The Long Forgotten Sibling

Chapter 1

Sanctuary and all of the Characters but Elizabeth Magnus do not belong to me. They rightfully belong to their creators.

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"Magnus, are you sure this is the right place?" The lone voice cut through the silence of the abandoned lab. "It looks like there's nothing in this sector of this lab."

"Thank you Will. We've had no luck either. Keep looking," came another voice, which ended with a crackle of a radio.

Will Zimmerman and Henry Foss stared into the darkness in front of them, their flash-lights lighting the way. Their search of the lab had been unsuccessful. Nothing much but the concrete walls and floors, which stretched out into long corridors. Wires hung from the ceiling and the walls, all broken and some of them sparking at irregular intervals.

After a few paces they came to a large, broken, metal door, which was slightly ajar.

"Finally! Something which might have something of use behind!" Will exclaimed. "That information we paid for might be worth something after all!"

"Dude! Don't jinx it!" Henry said jokingly. "If you do that then this trip whole trip would be a waste!"

The door slowly creaked open on its rusty hinges to reveal a room full of machines, all of them beeping at different intervals.

"Hey Henry can you identify and of these machines?" Will asked as he walked into the room followed by a confused Henry.

"Dude this room is filled with medical equipment. We need to get Magnus in on this one!" Henry replied while Will pulled out his radio.

"Magnus. You sent us here because this was the technology wing, right?" Will asked through the radio.

"Yes Will," Helen Magnus replied. "Hence the reason I sent Henry down there with you."

"Well there are machines down here. They're just machines that Henry don't recognise. Apparently there medical machines."

"Well apart from the computer!" Henry yelled from where he was by the computer.

"I'm sorry Will. What was that?"

"Henry has found a computer and he's checking it out now. He thinks there might be something about this place on there."

"Right Will, we'll be on our way to see what you have found."

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On the other side of the building Helen Magnus and Kate Freelander stopped searching the corridors as the message from Will ended.

Kate looked at Helen silently asking what they would do.

"We better go and check what they've found," Helen said as she started to walk in the direction Will and Henry had gone.

"Hey. So what did they say they found?" Kate asked as they started down the corridor.

"Will mentioned something about a room full of medical equipment. Oh and Will also mentioned something about finding a computer. Henry said he would have a look at it and see what we're dealing with."

The instant Helen slipped past the door she knew Will was right: the machines were more for medical use than anything else. Maybe the information they had been given was right, but a little faulty.

"Hey Hank! Any progress on what this place might be?" Kate yelled across the room from where she was standing by the door.

"Well it's a bit confusing, for a start they've put dozens of firewalls up to protect this information like they knew something would happen even after they left this place. I've only managed to get past a few of these firewalls but I'll get there... Eventually," Henry said while concentrating on the computer in front of him. The screen giving his face a blue glow.

"Also there are these machines that we're not sure about," Will stated as he moved away from Henry towards the machines Henry and Will had been puzzling over. Helen followed over looking at the type of technology that she hadn't seen in years.

"This is a fairly recent type of stasis machine where over there are some even older ones," Helen stated as she started her analysis of the technology in the room. "Over the other-side of the room those machines are life support for the stasis machines. Most of them are turned off suggesting that most of these machines have nothing in them."

"How would this place have the enough power to keep these machines for as long as they have been Henry? Henry?" Will questioned as he turned round to see Henry staring at the computer monitor not noticing anything that had just happened.

"Well. Err. Doc." Henry managed to stutter out as he looked up from the computer. "Err. You may not like this."

"Yes Henry," Helen said as she turned around to look at him.

"Well... OK... Err right," Henry stuttered out as he looked at the computer screen to read out the information. "Well you were right about the machines, this section was used for storing people placed in stasis by them..."

"Who's them?" Kate asked from where she was, leaning against the table. "Does it say who owned this place?"

"Well... Yes. It says here that. That this compound belongs to. To the Cabal. Well at least they did own it until their downfall and... Err. Yeah."

They all turned to look at their surroundings. The uneasiness crept in and the grey walls looked more like a prison now they knew whom it had belonged to. They all slowly raised their guns, alert with the seriousness of the situation.

"Henry can you gather all the information you can, you can sort it out when we get back to the Sanctuary. After that we'll leave this place."

"I'm one step ahead of you Doc. Downloading all information onto my tablet now. Should be ready to go in a few minutes."

"Thank you Henry. Everyone else spread out, that includes you Henry after you've got the information from the computer. Check all the items in this room to see whether there's anything useful or dangerous. Meet back here one we've finished the sweep of this room."

After a minute Henry did a diagnostic to check the computer for any hidden sectors he might of missed. Many of the sectors that came up were blank or had programming for the stasis machines. In the last sector he checked, behind a well-concealed firewall, was a small folder with a bit information. Out of curiosity Henry started to read the file while he transferred it to his tablet. He got half way through the short file when he grabbed his radio.

"Doc, this is urgent!" Henry said quickly into his radio. "You need to get down to the stasis chamber marked 16. There's someone, or something, in there but there's nothing to go on."

"Henry, I'll meet you and the others there," Helen replied.

Helen stopped her search abruptly, turned on her heel and ran towards stasis chamber 16. Whatever Henry had found, it had sounded important.

As she got closer she heard Kate's exclamation, "Oh my gosh! I think she's alive!"

When Helen got to stasis chamber 16 she stopped in her tracks. Will, Henry and Kate were standing to the right of the machine. A young woman, about 19 years old, was standing in the chamber. Her blue eyes wide with shock. Her long, brown curls falling over her right shoulder. Her navy blue, Victorian style dress was smudged with dirt and torn in places.

"Dear Lord," Helen said as she slowly walked up and touched the glass barrier.

"Magnus. Who is she? She looks a bit like a younger version of you." Will asked.

Helen Magnus looked over her shoulder to see her team's confused expressions. Turning towards them she explained, "She is Elizabeth Magnus. My younger sister."

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AN: This is my first story so please excuse me for the mistakes. If there are any mistakes can you please tell me so I change them. I'm sorry if the cover is lame (I tried my best without Photoshop). If you have any ideas that you think might go well in this story feel free to send them to me or leave them in the comments.

-Sci-Fi-Fangirl