A Dragon's Tail Ch. 01-03

"So, he's some sort of genetic experiment?"

"This is not a voluntary thing that we did. Robert is a victim of the FY virus. He exposed to the virus in New Mexico in the winter of 1978. The virus is 84% fatal. Robert is our one and only fluke survivor of the second stage attack of the virus. You know Robert as FY412, because he was the 412th of over 5000 modern documented people to have been afflicted with this disease. Our first documented case of this virus was in Los Alamos, New Mexico back to the 1946. We think this version of the virus was formed when a normal virus mutated just after a nuclear test. This virus is global, and your chances of catching it are about one in one hundred million. With the current 15 billion people on the planet, that means that about 150 people are affected each year. Each person has a unique reaction."

"As for the code name, FY is our name for this retrograde virus. FY stands for Fountain of Youth, but I don't think you want this one. We have had some success improving the odds when we catch the victims in the early stages of the virus. The virus removes about 10% of you DNA, and causes a 'rebirth'. This 'rebirth' takes about four months, and removes about eighteen years of aging. If you are below eighteen years old, you seen to be reborn to about nine or ten years old, right before you enter adolescence. You will re-grow your teeth, your appendix, your tonsils, and anything else that you had removed, but the devastating part is the loss of DNA. Loss of specific genes can cause Diabetes, Hemophilia, Albinosim, webbed feet and hands, vestidiual organs, and a host of other complications."

"About one person in sixteen will make it out alive, and then proceeds to live a normal life. The rest have accidents, succumb to a newly created genital defect, or go through additional rebirths, with additional losses of DNA. We have had only one survivor of a second rebirth, Robert, so he is a unique individual. We witnessed him go through two rebirths and lose DNA each time. On his third rebirth, his DNA stabilized, and he just kept going through a rebirth every year to the point of entering puberty, and then starts the cycle over again."

"In 1978, when Robert contracted the virus, he was a 36 year old metallurgical engineer. He served as a ranger in Vietnam as a jungle sniper and a tunnel rat, so he has survivalist skills. He was 5'9", and weighed 167 pounds. On his first rebirth, he grew some additional vertebrae; he lost the ability to generate Human Growth Hormone, HGH, and lost his 'Y' chromosome. This means that he has only one sex gene, a single 'X' chromosome. He became partially female, his testicles converted into ovaries, and his penis converted to a clitoris, but he did not generate a birth canal or a womb, nor did his breasts develop. After the first year, Robert was 5"6", weighed 143 pounds, and appeared to be about 33 years old."

Janice hears a few snickers in the room, and bears down on them. "If you EVER do that in front of HIM. I WILL personally give him permission to INCINERATE YOUR BODY!"

Janice glared at the agents. "ARE....WE....CLEAR...ON...THIS! It will only take him a few seconds to VAPORIZE the water in your body and turn you into a PILE OF SALT! Now we believe that this virus has been affecting people throughout the ages, and we are convinced that two people similar to Robert were present at Sodom and Gomorrah. The bible describes the angels as young women, and right now, you saw from the cover of the Japanese tabloid that caused the hit on out surveillance system, that he looks like a young woman and is being called the 'Angel of the Mountain". You need to treat our target as if he was an actual angel, and I will remind you that he CAN turn you into a pile of salt."

Janice looked around the room and does not get the respect that she wanted. "OK, you bunch of pricks. You seem to have a problem understanding. I will explain this physically so that you can grasp the pain this man went through. I came prepared for this little problem". Janice goes over to her briefcase and pulls out a latex penis, complete with scrotum, and a survival knife. The agents moan as Janice places the penis on the table and rams the knife through the scrotum. The agents wince as she starts to saw through the penis on her way up to the head. She doesn't cut completely through, but leaves a tiny bit of the shaft intact. She then holds the penis upright with her hands on either side of the cut she just made.

"You testosterone filled apes don't seem to understand we have the same organs, but use them differently. You men store your semen in the seminal vesicle, which is equivalent to the uterus that women have. Women have erectile tissue in their clitoris just the same as your penis. The difference is that our erectile tissue is attached at two different locations along the pelvic bone. Your Penis is connected to your pelvic bone a one location. You men have a triangle shaped opening in your pelvis. In order to give birth, women must have a larger oval opening. In Roberts case, his pelvic bone grew to become oval shaped right where the penis is connected."

While holding on to either side of the scrotum with her hands, Janice pulls the penis apart, and the tear continues up the shaft until it comes to the head of the penis.

To the gasps of the agents, Janice just nods her head and calmly says, "Hmmm, The pelvic bone is probably wide enough for childbirth now. His penis was split from the bottom up, creating a gap. Now, when you Neanderthals actually spend the time to get a woman aroused, these two parts engorge with blood, and open up the woman's vagina for penetration."

Janice scowled at the agents, "Would any of you agents want to know what it would feel like to have this happen to you? I will gladly run this knife into ANY of your dicks and split it from the base up until I reach the head. ANY Volunteers?...NO? I would not wish this bit of torture on an enemy, much less a man that has served our country with high honors."

"Now, I have waited over thirty years, and have personally seen over three thousand people succumb to this virus, and I will not risk the success of this mission on an agent with a smart ass attitude. If any of you can't deal with our target with sympathy, then I want you off of this mission. This is a rescue of a patriot. He can help us understand the nature of the universe, and he is uniquely qualified to help us. You need to treat this man with the reverence of an ANGEL FROM HEAVEN! Is that understood?"

Whether it is clear or not, the six members of the briefing were busy jotting down notes. With the exception of Carl, none of the agents was now making eye contact with Janice. Either the demonstration or the idea of having a target that could vaporize your body in a few seconds had sobered up the agents.

Janice scans her audience and calms down a bit, and then continues with the transformation, "At the same time, his urethra at the head of his penis split and ripped halfway down so that his urine would exit from the upper part of the triangle. What's left of his head, or glans, seals back up and folds forward. The two pieces of his shaft are absorbed into his body with the only thing exposed is the head, which becomes what you outwardly see as the clitoris. Just remember that you men only get to see the tip of the clitoris. The testicles are converted into ovaries, are then are pulled into the body between the remnants of the penis, pulling the seminal vesicle and the scrotum with it, where it becomes the Uterus, vagina, and labia. Robert had a vasectomy, so only his ovaries pulled into his body, and the scrotum and seminal vesicle remained behind. Usually the process where ovaries are pulled inward causes everything to be pulled inward too. He never formed a vagina, and we think this was because of the vasectomy."

"In the end, he only went through a partial gender transformation, which forced a second 'rebirth' sequence. This is when most of the subjects die. Sometimes they die from complications, sometimes there are accidents. Some just lose their will to live. Robert was emotionally shattered by the effect of this transformation, but his soul became stronger and possibly more powerful than any other human currently walking of the face of this planet. It appears that this virus strains your physical body and strengthens your soul."

"The second rebirth usually removes more genes and causes so many complications that the patient dies. Robert did lose some non life threatening genes, like almost all of his brown eye color, leaving him with golden eyes, but he mainly grew additional organs. He grew an additional pair of shoulder blades, a small tail, and a second set of vocal chords. He also duplicated some of his sex organs, so he ended up with a single clitoris, birth canal, and womb, but four ovaries, and four nipples. It appears that the original loose ovaries re-attached to the new uterus and new ovaries that formed on the second rebirth. The second set of nipples and shoulder blades appear to be duplication due the extra vertebrae added to his spinal cord. The additional vertebrae in his neck seem to be the trigger that caused the growth of the second set of vocal chords. After the second year, Robert was 4'10", weighed 94 pounds, and appeared to be about fifteen year old. Now, would any of you want to be mutated like this? This was forced on Robert, but I will be glad to inject you with the FY virus if you want to me to."

Janice pulls out a vial and a needle from her briefcase, and glared around the room again, making sure that they knew she would inject them. "You have a one in sixteen chance of survival, and you have a one in eighty chance to experience your dick being ripped apart like Robert did. I have a lab in Area 51 in Nevada, and I will gladly demonstrate the effect to you? ANYONE?....NO?"

"I would like to mention to NOT, I repeat NOT, call our target Roberta. His ego was pretty crushed by this transformation, and in the five years I knew him, he never accepted himself as a female. If you having trouble calling him Robert, you may try calling him Angel. One of the staff mentioned that the extra shoulder blades looked like where an angel's wings would attach, and he liked that. Angel tends to be gender neutral, and may be what others are calling him, hence the 'Angel of the Mountain' title. So, it either Robert or Angel, is that clear?"

None of the agents responded verbally, but several nodded.

"The third and subsequent rebirths resulted in him being 4'3" weighing only 61 pounds, and having the appearance of a ten year old child. His ego was shattered by this time, he was fired from is job, and his wife deserted him. We moved him to Area 51 at this time. His four ovaries pump out twice the normal amount of estrogen, which makes his ego twice as susceptible to rejection and body image issues. His body image is further compounded by the fact that he has extra body parts all over his body. On top of this, every year his body refuses to mature and rebuilds to the edge of puberty, he has a first period, only to go through this rebirth cycle again. I hope this has given you a good mental image of his emotional state.

Click. A pair of photos of Robert appear, one shows Robert without an arm.

"It seems that his whole body can regenerate. We tried on the third and fourth rebirth remove his tail and extra shoulders blades, but they grew back. There was an accident after his third rebirth, where he lost an arm during a test, he grew it back completely on his forth rebirth. Yes, he is practically immortal, but I am not sure I would want to live ten thousand years as a ten year old child. We have his DNA from these body parts, but since Robert's DNA does not contain Human Growth Hormone, he cannot be cloned. We have bathed Robert's cloned embryos in HGH, but after one year, they go through a rebirth, lose massive amounts of DNA, and die. Even though we have his DNA completely sequenced, Robert is unique and cannot be duplicated."

"Any questions?" Janice looks over the agents. The agents are staring at Janice completely wide eyed. The only response from any of them is that one drops his pen. As the pen rolls across the floor, Janice walks forward and stops it with her foot. She smiles, "OK, there is a helicopter waiting above ground for us to board. We have a supersonic transport waiting at the airport. We'll be there in five hours. Let's go!"

After leaving the briefing room, the six agents met an aide, who was watching two suitcases for Janice. As Janice passed the aide, she said, "Bring both cases Bob."

Bob responded and joined the group. The eight member team boarded a helicopter, which took them to a Military Air Base. The team boarded the transport and took off for Japan.

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Thank You, for reading my story. All four parts are written. I will be releasing a section each day.