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So, this is the story me and 
velnor JUST got through writing. I want this to turn into a second Gene War. So if someone wants to show up, PM me for details.
Guest appearances: Jake
Enjoy
White Skies
Part 1: Initial Issues
“Hey Chris! It looks like those freaking guys at the settlement area want to re-negotiate the Foxtaur land.” Skylar said as he sighed. Skylar was an Arctic Fox who specialized in Genetic mapping/imaging. He was about 5'9”, and his fur was completely white, with no imperfections on it. His eyes however, changed color from a green to a sky blue, earning his name at birth.
The 6'2" brown/cream colored Otter named Chris looked up and over at Skylar from his notes. He pulled off his glasses and rubbed the bridge of his muzzle, sighing softly "What is it this time? Not enough trees again?". His deep blue eyes showing over the glasses.
“Not this time, they actually want to take it back completely. They say that the land is 'Too valuable for a habitat.” Skylar replied as he logged into his computer.
Chris sighs and puts his glasses back on, leans back over his paperwork and test-tube sample, examining them under the light and writing some stuff on his notes. "What for? I though they found that most the minerals and harvest able materials were outside the boundaries"
“Well that's the thing. They did. So the human government believes that there are even more minerals inside the encampment. They've given the Foxtaurs that already reside there a 20-day eviction notice.” Skylar said, reading an article online. “This is stupid. Those Foxtaurs don't have another home. They've been kicked out of damn near every home they've asked for. This going to turn violent if the big wigs don't pay attention....”
Chris rolls the test-tube in his paw as he leans back and nods, looking over at Skylar "Yeah, but what good is it going to do in the end? They will just give them more land and then take it away again.. I .. OW!” Chris falls backwards out of his chair and the test-tube falls and rolls along the ground, glowing lightly. “Th....that....”
Skylar looked at the glowing bottle, “Isn't that the formula to that new fur pattern?????Why is it glowing?”
Chris nods and gets back up, as he straightens his jacket he pulls the gloves off the desk and a caliper. "Yeah, I'm not sure, but I think the cells shifted and it looks like they are multiplying in an odd pattern...I'm going to put it though the SPE system and do a full optic scan, see whats going on in there, it could be a new breakthrough I've been looking for!”
“That would be cool. But can it wait for a bit? The case in defense of the Foxtaurs is coming in an hour, we need to leave in like a minute if you're going.” Skylar said, logging off.
Chris frowns but nods, he sulks a little and picks the glowing tube up to set it in the freeze chamber, pausing any growth for when he gets back. He pulls off his gloves and massages the webbing on his paws briefly before dusting off his jacket and stretching. “Yeah, i suppose that is important, but you better be ready to help me separate the samples and plate, I want to do a full analysis as soon as possible, who knows what we just found"
“Deal.” Skylar says as he put on a Black suit. He had a white button up undershirt with a blue tie, accenting his eyes. He grabbed the keys to the lab, which doubled as his car keys and opened the door. “We'll take my car.”
The two, now dressed in full suit attire, began driving down to the courthouse. “I can't believe we're doing this again. Let's just put it out in front of them that the Foxtaurs deserve a home. They promised to keep the land clean, and they have.” Skylar said, frustrated.
Chris nods as he leans back and nods slightly, watching the scenery from the window. "Yeah, its getting old, 34 moves of whole tribes to date... I don't know how many more they will put up with before they just say fuck it and go ballistic on them...”
Seemingly right as Chris finished his sentence, the two saw a group of morphs, and some humans, apparently protesting. Most of them were Foxtaurs, holding up signs that said, 'You get the land of the free! We don't get ANY LAND!' and 'Why have you forsaken us?'. Skylar pulled the car over and looked at Chris, “I think they just did....”
Chris frowns and look around at the groups "Lets just hope none of hem have done anything to provoke a fight.. we need all the time we can to hold this off"
One protester, a human, threw a rock at the courthouse, breaking one of the windows, “SHIT! Chris, let's try to reason with them! Things are turning bad!” Skylar said, getting out of the car. He stepped on top of his car and yelled, “Hold on! Hold the fuck on! I know why you're protesting, in fact, I'm here to fight for your case! But this is not the way to do it!”
A vixentaur walked up to Skylar, “Then how do you propose we do it? Just sit here and keep moving? I don't want to re-enroll my three kits in school for the 35th time!”
Chris gets out of the car and walks over, leaning against the car casually as he gestures to her. “How about this, you help keep them calm while we negotiate, seeing your a beautiful lady, I'm sure they would listen to you, and you wont have to. We need all the help we can, I'm sure you don't want to redo all that paperwork! All you have to do is just lead them in a song or something!”
The vixentaur thought. The human that threw the rock came up to him, “We can't keep negotiating! Look where talking got us! It's time to take action! Those Foxtaurs need that land now!”
Skylar sighed, “Chris, let's just go in and argue the case. We'll deal with this later.” he said as he walked into the courthouse.
Chris scrambles after, pulling out the small notes he had written down and gives them to Skylar. "Thought I'd put the major reason down on paper just to make sure if your frosty butt forgets something you wont be up a creek"
Skylar takes the notes and walks into the door of the courtroom. As the two walk in and sit down, the judge said, “Skylar Tel'lichar and Christopher Royer, you are here on behalf of the Foxtaur settlement. Who is representing you both?”
Skylar stood up, “I, Skylar, will represent the defense on behalf of the Foxtaurs. I promise on my life to say the truth, nothing but the truth, or kill me otherwise.”
The judge nodded. “The prosecution has already made their opening statements. Defense, please state yours.”
Skylar nodded and walked in front of the Jury. “My peers, and my elders, look at this with an unbiased mind. If you ignore the details, than you see this: The government is taking land away from a tribe of Foxtaurs for the 35th time. That's the whole case, summed up into a single sentence. I'm sure you'll see beyond a reasonable doubt that this is unjust, and unfair to the families that should live there.” After speaking, Skylar sat down and drank some water.
The judge nodded and pointed to the prosecution, it was a bald human, who had lots of fancy-looking papers. “Jury, let's be serious. Since 1782, humans have always known what to do. We have built this country for our benefit. Look at that fox over there in the defense booth. His hair is uncombed, his suit is covered in fur, and he's a scientist! He's no law expert! And I doubt his companion is either!”
Skylar sighed and stayed silent until the jury pointed his direction. “You're honor, I think we have a miscommunication error here. While it's true I am a scientist. It is quite evident I don't have any hair at all, save this ruff of fur between my ears. Secondly, of course my suit is covered in fur, I'm a fox, I have fur....it makes sense....”
“OBJECTION! Defense case has nothing to do with the case at hand!” The bald man said.
“Noted, Defense, stay on topic. Now continue.”
Skylar shrugged as he continued. “If we want to get technical, the government has made excuses for the past 3 years to kick those Foxtaurs out. This is ridiculous! They have families, and lives to live. You know that each time they move, they pay a fine? Soon, they're going to run out of money, and they'll die. Whatever happened to equality?! Think about it, jury, I rest my case.” Skylar said as he sat down next to Chris.
From the back, a police officer came inside, “Your honor! There's a riot outside! They have weapons now!”
Skylar took the opportunity to make his point clear. “Look everyone! This is what happens when you take...”
The prosecution stood up with Skylar and yelled at him, “It's NOT YOUR TURN!”
“Shut up! I don't care! I'm not a law maker! I'm a defender of justice! Now look! That riot is your fault!” he said pointing at the jury, “Because your government keeps telling them to move until death! This is no different than the slave movement! I'm not going to help you! I'm with them, come on Chris, let's go!” Skylar stormed out with Chris. They got in his car and drove away.
The two stayed silent until Skylar pulled back up into their facility. Getting out without a word, the go back inside. Soon they are back in their lab coats and ready to work, Chris goes in the freeze chamber and pulls the test tube out, now a tube of glowing frost. He carries it in the next room with Skylar following.
“So, anyway, are we ready for the SPE scan? Because now I'm curious.” Skylar said, setting up the SPE.
Chris shook his head and held up the glowing tube. Skylar noticed that Chris' fur is sticking up a little as he sets it in the plate holder. “Not yet, do get it ready, though, I'm going to take half of this and save it, we don't want to ruin it all, it seems to be the experimental group we set up.”
Skylar nods as the got the system running. “So, I've been thinking about that case...and I decided, that us morphs should have some kind of law makers for us too.”
Chris turns around with two separate tubes, he hands one to Skylar and puts the other one to the side, "What do you mean? They lost the last war after the humans tried anything, I don't think we are at risk for anything yet.. besides, we need to keep out minds on this glowing tube... who knows what we have here.. also, get the otter, wyvern, canine and feline DNA strand tubes out, i just wanna play around and see what this stuff reacts to, all i remember is that we put them all in here.”
Skylar sighs as he gets the requested DNA strands for Chris. As he hands them to the Otter, he says, “Don't you think it sucks being us? We had do work three times as much as the human only one tier below us. Humans are in power, and only a small percentage cares for us. I'm saying we need to incorporate ourselves into society more. I mean, it's than going to those morph-only schools and stuff, but I think we're being left behind....”
Chris shrugs and turns around, placing the tubes on the rack in order, putting the glowing one on the adjacent plate and turning the SPE on. He looks back at Skylar, he looks like he wants to cry but shrugs it off, turns back to the machine and watches the screen and feed out.
“Hey, you OK?” Skylar asked, wondering about the sudden face.
Chris just waves him off at the same time the machine beeps, spits out the tray with a new set of test tubes, now two were glowing "Oh hey! we have some matches!”
Skylar blankly stares at the tubes. “Wait....How? That doesn't even make sense! Try some others!”
Chris looks at Skylar and shakes his head “That wont do good... We only tried these strands... but.. why are there more than one glowing? This machine has a 99% success rate.. I don't get it...It cant be wrong!”
“You said there were matches! Somehow, there are cells from each sample in all of the tubes......I don't know why, but I think this is more than a well developed fur pattern....” Skylar said as he thought. About twenty seconds later, he came to a realization, “Hey, you remember that mail mix up that happened last week? That isn't the new fur pattern.....”
Chris' eyes widen as he swallows and frowns “Oh, crap... don't tell me we... oh boy....”
Skylar's computer ejected a petri shaped dish from it's side. “Let me some of that....”
Chris took some of the main sample and gave it to Skylar "It seems the cells are dividing, they are multi-celled right now.. and glowing.. I don't know whats going on yet.. what was in that tube we got?”
“Well, we were SUPPOSED to get a new fur pattern to give to the fashion market. But I just got an email saying thanks........this must be the other vial that SHOULD have gone to the other lab....” Skylar put the main sample in the petri dish and closed it. His computer showed up with all sorts of different animal parts. “This isn't a fur......it's a species....”
Chris frowns and comes up behind him and looks at the screen, clicking down and scrolling though the list “S..Skylar.. w..what we j..just did then.. the other vials...We just made a completely new species....”
Skylar sat, in all of his training of Genetic Imagining/Mapping, he had never dreamed of creating a sentient species. “Well Chris, we can do one of two things. We can send the sample back with these results, or we can keep them here, and develop this.”
Chris scrolled through the screens, pulling up the gene maps and looking at the models. As he pulled up the labels he frowned. “We cant send this back.. look, its created a full strand.. its combined all the DNA” He points to parts of the screen, “Here and here... we have to complete this.. this is our chance... we just made a whole new gene map... all we lack is..” Chris was cut off by the sudden knocking on the door and a high feminine voice. The voice startles them both, they turn to see Vanessa, the black wyvern assistant come in, Chris grins at Skylar, “All we lack is the catalyst!”
Skylar nodded at Chris and turned to Vanessa, “Vanessa, would you please close the door? We found something.”
Vanessa obliged and sat down, “What's up?”
“Well, to make a long story short, this tube isn't the fur sample we should have gotten. It's a DNA pattern. I triple-checked, this bitch is half of a species. Before we figured that out, Chris combined it with some other DNA strands, and we have a whole genetic latter, I just finished the flaws....Suffice to say, we need a catalyst, and the first egg.....” Skylar said, a blush clashing with his white fur on his ears.
Vanessa stared blankly at Skylar, then Chris and sighed, “This is why i don't like owing you guys favors... fine.. you can have one, but no one knows about this...”
Chris grinned and moved off the chair. He went over to the tubes, sorting them around and cleaning up. He looked over at Skylar with a wink, “You heard the lady, get to it!” Chris chuckled and carried the tubes into the other room with his notes, whistling happy tune.
Skylar blushed an extreme red. He turned to Chris, “CHRIS YOU ASS! GET THE FUCK OVER HERE!!!! You know I'm not trained in this!”
Vanessa blushed as well. She took a pair of gloves and a small bag and walked into the other room. “I'll be right back...” A short bit later she came back, looking relieved and sets the bag on the counter. "The tampon is in there, it should have the egg you needed, I'm going home now" She waved the blushing fox off and walked out of the room.
Chris came back in after she left and got to work, pulling the SPE back out and putting the main tube back in, “Well, get over there and get the egg free, we need to do this fast and get it in the chamber, we don't know how long this will stay fresh.”
Skylar sighed and nodded. “Alright.....but next time, you're doing it. You know I'm single, and glad.” He got the egg out and put in a petri dish of pure water. “Alright, work your magic, when you get it, tell me. I'll sort out the genes and we'll get this bitch alive!”
Chris grinned, he came over with a syringe and injected the glowing solution into the egg carefully and sealed it up, placing the solution into the chamber and sighs. “Now, all we have to do is wait for it to grow, run a test and make sure the strands and gene's are still aligned in an hour, it should set in by then, ill get the notes and write down all the data.”
Skylar sighed as well, “Wow....I can't believe this is actually happening. Our own species.....What would we do with it?”
Chris chuckled softly and sighed “I don't know.. b.but. ya know.. I'm sure the use will open up to us, ya know? I just hope it works... this is so amazing...”
Skylar shook his head, “Yeah....” He looked at the progress and his eyes widened, “Chris? Shouldn't there only be ONE group of cells forming? I think I see THREE......”
His ear flicks as turns around over Skylar's shoulder, then frowns “J..Just what is this...?”
Skylar shook his head in disbelief, “I don't know...” He switched to the view he was most comfortable with. Six rows of letters, ATCG, flowed horizontally across the screen. “Sure enough, there are triplets in there. All male. Bipeds, with scales, and fur?”
"Both scales and fur???” Chris looked over the screen and blinked. He sighed and jotted it down, “I guess it is... I don't know how... but damn. So fast! This is a strange breed so far..”
Skylar scratched his head as he read the letters carefully. “What's even stranger, is each of them have.......what? No! That's not possible! Only Skunktaurs can do that!”
“What? What do they have? Chris said as he leaned over, reading out the formations. “.. is that even possible?”
Skylar sighed, “They each have telepathy. This top strand has some sort of mind read, while this third strand has the empathic power that Chakats have. GOD! This doesn't make any sense! At this rate, we'll have an embryo by tomorrow!”
Chris frowned and clicked through it. He looked into the tank at the glowing orb and writes the rest down. “Alright, I guess the best thing we can do is wait... this is getting too much to me, wanna go for a drink? calm down and relax a little?”
Skylar's head sank. “Nah. I'll stay here. I need to study this.” He looked back at the scrolling letters, and sighed. “Well, see you later.” he said as he pulled out an energy drink and opened it.
Chris laughed and walked off to his car, “Whatever you say, I'll be back in a few hours, try to not lock the room door this time ok?”
"Ok! I won't!" Skylar laughed as he took a drink. As the door to the lab closed, Skylar stared at the text. He began writing down the sequences on a sheet of paper, and then mixing them up on the paper, seeing what would happen.
After a little while Chris came back. He pulled into the garage and shuts it down, taking the elevator to the lower levels. He found their room and walked in slowly, still half smashed from the evening's drink. Chris looks at the two beds in the bedroom, he counts to three and plops over right onto Skylar's bed and falls asleep.
Skylar looked at his piece of paper, with scribbles and markings all over it, “There we go, a female counterpart for tomorrow...” He looked at the clock and read it, “3:29 AM, I guess that would be today......I wonder if Jake's up...” Skylar took out his phone and dialed it. The phone rang and a male voice picked up.
“Skylar? Is that you?”
“Yeah, Jake? You sound different!”
“I can say the same. Wait.....what's my last name?”
“Oh come on.....fine, it's the same as mine, Tel'lichar.”
“OK, had to check. So, what have you been up to?”
“You won't believe this, but me and Chris have made a new species!”
“You're fucking with me right?”
“Not in the slightest!”
“Skylar, I always knew you would turn out to be one of those crazy mofo's that I kill on a normal basis.”
“Thanks Jake! What about you?”
“Well, other than being frozen for Elders knows how long, I got a wife.”
Skylar spit up part of his drink, “You're fucking with me right?”
“Not in the slightest! Shi's a Chakat. Oh, got to go. See you later Skylar.”
“See you later Jake.” At that, Skylar closed the phone and fell asleep on his computer.
Chris woke up and looked around, rubbing his eyes softly as he puts his glasses back on, looks around and blushes, getting off the bed and going back upstairs. “Geeze.. I gotta start watching what i drink when I'm excited.. “
Chris reaches the lab door and paused, looking down, He saw a small trickle of fluid pooling under the door that caught his eye. “W..what the...?”
Inside of the lab, Skylar lay on his computer, sleeping. Around him however, were three bipedal multicolored beings. They all looked the same, except for size, and distinct markings on their head. The tallest one had glowing marks on his ears. He listened to Chris through the steel door. The shortest had markings below his eyes. He looked at the middle one and spoke a strange language to him. The middle listened and nodded. He spoke back in the same language, but when he spoke, it sounded like a song. This one had a marking on his throat. All three markings glowed. As Chris walked in, he saw that the tank was broken, he saw the three standing around Skylar.
Chris looks around wide eyed at the room. He saw Skylar, sleeping, or dead. Chris was unsure of what to do at this point. Were they dangerous? He couldn't tell, he started to slowly scoot away as he said, “S..Skylar.. SKYLAR!”
Skylar woke to Chris screaming his name. Right in front of him was a tan scaled chest plate. To his left, was the sheath of another. To his right was a dark brown neck. He looked slightly up and saw black beady eyes staring at him. Behind those eyes was Chris, who looked like he was about to die. Skylar stood up, and met the one in front of him, taking note of the neck insignia on it.. “I am Skylar. Who are you?”
The one in front of him looked to the tall one, then to the small one before answering. “Gasinger, sourlbke.” It spoke.
Skylar shook his head, “I speak Basic, can you?”
The creation did the same head motions, going from the tall, to the short. “Skylar, well met.”
Chris blinks, having weaved his way to Skylar's side. He looks at Skylar, and then the creatures with an amused look. “Soo.... uh.... hi....”
Again, the middle creature looked left, than right. He looked back at Chris, “Greetings to you. What is your name?”
Skylar looked at to the left, then the right creature as well, “That is Chris. I need to ask, why do you look at the others before speaking?”
The center creature repeated his motion, and then responded, “The tall one here is my Listener. He can hear your emotions, your thoughts, and everything you feel. The short one here is my Watcher. He knows and remembers everything you've said and done. While you were asleep, he quickly taught us languages. I am the Speaker. My brain was developed using the literary parts of the egg. With some enhancements, of course.”
Chris blinks and looks at Skylar. He then looked to the tall one and said, “So.. you cant talk for yourself?”
The Speaker looked at Chris and said, “No, he can't. The Listener only has a muzzle specifically for consumption of nutrients. However, now I must ask a question. Through the Watcher's research of your notes, we expected one named Vanessa. Is she present?”
Chris looked at the Speaker and frowned, “I'm afraid Vanessa has the weekend off, she wont be back until Monday... you looked through my notes?”
The Speaker nodded, “Indeed, we did. We saw that Skylar was resting after completing our gene code. So we decided not to disturb him. We looked through your notes and his computer files. You needn't teach us anything.”
Skylar looked at the Speaker with an open mouth, “But....you weren't developed when I fell asleep! How did you possibly know? And how did you not touch me, but some how lifted my head to read my files?!”
The Speaker sighed, “The Watcher has telepathy, he simply lifted your head up, got what he needed, and put it back down. Second, you are a persistent writer.” As he finished, the ears on the Watcher twitched, and a sheet of paper floated in front of Skylar, it was his Gene Paper. At the bottom, it read:
Finally got done perfecting the gene sequences. Finally, we might actually have a chance at winning over those humans. With these negotiators, we'll be able to win nearly any legal battle!
Upon reading, Skylar sunk into his chair, “Oh, god! I'm so sorry! I didn't think you'd grow so fast! I don't want you to be slaves or anything! I.....I'm sorry...”
The speaker nodded, “We understand. We found the article that you mentioned in this log earlier. After extensive research, we agree that the Foxtaurs should not have to move any more. And we know that you mean no form of slavery.”
Chris looks over the paper and blinks. He then looks at them, stretches a little and shifts his glasses on the bridge of his muzzle again. “Well.. we succeeded in making something new...but what now?”
The Speaker looked at Skylar, “Well, we actually wanted to ask, how do we repopulate with no females? You gave us the proper appendages, you even coded the sperm to be dominant, but you didn't give us a female as to mate with.
Skylar slapped his head. “Shit! I forgot! I'll get working on that now....” Skylar picked up his notes and began working on a similar model. “Chris, can you get them clothes? It's kinda weird sitting here around naked guys...”
Chris just chuckles and shrugs, “Yeah, I guess, all I have are some strips of cloth, so I guess I'll find some rope and they will just be wearing a loincloth for a bit. He leads them out and comes back in a while later with them dressed in the loincloths.
Skylar rolled his eyes. “Oh, my God! There's spare lab attire in the closet, right fucking there!” As he spoke he pointed to his left.
Chris laughs as they look down at themselves. “I don't know, I think they look fine!”
Skylar buried his face in his hands. “Christopher Royer, go get them some clothes....”
Chris sighs and sulks, he walked over to the cabinet. “Fine....” He pulled out some spare coats, one for each size and hands them accordingly.
The speaker finishes buttoning his and says, “Thank you for our creation, by the way. It's rather rude of me to speak without giving credit to our granters of speech.”
Skylar nodded as he neared completion, “It's quite alright. Sometimes, it's weird just sitting here. Though I must say, it's even weirder talking to my own creation. I feel as if you guys aren't as significant, as if I'm making you do things. I gave you guys free will, if you need something, ask!”
Chris chuckles and leans against one of them, sighing softly. “It is odd isn't it? You never thought it was possible huh? I cant believe they actually grew, this fast much less!”
The speaker looked at Chris and said, “Indeed, when his head landed on the touch screen upon falling asleep, he hit the Mature button. Thus, we literately grew overnight.”
“Done, you'll have vixens that are beautiful, similar, but different. One hour....” Skylar said. As he said this, the tube began glowing again.
Chris grinned, "This is working out so well... its a great achievement”
Skylar nodded. “Well Chris, if you would take our guests to our room, and make accommodations accordingly, these vixens will be done.”
"Hmm.. ok, thats the best thing I can think of doing with them anyways. Follow me” Chris says as he walks off with them again and takes them to his room.
Chris walks back in the room alone, comes up behind Skylar and views the screen, adjust his glasses and reads a line. “Q..quad? you made quadrupeds?”
Skylar looked up and smiled, “Yep. I have to. These are the ultimate negotiators, they need diversity. Plus, I like Taurs....”
Chris laughs and pats Skylar's back, looking over the list and sighs. “Strangely enough, I think they are teenagers, judging by the way they were acting and all, but they went to sleep once I took them down there, snoring bunch they are.. I just cant believe that.. ya know.. w..we created it..”
“Yeah, I know what you mean. These girls are going to be teens as well. Exactly the same age as the others. Biologically at least. I feel like somethings wrong though, are you OK?”
Chris frowns and looks at Skylar, “What do you mean?”
“I mean, you seem really sad. When the tubes first glowed, you damn near cried! What's up?”
“I..I umm..” Chris sighs and rubs his muzzle softly “Can't we worry about the creatures for now? talk about this later?”
Skylar looked at Chris seriously, “The Femmes won't be ready for another half hour. What's up?”
He shakes his head and gives a fake yawn “Nothing.. I'm kinda tired, I'm going to head back down and have a little sleep, you should too.”
Skylar shakes his head and grabs Chris by the shoulder, “Chris, I've worked with you for six years now. What's wrong?! Don't lie to me a second time!”
Chris frowned and sighed, “Fine, but.. it won't do any good...”
“It would do good for me. I don't want to sit here wondering if there's a problem when there clearly is....” Skylar said slowly.
Chris took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes with a paw lightly. He leans against the counter and sighs again, “Fine.. The humans..breached the boundaries back at my home on the beach.. they found a small spring of oil on the ocean floor just off the shore and declared an eviction notice to me last week...”
Skylar nodded, “Chris, do you know why I came to work here?”
He frowns, putting his glasses back on and shaking his head. “No.. actually.. I don't think i ever bothered to ask...”
“That's because I told you not too. Well, the reason is because the closest thing I had to a home was a foster home. I never knew why until I studied Arctic Foxes in history class. Turns out, my actual home was frozen over by humans 400 years ago. My buddy Jake, who works as an assassin, was there when it happened. He ran away, made an announcement, and then disappeared into this time somehow. Last year, I went to an old tradition to see what was left of my village. You know what I found? I found a nuclear power facility. Me and Jake sabotaged it, but it still hurts.....I ran away from home, went to college with money that Jake wired me, and now I live here....”
Chris blinks “Why didn't you ever tell me?”
“Because, it's something that you didn't need to know. It's too late to do much now, but after the major power outage in that area, the Arctics demanded shut down and removal of the plant. We held that place down for three weeks until the government finally agreed to relocate all Arctics to proper schools, and give us back our land.” Skylar said staring at the screen. “Well, get the boys, these girls are almost done. They'll be walking around speaking when you get back. I copied all the files that the Watcher learned and have it ready for the femme version.”
Chris nods and heads off out the door, “I'll get them”
Skylar presses the Mature button, and three vixentaurs stepped out onto the floor, unable to fit in the tube. Skylar showed them the same file, and then said, “I am Skylar. My assistant Chris, will bring your mates with him.”
The prettiest one, also the middle one in height looked at her sisters from tallest to lowest and then responded. “Thank you, Skylar.”
Chris comes back up a little bit later, all three creations fully dressed again and looking around.
Chris steps in first and blushes deeply and closes the door before the other three behind him can get in and stutters a little. “S.. Skylar! Clothes!”
Skylar, also blushing, was much more comfortable with naked females surrounding him, he sighed and stood up. Skylar walked over and got the taur lab coats and handed them out according to the sizes of each taur. “There, now let the guys in...”
Chris sighs a little in relief as he opens the door to the males, “Sorry about that guys, I just figured first meet is more appropriate clothed and decent.”
Skylar smiled as he nearly felt the telepathy go through the creations. They began speaking in what Skylar considered their normal tongue. He walked over to Chris and said, “Yo....I was just thinking, we need a name....”
Chris blinks and nods, looking around the room, looking for syllables to work off of. He looks at the SPE, “Hmm.. Swiltron Personal Examiner...” Chris rolls it around in his head for a few minutes.
“Swiltron....Swiltrine? Swiltor? Swilt? Swilter?” Skylar asked to himself.
Chris snaps his paw and smiles “How about Swilt? it sounds kinda catchy”
Skylar nodded, “I like that....Swilt....”
Chris grins and turns to their creations and smiles “Congratulations! your now a named species!”
Skylar stands on his chair, “Hey, everyone. Can you accept the name 'Swilt' as a name for your kind?”
The whole group looks at him. Both speakers nodded at once, “We all agree. As it is gender neutral, and is not complicated. My fellow Swilt, we owe our lives to these two.” The newly named Swilt began to clap at Skylar and Chris.
Chris turned red, never having liked being the center of a group of attention. He quickly turns and writes the name down on his notes and thinks to himself before turning back to Skylar. “So what do we do now?”
“We let the Swilt do what we originally had them for, we get all that land back....” Skylar said, his fist closing in on his hand.
velnor JUST got through writing. I want this to turn into a second Gene War. So if someone wants to show up, PM me for details.Guest appearances: Jake
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White Skies
Part 1: Initial Issues
“Hey Chris! It looks like those freaking guys at the settlement area want to re-negotiate the Foxtaur land.” Skylar said as he sighed. Skylar was an Arctic Fox who specialized in Genetic mapping/imaging. He was about 5'9”, and his fur was completely white, with no imperfections on it. His eyes however, changed color from a green to a sky blue, earning his name at birth.
The 6'2" brown/cream colored Otter named Chris looked up and over at Skylar from his notes. He pulled off his glasses and rubbed the bridge of his muzzle, sighing softly "What is it this time? Not enough trees again?". His deep blue eyes showing over the glasses.
“Not this time, they actually want to take it back completely. They say that the land is 'Too valuable for a habitat.” Skylar replied as he logged into his computer.
Chris sighs and puts his glasses back on, leans back over his paperwork and test-tube sample, examining them under the light and writing some stuff on his notes. "What for? I though they found that most the minerals and harvest able materials were outside the boundaries"
“Well that's the thing. They did. So the human government believes that there are even more minerals inside the encampment. They've given the Foxtaurs that already reside there a 20-day eviction notice.” Skylar said, reading an article online. “This is stupid. Those Foxtaurs don't have another home. They've been kicked out of damn near every home they've asked for. This going to turn violent if the big wigs don't pay attention....”
Chris rolls the test-tube in his paw as he leans back and nods, looking over at Skylar "Yeah, but what good is it going to do in the end? They will just give them more land and then take it away again.. I .. OW!” Chris falls backwards out of his chair and the test-tube falls and rolls along the ground, glowing lightly. “Th....that....”
Skylar looked at the glowing bottle, “Isn't that the formula to that new fur pattern?????Why is it glowing?”
Chris nods and gets back up, as he straightens his jacket he pulls the gloves off the desk and a caliper. "Yeah, I'm not sure, but I think the cells shifted and it looks like they are multiplying in an odd pattern...I'm going to put it though the SPE system and do a full optic scan, see whats going on in there, it could be a new breakthrough I've been looking for!”
“That would be cool. But can it wait for a bit? The case in defense of the Foxtaurs is coming in an hour, we need to leave in like a minute if you're going.” Skylar said, logging off.
Chris frowns but nods, he sulks a little and picks the glowing tube up to set it in the freeze chamber, pausing any growth for when he gets back. He pulls off his gloves and massages the webbing on his paws briefly before dusting off his jacket and stretching. “Yeah, i suppose that is important, but you better be ready to help me separate the samples and plate, I want to do a full analysis as soon as possible, who knows what we just found"
“Deal.” Skylar says as he put on a Black suit. He had a white button up undershirt with a blue tie, accenting his eyes. He grabbed the keys to the lab, which doubled as his car keys and opened the door. “We'll take my car.”
The two, now dressed in full suit attire, began driving down to the courthouse. “I can't believe we're doing this again. Let's just put it out in front of them that the Foxtaurs deserve a home. They promised to keep the land clean, and they have.” Skylar said, frustrated.
Chris nods as he leans back and nods slightly, watching the scenery from the window. "Yeah, its getting old, 34 moves of whole tribes to date... I don't know how many more they will put up with before they just say fuck it and go ballistic on them...”
Seemingly right as Chris finished his sentence, the two saw a group of morphs, and some humans, apparently protesting. Most of them were Foxtaurs, holding up signs that said, 'You get the land of the free! We don't get ANY LAND!' and 'Why have you forsaken us?'. Skylar pulled the car over and looked at Chris, “I think they just did....”
Chris frowns and look around at the groups "Lets just hope none of hem have done anything to provoke a fight.. we need all the time we can to hold this off"
One protester, a human, threw a rock at the courthouse, breaking one of the windows, “SHIT! Chris, let's try to reason with them! Things are turning bad!” Skylar said, getting out of the car. He stepped on top of his car and yelled, “Hold on! Hold the fuck on! I know why you're protesting, in fact, I'm here to fight for your case! But this is not the way to do it!”
A vixentaur walked up to Skylar, “Then how do you propose we do it? Just sit here and keep moving? I don't want to re-enroll my three kits in school for the 35th time!”
Chris gets out of the car and walks over, leaning against the car casually as he gestures to her. “How about this, you help keep them calm while we negotiate, seeing your a beautiful lady, I'm sure they would listen to you, and you wont have to. We need all the help we can, I'm sure you don't want to redo all that paperwork! All you have to do is just lead them in a song or something!”
The vixentaur thought. The human that threw the rock came up to him, “We can't keep negotiating! Look where talking got us! It's time to take action! Those Foxtaurs need that land now!”
Skylar sighed, “Chris, let's just go in and argue the case. We'll deal with this later.” he said as he walked into the courthouse.
Chris scrambles after, pulling out the small notes he had written down and gives them to Skylar. "Thought I'd put the major reason down on paper just to make sure if your frosty butt forgets something you wont be up a creek"
Skylar takes the notes and walks into the door of the courtroom. As the two walk in and sit down, the judge said, “Skylar Tel'lichar and Christopher Royer, you are here on behalf of the Foxtaur settlement. Who is representing you both?”
Skylar stood up, “I, Skylar, will represent the defense on behalf of the Foxtaurs. I promise on my life to say the truth, nothing but the truth, or kill me otherwise.”
The judge nodded. “The prosecution has already made their opening statements. Defense, please state yours.”
Skylar nodded and walked in front of the Jury. “My peers, and my elders, look at this with an unbiased mind. If you ignore the details, than you see this: The government is taking land away from a tribe of Foxtaurs for the 35th time. That's the whole case, summed up into a single sentence. I'm sure you'll see beyond a reasonable doubt that this is unjust, and unfair to the families that should live there.” After speaking, Skylar sat down and drank some water.
The judge nodded and pointed to the prosecution, it was a bald human, who had lots of fancy-looking papers. “Jury, let's be serious. Since 1782, humans have always known what to do. We have built this country for our benefit. Look at that fox over there in the defense booth. His hair is uncombed, his suit is covered in fur, and he's a scientist! He's no law expert! And I doubt his companion is either!”
Skylar sighed and stayed silent until the jury pointed his direction. “You're honor, I think we have a miscommunication error here. While it's true I am a scientist. It is quite evident I don't have any hair at all, save this ruff of fur between my ears. Secondly, of course my suit is covered in fur, I'm a fox, I have fur....it makes sense....”
“OBJECTION! Defense case has nothing to do with the case at hand!” The bald man said.
“Noted, Defense, stay on topic. Now continue.”
Skylar shrugged as he continued. “If we want to get technical, the government has made excuses for the past 3 years to kick those Foxtaurs out. This is ridiculous! They have families, and lives to live. You know that each time they move, they pay a fine? Soon, they're going to run out of money, and they'll die. Whatever happened to equality?! Think about it, jury, I rest my case.” Skylar said as he sat down next to Chris.
From the back, a police officer came inside, “Your honor! There's a riot outside! They have weapons now!”
Skylar took the opportunity to make his point clear. “Look everyone! This is what happens when you take...”
The prosecution stood up with Skylar and yelled at him, “It's NOT YOUR TURN!”
“Shut up! I don't care! I'm not a law maker! I'm a defender of justice! Now look! That riot is your fault!” he said pointing at the jury, “Because your government keeps telling them to move until death! This is no different than the slave movement! I'm not going to help you! I'm with them, come on Chris, let's go!” Skylar stormed out with Chris. They got in his car and drove away.
The two stayed silent until Skylar pulled back up into their facility. Getting out without a word, the go back inside. Soon they are back in their lab coats and ready to work, Chris goes in the freeze chamber and pulls the test tube out, now a tube of glowing frost. He carries it in the next room with Skylar following.
“So, anyway, are we ready for the SPE scan? Because now I'm curious.” Skylar said, setting up the SPE.
Chris shook his head and held up the glowing tube. Skylar noticed that Chris' fur is sticking up a little as he sets it in the plate holder. “Not yet, do get it ready, though, I'm going to take half of this and save it, we don't want to ruin it all, it seems to be the experimental group we set up.”
Skylar nods as the got the system running. “So, I've been thinking about that case...and I decided, that us morphs should have some kind of law makers for us too.”
Chris turns around with two separate tubes, he hands one to Skylar and puts the other one to the side, "What do you mean? They lost the last war after the humans tried anything, I don't think we are at risk for anything yet.. besides, we need to keep out minds on this glowing tube... who knows what we have here.. also, get the otter, wyvern, canine and feline DNA strand tubes out, i just wanna play around and see what this stuff reacts to, all i remember is that we put them all in here.”
Skylar sighs as he gets the requested DNA strands for Chris. As he hands them to the Otter, he says, “Don't you think it sucks being us? We had do work three times as much as the human only one tier below us. Humans are in power, and only a small percentage cares for us. I'm saying we need to incorporate ourselves into society more. I mean, it's than going to those morph-only schools and stuff, but I think we're being left behind....”
Chris shrugs and turns around, placing the tubes on the rack in order, putting the glowing one on the adjacent plate and turning the SPE on. He looks back at Skylar, he looks like he wants to cry but shrugs it off, turns back to the machine and watches the screen and feed out.
“Hey, you OK?” Skylar asked, wondering about the sudden face.
Chris just waves him off at the same time the machine beeps, spits out the tray with a new set of test tubes, now two were glowing "Oh hey! we have some matches!”
Skylar blankly stares at the tubes. “Wait....How? That doesn't even make sense! Try some others!”
Chris looks at Skylar and shakes his head “That wont do good... We only tried these strands... but.. why are there more than one glowing? This machine has a 99% success rate.. I don't get it...It cant be wrong!”
“You said there were matches! Somehow, there are cells from each sample in all of the tubes......I don't know why, but I think this is more than a well developed fur pattern....” Skylar said as he thought. About twenty seconds later, he came to a realization, “Hey, you remember that mail mix up that happened last week? That isn't the new fur pattern.....”
Chris' eyes widen as he swallows and frowns “Oh, crap... don't tell me we... oh boy....”
Skylar's computer ejected a petri shaped dish from it's side. “Let me some of that....”
Chris took some of the main sample and gave it to Skylar "It seems the cells are dividing, they are multi-celled right now.. and glowing.. I don't know whats going on yet.. what was in that tube we got?”
“Well, we were SUPPOSED to get a new fur pattern to give to the fashion market. But I just got an email saying thanks........this must be the other vial that SHOULD have gone to the other lab....” Skylar put the main sample in the petri dish and closed it. His computer showed up with all sorts of different animal parts. “This isn't a fur......it's a species....”
Chris frowns and comes up behind him and looks at the screen, clicking down and scrolling though the list “S..Skylar.. w..what we j..just did then.. the other vials...We just made a completely new species....”
Skylar sat, in all of his training of Genetic Imagining/Mapping, he had never dreamed of creating a sentient species. “Well Chris, we can do one of two things. We can send the sample back with these results, or we can keep them here, and develop this.”
Chris scrolled through the screens, pulling up the gene maps and looking at the models. As he pulled up the labels he frowned. “We cant send this back.. look, its created a full strand.. its combined all the DNA” He points to parts of the screen, “Here and here... we have to complete this.. this is our chance... we just made a whole new gene map... all we lack is..” Chris was cut off by the sudden knocking on the door and a high feminine voice. The voice startles them both, they turn to see Vanessa, the black wyvern assistant come in, Chris grins at Skylar, “All we lack is the catalyst!”
Skylar nodded at Chris and turned to Vanessa, “Vanessa, would you please close the door? We found something.”
Vanessa obliged and sat down, “What's up?”
“Well, to make a long story short, this tube isn't the fur sample we should have gotten. It's a DNA pattern. I triple-checked, this bitch is half of a species. Before we figured that out, Chris combined it with some other DNA strands, and we have a whole genetic latter, I just finished the flaws....Suffice to say, we need a catalyst, and the first egg.....” Skylar said, a blush clashing with his white fur on his ears.
Vanessa stared blankly at Skylar, then Chris and sighed, “This is why i don't like owing you guys favors... fine.. you can have one, but no one knows about this...”
Chris grinned and moved off the chair. He went over to the tubes, sorting them around and cleaning up. He looked over at Skylar with a wink, “You heard the lady, get to it!” Chris chuckled and carried the tubes into the other room with his notes, whistling happy tune.
Skylar blushed an extreme red. He turned to Chris, “CHRIS YOU ASS! GET THE FUCK OVER HERE!!!! You know I'm not trained in this!”
Vanessa blushed as well. She took a pair of gloves and a small bag and walked into the other room. “I'll be right back...” A short bit later she came back, looking relieved and sets the bag on the counter. "The tampon is in there, it should have the egg you needed, I'm going home now" She waved the blushing fox off and walked out of the room.
Chris came back in after she left and got to work, pulling the SPE back out and putting the main tube back in, “Well, get over there and get the egg free, we need to do this fast and get it in the chamber, we don't know how long this will stay fresh.”
Skylar sighed and nodded. “Alright.....but next time, you're doing it. You know I'm single, and glad.” He got the egg out and put in a petri dish of pure water. “Alright, work your magic, when you get it, tell me. I'll sort out the genes and we'll get this bitch alive!”
Chris grinned, he came over with a syringe and injected the glowing solution into the egg carefully and sealed it up, placing the solution into the chamber and sighs. “Now, all we have to do is wait for it to grow, run a test and make sure the strands and gene's are still aligned in an hour, it should set in by then, ill get the notes and write down all the data.”
Skylar sighed as well, “Wow....I can't believe this is actually happening. Our own species.....What would we do with it?”
Chris chuckled softly and sighed “I don't know.. b.but. ya know.. I'm sure the use will open up to us, ya know? I just hope it works... this is so amazing...”
Skylar shook his head, “Yeah....” He looked at the progress and his eyes widened, “Chris? Shouldn't there only be ONE group of cells forming? I think I see THREE......”
His ear flicks as turns around over Skylar's shoulder, then frowns “J..Just what is this...?”
Skylar shook his head in disbelief, “I don't know...” He switched to the view he was most comfortable with. Six rows of letters, ATCG, flowed horizontally across the screen. “Sure enough, there are triplets in there. All male. Bipeds, with scales, and fur?”
"Both scales and fur???” Chris looked over the screen and blinked. He sighed and jotted it down, “I guess it is... I don't know how... but damn. So fast! This is a strange breed so far..”
Skylar scratched his head as he read the letters carefully. “What's even stranger, is each of them have.......what? No! That's not possible! Only Skunktaurs can do that!”
“What? What do they have? Chris said as he leaned over, reading out the formations. “.. is that even possible?”
Skylar sighed, “They each have telepathy. This top strand has some sort of mind read, while this third strand has the empathic power that Chakats have. GOD! This doesn't make any sense! At this rate, we'll have an embryo by tomorrow!”
Chris frowned and clicked through it. He looked into the tank at the glowing orb and writes the rest down. “Alright, I guess the best thing we can do is wait... this is getting too much to me, wanna go for a drink? calm down and relax a little?”
Skylar's head sank. “Nah. I'll stay here. I need to study this.” He looked back at the scrolling letters, and sighed. “Well, see you later.” he said as he pulled out an energy drink and opened it.
Chris laughed and walked off to his car, “Whatever you say, I'll be back in a few hours, try to not lock the room door this time ok?”
"Ok! I won't!" Skylar laughed as he took a drink. As the door to the lab closed, Skylar stared at the text. He began writing down the sequences on a sheet of paper, and then mixing them up on the paper, seeing what would happen.
After a little while Chris came back. He pulled into the garage and shuts it down, taking the elevator to the lower levels. He found their room and walked in slowly, still half smashed from the evening's drink. Chris looks at the two beds in the bedroom, he counts to three and plops over right onto Skylar's bed and falls asleep.
Skylar looked at his piece of paper, with scribbles and markings all over it, “There we go, a female counterpart for tomorrow...” He looked at the clock and read it, “3:29 AM, I guess that would be today......I wonder if Jake's up...” Skylar took out his phone and dialed it. The phone rang and a male voice picked up.
“Skylar? Is that you?”
“Yeah, Jake? You sound different!”
“I can say the same. Wait.....what's my last name?”
“Oh come on.....fine, it's the same as mine, Tel'lichar.”
“OK, had to check. So, what have you been up to?”
“You won't believe this, but me and Chris have made a new species!”
“You're fucking with me right?”
“Not in the slightest!”
“Skylar, I always knew you would turn out to be one of those crazy mofo's that I kill on a normal basis.”
“Thanks Jake! What about you?”
“Well, other than being frozen for Elders knows how long, I got a wife.”
Skylar spit up part of his drink, “You're fucking with me right?”
“Not in the slightest! Shi's a Chakat. Oh, got to go. See you later Skylar.”
“See you later Jake.” At that, Skylar closed the phone and fell asleep on his computer.
Chris woke up and looked around, rubbing his eyes softly as he puts his glasses back on, looks around and blushes, getting off the bed and going back upstairs. “Geeze.. I gotta start watching what i drink when I'm excited.. “
Chris reaches the lab door and paused, looking down, He saw a small trickle of fluid pooling under the door that caught his eye. “W..what the...?”
Inside of the lab, Skylar lay on his computer, sleeping. Around him however, were three bipedal multicolored beings. They all looked the same, except for size, and distinct markings on their head. The tallest one had glowing marks on his ears. He listened to Chris through the steel door. The shortest had markings below his eyes. He looked at the middle one and spoke a strange language to him. The middle listened and nodded. He spoke back in the same language, but when he spoke, it sounded like a song. This one had a marking on his throat. All three markings glowed. As Chris walked in, he saw that the tank was broken, he saw the three standing around Skylar.
Chris looks around wide eyed at the room. He saw Skylar, sleeping, or dead. Chris was unsure of what to do at this point. Were they dangerous? He couldn't tell, he started to slowly scoot away as he said, “S..Skylar.. SKYLAR!”
Skylar woke to Chris screaming his name. Right in front of him was a tan scaled chest plate. To his left, was the sheath of another. To his right was a dark brown neck. He looked slightly up and saw black beady eyes staring at him. Behind those eyes was Chris, who looked like he was about to die. Skylar stood up, and met the one in front of him, taking note of the neck insignia on it.. “I am Skylar. Who are you?”
The one in front of him looked to the tall one, then to the small one before answering. “Gasinger, sourlbke.” It spoke.
Skylar shook his head, “I speak Basic, can you?”
The creation did the same head motions, going from the tall, to the short. “Skylar, well met.”
Chris blinks, having weaved his way to Skylar's side. He looks at Skylar, and then the creatures with an amused look. “Soo.... uh.... hi....”
Again, the middle creature looked left, than right. He looked back at Chris, “Greetings to you. What is your name?”
Skylar looked at to the left, then the right creature as well, “That is Chris. I need to ask, why do you look at the others before speaking?”
The center creature repeated his motion, and then responded, “The tall one here is my Listener. He can hear your emotions, your thoughts, and everything you feel. The short one here is my Watcher. He knows and remembers everything you've said and done. While you were asleep, he quickly taught us languages. I am the Speaker. My brain was developed using the literary parts of the egg. With some enhancements, of course.”
Chris blinks and looks at Skylar. He then looked to the tall one and said, “So.. you cant talk for yourself?”
The Speaker looked at Chris and said, “No, he can't. The Listener only has a muzzle specifically for consumption of nutrients. However, now I must ask a question. Through the Watcher's research of your notes, we expected one named Vanessa. Is she present?”
Chris looked at the Speaker and frowned, “I'm afraid Vanessa has the weekend off, she wont be back until Monday... you looked through my notes?”
The Speaker nodded, “Indeed, we did. We saw that Skylar was resting after completing our gene code. So we decided not to disturb him. We looked through your notes and his computer files. You needn't teach us anything.”
Skylar looked at the Speaker with an open mouth, “But....you weren't developed when I fell asleep! How did you possibly know? And how did you not touch me, but some how lifted my head to read my files?!”
The Speaker sighed, “The Watcher has telepathy, he simply lifted your head up, got what he needed, and put it back down. Second, you are a persistent writer.” As he finished, the ears on the Watcher twitched, and a sheet of paper floated in front of Skylar, it was his Gene Paper. At the bottom, it read:
Finally got done perfecting the gene sequences. Finally, we might actually have a chance at winning over those humans. With these negotiators, we'll be able to win nearly any legal battle!
Upon reading, Skylar sunk into his chair, “Oh, god! I'm so sorry! I didn't think you'd grow so fast! I don't want you to be slaves or anything! I.....I'm sorry...”
The speaker nodded, “We understand. We found the article that you mentioned in this log earlier. After extensive research, we agree that the Foxtaurs should not have to move any more. And we know that you mean no form of slavery.”
Chris looks over the paper and blinks. He then looks at them, stretches a little and shifts his glasses on the bridge of his muzzle again. “Well.. we succeeded in making something new...but what now?”
The Speaker looked at Skylar, “Well, we actually wanted to ask, how do we repopulate with no females? You gave us the proper appendages, you even coded the sperm to be dominant, but you didn't give us a female as to mate with.
Skylar slapped his head. “Shit! I forgot! I'll get working on that now....” Skylar picked up his notes and began working on a similar model. “Chris, can you get them clothes? It's kinda weird sitting here around naked guys...”
Chris just chuckles and shrugs, “Yeah, I guess, all I have are some strips of cloth, so I guess I'll find some rope and they will just be wearing a loincloth for a bit. He leads them out and comes back in a while later with them dressed in the loincloths.
Skylar rolled his eyes. “Oh, my God! There's spare lab attire in the closet, right fucking there!” As he spoke he pointed to his left.
Chris laughs as they look down at themselves. “I don't know, I think they look fine!”
Skylar buried his face in his hands. “Christopher Royer, go get them some clothes....”
Chris sighs and sulks, he walked over to the cabinet. “Fine....” He pulled out some spare coats, one for each size and hands them accordingly.
The speaker finishes buttoning his and says, “Thank you for our creation, by the way. It's rather rude of me to speak without giving credit to our granters of speech.”
Skylar nodded as he neared completion, “It's quite alright. Sometimes, it's weird just sitting here. Though I must say, it's even weirder talking to my own creation. I feel as if you guys aren't as significant, as if I'm making you do things. I gave you guys free will, if you need something, ask!”
Chris chuckles and leans against one of them, sighing softly. “It is odd isn't it? You never thought it was possible huh? I cant believe they actually grew, this fast much less!”
The speaker looked at Chris and said, “Indeed, when his head landed on the touch screen upon falling asleep, he hit the Mature button. Thus, we literately grew overnight.”
“Done, you'll have vixens that are beautiful, similar, but different. One hour....” Skylar said. As he said this, the tube began glowing again.
Chris grinned, "This is working out so well... its a great achievement”
Skylar nodded. “Well Chris, if you would take our guests to our room, and make accommodations accordingly, these vixens will be done.”
"Hmm.. ok, thats the best thing I can think of doing with them anyways. Follow me” Chris says as he walks off with them again and takes them to his room.
Chris walks back in the room alone, comes up behind Skylar and views the screen, adjust his glasses and reads a line. “Q..quad? you made quadrupeds?”
Skylar looked up and smiled, “Yep. I have to. These are the ultimate negotiators, they need diversity. Plus, I like Taurs....”
Chris laughs and pats Skylar's back, looking over the list and sighs. “Strangely enough, I think they are teenagers, judging by the way they were acting and all, but they went to sleep once I took them down there, snoring bunch they are.. I just cant believe that.. ya know.. w..we created it..”
“Yeah, I know what you mean. These girls are going to be teens as well. Exactly the same age as the others. Biologically at least. I feel like somethings wrong though, are you OK?”
Chris frowns and looks at Skylar, “What do you mean?”
“I mean, you seem really sad. When the tubes first glowed, you damn near cried! What's up?”
“I..I umm..” Chris sighs and rubs his muzzle softly “Can't we worry about the creatures for now? talk about this later?”
Skylar looked at Chris seriously, “The Femmes won't be ready for another half hour. What's up?”
He shakes his head and gives a fake yawn “Nothing.. I'm kinda tired, I'm going to head back down and have a little sleep, you should too.”
Skylar shakes his head and grabs Chris by the shoulder, “Chris, I've worked with you for six years now. What's wrong?! Don't lie to me a second time!”
Chris frowned and sighed, “Fine, but.. it won't do any good...”
“It would do good for me. I don't want to sit here wondering if there's a problem when there clearly is....” Skylar said slowly.
Chris took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes with a paw lightly. He leans against the counter and sighs again, “Fine.. The humans..breached the boundaries back at my home on the beach.. they found a small spring of oil on the ocean floor just off the shore and declared an eviction notice to me last week...”
Skylar nodded, “Chris, do you know why I came to work here?”
He frowns, putting his glasses back on and shaking his head. “No.. actually.. I don't think i ever bothered to ask...”
“That's because I told you not too. Well, the reason is because the closest thing I had to a home was a foster home. I never knew why until I studied Arctic Foxes in history class. Turns out, my actual home was frozen over by humans 400 years ago. My buddy Jake, who works as an assassin, was there when it happened. He ran away, made an announcement, and then disappeared into this time somehow. Last year, I went to an old tradition to see what was left of my village. You know what I found? I found a nuclear power facility. Me and Jake sabotaged it, but it still hurts.....I ran away from home, went to college with money that Jake wired me, and now I live here....”
Chris blinks “Why didn't you ever tell me?”
“Because, it's something that you didn't need to know. It's too late to do much now, but after the major power outage in that area, the Arctics demanded shut down and removal of the plant. We held that place down for three weeks until the government finally agreed to relocate all Arctics to proper schools, and give us back our land.” Skylar said staring at the screen. “Well, get the boys, these girls are almost done. They'll be walking around speaking when you get back. I copied all the files that the Watcher learned and have it ready for the femme version.”
Chris nods and heads off out the door, “I'll get them”
Skylar presses the Mature button, and three vixentaurs stepped out onto the floor, unable to fit in the tube. Skylar showed them the same file, and then said, “I am Skylar. My assistant Chris, will bring your mates with him.”
The prettiest one, also the middle one in height looked at her sisters from tallest to lowest and then responded. “Thank you, Skylar.”
Chris comes back up a little bit later, all three creations fully dressed again and looking around.
Chris steps in first and blushes deeply and closes the door before the other three behind him can get in and stutters a little. “S.. Skylar! Clothes!”
Skylar, also blushing, was much more comfortable with naked females surrounding him, he sighed and stood up. Skylar walked over and got the taur lab coats and handed them out according to the sizes of each taur. “There, now let the guys in...”
Chris sighs a little in relief as he opens the door to the males, “Sorry about that guys, I just figured first meet is more appropriate clothed and decent.”
Skylar smiled as he nearly felt the telepathy go through the creations. They began speaking in what Skylar considered their normal tongue. He walked over to Chris and said, “Yo....I was just thinking, we need a name....”
Chris blinks and nods, looking around the room, looking for syllables to work off of. He looks at the SPE, “Hmm.. Swiltron Personal Examiner...” Chris rolls it around in his head for a few minutes.
“Swiltron....Swiltrine? Swiltor? Swilt? Swilter?” Skylar asked to himself.
Chris snaps his paw and smiles “How about Swilt? it sounds kinda catchy”
Skylar nodded, “I like that....Swilt....”
Chris grins and turns to their creations and smiles “Congratulations! your now a named species!”
Skylar stands on his chair, “Hey, everyone. Can you accept the name 'Swilt' as a name for your kind?”
The whole group looks at him. Both speakers nodded at once, “We all agree. As it is gender neutral, and is not complicated. My fellow Swilt, we owe our lives to these two.” The newly named Swilt began to clap at Skylar and Chris.
Chris turned red, never having liked being the center of a group of attention. He quickly turns and writes the name down on his notes and thinks to himself before turning back to Skylar. “So what do we do now?”
“We let the Swilt do what we originally had them for, we get all that land back....” Skylar said, his fist closing in on his hand.
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