Dr. Genome

 So, while I was waiting in the woods to recover my strength I heard someone approaching. I got ready to fight when something, unexpected showed up. It was a man, walking with a cane. He didn't seem infected by the spores and there was something immediately familiar about him. I knew I should know who it was, but couldn't exactly place why.

The who however quickly answered itself when he teleported over and disarmed me in a few seconds. I knew who it was then and why he was here. It was Doctor Ferris, I'd been reading his blogs. I was on the ground at that point and I quickly raised my hands in surrender and spoke.

"Wait wait wait! You're Doctor Ferris aren't you? I'm Genome. We're here for the same purpose, sort of. Sorry I pointed my weapon at you," he relented then and helped me up even was nice enough to give me back my weapon. 

I mean I guess he didn't have much reason for concern. He's probably one of the only humans in the world who was capable of actually being a threat to me. 

I did in fact feel much safer with him as we journeyed further into the forest. We talked a bit, mostly stuff that didn't matter. About his powers, the fears, I spoke about adjusting to being human now and he spoke a bit about what happened to Tyler. 

We ran into the occasional enemy, but they were easy enough to dispatch with the two of us. 

Then however we ran into something... different. I'll let him talk about them himself later cause... I don't know much about them, but he seemed to know what they were. 

The fight however, well that's different. I did my best... I fought with everything I had... and I couldn't even hit them. If I had been alone I would have died. I can't even blame it on this weaker human form. I don't think even at my height of power I would have stood a chance. I ended up just doing my best to survive and meanwhile he... a for all intents and purposes normal human was fighting these things and winning. 

It... Shook me. In my life I had fought and killed plenty of humans, quite a few towerborn even and assorted other servants of the Fears... even in this weaker human form I had managed to kill Spit and yet... None of it mattered. I was and am weaker than Doctor Ferris. I don't even think it's close. 

I've deluded myself my entire life believing myself to be some sort of God, all powerful, all knowledgeable, but... I was just a servant then, one of many and now I'm even less than that. I've never been anything special.. Doctor Ferris is something special. Something unique.

Hell even Drake is something more special than I am. He's a normal human who saved my life in the forest and saved a bunch of other people risking his life to let others reach the forest safely. 

When the fight was over I... Didn't know what I was any more... I didn't feel like I belonged near Doctor Ferris. I felt like a liability. 

That's when I noticed something was watching the fight. It was one of Rioter's... or Jeer's wild people. It fled upon noticing that I was watching and I didn't even think before chasing after it. It was an excuse to get away from Doctor Ferris and not think. I had a job to do and I may not be worth much, but I can at least do this.

I caught up with the fleeing wildman and found that he'd led me back to a group. 

I don't have time for introspection now, it's time for action so I'm writing this now and then I'm going killing.

I can at least handle a bunch of brutes...

Through the Blizzard and Lightning... and strings... and Memory loss... and Guilt? Whatever the fuck the Valravn does?

 So... There was gunfire and death and a moose and also that one guy who can shoot lightning. 

With all that going on Drake and I... Continued to stay in hiding. I mean as much fun as it would be to help kill some people, we weren't going to risk ourselves unnecessarily and the Moose definitely seemed to have things in hand.

 The Superpowered people probably helped a bit too. 

Of course after the KRAKEN and White Comet people were done with we still had to deal with the Fears. 

Luckily we had had a plan already to deal with that. Of course things went a bit... More crazy than we expected.  

The Convocation was joined by The Wooden Girl and The Black Dog... Then The Blind Man showed up and our back up the Cold Boy joined him as did The Valravn. What is the Valravn... Honestly I'll get back to you on that one, but at least it appears to be on our side. 

So... This was the moment. Time to get into the forest. Drake and I emerged from our hiding spot wearing what were essentially lightly armored Hazardous Materials suits and we waddled as fast as we could towards the Forest. Lightning fell all around us as did dead frozen bird corpses, At least one person got grabbed by The Wooden Girl and turned their guns on the rest of the group. Which ended up being a problem and I ended up splitting up from Drake as Drake decided to go deal with them arguing that it was important that more than just the two of us made it into the forest. 

Before he ran off he grabbed my hand and told me he trusted me and knew that even without him I could handle things and then he ran off and last I saw of him was him tackling the unfortunate person and trying to wrench the gun from their hands. 

 

After that I remember almost getting hit by some kind of flesh tendril from the Dog, that was caught by The Blind Man and then I was in the forest and the sounds of the fighting were rapidly falling away behind me. 

I was worn out from all the running and took a few seconds to update and catch my breath. 

I think someone is coming, but they're talking and probably therefore aren't monsters... So... Honestly I'm just gonna keep resting. I really don't feel like running anymore.

 

I was going to title this post Busy, but then the shooting started...

 So... It's been a while. That would be because we ran into a bit of a problem at the edge of the forest... Followed by another problem. We have attempted to enter the forest a number of different times and from a number of different directions and each time we ran into problems. 

First we ran into a section of the forest that was... Well completely Black... We weren't sure what was going on, until the leaves started to move and we ended up fleeing from the MASSIVE FLOCK OF CONVOCATION BIRDS THAT HAD BEEN LITERALLY BLOCKING OUT THE ENTIRETY OF A FOREST CANOPY

so... Anyway we tried again a bit later after being told we'd get help from our new patrons. Except now there was a roadblock being created by KRAKEN and some other group. I checked around and I assume these are the White Comet people the AMU blog mentioned. 

We're pretty bad ass, but the Fears weren't going to help with these guys apparently and Drake and I alone weren't going to get through. We tried another avenue, but... Well... There were... Monster's there... I don't know how better to explain it, so we found ourselves just kind of waiting watching that barricade which seems like the best way in, but we needed a distraction, which is when The AMU apparently decided to show up... Well I say that like it happened with perfect timing. We had been camped out trying to come up with a plan for a few hours before we saw them arriving. We were hidden so I don't think they saw us, but whatever they were planning seemed like a good chance for that.

I am currently writing this while the AMU, KRAKEN and the White Comet are having a shoot out.With any luck this will be a good chance to get in, but we're waiting till the shooting at least drops off a bit and most of the combatants are de-

Excuse me I just saw a Moose running by... I'm gonna end this post here cause there is no way I am not finding out what the hell that's about?

Into the woods

 So, first off... Drake seemingly is the masked man who saved me from the forest the first time. Which is awesome and apparently not a coincidence he showed up to help me out again against those KRAKEN douchebags. 

Apparently ever since he saved me he's been keeping tabs on me. He follows The AMU blog and learned about my blog through them and went to save me both times my blog said I was in danger, which is nice of him. 

Why me in particular... Apparently because I'm seemingly the only person he's seen involved in all this who doesn't have anyone else to help them which is... Nice, but also makes me feel a bit... I dunno...

Anyway the important point is, Drake got us both hazmat suits and guns and we're going to be heading back into the forest to find and organ harvest Jeer and Rioter. Should be fun. 

Definitely feels good knowing I'm going in with weaponry and back up that won't betray me this time. I will definitely enjoy shooting Rioter in his smug face!

Recovery

 Okay... So... Information. All of The KRAKEN guys are dead. So, is the seed that was planted apparently. Drake is alive and the two of us are apparently staying with The Cold Boy now... Sort of. Apparently the Fears are split on the existence of this new forest... Some of them support it and want to help it spread and some, The Cold Boy included want to bring The Newborn back. I was brought to a temporary location being used by one of these groups. 

Drake explained all of this to me when I came down from all the pain medication. The Fears have a job for us. They want me and Drake to go into the Seattle Forest and well... Perform an organ theft on Rioter and Jeer. Apparently the Fears want to collect parts from ex- Thoughtborn... Which is apparently why The Cold Boy needed to take my eye. I mean... I'm sure there was a less traumatizing way that could have happened, but I mean not much I can do about that. 

Arguing with the Fears is likely to just result in my death so, I guess we're going back into the forest... Drake says he's done it before and he knows how we can do it. We're not going immediately as Drake has left to go get some supplies. 

I'm just resting and trying to get used to my new lack of depth perception.

Fight for your life. What little of it there might remain.

Running, hiding... There's no escape. The doors, windows even the secret exit are all frozen over. We're going to die, but there's one last thing I can do. One last thing I can do to justify this life of mine. After he woke up my new friend split up from me saying he had a plan. I don't know what it is, but it doesn't matter. We can't survive against The Cold Boy, but I know what I can do. Spit is still alive and I'm going to make absolutely sure my last act on this planet is gutting him like the pig he is. 

You know... I'm starting to like this maid outfit though. I created this body initially because the idea of killing misogynistic assholes while looking like a girly girl struck me as hilarious. I kind of get the same vibe killing these KRAKEN dicks in the maid outfit. 

Sneaking around, using hidden pathways, taking them down one by one, it almost feels like I'm Batman... Except lethal... My maid outfit is starting to get stained red from the blood. No sign of Spit though. 

I heard a voice. It's my new friend. I arrived in the entrance way of the base and found him he had some kind of fire going right in front of the door. I was about to call out to him when I suddenly felt something grab me from behind, I struck instinctively and felt the blade slice into flesh and I was released, turning and leveling my knife at Spit who was grasping his arm where the blade had cut a big gash into his arm. He raises his gun aiming it at me.

"You fucking bitch... I'm going to cut off your head and then I'll have my way with your corpse!" classy... I took a step forward and then lunged to the side as he fired, landing on my feet and rushing towards him, slashing at his face, but he caught my wrist stopping my slash, before he could respond though I swung my leg up hitting him directly between the legs, he collapsed to his knees, but didn't let go of my hand so as soon as my foot landed again I brought my knee up slamming it into his face, hearing the satisfying crunch of his nose. At that point he did let go of me and fell onto his ass. It felt really good. All of his strength and size advantage didn't matter in the end. I tried to stab him while he was fallen, but he managed to block with his gun arm, but that made him drop the gun. He swung his arm up and caught me on the cheek knocking me away and he got up holding his bleeding nose. "You b-" he started, but he was caught by surprise as I dashed towards his legs, he moved out of the way in surprise and I grabbed his gun and rolled firing two shots, one into his skull and the other into his gut. 

 I felt absolute elation as I watched him collapse, "Holy shit" I heard and turned to see my new friend, watching in surprise. I got up and just to look even more badass I proceeded to wipe the blood on the knife off on his corpse. He grinned at the gesture and then the front doors suddenly burst open and we both turned just as a number of Children of The Cold entered. 

 This was it. Our death, I didn't mind. I'd gotten to kill Spit and I'd gladly accept whatever fate awaited now. It's not like I had much of a choice. I heard a voice, 

 

"You're Genome aren't you?" the voice spoke and I turned and found myself staring into a blurry face. The Cold Boy was standing right in front of me.

"Y... Yes?" I answered my body shaking not from the cold, but from terror. 

"How you've fallen," he says and a chill went up my spine, "You're lucky, you and I have a similar motivation. I won't kill you here, but I do need something from you," he says and then pain lanced through my body starting in my right eye. It was like thousands of tiny knives slicing into my eye, I collapsed forward and heard my friend scream my name, the vision in my right eye blurred filling with blood. There was a tearing sensation and I screamed in pain and then watched with my left eye as my right eye pulled out of the socket. It was frozen perfectly solid, like an ice sculpture of an eye. It floated over to The Cold Boy and he grabbed it. I collapsed to the ground, blood leaking from my eye and I heard a gunshot and then felt hands grabbing me. 

 

I woke up a bit later. There was a bandage around my head and my friend entered and seemed happy to see me. I'm... Still not feeling great obviously, but I was able to write up this post. It might be a bit weird... I'm on a couple of pain medications apparently. 

Oh and apparently my new friend's name is Drake.

Shit... Shit shit shit!

 Okay... I knew it was just a matter of time. Shit's going bad. Bad for KRAKEN and especially bad for me. 

The good news, Leo is dead, the bad news Spit isn't. The worse news they know who I am. The entire outside of my base is frozen over and The Cold Boy is here somewhere killing seemingly indiscriminately. 

The surprising news. I have an ally. 

I'm currently hiding. I mean this is my base I know it better than these KRAKEN fucks. I won't be able to hide here for long, but for the moment it's a safe spot to think and plan and I might as well also inform people of the situation. Some of the information I learned might be useful to... I dunno. The AMU or something. Look I'm mostly talking, because it keeps me from panicking. 

So, here's what happened. The snowstorm was getting worse and now we could see Cold Ones watching the building. It seemed pretty obvious none of us were making it out alive. Which apparently meant the KRAKEN guys decided to make sure that I'd die first. I was called in to see Leo like usual, but as I entered Spit was there as were a bunch of the other guys. The new guy was there as well. They were armed and watching me. Leo called me over and I went and he grabbed me and pulled me against him, "So... What was your name again? I can't remember what the name you gave us was... It doesn't matter though does it, Genome?" at that point I stopped caring and wasn't about to let him get off whatever dramatic pantomime he had waiting. I knew it was only a matter of time until something like this happened if not this exactly and so I'd been prepared. I'd had a knife hidden on my person since the day they arrived. I drew it out and was lucky that my position meant only he and I could see the knife. I got the satisfaction of watching his eyes widen before the knife slashed across his throat. I fell off his lap as he released me clutching for my throat and I heard yelling behind me which I expected, what I didn't expect was the gurgling noises. I turned expecting bullets to pierce my skin, instead I saw two KRAKEN members collapsing to the ground knives sticking out of their throats and our visitor stabbing another who tried to turn their gun on him. 

Either he could just manifest knives at will or he had a lot more knives hidden on him than I did. Either way he was taking up KRAKEN's attention which gave me a chance to flee. Unfortunately I didn't get far as all of a sudden the floor became slippery with Ice and I collapsed face down as did everyone else in the room and I slid into something. I glanced up and looked into the face of The Cold Boy. 

The next few seconds were even greater Chaos. A number of people died immediately as they opened fire on the Fear and The Visitor slid over and helped me to my feet, darting us both around The Cold Boy and towards the door, just as some kind of icicle explosion went off in the room and I could hear flesh being torn apart. The visitor and I weren't entirely unscathed. Jagged shards of ice peppered both of us, I have multiple cuts and bruises and so does he, but he also got a chunk of ice to the skull that seems to have knocked him cold... Pardon the pun. He's alive and I got him into hiding at the moment, hopefully he'll wake up, but I can hear fighting going on and KRAKEN guys are seemingly looking for us still, which honestly you'd think they'd have more interesting things to care about.

Oh and um... While unconscious he spoke in his sleep... He said

"After all I've done they'll have to tell me how to apply..."