Super Science

Ch 81: A New Type of Creature part. 2

"So how's our new guest?", Egon asked Izuku as the two of them watched from behind a window where a robot tended to the sleeping man.

"He's stable and still out like a light. Getting killed and brought back to life does that to you.", Izuku tried to joke, only to get a stern yet quiet glance from Egon. Izuku knew this would happen so he argued with his mentor. "He was only dead for a minute. Plus, we need him."

Surprisingly, Egon said nothing back and appeared to drop the subject. only giving off a long and deep sigh before asking, "And that "thing" that burst from his chest?"

"Still looking for it.", Izuku admitted, remembering how it came out, looked, and sounded…so unnatural.

Egon looked surprised by this answer and inquired, "How? This place has so many sensors that not even a fly could enter without tripping an alarm."

"I guess it's a quirk or something.", Izuku guest with a shrug.

"Of course, it is.", Egon stated with a groan while slapping his face. After taking a deep breath and running his hair back, he told the teen, "Okay, the top priority is finding that creature before it gets bigger or worse, lays eggs. Second, find out who our friend is and see what he knows. And third, find out what's inside those eggs before they hatch."

Izuku nods and goes off to get things in place, while Egon sits back and watches the ugly man through the window. Wondering why he was the one used for this thing.


After sleeping peacefully for a few hours, the ugly man finally began to stir from his rest. At this time, Egon was already in the room checking on his vitals. Once he saw him awaken he spoke to him.

"Well well well. Welcome back to the land of the living my friend.", Egon said to the man as he narrowed his eyes open before shutting them again.

He rolled over in his sleep and buried his face into the pillows while complaining, "Five more minutes."

"Someone forgot their bright eyes and bushy tail.", Egon lightly joked with a laugh.

When the man heard this, his eyes shot open and he sat up fast while grabbing hold of Egon's throat and gripping tightly as his nails dug into his neck! Egon was so shocked by this that he dropped his pad and tried to break the hand free, only to find monstrous strength behind it!

"You won't hold me any longer!", the ugly man snarled at him with slobbering teeth and yellow eyes that were shaped like a snake's pupils.

"Woah woah woah! I'm not your foe! I'm here to help you!", Egon tried to assure him to de-escalate the situation.

"Help?", he asked back, confused by his words.

"Yes. I'm a scientist.", Egon told him while trying to nod his head.

"Is that some kind of sorcerer?", the ugly man asked him.

"Depends on how much you like sorcerers?", Egon prompted.

"I don't.", he growled while narrowing his eyes.

"Then I'm not.", Egon said too quickly, making the man tighten his grip. Only for Izuku to walk in and become shocked by this scenario. Egon thought fast and told him through what little air he had, "Oh look, your savior is here."

"Savior?", the ugly man inquired while looking at the teen.

Quickly realizing what Egon was doing, Izuku jumped on it and confirmed with a rapid nod, "You were dead but I brought you back to life."

The ugly man paused, he looked down as if trying to absorb all of this. He then looked back up with a confused and relieved look in his eyes as he said, "You…I…not sure what to say or do!"

"How about letting me go?", Egon begged as he started to turn red.

Izuku nodded with this sentiment and the ugly man let Egon go, finally allowing him to breathe as he gasped for air.

"I don't understand…why?", the ugly man asked once more, truly not understanding his motive.

Izuku thought about his answer for a moment and then explained, "Because you didn't deserve to go the way you went. Plus, whoever had you, is an enemy of ours since they stole what was used to make the thing that killed you."

"I understand.", the ugly man finally confirmed while looking down and before asking him, "But what did you mean by 'thing'?"

Izuku thought about how to put it and ended up explaining, "Well, you were infested with some kind of "parasite" that burrowed its way out of your chest when fully mature."

His eyes went wide and he demanded in an equal part scared and angry tone, "Where is it!?"

"That's what we're still trying to figure out.", Izuku admitted while twiddling his fingers.

The ugly man then rose from the bed, walked to Izuku, bowed to him on one knee, and told him with head lowered, "For saving me, I shall serve you for the rest of my second life."

"Please get up and I don't want you as a servant. Just a…friend is nice.", Izuku told him while helping him back to his feet and sitting him back on the bed. He then cleared his throat as he took out his pad and asked him, "Moving on from that, I need to ask you a few questions about you and your experiences. So we might be able to find the people who did this to you.", the ugly man agrees with this and Izuku starts by asking him, "Okay, so can you tell me your name and where you come from?"

"My name is Barkan, and I live in the Outworld Wastelands of the Kuatan Plains.", Barkan introduced himself.

"Never heard of that place before.", Egon chimed in as he stood beside Izuku while rubbing his neck.

"You've never heard of the Kuatan Plains in Outworld.", Barkan said in the form of a statement rather than a question.

"I've never heard of an Outworld before either.", Izuku agreed.

"You're not an Outworlder?", Barkan asked, getting two head shakes from them. "Now that you say it, you don't smell like one. More like…an Earthrelmer.", he stated while sniffing the two of them.

"Well…this is earth.", Egon informed him awkwardly.
Barkan looked down at his hands and gripping his pants he hissed, "I truly was sold out."

The two scientists look at one another before looking back at the man whom Izuku promoted, "Could you explain?"

"My master, er, my 'previous' master Shang Tsung, made a deal with one of your realm sorceresses you call a scientist. I was to be exchanged as an experimental subject for….something. Next thing I know, I'm bound to a table with that strange little man looking at me like fresh meat alongside his insane assistant.", Barkan explained with equal parts malic and fear.

"That must've been the robot.", Izuku said to himself after hearing the report from the soldiers.

"Can you tell us what they did to you, if you can recall?", Egon asked him.

Barkan thought for a moment then explained as best he could, "Using some kind of magic crystal they created something. It looked like an egg at first, but then it opened and a small creature emerged from it. It wrapped around my face and made me swallow something. Then I blacked out."

"Wait. You mean like this?", Izuku asks as he pulls up a picture on his pad of one of the confiscated eggs that the military brought him.

Barkan's eyes widened as he exclaimed while pointing at the picture, "Yes, that's exactly the egg they created. It split at the top in four parts and that…face hugging thing crawled out and it was hideous. It looked like some kind of bug, but the worst part was how they referred to it.", He told them with a shiver before bracing himself as he told them, "They described it as…living genitals."

"Ew.", Izuku responded.

"Can you tell us about the small scientist you encountered?", Egon prompted him, feeling intrigue rise with curiosity.

Barkan scratched his head then listed off vaguely, "He was small, old, fat, bald, and his name started with a…G."

"Just like what we found on the first Nomu.", Izuku whispered to Egon who nodded back.

"And these other three after the city attack.", Egon added in a whisper as Izuku nodded back.

Before their conversation could continue a phone call came over Egon's phone. After picking it up and listening to the other end, he hung up and told Izuku, "We gotta go. Honey Lemon just found something and Anima just cut open one of those eggs."

He nods and the two men leave the room and Barkan behind. After a bit, the two men went into a room where Anima was performing an autopsy on one of the eggs while Honey Lemon was helping Otto look over something in a different area. The two scientists walk up to the table where the octopus and women were only to see some strange shell-like object on the desk that Honey Lemon was poking around and Otto was taking notes on.

"What…is it?", Izuku asks.

"Looks like an exoskeleton.", Otto casually guessed.

"That thing sheds?!", Egon exclaimed in shock

"That thing is getting bigger.", Izuku stated as his face went pale.

"Don't hold your breath just yet.", Cluck told them on her cart as she threw something large on the table.

Looking down at the object they saw it was a far larger and more developed version of the first shed exoskeleton.

"And….bigger.", Izuku said in a small voice, looking ready to pass out with the quiet Honey Lemon.

"That exoskeleton is the size of a small child!", Egon exclaimed as he held up a part and saw it had developed arms.

"Well, we gotta hurry before it gets any bigger!", Otto stated as he pulled an emergency shotgun off the wall.

"Before you go hunting, how about checking out this thing I unearthed from the eggs.", Anima called them over to his table.

Everyone crowded around the table only to see something that could only be described as a bug with human skin. It was pink, had eight legs, a long tail that looked like a tapeworm, and a flat body.

"Oh, gods. What is it?", Izuku inquired.

"Not sure. Its physiology is all over the place. So simple yet so beautifully complex.", Anima said in a Shakespearean tone.

However he wasn't allowed to continue his description of fascination with the creature as Izuku yelled, "Can we shit can the poetic metaphors and just get to the explanation."

Anima looked taken aback by this but shook his head and explained, "Right, right, sorry. Its body has a simple exoskeleton but is mostly made of strong fibrous cartilage. No eyes, nose, ears, or anything like that. Organs so simple that they're no different from veins yet have an extremely well-developed sensory system, and a body structure that could only be used for, um…"

"Huggin something's face?", Izuku and Egon guests aloud, dreading to hear the answer.

Anima nods his head rapidly and tells them while pointing out, "Exactly! Look here. Its limbs can wrap around the face of a medium-sized creature, the tail wraps around the victim's neck, and its body can stretch and spread out across the whole face. The mouth opening underneath possesses no teeth, but a single proboscis-like tube used for inserting into the victim's mouth."

"What's the point of this thing anyway?", Otto inquired, poking one of the legs.

"I'll show you.", Anima told him while putting out a petri dish with a small something inside of it. "This is an embryo. The point of this thing is to deposit this embryo into a living host so it can develop. After that, the um, "FaceHugger" dies.", he explained as everyone tried to absorb all of this knowledge, only for him to follow up and throw out, "Did I also mention it has acid blood?"

"Fucking hell!", Egon yells while throwing his arms into the air.

"So basically this creature is nothing more than-.", Honey Lemon begins to summarize.

Only for Egon Izuku and Barkan to say, "Living gentiles."

Everyone was shocked by the sudden appearance of the sharp-toothed man and Izuku exclaimed, "Barkan?! What are you doing here!? You are still unwell and need rest."

But just before Izuku could try and move him out of the room, Barkan nudged him off, while gripping the table and told him, "I told you that I would serve. And besides, that's the thing that crawled out of the egg, and wrapped around my face.", he stated while pointing to the opened egg on the table beside the Face Hugger.

"Only for a penis-shaped nematode with teeth to pop out of your chest sometime later.", Egon summarized while biting his fingernail.

"Is it okay for the other eggs to be out like that?", Otto inquired as he pointed to the many other eggs stacked into one another in clear containment boxes.

Anima brushed him off with a wave and assured him, "Don't worry, so long as they are enclosed, the Facehuggers within them can't get out."

"Let's find this thing so I can pay it back for killing me the first time.", Barkan exclaimed as he shot blades from his arms, only to fall to his knees in exhaustion.

Izuku caught him and said, "Woah there slugger. You still need rest first."

"All I need is a good hot meal and I'll be ready to fight.", Barkan tried to argue only to fall to his knees again.

Izuku rolls his eyes and says, "Honey Lemon, Otto, can you two get Barkan something to eat while we deal with this?"

"I don't get it. Why have an egg stage if you don't develop within it? Why need a transferring parasite and a host?"

Honey Lemon puts the man's arm over her shoulder and begins to walk him out of the room alongside the octopus. Barkan looks down at Otto and licks his teeth.

This doesn't go unnoticed by Otto and he says, "What are you ogling at?"

"You. You look like something I ate.", Barkan says back with a clock of his teeth.

"Well my kind eat one another, so take that as you will.", Otto warns the man, making him look away.

Once they were gone, Izuku returned to the other two scientists and caught the last bit of conversation, hearing Anima theorize, "Perhaps the embryo doesn't need the warmth from the host body, or nutrition, or anything, but something else. As far as what that is I haven't the foggiest idea until I can see the adult specimen."

Egon sighs and tells them, "Well, first things first. Genus, I want you to subject all these eggs to cryogenic freezing, shatter them, and then place the remains in a furnace. We take no chances with them."

"Why not feed them to a Mimicutie?", Anima offered.

"Because that Facehugger or whatever you're calling it will attach itself to it. Then we'll have two problems to deal with.", Egon says like it was obvious, rolling his eyes to make his point.

"But the Mimicuties are immune to it.", Anima tells him out of nowhere.

The two scientists both stop and stare, okay the man as Egon says in a firm tone, "And just how do you know this?'

"Because one of the eggs opened and a Facehugger popped out, only for a Mimicutie to get the brunt end of the attack.", Anima began vaguely.

Bring left in suspense, both men promote, "And?!"

Anima shrugs and tells them, "And nothing. The Facehugger had the hardest time trying to wrap around its face since it doesn't have one. Once it finished depositing the embryo, it got eaten. So I put the Mimicutie in a separate chamber and just as I thought, nothing happened."

"So what did end up happening?", Izuku asks him as he and Egin share looks.

"It got digested. You know the Mimicutie can break down any organic matter.", Anima told him as if it were obvious.

Egon takes a deep breath, runs his hair back, and doubles back as he tells them, "Okay, new plan. Feed each egg to one Mimicutie at a time. We can't risk the Mimcuite only being able to digest one embryo at a time. Apart from, that. It's hunting time."


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