lunes, 24 de enero de 2011

Something to Fear


As he entered the bathroom, the last thing on Henry’s mind was an alternate universe. He had no idea there was an Earth where the United States had invented an atomic bomb, or that they had both low fat frogurt and velcro shoes.

What worried Henry as he entered the bathroom was the same thing that had worried his father, and his father’s father for generations. The Allies had indeed won World War Two, but without the help of the atomic bomb they’d been forced to invent an even more powerful weapon. A scientist, whose name is lost to obscurity in another Earth, had managed to invent a small fly that could detect human urine. That fly would smell the urine and enter the human body through the first orifice it found until it drove the person mad or killed it from the inside.

When the fly had been first released, its genetic design had been so that it only entered the body of the Japanese. Based on the Japanese diet, the designer of the fly had been able to program it to only attack the people whose urine contained certain proteins, enzymes and vitamins, in a specific combination. The attack was a massive success and millions of Japanese citizens died, not to mention the constant fear and paranoia of not being able to go to the bathroom.

A hundred years later, the fly has horribly mutated and has wiped out almost a third of the World Population. Trillions and trillions of these incredibly vicious flies live all over the world and seek out humans to penetrate, infest and reproduce in. They can survive in the coldest and warmest climates, they are resistant to every known toxin, there is nothing at all that can kill them.

It is with this in mind that Henry enters his nearest public bathroom. He sprays the area surrounding him with the latest gas meant to kill the fly (although everyone knows it doesn’t work) and unzips his pants. Fearfully he begins to pee and looks around everywhere. Rapidly, he hides his member and zips his pants back up. He is safe, for now.

On that Earth, like on this Earth, humanity is living in constant fear. Only theirs' is founded.

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