Imperfections

Chapter 5

The robot's ship had crashed into their own ship, sending their ship flying into a barren, with a dumpster few miles away. Cody had explained to Rena that she had time travelled into the future to see the outcome of her father's plan. Possibly evil plan. Rena had shot back saying that time travel had been banned to avoid the tampering of the timeline of human history. Rena was so similar to her. She raised her one eyebrow the same way Cody did. She smirked the same way. Laughed the same way. It was starting to make her head dizzy.

"Rena, why were the robots chasing you?" It was a question that was nagging Cody since they had started talking to each other.

"Well, you know that grandfather's plan worked. Like you saw outside, people had been genetically modified. It became really popular. Soon, people started giving these shots to their kids when they were young, along with vaccines. For a while, Grandfather never really said anything to us on the injections. You had always hidden me from him, and would never let me go near him, because you knew that he would inject me any chance that he got. When I was 15, he found a way to inject me, when you weren't home. But a miracle happened. I was immune to it. It didn't affect me at all. But by that time, you, me and dad had moved to another place, far away from him."

Rena paused.

"But he had injected dad, and kidnapped you, and sent for the robots to take me to the Compound, a place where people like me are hidden from the real world. When Grandfather developed an aging forum that he drank, he was able to keep up with everyone, and was fit enough to carry out his evil plans, like killing other immune people. He's been 55 for 7 years. You're 30 by the way. When I first saw you, I thought you had escaped from the Compound. But the reason I didn't trust you was because I thought you were brainwashed and made into a command-following robot."

Rena smiled sympathetically. Cody didn't know what to say. A small meeting in his lab to changing humanity and destroying lives. Wasn't objectifying someone's life the same as killing it? But in the midst of all this, she found herself asking an irrelevant question.

"Who's your dad, Rena?"

"Jackson." Cody felt a small smile on her face. Her middle school friend.