Other than me slowly breathing through my oxygen tank, there is complete silence. I hold my breath and listen intently, but hear nothing. I slowly look around my immediate area and notice several things: a small, rust covered car lying on its side; a moss-covered old building that I believe was a restaurant; a deformed human skeleton broken into many pieces, the skull apparently smashed by brute force. There are also dirty, blood covered clothes on the ground surrounding the remains. The land around me is very pretty, green trees and grass, «how could this be!» I thought to myself. As I looked upwards, the sky is red/pink and the clouds moved slowly and menacingly above me. Soon, it began to rain lightly and I slowly move forward to the dirty building. Approximately twenty meters in diameter, the ground surrounding the building is all black ash and dirt, and no plant life exists.

Upon arriving at the front door, I notice the entrance has been broken down and the hinges are twisted. I peer inside to take a closer look, when suddenly my head starts to spin. I quickly step backwards, tripping and falling onto my back. I lean forward and sit, staring at the door, puzzled as to what just happened. My goggles begin to fog as I attempt to clear them. Suddenly, a faint green light catches my eye from within the building. Intensely I look and cease breathing for the moment. Again! A flicker of green! I quickly stand up and walk backwards. At a safe distance, I clear my goggles again and wait. Another flicker and now it starts to glow! I step back further as the one light is now two faint green lights and they are moving from left to right slightly. Now I know that I was not seeing things. I back step further as the green lights rise up, to be level with the top of the door frame. I continue to walk backwards slowly and up a small grassy hill.

What emerged from the door will haunt me forever. A dirty creature standing about 7 feet tall, with two small green glowing eyes, the head is deformed and it appears to have two noses, four eyes, and two mouths contorted onto what I believe is its face. It is completely bald and totally naked. It appears to be oozing some sort of foaming, green slime from its mouth, and it has open soars all over its body that are also secreting liquid. Its lower body is just as grotesque — it has four arms, not symmetrical, that are protruding from various levels of the body, in various directions. Two of them are moving without purpose, almost trying to escape, while two of the arms are bigger and seem to be in control. Just above its butt are two legs sticking backwards that are kicking and flailing just as much as the smaller arms. The two other legs of this creature are long and thing, almost anorexic looking. It appears this creature is a human that has mutated into some sort of mutant abomination that can assimilate other living life forms — namely humans. It steps out into the open slowly and the rain causes faint green smoke to rise from every point that the water hits. Unexpectedly, I hear moans coming from what I think is the second life form attached to this atrocity. It is muttering something I cannot understand, but it sounds like a woman and she seems to enrage the beast as it shakes its head and mutters unintelligibly to make her stop. It sounds like a male„s voice and then It stares straight at me. It moves forward slowly, limping slightly, as my head starts to spin again and I start to see black. I turn and begin to run up the hill directly behind me, slipping on the wet grass as I hear It hollering «HELP MEEEE!!» I run to the top of the small hill and look behind me. It is still standing there looking at me, Its green eyes piercing through mine. I pull out my camera and take a snapshot. Then, I kneel down and pull out my sniper rifle, aiming at Its head...should I kill this thing and do it a favor or maybe I can monitor its life and maybe even communicate with it.

I lower my sniper rifle and continue to observe the atrocity. It is still watching me, but soon walks back inside because the rain is causing it to much pain. Quickly I make my way back down the hill a few yards and hide behind a tree, lying on my stomach. I retrieve my infrared binoculars and look into the building where I partially see the anomaly wrestling and hear him yelling with the female that is assimilated into him. A short time passes and It sits down in a corner, staring out the front door, waiting for Its next victim, which comes in the form of what looks like a female Stalker, whom I did not notice until the last second when I had just put my binoculars down. She didn„t even pause and walked straight into the building, only to pass out at the doorway and fall flat on her back.

Now, lying unconscious, she is helpless. The creature rises and slowly walks toward the Stalker. It kneels next to her and sniffs her up and down her body with Its nose. He slowly removes her bio-hazard suit until she is completely naked. Then, he lies directly on top of her. I am desperately trying to get at my sniper rifle and my head is spinning again and I start to black out. I jump up and run up the hill as the dizziness goes away and turn around just in time to see the abomination lower his body closer to the Stalker. Now there is a green glow enveloping both of them and green smoke is rising at an increasing rate. Suddenly, the Stalker awakens and begins to scream, but it is too late, the creature has already started to assimilate her body and wherever It touches, her body is attached. She struggles violently, but the weight of the creature is too much and her stomach is now part of Its, as are her legs and soon, the left side of her face is glued to the creatures chest as she attempts to scream and gasp for breath. There is a furious thrashing of black dust and then it is calm. The ash settles and many minutes pass. The newly assimilated body is not moving as the creature slowly rises. The Stalker is hopelessly joined to the abomination. It is raining hard now and the creature moans in pain as the female Stalker awakens and screams in terror as she kicks are legs and arms violently, trying to escape. The other female awakens and moans. «this has got to end» I thought. But before I could aim my rifle, the creature falls over backwards as the heavy rain melts into his body, disintegrating all the flesh into a mass of oozing , foaming green slime...