in the year 2098 the global government sanctioned genetic enhancement via DNA manipulation, no longer would human traits be limited to the attributes of their parents but now the credit score dictates how far you can go towards the goal of superhuman. The take-up for the procedure was astronomical and to jump the queue you had to be in the know and of significant means. Ricky was not such a man, he had failed exams in his dream to become a chiropodist, or even a chiropodists assistant after being expelled from his work experience due to a unfortunate foot related misunderstanding, the details of which would take this story down a much darker path, so with the bad memories behind him Ricky managed to get a job working nights at the Newley sanctioned D-N-Academy where he could steam clean test tubes by the thousand and mop floors by himself. Ricky still had dreams but they would have to wait, or so he thought. After his first year Ricky began to think after reading the enhancement descriptions on the cryogenic refrigeration units, what it would be like to possess enough standing in the world to partake in the dream of gaining super strength or massive intellectual prowess, or even to have perfect vision, no x-ray vision was available that he could find, Ricky started to take chances, small ones at first, no gloves when handling dirty test tubes, exciting stuff, all code numbers no descriptions on the tubes, not that it slowed him down, he just figured people want improvements so if he catches a improvement disease it can only be a good thing, as time went on Ricky began leaving his N95 face mask in the break room and breathing in all that DNA yumminess, the air conditioning and purification system in the lab was over Ricky's head in every sense but he lived in hope, and as hope springs eternal so does the chance of a thousand to one accident, after all it was overdue when you have cleaned many thousands of test tubes without gloves, and drop a tray of dirty ones and pick them up without gloves and cut your self and lick your finger without thinking, yes he really was that dumb. The D-N-Academy did not only do human DNA, they also did work on farm animals to increase meat yield, they did work for the natural history museum to try and bring back extinct animals for scientific study, they did work for a shadowy agency who dabbled in the occult and were looking into samples of various mythical creatures such as unicorns, dragons, and strange unknown samples obtained from the four corners of the world. the problem with all this was that Ricky had been contaminated by one, infected by another and enhanced by a third, and although he did not realise it at that moment, his life as he knew it would be changing in a lot more that just three ways.