'As C was observing Little Alessandra she could tell the girl was trying to process. Their related status, but time waits for no one and this little niece of hers needed to be on the up and up fast if she was going to survive these first few days at the Academy.'
"Now little Asa I noticed through your thoughts that this is how you want to be addressed. So this Aunt of yours is going to give you the quick rundown of your situation and what your doing in the next few days and minutes."
....That kind of caught me off guard I never thought this would be how I would meet my first relative. An AI of my distant Aunt according to C. But at least I finally can get some answers to why I was just now found by my family. As I think I gesture for C to enlighten me.
'As C was listening to Asa's thoughts she was slightly amused by this girl.' "Well to the main point then of how you as a infant was lost by the governing authority on this moon of Zerkis IV for the duration of 16 years."
"The Simple answer is you were swapped at birth with another baby. Who was placed there by a rival power who was interested in the techniques we use to raise our young. The sad part is we did not notice because you are part of a set of triplets you being the fraternal to the other two who are identical."
" letting the info sink in for a few seconds I continue. I can see the confusion and disbelief in the girls eyes."
" You were all girls but the spy's were prepared they knew you were different. They had a cloned baby with our family DNA signature with all kinds of hidden spy genes in her body to send data out that they could collect. And it worked for all of two days when we noticed that the child was too far from the DNA of the other triplets."
" So we checked and discovered the spy genes in the child and we knew something was not right at that point. We discovered it fast but not fast enough, you were gone and we only caught half of the enemy spy's. The only good thing about the situation was we knew you were alive because they were planing to swap you back after a month. So that we would be none the wiser to the swap in the first place but we caught on faster then they thought."
" Plus the leader was the only person who knew where you were and she disappeared with the other half of the spy's. So us being to good is the reason we lost you in the first place. We would have got you back if we had never caught on to their plan. But initially we thought they killed you and we over reacted in our pursuit."
" Too wrap it up we had an idea that you were still on our moon. So we started doing DNA tests every few years on all the young children. That acted as a way to scout talent in the population and to find our missing family member. The funny thing is we found extra descendants than just you through the years, products of some of our branch family members screwing around outside."
"But we just found you through all that mess come to find that someone kept hiding your DNA, like for example that corrupt director from your orphanage. Who was bribed to hold you by those spy's all those years ago. Till he finally slipped up yesterday. And all that brings us here and now with you in the academy ready to join the family business. Questions?"
As C finished her explanation I had no words to express my disbelief in this crazy story. I mean come on clones and baby swaps spy's and corruption. What is this a holo drama, this stuff happens in real life!!!. I almost want to just body slam and strangle those spy's could they not do a better job and actually return me. And that old stupid director I knew he was fishy always looking at me like I was a walking Gal coin stick. Apparently I was, looking up at C I can see she is sorry it took so long to find me.
Looking in her eyes.... so what's next. I know she is reading my mind.
'Looking at Asa I move on to the more pressing information. "Ok so Asa as a member of the Woods family you would have Normally been provided the best care we could provide as you were developing. But now you find yourself lagging behind the other members of your generation."
" Too fix that we are going to amplify your care over the next two years. The thing is the family is not sure you are worth the effort as you are so far behind the others. So the next few tests and you effort in this week will decide your future."
"The first test being the clone limit test. Which will determine how many your brain and soul can tolerate at one given time. If you don't know most military officers and soldiers use clones as a medium on the battlefield. But everyone has a limit to the amount of times they can be cloned in a 10 year period, or it will damage you physical and mental health. The reason being these clones are special they link directly to your body and mind made in days and limited by the originals potential and skill."
"An average soldier can withstand 3-4 clones in a 10 year span. And if all the clones die most ether retire or are put in the reserves till their 10 years reset. Talented individuals with good DNA and training can tolerate 9-12 clones, and a genius can withstand 13-15 clones and some the super rare have a 20 clone limit. The elite of the elite. You can imagine the advantages to having a nice upper limit more clones more lives and more missions and risks you can take."
"Plus all the skills an information your clone acquires go back to the original. So let's see what kind of potential you have girl. "
As I listened to C's rundown I could only imagine the advantage people who prepare for this get. Mind training and physical conditioning all for this one moment. I wait as C extracts my DNA and scans my mind.
The time seems to move so slow and I know it's time lapsed because it's virtual reality. But Man the suspense is killing me. I look on as the progress bar gets closer to my results. I can only wait and accept my fate.
And ding the bar stops and it's in, and I can't believe my eyes a ? Is all I see the results have an error. Blinking I kind of wish I kept my virtual eyes closed.... I flip the Coffey table In front of me in the air. All that for a ? Really. I'm so done with today it's been crazy after crazy a girl can only take so much. The most confusing bday ever.
I look and C is looking just as confused as me she did not even respond to the table flip which just resets after a second.... it's just quiet..... ok she's trying again.......... and it's in and it's a....... 19.2 am I reading that right a decimal is in there. Wait is that a 19.... I don't know if I should be happy or mad that I'm a genius. And that I could have been better if raised in the family.
C just stands up and dose the test again....... and it's a 19.1999 Oh it went down a little wonder why. And again....... 19.21111 ok it moved up now. C just turns and looks at me with wide eyes. Then she just appears in my face and grabs my cheeks.
"Asa you are ether cursed or blessed I cant decide which. But ether way this is darn impressive. You just beat out most kids in this sector of space. With no training and preparation."