The Laboratory

by **Faultline** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 4:20 am

Music is blaring from some hidden speakers as Sara is working in the lab, singing along to the music with her own twist on the lyrics.

"It's a simple plan: I try to build a man
That's more productive, more intelligent
Pefect mind and body"

She has seperated the cells from the plasma of Samantha's blood and is placing the vial containing them into a humming machine in the wall. A couple commands on the console next to it and it springs to life. The first strings of letters begin to appear on the console and with an almost flourished tap on the screen a holographic projector springs to life, casting the image of a faintly glowing, red DNA strand into the middle of the room that grows as the machine continues sequencing the sample. Faultline stands in the middle of it, swiveling it around, searching the strand, marking certain areas, drawing connections and adding epigenetic markers.

"Put it to good use, Humanity will lose.
Because the greater mass becomes a second class."

A flick of the wrist and a second genome appears in a greenish glow, this one already well marked and categorized. After some editing and masking only a couple of sequences remain. X-gene, X-Factor and a handful of associated markers. Comparing the two she adds more comments to Sam's genome. Shapeshifting pathways, similar yet different. And there it is... unique, unfamiliar stretches on the X-Gene scattered inbetween the shifting markers.

"Who would stop these slaves when they leave their cage?
Then they'll meet their fate because we're better, we've got,
Perfect mind and body!"

She spins around, moving her hands apart to zoom the DNA strand in, seperating the familiar sequences from the new. She brings up referrences on the genetics of neurology and goes to work, annotating possible connections, scribbling down theories, crosing them out again, correcting, rearranging, analyzing. mRNA and Protein models spring to live around her before being discarded and recreated over and over again while a chart to the side slowly grows more and more complex with every pathway and regulation she deciphers.

by **Legion** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 3:16 pm

"This seems REALLY complex," a familiar Legion said, over her shoulder.

by **Faultline** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 3:22 pm

"You don't say." she says, sounding vaguely annoyed but too distracted to follow up on it right now.

"This is going to be our key to owning this city! And any place we desire, really."

by **Legion** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 3:23 pm

"And...and that's good, right?"

by **Faultline** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 3:32 pm

"What? Of course that's good! We're going to kick the General and his goons right back to Canada! Well, what'll be left of them anyway."

by **Legion** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 3:34 pm

"Good! Yeah! Right back to Canada! Shove their hockey pucks right down their throats!"

by **Faultline** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 3:43 pm

Sara pushes the holograms away from herself with an annoyed grunt. "Go find one of you that isn't this... mentally deficient, will you."

by **Legion** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 3:46 pm

"Yes'm," Legion said, leaving, being replaced almost immediately.

by **Faultline** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 3:55 pm

"Good. I'm going to need a better sample to work with." she says and pulls up one of different versions of the charts labeled 'Balor Genome Model'.

by **Legion** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 3:59 pm

"What do you need, m'lady?" she asked.

by **Faultline** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 4:09 pm

"Simply put? You." she says, taking one of the different charts and loading it into the strand-synthesizer. "But for now you can watch this and let me know when it's done."

by **Legion** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 4:20 pm

"Right!" she said, staring at it, unblinking.

by **Faultline** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 4:29 pm

And that's what Faultline left her to do for a couple of hours.

by **Legion** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 4:36 pm

And that's what she did for a couple hours, leaning up against a large tank as she stared at a little green light that was not lit up.

Until...it lit up!

"Ding!" she shouted.

by **Faultline** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 4:43 pm

"About time..." she mumbles as she walks back into this part of the lab. Opening a compartment in the machine she takes out a filled cartridge that fits neatly into an injector, not unlike a reusable epipen. She hands it to Will. "You know the drill."

by **Legion** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 5:33 pm

"Right," she said, taking the vial, and examining it closely. "Here goes....", and she stabbed it into her arm...and waited...

by **Faultline** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 5:34 pm

"And? Feel anything?" she asks impatiently after a couple of minutes.

by **Legion** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 2:49 pm

"I'm....I'm not...I'm not...sure..." she said, clutching her head.

by **Faultline** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 2:53 pm

"Well make up your mind then!"

by **Legion** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 3:19 pm

"I...I...I...." she said, as first her veins, and then her entire head, started visibly throbbing.

by **Faultline** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 3:22 pm

"Don't fight it! Let it incorporate itself." she frowns.

by **Legion** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 3:26 pm

"I'm....I'm trying....but..." she said, as her head expanded and was REALLY throbbing, increasing and decreasing in size rapidly.

by **Faultline** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 3:28 pm

"Then you're not trying hard enough!"

by **Legion** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 3:36 pm

And with that, Legion's head exploded.

by **Faultline** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 3:42 pm

Sara blinks for a moment, a bloody chunk of brain sliding down her hair and plopping onto her shoulder.

"Grotty arse! What the bloody hell do you think you're doing!?" she curses, wiping bits of Will from her face.

When Will doesn't react she takes a step over to her and prods her arm with her boot.

by **Legion** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 3:43 pm

No response.

by **Faultline** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 3:46 pm

"Well bollocks... How am I suppose to autopsy that?" she grumbles, looking around at the 'splash-zone'.

Picking up one particularly big chunk as a sample she yells for another Will to clean up this mess.

by **Legion** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:06 pm

"Yes'm! Yes'm, yes'm, yes'm," a few Legions shouted, rushing out and dragging the body away.

by **Faultline** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:16 pm

"I guess that would have been too easy..." she mumbles and goes back to the projected DNA and charts, putting the sample of brain-chunk into the sequencer to take a look at the changes that caused the volatile cranial expansion. After a couple of hours she lets herself fall into a chair, several new charts hovering in mid-air and corresponding vials on one of the desks.

"It's gonna be a loooong night." she mumbles to herself, absentmindedly scratching some now-dried blood from her cheek.

by **Legion** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:17 pm

"Some sleep would be good?" a Legion suggested.

by **Faultline** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:22 pm

"Well look who just volunteered for attempt number two."

by **Legion** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:29 pm

"Who?"

by **Faultline** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:33 pm

"You, idiot." she says, tossing Legion an epipen, this time keeping a bit more of a distance.

by **Legion** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 2:37 pm

"Oh, right..." he said, injecting himself, and then blinking.

"Am not!"

by **Faultline** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 2:38 pm

"Caught that, did you. Can't sneak anything past you." she deadpans.

by **Legion** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 2:48 pm

"I do NOT think that!"

by **Faultline** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 2:51 pm

"And your point is?"

by **Legion** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 3:12 pm

"I am NOT useless!"

by **Faultline** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 3:14 pm

"What are you on ab... wait, hold on! It's working!"

by **Legion** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 3:37 pm

"Well, yes, but don't you think it needs....no, I do not! What....could you keep it d....argh, no need to shout..."

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