A young 00-trainee mission gone wrong. Bond (007 provisional) and Elara (009 candidate) are extracting a defector. A firefight collapses a reactor block. Bond chooses to save the defector. Elara is buried. MI6 declares her KIA. She was not dead—she was captured by SPECTRE, then sold to the Krovnaya Svyaz program as a test subject. The prion rewired her cellular structure. She cannot die of disease or age. But she can feel every genetic marker of her enemies.
Back at MI6, Q decodes the number: it’s a Cold War-era bioweapon vault registration. V76654 was a Soviet program codenamed Krovnaya Svyaz ("Bloodline"). The weapon, "El Arca," is a programmable prion that infects a single family line—and only them. It lies dormant until activated by a specific chemical trigger. James Bond 007 Blood Stone -2010- -v76654- -Ela...
A satellite feed. A submarine trench. Elara’s body floats, eyes open, blood crystallizing into diamonds around her heart. A gloved hand reaches in, retrieves a single crystal. The hand belongs to Blofeld , who whispers: "Phase two. Let them think they’ve won." A young 00-trainee mission gone wrong