"Ugh, not yet." Jan ran a hand through her short brown hair took a deep breath and  pivoted from Scientist Supreme to Steve."Okay, Steve, I've got a big -BIG- favor to ask of you."

"I have questions of my own." Steve crossed his arms and frowned at his friend. "If you don't mind."

"I understand Steve but if I could-" 

The intercom interupted Jan "Let's skip the argument and settle for quid pro quo. A question for a question."

 

 

Jan growled and looked at the mirror in the far wall of the room.  "Yes. Thank you, Karla."

"If you don't mind," Steve leaned forward and shifted his gaze to the mirror on the far wall. "I'll go first."  When no one gainsaid his demand he asked his first question, "Forgive me if this is off topic but it has been bugging me since before I went into cryo.... Who was behind the virus?"

Jan sagged and snorted, "Yeah, right, should have... look, Steve, you are the first revival so we are working the kinks out. I'm sorry this has been so screwed up.  We had a plan but... well, no plan survives first contact, y'know? The next revival will be better handled than yours, I promise."  Jan straightened up and gestured to the Scentist Supreme who began tapping away at the computer tablet. When she gave a nod Jan opened her hand for the computer tablet and looked it over for a second before handing it over to Steve. "The man behind it all was Ra's Al Ghul. One of Batman's. His deal was save the earth by sacrificing humanity. But it seems this one actually got away from him. Killing all but one percent of all the men on earth wasn't what he was trying to do."

"Good God." Steve shook his head as he read while his friend exposited. He furrowed his brow as he kept on reading, going over the particulars of the deviatation that the virus had wrought.  Handing the tablet back to Jan he just stared at nothing for a second before bowing his head. "We never saw it coming."

"Okay. Steve, I don't mean to push but I'm going to push." Jan winced, "I know that this was just yesterday to you, but it's been five years for us. We've got things that need to be done, a schedule to keep."

Steve nodded his head, "Yes. Right." He took a deep breathe and straightened up, "Something about a booster shot. Do I need to be vaccinated?"

"Steve," Jan looked away and couldn't help the blush that rose up on her cheeks, "you read the report. You didn't miss the population report, did you?"

"I saw it." Steve felt himself flush as well, "This is going to be about 'breeding' isn't it?"

"Pretty much." Jan clicked her tongue. "If you don't want to be part of the breeding program we can respect that.  But we need your semen. So we will be taking semen samples. There's the traditional by hand method but there's a machine which will have little to no lost sample which is probably what will be used."  Jan grimaced, "I'm sorry. Really. But if humanity is going to survive... well..." She shrugged.

"And the booster shot?" Steve asked. Not liking what he was hearing but intelectually understanding the necessity of it.

"A cocktail of our deisgn which will maximize semen production." The Scientist Supreme answered. "I- we expect a two hundred percent increase in semen production."

"You want to shoot me up with..." Steve sputtered for a second, "Wait. If i'm the first revival... This booster has never been tried before, has it?"

"Um, yeah." Jan nodded.

Spiral finally spoke after silently watching these past few minutes. "In only ten percet of the simulations were there abnormalities to the testicles and penis. Redness. Swelling. Occassionally gigantism. But I undertsand that for men that could be seen as a positive."

"Good lord." Steve put his head in his hands.