(Sorry it has taken so long for me to update, but now that school is done and my other fanfic is done, this is my new fanfic project. I will try to update at least twice a week. Let's just say this is my returning start up chapter so I get back in the groove of the story so I can portray an accurate timeline and information cache:) Expect action in the next chapter!)

83 clones woke up that day. All in the same state of confusion and panic at waking up in a sphere full of liquid, naked, and surrounded by rows of people who looked just like you. The first hour was chaos as the girls were helped from their stasis pods and clothed in whatever was available in the underground dormitories. It was Alice who finally established order, calming the girls somewhat before the White Queen calmly began the explanation behind where they where, why there were there…and what they were.

The gravity of the situation was understood surprisingly quickly by the clones. The White Queen mentioned later that it was Alice's nature to process information quickly, even before she was infected - apparently what was her original nature transferred in some part to the clones.

Priorities took over. Checking the facilities defenses. Cleaning up and disposal of the biohazards in the rooms Dr. Isaac's had ransacked. Getting food from the unharmed part of the underground gardens. Units were established, set up by both Alice and the White Queen.

Not wanting to be called Clones, or Alice's, the girls chose to number themselves in the order they awoke, using Roman Numerals. These numbers were tattooed into their arms, for easy identification. Individual units were more familiar with each other, some even naming each other. But with the number of identical girls, it just was easier to know the numbers. Except for me. The second day we were awake, Alice called me over, called me "Beta waves," in reference to the White Queen's first comment about me. So the name Beta stuck. All of our hair grew and darkened - even Alice's strawberry blonde hair started to turn dark from the chemicals surrounding us in the underground facility. She was the only one who kept it short, so they could all identify her with a glance.

After two weeks of working underground, the White Queen called Alice and I into a quiet meeting room. Through the glass, I could see units of clones doing different things throughout the facilities - some were doing repair work on some of the electrical wiring, some practicing with the katana's in the training room, and others wearing lab coats and meticulously looking at slides through microscopes. The last group was doing experiments with Alice's blood, per the White Queen's request. She oversaw them strictly, only needing them to act as physical tools in the lab.

We were meeting because two days prior, the clones started to notice their ability to move with lighting speed and precision. The day before, the first clone noticed her psionic powers when she was startled and nearly blew a hole through the training wall. In the following 24 hours, all clones were found to have the ability to create psionic blasts of various sizes.

The White Queen wanted us to know of her findings concerning these latest developments.

"There is no way to know how these clones will evolve. Obviously, they are exhibiting abilities faster than the Original Project Alice, but my data shows that their are obvious discrepancies. For example, as previous tests showed, they cannot heal nearly as fast as Alice can, nor do they show any type of consistent ability overall - the ones who are the most powerful psionic blasters are those who have been fighting in the training area the longest. This suggests environmental triggers.

Overall, I suspect that the clones may start to exhibit selective power evolution if they progress at this rate. This means that, because they are evolving so fast, their abilities may become focused in specific areas of the brain - like increased activity in the cerebellum, allowing greater efficiency in limb and muscle coordination, but results in a lesser ability to create a psionic blast. Only time will tell how each clone reacts to their environment and how their bodies and minds evolve to adapt to it."

In other words, each individual clone means the chance for a different ability…

"93, there is a chance that your condition may be different.….."