[Voice]

[vandalization]

[A heavily modulated male voice crackles over the network. Each word is broken up by heavy breathing.]

Can you hear me? Is this working?

This is RIG number 438642. My name is-

This is Vandal.

Please. Someone who isn't a freak in a cloak, please respond.

I need to get back to the sprawl. I need- Oh fucking shit I can see the bone. God damn it stop bleeding.

Please help. I need to get back to Titan Station. I'm. Hurt. Badly. Bleeding.

Please.

[Click.]

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action

[militarybred]

[It can hear something breathing. A human maybe? Maybe the one its master had ordered it to kill back on Earth? It pokes a tentacle out of the ground, prodding around for anything squishy to grab onto.]

action

[vandalization]

WHAT THE FUCK!?

[She's still got good reflexes. And a tentacle? Yeah. She's rolling over, whipping out the plasma cutter and firing off a few rounds at whatever just touched her.]

action

[militarybred]

[Driller shrieks as whatever it is attacks its tentacle, breaking off a part of it. It's attacking it's attacking! The damaged tentacle quickly pulls back into the ground, as the Driller pokes its head out with a roar. Why do you shoot it tiny thing, it just needs to check if its supposed to kill you.]

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[vandalization]

[Vandal stumbles up into a run as soon as whatever the hell it is emerges to check out the situation. It looks far too much like some of the disgusting growths on the station. She's not very fast, but she knows she has no chance in taking that thing down right now.]

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[militarybred]

[The creature dives back into the ground to drill after the small creature. Whipping a few more tentacles out to try and grab onto it. The creature needs to come back, it attacked. It needs to check it now. Or cut it in half.]

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[vandalization]

[It manages to catch her fairly easily, wrangled in by the mechanical tendrils. Vandal curses and tries to squirm out, dropping her cutter in the process.]

SHIT SHIT SHIT!

action

[militarybred]

[Good, it caught the creature and its squirming is not going to make it let go. It needs to check. Driller rises out of the ground again, teeth spinning as it screeches at the tiny creature it has wrapped up. Why did the human attack it? It's not the boy it's supposed to kill, but it did hurt it. The Driller screeches again and pokes at it with another tentacle. Why did it hurt the Driller?]

action

[vandalization]

[It's just degraded to screaming, trying to squirm away. That thing is squeezing her wounds, blood dribbling out of the hole in her side.]

action

[militarybred]

[The tiny thing is making a lot of loud noises back at it, and the Driller can't really understand what it means... So it does what any animal under orders would do. It opens its cockpit and places the human inside, despite the fact that it was leaking. Its master would clean it later, it was certain. Silently the Driller rolled its head around, looking for the weapon it was attacked with. It should take that weapon to its master. He would be proud if it came back with a weapon and an alive human that it didn't kill like ordered. No killing unless ordered. Even if it should slice the human in half for hurting its appendage.

Once it spots the weapons it brings out small pincers to pick it up carefully, then rumbles in at its passenger. It can't hurt the Driller now.]

action

[vandalization]

[So this is it. She's being eaten by this thing. She's weak now from the blood loss and bleeding all up inside of it. Surprisingly no evidence of being digested.]

Please. Please if you understand words. Please let me go.

[Because clearly reason will work with this thing. She's half delirious.]

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[militarybred]

[Driller rolls its head to the side, peering in at the human. It did let the human go. It's not holding the thing anymore, didn't they notice? It provides a screech and a rumble, Driller speak for going to see its master now, as it begins to slither off.]

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[vandalization]

[When she opens her eyes, it's that simple. She's not being devoured as she expected. Not being ripped apart and the thing is just....]

Holy fuck.