I felt guilty for not updating this story as much as my other one, so here's two short and one really long and really important scenes.

Jess and Lex checked their weapons, then slid in the room through an air vent. It had been childs play displaying the mansion's security system. Or at least that's what Hel told them after she'd done done it.

They searched the room quickly, looking behind every picture and under every piece of furniture. Lex pulled back a painting of some ancient looking fantasy creature, to find an almost as ancient safe. She smiled and cracked her knuckles.

"Look Jess, a combination safe!" She winked at him. "However should I get in?"

"Quit screwing around Lex." Jess scowled. "We both know you've been cracking safes practically since birth."

Lex pouted. "Aw, you're no fun." She easily unlocked the safe in under a minute. "Well I think it's kinda sweet. All trusting and all."

Jess rolled his eyes. "You sound like Aunt Kaylee. Or maybe it's Jamie who's rubbing off on you." He smirked.

She glared at him. "Whatever." She retrieved the worn leather bound book from inside, along with a small bag of platinum coins. "Let's go, I've got it."

Hel and Gel sat staring at the book as it sat on the dining room table.

"I don't get it." Hel murmured. "What's so special about this book?"

Gel grinned. "Well, it can't hurt to look." She grabbed the book and opened it. "Oh god!" Her face went completely pale.

Hel jumped up. "What? What is it?"

"X5-622, X5-623..." Gel read aloud. She looked at her twin. "That's Aunt Charlie's number isn't it?"

Hel grabbed the book from her sister. "This is a report on the cryo-program they put her in."

"We have to tell Jess and Lex."

Lex sat against the wall. She was holding onto the book so tightly that her knuckles were white. It was shut, she hadn't had the nerve to read it. She sighed. Closing her eyes, she opened the book.

"What does it say?" Jess asked as he crouched down beside her.

"Twenty transgenics were in the cryo-program. Five sets of female twins and five sets of male twins." She looked at him. "Why would they go out of their way to track down twins?"

"I think I know." Gel said quietly, making the whole room turn towards her. "It is a scientific experiment constant, dual trials."

James blew out a breath. "They wanted to make sure that if they survived that it wasn't a fluke."

Lex nodded, saddened by the thought of her mom at the hands of such monsters. She began to read again. "Around the time that humans left the Earth-that-was, there was an electrical surge..." She pressed her fingers against her mouth as her eyes filled with tears.

Jess put a hand on her shoulder. "Lex? What is it?"

"The surge... It tripped the chambers." She took a shuddering breath. "All but five of the chambers shut down. The others all died."

Jess took the book from her. After giving her a quick hug, he stood up. "The rest of the book is some bounty hunter's report on what happened to the remaining chambers."

Lara stepped towards him. "You say that like they moved or something."

"They did." All the crew's stunned looks. Jess continued. "Some scavenger found them and sold them to some rich guy. Then this guy hid the five containers on five separate planets."

Lex looked up. "Well we know Mom was found on Phoenix. Some freak had found on Phoenix. Some freak had found her and figured out what she was. Dad saved her. Who'll save the other four?"

Jess shook his head. "According to this it isn't four anymore. Two were discovered by Alliance over a period of forty years." A picture fluttered to the ground. The face of a middle-aged black man stared up at them.

Rex picked it up. "Who is this? He looks familiar."

Gel looked at the picture as she stood beside him. "I've seen him before, one of Mom's pictured she liked to draw. She called him 'the Operative.'"

Lara looked up at the sound of the name. "The Operative?"

"You recognize the name?" Jess asked, curious.

"Remember Miranda?" They all nodded solemnly. "The Operative was the one after them."

James shook his head. "I can't believe he's a transgenic."

Lara spoke up. "So the Alliance is using two, they're lost to us, but the other two?"

Jess looked back at the book. "One was found by an Alliance-friendly official." He looked up, shocked. "Two weeks ago!"

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