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I sometimes wonder how Jensen Ackles career would have turned out had Dark Angel went more than 2 seasons and Supernatural never came about or just started later due to the success of Dark Angel...
It's been 23 years since its cancellation and I'm STILL sore about it.
Ruppy (short for Ruby Puppy) is the world's first transgenic dog. A cloned beagle, Ruppy and four other beagles produce a fluorescent protein that glows red upon excitation with ultraviolet light.
So, I don’t really care about the mermaid episode of Dark Angel--I don’t think anyone does--but I did like how that scene with said mermaid getting water poured onto her (by Otto, that was probably a good hint that he was good deep down and White wasn’t) looks like Max in the shower in “Meow”. I don’t know if it was intentional or not, but I’d like to believe it was: just because I always wished this show would do more with Max and her sisters/the other transgenic girls.
More than a little girl - Prologue
Summary: After helping Max escaping Manticore once again you must find a way to live a free life. You find yourself thrown into a world you don’t know. It’s not very helpful that Alec insists on staying by your side. The last guy you want close by.
Pairing: Alec x Reader, Max, Joshua, OMC’s
Warnings: angst, language, violence, transgenic stuff (don’t sue me for mistakes), arguments, fighting
Sitting in your room you bite your lip. Today is the day, Max and Joshua prepared everything along with X5-494, no Alec. Max named X5-494 Alec.
Taking a deep breath you wait for the signal to leave your room to run for good.
You’ve got enough of this nightmare that you call your life. Every night you have to fake pain so you don’t have to play the breeding partner of one of the X5’s.
Not that the male X5’s would be interested in you. You are much smaller and ‘weaker’ than the others. At least they believe you are…
When you hear the whistle, you use your stolen keycard to open the door. Silently walking toward Max’s room, you open it.
“Okay. Smart move to get the keycard.” Max whispers.
“Who else?” You ask.
“Joshua and Alec along with Tracy and Beck.”
“Good. We have to be fast. I stole the card this morning. Good thing they are underestimating me all the time. Not that bad being the sick little girl…” You whisper.
“I know you are much more than a little girl, Y/N. Let’s meet with the others and get out of this hell.”
“Right. Let’s roll.”
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“Why is the little girl here?” Alec mutters.
“As she got the keycard and knows how to get out of here.” Max retorts.
“She will slow us down.” Beck snarls.
“No, she won’t. Now shut it. Without her, we didn’t have the chance to escape. Let’s meet with Joshua and run.”
“Max, we need to go this way to open Joshua’s cell. Then we have to hurry and access Block D before they realize I stole the keycard.”
“Okay. Let’s stop wasting time, then.” Alec mutters and you nod.
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“The keycard still works. Okay, Josh, we have to hurry.”
Nodding the tall X7 leads the way toward Block D. Running through the corridor you scan your surroundings. You can sense enemies getting closer.
“Max. Enemies. At least ten. We should use the intersection over there and break through the wall instead of using the door.”
“Breaking through the wall? You are not just weak; you are insane too.” Alec grunts.
“I can do that,” Joshua says and you nod.
Storming toward the thinner outer wall you nod at Joshua and he uses all his strength to add a large crack to the wall. Ramming his body into the damaged wall he makes it crumble even more. Another blow and a huge hole let you step out into freedom.
Running toward the perimeter fence, Max knocks an X7 on her way. Another X7 stands guarding the fence. Crouching Alec takes him down. Leaping over the fence you and the other X5 escape along with Joshua.
Running down the street you are close to true freedom until you see at least ten soldiers approach.
“Maybe I should let you guys handle this, huh?” Alec cackles.
“Not funny, Alec.” You mutter checking on the enemies.
“Maybe we can talk this out.” Beck groans.
“I don’t think so,” Max says glaring at the men standing in her way.
“You take care of the X7 behind us. They are getting closer pretty fast. Josh, have my back.” You order and Alec wants to ask you if you are joking but his words die in his throat.
Transition your face you glare at him with glowing eyes. Storming toward the soldiers you smile when one of them tries to shoot you. Grabbing his arm, you smash him against the parked car blocking the street. The next soldier flies against the fence when he tries to hit you.
Another fist wants to hit you, but you are too fast. Grabbing the man’s arm harshly you break it with ease.
Taking two more soldiers out you see Joshua and Max running to your side. Taking care of two soldiers the transgenics fight by your side while you take another enemy down.
“Six down four to go.” You growl and Max nods.
Kicking the next soldier’s balls you chuckle when he groans in pain.
“Seven…” Max says glaring at the last three soldiers.
“Maybe they are smart enough to just run.” You snarl and the men drop their guns running as if their lives depend on it.
“Okay. The X7′s are down.” Alec pants looking at you changing back to normal.
“Good.” You scoff trying to hide your weak state.
“Whoa…easy tiger,” Alec says catching your fall.
“We should go now,” Joshua growls sniffing the air.
“More are coming.” You whisper. “I can’t transit again right now.”
“Then we should better take the car and move our asses.” Max orders and you nod.
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Holding you into his arms Alec got no clue what to do with his new freedom all he knows is his life behind Manticore’s walls and the conversations with you through the walls of his cell…
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Increíble #TimeLapse del desarrollo del sistema nervioso de un pez cebra (Danio rerio), ese pobre pez que usamos jugar a los transgénicos.
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Incredible #TimeLapse of the development of the nervous system of a zebrafish (Danio rerio), that poor fish we use to play to do transgenics.
One of the interesting things about the DCAU is that when new technologies were introduced, chances are they were not just there to stay but also replicable. For example, the invisiblity tech from the BTAS episode See No Evil would implictly be repurposed by Bruce Wayne in suit Terry McGinnis wears in Batman Beyond.
Ditto the morphing tech from Batman Beyond implictly being inspired by inventions from the later Mystery of the Batwoman movie.
One of the more enduring super-sciences introduced that carries through the franchise is that of creating human-animal mutations. Introduced in On Leather Wings, the pilot of BTAS, with the debut of Man-Bat. There Dr Kirk Langstorm had been experimenting with combining human and bat DNA, and accidentally turned into a giant fruit bat version of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
Later, in the episode Terror in the Sky, it turns out that’s Kirk’s wife Francince had been unknowing turning into Woman-Bat. This was due to her father attempting to recreate Kirk’s research for his own purposes, only to accidentally expose Francine to the formula when she cuts herself picking up a broken beaker with the formula. So that’s reaction number one.
Recreation number two came in the episode Tyger, Tyger, where a Dr Dorian, a former colleague of the Langstroms, kidnaps a newly released Selina Kyle and turns her into a literal catwoman for... reasons. Dorian also has a gorilla-man henchman, and a man-cat he created from whole-cloth in the form of Tygrus. Because cats are the Ultimate Lifeform, apparently.
Recreation three comes with reoccuring villain Dr Milo, who first uses a wolf-based serum to sell as a form of performance enhancing drug to millionaire athlete Anthony Romulus (yes, really) into a werewolf. Oddly he describes the serum as a mixture of steroids and “timber wolf estrogen“, which considering he’s later working for CADMUS in Justice League Unlimited explictly using Langstrom’s work, was probably him coming up with a semi-convincing lie.
The late recreation comes in Batman Beyond, where the Langstrom Formula has given rise to a form of cosmetic surgery and subculture known as Splicing. Splicing is quickly banned following it’s main advocate, Dr Cuvier putting a hit out on Gotham’s DA for trying to impose legislation on the technology (which I think would be under the FDA’s remit, wouldn’t it?), but it still cropped up in places, such as in the Joker’s henchman Woof, and with the ill-advised decision by the terrorist group Kobra to turn themselves into lizard-men.
Amusingly, a story in the sequel to the epsiode Splicers indicates that there is both a thriving underground Splicer counter-culture movement, and that Dr Cuvier apparently decided to reverse engineer the formula to turn animals into people like Dr Moreau. Because that’s apparently a good use of your time.
There are several other examples of replicable tech in the DCAU (Mr Freeze and Captain Cold use similar freeze-guns, for example) but it’s odd that turning people into stuff well was apparently one the writers kept returning to over the franchise.
Speak of the Devil: TRANSGENICS
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Speak of the Devil – Reverend Campbell Discusses Transgenics with Tyler Joseph Allen Hynne. We will be defining transgenics and through the discussion, covering methods of creation of transgenic animals and GMO/transgenic crops.
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