Alison had only truly felt rage three times in her life. The first, was when her career path was decided on by her late grandfather, inventor of the Walker Gene, Allen Walker.
She concluded that most of what went wrong in her life was due to him inventing a way to utilize dimensional energy in order to access different planes of existence.
This, in turn, led to the creation of several clones, the last remaining of which was Leo Jones.
As Allen grew older, he wanted to spend more time with his family. Unfortunately for him, he had grown apart from his children after spending so much time invested in his research.
That’s where Alison came in. With some work put into convincing his children, he started to look after the granddaughter he never got to meet himself, and by proxy, Alison was the most important thing in his life.
That was, until he made another breakthrough in his research. It was only a year after Alison had begun to stay with the old man that he no longer had time for her, a sleight that a young Alison had blamed on herself.
So what had she done? She injected herself with the serum, mixing the photons with her blood stream and giving herself the ability to manipulate the dimensional energy, allowing her to create black holes.
Allen Walker hadn’t been upset, which she was relieved about. If only at first. He showed her the true horror a month later when he dragged her into his lab to experiment on the success that Alison had achieved.
Months turned into years as she did test after test, and only when her grandfather died did Alison’s hellish experience truly end.
However, her peace only lasted for the next three months. After being returned to her home, her parents began to ignore her. As such, she was quickly plucked from there by a military research leader, Christian Armando, where she entered a super-soldier training program.
If only her grandfather had never taken her, she might still have been a normal girl, and enjoying a life of ignorance in some California town.
There, she met her partner, another orphan by the name of Maria, and her squadmate, Robert. And, she also met the second source of her rage: Leo Jones.
Leo hadn’t acted like anyone she’d ever met. For the first time… she felt more pity for someone else rather than herself.
His story was tragic, she thought. Someone who had met with even more misfortune than she had, as all his brothers had perished in an outbreak of dimension eaters. The very same attack that had killed Christian’s wife.
The scientist at the time had blamed Leo, the sole survivor, for the death, but Alison thought he was just projecting.
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She truly believed that Leo had nothing to do with it, and that it was just a sad coincidence warped by Christian’s jealousy of how well Leo had recovered with the help of Vanessa Kumo.
In fact, Vanessa seemed to be the glue that put Leo together. In turn, Leo was the glue that pulled their team together after he had been placed as their team leader by Christian himself.
Christian had tried to tell Alison about just how devious and traitorous the young man was, but Alison would have none of it. Despite how much Christian had done for her to get her from the orphanage to a semblance of normality, he was clearly letting his emotions affect him for the worst.
The Thanksgiving day feast they had together was the first in her life, and the Christmas that followed was even better.
Granted, Alison had let her emotions get the best of her as she slept with him. It didn’t help that his extremely attractive girlfriend was polyamorous, and just served to add fuel to the fire that was their relationship.
Unfortunately, those fun times could only last so long. Because as much as Alison believed that Christian was only speaking from a twisted sense of reality, the truth was very much that: a twisted sense of reality.
Leo had the capability to abandon everything and anything as long as it meant protecting Vanessa.
He had done her a disservice by keeping their shared secret from her: Alison was technically related to Leo.
He had let her sleep with him on a mere technicality. And he never told Alison, even though he knew the entire time.
The sense of betrayal Alison experienced there was enough to get her to side with Christian as he tried to detain Leo.
At the time, Alison wasn’t ok with outright murder, but after seeing what Christian had done to Vanessa, she was convinced that sometimes, killing was a mercy.
Of course, Robert had betrayed both Christian and Alison, after letting Leo’s words dig into his head and affect his thoughts.
Needless to say, he had paid for it. Christian ended his life in mere moments, but the damage had been done. Leo had escaped.
Fortunately, for Alison, he had shown back up, even though she had to wait years for him to do so. Finally, she could get the lasting revenge she craved, where-
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“Yes, yes, we get it.” Vanessa sighed, interrupting the monologuing woman across from her. “So? What was the third time you felt angry? Surely you aren’t going to leave us hanging.”
Alison affixed her smile, remembering where she was. She had gotten lost in her thoughts, and she turned to the group of people in front of her.
“Well, that would have been earlier this year. You see, Christian started to change. As he was getting older, his priorities started to shift. He wanted to start moving resources away from our interdimensional search teams and put them back into our government.”
Alison began to chuckle, a sound which quickly petered out. “He betrayed who he was in the end, becoming weaker and more emotionally fragile each passing day. So, I threatened to kill him if he didn’t change his mind.”
“And the brain?” Leo asked. Alison didn’t miss the way he shifted his weight to his back leg, ready to retreat at the first sign of danger.
“He threatened to unleash the Terminus Eater onto our world if I did so… so I released it myself, and then killed him. Ugh, you have no idea how difficult it was to make a machine that mimicked his brain signals well enough to control the clones.”
Alison’s smile grew at the expression of horror on Vanessa’s face.