SHOOTS

In The Culminations, sequel to the Legacy, SHOOTS has become a Manila-based international corporation with Boyer Heath as its CEO, Dylan as his operations manager and Taylor supervising all PR and marketing. Its Prodigiums, resident centers in major capitals for prodigies with IQ’s above 160, form a genius resource network available for contracted problem-solving to chemical, engineering, medical and biochemical research organizations.A totally sensate condom, a supra wound healer, a pain medication with the power of an opioid without the risk of addiction, a process that eliminates phantom pain for amputees, and TPX-22, synthesized from inland taipan venom, the deadliest in the world, which brings a temporary period of lucidity to those with dementia, are some of the products they’ve developed.Boyer refuses to sell his jungle eco-resort run by an indigenous Aeta tribe to global infrastructure giant Trident Enterprises who want to mine it for lithium. Trident is owned by three men each of whom maintain unique child sexual depravities. Caught in the act one night, they are deported on their private jet which mysteriously disintegrates over the South China Sea. Tony who wanted to go as Tanya to the senior prom at Bancroft High School in Staunton finally has sex reassignment surgery and falls in love with Virgil who doesn’t know about her transition. The trafficking of young children by gangs under the control of politicians and police is stopped by prodigy Sasha, her mother Belinda, Lina, Taylor, and Dylan when they organize TRAFFIC STOP and use a paralytic injected via a blowgun dart to tattoo and brand traffickers and their customers.Victories are celebrated at HELLS GATE, a private club frequented by Hells Angels, where management demands all male patrons must change into supplied pink tutus to neutralize any 80 proof machismo confrontations.