Chapter 24: Chapter 24 - Finding the Morcave
Their digging speed was so fast that it even surprised her somewhat— and she made them. But it was a pleasant surprise as it meant finding the mutants she was looking for much faster.
With that out of the way, she sat there for a few more minutes, trying to avoid looking suspicious to the camera before she eventually grew bored and stood up, walking back inside.
Inside her caregivers were doing their own things but when they saw her they stopped and called her over.
"Lily, please come for a second we need to talk to you."
Well, it seemed they had something to speak to her about— she didn't pay any mind to it and walked over to the living room where they were sitting.
Her eyes gazed across the two of them as they sat beside each other, looking over at her. At times like these you would think they were just a normal couple of parents that wished to speak to their child.
But they weren't.
"Lily please have a seat."
Roxy said with a soft smile as she motioned towards the other couch.
She did as they asked and took a seat, very curious as to where this was going as she had just arrived there. They couldn't already be making their move, could they?
No that would be foolish— unless they were desperate.
"Lily we know you have been through a lot, and while we would like you to experience the same things normal kids your age would, we can't do that right now due to the situation."
A situation that didn't actually exist and that she made up— with this thought in her mind she listened to what Roxy was saying.
"As such, we think it would be best for you to be homeschooled."
'So that's how they were going to do it.'
She thought in her mind with an inner chuckle. She obviously knew what they were planning— they were going to use this chance to indoctrinate their own ideas into her mind.
After all, they wanted a useful mutant soldier and starting to train her from a young age would be the best thing they could do.
She decided to play along since getting some knowledge about this world wouldn't be too bad— and if she rejected the idea they might find other means to push it.
So, with a fake look of reluctance on her face, she agreed.
"Ok."
Was all she said— which made them quite pleased.
"Good, don't worry we will give you this week to settle down and lessons will start next week. Also, I'm sure you want some things of your own to decorate your room and clothing, so why don't we go shopping tomorrow?"
That would be convenient as it would allow her to get a layout of the areas above ground since her worms couldn't do so. As such, she nodded her head once more.
"Ok."
The caregivers didn't do much about her anti-social behavior as it was expected from a girl in her situation— in reality, she just didn't feel the need to speak too much.
With that out of the way they allowed her to return to her room.
As she returned to her room she focused on the actions of her workers so far— having already dug very far in all directions. They had split up because that would cast the widest net to find what she was looking for.
And it seems she had came upon just that— with one of her worms having found what seemed like a large underground tunnel system.
Not some small tunnel system made by animals or a subway of the sort— no it was a large system of tunnels that seemed to be from a long time ago.
Maybe it had been here for ages— but it showed little sign of being old, in fact, it seemed to be kept well.
This was just what she was looking for.
She knew the Morlocks lived under the city and would often move around using the tunnel systems under the city— so how could such a big system go unfound by her workers if they just dig around a lot?
The speed at which she found it was unexpected— but it made things so much easier.
She just had one problem now— finding and eating Morlocks.
If she wasn't worried that the information in their bodies would go to waste and she wouldn't gain the mutant ability she would've just had her workers deal with it— but the Morlocks were already weak mutants.
If she didn't eat them herself she wouldn't gain anything useful— aside from mass and a little bit of their information.
But she wanted much more than just a little, she wanted everything they had to offer.
Their deaths and body would be her growth— so she needed to find a way to get out of there.
'What if I make a worker that looks like me?'
It wasn't impossible, but it would take quite a bit of mass to do so— and she didn't have that much mass right now.
She was quite disappointed that she no longer gained mass from just eating dirt and stone but it seemed that the stronger her body become the less mass certain things would give her.
That was understandable— after all once you became dense, less dense things affected you less.
She had two options right now before her.
Spend a large portion of her mass she currently had to make a unit that looked like her.
Or use the mass to improve herself and wait for a chance to come in the future where she could slip out undetected.
Chapter 25: Chapter 25 - Making a Clone
After a few minutes of contemplation, she decided to go with the clone option— it was after all the best option she had.
While using the mass right now to physically improve her body would help her get stronger in the short term, having a clone would grant her more freedom and benefit her in the long term.
With a clone, she could sneak out more often— eating things while she was out to make up that loss of mass and gain even more. Plus this way the likelihood of her finding her targets to eat was much higher.
Not to mention, some things she wanted to try and get her hands on required a time-sensitive operation— as such she couldn't risk delaying it too much.
Plus she didn't feel the need to overly focus on improving her physical attributes currently— her mental attribute was perfectly high enough that she saw no need to improve them further currently.
Her physic was already on par with people like Captain America and other Super Soldiers based on her physical limits alone— when she included the capabilities she evolved from animals, it would surpass them.
At least that was her assumption from her understanding— since she hadn't met them yet she couldn't fully tell.
So with the decision to make a clone made she stood up from her bed and walked over to the shower— it was the only room she found that didn't have any cameras, even her room had a small hidden camera in it that she picked up on earlier.
In the shower, she focused her mind on what she wanted to create, a hunter unit that took her form.
It was something she hadn't done before— as not only did it need to perfectly replicate her looks currently but it also had to have a certain level of intelligence to pretend to be her.
The black slime-like material leaked out from her body and slowly took shape— took her shape. The bones, flesh, and skin slowly formed before her eyes until finally it was finished.
It was like looking into a mirror— it looked just like her current form.
She was amazed by how perfectly crafted it was, even though she was the one that made it herself. In total, she had poured all her remaining mass into the creation of this clone, and even then it wasn't as perfect as she had hoped.
While physically it looked just like her— she was unable to implant it with the level of intelligence she had wanted, only being able to give it basic capabilities.
That is— unless she directly controlled it which she could do easily.
Raising her hand the clone raised the same hand along with her— she was testing out how controlling it would work since this was the first time she had done something like this.
It felt— odd.
It felt like how moving her own body would feel, yet different. It was like playing a game on the same screen but on split screen mode— she could control both at the same time but with her current mental level it wouldn't be as smooth as she had hoped.
But that was fine— the hive was her and she was the hive, eventually, she would be able to control the entire hive as if they were an extension of her body.
No.
They were an extension of her body— they were her.
Moving those useless thoughts out of her mind she gave the basic order for the clone to go and pretend to be asleep— which it did; walking out of the shower and heading into bed.
As for her, she decided to use this chance to sneak out of the house and explore the city for a bit since she had the chance, and being new here she was rather curious.
Sneaking out wasn't actually as hard as one may think— even with all the cameras around. She used her newly developed abilities to alter her body to blend in with her environment.
Camouflage— an ability she had gotten from the numerous reptiles she had eaten. Combined with her ability to alter her body structure to an extent, she lowered her body temperature to mimic the environment and simply snuck past the camera.
Free from the house she easily left the house and entered the city, heading in a random direction without much of a plan— since this was just a trip out of curiosity rather than something she had done with a certain plan in mind.
Though she was sure she could easily find something interesting to do in Lower Manhattan if she decided to do so— she could already smell it.
Gunpowder lingering in the area.
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