"The new normal" (Kaiju Paradise story)

Chapter One: Transformation.

"just another day in this place..."
Owen thinks to himself, adjusting his hazmat suit a tad bit as he prepared to head out of the safe zone for a bit.
"Watch yourself out there mate,"
his friend, Jerry, says from behind him.
"Oh please Jerry, calm down man. I've gone out plenty of times, I'll be fine. Besides, I'm heading out with the group this time anyway."
Owen says casually, waving off Jerry's concern, to which he then scoffs at him.
"Tch, you're getting too confident, at some point, that's gonna come back to bite you."
Jerry says with annoyance and concern, crossing his arms as a small scowl started to form across his face.
"Relax man,"
Owen says simply, placing a hand on Jerry's shoulder for a moment before looking around.
"-anyways, wheres my batsaber at again?"
Owen says while searching the small cabinets that littered around the safe zone.
"Batsaber? That's what you're calling the lazer cutter now?"
Says Jerry, chuckling slightly at the name.
"Well...yeah."
Owen retorts matter of factly, still searching around.
"The lazer looks like a bat does it not? And it's not like we're using it for...uh...'lazer cuttering' things anymore, right?"
Owen states, Jerry simply chuckles and shakes his head slightly
"yeah...suppose so, anyways, I'm pretty sure it's in one of the lockers."
Jerry eventually says.
"Sigh...I always forget about those freaking lockers..."
A few minutes later, Owen, along with a small trio of others, head out of the safe zone to explore the facility for a bit.
"So...just a small food gathering mission? Or something fun like getting rid of some of those gootraxians around the area?"
One of the members of the squad asks as they begin their walk down the hallways of the facility.
"Food."
Another member simply says, which gets a small fit of laughter from the third person and a small chuckle from Owen and the first member.
The walk itself was rather boring, as there weren't too many gootraxians out and about as there usually were, which made Owen suspicious, but the other three were fine with it.
As they began walking towards the security section of the facility, one of the guys perks up.
"Hey, we should search around the security rooms, maybe find a new weapon or two."
The guy says eagerly, getting a small round of agreement from everyone else, which they then switch their objective from food to weaponry for a few minutes.
"Ayy, a scythe! These are gettin rare nowadays lads"
One of the members say as he pulls up a scythe from under a small bit of rubble of one of the litteraly caved in walls.
"Nice one!"
"Dang it, you always find the good stuff when we scavenge!"
The other two say to their friend, meanwhile Owen was focused more on searching still.
He scanned the floor, the walls, and even the ceiling for anything he may make use of.
As he wasn't paying attention to himself, he eventually stepped on the shard of one of the various energy crystals which littered all around the cave of the facility.
The shard was about as big as his foot, and while it didn't stab through the suit, it still burned him somehow.
"OW! Fucking-!"
He yelps out, before swiftly kicking the crystal into the wall
"hate those crystals sometimes..."
He says quietly to himself, looking back to the group of three, who hadn't seemed to have heard him and were still looking for more weapons.
"Such great comrades these three are..."
Owen sarcasticly mutters to himself, rolling his eyes at the three before going back to what he was doing.
"Something feels....off..."
Owen thinks to himself, it felt like something was happening, like... something tugging at him or poking him...he couldn't place his finger on it, but it was just annoying enough to where he couldn't just ignore it.
"Ugh, what the heck-"
his thoughts are cut short as he looks down at his suit.
It was the suit.
The suit seemed to be quivering on his body, starting to shake violently.
Something is wrong with the suit...
"Huh...guess Jerry was right about my confidence issue.-"
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