The Sanctuary

"Oh, she's waking up! My first specimen of Homo Sapiens!"

Ember groaned as she heard the excited female voice, her eyes fluttering open to see a woman dressed in stereotypical scientist gear smiling down at her with a wide, toothy grin. Ember's eyes went wide when she saw that the woman looked like a normal human... Except she had lime green skin and two, blue, cat-like eyes.

"Greetings, Homo Sapiens." The Woman greeted slowly, "My name is -"

"AHH! WHAT ARE YOU?!" Ember shrieked in horror as she sat up. As she did so, she looked around to see that she was no longer in her pool at home, but now somewhere out in a field. Looking down at herself, she squealed as she saw that she was in a mud puddle and completely naked. She let out a horrified screech as she crossed her legs and covered her breasts with her hands.

"I'm sensing that you have some questions." The Woman said.

"Of course I have questions!" Emma snapped, "Who are you?! What are you?! Why am I naked outside?! Where are we?! What the hell is going on?!"

"Well, my name is Dr. ..." The Woman said before thinking about it a second while pushing the glasses up her nose. "Actually, my birth name would be too difficult for your species to pronounce, so how about you call me 'Dr. Jane Doe'?"

"My species?"

"I'm getting there, don't worry." Jane replied. "Anyway, I'm a Xarblargian scientist that specializes in exotic species from other solar systems, and - "

"S-scientist?!"

"No, no, no! Not the kind that test on animals for medical research." Jane assured, "Quite the opposite, actually. I specialize in the preservation, conservation, and well-being of endangered species, like yourself. Which leads us to where we are: Gamma Alpha XXI; my wildlife sanctuary for Earth's most endangered species."

Emma merely sat there in total shock, blinking occasionally. "I..." She began, shaking her head as she stood up, "I think there's been some kind of mistake here. I'm not an endangered species."

Without missing a beat, Jane reached into her pocket and pulled out a book labeled 'Field Guide to Earth's Wildlife'. Licking her finger - with a long, purple, forked tongue, Emma noticed, Jane began to flip through the pages of the book.

"Let's see here. Hamster... Harbor seal... Hippopotamus... Honey bee..." Jane said before finding the right page. "Here we go, Humans! Self destruction of your natural habitats, needless civil wars among your species over differences of opinion, preforming suicidal stunts for the public just to earn praise from others of your species, challenging others of your species to eat plastic balls of laundry detergent..." She closed and pocketed the book again, "Honey, if your solar system has an animal even more endangered than your species, I've yet to have seen it in all my two trillion years of life."

"Two trillion?!" Emma asked in shock, "You look around my age. And I'm twenty-eight!"

"My species ages far slower then yours. I was still in diapers and on the bottle at your age."

Emma wanted to argue... But then yelped as she remembered her nudity. "Okay, but none of this explains why I'm naked!"

"Oh, that?" Jane asked before shrugging. "When I selected you, you seemed to be bathing in some acidic pond. I have no idea where your clothing was."

"Note to self if I get out of this: Never go skinny dipping and falling asleep on pool rafts in case of alien abductions." Emma thought to herself. Suddenly, a thought came to her mind. "Um, are there any other -"

"Homo Sapiens? Unfortunately, no." Jane replied. "You're my first representative of your species so far. I wasn't able to collect enough for a breeding population before my superiors called me back to this galaxy."

"'Breeding population'?!" Emma asked.

"Don't worry, I should arrive with a few males and other females, 000001F-A." Jane said nonchalantly. At the confused expression on Emma's face, the alien woman replied, "Your Identification Code on your right buttocks."

A look of horror coming to her face, Emma looked over her shoulder and gasped. There, tattooed on her right ass cheek, was the code "000001F-A". She turned back to Jane and was about to say something when a beeping noise came from the alien's watch.

"Aw, crap! Another meeting." Jane muttered, looking back up at Jane. "I have to go take care of this, 000001F-A. I'll bring more representatives of your species later on in the next few days, hopefully. In the meantime, I should warn you this planet also has other representatives of your home world's endangered species: Elephants, tigers, wolves, rhinos, nearderthals, mammoths, dodos, thylacines, bigfoots, chupacabras, unicorns, krakens; you name it, it's probably here."

"What?! That sounds like a pretty important detail to save for last!" Emma snapped, horrified that she was now living in the wilds populated with wild animals. Half a second later, she raised an eyebrow in confusion. "Neanderthals? Mammoths? Unicorns? Bigfoot? Aren't most of that last group either extinct already or animals that never even existed in the first place?"

"I said I was two trillion years old, didn't I?" Jane asked in reply as she pressed a button on her watch. "How long do you think I've been trying to save your planet's wildlife?"

Before Emma could do anything, Jane teleported off the planet in a flash of light, leaving Emma standing in the mud naked as the day she was born...

On a far off planet populated with wild animals, prehistoric beasts, and, apprently, not-so-mythical monsters!