An Experiment with Humanity
Chapter 1: Deyana
I swished the jar of blue liquid in my hand, bored from the wait, contemplating my life in a day. I hadn't time to stop and contemplate before, but now, I had the chance, after ten years, to use hide sight. I was typically used to using foresight, which is how I had lived to be twenty-two. Hell, that was an accomplishment.
The underwater lab in the harbor had been what saved us. It was a small dome down in the harbor, which had recently been constructed before the Change. There were tunnels being built to lead into it, but they hadn't been completed, and I made sure they stayed that way. No one came in except through the little submarine type vehicles that we kept here, and I knew of nothing that could swim down to us, and fate had kept us safe.
It was ten years and roughly a week ago that the Change had taken place. I had finished my first four years of college when I was twelve. I had been on all the talk shows and met Opera, but medical school had lay ahead. I had never gotten my M.D., but in a ways, I had become a doctor and possibly, the most intelligent human ever.
Well, Julio, May Shi, Benjamin, and myself had been invited down to this lab, which was relatively new, since we were the youngest people in the nation to go to college. I was twelve and so was Julio and May Shi, but they weren't graduated yet, which made me special. Benjamin was fourteen, and working on graduating with May Shi and Julio. We spent one night down here, and the next morning, everything changed.
I realized what had happened first. My changed ability had probably started to work. None of us had extreme changes, and I never even found out what Benjamin's was. The adults had all disappeared. Everyone older than fourteen was gone and I realized it before all of them. It wasn't my natural intelligence, but a change intelligence that gave me exceptional comprehension, and made me the mental superior to anyone who had ever lived.
"Ha," I laughed, placing the jar of liquid down. I studied the eyeball of the tracker I had dissected only day earlier, when my Change talent added me in finding the ultimate goal.
The first year had been tough, and after that, there had been fifteen. We collected others with useful change talents and some recognized me from TV. We took them down here and began to cope. Survival was an essential, and so, to survive, we learned and gathered. We gathered everything we could in the first year from the University and other main buildings, but nothing else could be easily taken after the Overlords took supreme power. Except for us four, the children that helped us in the first year were inconstant, so a group didn't form until the second year.
I sighed quietly. The information had all been worthwhile, and the walls and cupboards filled with pickled specimen parts and volumes of research stacked in my room were and on computer file hadn't come close to making condolence for the twelve we had lost. The first three we hadn't been able to bring back to even keep the bodies. It was then that I initiated steroids to all the males, and a minimal amount to the females. The vitamin intake became consistent, but nine more had been lost, but they're sacrifice wasn't put to waste.
Dissection was the only way to learn the parts of the creatures. I saved every organ, especially the brains, for study. I had saved every unharmed part of my nine human companions, too, along with their blood, which was used time to time when Julio or Dan, who we picked up, lost sufficient amounts of blood.
How? It was the question to which I needed the answer, and had spent ten years searching desperately for. Today, everything could be repaid if my theory proved true. All the dissection would be worth it if I could solve the mystery of how the overlords got the human minds to slave for them. I ran a toothpick through the silver dust on my desk. This could be the answer.
"Deyana!" Julio shouted. The Indian man came in, arm bleeding badly. I helped him to the table I used for humans, and fixed up the wound quickly.
"I hope you're happy," Dan muttered. He was seventeen, the youngest of the group we had collected, by far, but his change talent had made him strong and tall, but I didn't look at Dan. I focused on the unconscious winger Dan held in his arms. "Damn, Deyana, that was hard! We had to deal with nine to get one!"
I didn't listen to Dan complain, snapping at him to help Julio, as I laid the winger on the main dissection table. I injected it with sedatives first before strapping it securely to the table. "Oh, this is it." I pulled out my operating tools, staring at my papers of autonomy to find the part of the brain I was looking for.
Chapter 1: Deyana
I swished the jar of blue liquid in my hand, bored from the wait, contemplating my life in a day. I hadn't time to stop and contemplate before, but now, I had the chance, after ten years, to use hide sight. I was typically used to using foresight, which is how I had lived to be twenty-two. Hell, that was an accomplishment.
The underwater lab in the harbor had been what saved us. It was a small dome down in the harbor, which had recently been constructed before the Change. There were tunnels being built to lead into it, but they hadn't been completed, and I made sure they stayed that way. No one came in except through the little submarine type vehicles that we kept here, and I knew of nothing that could swim down to us, and fate had kept us safe.
It was ten years and roughly a week ago that the Change had taken place. I had finished my first four years of college when I was twelve. I had been on all the talk shows and met Opera, but medical school had lay ahead. I had never gotten my M.D., but in a ways, I had become a doctor and possibly, the most intelligent human ever.
Well, Julio, May Shi, Benjamin, and myself had been invited down to this lab, which was relatively new, since we were the youngest people in the nation to go to college. I was twelve and so was Julio and May Shi, but they weren't graduated yet, which made me special. Benjamin was fourteen, and working on graduating with May Shi and Julio. We spent one night down here, and the next morning, everything changed.
I realized what had happened first. My changed ability had probably started to work. None of us had extreme changes, and I never even found out what Benjamin's was. The adults had all disappeared. Everyone older than fourteen was gone and I realized it before all of them. It wasn't my natural intelligence, but a change intelligence that gave me exceptional comprehension, and made me the mental superior to anyone who had ever lived.
"Ha," I laughed, placing the jar of liquid down. I studied the eyeball of the tracker I had dissected only day earlier, when my Change talent added me in finding the ultimate goal.
The first year had been tough, and after that, there had been fifteen. We collected others with useful change talents and some recognized me from TV. We took them down here and began to cope. Survival was an essential, and so, to survive, we learned and gathered. We gathered everything we could in the first year from the University and other main buildings, but nothing else could be easily taken after the Overlords took supreme power. Except for us four, the children that helped us in the first year were inconstant, so a group didn't form until the second year.
I sighed quietly. The information had all been worthwhile, and the walls and cupboards filled with pickled specimen parts and volumes of research stacked in my room were and on computer file hadn't come close to making condolence for the twelve we had lost. The first three we hadn't been able to bring back to even keep the bodies. It was then that I initiated steroids to all the males, and a minimal amount to the females. The vitamin intake became consistent, but nine more had been lost, but they're sacrifice wasn't put to waste.
Dissection was the only way to learn the parts of the creatures. I saved every organ, especially the brains, for study. I had saved every unharmed part of my nine human companions, too, along with their blood, which was used time to time when Julio or Dan, who we picked up, lost sufficient amounts of blood.
How? It was the question to which I needed the answer, and had spent ten years searching desperately for. Today, everything could be repaid if my theory proved true. All the dissection would be worth it if I could solve the mystery of how the overlords got the human minds to slave for them. I ran a toothpick through the silver dust on my desk. This could be the answer.
"Deyana!" Julio shouted. The Indian man came in, arm bleeding badly. I helped him to the table I used for humans, and fixed up the wound quickly.
"I hope you're happy," Dan muttered. He was seventeen, the youngest of the group we had collected, by far, but his change talent had made him strong and tall, but I didn't look at Dan. I focused on the unconscious winger Dan held in his arms. "Damn, Deyana, that was hard! We had to deal with nine to get one!"
I didn't listen to Dan complain, snapping at him to help Julio, as I laid the winger on the main dissection table. I injected it with sedatives first before strapping it securely to the table. "Oh, this is it." I pulled out my operating tools, staring at my papers of autonomy to find the part of the brain I was looking for.