CLEOPATRA Vs FRANKENSTEIN -  SCENE 13

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SCENE 13 - THE CLONED CLEOPATRA

Professor Dr Victor Krafenstein is a distant relative of the infamous Baron Victor Frankenstein, the mad scientist who created a monstrous creature from dead body parts in the 1800s. Victor VI inherited his distant relative’s passion for science, but not his madness. He was a brilliant geneticist who lectured at a prestigious research institute in Switzerland; EHT University, in Zurich.

He had a secret project that he kept hidden from his university colleagues and the rest of the world, except for a very select cohort. He had obtained a sample of DNA from the mummy of Cleopatra, the legendary queen of ancient Egypt, from John Storm, having applied considerable pressure via Blue Shield. Professor Krafenstein had always been fascinated by Cleopatra's beauty, intelligence, and charisma. He wanted to bring her back to life as a fitting test, using his modern cloning technology.

He had spent years perfecting his methods and equipment. Along with his colleague Franco Francisco, he had created a synthetic womb that could nurture and grow a human embryo. He had implanted the embryo into the artificial womb called 'Incubus,' and monitored its development. But, the Incubus was too slow for the cohort, in regular use. Thus, they developed the 'Replivator,' a much faster way of creating an identical human, and programming the replicant with all the traits and mannerisms of the original person.

Along with Franco, Victor was ready to witness the birth of his biological masterpiece.

He entered their secret laboratory near Genoa, Italy, and checked the replication process. It showed that the cloned Cleopatra was fully developed and ready to be brought into the world, for cerebral processing. She was activated, a process much like a combination of a defibrillator and artificial respiration. This started the heart beating and the lungs breathing. The system that kept the morphing cocktail of stem cells fed with nutrients and oxygen, was stopped. A while earlier, the sedation that kept the developing body in a comfortable or dream state, was stopped. If there is a moment when an artificially grown human is born, this was it. Cleopatra took her first lungful of air, and spluttered a little as the airway cleared. The second and third breaths were more regular. Her heart began beating rhythmically, normally. In this case at rest, 45 beats per minute, indicating a very healthy woman. Her tidal volume was 500 ml of air at 12 breaths per minute, indicated that her breathing rate was in sync with her heartbeats.

The mammalian engine of life had begun. Victor and Franco breathed a sigh of relief.

Some time before Cleopatra's DNA was implanted in the genetic soup that would arrange itself to form Cleopatra IX. Franco had injected the DNA into an egg having removed the chromosomes to create an enucleated egg. The chromosomes were replaced with a cell from the mummy, and stimulated. Then placed in the Incubus, artificial womb, for what would be Cleopatra VIII, if all went well.

Cleopatra was a curvaceous, charming young woman with an extremely high IQ. She looked exactly like Cleopatra in her prime, and dangerously seductive. She had inherited her personality and talents as well. She was curious, adventurous, ambitious, and fatally attractive. She wanted to see the world for herself. She wanted to visit Egypt and see its pyramids, temples, and tombs. She wanted to meet other people and learn from them. She wanted to experience life and love, and find out about herself.

3RD DRAFT - SAMPLE: THE PERFECT PLOT (SHORT STORY)

SCENE 1. Cleopatra's tomb lay lost for centuries. Then one day a shift in the tectonic plates triggered a tremor off the coast of Alexandria, causing alarm in Paris. (Flashback: The destruction of Thonis & Alexandria by a tsunami, sinking the great civilization and port in 365 AD.)

SCENE 2. As an agent of Blue Shield, John Storm, surveys Egypt's coast off Alexandria, finds Cleopatra's tomb, verified using the Ark and Hal, keeping location a secret, pending salvage and Blue Shield site protections.

SCENE 3.  John reads a letter from Cleopatra to Mark Antony from Cleopatra’s mausoleum, 30 BC, the combined suicide of Marcus Antonius and Cleopatra, a death wish love pact. 

SCENE 4. William Bates auctions his CyberCore Genetica nano-super computer. Secretly purchased by the wealthy Professor Krafenstein, via an anonymous sealed bid.

SCENE 5. A team of European scientists, including Franco Francisco, are gathered together and funded by the wealthy Baron as cloning technology champions, regardless of potential illegality or ethical consideration. Though, Replication and gene manipulations treatments are held to be legal by the cohort.

SCENE 6. As part of their human enhancement regime, ingredients of the CRISPR virus, a bacterial DNA Cas9 enzyme delivery system, that allows precisely targeted DNA enhancement in adult subjects, is developed as cousin technology. The team realise that this could form the basis of a cure for cancer.

SCENE 7. Charley Temple alerts John Storm to the consequences of the joining of dots of the technology that Professor Krafenstein and his partners are working on. She is being fed information from, and nurturing contacts at the ETH university in Zurich. With Sam Hollis being in contact with Colonial athletes in attendance. Some of which have given blood samples, in connection with the Baron's research.

SCENE 8. John is courted by Jack Mason, purporting to represent the USA, asking for his help in their investigations into cyber crime, and technology that might one day pose a threat to international stability.

SCENE 9. Storm is asked by Professor Krafenstein to relinquish a small Cleopatra tissue sample. The carrot is that their cohort will share their DNA archive, to add to John's collection. 

SCENE 10. John relents, persuaded by Blue Shield. The knowledge transfer (swapsie) proves to be irresistible to John.

SCENE 11. Having taken delivery of a sample of Cleopatra's DNA, Professor Krafenstein perfects his replication technique, after one or two costly mistakes.

SCENE 12. The scientists develop a prototype biological implant, an interface for the human brain, which they call BioCore™. This flexible microchip communicates wirelessly with the CyberCore Genetica, and from there to the internet. They are streets ahead of a system developed by Elon Musk, some years earlier.

SCENE 13. The Birth. Replication work proceeds, with Cleopatra grown and her brain programmed (conditioned) with her past, to include simulation of her synapse firing sequence, based on the fact she spoke nine languages, and was a mathematician and an accomplished political and military strategist. Other elements are included to soften the culture shock, as the reincarnated queen re-enters life in the 21st century, the prophesy comes true.

SCENE 14. John requests a visit to see the progress for himself, but is given the brush off, and shown a facility that does not seem to have all the equipment necessary to have recreated Cleopatra. Then he is denied access to the subject with various excuses, that do not gel. His suspicions are aroused, and he investigates further with help from Dan (hacking) and Hal.

SCENE 15. Charley persists with her own investigations, agreeing to meet with John, where she thinks the real work is going on convenient to the ancient port of Genoa, Italy. She is captured, and John has to effect a rescue, with some background help from the CIA's Jack Mason. During the struggle to overpower Charley's captors, John is injected with an experimental CRISPR virus. Dan manages to make off with the CyberCore Genetica and Biocore, equipment, plus a download of all the experimental files. Jack Mason turns a blind eye, at the time, biding his time.

SCENE 16. From the recovered data, Dan and Hal work out that Cleopatra is being repatriated in a secure facility in Rome, where the former queen had visited with Julius Caesar in 46BC. John raids their sanctuary just outside the city, rescuing/freeing Cleopatra in the process, with Interpol questioning all the wrong people, on suspicion of kidnap. Cleopatra expresses a wish to be with John Storm, who she instinctively trusts implicitly, leaving Interpol and Blue Shield, little choice in the matter. And Jack Mason with a problem. He was hoping to acquire Cleopatra in all the confusion. But Cleopatra reveals that Dr Krafenstein had given her, her freedom. She was free to leave when she felt ready.

SCENE 17. Jack Mason continues to plot to part John Storm from the CRISPR technology, and kidnap Cleopatra on grounds of homeland security, looking to take control of the replication technology. As the US representative, he talks John and Cleopatra into the replicant queen having a check up at Uncle Sam's expense at a private hospital in Egypt, to coincide with the unveiling of the Cleopatra VII mummy exhibits in Cairo and Giza. Though a disingenuous ruse, Cleopatra agrees, just to please John. She is curious to see what her own mummy looks like as an exhibition of her past glory.

SCENE 18. Storm is double crossed by Jack Mason, who spirits Cleopatra overseas to the secure US facility at Guantánamo Bay. Way off the beaten track, and extremely well guarded. Such military location eliminating any chance of a rescue.

SCENE 19. Despite the obstacles, John rescues Cleopatra from Guantánamo Bay in a daring night raid.

SCENE 20 CIA, covertly try to terminate the Swann and crew, including Cleopatra, who is now a witness to their evils.

SCENE 21. John does a deal with US President Lincoln Truman, Jack Mason is chastised.

Cleopatra's visit to Rome with Julius Caesar

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