New World - Stage 2

by Can't make a name

A 2 part story. Everyone has emotional baggage including the Visitors. John must deal with growing unrest on the ships. Diana, must find a way to give the Great Leader the supernatural abilities he wishes to posses. Steven, could care less about anything. Even Willie and Martin are not free of their emotional baggage. Brian and his friends are Doing Our Own Thing

8. Chapter 8

Brenda 489

Diana sits in her lab. Her face betrays no emotion as she looks into her microscope. Then suddenly she stands, and with her foot pushes the chair back forcefully. The chair flies back, and slams into a shelf. Equipment on the shelf rocks a bit. However, it stops before anything falls off and onto the floor. She can never get the human egg to accept the Whipllie sperm.

Her testing on these particular human eggs had seemed so promising. The human genome looked like it was accepting of the manipulated mountain sperm. She had already found if she tried to manipulate the sperm to much it mutated in a way that it refused to penetrate the egg. Hours had gone by, and all seemed to be going fine. Diana left with a confident stride as she had left to attend a meeting, and had come back with a feeling of triumph. She had activated the drone in the containment chamber, and it flew to the first sample. Then activated the holograph screen. She had been the happiest she has been in sometime. That happy moment was quickly lost as the drone flew over to the next one, then the next one. All she could hear was the sound of her heart pounding; every one of them had died. That is when she launched her chair in a fit of rage.

However, the drone is set to move from one to the other by program settings. The last one in the tray comes up in the hologram. At first she does not notice as she is acknowledging her loss. Then she sees this one has not died, it is working. She looks at the number and verifies the record number.

All the other samples had manipulation done to the sperm. Her heart is racing. It is the human. It is the human, and not manipulating the male sperm. All she had done was allow the mountain sperm, the one that had not been manipulated to impregnate the egg. Which had surprised her at the time, but she thought it a fluke. Once done she inserted Deypol DNA as she had done the others. She was just doing one a subject to hold against the work she had done in manipulation. She smiles. If she found this woman, then she will find more. She rocks in a rhythm as though dancing. How lucky she has been. No, need to manipulate the sperm. All activities from now on must be geared to finding the correct human female. If there is one, there are others.

Still it may be a good idea to keep a supply of mountain sperm on hand with just a slight manipulation applied. Just enough to be accepted by the human, but too much as it won't work either. It is all dependent now on the correct female, and very little to do with the male. She has succeeded, the rest will happen. There are more than enough mountain Youth Corp members to get sperm from. Now that she has the woman she can do her testing. Diana looks at her notes. Brenda 489. This woman is her catalyze for success. She will need to monitor the egg and ensure that it creates a proper embryo. More testing on Brenda 489 to absolutely verify the steps taken work. Again all is dependent on a suitable female.

Of, course Brenda 489 will likely only be good for testing as there is only so many eggs available for testing and working out the procedure. She needs to find more human girls that meet Brenda's qualifications, now that she knows what to look for it will be easier. So simple she need only to run a quick DNA test on each and every female brought on to the ship. Victory is at hand.