It is the year 3000. People, if that’s what
you called them, are half humans/half aliens. They have space colonies on other
planets because earth is overrun by androids. They live in space pods, which
are like huge, fortress-like Tupperware, which keeps the species youthful and
vibrant. This prevents people, er, species from aging. They don’t eat; they
absorb energy in their Tupperware homes. They have space cars, which are
computer-operated-they don’t need gasoline or electricity. They just put in the
destination in the computer in the space car, and they are at their destination
in a matter of seconds. They can travel to other planets by space cars.
The latest craze is cryogenically frozen
species or rather, humans. A millennium ago, it was being developed. Now it is
the rage. The first cryogenically frozen woman is discovered in an abandoned
laboratory by an android on earth. After the discovery, the cryogenically
wonder is sent off to a brightly-lit laboratory, all sterilized with everything
in stainless steel to Venus. The inhabitants, as are practically on every
single planet, is habited by half-humans/half-aliens or huliens. They called it
a most ‘curious find.’ When they opened it up, they asked, “Who are you? What
are you?” They’ve never seen a real complete human species before. Up till
now, aliens and humans species merge together with no thought whatsoever
forming half aliens-half humans or if you will, huliens. Half aliens-half
humans have been past down throughout the generations since man realized that
aliens are just as intelligent as the next homo sapiens excluding androids.
Even though they speak alien-speak, they also are fluent in English.
“W-w-who are you?” Janie asked. “What is
this place?”
“We are Venusans,” one of the half
aliens-half humans answered. “You are on the planet Venus.” This species has
huge, bulging eyes. He has an antennae, crinkled face like a pitbull. He also
has huge, pointy Spock-like ears. His fingers are pointy and scraggly.. His
skin is wrinkly even though he is young. When he speaks, his voice is rough; it
has an edge to it..
“Am I dreaming?” Janie wondered aloud.
“Nobody has even explored Venus yet.”
“A lot of people have already inhabited
the other planets.”
“What about earth?”
“What about earth? That planet is
overrun by androids.”
“Now, would you mind telling me who and
what you are?”
;”One more thing: I was wondering what
year is it?”
The ringleader of the half aliens-half
humans looked at the others, bewildered. They converse in their alien tongue
for a while, “Just humor her.”
“Okay,” the head of the group said, “It
is the year 3000.”
“What language were you
speaking?”
“Alien-speak,” said the ringleader. “Any
more questions?”
“Oh my God,” Janie said, astonished. “It
is the year 3000! Can I get a mirror?”
“As you wish, darling,” said the
ringleader, leading her to a full-length mirror. “By the way, my name’s
Isadore. What’s yours?”
“My name is Jane. Friends called me
Janie. Can I ask you one more question?”
“Go ahead.”
“What are you?”
:”We’re huliens-a half human-half alien
species. We’ve been wondering the same thing about you.”
“Oh, me? I’m a human.”
:”Here you are, Janie. Here’s a mirror.”
Isadore took her to a full-length mirror in the hallway.
When she went into the cryogenically-frozen chamber, she weighed
nearly 1000 pounds give or take. Her skin and hair was dull. Now, looking at
the mirror, she look so svelte and her skin, not to mention her hair, was
positively glowing.
“Oh my God, look how wonderful I look!” Janie is surprised by the
image looking back at her. She can’t help saying, “The years had been good to
me-I went from being an ugly duckling to a beautiful swan!” Janie kept admiring
herself in the mirror. “Not to be vain or anything, but I look good,”
turning every which way till she notices the hulien looking oddly at her.
“Don’t you huliens care about body image?”
“No, we don’t,” Isadore replied.
“Huh.” Janie said, turning away from the
mirror.
Now, turning to Isadore, she asked, “Do
I have any living relatives or even some friends left?”
Isadore replied, “You’ll have to go to
the local geneticist to find out if you have any blood relatives left. I’ll
give you the address.”
After Isadore gives her the address, he
says, “You’ll have to hail a space cab. I’ll help you since it’s your first
time here.”
When Janie got to the geneticist, she
finds out that all hope is not lost. After
filling out the necessary documents via computer, she is in! She finds out she
has one living relative, Elizabeth Jane ‘Lizzie Janie;’ friends and close
acquaintances call her LJ, who lives on planet Mars, a hulien. She is Janie’s
great-great-great-granddaughter. (She was cryogenically frozen the day of her
wedding. She had a baby before she got married. She wanted to get married
because she had a baby.)
So Janie hops on the next upcoming space
cab, and off she goes! It did not even take her an hour; it takes her less than
that to reach Mars. The cabdriver consults his GPS navigation system in his
cab, and within minutes they’re there! (See how advanced technology is-now you
have no possible way of getting lost!)
Janie gets out of the space cab to pay
the cabdriver, “Already taken care of, miss.”
“Oh, thanks.”
“Certainly, my dear,” said the friendly cabdriver.
“Hope you find what you’re looking for. Good luck!”
“Thanks, sir.”
Janie finally looks up at where the cab drops her off at: it is a
huge-I mean huge-mansion. Gee, she thought, my relative must
be rich!
When she buzzes the intercom, a young-ish
female voice answered, “What is your business?”
“I would like to see L J. I’m her
great-great-great-grandmother.”
Silence, then: “Impossible! My
great-great-great-grandmother Janie disappeared, never to be found again, so
family legend has it. This I’ve got to see for myself!
L J has human features, but quite a few
things are different about her. First off, she has pointy, Spock-like ears and
antennae, all the better to send messages across the galaxy. And that’s about
it. L J’s skin and hair is positively radiant, and is as slim as a palm tree.
“You’re Janie, my
great-great-great-grandmother?” L J said incredulously upon meeting her
face-to-face for the first time.
“Yep,” replied Janie, perturbed. “And you are L J? But you can’t be
L J. You’re not even human!”
“I am part human and part alien, and I
am L J, your great-great-great-granddaughter,” replied L J. “And just what are
you? I mean, aside from being my great-great-great-grandmother?”
“I’m a human being,” Janie replied sadly. “The last of its kind, as
I’ve been told.”
“No way!” L J exclaimed. “You’re the
last of your kind? I don’t believe it! I really don’t! There must be some
humans somewhere in this universe.”
“So what happened to you?” L J
continued. Family legend has it that you disappeared off the face of the earth,
never to be found again, much like Amelia Earhart or something like that…”
“I disappeared, all right,” Janie
agreed. “I was cryogenically frozen as part of an experiment. My family was
against it. I didn’t tell anyone and I mean no one about my whereabouts.
That’s why no one knew where I was.”
“Okay, I believe you,” L J said. “Come
in, come in. Won’t you please sit down?”
Upon entering the foyer, L J leads Janie
to the parlor. She can’t help but look as she passes by each room. Everything
is sterling silver as though everything needs to be sterilized. It is
sterilized because the human race started dying off in 2050 because everything
started to have germs so that’s why now everyone needs to live in a germ-free
environment or perish, just positively perish! That is also why humans
and aliens have merged together, forming the new species: huliens. It looks
like a science laboratory, but, in reality, it is Lizzie Janie’s home. They
finally reach the sitting room, but from Janie’s viewpoint, there isn’t
anywhere to sit until Lizzie Janie shows her where to sit: on pods. People sit
on pods, where it’s all sealed up although there are holes to talk right
through.
“So what’s the year 3000 like?” Janie
asked when they finally settle down. “For example, do you have an entertainment
center?”
“Oh, do we!” L J exclaimed. “We built this house from the ground up,
and we made one specific room most specially for our entertainment center.
Wanna check it out?”
“Sure thing!” replied Janie, falling into Lizzie Janie’s steps. “Can
you hook it up to all throughout the galaxy?”
LJ replied with Janie close behind, “Sure, if you want.”
They enter one of the most largest rooms
in the house. This room, too, is made out of sterling silver. But the entertainment
is, to Janie, mind-blowing! I mean, every single surface is covered with one or
another kind of entertainment hardware. Some are laid out in disuse; others are
just plain out-of-date but still in mint condition.
Upon entering the entertainment center,
it brought tears to Janie’s eyes. She starts to feel nostalgic for her family
that she left back in the 21st century. She had a wild brother who
loved-just positively loved-hi-tech gadgets who passed the love onto
her, his only sister. As kids, they were a team-she was the Bonnie and he was
the Clyde. He was older than her by two years. They were inseparable until the
day he left for college, got married and have kids. (Yes, in that order.)
Her parents were often proud of her brother rather than of her. She
decided she better made her own path in life, so she did all these experiments.
One of these crazy, off-the-wall experiments was that she got cryogenically
frozen. Being cryogenically frozen was a work-in-progress back in the 21st
century, but she went for it anyways. Her parents disapproved of her
experiments, so she told no one, including her best friend, her brother,
because she knew it would get back to her parents because her brother was more
close to her parents than her. After her brother moved out, she tried all these
crazy, cockamamie schemes.
Now she is starting over, trying out all these experiments yet again
because she wants to find a way to either go back in time when she was first
cryogenically frozen or to discover a way to make human contact with an actual
human. Instead of being tested, she will be the one concocting the experiments
this time around. She’s taking crazy chances. She’s always been a risk-taker,
bending the rules when she didn’t agreed to them. Her brother, however, was
just the opposite.
As she reminisces, she feels saddened that she no longer has her
brother to share this with and runs out of the room, nearly crashing headlong
into Lizzie Janie’s husband, a hulien who looks like a human except for his
tentacles and pointy ears.
“Oh, I’m sorry!” Janie exclaimed. “What-you’re another half
human-half alien?! Is there any humans left?!”
“Better go after her,” L J’s husband said. “She seems upset.”
Janie runs out of the room, with L J close at her heels.
“I know you’re upset, but the world is full of huliens-half
humans/half aliens; plus earth is overrun by androids,” L J told Janie gently.
Janie cries, “What I crave is human contact, not your ‘huliens’ or
whatever you called yourself now. And I can’t communicate with androids-you
control ‘em.” Janie covers her tear-stained face with her hands, running out of
the huge Tupperware-like mansion. .
L J thinks for a moment. “I think I know of a place where there’s
only humans around. Some of our huliens gave birth to human babies, but we sent
them to the orphanage.”
“That’s terrible,” Janie commiserated. “But I’m thinking about
humans that I can relate to, not babies.”
“See ya,” Janie said tearfully.
“‘Bye!” L J said cheerfully. “Cheer up!”
Janie
hails the first space cab she sees to go back to Venus, where she first starts
off.
She is, to be frank, in a state of shock. She keeps
saying in a monotone over and over again, “I can’t be the last living human
alive.” She is in a state of shock for maybe 24 hours, then she falls into a
state of depression. She crashes in with one of the huliens in their Tupperware
houses. The hulien finds her, not the other way around. It just so happens to
be the ‘ringleader’ of the huliens, Isadore although there’s no such thing as
leadership; everyone is independent, on their own; it is not a police
state, thank god! Janie thinks the huliens have a ‘ringleader’ because that’s
how her kind works.
Isadore knows that
Janie is in a state of depression. He didn’t know what would cheer her up. He
finds out from her that she is depressed because there’s a lack of human
contact in the universe, as of now. So he gets her a feline-android to keep her
company. Originally named 3PX-579, she renames it Kitty-Kat or Kits for short.
It gives her the motivation to work harder than ever before.
She
decides she better get started on doing experiments on making human contact.
All those experiments she did a millennium ago sort of are engrained into her
brain. And with a college degree in biotechnology to back it up, she decides to
setup her own laboratory; in the past, she has always done her own experiments
with help from only her faithful assistant, Jananne. But now sadly, even her
faithful assistant is gone too, so she has her faithful companion feline
android, Kits, to make up for it although it is no comparison to the real deal.
She
decides to make human and some sort of animal contact by using satellites with
the sounds of practically anything-I mean anything. She sets up three
huge-I mean huge-satellite dishes, facing them toward the universe,
which connects to a radar screen to see where the sounds are coming from. She
comes up with a device that tells the difference between android, half
humans-half aliens or rather, huliens and real live humans and animals, if those
still exist. Wherever there are humans, there are bound to be animals.
After a few backfires, she finally surprisingly comes up with a
human signal. It comes from an underworld of humans called the Untouchables who
haven’t merged with aliens. This planet, Spaceverse, which is a billion
light years, maybe eons and eons, away, is unreachable.
She didn’t see any reason to go to the trouble of reaching out to
them. I mean, why bother? Although she gives up hope of uniting with her kind,
she remains in contact with them through teleportation traveling back and forth
through the space time continuum. Both Janie and the Untouchables are jubilant
to find someone of their kind still cohabiting this universe in this day and
age
But
teleportation isn’t enough; it didn’t satisfy her need for actual human contact
for Janie and animal contact for Kits. She and Kits wanted to have actual human
contact and to see actual animals. So she decides to create her very own space
pod that could surpassed light years beyond light years in a matter of seconds.
When you’re on it, you feel like you’re rraveling through time not through the
space-time continuum, which in fact, is what you’re doing.
After a
billion and one (that’s an exaggeration!) almost successes and failures, she
actually pulls it off! With a pull of the trigger, Janie and Kits are off!
Whoosh! She travels through the time-space continuum in a matter of seconds!
The minute she gets off the ship, she is greeted by one human, and then
another.
Most of them have pets; some don’t. They even
see a kitten, Fluffy; her owner is a lady named Rachel-Ann. Both Janie and Kits
get along famously with Fluffy and Rachel-Ann.
Janie is
so happy to be amongst humans once again that she didn’t even care if Kits is a
feline-android. Oh, to be surrounded by humans once again! She feels
overwhelmed with happiness! Oh, there is much rejoicing going on! There is
singing and dancing! Hooray! Happy days are here again! Oh, yeah, boy! She
rejoices with the other humans. She no longer thinks deathly thoughts because
now she has something to live for. She felt depressed when she discovered that
there’s no human life in the universe; but her experiments haven’t yet failed
her yet. Rejoice! Rejoice! Hallelujah! They won’t ever go back to the place
filled with huliens because they finally find what they are looking for: true
human and animal contact!
Moral: Dreams are possible, you just have to have the
motivation to attain them. Everything’s-and I mean everything is within
our reach!
Connie Cyndi
Chu
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