REACTr: Building the Perfect Beast

by KevMullins

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He followed the tech over to the opening of the broken shipping container where the remains of four bodies lay strewn in the wreckage. It was hard to tell that they had ever been human.

It looked like they’d been sprayed with acid and left pitted with holes of various sizes. No distinguishing features remained, just generic, oozing, dead meat.

“So the reefer was filled with nanomist cloud of Zeus. These four popped the container and… BAM !” the tech said, “Hell of a security system, no?”

“No shit, but protecting what?” Zeus, Nick thought, slang, what grunts called ZUS -416. He struggled to fight down the flashback, the screams, the smells, the feel of nano burn through flesh. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath, exhaling slowly.

“Not much of anything. Empty boxes, a few bits and pieces, an armored body… nada. But the really strange part, looks like the nano was building something out of this shit and the bodies.”

“Not building,” Nick replied as he stooped over a body. “Built.“

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Average Reader Rating: 5.0 stars out of 5

  1. REACTr: Building the Perfect Beast

    JLaughter's Buddy Icon JLaughter

    Posted 3 months ago

    Ooh, I like the last line a lot. You built up a whole lot of foreboding during the last few posts, and now it’s overfilling with “uh-oh.”

  2. REACTr: Building the Perfect Beast

    PyroPunk 51 (PPP LoA)'s Buddy Icon PyroPunk 51 (PPP LoA)

    Posted 3 months ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    that’s some shit-hot nano

  3. REACTr: Building the Perfect Beast

    John Perkins' Buddy Icon John Perkins

    Posted 3 months ago

    I’m gonna agree with Jon. That last line really added something to this story. I’m thinking they built the Fruit Fucker 2000, but maybe that’s because I’ve been playing Penny Arcade Adventures: On The Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness recently.
    I also loved the line about them being a pile of “oozing, dead meat.”

  4. REACTr: Building the Perfect Beast

    thebetweenspace's Buddy Icon thebetweenspace

    Posted 3 months ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    I agree with the others. I wonder what was built and feel something foul is in the air besides the smell of that oozing, dead meat.

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