Mike

Sterling wouldn't give me anymore answers, so I decided to go to work on my lap top in my room. I did a search on "all the things you can do with Lima Beans."

"dried, canned, baked, fresh, frozen, desserts and bean paste. I think I'm gonna be sick! Wait, what's this?"

I found a website that was full of fun facts. "Lima beans contain cyanide?" I then did a quick search on cyanide.

"highly toxic. . .inhibits mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase and hence blocks electron transport, resulting in decreased oxidative metabolism and oxygen utilization. . .he oxygen metabolism at the cell level is grossly hampered. . ."

Then it hit me, I ran out of the room shouting, "Jared! Jared I figured it out!"

Jared came out into the hall rather perturbed that I had awakened him, "what are you shouting about? I haven't slept in over 24 hours."

"Yes, I know. I'm sorry, but I think I have great news. You know that chemical the enemies made up that blocks your powers? I may be immune to it."

Jared was intrigued, "let me sleep on it, then we'll see what we can do."

Sterling came up behind me suddenly, "You're on the right track."

Everyone else had gathered around me to see what was going on, then Marty said rather distraught, "you're going to give yourself cyanide poisoning?"

"that's the idea, I'll leave it up to Jared. look, either I die trying or I will live out the rest of my days as a powerless coward."

With that, I returned to my room to do some more research. Just in case it didn't work, I wanted to know how to treat it.

I was glad that we had Daila, because the first step to treatment is a high dose of oxygen, I was sure she could provide me with that.

*http://www.manbir-online.com/diseases/cyanide.htm