them to drive the lust filled ones toward people," Snowy answered, "Which is probably where the battles you had came from. They were driven toward your soldiers by the drive to spread the virus, and when they ran into the soldiers, they responded with violence in fear that the lust filled Chakats were threatened..."
"They've since become police officers as far as I know," General Heroud commented.
"But here..." Snowy continued, "if they all have their minds and are all friendly...they might present a problem in that if they have their minds, they can reason and might not accept the Foxkat Vaccine... and might pay attention to what we do to try and give them the vaccine."
"In what way?" General Lawrence wondered.
"They might respond with some emotion when we dart them or something along those lines," Snowy answered, "or does something that makes our hearts bleed for them... though we really can't be certain until we get some data back from those making their patrols."