Symbiosis: At World's End

The First Wave

The symbiote was getting impatient. There wasn't any opening that it could take when the gates were opening or closing. Security was too tight. It needed to change its strategy. Its current form wouldn't let it sneak through the narrow openings it had observed. Then it saw an approaching guard rotation and it realized how it would get inside.

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Brianna was really starting to hate school. She felt like there hadn't been much change since Grade 3 in the educational material. The only thing that really changed was how much 'scarier' the material became. They dropped compulsory math once everyone had basic knowledge of PEMDAS. If you wanted to continue math, you had to practice it on your own time until you reached Grade 10 for elective math classes.

Brianna thought it was rather stupid. Why was so much emphasis put on how horrible the symbiotes were when, until very recently, they had been perfectly safe? If they put more emphasis on traditional courses like sciences and the like, they would have more people to develop ways to stop them. Instead, they had determined that the best way to prepare future generations for the days ahead was to mercilessly beat into their heads how horrible and evil the symbiotes were. The symbiote that was currently attached to her seemed to alternate between amusement and exasperation whenever she was in school.

In truth, Brianna had become rather fond of the symbiote. It continued to explain, in its own unorthodox way, about itself and its experiences before. It had obviously spent some time attached to a spider, but the poor creature ended up getting stepped on by a hosted bear some time ago, so it traveled by itself until it wound up in a quarrel with another hostless symbiote. That led it to follow it past the sonic shield when it fell. They had been bonded together for a little over a week and only once had gone out for a 'joy ride'. They stopped when they saw those new military patrols on those flying boards. The symbiote 'told' her that it had seen them previously during the time when she had been unconscious. They weren't anything she had seen before, so logic dictated that they were some sort of symbiote hunting force. Definitely something she should try to avoid.

Brianna snapped back to reality as the final bell rang and everyone stood up to go home.

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Marlin T. Magnus grumbled to himself as he jogged down the street. He had pulled a late night a day ago and had slept through his alarm. He threw his standard issue sonic rifle over his shoulder and exited the barracks on his way to guard duty. He was about a quarter of the way there when he was yanked off his feet and dragged into a back alley before he could make a sound. His vision suddenly went completely black, and he had a spine crawling sensation of cold glue being dumped all over him. He slowly slipped into the unconscious realm.

Magnus stepped out of the shadows just as the last facets of the symbiote finished mimicking his uniform. He marched through the gate with a stone face as he traded places with the previous guard who grumbled at his lateness. As soon as he was sure no one was looking, his hand suddenly was covered black slime that formed claws. He silently killed the man who was on watch with him and snuck into the base. His whole arm was now covered in symbiote goo as he made his way to the main generator. No alarms had been triggered. Then two soldiers rounded the corner and he immediately launched two tendrils from his fingers that skewered them through the windpipe. He knew alarms would sound soon.

He broke into a sprint as the two tendrils also grabbed two grenades from them each. Magnus eventually entered a room where several men and women were monitoring various control panels. One wall was made of super durable glass that not even the symbiote could break. It unleashed a myriad of tendrils that speared every person in the room, save one. That one, it grabbed in its now gigantic claw and carried them over to a security door and pressed their hand against it while peeling back their eyelids and forcing their eye into a retinal scanner. The door opened and Magnus stepped inside. He pulled out all the grenades he had on him as his symbiotic arm split into many arms. They all armed the grenades and tossed them onto the generator. He immediately retreated back behind the door and smiled, showing needle-pointed teeth. He walked past the console as it flashed a warning. The symbiote rapidly began to fully envelop Magnus until he was a hulking black monster with a mouth full of nightmarish teeth, a foot long tongue and mad eyes. It raised its head skyward and howled in victory and summons. Now that it's first objective was finished with, it could focus on a much more enjoyable one.