Unremarkable (Part 6)

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The first person to be swapped was Neil himself. He was no longer in Melissa’s body, but in the body of another woman. He wasn’t sure who, he only knew because he could see Melissa’s body a few feet away and because he could look down and clearly see a woman. But it didn’t last for long. Not because he swapped a second time, but the light was now eminating from his entire body. It was difficult to look down without being blinded. Though from what he saw before he looked away, he was now likely to swap at least a hundred more people. And the previous round seemed to already be spreading outward. No one seemed to notice the light except for him, but as he observed, they certainly noticed the swaps. He could see the person now in Melissa’s body look very surprised, and a few other people who the lights had gone to were also in shock. He knew it was only going to get worse from here, but the question was, could he fix it when it was all over?

Rainforest

The research team had been in the rainforest for several weeks when Dr. Albert Pierce fell from a ledge. While the team spent some time looking for him, they eventually had no choice but to presume he had died. A few days later, a woman arrived at their camp, explining that she was, in fact, Dr. Albert Pierce.

Albert began to tell his story about falling from the ledge and landing in a strange lake that seemed to almost sparkle. He swallowed large amounts of the water; he possibly even died. Whatever exactly happened, the water allowed his form to be corporeal. His spirit was able to float around as he pleased, until he floated into a nearby town. Through sheer accident, he ended up possessing the body of this woman. He wasn’t the group’s translator, so he didn’t speak the local language. He was eventually able to find someone who spoke english, which allowed him to ask to be guided back here.

The other researchers found the story absurd, but perhaps if they could find this water, they could confirm it all. Albery said he’d be happy to show them.

Cold War Relic

Prviate Larry Klein had volunteered for the army’s experiment at the height of the Cold War. With no immediate family, he was a perfect candidate to be frozen with plans to be thawed out when technology allowed. It took about a hundred years for the military scientists to bring back the people they had frozen. What they discovered was the body wasn’t able to be saved, but the mind was.

Larry was among the first to be unfrozen and placed in a new body. He was expendable enough if something went wrong and low enough in rank that he couldn’t complain about the fact that they had stuck his brain into a woman’s body.

After doing so, they gave him a coat as they walked him through the underground facility where other frozen bodies were kept. He was amazed to be in the future, more than thankful to have participated, and actually quite excited about his now female body!

2075

“It probably sucks to be poor,” Xavier thought just as his brain finished downloading into another person’s body, “Take this woman, for instance. I am paying an astonishingly low amount to inhabit her body for three weeks. Poor people are play things for someone like me.”

It was true. By the year 2075, technology had greatly advanced but the gap between rich and poor had grown, leaving most advanced tech for those of means like Xavier. Renting out one’s body was quite a common way to make money. The poor person wouldn’t know what a person like Xavier would do. Xavier would often use the poor human’s body for one of his robotic workers, which would give them moe agility with organic fingers as opposed to metal ones. But for today, Xavier was taking control of the body himself. After all, if he could spend time in a beautiful woman’s body, why shouldn’t he try it out if he could afford it?

Miscalculated (Part 1)

Harvey had hopes things would be better in college after being bullied in high school. However, his freshman roommate, Marc, was probably the meanest yet. All year long, Marc made fun of how nerdy Harvey was. Harvey wondered how Marc was able to pass a single class. But Harvey developed a plan for he hoped to enact over spring break.

Using his genius, Harvey had developed a machine that would teleport his consciousness into Marc’s body. All he needed was a little bit of DNA, and getting a few hairs from Marc’s side of the room was pretty easy.

Once in Marc’s body, Harvey would tell Marc’s parents he wanted to drop out or transfer or something. He’d decide the exact wording soon enough. As he put the hairs in his device, he quickly passed out.

He jolted upright just as fast to find himself on the beach. An older man stood over him.

“Honey, are you alright?” The man asked.

“Honey?” Harvey asked, quickly noticing his own voice. Then he looked down at his body. This wasn’t Marc’s body at all! Judging from its age and appearance, he must be in the body of -- Marc’s mom! Harvey cursed. Of course, Marc never cleaned anything. He must’ve grabbed hairs his mom had left behind when packing or visiting or whatever.