"If we let them proceed that far with their research, there won't be any point in helping the other side," Pearl argues. "It'll be a handful of us against countless augmented Cetagandan soldiers! To say nothing of the risks... the gene therapy might not even ever work properly on us. It was never about restoring us to our proper forms, remember? Recall what we overheard them saying, that night they caught us eavesdropping and inducted us into this whole crazy experiment in the first place. It's always been about advancing their own agenda, we just happened to make convenient guinea pigs who were easy to coerce into participating because it might have some benefit to us!"