IT’S ALIVE

"HOLY SHIT IT'S ALIVE!"

Our monster watched as the three Zoomans stand back up without using their arms and watched him with emotionless faces.

If any bystanders saw this, they would be in shock! Three undead Zoomans and a galactic beast steering at one another eerily silent.

"Um…wtf is happening?"

He still could feel the connection to the spores yet it was different this time. The connection used to feel like a clutter of specs, yet now it's three full humanoid sizes of it while it now had more individual control.

He just decided to keep on his original (which is to just move straight) journey ignoring the three, since they became harmless.

'I'll thank I'll pass on the creepy stuff for today.'

He shuffled his way to the trees once more to commence carnage onto the environment.

A chop at a time a tree came down. But he could finally get some spacing in front of him without destroying so many trees. The number of spores increased bit by bit with the gaps in-between closing, completely obscuring his body. He also healed somewhat as everything began to seal up.

After taking a breather he looked around. Still surrounded by trees but had plenty of space to maneuver.

He took a brief look behind him to try to admire his carnage but what he saw spooked him enough to piss in his "pants".

The three aliens in the distance were walking towards him but that's not what he was spooked by. The scary thing was their gait was all wrong. Their body was moving in a crooked way that made them look stiff. For each step, they made a different pose as they tried to keep balance.

He was so engrossed with his mayhem he forgot about the connection. Our monster turned his head and decided to run. Yet there was a problem. As he took a couple of unbalanced yet powerful he fell right onto his face with his monster butt in the air. He hander got used to running yet.

"Oh fuck me." He spits out the dirt and slowly looked behind him.

All three of them were right behind him. They were standing straight with indifferent faces.

"What the hell is wrong with y'all? Scared the living shit out of me."

He staggered his way up and gazed at the aliens noticing nothing different so he turned and went back on his merry way.

looking back and they were following him while moving with the same scary gate.

He thought to himself that he should just slice them to bits but not only is it very lonely out here. He never killed a person. It wouldn't sit right with him if he just started slaughtering people even if it's aliens. Even though they became like this. They can still be helped. As long as he brings them back he can make amends for what happened to him. Well, that's what he believed.

He shrugged and kept it moving. Hopefully, something interesting happens on the way.

After some walking for 10 minutes something fell from the tree. It made a thump one the ground right behind our monster.

It looked like a squirrel yet it was very muscular with green fur and had a straight horn on its head.

He walked closer to the squirrel. It was dead, most likely died from old age.

Out of nowhere one of the aliens jumped right onto to squirrel face first. His jaw pulled open to the maximum before slamming shut as if it was trying to run away.

Our monster jumped back with quicker steps than usual.

"Holy shit!" He razed his claws to his chest to his and said in surprise.

Our monster was even further surprised as all the Zoomans seemed to learn something and all attempted to climb the trees. Yet again they did it in such an inhuman way even sometimes being upside down.

Squeaks and squeals catch his ears coming from up top of the trees. Undead Zoomans were committing carnage up the trees.

Our monster felt a little bad. He had little to no control over the situation.

A little bit later bodies of squirrels start falling from the trees. He wondered why they weren't eaten. Next thing he knew the three aliens came crawling down the trees with the same odd gait and all with plenty of blood on their faces making them look like straight out of a horror movie.

Our monster looked at the dead squirrel and thought when was the last time he has eaten.

He hasn't eaten a thing since he was in this body!

He squatted down and picked up a dead squirrel.

"If I'm not human, surely I don't need to cook my food?" He said in a questioning tone of a monster.

"But the hair has to go."

He started flicking his claw on the skin to cut the skin. He didn't want to see if he spit up hairballs. He observed plenty of cats and it looked like an unpleasant experience, to say the least.

He hesitated. But ended up flicking the skinned horned squirrel in his mouth.

"Mmmh!"

Each chew that gave little to no resistance tasted quite good actually. Maybe his monster taste buds make food taste way better.

It was juicy and the meat was decent.

It wasn't bad at all! He reached down and started to pick up the others when an idea came to him. He decided to make his spores carry them. The spores spread out and carried each and every one of the squirrel right by his side. He can now snack on them on his journey. But there was a problem!

"Crunch!"

The squirrels were disappearing in his spores!

They were being consumed!

"Stop eating my stuff damnit!"He screeched.

The crunching noise stopped. He sighed in relief. He couldn't taste them if the spores ate them so what would be the point then?

The large monster and the three Zoomans now set out once more.

<***>

Somewhere In an industrial area, there were many Zoomans all varying in colors but not of race. The air smelled of sweat and gasoline.

Many of the industrial powerlifters were transporting huge and wide vertical tanks with labeled oil in the native Zooman language.

"So are we stocked up yet!" A worker yelled at another over the commotion of the heavy machinery.

"No, we still need to stock up the shipment containers a bit more before the Red Merchants arrive." He responded.

"Alright, I'll be heading off to make a report!" He yelled turned away and stepped into a four-wheeled vehicle that looked simmular to a buggy.

He drove past plenty of industrial equipment, vehicles, and things that looked like a space ship.

He stopped by a depot next to the entrance gate that lead off to a distant road. Beyond that entrance was a grassy field that probably went on for who knows how long.

There was a small box shape building with one glass door and a 360 window that contained two Zoomans inside. They were slimmer and appeared to be the female sex of their species.

He walked his way up to one of the windows that had an opening for handing the person inside something.

"Hello, would you like to send a report to the depot commander?" Smiled the Zooman woman with short and curly pink hair.

"Yes. Send a report that we are ready for the next bratch of cargo." He said keeping a smile on his face and handed her paper documents.

"That's great. This planet will be swimming with credits with this transaction." She said in an even cheerier voice.

"All the more reason to get this report out pronto."

"Alrighty." She grabbed the report and put it into a machine and all the words were put onto a monitor. As the Zooman walked away back into his buggy.

The other short-haired purple female alien while picking up a box said in a low aggravated tone."The hell are we getting happy for. Even if the humans come here loaded and paying for all the oil while being able to carry it back. Should we think this planet will prosper. Who knows, the message might get out and some raiders will just kill and enslaved us all before we can spend it."

the first female alien turned back to look at her

"Come on Ellen. You know that's unlikely. With the red merchants building up traffic here the raider would no way in hell come here right. Your not thinking straight Ellen."

She walk towards Ellen and reached for her shoulder.

"Maybe you should take a break for awhile."

Ellen slapped her hand. And she yelled in anger.

"Yeah well what the fuck do you know Alex!I'm tired of being on this damn doomed planet. Where sitting ducks here. We have been raided once before on planet Dramec and it'll happen again with such weak military force!Money or not we can't grow our population as fast as humans can!"

She look at the ground and the fire in her eyes cooled a bit.

"So when the merchants get here I'm leaving with them."

Alex raised her hands to her chest and curled them together

"Ellen what about your family. Are you just gonna leave them."

Ellen looked forward in determination.