The Pain of Death, the Joy of Rebirth
OOC- A Jay-Pea from Tony and Chris. Hitting double time at mach 3
since 1991!
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Keats gulped, it had been almost a year. He hated the machine. It had
been rebuilt, the same green liquid fermented inside and bubbled
slowly. Inside was a clone-blank, lifeless.
"How long will it take?"
"A day for the Implied D/RNA to introduce and a day for the
accelerated growth program to run"
Severn injected the D/RNA into a tube and downloaded the chip data to
the machine. The body twitched.
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Who: Severn and Chris Harris
Where: Secret projects area
When: 2 Days after Chris enterd
Severn sat back with a large Cigar burning sloely between his
teeth.He wasnt smoking it, just enjoying the moment. From an early
age he'd always enjoyed machines and how they worked and after his
period in the UEMC he'd become cold and lost certain morales and
ethics... tho... this botherd him somewhat...still, the fat lump of
Dollar pounds in his wallet went some of the ways to easing his
troubles. He blew a puff and watched the reflective screen lower and
he saw the being again. It had lost its albino clone blank properties
and now resembled a bald version of Lt. Harris. It opend its eyes.
He lifted his head up, and stared around the room, he looked at
Severn. He blinked slightly, feeling quite disorientated. Severn
leant over and pressed a button and began a program running. small
electrodes plugged into Chris brain, spine, chest and limbs started
to give out small electric currents. At first, chrs felt nothing, but
as his nerves were kick started into action he screamed ot in pain,
tho, to no avail, he wasnt heard and all that was saw was him
thrashing oin the tube.
"Calm down and wait.... damn.. ok...."
Severn increased the Liquid O2 pressure and Chris quit thrashing. A
lense came over his eyes and flashed memories and information through
thre banned technology of forced progressive learning. A few minutes
later it was removed and a slightly comatose Chris stood there in the
tube, pupils dilated.
"Ok.. Welcome to the void..."
As Chris fell he instinctivly coverd his head. As he hit the floor he
stayed still for a moment.
"Wha... Where.... wh...."
Then it hit him. His shoulder and uppewr chest burst into painful
fire. He clawed at his flesh in agony, drawing blood. Severn stood
there a took another puff. Chris was experiencing the pain of death
for a second time.
"AAAAAAARRGGGGGGHHHHHH" screamed Chris across the room.
He groped at his shoulder, then at his chest, near to where his newly
grown heart was, which was pumping blood through his veins,
something that hadn't happened for a very long time, he stood up, and
spat out a large quantity of a yellowy green liquid, the pain was
subsiding now, he leant against the wall for a couple of minutes, and
then he turned to Severn.
"Woah there pilgrim... dont try to much at once..."
He looked down.
"And cover yourslef up... oh yes... i thought youd like a little...
customisation?"
Chris looked down and smiled, before throwing up again. Severn gave
him a towel and sorted out some clothes for him, they were dirty
overalls that would be a little tight on Chris, but theyd do until he
got some of his own. He handed them to Chris who, through trial and
error, managed to dress himself for the first time in manay years.
Chris stood and thought for a second, he turned to Severn once more
and smiled
"Thank you" before he ducked down and threw up again.
Severn sighed and went over to the wall and began the cleaning
process and incineration of evidence. He heard a voice in his
nanos. "So.. i take it that it went off without a hitch?"
"Looks like it" He sub-vocalised.
"Good good... you have served us well again Mr. Severn"
"Please, just Severn, or Joe"
"Very well, Joe, we shall call on you again if need be"
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