“Wotcha got on for the weekend?”
“Going to watch Battle Bacteria live”
“YaWhatnow?”
“Remember battle bots?”
“Feh, remote controlled power tools, not proper robots”
“Yeah, fair point. Anyway, it was only a matter of time. Lab A engineers bacteria that eat microplastics, Lab B engineers a strain that turns glucose into polymers. Making them fight was obvious”
“What, you just sit around and look at test tubes making goo?”
“Oh, heck no, these matches get brutal. Last week one strain learned how to extrude nanometer sized Lego bricks with spikes that’ll go right through a cell membrane”