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A gift for my fellow readers! One more chapter! Due to my life business I'm only able to update on fridays or during the weekends so, as I had this chapter already finished, I decided to update it for you. Hope you like it :D
Fearless Tiger: Hahaha :P I see you're back! I'm glad you took your time to review once again ^^
Spade - Omega 7: Yeah there is going to be more father/daughter stuff later on, but it's going to take a while. I'm glad you liked it :D
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Secret Laboratories Complex – unknown date, somewhere in China
All she knew was that she was somewhere far away. Very far away from Japan and everything else. A couple of days after she had started working as a spy, she was requested to go to the most private establishment of the Security Council. She had flown to China and met some creepy men in black at the airport, and after they had duly proven their identities, she let herself be laid in a comfortable wide car. It took them seven hours to reach an abandoned house in the middle of a desert, which was likely to be the Gobi Desert, she thought. Then she remembers going down into a tunnel under the earth; she couldn't see much for it was dark at the steep lane. It was a long way until they arrived at what they called Selco - Secret Laboratories Complex; a rather simple name for a place that required almost complete seclusion from the rest of the world. She found it weird that the Japanese secrets were hidden under Chinese land, and eventually found out that it was due to strategic reasons and that there were huge negotiations on that matter.
She remembers going through an endless path equipped with all kinds of security precaution systems: there was something that she guessed to be a 3D scanner, for it had beamed a light at her from the top to the bottom of her body – without her permission. She had seen a 3D scanner before, it was kind of old technology (except for the fact that this one had functioned at the speed of an eye's blink), but having a digital 3D version of yourself didn't sound that pleasant to her as she could not...edit it.
"Agent Z99, come in!" a voice said, interrupting her vanity cogitations.
She blinked and moved herself in order to cross an extremely thick door, and as soon as her body was entirely inside, it was sealed.
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She woke up and stretched herself. The young woman had been there for just one night and it was already hard to distinguish whether it was day or night whatsoever. On the day before, she had been informed to meet agent Z98 in front of the TM sector's door which was also known as The Forbidden Door.
As soon as the set time was getting close, the inexperienced female agent went to the said place. When she arrived, the other agent was already there, staring blankly at the door. It was a man, probably around the same age as hers.
She walked softly towards the contemplative being, trying not to break his concentration. He heard her approaching steps anyway and turned his gaze towards her face.
"Depending on the unraveling of all this, we can be considered very lucky or very damned," he said.
After a moment of utter surprise, she nodded and leaned her back on the wall by the Forbidden Door.
That mere closed door separated the two beings from the finally completed invention. Built somewhere in the depths of the Earth, one could say the machine was undoubtedly part of an extremely confidential project. The whole gadget occupied an area whose diameter was around the distance between the extremes of Japan. It was almost ten times larger than the rest of the laboratories complex. What could there be inside...? Everybody at Selco knew subconsciously. But speculation was neither a common nor well-accepted habit among experts of science – they were supposed to precisely prove their statements – so everyone just kept their wonders to themselves and waited for time and work answer their questions.
A third person joined the pair of agents who looked at the newcomer curiously. It was a mid-aged woman with friendly eyes and a inviting stance.
"Hello, my darlings. I am the supervisor of the whole experiment, you may call me Agent S16. Please accompany me into the TM Sector."
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After being introduced to the mysterious sector in a general manner, which lasted around two hours, both agents were waiting for the supervisor to tell them about their actual tasks at the whole thing. The older woman noticed that and spout at once:
"You will research Ancient China. There is evidence that once there were other beings who carried the Gene Combination 4040. I- ...we want you to inspect that."
The inexperienced agents frowned at what they'd just heard. They knew what the GC4040 was. But, could it be possible? Besides, they didn't expect it to be all about a plain research.
"Uh... Can't we research Ancient China up there?" The young girl wondered. She was underestimating the project. No one got mad, though; they were used to that kind of reaction. In order to change the girl's mind, the supervisor decided to be a little more direct.
"There is almost nothing left up there. Thus the machine will take you to Ancient China; you will be there." She answered in a casual one, ignoring the facial expressions of both agents.
"I'll try to be as simplistic as I can. The human soul is made of a certain kind of energy, we do not have the power to alter it or destroy it, but we can manipulate it in order to link it to other bodies. That process is more likely to be successful the more similar to the original body the vessel is. Roughly speaking, the machine will recreate your body at a set date, time and location. After that, your brain data will be transferred to the vessel as well as a link between it and your soul will be created. We do not master this type of science yet; therefore the link becomes unstable after some time and the soul eventually returns to its original source. The time limit before your soul comes back to your actual body is one week. So that is the amount of time you will be given to gather as much information as you can. Note that you have agreed to our responsibility terms and, if something unexpected happens, ...well, you know the risks. However, if you come back safely, you will have accomplished one of the most ambitious desires of human kind."
The young agents seemed to have been paralyzed. It took several seconds for them to absorb all the information given. They looked at each other and then to the supervisor, expecting it to be some kind of joke at last. But they knew it wasn't. Agent Z98 – the boy – reached his cheek with his hand and then passed it through his hair in nervousness.
"Travel on time..." he whispered.
"...But what if we die while we're in the past?" the young girl asked suddenly, which made the other agents turn their heads towards her at the same time.
"Oh, your soul will return to your original body and your vessel will deteriorate regularly. In case death happens before the week is over, all that will happen is you being here earlier than expected. Ah, I was almost forgetting an important fact: you will be sent to different places in China, in case positioning doesn't work out as expected. And one last warning: remember that you may not interfere in history; you just have to do the research as sagely and discretely as you can. By changing the past, you might create a parallel universe and we do not have control over the consequences of that. I cannot give further details on this matter. Understood?"
"Yes," both agents said in unison.
"Don't worry about the machine. The process will happen very fast. If everything turns out the way we predicted, you will be able to open your eyes in one minute after you start arriving there."
What the hell. That was the first thought that thrived into the two beings' minds after everything they had heard that day. The young female agent was about to freak out.
"Start...arriving?"
- Author's Note -
Whoa! A Time machine! Guess what is gonna happen next chappie?
:DDD
Tell me what you think and see ya soon!
R&R Please! I would like to listen to the opinion of everyone who is reading this story! Thanks in advance ^^
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