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Inside was a small electronic chip.Elias’s expression changed on the monitor.For the first time, he looked genuinely surprised.Margaret held up the chip.“You wanted this?”Elias’s smile disappeared.“Margaret, put that down.”She looked directly at the screen.“No.”The old woman’s voice returned.“Now you understand, my daughter. Elias has been using an incomplete authorization system. He needs that chip to access the original termination controls.”Ethan looked at Margaret.“Then we can stop him?”“Yes,” their grandmother answered.“But you must reach the original laboratory before the activation begins.”Margaret examined the chip.“Can it disable the protocol remotely?”“No. It must be inserted into the original control station.”Elias suddenly leaned toward the camera.“You have no idea what you’re doing.”Margaret’s expression hardened.“I know exactly what I’m doing.”“You’ll destroy everything your mother spent her life building.”“No,” Margaret replied. “I’ll finally put
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Margaret remained motionless.Ethan watched her carefully.“Aunt Margaret?”She didn’t answer.Alexander stepped closer.“What did that recording mean?”Margaret slowly lowered her eyes.“I think I know.”“Then tell us.”She took a deep breath.“When I was younger, Mother used to conduct private research outside Blackridge. She rarely discussed it with anyone, not even Elias. I remember her spending months away from home, sometimes returning with medical documents and biological samples.”Thomas shifted uncomfortably on the medical bed.“I remember that too.”Margaret looked at him.“You were only seventeen when everything happened. You might not remember the details.”“I remember enough.”He paused.“She used to tell us that our family had inherited something unusual. Something that could potentially change medicine forever.”Ethan folded his arms.“We already know about the biological response.”“No,” Margaret replied. “What Elias discovered was only part of it.”She returned to the
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Margaret stared at the screen.“That’s impossible.”Alexander stepped closer.“What’s impossible?”“Mother’s authorization was revoked twenty-two years ago. Even if someone had access to her old credentials, they shouldn’t be able to approve a new Genesis sequence.”Ethan looked at the message.“Unless someone has recreated her authorization.”Margaret nodded slowly.“Exactly.”Samuel folded his arms.“Could Elias have done that?”“Of course. He’s had access to the original research for decades.”Their grandmother’s voice suddenly came through the speakers.“Margaret, listen to me.”Everyone turned toward the ceiling.“Someone has accessed my original credentials. But I did not authorize anything.”Margaret rushed toward the control station.“Mother, can you identify the connection?”“I’m trying. The authorization is coming from the original laboratory in Switzerland.”Alexander frowned.“Can you stop it?”A pause followed.“No. The system is recognizing the authorization as legitimat
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For a moment, their mother couldn’t move.She stared at the young man standing in the doorway, searching his face for the little boy she remembered.“Samuel…”Her voice broke.The young man nodded, his eyes already filling with tears.“It’s me, Mom.”She took one hesitant step forward.Then another.“Samuel!”She rushed toward him and wrapped her arms around him.He held her tightly, closing his eyes as though he had spent years imagining that exact moment.“I thought you were dead,” she whispered against his shoulder. “They told me you were dead.”Samuel swallowed.“I know.”She pulled back to examine his face.“Where have you been? Who took you? How did you survive?”Samuel looked down.“I don’t know where to begin.”Alexander approached slowly.“Samuel?”The young man turned toward him.For several seconds, he simply stared at his father.Then his expression changed.“Dad?”Alexander’s face crumpled.He reached for his son and pulled him into an embrace.“I’m sorry,” he whispered.
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Ethan stared at the photograph.The boy looked about ten years old. He had dark hair, a small nose, and a serious expression. His hand rested against their mother’s side as she smiled faintly at the camera.It was an ordinary photograph.That was what made it so disturbing.“Mom,” Lily whispered. “Who is he?”Their mother couldn’t take her eyes off the screen.“His name was Samuel.”Alexander turned toward her.“Samuel?”She nodded slowly.“He was born before Daniel. Before any of you.”Ethan’s expression changed.“Before Daniel?”“Yes.”Daniel stepped forward.“How old was he?”“Almost two when he disappeared.”Alexander looked at his wife in disbelief.“You never told me we had another child.”“I thought he was dead.”Her voice broke.“I was told there had been an accident. They said he hadn’t survived.”Ethan looked back at the photograph.“Who told you that?”She hesitated.“Elias.”A heavy silence settled over the room.Margaret slowly closed the file.“Now I understand.”Alexand
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Nobody moved.Alexander stared at the monitor, struggling to understand what he was seeing.Then he turned toward the containment unit.Thomas was still inside, struggling against the restraints.“What’s going on?” Alexander demanded. “Why are there two of you?”Thomas shook his head.“I don’t know.”Margaret moved closer to the screen.“Show me the medical records.”The system responded immediately.A series of files appeared.ORIGIN ZERO — INITIAL EXPERIMENT: 22 YEARS AGO.SUBJECT: THOMAS STORM.STATUS: CRITICAL.BIOLOGICAL REPLICATION: SUCCESSFUL.Margaret’s face went pale.“Replication…”Ethan looked at her.“Are you saying they made a copy of Thomas?”“Not exactly. Look at the next file.”She opened it.The report contained several photographs taken inside the original research laboratory.One showed Thomas at seventeen, unconscious on a medical table.Another showed a second body inside a separate chamber.The final photograph was partially damaged, but the description beneath i
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