55 Chapter 55 Space Creatures (2/2)
He needed to get into that station, find a ship, and get the two of them away from this place.Then they could try and figure things out.
There was that flash again, and he was able to spot it this time.Some kind of creatures were flying around the station, rather thickly, in space.Every time one turned belly away from the station, there was a flash.The reason they were so hard to spot, was because the shield that encircled the station was covered in them.
Dustin couldn't tell if they were protecting the station or feeding off of the energy field.Their skin was bio-luminescent, flickering shades of blue and green, and everything in between.As the ship he was on drew even closer to them, he could see that they had flat bodies, much like flat worms, with long tentacles trailing behind them.Their head looked very squid-like, with two eyes and ten tentacles of varying length protruding from their mouths.Four were longer, while six were smaller.Two of the long tentacles had a flat, spoon-like end, while the other two ended in bright glowing tips.
-”IT HURTS! IT HURTS! IT HURRRTTTSSS!”
Dustin almost lost his grip on the ship with that flashback.The pain still coursed through his body from the memory.He couldn't remember anything but the screams and the pain.
”PED, is there anything you can do, to keep what ever it is from messing with my head?”
(PERHAPS I CAN MODIFY YOUR BRAIN TO PREVENT REM SLEEP AT THE MOMENT?)
”Will it mess me up?”
(ONLY IF YOU TRY TO SLEEP)
”Okay, do it!If anything happens and I need it, then undo it then.”
(EVOLUTION INITIATED)
(EVOLUTION COMPLETE)
It couldn't have finished any sooner.As the ship got closer to the station, the creatures noticed it and flew over.Dustin watched curiously, and a little apprehensively.He really wanted a sample from one.If he could fly around space like that, he wouldn't be in this position.
Suddenly the shield around the ship went down, and the creatures that were flying to the ship, lost interest and headed back to the station, until a few spotted him.
”PED, I need some way to hurt these things!”
(PERHAPS POISON/VENOM DARTS?YOU COULD SPIT THEM FROM YOUR MOUTH?)
”Sounds good!”he clung to the ship harder, bracing for impact, as some of them got closer.
(EVOLUTION INITIATED)
(EVOLUTION COMPLETE)
Dustin felt a tooth wiggle loose and without hesitating, spit it at the nearest creature.It was a very strange sensation, as his throat was closed off.The spitting force came from his tongue and lips.No sooner had the tooth left his mouth, then another, much smaller and thinner tooth fell into place.As he spit it, again, another fell into place.He wasn't sure how it worked, but he wasn't going to complain.
As each tooth touched a creature, it spasmed almost immediately, and it didn't take very long at all for them to decide he wasn't interesting.
Reaching out to grab one, as the ship flew by, he jammed the tentacle into his port.
(NEW GENETIC MATERIAL ACQUIRED.ANALYZING.POSSIBLE EVOLUTIONS: SPACE FLIGHT, ENERGY CONSUMPTION, VACCUUM SUPPORT, RADIATION PROTECTION, ENERGY EMISSION-WHICH IS HOW THE CREATURE GOT RID OF WASTE.)