Star Wars: Galaxy of Fear 11: Clones by John Whitman

Author:John Whitman
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Magic, Action & Adventure, Fantasy, Juvenile Fiction, Fiction, Science Fiction, Horror & Ghost Stories, Cloning, Science fiction, General
ISBN: 9780553486414
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: 1998-07-06T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 9

Tash couldn't believe her eyes. It was her. For a moment she couldn't accept it. It had to be her imagination. Or maybe a hologram.

But the hologram was holding a rock in both hands. The other girl-the other Tash-raised the rock over her head and brought it crashing down.

At the last moment Tash rolled out of the way and the rock broke against the hard floor.

Her twin was trying to kill her!

Tash tried to scramble to her feet, but her twin was already attacking. The other girl shoved her backward, pinning her against the curved wall of the round room. The other Tash's fingers curled around her throat and started to squeeze.

Tash gagged as her air was cut off. She clutched at her attacker's hands, but the other Tash only squeezed harder. Desperately, Tash curled her hand into a fist and punched. She felt her fist make contact. The other Tash grunted and let go.

Tash slid along the wall, trying to stay out of reach of her attacker.

"Who-Who are you?" she gasped.

The other girl touched her jaw where Tash had hit her. Then she grinned. Although she was an identical copy, Tash had already seen a difference between herself and her mysterious twin. The other girl had a wicked gleam in her eye. She started toward Tash again without answering.

"Stay back!" Tash said. She didn't know what to do. "I don't want to fight. I need to know what's going on."

The other Tash laughed. "You won't need to know once you're dead!"

She lunged at Tash again. Tash jumped away and ran for the exit.

Whoever, whatever this other Tash was, she fought like an animal. Tash needed to put some distance between them.

She ran down one of the passages between the ruined buildings, hoping to lose the other Tash in the maze of stone blocks. But she soon heard footsteps behind her. Whichever way she turned, the other Tash followed.

Tash kept cutting corners and running around the huge stone blocks.

But instead of escaping her pursuer, she made a wrong turn.

A dead end rose up in front of her. One of the stone building blocks had fallen, blocking the path. It was too high to climb over. So were the walls on either side of the passage.

Tash whirled around to turn back, but found herself looking at her mirror image once again.

"Ha!" her twin laughed. "Nowhere to run."

"Who are you?" Tash demanded.

Her twin laughed again. "Don't you know, Tash? I'm you."

"You're not me," Tash replied. "Whatever you are, you're not me."

"Oh, I'm you," the other Tash said, stalking forward. "I'm the dark side you don't want to let out. We're the same right down to the last gene. But there isn't room in this life for both of us. And since I'm stronger-you'll just have to go."

The evil Tash looked around and picked up another large rock. It was twice the size of her fist. She hefted it and smiled.

Tash knew this other Tash would kill her. It was willing to kill; it even wanted to kill.

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