INHUMANOIDS: The Evil Below
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Chapter 1: The Monster In The Monolith
The smell of coast redwood filled the air as the news helicopter flew by. Below was a man in a large green suit of powered armor, posing before a 15-story high chunk of amber and speaking into a reporter's microphone.
"Dr. Armstrong-"
"Call me Herc." the man replied.
"Well, Herc. Since you and the Earth Corps have taken this spectacular find, can you give a definitive answer to some questions? Such as reports by the campers who found the monolith that stated that it was glowing? Or that it contains the remnants of some ancient dinosaur?"
"Miss Walker, I can neither confirm nor deny such reports at the present time. My associates will need to run further tests to see what this thing is."
"What are your personal thoughts on the find?"
"It's not a hoax, as far as I'm concerned. But there's something off about this one."
"Explain."
"Preliminary tests indicate that our monolith here is about two and a half million years old, and I'm pretty sure there weren't dinosaurs running around at that point."
Meanwhile, the entity within the monolith stirred. Bound by the petrified resins, it could do nothing but scream. Its screams were not acoustic in their nature, but psychic. Telepathic cries focused on a fellow beast, as eldritch and inhuman as the one within the monolith.
