Mason took the drops of blood collected from Brennan and put them on a petri dish and added his chemical mixture. He readied his rigged appliances and activated them. Sparks flew everywhere and the light was blinding.
When all of the chaos ceased minutes later, an exact replica of Brennan lay unconsious on the floor. The clone was hauled up and carried into a corner. "Dump water on him, he's probably a mutant." Mason ordered. Someone grabbed the bucket of water and dumped it onto the clone. "Now," Mason said smugly, "we wait until he wakes up to see if he has the same memories as Brennan."
At Sanctuary, all Jesse, Shalimar, and Lexa could do was sit and wait. Shalimar was on edge. Lexa was calm as usual. Jesse was anxious.
"You should get some sleep." he said to Shalimar and Lexa. "It's late. I'll stay here and wait for Mason to contact us."
Shalimar shook her head. "I can't sleep."
Mason and all five of his accomplices had large rifles pointed at the unconsious clone laying on the floor. The real Brennan was trying to get untied, but his efforts were futile. When the clone finally woke up, the six men had their guns pointed at him. Mason stepped forward. "If you move, we will shoot you. Now, what is your name?"
"Brennan Mulwray, and I still want to get the hell out of here!" the clone replied.
"What is the name of your team?"
"I'm not telling."
Mason turned to the others. "It appears that he is the same Brennan Mulwray as the original. Kill him."
All six men aimed and fired. The clone lay on the floor, dead. Brennan was very disturbed watching himself die. One of Mason's men turned over to the original Brennan, but Mason stopped him. "We don't want to kill him yet; I'm still not sure exactly what to do with him. If Ekhart comes back to us and is able to recreate the subdermal governers, Brennan could be used as our power source. I'm told he can supply power to a small city for nearly a week. Surely he'll be able to supply enough power to power our building. Dispose of the clone." Mason walked over to look at the circuit breaker. "It was damaged during the process. It'll take me an hour to repair."
Jesse was looking around the computers for any security devices Adam may have created that would help them find Brennan. None of them were any useful. Hardware lock, file self destruct, none of them would help. As he looked at the list, one of them gave him hope. Software trackers. The disc containing the cloning data could have a tracking device. "Shalimar, Lexa!" he called out. When they came in, he filled them in on the software trackers. He opened the file, and the list of trackable software was displayed. The cloning disc was one of the first displayed. Jesse activated the tracking device, and he was able to find the disc. He located the place where Brennan was. It was a small house in a suburban neighborhood. The three ran to the helix and it flew away.