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.
Chapter 26: Chapter 26 - The First of the Morlocks
It was quite easy walking through the city without being noticed or standing out due to once again altering her body somewhat to blend in.
She had to either way— the city had a lot of cameras and she didn't want to take the risk of showing up on any of them and causing issues.
Plus this way if she got into trouble she wouldn't need to worry about being recognized.
And she was very much contemplating getting into some trouble.
Her workers had found the massive tunnel system underneath the city already— it wasn't hard given how massive the tunnel was and how good they were at digging.
She just wasn't sure if she should go and explore it now or maybe wait a while. The reason she was leaning towards waiting for a little was due to the lack of information she had about the Morlocks.
She barely read or even saw anything about them, and the little information she had from them was from detached comic strips and the Gifted series— and who knew how accurate that was.
Originally she had planned to just ignore it for now and only make a move when she thought it was a good time— but stalling for time would get her nowhere with the events to come.
Plus the sooner she acted the more she would get to eat, as such she decided to head down to the tunnels and explore for a little while.
A decision that was easier said than done, since she had to find a way down.
Thankfully after a few minutes of searching around using the combined help from her workers and herself, she was able to find a sewer opening that lead to a location near the tunnels.
After which she just broke her way through using her enhanced digging capabilities— getting into the tunnel in a matter of seconds.
"So this is the alley."
She spoke aloud to herself in a soft voice as she looked around the massive tunnel— it was over 50 feet tall and wide enough to fit a train with ease.
She wondered how something like this remained down here without being noticed by the general public for as long as it has— but she knew that it was the work of other powers.
Maybe the mutants kept it hidden using their abilities— or maybe even the government was involved.
Shield did like to stick their nose into anything that had the potential to be useful— hydra as well.
'This place is so empty.'
Although the place was big and very long— with no end in sight— the room inside of it wasn't filled with anything.
Stone, dust, and humidity were just being collected in such a long and barely used tunnel. As she walked through she could see a few signs of people having been down here.
Litter, burn marks, and even some rags of clothing— all signs of the Morlocks or other people having been here at some point in time.
As she walked further her enhanced hearing soon picked up on something— the echoing of the tunnel not aiding them to hide from her ears.
Yes them— for she heard the sound of voices speaking aloud to each other.
Multiple people from the sound of it— 3 maybe 4— it was hard to tell because of the echoing of the tunnels but she tried her best to figure it out given her capabilities.
She tried using echolocation to get a proper feel for them but because of how the tunnel caused sounds to repeatedly bounce off the walls and echoed a lot it was hard to form a proper mental image.
It was fuzzy— but she could tell their rough outlines.
From the look of it, two of them were tall and two of them were short. Maybe two children and two adults.
From the sounds of their voices, two seemed to be male and two female, at least from what she could hear.
They were most likely mutants, after wall she doubt anyone but the mutants from the Morlock group would be down here— so this was the perfect time to test out something.
Would eating a mutant give her their abilities— she wasn't sure.
Because while mutants were biological matter and their abilities came from a biological factor in their body— she wasn't sure if that factor could be replicated if she ate them.
She knew that in the future she would be able to gain abilities from even non-biological things— as long as her bloodline grows— but that was still far away.
Giving it a try wouldn't be too hard— plus it would allow her to test her fighting capabilities against weak mutants so she decided to eat them.
Why not after all?
Using her camouflage she altered her body and clothing to blend into the area around her, climbing up the wall using the abilities she had gotten from lizards— she hide above the tunnel and waited for them to come.
Slowly the voices got louder until they were within sight and she could see them properly— she was right, there were only four of them amongst the group.
One looked like a short female but it was hard to tell because she didn't really look human— she looked more like a fish person with gills and blue scaley skin. She had long pink hair which was quite odd looking on her blue scaley skin.
The two males seemed the be the tall ones— one had a face that seemed burnt and mutilated, and his skin had weird burn marks on it as well and was covered in wrappings.
The other's body was covered in a thin layer of fur and had a long face that protruded from his body like a horse— his hair was also very long and quite luscious black.
The last one amongst them was surprising— it was a normal-looking girl. She had short blond hair and blue eyes like you would expect from a classic barbie girl— not something you would expect from the Morlock groups.
She definitely didn't expect it, but food was food.
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