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Jackie sat beside Matt, scratching the back of his neck as Lucas looked at the screen. Gosh how she wished she could understand what was going on here. She wished she had an eye for this scientific stuff, so that she could help.
On the other side of Lucas, Ashley sat on a stool, sitting carefully after nearly falling off. Jackie wondered about her. Ashley, like Matt, was not responding to things like yes or no questions. She just didn’t seem to understand. But for some reason she was looking intently at the screen.
Gosh Jackie hoped there was still something there, some kind of understanding - she could only hope.
Lucas groaned, and ran his hand through his hair.
“How did that crook do it?” Lucas asked to himself. “He somehow hijacked the virus, and no matter where I search in these viral samples, I’m not finding anything.”
“Is it possible that it wasn’t something he did to the virus,” Jackie asked, “but something…”
Lucas looked confused as she trailed off.
“Sorry,” she said, “I worded that badly, I mean… like that it wasn’t an invasive procedure, but an external one?”
“What do you mean?” Lucas asked.
“I dunno,” Jackie shrugged. “Some kind of radiation maybe?”
Lucas leaned back in his chair, resting his head against his hands. “Sorry to say, but that’s something you only see in superhero movies. In real life, radiation - usually - gives you cancer, not super powers.”
“Sorry,” Jackie said, her tail curling against her.
“Sorry for what?” Lucas asked. He scratched Jackie behind the ears. That was something he did now. It felt weird at first - but Jackie was feeling closer and closer to the Hewitts. They really felt like family to her.
“I appreciate any help thinking through this,” he said.
“I just wish that I could provide some help,” Jackie said. “I feel like I need to study college level biology and genetic engineering before I can actually give some advice.”
“Honestly,” Lucas said, “college won’t help you here - and my career at Generation barely helps either. I’d say this is the cutting edge, but I can’t even find where the edge is.”
“You’re sure it’s with the virus?” Jackie asked.
“Well,” Lucas said, “I have a hard time understanding where else it’d be.”
“It’s just that you said that the virus has been documented a ton around the world now,” Jackie said. “And that you’ve compared the sequenced information of the virus in Matt and Ashley.”
“Yes,” Lucas said. “It’s strange. The virus still pretty much matches up with the early gen versions of it we created all those years ago - and along with that, you match up with it, and so do me and Meagan. I don’t know what is different in them.”
“Could he have put a different virus inside?” Jackie asked.
“We would’ve detected it I think,” Lucas asked. “The thing is -”
He paused.
“What?” Jackie asked.
“Jackie,” Lucas said, “get me the SD card.”
“Um,” she said, “okay.”
She went to the cabinet where they were keeping the card, protected in a small case. She unlocked the cabinet, and gave the case to Lucas. She sat quietly watching as he put the card in his computer, and then brought up the file directory. Five, then ten minutes passed.
Jackie was leaning on her arm, nearly asleep, when Lucas leapt from his chair.
“Found it!”
She jolted upright, Matt leapt up from his nap, and Ashley fell off the stool, thankfully landing on her paws.
“Oh,” Lucas laughed, scratching Ashley, “sorry girl.”
Ashley barked, and wagged her tail. Matt seemed confused.
Lucas returned to the computer. “There,” he said, “pointing at the screen.”
It was a document, with really long, dense paragraphs. Jackie squinted at it, but it was full of tons of really dense scientific speak. Lucas highlighted a specific sentence.
“Our initial trials have proved to show potential,” Lucas read. “The subjects do not show any rejection of the particles. However, activity after 6 weeks has shown little to no change, as was desired. Human trials are recommended to be conducted as soon as capable.”
“I don’t get it,” Jackie asked, “was this testing another virus?”
“No,” Lucas said. He highlighted more text. “The particles it seems are unable to fully propagate. They cause changes in the subject, but are quickly eliminated. Another agent might be necessary for more rapid changes to occur.”
“Another agent…,” Jackie said. “Like the virus?”
“Yes,” Lucas said. “I don’t know why I didn’t see this before. How do you change someone past what the virus is able to? How do you change them so fast when the virus has normally propagated slowly? Surely something biological cannot go so fast.”
“So… so this thing they were testing?” Jackie asked, “it wasn’t biological? It was artificial?”
“Yes,” Lucas said, beginning to search through the document, “nanoparticles. Generation was trying to crack the technology a decade or two ago, where it just hadn’t worked before. Nanotechnology has some really big ramifications for biomedical applications, like targeting cancer, and”
He stopped searching through the document.
“I apologize,” he said, “I’m rambling. Point is, I’m sure that’s what is going on inside Matt and Ashley.”
“So what do we do?” Jackie asked.
“We need to gain control of the nanoparticles,” Lucas said. “I need you to call Clive. Get him to search everything in Seth’s old lab that could pertain to this. Once we get control, we need to dig into the code, find out how all this works. It’s obvious that Seth took some souvenirs of his own from Generation all those years ago… we just need to decipher them.”
****
It was already late afternoon when Jackie had checked in on Lucas’s work at the lab. Clive arrived with pizza a few hours later. Clive had been working to decrypt Seth’s data for a while now, and he tackled the problem with renewed vigor.
But ultimately, it was when he was taking a break, and looking through other items that had been recovered from Seth’s lab, when he discovered a Star Wars R2D2 shaped flash drive. There was all of the data they needed.
“Ugh,” Clive said. “His code is a mess. I can tell this was written by someone much better, with their own way of organizing things, and he just patched over the places he needed.”
“Doesn’t matter how organized it is,” Lucas urged him, “just do it.”
“Lucky for you,” Clive cracked his knuckles, “I am very proficient at untangling knots.”
****
It was midnight when Clive stood up from his computer.
“I’ve got it ready Lucas. All we have to do is run the program.”
Lucas nodded, and called Matt and Ashley over to Clive’s computer. Clive then put two collars on Matt and Ashley - the collars they had worn in Seth’s lab. They had been broadcasting the signals to the nanoparticles when Seth had changed them into dogs - and would now hopefully do the reverse.
As Clive typed on his keyboard, Lucas grabbed his wrist.
“Clive,” he said, “I want you to promise me - I want you to promise me that the collars aren’t going to shock my kids.”
“I promise,” Clive said. “But in all due respect, the real worry is the nanoparticles. We’re doing something that hasn’t been done before. I’ll be honest here… this could be dangerous.”
Lucas breathed slowly and deeply. “Do it.”
Clive clicked on a button in his program. A window came up that began spitting out status messages.
“I’ve acquired the signal,” Clive said with slow breaths. “From what I’ve seen, we need to start by unlocking the particles so they’re allowed to change things, as they are currently locked… and then go from there.”
They all were very, very nervous. Jackie scratched Matt behind the ear, and he licked her hand.
“I unlocked it,” Clive said. “Now… wait. Huh?”
“What?” Lucas asked. “What?”
“I just lost the signal,” Clive said, quickly clicking on things. He opened the program that was doing the actual communication to the nanoparticles.
“Dang it!” Clive said. “It’s still broadcasting? Why did we lose connection then?”
Jackie looked to Matt and Ashley. They barely seemed to respond. They didn’t seem to be thinking… but they didn’t seem to be in pain either.
Clive worked at it for a half an hour, then another half an hour… but it just wasn’t working.
“Jackie,” Lucas said, “I think you better be getting home now.”
“But what if -”
“Matt and Ashley are going to be fine until tomorrow,” he said. “But if we make a breakthrough… well, it’ll be a surprise.”
Jackie reluctantly left. As her car drove her home, she suppressed the feeling that Lucas was just trying to get her to leave in case something went wrong… but she knew him better than that. If he was afraid of her being unable to handle stressful situations, they wouldn’t have let her come to join the rescue.
But still, as Jackie finally got to bed late that night, she was wracked with anxiety. Questions that had plagued her a thousand times resurfaced. Finally, her sheer exhaustion made her fall asleep.
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On the other side of Lucas, Ashley sat on a stool, sitting carefully after nearly falling off. Jackie wondered about her. Ashley, like Matt, was not responding to things like yes or no questions. She just didn’t seem to understand. But for some reason she was looking intently at the screen.
Gosh Jackie hoped there was still something there, some kind of understanding - she could only hope.
Lucas groaned, and ran his hand through his hair.
“How did that crook do it?” Lucas asked to himself. “He somehow hijacked the virus, and no matter where I search in these viral samples, I’m not finding anything.”
“Is it possible that it wasn’t something he did to the virus,” Jackie asked, “but something…”
Lucas looked confused as she trailed off.
“Sorry,” she said, “I worded that badly, I mean… like that it wasn’t an invasive procedure, but an external one?”
“What do you mean?” Lucas asked.
“I dunno,” Jackie shrugged. “Some kind of radiation maybe?”
Lucas leaned back in his chair, resting his head against his hands. “Sorry to say, but that’s something you only see in superhero movies. In real life, radiation - usually - gives you cancer, not super powers.”
“Sorry,” Jackie said, her tail curling against her.
“Sorry for what?” Lucas asked. He scratched Jackie behind the ears. That was something he did now. It felt weird at first - but Jackie was feeling closer and closer to the Hewitts. They really felt like family to her.
“I appreciate any help thinking through this,” he said.
“I just wish that I could provide some help,” Jackie said. “I feel like I need to study college level biology and genetic engineering before I can actually give some advice.”
“Honestly,” Lucas said, “college won’t help you here - and my career at Generation barely helps either. I’d say this is the cutting edge, but I can’t even find where the edge is.”
“You’re sure it’s with the virus?” Jackie asked.
“Well,” Lucas said, “I have a hard time understanding where else it’d be.”
“It’s just that you said that the virus has been documented a ton around the world now,” Jackie said. “And that you’ve compared the sequenced information of the virus in Matt and Ashley.”
“Yes,” Lucas said. “It’s strange. The virus still pretty much matches up with the early gen versions of it we created all those years ago - and along with that, you match up with it, and so do me and Meagan. I don’t know what is different in them.”
“Could he have put a different virus inside?” Jackie asked.
“We would’ve detected it I think,” Lucas asked. “The thing is -”
He paused.
“What?” Jackie asked.
“Jackie,” Lucas said, “get me the SD card.”
“Um,” she said, “okay.”
She went to the cabinet where they were keeping the card, protected in a small case. She unlocked the cabinet, and gave the case to Lucas. She sat quietly watching as he put the card in his computer, and then brought up the file directory. Five, then ten minutes passed.
Jackie was leaning on her arm, nearly asleep, when Lucas leapt from his chair.
“Found it!”
She jolted upright, Matt leapt up from his nap, and Ashley fell off the stool, thankfully landing on her paws.
“Oh,” Lucas laughed, scratching Ashley, “sorry girl.”
Ashley barked, and wagged her tail. Matt seemed confused.
Lucas returned to the computer. “There,” he said, “pointing at the screen.”
It was a document, with really long, dense paragraphs. Jackie squinted at it, but it was full of tons of really dense scientific speak. Lucas highlighted a specific sentence.
“Our initial trials have proved to show potential,” Lucas read. “The subjects do not show any rejection of the particles. However, activity after 6 weeks has shown little to no change, as was desired. Human trials are recommended to be conducted as soon as capable.”
“I don’t get it,” Jackie asked, “was this testing another virus?”
“No,” Lucas said. He highlighted more text. “The particles it seems are unable to fully propagate. They cause changes in the subject, but are quickly eliminated. Another agent might be necessary for more rapid changes to occur.”
“Another agent…,” Jackie said. “Like the virus?”
“Yes,” Lucas said. “I don’t know why I didn’t see this before. How do you change someone past what the virus is able to? How do you change them so fast when the virus has normally propagated slowly? Surely something biological cannot go so fast.”
“So… so this thing they were testing?” Jackie asked, “it wasn’t biological? It was artificial?”
“Yes,” Lucas said, beginning to search through the document, “nanoparticles. Generation was trying to crack the technology a decade or two ago, where it just hadn’t worked before. Nanotechnology has some really big ramifications for biomedical applications, like targeting cancer, and”
He stopped searching through the document.
“I apologize,” he said, “I’m rambling. Point is, I’m sure that’s what is going on inside Matt and Ashley.”
“So what do we do?” Jackie asked.
“We need to gain control of the nanoparticles,” Lucas said. “I need you to call Clive. Get him to search everything in Seth’s old lab that could pertain to this. Once we get control, we need to dig into the code, find out how all this works. It’s obvious that Seth took some souvenirs of his own from Generation all those years ago… we just need to decipher them.”
****
It was already late afternoon when Jackie had checked in on Lucas’s work at the lab. Clive arrived with pizza a few hours later. Clive had been working to decrypt Seth’s data for a while now, and he tackled the problem with renewed vigor.
But ultimately, it was when he was taking a break, and looking through other items that had been recovered from Seth’s lab, when he discovered a Star Wars R2D2 shaped flash drive. There was all of the data they needed.
“Ugh,” Clive said. “His code is a mess. I can tell this was written by someone much better, with their own way of organizing things, and he just patched over the places he needed.”
“Doesn’t matter how organized it is,” Lucas urged him, “just do it.”
“Lucky for you,” Clive cracked his knuckles, “I am very proficient at untangling knots.”
****
It was midnight when Clive stood up from his computer.
“I’ve got it ready Lucas. All we have to do is run the program.”
Lucas nodded, and called Matt and Ashley over to Clive’s computer. Clive then put two collars on Matt and Ashley - the collars they had worn in Seth’s lab. They had been broadcasting the signals to the nanoparticles when Seth had changed them into dogs - and would now hopefully do the reverse.
As Clive typed on his keyboard, Lucas grabbed his wrist.
“Clive,” he said, “I want you to promise me - I want you to promise me that the collars aren’t going to shock my kids.”
“I promise,” Clive said. “But in all due respect, the real worry is the nanoparticles. We’re doing something that hasn’t been done before. I’ll be honest here… this could be dangerous.”
Lucas breathed slowly and deeply. “Do it.”
Clive clicked on a button in his program. A window came up that began spitting out status messages.
“I’ve acquired the signal,” Clive said with slow breaths. “From what I’ve seen, we need to start by unlocking the particles so they’re allowed to change things, as they are currently locked… and then go from there.”
They all were very, very nervous. Jackie scratched Matt behind the ear, and he licked her hand.
“I unlocked it,” Clive said. “Now… wait. Huh?”
“What?” Lucas asked. “What?”
“I just lost the signal,” Clive said, quickly clicking on things. He opened the program that was doing the actual communication to the nanoparticles.
“Dang it!” Clive said. “It’s still broadcasting? Why did we lose connection then?”
Jackie looked to Matt and Ashley. They barely seemed to respond. They didn’t seem to be thinking… but they didn’t seem to be in pain either.
Clive worked at it for a half an hour, then another half an hour… but it just wasn’t working.
“Jackie,” Lucas said, “I think you better be getting home now.”
“But what if -”
“Matt and Ashley are going to be fine until tomorrow,” he said. “But if we make a breakthrough… well, it’ll be a surprise.”
Jackie reluctantly left. As her car drove her home, she suppressed the feeling that Lucas was just trying to get her to leave in case something went wrong… but she knew him better than that. If he was afraid of her being unable to handle stressful situations, they wouldn’t have let her come to join the rescue.
But still, as Jackie finally got to bed late that night, she was wracked with anxiety. Questions that had plagued her a thousand times resurfaced. Finally, her sheer exhaustion made her fall asleep.
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It does seem like something that could definitely happen in the future! Man, wouldn't it be cool to casually walk into a hospital or perhaps a center that specializes in nanotech and say "Hey, I was thinking of living as a dog for a few months, can ya'll do that?" and then 3 hours later you walk out as a dog.
And there are a ton of changes that happen in society if some people start living as anthropomorphic animals. It would be a serious point of tension for decades to come I imagine - not only does society now have to adapt to accommodate these people, but there'd be a conflict of people who support and oppose it culturally - I'd imagine a lot of religions saying that electively changing species is in conflict with Biblical teaching that man is created in the image of God.
And more than just that - what about people who go full animal - what if it becomes a trend that rather than committing suicide, people go full feral and then suddenly a national park is full of a bunch of humans turned wolves, destroying the ecosystem there?
It would be absolutely nuts.
And more than just that - what about people who go full animal - what if it becomes a trend that rather than committing suicide, people go full feral and then suddenly a national park is full of a bunch of humans turned wolves, destroying the ecosystem there?
It would be absolutely nuts.
I see your point... dang. I have heard it said that it's religious immorality to want to be something other than human considering we're made in the image of God, but I can't find anything about it in the Bible, perhaps if I did deeper though. I do remember one of the main reasons God sent the flood is because some people weren't completely human, but unless someone can find something else on that I don't think we should be *too* worried about it!
Also, I think there would have to be major limits on who can get treatment, and what they can get- I wasn't necessarily thinking anthropomorphic animals, but perhaps that could be a thing too!
Also, I think there would have to be major limits on who can get treatment, and what they can get- I wasn't necessarily thinking anthropomorphic animals, but perhaps that could be a thing too!
I should be clear - this is an imaginary exercise. I don't know where science will go in the future - I at least can say that from an objective standpoint someone would want to be extremely cautious before undergone such extreme genetic alterations, especially because they'd likely be far more permanent than in my story.
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