Instructer

[khamar]

Rico stood in formation with the other 'helljumpers' in a neat and military way. There helicopter sat on the tarmac behind them and the pilots were laughing at the spectacle.

Kits grandpa was pacing before the human men who were under his command and training now. "What the hell was that! You all would have been killed if this was not training!" He stopped before Rico and snorted mere inches from his face. The force of his breath made Ricos helmet fall off his head backwards.

"And you. Your worthless. Its no wonder the others always make you the bait. Thats all your good for!" Rico stuttered a bit at the awkwardness of having a dragon officer

"Uh, sorry sir. It wont happen again" Kits grandpa growled to return pacing in front of everyone. "It better now or else I will eat you myself"

Little did Rico know was that his girlfriend Kit had come to visit and was not far off also watching the spectacle.

[Mai]

Kit was about ready to laugh out loud, though she tried so hard not to. Her grandfather, a shadow dragon, had never yelled at her once. She could screw up ten times worse than them, and he would just gently correct her. That wasn't necessarily why it was funny, but still.

What was even funnier was, Jack had decided to join the training just for hte sake of it. He raised his hand up, almost like a kid in a classroom, though he didn't wait for attention to be drawn toward him before he spoke.

Actually, I wouldn't be killed. It would just be a tad uncomfortable and dark for a moment.

Yeah, he was asking to get slapped around. And Kit couldn't hold back a laugh any longer. When she managed to spit a few words out, she called across the field.

Stop bragging Jack! Not everyone is stuck alive like you!

[niko]

Rico looked at the new guy that called himself jack. Honestly Rico did not like the guy. He was a show off and just a tad bit crazy in his eyes. Those often were the ones that got other people in the team killed.

He elbowed Jack in the side and wispered. "dont talk back. You want to get us all in trouble. You have no idea what it is like to be in a dragons mouth."

He paused at that to add. "I unfortunatly do. It sucks" A military man came up on the group and spoke briefly with Kits grandpa. From the conversation he was obviously not pleased.

The uniformed military man held up a piece of paper and called out to the group. "Wich one of you is Rico McCreary?" Rico looked around in confusion but stepped out of the group.

"Uh me. Why?" The uniformed man Smiled and handed Rico the papers. "Congradulations. Your a new patriotic volunteer for the army. Fresh meat for the grinder Great. His draft number came up. Funny how they called conscripts thes days 'patriotic vonlunteers. It was no secret the military was suffering for numbers. Not enough people volunteered. And no wonder with the high death rates fighting the none human armys. Things had gotten worse since the draca nation and there wild thorough bred kin joined the anti human hype.

The military man grabbed Rico by the wrist and started to force him to follow. It was evident now why Kits Grandpa was upset. Sure he gave Rico a hard time. But honestly he was one of the old shadows best men.

As Rico was being forced along he gave Kit a quick glance then looked to the military man. "W-What will I even do! I dont have any skills of use for the military!" The Man let go of Ricos wrist and smiled. "Of course you do. Airborne Infantry. Its what made me the man I am today"

Rico looked to the cybernetic arm replacing where his flesh one use to be. The mans words did not give Rico any high hopes of surviving in the battlefront. A convoy of humves were not waiting far and already you could see civilians in the backseats. Other poor souls who were drafted. Rico was forced in and the convoy drove off. There was only one base in the capital so more then likely that was where he was taken.

Kits Grandpa shook his head. "A real shame. That boy had potential. Now that poor soul has to fight in the war. The life expectancy for them is worse then the hell jumpers.

[khamar]

Vinnie was looking over a map of Alelea when his daughter in law came. Hearing what happened to Rico Vinnie was surprisingly indifferent considering his relation to her.

"I'm afraid there is nothing I can do for you dear. Writing out a form of exception would not be legal. I follow the laws that I put down. Showing exception to him would only anger the people. A draft is a draft. Besides. It will only better him physically. You should be thanking me"

He went back to looking at the map on the table. "Rico should be going through gene therapy right now with the other recruites. Are not humans amazing creatures.... There bodys are reletivly weak. But its ability to be manipulated is great" He spoke of how all the human military members. Conscript or volunteer were genetically modified with various genes from other races to make them super human. Not that that said much when compared with a elven warrior. It made the human imperial genome soldiers rather on even pars physically.

"He will be one of our nations alite genome soldiers. A testimate to the new breed of man" Vinnie definetly did not hate humans. He sounded almost envious of them. Vinnie turned to Jack now and smiled. "hellow again old friend. Military scietists have completely mapped the human genome and there are cures for your ageing problem.... Free radicals... natural chemicals in the body that break down cells with time hense ageining. Your body must create a chemical that counters it. Thus we can stimulate your body to create free radicals like other humans. Only if you wish of course" Vinnie honestly could not understand how Jack was fine with seeing all his loved ones die around him while he lived. Perhaps he could finally grant Jack a normal human life.

Figuring his niece/step daughter would not head his words much like she did her fathers when he was alive Vinnie added. "You can head over to the base if you like to visit your boyfriend. But I assure you it is too late" He mumbled now. "I could not help even if I wanted to

At the main military base in the capital Rico was lying on a bed with rows of other new imperial genome soldiers. They all had just got the shot and there bodys were changing... painfully. There were military hospital nurses at each bed monitoring the new recruites vitals on computer screens. A genetic strand was on each monitor. Rico tossed and turned in the bed at the pain burning through his body. The nurse watching over him tightening the straps holding him down. "its for your own protection and hours. Your body is changing. The nervous system, Muscles... It will be over in a day"

Rico did not know it yet but his left eye had mutated with the genetic therapy to that of a dragons. Jade in color. There was always some small change to outside appearance on each subject. But never anything to drastic. He was still human technically.

Rico continued to toss and turn while strapped down and saw as Kit came in with a guest pass stuck to her jacket. "Hellow babe" He grimanced at the pain and grunted. "I am in so much pain"

[Mai]

Your drugs won't work, Vinnie. It's not a chemical that stops my ageing. Rather, something irreversible. It's difficult to explain how it happened, but I have what is know as a time vortex inside me, ever since I died fighting a race called the Daleks. I won't go further into detail, but trust me, I come from a time centuries in the future in a much more civilized planet than even Alalea is currently. I found nothing there to help, nor did I find anything from alien races. I highly doubt anything will ever some along. I may not like it, but one must eventually accept his fate. Instead, I throw my life on the line to keep alive those who don't need to die, and pay no consequences other than pain as sharp as shards of glass ripping through my body. Even then, only for seconds at a time. It's worth it, to see friends live to die another day when they could have been gone forever that much sooner.

Jack raised his hand in a military salute, though, appreciating Vinnie's efforts. He lowered his hand again, nodded a goodbye, and went off to wander. He rarely slept, and tonight he was more restless than usual. Something was coming in the wind, and he could feel it. If the races didn't band together, they would all perish. If he closed his eyes and concentrated, he could almost hear the danger. His eyes shot open in pure fear. Fear that he would live to watching everyone dying. And only one word came to mind, a word related to only one race, the race that had killed him: Exterminate.

A chill ran through his body as his eyes widened. He had thought they had been defeated, back in the Medusa Cascade, but it was as the Doctor had always said. He found himself running into the infirmary and stopped next to Kit before he could vocalize the words that the Doctor had echoed all those years ago.

They always survive, when I lose everything..

He muttered. And the horrible part was, Jack looked scared--He was never scared. He looked up at Kit and Rico. Kit was looking confused and incredibly concerned.

They're back. They survived. And... I'm sorry, but chance are that you're all going to die.

Kit grabbed Rico's hand squeezing it tight, nothing but pure fear on her face. She couldn't hide it, just as Jack couldn't.

Who, Jack? Who survived?

The Daleks. They're... these creatures, in metal transport devices, but... They're unstoppable. We don't have the right weapons here, even if we did they'd only last so long. We've almost never been able to stop them before....

But How did you do it?

Well, sheer luck most the time... The first time, though, Rose, she... She took the energy of a tiem vortex from the heart of the TARDIS, used it to disitegrate them, and bring me back to life. But we can't do that, no one can handle that power, it's a miracle I'm surviving with it in me...

Kit bit her lower lip and glanced down at Rico, then pulled her hand away.

When the time comes, I'm trying. You can't stop me. There were prophecies about me being some sort of saviour, and its damn time I tried to do something about it. You get the TARDIS here, and when they come, these Dalek things... I'll do whatever it takes. If it kills me, it was worth the risk.

Jack would have argued, but he knew better than to argue with Kit when she got that determined look in her eye. He'd known her long enough. He definitely didn't look like he approved, but he knew it actually was Alalea's best shot. Yes, they had gods and magic here, but the Daleks were too different for anyone to be ready. Hell, he knew them and he wasn't ready. After all, they were always the ones that survived, no matter what happened.

[niko]

Rico laughed at what Jack said and winced from pain. "Wow, sounds like something out of one of my sciense fiction novels. I always knew you were strange. But crazy to boot?"

Vinnie was still looking over his map when a general came running in in a hurry. "Sir, I have something you might want to see...." The human put some photos on the table and Vinnie looked at the satalite photos of ships. "When were these taken?" He asked the general.

The fourstar general frowned and said again while not quite answering the emperors question. "From there current speed they should be entering our atmosphere in 48 hours"

The emperor sighed. "Contact Sector 6. They should have created interesting weapons from the technology of that alien spaceship we shot down years ago"

[Mai]

-Daleks on Wikipedia: Click and a good pictures of the crazy evil, but yet so amusing, things: Click

Kit shook her head.

Believe him Rico. He's far from crazy. And he knows a hell of a lot more about this stuff than we do, though we do know a bit. The government keeps it secret, handled by officials and stuff. I've dealt with it, when I worked for the government. I wish I could say it wasn't true.

And, indeed, the Dalek ships were approaching. Why they were coming here was yet unknown, but Jack figured it was probably something to do with the Doctor being around here. Hell-bent on world domination, they were also set on destroying the Doctor and Alexx, the last two remaining time lords. If they did that, no one could stand in their way and they knew it. They may follow orders, even if the orders don't make sense, but that didn't mean they weren't intelligent.

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[niko]

(Ha! They look amusing and hardly threatening at all. As far as they know the doctor and Alexx are the last. Lets not forget Rothgar)

Rico was in to much pain to argue with Kit. "Fine, Whatever you say" He knew better then to argue. From past experience Rico learned.

The nurse had tolerated Kit and Jacks presence enough. "You two have to leave. Private McCreary needs rest"

She added further as some armed MP's came to 'escourt' the two out. "I'm surprised they even let you in. With the recent attack of that draca spy and all. The beast is still loose on the base and wrecking havoc"

If that spy was still around in good time it would attack the medical hospital. What better way to damage the imperial military then by destroying the genome soldier lab that was responsible for the modification of the new recruites bodys.

The two MP's started to escourt Kit and Jack out. Passing by a window to one of the human genome labs some none human scietists in white coats were going over a holographic display of a human genetic strand with coding. There conversation was intresting enough.

The human genome comprises rough of twenty thousand genes made from three billion base pairs, spread out over twenty three chromosomes. Genetically speaking they are superior to us all. Are not humans amazing creatures? The discarded toys of the gods. There potential is limitless when we engineer there DNA"

The other scientist scoffed. "Do not forget the genetic engineering renders there chromosomes unbalanced and thus making them as infertile as a donkey. What is the use of the changes if they cannot procreate and pass on the traits to there offspring" The other scientists replied.

"We can of course return there DNA to normal as it was before the changes" His scheptical co worker frowned. "True but what is the point of that. Just another weak fleshed human. Why settle for less when we can make them so much more. That is something our human hating cousins fail to grasp. Mankind is worth more to us alive then dead. Why wipe out there race when they can be our playthings." The scientists looked at the holographic human genetic information and clasped his hands behind his back.

Man unlike all the other races did not evolve..... they were created. Who? And Why? Is something we do not know. Hell, they may not even be from our world origenly. But there genetic information leaves them a clean slate unlike all the other races. We can redesign them to fit any perpose." He noticed Kit and Jack at the window and walked over to lower the blinds.

The human MPs had wandered ahead before noticing that Jack and Kit were not with them. "Stop dawdling. We have our orders. You must leave" Alot of things were coming to light. Humans were being genetically engineered and experimented on. Heck. So far no human held any position of power from what has been seen. No that was left to none humans. None humans that faught for humanitys survival. What did her step dad Vinnie have in mind. Was it the slavery of mankind? Unlikely. No, perhaps Vinnie wanted to better them as a species. Of course that crossed some moral and ethical lines.....