Part 1
The year is 2150, the populace of Earth had to give up fossil fuels years ago due the ozone nearly being depleted. This is where my tails start. My name is Twitchy, yeah really weird name, but I’ll get to reason why shortly. In the late 2000’s when people started to notice it was getting hotter and hotter every month. The scientists discovered the problem with the ozone, their readings were well off and it was nearly gone. The world’s leaders all got together and immediately stopped the extraction of fossil fuels. This meant we had to implement the programmes that was already developed, but the fuel companies did not want them released, as they controlled enough corrupt officials to stop it actually coming to fruition.
This technology was electro-cromagnetic drive systems (cromag for short). Some scientists discovered its use in the late 2000’s after an asteroid of unknown origin crashed into the moon in the 60’s. Of course, the government had to go and retrieve it. Sometimes I think apes are cleverer than humans in this regard. If they do not understand anything, they leave it alone. Not humans, no, they have to go and bring the thing back to Earth. This is when they discovered some weird elements that are not on our scale. Again leave alone? Nope, they have to go and start playing around. After a year or so there was a eureka moment. No, they didn’t figure it out; it exploded. When that happened, that is when all the machines took all the readings to create cromag drive systems. Apparently the explosion in the stone made it so we could fuse certain elements together to make certain types of stones hyper magnetic with the Earth. Thus cromag drive systems.
Anyway I’m going off track here. There was also another discovery when that thing exploded. Those people in the lab (it was pretty big, nearly 5000 acres as it was doing other stuff also, so a lot of people from all different countries) got infused with some of the weird elements that we didn’t know about. This meant that they also somehow got this weird way of being able to move, granted not very far, but we’ll get to that later.
The explosion created some kind of weird thing to happen to the workers DNA. Subsequently the children of those adults born from then on got it passed to them. If 2 people that worked at the lab got together, an offshoot happened to the kids that were born, they were able to use the movement a lot more as the years went by. This is where it gets to my parents. See, it was my grandparents that started this off. My granddad worked at the lab, and also my grandmother. No they weren’t married then. It was my dad’s dad and my mum’s mum. The grandies as I call them were married to normal (not infused by the meteor). Then they both had kids who were able to use the cromag, then came my parents, both were cromag users. Then I was born, a child to 2 cromag users. Well this is where my current predicaments starts, I didn’t know there was a government agency looking out for these kids, were called Abnormalies.
These kids were all born of mixed cromag parents like I am. We display some really weird ways of using the cromag system. The people who are normal cromag users can travel between 2 points quickly as long as they have a starter and inhibiter. A starter makes the cromag user travel over 500 mph without any whiplash, and an inhibitor is used to bring them back to normal speed. People can use cromag without the starter or inhibitors but they go really slowly.
Then there’s little old me and other Abnormalies.
We can somehow not only start and stop fast without the use of starters and inhibitors. Now the government is trying to figure this out so they can develop it more. The problem is with some kids like me. I am really a girl trapped in a boy’s body. There are rumours of some that are the other way around, boys trapped in girls bodies can do something different to what I can do. But I don’t know what that is, the government doesn’t want people to know.
We, the Abnormalies (gonna call us abs for short) can not only start and stop quick, we have the availability to think of where to go and we get there really quick, this is where my name comes from as my parents noticed not long after I was born that when I was twitching. I disappeared and reappeared in a different room.
Well this is where the government want to now more, they want an army with this ability, to colonise space, and this will save all sorts of resources having an army with our abilities. To be able to disappear and reappear at will miles away. The problem is, up to now we are all in hiding. As we are often experimented on when found out and the parents tend to move to a certain place, still don’t know what it’s called, but it means we cannot use our abilities, yes we can get out, but without knowing where we are, we cannot get back. This sucks big time. It was about 6 months ago when my parents decided to move to this secure place, this is where I met Jon. Jon is like me sort of but he is a female to male, we are both 12 and we have overheard our parents talking quietly about something that happens when we reach 13.
Meanwhile elsewhere on the planet.
A fist slammed down on the desk.
“Hannigan, give me an update.”
Hannigan heart sank. It was bad enough to be quizzed in a room of colleagues, but it was even worse when he didn’t have good news. “Sir, I cannot find them, we have searched the planet with the satellites but nothing, there’s no sign of them at all.”
“What do you mean, no sign? We have a few hundred spy satellites positioned around Earth and no sign? Are you bloody useless and don’t know how to use the software?”
“No sir, I’ve had them searching bit by bit and nothing is popping up.”
“How so? We know these freaks give off some weird signal. We caught onto that 20 years ago when they picked something up. Since then we have only managed to catch a dozen or so of them. I’m getting my arse chewed out by top brass to produce more kids to experiment on as the programme is stalled at the moment. We don’t get enough time to study them before they die. We need that army created as soon as possible. The bloody Earth is dying and we need to colonise other planets quickly, to do this we need this army to travel to other planets and get rid of the indigenous population so we have somewhere. The only bloody planet we have found is the next galaxy over called Genesis.
“Fuck it Hannigan, get extra people in here. Pull them out of boot if they have surveillance techniques to find the bastards. We haven’t got long, the squints said about 30 year’s max, so we need to catch these fuckers ASAP. My next report from you better have a fucking location on them or you’re going to ERSC* and we’ll let them play. I’m off to my office.”
*Earth Relocation Scientific Centre
“Poor bastards”, thought Hannigan. He didn’t want to get sent to ERSC. That’s where they experiment on those kids. “The things we’ve heard coming out of that place scare the living shit out of me. I better bring in those recruits he mentioned.”
“Jennings, get me a list of the new recruits at boot specifically those with surveillance background.”
“Yes sir. Contacting boot now” (I’m also going to contact Genesis and let them know what’s happening, we knew Earth was fucked but we thought we had more time. Better make sure I hide my personal comms system if were getting new recruits in).
Meanwhile on Genesis
“Rich, we’ve had a secure comms come through from Jennings, latest is 30 years max and their history, they’re gonna be coming for us and soon if they find our bases on Earth and figure out the changes.”
“Thanks Lou, better let our hosts know so they can look into it. We got any more info on Jon and Twitch? What are they nearly 13 now?”
“Yes sir, Twitch is 12 years and 11 months and Jon is about a month younger. When they hit 13 they’ll come into their powers which will give them the availability to switch gender and be who they are. We both know that’s when their secondary powers kick in and gives them full ability to space warp, that’s when we will be able to see if they want to come here with their parents. They’ve been at the base 6 months now, so all the checks have been done on their parents to make sure they are not spies.”
“Thanks Lou, have our sensors reported any more kids going through the same?”
“Yes Rich, as its getting about the right time, more and more of the kids of the original scientists of the base are having families of their own, seems something strange is happening and somehow they are gravitating towards other people like them. It’s like they are drawn to one another and not towards normal people without the changed DNA.”
“Thanks Lou, we thought this might happen, our benefactors clued me in on the last report.” Thank god they contacted our parents group and made themselves known to them, otherwise we may not be here. “Send a communication back to Gen Base 10. I think it’s time we let those kids know what’s gonna happen.”
“Ok Rich, finally they will be able to be themselves, but like us when we transformed, they are going to love it.”
Lou then typed into her console. “This is Genesis Base to Gen Base 10, time to let the kids know.”
“This is Gen Base 10, Roger over and out, we will set up the meeting now. Anything from the other 9 bases across the globe?”
“We have, and across them all we have about 50 or so kids about to hit that time in their lives, time to start getting some quarters ready for them.”
“Roger over and out, keep us informed. I know we are not allowed to know where the other 9 are, but it would help with the current kids we have to know there are other kids their age they can get to know.”
“You know we do not let you know their location for a reason 10, if one base gets compromised, you have no way of disclosing their location if you don’t know where they are.”
“Ok Genesis, would be nice to be able to speak to others but I get the importance of secrecy, over and out.”
Lou, “god I would love to see the looks on those kids faces when they get told when they hit 13 they can be who they want to be genetically, It was the same with me and Rich shortly after we turned 13, it was like a dream come true, then coming here for an entirely new life. We’ve been here 7 years now and only had about 15 other kids come through, something tells me there’s going to be a surge of refugees coming soon, better start getting the new residences in place.”
Elsewhere on Genesis.
“Greetan, we have just been informed there will be an influx coming through shortly. Roughly about 50 families from the 10 bases. All families checked out, some very good scientists amongst the parents also to help us with our own planet. When we originally found Earth in the early 2000’s as they call their time lines. It took us a long time to realise how they treat their people if they are different. As a race of both sexes this we could not allow, this is why we sent one of our asteroids to that planet’s moon just short of a Centon ago, with the building blocks to help those that are suffering. But we need to be careful that we do not get any of those interfering government people that we have heard so much about. Those and the people they call bigots.”
“Thank you Freemix for the update, you better tell the Royals that we will be having company soon, and once they arrive we will have to perform the ritual of soul cleansing to fully integrate them into our culture.”
“Also, I think it is time we clued them in on their Granddaughter, I don’t envy the fact that we kept that particular piece of information from them. The fact that we used some of their DNA to only attach to a specific DNA sequence and that has now come to fruition. Any idea on how Twitch will react when she finds out she is Royalty, and also what her and his Highness will react when we tell them?”
“Well, for one I think they will want to take the Royal battle fleet to Earth immediately to get her now, they know we are suffering with repopulation problem, especially when they lost their only child eons ago and could no longer reproduce, this will be their dream come true”
End of part 1
Kindly edited and proof read by Karen Page of the SPA Universe
Part 2
Back at the base.
“This is a base message for all residents with children between the age of 12 and half and 13. There will be a general meeting in the main conference room in 30 minutes.”
“Oh well, love. Guess this means us and Twitch. They did mention that when she got old enough we would be invited to a meeting with the guardians.”
“I guess we will find out about or baby then. God, I hope they have some good news.”
“So do I love, so do I.”
30 minutes later.
“Good afternoon all. You will all have met with me when you were brought here, granted you did not know where you were going, that was to keep our base location confidential. You may have wondered how we knew how to contact you, well when you were born it immediately registered on our scanning system to let us know where you were. Every time a new one of us gets born, it registers by picking up your DNA on our main monitor that you see before you.”
“Excuse me, but how does it know where we are?”
“Good question, if you remember all seeing the old style B movies where alien’s abducted back on your televisions. Well we use a slightly more advanced software, so therefore we know where you are all of the time.”
“Thanks for clarifying that. We wondered how you found us.”
“Anyway back to where we were at previously. In all told, we have 10 bases like this one located all around the world. Due to stringent security, we do not know where the others are located. This is to make sure that if one base is compromised, the others can track you and hopefully get to you before the government does. What I called you here for is for the next phase in what you need to be told. It may come as a surprise to some of you, but as some of you are scientists, you may already know what is happening here on Earth.”
There was a few grumbled nods and quiet whispers from the adults as most of them were aware from working in their different departments they knew what was happening, but did not know the full extent, that information was being kept from them by the people higher up.
“If you do not want your children here to hear what is to be discussed then please take them back to your rooms and you can explain to them later. We do not want to cause hysteria here.”
With that, none of the parents moved to take their children away as they figured the kids could handle some of what was being discussed. They had received a private communication from the base leader earlier outlining the meeting.
“Ok then, as none of you have left I am assuming what I sent around earlier is acceptable to all. There is no way to sugar coat this, but as I explained earlier, the Earth has no more than 30 years left, before the planet is doomed due to the overuse of fossil fuels burned in the last century and half. By our reckoning, by then, the ozone will have completed depleted and the harmful rays from your sun will scorch this planet. What you have been brought here for is twofold. It is to make sure that your species continues to exist, and to also help repopulate a planet in the next galaxy.”
There were a few gasps as some of this was not communicated in the private message.
“I can see from some of your faces you did not expect this. I may look human but in fact I am a Genan. I actually come from an area in space not that far from here in our race’s technology. But by your races technology it is too far for your current mode of space travel. Our area of space where I am from, we have suffered for over 200 of your Earth years of population problems. No, we have not got an over populations, we have in fact the opposite. Our race can no longer reproduce. The asteroid that hit your moon over 80 years ago was in fact sent by my race. It contained the building blocks of our DNA to help you here on Earth. The main reason for that is our race is both male and female, you can exist as both or just one sex. In fact, you can change your sex as much as you want. That is not so for the parents gathered here. This is only for those children that suffer from what you call Transgendered. The power to choose your gender comes into force on your 13th birthday, as we have a few here approaching that milestone, we thought it best to let you know now so you can choose one of the 2 options I will put forward to you.”
The base commander looked across the gathered families to see the reaction. Not seeing any major shock they decided to continue.
“Option 1, is on the child’s 13th birthday, they can literally choose which sex they want to carry on as, they can be male, female or in fact both. Their modified DNA allows for living as both which is not current viable by normal human beings, those poor souls have either had that option taken away from them at birth, or once they got close to puberty the choice had to be made one way or another. If they had had a grandparent who worked at the facility when the explosion happened then they too would have had this choice I am given you now.”
“You said there were 2 options?”
“Yes I did, first let me finish with the first option. Also when the child reaches their 13th birthday part of their power kicks in, it gives them the added ability to space warp, meaning that not only can they currently use their own Cromag to traverse the Earth without the starters and inhibitors, they can use this same built in ability to traverse space. This is of course if you take up our offer. We are giving the families of those children the option to travel to Genesis, the area we are from. There you have the option of living lives as normal, or what we hope is to help our race to try and find out why my race has lost the functionality to reproduce. This of course would help us as well as keeping you far away from your current government who I am afraid to say, currently do not treat anyone with the enhanced DNA with form of dignity, from what we have heard their life span is seriously reduced.”
“Option 2, we have the technology from studying human DNA to introduce an RNA that will technically rewrite your current DNA back to fully human. This means you will no longer have the ability to use the Cromag part of their DNA, you will technically be back to fully Human form. Of course, this may affect your decision because of your children’s status in the world. They will have to go through the normal human way of dealing with being transgendered. If you choose this option, you will be given new names and moved to a different country you were born in with a full background in place, so if the government scan you, it will not show up and you can live for the next 30 years on Earth. You will no longer have the option to travel with our group. If you choose option 1. When your child reaches the age of transition, they will be given a week’s training on how to be able to use their new ability and on how to be able to change their current form to that which they choose.”
“What about the Cromag’s that do not have kids? Do they get the option?”
“We contact them separately and given them the option, as these children are indeed part of our race in some way. We offer all of our citizens the option to stay here or travel to one of the planets. These children of Genesis have to travel a different way, usually they are brought here to travel with a family that has granted them passage with them. Tell me, why do you ask?”
“Well, my cousin works for a current government department of which he will not tell me the name of. He is of course one of use as he is my mother’s sisters son. He and his wife cannot actually have kids, believe me they have tried.”
“Ah, I am assuming your cousin’s family name is Jennings?”
“How do you know that?”
“He also works for us, letting us know what the government is currently doing and gives us a heads up, so to speak. We are also aware they cannot have kids, some of the DNA from our race did make it through, which unfortunately included the unfortunate side effect of not being able to reproduce. That is also one of the reasons we try and get all Cromag’s to choose option 1, to help the others being able to have children. Well I have given you all a lot of information here. I will give you 2 days to talk this over with your families and if you can let me know your decision in the next few hours so we can let Genesis know how many will be due to travel. Thank you all.”
The families all went back to their rooms to discuss what had been said, Twitch’s parents and Twitch herself could not believe what she had been told, to be able to genetically change to being fully female was a dream come true, her very large eyes were bating themselves to her parents hoping by all hope they would choose option 1. This information was sent to Rich and Lou to pass onto royalty.
A few hours later, all but one family had chosen to go off world so to speak. Twitch’s family was one of those to choose to go off world, they also had the option of taking their own parents with them, granted they were old now, but they were some of the original scientists that studies the asteroid that hit the moon. This meant that Twitch could still talk to her Grandmother. She had originally lost her husband a year or so earlier, and Twitch’s family was all the family she had left, she had not heard from them in 6 months since the told her they had to leave quickly for the sake of Twitch. She understood but since then had got lonely, she had friends, but family was family.
The one family that decided not to go, even given the fact that child had repeatedly asked to be able to go, so he could go through the change, was Jon’s family. How on earth could Jon tell Twitch his family had chosen option 2? The two had grown very close in the 6 months they had been at the base and Jon had grown very fond of Twitch, even as far as saying he loved her, but being only 12 nearly 13, he was hard pressed to know exactly what the feeling was.
Genesis
“Greetan is here to see you your highness.”
“Send them in please.”
“Ah Greetan, I take it you have the latest figures and details of the soon to be new Genan population?”
“Yes your highness, here is the list including full names, DNA, and specific knowledge the latest members of our race will arrive with. There is roughly 50 families that have signed up to come here from all of the bases, unfortunately out of the 10 bases, 5 families have chosen not to accept our offer. Once you have looked over the list I will then sort out who will work in which department we have to try and figure out why we cannot reproduce.”
“Thank you Greetan, if you stay here it will not take long to go over the list.”
“Yes, your highness.” Any minute now he thought.
“What in blazes is this? Is this correct what I am reading here Greetan? It cannot be possibly, we cannot reproduce so your figures cannot be right. I want this child’s DNA rechecked immediately.”
“I am sorry your highness, but the information you have in front of you is correct. We somehow managed to create a link between one specific DNA of a human and managed to cross that with your families DNA, specifically your daughters, may she rest in peace.”
“If I am reading this correctly then I want that child’s family up here as soon as possible. I do not want her to wait until she is 13 to get the ability to come here. Which base is she on? I have a good mind to take the Royal Command ship to get her myself.”
“You cannot do that your highness, they will spot your ship with the current sensors that are in orbit around the Earth, and she is currently located in Base 10.”
“In that case, get the base commander to immediately…”
With that she was cut off by a blaring high pitched warning tone, letting them know one of their bases on Earth was under attack. A message was immediately shown on the vid screen.
“Oh my god your highness, Base 10 has apparently come under attack. That is their individual tone for needing immediate extraction. It seems this attack was very sudden, even the operative we had in their government did not know it was going to happen.”
“Greetan, I want the imperial Battlegroup deployed to Earth now. If in fact that is my Granddaughter, I want her here immediately.”
Rich and Lou just stared at the monitor that showed Base 10 was under attack. They had overheard what Greetan had mentioned earlier about the Royal granddaughter being at that base.
“Oh shit Lou, things are going to get a little bit nasty around here.”
With that they both heard the tones for the Imperial Battlegroup sounding, this group was always on call and ready for action after the last time Genesis was under attack, it was always kept fully manned. Within a few minutes the captain registered ready for deployment.
“This is the captain of the Imperial Battlecruiser your highness, which race are we defending against?”
“You are not defending Captain, it is indeed the rescue of my granddaughter on Earth at Base 10. Make sure she gets back to me. Take no prisoners, defend her at all costs.”
“Yes Ma’am, deploying for Earth”
End of part 2
Again many thanks to Karen Page of the SPA Universe for editing and proofing.
The next part may be a few days, I have already started it, but I am back at work tomorrow so will not have chance to write any more until the night time.
Thank you to those that commented and liked part 1, there is a lot more to follow.
Samantha