A carrion story

Era of men

The Era of men arrived and so did their curiosity and hunger for discoveries. Men proliferated and evolved, destroyed many environments they were living in and killed many of their kin, under various futile reasons - nevertheless they continued to uncover the world, invent things and advance in medicine. They have always been afraid of what they could not understand and if they could fight it with either knowledge or arms, they would.

While they were exploring the world, men were also discovering many pools rich in nutrients deep underground, these were named amniotic fluid pools. These pools - at first discovered by chance when looking for petroleum underground - caught the attention of many pharmaceutical companies, as such fluid allowed these companies to find a cure to most uncurable genetic and whatnot diseases, like Parkinson, Alzheimer, etc... and even allowed them to heal some cases of paralysis.

Many decades passed by before one pharmaceutical company took over the whole market, helped by multiple governments. This company that went by the name of Genetic Relics Corporation (G.R.C.) started digging in various parts of the known world, spent billions in research and earned thrillions back at the same time. G.R.C. were ahead in genetic modification, lenghtening the life span of the elite class and modifying some people body responses. Some wars were won and lost due to genetic researches. Some people neurological system could be implanted in machines.

One faithful day, deep down below the ground in a pool, a huge red-ish embryo was found by one of the colossal digging machines owned by the pharmaceutical corporation. It was transparent and millions of little worms where moving and wriggling in its interior, it was as big as ten humans and all around there were many colossal amorphous fossils scattered. The various C.E.O.s of G.R.C. were thrilled and scared at the same time. They decided to build a new high-tech, secure, huge facility deep underground with that embryo at its center.

The embryo was caged and Genetic Relics Corp. attempted to contact it using at first small critters like earth worms and then bigger ones like jumbo rats, the results were the same as the embryo absorbed all critters with some small tentacles which took them inside. Many of these experiments went on and on during months; the embryo absorbed different animals and grew in mass and size.

One day in the cage room, even though rules and discipline in G.R.C. were tight, a technician was grabbed and absorbed by a couple of gigantic worms in the embryo. Some say that the poor fellow was sent in the cage to check the metallic platform that was studying the partially immersed embryo in the pool and that he got too close... an unnecessary mistake - some others say that G.R.C. directive table wanted that to happen, they knew the embryo was but a complex system of nerves and they were curious about what could happen if an intelligent life form were absorbed... they handpicked the clumsiest worker.

Next thing that the camaras recorded was the embryo blowing in thousands of small and big red worms. Later the same worms attempted multiple times to form a human body out of them, they tried during days and days gathering into a rough human shape just to explode and split again in thousands of worms. Finally they managed to get a full human shape that looked like the poor technician and could talk plain English... only thing was that it wasn't the technician.