A clone for a hybrid

Sometimes getting out of trouble is not so easy. They seem to somehow haunt us in the first carelessness in which the mind remembers what happened.

For a girl who had grown up as if she were just a normal person, it was suddenly to see everything destroyed. Seeing the world collapse overnight and it didn't mean that it was the invasion that was happening on planet Earth or the pandemic that was spreading across the globe.

Knowledge is power. Words spoken at the time of anger are not always lost in the wind. There is a continuous and cyclical echo, without ever having an end of refuge when they hurt. It often remains only to appeal to the gift of forgetfulness.

Or indulge in revolt and fury. Angel still didn't know what to think.

After the terrible argument with Scarllet and his return to Zorack's dormitory, much worse discoveries awaited his arrival.

Some papers were lying on the table in complete disarray. And something else, a brilliant sphere as if it were pure energy. Angel's tired eyes capture the phrase that stood out on the papers with amazement. Terra Azul colony of guinea pigs.

Guinea pigs? She didn't even notice the body collapsing anaesthetized in the chair as she started to leaf through the reports. Everything was the most absurd story as she read.

Logbook, the year 2420

Discussions in the Senate continue on the safety of human guinea pigs used in hybridization processes. Although the planet is divided into sectors and isolated by energy fields that cannot be seen, the living creature rights department protests about the use of guinea pigs without the prior consent in research to mix genomes with alien species to prevent the extinction of endangered species.

Logbook, the year 2421

Today there were more demonstrations because of the overcrowding of the sectors of the terrestrial colony, revealing worrying data about the conditions that some creatures live without care, food or shelter. Minority age violations have been reported for scientific research despite the guidelines safeguarding the right of the youngest specimens.

Personal notes.

The Blue Planet, known as Terra is part of the hybridization program for the preservation of alien species threatened with extinction. The immense laboratory keeps guinea pigs in satisfactory conditions of life despite reports of overcrowding in some sectors. I tried again through bribes to try to locate with the guardians of the planet where a hybrid of K'Aldriants was placed. All the information I was able to collect was that his sector is on the northern continent. I have only one name given to the sector. The USA. Other sectors have already been investigated.

Angel widened her eyes in a trance and paralyzed. How so sectors? Did Zorack mean cages? "She went back to reading with growing horror.

The management of the sectors decided to maintain the conditions of the local ecosystems. There are currently 196 prisons with energy fields delimiting each one and known by the name of the country along with the guinea pigs of experiences. Each specimen allotment has its managers for the choice of guinea pigs able to participate in the hybridization processes. It is estimated that it will exceed 7 billion guinea pigs, but the data may not be updated. The most worrying issue is that new indices point to the growth of the male population since most females do not usually survive the gestation period of the hybrids or their birth. Although we have oviparous species, hybridization remains with the characteristics of the chosen host. The process presents the birth of the embryos of experience around 37 and 42 weeks.

-God Beloved! No ... it's not possible! This ... this is ...- Angel gasped lividly, shuffling more papers with anxiety and shaking hands.

Tears filled his agonized gaze as he read more and more notes perplexed by the revelations. It was like falling in free fall with nowhere to cling.

The logbook year 2424

I managed to be seconded to the space-time patrol sector. According to new guidelines, all devices for time travel have been declared illegal and prohibited use because of gravitational waves. Changes in the course of evolution of the history of a species will only be authorized under the guidelines of the Federation of United Planets. Another section of the Zairon Galaxy fell under attack and invasion by the K'Aldriants. We still don't have any weapons that can be used to face these creatures.

Angel stopped dumbfounded, staring at the image on the papers more stunned than ever as she brought her fingers to her lips, containing a sob.

-That ... this is crazy! No ... it can't be true! God! My God...

I still have no evidence that the hybrid I am looking for is in the northern sector known as the USA. Research shows that it is perhaps one of the most carefully guarded guinea pig prisons. The ecosystem conditions in the region are ideal with low temperatures that K'Aldriants seem to adapt better too.

Logbook- Before the departure of Spartackus

The northern sector recognition mission indicates that we will have a search and apprehension of the specimen that carries the DNA of these murderous monsters. I have no idea what we can find. Even with the little coexistence I had with the hybrid at a young age, they are not reliable. Behaviour shows changes in mood and dominance over an elemental fire. My orders are to capture it and bring it over so that negotiation with Ravenack can be decided. A mutation science officer was appointed to study the specimen's genome. We have orders to capture her alive. Any hostile resistance will be considered a threat by the Confederation and will demand immediate extermination to prevent the creation of a new predatory species in our Universe.

-Angel! Angel! "Spike's voice echoed in the silence of the hall for a moment of terror for Angel.

She even read it quickly before answering ...

I must keep in mind that this is just a specimen that is probably hostile. To think that because of this creature, Edrin was invaded and destroyed forcing us to live in spaceships is frustrating. It is even worse to have lived as a slave in the mines of N'Tirlay because of her. I hope the mission can make Scarllet understand that our relationship has ended. I count on Max for that. This whole mission is annoying. The time flow generator has been adjusted to go back to the Earth year 2025 in the past, just before the sectors were destroyed. We have orders not to make any contact with the guardians of the planet.

-ANGEL!

... Hybrid aberrations that can change shape and that they often call werewolves and vampires in prisons will still be imprisoned. Just like the ethereal creatures they call ghosts. The entire crew received immunization against the poison they bring. The contamination of those infected by these creatures has a rate of 100% and has no known cure.

-I was crazy! It's just an outbreak of madness! "Angel stammered pale, shaking her heavy head.

Hybrid. Bloodsuckers? Curse! It was a joke to imagine things like those that were just legends being trapped anywhere on Earth!

... More accurate studies prove that K'Aldriants feed on spinal fluids and blood plasma. They are violent and dangerous after choosing the host. Its sharp claws indicate a high mortality rate in melee attacks, with perforated tissue. Unknown alien species still in our databases. They have a body covered with a second layer of skin from a material that does not appear to be organic as we know it. It has the appearance of reddish liquid metal that is retractable just like the tusks used for feeding. Any indication of danger to the crew triggers the security protocol for the girl's immediate death. She is the first female of a species that we detected to be composed only of male specimens. Everything indicates that they have asexual reproduction, which guarantees less genetic viability. There are suspicions that a new breed from the hybrid mating will give rise to an oviparous species just like the Urodelans. The current girl's name for the location is Angel Forester.

Angel shuddered the papers on the floor without holding back tears. His orders were just to kill her. That explained all of Scarlet's anger and revolt. And it was even worse. Was that alien Zorack's wife ?!

The cry was strangled in her dry throat and she refused to accept the word hybrid. It was perfectly normal. If it hadn't been, they would have found out. The memory of those men in suits who looked like the government filled her with absolute terror. Were the guardians Zorack was talking about?

Something inside her was broken by the writings. It could be tremendously wrong to read personal notes. It was invading his privacy. But after everything that had happened between them, and it all came down to a disastrous night and then followed by caresses that made her dizzy made her walk through hell. He seemed to have liked her.

The sound of his laughter asking why he would like her made her insides freeze.

-But what the hell! Did it cost so much to answer? Everyone here is crazy after Zorack was injured.- Spike was talking annoyed.

Angel nodded dumbly without finding words. Hybrid. They fed on blood. She had ... The floor seemed to disappear under her feet as she struggled to hold on to any reality that might be normal.

"Did you hear anything you said?" Spike rolled his eyes and saw the papers lying on the floor.

The danger alarm exploded in Angel's mind with the most basic instinct for self-preservation. He couldn't allow Spike to read those documents. Destroyed, she grabbed Spike by the arm pleadingly.

-We need to take advantage of that the captain is out of action and find a way to escape from here. - she decided repeatedly.

Under the table, the sphere still glowed attractively, almost arousing a compulsion to be touched. Angel trying to appear all innocence in a very forced way took the object forcing a smile on the mask that was her face and without emotions that plagued her inside.

Zorack ... He had never felt anything for her. There was no note of emotion in the fine handwriting. It was nothing more than a guinea pig for him that could be used and discarded. Shaking his lips to contain the scream of revolt that emerged, he shook his head more decisively than ever.

-Let's get out of this damn place!

-But how? Did you see how it is out there?

Angel swallowed. Even breathing seemed difficult.

- I need to find my cousin. Ana or husband must be worried and ...

-There's a damn epidemic out there, girl. How do you expect ....?

Angel lowered his head so that Spike wouldn't see his sparkling eyes.

-For if I am going to die, I prefer to die in freedom.- he declared dryly

Even though this freedom is an immense prison of human test subjects that calls America as we know it, it was her thought of revolt.

-I thought you and the captain were lovers by the looks ...- Spike crossed his arms with envy.

Boyfriends? Her nails sank into the skin of his arm, to contain the cry of horror. It was nothing more than an animal to him. Was he married to Scarllet?

-Spike, I'm leaving! You can decide to stay ...

Spike took a deep breath at Angel's determined manner.

"You're going to get me into another one of your confusions, aren't you, Angie?"

-Please! I want to get out of here. Need to go...

Spike looked at his friend with a serious face.

-Something happened that I still don't know and ...

Angel shook his head too quickly.

-Nothing happened. We are human. Our place is with our people, Spike. If I have to die because of these aliens or a bloody virus, the last person I want to see is Zorack.

-But...

He does not love me. He never loved, I was never more than an experience for him.

And Angel didn't even have the courage to say more. The parts of the notes that talked about cloning were torn and scratched.

Somewhere in the huge colony or the laboratory was a clone made with its genetic reference. The Confederation hoped that the hybrid held in prisons could be the only weapon against its enemies. A biological weapon ...

Experiments had been carried out on her genon that neither she nor Zorack could have imagined ...