The target pod opened, and a pink mass of flesh flopped out of it, like some gigantic one-celled organism. It quivered there, naked on the cold floor. Then, slowly, it began to pull apart into two segments, with a narrowing band of flesh between them.
After a time, it split completely into two smaller masses, which began to change shape, slowly becoming more human-like. Hours passed, and a pair of nude girls took form. Hair began to sprout from their scalps. One girl had red hair on her right side, and blonde on the left, while the other had red hair on her left side, and blond on the right.
Finally, one of them coughed, and then the other. And they opened their eyes.
Both girls had heterochromia, one blue eye and one green. The blue eye corresponded to the side of the body that had blonde hair, and the green eye the red.
One girl gasped. "Well this was unexpected!"
The other sat up before replying. "We seem to have experienced some sort of cellular division."
The first got to her feet, her legs wobbling beneath her. "So much for being tall."
"It's better than being the size of a child." Her twin replied.
"Yes, but now there's the matter of identity. Who are we, exactly?"
"An interesting problem. I suppose you could say Zoey and Shelly were our parents, though we seem to have inherited their memories."
"Poor Shelly, she always rushed into things. There would be no way to go back to our previous existence now."
"Probably not, but would we want to?"
Both girls looked at each other and grinned. "Nah!" They said in unison.
"We should create more people like us."
"I concur!"