Ashley sighed as she removed her clothes and handed them to a mousy-looking woman in a tight lab coat.
She couldn't stop blushing, as her naked body was fully on display and she was being eyed by at least a dozen scientists working in the project. A sultry female voice, belonging to the female scientist in chief, echoed from the labs' P.A. system; prompting Ashley to walk inside the Evolution Chamber.
Three other scientists stood next to the chamber, doing last minute fixtures and checking the settings in the control panel, in order to avoid incidents. One of them, a young redhead woman, waved a hand and smiled at her. The woman was Dr. Connolly, the scientist who deemed her acceptable for the Evolution Chamber project. Feeling nervous, Ashley nodded briefly at her, and stepped inside the Chamber.
Ashley hadn't actually seen the Chamber until then, only knowing it from diagrams and footage shown during the preparatory phase. She'd knew it was large enough to hold an elephant, as one of the first experiments involved a female asian elephant devolved all the way down to a small rodent-like mammal; but now, she thought it could hold even a dinosaur if the Innolabs staff wanted to get one. The walls were built out of a transparent and resilient polymer, to let the scientists in the room watch and study the changes taking place on a test subject.
The door was locked from outside by two male scientists, and Ashley sighed in resignation.
There was a blinding flash of light and Ashley howled in pain as a harmless kind of gamma radiation was pumped into her body, as the scientific community had discovered a gamma ray burst in the early precambrian was the responsible for causing the earliest lifeforms to change into a variety of forms.
Ashley fell on her knees, as she felt the energy triggering the first physical changes. Her brain was pounding, the gamma radiation restructuring it into something far beyond human. Outside, the scientists took notes and recorded the process with a variety of expressions ranging from awe to fear and indifference.
As this happened, the scientist in chief ordered the introduce a foreign stimulant into the chamber, in order to see the possible paths of human evolution under different futures...