#6 by Swordsman

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WILLARD RESEARCH STATION, CALIFORNIA SYSTEM
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"They're getting impatient, I know you seen the news today, Trinadad."
The young woman turned on the holo screen attempting to break the scientist's concentration, but to know avail.
His focus was solid as he peered through the high powered microscope, giving only a half-hearted "Mmm". Doctor Gabriel Trinadad was one of the Liberty Navy's top biologists. He'd worked on various projects and studied top secret organisms found in the far reaches of Sirius. His current studies regarded something he'd pursued before and had been pursuing for nearly ten years. An herbicide for cardamine that had minimal to no negative effect on human, animal and other plant life. He'd been on the team to produce the chemical that came to be known "TX Gas" a chemical that did target only the cardamine, but had such a high toxicity level that using it on any area bigger than a small garden could contaminate hundreds of miles of surface and ground water, killing animals and humans alike by the thousands. Next to the scientist was a series of petri dishes, each containing a small chunk of cardamine grass and its roots. The plants laid in various liquids and showed different reactions to each, obviously test subjects. The plant in the dish marked "TX" with shriveled and blackened as it if had been burned, the planet in the dish next to it was purple, hinting at a reaction with in the plant's pigment.

"Doctor are you listening?! They are going to change Planet Kyushu and Malta into cardamine factories! We could have two new Malta's in the next few years if we don't find an herbicide that we can use!"

"We'd better get on that then.." He replied rather nonchalantly, eyes unmoving from his microscope.

The young woman looked toward the ceiling in frustration and left the lab, leaving the holo-screen to run on.

"Two more Malta's...." The doctor murmured to himself, finally standing up right in thought. "Two...more...Malta's.."