A carrion story

What is Dead May Never Die

During the various years after his demotion at the dome, Elam Li started to take control of the facility personnel, modifying the different rooms as he pleased and improving his DNA strains - Cell Creator Corp. paid for all as long as he gave the results they wanted - and he only gave them a small part of his research. While the years passed all personnel, human, former human and android had a tiny worm-replica in their minds and linked to his own neurological system, he could control them all without Cell Creator Corp. and the exterior world even realized it - in a radius of five kilometres. Elam Li used the human personnel for all the exterior exchanges, the androids for the research in the highly infectious research wards - the former humans were mainly used for defense purposes and new experimental drug tests - just before Elam Li decided what to inject on himself, what to further study, and what to send to Cell Creator Corp.directive board and up for sale. He was obsessed with the dead mass of worms and their neurological systems, he prepared for an attack on their behalf. Later that year, when the exterior air was even colder, the dome got the main entrance full blown out, the two foldable big gates were grabbed, pulled and blown to pieces by thousand of tentacles twisted in red and black. The igloo-like shape of the dome was still intact, the entity had yet to traverse its passage tunnel to be in. The three empowered human with wriggling tubifex worms in their eye sockets foresaw a strong electric signal behind the last section behind the gates to enter the dome and Elam Li warriors were there waiting for battle in the mid-section of the circular building - a huge room that worked very well as an armored entrance hall. Many loud noises, thuds and bulging metal from the dome gates, scared the little army behind, some didn't even look human anymore - Elam Li told them to stick to the plan as their defensive system was flawless. The creatures believed him - or, better said, were forced to believe what he said. In a heartbeat the entire hall was submerged by a million black and red, twisting, writhing tentacles and in their midst an amorphous immense being that was dragging various pieces of meat and bone from many creatures, human and not - there also was some piece of metal attached to it, without a doubt belonging to some cyborg. Once in the middle of the hall, the hundreds of turrets started shooting a mixture of acid and sedative to the monster, the special non human army were only buying some time and skimming the creature froth, soon they were annihilated and then Elam Li started eating their dead bodies and transformed himself into a floating red raw meat and white exposed bone being. Still, the monster launched a hundreds cutting tentacles against him, but he kept evolving assuming various forms, like hundreds of worms, to hundreds of human bodies made of writhing tentacles from which he could suck from the monster their life force, a mixture of blood and amniotic fluid. His plan was working, some humans and androids were behind blinded safes, the hall cameras were destroyed, so nobody needed to know how he defeated the monster - a made up story would do. The worms attacks were weaker and weaker, they lost much biomass and their color was turning a decaying grey - Elam Li started sharing the monster own memories and saw a myriad of opportunities to become a world leader, but the amorphous creature was resisting, although it was only a matter of time he could subjugate the alien entity.

The amorphous creature lost much strength, their flesh was decaying and their vision was now blurry - Elam Li did manage to twist their genetic strains and use them against themselves worms. They understood that this once-a-man was about to take everything from them. In their last centuries they learnt many negative human emotions like selecting some unworthy people, but also came to understand the worth of helping each other, and they couldn't let Stil or the homeless down, not even the technician or the curious digger. Meantime, the weaker they got the stronger the hundreds of hives in the south pole became and one nest called upon the help of another further away and so on. They could not be tricked again like Genetic Relics Corporation succeeded - did they? - in another world. All the biomass in the southern emisphere was moving at incredible speed towards that epicenter. While careful not causing much damage, once near the dome, these hives wreaked havoc at the dome, creating thousands of breaches and giving un-measurable power to the dying amorphous being. Out of sheer rage the grey being began wrapping in tentacles and immobilizing all of the monstrous Elam Li, with their many mouths and talons and teeth started devouring him, if some piece of this ex human attempted to flee in shrieking fear, more hives ate such pieces.

The dome was no more, the white and grey amorphous creature knew ALL of Cell Creator Corporation, thanks to Elam Li.