…swallow in fear

It’s true. Mind cloning was illegal. There could legally only be one version of any persons mind at a time. There were nine female bodies with your mind in them, yours included. But none of you were the original or had any legal standing. Mind you this was only a problem if the law became aware of your existence. And the law had bigger things to worry about than mind clones out on the lawless rim of the galaxy.

Still, being a non-person was not good. “Jenson, what should we do with them?” The original you asks.

“Get them back to the ship. We can’t leave them here. Honestly I don’t know…” Jenson replies over the coms.

What would you do with you? If you were the original? You felt a bit concerned, as did your clone sisters. Lady Luck was a three person vessel. You couldn’t stay on there. None of you had any ID.

“You’re going to sell us to the flesh houses on Xar!!” One of the female yous said.

“Oh fuck! You will too.” Another agreed.

The male Ben rolled his eyes and nervously drew his pistol. “Ok ladies. Back to the ship.”

Shit! That’s what you’d do. You’d make money and sell these women into sexual slavery. None of these girls was you except you. “Shit! Last one standing has legal rights as a person!” One of the girls said, voicing your thoughts.

Then all hell broke lose. The male Ben started shooting! You grabbed a nearby scanner, pushed it at male Ben and hid under a desk as five naked yous jumped at the male you, male you shot one of the five female yous in the head, another of the five yous got gut shot… three yous turned on each other. It was a surreal scene.

Male you went down firing and cried out as the gun was turned on him.

You hid and waited. There was lots of shooting and cries of pain and bodies falling. Then silence.