AOE Saga:
Suspicious Kinds
Chapter 3: Gelatin Genocide
Matt, Chris, and Silvia ran down several hallways before they stopped for a break. Panting, Chris said, "We've got to get out of here. Forget about the experiments. We'll never find them. We could look for hours and hours but won't be able to find one clue as to where they're being kept." "Say, what's that behind you?" said Matt. Chris looked behind him and saw a door with the words; "Experiment Storage" printed on it. Chris chuckled bashfully and said, "How do you suppose that got there?" Silvia groaned to herself and opened the door. It opened into a small closet with several shelves. The only things on those shelves were seventeen Dehydrator Balls. Seven of those balls were rattling very loudly.
"I wonder who's in here," asked Matt opening up one of the Balls. A black pod shot out and whacked Matt right between the eyes of his helmet visor. "That would be NegaMorph," said Silvia. Soon all of the pods were opened. Apparently, the six Morphs and NegaMorph had the power to hover in the air and hear in pod form. "Now that we have everyone together," said Matt. "All we need to do is find some water to activate the experiments with and get out of here." The Morph pods carried the other pods in a small net that Chris made. As they walked down the hallways, Matt started to feel hotter and hotter. "Man, it's like a blast furnace in this armor." The armor also seemed to feel a bit tight on Matt especially under his arms and in the middle of his back.
Finally, they found a room that had a shallow pool of water in it. The Morph pods dove straight into the water. There was a very bright flash of golden light along with a bit of red light. When the light died out, all sixteen experiments and NegaMorph were found in the water. "We're finally free!" yelled Draco. "But why would is there a pool of water here?" Akira looked over her shoulder and said, "That's probably because this is heavy water for cooling those nuclear rods behind us." The others gave a yelp and jumped out of the water.
"Glad you guys are okay," said Matt. The only bad part was that the nuclear rods heated up the room too much for comfort. "I say we take our helmets off," said Chris. "Agreed," said Silvia. The trio pulled off their helmets to get some fresh air. But when Matt pulled his helmet off, everyone started staring at him. "What? Is my helmet hair that bad?" said Matt. "Matt, whatever you do, don't look in a mirror," said Chip. Full of curiosity, Matt looked at one of the reflective metal walls and screamed. Instead of his human head, Matt's head resembled that of his experiment form; just like Stitch's head except black with sky-blue eyes. "I told you not to look in a mirror," said Chip. "Nobody ever listens to what I say." "Hmm? Did you say something?" said Draco. Chip looked like he wanted to deck Draco.
"I'm a freak!" yelled Matt. "A hideous freak!" "Calm down," said Silvia. "Splicer's machine just turned you into a half-human/half-experiment like me." Matt took one look at Silvia and said, "It's worse than I thought!" "But Matt's experiment form has extra limbs that can't be withdrawn," said Kala. Suddenly the bulges in Matt's armors grew bigger and a pair of black-furred arms popped out from underneath his arms and three black spikes popped out of his back. Then two black antennas popped out of his head. "Well, at least I still have my personality," said Matt. "Drat," muttered NegaMorph. "Look, all we need is to get you back to the BiNebular and we'll be able to change you back," said Chris.
"How do we get out of here?" asked Angel. "I guess through that thing," said Stitch pointing at what looked like a miniature, vertical bullet train labeled, "Emergency Escape Pod." "You guys go," said Matt, growling. "I'm going after Splicer." "Has that mutation made you lose your mind?" yelled Silvia. "You should know," said PlasMorph. He giggled a bit after this joke but was splatted flat by Silvia's boot. "You heard what Splicer said," said Matt. "He's been doing this to several people without regret. He has to pay for what he's done." "But you don't know how to beat him," said Chris. "Actually, yes I do. Symbiotes are weak against fire. They burn up like lighter fluid. If anyone's coming with me besides Silvia, Chris, and NegaMorph, it better be someone with fire powers."
"We'll go!" said Draco, Kala, and Rick. "Okay then, the rest of you can go into the escape pod." "No!" yelled PlasMorph, grabbing on Matt's ankle. "I won't let my friend go on such a dangerous mission!" Matt gave PlasMorph a look that would have scared the pants off any Splitter. "Unless he looks at me like that," said PlasMorph. "Bye Matt!" Morph quickly got into the escape pod with the other experiments. The escape pod quickly rocketed upward to the surface. As soon as they had left, Matt's group started walking back through the hallways, looking for Splicer.
They walked and walked for what seemed hours. Silvia, NegaMorph, and Chris would have used their tracking powers but Splicer's scent was everywhere and there weren't any sounds to indicate where he was. The walls seemed to cancel out Rick's phasing powers. So all they could was walk and walk. Eventually they came to a larger room that was more barren than the other rooms. "Okay," said Draco. "Does anyone have any idea where we should go?" "Heck if I know," said a familiar voice. Draco looked beside him and saw Chip standing there. "Chip, how did you get here?" "Simple," said Chip. "I didn't get on the escape pod." "But we would have know you were there." Chip sighed and said, "No you wouldn't have. Nobody notices me. What do I have to do? Strap a neon sign saying 'Chip is here' to my back?"
Matt interrupted Chip's ranting and said, "You really shouldn't be down here. You have no natural defense against those Symbiotes." "First off," said Chip, "Splicer's wearing a cybernetic armor so he would be weak against my viral blasts." Chip emitted a bunch of indigo sparks from his fingertips. "And second what are Symbiotes? We've walking around for 30 minutes and haven't seen anything besides these walls made of metal tiles and Splicer's goo." Chip stuck a still sparking hand into the wall out of agitation.
The viral energy shocked the mortar holding the wall together. The mortar seemed to give a squeal and started jiggling. Suddenly all of the slimy mortar around the room started to jiggle. Then the mortar started seeping out from between the tiles. "I don't think Splicer used goo to grout the tiles," said Kala. Her words proved correct as the slime turned into slightly humanoid creatures without any legs. "Symbiotes!" yelled Matt.
"Finally! Some action!" said Chris. Soon the group was firing all sorts of projectiles at the Symbiotes. "Don't let them cover you!" yelled Chris. "Where's Chip?" yelled Kala. "He's unprotected!" "Over there," said Rick. Chip was in a meditative position with his arms positioned like a Shiva statue and his eye closed. The Symbiotes were closing in on him but he paid no attention. "Chip, get out of there!" yelled Draco. The other Symbiotes prevented him from getting close to Chip. Then the Symbiotes surrounding Chip pounced towards him. Chip's eye flashed open and the yin-yang symbol could be seen momentarily in his pupil. Then Chip started spinning his arms and legs at high speed.
The Symbiotes were shredded into small pieces. Chip kept doing this until he was like a metal tornado. He only stopped when all of Symbiotes were in pieces. The others were looking at him with amazement. "Where did you learn to do that?" asked Draco. "I've been taking Tai Chi classes," answered Chip.
Then more Symbiotes came in from other rooms. Suddenly Chip picked up a signal. "Splicer's in the large room, two hallways to the left, six rooms to the right. Matt, Chris, Silvia, go! We'll take care of the rest." The other experiments prepared for battle as Matt, Chris, and Silvia left the room.
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