Video Journal

The scene went black between video cues, depriving the room of its primary light source. Within a moment a second video cued up and began playing. The screen showed a barrage of clips being taken from the footage of various security cameras mounted on the ceiling of Dr. Mason's lab.

Synced together they formed more of a video slide show as each clip was not edited so that it had a smooth transition from the previous video or to the next. Each piece of footage focused on Sapling Replicate dressed in powder blue medical smocks with bare feet and hands. Each had close cropped hair that looked like it had been regularly buzz cut. The footage was clearly not of the same replicate as some focused on a male with blond hair, others a male with black hair, and a third set focused on a female Sapling.

The video images danced around footage from the saplings being woken up in the morning to dressing in their smocks, eating food, school book type training, arms training with both hand guns and rifles, and various hand to hand combat training.

Each set of footage clips were stamped with date and time text running across the bottom of the monitor and each Sapling was (at least once) referred to by a number such as 0001, 003, or 004.

In the final video clip Dr. Mason stepped in front of an obviously staged video camera, set on a tripod atop a desk.

"I'm pleased to announce that with Oh Four we've been able to isolate all of our targeted memory engrams and have more than enough data to be able to add them into each and every replicate grown from here on out." Dr. Mason smiled setting down his clip board and unbuttoning his lab coat.

"Which means I won't need to waste valuable time teaching another one to eat," He grumbled under his breath as he left the field of vision of the camera to switch it off.