Assorted Flash Fiction Writings
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Hive mind consumes human flesh
Writing prompt: Hivemind consumes Human Flesh, reforms it’s armies after the Human’s “Oshi” leading to a huge scientific squabble on just how rooted in Humanity’s flesh is their idol-worshipping nature. (Sauce is Matara Kan and the other sauce is Tyranids from Warhammer 40k)
The Hive Mind was confused. Just this fact is what made things worse because being confused was something the hive mind had never had to deal with before. It always knew what it needed to do, to expand and consume and continue the hive mind.
The new source of biomass seemed to be the cause of the confusion. It was ‘spicy’ and that added t the confusion because the hive mind didn’t even know what ‘spicy’ meant.
When the outer edges of the swarm encountered the first outposts of the new biomass, it was a new experience because the biomass fought back viscously and inflicted hurt to the swarm. But all the hive mind had to do was send in more swarm and larger bioforms to deal with the metallic parts of the biomass.
Eventually the biomass was consumed and the damage to the swarm and hive mind was healed with the new DNA information from the biomass.
And that is where the confusion started to appear. The DNA wanted to force the hive mind to create new bioforms. These bioforms had to have new forms and ‘looks’.
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