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| Tweet Topic Started: Jun 16 2013, 09:52 PM (287 Views) | |
| Nick Ryder | Jun 16 2013, 09:52 PM Post #1 |
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Nick had set up a transport and he, Clint and Selene had beamed to the Presidential Compound, into his private study just outside of the lab he and Alice shared. He sniffed the air and could smell Alice's rose perfume, made from some of the roses they grew in the gardens. "Alice? I brought Selene and Cross... Selene is one of us." Nick said as he gestured to her. "Wanted to run a couple of checks on her DNA and see what matches up in the system." "Right, because I knew a woman that looked a lot like our Selene here, but she disappeared into the system somehow and I never saw her again for like the past 10 years or so." Clint said, "And she looked exactly like how Selene looks, shorter hair though, like a man's cut. Almost ceasar." "Well now that's interesting..." Nick mused and looked at Selene more closely. "I think we're going to find out a lot more about each other. Now, like I said, everything you see, you didn't see it. It doesn't exist. Right Alice?" |
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| Selene Cross | Jun 16 2013, 10:01 PM Post #2 |
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“Oh Nicholas I do love it when get all spy. It’s just down right sexy.” Alice teased as she quickly gave him a kiss on the cheek. She then took a step back and slowly opened the door to the lab. “Whenever you’re ready love.” Selene shot a quick glance over at Clint before they all followed Alice in. The lab was a lot bigger then she had originally thought but then again Nick was the President and whatever he wanted he probably got. “My what a nice lab you have.” Selene said, not really sure what else she should say. |
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Selene Cross Intel Agent/Assassin Former Imperium Agent From another reality | |
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| Nick Ryder | Jun 16 2013, 10:07 PM Post #3 |
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"Thanks." Nick said proudly. "I originally designed this house and this lab before I became President. I used to design and build some of my own engines, I kept trying to build a non warp drive engine that would still go as close to light speed as I could without needing dilithium. Then I met Alice and I gave her most of this lab for her experiments and projects." he gestured to the biological science section of their little lab. "If you'll have a seat and I need to look at your right foot." "Her right foot?" Clint chuckled. "Why?" "There was one lab that used to implant a chip in the right heel which they used for impact tracking, you can augment a body's strength as much as you want, but... if you make it too strong, you risk breaking the delicate bones in your foot, so one lab actually put in sensors to measure how much pressure was being exerted." Nick explained. "What I'm trying to do is find out if your enhancements from your reality were performed here and if so... what happened to others like you. Depending on the process used, you could either live as long as a Vulcan or... you keel over at a young age and leave an amazing corpse." |
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| Selene Cross | Jun 16 2013, 10:16 PM Post #4 |
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“What a wonderful thought.” Selene replied as she sat down and removed her shoe. “But as far as I know I was born this way. Whatever augmentations I have I was born with.” “You have absolutely beautiful toe nails. I bet you don’t even have to get a pedicure. I’m so jealous.” Alice said as she studied Selene’s toenails. Selene, for her part, didn’t know if she should be freaked out or flattered. |
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Selene Cross Intel Agent/Assassin Former Imperium Agent From another reality | |
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| Nick Ryder | Jun 16 2013, 10:19 PM Post #5 |
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"My wife has this thing for toe nails. Had ME get a pedicure before our wedding." Nick said as he picked up a scanner and scanned her foot. "Bingo we have a green." he put the scanner on the console and pulled up a holographic display. "Just as you thought and I was thinking, you are certainly a Khan type augment. Probably even have a little of his DNA rattling around your genome." he handed her shoe back. "So that narrows your creation down to... about three labs we've heard of. One being a lab actually run by one of Khan's refugees. Only difference was apparently in your reality, he didn't have to work underground." |
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| Selene Cross | Jun 16 2013, 10:27 PM Post #6 |
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“They weren’t as secretive about genetic modifications or as afraid of them. But if you got out of line you were taken out. You either worked for the Imperium or you died. No one ever said they didn’t give you a choice.” Selene said as she pulled her shoe back on. “That’s so horrible.” Alice said as she moved away and began to prepare hot tea for everyone only she wasn’t using a stove or heating element to do it. “They made Tiberius look like a puppy but that was there and this is here.” Selene said as she watched Alice. She knew about Alice’s ability it wasn’t exactly a secrete anymore but it was still something of interest to watch. Unlike Nick it didn’t appear she needed to actually create fire to heat objects they just seemed to get hot in her presence. “Tea anyone?” Alice inquired as she returned with a tray filled with a tea pot and several cups. |
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Selene Cross Intel Agent/Assassin Former Imperium Agent From another reality | |
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| Nick Ryder | Jun 16 2013, 10:32 PM Post #7 |
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"Thanks hon." Nick said as he took one of the cups. "Alice's heat ability is from some of what was used to do mine, except a tad more refined, she can create heat as well as flame. I secrete a flammable fluid from my pores and I can control the resulting flame as well as absorb it." he said as he created a small fireball in his hand. "If you mind me asking, can you tell me about your childhood? Most GE's fall into the completely unstable mentally camp, psychotic and murderous or manipulative and superior, and then you get the rare ones that are at least mentally stable and try to live as normally as possible." |
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| Selene Cross | Jun 16 2013, 10:40 PM Post #8 |
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“Assassin,” Selene reminded him. “I doubt you’d consider my childhood one of those ‘live as normal as possible’ lives. All I remember is training, constantly….I was trained to be an assassin from the time I could stand on my two feet and probably even before that but I just don’t remember it.” “That’s horrible…” Alice stated as she filled a cup and handed it to Selene and then one to Clint. “So I guess you could say murderous…I’m doubt I’m psychotic. Maybe a bit manipulative and superior.” She replied and took a sip of her tea. “Now I think it’s a bit of the live as normally as possible. But who gets to decide what’s normal?” “You know I do ask myself the same. My normal is a far cry for those around me including Nickolas. I think normal is whatever you make it to be.” Alice said with a shrug and took a sip of her own tea. |
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| Nick Ryder | Jun 16 2013, 10:52 PM Post #9 |
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"I'm in the nutcase camp I just hide it very very well." Nick said. "But like the wise woman with my ring said, normal is relative. At least one good thing is, if you're one of the Khan follower's creations, then you'll probably have a very long life ahead of you. When the old S31 files were unlocked, I did some digging, the few of us left from when I was enhanced, are expected to live at least into their second century, how far is up for debate, but... I'm in my sixties and I don't look or feel it. My children actually have some of the altered DNA in them too, all of them, including Ally." he said and sighed slightly as he glanced at a picture of her on the wall. "I tried using my blood to save her too, but... she was too far gone." Nick was silent for a few moments and then took a breath. "That's why the funeral was days after she died, I was trying everything, but... the damage to her internal organs from being crushed were too extreme. Ryder protocol did work in her case, it kept her from being studied by anyone besides me. I do want you to keep a vial of that handy, if you're ever captured or whatever, the last thing we need is anyone to start studying your dna and trying to replicate you. Considering you were actually enhanced as an infant or even before, probably before, you're a far purer augment than some of us who had it done as adults or children. I did ban research into genetic enhancement, but I did put in provisions for those I deem 'clear' to look into it. That's how I knew someone was looking into the protocols." he looked over at Alice and handed her the screen he was looking at. "This does look familiar, doesn't it. Resembles some of the work your father did." |
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| Selene Cross | Jun 16 2013, 11:02 PM Post #10 |
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"I'd prefer it if we never had to discuss him again." Alice said and then became rather thoughtful. "It also looks rather similar to a young girl we know." Alice added as she pulled up some scans Jack had done on the young version of Carly. "The telepathy she clearly got from her mother. The eye color was change obviously considering Mac and Jason but according to his note her intelligence is rather high and could have been augmented." "I could have told you that." Selene said with a shrug. "Jackson tweaked her DNA when he found out K'n'zy was pregnant." |
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| Nick Ryder | Jun 16 2013, 11:58 PM Post #11 |
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Nick studied the readings and shook his head. "You are remarkable though Selene, your DNA is almost perfectly matched to what scientists and others tried to recreate. I can see the telltales from others in there, but you need to be careful with your blood, it does have regenerative properties. That was one of the ideas from Khan's time, that basically everyone would be able to heal very very quickly. Killing someone like you would be nigh impossible through normal means. Even a phaser set on high would barely take you down." he took a sip of his tea and then looked at Alice. "She and I were attempts at that, but you're the final result of that. Just thinking about how you were born though, given that your DNA matches no one Starfleet had on file, is making me think more and more that you were born of a result of some... I hate to say cloning, but similar process. Makes me want to find your home reality and kick everyone's ass that treated children like that." "I have to admit Mr. President, I'm surprised at how you know all this. Your protocol was all I was able to find." Clint said "That was intentional. Last thing the Imperium needed to know was how to make super soldiers which, unfortunately, has lead to them trying anyway with horrifying results." Nick said with a wince. "Trill symbionts. I never saw that coming." |
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| Selene Cross | Jun 17 2013, 07:16 AM Post #12 |
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"I'm not surprised but I grew up with this kind of thing. I'm just sorry it had to spill out into your reality." Selene said as she sat her cup down and then shivered slightly. She didn't mean to think about it but something Jara had told her about dying in his reality. She knew it had been K'n'zy who had done it but what made her shiver was the how.
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| Nick Ryder | Jun 17 2013, 10:52 AM Post #13 |
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"Well it didn't have to spill out from anywhere. It was already here. The fact that you're here, does help give us more to go on when we detect another GE." Nick said as he picked up a hypo. "I'll need to keep a few samples of your blood, they'll be kept protected, same as the samples of my own and Alice's and my children. Besides, scientists have been trying to crack the way Khan blood can regenerate and repair cellular necrosis for a long time." he pressed it gently to her arm and took a vial of it. "That should be enough for the vault." he said and put the vial into a metal container which beamed away instantly. "The vault's hidden and it moves. Never quite in the same place twice. I had Marcus take as much of the data and samples of people like us when he was on Earth to rescue Alice and get the El Dorado." He gave Alice a smile. "I told you that you weren't the only mission. Although you were MY most important one. Anyway... you two are sworn to secrecy about all this and Cross, I'm counting on you to keep an eye on Selene. Not that she'll do anything, but I'm worried if it got out, someone would try to take you. The reason why there were only three Khan types around that I knew of... a half dozen of them were kept in stasis tubes and kept alive enough and fed nutrients to keep them producing blood. At least according to rumor and some evidence we found in bombed out compounds of some very nasty people. On Tilus 2 there was a crime lord that kept a female and a male Khan type augment in stasis for nearly 40 years, only taking them out of it so he could harvest blood to heal himself and his men. Section 31 covered it up pretty well, but clones of those 20th Century creations were being traded on the black market for a long time. Some were children, some were older. Some didn't know they were augments because they were kept drugged or in stasis or simply used for spare parts in experiments." he brought up a holographic screen. "Or... some were used to create hybrids. Like me. Grafting in GE body parts, tissue and organs and mixing in a few non terran genetically enhanced parts. That's how we got our heat conversion and pyrokinetic ability. There were others that had bio-electricity based ability. Some that were made to be freakishly strong. Even a few that they figured out how to make telekinetic. For about 75 years in the late 23rd and early 24th Century there was a lot being done to create 'the next phase in evolution'. First the reasoning was the Klingons. Then it became the Romulans. Then the Cardassians. Then the Borg. The Dominion... and so on. Julie... Whisper... and I assassinated a senator that was funding it and the head of a Federation program that was trying to create GE's. We thought we stopped it." Nick's screen flashed and tapped the icon. "Apparently we didn't." he said and blew up an image "Found a match. For you. Surprise surprise. You exist in this reality. Selene Kahn. She swapped the 'a' and 'h'. She was a mole in S31 and Starfleet Intel according to this." he chuckled. "About time that the computer unlocked some of those old files. And..." he saw a few headings. "Mr. Cross did work with her. Or rather the other way around. She thought he was getting too close to finding out about us. If she didn't disappear somehow, he would have been dead." "That's... comforting and I was never looking into GE's just black market slave trade... oh right..." Clint said and slapped his forehead. "This is getting less and less comforting. There is some... group or something still out there manipulating things. I thought it was part of S31, back in the day, but S31 is gone and this is still going on." Nick said as he looked at some reports. "Just six weeks ago, there was a slaver HI busted that had a dead enhanced girl in his cargo hold. We covered up the fact that she was enhanced, but... there is something still going on." he looked at Clint and Selene. "I want you two to be watchful. I have no idea who or what we're potentially facing, but some of their tell tales have been found recently. This isn't a good thing. As if the Imperium wasn't enough to worry about or the TRE." |
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| Selene Cross | Jun 17 2013, 01:24 PM Post #14 |
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It was a lot to take in and the humans wondered why augments hated them. According to this they didn't think of them as anything other then an object. In some cases a junk yard, sorta speak. Those in this reality were starting to make hers seem like puppies, the cute and fuzzy kind, it made her sick. |
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| Nick Ryder | Jun 17 2013, 02:42 PM Post #15 |
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"Revolting thought huh?" Nick said as he sat down and looked at his wife. "I promised I would never let another of our kind be used against their will or used like some piece of meat or worse. I never really tell this to too many, since well, they get uncomfortable when they even realize that I'm an augment, but... when I was enhanced, there were thirty of us, now it's just me and two others that will remain nameless." he sighed and looked at his tea cup. "Honestly, if I wasn't in charge here, I don't know what would become of the few of our kind that are around. I've had to 'out' myself a couple of times privately to keep legislation from going badly. Or outright lied and said that the abilities I and Alice exhibit are the result of technology, which isn't entirely far from the truth. And from what I've learned from our visitors from the future, the Imperium starts using EMP weapons, which would render most of our tech worthless, so either we go low tech and old school, or we go biological." he brought up a screen. "This is something we've been studying, not full blown enhancements, but like how the Cervan bioships have certain defenses, we've been looking into ways of creating our own sort of organic defenses. I've already made a synthetic form of my pyrophillic fluid. But if worse does come to worse, I'm going to need people like us to defend our people. Abilities a lack of working technology can't take away." he looked Selene in the eye. "I need you to be aware of others like us, the more we have that we can personally vet and ensure they'll be there when we need them, the better off we'll be and the less we're going to see that horrible future we've been told about." |
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