Six Alien Ships: Newborns

Following a lengthy fight between an advanced squad of Vinto and Angee Gibbs, Marcus was eventually able to subdue her, which subsequently allowed him to extract a couple pints of blood from the girl before her reinforcements arrived and forced him to retreat.

However, he had already gained everything he required to bring the Vinto up to par with the strangely advanced Protectors. Unfortunately, this gamble also revealed the Vinto presence on Earth much earlier than they would have liked.

Not fully trusting many of her kind after a previous star system was lost to Vintos who had developed emotions, Anna, the queen of the Vintos, chose her two daughters, Lisa and Amanda, to have the blood transfused into their veins in order to try and induce Angee’s powers into them, much like the humans had done in what she perceived to be an ignorant temper tantrum by both sides.

‘Are you insane Mark?’ Joshua complained as Lisa and Amanda walked into the lab where the blood transfusion would occur. ‘They now know we’re here and we don’t have nearly enough time to train them in the use of their powers. We would have been better off just bidding our time and analysing them from afar.’

            ‘We can handle whatever they throw at us,’ Marcus challenged while the lab assistants attached the blood bags of Angee’s blood to Lisa and Amanda.

            ‘I would’ve preferred analysing their weaknesses first and then taking their blood,’ Josh noted. ‘You saw what the boy and girl were like after inducing themselves, they could barely stand, let alone fight.

            ‘And now we are going to have two of them on our side that you can analyse all you want,’ Marcus snapped. ‘So find your bloody weakness in them and then apply it to the humans.’

            ‘Yes, find a weakness in newly born superpowered Vinto thing and apply it the superpowered Human-Vinto-Zoombian hybrid thing. That is totally how science works,’ Josh complained.

            ‘Better than nothing asshole,’ Marcus retorted. ‘Look for similarities and differences between ours and theirs and then exploit them.’

            ‘The only difference is that they have nothing to lose,’ Josh mumbled as he turned to the girls to explain the procedure one more time.

            ‘They’re human, they must have something to lose,’ Marcus replied, slightly confused by the statement.

            ‘They’re from a lost world, they came back in time in the hopes of preventing said world from existing. If they fail then they’ll just be reborn in a few hundred years and repeat the cycle. And they actually think that that is how this will go,’ Josh sighed. ‘They’re computer systems are filled with images of a terraformed planets where stuff that they’ve built in the past is present in ruined form in the future. They have nothing to lose, and we by comparison, we have everything to lose.’

            ‘Then we induce them and we take these Protectors down before they can do anything to stop us,’ Marcus replied with enthusiasm.

            ‘Yeah, sure,’ Josh sighed before turning fully to the girls. ‘Okay, you sure you understand everything? If we do this you’ll receive the ability to manipulate time, move at super-vinto speeds and create force fields, you will –’

            ‘Yeah yeah, we get it,’ Amanda snapped. ‘Just start the blood.’

            ‘Actually you don’t get it,’ Josh retorted. ‘As we’re been watching the humans below we have come to realise that their powers aren't all good. Time in particular appears to produce nightmare scenarios of possible futures whilst you sleep and further studies of the blood seem to suggest that people who have this ability are also subject to immense psychological issues where some unknown force attempts to take control. Having had their powers from birth they are able to resist said control…but being given them fresh in the middle of your lives may cause you to become overwhelmed.’

            ‘We can handle it,’ Lisa promised.

‘Yeah, we’re stronger than them,’ Amanda exclaimed. ‘If anyone is going to break it will be one of them.’

‘As long as you both understand the consequences,’ Josh nodded. ‘Strap them down.’

The girls were quickly strapped down, much to their surprise before the blood in the bags were released by the nurses. ‘Why the straps Josh?’ Lisa snapped.

            ‘Because suddenly getting superspeed may end up being like have pure adrenaline pumped into your body,’ Josh explained to two confused face. ‘In other words we don’t know if you’ll run head first into a wall after being given this.’

            ‘And what’s to stop us from doing so when you take the straps off?’ Amanda asked.

            ‘Absolutely nothing,’ Josh laughed. ‘They are there purely to ensure you get the full lot.’