* * *In Sanctuary* * *
Lexa Pierce was typing on the computer, suddenly, the door to the garage opened. She looked up, but instead of seeing Brennan, Shalimar, or Jesse, she saw a woman about twenty seven or twenty six. She wore tight leather pants and spaghetti strap red strap.
"Who the hell are you?" Lexa asked.
"Just about to ask you the same question," the woman said. "Oh---Lexa Pierce, got it now. Seen Shalimar, Brennan, or Jesse? I'm a friend, used to be anyway."
"Wait, you can't just walk in here and ask for them."
"Can't I? . . . I've been here before."
Shalimar walked down the stairs. "Who the hell are you?"
"Some friend," Lexa mentioned.
The woman passed her a glance. "Shalimar, you probably don't remember me. God, the last time you saw me I was about thirteen years younger, and a foot shorter . . ."
Shalimar raised her eyebrows. "I---"
"How about this . . . strange obsession with JLA, or the name Carli Connors."
"You're not Carli, she died about six months ago at the age of fourteen," Shalimar argued.
"There's a really good explanation for that one . . ."
"There better be or you're gonna---"
"Get a nice kick in the ass, I hear you," she replied. "Could you get Jesse and Brennan down here too, 'cuz I don't feel like explaining the whole story another time."
Carli jumped up and sat down on the counter. "After Carli died, Mason abducted Carli's corpse and used her DNA to clone her, so he could reconstruct her memory, powers, everything so he could use her as an agent or an informant at the location of Mutant X, whatever. Well, that's where I come in. He reconstructed my DNA so that I'd age so fast that six months later I'm 27. When he died, I was in the last stage at the GSA academy. The GSA departed, and I was left alone so I stayed a couple of weeks on the streets.
"He didn't want me to have Carli's memory 'cause it could've triggered some humanity. But I got in touch with my powers and remembered everything about Carli's life. So I took the name of Carli Connors, deleted all files about her being almost fifteen now and that she was my age and then I came here when I remembered how nice you guys were to me."
"But we cloaked your vision when we brought you here."
"I thought of that, but then I saw that you have left a paper trail. Since Eckhart died, no one's been lying to the press about what has been going on so I just tracked it here."
"Oh, I guess we should start covering us then," Jesse responded. "Uh---Emma's dead, you know that, don't you?"
"Of course, the day that she died, the whole GSA was in an uproar because Mason really wanted her to the day. And he was gonna clone her too, but right when they got her corpse, he was "mysteriously" killed. Mmm, gosh, I wonder who would have the courage to do that," Carli said sarcastically.
"What happened to her corpse after he died?" Shalimar asked.
"I buried it, duh, when I remembered what Carli's life was like. I went back and buried her, you can visit her grave. It's unmarked just incase someone took over the GSA. But I remember where it is."
"Thanks, uh, what should we call you?" Jesse asked.
She stood up. "Well, Carli, is fine. I mean, I am her, really. Just an older version, and can kick ass with some hand to hand combat."
"Taught you that in the GSA, did they?" Lexa asked, skeptically.
"Listen, sweetheart, I know you're thinking that I'm working for the GSA. There is no GSA!"
"That's the thing, if there was, you'd probably be back there fighting with them," Lexa argued.
"And if Adam was here, you'd probably wouldn't be." Carli argued back. "But he's not and it's gone. Things happen, Ms. Pierce."
Lexa closed her mouth and shook her head. "You've been fighting for the enemy."
"Oh well excuse me, Ms. Thing. Until a few days ago, I didn't know who was good and who was bad. Why don't you sue me, that would be fun," Carli snapped.
Shalimar made a slight smile and the remark. "Calm down, we know. Lexa's new, sorta."
"Yeah, I know all about her, and just from the computer files."
"I'm sure the GSA taught you that," Lexa commented.
"You'd be right, Lexa," Carli replied.
"Can you tell us everything about the clones?" Jesse asked. "I'd like to know what Eckhart was doing before he died."
"He called it the M.A.P. . . Mutant Annex Program."
"Annex?" Jesse asked.
"It means: to add on. He changed it from an adjective to a noun, that's what he called us Human Add Ons. Annex. There were supposed to be four, including Emma. Each with mental powers, telepathy, telekinesis, telempathy, and psychokinesis. So that the four of us, used on one team could make them do anything we wanted. The Mason Eckhart's lame copy of Mutant X, if you think about it.
"He had already cloned two before me. They were the roughdrafts, while I was the "perfected" one because he used Adam's disk that he got from you to perfect my DNA before I ended up like the others."
"What happened to the others?" Shalimar asked.
"Because his work was so sloppy on our DNA, their mutated DNA was so unstable that they died. There was only a six month life span if you look into it."
"But I bet Mason Eckhart made doubles," Brennan stated.
"And you'd be right, Brennan. Because he did, but since their powers are telekinesis and psychokinesis, they can't remember anything from their hosts' former lives."
"Host?"
"Well, we only live because we're based on another's life before us. Making us almost parasite-like."
"Eckhart just thought about everything."
"Except the perfected DNA, he didn't perfect their DNA so they only live for six months. But they were made three months ago."
"What were you guys made for, anyway?" Shalimar asked.
"To be perfect assassins, partially. Or mercenaries."
"Great, so there are some very powerful mutants running on the loose."
"Uh--Annexes. Not mutants, we're very different from mutants."
"Uh---mutated DNA, that makes you mutants."
"Our DNA isn't mutated, for it to be mutated it would have to change from what it originally used to be. We were born with our DNA like that, making us Annexes."
"OK, Annex."
"So what does these Annexes want?"
"Anything, death, blood, money. Our DNA was also changed to make us more dependent on material things so if we ran away, Eckhart could find us from looking up big purchases. He also changed it so that we weren't so independent too, we can follow orders."
"You don't look so marine-like to me," Shalimar asked.
"I can remember my host's life, making me like a human."
"So they made you almost machine."
"Yeah, except not so indestructible or invulnerable."
"And you were gonna tell us this, when?" Lexa asked.
"When you stopped questioning me, good thing Jesse asked or I'd never have time to, huh?" Carli asked. "Listen, they won't act out unless some ex-GS agent tries to control them. That won't give us a lot of time because everyone wants control of the GSA since Eckhart died."
"Why?" Lexa asked.
"Power struggle . . . everyone hated Eckhart, even more than you. Since he's gone, everyone wants to have his spot and reconstruct the GSA."
"We can't let that happen," Lexa commanded.
"Obviously . . ." Carli remarked.
* * *Shalimar's Bedroom* * *
Carli walked around, touching Shalimar's bed posts . . . remembering. Shalimar came inside and crossed her arms. "What are you doing in here?"
Carli didn't answer the question right away. Her fingers glided across Shalimar's dresser. "I remember . . . she came in here. The last day she was alive . . . I don't only know what she did and what she was thinking, I also know how she felt while doing it."
"How? You're not telempathic."
"Emma could read someone's thoughts if a lot of emotion was tied into them. Me too, I can know people's emotions if their thoughts are closely knitted with them."
"Do you remember how she died?" Shalimar asked.
"Like a hero . . . she was so brave, for a young girl. She wasn't afraid of anything."
"Yeah, she wasn't."
"You were there when she died, I saw through her eyes. You were so sad, I don't really understand much about emotions. But I know the difference between happiness and sorrow."
"I'm sorry about what Eckhart did to you . . . I mean here."
Carli finally turned around. "Me too. That's why we have to stop the GSA from rebuilding assets or it'll happen to some other."
Lexa Pierce was typing on the computer, suddenly, the door to the garage opened. She looked up, but instead of seeing Brennan, Shalimar, or Jesse, she saw a woman about twenty seven or twenty six. She wore tight leather pants and spaghetti strap red strap.
"Who the hell are you?" Lexa asked.
"Just about to ask you the same question," the woman said. "Oh---Lexa Pierce, got it now. Seen Shalimar, Brennan, or Jesse? I'm a friend, used to be anyway."
"Wait, you can't just walk in here and ask for them."
"Can't I? . . . I've been here before."
Shalimar walked down the stairs. "Who the hell are you?"
"Some friend," Lexa mentioned.
The woman passed her a glance. "Shalimar, you probably don't remember me. God, the last time you saw me I was about thirteen years younger, and a foot shorter . . ."
Shalimar raised her eyebrows. "I---"
"How about this . . . strange obsession with JLA, or the name Carli Connors."
"You're not Carli, she died about six months ago at the age of fourteen," Shalimar argued.
"There's a really good explanation for that one . . ."
"There better be or you're gonna---"
"Get a nice kick in the ass, I hear you," she replied. "Could you get Jesse and Brennan down here too, 'cuz I don't feel like explaining the whole story another time."
Carli jumped up and sat down on the counter. "After Carli died, Mason abducted Carli's corpse and used her DNA to clone her, so he could reconstruct her memory, powers, everything so he could use her as an agent or an informant at the location of Mutant X, whatever. Well, that's where I come in. He reconstructed my DNA so that I'd age so fast that six months later I'm 27. When he died, I was in the last stage at the GSA academy. The GSA departed, and I was left alone so I stayed a couple of weeks on the streets.
"He didn't want me to have Carli's memory 'cause it could've triggered some humanity. But I got in touch with my powers and remembered everything about Carli's life. So I took the name of Carli Connors, deleted all files about her being almost fifteen now and that she was my age and then I came here when I remembered how nice you guys were to me."
"But we cloaked your vision when we brought you here."
"I thought of that, but then I saw that you have left a paper trail. Since Eckhart died, no one's been lying to the press about what has been going on so I just tracked it here."
"Oh, I guess we should start covering us then," Jesse responded. "Uh---Emma's dead, you know that, don't you?"
"Of course, the day that she died, the whole GSA was in an uproar because Mason really wanted her to the day. And he was gonna clone her too, but right when they got her corpse, he was "mysteriously" killed. Mmm, gosh, I wonder who would have the courage to do that," Carli said sarcastically.
"What happened to her corpse after he died?" Shalimar asked.
"I buried it, duh, when I remembered what Carli's life was like. I went back and buried her, you can visit her grave. It's unmarked just incase someone took over the GSA. But I remember where it is."
"Thanks, uh, what should we call you?" Jesse asked.
She stood up. "Well, Carli, is fine. I mean, I am her, really. Just an older version, and can kick ass with some hand to hand combat."
"Taught you that in the GSA, did they?" Lexa asked, skeptically.
"Listen, sweetheart, I know you're thinking that I'm working for the GSA. There is no GSA!"
"That's the thing, if there was, you'd probably be back there fighting with them," Lexa argued.
"And if Adam was here, you'd probably wouldn't be." Carli argued back. "But he's not and it's gone. Things happen, Ms. Pierce."
Lexa closed her mouth and shook her head. "You've been fighting for the enemy."
"Oh well excuse me, Ms. Thing. Until a few days ago, I didn't know who was good and who was bad. Why don't you sue me, that would be fun," Carli snapped.
Shalimar made a slight smile and the remark. "Calm down, we know. Lexa's new, sorta."
"Yeah, I know all about her, and just from the computer files."
"I'm sure the GSA taught you that," Lexa commented.
"You'd be right, Lexa," Carli replied.
"Can you tell us everything about the clones?" Jesse asked. "I'd like to know what Eckhart was doing before he died."
"He called it the M.A.P. . . Mutant Annex Program."
"Annex?" Jesse asked.
"It means: to add on. He changed it from an adjective to a noun, that's what he called us Human Add Ons. Annex. There were supposed to be four, including Emma. Each with mental powers, telepathy, telekinesis, telempathy, and psychokinesis. So that the four of us, used on one team could make them do anything we wanted. The Mason Eckhart's lame copy of Mutant X, if you think about it.
"He had already cloned two before me. They were the roughdrafts, while I was the "perfected" one because he used Adam's disk that he got from you to perfect my DNA before I ended up like the others."
"What happened to the others?" Shalimar asked.
"Because his work was so sloppy on our DNA, their mutated DNA was so unstable that they died. There was only a six month life span if you look into it."
"But I bet Mason Eckhart made doubles," Brennan stated.
"And you'd be right, Brennan. Because he did, but since their powers are telekinesis and psychokinesis, they can't remember anything from their hosts' former lives."
"Host?"
"Well, we only live because we're based on another's life before us. Making us almost parasite-like."
"Eckhart just thought about everything."
"Except the perfected DNA, he didn't perfect their DNA so they only live for six months. But they were made three months ago."
"What were you guys made for, anyway?" Shalimar asked.
"To be perfect assassins, partially. Or mercenaries."
"Great, so there are some very powerful mutants running on the loose."
"Uh--Annexes. Not mutants, we're very different from mutants."
"Uh---mutated DNA, that makes you mutants."
"Our DNA isn't mutated, for it to be mutated it would have to change from what it originally used to be. We were born with our DNA like that, making us Annexes."
"OK, Annex."
"So what does these Annexes want?"
"Anything, death, blood, money. Our DNA was also changed to make us more dependent on material things so if we ran away, Eckhart could find us from looking up big purchases. He also changed it so that we weren't so independent too, we can follow orders."
"You don't look so marine-like to me," Shalimar asked.
"I can remember my host's life, making me like a human."
"So they made you almost machine."
"Yeah, except not so indestructible or invulnerable."
"And you were gonna tell us this, when?" Lexa asked.
"When you stopped questioning me, good thing Jesse asked or I'd never have time to, huh?" Carli asked. "Listen, they won't act out unless some ex-GS agent tries to control them. That won't give us a lot of time because everyone wants control of the GSA since Eckhart died."
"Why?" Lexa asked.
"Power struggle . . . everyone hated Eckhart, even more than you. Since he's gone, everyone wants to have his spot and reconstruct the GSA."
"We can't let that happen," Lexa commanded.
"Obviously . . ." Carli remarked.
* * *Shalimar's Bedroom* * *
Carli walked around, touching Shalimar's bed posts . . . remembering. Shalimar came inside and crossed her arms. "What are you doing in here?"
Carli didn't answer the question right away. Her fingers glided across Shalimar's dresser. "I remember . . . she came in here. The last day she was alive . . . I don't only know what she did and what she was thinking, I also know how she felt while doing it."
"How? You're not telempathic."
"Emma could read someone's thoughts if a lot of emotion was tied into them. Me too, I can know people's emotions if their thoughts are closely knitted with them."
"Do you remember how she died?" Shalimar asked.
"Like a hero . . . she was so brave, for a young girl. She wasn't afraid of anything."
"Yeah, she wasn't."
"You were there when she died, I saw through her eyes. You were so sad, I don't really understand much about emotions. But I know the difference between happiness and sorrow."
"I'm sorry about what Eckhart did to you . . . I mean here."
Carli finally turned around. "Me too. That's why we have to stop the GSA from rebuilding assets or it'll happen to some other."