OK here's Chapter 2 Memories. Emily helped me with this one so it should be better.
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"So Tony, you've seen the new girl right?"
Tony looked up to see Lucas, Tim, and Lonni sitting down next to him. Lonni had asked the question… although Tim and Lucas both looked interested as well.
"Yeah, I met her, talked to her too. She's really different, not like you'd expect. She looks like a sweet kid, not the girl we've been hearing about. And she's got these two cats, but they're not you're normal cats. I mean, these are big, real big. I think Hudson's gonna be interested… At least, until they figure out their places."
O'Neil looked at him with slight annoyance showing in his expression. "Tony, she's a lieutenant, Hudson's the captain. they know their places." Tony just shook his head and said. " I don't think so. She shocked the Captain when she showed up and he never really got over it… but when he does, I'm going to be glad he's not mad at me. I think she's back-mailing people to get what she wants. I mean, there's no way the UEO would change that many rules for one person any other way than that... right?" Tony looked at the others at the table until Lonni spoke.
"Well, he did let Lucas keep his hair long, maybe that might have had something to do with it. But you're right; cats don't belong in the UEO." Tony looked at Lucas, who was staring off into to space his hand around a fork.
" Hey Lucas, what do you think?" When he didn't get an answer Tony tried again "Hey Luke, what's up." When he still didn't get an answer Tony reached out and touched him .....
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For a minute he was lost, he had been in a sit eating with his friends in the mess hall on the SeaQuest. Now he was in a large, noisy room full of people.
She was sitting next to him; he could feel her there.
There were 10 people including them and he knew them all, or at lest he thought so. One of them, Tag, said something about someone and he found himself laughing. When the laughing died down someone asked, " So Lucas, how's your arm?" The question was asked by the girl on his left. Only then did he notice his arm was in a cast. As soon as he began to wonder what had happened he knew the answer, he'd broken it in a game of 'magne' or in English, mud games. "It's taking a while to heal, but it's okay." The girl, Merino, looked like she was going to say something, but she was interrupted by someone calling Lucas's name. The talk at the table stopped and they all looked at him.
He turned to look at 'her' as she said. "Lucas, you need to go back." She gave him a kiss on the cheek, he blinked, and…
He was back on the SeaQuest.
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Lucas jumped out of his skin when Tony touched him.
"Yo, Luke, you okay man?"
"Um, Yeah I'm fine. Just haven't gotten much sleep, that's all."
Lonni looked at Lucas with a little worry. She noticed that he was changing, it was nothing big, but it was there. His hair was getting longer, his body was becoming more muscular, and there was something else… but she wasn't sure what.
O'Neil looked at his watch and sighed. "Well, I gotta go to the bridge. Bye." All three waved bye, as he left.
Jada dropped her bag on the bed with a sigh of her own. This was going to be harder than she had thought. She had wanted to talk to Tony, hell! She wanted to go find Lonni and have a 'girl talk' over a large bowl of ice cream. Or get into a verbal spar with Lucas. But she would settle for someone saying, 'Hi Jada, it's been a long time, how you been?'
The two cats were watching her intently from the spot on the bed. She was about to say something when she was felt a strange tugging. Then she was sitting at a table with her friends laughing and joking. It ended as soon as it started. 'What the hell?' she thought, startled. Her 'Gift', or curse, depending on how you looked at it, was stronger then most of her people. People… The ZenTecks, that's what they called themselves anyway, and they all had Gifts, telepathy, shapeshifting, walking though walls, mage dancing, you name it and a ZenTeck could probably do it. They named themselves after that which created them. 'Teck' for the man that had wanted to make them perfect soldiers and 'Zenarons', the alien race that had taught them to use what they had been given and had shown them life. They had, at one time, been human. Kids on the street mostly, nowhere to go and no one to miss them. They were all young, with no ZenTeck over the age of twelve. There had been 5 groups, 10 in each group. Only a few had died and they had quickly been replaced. Jada was a third generation ZenTeck. The first generation had been injected with deadly chemicals that were supposed to enhance their strength, stamina, pain tolerance; brain capacity… the list goes on and on. In short, they were human born GELF's. But when they had hit their teens, they'd begun to change. It was little things at first, seeing things before they happened, reading people's minds, picking up things without tounching them.
Then a boy named Brain got shot in the stomach by accident, but he had been healed almost instantly when a different ZenTeck tried to stop the boold. After that they began doing things that no human should be able to do. When some of them found out that Dr. Teck was going to sell them to the highest bidder, they killed Dr. Teck.And once they found that they could no longer fit in with mankind, they left earth. Destroying everything that had helped to make them, first. In space they meat the Zenarons and they had thought them to use their new abilities.
Jada's thoughts were interrupted by a small beeping sound. She looked around not knowing where it had come from and then remembered her Cellular Vid, (Cell phone) in her bag, which was quietly turned over, all of its contents spilled on the bed, forcing Jay and Aya move. Finding her cell, she turned it on, showing a picture of a male version of herself.
"Hi Cray, what's up?"
"What's up that is the question isn't it dear sister." Cray's tone was coldly controlled.
At Jada's confused look, he went on in the same deadly voice he used when he was trying hard not to yell. "Do you remember that… little talk we had about you doing this mission? You know, the one that I said you might have to change a little? Maybe cut your hair, stop talking back, wear a uniform? Any of this ringing any bells, maybe?"
At Jada's reluctant nod, he smiled slightly. "Good, now do you remember that part that I said it was important that you make as few waves as possible when you join the UEO?"
Again Jada nodded.
Cray had changed his voice to a mockingly praising one. "Very good Jada! That just leaves me with a few questions to ask, but first let me say I understand why you brought Jacose and Aya with you. If the crew starts remembering, they can help take care of things. But," Jada flinched at the way he said 'but' knowing that she was in trouble, "I can't for the life of me figure out the use in not wearing the normal uniform. Other then you just don't feel like it." His voice rose on the word 'feel'. "But to your credit I understand that you have a fear of being just like everyone else and you don't want to prove Sifon right. However if you can't do this, tell me now so I can get someone else in there as soon as possible, okay?"
Jada reached out and touched the dimmer on the light switch, taking off her glasses. "It's harder than I thought it would be. But I'll survive and you can't send someone else, I need this. Pleeeeeeeease Cray, please." He didn't look very convinced, but nodded.
"I hear one more report about you and I'll pull you back here so fast there'll be skid marks. Got it?" When she nodded he smiled "Good, see ya later Su." She smiled back and said goodbye. After Cray hung up, she watched the blank screen. Then she turned pick up glasses and went out the door. She had something to do.
Talk to Hudson.
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"So Tony, you've seen the new girl right?"
Tony looked up to see Lucas, Tim, and Lonni sitting down next to him. Lonni had asked the question… although Tim and Lucas both looked interested as well.
"Yeah, I met her, talked to her too. She's really different, not like you'd expect. She looks like a sweet kid, not the girl we've been hearing about. And she's got these two cats, but they're not you're normal cats. I mean, these are big, real big. I think Hudson's gonna be interested… At least, until they figure out their places."
O'Neil looked at him with slight annoyance showing in his expression. "Tony, she's a lieutenant, Hudson's the captain. they know their places." Tony just shook his head and said. " I don't think so. She shocked the Captain when she showed up and he never really got over it… but when he does, I'm going to be glad he's not mad at me. I think she's back-mailing people to get what she wants. I mean, there's no way the UEO would change that many rules for one person any other way than that... right?" Tony looked at the others at the table until Lonni spoke.
"Well, he did let Lucas keep his hair long, maybe that might have had something to do with it. But you're right; cats don't belong in the UEO." Tony looked at Lucas, who was staring off into to space his hand around a fork.
" Hey Lucas, what do you think?" When he didn't get an answer Tony tried again "Hey Luke, what's up." When he still didn't get an answer Tony reached out and touched him .....
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For a minute he was lost, he had been in a sit eating with his friends in the mess hall on the SeaQuest. Now he was in a large, noisy room full of people.
She was sitting next to him; he could feel her there.
There were 10 people including them and he knew them all, or at lest he thought so. One of them, Tag, said something about someone and he found himself laughing. When the laughing died down someone asked, " So Lucas, how's your arm?" The question was asked by the girl on his left. Only then did he notice his arm was in a cast. As soon as he began to wonder what had happened he knew the answer, he'd broken it in a game of 'magne' or in English, mud games. "It's taking a while to heal, but it's okay." The girl, Merino, looked like she was going to say something, but she was interrupted by someone calling Lucas's name. The talk at the table stopped and they all looked at him.
He turned to look at 'her' as she said. "Lucas, you need to go back." She gave him a kiss on the cheek, he blinked, and…
He was back on the SeaQuest.
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Lucas jumped out of his skin when Tony touched him.
"Yo, Luke, you okay man?"
"Um, Yeah I'm fine. Just haven't gotten much sleep, that's all."
Lonni looked at Lucas with a little worry. She noticed that he was changing, it was nothing big, but it was there. His hair was getting longer, his body was becoming more muscular, and there was something else… but she wasn't sure what.
O'Neil looked at his watch and sighed. "Well, I gotta go to the bridge. Bye." All three waved bye, as he left.
Jada dropped her bag on the bed with a sigh of her own. This was going to be harder than she had thought. She had wanted to talk to Tony, hell! She wanted to go find Lonni and have a 'girl talk' over a large bowl of ice cream. Or get into a verbal spar with Lucas. But she would settle for someone saying, 'Hi Jada, it's been a long time, how you been?'
The two cats were watching her intently from the spot on the bed. She was about to say something when she was felt a strange tugging. Then she was sitting at a table with her friends laughing and joking. It ended as soon as it started. 'What the hell?' she thought, startled. Her 'Gift', or curse, depending on how you looked at it, was stronger then most of her people. People… The ZenTecks, that's what they called themselves anyway, and they all had Gifts, telepathy, shapeshifting, walking though walls, mage dancing, you name it and a ZenTeck could probably do it. They named themselves after that which created them. 'Teck' for the man that had wanted to make them perfect soldiers and 'Zenarons', the alien race that had taught them to use what they had been given and had shown them life. They had, at one time, been human. Kids on the street mostly, nowhere to go and no one to miss them. They were all young, with no ZenTeck over the age of twelve. There had been 5 groups, 10 in each group. Only a few had died and they had quickly been replaced. Jada was a third generation ZenTeck. The first generation had been injected with deadly chemicals that were supposed to enhance their strength, stamina, pain tolerance; brain capacity… the list goes on and on. In short, they were human born GELF's. But when they had hit their teens, they'd begun to change. It was little things at first, seeing things before they happened, reading people's minds, picking up things without tounching them.
Then a boy named Brain got shot in the stomach by accident, but he had been healed almost instantly when a different ZenTeck tried to stop the boold. After that they began doing things that no human should be able to do. When some of them found out that Dr. Teck was going to sell them to the highest bidder, they killed Dr. Teck.And once they found that they could no longer fit in with mankind, they left earth. Destroying everything that had helped to make them, first. In space they meat the Zenarons and they had thought them to use their new abilities.
Jada's thoughts were interrupted by a small beeping sound. She looked around not knowing where it had come from and then remembered her Cellular Vid, (Cell phone) in her bag, which was quietly turned over, all of its contents spilled on the bed, forcing Jay and Aya move. Finding her cell, she turned it on, showing a picture of a male version of herself.
"Hi Cray, what's up?"
"What's up that is the question isn't it dear sister." Cray's tone was coldly controlled.
At Jada's confused look, he went on in the same deadly voice he used when he was trying hard not to yell. "Do you remember that… little talk we had about you doing this mission? You know, the one that I said you might have to change a little? Maybe cut your hair, stop talking back, wear a uniform? Any of this ringing any bells, maybe?"
At Jada's reluctant nod, he smiled slightly. "Good, now do you remember that part that I said it was important that you make as few waves as possible when you join the UEO?"
Again Jada nodded.
Cray had changed his voice to a mockingly praising one. "Very good Jada! That just leaves me with a few questions to ask, but first let me say I understand why you brought Jacose and Aya with you. If the crew starts remembering, they can help take care of things. But," Jada flinched at the way he said 'but' knowing that she was in trouble, "I can't for the life of me figure out the use in not wearing the normal uniform. Other then you just don't feel like it." His voice rose on the word 'feel'. "But to your credit I understand that you have a fear of being just like everyone else and you don't want to prove Sifon right. However if you can't do this, tell me now so I can get someone else in there as soon as possible, okay?"
Jada reached out and touched the dimmer on the light switch, taking off her glasses. "It's harder than I thought it would be. But I'll survive and you can't send someone else, I need this. Pleeeeeeeease Cray, please." He didn't look very convinced, but nodded.
"I hear one more report about you and I'll pull you back here so fast there'll be skid marks. Got it?" When she nodded he smiled "Good, see ya later Su." She smiled back and said goodbye. After Cray hung up, she watched the blank screen. Then she turned pick up glasses and went out the door. She had something to do.
Talk to Hudson.