Myra's Story

M.E.C.H. Headquarters 1992, Montana

"how is the new project coming?" Silas asked.

"all systems are at optimal order sir." the masked scientist said, "though that older experiment has been talking to it for hours on end."

Silas just stared curiously at the little girl next to pink vat with a fetus floating in it.

"-he says we wont be able to leave for a long time, he said we are the future of M.E.C.H, but I'm not sure I want to be, but we have no choice do we? One day, I will get to finally see the light, ill be able to see somebody that wont want to kill us if I misbehave, and I wont have to constantly get these tests on me. Wouldn't you like that Ethy? We could travel around, and OUTSIDE the base too, don't you think that would be great? To see whats going on outside the base? Mr. Silas says its very bad, but we wont know until we see it, right?" the little girl said, her long brown hair in her eyes as she talked to the fetus, her vibrant green and yellow eyes seemed to glow as she spoke, and as she sat in her green suit, smiling at the fetus Silas came in, a cross look on his face.

"E2, go back to your cell, what did I tell you about being near projects?" he said sternly.

The little girl looked at him sadly, as if begging, "But mister Silas, sir, I was only talking to her-"

"her? The fetus is too young to determine if its a she or a he." he said

she only smiled, "But mister Silas, sir! I KNOW shes a she, she told me so." she said happily.

At this Silas frowned, "she told you so? E2, it isn't even coherent with what we understand, its a mindless thing that is still in progress, we told you that."

at that she pouted and looked at the fetus, "but she said so-"

"i don't want to hear anymore of this, go to your quarters or no free time for you." he said angrily.

The little girl immediately stood and left, leaving though the door and towards her cell, where she lay and pondered over the intelligence of the being in the jar.

"it HAS to be intelligent, I heard it, why would he say that?" she thought, feeling more and more separate from him than ever, and a new thought came, one that would lead to a chain of events that would forever change her little life.

"what if hes wrong..."

in the room, Silas looked at the little fetus, it was still and the only sign of life was the little forming heart that was clearly seen from the pea sized figure. He stared at it and began to wonder what Experiment 2 meant by saying the fetus 'told her so'. Thoughts racked his brain as he looked at the little heart and wondered about the possibilities. Perhaps their DNA connection was the answer, they were both composed of his DNA, strategically picked from the best soldiers to create the perfect being, and he had been picked. He peered closer at the little fetus, perhaps she had been imagining it all, perhaps she and the fetus have a link that connects their minds, perhaps its something that cannot be explained, he thought and thought, but finally set it out of his mind and went to see Experiment 2.

he walked right in and looked over to see Experiment 2 on her cot, looking thoughtful.

"Experiment 2!" he said authoritatively.

The little girl immediately sprang from her bed and saluted, standing at attention and her eyes were locked forward "sir yes SIR!"

he smirked and stood in salute "At ease soldier" once she had eased and looked at him grinning, he stopped smirking and looked at her seriously, "Experiment 1, explain to me how you came to the conclusion the fetus marked 'Experiment 3' is a female."

the little girl stopped smiling and looked with a curious look "Shes said so, she liked my voice, so I kept talking," she said, then a small idea came, and she knew what she had to do, "but all she said was 'imma girl, imma girl' so I just guessed she was a girl, she sure sounded like one, and she only stopped saying it when I started talking." she said smiling.

Silas nodded "alright, but remember, its just a mindless thing, it just imitates what it hears, its not a human being, not yet." he said so with a grim tone before turning and leaving.

After he left Experiment 2 lay back on her bed and stared at the ceiling, she knew she lied, but she didn't trust him, hes wrong, she knew it, and she knew what he did if he was wrong, he'd make himself right, and so a small plan developed within her genius little mind, a plan that would affect everyone she ever came in contact with.

"I'm gonna have to go, gonna finally see the light...and Ethy is gonna have to come with me." at that she turned to her side and closed her eyes, falling into a long and planning sleep.

Unknown to her Silas was in the other room, he KNEW the little girl was up to something, and he had to figure it out. But as he thought a soldier came in.

"sir" the soldier said, saluting. "our scientist's say Experiment 3 is scheduled for for birthing in 3 weeks, do you approve?"

Silas was surprised, "3 weeks?" he frowned, "Lead me to the scientist's, I need to know more." he quickly stood and the soldier led him back to where the scientist's were circling the tube.

"Marvelous..." one said.

"Should be impossible!" another said.

"A true miracle." another said.

confused, Silas moved past the scientist's and looked at the developing embryo, only it was different.

Silas was in shock "h-how is this possible?" he said, he had seen it earlier, it had been the size of a PEA! Now it was bigger, about the size of a peanut now.

One of the scientist's adjusted his glasses before inspecting the data on the charts.

"it appears, sir, that the embryo had a growth spurt, and were predicting that it will have one every 9 hours-".

Silas frowned, "9 hours? How do you say that?".

again the scientist adjusted his glasses "we were studying the energy waves it is emitting, apparently its done this before, it SHOULD be a mere blastomere, but it appears it will have energy build ups, then its cells releases the pent up energy, and the cells mass reproduce, much faster than the average human should by a hundred times. But this energy release is a microscopically slower than the last one, we expect that if this rate continues the fetus will be out of the artificial womb within 2 weeks." he said, "By then it ill be the equivalent to a young adult, do you approve?"

Silas looked thoughtful for a moment, "what will happen once we remove it? Will it continue with its growth?"

the scientist shook his head, "If we take it out, its income of nutrients and energy will lower dramatically, thus the growth will not be supported, it will age at a human level."

Silas looked thoughtful, then nodded, "go ahead with your plan, but if something happens, take it out IMMEDIATLY, we don't want to lose this one like Experiment 1, and almost Experiment 2, were out of the raw material we used for them, we cannot make another." he said

Meanwhile, within Experiment 2's room, she had her head against the pipes, she could hear all that was going on because of those pipes, and she heard everything going on in the incubation chamber, a grim look descended on her youthful face and she lay on the cot thoughtfully, there was a lot more in play now, she needed to plan this carefully, so she lay down, an went to sleep, hopefully there wont be anymore noise from Experiment 3's room, it woke her up multiple times before, and she needed to sleep to come up with a good plan, she hoped nothing bad came to Ethy, it'd be a pity.