[He was fairly sure Tim had introduced himself just as "Drake" before but maybe it's like a step-family thing? Maybe he doesn't always go by his full name.]
[One of the reporters raises her hand. She looks around at the other reporters. "Dibs!"]
["Dammit," says another reporter, realizing he's a moment too late.]
[The reporter waves away security. "Lenny, I've got this." And she waves them in the direction of one of the offices. "Let's go somewhere more private."]
[In the room, she closes the blinds and shuts the door behind them, then sits down at a conference table.]
["Alright, kid, this better not be you pulling my leg."]
[Kon holds up the flash drive.]
We have proof. I was a member of the project he's talking about, a military-mandated super team comprised of criminals working towards more lenient sentences.
I'm...a clone. I was confiscated from a secret project that had the goal of creating a superweapon with the DNA of a particularly skilled black ops soldier. I was conscripted - without much choice - into the project, which I was told was a legitimate operation of the US government.
But a few days ago, the project head, Samantha Walpert, asked us to kill a civilian - him - [He gestures to Tim] to cover up our operations. I refused and defected to save his life
[He sits down at the table and slides the drive over to her.]
We just broke into a facility run by the project to gather this from their computer systems. It was very illegal, but so's what the project is doing. There's proof on there that they've gone rogue and are taking actions outside of their mandate.
Walpert's obsessed with the idea that metas are a danger to society. She's been researching and collecting technology with the goal of depowering every meta in the world.
The project has also been using the tech they gathered to experiment on innocent civilians that were mutated by the supervillain Mutagenia. Not to cure them, but to see if they can be depowered. Some of these experiments have caused suffering or even death.
And Tim here is not the only one they wanted to kill to cover up the project. He's just the only one that's survived.
["...Woofta," says the reporter, looking at the drive. "Oh shit, that's...that's big."]
no subject
[One of the reporters raises her hand. She looks around at the other reporters. "Dibs!"]
["Dammit," says another reporter, realizing he's a moment too late.]
[The reporter waves away security. "Lenny, I've got this." And she waves them in the direction of one of the offices. "Let's go somewhere more private."]
[In the room, she closes the blinds and shuts the door behind them, then sits down at a conference table.]
["Alright, kid, this better not be you pulling my leg."]
[Kon holds up the flash drive.]
We have proof. I was a member of the project he's talking about, a military-mandated super team comprised of criminals working towards more lenient sentences.
I'm...a clone. I was confiscated from a secret project that had the goal of creating a superweapon with the DNA of a particularly skilled black ops soldier. I was conscripted - without much choice - into the project, which I was told was a legitimate operation of the US government.
But a few days ago, the project head, Samantha Walpert, asked us to kill a civilian - him - [He gestures to Tim] to cover up our operations. I refused and defected to save his life
[He sits down at the table and slides the drive over to her.]
We just broke into a facility run by the project to gather this from their computer systems. It was very illegal, but so's what the project is doing. There's proof on there that they've gone rogue and are taking actions outside of their mandate.
Walpert's obsessed with the idea that metas are a danger to society. She's been researching and collecting technology with the goal of depowering every meta in the world.
The project has also been using the tech they gathered to experiment on innocent civilians that were mutated by the supervillain Mutagenia. Not to cure them, but to see if they can be depowered. Some of these experiments have caused suffering or even death.
And Tim here is not the only one they wanted to kill to cover up the project. He's just the only one that's survived.
["...Woofta," says the reporter, looking at the drive. "Oh shit, that's...that's big."]