Chapter 8 The “Murder” and Delivery of Keila Eisenstein
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Keila examined her non-functional clone. It was a dark and surreal experience, like watching a real-life wax doll of herself. Of course, the clone was not more alive than the wax doll, and it never would be. The accelerated cloning process used never created a functioning nerve system which excluded the possibility of consciousness in the organism. Keila was fascinated by the clone as she had never seen a human, created this way although she was fully aware of the possibility to do it. Accelerated cloning was the primary way of producing meat in the 29th century, on all other planets except for Earth. On Mars, there were limited possibilities for grazing large herds of animals, and accelerated cloning was the best way to solve the food shortage. On the downside, the accelerated cloning process left the food foul-tasting, which is why people on Earth still farmed their food with real animals.
Metatron stepped into the room. He glanced at the clone and then looked at Keila. She noticed it and spoke.
Keila:
- Hey Met! Don’t be creepy!
Metatron:
- She looked like a spitting image of you!
- Ready for the last step of the plan?
Keila:
- Yes
Metatron:
- Okay, here is your pistol. You do the honours.
Metatron passed a pistol to Keila and turned a switch which sent an electric current to the heart of the clone to simulate a beating heart. Keila aimed her gun then shot the clone multiple times, destroying its brain and spine. This was to mask the fact that the nervous system of the clone had never been functional. Metatron and a few other angels then wheeled the bed where the clone was strapped onto a shuttle and set course for Bjorn Muller’s command ship ISS Supreme Earth.
Bjorn met them as they docked. He had many armed men by his side, and he walked up to Metatron’s small group and started talking.
Bjorn:
- What is the meaning of this? You are supposed to bring Keila Eisenstein, and I cannot see her.
Metatron:
- Look in the body bag.
Bjorn:
- What have you done? Why did you kill her? And from the damages, it seems she is permanently dead beyond resurrection.
- I told you to bring her, I didn’t ask you to kill her! We need her alive for intelligence gathering and public execution.
Metatron:
- The crazy b***h made a run for it, we had to put her down and make sure she stayed down.
- We promised to bring her, and we did. We upheld our part of the deal.
Bjorn:
- You idiots. I should arrest you!
Metatron:
- That’s a terrible idea considering that you are still within firing range of our battle station.
- We have gone out of our way to help you. Go home to your masters on Earth.
- Farewell.
Having said this, Metatron and his group went back to the shuttle. The Shuttle took off and flew back to the Divine Control Centre. Bjorn commanded one of his officers to bring Keila’s corpse back to the science bay while he returned to his private room to reflect.
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