"No, not common," replied Nurse Joy. "At least not if the readings are correct. Both were on their way to being rare types before one became genetically unstable and devolved into an uncommon."
Officer Jenny looked at her in shock. "Two pure humans almost became rare pokegirls? What are the odds of that?"
"Better than you'd think. The Love Balls were heavily gimmicked by someone with more talent than common sense," Nurse Joy said with a grimace. "They were specifically designed to produce rare pokegirls, but the programming was so flawed that interaction with nonhuman DNA would have killed the subject outright. In a way it was a good thing the victims were pure humans, otherwise they'd be dead."
"Typical criminal mindset; take the long odds for a big payoff and ignore the cost of failure," interjected the Sorceress.
"Nobody ever said petty criminals were smart, " Officer Jenny agreed. "What I don't understand is how they actually got such a thing as close to working as they actually did."
"They seem to have tied a gene scanner and resequencer to a genetic database containing information only on Pokegirls who start out as rare. The main processor was overclocked to perform an on-the-fly pattern match with the first entry likely to result in a successful transformation. The thing was literally cycling through an alphabetical list," recited Nurse Joy as she consulted her files. "Of course fitting all of this into a standard pokeball required them to first remove the safety features to make room for the new parts."
"Like I said, typical criminal mindset. Instead of being reduced to puddles of gore, why not tell us what they actually became; not that I don't already know," the Sorceress smirked.
Nurse Joy frowned at her associate's superior smile, but complied in the face of the looks of interest that Officer Jenny and Tanya were giving her. "The stable one is now a Bardess while the other one almost became a Dracass before devolving into a Dildoran."
"Ouch," Tanya winced. "Poor girl."
"More like a lucky girl," Nurse Joy countered, "she would have died otherwise. As it is, the researchers will be interested in knowing that a pure human exposed to Dracass DNA can spontaneously become a Dildoran. They'll likely be writing papers about this for years."
"Well, whatever else happens is none of our immediate concern," Officer Jenny said. "There are more immediate issues at hand."
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