Back in the archeological lab Duke was trying to do his best to not sound like an idiot in front of Sam.

"So, uh, what is it you do for work?"

"I'm a forensic archeologist. I specialize in DNA reconstruction." She answered, barely paying attention to him as she began to download the data from her server.

"Oh yea?" He nodded, like he actually knew what that meant. "That's cool."

He looked at her for a moment before he realized she wasn't going to look up at him. He began to walk around the room. That's when he got a good look at what was in the glass case.

"Holy shit!" He exclaimed, "Are those for real?"

Sam finally looked up to see what he was looking at, "Yes, that's Lucy and her child. They were our first major find."

"Are they human?" Duke asked as he leaned forward to get a closer look.

"Humaniod actually," Sam finally began to engage him in conversation. "You want to see something interesting? Come here."

She didn't need to ask Duke twice. He hurried over to her side.

"This is Lucy's chromosome profile." She told him as she called some data up on her screen. "Are you familiar with human DNA?"

"Uh," Duke didn't want to seem stupid, "Well, science was never my best subject."

Sam didn't seem to care. She immediately began instructing him, "Humans have twenty three pairs of chromosomes. Lucy has twenty four."

Duke looked at the screen, not sure what he was seeing, "So, uh, what does the extra pair do?"

Sam stood up and walked past Duke towards Lucy. "It makes her super human. The extra pair makes her super strong, super fit, super intelligent."

"Damn," Duke said, suitably impressed, "Where do I get me an extra chromosome?"

Sam turned and gave Duke a little smile, "It may be possible some day. Dr. Carmack is working to isolate the chromosome. It would be such an amazing thing. These people had conquered disease. We found no genetic disorders, no viruses, no cancer. Their cells divided fifty times faster than ours. They healed almost instantly."

"Wow!" Duke was amazed. "Imagine that. So if I was to be like them and get shot I'd heal almost instantly?"

"It would depend on where you got shot, but effectively yes." She nodded and then went back to her computer.

Duke was about to follow her when he heard the Kid's voice on his headset.

"We got movement up ahead." the Kid's voice informed everyone.

'Shit' is what most people thought, Kid never said where the movement was. So they had to try, and figure out for themselves.

Kid, Repaer, and Dani; were running all over Carmack's office, shining their gun light's everywhere. "Hold on." Repaer whispered. After a minute of silence, there was a pound on a table.

"THERE!" Dani yelled as she fired her un, and the thump.

:"Reaper report to me": Sarge yelled through the comm.

:"Moving west through Carmack's office, FAST":

Now their was basically a traffic jam , to get to the west side of Carmack's office. Naktura, Goat, and Portman slammed into Destroyer, and Sarge.

"GO!" Sarge yelled as they ran to catch up to the others.

Reaper ran ahead of Dani, and Kid, he ran off into a darker area. "If you have a weapon, drop it."

Dani came up behind him, and turned the light switch, which barley made a difference. They shined their lights again and saw a small man shivering in the corner. The rest of the RRTS crew, except Duke, and Mac, were there.

Sam came running, and looked over at Reaper. "Sam you should have stayed with Duke--" Duke came running behind the doctor.

"But he know's me John. Dr. Carmack it's me Samantha. I'm not going to hurt you. Where are the other's."

Naktura backed away from the doctor, he looked as if he would rip your eyes out of your head. She backed into Destroyer.

who grabbed onto her, and pulled her back.

Sam slowly approached Dr. Carmack. Reassuring him she wouldn't hurt him. Dani was thinking Sam had far more to fear from him than he did from her.

Suddenly the man dropped something. Dani felt queasy as she realized it was a human arm, or at least part of an arm. What the hell was going on here? And why was this man running around clutching a severed arm?

Dr. Carmack reached up and abruptly pulled his ear off.

"Oh, Jesus Christ," Sam gasped as she stumbled back, away from the Doctor.

"Damn!" Duke exclaimed.

"Get a med kit!" Sam ordered to no-one in particular.

Reaper responded by pulling an emergency med kit out of one of his pockets. He handed it to Sam.

"Oh nice," Portman laughed softly.

"Duke, get them him to the infirmary with Dr. Grimm," Sarge ordered. "Portman, Kid, go to the airlock and dig in. anything trying to get away from us will get driven straight to you. Reaper, Dani, Goat you take the south flank. Destroyer, Naktura, you're with me. Now let's see if we can find the body that goes with that arm."

Portman didn't take long to start messing with the Kid's head. "It's messed up hun? A guy like Carmack, who's trained to put logic before emotion, is so freaked, he tears off his own ear. I tell you, it's shit like that that gets under your skin."

The Kid couldn't take any more. His nerves had been stretched tight since the beginning of the mission. This last scene was more than he could take. "Do you have any?"

"Any what?" Portman pretended not to understand.

"You know," The Kid didn't want to say it outloud. He hated the fact that he wasn't as brave at the other guys. He wanted to be as cool under fire as they were. "I just need something to help me get my game face on."

Portman laughed, but didn't argue. He was more than happy to have someone to share his "goodies" with. All of the other guys thought they were too good to take a relaxer. It made him feel good to know someone else needed them as well.

Sarge, lead the way with Destroyer, and Naktura pretty far behind. Naktura was dead last, she had this feeling that, someone or something was following them. She stopped in her tracks, and squinted her eyes.

"Naktura!" Sarge yelled, not even turning back, to see what she was doing. "Come on!"

Destroyer turned around, and walked towards her. "Come on Tura. You heard Sarge."

"He's going the wrong way."

"What? What do you mean?"

"You don't understand, do you? Something is here. And it's devising a plan."

"No, come on. Maybe you need something to drink, are you hungry?" They were finally caught up with Sarge. He overheard their descussuion, and decided to stop for a few minutes, he needed a breather as well. "Got five minutes."

"All troops if you need to, take a five minute break. But report if you see anything."

"I wonder how Kid is doing with Portman?"

"Probably alright. He's a big boy." Naktura chuckled. "Sarge somethin's not right in this area."

He bent down, and looked into her eyes. "What do you mean?"

"I have this... feeling, that something isn't right."

"What do you mean you have a feeling something isn't right?" He frowned at her. He was not man to put much faith in feelings.

She frowned back at him, "My gut tells me there is something close by. Behind us. Watching us. It's studying us Sarge. Scoping us out to figure out our weaknesses."

Sarge shook his head, clearly disgusted. "'Tura, a real soldier knows when to trust his gut and when to disregard the fear. Nothing is following us. Nothing is studying us. Now eat something and get your imagination under control."

'Tura gritted her teeth. She wanted to argue with him, but knew it would do no good.

"Don't you worry 'Tura," Destroyer spoke to her quietly as Sarge moved away. "I got you covered. Ain't noth'n going to get to you while I'm around."

Naktura looked up at him. She still didn't feel good. She knew something was very wrong, but she also knew the best she could do now was stay alert and ready for whatever was coming after them. She smiled at Destoryer, "I got you covered too."