THE TOKYO OPEN LABORATORY

He stared at Trevor for a few seconds, then he said. "That doesn't stop me from fusing in. Guess they haven't told you how strong I am."

"We all know Itsuki, now run along. It's getting dark already," Six said.

Trevor began to leave and the rest followed.

"I'd come around though, please expect me," Itsuki said and ran back to the football court.

They got home and saw granny sleeping on the couch, while Kaito played a holographic car racing game. Trevor got enthusiastic about about the game, but he never had the energy for it. Fern was about showing them a place to stay.

"Hope you guys had a good time out there," Kaito said.

"Yes, and Itsuki said hello," Fern said.

Kaito slapped the air and sighed, while Six and Expresso joined her in the game.

Fern proceeded upstairs to show Trevor and Marie their rooms.

The next morning, after some deliberations on visiting the Tokyo Open Laboratory for the purification of the serum last night, they entered the garage and picked one of the cars there. Expresso hung a backpack that contained the serum while Fern drove the car out of the garage.

The laboratory was located not so far from Godzilla street. It was a newly built laboratory which was open to outsiders that wished to do researches or scientific exercises themselves.

They got to the laboratory -- a cuboidal glass building made of reflector glasses that made images on it appear slender. Atop the building was THE TOKYO OPEN LABORATORY written in glassy characters.

They got down from the car and Marie and Trevor couldn't marvle enough. It looked like what they used to watch in SciFi movies back then. What fascinated them the most were the hovercrafts that carried people in and around the building.

Fern took out his cell phone and punched some numbers into it. After doing that, a host of six hovercrafts came gliding towards them. Marie looked at Trevor and looked back at the hovercrafts.

"We are going to ride on this?" She said to Fern.

"Well, yes," Fern said.

"I've never ridden on this before," she said, pointing at the hovercrafts that floated impatiently before them.

"Though I haven't tried it as well, but it seems cool," Trevor said.

"Come on, just get on it, there's nothing there," Expresso said and jumped on his.

Marie looked up at him and wondered if she'd ever be able to do that.

"You seem quite reluctant. Okay let me help you get on it," Kahil said and lifted her up. When he dropped her on the hovercraft, she began to quiver, her legs shaking. Everyone laughed, including Trevor.

"I think I can try this," Trevor said, staring eye deep at the hovercraft, then he jumped on it and shook a bit, then stabilized. "Not so difficult after all," he said and smiled.

The rest smiled and mounted their own hovercrafts too. When it was time for the hovercrafts to glide into the building, Kahil held Marie's hand and nodded at her.

"I don't think you'd find it easy either," Expresso said and extended his hand to Trevor, and he took it.

They flew into the laboratory. It was a wide and beautiful hall with the lights around reflecting off the white floors. They saw scientists working on robotics and machines.

There were about three floors above the ground hall, where they could see robots tarrying around.

When they got into the hall, their hovercrafts lowered at the entrance, and an electronic voice from the door requested them to answer a series of questions called 'The Laboratory Test'. It was a test that qualified them to partake in researches and lab exercises. Expresso was the one who came forward to answer the questions. And he did well, scoring about nine out of the ten questions asked.

After that the hovercrafts were lifted off the ground and they all mounted it once again. They flew to the last floor of the building, where doors to various lab rooms stood.

Expresso called one of the robots tarrying there and he told the robot they came for separation techniques, and the robot took them to a door with the number 55SP.

"Put on your lab coats when you get in," the robot said and left them.

"I've seen more than enough today," Marie giggled.

They entered the door and had a view of the room. The room was white, and most of the sophisticated equipments and cabinets there were white in color. They reached for a hanger at one side of the room and took lab coats from there, then proceeded to a white table where a centrifuge and other table equipments were.

Trevor walked around the laboratory room, having a view of the equipments there. He saw a lot of them -- the ones he could name and the ones he couldn't name.

He came back to the table when Expresso took out the tube from his bag. Expresso opened up the centrifuge and put the tube into one of the compartments and balanced the machine by putting tubes containing water into the other compartments.

"This would take about three sets of separation exercises," Expresso looked at them saying.

"So we wait here for all that?" Trevor said.

"Not really. There's a library room at the second floor. We could go there to see some books while we wait for them to be done," Fern said.

"That's a nice idea. I and Kahil would spend time with Expresso," Six said.

"So, we go now and get back to them later," Fern said, ushering Trevor and Marie out of the door.

They got to the library and weren't surprised to see the array of books which stood in gigantic shelves.

"I've visited here once. There's this book I normally pick whenever I come here. Not yet done with it though." Fern walked to one of the shelf and pulled a book with a green cover. He showed it to them.

"Descendants of the hiona wolf," Marie read. "I'd love to read this. What's it about?"

"The name says it all," he smiled.