Post by Exaccus on Sept 5, 2017 18:56:14 GMT -5
Mere weeks ago he'd once again felt the pull of his programmed instincts making him sluggish as it became apparent that his heavy shell was once again creaking with the strain of its limits being pushed by the sheer power of his ever improving biology as his biologically engineered war machine of a body prepared once more to cocoon itself and begin another nightmarish transformation.
This time however it would be different, somewhere in the deepest, truest part of himself that this was the first real step on the road to the perfection of the demented designs of his demonic maker, his original state was designed to be inefficient and weak, craving the life forms of others to help build the combat experience nessicary, his current form would've been the perfection of that prototype initial state, now more refined and able to channel the bio-energies more freely and to great effect.
What came next he could only guess and hope would not leave him in anymore of an awkward state.
having settled in the mansion's secure basement he began to undergo the process, one again his body oozed the thick rapidly hardening bio-fluids that would form the dense shell of his cocoon whilst his carapace, muscle tissues and even his very organs and nervous system broke down into that same primordial ooze, leaving him with little more than the faintest flickering of his mind and awareness.
The delirium was this time less like a nightmare and more like a drunken dream that saw his memories twisting and swaying within his minds eye as his subconscious struggled to comprehend the information they held, with his animalistic instincts supressed by his first evolutionary step his understanding of his mental functions had increased exponentially and spared him nightmares of teeth and demonic tormentors and predation by being more powerful than himself.
time stretched within his perception, seconds stretching into days and hours even further unto years as his limited awareness struggled to comprehend time within the sensory deprivation of his catalysing body, oit began as it always did with his cardiovascular and pulminory systems forming amidst his liquefied essence.
The beating of his heart thrumming the whole cocoon with its strength as muscle-fibres weaved and knotted around his core, securing his new, more centralized organs beneath them, holding them in place whilst, his shape was different this time, he could tell, even without eyes to see or light to see by them with he knew that his shape had for better or worse changed and he was now bipdeal much like the majority of sentient beings he'd met, at least in outwards appearance, he could feel the tension of his forming vocal cords stringing themselves up in his throat, more powerful and precise and enabling him to partake in true speech rather than the awkward mimicry of tones and enunciation his reverberating wings and muscles had allowed him.
his long horn having been a source of fledging feelings of pride returned, affixing itself to his forehead and pointing straight up like a defiant spear vaulted to the sky as his thick keratinous exoskeleton formed around his new body.
it was at this time he recieved the message from the young lady about the state of the earth, it couldn't have been better timed if he was honest, had it been any earlier he probably would've been stuck immobile whilst the world died around him, he felt the tiniest tinge of guilt for being glad that he wouldn't share the earths fate should the worst come to pass, thinks in part to his demented creators foresight to grant him a relic of a space craft capable of interstellar flight but he wouldn't be able to help anyone by throwing his life away recklessly, at least not yet.
perhaps if he had pursued his evolution with a touch more ferocity and a touch less conscience he might've been able to tip the scales one way or another though given the intensity of the power levels he felt from his secluded spot, perhaps not.
after the last few hours of what he would later learn to be a fortnight of reconstructing himself on the atomic level he had finished evolving and with a mighty flex of his two new dedicated manipulator limbs blew away the now worthless and dessicated cocoon he'd involuntarily weaved around himself and with a mighty hurk ejected the excess bio-fluids that'd built up in his throat, lungs and stomach onto the cold metalic floor.
though there was much to examine about his rather promising new body he found that there was one thing that took his intrest more than anything else and after catching his breath he put himself to work, testing out his new vocal cords, at first content to make sounds as he clenched his new fingers into his reccently gained fists and with a wide stance became accustomed to his new center of gravity and enhanced mobility as his tail, now longer, thicker and more suitable for constricting and restraining those he might put its support into keeping him standing whilst he became accustomed with his tridactyl feet on long, powerful legs.
he'd be lying if he said he wasn't over all very pleased with how his new body had turned out, his carpace with thick and sleek, his muscles even more dense and powerfully stringed across his body, he was now not only lighter but faster and capable of communicating more than the simplistic messages his previous form of communication had allowed not to mention his new look.
With a face, two large and mobile eyeballs in lidded sockets and a true mouth on his face as opposed to the clumsy if powerful mandibles he'd possessed earlier albiet lacking a nose, lips or any sort of facial hair he looked well...
"almost human..." his raspy voice rang out in the darkness, directed at nobody in particular so much as a statement, he couldn't help but watch in fascination of the reflective metal surface as his face moved with expression he was previously incapable of.
It was almost narcisstic in a way he would later reflect, to have such a unshakable intrest in ones looks, albiet that he was not vain in the slightest, for whilst he might've been a very handsome beetle he remained and extremely ugly humanoid by anyones standards, but that was fine with him; However he found himself forced to snap back to the world as it was by the flaring of power levels far vaster even than his newly attained strength, namely that it was in danger of ending.
There was little time to waste on exploration now, first he had to escape the immediate danger of the dying planet, he was saddened, earth was after all his home world, the world that had nurtured him with the same firm but fair hand that all life dwelled, thrived and died by and now it was slowly dying, its foliage withering and colours draining to browns and greys.
He could do little for the earth however in this stage of his development at least, he would have to bit his mother world farewell for now, he couldn't help but wonder however, how the universe at large would react to him, wether it would be ready for a being such as himself to appear before them or not.
Ultimately, he decided, it didn't matter, he was going to be joining the wider cosmos soon regardless of how they might feel about it or him.
"Ready or not world; Here I come."
WC:1265
Repressed Form: -25% PL +10% PL gains
Milkian High Intelligence +5% PL gains
Mansion: +50% PL gain
PL Please.
This time however it would be different, somewhere in the deepest, truest part of himself that this was the first real step on the road to the perfection of the demented designs of his demonic maker, his original state was designed to be inefficient and weak, craving the life forms of others to help build the combat experience nessicary, his current form would've been the perfection of that prototype initial state, now more refined and able to channel the bio-energies more freely and to great effect.
What came next he could only guess and hope would not leave him in anymore of an awkward state.
having settled in the mansion's secure basement he began to undergo the process, one again his body oozed the thick rapidly hardening bio-fluids that would form the dense shell of his cocoon whilst his carapace, muscle tissues and even his very organs and nervous system broke down into that same primordial ooze, leaving him with little more than the faintest flickering of his mind and awareness.
The delirium was this time less like a nightmare and more like a drunken dream that saw his memories twisting and swaying within his minds eye as his subconscious struggled to comprehend the information they held, with his animalistic instincts supressed by his first evolutionary step his understanding of his mental functions had increased exponentially and spared him nightmares of teeth and demonic tormentors and predation by being more powerful than himself.
time stretched within his perception, seconds stretching into days and hours even further unto years as his limited awareness struggled to comprehend time within the sensory deprivation of his catalysing body, oit began as it always did with his cardiovascular and pulminory systems forming amidst his liquefied essence.
The beating of his heart thrumming the whole cocoon with its strength as muscle-fibres weaved and knotted around his core, securing his new, more centralized organs beneath them, holding them in place whilst, his shape was different this time, he could tell, even without eyes to see or light to see by them with he knew that his shape had for better or worse changed and he was now bipdeal much like the majority of sentient beings he'd met, at least in outwards appearance, he could feel the tension of his forming vocal cords stringing themselves up in his throat, more powerful and precise and enabling him to partake in true speech rather than the awkward mimicry of tones and enunciation his reverberating wings and muscles had allowed him.
his long horn having been a source of fledging feelings of pride returned, affixing itself to his forehead and pointing straight up like a defiant spear vaulted to the sky as his thick keratinous exoskeleton formed around his new body.
it was at this time he recieved the message from the young lady about the state of the earth, it couldn't have been better timed if he was honest, had it been any earlier he probably would've been stuck immobile whilst the world died around him, he felt the tiniest tinge of guilt for being glad that he wouldn't share the earths fate should the worst come to pass, thinks in part to his demented creators foresight to grant him a relic of a space craft capable of interstellar flight but he wouldn't be able to help anyone by throwing his life away recklessly, at least not yet.
perhaps if he had pursued his evolution with a touch more ferocity and a touch less conscience he might've been able to tip the scales one way or another though given the intensity of the power levels he felt from his secluded spot, perhaps not.
after the last few hours of what he would later learn to be a fortnight of reconstructing himself on the atomic level he had finished evolving and with a mighty flex of his two new dedicated manipulator limbs blew away the now worthless and dessicated cocoon he'd involuntarily weaved around himself and with a mighty hurk ejected the excess bio-fluids that'd built up in his throat, lungs and stomach onto the cold metalic floor.
though there was much to examine about his rather promising new body he found that there was one thing that took his intrest more than anything else and after catching his breath he put himself to work, testing out his new vocal cords, at first content to make sounds as he clenched his new fingers into his reccently gained fists and with a wide stance became accustomed to his new center of gravity and enhanced mobility as his tail, now longer, thicker and more suitable for constricting and restraining those he might put its support into keeping him standing whilst he became accustomed with his tridactyl feet on long, powerful legs.
he'd be lying if he said he wasn't over all very pleased with how his new body had turned out, his carpace with thick and sleek, his muscles even more dense and powerfully stringed across his body, he was now not only lighter but faster and capable of communicating more than the simplistic messages his previous form of communication had allowed not to mention his new look.
With a face, two large and mobile eyeballs in lidded sockets and a true mouth on his face as opposed to the clumsy if powerful mandibles he'd possessed earlier albiet lacking a nose, lips or any sort of facial hair he looked well...
"almost human..." his raspy voice rang out in the darkness, directed at nobody in particular so much as a statement, he couldn't help but watch in fascination of the reflective metal surface as his face moved with expression he was previously incapable of.
It was almost narcisstic in a way he would later reflect, to have such a unshakable intrest in ones looks, albiet that he was not vain in the slightest, for whilst he might've been a very handsome beetle he remained and extremely ugly humanoid by anyones standards, but that was fine with him; However he found himself forced to snap back to the world as it was by the flaring of power levels far vaster even than his newly attained strength, namely that it was in danger of ending.
There was little time to waste on exploration now, first he had to escape the immediate danger of the dying planet, he was saddened, earth was after all his home world, the world that had nurtured him with the same firm but fair hand that all life dwelled, thrived and died by and now it was slowly dying, its foliage withering and colours draining to browns and greys.
He could do little for the earth however in this stage of his development at least, he would have to bit his mother world farewell for now, he couldn't help but wonder however, how the universe at large would react to him, wether it would be ready for a being such as himself to appear before them or not.
Ultimately, he decided, it didn't matter, he was going to be joining the wider cosmos soon regardless of how they might feel about it or him.
"Ready or not world; Here I come."
WC:1265
Repressed Form: -25% PL +10% PL gains
Milkian High Intelligence +5% PL gains
Mansion: +50% PL gain
PL Please.