8FOLD/HCC: Journey Into #22 (HCC53)
Andrew Perron
pwerdna at gmail.com
Mon May 11 19:47:48 PDT 2015
On 5/10/2015 6:57 AM, Saxon Brenton wrote:
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> "I know that you're gay, Pop," she interrupted with the exasperated
> voice of children the world over who know that they are smarter than
> their parents but wished that the adults would at least try to keep up.
> "That doesn't change the fact that you need a female to contribute an
> ovum to produce a viable zygote. And I want to know who she is."
Heeheehee. I like her.
> Michael frowned at her.. "If you'll keep from interrupting," he
> said sternly, "I was going to remind you that your Dad and myself were
> active superheroes when we were younger and fitter, and one of the
> things about superheroes is that they have weird adventures."
> "Sorry, sir," she said, briefly cowed.
> "Right then. The thing you need to know is that there was a time
> when there was a supervillain with a sex reversal ray gun."
AMAZING. <3
> "Yes," Michael agreed. "And before you ask, it was me." He
> deepened his voice and in his best James Earl Jones voice said, "Luke, I
> am your mother."
> "Oh Poppa," she said, half giggling and half wearily.
Awwwwwwww. <3 That's a cute relationship. THIS IS A CUTE FAMILY.
>"You see, at that time I hadn't built the someone-else's-problem field
> generator to conceal the fact that I'd changed."
> "They're called perception filters these days..."
> "Bah! New fangled Doctor Who techno-babble," Michael said wryly.
> "Give me good old fashioned Douglas Adams terminology," he added, not
> quite managing to keep a straight face.
Heeheehee.
>"Well,
> see the thing is that I was hoping that your Dad would take a turn
> bearing a baby. I thought it would be a good bonding experience. But
> Peter wouldn't have anything to do with it." He made a small cough of
> embarrassment. "I'm afraid we had a bit of a fight about that, and I
> had another 'I'll show you, I'll show you all' moment."
> And now it was Joanna's turn to roll her eyes. "Oh Poppa, another
> one?"
Bwahaha. <3 Poor dear.
> "These are yours," Michael said, briefly showing Joanna pictures
> of herself, both the photographs as a newborn and the ultrasound of her
> pre-birth. "And these are Geoffrey," he continued, pointing to the
> photographs of a cloning tank with a glass front, where floating inside
> the bluish liquid was a growing mass of flesh at different stages of
> development. "Isn't he adorable?"
D'awwww.
> I was having an 'I'll show you all' moment. I didn't use a female ovum.
> I quite deliberately spliced together two male spermatozoa to fertilise
> Geoffrey's zygote."
> "Oh," said Joanna, who was far more impressed with that than all of
> this cooing over babies stuff. "Okay, that *is* cool."
It really is. <3 This was rly cute.
> Author's notes:
> Written for High Concept Challenge #53: 'Gender Defenders',
> stories that deal with some aspect of gender. In this case, a
> daddy/daughter discussion of the facts of life, made into a farce by
> superhero comic tropes.
Very good. <3 Which reminds me, I gotta post the vote.
Andrew "NO .SIG MAN" "Juan" Perron, running out of steam
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