Hey everyone, sorry this has been so late. My computer crashed for a week. I nearly died I swear.
"Oh god." Jess murmured.
"What?" Lara put a hand on his muscular arm.
"The third transgenic, it's X5-623." He shot Lex a look. "Mom's twin."
"Axis?" Lex gasped. "How is that possible? I thought she was taken out by one of Lane's lieutenants?"
Jess flipped through the book until he found the five transgenics' medical files. He scanned through the one belonging to Axis.
"It says that she was brought in for the experiment after a month in a coma." Jess opened his mouth to continue, but stopped.
Lara pulled the book out of his motionless fingers and quickly read the page. "Broken bones in the double digits, a collapsed lung, shattered knee caps, dislocated shoulder and three crushed fingers. It's a miracle she lived."
Hel smiled sadly. "If she hadn't been a transgenic she wouldn't have."
Lex took the book from Lara. Her eyes widened when she read the rest of the file. "Jess you wouldn't believe this."
Jess looked at his twin sister. "What? What wouldn't I believe?"
"She was pregnant when she was taken down." She struggled to keep her eyes from filling with tears. "They didn't terminate the pregnancy just so they could use her to test the cryo effects on a pregnancy and on the baby."
Jess clenched his fists. "We've got to get her out. We can't let the Alliance get her and maybe a baby cousin of ours."
Gel stepped forward. "I've got a plan."
Lex pulled on her mom's favorite belted holsters and silver handguns. Charlie had given the guns to Lex the day they had left on Freedom. Lex thought it was fitting to use her mother's guns to try to save her mother's twin.
She looked to her right and saw her brother and Lara engaged in a long lingering kiss goodbye. Jess pulled away and just stared down at Lara for a full minute, his hand on her cheek.
Lex looked to her left and caught sight of Hel and Gel checking their weapons. Gel looked up and her eyes met Rex's. Lex wouldn't have seen it if she hadn't been feeling the same way, like she was coming back from this mission.
She looked behind her to find James looking straight at her. He shot her a look that said, 'Come back.' She nodded almost invisibly. Then she turned around.
The four part-transgenics picked up their packs and walked out the cargo bay doors out onto the spotless Core dock.
Hel nodded to her sister. They then proceeded to scaled the side of the building where Axis was being held. The identical twins were dressed exactly the same, that way if they were sighted, it would seem as if there was only one of them.
After turning on their comms they nodded to eachother and split off in opposite directions. Hel passed countless rooms before she found the one they all were looking for.
"Jess. Lex. I found her." Hel whispered into her mike. "Quadrant four, section 3A."
"Roger that Hel," Jess rumbled over the comm. "Lex, Gel, meet me there."
From here on out it gets a little action packed. Probably a new chap tomorrow, or Friday.
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