Chapter 16
The chamber went like Megan always remembered it. When the scientists analyzed her DNA, M16's technicians did well in that department, Elli Manning's DNA showed up instead of Megan Masefield/Granger's DNA. Boris bought her scared little girl act and Megan and Dylan were on their way to pick up Millie, Pat, Aaron and Tina.
"Millie first." Megan whispers. They walked to Megan's room and Dylan opened the door, with a touch of the remote he always carried.
Millie jumped to her feet, but relaxed when she saw Megan. "Elli? What's-" She froze mid-sentence as she saw Dylan.
"Don't worry Millie, I'll explain everything, come on!" Megan grabbed her hand and pulled her into the hall as Dylan shut the door, they headed down the hall to get the other 3.
"Dylan? Elli?" Aaron asks as his door was opened.
"We'll explain everything, just follow us." Dylan says. Aaron follows hesitantly, but follows.
Tina came willingly enough when she noticed Aaron, but Pat was a little harder.
"Are you sure?" Pat asks. Megan saw his crimson eyes look into hers, confusion written all over his face, glancing at Tina's crimson eyes.
"Pat, you're my half brother." Megan blurts out. "Just trust me and follow us, everything will be explained."
Pat was stunned, but felt the truth in her words, and followed her.
They all went into Dylan's room, as Dylan pulled up a video conference. As Megan sat in the chair, Dylan leaning over her and the others, behind them, the screen popped up, showing...no one. But as Megan looked closer, in the background, she saw a couch with someone on it. As the person shifted, his red hair glinted in the light.
"Tala!" Megan shouts. Tala leaps off the bed with natural grace and looks around startled until he saw the computer.
"Gesh Meg, chill, I'm awake."
"Meg?" Aaron questions, but Megan waves him off for the moment. Tala shouted for the guys to wake up, as he sat in the chair.
"Hey, I- woah." Tala says, eyes popping out of his head. "They really look like- holy hell."
"Hey Meg, what's- bloody hell!" Brooklyn shouts, jumping away from the computer.
"What the-" Johnny says, to shocked to finish.
"What's all the-" Kai stopped in mid step. "Oh my god."
"Yea, guys, whatever." Megan says quickly. "Where's Hiro, Gramps, Alex, and everyone else?"
"Here!" Alex says, coming into view.
"Good." Megan says. She looks back at the 4 very confused faces.
"Ummmm...Meg?" Aaron asks again.
"Right." Megan nods. "Well, I'm really Megan Masefield or Megan Granger, depending."
"Wait, Megan Masefield?" Pat asks. "I heard about you. You're a world famous blader, but huh, well, when I first saw Tina, I thought she was you." Pat looks into eyes that looked like his.
"Another part of the mystery." Megan smiles. "Um, wait one second. Dylan, you have your own bathroom right?"
"Yea." Dylan nods.
"One sec guys, I'll be back." Megan tells her friends, and she heads to the bathroom. Megan takes her contacts out and washes her hair in the shower. The dye falls out of her hair, and down the drain. Megan gets dressed quickly and walks out to find Tina staring back at her, mouth open.
"Holy crap." Tina whispers.
"You guys are twins." Millie stutters out.
"Actually," Tyson voice chuckles, coming from the computer. Megan makes her way to her chair again. "It's more like Meg and I are twins and Tina's Megan's clone."
Time seemed to freeze as Pat, Tina, Aaron and Millie took in that information.
"Uh?" Tina asks.
"Ok, well, Tina, Aaron, you guys know what Boris and Voltaire are planning to do with you 2 right?" Megan asks.
"Uggg, yea." Aaron says in disgust. "They want us to create the perfect blader together."
"Ok, well Kai and I were originally supposed to do that." Megan says. "Kai, Tala and I grew up here, but when I was 10, I busted out, but Tala and Kai stayed here until they were 17."
"That sucks." Tina says bluntly. She said it is much a way that Megan would, that Tyson, Kai, Alex, Tala and Brooklyn started laughing uncontrollably.
"What?" Tina asks, looking at Megan.
"Well, thats something that I would say, so they started laughing." Megan giggles. "Anyway, Boris and Voltaire realized that they couldn't control us, so they went to plan B."
"I'm sorry, but why you 2?" Pat asks.
"The Hiwatari line and the Granger line have a very strong connection to the Bit-beasts, and when joined, the most powerful blader would be born. But forever, both lines have only had male descendants, until I was born." Megan explains.
"So I'm your clone, their back up for you." Tina says, trying to sort this all out. "What about Kai's clone?"
"You're looking at him." Tala and Kai say at the same time.
"Aaron." Megan says. "You're a cross between Tala and Kai, the 2 most powerful bladers that the Abbey ever produced."
"What?" Aaron says, shocked. It reminded Megan of when Tala found out that Megan was his long lost friend from the Abbey.
"So, where do Millie and I fit into all of this?" Pat asks. "You said something about me being your half brother?"
"Yea, well we have the same father. Didn't your mother tell you?" Megan asks.
"Yea, she told me the story, but I never realized that I was related to THE Tyson Granger!" Pat smiles.
"Oh yea!" Tyson cheers. At the same time Hiro and Megan hit the boys of the back of the head.
"So, Voltaire now has the Granger line that he can control." Megan says. "The idea was that they would brainwash Pat like they tried to do to me."
"And me?" Millie asks. "I'm almost afraid to ask."
"You are my little sister Millie." Kai says softly, a softness in his eyes, that Megan only saw whenever he looked at her.
"You have the same eyes." Megan says softly, holding the younger girl close. Millie smiled up at Megan sadly.
"I thought that my parents died when I was taken away from them, but apparently they lived to give me a sister." Kai says.
"Is Kai crying?" Tala jokes, looking into his best friends face, teasing him. Megan could hear the guys laughing as Kai elbowed Tala in the gut. Tala fell to the floor in a heap, which caused another round of laughter, this time Megan joined in.
"Sorry Kai, but you know Tal." Megan giggles. Kai shrugs, a light smile playing on his lips.
"Dylan!" A shout came from the door.
"Shit." Dylan mumbles and he quickly exits the video chat as Megan and the other hide in the bathroom. Megan slipped on her contacts at least to hid her Granger eyes.
"Sir?" Dylan says opening the door. It was Boris.
"I need Millie tested to check her cycle's so that we can plan accordingly when we get both her and Pat under our thumbs. Do so at 5 in the morning. Got it?" Boris demands.
"Got it Sir." Dylan nods. Boris looks around the room briefly, then leaves. Dylan closes the door and sighs.
"You're ok guys." Dylan says. And everyone walks out of the bathroom, except Megan, who was re-dying her hair. "Head back to your rooms and get some rest." They nod and slowly and quietly Tina, Millie, Pat and Aaron leave for their rooms.
"Hey Meg?" Dylan asks, leaning up against the doorway, watching Megan.
"Yea Dyl?" Megan asks.
"Something's been bothering me." Dylan confesses. He rubs the back of his neck to show his discomfort.
"What has?" Megan asks.
"You never...ummmm...you never had Voltaire's DNA implanted within you or anything like that right?" Dylan looks down embarrassed.
"Ugg, ew no. Thankfully my friends found me right on time. I don't even..." Megan's body shuttered in disgust. "Lets not talk about it."
"Sorry to bring it up, but I just wanted to be sure." Dylan says. "You're pretty close to Kai right?" Dylan gave her a sly smile.
Megan blushed, but smiled proudly. "Mhmm, we did bond pretty tightly while growing up in this hell hole." Megan giggles. "But yea, we love each other."
"Did you notice anything tonight? Between Aaron and Tina perhaps?" Dylan wonders as Megan finishes.
"What? Like the fact that they're in love with each other and can't see it?" Megan smiles.
"Yea..." Dylan chuckles. "That."
"Well, I think Kai and I were the same when we were here. I mean, it was kind of hard to get that close to someone, cause you knew that there was a possibility that they would be gone the next day, that and the fact that we were 10 and 12." Megan giggles. "I just hope that they realize that no matter what Boris or Voltaire say, that they have the right to be with whoever they want to be with and that nothing is their fault." Megan looks down at this.
"Sounds like you talk from experience." Dylan says, a hand on her shoulder.
Megan looks up into Dylan's emerald eyes. "Yea, well I've had a lot of friends that were killed here. And I always felt that it was my fault, that maybe if I was strong enough, I could have protected them. And when I got my memories back, I felt bad for leaving Tala, Kai and the others here for 5 more years while I was in Ireland, having the time of my life with my new family."
"But you had your memories erased, there was no way for you to know what had happened, and Kai and the others lost their memories as well." Dylan reminds her.
"I know that, but it still hurts." Megan says, silent tears in her eyes.