Free Earth: Book One (Elemental Series) by Taeya Adams

Doctor Greene muttered with no emotions. “I want him dead…”
    “Ben?” An assistant next to him asked.
    “Yes…”
    “Sir?” A woman in lab coat behind him asked. Doctor Greene turned away from the camera screen that was focused on Ben and Forres holding hands with Zander behind them. “The team you called for is here. Would you like to talk to them before they go in?”
    “Of course,” Doctor Greene said. “Someone needs to watch Forres and the other, though.”
    The woman snapped her fingers at a young intern. “You, watch Forres,” The intern nodded. “Make sure she doesn’t die.”
    “Die?” The doctor chuckled. “Trust me when I say this, Forres cannot ever die. No zombie, no gun, or person can ever kill Forres.” Doctor Greene started out.
    “Sir? If she can’t die, why could she get hurt? Can’t she get hurt enough to kill herself?” The woman questioned.
    Doctor Greene opened the door of the camera room and turned to the woman, stopping. “Tracy,” He started. The woman felt uncomfortably that Doctor Greene had used her first name. She looked away then looks back at the handsome looking doctor. He wasn’t young but he was handsome. He has brown combed to the side hair and hard blue eyes. Sometimes he looked like his son. Square hard jaw, hard features. They were some much alike but they didn’t want to admit it. “She’ll heal,” He left through the door.
    Tracy followed. “Then sir? Why do we need to have all those clones of her if she doesn’t die?”
    A few scientists said “Hi,” to the doctor and he just nods back to them.
    Doctor Greene stops, noticing that Tracy was right. “Well, that’s the question, isn’t it? Why don’t we put more into the domes?”
    “But Doctor Greene?” She stopped him in the middle of the testing hall. The testing hall had a window for them to see the test being done. “Some of the clones don’t respond well to the medication.”
    On cue, a Forres clone slammed her fist against the glass window. As she does that, flames ignite around her. She let out a scream of anger but the sounds were muffled by the window. Tracy jumped but Doctor Greene doesn’t as if he was used to it. “Wow,” A fire extinguisher had to put her out. The window was burnt as the girl let out a crazy laugh. “Put her in one of the domes.”
    “Are you trying to kill people?” Tracy said as the doctor starts walking again.
    “Nope, just trying to have fun,” Doctor Greene chuckled.
    Tracy stopped in the middle of the hall that had the rescue team in it at the end of the hall. “You’re trying to kill Forres?” The doctor turned as he goes into the door at the end of the hall. Tracy sighed and gave in, “But she can’t die,” she exclaimed.
    He smiled. “Exactly,” He then disappeared behind the doors.
     
    *****
     
    Day One: March 27 th , 2020; 12:26pm
    The team of solider stood up, strongly. Doctor Greene gave a warming smile, something he thought he could never do. “Doctor Greene?” The sergeant said as he stepped forward. “I’m Mathew Peterson and this is my team,” Peterson’s team consisted of four other people: two Irish red head siblings – one a boy and the other a girl –, a big dark skinned girl, and a young boy with a lot of tattoos. He started with the red headed siblings: “This is Jason Wolfe our pilot, and his sister-.”
    Doctor Greene interrupted him, “Save your breath, I’ve already met Jackus,” The doctor gave a quick wink to the red headed girl. She gave a small smile.
    Peterson nodded. “Aero West, our guns specialist,” He jerked his chin to the dark skinned guy. “And last the kid, Parker Amrose.”
    “Nice to meet you all. You are just looking for survivors, nothing rough,” The doctor lied. That was the one thing he was the best at, lying.
    “Okay sir,” Peterson nodded again. “Let’s move out and get this over with,” Peterson led the way out. Doctor Greene stood the side as they past.
    When Jackus came