It was a dreary, humid day in Rotherham, England when a bright blue light fell from the sky.
Few raised their voices, even as the ball cut through clouds to hit a local park. The good, hardworking men and women were inured to these sorts of weirdness. A few murmured something about aliens and others about meteorites. Perhaps one or two mentioned something about foreign powers and a rather chubby boy mentioned something about the Northern Lights.
Those same people had little inkling of what wacky, winding road they had just been immediately set upon.
It took about a minute or two for the Role Exchanger to boot back up. It had surveyed hundreds of systems in its uncountably many years of service, but this had been one nasty fall. It required five full loading screens and a quick diagnostics before its optics returned it feedback.
And behold: a green world. If the Role Exchanger could feel joy like its (long extinct) creators could, it would be absolutely brimming. There were avians, insects, plant-life. The whole shebang. All in one biome. And to top it all off, the world had... sentients. Sentients! Civilization that had mastered the art of fire.
It hadn't had such luck since it had traveled through the (also regrettably extinct) Zarkram space.
It ran another diagnostic test upon its various appendages. Bio-mass transporter 100%. Apparel Editor: 100%. Wealth Redistributor: 100%. Dream Injector: 100%. Brain Scrambler: 100%. Mating Stimulants: 100%. Fertility Enhancer: 100%. Genitalia Gargantuanizer: 100%. Skirt-flipper 1000: 100%. Anal probe: 100%. Reality Reconfigurator: 0%.
Well, that was unfortunate.
A pair of curious apes had entered the scene. One tall, and one much shorter. Unquestionably the same species. A scan confirmed them to be both female and the larger one to be the progenitor of the smaller one.
A live test would be optimal.
A scream cut through the silence. A flock of ducks took to the air and two mismatched figures fled from the blue light. A portly, passing gentleman took one look at the two of them, then to the blue light, and bolted. The same direction the two had ran.
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