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Mundy followed the doctor down the hall. He did not care for his superior and he’d only been assigned to him for less than three hours. He rambled on and on and he did not seem like the most mentally stable person.
“Now vith zhe new developments in our research ve have reason to believe zhe creature is sentient and may have even been human at one point or another. Zhe only problem is that it hasn’t been responding to any stimuli so ve need someone to go in there and try to communicate vith it.”
“That would be me?”
“Ja! You catch on very quickly! And as a precaution we have a collar on zhe zhing if it tries to take it off or cause you any harm it will emit a sound at a frequency that causes it incredible pain!”
“That’s... comforting.”
“Isn’t it! Oh! Here already. Vell it vas nice knowing you.”
And with that Ludwig shoved Mundy in the room with the mysterious potentially deadly creature.
Mundy fell face first into water. Luckily it was only knee deep. At least for him it was. He quickly jumped up and found himself face to face with it. The creature appeared to be a normal person except wearing a mask. But the mask looked shiny almost like it wasn’t even real. His appearance was somewhat normal except as Mundy looked down his body became a mess of tentacles. It quickly backed up against the wall and let out a hiss.
“It’s okay. It’s okay. I’m not going to hurt you.”
The creature coiled his tentacles the looked ready to strike him if he came any closer.
“I just want to talk to you.”
It slightly lowered them but still kept his guard up.
“Yeah that’s it. I was told that you can think. Is that true?”
He nodded.
“Yes! That’s great.”
He looked disappointed he then fully submerged himself under the water.
“Wh-what did I do?”
A speaker suddenly screeched to life, “vhat you were supposed to do dummkopf. Now get out of there.”
“Wait do you think I can talk to him a little more?”
“... I suppose it wouldn’t hurt... just remember I’m watching you!”
“Will do boss.” Mundy sighed.
He inched closer to the creature and eventually he was less than five feet away from him until he shot out of the water causing Mundy to jump back and fall down. The creature made a noise that almost sounded like laughter.
“You spooked me! Wait that’s it I’m going to call ya Spook!”
“Spook” rolled his eyes and sunk down a little.
“So you can really understand me.”
Spook nodded looking very unimpressed.
“Oh I’m Mundy by the way and I’ve been wondering can you talk?”
Spook shrugged.
“I think we can understand each other enough right now and I bet I could teach you how to talk. I mean if you even have vocal cords. We don’t know much about you anatomy.”
Spook completely submerged himself again.
The speaker came on again, “I believe zhat’s enough for today. I vant you to come to my lab we have much to discuss.”
“Yes boss.” Mundy left the room somewhat reluctantly. He didn’t want to leave Spook alone and he especially didn’t want to talk to Ludwig anymore. Part of him just wanted to spend the rest of they day with Spook. Something just made him want to know more about him. He hoped he’d be able to talk to him again soon.
Mundy made his way to Ludwig’s Lab. He didn’t know what there was to discuss he’d already been watching them the whole time. He knocked on the door.
“Still alive I see, come in!”
Why was he so enthusiastic Mundy thought. He nodded.
“It’s strange zhat it seems to be so friendly vith you. Every time I have come into contact with it, it tends to be extremely aggressive or it does its best to avoid me, probably because of all the limbs I have removed.”
Sniper choked, “REMOVED WHAT?”
“I don’t believe I misspoke, limbs. It’s regenerative capabilities are extraordinary. I only have removed the tentacles however. Further testing vill influence my decision on if I’m going to remove the more humanoid parts.”
“Why are you doing this can’t you see he’s sentient?”
“Yes it’s very clear to me however I’m the head scientist of this facility and as you can see it’s not human vhich means I can do vhatever experiments I please on it.”
“Stop calling him it.”
“Oh yes zhat reminds me, you have given it a name. You really shouldn’t do zhat. You’re going to become attached and vhat is going to happen to it will become even more painful. For you at least.”
“You can’t just do this Spook is not-“
“Vhat he is or isn’t is not for you to decide and zhe only reason I vill allow you to communicate with the creature again is because it has bonded with you. Now get out before you say anything else you will most definitely regret!”
Mundy stormed out and slammed the door behind him. ‘Who does he think he is?’ He thought. He was so angry that he didn’t even realize he was already at his camper. He walked in and slammed the door then immediately apologized to it. He loved that vehicle not just because of its had been with him for more than fifteen years now but also because he was already home. The lab didn’t make him move his camper at night so he just kept it parked there, made getting up for work so much easier.
Mundy tried to sleep but the thought of Spook being hurt kept him awake. He wanted so desperately to just be able to check on him and see if he was alright. What if he’d been the only positive interaction that he had the the whole time he was in the facility. The thought broke his heart.
Ones sleepless night later he reported to work. The nice lady at the front desk jumped as soon as she saw him.
“Dr.Humboldt wants to see you immediately. He says it’s important.”
“Great.” He mumbled angrily under his breath.