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Amoeba of Wisdom
Acquired Data
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Designation: DSCSU D-671 MK III V. 5.3
Status: Error
Location: Anomaly Gold HQ
Time: 16 Minutes after Gold Event
Current Objective: Process Information
Findings:
The support drone carefully eyed the humanoid woman as she approached the feathered beast of a creature. It was mere minutes ago that 671 had his weapon trained on her and she proved to be a reasonable voice in a mass of confusion. Delta did not trust her whatsoever nor anything else in the vicinity but even basic rationality was a rare resource as the last 16 minutes had demonstrated.
Nine did not want to approach the beast. There was nothing but unknown variables and danger that surrounded it but while it was subdued, it would be a good opportunity to get a bio-scan for his personal research later on. It would also be helpful to understand how this creature functioned biologically if it was going to be a participant in the mission going forward. Understanding the biology of every creature in his fireteam was the first step of increasing their odds of success.
A muted whirring kicked to life as his ocular lenses zeroed in on the restrained semi-avian beast and Delta had to marvel once again at how little this transformation made sense. The creature was humanoid and then it was not. Mere seconds was all it took to turn from something conceivable to the complete opposite.
Quietly, the combat medic stepped in behind the humanoid woman once she was crouched down and speaking to the... thing. She outwardly mused that she wasn't sure it could understand her words and that echoed D's own thoughts on the matter. It was then that the apparent female human voiced a potential resolution to the massive creature's plight.
It was a shaky solution based on a shakier foundation with an even shakier implementation method. If Delta had eyebrows, they would be raised underneath his helmet. This humanoid woman was willing to risk a limb on the HOPE that the creature not only understood but also cared enough to follow instruction after the show of ferocity it just demonstrated. A show that a diety warranted it necessary to shut down themselves.
Still, the logical solution his programming reached was that it would be preferable to have the Avian on his side. What little it spoke suggested it did have a somewhat primitive understanding of language and was capable of reasoning. Albeit, very simple and almost infantile, but reasoning nonetheless.
With muted footfalls, the cyborg rounded the needlessly altruistic female humanoid and stretched his left hand out to the flightless monster, keeping his trigger arm ready. He was careful to not step too close to the blue-gray skinned, horned female humanoid just a few feet away. Another needlessly altruistic person. Often tended to be the most illogical when it came to matters of efficiency and the cold calculus of war. A "bleeding heart" as the colonists called them.
An appropriate term as that is how those types of organics always ended up. With their hearts uselessly pumping blood and plasma into the dead Earth's soil. Their only use as fodder and feed for the remaining colonists and bio-reactors.
"Initiating Bio-Scan." D-671's deep warble of a voice rang out with all the authority of a fireteam leader.
The soft, light blue glow enveloped the massive creature in its light, followed by the same grid pattern sluggishly running vertically along the quadraped's form.
'Uhhh....'
What in Gaia's name were they looking at?
Nothing made sense. No, it was worse than nothing making sense. It was as if sense had sent itself into the uncaring maw of the void and was replaced by its severely unqualified brother, sonse.
If it wasn't for the fact that Ana had already done 26 system scans for errors, Six would swear that this was it. He had become fully Rampant. He was now a husk of a proud UWC combat unit and was doomed to wander in a mindless stupor of hatred, fury, and hunger.
But he wasn't. His systems were still fully functional save the odd erroneous software flicker of his age.
The synth's auxiliary lights sputtered between a dull yellow and cool blue. His confusion evident in the light's flickering tango. This.... calling it a "creature" would be objectively incorrect. This... being... this thing was further away from organic than even he or the loader unit several feet away were.
Again, Delta was faced with a physical impossibility. It did not work. It COULD not work.
And yet...
The being 671 scanned could not be described as a living thing. It was an amalgamation. A shapeless, formless enigma of pure energy encased with a fleshy shell. It lacked organs. It lacked a skeletal structure. It barely had a muscular structure despite its massive appearance. Delta could not even begin to identify the mass of anomalous power contained within the "skin" that was the hulking form of the being.
What he could identify was that the mass of energy was not from a solitary source. As previously stated, the word "Amalgamation" was best suited to describe it. It was a tangled, cacophony of nigh immeasurable amounts of different types of energy. The energies clashed and writhed with rampant and reckless abandon against one another. A never-ending cyclone of furious light consuming itself within its organic prison.
But therein lied the theoretical answer to the thing's hunger problem.
Every millisecond that ticked by, the energies became more unstable and chaotic. It happened so quickly that it seemed to be keeping pace with Delta and Ana's vastly faster perception of time. It was happening at a rapid pace even for them. The only thing that was keeping this monstrous fusion of energies from collapsing in on itself was the newest energy that Delta could detect. A source of energy he had already seen once before.
It needed to have more matter and energy sacrificed to it to keep it from collapsing and potentially causing a fallout that would end all life on a planet.
The scale of it was different but D couldn't stop the pang of familiarity that stirred within the back of his mind as he began to understand the nature of this mass of energy given physical form. It was a ceaseless hunger. A cursed existence whose only recourse to stave off the inevitable was to destroy everything in its path. But it would only delay the end. Postpone it.
Whatever created the creature damned it to a horrid end with an even more accursed journey to that end. It was cruel. Selfish. Arrogant. The ones that created it needed to be eradicated. They needed to suffer. Vengeance would only be realized if their cruelty was returned to them a hundred fold. Only then would the rage b-
'Operator!! Respond!'
The blue glow of the bio-scan was abruptly cut off as the user returned to reality. The lights on his body were a deep crimson and had been for roughly ten seconds before quickly returning to blue.
'Oper- ... Delta, your neurological activity was through the roof. It was more than the combat stimulants and emotional inhibitors were capable of tempering.'
'It was only a moment, Ana. I'll be okay.'
'Delta, they're getting longer and harder to control.'
'Affirmative. My time is limited. We will have to complete this final mission before then.'
The cyborg's hand then returned to its firearm. It simultaneously cast a look down to the humanoid female who had offered her help, "You're initial treatment theory has been confirmed to be the correct method. The being requires a moderate to significant amount energy or material to stabilize its core. I will assist."
As if nothing had happened seconds before, the combat support unit knelt down besides the humanoid female and activated his GAIA module. A bright flickering beam of light emitted from the droid, materializing the best and simplest high quality material that he had ample supply of. Five high carbon steel ingots were digitally beamed into existence on the floor. It was what Delta used to repair breaches in his armor when it was deemed necessary.
The unit then slid it a little closer to the humanoid female who had offered her anomalous energy to the creature initially. It then stood and took several steps away from them and merely observed their actions in silence.
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