INT. SECURITY HQ – NORTH EXECUTIVE WING – NIGHT
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The lights are mostly dead. What’s left flickers against walls fused with pulsing organic alloy, metal veined with muscle-like tendrils. The floor squelches under boots. Heat haze ripples from the plasma weapons.
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ADVANCING
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Jason leads the team through twisted hallways. His rifle hums low, barrel glowing faint orange.
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SCOUT D3-MINI
“Corridor map corrupted. Hallways changed since last scan. It’s shifting.”
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A guttural, wet sound echoes ahead. Something drags across the ceiling.
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SERGEANT R8
“Burn anything that moves. Stick to formation.”
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HEAVY F2 steps forward—launches a wave of flame. The vines along the walls shriek, retracting violently into cracks like burnt nerves.
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They pass an office door halfway sealed shut by alloy. Through the glass, the silhouette of an infected employee twitches, fused to her desk. Her eyes are bright violet.
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ENCOUNTER
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D3-MINI
“Lifeform detected—closing fast, above!”
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From the shadows drops a parasitized bot—twisted limbs, ribcage open like wings, eyes glassy and wet with crystal sheen.
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JASON
“Contact!”
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F2 blasts it midair. A second comes from the flank—Jason raises his rifle, fires a precise bolt through its core. It melts inward, screaming in static.
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MEDIC O7
“They’re fast. Almost... intelligent.”
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JASON
“They were us. Remember that.”
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They reach the elevator shaft, blown open from inside. The walls are coated in dark resin, pulsing slowly. Something climbs far below, but the view’s obscured.
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PAUSE & RECON
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SERGEANT R8
“Area clear for now. Prep climb harness.”
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D3-MINI launches micro-drones down the shaft. Footage returns: vines converging, like a nest being spun tighter.
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JASON (watching feed)
“That’s not growth. That’s design.”
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R8
“Copy that. We’re getting closer to whatever’s controlling this mess.”
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Suddenly—feedback shrieks through their comms. All lights flicker red, then die. Only the glow of plasma weapons remain.
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The building moans, deep and wet, like it's breathing.
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JASON (V.O.)
"HQ was supposed to be a fortress. Now it feels like a stomach. And we’re halfway swallowed."
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TO BE CONTINUED...
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