The hours allocated to the blood mutants for them to rest passed, alerting the Granians in charge of watching them to wake them up. As soon as the orders were given, their holding cells were lowered to ground level, followed by the aliens using blood mutant blockers to keep them from transforming.
Feeling energized and refreshed, Cherry felt ready to take on yet another challenge for the day. Jim felt like doing more extensive research on the blood mutants, instead of wasting time fighting. Having been in the army, he was taught that knowing your opponent, their strengths, and weaknesses, and your own strengths, and weaknesses ensured a victory, so he needed to know more about the Ethisians.