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mldrgrl · 6 years

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Not Again: Part 2

by: mldrgrl Rating: PG13 Summary: See Part 1

Part 2: Returned Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3

Chapter 4, Day 4:

Scully can’t sleep. For one thing, she’s uncomfortable, but for another, she can’t turn her mind off. She doesn’t want to admit it, but she’s worried about Mulder. She doesn’t like the thought of him in the middle of the ocean on an oil rig with a partner she’s not sure she can trust to watch his back.

Two o’clock rolls around and she hasn’t been able to keep her eyes closed more than a minute or two, so she gets up and logs into her work email to get a head start on things that might be waiting for her. There’s an email from Mulder in there, time-stamped at 6:43 p.m.

Scully -

If you get bored tomorrow and need something less mindless to do, I thought you might want to take a look at the photos of the body that washed up in Texas. Does it look like death from explosion to you? This has black oil written all over it, Scully, I can feel it.

They’re sending the body to Quantico sometime tonight. Maybe you can make a call and get the autopsy report.

Good luck either way. I wish I could be with you.

-Mulder

She opens up a series of attached photos and scrolls through them. She can’t tell from the photos alone what may have caused the angry, red lesions covering the body. Her ID still works for the Quantico database, so she checks the log to see when the body arrived and when the autopsy will be performed, and by who. Her suspicions are raised when the file indicates that the body is not to be autopsied, but transported to Mexico first thing in the morning. The serial number for the cold storage locker is at the top of the intake sheet and she memorizes it before she shuts down her computer.

Without stopping to talk herself out of it, she gets dressed and heads to Quantico. It’s not even three in the morning when she flashes her ID to the night guard and makes her way down to the morgue and scrubs in.

*****

It’s seven a.m. when she calls Skinner, only after trying to reach Mulder for an hour. She doesn’t think she can speak freely over the phone, so she asks him to meet her at Quantico as soon as possible. Twenty minutes later, and clearly annoyed, he comes through the door.

“Close the door,” she says to him. “Lock it.”

“What’s going on?” he asks, doing as she says. “What are you even doing here, Scully? You’re due to report to SA-”

“I realize that, Sir, but Mulder emailed me photos of the body of the man killed on the oil rig last night, and I couldn’t let it go.”

“Let what go?”

“His belief that the black oil had something to do with this.” She gestures to the body on the table next to her and Skinner grimaces. “Now, I can’t reach Mulder, and I don’t know who to talk to about this.”

“About what?”

“What I found in the autopsy.”

“How did you even get access to the body, it’s my understanding the situation has become political and this man was supposed to be sent back to Mexico untouched.”

She ignores Skinner, takes up a pair of long tweezers and walks around to the top of the table. “I found it by accident in the third ventricle of his brain,” she says, inserting the tweezers into the area in question.

As soon as Scully puts slight pressure into the area, black liquid oozes out of the brain and pools at the back of the head. Skinner looks alarmed and tries to pull her away from the body, but she lifts her elbow out of his grip.

“No,” she says. “It’s okay. It’s alright.”

“What do you mean? I was under the impression that this stuff could literally jump into a man's body.”

“It can, and I've seen that happen, but that’s the thing. This man was clearly infected by the alien virus. It entered his system and it was massing in the pineal gland, but now it's dead.”

“I don’t understand. What killed it?”

“Well intuitively, you would say the same thing that killed him, which would be exposure to high levels of radiation. Yet it makes no sense because the virus itself has radioactive properties.”

“Then we need to get in touch with Mulder and Doggett. They need to know what they’re dealing with.”

“Actually I was hoping you could convince Kersh to order a controlled evacuation of that rig as soon as possible.”

“I can’t go to Kersh with this. It’s not evidence you can even explain or that he’ll understand.”

“If the virus gets loose, Mulder’s life is in danger. Everyone on that rig is in danger.”

“We don't know that for sure. There are nearly two dozen men on that rig and not one other case. Why?”

Scully shakes her head and has to swallow the lump in her throat that comes on quickly. Damn these pregnancy hormones. “I don’t know,” she whispers. If she can’t convince Skinner that Mulder is in danger, there’s no way she’ll convince Kersh.

*****

Against Skinner’s orders, Scully does not report to SAC Connors. Instead, she heads to the basement and into the back room to hook up Mulder’s radio transmitter. She tries to reach the oil rig all morning. A blister blooms on the side of her finger from depressing the button on the microphone continuously, but she doesn’t give up. Finally, something like a voice cuts through the static.

“This is Orpheus,” a faint voice replies to her signal. “Go ahead.”

“Orpheus, I’ve been trying to reach you for hours,” she says. “This is Special Agent Dana Scully. I need to speak with one of the agents you have on board, either Mulder or Doggett.”

“I can take your message, Agent Scully.”

“No, I need to speak with Mulder or Doggett directly.”

“Agent Doggett’s fishing, Agent Scully,” a different, instantly recognizable voice answers. “You’ll have to settle for me.”

“This isn’t a joke, Mulder.”

“You found something, didn’t you? Is it the virus?”

“Yes, I did. And it’s dead.”

“Dead? What killed it?”

“Possibly radiation.”

“That’s not possible.”

“I know,” she says, holding a hand to her head in frustration. “I know, and this could be an isolated event, but that he's infected at all means that everybody out there could be at risk. And that includes you and Agent Doggett.”

“We’ve got to quarantine the rig.”

“No,” she says, emphatically. “Mulder, you have got to get off the rig. Agent Doggett can give the order. We can quarantine you and the crew when you get back.”

“Scully, if these men are infected the last place we want to be is onshore where they can infect other people. You're sitting on the answer right there, Scully. It’s in the body. You need to find out for sure what killed it.”

“What if I can’t?”

There’s a beat of silence and Scully thinks the transmission may have gone dead. “Tell the kid I went down swinging,” Mulder finally says.

“Mulder?”

There’s no answer. Scully throws the microphone down and puts her head in her hands.

*****

Biting the bullet, Scully goes to Kersh herself, bringing him her autopsy report and photos of the body. She breezes past his secretary and knocks on the door before she lets herself in. Kersh looks surprised to see her. It’s the most emotion she’s ever seen him display.

“Sir, I’m sorry to come unannounced,” she says. “I wouldn’t be here unless it was an emergency.”

“What kind of an emergency crops up in wiretapping?” he asks, disdain in his voice.

“This is my autopsy report on Simon de la Cruz.” She places a file on his desk and then steps back.

The disdain in Kersh’s voice turns to full on anger. “Who authorized you to conduct an autopsy on this man?”

“No one, Sir.”

“Agent Scully, this is an insubordinate stunt the likes of which I would expect from Agent Mulder.”

“I don’t have time for reprimands, I need you to look at this report and I need you to order an immediate evacuation of the oil rig that Agents Mulder and Doggett are on.”

Kersh flips open the file with thinly veiled disgust. “What am I looking at?”

“This man was exposed to a virus.”

“And?”

“And the entire crew of that ship may be infected as we speak.”

“You want me to order a multi-billion dollar company to shut down their operations because you suspect their crew might have a virus.”

“This isn’t a suspicion. This is-”

She’s cut off by the ringing of Kersh’s phone, which he promptly answers. He stares at her with contempt as he listens to the caller. She turns to give him the semblance of privacy as he mmhms and I sees his way through the call. Eventually, he hangs up, and Scully faces him again.

“I see I’m not the first one you went to to plead your case.”

“Sir?”

“That was the president of Galpex-Orpheus expressing his dismay that AD Skinner ordered an evacuation of his rig when I expressly assured him his business would not be affected by the investigation.”

“How could you even promise such a thing? Especially when the company could have very well been negligent. Who exactly do you work for?”

“As of now, Agent Scully, you are suspended until further notice.”

“Sir, if you just-”

“Effective immediately, Agent Scully. Turn your badge over to AD Skinner on your way out of the building.”

Trembling with rage, Scully turns and exits Kersh’s office. She has to fight the urge to slam the door on her way out. On the elevator down to Skinner’s office, she curses the man for being such a hard-headed bastard.

She feels rather defeated as Skinner ushers her through his door and she places her badge on his desk. He looks perplexed.

“I’ve been ordered to turn in my badge,” she says, holding her head high, but feeling like she’s on the verge of tears.

“You went to Kersh?”

“I felt I had no choice.”

“I want you to explain something to me.” Skinner hands her an open folder. “I had Agent Navarro copy me on the blood tests you ordered on de la Cruz.”

Scully browses the report Skinner hands her and then stops to read more carefully. She knits her brow and studies the first page, and then the next.

“This indicates that his T-cell count is impossibly high,” she says. “To put it in layman’s terms, it would mean he’s a virus-fighting machine.”

“What would explain that?”

She thinks for a moment. “Well,” she says. There are isolated cultures, in northern Italy for one, where people are immune to certain diseases. Heart disease in that case, through a genetic mutation.”

“So this man had what? A kind of genetic immunity to the alien virus?”

“His employment records listed him as mixed Mexican ancestry, when in fact he is Waicha Indian. The Waicha are an indigenous Mexican culture that has a rare undiluted gene pool. Maybe these genes may have an innate immunity to infection.”

“Alright, he’s immune. But, he died from being burned.”

She shakes her head, forming an explanation. “No, not burned,” she murmurs, shaking her head and thinking out loud. “Irradiated. Because the virus had no effect on him. The crew members who were affected by the virus couldn't control him, so they killed him, by irradiating him.”

“So why not kill Mulder? Or Agent Doggett? Why kill only this man?”

“All I can think is that he must have been a threat. Possibly because of something he knew.”

“Even if we did know, and were able to give word to them, would it be something that would put Mulder and Agent Doggett in danger as well?”

“I don’t know.”

Under the pretense of escorting Scully to retrieve her things, Skinner walks her down to the basement and she turns the transmitter back on. Both of them attempt to contact the oil rig in separate shifts. She paces while he sends out the signal. Agent Doggett is the one to respond this time.

“AD Skinner?”

“Agent Doggett?”

“What is that noise?” Scully asks, moving around Skinner to listen more closely to the speaker. “It sounded like banging.”

“Agent Doggett?” Skinner asks again.

“Yeah, right here,” he shouts.

“Can you hear me?”

“Yeah.”

“What is that noise?”

“Banging.”

Scully takes the microphone from Skinner. “Agent Doggett, I think I know what killed de la Cruz.”

“Right now we got bigger problems. We’re gonna need a chopper.”

“Tell him there’s a chopper on the way,” Skinner says.

“There’s a chopper on the way,” she tells Agent Doggett.

“Agent Scully, listen. There are three men on board here that are not infected. Me, Mulder and a man named Diego Garza who may be mentally unstable. Could be why he tried to wreck this radio room, just like his friend Simon de la Cruz. He may resist rescue attempt because he believes there are men in flying saucers who are coming to get him. Agent Scully, do you-”

The transmission begins to break up on their end and Scully tries to answer Doggett back, but the feed goes completely silent. Skinner flips off the radio and she slumps against the table for a few moments.

“I guess I better walk out now before Kersh has me thrown out,” she says.

“I’ll deal with Kersh. Go home and try not to think about it. I’ll have Mulder call you when they land.”

“Do you think they’ll make it?”

“Of course.”

She nods, but she can tell Skinner isn’t too sure. She picks up the attache she dropped off in the office when she came in and heads out, with her boss behind her.

“You wouldn’t have enjoyed wiretapping anyway,” Skinner says.

“Probably not,” she returns. “But, I needed something to take my mind off the fact that I have no idea where I’ve been for six months, no idea how this baby came to be, and no idea what I’m going to do.”

Skinner looks mildly shocked and puts a hand on her back. “Would you like to speak with Karen Kosseff about this?”

“I don’t think therapy’s going to help this time.”

They ride the elevator together in awkward silence until the doors open to the parking garage. She can tell Skinner wants to say more to her, but she walks out and doesn’t look back.

*****

Her cell phone rings just a few minutes after she walks through her door. She can barely hear him, but it’s Mulder.

“Are you alright?” she asks, holding a hand over her ear to try to hear him better.

“Doggett and I are the only survivors,” he answers.

“I’m sorry, are you saying everyone on that rig is dead?”

“Blown to smithereens.”

Scully sucks in a breath. She has no idea what that means in terms of containing the virus. It isn’t good news.

“Where are they quarantining you?” she asks.

“They’re not.”

“Mulder…”

“Doggett and I are fine. You can check me out yourself when I get back.”

“I will.”

“Look, I’ve got to go.”

“Stay vigilant, Mulder. Be aware of any signs of-“

“I know the drill, Scully. Lo-uh...I’ll see you later.”

There’s a click on Mulder’s end and then silence. Scully hangs up the phone with an odd feeling in the pit of her stomach. The baby kicks and she rubs her hand over her belly. She’s no less worried now, having spoken to Mulder, than she was before. She needs to see him and look into his eyes herself to make sure he’s okay.

Suddenly, she feels a small jab of pain in her side and she sucks in a breath and presses her hand to her ribs. Some flash of a memory comes to her in the moment, but it lacks specificity. She only remembers being annoyed with Mulder for wanting her to explore crop circles with him on a Saturday.

The baby shifts within her. The pain lasted only a second and doesn’t come back.

*****

Scully is abruptly pulled from sleep by a noise she registers as knocking only after jerking awake and flailing an arm out for the phone on her nightstand and realizing she’s on her couch and her phone didn’t ring. She struggles to get up and pushes the hair out of her face as she makes her way to the door. Before she even checks the peephole, she suspects Mulder is on the other side. He looks relieved when she opens it for him.

“You didn’t answer your phone,” he says in lieu of a greeting. “I just wanted to check to make sure everything was okay.”

“Yeah, I...I guess I fell asleep. What time is it?”

“Not even ten.”

“Come in. You’re back already?”

“Landed about an hour ago.”

She can tell she startles him when she grabs his face and holds his head steady as she looks in his eyes. He looks nothing but concerned. No black clouds in the whites of his eyes, just a little bloodshot which tells her he’s tired. She releases him and finally feels the relief she’d wanted when she spoke with him earlier.

“Am I clear?” he asks.

“All clear.”

“Skinner told me what happened. I’m sorry, Scully. I didn’t mean for you to-”

“I know you didn’t. It’s okay.” Even as the words leave her mouth, she feels her shoulders begin to shake and she drops her head. Once again, she’s unable to keep her motions in check and she knows it must be an aspect of the pregnancy because she can usually keep her frustration under control a lot better.

“Oh, Scully.”

Mulder puts his arms around her and she lets her head fall against his chest. There have only been a handful of times she’s allowed him to hold her like this, times of distress and heartache. It’s always been comforting, but never more so than now. She feels the urge to cling to him and release her pent up fear into his chest. It’s like she’s realizing for the first time how strong he is and how weak she is.

“It’s not okay,” she whispers. “I don’t know what I’m supposed to do right now.”

“You need time to adjust.”

“I can’t sit at home all day alone, I’ll go insane.”

Mulder moves one hand in a broad circle over her back and then he reaches up to push her hair over her ear. She closes her eyes and sighs. If she could stay like this for awhile, maybe she could absorb some of his strength.

“There’s something else you should know,” he says.

“What?”

“Kersh has been sanctioned and his office is under investigation.”

Scully gasps a little and pulls back to look at Mulder’s face. “What?”

“Your suspension has been removed from your record, but Skinner doesn’t think it’s a very good idea for you to come back just yet.”

“Did Skinner file a complaint against him?”

“Yes, but he’s not the only one. Kersh was suspected of accepting bribes in other matters and has been under surveillance for some time. You might have to testify to what you heard in his office today.”

“When can I come back?”

Mulder pulls her back into a hug. “Give it a week at least.”

“What am I going to do with a week?”

“What if we went away?”

“Away?”

“Yeah, like a vacation. What if I took you somewhere?”

“Where?”

“How about some place tropical?”

“Are you just saying that because you have a hot tip on the whereabouts of the Fiji mermaid?”

Mulder pulls back and chuckles. He puts his hands on her face and swipes at her tears with his thumbs. “You see,” he says. “You’re still the skeptical Scully I know and love.”

Her heart jumps in her chest a little. It hits her that part of the reason she hasn’t felt much like herself is that she definitely feels different around Mulder. Not a bad kind of different, just different. Like she needs something from him, but she doesn’t know what that is.

“Running away never solved anything,” she says.

“It’s not running, it’s just a vacation.”

“I’ll think about it.” She pauses and studies his face for a moment. “Mulder, in the months I can’t remember, did you ever ask me to go look at crop circles with you?”

“You turned me down cold.” He cocks his head and purses his lips. “Are you...did you remember something?”

“Being annoyed with you.”

“That certainly narrows it down.” He smiles at her and she closes her eyes for a moment.

“Did you go without me?”

“To find the crop circles?” He sighs when she nods her head. “Yeah, but I came up empty handed. You on the other hand, had an epiphany.”

“What?”

“Apparently you and God had a little tet-e-tet in a buddhist temple.”

“Clearly I was pulling your leg.”

“No, I don’t think so.”

“That doesn’t sound like me.”

“I was just as surprised as you are. Listen, I’ve got tomorrow off. Think about where you want to go and call me. Skinner will be thrilled he doesn’t have to force time off on me this year.”

“What about Agent Doggett?”

“He’s a big boy. I’ll promise to send him a postcard.”

Mulder brushes his thumbs over her cheeks again and smiles. His eyes move over her face and there’s a fleeting look of sadness there when he lets go of her. She walks him to the door.

“Night, Scully.”

*****

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conners-clinic · 5 years

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On episode 3 of the Anne & Ashley Show, we discuss in what ways each person is unique in their susceptibility to EMF effects (genetics!) as well as how you can protect yourself (and your family!) in your home or on the go. Thinking about dangerous radiation in the form of electromagnetic frequencies (EMF) is extremely important because we are surrounded by it constantly these days.

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Phosphatidylcholine – BodyBio PC Peroxynitrite Scavenger EMF-Blocking Products 5G Summit Videos

Reach out if you have any questions that they could answer for you! And stay tuned for Episode 4 (you can see all episodes on the Anne & Ashley Show page!)

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Ashley: Welcome to The Anne and Ashley Show. I’m Ashley.

Anne: And I’m Anne.

Ashley: Coming at you live from Conners Clinic! Be sure to hit subscribe, like and follow our social media platforms. We don’t want you to miss any of our episodes. Today we’re discussing Part 2 of the EMF series. We will be discussing ways to protect yourself from them through products or supplements. We will also be discussing ways that make us more individualized and also how to protect your kids in your home. So Anne, why are we so individualized?

Anne: Well, really there’s a lot of things that make us individualized as far as our susceptibility and our risk for EMF exposure, our sensitivity to it. Genetics play a huge role. We actually know that there are genes that are linked to a person potentially having a sensitivity. So if you have variants on those genes, you’re more likely to experience a lot of those symptoms that we talked about in Part 1. The brain fog, fatigue, joint pain, those types of things. If you have these variants in your genes. There’s genes that are involved in DNA repair. So if you have variants in those genes, you might be more susceptible to the damaging effects of the radiation. Genes that are involved in mitochondrial health. So, looking at an individual’s genetics, we can zero in more closely and customize somebody as far as maybe some supplements that could help with any EMF exposure. So we do have some supplements here. This is BodyBio PC, this is phosphatidylcholine, which really works to help maintain the integrity of the cell membrane. Again, why I’m talking about EMF exposure or damaging the cells. And so there’s actually been studies shown, you were just showing me the other day, those images of studies where they are looking at in looking at cells and then putting an EMF, they’re exposing the cells to EMFs and then looking at the damage firsthand and what’s happening to those cells. And you can see the membrane of the cell just kind of disintegrate the cells around mis-shapen. So BodyBio PC, the phosphatidylcholine, really helps support the integrity of that cell membrane.

Ashley: And that was specifically on the smart meters too.

Anne: Oh that was in relation to the smart meters? Oh Geez. That’s bad. And these two here are mitochondrial and energy support, and then this is something called Peroxynitrite Scavenger. So these work to help support the DNA and the Mitochondria. So these are all great options. Also, you know, Ashley mentioned it in Part 1, talking about food and nutrition, making sure you’re getting plenty of antioxidant-rich foods in your vegetables, you know, eating the rainbow, the fruits and vegetables. So trying get as many colors in your food every day is really going to help support the integrity of yourselves.

Ashley: Those are great supplements for that. And with kids going back to school if they aren’t able to swallow a supplement or take the nutritional piece…

Anne: A lot of them don’t like supplements. So you know, if theyr’e not interested in that. We have other ways.

Ashley: Yeah, these other products that we’ll discuss here in a second. Did you know wifi has more radiation than just one single cell tower?

Anne: That is kind of freaky because that is in our house. And a lot of people have multiple wifi routers because they want instant connection.

Ashley: Yeah. And now that’s surrounded by your kids at school and so there’s multiple wifi routers at school. So your kids are going into this classroom where they all own a cell phone and then they all have wifi connected to their laptops that now schools provide for them. And they’re just bombarded with all this EMF exposure all day long.

With no protection. If they have that genetic defect, it’s 10 times worse for those kids, especially if have a learning problem in some way, then it’s going to make it 10 times harder for them to start learning and maintain their memory. And it’s just so hard on the brain because those kids, their brains are still developing. And they have a thinner bone structure than adults. So the radiation can seep right through their brain cavity. Their cell structure is constantly replicating. So if they’re replicating so fast and now they’re getting damaged cells from these EMFs, then they’re now replicating damaged cells and longterm effect is a health concern. So parents are starting to go to their local city or whoever it might be to stop those cell towers from being so close to their schools. They’ve been putting the high voltage power lines 200 feet away from playgrounds and schools and it’s a health concern for these parents.

And they’re not even notified that this is happening. So it’s just the long-term effects. Short term effects, parents have also noticed all of those symptoms going on that we talked about in Part 1 and just now. And also they’ve noticed those symptoms go away on the weekend when they’re not in school. So they correlate themselves with all this EMF exposure. So we have a ton of extra devices here that hopefully will help your kid, that you can provide them with some reduced EMF products to send them to school and at home too.

Anne: So, if you can maybe think of the one thing that your kid always has or even us as adults, it’s your cell phone, you always have your cell phone on you. I swear it’s the one thing that my kids don’t lose is the cell phone.

If it was anything else but the cell phone, which is good. Yes, they’re obviously expensive. So, cell phone protection, we have a couple of different options of cell phone protections. Hedron, a sticker for the back of your phone. It can go on your phone or on your cell phone case. That helps to reduce the exposure.

Ashley: Also your cell phone, not sleeping next to it. And so even if it’s protected, still do not sleep next to it. That has been, there’ve been some studies with that, as mentioned in Part 1, but also we did read up a little bit more that some parents have had their little kids even who own cell phones, sleep with it under their pillow and it’s just all night exposure directly to their head.

Anne: Teenagers who never want to miss anything. Keeping it right next to them. Not Good. So keeping it away from them, turning the wifi off at night. We also have this, this is called an R2L. This is a different device that you can put on your phones and you put it on a different location depending on what type of phone you have (near the antenna.) We’ll link information on each of these items that we’re talking about so you can do some more research on them.

Ashley: And then your phone case.

Anne: Yes. And then a phone, an actual phone case.

Ashley: So mine’s not stuck on there yet, but you can see you place your phone right here on the sticker and then when you close it is how you actually talk right through it. Through the speaker. Doesn’t mess with it at all with having an enclosed case.

Anne: We tested it. Like, how are you going to be able to talk when there’s something…

Ashley: Exactly. And then you just slide it up to take a picture. But you’re fully protected now with, instead of just talking where it’s emitting right on you and producing all that heat, you now protect the screen even, which reduces the EMF coming out of the case against your skin. So this is pretty cool, I think. And so it’s this one here.

Anne: And the other things that kids always have too are an iPad or a laptop. So this is a Hedron harmonizer that, it’s larger. So for larger devices, you know, an iPad, a laptop, you can put this on a gaming console, on a refrigerator, you know, it’s listed here. You can put it on your wifi router, desktop computer, on a cordless phone if anybody has those anymore, TV, refrigerator. So all of those things. And here are the cases for your computer laptop. It’s a really nice protective case. This part, you open it up and this part here can work as the area for the mouse. So it’s protective, as far as just scratches from your computer, but then also from the radiation. So that’s a great sleeve.

Ashley: This is the iPad standard sleeve that usually comes with iPads. So you can just see it’s a basic thin piece of equipment. But then we have this one that actually, you place the iPad right in here. And so it works as a protector as well, but also now you have the EMF protector. And when we tested this one, when it stands, this piece is what actually helps absorb the EMF. So if it was just laid down flat on it, it’s not going to be as powerful as standing up, just because of that extra pad. So that was pretty cool to see.

Anne: All right. So what else can we do, moving on from the different kind of the devices? Oh, the body shield. Yes. So this is a little Hedron shield that you can keep with you in your pocket on your body. So it’s just helping you wherever you go as body protection.

Ashley: Then we have EMF headphones. So, of course kids, adults even too, constantly wear headphones when you’re working out, when you’re studying, really anything, listening to a podcast or on audible. So these headphones specifically have these little barrels on them, which help pull out the excess EMF radiation. By the time it gets to your ears, anything wired is going to be really beneficial. So even at home, if you can make things more wired, you’re gonna reduce the EMF exposure already.

Anne: Bluetooth, get rid of as much Bluetooth as you can.

Ashley: And with the Bluetooth we have this Bluetooth adapter adapter.

Anne: Wait, get rid of Bluetooth.

Ashley: Well, yeah, Bluetooth is constant. Hard wired is best. If you do Bluetooth though, you could use an adapter. This adapter will help with any, iPhones don’t have a cord anymore to plug in headphones. So you could use this adapter to plug your headphones in, any headphones, but these ones would be best. And then this would act as the wireless adapter then. So you could still have wireless headphones, even with a wire, with an adapter.

Anne: They’re less harmful than the iPad ones, I forget what they’re called… [Air Pods].

Ashley: Yeah. And then those Bluetooth on your ear. Yeah, those are pretty bad. The Bluetooth in your car too is not the best, but hands-free law. So we have to do it anyway. So a body shield would probably be best.

Anne: Yea you could keep one of these. Oh this one too, it’s for a room. This is for the room that you have your wifi router in, you can put this and so, this might be something that have in your car.

Ashley: Totally, that’s a great idea.

Anne: Yeah, it’s a big one.

Ashley: And then we have these plugins. These ones are good for, how many rooms was that one?

Anne: I think it’s your whole house is protected.

Ashley: The level, right?

Anne: Well, I don’t know. I thought these were for the whole, just the whole house and it might be a certain amount of square footage. And so, these ones, you get two when you make a purchase for these plugs to kind of protect your whole home and you plug one in, if you’re looking at your electrical panel, you plug one into an outlet that’s associated with the right side of your electrical panel and then you plug the other one in and out that that’s associated with the left side. And then it helps to protect your home.

Ashley: That was right. Yep. Okay.

Anne: There’s also something that you can hard-wire to your home that is, I think it’s thousands of dollars, but it’s more of a hard-wiring home protective.

Ashley: You can also use dragonite. So when you go around your house, as close as you can to your house. It’s like a, like a rock/dirt mixture that you just kind of spread in the soil and it just kind of seeps in to help your house be grounded. So any EMF power, especially if you look by high-voltage power lines too, it gets drawn to the dragonite and not onto your house itself. That may be something alongside this to get onto your home.

Anne: Another thing that we use, I have, I purchased this, I have a daughter who just went off to college. And so I put this, this is a pad that can go either on a chair, or on a bed. I put it on her bed because I just was thinking like, gosh, she’s in this dorm. With, again I mean it’s like being in school and just hundreds of people with wifi and cell phones and computers and so how can I help her? And so it’s a grounding mat. So you literally just lay on this. There’s a plug that goes into the ground port of an outlet and it helps to just draw the harmful, positive ions out of your body and then disperses them into the ground. So I got this for her and really I’d like to get this for everyone in my family because I feel like, you know, you’re in your bed for, you know, maybe six to eight hours per night.

So if you can spend that whole time just getting rid of those negative ions or the positive harmful ions, to become more grounded then…

Ashley: That’s great. That was really good idea for her.

Anne: Yes. I thought it was a nice gift. She’s like what are you doing?

Ashley: Yeah. Oh my gosh. And then of course we have our salt lamp here and then these are the stones or rocks we were talking about. It doesn’t necessarily have to be this big, but just an idea for something for you to hold on while you’re on your device to draw the energy too. Plus they look really nice so you could just have it as decor around the house.

So that’s all of our devices. We do have a demo we’d like to show you guys. So we’ll just load up a music app really quick just to show you people listen to music all the time. So you can see it’s pretty high at 100, 140, it’s constantly up and down here.

Anne: Whoa, there was a 200 in there.

Ashley: Yeah. So that one’s really high. So then we close this, and now look at how low it stays, still playing music. So that’s pretty cool how well this works because of course this is the part against your face, right when something is emitting.

Anne: Right when you’re talking on a phone. Decreased it significantly.

Ashley: Yeah, that was pretty cool.

Anne: So that concludes our second part of the EMF series. We are going to do another, Part 3, where we’re going to get on 5g. It’s kind of an emerging topic and whether we like it or not, it’s something that we should be concerned about. So we’ll talk about that in the next episodes. Hopefully you got some good information. Please again, like, and subscribe to our social media platforms. Share this episode with your friends, help protect your friends as well. And we look forward to seeing you in Part 3 of the EMF series.

Ashley: Thank you for watching.

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18 Creepy Declassified Documents That Give Us the Heebie Jeebies

There are plenty of secrets kept by the government without getting into conspiracy theorist territory, and sometimes those secret actions become declassified.

Reddit-users recently went over some of the creepiest declassified incidents throughout the world, from a sinister Soviet-era island to a United States nuclear gaffe that almost ended in catastrophe.

Check out 18 of the craziest declassified episodes in history!

The U.S. wanted flying saucers.

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Project 1794 was a top secret program with the U.S. Air Force working with a Canadian aeronautics company to build a supersonic flying saucer-like aircraft that would be able to simultaneously wage psychological war on our Cold War enemies as well as physical war (it was also designed to be a bomber).

The project was scrapped when they figured out that not only would it be too expensive to build enormous flying discs, but also that crafts of that shape were near impossible to fly at supersonic speed. –VictorBlimpmuscle

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During Operation Sea-Spray, the military sprayed supposedly harmless bacteria over San Francisco to study the spread of biological weapon attacks.

It was revealed that this happened over 200 times all across the US. –Paranoidas

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A similar test was run in New York City subway system by dropping lightbulbs filled with bacteria onto Manhattan train tracks.

An army report in 1968 concluded that “similar covert attacks with a pathogenic disease-causing agent during peak traffic periods could be expected to expose large numbers of people to infection and subsequent illness or death.”

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Not exactly creepy, but during Operation PBSUCCESS, the CIA backed the 1954 coup d’etat in Guatemala at the behest of the United Fruit Company and US State Department.

Basically a socialist friendly government was elected in Guatemala and started land reforms to give people an opportunity to better their lives by dividing up large portions of estates and plantations owned by the United Fruit Company.

The CEO and board of directors approached the US State Department and asked them to put pressure/intervene to stop these reforms from continuing.

Eventually, because some members of the Guatemalan government were friendly with the Soviets, the President authorized operations by the CIA to remove its elected government.

The CIA backed a right wing faction and spoofed a full on military attack. –broccolistinks

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Sweden had a compulsory sterilization program running from 1935-1979.

It was state-sanctioned and given without consent, sometimes without the people knowing they were being sterilized.

The three main reasons for these sterilizations were:

1) Health concerns for the mother.

2) Eugenic (not wanting to pass on mental illnesses or any form of handicap).

3) Social (antisocial people, criminals, drunks etc).

In other words anyone who didn’t conform properly and was considered unfit to raise children. –Sugary_skull

This next one makes it look like the Pentagon has some serious secrets…

The truth is out there…

The Pentagon commissioned an initiative called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program and they recently just released footage of US military aircraft approaching these “advanced aerospace threats.” –JihadiRotiJohn

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Jeffrey Dahmer’s full confession – a couple of hundred pages of pure madness.

Necrophilia, dismemberment, skinning, lobotomy, body part preservation, cannibalism…

Dahmer became pretty close to his interrogating detectives (Dennis Murphy and Patrick Kennedy), and provided a lot of detail to them.

A lot of it in a pretty candid, off hand manner. –Miss_Musket

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Nixon had a second speech prepared in case a failure on the 1969 moon landing left Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin marooned with no hope of rescue.

Operation Northwoods nearly saw the US harm its own citizens.

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Basically, the U.S. government was going to carry out attacks its own people (as well as other military targets) and blame it on the Cuban government, so that the U.S. would have a “justified” reason for going to war with Cuba.

The plan involved blowing up U.S. ships and even inciting acts of terrorism on the streets of America, killing civilians.

It was backed by the DoD and Joint Chiefs of Staff. Thankfully, John Kennedy vetoed the idea.

According to Adam Walinsky, JFK’s speechwriter and friend at the time, JFK left the meeting and said, “And we call ourselves the human race.” – Boat_on_the_Bottle

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In the 1940-50’s the US government gave doses of radiation to newborns and pregnant women in an attempt to study the effects radiation had on newborns and pregnant woman.

In one study, researchers gave pregnant women doses of iodine-131.

When they inevitably miscarried, they studied the women’s aborted embryos in an attempt to discover at what stage, and to what extent, radioactive iodine crosses the placental barrier. –FreeThe_Truth

But did you know North Carolina was almost blown up twice? In the same accident? Read on to find out how…

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The 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash involved an aircraft breaking up midair, and dropping two 3-4 megaton nuclear bombs (much bigger than those dropped on Hiroshima, for reference) near Goldsboro, North Carolina.

A report declassified in 2013 reveals that one bomb came very close to detonating—essentially, a one safety switch was all that stood between the US and a devastating explosion.

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In the 1940s a Swedish group of scientist gave mentally ill patients candy to see the effects it would have on their teeth.

What makes it especially bad is that these experiments were performed on people who were “uneducable” who had no say in what went on and needless to say their teeth were beyond repair. –FreeThe_Truth

The Soviet Union established a cannibalistic island.

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In the 1930s, the Soviet government decided to send thousands of “undesirables” to a swampy river island called Nazino with nothing to survive on but bags of flour.

People tried mixing the flour with river water and this resulted in outbreaks of dysentery. Eventually people started eating corpses and later on killing other people for food.

There was no leaving the island, since the guards would shoot you if you tried. Eventually the settlement was dissolved and the 2800+ survivors were sent to smaller settlements upstream.

All of this was kept secret by the government until 1988 when the glasnost policy was introduced and the details were made public.-DemotivatedTurtle

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After the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam war (killing of around 400-500 innocent civilians in Vietnam after an army troop killed an entire village), the U.S. government established a group to investigate other war crimes like this occurring in Vietnam.

They found 7 massacres of equal or greater magnitude than My Lai and 203 reported war crimes that the public was unaware of—thousands of innocent people killed by U.S soldiers.

The information has since been reclassified, but there were several journal articles on it when it was first released. –TripleJericho

The infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study:

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The U.S. Public Health Service conducted a study between 1932 and 1972, observing the untreated progression of syphilis in Alabaman African-American men under the guise of receiving free health care from the United States government.

None of the men infected were ever told that they had the disease, and none were treated, even though penicillin was proven to successfully treat syphilis.

Instead, the men were told that they were being treated for ‘bad blood.’

This next one will make your blood boil…

Unit 371 committed horrific war crimes—and got away with it.

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A covert research and development unit of the Japanese army, Unit 371, committed a vast number of lethal experimentations on people during World War II.

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Over 3,000 people were experimented on, and instead of being tried for war crimes, the U.S. gave Unit 371’s researchers immunity in exchange for the data they gathered.

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Operation LAC: from 1957-1958, the U.S. Army sprayed zinc cadmium sulfide in primarily African-American areas of St. Louis to test the dispersion and geographic range of bio or chemical attacks.

The Pentagon maintains to this day that no one got ill from it, but residents and leaders of St. Louis speak differently.

This only got widespread exposure after Missouri’s two senators demanded the declassification of the project about 10 years ago. –AulayanD

The Nth Country Experiment yielded unnerving results.

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The gist is that three newly-graduated physics PhDs with no weapons experience, only two of whom were working at a given time, were tasked to design a nuclear weapon in the 1960s.

They didn’t have access to classified materials (that is, no existing nuclear weapons designs or weapon-focused supporting materials), and only basic computational support.

It took about two and a half years of part-time work to come up with a workable design of the more challenging “fat man” type. Understandably, the final design and a whole lot of details remain redacted from the public version.

The takeaway: difficulty of design is not the limiting factor in a country developing a nuclear arsenal.

Not by a long shot.

It’s so easy, a couple new physicists could do it in a couple years back before modern computational methods. –bigscience87

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Suicide Squad: The 15 Weirdest Members Of All Time

Ever since way back in Rick Flag Sr.’s Squadron S in World War II, the Suicide Squad has always been a group of ragtag rogues that operate in the grey area of morality. This dynamic alone makes for a good read, but it is DC’s deep catalogue of characters to choose from that makes each colorful new line-up of the Squad so much fun.

RELATED: 15 Toughest Suicide Squad Members Of All Time

The point of this list, then, is to document our picks for the oddest, strangest, most ridiculous scoundrels to ever have taken part in the U.S. governments’ most covert agency, Task Force X. From a former resident of Arkham Asylum, to Steve Ditko’s second trippiest character ever, to Grant Morrison himself, we’ve got all of the “Skwad’s” best weirdos!

SHRIKE (II)

A lot of superheroes and villains have strange origin stories, but Shrike’s starts weird and just gets weirder. An ancient alien named Overmaster, who had deemed himself the judge of worlds, arrived on our planet to decide if the human species was worthy to be the Earth’s stewards. To test humanity, he imbues a group of human beings with super powers, designates them his Cadre, and has them fight the Justice League. We’re not sure how any of this was supposed to determine humanity’s worth, but Overmaster created some fun super villains in the process. Shrike was one of them.

Created by Gerry Conway and Chuck Patton, Vanessa Kinsbury was a mentally ill young woman who escaped the facility where she had been committed, when her and Overmaster’s paths crossed. He gave her the powers of flight and a sonic screech similar to that of Black Canary or Marvel’s Banshee. And talk about an “interesting” look, Shrike has Wolverine’s hairdo (but pink), a devil’s tail and she wears what doesn’t amount to much more than a bathing suit, sometimes with fishnets. She joins the team in “Suicide Squad” #24 (1989), and promptly dies on her first mission in “Suicide Squad” #25.

SHRAPNEL

Shrapnel was introduced in “Doom Patrol” during Paul Kupperberg’s run, just before Grant Morrison took over. At the time, Erik Larsen was illustrating the title, so the character definitely has a bit of a ‘90s feel, sort of resembling a metallic version of Marvel’s The Thing. Where it gets strange is that, while it appears he is made of metal, his body is actually a mass of organic fragments that he can control. He can fire these off individually, blow himself apart with concussive force and even grow back lost fragments.

Shrapnel was part of the CIA’s Suicide Squad that was sent to the island nation of Diabloverde to prop up its corrupt ruler, Guedhe, in “Suicide Squad” #63 (1992). He was also part of a second CIA Suicide Squad tasked with capturing the Wiley Wolverman and Sasha Martens version of Hawk & Dove in “Hawk & Dove” #3 (1998). Eventually, he was roped into Waller’s Squad proper, and was given the unenviable job of ambushing Superman in “The Adventures of Superman” #593 (2001).

PLASMUS

Plasmus is a Marv Wolfman and George Perez creation from the early ‘80s. This was the era of nukes, the Three Mile Island accident and Cold War, so of course Plasmus’ origin story includes details of radiation exposure and ex-Nazi experimentation. Plasmus was part of a compact Suicide Squad made up of strictly heavy-hitters, including Chemo and Shrapnel, and lead by powerful telepath Manchester Black. They first appeared as Squad in “Superman: Our Worlds At War Secret Files” #1.

However, it is in “Adventures of Superman” #593 that they lure Superman to an abandoned military facility called Area 8 and jump him. We all know how that turns out — not great. A simple rule of thumb for villains at the this point in DC continuity: Don’t go directly at Supes. Even with a chest full of Kryptonite, like Metallo, it’s probably a bad idea. Even though he was once on the Squad, Plasmus was one of dozens of super villains sent to the distant planet Salvation by Checkmate and Task Force X, which set up the “Salvation Run” mini series.

MINDBOGGLER

While Mindboggler started as a Firestorm rogue, she has spent more time in the pages of “Suicide Squad.” John Ostrander introduced her in his seminal first issue of the title and unceremoniously killed her in “Suicide Squad” #2. But that wasn’t the end of the line for this mind-controlling punk rocker. She may have died at the hands of Rustam, leader of Skwad’s arch-enemies, The Jihad, but the Quraci agency resurrected her in digital form (similar to their former member Djinn), and she returned in “Suicide Squad” #17.

Rick Flag Jr. managed to retrieve the device that held her, but they never managed to bring her back into the fold. Her actual body was reanimated and she returned yet again as one of Koshchei’s zombies in “Suicide Squad #48.” Mindboggler initially gained her powers from Breathtaker of the Assassination Bureau. This is also how fellow assassins Stratos and Incognito got their abilities. All three attempted to fulfil a contract on Firestorm, but ultimately failed.

THE TATTOOED MAN (I)

The first Tattooed Man was Abel Tarrant, a former sailor turned criminal. He used “special paint” to give himself “tattoos” that he could bring to life. To be clear, the “tattoos” were painted on, so they were not done with a tattoo gun or even a needle. This was eventually retconned and it became “magic ink” and actual tattoos, which is less weird… but only very slightly. He joins Task Force X in “Checkmate” #6 (2006), and is killed in the next issue when he is found to be a traitor.

In a 1993 Vertigo mini series titled “Skin Graft: The Adventures of a Tattooed Man,” a jailed Tarrant tattoos a new inmate named John Oakes, who then becomes the second Tattooed Man. Word has it that Common’s character in the “Suicide Squad” movie, Monster T, was supposed to be an interpretation of the third Tattooed Man, Mark Richards. If so, holy wasted opportunity, Batman! How much fun would it have been to see Common’s tats start crawling off of him?

BLACK ORCHID

Black Orchid was a young woman who died and was brought back to life as a plant/human hybrid by a cutting-edge botanist. Just let that sink in for a minute. In her new form, she is super strong, fast, durable and could fly. Yet, her trademark was being a master of disguise. She is revealed to be part of Task Force X in “Suicide Squad” #4 (1987), in which she goes undercover to help take down the vigilante known as William Hell. Orchid has also been in an assemblage of magic’s anti-heroes not dissimilar to the Suicide Squad called the Spirit Squad. This band of magic users is brought together by The Creeper in “Blue Devil Annual” #1.

The New 52 version of this character is part of what is basically the DCnU take on the Spirit Squad, Justice League Dark. She joins this team as an agent of A.R.G.U.S. and is tasked with keeping an eye on John Constantine. Also, Orchid is an important link between The Red and The Green, and was an integral player in the “Rot World” crossover.

LARVANAUT

“Suicide Squad” has long been an excuse for writers to thumb through old DC Who’s Who issues searching for obscure villains that nobody would miss if they happened to fall during a Skwad mission. A number of characters have died in the field secretly working for the US Government, many on their first outing even. However, Larvanaut is different simply because he was created by Keith Giffen and Paco Medina for a single issue. This creature joins a version of Task Force X in “Suicide Squad” #3 (2001), all of whom die on their first mission… except Killer Frost.

All we really know about Larvanaut from his brief DC existence is that he has a heightened sense of smell, he can’t breathe regular air, he tends to walk on all fours, he only has three fingers on each hand, he has a large reptilian tail and his name seems to to be a portmanteau of “larva” and “astronaut.” Pretty damn weird, if you ask us.

CLOCK KING

The Clock King became obsessed with time when he was diagnosed with a terminal illness. He turned to crime to try to gather enough money to provide for an invalid sister once he had passed. Turns out his doctor had mixed up patient files and he was not sick at all! Clock King later became a part of Major Disaster’s Injustice League. During this crew’s last ditch attempt at a big score, they accidentally stopped a diamond heist and, with the help of Maxwell Lord, became the Justice League Antarctica.

This team was eventually disbanded, but half of the members (Clock King, Major Disaster, Big Sir and Cluemaster) ended up as a Suicide Squad, headed by Sgt. Rock and Bulldozer of Easy Company. Clock King’s first appearance as a Squadian was in “Suicide Squad” #3 (2001), the same issue in which Larvanaut makes his inauspicious debut. So, if you read the last entry, you already know this was one of those Task Force X missions that put the “suicide” in Suicide Squad.

MISTER 104

John Ostrander used a rotating cast of nearly four dozen characters during his monumental run with the Modern Age Suicide Squad, and Mister 104 was definitely one of the weirder ones. He can turn his body into any element on the Periodic Table, but was introduced when the Periodic Table only had 103 elements (he started as Mister 103). At this point, he would have to be renamed Mister 118.

Like Shrapnel, 104 is a Doom Patrol villain, but he is from a much earlier run — the ’60s, to be precise. He joins up with an iteration of Task Force X that includes other obscure characters like Psi and Weasel in “Doom Patrol and Suicide Squad” #1 (1988). As the title suggests, this Squad teams up with the Doom Patrol to rescue Hawk (of Hawk & Dove) from Sandistas in Nicaragua. Mister 104 dies in a battle with the Rocket Red Brigade, who also show up to snatch Hawk for Russia.

PUNCH & JEWELEE

These guys are like a low budget version of The Joker and Harley Quinn. However, they show up in the comics 25 years before Harley was even dreamed up by Paul Dini and Bruce Timm. Though, to be fair, the Joker was tormenting Batman a long time before that.

These two former Coney Island puppeteers were originally Captain Atom villains, who had found and mastered alien tech. They are the creation of the venerable Steve Ditko and David Kaler. The married jesters were recruited by Amanda Waller in “Suicide Squad” #24 (1989). They left the Squad when the pair became pregnant, but were pulled back in years later to aid a Mirror Master-led team. The New 52 versions of these characters were just recently introduced in “Batman” #9, as part of the “I Am Suicide” arc. Jewelee was mentally ill and locked up in Arkham Asylum, but she and Punch came through for Bats in his assault on Bane. They thus earned some leniency of the rules there thanks to their quirky teamwork.

AMBUSH BUG

Yet another entry that is more than a little off his rocker, Ambush Bug is more of a DC mascot than an actual superhero. He does have an arch-nemesis, but it’s an argyle sock that looks like Doctor Doom named Argh!Yle! If that wasn’t weird enough, Bug is also a proud member of the “fourth wall breakers club,” a-la Deadpool and Lobo, regularly reaching out to the reader and appearing in meta-stories like “Channel 52″ as a roving reporter within the New 52 universe. However, Bug has also managed to be taken seriously, joining elite DC teams such as the Justice League of America, Doom Patrol, and of course, the Suicide Squad.

Bug’s suit granted him invulnerability and the power to teleport. He became a member of a variation of Task Force X that Amanda Waller put together to help fight the Alien Alliance in “Invasion!” #2 (1989). This Squad included Captain Boomerang, Black Orchid, The Duchess, and was lead by veteran member, Nemesis. Fun fact: Ambush Bug was once married to Dumb Bunny of the Inferior Five.

SHADE THE CHANGING MAN

While Shade the Changing Man has “man” right there in his name, he is actually from the planet Meta, making him a Metan and ill-fitting one particular gender. The bridge between Earth and the Meta-Zone is a dimension called the Zero-Zone, which is where Shade met Task Force X, during issue #16 of “Suicide Squad” (1988). At the time, the Squad accidentally ended up in the nebulous limbo, but luckily, Shade was able to get them back to Earth. After their encounter, Amanda Waller offers to help return him to Meta if he joins up with her team of unbalance villains.

Unlike alien heroes with super powers, like Superman and Martian Manhunter, Shade had the speed and strength of a slightly above-average man of his age, height and build. What gave him powers was his M-Vest, which projected his appearance differently depending on the current mental state of himself or others. The M-Vest also emitted a powerful force field. Shade the Changing Man is the second entry on our list created by the great Steve Ditko.

COL. COMPUTRON

Colonel Computron was the legacy name of two Flash villains, Basil Nurbin and his daughter, Luna Nurbin. While their appearance suggests they were cyborgs of some kind, both are actually just wearing tech armor. Furthermore, this armor is based on the Captain Computron toy produced by the Wiggins Toy Corp. This is the same company that is owned by Captain Boomerang’s father, W.W. Wiggins.

When Col. Computron popped back up as a floating head in “Checkmate” #11, he didn’t even know he was working for Amanda Waller in a hush-hush line up of the Squad. At this point, Waller was the White Queen of Checkmate and was in direct violation of UN statutes by sanctioning Suicide Squad activity of any kind. Yet, with the help of her operatives, she had rigged a Santa Prisca election to avoid a Bane-backed candidate taking power. Rick Flag Jr., Fire and King Faraday were all in league with Waller at this point, but the full cast of this Squad was never revealed.

GRANT MORRISON

Yes, Grant Morrison doesn’t just write superhero comic books, he redefines them… sometimes by entering them, himself. In the last issue of his “Animal Man” run, Buddy Baker manages to make it to our reality and “meet his maker,” as it were. Morrison tells Buddy that he is the author of his life, before resetting everything he had written and wiping the slate clean for the next scribe.

So, it’s kind of awesome that John Ostrander paid tribute to Morrison by bringing a character called The Writer — clearly a visual and thematic homage to Morrison — into his popular “Suicide Squad” run. The character joins up in “Suicide Squad” #58 (1991), along with a bunch of other villains that are recruited to help neutralize sorcerer Circe and her army of werebeasts and Amazons. In that issue, he tells Firehawk and Silver Swan that his portable computer either tells him what is going to happen or he actually writes what is going to happen. Sadly, he dies when he gets writer’s block while a werebeast is coming at him.

JOKER’S DAUGHTER

It doesn’t get much weirder than Duela Dent. The character has been around since the late ‘60s, and has a long and convoluted continuity. Her history is one thing pre-Crisis On Infinite Earths, and another thing entirely post-Crisis. It’s quite different yet again with her New 52 reimagining. The original version of this mentally unstable youngster claimed to be the daughter of almost every villain in Batman’s rogue gallery: The Joker, The Riddler, Penguin, Catwoman and Scarecrow.

However, it is the New 52 Duela we are concerned with for this entry, as that’s the version that joined the ranks of Vic Sage’s Task Force X in “New Suicide Squad” #1 (2014). This iteration of her is deeply troubled and intent on snuffing out anything beautiful. It’s implied she is a former heroin addict and self-mutilator. When she finds The Joker’s cut-off face in the sewers where she dwells, she eats a bit of it and then proceeds to wear the rest. Now, that is #1 spot weird! Fun Fact: The New 52 Duela has one blue eye and one green eye as a homage to Two-Face, who is believed to be her real father for most of her history.

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Not Again: Part 2

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Part 2: Returned Chapter 1 Chapter 2

Chapter 3, Day 3:

Scully starts the day determined to get back to something resembling her normal life. She gets up early and drives herself to the mall to go shopping. She ignores a call from Mulder as she tries on maternity clothes. There is an agonizingly embarrassing moment at the cash registers when she discovers her credit cards have been frozen due to lack of use. She has to bite the bullet and call Mulder.

“I appreciate this very much,” Scully says as Mulder pushes his credit card across the counter to the saleslady. “I’ll pay you back, of course. And for the rent. Just as soon as…”

“It’s not a problem, Scully. I told you, anything you need.” He swipes his hand back and forth across the top of her back as the receipt prints.

“I want to go to work. I want to talk to Skinner.

”You don’t want to take a couple days?”

“I need to get back to normal, Mulder.”

Mulder signs the receipt and hands it back to the cashier. She gives him the shopping bag and he carries it as he guides Scully away with a hand at the small of her back. She wants to ask him to press a little harder. She’s had an ache just above her tailbone all morning.

“I get it, Scully, I do. I just think maybe you should take a few days to adjust.”

“Sitting at home isn’t going to help me adjust.”

“I’m not trying to talk you out of it, I just want to make sure it’s what you want.”

“It’s what I want.”

“Okay.” Mulder hands her the shopping bag as they exit the store. “Come find me in the office after you talk to Skinner.”

“Thank you.”

*****

Dressed in a pair of maternity slacks, a silk top, and a blazer a size up from what she normally wears, she steps into the waiting room of Skinner’s office. Skinner’s secretary looks wide-eyed up at her and fumbles for the phone to announce her arrival. Skinner opens the door only seconds later, before she even has a chance to sit down, and invites her into his office.

“Mulder told me I should be expecting you,” Skinner says, taking a seat behind his desk.

Scully is still getting used to sitting herself down. It takes her a moment to feel for the arms of the chair and ease into position. The distribution of her weight and keeping her balance is so different.

“I’d like to be reinstated, Sir,” Scully says without any preamble.

“I gathered that. Under the circumstances, I’m not sure it’s the wisest thing to do.”

“You don’t want to put me in the field, I understand, but I can run background checks. I can work in the labs. I can consult from the office.”

Skinner removes his glasses and sets them down on his desk. He clasps his hands together and leans forward on his arms. She’s about to be turned down and she braces herself for it, sets her jaw and levels her gaze.

“Maternity leave isn’t that far off for you,” Skinner says.

“A month, at least,” she replies.

“It would be impossible for me to do more than put on you desk duty.”

“I understand.”

“You’ll be in organized crime.”

“Wire-tapping duty?”

“Currently, the x-files unit is full. Take it or leave it, Agent Scully.”

“I’ll take it.”

“Start tomorrow. Report to SAC Connors. You’ll be in the bullpen.”

“Thank you.” With as much grace as she can find, Scully pushes herself up out of the chair as Skinner puts his glasses back on and keeps his head down. The unit is less than ideal, as is the location of her desk, but it’s better than nothing and it will keep her occupied.

“It’s good to have you back, Agent Scully,” Skinner says when she reaches his door.

“Thank you, Sir.”

It takes a few minutes for the elevator to arrive. As she waits, she sees the furtive glances of the other agents as they pass her by. She knows she’s a curiosity right now, but it still irks her. She punches the button for the basement and breathes a sigh of relief when she steps into an empty elevator.

Nothing about the basement has changed. She touches the wall as she steps off the elevator and breathes in the familiar scent of dusty files. For her, it was only a few days ago she was down here, but knowing that it’s been so long and things are the same also makes her feel nostalgic.

The office door is open, but she knocks anyway and then stops abruptly. There’s a man she doesn’t recognize standing at the open file cabinet. He’s wearing a suit, but he’s got a military haircut and she bristles at the invasion, ready to demand to see his credentials and to know who authorized him to be there.

“You must be Agent Scully,” he says, closing the file cabinet. “Boy, is it good to meet you. I’m Agent Doggett.”

Her shoulders relax a little and she steps further into the room. Agent Doggett comes around to greet her with a file in his hand. He pulls out a chair for her that’s been crammed up against the side of the desk. She does a slightly better job of easing herself down this time.

“Can I get you anything?” he asks. “Water?”

“No, thank you. I came to see Mulder.”

“He should be back any minute. He went to submit our travel req.”

“You're headed somewhere?”

“Oil rig off the Gulf of Mexico. Body of one of the worker’s washed up on a Texas beach with radiation exposure.”

“From an oil rig?”

“Oil company insists it was from an accidental explosion. Agent Mulder insists it's got somethin’ to do with an alien virus.”

“Of course he does.”

“Well you know, he puts on a good slideshow.”

Scully raises her left eyebrow. “What do you think it is?”

“Negligence, probably. The execs at the oil company got good and bent out of shape when Mulder started poking around. Leads me to believe they got something to cover up.”

“Does Agent Mulder know that?”

“He doesn't care much what I think except getting my signature on the req.”

“Your signature?”

“He didn't tell you? Kersh made me the senior agent down here.”

“You must've done something pretty egregious for that kind of punishment.”

“Yeah, I wouldn't arrest your partner and charge him with your murder.”

Scully isn't surprised that there are some details Mulder left out of his recanting of what's happened while she was away. But, then again, small details like that aren't necessarily important to him.

“Tell Agent Mulder I stopped by,” she says, pushing herself out of the chair. “I don't want to hold you up.”

“He should be right back.”

“That's okay. I'll speak with him later.”

“It was nice to meet you, Agent Scully,” he calls after her.

“You as well, Agent Doggett.”

Scully holds her breath as the elevator doors open, but they're empty. She punches the button for the parking garage and then leans against the wall and closes her eyes.

*****

She’s not more than five minutes from the Hoover building when Mulder calls. She knows she probably shouldn’t answer, but she does anyway.

“Scully,” she says.

“You didn’t wait,” Mulder replies.

She can’t tell him that she didn’t want to see him with a new partner. Didn’t want to hear about their case together. Didn’t want to think about it at all.

“I have a doctor’s appointment this afternoon,” she says. “And it seems you’ve got your hands full with the oil company.”

“A doctor’s appointment?”

“With my own doctor.”

“Everything’s okay then?”

“It’s fine.”

“Where did Skinner place you?”

“Organized crime.”

“Ouch. Wire taps?”

“That would be affirmative.”

“Damn. He couldn’t at least put you in the labs?”

“Not at this time.”

“It’s not for long.”

“No, it’s not.”

“Look, we’re not leaving until tonight. If you want, I could stop by before I go.”

“Why?”

“I don’t know. To see how your appointment went. To make sure you have everything you need.”

“I have to go. I’m on my way home right now to sort out my credit cards and insurance. I’ll call you if I need anything.”

“Promise?”

“Have fun on the oil rig.”

*****

Scully has the last appointment for the day at Dr. Parenti’s office. It’s not absolutely necessary, but she’d like to take precautions and have a doctor she trusts look at her results. She flips through a parenting magazine as she waits and then closes it, a little overwhelmed by page after page of advice on things like sleep schedules, making your own baby food, and how to deal with temper tantrums in public.

She sits on the examination table in a paper gown and fuzzy socks, fidgeting nervously. For the first time, she’s going to have to explain her abduction and the reason she hasn’t seen a doctor during her pregnancy and she doesn’t quite know what to say.

“Dana,” Dr. Parenti says when he enters the room. “I hear congratulations are in order. I’m so pleased.”

“Thank you.”

“Felicia says you’ve been away. Who were you seeing in the meantime? We’ll get your records transferred.”

“Well, I...the thing is I was not away by my own...it was a work related absence. I didn’t have access to a doctor.”

“I see.”

“I was seen yesterday at a hospital in Roanoke. I requested those records to be sent over before my appointment.”

“Let’s take some measurements then and go from there, okay?”

An hour later, Scully is dressed and in Dr. Parenti’s office waiting for her results. He makes a few notes in her file before he looks up and smiles.

“Well, based on your measurements and a review of the sonogram, I’m in agreement with the hospital’s assessment. And in absence of the last date of your period or intercourse, the first week of June sounds reasonable for a due date.”

“So, it wasn’t…” She trails off. She’d been hoping Dr. Parenti would confirm another round of in vitro had worked, but if he was estimating dates, that didn’t seem likely. Unless she saw another specialist, and that didn’t seem likely either.

“Wasn’t what?”

“Nevermind, I was overthinking.”

“I don’t see anything here that’s cause for concern. I’m going to leave you with a few pamphlets. Make an appointment next week with Felicia so we can keep an eye on things.”

“Alright.”

The visit to Dr. Parenti does little to allay her concerns. With the confirmation that she is not pregnant by in vitro, she’s left to assume she might be dealing with an unplanned pregnancy by an unknown father. She doesn’t know what she’s going to tell her family. They aren’t on the best of terms right now. Or are they? At the very least, she will have to figure out a few things before she calls her mother, that’s for sure.

*****

#i wrote this #xf fanfic #season 8 au #msr #angst #scully is sad

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