MBryO: The Escape by Townsend Dodie

Author:Townsend, Dodie [Townsend, Dodie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-08-10T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

The elevator doors chimed opened, sounding overly loud to Pax’s anxious ears.

Elias Abrams stepped carefully out into a darkened corridor. His psy-talent on high alert, Pax cautiously followed the older man out of the lift. As was his habit, he stepped sideways into a flanking position, his blaster covering the hallway.

This part of the basement lay beneath the southern wing of the MBryO UNIX building. Accessible only through the elevator system, it was situated directly below Maxim’s private laboratory.

According to Melara and Elias, the lab was state of the art. Funded by the DOD, it had every modern surgical tool imaginable and was outfitted with a bank of incubators lining the sterile gray and white walls.

The incubators resembled enclosed aquariums with a saucer sized peephole built into the top of it. A green jelly-like substance filled the glass and chrome boxes, which were fed by wires and tubes, attached to, and running from, a heavy square base constructed of Myconeum alloy.

Inside those incubators were Maxim’s cloned experiments, all in various stages of development. Lately, the number of his clones had dwindled considerably as the ‘Old One’s’ health had declined. No longer could her DNA be harvested daily. The harvesting had to be spaced out since the extraction procedure was slowly killing her.

This inconvenienced Maxim to no end. But the ‘Old One’ was the last remaining female of a psy-talented race of people. There was no one else exactly like her in the entire world. He made himself wait longer and longer between experiments, giving her body time to recover before he continued his work.

Only authorized personnel were permitted to observe Maxim’s cloning procedures. Elias had never witnessed the sickening assault personally. The thought of it sickened him to no end! But, he was aware that more than one DOD official had watched Maxim perform one of his evil experiments, from the glass paneled balcony located above the laboratory, which resembled a hospital operating room.

His blaster raised, Elias led the way to a door at the end of the corridor. He paused with his hand on the knob. Pax remained close on his heels and their eyes met briefly before Elias gently turned the door knob.

There was no access panel beside this door, giving visitors and passersby the erroneous notion that whatever was behind the door was totally innocuous. Elias had come prepared to break in, but the door was ajar; cracked opened just enough for him to see an inky darkness beyond.

In spite of the stern control he had upon his psy-talent, Elias could not suppress his racing pulse. Success was at his fingertips. Finally, he was able to finish the mission that had inspired him to join MBryO six years ago. That mission was to free, to his knowledge, the last remaining Xenaclon female.

Hesitantly, he pushed the door wider and stepped into the darkness that beckoned from within.

“Freezhia?” he whispered aloud.

His shields were still in place. He could not risk Maxim Bryant intercepting any sort of psy-message to the ‘Old One’.

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