You woke to the sound of a loud whirring whining sound,as well as the sounds of tiny
gears grinding and clacking away.
It was coming from the watch and saw that the hands on the Stratochief
wind up watch were spinning at a fantastically unbelievable speed.
The whirring stopped and the hands came to rest at 08:43:59
You immediately wrote down the numbers on a notepad and a minute later the watch started it sound again,backwards,
and the hands stopped at 03:15:03
This process went on,with you hastily writing
the numbers.
Then you made a mistake and laid your left hand on the watxh while it was still
humming away.
The watch immediately lit up with a intense bluish-yellow light that seemed to sear your
eyeballs.
What happened next seemed to take forever ,but probably all happened in a quarter to half a second.
The bluish yellow light seemed to light up the inside of your
hand so that you could see your dark finger and hand bones like a X ray.
Abd your hand and the bones in it was melting,changing,mutating into something else.
You saw the process in slow motion,as your skin seemed to thicken and harden into a exoskeleton,your bones
dissolving away as where your melting fingers were was emerging two clawlike appendages,You saw the stiff bristles
emerging from this alien part of you's exoskeleton.
Then the light died away,the watch went silent andyou were staring at was obviously
the grippinng endpiece and claws of a insect,where your left hand used to be.
You didn't scream or faint,but it was pretty obvious your beloved grandpa had neglected to mention a
few things about that watch.
You shakily went back to your bed and slept uneasily the rest of the night.
As your mind calmed down,you knew you'd have to take the watch,the paper with the numbers
and yourself over to visit your friend Marty,who was a janitor at the new
Deep Space Exploraation Centre,where you knew better minds then yours ( and his )
were preparing the new Deep Space Ship Glenn Shepherd for a 14 year voyage to Pluto,to
the unexplored ends of the Solar system.
As you lay under the bed you suddenly realized you could "feel" your insect claws,and after a little
while you were able to open and close the alien things with a mental command...