Human: Science Fiction

"*That's* a human?" he asked, staring with horror at the chittering piebald ball of flesh with male pattern baldness and a nasty case of acne. "Once all the DNA you share in common with other animals on your planet is stripped out, as requested, yes. We did have to use a base template, since that alone was not enough to sustain life, but I assure you it was DNA neutral." "But that--that--I can't go back to my people and tell them that we will all look like that!" The alien emitted a particle shrug, which smelled something like cabbage. "The arrangement was to remove the animal portions of DNA from your kind. The non-human animal portions, that is, since of course the humans are themselves animals." "But this is not what we expected. We thought we would become more ourselves--purer, stronger, smarter!" "This is more yourself. Look at him. I have encountered your aid--does this not remind you of him?" He stared at the chittering ball. It did, a little.


Inspiration: "Headstrong" - Trapt
Story Potential: Medium
Notes: This bit itself is terrible, but a good flash story could be made from the idea...somehow.