I wrote this about three years ago. I had forgotten it so I present here for you.
Angelika - Like an angel
Truda - Fighting woman
Varick - Protecting Ruler
Harman - Man of the army
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The man moved through the shadows as if he were a part of them. Through many years of practice it was now mere child's play. Looking around the compound the man's chiseled features searched for the container that held the doctor. After all these years they finally had a location on the man. Moving to the container the man broke the lock with practiced ease, only to find a note and a recording device inside.
Silently cursing his luck the man grabbed both and faded back into the shadows as he made his way off the compound. Outside he was met by a woman who bore similar looks as the man, showing her what he'd found she too cursed, "The others aren't going to be pleased." She told the man. Nodding the man replied, "I know, imagine my displeasure at not finding him there.
Starting the jeep the woman drove them a little ways to their cargo plane, inside they were met by two other tall blonde people with similar features. "What do you mean he wasn't there?" The second male shouted.
"This was all, I'm afraid that he has duped us again," The first male said. The note he held simply said play me to the end.
"Might as well listen to him mock us again," the first female said.
Starting the device they listened to the voice of an older man, "My children, this was the closest you have come yet I applaud you. It has only taken twenty years for you to become as adept as you have. I know you want answers, I will provide the few that I can. You all are well over seventy years of age though you only appear to be in your twentys. This is a bi-product of the genetic manipulation experiment all those years ago."
"I think that the doctor has finally lost his mind," the until now silent second female said.
"No my dear Truda, one might say I have finally found it," the voice replied causing Truda's mouth to gape.
"You bastard you have a live hook up to this!" She shouted at the voice.
"Yes and Varick I know you are tracing this though, I could tell you it is of no use, I know you'll try," The voice advised the oldest male in the room. "Now then if we may, please all sit." all but the second male did as asked, his lean muscular body tense, on guard, his eyes darting everywhere. "Ah Harman, I should have known you never sit."
The shortest of the group the first female a half a foot shorter than Truda her dirty blonde hair lying limp on her shoulder shook her head. "I suggest we hear him out," she quietly said. "He is going to tell us no matter what, we might as well get it over with."
"Thank you Angelika you at least..." the voice started.
"Do not thank me doctor, we all have better things to do than exchange pleasantries that none of us feel. I wish to be done with this, then get on with life such as it is." Angelika said in hushed bitter tones. The voice sighed it had been so long since he'd actually seen them, since that last day in the late 50's when he left them with an old friend.
"Yes I will dispense with them also, as I said all four of you are the products of genetic manipulation. Though I am sure that one day your bodies will fail it won't be for a very long time."
"So what you are telling us is that we are damn near immortal?" Angelika spit out at him.
"Yes, in a sense you just might say that, you heal far faster than anyone else, you are immune to almost all diseases, your perceptions are hundreds of times better than all. One might even go as far as to say that you are perfect." The doctor's voice proudly said. The four in the room looked at each other with wide eyed expressions.
"Seventy years old?! I do not believe you doctor, you have lied to us before to get us to do things for you. I am sure this is just another in a very long line of lies that you have told." Varick the leader and eldest of the group spit out at the voice, when his trace led him to a impenetrable wall.
"I did try to warn you Varick but as a great leader you always have to have the facts, that I taught you all those years ago." The doctor went on trying to explain further. "The fact that you are finally as advanced as you are has prompted me to reveal all I can about you and your pasts, as well as my own, to a point."
"Can we get on with this?!" Truda snapped, "What in the hell do you want of us now? I also believe that all of this is a lie so finish up so we can leave this hellish place!"
Sighing the doctor knew they were having a hard time believing him. "Alright, as you should know I was a doctor in Hitler's army. I..."
"More lies! You would have to be over ninety to ninety five years of age there is no way that you can convince me that you are that old," snapped Varick. "I have had enough of this!" Varick and Angelika had started for the door when neither could move. "Release me you son of a bitch!" Varick was shouting.
"If you'll listen, then I will but if you refuse, then I am afraid that I will have to keep you that way." The older man's voice replied.
"Let's sit brother," Angelika told him with a sigh, "he's going to prattle on no matter what."
"Not prattle my dear Angelika, I just thought after all this time now that you are where I hoped you'd be, and you deserved a reward." The doctor explained.
"Reward!? A reward for what? Failing to kill your ass again?" Harman shouted raising his fist in the air. "You've been a bane to us for as long as I can remember. Now you spout these lies? Bah! I'd rather hear the previous lies than these!"
Sighing again the doctor thought a moment and started again with a new tactic, "Alright you are all students of history especially the second great war. Have any of you by chance ever heard mention of a Dr. Johann Bauer?"
"Of course. Harman started, "he was a biologist that was killed in the early stages of genetic work ... that ... he, NO! I refuse to believe that you are him!" The other three in the room turned to stare at Harman.
"What are you going on about Harman?" His sister Truda asked.
"He claims that he is Johann Bauer! Lies, all lies he was killed when his lab exploded in 1942 killing him and all his assistants, no bodies were ever found. They also said that there were others there that the Doctor had been experimenting on. I ... NO!" Harman screamed as he grasp his head a terrible searing pain lacing its way through his brain. "Nicht mehr Doktor bitte es weh tut! [No more Doctor please it hurts!]
"Harman? What have you done to him Doctor?" A worried Truda asked.
"I only allowed him a memory that has been suppressed for a very long time. He'll be right in a moment." The Doctor replied.
Breathing hard Harman slowly got off the floor, "I will kill you for what you did to us you sadistic son of a bitch!"
The others could only stare at him, "I have told you too much already but there is a task that you can do for you not me. I know you all want to have children but seemingly can't. That I am afraid is also my doing, though I can tell you that one of you specifically you Angelika has had a child."
Angelika's eyes opened wide as distant memories suddenly assailed her mind. "Yes that's why you have a deep lonely longing within you. He is a strong man, one that I cannot even control, one day soon you four will also be that way, I will leave you these memories so that you can start to rebuild who and what you are. Harman you are the key, be well my children 'til I can see you again if ever."
In the silence that ensued the four could only stare at the recording device. If what the doctor had said was true then they were well over seventy three years old! "I cannot believe what he is saying" Truda broke the silence, "He has told us lies before I don't know why he expects us to believe even a word of this, right brother?"