Due to the transformations affecting facility personnel, the object was sealed in a lead room under several layers of concrete and steel. They knew that it had to be some kind of biological weapon, but nobody was sure how it worked. Even after a careful dissection, the organic structures inside were unlike anything they had ever seen. They couldn’t detect any toxins in the people who had been changed. Just exceptionally healthy tissue and an excess of stem cells. They didn’t even realize that it was spreading until it was far too late.
Changes spread throughout the facility, which would eventually be known as the official “GZ1.” For those who knew about the object recovery mission, it was “GZ2.”
This was insignificant given how fas the pandemic spread across the globe. Both GZ1 and 2 were quickly forgotten as people across the nation began to show symptoms. Within fifteen years, half of the human population and even a number of animals had been affected.
With the exception of a few, the changes were subtle. Improved immune systems, fat loss, muscle gain, genital sensitivity and growth. The more extreme changes included rapid recovery from severe diseases and, in some cases, the growth of entirely new body parts whether they were needed or not.
In the years that passed, humanity came to terms with the condition. Some even praised it as a new era of health and sexual pleasure, the latter made acceptable by the sudden eradication of all STDs. Many religious organizations had to quickly revise their interpretations and others formed around specific genital or physical transformations. But with all the good, there were still people who cursed the changes. Often having surgical procedures done to look more like a ‘classic human’...