"Frantically, I tried to stop the countdown.  As fast as I could, I commanded the computer to stop the countdown, to accept humans as friends, to destroy the spider bases (if I had to die, I'd die a hero)"<br/><br/>"Humans are not granted access to that program or information" was the only response.<br/><br/>"Desparately I tried "Beam me out of here"."<br/><br/>"Humans are not permitted to use the matter transmission device".<br/><br/>"What programs ARE humans allowed to use?"<br/><br/>"Humans are not denied access to the genetic engineering program or information that is not deemed a security risk"<br/><br/>"Can you genetically engineer me?"<br/><br/>"You are an acceptable test subject for conversion to the Human Eradication Program.  Please define the objective with which you will be programmed to destroy mankind.  1)  Devour all humans.  2)  Impregnate human females to breed the species out of existence.  3)  Act as a vector of disease..."<br/><br/>"By the time we had gone through the list of options, the computer had scanned my insect collection and fused my DNA with hundreds of different invertebrates.  I had their superpowers, with the analogous strong proteins they'd given the spiders to allow giant arthropods, and the specific abilities of those creatures, and a desire to impregnate all human females.  I was no longer considered human enough to be denied access to the higher computer functions.  It aborted my extermination.  I was the first GenSect."