Taylor stared at the report in front of her. Trying to decide if it was possible for the results it showed.
"MATCH FOUND"
It was a DNA scan on Hammond, stating that he had asked for the test to see if he could turn a profit with a paternity test. It was a good idea. She had done similar things in Brockton Bay. Mostly for heroes and villains when a random kid found them or to help the heartbroken find family that didn't get killed or captured by
Heartbreaker.
Hammond had ordered the test on himself to see if any illegitimate kids where running around and Wu, probably in a fit of mischief had used my own to run against Hammond. And with a 23.7% match meant he was either an uncle or a grandfather. Neither mom or dad had brothers, so that left grandfather. We then ran another test with Hammond's daughter to rule her out, likely for the sake of thoroughness.
It did mean John had a child out there that he never met, AKA my mother cause I met Dad's father once before Mom died.
The problem I was trying to work through was that while Brockton was just a research facility here, my parents obviously still existed. I was close to putting it down as dimensional changes, while in one world the bay became a thriving port city that eventually crashed and burned, in the other, it was a private R&D lab.
I had the strangest luck I swear.
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I was looking over the little newborn Alexis Murphy when John found me. I hadn't shown him the result of the DNA test yet. We'd busy with his daughter's, my aunt, final month of pregnancy.
"I have that report you wanted. Trials are set to begin after you give the all clear." I told him as Lexy was set down by her mother.
"Oh good, I'm hoping everyone goes smoothly. Did you find anything interesting in the initial test?"
"you could say it was very shocking."
"Oh?"
"You know how when you do something and you're not expecting much to happen, then you find something impossible?"
"Indeed, during a trip through the savanna around Mombasa to find the spot the Kenya facility currently rest. And during that trip, our jeep was attacked by a rather territorial elephant bull."
"Well, you have a daughter, likely born around June of '72."
John looked shocked, then confused. "How do you the date?"
"She's my mother."
"And you this how?"
"Henry thought it'd be funny to test you against me, and you're my grandfather. By process of elimination says my mother is your daughter. since my last name is Hebert instead of Ludlow, you can't be an uncle.
Thus, Grandfather."
John actually looked kinda amused at that.
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I think ill make a big time skip in between 2 and 3, and have 3 get into the meat of the story. all this setup is fun but this is supposed to be a jp/worm cross and I'm pretty sure most of you want dinos. Thoughts. I'd like to hear 'em, flames will be used for smores.
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It has almost been a year since I had arrived, and despite the shocks of it, It was mildly enjoyable.
Little Lexy was doing fine, she was such a happy baby. She had everyone wrapped around her fingers on cuteness alone.
John after learning I Technically wasn't born yet (my mother should be 10 years old) had promptly adopted me, if only to give me a legal foothold. Apparently being a transdimensional time traveler didn't count for much, who knew.
Henry had finally figured out how to make his unicorns if I didn't know that My Little Pony hadn't been thought of yet I would have said he was a brony fan. It was good for a private laugh at least.
My incubator/artificial womb was finished, as a test run, John and Amanda(Lexy's mom) let me have one her eggs after they found out what it was for. John seemed a bit uneasy but since it wasn't close to actually rising the dead, he calmed a bit. So on 9/21/1982 little Tim greeted the world.
Scion was a no-show, though rumor has it that some silver lady appeared for a minute before she vanished. A week later someone's head exploded. Some idiot that looked suspiciously like the early photos of Hero had tried to mess with a wave frequency that didn't agree with with the water inside the human body. The victim was a bystander walking in front of maybe-Hero's garage.
The week before Christmas I had stolen John's cane, I wanted to examine the amber topper. I was a little disappointed to find the rock a very convincing fake. So I had Lockwood get me a real one from a Costa Rican mine. I could have probably made the amber, DNA preservation fell under my tree, but Lockwood had gone a step farther and got me one with a mosquito in it. A mosquito that looked like it had just eaten before landing in front of a sap flow.
Million-year-old DNA, in a rock.
I wonder if I can make a dinosaur.
After I got all the blood from the amber, I used it to replace the fake on John's cane. It made a great gift when John found out what I did to it.
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Thanks to the DNA from the cane amber, I can see just what was in the mosquito.
The genetics were reading similar to birds, which was strange since I thought dinosaurs would be reptiles.
Then again bet didn't have much of an archaeological interest after Scion changed global culture. And Amber was barely able to be used by some tinkers, It just wasn't a useful material for their trees.
Well if birds were the common descendants of the dinosaurs, I wonder if I can use chicken eggs for a base to bring them back.
Whelp, nothing for it. I contacted a local farm to acquire the first test batch.
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Well, the first test was a failure, the chicken eggs were just too small. So I had called Robert to ask if he knew any birds with large and sturdy eggs that I could use.
The internet wasn't quite so all-knowing yet.
That reminds me, I need to get John to invest in Apple and Google. Should make a note of that somewhere.
But I had an ostrich egg now, so go connections? Whatever.
After making sure no chicken base was left in my Dino DNA, I inserted it into the egg. Wonder if I can make a dragon. That'd be the next step up from dinosaurs, right?
Back to work, ideas later.
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with my current experiment on hold until the next step was ready, I had decided to read a book so I was sitting in the library. I was researching what animals id like to make if the Dino thing turned into a viable avenue of work. obviously, dragons kept getting what looked like a wyvern from my power. if I was going to be making the giants though, I couldn't keep them here. where'd to put them, however?
I'd have to be remote, extremely so. with no chance for my creations to escape to terrorize the norms. an island maybe?
somewhere along the equator would be perfect. a hot and wet environment like the tropics should be just like home for my future babies.
I'd also be moving my research to the new lab, so close to the source would be a must.
okay, so the island criteria are remote, tropical, and close to an amber mine.
I put my book down to look at the map on the library wall. it was an old global map from the '40s, not great like a 2010 map, but good enough for my purpose. let's see can't do the Indonesian area, as far I knew there isn't an amber mine anywhere near that island and almost all of them were populated before scion showed his face. Hawaii was too active. hmm...vacation stops were obviously a no. didn't Lockwood say he got the amber for John's cane in Costa Rica?
I'll get John to do the paperwork, and ill have to make sure he takes a translator to make sure he doesn't get screwed by the language barriers.
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Okay, this marks the end of the intro. and the last of what I had written. I'm thinking of a 2-year skip, mostly to explain how Taylor sets up the island, I'll be starting on sorna first, and I might be adding a third one with a nod toward too, eventually making this a 3-way cross. remember to let me know what you think. and I'll put up a poll on the first dino.
Edit: Poll is up, vote for your favorite dino! I also have Grammarly now, so hopefully, I'll have fewer errors in the future.