Young Emeraldas eyes narrowed dangerously as she looked at him.

By the looks of him, he was a small older man, white hair covered his head and short beard. Eyes that seemed cold and mean looked at them, he was dressed in a white lab jacket and black pants and shoes.

Maetel sat on her bed and breathed still a little strained as she tried to hide it as Emeraldas stood tall by the side of the glass wall. For a few seconds the man looked over them and both of the girls picked up on the short moment were his eyes shined pleased.

"I am glad to see both of you finally come to again, my ladys. We have all been terrible worried about you, after what happened and all." He said and bowed his head down. For a second Emeraldas and Maetel's eyes met before looking back to the man.

"Just what happened? And why are we locked up like this? Where is this place?" Emeraldas growled to the man, her blue eyes shined angry.

"You don't remember? Well I suppose it's to be expected... The drug gas that were used were really strong..." He said and looked worried.

"Well I shall try and explain. Three days ago during your meal, some rebels to the idea of Mechanizing, threw a gas bomb into your room through the window. The gas was of a type I have never seen before or the terrible effect it has on humans... It affeted your minds and made you well.. aggressive... Since your mother was already mechanized, she was luckily not affected, but you two in your drugged state.. tried to kill her..." He said looking into the floor for most of the time and just looking up at them from time to time. He waited for a few seconds before he looked up to see their reaction. Maetel looked wide eyed at him and had turned pale, Emeraldas looked even more aggressive now but he noticed that her eyes were wider.

"Impossible..." She growled low.

"Luckily the guards on duty outside of the room were mechanized, and manged to knock you out, before anything happened to our beloved queen." He said and looked strait at Maetel. Her face were unreadable, yet her hands were shaking.

"Just who the Hell are you?" Emeraldas growled angry and made him look back at her.

"Ah, yes sorry. Please excuse my bad manners. I am Doctor Kichigai, a psychiatrist that you mother hired to look after you until we are sure the drug in all clear out of your system. As well as to make sure that you are all well and unharmed mentally after the incident.." He said with a faint smile as if he was trying to reassure them. One again Emeraldas eyes narrowed dangerously as she lowly growled.

"I have no memory of anything like this..."

"No? I suspect it will be coming back to you soon enough I am afraid..." He said in a voice that could both be interpreted as sad but also lowly pleased. Yet as he said that, it was like a part of the wail over their minds loosened and both of the young girls remembered being at the table with their mother then the room filled up with gas..

"You wanted to know the reason why you are in this safe cells?" He continued bringing them back from their memory. "It's for your own good, so you wont get hurt or attacked again. We are now in a hidden satellite bace not to far from La Maetel. You are as you know targets for both Rebels and mech men alike. In your weakened physical as well as mental state, I wanted to keep you as safe and protected as possible." He smiled friendly yet both girls felt a cold chill go down their back as he smiled.

"And mother?" Maetel asked worried.

"Your mother is quite unharmed and safe, she refused to leave the planet and she is the only one that knows you are here... Now rest up a little more, the effect of the sleeping drug we gave you, to keep you safe during the transport, should not have worn out completely yet. I'll see to that you get some food when you wake up again. If you will excuse me then.." The doctor said with a bow and left.

As the door closed Emeraldas looked to her sister. Maetel had not moved and her hands were still shaking.

"Take it easy Maetel.. Every thing is gonna be okey.." Emeraldas said, yet she did not know if she believed her own words..

"You think.. it's true?" Maetel asked worried looking up at her sister. Emeraldas shook her head. She hated the fact that they were separated, as she knew her sister needed her to be close to her. Her sister's worry for their mother was showing so clearly in her eyes, and it hurt Emeraldas to see it and not being able to help.

"I don't know.. I sort of remember just a hint of it.. but some how I don't trust that doctor. Something is of." She said but then had to lean on the glass wall again, as yet another wave of dizziness fell over her. She had been standing strait while the doctor had been in there, refusing to show him any sort of weakness.

"You should lie down, the drug wont wear of like that..." Maetel said and wished she could help her sister over to the bed, as Emeraldas nodded and stumbled back to the bed and lied down. Maetel layed down and looking into the roof, she turned her ehad and looked at Emeraldas looking at her laying on her side.

"We will get out of here.. and find out what really happened." Emeraldas said cursing low. Maetel nodded and soon after the two girls were fast a sleep again, the drug getting the better of them once again.

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"Doctor, you should see this." One of the men said as doctor Kichigai entered the control room again. As the small man made his way over to where the scientist sat, the scientist turned the tape of the room of the two girls back to a point were Kichigai were talking to them.

"Our censors picked up a change in the brain of the two specimens when you asked them to remember. They seemed to tap into the implanted memory's and they worked much better than planed, sir." He said as he looked to his superior.

"We'll see, for now they worked.. The question is if there will be the same error as in the past clones when the memory comes back fully.." The doctor said. He wondered if the experiment would fail as well as the prior attempts of the queen's clones... Yet these two were nearly unchanged, only a little tempering with the memory and some of the genes, to see if he could make the genes more stable as the past clean clones died way to fast. They were to fragile. Also he had done no changing to the soul ring at all, in these two wicth made them special, and let them have the same soul as their true self's. In so many ways these two young girls were strong clean, almost direct copy's of their true self's.

Just like her... He grinned as he looked to a smaller screen of a different room were he held an older clone. this one also one of his secret experimets. the clone was of the queen herself, only this was a clone of a clone. A clone of one that were only a baby now, yet he had made a grown clone, he, unlike his brother, had no time to raise kids, he wanted results and he wanted them quick.

And this one... How much fun I have had with her already. He laughed sinister to himself, as he saw the queen clone curl up in a foster position on her bed and held her fingers to the metal ring around her neck, as silent tears fell down from her face.

Author's note:

I know these chapters are really short but just bare with me..

So this I hope did not become too confusing... Kichigai is an enemy you can read more about in my fic 'Hard Lock and Zero trouble', also I have an homage here to Gemini's fic 'Andromeda's dream' so read that one as well....

Any way tell me what you think.

Lightingtooth