Point Of Impact! (Gold version)

Maya was looking at a lovely red bud of a flower, growing from a dark vine entangling a tree. Touching its tender petals with the tips of her fingers. She smiled, memories of her childhood in rainforest came in.

The untouched wilderness where one has no choice but to adapt, where things are simple.

Maya stood up, pulling down her jeans shorts, fixing it to look proper. She wore her comfortable top, an old style adventurer's leather backpack and of course her trusty sandals.

Her long dark hair was covered with leather hat, her feet, exposed by the sandals, were complemented by her lucky charm anklet and 3 silver toe rings.

Her hair was cuddled by a gentle breeze. Warm tropical air caressed her tanned skin.

She was looking at the jungle surroundings, remind her of her home. But this was a different part of the world, a different jungle. The one where nature just took a different turn...

A sudden roar of rotor blades abruptly broke the calm. A Black Hawk helicopter rose quickly right in front of Maya. It's engines screaming, the rotor creating the air pressure which, like a strong wind, waved Maya's long dark hair.

She held at her hat and looked up towards the metal beast that was hovering in front of her.

"You never fail to make an entrance, do you Joradi?" she smirked, holding her hat and talking into the receiver in her ear.

"Always dressed to impress, aren't you Maya?" the man's voice buzzed through the static in her receiver.

Maya squinted, focusing her vision, looking at the helicopter. She saw Joradi's face smirking, looking up and down at her body, checking her out, from her face, her lovely breasts, thin waist, wide hips, long fit legs and her beautiful feet.

He winked at her with a naughty face expression of lust.

"Focus on the mission, Joradi." Maya said with a calm but playful voice.

"You know me, I'm a multitasker." Joradi responded, winked at her and turned his gunship around 180 degrees, setting a new course, right towards the middle of the rainforest.

Towards a large pillar of black smoke.

"Remember the mission, we go in first, secure the location of the impact. Then, you go in and make the measurements." Joradi was being professional this time.

"Roger that. I... I just hope some people made it out alive." Maya said, with a sad and worried tone.

"An asteroid impact like that? Don't get your hopes up babe. That town is vaporized, a deep crater by now. 'Sides, our job here is not to rescue anyone. You and your team of geeks are here to measure any radiation signatures. Me and the boys are here to make sure nothing bits you in that nice round a$$ of yours."

Maya sighed, closed her eyes for a second, trying not to think what mayhem the impact caused to the town that was nearest to the impact point.

She walked to her off-road car, closed the doors behind her and just set there for a moment, staring into the horizon, at that miles high pillar of smoke that was raising from the impact point.

Closing her eyes again, getting her mind focused on the mission, rather then thinking of all the casualties that lost their lives in the impact.

"Ready when you are, doctor Carvalho." the man's voice came through Maya's receiver. It was Albert, a member of Maya's science team.

Reluctantly she responded: "Copy that, meet me at the first waypoint".

Determined and a bit nervous, Maya turned the key and started the car, feeling restless. She felt as if anything was bothering her, even her sandals, so she took them off one by one and tossed them to the back seat of her car, along with her leather hat.

With her bare foot she pressed down the clutch, started the car then pressed the gas pedal hard with her bare toes.

"People should drive shoeless all the time... " she thought, playfully, trying to distract herself from the grim sight she knew she will witness soon.

Maya was driving along the narrow dirt road which connected to the main road. As soon as she crossed into the main road, the convoy of science team was right behind her with their SUVs filled with sensor equipment.

The convoy of cars was on their way to the impact point.

Maya was distracting herself with random thoughts, naughty thoughts, as she slowly rubbed the gas pedal up and down with her bare sole, gently stroking the gear shift stick with her fingers.

She allowed herself to float away into lustful thinking, hot nights at the tropical beaches, lust in the sand shores of ocean. Her mind was drifting away as she was driving closer and closer to the pillar of the black smoke.

The Black Hawk helicopter flew right above her car, slowing down and matching speed, turning to her left and following her along the way.

"Status report?" Joradi asked, but his real question was "are you ok?".

"Status? - SNAFU" Maya responded with a smile.

She looked at the opened side doors of the helicopter, a group of special forces guys were sitting on the edge of the chopper, looking at her, winking, some blew kisses at her with a long gaze of lust in their eyes.

Maya noticed and gave them a naughty wink.

"At ease cowboys, keep it in your pants". Joradi said, jokingly, looking at his men.

The atmosphere was as light hearted as it can be, as the convoy was approaching the impact site, the black pillar of smoke seemed very near now.

The convoy was almost at the impact site, as Maya was driving more near to it, the situation was becoming more clear, and grim.

The rainforest was still burning. Air smelled like burned wood and scorched metal. Ashes falling from the skies. The heat. The heat was getting more intense.

"This is as far as you go, for now. Stay put." Joradi said.

Maya turned right and stopped her car. The convoy behind her followed and did the same.

Helicopter proceeded forwards right at the source of the smoke.

"We do this by the book, Bravo team secure the southern perimeter, Alpha team with me to the North." Joradi was talking to his men on comms.

Maya was worried, fixing her eyes on the chopper that hovered in the distance. Men repelled down the ropes, then the helicopter landed some distance away from the drop point.

All was quiet again.

Maya laid back on the drivers seat, slowly extending her long fit legs, sticking her bare feet out of the window, crossing them at the ankles.

She placed an earphone in her ears, her smartphone in hands, and played some soothing Latin music.

For a moment she let her mind drift away again, anything to distract her from the horrors she knew she will witness soon. Twisting her bare feet gently, at the rhythm of the music, rubbing her soles together and curling her toes, her mind was

in another place, daydreaming, thinking of the tropical beach. The track of time was lost to her, her eyes slowly closing, taking her to another place and time while the gentle music played in her ears.

She felt a firm but gentle touch of hands on her bare feet, sliding slowly across her bare soles towards her ankles. Then, a smooth wet touch of the tongue on the peaks of her arches, licking her up towards her toes.

Maya released a soft moan, gradually opening her eyes to see - Joradi, worshipping her bare feet, holding her heels in his hands, like he held precious water in his palms.

He winked at her in naughty way. She flinched and smiled

"Oh you!... "

"What's up babe?" he asked, raising his head away from her soles, still holding and caressing her bare feet, smiling.

She said nothing. He continued, with more serious tone:

"We've secured the perimeter, you and the science boys should have no problem doing your thing now."

"But..." he added.

"I'm going with you."

His tone turned weary.

"Just in case... "

"In case of what?" Maya was puzzled.

"I thought you said the site was secured."

With hesitation and worried look on his face Joradi continued

"I dunno... I have a weird feeling about this. Stay close."

Joradi walked away taking his M4 carbine in his hands.

Maya rushed to take her hat, place it on her head and grabbed her sandals from the back seat of the car.

She walked out of the car, barefoot, slammed the doors shut and followed Joradi.

"Ok, wait Jo." her tone was determined but worried. "We go to the impact point, take measurements and get out. There is no radiation here, that much we know for sure, otherwise we'd be wearing hazmat suits. That's the plan."

"Yup, that's the plan." he answered with calm tone.

"We are also to locate and recover any fragments of the meteor we may find, for further studies." Maya was determined.

"I know the orders." Joradi stopped. "We locate the impact point, you do your thing and we get out, and if you find some of the space rocks along the way - take 'em, but don't waste any time."

"What's got into you, Jo?" Maya stepped closer to him, talking in softer voice.

“This isn’t like back at… Icarus station.” her words were carefully chosen, he looked away for a moment, memories they didn’t wish to talk about flooded in.

“This time it’s just a rock, out in the open, we get what we need and we get out.”

Joradi didn't answer, he was still looking away as if he is holding something back.

"Its not that simple." He finally responded, reluctantly. "Come."

He continued walking forwards, Maya put on her sandals in a rush and followed him to the outskirts of what was once a town.

"Judging by recon drone footage, the impact point should be right there, but deeper under ground." Joradi pointed his finger at the ruined old concrete structure. Not much left of it but it felt like a miracle that some the walls were still standing.

"That's where we are going."

"What is this place?" Maya looked with curiosity.

"An abandoned military facility, Cold War era." Albert explained, looking at his notepad.

"Hasn't been used in decades."

"That explains why its still some of it left." Maya looked around at the ravaged piles of bricks and dust, the only thing left of what was once a flourishing town.

"Most of it is under ground." Joradi was visibly becoming more worried.

He gave a signal at his men to gather around and prepare for entering the facility.

Rifles at the ready, they entered carefully through the wide opened doors, leading to a long dark corridor. Maya and the science team followed behind.

Soldiers walked in formation, scanning the surroundings with flash-lights on their rifles. Highly trained and synchronized, they covered all directions, checked around every corner.

Maya was walking carefully, looking around with flash-light in hand. The walls and ceilings were cracked.

"This place... " Albert was worried. "It could collapse at any moment."

"I'm trying not to think about it." Maya said with slow and distant voice, scanning the cracks on the ceiling that became more and more wide the further they went down the corridors.

She was looking at her scanner. No radiation, no biohazards in air. So far so good.

The group reached a large room at the end of the corridor. Soldiers went in first with haste.

“Clear. Clear. Clear.” each one reported in. The room was large and dark, dark grey concrete walls, cracked and damaged as the rest of the facility. Mold gathering at the edges of the walls.

“The impact point should be just a 100 yards away, down that corridor.” Albert pointed towards it.

“We setup our equipment here.” Maya decided.

The science team unpacked their equipment to start their work as soon as possible.

Joradi approached Maya.

“I’ll be around, you stay put.” he whispered to her, worried.

“I’m not a child, Jo.” she responded with slight irritation in her voice.

“Fine, but take no risks. I will search the rest of this level.” He answered with same irritation and walked away. She looked at him and nodded in slow “no” gesture.

The science team finished setting up their equipment, ready for further analysis. However, someone still had to get closer to the crash site to make any valuable conclusions.

Maya was calibrating the sensors while Albert set up the hardware.

After some thinking Maya picked up some equipment and stashed it into her backpack.

Albert looked at her with disapproval.

“Didn’t he say… we should wait?” Albert asked, looking at Maya with raised eyebrow.

Maya turned towards him, and got close to his face.

“He won’t know if you don’t tell him.” and winked at him, walking away.

“Right… “ Albert said with distrust and looked back at the equipment he was fixing.

Maya walked towards the direction of the impact point. Narrow low corridor, dim lights, claustrophobic. According to known data, her destination should be just ahead. So far so good, no radiation, no biohazards, as before. The hallway seemed like it will go on forever, the silence was broken by something cracking beneath her feet.

“Wha?-AAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!”

Maya’s word was cut short by the sudden jolt of falling, the floor beneath her feet crumbled.

For a second or two she was falling, her body turned almost upside down in mid air, she could see the distant dim light coming from the entrance of the hole she was falling into and her feet stretched upwards, falling in pitch black darkness. She fell on her back, curled in pain and started rolling, the vertical shaft she fell into turned into a steep slide she was rolling down on. Rolling, in pain, disoriented and unable to stop the inertia that was driving her forwards, she panted with each impact of the body against the concrete surface. Another free fall, impact on her belly.

Joradi was unaware to what happened to Maya, he was on his way with his men, to search the levels again.

“Luther and Bravo team are sweeping the eastern sector of this facility, we are going to sweep the western side.” Joradi ordered his men.

“We’ve already searched the place, sir.” one of the men responded.

“Marcus…” Joradi stared at his eyes “You have your orders”

“Yes sir.” Marcus complied.

“Good… We spread out and search every corner of this place again, report back anything out of place, understood?” Joradi gave the final order.

“Yes sir!” the rest of the team responded at same time.

Maya was laying face down on the dusty floor. In pain, bruised and dizzy, she slowly started getting up, pushing her palms against the ground. Raising her head up and looking around she spat the dust out of her mouth. Dizzy and confused she tried to gather her thoughts and see where she was.

There room around her was wast but the ceiling was low. Only few lights on the opposite side were still on, not enough to light up entire space. Fortunately her flash light rolled down with her, still working. She picked it up and started looking around.

There was a distinct smell of burning in the air, but no fire anywhere. The residue from the impact no doubt. The floors were more and more covered with dust and debris as she walked further to the front. It was getting darker around her.

Maya looked up for a moment, wondering how to get back, but soon the curiosity got better of her. This was just a lower level of the same facility, surely there is a way up, besides, she is close to the crash site.

She walked forwards, carefully, lighting up the path in front of her. The temperature in the room was getting warmer and warmer as she walked further.

“It must be close by now, it still radiates heat, no wonder…” she thought.

The heat was intensifying. More and more debris everywhere.

Maya walked forward, towards the direction where the heat was the strongest.

Few more steps and she saw

a spherical rock. It was black and charred, too hot to approach.

“There you are… “ Maya smiled.

But after looking at it more carefully, it became obvious that the rock was cracked.

Maya leaned over and pointed the flash light towards the crack.

There rock was hollow.

She slowly circled around the meteor to have a look at the other side of the crack.

This is where she saw tracks in the dust on the floor, fresh tracks leading away from the meteor.

Maya was puzzled.

She followed the tracks forwards towards another room.

The tracks ended with a … root.

A dark root that was laying on the floor, long and curved. The light of her flash light revealed a slimy texture covering it. Becoming more weary, she followed the root into the room.

The root was now separating into 2 roots, then 4, 12, how many? Branching out, reaching the walls, covering the walls. The broader picture was being revealed to Maya as she walked slowly into the room, feeling puzzled, weary almost afraid. Looking at the floor, she followed some of the roots until they stopped at what appeared to be a wooden stub of some sort.

Slowly directing the light upwards, the “stub” was revealing its structure. It looked like a spherical web of same texture as roots on the ground, in between them a skin-like thin transparent texture, like a cross-section of onion skin. She moved the flash-light upwards further.

Maya looked forward to the direction of her flash light and gasped with eyes wide opened.

Joradi was sweeping the corridors, becoming increasingly weary. Was it just the traumas from the past, or was it his gut feeling tat told him that something was really off here?

“Alpha team, report in.” he called out his team via comms. One by one the responded.

“Alpha 2 here, all clear so far”

“Alpha 4, nothing happening here.”

“Alpha 5, so far so good.”

“Alpha 4?” Joradi asked, suspiciously .

“Alpha 4, come in.” the only response he got was silence, dreadful silence. He felt adrenaline rushing through him.

“Alpha team, regroup at the science centre, on the double.” he ordered his men and rushed to the direction Alpha 4 went. With rifle pointed forwards, he walked swiftly and quietly, checking every corner on his path. Weaving through the maze of long corridors and doors, tense and fiercely focused he entered the room at the end of the long hallway. Pointed the flash light of his carbine forwards and remained frozen in place for a second.

Alpha 4 was in that room, at the very centre of it. Impaled through the mouth by a dark long organic looking protrusion covered in slime. Breathing heavily and stepping closer almost in shock, he touched the neck of Alpha 4 to check his pulse. Alpha 4 was dead.

Like in a trance, Maya took a slow step back, without even thinking about it. Her face frozen in horror, lower lip shaking and eyes wide. She wasn't even breathing.

What she saw overwhelmed her senses, shut down her mind. In front of here stood a woman, disfigured horribly, wrapped in a dark grey half transparent slimy cocoon. The texture of its skin was intertwined with black capillaries. The woman's body was entangled with dark slimy tentacles, wrapping all around her body but what made it worse - it seemed the tentacles were fused with her body, twisting it into amorphous mass, hardly recognizable as a human being. Woman's twisted face suddenly moved slowly, eyes opened. Her right eye looked at Maya, staring into her soul. Her left eye ball was substituted with small tentacles, movies slowly like waves.

Maya was frozen, hyperventilating, eyes filling up with tears. The woman's mouth were moving but no voice was heard. Maya could read her lips.

"End ... me ... end ... me ....... "

Maya turned her eyes and noticed that this woman wasn’t alone, this wall was covered with cocoons just like this one, and in each one of them a body disfigured in the same way, many of them still barely moving. Dozens of them, perhaps a hundred if not more.

Woman's head suddenly started shaking, from her mouth more tentacles reached out in swarm, her face twisted as if her skull was made out of rubber. Out of her mouth, ears and nose, the tentacles spread out and engulfed what was left of her face.

Maya screamed in terror. As her desperate scared voice echoed in the chamber, from each corner of the room - the tentacles were reaching out of the shadows, creeping on the walls, spreading, slowly covering the room inch by inch, reaching out towards the doors.

Maya ran towards the doors she came in, but her path was cut off by the spreading tentacles which enclosed the entrance trapping her in.

She took few steps back, with panic building up in her and taking over her mind. She looked around, frenetically searching for the way out, but everywhere she looked all she saw

were exit points already blocked by the tentacles. Her breath was shallow, quick, eyes with tears building up, she knew she was running out of options, running out of hope to come out of this alive.

Clenching teeth with expression of desperation and terror she looked around. The walls were covered with tentacles, entangling around one another and now spreading - towards her.

One of the tentacles rushed forward, stopping few inches off Maya’s face. She flinched, stood still, shaking and frozen in terror. On the tip of the tentacles, a red blossoming bud stood out, pointed right at her.

The blossom opened in front of her face and released a white misty haze. Screaming in fear, Maya inhaled the haze deeply into her lungs. The white mist was a neurotoxin, it's effects on Maya were quick and brutal.

Maya grabbed her throat with her hands, feeling as if something was choking her. Her instincts kicked in, fingers clawing at the skin of her neck, as if she was trying to pull away an invisible force that was gripping her neck. But what was suffocating her was already in her lungs, filling them up, denying her of oxygen.

"GhhhHAAAAAA!!!... NGGHHHAAAA!!!!... "

Gagging, mouth opened wide, she tried to scream but all that came out of her mouth were desperate scared gurgling and whimpering.

"NNnnGhKKH!.. GHEEeeeEEE!!..."

Her eyes widened and crossed a bit, still clenching her throat, staggering few steps to back, knees loosing strength.

"nnnNNNNNGHHHH!!!....."

Maya's eyes were bulging, red and filled with tears. The tip of her tongue started sticking out as her head trembled.

Vision blurring, sounds fading, she felt her consciousness slipping away as she slowly collapsed on the floor.

Now laying on her back, head bent backwards, her legs stretched out her muscles contracted.

In her erratic struggling, she rolled on her side, legs still kicking and shuffling.

"GHHHHAAAAAAAAHGHAAA!!!...."

She screamed, eyes squinting, mouth gaping and tongue sticking out desperate for oxygen. Her legs scrambled around, heels pushing on the floor.

Her left sandal came off, exposing her soft sole which was now flexing in agony. Toes cramped then spread hard in chaotic display of desperation and agony.

But the worst was yet to come...

"AAAaaaAAAAAGHAAAAAAAA!!!!!!"

Maya screamed in pain.

Tossing her head left and right like in "no" gesture but far more violent.

Fingers clawing at her neck, trying to fight off something what wasn't there.

Turning and twisting her torso around on the ground, pushing and extending her long muscular legs. Her heels digging and scraping deep into the dusty floor, tossing the dust around, leaving tracks in the dusty floor.

In few spasmic kicks she lost her other sandal and exposed her other foot which was reaching out, pointing at 45 degrees angle towards up, her long toes were extended and spread, shaking, gripping something that wasn't there.

"KhhhaaaGH!! Agghaaaak!! GHAAAAAA!!!!"

She bent her head forwards few times, trying to bend her torso. Instinctive but useless reaction of her body to get away from the life threatening danger. It was all in vain.

Poisoned and choking, kicking and screaming in sadness and terror, amongst pain of asphyxia she felt the loss of control of her body. The kicking was now impulsive, reflexes of nerves being poisoned by the toxin.

Wild kicks of fighting back were reduced to violent spasms and cramps. Her mind - fading away.

Slowing down, her head was now swaying left and right, with her face frozen in grimace of agony. Eyes crossed, tears running down her cheeks,

mouth wide opened, lips pulled back and teeth showing, tip of her tongue sticking out.

"GhEEEeeeeeeeeeeee!..... "

Long wet and high pitched gurgle left her mouth, left hand still holding her throat, right hands clawing at the floor. Legs extended as far as they go, bare feet bent upwards, toes curled up and spread.

her bare heels were only an inch off the ground, shivering, tapping on the floor. Soles flexed and stretched, her beautiful bare feet shook out of control. Ankles rattling, spread toes reaching upwards.

Maya was slowly fading away. Movements slowed down, face frozen, crossed eyes with vacant stare of pain and shock. Her body succumbed to the toxins.

"Khhheeeeeeeeeee.............................. "

In one gagging soft and quiet exhale her body went limp.

"Maya? Maya come in. Maya, respond!" Joradi was trying to get hold of her via comms. No response.

"Godsdamnit." He hissed, M4 at the ready and ran through the corridors, seeking for her. Going left and right through the narrow hallways, Joradi finally reached the room where the science team was.

Nothing could prepare him for what he saw there.

Albert and the most of the scientists were laying dead, mangled, entangled in black tentacles that overwhelmed their bodies. Faces contoured in their last moments of agony. Limbs torn off, blood everywhere.

"Whatta..... " with eyes wide opened he scanned the surroundings with the flash-light on his rifle, lighting up one corpse at the time.

All mauled, twisted, massacred, dead...

"Alpha team, come in." He called out his team on comms. No response.

"Alpha team respond!" Ominous silence followed.

Fear was taking over him.

"Maya, come in!" followed by dead silence again.

All he could think about is getting Maya and the rest of survivors out of this place, if there are any left...

Maya was laying on the floor, paralysed, stunned by the neurotoxin which was paralysing her nerves.

Aware of her surroundings but unable to control her movements, still convulsing and foaming from her mouth, eyes rolling upwards.

The effect of the poison was slowly wearing off. At first, she could move her big toe, just barely. Slightly pressing it down. With a lot of effort and determination, she pressed harder, her body didn't respond.

"Come on!" she thought. She wanted to yell on top oh her lungs, but couldn't. All her focus was on moving her toes. Pressing down, as hard as she could.

Luther! Respond!!! What's your status?!" Joradi shouted at his headphones trying to contact Bravo team, but all he got as response was lots of static and

ghastly incoherent panicked screaming, interrupted by frenetic gunfire.

"Jo!!! ... (Static)... They're everywhere!!!... (Gun fire)... (Static)... AAAAaaaAAAAAGHAAAA!!!!!!!" ... (Silence)"

"Luther?! Luther!!! Godsdamnit!!!"

For a moment Joradi was panting with eyes wide opened, trying to gather his thoughts.

"Jo!... " Maya tried to shout, her lungs still not responding properly to her attempts at breathing.

"Jo!!... " with her maximum strength she focused on inhaling, fighting off the toxin that was choking her lungs.

"JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!" she finally managed to scream, her voice echoed though the tight corridors. Joradi heard her scream.

"Maya!!!" He called out to her, running at the direction from where her voice was coming from. He took a right turn and stumbled upon the doors, sealed with tentacles intertwined blocking the entrance.

As quickly as he could he unsheathed his machete and started hacking frenetically. The tentacles were too thick and hard to be cut through.

Maya was on the floor, she could barely move her head still fighting off the effects of the toxin. She heard something on the floor, approaching her. She looked in that direction, turning her eyeballs and saw

dozens of smaller tentacles slithering on the dusty floor, approaching her feet. This is when she put all her strength to take back the control of her body.

Her ankles shivered, fingers barely moved clawing the floor, teeth grinding, moaning in strain. Joradi was swinging his machete as hard as he could but to very little effect. The tentacles were almost touching Maya's bare soles.

"NnnnnGGHHH!!! mmMMMMMOOOOVVEEEE" Maya growled and panted, trying to contract her muscles. Her legs were starting to move, bare heels slowly sliding on the floor. The tentacles were now only few inches away from her feet and approaching.

"HNNNNN... Damn it, MOVE!!!" Maya shouted, her legs were now almost moving, just in time to swing one strong kick with her heel on the group of approaching tentacles.

Her hands could now grip the floor enough to push her body back, which she did, trying to get as far away as possible from the tentacles that were already within reach.

Joradi threw his damaged machete on the floor in frustration and took his M4, underneath it's barrel there was a grenade launcher. Her opened it, loaded a grenade and ran away from the sealed doors.

He pointed the rifle at the tentacles blocking his path.

"I hope this doesn't hurt her... " He thought, grinding his teeth.

Maya was pushing herself backwards, kicking the tentacles that were lunging at her, trying to grab her ankles. Another larger group of them appeared in front of her and quickly wrapped around her ankles.

Joradi pulled the trigger.

A flash. Ear-piercing bang echoed in the narrow corridors. The explosion pierced through the sealed doors. The pressure of the shock wave knocked out Joradi, pushed Maya sending her rolling on the floor and blew away most of the tentacles that were entangling her ankles.

The dust was slowly setting down. Joradi, shaken by the impact, got back at his feet as quickly as he could, staggering through the doorway he just cleared. Maya was squirming on the floor, shocked by the explosion. For a moment, everything seemed quiet.

Joradi ran towards Maya reaching his hand towards her to pick her up and carry her out.

Sudden sharp piercing pain ran through his left calf. He yelled in pain, his steps stopped dead in tracks. He fell on his knees and through pain looked back at his leg.

His calf was pierced by the long tentacle that was reaching from the ceiling.

"AAAAAGH!!!" Another tentacle pierced his other calf. Pinning down his legs to the floor.

His scream of pain has shaken Maya out of her disoriented state. She turned around and saw what has happened to him.

"Jo!" Maya called out to him, with eyes wide opened.

Groaning and panting he reached for his knife in an attempt to cut off the tentacles.

Another tentacle descended upon him from the ceiling, piercing his right shoulder blade. Another tentacle followed soon after, piercing his left shoulder blade.

"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!"

He screamed in pain, pinned down on the floor.

Maya was coming around, she stood up and ran towards him.

Tentacles that were laying motionless on the floor suddenly whipped, coiling around Maya's ankles, stopping her dead in her tracks, making her trip and fall to her chest on the floor.

More tentacles rushed in and coiled around her wrists, spreading her arms.

She was laying on the floor, on her belly, with arms and legs spread in "X" pose, gripped tight by the tentacles, only few inches in front of Joradi who was screaming in pain, pierced and nailed to the floor.

"Hon?..." Maya called out to Joradi, looking at him with fear.

He was panting, bleeding all over the floor, hardly able to move.

In front of them, the large cluster of tentacles started moving, unwrapping with a high pitched hissing sound. Hundreds of sharp tentacles blossomed and opened up, revealing what was beneath them.

What came out was beyond Maya's comprehension. A large, red petalled plant like creature. Its elongated flower-like shape penetrated through the gap that unwrapped tentacles created and slowly opened up few meters in front of Maya and Joradi.

The petals moved gracefully exposing what was inside of it. A circular maw with hundreds of fangs all around it. Slimy and putrid "lips" and in between them - a gaping black hole where it's "mouth" should be.

It was hideous. Maya watched it in disbelief, trembling in fear. The teeth opened up, she was staring right into its deep black hole of the mouth.

Her eyes teared up again.

The thing... was looking at them.

From behind its petals, long black tentacles came out, extending, growing towards Maya, waving in the air as they approached her. On their tips, flower-like protrusions opened up.

Maya was shaking in fear as the tentacles slowly waved above her body, as if they were... smelling her.

One of the tentacles came in between her legs. Stood there motionless for a moment or two. A moment which seemed as an eternity to scared Maya. She clenched her butt muscles in anticipation and terror, closing her eyes tight and biting her lower lip, moaning.

Joradi was staring at the tentacles with look of fury in his eyes.

The tentacles moved away from Maya.

She opened he eyes and panted in relief.

The protrusions were now "smelling" Joradi, just as they did to Maya few seconds ago.

Joradi looked at them with disgust and anger, his eyes followed the protrusions that were closest to his face.

"Yea, that's right... take a good look at what's gonna kill you soon." He growled quietly.

The petals approached his crotch.

He turned his head towards it, as much as he could.

"Seen something you like back there, ey?" He smirked.

The tentacles suddenly pulled back.

"GHHAAAKKK!!!......."

In an instant, a sharp long tentacle pierced the back of his neck and was now sticking out from his wide opened mouth.

Maya trembled in shock and disbelief, looking at him, frozen.

His eyes were rolling to the back of his head, blood gushing out of his mouth. His body was shaking and convulsing.

"Hon?... " Maya called out to him in shock.

His left hands was reaching towards Maya. She extended her legs towards him as much as she could.

His hands were trembling as he reached out. She pushed her foot towards his hand. He held her sole in his hand, gripping it gently. His face turned from pain to calm.

Her eyes teared up. His body spamsed few times, his hold on her foot became weaker as he expired.

Joradi was dead. His hand still held Maya's sole.

The moment of sadness was quickly interrupted by tentacles pulling Maya up in the air. They suspended her body above ground, still spreading her in X pose, more tentacles coming her way.

"No! NO!! NOOOOOOOOO!!!" She screamed as the tentacles from the huge mouth-flower approached her from all sides. Wrapping her torso and pulling her towards the plant itself. Maya pulled her arms and legs as strong as she could, but all that effort was fruitless for she couldn’t move an inch. The tentacles were offering her to the plant on the silver platter. All she could do is cry and beg in tears, screaming for her life.

Her face twisted by fear, eyes squinting and teeth clenching with a smile-like grimace of hopeless terror, all she could do is watch as the tentacles pushed her more closer and closer to the plant’s mouth. The plant opened its disgusting maw wide. Maya shook her head left and right, in dreadful anticipation of inevitable. Her fate was already sealed.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!" Screaming in desperation and sadness, Maya was pulled into the mouth by the tentacles. Her head and upper body was already inside of the hideous mouth of the creature that is about to consume her. Gooey, wet mouth which secreted saliva-like substance that was pouring out, all over Maya’s tanned soft skin. Lubricating her body, making it easier for the plant to push her down its throat and into it’s digestion. Inside, all Maya could see was the gaping darkness of the digestion tract. The darkness that is about to consume her alive and feed upon her tender helpless body. She yelled, tossed her head around, twisted and turned her torso to get out, pushed her hands against anything she could reach, frenetically waving her arms around, digging her nails into the slimy texture of the mouth. All was useless.

Kicking in panic, the alien plant slowly swallowed her, sucking her in deeper into it’s mouth. No matter how hard Maya struggled, kicked, bashed and clawed the insides of the gaping monster’s mouth, there was nothing she could do to stop it. Her bare feet scrambled in the mid air, trapped and helpless, losing a fight for her life. Her body gradually being vacuumed in. Her strong legs kicked wildly for her life, few meters of the ground, tossing her legs around furiously, giving away all her strength, while screaming without stop.

“AAAAHHHHHHAAAAA!!!!! IIIIIYEEEEEEGHHEEEEEEEE!!!!! AGHAAAAAAA!!!!!”

Her begging sad screams would make anyone feel pity for her, but now this thing. The alien plant wasn’t going to give her a fighting chance.

The plant turned its petalled mouth downwards, allowing Maya to sink in.

Her strong long legs flailed helplessly in the air, kicking back and forth, scrunching her soles and gripping with her long toes. Her screams felt distant now, muffled by the insides of the plant she was sinking in. The swallowing motion of the plant’s mouth pushed her inwards, opening up it’s digestive tract and letting the gravity do the rest.

Her long legs extended upwards, high in the air, reaching out for anything she could grasp, anything she could grip or hold on to. Her toes spread and clenched, trying to grip anything that might be a foothold. There wasn’t anything there. All she gripped was the thin air no matter how desperately and helplessly her legs kicked flailed around. She began sinking, gradually, disappearing into the plant’s maw. First her luscious wide hips sank in, never to be seen again. Her hard round bum followed along. The saliva of the plant lubricating every inch of her firm butt as it went in. Then her thighs, muscles hard from the kicking and struggling, firm as a rock. With the upper part of her legs already inside its mouth, it left fewer room for her legs to kick. Only her calves and bare feet were out now. Feet flapping and fluttering, looking so vulnerable and helpless, waving back and forth in quick panicked motion. Ankles bent, feet pointing up in the air, toes curling and gripping.

She sank deeper, now just her bare feet were out of its mouth,

Still begging for mercy from an organism that knows nothing about such concept, still calling out, pleading for anyone to save her. But there’s no one there. No one to save her. Even if there was a soul who could witness such a tragedy, they would know by now that Maya was beyond salvation. There was nothing that could be done for her.

Poor girl, consumed by the horrible plant, eaten alive, helpless, defenceless.

Hopeless…

Maya was out of sight... Swallowed by the alien plant.

But that wasn't the end of her suffering...

Maya struggled within the belly of the monster that just consumed her, still kicking and punching, screaming on top of her lungs. The digestion track was pushing her in, deeper into the belly of the beast.

The insides of the monster was slimy, soft putrid texture. It was getting warmer deeper she was pushed in, air was thin, hardly enough for Maya to breathe and smelled of organic decay.

She struggled while being pushed deeper, her bare feet were flapping wildly, fingers trying to grip the slimy membrane of the digestion tract that surrounded her. She was pushed further in, mercilessly, the air was thinner and thinner. Her voice was weakening, choked slowly by lack of air. Sliding down the entrails, helpless to do anything about it, Maya was just another piece of meat for the alien to ingest. The intestine she was in became tighter and tighter as she was pushed deeper.

The sphincter opened up in front of her, the peristaltic motion of the intestines pushed her in. Maya fell into what appeared to be an organic sack of some sort, barely large enough to fit her in.

It was a stomach. Maya fell into the sack and coiled in fetal position, covered with slime.

Coughing and spitting out the slime, frenetically looking around. She couldn't see anything in this pitch darkness, but she could feel the texture of the organ shifting, moving under her.

Another wave of fear washed over her, wherever her bare skin touched the insides of the stomach she felt movement, then a touch. Tiny protrusions were growing out of the organ, like worms covered with ooze, growing and wrapping around her fingers, then around her ankles.

"AAAAAHHHH!!!" Maya yelled, pulling back her hands and feet that were being entangled by the "worms". More and more of them creeped all over her body, slowly making their way across her bare skin, wrapping around her thighs and waist.

"No!!! NOOOOOOO!!!! AAAGHHHH!!!"

The worms slithered over her, coiled around her hips, engulfing her body, pushing inside of her where ever they could. She felt them penetrating between her legs and in her bum, pushing deep, slithering on her tender insides, stretching her. Slowly but steadily, her entire body was getting overwhelmed and entangled by the “worms”. With her legs and arms stuck, she raised her head as high as she could, screaming in desperation, trying to keep her head away from the worms that were slithering upwards, climbing on her beasts, coiling around her neck and gradually wrapping around her head.

“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” she screamed. The worms covered her eyes, gripped her head like two opened hands, grasping as much as her head as it could, spreading towards her face.

Her head was shaking left and right while they pushed themselves into her nose and finally into her mouth.

“NOOOOOOOKHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!……….”

The worms gagged her, her scream turned into choking noises. Almost her entire body was covered with slimy worms entangling her. The silhouette of her body was still contouring, struggling, choking, wrestling with the inevitable. It was hopeless, all her struggles were useless, poor girl was enveloped with organisms. Only her bare feet were still uncovered, squirming, shaking. Toes gripping hard. Her feet too were slowly being covered by the worms. They gently crawled up her struggling soles, sliding upwards on the wrinkles of her clenched soles, pushed themselves between her long toes, coiling around them. The formation of worms looked like a hands which caressed her shaking struggling soles, pushing the fingers between her toes, and gripping her feet in controlling but soothing manner. Her body, wrapped in organisms was slowing down, she still struggled with all her power, but her strength was fading away. The worm “hands” still caressed and held her bare feet which were struggling the most. As if the hands were comforting her, telling her to let go. Her toes spread in a beautiful “flower” pose, trembled for few seconds. The peak of her struggle, her last ounces of strength given away in this losing battle. The “hands” caressed her more intensely, more gently. Soothing her. The spread of her toes softened up, her toes were relaxing and going limp, soles bent to the front in natural position. Maya succumbed and went limp.

She opened her eyes, could barely see what's around her. Could hardly gather a coherent thought. She was wrapped inside a cocoon, dark grey web-like spheric structure with half transparent "windows" all over. The insides were filled with black tentacles merging into the centre of the cocoon, where Maya was.

Entangled by the smily protrusions formed as black capillaries which extended all over her body, wrapping it and holding it in place. All around was filled with thick almost transparent gel-liquid. Thicker tentacles were penetrating her. One in her mouth, second in between her legs and the last one in her bum.

Long, thick dark protrusions shaped like intestines with bubbles filled with liquid on their sides. The cocoon was pulsing, moving like it was breathing or a heath pumping. The pumping motion pushed the protrusions in and out of Maya in rhythmic manner. Pushing deeper into her and pulling out. Pushing in and pulling out. Penetrating her, pumping her, pleasuring her.

She was laying on her back, some of the tentacles that were holding her were focused on her ankles and wrists, pinning her in place, gripping her tight. The protrusion in her mouth was pushing deep into her throat, gagging her each time it went in but releasing the chemical into her mouth which dulled her senses.

The one pushing in between her legs was ribbed at the edges, stimulating her sensitive insides, pushing deeper and deeper, stimulating that sensitive spot in her.

The protrusion in her bum was wide, penetrating her slower then the others but deeper. She could feel it all the way up to her belly. It would push slowly inside deep, hold there for few seconds then pull back

Maya moved her feet up and down, moaning in pleasure.

"Mmmmmmm.... ummmmmmmm....."

Her mind overflown with alien pheromones that were being pumped into her. Sucking on the tentacle that was inside her mouth, eyes occasionally rolling up as she took the tentacle in with passion. Wrapping her thick sensual lips around it's hard course texture.

The hole on top of the tentacle opened up, the negative pressure build up in her mouth. The tentacle was sucking the air out of her mouth, then out of her lungs, choking her slowly. The sensation of suffocating sent shivers down her spine and aroused her even more.

Sucking the tentacle now even faster, craving for the control it had on her. As the protrusion slowly choked her, she responded with more lust, more passionate sucking.

"Ghhhhhkk... khaaaaaa...."

She choked, shaking her feet now even faster, getting wet. The tentacle that was pleasuring her between her legs responded by thrusting faster, and deeper, getting slightly wider and rubbing her from inside.

"aaaaaaahhhh.... nnnnhhhhh....." her body was twisting slightly, back arching and head pulled backwards to receive the protrusion in her mouth even deeper.

Her fists were clentching, legs pushing forwards, extended, muscles rigid and hard as rocks. She reached out her bare feet, flexed her soles and spread her long sexy toes. The pleasure was getting more and more intense.

The one in her bum became wider, pushed deeper, held there for some time then pulled back only to push in harder this time, making Maya's hips bounce every time it thrust in again.

This organism, this cocoon, was pleasuring her, and at the same time pumping her with its DNA. This was an impregnation, her body will ingested with alien offspring, her flesh will be their food, the process that is irreversible at this point. Maya was beyond saving, but felt no fear, no remorse, the organism was designed to keep her in state of constant pleasure during this process

which would otherwise be filled with excruciating pain. Instead of agony of her transformation, she received soothing, lust. Pleasure which to her mind that was already controlled by alien pheromones felt like eternity. The perpetual circle of arousal and climax, until her body and mind will be consumed by the alien organism.

The organisms choked her harder this time, giving her more intensity in thrusting.

Her bare feet still reaching out, gripping at nothing. The organism knew, Maya was getting near to another climax. Long grey-red tentacles extended from the inner membrane of the cocoon, reaching out towards her bare soles. The touched the soft skin of her soles and started sliding all across them. Like tongues, licking her bare soles, worshipping them, soothing her, arousing her even more. Her toes now clenched in even more pleasure. The protrusions thrusted into her faster, making her body tremble in arousal. Her muscles tightened, her legs spread, gasping echoed in the cocoon. Feet pointed, toes curling, Maya was climaxing in most powerful way, sending strong tingles through out her body. Dripping between her legs, the insides pulsing and tightening rhythmically, Maya was overwhelmed with pleasure.

The organism slowed down, let her body recover then started the process all over again. Thrusting, licking, touching, choking. Giving her climax after climax without no end in sight.

Most of Maya’s body was covered in a slimy silky dark cocoon, connected to the intestines coming out of the inner walls of the cocoon itself. The organism was still pumping her with alien DNA, her body was now mostly fused with the alien and turned into a hybrid, ready to serve as a womb and food to the alien offspring. Her bare feet were still mostly intact, sticking outside of cocoon, still moving, still swinging up and down in lustful manner. What was left of her brain and her body was now completely under control of the organism, infusing her with pheromones, keeping her in constant state of arousal, while it consumed her, twisted her and prepared her for birth.

In this state of lustful limbo, Maya’s mind faded away, consumed and replaced by the alien tissue, her body assimilated and fused with the alien DNA, she was now fully prepared to give birth to more alien offspring which will spread and multiplay further, feeding upon human women and using them as a means of parasitic reproduction.

Maya was no more. She was dead. Died slowly in arousal, rather then in agony. Kept in semi conscious state of pleasure until the very end. Until the last drop of her human brain was wiped out and consumed by the infectious alien organism.

No one will ever know her fate, there will be nothing left of her body. As if she was never there to begin with. Alone, consumed and killed, she met her end in that deep dark place from where the invasion on our world started.

From her body, mangled, twisted, fused with dark roots - red buds emerged, gentle petals enclosed together. Opening up, releasing the infectious pollen,

carried by the wind. To spread, to multiply, to find more people to infect, more food supply to feed upon.

To turn our world, into their own...

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