OG Release Date: 9/24/26 FIRST HALF. READ FIRST. Arc 1: The Beginning “ = talking / = thinking Episode Eight: Shroom-tastic. Hazel’s limbs were starting to elongate, spines bursting from her back. Her torso stretches and rips as her body becomes more inhumane. Her eyes become red and gains teeth and mandibles like The Parasite. She’s having a panic attack. *Aiming his gun.* The Recoverer) “There there you filthy animal. Stay still for the camera-.” As The Recoverer was about to shoot, Nox rams into him, making The Recoverer lose aim. The Recoverer is pissed and with speed and strength, holds Nox by his neck. *pissed with a dark expression* The Recoverer) “heh… Well, look at who we got here. Someone who gives pity to that THING… why do you try. They killed so many and you want to help them?” *being held* Nox) “s-s-she didn’t do anything to y-y-you… she’s not a monster…” The Recover) “not a monster…? Heh. Heh. HAHAHahAHAHHHAHAHAHHAhaahhahAhahAhahaHHahahH. You children are so- NO. You stay back there four eyes, don’t you try ANY BS.” Hazel, still in a panic state, looks up. She sees Nox being threatened while she is still “her”. She distortically roars and leaps towards The Recoverer. BANG The Recoverer shot one of her eyes, and was amused. Hazel, taken aback, roared in pain while ARF agents surrounded her but then her survival instincts kick right back in and attacked the agents, then escaping the room. The Recoverer saw this as an opportunity and assigned some agents with him to retrieve the asset while the rest dealt with the students. As the group surrounds the three, everything seemed like it was leading into them being locked up again. Agent 33) “Alright kids. Please come with us. Do not try anything, just let us bring you three back to a safe place. Cheryll) “Y’know what? No. We are not going anywhere with you people.” *activates electric gun* Agent 3$) “I don’t want this and neither do you, so please come along-.” The agent was hit in the head by Millard. Millard rifts up his baton and gets ready for more. He tells the kids to find Hazel while he blocks an attack. Millard smacks his baton into several faces of the agents and eventually the mob gets him exhausted. Millard) /sigh, sigh… damn. These guys are getting to me. Do I have…! Gracious god I have this./ Agent 34) “Sorry doctor, but your time here ends today.” Millard) “Heh, that's what you think.” Millard ignites a smoke grenade and throws it at the group. Smoke spreads throughout the area, and when it disappears, Millard’s gone. Agent 33) “Greaaaaat we lost him. Ugh, ok everyone lets head out-… What are you buffoons staring at? The agent himself stared back at his team, and they were staring into the darkness. The void you could say. A female told her higher officer that there was something, something just staring. She mentions that it was eating-… a body dropped to the floor. The whole thing was unrecognizable and chewed on- and the skin of the body. It wasn’t there. The team were disgusted with sight and before they can think, the creature jumped onto the female and roars. The woman screams at it, wanting to be let go, but the creature opens it’s skulled-like head and dark-energy-like material releases from its mouth, entering the women. Suddenly the head of the creature collapses as its black body fades away. The woman just stands there, surrounded by the other members. *scene flickers* The woman, in the same position, is on her knees, crying with blood on her hands. Around her are the bodies of her team, dead on the floor and unrecognizable. The creature appears from the void behind her and reaches for her head. SNAP. *running after Nox with Cheryll* Vincent) “Nox! Where are you going? We gotta get out of here!” Nox) “I’m searching for Hazel! Wasn’t that the plan?” *they both stop* Vincent) “Nox… you saw what she is. She even scratched you.” Nox) “no- she didn’t mean it! I looked at her eyes…” Vincent) “Nox! … Hazel is an anomaly. She’s just like the others. She’s not human-.”
SECOND HALF. READ FIRST HALF FIRST. *tears in his eyes* Nox) “SHE’S HUMAN TO ME! OK? … you saw she was, she was innocent as a pup, clueless. She probably didn’t even know that she was an anomaly herself. She had personality and was young. Why do you even care?!” Vincent) “Nox I…” Vincent glances at Cheryll. He doesn’t know what to do but Cheryll gives him a nod. Vincent) “it’s because… I’m scared of losing you.” Nox) “What…?” *struggles with his words while blushing* Vincent) “I don’t… want to lose you Nox… I like you too… I don’t want you hurt.” *blushes* Nox) “I- I-… heh, Vee. *holding Vincent’s hands and his cheek*. You don’t have to worry about me. You know me, I can handle this type of stuff. I mean you aren’t treating me like a girl right?” *red* Vincent) “EH- N-no! I’m not misgendering you Nox! I just-.” Cheryll watches them, smiling. Her job is done. As she watches Nox tease Vincent, Millard calmly approaches behind, giving her a little scare. The other two look back and Vincent instantly walks up to him about to give him the peace of his mind. *angry* Vincent) “Millard! You have caused nothing but trouble and confusion! You even left us with an anomaly- … you left us with someone who we didn’t expect to be like this.” Millard) “I understand your frustration Chalice, as Hazel was a bit confusing to me as well. She wasn’t supposed to be here, but The Parasite chose its host.” Nox) “What do you mean, ‘chose its host’?” Millard) “Hazel… She's a special type of anomaly. Her actual species is what we called, The Hosteds. Hosteds are anomalies that need a host to reproduce. Whenever a Parasite, the delivery of the species, implants an egg inside a host, DNA and Bloodcells, genes, will be absorbed by the egg which will give the egg all traits of their host’s species. They will also inherit everything from the species.” Cheryll) “So that’s why Hazel looks and acts like a human?” Nox) “Wait- does that make her Roger?” Vincent) “No no. That would make her his daughter… which would make sense for her cluelessness.” Millard would confirm his suspicion and tell them they need to find Hazel fast. As Nox and Cheryll are up ahead taking the lead, Vincent discusses things with Millard in the back. They then encounter a trail of blood which makes the group follow the path and they start hearing gunfire and roars in the distance. They find themselves viewing The Recoverer struggling with Hazel as Hazel clearly has the higher advantage. Hazel then spots the four and stops but with the distraction The Recoverer shoots Hazel in the chest. She cowers in pain and escapes through the dark halls. The Recoverer) “Heh- got a shot in there. Why’d you stop- Nope. *holds Millard by the throat*. Well hello there old sport, what are you doing here? Here to stop me!? Millard) “No. Just to do this. *takes a bottle of chemical he hid behind his hand and throws it in The Revoverer’s face.* How’d you like that?” The Recoverer) “… I have a mask on… anyway- any last words?” Millard) “Just one…” The Recoverer) “ugh shut up! Why the hell are you using such a common story trope like we’re in a fantasy??? Jeez! I ought to shoot you now!” The Recoverer attempts to shoot at Millard but a rumble from the distance, presumably made from Hazel, the charge went off course and into the distant dark hall. As the charge trails off, the light shows a head. No, a mushroom cap. The Speedster Shroom, the second Speedster to arrive, looks at the energy charge, curiosity touches it and grunts in pain. It then turns its head at the group and feels if anything had similar heat. It roars at The Recoverer as the roar turns into a frequency and then stops. The Speedster charges at The Recoverer and jumps at him, clawing at the suit. The Recoverer charges his gun up and blows the head up. The body collapses onto the floor, but the frequency starts playing again. It’s coming from the stomach, before The Recoverer could react, the ceiling starts to crack as the Tank Shroom lands near him, almost being crushed. The Tank uses its sturdy arms to swing at the new threat and release a toxic gas. While The Recoverer handles the Tank, Millard escorts the three including him away from the gas. The Rocoverer) “Eh… Sh##. Where the hell did you go, you bastard.” The Recoverer was now right beneath the hole that the Tank created, searching around himself for the next attack. But from the crack crawls out a hand. A Shroom-like hand. It’s the Thin Shroom, now reaching for The Recoverer, then it grabs him. The Thin was trying to pull him up as The Recoverer charges his gun and fires it. The Thin's hand was browned off and the charge caused the room filled with gas to explode, damaging himself and killing off the Tank. The scene clears from all the damage only to show The Recoverer’s mask on the floor, with its visor shattered. 10/14/30
