I looked at my friends and family. Nikki was the most nervous. I opened the file labeled 'Project Perfection'. On the top was a sheet with the picture of Nikki. She lowered her head in shame. I flipped the sheet, revealing what she had received.
When she was conceived, precise genes were chosen by her parents. When it did not work the way they wanted, they paid a lot so she would undergo a DNA surgery. She had her entire DNA modified so she had a perfect body. Perfection. Her beauty was the result of DNA alterations.
"I hate what my parents gave me. They paid a lot of money so I was perfect physically. They never realised that I was a human being. That I had emotions." Nikki said.
I flipped the sheet again. This time, it was a detailed explanation of each modification. I began to read it.
"'Physical alterations. Eye color: golden brown. Slight alteration to get perfect golden brown. Hair color: Bluish black. Total alteration needed. Actual hair color does not correspond to color wanted. Skin: slightly tanned permanently. Slight alteration needed to get skin to produce more melamine to change skin color permanently. Physical augmentations. Enhanced skin strength. Alteration done with the color alteration. Enhanced immune system. DNA alteration to produce more anti-bodies for all known illnesses. Enhanced speed. Alteration in muscles' DNA to strengthen them. Done with Enhanced strength alteration. Enhanced strength. Alteration in muscles' DNA to strengthen them. Done with Enhanced speed alteration. Enhanced vision. Enhanced cognitive faculties. Alteration to brain DNA to increase learning capabilities. Also increases reaction time.'"
They were all flabbergasted. Nikki was beginning to cry. Jacob put a hand on her shoulder. She pushed it off and glared at her boyfriend.
"Don't. I am sure you will no longer love me because I lied to you, Jacob." She said.
"What ya sayin'? I love you 'cause you're one fuckin' awesome girl. Not 'cause you're fuckin' hot. Course, I also love ya for that, but it does not mean I love ya only for your body. It's what's inside your brain that I love." Jacob told his girlfriend.
She looked at him, her eyes full of tears. She hugged him. At that moment, her wings spread through the holes of the custom-made t-shirt. The weird-colored feathers of her wings caught my eye. I looked through her file of 'Perfection'. I then found what I was looking for.
"Listen to this. 'Feather color: bluish black. Unable to perform alteration. DNA string is broken. Actual color: purple.' Looks like they failed ONE thing." I said.
"I dye my feathers." Nikki said. "They were not able to perform it because the DNA string that was used for me was broken. the color gene was missing. My feathers' real color is white."
I took a good look at her wings. They were perfectly dyed purple. I then flipped the sheet again. What I saw made my blood freeze.
"The fuck? 'Jonathan Simmons' ? Flip the pages." Jacob said.
I flip the pages to the sheet explaining all the alterations. Jacob read it.
"'Physical alterations. No alteration done. Physical augmentations. Enhanced cognitive faculties. Necessary for use of magic. DNA alteration to increase brain processing power and focusing capabilities. Also increases learning capabilities and reaction time.'"
Nikki was looking at me with a smile. I knew what she was thinking. She was thinking about our little competition when we were younger.
When we were in elementary school, and also in high school, we were always in the same classes. And we always had similar marks, except in physical education, where she always had better marks than me, and maths, where I had higher marks than her.
"That would explain your lil' competition." Jacob said.
Nikki laughed, and I shook my head. Jacob and Twilight looked at each other. Then, they both hugged the person with whom they were in couple, that being me for Twilight and Nikki for Jacob.
"It is quite interesting, but why did you want all of us here?" Luna asked.
"For this." I said as he opened the file labeled 'Project Pegasus'.
The first sheet showed my picture. I flipped several sheets, until I came up to what I wanted to show them. On that sheet was written a report of performances. At the end was clearly visible the words 'Failed experiment'. I flipped until it was Nikki's sheets. Yet again, I flipped until I came up to a report of performances. The same words were written at the end.
"What the fuck? I thought you were the successful ones." Jacob said.
"Nik an' I are the fertile ones. Thus, we can't be soldiers. Remember the two others, Nik?" I said.
Nikki nodded.
"They are soldiers. They received the same physical augmentations as you, Nik." I said.
Nikki was thoughtful for a few moments.
"If they are soldiers, then we will need more ponies that are willing to fight." Nikki said.
Suddenly, my door was blasted open. I rushed to the living room, and there I saw police officers.
"D'you have a warrant?" I asked.
"We need none. We just received a phone call about a missing person. Nikki Samuel?" A black police officer asked.
Nikki stepped towards the police officer. The black officer made a head movement, and officers came and put handcuffs on all of us but Nikki.
"Let them go. I am not a missing person. I left my parents because they drive me to the edge of insanity." She said.
After some explanations later, the officers finally freed us, apologizing for the treatment.
"Yeah. That was kinda strange. I thought your parents were aware where you were." Jacob said.
"I fled. They have absolutely no idea of the suffering they hadme endure just because they wanted me to be perfect." Nikki told Jacob.
"But now, they will know." Celestia said.
Just then, Rainbow Dash flew in through the window.
"Follow me. All of you." She said before flying back out.
