"I know, I know," GoGo explained, "I'm trying to find Honey at the nerd lab. If I don't catch her right away, I'm sure I'll run into her there in a few hours."
"GoGo," Wasabi's voice shivered. "GoGo, it's been everywhere. I can see every single hotspot from the last two weeks from this building and they all have that…slime on them."
"I'll tell Honey the situation is critical," Gogo assured.
"Don't tell her about Fred."
GoGo stopped where she stood and took a deep breath before hanging up and continuing uphill. She figured Honey went to the laboratory one hour after she hadn't answered GoGo's texts. If there was anywhere Honey probably wanted to be after a successful run with some new technology and formulas, it was the nerd lab. God knew if she even knew about Fred's death. Was it too soon to tell someone? It felt wrong not to do something correctly like when Tadashi died. Funerals. Investigations. But that was so much more public than Fred's death and, with the public eye viewing Big Hero 6 in a completely different light from the day of the Kreitech incident, she wasn't sure if she wanted Fred's death to be anything other than what it was.
A sad thing that nobody should have ever seen.
This early in the morning, nobody was quite awake yet. The lab lights were on, though and, thus, GoGo knew Honey was inside, probably making tweaks to aiming mechanisms on the gun she saw in the news report or mixing new chemicals together to make new weapons. The girl enjoyed herself as much as Fred did but she didn't do it just for the fulfillment of a fantasy. She did it for science. Plain and simple.
Stepping into the lab, GoGo decided against telling Honey about Fred. There was an unspoken thing between them. A dorky guy who loved monsters and a nerd girl who got a kick out of chemical reactions didn't seem like a pair made for each other and, yet, GoGo hadn't seen a day at the college that Fred wasn't always making Honey laugh with his goofball antics and Honey wasn't making grand foam explosions to please Fred's dream of becoming a monster from one of his favorite movies. It didn't look like much from the outside but GoGo could see how it felt for them. She couldn't tell Honey about Fred. She couldn't do it to the poor girl.
"Honey?" GoGo called into the lab as she walked, looking around and finding experiments she'd never seen. It had been quite some time since she had been to the nerd college, after adopting heroics as a hobby-job. She was into the whole thing to try and make something so thrilling it might entertain her. Then, after Kreitech, she found out that particular something was high strung action of the cityscape battlefield. GoGo stood in front of one of the inventions which, from her perspective, appeared to just be a massive pole. Perhaps it was better she didn't return often. "Honey!"
GoGo went to Honey's corner and found it full of beakers, phials, whiteboards and computers, all signs of Honey's presence but no actual Honey. GoGo narrowed her eyes at the computer screen which displayed a small window at the top of the monitor. In the tiny box was GoGo, standing in Honey's corner, looking directly at the computer. Honey had left the video diary program open before she had left. GoGo approached it and reached for the screen to tap the 'X' at the corner of the window before stopping where she stood and peering at the little light beside the camera lens on the monitor's frame.
It was still recording.
GoGo furrowed her brow and moved her finger towards the timeline of the video, watching the five minute mark approach and tick over with the seconds that passed. She tapped the skip back button and immediately pressed play to watch the diary from what, certainly, had to be moments before she entered the building.
Honey stepped away from the monitor and held a bubble in her hand, bright yellow like her hair. She cleared her throat and held it out to the camera with a valiant voice as she spoke.
"Tahdah!" Her accent came through in her exclamation. "I bring to you, the first safety bulb capable of sustaining copious amounts of electron kinetic energy! The chemical imbalances within the formula allow you to coat an electrical source and contain the flow of electricity within by stopping it entirely! Like a dam for watts instead of water!"
She giggled at her own joke.
"Basically, the carbon that I put in here keeps covalent bonds with- Oh!" She flinched and a silent pop of foam burst from the bubble, rupturing the whole thing and sending a semi-solid goop that looked like arts and crafts glue all over Honey's right side. She started muttering to herself and trying to wipe the stuff away from her skin but it only managed to stick between the places she touched herself, even making the lab coat stick to the poorly shrouded pink battle armor she wore underneath, probably hot off the fire on Minami. She stormed off and GoGo looked up to the emergency flush center.
There was no water on the ground so she didn't go there. She also wasn't in much of a hurry so she may not have tried to scrub her skin in the emergency shower. GoGo looked at the video of her coming in, almost three minutes later, and staring at the camera. She stopped the video diary and closed it, looking at the floor and finding small drops of residue left over from the thin membrane of the bulb that must have deteriorated and fallen off behind her.
GoGo followed the trail around the corner. First was Honey's shoes on the floor. Then her coat. Then, even her pink suit lay on the floor, covered in the sticky concoction she had made on the video. GoGo hooked a hard left and her eyes widened in shock.
Honey Lemon laid sprawled out on the floor, her own sticky electric glue binding her to the ground as she stretched outwards, desperately crawling yet making hardly any headway. She was nude, sweaty, and trembling. GoGo shouted her name and Honey didn't seem to react. A small puddle of the glue, sweat, and whatever other fluids that coated Honey collected at her knees where they touched the floor and her face appeared to actively ooze translucent mucus.
GoGo reached out a hand to touch Honey's forehead and, suddenly, Honey jerked. Her head thrashed backwards violently and her whole spine contorted with enough force to rip the plaster-like binds from the floor and rolling her over entirely. GoGo sprung backwards and flattened herself against the wall, afraid and unsure of what to do. Honey's smaller than average breasts were coated in the mucus that dribbled down her face, her nipples outright as her legs quivered. She was dripping from her nether, what was possibly urine or something else. Honey's voice escaped in little whispers and squeaks as her body tensed, her eyes, now visible, were wide and tearing behind broken glasses.
In a moment, Honey's whole body screeched and wretched, her eyes rolling back in her head as grey tendrils flushed out of every opening in her anatomy, pulling her throat as it poured out of her mouth and rolling her eyes back in her head as it wormed about three inches out of her nostrils. Her ears ruptured and tiny trickles of blood seeped onto the tile floor beside her head. Two more forced their way out of her underside, one dangerously gnashing from her ass as another vehemently whipped about from her vagina. More blood started mixing with the puddle.
"Oh fuck!" GoGo barked at the recognition of the creature, snagging a discus from her backpack and rearing it back to attack before hesitating. Jesus Christ. Where the hell was she supposed to hit that wouldn't hurt Honey in the process? She darted to Honey's mouth and grabbed the creature that wormed over her tongue. Carefully, GoGo aimed the blade of her disc at the base of the worm weave and sliced. They wriggled in GoGo's fingers and GoGo threw them away from Honey before they could regroup with the greater mass like last time.
GoGo grappled at the worms spewing from Honey's crotch and looked down to see Honey's entire abdomen writhing and distorting. The once skinny and appropriate figure Honey had was being warped, tugging against her skin like it was going to rip and apparently breaking Honey's bones. GoGo turned her attention back to Honey's groin only to see the worms in her anus and her crevice had morphed together, end to end, and pulled themselves tight against Honey's body. Reacting as fast as she could, GoGo returned to Honey's mouth and watched worms start to peel their way out from behind her eyeballs. Muffled screams filled the room. GoGo raised the blade to cut the worms again but flinched when the worms in her nose found the worms in her mouth, connecting their transparent fluid membranes and lashing together.
Almost as soon as it happened, electric bolts burst through Honey's eyes and reached weakly upwards towards GoGo. Instinctually, she backed off of Honey's body and crawled close to the wall, witnessing what was to happen next. Honey's body shook like an earthquake and bolts of electricity ripped through the skin on her arms, her abdomen, and her thighs. Each left horrid scorch marks and burning flesh before her whole body seized and thrust away from the floor, Honey's legs hyperextending and forcing her hips up to GoGo's desperately helpless eyes.
Honey's screams became hoarse and guttural as fluids poured out of her wet slit. GoGo watched her friend extend until the muscles tore the bones in her shins as the creature that buried itself in her sex pulled free, extracting the extensions that stretched out of her eardrums and eyeballs to make a strand long enough to connect the worm weave that poured from her face to the one that stretched her asshole. The moaning wails turned into shrill shrieks when the two connected and GoGo covered her ears and screamed in terror.
But covering her ears didn't stop GoGo from hearing the concussive explosion and the cessation of all noise except for her own from there on. GoGo's scream ran out of air and she huffed massive breaths of air that aided her little in calming down. Her wide eyes couldn't comprehend the horrors she saw as Honey's headless body lay limp on the floor with a line of woven worms looped through her asshole and out a blood covered, fleshy hole in her neck. Thick blood splatters covered the floor where Honey's panicked face once was and her body remained still.
Temporarily.
Slowly the creature inside Honey started to move again, disconnecting and erecting itself. The end that reached upwards from Honey's neck dragged Honey's body with it, forcing her naked form to hover in the air, impaled on the worms within. Blood from her neck started to pour evenly down her chest and off her perky breasts. The worm started to move its lower half and let Honey's body gently slide down the monster's slender impalement until her feet touched the floor. Her weight brought her back to her knees and the worms crawled along the ceiling of the lab and away from GoGo, bending Honey's body back in a lewd display of her goodness wasted.
The creature scurried away and, in front of Honey's dripping wet, bleeding corpse, GoGo cried.