I will never forget the day I met the sliders. They changed my life forever! No matter what I do, I'll never be the man I once was. Before I met Maggie Beckett and Rembrandt Brown, I was all alone in life. I had very few friends and no family. I was constantly getting into trouble. I gambled and cheated. I shoplifted from the mall, and hot-wired and stole cars. I was really a troublemaker. I had never been caught before. Not even for stealing cars! One night I got caught stealing CDs from the mall. They told me that I had to do some serious community service. I didn't like the idea, but I had no choice. They took me to a science lab since a recent accident left me in a wheelchair and I couldn't do serious manual labor. I was grumbling the whole time. Science had never really interested me. It just wasn't my thing. I say "wasn't" my thing because I gained a new respect for science when the Head Honcho, Dr. Oberon Gieger, said he could make me walk again. Naturally, I didn't believe him, but I would try anything at all to be able to walk again. The scientist had someone take me into surgery and they put me to sleep. When I woke up, my legs were strong again and I could walk as though I always had. It was a miracle! After that, I was like his "lab rat". He had to stay in a special room and couldn't leave. He probably had allergies or something. Anyway, there were lots of things he couldn't do. So I did them for him. That was how The Accident happened. He asked me to do a favor for him, so I did. He told me that if it worked, I would be a hero. A hero. Me? If I had known what was going to happen, I wouldn't have done it. I swear! I just liked the idea of being a hero. Of course, Maggie and Rembrandt didn't think I was a hero! In fact, when I first met them, Remmy was ready to shoot me! Literally! He had a gun pointed at my forehead! If it wasn't for the other Quinn, we both would've been toast! You can imagine why i thought that the Sliders were too serious and strict when I first met them. Of course, after Sliding with them for a while, I can understand why! They have lost everything they ever knew when they started sliding. Remmy gave up his singing career and Maggie's entire world was destroyed. (Literally.) One of their companions was shot to death, and another was taken captive by the Kromaggs. Now they have lost their friends, Quinn, (my double,) and his brother, Colin. They are the only ones left. It's all because of the other my double's invention. That's the one thing I'll never understand. Why do they care so much for someone who has caused so much grief? It's all his fault. Don't they realize that? I see Sliding as dangerous, and they see it as a duty, or a job, that they have to do, no matter what. It's like a mission or something. Well, I too have a mission. My "mission" is that no matter what I will not let Diana restore my double to his own body. If that happens, everything will be ruined! I told them that he is gone. That's not true. He most definetly is still there, just considerably weaker. The only thing he can do, is show me memories of his life. he doesn't want anything to happen to this body, since it is his only hope. Finally, I feel like I belong. They have now excepted me for who I am, and stopped comparing me to Him. Sure, I'm no genius, and I have absolutely no scientific knowledge, but I have some good qualities. I will try to be the best Slider I can and live as He would.
Signed,
(Quinn) "Mallory"
