A Second Helping
Copyright© 2020 by Yob
Chapter 16: Face to Face
For us, it was mere months to arrive back in our L4 orbital parking spot.
Hope Island is a disaster as a colony. Of the forty-four humans seeded here, forty went to seed. Literally. Hybrid grape seeds invaded their bodies converting them into hybrid human vegetable monsters. According to Brenda, who tells her story in the short, very short story, Hope Island, only one of the hybrids acted monstrously. The rest were benign and playful.
Linda and Billi were saved, their brains transplanted into cyborg bodies, after being weeded and detwigged. Brenda and Rob seem much matured, beyond their years, by their experiences.
The native born Hope Islanders are a new hybrid species and we leave them to their paradise to sun themselves and frolic on their island.
Johnny? The few visitors among his former minions, ceased coming to see him, after being railed at and cursed away. The aunts and I saw and heard all we needed while rescuing Linda and Billi.
Billi visited him one last time, after receiving her cyborg body. She returned with a portable brain case, and promptly had Johnny’s decapitated head stuffed indefinitely in cryo-stasis.
“Couldn’t bear to be parted from Johnny, Billi?”
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