Omake Giant Space Worms
It had been a very, very bad month.
First Carlos had convinced me to read Dune. He thought I'd get some precog, and a master power out of it, with maybe minor brute and mover tacked on. He was wrong. Oh God was he ever wrong.
No, what I got was a GIANT. SPACE. WORM!
Seriously the stupid thing was big enough to eat most of a city block, which it did, on its way out of the city. Last I heard there was a potential spice patch brewing in the Nevada dessert. Piggot had been beyond pissed. Dragon had to Air lift me out of Brockton Bay to keep Piggot from throwing me into the birdcage.
So then Dragon wanted me to play Mass Effect. She was hoping I would get some crazy tinker power or the ability to mess with space. What did my power decide to give me? A SECOND. GIANT. SPACE. WORM! This one was a little bit smaller but it was still a giant freaking space worm, and it had creepy face fang things. That one decided to trash most of Dragons back up lab before the Guild drove it off.
So then the Protectorate and the Guild were after me. It wasn't my fault my power kept malfunctioning like this! It had never made creatures that wouldn't listen to me before so I didn't know why it was doing so now.
So I jumped into Star Wars. I needed a vacation, and a bit of time being a space princess sounded like it might be more fun than continuing to run from all the heroes in North America.
I knew I screwed up as soon as I realized the cave was damp.
Sure enough, I got out of the movie only to be faced with the combined forces of the Guild and Protectorate. I had just enough time to yell run before my power created a third GIANT. FUCKING. SPACE. WORM!
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Zion was disappointed. The research shard had notified him for the third time that it had found a possible mate. Once again the result was useless to him, a monstrosity of size, and power lacking the refinement that he needed in a counterpart. Still, that it had found three potential candidates in such a short time was cause for hope. This world might yet produce a new counterpart.
