Chapter2
Who They Are
The man that claimed he was Jor El allowed Carmen to take the podium with an amused smile on his face.
She gently swatted his butt before saying, "His real name is Jordan Ellis, he thinks of himself as Superman's father and thinks of you as supermen and superwomen. He also has an atrocious sense of humor. Call him Chief, or Dad if you wish, he is my husband. Both of us are ecologists; we know this planet well.
Several years ago Jordan and I were on our honeymoon in Brazil when we were abducted by two aliens called the Protectors.
Well, abducted is the wrong term, they invited us into their flying house and we went in.
Carmen paused and looked at each in the eyes.
The peers could easily tell when someone was not telling the truth. They all felt chills when they realized Carmen was telling the truth.
Carmen continued, "They took us to a bigger house and we met other couples there. They showed us that they saw a catastrophe coming to our planet and were collecting men and women as breeding stock in an effort to save our species.
Jordan and I pointed out that humans were not the only species that needed saving and that it would be better if we had a shelter on Earth to protect a colony of life.
They indicated they would try to save some species but that their priority was saving humans.
Each day, three times a day we were encouraged to fuck. A few of us fucked more often than that but eventually some stopped fucking completely and were taken home.
During those first few months in semi-captivity Jordan and I did our best to produce children but were unsuccessful. That was true of the others that remained.
The aliens could not communicate directly with us but apparently could understand us. Jordan and I made friends with them but we were the only ones that did, the others could not get past the alien part of their being.
I had commented to the Protectors that picking random couples was not the best way to insure a viable human race, two of the remaining couples included a bully prone to violence and five were well below average intelligence.
Eight seemed to tell nothing but lies to aggrandize themselves. Three whined about everything and another three were assured of their misplaced superiority over others
."The human race they would produce would be just like them," I said.
They understood what I said and apparently acted on it, the next day those couples were gone.
In the end there were just twelve couples left out of the fifty couples they had captured. During that time the others and the Protectors began to look at me and treat me as a leader.
The lack of success in us getting pregnant made the Protectors very nervous and they tested all of us and concluded that the planet they had planned to take us to would not be suitable. Ozone level was the problem."
All the peers gasped and one asked, "Are the Protectors here?"
"Yes," answered Dad. "You will meet both after our session."
The peers were grinning, they had just realized that they were embarking into a most excellent adventure.
Carmen continued, "The Protectors then agreed that shelters on Earth would be better but they wanted to have as many people saved that would produce a sustainable population with a large variety of genes. They decided the minimum number for humans was two thousand but the shelters will hold twenty times that number.
The sustainable numbers for the ten thousand species of plants and animals that will be protected varies from twenty-two for elephants, rhinos and most plants to two hundred for some birds, fish, and insects. The selected plants and animals have already been harvested and placed on the shelters.
Jordan and I trained ten couples in ecology and they have been on our shelters for two years. They will be our wildlife rangers. The other couple asked out of the program and returned to their families.
We made up the list of species and designed the ark for them and it includes every pollinator, every seed dispenser and the necessary predators to keep the ratios balanced.
We also included the most spectacular life forms on Earth.
We did not include any pathogenic organisms for any plant or animal species selected. No mosquitoes, fleas or ticks. We did not include any species that would see a human child as prey.
The only species to have races protected is homo sapiens."
Carlos asked, "Which species of plants and animals are being saved?"
Dad answered, "We will have a disk with all of them for you. And yes, the Puerto Rican parrot, tree frog, manatee and iguana were selected."
Carlos nodded with a big grin on his face.
Dad continued, "Some species such as rice, corn and wheat are in harvestable quantities. Some like strangler figs are few and far between but in sustainable numbers. There will be pig, chicken, lamb and fish farms. The cattle are all milk cows and their three bulls.
Our environment will be very interesting and colorful but the main objective is to save the human species. You however are not Homo sapiens."
Dad paused to allow that thought to sink in.
The peers were not too surprised, they knew they were different.
Mom continued, "You were biologically engineered using his sperm and my eggs as guides and the actual sperm and eggs from what was your home countries earliest dominant race but those genes were modified to provide you your bodies, which is why you are about two meters tall from races that never came close to that height.
You only vaguely look like your designated race because you also carry genes from every race that has not become extinct. One of those races was down to twenty-seven individuals; one race was down to one single woman. You ladies here carry her DNA strand in your mitochondria so in a manner of speaking that woman will live forever.