TransWorld: The Scientist (587 hits)
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Submitted by GeorgeWashington (View user info) at 2007-09-07 14:19:18 EDT
The few destitute inhabitants of the marshy area called him a savior. When he's providing you the first water you've had in weeks, any one can become a hero. And he seemed to have all the water in the world. When he first appeared, people feared him. They could not understand why a man would choose to inhabit the old laboratory. They did not see how a man could stand to sleep in such a place; where it was said that one could still here the moans of those that had once been tortured within the same walls. But mostly, they feared his appearance. "The Scientist" as he came to be known, was the result of an experiment gone wrong. He was another person unlucky enough to be born into the era of transgenic experimentation. And his parents had unwittingly allowed him to become one such experiment. When the doctors tried to make him three different creatures at once, it is said he lost some part of his humanity. When the same doctors told his parents how he would never look human again they abandoned him; telling themselves that it was for his sake that they so strongly wished his death.
And now he was in the middle of this pathetic town. Scattered tents lay about, and the small dirt houses were constantly being chipped away at by the wind. But The Scientist, The Savior, The Father, he was rich beyond "human" need. Developing weaponry for a war he did not care about was profitable, and easy. Selling out to the highest bidder, he created devices for torture whose names alone made men cry, and weapons so violent that entire armies fell to their force. Before he knew it, he was part of an elaborate government black market, and his silence alone was worth millions of dollars.
But the Scientist had bigger plans, and so he disappeared as soon as he could. His notoriety had not carried as far as this tiny settlement, which was all for the better. But it wouldn't matter if it had, because when you're reduced to lapping at mud in order to find some liquid, even a monster can look like an angel.
And when you can't even feed your wife, let alone your many children, the man who offers you water and food in exchange for just one child seems to be a miracle. And The Scientist was a rich man, the children who had been given away would surely lead better lives in his home then outside in the cold.
It had been said before that outside of the laboratory, sometimes you could hear the screams of the ghosts of the innocent being tortured. And sometimes children would run into the woods to dare each other to touch the gate, and often enough they would be almost certain that they heard a quiet wail in the distance. But now it was unmistakable, the screams that came from the now inhabited laboratory were undeniably real. And when monstrous beings were left at the doorsteps of the parents who had been so willing to give them up for water, the parents closed their doors. It would be impossible to love such hideous mutations of man and beast, they told themselves. But The Scientist, he was still a good man, and a kind and generous man. He gave them food and water. And what's one child, if it means you can live for one more day anyways?
The Scientist slowly claimed his revenge, one fallen child at a time.
User Reviews
Submitted by PhillipTheGreat (user info) at 2007-09-27 00:15:18 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by ShapeShifter (user info) at 2007-09-25 06:55:25 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
You're highly untalented and you wanting to use my name is built upon jealousy of me. You are a loser.
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When did I use your name?
What?
I don't get it.
Submitted by ShapeShifter (user info) at 2007-09-25 06:55:25 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
You're highly untalented and you wanting to use my name is built upon jealousy of me. You are a loser.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-09-10 08:46:50 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
It started badly, it tailed off a little in the middle and the less said about the end the better, but apart from that it was excellent.
Submitted by ICO (user info) at 2007-09-08 17:45:31 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by haikumikoo (user info) at 2007-09-08 04:06:44 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by creep_firebombing (user info) at 2007-09-07 11:33:01 PDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Nope. Cliche, rediculous, and dull.
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This wasn't that great, but -2?
But, I guess you would know better than me, posting pictures of asses and finding new and interesting ways to spell "ridiculous."
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Touché
Submitted by haikumikoo (user info) at 2007-09-08 04:06:44 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by creep_firebombing (user info) at 2007-09-07 11:33:01 PDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Nope. Cliche, rediculous, and dull.
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This wasn't that great, but -2?
But, I guess you would know better than me, posting pictures of asses and finding new and interesting ways to spell "ridiculous."
Submitted by icarus1987 (user info) at 2007-09-07 16:27:18 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
A good idea crippled with a lack of plot or character development. Work out some of the clichees and it might come off as something other than a fairy tale.
Submitted by shadow (user info) at 2007-09-07 15:26:37 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
"worth reading"
Children are the last great lie. Too fragile, too precious. When they perish the wise man says "what a shame" and the poor man says "what a relief."
Submitted by zwerg (user info) at 2007-09-07 14:47:46 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by DudeThatsBOSH (user info) at 2007-09-07 14:41:07 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
No Comment
Submitted by sir_cowman (user info) at 2007-09-07 14:38:12 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
a resounding meh like this, however, i liked the idea.
Submitted by FALLEN (user info) at 2007-09-07 14:35:15 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
....The Scientist slowly claimed his revenge, one fallen child at a time.
**contemplates making joke contrasting user name and the above line**
**decides otherwise and leaves a +1 instead**
Submitted by creep_firebombing (user info) at 2007-09-07 14:33:01 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Nope. Cliche, rediculous, and dull.
Submitted by haikumikoo (user info) at 2007-09-07 14:28:02 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
I thought it was pretty neat.
Submitted by jamowilly40 (user info) at 2007-09-07 14:22:10 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Truth below.
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2007-09-07 14:20:56 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
incomprehensible, like most of my posts