Cyan Augur
"What the -" I stammered as I took a few steps back. We were strikingly identical from top to bottom except he was wearing a white body suit. I had no time to be bothering about a clone. I checked Claire's wound which had already closed up. Not even a scar was left. The tiny scratches on her body began to close right before me. It couldn't be. It shouldn't.
"Here let me help," someone said behind me. I turned to see another clone.
"What are you?" I asked already knowing the answer.
It sighed, "Do I have to be the logical one?"
I moved back even more.
"Are you afraid to admit it?" It said moving closer, "You...sorry we've been genetically modified, even Claire is!"
I felt lightheaded. I stumbled backwards and another set of hands grabbed me.
"Watch where you're going original," yet another clone warned me.
Claire stirred in my arms and came around.
"What's going on Cyan?" she asked as I dropped her. It took her a few seconds to fully access the environment. "Holy fuck!"
"Yeah only fuck! Let's get out of here," I said and grabbed her hand.
"How did this happen?" she asked.
"The machine sent a radio -" clone number one started but I cut him off. "Cut the crap," I said trying to calm down, "First we've got to get out of here."
"Where's Five?" Claire asked.
"When the wolf tried to eat you, Five distracted it and got hit. I haven't seen him since," I summarized.
"We've got to go back," she suggested.
"Only if you get out here first," I ordered.
"He saved me!" she yelled.
"You could use us as bodyguards," Two said. I decided to call them according to how they showed up. Although they were identical I could somehow tell one from the other and I could rely on them since they were practically me.
The ground began to rumble as the wolf came back with the Thoth guy in its mouth.
"Two and Three take care of Claire. One follow me," I ordered. I waited until they'd gone down a corridor before I took my eyes off them.
"How do we get it to open its mouth?" One asked.
"Anything we try might get it to chomp on that guy but seeing as it hasn't eaten him yet it must still retain its memory. We just have to -"
A Grahfin walked into the corridor. It was more gruesome than anything I'd ever seen. It was swollen and mismatched. it was covered with mouths and I mean mouths with jagged teeth. Its tufts of once blond hair and blue eyes had a red tinge because of someone's blood. Its skin was red and its hands were now jagged bones.
"C...yan," it said with a familiar voice.
Then it struck me, no all of us. I felt my clones' thoughts engulf me and we all came to the same can conclusion. It was covered unbelievable but that monster was...
Charging at us!
It slashed its bones as it moved. One and I jumped in different directions as it passed us.
"We're not going to fight that thing, we're going to run you hear that?" I yelled.
One nodded and we ran to the lesser danger - the wolf. It began to move away. I looked for anything to use against it. There was nothing useful but my eye caught something.
It was gleaming on the floor. A Mars weapon. It was a multipurpose extendable staff which was about a foot long. It was once used by Mars but they'd stopped using it thinking it was useless not if they knew how to use it.
I picked it up. "How to work it?"
The grahfin came back. It charged at One. I hate to admit it but a thought crossed my mind.
"Why should I save him?"
No. He was still a person even if he was a copy.
"Dumb staff extend!" It grew longer and hit the grahfin square in the face sending it flying into another wall.
Voice activated.
I grinned," Shorten." It shrunk in size and I ran for the wolf. I forced myself to think about a plan so my clones would get the message.
Grab any weapon you can, I thought.
"Extend," I pointed the staff forward and brought it downwards. Using the staff as a pole l launched myself into the air. I hoped the jump was precise. I landed on the wolf's muzzle nearly missing it.
"Hey!" I yelled and slapped the Thoth guy's face. "Wake up!"
No reply. "One!"
He grabbed the staff. "Shorten."
He threw it at me but that was when the wolf fucked up. It shook its head violently which sent me off point and I missed the staff entirely and cut myself on a tooth.
One had run into another corridor because of the grahfin and the staff was falling fast.
"No."
A set of feet passed over my head. It was another clone.
He grabbed the staff and threw it back as he fell. There was a thunk as a metal shaft pierced his chest from behind.
"Thanks," I said and grabbed the staff. I put the staff between the wolf's teeth. "This is going to hurt." I didn't think I could handle that stunt.
"Extend!" The staff elongated and opened the wolf's mouth.
I grabbed the guy and pulled him out which was tricky as the wolf began to jump and shake its body trying to remove the staff.
It broke the floor below us. The only problem was that the wolf didn't bend its head 90° downwards.
As usual it did. I grabbed the staff and held the Thoth guy's hand.
Suddenly, thoughts from my clones started popping into my head. There were four possible outcomes and only one could keep us alive. I gulped as it dawned on me what I had to do.
"Shorten." The staff reverted back to its normal length as we fell.
I slapped the guy's face, "Would you wake up."
He stirred a little but his reaction was too late.
"Extend," I yelled as we reached the hole. Next was SNAP!
My shoulder blade shifted from our combined weight. "Ahhh!!!!"
"Who the hell's yelling?"
Right then and there I wanted the idiot to fall to his doom.
"Now you're awake motherfucker!"
"What happened?"
"You're wolf's trying to eat us," I snapped but I couldn't blame him.
"No...no," he muttered and suddenly I felt heavier.
"Oh come on," I grunted as the concrete around the staff started crumbling.
"Not again," he whimpered.
"What?"
"It's the gravity, I can't control it."
"What do you mean by you can't control-"
The concrete gave in and we went into an unusually fast free fall.
"I can do this. I can do this," he was murmuring.
There was nothing I could do but prepare for the inevitable.